Tag: Botts (John M.)

Wikipedia says: John Minor Botts (September 16, 1802 – January 8, 1869) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia. Botts continued to support the principles of the Constitutional Union party, and was uncompromisingly Unionist in his sentiments while his native state moved toward secession and through the American Civil War, but refused to fight against Virginia. In 1862, he was jailed without trial for his Unionist positions by the Confederate provost marshal John H. Winder. Botts was a delegate to the Southern Loyalists’ Convention in 1866 before his death on January 8, 1869 in Culpeper, Virginia.