Enderly

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Built ca. 1859 in the Greek Revival style, Enderly was the home of William F. Gordon Jr. during the 1860s. Gordon served as clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1859 to 1865. He was temporary secretary of the convention that met in Richmond in 1861 to debate Virginia's secession from the Union. As special emissary of the convention, he delivered a copy of the Ordinance of Secession to Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Alabama. From 1861 to 1862, Gordon was a private in the 19th Virginia Infantry. He represented Louisa County in the House of Delegates (1875–1877).

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Bakeless, John. Spies of the Confederacy (1970), 176-178. City of Charlottesville. “Official Website.” Web, accessed 9 March 2013. http://www.charlottesville.org/index.aspx?page=2055 Daily Richmond Dispatch, 3 Dec. 1863. Gordon, Armistead C. Gordons in Virginia. Hackensack, NJ: William M. Clemens, 1918, 70. Gordon Jr. William F., Compiled Service Record (Civil War) Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to William F. Gordon. Web, accessed 9 March 2013. <http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03=06-02-0481> Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to William F. Gordon. Web, accessed 9 March 2013. <http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=808&cha pter=88504&layout=html&ltemid=27> Journal of the Acts and Proceedings of a General Convention of the State of Virginia, 1861, 3, 19, 157-158, 194. Journal of the House of Delegates, 1859-1865, 1875-1877. Kull, Irving Stoddard. The Causes for the Secession of Virginia. Ebook. 78. Landmark Survey, Enderly Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, 4:473. Web, accessed 9 March 2013. <http://genforum.genealogy.com/Gordon/messages/1160.html> Web, accessed 9 March 2013. http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/vahouse63/vahouse63.html I did not find an obituary in Reports of the Virginia State Bar Association or newspapers in Staunton, Charlottesville, or Richmond.