WILLIAM ARTHUR SCOTT, of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, was matriculated in the summer of 1843, and spent two years at the Institute, going thence to the College of William and Mary where he remained one year, and then left to go as a volunteer to the War. He was elected first lieutenant of the Amelia Company, which was attached to the First Virginia Infantry. He served gallantly till the War ended.
About this time the rush to California began, and on March 3, 1849, he sailed for the newly-discovered gold field, from Hampton Roads. He died in California a short while after arriving there.
His grandfather, James Scott (a brother of General Winfield Scott), served in the War of 1812, as a captain in the Virginia forces; and his father had served in the War of the Revolution.
(Source: The Military History of the Virginia Military Institute from 1839-1861, by: Jennings C. Wise, Publ: 1915. Transcribed by: Helen Coughlin)
