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Francis Land Galt
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Dr. Francis Land Galt (1833-1915) was the surgeon and acting paymaster of the famed Confederate raider . He was physician for an expedition of John Randolph Tucker that explored the headwaters of the Amazon River in the 1870s. His father, Dr. John (Jno) Minson Galt, was a major in the United States Army and later in the Confederate States Army. His sister Emily Galt is the subject of a famous ghost story at Augusta, Georgia. Biography Galt was born at Norfolk, Virginia. His father J. M. Galt was a grandson of James Galt and Mary Taylor (of Orange County, Virginia, of same family as President Zachary Taylor). J. M. Galt was educated for a physician, but was given an appointment in the U.S. army by President John Tyler in the Ordinance Bureau. He served at Augusta Arsenal, Georgia and Apalachicola Arsenal in Florida. Later, he joined the Confederate army as Major in the Commissary Department and commanded the post at Lynchburg, Virginia. Dr. Francis L. Galt's mother Anne White Land was the daughter of Francis Mosley Land, a wealthy and prominent plantation owner who built the Francis Land House in Princess Anne County (merged into the city of Virginia Beach in 1963). Dr. Galt served with the Confederate army as a surgeon. Galt returned to Virginia in 1875 and practiced as a physician in Upperville, Virginia until his death. 
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