Captain Atlas D. Hall

It is with great sadness that we announce the loss of a true compatriot and friend, Captain Atlas Hall. He passed through the turbid vale on November 11, 2006. His dying request was to have a 21 gun salute from his brothers of the SCV. Atlas was made one of our Honorary Members, and then later joined as an Associate Member. He was a regular member of a camp in North Carolina.

Atlas D. Hall was born at Lackey, Knott County, Kentucky, and currently resides in Ramseur, Randolph County, North Carolina. He joined the SCV on the military record of his great-great grandfather, Pvt. William R. Hall, Jr., Co. C, "Diamond's" 10th Kentucky Cavalry. He is also descended from a large number of Confederates, including a large number in the 13th Kentucky Cavalry. Research indicates at least 35 men who rode in the 13th are related to him. Some of his known and proven ancestors (in addition to Wm. R. Hall, Jr.) who wore the Gray include:

Captain William J. Hall, Co. E, 13th Ky. Cav.
Lt. Miles Hall, Co. E., 13th Ky. Cav.
Captain Robert Bates, Co. A, French's Battalion of Infantry, Virginia State Line (Partisan Rangers)
Lt. Martin V. "Baby" Bates, Co. A, French's Battalion of Infantry, Virginia State Line (Partisan Rangers)
Lt. William J. Bates, 7th Confederate Cavalry, Virginia Partisan Rangers
Captain Daniel Hager, AQM, "Diamond's" 10th Ky. Cav.
Sgt. Lee Hall, 13th Ky. Cav. (died as a POW at Camp Morton)
Sgt. James Bates, 5th Ky. Mtd. Inf., (killed by Unionist Home Guards while on detached duty obtaining horses)
Corporal David Hall, 13th Ky. Cav.
Pvt. Anthony Hall, 13th Ky. Cav.
Pvt. Martin Thornsberry, Co. E, 13th Ky. Cav.
Pvt. Enoch Thornsberry, Co. E, 13th Ky. Cav.
Pvt. John H. Hall, 13th Ky. Cav.
Pvt. James Hall, Co. F, 13th Ky. Cav.
Pvt. Harrison Hall, Co. E, 44th Virginia Infantry (Zouaves)
and many others.

Atlas was married to Judith E. "Stevens" Hall, on 4 November 1989, in Floyd County, Kentucky, and although they have no children together; she has three children who are like his own. Atlas has two children from a previous marriage. Between Judy and Atlas, they have 12 grandchildren, who they attempt to spoil!

Atlas is a graduate of Morehead State University, in Morehead, Kentucky, receiving an Bachelors Degree in 1983. He briefly worked as a substitute school teacher in the Floyd and Knott County (Kentucky) School systems. He was then employed at Otter Creek Correctional Center, where he advanced through the ranks to a Unit Administrator.

Due to complications from open heart surgery in 2004, he retired, and moved to North Carolina, where he has two step-daughters living. Altas had always wanted to live in the area that he now lives, as his Scottish ancestor during the Revolutionary War, who was a Continental soldier captured at Charleston, SC and who remained on a prison ship for over two years before being released, lived only 25 miles from his present home.

Pvt. Harrison Hall, Co. E, 44th Virginia Infantry (Zouaves), maternal great grandfather of Atlas Hall. The Caudill Camp Dedication Service at his grave in 2003, pictured is Atlas Hall, David Chaltas, and Raymond Isaacs