Bartlett Bolling

Bartlett Bolling, ca. 1918

Bartlett Bolling (February 6, 1845 – February 8, 1926; aged 81), one of the founding members of The Belmont Land Company (later, the Charlottesville Land Corporation).

Bolling was one of two vice-presidents of the Belmont Land Company, a firm that developed the Belmont-Carlton neighborhood in the late 19th century. His colleague was Micajah Woods.

Bartlett Bolling was born in Petersburg, Virginia, February 6th, 1845. He entered the Confederate service in 1863, enlisting in the Forty-third Battalion of Cavalry, Company D, Mosby's Rangers. He was wounded, made prisoner and held at Harper's Ferry, Wheeling, Camp Chase, and Fort Delaware.

After six months' imprisonment, he was exchanged and returned to his command. He participated in many battles, among them being Mt. Carmel, Charleston, Berryville, Hamilton, and numerous raids, the activities of his 'command continuing unabated until Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

In Alexandria, Virginia, May 4th, 1881, he was united in marriage with Meta Lomax Stuart, daughter of Colonel Charles E. Stuart, attorney-at-law, and Roberta Lomax. During the same year he made his home in Albemarle County.

His sons — Albert S. Bolling, attorney-at-law, Charlottesville, and Douglass T. Bolling, a student at the University of Virginia — volunteered for the World War, wearing the khaki until mustered out in June, 1919. Albert S., enlisted in July, 1918, receiving his commission as a lieutenant of infantry, and serving as such until honorably discharged. Douglass T., first served with the French army as a volunteer ambulance driver, from August, 1916, until the spring of 1917, when he returned home and entered the service of his country. He was later commissioned a first lieutenant of infantry and assigned to Company G, 317th Infantry, with which organization he served from September, 1917, to June, 1919, one year of which time this regiment was with the American Expeditionary Forces in France.

The subject of this sketch is a son of the late Colonel Robert Buckner Bolling, attorney-at-law, and Sarah Melville Minge, of "Center Hill," Petersburg, Virginia.