The Life of John Arnold Edwards Corporal, Company E, 15th Virginia Cavalry, Confederate States of America. John Arnold Edwards, son of Rev. Dr. William Balthrop Edwards and Elizabeth Alexander Sommerville Edwards, was born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1836. John Arnold lived with his family throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.He was educated at Edwards Academy, later called Piedmont Academy in Fauquier County, Virginia. He married his second cousin, Rose Emma Edwards, in King George County, Virginia, moved there, and fathered three children; only two survived him.