Major Edward Sixtus Hutter.

Rivermont was the home purchased by Edward and Nannie Hutter later in the 19th century. While they did alter the house, they did a great deal with the land in the neighborhood above and beyond Daniel's Hill. In 1873, Hutter, a civil engineer, parceled and sold lots above the mansion in a development he named Danieltown. He was later one of the organizers of the Rivermont Company, the largest of the several land companies of the 1890's boom, and he was in part responsible for engineering the bridge over Blackwater Creek, which was so essential; to the development of what then was farmland.

Major Edward Sixtus Hutter II: Virginia Military Institute class of 1859. Saw service April 17, 1861 as Captain of a company of cadets who became involved in combat. Surrendered at Danville on April 27, 1865 as Major of Artillery. Later, his occupation was Civil Engineer. Residence; Rivermont.

Newspaper article in Ragland possession (2004):
"Among the most prized possessions of Attorney H.M. Gibbes is a volume that once formed part of the law library of the Confederacy and which has a most romantic and interesting history.
The volume is a copy of Vattel's Law of Nations: as edited by the great jurist Joseph Chitty and the copy in the possession of the local attorney is in most excellent preservation. It bears the incription, probably written by Judah P. Benjamin, "Confederate States, Department of State,: and was saved from the general desctruction of the secret archives of the Confederacy by Major E.S. Hutter who was Mr. Gibbes' father in law.
The circumstances were as follows: When the Confederate government withdrew from Richmond following the rumors, (then unconfirmed), of the surrender at Appomattox, the secret archives and a large portion of the law library and other appurtenances of the department of state were sent to Danville, Virginia, where Major Hutter was in charge and there stored in the government warehouses. As soon as the rumor of the final surrender was partially verified, Major Hutter received orders to destroy all the archives and, there being imminent danger of an immediate Federal attack, he went at night with a small force of faithful soldiers, poured kerosene oil over the entire contents of the storehousees and complied to the letter with his orders to destroy everything that might embarrass the friends of the Confederacy in both America and Europe. It is said that this act of Major Hutter's was one of the most vital of the dying days of the war of secession as it completely prevented disclosures that might have caused international complications of treamendous magnitude.
While opening the cases of books and papers that the fire might do its work without possibility of failure, Major Hutter came across the volume of international law and kept it as being one of the last relics of the defeated ambitions of the south. Later, it came into the possession of Mr. Gibbes after his marriage to Major Hutter's daughter and as stated, it forms one of the treasures of his law library second only in importance to a copy of the statutes of South Carolina published in 1836 and which contains many a long list of the old families which settled the "South State" in the latter end of the Seventeenth century. The Gibbes family was among the earliest of these settlers and, for generations was prominent in the affairs of the colony.
Major Hutter was identified with the armies of the Confederacy from the very beginning, he having been ordered to attend the execution of John Brown after the raid at Harper's Ferry and being at that time captain of one of the cadet compaines of the University of Virginia. On the day of the execution he attended as aide to Stonewall Jackson. Thus it may fairly be said that he was present at both the opening and the closing acts of the history of the southern states. He was in command at Danville after the surrender in 1865 and it will be remembered that the president and cabinet officers of the Confederacy were compelled to retreat through that place as the only road then open to the south was through the Virginia city."
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Edward Sixtus Hutter, born at "Sandusky," near Lynchburg, Va., September 18, 1839. Graduated at Virginia Military Institute in July, 1859; entered University of Virginia in 1860; entered Confederate Army, April 17, 1861, as Captain of a Company of University Students: served throughout the war, reaching the rank of Major of Artillery; surrendered at Danville, Va., April 27, I865. Married at Lynchburg, Va., December 19, 1861, to Nannie Langhorne, of Lynchburg, Va., a descendant of two of Virginia's most distinguished families, the Langhornes and the Dabneys