1834 – Parents Richard Kendall Raine and Bettie Venable Michaux married
1841, June 28 – Born Cumberland County, VA
1848-1859 – Attended school
1855 – Sent to school in Oak Forest, Cumberland County (Jack Berryman)
1855, February 12 – Mother dies of pneumonia, family dispersed.
1857 – Employed by Frank Carr, contractor for the C&O Railroad near White Sulphur Springs (now WV)
1858 – Restarted school with H.E. Jennings
1859 – Left school, went to Rockingham County, NC, then to Zentmeyer Penn Co, merchants, Mayo Forge, Patrick County
1860, August 1 – Employed by Thomas Chalmers as bookkeeper News Ferry, VA, Halifax County
1861, April – Joined Brooklyn Grays in Halifax County under Capt. William Haymes
1861, May – Company mustered into Confederate Army, 23rd Virginia Regiment, Col. W.B. Taliaferro
1861, June – Regiment sent ot Radolph County (WV) and saw action
1861, November – Marched to Winchester, joined 3rd Bridgade under Stonewall Jackson
1862, August – Cedar Mountain, Culpeper, action
1862, September – Rejoined army after sickness
1862, December – Battle of Fredricksburg
1863, May – Chancellors battle
1863, July – Gettysburg
1863, November – Furloughed for sickness, spent time with father in Cumberland, Aunt in Leakesville, and friends in Halifax County.
1864, May – Battle of the Wilderness
1864, May – Spotsylvania Courthouse, captured
1864, May – POW, sent to Point Lookout, MD, for six weeks, then to Ft. Delaware
1865, June – Took the oath of allegiance to the United States , war over
1865, August – Took job with Jennings & Edmonds in News Ferry, VA
1866, August – Went into business with Polk Jennings assuming liabilities of Thomas Edmunds, former partnership was Jennings Edmunds now Jennings & Raine
1866, December – Married Elizabeth Caldwell Oliver.
1867, (?) – Dissolved partnership with Jennings, went into business with father-in-law (Mr. Oliver) at Bloomsburg. Closed after one year.
1868, (?) – Farmed father-in-law’s land.
1871, January – Worked as a bookkeeper for J.M. Bower & Bro. in Mt. Airy, NC.
1871, September – Worked for Hickson & Lynch in Danville, VA.
1874, March – Started in tobacco manufacturing business by J.M. Bower, with ⅓ net profit. C.A. Raine & Co.
1874, September – Moved to home on South Main Street, Danville
1878 – Brower sold out his interest in firm.
NO DATE (Probably 1879)- Bought the business with Hafer Holmes & Co. of Cincinnati, as backers handling (distributing/selling?) the manufactured product.
NO DATE – Became independent in a few years and became one of the successful tobacco manufactures in Danville
1892 – Sold ⅔ of business to Lyons & Wilson due to physical weakness
1893, July – Became incapacitated due to lung hemorrhage and George N. Wilson took over the management of his affairs.
1895, November – C.A. Raine & Co. became bankrupt.
1897, February – Wrote his autobiography for his children.
1902, March – Died
C.A. Raine & Co. 