James E. Montandon
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Name
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James E. Montandon
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Given Name
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James E.
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Family Name
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Montandon
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Occupation
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University of Virginia student
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Description
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James E. Montandon was a University of Virginia student and rapist. University of Virginia’s Faculty Minutes, April 24, 1850, records that University of Virginia student James E. Montandon, along with students George H. Hardy and Armistead C. Eliason, violently raped a young girl described as a “small negro girl.” Their violent rape of a child was witnessed and interrupted by University of Virginia students Daniel B. Conrad, John B. Eastham, and Richard Venable Gaines, who reported the crime to the Chairman of the Faculty. Montandon and fellow perpetrators Eliason and Hardy fled and escaped the “Civil Authority” in Charlottesville. The Board of Visitors Minutes, June 28, 1850, records that they were expelled from the University.
