Charles James Pindall Cresap was a Virginian attorney and politician, as well as an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
[2] Cresap replaced William G. Brown Sr. at the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861's third session in November as the representative from Preston County after the latter man was expelled on 29 June 1861.
[1] In May 1863, he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates,[4] representing Preston County alongside Robert E. Cowan[5] until leaving office in 1864.
[4] For the American Civil War, Cresap sided with the Confederacy out of an allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia, not necessarily in opposition to the Union.
Cresap later requested of Confederate President Jefferson Davis a promotion above captain in order to command "colored troops.