During the Civil War, Minor served under General Stonewall Jackson and saw action at Manassas and in battles around Richmond.

[1] Prior to his appointment as president of VAMC he taught at Sewanee Episcopal Seminary in Tennessee.

[2] Minor opened the doors to the new college on October 1, 1872 with three faculty members, not one of them a professor of agriculture or mechanics.

[1] During a faculty meeting, the generally easygoing Minor and hot-headed Gen. James H. Lane, the professor of mathematics and foreign languages with responsibility for military training, got into a fistfight.

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