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His sons-Albert S., attorney-at-law, Charlottesville, and Douglass T., a student at the University of Virginia-volun-
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terred for the World War, wearing the khaki until mustered out in June, 1919. Albert S., enlisted in July, 1918, receiving his commission as a lieutenant of infantry, and serving as such · until honorably discharged. Douglass T., first served with the French army as a volunteer ambulance driver, from August, 1916, until the spring of 1917, when he returned home and en- tered the service of his country. He was later commissioned a first lieutenant of infantry and assigned to Company G, 317th Infantry, with which organization he served from September, 1917, to June, 1919, one year of which time this regiment was with the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
The subject of this sketch is a son of the late Colonel Rob- ert B. Bolling, attorney-at-law, and Sarah Melville Minge, of "Center Hill," Petersburg, Virginia.
JAMES M. BROWN.
James M. Brown was a son of Clifton R. and Parthenia Brown, of Charlottesville, Virginia. He entered the Confed- erate army as a private in Company F, Nineteenth Virginia Infantry, at the beginning of the war, participating in the bat- tles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines and the Seven Days fight around Richmond. In the battle of South Mountains, Mary- land, he lost his right arm, which incapacitated him for further service.
JOHN P. CARTER.
John P. Carter enlisted in the Confederate army in . May, 1862, in Company K, Second Virginia Cavalry. He lost his leg in the Second Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864. He resides in Charlottesville, Virginia, and has followed the business of shoemaking industriously since the war.
LEROY WESLEY COX COLOR BEARER 46TH VA. INF., C. S. A. Supply Co. and Regt.
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LEROY WESLEY COX.
Leroy Wesley Cox, born November 22nd, 1845, is probably the youngest man in this section who served on the firing line throughout the four years of the War between the States. He enlisted in May, 1861, in the Border Guard, commanded by Cap- tain R. G. Crank, in Charlottesville, Virginia. The members of this company were mustered into Wise's Legion at Lewis- burg, Virginia, June 23rd, 1861. Later, after the fall of Roa- noke Island, L. W. Cox came home and enlisted in the Char- lottesville Battery of Field Artillery, commanded by Captain J. McDowell Carrington, where he served as "number one" at the gun.
On Sunday morning, June 8th, 1862, L. W. Cox, with three other privates, Gardner, Goodwin and Shreeve, played a very important part in checking the enemy, thus saving the bridge at Port Republic.
After Carrington's Battery was captured on May 12th, 1864, at Spottsylvania, he, with George M. Cochran and Pinckney, served on General Long's staff as orderlies until after Early's campaign down the Valley and into Maryland. He then rejoined his old command, Company D, Forty-sixth Virginia Regiment, Wise's Brigade, while that organization was in the ditches at Petersburg. Later he was placed on the . color guard, and still later served as color sergeant, thus serv- ing on the firing line from start to finish.
R. L: DOBBINS .*
R. L. Dobbins was from Cumberland County, Virginia, and enlisted in the Confederate army as a private in Company A, Nineteenth Virginia Infantry, serving four years. He made a fine record as a soldier, and after the war, lived in Charlottes- ville, where he followed his trade as a shoemaker. He now lives in Cumberland County, Virginia."
*Died since this sketch was written.
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WILLIAM RICHARD DUKE.
BY W. R. DUKE.
William Richard Duke, the son of Colonel R. T. W. Duke and Elizabeth Eskridge, his wife, was born at Lewisburg, Vir- ginia (now in West Virginia) July 1st, 1848.
His services to the Confederacy consisted in going out with the Home Guards in July, 1863, during the Gettysburg Cam- paign, when, with others, he was stationed at Gordonsville to keep off raiders.
Again, in 1864, he was stationed on the north side of Monti- cello Mountain, guarding the Virginia Central Railroad (now the C. & O.) bridge across Moore's Creek and the Rivann River.
To his sorrow he was not in the regular service. He was the oldest child, and his father being in the service during the whole period of the war, it was necessary for him to stay at home and help care for the family.
He was not seventeen years old until after the close of the war.
J. E. GIBSON.
J. E. Gibson, son of Ballard E. Gibson, entered the Confed- erate. Army in April, 1861, in Company A, Monticello Guard, . Nineteenth Virginia Infantry, and participated in the first bat- tle of Manassas. He was afterwards disabled for active serv- ice in the field and was discharged from the army at Char- lottesville. He reënlisted in Captain Mallory's Company of Reserves and was in this company until the close of the war.
W. G. GILLESPIE.
W. G. Gillespie enlisted in the Confederate army from Al- bemarle County in June, 1861, in Company D, Forty-sixth Vir- ginia Infantry. He was in the Scarry Creek battle in Kanawha Valley Campaign. He was captured at Roanoke Island, and . after being exchanged, participated in the fight at Dunlap Sta-
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JOHN Z. HOLLADAY Co. K, 3RD VIRGINIA CAVALRY, C. S. A.
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tion on the Howlett Line. He was in all the engagements around Petersburg and at Hatcher's Run. He was again captured at Sailor's Creek, Thursday preceding the surrender, and re- mained at Point Lookout until June 14th, 1865.
JAMES F. HARLAN.
James F. Harlan, son of B. F. W. Harlan, of Nelson County,. Virginia, was one of four brothers who entered the Confeder- ate army. He volunteered in Company B, Fifty-second Vir- ginia Infantry, and was in active service until April, 1862, when he was disabled by reason of a fractured limb and as- signed to light duty until the fall of 1864. He then returned to the regular army and in December of that year was ordered to Petersburg, where he remained in the trenches until the evacuation. He was captured and imprisoned at Point Look- out until June 6th, 1865. He resides in Charlottesville, and is, active in business and in church matters.
JOHN ZACHARY HOLLADAY.
BY DUPUY HOLLADAY.
John Zachary Holladay, son of Dr. Lewis Littlepage and Jeane Thompson Holladay, was born in Spottsylvania County, July 31st, 1843. He was educated at private schools and at Hampden-Sidney College. At the outbreak of the war he, with the other students, organized the "Hampden-Sidney Boys," with President J. M. P. Atkinson as Captain. They were mus- tered into the Confederate service in Richmond, as Company K, 20th Virginia Volunteers, and were soon ordered to what is · now West Virginia. They fought McClellan at Rich Moun- tain, and becoming separated from the command, with the en- emy between them and their friends, they were faced with the alternative of starving to death in the mountains, or coming in and surrendering. They chose the latter, and surrendered at Beverly. After nine months' imprisonment, Holladay was ex- changed, and was soon appointed ordnance courier for Gen-
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eral Lee. He served in this capacity until after the battle of Gettysburg. On the retreat from Gettysburg he rescued ten abandoned cannon, dismounted them, loaded them into empty wagons in the wagon train, and brought them to Virginia. He then joined Company K, Third Virginia Cavalry, Fitzhugh Lee's Brigade.
He has to his credit, one killed single handed at Amelia Springs and two at High Bridge; also five prisoners captured single handed and eleven others with the aid of an artillery of- ficer. He is the only survivor of a squadron of cavalry that made the last charge on Grant's forces at Appomattox; this charge being made after the surrender of Lee's army, and just before sundown on the 9th of April. His brigade, being a part of Fitzhugh Lee's division, did not surrender. After the war he engaged in farming until he moved to the University of Vir- ginia to educate his children.
Mr. Holladay says: "I fired the first shot at General Mc- Clellan's army when it advanced on Rich Mountain, West Vir- ginia, in June, 1861. I also fired the last shot at General Grant's forces a few minutes before sundown on April 9th, 1865, at Appomattox. I did what I could to both start and finish the controversy."
JOHN N. JAMES.
John N. James entered the Confederate army as a member of the Fifth South Carolina Regiment of Infantry, and partic- ipated in the battles of First and Second Manassas, Williams- burg, Sharpsburg, Seven Pines, and three days of the Seven Dạys Battles around Richmond. He was wounded at Gaines's Mill, but served around Petersburg. He was captured at Sail- or's Creek on the 6th day of April preceding the surrender at Appomattox.
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JOHN L. JARMAN .*
John L. Jarman, son of Dabney M. Jarman, entered the Confederate army from Charlottesville, Virginia, in Company B, Nineteenth Virginia Regiment of Infantry, and served in that company for two years; afterwards in Company D, Forty- ninth Virginia Infantry, until the close of the war. He was in the First Battle of Manassas, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines's Mill, Malvern Hill and Hatcher's Run. He has lived in Charlottesville since the war and is active in business and church affairs.
JOHN R. JONES.
John R. Jones enlisted at the beginning of the war as a member of Company A, Fifth Virginia Infantry, Stonewall's Brigade. He participated in the battles of First Manassas, Kernstown, Port Republic, Cold Harbor, Indian Hill, Win- chester and Second Manassas. He was captured on North Run and remained in prison three months, making his escape from Cumberland, Maryland. He was with Rosser at New Creek where he was wounded and again captured and impris- oned at Elmira, New York. Since the war he has resided in Charlottesville.
CHARLES BEALE LINNEY.
Charles Beale Linney was born October 3rd, 1845, and was reared in the old ancestral Gordon home in Orange.
He enlisted in the Confederate army as a member of Com- pany D, Twenty-fifth Virginia Infantry, and participated in the battle of Yellow Tavern, where the gallant Stuart gave his life so heroically that he might save the Capital of the Confed- eracy. With thousands of others he endured the untold, suffer- ings and hardships of the trenches around Petersburg, surren- dering with Lee at Appomattox. But of that eventful week (April 2nd-9th), the writer would prefer to pay tribute to the
*Mr. Jarman died December 6th, 1919, after this sketch was written.
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memory of a near kinsman, James N. Beale, one of the im- mortal "one hundred and twenty," who gave his young life so heroically in the midnight assault and capture of Fort Sted- man, and to the boy soldier brother, who with Ewell, at Sail- or's Creek, fought the last pitched battle of the war, surren- dering after all hope of success was gone, to be imprisoned at Point Lookout.
Recalling the dreary midnight marches, with corn for a ration, the pall of gloom that settled over the dramatic scene at Appomattox, when strong men wept at the loss of cherished hopes, the tramp homeward, the family meeting and story of the loss of son and grandson, a sacrifice demanding more moral courage than the battle, is, at this distant day, like a dream when one awaketh, and never to be effaced from memory.
W. F. LOBBAN.
W. F. Lobban enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861 as a member of Company K, Second Virginia Cavalry, known as the Albemarle Light Horse, and served throughout the war. He participated in the First Manassas and in the Valley Cam- paign. He was taken prisoner in Fauquier County, February 18th, 1864, and remained in Fort Deleware seventeen months. He was released in June, 1865.
C. E. MAHANES.
C. E. Mahanes resides near Keswick, Virginia. He enlisted in the Confederate army as a member of Sturdivant's Battery of Artillery in March, 1863, and continued serving until the close of the war, surrendering with Lee at Appomattox. He participated in the battles around .Petersburg, where this noted battery did fine service.
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AUBURN MANN.
BY GERTRUDE MANN.
Auburn Mann was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, near North Garden, on October 15th, 1838. He was the eld- est son of John P and Martha Suddarth Mann, and a great- grandson of Patience Sumter, whose brother, General Sumter, was a great military leader of his day, and for whom Fort Sumter, South Carolina was named. He received his educa- tion at Gibson's Academy in Albemarle County, a school con- ducted by "Parson" Gibson.
At an early age he joined the Albemarle Rangers, and was a member of this organization at the beginning of the war. He and his brother, John P. Mann, Jr., served in the Confed- erate army from the outbreak of the war, and later his two younger brothers, LeGrand and Richard, enlisted. He first saw active service in the West Virginia Campaign under General Henry A. Wise. Afterwards he was with Major General J. E. B. Stuart, and at the close of the war with. Company F, Tenth Virginia Cavalry, under General W. H. F. Lee, as a member of the Signal Corps. His brother John lost a leg in the fighting around Spottsylvania Court House, but neither he nor his other two brothers were injured, although in some of the big battles.
On October 22nd, 1866, he married Miss Virginia Lightfoot Wheeler, and from this union two children were born, Mattie Mann Warwick and Gertrude C. Mann. He was at one time in the mercantile business with his father; but later entered the service of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company, where he held a clerical position until about eighteen years ago, when he lost his eyesight, since which time he has been entirely in- capacitated for active service of any kind. At the outbreak of the war with Germany his three grandsons, Linwood, Auburn and Randolph Warwick, were called to the colors, but only the latter saw active service. It was with pride that he read that General Pershing had said of the Thirty-eighth Infantry, Third Division U. S. Army, of which his grandson was a member, that they had written one of the brighest pages in the annals of the war in the the battle of the Marne.
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P. H. MARSHALL.
P. H. Marshall entered the Confederate army from Albe- marle County in Company K, Albemarle Light Horse Cavalry. He participated in practically all the battles fought by this fine company of cavalry until the 15th of February, 1864, when he was taken prisoner. Making his escape from Fort Delaware in September following, he reported at Richmond for duty. He was discharged from service upon the surrender of Lee's army.
T. R. MAUPIN.
T. R. Maupin entered the Confederate army as a member of Sturdivant's Battery from Free Union, Albemarle County, Virginia. He enlisted May 1st, 1862 and continued to serve until the close of the war. He participated in a number of battles and was slightly wounded. After the war he resided at Free Union and engaged in farming.
G. W. MAYS.
G. W. Mays enlisted in Company H, Nineteenth Virginia Regiment of Infantry, and served throughout the war. He was in many battles, and was captured at Sailor's Creek, near Farmville, Virginia, April 6th, 1865. He was imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland, and pardoned after his release.
JOHN P. MELTON.
John P. Melton enlisted in the Confederate army at the be- ginning of the war in Company A, Fluvanna Artillery, and participated in the battles fought by this fine company of ar- tillery. He is an active member of John Bowie Strange Camp.
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L. F. MELTON.
L. F. Melton entered the Confederate army as a member of Company A, Fluvanna Artillery, and participated in the vari- ous battles in which that company engaged. He was noted for his splendid services and soldierly qualities.
I. K. MORAN.
I. K. Moran, the subject of this sketch, was born in Law- rence County, Ohio, August 12th, 1845, but was reared among the hills of Rockbridge County, Virginia. He was a private in Company D, Fourteenth Regiment, Virginia Infantry, Colonel William H. White, Armistead's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps. His father, Charles N. Moran, was a member of the 5th Regiment, Stonewall Brigade.
With other boys of the county I. K. Moran saw service in the Shenandoah Valley until 1863, when he was transferred to field service with the command above mentioned. He engaged in its forced marches and battles around Richmond and Peters- burg, receiving severe wounds in the fierce attack and defeat of Butler's army at Drewry's Bluff on May 16th, 1864, where with the amputation on the field of his left leg above the knee, his active service as a soldier of the Confederacy came to an end.
JOHN H. MORRIS.
John H. Morris enlisted in Company C, Fourteenth Virginia Infantry, in 1862, and served until the close of the war. He participated in Second Manassas, . Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor and other battles, and now resides in Charlottes- ville.
JAMES MASON MURPHY.
James Mason Murphy was born at Middleway, Jefferson County, Virginia, on the 21st day of July, 1839, and was edu- cated in the public schools of Jefferson County. At an early
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age he went with his brother, who was the editor of the "Shen- andoah Democrat."
He married Miss Ellen Miller, of Madison County, on the 29th day of June, 1863.
The following are their children : Mrs. Daniel Harmon, of the University of Virginia; Frank P. Murphy, of Madison, W. Va .; James Edgar Murphy, of Jacksonville, Fla; and Fred M. Murphy, of Springfield, Ohio.
At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in Company G, Tenth Regiment of Infantry, C. S. A., and served with that company during the entire war. . He was wounded both at the First Battle of Manassas and at Chancellorsville.
After the war he moved to Gordonsville, where he was ap- pointed agent for the Adams Express Company. He was sub- sequently transferred to Charlottesville, and resided there until the fall of 1918, when he moved to Madison, Boone County, West Virginia, where he now resides.
W. W. NORVELL.
W. W. Norvell was a resident of Nelson County at the be- ginning of the war and enlisted in Company F, Forty-ninth Virginia Infantry. He participated in the battle of Williams- burg and was wounded at Seven Pines, losing his right leg. Returning home he entered school; but not being satisfied out of the service, he applied to the government for an assignment and was sent to Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, where he remained until the close of the war. After the war he re- moved to Charlottesville, and has retained the office of City Constable since first elected.
GEORGE W. OLIVIER.
George W. Olivier, son of Warner Lewis Olivier and Frances Ann Olivier, volunteered in 1862 in Company A, Twelfth Vir- ginia Infantry.
He was at the evacuation of Norfolk and later with the
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army of Northern Virginia at Seven Pines, Second Manassas, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, at which latter place he was taken prisoner. He was thence carried to the old Cap- itol Prison in Washington, but after ten days was exchanged. He was in hospitals in Richmond and Petersburg for several months. In October, 1863, he was transferred to Pegram's Virginia Battery, which was ordered to North Carolina under General Hoke and took part in the capture of Plymouth.
The battery was ordered to Petersburg in May, 1864, and remained at the front until the evacuation, April 2nd, 1865.
He was in several minor engagements on the retreat to Ap- pomattox and was at the surrender, April 9th, 1865.
During the last seventeen months of the war he never lost a single day from active duty.
W. C. PAYNE.
W. C. Payne joined the Monticello Guard in 1857 and re- mained a member of that company until 1862, when he was discharged from the army by the Secretary of War on account of the almost total loss of eyesight from typhoid fever con- tracted in the army.
He was with his company at the hanging of John Brown at Charles Town in 1859. In 1861 he left for the front with his company and remained until his discharge the latter part of 1862 as above stated. After the war he joined the John Bowie Strange Camp. He attended the Confederate Reunion in Washington in June, 1917, and in a rolling chair, headed the Virginia division, carrying in his hand, amid the shouts of thousands, an old Confederate flag that had been through the battles of Northern Virginia.
W. H. PONTON.
W. H. Ponton entered the Confederate army in 1861 from Albemarle County as a member of Company G, Nineteenth Virginia Infantry. He served with gallantry throughout the
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war, participating in the battles of Seven Pines, Second Ma- nassas, Williamsburg, Gettysburg and other engagements. He was captured at Gettysburg and remained a prisoner until the close of the war.
CEPHAS HEMPSTONE SINCLAIR.
Cephas Hempstone Sinclair was born near Charlottesville, Virginia, December 4th, 1847. His father was George Sin- clair, of Loudoun County, born in May, 1806, and died on December 31st, 1845. His mother was Ruth Anne Belt, of Montgomery County, Maryland, born May 12th, 1812, and died December 17th, 1891.
C. H. Sinclair joined the Staunton artillery under Captain Garber on December 4th, 1864. The Garber Battery was in- creased by the remnant of Carrington's Battery of Charlottes- ville, which escaped capture in May, 1864, at the battle of the Wilderness. Says Mr. Sinclair for himself :
"While Garber's Battery was near Harrisonburg, Virginia, I joined it on December 4th, 1864, and before the end of Jan- uary, 1865, while in winter quarters near Waynesboro, about ten members of the company were permitted to take a horse apiece from the battery to winter near Charlottesville, Virginia. Early in April, 1865, Lieutenant Fultz, of Garber's Battery, came to Charlottesville and collected all ten of us to join Gen- eral Lee's army, which was then retreating from Petersburg. We crossed the James River at Scottsville and the next day heard that the Yankee cavalry was between us and the army. We turned to go by Lynchburg but that night were told by a passing soldier that General Lee and his army had surrendered April 9th. The next day we returned to Charlottesville."
"After taking the degree of C.M.E. and B. Sc. in the Engi- neering School at the University of Virginia in 1873, I entered the United States Coast Survey (afterwards the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey) on November 14th, 1873, and have been associated with it ever since."
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CHARLES G. SINCLAIR.
Charles G. Sinclair entered the Confederate army as a member of the Charlottesville Artillery, Carrington's Battery, in the early part of 1863, at the age of sixteen. He partici- pated in the battle of Spottsylvania Court House and other en- gagements, and continued in active service until the close of the war. He engaged in farming after the war and now re -. sides in Charlottesville.
CURRAN BRIGGS SOMERVILLE.
Curran Briggs Somerville, son of Dr. Walter and Mary H. Somerville, of Culpeper County, Virginia, is the only sur- vivor of five brothers who were in the Confederate army. He was a corporal in Company F, First Regiment of Engineer Troops, C. S. A., and served with his company until the sur- render at Appomattox, when he was paroled.
E. GRANVILLE TAYLOR.
He was one of the original members of the Albemarle Rifles, organized in 1860, soon after the John Brown raid at Harper's Ferry. He was a private in the company when it entered the service of the State of Virginia the 17th of April, 1861, and , was still with the company when it became Company B of the Nineteenth Virginia Infantry, being then just a little over eighteen years of age.
He was continuously in active service from that time until. he was disabled in battle in 1863.
With his company and regiment he was actively engaged in the following battles: In 1861, First Manassas ; in 1862, York- town (skirmish) ; Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines's Mill, Frazier's Farm, Second Manassas, Boonesboro, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, and in 1863, Gettysburg. Here he was partially disabled and placed on detached service for the rest of the war. He was born near Springhill, Augusta County, but came to Charlottesville with his parents when quite a small lad and was a primary pupil in the private school of Thomas Woodson on
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High Street. He attended various schools in Charlottesville, ending with two years in the Albemarle Military Institute un- der Colonel John Bowie Strange.
N. A. TERRELL.
N. A. Terrell enlisted in Carrington's Battery of Artillery in April, 1862, and joined General Jackson at Harper's Ferry. His battery was actively engaged in the battle of Port Repub- lic, preventing the enemy from burning the bridge, and re- ceived high praise from General Jackson, who said, " I am glad to see that you could render me such efficient service with your raw recruits." He was afterwards made bugler for the battery and promoted to Headquarters' Bugler of Cutshaw's Battalion. He served in all the battles of any importance, namely, Seven Day Battles around Richmond, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Mine Run, Gettysburg, Bell Grove, Cedar Creek, Winchester, and closed his service at Ap- pomattox.
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