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JONATHAN BISHOP.
Jonathan Bishop entered the Confederate army from Char- lottesville, Virginia, as a gun corporal in Southall's Battery of Artillery. He was a fine soldier, serving in the same company until the close of the war. He engaged in mercantile business in Charlottesville at the close of hostilities, and died at the Sol- dier's Home in Richmond, Virginia.
REV. DANIEL BLAIN, D. D.
BY R. WALLER BLAIN.
Daniel Blain, eldest son of Rev. Samuel Wilson Blain, was born in Cumberland County, Virginia, November 20th, 1838. He was prepared for college by his father and Dr. R. L. Dabney, and at the preparatory school of Jacob Fuller in Lexington, Vir- ginia. In 1854 he entered Washington College (now Washing- ton and Lee University), graduating with the degree of A. B. · in 1858. The next two years were spent as the assistant of the Rev. Wm. H. Foote, D. D., in Potomac Academy, Romney, Virginia, having united with the Lexington Presbyterian Church under the ministry of Rev. Wm. S. White, D. D., in 1854. In the fall of 1860 he entered Union Theological Seminary, Vir- ginia, and continued there until March, 1861, when he went to the neighborhood of Petersburg to teach.
In May, 1861, he entered the Confederate army as a private in the Rockbridge Artillery, Stonewall Brigade. After being wounded he was made Ordnance Sergeant, and served first on the staff of General J. B. Magruder and subsequently as assist- ant to Major Jno. G. Barnwell on. the staff of General W. N. Pendleton, Chief of Artillery of the Army of Northern Vir- ginia. He served from May, 1861, to April, 1865, and was pa- roled at Appomattox.
In the winter of 1865 he returned to the Seminary, where he completed his studies in 1866. Soon after this he entered upon his first pastorate at Collierstown, Rockbridge County, Virginia. On January 3rd, 1867, he was married to Mary
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Louisa, daughter of Dr. Jno. C. Mercer, at Williamsburg, Vir- ginia. In 1871 he accepted a call to the church at Chrstians- burg, Virginia, which he served for seventeen years.
The remainder of his life was spent in educational work in additon to his ministerial service. After two years of private school work and preaching in Williamsburg, Virginia, and in Amherst and surrounding counties, he moved, in 1890, to Covesville, Albemarle County, where for sixteen years he conducted the Cove Academy and served the Cove and River- side churches, besides several mission points. Here on October 4th, 1906, after a few months illness, his faithful service on earth came to an end and his Great Commander summoned him to join the saints above.
He left six sons, three of whom are Presbyterian ministers, while others are in the eldership of the church.
He was a brave, faithful, consecrated soldier of the Confed- erate States and of the cross. In both relations he was a com- rade honored, useful and beloved.
EZRA M. BROWN.
Ezra M. Brown was a son of Dr. Charles and Mary Brown, and resided near the University of Virginia at a place known as "Valley Point." He died at the ripe old age of seventy-seven years in the room in which he was born.
He enlisted in the Confederate army as a member of Com- pany K, Second Virginia Cavalry, known as the Albemarle Light Horse, and was a gallant soldier, participating in many battles. He was three times wounded.
JAMES R. BRYANT.
James R. Bryant enlisted April 9th, 1861, as a sergeant in Company B, Eighth Virginia Cavalry, and served during the war. He was originally from Nelson County, but after the war lived in Charlottesville, Virginia. His occupation was that of a miller.
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R. E. BUFFUM.
R. E. Buffum came to Charlottesville, Virginia, after the war, from the Mississippi Department, where he had made a fine rec- ord as a soldier. He was an active and honored member of John Bowie Strange Camp, and a pronounced Christian gen- tleman.
BENJAMIN F. BURGESS.
Benjamin F. Burgess, son of John W. Burgess and Bettie Gianniny, was born at Bell Air, Albemarle County, January 6th, 1832. He entered the service of the Confederacy as a member of Company I, Forty-sixth Virginia Infantry, and served gallantly in the war until he was severely wounded at Petersburg. He married Miss Bettie C. Gillespie of Albemarle County, November 12th, 1874. From this union there resulted two children. Going to Nelson County, he engaged in farm- ing on Joe's Creek until 1889, when he moved to Charlottesville, where he spent the remainder of his life. He died at the home of his son November 22nd, 1917.
ROBERT NICHOLAS BURGESS.
Robert Nicholas Burgess, son of John and Elizabeth Bur- gess, was born September 20th, 1839, in Albemarle County, Vir- ginia. He served in the Confederate States army from 1861 to 1865 in Company I, Forty-Sixth Virginia Regiment.
He married Miss Willie Gillespie in August, 1865. She died June 6th, 1870. On January 23, 1871, he was marred to Miss Lucy M. Gillespie, who still survives.
He began farming immediately upon his return from the army, and continued as farmer and overseer in Albemarle County until April 1881, when he moved to Charlottesville and accepted a position as policeman, working at that position for a few years, until he accepted a position as baggage agent with the Virginia Midland Railroad, afterwards known as the Rich- mond and Danville Railroad and later as the Southern Ralroad. He occupied this position until, on account of physical disabili-
DRURY W. BURNLEY SOUTHALL'S BAT. OF LIGHT ARTILLERY, C. S. A.
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ties, he took a lighter position as crossing watchman, which po- sition he held until his death, which occurred in Charlottesville, December 18th, 1911. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery,
He is survived by his wife and the following children: J. H. Burgess, of Roanoke; Mrs. J. L. Almond, of Locust Grove, Vir- ginia; and J. W. and R. T. Burgess, of Charlottesville.
W. J. BURKE.
W. J. Burke enlisted as a private in Company G, Ninth Vir- ginia Cavalry, and served four years in the Confederate army. He was a farmer by occupation and lived near Charlottesville, Virginia.
DRURY WOOD BURNLEY.
BY CARRIE C. BURNLEY.
Drury Wood Burnley was born at Stony Point, Albemarle County, Virginia, September 4th, 1826. His father, Nathaniel Burnley, was a native of Louisa County, but in early life moved from thence to Albemarle where he married Sarah Sutton Wood, a daughter of Drury Wood of Park Hill near Stony Point, later making his home at Hydraulic on the Rivanna River, where he engaged extensively and successfully in milling, merchandising and farming.
On November 24th, 1847, Drury Wood Burnley was united in marriage to Cornelia Winston Clarke. She was born in Au- gusta County, June 2nd, 1822, and was a daughter of Dr. Thomas King Clarke, who married Elizabeth Garth, a daughter of Thomas Garth of Albemarle. Of Scotch ancestry, Dr. Clarke was a native of Augusta County, practicing his profes- sion there and also in Albemarle.
Drury Wood Burnley became a public official before he was twenty-one years old, serving as deputy-sheriff, sheriff, com- missioner of the revenue, assessor, internal revenue officer, clerk and deputy-clerk alternately of Albemarle county court, holding the latter office at the time of his death, January 28th, 1906.
On May 1st, 1861, he enlisted in the Virginia Light Artillery,
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serving as First Sergeant of Battery A (Southall's Battery) Magruder's Brigade, Johnston's Division, until August 25th, 1862, when he returned home to assume again his duties as a public official. His battery, a part of the command of the Pol- ish colonel, Sulakowski, was stationed several miles below York- town during the autumn of 1861. A letter to his family writ- ten at that time, gives a graphic account of the inadequateness of the army of defense which, under the skilful disposition of General Magruder, was holding at bay Mcclellan's vastly supe- rior numbers.
ELWOOD BYERS.
Elwood Byers enlisted in Carrington's Battery of Artillery from Maryland. Afterwards he was transferred to Company K, Second Virginia Cavalry, Albemarle Light Horse. He was a fine soldier and an educated and refined gentleman. He served during the entire war, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the railroad service.
R. HENRY CARR.
R. Henry Carr was the oldest member of Company K, Sec- ond Virginia Cavalry, Albemarle Light Horse. He enlisted in the Confederate service in 1862, serving with gallantry until the close of the war. His brother James G. Carr was killed at Fork Kennan in May, 1864. He engaged in farming after the war and was a valuable citizen to the community.
JOHN W. CHRISTMAS.
John W. Christmas was born in Fluvanna County, Virginia, and in 1862, joined the Confederate army as a private in Wood- fork's Battery of Artillery. He served to the close of the war. After the war he moved to Charlottesville, Virginia and en- gaged in auctioneering.
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S. S. CLEMENTS.
S. S. Clements enlisted in the Confederate army from Ivy, Virginia, in I. W. Williams' Company, Forty-sixth Virginia In- fantry, Wise's Brigade, and served with that company for one year. He was then transferred to Southall's Battery of Artil- lery, participating in many battles with that command. He was wounded at Bristoe Station and Second Cold Harbor, and at Sailor's Creek. He was then taken prisoner and carried to Point Lookout, thus closing his war record.
NATHANIEL GREEN CLIFTON.
Nathaniel Green Clifton enlisted in Company E, Thirty-first Regiment Georgia Infantry, in November 1861, as first cor- poral, and was afterwards musician. He served with this com- mand until April 9th, 1865, and was paroled at Appomattox.
He was a loyal and faithful soldier, taking part in many bat- tles of the Confederacy. He located in Charlottesvlile after the war; was active in business, and highly esteemed as a worthy and valuable citizen.
GEORGE MOFFETT COCHRAN.
BY MRS. JOHN M. PRESTON.
Son of John Cochran and his wife Margaret Lynn Lewis, George Moffett Cochran was only eighteen years old when war was declared. He was very anxious to join the army, but his father thought him too young. After much pleading his father's consent was granted, and he joined Carrington's Battery, under command of Captain James McDowell Carrington, and served in that company until late in the war, when he was transferred to General Long's staff as courier. He had two horses shot from under him in the raid on Washington, and was wounded at Chancellorsville.
After the war he entered the mercantile business with Mr. John C. Patterson, in Charlottesville, in which partnership he continued until his death. He was a zealous Knight of Pythias
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and a man warm-hearted and of generous impulses. He joined the Presbyterian Church while in the army. He was born April 10th, 1843; Died March 8th, 1883.
JAMES COCHRAN
BY MRS. JOHN M. PRESTON.
The subject of this sketch was the second son of John Coch- ran and his wife Margaret Lynn Lewis. He was born June 5th, 1830, and died November 2nd, 1897. He was educated in the schools of Albemarle County, and graduated in Law from the University of Virginia, but never practiced. He married Miss Elizabeth Brooke, and lived quietly and happily at their home, "Folly," Augusta County. On account of frail health he did not go into the army at once, but put in a substitute. Later he took an active part, being in the cavalry with Wickham's Bri- gade, Colonel Sproul, Ninety-third Regiment, in November, 1864.
After the war he returned home and lived quietly, surrounded by a large circle of loving friends. Beneath a brusque exterior and eccentricity of manners he had a warm and sympathetic heart. Without ostentation he did much to aid the needy.
S. I. COFFMAN.
S. I. Coffman entered the Confederate army as a sergeant in Carrington's Battery of Artillery, and served during the war. He was well known as an educator, filling positions in Tenn- essee and Virginia colleges and conducting a very successful school at Ivy, Virginia. As a man and citizen he was highly esteemed. He died at Ivy, September 25th, 1919.
W. P. CONNELL.
W. P. Connell enlisted in the Confederate army from Char- lottesville as a member of the Albemarle Rifles, of Colonel R. T. W. Duke's regiment, and served during the war. He was a contractor, and resided in Charlottesville until his death.
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THOMAS M. COSBY.
Thomas M. Cosby enlisted in Company K. Second Virginia Cavalry, known as the Albemarle Light Horse, at the beginning of the war, and participated in some thirty battles. He was wounded November 9th, 1864, in the Valley Campaign. He was noted for his fine soldierly qualities. He was a son of William Cosby, near Ivy. Virginia, and a man of sterling character.
A. D. COX.
FROM "THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN," JUNE, 1914.
In the death of A. D. Cox, on May 1st, 1913, Virginia lost a loyal citizen and a gallant soldier of the Confederacy.
Azell Donop Cox was born October 18th, 1842, in Albemarle County, Virginia. The family removed to Charlottesville in 1849 and were pioneers in the development of that city. At the time of his death Mr. Cox was one of its largest taxpayers. All of his dealings with his fellow men were characterized by a high sense of honor and an·inflexible business integrity.
At the beginning of the War between the States, he, with his brothers, Eugene M., Lucian N., and Leroy Wesley Cox, en- tered the Confederate service. He was lieutenant in Company I, 46th Virginia Regiment, and his army career was one of un- usual interest. Among other engagements, he was in the Bat- tle of the Crater, near Petersburg, Virginia. While prisoner of war at Fort Delaware and Point Lookout, he suffered many hardships. His exceeding modesty kept him from speaking of his service to his country, but he showed his loyalty to the Con- federacy by his generosity to needy soldiers.
Dr. William Cox, his father, being too old for active army service, was a member of the home guard. His house was used as a private hospital for sick and wounded Confederates, and his wife and daughters, with the faithful family servants, min- istered to the needs of many unfortunate Southern and some Northern soldiers. At the close of the war Dr. Cox's daughter Adelaide became the wife of Lieutenant Samuel Comer, of
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South Carolina. The other daughter, Josephine, and son, L. W. Cox, are the surviving members of Dr. Cox's family, and are living at the old home in Charlottesville.
EUGENE MONTRAVILLE COX.
BY W. E. NORRIS.
Eugene Montraville Cox, born May 13th, 1833, was among the members of the Border Guard at its organization. This was an Albemarle company recruited by Captain R. G. Crank. The company was mustered into service at Lewisburg, Virginia, June 23rd, 1861, and became a part of the Wise Legion.
He and his brothers, A. D. and L. W. Cox, were present with the company in the engagement at Scarey Creek, July 17th, 1861, where Theodorick Smith was killed and John T. Mallory wounded. These were the first casualties that occurred among Albemarle County men in battle in defense of the Confederate cause.
The Wise Legion was captured at Roanoke Island and pa- roled. After the exchange of prisoners had been effected, the command was reorganized, and the Border Guard was then known as Company D, Forty-sixth Infantry, Wise's Brigade. E. M. Cox resigned his sergeantcy in Company D and was trans- ferred to Company I of the same regiment. He was captured at Hatcher's Run, March 29th, 1865, and held prisoner until after the close of the war. He then located in Petersburg, Vir- ginia, where he engaged in the practice of law until his death, which occurred October 22nd, 1885.
LUCIAN NAPOLEON COX.
BY L. WESLEY COX.
Lucian Napoleon Cox was born May 7th, 1838, and enlisted in the Albemarle Rifles, Company B, Nineteenth Virginia Regi- ment, in April 1861. He was wounded at the battle of Seven Pines. On December 22nd, 1862, while on his way to Char- lottesville, he was instantly killed in a railroad wreck near Han- over Junction.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON CRADDOCK.
Thomas Jefferson Craddock resided near Milton, Virginia. He entered the Confederate army as a member of General Thomas L. Rosser's command of cavalry, and was a fine sol- dier. He had a genius for carving, and his remarkable canes . were noted far and near.
W. H. CROCKFORD.
W. H. Crockford enlisted when a boy of seventeen or eigh- teen in the Confederate army as a member of Company A, Seventeenth Virginia Infantry, April 19th, 1861. He partici- pated in thirty-seven battles and was twice wounded. He re- sided in Charlottesville after the war and died there. He was an active member of John Bowie Strange Camp and justly proud of his war record.
GEORGE M. CULIN. BY L. M. Cox.
George M. Culin left Charlottesville with the Monticello Guard Company A, Nineteenth Virginia Infantry, in 1861, and served with distinction until April 6th, 1865, when he was cap- tured at Sailor's Creek. He was a brother of Captain J. C. Cu- lin and of William Culin, who was killed in the Seven Days battles around Richmond. He was a splendid soldier and good citizen, and resided in Charlottesville after the war.
F. B. DAVIS.
F. B. Davis resided near Ivy Depot, and enlisted in South- all's Battery of Artillery in July, 1861, but afterwards trans- ferred to Company F, Thirty-fifth Virginia Cavalry. After the war he lived in Charlottesville, following the trade of a car- penter.
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MARSHALL DINWIDDIE.
BY EDGAR E. DINWIDDIE.
Marshall Dinwiddie, seventh son of William Walthall Din- widdie and Nancy (Bryan) Dinwiddie, was born in Campbell County, Virginia, November 7th, 1845. When about twelve years old, the family moved to Greenwood in Albemarle County, - where the remainder of his boyhood was spent. At the age of seventeen he entered the Confederate army, McGregor's, for- merly Pelham's, Battery of Stuart's Horse Artillery, serving to the end of the war. McGregor, soon made Major, selected him for his courier and quasi-secretary, in which position he ren- dered faithful and satisfactory service.
After the war he married Lucy Austin Leake, a niece of Hon- orable Shelton F. Leake. Their three children survive: Mrs. R. Newton Spencer, Washington, D. C .; Marshall Leake Din- widdie, Alexandria, Virginia; and Mrs. Mary B. Spencer, Ar- rington, Virginia.
He was with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for twenty years as agent and telegraph operator, going from this road to the Southern in its car record office at Atlanta, after the death of his wife; but not liking his work, was shortly after placed by the Southern as an agent in Virginia, and served as such un- til he married some years later Mrs. Sammie O. Durrette of Albemarle. She died some years before him.
He was prominent in Masonic circles, being for years secre- tary of Widow's Son's Lodge No. 60, Keystone Royal Arch Chapter No. 58, and Commandery No. 3, Knights Templar of Charlottesville, and member of Acca Temple, Richmond.
He was strong in his religious convictions and died in the full hope of a glorious immortality. His death occurred May 15th, 1916, in the 71st year of his age, at the home of his daughter at Arrington, and his body lies in the cemetery adjoining the Methodist Church there.
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WALTHALL DINWIDDIE.
BY A FRIEND (J. S. P.)
Walthall Dinwiddie, better known as Walter Dinwiddie, the eighth son of William Walthall Dinwiddie and Nancy (Bryan) Dinwiddie, was born in Campbell County, Virginia, December 3rd, 1847. When he was about ten years of age the family moved to Greenwood, Virginia, where the rest of his boyhood was spent. At sixteen he entered the Confederate army, and served with courage and devotion as a member of McGregor's Battery, Stuart's Horse Artillery, until the close of the war.
After the war he married Miss Eliza Stanley Shepherd of Albemarle County. She survives him. The surviving children are: William Walter of Orange, New Jersey; Harman A., Mary Louise, Harry E., and L. Estelle of Charlottesville; Mrs. William J. Buchanan, Charlottesville; Mrs. Daniel Colcock, Jr., New Orleans; Dr. J. Gray Dinwiddie, Wilmington, Delaware; and Robert S. Dinwiddie, Detroit, Michigan.
Mr. Dinwiddie was for many years ticket agent in Charlottes- ville for the Southern Railway Company. From this position he went to the Charlottesville Perpetual Building and Loan Com- pany as secretary and treasurer, and continued as the chief ex- ecutive officer of that corporation until his death, which oc- curred October 24, 1909.
He was a member of the City School Board of Charlottes- ville for many years. It was during his service in that body that the High School building was erected and furnished and other constructive things done under his inspection as chair- man of the Board's building committee. In this position, and in others of trust and service, in the church, in fraternal and personal relations, and particularly at the head of his family, he met every obligation with devotion and integrity, fearing nothing but God, after the manner of the Dinwiddies. He was prominent as a Mason and widely known through this and other fraternal affiliations, holding membership in Widow's Sons Lodge No. 60, A. F. and A. M., Keystone Royal Arch Chap- ter, Charlottesville Commandery No. 3 (Knights Templar), and Acca Temple, Richmond.
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J. W. DOLAN.
J. W. Dolan, a member of Company B, Nineteenth Virginia . Infantry, entered the Confederate army at the beginning of hos- tilities, and was actively engaged in service until the close of the war. After the surrender of Lee he engaged in the insurance business, and was active in all social and church work. He died at the Soldiers' Home in Richmond in 1918.
J. A. DRUIN.
J. A. Druin enlisted in the Confederate army as a member of the Fifth Virginia Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Reuben Bos- ton of Albemarle County. He was a fine soldier and a worthy citizen of Charlottesville, Virginia, where he was engaged in business.
R. W. DUKE.
BY W. R. DUKE.
R. W. Duke was born in Taylorsville, Kentucky, September 21st, 1845. He was the only son of William Johnson Duke and Emily Anderson Duke, his wife.
Just before the war, his father, with his family, moved to Virginia.
In 1863, soon after the Gettysburg campaign, he joined Car- rington's Battery and served with it until the fight of the Bloody Angle, at Spottsylvania Courthouse, in which fight all of the company were killed, wounded, or captured, except eigh- teen, who escaped. As the enemy came over the works, their captain gave the order for the men to take care of themselves. After this battle he, with the other remaining members of the company, were attached to Garber's Battery, and served with it during the rest of the war.
After the war he studied in the schools in or near Charlottes- ville and in a few years moved to Kentucky, where he taught school until his father's death in 1875, when he returned to Virginia. He was offered a position as teacher in the Char-
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lottesville school, and taught for some years, giving up the po- sition when he was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court, Colonel Bennett Taylor being the Clerk. On May 29th, 1886, he was appointed Clerk, and in May, 1887, he was unanimously elected Clerk, leading the whole ticket by 38 votes. This of- fice he held until his death, which occurred on the 12th day of February, 1909. He was buried in Riverview Cemetery.
MARSHALL MILTON DU PRE
Marshall Milton DuPre was the son of Louis Du Pre, his fa- ther being one of three brothers who settled in Charleston, South Carolina, after having been banished from France by Louis the Fourteenth. He volunteered from Georgia in the Eighth, a regiment from that state, and served the Confederacy for four years in the Army of Northern Virginia, to the close of the war. After the surrender he settled in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Afterwards he removed to Charlottesville where he spent the remainder of his life. He engaged in jour- nalism, and was associated with the Charlottesville Progress. He was active in musical and social circles, and church work, and highly esteemed by all.
FRANK S. DURRETTE.
BY W. R. DUKE.
Frank S. Durrette, the son of Thomas Durrette and Mary Early his wife, was born on the North Side of Albemarle County, July 14th, 1843.
In 1863, he joined Company D, Forty-sixth Regiment Vir- ginia Infantry. He rose to be a lieutenant in his company and served until the surrender at Appomattox. He was a brave and faithful soldier.
After the war he married Maria Samuel Moon and lived at Farmington on the north side of the North Fork of the Ri- vanna River. This home was one of the pleasantest places to visit. Frank, as he was lovingly called by his many friends, was
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a good performer on the violin and many were the joyous oc- casions at which he gave much pleasure to his young friends.
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