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934 Company A was deployed as skirmishers, and, under command of Captain Hodges, led the charge of Kemper's brigade of Pickett's division up Cemetery hill. Captain Hodges and Lieutenant White were wounded, and Lieutenant Gary was captured. On recovering from his wounds, Captain Hodges returned to his command and served during the campaigns of 1864 and 1865, at the last leading the remnant of the Third regiment. It is an interesting fact regarding the service of Company A at Gettysburg, that, though it was in the skirmish line .and received the fire of the enemy before the main line of battle, by which many of its men were wounded, none were killed. After the close of the war, Captain Hodges engaged in farming until 1876, then removed to Portsmouth, where he served eight years as city engineer, having practiced that profession for several years before the war. Subsequently he was superintendent of the Norfolk County & Portsmouth ferry two years, served from 1885 to 1889 in the Virginia State senate, representing Portsmouth city and Norfolk county; was chief engineer and superintendent of construction of the Atlanta & Danville railroad from 1887 to 1890, for two years remained with that railroad as superintendent of maintenance of way, and, since 1892, has followed his profession at Portsmouth. He was married, November 4, 1858, to Margaret Taylor, of Norfolk county. Captain Hodges was born in Norfolk county, August 13, 1834, the son of James G. and Tamar (Hall) Hodges, whose ancestors have been residents of the county since 1665. His great-grandfather. Mason Hodges, served as a major in the Revolutionary war, in which his great-grandfather, William Hall, also served with the rank of captain, and his grandfather, Thomas Hodges, was a lieutenant in the war of 1812.

Horatio Cornick Hoggard, a prominent real estate broker of Norfolk, Va., was born February 11, 1846, in Princess Anne county, Va., at Poplar Hall, the ancestral home of his family. This plantation, which has been in the possession of the Hoggards for seven generations, was first granted to Thurmer Hoggard, about two hundred and fifty years ago, by Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, to whom it had been patented with other lands by the crown of England. A brick house, built two hundred years ago, still stands, in a good state of preservation, upon the farm and is occupied now by the father, Thurmer Hoggard, who bears the name which has descended with but one exception in unbroken succession from the original settler. An older brother of Horatio, who bears the name, and served in the same command with him in the war of 1861-65, now resides on the plantation. The grandfather served in the war of 1812, and the great-grandfather in the Revolutionary war. At the beginning of the war of the Confederacy young Hoggard was a student at the Norfolk academy, but, despite his youth, was impatient to enlist for the defense of the rights of his State and the South. Two months before he had reached the age of sixteen years he entered the service at Norfolk and was engaged on picket duty in that vicinity until the evacuation, the order for which he carried from headquarters to General Mahone. When the troops retired from Norfolk he marched with them to Petersburg and then took part in the battles of the Peninsular campaign against McClellan. At the battle of Seven Pines eighty-five Federal prisoners were placed in the charge of himself and a comrade,