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Rh William I. Herrick, to escort to Libby prison, a duty which they performed without difficulty. Subsequently he participated in the battles about Fredericksburg, serving in the command of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, did picket duty on the Rappahannock and fought at Brandy Station, Culpeper and Orange Court House. At Culpeper he received a bullet in the right shoulder, which he still carries. Subsequently he was in battle at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, and all the way toward Richmond. At the brisk engagement at Yellow Tavern, on May 11, 1864, when General Stuart was mortally wounded, Mr. Hoggard fell into the hands of the Federals, and was held as a prisoner of war at Hampton and subsequently at Point Lookout for ten weary months. His brother, Thurmer H. Hoggard, in the same company, was severely wounded at the same time, but recovered; was shot through his stomach, and the enemy considering his recovery impossible, left him on the battlefield in a ditch of water, where he remained for about forty-eight hours, until the field was retaken by our soldiers. In February, 1865, he managed to make his escape from the prison camp and soon afterward reached Richmond, and returned to duty. When the city was evacuated he secured a leave of absence in order to visit his parents, and was on his way to his home at Poplar Hall when the army of Northern Virginia was surrendered. He then gave his parole at Norfolk to the Federal authorities and returned to the farm, where he gave his attention for the following fifteen years exclusively to agricultural pursuits. He still devotes some time to that occupation and maintains a home on the farm, but during the past twelve years has given his chief attention to the real estate and renting business, conducting handsome offices in Norfolk, and occupies a high rank in that vocation. In this business his brother, Thomas J., is associated with him. Mr. Hoggard maintains a membership in Pickett-Buchanan camp, United Confederate Veterans, and is a warm friend of the survivors of the Virginia forces. He was happily married, on December 19, 1871, to Mary Nash Herbert, daughter of Edward H. Herbert, formerly of Princess Anne county, and one of the wealthiest planters of that region. Eight children of this marriage are living. The mother of Mr. Hoggard, who died on Good Friday, in 1892, was also a native of Princess Anne county, and a daughter of Lemuel Cornick, a prominent citizen. His father, Thurmer Hoggard, at this date is in fair health, having passed his seventy-ninth birthday on the 14th of June, 1898.

A. G. Holland, of Washington, D. C, was one of the residents of that city who entered heartily into the cause of Virginia in 1861 and served faithfully until the end of the struggle. He was born in Washington in 1842. On April 23, 1861, he crossed to Virginia soil and joined the Beauregard rifles, at Alexandria, as a private, and began at once his service for Virginia and the Confederate States. His company became a part of the First Virginia cavalry, of which he was a member until September, 1861, when he was mustered out, and in the following month re-enlisted in the artillery, becoming a member of the Purcell battery, of Pegram's battalion, with which he served as a non-commissioned officer until April, 1864, when he was transferred to the Baltimore light artillery and participated in the campaigns of Early and