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952 surgeon of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, and local surgeon of the Southern system and the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac railroad, and the city police force. Three children are living: Floyd, Charles Brock and Virginia Floyd.

Captain Walter Q. Hullihen, rector of Trinity church, Staunton, Va., did conspicuous duty in the army of Northern Virginia during the war of the Confederacy. He was born at Wheeling, W. Va., in 1841, and at the outbreak of hostilities was a student at the university of Virginia. As a substitute for his room-mate he went with the Southern Guards from the university for the occupation of Harper's Ferry, in April, 1861. Returning to Richmond he joined the Second Richmond Howitzers as a private. Soon after the battle of Seven Pines he was commissioned a cadet in the regular army and assigned to the staff of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, with rank of second lieutenant. By subsequent promotions he became second lieutenant and captain, Confederate States army, and was assigned to duty by Gen. R. E. Lee, as inspector-general with Lomax's brigade, and afterward to the staff of Gen. W. H. Payne. Among the prominent battles in which he took part were Big Bethel, Chancellorsville, Tom's Brook, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, Yellow Tavern, Brandy Station, Fredericksburg, Petersburg, Five Forks, Appomattox. At Chancellorsville and Tom's Brook he was severely wounded. Just before the battle of Fredericksburg he went through the Federal lines to escort Miss Mary, daughter of General Lee, a service which is mentioned in several historical works. At Sharpsburg his gallant conduct received special mention from General Stuart, and at Yellow Tavern his participation has received historical mention. He was paroled at Appomattox and on his return home entered upon study for the ministry. He was ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1868 and after a temporary service at Old Christ church, Baltimore, in 1872, was called to Staunton, where he has since resided.

Frank Hume, a wholesale merchant of Washington, and a veteran of the army of Northern Virginia, is a native of Virginia, born July 21, 1843, at Culpeper, where his family has resided for many generations. The family of Humes in America was established by George Hume, second son of Sir George Hume, the laird of Wedderburn, Scotland, who was a direct descendant of the fourth earl of Dunbar and March. George Hume came to Culpeper in 1721, engaged in land surveying, being the principal surveyor of the great Lord Fairfax grant, and died in 1760, leaving six sons. His great-grandson, Charles, born in 1814, married Frances Virginia Rawlins, of Culpeper county, a first cousin of Gen. John A. Rawlins, chief of staff of Gen. U. S. Grant. Charles Hume was employed in the second auditor's department of the United States treasury department at Washington for nearly forty years, and died June 25, 1883. Thirteen children were born to him, the fourth of whom, Charles Connor Hume, born February 2, 1842, was distinguished for important and daring service in the Confederate States army, earned promotion from the ranks to major in the regular army, and enjoyed the friendship of Generals Lee and Stuart. He was killed in Charles county, Md., May 20, 1863, by a squad of Federal soldiers who had broken their parole. The next elder son was Frank Hume, who, at five years of age, was taken by the family to Washington, where he was reared, and educated at the Bladensburg academy. At the outbreak of the