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Rh war he was clerking in a store at Washington, and abandoned this position in August, 1861, to enter the Confederate service. He left Washington on the stage bound for Port Tobacco, and made his way to Manassas, where, in September, he became a private in the Twenty-first Mississippi regiment of infantry, of Barksdale's brigade. He served with this command until March 3, 1864, when he was transferred to Company A of the First Maryland cavalry regiment, with which he served about six months as a private and was then detailed by Gen. J. E. B. Stuart on scouting duty. At the time of Stuart's death at Yellow Tavern, Hume was on special service for him and, returning through the lines at Spottsylvania Court House, reported to Gen. R. E. Lee in person. He was paroled at Washington, D. C., in June, 1865. His record embraces the battles of Seven Pines, Savage Station, Malvern Hill, Maryland Heights, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg (December 11 and 13, 1862), Marye's Heights and Fredericksburg (May, 1863), Gettysburg, July 2d and 3d, Falling Waters, Chester Gap, and in the western campaigns under Longstreet, in 1863, he fought at Chickamauga, September 20th, Chattanooga, October 23d, Campbell's Station, November 11th, and in the siege of Knoxville, November 2Sth. Subsequently he served as a scout for Stuart's cavalry. At Gettysburg, he received a wound in the right hip which disabled him for three weeks. After his parole he farmed for a time in Orange county, and then secured a position in the business house of Hall & Hume, of which his brother was a partner in Washington. In April, 1870, he formed a partnership with Richard Poole, in the wholesale grocery trade, and since 1873 has conducted the business alone. This enterprise has been eminently successful, as have others with which he has been connected. Though a business man of Washington, he maintains his home in Alexandria county, Va., upon a beautiful estate, and, as a citizen of this county, was honored, in 1889, by election to the legislature of the State. In June, 1870, he was married to Emma P., daughter of the late John E. Norris, a native of Virginia, and for forty years a prominent member of the Washington bar. Warwick, the home of Mr. Hume, is situated on the south bank of the Potomac river and in full view of the cities of Washington and Alexandria, and commanding a view of the Potomac valley from Georgetown to Fort Washington, where his friends will always meet a hearty welcome, and the humblest a patient and respectful hearing.

Major David Humphreys, a prominent citizen, since 1869, of Norfolk, fought in the army of Northern Virginia from Manassas to the Wilderness, adding lustre by his soldierly qualities to a family record adorned by chivalrous service of various ancestors in the wars of the past. His father, John Humphreys, born in Jefferson county, Va., in 1797, though only a boy during the war of 1812, served upon hospital duty in that conflict. The latter's father, Col. David Humphreys, a native of Pennsylvania who migrated to Virginia in his youth and amassed a fortune in trade, served as captain in the war of 1812, in the regiment of which his brother was colonel, and was severely wounded in the defense of Washington. The next ancestor, John Humphreys, was a Continental soldier, and his brother, David, served as aide-de-camp to General Washington. The mother of Major Humphreys was Mary, daughter of Dr. Joseph Davis, an eminent physician of Jefferson