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Rh Howard and Gen. Charles E. Hooker. He then engaged in farming and the manufacture of plows, in his native county, until the spring of 1861. He enlisted, April 21, 1861, as first lieutenant of Company G, Eighteenth Virginia infantry, Col. R. E. Withers commanding, which was assigned to the brigade of General Cocke. In this rank he commanded his company in the first battle of Manassas. In November following he withdrew from the army on account of his election to the legislature from Nottoway and Amelia counties. After serving in this capacity in the session of 1861-62, he returned to his company and was elected captain, April, 1862. He then participated in the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines and Second Manassas, in the latter engagement receiving wounds which disabled him for further duty on the field. When sufficiently recovered for other service he was assigned to the commissary department, with charge of the work in several counties. After the close of hostilities he resumed his former occupations until 1868, when for ten years he was engaged in iron manufacturing at Richmond. Then for eight years he was in charge of the bureau of immigration of Virginia. In 1886 he became secretary and treasurer of Randolph-Macon college, with which he has been connected as student, trustee or official for nearly sixty years. He took a leading part in the endowment of the college and its removal to Ashland, has filled every office on the board but that of president, and altogether has done a work in this direction worthy of lasting remembrance. He has contributed to history an account of his Confederate company, and a record of the career of the college. He was married, October 1, 1846, to Frances Virginia, daughter of Rev. Freeman Fitzgerald, a Methodist clergyman, and they have nine children living, and fourteen grandchildren. Two brothers of Captain Irby were in the Confederate service: Edmund, now living at Como, Miss., and Benjamin, who was killed in battle at Selma, Ala., in April, 1865.

John W. Ivey, for many years a popular bank official at Lynchburg, Va., was born in Chesterfield county in 1840, and was there reared and educated. At the time of the secession of Virginia he was thoroughly in sympathy with the patriotic devotion which brought all young Virginians shoulder to shoulder for the defense of their native State from invasion, and he enlisted as a private in Company G of the Eleventh Virginia regiment of infantry, commanded by the gallant Col. Samuel Garland. His regiment was at the first battle of Manassas in the brigade of General Longstreet, and fought at Williamsburg, on the peninsula, in the brigade of A. P. Hill of Longstreet's division. Private Ivey participated in all the operations of his regiment until May 2, 1862, just before the battle of Williamsburg, when, in a skirmish preceding that action he received wounds of such severity that he was no longer able to serve with his command. Reluctantly retiring from military service after one year's experience, he resumed his duties as a bank clerk, which he had entered upon in 1860, and since that time has been constantly employed in that capacity at Lynchburg. He was at first with the State bank, but since 1873 has held the responsible position of cashier of the People's national bank.

Thomas Branch Jackson, adjutant of Pickett-Buchanan camp, United Confederate Veterans, at Norfolk, Va., was born in Brunswick county, Va., April 20, 1843. His family has lived in Virginia