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962 entered Richmond college, where he was graduated in 1870. In 1873 he was graduated by the Southern Baptist theological seminary, of Greenville, S. C., and in the same year was ordained as a minister in the Baptist church. In 1886 he received the degree of doctor of divinity from Richmond college. Dr. James has been in the active ministry since 1873, but has also given much of his time to the work of education. Having preached at Buchanan and Culpeper, he was appointed principal of the Alleghany institute at Roanoke in 1889, and in 1892 was elected president of the Roanoke female college, at Danville, a position he still occupies. He is also a trustee of Richmond college. In 1873 he was married to Miss Alice Chamblin, of Loudoun county, and they have seven children.

Lieutenant William Andrew Jamieson, of Boydton, Va., clerk of Mecklenburg county, was born in North Carolina in 1841, the son of Rev. James Jamieson, a minister of the Methodist church. He was educated at Randolph-Macon college, which he left for Richmond on the day of the secession of Virginia. He immediately entered the military service as a private in the Danville Blues, a volunteer company which had been organized some thirty years, and was then under command of Capt. W. P. Graves. Later in the war the organization was known as Company A, Eighteenth Virginia infantry, Pickett's brigade. With this command he served at First Manassas, Yorktown and Williamsburg, and was then transferred to Company I, Fifth Virginia cavalry, Col. T. L. Rosser. After this he was with Rosser, Fitz Lee and Stuart, to the end of the war, earning warm commendation by his gallant and fearless conduct. He was with the cavalry at Seven Pines, through the Seven Days' fight ending at Malvern Hill, in the Second Manassas campaign, the Maryland campaign, including Crampton's Gap and Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the raid into Pennsylvania and the cavalry fight at Gettysburg; in the cavalry fighting of the fall of 1863 and the spring of 1864, at Yellow Tavern, where Stuart fell, at Reams' Station, and at Winchester and Cedar Creek with Early in the valley. At Chancellorsville, under orders of General Fitzhugh Lee, he gave the signal for the opening of the battle. By recommendation of Gen. R. E. Lee he was commissioned, by special act of Congress, second lieutenant in the regular army, for distinguished skill and gallantry on the field of battle. On November 1, 1864, he was captured, while in command of his cavalry company, near Luray, in the valley, and was held as a prisoner at Fort Delaware until July, 1865. Upon his return to Virginia he gave his attention to farming. In 1887 he was elected to the office of county clerk, which he still holds. He was married in 1867 to Helen Yancey, a kinswoman of the famous Confederate statesman of Alabama. Three of her brothers served in the army of Northern Virginia, Armenius as a private and Hilary and Joseph as lieutenants, and all were killed in the charge of Pickett's division at Gettysburg.

Joseph R. Janney, of Purcellville, Va., was one of the gallant young Virginians who enlisted early in 1861 in the Eighth Virginia regiment of infantry under the command of Colonel Hunton. He was born in Loudoun county October 10, 1842, and was reared and educated in his native county. When his State called for his services he enlisted promptly in Company A of the Eighth