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Rh, and in May, 1897, was re-elected. Josiah W. Jordan, another of these patriotic brothers, was born in Isle of Wight county, June 24, 1843. In 1860 he entered mercantile pursuits as a clerk at Portsmouth, where, at the breaking out of war, he was among the first to respond to the call to arms. He enlisted in the Portsmouth light artillery April 17, 1861, and served with that command until August 9, 1862, when he was transferred to the Petersburg cavalry, a company of the Thirteenth Virginia cavalry regiment, whose operations he shared in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania until the close of the war. He was wounded at Kelley's Ford, May 2, 1863, and at Mattaponi river, May 17, 1864. Since the war he has engaged in agriculture and mercantile business in his native county, and since 1878 has held the office of postmaster at Carrollton. He was married in 1877 to Miss Martha A. Blackwell.

Robert L. Judkins, of Petersburg, Va., a Confederate soldier, had the good fortune to be associated during his military career with the immortal cavalry leader, J. E. B. Stuart, and his famous successor, Wade Hampton. He was born in Surry county in 1832, a native of Virginia, and when fourteen years of age he came to Petersburg to reside. There he enlisted in 1861 in the Petersburg Rifles, subsequently assigned to the Twelfth Virginia infantry as Company E, and with this command served for some time at Norfolk and vicinity. He was then transferred to the Thirteenth Virginia regiment of cavalry, and soon afterward was detailed as courier to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. He continued to be attached to the headquarters of the brilliant cavalry general until he received his mortal wounds at Yellow Tavern, and participated in all the famous raids and campaigns of the cavalry division of the army of Northern Virginia in the Old Dominion, Maryland and Pennsylvania. After the death of Stuart he was for a time attached to the headquarters of General Lee, and then ordered to report to Gen. Wade Hampton, with whom he served in the campaign against Sherman, and finally surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. During his service with General Hampton's command he was detailed for a few weeks as assistant quartermaster of the cavalry. During the period since the close of hostilities Mr. Judkins has been a portion of the time in mercantile business, and since 1886 has held the position of secretary of the South Side manufacturing company of Petersburg. He is an influential and popular citizen, and is a member of the A. P. Hill camp, Confederate Veterans, and highly regarded by his comrades. In 1867 he was married to Miss Rebecca Spratley, of Surry county, and they have two daughters living: Viola and Rebecca.

William Kail, of Petersburg, Va., an artillery soldier of the Confederacy, and now a valued member of A. P. Hill camp, United Confederate Veterans, was born at Petersburg in 1844. Orphaned during infancy by the death of his father, W. M. Kail, he was serving out the years of an apprenticeship when the war broke out, and he continued in this employment until 1863. He then enlisted in Bradford's Mississippi battery, and after service in the vicinity of Petersburg and at Drewry's Bluff, was ordered into North Carolina. There, in April, 1864. he participated in the movement under General Hoke, which resulted in the capture of the entire Federal