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980 young physician of Pulaski City. He attended the sessions of 1887 to 1889 at the university of Virginia and graduated at Bellevue hospital medical college, New York, in 1890, and took a post-graduate course at the New York Polyclinic, in 1897. He is meeting with marked success in the treatment of the special diseases of the nose and throat, to which he mainly devotes his attention.

Henry D. Kerfoot. M. D., of Berryville, Va., who rendered service both in the infantry and cavalry of the army of Northern Virginia, was born in Clarke county, January 10, 1846. Immediately following the passage of the ordinance of secession by the convention, he participated in the occupation of Harper's Ferry with his company, the Clarke Rifles, which subsequently was assigned to the Second Virginia infantry regiment as Company I. He served as a private in this command during the year of enlistment, and fought with the Stonewall brigade at the first battle of Manassas, receiving wounds in this historic victory which disabled him for some time. On account of them he was transferred to the cavalry, and became a private in Company D of the Sixth Virginia regiment, a command which was distinguished through out the war in the brigades of Robertson, Munford, W. E. Jones and Payne, of the cavalry of the army of Northern Virginia. He participated in the Valley battles of Kernstown and Front Royal and the various skirmishes of Ashby's cavalry in 1862, and subsequently in the campaigns and raids and frequent battles of the cavalry under Stuart, was constantly identified with his regiment except when disabled by wounds. On various occasions he served in the advance of cavalry charges, in a small party detailed for that purpose under the command of Capt. James Thompson, and in such circumstances experienced the most dangerous fighting of his career. Captain Thompson, their fearless leader, went through the four years of war without a scratch, only to fall among the killed in the last charge at Appomattox. Private Kerfoot was twice wounded after his first injury at Manassas, receiving a wound in the arm near Milford Station, Va., and being shot twice and carried off the field for dead at the battle of Five Forks. He was carried to the hospital at Lynchburg, where he lay until three months after the surrender. On his return home he began the study of medicine with his father, a well-known physician, at the same time doing farm work to earn money for a professional course at the university of Virginia, where he was graduated in 1868. He subsequently studied and was graduated at Bellevue college, New York, and served eighteen months in the hospital attached to that institution. He afterward practiced his profession about twelve years in Fauquier county, removing then to his old home in Clarke county, where he has since resided and continued with marked success in his professional work. In 1874 he was married to Miss Minnie Hunton Moss, daughter of Alfred Moss, for several years clerk of Fairfax county, and they have seven sons living.

John P. Kevill, of Norfolk, who has the distinction of having served the State of Virginia, during and since the war of the Confederacy, twenty-eight years in the artillery organizations, was born at Charlestown, Mass., October 5, 1844. Going to Norfolk when a boy, in the company of his uncle, he was employed as a clerk