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Rh and paroled with the remnant of his company at Appomattox. Then returning to his Norfolk home, he resumed his former business, continuing in trade until 1892, when he retired from business life. Soon after his return he was appointed chief of the fire department, and held that position during a quarter of a century. He will be long remembered at Norfolk for his able administration of this department of the public service. Captain Kevin is a member of the Pickett-Buchanan camp, Confederate Veterans. On July 4, 1850, he was happily married to Augustine Lavina Shield.

Charles E. Kirkham, of Petersburg, a veteran of Mahone's brigade of the army of Northern Virginia, was born at Petersburg in 1843. His father, George W. Kirkham, was the proprietor of the rope walk at that city prior to 1861, and, subsequently selling the works to the Confederate government, was retained as superintendent in the government service until his death in 1864. Mr. Kirkham, in July, 1861, being about eighteen years of age, enlisted in Company A of the Twelfth Virginia regiment of infantry, and with his company served at Norfolk until the evacuation of that point in the spring of 1862. Then being transferred to the peninsula, he participated in the battles of Seven Pines and the subsequent engagements with McClellan's army until the battle of Frayser's Farm, when he received a severe wound, which disabled him from active service for many months. During a part of this time he was employed in the rope factory under his father. He rejoined his command on the morning before the fight at Bristoe Station in the fall of 1863, in which he participated, as well as in the battle of Mine Run. During the bloody campaign of 1864 he was identified with the record of Mahone's brigade in the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House. During the fight at the "bloody angle," he was again severely wounded and was subsequently for some time in hospital at Richmond. He rejoined his command in October, 1864, and participated in the battles of Burgess' Mill and Hatcher's Run, served with the brigade on the Bermuda Hundred lines before Petersburg, and finally joined in the retreat to Appomattox, where he was surrendered with the army. Since that memorable April day of 1865 he has been actively engaged in the pursuits of business life at Petersburg, and since 1882 has conducted a prosperous business as a florist. He is a faithful comrade to the veterans of the army, and maintains a membership in the A. P. Hill camp, United Confederate Veterans. In 1882 he was married to Martha, daughter of Edward Fenn, a prominent contractor of Petersburg.

Major Thomas Jellis Kirkpatrick, of Lynchburg, Va., a distinguished artillery officer of the army of Northern Virginia, was born in Cumberland county, July 31, 1829. At the age of seventeen he made his home at Lynchburg, and subsequently attended the Washington-Lee college, obtaining as a part of his education, a military training and proficiency in the artillery service. In 1861 he organized a company of artillery, thereafter known as Kirkpatrick's battery, or the Amherst Artillery, and was commissioned captain in September, 1861. This rank he held until January, 1865, when he was promoted major, and assigned to the command of Nelson's battalion, of which his battery was the senior