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986 Since the war he has been active in the comradeship of Maury camp, Confederate Veterans, at Fredericksburg, in which he has held the rank of lieutenant-commander. He has served twenty years in the city council, and is prominent in business as a member of the firm of Robert T. Knox & Brother, managing several important enterprises. He is the owner of one of the most interesting relics of the war, which has been frequently illustrated, a disc of lead formed by the impact in midair of a Confederate and a Federal bullet.

Gottfried Krieg, of Washington, D. C., was born in Germany in 1832, and at the age of twenty years immigrated to America, making his home at first in the State of New York. Subsequently he removed to Alexandria, Va., and during his residence there before the war, became thoroughly identified with the State and in sympathy with the sentiments of its citizens. When the State determined to cast its lot with the Confederacy he promptly enlisted for its defense, becoming a private of infantry in Company E of the Seventeenth regiment of volunteers. With this command he served in the hard fought battle and decisive victory at Manassas, in 1861, and subsequently in the Peninsular campaign of 1862, at Williamsburg and Seven Pines, besides a number of skirmishes at various dates. At the battle of Seven Pines he received two wounds of such severity that he was incapacitated for further service, and was honorably discharged. Being removed to the hospital at Richmond he lay there for six months, and on leaving there in a convalescent condition he attempted to return to duty in the guard service at the capital, but after two weeks' effort was compelled by his physical condition to abandon the hope of further service in the army. At the close of the war he returned to his old home at Alexandria, and subsequently removed to Washington, where he has been quite successfully engaged as an upholsterer and as proprietor of Krieg's express. He is a member of the camp of Confederate Veterans, and is highly esteemed by his comrades.

William Sterling Lacy, D. D., a well-known minister of the Presbyterian church, during the past decade stationed at Norfolk, Va., is a member of a family distinguished in the divine calling. His grandfather, Rev. Drury Lacy, of whom there are twenty descendants in the Presbyterian ministry, was a son of William Lacy, a Virginia planter, and a descendant of Normans who settled in the north of Ireland in the service of William the Conqueror. Drury Lacy, born in Chesterfield county, October 5, 1758, was an instructor for many years in Hampden-Sidney college, subsequently vice-president and, after the resignation of President Smith, in 1788, acting president until 1796, when he retired to his plantation known as Mt. Ararat; was the clerk for many years of Hanover Presbytery and repeatedly a delegate to the general assembly of the Presbyterian church, and moderator of that body in 1809. An accident in youth, due to the explosion of a gun, destroyed his left hard and required the protection of his wrist by a silver cup, on account of which, and because he possessed a voice singularly sweet and sonorous, he was frequently referred to as "Lacy, with the silver hand and silver voice." He died in 1815, and was interred in the grounds of the Second Presbyterian church