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Rh 1863, but was immediately paroled; was wounded in the fight at Kelly's Ford, and at Cedar Creek received a severe wound which put an effectual stop to his military career and crippled him for the remainder of life. He retained his rank as captain until the close of the war, no successor being elected. When sufficiently recovered to do business, he acted two years as deputy sheriff of his county and, being elected sheriff in 1869, served one term in that office. In 1871 he was elected treasurer of James City and of the city of Williamsburg, and such was his ability and the esteem of the community for the gallant Confederate, that he was retained in office by successive re-elections until 1886, when he declined further election. Since then he has conducted a mercantile establishment in the city of Williamsburg, on the site of the old Raleigh Tavern, where the house of burgesses met after the body had been dissolved by Governor Dunmore at the old capitol in Williamsburg. He has also been engaged in farming since the war and is the owner of several profitable farms in the county. He is a member of Magruder-Ewell camp, United Confederate Veterans. Captain Lane has seven children living: Levin W. Jr., his business partner; Lucy, wife of Edwin T. Lamb, of Norfolk; Carrie D., wife of H. D. Cole, of Williamsburg; Mary Garnett, wife of B. D. Peachy; Oscar; Spenser, a cadet at the Virginia military institute, and Walter Gardner.

Maurice D. Langhorne, of Pulaski county, a member of a patriotic Virginia family, was born in Roanoke county in August, 1847. He removed to Montgomery county in 1858, and thence entered the Virginia military institute in 1863. During his seventeenth year he participated in the famous campaign of the cadet corps at New Market, where they played an important part in winning a victory over the Federal troops and fought side by side and with equal distinction with veterans. He was subsequently in the reserve forces at Richmond during the fighting on the Cold Harbor line, and then, being sent back to the institute, reached there on the day before the college buildings were burned by Hunter's raiders. He served in the Confederate lines before Lynchburg when that town was threatened by Hunter, and afterward was a member of the cadet corps at Richmond when their time was divided between study and service on the lines. After the evacuation of Petersburg he, with other of his cadet comrades, formed a battery for the protection of Lynchburg, and, after the surrender at Appomattox, he attempted to join Johnston's army. Since the war he has been engaged in farming and in real estate agency. His brother, James H. Langhorne, adjutant of the Fourth Virginia regiment, Stonewall brigade, was wounded at First Manassas, and before completely recovered went into the fight at Kernstown, where he was again wounded and captured. After imprisonment at Fort Delaware and exchange, he died from the effect of his wounds. Another brother, J. Kent Langhorne, of the Second Virginia cavalry, was killed at Raccoon Ford, near Brandy Station.

Colonel Maurice Scaresbrook Langhorne, of Lynchburg, distinguished as an officer of the army of Northern Virginia during its earlier campaigns, is a member of an old and honorable Virginia family. His father, Maurice Langhorne, served as a lieutenant of the Cumberland troop in the war of 1812, and his grandfather,