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Rh soldier, who served as lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-third Mississippi regiment, until he fell while gallantly leading his wing of the regiment in the charge upon the Federal lines at Corinth, October 22, 1862; Hezekiah Gilbert; Louise C., who married Judge J. B. Sale, of Mississippi, in 1859, and died in 1864; Joseph Edward, who became a prominent attorney of Columbus, Miss., and died November 7, 1891; Mary Alice, who married James Craddock, of Columbus, Miss.; and Frank M., now a commission merchant at Columbus, Miss. Dr. Leigh was educated at Randolph-Macon college, and after his graduation, devoted two years to the duties of assistant professor of languages at his alma mater, subsequently holding a professorship for a short time in a female college at Aberdeen, Miss. He then began preparation for the medical profession, and, after graduation by the New York medical college, in 1856, and a period of service as assistant physician at Randall's island hospital, he made his home at Petersburg. During about three years of the war of the Confederacy he held the rank of surgeon in the Confederate service. He was assigned to the Sixth Louisiana regiment, Hay's brigade, Jackson's division, in June, 1862, and he continued in active duty in the field until January, 1864, when, after being disabled by an attack of fever, he was detailed in charge of the principal hospital at Raleigh, N. C., where he remained until the close of hostilities. Since then he has devoted himself, without interruption, to his professional work at Petersburg. In 1870 he was appointed coroner at that city by Governor Walker, a position he has held for twenty-seven years. He is a member of the American, State and local medical associations, and has made valuable contributions to medical literature. In surgery particularly he has attracted attention by his skill and success. In 1859 Dr. Leigh was married to Martha Alice, daughter of Colonel Moody, of Northampton, N. C. Her father was prominent as a member of the North Carolina legislature and the secession convention of 1861, and belongs to one of the oldest families in the State, the land-grants made to her ancestors, by George II., being now in the possession of Mrs. Leigh. Four children of Dr. Leigh are living: Mary E., wife of John Willis Hayes, of the United States geological survey; John H. P., of Weldon, N. C., whose wife is a granddaughter of the late Hon. Nathaniel Macon, United States senator from North Carolina; Martha W., wife of James D. Mason, son of Joseph T. Mason, former consul at Dresden; and Hezekiah G. Jr., a graduate of the medical department of the university of Virginia and the Bellevue medical college of New York, and now a practicing physician at Petersburg.

John H. Lewis, a prominent attorney of Lynchburg, Va., and a native of that city, born in 1841, abandoned his law studies in the university of Virginia, in April, 1861, to enter the active military service of the State as a member of the Southern Guards. This organization, formed of students at the university, was soon afterward disbanded on account of the draft made upon it, by General Lee, of men to promote to rank in the army, and he enlisted as a private in Company G of the Eleventh Virginia regiment of infantry. He served with this regiment from May, 1861, to May, 1862, when he was transferred to the artillery and was commissioned lieutenant of Company D of the Twentieth battalion of artillery, where