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Rh, Fredericksburg, New Bern, N. C., Little Washington, N. C., Plymouth, N. C. (at the latter place suffering the breaking of his right arm, an injury which disabled him for thirty days), Suffolk, Va., three days of battle at Gettysburg, Second Cold Harbor (where his leg was broken by a ball, causing a six months' sojourn in hospital, the engagements about Petersburg, and on the retreat to Appomattox. On the night before the surrender his regiment of artillery was cut off by the Federal cavalry and left Appomattox for Lynchburg and he was paroled there in May, 1865. Returning to Roanoke, he resumed the agricultural pursuits he abandoned in the spring of 1861, and, several years later, entered the business of insurance agency, in which he has since then been occupied with much success. He is a member and past commander of William Watts camp, U. C. V., and is past commander of the grand camp of Virginia. Two brothers of Major Lewis served in the Confederate cause: Andrew Lewis, now a resident of Florida, who was a sergeant in Company I of the Twenty-eighth Virginia regiment, served throughout the war and was twice wounded; and Charles Lewis, who was a private in the Fourth Texas regiment and died in 1862 at Dumfries on the Potomac river.

William E. Lipscomb, of Manassas, was born in Prince William county, April 4, 1833. He was educated at home, and at the age of fifteen years was appointed to the position of deputy clerk of the county. He continued in this official occupation, in the meantime studying and gaining a practical knowledge of the law, until the time of the beginning of the war of 1861, at which time he was in charge of both the clerks' offices. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate service as a private in Company F of the Forty-ninth Virginia infantry, and was promoted to the grade of first lieutenant. In January, 1862, he resigned from the service and reassumed his official duties in Prince William county, and so continued until, in 1863, he re-enlisted, as a private, in Company H of the Fifteenth Virginia cavalry. In this command he served with the army of Northern Virginia until he was captured in 1864. His life as a prisoner of war was passed at Fort Delaware, where he suffered many hardships and deprivations and subsisted upon provisions that were too scant for full relief from hunger and too coarse not to excite disgust. After this wearisome experience, the war being over, he returned to his home and, until 1870, busied himself in agricultural pursuits. He then took charge of the clerk's offices of the county, as a deputy, and served until 1876, when he removed to Manassas and engaged in the practice of law, also conducting a mercantile business. In 1884 he was elected judge, a position he still holds through successive elections. As a lawyer and judge he is held in high esteem by the bar and the public. He maintains a comradeship in Ewell camp. Confederate Veterans, and is a member of the Masonic order. In September, 1859, he was married to Miss Henrietta Holland, of English parentage, and they have five children.

Captain Connally Trigg Litchfield, of Abingdon, Va., was born at that city, June 5, 1829, and resided there until he entered the military service of Virginia, early in 1861. He became a member of Company L, First Virginia cavalry, as sergeant, and, going from Richmond to Winchester, during the occupation of the Tower