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1004 the Forty-second Virginia infantry. In December, 1861, he was promoted first lieutenant and assigned to the staff of Gen. John B. Floyd, with whom he served through West Virginia and Kentucky, and in the defense of Fort Donelson, where he was in command of the artillery. Here he had his horse shot under him and was slightly wounded, and, after the capitulation, was taken with pneumonia, a disease by which he was so prostrated as to be unfit for duty until the fall of 1862. He was then assigned to the command of a battery of horse artillery, with which he participated in the Kentucky campaign, under Bragg, and with the cavalry commands of Gen. Joseph Wheeler and General Forrest, taking part in the raid around Rosecrans' army. He was recommended for promotion by Generals Wheeler, Hardee and Forrest, and received the rank of captain. Being transferred to the field of struggle in Virginia, he served on the staff of Gen. G. C. Wharton during the campaign through Maryland against Washington, and the fighting against Sheridan in the valley. Being promoted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry in battle, he received command of the Forty-fifth Virginia infantry regiment, which he led until the end of the war, disbanding his regiment at Christiansburg just after the surrender of Lee. In addition to numerous skirmishes and cavalry affairs, he took part in the fighting at Fort Donelson, Perryville, Ky., Charleston, Tenn., Chickamauga, New Market, Va., Second Cold Harbor, Lynchburg, Va., Monocacy, Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Blue Ridge and Waynesboro. He was wounded slightly in three engagements, the last time at Waynesboro, where he was also captured but managed to escape. In another valley battle he received a slight wound, and at Winchester two horses were shot under him. The war over, he returned to Salem, and, taking up the study of law, was admitted to the bar in 1867, beginning a professional career which has since been continued with much success and honor. In addition to his long service as city attorney, he has twice held the office of mayor of the city, and, in 1893-94, represented the county in the legislature. The two brothers of Colonel Logan were in the Confederate service: James Logan, lieutenant in the Fourth regiment, Stonewall brigade, who was killed at First Manassas; and Addison Logan, who served from 1863 to the close of the war as lieutenant on the staff of General Wharton, and died in 1877.

Lieutenant Lorenzo D. Lorentz, now a citizen of Washington,. D. C., where he has achieved distinction as a business man, was born in Upshur county, near the town of Buckhannon, in 1834. In this locality, then a part of Virginia, but since included in the new State of West Virginia, he resided until he had reached the age of seventeen years, when he sought his fortune in Baltimore, Md., where he entered mercantile life as a salesman for the house of Lanier Bros. & Co. While thus engaged, in the antebellum days, he was happily married, in 1854, to Libbie Burr, daughter of John J. Burr. A few years later she died, leaving a daughter, Libbie, now the wife of A. A. Simpson, of Buckhannon, W. Va. After the war broke out, Mr. Lorentz returned to his old home, where, his sentiments being known to favor the South, he had the misfortune to be seized by Federal authority and held as a prisoner of war about nine months, on suspicion of obtaining