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1006 to participate in the battle of Fredericksburg. In the following spring he fought at Chancellorsville, where his brigade opened the battle; and in June and July he participated in the Pennsylvania campaign and the battle of Gettysburg. On the second day of the fighting in the Wilderness he was in the gallant attack of Mahone's command which rolled up the Federal flank and would doubtless have resulted in disaster to the Federal army had not General Longstreet fallen at the critical moment from the fire of his own men. At Spottsylvania he was in severe battle for two days, on the second day participating in a gallant charge, in the face of a destructive fire, which wrested from the enemy several lines of breastworks. In this action two men were detailed from each company to form an attacking party, and Mr. Lotzia was one of these volunteers who faced death in a reckless assault upon the enemy's fortifications. He went through the bloody battle of Cold Harbor and subsequently participated in the almost incessant fighting about Petersburg until the evacuation. In the battle of Wilcox's Farm he was severely hurt by a bullet striking his belt, but he remained on the field, though he was afterward for thirty days unfit for duty, but remained with the command. He fought in the trenches, took part in the battle of the Crater, where thirteen of his company fell out of twenty-four, and was in the engagements at Reams' Station, Burgess' Mill and Hatcher's Run. As the war drew to a close his division took the place of Pickett's division at Bermuda Hundred, and thence withdrew to Appomattox, where he surrendered with his regiment. Returning at once to the livelihood he had abandoned to enter the army, he soon afterward established himself at Suffolk as a merchant tailor, in which he has since been quite successful. He has served as member of the city council, as overseer of the poor for three years, as chief of the fire department six years, and now holds the office of city treasurer. He is also a prominent worker in the Masonic and Pythian orders, and is adjutant of Tom Smith camp, U. C. V. In 1868 he was married to Miss Eudora C. Jones, of Suffolk, and they have three children living: Mabel J., wife of C. B. Leet, of New York; Lottie B., wife of Joseph Crocker, of Suffolk, and John F. Jr.

James M. Love, a distinguished attorney of Fairfax, Va., was born in Fairfax county in December, 1843. He was still in his youth when the exciting events of 1860 and 1861 absorbed the attention of the country, and was attending the Virginia military institute at the outbreak of hostilities. In the spring of 1862 he enlisted in the Black Horse troop, which became Company H of the Fourth Virginia cavalry. With this gallant command he served as a private and participated in the celebrated raid, made under command of J. E. B. Stuart, around McClellan's army in 1862, and subsequently in all the campaigns and battles of Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry, until, in the spring of 1864, he was wounded severely, causing the loss of an arm. Notwithstanding his injury, he reported to duty at as early a date as possible, and was assigned to the commissary department in Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's brigade. In this capacity he served faithfully and efficiently until the close of the war. Near the time of the surrender he was captured, in Fauquier county, and brought to Fairfax Court House, where he