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Rh educated at Staunton and had reached his thirty-second year when the war broke out. He entered the service as a private in the Staunton artillery, on the night before the battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861, which he witnessed under fire, though not yet mustered into the service. He served with this artillery command for one year, participating in the actions at Little West Point, on the York river, and at Piedmont, and was subsequently put upon detailed service and sent to Staunton, Va., where he was engaged in the employment of the Confederate States government, in the manufacture of shoe pegs, until the government ceased to be through the arbitrament of war. At the end he was paroled at Staunton and resumed the civil occupations which he had abandoned four years before at the call of his State. He engaged in contracting and building, and continued in this occupation until 1890, meeting with notable success, financially, in his enterprises, and taking rank with the substantial and influential men of the city.

Richard D. Luttrell, of Culpeper, who returned from Appomattox a veteran of Stuart's cavalry at the age of eighteen years, was born in Culpeper county, January 13, 1847. He came of patriotic ancestry, his grandfather having been a soldier of the Revolution and his father a participant in the war of 1812. His half-brother, John M. Monroe, was a member of Company C, Forty-ninth Virginia infantry, and died from a wound received at Seven Pines. Mr. Luttrell left his studies at the Jeffersonton academy to enlist, March 9, 1862, in Company D of the Fourth Virginia cavalry. He was then but fifteen years of age, but, in the three years' fighting which followed, he did the full duty of a soldier, such as rode with Fitzhugh Lee, Stuart and Hampton through the contested territory of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. On May 9, 1862, he was wounded while fighting in the rear guard, on the retreat from Yorktown, and was disabled until the following September. After that he participated in all the engagements of Fitzhugh Lee's brigade until the end. He did not participate in the surrender at Appomattox, but left camp the night before and returned to his home, where he subsequently took the usual oath of allegiance. After teaching school for a time, he engaged in commercial, clerical and farming pursuits, to which his energies have been principally devoted since then. In 1893 be was appointed deputy clerk of Culpeper county. He is a member of A. P. Hill camp, Confederate Veterans, at Culpeper, and has held the office of adjutant. On January 16, 1873, he was married to Miss Annie E. Newman, of Fauquier county.

Frank Lynch, of Montgomery, Ala., served with honor upon the staff of Gen. Joseph Wheeler during the war of the Confederacy, his father, Commodore William F. Lynch, serving illustriously in that cause at sea. His grandfather, John Shaw, at one time held the rank of commodore in the United States navy, and the family is one of the oldest in Alabama. His wife, Mary Knox Buford, was the daughter of William K. Buford, a prominent lawyer of that State. Dr. Junius F. Lynch, son of Frank Lynch, was born December 2, 1865, in Alabama, and was educated at Richmond, Va., being graduated from the medical college of Virginia in 1888. Going at once to Chattanooga, to embark in the