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1022 among the younger physicians of Petersburg, was born in Dinwiddie county, in 1864, and received his early education at McCabe's school at Petersburg. Subsequently he pursued professional studies at the university of Virginia and was graduated in 1885. He passed the examinations of the State board in 1886, and, having also pursued a course of study in New York, he entered upon the practice at Petersburg. He is a member of the State and local medical associations, has made interesting contributions to the medical press, and is physician to the city almshouse and the State colored school. In 1887 he was married to Miss Mary Plummer, daughter of William T. Plummer.

Major William Cranch McIntire, who has been professionally engaged as a patent attorney at Washington since the war, has an honorable record of prominent service, both in the army of Northern Virginia and the Trans-Mississippi department. He was born at Washington, in the year 1841, and was reared and educated at that city. In April, 1861, he made his way to Richmond and enlisted as a private in the Thirtieth regiment of Virginia infantry. In that command he served for nine months and was then promoted lieutenant and assigned to duty as aide-de-camp on the staff of Brig.-Gen. John G. Walker, who commanded a brigade during the Peninsular campaign. In this capacity he participated in the Seven Days' battles and the engagement at Cedar Run, and then, moving to join the main army in the Maryland campaign on the staff of the division which General Walker then commanded, he was promoted captain just before the battle of Sharpsburg. In this battle he participated and was wounded. Soon afterward he was ordered to the Trans-Mississippi department, where he reported to Lieut.-Gen. Theophilus H. Holmes, commander of that department. In a few weeks he resigned, but soon re-entered the service with the rank of captain and quartermaster, as which he served at Little Rock until the evacuation of that place, in September, 1863. He was then on duty at Tulton, Ark., establishing an army repair shop, a few months after which he received orders to organize the quartermaster-general's bureau for the department, at Shreveport, La., and was commissioned major by Gen. E. Kirby Smith, then in command of the department. He served in the signal defeat of Banks' expedition against Shreveport, at Mansfield, in the spring of 1864, and was wounded in that engagement. He was then assigned to the duty of gathering the captured and abandoned river and land transportation. In discharge of this order Major McIntire took a boat and followed the Federal fleet down the river and seized all the hospital stores from a boat just below the wing dam, constructed by the Federals for the passage of their fleet over the rapids. Returning, his boat was the first to make the passage of the famous dam up the current. Subsequently he was sent from Shreveport, by General Smith, to convey to Richmond more than forty battleflags which had been captured by the Confederate army, also bearing a recommendation for his promotion on account of gallant and valuable services. On this journey, when about eight miles from St. Joseph, La., he was captured by a Federal scouting party, with all his flags and messages, and sent to New Orleans. He was held at that city as a prisoner of war until October, when he was sent by sea to Fort Lafayette and