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Rh various commands of the army of Northern Virginia. He was born in Brunswick county, the son of John F. Maclin, a well-known farmer of that county, whose life ended before 1861. His great-grandfather was a native of Scotland. After receiving his education, at Randolph-Macon college, Mr. Maclin gave his attention to farming at the family homestead in Brunswick county, his occupation at the time of the secession of Virginia. At the first call he enlisted in the Brunswick Guards and went to the front, and, during the first year of the war was stationed at Hardy's bluff on the James river. He was subsequently transferred to the Petersburg Rifles, but, on account of ill health, soon afterward received an honorable discharge. About a year later he was sufficiently recovered to again endure the service, and he became a member of the Petersburg cavalry troop, in whose service he participated for about eighteen months. In 1868 he became a citizen of Petersburg and entered the tobacco trade, in which he is now conspicuous as the senior member of the well-known firm of John H. Maclin & Son. Their manufacturing concern produces about three hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds of plug and twist tobacco and four or five hundred thousand pounds of leaf tobacco annually, large quantities of which they export to foreign lands. His son, Thomas B. Maclin, is the junior member of this firm. Mr. Maclin is an enterprising and valuable citizen, and is highly regarded by his fellow-citizens. He is active in political affairs and took a prominent part in the local campaign of 1896.

Lieutenant Allen Washington Magee, a prominent business man of Clarksville, Va., was mustered into the service of Virginia early in 1861, as a volunteer in the "Petersburg Grays," under Capt. T. H. Bond. His company was stationed at Norfolk during the first year of the war, and was assigned to the Twelfth Virginia infantry, Mahone's brigade, as Company C. With this gallant command he fought at Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, Crampton's Gap, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, on the Petersburg lines, including the battle of the Crater, and at Reams' Station and other fights about Petersburg. After the battle of Spottsylvania he was promoted from private to ensign with the rank of first lieutenant. He was wounded at Spottsylvania and was once captured, but managed to turn the tables on his guard and take them in tow as his prisoners. On the retreat from Petersburg he was again captured but escaped and rejoined the army and was paroled at Appomattox. Mr. Magee is a native of Prince George county, and son of Joseph Magee, a lumber merchant. He was educated at Petersburg, and, after the close of hostilities, entered the mercantile business and the tobacco trade, first at Petersburg and, since 1872, at Clarksville, where he is now the owner of a large warehouse, and is also proprietor of Magee's chlorinated lithia springs. He was married in 1873 to Jeannette C., daughter of William Taylor, of Petersburg, and they have four children: William Allen, Stewart L., Emmett F. and Archibald Preston.

Daniel W. Mahone, of Hampton, Va., a veteran of the Nottoway Light artillery, was born at Hampton, October 3, 1837. His father, Daniel Mahone, born in 1797, in James City county, died in 1844, and was survived by his widow, Judith Robinson Armistead, until