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1030 at the close of the war. When assured that the Confederacy was dissolved, he returned to his home and soon afterward was able to purchase a farm in Augusta county, where he was engaged for several years in farming. In 1887 he removed to the city of Washington, where he has since been quite successfully occupied in the business of a contractor.

W. P. Manning, M. D., of Washington, D. C., a veteran of the army of Northern Virginia, was born in Jefferson county, now a part of the State of West Virginia, December 8, 1844. He was educated at Charlestown until, when a little past sixteen years of age, he enlisted, in April, 1861, in Company G of the Second Virginia regiment of infantry. This regiment was assigned to the brigade of Gen. T. J. Jackson and soon became famous at the first battle of Manassas, where Private Manning did his duty and received two wounds. At the end of his year's enlistment he became a member of Company B of the Twelfth Virginia regiment of cavalry and served in this command, in all its engagements, until the close of the war. He then undertook the study of medicine and matriculated at the university of Maryland, where he received the degree of doctor of medicine in 1869. After practicing at Shepherdstown, W. Va., until 1882, he made his home at Washington, where he has established a large practice and enjoys the well justified confidence of the public. He is a member of the Washington association of Confederate veterans, with the rank of surgeon.

Lieutenant Richard A. Mapp, during the war a member of the signal corps, was the son of John D. Mapp, a native of Northampton county, Va. He made his home at Norfolk in the decade preceding the war, and, engaging in the hardware business, became a prominent business man and a valuable citizen. For a considerable period he served upon the city council. He was a member of one of the first companies organized at Norfolk for the Confederate service, Company F, Sixth Virginia regiment and he subsequently was attached as an officer to the signal corps, organized at Norfolk in March, 1862, under the command of Maj. James F. Milligan. It was a service requiring special intelligence, and membership in the command was considered much of an honor. The corps rendered services of great value throughout the war, on the James river, and was relied upon by the Confederate government for information regarding the movements of the Federal fleet and of troops near Fortress Monroe. Lieutenant Mapp survived the war and continued his business career until his death in 1884. His wife was Mary V., daughter of Jacob Ashby.

Robert Thomas Marable, a veteran of the Forty-first Virginia infantry, was born at Walnut Hill, his father's farm home in Sussex county, and now, with his wife, whose maiden name was Alice H. Dillard, resides at Newport News. He enlisted in 1862 in Company A, Forty-first Virginia infantry, Col. J. R. Chambliss, at Norfolk, and served under the command of General Huger and later of General Mahone. With the famous career of Mahone's brigade he was identified part of the time as a non-commissioned officer, until he was captured at Burgess' Mill. He then suffered the hardships of prison life until a short time before the surrender, when he was paroled. Subsequently he was engaged in farming at his old home, until he entered the service of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. His