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1038 was fought a considerable battle in which both sides claimed the victory, though whatever there was of real advantage lay on the side of the Confederates. In this affair General Hill's troops fought with the determination always exhibited when under the leadership of that gallant officer. Hill, in his report, speaks in high terms of the splendid conduct of his men and of the soldierly bearing of all his regimental commanders, saying of Marye and the rest that "they were brave, active and energetic in the discharge of their duties." When Gen. Robert E. Lee, upon the wounding of Johnston, took command of the army that was gathering from every quarter for the defense of the Confederate capital, with the bold aggressiveness so characteristic of him, he made ready to assail the army of General McClellan in a gallant effort to raise the siege of Richmond. Bringing Jackson from the scene of his triumphs in the Shenandoah valley, he defeated the grand army, that had so confidently marched for the conquest of Virginia and the South, in the series of battles known as the "Seven Days." In all these brilliant battles and movements Colonel Marye so led his regiment as to be mentioned by his division commander, Longstreet, as "distinguished for gallantry and skill." When Longstreet went to the aid of Jackson, at Second Manassas, Colonel Marye was again in the thickest of the fight and received so severe a wound that his leg had to be amputated. This incapacitated him for further active service in the field, though he continued to aid in every way the cause so dear to his heart. Colonel Marye was a prominent lawyer before the war, and after its close resumed the practice of his profession. He has been for several years auditor of the State of Virginia.

Wyndham Robertson Mayo, mayor of Norfolk in 1896, was born in that city, April 4, 1844. He is a descendant of one of the early families of Virginia, the Mayos having emigrated in the last century from southern England to the Barbados islands and thence to Virginia, where they became influential professional men and planters. Col. William Mayo, the first of the line in the Old Dominion, was associated with Col. Richard Byrd in locating the boundary of Virginia and North Carolina. The father of the mayor, Peter Poythress Mayo, born in Powhatan county in 1797, died in 1857, was one of the leading attorneys of Norfolk and served as State's attorney. His wife, Ann Elizabeth Upshur, was a daughter of Littleton Upshur, a planter of Northampton county, and a niece of Judge Abel P. Upshur, who was secretary of war and navy under President Tyler, and one of the distinguished people killed on board the Princeton, by the explosion of a gun, during that administration. Mayor Mayo, as a youth, attended school at the Norfolk military academy, at a private institution in Powhatan county, and at William Dinwiddie's school in Albemarle county, until 1859, when he received the honor of appointment to the United States naval academy at Annapolis. He was enrolled there until the spring of 1861, when upon the secession of Virginia he resigned from the academy, and entered the Confederate service, being assigned to the navy. At first detailed for battery duty he served at Pig's Point, opposite Newport News, and subsequently at Drewry's bluff in repelling the advance of the Federal fleet up the James river. At a later date he served upon the Confederate