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1044 joined the command of Gen. E. Kirby Smith in east Tennessee, and was attached to the brigade of Gen. Seth M. Barton. He accompanied Smith's command in the Kentucky campaign. After the return to Tennessee, Barton's brigade was transferred, under the division command of General Stevenson, to the army of Lieutenant-General Pemberton, in Mississippi, and his light artillery accompanied them. On May 1, 1863, he and his comrades met Grant's army at Port Gibson, after the Federals had landed below their post at Grand Gulf, and General Pemberton in reporting this fight to President Davis, said: "A furious battle has been going on since daylight, just below Port Gibson. The Virginia battery was taken by enemy, but retaken." Mr. Moelick was among the captured of the artillery, and was subsequently confined as a prisoner of war at Alton, Ill., until June, 1863. Then being exchanged he subsequently rejoined his battery at Atlanta. He was then transferred with the artillery, under the command of Capt. Henry C. Douthat, to southwest Virginia and West Virginia, where he was with General Echols at Lewisburg, took part in the battle of Cloyd's Mountain, and participated in the defense of Lynchburg against Hunter's raid. In the spring of 1865, after the surrender at Appomattox, he and his comrades abandoned their guns, at Christiansburg, and returned to their homes. Since the war, Mr. Moelick has been engaged in general merchandising. He was married, December 7, 1887, to Miss Alberta Davidson, and they have one son, James Albert.

James D. Moncure, M. D., commander of Magruder-Ewell camp at Williamsburg, was born at Richmond, Va., August 2, 1842. His father, Henry W. Moncure, a wholesale coffee and sugar merchant of Richmond, was a descendant of the grandfather of George Washington; and his mother was a daughter of John Ambler, who served as aide-de-camp to General Lafayette, in the war of the Revolution, was colonel of the Nineteenth Virginia regiment in the war of 1812, and in 1785 organized the James City Troop, which he commanded for twenty-five years. In his youth Dr. Moncure spent eleven years in Europe, pursuing his studies in the university of Heidelberg and the college of France, where he received the degree of Bachelier es lettres et science. In 1860, warned by the increasing tension between the North and South, he returned to Virginia, and in December entered the military institute at Lexington. After the passage of the ordinance of secession, he was ordered with the cadets to Richmond, where he served until July 19th, in the camp of instruction, drilling the volunteer troops. He then enlisted as a private in the Ninth Virginia cavalry, with which he served in all its campaigns, raids, battles and frequent encounters, until the close of the war, under the gallant leadership of the Lees, Stuart and Hampton. He was captured at Chester's Gap, on the retreat from Gettysburg, but managed to escape soon afterward. In the charge of his regiment at Aldie, in 1863, his horse fell, and Dr. Moncure sustained a fracture of the skull (which rendered him unconscious for some time), and the fracture of a collar bone, but this mishap kept him from his command but six weeks. After the close of hostilities, he attended the medical departments of the university of Virginia and of the university of Maryland, being graduated by the latter in 1867, and then continued