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Rh his studies at the medical college of Paris, in 1868, after which he returned to America and embarked in the practice at Baltimore. He subsequently practiced in Fauquier county, Richmond, and Huntington, W. Va., until 1873, when he returned to Richmond and became superintendent of the college infirmary. He founded the Pinnell hospital at that city in 1876 and conducted it until 1884, when he laid down that work to accept the position of superintendent of the Eastern lunatic asylum, at Williamsburg, founded in 1768, and the oldest institution of the kind in America. For this position his profound acquirements as an alienist render him peculiarly adapted, and he has very successfully administered the affairs of the asylum. Dr. Moncure was married, in October, 1871, to Ann Patteson McCaw, great-granddaughter of Surgeon McCaw, who served on the staff of Lord Dunmore, the last colonial governor. She died in 1882, and in 1889 he married Blanche Elbert Trevilian, great-granddaughter of Col. John Trevilian, of the Continental army.

Colonel E. B. Montague was among the many gallant Virginians who rallied to the call of their State in the spring of 1861. He entered the service as major of a Virginia battalion that was assigned to duty in the peninsula under General Magruder, and in May of that year was in command of the troops at Yorktown and Gloucester Point. He was engaged in the first battle of any note fought on Virginia soil, that of Big Bethel, which at the time was regarded a considerable affair and caused great rejoicing throughout the South. Magruder's report of this battle complimented Major Montague by saying that he, "with every officer and every man under his command, did good service in the forefront of the fight." In the campaign of 1862 he served in the peninsula and around Richmond. As colonel of the Thirty-second Virginia, he led his regiment at Crampton's Gap and at Sharpsburg. After the return from Maryland he was with Longstreet's corps in its march to Fredericksburg and shared in that important battle. At the time of the Chancellorsville campaign, he was with the troops of the First corps that were in southeast Virginia under General Longstreet. When Lee marched into Pennsylvania, for the campaign which culminated at Gettysburg, Colonel Montague was in charge of the defenses of Petersburg. In the campaign of 1864 he was in the lines at Petersburg under General Beauregard, who conducted one of the most wonderful defenses known to military annals, from the time that Butler landed at Bermuda Hundred until Lee came to his relief, when pressed by the superior numbers of Grant. Colonel Montague continued to perform the duties of his position with gallantry and skill to the close of the long four years' conflict.

Aristides Montiero, of Richmond, a distinguished physician, who served as a surgeon in the Confederate armies, was born in Goochland county, Va., January 12, 1829. He is the seventh son of Francis Xavier Montiero de Barros, a Castilian of great learning, who, after taking an active part in an unsuccessful attempt to establish a republic in Portugal, was compelled to remove to America. Dr. Montiero studied in the university of Virginia and the Jefferson medical college of Philadelphia, being graduated in medicine in 1851. He at once embarked in an extensive practice in Virginia,