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1046 and, in 1857, having married the daughter of John S. Cocke, of Albemarle, made his home in that county. He cast the one vote of his precinct for Douglas in 1860 and earnestly opposed secession, but was second to none in the recognition of duty when war came. Though selected by the county court as the official physician for home duty, he resigned that commission and served as surgeon with the Tenth Virginia cavalry in West Virginia. He was next with Jones' battalion of artillery through the Seven Days' battles and into Maryland, and with Nelson's battalion of artillery until after Sharpsburg. After a short service with Richardson's battalion, he served with Colonel Alexander's battalion of artillery from January, 1863, through Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Chickamauga and Knoxville campaigns, until the spring of 1864. Subsequently he spent two months as one of the officers of the general receiving hospital of the army of Northern Virginia, and then was surgeon of the Twenty-sixth Virginia regiment, of Wise's brigade, until he was asked for by Colonel Mosby. With that daring and wonderful command he remained until it was disbanded, April 21, 1865. He then resumed his practice as a physician, removing to Chesterfield in 1866, and to Manchester in 1870, where he was not only prominent as a physician, but also busied himself as editor, orator, banker, druggist and public official. In 1882 he removed to North Carolina, and while there was elected to the medical staff of the Eastern lunatic asylum of Virginia, where he remained in charge of the male department until 1887. In the latter year he served six months in the United States quarantine in the Gulf of Mexico. The doctor has a remarkable reputation as a specialist in mental diseases. As an author, he has contributed to war literature that very interesting work, "War Reminiscences by a Surgeon of Mosby's Command."

Ellis M. Moon, a business man, prominently identified with the tobacco trade of Richmond, was born in Halifax county in 1849, where he was reared and given his primary education, which was continued at the Hillsboro military academy in North Carolina. After two years' study at that institution, he left the academy to enter the Confederate service, though at the time but fifteen years of age. He enlisted, in the winter of 1864, as a private in the Sixth Virginia cavalry, becoming a member of Company G, of which his brother, Thomas A. Moon, was captain. With this command he participated in a considerable number of important, famous and hard-fought battles before the close of the war, doing a soldier's duty through the desperate encounters in the Wilderness, and at Spottsylvania Court House, at Yellow Tavern, where he was captured and thence carried around Richmond, until he made his escape five days later at White House and rejoined his command at Mechanicsville; at the second battle of Cold Harbor and at Trevilian Station. Going into the Valley campaign with Early, he fought at Winchester (where he had a horse killed under him), at Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, Waynesboro, Berryville, and the raid with Rosser to Romney and New Creek, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Subsequently he fought at Fort Kennon, on the James river, and, after the evacuation, went to Greensboro, N. C., to unite with the army under Johnston. Returning to Danville, he was paroled there in April, 1865, closing an arduous military