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Rh career at the age of sixteen years. Then returning to his home in Halifax county, he went from there to Baltimore to attend school. In 1877 he made his home at Richmond and engaged in the tobacco business, in which he has since been successfully occupied. His brother, Capt. Thomas A. Moon, above referred to, served throughout the war with bravery and distinction, until captured at Yellow Tavern. He passed away in 1869.

David Evans Moore, a gallant and representative veteran of the Rockbridge artillery, and since the war a prominent attorney at Lexington, was born at the latter city, August 5, 1840. He was there reared and educated, being graduated in 1860 by Washington college after a regular course of study. Going then to Alabama, he engaged in teaching school there until the crisis of 1861 arrived and Virginia decided to unite her interests with those of the seceding States. At this juncture he returned to Lexington and, in April, 1861, became a private in the Rockbridge artillery. At Falling Waters, on July 2d, he had the distinction of firing the first gun in the valley of Virginia. Just after Manassas he was made No. 4 at his gun, and after Kernstown he was promoted sergeant. The gallant Stonewall Jackson, under whom he served in the valley and on many other famous fields, recommended him for promotion to the rank of lieutenant, and, though the commission never issued, the letter of recommendation, now in Mr. Moore's possession, is as highly valued. During his career, Sergeant Moore participated with his command in a long list of important engagements, prominent among which were Falling Waters, First Manassas, Dam No. 5 on the Potomac, Kernstown, Jackson's fight at Winchester, Cross Keys, Port Republic, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, Chantilly, a fight with gunboats on the Rappahannock, Fredericksburg, second Fredericksburg, the defeat of Milroy at Winchester, the second and third days at Gettysburg, Rappahannock Bridge, Mine Run, Spottsylvania Court House, Second Cold Harbor, Deep Bottom, below Richmond, New Market Heights, fight with gunboats on the James river, engagement at Farmville with Sheridan, Cumberland Church and Appomattox, where he was paroled. He was slightly wounded in the first battle at Winchester and at Malvern Hill. At the close of this long and faithful career with the army of Northern Virginia, Mr. Moore returned to his old home at Lexington and began the study of law under Judge John W. Brockenbrough, being admitted to the bar in April, 1866. Since then he has been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession at Lexington, rounding out an honorable and successful career. In 1875 he was appointed prosecuting attorney of Rockbridge county, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, who had held that office for nearly thirty years, and, subsequently, he was elected and re-elected to the office until he had served in all twenty years and six months. Mr. Moore, in his military and civil career, has most worthily supplemented the previous history of the Virginia families from which he is descended. His grandfather, Moore, and his maternal grandfather, Matthew Harvey, both served in the war of the Revolution, the first as a captain in Morgan's rifle corps, and the second as a soldier under Light Horse Harry Lee.

Edward Alexander Moore, now a business man of Lexington,