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1052 He then joined the First Virginia cavalry, and, with that command, participated in the fighting at Chancellorsville, the third day at Gettysburg, Yellow Tavern, the Wilderness, Trevilian's, the fight with Wilson's cavalry at Reams' Station, and the affair at Front Royal in August, 1864, when he was again seriously wounded, receiving a gunshot wound through the lungs that terminated his active service. After the war he returned to Rockbridge county and was occupied in farming and other business until, in 1889, he was appointed treasurer of Rockbridge county to fill an unexpired term. Since then he has twice been re-elected to the office.

William Francis Moore, of Norfolk, rendered his Confederate service with the gallant Sixth Virginia regiment of infantry, Mahone's brigade. He was a member and fourth sergeant of the Norfolk Light infantry, an organization formed immediately upon the beginning of war, which was subsequently known as Company D of its regiment. Mr. Moore was born in Norfolk county in 1835, the son of William Moore, a farmer of that county. In youth he was apprenticed to the brickmason trade, in which he was occupied at Richmond when Virginia withdrew from the Union. During 1861 he served in the entrenched camp at Norfolk, with his regiment, and after leaving home to confront the Federal forces he served in all the famous encounters of the army of Northern Virginia and the army of the Potomac, including Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor. After reaching Petersburg again with the army he was taken sick, and was confined to hospital for six months. Then rejoining his command at Wilcox's Farm, he was taken prisoner in the winter of 1864-65, and subsequently held as a prisoner at Washington until the conclusion of hostilities. The years which have since elapsed have been devoted by him to persistent industry, and his success has been gratifying and fully deserved. Since 1870 he has been busily engaged as a contractor and builder. During one term he served as street inspector for the city. In 1856 Sergeant Moore was married to Miss Martha E. Hodges, who died in September, 1894.

Major Marcellus Newton Moorman, of Lynchburg, Va., who served with distinction as an artillery officer of the army of Northern Virginia, was born in Campbell county, Va., in 1835. He studied in the schools of his native county and then entered the Virginia military institute, where he was graduated in 1856. Attracted then by the opportunities for success in the new State of Texas, he engaged in the stock business there and in Mexico, but, after three or four years of this life, returned to Virginia. Locating at Lynchburg and engaging in the tobacco business, he became second lieutenant of the Lynchburg Home Guard, upon its organization in November, 1859. Subsequently organizing an artillery company, the Beauregard battery, of which he was elected captain, he entered the service of the State with his command in April, 1861, and proceeding to Richmond, was supplied with four Parrott guns and ordered to Norfolk. He served there until the evacuation by the Confederate forces, on the retreat covering, at Indian Pole bridge, the passage of Mahone's command over Tanner's creek. While at Norfolk, Moorman's battery participated in the actions with the Federal navy, and, after the concentration of the