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Rh forces at Richmond, took part in the Seven Days' battles and was assigned to Stuart's horse artillery, with the brigade of Gen. W. H. F. Lee. With his battery he fought at the Manassas battle of 1862, many cavalry engagements, and Fredericksburg. In 1863 he participated in the celebrated flank movement of General Jackson at Chancellorsville, his men sharing the work of Breathed's battery. He was riding beside the general when he was wounded, and assisted in his removal from the field. Subsequently he fought at Gettysburg, and, in 1864, as major of Braxton's battalion, Second corps, was engaged in the battles of the Wilderness, and at Spottsylvania was among the heroes who fought at the bloody angle, and, thereafter fighting all day, received a severe wound in the shoulder. He was at Fisher's Hill, in Early's campaign in the valley, and subsequently participated in the battle of Hatcher's Run, and in the defense of Petersburg and Richmond, fighting finally at Sailor's Creek and surrendering at Appomattox. During the latter part of February, 1864, he met the Federal forces under the command of General Custer, on the occasion of their raid on Charlottesville, and, by a gallant charge at the head of his men, repulsed the Federal forces. After peace was restored, he returned to Lynchburg and engaged in the tobacco business, which has since been his principal occupation. In 1863 he was married to Ellen G., daughter of the late John C. Moorman, and they have three children: Marcellus N., Jr., who was graduated at the Virginia military institute in 1886; John Pelham, who was graduated at the same institution in 1890; and Littleton Leftwich. Edward H. Moorman, a brother of Major Moorman, served in the latter's battery as a lieutenant and now resides in Campbell county, Va.

Lieutenant John A. Morgan, a distinguished veteran of the First North Carolina regiment of infantry, now residing at Norfolk, Va., was born in Perquimans county, N. C., January 9, 1841. His father, Hon. Timothy Morgan, was born in Pasquotank county, N. C., February 15, 1815, served one term in each branch of the legislature, and died June 11, 1871. During the two years prior to the war, Mr. Morgan was a member of the John Harvey Guards, a volunteer military company in Perquimans county, with the rank of sergeant. On June 11, 1861, he entered the service of the State as a private in the Albemarle Guards, at Edenton, Chowan county, which was mustered in as Company A of the First regiment. During the first year of his service he rose, by successive promotions, to third sergeant, and, after fighting through the Seven Days' battles and Malvern Hill, where he was seriously wounded, was promoted for gallant conduct to the rank of junior second lieutenant. He received this commission, October 8, 1862, and, in that rank, participated in the battle of Fredericksburg. In March, 1863, he was promoted first lieutenant, the rank in which he served during the remainder of the war, during eighteen months of this period also acting as adjutant of his regiment. During his remaining service he fought at the battle of Chancellorsville, where he was wounded, took part in the engagement with Milroy at Winchester, where his conduct received particular mention, as appears from the official records and the Southern historical society papers; fought in the three days' battle at Gettysburg, receiving another wound; after the return to Virginia aided in repelling Meade across