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1054 the Rappahannock, and fought at Mine Run. In the campaign of 1864 he took part in the Wilderness fight of May 5th, and, on the following day, received his fourth wound, a serious one, in the left leg, which confined him to bed for forty-five days in private quarters. Before recovering he was ordered to join his corps, rendezvoused at Plymouth, and there was captured by the enemy, fighting on crutches, October 31, 1864. Lieutenant Morgan then experienced life in the prison pens at Hatteras inlet, Camp Hamilton, Point Lookout, from which he made an abortive attempt to escape, Old Capitol prison, and Fort Delaware, until June 11, 1865, when he was released, exactly four years from the date of his enlistment. Returning to his home in Perquimans county, he was elected three months later to the office of clerk of the superior court of his county. In this position he served until February, 1868, meanwhile engaging in the lumber-businesslumber business [sic] with his father, in which he continued until 1873. He was then occupied as a carpenter and millwright, until 1881, when he removed to Norfolk and secured a responsible position with the firm of S. R. White & Brother. He has remained in this position to the present time, with the exception of a year as general superintendent and manager of the Wayne agricultural company, of Goldsboro, N. C., and a year with the Tunis lumber company. His residence is at Berkley, opposite Norfolk, where he is a member and now commander of the Neimeyer-Shaw camp of Confederate Veterans, and has taken a prominent part in local affairs as president of the town council. He was married May 3, 1866, to Pattie Carter, of Murfreesboro, N. C., who died April 26, 1867. On December 10th, of the following year, he married Maggie Tucker Butt, of Perquimans, and they have four children living: Mary Johnson, wife of John Harker, a wholesale lumber merchant of New York; Grace Gordon, wife of Clayton R. Caskey, also a wholesale lumber dealer at New York; Arthur Butt, in the lumber trade at Norfolk, Va., who married Agnes Mildred Chewning, niece of Col. John Bouie Strange, of Albemarle county, and John Carl, in the ship brokerage business at Norfolk, Va.

O. B. Morgan, of Petersburg, commander of A. P. Hill camp, United Confederate Veterans, entered the military service of the Confederacy in June, 1862, being then about seventeen years of age and a student at Randolph-Macon college. He became a member of a company of artillery, organized in Lunenburg county, and, serving at first as private was promoted to sergeant-major and finally to adjutant of his battalion. He was stationed with his command at Chaffin's bluff, Va., and finally, during the retreat, he took part in the disastrous battle of Sailor's Creek and was wounded and captured. A week later he managed to escape from his captors, and, then going to Hancock's corps and representing that he was surrendered with Lee's army, he received a parole. As soon after the war as conditions permitted, he engaged in mercantile pursuits at Petersburg, and, from 1874 to 1888, was a general commission merchant. At the latter date he turned his attention to manufacturing, becoming the proprietor of the Virginia bag factory and secretary and treasurer of the Magnolia manufacturing company. Mr. Morgan was born in 1844, the son of George B. Morgan, a former merchant of Petersburg. In 1869 he was