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1060 the hospitals at Richmond, having been a medical student before his enlistment. He was graduated in medicine, in 1863, and was then commissioned assistant surgeon, Confederate States navy. He was assigned to the James river squadron and served upon the Virginia, the ironclad which was built to replace the famous floating battery which first bore that name and which served as the flagship of Captain Pegram and his successors, Commodores Mitchell and Dunnington and Admiral Semmes. He was stationed at Chaffin's bluff until the abandonment of Richmond, after which he joined the army of Johnston and surrendered at Greensboro. Throughout his naval service he was in the midst of almost continual fighting and demonstrated, by his coolness, the fitness of his professional association with the brave men of the James river squadron. After the war he practiced medicine in his native county until 1872, when he removed to Petersburg and engaged in the business of real estate and insurance agency. As State agent for one year in North Carolina he represented a large number of leading insurance companies and did a successful business. He has rendered valuable service to the community for many years as member of the school board, and is a prominent church worker and a trustee of Bishop Payne's divinity school. In 1866 he was married to Miss Mutie A. Owen, of Sussex county. Their five children living are J. Edward, Jr., John, Mary Vaughn, Mutie A., and Harry Lee, having lost one, Owen, by death, August 5, 1894, at the age of twenty-five. He was engaged in business with his father and was also reading law.

Joseph A. Mudd, of recent years a resident of the city of Washington, a physician and journalist, was born at Millwood, Mo., in 1842. He was reared and educated in that State, and from 1857 until 1860 attended St. Mary's college in Perry county, where Abram J. Ryan, subsequently known to fame as the "Poet Priest" of the South, was his professor of English and history. He was among those Missourians who were heartily in accord with the Confederacy, and enlisted in June, 1861, as a private in Company B of the First regiment, Third division, Missouri State Guards. After a time in a Federal prison he entered the company of Captain Penny, in independent service, acting in conjunction with the command of Col. Joseph Porter. He took part in the engagements at Carthage, July 5, 1861; Wilson's Creek or Oak Hills, August 10, 1861; Oak Ridge, July 17, 1862; Florida, July 22, 1862; Botts' Bluff, July 24, 1862, and Moore's Mills, July 28, 1862, all in the State of Missouri. After the latter engagement Dr. Mudd retired from the service until March, 1864, when he entered the medical service of the army of Northern Virginia as assistant surgeon and was assigned to duty at the Howard Grove hospital, at Richmond, Va., where he remained on duty until the close of the war. He subsequently resided one year in the District of Columbia, engaged in the practice of medicine, after which he removed to Mexico and resided for ten months at Cordova. Returning to his native State he was there engaged alternately in the practice of medicine and in conducting a newspaper, until 1883, when he went to Gatesville, Tex., and conducted a newspaper at that place during the succeeding three years. In January, 1889, he made his home at Washington, D. C, and with others established "The National Economist,"