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1062 was made at Richmond, where he found employment as a clerk until the outbreak of the war. In April, 1861, he enlisted with the Richmond Grays, as a private, and became, with this command, part of the Twelfth Virginia infantry regiment, of Mahone's brigade, with which he served during the year's enlistment. At the reorganization he was elected corporal in his company and continued with the regiment until after the Manassas campaign of 1862, when he was transferred to Letcher's battery, with the rank of sergeant. In the spring of 1863 he was appointed quartermaster of Pegram's battalion of artillery, the capacity in which he served during the remainder of the war. His military record includes honorable participation in such battles as Seven Pines, Frayser's Farm, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, Mine Run, Spottsylvania, Second Cold Harbor, and the long and desperate defense of the Petersburg lines. A few weeks after Appomattox he was paroled at Richmond, where he resumed his occupation as a clerk. Soon becoming prominent in municipal affairs, he was elected to the office of city treasurer in 1870, but a new election being ordered by the authorities, five months later, he declined to be a candidate a second time. In 1872 the esteem in which he was held was manifested by his election as commissioner of revenue of the State and city, a position which he has continued to hold since that date, now a period of twenty-five years. Mr. Munford is a member of the Lee and Pickett camps of Confederate veterans, the Richmond Grays association, Pegram's battalion association and the army of Northern Virginia association. John H. Munford, elder brother of the foregoing, entered the Confederate service as a private in the famous Company F of the First Virginia regiment, with which he served until the organization of Letcher's battery, of which he became orderly-sergeant and was promoted to first lieutenant. At Malvern Hill he was seriously wounded and left on the field for dead. Though he recovered sufficiently to return to the battery, his condition was such that the exertion at the battle of Gettysburg brought on a fever which caused his death at Richmond a few weeks later, at the age of twenty-four years. R. B. Munford is a member of the Virginia historical society and the Southern historical society, and a life member of Holly memorial society.

Henry Frederick Munt, a prominent manufacturer of Petersburg, Va., entered the Confederate service from Prince George county, in 1862, being then about eighteen years of age, as a private of the Richmond Grays, was made corporal of Company F of the Twenty-first Virginia infantry regiment. He served at Richmond for several months after his enlistment. His first fight was at Williamsport, following the Gettysburg campaign, and, during the following winter, he was in camp at Orange Court House. He went into the campaign of 1864 in Jones' brigade of the division of Gen. Edward Johnson, and, after participating in the fighting during the early days of May in the Wilderness, was captured with the greater part of his division at the "bloody angle" on the field of Spottsylvania Court House. From that time he was held for a period of over eleven months in the Northern prisons, at Point Lookout two months, and Elmira, N. Y., one year. Finally being released after the war was over, he reached home on the last day of June,