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Rh Lieutenant L. C. Myers, of Harrisonburg, Va., was one of the first of the sons of Virginia to rally at the posts of danger at the time of the passage of the ordinance of secession. He was then a member of Company H of the Tenth Virginia infantry, which had been in training about twelve months as a volunteer militia organization, and was prepared to answer promptly when called into the service at Harper's Ferry, on April 17, 1861, under the gallant Stonewall Jackson. Under the same commander he participated in the battle of Manassas, in July, 1861, and in the campaign in the Shenandoah valley in the spring of 1862, until the battle of McDowell, May 8th, when he received a wound in the thigh which incapacitated him for further service in the field. During his connection with his regiment he held the rank of second lieutenant, to which he was commissioned about the time of the organization of the command. In 1863 Lieutenant Myers was appointed enrolling officer for his native county of Rockingham, and in this capacity he served until the close of the war. He then engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1872, when he became connected with the First National bank of Harrisonburg. Elected cashier of this institution in 1888, he has since held that place and discharged its duties with credit to himself and to the advantage of the bank. He is a comrade of the local camp of the United Confederate Veterans, and prominent in the Masonic order as a member of the Knight Templars and Rockingham chapter and lodge. Lieutenant Myers was born January 30, 1840, the son of Christian Myers, of German descent, and his wife Melinda Gaines, a descendant of an old Virginia family. He was married, first, to Miss Sallie Mauck, who died, leaving one child, and subsequently to Mrs. Margaret L. (Newman) Yancey, by whom he has a daughter living.

Herbert M. Nash, a distinguished physician and surgeon of Norfolk, Va., who served in the army of Northern Virginia through the war of the Confederacy, is a native of Norfolk, in the immediate vicinity of which his family have resided for more than two centuries. Among the first houses erected upon the original plat of the city, about 1680, were one by Thomas Nash and another by Thomas Walke. It is an interesting coincidence that, at the present time, the only surviving surgeons of the Confederate army residing in the city are Dr. Nash and Dr. Frank A. Walke. It was a Thomas Nash, a native of Wales, who was the first of this family in Virginia; and, with his wife Anne, he settled in Lower Norfolk in 1665. The name was transmitted with filial respect, and his grandson, Thomas Nash, was for many years a vestryman of St. Bride's parish, Norfolk county, a position in the colony of Virginia, held by gentlemen only, and, including as it did the functions of a magistrate, was one of responsibility. The grandfather of Herbert Nash, the fourth Thomas in descent, took part in the battle of the Great Bridge (ten miles from Norfolk), December 9, 1775, and was severely wounded. This battle, in which the troops of North Carolina and Virginia, under Colonel Woodford, repulsed the British troops of Lord Dunmore, slaying their commander, Captain Fordyce,and killing and wounding between 100 and 200 men, was the first decisive battle of the war, compared to which the affairs at Concord and Lexington were insignificant. Continuing in service, Capt. Thomas Nash was captured in a hazardous