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Rh transferred later to Strifling's battery, in which he was promoted to sergeant. He participated in all the engagements of these artillery commands while connected with them. In the spring of 1864 he was transferred to the cavalry, becoming a member of the Forty-sixth battalion, and shared in the operations of this command during the remainder of the war. Once during his service he was captured by the enemy, being at the time stationed with his battery on the Nansemond river, but was soon afterward exchanged. After Appomattox he returned to Leesburg and quietly resumed his business relations, and by industry and skillful management has made a success of his career. He is popular and influential as a citizen, and has served the city twice in the office of mayor. He is a member of Clinton Hatcher camp, of Confederate Veterans, and is still a comrade with the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia. Mr. Norris is happily married and is the father of twelve children, nine of whom are living.

Captain John S. Northington, of Petersburg, at the close of the war an officer upon the staff of Brig.-Gen. R. D. Johnson, of Rodes' division, Second corps, army of Northern Virginia, is a native of the Old Dominion and a descendant of an old and honorable family. He was born in Mecklenburg county in 1835, the son of J. W. S. Northington, who had served in the war of 1812, and had taken to wife Mary H., daughter of Capt. Thomas C. Reeks, another soldier of the last war with the mother country. John S. Northington was educated mainly by his father, who was an accomplished teacher, and then went into business at Halifax, N. C., where, at the outbreak of the war, he was mayor and magistrate. Though this office exempted him from service, he enlisted, on April 9, 1862, in the military service of North Carolina and the Confederacy, and was sent to a camp of instruction at Raleigh, where he was elected junior second lieutenant of his company. Soon afterward he was sent to Norfolk, Va., where his company and others were formed into the Twelfth North Carolina infantry regiment. At the reorganization, in the spring of 1862, he was elected first lieutenant of his company. After the abandonment of Norfolk he served with his regiment in the defense of Richmond, and participated in the battle of Hanover Court House, May 27, 1862, and a few days later was detailed as acting quartermaster, in which capacity he served until December, 1862. Then returning to the line, he participated with his company in the battle of Fredericksburg, in D. H. Hill's division of Jackson's corps. After this fight he was transferred to the staff of his brigade commander, Gen. Alfred Iverson, as acting assistant adjutant and inspector-general, as which he served until the office was abolished in the following spring. He then returned to his duties as lieutenant of his company and took part in the battle of Chancellorsville and the Pennsylvania campaign, including the three days' conflict at Gettysburg. In the winter of 1863-64 he was appointed captain and assistant quartermaster of the Twelfth regiment, and he continued in that duty until the consolidation in the quartermaster' department when he was assigned to the staff of Gen. R. D. Johnson, with whom he participated in the Valley campaign of 1864, and finally surrendered at Appomattox. He then returned to his civil pursuits at Halifax, N. C., and thence, in 1869, removed to