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Rh the enemy he was captured and sent to the Old Capitol prison, at Washington, where he was held until paroled in the following August, when he returned to his home. On being exchanged in November, he at once reported to his regimental officers for duty, and although unable to walk without the aid of crutches—which in fact was his condition for four years after the injury was received—he pleaded for permission to follow the flag, but was discharged on account of disability in December. Thus ended his service with the Eleventh regiment, but he was able, in the summer of 1864, when Federal General Hunter was threatening Lynchburg, to serve as second in command of the volunteer force of one hundred and sixty men who annoyed Hunter no little during his advance. At the end of the struggle, in April, 1865, he was paroled at Rustburg, Campbell county, Va., and then quietly accepted the verdict of war and devoted himself to the study of law. Two years later he was admitted to the practice at Rustburg, Va., and earnestly turned his whole energy into the professional channel in which he has in the succeeding thirty years become so distinguished. In 1872, removing to Dallas, Tex., he was engaged there in professional duties for twelve years, within this period filling the position of city attorney from 1872 to 1875, and the office of district judge, by appointment of Gov. O. M. Roberts, from 1875 until his resignation in 1876. He returned to his old home and his life-long friends at Lynchburg, in 1884, and has successfully continued his professional practice. He held the position of general counsel for the Lynchburg & Durham railroad, from 1886 until its consolidation with the Norfolk & Western, in 1892, since which date he has acted as local attorney of the Durham division of that system. For several years he has served as city attorney of Lynchburg. Judge Nowlin is the son of Peyton W. Nowlin, a highly respected planter, who died in 1860, at the age of fifty-six years. The latter was a native Virginian and a son of James Nowlin, who served in the war of 1812 with the rank of major. The wife of Judge Nowlin is Lutie M., daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Spriggs, of the Virginia conference. They were married in 1868, and have three children: Percy C., Elmo P., and Viva M.

S. Walker Nowlin, a leading business man of Lynchburg, Va., was born at Oakville, Appomattox county, in 1843, where he passed his childhood and youth until he had reached his eighteenth year, when he entered the military service of the Confederacy. He became a member, in February, 1861, of the Appomattox Invincibles, a militia company formed for such service as the State might be in need of, and with this command was mustered in as a private in the Forty-fourth Virginia volunteers, the Invincibles being known as Company A. His early service was in the West Virginia campaign of 1861, in which he acquitted himself with credit and fought at Rich Mountain, July 11th. After the latter engagement he was taken sick with typhoid fever and confined two months at the hospital in Staunton. Then being sent home during convalescence, he was unable to rejoin his command until March, 1862, when he and his company re-enlisted for the war, and being transferred to Richmond, were ordered to Norfolk and there assigned, as an independent company, to garrison duty at Craney island. After the evacuation of the Norfolk district he went with his