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1078 to Richmond and was assigned to the artillery, forming part of the Twentieth battalion, with which he served until, in 1864, he was promoted ordnance-sergeant and assigned to duty on the Brook road in Henrico county with the care of about 325 pieces of artillery and large military stores. Here he remained until January, 1865, having occasion meanwhile to be actively engaged in defending the depot from an attack by Kilpatrick. In 1865 he served at Fort Harrison, near Drewry's bluff, in defense of Richmond, until the fort was evacuated, April 2d, when he joined in the retreat as far as Sailor's Creek. In the battle at that place he was captured, and subsequently suffered detention at Point Lookout until June 19, 1865. After his release he returned to his home in Appomattox county, and in the succeeding October, removed to Lynchburg, where, with the exception of another brief stay at his former home and at Baltimore, he has continued to reside. In 1870 he went to Baltimore and was engaged in the wholesale grocery business there until 1873, after which he established a branch store in the same trade at Lynchburg. In January, 1874, he joined in establishing the house of Nowlin Brothers & Bigbee, wholesale grocery, liquor and commission merchants, establishing a business which has been continued to the present day, and in which he has been actively engaged from the beginning, though changes have occurred in the membership of the firm associated with him, which is now entitled Nowlin & Gibbs. Mr. Nowlin is an enterprising and valuable citizen of Lynchburg and socially popular. He is a member of the Masonic order and of St. Paul's church.

Addison N. Nuckols, M. D., of Danville, Va., was born in Hanover county, June 20, 1844, the son of Rev. Harden D. Nuckols, a Baptist clergyman. He is the youngest of five brothers who served in the Confederate army. His brothers, Samuel R. and Pettus H., were privates in the Hanover troop, General Wickham's old cavalry company, and though wounded in the service, are still living. This company was also known as the "Nuckols' command," thirty-four of the family being members. James M. was a quartermaster-major, and Alpheus B. served in the Ashland artillery, Longstreet's corps. Addison N. was educated at the Huguenot Springs and the Green academies, but left school in the spring of 1862 to enlist in the Hanover artillery under Captain Nelson. He fought with this command at Malvern Hill, but later in the year, upon the consolidation of several batteries, he was transferred to the Amherst artillery. Captain Kirkpatrick, with which he served in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Bristoe Station, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Monocacy and all the fights of Early's expedition against Washington, and the Shenandoah valley battles of Winchester, Middletown, Cedar Creek and Fisher's Hill. At the latter battle he was one of three men, his comrades being Frank Kinkle and Logan Lackey, who rescued one of the guns from the Federals in the midst of a destructive fire. After the fall of 1864 he served as courier, attached to the staff of General Long. He was twice slightly wounded and several times narrowly escaped capture. In 1869 Dr. Nuckols was graduated in medicine at Richmond medical college, and during the next two years he served as surgeon with the construction force of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. Since 1879 he has been a prominent