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1090 close of hostilities. John T. Parham enlisted in the Confederate service April 24, 1861, as a private in the Thirty-second regiment. During the remainder of that year he served upon the peninsula, and upon the opening of the campaign against McClellan he took part in Longstreet's division in the battles of Williamsburg and Seven Pines, and the Seven Days' campaign which resulted in the discomfiture of the Federal army. Then in Semmes' brigade of McLaws' division he marched into Maryland, and was with his regiment at Crampton's Gap, where the artillery in charge of Colonel Montague rendered effective service. His regiment went into the fight at Sharpsburg with 158 men and lost 15 killed and 57 wounded. Their colors received seventeen shots, and the pike was twice cut in two by rifle balls. At Fredericksburg, in Corse's brigade of Pickett's division, he served in the center of the Confederate line, and subsequently he was with his division in the Suffolk campaign. After the Gettysburg campaign he was transferred to Gen. Eppa Hunton's brigade. In an engagement at Brooks' church he was wounded, but he continued with his regiment, took part in the hard fighting at Cold Harbor, Fort Harrison, Fort Gilmer and Chaffin's Bluff, and continued in the defense of Richmond until the evacuation. He marched with the army to Appomattox and was paroled at Lynchburg three days after the surrender. During his service he was promoted corporal, later was on the color guard, and at the close had the position of ensign with the rank of first lieutenant. He has been engaged in business since the war, and has rendered public service as a member of the city council, as deputy collector of customs under Cleveland's first administration, and as deputy sergeant since 1888. He is past grand commander of the Knights Templar of Virginia, and has had a distinguished career in the Masonic and other orders. In 1871 he was married to Miss Lucy Hatcher, of Chesterfield county, whose seven brothers served in the Confederate army, two losing their lives. They have two children, H. V. Parham, deputy clerk, and Anna Belle. The son, H. V. Parham, served as second lieutenant in Company G, Third regiment Virginia volunteers, in the recent war with Spain.

Charles D. Parker, of Hampton, Va., who entered the service of the Confederacy in his fifteenth year, and served through a large part of the war, was born in Halifax county, N. C., November 24, 1847. His father, David Parker, of Edgecombe county, N. C., who served in the Mexican war and died in 1848, was the son of Hardy Parker, a native of England who accompanied his parents to Edgecombe county in childhood, and died upon the farm which he had occupied for sixty-one years, at the age of eighty-four, his wife, Harriet Weeks, living to the same age. The wife of David Parker was Emily, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Mangum) Wood. Charles D. Parker entered the service in October, 1862, as a courier for Capt. William Brown, and seven months later was attached to the quartermaster's department under the same officer. He was subsequently detailed to guard various warehouses along the railroads of North Carolina and Virginia, under Col. David Pender, and after a year's service in this capacity, was put in charge of a wagon train, and sent through the country gathering up the tenth which was contributed by the citizens for