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Rh Company D of the Fifty-third regiment of Virginia infantry. He served with this command as a private until June, 1863, when he was promoted sergeant. His service in the field embraced the battle of Seven Pines and the subsequent Seven Days' fighting in the Peninsular campaign, the operations at Suffolk, Va., the siege and capture of Harper's Ferry, the battle of the 17th of September at Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg in December, 1862, and the three days' fighting at Gettysburg. On the third day, July 3, 1863, he was among the captured. Then began a long and wearisome experience as a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware, which he endured through all the subsequent campaigns and until after the surrender of the army. He was not released from confinement until June 20, 1863, when company, regiment, brigade and army of Northern Virginia had all alike disappeared. Going back to Richmond he went quietly to work at his trade, and remained at Richmond until 1869, when he made his home at Washington. Since then he has steadily prospered in his enterprises, and has been in business as an architect and builder for the last twenty years. In 1872 he was married to Ella H., daughter of the late William Williams, of Washington, and they have a family of three sons and three daughters. Ira E. Parry, brother of the foregoing, served gallantly throughout the war in Field's brigade, receiving three wounds. He is now a resident of Florida.

William Dangerfield Peachy, superintendent of the registry division of the city postoffice at Washington, D. C, was born in 1844 at Alexandria, Va. He was reared in his Virginia home, at Williamsburg, Va., and educated at William and Mary college, where he was graduated in 1861. In February, 1863, at the age of eighteen years he enlisted in the Confederate service. He had left Williamsburg and gone to Richmond for the purpose of volunteering, where he was enrolled by conscript officers the morning after the evening of his arrival, before he had an opportunity to offer his services. Soon after his enlistment he was detailed in the quartermaster's department, in the duties of which, and in active service with the department battalion, home guards of Richmond, the time was occupied until the evacuation of the city. During his service with the forces in defense of Richmond he took part in the battles at Green's Farm, Fort Gilmer and Fort Harrison and in operations against the Federal raiders. He surrendered in Richmond in April, 1865, and soon afterward returned to Williamsburg, and six months later found employment in a bank at Alexandria, where he remained until 1870. He then removed to Shenandoah county, Va., and for the next thirteen years was engaged in agriculture. In 1883 he embarked in mercantile business at Washington, D. C, and was so occupied until in 1888 he was appointed to an official position in the city postoffice. He is now superintendent of the registry division and secretary of the postal board of examiners of the civil service commission. Mr. Peachy is a member of the Washington association of Confederate veterans. In 1869 he was married to Leila R. Meem, daughter of the late Dr. Andrew Russell Meem, surgeon in the Confederate States army.

Major George Meredith Peek, late a prominent citizen of Hampton, was the son of Thomas and Janet (Hope) Peek, and one of six brothers who served in the Confederate armies. He was born at