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Rh war as a member of the Liberty Hall volunteers, an infantry company, but did not serve on account of poor health. On March 19, 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Sixth cavalry regiment, and during the remainder of the war was identified with the brilliant record of his command, under Stuart, Fitzhugh Lee, Munford, Rosser and Payne. While a private he discharged for some time the duties of a captain, and in the fall of 1864 he was commissioned first lieutenant, regular Confederate States army, from which he was promoted major, just before the surrender at Appomattox. During his service he participated in forty-four cavalry engagements, and five horses were killed under him, but he was never wounded, his only serious injuries being occasioned when he was thrown to the ground by the killing of his horse at Strasburg, during Jackson's Valley campaign, and ridden over by the cavalry and knocked senseless. He did not surrender at Appomattox, but escaped from that field with his brigade. After the conclusion of hostilities Major Pendleton resided in Jefferson county, W. Va., until 1871, when he removed to Wytheville. There he has served as magistrate, and under Governor O'Ferrall's administration received the appointment of director of the State asylum. He was married in 1869 to Miss Fannie Gibson, and they have four children: Lucy, Sue, Kate and William.

Charles Clifton Penick, a gifted son of Virginia, now of Richmond, Va., a bishop in the service of the Protestant Episcopal church, entered the army of Northern Virginia June 15, 1861, a few months after his seventeenth birthday, and shared the fortunes of his command during the entire four years of warfare. He was born in Charlotte county, Va., December 9, 1843, and passed his boyhood days mainly in Pittsylvania county, near Danville. At the latter place he attended the military academy a year, going from there to enter Hampden-Sidney college, where he had been studying but three months when the great unrest in the South culminated in the ordinances of secession of some of the States. He went to his home in December, 1860. On April 10, 1861, when it became evident that Virginia would be involved in the impending struggle, he enlisted in the service of the State and was mustered in as a private in Company D of the Thirty-eighth Virginia infantry. The spirit which animated these rapidly gathering Virginia regiments, a spirit that he fully shared, has been eloquently expressed in his own words: "We fought not for greed, nor gold; but in deepest conviction to principles and for what we thought were assuredly our rights." In the organization of his regiment Mr. Penick was appointed quartermaster-sergeant of the Thirty-eighth Virginia regiment, and in this capacity he served during the whole of the war. During the major part of the four years the regiment served in Armistead's brigade of Pickett's division and made a glorious record for endurance and bravery. Among the battles in which Mr. Penick participated in this command, the most prominent are these: First Manassas, Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Warrenton Springs, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, the Suffolk expedition, Gettysburg, Williamsport, Drewry's Bluff, May 10 to 16, 1864, the Second Cold Harbor, Five Forks Sailor's' Creek and Appomattox, where he joined in the