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Rh in May following. For this service he and his comrades were awarded a diploma by the institute. Subsequently he studied law and was admitted to the bar, but did not engage in the practice, turning his attention to commercial pursuits, first at Greensboro, N. C., and then at Danville, where in 1872 he formed a partnership in the leaf tobacco business and trade with J. H. Pemberton. In this line of industry he has become one of the leading spirits, and has one of the most extensive factories in the South. He is also vice-president of the Commercial bank, a director of the famous Riverside cotton mills, and is prominently associated with other financial and manufacturing institutions. In 1872 he was married to Sallie E. Pemberton, daughter of Thomas W. Pemberton, of Richmond, Va., now deceased, and after her death in 1882 he married Sallie M. Johnston, of Madison, Ga., in 1885. Four children are living: Mary K., wife of Barnes Rucker Penn; John Pemberton, James G. Jr. and Annie Lee.

Alexander D. Perrow, for many years tobacco inspector at Lynchburg, Va., was born in Campbell county, Va., in 1837. He was reared and educated in that county, and there, a year before the outbreak of the war, became a member of the Southern Guard, a volunteer military organization. With this company he entered the active service of the State April 21, 1861, the company being assigned to the Eleventh Virginia infantry as Company B, under Col. Samuel Garland. With this regiment, in the brigade commanded successively by Beauregard, Longstreet, A. P. Hill and J. L. Kemper, Private Perrow did a soldier's duty in the engagements at Blackburn's Ford, Seven Pines (where he was slightly wounded), the Seven Days' campaign before Richmond, and the battle of Fredericksburg in December, 1862. At the battle of Frayser's Farm, during the campaign before Richmond, he was captured by the enemy, and subsequently was sent from the field to Fort Delaware, where he was held as a prisoner of war for the period of three months. Then, being exchanged, he rejoined his regiment in September, 1862. In December, 1863, he was exchanged to Company G of the Second Virginia cavalry, commanded by Col. T. T. Munford, and during the remainder of the war he participated in the operations of this regiment, a part of Fitz Lee's division. Among the cavalry battles in which he took part, were the affairs at Edenburg and Covington, Va., and the battle of Kelly's Ford, March 17, 1863, when he received a severe gunshot wound through the leg. At the time of the surrender he was detailed to obtain horses in his native county, each soldier furnishing his own horse, and consequently was never paroled. He engaged in farming in Campbell county until 1881, and then removed to Lynchburg, where he has subsequently resided, and is a valued citizen. He has served as tobacco inspector since 1881, and has also held the positions of school commissioner, magistrate and other minor offices, and is connected with the Masonic order. Colonel William E. Peters, a distinguished cavalry soldier of the Confederate service, was born in Bedford county, Va., August 18, 1829, the son of Elisha and Cynthia (Turner) Peters, and was educated at Emory and Henry college, university of Virginia and the university of Berlin, Prussia. On the 17th of April, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the cavalry troop known as Smyth