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1130 Mississippi infantry regiment. After the battle of Malvern Hill, in which two lieutenants of his company fell, he was promoted second lieutenant. August 10, 1862, he was promoted first lieutenant, and two months later he became captain of the company, the rank in which he served during the remainder of the war. With his regiment, in Barksdale's brigade of Mississippians, McLaws' division, Longstreet's corps, he participated in nearly all of the great battles of the army of Northern Virginia, including Leesburg, Seven Pines, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, Maryland Heights, Sharpsburg, First and Second Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the sieges of Chattanooga and Knoxville, in Tennessee and Georgia, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Hanover Junction, Second Cold Harbor, Berryville, Strasburg, and Sailor's Creek. In the latter engagement he was surrendered, and thence was taken to the Old Capitol prison, reaching Washington on the afternoon of the day of the assassination of President Lincoln. Later he was transferred to Johnson's island, where he was held until about June 1, 1865. During his service he was wounded three times, but not seriously. At the Wilderness he received a painful bruise over the heart from a bullet which was checked by a small dictionary in his pocket, which he still gratefully preserves as a memento. In May, 1866, he came from Mississippi to Fredericksburg, and was married to Josephine DuVal, whom he had met during the war, and he then made his home in that city. He was in the newspaper business until 1870, after which he served four years as commissioner of revenue. He held the office of deputy collector of internal revenue until 1884; meanwhile, beginning in 1876, repeatedly being elected to the city council, in which body as chairman of the special committee he led in the establishment of a water-works system and the almshouse. Since 1884 he has served with great efficiency as superintendent of the water-works, also performing the duties of clerk of the school board and acting as magistrate. His wife died in August, 1897, leaving six children living: Mary Josephine, wife of James R. Hicks; Carrie Belle, Silvanus Bryan, Mattie DuVal, William Blackstone and Nannie Maury. Captain Quinn is distinguished in the Masonic order, as eminent commander of Fredericksburg commandery, Knights Templar, past high priest of the Grand chapter of Virginia, and author of a historical sketch of Fredericksburg lodge, No. 4, in which Gen. George Washington was made a Mason.

Captain Charles P. Rady, prominently connected with the public school system of Richmond, is a native of that city, born in 1832, and was there reared and educated. Entering the printer's craft in early manhood, he became connected with the Richmond Dispatch, and was thus employed when the war of the Confederacy was inaugurated. He entered the service of the State in April, 1861, with the rank of lieutenant in the Life Guards, an organization which became one of the companies of the Fifteenth Virginia infantry regiment. In this capacity he participated in the battle of Big Bethel, the early fight on Virginia soil which aided materially by its successful termination in strengthening the morale of the Confederate forces in the Old Dominion, and in correspondingly discouraging the Federal invaders. In August, 1861,