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Rh Lieutenant Rady was promoted to the rank of captain and assigned to the command of another company in the Fifteenth, and he held this command until December, when he was ordered to Richmond on important duty connected with the telegraph department. He remained in this service a year and during the following twelve months was in charge of office work at the capital. Subsequently he was connected with the Richmond Christian Advocate, until the close of the war, in the meantime serving in the defense of the city as a member of Colonel Danforth's regiment. At the evacuation of the city he was captured and paroled at Richmond. Subsequently he embarked in the book and job printing business at Richmond, and continued it until 1873, after which he was for ten years in mercantile business. Since 1884 he has held the office of clerk and supervisor of the Richmond public schools, and during his long continued tenure of this position has rendered efficient service to the city. He is a member of R. E. Lee camp, Confederate Veterans.

Patrick Raftery, a native of Ireland, who served faithfully and gallantly throughout the Confederate war, and since then has achieved success in mercantile pursuits at Petersburg, Va., came to the United States from his native county of Galway in 1853. He first made his home at Petersburg. When the war broke out he enlisted in Company A, Twelfth Virginia regiment, and was at Norfolk at the evacuation of that city by the Confederate forces in 1862. He enlisted as a private, but subsequently was promoted corporal and finally sergeant of his regiment. He participated in the Seven Days' battles before Richmond and Second Manassas, was slightly wounded at Cumberland Gap, fought at Sharpsburg, Md., and at Fredericksburg, was in the heat of the fighting at Chancellorsville, and participated in the three days' battle at Gettysburg. In the campaign of 1864 he was a participant in the hard fighting at the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House and Cold Harbor. In the latter battle he was captured and was not permitted to rejoin the army to whose record he had so devotedly contributed by his valor in the ranks, being held about a year in the military prisons of Point Lookout and Elmira, N. Y. After his release May 17, 1865, he returned to Petersburg and embarked in business. In 1871 Mr. Raftery was married to Miss Mary J. Carlin, a native of Portsmouth, and they have one child, William Hugh.

Alfred Magill Randolph, D. D., LL. D., bishop of the Southern diocese of Virginia, was born near Winchester, Va., August 31, 1836, a lineal descendant through William Randolph the second, Peter Randolph, of Chatsworth, Col. Robert Randolph and Robert Lee Randolph, of that William Randolph who founded the family in America. The latter, a great-grandson of Sir Thomas Randolph, a diplomatist of good Queen Elizabeth's reign, came from Yorkshire in 1640 and occupied an estate on Turkey island in the James river, his home until his decease in 1711. Among the numerous descendants of this American pioneer, three, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and Robert E. Lee, have, in different lines of achievement, attained the highest places in American life. Col. Robert Randolph was a distinguished soldier in the war of the Revolution. His son, Robert Lee Randolph, father of Bishop