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Rh bishop of the old diocese of Virginia, which he continued to perform until two dioceses were established in 1892, and he was assigned to the Southern, with his residence at Norfolk. In this important office, as in all others permitted to him, he has served his church and the sacred cause it embodies with eminent ability and self-sacrificing devotion. Withal he finds opportunity for other duties, serves as a trustee of the theological seminary and high school, and is president of the boards of trustees of several academies. He maintains a membership in the Pickett-Buchanan camp of United Confederate Veterans, and holds in honor his comradeship with the soldiers of the Confederacy. The wife of Bishop Randolph, to whom he was married in 1860, is Sallie Griffith Hoxton, daughter of Dr. William Hoxton, of the United States army, sister of Col. Llewellyn Hoxton, a graduate of West Point, who had a gallant record in the late war, and great-granddaughter of Rev. David Griffith, D. D., who was the chaplain and personal friend of George Washington through the war of the Revolution, and afterward the first bishop of Virginia.

Norman V. Randolph, of Richmond, was born in that city November 2, 1846. On April 2, 1862, a boy in his sixteenth year, he entered the service of the Confederacy as a private in Scott's Partisan Rangers. With this command he pursued an adventurous career until it was dissolved in October, 1863. During the next month he took the position of volunteer aide-de-camp upon the staff of Brig.-Gen. John B. Pegram, in Early's division of the Second army corps, of the army of Northern Virginia, and served in that capacity without rank or pay during the following campaigns until November, 1864. He then became a member of Company E, of Mosby's command, and was on duty until May 23, 1865. He was one of the fifteen men of Colonel Mosby's command who declined to surrender at Salem, Va., when the command was disbanded, but left that place with the intention of joining the army in North Carolina. But the capitulation of General Johnston destroyed their last hopes, and they separated at Turkey island, and Mr. Randolph was subsequently paroled at Ashland, Va. His career was marked by that gallantry and intrepidity which were characteristic of the commands in which he served. He was wounded in 1863 at Upperville. Since the war he has been a valued citizen of Richmond and is now prominent as a manufacturer.

Captain William Lewis Randolph, an officer of the staff of Brig.-Gen. Lewis Armistead, was born in 1841, at Port Gibson, Miss., and died in Virginia in 1891. He assisted John B. Magruder in organizing a company of infantry in Albemarle county in 1861, of which Magruder was elected captain, Randolph first lieutenant and W. W. Minor second lieutenant. The company afterward became part of the Thirty-seventh regiment. At a later date Lieutenant Randolph was assigned to the staff of General Armistead as chief of ordnance with the rank of captain. In this capacity he rendered efficient service until near the end of the struggle, when he was wounded and captured at Sailor's Creek. For some time afterward he was held as a prisoner of war at Johnson's island. He was of distinguished lineage. His father, William Mann Randolph, a brother of George Wythe Randolph, a signer of the ordinance of secession and secretary of war in 1862, was born in Amelia county,