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1142 served in the Confederate ranks. William Armistead Moore, the eldest, was upon the staff of Gen. D. H. Hill around Richmond, served as courier for Gen. R. E. Lee during the Seven Days' campaign, and afterward raised a company at Chowan. After incurring disability in the service, he received a commission to carry on the manufacture of salt at Wilmington. He became judge of the superior court in 1871. Augustus Minton Moore volunteered in the Confederate service, was a member of Company A, First regiment, later was transferred to artillery and served until he surrendered at Greensboro. John Armistead and Alfred, two younger sons, entered the service at the ages of twelve and fourteen years, with the Rangers organized for home protection, and engaged in perilous service within the enemy's lines. A daughter, Henrietta, married Stark Armistead Sutton, who raised a company from Bertie, and served gallantly until mortally wounded at Spottsylvania Court House, dying in the hands of the enemy. Mary Elizabeth had the experience of being taken prisoner by the enemy and held until she escaped by jumping her horse over a stooping soldier, this occurring in Chowan county, N. C., in 1863. Marie Armistead Moore Righton, daughter and only child of Stark Armistead Righton, adopted by Judge William Armistead Moore, cherishes warmly the memories of the military service of her family. She was married at Edenton, N. C., to Patrick Matthew, born in Scotland in 1853, a graduate in civil engineering of the university of Edinborough, a grandson of Patrick Matthew, forerunner of Darwin in the annunciation of the celebrated biological theory which bears the name of the latter, and a lineal descendant of Admiral David Duncan, the hero of Camperdown. Mr. Matthew resided in Greenville and Edenton, N. C., from 1885 to 1893, and since then has followed his profession at Norfolk, Va.

Captain James Roach, of Fredericksburg, a gallant soldier of the Sixth Virginia cavalry, was born in Orange county, Va., June 12, 1834. His ancestors were farmers of that county, where his father, who also attained the dignity of magistrate, married Mildred, daughter of Francis Jones. Capt. James Roach, the only son, was reared and educated in his native county, and for two years previous to 1861 served as deputy sheriff. He enlisted as a private in Company I of the Sixth Virginia cavalry in April, 1861, and manifested from the first such soldierly ability that he was speedily promoted corporal, then sergeant, second lieutenant, and finally captain in May, 1863. During the winter and spring of 1863-64 he had charge of the commissary department of his regiment. He participated in twenty-three engagements with the gallant Sixth, in the brigades of Generals Munford and W. E. Jones, prominent among which were the famous battles of Second Manassas, Cedar Mountain, Cross Keys and Brandy Station. In the spring of 1864, having been elected sheriff of Orange county, he resigned to accept the duties of this office, unusually important and active at that period, and he continued to hold the office until 1869. Subsequently he engaged in business two years at Washington, D. C., since when, with the exception of one year in Orange county, he has been in business at Fredericksburg, with his residence on the opposite bank of the Rappahannock, in Stafford county. He has busied himself with various lines of business as well as farming and has been