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1154 there the cruising enterprise was abandoned and the boat dismantled. Mr. Schroeder was then ordered to England on special duty, in which he was engaged when the war terminated. He went from there to Halifax and engaged in the mercantile business for two years with Capt. John Wilkinson and Capt. John Taylor, afterward withdrawing from the firm to return to Portsmouth, Va. About eighteen months later he went to San Francisco, and accepted the position of chief engineer in the employment of the Pacific steamship mail company. In this capacity he went to China and remained there for a period of five years. Finally returning to Virginia to remain permanently in May, 1873, he embarked in the general hardware trade as a member of the firm of E. V. White & Co., with which he has been connected now nearly a quarter of a century. During this period he has been recognized as a prominent and influential citizen, and has been honored with election to the city council. He was married in 1861 to Mary E., daughter of Samuel G. City, an officer of the United States navy, and they have four children: Eugenie, Mary, William and Lucrece. Mr. Schroeder is the son of Antonio Schroeder, a native of Prussia, who came to Norfolk in 1834, and was engaged in farming until his death in 1854.

George W. Scott, of Danville, Va., was born in Orange county, N. C., August 20, 1848. His parents, John and Martha (Crabtree) Scott, gave five sons to the service of the Confederate States: Henry, Thomas, William, George W. and John; two of whom, Thomas and William, died from measles during the war. George W. was reared on the home farm and was left at home by his older brothers as they went out to battle, his age not permitting his enrollment. But in January, 1864, being then in his sixteenth year, he managed to enlist in the Thirty-first North Carolina regiment, Clingman's brigade, Hoke's division, with which he served as a private, going into Virginia when Richmond was threatened by Butler, and participating in several brisk skirmishes as well as the battles of Drewry's Bluff and Bottom Church. In the latter engagement May 20, 1864, while in the act of shooting, his left wrist was struck by a rifle ball, which tore its way through the right arm to the elbow, shattering the bones in its course. In spite of this injury the heroic boy soldier walked two miles and a half to an improvised hospital where he underwent the amputation of his arm. This rendered him unfit for further service, and he returned to his home. In 1872 he removed to Danville, from North Carolina, where he is now prominent in the tobacco and lumber trade. In 1880 he was married to Laura A. Guerrant, and they have five children.

Henry C. Scott, whose later life has been passed at Ashland, Va., is a native of Baltimore, Md., where he was a participant in the exciting events which accompanied the military occupation of that State by the Northern troops. His father, Thomas Parkin Scott, prominent in the annals of that period, was the son of Judge John Scott, of Baltimore, and his wife, Elizabeth Goodwin Dorsey, of a well-known family in Maryland. Thomas Parkin Scott took to wife Juliana M., daughter of Abram and Julia (De Bussy) White, and entering the practice of law at Baltimore, rose in his profession to the station of justice of the supreme court of the city. He was an ardent sympathizer with the cause of Southern