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Rh and labored earnestly to bring Maryland into line with the movement. Early in 1861 arms were issued to him by Governor Letcher for the use of Maryland volunteers. As a member of the legislature in 1861, he endeavored to secure the passage of an ordinance of secession, and so incurred the enmity of the Federal authorities that he was ordered to be arrested with others upon the meeting of the legislature in September, 1861. Subsequently he was confined in military prison for a year, and when he again received his liberty his health was so broken that he could not gratify his desire to take up arms in the Southern cause. His death, hastened by the rigors of prison life, occurred within the decade following the war. Dr. Henry C. Scott, born at Baltimore July 6, 1828, was educated at St. Mary's college, that city, and Mount St. Mary's, near Emmitsburg, after which he studied law with his father, and was admitted to practice. But preferring the profession of medicine, he prepared himself for the latter under the preceptorship of Dr. Nathan R. Smith, of Baltimore, and was graduated in the medical department of the State university in 1855. He then entered upon the practice at his native city. Becoming a member and surgeon of the Baltimore City Guard, he accompanied it to Harper's Ferry in 1859, and after the capture of John Brown, dressed the wounds of the raider. In April, 1861, he participated in the attack on the Sixth Massachusetts regiment in the streets of Baltimore, and was active in all the exciting events at Baltimore and vicinity at that period. Subsequently escaping from Baltimore he made his way to Richmond, and enlisted in Company C of the First Maryland infantry regiment. He served with this command as corporal and later as sergeant until 1862, when he was transferred to the medical department and assigned as assistant surgeon to the Jackson hospital, Richmond, where he served until the end of the struggle. Since May, 1865, he has made his home and the field of his professional work at Ashland, and has had a successful career. In W. B. Newton camp, Confederate Veterans, he holds the rank of second lieutenant. In 1853, Dr. Scott was married to Caroline A., daughter of Capt. Thomas J. Baird, U. S. A., granddaughter of Mathew Carey, the famous philanthropist of Philadelphia, and niece of Henry C. Carey, the eminent political economist. Dr. Scott has three sons living: Edward L. C, Thomas Parkin and Henry C. Jr.

James E. Scott, a leading business man of Norfolk, was born at Hillsboro, N. C., November 22, 1843, the son of William C. Scott, a native of North Carolina, born in 1801, who removed, when James was ten years of age, to Princess Anne county, Va., and there passed the rest of his life, dying in 1880. The family had emigrated two generations before to North Carolina from Maryland. The wife of William C. Scott was Mary E., daughter of Joseph Brown, a Pennsylvanian, and Sarah (Brownrig) Brown, a native of North Carolina. Upon the farm of his father in Princess Anne county, James E. passed his youth up to the age of eighteen years, when he entered the Confederate army as a private in Company I of the Fifteenth Virginia cavalry, with which he served to the end of the war. He was stationed at Norfolk until its evacuation May 10, 1862, when his command went to Petersburg, and on to Richmond before the Seven Days' battles, in which,