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Rh Eppa Hunton. In October, 1861, he was taken with a severe attack of typhoid fever and was disabled until January, 1862. Then returning to his command, in the spring of 1862, he was appointed by Maj.-Gen. George E. Pickett as a member of his staff, with the position of division quartermaster. In this important duty he served during the remainder of the war. Before his illness he was engaged in various skirmishes on the upper Potomac, and while performing his staff duties, was under fire at Suffolk, Va., at the battle of Second Cold Harbor, and during the siege of Petersburg. At Appomattox he was surrendered with General Pickett's staff and paroled, being reported as sick in hospital, though the fact was that he had escaped the surrender. He was again paroled at Winchester, by General Hancock, and then returned to Warrenton, and resumed the practice of law, in which he gained honorable distinction. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1867, as delegate from the counties of Fauquier and Rappahannock; in 1881-82 represented Fauquier and Loudoun counties in the house of delegates, and in 1889 was elected attorney-general of Virginia. To this office he was elected for a second term of four years in 1893, and was filling this position at the time of his death in the summer of 1897. He maintained a membership in George E. Pickett camp at Richmond, of the United Confederate Veterans.

William Marion Seay, of Lynchburg, Va., a veteran of the First corps of the army of Northern Virginia, was born in the city where he yet resides, in the year 1842. After a preparatory education he entered the Lynchburg college, but hardly completed his first year's studies when, on June 3, 1861, he entered the Confederate service as a private in the Lynchburg Rifles, or Company E of the Eleventh regiment, Virginia infantry. With his regiment under command of Col. Samuel Garland, he participated in the fight at Blackburn's Ford, the battle of Manassas and the affair at Dranesville in 1861. In 1862, under the brigade command of Gen. A. P. Hill, the regiment took a prominent part in the battles of Yorktown and Williamsburg, then under the leadership of Gen. James L. Kemper. Sergeant Seay shared in the services of his regiment at Seven Pines, and during the Seven Days' fighting before Richmond, Groveton and Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, in 1862, and in 1863 participated in the campaign of Longstreet's corps about Suffolk and New Bern, N. C., and shared the heroic fighting of Pickett's division at Gettysburg. During 1864 he was in the engagements at Drewry's Bluff and Milford Station in May, and at the latter fight was captured by the enemy. He was subsequently held for ten months in the Federal military prison at Point Lookout, Md., not being released until March, 1865. Upon reaching Virginia again he went to his home at Lynchburg, on parole furlough, and was there at the time of the surrender at Appomattox. Though engaged in many encounters with the enemy he fortunately escaped with but one slight wound, received at Seven Pines. Since the war he has been engaged in business as a contractor and builder, at Knoxville, Tenn., from 1868 to 1873, and subsequently at Lynchburg. In 1867 he was married at Alexandria to Alice R., daughter of the late Joseph Grigg, Jr. Mr. Seay's family is of Welsh extraction. His father, George W. Seay, served with the reserves at Lynchburg during the war of the