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Rh Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864, he was among the many captured in Hancock's assault, and becoming a prisoner of war was subsequently confined for seven months at Fort Delaware. At the close of hostilities he was paroled at Savannah, Ga., and he then resided for several years in New York. Returning finally to Richmond, he engaged in mercantile business, with success, until his retirement in 1886.

Charles H. Smith, of Berryville, a veteran of Jones' brigade of Stuart's cavalry, was born at the town where he now resides, March 14, 1833. Previous to 1861 he became engaged in mercantile pursuits and farming, and was a member of the Clarke county cavalry company, under command of Capt. Hugh Nelson. He went into service immediately upon the secession of Virginia, as first sergeant of his company, and took part in the occupation of Harper's Ferry, the engagement at Falling Waters and the battle of First Manassas, and fought in 1862 in the valley with Ashby and Jackson. With the Sixth cavalry regiment in Robertson's brigade he joined Stuart in time to take part in the second battle of Manassas, and the other operations of that campaign. He served with Stuart's cavalry in the raid around McClellan following Sharpsburg, participated in Gen. W. E. Jones' campaign in West Virginia, and in the command of the latter general took part in the Pennsylvania campaign, including the battle of Gettysburg. At the time of Sheridan's raid on Richmond, which resulted in the battle of Yellow Tavern, in which Stuart fell, Sergeant Smith was captured and for six months afterward was confined at Point Lookout. Then being exchanged he returned to his command and participated in the battle of Five Forks, where he was again captured, but the end of the war soon arriving he was not long held as a prisoner. In this engagement Treadwell Smith, a cousin of our subject, and also a member of the Clarke cavalry, was killed. Then returning to Clarke county the subject of this notice engaged in farming until 1869, after which for ten years he was in business at Baltimore, Md. Since then he has conducted a warehouse business at Berryville, in which he has been quite successful. He is a member of the J. E. B. Stuart camp, Confederate Veterans, at Berryville. In 1866 he was married to Miss Eliza Blackburn, and they have four children, one of whom, Blackburn Smith, is engaged in the practice of law, and is the organizer of the Stonewall chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, and the J. E. B. Stuart camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans No. 28, both of which organizations are now in a flourishing condition at Berryville.

Lieutenant George A. Smith, of Richmond, Va., who did arduous and devoted service with the artillery of the army of Northern Virginia, and had the honor of attending President Davis in the last hours of the Confederacy, was born at Richmond, Va., in 1844. He was reared and educated at that city, and employed in his youth as a clerk in the old Farmers' bank of Virginia. In this position he was exempt from military service when the war broke out, but his desire was not for relief from duty, and in March, 1862, being about eighteen years of age, he enlisted as a private in the Third Richmond Howitzers. With this gallant command he participated in the Peninsular campaign, including the battles of Ellerson's Mill, Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm, and Malvern Hill. Subsequently he was in battle at Charleston, Va., Sharpsburg, Md., and at