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Rh where he remained on duty until he broke down a second time in the winter of 1864-65. During his service he participated in the fight at Big Bethel and the battles on the peninsula, New River Bridge, and skirmishes in West Virginia. After leaving the army he made his home in Montgomery county, and was there engaged in a successful practice until 1887, when he removed to Roanoke, where he holds an honorable rank in the profession. While a resident of Montgomery county he held for five years the office of superintendent of schools.

Captain Stephen Hubbard Stone, of Pulaski City, participated throughout the Confederate war in the making of the gallant record of the Fiftieth Virginia regiment. He was born in Carroll county, October 9, 1835, whence at ten years of age he removed to Wythe county, and from there in 1853 to Pulaski county, where he has ever since made his residence. He entered the military service July 1, 1861, as first lieutenant in Company I of the Fiftieth Virginia infantry. Col. A. W. Reynolds commanding, brigade of Gen. John B. Floyd, and was stationed first at Camp Bee, near Sweet Springs, but the regiment was organized at Camp Jackson. Thence they moved early in August toward Lewisburg, now West Virginia, and the company took part in the battles of Cross Lanes and Gauley Bridge, Lieutenant Stone not participating, however, on account of illness. The regiment was almost annihilated by sickness during this campaign and he suffered for some time with typhoid fever. General Floyd occupied the southern half of the Kanawha valley, in which loyalty to Virginia was the predominant sentiment, and the Fiftieth was stationed at Raleigh, where Captain Stone joined his command after recovering, and proceeded with Floyd's brigade to Bowling Green, Ky., and thence to Fort Donelson. There he participated in the gallant fight against Grant's army, and then escaping from the fort with his Virginia comrades, went to Murfreesboro, whence he returned to Virginia. Upon the reorganization in the spring of 1862 he was promoted captain, and in this rank he served in the second expedition down the Kanawha valley under General Loring, participating in the fights at Lewisburg, Fayetteville and Charleston, where he aided in extinguishing the fire set by the Federal soldiers. Subsequently he went on another expedition below Charleston under General Echols, and in October was at the Narrows of New river. In the following winter he served with his regiment on the Blackwater river under the command of Gen. Roger A. Pryor, and took part in the brisk engagement at Kelly's place, in which Col. Thomas Poage, of the Fiftieth, was killed. Early in April with his regiment, he joined the army of Northern Virginia and was assigned to Paxton's brigade, Trimble's division, Jackson's corps. In the battle of Chancellorsville the regiment was distinguished for gallant fighting and severe loss. In the first attack the command drove the enemy from their breastworks and captured many prisoners and a battery of twelve guns, and on the next day participated in the repeated charges which forced the Federals to abandon their apparently impregnable works on Chancellor heights. On the second day of the Gettysburg battle he fought in the attack of Johnson's division on Culp's hill, in the fall was in the battle of Mine Run, and in the Wilderness