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Rh in practice at Petersburg, but was soon called from civil affairs to the defense of the State from the invasion which followed the secession of the Southern States from the Union. In June, 1861, he volunteered as a private in the Petersburg Rifles, mustered into the service as Company E of the Twelfth Virginia infantry regiment, but after a brief association with this command he received a commission as captain, and was assigned to the adjutant-general's department, where his line of duty continued until the close of the war. His efficiency and meritorious service were rewarded by promotion to the rank of major in March, 1863. His duties were arduous and important, and performed throughout a wide field, extending from West Virginia to the Gulf. He served as adjutant-general and chief of staff of Gen. Samuel Jones, commanding the army at Pensacola, from early in 1862, and continued with him in his subsequent commands of a division of the army in the West, and of Bragg's base of operations at Chattanooga, during the Kentucky campaign; the department of East Tennessee; the department of Western Virginia from December, 1862, to March, 1864, the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, the district of South Carolina until 1865, afterward with General Holmes until the close of the war. He was also upon the staff of Gen. John C. Breckinridge during the early part of 1864. He was paroled at Cumberland Court House in June, 1865, and then returned to his professional career at Petersburg. In 1881 he made his home at Richmond, where he has subsequently held high rank in the legal profession, and is greatly esteemed for his worth as a citizen.

William C. Stuart, now a worthy citizen of Lexington, Va., was one of the gallant young heroes who reinforced the army of Northern Virginia in the closing year of the unequal struggle, to battle against great odds with courage that was unflinching to the end. He was born in Rockbridge county in 1845, and entered the Confederate service from Lexington in February, 1864, as a private in the Rockbridge artillery. He participated in an action at Appomattox Court House in the spring of 1864, fought at Cold Harbor, where he was wounded and subsequently disabled for two weeks, and took part in the skirmishing below Richmond, fighting gunboats, etc., until the evacuation on April 2, 1865, when he joined in the retreat to Appomattox, fighting at Farmville and surrendering with the army. After this he returned to his home and presently became engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1877 he engaged in the book trade, which is his present occupation. Of Lee-Jackson camp of United Confederate Veterans, he is one of the most active and valuable members, and holds the position of adjutant.

Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, of Williamsburg, professor of mathematics at William and Mary college, and first commander of Magruder-Ewell camp, United Confederate veterans, was born in Gloucester county, Va., September 14, 1841. His father was Jefferson W. Stubbs, a native of the same county, a merchant and farmer, and for many years a presiding justice, who lived to his eighty-sixth year. The wife of the latter was Ann Walker Carter Baytop, daughter of James Baytop, a sergeant in the war of 1812, and granddaughter of Capt. Thomas Baytop, an artillery officer in the continental army. She had two brothers in the Confederate service—James Christopher and William Jones, the latter of whom bore the