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1194 rank of lieutenant until killed at the battle of Seven Pines. Of the twelve children of these parents, Professor Stubbs was the second son. Two of his brothers bore arms for the Confederacy—James N., who served as a major in the signal corps, and William Carter, orderly-sergeant of Company D, Twenty-fourth Virginia cavalry. Professor Stubbs received his preparatory education at Cappahosic academy, and then entered William and Mary college, where he received the degree of bachelor of arts in 1860. In the fall of that year he began post-graduate studies at the same institution, but this work was soon interrupted by the thrilling events in the South. On May 16, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Gloucester artillery, and was so borne on the rolls throughout the four years' war. His company, known as the "Red Shirts," served at Gloucester Point until the spring of 1862, and later was enrolled as Company A, Thirty-fourth Virginia infantry. Not long after his enlistment he was detailed in the signal corps, and subsequently he served the greater part of the time as ordnance sergeant and sergeant-major. Returning to the ranks during the siege of Petersburg, he took part in the closing struggle on the lines, and was captured March 31, 1865, while carrying from the field the body of his brave and gallant lieutenant, W. D. Miller, who had been mortally wounded. He was taken by his captors before Gen. Nelson A. Miles, who interrogated him as to the number of men in General Lee's command. Stubbs immediately replied: "General, do you suppose I would tell you, if I knew," and Miles ordered him taken on to the rear. He was imprisoned at Point Lookout until June 20, 1865. On his return to Virginia he attended the university of Virginia one year, and then went to Arkansas, where he resided until 1888, with the exception of one year as master of the grammar school at William and Mary. While in the West he was for sixteen years professor of mathematics and history in Arkansas college, served two terms as a member of the legislature, and for three years was editor of the "North Arkansas Pilot," published at Batesville. Upon the reopening of William and Mary college in 1888 he was called to the chair of mathematics of his alma mater He has been connected for many years with the summer sessions of the Peabody normal institute in Virginia. Professor Stubbs is president of the Phi Beta Kappa literary society, the oldest Greek fraternity in the United States, organized at William and Mary in 1776, and is a master of arts, in course, of this college and a doctor of philosophy, by brevet, of Arkansas college. In December, 1869, he was married to Mary Mercer, daughter of Capt. Joseph B. Cosnahan, of the Confederate States army, and they have four children living.

James Littleton Suddarth, M. D., prominent in the medical profession of Washington, D. C, is a native of Virginia and a veteran of the ever famous "Stonewall" brigade. He was born in Albemarle county, December 13, 1841, and being orphaned in infancy by the death of his father, he was taken by his mother to Augusta county and subsequently to Lexington, where he had the advantages of study at Washington college. His education was interrupted, however, by the crisis of 1861, and he left school as a member of a college company called the "Liberty Hall Volunteers," in May, 1861, and was assigned to the Fourth Virginia infantry, in which the college organization was known as Company I. This