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Rh part of the war, when he was slightly wounded. He was in the cavalry fights at Reams' Station and Trevilian's, took part in the famous capture of Grant's cattle, and with Rosser's brigade fought under Early in the valley. On June 9, 1863, during an engagement at Brandy Station, he was taken prisoner and afterward was confined for sixty days in the Old Capitol prison, at Washington, but being exchanged was able to rejoin his regiment at the same place at which he was forced to leave it. At Warrenton Springs his company made a spirited charge upon a Federal regiment and put it to flight, under the eyes of Gen. R. E. Lee and General Stuart. The commander-in-chief was so pleased by their bravery that he immediately granted the entire company a furlough for ten days. After the surrender Mr. Timberlake engaged in mercantile pursuits, first at Martinsburg, W. Va., then at Frederick City, Md., and in 1871 at Staunton, which has since that date been his home. Here he has been notably successful in business, conducting one of the leading mercantile establishments of the city. He was one of the charter members of the Stonewall Jackson camp, and has been active in its interests, and in the cause generally of his comrades of the Confederate armies. He was married in 1873 to Miss Nannie Bell, and has an interesting family. One son, Stephen D. Jr., is a graduate of Washington and Lee university, class of 1896, and is engaged in the practice of law. The mother and two daughters are active members of the Daughters of the Confederacy.

James G. Tinsley, of Richmond, gallantly associated with the service of that noted artillery organization, the Richmond Howitzers, during the war of the Confederacy, is a native of Hanover county, Va., born in 1843. He was reared in that county and after receiving the preparatory education entered Hampden-Sidney college, where he was yet a student when the military forces of Virginia were called out to defend her territory. Leaving school in October, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Howitzers, and during the remaining three and a half years of struggle, shared their service in camp and field. Among the important engagements in which he took part, those most noteworthy in his career as a soldier were Wind's Mill, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Winchester, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Spottsylvania Court House, where he fought in maintaining the heroic stand of Lee's army on the 9th, 10th, 12th and 18th of May, 1864; Cold Harbor, where he worked the guns under fire for two days; Middletown, Deep Bottom, all names that recall to the veterans of the Howitzers and those familiar with their history, many deeds of daring and desperate endurance. When all was done he was paroled at Richmond in May, 1865, and then quietly returned to the work of civil life. For many years he was occupied upon his farm in Hanover county, with gratifying success, but in 1881 he embarked in business at Richmond, where he is now a prosperous and influential citizen.

Colonel H. B. Tomlin, first commander of the Fifty-third Virginia infantry, gave his services unstintedly to Virginia and went into the field though at an advanced age when the war was begun. He was commissioned colonel of the Fifty-third when it was organized in January, 1862, from the battalion of four companies which he previously commanded with the rank of major, four