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Rh the battle of Fredericksburg he was one of those detailed to return to the farm and produce food for the army, and he was thus engaged for a year. Returning to the ranks on the line at Bermuda Hundred, he fought in many skirmishes and at White Oak roads and Sailor's Creek, in the latter disaster being captured. He was subsequently held as a prisoner at Point Lookout until June 22, 1865. Since 1870 he has been successfully engaged in the tobacco business at Danville. In 1863 he was married to Nannie M. Redd, of Charlotte county, and they have two children living: Annie L. and Mary R.

Joseph A. Walton, of Norfolk, a Confederate soldier whose career since the war has been associated with the great transportation business of the "Twin Cities," was born in 1843, in the State of New York, where his father, David S. Walton, a native of North Carolina, was employed as a civil engineer on the Erie canal. The family removed to Portsmouth when he was ten years of age, and he was educated at the Virginia collegiate institute, under Prof. N. B. Webster. Becoming a member of the Old Dominion Guard before the outbreak of war, he entered the service of the State with the company in April, 1861. The Guard became Company K of the Ninth Virginia regiment, and Private Walton served with it for the first year of enlistment. He then re-enlisted for the war as a member of Major Milligan's independent signal corps and scouts. As a private in this command he served until the close of the war, rendering valuable service to the Confederate cause. He surrendered at Suffolk in May, 1865, and was soon afterward paroled at Norfolk. Since the war he has resided at Portsmouth and Norfolk, in the latter city since 1874. In September, 1867, he first became connected with the railroad business in the freight office of the Seaboard & Roanoke railroad, and has ever since been in the employment of this company, now known as the Seaboard Air Line. After two years' service he was promoted to the position of auditor, he has subsequently held, now being in charge of the department of disbursements. He is a member of the Masonic order and a Knight Templar, and is also a valued member of Pickett-Buchanan camp, Confederate Veterans, the Knights of Pythias and Royal Arcanum.

Edgar Warfield, of Alexandria, was born in Washington, D. C., June 7, 1842. His parents moved to Virginia in the following year, and at the age of fifteen years he entered the drug business, which he followed until the outbreak of the war. He assisted in organizing the Old Dominion Rifles on December 6, i860, which afterward became Company H of the Seventeenth Virginia infantry, a regiment which had as its first officers Gen. M. D. Corse and Col. Arthur Herbert. He served with this regiment during the entire war, being present at every battle in which it was engaged. A portion of the time he was detailed as field hospital steward. Upon several occasions he distinguished himself, notably on July 22, 1863, at Manassas Gap, where he saved his regiment from capture, if not from annihilation. They were practically surrounded by the enemy when Private Warfield secured a horse and rode to Front Royal, where he met Capt. E. R. Baird, of General Pickett's staff, who ordered him to ride on toward Winchester, from which direction Pickett's division was approaching