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1240, or Sabine Cross Roads, April 8, 1864, when the army of Banks was routed and his promising Red River campaign brought to a sudden close, Mr. Warren was very seriously wounded in the side. After the war he became engaged in business as a commercial traveler, and represented Chicago and St. Louis houses for twenty-two years, until December, 1889, when he removed to Richmond and embarked in the brokerage business. Here he was heartily welcomed by his eastern comrades, and becoming a member of R. E. Lee camp, No. 1, has been elected its commander.

Captain James Hurley Waters, a gallant Confederate veteran who has served since 1876 as chief of police of Staunton, Va., was born at Sharptown, N. J., August, 1828, and was reared and educated at Philadelphia. In 1848 he removed to Staunton and embarked in the manufacture of carriages. He was one of the charter members of the West Augusta Guards, organized about 1854, and as first lieutenant of this volunteer company, commanded it at Harper's Ferry during the John Brown affair in 1859, the captain, William H. Baylor, being at that time ill in New York. On April 17, 1861, the company, one hundred and twenty-two strong, left for Harper's Ferry to seize the military stores at that point, and was there assigned under the command of Generals Jackson and Johnston to the Fifth Virginia infantry as Company L. The regiment then became a part of the First, or Jackson's brigade, and soon became famous as the "Stonewall" brigade. Captain Waters served in command of his company until the reorganization, when he was made commissary of the regiment. Nine months later he was promoted captain commissary of the Stonewall brigade, as which he served until after the battle of Spottsylvania, when a large part of the division under Edward Johnson having been captured, he was made commissary of Early's division. A year later he was assigned in the same position to Gordon's division of the army, and continued in that capacity until he surrendered and was paroled at Appomattox. He participated in a large number of engagements, including Falling Waters, Dartsville, First Manassas, Kernstown, Front Royal, Cross Keys, Port Republic, several fights at Winchester, Williamsburg, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Spottsylvania, Lynchburg, Monocacy, the demonstration before Washington by Early and the expedition against Chambersburg, Pa., and the siege of Petersburg. At the close of the war he returned to Staunton, where he has been almost continuously connected prominently with the municipal government, from 1866 to 1868 as assistant chief of police, from 1868 to 1870 as member of the city council, then as magistrate five or six years, and since 1876 as chief of police. In all these official positions he has won the cordial approval of his fellow citizens. In 1851 Captain Waters was married to Elizabeth, daughter of the late John Carroll, of Staunton.

James F. Watson, of Portsmouth, enlisted in the military service of Virginia May 10, 1861, and served throughout the war in the Confederate cause, being stationed at Richmond as a guard the greater part of the time. He first served under Major Minor, and subsequently under Major Curtin and Captain Ammons. His son, John L. Watson, born January 14, 1863, is now one of the leading