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1258 in many cavalry engagements in the various campaigns of the army. Among the more important battles in which he took part are those at Hawk's Nest, Guyandotte, Dam No. 2, the fights about Yorktown, Williamsburg, the Seven Days' battles, Chancellorsville, Kelly's Ford, Brandy Station. He was captured at Aldie, Va., June 17, 1863, and was not permitted to return to his command in time for effective service, being held as a prisoner of war at Johnson's island until March, 1865. On being exchanged he joined his regiment, and after the surrender of the army, started South with the intention of joining the forces in North Carolina. Learning that General Johnston also had surrendered, he with other cavalrymen went as far as Charlotte on their way to the trans-Mississippi army, but were there informed that General Rosser had called all the cavalrymen about him for a reorganization in Virginia. Cheered by this intelligence they returned to Virginia, but were there dismayed by discovering that the report was false, and that all hope was lost. He was paroled at Richmond, ending a gallant service in which he was several times wounded. He was wounded seriously three or four times, his right leg was fractured, the left was broken, and he was shot several times in the head and body. Since the war Captain White has resided in Norfolk, and has mainly been engaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements as the partner of his brother, S. R. White. The latter died in 1876, but the business still continues under the title of S. R. White & Brother, and is one of the most extensive in the South. He is married to Miss Clemmie H. Bell, of Matthews county, Va., daughter of Hon. Henry Bell, a man of much prominence, philanthropy and public spirit, who removed to Matthews county from Delaware, and represented the county several times in the legislature. Captain White has three children living: Harry L., Mary Bell and Herbert Nicholas. Another son, Lewis B., a very promising youth, died April 17, 1896, at the age of nineteen years.

Thomas Spottswood White, now a leading merchant at Lexington, Va., served throughout the war of the Confederacy with the army of Northern Virginia, and at its close was a veteran with an honorable record at the age of twenty years. He was born at Charlottesville, in 1845, but since the age of three years, at which time his parents removed to Lexington, he has had his home at the latter city. He left college just after Jackson had met the Federals at Kernstown, at the opening of the Valley campaign of 1862, and became a private in Company I of the First Virginia regiment of infantry, of the Stonewall brigade. With this command he served about one year, then being detailed as courier for General Paxton. Not long afterward he entered the Fourth Virginia cavalry and was with that regiment as a private during the remainder of the war, except one period when, being absent on furlough, he was unable to rejoin his command, and volunteered on the staff of General Rosser with whom he served through his Valley campaign in 1864. Among the engagements in which he rendered honorable service during the war were McDowell, Front Royal, Winchester, Cross Keys, Port Republic, the Seven Days' battles before Richmond, Cedar Mountain, Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, New Market,