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Rh of the insurrection. Again in April, 1861, when the defenders of Virginia were called to the field, he enlisted as a private in the West Augusta Guards, which was mustered in as Company L of the Fifth Virginia infantry regiment. Later in the same year he was promoted ordnance sergeant in Jackson's division, the rank and station in which he served during the remainder of the struggle. With Jackson in the famous Valley campaign of 1862, he fought at Cross Keys and Port Republic, and then moving swiftly to the aid of Lee, took part in the Seven Days' battles before Richmond. In the following Maryland campaign he was engaged at Falling Waters and Sharpsburg, and next winter shared in the triumph at Fredericksburg. The most prominent service which he rendered in the following year, was at Chancellorsville and at Gettysburg. In the hard fighting of 1864 he shared from the opening to the close, fighting at the Wilderness, Spottsylvania and throughout the movement to Petersburg, where he took part in the defense of the entrenched line until the evacuation, after which he participated in the final actions at Sailor's Creek and Farmville. After the surrender, when he was paroled, he returned to his home at Staunton, where he has since resided and is accounted one of the substantial citizens. From 1865 until 1870 he was occupied as manager of the "American House" hotel. Since then he has been engaged in the wholesale liquor trade.

Oscar Wiley, M. D., a prominent member of the medical profession of Virginia, residing at Salem, was born in Botetourt county in 1830. He was reared in his native county and in Craig, and received his academic education at the Emory-Henry college, which he was compelled to leave at the close of the junior year of his course on account of the death of his father. Determining to make his career in the profession of medicine he pursued the study at Randolph-Macon college, where he was graduated in 1851, and at the Jefferson medical college of Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 1852. Previous to the war he was a member of a military company organized at the time of the Harper's Ferry insurrection, and when the State had decided upon secession in the spring of 1861, he joined a company of cavalry which was assigned to the Second regiment of Virginia cavalry. After eight months' service as a private he was promoted assistant surgeon of the Fifty-fourth regiment of infantry. A year later he was promoted to the full rank of surgeon, which he held during the remainder of the war. He participated in the early skirmish at Sawyer's Swamp, where he was on vidette duty, and captured the first Yankee soldier which was taken in by his company or regiment. He participated in skirmishes near Newport News, at Princeton, W. Va., and in the campaigns of the army of Tennessee, was in the battles of Paintville, Ky., Perryville, Ky., Richmond, Ky., Dalton, Ga., Resaca, Cartersville, New Hope Church, Marietta, Ringgold, Peachtree Creek, siege of Atlanta, Jonesboro, Ga., and Bentonville, N. C. He surrendered and was paroled at High Point, N. C, after which he returned to his home in Craig county. He was occupied there in both farming and the practice of medicine until 1870, when he made his home at Salem. At that place he has since continued in the practice, meeting with gratifying success and gaining a widespread reputation as a