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1276, in the summer of 1861, and was promoted captain of his company. He held this rank until the reorganization in the spring of 1862, when he returned to Lynchburg, and with a commission as major in the Virginia service, took charge of the home guards. A year later he entered the engineer corps of the army, in which he continued to serve until the close of the war. After the surrender of the army of Lee he attempted to join the forces in North Carolina under Johnston, but was halted at Danville by news of the general surrender, and subsequently was paroled at Lynchburg. After peace was restored he engaged in the manufacture of tobacco which he carried on with much success until 189s, when he retired from business. Captain Winfree is of a family for many years identified with the history of the Old Dominion. His father, Christopher Winfree, was an extensive shipper of tobacco and died in 1858, at the age of seventy-three years. His grandfather, Dr. John B. Tilden, served with the rank of lieutenant in the war of the Revolution in the Pennsylvania line, was at the surrender of Cornwallis, subsequently was a member of the Order of Cincinnati, and died in 1837, about seventy-five years of age.

L. M. Wingfield, of Berkley, Va., a veteran of Stuart's cavalry, was born at Richmond, May 19, 1844, the son of William T. Wingfield, who was for many years city paver at Richmond, served during the war as a member of the Richmond Howitzers, and died in 1875. Another son of the latter, William Joseph Wingfield, was a member of Company H, Twenty-third Virginia regiment, throughout the war and died in 1874. L. M. Wingfield enlisted in a cavalry company organized at Richmond, which was subsequently attached to the Tenth Virginia cavalry regiment. With this company he was in the Manassas battle of July 21, 1861, and the fights at Winchester and Ball's Bluff, later in the year, after which he was in camp on the James river until the spring of 1862. He participated in the operations of the cavalry during the Peninsular campaign from Williamsburg to Malvern Hill, and from that time until the end of the war was identified with the service of the brigade and division of W. H. F. Lee, taking part in a great number of battles and skirmishes, prominent among which were the fights at Bunker Hill, Fisher's Hill, Waynesboro, the Wilderness and Spottsylvania, Yellow Tavern and Cold Harbor. He received slight wounds on three occasions and in an engagement at Winchester was seriously wounded, in consequence of which he was for a considerable time in the general hospital at Staunton. As was the case with most of the cavalry, he did not surrender at Appomattox, but afterward went to Richmond and gave his parole. Subsequently he traveled in the western States for five years, and then returning to Virginia, he made his home at Norfolk, where of recent years he has been quite successful, engaged in business as a merchant. In 1871 he was married to Mary E., daughter of William N. Godwin, who during his lifetime was a prominent business man of Norfolk. They have two children living: Edward L. and Mary E.

Charles E. Wingo, of Richmond, did gallant service in the artillery of the army of Northern Virginia until he fell with serious wounds upon the bloody field of Sharpsburg. He was born in Amelia county, Va., July 12, 1843, came to Richmond in 1859,