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1294 the war, mainly in western Virginia, and finally surrendered at Lynchburg, June 25, 1865. During the following twenty years he was occupied as a traveling salesman for a Baltimore commercial house throughout the South. In 1887 he became deputy clerk of Isle of Wight county under his uncle, Nathaniel Peyton Young, and served in that capacity until the latter died in 1896, at the age of eighty years, after sixty years' continuous tenure of the office. He was then appointed as successor. Mr. Young is a member of the society of the army of Northern Virginia, as well as of the United Confederate veterans, and is very influential in his county. He was married February 19, 1879, to Miss Ann Robinson Young, and they have three children: Virginia Carroll, Nathaniel Peyton, Jr., and Elizabeth Webb Young.

Walter J. Young, of Norfolk, Va., a veteran of the army of Northern Virginia, was born in Norfolk November 9, 1845. His father, John J. Young, was a soldier in the war with Mexico, and also served in the army of the Confederate States, holding the rank of captain and having charge of the harbor defenses at Norfolk during the earlier period of the war. His mother, Anna B. Bullock, was a daughter of John Bullock, one of whose ancestors served in the Revolutionary army. He was educated at Georgetown and at the Norfolk military academy, being a student in the latter institution and not quite sixteen years of age when the military forces of the State were organized in the spring of 1861. Prior to this he had been a member of a military company of students, and this organization was mustered into service and attached to the bodyguard of General Huger, doing duty at the general headquarters of the forces about Norfolk. As a member of this command Mr. Young was employed in clerical duty at the office of General Huger, also in the offices of Adjutant-General Anderson and Inspector-General Bradford. About six months before the evacuation of Norfolk he was transferred to the command of his father, Capt. John J. Young, who was stationed at Boush's bluff and had charge of the harbor defenses and batteries. While here he participated in the action with the Federal warship Monticello. After Norfolk was evacuated he was stationed with his artillery command at Chapman's bluff, near Petersburg, and subsequently at Signal hill, until forced from that position by Butler. The command then joined in the campaign in the valley, proceeding as far as Winchester, where they took charge of the prisoners captured during the Pennsylvania campaign, and escorted them to Staunton. Then returning to Chapman's bluff they held that position through the siege of Richmond and Petersburg. During the retreat they participated in the battle of Sailor's Creek, where seventeen of the twenty-three men of his company who went into the fight were killed or wounded. Mr. Young was severely wounded, and after the battle fell into the hands of the Federals. He was transported to City Point and three months later to Lincoln hospital, Washington, where he remained until July 1, 1865. He was then able to return to his home at Norfolk, but was, by reason of his wounds, incapacitated for business until 1867. He then accepted a position for one year in the clerk's office, subsequently conducted a ship-chandler's business for a time, was bookkeeper in the Mercantile bank, and secretary and treasurer of the Norfolk trust company. His principal occupation, however, has