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Rh pursuits. He has taken a prominent part in political affairs, and was one of Mahone's trusted lieutenants in his memorable revolt against the Democratic party, in 1879, on the question of the readjustment of the Virginia State debt. During the years 1882 and 1883 he served the State as auditor of public accounts. For several years he held a position in the office of the secretary of the United States Senate, and during the administration of Benjamin Harrison he served as deputy collector of internal revenue for the counties of Augusta, Rockbridge, Highland, Alleghany, Bath and Botetourt. He is now United States marshal for the western district of Virginia, having been appointed, after a spirited contest, by President McKinley. A brother of Mr. Allen's, William F. Allen, born in 1842, entered the same command in April, 1861, and became second lieutenant of Company C of the Fourteenth cavalry. He was killed at Gettysburg, in the second day's fight, and fell dead in the arms of his brother.

Thomas B. Amiss, M. D., of Luray, Va., who was recognized as one of the faithful and skillful among Confederate surgeons, was born in Rappahannock county, Va., July 4, 1839. He was educated at the Virginia military institute at Lexington, and subsequently took a medical course at the university of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in March, 1861. The important events of that period prevented his embarking in the practice at once, and in the following month he was busily engaged in putting in practice, instead, the lessons he had learned at Lexington, drilling the volunteer companies of Rappahannock and Culpeper counties. He enlisted as a private in Company B, Sixth Virginia cavalry, and served with that command until after the first battle of Manassas, when, in September, 1861, he was commissioned assistant surgeon and assigned to duty in Bailey's factory hospital at Richmond. He served at that post of duty until after the Peninsular campaign, when he was assigned as surgeon to the Thirty-first regiment, Georgia infantry, Col. Clement A. Evans, then encamped near Gordonsville. He served in the field with this command through the Cedar Mountain, Manassas and Sharpsburg campaigns, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and then, in the spring of 1863, on account of impaired health, he was assigned to hospital duty and ordered to report to Dr. Curry at Salisbury, N. C. When that garrison was transferred to Andersonville, Ga., he was ordered to report to Major Webb, at Weldon, N. C., where he remained until the surrender of Johnston's army, when he was paroled. Returning to Virginia he practiced medicine in Rappahannock county until 1874, since when he has devoted himself to professional duties at Luray, meeting with pronounced success, and holding an influential place in the community. He was married July 16, 1861, to Miss Mary E. Miller of his native county, and they have three children: Thomas Jackson, superintendent of education of Walker county, Ala.; Frederick T., a graduate of the Virginia military institute, and a civil engineer at Luray; and a daughter, Nannie M., the wife of J. B. Martin, an attorney at law of Luray, Va.

George William Ammen, of Roanoke, was born in Botetourt county in 1847. He was reared and educated in his native county, and there, in his eighteenth year, enlisted in the service of the