Page:Confederate Military History - 1899 - Volume 3.djvu/785

Rh at the city of Washington, is a native of Virginia, born in Lancaster county in 1841. He was reared in his native county and in 1860 completed his education at the Columbian university at Washington. Soon after the secession of the State he volunteered for military service, and in May, 1861, became a private in Company B of the Fortieth Virginia infantry. He served in this command about four months, and was then commissioned as disbursing officer for the regiment, with the rank of captain. Three months later he was assigned to the staff of Brig.-Gen. J. J. Pettigrew, and served with him in the left wing at Seven Pines. That commander being wounded and captured, he was assigned to the staff of Gen. William D. Pender, commanding a brigade in A. P. Hill's division. He was promoted major for gallantry and meritorious conduct, and served in this rank until the end of the war, at that time being on the staff of Brig.-Gen. Alfred M. Scales, of A. P. Hill's corps of the army of Northern Virginia, having been attached to the staff of that officer since the battle of Chancellorsville. After the battle of Seven Pines he participated in the Seven Days' fighting before Richmond, and the battles of Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and other minor engagements, and surrendered with the army at Appomattox. During the retreat from Gettysburg, he was captured at Falling Waters, but had the good fortune to be recaptured within an hour. After the dispersal of the army he returned to his home in Lancaster county, and in 1866 removed to Washington, where he has made his home ever since and has been successfully engaged in the lumber trade. He is influential in business and political circles, is a member of the board of trade with the official position of director of that body, and is president of the Virginia Democratic association of the District. He maintains a membership in the Washington camp of Confederate veterans.

Carter R. Bishop, of Petersburg, though but twelve years of age at the outbreak of the war, enjoys the honor of having participated in the Confederate service, as one of the cadets of the Virginia military institute, the West Point of the South. He is the son of Carter R. Bishop, a member of an old and worthy Virginia family, who married Miss Mary Elizabeth Head, of Rhode Island; served during the war with the reserve forces, and subsequently was cashier of the Commercial bank of Petersburg, until his death in 1877. He was a native of Prince George county. Carter R. Bishop attended school during the earlier part of the war and in 1864 he gained admission as a cadet to the Virginia military institute. With the cadet corps under command of Colonel Shipp he participated in the defense of Richmond. Just before the surrender the cadets were stationed at an important point in the lines, almost without support and facing the great Federal array, four of the boys being assigned to each picket post, about one hundred yards apart. Upon the evacuation, young Bishop was taken prisoner, April 3d, but he was released soon after the surrender of the army, and he then returned to his home at Petersburg and the studies of his youth. He subsequently entered Hampden-Sidney college, and was graduated in 1870, with the first honors of his class. For five years he was engaged in teaching school in Kentucky. In 1877 he succeeded his father as cashier of the Commercial national bank at Petersburg, and later held the position with the bank of Petersburg until 1886, when upon the organization of the National bank of Petersburg, he