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740. This was a hard-fighting organization, distinguished on the many battlefields of the First corps of the army. As a volunteer Private Bondurant served until the reorganization in the spring of 1862, when he was regularly mustered in. He subsequently was promoted gunner, and continued in the service until the end of the war. Stationed early in the struggle in the vicinity of Yorktown, he was in the artillery action at Dam No. 1, below that point, served during the retreat and at the battle of Williamsburg, and shared the work of his battery through the Seven Days' battles, and at Second Manassas. During the Maryland campaign he took part in the defense of the South Mountain passes, and shared the important service of the artillery battalion of Gen. S. D. Lee at Sharpsburg. Subsequently he served in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and the three days' fighting at Gettysburg, after which he went with Longstreet to the assistance of General Bragg, taking part in the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and the Knoxville campaign, in which there were a large number of encounters with the enemy. Returning to Virginia, he participated in the Wilderness and Spottsylvania campaigns and the Shenandoah Valley campaign under Early, and during the following winter served on the Hewlett house line before Richmond. A few days before the surrender he was sent to Bedford county to secure horses and forage for his company, and while upon this duty the end came. Mr. Bondurant's service, thus briefly outlined, was brave and self-sacrificing and he did not escape serious injury from the storms of shot and shell to which he was so frequently exposed. He was slightly wounded, first at Manassas, and a second time in the battle of the Wilderness. After the war he remained in Bedford county several years and learned the trade of carpentry, which he followed at Lexington and Baltimore, and, since 1872, at Lynchburg, where he is now prominent in the contracting and building trade. He is a member of the Masonic chapter and commandery, and is steward of the Memorial Methodist church. In 1872 he was married to Alice, daughter of the late Berry Hughes, of Campbell county.

Thomas R. Borland, of Norfolk, now prominent among the attorneys of eastern Virginia, served throughout the entire war in the army of Northern Virginia, and surrendered at Appomattox when he was just past his twenty-first birthday. He was born at Murfreesboro, N. C., March 3, 1844, the son of Roscius C. Borland, who was born in Nansemond county, Va., in 1807, and removed to North Carolina, where he married Tempe, daughter of David Ramsay, a planter of Scotch descent, and made his home in that State. He was a promising lawyer and a member of the North Carolina legislature at twenty-one years of age, but his career was cut short by death when he had reached the age of thiity-five years, his wife having passed away two years previous. The grandfather of Mr. Borland, Dr. Thomas Wood Borland, came from Scotland with his father to America prior to the year 1800, became a surgeon in the United States navy, under commission from President Thomas Jefferson, and afterward was for a considerable period presiding magistrate of Nansemond county and representative in the Virginia legislature. Thomas R. Borland, left an orphan in infancy, was taken by his uncle, Dr. Euclid Borland, who when the lad had reached the age of eleven years, entered him at school at Bolmar