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746 return from that expedition he was captured at Moorefield. He was imprisoned for eight months at Camp Chase, and was then exchanged and assumed command as senior captain of the Fourteenth regiment. In that capacity he took part in the battle of Five Forks and the fighting on the retreat to Appomattox. On the night of April 8, 1865, being on the right of Lee's army, he was ordered by W. H. F. Lee to capture a battery of the enemy just in front of his position, which was gallantly accomplished and the guns turned on the enemy. In this charge, James Wilson of Rockbridge county, color-bearer of the Fourteenth regiment, was killed, and the latter is believed to have been the last man of the army of Northern Virginia killed in battle. On returning from this charge Captain Bouldin was informed that the army was about to be surrendered and was given the option of cutting his way out or surrendering. All his men declared for the former alternative, and they rode out across the James river and to the Peaks of Otter, where Captain Bouldin sent home all the men not from his own county and then led the latter to Charlotte county, and a few weeks later had his command paroled at Farmville. Since August of that memorable year Captain Bouldin has been engaged in the practice of law, with much success, at Danville. Since the surrender he has not permitted his name to be used in connection with political office. He was one of the Confederate officers who located the lines of the cavalry fight at Gettysburg, which are now appropriately marked by monuments. In 1871 he was married to Lucy L. Edmonds, and they have seven children living: James W., Bessie E., wife of Julian Meade; Joseph N., Alma K., Lucy L., Fannie H., and Hattie.

Aubin L. Boulware, prominently associated with the financial affairs of the Virginia capital, was born in King and Queen county, December 27, 1843. He resided in his native county until he reached early manhood. In his nineteenth year, in July, 1862, he became a member of Company H of the Ninth Virginia cavalry regiment and with this gallant command he served as a private until the close of the war. He shared with honor in the operations of the cavalry brigade of Gen. W. H. F. Lee, under the command of the famous J. E. B. Stuart, and after the death of the latter general in the division of Gen. W. H. F. Lee. His record of service in the Confederate cause embraces participation in the battles of Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellors vi He, Miller's Mill, Brandy Station, Catlett Station, six days' fighting at Upperville, the struggle in the Wilderness and at Spottsylvania, Reams' Station, Five Forks, and the fighting on the retreat from Richmond, including Sailor's Creek. He was wounded in the affair at Miller's creek, and again at Five Forks. At the close of this arduous and devoted career in the army of Northern Virginia, Mr. Boulware returned to civil life, entered the university of Virginia, from which he received the degree of master of arts, taught school for a year or two, meanwhile preparing himself for the practice of law, which he began at Richmond. During the subsequent years of his life he attained prominence as a lawyer, banker and business man, and gained an influential position in the city which his worth and probity richly deserved. He was a true comrade to the survivors of the army and maintained a membership in the R. E. Lee camp of Confederate Veterans until he departed this life, June 12, 1897.