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770 A. Evans and a few months later to the staff of Gen. William Terry, with whom he surrendered at Appomattox. He was present at the battles of Kernstown, Cross Keys, Port Republic, the Seven Days' campaign, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Winchester, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Monocacy, and the fighting about Petersburg and on the retreat from that line. Since the war he has been engaged in mercantile pursuits, at Richmond until 1880 and after that at Danville. He is a valued member of Cabell-Graves camp, Confederate veterans. By his marriage in l865 to Susan E. Scott he has four children living: Charles S., James C., Fannie and Elizabeth L. After the death of his first wife he married Susan Rogers, of Washington, D. C.

John W. Bryan, a veteran of the Staunton Artillery, now a prosperous business man of Staunton, Va., was born in Rockingham county in 1841. During his infancy his family removed to Augusta county, and in 1850 they made their home at the county seat, where his father served as deputy sheriff for a considerable period. On August 5, 1861, he entered the Confederate service as a private in the Staunton artillery, with the brave and active career of which he was associated until disabled by wounds. He was promoted corporal in the fall of 1862 and sergeant after the battle of Gettysburg. Early in the war he served with his battery at West Point, at the head of York river; subsequently participated in the Seven Days' campaign before Richmond and took part in the Manassas campaign, including the battles of Cedar Mountain and Second Manassas, his regiment being attached to Ewell's division. He fought at Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville, and with Early's division, and was actively engaged during the three days of battle at Gettysburg. In the spring of 1864 he participated in the fighting in the Wilderness and at Spottsylvania, until upon the latter field he was frightfully wounded by a fragment of shell which tore away the calf of his left leg. This injury confined him to the hospital at Staunton until the close of the war, when he was paroled. As soon as he was able to engage in business he found a position as a clerk and subsequently carried on a store at Parnassus, Va., until 1873, when he returned to Staunton. Here he has been engaged in an active business career as retail grocer and later as a coal and lumber merchant. From 1885 to 1896 he served as overseer of the poor for the city. He was married in 1865 to Juliet F., daughter of the late James M. Southard, and they have six children living: Edward M., William S., Laura A., John H., Lucy F. and James A. Henry E. Bryan, father of the foregoing, was born in what is now Rappahannock county in 1815 and removed to Staunton in 1850, where he served several years as deputy sheriff of Augusta county, and died at Parnassus in 1871. Notwithstanding his age at the outbreak of the war, he entered the Confederate service in 1862, and served until the close of hostilities. He was badly wounded in the second battle of Manassas.

Captain Herbert Bryant, of Alexandria, Va., was born at Lexington, May 19, 1843. He was reared at Washington, D. C., and educated at St. Timothy's Hall, near Baltimore. At the age of seventeen years he was appointed to the West Point military academy, but did not enter that institution, because of the secession of his State, Virginia. In April, 1861, he enlisted in the Alexandria Rifles, a company which was assigned to the Seventeenth Virginia