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Rh in the left thigh as to be incapacitated for half a year. In the trenches before Petersburg he was again wounded in the left leg, which disabled him until June, 1865. Returning to his home in Mississippi he resumed his occupation as a planter, but in 1873, on account of ill health, he removed to Roanoke, Va. There he was married, January 12, 1876, to Martha J., daughter of the late Capt. R. B. Moorman, of the Virginia cavalry. They have five children, Anna G., Loulie M., Warren B., Ernestine E. and John M. Mr. Buford had three brothers in the Confederate service: Hampden A., now residing in La Fayette county. Miss., who served throughout the entire war as a private in the Thirtieth Mississippi infantry, except during an imprisonment at Rock Island, Ill., following the battle of Chickamauga, where he was wounded and captured; John E., who was killed December 30, 1862, at the age of twenty-eight years, at the battle of Murfreesboro; Goodloe W., now living in Mississippi, who served in the Eleventh Mississippi from April, 1861, until disabled by wounds received during the siege of Petersburg, he having previously been wounded at the Wilderness.

Sergeant Alphonzo M. Bullock, United States shipping commissioner at Norfolk, Va., was born in that city March 23, 1839. He was there reared and educated and then apprenticed to the shipbuilder's trade, which was his occupation at the outbreak of the war. Being thoroughly in sympathy with the Confederacy, he enlisted in 1861 as a member of the United Artillery of Norfolk, under the command of Capt. Thomas Kevill, and as a member of that celebrated organization, rendered valuable service throughout the succeeding four years of conflict. The record of the command is described in the biography of its captain. It may be said here of Sergeant Bullock that he was never a laggard in duty, but participated on many occasions with great gallantry in the actions of his battery. He took part in the capture of the magazine and the planting of batteries at Fort Norfolk, served on the Central railroad during the Peninsular campaign, and during the prolonged assignment of the battery opposite Dutch Gap was distinguished for faithful and gallant service. At the close of the war he held the rank of second sergeant in his command, his brother, John T. Bullock, being first sergeant. After he had given his parole at Appomattox he returned to Norfolk and embarked in the shipping business, in which he gained such rank and reputation as to make highly appropriate his appointment in 1876 to the position of shipping commissioner, which he has since held. Through his connection with this great industry of the city he has contributed in a considerable degree toward the splendid development of Norfolk since the war.

Joseph A. A. Bullock, born at Norfolk, Va., March 23, 1837, has since the war, been associated with his brother, Sergt. Alphonzo M. Bullock, in the shipping business of that port. Their father, Joseph Mansfield Bullock, a native of Fredericksburg, Va., was a well-known merchant of Norfolk. He was the son of John Bullock, a planter of Spottsylvania county, and descended from John Bullock, who came from England early in the seventeenth century and became the founder of the Bullock family in Virginia. Their mother was Mary Ann Martin, daughter of Alphonzo Martin, a native of Spain, and their grandmother was Henrietta La Cost,