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784 while the regiment was at Camp Lee he obtained a furlough and raised a company, which was added to the regiment, and he was promoted major, May 25, 1861. Subsequently he was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and just before the close of the war was commissioned colonel of cavalry. Throughout the four years' struggle he was identified with the gallant service of Hunton's brigade, Pickett's division. He was three times wounded, twice at Drewry's bluff, May 16, 1864, one of these wounds being in the head and of such severity that he was totally disabled for military duty during the remainder of the war. Subsequently he resumed the practice of law at Danville, in which he has made a very successful career. In 1874 he was elected to Congress from the Fifth district, a distinguished service in which he was continued by the people for a period of twelve years. He was married in 1860 to Mary Harrison Baird, who died in 1891, leaving five children, one of whom, George C., Jr., is his father's law partner. His second marriage, in 1892, was to Ellen Virginia Ashton, of Portsmouth. Colonel Cabell is a valued member of Cabell-Graves camp, whose name commemorates in part the gallant services of his brother, Col. Joseph R. Cabell.

Charles T. Cabler, deceased, for more than twenty years a well-known business man and worthy citizen of Norfolk, Va., was born at Richmond. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the Confederate service, and on account of his special training and experience he was detailed in the quartermaster's department. In this line of duty he served faithfully throughout the war. At one time he was successful in the dangerous and adventurous undertaking of passing the Federal lines between Norfolk and Richmond, making his way to the latter city through the Dismal Swamp. Subsequently he conducted a bakery at Portsmouth until 1873, when he opened an establishment at Norfolk and did an extensive business up to 1893. He died March 25, 1895. He was married in 1868 to Miss Jeanie Douglas Black, daughter of John E. Black late of Norfolk. Mrs. Cabler was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, and bears the same name as her grandmother, Jeanie Douglas, a famous beauty of her time, and a descendant of the great Douglas family, so prominent in the records of Scotland. Seven children of Mr. Cabler survive: Rosie Lee, wife of Col. Walter A. Edwards; George Garnett, Charles T., Margaret M., James M. B., Jeanie D., and Kessler W. Mrs. Cabler, an intelligent and vivacious lady, has been quite successful in business, as the successor of her husband.

James Edward Coldwell, since the war a well-known citizen and municipal official of Petersburg, Va., is one of four brothers who entered the Confederate service, sons of Samuel R. Coldwell, a business man of that city who served in the war of 1812, and his wife, Elizabeth A. Williams, of Dinwiddie county. Of these brothers, H. T., who volunteered at the age of sixteen years, was killed at Chancellorsville; C. P. Coldwell served throughout the war, surrendered as captain and quartermaster, and is now living at Petersburg; and W. W. Coldwell did duty as a sharpshooter throughout the entire struggle, and since then has held the position of adjutant of the Soldiers' Home at Richmond. James E. Coldwell was born at Petersburg in 1832, and prior to the outbreak of war was a member of the Petersburg Grays. With this