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Rh command, subsequently Company B of the Twelfth Virginia infantry, of Mahone's brigade, he served during 1861 at Norfolk, and after the abandonment of that post was at Petersburg and Drewry's Bluff. He served with his brigade in the battles of Seven Pines and the Seven Days' campaign, including the desperate fighting at Malvern Hill. Subsequently he was detailed for telegraph service in South Carolina, and there he had the duty of rebuilding the lines after they were destroyed by Sherman's army. Returning to Petersburg at the close of the war, he has since been variously engaged, serving for some time on the police force, in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant. He has also been active in political matters and for over eight years has held the office of deputy commissioner of revenue. He is a charter member of A. P. Hill camp, United Confederate Veterans. In December, 1856, he was married to Miss Mary M. Lee, of Petersburg, and they have one child. Porter C, wife of James M. Quicke, a prominent business man and member of the Petersburg city council.

John T. Callaghan, a citizen of Washington, who has been connected with the postoffice department of the National government since 1880, was born in that city April 13, 1842, and was there reared and educated. In April, 1861, his sympathies led him to seek service on the Confederate side of the Potomac river, and he went to Richmond, where he was for some time employed in a job printing office getting out part of the work for the Confederate war department. In February, 1862, he entered the military service for active duty and became a private in the Purcell or Pegram's battery, with which famous command he participated in many battles and skirmishes until March, 1864. In the latter month he was transferred to the Maryland line. In going to Camp Stuart, at Staunton, Va., the point of rendezvous, he took part in the Valley campaign against Sigel's Federal forces and attached himself temporarily to the Sixty-second Virginia infantry, Col. Chas. O'Ferrell, commanding, marching under General Imboden. While with this command, and deployed as a skirmisher, on the evening before the battle of New Market, he was captured in a charge of the enemy. As a prisoner of war he was taken to Harper's Ferry, on Sigel's retreat, and transported thence by way of Wheeling, W. Va., to Camp Chase, Ohio. After about ten months of prison life he was exchanged in March, 1865, leaving Richmond, where he was on parole of indulgence for thirty days, when it was evacuated. He then joined Mosby's command and surrendered with ninety of these men, under Colonel Chapman, the following month at Winchester, Va. It was his privilege to participate in many of the most famous battles of the army of Northern Virginia, including Hanover Court House, Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm, Malvern Hill, Cedar Run (where he received a gunshot wound in the hip, which disabled him for three months), Fredericksburg (where he was slightly wounded), Gettysburg, Falling Waters, Amissville, Bristoe Station, Mine Run and the skirmishes during the pursuit of Stoneman, in Maryland, under Gen. Bradley T. Johnson. After peace was restored Mr. Callaghan removed to Texas and resided there until 1878, when he came to Washington to accept a position in the government printing office. Since then he has continued to reside at the capital, where he is highly esteemed as