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Rh and the Episcopal seminary at Alexandria, was ordained an Episcopal clergyman, was rector of a church at Wilmington, N. C., and during the war served as a chaplain. Charles Carter, who was first lieutenant of Company C, Thirtieth Virginia regiment, now resides at Fredericksburg. Dr. Carmichael was born at Fredericksburg, November 22, 1830, and after a general education at a classical school at Princeton, N. J., and Concord academy, Virginia, he began the study of medicine with his father. He continued his professional studies at the medical department of the university of Virginia and Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia, being graduated by the latter institution in 1852, after which he pursued a course of study and practice at New York. During the period which intervened before the secession of Virginia from the old union, he engaged in practice at Fredericksburg, and during the first year of the war served as an assistant surgeon, on duty at Culpeper Court House and later at Chaffin's bluff, on the James river, attached to an artillery command. In the spring of 1862 he was promoted surgeon. He remained at Chaffin's bluff until the fall of 1862, and during the following year was on hospital duty at Danville. From the fall of 1863 to the spring of 1864, he was surgeon of the hospital at Newnan, Ga., and then until July, 1864, was on duty at Richmond. The remainder of the war he was stationed at Lynchburg. Ever since the war he has been engaged with remarkable success in professional duties at his native city. For many years he has been a fellow of the State medical society, and for four years was a member of the medical examining board of Virginia. On December 19, 1861, he was married to Fannie Tucker, daughter of John Randolph Bryan, a native of Georgia. She died August 17, 1896, leaving five children: Randolph Bryan, a physician of Washington, D. C.; Coalter Bryan, of Richmond; Elizabeth Coalter, Ellen Spotswood and Fannie Tucker.

C. H. Carper, editor of the Democrat, Marion, Va., was born in 1850 at Fincastle, Botetourt county. Though considerably below military age during the whole progress of the war, he was identified for some time with the Confederate service and won much attention by his youthful devotion to the cause. At the age of thirteen years he became a member of Philip J. Thurmond's partisan rangers, with which he served on the border on scouting duty and against the Federal raiders in West Virginia. Subsequently he was detailed for duty as telegraph operator on the line built under the direction of his uncle, John S. Francis, from Dublin Depot to Union, W. Va., and while thus engaged he was enrolled as a member of Company E, Thirty-sixth Virginia cavalry battalion, of which his uncle was first lieutenant. After the close of hostilities Mr. Carper engaged in the printing business, first at Marion and then at Lynchburg, where he was occupied on the Evening Press one year. After this he established the Montgomery Messenger at Christiansburg, which he conducted for eleven years, and then disposed of that journal to found his present enterprise, the Democrat, at Marion, one of the leading papers of that section of the State. In 1870 Mr. Carper was married to Mary Frances Seaver, who died in 1890, leaving four children: Pearl E., Charles C., Lucy L., and Grover Cleveland Carper. On January 31, 1894, he married Miss Mattie E.