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798 until 1869, when he embarked in business at Baltimore. William N. Causey, the third brother, was born at Old Point in 1839 and was educated at Hampton academy, Union college, and Emory and Henry, and William and Mary colleges. He enlisted as first sergeant in Company B, Third Virginia regiment, and on account of ill health was discharged in 1862, after which he served in the secret service on the peninsula, obtaining valuable information for the Confederate government. He died August 27, 1890. Capt. C. H. Causey, Jr., a son of the first named of these three brothers, now resides at Suffolk, Va., engaged in the practice of law, and holding the rank of captain of the Suffolk Grays, Company F, Fourth Virginia regiment, to which honor he has risen from the ranks since his enlistment in 1888. Captain Causey, Jr., values his blood connection with the men who stood by Virginia in the severest ordeal through which the great old State ever passed.

Milton Cayce, of Henrico county, Va., formerly prominent in the tobacco business of Richmond, was born in Cumberland county, December 10, 1832. He left his native county at the age of seventeen and since then has been a resident of Petersburg or Richmond. During the first year of the war of the Confederacy he served as an attendant in a hospital at Petersburg, and in 1862 he enlisted for the war as a private in Company B of the Twelfth Virginia infantry. With the career of this gallant command he was subsequently identified, participating honorably in the battles of Seven Pines, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, and others, and finally, while taking part in the repulse of the Federal attack at the Crater falling in battle with a severe wound in the shoulder which incapacitated him for further service. After the surrender he made his home at Petersburg until 1870, when he removed to Richmond and engaged in the tobacco business, at first with Allen & Ginter. After a successful career, he has of late years been retired from business life. He was a gallant soldier and keeps in touch with his comrades of the great struggle by memberships in both the R. E. Lee and George E. Pickett camps of Confederate Veterans. Two brothers of Mr. Cayce also served with honorable records in the army of Northern Virginia. George M. Cayce, who held the rank of captain of Purcell's battery, was wounded at Spottsylvania, and died in 1886; and E. M. Cayce, who served at first in the Twelfth Virginia infantry, subsequently was transferred to Purcell's battery, and was wounded at the second battle of Manassas.

Richard Booker Chaffin, a well-known business man of Richmond, is a native of Amelia county, Va., where he was born November 29, 1844, and reared and educated preparatory to entering the Virginia military institute. While he was a youthful student at that institution, the early period of the war of the Confederacy was in progress, and he abandoned his studies in October, 1863, to enlist in the Confederate States army. He joined as a volunteer the cavalry command of Gen. W. L. Jackson, of Virginia, and participated in the operations of his brigade until, while taking part in a charge at Jackson river, he was so severely wounded as to be incapacitated for further military service. When in March, 1864, he had become competent for lighter duty, he was assigned to the department of the provost marshal with promotion to the rank of