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Rh with the Confederate troops in their gallant stand against the overwhelming forces under Sheridan on April 1, 1865, the result of the battle determining the fate of Richmond. He was captured by the enemy in this engagement and subsequently was confined as a prisoner of war at Point Lookout until June 3, 1865. Then being released, he returned to Dinwiddie county and during the next ten years gave his attention to farming. He then engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which he has been quite successful, and in addition has for some time been interested in real estate brokerage. He maintains a membership in A. P. Hill camp, Confederate Veterans. In 1867 he was married to Miss Ann C. Ellington, and they have four children living: Florence, wife of W. R. Roffe; Annie E., R. L., and Virginia May.

Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Chapman, distinguished alike as an artillery officer of the army of Northern Virginia, and one of the lieutenants of the famous leader, John S. Mosby, was born in Madison county, Va., April 17, 1840. His parents soon after moved to and resided in Page county, of that State, and he became a student in the university of Virginia. As a member of the company of students called the Southern Guards, he went to Harper's Ferry to take possession of that post immediately upon the secession of Virginia, but soon afterward his company and the Sons of Liberty were sent back to the university and disbanded, that they might be scattered among other commands. He at once assisted in the organization of the Dixie artillery, and was elected second lieutenant, and at the reorganization, was promoted to captain. He was under Beauregard's and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's command during the early part of the war in Virginia, in the Seven Days' battles served in Colonel Walton's battalion of Longstreet's command, at Second Manassas was attached to Featherston's brigade and, occupying an important position, contributed very materially to the defeat of the Federal army, and at Sharpsburg took an active part in the battle. After the Maryland campaign the artillery of the army was consolidated and his battery was joined to that of Pegram, and assigned to duty in Fauquier county. Early in 1863 Colonel Mosby began the organization of his famous command, and Captain Chapman, co-operating with him, formed Company C of the Forty-third battalion, and was elected captain. He was one of the foremost of Mosby's men till the end of the struggle, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. During the war he was married to Miss Josephine Jeffries in Fauquier county. Va., and made his home there and engaged in farming until 1873, when, through the friendship of Colonel Mosby and General Grant, he was appointed to the railway mail service. Subsequently he was appointed a special agent of the department of internal revenue of the United States government, the duties of which he has performed with great efficiency, serving at different times in nearly every Southern and many of the Northern States. For some time he has been stationed at Greensboro, N. C., though his place of residence is in Orange county, near Gordonsville, Va.

James B. Chastain, a business man of Baltimore, is a native of Virginia, born in Halifax county, in 1843, of a family which traces its descent back to the Huguenots of France. At an early age, while at home in Halifax county, he began to take a deep interest