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806 that command at Fredericksburg, Kelly's Ford, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, the defeat of Wallace at Monocacy, Early's demonstration before Washington and the battles under Early in the Valley, at Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek. In the latter engagement he was captured and was subsequently held at Point Lookout until June, 1865. In the following September he made his home at Washington and ten years later entered the dry goods business at that city. Besides himself, two brothers served in the Confederate army, Edmund F., as a private in the Nineteenth Virginia, and Charles D., in Massie's battery.

Henry C. Cline, M. D., of Front Royal, a veteran of the "Laurel Brigade," entered the service in his boyhood as a private in Capt. Walter Bowen's company of cavalry of Colonel McDonald's regiment. He participated in the West Virginia campaign of 1861, and then, under Ashby's command in the army commanded by Stonewall Jackson, participated in the winter expedition against Bath. In May, 1862, he took part in the battle of McDowell, where fell the lamented Colonel Gibbons of the Tenth Virginia regiment, and then marched down the valley, fighting at Front Royal and Winchester and driving Banks across the Potomac. During the return march up the valley he served with the cavalry, guarding the immense wagon trains captured from the Federals, and participated in the fights at Strasburg, Fisher's Hill, Woodstock and other encounters of the rear guard with the enemy. He was in the fight when Ashby fell after capturing Sir Percy Wyndham, who had boasted that he would "bag Ashby and his band," and in the battles of Cross Keys and Port Republic which followed in quick succession. In the cavalry brigade of Gen. W. E. Jones he took part in the second Manassas campaign, the Maryland campaign, the expedition into West Virginia in April, 1863, when the command was in the saddle thirty-three days, fighting and skirmishing almost daily; the Gettysburg campaign, and the battles of Brandy Station and Cold Harbor. He fought with Rosser and Early in the valley, including the battles of Cedar Creek and Fisher's Hill; was in the fight between Custer and Mosby at Front Royal, where Custer captured and executed six of Mosby's men; and was in all the cavalry engagements under Rosser, Lee and Hampton in the Richmond and Appomattox campaign, including Five Forks, High Bridge and Appomattox Court House; after which, cutting through the Federal lines, he was paroled at Winchester. W. R. Cline, a brother of Dr. Cline, born in 1844, now living at Fulton, Mo., served in the Warren Rifles, a company of the Seventeenth Virginia infantry. Corse's brigade, at First Manassas, Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, and Fredericksburg, and in the summer of 1863, was transferred to the Eighth Virginia cavalry and shared his brother's service to the close. After the war Dr. Cline studied at the Front Royal academy and Roanoke college, and after teaching school for several years, was graduated in 1876 by the Maryland medical college. Since then he has enjoyed a successful practice. He is a member of the William Richardson camp, United Confederate Veterans.

William Izard Clopton, judge of the county court of Chesterfield county, Va., rendered effective service during the war of the Confederacy as a captain of artillery. He was born in Henrico county