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826, 1863, he applied for re-admission to active service, though his wound was unhealed, and he was assigned to duty as assistant inspector-general of artillery, Second corps, army of Northern Virginia. He participated in the battles of Bristoe Station, Auburn, Rappahannock Station and Mine Run, in 1863; and in 1864, in command of his battalion, was in conspicuous service in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania, where he was again wounded. Cold Harbor, Bethesda church, the affairs with gunboats and transports on the James river between Chaffee's Bluff and Wilcox's Landing in July, in command of battalion with Kershaw's division in the Valley campaign of General Early, at the battles of Front Royal, Charleston, Berryville, Strasburg and Cedar Creek. During the retreat of the army from Richmond he fought at Deatonsville and Sailor's Creek, April 6th, and in the latter engagement was terribly wounded, losing his right leg. A few days later, while lying in this condition, he gave his final parole. His record is one of the most gallant and self-sacrificing service. His name is identified with Cutshaw's battalion, one of the most serviceable and famous in the artillery arm of the Confederate forces. Its unexcelled record in nearly every battle in which the army of Virginia was engaged will be recalled with admiration as long as Confederate history shall be written and read. After he was able to resume civil occupations he was engaged, with the exception of two years as mining engineer, as assistant professor in the Virginia military institute in the departments of mathematics, physics and military and civil engineering. In 1873 he became city engineer of Richmond.

Andrew J. Dalton, ex-senator for the Norfolk (31st) district, and distinguished in the municipal service of that city, is a native of Ireland, born at Dublin in 1843. His father, Thomas A. Dalton, brought him with the family to Norfolk when he was three months old, and there engaged in business as a merchant tailor until his death in 1853. Left an orphan at the age of ten years, he was apprenticed, a year later, to the printer's craft, with T. G. Broughton, editor of the old Norfolk Herald. After the termination of his five years' apprenticeship, he continued in the trade until the outbreak of the war. Early in 1861, before Virginia seceded, he enlisted in Company C, Captains George James and Ormsby Blanding, respectively, First South Carolina artillery, and was stationed at Fort Johnson, on James island, from which the signal shell for the bombardment was fired, and was one of the crew that placed that shell in the mortar. After the surrender of Fort Sumter to the Confederates, he was on duty at that fortress until the expiration of his year's enlistment, when he returned to Norfolk, and enlisted in the United artillery, under command of Capt. Thomas Kevill, then stationed at Fort Norfolk. He was one of the volunteer artillerymen selected to man the Virginia in her famous naval encounters in Hampton Roads, during which he was twice wounded, and again volunteered and served on the Virginia's third trip, under Captain Tattnall. After the evacuation of Norfolk, he was with his command at Dunn's Hill, Petersburg, and then during the Peninsular campaign on duty in batteries No. 8 and No. 10, before Richmond, and at the two redoubts on the Central railroad. Subsequently he was stationed at Drewry's Bluff