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838 several weeks in the mountains of North Carolina and then returned to his home. He soon became engaged in the furniture business, which he carried on until 1887, since when he has managed his farming and other interests. He is an influential citizen, has served ten years on the city council, and is a member of Garland-Rodes camp, Confederate Veterans. In 1873 he was married to Miss Jemmie Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Craig, of Roanoke, and they have six children: William Woodson, Julia E., Yrmyr, James W., Robert, and Margaret V.

Marion Johnson Dimmock, a well-known architect of Richmond and a veteran of Wise's cavalry legion, was born at Portsmouth, Va., in 1842, but, being brought to Richmond in infancy by his parents, he was there reared and educated. He is the son of Gen. Charles H. Dimmock, a native of Massachusetts, who was appointed to the National military academy at West Point from that State, and after graduation served in the United States army under General Scott in the Indian Florida wars. Going to Virginia about 1840 and making his home at Portsmouth, he held the position of commandant of the Public Guard of Virginia when the war broke out. He entered heartily into the part which was enacted by Virginia during the war of the Confederacy and was appointed by Governor Letcher to the rank of brigadier-general and chief of ordnance for the department of Virginia. In this position he rendered efficient service until his death, in the year 1863, at the age of sixty-three years. His son, Marion Johnson Dimmock, entered the Confederate service in April, 1861, as a private in the cavalry of Gen. H. A. Wise's legion, afterward known as the Tenth regiment of Virginia cavalry. He was at once promoted to the rank of adjutant of the regiment, as which he served throughout the war. He participated with honor in the battles of Brandy Station, Gettysburg, Hagerstown, Md. (where his horse was killed under him), Big Sewell Mountain, W. Va., Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Spottsylvania Court House and Five Forks, where again his horse was shot under him. With the mass of the cavalry he evaded the surrender at Appomattox and made his way to Johnston's army in North Carolina, with which he surrendered at Greensboro and was paroled at Danville in May, 1865. At the close of his military service, which was characterized throughout by the true gallantry of a Confederate soldier, he returned to Richmond and studied for the profession of architecture, in which he has subsequently had a successful career. He is a member of R. E. Lee camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans, and of the Association of the army of Northern Virginia.

Lieutenant Henry J. Dobbs, of Amherst, Va., a veteran of Pickett's division, army of Northern Virginia, was born in Norfolk county in 1834. Upon the call to arms he enlisted, April 23, 1861, in a company which was assigned to the Eighteenth Virginia infantry, Col. R. E. Withers, as Company E. Enlisting as a private he was promoted color sergeant June 27, 1862, and fifteen months after became lieutenant, the rank in which he served until the end of the war. In Cocke's brigade of the army, under Beauregard, he participated in the first battle of Manassas, and in George E. Pickett's brigade he took part in the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill and Frayser's Farm. He shared