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842 made extensive contributions in the form of newspaper and pamphlet publications to the literature of politics and political economy. One of his latest publications was an article on the Venezuelan question in the Virginia Law Register. Upon the rostrum also he has been an indefatigable worker. In 1896 he was a delegate to the National convention at Indianapolis, and subsequently was a prominent advocate throughout the State of the ticket there nominated. In the field of general literature he has published some poems that have met with popular approval, and has for several years past made a special study of Napoleon and his times, having in preparation a historical and critical work on the campaign and battle of Waterloo. He is member of the State bar association and the Merrimac club.

John Waters Drew, of Washington, D. C., had the privilege, during the war of the Confederacy, to serve as a gallant cavalry officer in the army of Northern Virginia. He entered the service in May, 1861, joining the volunteer organization formed at Alexandria, Va., and called the Beauregard Rifles. This company was mustered in as Company F of the First Virginia regiment, and he served with this command until the reorganization of the army about a year later, when he was commissioned captain of Company F, Twenty-third Virginia cavalry, a rank he held during the remainder of his army life. Captain Drew participated in the campaign before Richmond, which included the Seven Days' battles against McClellan; and in the valley of Virginia, in the commands of Breckinridge and Imboden, he operated against Sigel in the spring of 1864, participating in the fighting at New Market, where a signal victory was won. Under the command of Early, in the following summer, he took part in the successful actions at Lynchburg and Salem, Va., at the latter engagement having his horse killed under him. After the march to Washington he again fought under General Early at the battle of Winchester, on September 19, 1864, where the army suffered defeat and he with others fell into the hands of Sheridan. With the other prisoners of that day he was conveyed to Fort Delaware and there confined as a prisoner of war until the close of the war. This long imprisonment was ended by his parole in the spring of 1865, when he immediately returned to Washington, his native city. Captain Drew was born at Washington in 1841 and, previous to the outbreak of war, was educated at the old Columbia college now known as the Columbian university. Here, taking up again the duties of civil life, he soon became proficient in the calling of a pharmacist and embarked in the business of a druggist, which has since been his occupation. He still endeavors to maintain his comradeship with the survivors of the Confederate armies and is an active member of the Washington association of Confederate veterans.

E. J. Driver, of Nansemond county, Va., a descendant of a gallant colonel of the war of the Revolution^ served in the army of Northern Virginia as a soldier in the Thirteenth Virginia cavalry. He shared the service of this regiment throughout the war, fighting with Chambliss and W. H. F. Lee in many of the famous battles of 1861 to 1865. In the spirited cavalry encounter at Middleburg he was twice wounded. His son, Wilson E. Driver, M. D., prominent in the medical profession at Norfolk, was born in Nansemond