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Rh. After one year as private, he served two years as second lieutenant, then as first lieutenant until the winter of 1864, when he was promoted captain, the rank he held at Appomattox. He participated creditably and bravely in the battles of First Manassas, Williamsburg, the Seven Days' fighting before Richmond, Cedar Mountain, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville (where he received his only wound, a slight one in the foot), the defeat of Milroy at Winchester, Gettysburg, Mine Run, and the Wilderness and Spottsylvania campaign. At the time of the surrender he was with a mounted detail, ten miles south of Appomattox, and he was paroled at Staunton in June, 1865. During the two years immediately following the war he found employment in farming and then took up his career where he abandoned it at the call of the State. Since then he has prospered in the profession of law and holds a high place in the esteem of the people of Staunton. He was first elected mayor of the city in 1888, and subsequently was regularly re-elected every two years.

Joseph Addington Gale, M. D., a distinguished physician and surgeon of Roanoke, Va., was born at Norfolk in 1842. His ancestry is English and Scotch descent, and settled originally in North Carolina, removing thence to Virginia subsequent to the Revolutionary war. Both his grandfathers were soldiers in the war of 1812. Dr. Gale was a student in the Norfolk military academy at the outbreak of the war, and he left that institution in the summer of 1861 to become a private in Huger's battery. He served with this command until the spring of 1862, participating in the battles of the Peninsula and Seven Pines, and being upon the fields of Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Frayser's Farm, Malvern Hill and Drewry's Bluff. He was then appointed hospital steward at Chimborazo hospital, at Richmond, and put in charge of the dispensary for the Second division, under Dr. Habersham. During his service in this department he was hospital steward in charge of medical and surgical supplies for the reserve corps of surgeons, and was busily engaged upon the field in all the battles around Richmond during the siege of 1864-65. During this period he also attended medical lectures at the Richmond medical college, and, in the spring of 1866, he was graduated in medicine at the Bellevue hospital medical college, New York. For six months subsequently he served as surgeon on a ship between New York and Liverpool, and then received the appointment of United States contract surgeon at Sandy Hook. In the summer of 1867 he made his home in Roanoke county, and in 1882 established himself at the city of Roanoke, where he has since been engaged successfully in the practice of his profession. For twelve years he served as surgeon for the Norfolk & Western railroad, and has held the position of chief surgeon for the road since September, 1895. He is a member of the State medical society of Virginia, and of the National association of railway surgeons. He is also active socially and for the best interests of the community. He is one of the trustees of the Methodist church South, of his city, and is a valued member of the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows. He has served the county as magistrate and, during two terms, sat in the council of the city.

Captain Asher W. Garber, of Richmond, a gallant artillery officer of the Second corps of the army of Northern Virginia, was