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Rh his regiment, and was later assigned to the staff of Gen. Bradley T. Johnson. He was wounded four times, most severely at the Wilderness, where he was shot through the shoulder. At Cedar Creek he was captured, but managed to escape. At Appomattox he was on the skirmish line April 9, 1865. Subsequently Captain Gravely resided in Henry county until 1870, when he removed to Danville and continued in his manufacturing business. He is a member of Cabell-Graves camp, Confederate Veterans. In 1871 he was married to Mary F. Walters, and they have five children: Kate W., now Mrs. George C. Cabell, Jr.; Peyton, James G., Nancy D., and Mary V.

Captain David Coffman Grayson, a native of Virginia, who is engaged in business at Washington, D. C., was born at Luray in 1838, the son of Benjamin F. Grayson, who held the office of sheriff of Page county, Va., for twenty-three years. From the age of fourteen he acted as deputy sheriff, and in 1859 was graduated at the Baltimore business college. On June 2, 1861, he entered the service of the Confederate States, and, going to Harper's Ferry, was assigned to the Tenth Virginia regiment of infantry, as third lieutenant of Company K, formerly known as the Page Guards. He served in this rank until May, 1862, when he began to command the company, and in October, 1863, he was promoted captain. He participated in the battles of First Manassas, McDowell, Winchester, Port Republic, Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm, Malvern Hill, Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville, the Milroy fight at Winchester, the second and third days at Gettysburg, Mine Run, Bristoe Station and Spottsylvania Court House. At Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862, he was shot through the lungs and pronounced fatally wounded, but recovered so as to be able for duty in the following February. At the battle of Chancellorsville he was captured and exchanged after six weeks' confinement at the Old Capitol prison. He was again captured at Spottsylvania Court House and held three months at Fort Delaware, then sent to Morris island and kept under fire for forty-three days. After this latter severe experience he was confined at Fort Pulaski, with rations of ten ounces of cornmeal a day and no meat, from October, 1864, until March, 1865. He was held further at Fort Delaware, until released June 15, 1865. After the war he engaged in business at Luray and Alexandria, and in 1870 at Baltimore in the wholesale grocery trade. Since 1873 he has been in the lumber trade at Washington.

Bernard P. Green, a citizen of Warrenton, Va., who is connected with the engineering department of the government of the District of Columbia, was born at Richmond. Va., in 1842. His family has been identified with the history of the Old Dominion since 1712, when the founder of the family in America, Robert Green, emigrated from England. Since then the family has been distinguished in the military service of the State. John Green, a son of the founder, served as colonel of the Culpeper Minute Men, or the Sixth Virginia regiment, during the war of the Revolution. Gen. Moses Green, a son of the latter, was distinguished in the war of 1812, and his son, Thomas Green, who died in 1882 at the age of eighty-four years, held the rank of colonel in the Virginia militia. The profession of the latter was that of attorney at law. His son, Bernard P. Green, was brought to Washington