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906 by his father in 1849, and was there reared and educated. When the war broke out he was a student at the Georgetown university, but, feeling the claims of his native State to his services, he left school to enter the Confederate army. In June, 1861, he went through the Federal lines to Fauquier county and enlisted in the Black Horse cavalry as a private, and remained with this famous command of troopers during the war, receiving promotion to sergeant and to orderly. He participated in the skirmish of Pohick church, the battle of Williamsburg, and the subsequent skirmishing of the Peninsular campaign, the Seven Days' battles before Richmond, Cedar Mountain, the Second Manassas, the capture of Harper's Ferry and the Battles of Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Williamsport, the Wilderness and every day at Spottsylvania, Yellow Tavern, Hawe's Shop, Trevilian's, Reams' Station, Winchester and Fisher's Hill. He was severely wounded at Williamsburg in the shoulder, and disabled in consequence about six weeks. He was again badly wounded at Yellow Tavern, which incapacitated him for a fortnight. After the close of the Peninsular campaign he served for some time as a scout for General Jackson's corps. At the battle of Five Forks, one of the last struggles of the war, he fell with a severe wound in the hip, and, though captured by the enemy, was not held as a prisoner. He was paroled at Winchester in June, 1865. On the 6th of the following month he returned to Washington, and since then has made his business headquarters at that city, though he maintains his residence at Warrenton, as a citizen of Virginia. Becoming engaged in civil engineering he was appointed, in 1883, to the position of government engineer on the Potomac river flats, and was engaged in that work until 1887. In 1894, he received the appointment to his present position in the engineer department of the District.

William W. Green, of West Point, Va., a veteran of that famous artillery organization, the Richmond Howitzers, was born at Norfolk, Va., October 1, 1831. He is the son of Capt. William Green, who was born in Culpeper county, March 3, 1800, entered the United States navy in 1818, and resigned in 1861, upon the secession of his State, after serving as commander fourteen years. He died in 1888. His wife was Mary Saunders, a native of Norfolk, and a daughter of Maj. John Saunders, who commanded the United States Fort Nelson, on the site of the present naval hospital at Norfolk, at the time of her birth. William W. Green was their only son. One of his two sisters became the wife of Col. Henry W. Williamson, of Norfolk, who was lieutenant-colonel of the Sixth Virginia infantry during the last three years of the war, and lost an arm at the battle of the Crater. The subject of this sketch was educated at the Norfolk military academy and Rappahannock academy, and, on June 3, 1861, entered the Confederate service as a private in the Third company of Richmond Howitzers. With this command he served at Big Bethel, the Seven Days' battles, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Winchester, Gettysburg. Mine Run, Spottsylvania, the Wilderness and Cold Harbor, the defense of Richmond and the retreat to Appomattox, where he was surrendered. He was never wounded and never captured, though he had a narrow escape from the latter fate at Spottsylvania. During the subsequent years he has been