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Rh active duty and crippled for life. Here, also, he became a prisoner of war, but was exchanged a month later. Subsequently he was detailed for duty in the enrolling service and in this work rendered efficient service for one year in Hanover county and, during the remainder of the war period, in King William county. At the close of hostilities he took up the study of law and, in 1867, received a professional diploma from Washington and Lee university, which he particularly prizes on account of its bearing the signature of his loved commander, Robert E. Lee. Lieutenant Haw has been engaged in the practice in Hanover county since 1867, and is now serving his fifth term as commonwealth attorney of that county. He has also, since 1874, maintained an office at Richmond, and holds an honorable position at the distinguished bar of that city. He still keeps in touch with the veterans of the army of Northern Virginia and maintains membership with Pickett camp of the Confederate veterans.

Lieutenant S. H. Hawes, a prominent citizen of Richmond, who served with distinction in the artillery of the army of Northern Virginia, entered the State service on April 19, 1861, as a private in the Richmond Howitzers. After thirteen months' service with that command, as private and corporal, he was elected second lieutenant in the Williamsburg artillery. With the latter organization he remained until the reorganization in the valley of Virginia, when he was assigned to Fry's, or the Orange county, battery, with the rank of lieutenant. He served with this command until the historic 12th of May, 1864, when he was captured during the successful assault of Hancock's corps upon the "Bloody Angle," at Spottsylvania Court House. During the period of service, thus briefly outlined, he participated with gallantry in the engagements of his commands. Subsequent to his capture he endured the deprivations and suffering of prison life until June 1, 1865.

Surgeon William Hay, a patriotic Virginian, who entered the Confederate service in the Stonewall brigade, was born January 19, 1833, in Clarke county. He was the grandson of William Hay, a native of Scotland, who came to Virginia in 1777 and married a daughter of Miles Cary, a brother of Col. Archibald Cary, a famous Virginia patriot, known as "Old Ironsides," who took a prominent part in the convention of 1776, which framed the constitution of Virginia. His son, the father of Surgeon Hay, married a daughter of Col. Nathaniel Burwell, the proprietor of the celebrated "Carter Hall," in Clarke county, and a member of the Virginia house of burgesses. William Hay enlisted in 1861 as first lieutenant of Company C, Second Virginia infantry, and commanded his company in the famous battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861. In the fall of the same year, having had a medical education, he was assigned as surgeon to the Thirty-third Virginia infantry, of the same brigade. About the first of June, 1862, in the midst of the Valley campaign, he was detailed by Gen. Edward Johnson to take charge of the general hospital at Staunton. Upon the opening of operations about Richmond and Petersburg in 1864, he was ordered to field duty there, and, in the performance of duty, contracted pneumonia, from which he died, June 1, 1864, in the thirty-first year of his age. During his hospital service he performed many difficult operations and was regarded as one of