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928 the most expert surgeons on duty in the department. By his marriage, December 25, 1854, to Miss Emily Lewis, o£ Philadelphia, he had four sons, all of whom are deceased save the eldest, James Hay. James Hay was born January 9, 1856, in Clarke county, and was educated in private schools of Maryland and Virginia, at the university of Pennsylvania and the Washington and Lee university, being graduated in law by the latter institution in June, 1877. In the same year he began the practice of law, also engaging in teaching school at Harrisonburg. Thence he removed, in 1879, to Madison, his present home, where he has met with marked success in his profession, and in participation in the political affairs of his county and State. Speedily attaining prominence as a lawyer and winning the confidence of the people, he was elected attorney for the commonwealth in 1883, and re-elected in 1887, 1891 and 1895. He was chosen by his county for the Virginia house of delegates in 1885, and again in 1887 and 1889, and elected to the State senate in 1893. He was a member of the Democratic State committee four years, and, in 1888, was a delegate to the national convention of his party. In 1896 he was elected to Congress to represent the Seventh congressional district of Virginia, and was re-elected in 1898.

William H. Haycock, now a prominent citizen of Georgetown, D. C., is a native of Virginia, born in Fairfax county, in 1843, and has an honorable record, as becomes a loyal son of the old commonwealth, of participation in several of the brilliant campaigns and in many of the hard-fought battles of the army of Northern Virginia. He was reared and educated in Fairfax county, and left home in his seventeenth year to enter the Confederate service, enlisting August 25, 1861, in Company H of the Second Virginia cavalry, as a private, and serving in that capacity until his parole at Appomattox, April 9, 1865. As a member of Gen. Charles S. Winder's brigade, in Jackson's division, he served in Stonewall Jackson's famous Valley campaign of 1862, sharing in the fatigues of the rapid marching and the perils of the battles of Front Royal, Winchester, Cross Keys and Port Republic, then marched with the army to reinforce Lee before Richmond, fought during the Seven Days' battles before Richmond, and, after the defeat of McClellan participated in the successful campaign against Pope, and the battles of Cedar or Slaughter's Mountain and the Second Manassas. At the latter engagement he received a saber cut in the arm in an encounter with the major of the Fourth New York cavalry. He took part also in the Maryland campaign of that year, fighting at Sharpsburg, and, after the return to Virginia, participated in the desperate battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. At Fredericksburg, Culpeper Court House and Orange Court House, in 1863, he was entrusted with the duties of courier for Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. In October, 1863, in a cavalry engagement at Stevensburg, Va., he was badly wounded and his horse was killed under him. This misfortune compelled him to remain on the sick list for a month, after which he took part in the expedition of the winter of 1863 against the Federals in West Virginia under Averell. Subsequently he was detailed for duty in the army postoffice at Richmond, where he remained until a week before the evacuation, when he went to Appomattox on a furlough. There he joined his regiment and took part in the final