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424 merit, of which his command was Company H, served in the famous first encounter at Big Bethel on the Virginia peninsula. When the Bethel regiment was disbanded he re-enlisted in Company E, Fifty-sixth regiment, and served as a sergeant until the four years struggle came to an end. He was one of the valorous fighters who achieved the capture of Plymouth, and was also in battle at Little Washington, Kinston and Gum Swamp, N. C.; fought under Beauregard at Bermuda Hundred and in defense of Petersburg, and in the breastworks around Richmond; at the battle of the Crater, at Jerusalem plank road, at the lead works toward Weldon, and shared the suffering and fighting of the army of Northern Virginia until just before the evacuation of Petersburg, when he was permitted to go home on a furlough. He was wounded at Plymouth and again slightly at Gum Swamp. Since the war he has resided at Wilmington, and has had an honorable career in the railroad service, now holding the position of a conductor on the Atlantic coast line.

Julian Shakespeare Carr, of Durham, N. C., a gallant soldier of the Confederacy, and now one of the most prominent business men of the South, was born October 12, 1845, at Chapel Hill. His father, John Wesley Carr, a prosperous business man of that town, is well remembered by many prominent people of the South who were students at the North Carolina university during the period of his commercial career. John Wesley Carr married Eliza Pannel Bullock, a member of the well-known Bullock family of Greenville county. Her broth er, Col. Robert Bullock, formerly represented a Florida district in the United States Congress. Of the children of this marriage, besides Julian Carr, there are living, Dr. Albert Gallatin Carr, of Durham, N. C. ; Robert Emmett Carr, associate editor of the Durham Globe; Mary Ella, wife of William A. Guthrie, of Durham; Lizzie, wife of Rev. J. T. Harris, of Durham ; and Emma, wife of Prof. J. F. Heitman of Trinity college. Julian S. Carr was reared in the quiet village of Chapel Hill under the influence of pious and exemplary Methodist parents, and received his education amid the favorable facilities of his native place until the outbreak of the war. Though under sixteen years of age when his State