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500 onel Kirkland s command, he went to the front in Virginia and had his first experience in battle at First Manassas. When Ewell’s division marched to support Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah valley, he accompanied his regiment and shared the famous fighting of Trimble’s brigade at Front Royal, Winchester, Strasburg and Cross Keys. He was with Jackson when he crossed Virginia and struck McClellan s right flank, making possible the victories of the Seven Days before Richmond, and contimied under the leadership of that great commander at Second Manassas, Harper’s Ferry and Sharpsburg. After this battle he was promoted to captain of his company, having previously held the rank of first lieutenant. At the battle of Fredericksburg he was severely wounded in the side by a grapeshot, and in consequence was disabled and at home for twelve months. On having apparently recovered he served with Hoke at Plymouth and New Bern, and with Early in the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1864, but after the battle of Winchester was honorably discharged on account of the disability caused by his wound. After the war he resided at Greensboro until 1873, and since then at Winston, where he is one of the leaders in business. Samuel Jefferson Ginnings, a leading merchant of Wilkesboro, who rendered his Confederate service as a member of the First regiment, North Carolina troops, was born in Surry county, January 3, 1827. His residence at Wilkesboro dates from 1852, where he was engaged in business until the first alarm of war, when he went to Charleston and heard the first gun fired at Fort Sumter. He was interested in the organization of the First regiment, enlisted as a member of Company B, and later was appointed regimental commissary. He accompanied the command to Virginia and took part in the Seven Days campaign before Richmond, in which Colonel Stokes was killed. Here he was captured, and being taken to Fort Delaware was confined for several weeks. After he rejoined his regiment he was taken sick with fever and was disabled for some time. Then, joining his command again, he took part in the battle of Fredericksburg and the subsequent service of his regiment, holding the position of sutler. At the battle of the Wilderness, in May, 1864, he was shot through the