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May 3, 1863, while on foot leading his com- mand, he was killed by a shot in the breast. His remains rest within a few feet of his chief, in Lexington Cemetery.

Payne, William Henry Fitzhugh, was born at Clifton, Fauquier county, Virginia. January 27, 1830, eldest son of Arthur Alex- ander Mason and Mary Conway Mason ( Fitzhugh) Payne ; grandson of Capt. Wil- liam and Marion (Morson) Payne, and of the Hon. Nicholas and Sarah Washington (Ashton) Fitzhugh, and a descendant in the seventh generation from John Payne, who with his brother William came to Virginia in 1620. His mother was a great-grand- flaughter of Augustine Washington. He was educated at the University of Missouri, the University of Virginia, and the Virginia Military Institute, and was married, Sep- tember 29, 1852, to Mary Elizabeth Win- ston, daughter of Col. William Winter Payne (q. v.) ; practiced law, and served as commonwealth's attorney for Fauquier county until 1869, save during the suspen- sion of civil duties, 1861-65. He entered the Confederate service as captain of the Black Horse Cavalry, and in September, 1861, was promoted major of the Fourth Virginia Cavalry, and took part in the Peninsular campaign. He was wounded, left on the field and reported dead in the battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1861, was taken prisoner, and after his release prosioted lieutenant-colonel, and placed in temporary command of the Second North Carolina Cavalry, with which regiment he held War- renton, Virginia, against a Federal attack, thus preventing the capture of 3,000 wounded Confederates in hospital there. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Han-

over, Pennsylvania, June 30, 1863, and on his exchange was promoted brigadier-general and commanded the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Thirty-sixth Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, which made up Payne's Brigade, Fitzhugh Lee's Division, Early's army, operating in the valley against Sheridan in the fall of 1864, and south of the James river in the spring of 1865 in Fitzhugh Lee's Cavalry Corps. He was conspicuous in the battle of Five Forks, April i, 1865, where he was wounded, Col. R. B. Boston succeeding to the command of the brigade. He was cap- tured, April 13, 1865, ^brought to Washing- ton April 16, was mistaken for the Payne im- plicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, and by the firmness of the officer having him in charge was rescued from a mob intent on killing him. He practiced law at Washington, D. C, and in 1902 was the counsel for the Southern Railway. He died in Washington, D. C, March 29, 1904.

Pegram, John, was born in Petersburg, \^irginia, January 24, 1832, son of James West (1803-1844) and Virginia (Johnson^ Pegram, and grandson of John and Martha Ward (Gregory) Pegram and of William R. and Mary (Evans) Johnson. John Pe- gram was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1854 and was assigned to the dragoons. He served in California, 1854-57; was promoted second lieutenant of Second Dragoons, March 3, 1855, and served in Kansas and Dakota, 1855-57. He was promoted first lieutenant February 28, 1857 ; served as adjutant of Second Dragoons in the Utah expedition, 1857-58: was on leave or absence in Europe, 1858-60, and served on the Navajo expedition of i860. He was stationed in New Mexico. 1860-61,