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mustered into the service of the Confeder- acy, April 21, 1861. Guigon, then a private, was made orderly sergeant of the Sec- ond company, commanded by J. Thompson Brown. Guigon was with a section of this company, which was sent to Gloucester Point and fired on the gunboat Yankee, on May 20, 1861, the first gun of the war hred i.i Virginia. He served in the Peninsula campaign under Gen. John Bankhead Ma- gruder ; was at the battle of Bethel, and from the battle of Bethel (June 10, 1861), to the advance of McClellan up the Penmsula (April, 1862), Guigon was, with a short in- terval of sickness, continuously witii his company. On April 15, 1862, Guigon was tommissioned captain in the Confederate army, and authorized to raise a company of artillery. The project was unsuccessful and ho joined the First company of Richmond Howitzers as a private, but later was appointed ordnance sergeant of a battery commanded by his old partner, Capt. I ifter- wards Colonel) Marmaduke Johnson, and served in that capacity with the 1 hird Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia up to its surrender at Appomattox. After the sur- render of Gen. Lee's army at .\ppomattox, Capt. Guigon resumed the practice of the law in Richmond. In 1870 he was elected judge of the hustings court, being the first elected to hold that office after the war. After serving as judge for eight years, he died, February 22, 1878, and the event was the occasion of the largest meeting of mem- bers of the bench and bar of the city of Rich- mond and its vicinity ever assembled, and the resolutions passed by them express far more than the ordinary state formalities. Judge Guigon founded, in 1856, "The Quar- terly Law Journal," the first law journal

published in the south, which he conducted until shortly before the beginning of the civil war. He was a master Mason and member of Joppa Lodge, No. 40, in Rich- mond. Before the war he was a Whig, but v.'hen the war terminated he allied himself with the Democratic party. He was a regu- lar attendant of the Monumental Episcopal Church in Richmond. On August 20, 1857, he married Sarah Bates Allen, daughter of James Allen of the firm of Davenport 8: Allen. Richmond, and formerly ot New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Buchanan, John Lee, born in Smyth cnunty, Virginia, June 19, 1831. In 1856 he was graduated from Emory and Henry Col- lege, \'irginia, and at once entered upon what was destined to be a long and success- ful career as teacher and professor of ancient languages in his alma mater, which position he held from 1856 until 1878. He then taught Latin in Vanderbilt University, after uhich he became president successively ci Emory and Henry College, and of the Vir- ginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. After serving as superintendent of public education of Virginia, 1886-90, Buchanan held the positions of professor of Latin in Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, 1890- 94. and president of the University of Arkan- sas, 1894-1902, after which he retired.

Barnes, Thomas H., born May 28, 1831, son of James Barnes, and Elizabeth Barnes, his wife, and a descendant of immigrants who settled at an early date in Hertford county. North Carolina, and from thence removed to Nansemond county, Virginia. James Barnes was a well-known citizen of Nansemond county, and for many years was a maodstrate and a member of the countv