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and assigned to the Twenty-fottrth Virginia Infantry; elected major at the reorganiza- tion of the regiment, May, 1862; badly wounded at the liattle of Seven Pines, May 31, ib'62; promoted lieutenant-colonel, May, 1S63; badly wounded through the hips at the battle of Drewry's Bluff: promoted colo- nel, May 16. 1864; permanently disabled, "but rejoined the army on the evacuation of Richmond and surrendered at Appomattox April 9, 1863 ; afterwards a prominent mem- Ler of ihe Richmond bar.

Williams, Charles Urquhart, born at Mont- rose, Henrico county, Virginia, December 2j, 1840, son of Charles Bruce Williams, editor and farmer, and Ann Mercer Hack- ley, his wife ; -and a descendant of pioneer settlers of Virginia, among whom we find : Philip Pendleton, of Caroline county ; Wil- liam Williams ; Edward Duncanson and James Hackley. of Culpeper county ; and James Bruce and George Stubblefield, of King George county. Charles Urquhart Williams attended private schools in Rich- mond and Culpeper county, after which his education was finished by attendance for one year at the school conducted by David Turner. He read law at the University of Virginia, but he was interrupted by the out- break of the civil war, when he at once en- listed in the Confederate army, and served as a private in the Richmond Howitzers, and later became lieutenant and drill master. Wlien the army departed from Richmond Mr. Williams went with Brig. -Gen. D. R. Jones, as volunteer aide-de-camp, and sub- sequently became assistant adjutant and in- spector-general. When Gen. Jones died in July, 1863. Lieut. Williams was assigned to the stafi:' of Gen. M. D. Corse until the close

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o"" the war, first as aide-de-camp, then as as- s'stant-adjutant and inspector-general. He was admitted to the Richmond bar in Octo- ber, 1865, ^nd practiced his profession stead- ily after that time. He was a Democratic member of the X'irginia legislature, 1875- "j"/ : and served in both branches of the Rich- mond city council. He was president of the Westmoreland Club and of the Sons of the .American Revolution: commander of R. E. Lee Camp, No. i, Confederate Veterans, and a member of the Society of Foreign Wars and of the Delta Psi fraternity. Mr. Wil- l:;ims married. August 27, 1867, .-Xlice Daven- port. He died in 1910.

Garnett, James Mercer, M. A., LL. D.,

born .April 24, 1840, at "'Aldie," Loudoun county, Virginia, the residence of his great- uncle, Hon. Charles Fenton Mercer; he is the son of Theodore Stanford Garnett, and Florentina Isidora Moreno, daughter of Francisco Moreno, Esq., of Pensacola, Flor- ida, his wife. His father was a civil engi- neer, and the early life of James Mercer Garnett was spent in Virginia, Pennsyl- vania, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina and North Carolina. He was educated for four years at the Episcopal High School of X'irginia. and for three years at the Univer- sity of Virginia, taking the degree of Master of Arts in 1859. He taught at Brookland School, Albemarle county, Virginia, the ses- sion of 1859-60. When the war broke out. he enlisted in the Confederate service, July 17, 1861, as a private in the Rockbridge Ar- tillery, then attached to Jackson's (later the '"Stonewall") brigade, under command of Gen. T. J. Jackson. He was promoted to second lieutenant of infantry, C. S. A., then to first lieutenant of artillery, P. A. C. S.,