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v.as educated at the University of Virginia. In April, 1861, he became lieutenant in the Nineteenth Virginia Regiment, and in 1862 was elected captain. In 1863 he became jirovost marshal under Gen. Longstreet, and scr\-ed in that capacity until the surrender. tie took part in the following battles : First Manassas, Williamsburg, Sharpsburg, Greensboro Gap, Second Manassas, first IVedericksburg-, and numerous minor en- j.',r.gements. In 1856 he was a Whig presi- dential elector. In i860 he was a candidate for the legislature, but the war forbade his service. In 1865 he was elected to the legis- lature which never convened. In 1872 he was elected county judge, and served for twelve years. He was a lawyer, and prac- ticed in Charlottesville. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas James, of Chillicothe, Ohio.

Cutshaw, Wilfred E., born at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, January 25, 1828, son of George W. Cutshaw and Martha J. Moxley, his wife. He graduated at the Virginia Military Institute in 1S58, and was a teacher in the Hampton Military Institute from 1859 until 1861, when he resigned to enter the army. In April, 1861, he was commis- sioned first lieutenant, and then, entering the artillery arm, was made captain in 1862, and major in fall of the same year, and lieu- lenant-colonel in February, 1865. He served on the peninsula and in the valley, and in May, 1862, was severely wounded in the knee, taken prisoner, held until April, 1863, and then exchanged. Being unfit for field service, he was made commander of cadets at the Virginia Military Institute, and in September. 1863, again entered the army, although his wound was unhealed.

As assistant inspector-general of the Second Corps artillery, he served until early in 1864 when he was promoted to major, and given command of an artillery battalion, and so served until 1865. At Spotsylvania he was slightly wounded in the right arm. In Feb- ruary, 1865, he was promoted to lieutenant- colonel. At Sailor's Creek, three days be- fore the surrender, he was shot in the right leg, and the next morning it was amputated above the knee. Fie was paroled, June i, 1865. In September, 1866, he became as- sistant professor of mathematics in the Vir- ginia Military Institute. In January, 1868, he was appointed assistant mining engineer of the Dover Coal and Iron Company, of Henrico county. Later the same year, he became assistant professor of mathematics and physics in the Virginia Military Insti- tute, and in 1871, assistant professor of civil and military engineering. He holds membership in various scientific and histori- cal societies. He married (first) Mrs. E. S. Norfleet: and (second) Miss M. W. Mor- ton.

Smith, William Waugh, born in Fauquier county, Virginia, son of Richard M. Smith and Ellen Harris Blackwell, his wife. Rich- ard M. Smith was closely related to Gov. William Smith and was the governor's inti- mate friend as well. He improved his edu- cational opportunities in his youth, and from his eleventh to his sixteenth year at- tended the school maintained by Caleb liallowell, a Friend, in Alexandria, Vir- ginia, an institution of high standard and most favorably regarded throughout Vir- ginia. When his father transferred his journalistic activities to Richmond at the Ijeg-inning- of the war between the states.