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by James Grant, who felt himself aggrieved by an article that was published in Pollard's paper.

Terrill, William Rufus, born in Coving- ton, Virginia, April 21, 1834; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1853 ; assigned to the Third Artillery ; was assistant professor of mathematics there, 1853-54; on duty in Kansas, 1854-55; assist- ant in United States coast survey, 1855-61. He was commissioned captain in the Fifth Artillery, August 14, 1861, and took part ip. the battle of Shiloh. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, September 9, 1862, and was killed in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862.

Whitehurst, Francis M., born in Princess Anne county, Virginia, December I, 1835, son of William Whitehurst and Amy I-ovett, his wife. He began his education in the Norfolk schools, and graduated from the University of Virginia. In 1861 he en- listed in a Norfolk company which became a part of the Sixth Virginia Regiment, Ma- hone's brigade. After serving two years in the ranks, he was elected first lieutenant, and commanded the company in the battle of Crater, where he lost seventy-five killed and wounded out of a total of ninety-four, and was himself captured and held prisoner till the end of the war. He participated in all the principal battles of Gen. Lee's army until his capture. After the war he prac- ticed law in his native county, and served as commonwealth's attorney and county judge. In 1884 he located in Norfolk, where ht practiced his profession, and became in- terested in various important financial and business corporations. He married Laura

E., daughter of Henry V. Styron, of Princess Anne county.

Lindsey, William, born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, September 4, 1835. In 1854 he removed to Hickman county, Ken- tucky, where he taught school, studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1858. At the opening of the civil war he entered the Confederate army as lieutenant, and was soon made captain in the Twenty-second Tennessee Infantry. He served on the staffs of Gen. Buford and Gen. Lyon, and re- mained with the Second Kentucky Brigade until paroled as a prisoner of war early in 1865. at Columbus, Mississippi. After the war he returned to Clinton, Kentucky, and resumed the practice of his profession. He was elected state senator in 1867; in 1870 was given a place on the state supreme court, and in September, 1876, became chief justice. He declined a renomination.

Hancock, William T., born at Chester- field, Virginia, in 1835, son of Ananias Han- cock and Bessie Stanton, his wife. After attending school, at the age of seventeen he Vv-ent to Richmond and took employment, and became manager for J. W. Atkinson, and was afterwards with William Grainer, whom he left to enter the Confederate army. He served throughout the war in the Tenth Virginia Battalion, and took part in the bat- tles of Seven Pines and Fort Gillmore, and many others. After the war he was for seven years manager for J. B. Pace. In 1873 ^^ became a member of the firm of Salmon & Hancock, tobacco manufacturers, Richmond, and ten years later purchased his partner's interest, becoming sole owner. He became a director of the Security Savings Bank, and was connected with a number of