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him of the number of troops and their posi- tions, and upon this he ordered the attack on Winchester. After the battle Gen. Sheri- dan thanked her in person and afterwards always spoke of her as his "little Quaker girl." In 1867 he sent her a gold watch. She married William C. Bonsai, and was ap- pointed to a clerkship in the United States treasury department at Washington in 1868.

Dyer, David Patterson, born in Henry county, Virginia, February 12, 1838, re- moved to Missouri with his parents in 1841. He received his education in the public schools and St. Charles (Missouri) College; studied law at Bowling Green, Missouri, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. In 1861 he was elected district attorney, and was a member of the legislature, 1862-65, and took sides with the North. He recruit- ed and commanded the Forty-ninth Regi- ment Missouri Volunteer Infantry during the civil war, participating in the campaigns against Mobile in 1865. In 1866 he was secretary of the state senate. In 1868 he was a delegate to the Republican national convention, and the same year was elected tc congress, serving on the committees on territories and agriculture, and was United States attorney for the eastern district of Missouri in 1875-76. He subsequently was United States judge, district of Missouri.

Wharton, Morton Bryan, born in Orange county, \'irgn-.ia, in 1839, son of Malcolm H. Wharton and Susan Roberts Calvin, his wife. He was educated at Orange Academy, Culpeper Academy, Richmond College, and the Virginia Military Institute, but did not graduate, all educational institutions sus- pending on account of the war. He entered the Baptist ministry, and his first pastorate

v/as with the church at Bristol, Tennessee. He afterwards served various churches in the south. In 1876 he was made correspond- ing secretary of the Southern Baptist Theo- logical Seminary. In 1881 he became United States consul to Sonneberg, Ger- many. Three years later he became editor of the "Christian Index," at Atlanta, Georgia. He leceived the degree of D. D. from Washington and Lee University. He wrote: "European Notes," "Famous Women of the Old Testament," "Famous Women of the New Testament," "Pictures from a Pastorium," "Famous Men of the Old Testament," and "Sacred Songs to Popular Airs." He married Mary Belle Irwin. He died in 1908.

Parrish, James, born in Portsmouth, Vir- ginia, September 30, 1839, son of James Reed Parrish, lawyer and jurist, and Sarah Ferguson, his wife, daughter of Rol^ert Ferguson, a native of Ireland and resident of Norfolk county, Virginia. He was edu- cated at the local schools, and received his professional training in the medical depart- ment of the University of Virginia, and of the City of New York, graduating from the former in 1858, and from the latter in 1859. When the civil war broke out, he was en- gaged in interne duty in the Bellevue and Brooklyn (New York) hospitals, and he at once returned home. On June i, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company K, Ninth Virginia Infantry, and in November follow- ing was made surgeon to the Forty-first Virginia Regiment, with which he served until after the battle of Sharpsburg, when he was transferred to the Thirteenth Vir- ginia Cavalry, with which he remained un- til the surrender. After the war he engaged