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1862, he was made major, with which rank he commanded his regiment at the battle o.' Williamsburg. In October, 1862, he he- came adjutant-general and chief-of-staff to G-en. A. P. Hill, who now commanded a division, and held the same relationship to that officer when he became a corps com- mander. He was wounded both at Wil- liamsburg and Chancellorsville, but served until the end of the war. After the war he engaged in banking in Richmond.

Stiles, Robert, horn at Woodford, Ken- tucky, in 1836. He graduated at Yale Col- lege in 1857. and was admitted to the bar. In the spring of 1861 he removed to Rich- mond, and enlisted in the Richmond How- itzers immediately after the iirst Manassas, and with which he served until after Chan- cellorsville. He was then made lieutenant of engineers, and served as such under Early until after Gettysburg, when he was made adjutant of Cabell's artillery battal- ic n. In 1865 he was promoted to major, and with these he surrendered after Sailor's Creek. Refusing to take the oath of allegi- ance to the United States government, he . prisoner until October, 1865. A;i r ilie war. he engaged in law practice in Rich- mond.

Grimsley, Daniel A., horn in Rappahan- nock county, \'irginia. April 3. 1840, son of Rev. Barnett Grimsley. He was preparing i<:ir the law when the civil war broke out, and he enlisted in April. 1861. in the Sixth Regiment Virginia Cavalry. He was soon made orderly sergeant, in the spring of 1862 was elected captain, and in 1863 was promoted to major, and with that rank commanded the regiment during the re- ujainder of the war, serving in the valley

campaign under Jackson, and later under .Stuart. .After the war he concluded his law studies, was admitted to the l)ar, and took up practice in Culpepcr. He was a st..te senator. 1870-79, and in i8.-!o was appointed judge of the sixth Virginia judicial circuit. He married Bettie Browning, daughter of William L. P.rowning.

Shipp, Scott, born in Fauquier county, \'irginia. August 2. 1839. As a lad he was a student at Westminster (Missouri) Col- lege, from which he went to study for a year with an engineering party on the North Missouri Railroad. In 1859 he grad- uated with distinction at the \irginia Mili- tary Institute, and was made assistant pro- fessor of mathematics, to which Latin was added later. He resigned at the outbreak of the civil war, and was commissioned lieutenant in the provisional army of Vir- ginia, subsequently being advanced to a captaincy. In the Confederate provisional army he was an assistant adjutant-general in the camp of instruction at Richmond, and was later major of the Twenty-first Vir- ginia Regiment, under Lee in West \ ir- ginia, and Jackson in the \'alley. He was wounded in the battle of Newmarket. In 1862 he was detailed to the Virginia Military Institute as commandant of cadets, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After the war, he for some time retained the latter position, also studying law at Washington College, and was admitted to the bar. In 1880 he was elected president of the Virginia Agricul- tural and Mechanical College, but declined, preferring to remain with the institute. He was a member of the board of visitors to the United States Military Academy in 1890. and president of the board of visitors