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to the Naval Academy in 1894. In 1891 he received from Washington and Lee Univer- sity the degree of LL. D. He married a daughter of Arthur A. Morson, of Rich- mond.

Robinson, Leigh, born in Richmond, Vir- ginia, February 26. 1840. son of Conway Rob- inson, lawyer and author, and Mary Susan Selden Leigh, his wife, daughter of Hon. Benjamin Watkins and Susan (Colston) Leigh, his wife. At the outbreak of the civil war, he was a student at the University of Virginia, which he left in the winter of 1862 to enlist in the Second Howitzers company, from which he was transferred to the First Howitzers in March, 1864. He fought in all the principal engagements from York town to the surrender at Appomattox. After his parole, he took up his residence in \\'ashington City, where he became a law- yer. He married, January 10, 18S3, Alice Morson.

Bidgood, Josephus Virginius, born at Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1841. When the civil war broke out. he was a student at William and Mary College, which he at cnce left to enlist in the Thirty-second \^ir- ginia Infantry Regiment, with which he served throughout the war, and participated in manv of the most notable engagements. He was advanced to sergeant-major, and after the battle of Five Forks was promoted ic adjutant. At Sailor's Creek he was wounded and captured, and held prisoner until June, 1865. He took up his residence in Richmond, and became active in the national guard, rising to the rank of colonel cl cavalry and placed on the retired list on the completion of twenty years service. He

resides ni Richmond where he is chief of the Bureau of Confederate Arcliives.

Jones, Hilary P., was actively engaged as- i' teacher when Virginia seceded. He at cnce entered the army, was commissioned major of artillery and served on Gen. D. H. Hill's division, and was soon promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He especially distin- guished himself at Winchester, just before Gettysburg, where his masterly use of twenty pieces of artillery won for him high praise from his superior officers. In the later operations, he held the rank of colo- nel, and his service continued until the sur- render at Appomattox, after which he re- sumed teaching.

Moncure, James D., born in Richmond, \''irginia, August 2, 1842, son of Henry W. Moncure (a descendant of the grandfather of George Washington) ; in the maternal Ime he was descended from John Ambler, aide-de-camp to Lafayette in the revolu- tionary war. He was educated in Paris, and when the civil war was impending (i860) he came home from Europe, where he had been a university student for eleven vears, and had received a degree, and en- tered the Virginia Military Institute. \\'hen the state seceded, he accompanied the cadets to Richmond, where they performed duty, drilling volunteers. Soon afterwards he en- listed as a private in the Ninth Virginia Cavalry Regiment, with which he served until the end, under the Lees, Stuart and Hampton. He was taken prisoner at Ches- ter's Gap, after Gettysburg, but soon made his escape. In the charge at the battle of Aldie, his horse fell, and. .he sustained frac- tures of the skull and collarbone, but soon recovered. After the war, he resumed medi-