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Horse Artillery, and then in the Second Regiment Virginia Cavalry (Fitzhugh Lee's regiment), taking part in the battles and skirmishes of Early's campaign of 1864, and sharing the hardships of a winter campaign in the mountains of West Virginia in 1864-65. The war over, after a brief service as assistant minister of Emmanuel Church, Baltimore, he became rector of St. John's Church, Portsmouth, Virginia. In 1867 he removed to Alexandria, Virginia, and served as rector of old Christ Church for eight years, when he accepted the charge of Holy Trinity Church, Harlem, New York City. where he remained eleven years, and resigned to accept the rectorate of Trinity Church, New Orleans. From there he removed to Washington, D. C., and became rector of the Church of the Epiphany in December, 1888. In 1871 the University of Washington and Lee conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. While in New York. Dr. McKim was instrumental in forming the Church Temperance Society and the Parochial Mission Society. He represented the diocese of Maryland, and subsequently the diocese of Washington, in the general conventions since 1892, and was continuously a member of the standing committee, and was president of that body. He was largely instrumental in the creation of the diocese of Washington in 1895. He was a member of the Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States, and chaplain of the Confederate Veterans of Washington, and also chaplain of the Sons of the Revolution. Among the books published by him are the following: "The Doctrine of the Christian Ministry," "Protestant Principles," "Sermons on Future Punishment," "Christ and Modern Unbelief," "Leo XIII at the Bar of History," "Present Day Problems of Christian Thoughts," "Bread in the Desert," and "The Gospel in the Christian Year." besides various occasional sermons and pamphlets, among which may be mentioned two addresses given at the University of Virginia.

Barnett, Edward Hammet, born in Montgomery county, Virginia, October 8, 1840. His father. James Barnett, owned the Big Spring farm on the Roanoke river, and died when Edward was a child, leaving his mother and three little children in charge of her father, William Wade, a Presbyterian elder in Christiansburg, Virginia. He was educated in the village academy until sixteen years old, worked three years on what is now the Norfolk and Western Railroad, and entering in 1859. Hampden-Sidney College, Prince Edward county, Virginia; was graduated in 1861 with first honor. He entered the war as third sergeant of a students' company, and was captured in July, 1861, at the battle of Rich Mountain, northern Virginia, paroled and exchanged in 1862. He then entered the Fifty-fourth Virginia Infantry Regiment, in which he was promoted to be captain and quartermaster, and was afterward transferred to the Twenty-first Virginia Cavalry, with which he gallantly served until he surrendered with Lee at Appomattox. In September, 1865. he entered Union Theological Seminary in Prince Edward county, Virginia, graduating in 1867, was licensed by the Montgomery presbytery, in Virginia, April 19, 1867, and went at once to Lynchburg. Virginia, as assistant to Rev. Dr. Ramsey in the first Presbyterian church in that city. In 1869 he became pastor of the