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to the Naval Academy in 1894. In 1891 he received from Washington and Lee University the degree of LL. D. He married a daughter of Arthur A. Morson, of Richmond.

Robinson, Leigh, born in Richmond, Virginia, February 26. 1840. son of Conway Robinson, 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 Washington City, where he became a lawyer. 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 once left to enlist in the Thirty-second Virginia Infantry Regiment, with which he served throughout the war, and participated in many of the most notable engagements. He was advanced to sergeant-major, and after the battle of Five Forks was promoted to 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 of cavalry and placed on the retired list on the completion of twenty years service. He resides in Richmond where he is chief of the Bureau of Confederate Archives.

Jones, Hilary P., was actively engaged as a 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 distinguished 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 colonel, and his service continued until the surrender at Appomattox, after which he resumed teaching.

Moncure, James D., born in Richmond, Virginia, 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 revolutionary war. He was educated in Paris, and when the civil war was impending (1860) he came home from Europe, where he had been a university student for eleven years, and had received a degree, and entered the Virginia Military Institute. When the state seceded, he accompanied the cadets to Richmond, where they performed duty, drilling volunteers. Soon afterwards he enlisted 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 Chester's Gap, after Gettysburg, but soon made his escape. In the charge at the battle of Aldie, his horse fell, and he sustained fractures of the skull and collarbone, but soon recovered. After the war, he resumed medi-