given to the most distinguished graduate. The third son is pursuing his studies under Rev. Robert Gatewood.
Galium B. Jones, of Ashland, Va., late of the Fifteenth Virginia infantry, army of Northern Virginia, was born in Hanover county, near Ashland, May 15, 1842. His father, Dr. Galium B. Jones, Sr., a descendant of Gen. Galium B. Jones, of the British army, was born in Hanover county in 1812, and in 1838 married Mary M. Wingfield, daughter of Capt. William Wingfield, who died in 1848, leaving one son, the subject of this sketch, and three daughters: Columbia W., wife of John Newton Gary, deceased; Mollie Kidd, wife of Nathaniel M. Taylor, of Bristol, Tenn.; and Ida Burton, wife of Richard Ruffus Griffin, of Richmond. Dr. Jones in his youth received an old-field schooling, his principal instructor being St. George Tucker, subsequently captain of Company E, Fifteenth Virginia infantry regiment, in which Dr. Jones enlisted as a youth of nineteen on April 23, 1861. He was identified with the career of his company and his regiment throughout the entire war. During 1861 he was in Gen. Lafayette McLaws' division of the troops under Magruder on the peninsula, and subsequently he shared the record of Corse's brigade of Pickett's division in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Among the principal battles were: South Mountain, Sewell's Point, Sharpsburg, Union, Tenn., Drewry's Bluff, Five Forks and Chester Gap. At Drewry's Bluff, May 15, 1864, he was seriously wounded in the left leg. The year after the surrender at Appomattox, in which he was a participant, he began the study of medicine, which he continued in the medical college of Virginia, graduating in March, 1869. He was surgeon of the Quantico railroad in 1870-71-72, practiced his profession at Richmond until 1882, and in December of the latter year began his professional career at Ashland, Va., which he has continued with much success to the present time. He is a member of the alumni association of the Virginia medical college, is physician to the Hanover county infirmary, and among his comrades of the army holds the rank of surgeon of W. B. Newton camp, Confederate Veterans. Dr. Jones was married January 29, 1885, to Sallie P., daughter of Capt. Walter N. Newman, of Richmond, and they have six children: Mary Newman, Galium B. Jr., Joseph Moore, Walter Kidd, Willie Carpenter and Sallie Cabell.
Lieutenant Henley T. Jones, of Williamsburg, a veteran of the Thirty-second regiment, Virginia infantry, was born in James City county, April 10, 1842. He is the descendant of a York county family of which several generations have been worthy citizens of Virginia. His father, Henley T. Jones, a wealthy planter, was born in York in 1814, married Mary Ann Henrietta Jones in 1835, and died in 1872, his widow surviving until 1881. Of their thirteen children the subject of this mention is the eldest son, and two beside himself, William L. and Daniel S., served in the Confederate army. He received his academic education in a classical school at Williamsburg in which there was, a class of eighteen boys of nearly the same age, all of whom bore arms for the Confederacy, and most of whom are yet living. In 1859 he entered William and Mary college, with the ultimate purpose of pursuing the study of medicine at Paris, but the movement for Southern
