four continuous sessions and one term as senator from his district by election in 1873, and in 1883, was re-elected to the house of delegates. In 1890 he received the honor of election to Congress from the Second district and served one term in this capacity. He has twice served on the board of visitors of the agricultural and mechanical college of Virginia, and for many years occupied the same relation to the Virginia military institute and William and Mary college, of which institution he is now president of the board of visitors, also as the president of the Smithfield alliance company. January 30, 1877, he was married to Miss Margaret Norfleet Urquhart, of Southampton county, and they have six children.
Lieutenant James I. Lee, of Lynchburg, Va., a gallant cavalryman of the Second Virginia regiment, is a native of Tennessee, born in 1843. When he was two years old his parents removed to Lexington, Mo., where the father died in 1846, after which his mother brought him to Bedford county, Va., where he was reared and educated. Upon the first call to arms, in April, 1861, he enlisted in the service of the State as a private in Company F of the Second Virginia cavalry. His soldierly qualities were soon manifested and he received promotion in a few months to the grade of corporal, subsequently to orderly sergeant and finally to second lieutenant of Company F, which was his rank at the close of the war. As a daring and devoted cavalryman he participated in a host of encounters with the enemy, from Manassas to Appomattox. Most prominent among the engagements in which he served are the first and second battles at Manassas, Sharpsburg, all the fights on the Rappahannock river, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Brandy Station, the cavalry raids of General Stuart in Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Cold Harbor engagement of 1864, where he was wounded and two horses were killed under him successively; the actions about Richmond and Petersburg and the retreat to Appomattox, where he did not surrender, having escaped with the cavalry. He was paroled at Bedford City, Va., and then returned to civil life. In October, 1865, he removed to Lynchburg, where he has since resided and attained business distinction in the wholesale grocery trade. He is one of the popular and useful citizens, the estimation in which he is held by his fellow-citizens being evidenced by his election on four occasions to the city council.
John Lee, of Danville, a veteran artilleryman of the army of Northern Virginia, was born in Maryland, September 12, 1832, the son of John and Ann (West) Lee. Coming to Virginia in boyhood, he followed the carpenter's trade in Fredericksburg and Richmond and was employed in planing mills at Georgetown and Culpeper until he enlisted at the latter place, April 17, 1861, as a private in the Culpeper Minute Men, an organization which was assigned to the Thirteenth Virginia regiment as Company B. With this command he took part in the battle of First Manassas, and, upon its disbandment in February, 1862, joined Sturdivant's battery, with which he served as a gunner until the close of the war. Among the principal battles in which he participated were those of the Seven Days' campaign. Cold Harbor, Stony Creek, the Crater and Sailor's Creek. He also took part in the siege of Suffolk and the long-continued fighting on the Petersburg lines. In 1864, on Pagan Creek, near Smithfield, he took part in the capture of a
