bench as judge of the Southampton county court, a position in which he has been distinguished for judicial learning and impartial judgment. In 1876 he participated as a delegate in the national convention which nominated Samuel J. Tilden for the presidency. Judge Prince is an active member of the Baptist church and of the Masonic order. In 1877 he was married to Martha F., daughter of John Drewry, a prominent merchant and farmer. She died June 21, 1896, leaving two children: J. B., Jr., now a student of law at the university of Virginia, and Bessie R., a student at Norfolk college.
Lieutenant James A. Pulley, of Petersburg, who made a worthy record in the army of Northern Virginia, was born in Mecklenburg county in 1840, the son of William Pulley, who died previous to the war. At the outbreak of war he was attending college in Brunswick county, but left his studies to enlist May 14, 1861, in Company K of the Fourteenth Virginia infantry regiment. He entered the service as corporal, but soon won promotion to second lieutenant by his soldierly bearing and courage in battle. He participated in the early operations on the peninsula and fought in Armistead's brigade at Williamsport, Seven Pines and the Seven Days' battles. He was wounded at Seven Pines and again at Malvern Hill, where his command was in the heat of the action. In this battle he had command of twenty-one men, of whom all but one were killed or wounded in the desperate assault upon the Federal position. Lieutenant Pulley received a severe wound in the hand, losing one finger, and was not able to return to his command until just before the battle of Fredericksburg, in which he participated. He subsequently took part in the Pennsylvania campaign, and at Williamsport, in command of his company, was distinguished in a successful charge upon the Federals who were attempting to capture the wagon trains of the Confederate army. His subsequent service was rendered on the lines about Richmond and Petersburg, where he continued until the battle of Five Forks, soon before the evacuation. In this fight he commanded his company and participating in an attack upon the enemy, was captured. He was subsequently confined as a prisoner of war at Johnson's island, Ohio, until June 21, 1865. After his return to Virginia he engaged in farming for several years at Brunswick, and then removed to Petersburg and embarked in the grocery trade, in which he has met with gratifying success. He held for a considerable time the office of commissioner of revenue of Brunswick county. In 1863 he was married to Miss Mary E. Wright, and they have six children living.
Lieutenant Samuel H. Pulliam, of Richmond, private and lieutenant, C. S. A., was born in Richmond in 1841, and was reared in the city and educated at Richmond college and the university of Virginia. He left the latter institution and suspended his education in April, 1862, to enter the Confederate service. His enlistment was as a private in Martin's battery of light artillery. Two or three months later he was promoted orderly-sergeant, and in October, 1863, he was raised to the rank of first lieutenant, in which he served until the close of the war. His service was mostly in the vicinity of Richmond, during 1862, and from October, 1862, to the fall of 1863, in southeastern Virginia and North Carolina.
