In the spring of 1863 he participated in the siege of Suffolk, and afterward was engaged at Drewry's bluff and in the defense of Petersburg against Grant, taking part in many artillery actions. On the day before the surrender he took part in a sharp struggle with Sheridan's cavalry at Appomattox, and on the following day, receiving news of the surrender, his company was disbanded. In the fall of 1865 Lieutenant Pulliam made his home at Richmond again, where he has continued to reside, and engaging in the insurance business, has been notably successful. As a business man and a citizen he enjoys the highest esteem and confidence. On repeated occasions he has been elected to the city council, and in 1877-79 represented his city in the legislature of the State. He maintains a membership in R. E. Lee camp, No. 1, of Confederate Veterans.
John B. Purcell, a well-known business man of Richmond, was born in that city in 1849. On July 3, 1863, at the age of fourteen years, he entered the service of the Confederate States as a private in the Third Virginia battery, under command of John McAnerny, in Custis Lee's brigade. With this command he served until February, 1865, when he was discharged, and then appointed vidette to the Virginia military institute. In the latter service he was engaged until the close of the war. Among the affairs with the veteran troops of the enemy in which this young soldier was engaged, are the fight at Green's Farm in repelling Dahlgren's raid, and the engagement on the Brook road in May, 1864. From September, 1864, until the close of his service with the battery, he served as orderly-sergeant. After the return of peace he entered the Virginia military academy for the completion of his education, and was graduated in 1868. Returning then to Richmond he engaged in the drug business, which he has followed since that time with much success. For two years he has held the rank of colonel in the Virginia State troops, in command of the First regiment. He is a member of R. E. Lee camp, U. C. V.
Captain Silvanus J. Quinn, who since 1866 has been identified officially with the municipal affairs of Fredericksburg, is a native of Georgia, born near Perry, Houston county, March 8, 1837. His father, a native of North Carolina, served under General Jackson in the war of 1812, participating in the battle of New Orleans, afterward served five years in the United States army, married Sarah Bryan Pierce, who was born in Georgia in 1810, and then settled in that State as a farmer. His six sons, James Hunter, William Bryan, John Blackstone, David Monroe, Silvanus Jackson and Thomas Jefferson, all served in the Confederate armies, and received honorable wounds, but survived the war. Captain Quinn, when eleven years old removed with his parents to Tallapoosa county, Ala., where the father died in 1850, the family afterward removing to Neshoba county. Miss. In Philadelphia, the county seat of Neshoba, he and his brother John B., became proprietors of a newspaper, the "Central Enquirer," which they later transferred to Louisville, Miss., and called the "Bulletin." This business he abandoned in May, 1861, after giving a hearty support editorially, to the cause of independence, and enlisted as musician in the Winston Guards, a volunteer company which became Company B, and after the reorganization Company A of the Thirteenth
