Mount Jackson, where he was twice wounded, Brandy Station, Trevilian's, and the fighting near Petersburg. Though at Appomattox he was not paroled there. After the close of hostilities he returned to his old home at Lexington, where he has subsequently resided and in civil life has worthily added to a career so honorably begun in the army of Northern Virginia. For the last twenty-five years he has been engaged in business as a dry goods merchant, with gratifying success. He maintains a membership in Lee-Jackson camp, United Confederate Veterans.
William T. White, of Richmond, who rendered faithful service with the Second Howitzers, of Richmond, during the last year of the war of the Confederacy, was born at Richmond in 1845. He was reared and educated in that city, and was a youth when the war passed through its earlier stages. Early in 1864, when the South was making its greatest effort to meet and repel the formidable invasions that were being planned against it, he became a private in May in the Howitzers, in time to participate in the terrific struggles at the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House. At Hanover Junction he was again in battle and took part in the bloody fight at Cold Harbor where the indomitable courage of the Confederates made a wall of defense against which the Federal hopes were shattered. Subsequently he was at Deep Bottom where he was continually under fire from the gunboats. Sickness now kept him from the ranks awhile, but on recovery he took part in the Valley campaign, fighting at Winchester, Port Republic and Cedar Creek. Subsequently he served in the trenches before Petersburg, and when further defense became unavailing, participated in the retreat until early in April, 1865, he was cut off from the army in Amelia county, and was never able to rejoin his company. At Cedar Creek he was captured by the enemy, but soon effected his escape. At the close of hostilities he returned to Richmond, and in 1871 secured a position as guard at the State penitentiary. With this institution he has been continuously connected since that time, his efficient and faithful service being rewarded in 1884 by appointment to the position of second assistant superintendent, and in 1894 to that of assistant superintendent, his former office having been abolished. He is a valued member of R. E. Lee camp, Confederate Veterans.
Thomas Whitehead, distinguished as a gallant soldier during the war of the Confederacy, and since then as a journalist, political leader, congressman and State official, was born in Nelson county, December 27, 1825. He was reared in Amherst county, received a common school education, entered mercantile life at the age of fourteen, and later studied law, of which he began the practice upon his admission to the bar at Amherst Court House, in 1849. His civil career was interrupted in 1861 by the call to arms, and he promptly entered the military service in April, receiving a commission as lieutenant of cavalry. He was assigned to the Thirty-second Virginia regiment, which later in the year was enrolled as the Second Virginia cavalry regiment. At the reorganization in 1862 he was unanimously elected captain of Company E of this command, and with this rank he served until wounded severely at Trevilian Station, June 11, 1864. On account of his resulting disability he was assigned to duty on the board of inquiry at Charlottesville, where he served until the evacuation of
