his valued and faithful service Dr. Apperson was present at every engagement of the armies of Lee and Jackson, except the fight at Seven Pines. He was with Jackson at Kernstown, Bull Pasture Mountain and McDowell, Front Royal, Winchester, Cross Keys and Port Republic, then all the battles of Jackson's corps through 1862, from the Chickahominy to Fredericksburg. He passed the winter at Guiney's Station, and in the following year served upon the battlefields of Chancellorsville, Winchester, Gettysburg and Payne's Farm, and during the return from Pennsylvania was actively engaged in a skirmish at Williamsport, in command of a small body of Confederates, driving off a party of the enemy. After wintering at Orange Court House he was present in all the battles from the Wilderness to Richmond, then in the Lynchburg campaign, the pursuit of the Yankees down the valley, the expedition through Maryland, including the battle of Monocacy, and the skirmishes before Washington, closing this busy year with the campaign of Early against Sheridan. After wintering at Fishersville, and witnessing the disastrous fight at Waynesboro, he rejoined Lee at Richmond March 25, 1865, and soon afterward participated in the movement toward Lynchburg which closed at Appomattox. He came home with a mule, the only pay received for his services, which he disposed of to obtain drugs, and he then began the practice of medicine. In 1867 he was graduated at the university of Virginia, and established himself for professional work at Chilhowie, where he remained until 1887. At this time he became a member of the building committee of the Southwestern asylum for the insane, and upon the completion of the institution served two years as assistant physician. Then after two years' practice at Glade Springs he made his home at Marion, where he has since continued in practice, with the exception of one year spent at Chicago. In 1868 Dr. Apperson was married to Ellen V. Hull, who died in 1887, and two years later he was married to Miss Lizzie Black.
Frank M. Arthur, a prosperous farmer of Nansemond county, Va., and a veteran of Pickett's division, army of Northern Virginia, was born at the family home, where he now resides, in 1843. He is the son of James S. Arthur, also a farmer, and the grandson of John S. Arthur, a native of England, who came to America and settled in that county, subsequently serving as a soldier in the war of 1812. The mother of Mr. Arthur was Charlotte, daughter of James Ward, also a soldier of 1812. Early in 1862, being about nineteen years of age, Arthur enlisted in Company I of the Ninth Virginia regiment of infantry, formerly known as the Craney Island artillery, and soon afterward fought in his first battle at Malvern Hill, where the company behaved like veterans. He subsequently participated in the battles at Warrenton Springs, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg, and the December battle of Fredericksburg. Marching into Pennsylvania with the army, he was one of the heroes who charged up the slope of Cemetery hill in the battle of Gettysburg, on July 3d. His company lost twenty-seven out of thirty-eight men that went into the fight. Private Arthur was among those who gained the Federal lines, and was near General Armistead when the latter fell. He was captured and confined at Fort Delaware and Point Lookout about fourteen months, and while in prison was elected second lieutenant by his
