daughter of the Count de La Cost, of Bordeaux, France. She was a graduate of Urrington college and a finely educated woman. Joseph A. A. Bullock was engaged in mercantile pursuits until the beginning of the war of the Confederacy, when he unlisted on May 2, 1861, in Company F of Burroughs' battalion, under Captain Cooper. At the time of the Confederate evacuate of Richmond he was stationed at the Rip Raps. From there he accompanied his command to Richmond and was assigned to the brigade of Gen. L. L. Lomax, under whose command he participated in the Peninsular campaign of 1862. His military service continued throughout 1862, including participation in the battle of Fredericksburg, and in 1863 until the engagement at Culpeper, when he was captured by General Meade's forces and made a prisoner of war. The imprisonment which followed was long and severe. Transported first to Washington, he remained there two months, was then confined at Point Lookout thirteen months, and from there was transferred to Elmira, N, Y., where he remained as a prisoner until after the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia, when he was permitted to return to his home.
John Henry Burgess, a prominent business man of Elizabeth City, had an adventurous career in the Confederate service as a soldier and scout. Born at Elizabeth City, February 27, 1843, he enlisted among the early volunteers, in May, 1861, as a corporal of Company I, Seventeenth regiment, and was at a later date promoted to sergeant. He was among the troops stationed at Oregon inlet at the time of the first Federal invasion of the coast, and after the fall of Fort Hatteras, fell back to Roanoke island and was stationed at Fort Bartow. Here they were attacked by the fleet and army of Burnside's expedition and compelled to surrender. Soon afterward he was paroled, but was not exchanged until the fall of 1862, when he went on duty at Weldon as provost guard, and remained until the spring of 1863. Subsequently he joined the signal corps commanded by Maj. James F. Milligan, and was stationed on the lower James river, successively at Brandford, Brandon, Swan's Point and Mount Pleasant, and at Fort Clifton on the Petersburg lines. His service on this line of signalmen was of great importance to the defense of Richmond and was frequently attended by danger. With eleven comrades under the command of Sergeant Averett, he was engaged on scouting duty in the rear of Grant's army during May, 1864, obtaining valuable information for General Lee. He was finally with the army on the retreat from Petersburg and was surrendered at Appomattox. Soon after the close of hostilities, he embarked in the mercantile business in which he is still engaged. By his marriage in 1866 to Martha R. Newbold, he has seven children living: Henrietta Louise, wife of C. R. Bell, of Baltimore; John Henry, Jr., and William Frederick Martin, both in business at Norfolk; Nancy Newbold, Creighton Newbold, Joseph Warren and Arthur Earl.
John Henry Burgess, Jr., son of the foregoing, and prominent in the insurance business at Norfolk, Va., was born at Elizabeth City, N. C. He was educated in the schools of his native city until the age of seventeen years, when he removed to Norfolk and entered the employment of the firm of Childrey & Mets, with whom he remained four years. At the expiration of that period he returned to Elizabeth City and became a member of the firm of G. M. Scott
