State at the time of the passage of the ordinance of secession joining the forces which assembled at Harper's Ferry and seized that post. Then, being detailed to the quartermaster's department under Major-General Harper, he served there until the meeting of the State legislature in December, 1861, he having been re-elected from Rockingham county. At the close of the session he passed the ordnance examination and was assigned to Cabell's battalion of artillery with the rank of first lieutenant. Soon after the battle of Chanceilorsville he was promoted captain and placed in charge of the reserve ordnance of Longstreet's corps. Subsequently he was transferred to the Second corps and put in charge of the field park of the corps. After the battle of Gettysburg he was promoted chief of ordnance with rank of captain in the corps of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, with whom he served, and his successor, Gen. Wade Hampton, until the close of the war. Captain Grattan remained in Virginia when Hampton went South and at the time of the surrender was at Staunton, having been engaged in gathering up the artillery abandoned at Waynesboro, at Early's defeat, and was on his way to rejoin the army. During his service he participated in the battles of First Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the three days at Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Yellow Tavern, Waynesboro, Mine Run, Trevilian's, Jack's Shop, and all the cavalry fights of Stuart and Hampton after his association with them. He was paroled in June, 1865, and after farming in Augusta county until 1871 he made his home at Staunton, and resumed the profession of law, upon which he had embarked at the beginning of the war. For two years he has served as commissioner of immigration for Virginia. In 1888 he was elected to fill the unexpired term of Judge Smith, of the hustings court of Augusta county, was re-elected and in 1894 again re-elected for a term of six years.
Captain Peyton B. Gravely, of Danville, Va., was born in Henry county, May 15, 1835. His father, Willis Gravely, also a native of Henry county and the son of a Revolutionary soldier, Joseph Gravely, married Ann Marshall Barrow, who was related to the distinguished Marshall family of Virginia. Five of their sons were in the Confederate army, Peyton B., William A., Marshall F., Joseph H. H., and Chester B. Two of these, William and Marshall, were killed in battle. Peyton B. received a liberal education at various prominent academies of that day and at Emory and Henry college, and in 1857 became a partner of his father in the manufacture of tobacco. This occupation he abandoned on April 9, 1861, to enlist in the Danville artillery, with which he served one year as sergeant, participating in the battles of Laurel Hill and Carrick's Ford, and the engagements of Stonewall Jackson's campaign in the Shenandoah valley. At the reorganization he was elected captain of Company F, Forty-second regiment, Virginia infantry, Jones' brigade, Jackson's division, with which he served throughout the greater part of the war, participating in the battles of Seven Pines, the Seven Days' campaign, Second Manassas, Frederick City, Harper's Ferry, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Winchester, Gettysburg, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House (where he escaped the general disaster at the "bloody angle"), Cold Harbor, Hatcher's Run, Sailor's Creek, and other fights. He served for some time as adjutant of
