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the position of chief engineer of the civil
works of Kg\-i)t, which position he declined
tc accept : that of chief engineer and gen-
eral superintendent of the Mobile & Ohio
railroad; in 1883 became vice-president and
general manager of the Richmond & Dan-
v'lle railroad, now a part of the Southern
Railway System; in 1886 was appointed a
member of the United States commission to
inspect and receive on the part of the gov-
ernment forty miles of the Northern Pacific
railroad in the state of Washington, and
the following year became general superin-
tendent of the Panama railroad, and while
with that railroad went to Paris, and con-
cluded a traffic agreement with the Canal
Company ; he presented to the canal com-
mission a plan for the completion of the
Panama Canal, in which he had always
taken a great interest; in 1894 he communi-
cated to the directeur of the canal a plan
for the construction of a port at La Boca,
in the vicinity of Panama, which if con-
structed would tend greatly to facilitate and
increase the traffic across the isthmus ; after
resigning his position with the Panama
ri;ilroad, he was made chief engineer of the
Cape Cod canal ; was also elected vice-presi-
dent, and was specially charged with the
construction of the Vera Cruz & Pacific
railroad in Mexico ; these positions he held
at the time of his death at Castle Hill, Feb-
ruary 27, 1903 ; his wife, who survived him,
was the well known Virginia belle. Miss
Sadie MacMurdo; children: .Amelia, the
well known authoress, who became the wife
of Prince Trubetskoy ; Gertrude, who be-
came the wife of Allen Potts, Esq. ; Miss
Landon Rives.
Marshall, Charles, bnrn in W'arrenton. X'irginia, October 3, 1830, son of Alexander
John Marshall, and great-grandson of
Thomas Marshall, born 1655, died 1704;
was a student of the University of Virginia,
from which he received the degree of Bach-
elor of Arts in 1846, and Master of Arts in
1849; ^^'as professor of mathematics at the
University of Indiana from 1849 to 1852;
then studied law, was admitted to the bar,
and began the practice of his profession in
Baltimore, Maryland; in 1861, at the out-
break of the civil war, he returned to his
native state, joined the Confederate army
the following year, and served on the per-
sonal staff of Gen. Robert E. Lee as assist-
ant adjutant and inspector-general, with the
rank of first lieutenant ; from 1862 to 1865
he served as major and aide-de-camp to
Gen. Lee and served with him in the Army
or Northern Virginia ; attained the rank of
lieutenant-colonel, and with Gen. Horace
Porter he arranged the terms of the sur-
render of the Confederate army at Appo-
mattox, and he prepared a general order
containing Gen. Lee's address to his army ;
I\Ir. Marshall wrote a book entitled "Life
of (jen. Robert E. Lee ;'" he practiced his pro-
fession in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1865
to 1902. a period of almost four decades; his
death occurred in Baltimore. Maryland,
April 19, 1902.
Duncan, James Armstrong, was born in Norfolk, \ irginia. .\pril 14, 1830. died in Ashland. \'irginia, September 2^^. 1877. His father, David Duncan, was a graduate of the University of Glasgow, emigrated to the United States, and for forty years was pro- fessor of ancient languages in Randolph- Macon College, Virginia, and at Oxford, South Carolina. James was graduated at Randolph-Macon in 1849. and joined the \'irginia conference of the Methodist
