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mustered into the service of the Confeder-
acy, April 21, 1861. Guigon, then a private,
was made orderly sergeant of the Sec-
ond company, commanded by J. Thompson
Brown. Guigon was with a section of this
company, which was sent to Gloucester
Point and fired on the gunboat Yankee, on
May 20, 1861, the first gun of the war hred
i.i Virginia. He served in the Peninsula
campaign under Gen. John Bankhead Ma-
gruder ; was at the battle of Bethel, and
from the battle of Bethel (June 10, 1861), to
the advance of McClellan up the Penmsula
(April, 1862), Guigon was, with a short in-
terval of sickness, continuously witii his
company. On April 15, 1862, Guigon was
tommissioned captain in the Confederate
army, and authorized to raise a company of
artillery. The project was unsuccessful and
ho joined the First company of Richmond
Howitzers as a private, but later was
appointed ordnance sergeant of a battery
commanded by his old partner, Capt. I ifter-
wards Colonel) Marmaduke Johnson, and
served in that capacity with the 1 hird Corps
of the Army of Northern Virginia up to its
surrender at Appomattox. After the sur-
render of Gen. Lee's army at .\ppomattox,
Capt. Guigon resumed the practice of the
law in Richmond. In 1870 he was elected
judge of the hustings court, being the first
elected to hold that office after the war.
After serving as judge for eight years, he
died, February 22, 1878, and the event was
the occasion of the largest meeting of mem-
bers of the bench and bar of the city of Rich-
mond and its vicinity ever assembled, and
the resolutions passed by them express far
more than the ordinary state formalities.
Judge Guigon founded, in 1856, "The Quar-
terly Law Journal," the first law journal
published in the south, which he conducted
until shortly before the beginning of the
civil war. He was a master Mason and
member of Joppa Lodge, No. 40, in Rich-
mond. Before the war he was a Whig, but
v.'hen the war terminated he allied himself
with the Democratic party. He was a regu-
lar attendant of the Monumental Episcopal
Church in Richmond. On August 20, 1857,
he married Sarah Bates Allen, daughter of
James Allen of the firm of Davenport 8:
Allen. Richmond, and formerly ot New
Bedford, Massachusetts.
Buchanan, John Lee, born in Smyth cnunty, Virginia, June 19, 1831. In 1856 he was graduated from Emory and Henry Col- lege, \'irginia, and at once entered upon what was destined to be a long and success- ful career as teacher and professor of ancient languages in his alma mater, which position he held from 1856 until 1878. He then taught Latin in Vanderbilt University, after uhich he became president successively ci Emory and Henry College, and of the Vir- ginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. After serving as superintendent of public education of Virginia, 1886-90, Buchanan held the positions of professor of Latin in Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, 1890- 94. and president of the University of Arkan- sas, 1894-1902, after which he retired.
Barnes, Thomas H., born May 28, 1831, son of James Barnes, and Elizabeth Barnes, his wife, and a descendant of immigrants who settled at an early date in Hertford county. North Carolina, and from thence removed to Nansemond county, Virginia. James Barnes was a well-known citizen of Nansemond county, and for many years was a maodstrate and a member of the countv
