Confederate Soldiers, Civil War, Wheeling, W. Va. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal represen- ative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Contributed by Linda Cunningham Fluharty. From: Confederate Military History Extended Edition. Edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgia. Wilmington, NC. Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1987; pages 279-280. ADDITIONAL SKETCHES ILLUSTRATING THE SERVICES OF OFFICERS AND PRIVATES AND PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OF WESTERN VIRGINIA. *LIEUTENANT JAMES P. ADAMS* Lieutenant P. Adams, a Confederate veteran has resided at Wheeling, W. Va., entered the service in June, 1861, as a member of the Shriver Grays, an organization formed in Ohio county, in the heart of the "Panhandle," and mustered into service as Company G, of the Twenty-seventh Virginia infantry regiment. With this command Mr. Adams served as a private until the winter of 1863-64, in the meantime participating in the early skirmishes on Virginia soil before Washington, D. C., and in the spring of 1862 serving under Stonewall Jackson in his famous Shenandoah campaign, including the battles of Kernstown, Cross Keys, and Port Republic, in which Private Adams was a gallant participant. In the winter of 1863-64 he was transferred to Clark's Baltimore battalion as first lieutenant. In this rank he fought in the campaigns of 1864, particularly in the battle against Grant's army at Cold Harbor, and in the battle of New Market, where he lost his right arm, an injury which ended his active service. Nevertheless he continued in the army, and in the winter of i865 he was put in charge of the invalid corps at Richmond, where he remained until the evacuation. At the time of the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia he was at Charlottesville. He was paroled at Richmond in June, 1865, and soon afterward returned to Wheeling, where he has subsequently resided and is now in the insurance business. *LIEUTENANT JOSEPH COLEMAN ALDERMAN* Lieutenant Jospeh Coleman Alderman, of Wheeling, W. Va., distinguished among the Confederate soldiers of Greenbrier county for faithful and devoted service, was born at Locust Grove, Amherst county, Va., October 19, 1839, the home of his maternal grandfather, John Coleman. His father, Rev. L. A. Alderman, a few years later removed to the old stone mansion opposite the town of Alderson, on the Greenbrier river, where young Alderson was reared. He was educated at the Lewisburg academy and Alleghany college, at Blue Sulphur Springs, an institution which was destroyed by the war. In his senior year at this college he enlisted on April 15, 1861, in the Greenbrier cavalry, a company which served in the West Virginia campaign of 1861 as bodyguard for General Garnett until his death, and afterward as bodyguard to Gen. R. E. Lee and as his couriers until he left that department. In December following the company was disbanded. Alderson was a young man of remarkable physical development and a famous athlete, qualities which, added to great personal daring, made him a natural leader among his fellows. He devoted his talents to the Confederate cause by raising a new cavalry company, of which he was elected second lieutenant. This company was assigned to the Fourteenth cavalry regiment, and Lieutenant Alderson a few months later organized another company, of which he was made first lieutenant, declining, as in the previous instance, the rank of captain. This became Company A, of the Thirty- sixth Virginia battalion of cavalry, distinguished in the commands of General Jenkins and W. E. Jones. Lieutenant Alderson commanded this company from June 12, 1863, to the close of the war, and was frequently in command of the battalion, acting as major. During his four years' service he never had but eight days' leave of absence from his command. He commanded his company at the fight at Buchanan, Upshur county, was in the fights at Weston, W. Va.; Ravenswood and Racine, on the Ohio river; Charleston and Buffalo, W. Va., and in the winter of 1862 was sent on detailed service to Roanoke, Va. Returning in the early summer of 1863, he passed through Lexington, Va., on the day of the interment of the body of Stonewall Jackson, and his company fired the military salute over the dead hero's grave. He next fought at Opequon, captured and brought in eight Yankees at North Mountain Gap, and then participating in the Pennsylvania campaign skirmished every day and night as far as Carlisle, Pa., whence he was sent with an escort of five men to carry important dispatches to General Early, near York, seventy miles away, through the enemy's country, one of his most daring exploits. He was with his command at Gettysburg, carried the first order on the first day from General Ewell to General Rhodes, and at night gave General Lee the first news of the Federal reinforcements. In the cavalry fight which followed from Hagerstown to Williamsport he was wounded by a fragment of shell and disabled two months. In 1864 he was in battle at Jonesville, W. Va.; Cumberland Gap, Rogersville, Tenn.; Waynesboro, Va., and Pettit's Mill. In the last encounter he was captured by the enemy. His conduct while a prisoner strikingly displayed his unconquerable spirit. He had hardly well started on the road north before he secured the escape of twenty-seven of his Confederate comrades, and while confined at Camp Chase, Ohio, he made three ineffectual attempts to escape by tunneling. He refused alike to take the oath or to give his parole on condition of remaining North. Finally, in February, 1865,he was sent to Fort McHenry and Point Lookout, and in the following month was exchanged at City Point. While on his way to rejoin the army he was informed of the end of the war. He took part, in all, in over two hundred engagements, and his service was frequently of the most arduous character, as in the winter of 1863-64, when he was in daily fighting, and in the Tennessee campaign, under General Jones, when he was on the march every night. Going west in 1865 he had charge of the middle division of the Butterfield overland express through the Indian country until it was broken up by the red men, when he joined his father and farmed near Atchison, Kan. Since 1869 he has resided at Wheeling, and has conducted an extensive insurance business and dealt largely in coal and timberlands. He has declined political advancement, but served as a West Virginia commissioner at the Ohio Valley centennial at Cincinnati in 1888 and at the Washington centennial in New York in 1889. He married Miss Mary, daughter of ex- Gov. Samuel Price, of Virginia. *COLONEL WILLIAM WILEY ARNETT* Colonel William Wiley Arnett, a distinguished jurist of Wheeling, W. Va., was born in Marion county, October 23, 1843, the son of Ulysses N. Arnett, who resided many years on the Monongahela river and served in the Virginia and West Virginia legislatures and in the constitutional convention of 1872. At the age of sixteen years he entered Allegheny college at Meadville, Pa., where he was graduated in 1860. He then studied law under Judge A. F. Hammond, and was admitted to the bar, but closed his office in April, 1861, to enlist as a private in Company A of the Thirty-first Virginia regiment of infantry. After three months' service in this capacity he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel by Governor Letcher, and put in command of a battalion of seven companies, afterward known as the Twenty-fifth Virginia infantry. About three months later he was given command of the Twenty-third regiment, but resigned this commission and re-enlisted in the Thirty- first regiment as a private. In December, 1861, he was elected captain of Company A, and subsequently he was transferred to the Twentieth Virginia cavalry, with the rank of colonel, in which command he served until the close of the war. During his military career, which was distinguished by soldierly devotion and skill as a commander, he participated in a large number of engagements, and was wounded at Cross Keys and Bristoe Station. He was in the fight at Camp Bartow, on Greenbrier river, West Virginia, in (October, 1861; went through Stonewall Jackson's campaign in the Shenandoah valley in the spring of 1862, and continued under Jackson's command through the Manassas and Maryland campaigns of that year, participating in the battles at McDowell's, Winchester, Cross Keys, Port Republic, Gaines' Mill, Frayser's Farm, Malvern Hill, Cold Harbor, Slaughter's Mountain, Second Manassas, Chantilly, Harper's Ferry, and Sharpsburg. After this arduous service in the infantry he took command of the Twentieth cavalry regiment, W. L. Jackson's brigade, and was distinguished at Droop Mountain and Covington. With the army under General Early in the Shenandoah valley he fought in several noted engagements, including Winchester and Fisher's Hill, and later in the year he was on detached duty on the western line of operations in Virginia, in command of his regiment, until March 1, 1865, when he marched to the relief of General Early at Staunton, and then moved to Lynchburg and pursued Sheridan to Ashland, skirmishing and harassing the Federal troops on their withdrawal. Returning to the protection of Staunton, he remained there until the close of the war, being paroled in May, 1865. On account of the test oath then in force in West Virginia he did not return there immediately after the war, but practiced law at Berryville, Va., until 1872, and from that time until 1875 at St. Louis, Mo., where he attracted attention as a successful criminal lawyer in several noted cases. Since 1875 he has resided at Wheeling, and has been engaged in a large number of famous legal contests, including the litigation attending the removal of the State capital. He is regarded as one of the leading lawyers of the State. In 1862 he was elected to the legislature while on duty in the army, but did not serve. After the war he served two terms as the representative of Clark county in the Virginia legislature, and in 1896 he was nominated for Congress from the First West Virginia district. In this contest, though not elected, he reduced the adverse Republican Majority Over 2,000 Votes. *LT. WILLIAM A. CRACRAFT* Lieutenant William A. Cracraft, chief surgeon of the West Virginia division of the United Confederate Veterans, now residing at Elm Grove, Ohio county, was born in Claysville, Pa., February 23, 1844. In 1848 his family removed to Triadelphia, Ohio county, where he was reared, receiving his academic education at West Alexander, Pa. Though but seventeen years of age at the outbreak of the war, he entered the Confederate service in 1861, as a private in Shriver's Grays, Company G of the Twentv-seventh Virginia infantry, Stonewall brigade. In Jackson's command in the Shenandoah valley he participated in all the operations during the winter of 1861-62, and until the Battle of Kernstown, when he was among the captured. As a prisoner of war he was held at Fort Delaware from the latter part of March until August, 1862, then being exchanged at Aiken's lauding. He at once rejoined his command, and though his year's enlistment had expired, participated in the battles of Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg, when he accepted an honorable discharge and going to Richmond re-enlisted in the cavalry service. He was detailed for recruiting service in Rockbridge county, where, and in adjoining counties, he was successful in organizing two companies of cavalry, afterward known as Lady's battalion, which formed part of the Twentieth Virginia cavalry, under Col. W. W. Arnett, brigade of Gen. W. L. Jackson. In this command Dr. Cracraft was commissioned lieutenant of Company I, the rank in which he served during the remainder of the war. As a cavalry officer he participated in a large number of battles, mainly in the Shenandoah valley and in West Virginia, and was distinguished throughout for soldierly conduct and personal daring, as well as skill in command. Among these cavalry actions the most important were those at Beverly and Bulltown, W. Va., Droop mountain, Mill Point, Panther's gap, Staunton, Waynesboro, Lynchburg, Monocacy, Md., the demonstrations before Washington, D. C., during Early's expedition, a skirmish on the old battlefield of Sharpsburg, Shepherdstown, Smithfield, Leetown and Winchester, September 17, 1864. At Fisher's Hill, soon after the battle of Winchester, he was badly hurt by the explosion of a shell, which has seriously affected his hearing to the present time, and was compelled to accept a furlough of three weeks. Returning to his company in time to participate in the surprise of Sheridan's army at Cedar creek, also Lynchburg, he continued on duty in the valley during the remainder of the war, taking part in various minor actions, and being engaged in a scouting expedition in command of thirty men, at the time of the surrender of the army of Northern Virginia. He was paroled at Clarksburg, Va., in May, 1865, and soon afterward went to Staunton, where he procured a duplicate parole from General Duval, having lost the original. Leaving Staunton in June, 1865, he returned to his home at Triadelphia, and entered upon the study of medicine, a profession in which his father was distinguished. He attended the university of Virginia during 1866 and 1867, where he received his medical education. After practicing at Triadelphia four years, he made his home at Elm Grove. He is regarded as one of the leading physicians of Ohio county, and has been notably successful in his professional career. From 1872 to 1893 he was physician to the county infirmary, and in 1892 he was appointed physician to the Home of the Aged at Altenheim. His appointment as chief surgeon of the West Virginia division, United Confederate Veterans, was made in 1897. Dr. George A. Cracraft, father of the foregoing, also served devotedly in the Confederate cause, from just before the battle of Gettysburg until the close of the war, as surgeon, with the rank of major, first with Gen. A. G. Jenkins' cavalry and later with the Nineteenth Virginia cavalry regiment. He was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1815, suffered banishment from Triadelphia in 1863, on account of his sympathy with the South, and after the restoration of peace survived until April, 1888. *LIEUTENANT GEORGE S. FEENEY* Lieutenant George S. Feeney, prominently connected with the wholesale trade in Wheeling, W. Va., was born in that city in the year 1841. In the fall of 1861 he entered the Confederate service as a private in Company G of the Twenty-seventh Virginia regiment. With the battles and campaigns of this command he was identified until just after the arduous campaign against McClellan before Richmond, when he was seized with typhoid fever, and disabled for some time for active duty. About three months after this illness began he was able to accept duty upon the staff of Maj. J. C. Johnson, with the rank of first lieutenant, to which be was promoted in recognition of his gallant and meritorious services. He served in the department of southwest Virginia and east Tennessee during the remainder of the war, was surrendered at the close with the army of General Johnston and was paroled at Augusta, Ga. The prominent battles in which he was engaged were those of Stonewall Jackson's corps in the Shenandoah valley, Kernstown, Port Republic, Cross Keys, Winchester, and Front Royal, and the Seven Days' fighting before Richmond. He was once captured by the enemy near Bristol, Tenn., and was recaptured near Jonesboro within a week. Soon after his parole he returned to Wheeling, where he has resided since, except two years spent at Cincinnati, and is now engaged in the wholesale grocery business. Mr. Feeney is the son of Hugh P. Feeney, born in Ireland in 1797, who came to America in early manhood, settling first at Louisville, Ky., where he engaged in mercantile business. Subsequently residing at Montezuma, Ind., he was elected to the State senate about 1828. He made his home at Wheeling about 1840, served as chief clerk in the post office many years, and was appointed postmaster by President Buchanan, after which he served as city clerk until 1872, the year of his death. While a citizen of Kentucky he was appointed in 1821 second lieutenant of militia and in 1824 captain of light artillery by Governor Adair. In 1829 he was commissioned by Gov. James B. Ray lieutenant-colonel of the Fiftieth regiment, Indiana militia. *CAPTAIN WILLIAM RICHMOND GUNN* Captain William Richmond Gunn, of Point Pleasant, W. Va., a gallant soldier of the Eighth Virginia cavalry throughout the war, was born in Ohio county in 1832, but at the age of five years removed with his parents to Mason county, his subsequent home. He entered the Confederate service in June, 1961, as a private in the Eighth Virginia cavalry, and subsequently organized a company for the same regiment, of which he was appointed captain. In this rank he served until the close of the war, at the time of the surrender of the army being stationed on outpost duty at Lynchburg. His career as a soldier was active and continuous, beginning with the early battle at Scary creek. Other engagements in which he participated upon West Virginia soil were those at Carnifex Ferry, in the fall of 1861; actions at Beverly, Loop creek and Guyandotte, and the engagements at Hurricane bridge and Point Pleasant, during the raid under General Jenkins, in March, 1863. He participated in the siege of Knoxville, Tenn., in the brigade of Gen. W. F. Jones, also the affairs at Rogersville and Powder Spring Gap, in the same State. In the latter encounter he was captured by the enemy, and was subsequently sent to Louisville, Ky., and thence was started under guard for Johnson's island. But he made a daring escape while passing through Indiana, and after an exciting and romantic experience, succeeded in rejoining his command. He afterward took part in the operations against Hunter near Lynchburg, and participated in the important battles of Winchester and Fisher's Hill, in the army under General Early. After an experience in many campaigns and affrays with the enemy, such as characterize the career of a cavalry soldier, he returned to Mason county, and in 1872, entered upon the practice of law, having been admitted to the bar in 1859. He has taken an active part in political affairs, as a Democratic leader, and in 1879 was elected to the legislature. *LIEUTENANT FRANCIS L. HOGE* Lieutenant Francis L. Hoge, of Wheeling, W. Va., distinguished in the naval service of the Confederate States, was born in Marshall county, Va., in 1841. Destined in youth for a naval career, he was educated at the Annapolis academy, and graduated with appointment as midshipman in the United States navy in 1860. His first service was on a cruise in the Mediterranean, on board the sloop-of-war Susquehanna, returning from which he resigned his commission in order to offer his services to his native State. He resigned June 4th, and on June 24th entered the navy of the Confederate States, being assigned to the Patrick Henry as a midshipman. Later he was promoted master, and in February, 1862, was commissioned second lieutenant. He served on the lower James river until March, 1862, when he participated in the naval battle on Hampton Roads, commanding the after division of the Patrick Henry in that combat. Subsequently, when Norfolk was being evacuated he ran the blockade carrying stores. At Drewry's bluff, when the Federal fleet attempted to ascend the river, the Patrick Henry was dismantled and the guns mounted on the bluff, when in the action of May 15, 1862, he served with distinction in command of the naval gun that was nearest the enemy. He remained at Drewry's bluff for some time, and in August, 1863, was detailed to select men for the daring expedition against the Federal gunboats Satellite and Reliance at the mouth of the Rappahannock river. Under Col. John Taylor Wood he was second in command, having charge of two of the four small boats which constituted the attacking squadron. He led the attack upon the Reliance and was the first on board, and fighting his way forward with great gallantry, was struck in the neck by a pistol ball, and fell upon the deck. The expedition was successful, but the dangerous wound which Lieutenant Hoge had received disabled him until October, 1863. Before leaving Drewry's bluff he served upon the naval examining board, and immediately after being detached from that station he acted for six or eight months as second lieutenant of the ironclad Richmond, under Captain Pegram. His next duty was the torpedo service on the Chowan and Roanoke rivers, and while in this field he participated in another famous expedition under Colonel Wood, the capture of the large Federal gunboat Underwriter, which had taken a conspicuous part in the operations along the North Carolina coast. The attack was made in rowboats, on the Neuse river, under the guns of Fort Stevens, and subject to a direct and heavy fire from the enemy before the boats could grapple. Lieutenant Hoge was one of the first on board, and took an efficient part in the successful action, which was recognized by the Confederate Congress in a joint resolution of thanks. It was the intention of the Confederate party to get the vessel off, and to this end Lieutenant Hoge's duty was to open the magazine and man the guns. Upon doing this, he reported ready for action to Colonel Wood, but when the cable of the Underwriter was slipped (a duty assigned to Lieut. W. A. Kerr, of North Carolina, who was slightly wounded), her bow swung ashore, consequently the vessel was abandoned. But as they were leaving. Captain Wood, thinking she was not on fire, sent Hoge back to make sure of her destruction. He and the cockswain of his boat were the only ones who went aboard, each with a canteen of camphene. The ship was ablaze before they had got twenty boats' lengths away. Soon after this exploit, in February, 1864, Lieutenant Hoge was assigned to the Confederate ironclad Neuse, at Kinston, N. C., as executive officer, and he served in this capacity until the evacuation of Kinston, in March, 1865. On May 11, 1865, he was paroled at Macon, Ga., and he then made his home at Halifax, Nova Scotia, during a period of five years. Returning to Virginia in 1870, he came to Wheeling, which has been his home since that date. In 1881 he was elected city engineer, an office he held continuously until 1895, except during the year 1883, when he served by appointment of Governor Matthews as a member of the commission to settle the boundary between Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He is widely known as an accomplished civil engineer. *REMOND S. KINCHLOE* Remond S. Kincheloe, for a number of years past engaged in business at Wheeling, W. Va., is a native of Fairfax county, Va., born in 1845. In the same county his father was born, Daniel Kincheloe, a farmer by occupation, and a soldier of the war of 1812, who died in the year 1860. In the spring of 1861 young Kincheloe, then but sixteen years of age, enlisted as a private in Company G of the Eighth Virginia infantry, commanded by Col. Eppa Hunton. With the well-known and gallant record of this command he was identified until the summer of 1862, when, on account of ill health and his youth, he resigned from the service. Soon afterward, however, in the fall of the same year, he re-entered the army as and independent scout, the capacity in which he continued until the close of the war, being principally associated with an independent command under his cousin, James C. Kincheloe, which operated between the Orange & Alexandria railroad and the Potomac river. Mr. Kincheloe was also closely identified with many of the operations of Mosby's command. In these daring forays and frequent skirmishes with the Federal forces, the success of which demanded the utmost nerve and personal courage, he was among the most active and untiring. During his service with the Eighth regiment he shared the fighting of Cocke's brigade at First Manassas, took part in the battle of Ball's Bluff, and during the Peninsular campaign fought in Pickett's brigade at Williamsburg, Seven Pines and through the Seven Days' campaign. He was once captured, while at his home in Fairfax, in the fall of 1862, and was sent to Centreville, but was paroled two weeks later. After being finally paroled at Winchester, in April, 1865, he returned to his native county and engaged in farming. A year later he entered mercantile life at Orange Court House, and continued in business in Fauquier county and Clarksburg and Moundsville, W. Va., until 1878, when he made his home at Wheeling, where he is now successfully conducting a wholesale fruit business. In 1879 Mr. Kincheloe was married in Orange county, Va., to Mary O., daughter of the late Dr. L. T. Dade, and niece of Gen. Langhorne Dade, who lost his life in the Seminole war. *CAPTAIN ROBERT McELDOWNEY* Captain Robert MeEldowney, of New Martinsville, W. Va., as a member of the famous Stonewall brigade of the army of Northern Virginia, had a long and distinguished career in the Confederate war. He was born at Martinsville in 1837, and was educated at the Moundsville academy and Marietta college, leaving the latter institution in the midst of his course to enlist in the Virginia troops. He became a member of the Shriver Grays, organized in the Panhandle district, and subsequently assigned as Company G to the Twenty-seventh Virginia infantry regiment, and the brigade of Gen. T. J. Jackson. Three or four months after his enlistment Private McEldowney was promoted orderly-sergeant; in March, 1862, he was made first lieutenant, any in less than a year became captain of his company, the rank in which he served during the remainder of the war, though in the latter two years of his service he was frequently in command of his regiment. After first joining the command of General Jackson in the Shenandoah valley he participated in the Bath-Romney expedition in January, 1862, and in the following spring shared the fatigues and hard fighting of the famous Valley campaign, taking part in the opening engagement at Kernstown, and the following battles of McDowell, Front Royal, Winchester and Port Republic. Then, transferred to the scene of war before Richmond, he was in the actions at Gaines' Mill, White Oak swamp and Malvern Hill, against McClellan. Subsequently in the northward movement of Jackson's corps, he fought at Cedar mountain, and in the battle of Second Manassas received a severe wound in the right foot, which, though it did not prevent him from taking part in the action at Chantilly, caused his subsequent disability until September 17, 1862, when he rejoined his company in time to participate in the battle of Sharpsburg, Md. He fought with Jackson's corps at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville,and then under Ewell, participated in the defeat of Milroy at Winchester and the campaign in Pennsylvania. On the third day of the battle of Gettysburg a rifle ball struck the rim of a buckskin purse in his pocket, inflicting a contused wound, which disabled him for several weeks. He took part in the battle of Mine Run, in the fall of 1863, and in the following May went into the campaign against Grant, receiving a wound in the right arm on the first day at the Wilderness, but continuing in the field, and fighting subsequently at Spottsylvania Court House and Bethesda church. After the army reached Cold Harbor, he went with the remnant of his division, under command of General Terry, to the valley of Virginia, took part in the repulse of the Federals from Lynchburg, and joined in Early's expedition against Washington, fighting at the Monocacy and skirmishing under the guns of the United States capital defenses. Returning from this arduous work he was compelled to take a sick furlough of two weeks, but was with his men again in the battle of Winchester, September 19th, and the fights at Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek. Again with the main army on the Petersburg lines he took part in the battle of Hatcher's Run, February, 1865, and was one of the heroic men who made the sally against Fort Steadman on March 25th. While inside the Federal works and crossing the second traverse he received a wound in the left leg which prevented further active service during the few days which the war continued. In this fight he commanded his regiment, which was reduced to 58 men. He remained at Stuart hospital, Richmond, until the month of June, when he was paroled, and returned via Washington to his home. Going to Philadelphia he found employment in a wholesale house for three, years, and after this, at Wheeling, he served three years as ticket agent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Meantime he prepared himself for the practice of law, and since making his home at New Martinsville again in 1871, he has continued in that profession; also, since 1879, conducting the Democrat newspaper, at that town. In 1874-75 he represented Wetzel county in the State legislature. Captain McEldowney was married in 1884 to Anna L. Smith, of Pittsburg, and they have one child, Geraldine. *MAJOR JOHN WHITE MITCHELL* Major John White Mitchell, a brilliant soldier of West Virginia, was born at Wheeling, December 31, 1838. He was educated at Mount Olive, New Jersey, and in the Episcopal academy at Alexandria, Va., and studied law at Lexington, Va., gaining admission to practice in 1860. At the same time he was a member of the Shriver Grays, a local military company to which many of the young men of the best families in that region belonged. As first lieutenant of this organization he went into the Confederate service in the spring of 1861, and soon became distinguished for his gallantry among his comrades of the Twenty-seventh regiment and Stonewall brigade. He participated in the campaigns and battles of Jackson's corps until the death of that great leader at Chancellorsville, and continued in the fight until the end of the war, winning promotion to the rank of major. For some time he served upon the staff of Brig.-Gen. John Echols, who commanded the departments of southwest Virginia and the Trans-Allegheny during the latter part of the struggle. After the close of hostilities he served for a few years as deputy sheriff at Wheeling, and in 1883 became clerk of the circuit court, a position he held until his death July 30, 1896. As a soldier he manifested the noblest qualities of the patriot volunteer and in civil life it was said of him that he had more personal friends than any other man of his county. He was descended from a pioneer family, his grandfather, Alexander Mitchell, having been distinguished in the early settlement of the upper Ohio valley and the contests with the Indians during that period. *GEORGE H. MOFFATT* George H. Moffatt, of Parkersburg, W. Va., is a descendant of an Augusta county family of worth and patriotic renown, which was founded by John Moffatt, an immigrant from the north of Ireland in 1732, who settled in that county, on Moffatt's Creek. George Moffatt, the great-grandfather of Mr. Moffatt, served as captain of a volunteer company in the Indian wars, in the war of the Revolution was lieutenant-colonel of a Virginia regiment commanded by his brother-in-law, Col. Samuel McDowell, serving under Gen. Nathaniel Greene at King's Mountain, Cowpens, etc., and was for many years president of the county court and colonel of militia for Augusta county, which then extended from the Blue Ridge to the Mississippi. Mr. Moffatt was born at Huntersville, March 3, 1845, and was educated at Washington college, which he left in April, 1861, as a private in the Liberty Hall volunteers, a company subsequently assigned to the Fourth Virginia regiment, Stonewall brigade. With this command he participated in the first battle of Manassas, and afterward was transferred to the Bath squadron of the Eleventh Virginia cavalry. He was promoted sergeant in 1862, and sergeant-major in 1863. With the cavalry he participated in a great many battles, including McDowell, the Seven Days' campaign, Cedar Mountain, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Cheat River, Fairmount, Bridgeport, Brandy Station, Gettysburg, Hagerstown and other fights on the retreat through Maryland, Jack's Shop, Bristoe Station, Droop Mountain and Salem. He was slightly wounded at First Manassas and again at Jack's Shop. On December 21, 1863, he was captured on the Greenbrier river, by Averell's troops, and from that time until long after the surrender at Appomattox was held as a prisoner, at Camp Chase and Fort Delaware, finally being released June 20, 1865. After this he farmed, taught school and studied law in Pocahontas county, and completing his reading under the late Governor Price at Lewisburg, was admitted to the bar in 1868. After practicing law at Huntersville until 1875, he removed to Wheeling and purchased an interest in the Wheeling Register, which he edited until the fall of 1884. He then accepted the editorial management of the St. Paul Globe, resigning in 1891 to become general manager of the Telegram at Portland, Oregon. During 1895-96 he was a traveling correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, with headquarters at Washington. He then took the position of associate counsel and claim agent of the Ohio River railroad, with headquarters at Parkersburg. He was a member of the West Virginia constitutional convention of 1872; served from 1879 to 1883 in the legislature of that State, in the session of 1879-80 as speaker of the house; was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 1884, and was chosen a delegate in 1888 from St. Paul; was a delegate in 1889 from Minnesota, and in 1893 from Oregon to the Trans- Mississippi Congress; and in 1892 was chairman of the committee selected by the city of Portland which visited the Federal capital and secured the approval of plans for a bridge over the Willamette river, which had been refused the sanction of the government engineers. *CAPTAIN JOHN V. L. RODGERS* Captain John V. L. Rodgers, a well-known business man of Wheeling, W. Va., who served in various important capacities in the Confederate army, was born in Brooke county, in the "Panhandle," in the year 1836. He was reared and educated in his native county until 1855, when he went west and resided in Kansas until the outbreak of the war. Then, desiring to serve in defense of his State, he made his way to Richmond, and there entered the Confederate service in September, 1861, in the department of the quartermaster-general. Soon afterward, in the month of November, he was ordered to Salisbury, N. C., to superintend the erection of a military prison, at which he was engaged until May, 1862, when, at the organization of the Forty-second North Carolina regiment of infantry, he was appointed captain and commissary of that command. He served with the regiment in the field until June, 1864, when he was detailed for duty at Greensboro, N. C., as assistant inspector of field transportation, the capacity in which he served during the remainder of the struggle and until he was surrendered with the army of Gen. J. E. Johnston. During his service he actively participated in a considerable number of engagements, was in the battle of Seven Pines, receiving a severe wound in the right hip which disabled him for several months, and took part in the engagements at Drewry's bluff, Hamilton, Williamston, New Bern, N. C., and at Washington, Wilmington, and Smithfield in the same State. In a fight near Tarboro, N. C., he was slightly wounded in the ankle. In 1862, at Lynchburg, Va., he had charge for some time of 5,000 Federal prisoners, captured by Stonewall Jackson from Banks', Shields' and Fremont's divisions, and was in charge later of another body of about 7,000 at Danville. After the war he remained at Greensboro, N. C., until October 1, 1865, when he returned to Wheeling, his home since that date. He is at present quite successfully engaged in the insurance business. *DANIEL E. STALNAKER* Daniel E. Stalnaker, a citizen of Wheeling, W. Va., prominent in business and public affairs, served throughout the war of 1861-65 as a Confederate soldier in a considerable number of important campaigns and engagements. He was born in Union, Monroe county, in 1839, and was reared and educated at Lewisburg, Greenbrier county. In April, 1861, he was among the first in that region to answer the call of the State for soldiers to combat the threatened invasion of the State, and joined the Confederate forces at Harper's Ferry, where he became a private in Company B of the Twenty-seventh Virginia infantry regiment. He took part in the famous battle of Manassas and the rout of McDowell's troops in July, 1861, and in the spring of 1862 was with the force under "Stonewall" Jackson which resisted the Federal advance into the Shenandoah valley. In the first engagement of this campaign, at Kernstown, March 23d, he was captured by the enemy. He was sent to Baltimore by his captors, and thence was transported to Fort Delaware, where he was held as a prisoner of war until the following August. On the first of that month he was exchanged at Aiken's Landing, and two days later he reached Richmond, afflicted with a bad case of scurvy contracted in the Northern prison pen. The effects of his illness were so serious that he was compelled to return to his home for recuperation, and it was not until considerably later in the war that he was able to rejoin the army as a private in the Fourteenth Virginia cavalry. He participated in the battles of Sharpsburg and Monocacy and numerous other cavalry engagements, until the close of hostilities, when he returned to Lewisburg and resumed the occupations of civil life. After residing at Columbia, S. C., a year, he made his home at Wheeling in 1876. Here he has been engaged in the real estate business, and is active and influential in various channels. From 1892 until 1896 he served as a director of the penitentiary of West Virginia. *RANDOLPH STALNAKER* Randolph Stalnaker, conspicuous in the industrial activity of Wheeling, W. Va., as well as in the official and political affairs of his State, was born at Lewisburg, Va., June 8, 1847, and was educated at the academies at Lewisburg and Union, Monroe county. While yet in school he felt it his duty to enlist in the Confederate army, but was rejected on account of his youth. Early in 1863 he volunteered a second time, being in his sixteenth year, and was accepted and assigned to the staff of Brig.-Gen. A. W. Reynolds, of Virginia, who commanded a brigade in the army of Tennessee. He participated in the defense of Vicksburg during the siege and twenty-seven days' bombardment by Grant's army, and after the capitulation returned to Virginia and was appointed adjutant of Col. D. S. Hounshell's battalion of cavalry. In this capacity he served until the close of the war, actively engaged in many important campaigns and battles, among them the affairs at Dry Creek and Snicker's Gap, Va.; the second and third days of the great contest at Gettysburg, Pa.; the fight with Wallace at the Monocacy, Md., and the famous battle of Winchester, September 19, 1864, between the armies of Early and Sheridan. He was paroled in May, 1865, at Lewisburg, W. Va., and then engaged in business there. When Governor Matthews was inaugurated as governor at Wheeling, in March, 1877, Major Stalnaker was appointed private secretary to the governor, a duty he performed until March, 1881, when he was installed as secretary of state of West Virginia, an office to which he had been elected in the preceding fall. On retiring from this office in 1885, he engaged in manufacturing at Wheeling, and subsequently was officially connected with the West Virginia china company. He is now interested in real estate and insurance, is connected with the legal department of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and is committeeman for his State of the National Democratic party. *COLONEL WILLIAM P. THOMPSON* Colonel William P. Thompson, Nineteenth Virginia cavalry, was born at Wheeling, January 7, 1837. His father, Judge George W. Thompson, was famous as a jurist, statesman, and philosophic author; his mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Daniel Steenrod, a man of large fortune. Colonel Thompson was educated at Jefferson college, Pa., until compelled by delicate health to forsake his studies. He was admitted to the bar in 1857, and then removed from his father's circuit to Fairmount, where he practiced four years as a partner of Alpheus F. Haymond. Early in 1861 he at first opposed secession, but soon afterward both father and son cast their fortunes unreservedly with their native State. He bore to the authorities at Richmond the suggestion, made by a private conference of leading citizens of western Virginia, that a demonstration should be made to save their part of the State, which was followed by the occupation of Harper's Ferry. Returning to the West he organized and became captain of the Marion Guards, which he commanded with energy and ability in the struggle of 1861 on West Virginia soil. He took possession of Fetterman with his own and other companies, and later commanded his company in the battles of Philippi, Laurel Hill, Cheat Mountain, Greenbrier River and Alleghany Mountain. In the last engagement his brother, Lewis S. Thompson, was killed while leading a gallant attack upon the enemy. He served under Stonewall Jackson in the valley in 1862, and upon the organization of the Nineteenth Virginia cavalry in 1863, he became its lieutenant-colonel, and was later promoted colonel. He served in the department of Western Virginia and East Tennessee, and with Gen. W. L. Jackson's brigade, participated in the Lynchburg campaign, the expedition through Maryland against Washington, and Early's contest with Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley. At the close he was in command of the remnant of Jackson's brigade. In 1866 he engaged in the oil business with his brother-in- law, Senator J. N. Camden, and the company became the owners of the lubricating oil lands near Parkersburg. He became associated with the Standard oil company in 1875, and in 1882 succeeded Oliver H. Payne as vice-president of that world-famous corporation, with general charge of the business west of Buffalo. In 1887, when the Standard oil trust was formed, he became chairman of the domestic committee, and in 1889 he organized the national lead trust. *MARTIN THORNTON* Martin Thornton, during the past quarter century a resident of Wheeling, W. Va., enlisted as a Confederate soldier at the age of fifteen years, and gave four years of his youth to the cause of Southern independence. He is a native of Ireland, born in 1845, the son of John and Mary (Needham) Thornton. The mother dying in her native land, the father brought his children to America in 1850, and settled first at Cynthiana, Ky., and later at Parkersburg, W. Va., where he was engaged as a railroad contractor until his death in 1856. Before the Confederate struggle began, Martin Thornton was learning in a humble station some of the lessons of hotel management which led to his success in later life, but in the spring of 1861 he went to Arkansas and enlisted as a Confederate soldier in General Hindman's legion. Later he became a member of the Third Confederate regiment, Cleburne's division, Hardee's corps, a gallant command which under its famous generals made itself felt in all the great battles of the West and central South. He served as a private during the four years of war, was in all the great battles of his commands, was wounded in the left arm at Perryville, Ky., and finally surrendered with Hardee and Johnston after the battle of Bentonville, N. C. After the close of hostilities he embarked in the grocery business at Atlanta, Ga., and three years later removed to Louisville, where he was engaged in the same line of trade until 1873. He then sold out his business at Louisville in order to make a venture in the restaurant business at Wheeling, W. Va. His fine business tact and skillful management gave him success from the start, and within fifteen years from the time he arrived at Wheeling with a capital of $600 he had purchased the Brunswick hotel for $16,000, and was the owner of other valuable property. He continued in restaurant and hotel management for twenty-one years, with constant success and popularity. *COLONEL ROBERT WHITE* Colonel Robert White, of Wheeling, W.Va., major-general commanding the West Virginia division, United Confederate Veterans, is a native of Romney, Hampshire county, a region in which his family has been prominent for many generations. His great-great-grandfather, Robert White, a surgeon in the British navy, made his home of the valley of the Shenandoah at an early period in the settlement of Virginia. His son, Alexander, was conspicuous as a patriot during the Revolutionary period, was a prominent member of the Virginia house of burgesses, was a member of the Virginia convention which adopted the Constitution of the United States, and sat in the First Congress. It was said of him that in whatever public body he participated "his ready information, eloquence and decision placed him in the front rank." Robert White, son of the latter, born near Winchester in 1759, in his seventeenth year went with Virginia troops as a private in the Revolutionary army, fought as a lieutenant at Monmouth, was distinguished as a partisan officer in 1778 until severely wounded and captured in New Jersey. His health was wrecked for several years, but still as a captain of cavalry he organized and trained a troop at Philadelphia, in 1779. He was subsequently distinguished as an attorney, and served as judge of the general court of Virginia from 1793 until stricken by the disease which caused his death, in 1831. John Baker White, son of judge White, born at Winchester in 1794, held the office of clerk of the circuit court of Hampshire county from his twenty-first year until he died, in 1862, in Richmond, Va., a refugee from his home. This gentleman was the father of Col. Robert White, whose service in the Confederate cause, and prominence in civil life, honorably supplement the record of his father. He was born at Romney, February 7, 1833, and at the age of fourteen became an assistant in his father's office, where he saved the money necessary to prepare himself for the practice of law. After his graduation in 1854 at the school of Judge John W. Brockenbrough, in Lexington, he practiced law at Romney until the secession of the State. Meanwhile, about 1857, he became the captain of the Frontier Rifles, a volunteer company in Hampshire county, with which he reported at Harper's Ferry in May, 1861, bringing ninety-six men to reinforce the command of Col. T. J. Jackson. His company was assigned as Company I to the Thirteenth Virginia infantry, Col. A. P. Hill, brigade of Colonel Elzey, and was commanded by him in the Romney expedition and the first battle of Manassas. In the following winter he was assigned to duty, principally in the ordnance department, at Richmond and Greensboro, N. C., and soon after the reorganization in the spring of 1862, he, anxious to be in the field, was authorized to organize a battalion of cavalry in the Shenandoah and South Branch valleys, a duty he successfully performed. He was commissioned major of this battalion. February 11, 1863, he was authorized to raise a battalion inside the enemy's lines, which he successfully accomplished. From this grew the Twenty-third Virginia cavalry regiment, of which he was promoted lieutenant-colonel, and on April 29, 1864, colonel. He was distinguished as a daring and active cavalry officer, particularly in the campaigns in the Shenandoah valley and western Virginia, where, including the operations of Imboden's brigade, in 1864, he participated in fifty-six cavalry fights, including the battle of New Market, the Lynchburg campaign against Hunter, the expedition through Maryland against Washington, and the campaign against Sheridan. Among the engagements in which he took part, in addition to those already mentioned, were those at Leetown, Halltown, Martinsburg, Falling Waters, Piedmont, Dranesville, Lewinsville, Berryville, White Post, Snicker's Gap, Winchester (August, 1864), Fisher's Hill, Winchester (September, 1864), Stevenson's depot, Gordonsville, Charlestown, Drakesville, Rude's Hill, Woodstock, the Luray valley fight in which General Milligan was killed, the fight near Stevenson's in which General Ramseur fell, Salem, Liberty and New Bedford. He was slightly wounded in the head at Gordonsville, 1864, again near New Market, and a third time at Lynchburg. In March, 1865, when his regiment was "out on horse furlough," Colonel White was ordered by General Early, who was at Staunton without an army, to gather as many cavalrymen as possible and go out to hold back Sheridan, not ten miles away, while an attempt could be made to save the government stores. He gathered twenty-eight men, and joined by General Lilly, the little band of dauntless spirits formed in skirmish line on Harman's hill, four miles north. Soon Sheridan's army appeared in full view from the hill, a splendid and glittering array. Presently a squadron was detached to ascend the hill, where the twenty-eight men stood erect outlined against the sky. At a prearranged signal from White the skirmishers gathered in the roadway and lay flat, giving the enemy as it reached them a sudden volley that staggered them and drove them back to the valley. At once the men resumed their positions as sentinels, giving the Federals the impression of a considerable force, and twice again they met in the road, with the same effect, the Federal reconnoissances. Thus they held the hill till night, and when they withdrew they found that Early had saved the stores. In May, 1865, he was paroled at Patterson's creek, Hampshire county, and he returned to civil life and the support of the family of his father, who had died at Richmond in 1862. He was a law partner for six years of John J. Jacob, who at the end of that period was elected governor of West Virginia. Colonel White continued in the practice of law at Romney until 1877, becoming very prominent in this profession, and taking a leading part in public affairs, securing, with the assistance of other enterprising citizens, the location of the institution for the deaf, dumb and blind at Romney, and organizing and acting as president of the South Branch railroad company. In 1877 he was elected attorney-general of the State, by the remarkable majority of 17,000 votes, and upon assuming the duties of that office he made his home at Wheeling, then the State capital, where he has since resided. In 1885 and 1891 he served in the West Virginia legislature, and held the chairmanship of the finance committee at each session. At the close of the last session the following testimonial was presented him by his fellow members: "Hon. Robert White, Sir: Among the members of the legislature of West Virginia there is a general desire to express to you in some formal way their appreciation of the great zeal, ability and untiring industry that have marked your course in the legislature at this session. As chairman of the finance committee and one of the judiciary committees of the house, the duties incumbent upon you have been exceedingly important and exacting, both in committee room and on the floor of the house. In the performance of these duties you have been so zealous, industrious, painstaking and conservative as to attract the attention and win the respect and confidence of the entire legislature and to deserve the thanks and gratitude not only of your fellow members but of the people of the State at large. Permit us, therefore, to tender to you some expression of our appreciation of the benefits to the State derived from your earnest labors, and to say that we all feel that you have fully deserved not only our commendation, but a right to the gratitude and respect of your fellow citizens throughout the State of West Virginia." Colonel White has also served two terms as solicitor for the city of Wheeling, was for many years a director of the State institute for the deaf, dumb and blind, was twice president of the Wheeling bar association, represented his State at the dedication of the Washington monument, and was a delegate to the arbitration convention at Washington in 1896. He is past commander, Knight Templars, and past grand master of the grand lodge, F. & A. M., of the State. He represented his presbytery at the centennial assembly of the Presbyterian church at Philadelphia. In the organization of the United Confederate Veterans he has been conspicuous as one of the trustees and member of the executive committee of the Southern memorial association, and in May, 1897, he was elected to the chief office of the order in West Virginia. On May 26, 1859, Colonel White was married to Ellen E. Vass, and they have one surviving child, Kate, wife of Charles M. Ferrell, of Richmond. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From "HISTORY OF WHEELING and Ohio County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens." Edited & Compiled by Hon. Gibson Lamb Cranmer. Biographical Publishing, 1902. *DR. WILLIAM ALLEN CRACRAFT* Dr. William Allen Cracraft, Sr., the subject of this sketch, was born in Claysville, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1844. In 1848 his father's family moved to Triadelphia, Ohio county, West Virginia, where he was reared, receiving his academic education at the West Alexander Academy,Pennsylvania. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered the Confederate army, though but seventeen years of age, as a private in the "Shriver Grays," Company C. 27th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, "Stonewall" Jackson's Brigade, and participated in all the engagements with his regiment in 1861 and until the battle of Kernstown, March 23, 1862, when he was taken prisoner and confined in Fort Delaware until August 5, 1862, then being exchanged at Aiken's Landing, Virginia. he at once rejoined his command and, although his year's enlistment had expired the preceding May, took part in all battles of his regiment until after the battle of Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 19, 1862, when he accepted an honorable discharge and re-enlisted in the cavalry service as lieutenant of Company I, 20th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry, William L. Jackson's Brigade, Lomax's Division, Fitzhugh Lee's Corps. He commanded his company in every battle in which the regiment participated, from the date of its organization to the termination of the war, receiving his parole of honor under the terms of Lee's surrender. After the close of the war, our subject returned to his home and entered upon the study of medicine. During 1866 and 1867 he attended the University of Virginia, where he received his medical education, and then commenced the practice of his profession in Triadelphia, Ohio county, West Virginia, in June, 1867, remaining there until April, 1871, when he located at Elm Grove, Ohio county, West Virginia, where he has remained ever since. From 1872 to 1893 he was attending physician to the Ohio County Infirmary, and in 1894 he was appointed visiting physician to "Altenheim;" also attending physician to the Orphan's Home for Boys and Girls at Elm Grove. Dr. Cracraft was married, January 28, 1874, to Mary Key, of Elm Grove, daughter of Abner and Elizabeth Key, four children being born to them, namely: Georgia Key, deceased; William Allen, Jr., a graduate of medicine from the University of Virginia, June, 1901, and located at Elm Grove; Mary Elizabeth; and Leech Key, at present a student of medicine at the University of Virginia. Abner Key, deceased, was born in Maryland, and Elizabeth Key, deceased, in Lancaster, Ohio. Dr. George A. Cracraft, the father of Dr. William Allen Cracraft, Sr., was a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Medicine and practiced in Triadelphia from 1848 to 1888 - the year of his death - with the exception of three years, during which time he held the position of surgeon, with the rank of major, in the 19th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. His wife was Jane Knox, daughter of George Knox, of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and of Scotch-Irish descent. Dr. George A. Cracraft was the son of William Atkinson Cracraft, of Washington county, Pennsylvania, whose father was Maj. Charles Cracraft, a full surgeon in the Revolutionary War, later prominent in Indian warfare as a major, being wounded and captured near Fort Henry (Wheeling), in 1781, by a force of Indians under the renegade Simon Girty. Maj. Charles Cracraft was a son of Joseph Cracraft, who migrated from Lincolnshire, England, to the vicinity of Frederick, Maryland, in 1720. *SAMUEL VOLTZ* Samuel Voltz, an old and highly respected citizen of Wheeling, West Virginia, is a plasterer by trade. He was born in Wheeling May 17, 1836, and is a son of Nicholas and Theresa (Renner) Voltz. Nicholas Voltz was a German by nativity, and was born at Baden- Baden, and served as a soldier under Napoleon. After some time he came to the United States and proceeded from Pittsburg to Wheeling, where he kept two hotels, one at Second Ward Market Street, and on in Centre Wheeling, on Main street, between Twenty-first and Twenty- second streets. He was united in marriage with Mrs. Theresa Renner, a widow, who had four children, namely: Theresa, Clotilda, and Anthony, who are deceased; and Cecilia, widow of Dr. Thomas Brues, who belonged to one of the oldest and most esteemed families of Wheeling. Nicholas Voltz and his wife have three children, namely: John, deceased; Samuel; and Mary, who married Martin Shipley. Mr. Voltz died in Centre Wheeling, in April, 1852, aged about fifty-two years. In political opinions, he was an active Democrat, and was always known as a dutiful citizen. His wife died in 1863, while her son, Samuel, was serving in the army. Mr. Voltz obtained his early mental training in the public schools of Wheeling, and took a course, some time later, at Scott's Academy. With great zeal he then applied himself to learn the plastering trade under George Forester, and has followed that trade during the greater part of his life-time. When the Civil War broke out, in 1861, Mr. Voltz immediately enlisted from Wheeling in Company G, 27th Virginia Regiment, which was in "Stonewall" Jackson brigade. He served the four years of the war, and took part in many of the most noted battles, such as that of Winchester, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, and many others. He was thoroughly aroused in behalf of his cause, and fought with unfailing courage and good cheer, serving most of the time under Capt. Daniel Shriver. In 1865, he returned to Wheeling, resumed his trade, and pursued that occupation until the administration of President Garfield, when he was appointed by Gov. J. B. Jackson, of West Virginia, as janitor of the State House, at Wheeling. In this situation he remained four years, and again resumed his trade, but was selected as watchman for the West Virginia China Company, with which he remained until November, 1897, a period of ten years. He was then ill for some time, and has not been in such active service since. Mr. Voltz married Veronica Carney, who was born at Cumberland, Maryland. They have three children living, and have lost two, as follows: John C., deceased; Mary Theresa, living in Philadelphia; Susan L., of Camden, New Jersey; one who died in infancy; and Joseph, aged nineteen years, who is at home, and is a member of the West Virginia National Guard. The family attend divine services at the Catholic church. In politics, Mr. Voltz is an earnest, straightforward Democrat. He has led a long and active life, and has reason to be proud of it, as have also his children, by whom he is cherished and loved in his happy home.