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vern Hill and the retreat of McClellan's army to the protection of his ships at Harrison's landing on James river; was detailed to care for the wounded in the skirmishes on the Rappahannock after the battle of Cedar Mountain, and only rejoined Lee's army after the battle of Sharpsburg or Antietam. Promoted surgeon, he was now ordered to the Sixty-first Virginia infantry, and was with it at the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Salem Church and Gettysburg. Now ordered to the artillery of Hill's corps, he was present with it at the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Hanover Junction, Second Cold Harbor, and, after Grant's change of base, at Petersburg. During the siege of Petersburg he was placed in charge of the medical department of the artillery of Hill's (Third) army corps, as its chief surgeon, and reorganized some of its field hospitals, and was with his command when the army retired from Petersburg after its lines were broken, and was captured after being disabled in a cavalry dash near Appomattox Court House, but was paroled with the army of Northern Virginia the next day after its surrender, May 9, 1865. Dr. Nash's brother, Thomas Nash, was an officer of artillery and ordnance in the Confederate States army. Resuming the practice of his profession, in Norfolk, after the close of the war between the States, his indefatigable devotion to professional work, regardless of fatigue or exposure, soon secured for him a reputation of merited distinction. He was for some years the quarantine medical officer of the district of the Elizabeth river, an appointment unsolicited, made by the governor in view of his familiarity with the subject of infectious fevers. This position he was forced to resign by the demands of his practice. He was for some time the president of the Norfolk board of health, and systematized its operations. He was for several terms the president of the City medical society, of which he was one of the original members. He has for many years been a member of the American medical association, the American public association. Southern surgical and gynecological association, a member and vice-president of the medical examining board of Virginia, and ex-president and honorary member of the State medical society. He was the pioneer in his city in gynecological work, a branch of surgery that has occupied no little of his time. His contributions to medical literature have been made principally in the city and State societies. He is visiting physician to St. Vincent's hospital and consulting surgeon to the Retreat for the Sick in Norfolk. In 1867, Dr. Nash was married to Mary A., daughter of Nicholas Wilson Parker, Esq., who, under the "ancient regime" in Virginia, had long been a member of the old corporation court, the justices of which served without remuneration, and whose decisions were seldom reversed. Her grandfather, Copeland Parker, held a position in the customs department of the first union of the States, and, subsequently, surveyor of the ports of Smithfield and of Norfolk. Her great-grandfather, Nicholas Parker, inherited and resided at his seat, Macclesfield, Isle of Wight county, Va., which subsequently became the property of his eldest son, Col. Josiah Parker, who was a distinguished officer of the Virginia line in the Revolution, and the first member of Congress from his district, under the present Constitution of the United States. Another brother of her grandfather, Nicholas, was a lieutenant in the Vir-