Jefferson county, Va., August 13, 1841. In his youth he was sent to the Episcopal high school in Fairfax county for his academic education and then, being destined for the medical profession, entered the university of Maryland at Baltimore, where he was a student at the outbreak of the war of the Confederacy. Promptly returning to enter the service of his State, he enlisted on April 18, 1861, in Company G of the Seventh Virginia cavalry, commanded by Col. Turner Ashby. He served as a private about six months, when he received his first promotion for meritorious conduct. He continued to rise through the various grades until at the close of the war he was first lieutenant. With this gallant command he served throughout the war, participating with honor in many engagements, great and small. His record embraces sixty-one battles, many of them of the most important character, and notable for desperate fighting. In the list are: McDowell, Cross Keys, Port Republic, Harrisonburg, Harper's Ferry, Second Manassas, Hagerstown, Sharpsburg, Groveton, Chantilly, Winchester, Aldie, Gettysburg, Kernstown, Cedar Creek, Front Royal, Tom's Brook, Strasburg and Fisher's Hill, Upperville, Bristoe Station, Brandy Station, Beverly Ford, Jeffersonton, Auburn, White Sulphur Springs, Cedar Mountain, Waterloo Bridge, Orange Court House, Rapidan Station, Mine Run, Gordonsville, Trevilian's, Spottsylvania Court House, the Wilderness, Todd's Tavern, Beaver Dam Station, North Anna River, Hanover and Ashland, Hawe's Shop, Cold Harbor, defense of Petersburg, Reams' Station, Stony Creek, Farmville, High Bridge, Harper's Ferry, September 2, 1862, Blackburn's Ford, Shepardstown, Patterson's Creek, Bath, Hanging Rock, Moorefield, Beverly. During this arduous service he was four times wounded, once severely at Gettysburg, and was captured three times, twice making his escape. After his capture in December, 1862, he was confined at Fort McHenry until April, 1863, when by exchange he was enabled to rejoin his command, with which he served until the surrender of the army. Returning then to his home county, he resumed his professional studies at Baltimore in the following year, and was graduated March 11, 1867. In September following he embarked in the practice at Waterford, Va., and five years later removed to Sharpsburg, Md., where he resided nineteen years. Since 1893 he has been engaged with much success in the medical practice at Herndon. He is a member of Marr camp, Confederate Veterans, also of the Knights of Pythias and Masonic orders. May 10, 1870, he was married to Margaret A. Grimes, of Carroll county, Md., and they have three children living.
Bushrod Rust, of Roanoke, Va., distinguished as an educator since the war period, has a worthy record as a gallant soldier of the Twelfth Virginia cavalry. He enlisted early in the war as a private in Company I of this command, first led by Col. A. W. Harman and Lieut.-Col. T. B. Massie, and served until the close of hostilities, sharing in the exploits of the troopers under the heroic Ashby in the valley with Stonewall Jackson; and the cavalry fights of the Second Manassas campaign; fighting under J. E. B. Stuart in the famous cavalry battle of Brandy Station, June, 1863, in which the Twelfth lost fifty-three men, including Colonel Harman wounded; and sharing in the famous operations of the
