Richmond, when he rejoined the army in the field and at Amelia Court House, during the retreat, was promoted major of his regiment. His military service included faithful and gallant duty in many important battles and campaigns, among them the battles of First Manassas, Dranesville, Middleburg, Fredericksburg, Front Royal, two battles at Winchester, Barnesville, the fight in which Ashby fell, Dunker's Church, Port Republic, the Seven Days' before Richmond, Cedar Mountain, the two engagements at Harper's Ferry, Stuart's raid in Pennsylvania, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Greenwood and Funkstown, Todd's Tavern, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Yellow Tavern, Beaver Dam, Ashland, Hawe's Shop (where he cut his way through the Federal lines with the four companies of his command), Wilson's Landing, the raid from Raccoon Ford, by Stevensburg, Brandy Station and Rappahannock Bridge, the famous fight at Brandy Station or Beverly's Ford, the Stafford raid, with fighting at Harwood church and Falmouth, Kellyville, Third Manassas and Occoquan river, the raid after Averell, driving him into West Virginia, and Trevilian Station. After this arduous service with the cavalry of the army of Northern Virginia, he was paroled at Amherst Court House, where he resumed the practice of his profession. He had been elected in March, 1865, to the Virginia senate, but under the changed conditions, could not take his seat. In 1866 he was elected commonwealth attorney for his county, but was removed by the military authority after about one year's service. In 1869 being again elected he served his term. In 1872 he was elected as the representative of the Sixth district in the United States Congress, and served for one term. Meanwhile, in 1871, he had established a newspaper, The Amherst Enterprise, which he published until he disposed of the property in 1875. In the following year he took charge of the Lynchburg Daily News, from which he retired in 1880 to establish the Lynchburg Advance, which he conducted for five years. During the gubernatorial campaign of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee he edited a newspaper at Lynchburg called "Whitehead's Democrat," also engaged in the canvass throughout the State, in the interest of Lee. He was elected by the legislature in 1887 to the position of commissioner of agriculture, in which he continued to serve with general approbation, having been successively reappointed by Governors Lee, McKinney and O'Ferrall.
J. E. Whitehorne, of Petersburg, a veteran of Mahone's brigade, army of Northern Virginia, is a native of Greenesville county. He was born in 1840 at the plantation home of his father, Howell W. Whitehorne, a son of William H. Whitehorne, a soldier of the war of 1812. In the spring of 1861, at the age of nineteen years, he enlisted in Company F of the Twelfth Virginia infantry, which was stationed at Norfolk until the spring of 1862, when it joined the brigade of General Mahone and participated In the campaigns of that year, including the battles of Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg. Private Whitehorne went through these fights and Chancellorsville in addition, without serious injury, but at the battle of Gettysburg he was badly wounded in each leg. On the retreat he was carried to the hospital at Winchester, thence to Staunton, and from there to Hospital No. 21, at Richmond, after which he was
