he was arrested on the charge of breaking parole, but was released after being held at Winchester two weeks. He then went to Loudoun county, and resumed his school work, completing his education in the university of Virginia. Determining to make his career in the profession of the law, he equipped himself in this direction and began the practice at Leesburg in 1871, for eleven years being a law partner of Gen. W. H. Payne. In 1895 he was elected commonwealth's attorney for Loudoun county, but resigned the office after a brief tenure. He has met with notable success in his profession, and is a valued citizen and popular gentleman. He maintains memberships in the Clinton-Hatcher camp, at Leesburg, and John S. Mosby camp, of Confederate veterans. In the Knights of Pythias order he is prominent as past supreme representative of Virginia, and was a member of the commission for revision of the constitution and laws of the order, and is now chief tribune of the Supreme Tribunal of the world. He is happily married to Emma H. Hughes, of Loudoun county, and they have five children.
Thomas L. Alfriend, of Richmond, was born at that city in 1843. He is a member of the fourth generation of his family in Virginia, his great-grandfather being a native of Scotland. His grandfather, Colin Alfriend, born in the Old Dominion, died at the age of forty years. His father, Thomas M. Alfriend, a native of Petersburg, served during the war in the local defense troops at Richmond, and survived until 1885, when he passed away at the age of seventy-five years. The subject of this mention rendered faithful service throughout the war of the Confederacy, enlisting on May 14, 1861, in Company B of the Fifteenth Virginia infantry regiment. With this command he served as a private something over a year, participating during that period in the battles of Big Bethel, Yorktown, Savage Station, and Malvern Hill. After the close of the Seven Days' battles he was ordered on detached service at Richmond, and was connected first with the headquarters of Gen. Gustavus Smith, and subsequently with the headquarters of Gen. Arnold Elzey. In the fall of 1863 he returned to duty in the field, being transferred to the artillery command of Capt. W. W. Parker, with the rank of orderly-sergeant. Going to the West with General Longstreet, he participated in the engagements at Campbell's Station, Tenn., Bean's Station and the fighting around Knoxville. Subsequently returning with the battery to Virginia he fought at Spottsylvania Court House, Hanover Junction, North Anna river, Hewlett house, and on the retreat from Richmond at Sailor's creek, where he was among the captured. Thence he was carried as a prisoner of war to Point Lookout, and held until June 23, 1865. Returning to Richmond he became engaged three days after his arrival in the insurance business, which he has carried on ever since that time with notable success. He is a valued member of both the R. E. Lee and George E. Pickett camps, Confederate veterans, and is highly esteemed as a citizen.
Captain Henry A. Allen, of Portsmouth, Va., distinguished in the history of the Old Dominion Guard, was born at Portsmouth, November 11, 1831. His parents were William and Sarah (Tabb) Allen, the father a native of Princess Anne county, and the mother of Elizabeth City county. He was reared, and educated at Portsmouth and apprenticed to the craft of a brick-mason, in which he
