PRYOR, ROGER ATKINSON (1828 )

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PRYOR, ROGER ATKINSON (1828 ) , American jurist and politician, was born near

Petersburg

PETERSBURG

, Virginia, on the 19th of July 1828. He graduated at Hampden-Sidney College in 1845 and at the law school of the university of Virginia in 1848, and in 1849 was admitted to the bar, but devoted himself for some years to journalism. He served as a Democrat in the National

House

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of Representatives from December 1859 to March 1861, and was re-elected for the succeeding term, but owing to the secession of Virginia did not take his seat. He served in the provisional Confederate congress (1861) and also in the first regular congress (1862) of the Confederate constitution. He entered the Confederate army as a colonel, became a brigadier-general (April 16, 1862), and took part in the battles of Williams-burg, Seven Pines, second

Bull

Run and Antietam. Owing to adisagreement with President Davis he resigned his commission in 1863, but entered General Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry as a private in August of that year. He was taken prisoner on the 28th of November 1864, but was released on parole by order of the president. In 1865 he removed to New

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court of common pleas in 1890-1894, and of the New York supreme court in 18941899. His wife, Sara Agnes (

Rice

) Pryor (b. 183o), published The Mother of Washington and her Times (19o3), Reminiscences of Peace and War (1904), The

Birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

of the Nation (1907), and My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life (1909).

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