Alpheus P. McClung
He rendered gallant service with General McCausland's command in many raids and engagements. Among the battles in which he took part were Cedarville, Orange Court House, Fredericksburg, Charlestown, Fayetteville, Droop Mountain, Covington, Panther Gap, Staunton, Brownstown, Lexington, New London, Lynchburg, Gordonsville, Monocacy Junction, Washington, D. C., the Chambersburg raid, Cumberland, New Creek and Moorefield.
He was once, while on duty in Greenbrier county, knocked from his horse by the concussion of a cannon ball; was hit by a spent ball at Gordonsville, severely wounded at Droop mountain, and badly wounded at Moorefield, after which he was on furlough until October, 1864.
Since the war he has resided in Green brier county, where he served as deputy sheriff from 1887 to 1881, and from 1885 to 1889. Two of his brothers were in the Confederate service: Samuel K., who was a private of the Fourteenth cavalry from 1861 to 1865, and died in 1886; and Cyrus H., a private in the same regiment from April to August, 1861 when he received an honorable discharge on account of physical disability