Historical review of Arkansas : its commerce, industry and modern affairs . inia, in which latterplace she is buried; Richard H. Bell, who was adopted by John Bell andspent his life in Staunton, Virginia; and Norborne S., of this sketch. Norborne S. Henry began life as a merchants clerk at PittsylvaniaCourthouse, Virginia, and when seventeen years of age he returned toStaunton and spent one year, 1858, in the academy at that place. He thenwent to Lexington, Virginia, and secured a clerkship in the establishmentof Bacon & Lewis, and was so employed at the time of the inception of theCivil war.
Historical review of Arkansas : its commerce, industry and modern affairs . inia, in which latterplace she is buried; Richard H. Bell, who was adopted by John Bell andspent his life in Staunton, Virginia; and Norborne S., of this sketch. Norborne S. Henry began life as a merchants clerk at PittsylvaniaCourthouse, Virginia, and when seventeen years of age he returned toStaunton and spent one year, 1858, in the academy at that place. He thenwent to Lexington, Virginia, and secured a clerkship in the establishmentof Bacon & Lewis, and was so employed at the time of the inception of theCivil war. Mr. Henry entered the military service of the Confederacyon May 11. 1861, as a member of the Rockbridge Artillery. Stonewallsbrigade. First Division of the Second Corps, Army of Northern participated in all the important engagements of his command in Vir-ginia, Pcimsylvania and Maryland, starting in at Falling Waters, Vir-ginia, First Manassas, then back to the Shenandoah Valley, where hefought at Kerntown, McDowell, Middleton, AVinchester, Cross Keys and. HISTORY OF ARKAXSAS 1333 Port Republic. Thereafter the army was again transferred and it joinedLees army where it opened the Seven Days fight. Following this cameCedar Run, Second j\Ianas.«as, Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg, Chancellors-ville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Fort Gilmer andAppomattox, where he was a witness of the closing scenes of the prolongedand sanguinary struggle between the North and South. During thisstrenuous service ilr. Henry was a private until advanced to the rank ofsergeant, and he was paroled as such at the close of the war. He passedthrough the shot and shell unscathed, save for a bruise by a spent ball atSecond Cold Harbor and a good shaking up at Port Republic by the ex-plosion, almost under him, of a twelve-pound shell, which almost buried himin the dirt and debris caused by the concussion. On January 1, , Mr. Henry became a clerk in Danville, Virginia,wh
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