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COLONEL ABRAM FULKERSON.

Colonel Fulkerson was born on the 13th day of May,
1834, four miles north of Bristol, in Washington county,
Virginia. His father was Abram Fulkerson, a captain
in the war of 1812, and his mother was Margaret Vance.
He graduated at the Virginia Military Institute in 1857. Taught school at
Palmyra, Virginia, and at Rogersville, Tennessee, and was at the latter
place when the civil war began. He raised a company in Hawkins county,
Tennessee, and joined the Ninth Tennessee Regiment at Knoxville, and was
elected major of the regiment. Was severely wounded at the battle of
Shiloh. He assisted in organizing the Sixty-third Tennessee Regiment, and
was commissioned colonel on the 12th day of February, 1864, and was again
wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. In 1866 he began the practice of
law, and rapidly rose to the front ranks. He was elected to the Virginia
House of Delegates in 1871-1873; to the Senate of Virginia in 1877-1879.
Was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Readjuster,

Henry Bowen.

receiving 8,096 votes, against 7,621 votes
for C. F. Trigg, Funder; 3,640 votes for G. G.
Goodell, Republican, and 500 votes for Fayette McMullen,
Independent. He died on December 17th,
1902, at his home, in Bristol, Virginia.