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Frank M. Arthur, a prosperous farmer of Nansemond county, Va., and a veteran of Pickett's division, army of Northern Virginia, was born at the family home, where he now resides, in 1843. He is the son of James S. Arthur, also a farmer, and the grandson of John S. Arthur, a native of England, who came to America and settled in that county, subsequently serving as a soldier in the war of 1812. The mother of Mr. Arthur was Charlotte, daughter of James Ward, also a soldier of 1812. Early in 1862, being about nineteen years of age, Arthur enlisted in Company I of the Ninth Virginia regiment of infantry, formerly known as the Craney Island artillery, and soon afterward fought in his first battle at Malvern Hill, where the company behaved like veterans. He subsequently participated in the battles at Warrenton Springs, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg, and the December battle of Fredericksburg. Marching into Pennsylvania with the army, he was one of the heroes who charged up the slope of Cemetery hill in the battle of Gettysburg, on July 3d His company lost twenty-seven out of thirty-eight men that went into the fight. Private Arthur was among those who gained the Federal lines, and was near General Armistead when the latter fell. He was captured and confined at Fort Delaware and Point Lookout about fourteen months, and while in prison was elected second lieutenant by his comrades. On being exchanged he rejoined his company at Richmond and participated in the fighting during the long seige of Richmond, in command of his company. At the battle of Five Forks he was again captured on April 1, 1865, and from then until the latter part of June was confined at Johnson's Island, Ohio. Then returning to his home, he resumed the occupation of farming, and still resides upon the farm one hundred and ninety-two acres on the banks of the Nansemond, which has always been in possession of his family since his ancestor acquired it. He was married in 1872 to Mary, daughter of Hardy C. Williams of Gates County, N.C. and they have one child living, William Hardy Arthur, a student in the university college of medicine. Source: Confederate Military History, Vol. III, pp. 705-706.

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