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Rh lady After a tour of the continent he sailed for Havana, and thence to Mexico and reached Shreveport in November. With promotion to rear-admiral he commanded the James River squadron until the city was evacuated, and surrendered as rear-admiral C. S. N., and brigadier-general C. S. A., with Johnston s army. He then began the practice of law at Mobile, but despite his parole, was arrested December 15, 1865, and imprisoned for four months. After his release he was elected probate judge of Mobile county, but forbidden to assume the office. Subsequently he was engaged as an editor, as a professor in the Louisiana military institute, and as a lawyer, and published the historical works, "The Cruise of the Alabama and Sumter,&quot; and &quot;Memoirs of Service Afloat.&quot; He died August 30, 1877.

Andrew Barry Moore, governor of Alabama during the inception of the Confederate government, was a native of South Carolina, born March 7, 1806. He removed to Perry county, Alabama, in 1826, became a lawyer by profession, and first appeared in the legislature of Alabama in 1839. He was defeated by the Whigs in 1840, but was re-elected in 1842, and for three succeeding years. During the latter three sessions, 1843, 1844 an d 1845, he was speaker of the house. He was presidential elector in 1848. In 1851 he was appointed to the circuit bench, and regularly elected to the same until 1857, when he was he was re-elected as chief executive. While the State convention was in session for the purpose of withdrawing the State from the Union, Governor Moore sent a military command to seize the Federal works and military stores at Pensacola and entered with great energy upon preparations to defend his State. At the close of his term he was appointed special aide-de-camp to Governor Shorter. He was arrested by Federal authority and confined at Fort Pulaski in 1865, together with a number of other dis-