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Rh and certain members of his cabinet passing through, it was surrendered to General Reagan, acting secretary of the treasury, and by him again taken under guard to Washington, Ga. At that point the silver coin, by order of President Davis, was paid out to the remnant of the army which was escorting the president and cabinet, and the gold was left to be distributed for specified purposes by the acting treasurer of the Confederate States. The safe guard, safe delivery and honorable distribution of this treasure have been subjects of gratifying reflection to the officers and men who had it in charge and to all Confederates. Captain Parker and his company soon found it necessary to surrender; and, subsequently, Lieutenant McGuire returned to Richmond and resumed the profession of teaching, in which he has since continued. His school at Richmond ranges from 140 to 160 boys, and is well known. He ranks among the best academic instructors of the State.

H. M. McIlhany, of Staunton, Va., formerly an efficient member of the staff of General Longstreet, was born in Loudoun county, Va., in 1840. In April, 1861, he entered the Confederate service as a private in the Warrenton Rifles, a volunteer organization which was enrolled as Company K of the Seventeenth regiment of Virginia infantry. In July, 1861, he participated in the battles of Bull Run and Manassas, and, in the same month, was appointed ordnance quartermaster-sergeant, attached to General Longstreet's headquarters. He continued to serve in this capacity until February, 1864, when he was promoted captain and assistant chief quartermaster of Longstreet's, the First army corps, of the army of Northern Virginia. In August, 1864, he yielded this position to become first sergeant in Company F of the Forty-third Virginia battalion of cavalry under command of Colonel Mosby. While with Mosby he participated in many exciting and spirited affairs until December 21, 1864, when he was captured in Fauquier county and sent to the Old Capitol prison. In the following February, after a long regime of condemned beef and pork, he, and eighty-six others of Mosby's men were handcuffed, and, guarded by twenty-eight armed soldiers, were transferred to Fort Warren, in Boston harbor, where they were held until June 15, 1865. Since his return to civil life he has been engaged in mercantile pursuits at various places, including Staunton, where he has resided since 1873.

Captain Robert Dunn McIlwaine, late of Petersburg, Va., is deserving of mention among the gallant soldiers contributed by Petersburg to the Confederate armies. He was born at that city in 1828, the son of A. G. McIlwaine, a native of Ireland, who immigrated to America and became a business man of Petersburg, and married Lucy Atkinson Pryor, daughter of Theodric Pryor, D. D., a Presbyterian minister of considerable repute. She was a sister of Judge Roger Pryor, of New York. Captain McIlwaine entered the Confederate service as a private in the Petersburg cavalry. In 1863 he was elected captain of his company, and he served in this rank until, toward the latter part of the war, his health failed and he was compelled to retire from active service. The exposure and arduous service he had undergone wrecked his health, and he died in 1876. His son, Robert Dunn McIlwaine, M. D., prominent