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1050 has subsequently been engaged in the practice of the law at Lexington, Va.

Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, late of Winchester, Va., was born in Loudoun county, Va., February 25, 1816, the son of John Moore, Sr., who served in the Maryland Line during the war of the Revolution, and his wife, Mary Mann, the daughter of John and Mary Mann, of Loudoun county. Colonel Moore completed his education at Georgetown, Ky., under the tutelage of Lieut. Jacob Ammon, graduate of the National military academy at West Point, and subsequently studied law with the legal firm of Burton & Williams, at Winchester. At that city he began the practice of law, in 1842, and subsequently devoted his life to the profession, except such time as he gave to the State. Having become prominent in the militia service, he was ordered, in the fall of 1859, to proceed to Harper's Ferry with four volunteer companies under his command, to assist in the suppression of the movement inaugurated by John Brown. Reaching there the night following the receipt of the order, he marched his troops near Brown's fort and witnessed the arrest of the raider. After this the militia forces were left in quiet until April, 1861, when, at the time of the secession of Virginia, Colonel Moore was ordered by Governor Letcher to march all available forces to Harper's Ferry, to take possession of the military stores. He reached there with his men, just after the town had been evacuated and the armory burned and remained there until the evacuation by the Confederate troops. In the meantime the State convention, in session at Richmond, appointed him to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and he was assigned to the Fourth regiment Virginia volunteer infantry, commanded by Col. James F. Preston. From Harper's Ferry he went with his regiment to Camp Stephens, and, for some time, no military action occurred except an affair under Col. T. J. Jackson against Patterson's command. Then, receiving orders to march to Manassas, the regiment participated with great gallantry in the battle of July 21, 1861, as a part of Jackson's "Stonewall" brigade, taking 778 men into action and losing about 280 in killed and wounded. The regiment captured Rickett's Federal battery after 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and in the charge. Colonel Moore received a wound in the right knee which greatly disabled him throughout the remainder of his life. Colonel Preston, a gallant and capable officer, of high character and loved by all his associates, died in 1861, and Moore was then promoted colonel, but on account of the severity of his wound he was unable to accompany the command in its future movements. Afterward he saw, at Edenburg, Va., in 1864, the remnant that then remained of the gallant Fourth, but twelve men, under the command of Captain Wade, acting as colonel. There could have been no better or more devoted regiment in the Confederate service. At the close of the war. Colonel Moore returned to Winchester and resumed the practice of law. During his residence of more than half a century at that famous valley city, he was admired and revered as a citizen and a patriot. His death occurred in December, 1897.

Major Samuel J. C. Moore, of Berryville, Va., in 1864 adjutant-general of the army of the Valley, was born at Charlestown, Jefferson county, June 29, 1826. He was educated at Charlestown