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Rh city, and continued in the management and editorial charge of the Weekly Register, which he had first taken control of in 1856. In 1882 he established the Daily Register, and in 1886 and 1887 he was upon the editorial staff of the Richmond Whig. Since 1894 he has held the office of superintendent of schools at Danville. He maintains a membership in Cabell-Graves camp, Confederate Veterans.

Captain Edward Willoughby Anderson, C. S. A., was born at St. Augustine, Fla., November 11, 1841, of distinguished and patriotic ancestry. His grandfather, Col. William Anderson, a native of Chester, Pa., was the son of the Rev. James Anderson, first pastor of the Presbyterian church at Middletown, near Chester, and a firm supporter of the patriot cause during the Revolution. Colonel Anderson entered the United States navy, served with Decatur in the capture of the Macedonian, and toward the end of his life, was colonel of marines and in charge of the navy yard at Norfolk, Va., the family home of his wife, Jane Willoughby, who was a descendant of Col. Thomas Willoughby, who came to Virginia in 1610, owned Willoughby Point, opposite Fortress Monroe, and was prominent in the early settlement of the Old Dominion, being a member of the colonial council under Lord Berkeley. The maternal grandfather, Capt. Elihu Brown, of Portsmouth, N. H., was also distinguished in the navy during the war of 1812, as commander of the privateer Fox. The father of Mr. Anderson, Capt. James Willoughby Anderson, was graduated at West Point in 1833, became an officer of the Second United States infantry, served with distinction in the Seminole war, capturing some of the chief Indians lone-handed, and lost his life in the Mexican war during the charge at Churubusco, in August, 1847. When the disruption of the Union was imminent, young Anderson naturally felt that he should follow the action of his people and it was for the Confederacy he volunteered to draw his sword. He was at the time a cadet at the United States military academy, where he had been appointed at large by request of Gen. Winfield Scott, after receiving an education in liberal arts at the college of the City of New York. In March, 1861, after the secession of South Carolina and Mississippi, he declined to take the oath of allegiance, and resigned his cadetship with sincere regret, and left West Point for the South, being the first to take that decisive step. Arriving at Richmond in April, 1861, he became an officer in the Virginia provisional army, and as lieutenant was assigned to the Sixth Virginia infantry as drill-master. Subsequently he was appointed to the engineer corps of the regular army of the Confederate States, as a cadet, not having yet reached the age of twenty-one years. He served as an officer of engineers at Fort Norfolk, St. Helena and Craney island, until the evacuation of that district, when he went with General Huger to General Lee, and began an active career with the army of Northern Virginia, which included nearly all its famous campaigns and battles. He served during the Peninsular campaign, participating in the battles of the Chickahominy, Cold Harbor and Malvern Hill, and then lay in hospital for sixty days on account of injuries received at Cold Harbor. Subsequently he was placed in charge of the artillery store at Richmond, but soon applied for permission to go to the front, and