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790 had another horse shot under him, and at Malvern Hill. After the battles around Richmond, Magruder was ordered to Texas, and Colonel Gary, being disabled by having his left arm broken, was transferred to the pay department, located in Richmond, and served there until the close of the war. At the evacuation of Richmond, on Sunday, April 2d, at sunrise, he left his home and family just outside of the lines, and followed Lee, reaching Appomattox Saturday evening. Having no command in the field, in company with several prominent officers on Pickett's staff, he made his escape Saturday night and reached Lynchburg the fatal Sunday of Lee's surrender. Learning of this event they crossed the river into Amherst county and, wandering through the country for a week longer, he reached home on the following Saturday and was paroled on the Grove road, near the present Soldiers' Home, on April i6, 1865. After the war. Colonel Cary began life over again at the bottom of the ladder, in Richmond, where he lived as a successful and highly trusted business man until his death, January 13, 1898, full of years and of honors. To the last he was ever an ardent supporter of every effort to preserve the true history of the Confederate cause and to clear the name of his people from the charge of "treason" and "rebellion." To this end he was one of the most active friends of the Confederate memorial literary society, which is in charge of the Confederate museum in Richmond. As a member of the board of aldermen, and chairman of the school board, he was chiefly instrumental in securing the former residence of Jefferson Davis, used by the city as a public school, for this sacred historical purpose, and was, up to the time of his death, chairman of the advisory board of this society. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Confederate memorial association from Virginia, on the executive committee of the Jefferson Davis monument association, chairman of finance committee of soldiers' and sailors' monument, and of the finance committee of the Confederate reunion in 1896, and he was chief of staff to Gen. John B. Gordon at the ceremonies of the reinterment of President Davis' remains at Richmond in 1893. He truly belonged to the "Old Guard," and his portrait now adorns the walls of Lee camp No. 1, at Richmond, as one of their most honored veterans.

Spotswood Wellford Carmichael, M. D., of Fredericksburg, was among the professional men who served faithfully and unselfishly among the sick and wounded of the Confederate armies during the four years' war. He comes of a family who are distinguished as physicians and now occupies the office at Fredericksburg which was used by his father and grandfather before him. The latter, Dr. James Carmichael, who had been graduated in medicine at Edinburgh, Scotland, left his native land at the age of twenty and made his home at Fredericksburg about 1790, where an uncle, Dr. George French, also a Scotchman, had settled some time before. His son, Dr. George F. Carmichael, took up his father's practice, married Mary, daughter of John Spotswood Wellford, and granddaughter of Dr. Robert Wellford (a native of England), and during the war served as a surgeon in the army of Northern Virginia, having charge for some time of the Danville hospital. His three sons also were in the military service. James, who was educated at the university of Virginia