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Rh his column fast approaching on the Warrenton pike. At dawn on the third day of the struggle at Gettysburg he was captured on the slope of Round Top, and from the crest of the hill, as a prisoner, witnessed the splendid attack of Pickett's corps that afternoon. His experience as a prisoner of war was obtained at Fort McHenry, Fort Delaware, Johnson's island and Point Lookout. After eight months of this deprivation and confinement he was exchanged and returned to the army. He found his old division in the West, where he served during the remainder of the war, at the end being with Forrest's cavalry. Since the war he has devoted himself to the improvement and beautifying of his splendid estate of about a thousand acres at Glen Allen, to which he has given the name of "Forest Lodge." Here he has led an ideal rural life, amusing himself by opening roadways through the forest, making artificial lakes and stocking a spacious deer park with the animals which he used to slay. His days of adventure are over, and if he sometimes emerges from retirement it is only in defense of some principle or sentiment which dominated his earlier years. His articles and addresses on Indian life and character are full of information at first hand, and are somewhat startling to those who have regarded the red man only as a savage and a public enemy. His papers as a member of the historical committee of the Grand Camp of Virginia have always been such as to awaken interest and command respect, and his "Glance at Current History" is an indignant, yet potent, protest against the false coloring which has been so persistently cast over every phase of the Confederate struggle.

Colonel Wilfred E. Cutshaw, of Richmond, Va., a distinguished artillery commander of the army of Northern Virginia, was born at Harper's Ferry, January 25, 1838. His father was a native of Loudoun county; his grandfather, who served in the war of 1812, of Maryland, and his great grandfather, of Scotland. He was graduated at the Virginia military; institute with a thorough knowledge of civil and military engineering, in 1858, and in 1859 became an instructor in the Hampton military institute. That position he abandoned in the spring of 1861 to enter the service of the Confederate States. In May he received the rank of first lieutenant, and in August following was promoted second lieutenant in the regular army and assigned to the command of Gen. T. J. Jackson, in the valley district. Further promotion followed in March, 1862, when he was made captain of artillery; and in February, 1864, he was raised to the rank of major, as which he commanded Cutshaw's battalion, famous in the last year of the war. In February, 1865, he was promoted lieutenant-colonel of artillery. He participated in the operations of General Magruder on the peninsula in the summer of 1861, the affair at Hanging Rock in January, 1862, the campaign of Jackson in the valley, in which he commanded a battery in the artillery division of Colonel Crutchfield, and he took part in the battles of McDowell, Front Royal, Middletown, Edenburg and Winchester. Severely wounded in the left knee at the latter engagement and captured by the enemy, he was held a month at Fort McHenry, and, after being exchanged, was pronounced unfit for military duty and was assigned as acting commander of cadets at the Virginia military institute. In