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Rh in charge. Subsequently transferred to Albany, N. Y., he was for six weeks confined in a cell and finally, through the intercession of friends, was permitted to remain in the prison hospital. Meanwhile the Confederacy had ceased to be, but his imprisonment continued. In November, 1865, he wrote to Mr. Bradley, the president of the Andersonville Prison Survivors association, and asked his assistance. This was promptly promised by that gentleman, who wrote in reply: "You were the first to introduce anything like sanitary regulations in the prison at Andersonville; at Savannah, where you were in command, the prisoners were treated like men, so far as you were concerned. .   .   .  You never used any violence and never punished anyone for trying to escape." Finally, on December 7th he was released, though Secretary Stanton declared that it was by mistake and that he ought to have been hanged. After the war he learned that the kind heart of Abraham Lincoln had been interested in his behalf and that it was to him that he owed his escape from an ignominious death on an unjust charge. Returning to Virginia, he lived upon a farm until 1868, regaining his former strength and vigor, and then took charge, as captain, of a steamer on the Potomac river. During the last administration of President Cleveland he served as assistant postmaster at Alexandria. He is an honorary member of R. E. Lee camp, No. 2, Confederate Veterans. Four of his children are living: two daughters, married, and two sons, one of whom is a leading member of the Alexandria bar and the other holding a position in the United States Fishery commission. His experiences during the war which have led to his designation as the "Andre" of the Confederacy have been well described by him in a brochure published in 1892, after the story had been partly told before the Loyal Legion by a member of his court martial.

Horace P. Deahl, of Berryville, Va., a Confederate veteran who served both in the infantry and the cavalry of the army of Northern Virginia, was born at the town where he now resides, March 26, 1836. Previous to the war he was engaged in business at Berryville and was a member of a militia organization, with which he served at Harper's Ferry during the exciting period following the attempted insurrection by John Brown in 1859. He went again with his command to Harper's Ferry when it was occupied by the Virginia troops in April, 1861, and as third lieutenant of his company enlisted for a year in the Confederate service, the company being assigned as Company I to the Second Virginia infantry. With Jackson's brigade of Johnston's army he served at Harper's Ferry and vicinity, and then took part in the first battle of Manassas, where his brigade earned the title of "Stonewall." Before the end of his first year's service he was promoted first lieutenant of his company, but at the close of that period he enlisted as a private in Company D of the Sixth Virginia cavalry regiment. He served in that capacity throughout the remainder of the four years, except the final three months, which he passed in a Federal prison, and during his service participated in all the battles of his command in the Shenandoah valley, eastern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Many accounts are given by his comrades of his personal exploits, illustrating his personal courage and daring as a trooper. He was three times