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424 and on the North Anna. At Second Cold Harbor, in charge of his own and Anderson's brigades, he was ordered to reinforce the line on the right, leaving it to his judgment to select a position. He planted his force where Kershaw's line had been bent back on June 1st, and, intrenching during the night there, sustained a determined attack on June 3d, which resulted in the terrible slaughter of the Federal forces in his front, the Federal Eighteenth corps reporting a loss of over 3,000. In this fight General Law was severely wounded. He did not return to his brigade, being relieved at his own request, desiring cavalry service. On the approach of Sherman's army he was assigned to command at Columbia, S. C., and in February took command of Butler's brigade of cavalry. He was actively engaged in the attack on Kilpatrick's camp, served on the staff of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Bentonville, and then resumed command of Butler's cavalry. He was promoted to major-general, just before the surrender, on the recommendation of Generals Johnston and Hampton. After the war he resided in South Carolina and became connected with railroad enterprises, Of recent years he has been at the head of a military college at Barton, Fla.

Brigadier-General Danville Leadbetter was a native of Maine, born in 1811; was graduated at the United States military academy in 1836 as second lieutenant, and was assigned at first to the artillery and then transferred to the engineer corps. He served on garrison duty at Oswego Harbor, N.Y., 1839-45; was in charge of the engineer agency in New York for the purchase and shipment of supplies for the construction of fortifications, 1845-48; as member of joint commission of naval and engineer officers for examination of the Pacific coast of the United States, also as superintending engineer of the repairs of Fort Morgan, and the building of Fort Gaines, at Mobile, Ala. The custom house at Mobile was built under his