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ci\ il war, when lie was actively engaged in the Confederate service as chaplain of the Eighteenth Virginia Regiment, and after- ward as chief-of-stafT to Gen. T. J. Jackson. In 1883 he was elected to the chair of moral jihilosophy in the University of Texas. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him by Hampden-Sidney College in 1853, and that of LL. D. by the Southwestern Presbyterian Uni\ersity, Tennessee, in 1877, and simul- taneously by Hampden-Sidney College. Be- sides being a voluminous contributor to periodical literature Dr. Dabney published '"Life of Rev. Dr. F. S. Sampson" (Rich- mond, 1854) ; "Life of Gen. T. J. (Stone- wall) Jackson" (London, 1864) ; "Sacred Rhetoric" (Richmond, 1866) ; "Defence of \'irginia and the South" (New York, 1868) ; ' Sensualistic Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century Considered" (1876) ; "A Course of Systematic and Polemic Theology" (St. Louis, 1878) ; and "The Christian Sabbath" (Philadelphia. 1881).

Holmes, George Frederick, Ixirn at De- marara. British Guiana, in August, 1820. He was reared and educated in England, attending Durham University, and in 1838 emigrated from that country to the United .States, his first occupation being that of teacher in schools in Virginia, Georgia and South Carolina. In the meantime he pur- sued a course of study in the law, and was admitted to the bar of South Carolina in 1842, but did not practice his profession for any length of time, resuming his work of teaching. Three years later, in 1848, after serving two years in a professional position in Richmond College, and one year as pro- fessor of history, political economy and in- ternational law at the College of William

and Mary, he accepted the presidency of the University of Mississippi, remaining but a short period of time, teaching history, poli- tical economy and the evidences of Chris- tianity, after which he returned to Virginia and engaged in literary work, his writmgs aj.ipearing principally in encyclopedias, re- views and magazines. In 1857, Professor Holmes was called to the chair of history and general literature at the University of X'irginia, which had been established the previous year, and so continued until the } ear of his decease. In 1882 his work was reduced to the subject of historical science, including political economy, the creation of ihe school of English language and litera- ture relieving him of the literature courses, filed in 1889, upon the appointment of an adjunct professor of history, he taught classes only in political economy and the science of society. He was the author of a series of text-books especially designed for the use of southern schools — readers, an Fnglish grammar, and a history of the I'nited States. He also printed privately lectures on the science of society. He died November 4, 1897.

Allen, Henry Watkins, was born in I'rir.cc P.dward county, \'irgin'a. .'Xpril 29, 1820. His father was a practicing physi- cian and removed to Missouri, where the son was educated at the Marionville Col- legiate Institute. He studied law, was ad- mitted to the Mississippi bar and practiced his profession. In 1842 he responded to President Houston's call for volunteers to aid the people of Texas in their war with Mexico, and raised a company which ho led. He returned to Grand Gulf, resumed prac- tice, anil was. in 184^1. elected tii the state