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Langhorne, Maurice Scarisbrook, born in Cumberland county, \'irginia, March 27, 1823, son of Col. Maurice Langhorne, a lieu- tenant of the Cumberland troop in the war of 1812, and Elizabeth Allen, his wife; his grandfather, William Langhorne, was a member of the house of burgesses. He was brought by his parents to Lynchburg, 1827, was educated at that city, and in 1840 be- gan business life as clerk in a dry goods house. Four years later he engaged in a busi- ness career as a tobacco manufacturer, and continued until the passage of the ordinance cf secession. He then held the rank of captain of the Lynchburg Rifle Greys, and with his command at once answered the call of his state. The company was mustered in as Company A, of the Eleventh Virginia In- fantry, on April 23, 1861. He participated ill the action at Blackburn's Ford, July 18, and in the battle of Manassas, July 21. In September he was promoted to major, and given command of ten companies by Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, comprising his own com- pany and details from other regiments. At Munson's Hill, overlooking Washington, on September 29, 1861, he sustained an attack by a three-fold prepondering force of Fed- erals, and with the aid of two pieces of artillery repulsed three assaults. In No- vember following, he fought at Dranesville, and on May 5, 1862, participated in the bat- tle of Williamsburg, in the Peninsular cam- paign. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel. May 31, he did gallant service at Seven Pines in command of his regiment, but was severely wounded. Promotion to colonel soon fol- lowed, but his injuries were such that it was impossible for him to return to the field. Determined, however, to aid the Southern cause all he cr)ul(l. as soon as he was partially

recovered, in the winter of 1862-63, he ac- cepted command of the military post at Lynchburg and held this position until the following summer. Subsequently, having been retired from active service by the med- ical board at Lynchburg, he was assigned to the department of reserves, under command cf Gen. Kemper, and remained upon that duty until toward the close of 1864. He was then transferred to the engineers' de- partment at Richmond, under Gen. Gilmer, and served in that capacity in the defense of the city until its evacuation. Returning to Lynchburg, by order of Gen. Gilmer, he was paroled there in April, 1865, terminating a highly creditable military career. On re- turning to civil life at the close of the war, he was engaged until 1867 as an insur- ance agent, and then returned to his original occupation, the manufacture of tobacco, which he carried on for six years, then re- tiring from business.

Bauder, Ezra, Ijorn at Indian Castle, Her- kimer county, N'ew York April 6, 1824, son of Joseph liauder and Elizabeth Eigen- broadt, his wife. He was educated at Kingsboro ( Xew York) Academy, the Pennsylvania College, and Union College, Schenectady, New York, graduating from the latter in 1847. For a time he was a civil engineer on the New York Central Railroad, and then became tutor in the family of Dr. Jricquelin A. Marshall, son of Chief Justice John Marshall. Some time after he took a similar position in the family of Mrs. Wil- kinson, widow of (ien. Wilkinson, of revo- lutionary fame, meantime jnirsuing theologi- cal studies. He then became principal of a school at Port Royal, South Carolina, and also edited the "Times," of that placp, and