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cadets. In May he was made colonel of the Sixteenth Virginia Infantry, and given command of a brigade on the James river, and subsequently commanded it at York- town, Williamsburg and Seven Pines. After being invalided for a time, he commanded a brigade in southern Virginia and North Carolina, and later at Petersburg. After Chancellorsville, he commanded a brigade ir' Jackson's old division, until May, 1863, when he took duty in Richmond, and in October was given command at Savannah, Georgia. In April, 1864, he was again in command at Petersburg, and in July at Lynchburg, where he remained until the surrender. Subsequently he conducted a military academy at Wilmington, North Carolina, and from 1873 to 1879 was in the service of the Khedive of Egypt, and con- ducted two important exploring expeditions to the Soudan ; in the last named, he was paralyzed, and was carried on a litter for hundreds of miles. Returning home, he was engaged in literary work, and from 1882 to 1894 held a position in the war department at Washington, D. C. He died at the Sol- diers' Home, Richmond, July 29, 1896.

Corse, Montgomery D., was born at Alex- andria, \'irginia, March- 14, 1816. He re- ceived an academic and business education, and served in the Mexican war as a captain in the First Virginia Regiment. He was with the gold-seekers in California, return- ing in 1856 and engaging in banking in Alexandria. In i860 he organized the "Old Dominion Rifles," at Alexandria, and later became major. He was later colonel of the Seventeenth Virginia Regiment, and in Longstrect's (later Kemper's) brigade, took part in the battles of Manassas, York-

town, Williamsburg, Seven Pines and the Seven Days. He was wounded at the Sec- ond Manassas, and again at Boonsboro. In 1862 he was promoted brigadier-general and given command of Pickett's old bri- gade. He took part in the Pennsylvania campaign, and in 1863-64 operated in south- west Virginia and East Tennessee. Later he was with the forces opposing Butler on the James river ; shared the service of Pickett's division at Petersburg, Richmond, Dinwiddie Court House and Five Forks, and ended his military career with honor at Sailor's Creek. After the surrender, he was confined at Fort Warren until August, 1865. He returned to Alexandria, and engaged in banking. He was seriously injured in the fall of a part of the capitol at Richmond, causing a partial blindness. He died Feb- ruary II, 1895.

Bearing, James, was born in Campbell county, Virginia, April 25, 1840, died in Lynchburg in April, 1865. He was a great- grandson of Col. Charles Lynch, of revolu- tionary fame, who gave his name to the summary method of administering justice, now known as "Lynch law," through his rough-and-ready way of treating the tories. He was graduated at Hanover, Virginia, Academy, and was appointed a cadet in the United States Military Academy, but re- signed in 1861 to join the Confederate army when Virginia passed the ordinance of se- cession. He was successively lieutenant of the Washington artillery of New Orleans, captain of Latham's battery, major and commander of Denny's artillery battalion, and colonel of a cavalry regiment from North Carolina, and was promoted to the r.mk of brigadier-general for gallantry at