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the battle of Plymouth. He participated in the principal engagements between the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army o^' the Potomac. On the retreat of the Con- federate forces from Petersburg to Appo- mattox Court House, he was mortally wounded near Farmville in a singular en- counter with Brig.-Gen. Theodore Read, of the Federal army. The two generals met on April 5, at the head of their forces, on opposite sides of the Appomattox, at High Bridge, and a duel with pistols ensued. Gen. Read was shot dead, but Gen. Dear- ing lingered until a few days after the sur- render of Lee, when he died in the Old City Hotel at Lynchburg, Virginia.

De Lagnel, Julius Adolphus, a native of New Jersey, was appointed to the United States army from Virginia, in 1847, as sec- ond lieutenant. Second United States In- fantry, and promoted to first lieutenant in 1849. ^" 1^61 he resigned, and was com- missioned captain of artillery, C. S. A. He was chief of artillery to Gen. Garnett, in West Virginia, and distinguished himself at Rich Mountain, fighting a gun alone ; the enemy was upon him, but he made his es- crpe. On his return to service he was made major of artillery, and declined a commission as brigadier-general. He afterward served in the ordnance department at Richmond.

Dimmock, Charles, was born in Massa- chusetts in 1800, died in Richmond, Vir- ginia, October 27, 1863. He was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1821, assigned to the First Artillery, and served as assistant professor of engineering at West Point in 1821-22. He was attached to the artillery school at Fort Monroe in 1825-26 and 1828-29, being adjutant of the

school in the last named year. He was pro- moted to first lieutenant in 1828, was as- sistant quartermaster in 1831-36, and su- perintended operations at Delaware break- water in 1831-33. He was made captain on August 6, 1836, but resigned on September 30, and became a civil engineer in the south, being employed on many important railroads, and in 1837-38 in the location of a United States military road to Fort Smith, Arkansas. In 1843-47 he was direc- tor of the James river and Kanawha canal. He was captain of Virginia militia in 1839- 40, lieutenant-colonel in 1841-42, and super- intendent of the state armory in 1843-61. He was a member of the Richmond city council in 1850, 1854 and 1858, and at the beginning of the civil war entered the Con- federate service, became brigadier-general and was chief of ordnance department of ^'irginia. He died October 27, 1863.

Early, Jubal Anderson, born in Franklin county, \'irginia, November 3, 1816, He graduated from the United States Alilitary Academy in 1837; in 1838 promoted to first lieutenant of artillery, resigned and engag- ed in law practice. He was a member of ihe house of delegates. 1841-42, and com- monwealth's attorney, 1842 to 1852, except (luring 1847-48, when he served in the Mexi- can war as major of volunteers. In 1861, a3 a member of the Virginia convention, he opposed secession, but went with his state. As colonel of the Twenty-fourth Virginia Regiment he commanded a bri- gade at Manassas, and was promoted to hrigadier-general. He was wounded at Williamsburg, in leading a charge. In the Manassas campaign of 1862 he commanded a brigade of Ewell's division, and he