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tified throughovit 1862. He was promoted major in 1863, and in the following spring was with Imboden in western Virginia, later being assigned to Jones' brigade of the Stonewall division. He was promoted to brigadier-general and given command of Early's old brigade, which he led in the expedition through Maryland against Washington. He was severely wounded, snd captured near Winchester, July 20, 1864, but four days later was retaken by his own men. Until the close of the war he commanded the reserve forces in the val- ley district. He died November 12, 1S86.

Logan, Thomas Muldrup, born at Charles- ton, South Carolina, November 3, 1840, son of Judge George William Logan and ,\nna D'Oyley Glover, his wife, and a rejjre- sentative of a family of Scotch ancestry, located at Restalrig, Scotland, and among the more noted members are the following: Col. George Logan, of the British army, the pioneer ancestor of this line, who settled in Charleston, South Carolina ; Robert Daniel Logan, governor of South Carolina, 1716; \\'illiam Logan, prominent in the affairs of the colony during revolutionary period: Dr. George Logan, for forty years physician of the Charleston City Orphan Asylum, author 01' medical books, and who served a long period as United States naval surgeon in charge of the naval station of Charleston. Judge Logan, aforementioned, devoted his attention to the practice of law, served as judge of the city court of Charleston, and was the author of a "Record of the Logan Family." Thomas AL Logan attended the schools in the neighborhood of his home, and later entered South Carolina College at Columbia, from which he was graduated in

i860, taking highest honor. Shortly after- wards he enlisted as a private in the famous Washington Light Infantry of Charleston, served during the operations which culmi- nated in the capture of Fort Sumter, and later assisted in organizing the company that became Company A of the Hampton Legion, and was elected second lieutenant, later promoted to captain, and bore his full part in the campaign of the summer and autumn of 1862; was wounded at the battle of Gaines' Mills, but rejoined his command in time to lead his men on the field of Sec- ond Manassas. In the battle of Sharpsburg or Antietam he was promoted major of his regiment for gallant conduct, and on De- cember 13, 1862, the regiment bore its part in the great Confederate victory at Fred- ericksburg. Major Logan was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and served creditably in the Suffolk and Black Water campaign of Longstreet, and later was made colonel and put in command of his regiment. In December, 1864, General M. C. Butler ■was made major-general, and he recom- manded that Col. Logan be promoted and assigned to the command of his old brigade, which was accordingly done, and Col. Logan, though one of the junior colonels of his state, was commissioned brigadier-gen- eial, and was at that time the youngest brigadier in the army. He assisted Gen. Wade Hampton in resisting Gen. Sherman's march through the Carolinas, and while in command of the rear guard of Johnston's army. Gen. Logan, at the .head of Keith's battalion of his brigade, made the last cav- alry charge of the war, and was present when the terms of surrender of Gen. John- ston's army were arranged. After the war, Gen. Logan located in Richmond, Virginia,