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it productive in permanent results. We cannot fix the evening rays of life in their shadowy horizon, but we can have our portion in that life which knows no change or decay, which is the ornament of youth, the joy of manhood, the glory of old age. " Him that honoreth Me I will honor, and he that despiseth Me, shall be lightly esteemed."

Memoranda of Thirty-Eighth Virginia Infantry.

FROM DIARY OF COLONEL GEORGE K. GRIGGS.

The Thirty-eighth regiment Virginia infantry, with Company A, Captain Daniel Towns; Company B, Captain Iver R. Cabell; Com- pany C, Captain W. Simpson; Company D, Captain R. C. Herndon; Company E, Captain Joseph R. Cabell; Company H, Captain Joseph Terrv ; Company K, Captain George K. Griggs, all of Pittsylvania county ; Company F, Captain Jed Carter, of Halifax ; Company G, Captain W. Towns, of Mecklenburg ; and Company I, Captain Fields, with Colonel E. C. Edmonds, of Fauquier ; Lieutenant Colonel P. B. Whittle, of Georgia, and Major J. C. Carringlon, of Pittsylvania, left Camp Lee at Richmond, Virginia, July 6th, 1861, for Winchester, Virgiriia. On its arrival there, placed in the brigade of General E. K. Smith. On the i8th July, ordered and proceeded to march to Manassas. On account of an accident on the railroad the regiment was delayed, and did not reach the battlefield until the 22d, too late to participate in the action. General Smith having been wounded on the 21st, Colonel Forney, of Alabama, was placed in com- mand of the brigade ; but he was relieved in a few days by Brigadier- General C. M. Wilcox, and assigned to the division of General G. W. Smith. It acted on picket duty, Sic. ; and when the army retired from Centreville it formed a part of the rear guard, leaving Manassas on the loth of March, 1862. While on the march, it was assigned to the brigade of General R. Toombs, of Georgia, whose command it joined near Orange Courthouse, March 30th, 1862. On the nth of April received orders, and marched to Richmond, and thence by steamer to King's Landing on the 14th, and marched near the line of defence around Yorktown. On the 17th, was ordered into the trenches at Dam No. i, where it served every alternate day until the 2d of May, when it was transferred to command of Brigadier General J. A. Early, which it joined at Fort Magruder, and proceeded to retire with the army on the 3d of May, reaching Williamsburg on