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Artillery Stuart's Horse : Major Charles E. Ford. Kemper' s Battery : Robert Posey. Danville : John Wells. Captain James W. Jackson, Washington Stuart.

Navy: Commodore William T. Muse, Surgeon Randolph F. Mason."

On the west side : 41 Eighth Virginia Infantry : Major James Thrift.

Company G: Lieutenant G. W. Swink, Sergeant C. W. Reed, Sergeant J. F. Lynn, Sergeant E. F. Money, James Ballenger, A. J. Bradfield, Alfred Hooe, Asa Peck, G. L. Williams, J. W. Williams, Robert Wells, James Forsyth, W. T. Tucker, J. W. Gunnell, C. H. Hutchinson, J. L. Hutchinson, Samuel Jenkins, Frank Steele, Joshua Adams, W. H. Adams, S. E. Horseman, Elthum Pearson, Thomas Reed, J. A. Simms, A. Harrison, Arm'd Thompson.

Seventeenth Virginia Infantry, Company D: Captain John T. Burke, Sergeant John R. Steele, Samuel L. Barnes, Walter S. Ford, Lyman Koon, J. Beach, John R. Ratcliffe, Charles H. Ashford, Henry Wrenn, Joseph Freeman, H. F. Harman, Robert Petit, John Newcomb, R. C. Corbett, Simeon Mills, Edgar Thomas, Thomas A. Lynn, Michael Crowley, A. Dove, J. W. Richardson."

Preparations for the unveiling had been in progress for several days. The ladies had decorated the Courthouse in the most ex- quisite manner, inside and out, and the speakers' stand was also handsomely decorated with flags and flowers.

CROWDS AND ORGANIZATIONS.

Long before noon the village was thronged. Crowds came by very road.

" Each valley, each sequestered glen, Mustered its little horde of men,"

and sent them to do honor to the fallen braves.

Lee Camp, of Alexandria, under Commander William A. Smoot, came up via Virginia Midland railroad and were accompanied by R. E. Lee Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, recently organized. Numbers of members of the Clinton Hatcher Camp, of Loudoun, came via the Washington and Ohio, and these organizations were accdmpanied by large numbers of unattached citizens and many ladies.