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his memory was drunk standing. He then called on Major (now Rev. Dr.) James P. Smith, who was with Jackson when he was shot, to respond.

Captain Smith said the subject was one of which he knew much and he hardly knew what to say. He could tell them of how he was introduced to General Lee by Jackson as one of his aides, and how General Lee laid his hand on his shoulder and told him he was a lucky dog. Or he could tell of a Christmas dinner that Lee, Jackson, and Stuart ate together. Or of how General Lee sent him to get news from A. P. Hill, and when he returned the General made him sit down beside him on his blanket and put his arm around his waist and joked with him. And later at night of Lee and Jackson warm- ing their hands at the fire and planning the battle of Chancellorsville. And after Jackson was wounded of carrying a note to him from Lee saying the victory was due to his efforts.

LEE'S GREATNESS.

Rev. Dr. M. D. Hoge was called upon by Major Stringfellow to respond to the toast: " In memory of General Lee great as a man, great as a soldier, and greater still as an exemplar of Christian life."

The Doctor said he would reply by telling what his friend, Major (now Dr.) Smith, was too modest to relate. That was that after Gen- eral Jackson was wounded that Major Smith shifted his own body so as to put it between the wounded General and the men who were firing on him.

As to the toast, he could say, in the words of Carlyle, who was not a parson, that " a man's religion is his chief part and turns all the rest."

The Doctor said that in point of service he was the oldest man in the regiment, and that counting by seniority he was entitled to ride five yards in front of Colonel Jones.

Referring to the governor's fifty-year prophecy, he said that at the end of that time Norfolk would be a Liverpool, Lynchburg an Edin- boro', Richmond a Paris, and Farmville a London.

The Doctor concluded by comparing Lee's memory to the brightly- shining morning star.

After this Judge F. R. Farrar ("Johnnie Reb.") and others spoke.

AT BARTON HEIGHTS.

The Lee-birthday ball, which took place at Barton Heights at night, was one of the most brilliant social events that has ever en-