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Eleventh Virginia Killed, 25; wounded, 105; missing, 3 total, 133-

Seventeenth Virginia Killed, 14; wounded, 47; missing, 10 total, 71.

Grand totals Killed, 62; wounded, 245; missing, 14 total, 321.

MEMORIAL ADDRESS On the Life and Character of Lieut. -General D. H. Hill,

Before the Ladies' Memorial Association, at Raleigh, N. C., May 10, 1893,

by Hon. A. C. Avery, Associate Justice of the Supreme

Court of North Carolina.

Ladies of the Memorial Association, Comrades, Gentlemen :

Measured by the average length of human life, almost a gen- eration has passed away since the tocsin of war was sounded thirty years ago and aroused in conservative old North Carolina such a furor of excitement as no pen can portray and no tongue describe. As years have rolled by the reaper has gathered and the angels have garnered the ripened sheaves. One by one the spirits of our old heroes have passed over the river to again rally around their sainted leaders, Lee, Jackson and Hill, and join them in endless paeans to the Prince of Peace for achieving the most sublime of all great victories. Twenty years ago the space allotted to the soldiers at these annual gatherings was filled for the most part by comrades rejoicing in the exuberant vigor of young manhood. The eye of your orator searches in vain to-day among the silvered heads, that fill the space allotted to the old soldiers, for the manly forms of those friends of his boyhood and comrades of his young manhood, Basil Manly, Richard Badger, Phil. Sasser and James McKimmon, true and tried soldiers, who were as conspicuous for their courage in the hour of danger as for their loyalty to the sacred memories of the past when our banner had been forever furled.