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Ham H. Payne, General Thomas L. Rosser, General W. McComb, General J. H. Lane, General George H. Steuart, General James L. Walker, Governor Charles T. O'Ferrall and staff, Colonels Cowardin, Boykin, Pleasants, Wingo. Harwood, Colonel J. K. Edmunds, of Lexington, who commanded the old Twenty-seventh Infantry in the Stonewall Brigade; Captain John Cussons, who was one of "Marse Bob's" most valued scouts; Judge George L. Christian, Professor Edmund Harrison, of Richmond College; Rev. G. T. Gray, of Blacksburg, chaplain of the cadet corps of that place ; Major J. W. Stall, of Blacksburg ; Lieutenant J. P. George, of the Fourth Vir- ginia Cavalry ; Captain W. H. Parker, who was in command of the navy-yard at Richmond during the war; Colonel L. D. Starke, who commanded at one time the Third North Carolina Infantry; Captain A. F. Bagby, of King and Queen, who had charge of a battery at the battle of the Crater; Colonel Dudley Evans, who commanded the Twentieth Virginia Cavalry, and his wife; William Taylor, Esq., one of Richmond's oldest citizens, who has passed four score and four; Colonel B. Holt, of Sussex, who entered the war as captain of the Memphis Southern Guards; Rev. Jabez Hall, pastor of the Seventh-Street Christian church; Rev. J. C. Hiden, pastor of Grove-Avenue Baptist church ; Colonel John B. Cary, Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson, Dr. William H. Shields, of Williamsburg, and others. Among the ladies were Mrs. Charles T. O'Ferrall, Mrs. Charles E. Wingo, Mrs. R. E. Boykin, Miss Nellie Parker, Mrs. C. O'B. Cowardin, Mrs. L. W. Burton, Miss Hancock; Mrs. A. F. Bagby, of King and Queen ; Miss Lizzie Jones, Miss Beltie Broad- dus, Mrs. Vaughan Webster, Miss Mary Ellett, Mrs. G. Percy Hawes, Mrs. John S. Ellett, Miss Lee Robinson, Mrs. E. R. Robin- son, Mrs. David C. Richardson, Miss Willie Thomas, Miss May Williams, Mrs. William H. Williams, Mrs. David A. Brown, and others.

The following members of the Monument Association had charge of the stand: W. J. Westwood, T. Wiley Davis, Thomas O'Neil, B. F. Cook, F. D. Elliott, E. A. Saunders, A. J. Vaughan, R. T. Pemberton, David Wilson, B. B. Roberts, James T. Gray and John H. Frischkorn.

EXERCISES DURING THE RAIN.

While the falling rain made it exceedingly disagreeable to either stand or sit through the ceremonies, it neither drove any great num-