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tain James E. Wolff, who had for years conducted a hat store on Sycamore Street, whereby Captain Wolff and himself were to go into partnership for carrying on the business of hatters. Captain Wolff brought him around to my law office on Lombard Street, which was then very much dismantled by the shot and shell that, from time to time, had invaded its walls, and asked me to prepare the articles of agreement, which I did, and received for my work, from the well-to do-looking sutler, a fee often dollars, which he paid me with a brand-new ten -dollar greenback the first, I believe, I ever saw.

This stroke of good fortune made me supremely happy, and must have manifested itself in my very countenance, as it was soon noised about among my friends and acquaintances that I had money, and I had numerous applications for loans, which I made very freely, in sums ranging from twenty- five cents to $i, having first reserved enough to purchase for myself a pound of cheese, a pound of coffee, and a box of sardines. I remember that Colonel William R. John- son, a man of high position and property, entered a sutler's store, where I was making these purchases, and that I shared with him my good fortune by lending him a dollar.

Your friend and comrade,

CHARLES F. COLLIER.

[From the Staunton, Va., Daily Neu'S, August 9, 1894.]

VETERANS' REUNION.

The Meeting of the Rockbridge Dragoons at Lexington List of the Survivors Next Reunion to be Held at Staunton.

LEXINGTON, VA., August 8, 1894.

The first annual reunion of the Second Rockbridge Dragoons or Company H, of Fourteenth Virginia Regiment, was held here yester- day. At an early hour the gray-haired veterans began to pour into the town. The trains brought their quota. Not only was the Four- teenth Regiment out in force, but other veterans were present in large numbers from various commands. Some of the old "vets" had not met since the surrender, and reminiscences and war anec-