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and afterwards (March 20, 1863) appointed clerk of the Military court of Longstreet's corps.

Henry C. Brown, transferred to signal corps, November 14, 1862.

William H Cox, detailed to hospital duty, September 6, 1862.

Calvin M. Dold, detailed to same, September 20, 1862.

E. Holmes Boyd, appointed first lieutenant of artillery in ordnance, January 29, 1863.

John Doran, discharged January 7, 1863, and Jacob N. Rhodes, February 20, 1863.

E. Boyd Faulkner, appointed captain quartermaster department, January 31, 1863.

J. Harvey Gilmore, appointed chaplain, December n, 1862.

C. W. Trueheart, appointed hospital steward, February 18, 1863.

Hugh H. McGuire, transferred to Seventeenth battalion Virginia cavalry, February 18, 1863; became captain, and killed a few days before General Lee's surrender.

The next muster-roll was dated Hamilton's Crossing, April 30, 1863, and the sketch of movements is very brief, as follows : Last mustered, February 28, 1863, near Port Royal, Va. March 2d and 3d, marched sixteen miles to [this place]; April 2gth, skirmished with the enemy, and therefore not mustered. The following changes are noted:

Captain William T. Poague, promoted to be major, April 18, 1863, to rank from March 2, 1863.

Corporal Abner E. Arnold, appointed assistant surgeon, April 9, 1863.

John T. Agner, discharged for ill-health, April 25, 1863.

Henry Ford and Andrew J. Vest, discharged April n, 1863, both being over military age.

Kinloch Nelson, transferred to Sixth Virginia cavalry, February 27, 1863.

William B. Beard, died March 4, 1863, arid John F. Hall on March 12, 1863. Joseph McCalpine died March i, 1863, of wound received at Fredericksburg December 13, 1862.

The next regular time for mustering and preparing pay-roll was June 30, 1863, but it appears that at that time the battery was on the march into Pennsylvania, and this ceremony was omitted till August 18, 1863. Near Liberty Mills in Orange county, Va., a brief epitome of its movements from April 30 to June 30, 1863, was given, viz: Last mustered at Hamilton's Crossing, near Fredericksburg, April 3Oth; May 2d, skirmished; May 3d, in the battle of Fredericksburg