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more Southern States, it would no doubt be found to be a fact that our alumni, where ever they were, held more than their proportion- ate share of the places of trust and honor and of the posts of danger.

VIII. UNIVERSITY MEN IN MILITARY SERVICE.

The above summary has given us a survey of the civil service ren- dered during the war by the alumni of the University of North Carolina. We have noted how completely they dominated the con- trol of the State in 1861. We have seen that the representatives of the University of North Carolina in the Confederate Congress was fair, but not extraordinarily large. We now come to the officers in the field.

The highest military rank held by a University man was that of Lieutenant-General. This was attained by Leonidas Polk under a commission dated Oct. 10, 1862. Gen. Polk was outranked in length of service only by Longstreet and Kirby-Smith. He had been made Major-General on June 25, 1861; he was the second per- son to attain this rank, and, of the 99 Major Generals in the service, was, with one exception, the only man to attain this position without passing through the preliminary grade of Brigadier.

The University had one other son to attain the rank of Major General, Bryan Grimes, commissioned Feb. 23, 1865.

Of Brigadier Generals she had thirteen.

George Burgwyn Anderson, commissioned, June 9, 1862.

Rufus Barringer, commissioned June i, 1864.

Lawrence O' Bryan Branch, commissioned, Nov. 16, 1861.

Thomas Lanier Clingman, commissioned May 17, 1862.

Isham W. Garrott, commissioned Mav 28, 1863.

Richard Caswell Gatlin, commissioned July 8, 1861.

Bryan Grimes, commissioned May 19, 1864.

Robert Daniel Johnston, commissioned Sept. i, 1863.

William Gaston Lewis, commissioned May 31, 1864.

James Johnston Pettigrew, commissioned Feb. 26, 1862.

Chas. W. Phifer, commissioned spring of 1862.

Matt Whitaker Ransom commissioned June 13, 1863.

Alfred Moore Scales, commissioned June 13, 1863.

Among the staff appointments we find that the third Adjutant and Inspector General, R. C. Gatlin, was a son of this University. He was commissioned August 26, 1863, and in July 1862, had been