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by the United States Government in the Bureau of Hydrography .it Washington, D. C. Captain Samuel A. Ashe was the assistant to Captain Holies in tin- laboratory and was a most valuable officer in that department. > Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. DeLagnel, Lieutenant- Colonel F. L. Childs, Captain Samuel A. Ashe, Captain John L. Holmes, Captain J. K. P. Dangerfield, Dr. Benjamin Robinson, as surgeon of post; T. J. Robinson, as superintendent of laboratory, tnun his long experience in that branch of business in Washington, D. C., Captain ). K. P. Dangerfield was made military storekeeper and paymaster by Major Booth from long experience at the arsenal and armory at Harper's Ferry.

Thomas C. DeRosset acted as Secretary in Colonel Child's office, Mr. Robert Johnson was chief clerk, and E. P. Powers assistant to Johnson. In the military storekeeper's office was William J. Wood- ward, who was placed in the ordnance department by Major Booth and General J. Gorgas, Chief of the Ordnance Bureau at Richmond, and he was one of the most efficient officers at the post. On the approach of General Sherman's army all work, of course, was sus- pended, and the entire command, after removing all the machinery possible, together with the large amount of supplies, were ordered in camp, and remained there until the surrender of Greensboro.

MATTHEW P. TAYLOR, Major 6th Battalion, Armory Guard.

[From the Richmond Dispatch, March 22, 1896.]

A BRILLIANT RECORD.

The Nottoway Grays (Co. G), Eighteenth Virginia Regiment, Pickett's Division.

This company nearly twenty years ago took steps to complete a roll of its officers and men. At general meetings, annually held, the roll was made, the main difficulty having been to get the full names and records of the men who, as conscripts, were assigned to it in the latter year of the war, and who, as a general thing, came from coun- ties not represented in the original company.