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first success of that system of torpedo defences, now adopted in its more developed form by the whole world, when your friend General Rains' "beer barrel, demijohns and sensitive fuses" have long passed into oblivion, you persist in being wholly oblivious.

These letters will be published both in England and the United States, and I will use whatever means I am possessed of to give them all possible publicity.

Yours very respectfully,

HUNTER DAVIDSON.

[From the Richmond Dispatch, July 26, 1896.]

ROANOKE GRAYS.

Muster-Roil of the Company and Some of Its Casualties.

MOUNT MERIDIAN, VA., July 19, 1896. To the Editor of the Dispatch:

I venture to send you the muster-roll of Company F, Roanoke Grays, of the Twenty-eighth Virginia Regiment, and some of its casualties during the late war :

M. P. Dyesley, captain; killed at Williamsburg.

George McH. Gish, first lieutenant; promoted to captain.

Richard Oliver, first lieutenant; resigned.

Hoge, first lieutenant; wounded at Games' Mill.

S. A. Repass, second lieutenant; captured at Gettysburg.

H. S. Trout, second lieutenant; served during the war.

Charles Burwell, second lieutenant; resigned.

William Watts, second lieutenant; promoted to major.

N. M. Read, first sergeant; elected lieutenant Company E, Twen- ty-eighth Regiment.

M. P. Preston, first sergeant; detached to Quartermaster's De- partment.

Andrew Lewis, first sergeant ; discharged (non-resident).

A. H. Roller, first sergeant; served during the war.

Thomas Lewis, second sergeant; promoted to adjutant.

James Thrasher, second sergeant; killed at Petersburg.

A. M. Brooks, second sergeant; killed at Appomattox.