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who \\.is shot through the body at first Winchester, never fully re- covered, and died shortly after the close of the war.

Seventh Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel Chas. DeChoiseul, Killed at Port Republic, and Major Aaron Davis, killed the day before at Cross Keys.

Eighth Regiment Chevania Lewis, killed at Gettysburg, and Col- onel German A. Lester, killed at Cold Harbor.

Ninth Regiment Major H. L. Williams, mortally wounded at Gettysburg.

Tenth Regiment Colonel W. H. Spencer, killed at second Ma- nassas; Colonel John M. Leggett, mortally wounded at Chancellors- ville, and Major Thomas N. Powell, killed in front of Petersburg.

Fifteenth Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. Wilkinson, killed at the second Manassas.

First Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel Charles E. Dreux, the first Louisiana officer to fall in the war, killed in a skirmish on the Curtis farm, near Newport News, July 5, 1861.

Second Battalion Major Robert C. Wheat, killed at Gaines's Mill.

Louisiana Zouave Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel Gaston Coppens, killed at Sharpsburg.

These names are as nothing compared to the gallant officers and soldiers of the line killed in battle, when we remember that it was these men, the soldiers of the line, the private soldiers in particular, nearly every man of whom, by training, courage and by experience in actual war was fitted to command, revealed by their devotion to principle and duty the wonderful fighting qualities of the Southern soldiers, and hence it is not surprising that such men were known as foot cavalry, the title earned by them under Lee and Jackson. And so it came to be regarded that the Army of Northern Virginia was invincible, not to be defeated, and, indeed, that is true, for at the last they were overwhelmed and overpowered by the vast armies recruited from every clime and commanded by that great soldier, General U. S. Grant, who had his immense army supplied and equipped as no army has ever been before in modern times, and, as we were told by Prof. Andrews, a distinguished veteran officer of the Union army, in his great lecture on General Lee, in this city, that in th'e battles in and about Petersburg leading up to the surrender, the Southern troops were outnumbered two and three to one, and at the last Grant's army outnumbered that of General Lee fully five or more to one.