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Charles McCourt, promoted to sergeant-major, then detailed as

blockade runner.

Detailed.

Johnson, detailed as general scout. Roger A. Pryor, general scout.

W. E. Chappel and A. H. Ellis, couriers at cavalry headquarters. L. L. Johnson and A. C. Winston; W. H. Pennington and R. W. H. Parsons, detailed for civil service. O. H. Baird, detailed for medical department. F. J. Ellis, detailed ambulance corps.

W. E. Glover and P. Velines, quartermaster's department. W. W. Belle, commissary department.

The original company numbered 105

Recruits added during the war 73

Total number on roll 178

Killed, and died in hospital ... 21

Wounded 29

Transferred for promotion 12

Permanent details 13

Transferred 9

Did not re-enlist 16

Discharged for disability and captured 21

Strength of Company H, i3th Virginia cavalry, at the sur- render, April 9, 1865 57

[Prom the Spartan, Spartansburg, S. ('., February 28, 1900.]

CONFEDERATE VALOR AND DEVOTION.

By Col. WM. H STEWART, Portsmouth, Va.

The grandest era of American chivalry is enshrined in the heroic traditions of the Confederate States.

The girlhood, the womanhood, the boyhood and the manhood of the people were imbued with a glowing chivalry. Patriotism in the homes, the sanctuaries, the army, absorbed the minds of all with sublime self- forgetful ness; and now the memory of heroic actions