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H. Whitmore, Company II: < ,<-"i-^e M. l'Y.mri-o>, Company I, i4th Virginia Cavalry, who participated in the charge and acted with dis- tinguished gallantry, as did every man and officer who engaged in it. Dr. T. P. Hereford, then Assistant-surgeon, i4th Virginia Cav- alry, remained on the ground and cared for the wounded in a small house a short distance from where General Lee surrendered. He that in this charge there were from sixteen to twenty killed and \\.ninded of our regiment, although not over 100 or 120 men and officers were engaged.

A I- INK TRIBUTE.

In a recently published " History of the Qth Virginia Cavalry," a most interesting work, by its former Colonel, R. L. T. Beale, com- manding our brigade at Appomattox, we find the following tribute to the men and officers of the I4th Virginia Cavalry, who participated in this last charge, together with a foot-note by the son of General Beale, who edited the notes of his father, page 147, as follows:

"Supporting and participating in part in the last charge which was made upon the artillery by any arms of the Army of Northern Virginia, they cheered their comrades of the i4th Virginia, led by gallant Captain E. E. Bouldin, of the Charlotte Troop, returning with two twelve-pound brass guns, wrested from General Sheridan while the terms of surrender were being signed. (Note. In this last charge the brave young Color- Bearer, James Wilson, and Samuel Walker, of Company H, i4th Virginia Cavalry, both from Rock- bridge county, laid down their lives, the last men to fall in battle in the Army of Northern Virginia.) "

In this connection and we would invite the attention of all com- rades to it we learned last year, through the appearance in the Suffolk (Va.) Herald of a private letter to a friend, written by our Adjutant, Major Joseph Van Holt Nash, that he had been gathering data facts, and incidents of merit illustrative of the service and achievements of his regiment and our brigade to be incorporated in a complete history of the operations thereof from organization to Appomattox Courthouse, with special devotion to the military career and achievements of that noble gentleman and Christian soldier, < ieneral W. H. F. Lee, whom we all know was the son of our be- loved chief and accomplished general, Robert E. Lee.

In correspondence thereafter with Major Nash I learned that in prosecution of his labor of love, he was anxious to secure the co- operation of all officers and men of the 9th, loth, 13th, and I4th Regi-