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Duncan M. Turner is in Leonardtown, Md. These are probably the only survivors.

A broken shaft of marble in the Confederate burial plot, in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, to Murray and his men, tells the sixty who gave up their lives in the Confederate struggle : about one fourth of the whole number mustered.

THE ONLY CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT GETTYSBURG.

The monument is the tribute of the Murray Confederate Asso- ciation, who, likewise, were instrumental in erecting the massive granite monument to the Second Maryland Infantry, on Gulp's Hill, Gettysburg; the only one thus far permitted by the Gettys- burg National Cemetery authorities to Confederates, to be placed so near the Federal lines. But, they had to concede that the Maryland regiment took, occupied and held (July 2 and 3) the place where their monument stands. Indeed, the bloody charge on July 3 was made at a distance beyond it. This Maryland mon- ument, erected in 1886, stands to-day the only Confederate monument on the battlefield of Gettysburg. '

COLONEL PETERS AND CAPTAIN LEMMON BURIED ALMOST SIDE BY SIDE.

Private Lemmon received deserved promotion. Years after the war, General William H. Payne, on whose staff he had served, paid him a sly compliment. "Lemmon," he said, "I sometimes didn't know whether you were on my staff or I on yours." George Lernmon was a true type of a Maryland soldier and gentleman, and was as intelligent as he was brave. He was destined to die while traveling and aproaching the old Manassas battlefields. He died on the fortieth aniversary of the death of my father which resulted from service in the Confederate Army Colonel George Peters, commanding the old First Rifle Regiment, Baltimore, many men from which entered the Confederate service, at the very beginning, assisted by the colonel and myself, lieutenant and paymaster. Col. George Peters and Captain George Lemmon lie a short distance apart in Greenmount Cemetery, awaiting the last trumpet call.