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granite, from the Fall Hill or Taylor quarries. The inscriptions are brief, well cut, and stones and inscriptions, we believe, are imperishable and will preserve the historic interest of the lo- cality for all time. The entire cost of these markers was $230.00, and was fully met by the generosity of Mr. Ryan. The receipted bill of Cartright and Davis, with a list of the markers and localities are filed in the Virginia Room of the Confederate Museum, Richmond, Virginia.

The Markers in Spotsylvania are as follows :

1. Bivouac of Lee and Jackson, the night before Chancellors- ville, at the Junction of the Orange Plank Road and the road to Catherine Furnace.

2. Lee turned back by Texans — on the Plank Road, Mrs. Tapp's Old Field, East of Parker's Store.

3. Jackson's Arm Buried — Northwest corner of Wm. Jones' burying ground, Ellwood, Wilderness.

4. At Salem Church, on Roadside.

5. General Lee's Field Headquarters, Battle of Fredericks- burg, on Telegraph road, back of Howison's.

6. Jackson's Field Headquarters, Battle of Fredericksburg, on hill, called by Henderson Prospect Hill, near Hamilton's Crossing.

7. Lee's Headquarters, winter of 1862-3, on the Mine Road, a mile from Hamilton's Crossing.

8. Stuart and Pelham, on flank of Federal Army, Battle of Fredericksburg, at junction of Mine Road and River Road, front of Hamilton's Crossing.

9. General Lee at Spotsylvania C. H., in Court House grounds.

10. Chandler House, near Guinea's Station, R. F. & P. R R. House where Jackson died. May loth, 1863.

James Power Smith.