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 LOMAX

LONG

Virginia cavalry in February, 1863 ; brigadier- general, July 23, 1863 ; and major-general, Aug. 10, 1864. In July, 1863, he was assigned to the command of a brigade in Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's division, cavalry corps, Army of Northern Vir- ginia. In August, 1864, he was assigned to the command of a division of cavalry under General Early, relieving Gen. Robert Ransom. In March, 1865, he was ordered by Gen. Robert E. Lee to the command of the valley district. After the evacuation of Richmond, he moved to Lynchburg to intercept Stoneman, and surren- dered his division at Greensboro, with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army. He engaged in farming near Warrenton, Fauquier county, Va., 1865-86 ; was president of the Virginia Agricul- tural and Mechanical college, Blacksburg, Va., 1886-91 ; and in the latter year assumed a position in the war records office, Washington, D.C.

LOMAX, Tennent, soldier, was born in Abbe- ville district, S.C., Sept. 20, 1820 ; son of William and Eliza (Tennent) Lomax ; grandson of W. P. and Martha (Middleton) Tennent, great-grandson of Maj. Hugh Middleton of Edgefield, S.C., and of the Rev. William Tennent (1740-1777) and a descendant of the Rev. William Tennent, the founder of Log college, from which sprang Princeton Theological seminary. Tennent Lomax was graduated at Randolph-Macon college, A.B., 1840, A.M., 1851. He resided in Eufaula, Ala., wliere he engaged in the practice of law and in planting. Upon the outbreak of the war with Mexico he recruited a company which was at- tached to the 5th Alabama battalion and while in Mexico was made military governor of Orizaba. He moved to Columbus, Ga., and was owner and editor of the Times and Sentinel, and state printer for Georgia, 1848-57. He removed to Mont- gomery, Ala., in 1857, where he engaged in plant- ing. He became captain of the Montgomery True Blues, and in 1861 was attached to the 2d Alabama regiment and took part in the capture of the forts and navy yard at Pensacola, Fla., and asked the withdrawal of his command when re- fused permission to assault Fort Pickens, which was soon afterward reinforced and never fell into the hands of the Confederacy. He became colonel of the 3d Alabama regiment and was pro- moted to the rank of brigadier-general. His reg- iment was attached to Mahone's brigade, Huger's division, Longstreet's corps. Army of Northern Virginia, and he was killed while leading his men. He was married first to Sophie Shorter of Eufaula, Ala., and after her death to Mrs. Carrie Billingslea Shorter of Montgomery, Ala. He left surviving him one son, Tennent Lomax, a child of the second marriage, who became a prac- tising lawyer at Montgomery. Colonel Lomax died at Seven Pines, Va., June 1, 1862.

LONG, Armlstead Lindsay, soldier, was born in Campbell county, Va., Sept. 3, 1»27. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy, bre vetted 2d lieutenant and assigned to the 2d artillery July 1, 1850. He served in garrison at Fort Moultrie, S.C, 1850-51, was promoted 2d lieutenant June 30, 1851, and was on frontier duty at Fort Defiance, New Mexico, 1852-53, and at Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1853-54. He waa promoted 1st lieutenant, July 1, 1854, was in gar- rison at Fort Henry, Md., in 1854, and at Bar- rancas Barracks, Fla., 1854-55. He served on the frontier at Fort Washita, Indian Ty., 1855-56 ; at Fort Immoe, Va., 1856-57 ; on frontier duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., in 1857 and helped to quell the Kansas disturbances, 1857-58. He was at Foit Kearny, Neb., in 1858 ; at Fort Leavenworth Kan., 1858-60 and at Augusta arsenal, Ga., 1860- 61 and surrendered with the garrison to the state authorities in 1861 and was sent north. He en- gaged in the defence of Washington, D.C, from Feb. 7 to June 10, 1861, and as aide-de-camp to Gen. Edwin V. Sumner, his father-in-law, from May 20 to June 10, 1861, when he resigned from the U.'S. army. He was appointed major in the Confederate army in July, 1861 ; was promoted colonel in April, 1862, and served at the battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, as a member of tlie staff and military secretary of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He was promoted brigadier-general in September, 1863, and was chief of artillery to General Ewell in the campaign of the Wilderness and Richmond, 1864, and Appomattox, 1865, where he surrendered. He engaged as a civil engineer, 1866-69, and subsequently devoted his time to farming. He is the author of : Memoirs of Robert E. Lee (1886). He died in Charlottes- ville, Va., April 29, 1891.

LONG, Chester Isaiah, representative, was born in Perry county. Pa., Oct. 12, 1860 ; son of Abraham G. and Mary (Cauflfman) Long. He removed with his parents to Da vies county, Mo., in 1865, and settled in Paola, Kan., in 1879. He was admitted to the bar March 4, 1885, and re- moved to Medicine Lodge, Kan., where he en- gaged in the practice of the law. He was elected to the state senate in 1889 ; and was a Repub- lican representative from the seventh district of Kansas in the 54tli, 56th, 57th and 58th con- gresses, 1895-97 and 1899-1905.

LONG, Clement, educator, was born in Hop- kinton, N.H., Dec. 1, 1806. He was graduated from Dartmouth, A.B., 1828, A.M., 1831 ; studied theology at the Andover Theological seminary, 1833-34, and was ordained by the presbytery of Portage at Franklin, Ohio, April 6, 1836. He was professor of philosophy in Western Reserve college, Ohio, 1834-44, and professor of theology there, 1844-52 ; lecturer on intellectual philosophy