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 BRIGADIER-GENERA! JAMES H. LANE. James H Lane was bora at Matthews Court-House, Virginia, in 1884. He graduated with bigb distinction at the Lexington Virginia Military Institute, and afterwards took his degree in t li « ■ scientific oonrse at the University of Vir- ginia. So highly was he appreciated at his Alma Mater, thai he was soon after recalled to Lexington ai Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Tactics; he subsequently became Professor in the same departments at the State Seminary of Florida, and at the outbreak of hostilities was filling the Chair of Natural Philosophy and Tactics in the North Carolina Military Institute of Charlotte. With the other officers of this institution, he immediately offered his services to the State, and was must useful and energetic as drill-master and adjutant at