... came up leading his brigade through a terribly destructive fire, and fell dead from his horse just as he reached the works. Brigadier-General John Smith Preston was born at Salt Works, near Abingdon, Va. , on April 20, 1809, of Irish descent, his ancestors having emigrated from Donegal, Ireland, in the early part of the seventeenth century. He was educated at Hampden-Sidney college and graduated at...