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The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
l was attended by the family of Judge Halyburton, and other relatives of the deceased. Major Gwynne, long connected with the U. States Army, is represented to have been one of the bravest of Virginia's sons, so many of whom have devoted their lives to the service of a country that has at last been yielded to the oppressor. He graduated as a Cadet, if we are correctly informed, in the class of 1818; was appointed 2d Lieutenant in the 1st Infantry in December, 1820; 1st Lieutenant in December, 1824, and was engaged in the Black Hawk war; was appointed Assistant Commissary of Subsistence in September, 1828, and Captain in March, 1833. He was transferred to the 8th Infantry in July, 1838, and distinguished himself under Col. Worth, in the Florida war; was appointed Major in the 6th Infantry in February, 1847, and transferred in 1852 to the 5th Infantry. A soldier, who fought under his command in Mexico, informs us that there never was a more gallant officer, and mentions, among his