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ived him back into her breast. At the breaking out of this wicked war, young McWilliams was a telegraphic operator in Baltimore. The Lincoln Government submitted to him one of its oaths of allegiance, which he refused. Then he resolved upon entering the Southern service, and his widowed mother offered him, with an older brother and her daughter's husband, as soldiers to the sacred cause. So, in his seventeenth year, he reached Richmond, entered the service in his brother-in-law's (Capt. Clarke) company, the "Lanier Guards,"--a company wholly composed of Baltimoreans, but composing then a part of the 13th Virginia regiment. The Lanier Guards were a twelve months company, and, upon the expiration of their term, Mr. McWilliams was discharged; but he immediately re-enlisted. He again entered the service as a private, in company C, of Col. Herbert's Maryland battalion. Here he continued, beloved by all who knew him. He was distinguished by every genial trait of character which ma