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d with the family. On the maternal side General Moore is a grandnephew of Hon. Levi Woodbury, of New Hampshire, who was successively governor of New Hampshire, secretary of the treasury under President Jackson, and justice of the Supreme court of the United States. General Moore was born at Coosawhatchie, Beaufort district, S. C., on February 25, 1837. He received his primary education at the academy at Gillisonville, S. C., and was graduated at the university of Georgia, at Athens, in August, 1856. Returning home, he was admitted to the bar in 1859, and began the practice of his profession at Gillisonville, then the county seat of Beaufort district. In June, 1861, he entered the Confederate service as first sergeant in Company C (known as the Beaufort district troop of cavalry), of the Hampton legion. This troop entered the legion carrying with it the same commissioned officers they had at home. The office of first sergeant was the highest office vacant, and this was tendered t