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bility that, in spite of the constantly decreasing resources of the Confederacy, General Lee wrote three weeks afterwards that his army had not been so well supplied for many months. He also received the warmest commendation both from President Davis and the then Secretary of War--General John C. Breckinridge. The details of his service as Commissary-General were given in the modest but able paper from his facile pen which, with the accompanying documents, we published in our number for March, 1877 (volume V, pages 97-111). We deeply regret that his death will deprive us of a paper on the Confededate Nitre and Mining Bureau which he had promised us. Since the war General St. John has pursued his profession of engineering with an ability and success which has given him an enviable reputation both in this country and in Europe. For several years he had been Consulting Engineer on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. He was one of the most active members of our Society, and took the