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otion of the whole people to the cause of the Confederacy. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has written, The world has never seen better soldiers than those who followed Lee. Company G of the eighteenth Virginia old ironsides Lieutenant R. Ferguson Lieutenant E. H. Muse Lieutenant A. Campbell A look at these frank, straightforward features conveys at a glance the caliber of the personnel in the Army of Northern Virginia. Good American faces they are, with good old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon namesā€”Campbell, Ferguson, Hardy, Irby, Sydnor. They took part in the first battle of Bull Run, and tasted powder. In the fall of 1861 First-Lieutenant Richard Irby resigned to take his seat in the General Assembly of Virginia, but on April 20, 1862, he was back as captain of the company. He was wounded twice at Second Manassas and died at last of prison fever. Company G took part in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. Of the men who went into the battle, only six came out unhurt. E
I., 88-98; navy, superiority and activity of, during the war, I., 110, 111; troops, foreign nationalities in, II., 158, 159; soldiers and their work of burrowing and sapping, II., 223; raids in the West, IV., 129 seq.; ordnance of the, V., 123; Ordnance Department, V., 124; government, VI., 46 seq.; navy, VI., 18, 112. Federal Hill, Baltimore, Md. , IX., 159. Federal Point, N. C., Sugar Loaf Battery, III., 342. Feeding the army Viii., 42. Fennel, J., VIII., 149. Ferguson, R., VIII., 113. Ferguson, S. W., X., 277. Fernandina, Fla., II., 351. Ferrero, E., III., 195, 200. Ferry, O. S., X., 197. Fessenden, F., X., 209. Fessenden, J. D., X., 161, 209. Field, C. W., X., 107, 282. Field guns: imported from France, V., 157; field-pieces, V., 170. Fighting Joe (see also Hooker, J.), II., 204. Fighting McCooks, II., 170. Fillebrown, J. S., II., 29. Finch, F. M., The blue and the gray, IX., 28, 27