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The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Speech of U. S. Senator Benjamin on the Crisis. (search)
ory has been preserved by no monument, whose death was only chronicled in the dispatch of the day. The officer to whom we allude was Major John Fluming, of the 4th Virginia Regiment of the line, commanded by Colonel, afterwards General, Chas. Scott, one of the bravest officers of the revolutionary army. He belonged to the old Virginia family of Flemings, who have been in the country, we believe, ever since the 17th century, and was a native of Chesterfield county. One of his brothers, Col. Chas. Fleming, served gallantly throughout the war, and survived it many years. Another was the venerable Judge Wm. Fleming, for many years President of the Court of Appeals. These Flemings, we believe, were descendants of Pocahontas, and therefore related to a large number of families in Virginia. But the name was at one time in danger of becoming extinct, the late Tarlton Fleming, of Goochland, being, after the death of Judge Fleming, the only one who bore it. The latter gentleman, however, lef