e her soil the stamping-ground of armies and the battlefield of the greatest war of modern times.
In the debate which was then in progress he took sides with those who believed that the differences should be settled inside the Union, and like General Lee and many others who afterwards became the mainstay and support of the Southern cause, endeavored to delay the tide which was then setting in towards the disseverance of the Union, and the bloody war which would inevitably follow.
To this end ; a speech of his at Holcombe Hall, when the matter was up for discussion being still remembered by many residents of Lynchburg for its earnestness and ability.
The die was cast against his views, however, and when this was the case he did as General Lee and General Early and so many ardent supporters of the Union felt it their duty to do—he went with his State, and thereafter there was on his part no repining and no holding back, and naught save the most steadfast devotion and heroic sacrific
n, 49.
Allan, Colonel, William, 34.
Anderson, Captain 49th Va., wounded, 26; Captain J. R., 177.
Antietam or Sharpsburg, Battle of, 32; U. S. and C. S. forces engaged in, 36.
Appomattox, C. H., 284, 347.
Artillery. The Light, 297.
Ashe, Captain S. A., 357.
Atkinson, Colonel, John Wilder, 141.
Bassinger, Major S. W., 134.
Baylor, Captain, George, 365.
Beauregard, General P. G. T., 76; unjustly blamed at Shiloh.
310.
Benham Major Calhoun, 216.
Benton, T. H., his eulogy of Lee, 87.
Berkeley, Captain F. N. 14.
Bethel, Battle of, 347.
Bobbitt B. Boisseau, 339.
Bond Captain, W. R., 235.
Boteler, Hon. A. R., his house burned, 267.
Bradford, U. S. Navy Admiral, 333.
Breckinridge, General John C., 306.
Bright. Captain R. A., 228, 356.
Brooke, Colonel John M.,327.
Brunswick Guards, Company H, 53d Va., roll of, 120.
Buck, Captain Irving A., 162, 218.
Bullock, captain n J. D., 71.
Burton, W. L., 171.
Cabell, W. L., 68.
Canby, General E