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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Pensacola. (search)
Chiles N. Brand, one of our old citizens, died last week. He was an honest and good man, a firm and decided tee-to taler, and known everywhere as the wheel-horse of the temperance cause. Among others at his funeral I saw the venerable Gen. John H. Cocke, of Fluvanna, another distinguished advocate of temperance. Both Mr. Brand and Gen. Cocke served the State in the war of 1812, and their sons are now in the service of the Old Dominion fighting for the Southern Confederacy. The Right Rev. Bishop Meads paid a visit to our town a week since; he appeared to be in good health, and, although advanced in years, his intellect is bright and vigorous, and his labors in his Divine Master's vineyard are as earnest and zealous as ever. His prayers and his sympathies are with and for the Southern Confederacy, as he believes the cause we are now engaged in to be a righteous one. He has been heard to say were he a few years younger he would shoulder his musket and do battle against the enem