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inie ball in the right leg, and this kept him out of the service about fourteen months. It may be well to state here that Mr. Felder is the man who killed Lieut.--Col. J. R. Root, of the Fifteenth New York cavalry, at Appomattox, the night before Lee's surrender. The particulars of the affair are as follows: Mr. Felder was passinge of the road, and when the body of horsemen approached he halted them. Thinking they were all Confederates, he called for members of the Hampton legion, when Colonel Root leveled his pistol and fired at Felder, narrowly missing. Felder thereupon shot Root, the ball taking effect in the left side, killing him almost instantly. Root, the ball taking effect in the left side, killing him almost instantly. Various accounts of this incident have been published, but this alone is correct. After the close of the war he returned to Bamberg and took up the occupation of farming, which he has followed since. In 1893 he was appointed dispenser at Bamberg, which position he still holds. He was married August 23, 1866, to Miss Mary E. Co

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