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ber of shares of the valuable stock of the Old James River Company.
He declined to receive them except upon the condition that they should be applied to education purposes.
Accordingly he transferred 100 shares of this to Liberty Academy in Lexington, Va., from which grew Washington College.
The law, by which Washington College was greatly relieved, became such February 27, 1866, and was entitled An act for the relief of colleges and other seminaries of learning.
By it the arrearages of inte, he wrote me as many as three letters urging me to get a portion for it of the land fund which the United States had donated to the States for educational purposes.
I give a copy below of the original of one of them now in my possession:
Lexington, Va., December 16, 1865.
Sir, —I commit to your charge a petition of Washington College to the Legislature of Virginia, and request that as the Senator from this district that you will present it to the Senate at the most favorable period.
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Courthouse, Va.
Fitzhugh Lee, Glasgow, Va.
W. B. Bate, United States Senate, Washington.
Robert F. Hoke, Raleigh, N. C.
W. H. F. Lee, Burke's Station, Va.
J. B. Kershaw, Camden, S. C.
M. C. Butler, United States Senate, Washington.
E. C. Walthall, United States Senate.
L. L. Lomax, Blacksburg, Va.
P. M. P. Loung, Atlanta, Ga.
T. L. Rosser, Charlottesville, Va.
W. W. Allen, Montgomery, Ala.
S. B. Maxey, Paris, Texas.
William Mahone, Petersburg, Va.
G. W. Custis Lee, Lexington, Va.
William B. Taliaferro, Gloucester, Va.
John G. Walker, Missouri.
William T. Martin, Natchez, Miss.
Bushrod R. Johnson, Nashville, Tenn.
C. J. Polignac, Paris, France.
E. M. Law, Yorkville, S. C.
Brigadier-Generals.
George B. Anderson, North Carolina.
George T. Anderson, Anniston, Ala.
Samuel R. Anderson, Tennessee.
Joseph R. Anderson, Richmond, Va.
Frank C. Armstrong, Texas.
E. S. Alexander, Savannah, Ga.
Arthur S. Bagby, Texas.
Alpheus Baker, Louisville, K