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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Five Dollars reward (search)
Death of Valentine W. Senthall. We regret to learn that this eminent citizen and most valuable man, died at his residence, in Charlottesville, on Friday last. There are few of its citizens whom the State could have spared so illy. Mr. Southall was known in his own county as a lawyer of great ability long before he entered public life. In the Legislature he sustained his high reputation, at a time when that body presented a mass of ability such as it had never known since the days of the revolution. In that assemblages of giants he proved himself fully able to grapple with the strongest. He was for several sessions Speaker of the House, and presided over it with a dignity which inspired universal respect, and an impartiality, which could not be denied by the bitterest political opponent. In his personal department, be was a genuine specimen of the Virginia gentleman of the olden time; kind. courteous, and full of benevolence. His public record will bear the closest scr