The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-05

CarriDgton. He has discharged his fiuties
with entire satisfaction to the court, the
|public, and The grand Jury with which ht
has acted, and it is gratffyfngto his friends
to know that the members of the Grand
jury are his active friends.
Although Major G. has spent much of bis
early life In this city, yet as the revolutions
ary times through which we have passed
took him for several years from amongst us,
and ne may not be as well known now to
the people as others, ask permission to
say something of his history.
AT the outbreak Of the war he was O stu
dent at the University, and Joined one of the
tWo companies which were raised there for
the southern army. With these companies
ne marched as private to Harper's Ferry,
anu ne served with them in the campaign
IN chat quarter until after the battle Of
"a manassas. SO many of the volunteers of
Chese companies were elected as officers by
companies raised near the homes OF the
young men that it became necessary to dis
band them, and Major Carrington went to
Western Virginia to join the command OF
General Floyd. Though he was offered a
position on the stat Of that officer, he pre-
terred to light as a soldier in the ranks, and
was in all the hard service of the western
Virginia campaign, fighting with his mus
ket at the desperate battle, Of ,Carnifax
Ferry. He afterwards engagedsin raising
an artillery company in Albemarle, Of
which he was elected captain, and was as
signed to the command of Stonewall Jack
son. ,-r -. rrea, E ts.y 20 n: 80
He served with his, battery in all the
arduous campaigns of that heroic officer !;
and on one occasion, at Port Republic,
When Fremont and Banks were doubling
(yqnpr9l 1,ic
accidentally separated from headquarters
by the river, Major Darlington had the for
tune to be in position which commanded
the bridge, and by vigorous firing he pre-
vented any serious accident to the COM
mand. E-r~t ~ 3 ): S7ifiEI
at the great battle of the Wilderness
MAJOR Darlington was commanding a bat
talon OF artillery supporting the StonewaIl
Brigade in the command Of General Ed
ward Johnston, and was taken prisoner
along with the flower of our troops which
we lost at the capture of General Johnston.
He remained prisoner until the 18th OF
June, 1860. He was one of those unfortu-
nate seven hundred Confederate officers
who were chosen by lot to be taken
to Morris island, and exposed to the fires
from our batteries directed against the
Federal works there in retaliation for sup.
POSSN oiLluHi C-ApOoukS VI = SucI&l pTtSOu'
ers in Charleston, remaining under fire
several<weeks. He was then, with his un
fortunate comrades. taken to Hilton Head
and Fort Pulaski, where they were, on some
plea of retaliation, fed on. pickles and corr
meal for six weeks, at the exposure of the
lives Of several Of his comrades, and to tht
extreme injury of his own health, which Il
scarcely yet recovered. Although he hat
powerful personal friends ut the ,Nortl
who could have procured his release from
this extraordinary danger and suffering, h,
| refused to take advantage of any influence
| which his comrades could not share.
Not only does his war record as gallan
Confederate soldier stand equal, to say tht
least, to that Of any one of the candidate
before the people for the Office of Common
wealth's attorney for Henrico county, bu
in addition to all this his professional pro
| ticiency and we'll known worth as risin,
young lawyer and his unsullied charactei
as a gentleman, eminently fit him for th'
position sought, and entitle him to th'
| warm and cordial support Of the people
irrespective of parties. JUSTICE.