Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-27

and doing well. He resides in Mississip-
pi, not far from Memphis.
John W. Graves has since the war gone
to live in California.
Robert B. Johnston lost an arm in O
collision on railroad shortly after the
lclose of the war.
". l.. Ledbetter lives near ThomasYille,
Georgia.
VIM. Charles Nichols left chair in the
medical school at New Orleans to enter the
army. He has since returned to it.
Joseph P. Jones and Charles W. Phifer
were both shortly after their graduation
appointed from civil life to the United
States Army. At the beginning of the
war they resigned their commissions, and
took service under the Confederate flag.
Jones was Lieutenant Colonel of the 9th
Regiment N. G. Troops, then Colonel OF
an Alabama regiment, and finally Colonel
and Inspector General on Bragg's staff.
Phifer was Major of Cavalry in our pro-
vislonal army, and was temporarily in
command of a brigade by assignment of
Gen. Van Dorm, though it is understood
never was commissioned as Brigadier Gen
eral.
John W. Sandford was Assistant Surgeon
in the United States Navy. resigned his
commission there and became Surgeon in
the Confederate Navy.
William Henry Spencer practiced law in
Chicago, came home and commanded q
partisan ranger company until the close CT
the war, when he returned to Chicago.
The class was sadly shorn of its strength
during the war. Our comrades who laid
their lives upon the altar of their country
were our best men-were, with possibly
an exception, ''honor men" Alexander
received the first honors. Bradford,
though only IA few months past eighteen
years Of age at his graduation,
was especially distinguished for the ease
with which he bore off the palm in mathe-
MATES, for while inferior in no study, in
this he was indeed .faciLe princepS. Leoni-
das Merritt, man of more mature years,
of great patience, of great industry, of
known integrity, of indomitable will, di-
rected by we'll balanced, we'll trained
mind, had before his entrance into the
army, laid with mathematical precision a
sure foundation for future distinction.
Time only was needed to rear the super
structure. Among the living an equal
number of members, in attainments or in
promise, equal to those who have fallen,
cannot be found. The courage and the
patriotism of the class have been proudly
illustrated, but alas at terrible cost
There ere other members of the class
who deserve mention in this paper al
though they did not graduate with us.
Clinton III. Andrews, Lieut.. Colonel I'd
N. @. Cavalry, was killed in battle. David
@. Clark, Captain Oath Regiment N. c..
Troops, still lives. Thos Newton Crump-
Ter, Major 1st n. @. Cavalry, was killed in
battle. Richard 3. Henderson, Captain
A. and I. General of Scales Brigade, still
lives. Nicholas M. Long, Captain A. @.
NJ. Of Ransom's Brigade, died after the
war. Theophilus ". Moore. Captain Odd
Regiment N. @. Troops, was during the
war, and is now, clergy man of the Metho-
dist Church. George Whitfield, Surgeon
of Battles Alabama Brigade, now lives in
Florida.
I trust, Messrs. Editors, may not have
worried beyond measure the patience of
your readers who have followed me thus
far and if l have seemed to bring forward
the war record of the class more promi-
nently than accords with the fashion and
taste of the preCent day, trust it may be
considered pardonable thing in a man
who, in his heart, still regards faithful SER
vice in the Confederate Army as more
fruitful in honor than any office known to
the government of the United States. S.