The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-07-02

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ond Lieutonant-COmmandc j. W. Dick
erson, Third Commander: ".
u. JENNINGS. Adiutant, James Franklin,
Jr., quar-. ermastcr. w. y Gregory, Treas
urcr. Rev. u. NJ. Carson Chaplain; Dr.
H. Gray Latham. Surgeon, lJr. j. \.
Lanchone, Assistant surgeon.
All of whom. save one, badly wounded
ut Seven Pines ana disabled for field SER
vice. served through the war. ana an
excepting one. I'm LOngstreets Brigade
Lonestrcets Division. Longstreets Corps,
Army Northern Nlrglnia..
COLONEL K1RKWOOD OTEN.
Commander of Garland Rodes camp,
q. v, entered the Confederate Army as
First Lieutenant Of the LynchhuFs Home
Guard. Eleventh. Virginia Regiment April
% 1861. Served Vuocr LOng,ifret rs ms
hricade. Division. and CORDS commander,
and w3s promoted through the regular
grades 10 the 1OlCnocy OF the regiment.
Severely wounded at the battle of Drew
rvs Bluff May Us. 1854. I'm command on
his regiment which incapacitated MN
for field duty. was retired by the Medical
Board a. Rlchu Crd. Va, ana ordered 10
report 10 General Elzcy, in command on
thu Richmond District.
Was i'm con manc Of the local forces az
Lynchburc. Va. April -. $50, ana SUR
rendered with tho Army OF Northern
Virginia. and excepting the tour years
Of the war and the interval thereafter
until 1870 he was an active membcr or
tine volunteer militia OF the State from
1915 TO 1856. a period Of thlr.y-tMo years.
r. ~. LEE CAMP. ALEXANDRIA.
The r. T. Lee Camp. No. . Alexandra,
Virginia. was oicarizcd July Z, ISL win
CAPTAIN - r.. HOoe. Commander
The camp now has 1876 members ana
is in prosperous condition.
Nj Edgar Warhcld has been rs aGJu-
tant since its organization, until ApIh
of This wear when bee WAX elected Sec
ond Iieutcnant-COmma r.
Itt present officers are. Thomas Perry,
C0m-nardcr. G. VIM. RAMSAY First
Mathematician arder: Edsar Warhol
SECOND Lieutenant Commander, y q.
WvckoN. Third Commando;
+ 9. Milhurn. Adjuiant. Andrew Suiil-
van Qqartermasier; X f.. KNOX, Ei,o ILo9 ia
D.. Bedford Brown. Surgeon: ". W.
Sherwood. Omcor Of the Day. +. j. Pow
e.. ColOr-Rcalcr; $. c. Eoush, Nidette
This camp observes May 2ith as MS
Memorial Day They have erected az
fho corner of Prince ana Washington
streets "A monument 10 those soldiers who
left Alexandria ON the evacuation by our
troops on May -. lSGl, and who were
killed I'm battle or died during the war;
This monument IS faithfully decorated
on Memorial Day with wrcathes ana gar
lands Of flowers. and the services AFTER
wards for tho occasion are held M that
uoiuf on every recurring anniversary OF
he dav when our soldiers left AloNan-
dria 10 fght. and many Of them 20 die,
I'm defence Of our beloved southland
The Gnnu Ccmmat1er OF Nltsi, ,tt-
General VIM 4. Smoot held the position
az commander OF r.. f.. Lee Camp OF
Alexandria Virginia, for The greater part
of fho time since It's organization IN ISL
General NJ j.. COIsc, who unul ms
rromotion was the Colonel OF the sew
cntecnth Virginia Infantry. composed
mostly Of AleXandrians. OF whose hrleaue
the regiment formed part was a mem
her Of this camp from its organization
until his death I'm 800 .,,..
COMMANDER PERRY.
CO.. Thomas Perry. tho Commander OF
l. ~ Loo Camp 40. .. Q. v. OF Alex
andria Virginia. was born in Charles
county. Nd. Jorrarl) 81, lS29. lie moved
ia Alexandria In 1896 was one Of the
o~irinal members OF the Alexandra RI
remon afterwards Company \. Of the
Seventeenth Virginia Infantry with whom
lac wont 10 Harper's Ferry NJ the time or
Tho John Brown raid. and was present
, M the execution OF the latter
He went away with inc conpinA upon
the occuuation Of Alexandria by the Fed
eral troops. May u, lNpl, belhb lheh
lie VAS I'M the fight al Blackburn's Ford.
Jnlv Il 1861. al Williamsburg, yorktown.
seven Pines. the seven days Leht afound
Richmond In 1862 Second Manassas,
South Mounts In. Shapsourf, trege, Ks X,
bur, the battle I'm Manassas Gap July II.
1Ng.. n the trenches in the winter Of
'G4 and 'G5 Dnwiddie Court House. Five
FORKS and Sailors Creek.
lie was made second lieutenant at the
reorenn ization Of the army in the spring
OF 1862. and about ten days Afterwards
| promoted TO the first lieutenancy. which
rank he held until the end, although ac-
tually in command OF the company from
October 1864 until the battle OF Sailor ;
Creek. whore he was captured.
In the march into Maryland In 1852. he