Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-08

A. Mushbach, captain; Samuel L. Mon
roe, first lieutenant: Albert Bryan, sec
ond lieutenant; Leonard Marbury, or
derly, and Charles II. Appich, quarter
master. hrcvet third lieutenant.
RE. LEE CAMP.
The r. E. Lee Camp, No. 2, Alexan.
dria, Virginia, was organized July T.
1884, with Captain P. B. Hooe, Com,
mander.
The camp now has 136 members. and
is in prosperous condition.
Mr.. Edgar Warfeld has been its
| adjutant since its organization until
april of this year, when he was elected
Second Lieutenaut-C Commander.
This camp observes May 24th as its
Memorial Day. They have erected at
the corner of Prince and Washington
streets a monument to those soldiers
who left Alexandria on the evacuation
by our troops on May 24,1S61, and who
were killed in battle or died during the
war.
This monument is faithfully decora-
ted on Memorial Day with wreathes
and garlsnds of flowers, and the servi.
ces afterwards for the occasion are held
at that point on every recurring ami
versary of the day when our soldiers
left Alexandria to fight, and many of
them to die, in defence of our beloved
Southland.
The Grand Commander of Virginia,
General VIM. A. Smoot, held the
position of commander of R. E. Lee
Camp for the greater part OF the time
since its organization in 1881.
General II. d. Corse, who, until his
promotion, was the Colonel of the Sew
enteenth Virginia Infantry, composed
mostly of Alexandrians, of whose bri-
gade the regiment formed part, was
member of this camp from its organi-
zation until his death in 1895.
Col Thomas Perry, the Commander
of r. E. Lee Camp, was born in Charles
county, Nd, January 81, 1929. He
moved to Alexandria in 1856, was one
Of the original members of the Alexan-
dria Rifemen afterwards Company A.
ofthe Seventeenth Virginia Infantry,
with whom he went to Harper's Ferry
at the time of the John Brown raid,
and was present at the execution of the
latter. He went away with the com.
pany upon the occupation of AleXan.
dria by the federal troops, May "a,
1861, being then Second Sergeant. He
was in the fight at Blackburn's Ford,
July is, 1861; at Williamsburg, York
town, Seven Pines, the seven days fight
around Richmond, in 1862, Second
Manassas, South Mountain, Sharpsburg,
Fredericksburg, the battle in Manas-
sas Gap July 81, 1868; in the trenches
in the winter of '64 and '65, Dinwiddie
Court House, Five Forks and Sailors
Creek.
He was made second lieutenant al
the reorganization of the army in the
spring OF 1862, and about ten days after
wards promoted to the first lieutenacy,
which rank he held until the end, al
though actually in command of the
company from October, 1864, until the
battle of Sailors Creek, where ne was
captured.
In the march into Maryland in 1862
he was put in command of four com
panies, which be carried into the battle
Of Sharpsburg, bringing out only nine
men unhurt. He was taken prisoner
at Manassas Gap July 81, 1868, was
sent to JohDson's Island, where he was
desperately i'll with diphthelia, and
his life was saved only by the devoted
attendance Of a fellow prisoner. DR.. w.
S. Christian, Colonel of the Fifty fifth
Virginia Infantry, assisted by Captain
W. f. Dunaway, Ljeutenants Peyton
Moncure, Powers. and Simpson.