The National tribune., 1910-03-24
VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA.
Geo. G. Round, NOnInated for Depart
ment ComRander iby Phil Kearny

ment ComRander iby Phil Kearny
Phil Kearaey Posts Richmond. Va,
sends out following circular:
George c. Round was born in Wyo-
ming Valley, PA, but at the outbreak
of the great war he was a student In
Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Conn. He enlisted April 20, 1861, and
drilled on the college campus with a
college company which served In the
1st Conn. H. A. In the campaigns of the
Army of the Potomac until May, 1864,
when he was9promoted from the ranks
and commissioned as signal officer by
Abraham Lincoln himself. In this ca
pacity he served with Schofield's Corps
of the Western Army, and was Sher-
mans Signal officer at Raleigh, N. c.,
at the time of Johnston's surrender. On
the night of April 26, 1865, he sent up
State Capitol of North Carolina, an
nouncing Peace and good will This
was the last signal message of the war;
1T will be seen from the above that
Lieut.. Rounds services were intimate
ly connected with the Department of
Virginia and North Carolina, and 1t
seems very appropriate and proper that
half a century after the outbreak of the
war he should be made Commander of
Lieut.. Round, after graduating from
his college in 1866, studied at the CO.
lumbia Law School, and was admitted
to the bar in 1868 in New York City.
In the latter part of that year he set
tied at Manassas Va, where he has
been an active citizen for AZ years, hav-
ing represented his County as an inde-
pendent member of the Legislature, and
served his people in many other capaci-
| ties.
NO mention of Lieut.. Rounds career
would be complete without a reference
to his services in the cause of educa'
ton. He started the first public schools
in his part of Virginia, both white and
colored. and was made a School Trustee
in the very beginning of the public
school system. In 1906, when the State
Association of School Trustees was or
ganized at Richmond, it was found that
he was the Oldest Trustee in the State
and he was made it's first President He
| has been active in pressing all measures
for the benefit of the public school sys-
TEN, particularly the Normal and Agri-
cultural Schools of the State. He is
one of the Trustees of the Eastern Col.
lege and also of the Fredericksburg
Normal under appointment from the
Governor.
I'm 1894 he wrote the charter for the
| Manassas Industrial School for Colored
| Youth, which was dedicated by Fred
erick Douglass during that year. He
has acted as legal counsel for that
school without fee, besides contribute
| ing time and money and serving as q
| member OF the Board of Managers uI
| to the present time.
Lieut.. Rounds only brother, Rev
! DR.. J. Emory Round, was a Captain in
| the 43d Mass, and served in Newbern
| n. c., during the war, and after his
| discharge remained in Newbern as 8
missionary among the refugees and
freedmen, and during the yellow fever
| epidemic of 1854 in that city acted as
nurse for his comrades until he was
stricken with the fever himself. After
| the war he became the founder and
first President of the Colored Methodist
College ir Baltimore, known as Morgan
College.
1T will be thus seen that there are
special reasons why our colored COM
rades should honor Lieut.. Round with
their votes for Commander
Lieut.. Rounds ancestors came from
Rhode Island and eastern Massachu-
setts Some of them were prominent as
soldiers in the Indian and Colonial
wars, and his great-grandfather was an
officer of the 'Scituate Hunters in the
Army of the Revolution. He is a mem
ber of the Sons of the American Revo-
luton, in the Society of the Army OF
the Potomac and in the military order
| of the Loyal Legion. His membership
in the G. A. Il. dates back to 1870"