The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-01

Gee; Sergeant Thomas Gse. Sergeant
porni Peter Menga. Corporal John
i. Ifunnlcutt. Corporal Peter Tatum.
privatos--Jasnes Baxter james I.
Tswq "So'' john fHsep' dran 1'Tt Nish"i.s
Hatch. William Heath. Joseph Heath,
Roderick Heath. Peter Iye. John Live
/ SeN. Joni livesay, John Lee. Alex Lea.
t LaTkln , smith, John Moor, W Il
Hubbard womack.
priny Birche,ts Company. virginia
militia. sixty second Regiment Col.
! Lieutenant John Birchett Ensign
THOMAS :. Vaughn SssIrgesnt i I,i,. TIT
Pheasant Hobbs. WINS Floyd. Joseph
Momach; Samuel Tenqua. Allan e.
John Finch. Collin hobbs. iiartweli
l Williams. Grleff Williams, James Nc
Cam. Daniel Iamison, Jr.. John Jami-
/ son. Anthony Allen. William Allen.
Wilson Hobbs, Robert Day. Thomas
| Allen. Robert conming, samuel Wan
mach, Josiah Fcnaua, Josiah -lda,ns.
! Henry GIN, Joshua W. Roberts. Rober,
\ Brockwell. Wiiliari Fl. Waugh. Thomas
/ Owney. Peter W. lmockwcll. iittl"berr,
| hurry. Hartw"ll Heath. William Brock
well. William Z. Hobbs. Samuel Eridg
water. Nath Wamoch. William Hack
rey. George Bonner, JOAN Pointer.
| Prince George County - Captain
| Robert Harrison's Company, Sixty-sec-
Colonel Miles selden. Captain Robert
Harrison, Lieutenant William L,
Rieyes, Lieutenant Joseph Glover. En-
sign Richard Marks. t9uarterrnaster-
Sergeant Joel. Sergeant Thrash Ser
geant Frederick Ragsdale. Sergeant
Thomas Adams. Sergeant Henry Geo.
4 20 NJ hrt,t l,1,
| Robert Mattox, Corporal Ephrairi
Heath. Corporal Samuel Tenqua. Cor
Musselwhite Corporal David simmons.
! Corporal William Biackley, CORPORAL
| William III. Stainbaci Corporal Samuel
mack. Fifer stephen Andrews pri-
| vates-Jcremiah A!dridgc. William
AasTs SAMUEL uI, naams EohSr,
nlackey, William bonner. william
1 Bratten, William II. Rassarcr. Samuel
| Corner. Eppes Cryder. Hampton Epps
James Epps, William Epps, John Ed
ner. Henry Fisher Thomas Grasswit
J James Goulder. Francie Granmer. WI
1 liam Gait. Samuel Calf.
| A Stroll Through Shockor.
| Beneath the roots OF tangled weeds.
Afar in country gravcyards. lie
1 The men whose unrecorded deeds
! Have stamped this nations destiny"
| Lying north OF the husy hum OF the
city's thoroushfare. surrounded by the
| industries OF world or activity. lies
Shockoe 90
This cemetery. in which rest tho re-
| mains of mon promifcnt in the history
| OF Richmond and in the nation is not
often trequcntcd. Only the curious In
search Of some missing link in lhe
| graveled walks or pore over the rec
ords In the Office of the superintendent
Keep IN touch with them. but now and
| then II lot * seen that calls TO mind
the fact that all the descendants have
gone the way OF mortals.
Shockoe, hallowed by memories of
days long, pas, and scenes almost for
through tho thoughtful stranger. tread
| Ing your neatly kept walks, perhaps
| for the first time
Twenty, Third Virginia Militia, 1872
The national government has placed q
valor aud courage. The Thought arose
that there must have been much In
this life for man 20 emulate, and | won
| derod where the rest OF his story could
be found
strolling on. tho grave of Hall Neil
son was round, another 1872 patriot,
but his record WAS missing. Then Ds
Micatah Clark, noted surgeon in the
Same war He lived to n good old age,
How. my heart quickened when
read, John ID. Blair, better known rs
| "Parson Blair" Here was ono man
that knew something about, for the
Presbyterian divinc's name has been
handed down to this and other genera
tons with unboundcd respect and ad-
miration, as we'll az reverence This
cody man. whose name is connected
with all that stood for piety and the
welfare OF his city. was chaplain OF tho
brigade commanded by Robert Porter
| field from July II, 1914, TO February IL
1915.
Pursuing ms walk, I learned that
still more OF tho soldiers Of this period
were sleeping in this sacred sod Now
ana then name suggested Z battle or
recalled school days, Wits parag phs
OF history that had long since been
releEated TO the past. Deeply inter-
ested In the warriors OF those stirring
1 days between. lSl2 and 1919. | could
almost Sc. them in their splendid man
hooa apbiauding the heroism OF Dolly
| Madison, attempting to save the treas
urcs Of the White House OF which she
| was mistress
i could see them as the news was
! announced If Pcrry's victory on Lake
Erie, and the desire became uaratnornt
| TO find out more about them Leaving
| the cemetery, feeling that my time was
| amply repaid / knew that Richmond
and its quaint, old fashioned, unfrc-
| quented burying ground was inlis-
| soiuhiy connected with the history of
| the nation. and that the Nalor of the
! heroes would only b. forgotten when
the last page OF history had been
1 written.
MRS. WILLIAM JUDD.