s the living for whom I sorrow. I beg you will offer to Mrs.
Fairfax and your daughters my heartfelt sympathy, for I know the depth
of their grief. That God may give you and them strength to bear this
great affliction is the earnest prayer of your early friend,

"'R. E. LEE.'
"'Dr. Orlando Fairfax.'"

[Illustration: RANDOLPH FAIRFAX]

A son and two nephews of Hon. A. R. Boteler.

A son of Governor Gilmer, of Virginia.

S. H. Letcher, brother of War-Governor John Letcher.

Mercer Otey, graduate of Virginia Military Institute and son of Bishop
Otey, of Tennessee.

Launcelot M. Blackford, A. M., of University of Virginia, who became
adjutant of the Twenty-sixth Virginia Infantry, and Superintendent of
the Alexandria High School from the close of the war to the present
time--forty-one years. He has said to the writer since the war that he
cherished the fact of his having been a private in the Rockbridge
Artillery with more pride than he felt in any honors he has since
achieved.

Robert A. Gibson, of Petersburg, Virginia, now a bishop of Virginia.

Livingston Massie, of Waynesboro, who became captain of another battery
and was killed in General Early's battle of Winchester.

Hugh McGuire, of Winchester, brother of Dr. Hunter McGuire, medical
director of Jackson's corps, whose gallantry won for him a captaincy in
cavalry and lost him his life on the retreat to Appomattox.

Boyd Faulkner, of Martinsburg, son of Hon. Charles J. Faulkner.

Two Bartons from Winchester.

Two Maurys and three Minors from Charlottesville.

Other members of the company, of whom much that is interesting could be
written, were Edgar and Eugene Alexander, of Moorefield, West Virginia,
uncles of the authoress, Miss Mary Johnston. The first named lost an
arm at Fredericksburg, the second had his thigh-bone broken at second
Manassas.

William H. Bolling, of Petersburg, Virginia, the handsomest of eight
handsome brothers and a most polished gentleman.

Holmes Boyd, of Winchester, now a distinguished lawyer of that city.

Daniel Blaine, of Williamsburg, since the war a Presbyterian divine.

Robert Frazer, of Culpeper, an accomplished scholar and prominent
educator.

William L. Gilliam, of Powhatan County.

Campbell Heiskell, of Moorefield.

J. K. Hitner, who, though a native of Pennsylvania, fought through the
war for the South.

William F. Johnston, of Rockbridge, a sterling man and soldier.

Edward Hyde, of Alexandria, a