England, both parents dying
when he was a child, having no brother or sister or very near
relative, poor, and almost a homeless waif, he, when about ten
years of age, came in the hold of a ship to America. From this
humble start, through persevering energy and varying vicissitudes
he, under republican institutions, acquired an education, won
friends, became eminent as a lawyer and jurist, and earned the high
esteem of his fellow-men, dying (March 12, 1883) at Springfield,
Ohio, at sixty years of age, having served as a common pleas Judge
eight years and Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio nineteen years.

His only son, Charles Rodgers White (born May 25, 1845), also became
a distinguished lawyer and judge, and died prematurely, July 29,
1890, on a Pullman car on the Northern Pacific Railroad, near
Thompson's Falls, Montana, while returning from Spokane Falls,
where he, while on a proposed journey to Alaska, was taken fatally
ill.

( 9) _War Records_, vol. v., p. 192.

(10) Kimball's Report, _War Records_, vol. v., p. 186.

(11) Rust's Report, _War Records_, vol. v., p. 291.

(12) W. H. F. Lee served through the war; was wounded and captured
at Brandy Station, 1863; chiefly commanded cavalry; became a Major-
General and was surrendered at Appomattox. He, later, became a
farmer at White House, Virginia, on the Pamunkey, and was elected
to Congress in 1886. His older brother, George Washington Custis
Lee, a graduate of West Point, served with distinction through the
war; also became a Confederate Major-General, and was captured by
my command at the battle of Sailor's Creek, April 6, 1865. Robert
E. Lee, Jr., General Lee's other son, also served in the Confederate
army, but not with high rank.

(13) Colonel Starke was, as a General, killed at Antietam. His
son, Major Starke, met me March 26, 1865, between the lines in
front of Petersburg, under a flag of truce, while the killed of
the previous day were being removed or buried. On Lee's surrender
I found him, and gave him his supper and a bed for the night.

(14) _Manassas to Appomattox_ (Longstreet), p. 112.

(15) West Virginia was admitted as a State in April, 1863, with
forty-eight counties, but Congress consented, by an act approved
March 10, 1866, that the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson should
be added.--_Charters and Cons._, Par II., p. 1993.

CHAPTER V
Union Occupancy of Kentucky--Affair at Green River--Defeat of
Humphrey Marshall--Battl