federal \'<ilni- ,.,,<! Devotion.
Charles McCourt, promoted to sergeant-major, then detailed as
blockade runner.
Detailed.
Johnson, detailed as general scout. Roger A. Pryor, general scout.
W. E. Chappel and A. H. Ellis, couriers at cavalry headquarters. L. L. Johnson and A. C. Winston; W. H. Pennington and R. W. H. Parsons, detailed for civil service. O. H. Baird, detailed for medical department. F. J. Ellis, detailed ambulance corps.
W. E. Glover and P. Velines, quartermaster's department. W. W. Belle, commissary department.
The original company numbered 105
Recruits added during the war 73
Total number on roll 178
Killed, and died in hospital ... 21
Wounded 29
Transferred for promotion 12
Permanent details 13
Transferred 9
Did not re-enlist 16
Discharged for disability and captured 21
Strength of Company H, i3th Virginia cavalry, at the sur- render, April 9, 1865 57
[Prom the Spartan, Spartansburg, S. ('., February 28, 1900.]
CONFEDERATE VALOR AND DEVOTION.
By Col. WM. H STEWART, Portsmouth, Va.
The grandest era of American chivalry is enshrined in the heroic traditions of the Confederate States.
The girlhood, the womanhood, the boyhood and the manhood of the people were imbued with a glowing chivalry. Patriotism in the homes, the sanctuaries, the army, absorbed the minds of all with sublime self- forgetful ness; and now the memory of heroic actions
