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[From the Richmond, Va., L>i* t >alch, October 16, 18W.]

HANOVER COUNTY HEROES.

Partial List of Soldiers from Hanover County Who Perished in the War of i86i-'65.

To the Editor of the Dispatch :

It is proposed to erect a memorial in Hanover Courthouse to those soldiers from Hanover county (whether in Hanover organizations or otherwise), who sacrificed their lives in defence of Virginia between 1861 and 1865. We enclose a list of such, and would be greatly obliged by its publication in your Sunday Confederate columns, with the request from this committee that any one who knows of any error or omission would write a correction and send the accurate informa- tion at once to Rosewell Page, Richmond, Va.

T. W. SYDNOR, GEORGE P. HAW, H. T. WICKHAM, ROSEWELL PAGE,

Committee.

The list is as follows :

CAVALRY.

Lieutenant-Colonel W. B. Newton, Fourth Virginia Cavalry, Rac- coon Ford, October n, 1863.

Corps-Surgeon John B. Fontaine, Petersburg, October i, 1864.

Hanover Troop.

First-Lieutenant Isaac W. Wingfield, Spotsylvania Courthouse, May 9, 1864.

Second-Lieutenant B. H. Bowles, Manassas, July 21, 1861.

Sergeant Edmund Fontaine, Manassas, July 21, 1861.

Sergeant William J. Kimbrough, Spotsylvania Courthouse, May 9, 1864.

Corporal O. C. Anderson, Raccoon Ford, October n, 1863.

Corporal Bernard Pollard, Spotsylvania Courthouse, May 9, 1864.

Philip B. Spindle, Manassas, July 21, 1861.

Richard D. Saunders, Manassas, July 21, 1861.