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IX. FARLEY "THE SCOUT." i. In the old " Confederate Army of the Potomac," and then in the " Army of Northern Virginia," there was a man so notable for daring, skill, and efficiency as a partisan, that all who valued those great qualities honoured him as their chiefest exemplar. He was known among the soldiers as " Farley, the Scout," but that term did not express him fully. He was not only a scout, but a partisan leader; an officer of excellent judgment and mag nificent dash ; a soldier born, who took to the work with all the skill and readiness of one who engages in that occupation for which, by Providence, he is especially designed. He served from the beginning of the war to the hard battle of Fleetwood, in Culpeper, fought on the 9th of June, 1863. There he fell, his leg shattered by a fragment of shell, nd the brave true soul went to rejoin its Maker. One of the chiefest spites of fate is that oblivion which sub merges the greatest names and events. The design of this brief paper is to put upon record some particulars of the career of a brave soldier so that, in that " aftertime " which sums up the work and glory of the men of this epoch, his name shall not be lost to memory. Farley was born at Laurens village, South Carolina, on the 19th of December, 1835. He was descended, in a direct line, from the " Douglas " of Scotland, and his father, who was born on the Eoanoke river, in Charlotte county, Virginia, was one of the most accomplished gentlemen of his time. He emigrated to