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GORDONS UNDER ARMS — UNITED STATES. 475
1864- Arthur. 1776, Lt. and Adjt., 9th Virginia Reg. of the Con-
tinental Line, Revolution [Pension Rec, Virginia State Library ; Saftell's
Revolutionary War, 503).
1865. Arthur. 1776, Dec. 19, Lt., 8th Virginia Reg., Continental Line
(Powell's List of Offs. U.S. Army). 1777, Jan. i, Lt., 9th Virginia Reg.
1780, Sep. I — Dec. 31, Adjt.; continued in active service until 1781, Jan. i,
American Revolution. His name occurs in a " List of Officers for whose
Revolutionary Services Military Land Warrants were issued prior to 1784,
Dec. 31 " {Pension Rec, Virginia State Library, Saffell's Revohdionary
War, 3rd ed., p. 503).
1866- Augustus Manly. 1S61, entered the Confederate States service
as Serg. ; May 31, shot through the lungs at the battle of Seven Pines, or
Fair Oaks, where the Confederates were repulsed ; promoted for his " high
soldierly qualities," ist Lt., Capt., Maj., and Lt. Col., 6th Alabama Reg.,
" Stonewall " Jackson's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. 1863, May 3, A',
in battle at Chancellorsville, falling "at the head of his regiment with his face
to the front, a grape shot having penetrated his breast at almost the same
spot where he had been formerly wounded" (Gen. J. B. Gordon's Remi-
niscences, p. 56, which goes on to say, pp. 64-5) : —
Before going into the fight in the Wilderness, he quietly said : " My hour has come ". I
[Gen. John B. Gordon] joked, and chided him. I told him that he must not permit such im-
pressions to affect or take hold upon his imagination. He quickly and firmly replied : "You
need not doubt me, I will be at ray post. But this is our last meeting." Riding at the head
of his regiment, with his sword above him, the fire of the battle in his eye and words of cheer
for his men on his lips, the fatal grape shot plunged through his manly heart, and the noble
youth slept his last sleep in that woful Wilderness.
Son of Zachariah, who was the son of Chapman, 1873; ^- 1842. His
brother, Gen. J. B. Gordon, calls him "a brave and lovable, a modest, though
brilliant, young soldier," who was " rapidly winning his way to distinction ".
Brother of Eugene Cornelius, 1890, John Brown, 1962, Walter Scott, 2021,
and Zachariah Chapman, 2051 (A. C. Gordon's Gordons of Spottsylvania).
1867- Augustus Thomson. 1864-5, Private, 22nd Pennsylvania Cav.
B. 1847; descended from Alexander, who settled there in 1734, and d.
before 1750 (Information from Daniel Smith Gordon, New York).
1868- B. Frank. Served as Maj., Lt. Col. and Col., sth Missouri Cav.,
Confederate army, Civil war, 1861-5 [List of Field Offs. in the Confederate
States Army, 186 1-5, p. 49).
1869- Beirne. Began his military career in Troop A, ist squadron of
Cavalry, National Guard of Georgia, rising to be Lt. Col. {Savannah Press,
1909, Nov. 5).