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of his duties " (Letter in the possession of Mrs. TroUope, 191 2). On his death
1868, Feb. 26, a New Orleans journal wrote: —
How nobly he performed what he considered his duty thousands of his fellow citizens can
testify. It is but seldom that memories of the warUke events which occurred around Richmond
are looked upon by his surviving comrades without a tribute being paid to his memory by those
who had so many opportunities of admiring and respecting him for his gallantry as a soldier
and his worth as a man.
B. 1823, Aug. 8. Joined the British army (Sherwood Foresters), as an
officer, 1851, Feb. See 600-
1913. George Washington. 1861, enlisted in the Tennessee army as
Drill Master, nth Inf. Reg.; transferred to mil. service of the Confederate
States ; promoted Capt., Lt. Col., Col. 1864, Brig. Gen. ; participated in
every engagement fought by his command, with exception of Bentonville
(1865, Mar. 19-21), being a prisoner until 1865, Aug., at Ft. Warren, Boston
Harbour ; afterwards served four years in the Indian countries and territories,
west of the Rocky Mountains.
Son of Andrew and Eliza K ; b. 1836, Oct. 5, Giles Co., Tennessee;
1859, graduated at W. Mil. Institute and became a civil engineer, finally
studied law at Lebanon, Tennessee, practising at Pulaski and Memphis until
1883; appt. one of R. R. Comrs. of State; received alltmt. in Interior Dept.,
U.S., 1885 ; after his four years in Indian countries he resumed law at Memphis
until 1892, when elected Supt., City Schools ; Democrat member of 60th
and 6ist Congresses, 1907-11, loth Tennessee Div. Gordon m. 1876,
Sep. s, Ora S., dau. of Constantine Paine, and lives at Memphis, Tennessee
{Who's Who in America, 191 1).
1914- Gilbert. 1758, Sep., Frederick Co., Virginia Col. Mil., Indian
wars (The Virginia Colonial Mil., 72).
1915- Hanford Lennox. Col., served during the Civil war in one of
the ^Minnesota Regiments (John Talman in the New York Times Book
Review, 191 1, Apr. 6).
B. 1836, in New York State; great-grandson of Allan Ramsay, b. in
Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1735; grandson of William Wallace, born there 1760,
who was related to Catherine Gordon, of Gight, Lord Byron's mother, and
who emigrated to America, 1788 (ibid.) ; went to Minnesota as a youth, and
practised law ; after the war became Registrar of the Land Office at St. Cloud,
Minn. ; about 1881, moved to Minneapolis ; a " Republican reformer of much
force, a fire-eater generally, and a poet of more than local celebrity " ; published
a poem " Pauline " through Putnams in the middle seventies; living 1911, at
Los Angelos, California {ibid.}.