IVERSON-JOHNSTON BRIGADE.

1. Franklin J. Faison, Lt.-Col., 20th Regt. 4. Oliver E. Mercer, 2d Lt., Co. G, 20th Regt.

Killed at Gaines’ Mills, 27 June, 1863. Killed at Gettysburg, 1 July, 1863.

2. Duncan James De Vane, Major, 20th Regt. 5. James D. Ireland, Private, Co. E, 20th Regt.

3. John Franklin Ireland, Captain, Co. D, 20th Wounded at Gettysburg, 1 July, 1863.
Regt., A. A. G,. Iverson’s Brigade. 6. John F, Cross, Ist Lt., Co. B, pon ey
Wounded and captured near Petersburg, .7. Thomas Badger, 2d Lt., Co. I, 5th Regt.

25 March, 1865.

APPOMATTOX AND THE RETUKN
HOME.

By WALTER A. MONTGOMERY, Seconp Ligurenant Company F,
Twetrra Reeiment, N. C. T.

Appomattox to the historian is an event, not a place. The
little village of that name in Southwestern Virginia which,
on 9 April, 1865, consisted of a court house, jail, postoffice
and a few scattered houses, was not an interesting spot of
earth; and only that which came to pass there, on that day,
has brought the hamlet to the notice of the world.

Neither were the physical—material—deeds done there on
that day great of themselves. The event, if it could be con-
sidered ‘as disconnected with its consequences and without
relation to the past, would also be of trivial moment; only a
few thousand of ragged, starving soldiers, beaten in pitched
battle, surrounded and captured after a week’s retreat and an
ever-aggressive pursuit by a powerful and watchful foe—that
was all. But the captured were the remnant of the Army
of Northern Virginia; the captors the Army of the Potomac,
and that, together with the consequences raised the oceur-
rence to the plane of world-history. There, was the death-
scene of an army once formidable in numbers and so great
in prestige that it added renown to its enemy who gave the
mortal wound; and its great leader, by the act of furling the
battle-flags of his regiments, conferred on his antagonist his
highest title to fame. That army, during its four years of
existence, had never been broken in battle, though out of
them all it went on its way dripping with blood. It had al-
ways been chivalric in its treatment of prisoners and espe-
cially kind to such of them as were sick or wounded. It had
always been scrupulous in its respect for womankind and
most careful of the rights of private property. For three
years, the flash from its musketry was a sheet of flame encir-

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