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u.r. in image: COL. \ M.L. SPOTSWOOD.

c. in image: COL. F.E. GREEN.

c. in image: COL. W.E. PENDLETON.

c. in image: MAJ. H.C. CARTER

c. in image: MAJ. J.H. DINNEEN.

l.l. in image: GOV. W.E. CAMERON

l.l. in image: GEN. V.D. GROVER

l.r. in image: COPYRIGHT 1886 BY THE U.S. INST. PHOTO. CO, \ 165

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l.c. [printed]: OLD VIRGINIA TROOPS, \ Paying their respects to the great dead Union General. Governor Cameron and Staff, composed on this day of Gen. Ed. Anderson, General \ Grover, Colonel Green, Colonel Pendleton, Major Carter and Major Dinneen. \ All these men were old-time war veterans under Stonewall Jackson, and did hard hitting in every battle in Virginia. Just behind the Governor's Staff is the famous Stonewall Jackson Band, who followed the \ great Virginian General all through the terrible war to his death at Chancelorsville, 1863. When this noted band led up the Stonewall Brigade into battle, with their stirring strains of "Way Down in \ Dixie," peeling forth over the field of carnage, the Union Generals knew there would be "music in the air" at the point of attack, and always ordered up double the usual forces to meet the terrible \ onset of the Stonewall Brigade; and such was their devotion to Stonewall Jackson that their impetuosity, and a charge with their leader at their head, was nearly overwhelming in its fury. Just in sight \ of the Stonewall Band is Colonel Spottswood, commanding the 1st Battalion Infantry Volunteer Militia of Richmond Virginia, who, at a great outlay, and regardless of personal inconveinience and loss, \ hastened to New York to honor the memory of the man they once resisted so stubbornly, by their presence showing to the people of the North that the bloody past is forever forgotten and remem- \ bering only the deeds of their forefathers, when the Virginians marched through Boston in solid mass to beat back the English from thier city, and when the Bostonians, in their great gratitude, stood \ in their streets and at their windows, shouting, "Welcome, you brave Virginians!" and so may it be in all time to come. \ 165

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

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