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mong the slain. Loving eyes that had often watched for his coming step, through that quiet portal, now looked, alas! through blinding tears for his lifeless remains. And in a few days he did return to them, not as often before, coming in from his daily rides over the farm, to enjoy the repose of noon or the quiet of evening with his family, but silent and motionless, in the embrace of death, a martyr to Virginia's truth, a noble sacrifice to Southern liberty. It was on Thursday, the 25th of July, that I had the painful honor to be present at St. Stephens' Church, but a short drive from his own door, when the old and young, the rich and the poor throughout the neighborhood assembled to attend his burial. The day was one of unclouded beauty,--the place a retired rural sanctuary in view of the grand old Mountains we all love and in whose peaceful shadows lay the home of his childhood, and that of his riper years, and where, too, in dreamless security, reposed his dead. As t