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cademy in Charleston. He was soon afterwards chosen professor in the "Saint John's Military and Classical Institution," at Spartansburg, S. C., and was afterwards engaged as an instructor in an institution in Marietta, Ga.--He subsequently settled in Pontotoc, Mississippi, and was a Professor in a Female Seminary at that place, when he volunteered as a soldier in the service of the South. He was elected 1st Lieutenant of the "Pontotoc Minute Men," 2nd Mississippi Regiment, commanded by Col. Faulkner, and from his ad- mirable training and attainments, was soon prized by his comrades as an accomplished and efficient officer. In that desperate struggle where valor and heroic effort triumphed over fearful odds, he fell, and in the moment of his triumph, while gallantly leading his men, and almost at the same instant with another brave Carolinian (the lamented General Bee) who was but a few steps from him. He was wounded by a musket or a rifle ball in the neck, and expired a few hours