poured on line of battle, reached the brow of the hill at Gettysburg. By gathering the traditions of the Highlands and thus perpetuating them, Scott has done a great work for Scotland. Others have done the same thing for England. It is for this generation to gather the same wealth for Virginia. Thus will the history of her people, of her valleys, her rivers and her mountains, be preserved and the facts be secured to generations yet to come which, when mellowed by time, will be perpetuated in story, in poetry and in song. Thus and thus only can we keep Virginia and her people on the elevated plane upon which they have stood for centuries, and thus can we make her, in the future, the land of poetry and romance. It is Wallace and Tell who are the heroes of the poet and the novelist, not the commanders of the great forces with which they contended. In the far future many a novel, many a poem and many a song will tell of Lee, of Jackson, of Stuart and of Mosby--ideal heroes of romance--long after the names of the leaders who fought them will be mere facts in the prosaic history of the power of the greater to overcome the less. It is not our duty to weep over the past or to bemoan the fate which resulted in the final overthrow of the Confederacy; nor should we do anything to keep alive the bitterness of that strife. On the contrary, it is our duty to bow to the logic of what has happened and to believe in the wisdom of the all-wise Director of the affairs of nations and of peoples; but it is also our duty to see to it that what is good and great be preserved, and that our children and children's children keep green the traditions which will nerve them to a higher courage and stimulate them to a generous emulation of the deeds of their forefathers. APPENDIX. LYNCHBURG COMPANIES IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONFEDERACY, 1861-'65. The Rifle Grays, Company A, Eleventh Regiment Virginia Volunteers: _First Captain_, M.S. Langhorne. _Second Captain_, G.W. Latham. _Third Capt._, Robt. M. Mitchell, Jr. _First Lieut._, G.W. Latham. _First Lieut._, John W. Daniel. _Second Lieut._, Robt. M. Mitchell, Jr. _Second Lieut._, H.C. Chalmers. _Second Lieut._, James O. Thurman. _First Sergt._, Joseph A. Kennedy. _Second Sergt._, Elcano Fisher. _Third Sergt._, Henry D. Hall. _Fourth Sergt._, Peter B. Akers. _First Corp._, Geo. T. Wightman. _Second Corp._, Samuel R. Miller. _Third Corp._, Lucas Harvey. _Fourth Corp._, Jas. O. Thurman, Jr. PRIVATES.