H. C. Hall, agent San Antonio Mail Co. Capt. Henry Skillman, frontiersman, Confederate; killed in the war. Brad Daily, Union scout and spy; died at Las Cruces, N. M. Col. Hugh Stephenson, mine owner and merchant; lived and died at Concordia, near El Paso. Uncle Billy Smith, patriarch of the valley; thrown from stage coach at El Paso in 1860 and killed. Vicente St. Vrain, merchant, Union; died in New Mexico. A. B. O’Bannon, deputy collector customs, Confederate; dead. William Morton, district attorney, Confederate; dead. Charles Merritt, manager Hart’s mill; dead. Henry C. Cook, lawyer, Confederate; dead. B. S. Dowell, postmaster, Confederate; died at El Paso. Nim Dowell, Union; killed by Confederates in Texas. Fred Percy, English gentleman, Confederate; dead. Rufus Doane, county surveyor; dead. Billy Watts, sheriff; dead. Emilio Deuchesne, merchant, Union; died in 1895, in Juarez. Russ Howard, lawyer, Confederate; now in San Antonio. A. B. Rohman, merchant; dead. R. L. Robertson, agent Overland Mail Company, Union; dead. Dr. Nangle, agent San Antonio Mail Company, Union; dead. James Buchanan, merchant in Juarez; dead. Charles Richardson, Confederate; lives in Juarez. D. R. Diffendorffer, merchant in Juarez. F. R. Diffendorffer, merchant in Juarez. G. W. Gillock, justice of the peace and hotel-keeper; dead. J. E. Terry, with the stage company; lives in El Paso. Charles Music, merchant; lives in Mexico; and Andrew Hornick, H. McWard, George Lyles, —— Tibbits, —— Milby, David Knox, Bill Conklin and Tom Miller. There were usually about a dozen United States army officers at old Fort Bliss, now East El Paso. The most prominent Mexican citizens in Paso del Norte (now Juarez) were: Dr. Mariano Samaniego, Inocente Ochoa, José M. Flores, all still residing in Juarez; José M. Uranga, Jefe Politico, dead; Juan N. Zubiran, collector of customs, my partner and friend; and the venerable Ramon Ortiz, who ministered there as curate for fifty years, and died a few years since, beloved of the two races. The Americans living at Ysleta and San Elizario before the war were: Price Cooper, Henry Corlow, Tom Collins, Henry Dexter, James McCarty, A. C. Hyde, William Claude Jones; and Fred Pierpoint, who died of hydrophobia at El Paso in 1869. Of those named above as residing at El Paso in 1860, the following left with the retreating Texans in 1862: Crosby, Hart, the Gilletts, the Magoffins, Herbert, Merritt, O’Bannon, Morton, Cook, Skillman, Dowell, Richardson and Russ Howard. Some of the last named remained away for years and others never returned. In their places there came soon (mostly discharged Union officers and soldiers): A. H. French, J. A. Zabriskie, G. J. Clarke, E. A. Mills, Nathan Webb, A. J. Fountain, William P. Bacon, Edmond Stein, S. C. Slade, John Evans, George Rand, Joe Shacker, Solomon Schutz, Louis Cardis, and Charles H. Howard.