HISTORY OF THE ORPHAN BRIGADE.

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When he laid down his arms he went to Harrodsburg, Ky., where his late grandfather's family then resided; thence, soon afterward, he went to Montgomery, Ala., and resumed the study of law in the office of ex-Chancellor Keyes. The following year he was admitted to the bar and began practice in Montgomery, with characteristic zeal and energy. He did not remain long there, however, but returned to Kentucky, and in 1869 he was elected to represent his district in the State Senate, but concluded in 1872 to remove to Texas, and he thereupon resigned his seat in that body. Settling in Bon ham, he formed a partnership with Gen. (afterward United States Senator) Maxey; less than two years afterward he was appointed by Gov. Coke to be District Judge of his district, which office he filled for one term; and he was twice elected to represent Fannin County in the Legislature, where he was a recognized positive force during the seventeenth and eighteenth'sessions. In 1885 President Cleveland appointed him to the exceedingly important and responsible position of First Auditor of the United States Treasury, which he filled during that term with marked ability and to the entire satisfaction of the administration. In 1892, his health being broken, so that he was unable to resume the practice of law, he was made President of the Board of Commissioners for Fannin County, which place he now holds.

The educated and chivalrous gentleman and brilliant cavalier is remembered with pride by his surviving comrades, who look to him with confidence to see that the fair fame they won by a display of true Kentucky valor on many fields suffer no hurt among the people of the Lone Star, with whom he has become identified by adoption.

HON. WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

Born in 1845, he was but sixteen years old at the beginning of the war, but was among the first in his section of the State to volunteer in defense of the South. Enlisting with the Hancock company (D of the First Cavalry), he soon sought transfer to Co. C to be more closely identified with the men of his own county. He was second corporal of Co. D; was made fourth corporal of Co. C; but before the war closed was promoted to second sergeant. From the date of his enlistment to the close of the war he was continuously and actively engaged; was zealous, enterprising, and ambitious to do well whatever there was for him to do ; was dashing as a fighter, trustworthy as picket and scout, manly in bearing privation, and undismayed by disaster,   in short, the stripling farmer boy seemed fashioned by nature and unpretentious Kentucky home life into that stern stuff which the Spartan law-giver deemed so essential to his country's defenders as to justify him in sub-