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ti'lc along Uic beach, cither tn C.ulfport or Biloxi, mid regaling liirm with delectable drinks. Mr. Lampion lias played "i.urhmaker for many of these old people, and furnishes the ??:.irriage license. They call these trips "wedding tours," or towers," and look forward to the rifle in his handsome sedan, >illi liveried driver, as part of the wedding pleasures. To ?my veteran at Beauvoir, his wedding would he incomplete "ithnut this sanction of Mr. Lampton. Incidentally, the
?	it*-tDin of permitting the veterans and widows to marry
?	rnvides some of the pleasantest bits of gossip about Beauvoir, ?'i?l when the "symptoms" begin to show, it Is time for Mr. I .impton lo prepare for another "wedding toltr," some of the ?' mptoms lieiiiB long walks down the pier in front of Beauvoir, t:nl K<>ing together lo (lie dining Imll for their mcnlH,
The gift of the lovely fountain ond fish pond, located bc-i?ith Hentivoir Mansion nnd the memorial gateway, by 'It. I.ampton, )ins given pleasure not only to the old people, ??lit especially lo the children who visit Beauvoir, who love ??>'vntch the glistening gold fish.
The handsome virtrola, which Mr. Lampton donated to the Hume, gives great pleasure with its music, to which many of ''?Tin dance, a dainty little gentlewoman, Mrs. Kmily Mills, ?:;!ity-fotir years of age, being especially proficient in the I ??rpsichorean art.
Hr also subscribes for twenty-five copics of the Veteran ' the I Ionic, which furnishes 1 lie veterans wit h t he literature enjoy most.
Mr. Lampton is a retired merchant and banker, and now his hobby an?interesting park and 7.00 in a beautiful
1; trove north of his befell home. There he has many
?	'"ii?kens, so tame that they cluster about him; his white ''??kin ducks are all pets, and his geese feed from his hands. !!?? r-hrcp, with their wee lambs, come at his call, and get feed r- 'iti his hands. He has also a very lovely young deer, about
?	v>> \ cars old, which he has raised, and an unusually handsome -.iciK-k is king of the barnyard.
Mr. Lampton is neither a veteran nor the son of a veteran,
lie was not old enough to go into war, and his father was '? ?) advanced in age to participate in the war; but his people f * 'tin both sides were Southerners and Confederates. He, ?? nxcH. is a native Mississippian and a distinguished member
?	the I.ampton family of the State.
MARKING COX FEDERATE SHRIKES.
1 '-Iks ll.A EARLE FOWLER, PRESIDENT KENTUCKY DIVISION, V. 1). C.
The Kentucky Division has this year a new Special Com-?? ittrc on Marking Confederate Shrines, and among the many i>"id things reported from several Chapters, the work of a :? wly chartered Chapter, William Lavson Miller, of rrcstons-1'iirg. stands out. This Chapter has aroused interest in two h.df-Iorgotten battles, and the graves left there years ago, on l.imiary 10, 1862, when Gen. James A. Garfield, of the Fed-:tal army, attacked near Prestonsburg, in Floyd County, .lie Confederate forces under Gen. Humphrey Marshall, ?'?ic of the spots thus made historical is Middle Creek battle ?i'Id, just, across from the town, where the Chapter if pre-t-.iring to mark some Confederate graves.
Then, about six and a half miles above the town, a part 0: tin- breastworks raised by Co'.. A. J. May?s troop is still to l>e seen. Again, up the river from the town was fought the
?	mhIc of Quel, and on Bull Mountain is the lone grave of a < "nlrderate soldier killed in that battle. The local paper, vimuijh the Chapter activities, became interested in the
search of the Daughters for Confederate shrines, and published a headlined article giving several incidents of.these smaller battles of the War between the States and featuring especially the grave long known locally as the "Lone Rebel?s Grave? as the "most famous of Floyd County's burial places.? Jt says that the spot has always appealed to the imagination of the people who passed, year after year, this final abode of a Confederate soldier who fell far from home and friends, and who was buried near the place of his death.
"This is not the only grave of n soldier of the sixties in Flovd County, but it holds the edge of interest because of Its location In n place where It is passed by travelers across the mnmtlitln 11ml ber.nune It hits received morr attention, perhaps, thru have the graves of those others who gave their lives at that time. Yuflrs ago the late I7- A, Hopkins caused to be placed about the grave an inclpsure, which is now in a sad state of disrepair, si fid the gravp Is ciIbo said to have attracted the notice of the late John C. C. Mayo when the noted mountain financier saw it for the first time."
The incidents leading up to the fight were that a company of men from the Big Sandy Valley, under Colonel Dills, of Pikcville, and Capt. Harry Ford, of Company K, composed largely of I?ike County men, formed the 39th Kentucky Regiment. Awaiting government supplies, clothing, arms, and other ammunition, they marched to Haws Ford, now l>wale, Floyd County, where the entrenchments are yet to be seen. Their supplies were to come by flatboat up the river (Middle Fork of the Big Sandy). Confederate troops under the command of Gen. Humphrey Marshall, however, captured these boats with the supplies at a point below Prestonsburg, came on up the river, which they crossed at the mouth of Bull Creek, and started across Bull Mountain, following the old State Road.
Colonel Dills, unaware of the Confederate approach, started to meet the boats bearing his supplies. In the gap ol Bull Mountain, the two companies met under cover of darkness. A hot fight followed. Dills' men, ill-equipped, scattered. One Confederate soldier, "The Lone Rebel,? was killed and was burifcd at the lower side of the State road, and it is this grave that has remained to interest the passer-by and to become noted as tlic grave of an unknown and gallant lad.
Others were wounded, but escaped to where they could get attention. Many relics of that time arc in the hands of persons descended from both sides, and several places of note are pointed out, so that the new Chapter feels that its existence is more than justified by the awakened interest in local history. General Garfield's headquarters in a house of the town are still pointed out, and in another house, Gen. John Hunt Morgan once spent two nights, the place being near a mountain pass that travel made it necessary to use.
Mrs. Alice E. McWhorter, of Longview, Tex., writes: "1 come once more with my renewal for the Confederate Veteran, as I can't get along without it; have taken it from its beginning, but by the course of nature I won?t be here to lake it many more years, as I am nou cighrv-scven. Am ar- old veteran myself; went through four years of that horrid war, then eight or ten years of Reconstruction, which, if poss-bie. was worse. My husband followed Hood and Longslreet from Yorktown. to Appomattox, then came home a wreck, to see what we had had to contend with the last two years of war with the Yanks nnd Tories, who were worse, if possible. tl-.r.r, the Yankees.?