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General McCausland Dies in Sleep. Never Surrendered to Federal Force.By the Assoriafed Press,POINT PLEASANT, W Va., Jan 23.Brigadier Of noral John McCausiond,aged $0, one of {ho last two remniningConfederate tirmy genora) officers.lt;Iiolt;l at hin homo at MeCausUind, near here, during hla sleep last night.The v for.in of the gray legions, whoa*' pride WvLn that ho had neversurrendered, oven offer Appomattox,I surrendered at lust to the encroaching weakness of o'd ago, which took toil of hi* naturally rugged physique, lie bad Hot been ill.Although hiH name was linked with Incident* in several of the Important conflict* of the Civil war, his share Inthe defense of Lynchburg and hiscommand of the raid which culminated In the burning of Chambersburg, Pa., probobiy are the most widely known of the activities of the man who was called from a professorship to command troojie nf the state towhich he gave aUegl/mco.In his later years. General McCn upland Insisted that his military service waa not given to Uie Confederate army but to the army of Virginia. After the war so bitter waa the feeling over the burning of Chambersburg that McCounland left tho country and for several years wandered about Europe and Mexico before returning to settle ©n the rieh river bottom hinds, which he developed info some of tho finest farms In this region.He w*as horn In St. Bonin In Sep-tember, 183(5. the son of a native of County Tyrone, Ireland.
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Anaconda Standard
Anaconda, Montana, US
Mon, Jan 24, 1927
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