serving from the date of its organization to the surrender at Appomattox, he took part in the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Harper's Ferry, Crampton's Gap, South Mountain, Sharpsburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, and many others.

At Sharpsburg, he was temporarily in command of Wofford's brigade. The Confederate batteries had been destroyed, and the space in front was swept by deadly minie balls, which mowed down whole lines of soldiers. The Federals were advancing with fixed bayonets, and the Confederates sprang forward to meet them. The death grapple took place at a post and plank fence, which the Confederates held, but at a terrible loss of forty-eight per cent of the five regiments engaged in the charge.

At the Wilderness, Colonel Sanders's Regiment, at fearful loss, aided in driving back the right wing of the Federals commanded by Grant. At the critical moment, Lee himself appeared at the head of the Confederate forces, but was borne back by his soldiers. The First Army Corps succeeded in hurling Grant's right wing from the field.

At the "Death Angle" at Spottsylvania Court House Colonel Sanders's command suffered fearfully, and he himself was wounded. The second battle of Cold Harbor and the fight at Sailor's Creek were the last in which he took part. He was captured at Sailor's Creek on May 6, 1865, leaving only sixtyfour men to be surrendered at Appomattox under Lieutenant Jim Hill.

Colonel Sanders was a prisoner in the old Capitol building in Washington City the night of President Lincoln's assassination. He was later transferred to Johnson's Island, Ohio, and was released July 25, 1865, from his fearful sufferings.

Colonel Sanders is still interested in the history of the great war. He was at one time State Vice-President for Georgia of the American Historical Society. His favorite methods of recreation now are outdoor exercise, travel, and reading. He has traveled extensively in the Old World as well as America. He says that the reading which has helped him most has been that of current events, history and the Bible.

Colonel Sanders is a strong member of the Baptist church. He says that as a youth his one ambition was to do some good in the world. His advice to young men is that they ask divine guidance in all their undertakings. He failed, he says, whenever he chose his own course. He urges upon all who wish to succeed, even in the temporal affairs of this life, the absolute necessity for temperance, industry, benevolence and integrity. D. A. TEDDER.

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Alfreb Shorter Hamilton.

HE HAMILTON FAMILY in Georgia came from Scotland, though originally English, and settled in Maryland

in early Colonial times. Both the paternal and maternal ancestors of the subject of this sketch were distinguished in the Revolutionary War. His great-grandfather, George Hamilton, married Miss Agnes Cooper. His grandfather, Joseph J. Hamilton, who was born in Wilkes county, Georgia, married Miss Sarah Twiggs Blount, daughter of the distinguished Thomas Blount, of Jones county, who came to Georgia from Virginia. Joseph Hamilton was first cousin to Hon. Mark A. Cooper, Pleasant Stovall, of Augusta, and Judge Eugenius A. Nesbit. In the early thirties he moved from the town of Hamilton in Harris county, which was named for his family, to Casa (now Bartow) county. He owned the land where the town of Cartersville now stands and a plantation on the Etowah river.

His son, David Blount Hamilton, was reared in Cartersville, and after his graduation from the University of Georgia was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at Rome. In 1856 he married Miss Martha Harper, a niece and adopted daughter of Col. Alfred Shorter, of Rome.

The oldest of their six sons was Alfred Shorter Hamilton, who was born in Rome September 7, 1857. He was a bright, active boy of fair strength and spent most of his early years at his father's home in the enterprising little city of Rome. He saw enough of farm life, however, to learn to do all kinds of farm work. His early education was secured in the private schools of Rome. He entered Mercer University, but at the age of twenty, when in the Junior year, left college to attend Eastman's Business College in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to prepare