History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

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as lucrative a practice as his section of the state afforded. He was
for many years commonwealth attorney for his county, and always
filled the office with ability, credit and justice. He was a gentleman
of the highest type ;
to a magnificent personal appearance and bearing
he added courtly manners and a delicacy and refinement of feeling
that is rarely ever seen. He had many warm friends and was gen-
erally beloved by those who knew him. After an illness of about six
weeks he d., Feb. 21, 1885, at Afton, King and Queen Co., and was
interred at Inglewood, Middlesex Co., the late home of his brother,
Judge Robert L. Montague.
CHILDREN.
2340. Annie E., b. Aug". 9, 1859, m. Mr. Robert McCandlish, a law-
2341. Fairfax Eubank, b. March 4, 1S61.
yer of fine ability. Reside at Saluda C. H., Va.
2342. Edgai r Edmonds, b. Dec. 7, 1862, at Redfield, Halifax Co., Va.
1103.
Mary Jesse Montague, dau. of Lewis B. [324],
b. June 26, 1835.
She m. (1), March 19, 1858, Mr. Robert Logan Fleet, who was
killed at the battle of Chancellorsville. The following account of his
death and tribute to his memory was written by Col. Edgar B. Mon-
tague, and published in the Richmond papers :
" Messrs. Editors :—Allow me a short space to offer a tribute to
the memory of one of the truest and bravest men who has fallen in
this terrible struggle, Lieut. Robert Logan Fleet of the 55 th Va.
Reg't, who was killed on the bloody field of Chancellorsville. Without
waiting for place or position, Lieut. Fleet entered the first company
from his county, as a private. He was promoted to a Lieut, on the
field by his commanding officer for distinguished gallantry at the
battle of Gaines Mills, where he received a terrible wound through
the shoulder, which for nearly nine months detained him from his
command. Against the advice and protest of his friends, and even
his officers, with his right arm paralyzed, and his wound supperating,
he reported for duty about a month before the fatal battle. He fell
while leading his men in one of the charges of the gallant 55th. Thus
perished one of the truest, noblest, and most unselfish spirits in the
army. The only son of a widowed mother, the idol of his young
wife and three little children, respected and loved by a large circle of
friends and relatives, his fate was indeed a sad one, but yet the grief