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of the professor so swiftly to rise to fame as Gen. 

 "STONEWALL" JACKSON. The senior HARRIS was 

 opposed, as were so many other Virginians of that 

 fateful period, to secession; but when the Old 

 Dominion decided to "go out," his son was one of 

 the first to respond to the call of his beloved 

 native state. Proof of his rare gifts were not of 

 slow development. His splendid mental and physi- 

 cal endowments marked him early as a born leader 

 of men, and by the time Gettysburg was reached 

 he was Chief of Ordnance of a Division in LONG- 

 STREET'S corps in the Army of Virginia under 

 ROBERT E. LEE. In later years a study of LEE'S 

 characteristics led me to discover many points of 

 resemblance between the idol of the Confederacy 

 and Col. WILLIAM A. HARRIS. After Gettysburg the 

 young officer went home on furlough, and with 

 prophetic vision declared that the war was over. 

 The beginning of the end, he could clearly see, had 

 been reached upon that bloody battlefield. The war 

 left the HARRIS fortune a wreck, and the young 

 engineer went out into the great new west to seek 

 his fortune. Employed in locating the Kansas 

 Pacific R. R. line from Kansas City to Denver 

 now a part of the Union Pacific Col. HARRIS, with 

 his inborn love of country life and well-bred animals, 



