Being a leader in his vicinity. he led his companions into the Confederate army and served with distinction to the end of the war. Returning to his home in this mountain country he took up the practice of law and took it up with success. Very little new blood has been infused into this people by immigration from the outer world. and they are today the representatives of like customs. of like ideas. of like traditions. with those practised and cherished by their fathers one hundred and twentyfive years ago. His education in the law was probably not as elaborate as it should have been. He did not have opportunity of consulting authorities. he did not rely upon precedents.
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