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PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF
CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND KIXDRI-D TC^PICS.
\ OLLME XII.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Nash\ii.i.e, Tenn.
1904.
INDEX— VOLUME XTl,
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A Boy's First Battlr 54
Accurate Historical Records 11
Adams. Death of Gen. John 4S
Address by Gen. Forney 53
Address to Texas Veterans .^9
Address Wanted 17
Adventure at Batter.v ^yaKner 10
An Old Flajr 3.-.
-Vnderson and Liytle. Gens 44
Arkansas Sharp.shootei's at A'icksburg 44
Arp. Bill. Memorial 6
0
Eighty .
I'.attle
Uattle
Battle
Dattle
I tattle
Ball's BlulT
Baltimore I..andniark. . .
Barefooted Con federates.
Barker. Col. W. B
Battery in Rossville Gap
Battery Wagner
Battle Above the Clouds
r.attle of Drury's Bluff 123.
of Klkhorn
of Franklin 227,
of .lonesboro
of Murfreesboro
of Missionary Ridge
Battle of Nashville — Bee's Report
Battle of Nashville. Gov. J. H. Porter
Battle of New Hope Church
B.attio of Raymond
Battle of Raymond and Jackson
Battle of White Hall
Behan, Mrs. W. J
Bethel Monument 430.
Bethel Momunent Association
Bit of True Romance
Black Skin but White Soul
Blaine's. George. Grave
Blood Thicker than Water
Books Supplied by the Veter.an
Box's Protest
Breckcnridge. Gen. John C
Brice's Cross Roads, A Private's View
Bryan, Jim
Burch. Mrs. Birdie Brown
Buried Alive
Bursting of "Lady Polk" im, 277,
Byrd's Gallantry at Perryville
31
195
441
281
355
104
221
229
27
341
390
lis
390
269
272
2S5
112
12
17S
S2
475
491
179
68
30
549
SO
470
529
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42,1
13
439
54,'!
C. (7) K 389
Cadets at Tuscaloosa 25
Cadets of the Confederacy 170
California .Spirit of the Confederacy 116
Campaign in Tennessee 338
Campaigning \uuier Forrest 6
Camp C'hase Reminiscences 121
Camp Chase Decorations 264
Capture .and Escape 22S
Capture of ,a Cannon 28
Capture of Garrison ,at New Creek 117
Capture of Two Feder.al Generals 437
Cause of Failure at Spring Hill 395
Chambers, W. R 587
Chance for a Diamond Ring 357
Changing the Words of Dixie 216
71
Checking tlie Rout 350
Chlmborazo Hospit.il 577
Chivalrous Act of a Federal Soldier 4S6
Chri.stian, Hon. Geo. L 185
Civil Side of the Confederacy : 109
Cl.arkson, Momunent lo John .\ 224
Cleburne, Gen. P. R 16
Cleburne's Humor 176
Close Calls 38
Ky.
Coley, W. U
Color Bearer and Guard at Perryville,
Comment on Stars and Bars
Confederate Battle Flag
Confederate Benefaction, A Permanent
Confederate Cannon at Gainesville, Ala
Confederate Dead at Little Rock
Confederate Families L^nited
Confederate Home of Kentucky 70,
Confederate Home for Texas Women
Confeder.ates in U, ,s. Army
Confederate MonumiMit at Fairfax. Va
Confederate Monument at Fort Smith. Ark
Confederate Momunent at Greensboro, Ala
Confederate Monument at Hampton. Va
Confederate Monument at Gallatin. Tenn
at Neosho. Mo
\t Libert.v. Mo
It Paris. Tex.as
to Kentuckians
.\ssoei,atlon
42
475
217
151
580
472
4 69
4 SO
Confederate
Confederate
Confederate
Confeilerate
Confederate
Confederate
(Confederate
Confederate
Confederate
Monument
Monument
Monument
Momunent
Memorial
150
281
391
IS
476
430
152
491
591
120
383
Memorial Liter.ary A.ssoclation
Naval Cadets
Ordnance
Rosters
Confederate Regiments in National Guard
Confederate War Incidents
Confederate Mt-morial Association
Confederated Southern Memorial Ass'n....82, 214, 333, 376,
Confederates in Procession
Confederates of Jefferson County. Miss
Cotton Interests in the South
Courtnay Golden Wedding
Courtesy Charaeli-ristie of the Lees
tM'omwell, William Ni-Isou
Crosses of Honor
Crosses of Honor at Louisiana Home
Crosses Returned after l''orty Years
Cruise of the Shenaiuloah
Cunningham. Piuil Davis
D.arling, Mrs. Flora Adams
Ua rgan, J. T
D,at.e of Battle of Jonesboro
Daughters of American R<'Volution
Davis, Capt. Ben T
DavLs, Jefferson, Birthday a Legal Holiday
D.avis, Jefferson, Honored by Texas
Davis, Jefferson, Momunent
Davis, Jefferson, Portr.ait by Miss Helm
D.avis, Jefferson, Portrait for Capitol of Mississippi
Davis, Jefferson, The Re.al
Dead Angle 32, 394,
Deiitb of Gen. John Adams
Death of .Stonewall Jackson 15,
DeWilt. John H
Diimer by New York Camp
Diploma for Veterans
"Dixie" and "Dixie's Land" 39. 66. 434,
Doles-Cook Brigade, History of
Dougli'.s' Battery at Nashvile
396
170
20
184
437
116
4S1
449
173
429
54S
582
473
355
214
377
341
489
382
276
354
390
276
176
477
448
37
268
215
195
532
482
492
267
375
229
435
446
531
Early in the Valley 23
Echoes from the Reunion 328
Ector's Brigade in Battle of Nashville 348
Editorials. .S, 60, 108. 160. 220, 266, 336, 378, 424, 474, 524, 576
Eleven Columns 79
Embarrassing Omissions 377
Eminent Southern Woman 158
Emmett, Daniel Decatur 432
Emmett's Dixie 501
Engineers in Line of Battle 5h2
Error? Corrected 7, 397
Evacuation of Morris Island 71
182011
Qor>federate V/eteraF}
Kvaiis. G«n. Clement AtiBflm ^'<
Evans's SlafT 1*9
Ewell, Miss Mary K '*"
Exporlonce on Picket 29
Failure at Spring Hill 39S
Kalllifnl Slave and I'rlend 122
Fight at IJca.l Angle 532
Fight at Fort Gilmer •'•S7
Fighting Aroiinil Vickshiiri; 120
Fighting Jupiler from Yorktown -''39
Fighting Kllpatrick's Escaiw 5SS
Firing a Caplureil Cannon at Fort Pillow 291
First Steam Toriieilo Boat l*""'
First Tennessee In Mexico l"!"
l-'lrst Victim of the War •"••'^
I-'Irsl While House Association •''
Five Confederates at Pelerslnirg 2S(!
I'laK (if Alabama Regiment "^l
Flanking Hood at Nashville 58.')
Forney's Address to His Men ''">"•
Forrest Covers Hood's Retreat -ISn
Forrest's Escort ■• -'"'
lM>rtv 1 lours In a Dungeon SSTi
Forty-Second Oeorgia Reslmeiil H
Founder of D. A. R 2TG
I'ounder of Monteasle 241
l-'raternal Con\"ention of Veterans 373
From Red River to Black River 449
(Save His I^ife for His Flag ■?!
(leorgia Campaign 76
(Jeorgla Home. A 22S
(ieneral Orders V. C. V 539
(Jordon. Gen. John B 506
Gordon Ei|Uestrian Statu<- 52 S
Gordon's First Speech Nortli IS"
(Jordon Memorial •l-ributes S.S, .",9. S3. 329
Gordon Monnniinl A.ssoeialion 102
Govan'.s Brigade at Pickett's Mill 74, ISC
Oracle's Brigade at Drury's HUiff S92
Granbur.v. (Jen. H. B 1 " ■'
I lale. Maj. H. S 3S
Hall. Col. John Gracey 527
I lampton. Gen. Wade 213
Hardee. iA. Gen. W. J 4SiJ
Hardships of Army in East Tennessee 2IS
Harrisonliurg Memorial Association 491
Harris. Dr. John W 171
Ha.ves Homestead 438
Heard, Mi.ss Ethel Tillman 151
Hero of Mobile Bay 11-'
Historicjil Records to be Preserved 374
Holconib, Capt. T. H. Inquired for 43S
1 lome for Needy Confederate Women 487
i looker on Cheatham's Division 523
Hood's .Retreat 436
I louston. Texas 11
I low Errors Become Historical l^'acts 172
How Kilpatrlck I^ost Pistols and Holster 177
1 hmiorons N'iews of War 22(i
Hunt, I.iciil. C. A 443
Inspiration of "My (Jld Keiiiiieky 1 lome" .')47
I ssvies of the \\':i r 5 1 .i
Jackson, Gen. T. J. i Slon(\v;ill; 174
Jackson. De.ith of 492
.lackson .Miinorial Hospital 214
.Jackson's 'Kittle .Sorrel" « 447
Kentucky in the Confederacy 79
I-,c.-, Binllday of Gen. It. E 1.S7
Lee and Jackson Day 1 12, 43S
l,ee and Longstreet at Gettysburg 489
lj(re Memorial Dinner 109
L,eo Monument in Memphis 2B7, 357
l,ee to the Rear 109
Lee, Mrs. J. C 1S6
I>ee. Dr. J. C, Ser\-ice of 497
T>ee. Gen. S. D 53
I.K>e (S. D.) on "Blue and Gray" 502
Lee's (S. D.) Staff Offlcers 427
Lee's (S. D. > Part In Checking Rout 350
Ijetter from Connnander in Chief 337
I..etter from Dan I-Immetl 433
I^-tters of th<> '''.O's 24
Lieutenant GeiuTals Surx'lvlng Si'>
Lightning Hug Fight, That 449
Littlejohn. N. C 2S3
l-ongstreet. G<'n. James 60
I.,oring and Lowry at Franklin 497
Loyalty of "Black Mammy" and "Uncle Jeft" 22.">
Ixiyall.v to Texas \'eterans 15
Lumpkin, Address by Miss 69
Lum.sden's Batter.v at Nashville 4S4
I /ytle's Sword 176
.Macgill-Hlll Wedding '.24. S82
Make It a Permanent Feature 57r>
.Management of Spanl.sh-.\merlcJ\n War Criticised SBO
Marking Graves of Confederate Prisoners 22.'i
-McCook's Corps at Chlckamauga 483
.McGla.shan, Gen. P. M 150
McCuUoch, Gen. Ben 67
.Mellen. Albert , 68
Jlcdical Officers Confederate Army and Navy 374
.Memorial Day In Shreveport 430
Memorial Day.s. Regard for 291
Memorial to Rill Arp 60
Memorial to Southern Women 469
Memorial to Women of the Confederacy 335
Memories of th<' '60's 85
Messmates 33
Mississippi Cniiitol 42
Mississippi ^\'omen 182
Missouri Battery in Tennes.see Campaign 3S9
Missouri in the Confederacy 79
Misrepresentations About the Soutli 25
Monument to John A. Clarkson 224
Monmnent to Gen. liordon 102
Monument to Faithful Slaves 443
Moore, Mrs. Edwin 103
Morgan's Ohio Raid 472
Morris Island 71
Mosby as a Soldier and Patriot 286
Mosby's Men not Guerrillas 538
Mothers of the Confederacy 133. 186, 527
My Moving Tent — Mrs. Mooney . . . •. 41
Xasliville's Invitation T 266
Nashville Reunion, 1904 262
Nashville and the Reunion, Tril>utes to ;'l
>jashville Battle Line 441
Neglect of Shilob National Park .">37
Negro Question, The 397
New Words for "Dixie" 432
North Carolina and Virgini.-i in tlie War - 217
North Carolina Drum Corps 336
Northern Rebellion and Soutlurn Secession 575
Officers Ate the Dog 226
OftieiMi Report History t:ommittec Grand Camp of Va. . . . 161
Oldest Motbrr of the Confederacy 123
Old Muster Rolls 438
One of Georgia's Youngest Soldiers 4 80
Partin. Capt. J. J 30
Partisan Rangers 595
i'earce. H. D ITS
IVlham Monument l'^3
l^erilous Feat of Scouts 121
Perilous Ride at Chickasaw Hayou 443
Personal Reminiscenci.'S 175
Pettus (Gen.) at Lookout .Mountain 395
Pickens Rifles 219
Picnic with General Pettus 531
Pleasant Episode at Franklin 226
Port Hud.son. Siege of 390
Price, General Sterling 16
Qopfederate l/eterai).
Railroads iind the 'VVoiia's Fair 550
Randolph, Tom 3S1
Rare Books 173
Rash Deed at Dead Angle 394
Recollections and I^etters of R. B. Leo 54.'i. 583
Reconstruction Reminiscencos 427
Recruiting in Ai'kansas, Perils of 495
Red-Letter Days in Dixie 7S
Red River to Black River, From 449
lielative Strength of the Two Armies r)34
llelic of War or Peace? 39:;
Reminiscences from the Trans-Mississippi 173
Reminiscences of the Civil War. Oordon 41
■ Reminiscences of Chickamaciga 71
Renewing Subscriptions 475
Reunion Address 329
Reunion at L>'nn\iUe n9:i
Reunion at Nashville 155, 261. 575
Reunion Assembly at Vaiiderbilt Campus 222
Reunion Dates 109
Reunion Committee 220
Reunion. Kchoes from S2.'<
Reunion Kxercises 323
Reunion Kxpen.ses 5a
lli'uuion of .Mabama Dix'ision 572
Rt'union of I'Morida Division S5. 574
Reunion of Georgia Division 69. 53ti
Reunion of Kentucky Division 9
Reunion of North Carolina Division 37S. 521
Reunion of Second Brigade. Kentucky Division 531, 550
Reunion of Virginia Division 10
Reunion of Virginia Grand Camp. .Vnnnal 479
Ri'union Rates to Jack.son. Tenn 4S0
Reunion Souvenir Button 263
Reunion Success 323
Reunion Suggestions 115
Reunion Spirit in Nashville 221
Reunion Surplus 337
Reunions in Texas 522
Ringgold Gap Reminiscences 526
Roster of Confederate Soldiers 1S3
Routing a Federal Regiment Ill
Scai'borougli, J. A 2.S
Secession of Keniuck.v 2SS
Second Alabama, Company H 490
Second Campaign to Nashville 436
Severance. Mrs. Margaret 379
.Shenandoah. Cruise of the 489
Siege of Port Hudson 390
Siege of Spanish Fort 591
Siege of Vieksburg 77
Signal Corps Confederate Army 224
Shiloh National Park 537
.Shining Marks in Death 423
Slave Monmnent Question 525
Smith. Mrs. Cutler 349
Smith's, Melancthon. Battery 532
South Carolina Booltlet 217
Sontliern Womanhood 15
Southern Woman's Memorial Hall 334, 335, 469
Snowden. R. B 267
.Spanish Fort 354
.Spring Hill and Battle of Franklin 341
Stahlman. K. C 423
State Momniient at N'ieksbnrg 107
Stewart, Gen. A. P 392
Stole a Hog 30
"Stonewall" of the Confederate Navy 230
•■^lockton. Robert H 3S0
Story of an Old l'"lag 353
Success of the Reunion 323
Survivors Company F, 12th Alabama SI
Survivors ConCederato Navy 373
Swearing 336
Swell's Batler.v al Jonesboro 112
Swift Retribution for House Burning 472
Taulman Family 226
Tebault. Miss Corinne 262
Tennessee in the Confederacy
Texan Wlio Held Gen. Lee's Horse.
Texas Hero Day
Texas War Relics
Thanks from IVIrs. Gordon
Thomas, Gen. George H
Thomas's Re.gard for the South
Three Hundred Mile Raid
Tisdal. Marriage of N. R
Toombs. J. H
Townsend. Mrs. Mary Ashley
Tribute to a Comrade
Tribute to Bill Arp
Tributes to General Gordon
Tribute to the Soutli
Tribute to the Women of the '60':.
Trousdale Home for Confederates. . .
Troy's. Col. D. S., &ash
Truth of History
.131, 159,
263
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4S7
274
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425
354
477
491
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1S7
355
593
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V. Camps 26,
V. Camp, Mar.vland Line
V. Camp. New York City 33,
V. Camp at Fredericksburg
V. Trans-Mississippi Department
C. Chapter at Bainbrldge, (Ja
l!T (.Chapter at Bardslown. K.v
C. (^Iiapler at Gainesville, Fla. i Kirhy-Smilh )
C. Chapter at Hubbard City, Texas
C. Chapter at Mempliis, Temi. t Harvey Mathes) . . . .
C. Chapter at Lynchburg, Va. i Old Douiiniuni
C. Chapter at San Jose, Cal
C. Chapter at Norcross, Ga
C. Convention in Charleston
C. Convention, Florida Division
C. Convention in Sherman, Tex
C. Convention in St. I^ouis 107, 37.S,
C. Convention in Texas
C. Conventiitn 524,
C. of Texas to the President
C. Day at Monteagle
C. Minutes
C. in Montana
. C. Invitation to
C. Hcadqu.arters at St. Ijouis
C. Convention, Virginia Division
C. of Nashville at the Reunion
C. President's Report
C. President at Rome, Ga., Honored
C. Report Historical Committee
C. Report Historical Comniitteo, Arkansas Division...
C. V
C, V. Convention
C. V. Headciuarters
C. V. Official Staff
C. V. Order
■1 the Flag
373
33
569
1,S5
1S3
492
471
442
15
393
43,S
17S
15
61
422
103
421
159
566
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241
4S1
423
84
421
570
119
63
374
267
575
475
335
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Veteran Headquarters 265
Vetei-ans Crossing Over 13,')
\'icksburg Siege 77
v. M. I. Biography 223
Virginia Monimient and Cemeter.v 4.»:5
Waller Correspondence 229
Walthall, Gen. B. C 473
Walthall's Brigade at Chickamauga 483
Walthall's Brigade, Records of 44S
War Time Experiences at Franklin 423
Washington Light Infantry 580
Watkin's Farm 441
Weed, Capt. F. W 182
What "Marching Through Georgia" Means 444
Wheeler in Atlanta Campaign 589
Wheeler on Sherman's Flank in Georgia 582
Willie House Association 5
Why the South Fired the First Shot 2.S4
Wilcox, J. W 40
Wives and Widows of Texas Veterans 231
Woman's Appeal for a Woman 547
182011
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Qor^federatc l/eterar}.
Woman's Bciu-vok-ni Society of Xa«hvil|p 2Sii
Woods. Miss Maud Coleman I " I
Wortliy a Ponslon --^
WrlRlit. Mrs. S. S "1
YounK Soldi<TS of llx' funfiHlpnicy ISI. 4S0. .%Js
POK.MS.
.\ Mls.fOurlan on llie Surnmlor <"•"
.\ Soutliern Roso *1~
At ArlinBton SSI
.\ Truo Romance !"!•
Auld LanK Svno (Paraplirased) ''SI
Dixie 1S<- "*
Dixie — New Version *SI
Dixie's Glory -■»•"
Kvery Year *"'"'
Fight of RiKlil aeainst Miglit -»-
Flag of tlip .'^outliland ••"•N
General (Jordon '>'>■ 1*1
General Wade Hampton 2 1 .".
I Am Dreamine """
I'm a Good Old Rebel -**
Jim of Blloxi ■'^'''•
Johnny R«'b in the Snow I ■'!'
I.<iciist Bloom for Confederate Dead --'-
My Mother 1^'
Passing Away ■' ■•
Our Brother.s in Black -■! 1
Stonewall Jack.son ' 1 ''
Sherman's Raid Thro' Georgia !""•
Shlloh "3S
Sons of Veterans ISfi
Soldiers on a Horse 553
Spirits Immortal 398
The Army of Northern Virginia 242
The Bugles of the Gray 5S7
The Day before .Xppomaltox Sail
The Empty Saddle ■•»«
The Last Reveille 21»
The Lord's Prayer 293
The Man in Gray 44n
The Red, White, and Red .'..ii
The Reunion SiiO
The Young Hero 13.')
Two Old Johnnies 50.">
The Uni3uccessful SG
Virginia Sn.",
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Burial of Gen. Granbury IT.'i
Banner ot Joseph H. Lewis Camp 40:;
Battle Abbey at St. Louis .'iOJ
Brown Monument at Pulaski 49!i
Burned District in Baltimore 19".
Church at A.shwood 34"
Carter House at Franklin 340
Color Bearer and Guard 1 6th Tennessee 47.">
Confederate Cemetery at I'ranklin 341
Cannon Captured at Manila 2S2
Confederate Home of Tennessee 32."j
Confederate Officers in Prison 283
Confederate Monument at Paris, Texas 120
Cotton Gin at Franklin 340
Court House at Trenton, Tenn 291
Davis's Prison Cell .S
Decor.ations at Newport News Reunion 1 1
Dixie's Land 434
Donelson Camp Group 14.'>
F.icsimile Pearce's Discharge 178
I'lag ot St. Mary's C.vnnoneers 333
Flag Presented Tenn. Div. U. D. C, by Mrs. Jno. C. Brown.. ."i30
Floral Tributes to Gen. Gordon 133
Forrest's Home at Hernando, Miss 279
Fortress Monroe .'*
Group of Mosby's Men 2S7
Group of Reunion Committee 321
Group on Porch of Soldiers' Home of Tenne.ssee 325
Hamilton Hotel, St. Louis 419
Harrison House
Home of Joseph H. Thompson
Hood's Point of View Where Line Broke
Hood's \"lewpoint at Franklin
Inauguration of Jefferson Davis
Johnson House
Ijingley Hall
Kentucky Conf«rdcrate Home
I^ealand, Home of Judge J. .•!. I/i-n
l..awn of R.iines Place
l.rfiwn of Old Overton Home
Lawn of Overton Lea's Home
McGavock Residence
Memphis Company of Confederates
Mississippi Capitol
.Monument at .\nder.son. S. C
Monument .at I'ort Smitli. Ark
Monument at I'-airfax, Va
MonumiMit .it Greensboro. N. C
Monument at Kentucky Confederate Honu-
.Monument at Liberty. Mo
Monument at Neosho, Mo
Monument of Wa.shington Liglit Infantry
Nashville Wiiarf in the 'fiO's
North Carolina Drum Corps
Private John Allen at Home
Pittslnirg Landing whi-re Buell's Army Crossed
Officers of Florida Division'u. C. V
Officers of Kentucky Division l'. C. V
Raccoon 1-touglis
Residence of George .-Vrmistead, Franklin
Residence of Hugh Moore, Brentwood
Residence of Gen. S. D. Let-
Residence of Thomas S. Stevens
Residence of Wesley Greenfleld
Rokeby. The Hayes Homestead
Shy's Hill
Reunion Button
Sponsors U. S. C. V
State Monument at Vicksburg
Survivors Compan\' F, IJtIi Alabama
The Parthenon, t'entennial Parit
The Rains' House
The Sheppard Picture's
The Trousd.'ile Home
Traveler's Rest, Overton Home
Troop A, Nashville Confederates
U. D. C. Group at Charleston
Van Chise, Home of Gov. Humphreys of Miss
Vanderbilt Campus
View of Franklin ,
\'iews of Richmond
\'iews of Reunion Parade
War Skelclies 40,
Wliite I lou.sf of the Confederac.v
Where Cleburne l-'eli
Wlnstead Hill
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LAST ROLL.
. l::4 I Brinker, J. T
Brown Bivouac Dead
Buckner, Col. J. A . . .
Rurcb, .Mrs. E. B. . . .
Burt. Ci.l. N. H
Butt. I'. .M
Allston, Capt. J. B. . . .
Ami.s, Wm. II 34
.\niison, Wm 402
Andenson, Maj. D. W.... 23G
.\imstrong. Rich !•' 356
Arnold, S. A 23.i
Balch, L. C 498
Beall, Capt. D. T 191
Bcall, H. D 399
Bee, B. M 451
Beck, Dr. J. D 192
Belton, Dr. W. H 36. 232
Bennett, Capt. F 453
Bllisoly, Jas. L 545
Birchett, Dr. T. G 87
Biggs, R. J 124
Bledsoe, B. B 239
Branch, Mrs. L. O'B.... 234
Brennan, Thos. M 297
Brew, W. P .' 299
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Camp. Bcn.i. F. .
Carmichael. S. W
Chapman, Col
Clu-.athani. M.a.i
i^lardy. J. F.
Coati\s, Dr. W.
Coffey, W. H
Congdon, Capt. Geo. R
Conner, J. H
Cooper, Dr. W. H
Cunnirighain, Col. P. I
r\irl, David S
DeGournay, Col. P.
Dodds, J. C
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Dodson. Col. E. M
Douglas, Gen. H. Kyd. . . .
Dunn. J. Thos
Dysart, Dr. B. G
Easlc.v. A. G
Edgar, Edward
Edwards, Mrs. P. 1'"
Elkln.s, Col. Jn.i. 1,
Fa rley, F. O
Fcltus, L. V
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Daniel. Mrs. L. C 396
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Jones. Judge T. G 329
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Kelley. D. C 392
Key. T. J 390
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King. Dr. W. F 276
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Kniglit. Landon 195
Kooh. L. L. J 225
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Lee. R. B.. Jr 583
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Littlejohn, N, B 283
Logan. John 32
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Maxwell. J. R 484
May. Dr. T. J 587
Mayes, R. 1! 243
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McCann. Jas. M 242. 359
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McCulloch, Robert 427
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McDonald. M. J 480
McDonald. Capt. S. K. . . . 219
McMurray. Dr. W. J 395
McNab. Laura J 15
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Merchant, Mrs. W. C. N.. 63
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Miller. .M. A 279
Minnich. J. W 539
Moore. E. L 15
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Morris. Miss Evie 522
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Morton. T. C 70
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Noe, Rev. F. R 222
Norman. .1. D 283
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Oliver, W. T 525
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Polk. W. A 587
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Randolph. Iiinis 244
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Rattan. T. H 449
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Roese, Gen. George 2S6
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Richards. Capt. W. T 31
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Ridley, B. I.. 504
Riecke. A. W 39
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Watkins. Jno. H 337
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Herd, B. M 383
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Kennedy, D. N 298
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Latham. G. A 501
Lee. Mrs. .1. C 186
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T>emonds, XL 494
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l.ouKstreet, Gen. Jas SO
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Maguire, Mrs. M. P 280
Mallard, Col. J. J 36
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McCollum, Col. J. L 31
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McCulloch. Capt. Robert.. 429
McConnell. Jno 475
McDonald. Mat J 480
McGavoek. Mrs. John 342
.VlcGlashan. Gen. P. A 150
.McMurray. Dr. W. J 397
.Meiehant. Mrs. \V. C. N.. 64
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Miller. G. B 453
Mickle. Gen. W. E 373
Moblev, E. B 596
.Mntflt, H. L 475
Moore, Mrs. Edward 103
.Morgan, J. M 33
Mosby. Charles 1 S 1
Mosby. Col. Jno. S 287
Murrell. Mrs. D. G 503
Mjers. Miss C. L 277
Noll. Dr. J. B 599
Officers Florida Division. 561
Park. Capt. RE 81
Parr. Capt. D. 0 233
Peel. Dr. R. H 190
Phllpot. Miss loin 374
Pickens. Mrs. M. G 4 76
Pickett, Mr.s. L. C 88
Pickett. Col. W. D 27S
Porti-r. Mrs. P. G 280
Porter, Gov. J. D 345
Price. Gen. Sterling 1
Quarles. J. S 33
Randolph. Tom 381
Rattan. T. H 449
K.dd. .Ml.ss F. F 331
Iteynolds. L. W 403
Rico, C. S. 0 77
Riggins. Miss Paltie 484
Robert. Res-. P. G 543
Roberts. Mrs. Edmonda . . 471
Robertson. F. L 561
Robinson. Miss Martha.. 350
Roby. Wm. A 455
Sandusky. Dr. G. C 545
Saiissy. G. N 561
Scott. Dr. Jno. 0 295
Sefton. Mrs. Thos 546
Short. B. F 498
Severance. .Mrs. Margaret. 379
Simmons. N. R 81
Smartt. Miss Myra 346
Smith. Mr. & Mrs. Cutler. 349
Smitll. Dr. D. A 561
Smith, W. D 336
Snowden. R. B 268
Sponsors U. S. C. V 387
Stanly, Maj. T. E 356
Stewart. Gen. A. P 392
Stockton. R. H 380
Stone. Wm. J 542
Street, Miss Nannie P.... 347
Sullivan, Pauline 489
Tale. W. B 191
Tebault, Miss Corlnne.... 262
Thcma.s, Ml.ss Elizabeth.. 264
Thomas, Gen. G. H 275
Thomas, Maj. Jno. \V. . . . 266
Thomas, Col. L. P 14
Tindall, Miss Leona 400
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Townsend. Mrs. M. .\ . . . . 477
Trawick. Mary .\ 1S9
Trice, Stephen E 298
Twiggs. Judge II. |i r> . 104
Vardeman, Gov. Jas. K.. 540
Walker, Gen. C. 1 335
Walthall. Gen. E. C 465
Walton, J. B 561
Ware, G. P 81
Warren, Rev. J. H 241
Washburn, L 33
Weed, Capt. T. W 182
Wharton. Rev. M. B 465
White, W. H 473
Wilcox, J. W 40
Williams, .Mrs. J. J 593
WilliaTiis. Jno. Sharp.... 313
\\'ilsoii. Ro.sa Lowry 600
Wilson, Miss Stella 70
Woods, Miss Maud C 101
Woods, Capt. S. 0 13
Wright, Mrs. S. S 72
Yeates, Frances 72, 285
Yeatman, Henr.v 296
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I Ik- object of tliis Association is to preserve as a Confeder-
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Lamar, Mrs. R. P. Grigg, Mrs. J. W. \. Sanford.
Trustees: Mrs. Alfred Bethca, Chairman: Mrs. W, L. Durr,
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Finley. Mrs. Edward Trimble. Mrs. .Mbert Elmore.
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George Stowers, George Raoul, Edward Hastings. John Sav-
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L. G. Peacher, John W. Sanford. Jr.. Ed Naftel, Jessie Lamar,
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'•BLOOD THICKBK THAN WATER."
i;y s. b. barri'.v, third texas cavalry, rusk, TEX.
Rev. William D. Chadick was lieutenant colonel of the
Fiftieth Alabama infantry Regiment, C. S. A., and resided in
Huntsville, Ala. During the winter of 1864-65 he was al homo
one day when, suddenly and very unexpectedly to him. Gen.
McCook marched into the town at the head of a division of
Federal cavalry, and was soon informed that Col. Chadick was
in town, and the General felt very sure of capturing him. But
Col. Chadick, unoliserved by any of the Federals, crossed the
street from his home and secreted himself where he could not
be found or pointed out by any one who would have betrayed
him. Gen. McCook thought so much of the expected prize
that it was deemed not undignified for a general of the United
States army to go in person in search of him. So he went to
his residence and interviewed Mrs. Chadick. Introducing him-
self as Gen. McCook, he said: '"Madam, wliere is your hus-
band?" Mrs. Chadicu
answered : "He is nni
here, sir." Col. Chad-
ick's horse and rigging
were there plainly to bv
seen, but the Genera!
was baffled in his efforts
to find the object of hi^
search, as his furtlu r
questioning elicited lio
reliable information
from the faithful wife.
Something in the ap-
pearance of Mrs. Chad
ick seemed to impre>^
Gen. McCook, and after
some hesitation he sai'i
to her: "Madam, wi''
you please tell me where
you were reared?" She
answered: "In Steuben-
ville, Ohio." ■•Why,"
said the General, "Steubenville is my home. Will you please
tell me your maiden name?" "My maiden name," said Mrs.
Chadick, "was Cook." "Were you Miss Jane Cook?" inquired
the General. She answered: "I was." "Well," said he, "do
you remember one Sunday morning, a long time ago, when
you were on your way to Sunday school, that up near the
Episcopal Church some bad little boys were culling up, and ,i
policeman was in the act of carrying them to the lockup,
and you interceded for them, telling the policeman that yi)u
would stand good for their behavior if he would release them.
and he did so?" She answered: "I remember it," "Well,"
said he, "I was one of those boys; and now, niailani. there is
nothing T can do for you that I am not more than willing to do.
I shall place guards at your gates, and not a man of my com-
REV. W.M. D. CHADICK, D.I).
mand shall enter your premises or disturb vcmi in any manner
while I remain in this city; and if there is anything else I can
do for your comfort or convenience, call on me and it will be
done."
The guards were posted at her gates, and not a soldier en-
tered her home during Gen. McCook's occupation of Hunts-
ville. Col. Chadick made good his escape that night, and sur-
vived the war. His widow, formerly Miss Jane Cook, a very
Urighl, well-|)reserved old lady, now lives in St. Louis, where
she has made her home for a good many years with her son-
in-law. Col. S. W. Fordyce, former President of the Cotton
Belt Railroad.
A fit comment upon Col. Fordyce (whose house has been
the good home of Mrs. Chadick for years) as a man and as-
a patriot is to quote his remarks when asked about his vol-
untary contribution to a Confederate monument in Little Rock:
"I was in the Federal army during the war, and have been
in the Confederate since."
Such men have been the real peacemakers in our sectional
troubles. Had President Lincoln survived the war, conserva-
tive patriots would have cibliterated sectional lines, and such
noble characters as R. E Lee would have been embronzed \n
the public parks of the Xatioiial Capitol, as well as in the
finest halls of fame.
CAMPAIGNING UNDER FORREST.
BV HENRY EWELI. HORU. TENNESSEE COXFEDER.XTE HO.ME.
In the last number of the Veteran Col. J. R. Binford. of
Duck Hill, Miss., makes me out more kinds of liar than Gen.
Eagan does Gen. Mi'es in their famous Embalmed Beef row.
I wrote my article, printed in the Deccmlier number of the
Veteran, from memory. It may contain a few errors as to
names, but the main facts are just as I have stated them. I
could get witnesses if I cared to go into a long, useless con-
Irover.sy, but I don't want any of that, and I guess our good
friend the Veteran does not either. I have received several
letters from old comrades since the article was printed who
took part in the Canton dri.l complimenting me on my "splen-
did memory and accurate account." I don't claim to be an
encyclopedia of the war, but of events that my regiment t )ok
part iu 1 know something. I have been too busy hustling
to make an lioncst living. Ilandicappcil as I am, it has been
a hard fight (I was knocked down by the concussion of a shell
at Ilarrishurg, Miss., and rendered almost deaf) to give much
thought or time to those stirring old war times. We of the
Tliird Kentucky always gave the Fifteenth Mississippi credit
for being one of the best regiments in the service. The men
proved it on many a hard-fought field, but there were 'others."
But don't throw mud at Kcnluckians. Of the eight hundred
men who participated in the Canton drill, less than one hundred
ever saw their "old Kentucky homes'' again. As long as we
were in I.oring's Division we carried our "Canton flag." and
it was m all the fights of the division. We were mounted and
joined Gen. I'orrest in North Mississippi. Forrest had a very
small coniin.ind al thai lime. Nolwdy thought then that he
had smsc enough to manag? a separate command. He had
raised Bell's Brigade; but the men were poorly equipped, and
many of them had never been in a fight. His batteries were
light guns of poor quality. We captured the guns and horses
that afterwards made Morton and Rice famous.
In every raid that Forrest went on in Kentucky or Middle
Tennessee our old Canton flag appeared. Gen. Forrest always
favored the Tomiesseeans ; but when he wanted Bell to get
down to his level best, he would say, "Watch those d — m Ken-
Qopfederate Ueterap.
tuckians and stay with them." At tlie fight at Brice's X Roads,
when we had our last man in the fight, and the Yanks were
still rushing men that had not fired a shot, Morton was "crowd-
ing them with artillery." Gen. Buford got uneasy about our
battery, and oallcd Gen. Forrcst'<; attention to the danger. For-
rest looked around and saw our Canton flag flying close to
the guns. I'htn turning to Gen. Buford, he said: "There are not
Yankees here or to come that can capture that battery." At
Harrisburg we jilantcd our flag on Gen. Smith's breastworks,
while twenty "thousand infantrymen and eighteen guns were
firing on our one brigade ; but it took sixty-two and a half per
cent of the regiment to do it. It was among the first to cross
the Tennessee River in front of Hood, and from there to
Nashville it was in the front all the way. On the retreat, Wil-
son tried, day after day, to ride over it. but never could. We
found Gen. Forrest a major general, with a small, badly
equipped command. In three months we were the best-mounted
and equipped cavalry in the C. S. A.; we had the finest bat-
teries, and got all from the Yanks. In six months v.e made
Forrest a lieutenant general, with a name that will stand as
long as the American people care for heroic deeds. The
few of us that got home are proud to tliink we did our duty
always; the rest sleep their last sleep.
"They have fought their last battle;
No sound can awake them to glory again."
Error i.\ llnx. J.\mi;s W. Bcjvn's Speech. — I observe in the
eloquent address of Hon. James W. Boyd, as published in the
December Vetkran, that in referring to Pickett's charge at
Gettysburg, he says: "Garnett, just out of the sick ambulance,
with his heavy coat buttoned up," etc. This is a mistake, first
published by Gen. E. P. Alexander, who commanded all the
Confederate artillery stationed that day on Cemetery Ridge.
He says Gen. Garnett had on, or was bullo;ied up in, an old
army blue overcoat. The facts are that a few days before
the battle, wliilc near Chambcrsburg, Gen. Garnett rode for-
ward to tlic head of the division to see Gen. Pickett on some
business, and just as he rode among the staff officers a fiery
steed, ridden by Maj. Rolicrt Bright (who now lives at Wil-
liamsburg, Va., and can verify this statement), slashed out and
kicked Gen. Garnett on tlie ankle. The wound was a painful
one, and he took to an ambulance, in which he reached the
field of Gettysburg and was permitted by Gen. Pickett to go
into the charge on horseback, as he could not walk without
great pain and difliculty. He was not the least sick, and the
fid blue coat or overcoat, which he always wore in cold or
lainy weather, was not worn that third day of July, 186,3,
when the weather was hot enough to scorch a feather. In
passing through Richmond, Va., about the middle of June,
Gen. Garnett had purchased a fine, new gray uniform, which
he had on when killed in the charge at Gettysburg.
I heard a gentlemnn of high character describe Stonewall
Jackson's appearance on the battlefield of Bull Run "mounted
on Old Sorrel." while it is well known that he did not have
Old Sorrel until more than a year after that battle. — //. 7".
Oucii, Kifi'iiiiond, I'a.
CONFEDERATED SOUTHERN MEMORIAL ASSO-
CIATION.
New Orleans, La., December 9, 1903.
Eiliior Veteran: All memorial associations of the South,
forming part of the Confederated Southern Memorial Asso-
ciation, arc hereby notified that the Confederated Southern
Memorial Association will hold its fifth annual convention in
the city of Nashville, Tenn., at the same time as the reunion of
the United Confederate Veterans.
The opening feature of this convention will be the JefTerson
Davis Memorial Service. Further particulars as to the
church at which this service will be held, as well as the loca-"
tion of Convention Hall, will be given later.
The women of 1861-65. the women of the Confederacy, arc
highly commended for their loyalty and devotion to memorial
work, instituted by them in sorrow and gloom immediately
after the surrender at Appumatto.x. This labor of love has
been faithfully performed through trials and difliculties. until
^now every city, town, and hamlet throughout the South can
proudly boast of a monument erected by its Ladies' Memorial
Association to the Confederate dead.
An invitation is hereby extended to all Memorial Associa-
tions not yet affiliated to do so at once and thus unite, in one
grand sisterhood, the woiucn of 1861-65, that their identity
mav be preserved and a record of their glorious work be hand-
ed down to posterity.
Application blanks for membership may be had by applying
to the Corresponding Secretary, 3303 Coliseum Street, New
Orleans, La.
Mrs. G. a. Williams, Corresponding Secretary;
Mrs. W. J. Behan, President, White Castle, La.
MISS VALERIA fl N \ 1 Ml 1 IK; U.^,
Judge A. J. Lawson, of Union City, writes at the request of
I.eonidas Polk Chapter, U. D. C, sending a picture of Miss
Valeria Fields, daughter of Col. Hume R. Fields, who waa
colonel of the First Tennessee Infantry, C. S. A. Miss Valeri.i
Fields was the representative of this Chapter to the convention
of Daughters of the Confederacy at Charleston, S. C. She is
an active worker for her Chapter.
The Kentucky Division, United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, will hold its convention for 1904 at Paducah, Ky.
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Confederate Weteraij.
S. A. CrNNINT.HAM, Editor and Proprlelor.
Offict: Mclhojist I'uMlsliinj; }lcuse Building, Naslivillc, Tenn.
This publication is tlie pcrtonal prt^pertv "f S. A. Cunningham. AU per-
sons who approve its principles and re:ili/.e' its benefits as an organ for Asso ■
Ciations throughout the South are requested to commend its patronage and to
Cooperate in extending its circulation. 1-et each one be constantly diligent.
The Fcliruary \'f.tek.\n will conlain important and interest-
ing papers from proceedings in the Charleston Convention.
The "Bill Arp" Memorial I'lnid was remitled to Mrs. Chas.
H. Smith on Dccemher 24 with the names of the donors.
Subscriptions have been received since then, and others arc
solicited. One friend sending since Christinas mailed four
dollars, half to X'eteran account and the other to this memo-
rial, "if not too late." It will be sent to that fund.
The Veter.\n will not surrender this project until further
time to consider its extraordinary merit is had, anxious that
the result will be a pride to every Southern patriot who
laughed and sorrowed over the heroism and philosophy of
expression of Maj. Chas. H. Smith during the great war and
through all the intervening years since.
While Kentucky and Missouri are making plain that they
will not submit gf.ielly to discrimination against their States
in the Jefferson Davis Monument, Maryland is as determined,
as she expressed herself through delegates in the Charleston
Convention, U. D. C. At the recent convention of Daughter.^
in Maryland it was determined to protest against the plan.
Several important i>apers on the subject are in hand.
FLORIDA KEIXDORSES THE VETERAN.
Of the resolutions passed by the Florida Division, U. C. V.,
at the reunion in St. Augustine, December 7, 1903, the third,
introduced by Gen.' George Reese, of De Soto Camp, Pcnsa-
cola, was adopted :
"As we believe the Co.nfeuebate Veteran is the best chan-
nel through which l6 disseminate the facts as known by the
particiiiaiits in the War between the States, we therefore urge
upon the Veterans, Sons of Veterans, and Daughters of Vet-
erans the inip(jrtaiH-c of subscribing to this, our official organ,
and we urge upon the .\diutants of the Camps to report niontli-
ly the death of veterans in this journal."
Gen. E. M. Law, Honorary Commander for life of the
Florida Division, wrote on December 16 to Mrs. Nettie Smith,
an efficient and faithful agent of the Veteran :
"It gives me great pleasure to inform you that, at its late
reunion at St. Augustine, the Florida Division, United Con-
federate Veterans, unanimously and enthusiastically indorsed
the CoNFEUEKATE Veteka.n, and recommended that all Veterans,
Sons of Veterans, and Daughters of the Confederacy subscribe
for it and do all in their power to increase its circulation.
The Veteran is essentially the mouthpiece, the exponent of
the Confederate soldier, and he and his descendants should
spare no effort to strengthen and encourage it in accom-
plishing the great, patriotic work in which it is engaged."
BROADER WORK FOR THE VETERAN.
The Nashville American, whose editor. Col. Tatum, served
in the Spanisb-.Vmerican war, says:
"The Confederate Veteran is the bt-st publication of its
kind extant. There is not another Confederate publication
which equals it, and it is superior to any of the many pub-
lications representing the I'nion soldier. This is a fact of
which Mr S. A. Cunningham should be justly proud. I here
are two or three journals published in the interest of the
Spanish-American war soldiers, but they arc of little or no
value. If the Confederate Veteran would devote a corner
to these 'yoiing vtterans,' it would soon grow into an inter-
esting department. They did not see as much hard service or
reap as much .glory as their fathers, but they showed the spirit
of their fathers, and would doubtless have shown themselves
worthy sons, under severe test, if opportunity had been of-
fered. The same territory that furnished the Confederacy with
its soldiers furnished alxjut 50,000 soldiers in the brief war
with Spain, and about 30,000 of these were the sons of Con-
federate veterans. Arc they not entitled to as much recog-
nition in the Confederate \ eteran as the organization known
as the Sons of Confcde ate Veterans, whose members wear
the uniform of an organization, but not a soldier's uniform?"
WHERE JEFFERSON DAVIS II AS /.V PRISON.
It has long been desired to print a picture of the casemate
at Fortress Monroe where our beloved Jefferson Davis, the
Confederate States President, was so long incarcerated, but
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nut until recently «a- a photograph secured. It was found
in a relic store near the fort. It was old and dingy, and the
vender seemed to regard it with but little concern.
Julia Smith, Who Cuokeo for Him. — Inquiry was made
of a colored cook who happened to be crossing the campus
for the name of some one who knew Mr. Davis while in prison,
aiul be gave the address of "Julia J. Smith, who cooked for
him," and she wrote from Pluebus, Va., November 17, 1903;
"I received your communication, through Mr. B. Whiting,
requesting me to give you some incident of what occurred
while I cooked for the Hon. President Jefferson Davis. Mr.
Davis was in prison nine months before I commenced cooking
for him ; then I was his cook until he went away. The first
thing he desired me to cook was to devil some crabs for him,
which I did. Dr. Cooper was his physician and Rev. Minnir-
grade, of Richmond, Va., was his minister. I was very sorry
when he left. I never lived with better people in all my life.
He and his wife were very grateful for everything I did for
them. Could I sec you, I would relate to you many incidents
that happened while I was there, which are very interesting.
1 loved Mr. Davis. May God bless his offspring, and long
may (liev live !"
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REUNION OF KENTUCKY DIVISION, U. C. V.
EXTRACTS FROM AN ACCOUNT BY CAPT. ANDREW M. SEA.
How delightful it is to lay aside the harassing and distract-
ing cares of everyday life and through one glad day enjoy the
communion and fellowship of those who, next to your own
immediate family, you love better than all others in this world !
Such was the nianifest sentiment of the Kentucky Confed-
erates, who met in Louisville October 2g, 1903, to attend the
annual reunion of the Kentucky Division, U. C. V., at the
Confederate Home, Pcwee Valley.
A large percentage of the Camps was represented, but not
with large delegations, perhaps not over five hundred alto-
gether; yet they were the representatives of that remnant of
immortal 40,000 Kentuckians who gave up their families, their
homes, and their properly and fought for four long years to
protect the hearthstones and firesides of strangers who, like
themselves, were battling for constitutional rights, which were
being denied tliem. I would not dispaiagc any Southern
troops, but I do say that tlicrc were Kentuckians in every
branch of the Confederate army, and in every place and undei
all circumstances they fittingly illustrated tlie traditionary
valor of the State and proved themselves thoroughly efficient
and as brave as tlie bravest. What greater tribute could 1
pay? The world now concedes that the Confederate armies
were the bravest and most heroic body of men that has ever
been known.
The deleg.ites were taken to Pevvec Valley over the Louis-
vdle & Eastern Electric Railroad, passing on the way the
beautiful Market Garden lands, the Kentucky Military Insti-
tute, the Central Lunatic Asylum at Lakeland, the Southern
Presbyterian Orphan Home, and the palatial residences of
Anchorage and beyond to Pewee Valley. The inmates of tlic
Home awaited tlieir arrival. Headed by a military band,
comrades of the Home became an honorary escort to the dele-
gates, followed by the Daughters and Sons and sympathizers,
swelling the attendance to about two thousand. The magnifi-
cent Kentucky Confederate Home is located on a gentle emi-
nence one hundred yards from the street. The building is
beautifully proportioned, one hundred and sixty feet long, throe
and four stories high, contains one hundred well-furnished
rooms, with verandas extending the entire length of the build-
ing. The five acres of lawn, covered with blue grass as it
grows in Kentucky, is interspersed with splendid forest trees.
In one corner of the lawn there is a beautiful, vine-clad, point-
ed Gothic chiircli. How inspiring the occasion! Amidst the
strains of "Dixie," '"My Old Kentucky Home," and other
Southern airs, the gray line of veterans marched up the avenue
to the Home. All were happy, yet how different their emo-
tions! 'i'hc youngest were yelling and screann'ng with delight,
tlie hearts of the older were almost too full for utterance.
Unbidden tears could scarcely be restrained ; and O, how
fervently ar,d heartily they thanked the great God from
whom all blessings flow that he had raised up loving hearts
and willing hands to conceive, to establish, and to maintain
this much-notdcd haven of refuge and rest for the battle-
scarred, unpensioncd veterans, who might henceforth spend the
few remaining years of their lives in comfort!
Maj. J. M. Harper, a veteran of Pickett's command, was
Chairman of the Refreshment Connnittee. He was al)ly sec-
onded by Mis. Girand, the matron; Mrs. Coleman, wife of the
supeiintendent ; Mrs. Ryan; and other ladies in the vicinity of
Pewee Valley. A large delegation from the Albert Sidney
Johnston Chapter, U. D. C, was in attendance. The dinner
was simply perfect — such a dinner as could be prepared only
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GFl-ICERS OF KH:NTUCK^■ DIVISION, UNITED CONFEDERATE VETER.VNS.
GRN. BENNETT H.YOUNG AND DAI'GHIER.
COL. T. M. BARKKR, OKN. H P m'oONALI), GRN. J, B. BR IGGS, UKN. J. R . ROGSR S,
Inspector General Kentucky Div. Coinmanilrr Third Ky. Uri^ade. Second Brigade. Tliird Briijade.
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by Kentucky matrons. All were of the opinion that {or pro-
fusion, variety, and excellence it had never been equaled on
such an occasion.
The business meeting was held in the dining room after
dinner. Gen. Voung. the Commander of the Division, an-
nounced that the affairs of the Division were in exceptionally
good condition, and had received special approval from Gi-n.
Stephen D. Lee, Commander of this department. The election
of officers resulted in the unanimous reelection of Col. Ben-
nett H. Voung as Division Commander; Col. J. R. Rogers,
Commander of the First Brigade ; Col. Harry P. McDonald,
Commander of the Second Brigade; Col. J. H. Mark, Com-
mander of the Third Brigade ; and Gen. J. B. Briggs, Com-
mander of the Fourth Brigade. Gen. Young, in addition lo
l>eing the Commander of the Division, is also the Chairman of
the Board of Managers and President of the Board of Trus-
tees of the Home. He and Col. Harry McDonald, the Sec-
retary of the Board of Trustees, have unselfishly contributed
much time to establishing and successfully operating this
superb Home. Their services have been invaluable, and the
Confederates of this commonwealth owe them a debt of grati-
tude which in this world can never be repaid.
The Hoine was projected upon the idea that there would
never be over eighty inmates, but in one year more tlian twice
that number have been admitted, and there are still many ap-
plicants. Few realized the tremendous necessity for such an
institution ; but now that the needs are known, we are sure
that a generous people will, through their legislators, liberally
respond to reasonable requests for additional appropriations.
Special committees will be appointed to memorialize the Legis-
lature to provide for its enlargement and increased support.
The report of the officers and managers, showing how the
Home has been managed and maintained, is most satisfactory
to all Confederates. Comrades returned to their homes with
hearts full of gratitude for the blessings of the past year, and
in faith that the Kentucky Confederate Soldiers' Home will be
worthily maintained.
REUNION OP VIRGINIA VETERANS.
The Grand Camp of Virginia Veterans held their sixteenth
annual reunion at Newport News, beginning on the 28th of
October. The attendance was one of the largest and most
enthusiastic ever held, and when Grand Commander James
Macgill called the convention to order the auditorium was
completely filled and much space in the gallery occupied.
After prayer by Chaplain General John P. Hyde, Mayor Allan
A. Moss delivered the address of welcome, which was re-
siKJnded to by Commander Macgill. Col. Maryus Jones, on
behalf of Magruder Camp, the local organization also, ex-
tended a welcome to the visitors, to which Judge S. W. Wil-
liams, of Wythevillc, rcjjlicd. 'I'he present officers of the
Grand Camp arc :
Judge George L. Christian, Grand Connnander, Richmond.
VV. E. Harwood, First Lieut. Grand Commander, Petersburg.
J. H. Fulton, Second Lieut. Grand Commander, Wytheville.
Col. W. H. Stewart, Third Lieut. Grand Commander, Porl'^-
mouth.
Thomas C. Morton, Inspector Gcniral, Staunton, Va.
Washington Taylor, Quartermaster General, Norfolk, Va.
Rev. John P. Hyde, Chaplain General, Winchester, Va.
Dr. John S. Powell, Surgeon General, Occoquan, Va.
Thomas Ellett, Adjutant General, Richmond, Va.
William Kean, Aid-dc-Camp, Thompson's Cross Roads, Va.
Charles Waite, Aid-de-Camp, Culpeper, Va.
The most interesting feature to the assembled delegates was
the report of the Historical Committee, which was read by the
Chairman, Judge George L. Christian. Much space in the re-
port was devoted to the controversy with North Carolina, and
while the report deprecated any differences between Confeder-
ates, it went on to show that the claim of North Carolina as
10 being "first at Bethel, foremost at Gettysburg, and last at
.•\pponiattox" was, in a measure, incorrect ; that Virginia troops
were with those of the old North State on each of these occa-
sions. The report of Inspector General T. C. Morton showed
the State Organization in a prosperous condition, with in-
creasing enrollments every year. Reports were also made by
District Inspectors, either in person or by letter, from all parts
of the State.
Capt. J. Taylor Stratton read the following report, which
had been forwarded to him by Mrs. Norman V. Randolph,
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Jefferson Davis
Monument Association:
"Dear Comrades: I feel that I must take up your time for
a few minutes with a short report from the Central Committee
of the Jefferson Davis Monument Association. At the meet-
ing of the Daughters in Richmond we were asked to assume
the completion of the Davis monument, and we accepted the
sacred trust. They turned over to our treasurer $20,000. We
have in bank to-day $63,000, drawmg interest. Mr. Edward
Valentine has been chosen to submit a model to the convention
in Charleston.
"I regret to say that Virginia has been behind in its contri-
butions, and I now ask that the pictures of the three branches
of the service, as drawn by Mr. Shepherd, at least one set,
Ije bought by every Camp for its hall. These pictures for the
leuniou are in charge of the Chapter at Newport News.
When these pictures are sold, it will be the last appeal from the
Central Comniitiee."
.■\n important report on history was read by Mr. R. S. Black-
l)urji Smith, in which the recommendation was made that an
effort be made to have the Legislature make provision for and
establish a hall of archives and history, in which are to be kept
the records, information, etc., regarding the War between the
States, which has been and which will be collected by the
Sons of Veterans.
The report was enthusiastically received, and a resolution
was adopted, appointing a committee to appear before the next
Legislature and ask that the hall of archives and history be
established.
A rising vote of thanks was tendered to the J. E. B. Stuart
Camp, Sons of Veterans, and the people of the city for the
hospitable reception given the delegates during their stay.
The election of officers, the final business of the session, was
next taken up. Division Commander E. Leslie Spence, of
Richmond, was nominated for reelection ; but he declined to
accept, and Col. W. W. Sale, of Norfolk, was unanimously
chosen to succeed him.
Mr. Charhjs Aylett Ashljy, of Newport News, was chosen
Cc.niniander of the First Brigade; and Mr. E. Lee Trinckle,
of Wytheville, was made Second Brigade Connnander.
The Division Commander and the Commanders of the First
and Second Brigades will now appoint all the other Brigade
Commrnders, the Adjutant, Quartermaster, and other officers.
The body adjourned after a remarkably harmonious meet-
ing, having disposed of the business of the year in an un-
usually short time.
The parade of the Veterans was one of the most interesting
features of the reunion to the public. Fully twenty thousand
people gathered along the short line of march to witness the
old soldiers march once more, many of them for the last time,
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under their old flags to the tune of Dixie, and it was one
continuous cheer from the moment the head of the column
came in sight until the last man had passed. Mr. R. K. Curtis
was chief marshal, assisted by a number of aids. Grand Com-
mander Macgill headed the column with the various Camps of
Confederate Veterans. These were followed by the Camps of
the Sons of Veterans, led by their Division Commander, Col.
W. W. Sale, of Norfolk ; next were carriages with the State
and district sponsors and maids of honor and distinguished
guests attending the reunion. A mounted company of old
Veterans and Sons of Veterans brought up the rear.
The history report is withheld that those who combat Judge
Christian's report in behalf of North Carolina may respond,
so that he can give them full benefit in the same issue.
DECORATIONS AT NEWPORT NEWS REUNION.
The home of Thomas F. Slearnes, No. Jio) West Avenue, Newport News,
Va., decoruletl for tlie Conf, derate revinion. His father, Orren D. Stearnes,
was lieutenant in Conipanv O, Kif v-l-2iy:lilh Virginia Regiment, and died in
tile Confederate hospital at St.uinton, \'a.. In 1S62.
GROWTH OF HOUSTOtW. TEX.
The recent splendid convention of the Texas Division, U.
D. C, al Houston made the occasion one of interest, especially
to Texas. Col. Philip H. Fall was requested to furnish some
data, and the following liberal extracts are used :
"In 1842, as a youngster two years old, I was brought to
Houston from Jackson, Miss., where I first saw the light. At
that time you can imagine what Houston was — a small hamlet,
composed of tents and board shanties, no railways. People
traveled by stagcco.acb or private conveyance; wagons came
from lumdreds of miles distant with cotton, taking back
groceries, lumber, etc. As late as 1855 these conditions pre-
vailed. Houston had just begun 10 grow and put on airs
when the War between the States ccmmenced, and during that
period no improvements wxre inaugurated. Gen. J. B. Magru-
der, commanding District of Texas, had military headquarters
here, which made it a bustling point. Cotton was shipped by
wagon to Brownsville, on the Rio Grande River, and thence to
Europe. This made money (gold) plentiful. When I arrived
at Houston, just before the surrender, from east of the Mis-
sissippi, where we, dressed in rags and tatters, often bare-
footed, with very spare rations, I found the theater in full
blast, men garbed in full ball dress, and women decorated
with diamonds and magnificently dressed. It was a wonderful
change to me, after having for so long been deprived of com-
forts.
"Houston didn't feel the war. In fact, no doubt, it rendered
the city a great trading point, which has continued ever since.
If Dick Dowling, with his forty-two fellow-Irishmen, had re-
treated from Sabine Pass, all of this would have been dif-
ferent. Had the Yanks captured Sabine Pass, they would have
made Houston their headquarters, and controlled the entire
State. They would have been enabled to ship thousands and
thousands of bales of cotton North. In truth, had not Dowling
made the fight at Sabine Pass, the Confederacy would have
succumbed long before it did. The Trans-Mississippi would
have been entirely under Yankee domination.
Dick Dowling Monument.
"Your humble servant raised about $500 of the $1,600 so far
in hand for a monument to Dick Dowling. and his men. Dick
Dowling Camp raised about $250, and the Irish societies of
the city about $850. No other city of its size on earth would
have failed to erect a splendid monument to the memory of
such heroes. It is a sad reflection upon Houston, and, being
a citizen of sixty-one years' standing, I feel privileged to up-
braid my people with such neglect of this hero-benefactor.
The whole State is indebted to Dowling and his men.
"In 1855 deer were plentiful within sight of Houston;
wild horses were roaming the prairies near by; bear were
common objects as one rode through the forest; prairie
chicken, partridges, wild turkey were in abundance ; a lark sat
upon every bush, singing its sweet song; children were kept
ipiict and went to sleep under the threat of the Indians' coming.
"At the close of the war we had two short railroads; now
we have thirteen. Our population was between fifteen and
twenty thousand; now it is about eighty thousand. Splendid
Iiouses are being built in every direction, both dwelling and
six- to eight-story business houses.
"The government is digging a channel in Buffalo Bayou to
the ocean, and soon the largest vessels can come to Houston.
"The oil fields all around us have given us an impetus for-
ward. The new industry (rice) is changing everything. Land
which could have been bought a little while back at twenty-
five cents per acre will now bring forty to one hundred dollars
for cultivation of rice. Gold has recently lx;en discovered at
Harwood, not far west of Houston.
"Altogether, Houston has the finest prospect of any city
in America. The Houston Post has prospered beyond prece-
dent, and recently moved into a seventy-five thousand dollar
home, built on the profits of the paper.
"Houston's people are a magnificent set, and never failed to
do the handsome, except in the Dowling monument matter.
But they may right about soon, and do their duty in this
respect."
Another "youngest soldier !" E. G. Baxter, of Clark County,
Ky., was born September 10, 1849; enlisted June 15, 1862;
made second lieutenant July 5, 186.1, Company A, Seventh Ken-
tucky Cavalry, Morgan's command.
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BATTLES OF RAYMOND AND JACKSON.
Gen. John Gregg's Brigade was composed of the Third,
Tenth, Thirtieth, Forty-First, Fiftieth, and First Battalion of
Tennessee Infantry, and the Seventh Texas, Gen. Gregg's old
Regiment. It left Port Hudson, La., on May 2, 1863, and
marched to the railroad, a distance of about thirty miles.
There we boarded the train, and ran up to Jackson, Miss.,
reaching Jackson on the 5th. After camping at Pearl River
a few days, Gen. Gregg received orders to march for Raymond.
We reached Raymond near sundown, and camped in and by
the town on the niglit of the 15th. E^rly the next morning
the bugle blew the assembly, and all hands were in line, for it
was reported by the cavalry picket that "a small force of
Yankees" was approaching.
Gen. Gregg moved the brigade of about eighteen hundred
men to the southwest of the town, and about 10 a.m. formed
line of battle in a woodland, between two public roads in tlic
shape of a V, which intersect near tlic town, with a graveyard
between them. The Forty-First Regiment was halted at the
graveyard, and ordered to stack knapsacks, and were held as
a reserve. The Yankees formed in our front a double line of
infantry, and posted their artillery^and it seemed that they
had plenty of it — on the hills in our front, from which they
began to shell our line. Gen. Gregg ordered us to advance,
which was done in fine style. We attacked the Yankees, driv-
ing back the first line and engaging the second, when we
found that we were truly "up against Grant's army." It had
crossed the Mississippi River below Vicksburg at Grand Gulf,
and was marching on Jackson, so as to gain the rear of Vicks-
burg. Soon the _Forty- First was double-quicked to the right
of our line, but soon it was ordered to the left wing, and back
to the graveyard in double-quick and out on the road to llie
left to take position.
We held out ground against great odds until near sundown,
when the brigade was ordered to retire, which it did in good
order, leaving its dead and many of its wounded on the field.
Some of the wounded had been taken back to the town and
had the best of treatment by the ladies there. Our loss was
very heavy, and that of the enemy was worse. Col. McGavock,
of the Tenth Tennessee, was killed while leading his gallant
old regiment in the charge. Private Lee McClure, of the
Third, conspicuously brave, was killed. Capt. Ab Boon, of
Company F, Forty-First, was killed. He advanced the skir-
mish line into a thicket, where he came upon a Yankee, who
shot him. The Captain called to Henry C. Whitesides, of
his company, who was near him, and said: "Go tell Col. Till-
man that the enemy is flanking him. They have killed me."
And he sank down dead. When Whitesides had delivered the
message and returned to where his captain lay, his sword and
gold watch were gone, having been taken by the enemy. The
Forty-First was formed, to bring up the rear, in an open
field under a heavy fire from the Federal artillery, and exe-
cuted the move, "Change front, forward on first company,"
with as much composure as if they had been on a drill field,
and the men were highly complimented by Gen. Gregg, who
witnessed the move. The brigade passed through Raymond
near dark, marching out on the Jackson road about three
miles, and camped. The next morning we marched for Jack-
son, and met Gen. W. H. T. Walker's Brigade of Georgia
troops. They had left their knapsacks at Jackson, and had
come at a quick step to meet us.
Gen. Walker, being the senior, took command of the division
— the two brigades. We reached Jackson about dark, and
occupied the breastworks in front of the city. The Yankees
had followed us closely, and in a half hour's time after we
halted their camp fires were seen in our front.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, having arrived, took command,
and the next morning, in a downpour of rain, we evacuated
Jackson. The citizens were very much excited at the approach
of the Yankees, and the business houses were thrown open,
the goods thrown into the streets, and many soldiers loaded
themselves with such things as they wanted. The convicts
were turned out of the penitentiary. As we marched out by
the lunatic asylum, the inmates were scattered about the
premises in a confused manner. We marched toward Canton,
some ten miles north. Grant's army turned back toward
Vicksburg, and fought Gen. Pemberton at Edwards Station,
after which he retreated and occupied the fortifications around
Vicksburg. Gen. Johnston, having received reenforcements,
moved by Benton to Yazoo City to take position on Grant's
flank and rear.
On July 4 Vicksburg fell, and on the morning of the 6ih
we started on a forced march for Jackson, with orders to keep
as silent as possible. No guns were to be discharged, no hal-
looing to be allowed, with positive orders that straggling from
the ranks be not pcrmiitcd. We had a race with Grant's army
for Jackson, and they had the shorter route. Water was very
scarce, seldom to be had at all, and the weather was extremely
hot, so there was much sufl'ering. When we reached Jackson,
Grant was again on our heels. We occupied the works around
the city from the river above to the same below. Grant took
position in our front, and soon sharpshooting and cannonading
began in earnest. For seven days it continued, and many as-
saults on our works were made. Gregg's Brigade was posted
on the left of the road going out of the city toward Vicksburg.
One morning the Yankees charged our pickets in a ravine,
where there were pools of water, and drove them out. Gen.
Gregg called for three hundred volunteers to rcenforce our
line to retake the ravine, which was done. The Yankees were
driven out and a number of canteens were captured. They had
sent in details with canteens to get water. One evening, about
one o'clock, the Yankees charged our works at a point where
a section of Bledsoe's Battery was situated, just on the left of
our brigade, and Sergeant Ball, who had charge of the sec-
tion, shot at the color bearer, and severed his head from his
body. He then (for at that moment the Yankees retreated)
jumped over the works, ran to the dead Yankee, wrapped the
head up in the flag, and brought it inside of the works, and
the boys tore up the flag into small strips and tied them on
their guns. On tlie next morning an armistice, was had in
order that the Federals might bury their dead.
During the armistice an old Billy goat passed out along the
road and got between our line of works and that of the
Yankees. There was a man in the Forty-First Tennessee.
John England, who the boys called R-ockic, whose appetite
thirsted for the flesh of the aforesaid Billy, so he jumped
over the works and started in hot haste after the Billy goat.
Billy being suspicious of said Rnckie's intentions, started down
the lines, his momentum being like unto a hobbyhorse, first
the head going up and then the tail, now and then looking
back at Rockie, who, with cap in hand, was following in close
pursuit. Our boys began to call 10 Rockie, "Lie down, Rockie !"
when the Yankees took up the strain, and both sides with
mirthful exclamations called, "Lie down, Rockie!" From that
day to the close of the war "Lie down, Rockie" was a byword
with ihe soldiers. After the seven days' fighting, we again
evacuated Jackson, and soon after we went to Chickamauga
to reenforce Gen. Bragg.
Homer, Ky. H. K. NeI.SON.
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The foregoing reminiscence will be read with interest by
survivors who were engaged. The writer recalls the battle of
Raymond as the most unequal of the war. There had to be
constant and rapid shifting of Gregg's little brigade, with
spaces between regiments equal to their frontage to prevent
our being surrounded. On one occasion the Forty-First Ten-
nessee, while moving by file to our left, became so exposed to
the enemy that a terrific fire of small arms knocked up the
dust like a sudden fall of large raindrops, and about two-
jliirds of fhc men in the rear and front of Capt. S. O. Woods
CArr. s. o. woons.
and his fii.st sergeant (now edilor of the Veteran) were
wounded or their clothes torn by bullets.
When it was manifest that quick withdrawal of the brigade
was imperative to avoid its capture, the line was moved at a
<juick but orderly step back through the town of Raymond.
Members of the Tenth Tennessee, Irish, who were carrying
the dead body of their gallant colonel, Randall W. McGavock,
killed only a little while before, .seeing that the Federal army
would soon overtake them, were about to drop his body when
Lieut. P. M. Griffin, in charge of the body, checked them
resolutely with these words: "D^ it, men; die by your colo-
nel !" Seeing that it would be impossible to get away with
the body, Lieut. GritTin advised his men to go, and he stayed
and surrendered, that he might do what he could for burial of
the body. On the way to prison Capt. Grifiin (then lieutenant)
made his escape while the boat was anchored at Memphis, get-
ting out through the wheel house and swimming ashore.
Raymond on tliat eventful afternouu illustrated the magic
speed and enei-gy of Southern women in an emergency.
Homes were opened, and wounded Confederate soldiers were
being cared for just as if they had been sons and brothers.
That eventful day in the history of Raymond, from early
morn — when, among other kindnesses, little plugs of tobacco
were carried along the lines and graciously given the sol-
diers— until the welcome sunset and the darkness that fol-
lowed enabled the little brigade to escape capture by a large
army, will ever remain a vivid memory to those who shared
in its anxiety and suffering. The people of Raymond have
always held in admiration and gratitude the deeds of our sol-
diers on that memorable day in May, i86,r
MOIV SEl-E.V IT ERE liUKIED ALU'E.
I sometimes meet with friends who ask me if I am one of
the seven who were buried alive in Virginia by a shell. I
answer by telling them how it happened. Well, it was this
way: I was on picket duty at night. To protect ourselves
from the shot and shells while keeping the Yankees from
landing, we erected pits about seven feet square and five
to six feet high. We were three miles from the river, our
line extending endwise toward it. Our aim was to keep
them from landing a force off on the river, so we had orders
to throw up the mounds about every fifty yards. The pit
we were in was some five and a half feet deep, and there was
a trench dug running out around for the vedette to stand in.
He had orders when he saw the flash of the artillery to run
back behind the mound, which he did, and fell on us while
we were asleep, and the four-hundrcd-pound shell that was
thrown three miles struck the mound and exploded in there
and covered us five or six feet. When we were taken out
we were all in a manner dead. We were taken away on
litters. While they were carrying us away, another shell came
from the same boat, passing a little higher, and exploded.
Then the boys laid us down and ran away, but soon returned
and got us out. While in there the boys who started to get
us out ran away and left us in there, the shelling was so hot.
Gil Turner, who now lives near Chapel Hill, told some boys
to pitch in with him and get us out, which he and they did.
Had it not been for Turner, we should have been there yet.
So I wish Gill Turner and those who helped him may live
long and be happy while they live.
The awful feelings I had while in that condition I shall
never be able to tell. It seems that I thought of every-
thing I ever knew. This occurred in Virginia. The writer
is W. F. Russell, and his comrades were of the Seventeenth
Tennessee Regiment: J. M. Hastings, Sim Terry, Warren
Hinsen, P. D. Parker, Simon Roberts. The other one of the
seven I cannot recall, but I should like to know. I hope to
see Gill Turner several times before I die.
Jim Bkvan Was Tiidre. — Comrade Carter Bcrkcly. of.
Staunton, Va., states that James Bryan, an inmate of the
Soldiers' Home at Richmond (who spent the summer with
his friend Lieut. Gov. Echols), went out with Company I,
Fifth Virginia Regiment, Stonewall Brigade. No finer sol-
dier ever pulled a trigger than Jim, and he was badly wounded
several times. At the bloody angle, Capt. Charles S. Arnall
was acting adjutant of the Stonewall Brigade, and in passing
the Fifth Regiment he heard a voice coming from the line
of battle that was fighting desperately: "Hello, Captain!"
He turned and saw Jim in the front rank loading his gun.
He said: "Captain, you see me, don't you?" The next day
the Captain saw Jim, and said: "Jim, what in the world did
you stop me in that awful place yesterday for?" He replied;
"Captain, wasn't that the hottest place you ever saw?" The
Captain said it was. "Well," said Jim, "I only wanted a wit-
ness that I was there."
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REMIWISCEXCF.S 01- FORTY-SECOND GEORGIA.
Col. L. P. Thomas wriics in Gwinnett (Ga.) Journal:
"Mr. Editor: By request of one of the fair Daughters of tlic
Ojnfederacy of your grand old county, I contribute a short
article for the 'Woman's Edition' of your journal for the wor-
thy purpose of aiding the Winnie Davis Memorial.
"Alter my return from the gold fields of California, in 1856,
I married one of Gwinnett's purest and brightest daughters,
and conunenced a mercantile business under the style of Wil-
son & Thomas. I was enjoying prosperity in this business
when the tocsin of war was sounded. I organized Company
A from the noble, gallant young men of Gwinnett County,
which became a part of the grand old Forty-Second Georgia
Regiment. It was first commanded by Col. R. J. Henderson,
with R. F. Maddo.v lieutenant colonel, W. H. Hulscy major.
After fighting over Kentucky and through Tennessee, it was
at Vicksburg in the memorable forty-seven days' siege, witii
the hardships of the ditches, on half rations and part of the
time eating mule meat to keep soul and body together, all
this time under a galling fire from the gunboats on the river
and the small arms from the enemy occupying the intrench-
ments surrounding this doomed city.
"After returning to our native Georgia, we fought over ali
the bloody fields from Missionary Ridge to Atlanta, and then
again made an onward march to Nrishville, fighting over the
ncvcr-to-be-forgotten plains of Franklin, which was one of the
hardest fought battles of the war. We had been in many skir-
mishes, besides having fought the following hard and bloody
battles, viz. ; Tazewell, Cumberland Gap, Chickasaw Bayou,
Baker's Creek, Vicksburg, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face,
Resaca, New Hope, Pumpkin Vine, Kennesaw, Atlanta (July
20, 18O4), Atlanta (July 22, 1864), Atlanta (July 28, 1864},
Jonesboro, Franklin (November 30, 1864), Nashville (Decem-
ber 16, 17, 1864), Edisto River, Bindker's Bridge, Orangeburg,
Winston, and then Bentonville, this being twenty-two in all
and the last battle of the war. A few of this noble old regi-
ment yet remain.
" Benton viu.E.
"In this last battle of the war all of this grand regiment cov-
ered themselves in glory. We had taken our position in a
pine forest near the main road leading to Smithfield Station,
at which point the Federals charged our line repeatedly, theii
colors proudly waving immediately in our front. Their colors
would rise and fall in a few feet of our battle line. It was
here I saw Moses Martin, of Company A, fall. He lay there
among other wounded ones, and encouraged our boys to move
on. Soon after this charge was made, and we were resting
en our arms, some of the Confederate officers came rapidly
down our line and complimented us for the fight we had made.
Soon after this our entire army was again moved toward
Smithfield Station, at which point the reorganization of the
army under Gen. J. E. Johnston took place. Col. R. J. Hen-
derson, who had been commanding Cumming's Brigade for
some time, was promoted to brigade commander. I had first
taken coinmand of the Forty-Second Georgia on the battlc-
lield at Resaca, Ga., and commanded in most of the battles
ihereaftei".
"In this reorganization I was promoted to lieutenant colonel,
and J. J. McClendon was made the major. The regiment was
then known as the Consolidated Forty-Second Georgia Regi-
ment, many of the regiments being consolidated so as to
make one regiment, and new officers placed over them.
"Gen. J. E. Jolinslon had again assumed command, and the
different organizations, under new leaders, commenced in ear-
nest to drill and maneuver, preparing for the next battle.
"With this new order of things we were again ready for
the conflict, but the fighting was over.
"Soon thereafter our entire army commenced to march to-
ward Greensboro, N. C. On the march, perhaps the second
day on the way, a soldier, who had belonged to the Virginia
army and had in some way gotten away in advance of his com-
rades and no doubt was moving as rapidly as he could to-
ward his loved ones and home, disheartened, sore-footed, and
hungry, reported to the officers he first met that Gen. Lee
cut.. I.. 1". TIIUMAS.
had surrendered. This seemed, so absurd that we could not
believe it, and the poor fellow was j)ut under arrest and held
for a day. After this the news of the surrender came thick
and fast, and the Virginia soldier was again allowed to pro-
ceed toward his home, apologies having been made to him.
"Another thrilling incident I remember. A soldier (his
regiment and name I have forgotten) had been tried by a
court-martial for desertion. He was a young fellpw, and had
not been long with his command; but the strictest discipline
was necessarily in force, and the sentence was death. He
was to be executed that very day near Greensboro. The de-
tail of men had been made, the time and place selected where
he was to be legally executed (shot to death) under military
order. His position had been taken, the soldiers were drawn
up in front to do the firing, when a dashing young officer from
the army headquarters was seen in the distance riding at
breakneck speed and waving the pardon from the general
connnanding just in time to save the life of the poor fellow.
"We commenced moving again in silence toward Greens-
boro and High Point, where we surrendered a few days
thereafter.
"Gen. Johnston, in his 'Narrative of the War,' says: 'On
May 2, 1865. the three corps and three little bodies of cav-
alry of the Confederate army were ordered to march to their
destinations, each under its own commander, and my military
connection with these matchless and fearless soldiers was
terminated.'
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"Our command moved on to High Point, a short distance
from Greensboro, and there in an old fiekl I had our regiment
to stack arms, about four hundred in number, and when that
was done, amid a silence that could almost be felt, many a
tear was shed by brave officers and brave men while standing
there over those guns. A beautiful address had been pre-
pared and hnnded to me, signed by every officer and non-
commissioned officer in my regiment, expressive of the highest
admiration for me and the deepest regret at parting. This
address I still have, preserved among my many cherished army
relics.
" "Tell :t as you may,
It never can be told;
Sing it as you will.
It never can be sung —
The story of the glory
Of the men who wore the gray.' "
L. P. Thomas Chapter, U. D. C./ Norcross, Ga.
Laura J McNab, President, furnishes us a sketch:
"The L. P. Thomas Chapter, U. D. C, was organized at
Norcross August g, 1899, with twelve charter members. The
first officers were: Mrs. E. L. McNabb, President; Mrs. R.
A. Myers and Mrs. H. V. Jones, Vice Presidents ; Mrs. Julia
Gartrell, Recording Secretary; Mrs. Druscilla RichardscJii,
Corresponding Secret:iry; Mrs. W. M. Wallace, Treasurer;
Mrs. Cornelia C. Jones, Historian.
"The Chapter numbers eighteen members now. Two of the
charter members have died, and six members have moved
away, among them the efficient Treasurer, Mrs. Wallace.
"In nan;ing the Chapter for Col. L. P. Thomas, the ladies
desired not only to compliment a brave oflicer but also to pay
a well-deserved tribute to the gallant Forty-Second Rcgimeni,
which numbered among its members so many of Gwinnett's
bravest soldiers.
"Every year since its organization the Chapter has observed,
with appropriate exercises, Lee's birthday. Memorial Day, and
the birthday of Jefferson Davis, on which occasions addresses
have been delivered by such distinguished persons as Col. L.
P. Thomas, Gen. A. J. West, Hon. H. P. IBell, and ex-Gov-
ernor .'\. D. Candler.
"On Memorial Day the graves of every Confederate veteran
who sleeps in the cemetery at Norcross is wreathed with flow-
ers. In this the Daughters of the Confederacy have the hearty
cooperation of all the citizens. Silver-haired veterans and
prattling children go hand in hand paying the beautiful tribute
of love to the 'men who wore the gray.'
"The Chapter has contributed to the Winnie Davis Memorial
at Athens and the Davis monument at Richmond. Twenty-
five crosses of honor have been delivered to Veterans, and
twelve more applications are filed, lo be delivered this Jan-
uary.
"The Chapter holds its regular meetings on the first Friday
afternoon of each month. In addition to this, last winter the
members had a Study Evening, one evening in the week de-
voted lo the study of such characters as Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, Jackson, and Calhoun."
The Richard B. Hubbard Chapter, U. D. C. — The Rich-
ard B. Hubbard Chapter of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy was organized Saturday evening, October 24,
at Hubbard City, Tex., with a membership of about thirty.
Miss Katie DafVan, of Ennis, Tex., President of the State or-
ganization, was there to assist in organizing the Chapter.
The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. Dora
Pinkston; Vice Presidents, Mrs. R. S. Stovall and Mrs. Mat-
tie Waller; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Joseph E. Taulman;
Corresponding Secretary, Miss Hallie Sadler; Registrar, Mrs.
J. M. Peden; Historian, Mrs. Cora Porter; Treasurer, Mrs.
W. W. Thompson.
Characteristic of Southern Womanhood. — A fine illus-
tration of the energy and industry exhibited by the Southern
women after the war was recently given by a patron of the
Veteran in what she had done for herself and others:
"After the first bitterness was over, I realized that I must
work or lose my mind. Since then I have tried to do with
all my might whatever work God seemed to place before me.
On our old place I superintended the planting and cultivation
of a small but beautiful orange grove. The income from
it was ample for my simple wants. The freeze eight years
ago cut it down to the ground. The succeeding cold winter
and want of money rendered my efTorts to restore it futile.
In spite of all the sorrow the war brought upon me and mine
and upon my beloved Southland, I would rather that it came
than that my countrymen had submitted to be trampled upon
without a struggle to he free. The cause was and is very dear
to my heart."
Manner of Stonewall Jackson's Death. — E. L. Moore.
Esq., writes from Lamar, Mo., a comment on Capt. Randolph's
sketch, in which he stales :
"The article on the 'Manner of Stonewall Jackson's Death,'
by W. F. Randolph, captain of Jackson's bodyguard, is very
interesting; but I call your attention to the serious discrep-
ancies between this account and that of the same great tragedy
(commencing on page 685 of the 'Life and Campaigns of
Jackson') by R. L. Dahney, who, I understand, was Jackson's
chief of staff. Capt. Randolph places himself in command of
Jackson's bodyguard at that time, while Dabncy's account ap-
parently gives that position to a Capt. Wilbourne, and does not
mention Capt. Randolph. Other discrepancies in names and
details appear, but this is the most serious and serves as an
illustration.
"Now, for the sake of historical truth, it does seem that
there ought to be some effort at reconciliation of these author-
ities. Surely there ought to be no question as to every name
and detail of so imporlant an event as the firing upon Jackson
that fatal night.
"Dahney 's work was written by a man who was intimately
associated with Jackson during his campaigns, and was pub-
lished prior lo April i, 1866, while everything was fresh in the
author's mind. I hope this mystery can be cleared up."
LOYALTY TO TEXAS VETERANS.
A Tyler, Tex., special to the Houston Post reports a case of at-
tempted shooting which illustrates the sentiment of that people:
"In a crowded store Dave Murray, aged about seventy years,
a gallant Confederate soldier, shot at a young man about twen-
ty-seven years of age. Mr. Murray, who enjoys the love and
esteem of every one who knows him, stated the trouble was
caused by a family matter. The bullet passed through the
crown of Tom Johnson's hat, grazing his head. News soon
spread that Dave Murray was under arrest, and immediately
the poor and the v,realthy ex-Confederates came pouring into
the courthouse. His bond was placed at $300, and the aggre-
gate wealth of his bondsmen is over $500,000. Every one was
anxious to sign the bond. Hut Murray, the defendant's broth-
er, was taken from the jail here in reconstruction days and
mobbed by Federal soldiers. He was bayoneted to death by
over five hundred soldiers. He had attacked with a knife a
Yankee soldier for insulting a lady in the streets."
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GEN. STERLING PRICE.
BV REV. J. R. PERKINS, HUNTSVILLE, MO.
Prince Edward County, Va., contributed her quota of stars
to that constellation of military geniuses that rose resplendent
in the skies of the Old Dominion. High among that number,
shining as a Mar of the iirst magnitude, is Sterling Price. He
was a Virginian by birth and a Missourian by adoption. Born
September 14, 1809, he grew to manhood in the county of his
nativity. He was educated at Hampden-Sidney College, a ven-
erable institution that numbers among its charter members
Patrick Henry and James' Madison.
Democracy in this Western world has ever sought the out-
post of civilization unhampered by the customs and the tradi-
tions of the lands across the sea. This is a partial explanation
of that great exodus of Puritan and Cavalier from out the con-
servative East. In the soil of the Slates of the Middle West
these two streams of humanity confiuenced and gave birth to
the American citizen. In the wake of this tide the Price fam-
ily came to Missouri in 1831, and settled in Chariton County.
From 1832 to 1840 Sterling Price knit strength into his vig-
orous frame by labor upon his father's farm. He had, in 1833,
married the daughter of Capt. Head— an excellent Virginia
family that had preceded the Prices to Missouri.
Young Price became a leading citizen of Chariton County,
combining his well-trained mind with rare tact and common
sense. He carried these qualities, with a winning personality,
into the political arena, and was elected to the eleventh Gen-
eral Assembly of the State of Missouri upon the Democratic
ticket. He was honored in his second term by being chosen
speaker of the House. At this time Sterling Price was thirty-
one years old. He possessed the dash and the courtliness of
the Cavalier and the austerity of Puritan moral conviction. He
was of that type and quality which gave to this country her
first Americans. Thus he soon was deemed an integral part
of the life of his State, and accordingly, in 1844, was elected
to the Lower House of the Twenty-Ninth Congress of the
United States.
War with Mexico was pending. The controversies in Con-
gress were heated. The martial spirit of the man was stirred,
the innate Anglo-Saxon aversion to Latin supremacy asserteJ
itself, and he chose a military life. He was a soldier born.
Jefferson Davis, the future President of the Southern Con-
federacy, and Sterling Price resigned their seats in Congress
at the same time, and were commissioned by President Polk
to raise regiments m their respective States.
Col. Price's regiment was detailed for duty in New Mexico
Territory. When the Connnanding General Kearney pro-
ceeded to California with the main army. Sterling Price was
virtually given military command of the Territory, with a
force of two thousand men.
Immediately upon the departure of Gen. Kearney, the Mex-
icans rose in revolt, brutally murdered the provisional gov-
ernor, and planned to exterminate all American life in New
Mexico.
But the conspirators had not reckoned with the men from
Missouri and their young colonel. Placing himself at the
head of five hundred men. Col. Price stormed the heights on
which the enemy was posted, received his baptism of fire,
won the first engagement of his military career, and displayed
a trait that ever characterized him in warfare — leading men
into battle rather than directing them into it.
Five more fierce engagements subjugated the enemy. The
acluevements of the young colonel were recognized by Con-
gress, and he was raised to the rank of brigadier general. The
impartial historian of our war with Mexico will acknowledgt
the command of Price as the winner of New Mexico to the
arms of the United States.
Sterling Price returned home laden with honors. In 1852
he was elected Governor of Missouri. At the expiration of
his term of office ominous war clouds lowered over the nation,
from which the lightning of sectional hate occasionally flashed,
followed by the mutlermgs of discontent.
His attitude in that ordeal is easy of definition. He be-
lieved in the sovereignty of the States ; he was acquainted with
the difficulties attending the formation of the constitution by
the representatives of the thirteen original colonies; he knew
that constitutional rights in America were born of revolu
tionary rights, and he felt that when constitutional doctrine
endangered the liberties of a people the right of revolution
became imperative. "Rights in the constitution" was his
motto; but if rights were not to be had in it, then create a
new constitution.
In the special convention of 1861, called by Missouri, Price
stood for these principles. But the "irrepressible conflict"
came. It would have been less bitter in Missouri had not
Nathaniel Lyon, bigot and fanatic, stalked upon the scene.
He spoke with contempt of the Price-Harney agreement — an
agreement that would have saved thousands of lives and
millions of dollars.
At this juncture Sterling Price drew his sword, as did Lee,
in defense of his State. Gen. Sherman said that the North
iiiukl better afi'ord to lose the State of Missouri than Price.
i he motives which actuated Price were not ulterior, for he
knew that the strength of the North was double that of the
South, but with him might did not make right.
Price's record in the War between the States stamps him as
one of the foremost leaders of the lost Confederacy. From
Wilson Creek's sanguinary battle he emerged the leader of his
people. At Lexington he executed a piece of strategy that set
the Eastern critics wondering and caused the North to send her
best generals against him. On tlie field of Elk Horn he distin-
guished himself by personal bravcryrand for his care of his sol-
diers he won the sobriquet of "Old Pap." At luka he fought
so hard that Rosecrans said: "Price is a pertinacious fighter."
The Confederate retreat from Corinth, slipping out of the care-
fully laid meshes of a superior Federal force, was one of the
most sensational and strategic moves of the entire war. Price
conducted the crucial part of that retreat. Never was his sub-
jective soldier instincts better displayed. When theories failed,
his native cunning, resourcefulness, and conunon sense won.
When Lee surrendered. Sterling Price soon accepted the sit-
uation gracefully, and with characteristic optimism faced the
problems which awaited every son of the South. But the re-
construction of the nation was for others, for Missouri's great
.soldier was summoned to go up higher. Unbiased and unem-
bittered, he passed away September 29, 1867, mourned by the
South, for which he had fought, and respected by those
against whom he had unsheathed his mighty sword.
[In using the sketches of Gens. Sterling Price and Patrick
R. Cleburne, it was intended to give the picture of each the full
front page, but failure to procure suitable pictures precluded
it. A picture of the Cleburne (lag was kindly sent by Col.
H. G. Evans, of Columbia, Tenn., an ardent admirer of "Old
Pat," but it is of blue print, and therefore cannot be repro-
duced by the photo-engraving process. — Ed.]
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MAI. GUN. PATRICK R. CLEBURNE.
The following extracts are taken from a sketch of Gen. Cle-
burne written by Gen. Hardee in May, 1867, in whose corps
Gen. Cleburne served most of the time from the rank of
colonel to that of major general :
"Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was an Irishman by birth, a
Southerner by adoption and residence, a lawyer by profession,
a soldier in the British army by accident, in his youth, and a
soldier in tlie Southern armies from patriotism and conviction
of duty in his manhood. Upon coming to the United States,
he located in TTelcna, Ark., where he studied and practiced law.
In the commencement of the war for Southern independence,
he enlisted as a private. He was subsequently made captain of
his company, and shortly after he was elected and commis-
sioned colonel of his regiment. Thus from one grade to an-
other he gradually rose to the high rank of major general,
which he held when he fell. It is but just praise to «ay there
was no truer patriot, no more cour.Hgeous soldier, nor. of his
rank, more able commander in the Southern armies ; and it is
too much to add that his fall was a greater loss to the cause he
espoused than that of any other Confederate leader after
Stonewall Jackson.
"In the battle of Franklin, Novemlier jo, 1864, Cleburne fell
at the head of his division. Ho was one of thirteen general
officers killed or disabled in the combat. He had impressed
upon his officers the necessity of carrying the position he had
been ordered to attack, a very strong one, at all cost. The
troops knew from fearful experience, of their own and their
enemy's, what it was to assault such works. To encourage
them, Cleburne led them in person nearly to the ditch of the
enemy's line. There rider and horse, each pierced by a score
of bullets, fell dead close by the enemy's works.
"The death of Cleburne cast a deep gloom over the army and
the country. Eight millions of people, whose hearts liad learned
to thrill at his name, now mourned liis loss, and felt there was
none to take his place. The division with which his fame
was identified was worthy of him, and he had made it so. Its
numbers were made up and its honors shared by citizens of
the five States — Arkansas, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and
Tennessee. In it was also one regiment of Irishmen, who, on
every field, illustrated the characteristics of the race that fur-
nishes the world with soldiers. No one of its regiments but
bore upon its colors the significant device of the "crossed
cannon niverted," and the name of each battle in which it had
been engaged. Prior to the battle of Shiloh, a blue battle flag
had been adopted by me for this division; and when the Con-
federate battle flag became the national colors, Cleburne's Divi-
sion, at its urgent request, was allowed to retain its own bullet-
riddled battle flag. This was the only division in the Confed-
erate service allowed to carry into action other than the na-
tional colors; and friends and foes soon learned to watch the
course of the blue flag that marked where Cleburne was in the
battle. Where this division defended, no odds broke its lines;
where it attacked, no numbers resisted its onslaught, save only
once — there is the grave of Cleburne and his heroic division.
"Cleburne, at the time of his death, was about thirty-seven
years of age. He was above the medium height, about five feet
eleven inches, and, though without striking personal advan-
tages, would have arrested attention from a close observer as a
man of mark. His hair, originally black, became gray under the
care and fatigue of campaigning. His eyes, a clear steeJ-gray
in color, were cold and abstracted usually, but beamed genially
in seasons of social intercourse, and blazed fiercely in moments
of excitement. A good-sized and well-shaped head, prominent
features, slightly aquiline nose, thin, grayish whiskers worn on
the lip and chin, and an expression of countenance, when in
repose, rather indicative of a man of thought than action, com-
pletes the picture. His manners were distant and reserved to
strangers, but frank and winning among friends. He was as
modest as a woman, but not wanting in that fine ambition
which ennobles men. Simple in his tastes and habits, and ut-
terly regardless of personal comfort, he was always mindful
of the comfort and welfare of his troops. An incident which
occurred at Atlanta illustrates his habitual humanity to pris-
oners. A captured Federal officer was deprived of his bat and
blankets by a needy soldier of Cleburne's command, and Cle-
burne, failing to detect the oflfender or to recover the property,
sent the officer a hat of his own and his only pair of blankets.
"Cleburne's remains were buried after the battle of Franklin
in the Polk Cemetery, near Colinnbia. Tenn. Gens. Granbery
and Strahl. brave comrades who fell in the same action, were
buried there also On the march to Colmnbia, a few days be-
fore his death. Cleburne halted at this point, and in one of the
gentle moods of the man that sometiines softened the mien of
the soidier, gazed a moment in silence upon the scene, and,
turning to some members of his staflf, said : 'It is almost worth
dying to rest in so sweet a spot.'
"It was in remembrance of thfese words that their suggestion
was carried out in the choice of his burial place. In this spot
where nature has lavished her wealth of grace and beauty —
in the bosom of the State be did so much to defend, within
whose borders he first guided his charging lines to victory.
and to whose soil he finally yielded to the cause the last and all
a patriot soldier can give— rests what was mortal of Patrick
Cleburne, and will rest until his adopted State shall claim his
ashes and raise above them monumental honors to the virtues
of her truest citizen, her noblest champion, her greatest soldier.
"Cleburne had often expressed the hope that he might not
survive the loss of independence by the South. Heaven heard
the prayer, and spared him this pang. He fell before the ban-
ner he had so often guided to victory was furled, before the
people he fought for were crushed, before the cause failed.
"Two continents now claim his name, eight millions of peo-
ple revere his memory, two great communities raise monuments
to his virtues, and history will take up his fame and hand it
down to time for e.xampling, wherever a courage without stain.
a manhood without blemish, an integrity that knew no com-
promise, and a patriotism that withheld no sacrifice, are hon-
ored of mankind."
Since the above was written by Gen. Hardee, Arkansas has
claimed the dust of her illustrious soldier, and it now rests
beneath a handsome monument in the cemetery of Helena.
I lie remains of Gen. Granbery have been removed to Texas,
and Gen. Strahl to Dyersburg, Tenn.. among the people vifith
whom he lived on coming South from Ohio.
It is a singular fact that, though Cleburne's and Cheatham's
Divisions were together nearly all of the war, there was never
any jealou.sy of one command toward the other. There was,
in fact, ardent admiration between the men of the two com-
mands. On occasions of terrific fighting each was proud of
the support of the other, and the heroism of one division was
an inspiration to the other.
IT. S. Fulkr writes from Malvern, Ark.:
"The Veter.^n for November, on page 519, made me say,
'Fort Moultrie was in possession of the enemy,' while it was
in our possession, and it w-as our own guns that sunk our boat.
The North Carolina Regiment was ordered to Sullivan's Island
and ours to James Island. That was some time before the
final evacuation of Morris Island."
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MONUMENT AT FORT SMITH, ARK.
An interesting story is told by Joseph M. Hill in the dedi-
cation of a Confederate monument at Fort Smith, Ark. While
it comes as an oration, it is a gem in historic data, and was
delivered in behalf of the Varina Jefferson Davis Chapter,
U. D. C. Mr. Hill is the youngest son of Gen. D. H. Hill,
and son-in-law of Gen. D. H. Reynolds.
Ladies and Gentlemen: In October, 1817, a military post
was established at Belle Point, near the confluence of the
Poteau and Arkansas Rivers, by Maj. William Bradford, act-
ing under the order of Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Smith, of the
United States army, commanding the Ninth Military Depart-
ment, which embraced this part of the then Missouri Territory.
In 1818 a wooden stockade, protected by wooden block-
houses, was constructed thereon, and named, in honor of Gen.
Smith, Fort Smith. It was occupied as a fort for twenty
years, when a new site was selected, and three hundred acres
purchased by the government, principally from Capt. John
Rogers, the then owner of the land upon which most of our
city is located. This tract constituted what is known as the
Reserve, so famed in our local history.
The fort was built thereon in 1838, its rock walls being con-
structed with the stone taken from Belle Point, thereby
effacing the beauty of that work of nature.
From J838 until April 23. 1861, the fort was almost contin-
uously occupied by United States troops, and on the latter
date was evacuated, evidently in anticipation of tlie storm
about to break.
The army officers selected a beautiful site within this Re-
serve, on the banks of the Poteau above the Point, for the
burial of the dead belonging to the army.
When the Confederate government was organized and
Arkansas cast htr fate with the new-formed nation, the fort
became (at least de facto) the property of the Confederate
States, and was used by their troops.
The bloody battle of Elk Horn, or Pea Ridge, was fought
on the 7th day of March, 1862, and therein fell Brig. Gens.
Ben. McCulloch and James Mcintosh. Of them their com-
manding officer, Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn, said: "McCulloch
and Mcintosh fell in the very front of the battle and in llie
full tide of success; with them went down the confidence and
hope of their troops. No success can repair the loss of such
leaders."
All that was mortal of these heroes was brought here for
interment in the cemetery appertaining to the fort. The story
of their burial is like a talc from an olden book: Two coffins
side by side, covered with the flag for which they died, drawn
by six milk-white horses caparisoned in black, each led by a
slave dressed in black, escorted by soldiers with reversed
arms. Muffled drums and martial music marked the time of
this stately procession as it wound its way through a silent
multitude gathered from the whole countryside, standing with
uncovered heads and moist eyes.
"Slowly and sadly they laid them down.
From the field of their fame fresh and gory.
They carved not a line, they raised not a stone;
But left them alone in their glory."
Thus what had been the Federal cemetery became the Con-
federate cemetery. Gen. McCulloch's body was soon removed
to. Texas.
Afler the battle of Prairie Grove another sad scene was wit-
nessed when the body of gallant Brig. Gen. ."Mexander E.
Steen, who fell in that battle, was brought here and interred
beside his comrades.
The old fort, during the year 1862 and until September I.
1863, was used principally as a hospital. There the wounded
and the sick from Elk Horn, Prairie Grove, and other battle-
fields in this vicinity were brought for treatment and care.
Ihe good women of Fort Smith devoted themselves to the
nursing of these sick and wounded soldiers. The dead were
all buried in this cemetery until the roll call in that bivouac
of the dead numbered three hundred and eighteen Confederates.
On September i, 1863, the Federals again occupied Fort
Smith, and it remained in their hands until the war closed.
After the war the Federal government, with just and gen-
erous hands, gathered its dead from the battlefields and laid
them tenderly to rest in cemeteries adorned with the beauties
of nature and art, and commemorated their valor in shafts
of marble and tablets of bronze. This cemetery on the Re-
serve became one of the eighty-three national cemeteries main-
tained by the government, and in it lie one thousand, eight
hundred, and twenty-five Federal soldiers, and over their
graves waves the flag of a reunited country. The Confederate
dead buried there had no government to care for their heroic
dust ; their flag was furled, but they have not been forgotten.
About a decade after the war Gen. James F. Fagan and Dr.
Elias DuV'al, names beloved in our community, inaugurated
a movement to erect a monument to Gens. Steen and Mcin-
tosh and their comrades to mark their resting place in the
national cemetery. The ladies gave dinners, lectures, and en-
tertainments of various kinds to assist in raising the neces-
sary funds. Part, if not all, was thus raised by them. Col.
FuKT SMITH CuNFlDKRATL MUNIMENT.
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Elias C. Boudinot, that prince of song and story, delivered
a lecture in behalf of this fund. As a result of this work a
modest, yet appropriate, shaft was erected on Confederate
Mound, and the bodies of the Confederates in the cemetery
were placed together there. This monument remained there
until destroyed by the cyclone of 1898, and another was placed
in its stead when the government caused all the monuments
destroyed bv that storm to be replaced.
The Grand Army of the Republic have followed, if they did
not inaugurate, a beautiful custom. Annually they assemble
to honor their dead. With sad steps they march to the graves
of their fallen comrades and scatter the flowers of spring, and
with other appropriate ceremonies commemorate their valor in
life and heroism in death. Every year when the Federal sol-
diers and their wives and daughters have performed these
beautiful rites a band of devoted Southern women have mar-
shaled those of Southern ties to the cemetery, and there cov-
ered the Confederate dead with roses and heaped garlands of
tvergreens over their unresponsive dust. It is not invidious,
but only simple justice, to say that this work of love has bee:i
led by that devoted daughter of the South, Mrs. Sallie Ruth-
erford, who has not been deterred by storm or sorrow from
paying this tribute to the dead who wore the gray. Sometimes
this memorial day has been jointly celebrated, and fitting
eulogies delivered on both the gray and the blue.
On the 23d of September, 1898, at the invitation of Miss
Fannie Scott, of Van Buren, eight ladies met her and Mrs.
Henry A. Mayer, then President of the Mary Lee Chapter of
the Daughters of the Confederacy of Van Buren, at the resi-
dence of Mrs. James M. Sparks, and it was then resolved to
organize a Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy in
Fort Smith, and on October 6, 1808. Varina Jefferson Davis
Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy was formally
organized with a full corps of officers, thirty-one ladies par-
ticipating in the organization.
It is a sorrow refreshed by this occasion that Miss Fannie
Scott, Arkansas's Daughter, cannot see the fruition of the
work of the Chapter she was instrumental in organizing.
Her love of the South was intense and her devotion to the
veterans of the lost Confederacy sublime. If it is given to
the souls of those who die in the Lord to revisit the earth,
her gentle spirit is with us to-day as a benediction.
The object of the Chapter was declared to be "to search for
and preserve the true history of the brave deeds of our South-
ern men and women, and see that it is taught to the rising
generation; to care for the graves of our Confederate heroes;
and to see that the day set apart for decoration day be ob-
served each year; to fulfill the duties of sacred charity to-
ward Confederate veterans and their descendants ; and to
erect monuments to our dead."
The most cherished purpose of this Chapter (which has
grown to one hundred and thirty members) has been to erect
a suitable monument to the Confederate dead, and, as the
original monument to Steen and Mcintosh and the Confeder-
ates in the national cemeterv was destroyed, it was thought
most fit to erect it on that spot where so many of them lie,
which is endeared to the hearts of this community by many
sad associations; and lliere, standing over the dust of these
dead, would be ,1 ninii\uiunt tn .ill the Confederate dead.
"We care not whence thoy came ;
Dear is their lifeless clay:
Whether unknown, or known to fame.
Their cause and country still the same —
They died and wore the gray."
This Chapter accumulated by the hard work of its ladies the
sum of $936.64, which was made by giving teas, dances, and
suppers, attending booths at street fairs, and various enter-
tainments, in which they worked in unison and harmony to
this common end. A committee, consisting of Mrs. John H.
Rogers and Mrs. James M. Sparks was appointed to solicit
funds, and $1,196 was secured by solicitation and voluntary
contribution. The sums ranged from ten cents to fifty dollars,
and, whether the widow's mite or the rich man's dollars, each
was given with full heart and ready hand; and all, except
less than fifty dollars, was given from Fort Smith. $19975
was contributed through solicitations of Ben T. DuVal Camp,
United Confederate Veterans, and that fund has been used to
adorn and beautify the approaches to this monument. The
names of all the donors to this fund are placed in the corner
stone of this monument. Some of the contributions to this
fund are from those not of Confederate sympathy, who gave
from a broad liberality, desiring to honor valiant Americans.
In these ways a inonument fund of $2,332.39 was raised.
The Daughters of the Confederacy selected a conmiittee of
three veterans and three ladies to choose the design, contract
for the monument, and cause its erection. That committee
consisted of Messrs. John H. Rogers, Charles A. Birnie, and
J. E. Reynolds, and Mrs. James l\f. Sparks, Mrs. W. J. Echols,
and Mrs. Sue Bonneville. The completion of this monument,
with every dollar of its cost paid, finishes their work. It is
not on the site contemplated by reason of the intolerance of a
Secretary of War, whose name should not be mentioned on a
day dedicated to honoring American patriots.
In behalf of the monument committee, I deliver this monu-
ment to the Daughters of the Confederacy.
The Daughters of the Confederacy will keep the faith. The
women of the South sent to the front father, husband, son,
and lover, and gave a smile with the parting tears. For four
years, with needle, spinning wheel, and loom, they furnished
clothing to the soldiers in front, and ofttimes with hoe and
plow provided food at home. They endured hardships and
privation with the stoicism of the veteran ; their spirits
never waned, and in the face of defeat they sung to their foes
the songs of the South. They never faltered, and they never
surrendered. Welcoming back their loved ones, they cheered
their despondency, helped the maimed, and revered the mem-
ory of their dead next to their God. They taught their chil-
dren with the prayers of childhood the story of "that storm-
cradled nation that fell," and made reverence of that a part of
their religion. To their daughters this monument and all of
which it is emblematic is handed as a sacred trust. They will
teach posterity that wc have one country, one flag, and one
people ; but once there was another flag, now furled forever,
and under its folds marched armies clad in gray who added
new honor to American manhood and new luster to American
history, and they will point to this monument to emphasize
the history of that other time, "Lest We Forget."
C.\PT. Ben Davis with Pemberton at Vicksburg. — John
Haywood, of Covington, Tenn., requests space in the Veteran
to correct a mistake in Young's "History of the Seventh Ten-
nessee Cavalry," which does great injustice to the memory of
Capt. Ben Davis in the statement that he was "absent without
leave" for a certain period. I belonged to his company, and
testify that he was within the fortifications of Vicksburg with
his company as Gen. Pemberton's escort and couriers during
the time referred to. His son, Mr. Ben Davis, of Brownsville,
and several members of the company request this correction.
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CONFEDERATE ORDNANCE DURING THE WAR.
niOM JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATES ARTILLERY.
William I.^ Roy Broun, while President of Alabama Poly-
technic Institute, Auburn, and who was formerly lieutenant
colonel of ordnance of the Confederate army, commanding
the arsenal at Richmond, wrote the following account :
In complying with your request to give experiences and
difficulties in obtaining ordnance during the war, I shall en-
deavor, relying on my memory and some available memoranda
preserved, to give a statement of the collection and manufac-
ture of ordnance stores for the use of the Confederate armies,
so far as such manufacture was under my observation and
control. After a year's service in the field as an artillery offi-
cer, I was ordered to Richmond and made tuperinlendent of
armories, with the rank of major in the regular army, a new
office in the army of the Confederate States, and sent to various
points in North Carolina and Georgia to inspect and report
on the facilities possessed by different manufactories for mak-
ing arms, swords, sulphuric acid, etc. As a general rule, the
facilities for manufacturing were meager and crude, giving
little prospect for an early serviceable product.
Early in the spring of 1862 I was ordered to report at Holly
Springs, Miss., and take charge of a factory just purchased
by the Confederacy, and designed for the manufacture of
small arms. It was not many months before the defeat of the
Confederate army under Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston at Shi-
loh, Tenn., which caused a hurried removal of all the niacliin-
ery to Meridian, Miss. I went to Richmond again, reported
to the chief of ordnance, and was assigned to duty connected
with the ordnance department.
The Confederate Congress had authorised the appointment
of fifty new ordnance officers, and the applications to the War
Department became so numerous and persistent for these ap-
pointments that the Secretary of War, Col. Randolph, or-
dered that all applicants should submit to an examination, and
that appointments would be made in order of merit, as re-
ported by the board of examiners. Thus what we are now
familiar with as civil service examinations were introduced
by the Confederate War Department in 1862 in the appoint-
ment of ordnance officers.
I was made lieutenant colonel of ordnance, and as presi-
dent of the board with two other officers constituted the
board of examiners. Ry direction of Gen. J. Gorgas, the
chief of ordnance, I prepared a field ordnance manual by
abridging the old Ignited States Manual and adapting it to
our service when necessary. This was published and dis-
tributed in the army.
The examination embraced the field ordnance manual as
contained in this abridged edition, the elements of algebra,
chemistry, and physics, with some knowledge of trigonometry
The first examinations were held in Richmond. Of course the
fact of the examinations greatly diminislied the number of
applicants. Of those recommended by the board, so many
were from Virginia that the President declined to appoint
them mitil an er|iuil opportunity was given to the young men
of the different armies of the Confederacy in other States.
Hence I was directed to report to and conduct examinations
in the armies of Gens. Lee and Jackson in Virginia, Gen.
Bragg in Tennessee, and Gen. Penibcrton in Mississippi. Un-
der other officers examinations were conducted in Alabama
and Florida. The result of this sifting process was that the
army was supplied with callable and efficient ordnance officers.
Early in \9&t, I was appointed commandant of the Rich-
mond arsen.-il. Here tlic greater part of the ordnance and
ordnance stores were prepared for the use of the Confederate
armies.
The arsenal occupied a number of large tobacco factories at
the fool of Seventh Street, near the Tredegar Iron Works,
between Cary Street and the James River. It included all the
machine shops for working wood and iron organized into dif-
ferent departments, each under subordinate officers, arranged
to manufacture ordnance stores for the use of the Confederate
army.
Cannon were made at the Tredegar Iron Works, including
siege and field guns, Napoleons, howitzers, and banded cast-
iron guns. Steel guns were not made. We had no facilities
for making s'ecl, and no time to experiment.
The steel guns used by the Confederates were highly valued,
and, with the exception of a few purchased abroad, were all
captured from the Federals.
At the beginning of the war the machinery belonging to
the armory at Harper's Ferry wms removed to Richmond, and
there established. This armory manufactured Enfield rifles,
and the product was very stnall. not exceeding five hundred
per month.
With the exception of a few thousand rifles, the soldiers
at the beginning of the war were armed with the old smooth-
bore muskets and with old Austrian and Belgian rifles im-
ported. These they exchanged for Enfield rifles as they were
favored by the fortunes of war.
In the summer of 18(12, after the seven days' battles around
Richmond between Gen. Lee and Gen. McClellan, men were
detailed to collect arms from the field, which were carried to
the Richmond arsenal, and then as quickly as possible re-
paired and reissued to the army. Subsequently, through the
blockade runners, a large importation of excellent rifles was
received and distributed.
When the men detailed for this purpose were collecting the
thousands of Enfield rifles left by the Federals on the battle-
fields around Richmond, I remember seeing a few steel breast-
plates that had been worn by the Federal soldiers who were
killed ill battle. They were solid steel in two parts, shaped to
fit the chest, and were worn under the coat. These were
brought as curiosities to the arsenal, and had been pierced by
bullets. I remember this as a fact of my own knowledge.
Some years ago the charge that some of the Federal soldiers
wore breastplates was denied and decried as a gross slander,
and in reply thereto I published in the Nation the statement
here made. These no doubt represented a few sporadic cases,
worn without the knowledge of others. The Confederate sol-
diers had to rely for improved arms on captures on the battle-
field and on importation, when the blockade could be avoided,
having available no large armory.
i he Tredegar Iron Works at Richmond, Va., was tlic chief
manufactory of siege and field guns, all cast-iron and smooth
liore. The large Colnmbiads were made there, also the
howitzers, twelve-inch bronze Napoleons, etc. But tlie higldy
valued banded Parrott three-inch rilics, with which the army
was well supplied, were, as a rule, captured on the battlefield.
As the war continued great difficulties were experienced in
obtaining the needful ordnance supplies, and many devices
were resorted to. After the battles about Chattanooga, Tenn.,
when the Confederacy lost possession of the copper mines, no
more bronze Napoleons could be made ; but instead thereof a
light cast-iron twelve-pounder, well banded after the manner
of the Parrott guns, was made, and found to be equally as
effective as the Napoleon.
At the beginning of the war it must be remembered that
the Confederacy had no improved arms, no powder mills, no
arsenals, no armnrie?. no cap machines, and no improved can-
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non. All supplies, at first, were obtained by importation,
though the blockade subsecjuently cut off this foreign supply.
All arms were percussion cap muzzle loaders. In the begin-
ning the old flint-lock smooth-bore muskets were changed to
percussion cap lock and issued to the troops.
To keep a supply of percussion caps was a difficult and very
serious problem, as the demand for caps was about twice as
great as it was for cartridges.
The machines made after the United States pattern did not
yield a large tupply. and simpler and much more efficient ma-
chines for making, tilting, pressing, and varnishing caps were
invented and made by Southern mechanics.
Aher the Federals obtained possession of the copper mines
of Tennessee, great anxiety was excited as to the future store
of copper from which to manufacture percussion caps.
The casting of bronze field guns was immediately suspended,
and all available coper was carefully hoarded for the manu-
facture of caps. It soon became apparent that the supply would
be exhausted and the armies rendered useless unless other
sources of supply could be obtained. No reliance could be
placed on the supply from abroad, though large orders were
forwarded, so stringent was the blockade. Of course the
knowledge of this scarcity of copper was not made public. In
this emergency it was concluded to render available, if possi-
lilo, some of the copper turpentine and apple brandy stills
whicli still existed in North Carolina in large numbers.
Secretly, with the approval of the chief of ordnance, an offi-
cer was dispatched, with the necessary authority to purchase
or impress all copper stills found available, and ship the same,
cut into strips, to the Richmond arsenal. By extraordinary
energy he was enabled to forward the amount necessary for
our use. The strips of copper of these old stills were rcrollcd
and handed over to the cap manufacturer. And thus were all
the caps issued from the arsenal and used by the armies of
the Confederate States during the last twelve months of the
war manufactured from the copper stills of North Carolina.
After the completion of the cap machines, which were an
improvement on the old United States machine, eight hands
only, two being men, the others hoys and girls, frequently
manufactured from the strip copper over three hundred thou
band caps within eight hours, stain])ing, filling, preparing, and
varnishing them. 'I'hcse cap machines thus had a capacity of
producing a million a day. These caps made at the arsenal
were frequently tested, and pronounced to be superior in re-
sisting effects of moisture and in general efficiency.
For the completion of these machines, the Confederate gov-
ernment awarded the inventor, an employee of the arsenal,
llie sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, be-
ing then equal to two thousand in gold.
To manufacture llie fulminate of mercury, we needed nitric
acid and mercury. A quantity of mercury was obtained early
in the war from Mexico. To make nitric acid, we required
niter and sulphuric acid. The sulphuric acid we manufactured
in North Carolina, after many failures and difficulties, espe-
cially in obtaining the lead to line the chambers. Niter was
made by the Niter and Mining Bereau, especially organized
for that purpose. Everywhere about the environs of Rich-
mond could be seen large earthen ricks and heaps which con-
tained dead horses and other animals, designed for use in the
manufacture of niter. The available earth from caves was
also made to yield its quota of niter. With this sulphuric acid
and niter, on the banks of the James River, we manufactured
tlie nitric acid required in the manufacture of fulminate.
Near the close of the war the supply of mercury became ex-
hausted. Here was a most serious difficulty. We had not, and
could not obtain, the mercury, an essential material with which
to manufacture fulminate of mercury ; and without caps the
army could not fight, and must be disbanded. This was an
extremely serious situation, as no mercury could be obtained
in the limits of the Confederacy. We began to experiment on
substitutes, and fortunately found in Richmond two substances,
chlorate of potash and sulphuret of antimony, which, when
properly combined, answered the purpose satisfactorily. And
the battles around Petersburg during the last few months of
ilie war were fought with caps filled with this novel substitute.
Our lead was obtained chiefly, and in the last years of the
war entirely, from the lead mined near Wythcville, Va. The
mines were worked night and day, and the lead converted into
bullets as fast as received. The old regulation shrapnel shells
were filled with leaden balls and sulphur. The Confederacy
had neither lead nor sulphur to spare, and used instead small
iron balls and filled with asphalt.
We had no private manufactories established which could
furnish the appliances needed, and frequently everything had
to be done from the very beginning by the ordnance depart-
ment and the army in the field. For instance, to run the
forges to make the irons for the artillery carriages we needed
charcoal. To obtain this I purchased the timber of a number
of acres of woodland on the south side of the James River,
and secured a detail of men to burn the charcoal for the use
of our forge department.
During the winter men from Gen. Lee's army cut and shipped
10 Richmond the timber with which artillery carriages were
made on' which to mount the guns to fight the battles in
the spring. Men appointed for that purpose followed the
army and collected the hides of the slaughtered animals, which
were used to cover the saddletrees made of timber, cut by
temporary details of men from the army in the field.
As the war continued efforts were made to build permanent
and well-appointed arsenals, as at Macon and Augusta, Ga.
The large arsenal at Augusta, under the management of Col.
Rains, was especially devoted to the manufacture of powder.
Toward the close of the war it was making an abundant sup-
ply of very superior character, equal, and in some respects
superior, to that imported from foreign countries.
Under the demands of necessity in many instances, cotton
converted into rubber cloth was used in the manufacture of
infantry accoutermcnt.^, and was found especially useful in
making belts for machinery.
Models of inventions were frequently sent to the arsenal, of
which large numbers were valueless, and those good in theory
could not be tried for want of skilled machinists and ordnance
supplies.
I remember on one occasion, the last year of the war, that
a large number of Spencer lirecch-loading rifles, the result of
a capture, were turned over to the arsenal, and, though greatly
desired by the troops, could not be reissued for want of am-
nnmition. In the effort to make the cartridges for the Spencer
rifles, in the first place, tools had to be devised with which
to make the tools used for making the cartridges. Hence the
surrender of Richmond came before the cartridges were made.
A plan was proposed at the arsenal to increase the accuracy
and range, and thus render a\ailable and more efficient the
smooth-bore muskets in possession of the Confederacy. The
plan proposed was theoretically correct, and is worth mention-
ing, inasmuch as very late in the war the identical plan was
sent to President Davis from Canada as a scientific gift of
great value. This was sent by him to the War Department,
and hence found its way to the arsenal, where the drawings
were regarded with interest, since they correspond exactly
with those made at the arsenal years previously. The idea was
to fire an elongated compound projectile made of lead and
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Qoijfederate l/eterap.
hard wood, or papier-mache. In the diagram the heavy lines
represent a section of the leaden arrow bullet, with center of
gravity well forward; the dotted lines represent the hollow-
sabot of wood, or hard papier-mache. On firing, the lighter
material, moving first, would press outward the arrow head,
and thus destroy windage, and the flight of the trajectory
would be as an arrow, without rotating on the shorter axis,
inasmuch as the center of inertia of the projectile would be
in advance of the center of resistance of the air. At least that
was the theory of the compound projectile devised for the
old smooth-bore musket.
An attempt was made to use on the field a round concussion
shell from the howitzers as mortars. In this concussion shell
a friction primer properly wrapped acted as a fuse, its head
terminated in a bullet, which rested on the shoulder of the
brass fuse that screwed into the shell, leaving an unfilled hol-
low space about the bullet. When the round shell struck any
point, except that exactly in rear of the prolongation of the
wire, put in the axis of the bore by using a sabot, the momen-
tum of the bullet would draw the friction primer and explode
the shell, regardless of the point on which a round shell
struck. A gun carriage was made for howitzers with a round
shell trail, as thus they could be used as mortars, and fired at
a high angle.
These were rather experiments than instances of success,
and are only mentioned now to show that the ordnance officers
did something more than simply attempt to imitate the Fed-
erals. They were prevented from accomplishing what they
planned by reason of the want of machinery to do the neces-
sary work.
During the siege around Petersburg it was discovered that
the shells used for the large Parrolt guns were very defective—
that is, had but very short range. The shells would start off
and fly well and straight, revolving on the longer axis during
the first half of the trajectory, and then suddenly whirl on the
shorter axis and drop almost vertically. One can tell by the
ear the instant the axis of revolution changes, if one gun is
fired. The action of the shell being observed, the cause was
obvious, and a remedy suggested itself. The center of the
resistance of the air at the summit of the trajectory was in
advance of the center of inertia, and produced a couple that
caused the rotation on the shorter axis. The obvious remedy
was to make the front of the shell hemispherical instead of
conoidal, and diminish its length, and thus put the center of
gravity forward of the center of resistance. With this change
made, the maximum range was attained and the complaints of
the artillerist ceased.
When we consider the absence of manufactories and ma-
chinery and of skilled mechanics in the South at the beginning
of the war, its successfully furnishing ordnance supplies for
so large an army during the four eventful years is a striking
evidence of the energy and resources and ability of its people.
The success of the ordnance department was due to its able
chief. Gen. J. Gorgas, and, in a measure, to the intelligence
and devotion of its officers selected by the sifting process of
special examinations.
I must add this, that never was an order received from Gen.
Lee's army for ammunition that it was not immediately sup-
plied, even to the last order to send a train load of ammunition
to Petersburg, after the order was received for the evacuation
of Richmond.
As continuous work was necessary to keep a supply of ammu-
nition at times, serious difficulties threatened the arsenal not
only from scarcity of supplies of material but also from de-
preciation of our currency.
Food supplies were very scarce in Richmond and became
enormously high in Confederate currency, and during the very
severe last winter of the war all the female operatives who filled
cartridges with powder left the arsenal and struck for higher
wages. These were trained operatives, and the demand for
ammunition was too great to afford time to train others, even if
they could have been secured. An increase in money wages
would not relieve the difficulty.
I remember once being, early in the morning, on the island
in James River, with the ice and frost everywhere, surrounded
by a number of tliinly clad, shivering women, and, mounting a
flour barrel, I attempted to persuade them by appeals to their
loyalty and patriotism to continue at tlieir work until better
arrangements could be made. But patriotic appeals had no
effect on shivering, starving women.
Very fortunately, at this juncture a vessel with a cargo for
the ordnance department ran the blockade at Wilmington, N.
C, laden not with rifles and powder but with bacon and sirup,
and articles for food and clothing, these being of extreme
value. An ordnance store was immediately established, and
food and clothing sold to the employees of the arsenal at one-
fourth the market price. This fortunate cargo made all happy,
and relieved the impending difficulty.
I submit herewith a statement of the principal issues from
the arsenal made up to January i, 1865. This can be relied
on as accurate, having been copied from the official reports
preserved at the arsenal, consolidating all issues. The report
was prepared by my order, furnished the Richmond Enquirer,
and published the day of the evacuation of Richmond. A copy
was published in the Nczu Eclectic Magazine, April, 1869, from
which this extract is taken ;
"Statement of Principal Issues from the Arsenal.
"Statement of principal issues from the Richmond Arsenal
from July I, 1861, to January I, 1865.
"Artillery Equipments, Etc, — Columbiads and siege guns,
341; field pieces of all descriptions, 1,306; field gun carriages,
1..375; caissons, 875; forges, 152; sets of artillery harness, 6,-
852; rounds of field, siege, and seacoast ammunition, 921,441;
friction primers, 1,456,190; fuses, 1,110,966; portfires, 17,423:
rockets, 3,985.
"Infantry and Cavalry Arms, Accuutcrmcnts, Etc. — Infantry
arms, 323,231 ; cavalry arms, 34,067; pistols, 6,074; swords and
sabers, 44,877 ; sets of infantry and cavalry accouterments,
375,510; knapsacks, 188,181; haversacks, 478,498; canteens and
straps, 328,977; gun and carbine slings, 115,087; small arm
cartridges, 72,413,854; percussion caps, 146,901,250; cavalry
saddles, 69,418; cavalry bridles, 85,139; cavalry halters, 75.611;
saddle blankets, 35,464; pairs of spurs, 59,624; horse brushes,
42,285 ; currycombs, 56,903."
The enormous amount of "thirteen hundred fieldpieccs of
all descriptions" classed among the issues does not signify
lliat that number was manufactured at the arsenal, but that
number includes all those obtained by manufacture, by pur-
chase, or by capture, and afterwards issued therefrom. The
writer in the Enquirer further says : "Assuming that the is-
sues from the Riclmiond arsenal have been half of all the
issues to the Confederate armies, which may be approximately
true, and thai 100,000 of the enemy were killed, not regarding
the wounded and those who died of disease, it will appear
from the statement of issues that above one hundred and fifty
pounds of lead and three hundred and fifty pounds of iron
were fired for every man killed ; and if the proportion of killed
and wounded be as one to six, it would further appear that
one man was disabled for every two hundred rounds expended.
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In former wars, with the old smooth-bore musket, it was gen-
erally said, 'His weight in lead is required for every man
who was killed;'" and from the issues of the arsenal it does
not appear that the improved rifle requires a pound less. It
will appear to one fond of statistics, who may reduce the
moving force of the projectiles to horse power, that the force
required to kill one man in battle will be represented by about
one thousand horse power.
Some general remarks in reference to the conclusion of the
war and the destruction of the arsenal may not be out of
place. There were a large number of Federal prisoners in and
about the city. Libby prison was filled with officers, and Belle
Isle with many privates. To release these was the object of
cavalry raids against the city, when the main army was absent.
All the operators of the arsenal and the Tredegar works and
emi)loyees of the departments were organized in regiments,
and were called to the field when a raid was expected. So
they literally worked with their muskets at their sides, and so
valuable were the lives of the skilled artisans that it was said:
If three iron workers in the regiment of the arsenal were
killed, the manufacture of cannon would stop.
But the end was approaching. In the Confederate Senate I
remember listening to an animated discussion in regard to en-
listing negro troops in the army. It was urged by some of
the Senators that we should enlist and arm fifty thousand
ncsroes, of course with a pledge of freedom.
1 knew we could not possibly arm five thousand. The ord-
nance department was exhausted. One company of negroes
was formed, and I witnessed the drill in the capitol square,
but I understood that as soon as they got their uniforms they
vanished in one night.
As the spring of 1865 approached the officers often discussei!
the situation. We knew that Lee's lines were stretchea lu
breaking, we knew the exhausted condition of every depart-
ment, and we knew the end was near.
Sunday, April 2, was a bright, beautiful spring day, and
RichnKind w.\? assembled at church. T was at St. Paul's
Chinch. About four pews in front of nic sat President Davis,
and in a pew behind him Ccn. Gorgas, chief of the ordnance
department and my chief. During the service and before the
sermon the sexton of the church, a well-known individual m
the city, stepped lightly forward, and, touching Mr. Davis on
the shoulder, whispered something to him. Mr. Davis imme-
diately arose and walked out of the church with a calm ex-
pression, yet causing some little excitement. In a moment
the sexton came back and called out Gen. Gorgas. I confess that
I was made extremely uneasy, and was reflecting on the prob-
able cause when, being touched on the shoulder and looking
around, the sexton whispered to me that a messenger from the
War Department awaited me at the door. I instantly felt the
end had come. I was ordered to report to the War De-
partment, where I soon learned that Gen. Lee had telegraphed
that his line was broken and could not be repaired, and that
the city must be evacuated at twelve o'clock that night. I was
ordered to remove the .stores of the arsenal, as far as could
be done, to Lynchburg, and was informed that the President
and chief oflicials would proceed to Danville, and the line be
reestablished between Danville and Lynchburg. I immediate-
ly had the canal boats of the city taken poi^scssion of, and be-
gan to load them as rapidly as possible with machinery, tools,
stores, etc., to be carried to Lynchburg.
As a large supply of prepared ammunition could not be
taken, I had a large force employed in destroying it by throw-
ing it into the river. Supplies of value to families were given
away to tho.se who applied. By midnight the boats laden with
stores were placed under charge of officers and started for
their destination, which they never reached. What became of
them, I never knew.
About two o'clock in the morning Gen. Gorgas, the Chief
of Ordnance, came to the arsenal to tell me that he was about
to leave with the President for Danville, and to report to him
there. I never reported to him till fifteen years later, when
I met him at Sewanee, Tenn., the Vice Chancellor of the Uni-
versity of the .South.
Every possible eflfort was made to prevent the destruction of
the arsenal. I, as commanding officer, visited every building
between three and four o'clock in the morning of the 3d of
April, had the gas extinguished and the guards instructed to
shoot any man who attempted to fire the buildings. One hour
afterwards (I was then four miles from the city) the rapid
and terrible explosion of the shells heard in the distance
proved that that part of the city occupied by the arsenal was
being made desolate by the torch applied by the frantic mob.
Shortly after the President left the city, the gunboats were
blown up. After witnessing the explosion from the arsenal,
I sent for the keeper of the magazine, and, satisfying myself
that life would not be endangered by its destruction, wrote an
order for him to explode the magazine a! five in the morning,
the last order of the Ordnance Department, and among the
last orders of the Confederate government, given in the city
of Richmond.
As I rode out of the city in the early dawn, I saw a dense
cloud of smoke suddenly ascend, with a deafening report that
shook the city to its center. Thus ended the surrender of the
city of Richmond. The mob immediately took possession,
looted the stores, and fired the city. A largo part of beautiful
Richmond was burned to the ground.
The Fedcr,-!.! troops marched into the burning city in splen-
did order, took possession, dispersed the mob, and saved, by
their energy and discipline, the city from total destruction.
GEN. EARLY IN THE VALLEY.
BY CAPT. S. D. BUCK, BALTIMORE, MD.
I have before me an article written by a comrade of Com-
pany B, Fourth Georgia Regiment, as fine a body of men as
ever marched to battle; but I must diflfer with him as to Gen.
Early's "Combination of Blunders," as he terms Early's Val-
ley campaign. Ke makes a bold charge of blunders, but
names none, intimating only that Early should have contin-
ued the advance. He also says that he "saw Gens. Early,
(jordon, and others trying to rally the troops," and that "the
whole line gave way at the same time." Now, pardon me,
comrade, but you are in error. Early rode up to the rear of
our brigade, Pegram's, and I was near him while the battle
was in progress on our left. We stood fast, and I saw brigade
after brigade break ; but we moved back only when ordered
to do so by Gen. Early himself, and our alignment was per-
fect till we got back to Cedar Creek Bridge. On crossing we
were broken, but Gen. Pegram rallied part of the brigade a
half mile from the bridge and received a cavalry charge, and
on the edge of Middletown he stopped the artillery and opened
on the enemy. I am positive that the North Carolina Brigade
east of the pike fell back in good order, and their alignment
was commented upon at the time.
Sheridan had 35,900 troops, while Early's reported 10,000
was, in fact, not over 8,000. Custer was on one flank with
5,000 cavalry and Merrell on the other with over 4,000. We
drove the enemy from Cedar Creek to Middletown, over three
miles, and at 4 p.m. Early did not have 5,000 men in line.
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C^or^federate l/eterap,
Most of the absentees had left their colors to pillage the cap-
tured wagons— excusable to some extent, as they needed
clothing and felt that Sheridan would keep on to the Potomac
River. "Every sensible man saw the end," he writes. I
confess that the regiment I had the honor to belong to did
not see it in that light, but believed so firmly in the justice
of our cause that they never lost hope. Early's campaign in
the Valley shows marked ability, and the day will come when
justice will be done the old hero. Gen. Lee never lost faith
in him, and when relieved of command so wrote him. If he
had had 25,000 troops, Sheridan would never have been known
in poetry or prose. He killed, wounded, and captured more
of Sheridan's troops that he had in his army. They admit
.pver 16,000 loss.
WAR TIME LETTERS OF THE SIXTIES.
Comrade J. A. Templeton, of Jacksonville, Tex., who was a
member of Company G, Tenth Texas Cavalry Dismounted,
sends some old letters written to his parents in the winter of
1863. They are in the original envelopes, each bearing two
tive-cent Confederate postage stamps :
"Cami- Near Shelbvvii.le, Redford County, Tenn.,
January 9, 1863.
•■Dear Father and Mother: As it has been some lime since I
wrote you, this may surprise you, but I have had no chance
before. I ain now with Capt. Good's old battery, commanded
by Capt Douglas, as a detail. I would not change for any-
thing, as artillery service is nuicli easier than infantry or
cavalry.
"I suppose you have heard of the battle of Murfreesboro,
fought on the 30th and 31st of December. The first day we
went within two miles of the town, but did not drive the
enemy back scarcely any. Our brigade was not engaged,
though they were shelled a good deal by the enemy. The
battery was placed back in the reserve, and did nothing the
iirst day, but about eight o'clock on the 31st we were ordered
out, and were soon against a brigade of live Yankees. I
thought w^e were going to be charged, as they were in less
than one hundred yards of us, advancing and not a gun un-
limbered. As soon as we got our guns ready they took to
tlieir heels, but our canister shot overtook a good many of
them. We drove them away from a splendid battery of six
or eight guns, which our brigade captured, but they got on
our flank and recovered it. We were tlicn placed on the
extreme left wing. In the meantime our brigade was pur-
suing tile enemy, together with Gens. Rains's and McNair's
brigades. Our division came on them while they were pre-
Ijaring breakfast. The coffeepots and frying pans were on
the fireri steaming as we went through their camp. Our pris-
oners said that the First Ohio never ran before that morning.
. . Gen. Rains was killed on the second day. He was a
Tennesseean, and lived at Nashville. He died fighting to-
ward his home, like many other Tennesseeans who fell tliat
day. Adjt. Jarvis and Lieut. Col. Craig were wounded slight-
ly. Our men charged a cedwr brake and failed, because the
enemy had masked a battery."
Another letter from Shelbyville, April 22, 1863, states:
"I again write you a few lines. I have given up all hope
of ever receiving another letter froin home. The mails being
so uncertain is all that keeps me from accusing you of never
writing to me. ... I have no news that you have not
heard. An important move must be in hand from present ap-
pearances of things. We are ordered to send all our baggage
to the rear, retaining only one tent fly to every sixteen men.
I look for another Kentucky trip or some long march. Polk's
Corps is camped in the vicinity of She'byville. There are
three divisions in the corps — viz.. Withers', Cheatham's, and
McCown's — and generally from three to five brigades in each
division. Brig. Gen. A. P. Stewart is at present our division
commander. McCown has not been in connnand in some
time. Gen. Bragg received and inspected Polk's Corps a week
or two ago. li there is any one in S. J. Johnson's company
that would rather be in this, he can get a swap. That is the
only way to get a transfer this side of the river. 1 have heard
different reports as to whom Johnson's company is serving.
One says that it has been sent to the borders of Texas to
guard wagon trains. If this is true, I should like very much
to be with them, and, anyway, to get a transfer to that com-
pany would suit inc.
"We are doing very well here now. We moved camp yes-
terday, and have the prettiest camp I ever saw. It has been
a woods lot (before the fences around it were destroyed)
with large beech, ash, and elm trees that afford good shade.
I am afraid that some night when we get sound asleep orders
will come for us to get up and cook rations and be ready to
march by daylight. This occurs when we get into some
pleasant camp and begin to be comfortably situated. This
time last year we had arrived at Memphis, so it has been one
year since we crossed the Mississippi River. I was in hopes
that peace would be restored to our country by this time, but
can't see that it is any nearer at hand. I hope to 'tell the tale'
if the war lasts twenty years."
MISREPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SOUTH.
The Nezu York Sun published, sometime since, a statement
represented to emanate from "a professor in one of the lead-
ing universities of the South." The newspaper ought to have
accei)ted this as ridicule :
"It is little wonder that the sectional lines disappeared so
slowly when one remembers some of the instructions given
in tlic backwoods schoolhouscs the first year after the war.
"In one of the border States such instructions as these were
given by the teacher, orally, for there were no sclioolbooks for
quite a while after the war :
"'Who was the first President?' If the pupil answered
'George Washington,' the teacher replied rather sadly : 'Yes,
he was the first President at the time you speak of, but the
Iirst President of the South was Jefferson Davis.'
"Then he would ask, 'Who was the greatest soldier in the
world?' and he would answer himself: 'Gen. Lee.' ■
"When the class in geography was called, and the question
was asked: 'Name the greatest cities in the country,' the class
was instructed to say: 'New Orleans, Richmond, and Charles-
ton.' The longest river in the United States was given as
the 'Lower Mississippi,' and the class was further instructed
that the capital of the country was Richmond. 'The greatest
piuducts of the country were cotton and sugar, and New Or-
leans molasses came next.
'In all these instructions there was never any reference to
the North. No harsh words were spoken of Lincoln, Grant,
Sherman, or of any of the great events in which they partici-
pated. 'They were simply ignored."
The last paragraph is about the only truth in the sketch.
'The comment, for instance, on the first President is ridiculous.
'The South has always been proud of Washington, and the
"first" as applied to Mr. Davis is minimized by our own
people, who fondly refer to him as the only President of the
Confederate States.
C^opfederati^ l/ecerai).
V. Y. COOK,
NOT LOANABLE.
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THE CADETS AT TUSCALOOSA NOT CAPTURED.
Mr. W. F. Pearson, who was a cadet at the Alabama Univer-
sity at Tuscaloosa, writes a history of the cadets in rebuttal to
the stories about the Katydids, of which humorous accounts
have been given. These accounts did not emanate from a de-
sire to reflect upon the students in the Alabama University, yet
they gave offense, and Comrade Pearson throws bright light
upon that branch of the Confederate service of which South-
<'rners may well be proud. The Veter.nn assures this comrade
;iud all others who were there, and their parents, that no desire
wen was had to belittle the lads and young gentlemen of the
battalion or lo deprive tlicni of any merited credit. The Louis
Moore referred to is evidently a misprint. In his letter from
Poarch. Okla., Comrade Pearson writes at length :
"An account of 'The Capture of the Katydids,' which ap-
peared in the Confeder.vte \'eteran for June, 1903, would be
i-.nnoticed except to be laughed at but for the injustice it does
10 the Alabama Corps of Cadets, volunteers in the Confederate
army, who did their duty as soldiers and arc entitled to con-
sideration as Confederate veterans. Evidently the story was
written by one unacquainted with the city of Tuscaloosa and
ignorant of the circumstances attending its capture, hence the
■:onclusion that it was constructed upon humorous 'war inci-
dents.' Louis Moore, the boy hero of the story, was never a
cadet in Tuscaloosa. The story is false in every particular, as
can be proven by the university register and by the living mem-
bers of the Alabama Corps of Cadets. As that was the most
txciting and happiest period of my life, I have a distinct recol-
lection I if (he details.
"Gen. J. T. Murlee, President of the Marion Military Insti-
tute, was commandant of the corps of cadets ; Prof. W. S.
Wyman, President of the University of -\labama, and Prof.
E. A. Smith, Stale Geologist of Alabama, were professors in
the university. They and many others know all the facts, and
by them it can be proved that 'Louis Moore,' as a cadet or as a
defender of Tuscaloosa at any time, was and is unknown. In
Tuscaloosa, during the war, there were no httle-boy cadets,
nor an academy for cadets, and there was no campus except
that at the university. The Federals did not make a charge on
cadets in Tuscaloosa at any time. The only cadets there dur-
ing the war were the Alabama Corps of Cadets, and they wore
neat home-spun jeans Confederate uniforms with a white
collar, subject to daily inspection, turned over the jacket collar.
Among these cadets there was not in 1864 or 1865 a 'coatee,'
a spiked-tail jacket covered with brass buttons, nor any kind
of uniform that would have suggested to soldiers the name
'Katydid,' an epithet not coined for cadets until after that time.
"One day near the end of March, when the Yankees were
looked for, the Alabama Corps of Cadets were posted before
the bridge near a wall of loose brick that had been built by
the citizens. Parties of cadets may have obtained permission
• n that day to cross the bridge and visit the camp of Forrest's
command, in which they had many friends ; but it surpasses
the belief of those who were acquainted with Confederate boys
in uniform, and knew the spirit of fun and mirth with banter
that prevailed in the South, that any of these cadets became
offended or indignant at any soldier's jeer or joke. Before
leaving home the cadets had learned all about these jokes and
'?ells,' pnd they knew exactly what to say in reply to the cavalry.
If any cadet took offense, the fact was never reported to the
corps, among whom this visiting party of cadets mingled for
hours. The truth is that a most friendly feeling existed be-
tween Forrest's men and the cadets. During the previous win-
ter about forty cadets had jomed that conimand. and as cav-
alrymen they continued to wear their cadet uniforms.
"The facts on which the story depends — viz.. the charge by
magnanimous Federals who refused to harm the fighting boys,
the heroic defense, the capture of the little boys, and Louis
Moore's complaining speech, are all false in every particular,
because nothing of the kind ever happened and no such boys
were in existence.
".•\ fight occurred in Tuscaloosa a half mile fr.nn the bridge,
in which a captain and two cadets were badly wounded ; but
no cadet then, nor at any other time, was captured by the Fed-
erals. That Gen. Croxton despised the cadets until he met
them is probable; that he gave orders to capture and spank
Init not kill them is possible. But no such orders were carried
init. No cadet was captured. The 'spanking' of an enemy is
a joke more ancient than the almanac. Two thousand years
pgo it was repeated by Scrtorius when he saw Metcllus coming
to relieve young Poinpey in defeat. In his most popular opera
a celebrated wit and song writer says :
■Quixotic is his enterprise, and hoiieless his adventure is,
Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said.
The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries.
And all the jokes that's possible have long ago been made.'
"Judge Young .s.ays that 'it was an essential fact of the story
that a courier on horseback notified the cadets of the enemy's
approach on .•Kpril 4,' Even if this be true, which is not a part
of the story, to send that courier was a duty of Col. Hardcastle,
who had refused to permit cadets to guard the bridge. That
the guards of cavalry were derelict in their duty on the night
of April S, when the bridge was taken, cannot be denied.
"The description of Jackson's Division of Forrest's Cavalry,
as given by the writer and approved by Judge Young, of Mem-
phis—viz., 'They were men worn with months of fighting,
fool-sore, poorly clad, and they were ill fed' — are expressions
recognized as having been used numberless times in describing
Stonewall Jackson s immortal soldiers; but they cannot appro-
priately be applied to Forrest's Cavalry, especially in April,
1S65. These cavalrymen at that time had done but little fight-
ing for months; riding on horses, they certainly were not 'foot-
sore ;' and they were allowed to feed themselves, and did feed,
at Confederate supply depots under their care and protection.
The cadet uniforms were cut by a skilled tailor; and they were
neat, for we had not slept on the ground, except in Mobile, in
a dirty cotton warehouse. The cadets also had shining guns,
for it was a part of their duty to keep them bright.
"The Alabama Corps of Cadets, numbering two hundred and
eighty-five boys and young men whose ages, with two excep-
tions, ranged from fifteen to eighteen years, were considered by
the Confederate authorities as being immature and unable to
undergo the hardships of a campaign under Lee. Hood, or
Forrest, and for this reason they were stationed in Tuscaloosa
and quartered in the unversity buildings, where they pursued
the university course of studies and performed such military
duties as are required of regular soldiers in barracks. The
corps of cadets, divided into three companies, was formed into
a battalion and commanded by Col. J. T. Murfee, a distin-
guished graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, who. on
account of his unusual attainments, had been detailed from the
Confederate army, in which he was a lieutenant colonel, to drill
the battalion and to instruct the advanced students in the
science of military engineering, tactics, and the art of war.
His fitness for this responsible trust was demonstrated by
the discipline he maintained over the cadets and their perfec-
tion in all the evolutions of the drill and manual of arms.
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"When the Confederate amiies were greatly increased by vol-
unters in 1862 and 1863, every available cadet was sent to re-
cruiting stations as drillmasters, and they proved themselves
competent officers. My eldest brother, at that time a cadet,
wrote home that on being called out of ranks to drill the com-
pany he was unable to speak a word of command and the
failure filled him with grief and disappointment. Father wrote
immediately, advising him to ask for another trial. Having
passed the second ordeal satisfactorily, he was sent to the
Thirtieth Alabama, under Col. Charles M. Shelly, at Talladega.
"The cadets sent out for this purpose went to the front later
as privates in their respective regiments. Indeed, from this
time on cadets frequently left the university to join one of the
main armies of the Confederacy. In the winter preceding the
close of the war about forty left, and in their neat and trim
uniforms, which were becoming to soldiers, joined Forrest's
command. Months afterwards several of them called to see
their friends at the university. Hence the improbability of
cadets, because of their neat uniforms, being derided by For-
rest's men, whose uniforms were of the same material. Cav-
alrymen who camped in the university grove often witnessed
our battalion drill and dress parade, and some of them re-
marked that we were better drilled than any troops they had
seen in the army. Having been enlisted in the Confederate
army as volunteers, the cadets were subject at all times to a
call from the government, and at different times were ordered
into actual service: in August, 1864, to meet and repel Gen.
Gen. Rousseau's raiders, who were making a demonstration
toward Montgomery, the capital of the State. In a sharp
fight near Notasulga, Ala., the corps of cadets and a few other
Confederate troops defeated this detachment of cavalry and
drove them back toward West Point, Ga. In the following
December the battalion was sent to Gen. Maury at Mobile,
where a land attack was constantly expected, and we remained
there until that danger had passed. In that city we had the
distinguished honor of being selected as the escort of Admiral
Semmes, the most renowned Confederate naval commander,
from the railroad station to his home. He had arrived by a
long, circuitous journey from England, where he had been re-
ceived and entertained by the nobleman who rescued him from
drowning when the Alabama was sunk in a famous naval duel
off Cherbourg, France, with the United States steamer Kear-
sarge.
"During the two first days of 1865 the cadets, somewhat de-
moralized, were returned to Tuscaloosa.
"One bright day in March we were sent to breastworks six
miles beyond Northport to fight Yankees who were reported
to be coming. Returning to the university, we remained there
until that dark night when the Federals crossed the bridge
and went into Tuscaloosa without being fired upon.
"As the facts and circumstances of this exploit by the Fed-
erals and of the fight by the cadets and their retreat have been
misrepresented and ought to be ventilated, I shall give the par-
ticulars of these occurrences as I learned them by observa-
tion, from reports current at that time, and lately from Prof.
W. S. Wynian, who was a prisoner.
"The Capture of Tuscaloosa.
"By a rapid march a Federal cavalry brigade fifteen hundred
strong arrived at Northport a few hours after dark on April 5,
and, finding no guard at the bridge, crossed into Tuscaloosa and
took from a livery stable the two field pieces of artillery which
had been removed from the university by order of Col. Hard-
castle and against the protests of Col. Garland and Col. Murfee.
Col. Hardcastle also refused the request for a guard of cadets
to be posted at the bridge, but intrusted that duty to men who
abandoned this important post because the night was very dark
and our cavalry scouts had reported after sunset that no Yan-
kees were within sixty miles.
"Whether or not a courier was sent by Col. Hardcastle to
notify the cadets, the Yankees were already in town before the
alarm was given. But the cadets, accustomed to guard duty,
were easily aroused. Even while the long roll continued its
ominous sound, the ranks were being formed, and Company A.
with a dozen men only, hurried off, leaving the belated to run
faster and overtake their command. The companies came to-
gether at the university grove, and skirmishers were deployed.
Marching more slowly in column after we reached Main Street,
the battalion halted on the brow of the hill overlooking the
valley betwen the town and the bridge, and a line of battle was
formed. In a few moments the companies began to fire by file
at the indistinct enemy, and with such regularity, rapidity, and
precision that the Federals retired. From prisoners captured
by our skirmishers Col. Murfee learned that we were con-
fronted by a Federal brigade under Gen. Croxton, who had
orders to surprise the city and capture the cadets; but our
sudden arrival and regulated movements caused him to suspect
that pretended friends had led him into a trap set by Gen.-
Forrest, and in consequence he retreated down the hill to wait
till daylight. After our wounded had been cared for, we were
ordered to retire to the university.
"On our side Capt. Murfee's ankle was shattered, Cadet
King's leg was broken, and Cadet Siler was shot through the
chest, but not a cadet was captured.
" 'In this action six Federals were killed and several wound-
ed. The killed were buried at Tuscaloosa in the old cemetery,
and were afterwards removed to a national cemetery, probably
to that near Chattanooga.' (Prof. W. S. Wyman.)
"When the battalion retreated to the university, Col. Murfee
explained that the force opposed to the cadets comprised fifteen
hundred Federal cavalry, armed with repeating rifles. He or-
dered the battalion to re-form in the public road at the south-
east corner of the campus, and gave us permission to get from
our quarters such clothing as we actually needed. Within
twenty miinilcs the battalion, in a column of fours, with a lan-
tern in front, again began to retreat, and marched seven miles
east to Hurricane Creek, which we reached at daylight. On
a high hill beyond the creek we stood under arms all day, ex-
pecting every hour to see the Federal advance. At sunset we
recro.sscd the bridge, and, after marching fourteen miles south,
halted for the night. 'God bless the man that invented sleep I'
Our first meal on this retreat was at a very large spring, which
we readied the next morning after marching three hours. A
continuous march of several days, during which the cadets
were in high spirits, brought us to Marion, a depot of Confed-
erate supplies, and we fared there better than we had at the
university. We learned here that the university buildings, ex-
cept tlie observatory, had been burned. A week later the Fed-
erals, hearing of Forrest's approach, left Tuscaloosa, burning
the bridge after recrossing it.
"Finally we were informed of Lee's surrender and given an
indefinite leave of absence, with permission to keep the Spring-
field rifles which Gen. Maury, commanding the army at Mobile,
had issued to us in exchange for the short bronze Mississippi
rifles with which we were at first armed. His reason was that
'the cadets were perfect in drill, and deserved splendid guns
to fight with.' "
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BATTLE OF ELK HORN—CORRECTION.
BY W. L. TRUMAN, GUEYDAN, LA.
[By a mishap part of this account was omitted last month,
and it is now completed. — En.]
In the article by Gen, W. L. Cabell on Confederate battle
flags, as it appeared in the August Veteran, mention is made
of a few of the patriotic deeds of our noble women. The wom-
en of our Southern Confederacy were the grandest, bravest,
and purest women that ever blessed this earth. It made us
ragged soldier boys happy to take off our hats to them along
the roadside and to receive a smile and a nod of recognition.
God grant that our Southern daughters may come up to
their standard in all that is pure and true and brave, and
always love and teach the righteous principles for which
they suffered and did so much!
Gen. Cabell says in regard to a certain flag : "My wife, who
was in Richmond, made a beautiful flag out of her own silk
dresses and sent it to a cousin of hers who commanded an
Arkansas regiment. This flag was lost at Elk Horn, but was
recaptured by a Missouri Division under Gen. Henry Little.''
That event induces me to tell what I know of the Elk Horn
fight, and about a beautiful flag that fell into the hands of
Capt. William Wade's First Missouri Battery, of which I
was a member, on our retreat.
The Northern Army commanded by Gen. Curtis was en-
camped at Elk Horn Tavern, in Benton County, Ark, near Sug-
ar Creek, except one division under Gen. Sigel at Bentonville,
a few miles to the north. Gen. Van Dorn divided his army,
sending Gen. Price with his Missouri troops to attack the ene-
my on the north and Gen. McCulloch on the southwest, which
cut off all chances for the enemy to retreat. Price aimed to
crush Sigel at Bentonville; but that wily general got a chance
to run, and he was never known to be caught on a retreat.
His rear guard cut down trees and blocked the road in many
places ; and, as there was no way to go around, we had to get
axes and cut them out of our way. We kept up this slow pur-
suit all night, coming up with the enemy near Elk Horn about
daylight. The country is rough and mountainous, and the
road we were traveling had steep clifted sides, and in leaving
it our men had to climl) very high bluffs in order to form line
of battle.
The enemy was ready for us and saluted with a hiavy ar-
tillery fire. My battery was ordered to climb a certain rocky
hill, take position, open fire, and silence a battery that was do-
ing our men considerable damage. We expected to have great
trouble in getting up that steep hill, as we had several very
balky teams, but to our surprise and joy they went up in a
gallop, leaving the cannoneers way behind. We learned, and
saw it demonstrated many times afterwards, that a balky team
never balks under fire. When on top of the hill the battery we
were sent to engage paid its unwelcome respects to us, and we
had to go into action under a heavy five. We were soon ready,
and opened fire with our si.x guns. In twenty minutes the
enemy withdraw, leaving one gun behind. Gen. Henry Little,
commanding the First Missouri Brigade, now advanced and
engaged the enemy on our right. The roar of small arms was
fearful. We contiriued to throw shells into their line of battle,
and our brave, talented captain sat his beautiful iron-gray
horse and was happy. They stood their ground well about
lialf an hour, then retreated. Our men raised a yell and fol-
lowed them for some distance. Things were quiet now for
quite a while. We could plainly hear the firing and the Rebel
yell of McCuUoch's men in our frotit engaging the enemy on
the opposite of us. They did not seem to bo more than two
miles off. Every man in Price's little army heard the s.inie, and
it did us all good to know that we had the enemy penned and
there was no chance for them to get out unless they whipped
Price, and the beginning they had made convinced us they
could not do that.
When the firing ceased, we noticed several piles of knapsacks
at the foot of the hill. We brought up a few, and such fun
as we had reading love letters ! Some of them were just over-
powering, and the boys would hold their breath and act in other
amusing ways while they were being read aloud. We did not
know the girls, so there was no harm done. None of the blue
clothing and but few other articles were appropriated.
Firing soon commenced on our extreme left, and my battery
was moved in that direction, finding our infantry hotly en-
gaged in an unequal contest trying to drive the enemy out of
the dense bushes on the opposite side of an old field. They had
made one charge, but were driven back, and had taken shelter
m a hollow in the middle of the field. Capt. Wade placed one
battery in position immediately, ordered to load with canister
and commence firing. We raked the bushes front, right, and
left for several minutes under quite a sprinkle of Minie balls.
Suddenly our infantry gave a yell and started on a double-
quick for their concealed foe. A sheet of fire leaped from
those bushes the whole length of the field and farther, and
never let up. Our boys were again forced back, and took'shel-
ter under the hill. In the meantime we had run our guns
by hand some distance into the field, firing all the time. We
were now very much exposed, but continued to send a per-
fect hailstorm of canister mto the bushes. In a remarkably
short time our men returned to the assault the third time,
and, with a continuous yell and in the face of that terrible
fire, went right into the brush, routed the enemy, and drove
them nearly a mile beyond Elk Horn Tavern, which was
Gen. Curtis's headquarters, capturing many wagons and com-
missary stores. Our loss was heavy, but during my four
years' service I never saw better fighting. They were Mis-
souri troops, but I do not remember who commanded. My bat-
tery followed in the pursuit at a double-quick.
As I was following my gun I passed one of our infantry
boys sitting on the ground holding the head of a dying North-
ern soldier in his lap. He called to me and asked if I had
any water in my canteen, as he wanted some for the man. I
ran to him, knelt down, and gave the dying soldier a drink.
He tried to thank me, but could only move his lips. He then
raised his right hand, with a happy smile on his lips, and
patted me on my cheek, seeming to sav, "God bless you !" He
had a smooth face, was fine-looking and handsome. He was
from Illinois, but I never learned his name. I shall never for-
get that sweet face when he blessed me for that last drink
of cold water. I hope to meet him in the bright beyond.
I could not tarry, but went in a fast run to overtake my bat-
tery. When I came up they had unlimbered and prepared
for action. We soon opened fire, replying to a battery trained
upon us, and continued firing until after dark. Things soon
became quiet after we ceased, and the first day's battle was
over. We had driven the enemy about two miles and held the
field. We had not heard a gun nor a yell from McCulloch's
men since nine or ten o'clock in the morning, but later in the
night we learned that McCulloch and Mcintosh were killed
early in the morning. The other officers were puzzled on
the subject of rank, and could not decide who should take com-
mand.
Elk Horn Tavern is situated on a beautiful plateau which
v.as in a high state of cultivation. There were several sutler
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wagons in park near our battery, and we laid in a supply
of candies, tobacco, canned fruit, and other useful articles.
There was a large barn near by full of commissaries, and we
secured plenty of sugar and coffee and other groceries. The
tavern was full of the wounded of both armies.
About sunrise my battery was ordered to advance and take
position in the edge of a field and open fire on the enemy, who
were in full view on a ridge in the field unpleasantly close. As
we moved for our position we passed in the rear of our line
of battle. The men were lying flat on the ground at the edge
oi the field, well concealed in many places by small under-
growth. The brave young Capt. Clark, with his Missouri bat-
tery, was already in position, and was so gay and happy thai
morning as we passed him going to our position. Every one
who knew him loved him, and his battery boys idolized him. As
we entered a strip of heavy timber the enemy opened fire on
us from several batteries, and such a cyclone of falling timber
and bursting shells I don't suppose was ever equaled during
our great war. Our advance was stopped on account of fallen
trees, and our horses were being killed every minute. We
were ordered back, but how to get back required a kind of
military tactics not learned at military schools. We finally
obeyed the order in some way I cannot describe, after losing
several men and thirteen horses. The gallant Clark's battery
had the brunt of this terrible fire. He was slain, but his bat-
tery could not be driven from its position. The enemy now
made a dettrniincd advance along the whole line for the pur-
pose of cutting through Price's little army of Missouri sol-
diers and opening a way for retreat, but he was gallavtly met,
driven back with heavy loss, and the second day's fight was
over. Gen. Van Dorn, at this stage of action, ordered Price to
retreat and join McCulloch's part of the army, which had not
fired a shot for twenty-four hours from having no leader.
This move astonished us all. We were not whipped. We
had had everything our own way right from the start. They
had played their last card and lost, and it seemed to us that a
demand for surrender was in order. Every man, from Gen.
Price down, was mad and grieved because they had to move
away and leave the fruits of their glorious victory behind and
have it said they were whipped. A Yankee colonel, whom we
had captured with many of his men in their last charge, made
free to say to all that Gen. Curtis had given orders for all
of his wagons to be loaded with their Ijaggage and supplies
and be ready to follow if he opened a way for them to retreat,
and if he failed and had to surrender, the wagons must be
burned.
In leaving the battlefield, my battery took a wrong road and
was separated from the main body for two days without any
protection, but the enemy made no pursuit and we were in no
danger of capture. After traveling about six miles over a
rough road, we entered a rocky hollow with steep cliffs on
each side, which continued for about one mile, then suddenly
emerged into an open space about three hundred yards wide
with heavy timber on the opposite side, and near the timber
was a regiment of infantry in line of battle facing us. When
we came up, Capt. Wade was ordered (by the colonel, I sup-
pose) to take position on the right of the regiment, which he
did. They were a fine-looking set of men, dressed in Con-
federate uniform, about six hundred strong, and they had the
most beautiful flag I ever saw. It was the first time I had
seen one of our new battle flags, and this one was made of the
finest silk, with heavy golden silk fringe bordering, cord and
tassels of the same, a nice staff, with golden spear on the top,
and the name "Col. — Reeves's — Arkansas Regiment" in
golden letters across its face. The colonel's initials and num-
ber of regiment. I do not remember. Our battery was not in
position more than five minutes before we hoard fiv? or six
shots fired from small arms some distance up the rocky hol-
low we had just traveled, and several stragglers appeared in
the opening in that direction, two or three being mounted.
One rider seemed to have entered the open space from a road
farther to our right, as he was coming diagonally across the
front of our battery on a direct line for the head of the regi-
ment. He was riding a beautiful sorrel, with light mane and
tail, and came at a rapid pace. When near our front I noticed
that he was an officer dressed in full major general's uniform,
cavalry lx)ots, black hat pinniJd up on one side with a white
ostrich feather, gold cord and tassels, and a red silk sash
around his waist. He was fine-looking, hut rather stout, and
seemed very much excited. It was said by all that this was
Gen. Albert Pike. When he got opposite the regimental colors
he gave some command in a loud voice. I did not h?ar what
he said, but was told he commanded the men to disjierse and
take to the woods and save themselves, or they would be cap-
tured in a few minutes. He then continued his flight, and the
regiment melted away and disappeared in the woods in less
than two minutes. Their beautiful flag was throw^n upon the
ground and abandoned. Every member of my battery wit-
nessed this afifair. We remained in battery a few minutes
with our guns loaded ready for action; but as no enemy ap-
peared, Capt. Wade ordered us to limber up, and we continued
our retreat. In getting info the road again we pas.^cd near
the abandoned flag and Frank Dye ran and picked it up, and
with some help ripped it from the stafif. He then folded it up
and placed it in his bosom, buttoning his coat over it, and
brought it safely into camp. I do not remember what disposi-
tion was made of it. There is a possibility that I may be mis-
taken in the name stamped upon the flag. Perhaps this was
the flag mentioned by Gen. Cabell as being lost at Elk Horn,
and recaptured by Gen. Henry Little's Missouri troops. I have
never blamed those men for obeying that uncalled-for order.
They were new troops, and doubtless three-fourths of them
gave their lives later on for their country. I should be glad
to hear from any comrades who were present about this un-
fortunate affair.
JOE COTHERN'S CAPTURE OF A CANNON.
J. .'\. Scarlwrough. of Mississippi, sends an account of some
incidents in the service of a comrade :
"On (he 28th of July, 1864, when the Confederates swept
the Federal breastworks in front of Atlanta, Joe Cothern, a
member of Company H, Seventh Mississippi Regiment,
Sharp's Brigade, ran several hundred feet past the enemy's
works and found a Federal artillery captain trying to get a
cannon in position. Everything was in confusion, and with
drawn sword the excited captain was trying in vain to rally
his men and place his battery. By this time Confederates and
Federals were getting considerably mixed. The captain
dashed at Cothern and demanded his surrender. Cothern
fired at him and inflicted a serious wound in the shoulder.
The captain fell from his horse and screamed: 'I surrender!'
When the drivers saw their captain fall they abandoned their
horses and took to their heels. Cothern then assisted the
wounded caplaiii on to the caisson, placed a brush in his hands,
rind ordered him to stimulate the hindmost span of horses
while he mounted the lead horse, and dashed away with a
fme twelve-pound cannon drawn by three spans of fine horses,
with a Yankee captain sitting on the caisson and whipping the
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horses for all they were worth. The Federals had rallied by
this and were pouring volley after volley into the Confederate
lines to gain the ground they had lost, and the wounded cap-
tain was laying whip to the horses and crying out : 'Drive up,
Johnnie ! drive up, or you will all be killed !' 'Johnnie" made
the landing unscathed with his prisoner, cannon, and three
spans of horses, one of which was shot through the leg in the
flight.
"During the Georgia campaign. Comrade Colhern served as
an independent scout, and on one occasion, near Atlanta, he
took advantage of a Federal picket who occupied an outpost.
The fellow had grown careless and was sitting down reading
some letters, and the first thing he knew Cothern's gun was
pointing at him, accompanied by a small, still voice saying,
'Surrender.' He gave his name as Johnnie Rawls, was a
congenial spirit, and proved to be a dismounted cavalryman,
belonging to Company H, Thirty-Seventh Indiana Regiment
of Cavalry. Rawls was an ingenious fellow, and one day
picked up the leg bone of an ox, polished it nicely, then carved
on it in miniature form the stars and stripes with his initials,
company, regiment, etc., presenting it to his captor with the
request that he keep it as a memento of the picket post
in front of Atlanta. It is still in possession of Comrade
Cothern."
Comrade Scarborough writes a pathetic incident concerning
Capt. Rankin, from Columbia, Miss., while in front of Atlanta.
He was acting lieutenant colonel of the Seventh on that day,
and was shot dead from his horse while leading the charge.
The Confederates were repulsed, leaving the pale and lifeless
form of the Captain in the enemy's hands. The Confederates
fell back a pace, re-formed, and rested on their arms. During
this lull the voice of song was heard within the Federal lines,
and proved to be a Masonic funeral song which touched a
sympathetic chord in the breast of every Mason within the
Confederate lines, and they too joined in sweet accord and
sang with their brother Masons in blue, for they knew that a
brother Mason was filling a bloody grave. Soon after the
funeral service was over the Federals sent in a flag of truce
accompanied by the belongings of Capt. Rankin, consisting of
his sword, watch, spur, etc., with an earnest request that there
be a special committee appointed to carry those valuables to
I lie poor, heartbroken widow. The service proved to be the
burial of Capt. Rankin with Masonic honors.
MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE ON PICKET ALONE.
nv J. E. HIRSH, COMPANY G, 22D MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY.
Every one who actively served in the war must have been at
some time or other in dangerous positions. During my four
years of service, all active, I had numerous hairbreadth escapes
and squeezed out of some very tight places. The first one 1
recall was in the fall of 1861. soon after the battle of Belmont.
We were in reserve on the Kentucky side of the Mississippi
River, while the fight took place on the opposite side, and the
heaviest gun the enemy had — a six-pounder — could not throw
a shot more than halfway across the river. But I am digress-
ing. We established our winter quarters at Fulton or Feli-
ciana, Ky.. while the Federals had theirs at Paducah, about
fifty miles north of us. About halfway between us Mayfield,
county seat of Graves County, is situated. Each force con-
sisted of bctwocn two thousand and three thousand men, but
was supposed and Wicved by the other side to be anywhere
from fifteen lo thirty thousand men. Both sides captured and
evacuated Mayfield regularly once a week, the garrison in
posses.sion invariably retreating before the enemy appeared.
During all these maneuvers not an enemy was seen nor a gun
fired by either side. However, in November, while we were
holding the town with perhaps one hundred and fifty or two
hundred men, a reliable negro brought in the report that five
thousand Yankees were on their way from Paducah to sur-
round and capture us. The lieutenant in charge of our force
decided to immortalize his own and our names by turning the
surprise on them. Silently some forty or fifty of us folded
our tents and stole away in the dark. We met again a few
miles north. Two roads from Paducah made a junction there.
I volunteered to be the advance guard, about a quarter of a
mile farther north, all alone, this being a very dangerous un-
dertaking. I agreed to remain on watch from about 10 p.m.
until daybreak, all alone, without relief. The night was quite
chilly, cloudy, with occasionally a little moonlight, when I
cautiously edged my way forward. I soon discovered a num-
ber of buildings on a hill ahead of me, and not desiring to
pass them. I established my post at the foot of the hill,
climbed over the fence, and look position under a large Iwech
tree inside the fence. On reconnoitcring I found a large uproot-
ed .stump, top toward the fence and a large hollow in the rear,
where the roots had l>een pulled up when the tree was felled,
which I iminediately preempted as my bullet-proof fort, should
hostilities commence. For an hour or two I heard voices in the
vicinity of the houses, then everything became quiet. The
moon hid behind the clouds, the air became more chilly, the
hours were rolling by— -having no timepiece, I was unable to
tell how many — when I became conscious that somebody or
something was trying to slip up on me. After watching care-
fully for some time and getting my eyes familiarized with the
surroundings, I discovered that the movements were caused
by wood mice in search of beechnuts. A few more hours
passed, when, this time sure, I heard a number of people
tramping through the brush in my direction. They did not
keep step or march like soldiers, but that could hardly be ex-
pected in the woods at ni^ht. When nearly at my post they
suddenly stopped, and the moon coming out for just a moment
showed me a lot of cattle browsing. Some eight or ten hours
more passed, during which time noises of various kinds kept
me awake and on the alert, when suddenly a Yankee picket,
who had been stationed in the top of my tree, gave a signal in
imitation of an owl, which was instantly answered by another
picket stationed near the buildings on the hill by a good imita-
tion of a rooster. I tried my 1>cst to locate his position aI)Ove
mo for a shot, when out flew a real live owl. whose hoot I had
mislaketi for a signal.
1 had now been standing on post for apparently fifty or sixty
hours ! I was nearly frozen to death, and daybreak seemed to
be as far oflF as ever, when I discerned the sound of hoofs
away up the road toward Paducah. My well-trained ear con-
vinced me by the regularity of the hoof clatter tliat a squad
of cavalry was advancing. The dogs at the different planta-
tions, as the troop passed along, added their bark to the clatter.
The company drew nearer and nearer and the noise becamt
louder and louder. When the regiment passed the buildings
on the hill I could hear the general in command give orders.
The brigade quickened their pace as they thundered down the
hill toward tne. I took a look at my little fort behind the
stmiip, dried the flint and steel on my musket, filled the pan
with fresh priming, and laid tlie musket on the top rail of the
fence, fingers on the trigger. I decided to allow the leader,
who was most likely a guide and perhaps a "loyal" South-
erner, lo pass, and to reserve my fire for the next two or three,
who were likely officers. My musket being loaded with ball
and buckshot, I had several chances. After firing, I intended to
scoot for my little fort before they could return the fire. By
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this time a faint streak of gray had made its appearance in the
eastern sky, but it was still quite dark. Nearer and nearer
they came. 1 distinctly heard voices in the rear of the column
on the hill. I steadied my nerves and watched for the oppor-
tune moment. A horse's head came out of the shadow, the
horse's body followed, no one astride of it. Three or four more
horses followed, no one astride of them. The enemy had
passed. There is where I got my gray hairs.
GEORGE BLAINE'S GRAVE.
On one of the loveliest days of last June a sweet little girl
of ten summers knelt in a field of daisies, gathering the flowers
she loved. Acres of daisies whitened the hill slope all about
her, and she gathered handful after handful till her arms held
a great sheaf. Looking up with a sudden thought, she said :
"I will gather more and put them on the soldier's grave."
A little later the rays of the setting sun touched a low
mound in the village cemetery decorated with flowers gath-
ered by the hands of a little child, born long years after "the
soldier" had been laid there to rest.
It was the grave of George Blaine, of the Seventh Texas
Regiment, who was killed at the battle of Franklin. On the
eve of the battle, far from his Texas home and the sister who
prayed for him there and watched for the brother who would
never return, he told his negro servant that he had a cousin,
the wife of Dr. Aaron C. White, living at Spring Hill, twelve
miles from Franklin. He wished to be taken to their home if
killed or wounded in the battle. He fell never to rise again,
and the heartbroken servant took him to Spring Hill.
The writer was one of the three small children of the home
who saw him for the first time in the calm majesty of death.
It made an indelible impression, and the pathetic burial at
the village cemetery the following day is still vividly remem-
bered. There were no military honors, no minister to con-
duct a religious service, and no crowd to follow him to his last
resting place. Only three little children looked on in awed
silence while their father helped the faithful servant lower
the body into the grave and fill in the earth, but the frame of
the latter shook with sobs and the tears rained down his face
as he bent to the task which hid forever from his sight the
loved form of his young master.
There was mourning in every house in the village that day:
the churches were turned into temporary hospitals filled with
wounded and dying soldiers, and all were too busy minister-
ing to those yet living to do honor to the dead.
"Uncle Nick" was sent on his way with his master's horse
and watch, a lock of hair, etc., and later the sister wrote
from Texas that he had reached her safely with these last
tokens. She spoke of having her brother's body removed as
soon as days of peace came, but she too died, and he was left
to slumber on here.
The years slipped swiftly and silently away, and almost
forty had been numbered with the past when the postmaster
at Spring Hill received a letter inquiring for Dr. White or
some member of his family. It was from "Uncle Nick"
Blaine, the faithful servant of the young soldier, asking about
the grave of his master. He wrote after receiving the desired
information and sent some pressed cedar to be laid on "mas-
ter's grave."
The grave has never been marked by a stone, but a wild
cherry sprang up near the spot and grew into a tree. Mocking
birds build their nests there and sing requiems above his sleep-
ing dust.
Sprlnj^ Hill, Tenn., October, lyjj.
THE DEATH OF CAPT. J. J. PARTIN.
BY W. H. COFFEV. COMPANY B, 4TH TENN. INFANTRY.
Many Confederate soldiers disappeared in battles during the
war of whom nothing was ever afterwards heard by either
their comrades or families. A mystery of this kind came un-
der my observation recently which I may help to solve, hoping
it may, through the Veteran, reach the eyes of some of the
family.
At the New Orleans reunion I met a member of the Fourth
Tennessee Cavalry, and incidentally asked him if he knew a
Capt. J. J. Partin, of his regiment. He replied that he did,
but that after the battle of Chickamauga the command never
knew or could find out what became of him. I then gave him
the following statement of facts:
Capt. Partin was badly wounded at Chickamauga, fell into
the hands of the Federals, was sent to Nashville, Tenn., and
placed in the old Zollicoffcr House, which at that time was
used as a hospital. I was a prisoner and in the hospital at
the time, having been detailed by the Yankees to nurse our
vvoimded. In this way I became acquainted with Capt. Partin
and learned his history. He -was born in East Tennessee, but
had moved to Camden, Ark., and was living there with hi.^
wife and three children when the war broke out. He was a
Methodist preacher and a millwright by profession, but when
the war began he returned to his native State, joined the
Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, and was elected captain of a com-
pany. He was a genial gentleman, and I became nmch at-
tached to him. For a time it looked as if the wound would heal
all right, but, in spite of the doctor's skill and good nursing, it
began to grow worse, and pieces of the thigh bone had to be
taken out. And right here I desire to say — and it aff'ords me
pleasure to do so — that the doctor who attended him was one
of nature's noblemen, gentle, tender, and brave. I often won-
der if that good man is still living. He was a citizen doctor
from Ohio, who volunteered his services, and his name was
Hackenburg, and often when making his rounds of the hos-
pital his wife and little bright, curly-haired girl would accom-
pany him. The good woman always had words of kindness
for us, and the sweet little bright-eyed angel daughter would
sing her dear little songs that brought tears to the eyes of the
wounded soldiers.
In spite of Dr. Hackenburg's skill, poor Partin died. He
requested the doctor to see that his body was buried in his uni-
form, and in compliance with this request we robed the body
in a new gray uniform and turned it over to the Doctor, and
I feel assured it was properly buried, but where, J am unable
to say. I have made repeated efforts to find the family of
Capt. Partin, in order that I might tell them of his last peace-
ful moments on earth and his thoughts of them, but have
never been able to do so. I hope this may attract their atten-
tion.
TllEY STOLE A HOG—THE OlFXER'S COURSE.
nV J. N. SUMPTER, CHKISTIANSBURG, VA.
Our regiment was camped near Goldsboro, N. C, in the
springtime of 1864, when rations were short and not of the
most palatable kind — Bermuda pickled beef and pork and
corn bread. So one day some of our boys concluded to go
out skirmishing through the pines in search of something
better suited to their appetites. Well, they skirmished pretty
near all day, and were unable to buy or beg anything. East-
ern North Carolina is noted tor its fine hogs and sweet
potatoes. Not being able to buy or beg anything, five of us
concluded we would confiscate the first eatable article we
came across. We had gone but a short distance when we
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spied several large, fat hogs lying in a fence corner. One
of the boys picked up a piece of a broken pine limb, and,
striking Mr. Hog between the eyes, stiffened him out, cut his
jugular, and in a very short while he was ready to be carved.
Not being able to take the whole hog, we cut his hams otT
and started two of the boys back with them to wait at a
given place, and figured how we were to get our meat in to
camp. We then visited a large white house about half a
mile from the road. Upon arrival at the gate, an elderly
gentleman, sitting on his porch, invited us in very cordially.
Our spokesman said we had drawn some fresh meat, and
we had very little salt and if he had any to spare we would
like to buy some. The gentleman said, "Certainly;" and,
going back through the house, he soon returned with about
a peck of salt in a sack, and in reply to our inquiry as to how
much we owed him said: "Not a cent." We all thanked him
and turned to go, when he said: "Don't go yet. Our supper
will be ready in a few minutes, and you young gentlemen must
stay and take supper with us. It is both dinner and supper,
as we eat only two meals a day."
We accepted the invitation, had a good supper, and were
introduced to the young ladies of the house. While at sup-
per the lady of the house said she was very glad that we
stopped; she had three sons in the Confederate army, and
it was always a great pleasure to do for the Confederate
soldier what she hoped some one would do for her boys,
though she said there were sonic very bad men in our army.
When about to leave, one of the boys said. "Jack, give me
a pipe of tobacco," but Jack had none; when the old gentle-
man said. "Hold on, boys ; I have some, and I will get it for
you." So out he went, and soon came back with about twenty
bundles of leaf and half a dozen plugs of chewing tobacco,
and gave it to us, saying: "If you young gentlemen st^y
about here any time, come out to see us. I like for gentle-
manly soldiers to come ; but, as wife says, there are some
\ ery mean men, and I hope there are few such men in our
army. They come out here and kill my hogs, carry off the
hind quarters, and leave the other half to rot in the woods.
If they would only let me know they wanted fresh meat, I
wculd have a hog butchered and send it in to camp for them;
I could, you know, have the fore parts of the hog cooked for
my negroes."
Well, sir, while this p.itriotic citizen was telling this, I
think it would have taken but a light pufif of air to have
blown all three of us off of the face of the earth. We could
all three have vanished through an inch auger hole. Well,
on going back we decided that one of us should tell the
gentleman that we had found parts of a hog, while the other
two of us should wait for our comrade to return. It was
not very long till Mr. and Jack came up. Mr.
thanked us, and gave us one of the fore quarters. He made us
take it. and, on excusing ourselves from taking it. told him
that we could not carry it iiuo camp, as the colonel would
not allow anything brought into camp without a note from
the "owner," staling that he had sold or given it to whoever
had it. "Well," says Mr. , "I can write; get a piece of
paper and write what is necessary, and I will sign it," which
he did. We returned to camp with our meat, the meanest,
most self- condemned boys in the Confederate army. And
they all vowed that that was the first and would he the last
hog that they would ever confiscate.
Col. j. l. m ai.i.iM (m im w . .<< a. k. r.). atl.\nta
Who belonged to the "Tlftccoon Houghs" and is t>f Gen. J. B. Gordon's staff
BALL'S BLUFF.
Capt. T. W. T. Richards, Company G, Mosby's Battalion,
writes of an incident of uncivilized warfare practiced by the
enemy at the battle of Ball's Bluff. He says:
"At that time I was a noncommissioned officer in Carter's
Company of the Eighth Virginia Infantry. Col. Hunton
commanding. On the morning of the battle we were engaged
with the enemy at the crossing of Goose Creek, on the Alex-
andria and Leeshurg Pike. In the afternoon we were double-
quicked to the woods skirting' Ball's Bluff, and formed in line
of battle a short distance from an open field in our front. Our
skirmishers, of which my chum Joe Calvert and myself were
members, developed the enemy strongly posted in a ravine
that crossed this open field, supported by a battery of artillery
We reported the situation to our colonel, and he inunediately
lined us up for a charge. In the meantime a Mississippi
regiment had joined us and were lying down a short distance
in our front. At the command we went forward, passed over
the Mississippi regiment into the field at a double-quick, and
went at them with a yell, the Mississippians supporting us.
"The Federal.5 did not wail to receive our charge, but broke
for the river and bluffs. We followed close, crowding them
down to the river bank. As we advanced to the bluff, Calvert
and myself, still together, came upon a pile of Federal knap-
sacks and a Federal soldier guarding them. He shot at us
and turned to run. Both of us were out of ammunition, but
Calvert drew a pocket pistol and fired just as the Yankee
I cached the bluff. He struck his man, who leaped over the
bluff and fell in the forks of a tree, where he lay dead until
the next day. The battery, composed of brass guns, was near
the pile of knapsacks. Calvert and myself went up to look at
them. It was then getting dusk. As we stood there Calvert
looked down the incline of the bluff and saw a column ad-
vancing in line of battle. He called out: 'There come the
Yankees.' I looked and saw the column, but in their center
and front was the tall and unmistakable form of Clinton
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Halcher, one of our regiment, and the soldier accredited in
one of your former articles with the killing of Col. Baker.
He was SIX feet seven inches tall, and I knew him well, as wt
were both students at Columbian College, Washington, D. C,
when the war began. I said to Calvert : "They are not
Vankees, for there is Clint Hatcher among them.' We con-
tinued our examination of the guns, when the advancing col-
umn fired at us. I started on a run to my regiment, about
two hundred yaids back, which I reached and reported what
I had seen. We were ordered forward, aiid met this Federal
column just at the top of the hill, when there was most ter-
rific fighting for a few minutes. The Federals again fell back
to the bank of the river. This was the last fighting. After
the battle I was walking over this part of the field, when I saw
the form of a very tall soldier lying on the ground with his
face upward. I stooped down, and saw at once that it was
Clint Hatcher. A Mississippian told me that in the earlier
pan of the fight ho was captured, and that the Federals also
captured a tall Virginian, and in this last charge they put him-
self and this Virginian in front of their column. My informa
tion leads me to believe that the Federal Col. Baker was killed
in this last charge. If so, he paid with his life the penalty for
the cowardly act of placing Confederate prisoners in front of
his charging column.
"Referring to Clinton Hatcher, I may mention an incident
that occurred just before the hring on Sumter. We were
students at Columbian College, on Fourteenth Street, Wash-
ington, D. C. One night Hatcher and J. C. Salsby, of Missis-
sippi, ran up a Confederate flag on the mast over the college
building. The flag floated there for several hours in plain view
of the capitol building and the President's mansion, before it
was discovered by the college officers, when Dr. Samson, the
President of the college, reinovcd it. It is doubtless the only
time a Confederate flag ever floated over a public building in
the Federal capital. Hatcher was a brave and fearless soldier,
and had his life been spared would have won distinction in the
cause for which he so early died."'
A THRRE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY-MILE RAID.
BV JOHN LOGAN, LOGAN, MO.
On August I, 1862, Cols. Cockrill and Jacknian left the
Arkansas River for North Missouri, with such men as could
mount themselves, lor the purpose of bringing Upton Hayes's
unarmed men from that section. I think Cockrill commanded.
We marched in two divisions, Col. Coffee striking Missouri
soinewhcrc in Stone County, thence going north through Dade,
St. Clare, Bate, and Johnson to Lone Jack, in Jackson
County, two hundred miles from my home, while our com-
mand concentrated fifty miles west, near Neosho, Newton
County, followed the State Ijne though Newton, Jasper, Bar-
ton, Vernon, Bates, thence turned east through Johnson to
Warrensburg, and from there made a bee line for Lone Jack,
arriving two hours ahead of Col. Coffee. We continued the
march eight miles in a northwest direction, and went into
camp. Coffee reached Lone Jack about night, and camped,
not knowing that there were any troops near, but Col. Emorv
Foster had been sent out from Lexington with one thousand
picked men to drive Quantrcll from the State. Quantrell was
giving them lots of trouble along the river counties. When
Foster reached Lone Jack he found CofTee there. Having
some brass guns, he immediately opened on CofTee, who, hav-
ing no guns, left the neighborhood, and Foster went into camp
in the little village.
We could hear the firing at our camp, so we immediately fell
into line and marched back to within a half mile of Foster's
men. dismounted, formed as infantry (for we were regular in-
fantry soldiers), formed a hollow square around the village ex-
cept the south side, which had been left for CofTee to close, but
he had secured a pilot in his hurry that led him clear out of the
country. My understanding is that he did not get to the fight,
but of this I am not sure. The fight opened at five o'clock, and
we held our ground till eleven ; then Foster's men gave way,
after killing thirty-seven of our men. He was wounded and
captured. My recollection is that he lost one hundred and
eighty. I was one of the detail to bury our dead, all of whom
we placed in one pit. We did not bury Foster's men, but laid
them out the best we could under the circumstances. We cap-
tured two twelve-pound brass rifle guns, over which we had a
hard tussle for two hundred miles. They tried hard to take
them from us, but we were proud of them and needed them in
our business, so we took them to .•\rkaiisas.
DEAD ANGLE AGAIN.
BY H. K. .N'KI.SON, HOMER, KV.
About that "cup of cold cofTee." In the October number of
the Veteran. Comrade W. G. Lewis, of cavalry fame, wishes
me to explain how a Federal soldier could approach our forti-
fications in "broad daylight'' with nothing but a tin cup and
coffeepot in his hand, climb up on our works, examine our
situation with the utmost composure, and then depart in peace
''without even giving us a drink of cofTee."
Now, if Comrade Le\vi> will read my article in the Veteran
in which I mention this incident at Dead Angle, he will see
I said "at dawn," not "broad daylight " I did not say "with
the utmost composure,'' but that "he came straight up, mount-
ed the works, looked to the right, then to the left, and instant-
ly changed the cofTeepot and tin cup to opposite hands. We
knew at the time that it was a signal to his forces, I did
not say that he then "departed in peace without a good-by or
offering any one a cup of coffee." The Yankee did not hesi-
tate to step down, and step down (piickly, into our works, a
prisoner of war. He knew that he was either a prisoner or
a dead Yankee from the moment he stepped out of his works,
for he was in reach of oiir guns.
Since writing of the incident, I have received a letter from
Comrade W. H. Kearney, of Trezevant, Tenn., in which he
says he remembers the incident distinctly ; that the Yankee
crossed over and was taken into our works in a few feet of
him.
Characteristic (.f Southern Womanhood. — .\ fine illus-
tration of the energy and industry exhibited by the Southern
women after the war was recently given by a patron of the
Veteran in writini; of what she had done for herself and
others :
"After the first bitterness was over, I realized that I must
work or lose my mind. Since then I have tried to do with
all my might whatever work God seemed to place before me.
On our old place I superintended the planting and cultivation
of a small, but beautiful, orange grove. The income from
it was ample for my simple wants. The freeze eight years
ago cut it down to the ground. The succeeding cold winter
and want of money rendered my efTorts to restore it futile.
In spite of all the sorrow the war brought upon me and mine
and upon my beloved Southland. I would rather that it came
than that my countrymen had submitted to be trampled upon
without a struggle to be free. The cause was and is very dear
to my heart."
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TEXAS DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
The Texas Division, U. D. C, met in annual session in
Houston December 2-6, 1903. It was one of the largest and
inott representative bodies of women to be found anywhere.
There are more than seven thousand members of the Texas
Division, and more than one hundred and thirty Chapters.
Excellent work was reported by the Confederate Home, the
Literary, the Anniversary, the Text-Book, and the various
JVIonument Committees. These noble women will undertake
to build a home for the widows and orphans of Confederate
veterans, also" to fit up a library and reading room in the Sol-
<liers' Home at Austin. During the year just closed many
tender and loving remembrances have been sent to the Sol-
diers' Home by the Texas Daughters.
Houston entertained the convention in the most beautiful
manner. There were many entertainments and evidences of
ihoughtfulncss from every citizen.
With great entluisiasm and by acclamation Miss Katie L.
Daffan, of Ennis, was elected President of the work in Texas.
Tennessee. In Gore's Company there were eight in one mess,
four of whom were killed in battle — Abram Y. Denton and
Solomon L. Hall in the battle of Murlreesboro, January 2,
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MISS KATIE P.\FFAN, PRKSinENT TEXAS TIVISION, U. D. C.
Mrs. J. W. Crawford (of Palestine), Mrs. Goldstein (of
San Antonio), Mrs. J. B. Williams (of Brenham), Mrs.
Edwin Moore (of Sherman), were elected Vice Presidents
in the order that they are named. Mrs. W. P. Lane, of Fort
Worth, the excellent Secretary, was reelected ; Mrs. A. C.
Johnson, of Corsicana, was elected Treasurer; Mrs. J. W.
Hazlctt, of Hearne, Registrar; Mrs. Z. P. Fulmore, of Austin.
Custodian of Division books and papers ; and Mrs. S. H.
Watson, of Wa.xahachie, the efficient Historian, was re-
elected.
This convention will go into history as one of the best, the
most harmonious, and one of the most instructive ever held
by the Texas Division, U. D. C.
FOUR MESSMATES KILLED, FOUR SURVIVE.
Capt. "Bill" Gore took a company of infantry in May, 1861,
to Camp Trousdale. This company and another under Capt.
L. T. Armstrong were of the Eighth Tennessee under A. S.
Fulton, one of tlic most noted regiments in the Army of
CAPT. J. S. QUARLES, J. M. MORGAN, M. I,. GORE, L. WASHIiURN.
'S6.H; Perry F. Morgan, near Atlanta, July 22, 1864; and James
i'. McCue. in the battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864. The
tber four are ,ill yet living, and in October, 1902, they had a
picture made in a group, an engraving of which is given.
MEM'' OFFICERS OF THE MARYLAND LINE.
The Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate
States in the State of Maryland elected for 1903-04 the follow-
ing officers :
President : Capt. George W. Booth.
Vice Presidents: Maj. W. Stuart Symington and Lieut.
J.iscph Packard.
Recording Secretary : Capt. Wni. L. Ritter ; Assistant,
Joshua Thomas.
Corresponding Secretary: John F. Hayden.
Treasurer: Capt. F. M. Colston.
Executive Committee : James R. Wheeler, William H. Pope,
August Simon, Mark O. Shriver, Daniel L. Thomas, Lamar
lldllyday, and D. Ridgely Howard.
Chaplains: Rev. Messrs. William M. Dame, R. W. Cowardin,
William C. Maloy, Henry T. Sharp.
Sergeant at Arms : George W. Schafer.
Secretary W. L. Ritter, while sending the above, writes :
"A copy of the Confederate Veteran was brought to the
attention of every member present at the meeting."
CONFEDERATE VETERAN CAMP OF NEW YORK.
The new Adjutant of the Camp, Edwin Selvage, reports as
follows :
"A'Camp Fire' will be held at Tuxedo Hall January 19, the
anniversary of Gen. Robert E. Lee's birthday. Gen. Joseph
Wheeler has been invited to deliver an address on Lee.
"Connnandcr Owen reports that the fourteenth annual dinner
for January 25 promises to be a grand success; that six weeks
prior to the dinner all the forty-three boxes were engaged, and
that orders sufficient to fill ten more boxes are now on the
waiting list. Chairs behind the boxes will be sold to a limited
extent. Nearly three hundred seals at the tables had been
engaged.
"The Commander of the Camp requests members to send
any magazines and novels that they do not care to keep to
the Soldiers' Homes at Richmond, Va., and New Orleans,
La., where they will be greatly appreciated.
"He announces the death, on December 12, 1903, of Comrade
D. K. Mason, who served in the First Kentucky Regiment of
Infantrv."
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PMSSiXG AIVAV.
They are passing away from us, passing, passing away.
The dear old boys, the true old boys that marched in the ranks
of gray.
Tliey arc passing away ; they who have known
The raid in ihe darkness, the rider o'erlhrown,
And the shell-torn steed's pain-bidden neigh,
All on the fields of the far away.
And the hands now quiver that used to be strong —
The way they have traveled has been so long.
The weights they have lifted, the burdens they have borne —
They have all been heavy; and shall we mourn
That they are all passing away?
1 know we shall, and I say we shall. The gray
That they wore— it's the same dear color to-day.
The tottering tread of the last of the men
Who fought for their country, as seemed to them then —
For right or for wrong? Who recks aught to-day?
Since the whole world has heroed the men of the gray,
Shall not be unnoted while sons yet remain.
1 would I could lift them a worthier strain.
And when they march in the proud parade,
A-slep to the tunes that the old bands played,
We wave and we cheer as they all move on ;
But it's O for the sight of the ones that are gone !
—Harry 11. Williams, Uvcrpool, Tex., in Galveston Nctcs.
Hon. John R. Pkcctok.
Mr. John R. Proctor, who was President of the United
States Civil Service Connnission, died suddenly, the other day,
in Washington. He was greatly respected, and the press.
North as well as South, has cordial words of esteem. The New
York Times says : "He was sent to the University of Pennsyl-
vania to prevent his joining the Confederate army, a precau-
tion which proved quite inadequate, as he ran away and served
gallantly through the war." After returning to his native Ken-
tucky, he studied geology, and became Slate Geologist. Roose-
velt sccuied his position for him under President Cleveland,
a position he held for a decade before his death. 1 he 7 imcs
concludes editorially a fine tribute in these words: "Personally,
he was one of the noblest and most delightful of men."
E. Tuooi' Rani'Le and Jason G. Guice.
The following are resolutions of respect adopted by Mnj.
Gen. George P. Harrison and staff at the reunion held in
Birmingham, Ala., November 4, 190J :
•'Whereas the Omnipotent Deity, in the exercise of his in-
finite wisdom, has called from the battlefields of this earthly
sphere to a peaceful home of eternal rest our beloved brothers,
E. Troop Randle and J. G. Guice, niembers of the staff of
George P. Harrison, Major General of the United Confederate
Veterans; and whereas almost half a century ago as comrades
of our departed brothers we had occasion and opportunities
of witnessing their courage and manhood in the strife between
brothers of a common country, and which history records as
the greatest internecine strife in the annals of Ihe world's
battles ; and whereas their fortitude and intrepid courage evi-
denced themselves on all occasions where duty called or op-
portunity offered ; and whereas by their respective demise we
have lost lifelong companions, "brothers in arms,' and brave
heroes in their country's defense ; therefore be it
"Resolved, That in the death of our beloved brothers wc each
feel a personal sense of loss in a companionship and comrade-
ship incapable of being supplied until we meet on the eternal
shores.
"Resolved, Further, that as fellow-members of our departed
brothers upon the staff of Maj. Gen. Harrison, commanding the
United Confederate Veteians of Alabama, we mourn their
deaths as a loss to their respective communities; we tender
their respective families the sinceicst assurance of our ten-
derest sympathies and affection.
"R. H. Adams, William B. Jones, B. M. Washburn. Official :
Harvey E. Jones, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff."
Dr. William H. Amiss.
Dr. W. H. Amiss passed 9way on August 8, 1903. Main-
hearts were saddened, for far and wide he was known and
belcved. He was an important member of his community.
Dr. Amiss was born at Melville, near Amissville, Rappa-
hannock County, Va., the home of his father, Capt. Elijah
Amiss, November 12, 1829, and was therefore in his seventy-
fourth year. He was educated at the University of Virginia,
where he took his earlier course in medicine, graduating later
at the University of Pennsylvania, April g, 1853. With the ex-
ception of the four years of the War between the States, the
long, busy period of his professional life, amounting in all to
fifty years, was passed in Springville, Va. The practice of
medicine, while a business, was to him a noble work, to which
he gave his life's best energies. The high ethics of a pro-
fession which sends men forth not primarily to earn a living
but to alleviate human surTering found abundant expression
in his long life of faithful work among his fellow-countrymen.
At the breaking out of the great war Dr. Amiss went to
Richmond, and offered his professional services to the surgeon
general, C. S. A. He was commissioned assistant surgeon,
and assigned as such with the Nineteenth Mississippi Regi-
ment, and served with it during the Peninsula campaign and
DR. W. H. A.MISS.
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the seven days' fighting around Richmond, after which he
was promoted to snrgeon, and transferred to the Sixtieth
Georgia Regiment, Lawton's Brigade, then stationed at Me-
chanicsville, near Gordonsville, Va., in 1862, and remained with
it until tiie close of the war, rendering distinguished service.
In conjunction with his brother. Dr. T. B. Amiss, surgeon
of the Thirty-First Georgia Regiment, Lawton's Brigade, he
performed an almost miraculous operation upon Maj. Snowdcn
Andrews, of Maryland, on the night after the battle of Cedar
Mountain. Maj. Andrews survived the war, and did not die
until a year ago.
It is not given to all inen to have a unique and striking
personality, but this was the case with Dr. Amiss. He was
always a marked man. Strong and positive by nature, he
was what he was at all times and in all places. An earnest
and devoted member of the Episcopal Church, it was a desire
near to his heart for many years to see a church erected in
his village, Siiringville, Va. In the last year of his life it was
his privilege to sec this good work accomplished.
Maky Tddd Lusk.
Where the Tennessee River makes its extreme Southern
bend, a little valley nestles between the great smoky moun-
tains. In this sequestered spot lies the village of Guntersville,
Ma., near which, on an Easter morning in the year of 1874,
a little daugliter was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Todd.
Mary Carlisle slic was christened. She was a perfect beauty.
"Her briglit eyes were heaven's own blue ;
Her hair a gold mesh with the sun shining through."
Here slie spent the greater part of her happy childhood, sur-
rounded by her friends and relatives, attending the villa.i^e
school in its season. At the age of fourteen she was sent to
llie Florence Seminary, where she remained until she grad-
uated. This tender child had bloomed into lovely woman-
hood— truly the pride of the village. She made hosts of
friends on her visits to other cities and climes, but her heart
ever turned to the place where her loved ones dwelt. When
■ once her heart was touched, the tie held fast to the end, as
was shown by the fidelity to the boy lover to whom she plight-
ed her troth in true boy and girl fashion, while both were
H-arcely in their teens. How litting that he go to the great
metropolis, win for himself a name and fame, for her a home,
and return to claim his bride.
On November 23, 1898, Dr. Thruston G. Lusk and Marv
Carlisle Todd were married in the little Presbyterian church
where she first went as a pupil, then as teacher, where she en-
tered her name on the church roll. This wedding brought to-
gether the rich and the poor, the high and the low, for none
"knew her but to love her, and none named her but to praise.'
On every lip this sentence was framed: "Mamie Todd is mar-
ried." How regal she looked in her bridal robes! That she
was loved was attested by the looks of pride and admiration
that beamed in every face.
How soon this scene is changed ! Two years have scarcely
gone wheu this message passes among these same friends :
"Mamie Todd is dead." On March 11, 1901, at her home in
New York, surrounded by all that love and science could sug-
gest, she faced the King of Terrors with the same brave,
courageous front which characterized her, averring: "It is
not hard to die, only hard for those who are left." Her grief-
stricken husband came, bringing her casket and this, her last
message to her mother : "Tell my mother that I loved her."
She sleeps in the same sheeny robes in which she was clad on
her wedding day, so fair, so calm. Ihe little mound lies on
the hill facing the spot where her pure, spotless soul first flut-
tered into life; on the right is the boyhood home of her lover
and husband; on the left her home, where a father, mother,
and two brothers daily mourn their loss; near by her sister
friends — all pass in sight of this loved spot in their going to
and fro, and many sighs and tears are wafted and shed in the
thought : "She has passed." The echo of the same bells that
once called her forth now sound over her grave. She sleeps in
peace, and will not lack the flowers like her face — the sweet
pink rose, the pure white rose, the faithful evergreens.
Literary Circle Rcsoliilioiis. — With a deep sense of loss in
the death of Mary Todd Lusk, a member and coworker, the
Literary Circle of Guntersville, Ala., put on record this testi-
mony to her beautiful life and character:
"After a brief illness she was called to rest, and though the
message came suddenly, she went forth willingly, fearlessly.
Her life has come to its close while yet in its morning. She
went in and out before us during all these years — always the
same, always at her post scattering sunshine everywhere, un-
til the coming of her bridal eve, when she was transplanted
from the realm of maidenhood to adorn the home of Dr.
I'hurston G. Lusk, of New Vork.
"'In view of her youth, her sudden death, her noble life,
which gave promise of still greater usefulness, we bow with
sorrowful resignation to so mysterious a dispensation.
"We stand by her vacant scat with hearts stirred to their
depths by these sad, sweet memories, which shall be enshrined
among our n:ost sacred things.
"We would have kept her here — would have held her back
to this earth of tears, sin, and trials, where shadows darken
every sunbeam— but greater love than ours has spared her all
these and called her up higher.
"To the bereaved husband who sits in tlie shadow of this
great sorrow, to the father and mother, and to all who con-
stitute the innermost circle of her associations, we offer our
deepest sympathy.
"Mirs. John A. Lusk, Miss Mildred Alford, Mrs. A. G.
Henry, Committee."
Tribute by New York Chapter, U D. C.
My Dear Dr. Lusk: I am authorized by the Daughters of
tlie Confederacy to send you a copy of the following resolu-
tion, adopted at our last meeting:
"Rcsolvrd, That by the death of Mrs. Lusk this Chapter has
sustained the loss of a valued member, and we are deprived
of the companionship of a refined, gentle, and beloved friend,
for whom we sincerely mourn."
Mary Fairfa.x Childs, Cor. Sec.
In a personal note Mrs. Childs wrote: "Mrs. Lusk was in-
deed admired by us all, and we feel that no one can fill her
place. Every one at our last meeting expressed the deepest re-
gret that one so young and lovely should have passed away."
Her father, W. H. Todd, enlisted in the army in June, 1861.
in Morgan County, Ala. He was in the Army of Northern
Virginia under Gen. R. E. Lee for fouj- years in Company E,
Ninth Alabama Regiment, Gen. A. P. Hill's Corps, Gen.
Hood's Division, Gen. Wilcox's Brigade. He entered the army
as a private, and was made captain at the first vacancy, and
served as such till the close of the war.
A few months before her death the editor of the Veteran
was a patient in the private hospital of her uncle, Dr. John
.•\. Wyeth, and she was the last lady visiter before he passed
the crucial test of the surgeon's knife, and when the sunlight
of life and hope had dawned again his first visit was to the
pleasant home of Dr. Lusk and wife.
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Qor}j-ederat(^ Ueteraij,
Dr. William H. Beltox.
Whereas the Supreme Commander, on November l6, 1903,
ordered our beloved comrade. William H. Belton, M.D., to re-
port to headquarters a little in advance of us, his fellow-
soldiers; therefore be it
Resolved, That while we shall miss from our camp fire this
true, noble-hearted comrade, the sunlight of whose presence
enabled us to bear more easily the fatigues and trials of life's
campaign; and while we shall feel keenly his absence in the
trying hours of pain and affliction ahead of us till Mother
Earth takes us to htr bosom, which his wisdom and skill might
liave contributed so much to lessen — we know that the order
came from One who docth all things well, and are certain
that in the revelations of eternity we shall concur in its wisdom.
Resolved, That, so long as our little remnant of life shall
hold out, we shall feel the influence for good upon oux hearts
and minds that grew out of association with our departed com-
rade; and shall try to profit by the examples found in his
career, in those high characteristics of a true and brave indi-
vidual manhood and a clear-sighted patriotism.
Resolved, That Camp Pap Price extend its loving sympathy
to the family of our departed comrade in this the darkest hour
of their lives, and pray that the God of the orphan may take
our comrade's children under his protecting care, shielding
them from every snare and temptation, and eventually bring-
ing them to join father and mother in tlie eternal home, where
there will be no more parting.
Resolved, That these resolutions be entered in the record
book of the Camp, a copy of them presented to the family of
Comrade Belton, and a copy sent to the Colusa Sun, of
Colusa, Cal., and the Confedekate Veteran, Nashville, Tenn.
Done by order of Camp Pap Price, No. 1360, United Con-
federate 'Veterans, of which he was a charter member, at
Colusa, Cal., December i, 1903.
Committee on Resolutions: J. S. Cameron, John L. Jackson,
Joseph S. West.
David S. Curl.
Another comrade has fallen— David S. Curl, of Shelbyvillc,
Tenn. In early manhood he entered the Confederate service
iefore his native Tennessee had become a member of the new
government, and joined the First Tennessee Confederate Regi-
ment. Comrade Curl was a natural musician, and became
skillful in that art as a member of his regimental band, and
under the inspiration of its music the regiment displayed that
courage which won fame for the command upon many battle-
fields. He was a soldier true and tried until the last shot was
fired. Returning then to the life of a civilian, he met the de-
mands of duty with the same loyalty and faithfulness that
characterized him as a soldier.
"Resolved, That wc, his comrades, mourn his death, and
that in the grave where his body rests we will bury whatever
faults or foibles he may have had, and will treasure the mem-
ory of his virtues and good deeds.
••J. A. Thompson, E. Shapard, J. M. Moore, Committee."
C.M'T. J. J. Mallard.
Capt. Mallard was born in Walker County, Ala., April 17,
1826; and in 1846, with his parents, moved to Athens, Tex.,
and the following year moved to Cherokee County, where
they settled and the parents remained until their death. Early
in the fifties, Capt. Mallard went 10 Dallas, Tex., and engaged
in mercantile business, and during his residence there, in 1856,
was married to Miss Elizabeth Knight, who, together with five
sons and two daughters, survives him.
When the War between the States broke out, Capt. Mallard
moved to Cherokee County, Ala., and enlisted in the Confed-
erate army. He was made quartermaster of Burford's Regi-
ment, in which capacity he served through the war. Returning
to Texas, he settled in Rusk, and engaged again in mercantile
business, which he continued until the time of his death, Oc-
tober 2, 1903. He was laid to rest in the Rusk cemetery, after
appropriate services at the Methodist Church, of which he had
been a steward for more than a quarter of a century, the last
rites being conducted at the grave by the Masons, of which
fraternity he was a member.
The Masonic Lodge of Rusk adopted resolutions from which
the following is given:
"Brother Mallard was an honest, upright citizen, a safe and
conservative business man, a consistent member of the Meth-
odist Church fir in.inv years, and a brave, loyal soldier of the
CAPT. MALLARD.
Confederacy. He was a good and true Mason, and a member
of Euclid Lodge and Cherokee Chapter for more than forty
years, having served as Principal Sojourner in the Chapter
initil he became too feeble to attend our meetings. Therefore
be it
"Resolved, That in the death of Brother Mallard this lodge
has lost one of its oldest and most venerated members. Mason-
ry has lost one of its most earnest and zealous advocates, the
Stale an honored and useful citizen and patriot, the Church a
consistent and active member, and his family a faithful, in-
dulgent, and affectionate husband .-md father."
J. T. Juvner.
In Bolivar, 'lenn., on Friday, December 11, 1903, J. T.
Joyner, an old Confederate veteran, passed away. He was a
member of Company E, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, a brave
soldier who served through the war.
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SHEFPARD PICTURES FOR
Mrs. N. V. Randolph, Chairman Central Committee of th^;
Jefferson Davis Monument Association, Richmond, Va. :
'"The Central Committee of the Jefferson Davis Monument
Association liavc a set of three pictures, representing tlie three
brandies of tlie Confederate army. These plates are executed
from designs in water color by Mr. William' L. Sheppard,
whose service in the Confederate army afforded him advan-
tages in the study of types, places, and color in the life of the
Confederate soldier which were possessed by only a few-
artists.
"The figures are treated with almost no background, and
only a few accessories appropriate to the branch of the service
represented.
"The infantryman is equipped with rolled blanket over his
shoulder, belt, bayonet, canteen, etc. He has stopped for a
moment at the camp fire to light his pipe, and supports his
rifle in the li'illuvv of his elbow, in order to have both hands
free.
"The artilleryman, a captain, stands on the slight slope of a
breastwork, and signals to the gunners to reserve their fire
until he can observe the enemy with his field glass. The smoke
drifting by indicates that a gun near him has just been fired.
"The cavalryman is about to saddle his horse: has the bridle
in his hand, whilst the saddle is on n limii near by. and near it
lie his rolled blanket and saber.
"Attention is concentrated on the figures alone. There is no
newness about the 'outfit" of these individuals. Their clothing
shows service.
THE DAVIS MONLMEN I.
"The figures are of the light-haired and dark-haired type*
— two of them. The artilleryman's hair is iron-gray, as there
were numbers of middle-aged men in the Confederate service
who should not go unrepresented in this scries. The figures
belong to the campaign period of 1863.
"These pictures are sold for the benefit of the Jefferson
Davis monument. The work is done by the Chapters. It is
hoped that every Camp and Chapter will buy at least one set,
as it is necessary that the younger people of the South should
know the uniform of their fathers, and not the grotesque
figure of a Confederate soldier in a long frock coat.
"The price is $1 for the set ; postage, 13 cents. The size is
io.'-2 inches by 17 inches, mounted upon board 15 inches by 20
inches, ready for framing. Orders to be sent to Mrs. William
Robert Vawter, Chairman and Treasurer Picture Committee,
Richmond, Va."
CONCERNING PRESIDENT DAVIS'S MONUMENT.
It is now stated that the Jefferson Davis monument will
be unveiled in Richmond, June 3, 1907, the anniversary ot
President Davis's birthday.
The Davis Monument Fund was turned over to the United
Daughters of the Confederacy five ye.irs ago by the United
Confederate Veterans' Association at a convention held in
Richmond. Twenty thousand, five hundred dollars was-
lurned over to the Daughters, and since that time they have
raised over $43,000. The total amount raised is $66,000.
though this amount is not all in bank, the Daughters having:
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Qor^federati^ l/eterai),
invested quite a sum in Slieppard's pictures, representing the
three arms of the Confederate service, the artillery, infantry,
and the cavalry. From the sale of these pictures they ex-
pect to realize about $5,000.
The monument will cost about $70,000, which will include
everything. The Daughters of the Confederacy want to raise
about $10,000 in addition to the sum they have on hand.
Of this $10,000, they propose to invest $5,ooo, the interest of
which they will use in caring for the grounds of the monu-
ment.
Work on the monument will begin next July, and the gran-
ite work will be completed long before the lime for the un-
veiling. Three years, however, will be required for the com-
pletion of the bronze figures, the statue of JcfTerson Davis,
the other a female allegorical figure. Sculptor Valentine has
stated that he could not possibly complete the figures under
three years.
The figure of Davis will stand eight feet high on a granite
pedestal of a-bout the same height, and the female figure,
pointing heavenward, will stand about seven feet high on
the summit of a column fifty-six feet high.
The erection of the monument is in charge of a building
committee composed of the following: Joseph Bryan, chair-
man; Judge G. L. Christian, J. Taylor Ellyson, David C
Richardson, E. D. Taylor, J. S. Ellett, and J. C. Dickerson.
Mrs. Thomas S. McCulloch, of Staunton, Va., is President
of the Davis Monument Association; Mrs. Blenncr, Secre-
tary; and Mrs. E. D. Taylor, of Richmond, Treasurer.
Typical Confedekate Officer i.v Uniform. — Henry S. Hale
«as born in Warren County, Ky., May 4, 1836. In September
of 1861 he enlisted in Company H, Seventh Kentucky Regi-
ment of Infantry. He made up a company in Graves County,
Ky., and was elected its captain, as which he served till after
the battle of Shiloh, when, at the reorganization, he was
elected major of the regiment.
Maj. Hale took part in many important battles — Shiloh,
Corinth, siege of Vicksburg, Baker's Creek. Jackson, Miss..
Brice's Cross Roads, Harrisburg, and Old Town Creek, Miss.
He was severely wounded in the latter engagement, but
through the careful nursing and motherly attention of Mrs.
James Sykes, of Columbus, Miss., one of the devoted Southern
mothers of the time, he was restored to health and rejoined
his command at West Point, Miss. He was then promoted by
Gen. Forrest to the rank of lieutenant colonel for gallant con-
duct in the battle of Baker's Creek, June 10, 1864, and as-
signed to diuy with ihe Third and Seventh Kentucky Regi-
ments, then mounted infantry. He surrendered with this com-
mand at Columbus, Miss., in April, 1865.
Col. Hale was never a prisoner of war, but he surrendered
to the captivating smiles and graceful accomplishments of one
of the South's fairest daughters — a graduate of the once
famous Institute for Mules, at Columbus — a daughter of Mrs.
Eliza Gregory, of DcKalb, Miss., to whom he was married
in November of 1865.
The uniform of which the old coat was a part was bought
in Mobile. Ala., in the early part of the year 1864, at a cost
of $800. It has been preserved, and is now held as a relic of
war and love by the fair lady who has been the life companion
and the inspiration of the purposes and achievements of his
life, humble though they be, and who is now the President of
the Mayficld Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy. Though
overpowered in war and a willing victim in love, he came out
of it all a victor in the end. and is thankful to the great Com-
mander for continued health and prosperity.
COL. H. S. HALE.
7W0 "CLOSE CALLS."
BY W. T. GASS, SULPHUR Sl'RlNGS, TEX.
Editor I'rtcraii: I notice that you ask your subscribers for
incidents of personal daring and narrow escapes during the
war. Permit me to give you two that came under my per-
sonal notice, and there are a dozen or more veterans of How-
ell's old Eleventh Texas Battery, and probably fifty or one
hundred of Alexander's Cavalrv Regiment of Texas volunteers
now living, who will vouch for the truth of the following.
Both incidents occurred at the battle of Newtonia, in South-
west Missouri, in September, 1S62, ;md both of the actors are
yet living — one at McKinncy, Tex., and the other at Purcell.
ind. T.
Private Bill Franklin, the wheel driver on third piece,
Eleventh Texas Battery, was sitting on his horse during an
artillery duel between that four-gun battery and Rhabb's
twelve-gun Federal Kansas battery when a percussion
shell from a ihrcc-ineh Parrott gun struck the horse on which
Franklin was sitting;. Striking the animal in the shoulder,
missing Franklin's leg not over two incites, it passed through
the horse at an angle and between the rider's legs, exploding
inside the animal, tearing out his entrails and coming out at
the Hank, mangling the other horse so badly in the hip that he
had to be shot after the fight was over. The saddle on which
Franklin was riding was split into a dozen pieces, and both of
his legs from the knees up to crotch were frightfully bruised,
but, strange to say, he was not killed. Indeed, so great was
the fellow's pluck and endurance that he helped take the
harness off the dead and wounded horses and refused to leave
the field for an hour or two afterwards, when he was finally
induced to go to the field hospital in the little village, half a
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mile in the rear, where his wounds were dressed by Dr. O. H.
Caldwell, our company surgeon (now living in Dodd City,
Fannin County, Tex.), who will vouch for the truth of this
statement. I was filling the post of No. 2 at the time the in-
cident happened, and the shell — the boys called that kind
"saw logs" — passed within ten or fifteen feet of my head.
Franklin recovered, and made a good soldier the rest of
the war, being furloughed at Fort Washita, Ind. T. (our bat-
tery never surrendered or were paroled), in May, 1865. He
was living a year or two ago, and probably is yet, at Purcell,
Ind. T.
The other incident, and almost as "close a call" as Franklin's,
happened to Capt. Andrew P. Carter, commissary of Alexan-
der's Regiment of Texas Cavalry. In early life Capt. Carter
was afflicted with white swelling in one of his legs, and one
leg was considerably shorter than the other, and what we
tisually term bow-legged. In the morning fight at the same
place, and same day, Capt. Carter had put two or three large
red Missouri apples in the tail pockets of his coat. He had
<lismounted from his horse, and was standing near Capt. Joe
Bledsoe's two-gun Missouri Battery, Joe Shelby's Brigade,
when a Federal battery opened on them at about four hundred
,ind fifty yards' distance, and one of the first rounds fired, a
six-pound solid .shot, passed between Capt. Andy's legs, miss-
ing him clean, but shot the tail of his coat off, made pom-
ace out of the apples, and ruined his Innch. Capt. Carter's
place was properly with his wagon train in the rear. I don't
know whether his Nevs-tonia experience cured him of rushing
up on the firing line the rest of the war or not, but I do
know that had it not been for the bow in his game leg he
would certainly have lost his life on that occasion.
•'DIXIE."
BV A. \V. RIECKE, CHARLESTON, S. C.
The article in the Novemhcr Veteran headed "Words for
Dixie" has been read with interest and pleasure, and I fully
agree in the praise of Albert Pike's words as adopted for that
martial tune. The almost meaningless words of the original
minstrel song by Daniel Ennnett have no sliare in the great role
that "Di.xie" had among the soldiers of Southern armies. It
w^as the soul-stiring martial strain that fired the blood then,
and yet causes the "Rebel yell" to resound on the air when
heard in any assembly of our Southern people. The words of
the poet. Albert Pike, that were later composed to better suit
its purpose and more befitting the great occasion of the times
that proved the mettle of our Southern people, women as well
as men — they are niore suitable to the great Southern melody
and the spirit of the people "to live and die for Dixie." How
well they have come up to that promise, history attests. Thou-
sands and thousands have died for Dixie — have given theii
iifeblood in her caiise. As many more have been spared to
live for Dixie — have found truth in the words, "to live for
Dixie, harder part," had almost despaired, and have yet, in
spite of great difiicullies, made her more glorious in peace than
m war.
The resolution offered by the Missouri reunion of the U. C.
^'. to change the words of "Di.---ic" was most inappropriate,
and was well voted down. There is no claim made by our
people to Mr. Emmelt's words of the song. They simply ap-
propriated the music and made it the battle strain of the Con-
federacy. The music of these and Albert Pike's words were the
"Dixie" of our soldiers; these are a legacy of the times that
tried men's souls and proved them true ; then let them so stand as
"our Dixie." True, the words do not suit present circum-
stances, but they had tlieir birth in a time they suited, and so
should remain a memento of it ; then couple Pike's version to
our great strain — a fitting memorial of our boys in gray.
It is the martial music of the great national airs, "Hail,
Columbia," "Watch on the Rhine," "God Save the King," and
"The Marseillais," that inspire men "to dare and die," not
the words that are atlached to them, which are never heard
when those occasions "to do or die" offer.
This writer recalls to mind the first occasion when the
afterwards so popular tune had its birth in the excitement at-
tending the secession movement. The war, of course, had not
then stiirttd. It was in the evening of the day that our State.
South Carolina, seceded, December 20, 1S60. Great crowd.s
had gathered in front of the hotels, calling on prominent men
to address them, which they did in stirring words, and the ex-
citement was great. Between the speeches the band in the
corridor of the hotel played popular airs. Among them was
the one to which so many later marched bravely to battle, "to
do or die for Dixie." No words were heard, but the tune
took and caused great enthusiasm, which hardly knew bounds.
.Such was its birth among the exciting scenes of those stormy
times, and its popularity has not waned since in either weal or
woe. It is one thing that the failure of our Confederacy could
not deprive us of, though our one-time foes would, no doubt,
have gladly done so, for that and the Rebel yell were no
pleasant sounds to them. They betokened too much earnest-
ness of the Southern soldiers "to live or die for Dixie."
iMRS. .1. n. BliALE, MONTGOMEUV. ALA.,
Second Vice President LT idled D.iutflilers of the Confederacy.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railway maintains its well-estab-
lished reputation for conducting a safe and reliable system in a
liberal and conservative manner. Its aggregate mileage, in-
cluding iarge systems not bearing its name, gives it an unseen
power, and that strength, while exercised upon business prin-
ciples, is controlled by a spirit that forgets not.
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RECORD OF A VALIANT CONFEDERATE.
J. W. Wilcox, Adjutant of the U. C. V. Camp, Macon, Ga..
has been so generous and so faithful through all the years of
the Veteran that it sought data as to his service, and he re-
plied :
"For myself I can only say that I tried to do my duty, and
to this day and forever I shall be glad that I was a Confed-
erate soldier. Next to my wife and children, the tenderest
spot in my heart is for the boy comrades with whom I helped
make Southern history from 1861 to 1865. My Confederate
sketches are for the pleasure of my friends."
Some credentials of his service are as follows:
"Richmond, Va., December, 1864.
"It is with pleasure that I say Sergt. J. W. Wilcox is en-
titled to the highest consideration a gallant and zealous Con-
federate soldier can receive.
"Sergt. Wilcox entered the service in May, 1861, with the
Washington Artillery of New Orleans, and has been in action
with that liattalion in every engagement. He has no superior
as a soldier, and merits and receives at the hands of his offi-
cers and the rank and .'ile of his command the full appreciation
due to his most excellent standing.
"I have no hesitation in most cordially recommending Sergt.
Wilcox for promotion, and sincerely hope he may obtain thai
which he has most worthily earned. J. B. Walton,
"Late Colonel and Cliicf of Anilkry, Longstreet's Corps."
"Headquarters Battery Washington Artillery,
December 8, 1864.
"It gives me plea.sure to fully indorse the within testimonial,
and also that of Col. Walton. While I was in command of
the Fourth Company, Washington Artillery, Sergt. Wilco.x
was under my immediate command, and always merited the
highest consideration. I consider he will fill any position to
that of field officer with ability and credit.
■'B. F. EsHiEMAN, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding."
Comrade Wilcox is now an expert hydraulic and civil en-
gineer and no mean artist with his pen in depicting the old
Confederate of forty years ago, as the following show:
A private's entertainment.
"GIVE ME A PIECE OK
BREAIJ."
THE ANSWER FR M
APPOMATTOX.
■ —-■^s' "ALL THESE legions! WHY
"GOOD AS KVER." DID WE SURRENDER.'"
AT THE veterans' REUNIO.N PARADE, NEW ORLEANS.
J. W. WILCOX.
' HAND TO FRONT.
(Confederate l/eterarj,
41
-REMINISCEXCES OF l HE Cll'IL WAR:'
Widespread interest is manifested in Gen. John B. Gordon's
"Reminiscences nf Ihc Civil War," recently issued from the
press of Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
To every old survivor of the Confederate arm}', or th':
descendants of those who helped to make Confederate history
from 1861 to 1865, the book will be of special interest, and every
fair-minded student of American history will read it with in-
terest and profit, not only on account of its historic value,
which is unquestionable, coming as it does from an eyewit-
ness and a prominent official participant in most of the great
events of which he writes, i)ut also because of the patriotic
and nonpartisan spirit manifested throughout.
In his introduction, Gen. Gordon says : "1 have endeavored
to make my review of that most heroic era so condensed as to
claim ihc attention of busy people, and so impartial as to com-
mand the confidence of all fair-minded jieople in all sections.
. . . I have endeavored to show that the courage displayed
;ui(l the ratio of losses sustained were unprecedented in mod-
ern warfare. I have also recorded a large number of those
characteristic and thrilling incidents which illustrate a unique
and hitherto unwritten phase of the war.'' In a most inter-
esting and entertaining manner he has interwoven this matter
with the historical facts in his "Reminiscences" from Manas-
sas. Seven Pines, Aiuietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, The
Wilderness, Spottsylvania, all those long months of desperate
fighting and sulTeriiig around Richmond and Petersburg, to the
last heroic charge at Apijoinatlo.x. lie does not give as much
space to the Army of Tennessee as Western men would like,
but he writes the more about events with which lie is the more
familiar.
Careful and critical accounts are given of a iiuinber of great
battles, including Gettysburg, tlie capture of Vicksburg, and
GEN. J. B. CORIKDN.
the campaign that ended with the battle of Missionary Ridge.
The most important iccord for the student of correct history
is the battle oi Cedar Creek, October 19. 1864. fought between
Gens. Early and Sheridan. Gen. Early, in his official report,
claims that his victory in the .morning was turned into a de-
feat in the afternoon by his troops stopping to plunder the cap-
lured camps of Sheridan's men. Gen. Gordon indignantly and
most positively denies this accusation, at the same time giving
an eniircly difiercnt version of the fight, with evidence to
sustain his view-s. He says: "Only the Si.xth Corps of
Sheridan's entire force held its ground. ... It was at
fliat time greatly outnumbered, and I had directed all the in-
fantry under my command to assail in front and on both
llanks simultaneously, and Col. T. H. Carter, chief of artil-
lery, to open on it with all of his guns and those wc had cap-
tured. After looking at the situation, he remarked: "General,
j'ou will need no infantry. With enfilade fire from my bat-
teries I will destroy that corps in twenty minutes.' At this
moment Gen. Early came upon the field and said, 'Well, Gor-
don, this is glory enough for one day;' to which I replied,
"It is very well so far, but wc have one more blow to strike,
and then there will not be left an organized company in Sheri-
dan's army;' to which he replied, 'No use in that; they will
all go directly.' "
Gen. Gordon remonstrated, but to no purpose. 1 he Si.vth
Corps did not go, and it was on this corps as a nucleus thai
Sheridan, when he arrived on the field, rallied and reorgan-
ized his defeated ai my and beat Early from the field.
■J'his book is supplied by the V'eter.^n. See notice elsewhere.
"My Moving Ient," isv a Woman uv the Si.xties.
Confederates and their friends are commended to "My
Moving Tent," by Mrs. Sue F. Mtxiney, a native of Mur-
freesboro, Tenn., where her father, lion. John E. Dromgoole,
was conspicuous for his kindness to Confederates, sick, wound-
ed, and in prison. The book, while embodying the experi-
ences of the wife of a Methodist minister for almost half a
century, is a memorial to those who have made the pilgrimage
pleasant, a thing of joy in the retrospect.
The review is almost a vitagraph of men— politicians,
preachers, teachers — and women.
The book includes the period of the War between the States,
when there was much moving of tents — when there were tents
—and these movements are followed with increasing interest
till the final tragedy, when our flag was furled forever, but
enshrined in the affections of every sad survivor.
These Confederate chronicles will be read with emotion by
those of whom she says with emphasis "that no such army as
tlie Southern [the Confederate] was ever marshaled."
The period of reconstruction, the changing of the old order
and adjustment to the neware vividly portrayed without the least
element of sensationalism, and in the whole book there is no
expression of bitterness. The work of chaplains and of mis-
sionary chaplains in the .Army of Tennessee is of much value.
Mrs. Mooncy has given us the minutes of the association,
her Imsband ha\ing been its secretary. Rev. Mr. Mooney has
just closed his fifty-fourth year as an active minister in the
Methodist itinerant ranks, having been a mcmlwr for thirty-
seven years of the Tennessee Conference, three years of the
St. Louis Conference, and for fourteen years of the Memphis
Conference, in which "the moving tent" is now pitched.
The book is published by the ]Methodi9t Publishing House,
Nashville, Temi. Pp., 300: price. $1.
Henderson's Life of T. J. Jackson with the \'eter\x, $4. .^5.
Two Wars, by Gen. S. G. French, and the N'eteran 1 yr., $2.50.
42
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MISSISSIPPI'S NEW STATE CAPITOL.
Work on the building was begun the first day of the first
month of the century, and was completed August 20, 1903.
The structure is 402 feet long, 225 feet wide, and the dome i-;
180 feet high. The aggregate cost was $1,093,641. The legis-
lative halls are located in the two extremes. Self-winding
electric clocks are supplied in every office and public room.
There are 750 incandescent liglits in the central dome and
rotunda, and 4,000 other similar lights in the building. Tlic
Governor's reception room is finished in Numidian marbl.-.
The cost of the marble in the building was $101,000, and of
the '"Bedford" limestone $212,000. The cost of the electric and
gas light fixtures in the building was $15,000. There are mar-
ble mosaic floors in the legislative halls, the Governor's re-
ception room, the Supreme Court room, the State Library,
the corridors, and lobbies.
An eagle made of copper wiih a heavy coating of pure gold
leaf, eight feet high and fifteen feet from tip to tip of wings,
surmounts the dome of the magnificent building.
'Apfrgvf.d— John McRo.^^•."— The New York Tribune iclls
of an "old Washington gentleman who overheard President
Lincoln tell this story:
"Durmg one of his busy reception hi.urs, when the President
was talking first to one, then to another, of the many who
filled the room at the White House, a gentleman asked if any
news had been received from John Morgan, whose Confed
erate cavalry were raiding Kentucky and Ohio.
'"We'll catch John some of these days,' replied Lincoln. '1
admire him, for he is a bold operator. He always goes aflcf
the mail trains in order to get information from Washington
On his last raid he opened some mail bags and took possession
of the official corre-^pondence. One letter was from the War
Department to a lieutenant in Grant's army. It contained a
captain's commission for him. Right under the signature of
A. Lincoln the audacious Morgan wrote 'Approved— Jnlm
Morgan.' and sent the cnmniission on its way.'"
W. H. COLEY, MILAN, TENN.
In March, 1863, when only fifteen years old. Comrade
Coley joined the Tenth Tennessee Cavalry, then of Starnes's
Brigade, but afterwards commanded by Gen. Dibrell under
wc ^ £
Forrest. He served as courier until tlie army fell back tr>
Chattanooga. .At Chickamauga he received his first wound
during a charge with his regiment, near Gordon's Mill, on a
Federal battery. He afterwards was attached to Long-
street's command, and served with it for eight months; but
was transferred back to the Army of Tennessee, which he
joined at Dalton, a'nd participated in all the battles of John-
ston's army from Dalton to Atlanta. He served in the
Tennessee campaign, was in the battles of Franklin and
Nashville, and surrendered, under Forrest, at Gainesville,
Ala., in 1865.
Since the war. Com-
rade Coley, while suc-
cessful in business, he
has never permitted his
laisiness affairs to less-
en his enthusiasm or
abate his love and ad-
miration for his old
army comrades and
Iriends. He was chief-
'y instrumental in or-
ganizing recently Biv-
luiac No. 39 and Camp
\'o. 1443, of wliich he
was chosen President,
and having them named
in honor of his old
comrade, Capt. John
W. Morton, chief of
Forrest's Artillery.
Comrade Coley's fam-
ily consists of two
accomplish'. li dau.sliters and an only son, Robert Lee.
One of the most delightful parts of any journey from the
Suuth to Washington and the East is by the Richmond, Fred-
ericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. While the system is under
a combined management, the same heads conducting its busi-
ness for many years are still in charge, and matters are so
systematized that the large increase of'its business does not
interfere with its prompt service,
W. 11. COLKV.
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THE PUBLIC LIFE OF J.\I\!ES M.
■ M.\SON.
BV HIS D.MCHTER.
Mr. Mason was a member of tlie Vir-
ginia Legislature from 1826 to 1832.
In United Slates Congress, 18.^7-39;
L'nitetl States Senate, 1847-61. He was
tlie author of the Fugitive Slave Law of
1850; appointed Confederate Commis-
sioner to England, 1861, serving until
1865.
His corres|)ondencc willi the govern-
iiKu at Richmond gives much interest-
ing information not published before.
C^riginal dispatches given hero afTord
aiithentii accounts of facts often mis-
represented: views of Members of Par-
liament on blockade and recognition;
Mr. Lindsay's interview with the I'rench
Emperor; visit of M. Mercier to Rich-
mond a mystery; Emperor favors rcc-
ogniticin. but will not act alone; cot-
ton famine in England; Slideil m.ikcs
formal demand for recognition in ihj
ciiiiHror; Mason makes the same on
Lord Russell, which is refused, Presi-
tU nt Davis on the attitude of the British
Ministry: English scheme to raise mon-
1 y on cotton; French proposal 'or loan;
ICngland determined to risk no tro'.ib'e
with the United States; success of
Confederate loan; Seward's admission
that tho "Mallnry Report" was a for-
gery; additional forgery hy United
States governnunt; popular scntinitnt
in England s;rongly with the South;
fight between -Alabama and Kearsage;
St. Albans Raid; letter from Bennelt
Young: vindication of right to self-
government the sole objtcl of the
South; Hon. D. V. Kcniur sent with
special instructions to the commission-
ers to ascertain whether any concessions
regarding slavery would securt; recog-
nition; Mason's conversation with Lord
Donoughmore and Lord I'almerston on
this subject; the Hampton Ro;ids Con-
ference. 1865; assassination of Presi-
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CONSUMPTION y
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ton's charge of Confederate conspiracy.
This book will shortly be ready for
delivery. Orders can be sent to the
author. Miss Virginia Mason, Char-
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Manufacturing Company, Roanoke,
Va.. or to book stores. Cloth, $3.50;
half library, $4; library, $5.50.
R. J. Neely, Paris, Ky., wants a few
genuine Confederate buttons. He would
like to have two or three from each of
the original Southern States. He also
wants an oval C. S. A. belt buckle or
clasp, and a Confederate cap that was
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W. H. Kearney, of Trezevant, Tcnn.,
writes that Company L, of the Sixth
renncssee Regiment, wants to have a
reunion in Jackson, Tenn., in .August,
iyo4. ami it is hoped that all survivors
will make an eflort to attend.
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Twenty-Eighth Louisiana Volunteers, of |
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<^OaDaySure
%lf ^9 furnlnh ti.e work and teach :
<he locility nhereynu Inc. Si.-nd ii» jour adtlreti atiii we will
4K|>lain the huamcsi fully, rcmeniher we yuaraolvi- a cIpnrproDt
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1 indors.-d by business men.
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via Central of (Icor-i.i Ry., froii.
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via \\ eslern and Ailantic U. It.., from
CHATTANOOGA
NASHVILU
ashvillf, Chattanoog^a, arui Si.
arriving at
ST. LOUIS
fU.th< Nashvillf, Chaltimoot^a, arui Si. Lxjvit Kj
arriving at
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over trie Illinois Ci-n'r;:' l\. R. fron: Mi-riin, Tent
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE AN I
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
MAXNTAINKD OVKR 1 HIS
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Ticket apents of the Jacksonville-Sl. Louis anC
Chicaijo kine, and aj^entt of connecting Hnef li
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ice to St. Louis, Chicaj^o, and the Northwest, and
ol train time of linr? connecting. They will alsc
sell you tickets and advise you as to rates*
F. D, MILLER, - • Atlanta, Ga.
Traveling Passenger Agent I. C. R. R.
WM. SMnajR., - • Nasiiviij.e,Tkwn^
Commercial AgenU
THROUGH SERVICE
VIA
L. & N.. E. & T. H, and C. & E. I.
2Vostlbuled Through Trains Daily /^
NASHVILLE TO CHICAGO d^
THROUGH SLEEPERS and DAY COACHES
NEW ORLEANS TO CHICAGO
DINING CARS SERVtNG ALL MEALS EN ROUTE
0. H. HILLMAN, 0. P A.. S. L ROGERS, Gen. Aft
Southern Railway
7,814 Kiles. One Managemeot.
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Piiucipal Clclea of llic boutti wilk
lt« Otrn Lines.
Solid Vestibuled Trains.
Unexcelled Equipment
Fast Schedules.
DINIHO CARS "re opernlrd on Sontbvm
llHilway IralDS.
OBSERITATIONCARS "" W«i.hlnirt<m •■4
Roullitresiem Vcati-
bu'ed Lintil.e*i, nod \Vn-«t]ln/ion asd ^^-s|
tauoogs UmlLed ria Lyuchl^urg.
ELEGANT PULLMAN SLEEPING CMItt
of Uia isLcst paticro on &U tkrou^
8. H. HARUWICK,
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O. A, BISNSCOTEH,
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PATENTS.
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P;itcnls:m(lTr:uIe-M;irlis securcti in the Ignited
Stales :uul Foreign Countries. l*am]>lilet of In-
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Qopfedcrate l/eterai?.
RHEUMATISM CURED
Without takinij medicine. Tried and heartily indorsed. A medical discover^' which is revolu-
tionizing the treatment of rheumatism. It is the
James Henry Medicated Belt.
It Cure^ 'Rheumatism ^COithout TaKjng Medicine.
It consists simply cf a IilU with certain metlicims (^iiiltcd within it, which is worn around ihe waist, anti is not in any way annoy-
ing. The medical qualities are absorbed by the body, and (jiiick relief follows. Wonderful results have been cffecred, as the testimonials
followin<; show. This remedy is a boon to luimanity, for it iirinj:;s safe and speedy relief from liie pains of one of the nio>t dreadful maladies.
The stoniacli cannot stand medicine that is jiowtrful cnoui::h to eradicate uric acid, liierefore treatment by absorption is the only sure cure.
As a ))reventive, wear the belt one week in each montli from October to May. If you are subject to rlieumatic attacks, why not wear
one of the belts as a jircventive? It may keep you from suHfcring from that terrible disease; and just think, it costs only ^2, just the
price of one visit from your doctor!
Nashville, Tenn.
I.KXINGTON, KV.
I bouk:ht one nf tlic Henry Medicated Rheu-
ma.tic Belts, ;iiid. aflor \vc:iritit: it tor llircf il:i\^. it n-
licvcd inc of a vrry srvore att.ick of rlumm.ilism of Iwo
months' duratiun. in which I sutlcrrd tintnid nt^ony. I
can say thai I consider it the most wonderful rheumatic
cure extant. 'I". R. EASTIN,
Shoe Merchant.
Nashville. Tenn.
In preference to taking medicine internally, and bcinK
familiar with the medicine used in the JoLines Henry
Bell and its action. 1 used the belt myself with gfod
results in rheumatism. \V. J. Sneed, M.D,
Nashville, Tenn.
My wife h.is been a sufferer from rheumatism and ex-
treme nervousness for the past two years. After wear-
ing the Medica.1ed Belt for a short time, she found
felicf from bmh troubles. I, clan LANhts.
With I.aiidis nankinj; Cn.
I"or nervousness ;iiul ceneral drl)iliH' l have tried the
Ja.mes Henry Medicated Rheumatic Belt, and
have found wonderful relief froii; its use. My nervous-
ness has entirely disappeared, tny general health is good,
and I feel like an entirely different man. I have advised
several of my friends to try this remedy, and they have
done so with the same happy results. L. H. Davis,
Of Yarbrough & Davis.
Nashville, Tenn,
For years I have been a sufferer from rheumatism. As
a result, I have passed many sleepless mights, and have
been incapacitated trom active business. My attention
was called to the Jet.mes Henry Medicated RKeu-
mSLtic Belt by those v ho had tried it and in ^hom I
had treat confidence. I tried it. and am a well man.
'Ihrec days' trial convinced mc that The result would be
all that my friends claimed for it. My restoration from
rheumatism has been complete. John' S. WotiD.^Ll.,
t Real Estate .\genl.
Nashville. TE^'^^
The J&n\es Henry Belt relieved me of a severe
case of rheumatism in a few days. I have gained stead-
ily in weight since 1 began its use. Vinef Donelsok.
I unhesitatingly recommend the JCkines Henry Ned*
ic&.ted Belt to all who are suffering from rheumatism.
1 had not felt well for years; since 1 began using the
belt I have realt/.rd a marked improvement, and am sat-
isfied it will effect a permanent cure.
R. P. McClNNIS.
NASH\ II. ll. Tknn.
I commenced wearin;: a JaLmes Henry Nedic&ted
Rheuinai.lic Bell about the first of last November, and
was relieved entirely of all pain in less than thirty days.
I am well for Ihc first lime in ten or twelve years. I
think the belt is one of the wonders of ' ic age.
J. T. BURCH.
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iif All Kinds,
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and Society (ioods is al
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88 Nassau Street, New York City.
si:\ii I'Oit riitcE LIST.
Rife Hydraulic Engine.
*unips \v;iti'r Ijy water imwcr.
C";in be used \\ here livdraulio rams
(ail. vXbsnlnie air fcctl.
MMll iniiiip thirty feet
lii;:li for eaeli foot of
fall.
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Personal to Subscribers!
A BARREL
of VH.-r.Orc i** not ncrrssar* to ooiivin<-*» you that it is tin* Ifdt reimniy in. on. or imt of thf
t'HTth lor ailing |»t>ople. lo prori* In ynn iK»?iitively that it will pure )Our IIIi,hs it ha^s tho ills
i>r sty many olben*. On*- nunre of llir Urv (one i>Hcka^*>) inix<*<l with a tiuart of wator, one
nMitith'd Irmlin^iit, is all that you nood for the teit. all thi* n l>lfnrp we want toKulmiit. and
we want to send it to you at our rink. Ynii trp lo bp tlii* Jirtir*'! One nionth'tn troatiuont
•^ with this ntlaral reiiiril) will do for you what six months' uw of other advertise*! trt^t-
ments <-Hunot. If it d<K\s not. you to derith*. we want nulhinir from you.
R^eaLd Ovir SpeciaLl Offer
77|K Hll.l. sKND to everv suljseriVMT or reader of th<* Tonkkukhatk VtrrKHA.v. o- worthy
%%P onrsoii rt'«oiimi«*!ule<f hy a snl>s<'rilKT. a full-siz»*«l o%iv nullnr pai-ka^e of Vlta'-Ort*,
ny nuiil. pustpHhl. sutticient for one month's treatment, to U* paid for witliiu one
months tini«' alti-r receiitt if the n-i-eivcr «-an trtithfnlly say tlmt its use hiLS done him
or hrr m»»re ^^oul than all the drutfs or dopesof <|uaek>^ or ijood do.toi-s or ]mt4 nt med-
ieines he or sbe has i-ver used. Itead thw over a^rmn "Hrrtiillv. and understand that we
ask our pay only nhi-a it him dnm' jnii iroinl. uiiil imt in'inn-. \V«' tak*- all the risk. You
Iiavi'nothirijr to ios**. If it does not iM-nelii you. von jiay n> nothing;. Vlla-Urc is a natural,
hard, adjimantino. roeklike sul^stanee uiinei-aV <>^'o mintHl from the ifround like ^lAtX
mid silver, and re<piires a1:out twenty years for oxidization. It contains ire<' iron, freesul-
)diur. and mai^nesium. and tmo paek
TOOK MEDICINE FOR
TWENTY YEARS
No Permanent Benefit
Vitae-Ore "Brni^j a Complete Care
I lot'l il my duly to tell _\uii. ;iu.i nho ijie uc tier-
id pul-ijiu. H IihC \ it'e-(.>rf I):is :i«.-ei»tti(ili>lir-il lor iih'.
For the last twenty >e:irs I have taken a 1 kin'ls of
iiii'dH'inf, liiii :tt int lime ree<-ivrd more than a
sliiilit tPnipor«ry re-
lief. Three yenr.s
ago I took treat-
ment from one of
thf Ites^t doct'rs nt
Ixupold, IndlHUa.
He examined m<-
and >.'ave as his
n|<inion tlmt I h:id
Catarrh. Hroiiehilts,
Liver jiiid Kidney
Troitli e. I was at
tliat limeiak'-nMiih
a M-vore pain In mv
i>a<-k.wMrlihedia<i-
nosed as I{|n-iimai-
ic I.innltMvo. 1 doc-
tovf'd with liiin con-
tiniial'yand p> rsisl-
f n t I y I'm r ti v c
months* lime, yet-
ting relief f'«r only
a very sh- r time, and gave up hope of ever ;;eL-
ling weh ii-iiin.
Vila>-Ore HUH recommended to me In a friend
who ha<l used it and spi.kf (»f it very hiudilv. I pr*)-
fiired a fnll treatment and bH;ian immedlalely to
MX- it Hi-i-nrdinji; to din-rtjon^. As a ri stdi. my
Mirieriiij; is now a thing "»f tlie pnst. ard my '-ni r
IS a permanent one. ns iliis oucu rr^'d ti.'tfin
iiioiitlis nii'K during whieh time I have lelt as will
:iM 1 ever 'iid in my life and eoiitiniie to feel so. I
;iin forly-lVmr years old. My wde also has reason
I') pj-aiHc it as strongly .TF I have, she having t>tM-n
enred by its u^e of a f^tomach Trouhle. I eonsei-
enliousiy believe that Vita'- V're has saved my lilV.
and eertninly will do hII in my power to bring it to
t!ie attention ol those abonl rne.
JOSKIMl L. MKl'MI'dl, Apalona. In<l.
age will eiiualin nuslieinal strength
an<i etirative value sun gallons of the
nmst iMiwerlul. etlieaeions mineral
water ilrnnk fresh at thesprings. It
is a geologiejil diseovery. to whi"h
nothing is added and fivnn whi<b
nothing is taken. It is the nnnvel.-i
the i-entnry tor em ing such diseasfN
as UlieitniatUai. ItrivhlN I IsoHfie.
Itloiiil rnKiMdii::. Henri Iroiihli-. ftiop-
s> . I :il:irrll iiiiil lliritiit KTiTllntis. I.h •
er, Kiilni y. ini>l HIaililer lilaieiil«,
Miniiiif II 1111(1 I- ea)nle HUonli-rs. I.n
(Jiipin*. Miilnriid htter. NcMttii'* l'ri'>-
trnll o>. aim! i;rn<'ral Deliil ly.as thou-
sands testify, anil as no one answer-
ing this, writing lor a paekage. will
di*ny after using. Vhip^Ore hnseure4l
more »dironi«'. obstinate, proiionnced
ineuraldoi-asesthan any other known
niedieine. and will reach sneh eas4»s
witli a more rajiifl and powerful cur-
ative aetion than any naHlieino. eoni-
Viinat ioii of nn-tlieines. or doctor's
lire.serii>tion which it is possible to
pr»jc\ire.
VI r.K-OUK will do the same for you
H.S it has Un- huiulreils id readers of
this paper, if yon will give it a trial.
Si-n<l fm- H $1 |i'n«kiit:e at aiirrlAk. Yon
havi- nothing to lose but the .stamp to
answer this aninniiuement. It the
niedi.ine does not benefit you. wrtlc
us Ml, iin'l tliere is iki h;irni done. We
\\:\ut no uiieN nioMi-^ Hhoin Vlta'-Ore
ranniil heneflt. Can anything l>e
more fair? What sensible person, no
unit ter how jirejudiced heor she may
be. who de.sire.s a cure and is willing
to i)ay for it. wouhl ht>i*itate to try Vi-
tje-t>i"e on this liberal olTer- One
imekage is nstnilly sultieient to cure
ordiuarv cases: two or three lor
idinmic. obstinate cases. We uH-nn
hist nhiit ne kii> in this annoiuice-
"inent, and will d<l,iust what wo agree.
Write t'Mlay for a package at our
risk and expen.se. giving age and ail-
ments, and mention this paper, so
we mnv know that you are entitled
to tills "liberal offer.
This ollVr >v . ■Iinllcnyi' the attention an 1 ronsideration, and allor-
nanl^ the irrati/^s q ' e\ri y livin:; person ulio dcMires bettor health or
nho suW'vrs pains, ih'^ P^ »iseases nhirh have *lelh'H the niedieal «orld
and :rronn w<nse nith ai;f^<? ''are n<»t lor your skeptieisni, but ask
only your in> esti^ration, an<l a. A,j • tiense, reyanlless ol" what ills you
have, !»y sendinir to us lor a parkair*.*^ .DhUKSS
THEO. NOEL CO..
Veteran Dept.,
Vilae-Ore BIdg..
Chicago
Vol. 12
NASHVII.LE, TENN., FEBRUARY, 1904
No. 2
"Confederate Veteran
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Born in isai: Ki"«<l"»t<'t' >n !.<>-'; niiinii'il in 1854: raiitain. then lientenant
colonel in tin' Confcdi-niti' iifiny in IWil : colonol and lirimidier Kenrral in ISiH:
major general in 1H*»4; lientonant general in l?y'i5: I'nit^'d St«t<>.s Senator. lHT:i.
re- leeted in ISTll: resigneil in 1SS1(; governor of bis State in ISSli: rtM-leeted in
ISHS: I'niteil States Senator again in ISiKI: retired from p<dities in 1WI(\ The In--
lovitl first and only Commander of tln' I'nited Contedi'VMt.' Veterans from its
organization nntil his deatli
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Qoofederate l/eterar),
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"Confederate Mining *Cc.
TniisE Oi.» "CoxFEns" Have Struck It Rich.
,\11 money received iov ^ale of this stock goes into
in developing and getting out tlie ore. No fees will he
\ iting cnlerpris-e, one based upon actual known values.
Write for reference and descriptive booklet to
I.NCORPORiTED UNDER T^IE UWS OF ARIZONA.
Capital Stock - $1,000,000
Par Value - $10 per Share
X..« ^-Iliiit't.. tl. ;.'.,|,1.- . : ili.- ^. .mil 111
$2 per Share.
FULLY PAID AND ABSOLUTELY NONASSESSABLE.
This stock has advanced in price loo per cent in
one year. Ten of the richest copper claims in the
famous mineral belt of Arizona now owned and
being developed by t!us companv. The second
block of stock is now being sold, and will soon be
gone. This has proved to be a line investment.
The stock has already doubled once in price, and
will go higher before the next National Reunion
in May. Secure what stock you can NOW, before
it is too late.
the treasury of the company and into the mine itself,
paid to brokers or agents. This is a legitinuite and iii-
Investigatc — then invest.
R. W. CRABB, Treasurer, Uniontown, Ky.
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tshe Li^Verpool
and London
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and Globe
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NOT A PAIN, NOT AN ACHE
_^>.['hjj , c-;in i-ei-isi the wnndfrful ciiijilivr ih»\v<'T' I'f DK.
' ''^'M , OWKNS KIAU'IMIC ilKLT. It is lli<- jrrciiU'st
''' liiuni|jli of iiKMlii-al M-ieure. Llie nio-i ])firt'ct ck-c-
li'lcal liciill h ;i|>i>li:ince in tin; woiM: imlinseil hy
tlic inosl eminent pliysici;in» jiipI rcfointiu'iiileii by
moie tliiiii lUtv ihoii.sMinI persons \vh<> Iiiivr used It.
Jl liniMs np Mie weak iiini lii-nUi-n <liiw(i. rcslnrcs
yonili, c'nei};y, and aniltiiioii. It will ruv <'vi'ry
'i-',\!^v of HhuuinatifiHi, ItacUaclie. Nrrvon-^ I>i'l)ility,
Weak Stuniach, Catanli. Miliaria, Cmi^l ipatmn,
Ki'lncy ;niil I.ivcr Troubles, aiui every evnienee of
McakiioHs in men iimi \vt)meti. Jt will mit fail, it
cannoi. fall, as it infuse'* into the w eaUeneiJ nerves
tlie foree of life ami hlreti-rth. Vu\ il on when you
retire; y<<u in-l up In Itie moiiiin^ feelin;:- refreflied
iuh) vijcoi"(Ui8 and full of life. Vou feel its pood
II III, >'jii lu _Mn tr> wear it, and every day you n^e il maUe.-i you more entliusiaB-
, - > matter what ails you. there Is a cure for you In nature's i-eniedy — electric it v.
It r«8t')re8 the energy and amljitwni of 'youth. Many old veterans who tliou'^lit there was no help
lor them have been cured of old. eluont'e tnniltb-s tht-nn-li the use of our lleltH.
Zi^'S^;:^i^^!,^{ DR, OWEN ELECTRIC BELT CO,
¥
eir«ctR fi'
tic in its praise
i ~No.H\ Gents- Belt fJ/
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624 Olive Street, ST. LOUIS,
M* DEPOSIItD IN TBE BANK
$75,000.00"
IN CASH CtVEN AWAY.
To arouse interest in, and to advertise the
<iKKATST. LOriS WOKLUS I Allt.
this enorniovis sum will be distriltuleil.
Full information will be sent .vou AISSO-
I.ITKI.Y rUKK. .lust send y.nir
iianiiMind a<ldres>i on a postal eard and
we will send you full partieulurs
World's Fair Contest Co.,
lOH N. SUi street
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NASHVILLE, TENN., FEBRUARY, 1904.
vr„ 9 j S. A. CUNNINGHAM,
mu. i.. I Proprietor.
GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE, COMMANDER IN CHIEF U. C. V., SUCCESSOR TO GEN. JOHN B. GORDON.
Kxtracts from the American Encyclopedic Dictionary and chief of artillery in the Seven Days' fighting. He wa^
others give interesting data concerning Gen. S. D. Lee, Gen. then put in command of the Fourth Virginia Cavalry, and was
Gordon's successor as Commander in Chief of the U. C. v.: at once conspicuous in bold scouting. When the campaign
"Lieut. Gen. Stephen D. Lee is a native of Charleston, S. C. against Pope opened, he vi-as made colonel of artillery and
He descended from most hon-
orable revolutionary ancestors.
Since the Confederate war he
lias been a distinguished citizen
of Mississippi. He was born
September 22, 1833. He was
prepared in the admirable
schools of Charleston, and en-
tered West Point in 1850, and
graduated in 18S4 in the class
with J. E. B. Stuart, Custis
Lee, Pender, Pegrani, Gracie,
and others who were after-
wards distinguished in the
^ onfcdcrate service, and O. O.
Howard, Weed, and others of
note in the Federal armies.
He served in the Fourth Artil-
lery on the frontiers of Texas,
Kansas, and Nebraska. He
was made first lieutenant in
1856, and in 1857 served under
Col. Loomis against the In-
dians in Florida.
"On the secession of his na-
tive State he promptly re
signed (being then stationed at
Fort Randal, Nebr.), and was
made captain of South Caro-
lina Volunteers. He steadilv
rose from this rank through
all the grades to that of lieu-
tenant general, and so surrendered at the close of the war.
"His first service in the war was as aid to Gen. Beauregard,
being one of the two officers sent to demand the surrender of
Fort Sumter, and, when the demand was refused, ordering
the nearest battery to fire on the fort. He served as captain
of a battery in the Hampton Legion, and in November, 1861,
lie was promoted to major of artillery. He served with J. E.
Johnston at Yorktown in the spring of 1862, and was promoted
lieutenant colonel of artillery for gallant and meritorious serv-
ice. He was with Whiting at Seven Pines, and was Magruder's
1 lEUT. GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE.
put in command of a battalion
cif twenty guns.
"At Second Manassas he oc-
cupied a ridge between Jack-
•-nn's and Longstreet's posi-
lions ; and when the enemy ad-
vanced his heavy lines to crush
Jackson, Lee opened on them
with all of his guns, which lie
handled with such terrific ef-
fect that the slaughter was
fearful, and the enemy's col-
innns gave way, being cut to
liieces, and retired. Col. Lee
ind his battalion (consisting
• if Rhett's South Carolina Bat-
iiry under Lieut. William
I'.lliott and Parker's, Eubank's,
and Jordan's Virginia Bat-
teries) were highly compli-
mented in the official reports,
and President Davis said they
saved the day.
"The following incident is
told as illustrating the spirit
of his men : When the enemy
had charged to within a hun-
dred yards of the guns, and
lieen repulsed with great slaugh-
ter by the free use of grape
and canister, a boy of sixteen
rushed up to Capt. W. W. Par
ker, widely known for his piety as well as his cool courage, and
exclaimed: 'Captain, God has given us the victory!' 'Yes, my
son,-' was the reply, 'but go back to your gun. We shall thank
God after a while.' And they did have afterwards a thanks-
giving service. Gen. Lee was eminently a CTiristian soldier.
"At Sharpsburg again Lee and his battalion were greatly dis-
tinguished. They lost heavily, however — more than one hun-
dred men and ninety horses out of the four batteries. Lee
himself, it is stated, was confidentially consulted by Jackson in
reference to a desperate move he was contemplating, and grim
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old Stonewall yielded to the advice of the accomplished young
artillerist.
"After this campaign Lee was made brigadier general, and
sent to command at Vicksburg, and, being a stranger to the
State, President Davis, in a speech at Jackson, soon after took
occasion to say of him : 'He was sent to Virginia at the be-
ginning of the war with a little battery of three guns. With
these he fought the Yankee gunboats, drove them oflf, and
stripped them of their terrors. He was promoted for dis-
tinguished services on various fields. He was finally made
colonel of artillery, and I have reason to believe that at the
last great conflict on the field of Manassas he served to turn
the tide of the battle, and consummate the victory. On suc-
ceeding fields he has won equal distinction. Though yet young,
he has fought more battles than many officers who have lived
to an advanced age and died in their beds. I have, therefore,
sent Gen. Stephen D. Lee to take charge of the defense of
Vicksburg.'
"Mr. Davis continued to cherish the highest opinion of Lee,
and is quoted as having said one day at Bcauvoir not long
before his death, when speaking freely of his generals : 'Stephen
D. Lee was one of the very best all-round soldiers we had.
I tried him in artillery, and he handled his guns so superbly
that I thought we could never spare him from that arm of
service : I tried him in command of cavalry, and he made such
a dashing cavalryman that I thought he was born for that
service; and when I put him to command infantry I found him
equally as able and accomplished in that position. He was
a great and good soldier.'
"Soon after he took command at Vicksburg, Gen. Sherman
brought down 30,000 men from Memphis, and advanced by
way of Chickasaw Bayou, where Lee was posted with only
2,7CO men. and gave him so bloody a repulse that after losinu:
1,700 men killed, wounded, and prisoners, Sherman retreated,
reembarked on his transports and went back to Memphis.
"It was a sad day for the Confederacy when Gen. J. C.
Pemberton was put in command of Vicksburg, and there seems
little doubt that if S. D. Lee (who greatly distinguished him-
self at Baker's Creek, where he had three horses shot from
under him and was slightly wounded, and in several assaults
upon Vicksburg) had been continued in command the results
would have been different, and if Vicksburg had fallen the
army would have been saved.
"After the capture of Vicksburg, on the 4th of July, Lee was
soon exchanged and was made major general on the 3d of
August, and assigned to the command of all the cavalry in
Mississippi. In April, 1864, he was put in command of the
Departmer.t of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, and
was soon after made lieutenant general. His force was ut-
terly inadequate for any proper defense, but it was under his
orders that Forrest routed Sturgis at Tishomingo Creek.
When Gen. Sooy Smith invaded Mississippi .with 16,000, Lee
had but 6,000 (mostly Forrest's Cavalry) witli which to meet
him, but he did not hesitate to attack him near Pontotoc, and
after three days of hard fighting, culminating in the battle of
Harrisburg, one of the severest of the war, he drove the enemy
and compelled his retreat before one-third of his numbers.
"When Gen. Hood succeeded Gen. Johnston Lee was put
in command of his corps, and participated in the ill-fated cam-
paign into Tennessee. Lee commanded the rear guard on the
retreat from Nashville, and his cool courage and skillful man-
agement, aided by the heroic fighting of his men and by For-
rest, saved the remnants of Hood's army.
"He was so severely wounded in the foot that he could take
no further part m the closing scenes of the war.
His Life Since the War.
"Being captured by a beautiful and accomplished Mississippi
woman, whom he married, he located at Columbus, -Miss., and
has taken a prominent part in the affairs of the State, being
several times elected to the State Senate, and being a promi-
nent member of the Constitutional Convention. He has been
for many years President of the State Agricultural and Me-
chanical College at Starkville, and has conducted its affairs
with such signal ability and success that his people of Mis-
sissippi say: 'We would make him Governor, or United States
Senator, but we cannot afford to lose his services from the
college.'
"Gen. Lee is a high-toned Christian gentleman, a deacon of
the Baptist Church, widely admired and loved, and exerting
a potent influence for good, especially among his old comrades
and the young men of his State and the South."
GEN. CLEMENT AN S ELM EVANS,
COMMANDING ARMY OF TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT, U. C. V.
Native of Georgia, born in Stewart County, descendant of
Virginia and North Carolina Revolutionary officers and sol-
diers, who were descendants of immigrants from Wales, En-
gland, and Scotland, he was educated and admitted to the bar
from the Georgia Law School, and began practice at the begin-
ning of the nineteenth year of his age. He received training in
military in his youth as a member of a splendid volunteer
company in his town o^ Lumpkin. He was elected judge of
his county court when twenty-two years old and State Senator
when twenty-six. He was entitled to exemption from mili-
tary service as a Senator, but, not claiming the privilege, he
assisted, in December, i860, in forming a military company
for the war if the Soutli should be invaded. He was mus-
tered into the service of the Confederacy with a company of
the Thirty-First Georgia Regiment as a private. He was
soon appointed major, and about six months afterwards was
promoted to colonel of the regiment and attached to Lawton's
Brigade, afterwards Gordon's and then Evans's Brigade. This
brigade was in the division and corps of Stonewall Jackson.
Evans served with this brigade in all the campaigns of Vir-
ginia to .Vpponiattox. During tliis constant service b* was
wounded at the first Cold Harbor battle, at Gettysburg, and
the battle of Monocacy very severely, and slightly in the battle
of the Wilderness. He was made brigadier general for services
at Spottsylvania and in the battle of May 12, 1864. He suc-
ceeded Gordon as commander of the brigade and afterwards
to command of the division.
He commanded Lawton's Brigade in the charge of Early's
Division at Fredericksburg December 13, 1862. He led his
regiment, which was the advanced command in the successful
charge of Gordon's Brigade, to take Marye's Heights. He
commanded the division at the battle of Morton's Ford, driv-
ing Gen. Hayes back across the Rapidan and winning a letter
of special cumniendatinn from Gen. Ewell, who was com-
iranding the corps. . •
He was intimately the close supporter of (Jen. Gordon in
his many successful fights, always believing strongly in (Jor-
don's great military ability. He was with Gordon in the early
morning assault on Sheridan's army at Cedar Creek, in which
such brilliant success was gained, commanding at that time
the brigade on the right and making the opening charge.
When Gordon was promoted to command the corps, he arose
to the command of the division, and at the close of the sum-
mer campaign of 1864 occupied the right of Lee's army near
Hatcher's Run, and then in the trenches at Petersburg. He
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was among the first to cross with his division the enemy's
breastworks in the famous assault on Fort Stedman. He
commanded his division in many attacks made on the rear of
Lee's army during the retreat from Petersburg. He led his
division at Appomattox in a charge after the surrender (not
having notice of the surrender at the time), capturing two
guns and seventy-eight prisoners.
Seeing the necessity of keeping up tlie comradeship of Con-
federate soldiers, he joined in the forming of the first Con-
federate Associations, which were substituted by the Con-
federation of United Confederate Veterans. The U. C. V.
was suggested at New Orleans in 1889, organized in 1890 at
Chattanooga, under which at first he was for a short time
adjutant general and chief of staff. However, he was soon
made Commander of the Georgia Division, and has been re-
tained in that high position until now, always attending re-
unions and feeling great interest in all Confederate affairs.
By the vacancy created by the death of Gen. Gordon, Gen.
S. D. Lee became General Commanding the Association, and
Gen. Evans became Lieutenant General Commanding the Army
of the Tennessee Department.
Gen. Evans now becomes Chairman of the History Com-
mittee, and is President of the Confederate Memorial Asso-
ciation. He has made numerous addresses on various phases
of the Confederate war at Birmingham, Nashville, Charleston,
and Richmond, which were pulilishcd at the time. He speaks
every year by invitation at some place in Georgia, but his most
extensive service was rendered as author and editor of a work
of twelve volumes called ''Confederate Military History."
Gen. Evans was very intimately associated with Gen. Gor-
don. Back in the sixties they held conferences in the midst
of active campaigns and pending battles ; and they penetrated
alone twice, the enemy's line to find a place to make an at-
tack. They viewed together the enemy's position at Cedar
Creek, and decided to report to Early the advantages of an
attack, also our conference on my line at the point where the
attack was to be made at Fort Stedman ; and Gen. Gordon
visited him when under the surgeon's hand after Monocacy.
in addition to numberless other little incidents in camp ani'
field.
EXPENSES OF GENERAL U. C. V. REUNIONS.
Gen. 'William. E. Mickle sends extracts from the minutes o)
the New Orleans reunion of 190,3, in which the subject of
econoiriizing expenses at Confederate reunions was discussed,
and a resolution was offered by William H. Mayo, of St.
Louis, Mo. :
"Whereas the increasing expenditures made by the citizens
who have invited the annual reunion to be held in their cities
have a tendency to deter other communities from tendering
invitations for the future sessions, and it has become desirable
that some expression of opinion shall be made by this body;
therefore be it
"Rcsoh-fci, That the Confederate Veterans give notice that
they will ndt expect from their future hosts the splendid and
lavish hospitality which has been poured out by New Orleans
at this session and heretofore by other cities. All provisions
which may he made for the entertainment of veterans will be
clieerfully accepted, but in matters of decoration and expendi-
tures not absolutely necessary we urge the great virtue of
moderation."
Gen. Bennett H. Young, the Commander of the Kentucky
Division, U. C. V., came to the front of the stage and, in his
big-hearted way, said: "My comrades, if you come to Louis-
ville, you will be entertained as you have never been before.
Our people would net consent to any limit being placed on
ilicir respect and admiration for this great body."
Gen. Stephen D. Lee, at that time Commander of the Army
of Tennessee Department, then said that "there was a growing
sentiment that this organization was getting top-heavy, and
that there was too much of the spectacular. In 1892, when we
met in this city. Washington Artillery Hall was not one-half
full. Now the great expanse of the Fair Grounds is hardly
sufficient to hold them. Our record should be clear on that
one point. We do not want to impose burdens which would
make other cities hesitate to invite us."
Gen. J. B. Gordon wrote from Berlin Mills, N. H., Decem-
ber I, 1903 (his last letter to the editor of the Veteran) :
"My Dear Major: Yours of November 21 just received. I
am glad to know that Nashville has consented to receive us
again next year. ... I like your suggestion of cutting
down the expense of these entertainments, and agree with
you fully that we ought to bring the expense within the ability
of a larger part of our cities, so that they might feel inclined
to take care of us."
GEN. CLEMENT A. EVANS.
Gen. J. B. Gordon's Rank, C. S. A. — On October 23, 1899,
Gen. Gordon wrote the Veteran as follows : "I was informed
by Gen, Breckinridge, Secretary of War, while my corps was
at Petersburg, that I had been made a lieutenant general. Like
a great many other cases at that period of the war, my com-
mission never reached me. I was, however, accorded the rank
in assignment, but was waiting for my commission to the last
before signing officially as lieutenant general."
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GORDON, COMMANDER IN CHIEF, U. C. V.
BY I. M. KKIER OCKtNDEN. »ECR£TARV LAIlIES' MEMORIAL
ASSOCIATION, MO.STGOMERY, ALA.
• Just when the voung month of the glad new \ ear
Over the South had stretcheil a beauteous hand
Hat come a wail of woe, and Nature's tear
Kow softlv falls for him, from strand to strand!
B/ brave men honored, brave in war and peace,
Ck>rdon! the great, the good, the true, in one!
Out of the darkness came his sweel release,
Boll call is over, the whi'e sleep begun —
Dare we, with lamentations, break his rest?
O lay the flag in silence o'er his breast!
Now, ve who love a hero, weep, one lietli here.
Commanding General of the Knightly Dead,
They guard thy calm repose, the men in gray ;
And woman's green memorials shall wreathe thy bed.
When this rad song has, sighing, died away !
Yes, Gen. Gordon is dead, and the influence of his li£e
will fade by degrees until it will only exist in a story — a sad,
sad fact. The prolongation of his strenuous, useful days was
a blessing to mankind.
Gen. Gordon had his share of business reverses after war
losses, and that hampered him in his great achievements until
his later days. It was his blessing to give
out in largest degree exemplification of
the finest citizenship of the old South.
His funeral was evidently the most
remarkable that ever occurred in the
Southern States save that of Jefferson'
Davis in the ceremonies at New Orleans ,
and agam at Richmond. Atlanta has wit-
nessed the funerals of Benjamin H. Hill,
Henry W. Grady, Alexander H. Stephens,
Joseph E. Brown, and other distinguished
men; but the sentiment expressed generally on January 14,
1904, was that no such funeral ceremony had ever occurred
in the capital of Georgia. The day was clear, all business was
suspended for four hours, and military bodies were so dis-
tributed as to prevent overcrowding, and many thousands
passed through the rotunda of the capitol to take a last look
at the placid face of the eminent Southerner. Floral tributes
were lavishly banked on each side of the casket and along
the avenue for passage.
In addition to the stream that coursed through the capitol
during the day and a half that the body lay in state, the exten-
sive grounds about the capitol were packed with people, :i
mere lane through the human mass being kept open from the
capitol to the Presbyterian church, nearly opposite, on Wash-
ington Street. There gorgeous floral tributes were massed
about the pulpit and to the gallery overhead. The hall of rep-
resentatives and the church held merely small delegations of
the thousands and thousands assembled.
The services in both places were worthy the distinguished
dead. A volume should be published to contain the proceed-
ings. Ten-minute tributes were paid by Governors and other
distinguished men from nearly all the Southern States, while
the profoundly religious tributes in the church were all that
devout Christians could desire. Additional tributes may bo
expected in an early number of the Veteran.
With all that was conceivable as worthy of being done by
State and Church, the demonstration was greater and greatest
in the packed hnes of people that extended for more than a
mile on both sides of the avenue 10 the cemetery. There must
have been fully forty thousand people out. The solemn
grandeur of the pageant hushed all to silence, and manifest
sorrow was universal.
The firing of cannon at the capitol was continued every
thirty minutes through much of the day, and military service
at the grave added to the impressiveness of the burial. A
Confederate battleflag was draped about the casket before be-
ing lowered into the cold ground.
Sketch oJ Gen. Gordon's Career.
John Brown Gordon was born in Upson County, Ga., July
6, 1832, of Scotch ancestry, his grandfather being one of seven
brothers who emigrated from Scotland previous to the Revo-
lutionary war, in which they all took part in behalf of the
colonies. The grandfather made his home in Wilkes County,
X. C, whence Rev. Zachariah H. Gordon, father of Gen. Gor-
don, removed to Georgia. Young Gordon was graduated in
1852 from the Georgia State University, and a few months
later was admitted to the practice of law.
In September of 1854 he was married to Miss Fanny Haral-
son, daughter of Gen. Hugh A. Haralson, of LaGrange, Ga.
The wedding occurred on her seventeenth birthday, when he
was but twenty-two.
Interested in some coal lands in North Georgia, John B.
Gordon was giving his personal attention to the development
of this property when Sumter was fired upon. Two sons had
been born to him, and he was tested by the struggle between
devotion and duty to his family and to his country. Early in
1861 he organized a company of the stalwart mountaineers of
that section, was elected captain, and under the euphonious
name of "Raccoon Roughs" they were mustered into the Con-
federate service. Through promotion he rose to major and
then to lieutenant colonel of the Sixth Alabama in December
of that year.
His regiment was called to Virginia, and frotn Manassas
to Appomattox he bore a conspicuous part in making the
glorious history of the Southern Confederacy. In the Penin-
sula campaign he was assigned to Rodes's Brigade of D. H.
Hill's Division, and on April 23, 1862, he was promoted to
colonel. At the battle of Seven Pines, during the advance of
his brigade, Rodes was severely wounded, and the command
devolved upon Gordon as senior colonel. At Malvern Hill
he again commanded the brigade and led it in the magnificent
charge delivered against the Federal position by Hill's Divi-
sion.
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Commissioned brigadier general on November i, 1862, he
was assigned to command that splendid brigade of Georgians,
the Thirteenth, Twenty-Sixth, Thirty-First, Thirty-Eighth,
Sixtieth, and Sixty-First Regiments. This he commanded at
Chancellorsville and in the Pennsylvania campaign. Again
leading in Early's advance upon Harrisburg, Gordon reached
the Susquehanna at VVrightsville, the most extended advance
into the United States territory achieved in the East during
the four years' war. Recalled on account of the concentration
at Gettysburg, on the first day of the struggle there he par-
ticipated prominently in the determined attack from the North,
which drove the Federals through the town to the strong posi-
tion that they subsequently held. During the November opera-
tions of that year he, with his brigade, participated in the
fighting below the Rapidan. On the memorable 5th of May,
when Ewell's Corps struck the first blow upon the advancing
columns of Grant in the Wilderness, Gordon's Brigade, after
Jones had been driven back, advanced, repulsed the Federals,
and reestablished the Confederate line. On the following day,
in command of two brigades, he made a sudden attack at
sunset upon Sedgwick's Corps with such gallantry that the
enemy was driven from a large part of his works and six hun-
dred prisoners captured, among them Gens. Seymour and
Shaler. In the succeeding struggle at Spottsylvania C. H.
G^. Gordon was particularly distinguished as the commander
of Early's Division. Immediately after Johnston was over-
whelmed by Hancock he threw his division in front of the
victorious enemy. Gen. Lee rode up, evidently intending to
lead the men in the charge, so imminent was the peril to the
army. Gordon remonstrated, the men cried, "Lee to the
rear," and one of them, seizing the General's bridle, led his
horse back, while the charge was made with fury and the
Federals were driven back to the base of the "Bloody Angle,"
where the fight continued furiously during the day.
On May 14, 1864, Gordon was promoted to major general
.ind put in command of a division composed of Evans's Georgia
I'.rigade, Hays's and Stafford's Louisiana Brigades, and Ter-
ry's Virginia Brigade, made up of the remnants of the old
Sionewall Brigade and others. With this command he joined
l;icckinridge and Early, after the battle of Cold Harbor, in
ilic repulse of Hunter, moved to Harper's Ferry, attacked
Maryland Heights, and at Monocacy led the attack on the
iiLiht whicli routed Lew Wallace. After this campaign closed
!• lore the defenses of Washington, Gordon had a prominent
t in the figliling in the Shenandoah Valley under Early,
1 was especially distinguished in the surprise and defeat of
oridan's army early in the day at Cedar Creek.
Returning to the lines before Petersburg, Gen. Gordon was
igncd to the command of the Second Corps, A. N. V.
In March, with about half the depicted army at his disposal,
he made a desperate sally and captured Fort Stedman and
parts of the line to the right and left of it, but did not have
sufficient strength to hold the position. He held the last lines
at Petersburg and fought with stubborn valor for every inch
of space. He guarded the retreat from the fated city with
stubborn resistance to the attacks of the enemy, and at Appo-
matto.x C. H. was put in command of half of Lee's army, who
w'ere intended to cut through Grant's line had not the surren-
der been determined upon. In an official report of Gen. D. H.
Hill, Gen. Gordon was designated ','the Che\alier Bayard of
the Confederate army," an apt characterization of the brave
and chivalrous commander.
Gen. Gordon passed through so many battles without being
wounded that his men possessed a sort of blind faith that he
w'as not to be killed in battle, as evidenced by such expressions
as "They can't hurt him ;" "He's as safe in one place as an-
other;" "His is a charmed life." Many had fallen at his side,
his clothing had been torn by shot and shells, but up to the
Sharpsburg storm no wound had ever been made upon him.
Early in tliat battle he was shot through the calf of the right
leg, and later on higher up in the same leg, but no bones were
broken, and he continued to move along the line and encour-
age his men, who were firing with the coolness and precision
of peace soldiers at target practice. Later in the day a third
ball pierced his left arm, tearing asunder the tendons and
mangling the flesh. When his men caught sight of the blood
running down his fingers they pleaded with him to leave them
and go to the rear, pledging that they would stay there and
fight to the last, but he yielded not. A fourth ball ripped
through his shoulder, leaving a wad of clothing in the wound.
Although mucli weakened by these shocks and the loss of
blood, he remembered his pledge to Gen. Lee that they would
stay there till the battle ended or until night. He thought he
saw his left wavering, and told Private Vickers, of Alabama,
who volunteered to carry any order, to tell them that he was
still on the field, and would stay there, and to remember their
promise to Gen. Lee. Brave Vickers had gone less than fifty
yards when he was instantly killed by a ball through his head.
Although desperately weakened from loss of blood and scarce-
ly able to stand. Gen. Gordon attempted to go himself, but
had gone only a short distance when he was struck by a ball
squarely in the face, the ball barely missing the jugular vein
in passing out. He fell forward unconscious with his face in
his cap, and he says he might have been smothered in his own
blood had not some considerate Yankee previously shot a hole
through his cap which let the blood out. This wound was so
serious that his surgeon and devoted friend, Dr. Weatherly,
had little hope of his recovery. Gordon said to him : "You
think I am going to die, but I am going to get well." Long
afterwards Dr. Weatherly admitted that this assurance was his
first and only basis of hope.
Mrs. Gordon, who faithfully followed her husband through
the war, was soon sent for. The doctors were doubtful about
the propriety of admitting her to the room, fearing the effect
upon their patient, but he was more fearful of the effect his
appearance would have upon her. His face was black and
shapeless — so swollen that one eye was hidden and the other
nearly so. His right leg and left arm and shoulder were
bandaged and propped with pillows. He knew slie would be
greatly shocked, and to reassure her at once he said as she
came -in: "Here's your handsome [?] husband; been to an
Irish wedding." Thenceforward she was at his bedside con-
stantly, and to her devoted care was due his remarkable recov-
ery.
When hostilities had ended, he called his heroic men about
him and advised them to bear the trial, go home in peace, obey
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the laws, rebuild the country, and work for its future. With
the same policy that "peace hath her victories no less re-
nowned than war's," he afterwards labored consistently for the
advancement of the South in a unified country. He took a
prominent part in the national conventions of his party from
1866, was a candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1868, but
was defeated. In 1873 and 1879 he was elected United States
Senator. Resigning in 1880, he actively participated in the
building of the Georgia Pacific Railroad. In 1886 and 1888
he was elected Governor, and in 1890 again entered the United
States Senate for six years' service. Then he retired from
political activity, and was remarkably successful in presenting
at the North as well as the South a famous historic lecture
upon the "Last Days of the Confederacy." From the organi-
zation of the United Confederate Veterans he held the high
position of Commander in Chief of that great fraternal order.
On a memorable occasion, at the Nashville reunion in 1897,
he attempted to resign this position, as he had done repeatedly
before, but was so enthusiastically reelected that he accepted
the verdict as meaning that he would have to serve through
life, which he faithfully did.
Tribute by the Atlanta Constitution.
"Gen. John B. Gordon was the beau ideal of military lead-
ers. His practical genius in this regard was of an exceptional
order, but it is doubtful if he had a peer among all the
corps commanders of the Confederate army in the magnetic
verve, the superb elan, the magnificent courage of his bearing
in battle. Where Gordon's hot-throated guns thundered acts
of splendid daring were being done in the name of the God
of battle, in no small measure inspired by his matchless war-
rior personality. WHiere his batteries roared and screamed the
high tide of carnage ran reddest, and there often the fate of
battle hung. When Gordon charged, the earth trembled with
the impact of his wild battalions and the welkin cracked witli
the shrill terror of their battle cry. He was the idol of the
whole army, and his soldiers would have followed him into
the fiery vortex of hell. They followed him through many a
Balaklava.
"In civil life Gen. Gordon stood among the strong men of
his time. He was possessed of statesmanlike qualities of mind
and heart, and his intellectual gifts were supplemented with
the graces of oratory. His native Georgia long loved to do
him honor by calling him to her official service, and in her
service he did her no mean honor in the eyes of the whole
nation. The labors of his later years on the lecture platform,
in the highest office within the gift of his organized former
comrades in arms, and in the difficult field of literature, were
conspicuously successful. The last great act of his life, the
writing of his 'Reminiscences of the Civil War,' was nothing
short of brilliant."
Army of Northern Virginia Department.
Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Commanding Army Northern Vir-
ginia Department, issued from Greenville, S. C, January 12,
1904, General Order No. s, in which he states :
"With a profound sense of the greatness of our loss, the
death of our beloved Commander, Gen. John B. Gordon, is
officially announced to the comrades of the Army of Northern
Virginia Department.
"FroiTi the birth of the grand association, the United Con-
federate Veterans, until now, our comrades have indissolubly
associated with its splendid career, the magnificent character,
large heart, magnetic oratory of the knightly Gordon. He was
not only our devoted comrade, the brilliant orator who so
magnificently presided over our reunions, not only our com-
mander in chief, but our own Gen. Gordon — a title and a
name which to the Confederate veteran meant only one man
and one glorious union of high characteristics which made him
the superb man and leader. There never has been in our
hearts but one Gen. John B. Gordon, and vainly may any one
iispire to fill the place in our affections ever held by him. . . .
All organizations and comrades of this Department will dis-
play the customary badges of mourning until after the next
General Reunion of the U. C. V."
Signed officially and by James G. Holmes, Adjutant Gen-
eral and Chief of Staff.
Theodore S. Garnett, Major General, Commanding Virginia
Division, issues orders in accordance with the spirit of Gen.
Gordon's death, as does Stith Bowling, Conmianding First
Brigade.
Resolutions by Blue and Gray in Ohio.
A meeting of Confederate and Federal veterans, about an
equal number of each being present, was held at the office of
Col. W. H. Knauss, Columbus, Ohio, Sunday, January 10,
1904. Col. Knauss, presiding, announced the death of Gen.
Gordon.
Col. W. H. Knauss, Dr. Thomas P. Shields, and Judge
David F. Pugh were chosen as a committee on resolutions,
and the following comprise in substance what was adopted by Ij
a rising vote:
"Whereas the all-ruling power, the God in whom we all
place our trust, has seen fit to permit our country to be
blessed by sparing the life of our respected friend and citizen
to this time, for which we feel thankful ; whereas his life
was of such a character as to have the respect of all loyal and
true citizens; and whereas Gen. John B. Gordon, who was one
of the ablest and bravest generals in the Confederate army,
and, in our hiuubic judgment, did more since the close of the
War between the States for the pacification of the North and
South than any other person ; therefore be it
"Resolved, That we extend to his widow and children our
sincere sympathy in their hour of great grief, and that our
Heavenly Father will comfort and bless them."
Action at Aberdeen, Miss.
Camp Sam J. Gholson, No. 1255, U. C. V., Aberdeen, Miss.,
sends the following report of its proceedings, January 11, 1904:
"At a called meeting of the Camp to consider the death of
our Commander, Gen. John B. Gordon, the Commander ap-
pointed Maj. S. A. Jonas, Col. E. T. Sykes, and M. Roth as
Committee on Resolutions, when the following was unani-
mously adopted :
"Whereas the Great Commander has summoned our be-
loved chief and comrade, Gen. John B. Gordon, to 'Fame's
eternal camping ground ;' therefore be it
"Resolved: i. That it is with the deepest sentiments of per-
sonal bereavement that we receive the heart-breaking tidings.
Gen. John B. Gordon was the ideal Southern soldier ; the
greatest in achievement of all the infantry commanders devel-
oped by the civil war among Americans, who sprang as it
were 'froin the loins of the people' a born soldier, who re-
ceived in the sulphury blasts of battle the military education
that equipped his fellow-commanders for the field of Mars.
A citizen-soldier, like our beloved Walthall and the greatest
of cavalry leaders, Forrest, he was peer to any general in
cither artny in the field, and great in all the walks of life and
elevated citizenship.
"2. That this Camp offer its tcndcrcst tribute of sympathy
to his bereaved household, and each other the proud con-
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gratulation of having loved and honored him in all the walks
of peace and war.
"3. That copies of these resolutions be sent to the family of
our deceased commander to the Confederate Veteran and
Memphis Afpcai."
Tribute to Gen. Gordon in Winchester, Ky.
While in session to honor the birthday of Gen. R. E. Lee,
the Virginia Hanson Chapter, U. D. C, of Clark County, Ky.,
one of the most useful Chapters in the great organization,
there was an interruption from the regular proceedings to do
honor to the memory of Gen. J. B. Gordon.
The report of the committee, comprised of B. F. Curtis,
R. P. Scobee, J. D. Wills, Leeland Hathaway, and E. G. Bax-
ter, contained the following expressions :
"The death of Gen. John B. Gordon removes the acknowl-
edged leader of the Confederate Veterans. It also takes, per-
haps, the grandest and surely the most superb and picturesque
figure from the ranks of men,
"There were greater soldiers, there have been statesmen of
broader wisdom and finer acumen, we have had orators too
as eloquent and persuasive, and our country has produced
gentlemen as cultured, as courteous, and as chivalrous as he,
but no man of our age combined in such fullness and beauty
all of these elements of greatness. As a soldier he will rank
with McDonald, Bliicher, and with our Jackson, Longstrect,
and Breckinridge. As a statesman, Governor, Senator, and
elsewhere he justified the trust imposed and adorned the posi-
tion he held. Stepping from his provincial home to the
United States Senate, he took his place modestly yet con-
fidently, and bore himself as if 'to the manner born.'
"Orators too we have had who swayed Senates and set the
hustings afire. Here he was the peer of the best. In our
national Legislature, on the platform, on the 'stump,' he was a
very wizard of speech.
"But above all and better than all were his talks to his
comrades. When the gray heads were assembled and his
words swept like a flame across their hearts, his very spirit
seemed to possess them, and their greeting raised the roof.
At such times he was the very incarnation, the apotheosis, of
eloquence. It was designated as 'worth a day's ride to hear
Douglass say "My fellow-citizens." ' To hear Gordon, with
his proud head erect, shout "My Comrads!" was like a bugle
call. It brought the veterans to their feet with a yell, whose
echoes reverberate through life, and which will follow us to
our graves.
"He was in all the relations of life a manly man. Kindly,
courteous, honest, brave, and chivalric, he for seventy event-
ful years 'bore without reproach the grand old name of gen-
tleman.' He brought across the line into the twentieth cen-
tury the virtues without the vices of a former period. More
than any other man known to contemporary history, he illus-
trates the highest type of the old school gentleman, the worth
and the chivalry of the old South.
"Soldier, statesman, orator, gentleman, comrade, friend, we
bid thee farewell ! Vou fought a good fight and 'after life's
fitful fever may you sleep well !' "
Expressions by the Chicago Camp.
At a meeting of Camp 8, U. C. V., of Chicago, January 15,
1904, on account of the death of Gen. Gordon, resolutions
were adopted, and the report states :
"Thus has passed away from mortal ken of the South's
greatest captains, most illustrious statesmen, brilliant and pol-
ished orators, whose eloquence has swayed and electrified
vast audiences of his countrymen, and commanded the ear of
listening Senates.
"Gen Gordon unsheathed his sword in defense of his be-
loved Southland in the very beginning of the War between
the States, and returned it to its scabbard only after the noble
Lee surrendered to Gen. Grant at Appomattox.
"Resolved, That in the death of Gen. Gordon his native
Stale, Georgia, has lost her noblest son, whose place cannot
be easily filled ; the South its most illustrious character, con-
spicuous figure, earnest advocate, and ablest defender ; and
the whole county — that he loved so well — one of its foremost
and most patriotic citizens.
"Resolved, That we tender to his grief-stricken family our
deepest and most heartfelt sympathy in their sore distress and
sad bereavement. "B. F. Jenkens, Commander;
"J. T. White, Adjutant."
Tributes to Gen. Gordon in Tennessee.
Gen. George W. Gordon, Commanding the Tennessee Divi-
sion, U. C. v., issued a special order:
"It is with profound sadness and unspeakable regret that the
Major General commanding the Tennessee Division of the
federation of United Confederate Veterans announces to the
command the untimely death of our beloved and venerated
Commander in Chief, Gen. John B. Gordon, the able captain,
the intrepid soldier, the gifted orator, the loyal patriot, the
upright citizen and Christian gentleman."
Camp Frank Cheatham, of Nashville, held a special meeting
to express its convictions and profound sorrow in the death of
Gen. Gordon.
The following memorial, presented by S. A. Cunningham,
was unanimously adopted as an appendix to the resolutions,
and ordered sent to Gen. Clement A. Evans :
"Camp Frank Cheatham, No. 35, U. C. V., is called in extra
session because of the death of our Commander in Chief, Gen.
John B. Gordon.
"All faithful veterans of the Confederate army have had ex-
periences next to meeting the grim reaper. Death, and they
have become philosophers ready even for that last summons
of earth just as they put their lives in jeopardy during the
tragic years of the sixties. While we, a part of the great or-
ganization, shared in all these trials and bow to the greatest
Commander, "who doeth all things well," we sorrow deeply in
this loss and express our exalted and affectionate regard for
the memory of our magnetic and incomparable leader, the
man who did much more than any of his fellows to exalt the
character of the Confederate soldier.
"While Gen. Gordon possessed frailties, as have all men, he
exalted to an eminent degree that warmth of feeling for his
fellows which made friends of the enemy and turned the
channel of thought throughout all the North, so that millions
of people have been softened in their prejudices and the young-
er generations will study the history of our sectional diflfer-
ences with kindlier concern, and for all time the marvelous
career of John B. Gordon will exist a blessing to the govern-
ment of our fathers."
By the Joseph H. Lewis Camp, Glasgow, Ky.
W. Wood, Adjutant of the Joseph H. Lewis Camp, No. 874,
U. C. v., at Glasgow, Ky., reports resolutions on the death of
Gen. Gordon, in which it is said that "as a soldier he ranked
with the foremost; as a statesman he was true to his con-
victions and to his people; as a citizen he was honored of all
men ; as a Christian he walked with the God that he faithfully
served."
[More extended tribute on page 83.]
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Qopfederate l/eteraij.
S. A. CfNNINGHAM. Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Methodist I'utilishlnj,' House Building, Nashville, Tenn.
ThU pnMication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham, All per-
#ans who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an or;;an for Asso>
Cations throughout the South are requeslc<l to commend its patronage and to
cooperate in extending its circulation. Let each one be constantly diligent.
GEN. LONGSTREET PAW UNCLE SAM IN 1862.
It is fitting in this issue of the Veter.\n to note the action
of Gen. James Longstreet in settlement of his obligations to
the United States in December, 1862. He was Paymaster in
the United States Army in 1861, and the Veteran, having in-
formation that he paid into the United Slates treasury a bal-
ance that he owed during the war, sought information through
Maj. M. J. O'Shaughnessy, who was at the head of the De-
partment of Loans at Washington during the greatest crisis
known in the history of the Government. That gentleman, a
resident of Nashville, wrote to a friend in the treasury of
the United States January 20, 1904, for particulars, and Mr.
Ellis H. Roberts, Treasurer, wrote in reply on January 28:
"... It appears, however, that in December, 1862, a
repay warrant was issued which shows a deposit of $828.22 to
the credit of the Treasurer of the United States by James
Longstreet, I'. M. This deposit was made by the Assistant
Treasurer of the United States, New York, December 6, 1862,
for credit of James Longstreet, Paymaster, under instructions
of the Secretary of the Treasury of December 3, 1862. It ap-
pears to have been the balance standing to his credit as Pay-
master with that officer, and was covered into the treasury as
a repayment of moneys previously advanced to him for dis-
bursement to the army."
WILL THE SOUTH HONOR "BILL ARPf"
A most worthy movement has been inaugurated for an
equestrian statue of Gen. Jno. B. Gordon, and a large sum
will be speedily raised.
While that movement is in progress the Veteran calls at-
tention to another that has been permitted to lag and the status
of which wounds the pride of the inaugurator.
Maj. Smith's family appreciate deeply the esteem manifest-
ed by those who have contributed, and will give public expres-
sion ere long ; but surely, surely the Southern people will not
be content with this very small sum. The list is given which
shows how slow people who knew and honored "Bill Arp" for
forty years are to provide a fund to honor his memory. Will
these who have responded not raise clubs among their friends?
Single subscriptions to the Gordon fund exceed all that has
been donated for Maj. Smith. It is a discredit to the South
that this matter is not being responded to, and it humiliates
the management of the Veteran that such lethargy is shown.
This condition must not remain as it is. If you are a friend
to the Veteran, won't you please confer with your family and
write that you have considered the subject, even if you decide
against contributing only one dollar to place a memorial by
the grave of Maj. Chas. H. Smith? The Veteran will not
give up this undertaking in this way. Only one dollar was
solicited from each. Let any who can't send one dollar for-
ward a dime. .Some evidently have not acted from the im-
pression that opportunity closed with 1903. The Veteran
arbitrarily extends the time. A creditable sum must be raised
for this purpose. Let us raise it at once.
The total amount so far subscribed is $87.25. See the list.
CoNTKiBUTIONS POR A MEMORIAL TO MaJ. CbAS. H. SmITH.
Cunningham, S. A., Nashville, Tenn $1 00
Brown, Joseph M., Atlanta, Ga i 00
Frazier, Gov. J. B., Nashville, Tenn i 00
DeWitt, John H., Nashville, Tenn i 00
Gilrealh, Thomas M., Cartersville, Ga i 00
Crouch, R. C, Morristown, Tenn i 00
Shirkey, S. W., Wingard, Ala i 00
Confederate Veteran, Goldsboro, N. C I 00
Nettles, T. A., Tunnel Springs, Ala i 00
Gilfoil, J. H., Omega, La i 00
Currie, Miss H. \., Omega, La i 00
Currie, Miss A. E., Omega, La i 00
Capt. W. H. Reid, Sandy Springs, Ark i 00
Norton, Col. George. Louisville, Ky 5 00
VanMeter, Mr. and Mrs. C. J., Bowling Green, Ky 2 00
Irvine, Rev. William, Bowling Green, Ky i 00
Patterson, Mrs. T. L., Cumberland, Md I 00 i
Spurlin, W. F., Camden, Ala 100 f
Dozier, Mrs. N. B., Franklin, Tenn i 00
Campbell, Mrs. W. P., Cassinade, La i ix)
Jones, T. S., Macon, Ga. . . ". i 00 ■
Young, Cel. B. H., Louisville, Ky 2 00 ~
Meriwether, M., St. Louis, AIo i c»
Fletcher, D. U., Jacksonville, Fla i 00
Croom, J. D., Maxton, N. C I tx)
Cook, Col. and Mrs. V. Y., Newport, Ark 2 <X)
Cook, Misses May, Jennie, and Varina, Newport, Ark. ... 3 00
Southern Star Chapter, U. D. C, Lincolnton, N. C I 00
Beale, A. J., Cynthiana, Ky i 00
Dawson, G. W., Plattsburg, Mo i 00
Winston, W. E., Waskoni, Te.\ i 00
Parsons, S. R., Hartley, Ark I 00
Rierson, J. H., Kaufman, Tex i 00
Briggs, Miss L. P., Jacksonville, Fla 3 00
Jeff Davis Chapter, U. D. C, Guthrie, Ky I CO
Rogers, B. H.. Plantersviile, Miss i 00
Balch, L. C, Little Rock, Ark i 00
Turner, John A., ct al, Athens, Ala 8 75
Sprinkel, C. A., Harrisonburg, Va i 00
Hinson, W. G., Charleston, S. C I 00
Campbell, John E., Austin, Tex i 00
Carter, P. G., Celeste, Tex i 00
Thompson, W. A., Gurley, Ala I 00
Anderson, Mrs. M. E., Pickens, Miss I 00
Snyder, J. W., Jacksonville, Fla I 00
Snyder, C. S., Jacksonville, Fla I 00
Jett, W. A. L., Murray Hill, N. J I 00
Lester, Capt. John II., Denting, N. Mex i 00
Dick Taylor Chapter, U. D. C, Grand Cane, La 4 00
McMullen, Mrs. M. A., Largo, Fla i 00
McMullen, D. M., Sr., Largo, Fla i 00
McMullen, W. A., Largo, Fla I 00
Simpson, W. B., Hackberry, Tex I 00
Hale, N. M., Dyer, Tenn i 00
Lauck, T. H., Leander, Tex i 00
Brumback, Mrs. L. G., Ida, Va 1 00
Alexander, S. J , Macon, Tenn i 00
Pickett, A. J., Hector, Ala i 00
"A Friend," Nashville, Tenn 2 50
Withers, E. A., Lamar, Mo 2 00
Neilson, T. H., New York City i 00
Lehman, C. .\., Oldenburg, Miss i 00
Spradling, Robert, Decatur, Tenn i 00
Sills, J. F., Camden, Ala i 00
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UNITED DAUGHTERS AT CHARLESTON.
Extracts from the President's Address.
Mrs. James A. Rounsaville, of Rome, Ga., prefaced her an-
nual address by saying that she had recently attended several
other conventions of organizations of women "for the purpose
of comparing the personnel and work of these with our own.
Like other partial parents, I came away from all happy in the
conviction that my own dear Daughters were more charming,
brilliant, and beautiful than any others. Reviewing the work
of the Daughters of the Confederacy since organization, we
are impressed with the truth spoken by the philosopher of old,
'He who wishes to secure the good of others has already
secured his own good,' for though no selfish motive has actu-
ated these Daughters of the South in their earnest efforts, it
is true that as they have labored in their own special field of
endeavor, they have themselves been touched into a new life
and lifted up even in proportion to the earnestness and sin-
cerity of their efforts for others. How earnest, how sincere
those efforts have been is evidenced by the success attending
upon them, and the magnitude of the territory covered by the
organization, for not in the South alone do our women cherish
the traditions of the past, but wherever they have gone they
carry the memories of home and its histoiy, so that to-day
the organized Daughters of the Confederacy, from the great
Babylon of New York, reach out their hands in greeting to a
sister Chapter located where the sun-kissed waters of the
Pacific sweep through the portals of the Golden Gate."
The address was condensed on account of the great press
for time. In alluding to the work for the Jefferson Davis mon-
ument, Mrs. Rounsaville said : "It is to be a monument to
our great civil chieftain, which, by its mere being, will illus-
trate the love of this Southern people for their President; a
love crystallized into action by the efforts of the Daughters of
the Confederacy, who have, by work and words, touched a re-
sponsive chord in Southern hearts and brought from all sec-
tions willing contributions to a fund destined to erect a monu-
ment which would typify a people's love and represent a peo-
ple's loyalty ; a sacred fund, made up of contributions from
young and old, men, women, children, rich, poor, high, and
low; a monument which shall be the testimony of the present
to the futme, to warn those who keep this land that, though
their sires be dead, the principles for wliich they fought can
never die."
Brief allusion w-as then made to the work being done in Di-
visions and Chapters as follows :
Alabama, whose noble Daughters, true to the cause, despite
the meaning of the sweet-syllabled name of their grand old
State, seem never in word or act to say : "Here we rest."
Arkansas keeps up the fine record so early made by it as
one of the first Divisions formed west of the great "Father of
Waters."
California, home of the Honorary President, Mrs. Pritchard,
though a younger Daughter of our organization, already de-
serves laurels for magnificent work accomplished. Interest in
that State is evidenced by the fact that she sends across this
great continent so many loyal Daughters to greet us here,
where you are called to order by the sound of the beautiful
gavel presented last year by California.
District of Columbia, enthusiastic, energetic, and ambitious
to accomplish grand results, despite the uncongenial atmos-
pheie surrounding it. I had the privilege and pleasure of
greeting many of these Daughters last February in the home
of the President of Stonewall Jackson Chapter, the first formed
in the District.
Florida, the Land of Flowers, is keeping up her record of
fine work well done. Despite a la.rge Northern element antag-
onistic to Confederate ideals and efforts, it stands among the
leading Divisions of our organization.
Indian Territory, a baby Division, comes with a fine record
of work accomplished. This Division is remarkable, including,
as it does, wMves and daughters of the original Americans, the
noble red men themselves, the Choctaws and Cherokees, who
fought in the Confederate army.
Kentucky, land not only of beautiful women and brave men,
but of brave women also, as evidenced both in the noble
mothers of the Confederacy and their Confederate Daughter-^
of to-day, who have illustrated their love and loyalty in mon-
uments, in a Soldiers' Home, and in the suppression of that
obnoxious play, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Also in the lessons
a true Southern woman instilled in her grandchild, Laura
Gait, who, despite her teachers, refused to sing that song
of cruel memories, "Marching through Georgia," and by her
action and suffering therefor secured a rule excluding it and
similar productions from Kentucky schools. Not only Ken-
tucky but all the South, will love to honor the little maid.
Then Louisiana comes — our gracious hostess of a year
agone— comes with new laurels on her brow, already so
bedecked; Slate of generous hospitality, loving words and
deeds, whose sweet flowers are rivaled by sweeter woman-
hood, and whose eloquent sons are rivaled by her eloquent
(laughters— Louisiana, where both Sons and Daughters have
illustrated all that is best in manhood and womanhood of the
South. We welcome you, and would again give voice to our
appreciation of all your loving thought for, and courtesy to,
us but one short twelvemonth_past.
And Mao'Iand, our Maryland, which has written "Finis" on
so noble an achievement this past year in the completion of
that exquisite monument, which bodies forth in marble and
in bronze the very heart of the South— its love, its grief, and
yet withal its pride and everlasting faith.
Mississippi comes, the State which has shared with Virginia
liie greatest honors the South could bestow, since from one
\vas chosen our civil chieftain, Mississippi's adopted son, the
South's beloved and ever-honored President, Jefferson Davis ;
while from the other came that other chieftain of unequaled
worth, the peerless Lee. Worthy of her honors Mississippi
proves herself this year by her record, writ on monuments, in
Soldiers' Home, and in new Chapters. Mississippi has never
lacked in quality; in numbers she now promises to rival other
States.
And here is Missouri, the State of gallant Sterling Price and
other heroes, equaled only by her heroines. Gladly you will
hear of the great work accomplished by the Daughters, now in
name as well as deed united. A border State, she yet may well
give inspiration by her work to other States more fortunately
circumstanced.
New York Chapter we greet as a State within herself.
Southern daughters illustrating in a Northern clime the vir-
tues of a Southern mother— even as the bravery of Southern
fathers is illustrated in the work they do.
Ohio, dear Oh.io, the lusty little infant, exhibiting such re-
markable traits a year ago. She hasn't grown mucli yet, but sht
has on short skirts, and is not only walking but running to
keep up with the older sisters.
Brave North Carolina, the Old North State, which has
been credited with sending more soldiers into the Confederate
army than any other Southern Slate, and had, when the last
yearly report was issued, sent more dollars to th: Jefferson
Davis Memorial Association Fund than other State. Yes,
North C3rolina Daughters arc, indeed, proving themselves
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worthy of the brave men who have since Nathaniel Bacon's
initiative stood in the forefront of the supporters of God-given
liberty.
Georgia's chief work has been the Winnie Davis Memorial.
This beautiful tribute to a beautiful life has just been com-
pleted at a cost of $25,000, and given into the hands of the
State for the use of Georgia girls. The Empire State is also
happy to have contributed more to the Jefferson Davis Mon-
ument this year than any other State of the South.
But Georgia and Tennessee should be honored together, as
the two States which, by united effort, formed the organization
of United Daughters of the Confederacy, and have hand in
hand worked together for the advancement of its interests and
principles. Especial honor, however, I would give to Tennes-
see as having the first Chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy.
and would remind you that it was in Tennessee's capital city
that the representatives from Georgia's first Chapter met the
representatives from Tennessee's first Chapter to lay the
foundations for this great organization of United Daughters.
As a representative of Georgia, I clasp hands with Tennessee,
to bid this great organization of to-day Godspeed in the many
grand enterprises, historical, educational, benevolent, in whic!i
it is engaged.
And here's to South Carolina, the State which has with lov-
ing heart and open hand welcomed us within its charmed por-
tals, the State of beautiful memories, of brave sons and true-
daughters, of eloquence and song and poeti-y; third State to
form a division of United Daughters of the Confederacy, and
possessing in the noble women who comprise that Division and
in the magnificent work they have accomplished yet another
cause for pride.
And we all are proud of South Carolina, personally and
lovingly proud, since there is not a Southern State but claims
among her daughters many who trace in their veins the blood
of a Carolina sire, either among the followers of Marion or
Morgan or Sumter, or among their worthy sons, who, in de-
fense of the same principles, followed Hampton, Jackson, or
Lee.
And proud are we all, with a personal pride, of the Lone
Star State, the great State of Texas, in which we point not to
our fathers but to our sons and our daughters, for each State
here represented has contributed in priceless citizenship to the
great commonwealth of the West. Each State watches witli
fond interest its development and glories in its achievements
even as each Daughter here glories in the achievements of
those women who comprise the great Texas Division, whicli
goes forward, under its present brilliant leader and the other
notably able women who guide its destinies, to heiglits oi
which we can yet but dream.
Last, but not least dear, welcome to our Virginians— to the
Virginia Division, which in its union makes us at last truly
United Daughters of the Confederacy, with no State claiming
two Divisions, no State claiming a Division with Chapters out-
side its pale. Truly Virginia's Daughters, in overcoming per-
sonal feeling, sacrificing personal pride and desire for the
good of the cause, have set a worthy example for us to follow.
Though there is no longer a Virginia Division, "Grand" r.i
name, all Virginia Daughters have proven themselves to be
better still, grand in deed. With love and reverence we bid
Godspeed to the Daughters of our great Mother State.
Then with love we turn to the record of Virginia's daughter.
West Virginia, which five years since took the initiative in
Division union, under the wise guidance of her who to-day,
as our Corresponding Secretary, is West Virginia's most
gracious gift to us.
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To-day to the rosters of Divisions we may add the name of
far-away Montana, where three Chapters have just united. All
hail to the loyal daughters of the South, who keep alive the
fires of patriotism in that distant Northern clime.
Mrs. Rounsaville then briefly alluded to the Fitzhugh Lee
Chapter, of Evansville, Ind., the Salt Lake City, and other
detached Chapters deserving especial honor for their enter-
prise and loyalty to the South in the midst of strangers and
unsympathetic surroundings.
Mrs. Rounsaville here announced that, with full appreciation
of the many requests made that she allow her name to be con-
sidered again for the presidency, she had long ago decided for
personal reasons that it would be impossible to do so. and, had
no personal reasons existed, her belief in rotation in office and
desire to see other Daughters occupy these positions of honor
in turn would have caused her to reach the same conclusion.
She then stated that, in closing, she would quote from the fare-
well address of Gen. Lee to his soldiers, words which seemed
so well suited to this body of faithful women: "You will take
with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness
of duty faithfully performed, and I earnestly pray that a mer-
ciful God will extend to you his blessing and protection. With
an increasing admiration of your constancy and devotion, and
a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous considera-
tion of myself, I will, as your presiding officer, bid you an
afTcctionate farewell at the close of this convention and take
my place as a worker in the line of privates."
REPORT OF HISTORICAL COMMITTEES, U. D. C.
BY MRS. W. C. II. MERCHANT, CHAIRMAN, CHATHAM, VA.
Madam Pvcsidevt, Daughters of the Confederacy: Father
Ryan says : "A land without ruins is a land without memories ;
a land without memories is a land without history. A land
that wears a laurel crown may be fair to see, but twine a few
cypress leaves around the brow of any land, and be that land
barren, beauliless, and bleak, it becomes lovely in its conse-
crated coronet of sorrow and wins the sympathy of the heart
and of history." At Manassas, in 1861. the Southern Con-
federacy sprang, full-grown, into the center of the arena of
the world's history, crowned with the victor's wreath of
laurel.
"Onward o'er gallant Ashby's grave swept war's successful
tide.
And Southern hopes were living yet when Polk and Morgan
died."
But gradually, leaf by leaf, the laurel is exchanged for the
cypress, and at Appomattox we stoop to place this wreath upon
the grave of our fondest hopes and naost cherished ambitions.
"It is a Nation's death cry — yes, the agony is past;
The stoutest race that ever fought, to-day has fought its last."
Overwhelmed, but unconquered ; broken-hearted, yet trium-
phant in the knowledge that Southern honor and integrity are
inviolate.
"No nation rose so pure and fair,
None sank so free from crime."
As the former Chairman of the Historical Committee, U. D.
C, has well said that sufficient circulars, recommendations,
etc., have been distributed among the State Divisions to sup-
ply the needs of several years, hence it appeared to us de-
sirable to ascertain the result of previous earnest labors rather
than to attempt to add aught to what had been so well done.
Therefore each State Historian has been communicated with,
or in the few Divisions where that office did not exist the State
President has been requested, in accordance with Article HL,
Section L, of the by-iaws of this organization, to furnish the
Chairman of your committee a report of their historical work.
All have responded save Oklahoma, which we were unable to
reach. Our request has been returned undelivered. We were
not cognizant of the organization of a Chapter in Utah until
after our arrival at this convention. We invite your attention
to a summary of the gratifying records received. Alabama,
Louisiana, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, South Carolina, and
Florida report unprejudiced text-books used in their schools,
which is largely owing to the efforts and influence of the Unit-
ed Daughters, who have likewise secured the use of impartial
histories in portions of Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and
Arkansas. The Ohio Division has been successful in intro-
ducing Southern histories in the schools of Ohio as books for
reference. Historical committees are active in Texas, West
Virginia, and South Carolina, while almost all States report
Chapters having such committees. Texas and Virginia have
introduced historical sessions at their annual conventions,
and many States report preparations for such exercises in the
future. Li all Divisions the Historian's report and other his-
torical papers are read. Our hearts thrill with pride as we read
of the paper read at the recent organization of the Montana
Division, of the "Reminiscences" presented at sessions of the
U. D. C. in California and District of Columbia. Chapters in
all Divisions have historical features upon their programmes.
In Indiana and Indian Territory they consist of responses at
roll call. Many Divisions report great interest and much suc-
cess in forming "Rolls of Honor" — notably, Louisiana, Georgia,
Kentucky, West Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
and Texas. The children of Maryland, North Carolina, New
York, Texas, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and
Mississippi are reported organized in Confederate work, some
are auxiliary to a Chapter. U. D. C, others are members of a
distinct organization, Children of the Confederacy — all will,
doubtless, some day become members of the women's society.
The circulars furnished State Historians by the Historical
Committee have been freely circulated throughout each Divi-
sion. To these the Historians of North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Arkansas added special and most urgent appeals.
Georgia and Florida Divisions offer a gold medal to the
student in the State schools who shall write the best essay
upon some Confederate topic. Chapters in other Divisions pre-
sent similar incentives for historical research. The Georgia
and Virginia Divisions have completed a history of their mon-
uments and cemeteries in Georgia. This volume also con-
tains photographs of each monument, the whole being most
interesting and instructive. State Historians appear thor-
oughly alive to their duties and responsibilities. We partic-
ularly mention those stationed on our "picket line" — Missouri
and West Virginia. Confederate zeal must thrive indeed in
a hostile atmosphere, for witness the enthusiasm in Montana,
Pennsylvania, and New York, in Ohio, Indian Territory, and
Indiana ; while from California comes the message that, so
strong a hold have the Daughters in San Francisco,
women of Northern birth have set themselves energetically to
work to find some relative whose services to the Confederate
cause might render them eligible. The women of these Divi-
sions, the majority of whom have been transplanted to their
distant Northern and Western homes, with a faith superior
to environment, a steadfastness of purpose which knows no
severing, and a courage indomitable, cherish the "furled ban-
ner," furled but "wreathed around with glory."
"And though conquered we adore it,
Weep for those who fell before it.
Pardon those who trailed and tore it."
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Scorning all malice, too noble not to forgive, thinking often
of their friends, seldom of their enemies, women of Southern
parentage are faithfully training their children in the "prin-
ciples which shall eventually light the world to freedom and
to peace" — principles which, while the foundations of the
lost Confederacy, are yet the corner stone of all patriotism,
whether it be found with Stonewall Jackson under the stars
and bars on the Henry House Hill, or with Gen. Wheeler at
San Juan.
Never in any country have the women passed through as
many vicissitudes of fortune in the same period of time as
those of the South. Delicate, refined, cultivated, shielded from
every care, women of the old regime knew little and cared
less for politics. Life to them was all sunshine and brightness.
A casual observer would have thought them as easily crushed
as one of their own rose leaves. Yet after the Peace Confer-
ence, when those who had hoped for a peaceful adjustment
were convinced that war was inevitable ; finally, when Lin-
coln's call for men to "put down the rebellion" set the match
to the already smoldering tinder, the women, through their
love for husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, sweethearts, and
country, roused to a full comprehension of the conditions. Self
was forgotten, patriotism was supreme.
"The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill,
A perfect woman, nobly planned.
To warn, to comfort, and command,
And yet a spirit still and bright
With something of an angel's light."
Loved ones were sent to the front with counsel well-nigh
divine: "Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aimest at
be thy country's, thy God's, and truth's." Soft hands grew
rough as bandages were torn, linen scraped, cartridges made,
and comforts and conveniences prepared for the soldiers. The
tender skin was sore pricked as seam after seam was sewed
while the tallow dip grew low in the socket, but the letters
sent to the front were always brave and hopeful. No matter
if the shirts were contrived of shawls and dresses, carpets
converted into blankets, boxes for the hospital filled with deli-
cacies which could ill be spared; for the Southern woman's
heart and soul were her country's, and no sacrifice was too
great, no eflfort too gigantic for her to undertake. Extensive
plantations were cared for, dependents directed in their labors,
the sick nursed, the children taught spinning, weaving, knitting
— ^all accomplished. The God who gave the strength alone
knows how. When the four long, weary years of war were
over, and the veterans in torn and tattered fragments of once
gray uniforms began to straggle home, "their wars behind
them, God's great peace before," the women met them, bade
them welcome. Home — even if the plantation be a wreck,
■ the mansion a ruin, and the future a blank. Glorified in
heroism, immortalized through nobility of character, standing
with the smoking fires of ruined homes around them, Southern
womanhood yet possessed the courage to think, love, pray,
dare, live.
"While hope lives, let not the generous die,
'Tis late before the brave despair."
Somehow the children were fed, not always bountifully;
somehow they were clothed, perhaps insufficiently ; somehow
they were taught, not much from books possibly; but lessons
of endurance and self-denial, of patience and industry, which
have made this generation a people unrivaled in strength and
power. And above all, the women of the South have taught
their children lessons of love for their native land, of pride
in her history, and devotion to her welfare. As early as 1862
women in several States, the memory of their loved ones em-
bracing all who fell in the same cause, by strewing the graves
of all Confederate soldiers with flowers, laid the foundation
for the Memorial Associations, and these at the close of the
war growing out of the Soldiers' Aid Societies "builded bet-
ter than they knew" in preserving names and dates which oth-
erwise would have been lost to history. Through all diffi-
culties and discouragements the Memorial Associations con-
tinued their work of collecting in consecrated ground the
bodies of all Confederate soldiers, inclosing and marking these
graves ; but when this was done, little seemed left for the
Associations save the annual observance of Memorial Day.
To the immature judgment of the young, who ever anticipate
the future, these sad and painful memories obscured the glo-
rious record of the past, and with the natural turning of
youth from death and its associations they lost interest.
Mothers in the South felt that some effort must be made to
give their daughters a living work, a work which, reaching
back forty years, should unravel the tangled threads of history,
twine them with the living issues of the day, and transmit
this priceless heritage to • a generation trained to appre-
ciate the honor. Hence the organization of Daughters of the
Confederacy, formed in 1894 by representatives from two
States, to-day with a membership approaching forty thousand
and local organizations in twenty-four States and Territories.
Proud? Certainly, ours is the right. Satisfied? Not until all
the world admits that the Confederate soldiers were loyal,
brave, patriotic, gallant men, justified in their construction of
constitutional right; not until every text-book so teaches our
MRS. W. C. N. MliliCIIANT.
children; not until all living vutcrans are cared for and the
dead honored, all cligililc women enrolled in our organization,
and the heroism of every Southern man and woman recorded.
In the latter duty only are Daughters of the Confederacy lag-
gard, for with the modesty which is one of the charming at-
tributes of Southern womanhood that clause of our Consti-
tution requiring that we "record the part taken by Southern
women after the war in the reconstruction of the South as
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well as in patient endurance of hardship and patriotic devotion
during the struggle," has hitherto been greatly overlooked or
neglected.
Daughters — and we speak to those who were the children
of the Confederacy, who have been reared since white-winged
Peace hovered over fair Dixie, those who have reaped the
benefits of the days of unremitting toil and nights of anxious
watchfulness, endured cheerfully, without murmur, by the
war women of the South — it is not your heroism you are to
chronicle and preserve, nor the devotion of your generation
that you are to record, for the maiden of 1861 is the white-
haired mother of 1903 ; what duty paramount to the loving
task of preserving her patriotism ! In all our sunny Southern
country no monument tells the story of woman's loving self-
sacrifice, by counsel of now silent lips we may say we trust
there never will be; but here, under the shadow of Fort Sum-
ter, where the listening world was startled by the first shot
fired for home, right, and country, let us resolve to unite in
honoring the women of the Confederacy "in the greatest of all
realms, the realm of history and literature from whose sover-
eign heights no shocks of war or material upheavals can over-
throw the glories of their fame." South Carolina, as ever
progressive, assertive of her "rights" as of old, lias taken the
initiative. "South Carolina Women in the Confederacy" is now
on sale and meeting with success well merited. Alabama con-
templates a like publication. This committee earnestly recom-
mends the compiling of a similar work in each State, and sug-
gests that State Presidents urge the Chapters of their divi-
sions to increased activity in filling "Rolls of Honor" and
the collecting and preserving of manuscripts and records.
In this connection we would note and recommend the work
of the Historian of Georgia, Miss iMildred Rutherford, in
urging the comj'iling by each Chapter of five volumes as fol-
lows : "Muster Roll," "Reminiscences," "Sketches of Women,"
"Confederate Relics," "Daughters of the Confederacy." Thus
beginning with the date of the soldier's enlistment, following
through his life and the life of the women of the same period,
closing with the history the Daughters are making, complying
with these details the most complete and valuable history ex-
tant would be procured.
We reconnnend the appointment of an Historical Committee
in each State and Territorial Division, with the State His-
torian as Chairman.
We heartily commend action of the Historians of Texas.
Arkansas, and South Carolina in issuing "Causes for Chapter
Study," and advise a similar action in all Divisions. We fur-
ther suggest that these not only include histories and biogra-
phies, but also poems and lighter literature by Southern
writers.
We further recommend that this body by special by-law
appoint the second Tuesday in November (the day prior tn
the General Convention) as the Historical Day of this Asso-
ciation.
We heartily indorse the recommendations of the former
Historical Committee as to the organization of Children's
Auxiliaries and the introduction of historical sessions at all
State Conventions, U. D. C.
In recommending books which have been examined by this
committee, we heartily indorse the following, previously rec-
ommended : Alexander Stephens's "War between the States,"
Jefferson Davis's "Rise and Fall of the Southern Confederacy.'
Percy Gregs's "History of the United States," Curry's "South-
ern States of the American Union."
We further recommend Alexander Stephens's "Pictorial
History of the United Slates," Jones's "History of the United
States," Louise Manly's "Southern Literature," Holmes's
"History of the United States," Gen. Gordon's "Reminiscences
of the Civil War," Lee's "History of the United States," Black-
ford's "Trial and Trials of Jefferson Davis."*
Other volumes of possible merit have appeared during the
year which we were prevented from examining sufficiently to
recommend.
1 he papers of Miss Adelia M. Dunovant, of Texas, dis-
playing profound thought and careful research into the polit-
ical history of the South, are mighty with truth and carry
with them the logic that convinces. If it were possible to in-
duce Miss Dunovant to publish these in book form, we would
earnestly recommend that they be placed in the schools of
the South. All Daughters are also familiar with the "Rem-
iniscences" collected by Mrs. Josie Frazer Cappleman, of
Mississippi, and the recent "Review of Slavery in the United
States" by Mrs. Sophie Fox, of Kentucky.
Another name deserving record as preserving the history of
the individual Confederate soldier is that of Mrs. S. E. Gab-
bett, whose devotion to the work she has undertaken in mem-
ory of the husband of her youth merits more than a passing
thought. As Custodian of the Southern Cross of Honor she
has personally examined the records of more than 35,000 Con-
federate soldiers, upon each of whom the Daughters have
proudly bestowed this Cross of the Legion of Honor.
"As even a tiny shell recalls
The presence of the sea.
So gazing on this cross of bronze.
The past recurs to nie.
I sec the stars and bars unfurled
And like a meteor rise
To Hash across the startled world,
A wonder in the skies.
I see the stars and bars refurled,
Unstained in Glory's hand,
.\nd peace again her wings unfold
Above a stricken land.
.Ml this and more this magic cross
Recalls to heart and brain :
Beneath its mystic influence
The dead past lives again."
.\ past for which wc offer no apologj', make no excuse, claim-
ing the vindication of the righteousness of our cause at the
hands of our Maker. "Deo vindice."
Jefferso.s- Davis Chaptct. No. 540, U. D. C.
Historian Mrs. Virginia B. Hilliard reports from San Sran-
cisco, Cal. :
"It becomes my pleasant duty to record a year of brilliant
success, the reward of untiring devotion and diligent work of
the members. Meetings have been held the second Wednesday
of every month, omitting July and August; but during these
months the Membership and Charity Committees held four
meetings. All were presided over by our worthy President,
with one exception, when she was doing service as delegate
at the Los Angeles Convention. Our Registrar. Miss Dain-
gerfield, was chosen as delegate to the National Convention
held in New Orleans in November. Her inestimable services
were so appreciated there that she was requested by the ladies
of Alexandria, La., to visit their city and organize them into
a new Chapter. She consented, and formed what is now
* Several other books were added to this list by the Convention.
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known as the Gov. Moore Chapter, named in honor of the
war official.
"At our meeting in that month in this city a valuable silk
flag was donated. It was made in Washington, D. C, behind
closed doors, previous to the battle of Bull Run by two young
ladies, hoping to wave it on the entrance of Gen. Lee into
Washington. A second flag was exhibited to the Chapter by
a member who made it when she was a girl of twelve during
the reign of Ben Butler in New Orleans. It was concealed
under a rosebush by day, and at night, with closed shutters,
it was worked upon.
"An appeal for the Jefferson Davis monument brought forth
a pledge from the Chapter of all entrance fees of members
until the monument is completed.
"December recalls five veterans whom we were to remember
at Christmas. A box of luxuries was sent to each, besides
clothing and much literature. One of these veterans, who was
a surgeon on the staff of Gen. Wade Hampton, has been as-
sisted to his daughter in Butte, Mont.
"Mrs. Goodlett, founder of the U. D. C, graciously accepted
the position of honorary member : Helen Keller was also
placed on that list.
Owing to the severe illness of our loved First Vice Presi-
dent, Mrs. LaMare, we have been debarred throughout the
year from her gracious presence and wise counsel. Though
feeling her sympathy and interest from afar, we wait a little
impatiently to see her with us again.
"The reunion on January 19 occurred at the residence of
Mrs. Denver, and was largely attended. It was made very
entertaining. A fine eulogy on Gen. R. E. Lee, read by the late
Rev. R. C. Foute, was of the programme.
"To the Richmond Bazaar two boxes were sent. The Chap
ter chose as its individual gift small Sequoia trees. Miss Nan-
nie C. Van Wyck assisted at the Californa exhibit.
"The Chapter has been divided into committees, attending
to charitable work, such as visiting the almshouse, securing
positions for veterans out of employment, bestowing personal
comforts on their families, and caring for soldiers who wish
to go South, from the Veteran Fund. No amount of woik
seems too much for their willing hands, and the sacrifice of
time and comfort never gives them a care.
"The Chapter has contributed to the Bull Run inclosiire
fund, and also for a monument to be placed over the heroic
dead. To the Custis Lee Chapter, of Lexington, Va., we have
sent $111 for the purchase of the 'Stonewall' Jackson home.
"Across our bright horizon at intervals a cloud has cast its
shadow, reminding us that 'in the midst of life we are m
death.' The sad intelligence of the death of one of our honorary
members, Mrs. Wigfall, awakened our keenest regrets. The
death of Mrs. Joseph G. Baldwin also called from us another
distinguished woman of high lineage. Judge Baldwin was
one of the State Supreme Judges in the fifties, and a well-
known Southern author. Most of us have read with delighted
interest his 'Flush Times in Alabama.' Mrs. Spencer, an-
other valued member, having for some time borne heroically
the fickle freaks of fortune, was called onward and upward,
and leaves us a cherished memory. The next to answer the
summons was Miss Louise Carnahan, the authoress. She
was a charter member; and though, through her literary pur-
suits, we were denied much association with her, in cur hearts
she lives to memory dear. Last, but far from least, the re-
quiem bells sadly recalled the loss of our loved chaplain. Rev.
R. C. Foute. To his influence and unselfish care of our Chap-
ter, at even personal inconvenience, we owe much, and he has
left a sorrowing number of Daughters that bless his memory.
"Cheered by past results, the Chapter begins a new year
with renewed vigor and a determination that the work of the
order shall be executed with unflinching devotion. Rev. Mr.
Mongcs, of the Church of the Advent, has been chosen our
chaplain. He graciously accepted, and was with us in Sep-
tember and opened the first meeting after the summer. Bishop
Moreland was elected to, and has accepted, the position of
Honorary Chaplain of the Chapter.
"As to-day we can joyfully state we are the banner Chapter
of the State, we have every reason to be satisfied with our
work."
THE WORDS OF '■DIXIE." I
BY MRS. FLORA M'doNALD WILLIAMS.
I cannot understand why, after more than forty years of
good service, there should be this clamor to substitute other
words for the old song of "Dixie." As for Gen. Pike's fine
poem, there are several reasons why it should not be sung to
the gay little quickstep. In the first place, the words of his
song require a martial, dignified air as a proper accompani-
ment, while "Dixie" is more appealing than martial, more ■
pathetic than grand, and altogether unsuited to the heroic ■
measures suggested in those stirring lines.
It is highly probable that it owes not only its popularity but
its very existence at the present time to those very "silly" and
inoflfensive words which are now so much discussed. No one
who lived on the border in reconstruction days, and possibly
even now, would be permitted to sing such words as:
"Swear upon your country's altar
Never to submit or falter,
Till the spoilers are defeated.
Till the Lord's work is completed,
Halt not till our federation
Secures among earth's powers its station."
The single allusion in the modest words of "Dixie" to any-
thing even approaching the "sinews of war" being where "Ole
Miss"
"Smiled as fierce as a forty-pounder,"
unless the "butcher's cleaver" could be regarded as also com-
ing under that head.
One of the strongest claims that "Dixie" has on our love
•md veneration comes from the fact that it was the cradle
■iong of our infant republic, the one unimpeachable legacy
which she has bequeathed us ; and, like all cradle songs, the
words don't pretend to be anything but a tuneful jingle, and
belong to the time that gave them birth.
Who among us, because we are grown up and graduated be-
yond the nonsense rhymes of "Mother Goose," would be will-
ing to see them paraphrased into modern English? "Dixie"
does not belong to this age. It is a heritage from a dead and
glorious past, and we are not at liberty to bedeck a sacred
heirloom to please our present fancy, but must accept it as
it comes to us.
No one was ever heard to object to the words of "Yankee
Doodle" because tlicy were inconsequential; neither is the
music either martial or grand. But what "loyal" citizen ever
heard it far away from home that there was not an instant re-
■iponse from the heart? After all, it is the association, and
not the words, which hallows the old airs.
" 'Give us a song,' the soldiers cried,"
• in the eve of a great battle, but
"They sang of love, and not of fame;
Forgot was Britain's glory."
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GEN. BEN Mcculloch.
BY B. M. HORD.
Ben McCuIloch was born in Rutherford County, Tenn.,
November ii, 1811, of Scotch-Irisli ancestry. His father, Maj.
Alexander McCulloch, was a veteran of the wars of 1812-15,
participating in the battle of New Orleans, and was aid-de-
camp to Gen. Coffee in the campaign against the Creek In-
dians. He moved to West Tennessee when that portion of the
State was very sparsely settled and known as the Western Dis-
trict of Tennessee. There were no school facilities, but fortu-
nately Maj. McCulloch owned an extensive library for that
day, of which young Ben was a diligent and retentive reader,
but the wild country, the abundance of game, and a close and
intimate association with tlie sons of Davy Crockett, and with
the famous Tennesseean himself, stimulated a natural love in
young McCulloch for woodcraft, hunting, and shooting, quali-
ties in which he excelled and that were valuable to him in
after years in his border warfare with the Indians and Mexi-
cans on the Texas frontier and battlefields of Mexico. When
Texas was making a fight for her independence of Mexico,
the adventurous spirit of young McCulloch, encouraged by his
older friend. Col. Davy Crockett, prompted him to cast his
fortunes with this little band of patriots. A severe illness
prevented his meeting with Crockett in Texas, or doubtless he
would have been, with his friend, a member of the heroic gar-
rison massacred in the Alamo. At the battle of San Jacinto
Gen. Houston gave him command of a piece of artillery. It
was McCulloch's first experience with a gun of this kind
(he afterwards became an expert in the use of all kinds of
firearms, and as such was sent to Europe by the United States
to examine and report upon all the most improved weapons
of war) ; but he fought his little gun at San Jacinto, advancing
"hand to front" after every discharge, until within less than
a hundred and fifty yards of the Mexican lines, when Houston,
at the head of his little army, rushed by him on a charge that
routed the Mexicnns. "For conspicuous gallantry," Gen.
Houston promoted the quiet and modest young Tennesseean
on the field to lirst lieutenant of artillery. The battle of San
Jacinto established the Republic of Texas, and McCulloch was
elected a member of her Congress. After peace was pro-
claimed, he settled at Gonzales to follow his profession of sur-
veyor, but his time was alx>ut evenly divided between sur-
veying and, as captain of a company of Rangers, fighting In-
dians and Mexicans, who were constantly depredating on the
settlers. When hostilities opened between the United States
and Mexico he promptly joined, with his company of Rangers,
the forces under Gen. Taylor, with wliom he served until the
dose of the war, winning a national reputation as a gallant
soldier, and from that sturdy old warrior. Gen. Taylor, the
rank of major with the encomium of "a bold, daring, successful
scout and desperate fighter," and in his ofiicial report of the
battle of Bu'.-na Vista he says : "The success of the day was
largely due to the information furnished by Maj. McCulloch."
He was a member of the first Legislature that assembled in
the State of Texas ; was appointed by President Pierce mar-
shal of the Eastern District, a position he held for nearly eight
years : but when a bill passed Congress in 1855, creating a
new cavalry regiment, so brilliant and successful had been his
services in the war with Mexico that, notwithstanding he was
a civilian, a strong pressure from all parts of the country was
brought to bear upon the administration for his appointment
as colonel of the regiment. The friends of Gen. Albert Sidney
Johnston were also pressing his claims for the same position.
In the life of this great soldier, written by his son. Col. Wil-
liam Preston Johnston, he says: "That gallant and popular
partisan leader, Maj. Ben. McCulloch, was vehemently pressed
for the same appointment (colonel of the Second Cavalry),
but it was Gen. Johnston's good fortune to have in the Sec-
retary of War (Jefferson Davis) a friend who had known him
from boyhood and who esteemed him as high as any man
living. . . . McCulloch, not having received the rank of
colonel, refused the rank of major tendered him. He had
been a gallant and enterprising leader of partisan troops, and
deserved well of his country. His nomination for major was
a high compliment, as he was the only field officer selected
from civil life."
It was indeed a high compliment to McCulloch's ability as
a soldier, for this regiment w-as officered by Albert Sidney
Johnston as colonel and R. E. Lee as lieutenant colonel. W.
J. Hardee (appointed to the majorship declined by McCulloch)
and George H. Thomas were the majors, and from its subor-
dinate ofl'iccrs came more distinguished generals on both sides
in the War between the States than any other regiment in the
United Slates army. Mr. Davis, as Secretary of War, and
later as President of the Confederacy, was averse to appoint-
ing any one to high military rank in the field who was not a
West Pointer or who had not demonstrated his ability to
coinmand; but he had, as colonel of a Mississippi regiment,
served in the same column with McCulloch under Gen. Taylor
in the Mexican war, and was familiar with the services he had
rendered. On the bloody and hard-fought field of Buena
Vista, after victory had been won, he unwotind his own sash
from iiis person and tied it on McCulloch in appreciation of
the gallant services he had rendered that day. And in evidence
of his appreciation of McCulloch's ability, the first commission
as brigadier general issued to a civilian in the Confederate
States army, and among the first issued to any one, was to
Gen. Ben McCulloch, of Texas. In fact, at the time this com-
mission was issued there were but four officers in the Con-
federate army, in the field, who ranked hiiti — Gens. A. S.
Johnston, Joe Johnston, Beauregard, and Bragg. The com-
missions of Gens. R. E. Lee and Ben McCulloch as brigadiers
licar the same date, May 14, l86i.
Of these dislniguished generals, only .\ S. Johnston and
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Ben McCuUoch were killed in battle. Both fell early in the
war— McCulIoch at Elkhorn or Pea Ridge, March 7, 1862;
Johnston a month later almost to a day, at Shiloh, April 6,
1862, and both under strikingly like circumstances : both at
the flood tide of victory, and the troops of both defeated after
they fell ; but McCulloch, before he fell, had fought and won,
at Wilson's Creek, the most complete and decisive victory over
the Federal generals Lyon and Siegel that up to that time had
been fought west of the Mississippi.
McCulloch was as magnanimous as he was brave. After de-
clining the rank of major in the Second Cavalry, President
Pierce ap|)ointed him, with Gov. Powell, of Kentucky, Peace
Commissioner to Utah to settle the troubles then existing be-
tween the Mormons and the United States. The Second Cav-
alry, under Col. A. S. Johnston, was sent to support the de-
mands of the Conmiissioners. After returning from his suc-
cessful mission a friend of Col. Johnston's, writing him from
Washington, says: "Ben McCulloch told me yesterday that
he was rejoiced that you had been appointed, instead of him-
self, colonel of the regiment, as, from close observation in
Utah, he believed you were the best man that could have been
sent there." ("Life of A. S. Johnston.")
He was wonderfully magnetic. The assembled conven-
tion that passed the ordinance of secession in his State com-
missioned him to collect as soon as possible a force sufficient
to capture the United States garrison at San Antonio. Such
was his popularity that within less than three days, at his call,
eight hundred men had assembled, and the garrison, under Geii.
Twiggs, with all of its ordnance and supplies, surrendered with-
out firing a gun. He shrank almost to timidity from noto-
riety, never wore a uniform or insignia of rank of any kind,
except a star on his hat, but was scrupulously neat in his
dress, and when killed had on a suit of black velvet.
Texas, as yet, has done herself but little credit in honoring
the memory of one whose name adds luster to the brightest
pages of her glorious history ; one who with strong arm and
matchless courage helped to hold aloft the wavering lone
star flag of an unborn Republic : one who stood in the shock of
battle from Matamoras to Buena Vista that she might join
the sistcrhoofl of States ; one who, at her behest, led her gal-
lant sons to victory beneath the battle flag of the Confederacy,
and, on the bloody field of Elkhorn, in front of his victorious
legions, yielded up the life that he had gallantly risked a bun
dred times for the honor and glory of Texas. No more deserv-
ing or heroic dust rests beneath her historic sod than that of Ben
McCulloch, yet no monument marks his resting place save a
block of Texas granite, placed there by his nephew, Capt. Ben
E. McCulloch, bearing the words : "Brigadier General Ben
McCulloch, killed at Elkhorn, Ark., March 7, 1862, aged
fifty years. Patriot, Soldier, Gentleman. He gave his life for
Texas."
NERVE OF ALBERT MELLEN AS PRISONER.
In an old paper is found a dispatch to the Natchez Democrat
giving an account of the death, at Dallas, Tex., of Mr. Albert
Mellen, forinerly of Natchez, and a brother of Messrs. Thomas
L. and W. F. Mellen. This recalls to mind a remarkable in-
cident in the life of Mr. Mellen, which is worthy of record
as evincing the spirit of our people during the war.
In the summer of 1864 Mr. Albert Mellen, then a young
man of twenty-four years, was a prisoner at Vicksburg. The
Federal military authorities, then in possession of that de-
voted city, ordered him out for street or fortification work
under a negro guard. He claimed his exemption as a pris-
oner, and peremptorily refused to obey the order. A squad of
negro soldiers, under command of a white lieutenant, was
sent to him to attempt coercion at the point of the bayonet.
In the presence of the flashing steel he stood unawed, and a
moment later, seeing that the squad was bent on coercion
and that he must go or be impaled, he suddenly seized a
hatchet that happened to be in reach, and, throwing himself
upon his knees, quickly extended his left arm along the floor,
and with two bold strokes of the hatchet completely severed
the hand from the arm. Then rising to his feet, he held the
bleeding, mangled stump close to the face of the lieutenant
and said : "Now, sir, will you make me work for your rotten
government under a negro guard?" He conquered then, and
never afterwards regretted the act.
A few days afterwards he was sent to Camp Chase, and
after the war had closed was one of the very last to be re-
leased from that terrible pen.
A picture illustrative of the above incident was exhibited
in New Orleans City by a well-known painter, and it is now
in the family residence of the late Mr. Hyatt.
A BLACK SKIN. BUT WHITE SOUL.
The loyal old Southern plantation negroes, like their friends
and former masters, ilie Confecierale veterans, are fast passing
away. One of these, "Uncle" Jim Gass, recently died in Bon-
ham, Tex., and Comrade W. T. Gass, editor of the Hopkins
County Democrat, whose slave he was, pays this tribute :
"The anouncement of the sudden death of this faithful .nnd
honest old man was a cause for tears and sorrow to the
writer. The faithful negro carried us around in his arms and
on his sturdy back and shoulders in infancy, and as we grew
older taught us to swim, to fish, to hunt, and to ride. He was
black, but he had a whiter soul and purer life than hundreds of
boys and men we have known with white skins. When the
war clouds of 1861 came, although 1 ut a boy of fifteen, I en-
listed in the Confederate service. J.i;i c.-^nie to me aid said:
'Marse Will, I want to go wid you to de war. I'll stay wid
you and never leave you.' My mother was a widow, father
having died a short time before, and 1 explained to Jim that
we both couldn't leave home at once; that one of us would
liave to stay to care for her and four brothers and sisters
younger than myself. The argument was unanswerable.
Dat's a fact, Marse Will ; I specks I'm de one to stay.'
"Looking back through the mist and tears of forty-one years,
it is a melancholy pleasure to testify to the faithfulness of our
trusty old slave and companion of boyhood, for he was as
true to his trust as was any Confederate soldier true to his
flag during all those four years of war, blood, fire, and block-
ade. And when, in May, 1865, I returned home, I found Jim
still at his post of duty. With two horses and a wagon he
had been making numerous trips to Shreveport, taking down
flour and trading it for sugar and molasses, helping my wid-
owed iTiothcr to keep the wolf from the doo-, Jim being her
mainstay and chief purveyor of the commissary department
Peace to his ashes !"
Capt. J. E. Fowlkr's Copy of Hardee's Tactics. — Eugene
Marshall, of Manchester, Tenn., states: "I have in my pos-
session Vol. I. of 'Hardee's Light Infantry Tactics,' published
in Nashville in 1861. It bears on the blank leaf the name of
'Capt. James E. Fowler, 5th Regt., Tenn. Vol.' The book is
somewhat defaced with blood, and was taken from a deserted
Confederate Camp at Murfreesboro soon after the battle of
Stone's River. If Capt. Fowler is still alive, or if any repre-
sentative of his family would like to have the book, it would
be a pleasure to me to forward it to them."
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MISS LUMPKIN TO GEORGIA VETERANS.
[An address by Miss Elizabeth Elliott Lumpliin at State reunion In Au-
gusta. 1903-]
Mosi Honored Veterans, Ladies and Gentlemen: They have
asked me to speak to you ; I who am a Georgia woman, a
woman whose bahy eyes looked first into tlic mother eyes of
Georgia and, meeting their splendid tenderness and beauty,
smiled back and lay content, ;; woman whose childish feet
strayed on the red old hills of Georgia, whose young wom-
an's heart became a harp, whose tense strings vibrated to the
deeds of the men and women of Georgia, whose lips shall meet
those mother lips in the last lingering kiss of life.
"Aunt Minervy Ann" says : " 'Tain"t big houses, 'tain't
land, 'tain't fine clothes, what makes quality; hit's des a
long line er graveyards stretching way back to Virgin'y er
fudder wid a whole heap cr graves in 'em whar' dar's a heap cr
folks what knowed how to treat t'other folks." You know how
to treat "other folks," for am 1 not a Georgian and know that
you do?
You have greeted me, but how can I find words to give you
greeting when everj- pulsing heart beat says : "I love you " —
you grand old men who guarded with your lives the virgin
whiteness of our Georgia?
As one of our great men has said : "Come, spirit of our
State ; come from your rivers that seek the sea ; come from
your waves that wash your shores and run up to kiss your
sands ; come from the air that hovers over your mountain tops ;
come, spirit of a glorious ancestry, from beyond the cedars
and the stars ; come from history that wraps you in robes of
light, and let me invoke the memories that hang around yon
like the mantle of Elijah, and shall become the ascension robe
of your new destiny ; touch the chord in your people's hearts,
that they may rise in the majesty of your love, and build mon-
uments to yon higher than the towers of Baalbec. Let
them warm to ihe fires of an intense love, and glow with
the light of a more celestial glory. Let them swear round
your altars to be still prouder that they are Georgians. As a
daughter who has felt the sunshine of your skies, I bow to
the majesty of your glory, and to your spirit I would pour out
the fondest affection and strew flowers upon your pathway,
"Would that it were my destiny to increase the flood tide of
your prc>^; ority, as it shall be mine to share your fortunes, and
when Miy days shall be ended may I sleep beneath your soil,
where the April raindrops will fall upon my grave, and the
sunshine of your Southern flowers will blossom above my
heart !"
I would rather be a woman than a man. What woman
would not. if she could be a Southern woman and be loved
by Southern men — in this land where a man may with honor
love a thousand, and yet love only one, and that one for
eternity?
What woman would not, if she might, give up her love to
those Southern men ? for the soul's armor is never well set
to the heart until a woman's hand has braced it, and 'tis only
when she braces it loosely that the honor of manhood and of
womanhood shall fail.
My father was a Confederate soldier, and, though I love him
and honor iiis dear name above all other men, with that
glory to crown his head, he must needs be to me a thousand-
fold great c- Rut there is one honor we may not have, we
daughters of Georgia. 1 have said it before and repeat it —
an honor our lovely mothers gloried in. We can work with
tireless fingers, we can run with tireless feet for these men ;
but they could love and marry Confederate soldiers!
And our fathers loved them. A blind man said: "Just to
see you; just to see you, and then go blind again."
Once there was a gallant old Confederate soldier, who was
starving in prison. He had not seen his beloved for two years,
and they told him if he could reach home he might go. In
sight of the old home she came out to meet him, and their
two boys were at her side.
"O, I am home and well again, well again, beloved !" he
cried. "Then he held out his arms, smiled, and died. And that
smile never left him. Like an angel of light sitting triumphant
in the whitened halls of death — aye, on the conqueror's own
throne and proclaiming that there be earthly loves that build
their temple on the stony brow of dissolution itself."
I come to you from my adopted land, from the land of the
palmetto, from a land of fair women and brave men. Side
by side you worked and loved. Side by side you fought
and bled for the sake of our land. When our Northern
brethren asked for help to put oppression from our shores
in the distant past. South Carolina and Georgia were
among the first and bravest. Carolina gave her Marion,
her Sumter, her Pickens ; Georgia her Twiggs, her Clarke, her
Mcintosh. But when the time came for them to stand up for
that which they knew to be right, in the days of the sixties,
brave and bright and splendid as the warrior maid of long ago,
Ihank God, they did it !
One face that Georgia and South Carolina and all the be-
loved South delight to honor is missing here to-night. We
love his name; we love his splendid honor; we love his glory
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and his scars. May the God of bailies and of peace bless
and keep our hero. Gen. John B. Gordon !
I would have been a man once. I would have foughl with
Gordon. I would have charged with Pickett at Gettysburg
when every hope was lost, or watched with Hood, on Winston
Hill, when he gave his fateful orders for the brave brigade to
go down to their death ; or stood by Forrest when the great
cavalry leader of the Confederacy laid down his sword long
enough to melt his iron foul in sorrow. "I would have been
at the front near Nashville when, from the 2d of that freezing
December until the i6th. Hood's remnant of an army starved
and fired and froze and fell ; and when began that stubborn,
freezing, dying retreat that ended the war and buried the flag
of the lost Confederacy in the soil of its birth."
I do want to say one word about the books used in our
schools. The man or woman who would place in the schools
of the South a text-book that does not do full and complete
justice to the Confederate soldier would, with unholy hands,
tear afresh the scars he bears ; they would pluck out his dim
old eyes and turn him out into the pitiless world, friendless,
homeless, nameless, and nationless. They shall not leave you
anhonored !
All these things we shall teach your children in our schools,
by our firesides, in our songs and stories. And do you teach
them also. Let the children hear the old stories of storm and
war and battle, let them sing with you the dear old songs of
Dixie. Let theni come to your reunions, and they will bear
you in their arms when you are weary with the years. Aye,
they will do more than that. They will build monuments of
memories in their heart of hearts, and on the summit will be
the image of a Confederate sire, and at the base will be
wrapped a Confederate flag.
You young men, in whose veins beat the blood of those
heroes, uncover your heads, for the land in which you live is
holy, hallowed by the blood of your fathers, purified by the
tears of your mothers, for every drop of blood a Southern
soldier spilled mingled with a tear a Southern woman shed,
and from that agony of tears and blood tlie South we know
and love was born.
We know that you surrendered with Lee at Appomattox.
We know that you have loyally kept that parole of honor you
then gave. We know that you have taught us, your children,
to carry out in truth and integrity the obligations you made
when you furled your flag; but wc do say, like that brave girl
of Louisville, Ky., that all the armies of the nations, and all
the dungeons of the earth, could not make us dishonor your
memories by singing "Marching through Georgia." Confed-
erate heroes, the old stars and bars, torn and battle-rent,
folded forever, are yours; all the bravery, all the glory is
yours; the story, the song, the triumph, the defeat at last all
yours, until not one of you is left. Then your memories will
belong to your sons and your daughters.
We do not believe your sons will fail; but should they seem
to forget, your daughters never will. As the women of the
South in the past were steadfast, true, and loyal, so the women
of the South in the future will be loyal and true forever.
The nation you fought for is buried. The flag you loved
so well has no rampart from which it can wave ; the years of
your life are numbered. Your ship is now going out swiftly
with the tide, and the towlines of the tugs which hold you
back are breaking one by one, and you are sweeping into the
great beyond. Old and gray and wrinkled now, you did fight
bravely for a nation. Halt and lame and blind now, you did
follow as proud a flag as ever waved over iron legions. And
now, standing with your feet touching the red sods of earth
to earth, you love that buried nation still, you love that dead
flag still.
Your battles, your scars, and your graves we honor and love.
Your history is for us and for our children ; your image and
superscription will show upon the foreheads of the generations
to come, and we pledge you now, before our God, that we shall
hold you in our heart of hearts and name you forever the
"Chevaliers of the Earth."
Kentucky Confederate Soldiers' Home. — Mrs. C. C. Leer,
in reporting a visit through the Paris Democrat to the Con-
federate Home of Kentucky, says that she found a hundred
and sixty-five names enrolled, fourteen had died since the
Home was dedicated, and eleven were in the hospital. Mrs.
Leer was shown over the large four-story building, and found
every department comfortably arranged for the old veterans
and in excellent condition. The system and discipline exer-
cised by Superintendent Coleman, Mrs. Junard, the matron,
and the very eflicicnt clerk. Miss Powers, cannot be surpassed.
"It affords me pleasure," she writes, "to know that, these
comforts arc being enjoyed by these blameless martyrs who
have reached the evening of life, while the shadows of night
are crowding on the pathway to the tomb."
MIS? Mi;i.l..\ UlLbU.N, .MISS Sirill.\ KliMl'ER,
Maids of Honor, Marmadukc C:imp, at Colim bia reunion.
(J. I IE ins LIFE EUR IllS FLAG.
A report of the devotion to his flag, shown by a young
Confederate, is told by Inspector General T. C. Morton, of
the Virginia Grand Camp:
"Allen Woodman was about twenty years of age, from
Monroe County, now West Virginia, and a member of Com-
rade Morton's company. He had won the position of color
sergeant by his cool, unflinching courage, and would have
been tendered a commission, but he could not write or read.
"At the battle of New Market, the 15th day of May, 186},
he led his command up to the enemy's batteries, waving his
flag and firing his pistol, and every gun was taken.
"But it is of his striking behavior at Second Cold Harbor,
two weeks after, that I would speak," said Capt. Morton.
"The day before that great battle, in which 13,500 of the enemy
were, in thirty minutes, shot down in front of our fortifica-
tions; and while Breckinridge's Division was awaiting orders
on Gen. Lee's line of battle. Woodman, who had been tinker-
Confederate l/etera^.
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ing with his flag for an hour under a tree, brought his colors
to me, and said: 'Captain, what do you think of that?'
"The brave fellow had picked up somewhere a stout brass
spear, which he had rubbed until it shone like gold, and fas-
tened it securely on the end of his flagstaff. I remarked
that it was very pretty. He replied: 'It is not only pretty; but
if anybody tries to get these colors, I'll run this through him.'
I ridiculed the idea of one getting that close, but he insisted
that, as Lee and Grant had all their men there, 'we are going
to have a graveyard fight to-morrow, and are mighty apt to
get mi.xed up.'
"Sure enough, early the next morning, June 3, the enemy
made a rush at daybreak on a weak salient we occupied, and
for a brief time overran our po.Mtion, climbing into our works.
Our men would not give one inch, and there was a furious
hand-to-hand fight with pistols and clubbed muskets. In
the midst of the melee, a Yankee officer, with two men.
rushed up to Woodman and said: 'Surrender that flag, sir.'
The young fellow replied, 'This is the way I surrender, d — n
you,' and charged him with his flagstaflf, running him clear
through the body with the spear. The officer threw up his
hands and fell dead. The two men with him fired into Wood-
man, and he fell with two bullets through his body, still
holding on to his staff with a death grip. Then there was a
rush for the flag by the men of both sides, and a fierce scram-
ble was had over both bodies. But the Confederates pressed
the Union men back; Woodman, opening his eyes, saw that
his precious flag was still safe, and with one last superhuman
effort pulled himself forward and, reaching over, tore the
colors from the staff, threw them behind them, and fell back
a corpse."
REMINISCENCES OF CHICKAMAUGA.
BY G. VV. R. BF.l.L, SIXTH GEORGIA C.\V.^LRY, FULLERTON, ALA.
I see in the November number of the Veteran that Comrade
Minnick, of Grand Isle, La., wishes to know whose brigade it
was that came to our relief (the Georgia Brigade of Cavalry)
at Chickaniauga, when we were engaged with the enemy Sat-
urday morning near Jay's mill. I am satisfied it was some of
Longstreet's Corps, although it was understood at the time
that Longstreet's forces had not arrived. But that cold
Friday evening before the fight our regiment, the Sixth
Georgia Cavalry, crossed the creek at the same time and place.
Feeling sorry for one of the almost barefooted number of the
"webfoot" troops, I took him up behind me and carried him
over. I noticed the difference in the shade of gray in their
uniform and that of our Tennessee army. Theirs were a steel
gray, such as our officers wore. Now when that brigade came
to our relief (for which 1 shall always feel grateful), I noticed
they had on the same colored uniform as the Longstrect men
wore. Our brigade at that time was made up of the First and
Sixth Georgia Cavalry, the Fourth Tennessee, and the Third
Confederate, commanded by Gen. Pegrain. The First, Third,
Fourth, and Sixth Georgia were afterwards brigaded together
and known as the First Georgia Brigade of Cavalry.
The hot fighting referred to by Comrade Minnick on Satur-
day morning came on us rather unexpectedly. About day-
light a detachment from my regiment (the Sixth Georgia)
was dismounted and pushed forward as skirmishers. We soon
Struck the Yankee skirmish line, which fell back with little re-
sistance to their main line. We were then withdrawn to our
command at Jay's mill, and the First Georgia, mounted, was
sent out to hold the ground until we could breakfast and feed
our horses. A heavy fire soon opened in the direction the
First had gone, and in a few moments bareheaded men and
loose horses came "tearing out of the wilderness," creating
miv-h excitenier.t and confusion for a moment ; but wc quickly
formed, and "Uisniount to fight!" "Form line!" "Forward,
charge!" were the orders issued as fast as they could be e.ve-
cuted, and at it we went. Our countercharge stopped them,
and we held them in check for several hours. Our loss was
heavy.
Just thirty-two years afterwards to a day I met on exactly
the same spot some of the very same men 1 fought. In 1863
we paid our compliments a short distance apart with rifles
and shouts of defiance, and in 1895 we cordially shook hands
and smiled on each other as we talked over our fighting days.
Where in all history can you find such a people and such sol-
diers as in America ? The tnen we were up against on Sat-
urday morning at Chickaniauga in 1863 were Brannon's Bri-
gade, tough fighters. The man 1 talked most with in 1895
was a member of the Tenth Indiana Infantry.
EVACUATION OF MORRIS ISLAND.
C. A. Williamson, Savannah, Ga., of Company B, Twenty-
Fifth South Carolina Volunteers, writes of it :
"In the November number of the Veteran there appears
an article under the above heading, some of the statements
in which 1 write to correct:
"The evacuation of Battery Wagner took place on Sunday
night at twelve o'clock, September 7, 1863. The commands
holding that fort were part of Col. Huguenin's First South
Carolina Regular Infantry, part of Col. Rhett's First South
Carolina Regular Artillery, Col. L. M. Keith's Twentieth
South Carolina Volunteers, and the Twenty-Fifth South Caro-
lina Volunteers, to which I belonged.
"The incident spoken of as to the Twenty-Third Georgia
occurred through a mistake on the part of the pilot of the
transport boat De Kalb in dropping downstream between
Fort Sumter and Morris Island. It was quite hazy, and when
the boat loomed up below Fort Sumter she was taken for a
Yankee gunboat and fired on by Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's
Island. The mistake was soon discovered, but not before
some damage was done.
"In the same article your correspondent corrects a state-
ment of W. A. Day, which does not correct. The battle of
the Crater was fought from start to finish by Elliott's South
Carolina Brigade, and the Twentieth South Carolina Regi-
ment was the heaviest loser. I should like to say also that
between Colquitt's Brigade and the Crater were posted
Elliott's South Carolina Brigade, Wright's North Carolina
Brigade, and Hagood's South Carolina Brigade; and when
the explosion took place Mahone's Division closed up on the
right, followed by Hoke's Division, of which Colquitt was the
left, Elliott's being in Mahone's Brigade, and Wright's, Ha-
good's, and Colquitt's in Hoke's Division."
PRESIDENT CALIFORNIA DIVISION, U. D. C.
Joanna Maynard Wright, daughter of Rev. Oliver Abbott
Shaw, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, for
many years, was born at Richmond, Va., May 26, 1830. Her
paternal ancestry was of distinguished colonial families of
Massachusetts, while her mother was allied to many prominent
colonial families of Virginia, being a granddaughter of Carter
Braxton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Or-
phaned at the age of sixteen, she went to Lexington, Miss.,
to her uncle, Hon. Walker Brooke, United States Senator
from that State, and subsequently a member of the Confed-
erate Constitutional Convention. In a few months she married
Selden S. Wright, also a native of Virginia, a young lawyer
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of promise, who soon became well known throughout the
State. In i860 they removed to California, where he was con-
nected with the judiciary until his death. Mrs. Wright or-
ganized the Colonial Dames and the Descendants of Colonia!
Governors, and is the chairman of both these organizations in
California for life. In July, 1896, she called together the
Southern women in San Francisco for the purpose of organ-
izing a Chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy. Si.\
responded, and the organization was perfected in her parlors,
and named Albert Sidney Johnston, and is No. 79, which
number shows how early it entered the general organization,
organized at Atlanta, Ga., November, 1895, now numbering
nearly one thousand, though so far from the Southern States.
It is the first— the
mother — Chapter
west of the Rockies.
Mrs. Wriglit was
succeeded in the
presidency by Mr?.
Pritchard, the
daughter of Albert
Sidney Johnston, and
now Mrs. A. H.
V o o r h i e s is the
Presid«">t,~ and the
Chapter number?
nearly four hundred.
Mrs. Wright is the
President of the Cal-
ifornia State Divi-
sion. It seems that
it is the woman of
many home duties
who can do most in
a public way, as
Mrs. Wright has been a model wife and mother and has reared
twelve children, beside,s having the motherly care of about as
many young orphaned relatives.
.MRS. SKLUK.N S. WKIGlll.
HISTORY REPORT OF ARKANSAS DIVISION.
BY MRS. RICHARD B. WILLIS, HISTORIAN, U. !). C.
Ladies of the Arkansas Division: When elected last autumn
to the office of Historian, I wrote to various women in author-
ity that I felt constrained to resign, as I was already abundant-
ly .supplied with occupation. From various sources I received
the information that it mattered very little whether I resigned
or not, as the office was a sinecure and the officer would prob-
ably be a figurehead. I therefore decided to accept.
Let me here explain that I am forced to believe that a totally
false conception of this office prevails among many of our
members. It is set down in the National Constitution, Article
XL, that the objects of the United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy are historical, educational, memorial, benevolent, and
social; to fulfill the duties of cliarity to the survivors of the
War between the States; and to collect and preserve the
material for a truthful history of the war.
In order to collect materials for my work I sent out printed
circulars to our Chapters and to many veterans, asking that
any interesting incidents, hitherto unpublished in permanent
form and connected with the war in Arkansas, might be sent
me. Most of the Chapters failed to answer at all. Some sent
material in no way connected with the history or men of Ar-
kansas, and many, alas ! many responded after this fashion :
"We really haven't done any work along that line. Hope to
see you at our ne.xt convention." "Who are you for for
President? " ■Can't send you aiiy items along your line. But
don't forget that Mrs. So and So is in the field." ... A
soldier is ordered to charge the enemy's guns. He replies:
"We are not much on fighting, but who are you for for colo-
nel?"
H we are true, if we arc patriotic, if we are loyal, we shall
sink all desire for the elevation of ourselves and our candi-
dates into the more noble purpose to report more truly the
cause and its adherents. For president I am for the woman
who cares nothing for the office, much for the truth; nothing
for personal honor, all for the honor of our great Division.
But to proceed with my report. A programme of work and
study was made out for the first six months of 1903, in ac-
cordance with the general plan of the National Historical Com-
mittee. Some Chapters have studied it and are pleased with it.
More have let it alone. The report calls for the study of
constitutional principles which were the basis of the Confed-
erate government; the growth of sectional jealousy through
the decades preceding the great war, and studies from the
works of Alexander Stephens, J. L. M. Curry, and Jefferson
Davis. The short poems of Hayne, Pike, Lanier, etc., were
interspersed with the heavier work of the programme, while a
course of parallel reading was indicated, including valuable
historical novels and biographies.
That part of the programme which seems scholastic and
dry, please lay at the door of the National Historical Com-
mittee. If any part commends itself as attractive and enter-
taining, charge up to me. I believe all the study outlined
ought to be done by intelligent Daughters of that Confederacy
which now lies palled and shrouded amid shadows dark with
disaster and defeat, but shadows which still gleam with the
stormy splendor of heroism and devotion. The present His-
torian begs to suggest that every Chapter and every Camp
give special attention during the ensuing year to the collecting
and preserving of unpublished deeds of courage which have
come within the ken of any member; that these acts be record-
ed in dear and definite form and sent promptly to the next
State Historian.
The first Chapter to respond to my solicitation was the
David O. Dodd Chapter, of Pine Bluff, giving the beautiful
story of the young hero of seventeen years of age who per-
ished on the scaffold by order of Gen. Steele, when by a word
which would reveal the source of his information he might
have saved his life. Most of us are familiar with the account
of his martyrdom, published in the Confederate Veteran of
July, 1897. But the narrative is the especial property of the
.\rkansas Division of the U. D. C. ; and when this P'visinn
publishes a permanent record of the acts of its dead heroes,
there will shine upon its pages no name more illustrious than
that of David Dodd.
.Vnother Chapter, the Dandridge McRae Chapter, of Searcy,
furnished matter of such interest that it is destined to be en-
twined with much of the war history of our State. Dandridge
McRae, the general after whom that Chapter is named, ap-
peared first as captain early in 1861. His splendid powers of
organization were constantly in demand by the Confederate
government, and we find that, on one occasion, his regiment
received the flag ofiFered by the ladies of Little Rock for the
best drilled regiment of State troops. We see him later as
colonel, as hrigidicr general, takinn; active part in the battles
of Oak Hill, Elkhorn, Corinth, and Helena, besides numerous
less famous engagement'. After Oak Hill, Gen. McCnlloch.
in speaking of him. said : "McRae contributed much to the
success of the day by his coolness and bravery." Gen. Hind-
man also referred to him as "that gallant and indomitable
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officer, Dandridge McRae.'' At the battle of Helena, Grave-
yard ?lill, taken by McRae and Parsons, was the only strong-
hold of the enemy mastered during that critical engagement.
The Chapter bearing his name is proud of his laurels and of
his fame.
Another event worthy of permanent record is the story that
so thrilled Arkansas readers some months ago — the story of
Col. W. H. Martin, who, at Kennesaw Mountain, saw that a
forest fire raging between the two opposing lines was scorch-
ing the wounded Federal soldiers. Col. Martin sprang upon
the breastworks and, waving his handkerchief as a flag of
truce, begged that the Federal sufferers might be rescued. The
Confederates leaped their breastworks and assisted in carrying
their wounded foes to a place of safety, then resumed the bat-
tle. A gallant Federal officer, riding up to the Confederate
lines, uncovered his head and presented to Col. Martin two
handsomely mounted pistols with the remark : "Col. Martin,
you may win glorious victories, but you will never win one
more glorious than this of to-day." Surely
"The bravest are the tenderest.
The loving are the daring."
We can lay no garland on his grave to-day, but the admira-
tion of the women of the South is his until the sea gives up
its dead.
Another soldier of whom Arkansas has a right to be proud
is Maj. James Forbes Barton, who, in very early life, moved
from Tennessee to .-Vrkansas to cast in his lot with the younger
commonwealth. When she seceded he threw himself heart and
soul into the Southern cause, showing a high degree of execu-
tive ability as well as great courage on the field. On one occa-
sion, when the Trans-Mississippi Department was in dire need
of arms and the river was studded with Federal gunboats,
Maj. Barton, at great risk to himself, made four trips across
the river and succeeded in landing thirty thousand stand of
arms, ihus relieving an extremely embarrassing situation. On
MISS FRANCES YATES, FORT WORTH,
Sponsor for Tex.Ts Division, V. S C. V., Xew Orleans reunion.
another occasion Gen. Kirby Smith, being in great need of
medicine for his sick and wounded, informed Maj. Barton of
the fact. Very soon a Federal medicine transport sailing com-
fortably up the river was deftly landed by Maj. Barton, and
soon the command was amply supplied with quinine and
laudanum. His daring was so great that his achievements
seemed like magic, and he was regarded as a notably danger-
ous enemy. A large reward was offered for his capture; but
the brave man was never caught, although the vengeance of
the torch devastated his home and other property. When Ar-
kansas became a common weal of common woe under the
touch of Powell Clayton, he went back to Tennessee, where he
died after years of honor and success.
Other papers of interest have been added to our history d'-.-
partment. One of these is an article on Col. Ben Chism, c ■
Paris, Ark., which alludes to the memorable capture of tli^;
Petrel in 1864 by one hundred dismounted Confederate cav-
alrymen, the Petrel itself being in the immediate vicinity of a
number of Federal gunboats and thousands of Federal cav-
alry. The exploit was one of breathless interest, and a de-
tailed account of it has been promised by Col. Chism, who was
the leader of the expedition.
Another valuable paper, "Reminiscences of the War," by A.
F. Huntsman, gives incidents both thrilling and amusing of
the march northward under Sterling Price. The boyish, fun-
loving spirit of the soldier comes out in the account of Gen.
Churchill's horse deciding to make an excited disappearance
just when the General is trying to collect his troops to meet
an unexpected attack ; also in the picture of Dave Ross sitting
placidly upon his knapsack finishing his morning cup of coffee,
which he feared might not keep hot, while the fight evidently
would. The only paper giving the record of Arkansas men
east 01 the Mississippi is one read by Capt. Bell, of the
Twelfth Battalion of Arkansas sharpshooters, sent to our de-
partment by our honored President. Mrs. Benton. It gives a
thrilling account of the part played by this battalion at the
memorable siege at Vicksburg. It makes our blood tingle to
read of the brave Federal at the lone pine tree, the exploits of
the gun, "Crazy Jane," and the tremendous charge on Arkan-
sas's part of the fortifications when only one man, an Irish
color bearer, succeeded in forcing an entrance, declaring his
intention of carrying his flag to Vicksburg or Hades (visions
of mule meat and rats for ration left him no considerable
doubt as to which place he had reached). It is pleasant to
read of the friendly hobnobbing of foes before the fateful day
of surrender, and of the magnanimous Federal who casually
changed canteens and haversacks with Capt. Bell, exchanging
for the Confederate's empty one a haversack full of ham, head
sugar, and coffee, and a canteen full of whisky. We should
preserve papers like this. They sound like sweet, sad music
in the ears of the old ; in the hearts of the young, like the blast
of the war trumpet heralding deeds of prowess and chivalry.
But some feminine as well as masculine reminiscences art
included in our historical repertory. Mrs. Genevieve Wilson,
of Little Rock, member of the J. M. Keller Chapter, details
the audacious deeds of a fun-loving Southern girl. They are
worthy of permanent record in our archives. On one occasion,
with girlish elan, she perforated with a pistol ball the heel of
a Yankee six-footer who dared to address an insulting remark
to her. Once she went to bed with all her mother's silver,
proclaiming with woeful exclamation that she had a virulent
type of smallpox, thereby accelerating the exit of the gen-
tlemen in blue who had come yearning for silver spoons and
forks a la Benjamin Butler. But most ludicrous of all, on one
occasion she donned the uniform of a Federal officer, and in
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C^o[>federate l/eteraij,
•tcDtorian loncs commanded that two drunken malaperts of
Gen. Steele's command should be swung up by their thumbs
for hours. To her own amazement, the order was carried out,
both victims and executioner being too intoxicated to know
that the order emanated from a mischievous Southern girl, not
from a superior officer of ihe Federal guards.
Perhaps most of you have seen or heard the touching paper
read by Mrs. Anderson, of the J. M. Keller Chapter, last Jan-
uary in Little Rock Our historical department should include
it. Never apiin shrill there be a chance to wear a hoop skirt
with eclat and also with cavalry boots, ammunition and pistols
stuflTed therein. Never again ."^hall she dash alone in the twi-
light seven miles on horseback through a gloomy forest to
tell a Confederate captain that he must change his base ol
operations or be captured by a vastly superior Federal force.
Truly the blood must have coursed with riotous excitement
through the veins of youth in those days, when laugh and jest
were set to the accompaniment of jingling spurs and clanking
saber, and when every shadowed shrub shrouded the possible
form of a lurking foe!
Ladies, while these occurrences are undoubtedly worthy oi
note and preservation, there are thousands of other accounts of
stirring scenes and acts of heroism eminently worthy of your
attention. Stories that fall from the lips of gray-headed vet-
erans are fair prey for our historian.
In laying down my office I should like to speak for my suc-
cessor not only a more piompt and hearty cooperation on the
part of Chapter Historian and veterans, but also a more com-
plete realization on the part of us all that one of the primary
reasons of our existence as an order if the commemoration of
the deeds of the past.
According to the dictum of the National Committee, it de-
volves upon us to have at our monthly meetings intelligent
study of our constitutional history and of the literature and
poetry of the South. How many of our Chapters do this? It
also devolves upon us to examine and know what sort of his-
tories and history teachers are influencing our children, so
that we may be sure they arc guarded from false shame as to
the political actions of their ancestors. A few months ago a
letter was received by me from a veteran who, in referring to
the patronizing and forgiving tone assumed by history writers
anent the statesmanship of the Confederate soldiers, utters these
memorable words : "We do not know as we lay ourselves
down one by one to sleep in the dust of death whether we do
so in the secret conviction of our children as traitors or heroes.
To men wlio went in rags, nakedness, hunger, and hardship to
fight a fight that this generation would otlicrwise have had to
face, that is hard to bear."
An objection frequently urged against the perpetuation of
the United Daughters of the Confederacy is that it tends to
keep alive sectional feeling in a reunited country. To those
more noble than such Thessalonians, this is not so. Some of
us heard last April at the Arkansas Federation of Clubs the
touching words of the President of the G. A. R. Circle of
Little Rock, who embodied in her brief greeting the thought
that her and our work is one and the same, to aid the living
and to honor the dead soldiers who fouglit, and perhaps fell,
for what they held true and dear. The women of the North
and South may unite in strewing flowers on the graves of both
blue and gray.
This thought calls to mind the old myth held by our sturdy
Teuton ancestors of the Valkyrie, the peerless daughters of
Woden. Horsed on coursers of northern light, these daugh-
ters of the gods descended to the battlefield and lifted to
their arms the souls of those who had died with courage and
honor. On wings of wind and fire they bore those heroes to the
grand feast hall of the all-father, the "mysterious and star-
paved Walhalla or dwelling of the gods." There the souls of
these warriors spent an immortality of honor and joy in com-
pany of heroes and gods. We too, the women of America,
have our star-paved Walhalla for our noble dead. And, like
the Valkyrie, we admit none but the truly great, brave, and
gentle. We welcome no oflicer or private who warred on de-
fenseless women and children ; whose march was marked by
the ashes of hundreds of happy homes, whose track left star-
vation and misery, the sobs of widows and orphans, helpless
and hungry. Our temple of fame shall never be polluted by
perpetrators of vandalism and brutality. The splendid scorn
of our Valkyrie would scorch and shrivel into nothingness by
such pretense of honor and chivalry. The warriors who find
rest in our sacred halls are those who, whether famous or ob-
scure, honored the sacredness of womanhood, in memory of
the mother who bore them, and spared the helplessness of
childhood in memory of the Babe of Bethlehem. Welcome
are such to our Walhalla.
"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years;
But they shall flourish in iminortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter and the crash of worlds."
Let it be the spirit and purpose of our order to work for the
propagation of the truth without malice or bitterness, but with
energy and sincerity. In generations to come the student of
military tactics will continue to place the achievements of Lee,
Jackson, Johnston, and Forrest on the very summit of the
pinnacle of fame. The world knows our leaders. But let us
humble women of the South rescue from oblivion the thou-
sands of deeds of subordinate officers and private soldiers who,
by faithfulness, loyalty, and heroism, have wreathed the brow
of old .'\rkansas with iniinortcllcs of glory and stars of honor.
I
MUS. J. A. CUMMINGS, BOWIE, TEX.,
Chaperon to New Orleans reunion.
GOV AN' S BRIGADE AT PICKETT'S MILL.
BY STAN C. HARLEY, GURDON, ARK.
In giving some facts as I know them concerning the battle
of Pickett's Mill or Burnt Hickory, Ga., on May 27, 1864, I
hope to give every brigade and regiment as full credit for
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what they did as I can. It is conceded that the brunt of that
engagement was borne by the Texas Brigade, under Granbury,
in Cleburne's Division ; but there is diversity of opinion as to
what other troops took part. None of the statements concern-
insr that battle have mentioned Govan's Arkansas Brigade. I
was a member of Company C, Sixth and Seventh Arkansas
Regiments (consolidated), and we were in that fight from start
to finish. I was among those sent forward in the morning to
drive in their skirmishers and ascertain if their works were
occupied. We succeeded and found them empty, but tliat theie
was a large force to our right maneuvering to flank our posi-
tion. My regiment at that time was the extreme right infantry
of the army. The cavalry joined on our right. We fought
the Yankees as they advanced, and kept their skirmishers at bay
until their main line would advance, then we would fall back
and take another position, with similar results. This con-
tinued until we reached our line of works, which we had left
in the morning. It was then about three o'clock.
Soon after we reached our works, Granbury's Brigade of
Texans passed in the rear of our line at double-quick and took
the place of the cavalry immediately on our right, which Gen.
Wheeler says was that of Gen. Humes. The fight commenced
at once with great fury, and continued for about three hours,
or until dark. The enemy made repeated assaults on Gran-
bury's Brigade and the right half of the Si.xth and Seventh
Arkansas Regiments, but were repulsed each time with heavy
loss. During the fight they overlapped Granbury's Texans on
the right, and tlie Eightli and Nineteenth Arkansas Regiment
(consolidated) was taken out of line on the left and placed on
Granbury's right in open field, and it lost, in a very short time,
ninety killed and wounded. As to what infantry troops were
farther to the right of the Eighth and Nineteenth .\rkansas
Regiments I don't know, but will say that sonic claim honors
in that fight who are not entitled to them.
In the April number of the Veteran for 1901, W. R. Camp-
bell, of the Fourth Louisiana, fakes Comrade B. L. K'dley to
task for saying : "On Friday evening, May 27, 1864, at New
Hope, after our fight of the 25th, when the enemy tried to
flank us on the right, another heartrending scene of death and
destruction took place. Granbury and Lowry, of Cleburne's
Division, met tlic flank movenient, and in one volley left seven
hundred and seventy of the enemy to be buried in one pit."
One error in this statement is of omission rather than com-
mission. If Lowry's Brigade took any part in that engage-
ment, I do not remember hearing of it. That Govan's did is
beyond deniTil. I should like Id hear from some of Lowry's
Brigade touching this matter. Govan's Arkansas Brigade anl
Lowry's Mississippi and Alabama Brigades were together dur-
ing the entire war, and I do not believe they (Lowry) will
claim any honor r.ot due them. Of course Comrade Ridley did
not mean literally that "in one volley seven hundred and seventy
Yankees were left to be buried in one pit." The fact is, it was
about three or more hours of the closest fighting in which wc
were ever caught, and that is saying a good deal.
This same Comrade Campbell, of the Fourth Louisiana, in
the April (1901) Veteran says that his brigade did that ter-
rific fighting at New Hope on the 27th of May. He says :
"Comrade Ridley gives a correct statement of the battle of
May 25, 1864, but is in serious error as to the command that
did such terrific execution on the 27th. Gen. W. A. Quarles's
Brigade, consisting of the Fourtli and Ttiirtieth Louisi.ina,
Forty-Second, Forty-Eighth, Forty-Ninth, Fifty- I'hird, and
Fifty-Fifth Tennessee Regiments, had been on garrison duly
in Mobile and along the Gulf Coast, but were rushed forward
to reenforce Gen. J. E. Johnston's army. The brigade left
the cars at Marietta, Ga., on the evening i..f Alay 26, and marched
immediately to New Hope Church. . . . The brigade lay in
reserve just behind the lines at the church, and rested until
late in the evening of the 27th, when it was moved iLvpidly to
tlie right some four miles, when it was halted and fronted in
line of battle. We heard light skirmishing in front by the cav-
alry, and were kept in line of battle until dark, when we
moved forward, all the brigade, except the Fourth Louisiana,
being to our left. We advanced across a field some three
hundred yards, then into a thicket of undergrowth, where the
land had been cleared a year or two previous, and from that
mto a dense skii t of woods, when a perfect hailstorm of bullets
cut through the limbs over our heads. Suddenly the firing
ceased. We passed the cavalry pickets, and very soon struck
the Yankee line, which lay in ambush behind a hedgerow.
They rose and poured a crushing volley in our faces at not
more than fifteen paces; but strange to say. they shot high
and did very little damage. We returned the fire and charged,
advancing with a yell up a hill. They still shot over us,
and the elevation was just enough for our fire to be very
efTective. We forced them back some two or three hundred
yards, recovered the lines when they were forcing the cavalry
back, and then lay in line of battle on the field until about 1
A.M. on the 28th, when Granbury's and Lowry's Brigades re-
lieved us. We moved back a short distance and got some
much-needed sleep, having had no rest for three days previous.
The Fourth Louisiana went into action that night with seven
hundred and .sixty muskets and very near a full line of officers.
When daylight came, being refreshed and rested, a great many
of the boys went out in front where we fought the night be-
fore, and found the ground literally strewn with the dead and
wounded Federal soldiers. There was fully one-third more
on the field than we carried into action, due to our fighting
them up the hill and their overshooting. Our casualties
were exceedingly small, only twenty-five."
I have thus quoted at length what Comrade Campbell says
about the battle of May 27, 1864. Evidently he is writing about
a different engagement altogether.
Gen. Wheeler says, in his report of that battle: "Quarles's
Brigade also reported to me during the fight, but too late to
join in the action." Comrade Campbell says that his regiment
did this "terrific execution after dark." The battle was over
before dark. The enemy had been repulsed at every point,
and had fallen back into a deep ravine in front of Granbury
and the regiments of Govan's Brigade, from which they were
driven after dark by a front attack by Granbury's Brigade and
a left flank attack by a heavy skirmish line from the Fifth
Arkansas of Govan's Brigade. The battery just to the left
of the Sixth and Seventh Arkansas Regiments and their left
wing contributed largely to the successful repulse of every
attack that was made upon Granbury and the right wing of
ihe Sixth and Seventh Arkansas by an enfilading fire that was
kept up during the engagement.
Gen. Johnston says about this fight: "At 5:30 p.m. on the
27th Howard's Corps assailed Cleburne's Division and was
driven back about dark with great slaughter." Our loss in each
(Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Seventh) was about four hundred
and fifty killed and wounded. On the 27th the enemy's dead,
except those borne off, were counted— six hundred. B. L. Rid-
ley says seven hundred and seventy, but my recollection is that
we buried the next day one thousand and three. Gen. Sherman,
however, makes no report of this fight. In giving his losses
by corps he states Gen. Howard's loss, during the month of
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May, to have been five hundred and seve;uy-six killed and
missing, and one thousand nine hundred ar.d ten wounded.
Why he put his killed and missing together is a mystery.
Comrade Campbell says in conclusion: "I am confident that
Capt. Ridley is mistaken about Granbury's and Lowry's Bri-
gades doing the terrible execution mentioned on May 27."
Capt. Ridley's mistake was in not stating what troops actually
took part in the fight If Lowry's Brigade did, I do not re-
member it, and should be well pleased to hear from ihcm
relative to it.
INITIATION OF THE GEORGIA CAMPAIGN.
BY W. H. DAWS, FOURTH TENNESSEE CAVALRY, DALLAS, TEX.
In the winter of 1863-64 Gen. Kilpatrick was placed in com-
mand of all the cavalry attached to Sherman's army. If I am
correctly informed, Gen. Kilpatrick and Gen. Joseph Wheeler
were at West Point at the same time, possibly in the same
class. Soon after assuming command, it was reported that
Kilpatrick had sent a communication to Wheeler informing
him that, as soon as the weather would permit, he would pay
him a visit. Wheeler replied: "Come ahead when you are
ready. We will give you the warmest reception you ever had."
'Ihe opposing armies were in winter quarters — Sherman's ;it
Ringgold and Johnston's at Dalton, Ga. Wheeler's Corps was
encamped at Tunnel Hill, about seven miles north of Dalton.
"Paul's People" were brigaded with the First Tennessee,
Ninth Tennessee Battalion, and Second Georgia, under com
mand of Gen. W. Y. C. Hume, the four regiments being
camped along the main road leading to Ringgold.
About May i, 1864, Lieut. Rice McLean was in command of
a picket of sixty men three miles in advance of our camp,
with his vedettes one-half mile still in advance, occupying five
stations — two to the right, two to the left and one on main
road. The writer was on the first station to the right of road.
All nature was attiring itself in the verdant robes of spring,
and the world looked too beautiful to stain it with human
blood. The pale moon's soft rays broke through the drifting
clouds and seemed to reproach our warlike attitude. The
thousands of the mellow-voiced whip-poor-wills echoed their
doleful notes through the leafy forest and up the mountain
side, and had the semblance of lamentations over our wild
work of human destruction called glorious war.
When the aurora's first rays were tinging with gold the
floating clouds in the Orient, the cry of "Halt !" and reports
of two rifles rang out on the balmy air. All the vedettes beat
a hasty retreat, and rallied on the forty men at the picket
base, who, with Lieut. McLean, were in their saddles awaiting
the enemy's advance. There were barricades across the road
at intervals of alx)ut two hundred yards from the vedette line
to our main camp, which impeded the advance of a brigade
that was essaying to carry out Kilpatrick's threat. Behind the
first barricade, about one hundred feet in rear of our base,
Lieut. McLean took up his position snd awaited their apjiroach.
We could hear them sometime before they came in sight, the
road being tortuous and skirted by dense woodland on each
side. It was not yet good daylight when we delivered a solid
volley into their vanguard, who retired on the head of their
main column, which proudly came on, elated by the vain-
glorious threat of their unworthy chieftain. Again the sharp
crack of sixty rifles gave tliat "warm reception" promised by
"Little Jo," and our brave lieutenant led us to the next bar-
ricade, located in the edge of a woodland beyond an opening,
and deployed to the right and left of the road behind a heavy
worm fence, dismounted, each man holding his own horse.
This time the enemy's advance emerged into the open very
cautiously, and deployed as skirmishers, .\gain sixty rifles
licked out their forked tongues of fire and si.xty missiles of
death went whizzing on their mission of destruction. Mount-
ing our horses, we galloped to the next barricade, to again ad-
vise our foes that we had not left the country, when we could
see old Paul at the head of the regiment with his long black
plume waving from a ponderous sombrero, standing at a halt.
We delivered another volley, and under shelter of the timber
galloped across the valley to meet him. He ordered Lieut Mc-
Lean to form his men on the right of the road, while he formed
his "People" and Ninth Tennessee Battalion on the opposite
side. But a few moments elapsed until we could see the dark
outline of two regiments emerge from the woodland Lieut.
McLean and his men had just abandoned, and form in line
of battle just in the open, about two hundred yards distant.
At this juncture Jim Nance's old bugle sounded "Forward!"
Advancing to a branch that meandered through the valley,
some fifty yards in our front, a sheet of flame shot out from
the enemy's line, when Nance blasted the "Charge !" With
that proverbial Rel)el yell we swept up the hill without firing
a shot until within easy pistol range. We let go our carbines,
dropped them in the sling, and with our six-shooters proceed-
ed to do business "wid 'em." The Yanks soon discovered that
the Johnnies had come to entertain them with that "warmest
reception" of which Gen. Wheeler had admonished their vaunt-
ing chieftain. 1 hey wheeled alx)ut and besought shelter from
the adjacent forest, while Nance continued blasting "Charge!''
and our six-shooters kept up the sweet music that charac-
terized the fiddle of Nero during the conflagration of the
Eternal City. After driving them through the forest named
and the open beyond, we came upon two regiments dismounted
and lying behind a fence in the edge of another woodland,
who poured a galling fire into our line, which, of necessity,
by this time was more or less disorganized. We at once re-
treated to the woodland we had passed, and moved by the
left flank unobserved aroimd a hill sheltering us from view,
and fell upon the dismounted men on their right flank, pouring
into them an enfilading fire, which caused quick and disas-
trous rout. This forced them to retire to a position beyond
where had been our extreme outpost, two regiments forming
at the foot of an elongated hill that rose solitary from a
level plain, and two regiments in open fields to the left and
opposite this hill.
In the meantime a battery of three twelve-pound howitzers
had been brought up to our line and planted on a hill to the
right of main road, about on line with our quondam vedette
stations and about three hundred yards from the line now oc-
cupied by the enemy. Old Paul at once decided to charge the
two regiments at the foot of the hill afore mentioned, which
had to be done over level fields entirely open. Successful in
this venture, we discovered our full strength to our enemy as
we gained the hill. All this time our line in the open was
completely exposed to the fire of the two regiments in the
field. Kd Own.sby, of my company, and myself went to the
right of the hill and rode as nearly to the top as we could,
dismounted and climbed over afoot to a point on the western
slope opposite the left flank of the men in the field, and took up
positions behind two majestic oak trees and commenced, un-
observed, an enfilading fire directly down the enemy's line.
We were taking deliberate aim; and the end of their line be-
ing not over one hundred yards distant, I cannot see how
we could miss hitting either a man or a horse every shot.
At this period our ammunition was about exhausted, and old
Paul withdrew the major portion of his command, under cover
of the hill, to the foot of the elevation occupied by our battery.
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The Yanks, quickly discovering this fact, made a charge.
Ownsby and 1, seenig our predicament, started for our horses.
Arriving at the foot of the eastern slope of the hill, we had
a head-end collision with ten bluecoats, who were as much
surprised as we were, but demanded our surrender. Seeing
our situation at a glance, we put spurs to our horses and darted
across the road ahead of them. We had a running fight
across a cornfield, the Yanks in hot pursuit, both they and
ourselves emptying our si.x-shooters as we went. During our
run, and as we approached the fence on the opposite side of
the field, I said to Ownsby : "Ed, we are in for it this
whack." Our horses seemed to realize how closely we were
being hemmed up, and cleared the fence as though it were not
there. Old Paul had the precaution to let down gaps at in-
tervals in the fence for the skirmishers he had left in front.
'1 hey passed through, closely followed by the Yanks. Simul-
taneously the battery and our line "let fly," and no doubt the
bluecoats thought "Sheol had broken loose in Georgia, and
no pitch hot." Anyway, wc confirmed them in that belief in
about a pair of minutes, for we put them north of the Chicka-
niauga in a jitlfy.
1 his was the initiation of the famous Georgia campaign, and
from this time until the surrender, May 2, 1865, there was
scarcely a day that "Paul's People" failed to inhale the sul-
I'hurous odor of gunpowder.
INCIDENTS OF THE VICKSBURG SIEGE.
EXTR.\CTS FROM A SKRIES OF PAPERS BY C. S. O. RICE.
My company. Company M, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, ot
which I was lieutenant, was detached from the regiment first
as couriers for Gen. Loring and afterwards on picket duty from
Snyder's Bluff, on the. Yazoo River, to Vicksburg. It was
while on this du'y that I witnessed timt daring fe:it [already
published in the Veteran. — Ed.] of a Federal officer. A con-
siderable force of our men were fortified at Snyder's Blufl'.
where Gen. Grant landed some 8.000 or 10,000 men, and formed
in lines as if to charge our work=. Just then a V.nnkce dashed
through their lines and rode at breakneck speed directly to-
ward us. As he left, the Yankees fired volley after volley,
apparently at him, but he continued coming, whipping his
horse with his hat. As lie got near us he yelled out : "Hur-
lali for Kentucky!" He rode up to us, stopped, and ex-
claimed: "Hello, boys! How are you? I'm with you. God
bless all of you I" The men began to crowd around him and
ask questions. Finally it was suggested that he had better go
10 licadqn.nrters. When he saw that he was to be taken to
the commanding officer to be interrogated, quick as a flash he
wheeled his magnificent horse, drove the spurs into its sides,
and went like a bird back to his command. It was so bold and
so quickly done that none of our men thought of firing at the
gallant fellow until he was several hundred yards away, then
only two or three straggling shots were fired at him. As ho
ncarcd the Yankee lines they cheered him vociferously. It
was evident that he had come up to get a look at our strengtli
and fortifications, for soon after his return the gunboats
opened on us.
On the 17th of May, 1863, we were ordered inside the forti-
fications of Vicksburg, and were in the besieged town until
the surrender, the following 4th of July. While in Vicksburg
wc acted as couriers for Gen. Pemberlon, and patrol of the
city. Rations soon became scarce. Meat was a thing of the
past, but great are the resources of a soldier. One day a shell
killed one of our mules, and some of the boys cut a bucketful
of steaks from the beast, and we were soon enjoying a good
repast. All that wc did not cook at once we concerted into
'jerked" meat. This we did by making a cane platform,
spreading the meat on it, and building a fire underneath. This,
with the aid of the sun above, soon gave us a lot of dry, well-
preserved meat. Now some fastidious youths of to-day will
say: "O, I could not do that!" Neither would I now, but
then I was hungry. I stood it as long as I could. I was as
hollow as a gourd, and when my back began to cave in I
thought it about time to eat anything I could get. The Fed-
erals had by parallels worked close up to our fortifications
and made rifle pits, which they filled with sharpshooters, so
that it was about worth a man's life to raise his head above the
fortifications. Our men would show themselves only when
rising to repel a charge. We soon learned to protect ourselves
from the exploding .shells, that at night would look like a rain
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of fire on the doomed city, by digging holes in the sides of the
hills, and when tlie fire was excessi\cly heavy we would crawl
into our dens. No one can imagine the hardships and suf-
fering our men underwent lying in the trenches continuously
day and night, under the burning sun by day and the heavy
dews by night, without sufiicient force to relieve them and
man the works, while during a greater portion of the time
they had not bread and meat enough to sustain themselves.
No wonder that thirty per cent of them were "bors de combat"
when we surrendered.
Wc knew that surrender was inevitable, ytt feelings of
deep depression came over us when wc were ordered to
"stack arms." Being Gen. Peniberton's escort, we were al-
lowed to retain our side arms, but some of our servants who
wanted to go out with us were not allowed to do so. Mine
came to me and gave me his watch and all the money he had,
?2.5C in silver, and told me to keep it for him, and if they
would not allow liim to pass out with us he would join us
the next day outside the lines. How faithful ! and how my
heart was touched by it ! On a former occasion, when I was
left in a sick camp, he remained with me ; and at night, when
everything was still, I heard his voice lifted earnestly in
prayer of supplication that his young master might fix his
heart on things above, and that a kind Providence would pro-
tect and preserve his life. Imagine at this day the close rela-
tion and love that existed between master and slave! His
cont;ict with the Southern white man gave him a moral train-
ing that was the wonder of the world. While our men w-cre
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out in the field of battle, what kept the farm hands growing
meat and bread to feed them? Was it fear of his master,
who was away in the army ? What enabled our refined women
to remain at home for four years of the war, surrounded by a
throng of blacks, without a thought of fear, but a feeling of
protection?
My first night out from Vicksburg will long be remembered
1 left the city with three small pieces of jerked mule meat,
and a little sugar in my haversack. We camped on a large
plantation, and I got an old negro woman to cook me some-
thing to eat. She nrought mc a thick pone of com bread and
a panful of clabber, and I then partook of the most sumptuous
repast I ever enjoyed. My messmate, A. B. Jay roe, told me
the ne.xt morning that his supper the night before was twelve
ears of green corn. I did not doubt his statement, as neither
of us could hardly travel that day.
I arrived at home to enjoy for a short time, under my
parole, the love and association of family and friends, and,
above all, the sweet smiles of a rosy-cheeked, brown-eyed little
maid — "the girl I left behind me" — whose picture I carried
with me through the hurtling fire and smoke of battle for four
years, and who, at its close, linked her fortunes with mine,
and has shared witli me life's sunshine and shadows for
nearly forty years.
RED-LETTER DAYS IN DIXIE.
BY KATE MASON ROWLAND, THE EDITOR, NEW YORK.
As the table of dates and topics given in the April Editor
includes holidays peculiar to the Northern States and omits
those essentially Southern, I oflfer a supplement to these sub-
jects where "timeliness" is a chief consideration. The follow-
ing table embraces the legal holidays in the fifteen Southern
States.
It is, of course, a popular error to speak of "national holi-
days." The Federal government may make holidays for the
District of Columbia and for the territories, and it may give
holidays in the departments over which it has control, the
post office and custom house ; but it can do no more. The
President of the United States "recommends" a day of
Thanksgiving, but in each State the Governor must, or may,
appoint the day. It is optional with the State to accept the
recommendation of the President, and so make the day a
legal holiday.
1 he Legislature, in most cases, fixes the dates of these hol-
idays. In the Stale of Arkansas, however, there is but one
legal holiday fixed by statute, and that is Arbor Day. All
other holidays are made each year by the Governor's procla-
mation. In Maryland, on the contrary, all of the holidays are
made by the Legislature except Arbor Day, which it is the
Governor's duty to designate by proclamation. The date is
not fixed, but it is generally in the first half of the month of
April. Arbor Day is not found as a legal holiday on the stat-
ute books of the Southern States, outside of Arkansas.
Attractive articles could be written of the holidays of the
ante-bellum period in the South ; the days of the patriarchal
life on the plantation, when the English Church festivals were
holidays alike to master and servants. The Christmas, Easter,
and Whitsuntide then lasted for a week at a time. And though
as a popular festival Thanksgiving Day was then unknown
in the South, yet it had always been under the name of Har-
vest Home, a Church of England day, and so observed in the
South by the descendants of English Churchmen. The Prayer
Book of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United
States had always provided a service for this day, "to be
used yearly on the first Thursday in November, or on such
other day as shall be appointed by the civil authority." And
though the "thanksgiving" was for all God's "mercies," it was
"especially for the returns of seedtime and harvest."
Calendar for the FirrEEN Southern States.
January i ; New Year's Day, legal holiday in all these States.
January 6: Epiphany, or "Twelfth Night," church festival;
popular superstitions, literature, and poetry. J
January 8: Battle of New Orleans, legal holiday in Loui- "
siana.
January 19: Lee's birthday, legal holiday in Virginia, Geor-
gia, North Carolina, South Carolina; holiday by "common
consent" in Alabama, Florida, and perhaps other States.
February 2: Candlemas, Ground Hog Day; popular super-
stition, etc.
February 14: St. Valentine's Day.
February 22 : Washington's birthday, legal holiday in all
the States.
February 22: Movable feast, Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tues-
day, legal holiday in Louisiana and Alabama.
March 2: Date of Texas Declaration of Independence, legal
holiday in Texas.
March 17: St. Patrick's Day.
April 10: Movable fast, Good Friday, legal holiday in
Maryland, Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana.
April 12: Movable feast, Easter.
April 21 : Battle of San Jacinto, legal holiday in Texas.
April 26: Confederate Memorial Day, legal holiday in Ala-
bama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi.
May 10. Death of Stonewall Jackson, Confederate Memorial
Day in South Carolina and North Carolina; legal holiday in
these States. Observed in Richmond, Va., as "Oakwood Me-
morial Day."
May 20: Mecklenburg Independence Day, legal holiday in
North Carolina.
May 24: Confederate Memorial Day in Alexandria, Va.
May (second Friday) : Confederate Memorial Day in Ten-
nessee.
May 30: Confederate Memorial Day, legal holiday in Vir-
ginia. Observed in Richmond as "Hollywood Memorial Day,"
observed as "Confederate Memorial Day'' in Wytheville, Bed-
ford City, Fairfax, and perhaps a few other places in Virginia.
May 30: F'ederal Decoration Day. Legal holiday in Mary-
land, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
June 3 : Birthday of Jefferson Davis, Confederate Memorial
Day in Louisiana ; also in Louisville, Ky. ; Winchester, War-
renton, Culpeper, Va. ; Memphis and Knoxville, Tenn. ; Fred-
erick, Md., etc. Legal holiday in Louisiana, Florida, Georgia,
South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Holiday by general
consent in Alabama. •
June 6; Confederate Memorial Day in Baltimore, Md.
June 9: Confederate Memorial Day in Petersburg, Va.
June 13 : Confederate Memorial Day in Woodstock, Va.
July 4: Legal holiday in all of the Southern States; desig-
nated as "Independence Day" in North and South Carolina,
West Virginia, and Kentucky.
September I : Labor Day. Legal holiday in all of these
States e.xccpt Mississippi, Maryland, and Louisiana. Novem-
ber 25 is the Labor Day holiday by law in New Orleans.
October 12: "North Carolina Day." Legal holiday in North
Carolina.
November (fourth Thursday) : Thanksgiving Day. Legal
holiday in North and South Carolina, and in all other States
any Thursday in November so designated by the Governor.
December 25 : Christmas. Legal holiday in all the Southern
States.
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KENTUCKY AND MISSOURI IN CONFEDERACY.
Extracts from "Life of James Murray Mason," Confederate
Commissioner to England, are sent to the Veteran in reply
to Mr. J. Randolph Smith's advocacy of eleven columns to the
Davis Memorial Arch. In an account of his interview with
Earl Russell, February lo, 1862, the following occurs:
"He took but little part in the conversation, asking only one
or two questions. One was as to the internal condition of
Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee, and he referred also to
the alienation of Northwestern Virginia. I told him that as
far as the three States named were concerned, they were now
members of the Confederate States ; that we knew a very
large majority of their people were with the South, and none
who knew the actual condition of things doubted that they
would remain so; and that as to Northwestern Virginia, the
pretense of a separate government there was an empty pageant,
credited only by the government at Washington, and by it
alone for the purposes of dehision."
Extract from tlic inaugural address of President Davis, de-
livered in Richmond, \'a., February 22, 1862 :
"Our Confederacy has grown from six to thirteen Stales;
and Maryland, already united to us by hallowed memories and
material interests, will, I believe, when able to speak with un-
stifled voice, connect her destiny with the South."
K. M. R. writes from Baltimore concerning these extracts :
"The above citations should be sufficient to convince Mr. J.
Randolph Smith that we had thirteen States in the Southern
Confederacy. If the President of the Confederate States and
their accredited Commissioner to England are not good au-
thority as to their number — in February, 1862 — the case is
hopeless. 'The Bonnie Blue Flag' gave eleven as the number
of States in the Confederacy under the Provisional Gov-
ernment. With the inauguration of the permanent govern-
ment there were thirteen States."
THEY WANT MORE THAN ELEVEN COLUMNS.
BY MRS. S. R. m'cUTCUKN, WARRENSBURG, MO.
As a devoted Daughter of the F. M. Cockrell Chapter,
U. D. C, of Warrensburg, Mo., and a native of Kentucky,
reared and educated there, and as, by adoption, a Missourian,
I protest against Mr. J. Randolph Smith's idea to omit the
fair and noble States of Kentucky and Missouri from columns
to the Davis monument. For shame! He should not express
such sentiments. Only eleven columns ! No I no I a thousand
times no! I would advise Mr. Randolph Smith to read up
on the history of Kentucky and Missouri previous to and
during our great war and see how Gov. Magoffin positively re-
fused men and ammunition to subjugate her Southern sister
States — not stepsister — when Lincoln called for 75,000 men.
I well remember how the Federal government, against the
protest of the Governor of Kentucky, poured its "hireling
hordes" on her soil at a place on Dix River, called at that
time Camp Dick Robinson, now Camp Nelson ; how her
brave sons flocked to the standard of the South under Buckncr
and Morgan and John C. Breckinridge. Where can you
find braver, grander, or more loyal men than Kentucky fur-
nished the Southern Confederacy? Even our great chieftain,
Jefferson Davis, was born on her soil and educated there. Her
Albert Sidney Johnston, her Morgans, her Gen. William Pres-
ton, her Humphrey Marshall, her Col. Grigsby, her Col. B. H.
Young, and a multitude of other brave men left their all tc
share the fortunes of the South. True, regiments were recruited
from these States for the Federal government, but they were
not of those to the "manner born." Kentucky could no more
help herself than the other States South in the final struggle.
So, too, in grand old Missouri. Her Sterling Price, her
Gov. Jackson, and her noble Shelby attest too well her atti-
tude at the beginning of this "gigantic struggle." Then her
heroic daughters were not lacking in their courage and devo-
tion to the South in those stormy days. St. Louis and Kansas
City, where there were Federal prisons, are witnesses to their
imprisonment. No matter how many men fought from North
Carolina ! They were brave, but none were braver or more
loyal to the Southern cause than grand old Missouri's sons and
daughters. Shall Confederate organizations be left out iu
Kentucky and Missouri? Shall all the Daughters of the Con-
federacy of these States, who have worked so lovingly and so
faithfully for the Davis memorial, be left out? To one of
Missouri's noble daughters belongs the honor of originating
the Dau.Rhtcrs of the Confederacy. Would he leave out
Mother McLure, of St. Louis, and Mrs. Hepburn, of Louis-
ville, and other as noble women who worked and prayed for
the Confederacy?
When Gen Lragg's army came into Kentucky, ragged and
hungry, Kentuckians, men and women, contributed both food
and clothing without stint. There was nothing too good for
the Confederate soldier to them. They were all heroes, and
O how proudly and gladly did we daughters help them ! So
it was with Missouri. When Price's army moved through
this State, the mothers and daughters were glad to share what
had been left them, for the Federals had robbed them of the
very necessities of life, yet through their love to the great
cause they gave all in many instances. Ah, none but her sons
and daughters know what hardships they endured for the Con-
federacy! And then not to be represented? Jefferson Davis
had no truer advocate in his halls of council than George G.
Vest, no better soldier than Francis M. Cockrell. Yes, and
could the sacred ashes of our chieftain speak, he would ex-
claim : "Yes, Kentucky is my birthplace. I love her sons and
daughters, for none were braver or more faithful. Yes, Mis-
souri stood almost alone during her strife with the Kansas
Jayhawkers previous to the war." Kentucky and Missouri
soldiers proved themselves on the battlefields of Shiloh, Mur-
freesboro, Franklin, and, indeed, on all the battlefields east and
west — Fort Donelson, Richmond, Gettysburg, Vicksburg. On
land and sea their soldiers made a name that can never die.
Gen. Elijah Gates, with both arms shot and dangling at his
sides, rode with the bridle reins in his teeth upon the breast-
works of the enemy at Franklin, leading the First and Third
Missouri. There, too, Cockrell's brigade flag received thii-
leeii bullets.
All honor to brave old Kentucky and grand old Missouri !
Yes, let us reverentially build the Memorial to the man who
represented the loved cause of Di.xie, and keep it holy in our
Southern hearts in Kentucky and Missouri !
Mrs. V. Y. McCanne, Moberly, Mo., sent $1 for the "Bill
Arp" Memorial, and incloses a letter on the eleven columns
proposition in the Davis Monument, in which she states, in
reply to J. Randolph Smith in the December Veteran :
"This word of defense is in memory of brave men who gave
'their all,' even (heir lives, for the cause they espoused.
"There are some dark memories for Missouri when the
trouble was beginning. With the Federals pouring into the
State on three sides, old men, young men, and boys, whose
last memories were their mothers' kisses and tears, started
through dangers innumerable to fight their way to Price be-
cause their principles and sympathies urged them to aid the
South, while they hoped for better conditions for Missouri.
"Mr, J. Randolph Smith reproaches Kentucky and Missouri
with 'having Federal governors.' Can he think the North
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would let two such States go without an efltort to hold thein
in the union? Yet Missouri was in the unique position of
having two governors at the same time. The Southern gov-
ernor went with the army to Southwest Missouri, while the
Federal authorities had sworn in another at Jeflferson City.
"Grand old Kentucky ! Seeds of Republicanism were scat-
tered by the irrny, even to the confines of the moonshiners,
that keep up the turmoil yet ; hut the unconquerable principles
of democracy rule her sunny plains, and they arc bred in the
very rocks of her hills.
"One finds it hard to quote, and hard not to quote, from this
strange jumble. For instance, 'Kentucky, Maryland, and Mis-
souri gave to the Confederacy some of the bravest men who
followed Lcc and Western commanders ; but when the memo-
rial to President Davis is completed, let us erect no coluinns
to these States, step-sisters to the Confederacy.' Adding that
"only eleven stars should be on the Confederate flag, and
especially on the Crosses of Honor.'
"Again, speaking of the seceded States and the stars, 'some
Yankee, seeing we were Rip Van Winkles, and thinking it
hard that the Union, with all the world to draw upon, should
be kept out of Richmond four years by eleven Slates, added
two, and we, yet half asleep, not only did not resent it, but
adopted it, to our hurt.' The two were Kentucky and Mis-
souri, graveyards even then through their desperate fighting
to keep the Federals from the South. How will that sound
to men who fought with Price, McCullough, Bowen, Cle-
burne, Shelby, Gates, Cockrell, and Morgan, and scores of
gallant oflxers in Missouri and Kentucky. When troops were
wanted at Corinth, these Missourians went cheerfully from
Elk Horn to the river, many of them marching barefoot
through the snow, the long road full of appalling privations;
their homes were falling in sacrifice, between Federals and
bushwhackers ; between their ideas of State rights and coer-
cion, their State was tottering, with none to save ; yet they
went, full of the splendid courage that pulsed through the
South, hoping against hope.
"If, when returning from tlie war, homeless and sorely dis-
couraged, these men had the faintest suspicion of the feeling
Mr. Smith avows with such delicate candor, they crushed it
as a base ingratitude against their kind.
"What purpose can be served now with such stuflf? Our
children get a false inipiession of their fathers' motives. If
carries a wrong conception of the loyalty of an honest people
toward a magnificent government. Both sides have much to
forgive, if we have any government.
"It is a singular coincident that the same number of the
Veter.'^n has a letter from a G. A. R. man in New York, who
speaks of the 'foolish bitterness over the war, and the issues
that had to be fought to a finish,' and who warmly com-
mends the editor of the Veteran for the 'heroic struggle he is
making for his comrades.' Such men set us right with other
people and make us feel right as well. It is the hero who
gives credit to bravery on the other side. Gen. Lee's beautiful
life was a sacrifice to the land he loved, yet he was just to
the government from the time he laid down his arms. He
lived to see Kentucky and Missouri rising from the fires that
swept them ; he lived to see bitter sectionalism dying, the spirit
that would oppose the 'thirteen columns,' a spirit that is too
narrow for a generous people to comprehend."
ried out, would do a great injustice to thousands of good,
patriotic citizens and soldiers in Maryland, Kentucky, and
Missouri, whose loyal devotion to the South was never ques-
tioned and who have stood the test of time, by excluding
them from any of the honors of the Davis Memorial for the
crime, as he alleges, of failing to secede from the United
States and for tolerating the rule of Federal Governors, etc.
As to Missouri, we had a Southern man for Governor tried
and true until he was driven from his seat by the Federal
army, and for a time marched with the Confederate forces
and directed their movements, and at the first opportunity
convened the Legislature in extra session in the city of Neosho,
where they passed an ordinance of secession, declared the
Stale out of the Union, and sent delegates to both branches
of the Confederate Congress, who were recognized and re-
■ceived by President Davis and the Richmond government
into the councils of the Confederacy. Comrade Smith loses
sight of the fact that those were Irorder States and were
soon overrun by the great armies of the North, which later
on swept over every Southern State and drove our noble and
devoted President, whom we wish to honor, from his seat. I
cannot believe that a majority of the people of the South con-
demn these tried, true, and patriotic people for failing to per-
form an impossibility by holding in check the combined forces
of the North and the outside world. We gave up our homes
and country lo the invaders inch by inch, never faihng to in-
flict the greatest damage to them in our power. It was an
easy matter to be a Southern man in the South from 1861 to
1865, but it was quite difl:'erent in the border States under the
iron heel of oppression. Again it should be remembered that
to the Missouri soldiers belongs the honor of being the la^t
to quit the contest. The remnant of Shelby's Brigade of Mis-
souri Cavalry maintained the Confederate banner, defiantly
and triumphantly, until .hily i, 1865, when it was sadly and
solemnly weighted beneath the waves of the Rio Grande River.
The folds of this last flag had been ornamented by the queenly
hands of Arkansas's fairest daughters and presented to Shel-
by's old brigade as a token of admiration for their desperate
fighting and knightly soldier qualities, and, as they had never
lost a banner, they were determined that this one should never
fall into the hands of their enemies. I feel sure that I represent
the sentiments of 99 per cent of the Southern people of Mis-
souri when I say that when the time comes they will e.xpect
and insist on being accorded the same honors and rights in
the Davis Memorial aiven to other Soiuhcrn States.
Sam Box, Westville, Ind. T., Protests. — In the December,
1903, Veteran Comrade J. Randolph Smith, of Henderson,
N. C, favors eleven columns for the Davis Memorial. The
good I'rother is living in delusion, and his suggestions, if car-
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SEVEN OK ELEVEN SURVIVORS CO. F, TWELKTH ALAHAMA REGIMENT, PlIO lOGR APHED IN OPELIKA NO\'. 26, 1903.
FIRST SKRG. T. H. CLOWER.
C. C. DAVIS.
G. P. WARE.
There was a reunion at Opclika, -Ma., on last Thanksgiving
of surviving members of the Macon Confederates, from Tusko-
gee, Ala., which was Company F, of the" Twelfth Alabama
Regiment. The captain of the company, R. F. Ligon, became
Governor of the State, and David Clopton, who was on the
Supreme Bench of his State, was a private. He was lat<;r
quartermaster of the regiment before his election to the Con-
federate Congress. The members of this company, which
comprised one hundred and five originally, and was recruited
until it aggregated one hundred and forty-four, were worth
two million dollars. Many of its members became commis-
sioned ofiicers in other regiments. It is sad to relate that only
seven .«urvivors out of the one hundred and forty-four met at
Opelika recently. Among these was the only living com-
missioned ofliccr, who was captain of the company, Robert E.
Park (now State Treasurer of Georgia, and lives in Atlanta),
Sergeant Thomas H. Clower, late Mayor of Opelika ; Sergeant
Nathan R. Simmons, Superintendent of Streets, Opelika:
Sergeant James H. Eason, connected with the Plant Railway
System at Montgomery; Hon. Robert W. Drake, laie sheriff
of Hale County, Ala., and a prominent planter; Mr. Colum-
bus C. Davis, of Tuskcgee. Ala. ; and Mr. George Pierce Ware.
of Auburn, Ala., both successful and popular farmers, and all
men of high character and influence in their various localities.
These gentlemen dined with Mr. and Mrs. DeLay, the son-
in-law and daughter i.f Mr. G. P. Ware, and supped with Hon.
R. W. DRAKE. SERG. N. R. SIMMONS.
R. E. PARK. SERG. J. H. KASON.
and Mrs. T. H. Clower. They feasted on Thanksgiving tur-
key, with cranberries, barbecued pig, delightful salads, fruit,
and pound cake, ices, and all the elegant cl cctnas which ac-
company splendid Thanksgiving occasions.
These gentlemen had a group picture taken, and upon
weighing at the public scales the following were learned to
be their respective weights: Capt. Park, 222 pounds; Hon.
T. H. Clower, 185 pounds; Hon. R. W. Drake, 246 pounds;
J. H. Eason, 187 pounds; G. P. Ware, 175 pounds; N. R.
SimuKins, 16" pounds; C. C. Davis, 139 pounds.
These members read over the list of the members of old
Company F, and discussed affectionately the few living and
the host of dead comrades with whom they had shared the
dangers and hardships, the humors and excitements of four
years.
Of those present, Mr. Davis was one severely wounded at
Strasburg, Va. ; Mr. Ware was wounded at Seven Pines and
Snickers Gap, Mr. Simmons at Chancellorsville, Mr. Eason
at Sharpsburg and Gettysburg. Capt. Park was wounded at
the Wilderness, Gettysburg, and Winchester, and a bullet
passed through his hat at Seven Pines. Messrs. Clower and
Drake, than whom there were never two more gallant and
intrepid soldiers, and few shared in as many engagements,
were never wounded. All were in fine health and splendid
spirits, and fully resolved to have annual reunions in the
future.
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cos FEDERATED MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.
The Vkteran is pleased to give a good likeness herewith of
Mrs. W. J. Behan, President of the Confederated Southern
Memorial Association. She was born in New Orleans, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. William Walker. While yet a young
girl, she was enthusiastic for the Southern cause, and ren-
dered valuable assistance to the ladies of the Soldiers' Aid
Society in their noble work. As Miss Katie Walker she will
be remembered by many of the Southern soldiers who were
confined in the military prisons and hospitals of New Orleans
durmg the war. She was educated in her native city at the
-Orleans Academy under Prof. Dimitry, and graduated with
high honors from the Ursulinc Convent, the oldest female
college in the United States. In 1902 Mrs. Behan was elected
President of the Ursuline Alumnae and reelected in 1903.
In 1SO6 she married William J. Behan, who was an officer
in that famous command, the Washinslon Artillery, in the
Army of Northern Virginia. He
was the first major general of the
Louisiana Division, United Confed-
erate Veterans, and is a valiant
comrade.
Mrs. Behan is one of tlie oldest
members of the Ladies' South-
ern Memorial Association of New
Orleans, and is now serving her
third term as its President. This
is one of the largest and most ac-
tive of the Memorial Associations
of the South. In May, 1900, the
Confederated Southern Memorial
Association was organized at Louis-
ville, Ky., and Mrs. Behan was
unanimously chosen as Presidciii
for a term of three years. This
Confederation is composed of sixty
or more Memorial Associations, the
majority of these dating their or-
ganization as far back as 1865, im-
mediately after the surrender of
•the remnant of Gen. Lee's incom-
parable army. Many of these as-
sociations existed during the four
years of the war, having been
formed for the purpose of aiding the soldiers who were then
leaving for the seat of war. Clothing, uniforms, and provi-
sions were supplied by these noble women, who were also
constant in their tender ministrations to the sick and dying.
At that lime these noble women were banded together and
known as Soldiers' Aid Societies.
Immediately after the surrender of the Confederate armies
these same loyal and devoted women organized Memorial As-
sociations to care for the graves of those who had sacrificed
their lives on the altar of duty, and whenever practicable to re-
move their remains from distant battlefields to their native
soil, and there erect monuments that would tell to coming
generations the story of their glorious deeds. And when Jef-
ferson Davis wrote his great work, "The Rise and Fall of the
Confederate Govcriinicnt," and dedicated it to the Women of
the Confederacy, he paid a high tribute to these women, whom
he knew to be as faithful and as valiant during these trying
times as were their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons whose
swords they buckled on and sent forth to battle for Southern
rights.
MRS. W. J. BEIIAN.
In 1894 the daughters of these women inaugurated that
grand and enthusiastic organization, the United Daughters of
the Confederacy. Their work and influence has spread over
the whole South, also in many .sections North, and they have
proved themselves worthy daughters of noble mothers. Quot-
ing from the beautiful poem, dedicated to the women of the
Confederacy, by Mrs. Virginia Frazer Boyle, of Memphis.
Tenn., we can truthfully say:
"Give the laurel to thr victor,
Give the sonff unto the slain,
Give the iron cross of honor
Ere Death Liys the Soultiron down:
But give to tite&e souls prt»ven.
Tried l)y fire anci by pain,
A memory of tlieir mother love
That pressed an iron crown.**
At the fourth aimual convention of the Confederated South-
ern Memorial .\ssociation, held in New Orleans, in May,
1903, Mrs. Behan was chosen agani
unanimously as President for a
second term of three years. The
growth and success of the Confed-
eration is due largely to her zeal
and enthusiasm.
The Confederated Southern Me-I
morial Association is cooperating'
with the United Daughters of the
Confederacy in the erection of the
Jefferson Davis Monument. A his-
tory of the "Confederated Memo-
rial Associations of the South" is
now being compiled, to be sold for
the benefit of this monument.
Mrs. Behan's handsome home on
-Mhambra Plantation, Whitecas-
ile. La., has been the scene of many
elegant entertainments; one in par-
ticular given in honor of her guest.
Miss Mary Custis Lee, will be re-
membered by those who had the
Kood fortune to be present.
To those who know personally
the noble, patriotic woman, it may
seem odd to say that "she is one of
the oldest members of the Ladies'
Southern Memorial .'\ssociation." The statement is bor-
rowed. It seems incredible that Katie Walker was old enough
in the sixties to take active interest in the Confederate Cause.
so youth'ful in appearance and active is she now. The Vet-
eran has long desired to pay tribute to this President of the
C. S. M. A., giving honor to whom honor is due, but she has
not concurred in the opinion that giving her prominence was
at all important to the success of the great work over which she
presides. Her generous spirit in having this oldest of all
Confederate organizations adopt the Veteran as its official
organ will never be forgotten by its founder.
A Veteran Who Never Missed a Battle.
The author of a book on the Washington Artillery wrote
of Comrade Behan: "In this battle [Fredericksburg] Lieut.
W. J. Behan, who had won his spurs at Sharp-sburg, first as-
sisted in the command of the fourth company. Besides being
a good officer, he enjoyed the honor of never having missed jl;
a roll call or battle during the war." He is ex-Mayor of New ^^
Orleans, his native city.
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PALLBEARERS AT GEN. GORDON'S FUNERAL.
Capt. R. E. Park, State Treasurer of Georgia, sends the list:
"I have just conferred with Gov. Terrell, who had the ap-
pointment of the pallbearers at Gen. Gordon's funeral, and he
gave me the following names :
"S. A. Cunningham, Nashville, Tenn. ; Gen. B. A. Teague,
Aiken. S. C.; Gen. W. E. Mickle, Mobile, Ala.; Gen. B. H.
Yoimg, Louisville, Ky. From Georgia there were : Gen. C.
M. Wiley, Macon; Gen. S. W. Harris, Carrollton; Capt. John
Triplett, Thomasville; Maj. W. W. Hulbert, Atlanta; Capt.
R. E. Park, Macon; Col. W. S. Shepherd, Columbus; Capt.
E. P. Howell, Atlanta; Capt. J. L. McCollum, Marietta.
"The following names were also on the list, but were not
in the city, and the other. Gov. Jones, was among the orators
and invited guests — namely, Col. J. T. EUyson, of Virginia;
Gen. G. P. Harrison, of Alabama ; Col. J. A. Lovell, Tallahas-
see, Fla. ; Gon. Robert Lowry, of Mississippi. Hon. Thomas
G. Jones was also in the list, but he was one of the speakers
and invited guests.
"The pallbearers who bore the casket were: Capt. W. H.
Harrison, Thirty-First Georgia; and Privates E. D. L. Mobley,
First .-XTkansas ; J. C. Huff, Cobb's Georgia Cavalry Legion;
J. H. Sutlcn, Thirty-First Georgia; G. N. Dexter, Third
Georgia ; Samuel Ogletree, J. L. Bosworth, D. J. Smith, and
R. O. Ford."
Gen. Gordon's Regard for Editor of the Veteran.
In a letter from Rockbridge Alum Springs, Va., August 21.
1899, upon notice of a suit for libel with which readers of the
Veteran are familiar. Gen. Gordon responded :
"i am not advised as to the character of the criticism of
which you speak, and your letter gives me the first information
of the suit to which you refer. Without looking into the
matter at all, I have no hesitation in saying that nothing could
induce me to believe that you had intentionally wronged any
man. much less a Confederate soldier.
"My enga.gements have been so constant that, together with
the confusion and dismay consequent upon the loss of my
home by fire with nearly all that was in it, and my subsequent
efforts to reimburse myself by lecturing, the privilege of keep-
ing up with the progress of events has been denied me. I
am here now for rest and recuperation."
Gen. Gordon in the Northwest.
G. H. Blakeslee, of Eddyvillc, Neb., in renewing subscrip-
tion for the Veteran, refers to Gen. Gordon :
"Our papers, especially those who have ever paid some re-
spect to the veteran soldiers — more particularly the G. A. R.
papers — have but words of love and kindness for the illus-
trious dead of the Southland. To me, news of the death of the
noble Gordon is f)€culiar!y sorrowing. We had learned to love
and appreciate his noble character. Time and again he has
been with us at our meetings, and endeared himself to us
with his noble patriotic words. In the home of every true sol
dier of the Koith there are but the kindest memories of Gen.
John B. Gordon."
In Memory of Gen. Gordon at De Funiak Springs, Fla. —
Mayor G. P. Henry was called to the chair, and James A.
McLean made Secretary. The Chairman paid a glowing
tribute to the memory of the distinguished dead. He was fol-
lowed by Wallace Bruce, President of the Florida Chautauqua,
and spoke eloquently and feelingly of Gen. Gordon's life, re-
ferring particularly to his labor of love in bridging the bjpody
chasm, and allaying the bitter feeling engendered by four
years of fratricidal war. William Rogers, Capt. R. E. Rose,
Prof. Gessard. Prof. C. M. Conner, Capt. Stubbs, Capt. Colver,
and Judge McLeod made short and well-timed addresses.
Mayor Henry, Judge McLeod, and Secretary McLean re-
ported suitable resolutions, saying that 'in the death of
Gen. John B. Gordon the South has lost one of her most es-
teemed citizens ; the Confederate Veterans a wise and beloved
commander ; and the entire Union a splendid type of Amer-
ican manhood.''
Personal Tribute to Gen. J. B. Gordon.
In personal tributes, Philip H. Fall, of Houston, Te.x., said :
''He was a soldier and a statesman. His oratorical talents^
were of the highest order, and often in his magnificent perora-
tions he held his audience in perfect, magnetic spell,
"As has often been experienced by audiences of thousands,
he alone could enforce order and control the vast throng. His
voice was peculiarly constituted, and without effort his slight-
est exclamation would penetrate to every ear understandingly.
His repartee was of that happy nature, never giving offense,
but acting as oil upon the troubled waters.
"He was a sublime dictator, for when he spoke all else was
silent, and gave ready ear to his majestic speech. Whenever
his gavel fell and his musical voice called, 'Come to order,
boys,' quiet instantaneously assumed its sway.
'Discord fled at the wave of his hand.
Harmony prevailed at Gordon's command;
His gavel fell, his musical voice
Gently exclaimed, "Come to order, my boys!" '
"He was the most attractive conversationalist of his genera-
lion, his mind was so completely stored with the history of the
world of which any record is known. His knowledge of hu-
manity in all its phases, his great mind, coupled with a natural
grace of expression, gave him such a magnetism over those
with whom he came in contact that he was at all times and
in all places master of the situation."
Typical Southern Pride of Gen. Gordon.
Soon after the fire that destroyed Gen. Gordon's home, in
the fall of 1899, he learned that a movement had been inau-
gurated by Veterans to rebuild it, and he immediately wrote
from Rockbridge Alum Springs, Va., to Gen. Moorman, his-
chief of staft':
"My Dear General: I have just received your letter inform-
ing me that the Army of Northern Virginia, Camp No. i,
U. C. v., and Veteran Confederate States Cavalry, Camp No.
9, U. C. v., both of New Orleans, La., have notified you that
they are taking steps to rebuild my home, lately destroyed by
fire. No words that I could employ could adequately express,
my gratitude to those brave and devoted comrades for thi*
manifestation of regard for me and of sympathy in my great
misfortune. I request you, however, to say to those Camps,
and to any others making a similar move, that I cannot permit
them to carry out this generous purpose. With the land on
which my home stood free from incumbrance, and with my
health somewhat improved, I hope to be able by my own
efforts to rebuild my home before a great while."
Boys Made Gen. Gordon Run.
The story is told that on a snowy day some years ago in
-Atlanta, Gen. (Governor) Gordon was on his way to the old
State capitol. A crowd of boys from a military school were
waiting in ambush for him. Suddenly the air was full of
snowballs, and the General was literally covered witli snow.
He gracefully lifted his silk hat and said: "Boys, I surrender."
"But we want you to run," came in chorus, and with it more
snowballs. "Young gentlemen, I will," he said. And he did
with vigor until he reached a place of safety.
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CONVENTION OF VIRGINIA DIVISION, U. D. C.
Iiy KATHARINE NOLAND CAHNETT.
The first joint convention of the Daughters of the Con-
federacy in Virginia was held in Norfolk on October 2i-2j,
1903, in Christ Church Parish House, the delegates being the
guests of the Pickett-Buchanan Chapter, U. D. C. Miss Ruth
Jennings, of Lynchburg, First Vice President, presided in
place of Mrs. W. A. Smoot, President, who was detained at
home by illness. The convention was opened with prayer b>
Rev. Carl E. Grammer, rector of Christ Church, Norfolk.
Mrs. Charles G. Elliott, President of Pickelt-Buchanan
Chapter, made a cordial address of welcome, which was re-
sponded to by Miss Ruth Jennings.
The roll, by Chapters, was then called. Thirty-five Chapters
■were represented by their own delegates and fifteen by proxy.
Other delegates arrived later.
The Richmond Chapter has nearly five hundred members,
and the Pickett-Buchanan, including the auxiliary with one
hundred and fifty members under the able management of
Mrs. Frank Anthony Walke, has three hundred. The Chapter
reports were all of great interest and showed splendid work
and increased interest in the sacred cause assumed by the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Reports of the standing and the special committees occupied
the morning session of Thursday.
Thursday evening a literary session was held, inaugurated
by Mrs. Philip E. Yeatman, who read an interesting paper on
the duties of the Daughters of the Confederacy and the im-
portance of instilling into the younger generation the principles
of our fathers and love of the commonwealth.
Judge Theodore S. Garnett introduced Mrs. Janie Hope
Marr, who read a paper on her distinguished father, Capt.
James Barron Hope, quoting largely from his poems. She
•was much applauded by the audience. Mrs. W. W. Strother
contributed a most able paper on the "Organization of Wom-
en's Clubs." Mrs. Yeatman also read a valuable paper writ-
ten by Mrs. Nellie Deans Taylor, of Gloucester, on "The
Causes of Secession," showing much thought and research.
Interspersed between the papers were music and Southern
songs, including "Dixie," in which the audience joined.
On Friday, after a morning session, an oyster roast was
given the visiting delegates by the Pickett-Buchanan Chapter
at Willoughby Club, which was participated in by most of the
convention. It gave the ladies an opportunity to meet in-
formally, and was greatly enjoyed. Tlie election of officers
at night resulted as follows:
Honorary Presidents — Mrs. James Mercer Garnett, Balti-
more; Mrs. Philip T. Yeatman, Alexandria; Miss Mary A.
Smith, Warrenton.
President — Miss Ruth Jennings, Lynchburg.
Vice Presidents — Mrs. Otto L. Evans, Amherst ; Mrs. B. B.
Brochenbrough, Tappahannock ; Mrs. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart..
Norfolk; Mrs. J. C. Sitwell, Bedford City.
Recording Secretary — Mrs. Pryor Jones, Petersburg.
Corresponding Secretary — Mrs. Stirling Murray, Leesburg.
Treasurer — Mrs. C. B. Tate, Pulaski.
Historian — Mrs. Philip E. Yeatman, Norfolk.
Registrar — Mrs. James A. Scott, Lynchburg.
Custodian — Mrs. J. H. Timberlake, Richmond.
The next convention will meet at Petersburg. The Virginia
Division now numbers over thirty-seven hundred members,
and is next in size to Texas.
This union of the first Virginia Division and the Grand
Division of Virginia, so long desired, and yet so long delayed
by force of circumstances, was accomplished on May 20, 1903,
at Lynchburg, where delegates met from both Divisions to
arrange the union. The Daughters of N'irginia have ever been
one in efforts and one in principles, drawn together by the
strongest ties of ancestrj- and affinity and in this great work
which quickens the pulse and stirs the heart of every true
Southern woman, as Mrs. Elliott feelingly remarked in her
address of welcome. With the union of these two great bodies
will come increased power and wider influence.
That the convention was a very successful one was evi-
denced by the harmonious way in which very important busi-
ness was transacted, and by the fact that the deliberations of
the Daughters in Norfolk have thoroughly cemented the ""e-
cently formed union and assured to Virginia a "Love" that
"makes memory eternal," the motto chosen from James Barron
Hope by the Virginia Division, U. D. C. A red rose and a
white rose worn together, representing life and purity re-
spectively, was adopted as the floral emblem. With a cordial
vote of thanks for Norfolk's hospitality, the convention closed
Friday night at twelve o'clock with the long meter doxology,
in which the vast audience joined with much solemnity.
THE U. D. C. OF TEXAS TO THE PRESIDENT.
Miss Katie Daffan, of Ennis, Te.x., President of the Texas
Division, U. D. C, forwarded to President Roosevelt the reso-
lutions adopted by the State Convention at Houston in regard
to his official recognition of Panama, in which she states :
"In pursuance of a resolution unanimously adopted by the
State Convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy,
held in Houston, Tex., I, as President of the Texas Division,
U. D. C, have the honor to transmit to you the Inclosed reso-
lutions expressive of the sentiment of that body concerning
your recent action in recognizing as a nation the new republic
of Panama, formed after the secession of the State of Panama
from the United States of Colombia.
"Those composing the membership of our organization have
always rested under the profound and conscientious conviction
that any sovereign State had the right to withdraw from any
compact of union, where such union had ceased to subserve
the purposes of its formation, and they cherish with pride the
deeds of those who so bravely battled against invasion which
followed upon the assertion of that right by the people of the
South.
"And it is peculiarly gratifying to them to see you, in the
exercise of the prerogatives of your high office, with the ap-
proval of your able Secretary of State, give to the right of
secession your indorsement.
"Those whom I represent recognize that the question of
secession is practically settled forever adversely to our conten-
tion, but it is gratifying to us to know that even as an abstract
question it has received indorsement from such exalted source.
"We beg to tender you our assurance of esteem and to ex-
press the desire that the great government of which you are
the executive head may grow in greatness and glory, and in
the language of Jefferson Davis, 'On the arch of the union of
indestructible and sovereign States there may be engraved
"Esto Pcrpctua." ' "
The resolutions referred to are as follows :
"Whereas the President of the United States, by his recent
course toward the Republic of Panama, has shown to the
world his indorsement of the principle of the right of secession ;
and whereas the people of the Northern States, by their ac-
ceptance and approval of his course, have shown that they
have been led by him out of the fog of ignorance to the bright
realms of truth attained by the Southern States so many years
ago; therefore be it
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"Resolved, That we extend to the President the approval
and affih'ation of the Daughters of the Confederacy of Texas,
in convention assembled, for his indorsement of the principles
and his vindication of the cause for which the Southern peo-
ple fought so gloriously but so disastrously in the War be-
tween the States."
REMAINING LIEUTENANT GENERALS.
Many papers in the South have misrepresented recently con-
cerning surviving lieutenant generals, mentioning that Gen.
Gordon was the last of them. In fact, there are three sur-
vivors, the senior being Gen. A. P. Stewart. The others arc
Stephen U. Lee and S. B. Buckner.
It is understood that Gen. Wheeler's status was the same
as that of Gen. Gordon's; as, while acting as corps commandi^r
at the close, he had failed to receive commission as lieutenant
general. The editor of the Veteran wrote Gen. Gordon in
regard to his rank in iSgp, and in his reply stated :
"f was informed by Gen. Breckinridge, Secretary of War,
while my corps was at Petersburg, that I had been made a
lieutenant general. Like a great many other cases at that
period of the war, my commission never reached me. I was,
however, accorded the rank and assignment, but was waiting
for my commission to the last before signing officially as
lieutenant general."
FLORIDA DIVISION, U. C. V.
The annual meeting of the Florida Division, U. C. V., w;is
held at Orlando December 9 and 10. There were represented
thirty-one Camps out of a total of thirty-nine.
The addresses of the opening session on Tuesday were ex-
cellent. Judge Cooper was especially happy in his words of
welcome on behalf of the local Camp and the people of St.
Augustine. The address of Gen. Law, the Division Com-
mander, was received with enthusiasm and its recommenda-
tions generally adopted. Gov. Jennings made an address
which, from a Northern standpoint, was replete with eulogiunis
on the South and nobly generous to her cause. Greetings were
sent to Gens. Finley, Miller, Iverson, and Bullock. A gavel
from Comrade Robert W. Davis, made of wood taken from
the historic field of Manassas, was presented to the Division.
At this session the sponsors and maids of honor were present-
ed and received with the usual enthusiasm by the veterans.
At the morning session on Wednesday the report of the
Adjutant General was presented, and reports of committees.
The following action was taken pursuant to these reports:
Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy were urged to as-
sist in organizing Camps of the Sons of Veterans in this
State; a burial service was adopted, and the Adjutant General
requested to have same printed for use of Camps ; those in
charge of our public schools were urged to use greater efforts
to rid our schools of falsified history, especially regarding
the War between the States ; the Legislature was asked to make
a larger appropriation for the Olustee monument, also to elim-
inate from the pension law the age limit of sixty-five years,
and the Adjutant General requested to present these matters
to the next Legislature. A committee appointed to look into
the matter reported for information that the Confederate bat-
tle flag was of square shape, and not oblong, as is often seen.
A Confederate Slates naval Hag displayed in the convention
attracted much attention. It is oblong with a white ground,
and the Southern Cross and thirteen stars in the field, the
cross in red.
Gen. George Reese, from the Committee on the Battle Ab-
bey, reported the original amount secured, but asked a further
contribution to make the work complete, which was adopted.
It was decided that the annual encampments of the Divi-
sion should not be later than November 15.
Thanks were extended to the ladies of St. Augustine with
a rising vote and three cheers.
Ocala, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Pensacola, and Fort Pierce
contended for the next place of 'meeting, and Ocala won.
Gen. Law having declined to permit the use of his name for
reelection. Gen. Ballentine, of the Second Brigade, was elected
to command the Division for the ensuing year. Gen. Law
was unanimously elected Honorary Commander for life, with
all the privileges and courtesies of that position.
At the close of the Division meeting the Third Brigade held
its annual meeting and reelected Gen. W. H. Jewell as Com-
mander, making the sixth time this honor has been conferred
on him.
MEMORIES OF THE SIXTIES.
A most charming lecture of personal war experiences, en-
titled "Memories of the Sixties," is being delivered by our
distinguished friend. Gen. C. I. Walker, now living at Green-
ville, S. C. Although the lecture is new, he has several ap-
pointments in different parts of South Carolina to deliver it
in aid of the Hampton monument and other worthy Confed-
erate objects. Gen. Walker succeeded Gen. Wade Hampton
as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia Depart-
ment, U. C. V. The Veteran has given much of Gen. Walk-
er's distinguished services in the war. Some of the many in-
cidents of this service must prove intensely interesting as
told by one who is so capable and eloquent. In his long career
of active service he must have struck upon many incidents
of humor and pathos which are embodied in the lecture. He
commanded the Tenth South Carolina Infantry.
Gen. Walker has deeply at heart the proposed monument to
the Women of the Confederacy, and the veterans owe it to
these glorious women, as well as to themselves, that it be
erected in the near future. Recent sad bereavements ad-
monish us that our time on earth is rapidly drawing to a close^
and diligence in such matters is imperative if we would per-
form our duty. Confederate organizations might secure the
services of Gen. Walker and send him on a pilgrimage
through the South. By his lecture, funds might be raised and
enthusiasm aroused which would do much good.
Gen. Walker, an active participant, tells of the movements
of armies and the most thrilling episodes. He was in contact
with the private soldier — the maker of the glory of our gen-
erals and of our cause. He presents vividly facts in that im-
mortal struggle for Confederate liberty.
Any Chapter of the Daughters or Camp of the Veterans or
Sons, having any special object to advance, could materially
help the same by securing Gen. Walker in this lecture. The
word "lecture" carries with it to the popular mind the idea
of requiring an audience of cultured or literary people, but the
scope of Gen. Walker's lecture appeals to the sentiment of
loyalty to Confederate memories. It will interest every loyal
friend in our dear Southland, especially.
"Some Go Up and Some Go Down." — In Hooker's "Battle
Above the Clouds" a good portion of Walthall's Brigade was
captured, placed on board a steamboat, and started for prison.
They were consigned to the upper deck of the steamer, and as
they were being marched up the steps leading to that part of
the boat they met a Yankee oflicer coming down. Scowling
on them as they passed, he said : "Suppose this boat should
sink ; what do you think would become of all- you d
Rebels?" Quick as a flash the answer came from one of the
lean, lank Rebs: "Just the same as it is now. Cap.; we would
continue to go up and you would continue to go down."
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THE UNSUCCESSFUL.
We met them on the common way,
They passed and gave no sign —
The heroes that had lost the day.
The failures, half divine.
Ranged in a quiet place, we see
Their mighty ranks contain
Figures too great for victory.
Hearts too unspoiled for gain.
Here are earth's splendid failures, come
From glorious foughten fields ;
Some bear the wounds of combat, some
.\re prone upon their shields.
To us, that still do battle here,
!f we in aught prevail.
Grant, God, a triumph, not too dear.
Or strength, like theirs, to fail.
— Elizabeth C. Cardolo, in Century Maga3ine.
CEX. JAMES LONGSTREET.
The death of Gen. James Longslreet occurred at the resi-
dence of a daughter m Gainesville, Ga. His home had been
on a romantic spot in that town for many years, although as
the Railroad Commissioner for the
United States much of the time since
the death of Gen. J. E. Johnston, his
predecessor, who was appointed by
President Cleveland, he stayed in Wash
ington.
Gen. James Longstrcet was born in
Edgefield District, S. C, on January 8,
1821. His family removed to Alabama
in 1831, and he was appointed from that
State to the West Point Military Acad-
emy, where he was graduated in 1842.
and was assigned to the Fourth Infan-
try. He was at Jefferson barracks, Missouri, in 1842-44; on
frontier duty at Natchitoches, La., in 1844-45; in Texas in
1845-46, and in Mexico at the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de
la Palma, Monterey, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, San Antonio,
Churubosco, and Moline del Rey. For gallant conduct in the
two latter engagements he was brevetted captain and major,
having already been made first lieutenant February 23, 1847.
At the storming of Chapultepec, September 8, 1847, he was
severely wounded. He was chief commissary of the depart-
ment of Texas, 1849-51 ; was commissioned captain in De-
cember, 1852, and major and paymaster in July, 1858.
In 1861 he resigned to join the Confederate army, of which
he was immediately appointed brigadier general, and won dis-
tinction in the first battle of Bull Run, where he prevented a
large force of Federal troops from supporting McDowell's
flank attack. On May 5, 1862, he made a brave stand at Wil-
liamsburg, where he was attacked by Hcintzelman, Hooker,
and Karney, and held his ground sturdily until Hancock ar-
rived to reenforce his opponents, when he was driven back.
GKN LONGSTREET.
At the second battle of Manassas he commanded the first
corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, which came prompt-
ly to the relief of Jackson when he was hard pressed by
Pope's army, and by a determined flank charge decided the
fortunes of the day. When Lee retreated to Virginia, after
the battle of Gettysburg, Gen. Longstreet, with five brigades,
was transferred to Tennessee under Bragg, and at Chicka-
mauga held the left wing of the Confederate forces. He re-
joined Lee early in 1864, and was so prominent in the battle
of the Wilderness that he was wounded by the fire of his
own troops. He was in the surrender at Appomattox on
April 9, 1865. Throughout the army he was familiarly known
as "Old Pete," and was considered the hardest fighter in the
Confederate service. He had the unbounded confidence of
his troops who were ordered to him, and the whole army be-
came imbued with new vigor in the presence of the foe
when it became known down the line that "Old Pete" was up.
Gen. Longstreet took up his residence in New Orleans after
the war, and established the commercial house of Longstreet,
Owens & Co. He was appointed surveyor of the port of
New Orleans by Gen. Grant, and was afterwards supervisor I
of internal revenue in Louisiana and postmaster of New Or- j
leans. In 1880 he was sent as United States Minister to Tur-
key by President Hayes and under Garfield was United States
marshal for the district of Georgia. A few years ago he was ]
appointed United States Commissioner of Railroads. Gen.
Clement A. Evans, now commanding the Tennessee Depart-
ment, U. C. v., said, in response to an interview :
"He was one of those who believed that, the South being de-
feated, there was no need of keeping alive in form even the
differences between the sections. Grant was his friend, and f
do not believe that when Longstreet was appointed to office in
New Orleans the thought of seducing him ever entered the
mind of the President, nor did Longstreet regard the ap-
pointment as an attempt to win him over to Republicanism.
But as time went on he committed himself beyond recall and
there could be no denying the fact that he afliliated with
the Republican party, which party he remained in till his death.
"You ask me for incidents or characteristic anecdotes.
There was probably no general of Longstreet's rank in the
army about whom fewer anecdotes could be told, other than
stories of such battles as he participated in. I remember one
incident, however, that I myself saw. It was during the visit
of Jefferson Davis to Atlanta after the war, the time he made
the speech at the Ben Hill monument, at the junction of
Peachtree and West Peachtree Streets. There was a great
crowd of people there, and Mr. Davis was just about to begin
his speech.
"Suddenly a shout went up from the outer edges of the
throng in the streets, and all eyes were turned up the street.
There came Gen. Longstreet on horseback, clad in the full
uniform of a Confederate general. The shouting swept in a
tumultuous wave from the fringe of the crowd on through,
and Rebel yell followed Rebel yell. Hats were thrown in the
air and the hundreds went wild, while the soldier on tlie horse
advanced with radiant face to meet his former chief.
"Straight up to the platform came horse and rider, the con-
course falling back to give them an avenue. At the foot cf
the platform stops the man in gray, dismounted and sprang
up with outstretched hand to grasp the hand extended toward
him, and while the soldier and the statesman greeted one an-
other, both beloved, the lookers-on went wild with uproarious
enthusiasm.
"Now that the old fighter is dead, it is better to forget his
mistakes, if he made any, and to remember only the great
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things of his Hfe, which, indeed, were many, and to honor
him for their sake.''
In 1897 Gen. Longstreet was married to Miss Ellen Dortch.
former Assistant State Librarian. Her concise report of him
will be pleasing to his old soldiers and admirers:
" 'When Gen. Longstreet surrendered his sword at Appomat-
tox, his war record was made up. It stands unassailable,
needing no defenders. Back of the day that opened so aus-
piciously for the Confederate cause at the first Manassas and
the four years that followed, lives the record of a quarter of
a century in the Union army.'
"In those limes Gen. Longstreet, at Cerro Gordo, Molino
del Rey, and Chapultepec, was aiding to win the great empire
of the West, in subsequent hard Indian campaigns lighting
the fagots of a splendid Western civilization, and from 18(11
to 1865 with his matchless military genius adding new glory
to American arms, and in the struggles of a nation that fill
a new star of the first magnitude to the galaxy of American
valor, completing one of the most lustrous pages in the
world's war history. That page cannot be dimmed or dark-
ened. It rests secure in its own white sjilendor, above the
touch of time."
After his appointment by President McKinley as United
States Railroad Commissioner in 1898, Gen. and Mrs. Long-
street resided, for the most part, in Washington, D. C. They
spent part of their time during the summer seasons at the
General's summer homeat Longstreet Heights, near Gainesville.
A number of years ago Gen. Longst reel's elegant home was
destroyed by firo. and near its site he erected a nice cottage,
which was used by him when here, and which is now occupied
by his son, Randolph Longstreet.
Dr. T. G. Birchett.
January i, 1904, was a sad day for Vicksburg, and the usual
greeting of Happy New 'Year was forgotten, for as friend
met friend the only words heard were: "Dr. Birchett is dead."
Dr. T. G. Birchett was born at Orange C. H., Va., June 27,
1835. He was the son of Dr. George Heith Birchett, who died
in Vicksburg many years ago.
Dr. Birchett graduated at the Philadelphia Medical College
at twenty-four years of age, and with the exception of a short
time spent in Arkansas, 'Vicksburg had always been his home.
He was sixty-eight years of age at the time of his death.
He went into the War between the States as surgeon for
the Warren Light Artillery, but soon rose to be surgeon of
Hardee's Corps, which position he held throughout the war.
He was ever at the front and true to the Confederate cause
to the end of his life. After he returned home, at the close of
the war, he renewed the practice of medicine, and no man
ever did more to relieve the afflicted than he. His kind heart
would never let him refuse a call, regardless of the hour,
weather, or remuneration ; and the poor of the city, both white
and black, have lost their best friend. All city offices were
closed out of respect for the dead, and the flag on the city
hall lowered to half-mast.
The deceased had held many positions of honor and trust.
He was a member of the city council for years, twice Mayor.
represented the county one term in the Legislature, ^as county
physician at the time of his death, and surgeon of the U. C.
V. Camp here. He was a Mason in high rank, a member of
the K. of P. and other benevolent orders. He was also, a
number of years ago, in charge of the Stale hospital.
Dr. Birchett returned at I p.m. on December 31 from a sev-
eral days' hunt at Bear Lake, La., which he expressed him-
self as having enjoyed exceedingly. He sat and talked that
night with his family till eleven o'clock, when he retired and
slept well. At six o'clock the next morning, after he and his
wife had exchanged several remarks, she went, as was her
custom, to unlock the door for the servant. As she started
back to bed the Doctor made such a peculiar choking noise
that his wife called him; but, receiving no reply, she became
alarmed, lighted the gas, and hurried to his side, but in a
moment the noble heart had ceased to beat.
In May, 1S66, Dr. Birchett married Miss Clara Estelle Klein,
daughter of the late Mt. John Klein. His bereaved wife and
six children survive him: Dr. J. A. K. Birchett, T. G. Birchett,
Jr., of Vicksburg; Mr. Clarence Birchett. of New York; Mr.
George K. Bircliett. with the Y. and M. V. R. R., and now at
Gramacy, La.; Misses Nora, Estelle, and Mahala.
Never in the history of Vicksburg has there been such an
DR. T. G. ElKCHETT.
outpouring of the people to pay a last loving tribute to one so
dear to all. The deep-toned requiem of Holy Trinity's bell
was followed by those on the public buildings. All of the
military and other organizations in the city turned out in their
different uniforms to do him honor. The flags of the Third
Regiment, National Guard, were draped on each side the
casket ; at the head was the battleflag of the Ninth Mississippi
Infantry, C. S. A.; at the foot the guidon of the First Georgia
Regiment ; across the breast was laid his Masonic apron ; his
military saber. Knights Templar sword, belt, and cap crossed
at the head. The entire ceremony, at both church and cem-
etery, was imposing to the last degree. The floral offerings,
which were many and beautiful, were carried to the grave
in a wagon drawn by the Doctor's old favorite horse. The
services ended, the guns of the battery fired a parting salute
to the lamented dead. Peace to his ashes ! and may God com-
fort and uphold the wife in her loneliness, and the many sad
hearts so sorely bereft !
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CONSUMPTION CURED.
An old phfilciui, retired from pncUoe, lud plkeed id
kiB luada by an Kjui lodtA miasioo&rj lb« furmulA of a
limpU v«geUble remedy for the ■peedy and pennao«Dt
•ore of CoiuumpUuD, BroDcbitin, Catarrh^ Asibiua, and
all Throai and Lung Affections; h'.to a j>o«iUTe and radical
mn for Kerrous l>ebiIiiT and all Kcrrous Complaint*.
Earing t«at«d fu wondirfut cunuire powt-re in thou^&oda
•f caaee, aod dealhDg to n-Iiero human nutlenng, I will
Mad frM of chares to aM wtm wihh it t)ns r>-cii>t', id (io^-
n, PreDch,or English, with full dlr«tiouit r 'f [trtrpAT'
kg and tuiog. Seat br maiL br addreesixiK, with »tAmp,
'biA ^per, W. * " - _ J? _ — -f-
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A. KuyeA, 047 fowera BloCK,
"HEROES AMD SPJES OF THE
CIVIL WAR." •
This is the title of a book recently
issued by the Neale Publishing Company
of Washington, D. C. The author, Capt.
David Humphreys, Norfolk, Va., was
originally a member of the old "Stone-
wall Brigade," but afterwards a captain
in Ashby's Cavalry. It is a record of
deeds performed by daring scouts in
the Army of Northern Virginia, many
of them participated in by the author,
and others that came under his personal
observation. It is a series of dangerous
adventures of scouts and spies, of fun
and pathos from beginning to end, told
in a way that will interest the general
reader as well as the old soldier.
G. W. Feezor, Elva, Ky., would like
to hear from any member of White's
Battery, Wheeler's Cavalry, commanded
by L. M. Pue most of the time.
crrrr;.
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The above is a picture of Mrs. Gen.
George E. Pickett. She will be South
in February and March under the man-
agement of the Southern Lyceum Bu-
reau, Louisville, Ky., and there are a
few open dates for her famous readings
and recitals.
yi PISO'S CURE FOR n,
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CURES WHERE ALL £ISE FAiL;>.
Best Coinfh 8yrup. 'lastfs (Juod. Use
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LOCATIONS AT GETTYSBURG.
A Southern man visiting Gettysburg
sees tablets and monuments at every
spot where a Federal oflicer fell or wa^
wounded, from lieutenant up to general,
but the places where our Confederaic
officers fell are unknown and unmarked.
I want to get the facts from veterans
now living who were there as to the
spot where any officer of their com-
mand was wounded or killed, so mari<-
ers can be correctly located before it is
loo late to get these facts. Any veteran
who saw an officer killed or wounded is
kindly asked to write me the particulars
as to where and how done. If you
can't tell location by house, ravine, road,
battery, or other object, state what com-
pany it occurred nearest to and what
regiment and the position of your regi-
ment in your brigade, whether on right,
left, or center of the brigade, and give
the time of day as near as you can do
so. Recite any act of daring or bravery
you saw there, giving the name of the
person engaged, and state where it oc-
curred, that the facts may be preserved
and the South shown up there as she
deserves to be. Tell exactly where each
of these officers was killed or wounded :
Barksdale, Armistead, Pettigrew, Trim-
ble, Hood, Semmes, G. T. Anderson,
Garnett, Kemper, Avery, Fry, Heth,
Scales, Latimer, and others, as they,
with two exceptions, are known now
only by some veteran who was an eye-
witness. The Sons of Veterans are in-
terested and want all facts obtainable.
.'Vddress J. F. Means, Lock Box 615,
.Macon, Ga.
Dulaney M. Richards, of Dalton, Mo.,
would like to hear from any old com-
rades of the Forty-Third Virginia Bat-
talion of Cavalry, commanded by Col.
John S. Mosby, and asks especially after
Jerome Wright and William Cromwell,
who were both from Baltimore, Md.
Comrade Richards was from FaFrfax
County, Va., and a member of Company
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Boston Harbor, Mass., and confined un-
til June, 1865.
J. H. Doyle, Granbury, Tex., writes
in reference to the removal of Gen.
Granbury's remains from St. John's
Cemetery at Ashwood, Tenn., to Texas:
"Gen. Granbury's remains were disin-
terred by my brother. Dr. J. N. Doyle,
who was a surgeon in the Army of
Northern Virginia, and brought to this
place by him and leinterred in Novem-
ber, 1893. Our town was named in hon-
or of this gallant General, and our
county in honor of Gen. Hood."
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SENT FREE TO ANY NEEDV PERSON.
At lait ibcrs ii ft acirDtifit way lo oure v oarnvlf of unj
ki'lDtT, t>lt'ld«t 01 th«uu<iLic di>*M« iu a v^ry thort ttm*
ID four owD honif tnd witb.
out lb* vipeo^e of docton.
<1iQ{gUt3 or nurgeoQ'i Tb?
{■ledii helooftit U' [■■. BdwiD
Turoock. n uoied Kr^DCb*
AnipriciiQ phT»irt%ii Rud nci-
pnlisi who hu niRde a li(<'-
I loDg study of ib«9e diaeiiseB
' «Ld i» mnr id sole pittneeiiao
(.( certftin Ingretlienls vfhicb
lisre all AlODi; beeo needed
And Without which cures weie
iiiipiifisible. The donor seems
jiisufie'l rn his itionf; slste-
*nieiiu Hs ihe treatment hks
*ft\ thoroughly iiivps(ifl;n 1*^(1 he^iides l>eine: tried id
loopns s, 8Rnilanu'.us, etc.. and (jsn been fi und ti> be all
that IS claimed fo4 it. It cniilnuiH nothing Iminifui but
neveitheless the hishesi. niiihonties say il will pusiiivc Ir
" ■ " ■ , * ' diLp^T, cmvfl, wc«K
hack, ft one in thi- hi adder, bloated biadner, fieqiieot
cur? Blight's dim-iisf, diBhele«,
desire to urinate, nlt>iimiDAiiR, sugMi m thf \iriiie, {<aiiib
■0 the back, legs, aides stul ovei the kidneys, swelling
uf the feet and mikles, Teienlion ol nnne, scalding f^pi-
tiHK up nights, pain in the bladder, wflimi: the bi-d and
ancn rheutnatic nllecti'ian tut chroinc, tiuiscular oi in-
flainnialiiry rheuinalisni, sciatica, rheumatic ueuialBiR,
Imntm^^o, gotit, eic, which aie onw known to be due
entiiely to line ncid poison lu the kidofys — iu short,
•-veiy ii'Mn <<l Itidupy, blftdder or unnniy tiouble lo
manl w-inian or chihl
That the tngtedients will do all Ihi? is the opinion ot
ouch Htitlioiities lis Dr. Wilks of GuvV Ilooplai. Knndoii;
the editors ol thf I'niled Stn'ea Pispeiisntoiy and the
Ameiicau rbarmHcopfflia, bi'lh itHlcml wurks; Di M C.
Wood, piernbei of i he XHinnftl Academy of .^^cifiice
and It bug li-t of otbi-r'* wild npeak of it in the highest
terms. P-tit ail ibts and nnne i« explained in a 6*-t'«ge
illnalinted hmik wUicli sets toith tn>- dncloi's oiieinal
*iews and goe.i dtn-l'ly into the suiyert of kidney, olad-
rtei and ihetimatu' di«»eai«e«. He wants you to have IhtM
hook n^ well aj> n tiial treAlnieiit of hl.t discovery, and
you can get Iht^in entiiely free, without >tamps ot
money, by nddiessuig the Ti'irnock Mtv^hcal Co,,,v>fiTur-
Bock Hiiildaig, Chicago, 111., and na thousands have
■Iresfly bt'en cuied there is even re^sou to believe it
will cuie you if only you will be ili..i;glinul enough to
•»>Dd for tiie fl*e trial' and book. Write the first s|tniv
tnomvul you have and soon you will be cured.
It would seem that any reader so afflifted
should write the company at ouce stme n<>
money is involved and the indorsements nir
from >*uch h hiRli and trtistwortliy source
HOW TO MAKE MONEY.
Agents of either sex should to-day
write Marsh Manufacturing Co., 538
Lake Street, Chicago, for cuts and par-
ticulars of their handsome Aluminum
Card Case with your name engraved on
it and filled with one hundred calling
or business cards. Everybody orders
them. Sample case and one hundred
cards, postpaid, forty cents. This case
and one hundred cards retail at sevanty-
tive cents. You have only to show sample
to secure an order. Send forty cents in
Y stamps at once for case and one hun-
I dred cards before some one gets ahead
of you.
"THE K. K. K."
The favorable reception this very in-
teresting and timely book received from
the public has necessitated a second edi-
tion from the North River Publishing
House. The story is one of the law's
delay in dealing with crime and of mob
violence resulting directly therefrom at
the hands of that powerful and niyste-
lious organization known as the Ku-
Klux Klan that, almost in a single night,
sprung into existence throughout the en-
lire South during the dark days of re-
construction and almost as quickly dis-
appeared after accomplishing its mis-
sion.
The story, briefly told, is that of a
hand of law-abiding citizens having cap-
tured a murderer and turned him over
to the courts for trial, were so exas-
perated by legal technicalities and con-
tinuances for nearly two years that they
took the prisoner by strategy from the
sheriff and hung him on their own re-
sponsibility. The author of the book,
Judge C. W. Tyler, of Clarksville, 1 en:i.,
is, in point of service, the oldest crim-
inal judge in the State, and one of the
oldest in the United States, having been
on the bench over thirty years, and no
one is better qualified to speak or write
of the ill effects of the law's delay in
dealing with crime. The book will be
interesting to all classes of readers, for,
aside from the moral it teaches con-
cerning the law, there is a love story
throughout abounding with pathos and
a rich vein of humor which one would
scarcely suspect the dignified Judge pos-
sessed, making the book interesting from
l)eginning to end.
THROUGH PULLMAN SLEEPING
CARS
to California points via Iron Mountain
Route, leaving St. Louis 8:30 .\.M. daily
for Los Angeles via "True Southern
Route;" also tourist sleeping cars ou
this same train for Los Angeles and San
Francisco every Wednesday and Thurs-
day. Best Winter Route to Californi:i.
For further information, call on or ad-
dress R. T. G. Matthews, T. P. A.,
Room 202 Equitable Building, Louis-
ville, Ky.
Judge B. M. Baker, Canadian, Tex.,
asks that some member of Ward's Com-
pany of Artillery, enlisted at Mobile,
Ala., Fifth Battalion, Cumming's Bri-
gade, who remembers James Dempsey,
sometimes called Jack Dempsey, will
write him, as it will aid in getting this
worthy old man in the Confederate
Home.
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At the last monthly meeting of Camp
Tom Moore, No. 556, U. C. V., of
Apalachicola, Fla., the following officers
were elected for the year : Commander,
P. W. Belleau; Adjutant, A. J. Murat ;
Secretary, William Donahoe ; Collector,
R. C. Blocker. These comrades have
reorganized their Camp again, and in
the future will hold regular monthly
meetings, assessing each member (as
they are few) the sum of 25 cents per
month for incidental e.xpcnses
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Our plain gold ritips are sold for as low as
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rings.
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HOW TO MAKE IT,
aIsoi>tluT line Laces
A jfoldenoppoiiuniiylomake money at home
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BY ANOINTING^ WITH OIL.
CANCER POSITIVELY CURED WITH-
OUT PAIN OR DISFIGUREMENT.
EFFICACY OF THE TREATMENT ES-
TABLISHED BEYOND A QUES-
TION OF A DOUBT.
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE BEING CURED.
A discovery (tf more lli;in usual interest lo llii-
me<liciil profession !m«l tin' people al iarjce lia>
been nincie by Dr. D. .M. Bye, wlio has Iwen .il
work for years to perfci't a r.iiiiinal treatment tor
cancer. After much experiinenting, he has per-
fected a Ctnnbination of Oils whicli will act Kpo-
ciflcallv on liisensed liAsiie, leavjinr unharnu''!
the son'mt. The treiiiuicnt niiginatcil and per-
fected by him is both l(»cal au<l constitutional.
I'he Oils, being povvei'ftil absorbent, are applie<l
directly to the uiseaseil area, in external cases,
and directly over tile seat of the trouble in inter-
nal cases. "My ttieir selei-tive action on the tissue
of low vitality they e.-isily accoini)lish the thor.
oiiKh dissolution of the diseased cells aud ile-
uroy the perms. <Jf course It is well umlerstood
that in malignant diseases all the cells are nru
confined to one given area, but ai'e scattere'l ir-
regulaiiy in the surrounding tissue, some find
ing their way into the lymph channels and blood
vessels. It is therefore essential that a remedy,
in order to be effective, must h;ive seleciiVe
action, and. furtiier, that a properly prepared
Illooii Purifier inu-t be given. Such' is the na-
tui*e of tills wonderful Combination of Oils. Th<-
special Blood Piirifior acts in <lirect communion
with, the Oils, destroying the diseasetl cells
wherever tlier mav be found, purifying: the
blood, and assisting in the general upbuilding of
the patient.
THE ONLV SfCCKSSFUL TREATMENT FOR
CAN'CKK AN1> TfMOK.
We are jiistiiiable in the claim that the Com-
bination Oil Cure is the only siicressfiil remedy
for cancer and malignant diseases. How many,
iiiaiiy poor snlTeiers have been horribly disfig-
ured'and suffered untold agony at the hands of
quarks wliu nsed the burning plaster' How
many have endured sufTeriiig an<l death from
the surgeon's miel knife' Surely it should
prove a bici^sing to siifTerers that at last these
torturous methods may be supplanted by a mild.
eafe, and certain cure. The oils aie soothing
anil b.'dmy. and ran be used at home with entire
success. Many hundreds have been cured in
this way. Kead what a patient aays.
Atwki.i., Tkx., Febi uary 24, 1902.
Dt. D. M. Bi/e Co.. Dallas, Tex.
Kind Fkiknds: Words will not expi-esa my
gratitude for the great benefit received fi-oiii
vour Oil Cure for the cancer on my lip. It is
healed up all riirlit, ami 1 take great pleasure in
recoiumendini.' your womlerfiil Oil due to any
that may be sithering fi(»ni that loathsome ifls-
eiise, feeling .-issiired that they would never re-
gret giving It a trial.
You mav use this letter in any way you see fit.
And, liofiing It will be a blessing to someone, 1
beg to retii.'un your true friend, J. ti. Muss.
This jiatient had a cancer invoh ing the entire
lowei-li|). Growing worse, he had tried burn-
ing plasters, aud cancer leruiied. lie is well
known anfl a Christian.
OTHERS RECENTLY CURED ARE:
Rev. Ell Kathir, UatlifT. K >•.
Mrs, Martha (iib-oii. Chestnut ami Theodore
Streets, Dallas, 'I'ex.
Itev. .S. \V. .lones, I'lttsburg, Tex., wile i-urod
of ovarian tumor.
Mrs. Leila Hunt, Bovina, Tex., cancer of
breast.
Hon. T. F. Meece. l>ivingston, Tex., cancer In
front of ear.
Mrs. U. S. Hidalgo, Orange, Tex., tibial ulcer.
Mrs. N. J. Carlton, Saidis, Miss., cancer of
breast.
Martha B. Patterson. Olive Hill, Tenn., lupus.
Mrs. M. K. Hughes, llurtsel. Ark., eczema.
Mrs. J. D. White, Carthage, Miss., cancer of
womb.
FRKE BOOKS AND ADVICK.
Send a description of your case and receive
our advice, together with illustrated books giv-
ing full information regarding the Coinbiiiation
Oil Cure, ALL SENT FRKK. Write to-day. Your
life may depend upon it. Address the Dr. D.
M. Bye Co.. P. O. Box 462, Dallas, Tex.
(If not afflicted, cut this out and send it to
tome suffering one.)
COTTON AG.4l\ KJNC.
The Manufacturers' Record of Balti-
more, in a review of the effect of the
present prices of cotton on the prosperity
of the South, points out that in the last
five years, during which there has been
a gradual rise in the price until the
present very high figures have been
reached, the excess in the value of the
South's cotton crop over the preceding
five years is $800,000,000. The magni-
tude of this excess and the influence
which it must have upon the prosperity
of the whole country, especially upon
the South, is illustrated in the fact that
it is nearly twice as much as the entire
capital invested in all the cotton mills
of the United States in 1900, it is about
equal to the present market value of the
entire property of the United States
Steel Corporation, it is more than the
market value of the Standard Oil Coni-
pany, and more than the entire capital
of all the national banks of the United
States. For the first two or three years
of this five-year period the Southern
farmers used their increased earnings
to pay up debts ; then they began to ac-
cumulate a little, and this year they will
be in shape to spend more freely than
for many years.
Commencing with 1891, there was a
very heavy decline in the price of cotton,
continuing until 1898-99, when the aver-
age price in New York for twelve
months was six cents a pound. The
crop of that year of ii,274,0{X) bales, the
largest ever produced, was worth $282,-
000,000, while the crop for the present
year of about 10,000,000 bales will be
worth about $600,000,000, The value
of the seed in each year was about $50,-
000,000. So that the total income of
Southern farmers from their cotton and
cotton seed this year will be not less
than $650,000,000, or at least $320,000,-
000 more than the big crop of 1898 yield-
ed. The total production of cotton for
the last five years has not been very
much in excess of the total production
for the preceding five years ; but for the
last five years the total value has been
$2,575,000,000, against $1,775,000,000 for
the five preceding years, much of the
great gain being during last year and
this.
W. S. Staley, of Marion, Va,, was a
member of the One Hundred and Fifty-
Fourth Tennessee Regiment from Mem-
phis, in Gen. Preston Smith's Brigade,
Cheatham's Division, and he is anxious
to have some one write about these com-
mands, which did their part in the hard
fighting.
2t Homely Illustration,
Wiicn you get .•« sliver in your flngci Uic aen-
satioii IS anything but pleasant, .\llow it to re-
liiain loiii: enough, and It will fesl,T and give
yViu u lot of tioublu. Keiuove the cause, and ttie
pain will stop.
Its the same wav with the whole body.
Wiien voiii head aclna. it is nature's message
sent from the stomach to the brain. Every
till ob is but a click in the message w hose letters
spell "danger— send lelief,*" Simie people, when
they get a headache, ru^h 10 the ilrug store and
swallow some powerful tablet or fowilei which
M.*ts the heart to tliiimplng and the blooil lo ra-
cing aiouiitl the body ata teirilic late. Do you?
Other people take -tioiig purgatives, which rip
and tear through the sloinach and bowels, leav-
ing them irrit.-iteil ,iinl soro. Do you^ Still
other people take Vernal Palmettona ilormerly
known as Venial S.iw Palmetto lierrv Wine).
It lb a eenstble remedv to use. It ronioves the
cause of the trouble. It helps the slomacli ami
bowels to get ri'l of pidsonous waste matter by
stitiiulallng their natural muscular action, ft
tones up and strengthens the nerves; it enriches
the blood and builds up h.ard. lieallliv tissues.
Only one small dose a day Is required to perma-
nently cure ailmenls of stoiuacli. liver. Iiowels,
he.arl, kidneys, and blood, Trv it before voii
buy. Write us for a tree sample bottle. It will
do you good. Pioniptl v sent po- tpaid. Formu-
la sent in every package. Address Vernal Rem-
edy Co., iST Seneca Building, Buffalo. N. Y.
Sold at all drugirists.
S. B, Barron, Rusk, Tex., refers to
the sketch of Gen. S. L. Ross in the
Veteran for August, in which it is
stated that he was made brigadier gen-
eral in the fall of 1862. He says: "As
a matter of history this is erroneous.
His gallant conduct as colonel of the
Sixth Texas at Corinth in October, 1862,
won for him this promotion, but it did
not come to. him till the autumn of 186,1.
I was with him from his promotion till
the end of the war." Comrade Barron
was with the Third Texas Cavalry.
The Robertson-Hemphill Purchasing
Agency, of Louisville, Ky., whose ad-
vertisement begins in this issue of the
Veteran, is a venture by Southern
ladies. Mrs. Hemphill was a Miss Polk,
of Tennessee, whose family has been
identified with the Confederacy, Hav-
ing been in the best society everywhere,
she is perfectly "au fait" in all things
pertaining to the wants of her numerous
customers.
GOOD SERVICE TO ST. LOUIS.
The N., C. & St. L. Ry., in connection
with the Illinois Central R. R,, offers
good train service to St. Louis. Here-
after this route will be known as the
"World's Fair Route." The Dixie Fly-
er leaves Nashville after supper and ar-
rives at St. Louis the next morning be- j|
fore breakfast.
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JAOKSONViL
vl« Valdosta Route, from X'aldosta via Gearys
Sonthem^jid Florida Uv., from MaccJi
via Central of Georgia Ry.» from
ATLANTA
via Western and Atlantic R. R., from
CHATTANOOGA
NASHVILLE
Tta the Nashville, Cliattanonfra, and St, \jo\xi» Ry.,
arriving at
ST. LOUIS
CHICAGO
over the lUlnols Centrr^ R, R. from Maj^n, Twia.
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE AND
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
]\1AINTAINED OVER THIS
SCENIC LINE.
Ticket agents of tlie JacUsonville-St. I.ouis and
Chicago iine, and atjents of connectin^f lines Ib
Florloj* and the Southeast, will e'we you full In-
formation as to schedules ottni.- (loulile daily serv-
ice to St. Louis, Chicago, and the Northwest, and
of train time of lines connecting. They wili also
•ell you tickets and advice you as to rates.
F. D. MU-LHR, Atlanta, Ga^
Traveling Passer.ger Agent I. C. R. R-
WM. SMriH.JK., NASH\aLLE, Tebtn^
Commercial Ac*""!!-
BIG 8^
I Chain of S Collecrcs owned bvbusin^te
men and indorsi-d by business men.
fourteen Cashiers of Banks are on
our Board of Pirectoi"^. Our diplom.i nieaus
somrihinjj. Enter any time. Positions secured.
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If yon prefer, may pay tuition out of salary af-
ter course !• cuoii^etL'd. Guarantee graduates
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HOME STUDY: BrwUkeepiusr, Shorthand,
Penmanship, otc, taaffht bv m.Til. Write for
too piga BOOKLET ou Uome Study. It's Irer
'crooked feet^^
Crooked or Club Feet, any
variety anil at any reasonable
age, can be perfectly and per-
manently cured.
The methods generally em-
ployeii do not accomplish satis-
factory results. Our methods
are different nnd we never resort
to Feveie surgical operations,
plaster paris or painful treat-
ment of any kind.
We have been curing Club
Feet (or over thirty years and
will guarantee a cure of any
case we accept.
Write for our book. It will
interest you and costs nuthinK-
THE L C. McLAIN
Orthopedic Sanitarium,
3100 Pine SI..
ST. LOUIS. MO
q:
THE BEST PLACE
TO PURCHASE
ALL-WOOL
Bunting or
Silk Flags
,.f All Kinds,
SilK Banners, Swords, Belts. Caps,
and all kinds of M litarv Equipment
and Society Goods is at
Veteran J. 4. JOEL <S CO,,
88 Nassau Street, New York City,
SKN'D FOR PRICE LIST.
Walkins Gas and
GasolineEngincs
run un an elec-
trii: magneto.
No batteries or
hot tubes to re-
new. From 2 to
^ShorsojKJwer.
Catjilogue sent
on request.
C. C. rosier.
Xashville. Teun-
TAPE-WORM
oofM. Nofiwtlngrrquirrti. Sftid 2o«Ump for 44-p«ze B<K.k.
DR. M. NEY SMFIU, S|Jecl«lirt.»O0 Ohvc St.. Si. LouJi, Mo.
Expe IM altr*
^n tiU nihiutea
witn heftd, or
Low Settlers' Rates.
Southeast Missouri, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas.
LAND OF CHEAP HOMES.
The dates are Jaiuiary 19, Kebruary
2 and 16, March 1 and 15, .\pril .s and 19.
The rate is a little more than half
fare, one way or round trip.
Now is the time to get a home of your
own while land is cheap. The South-
west offers the greatest indticenients to
home seekers — a mild, equable climate;
short, pleasant winters; long growing
seasons: cheap cost of living.
Land that will grow corn, wheat, oats,
clover, alfalfa, cotton, fruits and vege-
tables of nearly every description can
be had at prices ranging from $5 to $25
per acre, owing to location, soil, and im-
provements.
Take advantage of some of the above
dates and see this great country for
yourself.
If you will write tis where you want
to go, we will tell yoi: the exact cost of
your ticket, and send you maps, de-
scriptive literature, and help you to find
a suitable location.
Write to-day to \V. G. Adams, T. P.
A., Cotton Belt Route, Nashville, Tcnn.,
or E. W. LaBeaumc, C P. & T. A., Cot-
ton Belt Route. St. Louis. Mo.
Southern Railway
7,814 MllM. Ob«
PenetT»tt«( fm tmatk^m Mmm. ImmI
PrlMilpal OI«M of eke SosJb ««ik
III Own LiacA.
Solid Vestibuled Trains.
Unexcelled Equipment
Fatt Schedules.
BIMlin cms "« »r>r,Vf* M ■««
Kallvay Irsim*.
OtSCtn TIOK CAMS <» W^*>Ma«*M
■»Bl>»r » T.
bUMl Ij9ilt«4, ud TTaAlBftsa aa^ (
EUetUT ^ULLMtM tLEEUBt
•f tbalauat patMra m all •' tff- •
». H. HAKDWIOK,
1 raaaacnr A,!.. Wai
C. A. »IK*COT>K,
J. M. uurxxT
TraT*ll>( Pa& Aft..
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Qor>federate feterai).
Tennessee
Cenirat
Railroad,
HARRIMAN ROUTE.
^^
Do Tou intend Koinf? to NaBhville to
at1«nd tbe R«union of the Conf»»derate
Veterans this year • The Tennessee Cen-
tral Railroad is now completed and in
full oi)eratinn through Hopkinsville.
Ky., connei'tine with the Illinois i'entrHl
Railroad for all points in Wet^t Tennes-
see. St. Louis, ChicaKo. and all otbt-r
Western point*, and through Harrinmn,
Tenn . with the C. N. C. & T. P. and
Southern Hallways to Mirfolk. Bristol.
Cincinnati. Washington, New York, and
all other points East.
Be Bure to secure your ticket via this
route.
Equipment all new and of the latest
patterns.
Through tickets on sale at all t>oint-s
in connection with this line to Nashville,
For further information apply to your
local agent or
Thaffic Manager.
MmmhvUlm, Tmnn.
r. A. H, WOOD,
Gknerai. Agent.
•s
Atlantic Coast Line
WHY NOT TAKE A TRIP
THIS WINTER THROUGH
Florida
and CtlbCL
9
This beautiful State and island have
been brought within easy reach by the
splendid through-train service of the
Atlantic Coast Line, the great thor-
oughfare to the tropics.
Winter Tourist Tickets
now on sale to all points in
FLORID AandHAVANA.
For rates, schedules, maps, sleeping
car and tteamship accommodations ap-
ply to
W. J. CRAIG, GenerkI P>s>en<«r Agtnl.
WII-MINaTON, N. C.
Every Southern man and woman should
at once take advantage of the in-
troductory oflfer, advertised in this is-
sue, and secure a copy of "Northern Re-
NORTH TEXAS
^ POINTS ^
VIA
Santa Fe
^ w
TO
GdLlvesion, and Points
South, East, and
West. ^ ^ Equip-
ment, Service, and Cui-
sine unsurpaLSsed. ^c^
W. S. KEENAN, G. P. A.,
Galveston, Tex.
Richmond,
Fredericksburg, &
Potomac R. R.
Also
Washington
Southern Railway.
THE RICHMOND-WASHINGTON LINE.
■Ilu-Lii
C'lHiiH'Ctini^ the
ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. R.,
BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R.,
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RT,
PENNSYLVAMA R. R.,
SEABOARD AIR LINE R'Y.
and SOUTHERN RAILWAY
HctwetM) All PoiTlts vi:l Kiclimoiul, V;l.
Fast Mail, Passenger, Express, and Freight Route
Between
Richmond, Washington, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York, Boston. Pittsburg,
Buffalo, and All Points North, South,
East, and West.
W. D. DUKE, C. W. GULP,
General Manager. Assistant General Manager.
W. P. TAYLOR, Traffic Manager.
hellion and Southern Secession," by
Maj, Evving.
VIHGIMIA
AMI)
EASTERN CITIES
BEST REACHED
VIA BRISTOL AND THE
Norfolk & Western
KAILWAy.
Solid T<»9tt)uiled train MemplilH aod
ChattanooKH to WAsbiujfton. D C.
Sleeper Memphis to WH-shinKtnn, Bal-
timore. Philadelnhia, aud New York.
Al»o one front New Orleans lo aame
pointA This train inns via Bristol luid
Lyncbbut K The Short Line.
Dining Car ^er^ice.
Sleeper Knoxville to New York, leav-
ing at 2:86 a.m.. open for pa-iHentcers
after 9 :<KI p m. Runs via Bristol. Hauers-
town, and Harrisburg. Tbe Shenandoah
Valley Rout«. Unsnrpassed for beauti-
ful scenery.
All information cheerfully furnished.
D. C. BOYKIN,
Passenger Agent, Knoxville. Tenn.
WARREN L. ROHR..
Western Pass. Agt.. Chattanooga, Tenn.
W. B. BEVILL.
General Passenger Agent, Roanoke. Va.
THROUGH SERVICE
VIA
L. & N.. E. & T. H. and C. & E. I.
2Vcstibuled Through Trains Dally r\
NASHVILLE TO CHICAGO ^
THROUGH SLEEPERS and DAY COACHES
NEW ORLEANS TO CHICAGO
DINING CABS SERVING ALL MEALS EN ROUTE
D. H. HILLMAN, 0. P A.. S. L ROGERS, Qen. A|t
When wrllinK to advertisers mention Vktbhan.
C^oi?federate l/eterar^.
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THE WEST POINT ROUTE
Atlanta and West Point Railroad,
The Western Railway of Alabama.
Transcontinental Lines
Fast Mail Route
Operating the fastest scheduled train
in the South. To
TEXAS. MEXICO, CALIFORNIA
and all Southwestern points.
Superb dining cars; through Pullman
and tourist sleeping cars. For special
rates, schedules, and all information, ad-
dress
J. B. Heyward, D. P. A.,
Atlanta, 6a.
WANTED "Vr SKINS
HighRst CiiBh prices
paid for all kiiidn niw
fiir Bkins. Write f(ir
Price Liet. Addre^8,
GEORGE D. BECKER,
FtRKIKR,
40J» Race Street,
CL\C1>\ATI» O.
Care of the
Expectant Mother
By W. Lewis Howe. M.D.
Thi« book iftv^t IrniiMing th* fumily phj-giciin r«-
garding erery httle prnMera whicti mav come up.
Fully Rpproved by phy&icians. ll will an'awer aU or-
dinary quesliont as to dii-t. hygiene, anil exerciae of
I tie mothet and nubsequenl Cftfe oi Ibe cliild. A book
every mother nhould have.
Bound ID Red Cloth. Price. 50 renin, Pogtpaid.
F A. DAVIS CO.. 1905 Cherry Street
Philadelphia.
BEST
PASSENGER SERVICE
IN TEXAS.
4-IMPORTANT GATEWAYS-4
FP
NO TROUBLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
E. P.TURNER,
Oen-l Pass'r and Ticket Aoent,
osllas, texa»
m^mmmmmKmm
{l\EW ORLEANS; ^
THE MOST POPULAR
WINTER RESORT IN
AMERICA.
THE
1
New St. Charles
HOTEL
Modern. fireproof. FIrst'Class,
Accommodates One Thousand Guests.
Hmertcan and Europfan Plani.
ANDREW R. BLAKELY & CO.,
I.IMITEn.
PHOPHIETORS.
1
t
CNRISriA<\ PCOPLt AJ THE WORLD'S FAIR.
If yon rontcnii>I:ili' ntteniliMi; the World'*
F;iir,*ronrl rlio >^in'ri:il cflTi'i iiKide bv tlie iiK'tnage*
nicnt of the K|t\v->rt|i H'>icl 001111)3117 in iticir
mlvertiseitient "ii jinotlicr paire. This hotel ha»
tlie Indorsemont of Churches ami minl^tt'i*
evorvwhere.
MISSO\/l<I
TACiriC
IRON MOUNTAIN
ROUTE
From ^T. L.OX/I.J'
and MEMTHI.y
Affords Tourist, Prospector,
or Home Seeker the Best
Service. Fastest Schedule
to All Points in
MISSOURI, KANSAS, NEBRASKA,
OKLAHOMA and INDIAN TERRI'
TORY, COLORADO, UTAH, ORE'
GON, CALIFORNL\, ARKANSAS,
TEXAS, LOUISIANA, OLD and
NEW MEXICO, and ARIZONA-
Pullman Sleepers, Free Re-
clining Chair Cars on All,
Trains, I-ow R.iles, Frre De-
scriptive Literature. Consult
TicKet Agents* or addn-ss
H. C. Townsend
G.P.andT.A.
St. Louis, Mo,
R. T. G. Matthews
T. P. A.
Louisville, Ky.
J
94
Qoipfederate l/eterap.
With Muscular RKcumalism and
Dresidful Neura.lgic P&ins Jv
WHY AGONIZE
when quick and pi-rnianent relief niav be had bv using
DR. DEWim LGLLGTIG CURE?
The safest, quickest, and most certain remedy for relief of pain. Used in-
ternally or extcrnallv, it immediately relieves Asiatic Cholera, Cholera Mor-
bus, Diarrhoea, Dvscntcry, Cramps, Colic, Dvsptptic Pains, Neuralgia, Rheu-
matism, Lumbago, Toothache, Headache, Sore Throat, Diphtheria, Backache,
Bruises, Sprains, Frostbite^, Chills, Fever, and Ague, Flatulency, Indigestion,
and many other ills attended by pain.
People Who Know Its Merit Ride Twenty Miles to Get It.
It is a doctor in the house in all cases of emergency. Relieves beast as well
as man. Price, 25c, 50c, and $1 a bottle.
Ren-ien-it^er, It Banishes Pain.
THE W. J. PARKER GO.. Sol6 Manutaclurers.
SinJ hr Frr, Family md Farmer:, AJniinjc. 7 SO. tlOWaPd St., BALTIMORE, Mti.
A. TRIP TO
PICTURESQUE HAVANA
IS IDEAL.
Only 4-0 Hours from J^eia) OrUans
Across the Gulf of Mexico, via the Palatial Passenger Steamers of the
SouiHern Pacillc SteaiiislilD \M.
Sailings EVERY SATURDAY at 2 o'clock p m.
Tickets good for Sixty Days.
ROUND-TRIP RATE
ONLY
INCLUDING MEALS
AND BERTH.
Write for the
Southern Pacific's Illustrated Steamship Folder and Guide to New York,
New Orleans, and Havana,
Complete information for the Sea Traveler and Tourist.
T. J. ANDERSON,
G. P. A,
HOU.STON, TEXAS.
JOSEPH HELLEN,
A. G. I'. A.
Jk ^m^^ ^^ ^% .^ A Send aa your addrMfl
C Q a Day Sureir,-^;iif,i:5:?
^|r ^m^^ furniih thr work &n<l tearb j"u fre«, you wurk ia
to« locnlily where you livB. S.it.(l tii )uur Kfl<lr«M and we ntll
•XjiUiD th<.-l>uBiiir>i fullv.rrmnniliflr WfiguarfcDie.- m ilrir prc.fll 1
•l$3f>rpv.Tyd»y iwork,»li«..|ul«lv mr- Ur.l-aion.o. '
ItOVlLMAMKnTlRlSUIO., B«x 1030. I>e(rgll, Wkh.
1 PAY SPOT CASH FOR
-'-i.r. Land Warrants
Issued to soldiers of any war. Also SnliHers* Ad-
ditional Homcsteail Riglits. Write inc at once.
FRANK H. REGER, Barth Block, Denver, Col.
Kmiain cancer Hosnitai,
R.ICHMOND. VA.
We Cure Cancers, Tumors, and Chronic
VENi, ViDi, ViCil
Duv&rs Eurek2k. cures Dyspepsia., only,
Ouv&l's Never-Fa.il, a. posi'.ive cure for
Dropsy.
Duval's Infallible Pie Cure.
Duval's Herb Cure for Hemorrhage.
1
Sores without the use of the knife.
F. M. DUVAL, 919 Curler St., Baltimore, Md.
GRAY HAIR MADE DARK.
If Tour hair it gny, or lumn.; »;n»v. di,,! jr.,u wUh i|
bu.wii, dark brown, ,.r black, I havv n i,.rmul» for a prvD-
A-fttii n thai will pohitiTelT n-^lor* th*> gr»T halra to th«lr
i»;»tui«I color. It i« absolulflT harinldx lo'hair, tcalp, or
f'-npral h««Uh. Will ala.i milr*' thr hur grow, and giT«
it A aofl, pI"««T, and frvsh-loiktig api>*'ai«NC«. It r.^n-
laniB no sulphur, aiiKiir of lead, nilnit« mUor. c-'|>i -r**
«>r poiioDs 01 anf kind. It will not tub oif, it not ^i . kv
dirlT, nrgummr, and will not ntKln lh« tc«lp. Y.>ti can
pifpnre it Toiin**iri\l c.,.»t of a few cents Recipe* and full
directioni for 2ft oemt. Mu. O. HDNTLEY, U26 l>Ddle.
lou, 6i. Louit, Mo.
GATARRH=ASTHMA
~TI - _ J_-J--^l hr.M.t. I.iM.f.. i>..ur.
' Vi^ *"- TI14-.S. Hiiii Itiiulll,
' < UKEO Whili- Von
si.KKr. lii.i.i (■«.■*«■«
lUilt'rnd 60.l«y> Free
^WondeIrul In ha I ant;
h '..1111111)11 Sens.' Appltoa-
^.ll<<n; AniaiEiiiK Kesultx.
Iii.-\p«'ii>ivi', ^U■a^Ant,
, I'l tvHtf. Kaf*', rertain,
Asl4.!ilv|iiiin Cur.-H uf
I^ANtlllliu and l.,uii|;ft.
Kiink Willi Binplc pioof
^', _rtn<t vdhialth' tnfninm-
■^ tii.n I'rfe. t'tit thisnut,
it mtiy nut uppnir <ii/(ii>i,
K «. C. CATAKIIII n lEK, 1340 VaDllorTBSU.i'lllCAGU
"THE TEXAS ROAD.'
"Lock ji the Figures!"
Ihe World's Fair at St. I.ouis in 1904 will
)ver twelve hundred acres of land. Having
tlirer hundred acres of exhibit space, ani
:(iver twelve hundred acres of land. Having
i acres of exhibit space, and
%\ ill cost over fortv millions of dollars.
1-oiiis is reached directly from Texas by the
I. (V G. N. — Iron Mountain Lines.
Miles, Minutes, Money
Saved between Teias and SI. Louis via the I. &, C. N.,
Th8 "Truest, Louis World's Fair Line."
iSi miles shorlest. 5 hours ^1 mimitcs quickest,
HOUSTON TO ST. LOUIS.
1S9 miles shortest. 1^ liours 57 minutes quickest,
GALVESTON TO ST. LOUIS.
100 milrs sliortcsl. .} iKMirs 7 iniiuilcs quickest,
SAN ANTONIO TO ST. LOUIS.
too miles shotlrst. 1; hours u iiiinulcs quickest,
AUSTIN TO ST. LOUIS.
Equally as quick to all Eastern Cities through
St. Louis.
FIGURES DO NOT MISREPRESENT.
6 Aoursjg mi/iu/es guii /v.s/,
St. Louis to Houston*
5 hours S4 mimtUs quickes^ty
St. Louis to Gaivfston.
4 hours 2S mhiutts guirk^st,
St, Louis to San Antonio.
6 hours 47 mirtutrs quirkest, St. Louis to Austin.
Excellent Dining Car Service
All the Way-All the Time....
The jjreatest exposition of the age will
open at St. Louis in May, 1904. to commem-
orate the centennial of ihe great Louisiana
Territory Purchase bv the t'nited States
from France. St. Louis is reached directly
from Tex;is In* the 1. A* G. N'. — Iron Moun-
tain Liiirs
"THE TEXAS ROAD."
latcrnalictijl & Grejl Norlbern Xjilrojd.
L.. TRICE.
2d rtce PrMi(i«nt and tleneral Manager.
a. J. PRICE,
Gcna-dl I\iKspnoer and Ticket Agent,
^^iBmmmmm.mm
Qopfederate l/eterai).
U
m FODB
fj
The best line to
INDIANAROUS.
REORIA.
CHICAGO,
And all points in Indiana and
Micliigan.
CLEVELAND,
BUFFALO,
NEW YORK.
BOSTON.
AND ALL POINTS EAST.
Information cheorfnlly fnrnisliod on ap-
plication al City Tirkel Office **Itip Four
koute." No. 2')!» FiMirtli Avenue, or write
to S. J. Gatt-s. tii-ncral ApriU Passenger
DeparinuMit, I^or isvn,i,k, Ky.
_^re you Goin^
East?
IF WO. TAKE. THE
SEABOARD
AIR. LINE RAILWAY.
DIRECT ROVTE AND A
PLEASANT ONE BETWEEN
South and East.
Superb Tr&ins!
Pullman DraLwinj-Room Sleepers!
Comfortable TKoroughfare Cars!
Cskfe Dining Cslts!
For information as to rates, reserva-
tions, descriptive advertising matter,
call on your nearest ticket agent or
address
WILLIAM B. CLEMENTS. T. P. A..
AltaiUa, ti:i.
Ch&rles B. Ry&n,
« 1'. A.,
t'ORTSMUlTH, \' A.
W, E. ChristiaLii.
A. (J. r. A..
Atlanta, (i a
Let Me
Shop for You.
Being in touch with
the fashion centers,
— — ^^^^^^^^^^M vrith exquisite taste
^"^^^^"^^"^^""''" and judgment and
thorough knowledge of values, I am in po-
sition to render satisfaction in all kinds of
shopping. Wedding and school outfits and
holiday novelties are specialties with me.
Samples and estimates submitted. Write
and let me do your Christmas shopping.
Miss Martha A. Snead,
tlO Equitable Building,
LOUISVILLE, KENTUeKY.
The VkterAN commendi the reliability of Miss Snrid
Bost cordially. She has been valiant as a youne womao
tn Confederate matters.
PRINTING TAUGHT FREE.
With every Model printinij press and outlil (cost,
$5 and upj we give free a complete course in the art
ot printing. \VliiIr you're learning- you can make
money at nome bv printing for others. The Model
is the cheapest because it is t he best. Three World's
Fair Highest Awards. Beware of tlif so-called
"che:tp" printing presses. Write fur particulars
.md cat.il giie No. 15. Autonjiiin; pres> Itir print-
ing visii ing c.irds
THE MODEL PRINTING PRESS. 70B Chestnut St. Philadelphia.
FOR OVER Stxry YEARS
AnOld and Weil-Tried Remedy,
MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHIN'". SYRUP
lift-H t.--.-n use.i i-i •■\.i >l\y\ \K.\l;.s h\ MILLIONS ol
MnTHKK.^ (..1 ilieir OHILI>KEN WHILE TKKT inN<_J,
WITH PKRFr.CT SUCOKSS. It, SOOTHE.^ tlip rHILI),
^OPTEXS til.. tiOlS. ALLAYRiill I'.MN; (TRES WINI>
COLIC, amt is tli^ U-^t renip.lv Imi ni.\KKHEA. Suld by
Druogistsiii t-v. rv pari ot the wnlfi. n.> ?iiie to ask for
MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP,
AND TAKE NO OTlir.H KIXH.
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A BOTTLE.
WORLD'S
FAIR
ST. LOUIS
LOW RATES
EASY
PAYMENTS
o leceivf Euc«its at open ins: of
W.ivIdV Kaif. Si. I,uni«. Api il ;;ii,P.iui. H \sa p.-rninn.nt brick I'liihiinu. bi-uuiifully lociitfd williin ;i
bl.>iit« of north eate of K\ position. Kverv piTHon .iesirinR to reserve oiiterttiiiim''tit at H.d.I Kpwortli
nmy ibi bo by sen. line i'J f.-r « (.'<Ttifn'»teof Kntertiiinnieni which will insure holder alow rate of $1 per
dny for n.8 mnny d.yj hh di^sired. ()tu'-lmU <*f ibc totnl roht is reipiirpd in ndv -no.' >» monthly puynents
of not b'SstbunS'L b.Thincp to hopaid wlien liobler attendK Exposition. The h.'tol w.ll be conducted ou
En npi-Hti plan, and above rate do'S not include tneals. All convonieticef of', moilern lintel provided
W.' advise our friends to apply ntoncc for CertiticatcR. Tlic rate will probably bead Van red Ket). 1, 19ni.
Adpke.^s EPWORTH hotel COMPANY. Koken BIdg., St. LouiS
From One ot the Most Successful Planters in North Carolina.
Svi 1 HKiELn. X. C, February jS. 190a.
T/ir Home FerHhif Chrmual Works, Ba/timf>re. Afti.
(.KNi r fmfn: This is to cert if v that I have used Cerealite for a number of vears and have sold it for
the p:ist tliree vears. and I myself lind it to l>e eqvial to, if not better in many respects than. Nitrate Soda.
Mv I'esl customers are anxious to use it a^ain this year. On \y>y own crops I used it on wheat, oats, and
cttou. and for evcr\' iloUar I invested in Cerealite I am sure it paid me S^^.^o. 1 prefer Cerealite as a top
dressin-/ 1.^ Nitrate Soda, even if the goods were the same price. Splendid ior oals ai>d gr^tn.
Yours truly. J. W. Stephenson.
Reliable atjent ivanted in everv conntv.
ALONG THE
RIO GRANDE
The Scenic Koute to the Pacific.
THE BORDER LAND OF
The TWO REPUBLICS
MEXICO and THE UNITED STATES
Viewed From a Car Window : : :
IT'S THE
OF THE
T^\ SOUTHERN PACIFIC
With Its Oii-Burninq Locomotives.
NO SMOKE
NO DUST
T. J. AMU'USdN,
General rasscnsrer Aarent.
NO CINDERS
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niaiJ. iiOKtimltl. sutlirKMit for one moDtli's treatment, to l>e i>ui(l
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truthfully say thai it*i use has done Inm f>r her more jfiMKi than
all the drup* or dopes ol (luncks or nof>d doctors or i>at4'nt nunl-
iciijes he or she has* t-vei used Rfad this over aKuin carefully.
and und^'PstHud that we a-sk our pay only whi'n it hnt done juu
iruutl, and not holorr. We take all the risk You have nothing
t4> |os<*. If it does not lienefU you. yon i>ay us nothing;. ¥lt«'-Ore
18 H natural, hard, adaniantine, rocklike sulist«nce— mineral—
i>re-mineti from the Kr*J"nd like gold and silver, and requires
aWout twenty years for oxidization. It contains free iron, free
i-ulphur. and" inaunesiuni. and one packafje will equal in medici-
nal streuk'th and curative value Hoii ^:al Ions of the most power-
ful. clt)(a«ious mineral wat<;r drunk tresh at theaprini-rs. It is a
geoltt^rif at discovcrv. to which nothintr is adde<l and from which
notiiinc IS taken ft is the marvel ot the century for curinpsuch
diseases as KheiimatUm. ItrifchtN rUoiiAe, Blood 'Polsnninc. Heart
'I'roiihle. IMdtiNt, (nlatrh iitiil 1 hrOMl Aneclions, Lher, KIdnej. himI
Blaildpr Ailnif nl!*, N1oni»rh hihI I- eniale hiMirdrrs. La iiilppe, nal))*
rial K«*»er, Nerrou* PrnstrHtluti, and lieni'ral Debility, its thousands
testify, and as no one answering this, writing for a package, will
deny after using. Vlt«-i>rt* has cured more chronic, obstinate.
pronounce<l incuraVileca.ses than any other known medicine, and
will rt-ach su«'h cases with a more rai>id and iK>wertul curative
acti<jn than any medicine, combination of meaiciues. or doctor's
prescrijition which it is possible to procure.
VIT.l-;-OllK will do the same for you as it has for hundreds of
readers ot this paper, if you will give it a trial. Send tor a $1
|i»< kaup jit (MirrlKk. You have nothing to lose but the stamp to an-
swer this tinnouncement. If the medicine does not benefit you,
write UN NO, HDd there Im no harm done. Wv- nant no onp*K money
nhoni Vitii'-Orecannui heneflt. Can anything be more fair? What
si-nsible person, no matter how prejudiced he or she may bo. who
dt'sires a cure and is willin;^ to pay for it. would hesitate to try
Vllii-Ore on this lil>eral otTer' Une package is usually sufficient
t<^) cure ordinary cases: two or three for chronic, obstinate <'Ases.
iVe nwan Jimt what we sny in this anDOimcement. and will do just
w hut we agree. Write to-day for a package at our risk and ex-
pense, giving age and ailments, and mention this paper, so we
may know that you are entitled to this liberal offer.
This oflVr nill <*hanenire Ihe attention and oon-
sitlrratioru and afterwards the ^.^ratitude, of every
liviiiy- person who desires l»etter health or h ho sn Iters
pains, ills, and diseases >vhieh have defied the nied-
ieal n<irld and irronn worse with aire. We eare not
for your skepticism, bnt ask only your investiua-
tion^ an<l at ouv expense, re;rardless of nhal ills you
have, by sendinj? U* us for a package.
(IKKli (»!•' SlSiKtlAIII (tlUCItll.
K. B. IV. ( ulemsn, of Beerlter ( ity. til..
Tells the Public «>r His 1 ure.
Inrf OrcKO Wm Affm.^— Doctored fur Ttirae Vrari
With No B«Dpflt— (Ire* Wor«c frwm Ila* i» |>kj- —
Better After Oo« Week's Dm or Vlla-Urc, ud Is
Now Cured.
Brechbr CiTT. IiL. — To the public in
ff'-neral: 1 wi*thtoi-ay thai I cannot praise
Vit«e-Ore enough, a» I »m pi»Mtive that
this remedy saved my hf** wli**n all oth-
er medicines imd doct'or^* failed. For the
last three years I hnve bt-en h great suf-
ferer from Sjkten*
atirCiitarrh. >obud-
ly that it atlecied
everv orgiin within
me. and every one
was expecimg me
10 die. I had given
up all hope ot ever
seeing the tipring-
tinie come again.
Though I had two
of the best doctors
here altie^nding me,
I grew steadily
worse.
I was confined to the house and my bed
during all of List winter, and during the
mouth of Kehniary gave up all hope, as
did my frieniis imti relatives. Through
thegenero'-ttynf Mr. Theo. No»-l.Ihegan
the usoof Viiic-iire on the first of March,
}'M>\. tind bi'tinn to Improve lninieilJ4tely
during tlie flrst «eek. As soon as I got
it 1 dismissed the doctors, as 1 thought
I had to die anyhow, not having much
fuith or hope for a cure. Inn week's lime
I was out of bed and around the house,
and steadily improved from day to <Iay.
The inclosed picture was tuken'the first
of May, but two monthtf after 1 began
the use of Viiie-Ore.
I consider it a Godsend to poor, afflict-
ed people if they will only give it u fRir
trial and test its" merits us 1 have done.
Myself and yonnu son cut and put up ;i.^0
shocJfS of corn during the fall, besides do-
ing lota of hard work ; and 1 am the .«*ame
man that thonghi the cpring of (he year
would find nie in mv grave. Vou can
proclaim with me thai it is the best rem-
edy on cart li for the alHicted. and I will be
Kladtoieil all H hat Vi tie- Ore liaa done for
nie. K. H. W. Coi.i:man.
THEO. NOEL CO..
Veteran Dept.,
Vilae-Ore BIdg.,
Chicago
April Issue, 64 Pa^es. Special Offer for 3 Months' Ads. Preceding Reunion.
Vol. 12 NASHVII.I.E, TENN., MARCH, 1904 No. 3
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".! peiii-ioii for ua^ by Oi'ot'j^r."^
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Write for reference and descriptive booklet to
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Pur Value - $10 per Share
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This slock h;is advanced in pric.' loo ]">cr cent in
one year. Ten of the richest copper claims in the
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being developed by this company. The second
block of stock is now being sold, and will soon be
gone. This has proved to be a fine investment.
The stock has already doubled once in price, and
will go higher before the next National Reunion
in May. Secure what stock you can NOW, before
it is too late.
the treasury of the company and into the mine itself,
paid to brokers or agents. This is a legitimate and in-
Investigate — then invest.
R. W. CRABB, Treasurer, U.iiontown, Ky.
THE MULDQON MONUMENT CO.,
322, 324, i^6, 328 GREEN STREET, LOUISVIL IJi, i^Y.
'OLDEST AND MOST RELIABLE HOUSE IN AMERICA.)
Have erected nine-tenths of the Confederate Monuments in the United
States. These monuments cost from five to thirty thousand dollars. The
following is a partial list of monuments thej' have erected. To see these
monuments is to appreciate them.
Cynthiana, Ky.
Lexington, Ky.
Louisville, Ky.
Raleigh, N. C.
J. C. Calhoun Sarcophagus,
Charleston, S. C.
Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne,
Helena, Ark.
Helena, Ark.
Macon, Ga.
Columbus, Ga.
Thomasville, Ga.
Sparta, Ga.
Dalton, Ga.
Nashville, Tenn.
Columbia, Tenn.
Shelbyville, Tenn.
Franklin, Tenn.
Kentucky State Monument,
Chickamauga Park, Ga.
Lynchburg, Va.
Tennessee and North Caro-
lina Monuments, Chicka-
mauga Park, Ga.
Winchester, Va.
When needing first-class, plain, or artistic work made from the finest qual-
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From One of the Most Successful Planters in North Carolina.
Smithfield, N. C, February iS, 1903.
The Home Fertilizer Chemical Works, Baltimore^ Md.
Gentlemen: This is to certify that I have used Cerealite for a number of years and have sold it for
the past three years, and I myself find it to be equal to, if not better in many respects than, Nitrate Soda.
My Dest customers are anxious to use it ag^in this year. On my own crops I used it on wheat, oats, and
cotton, and for every dollar I invented in Cerealue I am sure it paid me $2.50. I prefer Cerealite as a top
dressin<r to Nitrate Soda, even if the goods were the same price. Splendid for oats and grain.
Yours truly, J. W. Stephenson.
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It builds up the weak and broken down, restores
youth, energy, and ambition. It will cure every
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tic in Its praise. No matter what ails you. there Is a cure for" you in nature's remedy — electricitv.
It restores the energy and ambition of youth. Many old veterans who thouubt there was no hclii
for them have been cure<l of obi. ebrome tioubles ibrouirli the ii^^c of our Kelts.
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Life and Letters of . i
SooHefn Secession. * i RotJert Lewis Dabney. D.D.,LL.D. i,
BY
E. W. R. EWING, LL.B.,
Soo o{ a Late Confederate Officer.
Should provt of service to future hisfon'oKS.
—A I-ITERAHV CtlTIC.
^nNrQUE, Inditpensable to youne or old;
V>^ fcarles*, yet dignified: conrtuiiona drawn
from the lolid ficii of history^faclh. too. gaih-
ercd fiors official repoiis and public dociimenii.
and. io many intlancct. to be (oand in no other
work. North or Suuih, ireatlnc Civil Wat ca iscs
Tke "tmiKftni incubator;' ilj»ery irgaViitd
Dnder the Ordinance of 1787: alavery Irgi^lanon
from Oregon (o the CaroMnai: the Lir>cojn Re-
publican! and their bloody icdition in Kansai'
and many other oritlnal fcaturca rnjke (he work
a valuable addition to Soathern liieratur:
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•^ Dr. Dabney was a conspicuous cl:.ir;icler in Southern affairs for more tlian tifly years, and
m enjoyed a national reputation as a Teacher, Tlieologiau, Prcaclier, and Patrii>t.
^' 'Confederate Veterans and all sladents of Soutnern ideals wilt find in this vofuino a rich
^- tture of information concerning the autt--belium social, political, and industrial conditions of
*^ the South, and Dr. Dabnev's letters written during the stormy days of V« to '65 are in them-
^**- lelves a risumi of that period and a strong vindication of the principles for which the South
•^ fought. Of special interest to old soldiers are his letters during the time he served as an army
fc— chaplain and as chief-of-stafE under Stonewall Jackson during the wonderful campaign in the
^^ Valley of Vir;^inia.
^i*^ The book is a notable contribution to the historical literature of the Sctulh, and a copy
y should be in tlie home of every true Soiilherner.
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Qopfederate l/eterap.
PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND KINDRED TOPICS.
Entered at the post ofRce at Nash\ille, Tetin., as second-class matter.
Contributors are requested vO use one side of tlie paper, and to alibreviale
umnch as practicabie; these su^jjestions are important.
Where clippinj^s are sent copy should lie kept, as the Veteran cannot
ondertAke to return them.
Advertising rates furnished on application.
The date to a subscription is always given to the month hrjore it ends. For
instance, if the Veteran be ordered' to begin ^vitIl January, the date on mail
tut will be December, and tlie subscri'H-r is entitled to that nvnnl er.
The •* civil war** was too long a^oto be calhd the "late" war, and when
correspondents use that term " War between the States** will be substituted.
OFFICIALLT REPRESENTS:
ITnttkd Confederate Veterans,
United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Sons of Veterans, and Other Organizations.
The Veteran is approved and indorsed officially by a larger and
elevated patronage, doubtless, than any other publication in exl.t«ooe.
Thouf^h men deserve, they may not win success.
The brave will honor the brave, vanquished none the leas.
Price, $1.00 per Year, t Voi VIT
SiNSLE Copy, 10 Cents. ( ^ "''• -^^'^■
NASHVILLE, TENN.. MARCH. 1904.
No. 3
.( S. A. CUNNINGHAM
I Proprietor.
MISS MAUD COLEMAN WOODS.
"To live in hcails we leave behind
Is not to die."
.•\nioug the many lovely young women in attendance at the
Confederate reunion in Atlanta, Ga., July, 1898, the fair maid
of honor for Virginia will be remembered for her beauty and
grace, and the honor was well bestowed when the veterans
as.semhled unanimously selected her as sponsor for the Army
of Northern Virginia Department, United
Confederate Veterans. This fair young
yirl, Maud Coleman Woods, daugh-
tei of Capt. Micajah Woods
(Brigadier General U. C.
v.), of Charlottesville,
Va., since her debut had
been noted for her
beauty, and was re-
garded as one of the
best types of Virginia
women. She was ad-
mired for her lovely
juanners and amiable
disposition as well a>
for lier great beauty, and
a mo^t admir.ible Iran
was her sweet Christian
character; and when the Angel '^
<if Death bore away her spirit it
was but a relinquishment of the earthly
hfe for that of heaven. With her mother
and sisters she had been spending the summer nmntlis at
"Clazcmont," Va., ihc childhood home of her mother. She was
ill for several weeks with typhoid fever, which the most skilled
attention could not conquer.
Miss Woods was related to many of the leading families of
Virginia and of the South and West. Her father, Gen. Mica-
jah Woods, is one of the most prominent men of his State,
both socially and politically. He entered the Confederate serv-
ice at the beginning of the war, although but a youth of sev-
enteen, as a volunleer on the staff of Gen. John B. Floyd, and
afterwards served in Jackson's Battery of Horse .Artillery. In
1893 he was appointed brigadier general to command the
Second Brigade of the Virginia Division, U. C. V. Her mother
was Matilda Minor Morris, daughter of Richard Morris, whom
John Randolph, of Roanoke, credited with making the best
speech at the Virginia Convention of 1829-30, and a niece of
MISS M.'VUD COI-EMAN WOODS
Col. Lewis Minor Coleman, who resigned his professorship
at the University of Virginia to enter the Confederate army
and fell at the head of his battalion of artillery in the battle
of Fredericksburg.
Miss Woods was educated at the Virginia Female Institute
under Mrs. J. E. B. Stuart, whose distinguished husband was
a kinsman on both sides. Besides many other accomplish-
ments, she possessed a rare talent for music, and took the only
gold medal awarded at the Institute the year she graduated.
One of the many honors which came un-
sought to this lovely young woman
was the selection of her picture as
a model for the medallion used
as the seal of the Pan-
American Exposition at
Buffalo in 1901. She
represented the type of
.American blonde beau-
ty,and Mrs. Nat Good-
win — the beautiful
actress, Maxine El-
liott— was the typical
brunette. Even this
honor did not disturb
the serenity of her char-
acter, and she shrank
from such prominence. Her
beautiful brown hair, deep blue
eyes, and very fair skin, with deli
cate roses in her cheeks, made a pic-
ture fair to see. She was of medium
liciglit, ralher slender, and her every movement was graceful.
The tribute by Thomas Nelson Page, one of her distin-
guished relatives, most feelingly expresses what the Veteran
would say of one so well beloved, so deeply mourned:
". . . In the long list of her beautiful daughters, the State
of Virginia never had one who by every gentle grace filled
more fully the measure of that sweet womanhood which we
who are of the soil love to think the distinctive stamp of her
endowment. Blessed as this young daughter was with the re-
fined beauty that belonged to her by inheritance, she was to
those who had the happiness to know her yet more distin-
guished by the swtetness and purity of her character, the love-
liness of her nature.. aud the charm of her manner. No adula-
tion changed her; no trace of self-consciousness marred her ex-
quisite simplicity. She was as beautiful and natural as a
flower. When she was budding from girlhood into gracious
I
102
C;^OQfederate UeteraQ.
womanhood she was selecicd by ihc officers of the United Con-
federate V'eterans at the grand leunion held in Atlanta to
stand as sponsor for the Department of the Army of Northern
Virginia. It caused much embarrassment to one of her shy
and retiring nature. The very modesty with which she shrank
from publicity was the crowning grace that captivated all.
"Her portrait was again, without her knowledge, selected by
the committee of distinguished men who had the matter in
charge to typify North American beauty at the Pan-American
Exposition ; but with innate modesty she begged to be left
alone. It was not in public, but in private, that she aspired to
shine, and there she shone. In the circle of her home, sur-
rounded by those who loved her, she shone with the radiance
which beams only from a pure and gentle breast. One could not
sec her there and not think of a lovely rose making all of the
house sweet with its fragrance. One cannot recall her and not
grieve in thinking
" 'How .small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair.'
"To her graces was early added the crowning beauty of
simple and unaffected Christian piety, which had descended to
her with her blood from generations of saintly women, and
many of her young friends testified to the influence she had
upon their lives.
"At Clazemont, in Hanover, one of the old seats of bound-
less Virginia hospitality, where her mother before had played
as a child, surrounded by those who knew and loved her best,
she, on the day following her twenty-fourth birthday, sighed
her gentle life away and passed without a pang into the blessed
white-robed company of the redeemed."
MARKING GRAVES OF CONFEDERATE PRISONERS.
The bill appropriating $200,000 for marking the graves of
the soldiers of the army and navy of the Confederacy who
died during the War between the States in Federal prisons and
hospitals passed the United States Senate on the 25th of Jan-
uary, and is now in the House Committee on Military Affairs,
with a strong probability of being acted upon favoraljly.
On July 19, 1866, Edwin M. Stanton, then United States
Secretary of War, in an oiKcial report to Congress, said that
there were 26,436 deaths of Rebel prisoners of war out of a
total of 220,000 captured and held in the North. Later and
more carefully gathered statistics show an increase of this
death list to 26,774. Of this number, 22,865 died in Northern
prisons and the remainder, 3,909, in temporary prisons and
hospitals mostly in the South. There were twenty regular
United States jnisons for confining Confederate prisoners, but
ten of them furnish almost the entire death list, as follows :
Alton, 111., 1,613; Cainp Butler, III., 816; Camp Chase, Ohio,
2,108; Camp Douglas, 111., 3,759; Camp Morton, Ind., 1,763;
Elmira, N. Y., 2,980; Fort Delaware, Del., 2,502; Point Look-
out, Md., 3,446; Rock Island, 111., 1,922; St. Louis, Mo., 689,
making a total of 21,598 that died in these ten prisons, leaving
only 1,167 in the other ten places of confinement.
But the death rates of these prisons cannot be estimated from
the above figures, as sotne of the prisons were eslablislied much
longer than others, and a greater number of prisoners confined
in some than in others. Rock Island, for instance, was not
established until the latter part of November or early in De-
cember, 1863 ; and, all told, never had but 2,484 prisoners, yet
according to official reports there were 1,922 deaths, something
over 77 per cent. Only privates were confined in Rock island.
Tliis, in addition to a fearful scourge of smallpox, which
little effort was made to abate, may account for the excessive
death rate.
JOHN B. GORDON MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.
.\tl.\nta, Ga., February 20, 1904.
This .Association has been organized for the purpose of
erecting a monument or statue at the capital of Georgia to
commemorate the patriotism, fidelity, and noble life of Gen.
John B. Gordon, one of Georgia's and the South's greatest sons.
It is unnecessary herein to attempt to speak of the splendid
qualities and heroic life of this great man. That has already
been done in beautiful and truthful words by the press and
people not only of our Southland but throughout the entire
country. His magnificent bearing, courtly manners, and warm
and responsive heart has endeared him to his people, and his
memory will never fade.
As he was the Commander in Chief of the United Confed-
erate Veterans, it would seem that they would only need the
opportunity to earnestly engage in the sacred work of per-
petuating in bronze, or marble, the memory of his glori.nK
deeds.
The Central Executive Committee, therefore, with confi-
dence invoke the aid of all the Camps and organizations of
Confederate Veterans in this work, and request them to con-
tribute to the fund to be raised for that purpose. If the hun-
dreds of Camps in the South will respond to this call, even
with small amounts, the success of our object will be assured.
Subscriptions may be paid in cash, or at any time, on or be-
fore November i, i;;04, to E. H. Thornton, President Neal
Loan & Banking Co., as Treasurer, Atlanta, Ga.
W. L. Cai.houn, President and Chairman Ccii. Exec. Com.
In a circular letter from Atlanta, Ga., February 19, 1904, to
the press, the Committee for the John B. Gordon Monument
Association (Incorporated) states:
"Its sole object is the erection of a suitable monument at
Atlanta, Ga., to the lamented Gen. John B. Gordon, soldier and
statesman, and in order to raise the necessary funds the
newspapers of the South are hereby requested to open their
columns for subscriptions and to receive and publish subscrip-
tions and the names of subscribers.
"We request that you at once open your columns for sub-
scriptions, and send all moneys to E. H. Thornton, President
of the Neal Loan & Banking Company, .\tlanta, Ga., who is
Treasurer of the John B. Gordon Monument Association.
Subscriptions payable in cash or by November i."'
The coiiimittee is composed of W. L. Calhoun, President ;
H. L. Culberson, W. F. Parklunst. H. L. Schlessinger.
The J. E. B. Stu.\rt Monument. — The Veteran Cavalry
Association of the Army of Northern Virginia has asked the
assistance of the wonun of Virginia in raising the fund iieces-
.sary to complete the monument to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. The
.'Association has raised the ten thousand dollars required to
secure the appropriation from the Legislature, but more must
be had to erect the pedestal and complete its surroundings.
Do you not think that we, the women, as well as the men,
owe this monument to the memory of the man who gave his life
for the defense of Virginia and of Richmond, the capital of
the Confederacy? Virginians everywhere should feel it a priv-
ilege, as well as a duty, to respond at once to this appeal.
Five thousand loyal Virginians, giving the small amount of
one dollar each would complete the work. Contribute lib-
erally, but even the smallest amount will be received. Con-
tribute in memory of the comrade dead as well as in honor
of the gallant leader of the Veteran Cavalry Association.
Very truly, Mrs. N. V. Randolph,
President Richmond Chapter.
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CONFEDERATE DAUGHTERS IN SHERMAN, TEX.
Mrs. Edwin Moore is an ardent worker and official of the
U. D. C. For two years she has been President of Dixie
Cliaptcr, No. 35, at Sherman, Tex. In that time it has grown
from thirty-seven members to one hundred and forty-six, and
has organized two auxiliaries — one in College Park and a
Children's Auxiliary — each containing forty members, so that
Dixie Chapter lias a total membership of two hundred and
twenty-six, the largest in North Texas and one of the largest
in the U. D. C.
Dixie Chapter is the only Chapter in Texas having two
auxiliaries. This condition is through the tireless efforts of
Mrs. Moore and her able assistants.
Mrs. Moore has had bestowed Crosses of Honor upon the
veterans of Mildred Lee Camp, U. C. V., and ninety crosses
are now worn by the veterans, who prize them above all other
decorations. Dixie Chapter, under her direction, has erected
monuments for all the Confederate dead buried on their beau
tiful plot in the city cemetery; has celebrated all days made
sacred by Southern memories ; has sent many valuable con-
tributions to the Confederate Home at Austin ; and is in the
front rank in every department of Confederate work.
Mrs. Moore's unanimous election to the office of Vr ■ Presi-
dent of the Texas Division was a graceful acknowlei. ^ment
of her zeal shown not alone in her Chapter work but as
Chairman of Children's Auxiliaries in 1902 and auxiliaries in
college work in 1903.
Mrs. Moore is an active member of the Daughters of the
Republic of Texas, Federation of Women's Clubs, Dames of
1846, etc. She is Stale Historian of Dames of 1846, and her
daughter, another well-known club woman, Mrs. Zylla Moore
Cardin, is State Commandant of the Dames of 1846 for Ken-
tucky.
Mrs. Moore, before marriage, was Miss Victoria Shannon,
a daughter of Col. T. J. Shannon, one of the leading men in
the early history of Texas, and Eliza Easton Shannon, a
ncitcil beauty. Sluirlly attoi the war slie married Edwin
MRS. EUWIN MOuKli, SHEKM,\N, TE.K.,
Vice President United Daughters o£ the Confcderar\ .
Moore, who had a fine record as a Confederate soldier, though
he entered the army wlien only eighteen. He was severely
wounded at the battle of Shiloh. Mrs. Moore is a typical
Southern lady, gracious and accomplished.
SHERMAN'S RAW THROUGH GEORGIA.
Reply to *'MarchIng through Georgia,*' l>y Mrs. Sadie Colbert Burl<e,
Bainbrtdge, Ga.
The pride of every nation is her brave and gallant men,
Their praise is rung from mountain top and echoed in the glen ;
Then here's to Sherman's "dashing boys," who w-on glory on
the day
They desolated Georgia homes when the owners were away.
Chorus.
Hurrah! Hurrah! We heard your "jubilee !"
' Twas sung in dear old Georgia from Atlanta to the sea.
Hurrah! Hurrah! It made old Cuflfee shout.
For Marsicr .m' de boys were gone and none to turn you out.
When you marched through dear old Georgia, leaving sorrow
in your train.
The cry of hungry children and mothers all in vain,
\ our cruel song was chorused by the darky's lusty shout.
F'or "Ole Marse an' de boys" were gone and none to turn you
out.
The boasted "Union men " were deserters from our ranks
That gave such lordly welcome to fifty thousand Yanks ;
.\nd the spirit of our fathers would inurnnir in the grave
If o'er such wi'y traitors the dear old flag sliouId"wave.
The starf and stripes, the honored flag, our fathers' -acred
trust.
Once proudly borne by Valor's hand, you trailed it in the du.st
The day you quit the battlefield and raised the private latch
To raid upon the "goobers and the sweet potato patch."
We bravely met i,ou in the field; our pluck you can't deny.
And though your numbers trebled ours, we often made you fly.
.•\ lesson true we taught to you at the battle of Bull Run
That a little war with Southern boys was anything but fun !
No treason moved the Southern heart, so noble, true, and
brave ;
The sacred cause we loved, though dead, sleeps in an honored
grave ;
.\nd glory wreathes oi.r heroes' names on Fame's bright page
to-day.
God bless the men that fought and lost, our men that wore the
gray !
The aullior of this poem gives the following incident as the
inspiration for the reply to "Marching through Georgia:" ".Vn
old friend of mine, a noble Southern woman, was spending
■<onic lime in New York when Gen. Grant was buried there.
In the long procession that followed him to the tomb were
many Southerners, and among them our honored Gen. Gordon.
For some cause the procession was halted just as Gen. Gordon
was in front of a fashionable hotel, where my friend was
stopping. He was soon recognized as he sat upon his splendid
charger, the sunbeams falling sweet and golden upon his bowed
head. In a moment a bevy of children came out on the veranda
and lustily sang 'Marching through Georgia.' O the shame!
the insul; to our noble general, who stooped to do them
honor ! Knowing my ability in rhyming, my friend wrote nie
an account of this, and suggested that I reply. I did so with
trembling hands and throbbing pulse, and set the words :o
music. Mrs. Pickett, widow of our great general, tried to get it
published, but there was an enemy in every music house, anj
il was lost for several years. Through perseverance on Mrs.
Pickett's part, the song was found in the post office at Wash-
ington and returned to me."
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PERILOUS ADfEXTURE AT BATTERy HAGNER.
BV lUIKiE Jl. D. D. TWICCS.
The incident above referred to took place during the siege
of Battery Wagner, S. C, a short time prior to the bfimbard-
ment and assault upon that historic fortress, wliich occurred
on the i6th of July, 1863, resulting in the complete repulse
of the Federal forces, and one of the most signal defeats of
the war, the numbers engaged considered.
Although the writer has heretofore given a very full ac-
count of this great siege, bombardment, and assault in several
addresses which have been printed, no reference was made to
the episode hereinafter described, for the reason that he was
one of the participants in the same. At the special request,
however, of some of his comrades in arms, he has consented
to send it to the Confederate Veteran, Ijcing largely in-
duced to do this because of the pleasure it gives him to
make public the conduct of his gallant associates upon the
occasion referred 10.
Battery Wagner was situated on Morris Island, about six
miles from Charleston. Its guns commanded the channel
approach to that city, and the possession of the island was
considered the key to the city. The enemy had effected a
landing on the southern end of the island, and, moving up
their forces, had erected heavy batteries about sixteen hundred
yard>- in front of Wagner. The latter, which was occupied
by 01 ■ troops, was a large bastioned earthwork, inclosed on
all sides, and situated upon a neclv of the island, so narrow
that the battery (more properly fort) extended across its full
width two hundred and fifty yards at that pomt from the sea
or ship channel on one side to Vincent Creek, a deep and
narrow salt water creek, on the other. This island was a
long, low, sandy, sea island, almost denuded of growth, save
a few palmetto trees, a number of which grew along the banks
of Vincent Creek. There was situated ncai the banks of this
creek an abandoned two-story wooden houfc, much nearer thj
enemy's works than ours, of which a small body of the enemy
took possession ; ni fact, it was the he idquarters of their
night outpost picket.
From the upper windows of this house a band of sliarp-
shooters had been constantly harassing the garrison at Wagner
by firing plunging shots in their elevated positions from their
long-range rifles, and scarcely a day passed without some sol-
dier in the open parade of the fort being killed or wounded.
Of course, Ihe troops could not perpetually remain under
cover in the stifling bomb proofs, and they were necessarily
exposed to tlie rifle file of this unseen, pitiless foe, who were
dealing death day after day in their ranks. They could not
be dislodged by infantry, as they had the near support of
ten thousand troops in their own works (our force in the
fort being less than fifteen hundred men). They could not
be shelled by artillery, because we were day and night strength-
ening our works, and any artillery demonstration from our
fort would have resulted in drawing upon us the concentrated
fire of all the enemy's siege guns, which were of tlie heavies;
caliber.
In the daytime the enemy's pickets were withdrawn from
the house, leaving only the sharpshooters to do their daily,
deadly work. No feasible expedient could be adopted to burn
fliis house and abate this intolerable nuisance, and night only
brought relief to the harassed garrison.
It was possible for a very few men, under the shelter of the
creek bank m places, and the scant growth of shrubbery, to
approach the house in the daytime, but no considerable num-
ber could do so without being seen at once, and it was, of
course, impracticable to do so at night. At the time men-
tioned I was a captain of infantry, but detached from my
regiment in Virginia, and was temporarily assigned to stalT
duty as inspector general with Gen. William B. Taliaferro,
who commanded Fort Wagner. One morning in July, l8t^^,
about a week or ten days before the bombardment and assault
on the l8th of July, described in my address, Lieut. J. I.
Doughty, of Augusta, Ga.. who is still living in that city, re-
ceived a box of eatables from home, and invited the writer,
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JUnCE TWIGGS.
Lieut. W. M. Hitt, and Lieut. Thomas Tutt, also of Augusta at
that time, and Sergt. Hopps, from Missouri, to dine with hiin in
his quarters in the fort. We were enjoying, as only ravenous
soldiers could, the delicious viands which tender hands .-it
home had stored away in this precious bo.x, and had nearly
finished our nicnl, when one of Tutt's men came in hurriedly
and reported, with a voice quivering with emotion, that a
well-known comrade of his command (whose name the writer
has forgotten) had just been shot dead in the open fort by one
of the enemy's sharpshooters from the house referred to.
Tutt sprang from his seat, his dark eyes flashing fire, with a
strange light gleaming from their depths, and, looking into our
faces, said, with his own set hard with determination, and
with fury written in every line : "Boys, let us get a rifle
;.piecc and drive the d d rascals from that house and burn
it, or perish in the attempt." There were five of us present —
Putt, Doughty, Hitt, Hopps, and myself in the party. We
were all quite young, and the strange magnetism of Tutt, who
was our senior by several years, and his determined bearing
immediately fired us all with an enthusiasm which I will never
forget, and, without taking time to reflect upon the peril or
the consequences of the enterprise, we agreed, and at once
formed our plan of action. Gen. Taliaferro had gone that day
to the city of Charleston, and, in his absence, the command
of the fori devolved upon Col. Charles H. Olmstead, for-
merly of this city, but now living in New York. We quickly-
made our plans, and, each procuring a rifle and ammunition.
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we secretly left the fort about 3 p.m. on the perilous expedi-
tion. Being a staff officer, I was enabled to pass the party
out at the sally port, and, crouching low and stealthily, in
Indian file, Tutt being in the lead, we glided slowly up the
creek, taking advantage of its banks, the palmetto trees, and
occasional sand dunes to hide us from view (which we found
it to be a very difficult matter to do). The house was about
fifty yards from the creek, and, when we had reached a point
about one hundred yards from it, we halted, and, lying down
together behind some stunted shrubbery, held a council of
war. It was impossible to retreat then, because the shaip-
shooters had evidently seen some movement, and, with their
rifles in hand, we could see them at the windows, looking in-
tently in our direction. The space between us and the house
was a perfectly open sand area, without the slightest shelter or
protection. There was not a moment to lose, as the enemy
was growing more and more suspicious. There were eight
sharpsliooters in the house, but at the time we did not know
the number. There were only five of us. We at once con-
cluded to make a dash for the house. The enemy were at the
windows on the side of the house looking toward our fort.
We had crept to a point nearly opposite the end. so that they
could only get a few oblique shots at us from the windows be-
fore we could pass the line of fire, the end of the house inter-
posing its friendly shelter after passing this line. At a signal
from Tutt (who, by common consent, became our leader),
and on the full run we rushed for the building, a scattering
volley being fired at us, providentially without effect. Meeting
together on the opposite side of the house, we ran pellmell
into the building through the open door in the back of the
same. The enemy seemed stunned by the suddenness of the
attack, and we were fairly in the hall before they were enabled
to start down the narrow stairway to meet us. A general fu-
sillade followed. The vivid flashes of the rifles lighting up the
hall, which was soon filled with dense smoke, caused them to
retreat to their former position, and Tutt, raving like a demon,
started upstairs alone, but we pulled him back. He then, in a
loud voice, ordered the house set on fire, which we at once
I.IEUT. W. M. IIITT, .\TI.ANTA, fl.V.
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did, retiring to the open area in the rear after the fire had made
considerable headway, which we started immediately under
the stairsteps. The building was old and dry, and burnt like
tinder, and it was a case of the enemy being cremated or
leaving the house. Some of them ran out of the doors, and
others jumped from the windows. We stood around with our
rifles cocked, firing at them as they appeared. They made a
feeble resistance, shooting wildly, and the survivors took to
their heels. Several of them were shot and the others made
good their escape.
By this time the musketry and the burning building had
aroused the respective garrisons of the two forts, which
swarmed in masses on their parapets; we were at easy rifle
range of the Yankee garrison, and if we attempted to retreat
across the open area of sand, death to us would have been the
inevitable result. The only way back by the creek margin was
already swept by a hurricane of bullets, the enemy evidently
supposing that there was a large body of us concealed in the
shrubbery near the now consumed house. We realized too
late that we were caught like rats in a trap. In front of us,
two hundred yards nearer the enemy's works, was a little
hillock or sand dune on this open area of sand, and. although
it brought us much nearer the Federal works, we made a dash
for it in order to shelter ourselves from the terrific fire which
was now concentrated upon us by the thoroughly aroused
Yankee garrison. With only a slight wound received by
Hopps, though some of us had our clothing torn by bullets,
we providentially gained the sand hill, which was only a few
feet higher than the surrounding plane, and each of us sank
down at full length behind it. and for the time being were
comparatively safe from the enemy's leaden missiles, which
sung around us, intermixed with that ominous sound of the
bullet — s — t, s — t. s — t, s — t — familiar to all soldiers who saw
service in that war.
It was our purpose in seeking this shelter to remain there un-
til night had set in, and then slip back to Wagner under cover
of darkness, but it was not so ordered. After lying in the
position described, under the pitiless rays of a scorching July
sun for some little time, the enemy's fire greatly slackened,
and I stealthily peeped over the sand dune to take an observa-
tion, when, to my horror, I saw a full company of Yankee
infantry, which had silently moved out of their works, rapidly
approaching us, the sunlight flashing from their bright bayo-
nets as they marched. Turning to my companions, I said:
"Boys, look yonder; it's all up with us now." Certain death
or capture indeed seemed inevitable, and we each realized it.
The invincible Tutt, however, swore that he would not be
taken alive, and seemed inexorable in this determination, al-
though we assured him that any resistance we might then make
would be unavailing against such a body of men, numbering
thirty or forty rifles, and would end in our butchery by an
exasperated foe. Tutt persisted, however, and, indignantly
scorning the idea of surrender, without further parley dis-
charged his rifle full at the approaching enemy. This, of
course, settled the question, as nothing was then left to us
but to stand by our reckless and intrepid comrade, which we
did for all we were worth. With elbow touching elbow, and
our heads alone visible above the sand bank, we kept up a
steady fire upon the line of blue rapidly ncaring us. At the
first volley they halted, returned the-fire, and then with huzzas
came for us on the full run. The situation was appalling, but
we continued to pour our fire into them. Occupying a posi-
tion prone on the sand, and our vision obscured by the smoke
of the guns, we did not see the effect of our shots, and did
not know until afterwards informed by Col. Olmstead, who
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watched the scene closely with his field glass, that several ol
the enemy were carried off by their comrades. What was it,
then, that shook the island from center to circumference?
Turning our heads in the direction of the sound, we wit-
nessed a sight which sent the blood tingling in our veins.
The entire face of Wagner was enveloped in rolling clouds
of smoke, lit up v.ith crimson flame from bastion to bastion
by the guns of the fort. The heaviest batteries of siege guns
on this entire face of Wagner were suddenly opened upon the
approaching Federal infantry. Charlie Olmstead, my old
schoolmate, who was commanding in the absence of Gen.
Taliaferro, had come to the rescue. The artillery fire, con-
ducted by that accomplished and gallant soldier, Lieut. Col.
J. C. Simpkins. of South Carolina, and chief of artillery, was
directed with wonderful precision, and the shells passing over
our heads and bursting beyond us uncomfortably close, in the
very face of the enemy, scattered them like chaff before the
wind. But something we had not counted on followed. The
Yankee fort immediately opened their batteries of heavy guns
upon Wagner, and one of the most terrific artillery duels I
ever witnessed during the war was thus precipitated between
the respective forts, and all stirred up by our little band. The
scene was grand and awe-inspiring, both sides shelling furi-
ously over our heads at each other. Of course all the in-
fantry on both sides were driven from the parapets by this
terrific artillery fire. It was plain that this demonstration on
the part of Col. Olmstead was made to safely cover our re-
treat, and we rapidly raced for our works through the heavy
sand and under the rays of the hottest sun I ever felt. We
arrived safely, completely winded and exhausted. Once in
the fort we separated, and silently crept to our respective
quarters. Col. Olmstead soon made his appearance, and placed
the writer under arrest. The Colonel had, without orders,
assumed a grave responsibility in the prompt and gallant
action he had taken to save us, and save us he did, as but
for his conduct not one of us would have been left to tell the
tale. The heavy firing on the island had greatly excited the
people in Charleston, and Gen. Taliaferro hurried back to the
fort, reaching it a little after dark. Olmstead met him at the
boat landing at Cummings Point and related to this grim
old soldier all that had passed. They then came together into
my quarters (also the quarters of the General), and, feigning
sleep, I overheard their conversation. "Well," said the Gen-
eral, "the boys destroyed that infernal nuisance, the house,
did they?" "Yes," responded Olmstead. "Good," grunted the
old General. Then, nodding toward me as I lay on the floor,
"Release him from arrest when he wakes up," which Charlie
was only too glad, of course, to do.
Tutt and Hopps not long afterwards joined the ranks of
that great army underground — they were spared the great
sorrow of the final disaster, when the sun of the Confederacy
went down at Appomattox. They were both killed. Three
of us survive — J. J. Doughty, of .'\ugusta, Ga. ; William M
Hitt, now of Atlanta, Ga. ; and the writer.' "May both these
boys be spared for many years to come, for truer soldiers and
more gallant men never faced a foe I"
THE I'IRST STEAM TORPEDO BOAT.
Comrade J. H. Tomb, of St. Louis, who was a chief engi-
neer in the Confederate Navy, writes as follows: "It will no
doubt interest many of your old veteran readers, who arc now
watching the active work of the Japs on the Russians with
modern torpedo boats, to know that the first steam torpedo
boat that ever made a successful attack upon a ship was com-
manded by a Confederate naval officer. On the night of October
5, 1S63, in the Iiarbor of Charleston, Lieut. W. T. Glasscl, C.
S. N., in command of the steam torpedo boat David, attacked
the United States ship New Ironside. This was the first
successful attack made by a steam torpedo boat ; and while
the Ironside was not sunk, she was so disabled that she did not
fire another gun on Charleston. At that time we did not know
the extent of the damage done, but afterwards learned from the i
official report of the chief carpenter to Rear Admiral Dahl-
gren that it was so extensive as to warrant him in advising
that the ship be docked as soon as she could be spared from the
harbor. In justice to the memory of Lieut. W. T. Glasscl, one
of tlic bravest officers in the Confederate navy, it should lie
known that to him belongs the honor of maki;:g the first suc-
cessful a'tack with a steam torpedo boat known in history.
The torpedo was charged with sixty-five pounds of rifle
powder."
The Daughters of the Confederacy of Coleman, Tex., have
undertaken to raise a fund for the erection of a Confederate
monument on the square, feeling that it will not only beautify
the courthouse jiark but will be an inspiration to tlic coming
generations and perpetuate the memory of those wlio foughi
and fell for the cause of the South. Mrs. J. P. Lcdbetter is
Chairman of the Committee, and directs that contributions be
left with Mr. Cameron, of the Coleman National Bank, or Mr.
Collins, of the First National Bank. An entertainment is soon
to be given at the courthouse for the benefit of this fund.
LIEUT. J. J. DOUGHTY, AUGUST.^, GA.
Capt. R. E. House. — Any one seeing this notice who knew
or served with Capt. R. E. House in the war will greatly
oblige me by giving the name of his company, regiment, and
other information relative to his service. He entered tht
service at Wetumpka, Ala., and served in the battles in Ten-
nessee.— Mrs. Cone Johnson. Tyler, Tex.
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FIRST STATE MONUMENT AT VICKSBURG.
Massachusetts has erected the first monument in the Battle
Park at Vickshurg to the Twenty-Ninth, Thirty-Fifth, and
Thirty-Sixth Regiments of her volunteers. "The Volunteer,"
as the statue is called, stands upon a huge block of native
Massachusetts granite; and the sculptor, Mrs. Theo Alice
Ruggles Kitsi>n. liar., witli wonderful accuracy, portrayed the
VICKSBURG SCHOOL CHILDREN ASSEMnLED AT THE MONUMENT.
American volunteer soldier, it niatlers not from what sec-
tion or State he comes. The frank, open, fearless expression ;
the free and easy poise in the bold swinging route step; the
light marching trappings — all emphasize the sculptor's correct
conception of the American volunteer as distinct from the
conscript, the mercenary, the adventurer, or the pillager.
The statue was unveiled at the park in the presence of an
assembly composed largely of ex-Federals and ex-Confederates.
Tlie sculptor, assisted, at her request, by Miss Marie Estelle
Coleman, who originated the Daughters of Confederate Vet-
erans and was made first President of the organization, drew
the cords that held the bunting. Gov. Bates, of Massachusetts,
made a patriotic address, in which he frequently referred to
the gallantry of the Confederate volunteers.
"What do we here? We dedicate this memorial of stone
and bronze to the Massachusetts men, living and dead, who
have participated in the greatest war of all time. We dedii:aic
' it in appreciation of their sacrifice and valor, and, so dedi-
I eating it, we recognize the sacrifice and the valor of all en-
gaged in lliat conflict, wherever they fought and whether they
! wore the blue or the gray.
"Mississippi, with her traditions, leading her like a hand
stretching out from the past, was quick to respond for the
cause of the South. Massachusetts, led also by traditions of
the past, was quick to respond for the North.
"Vicksburg was defended by men indomitable and brave.
Never did the inhabitants of any town, ancient or modern, win
more deserved renown for their willingness to suffer rather
than yield. Reduced to the direst extremity of famine, living
I on mule meat with starvation hideously staring at them, bur-
I rowing in the cliffs that they might escape the shrieking shells
that had already destroyed their homes, they nevertheless
cheerfully accepted all as incidents of warfare; while the Con-
I federate army, with annihilation threatening it, continued its
heroic defense till all hope of success was gone and until
further effort could result in nothing save needless carnage."
In his address of welcome. Gen. Stephen D. Lee, member of
the Vicksburg Military Park Commission, concluded a patri-
otic address as follows:
"Governor Bates, I welcome you and your distinguished
party, coming more than a thousand miles and representing
one of the greatest and proudest of the original thirteen
States, to do honor to and perpetuate in enduring bronze and
stone the courage and patriotism and devotion of the sons of
Massachusetts, in the mightiest and bloodiest and most costly
struggle of modern times.
"On the banks of this the greatest river in the world the
most decisive and far-reaching battle of the war was fought
Here at Vicksburg over 100,000 gallant soldiers and a powerful
fieet of gunboats and ironclads in terrible earnestness for forty
days and nights fought to decide whether the new Confeder-
ate States should be cut in twain, whether the great river
should flow free to the gulf or should have its commerce him-
dered. We all know the result— the Union army, under Gen.
Grant, and the Union navy, under Admiral Porter, were vic-
torious. The Confederate army, under Gen. Pemberton, num-
bering 30,000 men, was captured, and Gen. Grant's army set
free for operating in other fields.
"It was a staggering blow, from which the Confederacy
never rallied. The regiments from your State took an honor-
able part in the campaign here, and it is well your State should
honor their memory."
V. D. C. CONTENTION IN ST. LOUIS OCTOBER 4->-
Mrs. A. T. Sniythe. of Charleston, President of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, and Mrs. A. W. Rapley, of St.
Louis, President of the Missouri Division of the U. D. C,
have. It is understood, agreed to hold the annual convention
of the Daughters in St. Louis October 4-8, instead of the usual
days in November. Confederate Day at the World's Fair will
be October 7, and that date has been set apart by the manage-
ment to the Daughters of the Confederacy.
At the Charleston convention it was ordered that representa-
tion be as follows :
Maryland ,^7
Mississippi ^.^
Missouri ^6
Montana 5
New Yorlt 14
Norlli Carolina w
Ohio i
Oklahoma t
South Carolina So
Tennessee 68
Teaas 'St
Utah •
Virginia ia6
West Virginia 39
Total..
..i.aiS
Alsbimi 8S
Arkansas 4*^
C-ilifornla 27
District of Columbia. s
Florida .^o
Georgi* S2
IndiAU Territory 7
Kentucky ''h
Louisiana 63
History Committee, U. D. C.
Mrs. Augustine T. Smythe, President of the United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, has appointed the following ladies
on the History Committee, U. D. C. : Mrs. James Mercer
Garnett, of Maryland; Miss Mary B. Poppenheim, of South
Carolina; Mrs. S. P. Pugh, of Louisiana; Miss A. C. Benning,
of Georgia; Mrs. Ida V. M. Hardy, of Mississippi.
In connection with the sketch of Company F, Twelfth Ala-
bama Regiment, in the February Veteran, page 81, the fol-
lowing paragraphs were unavoidably omitted. The record
membership of that company is a credit as well to the regiment
and the State from which they served.
It will be interesting to note that of the surviving members
of this company letters were read from Rev. William A.
Moore, of Neches, Tex.: Mr. Fletch S. Zachry, of Tyler,
Tex.; Mr. George P. Ward, of Willhite, La.; and Mr. J. S.
Porter, of Lawrenceville, Ga.
Toasts were drunk to absent comrades, to the memory of
those who had crossed the river, and to the charming hosts
and hostesses who entertained the company.
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(^oofederate l/eterarj.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM, EJitor unJ rropr!c«or.
Office: Methodist Pnblithing House Building, Nashville, Tenn.
ThU publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunninphanl. All per-
tOBS who approve lis principles and re:ilizc'ils I>enr6t8 as an organ for A^
dallona throughout the South are requested to commend its patronage and to
OoCpenUe in extending its circulation. Let each one be constantly diligent.
EVIDENCES OF APPRECIATION.
The editor of the Veteran was at a meeting of the Atlanta
Camp recently, and the greeting is recalled with pride.
In his eminently practical way, Capt. R. E. Park, Treasurer
of Georgia, asked that the editor make such statements as he
desired about his work, and he replied that he had but little
to say for the Veteran, that he had never solicited a sub-
scriber, and he preferred that others speak of that. He did
appeal most earnestly for the "Bill Arp" Memorial, and
begged that Georgians take up the matter and contribute lib-
erally.
Responding, Capt. Park rather rebuked the editor for his
modesty, and said that he ought to have discussed the Vet-
eran. He is as liberal a contributor, including members of
his family, as any other to the memorial referred to. In mak-
ing an earnest appeal for the Veteran, he said that all
Confederates in particular ought to be constantly diligent for
increase of circulation.
When Capt. Park had finished speaking, Gen. Clement A.
Evans rose and said : "I am glad indeed that Capt. Park has
spoken so warmily and justly about our visiting comrade. It
is one good soldier giving well-deserved praise to another. I
would say that our cause had no braver soldier in battle than
Cunningham, and no more earnest and valuable exponent and
defender in peace. The flag of the Veteran, which he has
edited and published so many years, has been flying at the
front to represent the whole truth and worth and sacredness
of our Confederate history. We are indebted to the per-
sistence and fidelity of its editor, the soldier, who is our wel-
come guest to-night, for the great good it has done. It has
not made him rich, and never will, but it has done better by
giving the riches of truth to others, the riches of his comrades'
esteem, and the personal satisfaction that his life has been well
spent, and all spent for one great and sacred purpose."
Judge W. L. Calhoun, who was long President of. the Con-
federate Home for Georgia and is now the President of the
committee to erect an equestrian statue to Gen. Gordon, fol-
lowed Gen. Evans. He bore cordial testimony to the fact
that, in the years he had served his comrades in Confederate
matters, he had never made any request of the Veteran that
was not complied with promptly and liberally, and he com-
mended what his associates had said.
As the guest was about departing for an early train, Cap!.
W. H. "Tip" Harrison, Adjutant of the Camp, and who
would make a good brigadier, joined in the hearty expres
sions, and said : "I will send you ten new subscribers soon."
The Veteran has no occasion to murmur. It is evident
that a hundred thousand persons read every issue, and it is
rare now that there are orders to stop it except on account
of death, and its continuation to the family after death is an
injunction often made by comrades that will be sacredly re
garded. None of the following owed the Veteran anything,
and of course none knew of the other's action. Enough
of kindly notices have come in correspondence during the
past two months to satisfy the most ardent desire for human
indorsement.
It is a coincidence that these notes from such distinguished
persons should come in such proximity to each other. These
good friends will pardon the publication of their letters.
From Commander Texas Division, U. C. V.
Mrs. Davis Sends Check for $5 from New York.
Inclosure from Gen. George Washington CubTis Lee.
Correction.— In the last issue of llie Veteran the notice fl
referring to the services of Gen. Longstrcet as Railroad Com
missioner stated that Gen. Jos. E. Johnston was his immediat-
predecessor in this government position. That was an error.
Gen. Wade Hampton succeeded Gen. Johnston. President
Cleveland appointed Gen. Hampton during his second term
as President, and upon his resignation President McKinley
appointed Gen. Longstreet.
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REUNION DATES CHANGED TO JUNE 14, 15, 16.
Upon learning that September would be a very inconvenient
time for many people of the South, particularly in the cotton-
producing sections, the Committee, by unanimous vote, has
rescinded the date and submitted the matter entirely to the
Commander and Department Commanders, suggesting, how-
ever, that June 14, 15, and 16 would be agreeable to Nashvill*.
The Veteran informed the Commander in Chief, Gen. Ste-
phen D. Lee, who replied as follows:
"Thanks for your telegram announcing action of the Ex-
ecutive Committee as to date of reunion. Your Nashville peo-
ple could not have acted more nicely than they did, and our
comrades everywhere ought to appreciate their yielding their
date to our wishes for a change. . . . Also, I feel that we
should in deference to our hosts accept the new dates in June.
Let us all work for a great reunion."
Later Adjt. Gen. Mickle telegraphed the Veteran that the
date suggested by Nashville is accepted, and tliat everything
possible will be done to make the reunion one of the largest
and most successful ever held.
LEE TO THE REAR.
Comrade R. J. Harding, of Jackson, Miss., writes: "So much
has been said about the "Lee to the rear" incident that, having
been a member of the Texas Brigade, I wish to add my testi-
mony to that given heretofore as to the claims of the Texas
Brigade. But it will be seen from histories of the Army of
Northern Virginia that Gen. Lee, on several occasions, attempt-
ed to lead his troops in battle. At the Wilderness, on May
6, he tried to lead the Texas Brigade; later, in the fighting
around Spottsylvania, he attempted to lead Howe's Missis-
^ippians, and the Virginians at the 'Bloody Angle.' In all of
these attempts he was prevented by the men around him, as
lie would have been by any body of soldiers in his army had
the same opportunity presented itself."
Capt. R. D. Funkhouser, of the Forty-Ninth Virginia, Pe-
iii.im's Brigade, Gordon's Division, writing an interesting ac-
''unt of tlie same incident, says: "It is a confusion in dates
that has caused the controver.sy. On the 6th of May Gen.
Lee did attempt to lead the Texas Brigade, and on the 12th
he did attempt to lead the Forty-Ninth Virginia to recover
'1'. salient at Spottsylvania, lost by Gen. Edward Johnson's
CCS. Gen. Gordon came up just at that time and requested
' .en. Lee to go to the rear, which was shouted by the men.
Lee to the rear !' "
THE LEE MEMORIAL DINNER IN NEW YORK.
The fourteenth annual banquet of the Confederate Veteran
Camp of New York City was the most elaborate affair of the
Icind in the history of the Camp. It was given at the Waldorf-
Astoria, and was indeed the grandest ever given at tliis famous
Itustclry, not excepting that given to Prince Henry.
After the banquet a grand ball was given in the Astor Gal-
lery. The boxes were decorated with Virginia creeper and
bunting and filled with beautiful women. About four hun-
dred ladies and gentlemen were on the floor and in the boxes,
I and perhaps as many more filled the space behind the boxes.
! The direction of affairs throughout was by Maj. Edward
I Owen, Commander of the Canvp, who has given several other
cntertaii ;;,ents of sinnlar character, with each a little better
than the former.
, The following were among the toasts: "The President and
■the Army and Navy of the United States ;" "The Memory cf
Robert E. Lee;" "Virginia, Her Washington, Her Lee;" "The
Capture of New York by the Confederates ;" "United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy."
CIVIL SIDE OF THE CONFEDERACY.
In some recent correspondence information is asked about
the civil side of the Confederacy — as to how it provided the
means to equip and sustain the armies in the field, how it built
ships, foundries, and arsenals. This correspondent, Taylor
McRae. of Fort Worth, Tex., says the Selma arsenal was built
by his uncle, Colin J. McRae, for the government, and he was
afterwards financial agent for the Confederacy in England and
France. It was here that the famous steamer Tennessee was
built and launched and the iron to sheet her molded or
wrought. His questions on the subject create the desire for
some contributions from those who are well-informed, and the
Veteran requests such contributions for publication.
WITH THE FIRST TENNESSEE IN MEXICO.
A comrade, writing from Hammond, La., says: "There is
now in the Confederate Home at Austin. Tex., a gallant old
soldier, Capt. William R. Bradfute, who is the last living
officer of the famous First Tennessee in our war with Mexico,
where he rendered distinguished service. When the War be-
tween the States began he was captain in the Second United
States Cavalry, but resigned and accepted an office on the
staflf of Gen. Ben McCulloch. Capt. Bradfute is now nearly
eighty years old, but prefers living on his pension as a Mexican
veteran and in the Confederate Soldiers' Home, both fairly
earned by his own hands, than to be dependent upon relatives
or even his own son, Dr. Champe Bradfute, of Baltimore, Md.
Why should not the Cross of Honor be conferred on this old
Veteran? It is the last reward the old man can ever get for
his services to the Confederacy."
GEN. CLEMENT A. EVANS'S STAFF.
In assuming command of the Arnn- of Tennessee Depart-
ment, U. C. v., Gen. Evans issues General Order No. i,
stating that the staff of the late Commander of this depart-
ment is hereby continued as the staff of the present Command-
ing General ; also that the headquarters of the department will
be continued as heretofore established, at Columbus, Miss.:
Brig. Gen. E. T. Sykes, Columbus, Miss., Adjutant Gen-
eral and Chief of Staff; Col. H. C. Myers, of Memphis, Tenn.,
Assistant Adjutant General; Cols. R. P. Lake, of Memphis,
Tenn., Quartermaster General ; Alfred M. O'Neal, Florence,
Ala., Inspector General; E. L. Russell, of Mobile, Ala., Com-
missary General ; W. L. Calhoun, Atlanta, Ga., Judge Advo-
cate General; W. J. McMurry, Nashville, Tenn., Surgeon
General ; H. F. Sproles, Vicksburg, Miss., Chaplain General.
The Aids-de-Cainp are colonels, and are as follows :
L. L. Middlebrook, Covington, Ga. ; R. M. Howard, Colum-
bus, Ga. ; W. D. Ellis, Sr., Atlanta, Ga. ; Charles S. Arnall,
Atlanta, Ga. ; B. F. Eshleman, New Orleans, La. ; Arstude
Hopkins, New Orleans, La.; W. H. Rogers, New Orleans,
La. ; J. M. Dickinson, Chicago, 111. ; Samuel L. Robertson,
Birmingham, Ala.; D. P. Bestor, Mobile, Ala.; J. A. Kirk-
patrick, Montgomery, Ala. ; J. V. Harris. Key West, Fla. ;
W. R. Garrett, Nashville, Tenn. ; W. J. Crawford. Memphis,
Tenn. ; G. D. Sliands, Oxford, Miss. ; George M. Helm, Green-
ville, Miss.; S. A. Jonas, Aberdeen, Miss.; T. C. Carter,
Meridian, Miss.; W. A. Montgomery, Edwards, Miss.; E. Q.
Withers, Holly Springs, Miss.
They will report by letter to the Lieutenant General Com-
manding, .\tlanta, Ga.
T. M. Emerson, of Manchester, Tean., wiihes to hear from
Dr. W. H. Cooper and Dr. Price, who were on duty with bim
at the State Hospital in Nashville when Fort Donelson (ell,
and until Nashville surrendered to Gen. Buell's army.
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"UNFURL THE FLAG," A REMINISCENCE OF 1865.
BY CUL. LUKE \V. KlNLAY, MEMPHIS.
Recounting the reminiscences in life often bring with them
unexpected joys. Those of the past half century in the United
States have not, at all times, been of the most pacific nature,
and yet they often leach historic lessons, forecasting character-
istics and qualities var>ing with the characters and manhood
of a people.
We recall now, briefly, scenes simple and yet full of ro-
mance, and none the less of character. The organization of
the Tennessee regiments numbered Fourth, Fifth, Nineteenth,
Twenty-Fourth, Thirty-First, Thirty-Third, Thirty-Fifth,
Thirty-Eighth, and Forty-First Tennessee and the Fifth Con-
federate into one in April, 1865, under James D. Tillman as
colonel, the writer as lieutenant colonel, and C. S. Deakin p.s
major, and the undaunted presence of that company of vet-
erans that were ready to welcome death rather than desert the
post of duty are facts of history now.
It will not be taken amiss by the distinguished officer, and
I am sure it will be read with marked interest by all our peo-
ple who value the services of men who were willing to give
their lives upon the altar of duty, if I here state a fact little
known, occurring amid the confusions of the hour; if I here
present what his superior officers thought of Col. Tillman in
that elder day. It was a critical time. Richmond had fallen.
Appomattox was an event of nine days before. It was in these
words :
"Bivouac Akmv of the South, April 18, 1865.
To Whom II Mav Concern
"Grceti'ig: Know all men by these presents, that James D.
Tillman, colonel of the Forty-First Regiment, Tennessee Vol-
unteer Infantry, has recently been appointed colonel of one of
the Tennessee regiments in this army, and that this regiment
was composed of the remnants of the Fourth, Fifth, Nine-
teenth, Twenty-Fourth, Thirty-First, Thirty-Third, Thirty-
Fifth, Thirty-Eighth, and Forty-First Tennessee Regiments
and Fifth Confederate Regiment, and that the commanders of
these regiments composed of remnants of the aforesaid oid
regiments consolidated, were selected and appointed because of
their experience, efficiency, and gallantry.
"John C. Brown, Major General; C. L. Stevenson, Major
General; William B. Bate, Major General; W. J. Hardee,
Lieutenant General."
From Belinont to Bentonville they had stood manfully at
their post of duty, and were yet ready for the continued strug-
gle. These Tennesseeans, in the vigor of manhood, veterans
and inured to arms, though having just attained manhood, bore
themselves with the .spirit and dash and intrepidity that had
marked them on many a field. The colors the ensign bore
were the workmanship of the ladies of Montgomery, Ala
How the soldiers treasured this gift! How they looked upon
its beautiful folds as they flashed in the sunlight !
The capitulation at Greensboro, iS'. C, then took place. The
armies of the North gladly moved toward the national capital,
and those of the South moved toward their respective States.
The former were not less glad to see the end of that era of
carnage. At the last fight incidents occurred which showed
on the one hand the prowess of the soldier of the South, and
on the other the willingness of the soldier of the North to
defer further fighting. In the last engagement a Tennessee
regiment penetrated Sherman's line of battle near the center,
broke through to the rear, marched around by the flank, and
retook its place in Johnston's army after the lapse of three or
four days, and e.xhibited a heroism that had not been bowed
down by misfortune and impending defeat. The words of the
able and devout Dr. John B. McFerrin, in the valley near
Greensboro, as he told in his original discourse, "For we have
no continuing city here," were the last ones to an assembled
body upon this field.
Westward we took up our line of march. We were on our
way home. Our route lay through Asheville, N. C. This little
city, upon the banks of the French Broad, a dashing, leaping,
restless stream, nestled in the mountains, beautiful for situa-
tion, as the eye sweeps from the forceful waves that roll, dash,
foam, and jostle at the base of this enchanted place, to the
far-off mountains — always has been, from the days the Indians
roved over her hills and dales, and always will be, a noted
spot. "Verdure and blossom and the smile of coming spring
are upon every hillside and valley." In that trying struggle,
her heart full of loyalty for the South, her lovely daughters
sang songs of daring and inspired others with the love of
liberty. At the first call to arms her manly sons, moved by
the teaching of their fathers and the spirit of 1776, gathered
under the folds of the Southern banner. We were approaching
Asheviile. These valiant soldiers were quietly marching on-
ward toward the West. As I saw them marching on the
route step home, serious, patient, thoughtful, I could not but
recall their valor on many a field. What thoughts were com
ing into their minds? To many, visions of their once beauitful
homes were but a memory. Deserted farms and smoldering
chimneys alone told the sad tale of their once happy childhood
and boyhood and home life. Did the vision of the past or
the forecast of the future make their imprint upon their
youthful countenances? Did they foretell the wonderful en-
durance and patience thereafter exhibited in the sad years 01
reconstruction through which we have passed? Where art
they now? How many have passed over to the other side?
COL. LUKE W. FINLAV.
On matiy an occasion, as I stood at the head of that cohimi
and looked down its ranks, I was filled with joy at their pres
ence and thought of their heroic valor on many a field. Thi
Greeks that followed Xenophon in his retreat were not mor
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loyal to their colors, or braved greater dangers than these. No
Roman had ever led braver men. Gustavus Adolphus never
commanded more heroic soldiers, and the Revolution of 1776
had no worthier. Quietly, patiently, over the mountains, up-
hill and downhill, and along that rocky road to the West, they
kept the line of march.
Who were these Tennesseeans? Some had participated in
the repulse of Grant at Belmont ; in the staggering blow given
him at Shiloh ; in rolling back the fresh levies of McCook and
the veterans of Gilbert under Buell at Perryville ; helped deal
the heavy blows given Rosecrans at Murfreesboro ; witnessed
the retreat at sunset of Thomas from Snodgrass Hill in the
great battle of the River of Death ; saw the recoil of Sher-
man's splendid brigade of Sheridan's Division as it was forced
back upon Hooker at Missionary Ridge; were in the war
waltz of Joe Johnston witli Sherman in the Georgia campaign ;
passed over the works on the bridge of death at Franklin ;
pressed Thomas with his threefold forces to the gates of Nash-
ville; endured the hardships and sacrifices of the retreat from
Tennessee; stood steadfastly upon the field at Bentonville.
As we approached Ashcville I thought of the loyalty of her
citizens ; of the attachment of licr people to the cause we had
espoused; of the lives of sacrifice and valor, as illustrated by
her sons, from Manassas to Gettysburg and from Gettysburg
to Appomattox, and it occurred to me that they would like to
see once more a body of soldiers marching under the flag of
the South. Even our enemies in that day recognized the
prowess of our soldiery. The distinguished James G. Blaini,
failing to see there were two sides to this cause, writes of
them : "Never perhaps was an army organized with fighting
qualifies superior to those of the army put into the field by
the Confederates, I'liey fought with an absolute conviction,
however erroneous, that iheir cause was just." But there was
a hipher plane which he never reached. They were not
"rebels." They were not traitors. Like the Saxons, they had
gone down before superior numbers at Hastings. But Saxon
manhood survived the Norman victory. The soldiers of the
North came as enemies into their homes, and they had rushed
to arms as a brave people ought and as a brave people ever
will. As we approached the city I said to my senior in com-
mand: "Let us unfurl the flag once more; let Asheville's moth-
ers and daughters see the battle flag waving over the sons of
Tennessee." A distinguished Federal soldier had taken charge
of the city. My senior said : "No, it might give offense."
After proceeding some distance he turned to me and said :
"I wish you would take command of the regiment. I desire
to see a friend on business some two miles out." After his
departure on that beautiful May morning in 1865. I said to the
ensign, "Unfurl that flag."
"'Unfurl that flag!' and every startled man
Full into line, firm, soldierly, had sprung.
The listless look was gone, the languid eye
Now flashed again with patriotic flame —
The heads just bowed were proudly held erect,
And warriors hearkened as the orders came.
Now those who bore their arms passed swiftly on,
And ranked themselves unbidden at the front.
While step to step, a ragged wall of gray.
They marched as soldiers from the battle's brunt.
And 'Dixie' wakes the echoes of the hills
With stirring notes as spirited and true
As when at first Confederates, brave and strong.
Rung out her changes as they met the blue."
He slipped the covering oflf the flag. At the command
"Attention !" that band of men walked erect and the ensign
lifted his colors. In a moment you could see the eftect upon
that body, who had so often stood under its folds in the hour
of battle. Like the white cockade mounted in the sight of
the followers of Bruce, the effect was electric — the eye was
kindled, the soul filled, and the boys with sturdy tread fol-
lowed the ensign, animated by the simple strains of fife and
drum. "Did they, like birds in spring, show gladness and be-
come melodious? or was it the electric spark of sympathy and
the heroic sense of fidelity to their cause?" The fifer and
drummer took their places at the head of the column, and
struck up a Southern air as we entered the city. Those with
guns took their places at the head of the column following
the music — the colors held by the ensign, with the color
guards around it — the others following in line of march. As
we entered Asheville at the command, "Right shoulder, shift
arms," the command, with heads erect, with wills unbowed,
with an energy of movement instinct with life and love of
liberty, moved forward along the various streets from its
eastern limit to its western slope. Strangely, but nevertheless
in truth, there were some soldiers in Federal uniform that did
not manifest joy as we passed, but from every cottage and
every residence, from every door and every window waved a
kerchief. Here and there, perhaps, tears fell as the inmates
of that home thought of an unburied son or brother upon the
fields of Virginia. At any rate, the heart of Asheville was
touched and showed its sympathy. We passed the academic
grounds. Along the fence in its entire front the girls stood,
admiring and wondering at the approaching line. On a vacant
lot, on the opposite side of the street, stood Clingman, Vance,
and others, noted soldiers and citizens of Asheville. As the
battalion approached and reached the line of girls, the nearest
said : "Let me touch that flag." She caught it and kissed it,
and the next did likewise, and as the ensign passed every one
in that long line paid this tribute of love and sympathy to the
flag borne by the Confederates — the workmanship of ladies of
Alabama's capital.
"With reverence they kissed the flag in tears.
As one by one each maiden with bowed head
Came softly forward, while their hallowed thoughts
Had ushered in the presence of the dead.
And so the story of the buried love
Will live through time, sped on from tongue to tongue ;
With harps attuned unto the heart's own chord,
That last unfurling shall be softly sung."
Westward and homeward we moved and passed along down
by the banks of the French Broad, thinking of our homes, and
the singular romance became a memory.
Six Heroes Routed a Federal Regiment. — Lem Wilson
writes from Ona, W. Va., December 28, 1903 : "In the Octo-
ber Veteran, page 445, P. G. Carter, Celeste, Tex., inquires
for the four comrades who went with him and M. B. Hylton
on scout duty south of Newtown, Va., as Gen. Early was on
his way into Maryland in 1864, on which occasion a Federal
regiment was charged by six men and driven from town, and
the six Confederates dined at the table of the Federal colonel
after he left. The four names wanted are ; Thomas Meritt,
Joseph Stewart, Israel Johnston, Lem Wilson, and the writer
— all of the Eighth Virginia Infantry. I am glad to have
learned about the two comrades who led us, it seemed, into
the jaws of death; yet it was easily done. Grit carried us on,
and the dust scared the Federals off fast."
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THE BATTLE OF RAYMOND, MISS.
BV J. V. GSEIF, PADUCAH, KV.
For the truth of history I wish to correct a mistake mad:
by Oamrade Nelson in the January issue of the Veteran as
to the date of the battle of Raymond, Miss. This battle was
fought on May 12 instead of the i6th. I was at Jackson, Miss.,
when Gregg's Brigade moved out, and remember distinctly
Col. McGavock's "bloody Tenth" Tennessee. I'his was on
the 11th of May, and the battle was fought the next day, the
I2th.
I was a member of Company D, Third Kentucky Regiment,
Buford's Brigade, Loring's Division. Si.x companies of our
regiment had been mounted only a short time previous at
Meridian, Miss., and, under the command of Col. R. P. Thomp-
son, ordered to report to Gen. Gregg, and were with him in
this fight and covered his retreat to Jackson.
On the 14th the enemy attacked Jackson, and the small force
there held them in check until everything was removed, our
forces retiring over the Canton road with Thompson still
covering the rear. When our troops returned in a few days
to Jackson they found the enemy had burned up the great-
er part of the town. In the meantime we had moved out
to Champion Hill or Baker's Creek, and fought the enemy
there on the l6th. Gtn. Johnston was now in command, and
maneuvered us about the Big Black River. On the night of
July 4 we arrived at the railroad bridge, where we met Breck-
inridge and French's Divisions with the pontoons. During the
night a courier arrived informing Johnston of Pemberton's
surrender, and the next morning we began our retreat to
Jackson, with Loring's Division in the rear and Buford's Cav-
alry covering the retreat. We fought the enemy all the way,
and so closely did they press us that they arrived in Jackson
almost as soon as our rear guard. After several days' fighting
we fell back across Pearl River, then back to Lake Station. It
was in this campaign that the Third Kentucky Regiment, bemg
without colors, were presented by Gen. Hardee with one of his
battle flags, a blue flag with a white cresent [the kind that
Cleburne's men used], which we carried until the ladies of
Canton, Miss., presented the regiment with a large silk flag.
SIVETT'S BATTERY AT JONESBORO.
BY JOSEPH EKWIN, STARKVILLE, MISS.
Reading about Swell's Battery in the November Veteran
reminds me of another incident in which this battery was con-
spicuous. The fight at Jonesboro was on, or about, August i.
Hardee's Corps had marched all night, and reached Jonesboro
about daylight. Our battery consisted of two twelve-pound
Napoleons and two twelve-pound Parrotts. Capt. Shannon
had been wounded on the 2isl of July in the fighting around
Atlanta, and was not with us at Jonesboro, and Henry Steele
was in command, with Lieut. F. M. Williams in charge of the
second section. On reaching Jonesboro we were ordered to
unlimber and feed. We rested until about ten o'clock, when
we were ordered out to meet Kilpatrick's Cavalry, which we
did, driving them back and capturing two pieces of artillery.
About noon we were again permitted to rest, but not allowed
to unharness the liorses. Being worn out from marching all
the night previous and the morning fighting, many of the boys
were soon sound asleep under and around guns, but about
two o'clock we were roused up and ordered out to meet Sher-
man's army.
It was a grand and fearful sight to see that great army
coming like a monster wave to ingulf us. They were several
lines deep in our immediate front in an open field. Breckin-
ridge was on our right, and no men ever put up a more gal-
lant fight than did those Kentucky boys that day at Jonesboro.
Govan, with his game little Arkansas Brigade, was supporting
us, but courage and heroism availed nothing against such
overwhelming odds. We poured grape and canister into them,
cutting great gaps in their lines ; but they closed them up with
fresh men, and came on to the very muzzles of our guns. Then
the order was given to cease firing. Lieut. Williams repeated
the order, and started to the rear, but looking back saw that G.
G. Pegram, gunner of the fourth piece, had not heard the order,
and was still working his gun. He went back to stop him,
when he was mortally wounded, and died in the hands of the
enemy. That night our forces fell back to Lovejoy Station.
A day or two afterwards, the enemy having fallen back to
Atlanta, Jo Craig and I, with three other comrades whose
names I have forgotten, went over the battlefield of Jones-
boro and found a grave marked with the name of "Lieut. F. M.
Williams, C. S. A." We procured a coffin, dug up his poor
body, placed it in the coffin, and reinterred it in the same
grave. No better or braver soldier ever died for the cause we
all loved. He was my messmate and sleeping companion for
three years of the war. He was a Christian soldier and gen-
tleman, whose example induced many of the boys to lead better
lives; always ready to do and, if necessary, to die in the dis-
charge of his duty, as shown in that last act of his life by
going back into the fire of battle to enforce an order issued by
his superior.
If there are any members of the old battery living, I should
be glad to hear from them.
LEE AND JACKSON DAY.
Letter from Judge John N. Lylc, Waco, Tex. :
"In the December Veteran I am made to say : 'I note with
gladness the decay of Camps,' etc. Of course 'sadness' is
what I meant.
"The Daughters of the Confederacy here, in response to the
request of the survivors of the Stonewall Brigade, celebrated
the 19th of January as 'Lee and Jackson Day.' A well-ar-
ranged programme was admirably rendered. Short orations J
on Lee and Jackson were delivered, and the occasion was f
enlivened by songs and instrumental music. Only a few
Camps and Chapters paid attention to the resolutions passed
by the Stonewall veterans at Staunton. A copy was sent to
the general convention of the U. D. C. at Charleston and to
some State conventions, but it is evident that no notice was
takcti by many of these organizations. The request, in these
resolutions, was reasonable, and the suggestion of a cele-
bration on the 19th of Lee's and Jackson's births jointly has
met with unanimous approval wherever mentioned. The
Daughters at Charleston must have been absorbed with too
many other important matters. It cannot be that they were
indifferent to the memory of so beloved a hero as Stonewall
Jackson. If they think that his fame needs no celebrations to
keep it alive, I agree with them. If they fear that the asso-
ciation of his name with that of (jen. R. E. Lee in a celebra- jj
tion will detract from the repuiation of the latter, their fears Jj
are groundless. If there was any difference in the greatness
of the two men, they were too far beyond ordinary mortals
to differentiate and draw contrasts.
"From the Camps nobody expected anything. The Veterans
are now 'chimney corner' men ; few of the Camps get up cele-
brations, and few of the individuals attend those gotten up by
the Daughters. As to the Sons, when you get beyond a
parade where they can display themselves, they are not worth
killing. If the Daughters don't take them under their wings,
the organization will perish from the earth."
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"THE HERO OF MOBILE BAY"
LIEUT. J. R. ECGLESTON, C. S. NAVY, RAYMOND, JIISS.
Editor Confederate Veteran: Inasmuch as newspaper ac-
counts have been widely circulated that the late Lieut. Thomas
L. Harrison, C. S. N., was the "hero of Mobile Bay" in the
celebrated battle there, and a Confederate coat labeled "Worn
by Thomas L. Harrison, the Hero of Mobile Bay," is said to
be among the war relics in the Missouri Room at Richmond,
I ask the favor of your columns to place on record the facts in
the case. I ask it not only in justice to the memory of men
who did perform heroic deeds in the fight, but to that of
my old friend, Tom Harrison, who, if living, would never
have permitted a claim so utterly without foundation to be put
forth in his behalf.
But first let me make it plain by what authority I speak. I
was on the stafif of Admiral Buchanan during the whole time
that he was in command of our naval forces in the waters of
Alabama. I was ordnance oflicer of the station and flag lieu-
tenant when the Admiral was afloat. When Farragut's fleet
began to gather ofT Mobile Bay, Admiral Buchanan went down
there, and left mc at the office to equip and mount the guns of
I he ironclad Nashville, and then to join him. Having per-
formed my duties as ordered, I was on my way down in a river
boat when we met another that gave us news of the battle
that had taken place that morning (August S, 1864). So,
while to my regret I was not in the battle, I was yet in a
position to have accurate knowledge of what happened.
Farragut entered Mobile Bay with eighteen ships of war,
four of tbcm monitors, that mounted in the aggregate 199 guns
with 2.700 men. To oppose this great fleet, Buchanan had the
ironclad ram Tennessee and the frail wooden gunboats, the
Morgan, the Gaines, and the Selma, mounting in all 22 guns,
:.nd with 470 men.
As there was no escape for the Confederate vessels. Buch-
anan would have been justified in surrendering without firmg
a gun. as a regiment would surrender to a division under such
circumstances. But the old Admiral was not made that way.
He headed the Tennessee directly for the Hartford, Farragut's
flagship, seeking to ram her. But the latter, being greatly
superior in speed, easily eluded her antagonist. The whole
Federal fleet then concentrated their efforts on the Tennessee,
and soon, with rudder chains shot away, she lay a helpless hulk
in the midst of her enemies. Then she was necessarily surren-
dered by her immediate commander, James V>, Johnston. Ad-
miral Buchanan liad already been carried below severely
wounded.
In the meant imc the Gaines had been fought by her gallant
commander, John W. Bennett, until she was sinking under his
feet, when he beached her near the guns of Fort Morgan.
Capt. P. M. Murphy had placed his little walking beam river
boat Selma athwart the bows of the Hartford, and poured
raking shots into that vessel until Farragut, "annoyed," as he
says he vv'as, detached Jouctt in the Metacomct, of ten guns, to
capture the dare-devil little Confederate with four guns. The
Selma surrendered, but not until her deck was covered with
her dead, among them her executive officer, Lieut. Comstock.
"Stand to your guns, men !" were his words as he fell forward
with his breast torn away by a fragment of shell. There was
'the hero of Mobile Bay."
There were others, already alluded to, but there was not one
on board the Morgan who had the remotest claim to be so called.
That vessel had not received a scratch. Her immunity from
harm was accounted for in one way only by army, navy, and
citizens of Mobile at that time, and that is ; she was never in
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range of the enemy's guns. Her commander was George W.
Harrison, her executive officer "Tom" Harrison. Only the
captain of the Morgan can be held responsible for the manage-
ment of the vessel in the fight. None the less it is enough to
make any man belonging to her then turn in his grave to hear
himself spoken of as "the hero of Mobile Bay."
There was an episode connected with the part played by the
Morgan in the battle that set the town a-laughing for a week
at least. Every naval officer knew that a fleet of steamships
could and often had run by land batteries without receiving any
great damage; but because we expressed such opinions quite
freely we were sharply criticised by the Mobile Register, edited
by Col. John Forsyth, whereupon Commander G. W. Har-
rison sent a polite invitation to Forsyth to be his guest on board
(he Morgan during the expected fight. It was not until the
Morgan got back from Mobile, like the one Spartan that escaped
from Thermopylas, that Forsyth acknowledged the invitation.
He then published Harrison's note, with the customary regrets,
all the greater inasmuch as he lost an opportunity to view the
battle without being in the slightest danger of getting hurt.
ACCURATE HISTORIC RECORDS.
BY JOHN H. MARTINj OF HAWKINSVILLE, GA.
Forty years obscure the memory of us all to a greater or
less degree, and I am not able to plead not guilty to this in-
firmity, but there are some things that I feel I cannot be
7nistaken about, ."^o vividly were they impressed upon my mind
during the sanguinary conflict of the Confederate war.
I have from time to time noticed a number of inaccuracies
in statements in the Veteran and other publications made by
those who wore the gray. These statements have gone uncor-
rected and unquestioned, and, as they have been made by
those who were participants in the bloody events described,
they bear the impress of historic value, and when the Con-
federate veterans have all passed away, these statements will
be cited as indubitable proof of the correctness of events as
narrated. Is it not, therefore, a duty that we all owe to each
other and to the chivalric dead and to our loved cause to
correct the errors as far as in our power lies? Believing that
we should, I, for the first time, write for publication any of
my recollections of the Confederate war, and in this article
narrate some of the inaccuracies that I now recall.
In the November, 1903, issue of the Confederate Veteran,
under the title "Incidents of Battle at Gettysburg," Com-
rade Dick Rcid, of Nashville, Tenn., states thus: "Gen, Bob
Tootnbs, with his Georgia Brigade, marched up to where we
were in position." He then describes the kind of horse Gen.
Toombs rode, and mentions what the General said about
dodging balls. Now, the fact is. Gen. Toombs was not at
the battle of Gettysburg. He was not at the time an officer
in the Confederate service. He resigned his commission as a
brigadier general on March 5, 1863.
My old army friend, Capt. Laurence E. O'Keefe, who was
with me in the Seventeenth Georgia Regiment and who now
resides in Atlanta, Ga., has furnished me with Gen. Toombs's
fareweii address, and I herein inclose to you a copy of it.
There is one point in the address that I call especial atten-
tion to, and that is, not one of his brigade was ever court-
martialed, and I would add to this, if there was ever one of
this grand old brigade court-martialed after he left us, I fail
to remember it.
Gen. Henry L. Benning succeeded Gen. Toombs, and Gen.
Bcnning was in command of the brigade at Gettysburg, and a
nobler man or braver soldier than he was never unsheathed his
sword from the moment the sunlight of victory broke forth
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GEN. HENRY L. BKNNING.
and streamed over the plains of Manassas on through the
alternating periods of cloud and sunshine down to the ill-
starred night that settled over fated Appomattox.
Comrade Reid is also mistaken as to the location of the
brigade, or a part of it at least. Benning"s Brigade was com-
posed of the Second.
Fifteenth, Seventeenth,
and Twentieth Georgia
Regiments, the Seven-
teenth being the regi-
ment that he organized
and which was mus-
tered into the Confed-
erate service on August
31, 1861, and which he
commanded until his
promotion to brigadier
general.
As it took all my
time and attention to
properly handle m y
own Company D, of
the Seventeenth Geor-
gia, I was not in a posi-
tion to know what was
going on outside of my
own regiment, for the lines of blue in our front made matters
decidedly interesting to us.
Mr. Reid says there were one hundred and eighty-six pieces
of artillery, and that he was at the extreme gun on the left
waiting to open fire on Cemetery Heights, when Toombs's
Brigade came up and began to deploy for the purpose of pro-
tecting the artillery against a charge. Now, in order to reply
to this, I shall have to give my recollections of the battle of
Gettysburg, and it will be seen that they differ from those oi
others, for I have never seen a published article on this battle
to all the statements of which I could subscribe, and in this
I am sustained by the recollections of others of my old com-
rades, who saw and remember them as I do.
On the 1st day of July. 186.^, when the figliting first began,
Longstreet's Corps was between Chambersburg, through which
we had passed, and Gettysburg, and we were put on a forced
march to reach Gettysburg. After we had crossed a stream of
water a few miles from Gettysburg, we began seeing the
Federal dead, which continued as far as we went on the road
leading into Gettysburg, and near the limits of the city we
filed to the right. Hood's Division, composed of two Georgia
regiments, one Alabama, one South Carolina, and the brigade
known as the Texas Brigade and composed of the First,
Fourth, and Fifth Texas and Third Arkansas, five brigades in
all, formed the extreme right of the Confederate army. On
the afternoon of the 2d day of July the division was behind
a strip of woods which screened it from the enemy; and passing
through this strip of woods the division was formed in line
of battle immediately in front of the woods by the intrepid
Hood, who, I think, was on his battle horse, the roan pony.
My impression is that we were formed facing westward,
but as to the. points of the compass I was not thinking, but I
know that in our rear was a strip of woods, in our front a
field, at the edge of the field farthest from us and in the
direction that we charged was a stone fence, behind which
were Federal soldiers galore. Behind the fence and the sol-
diers there was a battery on a hill with a flat top, on
which was the battery. 1 he right side of this little mountain
was steep, and there was adjoining a rugged ravine or gorge.
and on its right another rock-ribbed hill; in rear of the sm.ill
mountain on which was the baitery was a narrow valley, and
then loomed up a round-top mountain. Amid the rain of
bullets, shot, and shell the division swept onward, driving the
enemy before it, and stopped not until the little valley was
reached. The battery was captured, but by which troops I
know not, but then thought, and yet think, it was by Hood's
Division, for it covered and extended beyond the mountain
on both sides in its charge. 1 have seen it stated by sume
of our distinguished officers that Benning's men did not get
up until this battery was captured. 1 know not how it was
on top of that little mountain where the battery was, fo.' the
Seventeenth Georgia went through the ravine or gorge and
had passed h\ the battery at^d was near the little valley's edge
before the battery was captured, for while we were in this
ravine, and nearly through it, the Federals fired a terrific
storm of bullets upon us from above and on the mountain on
which was the battery, and this continued until the music of
the unmistakable Confederate yell announced to us the joyous
tidings that our men were on the top and were charging, and
soon thoso firing upon us were routed from the mountain top.
Notwithstanding repeated efforts to drive us out and back,
we held our position, and that night the Seventeenth Georgia
was moved to the left and on the little mountain on which
the battery was captured, and remained thereon that night
and the next day until near dark. At the time of the charge
on Cemetery Heights by Pickett's Division, on the 3d of July,
and during the terrific cannonading. I know we were still
there facing tlie round-top mountain, but I am unable to
state positively that none of the brigade were moved to the
left and near Pickett, but I do know that the Seventeenth
Georgia was not, and that there was no artillery in our front
other than that of the enemy. It seems improbable that any
part of the brigade would have been moved away after our
severe losses, and the fact that it required all of it to hold
our own front intact, and I never knew or heard of any of the
brigade being sent to the left.
I do not think any part of Benning's Brigade or of Hood's
Division were at the print designated by Mr. Reid. Wlien the
Seventeenth Georgia charged in through the ravine, the blood-
iest spot I saw during the war, the ever-ready and reliable
old 'Je.xas Brigade was immediately to our right, and was as
usual covering itself with glory by its magnificent fighting.
I do not think there were any troops to the right of the
Texans in that ni; niorablc charge. From what I have read
since the war about the Devil's Den and its location, I am
led to believe that where the Seventeenth Georgia went in
was its mouth, and that the Texans invaded the den itself.
In no history, statement, article, address, writing, or pano-
rama that I have ever seen has Hood's Division received the
credit due it for its work at Gettysburg. In my opinion the
charge of this division at Gettysburg was the grandest and
most daring and most sublime exhibition of heroic courage
displayed during the war, and was such as to give grounds
for the declaration of one of the officers of the captured bat-
tery that it was not composed of mortal men, but it seemed as
if the demons of hell itself were turned loose, so terrific was
the onslaught.
Gen. Robert Toombs's Farewell Address to His Soldiers.
In a letter to the officers and men of Toombs's Brigad*,
dated Richmond, Va., March 5, 1863, Gen. R. Toombs said :
"Soldiers, to-day I cease to command you. I have resigned
my commission as brigadier general in the Provisional Army
of the Confederate States. The separation from you is deeply
painful to me. It is only necessary now for me to say that,
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under existing circumstances, in my jiid^nient, I could no
longer hold my commission under President Davis witli ad-
vantage to my country or to you, or witli honor to myself. I
cannot separate from you without the expression of my
warmest attachment to you and admiration of your noble and
heroic conduct from the beginning of this great struggle to
the present time. You left your wives and children, kindred,
friends, home, property, and pursuits at the very first call of
your country, and entered her military service as soon as she
was ready to accept you. From that day to this you have
stood, witli but a few brief intervals, in sight of the public
enemy or within hearing of his guns.
"Upon your arrival in Virginia, in the summer of 1861, you
were incorporated into the Army of the Potomac. You have
shared with tha; army all its toils, its sufferings, its hardships
and perils, and contributed at least your share to its glorious
career. You have been in the front, the post of danger and
of honor, on all the great battlefields of Northern Virginia and
Maryland, frcm Yorktown to Sharpsburg. Neither disheart-
ened by the death of comiadcs or friends, nor by disease or toil,
or privations or sufTerings or neglect, nor intimidated by the
greatly superior numbers of the enemy, whom you have been
called upon to meet and vanquish, you have upon all occasions
displayed that heroic courage which has shed undying luster
upon yourselves, your State, your country, and her just and
holy cause.
"Nca.K' I ne ihoi'.-.and of the hr:i\e men who originally com-
posed your four rejiments have fallen, killed or wounded in
battle. Your dead you have buried on the battlefield, shed h
manly tear over theui, left "glory to keep eternal watch' over
their graves, nnd pressed on to new fields of duty and danger.
"Though il may seem to lie the language of extravagant
eulogy, it is the truth, and fit, on this occasion, to be spoken.
You have fairh won the right to inscribe on your battered
war Hags the proud boast of Napoleon's Old Guard ; 'This
brigade knows how to die, but not to yield to the foe.'
"Courage on the field is not your only claim to proud dis-
tinction. Since I took command over you I have not pre-
ferred a single charge against or arraigned one of you before
a court-martial; your conduct never demanded such a duty.
"You can well appreciate the feelings with which I part
from such, a ccnunaud.
"Nothing les^ potcul than the rtfiuirements of a soldier's
honor could, with my consent, wrench us asunder while a
single banner of the enemy floated over one foot of our coun-
try. Soldiers, comrades, friends, farewell ! R. Toombs."
SUGGESnOXS FOR ACTION AT STATE REUNIOXS.
John Witherspoon DuBose, connected with the State Ds-
partmcnt of .Vrchives and History at Montgomery, Ala.,
and also author of the "Life of William L. Yancey," writes
Hon. John W. Bush, of Birmingham, a brigadier general of
the .Mabama Division, U. C. V. :
"Sir: Your energy and intelligent direction in your office
must lie appicciatcd by the veterans of your command, and
I shall take advantage of your kindly permission to suggest
to you a view of the opportunities of this annual reunion, so
happily obse'ved in Alabama, to enlarge the sphere of in-
fluence of the noble organijratiou.
"h is known of all veterans of the Southern Confederacy
that the pulilished histories taught in schools and universities
or stored on the shelves of American libraries are not only
painful to be read by the older people of the South because
of their general inappreciatiou of the truth, and frequent mio-
reprcsentation of the facts pertinent to the origin and career
of the Confederate States, but they tend to poison the minds
of the sons and daughters of that generation of Southern
people who strove so heroically, men and women, on the
front of battle and in the retirement of home, to check the
march of the invader, to the end that justice, tranquillity, and
the fruits of peace and liberty might possess the land.
"My contemplation of a simple expedient of reform in the
manner of celebration at the annual reunion is here presented.
I think the Veterans should have an oiator from their own
ranks, charged with the duty of preparing and delivering be-
fore them in convention assembled at each reunion a formal
address relating, among other things, to the social, industrial,
and political character of the Southern men at home who
went to the field. Let me explain : The men who, within a few
mouths or a few days after leaving home, were able to follow
Stonewall Jackson a hundred miles in three days on foot and
win three pitched battles on the line of march; who were
able to ride with Forrest and support his transcendent genius
in every emergency. \Ve have got to look to the home life
of these men before we comprehend the motive of the Con-
federacy and its glorious career so brief.
"I would suggest incidentally that the Sons of \'etcrans ap-
point an orator also in thj conunon reunion season, and take
him from their own numbers only.
"The two addresses should be printed in i>amphlct, and the
pamphlets bound in one and generally distributed among the
two organi7ations. Every public library in the State and in
the South should possess a copy of the publication.
"I am confident that with this system of preservation of
history firmU fixed in the jiroceedings of the annual re-
unions other important efforts to the same high end would
follow, which I need not trouble you here to consider.
"It has been my apprehension that the effect of all cotem-
porary efforts to connneinorate the valor and fidelity of the
Southern soldier might stop with the record of the field of
active war. Certainly it would be quite agreeable to the
victor in the great strife to find some excuse for remaining
amongst us seven to ten years after Appomattox with armed
garrisons whose sole duty was to create voters of a certain
MISS IDA LIVELY,
Sponsor Ho\vit*-ri'Ui;nn Camp, No. 57^, I'. C. V., New Orleans reunion, 1903.
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kind only, and even now in ihc second generation to deny us
the presidency as an immutable punishment.
"Posterity should know of the relative strength of the
Southern Confederacy and of the Northern States, in re-
sources of war, in 1861 before judgment is rendered upon the
course of the South then. Posterity should hear from the
paroled Confederate soldier and how he conducted himself
from 1865 to 1875. There can be no history in the premises
without this knowledge.
"In a word, let the reunions annually see to it that the
present disposition to set down the Southern soldier as a
gallant fool and chivalric knave, a kind of bull butting the
engine, shall be corrected.
"If I might suggest here a good starter for reform in the
character of that history so universally corrupting of truth,
as we now teach it in schools and colleges, I should advise
that the reunion of Veterans and Sons of Veterans in every
State may adopt some such plan of utterance and publication
as here intimated."
CALIFORNIA SPIRIT OF THE CONFEDERACY.
California is fast forging to the front in the interest mani-
fested in Confederate matters. There are no more loyal or
devoted Confederates than can be found in that sunny land,
though doubtless many have long been separated from South-
ern brethren and Southern interests. The following letter
will give an idea of what is being done to keep "the boys"
together out there. It is given in the hope that it will be an
inspiration to comrades in other sections where it has seemed
impossible to keep Camps together, or where no Camp has
ever been organized :
"HE.^DQL•.^RTERs Camp 770, U. C. v., Los Angeles, Dec. 4, 1903.
"To Our Comrades: We come to you with a message — a
message concerning the welfare of Confederate Veterans—
and we beg of you to listen and heed these words:
"Camp 770 is in a flourishing condition — never bolter llian
now. We have forty-tw-o members on our active roll in good
standing. There have been one hundred and sixty names en-
rolled; several have died, a few have resigned, and many
have 'straggled;' but we expect to close up and be good mem-
bers yet. It is our purpose to go to every Confederate Vet-
eran in Southern California, asking him, in the name of fra-
ternal brotherhood and warm comradeship, to enroll himself
in our Camp. To those whose names are not on our roll wo
say: We want you with us. Send in your name, company,
regiment, brigade, and division, when and where you enlisted,
and when and how you left the service of the Confederacy.
"\Ve intend to create a growing interest that will make our
meetings large and enjoyable, meetings that all will be pleased
to attend, and touch shotilder and elbow with his comrade.
We meet on the last Saturday of every month. You surely
will be able to give one evening each month to comradeship.
The initiation foe is only one dollar, and monthly dues are
small. They arc put to good use, in helping any comrade that
may be in distress, choering his sick bed, brightening his dying
hour, and giving him decent burial. These arc duties we owe;
let us pay them cheerfully, gladly. We are joined together
by the strongest tic of friendship, for benevolence and social
intercourse; not for preferment or financial gain; our only
aim is to help each other. We are not numerous, are growing
old, and we should all be united, so as to render the few re-
maining months and years as contented, happy, and tranquil
as close comradosliip can make them.
"Comrade, we are starling a movement for the purpose of
erecting a hall, where Veterans, Sons of Veterans, and Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy can have a meeting place, a home;
where we can take our visiting friends ; where we can have,
accessible to all, at all times, Southern literature, newspapers,
magazines, histories, etc. ; where we can place our relics, our
pictures, and mementos ; where we can hold our meetings,
business and social, have our entertainments, and place over
our front entrance 'Home of Confederates.' Now, comrade,
we want your help, your countenance, and aid in this matter,
if it be only a kind, cheery word.
"Committee: C. H. Hance, Chairman; Dr. \V. C. Harrison,
Adjutant; Ben Goodrich."
STONEWALL JACKSON.
I!Y A. H. KfTLEDCE.
*' Let us cross over the river and r>*sl In ihe sha le of the Irers."
From war's stern calls and all the roaring strain
Of charging vanguard's rush.
Into the silence of eternity.
Into the evening's hush.
From the loud thunders of the civil strife
And bloody Fate's decrees.
Into the quiet of a well-won rest,
Under the shade of trees.
SctiL-nectady, N. V.
SOME CONFEDERATE WAR INCIDENTS.
BY GEN'. J. C. JICORE. MEXICO, TEX.
When my regiment, the Second Texas Infantry, was or-
ganized, at Galveston in 1861, not being able to procure Con-
federate gray, the men were supplied with Federal blue uni-
forms captured at Texas military posts. When, in March,
1862, w-c were ordered to report to Gen. A. S. Johnston, then
at Corinth, we marched across the country to .Mexandria,
and thence were conveyed by steamer and railroad to our
destination.
Not believing Federal blue a lifo-prolonging color for a Con-
federate's uniform in battle, I sent an agent with a requisi-
tion on the quartermaster at New Orleans for properly colored
uniforms. He met us at Corinth a few days I efore marching
for the Shiloh (or Pittsburg Landin?;) battlotiold. When the
packages were opened, we found the so-called uniforms as
white as washed wool could make them. I sh:iil never forget
the men's consternation and many exclamations not quoted
from the Bible, such as "Well, I'll be d !" "Don't them
things beat h — !" "Do the generals e.xpect us to be killed, and
want us to wear our shrouds?" etc. Being a case of Hobson's
choice, the men cheerfully made ti.e best of the situation,
quickly stripped oft the ragged blue and donned the virgin
white. The clothing having no marks as to sizes, articles were
issued juit as they came, hit or miss as to fit. Soon the com-
pany grounds were full of men strutting up and down, some
with trousers dragging under their heels, while those of others
scarcely reached the tops of their socks; some with jackets
so tight they resembled stuffed toads, while others had ample
room to carry three days' rations in their bosoms. The exhi-
bition closed with a swapping scene that reminded one of a
horse-trading day in a Georgia county town. A Federal
prisoner at Shiloh inquired: "Who were them hell-cats that
went into battle dressed in their graveclothes?"
As the reader probably remembers, when the Confederate
army was defeated at Shiloh, it fell back to Corinth, closely
pressed by Gen. Grant's forces. For several days previous to
our evacuation of that place, our division was kept in line of
Confederate l/eteraij
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battle day and night, and therefore it 1icc:ime necessary to have
cooked rations sent out in wagons from camp. The enemy
had a heavy siege battery posted in front of my brigade, which
fired shells twelve or eighteen inches in length. Occasionally
one of these, striking a tree or large limb, would proceed to
execute a series of lively somersaults. One day the Second
Texas regimental teamster had delivered his load of cooked
rations and started back to camp. He had often been cursed
by the Texas boys for his slow motions, but there was no
occasion for such on that occasion. He had gone but a few
yards when one of these long shells struck a near-by tree and
dropped near his team. The frightened driver stood up in his
stirrups, bawled and slashed his passive mules, bobbing up
and down in galloping motions of body, while his team could
be urged into only a gentle trot. As the Texas boys watched
his frantic efforts to escape, their yells might have been
heard half a mile.
I hired a negro boy to act as hostler, a id when on the march
he rode one of my horses and had an car y time ; but like some
other people, Sandy could not endure promotion without being
spoiled. Though he was wearing much better shoes than many
soldiers, he asked for a new pair on the morning of the first
day's battle at Corinth. I remarked that I had none to give
him, but could tell him how to get them without trouble. He
anxiously inquired hcnv to do so, and I replied with a serious
countenance : "We are going to get into a fight to-day. Sandy,
and you follow along at a safe distance behind our men, and
when you find a dead Yankee just help yourself to his shoes."
Sandy's eyes bulged out like a dead lobster's, and I walked off
leaving him scratching his head. I did not see him again until
we went into camp on our retreat after the second day's fight.
He came to me with a sickly grin, and being asked where were
his new shoes, he replied: "Now, boss, I'se gwine to tell ye de
God's trufe. I done list as vou told me. and when I clum ober
de first line of bresworks I see a big dead Yank layin' flat on
his back with blood all over his face. He had on bran'-new
boots, and I says to myself, 'Dem's my boots for shore.' So
I picks up one foot and begins to pull off de boot sorter easy
like; but O, my goodness gracious! he jist riz up on one el-
bow and says, 'You black imp of h — ! what ye doin' here?'
Well, sur, I drapt dat boot, tuck to my heels, and nebbcr looked
back tell I got to de wagon camp. No, sir-ee, no dead Yank's
boots for me."
When Gen. Grant's forces broke through the center of Gen.
Eragg's lines on Missionary Ridge, they began sweeping
right and left in the rear of our rifle pits. Gen. Che-itbam or-
dered J. K. Jackson and myself to place our brigades in line,
perpendicular to that of the rifle pits, and hold the enemy in
check until the artillery could be withdrawn from the right of
our line. Jackson's brigade being on the right on this new
line, mine passed in the rear to extend the line to the left.
As we were doing so, a lank, six-foot Georgia "cracker" was
noticed gazing over his front file's shoulder with open mouth
and bulging eyes. Just at that moment a pretty heavy volley
was poured into us. This was more than the Georgian could
stand. He wheeled about, rushed through our ranks with gun
at a trail, went down a slope half-bent, looking back over one
shoulder exclaiming : "Good Lordy, how they is shootin' !'' In
a few yards he reached a large fallen tree, and as he tumbled
over it headforemost he was heard to cry out : "Now 1 lay me
down to sleep." Perhaps his remains are sleeping there yet.
MRS. li. C. UnWtk. .nA.\ I-R.\N"CISC0.
CAPTURE OF GARRISON AT NEW CREEK.
BY T. J. YOUNG, SEVENTH VIRGINIA CVVALRY, AUSTIN, ARK.
Editor Veteran: I have never seen any account of the de-
tails of the capture of New Creek, on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, by Gen. Thomas L. Rosser, and, as I was a partici-
pant in that event, I submit the following, hoping it may re-
vive the memory of some of my old comrades on that raid.
At the time of which I write, the fall of 1864, New Creek was
in the rear of Sheridan's army, and was one of the posts from
which he drew supplies. On the 26th of November Gen.
Rosser, in command of .-Vshby's old brigade, to which my regi-
ment, the Seventh Virginia Cavalry, belonged, left the valley
of the Shenandoali, crossed North Mountain, arrived near
Moorefield, in West Virginia, and halted to feed and rest be-
fore making a dash on New Creek. While the brigade was
thus resting the General took Company F, of the Seventh
Regiment, as a bodyguard, and rode into Moorefield, a short
distance ahead. The town was occupied by a company of
Independent Confederate scouts, under command of a Capt.
McNeil, who informed Gen. Rosser that a small body of
Yankees were camped at the river, about a mile beyond.
Taking McNeil's company and his bodyguard, he went for-
ward, charged over the Yankee camp, killing and capturing
a portion of them, and in the meantime he had sent back
orders for the brigade to hurry forward. We rode all night
through the mountains, and reached New Creek just before
daylight on the 27th. The escaped Yankees from the squad
we had routed the evening before had also been on the move
all night, some on the road just ahead of us, others by near
cuts through the mountains, but all making tracks for their
friends at New Creek. Squads of these fugitives were passing
through their pickets continuously, giving account of the
little skirmish, but as they had seen only two small com-
panies they naturally supposed it was a small scouting party
of Confederate cavalry that would not dare go so far inside
their lines as New Creek, so that when our advance rode up
JHSt before day the pickets supposed it was another bunch of
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iheir fugitives, and we had no trouble in "taking tlicm in oul
of the wet."
The surprise was complete. The Federal garrison were
asleep when we rode into their camps, and when \vc woke
them up and told I hem we were Rosser's men, they would not
believe us until we began to line them up under guard and
take possession of their arms, commissary stores, etc. We
captured the entire garrison, atout eight hundred strong, four
pieces of artillery, a large amount of ammunition, wagons,
horses, and mules, and quantities of quartermaster and com-
missary supplies. We were compelled to burn and otherwise
destroy most of these, as Sheridan had heard of our raid and
was pushing a force forward to cut us off; but our dashing
young commander was equal to the occasion, and we went out
safely with our prisoners from one of the most complete and
successful raids made during the war.
THli BATTLE OP MURFREESBORO AGAIN.
BY A. H. HEINER, GREENVILLE, TEX.
Capt. B. L. Ridley, in his account of the battle of Mur-
freesboro in the February number of the Veteran, page 67,
speaking of the rout of the right wing of the Federal army
and the gallantry of the Confederates, says: "Men, although
mortally wounded, continued the pursuit until they fell faint-
ing from loss of blood. Col. Lochc, of the Texas Regiment,
they say, slapped his hand over the wound in his breast, to
stop the blood, and halloed, 'Charge them, boys,' and fol-
lowed on until he fell." Col. Loche commanded the Tenth
Texas Regiment Dismounted Cavalry, which formed part
of Gen. Ector's Brigade, in which were the Tenth, Eleventh,
and other Texas regiments of dismounted cavalry. Un-
fortunately, however, for Capt. Ridley's statement. Col.
Loche was not even present at the battle of Murfreesboro.
and his regiment was commanded by Lieut. Col. Earp, who
was conspicuous for his brave and gallant bearing through-
out that sanguinary conflict.
Col. John C. Burks, of the Eleventh Texas Cavalry, is the
man intended to be mentioned by Capt. Ridley. Ector's
Brigade was in McCown's Division, and formed the extren'e
left of the infantry of Gen. Bragg's army, the Eleventh Texas
forming the extreme left of the brigade, the line being still
further extended to the left by Wheeler's Cavalry. McCown's
Division had taken position Monday evening, and lay in line
of battle that night, the next day and night, and just at
daylight Wednesday morning (the 31st of December) be-
gan the assault on the right wing of Rosecran's army, which
terminated in the rout spoken of by Capt. Ridley.
It was just as the first line of the enemy was breaking
and giving away that Col. Burks, while leading liis men,
received the fatal wound in his breast. He shouted, "For-
ward, boys," fell from his horse, and was borne from the
field. We buried him near Shelbyville, after the army re-
treated to that place, he not having died for a day or two
after receiving the wound. From that lonely grave the
noble ladies of Shelbyville had the remains removed, soon
after the close of the war, and deposited in the beautiful
cemetery, near the town, which had been prepared by them
for the purpose of caring for the Confederate dead.
Here the remains were tenderly cared for by the same
loving hands until the summer of 1895, when, on the occasion
of an annual reunion of the survivors of his old regiment
at Clarksville, Red River County, Tex., his old home, the
remains were again disinterred and, with appropriate cere-
monies, conducted by the old veterans of the Eleventh Texas
Cavalry, were again gently and tenderly laid to rest, by the
side of his wife, in the beautiful cemetery near the town,
there to await the final resurrection, when both land and sea
shall give up their dead. It was a grand and solemn scene,
drew a large concourse of people, and will never be forgotten
by those who were present.
Col. Burks was the idol of his regiment, and a great favor-
ite with the entire brigade, which he had often commanded as
the senior colonel. The bloody field of Murfreesboro was
not stained with the blood of a nobler, truer, and braver
soldier than Col. Burks.
The writer was present, saw Col. Burks when shot, helped
to bury him at Shelbyville, and was present at the final in-
terment of his remains at Clarksville, Tex., and gives the
above for the truth of histcrv.
J*'
MiSS I'EARL B. GAKRETT, ALTHEIMER, ARK.,
Sponsor forj. Kil Murray Camp, Pine Bluff, ai X^w Orlcins reunlcn.
THE BURSTING OP THE "LADY POLK."
BY A. G. G.
Forty-two years have elapsed since the event occurred which
I am about to relate. 'i"inie blunts one's memory, neverthe-
less I fancy that I have a distinct recollection of the material
facts relating thereto.
On the high bluff just above the town of Columbus, Ky.,
overlooking the "Father of Waters," stood Fort De Russy.
At the time of which I write it was the best-planned and best-
constructed fort that had been built by the Confederate army.
The water batteries, located not far from the edge of the
water during a high river, were composed of many ten-inch
Columbiads and eleven-inch howitzers, which could do great
execution in close (juarters. On the high bluft above, solitary
and alone, surrounded by a special palisade with a well-filled
powder magazine within a few feet of her, was mounted an
eight-ton rifled Dahlgren gun, which carried one hundred
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and twenty-eiglit pound cone-shaped projectiles. This gun
was called "Lady Pclk" in honor of the wife of the com-
mander of the army encamped around Columbus, Gen. Leoni-
das Polk. This gun had never been fired till the "ih day of
November, 1861, when, during the battle of Belmont, which
was in progress across the river, the enemy came in view and
Capt. Keiter was ordered to test her capacity.
The projectiles prepared for this gun had copper saucers at-
tached to the bottom with flanges fashioned to fit the rifles.
Upon attempting to load, it was found that the flanges were
too large, and files were used in making them smaller. This
consumed but little time, however, and in a few minutes
"iron gateposts," as the Yankees called them, were falling
with demoralizing effect into the ranks of the enemy. After
being fired a few limes, the heat expanded the gun and tlie
projectiles were placed in the same without having the flanges
filed. The enemy retreated, the battle was fought and won,
and "The Lady Polk" was left loaded.
Three or four days after the battle Gen. Polk and staff rode
into the fort and wended their way to the big gun, which had
become famous from the wonderful execution which she had
done. Capt. Keiter, under whose command the gun was,
was questioned by the General with reference to her condition;
and, learning that slie had been allowed to remain loaded, sent
an orderly to Gen. McCown requesting his presence. (Mc-
cown was commander of the heavy artillery forces.) Upon
his arrival he informed Gen. Polk that, inasmuch as the
flanges were too large before the gun was fired, and after a
few rounds went down with ease, showing conclusively that
the gun had expanded from heal ; and that as the gun had
cooled olT it had contracted and settled firmly around the bot-
tom of the projectile, any attempt to fire it would result in its
explosion. Here was a dilemma — the only long-range gun in
the fort rendered worthless by a little bit of neglect which was
hardly censurable. Gen. Poik could not well conceal his an-
noyance. When McCown had finished, he remarked : "I thinly
we shall have to make the attempt." Gen. McCown said,
"You will excuse me if I do not remain to witness it;" and,
turning away willi his staff, heard the order for a detail to
"man the gun."
Capt. Keiter mounted the parapet lo the left of the gun
and a few paces to the rear. Directly a sergeant came with
seven men. They took their .-ilations ; the gun was already
"in battery" and elevated. At the command "Ready !" tht
cap was inserted in the vent and the lanyard hook attached.
There was a breathless silence. Gen. Polk and staflf sat
mounted upon their horses about fifty feet from where Capt.
Keiter stood. A look of anxiety pervaded the countenance of
every one present who suspected that danger was near.
"Fire !" rang loud and shrill the voice of Keiter. The lanyard
was pulled. The earth shook for miles around, and a dead
rumbling sound which seemed to go into the earth instead of
upward followed. A dense black smoke arose and the dust
and smoke obscured everything from view. For a moment all
was still ; then came the groans of suffering. Men rushed to
see the result, feeling that a horrible scene had been enacted.
There lay Capt. Keiter dead ; Gen. Polk was lying by the sido
of the body of his horse and was being raised up in a fainting
condition; Maj. Ford, of his staff, was gasping his last breath;
here and there lay men uninjured apparently, yet unable to
rise from the great concussion ; yonder lay one poor fellow
suffering agony, with his back broken. Where were the sergeant
and his seven men who manned the gun? Here were an arm
and a severed head, over tliere the memberless trunk of a
human body disemboweled. "Great God, they are blown to
atoms!" cried one who had joined in the search, and such
was literally true. .■\s much of their remains as could be
found was gathered up, put into boxes, and buried with
military honors.
The gun burst into three parts, one of which, weighing
two or three tons, fell near the lent door of the giver of this
bit of history. The powder magazine exploded with the
bursting of the gun, both giving out but one sound.
I see Lieut. Arthur Winston now, standing weeping over the
corpse of his friend and commander ; Capts. W. Y. C. Humes,
Andrew Jackson, Jr., and James A. Fisher are close by; Gen.
Frank Cheatham and staff are approaching.
They carried Gen. Polk to his headquarters, as some
thought, in a dying condition. In a few weeks he was on duty,
but never a well man again.
Only ten lives were lost, yet I venture that no event trans-
pired during the whole war, according to its magnitude, that
caused more regret than the bursting of the "Lady Polk."
PRESIDENT U. D. C. HONORED AT HOME.
The Rome, Ga., Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy has
presented, as a token of esteem, a handsome silver loving cup
to Mrs. Hallic Alexander Rounsaville, retiring President of
the United Daughters of the Confederacy. There were present
the presentation members of the Woman's Club, N. B. Forrest
Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy, Xavier Chapter
Daughters of Revolution, and visiting Daughters. In the re-
ceiving line, with Mrs. Rounsaville, were the ex-Presidents
and present oflficers of the Rome Chapter. Inscribed upon the
cup were the following words :
"Presented to Mrs. Hallie Alexander Rounsaville, President
U. D. C, 1901-03, by Rome Chapter, No. 28, Rome, Ga.,
December 25, 1903.'
Mrs. Mary Shropshire, ex-President and senior member of
the Chapter, presented the cup, in a short address, which
touchingly proved her affection for the recipient and the
Chapter she represented.
Mrs. Rounsaville accepted the loving gift in a gracious man-
ner and genuine "impromptu speech" as until addressed by
Mrs. Shropshire she was unaware of the occasion of the func-
tion.
That the guests were bidden for a special occasion was felt
on entering Mrs. Terhune's spacious home, beautifully deco-
rated with Confederate flags, which scheme of color, red and
white, was verged to a climax in the daintily laden table, whose
viands were also in Confederate colors. Each cut glass bowl
surrounded with a laurel wreath pierced here and there with
a Confederate ensign, over which innumerable candles shed a
soft, cathedral light typical of the hallowed love with which
these colors are revered in the heart of each Daughter of the
Confederacv.
Publish Roll cf Vetlr.\ns at Reunions. — W. R. Hough-
ton, Esq., of Birmingham, Ala., who served in Company G,
Second Georgia Regiment, sends the Veteran an elegant
pauiphlet containing a roll of the Veterans registered at the
Birmingham reunion of the .\labama Division November 4,
5, 1903. The list gives Alabama Veterans first arranged by
regiments consecutively: Infantry, cavalry, artillery; then
the Slates, giving the command with the name. The pamphlet
comprises 34 pages, the title-page being ornamented with the
Confederate battle flag. It will go nicely in a letter envelope.
The book is published and sent out with the compliments of
Camp Hardee. Comrades in charge of registration are com-
mended to procure one of these booklets as a model to work
by. The only error or fault apparent in the list is lack of
alphabetical arrangement of the names.
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FIGHTING AROUND VICKSBURG.
IIV S. C. TSICC, LEBANON, TENN.
I saw an article in the Veteil\n sometime back from one
Gen. Young, which was not very complimentary to the Mis-
souri troops, commanded by Gen. Bowcn, in and around
Vicksburg. Gen. Young stated in his article that the Missouri
troops came into Vicksburg in a very demoralized condition
without giving any reason for this, which I think, in justice
to these troops, ought to be given. I was a member of this
command, and know of the battles, marchings, etc., in that
campaign.
On April 29, j86.^ we fought the enemy's gunboat at Grand
Gulf, Miss. On the first day of May we checked the right
wing of Grant's army at Port Gibson, thereby saving the Con-
federate army from capture. On the morning of the i6th of
May we fought the battle of Baker's Creek. This battle was
opened by an artillery duel on our extreme right. Gen.
Bowcn's command was in reserve on our e.xlreme left, some
two and a half miles from the firing line of the artillery. We
were double-quicked to that point, and had just arrived there
when the battle opened along the whole line. We were then
ordered back to the left wing; the enemy had flanked our
line and were getting between us and Vicksburg. Advancing
in front of the enemy, we began to form on left by file into
line. Just as the brigade was doubled, the enemy began an
enfilading fire down our line so heavy that we could not form,
and had to fall back two or three hundred yards, where we
formed and charged, breaking three of his lines of battle and
destroying a number of ordnance wagons. By this time the
whole army was in retreat to the bridge over Big Black River.
This move closed the day's marching and fighting. On the
17th of May Bowcn's Brigade was placed in the breastworks
on Big Black River, above the railroad bridge, which position
was on the e.\tremc left of Gen. Pemberton's army. Fighting
began in the early morning, and about 8 a.m. there was a
general advance by the enemy. The center of our line was
broken, and a large part of the First Missouri Brigade was
cut off from the bridge. To escape capture we threw all our
arms and ammunition away, and those who could swam the
river. Col. Gates, with nearly all of his First Missouri Regi-
ment, was captured. This is why the Missouri Brigade came
into Vicksburg in such bad condition. I am not one of thos'.-
soldiers who can tell all about the movements, positions, etc.,
of the many difi'ercnt connnands in a fight. I always, when in
battle, had just as much as I could look after in my front.
Twice during that campaign the First Missouri Brigade saved
Pemberton's army. And if it had not been for this command,
there never would have been any siege at Vicksburg. This
siege began on the i8th of May, and on the 22d the enemy
made a number of assaults on the Confederate works, but
were repulsed along the whole line, leaving many dead in
our front. A few days after a (lag of truce was sent to Gen.
Grant asking permission to bury the dead. My regimental
commander and myself were sent out with this flag of truce.
Both Federal and Confederate colonels were from the Stale
of Indiana, and were old friends before the war. The writer
of this article heard the Federal colonel say in substance
that if it had not been for the assault made on his line at
Baker's Creek by the First Missouri Brigade there never
would have been any siege of Vicksburg, for they would have
crushed Pemberton's army. While in Vicksburg Bowen's
command was held in reserve, ar^d moved to different parts
of the works as the situation required. Old soldiers who saw
service know what it means to be the reserve column.
PRIVATE SOLDIER MONUMENT AT PARIS. TEX.
One of the handsomest monuments erected to the private
Confederate soldier by any one Chapter of the U. D. C. is that
at Paris, Te.x., built by the Lamar Chapter, No. 258, and re-
cently unveiled with appropriate ceremonies. The monument
is artistic, emblematic, and historic. It was designed by Capt.
O. C. Connor, who has been the mainstay and support of the
Daughters in their efforts to raise the ?5,ooo necessary to
pay all expenses, $4,600 of this amount going to pay for the
monument proper. The base, nine feet square, is of red
Texas granite, and surmounting it are the gray Texas granite
blocks and the bronze figure of the private soldier.
The imprcssiveness of the monument is not so much in the
height, which is only twenty and a half feet, as it is the mas-
sive solidity of the structure and the admirably blended pro-
portions of the whole. On the four sides of the sub-base are
the bronze busts of President Davis, Gens. R. E. Lee, Albert
Sidney Johnston, and Stonewall Jackson. Beneath each bust
is an appropriate inscription, indicative of the man.
Mrs. O. C. Connor, President of the Chapter, whose active
and untiring efforts succeeded in building this magnificent
monument, pulled the cord that dropped the veil from the
figure, amid the applause of the vast assemblage, and Judge
Rufus Hardy, of Corsicana, delivered the address. The busts
of President Davis and his distinguished generals were un-
veiled separately. Mary, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
THE I'.ARIS (te.x.) MOXUME.XT.
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Jesse Pierce, uncovered the bust of Mr. Davis, and Hon. W.
Hodges delivered a eulogy on the life and character of the
distinguished patriot and statesman. Hon. E. S. Connor paid
a beautiful tribute to R. E. Lee, when the bunting fell ex-
posing the beloved and well-known face of the greatest captain
of modern times. The placid but stern face of Stonewall
Jackson was unveiled by Miss Everita Bray, and Hon. Fred
Dudley responded in an address vividly portraying the life
and character of Lee's greatest lieutenant. Private J. M.
Long, who lost a leg at Shiloh, where Albert Sidney Johnston
lost his life, responded when the bust of this distinguished
soldier was uncovered. The proceedings were interspersed
with recitations and vocal and instrumental music by the
young people present.
REMINISCENCES OF CAMP CHASE, ETC.
Capt. J. M. Killough, Waco, Tex:
"In the Veteran for October, 1902, C. L. Daughtry inquired
for information or address of a Mr. Robinson and others who
were in Camp Chase during the winter of 1864-65. I should
ilso be pleased to hear from Capt. Robinson, as we made the
trip together from Atlanta, Ga., to Camp Chase. We occu-
pied the same berth in Barracks No. 3 until he was trans-
ferred through the influence of Northern relatives or friends
as Secretary for the hospitals outside the inner prisons. Capt.
Robinson was a Northern man by birth, a Georgian by adop-
tion, a Confederate soldier by choice, and a prisoner at Camp
Chase by accident, having been captured while in a convales-
cent hosjiital not many miles from Atlanta. A braver or
truer man never lived.
"I, with five other men from Starnes's Fourth Tennessee
Cavalry Regiment, was captured on the same day on the
fighting line near a small village called Lawrenceville, Ga.
That day's lighting may never be mentioned in history, al-
though it was about the hardest fight I was in during the
years that I followed the immortal Forrest, lasting from early
in the morning till late in the afternoon, when we were of-
fered the alternative of surrendering or being killed, and some
of the boys already had more Yankee lead in their bodies than
they could carry comfortably. After a short consultation, al-
lowed us before the killing would begin, we decided, on ac-
count of the wounded, we would surrender.
"One thing happened there that was not often the case
after a hard fight : We were complimented by the Yankee
major commanding as the best fighters he had ever met, and
when I informed him that we befoiiged to, and were trained
up in, Forrest's old brigade, he gave me his hand with the
remark that no wonder Gen. Forrest accomplished everything
he undertook when followed by such men.
"Capt. Robinson asked to join our squad the following day
while we were being corralled at Gen. Thomas's headquarters
in front of Atlanta, saying that he felt lonely with the sickly
looking men he was with. He and I kept a diary from that
day, recording all events of note during our stay w'ith Gen.
Thomas, and from there to Camp Chase. His would be in-
teresting reading, telling in a few plain words of the trials,
sickness, and deaths of a prison life, and of many happenings
of Camp Chase during the cold winter of 1864-65. We knew
the talented Col. Hawkins, and might tell something about
that parole. I have written this much in the hope that some
member of Capt. Robinson's family or himself, if living, might
communicate with me. My diary containing his address was
stolen from me while being transferred under guard from
Camp Chase to Richmond, Va. My recollection is that his
mother and family lived in Franklin, Conn."
PERILOUS FEAT BV PARTY OF SCOUTS.
BV GEORGE D. SHADBUKNE. CHIEF OF WADE HAMPTON's SCOUTS.
It was the winter of 1864-65. The armies of Lee and
Grant lay inactive in front of Petersburg and Richmond. . . .
Grant had ordered Sheridan to depopulate the Valley of
Virginia, and that gallant ( ?) general, after marching up and
down the Shenandoah Valley, driving women and children be-
fore him in hunger and want, had left nothing but a blackened
wilderness behind him; and then, feeling that he had obeyed
his orders to the letter, dispatched to Grant : "I have dev-
astated the Valley of Virginia until a crow flying over it must
carry his rations with him."
Amongst the most obnoxious of the raiders that ran riot
in our country at that time was a company of negro cavalry
that patrolled the road from City Point to Norfolk. I had
long been anxious to get at them ; for if there was anything
that we hated worse than another, it was a negro soldier. So
on the evening of January 22, 1865, we crossed the Black-
water. The day had been one of heavy rains, but toward
night the heavens cleared and it became intensely cold. We
concealed ourselves as best we could in the woods beneath
the banks of the Blackwater and built fires and made our-
selves comfortable. Two men w-ere sent to the telegraph
road, ten miles distant, to cut the telegraph wires, as we knew
that would bring the black rascals out.
The country through which we passed to reach our ob-
jective point was one of treachery and disloyally. A company
of home guards had been formed there, and at the toot of a
horn they would assemble, day or night, and there was then
certain death to the intruder unless he was too smart for
them. Hence any exposure in our movements would have
worked our ruin. We remained in our place of concealment
until the hour of midnight, then we stole cautiously forth, in
single file, leading our horses so as to keep them completely
under control, and slowly advanced The ground by this time
was frozen hard, so that we left no traces of our march be-
hind. Thus quietly we passed through this sleeping land of
treachery, and at dawn of the 23d we were well ensconced in
our place of ambush. It was in a heavy wood of "old field
pines," the original forest having been denuded many years
before. These pines were as thickly studded as their bulk
would permit. About ten paces from and above the road we
lay safely concealed. Some distance back of us the road
crossed a small creek spanned by a wooden bridge. There
one of our number was placed, with instructions to fire when
the column had passed, unless he heard infantry approaching;
then we in ambush were to fire upon the passing force, rise
from concealment, give the Rebel yell, and charge into the
open road ; then mount our horses and pursue until all the
black guards were killed or captured. Our number w-as six-
teen, composed of eleven regular scouts, four Confederates
that I had picked up for the occasion, and one man in blue,
who had come to us by chance. He was a tall, handsome fel-
low, fully equipped and mounted upon a magnificent horse as
black as night, with knightly trappings and a Mexican steel
bit, a veritable Bucephalus. He had come to us and requested
that \\c receive him as one of our band, which we did, but
kept our eyes on him.
The regular scouts were Sloan, of North Carolina; Tanner,
Smith, and Simmonds, of Georgia ; Mcllwain and Rife, of
Mississippi; Waller and Latham, of Alabama; Cleel, of Texas;
, of ; and Capt. Shadburne, of Texas, chief of scouts.
The day was icy cold, and with great difliculty the men kept
above the freezing point ; but they were used to such hard-
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ships, and did not complain. In order to while away the time
and keep the blood in circulation, they told stories, boxed,
and jumped up and down, slapping their hands about them,
and forgot their hunger, for we had nothing to cat. Our
horses were tethered in the woods about one hundred yards
in the rear of the rendezvous.
Slowly the time passed until the hour of two o'clock ; then
we heard the not-far-distant tread of approaching cavalry,
and at once every man assumed his proper place, lying upon
the ground face downward. The pulse of each scout quick-
ened, his blood coursed freely, and his heart palpitated anx-
iously at the thought of the coming strife, and he clutched
tightly his trusty weapon and uttered a hasty prayer, feeling
the premonitory shudder always experienced by the brave
soldier just before the shock of battle. On came the unsus-
pecting foe— by twos they rode— until they were abreast of us,
about fifty in number. We were eagerly ready, every gun
was cocked and presented; all waited anxiously for the sig-
nal shot of our man at the bridge. The column passed, and
still no shot was fired. Could it be that infantry was coming,
and that the woods would be scoured? Such was my second
thought, and the moment was ominous; for if such were the
position, all w^ould be lost. 'I'licn the signal shot was fired.
Our man had waited for the roar guard to pass. The enemy
was beyond our reach, and our only hope was to mount and
charge. This was ordered, and every man hastened to his
horse, but all did not charge; the four volunteers remained
behind. The eleven and our friend in blue bore down upon
the sable foe, who stood his ground and poured toward us a
galling fire. Then I commanded "Maj. Jones," with his
"battalion." to liank to the left. Simultaneously five of my
men diverged in the woods to the left, and all charged gal-
lantly forward and re-fornicd not twenty paces from the foe.
Then the Rebel yell was sounded, and right into their ranks
wc dashed, pouring a deadly volley into their very faces. A
moment more and the enemy broke and fled wildly, the scouts
keeping in hot pursuit. On they ran, and the rout was com-
plete. As each scout overtook a negro, he sounded his death
knell and continued on. Thus for six miles we pursued them.
when no longer was there a negro in sight, and the day was
won. With one long-continued Rebel yell we wheeled about
and pursued the backward march.
In counting our losses and the results of victory, we found
that we had lost our friend in blue. He at the first onslaught,
when the charge was sounded, dashed madly to the front,
firing as he went, and never stopped until in the very midst of
the enemy, where his body was literally riddled with bullets.
Poor fellow, he was a brave man, even though a deserter. Hi
fills a nameless grave like many another of that cruel war.
This was our only loss, and the only other casualty was the
fall of Mclhvain. In making the charge at full speed his
horse stumbled and fell, throwing the rider over his head.
He (McIIwain) was a six-footer, weighing about two hundred
pounds, and, as his fall was a heavy one, he was badly bruised,
but no bones were broken; and, though hois de combat, h;
was in the pursuit to the finish and enjoyed it. In the affray
we killed eleven negroes, wounded a number more, captured
two white prisoners, twenty horses, and a fine ambulance, con-
taining, among, other things, six dozen eggs and five gallons of
good whisky, all of which wc held as a New Year's present.
It was but two hours till nightfall, and we made a hasty re-
treat for the Blackwater, where we arrived at sundown. The
bridge over the Blackwater had been partially destroyed some-
time before, there remaining only the framework and a few
planks. We had been able to cross on these the previous
night; but now, with the ambulance and additional horses
and night coming on, we were indeed in a dilemma. We has-
tily strung the planks in three rows, two rows of single ones,
just the width of the ambulance apart, for the wheels of that
vehicle to revolve upon and another row of double planks over
which we led the horses. With much dirticuliy wc succeeded
in getting all the horses safely over, save one attached to the
ambulance, which fell from the side of the bridge and pulled
with him that conveyance itself. Finally, with much ex-
ertion, wc extricated the horse, and he floundered to the
other shore, and thither we propelled the ambulance. Then
followed a division of the spoils, and it was an hour in the
night before wc sought food and shelter. We had fasted
for sixteen hours and were fatigued. Wc greatly enjoyed the
hospitality of our \'irginia friends. The citizens were over-
joyed at our victory. Many of the horses we had captured had
been stolen from these citizens. They were returned, and the
owners were he any in their thanks and laudation.
FAITHFUL SLAVE AND FRIEND.
[Tribute by N'ice President Ladies' Memorial Association,
Rome, Ga.]
Wilson Carter was born a slave of William H. Mitchell
in Morgan County, Ga. He is now sixty-si.x years old, and
has been in the service of the family all of his life. He was
a humble, obedient slave until "set free," since when he has
been a circumspect, law-abiding citizen, and commands the
sincere respect of his whole circle of acquaintance, the white
people, especially, being counted his friends.
In early life Wilson was a consistent member of the Pres-
byterian Church. After his marriage in 1867 he joined the
Methodist Church through courtesy to his wife. All these
years he has led a most exemplary life, and in consequence
has secured for the comfort of his old age more than a com-
petency, for he owns a comfortable home and has money at
interest, to which he adds his monthly salary. He has never
served other than the family in which he was born, and to-
day is the honored, trusted gardener and coachman, carrying
WILSON CARTER.
C^oijfederat^ UeceraQ.
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the kej'S, etc., for young William H. Mitchell, who accords
"Uncle" Wilson every indulgence, which beguiles him into
feeling his importance as "general supervisor" of the domestic
matters of the home.
In the beginning of the War between the States Wilson
accompanied his young master, W. T. Mitchell, who went out
with a volunteer company from Columbus, Ga., and was in
active service mainly in the Army of Tennessee, following
the hardships and severe fighting consequent to "Sherman's
bloody march," including the dreadful battle of Chickamauga,
where his young master gave up his precious life on the battle-
field. Wilson, true to his trust as body servant, was near by,
and after the fight he made his way alone, recovered the life-
less body, prepared it with all the care and tenderness possible,
wrapped it in his blanket, dug the grave, buried it himself,
marked the place, then took his weary, desolate waiting until
some chance to make his way home to the stricken family,
which chance came with the wounding of young Willis Banks,
a brother of Dr. E. A. Banks, to whom the Veteran paid
tribute a year or so ago. Only those who witnessed these
heartbreaking scenes can conjecture the agony of such a
Imme-coming.
In the course of si.K months a call was made for recruits,
and boys si.vteen and eighteen years old voluntarily rushed
to fill the places and avenge the death of their loved ones.
Then it was a younger son, Frank H. Mitchell, brother of the
brave boy who fell at Chickamauga, volunteered to leave home
and risk all for his country, and again faithful Wilson, with
all the horror of his first experience fresh in his mind, ex-
pressed his willingness to accompany the second son, which
he did, and remained in service until honorably discharged at
the sad and final surrender.
Doubtless the desire to accompany "Mars Frank" was stim-
ulated by the fact that he had nursed him in his childhood,
and realized his ability now to care for him as he would be
exposed to the rigor and hardships of war. What a proof
of this niililc negro's loyalty and affection ! Any Southern
heart can well understand why this faithful servant should
continue to occupy in this family a prominent place of trust,
tenderness, even sacred aft'cction, which prompts full confi-
dence in our daily intercourse, yet with never a tinge or sus-
liit-ion of familiarity on his part. All the little niceties of his
larly training are punctiliously practiced, even to the leaving
of liis hat outside the door when he enters the house. He is
the bearer of all important letters, notes, and documents of
every description, and worthily supports the acknowledged
title of "Faithful Wilson." In all probability this and much
more will be recorded of Wilson when with him "time shall
be no more," but I think it a fitting tribute now, and it will
certainly be very gratifying to him to feel assured that we
recognize his solid virtues, and there co\ild be no greater
proof of our appreciation than that he should sec it published
in your patriotic, loyal Veteran, thereby constituting him a
"Confederate hero."
THE OLDEST MOTHER OF THE CONFEDERACY.
BY W. P. CHAMBERS.
The Veteran for September, looj, contains a short sketch of
the life of Mrs. L. Nccly, of Dallas County, Tex., in which it
«;is claimed that she was probably the oldest living woman
who had sons in the Confederate army. Since then I have
made inquiries, and find that Mrs. Easter Sumrell Cooley, of
Wayne County, Miss., is probably entitled to the appellation
of the "oldest mother of the Confederacy.''
Faster Sumrell was born in South Carolina September 15.
1805. When she was about eight years of age her parents re-
moved to the Territory of Mississippi, arriving at Fort Win-
chester, on the Chickasha River, in 1813. In 1820, when
about fifteen years of age, she was married to Harbard Cooley,
who died in December, 1867. Several children were born to them.
Five of the sons — viz., Albert, Moses, Nelson, Berry, and
Martin Van Buren — served in the Confederate army. One of
these did not live to see the struggle ended, and three others
have since died, leaving only one, Moses Cooley, who is sev-
enty-two years of age.
Mrs. Cooley 's whole life since she was eight years of age has
been spent in Wayne County, Miss. She is now well on in
her ninety-ninth year. She has lorig been a member of the
Baptist Church.
ABOUT THE BATTLE AT DRURVS BLUFF.
E. F. Compton, Company B, Seventh Virginia Infantry,
writes from Front Royal, Va., February 4, 1904:
"In the \'eteuan for May, 1903, Frank B. Heckman in-
quired concerning his father's sword. Being present when he
was captured, I write what I know about it. Grade's mei>
did not capture Gen. Heckman as was stated ; he was cap-
tured by Sergt. Blakey, of Company F, Seventh Virginia
Regiment. It was late in the evening, and, 1 think, on May
15, 1864. We were ordered to be ready to attack Butler at
daybreak the next morning. Gen. Gracie formed in front
with our brigade (Terry's, of Pickett's Division) supporting.
The order being given to forward, we moved at a brisk step.
Their pickets soon opened on our advance and fell back to
their main line, in the edge of the woods. The fog was very
heavy. The .Alabamians raised a yell and went forward, and
the firing was terrific. We were halted a short distance in the
rear, where we suffered heavily. Four men of my company
fell from one volley. Very soon Gen. Gracie came galloping
back to Gen. Terry, asking for support, saying that his men
were lying down. We went forward with our characteristic
yell. My company was the extreme left of the line, next to
.lames River. When we reached their temporary breastworks,
they gave way, some of them surrendering. We were pressing
forward when our sergeant major came rushing in saying that
we were separated; to incline to the right. In the under-
growth and fog we could not see twenty paces ahead of us,
and supposed that the whole line had been carried, which was
not the case. By this time the bullets were cutting the twigs
over our heads ; then we saw the Yankee line in our front,
facing the other way. Our boys were all giving command,
and in the dark it sounded as if there was a large number of
troops. We met a few Yankees coming back. Just then Gen.
Heckman was captured. He had said to Blakey: 'Forward your
men in. My iiien are being cut all to pieces in there.' Blakey
.=aw at once that he was a Federal, and demanded his sur-
render. He said: 'I am your prisoner, but would like to sur-
render my sword to a field officer.' Blakey took his pistol
r.nd told him to go with him and he should have that privilege.
The entire line surrendered at once, and the General turned
his sword over to Col. C. C. Flowerree, of the Seventh Vir-
ginia Regiment, who now lives in Port Gibson, Miss., and will
take pleasure in giving any inforn:ation he can concerning it.
Col. Flowerree was captured at the High Bridge two days be-
fore Lee's surrender. We did not get as many prisoners as
Mr. Heckman reports. My recollection is that there were five
hundred and twenty-seven, while there were only about sixty
Confederates behind them, with the balance of the brigade
fighting them in front. This is as I remember of what I
saw of the Drewry's lihit't iKiIlle."
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(;^OF)federate l/eterar},
[ ;.._- sketches for "Last Roll" following were sup-
plied by the Dixie Chapter, U. D. C, Anderson, S. C]
Capt. J. B. A1.LST0N.
Capt. Joseph Blythc Allston died very suddenly while visit-
ing in Anderson, S. C, January 29, 1904. During the Con-
federate war he was captain of a company in the Twenty-
Seventh South Carolina Regiment, and distinguished himself
on several occasions. He was captured at the fall of Fort
Fisher, kept in prison at Fort Delaware until the close of tho
war. He was wounded twice — at Drewry's Bluff and at I'oco-
taligo.
J. A. Pruitt.
Mr. Joshua A. Pruitt, a brave Confederate soldier, who
served in Company E, Twentieth South Carolina Infantry,
died at his home, Anderson, S. C, January 27. He was so
severely wounded at Petersburg that he had to be sent home.
As soon as he was strong enough he returned to the front and
remained till the end of the war. Aged seventy-five years.
J. F. Clakdy.
Mr. L. F. Clardy, of Anderson, S. C, died January 21, 1904,
At the outbreak of the Confederate war he entered Company
D, Fourth South Carolina Regiment. He was transferred aft-
erw-ards to the Eighteenth South Carolina Regiment. His war
record was fine. He was in a number of important battles.
In the explosion of "The Crater" he was captured and kept
in prison until after the close of the war at Fort Delaware and
in other Federal prisons. His age was sixty-three years. He
<iid splendid work for the redemption of South Carolina in
1876. He comiTiandcd a company of "red shirts" at Dacus-
ville, Pickens County.
Lieut. Robert John Biggs.
Lieut. Robert John Biggs died at Josiah, Tcnn., November
27, 19031 aged si.\ty-five years. He was sworn into service as
second corporal of the Wigfall Grays, Fourth Regiment Ten-
nessee Volunteer Infantry, at Germantown, Shelby County,
Tenn., M;iy 15, 1861. He was promoted to first corporal in
December, i85i ; elected second lieutenant in April, 1862; pro-
moted to first lieutenant July. 1862.
He figured in the battles of Perryville, Ky., and Joncsboro,
Ga., and was wounded at the latter place. In December of
1862 Company C, of the Wigfall Grays, and Company H, of
the Tennessee Guards, were consolidated, which gave the
company a surplus of officers, and Lieut. Biggs was one of
the extra officers sent off on detached service, and was not re-
lumed to the company til! August, 1864.
J. W. Squires, of Dickens, Tex.
Joe W. Squires, a member of his Camp, passed away on
December 11, 1903, in his fifty-eighth year. Our comrade
served under Gen. McCullough in the War between the States,
and was faithful in the discharge of his duty as a soldier.
His comrades and neighbors testify that he was an honest,
(Upright, and useful citizen. He died at his home near Dick-
ens, Tex., after months of great suffering with cancer of the
throat. May his sleep be peaceful !
A committee composed of John A. Green, T. B. Love, O. S.
Ferguson, and R. L. Collier extended sympathy to the family
and commended the wearing of badges with the mourning
side displayed for the usual period.
Col. H. Clay Ki.vg.
A noted man of Tennessee, Col. H. Clay King, died near
Nashville December 10, 1903. He was a native of Kentucky,
was educated in the L'niversity of Alabama, and began the
j)ractice of law at Paducah, Ky., at the age of twenty-one
years. He enlisted early in the war in the Twentieth Ten-
nessee Regiment, but later he personally equipped a Kentucky
company. Afterwards he commanded a regiment of cavalry,
and so impressed the enemy that Gen. Stanley, of the Union
army, said Col. King was "one of the bravest and most fear-
less men" he had ever known. He was captured at Shelby-
ville, Tcnn., and held a prisoner for a year and a half. His
family surviving him are wife, four daughters, and one son,
who are a high credit to their native land.
Charles H. Smith.
Mr. Charles II. Smith, of Berryville, Va., who served in the
Sixth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., and was President of the
Clarke Cavalry Association, died recently from the effect of
an amputation of a leg. He was buried by the Clarke Cavalry
and the J. E. B. Stuart Camp, Confederate Veterans. With-
out further knowledge of his service, it may well be presumed
that he was a gallant soldier and a most worthy citizen.
Mat. J. .\. Che.\tham.
Maj. John Anderson Cheatham was born near Nashville,
Tenn., June 6, 1826. He was the third son of Leonard Pope
Clioalhani and Elizabeth Robertson and a great-grandson of
Gen. James Robert-
son, the founder of
the city of Nashville.
About 1850 Maj.
Cheatham moved to
Arkansas, where he
was engaged in
planting on an cn-
tensive scale when
the War between the
States opened. He
assisted his kins-
man, Col. Sam G.
Smith, in recruiting
ilic Sixth Arkansas
Infantry, with which
lie served until he
was appointed, in
1S62, major on the
staff of his distin-
guished brother,
MAJ. J. A. CHEATHAM. J^j^j Q^^ Jj p
Clicatliam, with whom ho served uniil the close of the war,
surrendering wilh llic army of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at
Bentonville, N. C. After the close of the war, Maj. Cheatham
returned to Tennessee, Ijiit in a short time resumed his plant-
ing operations in Arkansas. In 1882 he married Mrs. Lottie
Wall Cheatham, the widow of Col. Edward Cheatham, and
made his home thereafter in Memphis, where be died Novem-
ber 13, 1863.
QoQfederat^ l/eterap.
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Gen. H. Kvd Douglas.
Gen. Henry Kyd Douglas, distinguished Confederate sol-
dier, jurist, autlior, and public speaker, died at his residence
in Hagerstown, Md., in the sixty-fourth year of his age, sur-
rounded by members of his family. While his condition was
serious for several months, his death was a shock to his people.
Several years ago his health became impaired, and he sought
strength and recuperation by frequent trips South and North.
But nothing availed him. During his illness he became greatly
emaciated.
Gen. Douglas possessed a national reputation as an eloquent
and graceful speaker and lecturer, while a soldier of experi-
ence and capacity. He was born in Sharpstown, W. Va., Sep-
tember 29, 1840. He was the son of Rev. Robert Douglas and
Mary, daughter of Col. John Robertson. He was educated at
the Franklin-Marshall College, in F'ennsylvania, and graduated
in 1859, after which he studied at the law school of Judgi;
Brockcnborough at Lexington, Va., graduating in i860.
At the breaking out of the War between the States he en-
tered the Southern army as a private in tlie Second Virginia
Regiment, attached to Stonewall Jackson's Brigade. He ro^e
rapidly in rank to orderly sergeant, lieutenant, and then cap-
tain of his company.
He was selected to carry the celebrated order from Gen.
Jackson to Ewell, in the spring of 1862, which brought Ewell
to Jackson and ended in driving Banks out of the Valley of
Virginia and in the famous Valley campaign of Stonewall
Jackson. Tlie ride of nearly one hundred miles was made
one night in a drenching rain, through an unknown country,
by various roads around the Massanulton Mountain, and over
the Blue Ridge. He rode six different horses. Some of these
horses he had to get from the inliabitants along the route.
He had been ordered to deliver the dispatch by daylight the
next morning. He did it, and, ha\ing handed it to Gen. Ewell
at headquarters, he fainted from exhaustion.
Ewell made such a report of Douglas's ride that Gen. Jack-
Son at once appointed him on his staff. He served on the staff
during the Valley campaign, and afterwards as assistant in-
spector general, and again as assistant adjutant general.
After the death of Gen. Jackson, Douglas was major and
assistant adjutarit general and chief of staff on the staffs of
Gens. Johnston, Early, and Gordon. Toward the close of the
war, at Petersburg, he was appointed colonel of the Thirteenth
and Forty-Ninth Virginia Regiments (consolidated), and
placed in command of the brigade known as the "Light Bri-
gade," formerly commanded by Gens. Jubal A. Early and A.
P. Hill. There was no brevet rank in the Confederate army,
and the surrender took place before Maj. Douglas received his
commission as brigadier general, although it had been ordered
upon the recommendations of Gens. Lee and Breckinridge.
His brigade was placed by Gen. Gordon as the rear guard of
the army for the lirst two days of the retreat from Petersburg
to Appomattox. In this retreat he lost half of his men, and
was wounded twice. On the morning of the surrender his
brigade was at the front with the cavalry corps, and was
the last brigade of infantry to surrender. During liis time of
service he w.ts wounded six times, but only once (at Gettys-
burg) dangerously.
After the war Gen. Douglas was arrested in Shephcrdstown
for having his photograph taken in uniform, and was put in
dose confinement in the basement of a Catholic church at Mar-
tinsburg, W. Va. He was then tried by a military connnission
for treason, breach of parole, and violation of military orders.
He sought to employ his own counsel, but was refused, and he
defended bis own cave. He was ac(|uiltcd on t!ie tnst two.
but was convicted on the last charge, and sentenced to Foit
Delaware for three months. £11 route to Fort Dehware he
was taken to Washington and confined in the penitentiary with
Mrs. Surratt, charged by witnesses, together with Gen. Ed-
ward Johnson, Gov. Letcher, and others, with knowing some-
thing about the assassination of President Lincoln. The
charge was shown to be false, but Gen. Douglas was held in
confinement four weeks "as a witness." On being released
he was again arrested and sent to Fort Delaware to serve the
sentence already referred to. He was released about Septem-
ber I, 1S65. He then began the practice of law in Winchester,
Va.
He was a member of Gov. Carroll's staff at the Centennial
in 1876 ; and in 1877, when the strikes broke out, he was placed
in command of the Western Maryland forces along the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road, and with headquarters at Cumberland, and afterwards
at Sir John's Run. He was a witness in the Fitz-John Porter
case, and one of the maps returned by the court in their find-
ing is named the "H. Kyd Douglas" map, being Jackson's line
at Manassas. Col. Douglas took the First Battalion to York-
town Centennial, and was appointed by Gen. Howard to repre-
sent the South as one of the three general field officers. He
was at the head of the First Regiment, Maryland National
Guard, from its incipiency, and continued with it until he was
appointed associate judge of the Fourth Circuit by Gov. E. E.
Jackson, April 8, 1891.
In 1892 lie was appointed Adjutant General of Maryland by
Gov. Frank Brown, and continued four years in the office.
During his incumbency the great coal strike in the George's
Creek region of Maryland was ordered, and on the call for
troops to preserve order Gov. Brown ordered Gen. Douglas
to take command and support the civil authorities. His bri-
gade included the Fourth and Fifth Regiments. The move-
ment of troops to Froslburg was made with great celerity.
During his temporary service on the bench as an associate
judge. Gen. Douglas displayed every qualification for the
position. He made a great many friends by wise discrimina-
tion and courtliness of manner. But he was essentially a sol-
dier by inclination and experience in early life. Personally,
he was slim and straight as an arrow, connnanding in carriage,
a typical soldier.
Gen. Douglas delivered his lecture on the "Confederate Vol-
unteer"' in Boston about twenty years ago. A great audience
gathered to hear him and gave him an ovation. He spoke en-
tirely from the Southern standpoint, and stated distinctly that
he was not there to apologize for the South or to concede
that the position of the South was in any respect wrong.
Gen. Douglas was never married. His father was a minis-
ter of the Reformed Church, descended from the celebrated
Douglases of Scotland. His home was Feriy Hill, a fine resi-
dence in Washington County, overlooking fhe Potomac River
and Shepherdslown beyond. This place came to Gen. Douglas,
and ho owned it all his life. For the rast twenty-five years-
Gen. Douglas lived in a beautiful house on Potomac .Avenue,
Hagerstown, his half-sister. Mis. Nannie Reckcnbaugli. and
her two children living with him.
Phillips H. S. G.wle anp Mary .Armistead Gavle.
"They were lovely and pleasant in their lives.
And in their death they were not divided."
The blue curt.^in of the skies that shuts from mortal sight
the glory of the "better country" has parted to admit into
that celestial paradise two whose lives and hearts were knit
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together with the bonds of everlasting affection. For forty-
seven years and four months of happy married life they had
walked together. On the 7th of May, 1903, Mrs. Gayle passed
away, and on the 22d her husband's spirit went to meet her
in the Father's home.
They were both natives of Alabama, Mrs. Gayle being born
in Green County March -'8, 1S37, and Mr. Gayle in Cahaba,
Dallas County, April 13, 1831. Mrs. Gayle was the daughter
of Col. William and Lucy Armistead, formerly of Virginia.
She received a classical education at the select school of Mrs.
Meade, in Richmond. Mr. Phillips H. S. Gayle was the son of
Matthew and Amaranth Gayle. His parents were originally
South Carolinians, and his near kinsman, John Gayle, was the
seventh Governor of Alabama. Graduating witJi high honors
at the University of Georgia, he received the medal for ora-
tory, and prepared to enter upon the practice of law.
When the Confederate States came into existence, he at
once allied himself with its interests, and he became the pri-
vate secretary of Gen. Leroy Pope Walker, Secretary of War.
As such he sent the telegram from the capital of the Con-
federacy, commanding Gen. Beauregard to fire on Fort Sum-
ter, "the shot that rang around the world."
But his soul longed for more active service, and when the
Cabinet moved to Richmond he resigned his po.sition as sec-
retary to the Secretary of War and entered the field service of
<he Confederate army.
He declined to accept any office, but often performed duties
■of trust. Under his personal care the wife and daughter of his
commanding general were safely escorted through the lines
to their home.
At the close of the war he, like the majority of the Con-
federate soldiers, was compelled to battle with depressing
■financial circumstances, but in that patient way which char-
acterized him through life he began upon a small salary.
Among the first positions that he held was that of bookkeeper
and confidential clerk of one of the largest wholesale firms of
Montgomery. With his fine business training and sterling
•qualities, he soon became a mcinber of a leading cotton firm of
the State, and continued his successful business career with them
until his death. He was gentle, kind, and considerate to his
•employees, and was consulted with every confidence by tliose
with whom he came in contact in his business life. His word
•was his bond, and his name was the synonym of honor and
uprightness. He never injured any one by word or deed, and
tio man in Alabama possessed a wider influence for good or
liad a more enviable reputation. He was the best of husbands,
and as a father
"Quick in love, wakeful in care.
Tenacious of his trust, proof in experience,
Severe in honor, perfect in example,
Stamped with autliority.''
Phillips and Mary (Armistead) Gayle were married Jan-
uary 30, 1855. Their four children were Williain Armistead,
Joseph Phillips, Lucy Herbert, and Mary Scniple, who married
Dr. William Lamar Law.
No note of discord or disturbance ever marred his fireside.
He and his family were woven together in bonds of love, and
the home love was radiant with the influence of his ripened
Christian character.
From the early age of twenty, when at the university, his
'lovely Christian disposition began to exercise its influence
upon his fellow-students, and continued with associates to the
ilast moment of his long and useful lite. He so lived that me-.i
took notice of him "that he had been with Jesus," and now
there are many business men of Montgomery who arc trying
to imitate his Christian life and sterling qualities.
He was known throughout the State as an active Christian
layman. Although favored with a fine university education,
and living in an atmosphere of refinement and culture, yet
his heart yearned toward his brethren who were not so for-
tunately situated. He delighted at all time to be identified
as a Christian worker among the poor, and remembrance of
his gentle presence at the bedside of the sick and dying adds
luster to his worthy memory.
Among all his Christian graces he was pretjmincntly a pa-
tient man. While his sufferings were of the most intense
character, he never complained. His last words were a testi-
mony to his faith in the highest powers, but, impressive as thcv
were at that time, they confirmed the testimony of his long and
useful life, which had been one of consecrated faith and love.
Mrs. Gayle was one of the charter members of the Ladies'
Memorial Association, and also of the Sophie Bibb Chapter,
U. D. C. During the eventful years of the War between the
Slates she was unselfish in her devotion to the cause. No
call was ever made on the women of the South or of Mont-
gomery, whether for private necessities or public emergencies,
that was "not responded to by her. Clothing for the boys in the
field, and loving, generous care for the families of the absent
ones were among the constant evidences of her loving heart.
Her husband was in the front of the fray, and her two broth-
ers were Maj. Robert and Lieut. Col. Herbert Armistead, of
the Twenty-Second Regiment of .Mabama Volunteers. Both
were slain in battle — the one at Shiloh and the other at Frank-
lin. They gave generously of their means for the equipment
of that splendid body of men who were so courageously and
faithfully led by Gen. Deas.
'1 he family of Armistead are descended from a long line of
patriots and brave men. Among them was the gifted Speaker
Robinson, of Virginia, who was the first Speaker of the
House of Burgesses, the friend and compeer of George
Washington. There was also the Armistead of Fort Mc-
Henry defending the flag while Francis Scott Key was writ-
ing the "Star-Spangled Banner ;" and at Gettysburg the only
stone erected by the Federals at the crest where the tide of
battle turned, and the tide of Confederate success began to
wane, bears the name of Louis Armistead. A short while be-
fore Mrs. Gayle's death a touching incident occurred. Veteran
Cooper, of the Twenty-Second Alabama Regiment, brouglit to
her the flag of that regiment, which had first been received from
the ladies of Mobile by her brother, Maj. Robert Armistead.
When the color bearer was killed in the last action of the war.
Veteran Cooper took the flag from the faithful hand of the
dead and bore it home.
Mrs. Gayle was always actively interested in the work of
the Memorial Association, but persistently declined to accept
any oflice, though often solicited to do so. For more than a
year before her death she was the constant companion and
nurse of her invalid husband. This devotion sapped her
strength, and she became an easy prey to pneumonia, but she
bravely kept her place by his side until forced to leave in the
unselfish fear lest her cough might disturb him. Quickly the
end came, and he knew it not. Friends and loved ones passed
softly to and fro about the lovely form from which the spirit
had vanished, fearing lest a sob or sigh might tell him of his
benavcnient. It was only fifteen days before her beloved hus-
band fell on sleep and was laid beside her in "God's Acre."
Perhaps in no trait of character were they more congenial
than modesty. Honors possessed for them no charm. Home
was their chosen sphere, and yet as patriots and in the Church
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!they were prominent. Their service in the Methodist Church
was a mutual pleasure, and is a part of the history of a con-
gregation which must ever gratefully remember their quiet
help in times of need.
Mrs. Gayle's gentle womanliness and amiability found a
•counterpart in one of the kindest hearts that ever beat in
manly breast. Together they lived and loved, serving each
other, their home, their country, and their God.
A prominent trait of this noble woman was that she seemed
to possess the secret of perpetual youth. Years only added to
the grace and charm of her light and winsome manners. Al-
ways hopeful, looking on the bright side of every subject,
Iceeping abreast of the age in her reading and her Ihouglits,
she was the center of- attraction for the young people who
]vne\v her. Her piety was unostentatious. It had not the
noise of the cataract, but resembled the deep calm of the
flowing river. It was like the dew in the quiet manner in
which it performs its ministry. It falls silently and iitipercepti-
lily ; it is noiseless, no one hears it dropping ; it chooses the
•darkness of the night, while men are sleeping, and when no
man can witness its beautiful work. It covers the leaves with
■clusters of pearls : it steals into the bosom of the flowers and
leaves a new cupful of sweetness there ; in the morning there is
new life and fresh beauty everywhere — the fields are green and
the gardens more fragrant, and all nature speaks with a new
splendor. It was in this manner that this lovely couple did the
test work of their lives, and in so doing preferred that their
influence should be felt rather than seen or heard. Their best
gifts were scattered so silently and secretly that no one in
this life will ever know liy wliat hand they were dropped.
J. H. Conner.
J. H. Conner, aged fifty-seven years, died December ii,
1903, in Dallas, Tex. He had been in Dallas about two
months. The body was sent to Forney for burial. He wms
a member of the Twenty-Sixth Mississippi Regiment. He
made a gallant soldier, was jolly, good-natured in camp and
on the march, and was beloved by his comrades. He was
blessed w-ith a loving and devoted family at Forney. His repu-
tation was that of an honored and exemplary Christian gen-
tleman, true to Ills country, to his family, and to his God.
The men who wore the gray were right.
And right can never die.
We'll not forget. We'll not forget.
W. II. Coffey.
W. C. Dorion write; from Uiilivar. Tenn.:
"I notice in the Veteran inquiry about W. H. Coffey. Com-
pany B, Fourth Tennessee Infantry Regiment. He died at
Forrest City, Ark., on. October 24, 1902, aged sixty-one years.
He was born and reared in Hardeman County, Tenn., and left
Bolivar with his company (the Pillow Guards) May 15, 1861.
When the Fourth Regiuicnt was stationed at Columbus, Ky.,
Coffey was one day standing guard by an open field, in which
a regiment was being drilled. Orders were to allow no one
to pass out the lines without a written permit from Gen. .\.
S. Johnston, who had lately arrived and assumed command at
Columbus. About fifty soldiers had crowded near the guard,
looking at the drilling regiment, when Gen. Johnston rode up
with his orderly close behind. 'Halt !' Coffey commanded the
General. The order was at once obeyed. Gen. Johnston took
off his cap and, lioldnig it in one hand, said : 'Does any one
here know me?' One of the boys blurted out: 'It's Gen.
Johnston.' 'Excuse me, General ; I — I — I — beg your pardon,'
said Coffey, manifestly frightened. 'All right, my man,' was
replied. 'You have done your duty.' Then came the Rebel yell."
Dr. R. W. Mitchell.
A committee composed of J. M. Williams (Chairman), Capt.
G. B. Malone, Dr. Al Elcan, J. C. McDavitt. and S. A. Mun-
son, appointed at the November meeting of the Confederate
Historical Association, has prepared a memorial of their late
comrade, Dr. R. W. Mitchell, of Memphis, in which the fol-
lowing is recorded :
"In the historical sketches of prominent Tennesseeans i.i
the 'Confederate History' and sketch in the late Col. Keating's
'History of the Yellow Fever Epidemic in i878-"9,' Dr. Robeit
W. Mitchell is prominently mentioned. Beautiful tributes are,
paid him by the daily press of Memphis, at the time of his
demise, in which his character as a man, a citizen, a soldier,
and physician was so impressively and truthfully portrayed.
It would be a matter of supererogation on our part to do more
than indorse and emphasize the sentiments of high regard and
esteem therein expressed for our late comrade, and we here-
with refer to them for a more extended account of his life
and character, and attach, as part of our report:
"There is nothing left for your committee to do except t.")
speak of his services to the Confederacy during those eventful
years from 1S61 to 1865, and to give a brief biographical sketch
of his life.
"His record during the War between the States was no less
meritorious and noteworthy than has been his services to his
people and lo the city of Memphis during the long years
which have intervened since the close of that war and up ;o
the date of his death, which occurred on the 2d day of Novem-
ber, IQ03, al his home. No. no Adams Street. Memphis, where
he had lived for so many years, beloved and respected by all
who knew him.
"He was born in Carroll County, Tenn., on August 26, 1831,
but when quite a boy moved with his parents to Mississippi.
In 1858 he moved to Memphis and commenced the practice of
his profession (medicine) ; but the war cloud which was hov-
ering over our country soon burst forth in all its fury, and the
sound of the drum and bugle w?s heard throughout our South-
land, calling her sons to arms.
"Dr. Mitchell innnediately volunteered his services to Ten-
nessee, his native State, and was commissioned as surgeon of
the Thirltenlh Tennessee Infantry Regiment, and later, when
the One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Teimessee Regiment was
consolidated with the Thirteenth Tennessee, he held the same
position as surgeon for both regiments imtil after the battle of
Murfreesboro, when he wms promoted to brigade surgeon of
Gen Fre.Nton Smith's Brigade.
"Gen. Smith being killed at Chickamauga, Gen. .\.J. Vaughan
look cliarge of the brigade. He was wounded and permanently
disabled al Cartersville, Ga. Then our own Gen. G. W. Gordon
was put in command of this famous brigade of Tennesseeans,
and led it in all of its conflicts, to the bloody battle of Frank-
lin, right into the jaws of death. In all the skirmishes and
battles of this brigade Dr. Mitchell was at his post of duty,
ministering to the wants of the dying and wounded soldiers
and looking after their health when in camp or on the march,
and was always solicitous for their welfare, securing for them
ilie best of everything obtainable. He was by nature tender
and sympathetic in his feelings.
"Another crucial test to duty and love for his fellow-man
was dtmonstrated during the fearful yellow fever epidemic in
Memphis in 1878-79, which almost depopulated our city. He
stood faithfully at his post, visiting the sick and dying at all
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hours of the day and night. Thus we find him true as steel
in every capacity in which he was called, never shirking an
obligation or a sense of duly.
"He died as he lived, the highest type of the Southern gentle-
men, '.S'a»i.t pcur et sans rcproche;' therefore be it
"Resolved: I. That in the death of Dr. Mitchell we have
lost a gallant old comrade, a true friend, and worthy citizen.
"2. That we regret his departure from our midst and feel the
loss keenly, but humbly bow to the will of God, who 'doeth
all things well.'
"3. That we tender our sincere condolence and deepest sym-
pathies to the bereft widow and relatives of our deceased
comrade."
James Williams Mooke.
Another old veteran has laid aside the habiliments of war
and peacefully surrendered in obedience to the command of his
gre^t General and Master.
James Williams Moore, son of George Milas Moore, and
Elza Crook, grandson of Williams Crook and his wife, Sarah
Latiniore Evins, was born in Lawrence District, South Caro-
lina, November 21, 1836; and died at his home, "Wildwood,"
Marshall County, Miss., September 15, 1903, surrounded by
his family and many lifelong friends. In 1843 his parents
moved to Marshall County, and in their colonial home estab-
lished the hospitable customs of their native State. No way-
farer, however humble, was ever turned away, and when the
Confederate war called for the Southern sons, this home was
quickly converted into a place of rest for those who were
sick or wounded. There they received the most careful nurs-
ing. From this home of comfort and plenty went on May
27, 1861, two bright, promising sons — George and James
Moore. They became members of Company G, Seventeenth
Regiment, Barksdale's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia.
Gen. N. S. Feathers was captain until the reorganization, when
Gen. Seers was elected in his stead. The blood of four gen-
erations of soldiers coursed through their veins. Revolu-
tionary history is embellished with the names of Moore, Mose-
ley. Crook, Williams, Evins, John Patton, and his wife, Sarah
Caldwell Latimore who was cousin in blood and spirit to
John Caldwell Calhoun. With the spirit and inspiration of
their grandsires they went joyfully to battle for the cause of
their insulted country. The mothers' and fathers' parting
command, like the Spartans of old, was: "Shirk no duty;
if necessary, return wrapped in your blankets." George, the
pride and joy of his family, was so brought to them to fill
a young soldier's honored grave in the family lot. James re-
mained the entire time, surrendering at Appomattox. It was
said of him by an old comrade that he was loyal to every
trust, unpretentious, always cheerful, and participated in every
battle, excepting when wounded. After the conflict was over,
he returned to his home, and began life anew on the old
plantation, where he remained until death.
On December 22, 1868, he married Miss Janie McKadycii,
granddaughter of Col. Kilpatriok, of Mississippi. Five children
blessed their union. His greatest pleasure was in attending the
yearly reunions of old comrades and leading the pages of the
CoNFEUEKATE Vetekan. The aged mother's heart enshrines in
deathless love the memory of her brave boys who wore the
gray.
T. J. McGehee.
Comrade T. J. McGehee, a veteran, was buried in Cohnnbus,
Miss., November 24, 1903. Comrade W. A. Campbell wrote
of him a few years ago an account of his extraordinary ex-
perience. He was badly wounded in the leg, was left on the
field, and captured by the enemy, and carried to the hospital,
where the surgeon in charge said that they must amputate his
leg to save his life. McGehee said he did not want it done,
but the surgeon said he would not ask him, and when he at-
tempted 10 operate. McGehee, who was left-handed, hit the
surgeon with all his force and knocked him down, which so
enraged him that he jumped on McGehee and cut him badly.
After the war he made a good citizen.
Cai't. K. R. Jones.
"Capt. Kenneth Raynor Jones died at New Berne, N. C,
June 10, 1503. He enlisted in May, 1861, in Company I, Twen-
ty-Seventh Regiment, N. C. T., and served throughout the
war. He was in many of the great battles, and was wounded
four times. He was a man of high character and well beloved.
He served his country well, both as a soldier and civilian.
At the time of his death he was Commander of Camp New
Berne, No. 1162, U. C. V."
The above terse sketch is by J. J. Wolfenden, successor to
Capt. Jones .is Commander of the New Berne Camp.
Mrs. Eliza C. Rives.
Full of years and full of good deeds, Mrs. Eliza C. Rives
entered into rest December 3, 1903. Ann Eliza Johns Chapter,
Daughters of the Confederacy, having heard of the death of
the mother of our esteemed President and wife of the brave
Col. Rives, who heartily and nobly espoused the Confederate
cause and gallantly fell in the battle of Pea Ridge, and desiring
to place on record our great sorrow occasioned by the death
of this noble and patriotic woman ; therefore be it
Resolved, That in the death of Mrs. Rives this Chapter rec-
ognizes that we lose one of our best beloved and most zealous
members, and that our city loses one of its most admired and
lovable women, who, as 3 dutiful and sweet daughter, loving
sister, faithful and devoted wife, tender and affectionate moth-
er, true friend, and Christian exemplar, deserved and received
the love and admiratitm of all who were so blessed as to enjoy
her acquaintance.
Resolved, That this Chapter deplores the loss of one of those
matchless Confederate women who, during the four years of
war by their patriotism and devotion and by their privation
and sacrifice, encouraged the Southern soldiers to heroic deeds,
which could be inspired only by their cheering words and an-
gelic ministrations. We are not unmindful that since the
close of the struggle Mrs. Rives's interest in, and work for, the
comfort and welfare of the Confederate soldiers have been un-
abating and her endeavor to defend the principles for which
the South contended and to commemorate and perpetuate the
memory of those who wore the gray has been unceasing.
Resolved, That we shall ever cherish the memory of this
gentle, kind, sweet, and lovely Christian Confederate woman,
and our highest aim will be to ennilatc her many noble virtues.
Resolved, That we tender to our President, Mrs. Berryman
Green, her brothers, sister, and other relatives, our heartfelt
sympathy in their great bereavement, and commend tliem to
Him who alone can speak peace to the aching heart, for that
consolation which He alone can give.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon
our records, a copy mailed to the Confederate Veteran, and
copies sent to our President, Mrs. Berryman Green, and Mrs.
W. I. White.
Mrs. W. T. Harris, Mrs. Agnes H. Macgill. Mrs. Alice W.
Jordan, Mrs. C. W. Guerrnnt, Mrs. Harry Wooding, Com-
mittee.
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Capt, W. R. Garrett.
Capt. William Robertson Garrett was born at Williamsburg,
Va., April 12, 1839; and died in Nashville, Tenn., February
12, 1904. His father, Dr. Robert M. Garrett, and Mrs. Susan
Winder Garrett, his mother, were members of the most promi-
nent families of Virginia.
Capt. Garrett graduated with the degree of A.M. at William
and Mary College, and afterwards took a law course at the
University of Virginia. In April, 1861, he entered the Con-
federate service as a private in the Thirty-Second Regiment,
but a short time afterwards was elected captain of artillery,
with which he served through the Peninsular campaign with
such marked ability that at the expiration of the enlistment
of his company, May, 1862, he was offered several staff posi-
tions, all of which he declined to accept a commission to raise
a battalion of partisan cavalry for service in Tennessee. These
troops, with Holnian's Battalion, were consolidated and formed
the Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry, with Capt. Garrett as adju-
tant, and became a part of Dibrell's Brigade under Forrest,
until after the battle of Chickamauga, when they became a
part of Gen. Wheeler's Division under Gen. Joe Johnston.
When Hood retreated from Tennessee they again became
a part of Forrest's Command, Bell's Brigade, and surrendered
with it at Gainesville, Ala.
Soon after the war Capt. Garrett married Miss Flournoy
Batts, of Pulaski, Tcnn., and afterwards devoted his entire
time to educational matters, for which by taste and study he
was so eminently qualified, as evidenced by the many impor-
tant positions he has tilled. He was President of Giles Col-
lege, Principal of Corncrsville Academy, Superintendent of
Public Schools for Giles County, Professor of Mathematics
in the Montgomery Bell Academy, also of the University of
Nashville, Principal of the Nashville Military Academy, Slate
PROFESSOR W. R. GARRETT.
Superintendent of Public Schools, and at the time of his death
.vas Professor of American History in the Pcabody Normal
College for Teachers, and editor of the American Historical
Magazine.
Capt. Garrett always took an active interest in the U. C. V.
Association, and at the time of his death was a member cf
the Historical Committee of the Association and a trustee of
the Confederate Memorial Association.
The following tributes are from leading veterans who
knew his merits to every sentiment of honor and gratitude :
Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Columbus, Miss., Commander in Chief
U. C. v., February 15 :
"Your telegram announcing the death of my dear friend.
Col. W. R. Garrett, caught me on the road. Truly our greatest
and best are falling rapidly. Gordon just the other day; now
the modest, true-hearted, hard-working, loyal, conservative Gar-
rett has followed him. I leaned on my friend in all historical
matters, and felt what he wrote I could sign without hestita-
lion. He will be a great loss to us, for he, like yourself, was
one of the workers, and they are so few among us now."
From Gen. Clement A. Evans, Atlanta, Commander Army of
Tennessee Department, February 13 :
"Your telegram struck me as a hard blow. I know no man
whom I admired, respected, and loved more than our noble
friend Garrett. He was so true, so brave, so g ntle, so tal-
tnted, and so industriously occupied in doing for his Southern
land, his whole country, his Church, and his friends that it does
seem he ought to have lived and served many more years.
"Indeed, I have been bereaved so often of late that I cannot
stand the strain as I ought. I am lighting a hard battle against
despondency, and my daily call on the God whom I serve and
trust is for his help.
"I should like to keep my chosen friends with whom I have
.so long walked in the comradeship of mutual regard — but so
be it. God takes us one at a lime, and yet it seems now as if
his hand is gathering his own in clusters."
Gen. George Reese, Pensacola, Fla., February 16, 1904:
"Yours conveyed the sad news of the death of my friend. Col.
Garrett. I could call him friend, for I had every assurance
of this from our association together, especially on the Memo-
rial Committee. 1 was always highly impressed with his
sterling worth, his honest, straightforward bearing, and his
earnest advocacy of the cause of the Veterans. I shall miss his
support and counsel. 1 had anticipated great pleasure in meet-
ing him at Nasliville during the next reunion. How fast are
the old veterans passing away ! Soon they will all be gone. I
trust we all may be prepared to meet the summons when it
comes!"
From Col. A. G. Dickinson, of New York City:
■T regarded Col. Garrett as one of the purest men I ever
knew. 1 felt at all times perfect confidence not only in his
honesty and integrity but in his desire to do at all times what
was right and just. 1 sincerely grieve at the sad loss we all
have sustained who 'knew him but to love him.' He was a
good man and an honor to his race. Manly, dignified, and
noble, but gentle and modest as a woman."
The ancestral home of the Garretts at Williamsburg, Va., is
one of the most interesting in America. The mansion is con-
spicuously aristocratic in tone and is still well preserved. The
Post settlement there was made in 1607, the house was erected
in 1673, and has been in the Garrett family for three genera-
tions. A pleasing discussion occurred between Capt. Garrett
and Col. Dickinson, also a native of Williamsburg, of a con-
templated visit, at their last meeting with the C. M. A.
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Rev. J. T. Hakkis.
From Thurber, Tex., W. E. Saunders sends notice of the
death of Rev. J. T. Harris on the 23d of September last, after
an illness of more than two years. As a Confederate soldier,
he had made a spotless record, serving his country faithfully
and fearlessly during the first two years with Company A.
Fourteenth Texas Cavalry, and then to the end of the war
with Gano's Texas Cavalry. For valor he was promoted from
the ranks to captain, and all who served under him loved him
for his kindness and bravery. He organized the Erath-
Comanche Confederate Veteran Association some fourteen
years ago, and this has grown to be one of the strongest or-
ganizations of the kind in the State. Comrade Harris was
aid-dc-camp on ihe stafT of Gen. W. L. Cabell, and was one of
two Confederates honored with complimentary membership
in the Grand Army of the Republic, the other being Gen
James Longslreet. He was held in high esteem as a man of
brilliant intellect, strong moral character, and a friend stanch
and true.
CoL. George J. Chapman.
Following close upon his former superior officers — Gens.
Longstrcet and Gordon— Col. George J. Chapman, of St.
I.X)uis, Mo., answered the final roll call. He was born in St.
Louis, where his mother, Elizabeth Chauvin, and his grand-
father, Jacques Chapman, had been born, the latter in 1782.
Coh Chapman served four years in the Confederate army, and
was a prisoner of war at Rock Island. After the war he en-
tered the business life of St. Louis. Death came to him after
a year's illness from the efTects of wounds received in battle.
The only surviving relative is Sylvester T. Chapman, of St.
Louis.
Capt. Daniel R. McKissick.
Many hearts were saddened by the news of the death of
"Uncle" Dan McKissick at his home near Hiwassee, Benton
County, Ark. He was known and loved by almost every one
in the county, and a kindlier, truer spirit never inhabited
mortal body. In the tribute by Camp Cabell, of Bentonville.
of which he was a member, the following is given of his life :
"Daniel R. McKissick was born in Bedford County, Tenn.,
in August, 1837. He came to Benton County, Ark., when sev-
enteen years of age, and lived for sixty-eight years at the home
where he died. He was a soldier of two wars — a private in
the war with Mexico and captain in the Confederate army —
and as a soldier he was always at his post of duty among the
bravest of the brave and ever true to the principles for which
he fought. Intensely Southern in all his feelings, he never
doubted for a moment that the cause of the South was a just
and holy cause.
"Capt. McKissick was a man of remarkably strong charac-
ter— a modest, brave, just, and fearless man in every relation
of life, and no man of the county was more loved and respect-
ed than he. On the 13th of October, 1903, he was laid to rest
by the old comrades of the Confederate army who knew him
best and loved him most, and there by the side of father and
mother he awaits the resurrection morn. A loving and de-
voted wife is left to mourn his loss."
SaMI'F.1 L. RkIiARDR.
Comrade Samuel L. Richards died at his home in StalTord
County, Va., on January 13. Comrade Richards moved to
Texa§ in 18.S9, and at the beginning of the war enlisted in
"Terry's 'iexas Rangers," and made a brave and faithful sol-
dier to the close. He returned to his home in Milam Countv,
Tex., after the surrender, where he lived until a few years
since, when he moved back to his old home in Stafford County.
Frank M. Simms.
Comrade F. M. Simms, of Mobile, died at his home in that
city October 20, 1903. The Raphael Semmes Camp, U. C. V..
of which he was a member, attended in a body. Rev. G. C.
Tucker officiated. In confonnity with his request he was
buried in the Veterans' lot, Magnolia Cemetery, among his
comrades who had gone before. He was born in Covington,
Ky., July 6, 1842. Elarly in life he moved to the far South,
and in 1861 he joined the Sixth Texas Cavalry, and was held
in the latter part of the war a prisoner. The tributes by his
comrades is evidence of his faithfulness as a Confederate sol-
dier, and the tradesmen of the city took such part as indicated
his merits as an honorable business man.
He is survived by his wife, one son, James Simms, and two
stepsons, C. T. and W. G. Peterson.
Samuel L. Richards.
At Scotland, Va., at the home of his sister, Mrs. Winnie
Briggs, Samuel L. Richards passed peacefully into another
world on the t3th of January. He had been in declining
health for about a year, but not dangerously ill till a short
time before his death.
Comrade Richards left the parental roof in 1859, and located
in Texas and led an active life till the war broke out. Re-
sponding to the call of his adopted State, he served gallantly
and bravely for the entire four years as a member of Terry's
Texas Rangers. After the war he resumed his previous oc-
cupation, but returned to his native Slate about five years ago,
welcomed by friends and relatives. By his request, his Con-
federate badges and old army pistol were placed in the casket
with him, and tlius he carried to the grave evidence of devo-
tion to that cause for which he so freely offered up his young
manhood.
Capt. Washington Taylor.
After a severe stroke of apoplexy, Capt. Washington Taylor
died the following day, February 8, at his home in Norfolk,
Va. He was one of the best known residents of the city,
prominent in all circles, and universally esteemed.
Capt. Taylor was born February 22, 1848, and when but
fourteen years of age entered the Confederate army, August
3, 1862. He was appointed courier for the provost marshal
in Petersburg, where he served till 1804, when he was ap-
pointed adjutant of a battalion of local troops with the rank
of lieutenant, and served in Richmond under Maj. H. C.
Scott until paroled April 27, 1865.
After the war he entered the business life of his city, an'
in 1877 e.^tablished the wholesale firm of Washington Taylor
& Company, with which he was connected till death. He was
always prominent in business circles, having been Treasurer
of the old Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Board
of Trade and Business Men's Association. He was married
in 1879 to Miss Emily Herinan Whitehead, who, with three
children, survives him.
At the time of his death he was Quartermaster General
of the Grand Camp of Virginia Confederate Veterans, having
occupied this office continuously since it was created. He had
served as Commander of Pickett-Buchanan Camp of Norfolk,
and for many years was Chairman of the Executive Committee
of that organization, always maniiLsting gieat interest in its
welfare. He was a member of the Norfolk Light Artillery
Blues for many years, and acted as commissary of subsistence
on the staff of the Fourth Virginia Regiment, being retiree
with the rank of captain.
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CARD OF THANKS FROM MRS. GORDON.
BiscAYNE, Fla., February 13, 1904.
To the Confederate Veteran and Daughters of the Confederacy.
Mrs. Gordon has read with heartfelt appreciation the reso-
lutions passed by the Camps of Veterans and Chapters of
Daughters of the Confederacy, and she desires to thank them
most earnestly for these and all other expressions of their love
and respect for Gen. Gordon and their sympathy for herself
and family in this hour of their great sorrow. It is Mrs. Gor-
don's purpose to send separate acknowledgment to every Camp
of Veterans and Chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy
which has sent resolutions passed in regard to Gen. Gordon'.^
death, or has taken any part in the tributes paid to liim. It
has been impossible, however, for her to secure a complete or
accurate list of those who sent flowers, and in the great num-
ber of resolutions being sent it is possible that some may go
astray. She has already learned of several that have not
reached her. For this reason Mrs. Gordon desires to give ad-
ditional acknowledgment in this public way.
TRIBUTES TO GEN. GORDON.
In halls of State he lies to-day,
Our Southland's gifted son;
And mourning thousands will attest
His many victories won.
Victorious over strife and hate
He stood, the fearless one ;
And dared to lift his voice for right
'Mid throngs in Washington.
In Congress halls, in thrilling tones.
He told of Southern wrongs.
How brave he stood 'mid clash of words
Will history's page adorn!
On many hard-fought battlefields
His brilliant record shows;
From humbler rank to higher place.
How rapidly he rose !
How the dear old veterans loved their chief!
How they'll miss his words of cheer!
A brilliant statesman, hero, chief!
Our Southland mourns to-day.
In loving tribute all will join
Who wore the blue and gray.
Cordelia Ei.izAnETH Mo<ire.
niniiin^liani, Ala.
Memokial Exercises in Indian Territokv.
A large delegation of the Daughters of the Confederacy,
with Division President, Mrs. W. T. Culbertson, of Savannah,
arrived from South McAlcster and were met by the President
and nicmber.5 of Chapter No. 40 of Mc.-Mcster, and escorted
to the Methodist church, where everything was waiting. The
church was profusely decorated with United States flags and
Confederate Hags and the national flag of the Choctaw Nation.
On each side of the pulpit was hung the picture of Gen.
Gordon. As the procession entered the church. Prof. T. S.
Slaughter played the death march. Ushers conducted the Vet-
erans to the right of the pulpit, the Sons to the left, and seated
the Daughters in the center, seats having been reserved for
them.
"Let us pass over the river and rest under the shade of the
trees" was sung by the as.'^enibly.
Col. James H. Reed, Commander of Jeff Lee Camp, ex-
plained the object of the meeting.
Then followed the reporting present of the Daughters of the
different Chapters and the Camp of Sons of Veterans.
Official Orders issued by Gen. W. L. Cabel, Commanding
the Trans-Mississippi Department, and of Gen. John L. Gait,
Commanding the Indian Territory Division, commending me-
morial services were read.
Resolutions of respect to Gen. Gordon, adopted by Jeff Lee
Camp and by Stonewall Chapter. U. D. C, and Sons of Vet-
erans, were all read.
Rev. Brewer delivered an address upon the part of the Vet-
erans : Mrs. W. T. Culbertson. Division President, made an
address upon Ihc part of the Daughters; and Dr. A. S. Riddle,
of South McAlesler, delivered an address on the part of the
Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The choir then sang "America." Miss Emma Stalcup, of
South McAlesler, rendered a fine solo, accompanied by the
organ, after which the congregation sang "Nearer, My God,
to Thee," whicli closed the exercises.
Let us ever cherish with sacred memory the immortal name
of Gen. John B. Gordon, a soldier, a statesman, a patriot, a
citizen, and a friend. The wisdom of his counsel is forever
denied us, yet through the memory of his noble life we shall
ever feel that inspiration to do and dare which is right.
It was on the red and rugged hills of Virginia, where the
blood of our patriot fathers sanctified and made sacred its
soil, that he wrote his name, and not upon the pinnacle of
ambition's mount.
Though that furled flag under which he was laid away will
never be unfurled again, yet the name and fame of Gen. John
B. Gordon will live through the succeeding generations. The
life and character of this sainted hero will long be fresh in the
memory of the South. The speaker said of him personally:
"I knew him in the private walks of life. I saw him in the
quiet association of his friends, and the very atiuosphere
seemed laden with love and lender compassion. I saw him
when the political passion liad taken possession of the reason
of mankind. I watched him unsheath his glistening sword of
argument and debate and thrust it deep into the heart of
wrong and political oppression ; I saw him stand proud and
erect, but not exultant over the corpse of the political op
pressor made lifeless by the sword of his brilliant genius. I
heard him pray to the God whom he loved and whose man-
dates he acknowledged with humble submission and adoration."
Gen. Gordon Mourned in Missouri.
Gen. Elijah Gates, Major General Commanding the U. C
\'. of Missouri, states: "Citizen, soldier, statesman — he has
left his impress on the pages of history, and the world is bet-
ter that he lived."
Gen. Gates designated Sunday, Jan. 31, 1904, as a day to be
observed as memorial day by every Camp in the State ; that
they meet in their halls or in convenient churches and "liold
memorial services for our loved and lamented commander."
Camp Cundiff, No. 807, U. C. V., held a very impressive
memorial service in the Francis Street M. E. Church, South,
at St. Joseph. Gen. Gates presided.
Capt. John C. Landis, .\djutant General of the Division,
read the general order convening the meeting.
Dr. C. M. Bishop, pastor of the Church, delivered an able
and touching address on the character and life of Gen. Gor-
don. The music for the occasion was highly appropriate.
The resolutions, which were offered by Col. James W. Boyd,
Judge John H. Duncan, and Capt. Rufus H. Todd, Commander
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of the Camp, were adopted by a rising vote. They were as
follows :
"G«n. John B. Gordon was an ideal soldier, a fearless and
chivalric fighter, a great general, a true statesman and honest
man, pure in thouglu, gentle in words, kind in acts, with a
heart full of love for all mankind and an abiding faith in his
Father in heaven.
"Whether riding through the fiery furnace of war, or en-
joying the sweet repose of peace, in victory or in defeat, in
prosperity or adversity, he always followed the path of recti-
tude as he understood it with an unyielding and deathless de-
votion. No sacrifice was too great for him to make; no suf-
fering too severe for him to endure; no obstacle sufficient to
deter him when duty called.
"In the beginning, from a high sense of honor, the captain
clamored for service in the Confederate army. Soon the world
saw him win renown at Seven Pines, was thrilled with his
martial fury at Malvern Hill; was lost in admiration and
wonder at his prowess at Sharpsburg, where he held back four
intrepid lines of blue with or.e thin line of gray till his own
body was pierced with five balls, the last one striking him
squarely in his face.
"Again, when these wounds had partly healed, we see the
flash of his saber in the death revel at Chancellorsville ; we
hear his command ringing through the direful, dismal, bloody
thicket at the Wilderness. At Spottsylvania, when one of liis
men seized the bridle rein of Gen. Lee, he gave his pledge to
his great commander to make that glorious retrieve. We fol-
low him through the raging volcano at Gettysburg, and
later we see him lead the last charge of the lost Confederacy
at the conclusion of the great tragedy, which dosed at Appo-
mattox.
"Then he surrendered in good faith, sheathed his sword, and
became a grand and noble citizen of our entire country.
"No wonder they twice made him Governor of his State.
With love and devotion his people gladly sent and resent him
to the Senate of the United States.
"No honor was too great for him to deserve, nor too high
for them to confer upon him.
"He was Commander in Chief of the United Confederate
Veterans.
"The last order issued from the headquarters of that organi-
zation announces: 'He is dead.'
"The last of the rank is gone.
"The last salute of seventeen guns the Confederate soldier is
to ever hear has been fired, but the valediction it bears will
echo through the camps for a thousand years, and its rever-
berations will never die.
"Ihere are lights which the "taps' cannot put out, there are
lives whicli death cannot extinguish. The requiem may be
sung or taid, the eulogies may be ended, the tents may be
struck, the flags may droop at half-mast, the funeral parade
may be over, the muffled drums may cease to beat, the last
salute may be fired, taps may be sounded, the captains and
the camps, the ranks and the file may depart, the dust may be
consigned, the grave may be closed, the sun may go down, and
darkness shroud the earth, but —
"Gen. Gordon still lives. He can never die.
"Resolved, That with heartfelt anguish and sorrow, we de-
plore his loss to our common country.
"Resolved, That we extend congratulations to every Camp
of the United Confederate Veterans, to every Confederate sol-
dier living or dead, to the noble men and women of the South,
to the brave and kind-hearted people of the North, the East,
and the West, that such a man as John B. Gordon lived in
America.
"Resolved, That our order has sustained an irreparable loss.
"Resolved, That we tender to Mrs. Gordon, the brave and
noble woman who followed his fortunes in war and in peace,
and to the other members of his family, our deepest sympathy.
May a divine Providence keep 'watch and ward' over them,
and may the memory of his life ever be to them and us a holy
inspiration 1
"Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the records
of our Camp, and that a copy be mailed to the Confederatk
Veteran for publication, and that the resolutions be forwarded
to Mrs. Gordon and the family of our departed comrade."
Public Service at WArrensburg, Mo.
At a memorial service to Gen. Gordon at Warrensburg, Mo.,
Miss Edmonda A. Nickerson made an address, in which she
said:
"This reunited country owes a great deal to this dead sol-
dier. He was everywhere and under all circumstances the
strenuous advocate of harmony, reconciliation, and peace; and
from his high stations in political life he ever sought to heal
the antagonisms of sectional strife, to save the coming genera-
tion from a heritage of bitterness and hate, and to lead the
people all over this land to love one another again. And thus
it is that this great country, from one confine to the other,
will regret his death and do honor to his memory as one of
those illustrious men that the great God in his goodness has
sent upon the earth to lift up this republic to the highest pin-
nacle of national greatness and to do honor and glory to the
.•\merican name.
"And as for the dead warrior, statesman, and orator, the
whole world knows that it is now all well with him. His
whole career was the life of a Christian man. In the silent
communion of his lent, on the battlefield launching thunder-
bolts of war, and in the quietude of domestic life, he lived
in the continual presence of the Almighty Being and drew all
his heroic inspiration from him."
Daughters in Clinton, Mo., Pay Tribute.
The ladies of the K. K. Salmon Chapter, U. D. C, met Jan-
uary 20, igo4, at the home of Dr. John H. Britts, Clinton, Mo.,
in a memorial service to honor Gen. John B. Gordon, whose
death occurred recently.
Though the rain poured all day, there was a large at-
tendance of the members, the Confederate Veterans of the
city, and a few friends.
"America" was sung by the ladies of the Chapter, then the
roll was called, and answered by every member with quotations
or original sentences expressing their high appreciation for the
exalted services of the great hero and statesman, and testifying
to the lender love of all the people of the United States.
Then an address was given by Judge James B. Gantt, of the
Missouri Supreme Court, who served in the Virginia Army of
the Confederacy, and who participated in many of the memo-
rable battles where Gen. Gordon was one of the commanders.
His relation of incidents was very interesting and sometimes
pathetic. Judge Gantt was followed by John Temple Graves,
the great Georgia orator, who paid a most eloquent tribute to
the ladies of the South, and spoke of the rich heritage Gen.
Gordon left to the country in so pleasing a manner as to excite
the enthusiasm of all present.
In the absence of llie President and Vice President, the meet-
ing was presided over by the Secretary of the Chapter with
grace and dignity.
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The service was concluded by a song, "Tenting On the Old
Camp Ground," in which the Veterans and others joined.
G. A. R. Veterans Honor Gordon.
The O. M. Mitchel Post, of Atlanta, held a meeting in honor
of Gen. Gordon's memory, and the following resolutions
were adopted :
"Whereas the courage of conviction cherishes no resentment
in the hearts of those who are willing to imperil their lives in
the maintenance of their standard of duty ; and whereas the
sentiment, 'Enemies in war; in peace, friends,' has been con-
spicuously exemplified in the life and character of Gen. John
B. Gordon, whose broad liberality and never-failing courtesy
have made him the exemplar of all that brave men love and
the world admires; therefore be it
"Resolved, That in the death of Gen. John B. Gordon we
recognize an irreparable loss — great not only to his comrades
in arms but to his country at large. He passes from our
midst with the proud distinction of capturing, in time of
peace, the heart of every gallant soldier who opposed and de-
feated his cause in war. We each feel that we honor our-
selves in paying this tribute to his memory. Gen. Gordon's
record as a soldier reflects additional luster upon the arms of
his antagonists. He was a leading advocate of peace and good
will between those once engaged in deadly strife — in reestab-
lishing that spirit of unity and reconciliation without which
we would remain in constant peril as a nation. We feel grate-
ful to him ; we honor, love, and respect him,"
By Gordon's Bier.
In the center of the capital building the body had been
placed. Heaped on every side of the coffin a bank of flowers
was piled in profusion, sent by loving hands from many
States, while at his head there rested a floral banner of the
Confederacy, with the last battle flag worked out in roses and
violets.
On all sides of the dome above the bier the battle flags of
the Confederacy drooped at half-mast.
A gray-headed veteran leadine a curly-haired child by
the hand was among the number that passed the casket to take
a last look at his beloved commander. The child's gaze fell
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the flowers pretty?" broke in the childish voice. "But what
does it all mean, grandpa?"
A. C. Ferguson.
McElhaney Camp, of Lebanon, Va., sends resolutions on
the death of A. C. Ferguson, who was lieutenant of Company
G of the Twenty-Ninth Regiment of Virginia Infantry, and
one of its best and most valued members.
Tribute to Gordon. — "Jim Moss" Camp of U. C. V., of
Arlington, Ky., met on the i6th of January, and through a
committee appointed for the purpose, composed of W. H. Mc-
Murray, J. H. McConnell, and W. J. Gweder, paid a tribute of
love and respect to the memory of Gen. Gordon.
Veterans Are Crossing Over. — E. R. MacKethan, Com-
mander North Carolina Division, United Sons of Confederate
Veterans, writes in the Fayetteville Standard: "Since our last
issue the grim specter. Death, has again passed, noiselessly and
unseen, through the sadly depleted Gray Camp, 'making up
his detail for to-day,' and an important one it is — 'a lieutenant
general, a major general, two captains, and a private.' Surely
this tour of duty must be an important one. . . . And, as
we follow to the bank and try to look beyond, we fancy that
we see a mighty host standing at attention in silent and serried
rank, and then turning and looking back on the Gray Camp,
scattered and tattered, we see the reason for the detail for
to-day, for the bulk of the army is already massed on the
other side. They are only waiting for the rear guard to join
them, when, forever united, they will pitch their tents 'under
the shade of the trees' that are beside 'the pure river of the
water of life.' And here there be other 'American' hosts and
other 'American' heroes, and hosts and heroes of all nations,
for the watchword is 'Peace' and the water of the river is
'pure and clear as crystal' and 'the leaves of the tree for the
healing of the nations.' "
A NOTABLE BOOK*
'1 he motto of this book might well be : "Strike, but hear."
The author did not conceal from himself or his readers the
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startle some of its readers, displease some, and convince some.
Every citizen who wishes to get a clear and full understanding
of this vital question will do well to read it. He who fails to
do so will himself be the loser — so we think and make free
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DIXIE.
BY JOSEPH M. BROWN, MARIETTA, GA.
Comrades, hear the war drum rattle,
Trumpets, too, call to the battle.
Ho, awake ! Ho, awake !
Ho, awake, Dixieland!
The voice of Justice cries: "I need you!"
Honor shouts : "Southrons, I'll lead
you !"
Ho, awake ! Ho, awake I
Ho, awake. Dixieland !
Chorus.
I'm glad I live in Dixie,
Ho, awake ! Ho, awake !
In Dixie's land I'll take my stand
To live or die in Dixie.
I will live, I will live,
I will live for God and Dixie.
Hark, the words of proud Oppression,
"Sunny land, Glory's possession."
Ho, awake ! Ho, awake I
Ho, awake, Dixieland !
"Thy white cotton fields, I crave them,
Thy mounts rich with gold, I'll have
them."
Ho, awake ! Ho, awake !
Ho, awake, Dixieland !
Right, which God withholds from no
man ;
Purity, jewel of woman.
Ho, awake ! Ho, awake !
Ho, awake. Dixieland !
Clasp ye hands before the altar,
Swear that ye will never falter.
Ho, awake ! Ho, awake !
Ho, awake, Dixieland !
Rouse, ye sons of might and duty ;
Wake, ye daughters, types of beauty.
Ho, awake I Ho, awake I
Ho, awake. Dixieland I
Strike, ye brave, like bolts of thunder !
Fair ones work till foes shall wonder I
Ho, awake ! Ho, awake !
Ho, awake. Dixieland!
Hark, the shouts of triumph ringing!
Hark, the pa;ans fair ones singing!
Ho, awake ! Ho, awake !
Ho, awake, Dixieland !
"God of justice, thou hast blessed us!
God in holy love e'er rest us!"
Ho, awake ! Ho, awake !
Ho, awake, Dixieland !
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"HEROES AND SPIES OF THE
CIVIL WAR."
The above is the title of a delightful
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Maj. Humphreys was a member of the
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THE YOUNG HERO.
BY HELEN HAMLETT, ALVIN, TEX
"Father, I'll go!" Our country's call
Had summoned the brave to fight.
"You are too young ! You arc my all !
My son, can this be right ?"
Ever, till now, had youthful choice
Yielded to parent's nod ;
To his brave heart his country's voice
Is as the voice of God.
It is his country's hour of need!
Heartbreak, handclasp, good-bye !
He rides away on gallant steed
To tight — perhaps to die.
Mother and sister, sad your lot.
It was his country's call.
His lonely grave is a hallowed spot.
Your tears forever fall.
Our best and bravest, went they forth
To nobly do their part.
We prize them for the priceless worth
Of each heroic heart !
Buried beneath the soil they loved,
Or toiling, struggling on;
Heroes who have their valor provcil.
Our hearts' applause have won
Dr. R. R. McGregor, of Covington,
Tenn., wants to know if Miss Eliza Ha-
ley, of 1864, is still alive. She was a
sister of tlic Haley in the firm of Hill
& Haley, of Memphis, Tenn., cotton mer-
chants of that time. The Doctor says
that if she never changed her name some
man lost a fortune, as she proved her
worth to the poor Confederate soldiers.
Capt. D. Eldredge, Historian Third
N. H. Volunteers, No. 36 Bromfield
Street, Boston, Mass., wishes to corre-
spond with some survivor of "the fifty"
officers who were sent to Hilton Head,
1864, to be placed under fire, but were
not. He also says: "The records dis-
close the fact that among the burials
of the dead at Gettysburg was a female
soldier — Confederate. There should be
a story connected with the case." Who
can write it up?
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"On the Parallels; or, A Story of the
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the Twenty-Fourth New Jersey Volun-
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who died and suffered from the effects
of the Civil War." It is well written,
free from all prejudice, and gives the
daily routine life of a private in camp,
on the march, and in battle so faithfully
as to be interesting to every old soldier,
Confederate or Federal. There is not
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be, for which the author, however, is ex-
cusable, as his first experience with us
was at Fredericksburg with his command
in the assaulting column on Maryc's
Heights, and his next and last was at
Chancellorsville, on Hooker's right,
where Stonewall Jackson struck — times
and circumstances not altogether as
cheerful for him as they might have
been.
•■THE DELirERANCE," BY ELLEN
GLASGOW.
In her latest book Miss Glasgow has
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present generation. The novel is of
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regiment Joshua McCants enlisted. He
was in a Texas regiment of cavalry, and
thinks he was first lieutenant and after-
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In the sketch of Comrade J. J. Mai
lard, given in the January number of
I he Veteran, a mistake was made in
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(To be sung to air of " Bonrie Blue l-'lii?.")
O yes, we all are Southern men,
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LIFE AND LETTERS OF ROBERT
LEWIS DABNEY.D.D.
"The Life and Letters of Robert Lewis
Dabney," by Thomas Gary Johnson, re-
cently published by the Presbyterian
Committee of Publication, Richmond,
Va., is one of those rare books which are
interesting not only to the general read-
er but to the special student. As pastor,
educator, philosopher, and soldier, Dr.
Dabney touched life at all points.
The book is largely autobiographical.
for Dabney was a great letter writer of
the old school, and it is this personal
element which gives tone and color to the
narrative. He was always a serious stu-
dent, but he had a fine sense of humor
and told an anecdote well. His letters
to his mother and brothers, and later to
his wife, often sparkle with fun and good
stories.
The life of the South as shown in his
own home and in the letters of his more
mature age is simple and charming. H'
painted with fidelity the hardships and
disadvantages as well as the pleasures
and attractions of the planter's life, and
throws real light on the social, political,
and industrial organizatinn of the South
and on the homes, employments, culture,
and religion of the people. Students of
our ante-bellum civilization and the his-
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a society which disappeared with the
Great War will find the book invaluable.
The fine account of the structure and
functions of the old Virginia Gourt, the
pictures of eminent jurists and states-
men, will be of great interest to lawyers;
while his personal reminiscences of
Stonewall Jackson, whose distinguished
chief of staff he was, his narrative of
camp life, and his understanding of Jack-
son's campaigns will delight all old Con-
federate veterans. Taken all in all, few
books have been produced in recent years
of greater interest and value to all classes
of readers. See advertisement in this
number.
FROM MANASSAS TO APPOMAT-
TOX.
DY GEN. JAMES LUNGSTREET.
A few copies of Gen. Longstreet's
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Contains 32 illustrations and 16 maps.
648 pages. Bound in cloth the price is
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LIFE OF FORREST.
BY PR. JOHN ALLAN WYETH.
The phenomenal career of Gen. For-
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The book is illustrated by pictures of the
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A THDIG WORTH KNOWING.
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BY R. R. HANCOCK.
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LIFE OF JACKSON.
BY COL. G. R. F. HENDERSON.
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career of Stonewall Jackson. The book
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Price, $4; with a year's subscription to
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TJVO WARS.
BY GEN. S. G. FRENCH.
This autobiography of Gen. French
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REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL
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Jv<l\\l. SHOW l>,\NSIFS-"ver mil colors.
SW I.I r l'i;\!* Ov, rill. 1,01, e varieties.
,1 I I;-,. .,1 ,-,.i ll Mlllet>'. niv uook.
"Horill < iiltvire."aril iiij IStnannunl
catalocne, lUinitier au.l lueltier tliiin
i",: sent for ONLY 8 C'KNTS ami I lie
names ami iiililres^es of t».> (lower lovin?
fn.-ii(ls. Voii ".iTii lorirel il vou «rile Ml".
ffllSSI. II. l.irriMun, ^linii.ni.t>IU., Minn.
8
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HEROES AND SPIES OF THE CIVIL WAR
Sj' Capi. "Daxfi'd Htimphreys,
of J^torfolK.'V^a.
TKe Neaie PublisKing Co.,
Washington. D. C, and New York.
"Price, ^1.50, pojipaid.
VENI, VIDI, VIC 1 1
Duva.rs Eureka, cures Dyspepsia, only.
Duv&I's Never- Fakil, & positive cure for
Dropsy.
Duv&l's Infallible Pile Cure.
Duvctl's Herb Cure for Hen\orrK&,ge.
F. M. DUVAL, 919 Curley St., Baltimore. Md.
To^ST. LOUIS
"WORLDS FAIR ROUTE"
N.C.iSt.LRv-III.Cent.R.R.
Kansas City to Texas on above dates,
with liberal stop-over privileges.
The Frisco System lias four trains
daily from St. Louis and Kansas City
I'nion Stations to the Southwest.
138
Qof^federate l/eterai>.
Confederate
Lapel Buttons.
Solid Cold - 90c. each
Rolled Cold Plate - 45c. each
Cold Plated - 25c. each
Wrile (or C<.iiiplflc Trlcff I.ist No. 17 of C""-
federate Eml>U-ms ami I-'lugs.
S. N. MEYER,
1231 Pa. Ave., N. W.. Washington, D. C.
I PAY SPOT CASH FOR
1ILITARY
BOUNTY
Land Warrants
Issued to soldiers of aiiT war. Also Soldiers' Ad-
ditional I lomesteaJ Rights. Write me at once.
PRANK H. REGER, Earth Block, Denver, Col.
BEST
PASSENGER SERVICE
IN TEXAS.
4-1 M PORTA NT GATEWAYS-4
T/P
TEXASH rjJ I^PACIFIC.
iRAILWAYJ
NO TROUBLETO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
BALTIMORE PLUCK.
It gives us pleasure to say that al-
though the Home Fertilizer Chemical
Works was burned out in the recent
great Baltimore fire, that company is now
rehabilitated and intends to continue
business. This concern is one of our ad-
vertisers, and wishes us to state that they
are in position to handle business as
promptly as ever. They beg that their
friends will not withdraw orders from
them on the fear that they will not be
able to make prompt shipment. The
Home Fertilizer Chemical Works is the
manufacturer of the celebrated "Home
Fertilizer," "Cerealite Top Dressing,"
and "Yancey's Formula for Yellow Leaf
Tobacco." They are also large import-
ers and dealers in agricultural chemicals.
OLD MAGAZINES FOR SALE.
"The Land We Love," from April,
1868, to March, 1869. Twelve numbers.
"The Southern Magazine," from Jan-
uary. 1871, to December, 1875. Sixty
numbers.
"The Southern Bivouac," September,
1883, to April, 1885, old scries, and from
June, 1885, to May, 1887, new series.
Forty-five numbers.
"Nineteenth Century," Charleston, S.
C, from June, 1867, to December, 1870.
Nineteen numbers.
"New Eclectic," froin A\n\\, 1S69, to
December, 1870. Twenty-one numbers.
They are all unbound, but in good or-
der. .\ddress Nicholas Cuny, Esq., 814
•S Peter St., New Orleans, La.
E. P.TURNER,
Qenx Pass'R and Ticket Aoent.
DALLAS. TEXA»
THE WEST POINT ROUTE
Allaiua unJ West Point Railroad,
The Western Railway of Alabama.
Transcontinental Lines
Fast Mail Route
Operating the fastest scheduled train
in the South. To
TEXAS. MEXICO, CALIFORNIA
and all Soulliwcs-u-ni ]>oiiUs.
Superb dining cars; through Pullman
and tourist sleeping cars. For special
rates, schedules, and all information, ad-
.•\ftcr the passage of many years, it has
become the great desire of A. D. Burk,
of Richmond, Mo., who was a private in
the Ninth Iowa Infantry, to return to
Maj. John J. Wheeden, or some mem-
ber of his family, a fine watch which he
look from the Major when captured by
the Federals. Thinks he was major of a
.Mississippi regiment. Maj. Wheeden
was much attached to the watch, whic'
had been presented to him; but Mr. Biirk
resisted his entreaties for its return then,
but now wishes it to become again the
property of its rightful owner.
Ill sending a new subscription with
his renewal, Capt. John Kennedy, of
Selma, Miss., writes: "After my loved
ones at home, there is nothing nearer or
dearer to my heart than the success of
the Veteran and the uplifting and hon-
oring of the Confederate veterans and
the cause for which they fought. Yes,
a thousand times, long live the Veteran' !
And I wish to assure you that my littl-i
mite will always be forthcoming."
drees
J. B. Heyward, D. P. A.
Atlanta, 6a.
VITIGIJ^IA
AJVT)
EASTERN CITIES
BEST REACHED
VIA BRISTOL AND THE
Norfolk & Western
HAILWA^.
Solid vestllmlea train Memphis »nd
Clmttanoopii to Washington. DC.
SlDepur SKMliphis to WR-shington, Bal-
timnre Pliiladelphia, and New Yorlf.
Alw. one Ironi Now Orleans to aamj
polnta This train runs via Brlntol and
Lynchbuig Thn Short Line.
T>ining Car ^er-vice.
Sleeper Knoxville to New York, le»v-
inc at 2:86 a.m., open for paasensrerB
after '.l:ll<IPM. Runs via Brlsti)!. Hak-eri-
town and Harrishuri;, The Shenandoah
Valley Koute. LTnsiirpassed for beauti-
ful scenery. , „ , , , ■
All inforuintion i-heerfully furnished.
D. C. BOYKIN,
Passenger Agent, Knoxvllle. Tenn.
WARREN L. ROHR.,
Western Pass. Agt.. Chattanooga. Tenn.
W. B. BEVILL,
General Passenger Agent, Roanoke, Va.
iE(iDrl5AAeiti0MR50f!;Ef£MER
30REE'^
Qopfederat^ l/eterar?.
CURED
Tho majority of
all cuet-a i>f Spinal
DiBL-as.B nint Dr-
forniitive ran I'u
ruri-d, Yim muy
doulit tins sditp'
till'
niciit and ^
pcrii-nco
treat iiii-ii' of n
Bpinal nmMlioii
innv JiiKtitv till-
diMilil. Wiito for
our book, it will
coat you iiodiing
and will t«-II ynu
what rasfs cnn lie
cured, nlso wlint
wo linvo dnnr for
tiiMiilri'Hs tit t(tHir
ted pi'opli' diiriiiK
tho thirty ynrB
wo havH hi'iMi
1 iiKBRcit in lliis
THE
L.C. McLAIN
OrthtprriicSanilarlum.
3 100 Pine SI.
ST. LOUIS. MO.
THE BEST PLACB
TO PURCHASE
ALL-WOOL
Bunting or
Silk Flags
.if All Kln.ls,
Silk Banners, Swords. Belts, Caps,
and all kinds of M litnrv Kqnipment
and Society Goods is at
Veteran J. A. JOEL & CO.,
I Nassau Street, New York City
SF.Nll I'OIt l>UtCE LIST.
Hiiiiaiii Cancer iospitai,
RICHMOND. VA.
•Ve Cure Cancers, Tumors, and Chronic
Sores without the use of the knife.
; tOaDaySure;
'^ ^^ fiirtu«h i\,r work nn.l l*arh ?■
Send ntyoiir KddrsM
ii'l we Will ahow you
K'w tofn&ke t.lftdnf
l'*olul<'l) fure: «•
il l«arh Jmu free, ynu work In
ynii Ine. Si-iiil ua jour ftil<lre<a and *• will
» Tiilly.romnnihd:
.*!'>.!.".•"■''■»''•"'"*•'* »"'- WritrMonr„
Bol |030> Urtroll, Ulrb.
I'iaVr/A'" ''"''"•" '»lly,rom«mhf r we guaracUe a r Ir.r profl»
, Mlor even- day » Work »l'»(il"*-'- ••
in*t Man! >*( TUtiso CO.,
WHO ARE YOU?
Stippose the train >ou are on collides ■with
another, or the biiildiny;- you are in burns,
or you nicft with some otln-r serious :»c-
cid'ent; would ihey know who tou are? Our
Badge — iiuli-structihle — is the only sure
and safe tneans of identitication. l*articu -
larlv applicable to ■women and children.
Badjre and siT\ ice complete for 25c., good
for one year. S.nd 25c. for a badg-e and
serv'ice to^daj; tc-morrow mayte too late. Bank
references.
COMMERCIAL INDEMNITY CO., Depf. V. Wainwright Building, ST.LOUIS
JACKSONVfLLE
via Valdosta. Route, from \'aldosta via Georgia
bonthem ..nd I'lorida Kv., from Maccn
via Central of Georgia Ry., from
ATLANTA
via Western and AtLintic R. R.> from
CHATTANOOGA
NASHVILLE
ashv...e, Chattanooga, and St. 1-
arriving- at
ST. LOUIS
"Tiitthc Nashv,..e, Chattanooga, and St. Ixiuls R7.
arriving- at
CH/C>AGO
over the Illinois Centr.i! R. R. from Martia* Tenxi
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE AND
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
MAINTAIN'KD OVKR THIS
SCENIC LINE,
Ticket apents of Ihe Jackson\ ille-St. Louis an6
Chicago line, and ay;ents of connecting line? Id
Floricui and the Southeast, vill cive you full In
formation as to schedules otltiij (louble daily serv
Ice to St. I-ouis, Chicago, and the Northwest, and
of train time of lines connecting. They wlU alsc
sell you tickets and advise } ou as to rates.
F. D. MILLKR, - • Atlanta, Ga*
Traveling Passer.ger Agent I. C. R. R.
WM. SMrrU, JR.. XAsn\au^ Tmrn..
Commercial Agent.
TAPE-WORIYI
rn TfC. N.. t^Ftma: niiinnd Siu<} iVRldmp for 44- pa IP Uo\.}t
|>K-.M NkV SMI lH.>peeial int. MK) Olive St.. ^tIA>uli, Ma
ExpellrdallTt
in tk) iiiiiiiitCR
witn bend, or
BIG 8
Chain of 8 Colleger owned bybusinesa
nien and indorsed by business men.
Fourteen Cashiers of Banks are on
our Board of Directors. Our diploma means
something. Enter any time. Positions secured.
i Draughon's
J Practical...
J Busltiess...
(Incorporated, Capital &t.>ck SiOii.OiiO.OO.)
NashvMIe, Tenn. U Atlanta, Ga.
Ft. Worth. Texas, c Montgomery, Ala.
St Louis, Mo , Galveston, Texas.
Little Rock, Ark. A Shrcveport, La.
For 150 p:i|je catalog-ue address either place.
If yoa prefer, tiiay pay tuition out of salary af-
ter coarse Is complctod. Gtiarantce erraduates
to hpi cntiipptent or uo charges for tuition.
HOME STUDY: Bookkrepinp, Shorthand,
Pctmianship, etc., tauirlit bv iti.Til. Write for
1(X) page BOOKLET ou Uomc Study. Ifs free
MISSO\/KI
TACIFIC
... OR. ...
IRON MOUNTAIN
ROUTE
From rr. Lovj.y
and MEMPHI^y
Affords Tourist, Prospector,
or Home Seeker the Best
Service. Fastest Schedule
to All Points in
MISSOURI, KANSAS, NEBRASKA,
OKLAHOMA and INDIAN TERRI^
TORY, COLORADO, UTAH, ORE'
GON, CALIFORNIA, ARKANSAS,
TEXAS, LOUISIANA, OLD and
NEW MEXICO, and ARIZONA,
Pullman Sleepers, Free Rk-
CLiN'iNG CiiAiR Cars on All
Trains. Low Rates, Free De-
scriptive Literature. Consult
Ticket AgentSt or address
H. C. Townsend
G.P.andT.A.
St. Loirxs, Mo.
R. T. G. Matthews
T. P. A.
Louisville, Kv.
140
Qopfederate L^eterai).
"Son^s of the Confederacy and
Plantation Melodies."
Conlatntnt; l<y ?»MUl(i«rn M^iigs, woriis and music
Price, 50 crnts. Best coUrciidn for use In schools,
Camps, and Chaplt-rs. Circulars and Infortnalloo
free. Agents wanted. Bi;; commission. Address
Mrs. Albert M!tchr!l. Paris. Ky.
ARE YOU COMING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR?
HE MANSION
Iloinu n sotiihern lady nnd thrroforc thnrouiihl;r
nri)uiitnt(Nl mth tin" cii*>l«>iiis iitul littvpitaniy nl the
huuthrrn hnnic 1 will lhn.iw upi'ti my Maii*'ii>M lor
thuuettmitHliition of vKlllnii fniullli^M to Iho \V<<rld's
Kiilr (May to NovcrulHT, I'.H* '. wliere thi*y wtll be
u^v'.l^tsl of nice, giitfi.rh'nn itnd homrllkt*' ;)i-< t<ino>
dti'ioifi. wht'if v.siL.rs ran f<M-l ut h<iiiii> duriiii: tliclr
^tay hcrt*. liivU>:.d til tlit» U|>i(wir. tntlsc and liitniotl
lilw;i>*. to he onciMintlTi^l III h<'lfN. I Will rlianrc*
fnMii :0c. to II «t |HT tlay ri)r ^ll-e|llnK a|iarlun'nt>
anil -K'.cnch f<.r uhmIn > If di'Mn-d.)
I ( you (Mi'it-niitia!*' rominu w iiio me a r»<'^lal cart!
;«i «nrr Ml 1 ran i»n>|iuri> tt> n'vcrvo »|>artiiH>iii> ttir
I fur t hu tinie y«>u will lie hire. 111. il 1 will nlM>
r.infe to nift'I ymi nl the df].«'l iind brlnji >ou
r Ik' III oviT III nr > Mati'-ion on VMiir airi\ al.
Addriss IMMKIHATKI.Y fur full rHrtlriilrrti,
— St. Louls, M^ ■ -
Find a
Cheap
home
In the Southwest. All
that's needcil is a few hun-
dred dollars, with a willing-
ness to Work.
Southeast Missouri,
Arkansas, Louisiana, and
Te.xas are full of opportu-
nities— the climate is mild,
the soil is rich, the lands
arc cheap.
Half-rate excursions
March 1 and 15, April :^
and 19, via the Cotton Ikk.
Write for descriptive lit-
erature, maps, and cost of
tickets.
E. W. LaBEAUME, G. P. & T. A.,
Cotton Belt, St. Louis, Mo.
'^mm\)mmmmyim
•^♦♦♦.♦.♦.♦.♦**.**.«****.«***.«****************.****.t*.*.-***w*«»
*
I Dr. DeWitt's THE LIFE SAVERS
of tlie t'nited States I.ifc-Siivtn>f SUitUnis rescue many slortii-
stricken souls and save many lives; Itut their work is insii^nili-
cant as coinjiared with the
Lives Saved, tin- Health Renewed,
:iTi.l ih." nin-d"wn Systems Rein vlijorated '^y
Dr, DeWitt's Liver, Blood, and Kidney Cure.
'Ihe \z^f.i\ work is acconijilished l*v eiiricliinir tl>e l>lood and
<-.-l.il>lisliiny sound dijreslion, the tvvo"ke\s to lon;j life and vU;
iirons liealth. It is nature's quick relief and sure cure for
ilri^ht's Disease. Diabetes, Jaimdice, Malari.i, Intlammatinn of
the Bladder, Pains under the Shoulders, I.umba^ro, Hheuina-
lism, DvsiH'psia, Indigestion, l*ains in the Hack, Muscular
\\ . akne'ss. Side Ache, Imnurilv of tlie Blood, I'nhealthv Com-
plexion, Liver Disease, l-emalc Comnlainls, Kidney Disease,
:'iT()fula, Xasal and Intestinal Catarrh, and the nuinerous ail-
nuntsand diseases caused by Impure Blood.
Price, $t per Bottle
I
Liver, Blood,
Aisn
Kidney Cure
FOR
t Ricii Blood,
A r .\i.i. itKi I
r;isrs AMI I>i:AI.KItS
The W. J. PARKER CO., Manufacturers,
7 South Howard St., BALTIMORE, MD.
More than that — land is tlie source of all wealth. Tlie ratio of
population to acreage is the slidhig scale upon which opportu-
nity is g.iugcd, success determined. Cut the number o£ land-
holders in any State in tlie Union in two, and what is the re-
sult? It is bimple arithmetic — opportunities doubled in that
Stale. Wliat if three-fourths the population be eliminated?
Opportunities quailrujiled, and so on. Tliat's the condition ' >
the great Southwest, Arkan.sas, Indian Territory, and Ol
honia. This vast territory i; supporting less than one-four,
the population of its capacity. Fertile — a land where wheal
and cotton thrive side by side — where two yearly vegetable
crops are demonstrated possibilities — the gieiitest fruit section
in the country; but that's only halt the stor^-. The low ratio
(if population to acreage makes land cheap^that's the main
point. There's room for success in the great Southwest. Il-
lustrated literature sent on request.
RocKlsland
System
^^
ONE FARE
Plus 2 Dollars
For tt\e R-our»d Trip
First and TKlrd
Tuesdays of each
Month
GEO. H. LEE, G. P. A.
Little Rock, Ark.
J. N. CORNATZAR, G. A. P. D.
Memphis, Tenn.
Confederate l/eterar?,
141
Richmond,
Fredericksburg, &
Potomac R. R.
AND
Wastiington
Soutfiern Railway.
THE RICHMOND-WASHINGTON LINE.
Tlu' Link C'.iniu'Ctiny IIh>
ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. R.,
BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R.,
CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RY,
' PENNSYLVANIA R. R.,
' ^ SEABOARD AIR LINE R'Y.
and SOUTHERN RAILWAY
Itctwreh All Points \h\ Richmond, V;i.
Fast Mail, Passenger, Express, and Freight Route
Between
Rictimond, Washington. Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York. Boston, Pittsburg,
Buffalo, and All Points North, South,
East, and West.
W. D. DUKE, C. W. GULP,
General fVlanager. Assistant General Manager.
W. P. TAYLOR, Traffic IVIanager.
Atlantic Coast Line
WHY NOT TAKE A TRIP
THIS WINTER THROUGH
Florida
and CtibCL
9
This beautiful State and island have
been brought within easy reach by the
splendid through-train service of the
Atlantic Coast Line, the great thor-
oughfare to the tropics.
Winter Tourist Tickets
now on sale to all points in
FLORIDAandHAVANA.
For rates, schedules, maps, sleeping
car and steamship accommodations ap-
ply to
W. J. CRAIG, General Paiaen^ar A^enl.
WILMINGTON, N. C.
NORTH TEXAS
^ POINTS ^
.VIA
MM,
Santa Fe
% w
TO
GaLlvestoix, and Points
South, East, and
West. ^ ^ Eq\i ip-
meivt, Service, and Cui-
sine unsurpatssed. ^
W. S. KEENAN, G. P. A.,
Galveston, Tex.
When writing to juivertisers mention V'ktekan.
THROUGH SERV C£
VIA
L. & N.. E. & T. H. and C. & E. I.
2Vestibuled Through Trains Daily /^
NASHVILLE TO CHICAGO ^
THROUGH SLEEPERS a~d DAY COACHES
NEW ORLEANS TO CHICAGO
DINING CARS SERVING ALL MEALS EN ROUTE
D. H. HILLMAN, 0. P A.. S. L ROGERS, Oen. Aft.
FViNSVIlLE, >NP. NASHVILLE. TENN.
Southern
Railway
7,314 Miles. One Management.
IViu-lnitlnj; ten Southern Stales. He.iehiiii;
Principal Cilics of the .South with
Its Own Lines.
Solid Vestibuled Trains.
Unexcelled Equipment.
FaLst Schedules.
DiJviJVG eatts
iire operate. I on Southern K.aihvav
Irains.
OBSE/fVaTIOA' GTIRS
on ^^^ashintrto^ ami SoulhwestL rii
\'estilnileil Limited, and W'asluiiirlon
3iul C!laUanoo;,'a Liiiiiled ^ ia I.mhIi-
luirg.
ELEGTiXT PULLMTIX
SLEEPING GTIRS
of the latest pattern on all through traiiis.
S. H. HARDWICK,
I General I'ass. A^t., Washin;;ton, ]). C.
C. A. BENSCOTER,
Assl. Ceu'l Pass. Agt., Chattanooga, Tenu.
J. E. SHIPLEY,
1 raveling Pass. Agt., Chattanooga, Tenn.
y
142
Confederate l/eterai>.
EDUCATE FOR PROFIT.
NELSON'S I* iiHlot>iMl i.v l.-.-iMiii;: husineB
lioiiF-rbui lUti MMMIl■Wc^l. l>uiii)»: 1903 uc hft<
SSfi rfi u for eienofrutpliei-c. bookk<'e|>tM-8, eic
Greni many of our >>tiitli>iit« :iro from nihor busi
iii-fe^ c<tll»-(res tlnoufflioui llie coiintiy. Kvery-
ihinjr ii|*-t4>->1:iLt-. 'IVachei-* ftifl cxV<^ri*. No
Guarantee Humbufc. ^tixl fiM Iri'r culaloffue.
\ELSO\'S BUSiJVESS COLLEGE,
TOO Elm Street, Cincinnati, O.
PATENTS.
MATTHEWS ®. CO..
SOLICITORS OF PATENTS.
Bond Building. WasKlngton. D. C.
VatiTils .-iiul Tr.ule-M:irks scriirtd in tlie United
Stati-s Hiid I'orriifn Comiirii-s. Pamphlet ol In-
«lruclioiis furnislii'd frt-c on application.
WANTED
RAW
FUR
Ilitrti*'" t c:tph pr ifOB
'^ paid for 111) kirHlf< niw
fur pUiiiti. Wrili' for
I'ncH- Lisl.
AdilrchS,
(i^ GEORGE D. BECKER,
f.-^ I-l KKIKK.
IO!t Itiire »*tr<-ft,
ll.\< I.N.N ATI, «.
Great
Texas!
The Eyes of
the World Are
Upon Her.
The Home Seeker
Wants to know about her
"Matchless" Climate and her
Chi-.ip Lands.
The Investor
Wants to know not only about
her Cheap Land and Low
Taxes, but, as well, Her
Wealth of Mine and Forest,
and this is to let you know that
The International &
Great Northern,
Texas' Greatest Railroad,
Traverses more than a thousand
miles of the Cream of Texas' Re-
sources, latent and developed, ami
that you may learn more about thi.
GREAT l.'sc G. N. COUNTRY'
by sending a 2-cent stamp for u
copy of the ILLL'STRATOR
AND GENERAL NARRATOR,
or 25 cents for a year's file of same,
or by writing
D. J. PRICK,
G. P. .& T. A.., 1. «* G. IN. R. R.,
F>a!!estine, Xex.
CikTARRH=ASTHMA
ipiipaa™-^:.'::.. ,
rhrimt. l^uii^K, Itcuf-
. rATVKitii n
( LTKKIl While Vol)
SI,Kl.r. Ilaid ( ri-..
pri.-(rrr<-d. 60dnyp l-*r«'i'
A'\Vt>ndi-iful Jnti'aliiiii,
^I'oiniiK'ii Si-nf^o Ap|>llcA-
..tti'ii; AninxlnfT Ki'>ullR.
Irn-\|MMi!-lvc rienMtnt,
^, ,PiivHt«,Ki»ff, Certain.
I .^^t4■ll|<■hln^ CurcK of
'^A^t limit and LuiifCK.
It<»(»k witlianipk'pioof
_'nii(l vuluiittU' Infui-ma- I
tion Free. Cnt thin out,
it mny rint appear OQfiin.
13111 TftD Run-n SI. . (UK AW
BE YOVH: uWj^ Jhi^jtA'TEH
Hoilid rrintin:; I'revK will onrii
itu\ save ujoiv numi'y for y*:u
than aiiv other inVostmont.
<)v<t4:i.ui(IsoM. Thrc' World's
^ Kair Prizes. Print-* Imin card
^ to smnll newsimiHir. Presses
Irom $'t to $1«0. Aiitoniutlc
jiress for jirintinj; visit iu^eards.
Send lor catakij.'Vie F.
MODEL PRINTING PRESS. 708 Chestnut St., Ptiiladelptila.
Rife Hydraulic £i\^ii\e.
Pumps wnter by water power.
Can be used where hydraulic rams
fail. Absr)iute air feed.
^^ ^ Will pump thirty feet
hi^'li for each foot of
fall.
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NASHVILLE, TENN., APRIL. 1904.
jT^ 4 .1 S. A. CUNNINGHAM,
i v?. t. , Proprietor.
NASHVILLE PREPARES FOR THE REUNION.
The Veteran, being the authorized voice of Confederate or-
ganizations, avoids extravagance of expression, and in its life
of eleven years and more it has treated Nashville with less
consideration than any other city. The extraordinary circum-
stances causing the great reunion of 1904 to be entertained
here, how'ever, make it fitting and just to give her people due
credit for vvfhat they are now doing in behalf of coming guests.
While all the Confederates, their Sons, and the Daughters
are doing their part with the enthusiasm which has ever char-
acterized them, the business people and tlie public, regardless
of former affiliations, are united in heart and hand to honor
the men who wore the gray forty years ago. The spirit th;it
immortalized William McKinlcy above any of his fellow-Presi-
dents of the United States, when he said in Georgia, "I feel
that the time has come when we should share with you [mean-
ing the South] in caring for the graves of the Confederate
dead," seems to be that of everybody in Nashville, and all the
people are of one mind to do honor to these coming guests.
They are not ambitious for display or filling their coffers, but
to make the men who suffered as never did such an army of
patriots, for so many years, realize as fully as possible that
such sacrifice is appreciated and worthy of all kindness and
all honor. What is said of Nashville in this respect may be
emphasized for Middle Tennessee. Many counties are doing
far more than was expected of them. They intend to prove
worthy the expression of the lamented John B. Gordon. When
informed that Nashville had invited the reunion, he wrote:
"I am glad to know that Nashville has consented to receive
lis again next year. . . . We ought to bring tlie expense
within the ability of a larger part of our cities, so they might
feel inclined to take care of us." His successor, Gen. Stephen
D. Lcc, at the last reunion urged less extravagance in enter-
taining, and Nashville, in conformity with that spirit, will not
spend money so lavishly upon decorative printing to advertise
the city for business purposes, and maybe not so much for
sponsors and side issues, but every Confederate Veteran who
comes will find as royal greeting and service as were ever
given to conquerors of human hearts, and the greeting in
Nashville will exceed that which would be given them if they
liad established the Confederacy.
How Comrades Can Get Together.
Whether these reunions are to be continued several years or
not nobody can tell, but a plan is proposed that can be made to
give more satisfaction than ever occurred before. It is one for
which comrades have fervently prayed and gone home to die
without the realization. It is the project of the editor of the
Veteran, and it is his greatest ambition to see it accom-
plished. Every Veteran who has attended a reunion — however
much joy and comfort he may have had- — has gone home in
deep sorrow over the failure to see some comrades who were
to him as brothers. This disappointment and sorrow may be
practically avoided, and the plan is announced this early so
that every comrade may contribute to its success.
The outline is as follows : By the best line of travel in Nash-
ville is the great Vanderbilt University, with more than sev-
enty acres of shaded lawn matted with blue grass. It is
suburban, inclosed, and as delightfully situated as if made for
the jjurpose. The plan is to have a gathering, of Veterans only,
on the campus of this university at four o'clock of Wednesday,
the isth of June. Places for the different State Divisions to
form will be designated by signs, alphabetically arranged, and
upon arrival comrades are to go to the place of State from
which they served and wait until the membership of each State
is perfected. It is possible for any Veteran who may be in
Nashville to find his old companions by this plan.
Gen. W. E. Mickle, the Adjutant General, has been informed
of the project and cordially approves it, having named the
hour of four o'clock on Wednesday, the 15th, the business
session of that day being concluded about two o'clock. It is
intended to designate in these grounds by clear signs the dif-
ferent States, and upon arrival Veterans are to go to the
place of Stales designated from which they served and appear
in three lines, the cavalry in front, next the infantry, and then
the artillery. 'The men are to face the west, so that the first
regiment will be to the right. The States will be designated
in alphabetical order, with a place for miscellaneous com-
mands. The Commanders, or the different Adjutant Generals,
of these States in the U. C. V. should be present to give direc-
tions until these organizations of States are perfected.
TV? Chancellor of the Vanderbilt University, Dr. James H.
Kirkland. has been apprised of this plan and gives cordial
assent to our use of the campus. Ncj visitors arc to be admit-
ted to the grounds except Confederate Veterans.
After the greetings, which comrades kuo7U will be the best
that ever can happen in this world, addresses may be ex-
changed and family associations can follow where members
of families are in the city.
Comrades, with years of anxious watching and study, this
plan exceeds all others, and your approval is asked. Write
this oflSce that you will cooperate and that nothing but sick--
ncss will prevent your being in line with your comrades.
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HOME FOR COS FEDERATE liOMEX OF TEXAS.
Since its struggle for independence the South has always
kept in mind and heart those who so freely and bravely gave
their best in its behalf, and every State of the Confederacy has
made provision in some way for its battle-scarred heroes, and
the many monuments that have been, and are still being,
erected all over the South testify to the love and admiration
for its defenders. But a grave oversight has been made in
passing over the work done by the noble women who sacri-
ficed and toiled for their husbands, sons, and brothers. There
are homes for the indigent soldiers with good records, but
many are not willing to leave their wives in order to be thus
taken care of. One poor old fellow said : "I would not give
up my wife for a thousand homes."
It is gratifying to know that this need has been recognized
and that the Daughters of the Confederacy of Texas have iii-
augurated a movement to provide for the needy wives and
widows of Confederate soldiers. The following extracts
from an article by Mrs. M. A. Zumwalt, of the Houston
Daughters of the Confederacy, explain the undertaking, which
is in cooperation with the Veterans and Sons of Veterans of
Texas. At the late convention of the Texas Division, U. D.
C, an urgent appeal was made by Maj. Chenoweth, superin-
tendent of the Confederate Home, and W. P. Lane, Com-
mander of the Sons, in behalf of a Home for the Mothers of
the Confederacy, to which the Daughters responded nobly
Mrs. Zumwalt says:
"Our organization has made no provision for the indigent
and helpless wives and widows of our worthy and noble
heroes, but we have worl..*d unceasingly, putting our best en-
ergies in force in the building of homes for our maimed and
indigent soldiers and providing all the comforts possible so
that their last days may be made comfortable. . . . Our
attention has been called by our old soldiers to the needs of
a home for the mothers of the Confederacy, those dear old
souls who were left at home with the care, support, and pro-
tection of the families, in many instances toiling all day in
the field trying to make bread for those dependent on them
and at night working until past the midnight hour carding,
spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, trying not only to clothe
th? children, but to send a blanket, a pair of pants or socks
to the loved ones in the war and with the frenzied fear that
at any moment they might hear that their heart's idol had
fallen. For the four long years the wonit-n of the South faced
worse than death.
"i am proud that our veterar" have a home and a place of
comfort where they can spend their declining days. Many
veterans who are entitled to go would rather suffer for
the real necessaries of life than forsake their true and faithful
old wives, whose, limbs are too feeble and whose hands are too
tired to any longer fight life's battles, but have no place pro-
vided to rest their weary heads.
"While the attention of the people of Texas has never been
called to this fact before, I feel that it is only necessary to
do this. I am sure that our prosperous State, with the smiles
of heaven beaming on every nook and corner, w^ith her in-
numerable advantages and the ever-increasing productions of
our broad hand, w'ill provide a home for helpless wives and
widows of the soldiers of 1861 to 1865. Trusting ourselves to
the generous-hearted, patriotic people of our State, we ask
your assistance in this work. We are not asking for a palatial
home, but we do want a good, comfortable building, one com-
mensurate to our needs. And for this pur|>ose our efficient
State President, U. D. C, Miss Katie Daffan, has appointed
committees from the different Chapters throughout the State."
While the foregoing indicates that the State should tiiake
this provision, Mrs. Zumwalt indicates that it is not their pur-
pose to wait for State appropriation, and locally she states:
"The committee for Houston is composed of the following
ladies: Mrs. Seabrook Sydnor, Mrs. 1. M. E. Blandin, Mrs.
M. A. Zumwalt, and Miss Laura Hobby, and we arc arranging
for a merchants' carnival to take place sometime in April.
We ask conmiittecs of ladies of the city to see the different
business firms and solicit representation, and we hope no one
will refuse to allow us to advertise them, as the cost will be
a mere trifle and the results to them very beneficial.
"Houston was heavily taxed to entertain our State Con-
vention, U. D. C. After paying all expenses, the two Chapters
had each $61.40 left, one Chapter appropriating its share to
assist in furnishing the library in the Confederate Home in
Austin, and the other Chapter to the Home we now have in
view, placing our Chapter under lasting gratitude.
"As Chairman of the South Texas District, I have sent out
through her instructions circulars to the different Chapters in
the district requesting them to take immediate action 10 raise
what money they can this year, so that we can have a Home
as soon as possible for these old mothers; the work has al-
ready been too long delayed."
NEIV COMMANDER OF THE GEORGIA DHISION.
Maj. Gen. Peter Alexander Selkirk McGlashan, successor
to Gen. C. A. Evans, Georgia Division, U. C. V., was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 19, 1830, the son of James Mc-
Glashan, a Waterloo veteran and, afterwards, merchant in
CEN. r. .\. S. M CLASH AN.
Edinburgh, the grandson of Peter McGlashan, last chief of
the clan of that name. He emigrated through Savannah, Ga.,
in 184S to the West, and in 1856 joined his fortunes with
Gen. Walker in Nicaragua. After the failure of the Walker
expedition, he returned to the United States and engaged if.
business in Thomasville, Ga.
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At the outbreak of the War between the States he joined the
Twenty-Ninth Georgia Regiment, in service on the coast ; aft-
erwards the Fiftieth Georgia Regiment, and was elected first
lieutenant of Company E. He went to Virginia in June, 1862,
and participated in all the campaigns of the Army of Northern
Virginia until April 5, 1865, meanwhile rising in rank from
first lieutenant to brigadier general, his commission as briga-
dier general being the last signed by President Davis before
the fall of Richmond. He was wounded in the battles of
Sharpsburg and Cedar Creek, was captured at Sailor's Creek
and sent to prison at Johnson's Island. He was in the capitol
prison, Washington, the night that President Lincoln was
assassinated. He was released from prison August 25, 1865,
and reentered business in Thoniasville, Ga., of which city he
was elected Mayor in 1866. He was elected captain of the
Thomasville Guards in 1874. He moved to Savannah in 1885.
He is now President of the Savannah Confederate Veterans'
Association, formed in 1887, known as Camp 756, U. C. V.
His wife was Annie Willis Seixas, a great-grandniecc of Gen.
Nathaniel Greene.
THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG.
M a meeting of the Executive Committee. U. C. V., in
Louisville. Ky., last November, dififercnces of opinion in re-
gard to the shape and design of the Confederate battle flag
were discussed, and a resolution was adopted that a com-
mittee of five be selected to ascertain all acceptable data re-
garding the origin, shape, and design of this flag, and prepare
a resolution to be submitted for consideration to the U. C. V.
Association at ihe next annual convention, which will be held
in Nashville June 14-16. This committee was also directed to
ascertain the laws of the Confederate Congress relating to the
battle flags and the flags adopted on March 4, 1861, May I,
1863, and March 4, 1865.
The committee is composed of Dr. Sanniel E. Lewis, Wash-
ington, D. C, Chairman; Col. Fred L. Robertson, Tallahassee,
Fla. ; Gen. J. F. Shipp, Chattanooga, Tenn. ; Col. J. Taylor
Ellyson, Richmond, Va. ; Gen. A. C. Trippe, Baltimore, Md.
In giving his oflicial approval to the action of the Executive
Committee, Gen. Gordon had instructed them to secure all
possible information as to the State, naval, and other flags car-
ried by regiments or companies, or flown at sea or on the
coast during the War between the States. This committee de-
sires all information possible on these matters to be submitted
to the Convention U. C. V., and any one having information
pertaining to the subject is requested to forward the same to
Dr. S. E. Lewis, 1418 Fourteenth Street, Washington, D. C.
Tlir cnjrageinent of Miss tiltiel Tillman Heard, the charming Sponsor of the
South at New Orleans, iw.i. to Dr. S. M. HeLiiffre, of Fort Asslniiiboine.
Mont., has been announced. The marriage will take place at high noon on
Ihe olh of April .at the First Presbyterian Church, Columbus, Ga. After ;i
luncheon for the wedding party at the home, the bride and groom will leave
for their Western home via St. Louis. Hosts of friends of this popular couple
join with the Vkti-.ran in hearty congratxilations.
THE TROUSDALE HOME FOR CONFEDERATES.
On SepteiTiber 20, 1903, a handsome Confederate monument
was unveiled at Gallatin, Tenn. It is a superb structure to
cost but $2,000. The inspiration to this great undertaking by
the comparatively small Chapter, V. D. C, came through the
munilicent donation of Mrs. Julius A. Trousdale. It was the
ancestral home of the Trousdale family.
The Trousdale house was built on part of the land that was
granted to Capt. James Trousdale by the State of North Caro-
lina, the original grant of which, dated 4th day of December.
1784, is still in possession of the Trousdale family. James
'i rousdale was a captain in the Revolutionary War, and set-
tled on this land in 1796. In l8ot the Legislature of Ten-
nessee appointed commissioners to locate and purchase a site
for the county seat of Suinner County. They selected Capt.
Trousdale's farm, a town was laid off, and one of the lots was
bought by John H. Bowen, a distinguished lawyer, who built
a large brick house, which was not entirely completed at his
death, in 1S22. Gov. William Trousdale, a son of Capt. James
Trousdale, bought the house soon after the death of Mr.
Bowen. Gov, Trousdale died in this house in 1872. His
widow continued to live on the place until her death, in 1882;
then J. A. Trousdale came into possession. He was a son of
Gov. Trousdale, and was born in this house. In 1880 he mar-
ried Miss Annie Berry, of Davidson County. Five children
were born to them, all dying in infancy except one daughter,
Mary, who completed her education in New York and re-
turned to her home in June, 1899, and died in this house in
August, 1899. Her father, who was much attached to her,
followed in a few weeks, dying in September. By his will he
gave his property to his wife, Mrs. Annie B. Trousdale, and
in a short time after his death she gave the house and
grounds to a corporation chartered for the purpose of per-
petuating the history of the Confederate States and the Con-
federate soldier. This corporation is under control of Clark
Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy. The grounds had
been in possession of the Trousdale family (except the short
time of Mr. Bowen's ownership) from 1784 to 1900.
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Gallatin, Tenn., exceeds even any city of the South in its
Confederate possessions excepting Richmond, Va. The R. E.
Lee Camp of Richmond owns a superb building, which prop-
eny was acquired mainly through the bold business methods
of the late Norman V. Randolph and a few others who made
a large investment for the Confederate cause, guaranteed the
safety of it, and gave all the profits to the Home and the
cause. The Vetekan feels safe in the statement that this is
the most valuable Confederate domicile, at least, in the country.
AOBRESS BY THE lIoN. J. W. BlACKMORE.
The speed) of James W. Blackniore accepting the monu-
ment on bclialf of the Confederate Veterans of Sumner County,
Tenn., on September 19, 1903, concerning the Home and the
people of his county at the dedication of the monument, is as
follows :
"The events of this day naturally recall to the minds of
those present who participated in or witnessed the stirring
times of 1861, the scenes and events of that period when,
fnrty-two years ago, the men of the South, at the call to arms,
loft the plow in the furrow, the youth their schoolbooks on the
desk, and all turned from the ordinary pursuits of peace to
learn the art of war and to devote their lives and their services
to their country's cause ; when, full of vigorous life and
thrilled with high resolves, they took into their custody the
flag of the Confederate States, intrusted to them by the delicate
hands and cheering words of fair daughters and Spartan moth-
ers, amidst tears for their departure and benedictions accom-
panied by the presentation of the Bible as the word of their
counsel, and marched away to be assigned to their places in
the armies of the infant Confederacy. Three thousand sons
of Sumner County went thus to war — sons whose sires and
grandsires had sounded the first note of defiance to the wrong-
ful exactions of the mother country in the Mecklenbcrg declara-
tion, served in the War of the Revolution, fought with Sevier
and Shelby at King's Mountain, builded with Robertson and
Sevier the commonwealth of the Slate, subdued the forest, and
laid the foundations of highest civilization, who under Andrew
Jackson won the second war of American Independence and
brought hostile savages of the South into subjection, who un-
der Scott and Taylor planted the flag of their country on the
jialace of the Montczumas and added an empire of agricultural
and mineral wealth to the domain of their government.
Whether these were worthy sons of such patriotic sires, let
the ensanguined fields of the South, from Seven Pines to
Appomattox in the East, and from Fishing Creek to Benton-
ville in the South, attest. We call to-day upon the battle-
scathed fields of Fishing Creek, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chicka-
mauga, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Gettysburg, Brice's
Cross Roads, and Harrisburg to answer how they bore them-
selves upon those historic fields, with what fealty they clung
to the flag intrusted to their keeping, and with what valor they
defended the sacred cause of their altars and their firesides.
"Whether as cavalry, acting 'as the eyes and ears of the
army' under "the war child' Wheeler, or in the dashing charge
under the lead of the invincible 'Wizard of the Saddle,' Forrest,
or scouting or raiding under tliat paragon of iiartisans, John
]1, Morgan, or as infantry under the leadership of the immortal
l,ce along the Chickahominy and in the Wilderness, and with
the gallant and patriotic Bragg by 'the river of death,' and the
beloved 'old Joe' Johnston from Dalton to Atlanta, the sons
of Sumner oflfcred their lives and poured out their blood in
attestation of their faith in the justice of their cause. During
four years of exposure to hardship and deadly strife at arms.
with privations unsurpassed even in warfare, they were actor«
in battles and events which will ever be accorded prominence
on the gilded pages of history. The soldiers of the Confed-
eracy, after waging an unequal contest for four years, were at
last vanquished by overwhelming numbers and superior advan-
tages of those they fought.
" 'He perished, but his wreath was won ;
He perished in his height of fame.
Then sank the cloud on Southland's sun.
Vet still she conquered in his name.
Filled with his soul she could not die;
Her conquest was posterity.'
"Returning to his desolate home to repair his lost fortunes,
the Confederate soldier had again to struggle with poverty,
with adverse political policies and altered conditions which
threatened to subvert the social fabric and desecrate the ark
which contained the covenant of racial superiorty. For an-
other decade he withstood with political integrity and fidelity
to his high ideals of citizenship the determined efforts of a
vigilant and dominant political faction to fasten on him political
disgrace and ignominy.
"But the soldier of the South could never have won the dis-
tinction he has attained in the world's history if he had not
been encouraged and cheered in the times of conflict, in peace
and war, by the noble women of the South. They held up his
hands while in the armies of the Confederacy he smote the
.■\malek on the plain and in the valley. The faith of the women
of the South was unfaltering in the direst trials and darkest •
hours. If the soldiers withstood the shock of battle in the
front of the foe, it was because they knew that loving hearts
were sympathizing with them and praying for them at home,
and that angelic hands would minister to them when wasted by
disease or suffering from wounds ; and in the privations and
sacrifices made necessary by losses and devastation of war the
tidelity and devotion of Southern women shone as beacon
lights amid the surrounding gloom. The woman of the South
and the soldier of the Confederacy seemed to have been made
for each other. She had the utmost confidence in his man-
hood and valor, and the soldier loved her with the devotion
that one pays to the soul's ideal of purity and womanliness.
No war can be fierce enough, no disaster can be so great as
to divorce the Southern soldier from his love of Southern
woman or the Southern woman from her devotion to the
Southern soldier and his cause. True to the cause he espoused,
and to her faith in the integrity of his honor, she has with
jealous eyes guarded the utterances of the Muse of History,
and has, with a fine heroism, maintained the justice of the
cause for which father and husband fought, and out of her
sentiments of regard for its righteousness has wrought the
beautiful symbol of the Goddess of Fame crowning the van-
quished with the victor's wreath. Pygmalion could not have
been more enamored of his Galatea than tlie daughter of the
South is wedded to her ideal soldier, which finds embodiment
in the soldier of the Southern Confederacy.
" 'When bronze and granite shaft shall crumbling lie
In ages hence, in the Southern woman's heart will be
A folded flag, a brilliant page unrolled,
A deathless song of Southern chivalry.'
"This spirit is manifest here to-day, and this monument
erected by Clark Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy
is eloquent, in granite and bronze and in symmetrical beauty,
of the honor and esteem in which the Daughters of Sumner
County hold the deeds and sacrifices made by Sumner's sons
in maintaining and defending the cause of the South in the
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War between the States and aiding in winning from disaster
and defeat thaJ; highest of encomiums upon the government for
which they fought —
" 'No nation ever rose so white and fair,
None fell so pure of crime.'
"This spotless fame, won by the Confederate States during
its brief but brilliant career, is cherished by every true Con-
federate soldier, and held as dear as life. It is due to those
who sacrificed their lives on the gory fields of the South, or
languished and died from disease, in the field, or in inhos-
pitable Northern prisons in defense of the rights and honor of
their home land, that this reputation and characterization of
the shrine for which they fell shall be cherished and preserved.
Many of the sons of Sumner who gave their lives for the
Southern cause sleep to-day where they fell, with no mark
but the high tide of the battle wave, and no monument but
the affections of their people, to tell where they lie.
" 'With shouts and cheers they marched away
On glory's shining track :
But ah ! how long, how long they stay !
How few of them came back !'
"Many, after surviving the rigors and dangers of four years'
deadly strife, and aiding valorously in rebuilding the fortunes
of the South, and as exemplary citizens maintaining the dignity
and honor of their sections, in times of peace, have passed over
the river and into the beyond. The survivors of that war
are to-day the aged citizens of the country. While they look
back on the ensanguined fields of the past, they now begin to
realize that ere long tliere will be none of them left to gather
about the camp fires or answer to the roll call here. They
turn their eyes with unfaltering trust to the hills beyond the
present, and feel that the safe-keeping of their records and o(
those who have gone before is in good hands. If those who
have heretofore passed out of this existence are permitted to
look again upon the scenes of their mortal probation, how in-
terested must the departed spirits of Confederate soldiers of
Sumner County be in the ceremonies and in the events of this
day! It must be delightful, even to immortals, to know that
they 'live in hearts they leave behind.' and what greater exulta-
tion could be afforded the soldier spirit than to know that after
the lapse of years, through many vicissitudes and changing
scenes, his memory is yet sacred, and the sacrifices he made for
his country are not forgotiten. The Muse of History opens
again to-day for another generation the records of the past.
and jiames dear to us in bygone days are bright and teeming
with fondest recollections. As in the past, Clark Chapter,
Daughters of the Confederacy, has been active and zealous in
preserving the historj' of the Confederate soldiers of Sumner
County and rearin.g memorials to their honor, so, it is believed,
they will in th'C future continue to labor for the truth of the
history of the South, and in honoring those who made that
history,
"In the name of Sumner's sons whose spirits went out in
the red tide of battle, or succumbed to the ravages of disease
in distant States, and those who since the war have crossed
over the river and now rest beneath the shade of the trees,
and those who yet survive and are permitted to see and enjoy
the beautiful scene presented to their visions to-day. I thank
Clark Chapter. Daughters of the Confederacy, for this beau-
tiful memorial to the dead and loving tribute to the living."
Presenting the Monument
The following is the presentation address of Mrs. Bennett
D. Bel! at the unveiling of the monument :
"As President of Clark Chapter. Daughters of the Confed-
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eracy, it becomes my pleasing duty on their behalf to offer to
you to-day the realization of a patriotic dream of this small
but loyal and devoted band of Daughters — descendants of
as brave, courageous, and patriotic men as ever claimed a
page in the history of the world.
"It has been our cherished purpose to build a monument to
our Confederate soldiers in some degree befitting their glorious
deeds, and to-day marks the fruition of our hopes.
"Tennesseeans have ever been brave and patriotic. The
beautiful valleys, the picturesque mountains, the plains and
meadows, the hills and forests, the sparkling waters, the sunny
skies, the soil and climate of our beloved Tennessee have ever
produced and been the home of soldiers, heroes, and patriots.
"Before the while man had crossed the Atlantic and planted
foot on the shores of America, the lordly red men roamed the
toundless forests of Tennessee and made their homes on her
fertile soil. The fierce Chickamaugas, the most daring and
dangerous of all American Indians, and the brave Cherokees
dwelt in the mountains and valleys of East Tennessee, and the
warlike Chickasaws built their wigwams on the Western bor-
der of our State and floated their bark canoes on the bosom of
the great Father of Waters. Middle Tennessee, then, as now.
favored of all lands, was claimed by all these tribes as their
beloved hunting ground, and these savage natives of our State
loved their country, and ere it was surrendered to the white
man every foot of it was made historic by the commingling of
the blood of these patriotic red men with that of our own hardy
ancestors, who, grown tired of oppression, had flung down the
gauntlet to Great Britain at the battle of the .\lamance, and.
having lost in this first encounter with the mother country, had
crossed the mountains in search of liberty and freedom.
"In 1780 Sevier and Shelby, with five hundred fearless
frontiersmen, every one a soldier and hero, leaving their homes
on the beautiful Watauga, went to the rescue of their com-
mon country, then in peril from red men and Briton, and at
King's Mountain, the greatest combat of the war of the Revo-
lution, by personal valor and matchless leadership, destroyed
the British army under the gallant Ferguson, and turned the
tide of battle that resulted in the surrender of Cornwallis at
Yorktown and made every American a freeman.
"What Tennesseean is not proud to feel that Texas owes her
independence and subsequent statehood to Tennessee and Ten-
nesseeans? What Tennesseean does not recall with sadness,
though with patriotic pride, the tragedy of the Alamo, where
brave Tennesseeans poured out their lifeblood as a sacrifice
to freedom?
"Crockett, Bowie. Travis, and Houston are names as familiar
and sacred to Tennesseeans as to Texans.
"In 1846, when the President of the United States, a gallant
Tennesseean. issued his proclamation declaring war against
Mexico, and the Governor of Tennessee called for 2.800 volun-
teers, thirty thousand of her heroes answered the call of thci-
country to go to the torrid and inhospitable plains of Mexico
and earned for Tennessee the proud title of the 'Volunteer
State.
"Some of tliesc gallant volunteers— God bless them — are with
us to-day ; fast growing old but still with the hearts and cour-
age of soldiers.
" 'We are not many, we wlvo pres% d
Beside the brave who fell that day,
But who of us has not confessed
He'd rather share their warrior rest
Than not have been at Monterey?'
"These heroes distinguished themselves at Monterey, Bucna
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Vista, Cerro Gordo, and ai the City of Mexico, where they
led the charge upon the castle of Chapultepec.
"In this memorable war that added an empire to our domain,
and planted our flag in the Hall of the Montezumas. Sumner
Count> not only led in the number of her volunteers, but dis-
tinguished herself in the heroism of her soldiers upon these
battlefields and gave to our country such leaders as Bate,
Blackmore, Trousdale, and others.
"But when we come to 18O1-65 — that period wliich tried the
hearts of men as they were never tried before — we bow our
heads in reverence and awe. Such devotion, such unselfish-
ness, such patience, such endurance, such courage and bravery,
such loyalty and patriotism have not a parallel in the history of
the world.
"It is this. Confederate soldiers, that we, after the smoke of
battle has long since disappeared and impartial history has been
forced to recognize your claims to greatness, and the peaceful
hand of time is fast thinning your ranks — it is this, I repeat,
that we, Daughters of the Confederacy, come to commemorate
and in this testimonial 01 bronze and marble to perpetuate.
"In the War between the States Tennessee was one great
battle ground, four hundred and eight L_llles and skirmishes
haying been fought upon her soil. Freely she gave of the flower
and chivalry of her manhood, 115,000 of her sons giving theiti-
self a willing sacrifice to their country, and the ashes of her
sacred dead sleep on every battlefield from Gettysburg to the
Rio Grande and in the inhospitable soil of every prison cem-
etery of the North.
"To recount all the deeds of heroism of the soldiers of the
Volunteer State and to name all her heroes would be impossi-
ble. Her leaders were distinguished for their matchless valor
and her rank and file for their dauntless courage and unwav-
ering and unfaltering fidelity to duty. In every great battle
fought in this greatest of wars at Manassas, Shiloh, Chancel-
lorsville, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, Franklin, Richmond, Mur-
freesboro, Xashville, and many others, the Tennessee soldiers
with Tennessee leaders were first in the assault, in the chargi-,
■wherever duty called, fighting, bleeding, dying for their
country.
"At Appomatto.N, when the immortal Lee sheathed the sword
and furled the flag, battle-scarred, weary, and sad, with ranks
decimated by death on the field of battle, in the hospital and in
prison, they answered to the 'last roll call,' and were ready to
continue the unequal contest at the command of their great
chieftain, or to return to build up their ruined and desolated
homes.
"Confederate soldiers, having all these things in our hearts
and the living and the dead in sacred remembrance, to build
this monument has been a labor of love. This modest shaft
but poorly represents all the love that is in our hearts for you ;
it but faintly pictures the honor that we would do you. Marble
and bronze cannot express the admiration, the reverence that
we feel, but we have molded in imperishable bronze and placed
upon this shaft the figure of a Confederate soldier, to us the
type of bravery, of honor, of valor, of patriotism. We hav-
chiseled upon this granite the inscription:
'There is no nobler spot of ground than where exalted
valor lies.'
We have carved upon it the battle flag under which so many
times they marci.ed to victory and which at last went down in
defeat, but never in dishonor. We have carved upon it the
dates 1861-65, the four years that witnessed more great battles,
more deeds of heroism, than any four years of the world's
history. We have carved upon it a wreath of ivy, emblem of
the Daughters of the Confederacy of Tennessee, and which
signific?. "In perpetual remembrance,' our Stale motto.
"Oa behalf of Clark Chapter. Daughters of the Confederacy,
I now present to you this monument, a poor expression of the
hope we have long cherished to erect in enduring stone a me-
morial to our Confederate soldiers. No shaft could be tall
enough to measure the love we bear them, no sculptor's cUisel
has grace to carve into expression the reverent admiration we
have for them, but their monuments are built upon a thou-
sand battlefields, and their deeds will live forever on the pages
of history and in the hearts of the Southern people.
"With our love, with our tears, we dedicate forever this hal-
lowed spot to the memory of the Confederate soldiers.
" "How many a glorious name for us.
How many a story of fame for us.
They left ; would it not be a blame for us
If their memories part.
From our land and heart.
And a wrong to them, and shame for us?
No. no. no. They were brave for us.
And bright were the lives they gave for us,
The land they struggled to save for us
Will not forget
Its warriors yet,
Who sleep in many a grave for us.
But their memories e'er shall remain for us.
And their names, bright names without stain for us,
riic glory they won shall not wane for us ;
In legend and lay.
Our heroes in gray
Shall forever live over again for us.' "
Senator Capmack's Speech.
Senator Carmack, the orator of the day, was introduced by
Judge George E. Seay, and said:
"Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : I am always pleased
when I have an oi)porlunity to meet tlie fair daughters and
the stalwart sons of my native county, Sumner ; but I am
doubly pleased to meet you on an occasion at once so solemn
and so inspiring as this; so full of sorrowful memories of the
past, and yet of hope and inspiration for the future. If we
cannot think without sorrow of the noble dead whom we here
commemorate, neither can we recall their glorious deeds with-
out a thrill of pride and a renewal of hope for a country whose
womb is so fruitful of heroic sons.
"I am glad to meet you here on this sacred spot, which one
of the noblest of our Southern women has dedicated in love
and tears to the memory of the Confederate soldier. And so
long as this monument shall stand, and even after its frag-
ments have iningled with the dust at its base, her name will
be loved and honored, linked with that of one who belonged
to 'the kniglitlicst of a knightly race;' whose sweet and un-
sullied life in lime of peace was in vivid contrast with the rec-
ord of his valor in time of war; for I believe that Tennessee
lost one of the noblest and most stainless of her chivalry when
the gentle and heroic spirit of Julius A. Trousdale passed over
10 the other side of the river to rest in the shade of the trees.
"I rejoice that I, as one of those whose cradles were rocked
in the storm nf war, a)n p^iiritted to testify for a new genera-
lion our fidelity to the memory of our hero dead, our love and
admiration for those, broken with time as with wounds, who
will soon have gone to join their loved companions on the far-
ther shore. In the course of nature they will ere long have
passed into the shadow of that solemn and inevitable hour.
I trust that no one of them will go to the grave broken-hearted
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by the ingratitude of his countrymen, his dying hour embit-
tered by the thought tliat his wounds and suflferings are for-
gotten. This monument, let me say, is raised not simply to tell
the world of the valor and fortitude of the Confederate soldier- -
they have builded for themselves a monument more lasting
than brass and higher than the regal summit of the pyramids,
a monument broad based on the universal admiration of man-
kind, and which will tower to heaven wlien the stateliest
memorials of princes shall be trampled into formless and un-
liallowed dust. No, my friends, this monument is not to per-
]ietuate their glory. Its chief purpose is to proclaim that you,
my countrymen, arc proud to honor their deeds and to claim
them as the noblest heritage of yourselves and your children
forever. If you shall ever cease to do so, this monument to
their glory will be a monument to your shame.
"I know that no such dishonor v/ill ever brand the laureled
brow of tliis proud and historic old county — a county which
gave three thousand of htr best and bravest to tlic cause of
the South; whose valor was tried and tested in the blaze and
thunder of the greatest war that ever shook the earth, who
stood witli the suffering South through four stormy years on
the red edge of liatlle, until every field was drenched and every
river ran red with tlie blood of her sons. .-Xnd sufTcr me here
to pay my lunnble tribute to one of the many hero sons of
Sumner County, one whose name will be ever glorious in the
records of fame, who, tliank God ! is still spared to be the
shepherd of Iiis people, a sliining example of civic virtue as of
martial valor. Full of years, full of fame, and full of honors,
he will bear with him to the grave the blessings of his country
and a record without the spot of an unworthy or an unknightly
deed. Until Sumner County become? ashamed of an integrity
sK.NAroK ]•;. W. (.AKM.\l.K.
that knows no weakness and a valor that knows no fear, it
will exult in the name and fame of William B. Bate.
"No, ladies and gentlemen, never, never, never will the time
come wdien there will be a son or a daughter born of the
blood of Sumner County whose eye will not dim with tears or
kindle with fire for the deeds and sufferings of their sires.
"Happy is that land, my countrymen, that is filled with the
memorials of great deeds and glorious sufferings, whether they
be of triumphs nobly won or of inevitable disasters proudly
and heroically borne. It needs not that these memorials be
wrought in arch and column and temple of victory. The land
may be black with ruin, it may be strewn with the ashes of
desolation and billowed with the graves of its dead ; but it will
be and remain a land of legend, a land of song, a land of hal-
lowed and heroic memories. If the hearts of the people be not
lamed to .servitude ; if they accept the inevitable in no craven
temjier, nor lick the dust in abject servility at the victor's
foot ; if they face the future with undaunted spirit and erected
brow — every ruin will be a temple, and the very ashes of the
dead will kindle with a living and heroic fire.
"My friends. I love the South not only for her shining and
heroic deeds ; I love her for her sorrows and sufferings, for her
misfortunes and calamities, and for the dead that sleep within
her bosom
"It has been said that 'a land without ruins is a land without
memories, and a land without memories is a land without liber-
ties. A land that wears a laurel crown may be fair to look
upon ; but twmc a few sad cypress leaves about the brow of
any laud, and, be that land barren, beautiless, and bleak, it be-
comes lovely in its consecrated coronet of sorrow and wins
the sympathy of the heart and of history. Crowns of roses
fade; crowns of thorns endure foitvcr. Calvaries and cruci-
li.xions take deepest hold on humanity. 'Tis their sufferings
ihat are graven deepest on the chronicles of nations.'
"My countrymen, if the South is filled with graves, it is
tilled also with memories. These memories of the dead past
will quicken into a living future. These graves of heroes are
the wombs of heroes yet to be born. Who does not feel the
truth as well as the beauty of the words of Father Ryan, the
poet of the lost Confederacy :
" 'O give me the land where the ruins are spread,
.■\nd the living tread light on the hearts of the dead.
O give me the land that is blessed by the dust,
.And bright with the deeds of the war-slaughtered just.
Give me the land v/here the battle's red blast
Has flashed to the future the fame of the past.
Give me the land that hath story and song
To tell of the strife of the right with the wrong.
Give mc the land with a grave in each spot,
.■^nd names in the grave that shall not be forgot.
Give me the land of the wreck and the tomb :
There is grandeur in graves, there is glory in gloom,
For out of the gloom future brightness is born
.\s after the night comes the sunrise of morn;
And the graves of the dead with the grass overgrown
Shall yet be the footstool of liberty's throne;
.Viid each single wreck in the warpath of night
•Shall yet be a rock in the temple of right.'
"Ladies and gentlemen, in rearing this monument to the
Confederate soldiers we tcitify to the country and to_mankind
our enduring fidelity to their memory, we commemorate their
valor and devotion as displayed on many a bloody field. In
doing so, let it be known to all that we come in no spirit of
contrition for the past. We beg no tenderness of the future
historian, no charity from the enlightened judgment of man-
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kind. Standing in ihe presence of this noble and impressive
monument, we proudly front th» world and proclaim to the
present and the coming time: 'These are our heroes, and their
cause was ours.' We make for them no confession of wrong,
we plead for no forgiveness of error, we ask no higher honor
and no prouder fate than that by their deeds we may be
judged, and our most fervent prayer is that the descendants
of these heroes may be worthy of their sires. All that was
mortal of the vast majority of those w'.iose deeds and mcn-;ries
we revere has passed from the knowledge of living men.
"They are not dead. The blood with which they drenched
the battlefields of the Confederacy has risen from the ground
in a new generation of heroic sons ; their hearts l)eat in the
very bosoms that ache above their dust ; their spirits will ani-
mate generations that are yet to be born. We may not look
again into those fearless eyes that blenched not when death
stood before them ; we may not clasp those hands that 'struck
for liberty the dying blow.' And yet they are not dead. 'He
never dies who falls in a great cause. His bones may sodden
in the sun, his head be hung on city gate or castle wall, but
still his spirit walks abroad.'
"The flag they followed no longer proclaims — it will never
again proclaim — the existence of a new nation upon the earth.
"The warrior's banner has taken its flight to meet the war-
rior's soul,' and together they stand at the bar of God, willing
to be judged. But let us never forget that the cause of the
South was sanctified by the prayers of her peerless daughters ;
that it has been baptized in the blood of her sons ; that your
fathers died for it ; that your mothers prayed for it. When I
appeal to you. therefore, to cherish those hallowed memories
of the past, when I beg yoi; to let no disrespectful word escape
your lips for the cause that sleeps with the ashes of your sires,
I do so by authority of the divine injunction to 'honor thy
father and thy mother.'
"Ladies and gentlemen, thoughtless or malevolent persons
have sometimes reproached us for honoring our fallen heroes,
and have demanded of us as a pledge of our loyalty to a re-
united country that we give their memory to oblivion and their
graves to the wilderness. They know not what they ask.
They would have us prove our loyalty to the Union by proving
ourselves recreant to the noblest sentiment that could swell the
bosom of an American patriot. The valor of our Southern
soldiers, the fortitude of our Southern women, and the fidelity
with which we cherish the memory of their deeds and their
sufferings are but the measure of our devotion to a reunited
country and to the flag that waves over it from the lakes to the
gulf, and from sea to sea. If the time shall ever come when
the people of the South cease to exult in the glorious deeds
of our Southern heroes and the matchles.s devotion of our
Southern women, when their eyes will no longer swim with
tears as the sorrowful memories of the old heroic days come
trooping back, then indeed may we be scorned as a degenerate
and ignoble race who could not be loyal to any country or
faithful to any flag. No, my friends, the world respects us for
what we are doing to-day. It will despise us if we ever re-
nounce our own glorious past.
"The victors have a right to ask of the South that she
submit in good faith to the issue of that war upon which she
staked her cause. That submission the people of the South
have made. Proudly, patiently, with a silent heroism which
outshines all the deeds of valor that were ever dor.,- in the
crash and roar of battle, they have accepted the new duties
and obligations placed upon them, and have lived up to them
with a martyr's courage and a martyr's faith. All this the
victors of that war may ask of us, but no more. We admit
that we were defeated; we will not admit that we were wrong.
We admit that our adversaries had a- larger army, but we
will not admit tliat they had the better cause. I^t me say to
>c-.;. my countrymen, there were some things that were not
surrendered at Appomattox. We did not surrender our rishts
in history, nor was it one of the conditions of surrender that
unfiicndly lips should be suffered to tell the story of that war
or that unfriendly hands should write the epitaphs of the Con-
federate dead. We have n right to teach our children the true
history of that war, the causes that led up to it, and the princi-
ples involved. We need not confess that our fathers were
traitors; we need not prove our fidelity by defaming the dead
and calumniating the blood in our own veins. We resent such
accusation not only because it is defamatory of our fathers
but because it would be most mischievous teaching for coming
generations not only in our own country but throughout the
world. The world has paid its just tribute to the characters of
the Southern leaders and the Southern soldiers. History has
already placed the statesmen, the military chieftains, and the
armies of the South beyond the reach of hatred and detraction.
In the name of the young men of America, in the North as
well as in the South, I protest against the effort to make them
believe that crime can outrival virtue in the greatness of its
achievements and the sublimity of its sufferings.
''No, my friends, it is not necessary to the safety of the coun-
try that coming generations of the South should be taught that
their fathers organized a treasonable rebellion against the gov-
ernment. They have a right to know that their fathers fought
for a right which belonged to them under the Constitution.
The doctrine of secession was maintained by the ablest pub-
licists of the North as well as of the South. The very first
treatise on the Constitution, written by the then leader of the
Philadelphia bar, asserted the right of a State to secede from
the Union. On no loss an authority than that of Senator
Lodge, of Massachusetts, the men who framed the Constitu-
tion regarded it as an experiment, and did not question the
light of a State to secede if it so desired. The first secession
movement in this country had its origin in New England, and
not in South Carolina. Only si.xtecn years before South
Carolina seceded, the State of Massachusetts, by solemn act of
its Legislature, threatened to secede.
"And, my coimtrymen, whatever else may be said of the
secession leaders, they were bold, they were brave. They did
not wait for a favorable opportunity, when the nation was
weakened and distracted by a foreign war, to put their doc-
trine to the trial of arms. With a courage so great that their
enemies have described it as .sheer folly and madness, they
challenged the power of a great nation, vastly superior in
numbers, with practically unlimited resources and unlimited
credit. Without an army, without a navy, without munitions
of war, without factories to supply them, without money, with
out credit, without even a governn;ent, they entered upon that
contest. Against the appalling odds of nearly five to one they
maintained it through four terrible years, and for a long
time the issue of battle hung doubtful in the balance. All this
llie impartial historian must say of the Southern secessionists ;
tliat same historian must .say of the New England secessionists
that they organized their rebellious conspiracy without any just
cause of quarrel with the Union, and when the nation was in
the throes of a doubtful conflict with the greatest power in
the wor!-l.
"All tli;5 \vc may say in no factious or sectional spirit, but
because it is truth and a part of the history of our country
We have a right to teach all these things to our childrea
teaching them at the same time that we have accepted in good
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faith the leconst ruction of our government; that -the causes
which once threatened to divide the country have passed away,
and that henceforth the strength and glory of the South arc
bound up forever with the strength and glory of the Union.
After all, these States are united by stronger bonds than the
phrases of a written constitution. We are bound together by
a common interest, a common heritage, and a common hope.
'Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky ;
Man breaks not the medal when God cuts the die.'
"Those who were loyal to the Confederacy will be as loyal
to the Union, and those who are to come after them will be
animated by their spirit and example. We rouse no spirit that
is dangerous to the Union or to the peace of nations when we
glorify their deeds. War is glorious only when it is fought for
noble ends and when those who fight are inspired by noble
motives. The Confederate soldier fought not for greed or
conquest. He fought for home and fireside and country, in-
spired by the same sentiment that nerved the soul of the
Roman hero who kept the bridge 'in the brave days of old.'
"But, my countrymen, while we honor the heroes, let us
never forget the heroines of the South. It is related that when
the sons of Rizpah fell victims to the vengeance of David and
their outcast bodies were left unsepulchercd on the hill, she
spread sackcloth upon the rock, and from the beginning of
harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven she suf-
fered neither the birds of the air to rest upon them by day
nor the beasts of the field by night.
"When the Southern soldier returned to his ruined home,
there in the humble doorway stood the Southern woman like
an angel of 'nope, cheering him on to victories of peace more
glorious and renowned than those of war ; and through all the
\ ears that have passed, through all the time of hate and malice
and persecution, she has remained like Rizpah upon the rock,
guarding with sleqjless vigilance the ashes of her dead. We
do well to build monuments to the valor and prowess of the
Southern soldiers; but if the power were mine, I would raise
a monument to the Southern woman whose shaft would pierce
the skies."
Gov. Frazier and Senator Bate made brief addresses after
Senator Carniack closed.
Clark Chapter served dinner, and in the afternoon there
were receptions, speech-making, and happy commingling of
comrades and friends.
The monument, which cost $2,000, consists of a granite shaft
twenty-five feet high, surmounted by the figure of a Confed-
erate soldier. On the front of the shaft is the inscription,
"There is no nobler spot of ground than where exalted valor
lies;" Confederate battle flag above.
On the lower base is inscribed: "Confederate Soldiers." On
one side is a shield, over which are crossed trumpets carved
with "C. S. A.," and on the other is a wreath enclosing the
dates, "1861-65, erected by the Daughters."
LANGLEY HAI-L. NEAR GALLATIN. TENN., ON PROPERTY OF TTIR TROVStlALES FOR A CENTVRY.
It is pleasing and appropriate in connection with the fore-
going to present a view of Langley Hall. It is built on the
farm bought by Capt. James Trousdale, father of Gov. Trous-
dale, more than a century ago, and has been in possession of
the family ever since. This new residence is near the site of
the original and about one mile from Gallatin.
The magnificent house here illustrated, the residence of B.
W. Allen, Esq., is new, but follows quite rigidly the old colo-
nial style of architecture. There are the hard-wood floors,
water and gas works exclusively for the place ; all desirable
modern iuTprovements ; in fact, everything necessary to com-
fort and convenience, but the colonial style in yellow and green
blinds, tall Corinthian cohnnns, etc., is adhered to in the ex-
terior, while the interior is much in accord. The main stair-
way is quite of the style of that in Independence Hall, Phila-
delphia, with porcelain-finished banisters, frescoed walls with
higlily artistic and delicately painted decorations. It is much
larger than is realized from the point of view taken by the
artist. The plate is used by courtesy of The Building News,
Evansvillc, Ind. This magnificent home is the gift to Mrs.
Allen by her niece. Miss Kate Trousdale, with whom she has
lived since early childhood.
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AN EMINENT SOUTHERN WOMAN.
The prolonged visit of Countess Eugenie Bertinalti, of
Castellamonte. ilaly. during the past few months has been a
source of sincere pleasure to relatives and friends. This dis-
tinguished lady is a native of Tennessee, her parents having
been of the earlier settlers in one of the richest sections ot
Middle Division of the State. Her paternal home, that of
Col. Humphrey Bate, built of brick while Tennessee was a part
of North Carolina, has been in the Bate family for many gen
erations. She is a sister of Maj. H. C. Bate and closely re-
lated to United States Senator Bate.
The Countess first married at an early age Mr. Council R.
Bass, by whom there were four children, two of whom blesse.l
her life to mature years, but now all have passed away, and
when the great war of the sixties occurred she resided upon
her large estate between V'icksburg and Greenville, Miss. Dur-
ing much of the war she lived there in comfort and was rare!;,
disturbed. On one occasion, however, some Federal forces
drove from the premises her horses and cattle and hauled away
supplies. This loss was so serious that she went to Viclcsburg
to see the commanding ofliocr. Gen. Grant, whose wife was
present at the interview, and so interposed in her behalf that
a letter from Gen. Grant served as protection from subsequent
raiding Federals. She mentions that Gen. Grant "was most
kind and unassuming in manner." Being a noncombatant, she
took the oath of allegiance, and was allowed exceptional
courtesies by the Federal authorities in visiting one of her
brothers. Dr. Bate, who, severely wounded and enfeebled, owes
his prolonged life doubtless to her nursing and the supply of
nutritious food.
As typical illustration of those thrilling and tragic days the
Veteran is permitted to copy herewith in facsimile a letter
from President Lincoln and one from Gen. Grant :
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MADAM EUGENIE BATE BEKTI.NATTI.
As the wife of Count Bertinatti, who was Ambassador to
the United States, and later to other countries, this distin-
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guished woman of the South has had a most interesting expe-
rience. At this writing slie is visiting her old plai'.'_:ion in
Mississippi, especially anxious for the welfare of old servants.
It is safe to state that she and the late Ellen Adair Beatty,
who was known as the gifted and beautiful "Florida White,"
were of the most distinguished women in the United States
The latter, a native of Kentucky, died at Oxford. Miss, sev-
eral years ago.
TEXAS DAUGHTERS HONOR GEN. GORDON.
The following address to the Chapters of the Texas Divi-
sion. U. D. C, was sent out by Miss Katie Dafifan, President :
".•\ shadow of deepest gloom hangs over our Southland to-
day. The hearts of our Veterans are bowed in genuine sor-
row, our Sons of Veterans stop to fen'ently remember that
upon them will soon rest the responsibility of living on the
'work of our Confederate soldier.' The Daughters of the
Confederacy, in tender grief, realize that their strongest advo-
cate has passed into eternal rest and glory, and his beautiful
life service and character will be a part of our work memorial.
Gen. John B. Gordon, the brave-hearted, with courage to the
end, surrendered to Death January 9, 1904.
"It was Gen. Gordon who first gave to our dearly beloved
Winnie Davis the title, 'Daughter of the Confederacy.' From
him did we have approval of our historical work, in all of onr
efforts for our soldiers, and the erection of monuments, and
he oftentimes expressed himself as being delighted with the
wonderful advancement, the work accomplished, and the large
membership of the Texas Division.
"His soul was attuned to all that was broad and great and
good in humanity, and he could say with adoring love, "Our
country.'
"Let every Chapter of the Texas Division honor tlic memory
of our heroic dead, and let appropriate memorial service be
held by each Chapter, together with the Veterans and Sons of
\'eterans.
"Gen. Gordon was a guest in many of our Texas homes,
and our entire citizenship delighted to do him honor. His
birthday occurs February 6, and I suggest that at that time
we observe memorial service.
"Trusting this may meet response from all of our Chapters,
for Gen. Gordon held the most distinguished office in the
gilt of the United Confederate \'eterans, and it is in honor of
the Confederate Veterans that wc have our organization.
Daughters of the Confederacy."
Although the foregoing comes late, it is given as an impor-
tant paper from the President of the large Texas Division.
Excellent new Chapters have just been organized in Van
Alstyne, Floresville, and Chapel Hill, Tex. The work in Texas
grows greater each year, more and more is being done by the
Daughters in their strong organized work.
"Texas Heroes' Day" was observed by the Chapters of the
Texas Division March 15, commemorating the deeds of valor
and many virtues of the Confederate soldiers identified with the
Lone Star State — Albert Sidney Johnston, Dick Dowling, Sul
Ross, Gen. Hood, Gen. Sam Green, Gen. William P. Rogers,
Gen. Terry, Pelham, Pat Cleburne, and all who loved the
State and were a part of the history of the State. This day
will be observed annually by the Texas Daughters of the Con-
federacy.
Preparations are now being made by all Chapters for the ob-
servance of Annual Decoration and Memorial Day, April 26.
at which time Crosses of Honor will be bestowed upon the
Veterans.
FOR THE TRUTH OF HISTORY.
A subscriber, an old cadet of the Lexington Military Insti-
tute in the days of Stonewall Jackson, now living in Richmond,
Va., writes :
"In the Veteran of December an account is given of an oc-
currence which took place at Lexington, Va., just prior to the
war. A few months ago another version of it was printed in
the Youth's Companion. A perusal of these articles raises the
query as to whether the details of war history or, indeed, any
history can be relied upon.
"The Youth's Companion represents the occurrence as taking
place on Sunday, and that Stonewall Jackson, while in church,
was informed that the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute
were rushing pellmell upon Washington College to wreak
vengeance upon the students of that institution for resisting .in
attempt on the part of some cadets to pull down the United
States flag from their building.
"Now, the affair occurred on Saturday, and the students of
Washington College had no more to do with it than those of
Harvard or Yale. It is doubtful if they ever had a flag, and the
cadets did not even take the usual route to the town, which
passes W'ashington College, but ran down the slope in front of
the barracks, across the field, to the road leading directly into
the town.
"The account in the December \'et£ran comes much nearer
being correct as to the causes leading to the affair. But both
accounts say that Jackson took charge of the corps of cadets
and marched them hither and thither, etc. I was a participant
in the affair, and my recollection is that when the cadets
reached the lower part of the main street we halted and formed
into line; that we were met by some of the Institute autliori-
ties, among whom Maj. Jackson may have been present and he
may have been the speaker (I do not now remember) ; that the
cadets yielded to the argument used to get them to return to
the Institute, the promise perhaps being given then (as it
was at an after meeting held at the barracks) that the party
guilty of the assault and battery should be arrested and the
legal penalty inflicted. But that Jackson took charge of the
cadets and 'marched' and 'countermarched' them, 'wheeled'
them down the street, and 'drilled' them in such and such a
■field,' and, after getting them 'blown,' dismissed them to be
good boys, is simply as baseless as the fabric of a vision.
Neither by order from Jackson or any one else was there any
"drilling' and 'double-quicking' until we had 'cooled off.' The
cadets broke ranks and went back just as they had come, every
man for himself, and the corps was stretched out along the
road for perhaps a quarter of a mile. I remember when I
reached barracks that, not wishing to put my gun in the rack
with a load in it, I fired at a little sai)ling in front of the bar-
racks (and missed it).
"I do not mean in any way to reflect on the motives or verac-
ity of those who wrote the versions alluded to, but let us all
in preparing material for the future historian be scrupulously
careful to get facts and omit all frills. Not only do these ac-
counts make Jackson do what he never did," but they might
create the impression that the cadets, whose gallantry at New
Market won the admiration of friends and foes alike, were a
lot of imbeciles who could be bamboozled without half an
effort."
In report of the History Committee, U. D. C, among the
books commended for use in Southern schools was the "Re-
view of Slavery in the United States," by Mrs. Sophie Fox
Sea, of Kentucky. This was mentioned as being by Mrs.
.Sophie Fox. and the f.ill name is herewith given.
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Confederate l/eterap.
Confederate l/eteraip.
S. A. CVSSlSaUAM, Editor and Proprietor.
OQice: Methodist Pablishini; 111 use Building, Noshvillr, Tenn.
Thia publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningliam, All per*
floos who approve its principles and realize its bcnetits as an orjjjin for Asso-
ciations tnroaghout the South ape requested to commend its patronage and to
cooperate in extending its circulation. Let each one be constantly diligent.
The Grand Camp of Virginia Confederate Vcierans has
published in pamphlet form five thousand copies of Judge
Christian's report as Chairman of the Virginia History Com-
mittee for free distribution.
MOVEMENT FOR THE I. B. GORDON MONUMENT.
Just as we go to press a letter from Judge William Lowndes
Calhoun, President and Chairman of the Central Executive
Committee of the John B. Gordon Monument Association, At-
lanta, Ga., states: "We are striving energetically to succeed in
our effort to raise funds for the Gordon monument."
This brief statement ineans much. It suggests promptness
in action while it is understood that State lines are not to be
considered in this tribute of love to the cininent Southerner and
great-hearted patriot. Each State should take pride in its
record to honor Gen. John B. Gordon. Any subscriptions sent
to the Veteran will be properly acknowledged and remitted
to the Treasurer, E. H. Thornton, Atlanta, Ga.
RIGHT OBSERVANCE OF MEMORIAL DAY.
Gen. P. A. S. McGlashan, commanding Georgia Division,
United Confederate Veterans, writes:
"Comrades: Ihe following resolution was passed on Feb-
ruary 4 by Camp No. 1477, Macon, Ga. :
" 'Whereas the South Atlantic Baseball League proposes to
open its season April 26, known as Memorial Day, and by
legislative action a legal holiday, set apart as strictly dedicated
to the memory of our dead Confederate soldiers ; therefore
be it
" 'Resolved, That it is the unanimous opinion and wish of
Camp Macon, U. C. V., No. 1477, that our unqualified and un-
alterable protest be entered against the use of this day for
sports, the reason being that the sacred and tender memories
of this our dear Southland for our grand old Confederate
heroes should not be encroached upon by anything that would
lessen the interest and loyalty of our young people whose fa-
thers stood in defense of our Southern homes from 1861 to
1865. We ask all other Camps in the State of Georgia to ex-
press themselves on the subject.'
"The Commanding General wishes to indorse the above reso-
lution, and beg that every Camp in the State will see that the
day set apart for the decoration of the graves of our honored
dead comrades is not desecrated by unseemly amusements."
Troup County Camp, No. 405, U. C. V., heartily indorse the
above.
PRESS TRIBUTES TO "BILL ARP."
Newark (Ark.) Journal: "The Confederate Veteran, pub-
lished at Nashville, Tenn., has started a movement to collect
a sufficient fund by popular donations of one dollar each to
erect a suitable monument to the memory of 'Bill Arp,' who
died a few months ago. 'Bill Arp's' writings were read and
admired by everybody in this part of the country, and the
Journal would like to see a liberal donation to the fund sent
in from Newark. We are going to start the list with $1,
and if any of our citizens wish to contribute, they can hand
us tJieir donation or send it direct to the Veteran. The
names of all who contribute will be published in the Journal
and the list forwarded to the Veteran, to be added to the
fund, and all the names will then be published in the Veteran.
Neu's and Courant, Cartersville, Ga. : "It is with peculiar
pride and pleasure that the News and Courant notes the noble
work begun by Mr. S. A. Cunningham, editor of the Con-
federate Veteran at Nashville, of raising a fund with which
to erect a monument to the late lamented Maj. Charles H.
Smith (Bill Arp), of this city. . . . We notice that the list does
not contain any Cartersville names as yet. Perhaps this is
because there has been no local movement to help the fund
along, for we are sure it is only necessary to call the attention
of our people to the matter to get offerings. We have no
method to suggest, but merely urge the fitness, the necessity
of help from the home friends of Maj. Smith. Of course in-
dividual contributions could be sent to Mr. Cunningham, but
it occurs to us that it would look better for some of our citi-
zens to interest themselves and get up a real nice sum and for-
ward all together. Who will start the ball rolling? Remem-
ber the shaft will be erected in Oak Hill cemetery."
Additional Contributions to the Bill Aep Fund.
Doster, J. W., Kingsland, Ark $ i 00
Spencer, Dr. B. F., Weston, Tex I cx)
Bivins, J. K., Kildarc, Tex I 00
McKeen, J. D., Fulton, Ky I 00
Byars, H. C-, Sidney, Iowa I 00
Bruslc, C. A., Plaquemine, La i 00
Du Buisson, C. J., Yazoo City, Miss i 00
Garrett, George, Pulaski, Tenn i 00
Garrett, Miss Kate, Pulaski, Tenn I 00
Garrett, Miss Carrie, Pulaski, Tenn I 00
Hough, E. S., Manchester, Tenn I (X)
Robert, Rev. P. G., St. Louis, Mo i 00
Tomb, J. H., St. Louis, Mo i 00
.Austin, Miss C, Lonoke, Ark i 00
Coker, J. C, Hartsvillc, S. C i 00
Stephens, J. R., Franklin, Tenn 2 tx)
Gardner, D. B., Fort Worth, Tex I 00
Ellison, Col. R. L., Fort Worth, Tex I 00
Muggah, J. P., Patterson, La I 00
Park, Capl. R. E., Atlanta, Ga 3 oc
Park, Mrs. R. E., Atlanta, Ga I 00
Park, Miss Etta, Atlanta, Ga i 00
Beale, A. J., Cynthiana, Ky i 00
"Lankford Bras., Pueblo, Colo 2 c»
Riley, Mrs. J. H., Omega, La i 00
Reed, C. A., Anderson, S. C I 00
Bryan, J. T., Marianna, Fla I 00
Newsom, Mrs. M. J., Marianna, Fla i 00
Barry, Mrs. O. A., Sherman, Tex i 00
Murphy, R. C, Natchez, La l 00
Bates, J. Y., Corsicana, Tex i 00
Mallette, J. H., Jr., Roanoke, Tex i 00
Pickett, Fred L., Hector, .-Via i 00
Pickett, Hugh F., Hector, .\la i 00
Pickett, James N., Hector, Ala i 00
Chadwick, Mrs. E. J., Beaufort, N. C i 00
Ritter, W. L., Baltimore, Md i 00
Head, T. L., Hector, Ala i 00
Total to date, $129.25.
The complete list will be published later. The Veteran
believes implicitly that many others will be gratified with op-
portunity to contribute, and that they will not delay longer than
the reunion in June. Please keep this in mind.
Confederate l/eteraij.
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Official Report of tlie History Conimittee of tlie Grand Camp, C. V., Department of Virginia.
THE following report was submitted to the Grand Camp of
Confederate Veterans of Virginia at its annual meeting,
held at Newport News, Va., October 28th, 1903. It was then
unanimously adopted, and five thousand copies were directed by
the Camp to be published in pamphlet form. A few days after
this action on the part of the Camp, the author saw a statement
in the newspapers to the effect that a committee had been ap-
pointed by the North Carolina Historical Society to investigate
the statements contained in the report. The author was most
anxious that if there were any errors in the report, they should
be corrected before it was put in a more permanent form ; and
it was with this view that the publication has been postponed
until this time. GEO. L. CHRISTIAN, Chairman.
Richmond, February 20th, 1904.
To Ihe Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans of I'irginia:
Your History Committee again returns its ti:anks to yoii
and the public for the flattering and cordial way in which
you have received its last report. It will be as gratifying to
you as it is to the committee to know that we have heard
of lui attempt to controvert any statement contained in anj'
report of this committee up to this time. It will also he
gratifying to you to learn that at the late reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans, held in New Orleans, the
several reports of your committee were not only incorpo-
rated as a part of the report of the History Committee of
that great organization, Init received its unanimous and un-
qualified indorsement.
RECRETS OF COMMITTEE.
We had expected in this report to discuss a very different
subject from that which now claims our attention. Indeed,
we deeply regret that the matter which demands our atten-
tion at this time should have to be considered by us at all.
But we conceive it to be our first duty to our Mother State
to see that her record in the Confederate war is kept true,
and not misunderstood or misrepresented by either friend or
foe. We have always deprecated controversies between
Confederates. We think, as Gen. Early once said, there is
glory enough attached to the Confederate struggle for all
of us to have a share, that we should stand together and
see that the truth of that conflict is preserved; this is all we
have a right to ask. and ive should be conleut witli nothing less.
This being our position, we repeat our sincere regret that
some recent publications from representatives of our sister
State of North Carolina have come to us in such a way, and
that these publications emanate from such sources, that they
demand consideration and attention at the hands of your com-
mittee. We again repeat our sorrow that we feel compelled
to notice these matters, and in doing so we shall strive to
say nothing which will even tend to detract from the fame
won by the glorious "Old North State" in the Confederate
war, e.xcept in so far as attempts have been made to augment
that fame at the expense of Virginia.
PEOPLE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
We know the people of North Carolina and greatly ad-
mire their many virtues and noble characteristics. We knew
the soldiers sent by her to the Army of Northern Virginia.
We have seen their splendid bearing and frightful sacrifices
on many a field of carnage, and we bear willing testimony
to the fact that no truer, better, or braver soldiers ever
Stood on the "bloody front of battle." North Carolina is
truly a great State, inhabited by a noble people, and with a
record of which she has a right to be proud. We love State
pride, and particularly that State pride and devotion to prin-
ciple which has made North Carolina do what she could to
preserve the names and records of her soldiers in the Con-
4»»
federate armies. Every other Southern State should follow
her example, no matter ivhat it may cost to do so.
No truer patriots ever lived or died for their country
than those who fought in the Confederate armies. These
men are as well satisfied now as they ever viere that their
cause was just. They enlisted at the command of their sev-
eral States; they did their duty to the best of their ability;
they are. and have a right to be, proud of their achievements,
and they have a right to expect that their States will see to
it that their names and the record of their deeds are pre-
served.
CLAIMS MADE liV NORTH CAROLINA.
Conceding, as we cheerfully do, the great fame achieved by
North Carolina in the Confederate war, it seems to us, from
reading the publications to which we have referred, that some
of our friends from that State have not been either just or
generous in some of their allusions to her sister States, and
have seemed both spiteful and boastful in some of their charges,
claims, and references to their "next-door neighbor," Virginia.
What Virginia may have done to provoke this, we are not ad-
vised. If aught, we regret it. It is these charges, these claims
and seeming reflections on Virginia alone, that we now pro-
pose to consider, as we feel in duty bound to do. In doing
this we shall not imitate the course pursued by some of the
writers to whom we have referred. Some of these have not
hesitated to reflect on the people and soldiers from Virginia
in the harshest and, in our opinion, most unjust manner. We
shall not imitate these writers (l) because we feel confident
that they do not, in their criticisms of Virginia and her people,
reflect the real feelings of North Carolinians toward Virginians,
and (2) because neither the people of Virginia nor the soldiers
sent by her to the Confederate armies need any defense at
our hands. The presentation of the truth of what Virginia
did and dared and suffered for the Confederate cause is her
complete vindication, and it is a part of this ta.sk that we now
filially but cheerfully assume.
THAT SHE FURNISHED MORE TROOPS.
First: The first and most serious claim made by
North Carolina is that she furnished more troops to
the Confederacy than any other Southern State.
This claim has been made and published far and wide,
and, as far as we know, no attempt has been made to con-
trovert it. It generally assumes the form of a boast, but
is sometimes made the basis of a complaint. We saw not
long since in a North Carolina paper (the Charlotte Observer
of May I", 1003) a statement from the pen of a distinguished
writer of that State, in which he complained that partiality
had been shown to Virginia, and consequent injustice done
to North Carolina, during the war, in the appointment of the
general officers of the army, especially, he said, since Virginia
had furnished only about "6,000 troops to the Confederacy,
to North Carolina's 126,000, or 50,000 more than Virginia.
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Qo»;federat(5 Ueterarj,
PRESIDENT DAVIS.
So far as the question of partiality is concerned, since
President Davis, who made all these appointments, was not
a Virginian, there was no reason why he should have been
partial to Virginians unless their merits warranted it. And,
in our opinion, no good reason is given by this writer for
any such alleged misconduct on his part. We believe Mr.
Davis was not only a true patriot but a great and good man,
and that it would have been almost impossible to have found
any one who could or would have discharged the delicate
and difficult duties of his office more satisfactorily to all
than he did.
But what concerns us far more is the claim made by this
writer that North Carolina, with a smaller white population
than Virginia, furnished fifty thousand more troops to the
Confederacy. This claim necessarily implies that North
Carolina was more loyal to the Confederate cause than Vir-
ginia, or, in other words, discharged her duty in this, the
Rrcatest crisis in the history of these States, better than
X'irginia.
RECORD or TROOPS FURNISHED.
Let us examine the record on this point first, then, and see
if this claim is sustained by it.
In Series IV., Vol. III., at page 95, of wh.it are termed
"The War of the Rebellion Official Records," will be found
a carefully prepared official report to the "Bureau of Con-
scription" of the Confederate War Department, giving in
much detail the number and character of the troops furnished
by the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi up to January 25, i86i.
This report shows that the "total number of men sent to the
field" by Virginia up to that time was (page 102) 15.3,-
876, whilst the total number sent by North Carolina up to
that time was only 88,457, or 63,419 less than Virginia.
This report further shows that according to the then
last census there were remaining in Virginia, between the
ages of eighteen and forty-five, 13,248 men to be accounted
for as soldiers; and in North Carolina 12,877. So that, if
every man of those unaccounted for in North Carolina had
been subsequently sent to the field, and not one of those
from Virginia, still, according to this report, Virginia would
have furnished fifty-two thousand, five hundred and forty-
three more than North Carolina.
At page 99 of this report, in referring to North Carolina, the
following statement is made :
"The Adjutant General of the State has estimated
that the State has put into the service 100,000 men,
but his calculations contain an apparent error, in
which he has accounted for 14,000 men twice. His
estimate should therefore be less than mine."
We do not quote this for the purpose of intimating that
North Carolina may (unintentionally, of course) still be
counting "twice," in making up the number she now claims,
but only to show that her own .'Xdjutant General did not
then claim that North Carolina had furnished more than
one hundred thousand men, whilst Virginia had then sent to
the field, as shown by this report, one hundred and fifty-three
thousand, eight hundred and seventy-six, and rather more than
double the number with which she is credited by the distin-
guished writer to whom we have just referred.
At page 100 of this same report, in accounting for the
troops furnished by South Carolina, occurs this item and
statement — viz. ;
"Without passing through camps 13,953."
"A large part of this number (13,953) will be found
10 have volunteered in Xorth Carolina regiments, hav-
ing been drawn into that State by the inducements of
double bounty, which was at one time offered to vol-
unteers."
These troops from South Carolina are, doubtless, counted
by North Carolina in the number .«he now claims, and may.
to some extent, account for how she furnished 10.000 more
soldiers to the Confederacy than her voting population, as
shown in a then recent election, of which fact she now justly
boasts.
REPORT CORRECT.
As showing that the report from which we have quoted
is substantially correct, the largest number of troops we
have seen anywhere claimed to have been furnished oy
North Carolina is that contained in the report from the pres-
ent Adjutant General's office, and this number is put at
about 127,000, and, of course, this includes the "total of all
men disposed of" from the State — all in the field, and all ex-
emptions from whatever cause. The report from which we
have quoted above (page 103) gives North Carolina 126,623
and to Virginia (counting in the same way) 178.933. or 52,-
316 more than North Carolina.
C0MP.\RAT1VE NUMBER CF REGIMENTS. ETC.
Whilst this report gives the number of regiments, bat-
talions, and batteries furnished by Virginia, it does not give
the number of those furnished by North Carolina. But we
are enabled to supply this apparent omission from another
source, to be found in the same volume at page 722. As late
as October 11, 1864, Gov. Vance wrote to Gen. Bragg (a
native of North Carolina), then stationed in Richmond, ask-
ing Bragg to furnish him with the number of troops fur-
nished by North Carolina to the Confederacy, and saying he
wished this information in order to "know what North Car-
olina had done in comparison with the other States." in view
of a proposed meeting of the Governors of the South, then
about to assemble at Augusta, Ga. On this letter of inquiry
there is an indorsement stating that, whilst the number of
iroops furnished by North Carolina could not be given
without laborious research, there was then in the Confed-
erate service from that State sixty-seven regiments, five bat-
talions, twelve unattached companies, two State regiments
doing service for the Confederacy, and nine battalions of
reserves then organized. The report of January 25, 1864,
above referred to, shows that Virginia had then sent to thj
field sixty-three regiments of infantry, forty battalions of
infantry, twenty regiments of cavalry, forty battalions of
cavalry, and one hundred and twenty-five batteries of ar-
tillery (page 96).
A comparison of these organizations of the two States
gives this result — viz.: That where North Carolina had fur-
nished the Confederacy, in all arms of the service, si.x-ty-nine
regiments, Virginia had furnished eighty-three; where North
Carolina had furnished fourteen battalions, Virginia had fur-
nished eighty; and where North Carolina had furnished
twelve unattached companies (presumably batteries), Vir-
ginia had furnished one hundred and tzventy-five batteries;
and it is worthy of remark, that the report showing the
number of these Virginia organizations is dated eight months
in advance of that showing the number of the North Caro-
lina organizations.
COiMPARATIVE EXEMPTIONS.
Second: Anotlier charge made by another distin-
guished North Carolina writer (Capt. IV. R. Bond in
his pamphlet entitled "Pickett or Pettigrcw") is that
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"citizens of Virginia were filling nearly one-half of the
positions of honor and trust, eivil and military," in the
Confederacy.
So far as the appointment of the general officers of the
army is involved in this charge, we have already said that
we believed they were made by Mr. Davis solely on the
merits of the appointees; and we think it will be admitted
by all that some of these appointments could not have been
improved upon, or perhaps made at all from any other State.
As to the charge, so far as it applies to the other military
ofticers, this was made by Gov. Vance during the war, and
if any one wishes to see a complete refutation of it, they
have only to refer to the letter from Gen. Lee to the Con-
federate Secretary of War, dated September 9, 1863, Reb.
Rec, Series I., Vol. XXIX., Part II.. p. 723..
As to the civil positions of honor and trust of whicli this
writer says one-half were filled by Virginians, and that Rich-
mond thought "all should be thus filled." If he means by
this to charge that Virginia had a larger number of men
exempted from military duty to fill these places than any
other State (as would have been reasonable, since she had
the largest number in the field and was the seat of the capi-
tol, with all the departments of the government), then the
report, from which we have just quoted, shows that in this
he is greatly mistaken. This report, at page 103, shows that
the "total e.vcmpts" in \'irginia at that lime were twenty-five
thousand and sixty-three; whilst those in North Carolina num-
bered Ihirly-cight thousand, one hundred and sixty-six. And in
the same volume in which this report is to be found, at page
851, will be found this remarkable exhibit, under the heading
"Number of State Officers" in each Southern State exempted
■ n certificates of their Governors. This last paper shows
ihat while the number of these oflicers exempted in Vir-
sinia was ok? thousand, four hundred and ttventy-two, the
number exempted in North Carolina was fourteen thousand,
six hundred and seventy-fiz'C, more than ten times as many as
in any other Southern State.
EFFECTS OF FIGHTING OF THE "bETHEL REGIMENT."
Third : .-1 third claim made by another distinguished
North Carolina writer is that one of the eifecls of the
fight made by the "Bethel Regiment" at Bethel ivas
the "possibly holding Virginia in the Confederacy."
(See article by Maj. Edward J. Hale, "North Carolina
Regiments '61 to '65," Vol. I., p. 123.)
The only theory on which we can account for this uncalled-
for suggestion is, that the writer wished to attribute to this
regiment the greatest possible achievement the fecundity of
his imagination could conceive of, and hence this "un-
kindest cut of all" at our old mother. Virginia joined the
Confederacy before North Carolina; and we will show later
on, by the testimony of ail the representatives of all the
Southern States, that no State in the Confederacy showed
more devotion to the cause, and that none was ready to make or
made greater sacrifices in its behalf.
NO PESIRE TO M.VGNIFY WORK OF VIRGINIA.
We have no intention or desire to magnify either the serv-
ices rendered by Virginia to tlic Confederacy or the suf-
ferings and sacrifices of her people for the Confederate cause.
Indeed, from what we know of these, we think it would be
difficult to do this. But since some North Carolina writers
have laid so much stress on the part performed by thiir
State in these directions (a claim we have no disposition to
contest), it seems to us both pertinent and proper to cail
attention to two things which apply to Virginia, but do not
apply to North Carolina or to any other Southern State.
These are:
VIRGINIA A "battleground"
1. P'irginia ivas a "battleground" from the beginning to
the end of the war. No people who have not had this ex-
perience can form any conception of what it means, and this
was literally true of Virginia "from her mountains to her
seashore." Every day and every hour for lour long years
the tramp or the camp, the bivouac or the battle of both
armies were upon Virginia's soil. Six hundred of the two
thousand battles fought were fought in Virginia, and the
fenceless fields, the houseless chimneys, the charred ruins
and the myriad graves left all over Virginia at the close of
the war marked and measured the extent to which her ma-
terial resources had contributed to that struggle, and the
devotion of her people to the Confederate cause. These
tilings also showed in the utter desolation produced by the
war, and in the difficulties and disadvantages the State and
her people have labored under ever since.
TIRCINIA DISMEMBERED.
2. Virginia zcas the only Southern State dismembered bv
the war. One-third of her territory (the richest in many
respects) and one-third of her people were actually torn from
her by the mailed hand of war not only without her consent
but contrary to an express provision of the [•'cdcral Constitu-
tion. The true history of this "political rape," as it was
termed by Gen. Wise, is one of the blackest political crimes in
the annals of history.
OTHER CLAIMS MADE BY NORTH CAROLINA.
Fourth: The fourth claim or claims (and the last to
which ive can refer) preferred by North Carolina are
set forth in these very striking terms — viz. : That she
was
"First at Bethel; farthest to the Front at Gettysburg
and Chickamauga; Last at Appomattox."
This legend in this form is inscribed on the cover of each of
the five volumes published by the State, entitled "North Caro-
lina Regiments, 1861-65," to be thus perpetuated throughout all
time.
Of course, sucli claims, thus asserted, and conveying to
the world what these necessarily do, should be above and
beyond all criticism or cavil. Let us see if these will stand
this test. Before instituting this inquiry, let us first ask,
respectfully, why these claims arc made at all. The learned ed-
itor of the volumes to which we have just referred disclaims
that they are intended as a boast. But we again r-npectfully
ask: Can they mean anj'thing else than /that North Carolina
means by them to proclaim the fact that the troops furnished
by her were better, and therefore did better at the important
points named, than those from any other State.
It is worthy of note, too, that our friends are getting more
aggressive in their claiming with the passing of time. The
first form assumed by this legend, and inscribed on the Con-
federate monument at Raleigh, was only:
"First at Bethel; Last at Appomattox."
We next hear of it as inscribed on her memorial room in
Richmond as:
•■I'irsI at Bethel; Farthest to the Front at Gettysburg;
Last Jt .tppomattox."
And now Chickamauga's "bloody front" is also included.
One of her writers has already claimed lh:it "ChanccUors-
ville" was a "North Carolina fight." and that Gettysburg
ought to be so denominated, too; and so our friends go on
claiming from step to step just as during the war.
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QoF>federat8 l/eterai).
"From rank to rank their volleyed thunders flew."
As before staled, we have no intention or desire to detract
one iota from the fame of North Carolina, except where al-
ien.pts have been made to augment thai fame at the expense
of Virginia. Keeping this purpose steadily before us. we
now propose to inquire whether or not some of the claims
set up by North Carolina in this legend do injustice to Vir-
ginia. And first as to the claim that she was "first at Bethel."
"FIKST at ISEIHEL."
In Volume IV. of the "Confederate Military History," j.t
page 19. will be found a carefully prepared account of the
battle of Bctht-1. written by D. H. Hill, Jr., son of the in-
trepid soldier of that name who commanded the First North
Carolina in that fight, and, therefore, one with every natural
incentive to say all that could be said truthfully, both on
behalf of his father and his regiment. He says: "About nine
o'clock in the morning of the loth (June) the Federals ap-
peared on the field in front of the Southern works, and Gre-
ble's battery took position. A shot from a ParrotI gun in
the Confederate works ushered in the great Civil War on
the land."
This first shot was fired from the battery of the Richmond
(Va.) Howitzers, which had already fired the "first shot"
fired on Virginia's soil nearly a month before at Gloucester
Point. We are not claiming, however, any special credit
for having fired this conceded first shot, the firing of which
was only fortuitous. But Virginia was at Bethel, along with
North Carolina, not only represented by the commanding
general, himself a Virginian, but by all three arms of the
service (infantry, artillery, and cavalry), and these troops
are mentioned by the commanding general, along with those
from North Carolina, net only in his report of the battle but
also, and in complimentary terms, in the report of Gen.
(then Col.) D. H. Hill, commanding the only North Carolina
troops there. Was not Virginia at Bethel, then, standing
side by side with North Carolina? Did she not do her duty
there as well? If she did, why the invidious claim th,^.t
North Carolina was Urst at Bethel? Is this just to Virginia?
We think not, in all kindness and courtesy. Bethel is in Vir-
ginia, and to claim that the troops of any other State were
more prompt in defending her soil than those from Virginia
necessarily reflects on Virginia.
FARTHEST AT GETTYSBtJRG.
As TO Gettysburg : We were there, and by reason of our
position on the field, we saw that battle as we never saw
any other. We saw the charges of Pickett's, Pcttigrcw'.-.
and render's Divisions. We saw some of Pickett's men go
over the enemy's works and into their lines. We did not
think then, and do not think now, that Pettigrew's and Pen-
der's went so far, and we know this was the consensus of
opinion of those around us at the time.
But be this as it may, the world's verdict is that Pickett's
men went as far as men could go and did all that men could
do. Mr. Charles Francis Adams has recently written of
them, that the vaunted charge of Napoleon's "Old Guard"
at Waterloo did not compare with that of Pickett's men,
and was "as boys' play beside it."
Gen. John B. Gordor, of Georgia, perhaps the most dis-
tinguished Confederate officer now living, who was at Get-
tysburg, has very recently written that the "point where
Pickett's Virginians, under Kemper, Garnett, and Armistead,
ill their immortal charge swept over the rock wall, has been
appropriately designated by the government as the high-zvater
mark of Ihr rebellion." And we believe this will be the ver-
dict of history for all time.
Since there has been so much discussion on this point,
and some of it, we think, both unfortunate and intemperate,
we propose to consider this claim calmly and dispassionately,
not from what wo saw, or what we and others may have
thought a: the time of the battle, or may think now, but from
the o/Kiial reforls .1/ the ci mnianding ofUcers, written only a
few days afttr the battle. These reports are the best evidence.
and must and will be accepted as conclusive of what then oc-
curred. We have read so much of all of these reports. Con-
federate and Federal, as we could find published and as would
throw light on this question, and we propose to make such
extracts from the most important of these as we think should
settle this controversy for all time. It is proper to say in this
connection that the statements contained in these reports were
accepted as true at the time, and remained so for thirty years.
History, both at the North and at the South, has been based
on them, and it seems to us remarkable that this controversy
should have arisen so long after the happening of the events as
thus established. But the controversy has now arisen, and
hence the necessity for appealing to the record to settle it.
The question is, Which troops went "farthest to the front" —
). e., penetrated the enemy's works farthest — on the 3d day
of July, 1863. at Gettysburg in the famous charge of that day —
Pickett's, Pettigrew's, or Pender's? We say Pickett's; North
Carolinians say Pettigrew's.
In order to understand the situation and the quotations
we shall make from the reports, it is necessary to state what
forces constituted the "charging column" and the dispositions
and alignments of these forces. This column was composed
of Pickett's Virginia Division on the right and a part of
Heth's Division (commanded by Pettigrew) on the left, with
a part of Anderson's Division to guard the left flank of Petti-
grew, and Wilcox's and Perry's Brigades of Anderson's Divi-
sion the right flank of Pickett. Pickett's Division was called
the "directing division," and was composed of Kemper's, Gar-
nett's, and Armislead's Brigades — Kemper's on the right.
Garnctt's on the left, supported by Armistead in the rear and
center. Pettigrew's Division was composed of Archer's, Petti-
grew's, Davis's, and Brockcnbrough's Brigades, supported by
Scales's and Lane's Brigades of Pender's Division, then com-
manded by Gen. Trimble; Scales's Brigade (commanded by
Col. Lowrance) being in rear of Archer's (commanded by
Col. Fry), and Lane's being on the left of Scales, supporting
Pettigrew's Brigade (then commanded by Col. Marshall).
All of the reports refer to the magnificent way in which all of
these troops advanced to the charge, and we shall institute no
comparison between them; they were all gallant and glorious
Confederntc soldiers, and, we believe, the "best the world ever
saw," as they have been pronounced by the present Chief Mag-
istrate of this country.
We come now to the reports. Wc quote first from that of
Gen. Lee, written after he had received those of his subordi-
nates, and based upon what was contained in them, as well as
what he saw on the field ; and his position on the field was
such that he could see the whole movement with distinct-
ness. He says this in his official report:
"Gen. Longstreet ordered forward the column of
attack, consisting of Pickett's and Heth's Divisions in
two lines, Pickett on the right. Wilcox's Brigade
marched in rear of Pickett's riglit to guard that flank,
and Heth's (commanded by Pettigrew) was supported
by Lane's and Scales's Brigades under Gen. Trimble.
The troops moved steadily on under a heavy fire of
musketry and artillery, the main attack being directed
against the enemy's left center. His batteries opened
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as soon as they appeared. Our own, having nearly
exhausted iheir ammunition in the protracted can-
nonade that preceded the advance of the infantry,
were unable to reply or render the necessary support
to the attacking party. Owing to this fact, which
was unknown to me when the assault took place, the
enemy was enabled to throw a strong force of infantry
against our left, already wavering [italics ours] un-
der a concentrated fire of artillery from the ridge in
front and from Cemetery Hill on the left. It (the
left) finally gave way, and the right, after penetrating
the enemy's lines, entering his advance works, and
capturing some of his artillery, was attacked simulta-
neously in front and on both flanks and driven back
with heavy loss."
We have only to remember that Pettigrew's Division wa.-;
on the left and Pickett's on the right to understand clear);
what Gen. Lee here says.
We next quote from Gen. Longstreet's report, who \v;,s
standing not very far from Lee and saw the whole movement.
He says :
"The advance was made in very handsome style, all
the troops keeping their lines accurately and taking
the fire of the batteries with coolness and deliberation.
About halfway between our position and that of the
enemy a ravine partially sheltered our troops from the
enemy's fire, where a short halt was made for rest.
The advance was resumed after a moment's pause, all
still in good order. The enemy's batteries soon opened
on our lines with canister, and the left seemed to
stagger under it, but the advance was resumed and
with the same degree of steadiness. Pickett's troops
did not ajjpcar to be checked by the batteries, and only
halted to deliver a fire when close under musket range.
Maj. Gen. Anderson's Division was ordered forward
to support and assist the wavering columns of Petti-
grew and Trimble. Pickett's troops, after delivering
fire, advanced to the charge, and entered the enemy's
lines, capturing some of his batteries and gaining his
works. About the same mumcnt, the troops that had
before hesitated broke their ranks and fell back in
great disorder [italics ours], many more falling under
the enemy's fire i:i retiring than while they were at-
tacking. This gave the enemy lime to throw his entire
force upon Pickett [italics ours], with a strong pros-
pect of being able to break up his lines or destroy him
before Anderson's Division could reach him, which
would in its turn have greatly exposed Anderson. He
was, therefore, ordered to halt. In a few moments
the enemy, marching against both flanks and the front
of Pickett's Division, overpowered and drove it back,
capturing about half of those of it who were not killed
or wounded "
Surely comment here is unnecessary, and no one who has
read Longstreet's book will accuse hmi of partiality to Vir-
ginians.
We next quote from the report of that gallant soldier and
splendid gentleman. Gen. James H. Lane, who was at first
in command of Pender's Division, but having been relieved
of that by Gen. Trimble, then commanded liis own North
Carolina Brigade. He says:
"Gen. I.ongstrcet ordered me to form in the rear of
the right of Helh's Division, commanded by Gen. Pct-
tigrcw. Soon after I had executed this order, putting
Lowrancc (romnnndlng Scales's Brigade") on the right,
I was relieved of the command of the division by Gen.
Trimble, who acted under the same orders that I re-
ceived. Heth's Division was much larger than Low-
rance's Brigade and my own, which were its only sup-
port, and there was consequently no second line in
rear of its left. Now in command of my own brigade,
I moved forward to the support of Pettigrew's right,
through the woods in which our batteries were plant-
ed, and through an open field about a mile in full
view of the enemy's fortified position and under a
murderous artillery and infantry fire. As soon as
PclHgre-ars command gave back [italics ours] Low-
rance's Brigade and my own, without ever having
halted, took position on the left of the troops, which
■were still contesting the ground with the enemy [ital-
ics ours]. My command never moved forward more
handsomely. The men reserved their fire, in accord-
ance with orders, until within good range of the en-
emy, and then opened with telling effect, repeatedly
driving the cannoneers from their pieces, completely
silencing the guns in our innnediate front, and break-
ing the line of infantry which was formed on the crest
of the hill. We advanced to within a few yards of
the stone wall [italics ours], exposed all the while to
a raking artillery fire from the right. My left was
here very much exposed, and a column of the enemy's
infantry was thrown forward from that direction,
which enfiladed my whole line. This forced me to
withdraw my brigade, the troops on my right having
alieady aone so."
The troops directly on Lane's right were those of Low-
rance. But if he refers to Pickett's too, then he does not
pretend that his own men entered the enemy's works, as
Pickett's did, which, as wc shall see, is the real point at issue.
Scarcely a more striking illustration of the frailty of human
memory or the unsatisfactory nature of the post-bellum
statements relied on entirely, it would seem, by the advo-
cates of North Carolina's claim, can be found than by con-
trasting Gen. Lane's report with what is said by Capt. Louis
G. Young (now of Savannah, Ga., a gallant and gifted Con-
federate who was in charge as an aide on Gen. Pettigrew's
staff), in an address recently delivered by him on Gettys-
burg, a copy of which he has kindly sent us. Capt. Young
says :
"Gen. Trimble and his brigade (division) were not,
and had not been, in supporting distance. They also
must have been delayed, as was Davis's Brigade, in
the woods on Seminary Ridge. Be this as it may,
they were too late to give any assistance to the as-
saulting column. When I delivered my message I
knew it was too late, and I recall my sad reflection,
'What a pity that these brave men should be sacri-
ficed!' Already had the remnant of Pickett's and
Helh's Divisions broken. They broke simultaneously.
They had together struck the stone fence, driven back
the enemy posted behind it, looked down on the mul-
titude beyond, and, in the words of Gen. McLaws,
who was watching the attack, 'rebounded like an In-
dia rubber ball.' The lodgment effected was only
for an instant. Not twenty minutes elapsed, as
claimed by some, before the handful of braves was
driven back by overwhelming numbers. I'heii i'rim-
ble's command should have been ordered to the rear.
It continued its useless advance alone, only to return
before il had gone as far as -,i\- had"
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It will be seen that this statement is (unintentionally, we
know) not only at variance with the report of Gen. Lane,
but also with thos-c of Gens. Lee and l^ngstrcct. both of
whom confirm Gen. Lane in the statement that Pettigrew's
men gave way before those of Piekell did.
But let us quote again from the official reports, and this
time from that of Col. Lowrance, who, it will be rcmembere'l.
commanded Scale's North Carolina Brigade, which was sup-
porting Pettigrcw. He says :
"We advanced upon the enemy's line, which was in
full view at a distance of a mile. Now their whole
line of artillery was playing upon us, which was on
an eminence in front strongly fortified and supported
by infantry." . . . "AH went forward with a cool
and steady step ; but ere wc had advanced over two-
thirds of the way troofis from the front came tearing
through our ranks [italics ours], which caused many
of our men to break, but with the remaining few we
went forward until the right of the brigade touched
the enemy's line of breastworks as we marched in
rather an oblique line. Now the pieces in our front
were silenced. Here many were shot down, being
then exposed to a heavy fire of grape and musketry
upon our right flank. Now all, apparently, had for-
saken us."
Now^ the troops in front of Lowrance were those of Petti-
grew, and he says they gave way a third of a mile before
they got to the enemy's works. But be this at it may, he
nowhere says that any of his men entered the enemy's works;
and none of the reports that we have seen say that any
North Carolina troops did this, which, as we have seen, is
the real point at issue. We have already shown, and will
do so more conclusively later, that Pickett's men, or some
of them, certainly did this. The report of Maj. Joseph A.
Englchard, assistant adjutant general of Pender's Division,
then commanded by Trimble, is substantially to the same
effect as those of Gen. Lane and Col. Lowrance, and for that
reason we do not quote what he says. That of Col. Shepard,
of Archer's Brigade, after describing the charge, and saying
our lines, both right and left, gave way, says:
"Archer's Brigade remained at the works fighting
as long as any other troops, either on their right or
left, so far as I could observe. Every flag in the
brigade, excepting one, was captured at or xvithin the
works of the enemy." (Italics ours.)
This is the only official statement we have found wliich
claimed that any other troops than those of Pickett entered tli-..-
enemy's works. Rut since Archer's Brigade, which. Gen. lleth
says, weie tlic "heroes of Chancellorsville," was composed
entirely of Tennesseeans and Alabamians, we hardly think
our North Carolina friends can mean their claim to be mis-
taken for what the men of this brigade did.
The report of Maj. J. Jones, of the Twenty-Sixth North
Carolina, who commanded Pettigrew's Brigade after Col.
Marshall was wounded, says :
"When within about 250 or 300 yards of the stone
wall, beliind which the enemy was posted, we were
met with a perfect hailstorm of lead from their small
arms. The brigade dashed on, and many had reached
tlic wall, when we received a deadly volley from the
left. The whole line on the left had given way, and
we were being rapidly flanked. With our thinned
ranks and in such a position it would have been folly
to stand, and against such odds. We, therefore, fell
back to our original position in rear of the batteries."
It will be seen that this officer does not claim that any of
his men entered the works or that the troops on his right
(Pickett's and Archer's) gave way first; but those on his Icf:.
the other two brigades of Pettigrew's Division. The reports
of Gens. .\. P. Hill, Heth, and Davis throw no light on the
question, and we have been unable to find any from Gen
Pickett or from any officer of his division, except that of
Maj. Charles S. Peyton, of Garnelt's Brigade, which would
throw any further light on this question. Maj. Peyton sa>i
this:
"Our line, much shattered, still kept up the advance
until within about twenty paces of the wall, when for
a moment it recoiled under the terrific fire that poured
into our ranks both from their batteries and from their
sheltered infantry. At this moment Gen. Kemper
came up on the right and Gen. Armistead in rear,
when the three lines, joining in concert, rushed for-
ward with unyielding determination and an apparent
spirit of laudable rivalry to plant the Southern banner
on the walls of the enemy. His strongest and last
line was instantly gained; the Confederate battle tlag
waved over his defenses, and the fighting over the
wall Ijccamc hand-to-hand and of the most desperate
character; but, more than half having already fallen,
our line was found too weak to rout the enemy. We
hoped for a support on the left (which had started
simultaneously with ourselves), but hoped in vain.
[Italics ours.] Yet a small remnant remained in des-
perate struggle, receiving a fire in front, on the right,
and on the left, many even climbing over the wall
and fighting the enemy in his own trenches until en-
tirely surro'.'.nded ; and those who were not killed or
wounded were captured, with the exception of about
3C0 who came off slowly, but greatly scattered, the
identity of every regiment being entirely lost and
every regimental commander killed or wounded."
Col. Walter H. Taylor, of Gen. Lee's staff, who was on
the field standing by Gen. Lee and saw the movement, says.
"It is needless to say a word here of the heroic
conduct of Pickett's Division. That charge has al-
ready passed into history as 'one of the world's great
deeds of arms.' While doubtless many brave men of
other commands reached the crest of the heights, this
was the only organized body which entered the works
of the enemy."
Gen. Long, who was also on Gen. Lee's staff, after describ-
ing the order in which the charge was made, says:
"But the tempest of fire which burst upon the de-
voted column quickly reduced its strength. The troops
of Hcth's Division (Pettigrew's), decimated by the
storm of deadly hail which tore through their ranks,
faltered and fell hack in disorder before the withering;
volleys of the Federal musketry. This compelled
Pender's (Trimble's) Division, which had marched
nut to support the movement, to fall back, while Wil-
co.\-, on perceiving that the attack had grown hopele>-.
failed to advance, leaving Pickett's men to continue
the charge alone. The other supports, Hood's and
McLaw's Divisions, which had been expected to ad-
vance in support of the charging column, did not
move, and were too remote to offer any assistance.
'I'he consequence was that Pickett was left eiuirely
luisuppoited.
"Yet the gallant Virginians marched steadily for-
ward through the storm of shot and shell that burst
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upon their devoted ranks with a gallantry that has
never been surpassed. As they approached the ridge
their lines were torn by incessant volleys of musketry
as by a deadly hail. Yet, with unfaltering courage,
the brave fellows broke into the double-quick, and
with an irresistible charge burst into the Federal
lines and drove everything before them toward the
crest of Cemetery Hill, leaping the breastworks and
planting their standards on the captured guns with
shouts of victory."
Whilst nearly all of the Federal reports which refer to this
charge do so in almost as enthusiastic terms as the Confed-
erate, yet only two or three of them designate by name the
troops who were in advance and who actually entered their
works. These few, however, leave no doubt on this point.
Gen. Hancock says :
"Wlien the enemy's line had nearly reached the
stone wall, led by Gen. Ariuislcad" [italics ours], etc
Gen. Webb, who commanded the brigade immediately in
front of Pickett, says :
"The tneniy advanced steadily to the fence, driving
out a portion of the Seventy-First Pennsylvania Vol-
unteers. Gen. Armistead passed over the fence xvith
probably over a hundred of his command [italics ours]
and with several battle flags," etc.
Gen. Henry J. Hunt, who commanded the Federal ar-
tillery, says :
"The enemy advanced magnificently, unshaken by
the shot and shell which tore through his ranks from
the front and from our left. . . . When our can-
ister fire and musketry were opened upon them it oc-
casioned disorder, but still they advanced gallantly
until they reached the stone wall, behind which our
troops lay. Here ensued a desperate conflict, tlie
enemy succeeding in passing the wall and entering our
tines [italics ours], causing great destruction of life,
especially among the batteries."
The other reports show what "enemy" is here meant.
It will thus be seen that every one of tlie official reports.
both Federal and Confederate (with the exception of that of
Col. Shepard, of Archer's Brigade, not composed of Caro-
linians), which refer to the troops who entered the enemy'.s
works, point unmistakably to those of Pickett's Virginians.
This is the positive testiinony on this point, and the negative
is almost as strong; which is that none of the ofHeial reports
from the officers commanding the North Carolina troops
make any such claim for liicir troops — a claim that would
certainly have been made if the facts had warranted it. Not
only is this true, but Gen. Lane, in his letter published lon^^
after the war in the "Southern Historical Society papers.'
whilst complaining (and. perhaps, justly) of the little credit
given the North Carolina troops for their conduct in this
charge, makes no such claim for them. Indeed, Capt. S.
A. Ashe, of North Carolina, late adjutant general of Pender's
Division, who was in the charge, in his address published in
Volume V. of "North Carolina Regiments. '6l-'65," whilst
claiming at the close that North Carolina troops "advanced
the farthest and remained the longest," says at page 152:
"Some of Pettigrew's North Carolinians advanced
to the Xi'all itself [italics ours], doing all that splendid
valor and heroic endurance could do to dislodge the
enemy, but their heroism it'oj in vain."
And only a very few of the many post-bellum witnesses
quoted from by Caj)!. Ashe claim any more than the official re-
ports show. As to the value of these post-bellum statements, as
compared with the "official reports" prepared at the time, we
cannot do better than to quote from what Gen. Lane said
in the article in the Southern Historical Society papers be-
fore referred to. He says, speaking of his own report of
the battle of Gettysburg :
"I am sure the public will consider this official paper,
written about a month after the battle, a more valua-
ble historical document than the many recent articles
written from memory, which is at all times treach-
erous, and as every Confederate soldier knows, par-
ticularly so as regards the incidents, etc., of our heroic
struggle for independence."
He then goes on to give instances of the unreliability of
these writings from memory.
We have heretofore said we could find no ofiicial report
of this battle from Gen. Pickett. The following letter ex-
Iilains why this report was not published. It will be found
in Series I, Volume XXVII., Part III., page 1075, "Reb. Rec..''
and is as follows :
"Gen. George E. Pickett, Coinmanding, etc.
"General: You and your men have crowned your-
selves with glory ; but we have the enemy to fight, and
must carefully, at this critical moment, guard against
dissensions which the reflections in your report would
create. I will, therefore, suggest that you destroy
both copy and original, substituting one confined to
casualties merely. I hope all will yet be well.
"I am, with respect, your obedient servant,
"R. E. Lee, General."
We make no comment on this letter, and when read in the
light of the official reports, it would seem to need none.
We do not intend to be misunderstood. We have not done -o
and do not intend to reflect in any way on any of the Nortli
Carolina troops. On the contrary, we think, considering the
fact that they were engaged and sustained heavy losses in the
first day's battle, and were thus deprived of many of their
brigade, regimental, and company officers they behaved wi!h
signal gallantry. But our contention and our only point is:
that the present claim set up by North Carolina that her
troops w-ere "farthest to the front'' at Gettysburg is not sus-
tained by the record.
We have recently learned that our friends from North
Carolina do not now claim that their men entered the
enemy's works, as some of Pickett's did. Yet they say that
inasmuch as at the point where Pickett's men struck these
works they were farther advanced to the front than where
Pettigrew's men struck them, and as "Capt. Satterfield and
other North Carolinians of the Fifty-Fifth North Carolina fell
within nine yards of that wall. This settles (it) that the
men from this State (North Carolina) fairly earned the title
"Farthest at Gettysburg." (Note by the editor. "North Caro-
lina Regiments. '6i-'65," Vol. V., p. loi.)
We remark in the first place that the Fifty-Fifth North
Carolina was in Davis' Brigade, the farthest brigade to the
left (save one) in the "charging column," and being without
any support, as explained by Gen. Lane, we thouglit it was
conceded that this brigade and Brockcnbrough's were the
first troo/ts to give -i'i:y.
But surely our friends arc not basing their claim on any
such narrow and technical ground as is here indicated, and
as surely this is not the meaning they intended to convey by
this claim. We might as well claim that the picket on the
flank of Meade's army or captured within his lines was"farthest
to the front." Every soldier knows that the "front" of on
army is n'hcrevcr its line of battle is (wfiether that line is
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^ig^og or straight), and the opposing troops which penetrate
that line are farther to the front than those which do not.
We have shown, we think, conclusively that the yirginians
under Pickett did penetrate the enemy's line on the 3d .-/
July, '63, in the famous charge at Gettysburg, and that the
North Caroiiutans. under I'clligrc-c and Trimble, did not.
Another ground on which, we understand, North Carolina
liases this claim is. that her losses in this battle were greater
than those of Pickett. All the statistics of losses we have
seen of the battle of Gettysburg include those in the dif-
ferent commands 111 all three days combined. Since, there-
fore, Pettigrew's and Trimble's men were engaged in the
battles of the first day as well as those of the third, and as
Pickett's were only engaged on the third day. of course the
losses of the first two divisions in the two days' battles
were greater than those of the last named in the one day's
battle.
If our friends from North Carolina would a<lopt tlie lan-
guage of her gallant son, Capt. Ashe, from wliom we have
already quoted, and say of Gettysburg,
"It was, indeed, a field of honor as well as a field of
blood, and the sister States of Virginia and North
Carolina have equal cause to weave chaplcts of laurel
and cypress there,"
no one in Virginia would have just cause of complaint
and certainly none would ever have come from this committee
on this point. But when her claim is set forth in the in-
vidious (and, we think, unjust) form it is, we think it not only
our right but our duty to appeal to the record, and to set
Virginia right from that itcord, and this is all we have tried
to do.
AS TO CHICKA.MAUGA.
As TO Chickamait.a: We have already protracted this re-
port too far to warrant us in investigating the ground on
which this claim is based by North Carolina. Virginia was at
Chickamauga, too, along with North Carolina. We have al-
ways understood that these Virginia troops did their duty on
this field as well as those from any other State. This is all
we claim, and all that was claimed for North Carolina until
very recently. We can only remark as to this belated claim
that wc have read the full and detailed report of this great
battle, written by the commanding general, a native of North
Carolina, and in it he nowhere refers to any specially meri-
torious services rendered by the few North Carolina troops
there.
A.S ro AI'I'OMATTOX.
As TO App.jMArTox : The writer had been permanently dis-
abled by wounds before Appomattox, and, therefore, can-
not speak personally of what occurred there, and there are
no official reports to appeal to. From what we have heard of
the surroundings there — the scattered condition of the differ-
ent commands, the desultory firing, and the confusi-- inci-
dent to that event — we should think it difTicult, if not im-
possible, to prove with any degree of certainty what troops
were really entitled to the honor claimed tliere by North
Carolina.
We do not know, however, thai tliis honor is claimed by
troops from several of the Southern Stales ; and we have
heard it asserted with great plausibility that the last fighting
was done by troops from Virginia. We cannot prolong this
report to discuss the merits of these several claims, a dis-
cussion which would, in oiir opinion, be both fruitless and
unsatisfactory.
ENOUGH CLOKV ICR ALL TO HAVE A SHARE.
In the .^rmy of Northern Virginia nearly every Southern
State was represented. The Confederate Secretary of War
says of that army in his report of November 3, 1864, that it
was one "in which every virtue of an army and the genius of
consummate generalship had been displayed." And this
again, we believe, is the world's verdict. Is not this glory
enough to give us all a share? Let us then not be envious
and jealous of each other where all .did their part so well.
vi8::inia's claims.
Virginia makts no boast of the part borne by her in that,
the greatest crisis of her history. She only claims that she did
her duty to the best of her abiltly. She has, therefore, no apol-
ogies to make either for what she did or may have failed to do.
It is true that she was somewhat reluctant to join the Con-
federacy, not because she had any doubt of the right of
secession or of the justice of the Confederate cause, but only
because of her devotion to the union of our fathers which
she had done so much to form and to maintain from its
foundation. But when she did cast her lot with her South-
ern sisters, she bore her part with a courage and devotion
never surpassed ; and the record shous this in no uncertain
li'fly. In the address issued and signed by every member of
the Confederate Congress in February, 1864, not written by
a Virginian, she is thus referred to:
"In Virginia the model of all that illustrates human
heroism and self-denying patriotism, although the
tempest of desolation has swept over her fair domain,
no sign of repentance for her separation from the
North can be found. Her old homesteads dismantled ;
her ancestral relics destroyed ; her people impover-
ished ; her territory made the battle ground for the
rude shocks of contending hosts, and then divided
with hireling parasites, mockingly claiming jurisdic-
tion and authority, the Old Dominion still stands with
proud cre.st and defiant mien ready to trample beneath
her heel every usurper and tyrant, and to illustrate
afresh her Sic Sanpcr Tyrauiiis, the proudest motto
that ever blazed on a nation's shield or a warrior's
arms."
On such ic-jtimony as this \'irginia can safely rest her
title to share equally with her Southern sisters in the "wealth
of glory" produced by the war, and this equality is all she
asks or would have. She disdains to pluck one laurel from
a sister's brow.
SCHOOLBOOKS.
We have but little to add, since our last report, about the
books used in our schools, as there has been no change in
these so far as we know. We have received from the pub-
lishers, the American Book Company, a copy of the
"School History of the United States," by Philip A. Bruce,
Esq. This wt>rk is well-written, accurate in its statements,
as far as we are capable of judging, well gotten up by the
publishers, and is a very good school history. Mr. Bruce is
a Virginian, and his book is therefore written from a South-
ern point of view. But we think he fails to state the South's
position, in reference to the late war, as strongly as it can or
should be stated to our children — e. g., at Section 418. he
says,
"The Soutluvn people maiiitained that the Constitu-
tion was simply a compact or agreement between sov-
ereign and independent States," ,
etc., without saying whether they were right or wrong in so
maintaining. Again, at Section 419, he says, "The South
thought," etc. We think we know what the opinions of the
author are on these important questions, and that our children
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should have the benefit of these opinions, wherever they are
based on such well-ascertained facts as are here referred to.
"stepping-stones to literature."
The volumes with this title have been brought to our at-
tention by Capt. Carter R. Bishop, of Petersburg, a member
of the committee; and at our request he has prepared the fol-
lowing, it would seem, well-merited criticism, which we re-
spectfully commend to the serious consideration of the
Board of Education of the State.
Capt. Bishop's paper is as follows:
"This committee has hitherto confined its attention
entirely to matters of history proper; but the lamented
Dr. Hunter McGuire, in outlining our work, included
among the subjects of our criticism such text-books of
our schools as failed to do justice to the South.
"We have recently examined, critically, the series of
readers in most common use, and find them far from
what they should be. An intelligent child soon learns
tliat authors may dogmatize in the statement of facts
about which there may be a difference of opinion.
This puts him on his guard, and he accepts the teach-
ings of his history as truths subject to such future cor-
rection as may be justified by a wider knowledge of
the matter.
"But the most ineradicable opinions are those
formed by inference, without assertion or contradiction,
during the formative period of a child's mind. The
error thus implanted is never suspected till it is un-
alterably fixed. There are poisons whose only mani-
festation is the inexplicable death of the victim. An
antidote would have saved him, but its need was not
indicated till death made it useless,
I "Did the South, during the last century and a half.
have no orators, poets, nor writers whose works might
be of service in the literary development of the child?
Were the Southerners so enervated by the luxury of
slavery as to produce nothing worthy of a place among
the selections from the best writers and speakers of
the language? The average child using the 'Step-
piug-Sloncs to Literature' would be forced so to con-
clude. For, mark you, this series of readers consists
of seven grades; the majority of children in our
schools never reach the last or the seventh, and in
this one oiiily is there a word from a Southern lip or
pen. The selections were made, or approved, by a Bos-
ton lady, naturally, from the literature with which she
was most familiar. The New England school of au-
thors is fully represented, and biographical notes make
sure that the child shall know the section to which
they belong and the loving reverence in which they
arc held. But the information of this kind about the
Southern authors is marked in its meagerness. Its
extent is as follows: Patrick Henry 'lived in Virginia
during the Revolutionary War ;' Mrs. Preston 'was
born in Philadelphia and lived in Lexington, Va. :'
'Gen. Gordon was a Confederate ofl5cer ;' and 'Sidney
Lanier was a Southern poet.' For the man who does
not want his child to know more than this of the
home and nativity of Southern authors, these books
are good enough. But if there is such a man in our
land, his only plea for such a wish would have to be
his own unbounded ignorance.
"The South has produced orators whose impetuous
eloquence has made men rush with a glad cheer into
the very jaws of death ; statesmen whose wise counsel
has restrained the fierce heat of a hot-blooded people;
preachers whose words have convinced the sinner,
cheered the saint, and comforted the bereaved ; writers
whose sentiments have placed the wreath of undying
glor)' on the tombs of heroes, and inspired a people of
desolated homes to rehabilitate their land made sacred
by the graves of such heroes ; poets whose graceful
fancy has gilded the mountain tops with the lights
of other days and caused those in the gloom of despair
to look up and resolve to lead lives worthy of such
hallowed associations.
"Must the children of the South grow up in igno-
rance of these authors? Such is the unconscious in-
tent of our Board of Public Education, as evinced by
their adoption of these readers for our schools. '
"The seventy-eighth Psalm contains a long catalogue
of God's dealings with his chosen people. It was ap-
pointed to be sung in the temple service. Was it that
the elders might warm their hearts afresh and restrain
their evil inclinations as they recited again and again
God's mercies and his wrath? Possibly this was one
result of its use, but that it was not its main object
we learn from the introduction to this psalm of in-
struction where we read : 'For he established a tes-
timony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which
he commanded our fathers that they should make
them known to their children; that the, generation to
come might know them, even the children which
should be born ; who should arise and declare them
to their children.' There you have it. The divine
plan was to lodge that which we wish to remain in
the mind of the child. Can we improve upon His
plan?
"If we wish the authors so dear to us, of whom we
are so justly proud, to be loved in the future, or even
known outside of a mere handful of dry and bloodless
bookworms, wc must to day make them known to our
children.
"All the criticisms so far made on the 'Steppinj-
Stones to Literature' are negative. We have pointed
out things that are wanting. But there is one selec-
tion to which we shall call special attention. It is
'The Battle Hymn of the Republic,' by Julia Ward
Howe, in the Sixth Reader, wdiich represents the in-
vading Northern army as the coming of the Lord in
vengeance. Comment on such blasphemy is unneces-
sary. Surely no Southerner could have taken the
trouble to advise himself of the existence of such an
outrage on our children."
Respectfully submitted.
Gecrge L. Christi.^n, Chairman.
Neiv History Committee. — John W. Daniel, Chairman;
George L. Christian, R. T. Barton, Carter R. Bishop, R. A,
Brock, Rev. B. D. Tucker, James Mann, R. S. B. Smith,
T. H. Edwards, W. H. Hurkamp, John W. Fulton, Micajah
Woods, John W. Johnston, Thomas D. Ranson.
While Kentucky and Missouri are making plain that they
will not submit quietly to discriminations against their States
in the Jefferson Davis Monument, Maryland is as determined,
as she expressed herself through delegates in the Charleston
Convention, U. D. C. At the recent convention of Daughters
in Maryland it was determined to continuation of the plan.
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CONFEDERATE SAl'AL CADETS.
BV JOHN W. HARRIS, M.D., STAIXTON, VA.
It may not be known generally that the Confederate gov-
ernment had established and conducted through the la^t three
years of its existence a regularly organized and well-perfected
naval school for the educatidii of naval officers. Early in 18O2
a prospectus appeared iii <ine of the Richmond papers an-
nouncing the formation of an academy for the instruction of
midshipmen ; and soon after, by regular congressional appoint-
ments, the various districts of the Confederacy were enlisted.
The school was under the command of Capt. William H.
Parker, a lieutenant of the old service. Assistant instructors
in the various departments were detailed, some of them e.<-
students of Anna|)nlis. and others men of high scholarship
selected from the army. The steamer Yorktown, which, a
few months before, had participated in the conflict of the
Mcrrimac and the Monitor as a tender to the former ship,
was fitted up. given the name of Patrick Henry, and anchored
off the shore batteries at Drewry's Bluffs, where the school was
quartered in cottages built for the purpose. Here she re-
mained for a short time, and was then lowed up the river to
within two miles of Richmond, where she lay for nearly a
year with the entire academy on board, and finally, about
eight months previous to the surrender, was moved up to the
city and lay at Rocketts, where she perished in the flames of
the 3d of .April. 186.S.
In March. 1865, the health of the crew became impaired bv
the foulness of bilge water, and the midshipmen were re-
moved from the ship and quartered in a large tobacco factory
on the corner of Twenty-Fourth and Franklin Streets. The
writer, in company with twelve or fifteen others, had been
sent to the naval hospital in the city some two weeks previous
On Sunday, the 2d of April, there were an.xious looks upon
the faces of the medical officers of the hospital, and about four
o clock in the afternoon a midslupman. coming into the ward
to sec a sick comrade, met the jeers and amused expressions
of many of us becau.se he was armed and equipped as an in-
fantry soldier instead of the dainty dress of the Confederate
Middy. Ihe visitor informed us that at two o'clock that
day orders had been issued for the corps to be armed as in-
fantry, and ihal they had been marched to the naval store-
house in double-(|uick time and supplied with all the neces-
sary accouterments. Other rumors came in that members
OJ the senior class and .some passed midshipmen iiad been
seen as officers in infantry marching through the streets
and that a naval brigade had been formed and tile iron-clad
squadron at Urewry's Bluff had been abaiuloned
I hen begai; a bustle in and about the wards, and at sundown
the statement was freely bandied around that the President
and cabinet had left the city, and that it was to be evacuated
at cnce At eight o'clock the writer and two comrades drove
m the hospital ambulance to the quarters of the midshipmen
at the factory and found it empty. On one of the upper floor,
was the mahogany table and the silver table service of the
wardroom, watched over by an old boatswain's mate, and
sitting in solemn state at the bottom of it, drinking and eating
crackers, was the second lieutenant. To him we mentioned
the rumors, asked where the boys had gone, and requested
to have the sailors transport our baggage to the depot from
which the school had started. These he met with ridicule.
-<lenied the evacuation of the city, and said the "Middies" had
Kone to Chapel Hill. N. C, which would be the seat of the
]iaval academy for the rest of tlie war. He told us to return
to the hospital and retire, and the next day leave with him
and two other mid.-hipmen for Chapel Hill. We did so, and
on the next morning were awakened by the explosion of the
magazines. Dressing rapidly, we proceeded to the surgeon's
office and received our discharge from the hospital, with "per-
mission to leave the city."
On going out into the street it appeared as if the final day
of doom was upon us. The air was filled with smoke and
sparks, and ilie darkness of twilight was over and about tht
city. Stores were being broken open and rifled; dead men-
shot down in the attempt to rob— were lying at intervals,
while negroes fought over barrels of provisions that had been
rolled from burning warehouses. Mingled with the roar
of flames came the appalling crash of exploding magazines
and the rumble of falling walls. Rapidly as possible we forced
our way through the frantic masses and gained the Danville
railroad bridge, only to find it in flames at different points
and no evidence of trains on the southern side. Retracing
our steps, we sought egress from the north side of the city.
When crossing Main Street we noticed two blocks below us,
advancing on a trot, a regiment of Federal cavalry. They
overlook us and rode by without observing us. although we
were gorgeous in full uniform, but without side arms or ac-
couterments. save small haversacks, in which we had stored
all the crackers we could get. By means ol a locomotive ob-
tained under compulsion and with the assistance of two army
officers, we rode twenty-five miles from Richmond, and then,
having no experienced engineer, and the steam being ex-
hausted, we abandoned it on a side track, and reached the
N'alley of Virginia after days of toilsome progress on foot.
The Confederate Treasirv.
Going back now to the departure of the midshipmen from
the warehouse, we can trace the connection of the naval
academy with the fleeing treasury of the Confederacy. For
the following accurate narrative we are indebted to the diary
of Midshipman R. H. Fleming, then a zealous and efficient
young officer, and now a Presbyterian minister of prominence
in Virginia. He says:
"We left our quarters at the tobacco factory at 4 P.M. on
Sunday, and proceeded rapidly to the Danville depot. On
reaching il uc were formed in line and were addressed by
Capt. Lowall. the coinmandaiu of midshipmen, who told us
that we had been selected by the Secretary because he be-
lieved us to be brave, honest, and discreet young officers and
gentlemen, for a service of peculiar danger and delicacy.
That to our guardianship was to be committed a valuable
train containing the archives of the government, with its
money. We were then marched into the depot, where our
train, in company with others, was receiving freight. Guards
were placed at all entrances, and the squad, with lixed ba>
nets, cleared the building of loafers and citizens.
"The train left the depot at midnight, and two mid-
shipmen, with loaded revolvers, were placed in each car con-
taining the government boxes, one to sleep while the other
w^atched. In these cars were also government clerks with
several ladies, their wives, and their personal baggage. The
next day we reached Danville, and on the 5th of .\pril Ad-
miral Semmes, with the men of the James River squadron
(the ironclads had been blown up on the night of the 2d),
reached the point and were assigned to its defense. Mid-
shipman Semmes was here detailed to his father's staff, and
Midshipmnn Breckcnridge accompanied his father (Secretary
of War) as his p'?rsonal aid. Our train stood on the track
not far from the depot, and our cncampnient was in a grove
not far from the train.
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"On the Qth of April we left Danville and reached Greens-
tioro, N. C, about 4 I'.m. tlie loth ; then on to Charlotte.
While there the money was placed in the mint and the mid-
shipmen feasted at the leading hotels. On the 13th we were
off for Chester, S. C. Here the government's specie, papers,
treasury clerks and their wives, etc., were placed in wagons for
a march across country to the railroad at Newberry. I saw
the cargo transferred to the wagons, and there were small
square boxes which w-e supposed contained gold or bullion,
and kegs resembling beer kegs, which we inferred contained
silver. The train was not a long one. Mrs. Davis and child
and nurse occupied a large ambulance. I do not know wheth-
er she joined us at Greensboro or Charlotte. We marched to
Newberry, reaching there on the 15th of April, and the same
day look cars for Abbeville. Left Abl)eville with wagon train
on the 17th and reached Washington, Ga., on the iQlb. We
w'ent to Augusta, Ga., on the 20th, and here the money was
lilaced in the vaults of a bank. Some of it, I know not how
much, was .sold to citizens: at least men crowded round with
Confederate currency to get gold. On the 26th we were or-
dered back to Washington, Ga., 'the things' going along w-ith
us. (It seems that the 'middies' had playfully dubbed the
specie boxes "the things.')
"On the 27ih the midshipmen wlw desired them were offered
fnrlinighs, which ^vero accepted l\v all but five N'irginians^
Quarles, Hudson, Slaughter, Carter, and Fleming. 'The
things' were again put in wagons, and across the country we
marched on the 29th of April to Abbeville, S. C, where "the
things' were put on board some cars that stood at the depot.
Wc had no guard duty to do after leaving Washington, Ga.
On May the 2d President Davis and staff and Cabinet reached
Abbeville, coming. I imagined, from Charlotte on horseback.
On that day we five A'irginians were discharged as per the
following order, probably the last official act of the n.-ivy of
tlie Confederate States;
" '.\i;iiF.vii.i.F.. S. C. May 2. 1865.
" 'Sii : 'i'ou are hereby detached from llic Naval School,
and leave is granted you to visit your home. Von will re-
port by letter to the Hon. Secretary of the Navy as soon as
practicable. Paymaster Wheless will issue you ten days'
rations, and all iiuartermasters are requested to furnish Irans-
portation.
"'Respectfully, your obdt. servant.
WlLLI.SM H. P.VRKER. Coiiiiiiaiidiiig.' "
In continuation Mr. Fleming does not know when the money
left Abbeville, Inn thinks it was on the morning of the isl
of May. Some money was paid to the soldiers at Greens-
boro, how much he did not know, but says he observed sol-
diers ci: roitic home rattling coins in their pockets and singing
"One dollar and tifleen cents for four years' service." The
President and staff left on the night of the 2d. A committee
of five discharged midshipmen, through Capt. Parker, re-
quested Secretary Kea.gan before leaving to pay them in gold
sufficient to enable them to reach home. He obtained several
hundred dollars to be distributed pro rata among the naval offi-
cers, and the midshipmen received forty dollars apiece. They
remained in Abbeville until May 7, when they started home-
ward. A few days before the remaining specie had been placed
in charge of some general of the army, and there personal
knowledge of it ends.
This is the high testimony of a man who had followed
closely the fortunes of the Confederate cause in its death
throes, and who adhered until the last feeble nucleus of an or
ganization had dissolved. In the close of a private communi-
cation recently received from him he says, referring to the
imputations against President Davis and hi- connection with
the government money : "I have no word of commendation
for his accusers. Mr. Davis was never with the specie train
a single day during our connection with it."
We contribute this as a subject which has never been re-
ferred to in any written records of the war, and it possibly
contains a more succinct history of the route pursued by the
heads of the government after the 3d of .April than any yet
given.
We have ever regarded the safe transit of this treasure
through so large an area of country as a tribute to the honesty
and law-abidmg spirit of the Southern people. It will not be
forgotten that the region through which it passed, with its
little guard of forty boys, was filled with stragglers and un-
oflficered bands of scattered and sufl'ering soldiers — men know-
ing all the pangs of hunger and destitution of clothing and •
utterly hopeless of the success of their cause, yet men who
obeyed through their sense of right when no law existed,
and kept their hands free from the stain of robbery while
boxes of this treasure lay in their midst, w-ith only the lives
of its slender little bodyguard between them and its possession.
Dr. John W. Harris was born in .\ugusta County, \''a.,
July 16. 1848. His father was Dr. Clement R. Harris, M.D..
surgeon in charge of the gangrene ward in Dellivan Hospital,
at Charlottesville. \"a. His mother was Eliza McCue, of
Scotch descent. His early boyhood was sjient near Brandy
Station. Culpeper County. \'a. This home was broken up by
the war. In 180,^64 he entered the Confederate States' serv-
ice from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.,
enlisting with Mosby. He could, in his vivid and versatile
manner, tell of his experience with this command, which was
varied, and oftentimes savored of hairbreadth escapes. In
January. 18(15. he received from his Congressman the appoint-
ment of midshipman in the Confederate States Navy. He
passed his examination before Secretary Mallory. and went
aboard the school ship Patrick Henry at Rocketts. James River,
Richmond. \'a.. where he remained until a few days before the
evacuation of Richmond, when, with many of the ship's crew,
having contracted dysentery, he was sent to the old Bellcview
Block Hospital, at which place the ever-memorable morning
of the 3d of April, 1865, found bun somewhat improved, tliough
by no means sufficiently able 10 undertake the journey after re-
ceiving his discharge. He. with two of his shipmates, began
a forced and weary tramp, however, up the old Central rail-
road for Staunton, Va. They tarried and rested a few^ hours
with his friend Mr. Pratt, at the University of Virginia, and
in du'- time they reached the old homestead at Mt. Solon,
Augusta County.
We all know- what those days were to older luads and hearts
than his, but he carried with him to the end the consciousness
that he had stood by his State through her dreadful ordeal.
While at the University of \'irginia, three years after the war,
he formed a lasting friendship with his classmate, the late
lamented Henry W. Grady, whose untimely death he deeply
mourned. These two friends died of the same disease only
one month apart. Dr. Harris studied the problems of unity
between the North and South, and thought that Grady's
genius was the touchstone that would be a power in formula-
ting this unity of interests.
During the prevailing epidemic of la grippe which ap-
peared in Staunton in 1890 Dr. Harris was engaged in taking
care of others, and in thus exposing himself to the weather
he contracted a cold, which was followed by acute pneumonia,
and this resulted in heart failure, which was the immediate
cause of his death. January 24, 1890. He fell with his "har-
ness" on in the failhful discharge of his professional duties.
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HOW ERRORS BECOME "HISTORIC FACTS"
[The following article, written by Capt. John H. Bingham,
who commanded "Douglas's Battery" in the battle of Mission-
ary Ridge, was indorsed by the J. W. Throckmorton Camp,
U. C. v., with request that it be published in the Veteran.)
A vivid illustration is here given of how errors, uncor-
rected, may finally be accepted as historical facts. No better
illustration of this can be given than that which occurred at
the battle of Missionary Ridge, near Chattanooga, on Novem-
ber 23-25, 1863. The writer served in the command of Gen.
Patrick R. Cleburne from July, 1862, till his death, and it is
of that immediate command that he writes, and gives a single
incident illustrating the seemingly contradictory caption of
Jhis article:
Cleburne's Division, Bragg's Army, was at Tyner's Station,
partly entrained, destined to Knoxville to reenforcc Gen.
Longstreet, when peremptory orders were received from Gen.
Bragg to return to Missionary Ridge. As was his custom,
Cleburne delayed not ; but immediately set out on the march,
and reached the designated point in the line of battle about
midnight. At break of next day the men set about fortifying
the position they were expected to hold, directed by Lieut.
Gen. Hardee and Maj. Gen. Cleburne. It was found that our
division front extended from near Tunnel Hill, where the
railroad passed through the Ridge, to where the Ridge was
cut by Chickamauga Creek. This was the north end of the
Ridge, and the right flank of the Confederate army.
I he plan of Gen. Grant, commanding the Federal army, was
to turn our right flank, capture our works, and drive Bragg's
army down the ridge. Sherman's army, consisting of the divi-
sions of Gens. Osierhaus. Morgan Smith, Ewing, and John
E. Smith, with sixteen batteries, was assigned the task of
making this flank movement. Cleburne's Division consisted
of the brigades of Gens. Lowery, L. E. Polk, Liddell (after-
wards Govan's), and Smith (afterwards Granbury's). His
artillery battalion consisted of Douglas's Texas Battery,
Sweatt's Mississippi Battery, Calvert's Arkansas Battery, and
Seniple's Alabama Battery— all told about six thousand men.
The battalion was connnandcd by Capt. James P. Douglas.
The morning of the trial came in with a cold north wind
and bright sunshine. Our men heard hearty cheering in their
front. This was over the capture of an unoccupied ridge,
which they supposed to be Mission Ridge^ All morning
Hardee and Cleburne had been busy inspecting, rectifying, and
strengthening the lines in our front. They appeared to know
what was coming. By command of Gen. Hardee an angle
line, or wing, was run from the north end of the ridge east,
somewhat retiring, to the wagon bridge crossing the creek, in
rear of our position. The care of this line, angle or wing, was
intrusted to Cleburne's old brigade, under the command of
Gen. L. E. Polk and Douglas's Battery.
All was ready. We had not long to wait. About 8 or 9 a.m.
the assault was made on the front lines and repulsed handsome-
ly. In a short time the second assault was made, and severe
fighting ensued. The troops stationed in the wing were has-
tened to the front line and took part in the fighting. When the
enemy was repulsed these troops were quietly returned to their
positions in the angle or wing.
Soon Gen. Osterhaus, who had crossed the creek and gained
our rear, made a demonstration against the wing and was re-
pulsed. Again he tried and failed. After this he contented
himself with a miserable shelling which he dignified with the
title of "Artillery Attack," more than half his shells going over
our heads and falling among Sherman's men, who were being
rallied in the valley west of the ridge. The boys astonished
him with rousing cheers every time he would let loose a salvo
at us.
Again a determined assault was made on the front and the
line imperiled, the troops from the wing were hurried to the
relief of the main line, leaving only a skirmish line to hold the
wing.
Gen. Sherman learned from his line of battle that the Con-
federates were reenforcing in his front, infantry and artillery
were continually coming in. and appealed to Grant for re-
enforcements. Grant inferred that Bragg was massing his
troops on the north, but still adherr-d to the original plan of
turning the Confederate right, and reenforced Sherman.
About noon the enemy, being heavily reenforced, made a
most determined attack upon Cleburne's poor, ill-fed, ill-
clothed, shivering division, with four lines of battle, the first
canning fence rails. After a serious loss they made a lodg-
ment close to the breastworks, where Douglas's guns could
not reach them either by direct or cross fire. They held on
tenaciously, and it looked like they had come to slay. Sweatt's
Mi?sis.sippi Battery, under the command of Lieut. Harvey
Shannon — the best of them all — held the storm center. It
came out of the battle commanded by a corporal. This was
indeed a critical time; but the Arkansas and Texas boys
(Josh and Chub) proved themselves equal to the emergency,
and, jumping the breastworks, drove the enemy down the
hill with rocks. While this may seem incredible, yet it is
true. You have in your Camp a member who was a captain
in the Tenth Texas and a participant in this rock fight. Let
him tell the story. I was only an eyewitness at a distance of
two hundred yards.
Now, for those fads mentioned before :
Capt. S. H. M. Byers, U. S. V., who fell close to the works,
and remained a prisoner, says: "We were overwhelmed with
numbers. We could see the Rebels working their guns, while
in plain view other batteries galloped up, unlimbered, and let
loose at us." ("Battles and Leaders of Civil War," Vol. III.,
page 713.)
In his report of the battle. Gen. Grant says: "Sherman had
three divisions of his own army, Howard's Corps from the
Army of the Potomac, and Jeff C. Davis's Division, of the
Army of the Cumberland. From the position I occupied I
could see column after column of Bragg's army moving
against Sherman ; every Confederate gun that could be brought
to bear upon the Union forces was concentrated against him."
Thus even Gen. Grant was misled by his own eyes.
Gen. Joseph S. Fullertun, U. S. A., says : "At the northern
end of the ridge Gen. Sherman lost in his two days' fighting
I,6y7 in killed and wounded. Of these, 1,268 were in his own
three divisions." (Ibid., page 720.) This is no doubt correct.
The remaining 429 were from Howard's Corps and Jeff C.
Davis's Division, both of which commands participated in the
last assault on I he front line.
Gen. Bragg, in his report of the battle, says: "During this
time the enemy had made several attempts on our extreme
right, and had been handsomely repulsed with very heavy
loss, by Maj. Gen. Cleburne's Command, under the immediate
direction of Lieut. Gen. Hardee. . . . Had all parts of the
line been maintained with equal gallantry and persistence, no
enemy could ever have dislodged us."
Gen. Bragg makes no mention of sending Cleburne re-
enforcements, nor did any man in Cleburne's Division see those
"columns of infantry and artillery" sent to his support.
Gen. Cleburne's report of the battle makes no mention of
asking for or receiving reenforcemenls.
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The skillful handling of a small body of troops, belonging to
Cleburne's Division, not numbering more than 1,200 men, by
interior and concealed roads, made the erroneous impression
upon those in our front that heavy reenforcements were com-
ing to our relief.
Thus the error that "Bragg inassed his army on the right
to resist Sherman's 30,000 men" has gone into history, and in
a very few years will be an undisputed fact unless thwarted
by those who know better.
CONFEDERATES' PLACE IN PROCESSIONS.
R. S. Ogburn, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions
for the "Tige" Anderson Camp, No. 1455, U. C. V., Atlanta,
recently submitted suggestions on the subject of Confederate
Veterans in public parades. The Camp by a rising vote indorsed
the sentiment and passed the following resolutions:
"That this Camp enter its protest against the practice which
is often carried out in processions and demonstrations of
placing the Confederate Veterans in the rear, or at the tail of
such processions, their positions being, as it deserves, at the
front, where their duty always found them in time of war;
and that this Camp entirely disapproves of any other assign-
ment in the line of procession.
"Resolved fiirlher, That the Camps of U. C. V. every-
where adopt similar resolutions."
Indelicate as the foregoing may seem, it is an important con-
sideration. Position "at the front" is merited, but the Veterans
can hardly afford to demand the consideration. They could,
however, by resolution adopted generally, decline to march in
parades if the position they think merited is not accorded to
them.
REMINISCENCES FROM THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI.
W. L. Cibell, Lieutenant General Commanding Trans-
Mississippi Department, U. C. V., writes of a noted flag :
"I read with a great deal of pleasure Comrade W. Q. Tru-
man's fine account of the battle of Elkhorn, and particularly
what he says in reference to a beautiful battle flag he saw in
the possession of an Arkansas Regiment on the battlefield,
Imt which in a short time was found lying on the ground
liy a member of Capt. Wales's Battery. He describes the flag
made by my wife and sent to her cousin. Col. Frank Rector,
ni command of an Arkansas regiment. It was indeed one of
the finest flags ever presented to any regiment — the name,
'Col. Rector, Seventeenth Arkansas Regiment,' worked m
golden letters, heavy gold fringe, and with cord and tassel,
staff and golden spear.
"The day before Gen. Little left for Corinth, he sent for me,
and gave me the flag and requested nie to return it to Col.
Rector, saying that some officer of his division had picked
it up on the battlefield and brought it to him, and as my wife
had made it, he wanted me to return it in person. I met Col.
Rector the next day, just as he was leaving for Arkansas
on account of ill health. The flag had eventually been tram-
pled upon. Comrade Truman mistook the name of Rector
for Reeves. Rector, on account of his health, resigned, and
Lieut. Col. John Griflith, a brave and a daring man, was pro-
moted to the colonelcy of the Seventeenth Arkansas Regi-
ment. This regiment carried this flag, I understand, in every
other battle until the close of the war.
"In the battle of luka the Seventeenth Arkansas was in
Hebert's Brigade, Little's Division, and distinguished itself in
the capture of a Wisconsin battery of artillery. Their losses
were very heavy, but they fought under this flag until it was
furled and laid away. All the field oflicers have crossed to
the great beyond. Col. John Griflith, the last commander of
the regiment, w^as murdered by some outlaws in Comanche
County about five years ago. A large majority, no doubt, of
the gallant old Seventeenth Arkansas Infantry have answered
the last roll call."
THE PELHAM MONUMENT.
For some time the whole interest of the Gen. John H.
Forney Chapter of the U. D. C, of Jacksonville, Ala., has
been centered in the raising of funds for the erection of a
monument to the "gallant Pelham." The body of Pelham lies
in the cemetery at Jacksonville, and it is the desire of his family
that it remain there by the side of his father and mother.
A committee has been appointed to study designs and ma-
terials for monuments, preparatory to selecting a suitable one.
The hope is to place the monument sometime this year. Aid
has been asked of the different Chapters U. D. C. of Ala-
bama, and also the Sons of Veterans, not only because they
feel that unaided it will take a much longer time to erect as
handsome a monument as the fame of Pelham demands, but
they feel that it is not a local but a Southern interest, and that
other organizations will like to share in this memorial to the
"gallant Pelham."
Individuals or organizations desirous of contributing to this
fund may send the donations to Mrs. C. W. Daugette, Jackson-
ville, Ala., Treasurer of tlie Gen. John H. Forney Chapter.
Ihe following contributions have been made:
Dixie Chapter, Montgomery $10 oii
Selma Chapter, Selma 5 00
Pelham Chapter, Birmingham 10 00
Huntsville Chapter, Huntsville 100
Cradle of the Confederacy, Montgomery 5 00
Troy Chapter, Troy 5 00
Sophia Bibb Chapter, Montgomery 10 00
Miss Kate Cummings, Birmingham (collections) 1200
R. E. Lee Chapter, Opclika i 00
Mr. Sterling Murray, Leesburg, Va 5 00
Mr. J. B. Davenport, Augusta, Ga 5 00
Mr. J. W. Emmett, New Orleans i 00
Mr. P. W. Reddish, Liberty, Mo i 00
Mr. J. B. Beale, Montgomery 10 00
Mr. M. McDonald. Palmyra, Mo 1000
Mr. J. R. Browne, La Grange, Ga i 00
They have on hand about $225.
Very R.\rf. Books Owned by a Needy Vet£r.\x.
Comrade R. J. M. Onby, sixty-two years old, who assisted
in organizing Company G, of John C. Vaughan's Third Con-
federate Tennessee Regiment, and served over four years,
surrendering at Washington, Ga., in May, 1865, is broken in
health. Necessity requires that he dispose of some rare old
books which he has been many years in gathering. He offers
to sell fifty volumes for $250, or seeks a loan, using them as
collateral for a stock of groceries, on which he may trade.
He says that among these books there are several volumes
either of which in the proper hands would bring more than
$250. Of these are the works of Eusebius in two folio vol-
umes in Greek and Latin parallel columns, half morocco, in
good condition, printed in Paris, 1628; Beza's large work,
New Testament Greek and Latin folio, calf, weight, nine
pounds; 1582. Diodali's Bible Folio, calf, English, London,
i'6()4. L. Tomson's Bible, octavo, calf, English, London.
1587. Black Letter Bible, octavo, old calf, English, London,
1579. The two last are sometimes called Initial Bibles because
of the large woodcut letters with which the different books
commence. There are many quaint woodcuts in these books.
The collection contains a verv valuable architect's librarv.
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C^opfederat^ l/etcrarj,
-STOSEH-ALL" JACKSOS.
Anecdotes by Rev. J. William Jones. D.D.
A marked characteristic of '•Stonewall" Jackson was the
secrecy with which he conceived and executed his plans. I
give some ilhi^tralions which came under my personal ob-
servation :
After the battles of Cross Keys and Port Rcpuhlic we were
resting for a season near the last battlefield, when I procured
a furlough for forty-eight hours lo go to my wife's home, in
Nelson County. My uncle, Col. John M. Jones, afterwards
Gen. John M. Jones, who was killed on the first day at the
Wilderness, was at that time chief of staff of Gen. Ewell,
who was Jackson's second in command. As Col. Jones had
told me that he was going up to Staunton at that time, I rodo
by Ewcll's headquarters lo get his company. Just as we were
leaving. Gen. Ewell came out and said to us: "If you gentle
men desire lo stay a little over your leave, it will make no
difference. We are being largely rcenforccd, and will rest
here for some days, when we will again beat up Banks's (|Uar-
ters down about Strasburg.'' I determined, however, to r'.--
turn to my command on time: and, arriving at Charlottes-
ville two days afterwards, I found the head of Jackson's col-
umn passing through that town on its famous march to Rich-
mond. Meeting my uncle a day or two afterwards, I asked
him what made Gen. Ewell deceive us so grossly that morn-
ing in reference to the movement of the army. He at once
replied: "Ewell did not deceive us. He was deceived himself.
I am his confidential slatf officer and receive all communica-
tions that come to our headquarters, and I know, absolutely,
that everything that Ewell had received went lo show that it
was our purpose to move down the Valley again. 1 he truili
is, Ewell never knows anything about Jackson's plan< until
they are fully developed."
I remember, on that same march, that the whole army was
completely deceived (as also were the citizens generally) as
to Jackson's plans. When we reached Charlottesville it was
currently l)clieved that we would move on Madison C. H. to
check a movement of Banks's across the Blue Ridge. When
we camped at Gordonsvillc it was supposed that we would
move toward Washington. I recall that the pastor of the
Presbyterian Church there, the Rev. Dr. Ewing, with whom
Jackson spent the night, told me, as a profound secret not to
be breathed to mortal man, that we would move at daybreak
the ne.\t morning on Culpcper C. H. He said there could be
no mistake about this, because he had gotten it from Gen.
Jackson himself. We did move at daybreak. The boys used
to say that "Old Jack" always ni<>vid at daybreak except
when he started the night before; but instead of moving on
Culpeper C. H., he moved in the opposite direction, on Louisa
C. H. and toward Richmond.
At Frcdericksliall, in Louisa County, tit'ly milts frcmi Rich-
mond, we went into camp, and Jackson had his headquarters
in the yard of Mr. Frederick Harris. Mrs. Harris sent that
evening to know if Gen. Jackson would not take breakfast
with her the next morning. He replied that he would be
glad to do so if he were there at breakfast time: and upon
her inquiry as to the time he would take breakfast, Jackson
replied : "Have it at your usual hour, and send for me when
breakfast is ready." .About twelve o'clock that night Jackson
started on his famous ride to Richmond to have his final con-
ference with Gen. Lee before the opening of the seven days'
battles around Richmond. When Mrs. Harris sent for him
to come to breakfast the next morning, Jim, Jackson's famous
negro boily servant, replied: "Hi, you don't 'spect to find the
General here at this hour, do you? He left here about miil-
night last night, and 1 'spect he's by this lime whipping Banks
in the N'alley again."
Early that same morning Jackson, accompanied by a single
courier, rode up to the house of Mr. Mat Hope, a citizen who
lived in the lower part of Louisa County, and, rousing him
from his slumbers, the following colloquy ensued : "Who are
you ?" said Hope. The General replied : "We are two Con-
federate ofliccrs on important business. Have you two good
horses?" "Ves," replied Hope: "I always keep good horses."
"Well, ours are weary and wc 'nu>t have yours." "You shall
do no such thing," replied Hope. "I shall not have my horses
go with any straggling fellows who may choose to claim to
be Confederate officers." After further colloquy, Jackson said,
in his firmest tones: "There is no use of further talking, Mr.
Hope. Our business is urgent and we must have the horses.
You might as well saddle them for us at once." "I will not
do it," said Hope. "I don't saddle my own horses; I keep
negroes to do that, and I shall certainly not saddle them for
you." The result was that Jackson and his courier got the
horses and saddled them themselves and galloped off, leaving
their own in their place. When, several days afterwards, the
horses were returned, "with Gen. Jackson's compliments,"
Hope exclaimed : "Why did he not tell me that he was Gen.
Jackson? H I had known that it was Gen. Jackson, I should
have given him every horse on the place and have considered
it a privilege to have saddled them myself." Jackson gal-
loped on lo Richmond, held his interview with Gen. Lee, and
returned to his conniiand without anybody in Richmond hav-
ing been aw'are of his presence, or the army having the most
remote idea that he was absent. . Indeed, this whole move-
luent was so secretly conducted that the men themselves were
uncertain as to its destination until the evening of the 26th
ni Tunu, ulun ;luy lusird .\. 1'. Hill's guns at Mechanicsville,
and made the woods vibrate with their .shouts of anticipated
victory. Jackson managed to deceive both friend and foe,
and at the very nimneut when he was ihiuidering on McClcl-
lan's Hank at Richmond, Baid<s was fortifying against an ex-
pected attack from him at Strasburg. in the lower Shenandoah
Valley, more than two hundred miles away.
After the seven days' battles, and Jackson had been sent
to meet the advance of Pope in Northern Virginia, we were
camped for a season around Gordonsvillc. When we moved
to cross the Rapidan and bring on the battle of Cedar
Run, I chanced to rich' with a sick friend in the rear of
Ewell's Division as it moved up the turnpike to Liberty
Mills. Just after crossing the liver we met a courier, who
\v;is galloping posthaste and asked us how far behind A. P.
Hill was. We told him that .\. P. Hill was not on that road
at all, but that we had seen him break camp and move toward
Orange C. H. He said that wc must be mistaken; that Gen.
Ewell had told him that .\. 1'. Hill was nuiving in his rear,
and that he had been sent to tell him to hurry forward, as
'the enemy were making a demonstration in Ewell's front.
We assured him that wf were not mistaken, and he hurried
back to inform Gen. Ewell.
Upon another occasion orders came for Ewell's command
to be ready to move at daybreak the next morning. Wc
broke camp, as ordered, and lay all day in the near-by turn-
pike ready to move. About noon Ewell rode up to the house
of Dr. James L. Jones, near Gordonsvillc, and saluted him
with: "Doctor, can you tell me where we are going to?"
"That is a question," replied the Doctor, "which I should like
to ask of you, General, if it were a proper one." "A very
proper question," said Ewell. "but I should like to see you
get an answer. Jackson ordered nic to be ready to move at
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daylight this mnrning. I was ready, as you see. and my peo-
ple have been lying there in the road all this morning. I do
not know whether we are going to march north, south, east,
or west: or whether we are going to march at all; and that is
about all I ever know about Gen. Jackson's plans." His
higher oflficers sometimes complained that Jack.son kept them
in such profound ignorance as to his designs; but "Old Stone-
wall" used to have the ready answer: "If I can deceive my
own people, I shall have no trouble in deceiving the enemy."
.Anhcdote from M.^j. Jed. Hotchkjss.
Capl. Frank K. Berkeley, of Staunton, Va-., tells the follow-
ing, which he had from his brother, Dr. Cater Berkeley, who
was present as an oflicer of the baHery in question and heard
the conversation ;
"During the l)attle of Mal\crn llill Cien. Wlnting. whose
division liad been temporarily assigned to Jackson's com-
mand, had put his troops in position on each side of a road
which led directly to the Federal lines. In that road he had
placed the Stauntcn .\rlillery, at that time commanded by
Capt. Balthis. as jiart of his line of battle. Gen. Jackson
came riding up and, hailing, said, "Gen. Whiting, what's this
battery doing here' Take it up on that hill,' pointing toward
the enemy. Whiting replied: 'That hill is occupied by a
Federal battery.' Gen. Jackson answered: 'Gen. Whiting, will
you obey orders?' Kc answered, 'I will, sir, but under pro-
test,' and, turning to the battery, he said: 'Captain, take your
battery up on that hill at a gallop.' The guns were promptly
limbered up and the battery moved forward as ordered. See-
ing this movement, the Federal battery as promptly limbered
up and left its position, which was at once occupied by the
Confederate battery, which soon opened on the enemy."
GE\. II. n. Gt^AXBURV, OF TEXAS.
;' . PY J. H. DOYLE.
Gen. Granbury commanded a brigade of Te.xans in the .-Xmiy
of Tennessee, C. S. A, In the battle of Franklin, Tcnn., No-
vember ,^0. 1864, he was killed. His body was buried in the
Polk Cemetery by .-Xshwood Church, near Columbia, Tenn.
In November, 1893, the Granbury Camp, U. C. V., of Gran-
bury, Tex., appointed Dr. J. N. Doyle to go to Cohinibi:i,
exhume the body, and bring it to Granbury for reinterment.
Tlie General's uniform and army blanket in which he was
buried were in a tolerably fair state of preservation. The re-
mains were reinterred here November 30, 1893, just twenty-
nine vears after he sacrificed his life for the land he loved.
More people were in our town on that occasion than ever
before.
The town of Granbury was named in his honor. The plain
marble slab, placed at the grave at Columbia, is at the head
of the grave in the cemetery at Granlniry, and bears the fol-
lowing inscription: "Brig. Gen, H. B. Granbury, of the Con-
federate .'Vrmy from Texas. Born in Georgia ; killed at Frank-
lin, Tenn., November 30, !864."
.•\n effort is now being made by Texans to erect a monument
to Gen. Granbury on the Public Square of Granbury, Tex.
As yet, however, a very small amount of funds has been re-
ceived.
At the head of the procession, mounted on a gray horse, is
Maj. J. A. Farmwalt, who commanded the Tenth Texas,
Granbury s Brigade, at the battle of Franklin, and was severely
wounded in that fearful conflict. He informed me a few
days ago that Granbury's Brigade went into the battle six hun-
dred and fifty strong, and only one hundred and seventy-five
answered at roll call the next morning.
Adjutant John Willingham was in command of the Tenth
Texas, and the Junior captain was in command of the brigade.
Maj. Farmwal! will be eighty-four years old on .April 24 next.
He is tall and straight as a Comanche Indian, as jovial as a
boy. and a native of that State, renowned for the gallant
heroes it has produced — Tennessee. He is impatiently wait-
ing to attend the next reunion at Nashville.
Person.al Reminiscences, by T. M. Skii.i.ern. Fros.a, Tex.
— I have been a silent but faithful reader and admirer of the
Veteran" for many years, and 1 now give some little personal
reminiscences, I enlisted in the Confederate service at Austin,
Ark., September, 1861, at the age of seventeen, and served till
the close of the war, being discharged at Marshall, Tex., in
May. 1865, by Gen. Sterling Price. I joined Cornpany C,
Thirty-Sixth Arkansas Infantry, under Col. Dandridge Mc-
Rea, Lieut. Col. J. E. Glenn, with Calvin Robison as my first
captain. I served in the Trans-Mississippi Department. I
was in the battles at Camden, at Helena, and at Prairie Grove,
Ark. As my old comrades could attest, I never was sick nor
did I dodge duty. Young readers of the Veter.vn may think
we old gray-haired soldiers of the sixties indulge in boasting
and self-praise, but they merit the privilege of at least re-
counting to the world deeds as heroic and glorious as any
ever recorded. I should like to hear from any of my old
comrades. I send three cheers for the Confeder.vte Veteran
and for all the martyrs who fought for our cause.
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Qof>federat^ l/etcrai),
TEXAS H'AR RELICS TO BE PRESERVED.
Austin, Tex., February :o, 1904.
To the Palrlollc People of Triat.
The Legislature of Texas, at its last regular session, set
aside a room in the capitol building at Austin to the Texas
Division, U. D. C, in which to deposit, classify, and exhibit
relics of all wars m which Texas and her people had taken
part, and the President of the Texas Division, U. D. C, has
appointed a Board of Regents for said room.
In an address "10 the lovers of Texas and her glorious his-
tory" the Board asks for all kinds of relics in any way con-
nected with any war in which Texas and her people have
taken part, with a memoranda stating something of its his-
tory and the war, raid, or excursion in which it was used,
and, when possible, by whom used.
They say: "We want all we can get, from an Indian arrow
to a Gatlin gun; from the ragged, bullet-riddled jacket of the
private soldier to the uniform of his general ; from the old can-
teen, with or without a bullet hole through it, to the finest
equipment of the field officer. We would gladly receive also
paintings, portraits, and historic papers, such as would be in-
teresting in such a collection."
If possessors of such re!ics arc not willing to donate them to
this purpose, they will be pleased 10 receive them as a loan, to
be returned when called for. In every instance a receipt will
be given, a record of the loan or donation made, the article
labeled and numbered, so as to properly identify it.
Chapters of the U. D. C. Camps of U. C. V., and Sons of
Confederate Veterans in Texas are requested to have this ap-
peal read at their meetings and appoint committees to aid in
securing such relics.
The Board is comprised of the following: Mesdames L. J.
Storey, Chairman ; George W. Littlefield, J. D. Roberdcau,
Corinne Nun Corry, J. B. Williams, J. D. Field, John H.
Reagan, Annie P. Norton, H. G. Askew, George W. Massie,
J. H. Alsworth.
THE QUIET HUMOR OF GEN. PAT CLEBURNE.
Comrade J. M. Berry, of Salem, Mo., writes :
"I esteemed it a great honor to have served under such a
soldier as Gen. Cleburne. While he was a strict disciplinarian,
he always looked to the comfort of his men, and was dearly
beloved by them. His picture on the January cover of the
Veteran reminds me of many little incidents where his quiet,
kindly humor was so blended with reproof to both officers and
men as to take aw;iy the sting. When we were in camp at
Wartrace, Tenn., our regiment, the Eighth Arkansas, was out
drilling. After maneuvering awhile, we were halted at a
front face. In a few moments Gen. Cleburne, who had been
watching us, rode up and called 'Attention, battalion ! by the
right of companies.' He hesitated an instant, when Capt.
Ellis, of Company C, sprang in front of his company and com-
manded, 'Company, right face!' when Cleburne called out:
'Hold on there, Captain, you don't know but that I was going
to say by the right of companies into the moon.' The laugh
was on Ellis, and the General finished the order by adding,
'To the rear into column.'
"On another occasion, when at Bellbuckle, Tenn., one Sun-
day morning we were out for inspection, and the General
himself came slowly down the line. Everything went well
until he came to Ben Stewart, of my company. Ben was not
noted for keeping a clean gun. The General took the gun,
examined it critically, then handing it back he looked Ben in
the face with a reproachful expression in his eyes and said: 'I
Hope I do you no injustice, my man, but I don't think you
have washed your face for several days.' After that Ben's
gun and face were always ready for inspection."
A Good Recckd. — But few old veterans can boast of as good
record as H. C. (Cy) Jackson, of Galisville, Tex. He was a
private in Company G, Fifth re.\as, Hood's Brigade, Long-
street's Corps. He was never absent a single day from his
command ; was on every march, in every camp, and in every
battle that his regiment was engaged in from Bull Run to
Appomattox ; was never even scratched by a ball or shell ;
was never inside cf a hospital, except to see some sick or
wounded comrade ; and never on any detail except to shoot
Yankees. Comrade Jackson is as quiet and modest as h.-s
record is good. The above statement comes from a member
of his old company, and not from himself.
Further Trii^utes to Capt. Ben I". Davis.— Judge J. P.
Young, of Memphis, writes the Veteran :
"Referring to the explanation of Mr. John Haywood, of
Covington, Tern., in the January X'eteran, claiming that
great injustice had been done to the memory of Capt. Ben
Davis in my little 'History of the Seventh Tennessee Cav-
alry' in noting him as absent without leave December 31, 1863,
please permit me to say that no one was more honored by me
and no one's memory would I be further from injuring thau
that of the gallant Capt. Ben T. Davis, of Company M.
"But the records are inc.\orable, and I have a certified copy
of ilie muster roll of that company from the archives at Wash-
ington, showing that exact entry not only regarding Capt.
Davis but other members of that company. The explanation
is this: Vicksburg was surrendered July 4, 1863, five monthi
before the date of that entry, and the members of that com-
pany who were captured there were, with other prisoners,
paroled, and placed in what were tlien known as parole camps.
In these camps the roll was called daily, as in the regular camps
of active service, and absentees noted. These paroled sol-
diers did not regard themselves as under such strict military
discipline as in the regular service, and, having nothing to do,
often left the camp without leave of absence. And thus it was
that both Capt. Davis and your correspondent, John Haywood,
came to be marked 'absent without leave.' They were not in
Vicksburg with Gen. Pemberton in December, 1863. I am
glad of the opportunity for making this explanation, as we
all know that it was not a great breach of discipline to leave
a paroled camp."
Gen. Lytle's Sword Secured. — Comrade P. A. Blakey,
Commander of Camp Ben McCulloch, at Mt. Vernon, Tex.,
writes :
"It is well known that Gen. Lytle, commanding a brigade
under Gen. Phil Sheridan at the battle of Chickamauga, was
killed, and Lieut. McCreary, of the Thirty-Ninth Alabama,
as he pas.sed over the body, took the sword of Gen. Lytle and
buckled it on himself for Confederate service. In the battle
of Missionary Ridge Lieut. McCreary was himself killed, and
the sword, with his body, was sent home to his family. An
effort was made after the close of the war to secure the
sword for Gen. Lytle's relatives, but was fruitless. Two years
ago I took the matter in hand. A great deal of time was con-
sumed in locating the sword, and as much more in locating
Gen. Lytle's relatives, but with pleasure I can announce that
Ben McCulloch Camp is now in possession of the sword, and
soon it will be returned to Gen. Lytle's relatives, who now
reside in Cincinnati, Ohio."
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HOW KILPATRICK LOST PISTOLS AND HOLSTERS.
Lieut. Col. John W. Inzer, of the Thirty-Second and Fifty-
Eighth Alabama Infantry Consolidated, writes of the man
who captured Gen. KilpatricU's holsters and pistols:
"An important incident in the War between the States has
never been published, and believing that injustice to the per-
son who captured the holsters and pistols of Gen. Kilpatrick,
and to Alabama as well, this article is induced. It is a matter
of history that Gen. Wheeler surprised the camp of Gen.
Kilpatrick, near Fayetteville, N. C, probably in March, 1865.
After the great battles in and around Atlanta, Gen. Hood took
up his line of march through Alabama and on to Nashville.
Gen. Wheeler had completed his famous raid through Ten-
nessee, and on his return, Sherman having commenced his line
of march through Georgia to Savannah, Wheeler was ordered
to Georgia to harass Sherman and keep closed in his strag-
ling, prowling soldiers, thereby confining his line of march to
as narrow a scope as possible, and saving the homes of the
Southern people from the torch and devastation. This work
was well performed by the celebrated cavalry of Gen. Wheeler.
On the flanks of Sherman, day and night, such was the vigi-
lance and tact of Wheeler and his men that when Kilpatrick,
who was conmianding the Federal cavalry, dared to get from
under cover of Sherman's main army, Wheeler would pounce
upon and give him a gooil thrashing. Such was the case at
Aiken, S. C. At Fayetteville. N. C, he (Kilpatrick) ventured
out a little way from the main army. The ever-vigilant "Little
Joe' was on the alert, and when night came on and Kilpatrick
pitched his camp, surrounded by a marshy scope of country.
Wheeler divided his forces and surrounded this camp during
the night. He first sent scouts to take off his pickets, which
was successfully done ; and at the break of day the connnand
was ordered to cross the marsh and attack his camp. The
marsh was very difficult to cross. A large part of Allen's
Division succeeded in crossing, but many of the poorer or
weaker horses failed lo cross, because of the condition of the
ground. One of Wheeler's Divisions failed to come up in
time, but the camp was taken by Allen. Some artillery was
taken, but owing to the inability of the Confederates to re-
move it, it was cut down. Gen. Kilpatrick was awakened from
his slumber by the patter of horses' feet and the rattle of guns.
and he succeeded in making his escape on foot.
"The subject of this sketch was orderly sergeant of Company
E, Firty-First Alabama Cavalry, who was in the front of the
attacking column. After crossing the marsh, the command
was ordered to pass along the line of tents until ordered to
enter. Opposite the headquarters of Kilpatrick, Sergt. Noah
A. Hood and Lieut. D. S. Bethune. who was then adjutant
of the regiment (and later was also a member of the late
Constitutional Convention of Alabama, now residing at Union
Springs), turned into the camp and galloped up to the head-
quarters of Kilpatrick, passing the celebrated 'spotted' horse,
which was afterwards of national fame, and also passing a
large black stallion. Both were tied near the house used for
headquarters. At the door, in the yard, lay Gen. Kilpatrick's
'.iddle, upon which were the holsters, containing the pistols
'1 question. Sergt. Hood cut the holsters from the saddle and
placed them upon his own. Later in the day he saw Gen.
Allen riding the black stallion and Gen. Wheeler riding the
celebrated 'spotted' horse. Hood desired to make Gen.
Wheeler a present of the holsters, but in vain he tried to
-ccurc scabbards for them, and his purpose was foiled. The
holsters were unsuited for Hood, as he had to dismount so
ften or leave his horse for forage. In the meantime Col.
Ashby, of the Tennessee Command, sent for Hood, and an
exchange of the holsters with Col. Ashby for a belt with
scabbards was made. In a day or two he saw Gen. Wheeler
with the holsters, and believed that to have been the purpose
of Col. Ashby from the start.
"Mr. Hood thinks that they were presented to Gen. Wheeler
in behalf of Tennessee soldiers, when, in fact, it should have
been in behalf of Alabama soldiers, and he states that there are
several living witnesses to them.
"This same man, Noah A. Hood, is now, and has been for
a dozen or more years, the efficient Clerk of the Circuit Court
of St. Clair County, Ala. He was born and reared in this
county, and is one of our best citizens. He was for a long
time a member of Company A, Tenth Alabama Regiment,
and on account of a severe wound received in the angle at
the battle of Sharpsburg was rendered unfit for infantry serv-
ice, and soon thereafter became a member of the Fifty-First
Alabama Cavalry Regiment, commanded by our Gen. John
T. Morgan, and in the cavalry service we find Sergt. Hood
as noble and gallant a soldier as in the infantrv.'
A Vank Seeks thii Address cf a Johnnie.— H. M. Bil-
lings, of Veedcrsviile, Ind,, who was first sergeant of Com-
pany E, Eighty-Sixth Indiana Infantry, writes as follows :
"I desire, through the Veter.\n, to mention an incident that
occurred in the battle of Chickamauga on Sunday, September
20, 1863. hoping thereby to hear from my Johnnie friend. 1
was well lo the left of Thomas's Corps. The Confederates
had attempted to execute a flank movement and were driven
back. About noon there was a lull in the battle, and I con-
cluded to go to the rear in search of water. In passing
through the woods we had been fighting over I came upon
a wounded Confederate soldier sitting against a tree. When
asked where he was wounded he pointed to his knee and said
that he was bleeding to death, and asked me to get a surgeon
for him. I told him that was impossible. Then he asked me
for a drink of water. That, of course, was useless, as my
canteen was empty. He said : 'Then I reckon I will have to
die.' His voice was so weak that he could hardly speak above
a whisper. He was a large, fine-looking, and intelligent young
man. I looked at the poor fellow and wondered if by any
means I could save his life. Ripping liis pants' leg up from
the bottom, I discovered that the ball had entered from the
inside of the left leg just above the knee and cut the main
artery, but only made a small rupture. This I could tell by the
flow of the blood. I said to him that I was not a doctor, but
thought I could stop the bleeding, so I cut a piece out of his
pants about two inches wide and a foot and a half long,
rolled it up in a tight roll, pressed on the limb above the
wound until I got on the artery, then laid the compressed
bandage along on the artery, took a silk handkerchief out of
my pocket and bandaged the limb tightly. I then asked Iiim
if he was hungry. He was. of course, and I sat down with
him, and we ate dinner of raw pork and hardtack, but it
was good. The hemorrhage was stopped. Four hours after-
wards, in our retreat, I passed the same tree and he was still
sitting there. I said: 'How do you feel now, Johnnie?'
He looked up and said : 'All right. I hope you will get out
safely.' This was the last I ever saw of him. Should like to
hear from him if living. He will doubtless remember the inci-
dent. Some one may ask how I happened to have a silk hand-
kerchief in my pocket. Well, it belonged to the mounted offi-
cer who commanded the Confederate column that made th?
flank moveiTient. He was neither killed nor wounded that I
know of, but I got his silk handkerchief all the same, and if
he wants it he shall have to call on my Confederate friend."
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Qoofederate l/eterai).
DISCHARGED BY CES. J. B. MAGRLDER.
Henry Davis Pearcc, Adjutant of tlic Henry E. McCiillocli
Camp at Ballinger, Tex., is a native of Illinois (born 1845),
and his father. Joshua Pearcc, was born in Indiana in 1821.
His wife was Cordelia Davis, of a Virginia family. There
were two children to this union : the other is now Mrs. John
M. Buchanan, of Sherman, Tex. Their grandfather, Henry
Davis, whose mother was a sister to Stonewall Jackson, took
them to Texas in 1856, their parents being dead.
In .August, 1861, H. D. Pearce packed his valise, crossed the
Sabine River into Louisiana, and joined a company that was
being organized for the Confederate ariuy. It became Com-
pany B, of the Seventeenth Louisiana Infantry, under Col.
S. S. Heard, and from the above discbarge it will be seen
that Comrade Pearce served faithfully to the close of the war.
Mr. Pearce writes this interesting reminiscence:
"It undoubtedly was the intention to discharge the whole
army inuler (icn. Magruder's command if they had waited.
f.AvV^^^^'""
i.Tm'i) HOflORtBLV DISCHARGED
.\R.MY Of Tin: ut\l I.IUi; AIK >T\T1>.
HftVIHt. Mfn*l««<
;? .^&^,
•£yr <:2,-u.^— — ^— '-'C -r^'.
iiyiiTO"«s motiMCMawM-'
I saw large stacks of lllL■^c blanks in his office, and 1 know of
a number that received them. I saw one dated as late as May
27. All would liavc gotten llieiii had they wailed and cared to
have them. Gen. Magrudcr signed my discharge himself. J
was standing by him at the time. My regiment was camped
at Hempstead, Tex., and on the morning of May jo, 18(15, 1
got a four days' pass to go to Houston. Some of tlie oiher
commands had already left for home. I went down on tlio
train. The nest evening when the train ,canie in quite a
number of my regiment were on it with the news that the regi-
ment bad dissolvetl that morning. May 21, 1865, each company
taking a wagon and starting for home in the Northern part of
the State. On the morning of May 22 I went to Gen. Ma-
gruder's office, which was upstairs in a brick building. He
and his adjutant general were sitting by a table in conversa-
tion. The soldiers and citizens had already begun to help
themselves to government property.
"Gen. Magruder seemed very much depressed. I presented
my pass to him. remarking that I bad heard my regiment had
broken up and gone home, and that 1 had come to him to re-
port for duly. He said to his adjutant general, "Fill out the
soldier a complimentary discharge,' which was done, ques-
tions being asked me as was necessary. When completed the
General signed it. I suppose it was alwut his last official act,
as he soon started for Mexico."
BATTLE OF WHITE HALL, X. C.
BY J. C. W.M.LICK, I.INCOLNTO.N, N. C.
I was a member of Company I, Eleventh North Carolina
Regiment. Our baptismal fire was in the battle of White Hall,
N. C, on the Neusc River, December 12, 1802. On the
evening before the fight, by a forced inarch just at dusk, we
beat the enemy to the bridge spanning the stream, and barely
bad time to knock the barrels of rosin to pieces and apjily the
torch when we could see the Vanks coming on the opposite
bank. Our .supper that night was roasted sweet potatoes. On
the next morning, while lying in a low depression some few
hundred yards from the river bank, eighteen pieces of artillery
were turned on us. .\ bombshell bounced over and landed
just in the rear of my company, but it bad no sooner landed
than Sergt. William Jetton seized it and threw it into a pond
of water just in our rear. This was done to save the lives of
his comrades at the risk of his own. A few minutes later we
were taken into action on the bank of the river near a steam
sawmill, where hundreds of pine saw logs bad been rafted
and rolled up on the Lank for a considerable distance, affording
us splendid protection. After finding that they could not dis-
lodge us, the artillerymen began shooting off the cypres >
trees midway to the tops, thinking they could kill or scare us
out, but they did neither. We lost probably a half dozen
killed in the regiment, and one hundred and forty-two Yanks
were reported to have been killed. We had only two pieces
of artillery, which were soon .shot to pieces. As soon as tho
tight was over we were hurried to Goldsboro, N. C, where a
tight was expected, but to our joy they retreated.
JNO. B. GORDOX CHAPTER. U. D. C. SAX JOSE, CAL
Mrs. Maggie Brainard. Corresponding Secretary and His-
torian of this young Chapter, writes:
"In this land of sunshine, where the world beyond tlu-
Rockies dreams of people living on climate and flowers onl\
and wliere the air still whispers of the Spanish cavalier, oiu
finds the old Confederate soldier and his brave old wife, hi^
sons and his daughters. And wherever you find them the sanu-
old Southern heart beats as warm as ever, and the last crust
of bread or cup of water is iJivided as freely.
"California has now eight Chapters United Daughters of
the Confederacy. The last to lake a stand in the ranks of our
sisterhood is the John B. (iordon Chapter at San Jose. Thi'i
Chapter was organized on the 29lh of October. 1903, witli llu-
following officers: President, Mrs. Charles MacLoiitl : \'ici-
Presidents, Mrs. \. S. Kitridgc, Mrs. Charles Clark; Record
ing Secretary, Mrs. C. S. Walters; Treasurer, Mrs. T. P.
Spiers; Custodian, Mrs. Mary Hill: Corresponding Secretary
and Historian, Mrs. M. D. Brainard.
"Important work in the Chapter is being already forunilaled
for early execution. It is an incident worthy of mention that
our first donation was from a Union soldier. It is a most
beautiful hand hag made of sailor's cord by his own old palsied
fingers. It was sent with request that we sell it at some
bazaar, the proceeds to go to some brother in gray who might,
like himself, be in need."
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.4 BIT OF IRVE ROM.IXCE (1S65).
When Smith's raid passed through Alabama, Greenville,
Butler County, was as true as steel to the belief that Gen.
Lee would never surrender, although the sad news came,
announced by booming Federal cannon, to triumph over the
noncombatants of the little town. While the regiment;il
bands were playing "The Star-Spangled Banner," "Hail Co-
lumbia," and that horrid "Yankee Doodle," the pianos in
the hotels and private houses were resounding to Irhc airs
of "The Bonnie Blue Flag" and "Di.xie." O, it was a per-
fectly dreadful time! The girls were just dying to see eaoli
other, but the town was placed under military rule. The
old men and little boys accepted the situation as best tluy
could; the women never did, never! They wore Confederate
flags and emblems fearlessly. No man could make them
afraid. The privates were barely seen, poor dupes; and as
for the dashing officers, the girls tilted their chins and lookod
over their heads, as if they were invisible to the naked eye.
The United States headquarters were at the City Hall, a por-
tion of which had been used for amateur theatricals, under
the management of Judge B. f . Porter, mayor, and also the
Colonel connnanding the Camp of Instruction at that place be-
fore the surrender. The performances were for the bene-
fit of the soldiers. A play had been presented, entitled "None
l)ut the Brave Deserve the Fair." The manuscript was left
at the Hall and fell inlo the hands of tlic Commanding officer.
He read it and relumed ii to the Kiitlior with the following:
"NONE e'er can read thy spirit-stirring lines,
BUT to applaud nor wonder at their choice.
THE countless myriads hurled into the grave,
BR.-W'E maiden, by the music of thy voice!
DESFR\'E we then thy h.itrcd and thy scorn.
THE homeless wanderers forlorn?
FAIR girl, nil words like thine have urged us on!
, Capt.mn, U. S. .\."
It is almost needless to say that she. who had never had
the heart to kill a chicken, nor step on a worm, was indignant
at the bare idea of having hurled her noble Confederates into
the grave, although she admitted it was a smooth, higii-
toned, well-put little acrostic. It really made her look at
the commanding ofiicer when he was pointed out to her, and
when a sweet, dimpled-faced sister said, "I would answer
it," and a lady friend, a prudent, married lady, too, rejoined,
"Yes, I would, indeed I would!" she decided to do so.
The rather claliorate reply kept her awake nearly all night,
and was sent to headijuarters tied with Confederate colors
and streamers of black crepe.
Reply.
Stranger, my heart was once a harp.
Strung witli hope's golden strands.
Until the minor strain of woe
Was stnuk by cniel hands;
Alas! it yields no joyous note.
Mournful each tjiuvciing siring;
And I am but a fettered bird,
\\\\\i i|uiviring. bleeding wing!
Hatred? Yes, I have learned to hate
Till my vvarni Southern blood
Runs madly in my slender frame,
A boundless, angry flood—
NVouldst thou know why? Look on The South,
Look o'er each blackened field-
This waste where our defenders stood,
In death alone to yield.
O, have you seen the burning homes.
The flames of sacrifice?
And have you known, as I have known.
The Northman's heart of ice?
Vour homes are fair, and plenty stands
Laughing upon our woe;
How can we smile in this drear waste.
Still trampled by the foe?
Wliat cheered you on if woman's voice
Nor smile your cause approved?
^^■e longed to do our all— save fight—
For right, with our beloved.
Scorn? I scorn the piteous thing called love,
ihat weakly, trembling clings
To this poor chry.salis of clay.
Nor marks the folded wings.
Honor was more to us than life;
And thus, with aching heart.
We crushed the selfish, mortal cry
And bore diviner part.
Ves, still for my poor, stricken land
I d lay earth's garments dow n
Take death by famine, flame, or sword,
io wm her freedom's crown.
Fathers and brothers, husband.s. sons
Restrained by woman's hand.
Bore many years the deepest wrongs
From that false-hearted band
Who, in the guise of piety.
Progress, and human good,
Hurhd insults in our very teeth.
Ne'er brooked by Southern' blood.
\\here were fanatics when the slaves
Were sold into their clime?
\\ hy did Philanth.roijy not .spurn
I he lionesl yeoman's dime?
Why should great Progress dormant lie
Redemption ne'er begin.
Until investments in the Srluth
Made good tlieir trade of sin?
The way was plain; they might have won
The whole wide world's applause.
As England did, without the stain
Of hloDcl upon their cause:
They might have said; "O brother, take
The gold we asked of thee;
But give us back the human souls.
That we may set them free!"
Think thou we would have touched (he tra^h'
Then bear my deepest scorn;
The Southron who would sell his sin
Has never yet been born!
We would have said: "Not ours the wrong.
But generous thou art;
We would not he less great ih^m tlinn.
Equal shall be our part.
Together we will raise the slave
\ou sold in piteous state
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C^^opfederate l/eterarj.
As near us as his mind allows,
His God-appointed fate.
Then Southrons would have brothers been,
As kinsmen freely wrought,
And gave in kindness what wc yield,
And you have dearly bought.
Then Abolition might have won
A fair and deathless fame,
But now it is a synonym
For shame, a nation's shame!
With men and women, children's flesh.
Its greedy fangs are hung;
It hisses forth the Union cry,
On treacherous serpent tongue.
We only asked to go in peace;
Union was but a name.
A gilded tomb, a whited lie
To blazen forth a shame :
Oppression mocked the patriot's cry,
Unheeded Freedom's moan;
God help the men who rallied then,
God help them to atone 1
Hast ever paused to think of how
Thy happy home might seem
Aflame from an invader's torch,
E'en in your wildest dream.'
Contrast the Northland with the South,
The e.Kultant victor stands,
He could not fetter her great soul.
But binds her helpless hands.
Hast thou a father? Picture him
With white hair wildly flung.
With eyes upturned to God for help —
Only a Rebel hung!
Hast thou a mother? Kneel and ask
That yours may never know
The want, despair, the bitterness.
The Southern mother's woe.
Where is thy sister? By the pang
That bows my proud head low, •
Ask her if she could see unmoved
The blade that dealt the blow?
And ask thyself, if thou art brave.
If thou couldst bear a chain
To lie on her untimely grave
And feel no bitter pain?
Scorn? Yes, I am proud to scorn
Falsehood o'er all the world;
■your flag's the brightest painted lie
That ever was unfurled!
I hate — aye, hate — I loathe the name
Of Union. O, how base!
Enforced by strong-armed Tyranny,
That scorn is in my face.
Pull down Oppression's gaudy sign.
Usurping hands have hung;
I cannot walk beneath its folds.
To Southern breezes flung —
Mad? Mad were they who bore it here
With curses; faces bold
Mocked the black robes that faintly tell
Of sorrow in each fold.
Where'er I turn my restless feet,
The bristlmg bayonets stand.
Enforcing petty tyrannies
In this our own fair land —
Home! Ah me, I'm homesick too!
The dead on battle plain
Alone are free ; survivors must
Still wear a galling chain.
God-given is this honest hate.
These throes of agony.
He makes me writhe in cruel bonds,
That 1 may vet be fiee;
That I may wield the fettered hand
By pen, by ceaseless prayer.
To him for Right, that Right o'er Might
May triumph everywhere.
Northman ! I scorn the wrong, not thou.
If thou art innocent.
And but the tool of tyranny
By which my heart is rent ;
But O, I cannot look unmoved.
Be still, fierce passion wave
Of my first sorrow ! Let me pray
Beside my brother's grave.
I am no fiend, though fiends may seek
A kinship to reveal.
Because the blade of cavaliers
Has turned the keenest steel.
I cannot yield. I hate the cause
Whose livery you wear ;
And yet we're taught to breathe the name
Of enemies in prayer.
Go, homesick wanderer, sweet the pain
Of homesick tears to weep,
We have no homes, alas ! no homes
Sa\e where our nobles sleep —
Where can the patriot hope for rest?
This waste we cannot claim
Till Justice on her shining page
Records the Southron's name.
But Di.\ie Land will blossom forth.
Her fertile valleys bloom ;
Freedom will spring, reborn, from flame.
And garland every tomb
With amaranth, and Liberty
Will break her prison bars —
Or else give me for winding sheet
Our hidden cross of stars.
A Southern Giri.
The Captain requested an introduction. It was refused. The
company was ordered away. The town was relieved through
the influence of the officer aforesaid. The ladies began to
appear on the streets. Near the Bedell House, tlie handsome
Captain, riding westward, met the maiden. She was in deep
black and apparently saw nothing; but, womanlike, she did
see through her veil, and several others saw hiin dismount
and stand uncovered until she passed by. He left next day,
and she received the following:
"To Miss
Farewell. I leave with lingering regret.
Nor can I ninrmur at the hand of Faie:
But know, fair girl, I would not give thee pain.
Nor cast upon thy heart one feather's weight.
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I Adieu ! May time in coming years yet bring
To thy beloved South a fairer day !
I would not add one pang to thy proud grief,
But stand uncovered — pass thy mournful way."
■ , Captain U. S. A., Greenville, Ala."
If the weight of a tear is equal to the weight of a feather,
he did cast that much upon her heart, and somehow or other
the band or the weather or something gave her a headache.
Her best Confederate lover was still at Johnson's Island,
and no sooner reached home than he heard of her corre-
spondence with a Yankee. She handed him the documents,
and he forgave her when he read them. He said he must have
been a gentleman, but suggested burning the papers. How-
ever, he concluded they were worth keeping awhile, and they
have been kept nearly forty years.
They were married, and he was married to a Northern girl.
Fifteen years passed away. She was a widow. They were
within a few hours of meeting at the Cotton Exposition in
New Orleans, where she had decided she would be pleased to
meet him. But orders came and the National troops were hur-
ried away on account of trouble with the Indians. She was
really anxious to see him and let him know that she was as
true to her dear Southland as ever. He has won his stars and
is a General in the Philippines.
MY MOTHER.
nv MRS. CtiKNELirS HARDV.
Tlie !>ister of Hon. William Crawford Blhli, deceased, Montgomery, Al;».
[The "Mother" to whom the following tribute is paid w ;is a lineal descendant
of the Wessyngtons, Weshingtons, Wassingtons. Washinglons— the various
changes of this honored name. She was a great granddaughter of Eli/.aheth
Washinu^ton Lanier, who was a niece of the father of thiscountry. They lived
In thejefierson Davis house, Montgomery, tin- "White House" of the Confed-
eracy, after the seat of government was cltanged to Richmond, where she, with
the distinguished Hihb f.onily, took an artlve part for the Confederate cause in
everv l)racliral way.)
.•\ pure white rose from Allah's throne designed
To liring to earth refinement, thrice refined;
So forth with lettered petals thence she came,
And bore engraved my precious mother's name.
So nobly made, on lieaven's own perfect plan,
A type create of God — a true woman !
Methinks He kept the art. His model done.
Nor loaned to earth just such another one.
Can I forget the one who gave me birth.
Mom fond and dear of all the loved on earth.
Who first imprinted on my baby brow
.\ft'cclirin'? Seal, a mother's kis.s. and now.
Still bending on me looks of tenderness
Weeps bitter tears at aught brings me distress?
Slic tauglit me first my evening prayer to say,
.■\nd when was hurt did kiss the pain away.
Or when, too oft, contentious, cross, unkind.
She wooed nie to a better frame of mind.
Sweet Christian mother mine, wert thou to die,
Thou'dst ask of heaven a place in yonder sky,
Where thou mightest be my guiding star of love
.\nd mark my course, and should I worldward rove,
With grief replete, thou'dst drop a warning tear.
To slay thy erring child, my mother dear.
Hast thou a fault ? It leans to virtue's side ;
Constant toward failing friends, whate'er betide;
Courageous grace, honor in thee I find.
For born of truth, thoii'rt just to all mankind.
Full well I know, when here thy race is run,
.-\nd every trial passed, thy heaven is won.
Though earth shall mourn thee lost, and weep with me,
.-\ngels will shout for joy. and welcome thee.
A SOLDIER IX HIS POURTEEXTH YEAR.
Capt. Frank W. Cunningham, of Richmond, Va., for years
the city ta.x collector, widely known and everywhere popular,
who has conlributcd more time, doubtless, to sing at funerals
tlian any other man of his race, and who contributes to
tin- best musical entertainments, a Confederate veteran true
.uiil tried, sends a picture of Charles Mosby, made the day
il at he enlisted in the Confederate service. On the back of
the picture is the following: "Charles E. Mosby, born Febru-
.iry 3. 1848: at the age of thirteen >ears enlisted as a drummer
May 10, 1861. in Capt. Lnuis T. Bossieux's company. 'Elliott
Grays.' Company I. Sixth V'irainia Regiment of Infantry.
CHAI?I.ES MOSnV.
Stationed at Norfolk, Va., from May 10, 1861, to May 10,
1862." In the battles around Richmond, seven days' fight, he
was assigned to Henderson's Battalion Heavy Artillery, and
served until the close of the war. John Carr and William
Crawford, associate drummer boys, being a few years older,
were put in the ranks.
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HOIV CAPT. F. ir. HEED GOT OUT OF PRISO.W.
BY HARVEY \V. SALMON, CLINTON, MO.
During the spring and summer of 1862, from tlie 5th day of
April to '.he 2d day of September, there were confined in thi
United States military prison on Johnson's Island, Lake Erie,
•eleven hundred Confederate prisoners of war. the writer being
one of that number.
This island is siuiatcd ilirte miles from the mainland, San-
•tlusky City, Ohio, being the nearest point. 'Ihe prisoners were
housed in frame buildings two stories in height, weather-
hoarded without and ceiled within. These were inclosed with
41 high board fence, and on the outside of this and extending
tntircly around was an elevated plank walk or platform, made
high enough to enable the prison guards to walk on it and
overlook everything within Ihe inclosure. On the inside of the
fence and thirty feet from it, extending entirely around, was
the "dead line," beyond which no inmate dare venture. In ad-
.„;i;,.,,.„ oriiard of vicilant
^iiaiu, ttcm to bt. Louis, thence to Memphis, passed safely
through the lines, went to the Trans-Mississippi Department,
helped organize the Ninth Missouri Infantry, and as lieutenant
of Company I of this regnnent, adjutant of the Eighth Mis-
souri, and captain of cavalry, did gallant service until the final
surrender at Shrcvcport. La., in June, 18(35.
He now resides at San Francisco, Cal. He was for nine
years General Agent of the Northwestern Life Insurance Com-
i.M'T. y. w. wEi:n.
pany of Minneapolis, Minn., he having resigned that position
during the present year. He is now intercste<l in developing
oil lands in the vicinity of Bakersfield. Cal., and is Secretary
and Treasurer of two companies.
KiNi?NESs wi;e\ WoL'yuED AT TiioMPSo.s's St.vtiov. — Com-
rade W. R. Stitcs, of Siloam Springs, Ark., who served ir.
Company G, First Te.xas Legion, Ross's Brigade, was severely
wounded in the fight at Thomp.son's Station, March 5, 186.^.
and was sent back to a hospital at Columbia. A Mrs. With-
erspoon was exceedingly kind to him. His severe wound was
considered fatal. She had a daughter named Fannie, and a son
about twelve years old named Jnlui, and Comrade Stiles think.-
she was a widow. He would appreciate lier address or that of
any member of her family. He would also like to hear from
any of the survivors of Ross's old brigade and to learn the
name of the officer from Gen. Van Dorn who galloped up be-
hind the line while they were in close, hot fighting with the
Yankees and ordered iIkiu to fall back and form on llie rail-
road.
irOMF.X OF MlSSlSSir/'l l.\ TIIF WAR.
E. II. KOSE (THIRD KENTUCKY INr.WTin ). K( SE VIEW, TEXX.
In the January \"eierax — a most intere-iting number —
H. K. Nelson gives a good account of tlie battle of Raymond,
Miss., in commenting ujion which the editor pays a ni)l)le
trilnite to the ladies of Rayninnd. They richly deserve it,
and should ever be held in remembrance by every true South-
ern heart. For those ladies did sIkuv themselves great in all
womanly virtues of courage, love, and charity through that
long, hot day of unequal fighting. They went among the
death-dealing shot and shells rescuing the faint and wounded,
ministering to their sufferings, opening their homes to them
with a sulilime forgetfulness of self that was, and is. inspiring.
God bless the ladies of Ravmond forever !
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The writer was an eyewitness, for his regiment, the Third
Kentucky, was moved in between Grant's army and Gregg's
gallant little brigade late in the afternoon to bring up the
rear and help Gregg out of a hornet's nest, and saw those
ladies going about in their work of mercy and love.
The ladies of Mississippi were most patriotic and true to
our cause. It happened that tlic w-riter served a great part
of the four years in Mississii)pi. He was wounded in the
battle of Shiloh, and, with a number of otiicr wounded, was
taken from the hospital of Holly Springs out to Wood Cote,
the home of Judge Clayton. Mrs. Clayton, with true Southern
hospitality, entertained and cared for us with much kindnes-:
and the tenderness of a mother. Slic was assisted diligently
l)y other ladies of the family. Among the wounded she cared
for were Tom Hamilton, who mnntlis afterwards died of his
•wounds, and Leslie Waggener, who had a Minic ball through
liis lung at Shiloh, but, with their attention, recovered. After
the war he graduated at Harvard, and w^as one of the most dis-
tinguished professors of the University of Te.xas. He died
a few years ago, probably of the old wound received at Shiloh.
The ladies of dear old Mississippi will ever be held in honor
,Tnd love. Let us never forget tluni.
TK.IXSM/SSISSrPPI DEPARTMENT, U. C. V.
Gen. W. L. Calu-Il. Cnnunandcr of the Trans-Mississippi
Department, U. C. V.. sends from Dallas, Tex., March 2,
1904, an address to comrades of the Trans-Mississippi, in
which he says :
".■\ Happy New Year to you. my ulil comrades, and all dear
to you! riie old year, with its pleasures as well as its sor-
rows and disappointed hopes, has passed away, never to re-
turn. Our comrades are growing older and more feeble; our
ranks are growing thinner, and during the last year many of
our noblest and best have crossed to the great beyond. Our
noble Commander, ticn. Jolm H. Gnrdini. as well as other
true and tried comrades, has answered to the last roll call.
Let us thank God that the death roll is no greater than wo
have a right to expect, and that our comrades enfeebled by
[ old age, who are incapacitated by wounds, disease, and sick-
I ness, and unable to make a living, have been properly cared
j for by the great States of Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, and
the Territories, by furnishing good shelter, good and ample
food, good clothing, and good medical attention and nursing
I where the heroes, the uiil>aid soldiers of immortal priitcit<li,
j can spend the remainder of their lives in comfort and ease.
'! "I would again call your attention to the growth of our
'i"ble order of United Confederate V'eterans. Our .\djutant
' Kiieral. William K. Mickle, rojiorts over 1.500 Camps. I am
proud to say that more than one-third of this number are in
I the Trans-Mississippi Department. Continue this good wnrk.
! Let me appeal to you by the memory of the brave nun who
idled on the battlefield and in prison, from wounds, sickness.
or disease since tlie war. to enroll. 1 appeal to you by the
\ memory of the suffering and hardships borne by the noble
women of the South — your mothers, your wives, your sis-
ters and daughters — to enroll, to join some Camp and keep
in touch with each other the few years you have to live.
"I therefore call on the Division and Brigade Commanders
of our States and Territories to give the necessary orders to
increase the number of Camps as well as the membership of
I each Camp, so that at the reunion to be held in Nashville,
Tenn., June 14. 15, and lO. 1904. you will have more Camps
and more Confederates than have been gatliered at any former
reunion. I would earnestly request every Division and Bri-
gade Commander to urge every Camp to meet at least once
each month, or oftener if necessary, and arrange for sending
delegates and the necessary per capita to Gen. William E.
Mickle by April i.
"The Trans-Mississippi Department consists of the States
of Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, California. Oregon. Washing-
ton, Montana. Idaho. Kansas. Nebraska, North and South
Dakota. Wyoming, and Oklahoma, and the Indian. New Mex-
ico, and .\ri;:ona Territories. Tlie peojjle of Nashville will
welcome )'ou with open arms, and will extend to you that
hospitality which they have already shown to the brave Con-
federates who have visited them in the past. Then, old com-
rades of the Trans-Mississippi Department, Sons of Confed-
erate Veterans, and Daughters of the Confederacy, come and
bring with you your noble sons and beautiful daughters. Let
the three days be a grand love feast. Let us renew old friend-
ships. Let memory call the roll of the heroes dead, and let
their spirits mingle with love and affection. Let us not for-
get that we are like the leaves of the forest, falling out of this
great column of gray, and one by one crossing the river to the
great beyond. .As stated by one of our comrades, 'There are
no recruits, no volunteers to fill our ranks, pud no man is
numbered among us but received his baptism in blood and fire
over thirty-five years ago. No human power can replace a sin-
gle man in our ranks.' "
CORnO\"S FIRST SPEECH NORTH OF THE OHIO.
BY TAMES R, ttOGERS, P.\RIS. KV.
In 'he fall of 1872 there was held a grand liarbccue of three
da\s' duration in the interest of the candidacy of Horace
Greeley by the Democratic party near Louisville. Ky. At the
md of each day's programme we would adjourn to the city
for the night and gather at her various halls. Gen. S. B.
Buckner was then a resident of the city, and his commodious
heme was filled with comrades, among whom were Gen. Gor-
don, Gen. Sam Jones, and others of less note. On the evening
rf the second day all the guests were present except Gen.
(iordon until assembled around the hospitable Imard. lit
then a,)pcared with unmistakable evidence that something
unusual had occurred. Prompt inquiry was made of the com-
pany as to what caused the trouble. Gen. Gordon, with sev-
eral strokes of his hands down his vigorous face, responded:
"I have done a very foolish thing. I have promised some In-
diana Democrats to make them a speech at the Opera House
in New Albany." Being asked as to why that should disturb
him. he said: "My friends, I am not much of a public speaker
at best. I know how to talk to my people of Georgia, but
when I cross that river I am confronted by a people not in
•sympathy witli me, and with the fact that the name of Horace
tireeky is first upon the bail bond of Jefferson Davis. 1
-•liould be active in this canvass, but 1 know not what to say
10 those people. I was very foolish indeed to make the
promise." 'Ihe depression of the speaker was very manifest.
Not long after adjournment to the library, our host leading
the way. Gen. Gordon asked. "What time have you?" when
Gen. Buckner replied: "I take no note of lime when in the
presence of my guests." One of the guests responded: "It is
half-past two." Gen. Gordon said: "This Conference is ad-
journed."
The succeeding night, the time for the speech, found the
entire party starling with Gordon ; but when we arrived at a
point where the Indiana delegation was to receive their speak-
er, lie said: "Gentlemen, you cannot go with me. I want no
friends to witness my failure. You will go to the courthouse
and hear Ben Hill." This order was delivered with empha-
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sis. In hearing Mr. Hill we realized the justice of the ap-
pellation.
Whilst at breakfast the next morning, Gen. Gordon was
zsked for a report, and he said: "Informed by a gentleman
that he had been designated by the committee to introduce
me, I requested that he make no reference to my rank as a
Confederate. We walked down to the footlights, facing an
audience of several thousand, all seats filled and every aisle
packed with standing men. The introducer said : 'Fellow-
Democrats of the Slate of Indiana, I have the honor of in-
troducing Lieut. Gen. John B. Gordon, late of the Confederate
Slates army.' This introduction provoked vociferous ap-
plause. 1 said something, and that was applauded. I con-
tinued, and there were heartiest greetings from that most
friendly audience. Don't ask what I said. I am not conscious
of what I did say. Let this suffice: They gave me the warmest
greeting I ever knew extended any speaker, and if I continue
public speaking the rest of my days, I cannot hope to see
it surpassed. While I was speaking, a voice in the audience,
with clarion tone, demanded : "Tell us about the carpetbag-
ger I' I responded with brief outline of their infamous reign,
with S|>ecial reference to my people of Georgia, and closed
with reference to a vandal act of stealing statuary from the
grounds of a private citizen of Atlanta and shipping it North.
The spirit and fervor, shrieks and yells of apparently every
man arising to his feet and sailing hats through the air, pro-
duced a din and commotion to me unaccountable. Later I
learned that I had exactly described the conduct of a citizen
of that city, and who then was in the audience. Abuut the
close of my talk the audience called on me to tell them about
the Kuklux. Kukluxism I defined as the inalienable right
of an American citizen to defend his home against all assail-
ants."
So it was that Gen. Gordon's order to hear the sublime
eloquence of Benjamin H. Hill caused our failure to hear Gen.
John B. Gordon in his first address north of the Ohio River.
Gen. Gordon's success opened a vista not dreamed of be-
fore. When Charles XII. of Sweden received a fire of baptism
in his first battle, he inquired of an attendant: "What makes
that music in the air) The bullets of the enemy," was re-
plied, and in his response he said : '"Henceforth that will be
the only music to my ears."
Of all the men I have ever heard, in tlie pulpit. fr(ini the
rostrum, or on the hustings, John B, Gordon completely filled
my highest conception of a popular orator. Horace tells
us that the poet is born, not made. So is it with orators.
His infinite grace, perfect physical proportions, his pure ring-
ing articulation, a voice penetrating, incisive, of mighty com-
pass, exact use of the best words, marked him emphatically
without a peer. "You are the successor of Benjamin Frank-
lin," said a Frenchman to Thomas Jefferson at the Frencli
court. "He has no successor. I follow him," responded Jef-
ferson. As Franklin was in diplomacy, so was Gen. Gordon
in oratory, and as a soldier was never found wanting.
ROSTERS OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.
Gin. Stephen D. Lee issues through Adjt. Gen. Mickle:
"Inasmuch as there exists a misapprehension as to the
action taken by the New Orleans Convention as to the pub-
lication of the rosters of the Confederate and Union armies,
the General Commanding makes the subjoined extracts from
the proceedings of the convention, May 22, 1903:
"'Whereas at the second session of the Fifty- Seventh Con-
gress a provision was inserted in House Resolution 16021, an
act making appropriation for tlie legislative, executive, and
judicial expenses of the government, making special provision
for the compilation and publication, under direction of the
Secretary of War, of valuable historical data relative to both
Union and Confederate soldiers in the following words — to
wit:
"'"Provided that under the direction of the Secretary cf
War the Chief of the Record and Pension Office shall com-
pile from such records as are in the possession of the Uniteil
States, and from such other authentic records as may be ob-
tained by loan from the various States and other official
sources, a complete roster of the officers and enlisted men of
Union and Confederate armies."
" 'In order that a formal expression of the appreciation of
the United Confederate Veterans of the broad and patriotic
action of the general government ; therefore be it
" 'Resolved, That the United Confederate Veterans, in an-
nual reunion assembled, recognize in the publication of a com-
plete roster of officers and enlisted men by the national gov
crnment, a just and patriotic appreciation of the heroism of
the .American soldiers.
" 'That we express our sincere thanks to the Secretary of
War, Hon. Elihu Root, and to the Congress of the United
States, for their action by which the names of all Confederate
soldiers will be preserved and perpetuated.
" 'Resolved further, That in order to enable the government
to carry out this beneficent purpose, all Confederate soldiers
and their descendants, who have in their possession any orig-
inal records containing the names of Confederate soldiers, are
earnestly requested to transmit them promptly to the Gov-
ernors of their respective States in order that they may in
turn send the same to the Secretary of War.
"'Gen. Joseph Wheeler, in his speech, said: "The Secretary
gives the assurance that immediately on being received the
papers will be copied and returned to the persons sending
them."
" 'A comrade suggested that many of the rosters had been
destroyed, and an effort should be made to have the missing
rolls made up from the memory of the surviving members of
the companies.
" 'Gen. Lee said : "The government wanted only official and
original manuscripts. That was the law, and they would have
to comply with the law."
" 'Gen. Cabell said that he wanted every man who served
under him to bring every paper he had, and nearly all of
them had some documents w-hich would be valuable to this
compilation. He appealed to them to help make this record
as complete and full as possible. ,
" 'The resolutions were adopted without a dissenting voice.'
"The General Commanding learns with much concern that
there is an attempt to be made to supply missing rolls from
memory, or from sources not authentic. Such a course waS
not contemplated in the action of the convention, nor desired
by the Secretary of War. The earnest efforts of all Confedi
eratc soldiers should be put forth to have the roster complet^
and accurate, but data should be furnished only along th«j
lines indicated. Too much care cannot be taken in the matten
and the General Commanding feels that every member of oul
organization will endeavor to carry out the wishes of th|
convention as stated in the resolutions. ^|
"As this is a matter of vital importance, the General Com-v
nianding calls upon the press of the country (always ready tO.i
aid every good word and work) to give wide publicity to I
this order."
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CONFEDERATES AT l-liEDERlCKSBURG.
Upon the occasion of bestowing the Cross of Honor upon
ninety-three veterans at Fredericksburg, Capt. S. J. Quinn,
Commander of the Maury Camp, was the Master of Ceremonies
for the Daughters of the Confederacy, and Judge T. J. Gool-
rick was the speaker of the evening. He was introduced by
Capt. Quinn as "one of the few living private soldiers." Judge
Goolrick said, in part:
"'I'he story of Marathon lives, thougli tlie republic of Greece
has died. The fame of Alexander the Great lingers in song,
though the empire be created has crumbled away. The history
of Rome's charging legions is read with increasing interest,
though the once great republic has been wiped from the map of
(he world. Splendid service, unselfish sacrifice, and uncom-
plaining suffering for a great cause or for a great principlu,
when expressed in acts of heroism and patriotism, will ever
challenge the admiration of mankind. And although the Con-
federate States, as a government, have ceased to have any place
among the powers ami principalities of earth, their magnificent
soldiery will ever be held in hallowed remembrance as long
as bravery has an admirer, patriotism has a devotee, and
truth has a worshiper at its shrine.
"The Confederates bore themselves proudly when death
pulsated the fevered air on victorious fields, and proved them-
selves great heroes under the shadow of defeat, even at Ap-
pomattox, i hey met and overcame obstacles such as never
before eonfronted a brave people struggling for their liberties.
'Ihey laughed and were merry along the weary way, though
very .scant rations were all that they could hope for as their
daily fare. They whistled a merry jingle while perchance their
shoeless feet could be traced by bloody tracks on the snow.
They joked and jested over the emptiness of their country's
treasury, and would have spurned and rejected any bounty if
offered for their enlistment. They ridiculed the coming of the
paymaster with his valueless currency, for they boasted that
they served their country without money and without price."
CHAIRMAN GEORGE L. CHRISTIAN.
The President of the Virginia Association, Army of North-
ern Virginia. Judge George I-. Christian, author of the Virginia
History Committee, printed in full in this issue, and one of the
ablest papers ever written on the subject (this word of com-
ment is not to indorse one side or the other in controversy),
I is one of Richmond's best-known and most-esteemed citizens.
! He has spent nearly all of his life in Richmond, having gone
there in i860 from his native county, Charles City. He en-
ii-d the Richmond Howitzers at the beginning of the war,
^e to the rank of sergeant, and was with his company in
<\ery battle in which it was engaged until he was so severely
wnindcd near the "Bloody Angle," at Spottsylvania C. H.,
May 12, 1864, that he was rendered unfit for further military
■luty. He had one foot entirely, and the heel on the other
iVioi, shot off by a cannon ball, which wounds have, of course.
;n:iiniod him for life. Willi a man of less spirit and determi-
nation than Judge Christian, tliese wounds would, perhaps.
ive resulted fatally. He was also in the capitol disaster, au.l
> life was saved by the bodies of two other men who wer-.-
I'.ed. As soon as Judge Christian was able to walk after
ing wounded, he went to the University of Virginia and
idicd law, and is now senior member of the firm of Chris-
lan & Christian, which enjoys a fine practice. He was at one
utile Judge of the Hustings Court, and made a fine record as
■III able, fearless, and impartial jurist. Judge Christian has
crved as President of the Common Council, President of the
Chamber of Commerce, President of the National Bank of
\'irginia, is now President of the Virginia State Insurance
Company, and director in many other important institutions ;
is a man of great public spirit and of wonderful energy and
physical endurance. There was no braver soldier, and there
is no truer or more useful citizen. There is hardly any un-
dertaking of a public nature in which he does not take the
deepest interest, and to which his time and talents are not,
to some extent at least, cheerfully given.
He succeeded the late Dr. Hunter McGuire as Chairman of
the History Committee of the Grand Camp of Confederate
Veterans of Virginia, and has written the four last reports of
that committee. These reports have given Judge Christian
reputation as a writer, and were deemed so valuable that it
the late meeting of the United Confederate X'ctrrans. held in
JUDGE CIIKIMIjVN.
New Orleans, those re|)orts which liad llicii liecn i-sutd were
incorporated as ivirt of the report of the History Committee
of that great organization, of which last committee he is also
a member. He is now Grand Commander of the Grand
Camp of Virginia, Treasurer of the Southern Historical So-
ciety, member of its Executive Committee, Treasurer of the
Confederate Memorial (Battle Abbey) Association, member
of the Advisory Board of the Jefferson Davis Monument .As-
sociation, and also of the Confederate Memorial Literary
Society. His successor as Cliairman of the History Com-
mittee of the Grand Camp of Virginia is United States Sen-
ator John W. Daniel, of Lynchburg. \'a.
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"GOrAXS BRIGADE AT PICKETT'S MILL."
BV CHARLES CARTER HAY. CALERA, ALA.
Under the above head in the February number of the Vet-
eran, Comrade Stan C. Harley says: "It is conceded that the
brunt of that engagement was l>ornc by Granbury's Brigade,
of Cleburne's Division, but there is a diversity of opinion as
to what other troops took part. If Lowr>-'s Brigade took any
part, I never heard of it."
I refer Mr. Harley to the high authority of Gen. Cleburne
himself. Maj. W. J. Milner, of Birmingham, Ala., who servt-d
on CJen. Lowry's staff, and was formerly of the Thirty-Third
Alabama, wrote a highly interesting and explicit article on the
Pickett's Mill, or Pumpkin Vine Creek, fight. It would be a
handsome tribute and an acquisition to history if Gen. Cle-
burne's report of Pickett's Mill, May 27, 1864, could be pub-
lished in the Veteran, as this division alone did it, and it is
known as "Pat Cleburne's fight," as was that of Ringgold Gap,
Ga., November 27, 1863, when this division saved the army,
artillery, and wagon train.
ONE or THE "MOTHERS OF THE CONFEDERACY."
Mrs. J. C. Lee, of Montgomery, Ala., Vice President of the
Ladies' Memorial Association of that city and a Vice Presi-
dent of the Confederated Southern Memorial Association, is
a member of one of the most prominent . and distinguished
families in the South. Mrs. Lee is a native of the Abbeville
District. S. C, and is descended from the distinguished fami-
lies of Lomax, Tennent, and Middleton, so that by inheritance,
association, and education she is thoroughly imbued with all
the principles and traditions of Southern thought and feeling.
which she has the happy faculty of infusing enthusiastically
into all the various organizations with which she is so promi-
nently associated for perpetuating the memory of the Confed-
eracy. She is one of the leading spirits engaged in the noble
work of raising funds for the erection of a monument on thi.'
battlefield of Chickaniauga to the gallant sons of .Mabania
who fell in that fierce contest.
Recognizing her ability and enthusiasm in all work of this
kind, the Ladies' Memorial Association of Montgomery au-
thorized her to collect funds to aid in the erection of their
Chickaniauga monument. \ circular has been issued explain-
ing the object for which the funds collected were to be used,
and a stirring appeal to the pride and patriotism of all ex-
Confederates, their sons, and daughters. It has created an in-
terest that assures the success of the movement.
The election of Mrs. Lee as a Vice President of the Con-
federated Memorial Association occurred at the last meeting
in New Orleans. The Times-Democrat stated in regard to it :
"Mrs. John C. Lee is one of the most interesting attendants
at the convention of the Confederated Memorial Association.
She wears upon her breast the badge of her membership to
the .Association, which is dated i858. Mrs. Lee is well known
in Montgomery for her unselfish patriotism that for thirty-
three years has made her devoted to the noble work of her
organization. Yesterday she was the center of a little crow;!
of women in the reception rooin at the convention headquar-
ters, and obligated to tell many tiincs her experiences and the
event in particular that has made her name so well known and
well loved in her community. At the outbreak of the war Mrs.
Lee and her husband resided in Levvisville, Lafayette County,
Ark. Much sentiment was on the side of the North. When
Lincoln's jiroclamation was issued, there were only five men
in the town who stood up for Scuthern principles and seces-
sion. The leaders of the Unio 1 party straightway made a
large national I'.ap and flung its colors to the breeze. On see-
ing this, the small, but determined, band of Southern sympa-
thizers appealed to their wives to make a Southern tlag. Mrs,
Lee at once took the lead. She was assisted in making the
flag by Mrs. Wclborn, now of Montgomery, and Mrs, Mar-
shall, of Camden, .Ark. The coat of arms of .\rkan.sas dec-
orated one side, with 'States' rights forever' on the other side,
and it was the women who raised it. This was the first flag
raised in Arkansas in opposition to the Union. Mrs, Lee tells
with enthusiasm how she and her friends cut up their fine and
expensive silk gowns to make that banner.
MRS. J. C. LEE.
"All during the war Mrs. Lee kept her home open to their
soldiers, and it became a hospital from which no one was ever
turned away. Mrs. Lee sewed for the soldiers, nursed them,
and her splendid courage and tender ministrations did more
than can be measured now in mere words. Mrs. Lee's luis-
l)r,nd is a relative of the great and beloved Robert E, Lee."
One of the beautiful tributes paid recently to Mrs, Lee was
by her home paper, the Moutgnmciy Aiivcrliscr. During tlie
past month she and her niece, Mrs. Virgil Griffin, were in
Louisville, and were entertained by Mr. and Mrs, Biscoe Hia#
man, Mrs. Lee's husband. Dr. John C. Lee. was a coitsm
of Gen. Robert E. Lee and was surgeon geneial on tlie staff
of Gen. Thomas C. Ilmdman when the latter was in command
of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate ariny.
The Courier-Journal, in making mention of the social evenf,
states that Dr, and Mrs. Lee were bound to Gen. and Mrs.
Hiiulman by tic.^ of the closest friendship throughout the war
This patriotic woman was no less .a faithful wife, and sbi
seeks to preserve the memory of her honored husband in an;
connection in wliich her faitliful services are recorded.
I
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IS'i
run BiHTUiKiv or ci-x. r. h. lee.
In the pulilic exercises of the Daugliters of the Confederacy
at Fort Worth, Tex., on the occasion of presenting Crosses
of Honor, Mrs-. L. K. Stanbery made an address, in whicli she
said :
"The anniversary of the birtli of Roliert Edward Lee passes
comparatively unnoticed throughout the South. Here and
iliere Camps of Veterans pause to join in eulogy, and bands of
Daughters of the Confederacy drink a cup of tea and sing a
•song maybe and feel that they have thereby sufliciently hon-
ored the great Confederate captain. But in the schools and
with the masses the day has no meaning. To-day it will be
difficult to find teachers who add to lessons on character-build-
ing the example of Gen. I,ee. Why? Because, to quote from
one of the school authorities, 'We have some citizens who do
not think Gon. Lee a great man.' The name, the deeds, ami
the character of one of the greatest of the world's great arc
withheld from his own people because there has chanced among
us citizens who do not see as we see. Is this the course honest
men respect, come they from where they may?
"Can it be that our teachers have time to present to the
young as inspiration and example only the names of those
who have been approved by the victors?
"Or have we of the South turned our faces to the fleshpo's
of materialism and find it easy to forget all save those who
swing into view on victory's chariot?
"It is hard to believe this. The adoration of Gen. Lee that
forty years ago was the force that held together the soldiers
of the Confederacy may have become less passionate, but cer-
tainly among the men who wore tlie gray his name remains a
sacred memory, and faithfulness to his achievements a solemn
obligation. . . . The soldier who wore the blue and he who
wore the gray have agreed on the record — have locked the
volume and thrown the key away.
"Fame, the handmaiden of accident, lays her laurels as often
upon the brow of the vanquislied as the victor. Who remem-
bers the name of the Union general at Gettysburg? Who for-
gets that of Lee?
"North and South cheer the name of IMckett. Who knows
the name of the captain of tha^ 'single line of blue' that turned
the fortunes of war on that historic charge?
"Behind some victories is a shadow from which the victor
cannot entirely emerge. Behind some defeats is a moral
grandeur that moves men to a veneration victory alone can
never win Therefore is it not altogether Lee, the soldier, that
calls upon us to-day to renew our allegiance, but Lee. the man.
because his life and cltaracter are worth infinitely more as an
inspiration to American manhood than ail the battles he led
so brilliantly? [.\pplaiisc.]
"There are mothers here to-night who have sons for whom
they have ambitions and hopes for a successful manhood, and
fathers who believe their sons are worthy of the best that life
can bring them.
"What is life's best? lo me the character of Gen. Lee givis
answer. What do you think of this record? A dutiful son.
who, from his birtli. never gave an invalid niotlier cause for
tear or care.
"Four years at West Point without a demerit, yet graduatin;;;
second in a class of sixty. Throughout his life no tobacco,
no intoxicants, his lips never stained by profanity or foul lan-
guage. Feminine virtues? Perhaps, hut was not Gen. Lee a
man? .A noble son of a noble sire, he refused a commission
under a foreign flag l>ecause of loyalty to his country. .'\ nolile
80n of a noble sire, he surrendered the opportunity of leading
the Union armies because of loyalty to his State. [Applause.]
And after Appomattox, where the name of Lee was to go down
in history linked with defeat, he guided Southern men to fealty
to the government he had so valiantly opposed, and that had
been strengthened and cemented by his very opposition.
"Modern life teems with temptations. Young men are con-
tinually entrapped by false Ic^ic, and yield to arguments for
wrongdoing. Less and less are men disposed to accept bravely
the loss of all save honor. [Applause.]
"Do not we of the South owe it to the young to place before
them, with all the force and emphasis at our command, the
story of what Gen. Lee was no less than that of what he did?"'
TRIBUTE BY A LOUISIANA GIRL TO GORDON.
[Written and read by Miss Georgia W. Kemp for the Joseph
M. Craig Chapter, U. D. C, Amite City, La.]
During the year 1832 Cod created one of his most splendid
masterpieces. He sent into the world a babe, perfect in form
r.nd feature, and placed within its tiny body a heart warm and
r'ch with love, justice, and mercy, and a divine spark which
grew and expanded with the little body until there stood be-
fore the world the work completed — a man and a soul ! They
crlled him John B. Gordon.
Well may the sons of our beloved South and Daughters o:
the lost Confederacy feel proud and graceful that such a man
Wo-s placed in our midst ! Well can we understand the valor
of our soldiers in the desperate struggles at Malvern Hill,
ChancellorsviUe, Gettysburg, and Spottsylvania C. H.. with
such a splendid example of bravery before them as this man
with the blood of the Gordon Highlanders coursing through
his veins and a bearing characterized by a boldness and dash
which made him the idol of his soldiers!
it is not surprising that a man like John Gordon should rise
from the rank of captain to that of brigadier general within
one year. He earned his honors, earned the devotion of hii
men. earned his homage of later years, earned the rest tcv
which he has gone. Earned also the beautiful testimonial of
honor and aficction which marked his laying away — the gath-
ering of the scattered ranks of our Confederacy. Methinks
there is something divinely pathetic in this collecting together
of the scarred, bent, and trembling few of the fast thinning
ranks to witness the last sad rites of a beloved leader. What
must be their emotions when gazing on the calm features 'n
repose, on which they have witnessed the glow in the fever of
battle, the tenderness in time of want and privation, the sad-
ness in time of defeat ! Perhaps there were some among them
who heard the encouraging words of this man in speaking to
a group of frightened women in York when Lee invaded
Pennsylvania: "Ladies, we have not come to fight defenseless
women and children. And so well do I know these men that
1 may safely promise the head of any one of them who insults
a woman." Perhaps, too, there were some among them wli:>
stood ragged and barefoot before this man when the surrender
came and heard him plead that they "bear the trial of defeat,
go home in peace, obey the laws, and rebuild the wasted coun-
try."
The taking away of Gen. Gordon may seem a little luitimely.
True, his work here was done, and how splendid the heritage
he has left us! A heritage which can be enjoyed by all .Amer-
ica ; a heritage which shines out as a beacon light and serves
as a guide to men — a spotless character !
But by his going the home has lost a devoted companion,
the Union an honorable and upright citizen, the Confederacy .1
hero, and the world a man!
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Qoofederate Ueterai).
Skctclics i.jr llic "Lasi Roll" have become so nu-
merous that all must be abbreviated. Those who wish
record made are requested to be as brief as practi-
cable, especially in all except service in the Confed-
erate army. When pictures are used, somebody ought
to pay the cost of engraving, two dollars.
Mrs. Phcebe Fk.kzer Edmonds.
On January 9, 1904. there passed from earth one whose life
lias been closely identified with the history of Memphis, Tenn.,
since the latter was a little village struggling heroically with
her sister La Grange, that at one time promised to outgrow
her. One who knew the young Memphis as "home," when all
of the town lay north of Adams Street, and below, in the
virgin forest (now known as Court Square), learned he;-
first lessons in the little log schoolhouse, then taught by an
obscure but ambitious young man, who afterwards became
one of the most prominent citizens of Memphis.
Pha-be Ann Edmonds (nee Frazer) was the eldest of the
eight children of John Ahair and Frances Jones Frazer, both
<jf North Carolina, and was born in Newbern, in that State.
eighty-four years ago, though in her early childhood her fa-
ther's adventurous spirit chose Tennessee for his adopted
State. Her girlhood days, however, were spent in Mississippi
and Alabama, and glorious days they were, of which she never
wearied telling. Across the vista of her memory there would
troop a distinguished tram — artists, statesmen, jurists, gentle-
men of leisure, men whose names are written high in the
annals of their country, and her eyes would sparkle with al-
most youthful fire as she recalled some ball or assembly,
smiling as she remembered some incident or the color of the
gown she wore, for even to the end she was dominated by
ihose two old-fashioned (jualities, sentiment and enthusiasm,
without which few things past early youth are really wonh
the while.
Born in an age when ihc doors of colleges were barred !■>
•women and higlier education was considered inappropriati-.
if it was considered at all, under her father's direction, through
the medium of tutors and college professors, the elder daugh-
ter received such an education as the well-to-do Southern
gentleman usually chose for his son. In the years following,
misfortune intcrvene<l, but the doting father, with pardonalil.'
pride, saw the elder sister prepare her younger brothers, the
•one for the c,\aminalions at West Point, and the other for an
advanced class in college. So too the educational surveillance
•extended 10 the second generation, and each nephew and
•niece affectionately recalls that .'\unt Plia-l)e was the first
teacher whom they knew.
Familiaily associated with the epoch-making minds of her
.•>ection. to one of her temperajnent the breaking out of the
War between the States offered an une.xploited field for pa-
triotism and self-sacrifice. One man was found in Memphis
who was brave enough to open a school and keep it open
■during those turbulent times, and he found a not unwilling
.assistant in Mi.ss Fra.-^er. wliu eagerly sent forward the
.-amount of her earnings to the fund for the maintenance of
the Confederate soldiers in the field, besides giving her spare
lime to the work of the then recently organized Southern
Mothers. After Memphis surrendered and became a center
for Federal operation, the home of Mrs. Edmonds's mother,
sometime before abandoned as unsafe for her occupancy, wa«
taken possession of as headquarters for Gen. Sherman, as ••
commanded a fine view of the Mississippi River. Then it was
that the late occupant became a mediator between the citizens
and the severity of Gen. Sherman's measures, for whenever
the Federal supply boats, on the way down the river, were
fired upon by Confederate sharpshooters, the General wouM
retaliate by ordering five, ten, twenty, or fifty promineiil
Memphis families out to "Dixie," which meant privation and
confiscation of property. Friends soon learned that Mrs. Ed-
monds had been successful in her appeal on one occasion, and
often she was roused from her bed by the agonized message
from some old acquaintance, perhaps, who had just received
the order. Then was formed the tie of friendship and re-
spect between the earnest Southern woman and the stern Gen-
eral, which was continued by an exchange of occasional let-
ters to the end of his life. Part of the war correspondence
which passed between them, as pui)Iished in the Rebellion Hci
Olds, furnishes some unique and interesting reading for the
student who would learn of the temper and caliber of the
women of that tempestuous time.
Mrs. Edmonds's marriage occurred, at her request, in Can-
ada, near the close of the war ; for she, who afterwards
acknowledged herself to be a loyal citizen of the United
States and was proud of the distinction, was not then willing
that the sacrament of marriage should be administered under
tlie "hated thing" known as the Union flag.
Though .-Xunt Phoebe outlived all of her associates, he
time and generation, her mind was wonderfully alert aU'l
abreast with the progress of our time. She was an inveterate
newspaper reader, even to the day of her death, and was thor-
oughly conversant with the conditions of foreign nations, new
Mrs. I'lilinoiij!,
, I.;iU-sl I'Klurtf.)
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discoveries, inventions, and even local politics. She was al-
ways looking forward. Life, action, advancement were con-
suming themes with her. She often said, when adapting her-
self to some new regime, that her "case was worse than that
of Jekyll and Hyde, for while sojourning m the present she
was also living in the past with an eye to the future." She also
said that she never intended to grow old, and she did not.
The mental and spiritual activity was that of a highly intel-
lectual woman in her prime, and the spirit left the material
image as quietly, as silently as the butterfly leaves the chrysa-
lis when he is ready for his flight. Several years ago Aunt
Phifibe, after repeated urging from soine of her family, began
tlie writing of her "Recollections of Eighty Years," a work
which she unfortunately left unfinished, but which from its
very inception proved a source of great pleasure and entertain-
ment to her in many ways.
In reviewing her life one cannot fail to be impl-essed with
the fact that she was a remarkable woman, a product of the
old South, but remarkable for any era. She possessed an in-
tegrity and clearness of character almost masculine in its
strcngtli and grasp; withal she was the womanliest and most
modest of women, with a passionate love for the beautiful
in nature, life, and art. Duty was licr watchword, and
tliough without children of her own. she felt and assumed
the responsibility of others', and much of her life was spent
for the improvement and enlightenment of those about her.
Tlu-rc were many things she wanted to know, to which the
world, science, and revealed religion could .give no answer.
Now site knows and understands, in that life where all is
beauty and action, while we who have lo.st her remember with
a tender thou.sht tliai "slie hath done wliat she could."
Miss Makv Albert.\ TrawicI';.
Readers of the Veteran have been thrilled with the experi-
ences of Dr. A. M. Trawick as reported in the Vetei«an',
especially in that perilous post to which he volunteered in the
siege of Port Hudson. United States Senator Berry, of Ar-
kansas, one of his comrades and ardent friends, who knew him
in those trying times, bears testimony to his heroism and faith-
fulness in life's highest responsibilities.
On Friday morning, December 4, Dr. O. E. Brown paid a
beautiful tribute tc the life and character of Miss Mary
Trawick at the chapel of Vanderbilt University, in which she
had been a student. She was a universal favorite with both
faculty and students.
He referred to the scene at her deathbed, and added that it
was especially impressive to him that in the last hour she
did not ask for prayer, but simply requested those around her
bedside to sing one of her favorite hymns. He referred to
I'lishop Soule. who. when dying, w-as asked if he wanted
prayer offered. He replied: "No, the time for praying is
past." The Christian attitude toward death is one of praise.
I'lie preparation for such a beautiful Christian death is sucli a
devoted Christian life as Mary Trawick lived.
She was beginning to reach out after some sphere of use-
fulness, and seemed to be most impressed with a life oi
service. She was not content to get an education for selfisn
purposes, but was asking all the while how she could use it
and make it of some service to those about her. She had
grasped the important principle th;.t one need not wait to get
into some distinctive sphere of lite in order to be of service,
lint one of the best po.ssible liclds of service is in the little
things of life and in com act with people in the home and in
the social way.
While Miss Trawick was of a strong social nature and en-
joyed social amusements very much, yet she never compro-
mised her principles or her conscience in their enjoyment.
Really some adjustment is a necessity in life, but it makes all
the difference in the world ss to whether we adjust our prin-
ciples to social demands, or whether we require that the con-
ventional standards should give way to the pi'inciples we be-
lieve to be right. While Miss Mary Trawick did not make
her conscience a test for others, yet she recognized that her
conscience was her own. and W'ould not violate it.
In a carefully prepared tribute. Rev. J. D. Barbee, D.D.,
dwells upon the training of Mary Trawick. He mentions the
father as a hero
who was often se-
lected to lead a
forlorn hope m
the war or to
make desperate
ventures, illustra-
ting by reference
to recorded histor-
ic facts, and add-
ing that he was no
less a hero in
peace. Having re-
turned from the
war, a boy in rags
he went heroically
alKiut peaceful vo-
cations, studied
medicine, moving
steadily to the
front in his pro-
fession, then edu-
cating his large
family of sons and
daughters. He is an earnest advocate of high moral life.
Dr. Trawick's lovely daughter Mary has been called from
earth, and the test of separation is one of the greatest to
which he could have been called. The ardent devotion be-
tween father and daughter has been pathetically described in
the Nashville Sunday School I'isilor:
"From her childhood she had lived a beautiful Christian life.
Her father, who is a physician and also a noble Christian,
knew that the end was near, but he said: 'I shall not tell her.
She has lived with Christ, and there is no need of special
preparation for death.' And so family and friends went on
talking with her in the old cheerful way, and trying not to
reveal by word or look the anxiety which each felt. Finally
there came a morning when she awoke out of a sleep in which
visions of heaven had visited her. Strange sensations crept
over her, and she said to her father: 'What can this mean'
Can this be death ?' Concealment was no longer possible, and
so the good man answered with broken voice: 'Yes, daughter,
you are dying.' 'Is there no hope of my recovery?' she asked;
and when told there was none, she said with an air of perfect
serenity: 'Well, if I can't get well, I can triumph.' And so she
did, joining with her last breath in singing with the dear ones
who stood by her bedside 'Jesus, Lover of My Soul.' Her life
had been bright and happy, and she had probably never thought
one moment about preparing for death. But she had lived
nobly, and wlien death came she was ready."
0)
MAKV TRAWICK.
1<>0
Qoot^derate l/eterao
Dr. Benjamin- Givins Dysart.
Dr. B. G. Dy«art died at his honic, Paris, Mo., January i6,
1904. after forty hours' ilhicss of pneumonia. Returning from
a professional visit, he was so very ill that his brother physi-
cians were called speedily and his condition grew desperate
so rapidly that he soon realized that he could not recover, and
calmly gave directions about liis estate and business affairs
His funeral was held at the Christian Church on Monday aft-
ernoon, with every seal filled. Stores were closed and all busi-
ness suspended during the service. The funeral was con-
ducted by Rev. C. F. Richmond, D.D. The Masonic fraternity
escorted the remains to the cemetery and laid them to rest
with the impressive ceremonies of the order.
Dr. Dysart was born in Randolph County, Mo.. September
•23i J833. He was practicing medicine at McGce College in
Macon County, Mo., at the outbreak of the war.
Enlisting in the Confederate service. Dr. Dysart was appointed
surgeon of the First Missouri Brigade under command of
Senator F. M. Cockrell. It was in this capacity that he foum!
ample opportunities to demonstrate his great talents as a sur-
geon. He served throughout the war as surgeon, and was rt
the hard-fought battles of Oak Hills, Carthage, Elkhorn Tav-
ern, Corinth, luka, siege of Vicksburg, camj^aign in Georgia,
Hood'.s campaign to Franklin, Nashville, and on to the close.
At the close of the war he located at Paris, Mo. The re-
membrance of his kindly, unselfish ministrations will sland as
a monument to his goodness of heart long after the world has
forgotten other men, whose delight is in using instead of
serving humanity. He was a member of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, a Mason and Knight Templar. And,
with all and above all, he was a Christian man whose life
counted inightily for Christian virtues and good citizenship.
J. H. Robertson, Esq., who furnished the foregoing, writes
as follows in addition: "We were born in the same neighbor-
hood, went to school and to college together, and served
throughout the war in the same army. I was attended by him
at different times for serious wounds and sickness. Dr. Dy-
sart left a companion, but had lost his only cliild. Tlicy will
all soon be mustered out, and sleep the sleep tliat dreams of
battlefields no more.
'There is a reaper whose name is Death,
And with his sickle keen
He .gathers the bearded grain in a breath
And the flowers that grow between.'
"From far-away Arizona I am, with friends, contributing
a flower and a tear upon the grave of our beloved comrade."
GecRGE IIuilM.'VN.
George Huffman was born in Kentucky August 16, 1836;
•died in Bozcman, Mont., July 13. iy03. He was a member in
good rtanding of Slerling Price Camp, No. 1378, of Bozeman,
and from the resolutions adopted by the Camp these notes are
made. He participated in the engagements of Drywood, Car-
thage. Wilson Creek, Lexington in Missouri, and Pea Ridge
in Arkansas. His comrades express appreciation of his worth
as a citizen in peace as well as his devotion to duty in war.
A. G. Easi-ev.
Comrade A. G. Easley passed peacefully away on May 30,
1903, at his home near Columbus, Miss. Me enlisted in Coin-
liany B, Forty-Third .Mississippi Regiment, early in 1862, and
was in all the engagements of his command from that time
imtil Johnston surrendered in North Carolina in 1865. He was
faithful to duty both in war and peace, and his fellow-citizens
lionored him in positions of trust. '
Dr. R H. Peeu
One by one our veterans arc crossing over the river to rest
in the "bivouac of the dead," and we would cherish the mem-
ory of each and all by rendering every possible tribute of re-
spect and honor.
Dr. Robert H. Peel was born near Courtland, Ala., Septem-
ber 30, 1S32; and died in Marshall County, Miss., November
5, 1903. His father, Volncy Peel, moved from Virginia to
Huntsville, Ala., and while employed as civil engineer in the
land oflice at Florence, Ala., met and married Miss Charlotte
Royston, whose fa-
ther was a Revolu-
tionary soldier and
a personal friend of
Gen. Washington.
In 1834 Mr. Peel
moved with his fam-
ily to Marshall
County, Miss. They
were among the first
white settlers of that
section.
.\t the age of fif-
icen his son Robert
was placed at St.
Thomas Hall at
Holly Springs,
-Miss., to prepaie for
ihe State University
ai O.xford.
In October, 1852,
1 'r. Peel was mar-
lied to Miss Vir-
ginia M a 1 1 h e w s,
daughter of Dr. B.
D. Matthews, a
prominent physician
iif Marshall County.
When the call to
arms stirred the
licarts of Southern
men. Dr. Peel raised
a company, of which
he was made cap-
tain ; and, going to
\'irginia, joined the Nineteenth Mississippi Regiment, com-
manded by the gallant Col. C. H. Mott.
He was at once tendered the position of assistant surgeon
of the regiment, but declined. After the first battle of Manas-
sas, he was appointed surgeon of Gen. Wilco.x's Brigade, and
so won upon the Federal prisoners that one man exclaimed:
"My God! Why are we fighting such men?"
In February, 1865, Dr. Peel, in response to Gen. Johnson's
call for experienced army surgeons, was transferred to the
Mississippi Dcparlmcnt, and placed in charge of Lee's hos-
pitals at Lauderdale Springs. Returning on short furlough to
his home, he was married to Miss Alice Maud Matthews and,
with his bride, repaired to his field of duty, where lie remained
until the surrender.
Two of his brothers had fallen witli tlicir faces to the foe,
a third had languished many months in a Northern prison, and
the youngest was wounded at Franklin.
As a successful physician and skilled surgeon his services
were rendered freely to the poor as to the rich.
DR. R, II. PEEL.
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Himself loyal lo all ilial was guc^d and great and noble, given
to genuine Soulliern iiospitalily, lie loved in his later years to
draw ari.i'nd him, in his stately home, a large circle of con-
genial friends.
In 1S73 ho united with tlie Cliristian Church, of which he
■was a devoted member, showing in his daily walk that the
charity inculcated by the Scriptures was the keynote to every
action of his life. He was also a member of the Masonic
Fraternity, the K. of P., Knights of Honor, and in all an ex-
emplification of the best principles held by each.
T he death of no citizen has caused more profound regret.
He was loved and honored for his intellect, his varied infor-
mation, his culture, his lofty aims, his great heart, so kind and
true; and the most heartfelt sympathy is extended by all to
bis vvifi- ,ind only child, Airs. S. K. Crawford, in their irrepaia-
ble loss.
He was a knightly soldier, a true friend, a useful citizen, ten-
der father, devoted husband, a sincere Christian gentleman of
the old regime, whose pleasant smile, courtly bow, and kindly
words must long be remcmliercd.
Daniel 0'Kn.\i,.
The death of Comrade Daniel O'Neal, of the Missouri Coii-
federalc Home, is reported as occurring on the 24tli of Decem-
ber. He was a member of Company B, Twentieth Tennessee
Infantry, and enlisted in April, 1861, at Nashville. Comrade
O'Neal was seventy-four years old. He had a sister, Mrs.
Sullivan, living somewhere in Tennessee. Her address is de-
sired by the Veteran.
William Brown Tate.
In the death of Comrade W. B. Tate a most remarkable
man passed away. A patriot, a soldier, a philanthropist, and.
'
W. B. TATE.
witli all. a modcsi, unassuming gentleman. He w-as also a
practical farmer, and the very strength of all these inherent
qualities which he possessed prominently marked him above
the ordinary man.
He was born iu Grainger County, Tenn., December 3, 181Q,
of Scotch-Irish ancestry — of that sturdy old pioneer stock that
helped to establish American independence. Young Tate
grew up on the farm where he lived and labored all of his
busy and useful life except the four years he gave to the
service of the Confederacy. Early in 1861 he enlisted as a
private in Company I. Second Tennessee Cavalry, command-
ed by Col. H. M. Ashby. He was wounded at Barboursville,
Ky. ; and afterwards, at his request, was transferred to Com-
pany K, Nineteenth Tennessee Infantry, w-ith which he served
till some time in 1863, when, on account of poor health, he
was honorably discharged. Unable for active service in the
field, and unwilling to leave the service, he accepted a posi-
tion as purchasing agent and collecting supplies for the gov-
ernment, in which position he showed the same good judg-
ment and fidelity that marked his course through life.
After llie surrender he returned to his dilapidated home.
Assuming the care of his aged parents, with unflinching cour-
age he began the task of making it look once more like homo
to them. By his strong manhood, practical sense, and judg-
ment, he was intuitively looked to as a protector, adviser, and
friend in those troublesome days. He was a man of frugal
habits, industrious, energetic, and of superior judgment. Un-
der his guiding hand the farm soon became a source of revenue
and, after the death of his parents, the income was far beyond
his own needs. He cared nothing for money in a sordid sense,
and, having never married, none were dependent directly on
him. Whenever he would accumulate a few thousand spare
dollars, he would, with a liberality and generosity rarely ever
seen, first divide it out with his less fortunate brothers and sis-
ters, locating them in homes of their own and then look after
others deserving assistance. In this way he disposed of his
surplus money until age began to tell upon him, and then he
invested the bulk of his accumulations in bank stocks. When
these accumulations had amounted to TWENTY THOU-
SAND DOLL.M-vS he decided to divide it out among such
of his old Confederate comrades as had lost a leg or arm in
the service.
In order to carry out his plan, he called in Attorneys O. C.
King and George P. Yoe to draw up the necessary papers ;
gave them a check for $20,000, and on July 18, 1889, the money
wa.s given to his old, maimed comrades in his presence. There
were forty-one beneficiaries, and one can better imagine than
describe the scenes and the emotions, the heart throbs of the
giver in response to those of the receivers on that occasion.
Comrade Tate died on August 22, 1503, at the ripe age of
eighty-four years, honored and beloved by all who knew him
The last sad rites were performed by the W. B. Tale Camp of
Confederate Veterans of Morrislown. Tenn.
Cai't. D. T. Beall.
On the 3d day of January, 1904, the beloved Commander of
Camp W. H. H. Tison, of Booneville, Miss., Capt. D. T.
Beall, passed from among these who had made his life and
joined those comrades who had preceded him to the life eter-
nal. He was the Commander of Company E, Twenty-Sixth
Mississipi)i Regiment of Infantry, from 1861 to the end at
.Appomattox. During his long service he always sought the
post of danger and responsibility, and in civil life he was no
less faithful to the duties of his position. He was Com-
mander of tlie Camp for twelve years, and his death was the
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crowning of s life of devoiion to friends and comrades. The
resolutions passed by the Camp in his honor express the es-
teem in which he was held and the great place he filled in
their hearts and lives.
J. C. Recce, of Lancaster, Tex., a comrade and friend,
writes the following:
"A hasty glance at the soldier life of this hero produces
happy recollections of many scenes and incidents of the
struggle for Southern rights, which he early espoused and
sustained nobly to the last, and did his part on many bat-
tlefields to carry the tide of victory for Southern arms. Fort
Donelson, CoflTcevillc, Baker's Creek and Big Black, Jack-
son. Miss., the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Deep Bottom,
Second Cold Harbor, Weldon Railroad, Bell's Mill, the re-
pulse of Sheridan's raiders, October, 1864, the march across
the chilly Nottoway and return to quarter, the winter of
1864-65, and the heroic struggle on the front line southwest
of Petersburg April 2, 1865, reecho his brave spirit. Sur-
viving comrades remember his 'Close up, Company E!' on the
march ; his "Bow your necks like tobacco worms !' in battle.
His excellent management of the 'boy company' in camp and
on the march, and his watchfulness for their comfort won for
him their confidence, love, and respect, and gave him com-
manding influence over that brave band of country boy soldiers.
"On several occasions it was his pride to lead volunteers in
some desperate charge. The character of the men he had
disciplined is well demonstrated by mention of one incident.
In a successful charge on the 'white house' (a nice country
residence) to dislodge some Federal sharpshooters during the
Lee-Grant campaign a Federal refusing to halt at command of
one of Beall's favorites. Private Jack Busby, both guns having
been previously discharged, threw his empty gun down, and,
with an oath, said, 'If I can't kill you, I can catch you," and
suiting the action to the word pursued the fleeing Yank, over-
hauled him and brought him, unharmed and unarmed, but
sorely dismayed, to his exulting captain. Beall often referred
to this act as 'Busby's native strategy.'
"Capt. Beall's request to be buried among the dead Con-
federates at Booneville proves his affinity to, and love for,
those who wore the gray. He loved them to the end, and will
greet them in the morning of the glorious resurrection."
D.wiD A. Meade.
"His deathblow struck him there in the ranks —
There in the ranks with his face to the foe."
The dead leave behind them their memory, their example,
and the effects of their actions. Through all the changing
years those whom we have truly loved in life never cease to
be objects of our deepest and holiest affections. Their names,
their characters, their images are impressed upon our dearest
recollections and our most sacred hopes.
David A. Meade, a lad of sixteen, left the paternal home
in Brunswick County. Va., in 1863, a member of the Bruns-
wick Blues. Being endowed with great personal beauty and
a perfect disposition, he readily became the idol of his family,
the beloved comrade of a wide circle of friends. Wherever he
might go friends sprang about his path, gathering inspiration
from his brave and sunny snul and feeling therein the sweet
enchantment of his spell. From the infantry which partici-
pated in the Rich Moiuitain retreat and disaster, in which
the lamented Gen. Garm-tt w;is killed, he was transferred to
Company I. Third Virginia Cavalry. Gen. Stuart command-
ing. His absolute fearlessness in battle for one of his tender
years struck his comrades with admiration, for, like the
Southerner that he was. he needed not to be led, much less
to be stimulated or driven to battle. Of all the soldiery the
whole world has produced, the Confederate soldier was the
highest type, the supreme model, and there are no indications
that his like will ever be seen again.
In a cavalry skirmish on the Rapidan David Meade received
his death wound from a poisoned bullet, in a so-called civilized
warfare, which eventually ended his young life, attended by
the severest suffering that ever fell to the lot of mortal man.
But never a complaint or murmur; with resignation and
heroic stanchness he bore all until his young life ebbed away
and he fell on sleep — the sleep that knows no waking.
"Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead !
Dear as the blocd ye gave ;
No impious footsteps here shall tread
The herbage of your grave ;
Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the hallowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps."
Ellen Meaoe Clarke.
Dr. J. D. Beck.
In nearly every community of the country there is one ma;i
whose life is passed in ministering unto others, and most often
this is the family physician and friend who sacrifices himself
that others may be relieved of their sufferings. From Mason,
Tex., come resolutions in testimony of loss to that community
in the death of Dr. J. D. Beck, who for twenty-three years had
ministered to their sick and aflhcted — the poor as well as rich
— and to those in health he stood as counselor and friend.
Dr. Beck was born in McNairy County, Tenn., in 1845. He
was a soldier of the Confederacy, and saw service at Belmont,
but defective eyesight forced him to leave the service. He at-
tended the Louisville Medical College, and later received a
diploma from the University of Louisiana, now Tulane, and
in 1894 took a postgraduate course in the New Orleans Poly-
technic. He married in 1872 and removed to Corinth, Miss., J
where he resided some years, then went to Texas on account l|
of his health, settling at Mason. Through sheer force of will
he conquered the disease which had taken such a strong hold
upon him, and for many yiars Imd been an inspiration in his
life and work.
Tributes to Gorpon and Others.
Judge J. Soulc Smith, historian and writer, of Lexington,
Ky., pays the following tribute to his old commander:
"We old fellows die in groups. The angel of death comes
and calls the roll, and we step back into the silent majority,
where I have so often wished to be. On Saturday last died j.
two men whom I knew — one of them a personal friend, ■
Charles Foster, of Ohio; the other, under whom I served in
the Confederate army, John B. Gordon, and whose cheek I
washed with my canteen of water when he got the scar on it
which he carried until his death. Thafscar was from a frag-
ment of a shell from Torbctt's battery, of the Federal army,
up near the Potomac River, one afternoon. He was a major
general then under Jubal Early, and I was a private in Com-
pany A, Twelfth Georgia Battalion.
"I knew Gen. Gordon only as a private soldier could know
a general. Yet, boylike, I was observant of him. Never but
once did I speak with old 'Marse' Robert E. Lee. God blessed
me that much in my fruitless life, but several times I spoke
to Gordon : once when I tried to turn his horse back in
battle, and he made me loose the rein, though I stood in front
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of him in hopes to stop some bullet that might elsewise hurt
him ; once when I washed his face from my canteen of water,
and once when I was brought before him for stealing apples
and had my whole shirt bosom full. He could see well enough
in a fight, but couldn't see the bulge of the apples in my shirt
front.
"These three incidents I remember well — there are others
not so promment. He was the most splendid officer I ever
saw on the battlefield. I say 'splendid' and I mean it, just
as 1 would say John C. Breckinridge was the most 'superb.'
Of course 'Marse' Robert Lee classed by himself, for God made
only one of him, and one's enough since Christ came.
"Gen. Breckinridge was the handsomest man I ever saw,
either on or off a battlefield. 'Marse' Robert Lee was like a
mountain peak on which the sweet sun rested, but the stars
were very near to it, and tlic blue sky bent around it beau-
tifully. Gordon was the shining scimiter which the war god
wielded when he cleft his enemies. He dressed for battle as
others would dress for a ball, and when the boys saw his clean
gauntlets and his shining epaulets on him, they ate all their
rations, lest they should die before they had a chance to finish
them.
"He was sober, discreet, and gentle. I saw him walk while
a foot-sore private rode his horse. Pure as Sir Galahad, knight-
ly as King Arthur, he was as brave as Lancelot and gentle as
the dawn. His face grew white in battle, and the scar on his
cheek grew red or purple, his eyes blazed, and Gordon's Bri-
gade stood ready to die in their tracks.
"Let one of them pay this little tribute to his memory."
Virginians Pay Tribute to Gen. Longstreet.
The John Bowie Strange Camp, U. C. V., of Charlottesville,
Va., paid tribute to the memory of Lieut. Gen. James Long-
street, in which it is stated :
"The Virginians who served under him in the War between
the States recognize his splendid ability as a corps commander,
his dauntless courage, and the absolute confidence reposed in
him by that immortal band of Southerners who will go down
in history, wreathed with immortal fame, as Longstreet',-:
Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. A large proportion of its
members belonged to organizations led by him in the Virginia
campaigns. . . . Our immortal leader, R. E. Lee, the Com-
mander in Chief of the Confederate forces, continued him in
1 command as lieutenant general until the fateful day of Appo-
' mattox, when, in the expiring crisis of the Confederacy, Long-
! street and his corps of Southerners were in line of battle, ready
■ to lay down their lives in defense of the South, until ordered
to shcalh their swords, slack their guns, and furl their flags."
Micajah Woods, George L. Petrie, and J. T\l. Murphy, com-
mittee, presented the resolutions, which were unanimously
passed by the Camp. H. Clay Michie is Commander and W.
N. Wood Adjutant and Secretary of the Camp.
The resolutions, handsomely engrossed, were sent to Mrs.
Longstreet, and in her acknowledgment she writes :
"Please convey to the Camp my warmest thanks, with assur-
ance that the loving honor they have paid to our beloved dead
will always be held in tender memory by Gen. Longstreel's
family. It is a melancholy comfort to know that the military
honor of the great commander is safe with the fighting sol-
diers of the Confederacy, who loved him as the Old Guard
loved Napoleon. . . . Such expressions give me the only
[comfort the world can offer in this hour, and I thank you
igain and again with all my anguished heart.''
CoL. N. H. Burt.
Col. Nash H. Burt died at the home of his son, Nash H.
Burt, Jr., in Birmingham, Ala., July 31, 1903; aged about sev-
enty-two years. Me was born in Nash County, N. C, moved
to Tetmessee when quite a youth, and
after receiving a liberal education be-
gan the practice of law in Bedford
County. About 1855 he was appointed
Secretary to the Hon. Hardy Burton,
United Slates Consul to the Island of
Z£T,^ L St. Thomas, and after the death of
JKj^^^^^^ •^''■. Burton from yellow fever liad
i^^^^^^^^^^l charge of affairs, and afterwards
^V^^^^^H^ brought the remains of his chief to
^^^^^^^^ 'i"-' United Slates for burial. When
the War between the States began he
was Private Secretary to Gov. Isham G. Harris, the war Gov-
ernor of Tennessee, and when Gov. Harris took the field Col.
Burt was appointed on his staff with ihc rank of lieutenant
colonel. At the close of the war Col. Burt returned to Ten-
nessee, located in Chattanooga, and resumed the practice of
law, forming a partnership with Col. G. A. Wood, who com-
manded the Fifteenth Indiana during the war, under the firm
name of Wood and Burt, which soon became known as one
of the leading law firms in Chattanooga.
In 1878, when Chattanooga was scourged by a dreadful epi-
demic of yellow fever and every one who could was leaving the
city. Col. Burt, with Rev. J. W. Bachman, Mr. O'Brien, and
others, volunteered to serve on the Relief Committee, and he
was one of that splendid band of heroes who remained through-
out the plague, nursing the sick and dying and administering
to Ihe wants of the distressed.
In June, 1866, Col. Burt was married at Danville, Ky., to
Miss Eliza Middleton. Two sons — Harry M., of Denver, Colo.,
and Nash H., of Birmingham — survive him.
It is a coincidence tliat an official paper as Private Secretary
to Gov. Harris has been on the Veteran desk for a decade.
It is dated April 21, 1861, and is addressed to Col. T. H. Log-
wood in regard to his commission, C. S. A,
Capt. John Tayloe Perrin.
After a brief illness of pneumonia, Capt. John Tayloe Per-
rin died on the 25lh of February, 1904, in the city of Balti-
more. He was a native of Gloucester County, V'a., but
for many years previous to his death he was a resident of
Baltimore. Capt. Perrin was descended from a distinguished
ancestry of Virginians. His grandfather was the accom-
plished Ralph Wormley, of Rosegill, Middlesex County; his
father, Maj. \Vm. K. Perrin, a veteran of the war of 1812;
and his mother, Mrs. Sarah Tayloe Perrin, a matron of the
true Cornelia type, whose children were her jewels.
At the breaking out of the War between the Stales Capt.
Perrin was a young and successful planter in his native coun-
ty. Virginia having cast her lot with the South, he enlisted
in the Confederate army, and was active in organizing the
Twenty-Sixth Virginia Regiment of Infantry, which was soon
made a part of Wise's Brigade. He was elected captain of one
of its companies. He served with distinction in Virginia,
South Carolina, and Florida with his command. During
1864, in a battle near Petersburg, he was disabled by a serious
wound, which rendered him lame for life.
After the surrender Capt. Perrin returned to his farms, and
devoted himself to the rebuilding of his shattered fortune.
A few years later he married Miss Maud Tabb, daughter of
Dr. I. Prosser and Mrs. Rebecca Tabb, of White Marsh.
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Later he moved with his family to Baltimore, and resided
there until his death.
He died in the sixty-eighth year of his age, leaving a de-
voted wife and four children — daughters — to mourn their
loss. He has been laid to rest beside the "kith and kin" of
his youth beneath the bending trees of old Ware church in
the county that gave him birth. A devoted husband, loving
father, true friend, patriotic citizen, gallant soldier, he has
gone to his rest and reward. Faithful in all the relations of
life, spotless in character, to those who knew him his pure life
was as a beautiful sermon, the end of which has "come like
the benediction that follows after prayer." \V. K.
Mrs. .^rami.vt.^ Claiborne Hudson.
Mrs. A. C. Hudson was born at the home of her maternal
grandfather, Maj. Daniel Williams, in Dixon County, Temi.,
in 1817, the daughter of Maj. John Wills Napier and Cas-
sandra Williams. She was
educated by Miss Lucy
Lanier at Columbia and by
Dr. Berry in Nashville. At
the age of seventeen years
she married Dr. John Rolfe
Hudson, a young Virginian
fresh from the University
of Pennsylvania, but already
winning laurels in his pro-
fession. She lost her moth-
er about that time, and, be-
sides other duties intrusted
to her, she was given tht
wool from the sheep's back
and the cotton from the field
with which to clothe nearly
a hundred negroes. Her fa-
ther was an ironmaster,
and employed many hands.
Moving to Nashville when
her little girls required educating, she made that her life work.
Her motto was, "Knowledge is power," and she gave them
every advantage in every accomplishment. She was an emi-
nently practical woman and an excellent housekeeper, a favorite
expression being : "Cleanliness is the elegance of poverty." She
never gave her children a toy, but always books, for the love
of books and literature was her chief characteristic. Her
daughters have faid often that they were sung 10 sleep as chil-
dren with Moore and Burns melodies, and have sat listening
to "Lalla Rookh," "Childe Harold," or Scott's poems rather
than play. She knew them all, and recited them beautifully.
A few years ago, after she was eighty years of age, a friend
went to see her. She was lying on her sofa reading "The His-
tory of Civilization," and on her table by her side were
the "Queens of England," being read for the third time. Her
ambition and determination were shown just after the great
war, when, outside the city limits, her only son having no op-
portunity to go to school, she tauglil him and studied Latin un-
der one of her sons-in-law. Dr. W. E. Ward, so as to teach
her young son.
Mrs. Hudson's devotion to the Confederate soldiers was
next to her children. She had charge of a hospital, and when
Fort Donelson fell she had in her house nursing them nearly
twenty sick soldiers. She bent every power to help them
while prisoners. She would go to the Federal authorities and
say: "I have in my house now your sick men. They come to
MKS. A. C. HUDSON.
me for help, for milk, for advice. Let me hcJp my own." And
they never refused her. A few years ago some gentleman
from St. Louis visited Nashville, and said he had not been
here since Hood's raid. He was a prisoner in the old stone
quarry, and nearly froze to death, but a lady came down
with a Federal officer and saw him without shoes and gave
him a pair, the officer making the guard let her pass. He
said she saved his life, and he always wanted to know who
she was. A ncphe\v of Mrs. Hudson was present, and he im-
mediately exclaimed: "That was aunt, for I was a little boy
then, and went with her and carried the shoes." She was a
member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and on he-
father's place was the Big Spring Camp Meeting, amon^ the
first ever held by that Church.
During the war of the sixties the Hudson home was on a
hill not far back of the penitentiary, which was then a prison
for Confederates, and this family shielded many who escaped
from time to lime. Ultra as were her views, Mrs. Hudson so
commanded the respect of Federal authorities that she was per-
mitted to do Confederates many favors. Only a few years ago
a medical student from Mississippi called to pay his father'.*
respects, who, while here in prison during 1861, was taken by
Mrs. Hudson in her carriage to her home and nursed back to
health. Many have risen and called her blessed for kindness
to them in days of distress.
Mrs. Hudson was a heroine and prided in the patriotic bloo.l
of her ancestors, and when two grandsons enlisted for the
Spanish War, she said, "Let them go," and, after telling of
ilicir blood, said: "They can't help going."
She was the granddaughter of Col. Richard Claiborne
Napier, a Virginia genllenian, and colonel in the Revolutionary
War, raising and equipping his own regiment. Her father
fought with Jackson — in a regiment of which his elder brother
was colonel, another brother surgeon, and another captain.
Her surviving children are Mrs. Robert L. Morris, Mr-.
Preston Miller, and Dr. John Wills Hudson, of California,
who is at present anthropologist and archaeologist for the
Field Museum, Chicago. One of her children was the wife
of Dr. W. E. Ward, whose career was in the noble seminary
bearing his name — a helpmeet in his great work; then the be-
loved Mrs. Mary Robertson and Mrs. Robert W. Brown were
her daughters. Few women of the country equaled this noble
woman in all life's duties.
B. S. Fitzgerald.
Prof. B. S. Fitzgerald died at his home, in Houston, Tex .
on January 26. He was born in Mississippi, but moved h'
Texas in 1851, accepted a position in the faculty of the Baylor
University, and at the breaking out of the War between the
States was President of the University. In 1862 he enlisted in
Company I, of the Fifth Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade,
Army of Northern Virginia. He served through the remaining
years of struggle with honor. Returning to his post at Baylor
University, he remained with the institution until 1868. M
that time he removed 10 Houston and took charge of the
Houston Academy, retaining his place as head of that institu-
tion until 1875. .Vftcr that time he devoted himself to busi-
ness pursuits.
During all his life Mr. Fitzgerald was closely affiliated with ,^
the Baptist Church, and was known as one of the oldest and ,
strongest members in the State. Only a few days before his i
death Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald celebrated ihcir golden wed-]
ding, the fiflietli anniversary of their marriage.
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NOTED LANDMARK IN BALTIMORE.
Comrade William L. Ritter, Adjutant of the Camp of Con-
federate Veterans in Baltimore, sends some interesting data
concerning the office of the firm with which he is connected —
Clendenin Brothers, in South Gay Street, together with pho-
tographs of the ruins :
"In the early days of the last century the building was j
dwelling house, where often assembled the worthies of the old
regime of the city after the war of 1812. Subsequently it was
converted into a warehouse for business purposes. In 1845
the building was occupied by Henry Thompson & Company ;
later and during the War between the Stales by Pope, Cole &
Company. From 1885 it was occupied by Clendenin Brothers.
"Capt. Henry Thompson was graudatcd at the West Point
Military Institute, and was an intimate acquaintance and
friend of Gen. Robert E. Lee. During the two years that Gen.
Lee was stationed at Baltimore, which was subsequent to the
Me.\ican War, he visited the office of Capt. Thompson almost
daily. The entrance to the office was through the arched
doorway near the corner of the building and high wai!.
On a number ul occasions Gen. Lee asked Capt. Thomp-
son to witness his signature to papers he was about to transmit
to the War Department at Washington, then presided over by
the Hon. JeflFcrson Davis. The desk upon which those papers
were signed I had the honor of using for eight years previous
to the recent fire. I regret its loss exceedingly."
THE REAL JEFFERSON DAI' IS.
Landon Kniglit concludes a scries of articles in The- Pilgrim
(Battle Creek, Mich.) for March of "the real" Jefferson Davis,
in which he says :
"It is a difficult matter at this distance of time to realize the
attitude of public sentiment against Jefferson Davis, the State
prisoner of Fortress Monroe. As the Chief Executive of the
late Confederacy, he was, in popular estimation, the incarna-
tion, if not the proximate cause, of all the sins and suffering
of rebellion, but worse than all the administration which in
feverish, puerile haste had declared him ati accessory to the
assassination of Mr. Lincoln, and upon that score had paid out
of the public treasury $100,000 for his capture, could not, or
rather dared not. reverse its attitude and speak the truth. The
result was, of course, that the vast majority of the people at
the North believed Mr. Davis to be as guihy of murder as he
was of troason.
"Andrew Johnson, within ninety days after he liad issued
liis ridiculously false proclamation, admitted it to be without
foundation-^i fact which all along was fully realized by every
member of the government who had personally known the ac-
cused.
"Mr. Davis was constantly demanding that he be given the
speedy and impartial trial provided in such cases by tJie Consti-
tution. Charles O'Connor, then the greatest of living lawyers,
Henry Ould, and many other leading members of the bar from
the Northern States, volunteered to defend Mr. Davis, while
Thaddcus Stevens proffered his services to Clement C. Clay.
Horace Greeley, through the columns of the Tiibunc, constantly
demanded that Mr. Davis be either liberated or brought to
trial, and by the spring of the year l8()6 he had created such
a sentiment in favor of his contentions throughout the country
that the government could no longer delay some action. Ac-
cordingly in May an indictment was procured, charging Jef-
ferson Davis with high treason against the United States, and
in June of the same year Mr. Boutwell offered a resolution in
Congress that the accused should be tried according to the laws
of the land, which passed that body by a vote of 105 to 19.
"But despite that resolution, there were those who clearly
foresaw the danger involved in it, and hoping that time might
dispose of the necessity for any trial at all, urged delay as the
wi.scst measure. Consequently, despite the efforts of Greeley
and Gerritt Smith, and other great nun of the North, the trial
was postponed until May, 1867. Mr. Davis, weak, pale, and
oinacintcd, appeared before Chief Justice Chase, sitting with
Justice Underwoud, in the Circuit Court at Richmond. The
court room was crowded to its utmost capacity, and despite the
stern discipline sought to be enforced, it was with the greatest
difficulty thai the applause could be suppressed that from time
to time greeted the profound logic and masterly eloquence of
Charles O'Connor's great speech on a motion to quash the in-
dictment. The arguments lasted two days, and at their con-
clusion Chief Justice Chase voted to quash the indictment,
while Justice L'nderwood voted to sustain it. thus necessitating
a reference of the matter to the Supreme Court of the L'nitcd
States for final decision. In accordance with a previous ar-
rangement Mr. Davis was soon afterwards admitted to bail,
Horace Greeley, Gerritt Smith, Augustus Schell, and a number
of other former political enemies becoming his bondsmen.
"Charles O'Connor's bold declaralinn that Jefferson Davis
could never I'C convicted of treasiii under the Constitution as
it then stood first aroused the administration to the dangers of
the task that it had assumed. Mr. Johnson sent for his attor-
ney-general and had him prepare an opinion on the case. In
due time it was submitted. It was a veritable bombshell which
fairly demolished every theory upon which Jefferson Davis
might have been convicted of treason or any other crime. Mr.
Johnson then called to his aid two of the greatest constitutional
lawyers of the age, and they agreed with the conclusions of Mr.
Stanberry. Not satisfied with this, he invited the Chief Justice
to a conference for a full discussion of the matter. If there was
ever a partisan, it was Salmon P. Chase, but at the same time he
was a great lawyer and an honest and fearless man. 'Lincoln,' he
said, 'wanted Jeff. Davis to escape. He was right. His capture
was a mistake, his trial will be a greater one. We cannot
convict him of treason. Secession is settled. Let it slay set-
tled !' Significant words truly from that source, and they ex-
plain the vote of the great judge who would have quashed the
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indictment against Mr. Davis no less than the question so
often asked: 'Why was Jefferson Davis never tried for treason?'
"Immediately after Mr. Davis's release on bond, he went
with his family to New York, and a few weeks later to Mon-
treal, where he continued to reside until May of the following
year, when he again appeared before the Circuit Court in
Richmond for trial. But despite the efforts of his counsel to
force a trial of the case, it was dismissed by the government,
and thus ended ingloriously the boast of the government that
it intended 'in the archtraitor Davis to make treason odious.'
"Impaired in health and longing for rest far away from the
tragic scenes of the past few years, Mr. Davis accepted the
invitation of English friends to visit them. But it was soon
discovered that his visit was to be a continuous ovation. Ev-
erywhere he was greeted as though he had been the con-
queror instead of the vanquished. The spirit that prompted
those manifestations he appreciated, but it revived sad memo-
ries of the cause for which he had staked all and lost, and to
avoid this lionizing he took up his residence in Paris. The
cordiality of the Frenchmen, however, surpassed that of their
English brethren, and Mr. Davis soon found liimself so much
in the public eye that he decided to return to England. Before
quitting Paris, the emperor conveyed his desire for an audience,
which Mr. Davis courteously refused. Napoleon, he con-
ceived, had acted in bad faith with the South, and such was
the moral rectitude of the man that he could never disguise
his contempt for any one, of however exalted station, whom
he believed to be guilty of double dealing of any kind.
JEFFERSrN DAVIS IN THE SIXTIES.
"As the guest of Lord Leigh and the Duke of Shrewsbury
in Wales, Mr. Davis's health gradually improved until he felt
himself once more able to enter the active business of life. The
war had left him a poor man, and when a life insurance com-
pany of Memphis offered him its presidency with a fair salary,
he accepted, and with his family returned to .\merica. The
people of Memphis, soon after his arrival, presented him .»
tine residence, but this he refused. Mr. Davis was probably
a very poor business man, and his associates of the insurance
company were in no way superior, for its affairs soon becanve
anything but prosperous. All of his available capital was in-
vested in it, but this he gladly sacrificed in order to sell bis
own company to a stronger one, which could protect the pol-
icies of the former.
"The people of Texas, learning of Mr. Davis's losses, oi
fered to give him an extensive stock farm in that State, but
tliis he also refused. Upon the Gulf of Mexico, at the little
station of Beauvoir, Mr. Davis owned a tract of land, which he
conceived would support his family, and there, far from the
strife of the busy world, he resolved to spend the declining
years of his life. However, retirement at best could only be
partial for a man loved and venerated as Mr. Davis was
throughout the South, and Beauvoir accordingly became the
shrine of the public nH.n who sought the counsel of its sage.
But with the modesty characteristic of the man he refused to
advise any one upon measures of national import, since by the
action of Congress he was forever disfranchised. He would
not ask pardon, sincerely believing that he had done no wrong,
and when the people of Mississippi would have elected him
to the United States Senate he declined the honor in words
wliich should be perused by all who know the man as he was
during this period of his life. "The franchise is yours here,
and Congress can but refuse you admission, and your exclu-
sion will be a test question,' ran the invitation, to which Mr
Davis replied: '1 remained in prison two years, and hoped in
vain for a trial, and now scenes of insult and violence, pro-
ducing alienation between the sections, would be the only re-
sult of another test. I am too old to serve you as I once did,
and too enfeebled by suffering to maintain your cause.' An>
word that might serve to still further increase that alienatioi
never passed the lips of the gentle, kindly old man, who, still
the idol of his people, preferred to all honors the quiet life
there among the pines, where amidst his flowers he played with
his children and their little friends, and far into the night, sur-
rounded by his books, he worked assiduously upon his only
defense, 'The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.'
The concluding paragraph of that book, written in the gray
dawn of a summer morning :ifter a night of continuous labor,
should be read by every one who would understand the mo-
tives that actuated Jefferson Davis in the great part that ht
played in the world's history.
" 'In asserting the right of secession it has not been my wish
to incite to its exercise. I recognize the fact that the war
showed it to be impracticable, but this did not prove it to be
wrong ; and now that it may not be again attempted, and the
Union may promote the general welfare, it is needful that the
truth, the wliolc trutli, should be known so that crimination
and recrimination may forever cease, and then on the basis ol
fraternity and faithful regard for the rights of the States ther'
may be written on the arcli of the Union "Esto pcrpctua."'
"It is the voice of the soul in defeat, yet strong and con
scious of its own integrity, recognizing the inevitable and prayi,
ing for peace and the perpetuation of that Union which Jef|
fcrson Davis still loved. p
"His life's work was done with the completion of his bool^l
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and, trusting to impartial posterity for that vindication of his
motives which he realized must come some day, he turned
away from the scenes of controversy and contentions, seeking
in books, the converse of his friends, in long rambles with his
children across wood and field, for oblivion of all painful
memories. Defeat and persecution never embittered him.
Cruel and false accusations found their way to his sylvan re-
treat. That they grievously wounded can be doubted by no one
who l.new his proud spirit, supersensitive to every insinuation
of d-^honor; but with the gentle smile of a philosopher he
passed them by, fully realizing that his beloved people of the
South, at least, would understand the stainless purity of all
his motives. A harsh or an unkind word never passed his lips
concerning any of his personal or political enemies. In fact, it
would be no more than the truth to say that this gentle old
man cherished no sentiment of enmity toward any of God's
creatures. The storm and stress of life were over, its Iiopes
and its passions were dead, and grandly, majestically this man.
who at once embodied tlic highest type of American manhood
and all of the virtues of the [Krfect Christian gentleman, calmly
awaited the end. It came on the 6th of December, 1889. in
New Orleans, at the home of Judge Fenner, his lifelong
friend. When the news of his death went forth, even the
voice of malice was subdued, and many of those who had
sought to fix everlasting infamy upon his name ceased for a
time to be unjust and agreed that a majestic soul had passed.
Over the bier of the dead chieftain the whole South wept, and
nine of its governors bore him to the grave.
"No proper estimate of the life and character of JefTerson
Davis is possible in the restricted scope of a magazine article,
but lest I should be accused of partiality I shall here append
the conclusion of Ridpath. the historian, written after a resi-
dence of almost a year under tlie same roof with Mr. Davis,
which I heartily indorse as a correct estimate.
" 'Before I had been with Mr. Davis three days every pre-
conceived idea utterly and forever disappeared. Nobody doubt-
ed Mr. Davis's intellectual capacity, but it was not his mental
power that most impressed me. It was liis goodness, first of all,
and then his intellectual integrity. I never saw an old man
whose face bore more emphatic evidences of a gentle, refined,
and benignant character. He seemed to me the ideal embod-
iment of "sweetness and light." His conversation showed that
he had "charity for all and malice toward none." I never
heard him utter an unkind word of any man, and he spoke of
nearly all of his famous opponents. His manner may be best
described as gracious, so exquisitely refined, so courtly, yet
heart-warm. Mr. Davis's dignity was as natural and cliarming
as the perfume of the rose — the fitting expression of a serene,
benign, and comely moral nature. However handsome he may
have been when excited in battle or debate, it surely was in
his own home, with his family and friends around him, that
he was seen at his best: and that best was the highest point of
grace and refinement that the Southern character has reached.'
"Lest any foreigner should read this statement, let me say
for his benefit that there are two JefTerson Davises in American
history. One is a conspirator, a rebel, a traitor, and 'the Fiend
of Andersonville' — he is a myth evolved from the hell-smoke
of cruel war, as purely as imaginary a personage as Mephis-
topheles or the Hebrew devil; the other was a statesman with
clean hands and pure heart, who served his people faithfully
from budding manhood to hoary age, without thought of self,
with unbending integrity, and to the best of his great ability —
he was a man of whom all his countrymen who knew him per-
sonally, without distinction of creed political, are proud, and
proud that he was their countryman.
"This is a conclusion by no means e:^travagant, a conclusion
which, despite the fact of some mental faults that prevented
him from quite attaining to the first rank of the greatest states-
man, nevertheless leaves him preeminent as one of the purest
and best of the men who has played a conspicuous part in the
world'.> historv."
Rise and Fall !>me Confederate Government.
By president JEFFERSON DAVIS.
MOST IMPORTANT BOOK TRANSACTION EVER MADE BY THE VETERAN.
THERE has just been purchased by the \"kteran the publishers' entire edition of Mr.
Davis's " Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government." This closing out sale is com-
prised entirely of the half morocco binding, with marble edges, and published for S14 per
set. The purchase of this entire stock was on such favorable terms that the Vf.tkr.an will sup-
ply them at half price, the cost of transportation added. $7.65. The two volumes contain voer
1,500 pages and 37 fine steel engravings and map plates. When this edition is exhausted
copies can be procured only through speculators at fabulous prices.
This book is famous in many ways. Through generations of the future it will be accepted as
the authentic history of the South in the crisis of the sixties. No other will assume to rival it.
Argument in behalf of its inestimable value is useless. From every aspect it is as noble as is
its dedication: "To the Women of the Confederacy."
This entire edition is offered as follows: For fifteen subscriptions to the Veteran the two vol-
umes will be sent free to any address in the United States. This great work will be sent to
subscribers who cannot procure new subscriptions for S7 and cost of mailing or express (S7. 65).
C.-"iips of Veterans and Cb.apters of Daughters of the Confederacy can easily secure the fifteen
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ADDRESS S. A. CUNNINGHAM. NASHVILLE. TENN.
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SHEPPARD PICTURES FOR THE JEFFERSON DAVIS MONUMENT FUND.
.Mrs. N. V. Randolph, Chairman Central Committee of the
Jefferson Davis Monument Association, Richmond, Va. :
"The Central Committee of the Jefferson Davis Monument
Association have a set of three pictures, representing the three
'branches of the Confederate army. These plates are executed
from designs in water color by Mr. William L. Sheppard,
whose service in the Confederate army afforded him advan-
tages in the study of types, places, and color in the life of the
Confederate soldier which were possessed by only a few
artists.
"The figures are treated with almost no background, and
•only a few accessories appropriate to the branch of the service
represented.
"The infantryman is equipped with rolled blanket over his
shoulder, belt, bayonet, canteen, etc. He has stopped for a
•moment at the camp fire to light his pipe, and supports his
rifle in the hollow of his elbow, in order to have both hands
free.
"The avlilleryman, a captain, stands on the slight slope of a
breastwork, and signals to the gunners to reserve their fire
until he can observe the enemy with his field glass. The smoke
drifting by indicates that a gun near him has just been fired.
"The cavalryman is about to saddle his horse; has the bridle
in his hand, whilst the saddle is on a limi.) near by. and near it
lie his rolled blanket and saber.
"Attention is concentrated on the figures alone. There is no
newness about their 'outfit.' Their clothing shows service.
"The figures are of th.e light-liaircd and dark-haired types
— two of them. The artilleryman's hair is iron-gray, as there
were numbers of middle-aged men in the Confederate service
who should not go unrepresented in this scries. The figures
belong to the campaign period of i86ji.
"These pictures are sold for the benefit of the Jefferson
Davis monument. The work is done by the Chapters. It is
hoped that every Camp and Chapter will buy at least one set,
as it is necessary that the younger people of the South should
know the uniform of their fathers, and not the grotesque
figure of a Confederate soldier in a long frock coat.
"The price is $i for the set ; postage, 13 cents. The size is
101/2 inches by 17 inches, mounted upon board 15 inches by 20
inches, ready for framing. Orders to be sent to Mrs. William
Robert Vawter, Chairman and Treasurer Picture Committee,
Richmond, Va."
The committee are so pleased with the presentation above
ihat they request its further publication with the following note: .
The editor of the Veteran presented the Central Committee,
Davis Monument, with 2,000 copies of this print to be
sent to Camps, etc. In sending orders, please remember thir-
teen cents for postage. Mrs. N. V. Randolph, Chairman,
Richmond. \'a. ; Mrs. William Roljert Vawter, Ronceverte,
W. Va.
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"JOHNNY KEB" IN THE SNOW.
BY JOHN COOKE OHUSTED. M.D.
Alone on a barren hillside
Near the frozen Shenandoah,
Where bleak winds from the mountains
sweep
Their course from shore to shore ;
He stands in the shadows of the night,
How well that form we know.
Though seen in storm or fiercest fight,
'Tis "Johnny Reb" amidst the snow!
His battered hat and ragged clothes!
Around his shoulders spread
An old thin "blanket overcoat,"
With a hole cut through for his head !
And alas ! of shoes almost bereft.
Their broken remnants sec.
Are wrapped witli wisps of straw, yet kfi
For the freezing men of Lee !
In hunger, cold, and nakedness,
But with no thought of fear!
Alert and watchful of the foe.
While the night draws on so drear.
His burnished musket at his side
Gleams in the waning light;
This gun wxll kept is his only pride,
Anc" "has talked in many a fight."
Though pinched with want and pierced
by cold.
There's a light in his earnest eye
That speaks of a heart both true and
bold,
Of a faith that would not die !
The cheerful patience in his face.
Amidst that winter scene.
Was like to that which painters trace
In the lowly Nazarene !
Long has he followed his good, gray
chief,
.\nd well does "Johnny" know
How that great heart is wrung with
grief
For his soldiers in the snow.
"Marse Robert knows !" and a tender
light
Dawns on the careworn face.
And he grips his gun in the wintry night
As he turns in his sentinel pace.
He warms with thoughts of Gaines's
Mill,
Of Manassas's fiery plain.
Of Fredericksburg and Malvern Hill,
The Wilderness again !
He thinks of the old brigade's wild yell
.•\s they charged upon the plain,
And swept, like ocean's billowy swell.
The focman'.i ranks in tw.Tin'
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And then he halts on his lonely round
As to his mind now come
Sweet thoughts of peace, and lie hears
the sound
Of loved ones left at home.
Again he feels his wife's fond kiss,
His little ones draw near,
.-Vnd in the vision of that bliss
There comes the starting tear.
But Johnny brushes that away.
And he thinks with a humble trust
That "God will bless our cause some
day,
'Tis freedom's, true, and just!"
"In weariness and painfulness,"
"In peril oft" was he!
But he "kept tlic failli" in the starry
cross.
In God and General Lee!
Brave "Johnny Reb," thy steadfast faith,
.\nd fortitude sublime,
Tlie page of history shall grace
Throughout all coming time!
Mrs. .-Vnna Fuller Bennett, of Lanes-
boro, Mass., wishes to procure the ad-
dress of Capt. Andrew J. Lewis, for-
merly of Port Gibson, Miss. She thinks
he must be living in South Carolina now.
Philip J. Dean, of Hearne, Te.x., who
was in Morgan's Command, Fifth Ken-
tucky Cavalry, Company H, Capt. Scott
Dawson, would like to hear from some
of his comrades. Thinks some member
of Company F, Capt. Will Jordan, or
Company A, Capt. Campbell, will re-
member him, as they were from near
his old home, Versailles, Ky.
A patron of the Veteran requests
publication of the poem entitled "I Am
Dreaming," and if some one will supply
it, space will be given promptly. He
thinks some of it runs thus :
"He is the comeliest gentleman that ever
wore the gray,
His sire was Light Horse Harry, his
name is Robert Lee."
A STRONO AUDITING FIRM.
The Certified Audit Corporation of
New York City announces its readiness
for business through the Vf.tkr.vn. Maj.
Edward Owen is the Vice President and
General Manager. Maj. Owen lived in
New Orleans previous to the Great
War, in whicli he served throughout
from Bull Run to Appomattox, as pri-
vate, sergeant, lieutenant, and captain
of the First Company, Battalion Wash-
ington Artillery of New Orleans. He
has been the Commander over five
years consecutively of the Confederate
Veteran Camp of New York.
Maj. Owen's special fitness for this
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is the confidential agent of the Mayor,
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M. L. Scott, Palma. Ky., who was a
member of Company L, First Tennessee
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ander and Joshua Owens, or any other
members of the company who can tes-
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W. R. Stevenson, Winnsboro, Te.x.,
inquires the whereabouts of little Joe
Wilson, who at fifteen years of age
joined Company F, of the Third Texas
(Ross's) Brigade, while operating around
Vicksburg. His home was near Oak
Ridge. He received an ugly wound in
the mouth at the battle of Roan Moun-
tain, Ga.
L. S. Howell, No. 1456 Warren Street,
St. Louis, Mo., has a twenty-dollar Con-
federate bill on which are the initials,
"J. H. E., Coinpany A, Twenty-First
Georgia Regiment," and he would like
to locate the person.
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Rev. J. A, Burgess, Saginaw, Oregon,
makes inquirj- for some of his war com-
rades— A. A. Shobe, Gus Flotering, W.
H. Holt, Sam Tucker, and Os-
borne. He was a member of Company
A, Forty-First Mississippi Volunteers.
He also wants to know why this regi-
ment marched in ranks after stacking
arms at High Point, N. C. He doesn't
remember how long they were in ranks,
but were dismissed Saturday night at
eight o'clock. Wants to know also how
Gen. Stephen D. Lee got his nickname
of "Old Temporary." Some comrade of
the regiment may be able to answer this.
Rev. S. M. Gupton, of Nashville,
Tenn., says : "I have read with a great
deal of interest R. R. Hancock's "Diary,"
and would very heartily commend it to
any who may be interested in the stir-
ring events of 1860-65. Knowing Mr.
Hancock as I do, I am sure he recite.s
faithfully and truly the scenes as they
occurred. Being an eyewitness, he tells
the story in his own way, and thereby
makes it more interesting. Hope the
book will have a wide circulation."
For sale by the Veteran, $2 ; w-ith a
year's subscription, $2,50.
George I. C. McWhirter, of Newberry,
S. C, makes inquiry about Gen. Carter
L. Stevenson. He commanded a divi-
sion under Gen. Bragg in Kentucky in
the fall of 1862, and was also with
Gen. J. E. Johnston in the hundred days
around Atlanta. He says : "I was with
him all the time, and we went with Gen.
Hood to Franklin and Nashville. I re-
member that Gen. A. P. Stewart com-
manded us in the battle of New Hope
Church, but cannot recall when it was
that Gen. Stevenson left us or anything
of his subsequent career."
List of officers recently elected by the
Richmond Chapter, U. D. C, for the en-
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dolph ; Vice Presidents, Mrs. Walter
Christian, Mrs. Kate Winn; Recording
Secretary, Mrs. B. A. Blenner; Treas-
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Secretary, Mrs. T. Crawford Redd.
J. K. Womack, of Hillsboro, Ga,,
would like to know of any comrades of
Company K, Fourth Louisiana Regi-
ment of Cavalry, Col. A. J. McNeil.
The company was under Capt. York,
from Waterproof, La. Col. Harrison
commanded the brigade. Comrade
Womack was born and reared in Jack-
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having in charge the sale of pictures for
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be sent her there.
J. M. Howell, Speed. N. C. : "H Maj.
J. C. Haskell, who commanded a bat-
talion of artillery in the First Corps, A.
N. v., is yet living, I should be glad to
hear from him, or will appreciate hear-
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"The Pennsylvania Elk/' by Con-
federate Sons.
'I'he following interesting note is given
from W. H, Kearfott, Commander, De-
partment Army of Virginia, U. S. C. V.,
wlio also resides in Pittsburg, Pa.:
"I am sending you, under separate
cover, a copy of 'The Pennsylvania
Elk.' The editorial staff consists of
Messrs. Lee, Humphries, and Cason.
Mr. T. B. Lee, of Virginia, is Com-
mander of the Robert E. Lee Camp, No.
445, L'nited Sons of Confederate Vet-
erans, Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Humphries,
of Virginia, and Mr. Cason, of New
Orleans, La., are members of my staff.
All three, you will note, are Sons of
Confederate Veterans, now actively en-
gaged and prominent in business in Pitts-
burg."
A NE]V BOOK— 'OLD FOLKLORE:'
BY MRS. JEANNETTE ROBINSON MURPHY.
For several seasons Mrs. Jeanette
Robinson Murphy has been urged at the
close of her concert lectures, before the
leading Northern women's clubs, to put
on permanent record her remarkable
collection of negro slave songs, folk
tales, etc.
She has lately been devoting her at-
tention to this work, and purposes to
issue a book of genuine slave songs,
humorous stories, and articles upon
negro character. Mrs. Jefferson Davis
has written her cordial permission for
it to be dedicated to her daughter, the
late Winnie Davis.
Mrs. Murphy's book will be entitled
"Southern Thoughts for Northern
Thinkers," and will be of great value
to folk-lorists, scientists, students of the
Southern conditions, and, in fact, to all
lovers of the fast vanishing "old-timey"
negro and his fascinating music.
The work is to be given to an Or-
lando, Fla., firm, and the town proper
is mentioned in connection with several
of our most interesting colored people,
among them "Uncle Gary" and the late
"Aunt Susan Walker," who figure vivid-
ly in a number of capital interviews.
The book will make a most attractive
souvenir for winter visitors, and to se-
cure the reservation of a copy, names
should be sent to Curtis & O'Neal's
Book Store, Orlando, Fla., quickly. It
is to be sold by subscription.
We understand the price will be one
dollar a copy.
NEIV SOLUTION OF NEGRO
PROBLEM.
Joe A. Cunningham has issued a very
extraordinary and unique new book of
poems, entitled "The Blue and the Gray,
and Other Poems and Songs." His ob-
ject in writing of the War between the
States is to extend fraternity and to
persuade the blue and gray to act to-
gether. He takes the position that the
enfranchisement of the blacks was a vio-
lation of the decree of God through
Noah that the Hamitic race should serve
their brethren. This is arguing the mat-
ter from a new standpoint, and is cer-
tainly unique. He in other poems
strongly advocates original Christianity
and the downfall of all human creeds.
Poems generally are sentimental, but his
are argumental. The McQuiddy Print-
ing Company, of Nashville, Tenn., are
the publishers.
OLD MAGAZINES FOR SALE.
"The Land We Love," from April,
1868, to March, 1869. Twelve numbers.
"The Southern Magazine," from Jan-
uary, 1871, to December, 1875. Sixty
numbers.
"The Southern Bivouac," September,
1883, to April, 1885, old series, and from
June, 1885, to May, 1887, new series.
Forty-five numbers.
"Nineteenth Century," Charleston, S.
C, from June, 1867, to December, 1870.
Nineteen numbers.
"New Eclectic," from April, 1869, to
December, 1870. Twenty-one numbers.
They are all unbound, but in good or-
der. Address Nicholas Cuny, Esq., 814
S. Peter St., New Orleans, La.
Having seen the articles about tlie
"oldest living Confederate mother," J.
J. Thornton, of Cooper, Tex., writes:
"My mother, Mrs. Margaret Nash
Thornton, was born in Jackson County,
Ga., on the 6th of March, 1803, which
makes her one hundred and one years
old. In 1867 she moved with her chil-
dren to Marshall County, Miss., and
from there to Texas in 1872. She re-
sides now with her daughter, six miles
north of Commerce, Tex., the widow of
a gallant Confederate soldier, and on
the anniversary of lier birth fifteen of
her posterity and a number of friends
met with her to do her honor." Com-
rade Thornton was a member of Com-
pany G. Forty-Third Georgia Regiment.
Mrs. E. A. Biggs, of Benton, Tenn.,
formerly Miss E. A. Kimbrough, of Mc-
Minn County, would like to know the
whereabouts of G. Harper Lenoir, M.D.,
and Sami'^l Gilliam, if still living, who
were C;... iterate soldiers during the
1 war.
rv
tA
"Spring in New Orleans."
MARCH. APRIL, and MAV arc ESPE-
CIALLY LOVELV and ATTRACTIVE.
with ihc blue of Italian skies overhead, the
perfume of roses in the air. and the eye da/
zled by the beauty and profusion of her
tropical flowers.
The New
St. Gharles
Hotel.
MODERN, FlRSr-CLASS. FIREPROOF.
ACCOMMODATIONS FOR 1,000 GUESTS.
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLANS.
a. R. Blake/y & Go.
PROPRIETORS.
Ltd.
Ui
zs^
AJ
Are always msde In the most
approved and prevailing styles
No careless workmanship is ever
allowed to mar our record of 4B Years
of hpnest dealing Enqravinq Free.
Semorlllustrattd catawquE of watches.Silwrware
C^P. BARNES a CO. ly[^"fSoJ25_,t.r«tXl'
FOR EXCHANGE,
A nioileni liif;li-po\ver brand-new 9-shot
L»s;er automatic pistol to exchange for a few
hunilri'il uncanreleil Confederate treasur)'
notes and boiuls. Pistol uses steel-mantled
bullet, and will shoot through a small tree.
Nine shots in two seconds. Address P. O.
Box I2(.. Hubl.nr.l fitv, Tex.
FINE
100 FOR 35 CENTS.
r^ k t f ifcty^ EnjfraTtd Effect— O u r Owb
I Al I I Nil I'roccst. White, crlip carda la
Vyf^LUIllVJ fuii.tyi,, Two-cnl itiiiip far
samplaa.
Wc Arc Proud of Our Card*.
Th* Ohio Plait Cs.. DapL C, Cincinnati. 0.
CARDS.
202
Qo9federat<^ l/eteraij.
J Confederate
i^J^ Battle Flags.
I Printed Silk. Mounted on Staffs.
2 X .7 inches 5c
U X ft inches lOc
S X 12 inches 25c
12 X 18 inches 50c
Sent pt.btiwiid on rt-ceipl of price.
Write for Complete Price I.ist No. 17 illus-
trating Confeder.ili' rhi[;s ;iiiil lunM.ius.
S. N. MEYER,
1231 Pa. Ave, N. W., Washington, D. C.
PAY SPOT CASH FOR
MILITARY
BOUNTY
Great
Is
Texas!
The Eyes of
the World Are
Upon Her.
The Home Seeker
WauU to know about licr
"Matchless" Climate and her
Clie:i]> Lands.
The Investor
Wants to know not only about
her Cheap Land and Low
Taxes, but, as well, Her
Wealth of Mine and Forest,
and this is to let you know that
The International &
Great Northern,
Texas' Greatest Railroad,
'I'raverses more than a thousand
miles of the Cream of Texas' Re-
sources, latent and developed, and
tliat you may k-ain more about tlie
CREAT L& G. N. COUXTR^'
hv sendiufj a 2-cent stamp for a
copy of the ILLUSTRATOR
AND GENERAL NARRATOR,
or 25 cents for a year's file of same,
or by writing
D. J. PRICK,
O. P. <& T. A., I. <Sfc G. IN. R. R.,
Palestine, Tex.
Land Warrants
Issued to soldiers of lUiT -war. Also SoUlic-rs* Ad
dllional Homestead Righti. Write inc at once.
FRANK H. RECER, Earth Bloclt, Denver, Col.
The IVoman's Home Companion for
April is a timely, up-to-date magazine.
Its bird's-eye view of the St. Louis Ex-
position is of interest to everybody.
"Curious Easter Customs in Spanish
Countries" is another unique pictorial
feature. Arthur Hoyt, the brilliant
young correspondent, writes intimately
of "The Chicago Girl Who Rules India,"
and Martha Sanford gives us a glimpse
of the pranks of college girls. Fiction
by Opic Read, John Wornc, Otho Scnga,
and others gives just the right bright-
ness of tone to an Easter number. Miss
Gould's fashion pages, Mrs. Saint-
Maur's travel helps, Mrs. Low's cook-
ing lessons are all just what the women
want at this season. There are also talks
on gardening, on Easter entertainments,
on how to make pin money. No reader
can afford to miss it. Published by The
Crowell Publishing Company, Spring-
field, Ohio; one dollar a year. With
the Veteran, $1.50.
Mention "VETERAN when you write.
HOW TO MAKE MONEY.
Agents of either sex should to-day
write Marsh Manufacturing Co., 538
Lake Street, Chicago, for cuts and par-
ticulars of their handsome Aluminum
Curd Cdsi- with your name engraved on
it and filled with one hundred calling
or business cards. Ever>'body orders
them. Sample case and one hundred
cards, postpaid, forty cents. This case
and one hundred cards retail at seventy-
five cents. You have only to show sample
to secure an order. Send forty cents in
stamps at once for case and one hun-
dred cards before some one gets ahead
of you.
THROUGH PULLMAN SLEEPING
CARS
to California points via Iron Mountain
Route, leaving St. Louis 8:30 a.m. daily
for Los Angeles via "True Southern
Route;" also tourist sleeping cars on
this same train for Los Angeles and San
Francisco every Wednesday and Thurs-
day. Best Winter Route to California.
For further information, call on or ad-
dress R. T. G. Matthews, T. P. A.,
Room 202 Equitable Building, Louis-
ville, Ky.
W. A. Ross, of Pine Top, Tenn., asks
that mention be made that any informa-
tion that may be wanted concerning
Comrade Ed Searles can be procured
by addressing him at above place. Thi.s
comrade went at once to Fort Sumter
after enlistment, and saw the first bomb
that went into the fort. He was after-
wards captured and sent North, and,
after release, settled in West Tennessee.
■fOCKLlCK-IT
JOCK UkE.lT
BLACKIVIAN'S
MEDICATED
SALT BRICK.
The onlv C.l" * R.VNT KKl) Tonic.
Blood Purifier. Kitlory and Liver
KeRu atornnd Aider ot 1> jjestion tor
n'l^lnck .^-fk'- HiroN WOhMS
AND Sl'RK DH^TH TO TICKS No
dositip. no ilrenciiuiR mid » ow.is'e 01
feed. Your horse his own doclor.
Ividorsed bv thousands. Free des
criptive rircuiais. testimonials, etc
on application. Sold bv all dralers at
iSc each, or will send direct, one case,
twodorrn. all charjies i>aid for S5 CO.
Monty refunded if not satisfied
BUCK man' STOCK REMEDY CO.,
CHSITANOOC*. lENN.
Monti.-n t'"- I'm- ' ^\"-'- -il i'' f '" '!■ n ■ •-.
BEST
PASSENGER SERVICE
IN TEXAS.
4-IMPORTANT GATEWAYS-4
P'P
NO TROUBLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
E. P.TURNER,
Oen-l pass'b and TiOKiT Aoetrr,
DALIJkS, TW*»
C^opfederate l/eterap,
203
WHY AGONIZE
With Muscular RKeumalism and
Dre&dful Neura.lgic P&ins .^
when quick and permanent relief may be had by using
DR. DEWITT'S E.GLE.GTIG CURE?
The safest, quiclsest, and most certain remedy for relief of pain. Used in-
ternally or externally, it immediately relieves Asiatic Cholera, Cholera Mor-
bus, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cramps, Colic, Dyspeptic Pains, Neuralgia, Rheu-
matism, Lumbago, Toothache, Headache, Sore Throat, Diphtheria, Backache,
Bruises, Sprains, Frostbites, Chills, Fever, and Ague, Flatulency, Indigestion,
and many other ills attended by pain.
People Who Know Its Merit Ride Twenty Miles to Get It.
It is a doctor in the house in all cases of emergency. Relieves beast as well
as man. Price, 25c, 50c, and $1 a bottle.
Rememljer, It Bani»4Hes F>nin.
THE W. J. PARKER CO.. SolG ManiilacUirers,
Send Lt Free Fimily ind Firmer s Almmic. 7 SO. tlOWaPd St,., BALTIMORE, MCl.
COLONIST
FRISCO
SYSTEM
K.\TE.S to
■r^<MW*
ColiFoniin ""yis i\()rtli\\cst.
Los Angeles and San Francisco, $30.00.
MEMPHIS T"^ Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, $37.75.
;; Helena. Butte, Anaconda, $32.76.
DAILY UNTIL .\1'K1L :M).
Pullman Tourist Sleeper leaves Meinpliis evL'r\- Wciitiesdav at
9:15 A.M. for San I*'rancisco without change, through Scenic Colo-
rado. Other throuirh car routes from Kansas Citv.
For information, address
p. R. MacKINNON, T. P. A.
NASHVILLK. TENN.
J. N. CORNATZAR, G. A. P. L.,
MEMPHIS, TENN.
WORLD'S
FAIR
ST. LOUIS
HOTEL EPWORTH
LOW RATES
EASY
PAYMENTS
Ilotp] Kiiwurthifinow IniiMinK under eimrflntpe that i! Mill i..- romh to recivo eno^tsnt opennieof
Wi.rld'p Fiiir. Si. Louis. AjMiKliM'.'''. It isa pcrmiimnt brirU l-uildinK, beautifully Incjiicd witlnn 3
bloi ksof north pnte of Kx position, jiveiy person desiring to reserve cntertiilnnient at Uuiil Ep worth
niny do go hy sending $2 for a C'^rtifiratoof Kntertainnicnt which \\\\\ insure holder a hiw rate 01 $1 per
day fnr as many di.ys as desired. Onc-lialf of the total corI is reipiired in advmire in monthly p.iyments
of nnt h'BBthaiiSl. ha lance to he paid wlien holder attendR KxpO'^ition. The hotel will be conducted on
Ku'opf'an plan, nnd above rale <1o*b not include meals. All convonienreB of n modern hotel proviiied
Wr advipeour friends to apply at once for Cert ifieates. The rate will probably be advanced Keb. 1. 1W4.
Ai'M;]:?
EPWORTH HOTEL COMPANY. Koken BIdg.. St. Louis
VENI, ViDi, ViCir
Duv&.rs Eurekft. curei Dyspepsiai. only.
Duva-l's Never-Fa.il, &. positive cure
Dropsy.
Duval's Infallible Bile Cure.
Duval's Herb Cure for Hemorrhage.
for
F. M. DUVAL. 919 Curley St., Baltimore. fMd,
Walkins Gas and
GasolineEngines
run on an eloc-
trie mat^neto.
No batt-eriea or
In it tuhes to re-
new. From 2 to
^> hnrst'jxiwor.
CMtati't:uo sent
on roiiut'st-
C. C. Foster.
NashviUe, Teun.
♦*!•♦" i*'*-i*"i*^*i'^*i*-*^i*^*i**-'>-*-;*^*l*^*l*^*l*^-
Rock Island
System
~w
Half Rates!
iPUUS S2)
TO
TEXAS.
OKLAHOMA,
INDIAN
TERRITORY.
l>ni-si''t cost any niore, iloiMrt l:iUe any V
lonner tn make trip through new and ricn ♦
liulian countrv. ' ^
Ajiril 5 and 10 arc the dales, either one- ^
\v:iv or rnund-trip tickets. V
Write fnr infonnalioii. T
P. R, MacKINNON, J. N. CORNATZAR. ♦
T P. A., G. A. P. D., V
Nashville, Tenn, IWemptiis, Tenn. t
••;•♦%*♦•:•♦%♦•;
•.•♦•.•-♦•.•♦'.•♦^*
FOLLOW THE FLAG"
TO
CALIFORNIA ..vd
NORTHWEST.
THE
Wabash
RAILROAD
and its connections offer very low rates to
Cohinists and Home Seekers from
March 1 to April 30. 19G4.
ALSO VERY LOW ROUND TRIP RATE TO
SAIFRBIIOondiOSiNIJlUS
On Account of General Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Tickets nil sale April 22 1<> M;i\- i.
For further particulars, call on or address
V. \\\ Gkkkxk. Dist. Pass. A^t. Wabash II.
U.. U..oni v^i Irban niih^., Louisville. Ily.
M^
204
(^OQfederate l^eteraij.
THE BEST PLACE
TO PURCHASE
ALL-WOOL
Bunting or
Silk Flags
i.f All Kinds,
Silk Banners, Swords, Belts, Caps,
and all kinds of M:litarv Equipment
and Society Goods is at
Veteran J. A. JOEL S CO.,
88 Nassau Street, New York City.
SEXD I'OK PRICE LIST.
C BREVER'S
Russian and Turkish Baths
and First-Class Barber ShoiD,
FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY.
J17 Church Street, NASHVILLE, TENN.
Open Day amo Nioht.
W. C. RAESPIELD. Proprietor.
KmiaiQ GancGi Hospital,
RICHMOND. VA.
Ve Cure Cancers, Tumors, and Chronic
Sores without the use of the knife.
^k ^m^^ ^ ^^ ^ ^% ScH'l 111 your a'lclr«it
^ Q a Day ourerr.-;'j.-vr.^^;
^|f ^B^^ f urnieh Kic wiirk and t«ftch ym free, y>iu work in
«bo locality wderoy.ni live. B.-iid iig )our ad<lreil and wo will
•X|>Uln the liiiaiiiOBB fi)lly,retii«iiiber we guaraDteF n r I pnr profit
of ISfxrevery day swi.rk. aloulutelv sur- \S nlHutome
ItUYALniMKAiTlUINUlO., Buz | 030* l>e(ruU, nich.
WHO ARE YOU?
Snpposc tlu' iniin you are on collidrs with
:uiothi'r, or till- I'uildinf.^ yon ;ir<' in hums,
or vou nirft with M'tne othrr srrious :ic-
cidfiit ; TctUi tho7 taov vho ros &t« t ( >ur
Itad^^e — iiuii'jilruclihlc — is llic only sure
niul Kafe means of idcntiticatlon. Particti-
larlv applicahlt? lo women and children.
B-tJ^o and eer\icc cmnplfU* for 25c., j^ood
for one year. Scml 25c. f'"" a hadjfe and
service to^y; to-mcnoT a*7 to t« lat«. Bank
rfftTcnC"".-*.
COMMERCIAL INDEMNITY CO., Depi. V. Wainwrighi Building. ST. LOUIS.
Ttftthe Nashville, Chattanoo^ra, and St. Loula Ry.,
arriving at
CHICAGO
OT«r the Illinois Centr:i! R. R. froii: Martin, T»na
F. D. MILLER, - • Atl,\nta, Ga,
Traveling Pjissenger Agent I. C. R. R.
WM. SMITH, JR., - • NASHVxuJiTHWW,
Commercial A^iPnt.
JACKSONVILLE
vl* Valdosta Route, from N'^aldosta via Georgia
Southern ..r.d Florida Hv., from MaccJi
via Central of (ieorgia Uy., from
ATLANTA
via Western and Atlantic R. R., from
CHATTANOOGA
y\N'D
NASHVILLE
ashville, Chattanooj^a, and St. 1
arriving at
ST. LOUIS
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE AND
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
MAlNTAlNtlD OVER THIS
SCENIC LINE.
Ticket apents of the Jacksonville-St, Louis and
Chicago line, and agents of connecting line? In
Florida and the Southeast, will tjive you full In-
formatloD as to schedules ot thi^ double daily serv-
ice to St. Louis, Chicago, and the Northwest, and
of train time of lines connectin^^. They wili also
6«11 you tickets and advise )ou as to rates.
BIGS
Chainof 8 Colleges owned bvba»ineti
J ni'-n and indorsed by business men,
50I
ir
somrihinj.'. Knler any time.
Fourteen C«shler5of Ban k5 are on
our Board of I>ircctor^. Our ili|>loni.i nieans
Positions secured.
i Draughon's
Practical...
J Business ... yj:^f^^y^^f ^
(Incorpor.iirJ, Capiial block SiOn.OoO.OO.)
NashvHIe, Tenn. U Atlanta. Ga.
Ft. Worth. Texas, c Montgomery, 4I«.
St Louli. Mo , Calvrston, Texa*,
Little Rock, Ark. A Shrcveport, La.
For 150 p.ige catalogue address either place.
If yon prefer, niav pay taition out of salary af-
ter coarse it compltjtcd. Guarantee (rraduatea
to T>e competent or no char(je<i for tnition.
HOME STUDY: BooUlceepinir, Shorthand,
Pi-nmanship, etc., tanfflu bv ni.^il. Write foc
liX) patfo BOOKLET on Uome StuJy. It's lr«r
TAPE-WORIVI
DO 'ec. Xofanting ri-quirpti Send IJcitsmp (or ■ll-paze Bock,
DH. M.N EY SMITH, ^IJeciahMt, MOO Olive St., M.l^uu, Mo,
Expelled altw
in Gu iiiiTiiites
ith bcHd, or
MISSO\/^I
TACIFIC
... OR. ...
IRON MOVNTAIN
ROUTE
rrom -J'T. LO\/I,y
and MEMTHI,y
Affords Tourist, Prospector,
or Home Seeker the Best
Service, Fastest Schedule
to All Points in
MISSOURI, KANSAS, NEBRASKA,
OKLAHOMA and INDIAN TERRI'
TORY, COLORADO, UTAH, ORE'
GON, CALIFORNIA, ARKANSAS,
TEXAS, LOUISIANA, OLD and
NEW MEXICO, and ARIZONA,
Pullman Sleepers, Free 11k*
CLiNiNG CiiAiR Cars on All
Trains. Li>w Rates, Free De-
scriptive Literature. Consult
Ticket Agents, or address
H. C. Townsend
G. P. and T. a.
St. Louis, Mo.
R.T.G. Matthews I
T. P. A. I
Louisville, Ky. I
Qoi>federat(^ Ueterap,
205
VI^GIJSflA
AMD
EASTERN CITIES
BEST REACHED
VIA BRISTOL AND THE
Norfolk & Western
Solicl veatibnled train Memphis and
Chattanooga to Washington, D C.
SleopHr Memphis to Wa.shin«ton, Bal-
timore. Philadelphia, and New York.
Alao (»no from New Orleans to same
points This train runs via Briiitol and
Lynchburg. The Short Line.
Tyining Car ^erx)ice.
Sleeper Knoxville to New York, leav-
ing at 2;J15 A.M.. open Tor pa**engers
after 9:lHt P.M. Runs via Brist^tl, Hagors-
town. and Harrisburg. The Shenandoah
Valley Route. Unsurjiassed for lieauti-
ful scenery.
All infornintion cheerfully rurnished.
D. C. BOYKIN,
Passenger Agent. Knoxville. Tenn.
WARREN L. ROHR,
Western Pass. Agt.. Chattanooga. Tenn.
W B. BEVILL.
General Passenger Agent. Roanoke. Va.
J
THE WEST POINT ROUTE
Atlanta .imi West Point Railroad,
The Western Railway of Alabar.«.
Transcontinental Lines
Fast Mail Route
Operating tlie fastest scliediiled train
in tlie Soutli. To
'^ TEXAS. MEXICO, CALIFORNIA
and all Southwestern points.
Superb dining cars; through Pullman
and tourist sleeping cars. For special
rates, schedules, and all information, ad-
dress
J. B, Heyward, D. P. A.,
Atlanta, Ga.
^s^immmmm^m
NOd DEPOSITED IN TBE BANK
$75,000.00
IN CASH CiVEN AWAY.
To nrmise interest in. and to ndvertisp the
(iKKATST. LOri.S \VOHLI>S FAIK.
this CHOI mnus sum vrill In- <listriliuted.
Full int\trniiitioii will be sent yon A15SO-
I,l'TKI.Y FKKK. .Tnst send your
name ;in(] .iddress nii n postal n.-ird ami
■wo will svnd y«iu lull luirlicvdars.
World's Fair Contest Co.,
1«>S N. 81 li Stroct
St T^oul^i. Mo
ArkaLi\sa.s
Texas
Louisiana.
-Vii ideal con lit IV for clioaj)
lioiiu's. Land at; !S5, $10,
•*lo pof acre; yrows corn,
cotton, wheat, oats, grasses,
fruits, and vegetables.
Stock ranges 10 nionllis in
tlic year.
youtlieast Missonri, Arkan-
sas, lA)nisiiina, and Texas are
full of opportunities — tiie
climate is mild, the soil is
rich, the lands are cheap.
Low Home Seekers' rates -
about half fare -via the Cot-
ton Belt twice a monlli first
and third Tuestlays.
For descriptiv(> literature,
niap.s, and excursion rales,
write to
W. C. ADAMS, T. P. A.,
Cotton Belt, NashviCe, Tenn.
^'''^•'^'.'^^^? J% ■ f% n A V«u f»n t*rn Towr cbolc^ nf K l.tpo
' -^*T^^ :-. I a UK II %»"<"«"<-"( »fIt<-n<il>ru11>roniliiriif>...rn
X'
^
l>X%'^'.^*v\^vO rrlncp nn.iriiiln Cnlllni.
Hftnif>lplt(»>l.ori;oiiiilnp('iir<l>. His pirmtumi'ikiAlir ' ' ' '> ' < 1 ' i<
Outfit. F..rFlricCnr.l.,U.w rrlccunntl l'rr.i«|>tncn-, »»i I i.mI i hr V\ ,,. I.I.
tULUnuUS CAKD lU., 44 K. STUKKT, lOLLJllLl>. Ullltl.
^ylre you Goin^
East?
IF ^O. TAKE. THE
SEABOARD
AIR. LINE RAILWAY.
DIRECT ROUTE AND A
PLEASANT ONE BETWEEN
South and East.
Superb Tr&ins!
Pullman Drekwin^-Room Sleeperal
Comfortable TKorougKfare Card
C&fe Dining CsLrs!
For information as to rates, reserva-
tions, descriptive advertising matter,
call on your nearest ticket agent or
address
WILLIAM B. CLEMENTS. T. P. A.,
Alhiiila, iAii.
ChCLrles B. Ry&n.
G P. A.,
PoRTSMorrn, V a.
W. E. CKrislia.n,
A. C. P. A.,
Atlanta, Ga.
.
Tennessee
Central
Raiiroatim
HARRIMAN ROUTE.
Uo you intend poine to Nashville to
attend the Reunion of the Confederate
Vetwrans this year? The Tennessee Cen-
tral Railroad" is now completeid and in
full ojinration throncrh Hopkinsville.
Ky., connecting with the Illinois Central
Railroad for all ix)int« m West Tenufs-
see, St. Louis. Chicago, and all otlier
Western points, and through Harriuiiiu.
Tenn . with the C. N. O.. & T. P. and
Southern Railways to Norfolk. Bristol.
Cinrinnati, Washmgton. New York, and
all other points East.
Bo sure to secure your ticket via this
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GE.V. WADE HAMPTON: A TRIBUTE.
BY TERESA SIRIC'C' AXD.
Tor.st liini in life's choicest wine,
Offer garlands at his shrine !
Warrior of God's own anointing,
Archetype of manhood thon !
Deeds of valor, deeds of daring.
Earned the laurels for thy brow.
Hero, statesman, soldier. Christian,
Angels gemmed for thee a crown !
Man may conquer, man may vanish,
Pure and fadeless thy renown.
Thus the daughters of fair Dixie
Offer garlands at thy grave —
None more faithful, true, and brave !
Epochs in the history of the world are made and marked by
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higher and nobler deeds and aspirations. Of such mold was
the lamented Hampton, whose name and fame will forever be
inscrol'cd on the brightest jiages of the history of South
Carolina, more marked perhaps than any of her illustrious
sons, from the fact that it shines brighter in contrast to the
darkest epoch in the history of the State — the cruel, merciless
days of reconstruction — for it was at this time that the great-
ness of the man was manifested in a manner that commanded
the admiration and respect of friend and foe alike.
The people of no Southern State e.\cited the enmity and
hate of the North more than those of South Carolina, and
none received more brutal treatment than Sherman and his
mercenary robbers visited upon the defenseless citizens of
this unfortunate State. Hallcck wrote Sherman from Wash-
ington that be hoped when his army reached Charleston he
would reduce the city to .^slics and sow salt on the ruins,
and Sherman, in the same brutal spirit, replied that the sugges-
tion was unnecet.""". r.s his army was "burning with insatia-
ble desire to \ — . vengeance on South Carolina." But it
was in the da\ ; -. •.,;construction, of carpetbag rule, that the
proud spirit of ; !.o old Palmetto State was made to suffer
most. It was then that all self-respecting people of both par-
ies in their despair turned instinctively for relief to their be-
loved friend, citizen, patriot, and soldier, and it was then that
• gr(^ics|,of Hun^jjtoii w^inost conspicuous.
It was in 1876, when all inoustries were paralyzed, tlTT StJrte
debauched and plundered, and a negro Legislature had elected
to the highest judicial office in the State one Moses (a car-
petbagger and afterwards a convicted felon), that Gen.
Hampton permitted his friends to name him as a candidate for
Governor. He was elected, but the negro and carpetbag
Legislature refused to permit him to take his seat. Then be-
gan the memorable struggle between law, order, honesty, and
truth on one hand, and anarchy, misrule, debauchery, and
plunder on the other, with only one man, on whom all eyes
were turned, standing majestically calm amid the tumultuous
scene. Five thousand of his old soldiers had quickly assem-
bled at the capital — men who had followed his guidons through
the smoke of battle and had heard the hoof beats of his chiV-'
ging squadrons for four years— with Winchesters in hand again,
eager to obey the slightest motion of his hand or glance of his
eye. The Federal officer in command of the troops that had
< been sent to the capitol to garrison the building and support
the infamous administration saw the condition of affairs and
became alarmed at the situation. He asked Gen. Hampton to
use his influence with the people surrounding the building to
prevent bloodshed, which seemed inevitable. When the well-
known figure of their beloved chieftain appeared on the capito!
steps and faced the immense audience, there was a shout of
enthusiastic welcome, a shout for justice or for vengeance, as
be might direct. There was a breathless silence as he lifted
his hand and said : "My fellow-citizens, I ask you to commit
no act of violence, but to disperse quietly and go to your
homes. I pledge you my honor that all will be well. I have
been elected Governor of Soutli Carolina by the votes of 75,000
\vhite and 17,000 colored citizens, and by the help of God I
will take the office and honestly discharge its duties."
The crowd quietly dispersed, for Hampton had pledged them
his honor, and they knew that Hampton's honor was a price-
less gem. Soon afterwards Gen. Hampton and Chamberlain,
the contesting candidate for the governorship, were called to
■ Washington by President Hayes. After hearing the state-
ments of both, the President ordered the withdrawal of Federal
troops from Columbia, and Hampton was inaugurated Gov-
ernor. In 1878 he was elected to the United States Senate by
acclamation, where he served for twelve years. When Cleve-
land was elected President, in 1892, he appointed Gen. Hamp-
ton Railroad Commissioner, a position he held during Mr.
Cleveland's administration and one year under McKinley, who
frankly admitted that nothing hut the demands of political
party fricndj could have mduced him to supplant Gen. Hamp-
-ton- with one -of his own pOliticElI faith. ■■'
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Gen. Hampton was born at Charleston, S. C, in 1818, anj
died at his honic, near Columbia, April 11, 1902. He was a
descendant of a distinguished line of patriot soldiers. Hi?
grandfather, Gen. Wade Hampton, was a distinguished cavalry
officer in the Revolutionary War; his father. Col. Wade Hamp-
ton, served with distinction on the stafT of Gen. Jackson in
the war of 1812, and his son, although one of the wealthiest
men in the South, entered the Confederate service as a private
in 1861, and came out of it one of the poorest, but with the
well-earned rank of lieutenant general. Senator Vest, who
served with Gen. Hampton in the I'nited States Senate, says :
"There never beat in any human bosom a braver, more un-
selfish, and generous heart than that of this Christian gentle-
man. In peace and in war he was true and constant to his
honest convictions, and the flowers of the South never bloomed
above the grave of one whose life more honored his native
State." He was the embodiment of all the highest qualities
that can be found in human nature; a Southerner by birth,
education, intuition, and tradition, the highest type of the no-
blest work of God.
OIU'ICIAL U. D. C. CROSSES OF HONOR.
The Daughters of the Confederacy learn with great regret
that through misapprehension or inadvertence a large number
of badges have been ordered from Schwaab & Co., of Mil-
waukee, manufacturers of the cross of honor, and used and
distributed at the late Veterans' reunions. These badges are,
in some respects, facsimiles of this cross of honor which it has
been their happiness and privilege to present on stated occa-
sions and conditions to Veterans of the Confederate army.
As the free distribution of these badges has caused confu-
sion and mistaken reports, thereby diminishing greatly any
value that may be possessed by the cross of honor, the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy now entreat the associations of Con-
federate Veterans to refrain hereafter from using such badge:;,
and also, as much as possible, to collect and destroy the thou-
sands that have already been di.stributed.
This request, it will rc:i<lily be seen, conies from no spirit of
criticism, but from the wish to keep in the hands of the Daugh-
ters of ihc Confederacy the power to honor by this little token
of respect and afTeclion all true Confederate Veterans.
By order of the President, Mrs. Augustine T. Smythe; Vir-
ginia F. McSluny. C'lrre^ijnnding Seerclaiy.
THE STOSEiVALL JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
A very worthy undertaking by the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy at Lexington, Va., is set forth in the following letter re
cently mailed to comrades everywhere. Hearty response should
be made to this undertaking:
"The Mary Custis Lee Chapter of the Daughters of the
Confederacy asks your help in an undertaking which cannot
fail to commend itself to you. We desire to purchase from
the widow of 'Stonewall' Jackson the house which was Jack-
son's home. Our purpose is to rescue this historic building
from oblivion by turning it into a hospital, to be called the
'Stonewall Jackson Hospital,' and to give it an equipment
suited to the needs of the town and the surrounding country.
This enterprise demands only a few thousand dollars, and with
a little lielp from all who revere Jackson's memory it can be
accomplished. We urge you to help us, because it will be
such a monument to Stonewall Jackson as he himself would
have desired above all others ; it will prove a blessing to a
town in which the whole South is interested, because year by
year hundreds of its sons make their home in its two great
schools — the Virginia Military Institute and Washington and
Lee University — and because a generous price paid for this old
building will help one whom we would esteem it a privilege
to help.
"Lexington's citizens of all classes are deeply interested in
this matter of the Stonewall Jackson Hospital, and will give
to it according to their ability; the Churches of the place will
contribute ; the doctors arc in full sympathy and approval.
"The Mary Custis Lee Chapter has shown its approval of the
monuments in brass and stone which have been raised, and are
yet to be raised to the heroes of the lost Confederacy."
Misses Sue Davidson, Annie R. White, and Mary Nelson
Pendleton arc respectively President, Vice President, and
Treasurer.
CONFEDERATED MEM0RL4L ASSOCIATIONS.
This list of Associations is as nearly complete as it is prac-
ticable to procure. The first name is that of President and the
other the Secretarj-, while the date indicates when organized
They are nearly all Ladie?" Memorial Associations.
Arkansas: Fayettevllle, Mrs. L. Pollard, Mrs. J. D. Walker, 1S72.
Alabama: Montgomery. Mrs. M. D. Bibb, Mrs. 1. M. P. Ocken-
den, ises.
Camden. Mrs. \V. F. Spurlln, Mrs. W. C. Parish, 1867.
Gainesville, Mrs. D. H. Williams. Miss M. B. Jackson, 1866.
Florence, Mrs. M. W. Camper, Olive Gertrude Bogert, 18C9.
Boligee, Mrs. A. C. Morehead. Mrs. J. McKee Gould. Jr.
Union Springs. Mrs. Pickett. Mrs. Mary F. Pittman.
Montgomery. Mrs. J. D. Beale.
Florida: Pensacola. Mrs. W. D. Chlpley, Mrs. S. A. Moreno. 1S90.
Quincy. Mrs. L. P. May.
Georgia: Atlanta,, Mrs. W. D. Ellis, Inez Hedge, 1S66.
Augusta, Mrs. C. A. Rowla'nd. Miss Mary A. Hall. 186S.
Columbus, Mrs. L. F. Garr;i.rd, Mrs. J. E. Martin. 18G6.
Marietta. Mrs. K. L. Nesbitt. Jlrs. F. W. Clay. 1898.
Waynesboro. Mrs. E. F. Lawsun. Inez W. Jones. 1868.
Albany. Miss Harriet A. Hall. Mrs. W. L. C. Davis, 1891.
Athens. Miss M. I-. Rutherford. Miss B. Prince, 1S65.
Washington, Mrs. S. H. Dlllard, Mrs. G. A. Borche, 1887.
Resaca. Mrs. E. J. Slmmonds. 1806.
Brunswick. Mrs. M. M. Madden. Mrs. Annie C. Hunter.
Madison. Mrs. J. A. Billups. Mrs. M. C. Ware. 1866.
Rome, Mrs. Josephine N. Smith. Mrs. Halsted Smith.
Sparta. Mrs. H. IL.. Middlebrook. Mrs. W. A. Martin.
SandcrsviUe, Mrs. B. D. Evans, Mrs. S. J. Bayne.
Americus. Miss Maria Harrold. Miss Lucy C. Taylor,
l.'entucky: View. Mrs. Z. M. Cardin. Mrs. J. C. Baker, 1904.
Louisiana: New Orleans. Mrs. W. J. Behan, Miss Kate East-
man. 1S61.
New Orleans. Mrs. B. Turner. Mrs. J. J. Prowell. 189(5
New Orleans, Mrs. J. Buckley, Miss Kate Childress, 1S9S.
Baton Rouge. Mrs. J. W. Bates. Mrs. W. J. Hurst. 1S91.
Mississippi: Vlckstmrg, Mrs. M. A. Stevens, Mrs. C. G. Wright.
1866.
Greenwood. Mr.s. M. S. Klmbrough. Jennie Young, 1901.
Blloxl. Mrs. W. H. Maybin. Mrs. May Armstrong. 1903.
Missouri: St. Louis. Mrs. Leroy ValllaiU, 1900.
Jefferson City. Mrs. L. Allen, Mrs. B. H. Ferguson. 1901.
Springlleld, Mrs. W. J. Haydon. Mrs. W. H. Gottfried, 1898.
Mexico. Miss Belle Morris. Mrs. Adele Sandtord. 1901.
Cape Girardeau, Mrs. Louis Hauek. 1901.
Nevada, Mrs. H. Cogswell, Annie Lisle Stiutmund, 190].
North Carolina: Raleigh. Mrs. G. Jones. Miss A. L. Devereux
1865.
Washington, Mrs. J. S. Jarvis. Margaret A. Call, 1883.
South Carolina: Fort Mill, Mrs. J. D. Mack. 1889.
Charleston. Mrs. A. A. G. Palmer. Annie S. Rood. 1866.
Tennessee: Knoxvllle. Mrs. W. Caswell. Mrs. M. W. Keller. 1868
Memphis. Mrs. C. B. Bryan, Mrs. I. N. Murray. 1889.
Memphis. Mrs. J. H. Humphreys. 1S61.
Texas: Waeo. Mrs. S. Robertson, Mrs. H. M. Dunklin. 1W2.
Virginia: Richmond, Mrs. J. Bryan. Mrs. L. C. Daniel, IMO.
Richmond, Mrs. Joseph Bryan. Mrs. 3. C. Stewart. 1865.
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Richmond, Mrs. E. F. Tonnes. Mrs. W. M. Wade, 1S92.
Richmond, Mrs. S. Beveridge, Mrs. J. T. Hughes, 1S66.
Richmond. Mrs. A. C. Pitz, Miss G. E. Schermerhom. 1S96.
Front Royal, Mrs. C. D. Roy, Miss Lucy Buck, 1S6S.
Petersburg, Mrs. H. V. L. Bird, Mrs. S. Chievcs, 1866.
Manassas, Mrs. W. E. Lipscomb, Mrs. J. A, Wolfe, 1S67.
Lynchburg. Mrs. K. Otey, Mr.«. J. H. Lewis, 1867.
Danville, Mrs. A. M. Allien, Mrs. Frank Burton, 1S72.
Portsmouth, Mrs. O. J. Hatton, Mrs. Mary A. Bingley, 1SC6.
Lexington, Miss M. W. Freeland, Rosa J. Brooke. 1S99.
Winchester. Miss Mary Kuntz. Miss Lucy Russell.
President Davis's Portrait for Capitol at Jackson, Miss.
—Mrs Helen D. Bell. President Mississippi Division, U. D.
C, is one of tlic most brilliant women in the Soiith, and most
beloved woman in the State of Mississippi. A charming con-
versationalist, possessing to a large degree the gift of personal
magnetism, she draws all to her and m.ikes frieiids, and suc-
ceeds with whatever she undertakes. She is an enthusiastic
Daughter, and since she has been President of the Division
widespread interest has been awakened throughout the State,
and the mmiber of Chapters largely increased. At the last
State Convention of U. D. C, >f--. Bell suggested that the
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Uivi.'^ion should present to the Stale, to be hung in the new
Capitol, a portrait of President Davis, and the Chapters are
actively at work in the matter. There has been for years a
life-size crayon sketch of Mr. Davis in the Capitol at Jackson
in the clothes he wore when captured, presented to the State
of Mississippi by Mrs. Dorsey, who gave to Mr. Davis Beau-
\oir.
SH/ILL THE II'ORDS OF DIME BE CHANGED? _,
Concerning the adoption of our version for the air of
"Dixie," Mrs. Dowdcll, President of the Alabama Division,
reports :
"The Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confeder-
acy, first inaugurated the movement to have all Confederate
organizations unite in the adoption of one 'Dixie" from the
numerous versions that are e.xtant, or to select one from some
Southern poet who may be inspired to write a 'Dixie' ade-
quate in thought and sentiment, rather than retain the negro
dialect and the doggerel of Daniel Emmett's original 'walk
around.'
"The work of the Alabama Daughters in this direction has
provoked greater comment from the press, Veterans, and
friends than was anticipated by these faithful advocates of
history.
"Emmett's 'Dixie' was almost forgotten, cast aside, known
only to a few, as was evidenced by a little incident which oc-
curred at Chautauqua, N. Y., several years ago. The director
of the children's choir at Chautauqua made an effort to find
the words of 'Dixie' to teach the children to sing it, but not
one in the large assembly of Southern people who were sum-
mering there could do more than repeat the chorus, yet every
child knew the air. This incident caused one Daughter of
the Alabama Division to investigate, and she soon found that
the original words of Emmett were known by only a few.
So many versions were in existence that a different one was
used in almost every place, and even around the camp fires
our soldiers sang other words.
"This zealous woman bestirred herself in the interest of
history to have a 'Dixie' that should live in song story. Her
enthusiasm was imparted to her own Chapter and then by the
Chapter to the State Convention, which appointed a com-
mittee to present the subject to other Confederate organiza-
tions, and write them to cooperate with the Alabama Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy in the adoption of one version.
"We have found from the Veterans who have commu-
nicated with the committee and those who have given e.x-
pression through the press but little love for the silly dog-
gerel of the original 'Dixie.' They cling only to the chorus
of the original version :
'I wish I was in Dixie. Hooray! hooray!
In Dixie's Land we'll take our stand,
To lib and die in Dixie.
Away, away, away down South in Dixie!
Away, away, away down South in Dixie!'
"The Veterans cherish this chorus and desire that it shall
be preserved to coming generations, couched in a language ex-
pressive of cultured people. Let us keep this chorus, but pre-
serve it in correct English.
"One Veteran writes: 'It may well be called the "Mar
seillaise" of the South. And yet how inadequate, and indeed
contemptible, arc the words in connection with the air and
the sentiment which it awakens ! Originating as a negro min-
strel song, the words are foolish and disconnected, and the
song in the main ridiculous.' Daniel Emmett immortalized
bis name with this song by accident, when, on a rainy Sabbath
in New York City in 1859, he composed for his minstrel show
the inspiring, the thrilling, and soul-stirring air of 'Dixie,'
which met with such success and afterwards became the bat-
tle hymn that led Ihe Southern soldiers to the bravest deeds
yet recorded in the annals of history.
"The words were written to represent in language and
thought an illiterate and an inferior race — our slaves. Neither
in thought, language, nor sentiment do they represent the
Southern people.
"Is it a desecration of the past, or would we be guilty of
ingratitude who would cast those old minstrel words into
oblivion ?
"Was it a desecration for Gen. ."Mbert Pike to write his
beautiful poem, which, it is claimed by authority, was so
generally used in battle? One Veteran says: There is no
claim made by our people to Mr. Emmett's words. They
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simply appropriated his music and made it the battle strain of
the Confederacy. Albert Pike's words set to the music of
Daniel Emmctt's song was the "Dixie"' of our soldiers. This
song is a legacy of the times that tried men's souls and proved
them true: then let them stand as our "Dixie."'
"Our Confederate organizations — the Memorial Association,
the United Confederate Veterans, the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, and the United Sons of Veterans have as
their chief purpose the making of history. Should we not
hesitate to pass on to future generations as the song of the
Confederacy one, the verses of which run thus :
'Old Missus marry Will de weaber.
William was a gay deceaber;
When he put his arm around 'cr
He look as fierce as a forty-pounder.'
"Many Veterans tell us that Emmett's words were rarely
used during the perilous times of the sixties ; that even then
other versions were used. Were those patriots desecratore
of the old, or less true to the cause, because they then realized
how inexpressive and meaningless were the words to the
thrilling air, the immortal strains of which were leading in
march the peerless Confederate soldier? What makes tht
chorus loved? It is because of the sentiment. Every word is
expressive of that feeling of love and patriotism that induced
the Confederate soldier to arms : 'To live and die for Dixie.'
"The tune of 'Dixie' has become almost the national air.
played by every band. If a Southerner is in the crowd, off
comes his hat, and it always elicits a wild applause from .in
audience in Dixie Land. Great 'Dixie!' worthy our love and
admiration !
"The words of the minstrel song have barely escaped ob-
livion. Things worthy of life never die, and had these words
been as true in sentiment and as e.xpressive of a people as
the air was inspiring, they would have lived inseparably in
the hearts of the people.
"Our lamented Gen. Gordon gave his warm approval to this
work of the Daughters to have a better version adopted to
make immortal the song in the hearts of coming generations.
The indorsement of Gen. Stephen D. Lee is also in the hands
of the committee.
"To those who would cling in sentiment to the old minstrel
song we would say that Emmett's words cannot be blotted
from the memory of those who cherish association with
them; nor would we, with ruthless hands, tear them from the
pages of history. Let them remain inseparably with the his-
tory of Emniett himself. But we would have a 'Dixie' in-
dorsed by all Confederate organizations that we could sing
with pride and spirit in our schools, on all patriotic occasions,
etc., and in time it would become the recognized 'Dixie.'
"One other argument in favor of the adoption of one ver-
sion is : that since so many versions now exist, and a different
one is being used in every place, it is impossible for a crowd
in any assembly to sing 'Dixie,' when the words to be used
are unfamiliar. As has already been demonstrated in our
gatherings, the chorus will be sung with a vim, but all are
silent through the verses. Let us unite in the selection of one
'Dixie,' and upon this be a 'solid Souih.'
"The committee has in its possession twenty-five versions
that have been sent in by the authors, or otherwise collected.
Several of these are highly recommended by Veterans and
friends. It is the policy of the committee to first create a
sentiment favorable to the adoption of one accepted version
of 'Dixie' before considering critically or comparatively any
one of the number on its files.
I "When the matter was presented to >the United Sons of
\'eterans. in convention at New Orleans, the id«a was almost
unanimously accepted, and the requested commitiee from their
ranks was appointed to cooperate with the committee from
the .Mabama Division. U. D. C, and is composed of Hon.
Thomas M. Owen, of Montgomery, .\la. ; 'Hon. Harry L.
Seay, of Dallas, Tex. ; and Hon. E. P. Cox, of Richmond, Va.
"The United Daughters of the Confederacy, in convention at
Charleston, S. C. November, 1903, were not prepared to
fully accept the plan proposed; but in a very limited time,
in which full debate on the question was impossible, a number
of strong, thoughtful women spoke favorably to the resolution
offered by the Chairman of the Alabama committee ; others
.spoke adversely, preferring to leave 'Dixie' and its numerous
versions untouched. However, a motion prevailed to have
a commitiee of three appointed to work jointly with the com-
mittee from the .■Mabama Division and United Sons of Vet-
erans for the purpose of investigating the subject and to re-
port to the convention at St. Louis in October the feasibility
of adopting one version of 'Dixie.' "
Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, who conducts an important depart-
ment in the Sunny South, gives the following in a recent is-
sue: "Friends, can any of you send me. some worthy %vords '
for our beloved national air 'Dixie?' Miss Annie River, of
Fairfax, S. C, wishes to have her pupils sing 'Dixie' during
the closing exercises of her school, and she is mortified to
find that the only words available are such nonsense rhymes
as —
'Ole Missus marry Will de w-eaber.'
"There should be some noble and appropriate words set
to this air of dear associations. Who will write them?"
i\lKS. A. C. UUWDELL.
.-\t the meeting of Cape Fear Camp, No. 254, of Wilming-
ton, N. C, on April 8, the following officers were elected:
Commander, W. J. Woodward ; Lieutenant Commanders,
Henry Savage, Stephen Jewett ; Adjutant, A. L. De Rosset;
Sergeant Major, A. G. Hawkins; Treasurer, O. *M. Fillyaw;
Chaplain, James Carmichael, D.D. ; Surgeon, W. D. McMil-
lan, M.D. ; Standard Bearer, T. P. Sikes.
The membership of this Camp steadily increases, but during
the past year eight comrades passed over to the other side :
W. R. Kenan, W. R. French, J. M. McGowan, B. F. White,
DeLcon Fillvaw, S. W. Nobles, Solomon Bear,
Blanks. , ,. . y i* li |
r, and W. W.
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NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA IN THE WAR.
BY W. B. LOWRANCE, COLUMBIA, S. C
As a member of the Bethel Regiment, Company G, First
North Carolina Troops, and having shaken hands with Gen.
Lee at Appomattox, also being adjutant of the Thirty-Fourth
North Carolina under Col. Lowrance, I have read with much
interest the report of Judge Christian, Chairman of Committee
G. C. C. v.. Department of Virginia, on "North Carolina in
the War between the States."
Bondage of business and the whirlpool of work has left little
time for me since the war to keep up with what has been said
and done — to keep refreshed as to the facts that occurred dur-
ing the war — therefore I do not propose to controvert sta-
tistically anything Judge Christian has written. I do not pro-
pose to defend North Carolina, for she needs no defense, nor
do I propose to compare Virginia's record with tliat of North
Carolina. "Comparisons are odious.''
Having been in Virginia four years, many times through the
Valley, on the Peninsula, and wherever the Army of Virginia
was, I do not speak from impressions gained from others or
from what they say, but from 'vhat I know. No grader peo-
ple of men and women ever existed than those of Virginia in
the sixties. It would take a great deal longer article to barely
refer to my experiences of these noble people during these four
years than I can afford time for. They need no eulogy from any
source, and I shall not attempt it. However, I cannot refrain
from justifying (to my mind) some of the statements re-
ferred to :
1. "First at Bethel." What I suppose the North Carolina
writer intended to claim was : first in numbers, first in work
done, first in results. The First North Carolina (Bethel Regi-
ment), with probably one hundred men of the gallant Rich-
mond Howitzers, did all that was done at Bethel. It was
practically a North Carolina fight, and I think North Carolina
was "first at Bethel."
2. As to the surrender at Appomattox. I was at the sur-
render. There were three times as many North Carolinians
there as from atiy other State ; in fact, they were the only
troops that shciwed any organization that amounted to any-
thing.
I take it that these same writers generalized in the same
way in reference to the "last at .Appomattox." They meant
that North Carolina was there more forcibly, more conspicu-
ously, and more formidably. Then as to Gettysburg and
Chickamanga. the justified pride of the writer at the gallant
conduct of the North Carolina troops in these engagements,
not meaning to disparage what others did, I think is sufficient
excuse for the language quoted. Gen. J. B. Fry has tabulated
the following Confederate losses from the muster rolls in
the Bureau of Confederate Archives at Washington:
North Carolina, killed in the war 14,522
North Carolina, died of wounds 5,551
North Carolina, total loss from all causes 40,275
South Carolina, killed in the war 9,187
South Carolina, died of wounds 3,735
Soutli Carolina, total loss from all causes 17,682
Georgia, killed in the war '. . . . 5,533
Georgia, died from wounds 1,719
Georgia, total loss from all causes 10.974
Mississippi, killed in the war 5,807
Mississippi, died of wounds 2,651
Mississippi, total loss from all causes 15,265
5*
Virginia, killed in the war 5,328
Virginia, died of wounds 2,519
Virginia, total loss from all causes 14,794
North Carolina lost nearly as many in killed and who died
of wounds as Georgia, Mississippi, and Virginia all three, and
her total loss from all causes was more than all these three.
These five States were the heaviest losers of the thirteen en-
gaged in the war. According to this. North Carolina lost over
a third of all killed in battle on the Southern side in the war.
It may be said also that she had practically less involved
financially than South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi,
Louisiana, or Texas; fighting for the principle of State rights
and sympathy for her sister States.
In regard to North Carolina in the quota of oflScers, I have
no doubt that President Davis acted conscientiously, and prob-
ably no other man could have done better than he did, but his
injustice to North Carolina commenced at Bethel, -when the
grand and noble Hill was superseded by Magrudcr. This same
injustice was kept up throughout the war and created an in-
tense feeling among the North Carolina troops.
COMMENT IN CONGRESS UPON STARS AND BARS.
Hon. J. Adam Bede, of Minnesota (Republican), in a speech
in the House of Representatives, January 28, 1904, the Hou.se
in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, said :
"I do not wish to say one word that would give you sorrow.
I feel that the stars and bars of the old Confederacy, justly
preserved as the fondest heirloom of a proud and gallant peo-
ple, to be kissed and caressed by loving generations yet unborn,
became a thousand times more sweet when, as an emblem of
earthly power, baptized in flame and embalmed in pathetic
story, it was furled forever."
THE SOUTH CAROLINA BOOKLET.
A most interesting and beautiful booklet is that issued by
the Dixie Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, at Ander-
son, S. C, a copy of which was received by the Veteran some-
time since through the kindness of their honored President,
MRS. PEARL RULlGERS FA:JT, ANDERSON, S. C.
Mrs. Pearl Rodgers Fant. The edition for 1903 is the second
that has been sent out, and is a most excellent piece of me-
chanical and typographical work from the frontispiece, which
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is the best likeness of Gen. Wade Hampton yet published, to
the last page.
But it is the gems of thought in prose and poem that fill the
seventy-two pages with "the subtle charms of a woman's
heart" that make this booklet
worthy a place in the historic
archives of the Confederacy,
where the most treasured jew-
els of memory are kept.
After the patriotic inaugural
address of the President an.l
address of welcome by Miss
Eleanor Cochran, the Historian
of the Chapter, come poems by
Teresa Strickland, a sketch of
the old Confederate Treasury
by Miss May Russell, and oth-
er equally interesting articles
by Miss Nell Cochran, Mrs.
Minnie E. Russell, Mrs. B. F.
Mauldin, and Mrs. Annie Todd
Barton.
The officers of the Chapter
are : Mrs. Pearl Rodgers Fant,
President ; Mrs. J. A. Brock
and Mrs. W. A. Chapman,
Vice Presidents; Miss Zula
Brock, Secretary ; Mrs. J. E.
Breazealc, Treasurer ; Miss
Eleanor Cochran, Historian ;
Mrs. A. P. Johnstone, Glean-
er; Mrs. Minnie E. Russell,
Reporter ; Mrs. J. M. Paget,
Auditor.
A handsome monument to
the Confederate dead was
erected at Anderson in 1901
by the Indies' Memorial As-
sociation, Miss Lenora Hub-
bard, President, and in a
other good works
these patriotic ladies
are leading spirits. JPt.
It is through the
courtesy of the Dixie
Chapter that the Vi-.ter.\n is enabled to give the good likeness
of Gen. Wade Hampton with the tribute by Teresa Strickland,
and to present the monument which was so long their loving
lliought and work.
HARDSHIPS OP ARMIES IN EAST TENNESSEE.
Prof. J. Praise Richard. Station G, Washington, D. C, is
writing "Authentic History of the Army of the Ohio," in
which he seeks information from Confederates as set forth in
the following to the Vetekan :
"In the year 1886 Gen. J. D. Co.x, who commanded the
Twenty-Third Army Corps in East Tennessee during the win-
ter of 1863-64, made to me the statement that the Union army
there suffered as much as Washington's at Valley Forge dur-
ing the Revolution. I submitted the statement to Gen. Long-
street, who thought his men endured even greater hardships
than the Union troops.
"I wish to give the true condition of affairs as respects the
troops on both sides, and shall be grateful to any Confederates
who will send to me an account of what they experienced with
Longstreet in that campaign, especially as to scarcity of food,
want of clothing, difficulty in securing letters from home, lack
of paper, ink, etc.; in short, a true picture of the hardships en-
dured in the 'Valley Forge Cainpaign in East Tennessee in
1863-64 ' "
Prof. Richard has written liberally in regard to Confeder-
ates, and any who respond may expect most courteous consid-
eration. Lieut. Gen. J. M. Schofield, President of the organi-
zation, writes the author:
"The society has been most fortunate in securing your serv-
ices as historian, and I am sure you will need little assistance
from any source ; but I shall, of course, be glad to help you
in any way you may desire."
In a recent letter to the Washington Post Prof. Richard
wrote, in connection with the battle of Franklin, Tenn. :
"When the Union army retreated from Columbia and Spring
Hill to Franklin, the advance reached the latter place shortly
after sunrise. Gen. Schofield, commander in chief, and Gens.
Stanly and Cox, with their staffs, stopped at the house of Dr.
D. B. Cliffe, a prominent physician of the place, and secured
breakfast, leaving orders for dinner to be served at half past
two or three o'clock in the afternoon. Mrs. Cliffe was made
the custodian of Gen. Schofield's overcoat, in the pockets of
which were stored important messages from Gen. Thomas,
then at Nashville.
"Schofield and his subordinates were employed during the
forenoon with military operations. The advance of Hood's
army appearing in the early afternoon. Gen. Schofield and his
coadjutors did not have the privilege of eating dinner, nor
did Schofield get his overcoat. In fact, as he himself informed
me, he did not think of his overcoat until late at night, when
the army was withdrawing from Franklin to Nashville and
the stormy atmosphere reminded him of his loss.
"Three weeks elapsed. The battle of Nashville was fought
December 15-16. On the i8th, when Schofield reached Frank-
lin in pursuit of Hood's broken and retreating forces, he re-
ceived from Mrs. Cliffe his favorite overcoat, with all the docu-
ments it contained. During all the intervening period she had
carefully guarded the coat and the important official mes-
sages, thus depriving Hood of information that might have
been of incalculable value to the Confederacy."
TEXAS HERO DAY.
The Bcnedctte B. Tobin Chapter, U. D. C, of Palestine,
Tex., has taken the initiative in establishing a "Hero Day."
The idea evidently had its origin in the heart of some one of
its patriotic Daughters, for it is to such that the world looks
to "love and cherish the memory of her heroic dead." But no
Stale has a better claim or greater cause for such action than
Texas, for the graves of her dead heroes are scattered from the
Potomac to the Rio Grande, and from the Atlantic to the
shadows of the Rocky Mountains.
"Hero Day" with the Daughters of the Benedette Tobin
Chapter is an occasion that arouses the patriotic enthusiasm
of the Sons and Daughters of the Lone Star State, and elo-
quent tributes are paid to those who gave their lives for con-
stitutional riglits.
On the last "Hero Day" Mrs. Clara E. Price, Historian of
the Benedette Tobin Chapter, delivered a most eloquent ad-
dress on the heroes of Texas. Aside from the tender pathos
and warm glow of patriotism that characterized the address
throughout, facts were given which showed that the historian
was well informed and thoroughly capable of filling that im-
portant position in her Chapter.
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THE LAST REVEILLE.
BY T. C. HARBAUGH.
Come, cherished old comrade, your liaiid lay in mine.
We stood long ago on the fierce battle line ;
No longer the fires of the bivouac gleam.
The scenes "of the past are a vanishing dream ;
The bugles are silent, the thrilling tattoo
Is beaten no more 'neath the hemlock and yew ;
We fought on the mountain, we fought by the sea.
And now we both wait for the last reveille.
The hair that was dark is as white as the snow.
Our figures are bent and our footsteps are slow,
The rabbits are frisking to-day where we stood
With the foe in our front in the Georgian wood;
The wild, restless breezes are blowing the leaves
Where death cut his harvest and we were the sheaves ;
And, sitting to-day 'neath the crested old tree.
We patiently wait for the last reveille.
Our battles we often live over again,
You with your crutches and I with my cane;
We think of the boys whom we left in the shade
Of hemlock and pine in some beautiful glade;
But, comrade so true, we will march nevermore.
Our battles are past and our triumphs are o'er ;
In the twilight of life by the shores of the sea
We list for the sounds of the last reveille.
We followed the flag of the beautiful bars.
We bore it aloft through the smoke of the wars,
We cheered when its folds in their brilliancy shone
And victory's trophies came down to their own.
Our brave comrades sleep where the clear rivers run
Through patches of shadow and glimpses of sun;
They left us alone in the camps near the sea
To wait side by side for the last reveille.
! The roses may bloom where we sleep in the spring.
Above us the robin her matins may sing.
For the river is flowing, its cadence is low,
And soon to the camps of our comrades we'll go;
But bring your chair closer, old comrade, that's right.
How closely we stood in the heat of the fight !
Though dim are our eyes, all the past we can see,
As we wait in our gray for the last reveille.
Casstown, Ohio.
PICKENS RIFLES— BOY COMPANY OF iS6o.
Capt. S. K. McDonald writes from Rock Hill, S. C, to
Brigade Commander B. H. Teagne, U. C. V., Aiken, S. C. :
"I was born in Charleston, S. C. In 1859 my father con-
cluded to give me a military education. I was entered at tlie
Arsenal Military Academy, Columbia, S. C. preparatory to
entering the Citadel Military Academy, Charleston, S. C,
which was regarded as the West Point of the South. Having
obtained an honorable discharge from the Arsenal Academy
(1859), I returned to Charleston, and attended B. R. Carroll's
Academy parts of 1859, i860, and 1861. While I was at
this academy Abraham Lincoln was nominated for the presi-
dency of the United States. Great excitement prevailed, and
upon his election South Carolina seceded. I was present when
the ordinance of secession (December 20, i860) was passed i:i
the old Institute Hall, afterwards called Secession Hall. About
this time everybody was thoroughly aroused as to the pros-
pects of war. Earthworks were thrown up in and around
Charleston, mostly by negro labor. Maj. Robert Anderson
(United States) had charge of Fort Mouhric, on Sullivan's
Island, with two companies of United States regular artillery.
He, with his garrison, at night evacuated Fort Moultrie in
small boats and took possession of Fort Sumter, regarding it
as more impregnable. He fortified himself there. Mr. Wil-
liam M. Lawton came to Carroll's Academy and made a short
address to the boys, telling them they could use shotguns and
'fight from windows and house tops if necessary,' and called
for volunteers from among the students. Every boy volun-
teered, and the Principal, B. R. Carroll, also. He acted as
quartermaster and commissary, the other professors joining
the company.
"Soon afterwards a meeting was called' by the company, and
I was made captain. Each boy furnished his own uniform
(jeans), with Palmetto brass buttons, and drilled with wooden
spears. We paraded through the principal streets, saluting the
newspaper offices, thereby getting a 'pufF.' After becoming
well drilled and moderately disciplined we called the company
Pickens's (Tadets, and in a body offered our services to the
State and Gov. Pickais. Th^ company was accepted by the
(jovernor, and was armed with Mississippi rifles. Soon after-
wards we were ordered into camp at Gen. Ripley's headquar-
ters.
"At our first meeting after being armed with rifles, the name
was changed to the Pickens Rifles in honor of Gov. Pickens.
I resigned the captaincy (being so young) in favor of Prof.
L. H. Charlonnier, who was elected to that position, and I
was elected a lieutenant, as were also Mikell Carroll and Gil-
berts Tennant.
"We went into camp in 1861. I forget the month, but
know it was shortly before the great fire, which burned from
the Cooper River to the Ashley.
"I was in bed with a bullet in my thigh, which is still there.
It occurred in this way : While in camp Capt. Charlonnier and
I had been out practicing with pistols at a target, and upon re-
turning to our quarters he was trying to take the exploded
shells from the short cylinder, 'oelieving that all had been dis-
charged. He was pressing the pistol against the edge of a
small table, and I was seated on a stool, with left leg elevated,
four or five feet from the table, watching him and admiring
tlie pistol, when it exploded and knocked me off the stool,
the ball striking me a little below the large artery in my thigh.
Recovering from the shock, I again got back on the stool, and
was examining the wound, when old Dr. Ogier was sent for.
As soon as he saw the wound, he began to whistle and said,
'My boy, you have had a close call, quite close,' and remarked
that 'had the ball struck one-eighth of an inch higher' I would
have bled to death before he could have reached me. I asked
him if I could go to my home, and he replied, 'Yes ;' but when
I tried to walk he commanded me to 'keep still,' as the slight-
est move might cut the artery; and I kept still. Soon I was
carried home, however, by Sergt. Duffus and others."
In a note Capt. Tcague states: "This is a short account of
the only purely independent boy company and its captain un-
attached to a State military institution which did service dur-
ing the war, and I am proud to have been a member of it."
The name of the author of ."Jo''i"ny Rcb in the Snow" as
published in the Veteran for April is John Cooke Olmsted,
M.D., instead of Ohustcd, as given. There was an omission
from the closing lines in which a term was used for our cause
that is not acceptable by the Veteran. Dr. Olmsted is a
prominent citizen of Atlanta, Ga., and a member of the Atlanta
Camp, U. C. V.
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S. A (. UN.NlNGHASf, KJiU.r und Propriflor.
Office: Hethodisl PuMikhinc ]l»usr IluilJin),', N;u.li> illr, Trnn.
TliU ptihlicatlmi Ig fhr p«'rKf<fi:il properly of S. A. Ctinningham. AH per-
sons whr appn>\r iu principli-s and rrnlizc its hrneftlii as an or^an for j\ss*t-
cUlionsthmutflutul Ihr South artr rrqufstcd lo commend its patronage and to
CoOpcrstr In r&t«-nding It* circiilation. Let each one be constantly dili^cent.
NASHVILLE AND THE REUNION.
In entertaining the Confederate Veterans of all the earth,
for that is what a U. C. V. reunion invitation means, the peo-
ple of Middle Tennessee, it is already assured, will demon-
strate that they are worthy successors to those who won the
unsurpassed distinction in America to the title of the "Volun-
teer State." There may have been in the outset the purpose by
some to entertain from a spirit of commercialism. Such sen-
timent is not unworthy a people who struggle in the race for
advancement, and such a spirit may have stirred some men in
Nashville in the outset, but a higher and nobler spirit pre-
vails, and, as was the case at th^great reunion just seven years
ago, all the people are looking to the successful entertain-
ment of coming guests entirely beyond any business advan-
tage.
Nashville is conservative ; while it is not being boomed by
sky scrapers with foreign capital under heavy mortgages (and
that is not condemned), the city is advancing as healthily as
any city in the country. In important lints of trade Nashville
merchants have never been surpassed, and there is not to be
found a more cooperative community of business interests.
But the theme of emphasis now is the higher characteristics
of a people nowhere surpassed. It is very manifest that no
city in the United States of comparative size approaches
Nashville in her educational prosperity, and the phrase, "Ath-
ens of the South," may well be changed to "The Athens of
America." The editor of the Veteran undertook some years
ago, while in another line of journalism, to prepare an account
of the number of educational institutions and attendants in
Nashville, and while giving the names of schools and official
figures, he gave it up, impressed that it would overtax cre-
dulity. Then there were about eighty universities, colleges,
seminaries, and schools of all kinds, and the number must
now approximate closely one hundred.
A record of the culture and the wealth in an area of twenty
miles in diameter would elicit the pride of everybody in the
South and patriots in all other sections who are great enough
to -appreciate, without prejudice and jealousy, blessings to
mankind.
In this comment it is especially fitting to refer to their
•patriotic sentiment and instinctive hospitality. In the lan-
guage of one who merits the gratitude of the South, and of
whom further mention may be expected later: "N.ishville will
never go back on the old Confederates." It is this Confed-
erate sentiment in the Volunteer State of which her people
may feel greatest pride. Many of the younger class have very
little conception of the part one hundred thousand of her
men took in the greatest war in all history. They might study
with profit the hundreds of battles and skirmishes fought on
Tennessee soil and the thousands who rallied for the defense
of their homes to the death.
A feature of importance in connection with Nashville and
Confederate influence is far greater than many home people
imagine. When the advocates were pleading for their re-
spective cities in the animated contest at Richmond, and senti-
ment wavered, one patriot, not of Tennessee, said : "Well, let
us go to Nashville. That is the home of the Confederate
Veteran." Without claiming any personal credit in any of
these matters, the founder of the Veteran will be pardoned
for mentioning a fact that many home people do not realize.
There has not been since the discovery of America any month-
ly periodical in the South that has attained equal circulation
and lived as long as the Veteran. Its history in those re-
spects has not even been approximated. The June issue is
expected to be the finest in illustrations ever published. The
leading feature of it will be the battles around Nashville, and
short sketches are requested from every one who remembers
anything of interest ; especially does this request include those
within the city. It is utterly impossible to seek those who have
information personally, but their cooperation is earnestly sought,
and this record in the Veteran of twenty-two thousand copies,
a large percentage of which are preserved, and many hand-
somely bound each year, will be more eflfective for posterity
than if published in a book. Let those friendly to the worthy
ambition to make this June number a Confederate record for
Nashville that never has been equaled bestir their friends who
may not see this to prepare their recollections in brief as soon
as practicable and send to the office.
The committee in charge qf reunion arrangements has not
lent its influence to any advertising schemes to drain the lib-
eral-hearted people of the city, and the Veteran, while anxious
to make as fine a showing as possible, is offering space at the
wholesale yearly rate — the price to agents. Those who would
like to share in space for this number will be supplied at $25
per page. At this rate, and in the short time, a thorough can-
vass cannot be made, so those who desire it will confer a favor
by quick notice, telephone or otherwise.
GENERAL REUNION COMMITTEE.
Charles F. Frizzell, Chairman ; L. C. Garrabrant, Vice Chair-
man ; Joseph Frank, Treasurer ; L. R. Eastman, Secretary.
Maj. John W. Thomas, Honorary Member.
Dr. J. R. Buist, H. W. Buttorff, W. C. Collier, Lee Cantrell.
W. J. Cummins, Capt. M. S. Cockrill, S. A. Cunningham, C.
H. Eastman, E. C. Faireloth, Edgar M. Foster, W. D. Gale,
Thomas C. Hindnian, Humphrey Hardison, Eugene O. Harris,
Leiand Hume, C. R. Handley, George Hollc, Capt. George F. If
Hager, Capt. I. J. Hewlett, Col. John P. Hickman, Capt. John
W. Morton, Charles Mitchell, Jr., Dr. W. J. McMurray, Law-
rence G. O'^i^an, Jesse M. Overton, Capt. M. B. Pilcher, Col.
George C. Porter, W. P. Rutland, James B. Richardson,
P. A. Shelton, Oliver J. Timothy, M. B. Toney, Maj. T. P.
Weakley, J. Matt Williams. 1
Circular Confederate Reunion, Nashville. '
A "Circular Letter No. I," issued by Charles F. Frizzell,
Chairman of the Reunion Committee, at going-to-press time '
of the Veteran, states that the entertainment of the "old sol- '
dier" will be the principal feature of the reunion, and that the '
sponsors and maids of honor will bear their own expenses.
Hotel rates arc not to be increased; only more than the
usual number in a room. In addition to the hotels, numerous •
boarding houses and private families will accept guests. Rates
for board and lodging, from $1 to $1.30 per day. Lodging
without board, from 50 cents to $1.
All Veterans who so desire will be entertained by the city.
Meals will be served during the entire reunion at Hay'
Market Square from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m., beginning on the
morning of June 14, and not before.
Sleeping accommodations will be provided, embracing cots
only. All Veterans who desire these privileges will bring
blankets and towels with them.
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None but Confederate Veterans wearing badges will be ad-
mitted to lodging quarters and meals at the Hay Market.
All badges will be distributed by the Badge Committee at
General Headquarters in Ward Seminary.
All organized bodies of Veterans who are coming to the
reunion, expecting the privileges of quarters and meals, should
notify the Secretary of this committee at Nashville in ad-
vance as lo the number coming.
Horses for the parade can be procured for $2 each, without
saddles. Carriages will be provided for the Chief and the De-
partment and Division sponsors and their maids of honor for
the parade.
The headquarters of the Commander in Chief and Adjutant
General will be at the Maxwell House.
Department and division headquarters will be at the Hume
and Fogg Schools, at the corner of Broad and Spruce Streets,
one block from the Union Station, opposite United States
Customhouse and Post Office.
The ladies' parlors of the First Presbyterian Church, on
Church Street, near the Maxwell House, will be used by the
Confederated Southern Memorial Association.
The Jefl'erson Davis memorial service will be held at Christ
Church, Broad Street, Tuesday morning, June 14, at 10:30
o'clock. Address by the Bishop of Tennessee, Rt. Rev.
Thomas F. Gailor.
The medical officers will hold their sessions in the Medical
Department of the University of Tennessee, on Broad Street,
between High and Vine.
Delegates and Veterans will be met at the trains by com-
mittees and escorted to Veteran headquarters in Ward Semi-
nary, two blocks from the Union Station, and one block from
all State headquarters, where they will be assigned.
The parade will be held Thursday morning, June 16, form-
ing promptly at 9:30 o'clock. For information of any kind
address L. R. Eastman, Secretary of the Reunion Committee,
Nashville, Tcnn.
SPIRIT OF NASHVILLE FOR THE REUNION.
Arrangements arc being perfected for a reunion that will do
full credit to Nashville.
Mr. Isaac T. Rhea, President of the St. Louis and Tennes-
see River Packet Company, illustrates the spirit of the people
of Nashville for the remiion in a letter to the Veteran:
"The St. Louis and Tennessee River Packet Company wish-
es to bring to Johnsonville, Tenn., and return to their homes
from that point, free of charge. Confederate soldiers in good
standing wlio live on the Tennessee River, for the purpose of
attending the Confederate reunion at Nashville in June. The
men can suit their own convenience as to boat, going and com-
ing at any date, say three days prior to and three days after the
reunion. Fare from Johnsonville to Nashville and return will
be at the reduced railroad rate made for the reunion. Parties
; interested may correspond with Capt. J. W. Irwin, Savannah,
', Tenn., or with me at Nashville.
I "Parties having tickets extended by railroads can have like
1^ favor by applying to me."
The validating office for the reunion will be in the Arcade
I until June 20, after which the service will be at the Union Sta-
; lion and Tennessee Central office.
PATRONS WHO ATTEND THE REUNION.
Many good friends who defer payment of subscription until
reunion time do not realize how much better it would be to
send through the mails. Nine-tenths of its patrons can send
in some safe way — by P. O. orders or otherwise — and in that
way relieve the Veter.\n force of much time that might be de-
voted to taking new subscriptions. To do this would be a
great favor, and to deduct all cost of such remittances would
be satisfactory to the Veteran. Also, if those who wish to
know about manuscripts would write that it be taken up be-
forehand, it would be far better. Then again, if those who
want to report anything for publication would write and mail
it, the results would be much safer than to expect a confer-
ence on any subject during the reunion. It is absolutely im-
possible to retain in mind verbal messages of perhaps two
thousand persons in three days. Do not hesitate to deduct
cost of money orders, etc., on remittances.
1 1 W. A. Campbell, Columbus, Miss., writes of the reunion :
1 1 "I trust the attendance may be good. Your city is so central,
' I and you took such good care of the Veterans the time you
I I had it that all who were there will be glad to go again."
THAT "BATTLE ABOVE THE CLOUDS."
Capt. J. D. Smith writes from Houston, Miss., of the
hard service of Walthall's men in that fight on the side of
Lookout Mountain November 24, 1863 :
"The sun rose clear and beautiful on the mountain, and for
a while there was little to indicate the terrible things soon to
occur. The enemy could be seen apparently drilling on the
foothills near by. In a brief time the mountain was envel-
oped in a dense fog, which hid everything below us from
view, and the enemy, taking advantage of the condition, be-
gan their advance. Soon the fierce rattle of musketry was
heard on the picket line, and Moccasin Battery, located on
tlie enemy's line to our right, began a furious shelling on
our men, which in a short time drove the Twenty-Ninth Mis-
sissippi from its position and hard pressed the Twenty-Sev-
enth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-Fourth. The Twenty-Ninth soon
rallied and re-formed. The enemy, still enveloped in mist,
pressed up jn our front near enough for us to hear them speak
and see their colors. We hurled them back twice, inflicting
much destruction considering that our firing was through a
dense fog. Finally we were dislodged, the mountain being
covered by a perfect hail of bullets and Moccasin Battery
playing a fearful havoc with our troops. We had to tight
Hooker's whole corps, and close to a hand-to-hand engagement.
"We were forced to retreat around by the way of the
Craven house, across and over Point Lookout. Many of
our men went into the fort and surrendered rather than at-
tempt to cross this point, which was completely swept by
missiles of death.
"In the early part of the fight Gen. Walthall sent a lieu-
tenant around the point to see if Pettus or Moore would not
come to his assistance, but the messenger was killed before he
reached them. The writer was then ordered on the same
errand, but the officers in command refused. The Fifth Mis-
sissippi was eager to go, but was not permitted. Gen. Wal-
thall, learning of the failure to secure reenforcements, and
knowing his utter inability to cope with at least six or eight
to one, ordered a retreat. We fell back around and in the
rear of the point, halted, and engaged the enemy in sharp-
shooting till midnight, when we withdrew from the mountain.
The writer covered the retreat with the Twenty-Fourth, burn-
ing the bridge. I have since learned that seven hundred and
thirty of our men were captured, and this added to our killed
and wounded must have made our loss nearly a thousand.
Leaving out the prisoners, the enemy's loss must have been
much greater, as with all their advantage in numbers they
fell back precipitously twice before our murderous fire."
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THE ASSEMBLY ON VANDERBILT CAMPUS.
The plan to have the ex-Confederate soldiers, who are to
meet at the Nashville reunion, assemble in their commands
seems as near perfect as is practicable. The time is 4 p.m.,
June 15. in the Vanderbilt University campus. It is reached
by the Broad Street car line. It may be seen by the diagram
that the States are arranged in alphabetical order. The stile
is the most accessible entrance for those who go on street cars,
while carriages may enter on both Central and West Avenues.
There never have occurred as suitable conditions for regi-
ments, battalions, etc. It is expected that members of Firit
Regiments will assemble facing the west. Registers should
be kept, and every Veteran should have a little memorandum
V.'.1BcPr^!LT ^veMLIt:
PArtK
book to take the names and addresses in Nashville and the
post office address of his friends. Comrades, please co-
operate in this as in nothing else, and you will be rewarded.
Don't make any plans with anybody that will interfere with
this gathering. Members of your families can go out, but
should not enter the grounds until your comrades have nut
and conferred.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES AT THE REUNION.
Rev. F. R. Noe, of Beebe, Ark., formerly of Green's Bri-
gade of Texas Volunteers, suggests that the chaplains of the
various organizations meet at some designated place in the
city the first day of the reunion for the purpose of perfecting
arrangements for holding religious services, for all those who
wish to attend, at the various State headquarters. Comrade
Noe writes: "Many of our comrades have crossed 'over the
river and rest under the shade of the trees' since we separatL'd
last year at New Orleans, and the infirmities of age are rapid-
ly stealing over those of us who remain, and I appeal to my
brother ministers of the gospel, as servants of the most high
God, to inaugurate a plan whereby during our reunion all
comrades, their wives, sons, and daughters, may, if they desire
to do so, attend religious services daily. I cannot think of this
reunion without a tinge of sadness, for I well know it will be
the last time many of us old fellows will ever meet and have
an opportunity of worshiping God together on this earth."
The Veteran suggests that announcement of such plan as
may be designated be made at conclusion of Jefferson Davis
Memorial Service in Christ Church, Broad and McLemore
Streets. This will be near noon, June 14.
RATES TO THE REUNION. EXTENSION. ETC.
The Southeastern Passenger Association, of which Joseph
Richardson, Special Agent, is Chairman, sends the Veteran
a schedule of rates, from which the following is copied :
Abbeville, S. C $855 Fairfax, S. C $1085
Aberdeen, Miss 650 Fayetteville, N. C 1290
Albany, Ga 95.1 Fitzgerald, Ga 10 IS
Alexandria, Va 14 60 Florence, Ala 2 80
Americus, Ga 885 Fort Valley, Ga 815
Andalusia, Ala 815 Frankfort, Ky 5 10
Anderson, S. C 855 Gadsden, Ala 430
Anniston, Ala 490 Gainesville, Fla 14 45
Asheville, N. C 7 'S Gainesville, Ga 7 10
Athens, Ga 7 5° Gastonia, N. C 965
Atlanta, Ga 60S Georgetown, Ky 5 55
Attalla, Ala 420 Grand Junction, Tenn.. 440
Augusta, Ga 9 45 Greensboro, N. C 10 95
Bainbridge, Ga 9 75 Greenville, Miss 895
Barnwell, S. C 1040 Greenville, S. C 855
Basic, Va :21s Greenwood, Miss 770
Birmingham, Ala 4 4° Greenwood, S. C 855
Blacksburg, S. C 9 '5 GrilTm, Ga 690
Bristol, Tenn 720 Gulfport, Miss n 35
Brunswick, Ga 11 55 Harriman, Tenn 360
Burkevillc, Va 12 70 Hattiesburg, Miss 915
Cairo, 111 4 75 Ilawkinsville, Ga 880
Calera, Ala 5 05 Henderson, Ky 3 20
Calhoun Falls, S. C 8 50 Henderson, N. C 13 00
Camden, S. C n 10 Hickory, N. C 880
Catawba, S. C 10 10 Holly Springs, Miss 490
Cartersville, Ga 510 Hopkinsville, Ky 170
Ccdartown, Ga 5 7° Humboldt, Tenn 3 20
Charleston, S. C 1220 Huntsville, Ala 290
Charlotte, N. C 10 10 Jackson, Miss 860
Charlottesville, Va 1250 Jackson, Tenn 330 1
Chattanooga, Tenn.:.. 3 3° Jacksonville, Fla 1305
Chester, S. C 9 7° Jasper, Fla n 75
Cincinnati, 0 680 jesup," Ga 1075
Clarksville, Tenn 140 Knoxville, Tenn 460'
Clinton, S. C 9 4° La Grange, Ga 7 «>
Columbia, S. C 1045 i,aUe City, Fla 1305
Columbus, Ga 7 55 Leesburg, Fla 15 8S
Columbus, Ky 380 Lexington, Ky 5 70'
Columbus, Miss 6 50 Lincolnton, N. C 10 10 '
Cordele, Ga 9 30 Louisville, Ky 400
Corinth, Miss 460 Lynchburg, Va n 30
Covington, Ga 685 Macon, Ga 780
Cuthbert, Ga 840 Madison, Fla II 95
Dade City, Fla 1635 ALidison, Ga 7 40
Dalton, Ga 405 Maplesville, Ala 580
Danville, Va 11 30 Marietta, Ga 565
Dawson, Ga 885 Martin, Tenn 3 'O '
Decatur, Ala 270 McKenzie, Tenn 260
Dublin, Ga 890 Memphis, Tenn 490
Durham, N. C 12 OS Meridian, Miss 7 45
Elberton, Ga 820 Milan, Tenn 300
Elizabethtown, Ky 315 Millcdgeville, Ga 8 is
Evansville, Ind 415 Mc)l)ile, Ala 9 90
Everett, Ga 11 15 Montgomery, Ala 630
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Natchez, Miss $1060 Shelby, N. C $910
Newbern, N. C 14 75 Shelbyville, Ky 460
Newnan, Ga 6 80 Somerville, Tenn 4 15
New Orleans, La 12 75 South Boston, Va 12 55
Nicholasville, Ky 5 80 Spartanburg, S. C 8 55
Norfolk, Va IS 35 Starkville, Miss 7 00
Ocala, Fla 15 10 Stevenson, Ala 2 50
Opelika, Ala 700 Suffolk, Va 14 QO
Orangeburg, S. C II 10 Sumter, S. C II 30
Orlando, Fla 1600 Sylacauga, Ala 545
Owensboro, Ky 305 Talladega, Ala 550
Paducah, Ky 370 Tallahassee, Fla 1055
Palatka, Fla 14 15 Tampa, Fla 1730
Paris, Ky 605 Thomaston, Ga 760
Paris, Tenn 2 60 Thomasville, Ga 10 55
Pell City, Ala 490 Tifton, Ga 1020
Pensacola, Fla 9 55 Troy, Ala 7 35
Petersburg, Va 13 75 Tupelo, Miss 560
Plant City, Fla 1685 Tuscaloosa, Ala 550
Portsmouth, Va 15 35 Tuscumbia, Ala 2 Q5
Princeton, Ky 2 75 Union City, Tenn 3 35
Quitman, Ga II 10 Valdosta, Ga 11 10
Raleigh, N. C 12 60 Vienna, Ga 9 20
Richmond, Ky 625 Vicksburg, Miss 1025
Richmond, Va 13 75 Wadesboro, N. C 11 85
River Junction, Fla.... 10 60 Washington, D. C 15 35
Rives, Tenn 3 4° VVaycross, Ga 11 55
RockHill, S. C 9 95 Wcidon, N. C 13 75
Rockniart, Ga 580 West Point, Miss 650
Rome, Ga 4 85 Wilmington, N. C 14 55
Rutherfordton, N. C. . . 850 Winchester, Ky 605
Sanford, N. C 1220 Winona, Miss 685
Savannah, Ga 11 90 Winston-Salem, N. C. . 1055
Selma, Ala 630 Yorkville, S. C 965
Sheffield, Ala 290
These tickets will be sold June 10-15, 1904, inclusive, and
also from near-by points for trains scheduled to arrive in Nash-
ville before noon of June 16, with limit to leave Nashville re-
turning June 18, 1904, provided they are officially stamped by
Joseph Richardson, Special Agent.
The original purchasers of such tickets may secure an exten-
sion of the final leaving date by pefsonally depositing their
tickets with Joseph Richardson, in the Arcade, Nashville,
Tenn., between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., June IQ-18,
1904, inclusive, and upon payment of fee of 50 cents per
ticket at time of deposit. Latest limit of extension is July 12.
The othi-r Railway Passenger Associations had not an-
j nouncfd final action in time for this publication, but it is ex-
pected that similar rates will be given.
y. M. I. BIOGRAPHY.
Joseph R. Anderson, President of the Virginia Military In-
stitute Alumni Association, residing at Lee, Goochland County,
Va., is engaged in compiling, for the purpose of publication,
the records of all who have ever been cadets of this institution.
From the prospectus sent out in "Greeting to All Old Cadets"
the following extracts are taken in the hope of reaching many
of the cadets who could not otherwise be located:
"There have been approximately five thousand and five hun-
-Ired 'old cadets,' of whom, it is believed, one-fifth at least have
1 iccn summoned to the final 'taps,' over two hundred having
liocn killed in battle or died m military service.
"The object in view is twofold: First, to rescue from oblivion
the names and deeds of those sons of our Alma Mater who
have answered the final roll call ; and, secondly, to bring the
living sons in closer touch with one another and with the
old mother.
"To this end all living ex-cadets are affectionately urged to
send their records, without delay, the same to contain not over
three hundred words each, under the general headings given
below, and they are earnestly invoked to lend their aid then in
securing from the families and descendants of all deceased
'old cadets' the data necessary to compile their records.
"It is hoped that this proposed liistorical work will redound
to the benefit of our Alma Mater, and to her sons, in another
way. When all the records are in hand, it is proposed to em-
body them in a volume (or possibly two volumes), and then
to offer the work for sale. The income from the sale, if any,
will be devoted to forming the nucleus of a fund to be used
in erecting, on the grounds of the V. M. I., an Alumni Hall
(with commodious accommodations for quartering the hun-
dreds of 'old cadets' who attend the periodical reunions), to
be dedicated to the memory of all the graduates and eleves
of the Virginia Military Institute who gave their lives for their
country."
Following is the general form of record adopted:
Full name (all names written out) ; names of parents (and
grandparents, when practicable) ; residence of parents at time
of matriculation ; place and date of birth ; period of cadetship
(approximately) ; if a student at any other institution of learn-
ing, give degree or other distinction obtained, if any ; occupa-
tion or profession before the war of 1861 ; war record (appli-
cable to Mexican and Spanish Wars as well), embracing com-
mand, rank; if killed or wounded, state in what battle or en-
gagement; if a prisoner, state when and where captured and
how long in prison; occupation or profession after the War of
1861 ; notable achievements, honors or distinctions (military,
scientific, ecclesiastical, or political); interesting incidents in
career not falling under above heads; present (permanent) ad-
dress, if living; or, if deceased, year and place of death.
Mr. Scott Shipp, Superintendent of the Virginia Military
Institute. Lexington, Va., gives the following indorsement of
this work under date of December 9, 1903 :
"To Whom It May Concern: Joseph R. .\nderson, of Vir-
ginia, a graduate of the class of 1870, a most enthusiastic, de-
voted, efticicnt. and helpful alumnus, is engaged in the prepara-
tion of a Record of Matriculates of the Virginia Military In-
stitute. This is an interesting work, and one of great labor,
and it is heartily indorsed and favorably commended to all to
whom Mr. Anderson may apply for information and assist-
ance."
MINUTES OF U. D. C. TENTH MEETING.
The magnitude of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
is shown m a volume of 306 pages which has just been issued.
It is a report of the tenth meeting, held in Charleston, Novem-
ber 11-14, 1903. It is the most creditable in appearance of
any yet issued, and shows that the Secretary, Mrs. John P.
Hickman, has had much to do.
An extended review of what has been accomplished by this
great organization of noble, patriotic Southern women may
be expected later.
Patrons and friends of the Veteran are reminded that it
requires a daily average of fifty renewals or new subscribers
to keep even ; that our comrades are falling fast, and that it
behooves every friend of the cause — the lost Confederacy —
to encourage young people to take an active interest in its
maintenance.
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MONUMENT TO JOHN A. CLARKSON.
John H. Clarkson, 216 Main Street, St. Louis, Mo., writes:
"John Andrew Clarkson, of Independence, Jackson County,
Mo., was attending school in Essex County, Va., in 1861, when
the War between the Stales broke out, but the schoolroom
could not hold him. He had heard of battle, and longed to
defend the Southland he loved so well. It was with great
difficulty that he could enlist on account of his age, but, pos-
sessing a dauntless spirit, he finally succeeded in enlisting in
the Essex Sharpshooters, which was made Company F, Fifty-
Fifth Virginia Volunteer Infantry. His first miliUry service
was at Fort Lowry, on the beautiful Rappahannock River, be-
low the ancient town of Tappahannock. His first long march
was from that point to Fredericksburg, and 'Jience to Rich-
mond, where he participated in the seven days' fight He
was in the following battles: Mechanicsville, Gaines's Mill,
Cedar Mountain. Wherever his battle flag floated he proudly
followed it.
At Cedar Mountain he followed it.
On the heights at Gaines'c Mill,
j At Mechanicsville and Frazier'o Farm,
And in the smoke o- Malvern Hill.
"After the defeat of Gen. McQellan in front of Richmond,
in 1862, the Fifty-Fifth Virginia, which was in Gen. Field's Di-
vision, A. P. Hill's Corps, was attached to that part of the army
under Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson. This gallant regiment
had already distinguished itself during the seven days' fight,
but had paid dear for its laurels, leaving many of its noble
dead and wounded upon the gory battlefields at Richmond.
Company F sustained a loss among the killed of Second Lieut.
Robert Haile and Third Lieut. John R. Mann; but the brave
boys from Tidewater, Va., were not in the least dismayed,
being flushed with victory, and could soon show to the world
that they could fight just as well on the banks of the Rapidan
as they had done on the banks of the James. On August 25,
18C2, a call was made for volunteers to guard a bridge to pre-
vent the enemy from crossing the Rapidan, and young Clark-
son was the first one to step out in front of his regiment,
knowing that it was like going into the very jaws of death.
They could see the Federals just across the river, who were
handling their batteries with all the skill of trained cannoneers.
Gen. Stonev.ill Jackson commanded that the bridge must be
secured and held at all hazards. This was the time that tried
the souls of men. Forward dashed the Fifty-Fifth midst
shot and shell, when a bombshell exploded and young Clark-
son fell mortally wounded. The same shell killed instantly
the man on his left, and maimed for life the brave A. J.
Derieux on his immediate right. Comrades bore him away
from the field to the Baptist Church, where he died. He was
game to the last, and, when the surgeons hesitated about am-
putating both of his shattered legs at the same time, he told
them to proceed, if it would save his life; and if not, he was
willing to die for his country. O brave spirit ! 0 brave Mis-
souri boy! fighting, bleeding, and dying more than eleven hun-
dred miles away from his native home. Well may Missouri
fee! proud of her youthful warrior and Virginia pay homage
to the schoolboy in gray.
"His relatives will erect in Culpeper County, Va., this year
a beautiful monument, and thus perpetuate his memory, his
chivalry, and his glorious record by carving in granite what he
wrought upon the field of battle."
John A. Clarkson, Company F, 55TH VaciNtA Regiment.
A Missourian looked toward the East,
Where his ancestry lived and died.
He loved his books, and a tempting feast
Of study allured praiseworthy pride
To Virginia swiftly sped his feet,
Knowledge to gain, in blest retreat.
Too soon his Alma Mater heard
The tread of an invading horde.
To his Southland's aid, without a word,
Books were exchanged for gleaming sword !
As fast as a flash from "Stonewall's" steel
He was ready to fight, come woe or weal.
A boy! Scarce fifteen years had thrown
Their roses o'er young Clarkson's way.
A boy did manly courage own
When he yielded all for the fatal fray I
His aspirations laid aside —
Upon this altar placed his pride.
No recompense — Virginia's need!
Her great commander needed men !
His bleeding State he knew must bleed.
If one dared falter, even then ;
He would not shrink the storm to breast,
But followed the flag, and did his best!
His spirit lives as it did then.
It is the zeal which ne'er departs ;
And the cause, revealing the best in men,
Is still alive in Southern hearts.
We will not envy the hero'.s sleep,
Happier far than we who weep.
Virginia may weep for Missouri's son.
Who fell far from his nearest ties.
His death hath blest encomiums won.
And hallows the ground whereon he lies.
Such courage brings a smile to grief;
For Clarkson, an immortal wreath !
Mary Stuart Gresrau.
I..ancaster, \'a.
SIGNAL CORPS OF CONFEDERATE ARMY.
A. A. Graham, of New Albany, Miss., wishes to locate some
members of the signal corps of the Confederate army, in
which his father, Thon-.as R. Graham, served. He gives the
names of a number whose autographs are in a little book,
written May i, 1865, at Greensboro, N. C, and asks that any
who are now living will write him in regard to the code of
signals used. The names are as follows: John W. Alexan-
der, Sam Yarra, Frank R. Mathews, William K. Wallace,
James M. Graves, Robert K. Byrns, Lexington, Ky. ; Rufus
F. Galloway, Eutaw, Ala. ; A. W. Taft, Charleston, S. C. ; J.
D. Lidwell, Tom Norvell, Jackson, Tenn. ; Hugh C. Topp,
I. M. Wells, Henry Clay Long, Columbus, Miss.; C. H. King,
Murfreesboro, Tenn. ; Charles H. Eastman, Nashville, Tenn. ;
Phil P. Parrish, Woodford City, Ky. ; Ed Duvall, Baltimore,
Md.; W. M. Crookshanks, Dandridge, Tenn.; L. C. Heart,,
Charleston, S. C. ; Thompson Jones, Helena, Ark. ; Thomas
A. Huston, Selma, Ala.; James M. Wilson, Austin, Ark.;,
Andrew R. Pope, Thomas J. Rembert, Rembert Trezevant,
Memphis, Tenn.; Leighton H. Cobbs, Montgomery, Ala.; W.
C. Pyles, Jackson, Tenn.; R. W. Brice, Rock Springs, Ga,;
R. J. Carter, Talladega, Ala. ; H. A. Tutwiler, Havana, Ala.
Every member and every friend to those engaged in this im-
portant service would do well to correspond with Mr. Graham.
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MARKING GRAVES OF CONFEDERATE PRISONERS.
BY B. M. HORD, NASHVILLE, TENN.
In the last issue of the Veteran, under the above head, is an
interesting statement showing the number of deaths of Con-
federates in ten United States prisons. Rock Island is one of
the ten mentioned, and is accredited with having a death loss
of 1,922 out of a total of 2,484 prisoners confined there. I am
satisfied there is an error in these figures, and for the truth
of history we should get important matters of this kind as near
correct as possible. The Confederate soldier has nothing to
fear from the truth of history, for, year by year, as the actual
facts come to light, his cause and his country are being more
and more vindicated, and his peerless courage and devotion
to both more sublime in the eyes of the world.
Official (United States) reports show that 2,000 Confederate
dead are buried at Rock Island, and from personal obse^ation
I am satisfied that there is an error in the number given (2,484)
of prisoners confined there. Although the life of this prison
was only eighteen months, counting from the time it was
opened, December I, 1863. to June I, 1865, there must have
been, first and last, between 5,500 and 6,500 prisoners confined
at Rock Island. I do not know where the claim of only 2,484
originated, but I base my estimate upon an experience of nearly
fourteen months, out of the eighteen that the prison existed,
as a prisoner there. I was sent there early in December, 1863,
not later than the 5th of the month, was quartered in Barrack
No. 24, where I remained until the i6th of January, 1865, when,
with a small batch of other Western men, I was taken out,
sent down the river to New Orleans, confined in Picayune
Cotton Press No. 4 for a short time, then exchanged on the
23d or 24tli of February at the mouth of Red River. La.
It is unquestionably true that the death loss at Rock Island
far exceeded that of any other prison of the War between the
States, nor is there any record of its equal in this respect since
the days of barbarism. There was no occasion for this. The
location, a high, rocky island in the Mississippi River, was
naturally healthful and the prison was kept clean, but our ap-
palling death loss was due entirely to the brutal treatment of
the prisoners by the infamous commander, one Col. A. J
Johnson, his negro sentinels, and his no less brutal "one hun-
dred day men." If I remember correctly, the latter were the
One Hundred and Ninety-Second Illinois. To such an extent
was this inhumanity carried that the best citizens of Daven-
port, Iowa, and Rock Island, 111., towns just on opposite sides
of the river from the prison, brought the matter to the atten-
tion of Congress or Mr. Lincoln, and asked, for the sake, of
humanity, that the manner of our treatment be investigated.
It was Johnson, our commander, who, in making his report
(official) in response to this prison investigation, said: "If left
to my own feelings, I would place them in pens with no shelter
but the heavens, as our poor men are at Andersonville."
Our mortality was greatly increased by a scourge of small-
pox that carried off men by the score daily. Two of my bunk
mates died with it — a brave old Irishman named Kelly and a
voung man named Holt. I escaped with a case of varioloid,
iliough it was generally fatal. Poor Holt and I were detailed
' ne morning to go out to the pesthouse to load up on the "dead
' iRon" the bodies of those who had died during the night,
l>e hauled ofT and dumped in the trench — they were all buried
in trenches. There were only nine bodies that morning (the
dead often numbered over twenty in twenty-four hours), and
iflcr finishing our work, as the guards were escorting us back
to prison. Holt remarked that he had never been vaccinated, and
expected to die with the loathsome disease. Within two weeks
his prophecy was fulfilled. Poisonous virus used in vaccinating
5**
the prisoners, incompetent physicians, and lack of proper nurs-
ing, the two latter admitted by the United States government
("War of the Rebellion Records"), made Rock Island a seeth-
ing pit of hell, presided over by the devil's archangel, A. J.
Johnson. Rock Island has long since passed away as a prison,
and it is fervently hoped that the devil has, also long since,
claimed his own.
LOYALTY OF "BLACK MAMMY" AND "UNCLE JEFF."
BY L. L. J. KOCH, NASHVILLE, TENN.
In the spring of 1878, when I was twenty-three years old, I
was making a business trip on horseback to Velasco, Tex., fol-
lowing the course of the river. Being in a hurry to overtake
a steamer, then on its way to Galveston, I did not stop except
to eat and sleep, and did most of the latter in the saddle. Ar-
riving one afternoon about three o'clock at Brazoria, I stopped
to let my pony drink and blow and was off again, intending to
ride all night and make Velasco the next day.
As I was about leaving Brazoria I heard a cry behind me
and, looking back, saw an aged negro gesticulating and calling
to me. I stopped, not knowing who it could be, as I had left
Brazoria, my native place, seventeen years before. The old
darky caine up almost out of breath and said : "Say, Marsc,
don't you know me?" On my replying in the negative he
burst into tears, and it was some time before he could talk.
"Marse Louis, I am your old Uncle Jeff." I then recalled that
he married my old black mammy, Aunt Winnie, and that in
1859 my father, who owned both of them, gave them their free-
dom. I got down from my pony and could not but feel afTec-
tion for the old negro who was so grieved because I did not
at once recognize him.
He begged me to go and see old Black Mammy, and, while
it was inconvenient, I did it. He took me to a fine large build-
ing, and when we got ffiere insisted on lifting me from my
pony and carrying me into the house. As an old gray-haired
black woman came looking on in surprise, he said: "Winnie,
the good Lord be praised, our own Marse Louis has come to
see you."
Winnie was conducting a hotel. Her guests were all white
and of the better class, but, leading me by the hand as she did
many times when I was a little toddler, she took me into the
sitting room and spoke to those about her: "Say, you white
folks, I'se run dis house many years an' I always treated you
right, but I want you all to git out, for ma boy, Marse Louis,
is gwine to stay here to-night, and no one else gits nothing
when he is here."
There was nothing to do but stay, and I want to emphasize it
when I say that no monarch could have been treated better than
I was that night. When I sat down to supper they said, "Marse
Louis, de place of us black folks is behind our Marste^-'s chair,"
and there they stood.
I left them next morning, and with a feeling that our black
mammies never forget us. To all who are still living I say:
"God bless them !"
Dr. S. W. Brasfield, of Humboldt, Tenn., wishes to hear
from Charlie Northsinger, if living, or some of the Federals
who participated in the capture of Northsinger at the house
of Brasficld's grandfather, nine miles west of Des Arc, Ark.,
on the telegraph road that led to old Brownsville. Northsinger
belonged to a Missouri regiment, had been wounded, was stop-
ping at the house to recover, was captured by the Yankees,
and at night, after pretending to be asleep, slipped out of bed,
caught the sleepy guard's carbine, knocked him senseless with
it, and escaped.
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■TIDINGS SOUGHT BY A DISMEMBERED FAMILY.
Joseph E. Taulnian. of Hubbard City, Tex., relates an inci-
dent aflfecting his wife's family which he hoi)CS will meet the
eyes of some one who can help locate some missing members :
"In January, 1851, Julia Ann Hill (whose maiden name was
Montgomery), widow of William Hill, a newspaper man of
Chillicothe, Ohio, married Batsford Comstock, and nearly a
year later moved to Texas, coming by steamboat down the
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, across the Gulf of Mexico and
Galveston Bay, up Buffalo Bayou to Houston, and overland
in 'prairie schooners' to Washington County, where they re-
mained a few years and finally settled in Brazos County.
"Mrs. Hill had five children by her marriage with Mr. Hill,
viz. : Frank W., Harriet J., Victoria, Emma Jane, and Joseph.
She brought Emma Jane and Joseph, the two youngest, to
Texas with her, and left the other three with a rehtive of
their father's, named Clark (familiarly called 'Uncle Johnny'
Clark), living near Chillicothe, acting on his suggestion, until
she and her husband could get settled and comfortably fixed
in their new home, at which time they intended to return or
send for the children. Texas being such a wild, thinly settled
country at that time, and the means of travel so limited, in-
convenient, and uncertain, and the distance so great, they de-
ferred senaing for the children until the war came up and cut
off all communication. Since then no word has been heard
of them, although innumerable efforts have been made to find
them. It is presumed that they and their relatives, the Clarks,
left Chillicothe about the time their mother and the other
two children removed to Brazos County from Washington
■County, and neither family knew where the other w-ent. Their
sister, Emma Jane, now Mrs. F. A. Taulman, residing at Hub-
bard City, Tex., still hopes that she will see her brother and
sisters this side of the grave."
Officer cf the Dav Ate the Dog.— In 1861 the Fourth
Georgia was eight miles from Norfolk, at Camp Jackson, and
Lieut. W — was ollicer of the day when privates Warren
Moscly and Tom Maupin went over to the fann of Mr. Ames,
bought a mutton, dressed it, and returned to camp. The lieu-
tenant took the inutton from them, and later ate it. He ac-
cused them of stealing !<, and threatened them with arrest
if they should do such a thing again. They felt hurt, and de-
cided to even up. Soon this same lieutenant was officer of
the day again, and Mosely and Maupin went over to Mr.
Ames's place, killed a large fat dog, dressed the. two hind
quarters, placed them in a sack, and returned to camp. Lieut.
Walker took the sack and had the men locked up as he prom-
ised. Just after Lieut. W — had finished dinner, with some
invited officers to share his supposed mutton, Mosely and
Maupin began howling and barking in the guard tent, and
Col. George Doles wanted to know why, and had them brough:
before him to see wliat they were howling about. They showed
the feet of the dog and said, "Lieut. W— and friends have
eaten dog for dinner," which at once made vomiting in order.
"Who ate the dog?" was a query so conspicuous in the regi-
ment that the officer resigned and went liunie, to return no
more.
Safety in a Well.— Near Winchester, in 1864, five of Gen.
Gordon's men were found by him in an old well seven feet
deep, where they had gone to escape artillery fire that was
raking the ground about them. He ordered them out and
wanted to know what they were doing in tlierc. One of the
men replied that John Jones had just cleaned out the well,
and they were waiting for the water to rise.
BRIGHT AXD HUMOROUS VIEirS OF IIAR.
BY C. W. WESTBROOK, STREETEK, TEX.
If these little incidents are not worth printing in the Vet-
eran, just let them fall into the wastebjsket— the fall will not
hurt me, for I was hardened to falls long ago. I was in the
fall of Fort Henry, then in the fall at Fort Donelson, then I
had a good, tough fall with N'icksburg, which seasoned me for
the long fall from Dallon to Atlanta. So you see falling was
rather in my line of business in my young days. But the
quickest fall of this kind, and the quickest recovery, I ever
saw was made by a member of Company B at Vicksburg, just
l>efore all of us fell. Our company was detailed to supiwrt a
battery. The Yankees concentrated some heavy artillery on
us, and in a few moments had knocked down one of our
guns and sent a thirty-two-pound shot through a bale of cot-
ton that formed part of our breastworks. Things looked
squally — a white squall — for the cotton fell in show'ers all
over us. One of our boys lost his nerve and started to fall
back in double-quick, when the lieutenant called to him :
"Come back here! What are you running for?" Instantly
the boy recovered himself, and, as he came back, he said:
"Well, you see, lieutenant, I thought them blamed Yanks had
set our cotton on fire, and I was just running back for water
to put it out." He was a good soldier ; but the best of us
would get "rattled" sometimes.
It was only a few days after this that a couple of Yankee
eui;bo.'.ts tried to run our batteries. One escaped, but wc
sank the other. We ceased firing when we saw the boat was
sinking, and, as we stood watching her go down slowly, bow
first, one of Company B, who evidently had quit the plow
to pick up a musket, suddenly shouted out : "Hello, Yank !
Set your bac'kband back. You are running too deep."
Sherman said, "War is hell," but he said it as an excuse for
his brutal treatment of defenseless women and children and
noncombatanls in his inarch over a helpless country. War is
what the combatants choose to make it. There was no hell in
Lee's march into Pennsylvania, and every old soldier knows
the friendly feeling thai often existed between the opposing
pickets and sharpshooters when not engaged in fighting. Just
before the battle of Kennesaw our sharpshooters were well out
in front, nothing doing, everything quiet, when a Yankee
sharpshooter called out: "'Hello, Johnny! Meet me halfway
to swap papers and tobacco for coffee." One of our boys
went out, but in order to complete the trade had to go back
to where the Yankees had left their knapsacks. Just then our
left wing was attacked, which caused firing all along tlie lines.
We thought, of course, our man was a prisoner, but the firing
ceased almost as suddenly as it began, and in a short time we
saw a Yankee officer wave his hat from behind a tree in our
front, and called to us not to shoot, followed by another man,
whom we soon recognized to be our comrade. He walked
up to us, and laughinglj- said : "I came to bring your Johnny
back. Guess you thought we were going to keep him." He
conversed with us pleasantly awhile, and then returned to his
post on picket. It was at this i)lace, Kennesaw Mountain, that '
a noble action was performed by Col. W. H. Martin, of the '
First Arkansas Infantry. The enemy had charged close up to
our works, leaving many dead and wounded in our front. '
The woods had caught fire and the wounded were in danger ;
of being burned to death. The order was given to cease firing, '
when Col. Martin juin|)cd on lop of the fortifications at the :
risk of his life, waved a white handkerchief, and called to the
Yankees to come and help him remove their wounded, or they
would bin 11 up. They came and, with ihc assistance of our
C^oi^federat^ Uecerai).
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boys, removed the wounded out of reach of the flames. The
major in command of the Yankees said to Col. Martin: "Von
may win many battles, but this is the greatest victory you, or
any other man, can ever achieve," and, taking from his belt a
beautiful pistol, he presented it to the colonel. There is no hell
in this kind of warfare.
PLEASANT EPISODE AT FRANKLIN.
Two years ago, while the inspection car of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad was at Franklin, Tenn., an incident oc-
curred that was most interesting and pleasant to Riley B.
Meadows, of Franklin, and to Thomas Mahoney, of Lynnvillc,
Tenn. The car w'as entered by Miss Alma Anderson, who,
in a beautiful address, delivered to these two gentlemen hand-
some walking canes from wood cut on the famous and bloody
battlefield near by. Miss Anderson is a daughter of W. E. An-
derson, a prominent Louisville and Na.shville Railroad man,
and granddaughter of J. P. Anderson, who was a gallant Con-
federate soldier from South Carolina. The canes are of the
osagc orango, under wliich tree the color bearer of the Thirty-
Miss ALMA RO.SSIK ANDHRSON.
Fifth .'\lalwma Regiment was killed when within a few feet of
Mr. Meadows. The presentation was made in the presence of
a company of forty-five or fifty railroad officials.
Miss .\nderson said to the veterans :
"It is my privilege to l>e the agent to pay an honor long ago
won by you, of which I am proud. When you placed your
names in the history of American patriotism you resented a
nation's insult in loyalty to your home, to your native South-
land, and to the stars and bars. Then only beardless boys,
you donned suits of gray, said good-by to mothers, sisters, sweet-
hearts, and went out to engage in the bloodiest conflict known
to the human family. Vou turned your backs upon home, your
faces to llie fen?, and marched to the tunes of 'Dixie' and the
'Bonnie Blue Flag.'
"After the dauntless Shiloh, the blixidy Oiickamauga, and
the torn-up Atlantas, you stood in one of the most beautiful
valleys in Tennessee. It was here you met the armies of the
Union, commanded by Schofield ; where 5,700 of your comrades
lay dead or wounded on that chilly night of November 30, 1864.
"Gettysburg had her Pickett, who lived to hear the world
applaud his glorious charge. Franklin had her Pat Cleburne,
Adams, Gist, Strahl, Carter — all killed. They did not live to
hear the world's applause; their heroic souls passed into eter-
nity with the clash of battle and the fierce Rebel yell. The last
sight that faded from their eyes was their thin line of gray,
bloody and torn with shot and shell. But on and on rushed
the brave Confederates until the sdken folds of the stars and
bars kissed their tresses the last time on the foeman's works at
Franklin. Never was greater heroism shown by her son.s.
King's Mountain, Shiloh, Gettysburg, Perry ville, and a hun-
dred other fields were crimsoned by the precious blood of her
heroes ; but on none was it more generously poured out than
on this bloody field of Franklin. On the very spot where
Sandlin sang,
'O land of rest, for thee I sigh ;
When shall the moment come
When I can lay my armor by
And dwell in peace at home?'
and on the very spot where brave Bob Wheeler fell, these canes
were cut — cut from the very storm center of the battle, and
they are presented as tokens of regard from a friend.
"When the frost of many winters has placed the brand of
time on your heads, and your steps from age become unsteady,
may these canes be to you a support, and a reminder of youth
and young manhood I"
SEEING THE BATTLE OF FRANKLIN.
BY P. E. HOCKERSMITH, WOOUBURN, KY.
If all those who claim that their respective commands were
at or near the old cotton gin at the battle of Franklin are true,
then it is but natural to conclude that the major part of Hood's
army was centered at this historic spot. I do not affirm nor
contradict these statements, but I am positive that my battery,
Douglass's First Texas, was located at this spot, and, although
directly on the firing line, took no part in this bloody encounter,
from the very fact that the infantry was in too close prox-
imity for our guns to be used without endangering the lives of
our own troops, and it is well to state that this battle was
fought by the infantry arm of the service. If memory serves
me correctly, the Seventh Texas and First Tennessee lapped
each other across the pike directly in front of us. It has l>een
repeatedly aflirmed that the horse of Gen. Cleburne was killed
ui>on the breastworks, when the truth is that he was at least
fifty yards from the works when the fatal bullet struck him.
If there was a horse killed on the breastworks, it is more than
likely it was that of Gen. Adams, who himself fell while leading
his men over the enemy's fortifications.
A great blunder was made by some one: for had there not
been, then the bloodiest battle of the war, while it lasted, could
have been averted by a flank movement, thus compelling the
enemy to evacuate this stronghold, and in so doing save the
lives of some of the grandest heroes that ever fell in battle in
defense of a cause that is held as sacred to-day as in 1861-65.
[The editor of the Veteran is so well informed about the
contact of forces by the cotton gin that he replies to Comrade
Hockersmith th.it there were not less than three solid lines of
infantry near the cotton gin, and by their lapping at the turn-
pike there was so much mixing that none of the commands
were kept in organized condition. It was Gen. Adams's horse
that was killed astride the main works of the enemy. The
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charge at so great disadvantage was made in the hope of press-
ing on and into Nashville. Time was the great consideration
with the enemy. The possession of Franklin was of little con-
sequence to either side]
A GEORGIA HOME IN 1864.
A pine knot fire blazes on the hearth. A widow puts her
three orphan boys to bed. She is busy with her spinning
Wrheel as roll after roll is drawn into finest thread.
The night is cold. Above the whir of the wheel can be
heard the moan of the cold wind on the outside. At last the
broach is finished, and she turns aside to make up the fire and
see that the children are covered and warm. Two boys lie
on a bed made on the floor, and they get attention first. She
puts her busy hands on their heads and then cautiously feels
of their feet. Turning away from these, she goes to her own
bed, where the baby boy lies asleep, snug and warm. When
each child has received attention, she goes back to the wheel
to spin and to think. The wheel turns round and the cotton
turns into finest thread. She stares vacantly at the fire and
then at her work.
Just four years before, her husband went to the war and
never came back. Great tear drops come to her eyes as she
thinks of him and keeps watch over his boys. Her eyes grow
dimmer and dimmer and the wheel turns slower and slower.
Finally the wheel and the widow stand still. A tired hand
hangs heavy on the wheel and a great burden on the widow's
heart.
Later, the wind is still, the fire burns low, and not a
sound is heard. Then the widow prays; the burden is lifted
from her heart, and strength comes to her hand; the wheel
starts, and music with the wheel. Soft and low she sings and
prayer after prayer she utters.
Late at night mother and children are all asleep. But one
little boy has not slept till his mother lies down. He has
heard the busy wheel and the moan of the cold winds; seen his
mother's tears and heard his mother's prayers. The fire, the
wheel, the woman, the boy! "As long as I live and winter
winds blow." says Warren P. Ward, "will I remember the
spinning wheel and my mother's prayers in that long, long
ago."
CAPTURED AND ESCAPED THREE TIMES.
BY W. M. IVES, LAKE CITY, FI.A.
Lieut. Daniel B. Knight, of Company C, First Florida Cav-
alry, who died at his home in Bradford County, Fla., December
23, 190.3, will long he remembered for his deeds of daring fror.i
1861 to 1865 by the survivors of the First and Fourth Florida.
He was captured at Missionary Ridge November 25, 1863— the
day the First Florida Cavalry and Fourth Infantry lost so many
men. From Chattanooga they started to nxarch him, with other
prisoners, to Bridgeport at night. While marching along the
side of Lookout Mountain he eluded the guard.and in a few days
reached our camp at Dalton. After the disastrous charge of
Lewis's and Finley's Brigades, of Bate's Division, at Dallas, Ga.,
May 28, 1864. Col. Badger selected Lieut. Knight, witli a de-
tail of four men, to approach the enemy's line, and, if possible.
rescue our wounded. It was nearly dark; the men were in the
Federal picket lines before they knew it, and were captured.
They were sent to Chattanooga, placed aboard a train, and
started for Nashville. Near Stevenson, Ala., he jumped from
the train, and reached us this time near Marietta.
On the 7th of December, 1864, he was captured near the
Wilkerson pike, between Overall Creek and Murfreesboro,
Tenn., and placed in a blockhouse near Stone River. After
two weeks' confinement he again escaped, although fired upon
by the guards and afterwards by the pickets. He reached the
army just as it was crossing the Tennessee River near Flor-
ence, Ala. He fought at Bcntonville, N. C, March 19, 1865.
At the consolidation at Smithfield, April 9, he became a super-
numerary, and with a large number of officers returned to
Florida. No task was too hard, nor risk too great, for him
when duty called.
CERTAINLY WORTHY OF A PENSION.
Rev. J. H. Morrison writes from Covington, Tenn. : "I found
a hero here the other day, Mr. L. P. Reaves. His left arm was
broken by a Minie ball at the battle of Franklin, November
30, 1864, and the four inches of the bone, between elbow and
shoulder, is out and gone, yet he plows and chops wood and
makes his living. His captain, James S. Hall, was killed in
that battle. His colonel was Mike McGiveny, and the regi-
ment was in Gen. G. W. Gordon's Brigade, Cheatham's Divi-
sion. He and his wife have reared two orphans. His wife
gave me a five-dollar bedquilt for the orphanage I represent.
Mr. Reaves is sixty-four years old, and the State ought to give
him a pension. His wife thinks so, but he seems loath to ask
for it. Some friend ought to take this up for him. \i I had
the means, I would send him the Veteran for life."
Merit to Camp Membership. — R. Lee France writes from
Chicago: "Your article in the October Veteran, 'Unworthy
Amalgamation in Camps,' is timely. I fear our Camp, No.
8, of Chicago, like many others, has, for the sake of making
a showing of members, taken in many members who arc
ineligible, some who were never in the Confederate service,
some who deserted before the end. I should like very much to
have you publish persistently the qualifications necessary for
membership in the honorable society of United Confederate
Veterans."
Albert Eads, of Macomb, III., Seeks a Lieutenant. — The
above-named gentleman desires the name of a lieutenant of
the Forty-Fifth Alabama or the Forty-Fifth Mississippi In-
fantry. He has the sword of this lieutenant, and desires to
return it to him or his family. He writes : "I captured him
and some others on January i, 1863, in the battle of Stone's
River. It was in front of the lines of battle near a house with
a large barn and outbuildings."
LOCUST BLOOMS FOR THE CONFEDERATE DEAD.
BY MRS. JOSEPH H. BEAN, KNOXVILLE, TENN.
Life's victors with laurel and roses we guerdon,
With lilies enwreath we pure virginal biers.
But over the hero who sank 'ncath the burden '
We place simple garlands bedewed but with tears.
The wild things that sweeten our own sunny slopes,
What fitter to cover the graves of our hopes?
So weave we a garland of wild locust blooms ;
Though short-lived its beauty, full richly 'tis spent;
No niggardly hoarding, but tossed from white plumes.
In prodigal showers, its fragrance besprent ;
Bringing still in its fullness the May-time's own gladness ; '
Fitting well with the glory that blends with our sadness.
Then wreathe we our garland amid the green grasses,
Growing sweet from the dust of our heroes asleep —
Life risen from death, and the song of the thrushes.
Their deeds we have kept in our hearts and will keep;
But no longer may weep, cry a surcease from sorrow,
They lived well their day, and with God is the morrow.
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VIVID STORY OF DRURY'S BLUFF BATTLE.
BY W. M. SEAY, FORMERLY SERGEANT CO. E, IITH VA. INFANTRY.
It is unfortunate that we old Confederates have not been able
to keep our memories clear for forty years, in order that we
might all remember events just as tliey happened, and that
we should not be always "calling one another down" in re-
gard to dales, incidents, etc., that occurred "enduring the
war;" but, referring to a letter from E. F. Compton, Front
Royal, Va., in the March Veteran, concerning the capture of
Heckman's Brigade at Drury's Bluff, where, as Gen. Grant
said, we "bottled up Ben Butler" in May, 1864, I think, if
he will refresh his memory a little, as lawyers sometimes ask
a witness to do, or will consult some of his comrades of the
Seventh Virginia Regiment, as I have done of the Eleventh
Virginia, he will find that he is mistaken in regard to the in-
cident.
In some particulars he is correct, and I am not prepared
to say that Gen. Heckman did not surrender his pistols to
Sergt. Blakey and his sword to Col, Flowerree, of the Seventh,
as your correspondent asserts, for the Seventh was there,
and in the positions stated ; but, if so, it was after his earth-
works had been carried from the front by the other regiments
of Terry's Brigade. The Seventh was to the left of my regi-
ment, but was cut off by some marches and lost time and
position by being deflected, and then, being obliqued to the
right, came up slightly to the rear, or right of the enemy,
and between them and the river. I did not see Gen. Heck-
man himself, but if he was captured by the Seventh it was
evidently after the greater part of his brigade had surren-
dered to those regiments who had carried the earthworks from
the front.
Another error of your correspondent, which is patent to any
one who was in the battle, is that Gen. Heckman "was cap-
tured late in the evening on the 15th of May," while a heavy
fog prevailed. Now, heavy fogs do not, as a general thing,
prevail late in the evening, and this battle was certainly fought
before eight o'clock in the morning, and certainly not on the
15th. It might possibly have been on the 16th, but I am in-
clined to think it was on the i~th. This is important only
to show that Comrade Conipton's memory being at fault in
some things may be in others, and that if Gen. Heckman was
captured late in the evening of the 15th, when he was evi-
dently trying to escape, as he must have been, when captured,
then it puts him in the position of leaving his command at
least twelve hours before the fight, which no one believes to
be true, as he fought with his men gallantly until his works
were carried by storm, and many of them were killed in the
ditches. . . . Before we had time to dispose of our hard-
tack and bacon we were ordered into line of battle. The order
was passed down the line that there were "friends in front,"
but the "fog" of which Comrade Compton speaks as of the
night before was so dense and low to the ground that we
could not see a man twenty paces ahead. It could hardly
liave been later than seven o'clock when the skirmish firing
and artillery duel opened, and at close range. Grade's Ala-
bamians were advancing rapidly, and were soon engaged at
close quarters. The "lid was off," and it was "hot." The
wounded were coming back rapidly (the Tenth Alabama was
in our immediate front), crying, "Boys, go in there; they
need you," and immediately the order came through our
Col. Kirk Otey, "Forward, Eleventh!" and then into the "jaws
of hell" we stumbled. Telegraph wires had been fastened by
le enemy from stump to stump zigzag over that field, but
• lot a man stopped or turned back longer than was necessary
^'•^ disentangle himself and get on his feet again, and then for-
ward until we were over their entrenchments and Heckman's
Brigade were our prisoners, and the Eleventh Virginia Regi-
ment, I finiTly believe, was the first to cross their line of
breastworks— this without attempting to detract any of the
credit due Gracie's Alabamians or the First, Seventh, and
Twenty-Fourth Virginia Regiments, Terry's Brigade, Pickett's
Division, of which we are all proud to say we belonged.
Gracie's men gallantly opened the fight, and lost many men,
and had retired with honor, but I claim that the actual sur-
render of Heckman's Brigade was to Terry's Virginians, and
that the Eleventli Virginia was the first inside of their works,
followed immediately by the First, Twenty-Fourth, and three
companies of the Seventh, who had become separated from the
balance of the regiment in the swampy land. If Gen. Heck-
man was captured by members of the Seventh Virginia, it was
by those who had been cut oflf to our left, on whom he had
run up in his attempt to escape after the capture of his brigade
by those who charged him from the front.
In trying to describe this charge over the zigzagged wire
field, I said not a man stopped. This is wrong: many stopped
and never disentangled themselves from those devilish wires.
Many of them are there yet. Three of my own company were
instantly killed and still lie there unless loving hands have
since moved their ashes to other resting places. These were
C. C. Clark, Bluford Grant, and Patrick Spillan — three as gal-
lant soldiers as ever carried guns. Our first lieutenant, Charles
H. Tyree, was mortally wounded and carried to Chimborazo
Hospital, in Richmond, and died in a few days. E. G. Wil-
liams lost a leg, but is still living in Waynesville, Mo., where
he has been Clerk of the Courts for many years, and is now
an old unreconstructed rebel of die Jubal Early pattern. . . .
Before writing this I wrote to Hon. T. D. Jennings, a mem-
ber of the Virginia Legislature, who was in this battle,
sergeant major of the Eleventh Virginia, and afterwards
adjutant, and who remembers distinctly the incidents here
related. I inclose his letter to me as a verification of what I
have written.
Din.oMA FOR Veterans.— At the last meeting of Joe Sayers
Camp, U. C. v., No. 1396, on motion of Commander J. L.
Fisher, a committee was appointed to write the Confederate
Veteran, and also correspond with Catnps for the purpose of
having some action taken at the coming reunion to perpetuate
the actions and services of Confederate soldiers. Commander
F'isher suggested that some plan be formulated whereby a
diploma or certificate may be issued from general headquarters
upon satisfactory proof being furnished. This suggestion is
in line with other movements now being carried out not only
by the survivors of the Confederacy but also by our govern-
ment at Washington to preserve the names and services of both
armies.
I
Edwin Waller, of Austin, Tex., and his sister possess somt
interesting correspondence concerning their father, Col. Edwin
Waller, dated in October and November of 1864. The com-
missioned ofiicers of the Seventh Texas Cavalry and the Bat-
talion commanded by him requested that the two commands be
consolidated, that Col. Waller be made commander, and that
it be designated as "Col. Waller's" Regiment. This was an
extraordinary compliment. Maj. Gen. John A. Wharton "re-
spectfully returned" the petition with the explanation that
"the Seventh Cavalry is one of the largest in my command,
and has a reputation of its own to sustain. I know that Col.
Waller is an able and determined officer."
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•STOSEMALL" OF THE COS FEDERATE SAW.
[Rev. \V. S. Hammond, of the M. E. Giurch, South, fur-
nishes an interesting sketch of Confederate naval service dur-
ing the sixties. He refers to a statement of Lieut. Henry E.
Rhoades, of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which appeared recently
in the New York Tribune. Rhoades, upon being asked if he was
not one of the American naval officers who received appoint-
ments in 1868 to aid in the organization of the Japanese navy,
replied that the credit for the Japanese navy may be placed
to the American naval ofticers, as it really began with the pur-
chase of the armor-chd Stonewall (later called the Adzuma)
from the L'nited States government in 1866.]
The story of the Stonewall is unique in every particular.
Its vicissitude was great, for in its career it passed under
the control, for a time, of no less than six govern-
ments— France, Denmark, Confederate States of America,
Spain, L'nited States, and Japan. It represented the last
naval effort of the Confederacy, and the first serious naval
effort of Japan.
The story of the Confederate navy is without a parallel in
history. When the war began it was not in existence — its
timbers were in the forests and its ropes and hawsers in the
hemp fields of the South. Its achievements bespeak the genius
and indomitable courage of Stephen R. Mallory and his gal-
lant coadjutors, who wiped the Federal merchant marine
from the seas. Their prowess is attested by the fact that our
country has not yet recovered from the blow. The "ship
subsidy" scheme so warmly advocated by Northern Con-
gressmen in recent j'ears is a measure designed to repair the
damage done and havoc wrought by Semmes, Waddell, and
their heroic compeers forty years ago. These men, who, with
such limited resources, and facing almost insurmountable ob-
stacles, accomplished such deeds of daring, were men of no
common mold.
Not the least among these was Commander James D. Bul-
loch, of Georgia (an uncle of President Roosevelt), Confed-
erate naval agent in England. Brave as men arc made, and in
diplomacy fully equal to Adams, who represented the Feder.Tl
government at the Court of St. James — a stronger repre-
sentative than Adams this country never sent abroad — Bul-
loch was a fitting representative of a government whose main
assets were courage and daring. Men were never placed in
a more difficult position than these naval agents of the Con-
fcdi-racy. The nations of the world never assigned to their
government a higher status than that of a "Ijelligercnt." Her
representatives abroad enjoyed only a quasi political status,
and could exercise none of the privileges of a full diplomatic
standing. Had the independence of the Confederacy been
acknowledged by foreign movements, their situation would
have been greatly relieved, as they then would have stood on
an equal footing with the representatives of the Federal gov-
ernment. Such, however, was not the case, as the acknowledg-
ment of Southern independence by foreign powers never be-
came an accomplished fact. Every act of the Confederate
agents was closely scrutinized by foreign officials, zealous in
their observance of neutrality laws, and their every movement
was made in spite of the Argus-eyed surveillance of watchful
representatives of the United States government. Hampered
by such limitations, it is a little short of a miracle that they
accomplished anything at all.
In the autumn of 1864 Bulloch learned that Annan, a ship-
builder of Bordeaux, P'rance, had completed an ironclad of
the "ram" pattern for the Danish government. It was prob-
able that the Danish government would not accept this vessel,
as the exigency of war which created a demand for it had
passed away. Bulloch determn.ed to secure this craft for
his government, although he well knew that it could not he
lx)ugh' outright in France, nor manned and launched from
a French pott. He immediately devised an ingenious plan for
attaining his end and circumventing the laws of neutrality.
He entered into negotiations with M. Henri Riviere, Arman's
agent. By the allowance of a liberal commission he secured
Riviere's coopetation in a plan to conduct the vessel to Copen-
hagen, as if to turn it over to the Danish government. Capt.
J. T. Page, of the Confederate navy, accompanied the French
agent, and was to assume command of the ironclad should
Bulloch's plan prove successful. Riviere, by the bestowal of
another generous commission, prevailed on the Danish gov-
ernment inspector to condemn and reject the boat as not
measuring up to the required specifications. Upon the re-
fusal of the Danes to accept the vessel, the agent started,
ostensibly to return with it to Bordeaux, but in reality to
conduct it to Belle Isle, on the coast of France, the place ap-
pointed by Bulloch as a rendezvous. The ironclad, which
had borne the name Sphynx, was rechristened Stonewall, in
honor of the hero of Chancellorsville. While Riviere was
carrying out his part of the contract, Bulloch had brought to
Belle Isk' frim Calais a crew for the Stonewall, made up of
men who had served on the privateer Florida. A small steam-
er, the City of Richmond, had escaped the vigilance of the
English authorities, and brought ammunition from London.
That the ironclad should be brought from one point, the
crew from another, and the stores and ammunition from yet
another, and that they should all meet at the appointed place
and time, indicates no small ability in the part of Bulloch.
These arrangements were made and consummated despite the
vigilance of enemies on all sides.
Capt. Page assumed command, ran up his flag, and the
Stonewall started on its career as a Confederate battleship.
Bermuda, in the West Indies, was the destination suggested
by Bulloch. From this vantage point the Stonewall was to
deal havoc among the Federal blockading squadrons along the
coast of the Carolinas. Page found that his supply of coal
was running short, and that he would be compelled to secure
an additional supply before the transatlantic trip could be
attempted. In this dilemma he made for Ferrol, Spain. His
right as a "belligerent" permitted him to take sufficient coal ai
a neutral port to carry his vessel to the nearest port of h\-
own country. There was a great risk, however, in this, as
he knew the United States Ministers and Consuls would
"move heaven and earth" to detain his ship in any neutral
port into which he might enter. Passing through the Bay .1'
Biscay in a furious storm, he made Ferrol, Spain. Here lie
found coaling to be his smallest task, as the Stonewall had
suffered serious damage in the recent storm, and could not
proceed until the necessary repairs could be made. The Foil
eral officials did all in their power to hinder this work l,-
playing on the fears of the Sjianish authorities. Making
needed repairs in the face of all the obstacles interposed by the
Federal officials detained Page until the 24th of March, when
he started out to sea. Just sixteen days afterwards, Lee sur.
rendered at Appomattox. Commodore T. T. Craven, in com-
mand of the Niagara, and accompanied by the Sacramento,
was sent in pursuit of the Stonewall as soon as the Federal
officials learned of her departure from Belle Isle. Craven fol-
lowed Page to Ferrol, and awaited with the Niagara and
Sacramento in the Bay of Coruna. ostensibly for the purpose
of attacking the Confederate ironclad w-hen it should come
out of the port ol Ferrol. The time spent in waiting gave the
Federal Commodore's courage an opportunity to wane anJ
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finally oo>;e away: for, when the Stnnewall finally made for
the open sea. Craven never budged. This inaction involved
him in a court-martial a few months later. Craven's report
of the matter to the Navy Department is very explicit as to
his feelings : "With feelings no one can imagine, I was
obliged to undergo the deep humiliation of knowing that shs
(the Stonewall) was there, steaming back and forth, flaunt-
ing her flags, and waiting for me to go out to the attack. I
dared not do it."' The court-martial must have considered
this damage to his feelings ample punishment for his derelic-
tions, as they found him guilty on the general charge and
sentenced him "to be suspended from duty on leave pay for
two years." This light sentence called from Gideon Welles.
Secretary of the Navy, a severe reprimand of the court, and a
causic review of their proceedings. The indignant Secretary
claimed that the inference from the court's verdict established
a. vicious rule for the conduct of naval coinmanders — viz.,
"Do not fight if there is a chance of defeat," rather than the
converse rule: "Fight if there is a chance of victory."
Without further delay the Stonewall sailed for the West
Indies, only to find on her arrival that the Confederacy had
fallen, and that further resistance by sea or land was alto-
gellier useless. At Havana, Captain Page turned over his
battleship to the Spanish authorities, who, in turn, surren-
dered her to the United States ofiicials. This government, as
stated by Lieutenant Rhoades, sold their prize, in 1866, to
Japan. The Stonew'all, renamed the Adzunia, thus be-
came the embryo of a new navy which, from present indica-
tions, may make a name for itself not unworthy of the host
traditions of the great chieftain for whom her first warship
was named.
W ivhs A.\ii WiLH^w.s CF Tex.\s VETERANS. — A letter from
Palestine, Te.x., states that Miss Daft'an, State President U.
D. C, has made Mrs. A. R. Howard Chairman of the Board
of the Confederate Wives' and Widows' Home. We hearldy
indorse her good judgment in this selection, and assure her
that she has thus found "an open sesame'' to the heart uf
Palestine, for this city has no one more highly esteemed than
Mrs. A. R. Howard. She has for many years past identified
herself with everything pertaining to the beloved institutions
of the South and for the maintenance of the hallowed cause,
the tender sentiment, and the sacred memories of its heroes.
Mrs. Howard has not only a charming personality but pos-
sesses in a marked degree executive ability; so no one else
could fill this important office more ably. We all feel highly
gratified by Miss Dafifan's selection, for in honoring this peer-
less Southern woman she thus honors Palestine.
OUR BROTHERS IN BLACK.
(An address of the South to the North.)
Hark you, my Puritan critics!
Forget you the Cavalier's pride?
.And know you the black Ethiopian?
The leopard^the spots on liis hide?
Vou sold us the African chattels.
You tempted our ease and our greed :
And then you got zealously righteous
.'\nd warred on the law and our need,
While wc made the savages Christians
And paid for the sins of us both.
Now, counting the good and the evil,
We blush not, and nothing are loath.
We forged, too. a bond of affection.
More firm than the title you gave —
The weal of the served and the serving.
The love of the master and slave.
We sucked the breasts of their mammies—
They fed from the fat of our store,
And, called to the far field of conflict,
We left them on guard at our door.
Wc bowed to the God of the battle —
We own he was wiser than v,e^
And patiently took up the burden
Of teaching the bond to be free.
For wronging— if wrong was committed—
The rod had been laid to our back ;
\ ct. stricken, we knew it was ours
To guardian our brothers in Mack.
.•\nd you in your heedless ambition —
Forgetting the Cavalier's pride.
Forgetting the rule of the Saxon,
For which you yourselves would have died—
W'hh bricks without straw you endeavored
To fashion new pillars of state,
And seal up the house of our fathers
With sectional, partisan hate.
Instead you made wreckage of Statehood;
Vou loosed us the terrors of race.
And only our God and our virgins
Know- what we were called on to face.
At last by the right of the Saxon.
By strength that was bred in the bone.
By law that is higher than statute.
We came in the end to our own.
.•\gain we .gave cheerful compliance —
We took up the burden with care,
^^■e give them the blessings of learning;
We pay — they receive, share for share,
And full opportunity opens
To black man and white man the same
To follow the bent of his genius
To fortune and culture and fame.
By parallel lines they arc treading
The highways all people have trod.
But socially there is a chasm
Dug deep in the wisdom of God.
To span it were death to both races ;
But, drunk on your meddlesome brew,
They reel to the doom of the foolish
Or madden on wormwood and rue.
\\'e know them — they know us. Between us
Is knowledge you never can know.
We know', for the centuries taught us ;
They know, for they learned it in woe.
So, hands off! The burden is ours;
And, faithfully plodding along.
We'll move tlirough the night to the morning.
And answ-er to God for the wrong.
Go, ponder this rule of the ages.
Writ large on the scroll of th» skies:
The white man will govern with wisdom,
.■\iid chaos will reign when he dies.
— Clarence Ousley, in the Houston (Tex.) Post.
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Qorjfederate UeteraQ,
Rev. S. G. Fekcuson.
Rev. Sydnor G. Ferguson died at his home in Lecsburg, Va.,
on the morning of March 7 of heart failure. He was born in
Fauquier County, Va., in November, 1845. He was endowed
with the elements of great strength physically, intellectually,
and morally, and these were developed by his e.xperiences into
the character of a prince among man. When a youth of
eighteen he entered the service of his country with Mosby's
Partisan Rangers. His soldierly qualities were of the highest
order, and he won distinction among that notable body of men.
One of the most brilliant exploits of his command was the rout
of Blazer's men at Kabletown in the fall of 1864, and Com-
rade Ferguson put the crowning glory on that achievement
by pursuing and capturing the Federal commander single-
handed and with empty revolvers. This is but one instance of
many which won him high standing with his commanding
officers and comrades. After the war his life was such as to
secure to him the admiration and affectionate regard not only
from his surviving comrades but to the public at large.
He resumed his studies after the war and prepared himself
for the ministry, becoming a notable figure in the Conference
of the M. E. Church, South. He lived up to the great prin-
ciples of Christianity, which he advocated in others. In his
social life there were none more genial. He was twice mar-
ried— first to Miss Katherine Fennell, and of this union six
children survive, and second to Miss Mary Jordan, of Front
Royal, who survives him.
Milton McDonald Ferguson.
Milton McDonald Ferguson was born in Rhea County,
Tenn., in May of 1827, and died in Gallatin County, Mont.,
December 28, 1903. He enlisted in the Confederate army in
August, 1861, serving in Company D, First Regiment Ten-
nessee Cavalry, throughout the war, taking part in the battle
of Perryville, Ky., Murfreesboro, Knoxville, and many other
engagements. He was a member in good standing of Sterling
Price Camp, No. 1378, U. C. V., Bozeman, Mont.
Dr. William Henry Belton.
Dr. W. H. Belton died at his residence in the town of Colusa,
Cal., on November 16, 1903. He was born at Newberry, S.
C, in 1838, but his parents removed to Lowndes County, Miss.,
while he was very young. He was at the Western Military
Institulc at Florence, Ala., when the war began. A company
was formed at the town of Crawford, Miss., near his home,
and he joined Company E, Eleventh Mississippi Infantry, as a
private. It was commanded by Capt. W. Harrison, under Col.
John Moore. Young Belton was promoted to second lieu-
tenant, then to be first lieutenant, and afterwards to captain.
He was in the battle of Manassas and all other engagements
in which his regiment participated until wounded and captured.
In the battle of Gaines's Mill he was wounded in the arm and
leg, and in the face at Gettysburg, a ball passing through his
jaw and root of tongue. He never fully recovered from the
effects of this wound, and it finally wrecked his nervous sys-
tem. He also had to endure the hardships of a prisoner at
Johnson's Island and Point Lookout.
After the war, Dr. Belton went to California, going from
San Francisco to Mazatlan, Mexico, and from there to Colusa,
Cal. Here he married Miss Annie Green, adopted daughter of
W. S. Green. Two daughters and a son survive him.
Dr. Belton stood in the front rank of his profession, but he
administered rather to the wants of the poor than the rich,
and his death caused many hearts to mourn. He was highly
respected and loved by all his townspeople.
Capt. Arthur Butler Williams.
Capt. A. B. Williams was born in Fayetteville, N. C, and
lived there till his death, in January, 1904. From a eulogy by
Col. Broadfoot, a fellow-member of the U. C. V. Camp there,
the following is taken :
"Comrades: This time it is an artilleryman, Capt. Arthur B.
Williams, of Brem's Battery, Army of Northern Virginia,
Company C, Tenth Reigment, North Carolina Troops, whose
guns fired the last shot at Appomattox, which will echo and
reecho to the last syllable of recorded time, and gladden the
hearts of all ready and worthy to do and die for country, who
in the sixty-second year of his age passed quietly to his rest.
"He was of fine presence, good manners, pleasing address,
and 'withal plain as a pikestaff. His habits were exemplary,
his principles sound, his character of the highest. In the com-
munity— in fact, in this part of our State — everybody knew
him, everybody respected him, and those who knew him best
loved him.
"We shall miss his manly form, his cheerful greeting, the
eyes that looked you squarely in the face, but. always pleasantly.
The open hands are now folded, palm downward ; the tongue
that always voiced the bright side, and was never known to
grumble, has been hushed.
"Comrades, let us speak more often the kindly word, extend
more readily the helping hand to each other, and let every
soldier keep his armor bright against that day when each in
turn shall be called to pass inspection before the great Captain.
Close up."
Louis Sherfesee.
Comrade A. W. Riecke writes from Charleston, S. C. :
"On March 22, there died at his home in Charleston, of a com-
plication of diseases, a veteran of 'the gray' who did credit
to the uniform he wore. Louis Sherfesee was born in Minden,
Germany, and as a babe in arms reached the city which became
his home for life. During the latter part of i860 he associated
himself with the Washington Artillery of Charleston, respond-
ing with that command to the call of the Governor of the State
for troops to occupy Fort Moultrie on its abandonment by
Maj. Robert Anderson and his garrison on the 27th of De-
cember, i860, and also doing duty with the same around
Charleston until early in 1861, when he, with a number of its
members, formed a company of volunteers for service in Vir-
ginia, as a part of Hampton's Legion. On leaving Charles-
ton, under command of Capt. Stephen D. Lee, the ladies of the
city presented a guidon to the company, which was placed in
charge of Comrade Sherfesee, who bravely and safely carried
the same through the war, he himself passing unscathed
tlirough the whole of it. Upon tlie promotion of Capt. Lee,
Hart and then Halsey commanded the battery of horse artil-
lery, attached to Stuart's and Hampton's cavalry brigades.
The command did effective service, and Comrade Sherfesee
participated in all till the end. In 1898 he participated in or-
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ganizing Camp Washington Artillery, No. 1102, and was chosen
its first Commander. In all matters pertaining 10 the war he
took an active interest. He has now answered the last roll
call and joined the host on the other shore. The tattered
banner that he had borne so bravely through the battle's din
and the battle flag of the parent organization drooped over his
bier at the solemn services.
'Life's warfare over, he .sleeps well.' "
S. VV. Carmichael, M.D., Fredewcksburg, 'Va.
Dr. Spotswood Wellford Carmichael, of Fredericksburg,
Va., served faithfully and unselfishly among the sick and
wounded of the Confederate armies during the four years of
the war. He came of a family distinguished as physicians, and
occupied up to the time of his death the ol^ice at Fredericks-
burg that was used by his father and grandfather before him.
The latter. Dr. James Carmicliaol, who had been graduated
in medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland, left his native land at the
age of twenty, and made his home at Fredericksburg about
1790, where an uncle. Dr. George French, also a Scotchman,
had settled some time before. His son. Dr. George French
Carmichael, took up the practice of his father, married Mary,
daughter of John Spotswood Wellford and granddaughter of
Dr. Robert Wellford (a native of England), and during the
war served as surgeon in the Artiiy of Northern Virginia,
having charge for some time of the Danville hospital. His
three sons also were in the military service. James, who was
educated at the University of Virginia and the Episcopal Sem-
inary at Alexandria, is rector of a church at Wilmington, N.
C, and, during the war, was, most helpful as a chaplain.
Charles Carter, who was first lieutenant of Company C,
Thirtieth Virginia Regiment, now resides at Fredericksburg.
Dr. S. W. Carmichael was born at Fredericksburg, Va., No-
vember 23, 1830, and, after a general education at a classical
school at Princeton College. N. J., and Concord Academy,
Va., he studied medicine with his father. Later he attended
the medical department of the University of Virginia and Jef-
ferson Medical College, Philadelphia, being graduated by the
latter institution in 1852. He engaged in practice at Freder-
icksburg. During the first year of the war he served as an
assistant surgeon, on duty at Culpeper C. H., Va., and
later at Chaftin's Bluff, on the James River, attached to an
artillery command. In the spring of 1862 he was promoted
surgeon. He remained at Chafiin's Bluff until the fall of
i8()2, and during the following year was on hospital duty at
Danville, Va. Prom the fall of 1863 to the spring of 1864 he
was surgeon at the hospital at Newnan, Ga., and then until
July, 1864, was on duty at Richmond. The remainder of the
war he was stationed at Lynchburg. After the war he en-
gaged with remarkable success in professional duties at his
native city. For many years he was a fellow of the State
Medical Society, and for four years was a member of the
Medical E.Namining Board of Virginia.
On December 19, 1861, Dr. Carmichael was married to Fan-
nie Tucker, daughter of John Randolph Bryan, a native of
Georgia. She died August 17, 1896. Dr. Carmichael died
March 18, 1904, at his home in Fredericksburg, Va., in the same
room in which he was born seventy-three years before, the
house then and now being in the faiuily. This house was used
during the war as a hospital. In the staircase there is the larger
part of a spent shell. In accordance with his expressed desire,
he was buried in the Confederate uniform he wore during the
memorable days from 1861 to 1865 ; under his left arm was his
old Confederate hat, and in his hand was a miniature Con-
federate flag. He was respected and beloved by all in the
^'
m-
honored character which a long life of great usefulness and
skill in his profession had secured to him. He was a dignified,
gracious Virginia gentleman, a Christian, noble and manly.
He was eminent as a physician for more than half a century.
Maury Camp of Confederate Veterans attended the funeral
in a body, he having been surgeon of the camp since its or-
ganization, many years ago. Dr. Carmichael is survived by
two sons (Dr. Randolph Bryan Carmichael, of Washington,
D. C, and Mr. Coalter Bryan Carmichael, of Baltimore, Md.)
and three daughters (.Misses Elizabeth Coalter, Ellen Spots-
wood, and Fanny Tucker, of Fredericksburg, Va.).
Capt. D. G. Parr.
The following tribute is paid the late benefactor of Louis-
ville by Gen. S. D. Lee, Coiumander in Chief U. C. V. :
"It becomes the painful duty of the General Commanding to
announce to his beloved cotnrades the death of another mem-
ber of his military family. Col. Dan-
iel G. Parr, an aid on his staff, died at
the family home, in Louisville, Ky., on
the 19th inst.
"Aside from his many acts of pri-
v.ite beneficence. Col. Parr will be held
ui high esteem and lasting afl'eclion by
the United Confederate Veteran or-
ganization for the beautiful Soldiers'
, ■■\ Home at Pewee Valley, Ky., of which
<mL J^^ he was practically the founder. His
^fc^ ' ' J^m open-handed liberality toward this in-
^Hk ^W stitution is an e.xample to be followed
^^^^ r by generous Confederates everywhere,
r-.o-,- 0.00 ^"'^ ^^■'" ^^^f be pointed to with pride
by his associates. '
The results of Capt. Parr's donation for a Kentucky Con-
federate Home are already marvelous.
Col. Vincent Marmaduke.
A committee comprised of James A. Gordon, George W.
Lankford. and Richard W. Nicolds, from the Gen. J. S. Mar-
maduke Camp, U. C. v., at Marshall, Mo., reported concern-
ing the death of Col. Vincent Marmaduke, in which they state :
"Col. Vincent Marmaduke died on Friday, March 25, 1904,
of pneumonia at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Dr. Wil-
liam Harrison, Marshall, Mo., in the seventy-fifth year of his
age. Col. Marmaduke was born near Arrow Rock, Saline
County, Mo., being the eldest son of Gov. M. M. Marmaduke,
and also the eldest grandson of Dr. John Sappington.
"Col. Marmaduke was the brother of Gen. John S. Marma-
duke, the gallant Confederate leader, who, like his illustrious
father, was also Governor of Missouri.
"Through a long life Col. Marmaduke was one of the most
distinguished citizens of Saline County, having filled many
honorable stations. He was twice commissioned by the Presi-
dent of the Confederate States to perform important and deli-
cate duties, in the performance of which he was far above re-
proach. Col. Marmaduke was widely known throughout the
entire country. He had traveled much and enjoyed life.
" 'To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to
die;' therefore while in anguish and sorrow we deplore his
loss, yet we will still cherish his memory.
"Resolved, That this resolution be spread on the records of
our Camp and a copy sent to the Confederate Veteran for
publication, and also a copy sent to each of his daughters —
viz., Mrs. Dr. William Harrison, of Marshall, Mo., and Mrs.
Carey, of Kansas City, Mo."
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Qopfederate l/eterar?,
MaJ. R. a. BlMMRD.
Maj. R. A. Burford was born at Dixon Springs, Tcnn.. Feb-
ruary 23, 1827; and died at Troy, Ala., January 28. He mar-
ried Miss Mary E. Lowe, of Hartsville, Tenn. Maj. Burford
was a veteran of two wars, having served in our war with
Mexico. In the War lietwccn the Stales he participated witli
distinction. He entered the army at the beginning of the strug-
gle as first lieutenant in Heyner's Company of the Twenty-
Third Tennessee Infantry. At the battle of Shiloh every su-
perior officer of his regiment was killed, and Lieut. Burford,
having been placed in command, led the regiment back into
action and partici|>atcd with the entire corjis till the end of
the battle. Honorable mention was made of Lieut. Burford's
bravery, and he w^as advanced to the rank of captain, but he
was stricken with typhoid fever, which greatly enfeebled his
constitution. When he recovered he again applied for service
and received letters from his brigadier general, also from Gen.
Cleburne. Capt. Burford reentered service under Gen. Doncl-
son, where he was soon advanced to the rank of major. At
Ihc battle of Murfreesboro he was dangerously wounded in
the liead.
Gen. Donelson, in writing to Gen. Cleburne, said: "It affords
njc the greatest pleasure to say to you, knowing that Capt.
Burford, up to the time of reorganization, was under your com-
mand, that he conducted himself most nobly and gallantly until
he was thrown from his horse by the bursting of a shell, a
portion of which struck him and disabled him to such an
extent that the surgeon would not permit him to take any fur-
ther part in the action."
After the conclusion of the war Maj. Burford took a man-
ful part in the upbuilding of the South.
Mrs. L. O'B. Br.\ncii.
Mrs. L. O'B. Branch, widow of the famous North Carolina
brigadier general who gave his life for the Confederacy at
Sharpsburg, passed peacefully away at her home in Ralcigli
on November 9, 1903.
Mrs. Branch had been in declining health for several months,
and had almost reached the advanced age of eighty-six years.
She was the daughter of Gen. W. A. Blount, one of North
Carolina's distinguished men, and her mother was the daugh-
ter of Sherwood Haywood, Esq., of Raleigh. In 1844 she
was married to Gen. Lawrence O'B. Branch, who represented
his district in Congress for several terms, and during tli.it
time his fanuly lived in Washington City. At the outbreak
of the war h? went to the front and was made brigadier gin-
eral. He lost his life while leading his brigade in the battle
of Sharpsburg, September 17, 1862; and his body was borne
from the field by his faithful negro servant, Wiley. After
forty-one years of patient watching and waiting, his devoted
wife is again with him.
Mrs. Branch was a remarkable woman. She was a close
student of current events and endowed with executive abilitv
of a high order; but above all, she possessed the charm and
sweetness of Southern womanhiind. She was deeply interested
in contributing to the needs of Confederate veterans and per-
petuating the memory of those who gave their lives for the
cause. It was Mrs. Branch who organized the Ladies' Me-
morial Association at Raleigh and became its first president.
For many years she remained the head of this organization,
and accomplirhcd untold good.
The veterans in the Soldiers' Home were frequently cheered
by her presence, and loved her dearly. The Confederate
Camp in this city is named for her distinguished husband,
and upon the last memorial day. when she was unable to at-
tend the exercises, a I>ody of veterans visited her.
Though one of the best-in fortned women in the South on
war history and current topics, still her great .strength and
charm lay in her home life, adorned bv her noble Christian
MKS. L. u u. i;r.\nch.
character. To her even in her latter years her children came
with unerring trust and confidence in her loving sympathy an !
wise advice.
About twenty-five years ago she had an accident while on
a visit in Washington, N. C, that made her lame, but she
surmounted even this painful trouble and never allowed it to
interfere with her duties. Her health was well-nigh perfect
until her illness last summer. She had rallied from this,
however, and had been out several limes even recently.
Mrs. Branch had four children: Hon. William I'.. Branch,
ex-Congressinan, of Washington, N. C. ; Mrs. Robert H
Jones, of Raleigh; Mrs. Armistead Jones, of Raleigh; and
Mrs. Kerr Craige, of Salisbury.
The funeral was attended by a large gathering of veteran;,
relatives, and other friends, and many affecting incidents
showed the esteem in which the good woman was held.
Drawn up in lines extending from the gateway to the en-
trance of the residence were veterans from L, O'B. Branch
Camp and the Soldiers' Home. Their heads were bared, not
a few with armless sleeves and wooden limbs, bearing elo-
quent testimony to their valor on bloody battlefields. They
were assigned a position immediately behind the hearse, and
marched in this order to the churcli.
Arriving at Christ Church, the cortege was met by the mem-
bers of the Ladies' Memorial Association, who also took their
places in the line and occupied seats set apart for them. A
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GEN. BRANCH.
large congregation had already gathered. The rector, Rev.
M. M. Marshall, D.D.. gave the impressive burial office of the
Episcopal Church.
The choir sang "Asleep in Jesus," "Lead, Kindly Light,"
and "Jesus, Saviour of My Soul.''
The interment was in the city cemetery beside the grave of
Gen. Branch. A wealth of Howers, including many mag-
nificent wreaths, were laid upon the grave. Among the floral
pieces were handsome designs
from the L. O'B. Branch Camp
of Veterans, the Ladies' Me-
morial Association, the Sons of
Veterans, and the Harry Burg-
wyn Camp.
The draped colors of the
Camp were sent to the resi-
dence to he placed above the
honored remains until after the
funeral.
'llie Hag at the Soldiers'
Home has been half-masted
since Mrs. Branch's death.
Gen. Branch finished his lit-
erary education at Princeton,
came to Tennessee and studied
law with the eminent jurist
judge. John Marshall, of Franklin. He resided during the
time with the family of his uncle. Dr. Lawrence D. G. O'Bryan.
J. TnoM.\s Dunn.
Thomas .Shannon, .Acting .Adjutant of the Stonewall Camp,
U. C. v., Portsmouth, Va., reports the death of J. Thomas
Dunn, the very efficient Adjutant of that Camp, which sad
event occurred in Portsmouth, Va., February 22, 1904. Ad-
jutant Dunn entered the service as private in Company F,
Forty-First Virginia Regiment of Infantry, when a boy of
si.xtecn years, and gallantly served his country to the end.
He was in many of the notable engagements of the Army of
Northern Virginia.
The Veter.\n had a diligent friend in Comrade Dunn for
many years, and hopes to record more of liis noble deeds.
Felix Taylor Taliaferro.
At Elizabeth, N. J., on the 5th of March, F. T. Taliaferro,
a Confederate V^etcran and member of a prominent Virginia
family, died of heart disease, aged fifty-eight years. He was
born at Orange C. H., Va., November, 1845, and at the be-
ginning of the war was a student at the Virginia Military In-
stitute, at Lexington. All the arguments of his family could
not restrain him from entering the army, and he practically
ran away to join Gilmore's Partisan Rangers. He was sub-
sequently transferred and served in Company B, Bayly's Bat-
talion. Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, under Gen. Rosscr. Senator
Taliaferro, of Florida, is his brother.
Solomon .\. .\knolo.
S. A. Arnold, born Novennber 14. 1820. died after a short
illness in Pickens, Miss., January 17, 1904, and there is one
less of the valiant men who bore a part in the war of the
United States with Mexico. At fifteen years he joined the
Mississippi Volunteers in that w-ar, and served under the com-
mand of Jefferson Davis, and was honorably discharged at the
close. He contracted smallpox during this service, which
left him a diseased man. In consocjuence of this condition,
most of his sfiVic? during the War between the States was in
the hospitals. Among his letters of that time are requests for
medicine, food, and bedding. He was specially skilled in
nursing and in the use of medicines. He was connected with
Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade, which served in the Army of
Northern Virginia, and was wounded once. His financial
struggles after the war closed were very great, his debtors
taking advantage of those strenuous times and the laws of
bankruptcy to avoid paying him his dues.
Mr. Arnold was a member of the M. E. Church, South, and
a worthy Mason. He was buried with all the honors of that
fraternity. His daughters, Misses Fannie and Ora, are the
only near relatives who survive him.
R. H. S.MALL.
Comrade and Confrere R. H. Small, editor and owner of
the Mabank, Tex., Courier, was buried in Palestine March 6.
1904. Ed W. Smith, Sr., his associate in war and almost life-
long friend, pays a fine tribute to him :
"Richard (Dick) H. Small was born in old Fort Houston,
near Palestine, August 12, 1841, which is now the home of our
beloved John H. Reagan. Mr. Small entered journalism at
an early age. In the summer of 1801 he joined the battery
which became famous under J. P. Douglas. Forty young
men of Tyler joined a like number at Dallas, and organized
the First Texas Battery, electing John I. Goode, of Dallas,
captain, and James P. Douglas first lieutenant. Dick Small
was one of that faithful band to the end, serving with it in
the perilous campaigits under J. E. Johnston and J. B. Hood.
During 1863 he professed religion and joined the M. E. Church,
South.
".After the w-ar he resumed the publishing business, where-
by he maintained his mother and young sister. On September
5. 1872, he married Miss Mary Lycurgus Rhodes, of Palestine.
To this union there was a daughter, Mary, now the wife of
Judge Fitzgerald, of Tyler. The wife and the mother died
July 4, 1881. In May, 1883, he was married again. Miss Laura
Trimble, of Rusk, becoming his second wife. He is survived
by her and three daughters — Mrs. Fitzgerald and Misses
Louise and KathleciL
"The one who knew him best during the larger part of his
civic and domestic life thus admirably summarizes his vir-
tues: 'He was at all times and under all circumstances a gen-
erous friend, a loyal patriot, the faithful devotee of right and
truth, the earnest Christian, the devoted, loving husband and
father.' "
Gkn. Jame.s H. Williams.
Sadly often did death invade Confederate ranks during the
year of 1903, and many vacant places attest the passing of a
loved member of the household. On the 7th of December
Gen. James H. Williams died at his home in Woodstock, Va.,
where he had spent nearly his entire life, death coming to hini
at the old homestead where he was born, in 1836.
Gen. Williams w-as a lawyer of marked ability, and had won
for himself a brilliant reputation as an orator. After com-
pleting his law course at the University of Virginia, in 1857,
he removed to Dubuque, Iowa, and, though but twenty-one
years of age, was soon actively engaged in the practice of his
profession, and in i860 he was elected a member of the Iowa
Legislature. When the war began he abandoned his brilliant
prospects in Iowa and returned to his home in Virginia, where
he entered the army and was elected a lieutenant in Chew's
Horse Artillery, which was attached to Ashby's Regiment. It
was afterwards Rosser's Brigade, and just at the close of the
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war he was made captain of the same company. He served as
Judge Advocate General in Stuart's, and then Hampton's,
Corps. At the reorganization of the Mihtia of Virginia he
was chosen as brigadier general and commissioned by Gov,
Gilbert C. Walker.
After the war Gen. Williams resumed the practice of law at
Woodstock and Winchester. He represented Frederick Coun-
ty in the Virginia Legislature, and was afterwards a candi-
'iate for Congress in the Eighth Virginia District. At the
•ime of his death he resided in Woodstock, his practice of
■.aw being continued so long as his health permitted. He was
married in 1871 to Miss Cora Pritchartt, who, with a daugh-
ter, survives him. Gen. Williams was a man of generous im-
pulses, ever ready to lend a helping hand to those needing his
services, and his kindness of heart was known best by those
who were most intimate with him. Resolutions by the
Shenandoah County bar, by Cassie Lodge of Masons, by the
Shenandoah Camp, U. C. V., of which he was a member, and
by the Chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy are just and
beautiful tributes to his memory. By his faithfulness to
duty, his invariable courtesy, and his care for the unfortunate,
he had endeared himself to everybody, and many heart tributes
are being paid to the memory of him who was "everybody's
friend."
Thomas R. Hollowell.
Thomas R. Hollowell was born in Rutherford County, Tenn.,
September 16, 1839; and died January 9, 1904. On May 28,
1861, at Jackson, Tenn., he enlisted in Company H, Twelfth
Tennessee Regiment. He was in the battle of Belmont, Tenn. ;
also in the two days' fight at Shiloh, where, on the second
day and in the last charge his regiment made, he was almost in
reach of the flag he was striving to capture, when he was
shot three times and fell, with what was supposed to be fatal
wounds, with the coveted prize waving directly over his head.
He was left on the field for dead, but after recovering con-
sciousness was taken prisoner and sent to Cincinnati, Ohio,
then to Camp Dennison. He was oflFered the privilege but re-
fused to sign the oa,th of allegiance to the United States. He
was from there transferred to Camp Chase, Ohio. After recov-
ering from his wounds, he was exchanged at Vicksburg, Miss.,
March, 1863, and was then assigned to duty in the purcliasing
Commissary Department of Cheatham's Division. In March,
1864, he was commissioned to raise Company I, Twenty-First
Tennessee Cavalry, which was done, and surrendered at Gaines-
ville, Ala., under Gen. Forrest, at the close of the war.
He was elected trustee of Rutherford County in 1878, and re-
elected in 1880, and had been in the general merchandise busi-
ness since 1882.
Hampton Wade.
The grim Adjutant Death has detailed Hampton Wade to
enter the portals of the Silent Land. He died at his home at
or near Estabutohie, Miss., March 10, after several weeks
of suffering.
Comrade Wade was born in Smith County, Tenn., Mav,
1836. He was reared in Mississippi on a farm. Early in 1862,
at Enterprise, he enlisted in Company B, Thirty-Seventh Mis-
sissippi Regiment, and served with that fine command, led by
the gallant Orando S. Holland, in its marches, battles, and
sieges. He participated in the battles of luka, Corinth, Spring
Hill, the Georgia campaign of 1864, Franklin and Nashville,
and through it all was never wounded.
He returned to Mississippi and to farming after the war,
and by industry and economy he attained a fair measure of
success. We who survive him will cherish his virtues and let
the grave cover his faults, knowing that God hath done all
things well.
For the camp, Bv the Adjutant.
Maj. D. W. Anderson.
On Thursday, April 30, 1903, Maj. David W. .\ndcrson died
at his home, in Fluvanna County, Va., in the seventy-fifth year
of his age. He was born in Louisa County, Va., on September
22, 1828. He was a kind and loving husband, a tender and
affectionate father, a generous and unselfish friend, and an
honest man. The brightness and nobility of his mind and
heart followed him in all the relations of life — in the camp,
by the fireside, and in his associations with his fellow-men.
His life was an open book. In short, he was a straightforward,
modest. Christian gentleman of the highest type.
When the great War between the States commenced, Maj.
Anderson was in the midsummer of life — in the bloom and
noonday of his manhood— and was among the first to respond
to the call of his native State. He was made captain of one
of the first companies to enlist, and served with gallantry
throughout the memorable campaigns of Stonewall Jackson
in the Valley of Virginia and siiliseriiiently under Gens. Ewell
M.\J. D. W. .\N11ERS0N.
and Early, until tlie closing drama at Appomatto.\-. He was
twice seriously wounded and experienced many hairbreadth
escapes. He was field officer of the day on the 12th of May,
1864, at the battle of Spottsylvania C. H., and was captured at
the "Bloody Angle" and sent to Fort Delaware. Shortly after-
wards he was among the list of Confederate officers selected to
be sent to Charleston, S. C, to be placed under fire of the Con-
federate batteries in retaliation for a like number of Union
officers held at Fort Sumter. He was soon afterwards ex-
changed and returned to his command.
When Gen. Lee surrendered, he began anew the battle of life,
and ever afterwards struggled to heal the wounds of the War
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between the States. He was a consistent member of the M.
E. Church, South. He represented his county for two years
in the Legislature of Virginia, and at the time of his death he
was Chairmaif of the Board of Supervisors of his county.
Maj. Anderson leaves a widow and two children — Dr. C. W.
Anderson and Mrs. Bernard Burgess. He also leaves four
brothers — Capt. John B. Anderson, of Fluvanna County, Va. ;
• Nathan J. Anderson, of Brownsville, Tenn. ; Hon. R. I. Ander-
son, of Pittsylvania County, Va. ; and Henry R. Anderson, of
Nelson County, Va.
Dk. J. C. Jones.
On Januarj' 25, in the midst of those whom he loved best,
after a brief illness. Dr. J. C. Jones passed peacefully and
quietly away at his home in Gonzales, Tex. He was born in
Lawrence County, Ala., March 13. 1837 ; and came to Texas
with his parents in 1856 and located at San Antonio. He re-
ceived his literary education at La Grange College, Alabama,
taking the degree of A.M. He began the study of medicine
soon after settling in Texas, and after a preliminary course
of reading went to Scotland and entered the University of
Edinburgh. Here he remained four years, taking the degree
of M.D. in i860. The university w'as then in the zenith of its
fame, and numbered among its officers Sir William Gladstone
and Lord Brougham; in surgery. Sir James Syne and Sir
James Simpson. From the latter he held a special diploma in
obstetrics. He also took a special course in surgical pathology
and operative surgery under Sir Joseph Lister.
After graduating at Edinburgh he went to Dublin, and was
appointed resident student in the Rotunda Hospital, one of
the most extensive and renowned maternity institutions in
Europe. While there he attended the clinics of Stokes and
Corrigan, and also the eye clinics of the talented Sir William
Wilde — Oscar Wilde's father. From Dublin he went to London
and took the surgical course of Ferguson, Erichson, and
Paget ; also attending the eye clinics of Bowman and Critchett
at Moorfield Eye Hospital. From London he went to Paris
and continued his studies in the hospital under Velpeau,
Nilaton, Jobert, Trosseau, and Cassaignac.
At the Ijeginning of hostilities in this country, in 1861. he
returned to the United States, and was, on the pev,sonal recom-
mendation of President Jefferson Davis, assigned to duty in
the Army of Northern Virginia, and served as surgeon of the
Fourth Texas Regiment, in the famous Hood's Brigade, until
the surrender at Appomattox. He attended the brigade in all
its numerous battles and skirmishes without a day's absence.
At the close of the war he returned to Texas (1865), and
located at Gonzales. Here he continuously resided and prac-
ticed medicine ever afterwards. He served on all the exam-
ining boards of the judicial district in which he resided. He
was a member of the Texas State Board of Health, a member
of the Texas Stale Medical Association, and was an ex- Vice
President of that body, of the American Medical Association,
and of the Ninth International Medical Congress.
Dr. Jones was married in 1867 to Miss Mary Kennon Crisp,
daughter of Dr. John H. Crisp, of Columbus. Tex. The five
children — three sons and two daughters — are: S. P. Jones. Mrs.
R. S. Dilworth, John C. Jones, Miss Kennon Jones, and Robert
Elliott Jones. Dr. Jones contributed some valuable papers to
the Texas State Medical Association. Dr. Jones had long
been connected with the Church, and was one of the vestrymen
in the Church of the Messiah at Gonzales.
As a member of Camp J. C. G. Key, Confederate Veterans,
he never missed a meeting of the old veterans, unless pre-
vented by professional duties. He attended a number of the
general reunions, and always, on those occasions, wore a suit
of Confederate gray.
The foregoing records that Texas lost one of her most emi-
nent citizens, one of her most accomplished scholars, one of her
most distinguished physicians, but that is all. It says nothing
of what a loyal-hearted comrade he was, nothing of the true
friend, nothing of his good works, nor of his self-sacrificing
Christian charities. His life was a beautiful one, and it is
hard to realize that God in his infinite wisdom has deemed it
best to bring it to a close.
It has been said that he is blessed who maketh two blades
of grass to grow where one blade grew before. This being
true of him, who adds only to the physical good of mankind,
how infinitely more blessed is he who goes through life with
willing hand outstretched to raise and help his fellow-men;
eager to guide the faltering footsteps of his weaker brothers
from thorny paths to pleasant fields, from the tempest-tossed
seas of life to the calms of peace and serenity. To attain such
blessing one must possess qualities of heart, mind, and soul
given to but few men. Yet we know that there are such
lives, and when we come in contact with them we instinctively
regard them as beacon lights to guide to higher and nobler
things and realize in its completest sense the truth of the
Biblical statement that "God created man after his own image,"
for truly there is much of the divine in the performance of
one's whole duty to God and to one's fellow-man.
Such was the life of Dr. J. C. Jones. Few men were better
equipped for the duties of life than he, and fewer still had it
given them to ex.tend so long a life of usefulness over so
broad a field. As a physician, as a soldier, as a citizen, and
as an earnest and faithful disciple of the lowly Jesus, his field
was large, and yet the most critical scrutiny of his life fails
to reveal a flaw. He met all of life's duties, and when the
final summons came it found him prepared — without fear and
without reproach.
His life was so full of grandeur and beauty that one scarcely
knows which of its phases most to admire — the quiet, earnest
conversation of the polished scholar; the skill of the surgeon
on the field of battle performing his duties amid the bursting
shells and whistling Minie balls with as much delicacy and
precision and as coolly as if he were in the operating room of
a private hospital ; the peaceful physician among his friends
and neighbors, loved and respected by all ; or the earnest, help-
ful Christian who so let his light shine that others might see
and follow in his footsteps to nobler things. His life was full
of opportunity. He had many widely diverging duties placed
before him. and he met them willingly, uncomplainingly, and
performed them all.
Had he possessed worldly ambition, had he been less pure-
hearted, less earnest in his life work, there are no exalted hon-
ors to which he might not have aspired. He was superbly
equipped intellectually for aught he might have undertaken.
Few physicians are so well qualified for their noble calling as
was he, few scholars so deeply read, and few men have a
deeper or keener knowledge of their fellow-men than he. He
thought not of himself, however; selfish ambition had not a
place in his composition.
He attained eminence in his profession with all its concur-
rent honors, but those honors came unsought, and he cared
little for them. His great skill as a physician, his wonderful
influence for good over his fellow-men he regarded in the
light of sacred trusts placed in his hands for the benefit of
others, and not as instruments to be used for his own aggran-
dizement.
The world is better from Dr. Jones having lived, for he
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belonged to that type of men from whose great hearts all
fears and doubts have been driven by an overweening love for
their fellow-men, leaving naught but exceeding peace behind.
If was such a man Leigh Hunt had in mind when he wrote:
"Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one niglit from a deep dream of peace
And saw within the moonlight in his room,
Making it rich and like a lily in bloom,
An angel writing in a book of gold:
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And t<"i the presence in the room he said,
"What writcst thou ?' The vision raised its head
And with a look made of all sweet accord,
Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.'
"And is mine one?' said Abou. 'Nay, not so,'
Replied the angel. Abou spake more low.
But cheerily still, and said, 'I pray thee, then,
Write me as one that loves his fellow-nien.'
The angel wrote and vanished. The next night
It came again with a great wakening light.
And showed tlic names whom love of God had blessed.
And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest."
S. O. You.NG.
The foregoing comes through ex-Commander J. B. Polley,
whose "Charming Nelly" letters of years ago in the Veteran
are still delightfully remembered. Comrade Polley had also
written of Dr. Jones, but asked that the paper of his former
adjutant general be substituted for his own. The following
from Comrade Polley will also be of interest :
"When he came to our camp, in October, 1861, we youii;?
fellows thought we had fallen on hard lines, to be commanded
by a tyrannical martinet from the old army and to l)e doctored
and sawed and carved by an old grandma like our surgeon or
as callow and verdant a stripling as Dr. Jones then looked. It
took but little time, though, for Hood to gain our love and
admiration, and longer for Jones to do so. But when, at
Gaines's -Mil!, June 27, 1862, the Fourth Texas were making
the charge which broke the enemy's lines, and our men were
dropping dead or wounded at every step of the way, those of
us who cast a glance backward could always see the young
assistant surgeon following close in tlic rear of the line, here
and there hailing to bind up a wound or administer a stimu-
lant. Then we began to love and respect him ; for, lacking the
incentive of the private or officer, he yet risked every danger
we encountered. As we came to know him better and to learn
of his remarkable skill as a surgeon, our respect continued to
grow.
"Dr. Jones was one surgeon of llic Confederate army who
was always at his post, never absent from a battle and never
failing to follow close in the rear of the regiment and perform
his dtl^'. No danger appalled him, and in the deadliest heat of
the coqWict he would kneel as calmly and coolly by the side of
a wounded man and administer to his needs as though he
were a t^ndred miles from danger. .'Uways good-humored,
never spiai;ing lal)or or time to furnisli relief where it was
possible. I doubt if he had his equal in devotion to duty in
the army. In my recollection he was never absent a single
night from the command, and no matter what tlie temptation
in the matter of grub or good company, stayed in camp or
right on the line of march and took potluck with the boys
•without grumbling.
"Modest, unassuming, and rather reserved, he was yet a
most companionable comrade. Truckling to no officialism
and never self-seeking, his advancement was slower than, con-
sidering his abilities, it should have been. Yet, although he
served for nearly two years as a sub to politically appointed
surgeons, he made no complaint, feeling, doubtless, that he
could accomplish more good down on the ground floor next to
the private who did the real fighting titan if placed in a higher
position. His was not a gallantry inspired by the excitement
of battle or the desire for distinction, but it was of that char-
acter which saved life and sent many a poor fellow home wha'
might otherwise have filled a shallow grave. The best that
can be said nf any man is that he was true to hi? country, his
UK. J. c. Jones.
friends, and his profession — all that and more may justly be
said of Dr. J. C. Jones. Never ashamed of his Confederate
record, he was generally on hand at all meetings of the Hood's
Brigade Association to talk with his old cotiiradcs of the past.
A zealous member of tlie United Confederate Veteran Asso-
ciation, he held the position of Division Surgeon of the Texas
Divisit>n under three administrations. A master of his pro-
fession and a law-abiding citizen, he had a large practice, and
was held in the highest esteem by all who met him. Peace to
his ashes, and may we all meet him in the gratid reunion of the
hereafter!"
James Gibson Parker.
On tlie Kjtli of December, 1903, James G. Parker died at his
home m Hickman, Ky. He was born in July, 1844; joined the
Confederate army September i, 1861, at Camp Burnet, in
Hickman County, Ky., as a member of Company I, Seventh
Regiment, and served through the entire war in the same regi-
ment. He was never absent from the command during the
entire time, and was always ready lor every battle of his regi-
iTient. He was very popular with his comrades, among whom
he had wide acquaintance. ,'\ftcr the war his citizenship was
lived in the same spirit that had actuated him as a soldier.
SuLO-MON A. Gephard.
S. A. Gephard. aged eighty-three years and one of the oldest
inmates at the Confederate Soldiers' Home, Pikesville, Md.,
died there recently. He was a native of Cumberland, and
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served in infantry and cavalry in Bradley T. Johnson's com-
mand, and was present at the first battle of Manassas, and on
to the end. The deceased is survived by a widow anfl a num-
ber of cliildren. '
Dr. R. \V. Martin.
Dr. Richard Walter Martin was a member of John Suther-
land Camp, No. 8co, of Ripley, 'I'cnn. He was born July 25,
1841, in Chesterfield County, Va., of French-Huguenot descent.
He died in July, 1903. He graduated from the University of
Virginia in i860. Responding to the call of Virginia for army
surgeons in 1861, he served as a member of the First Virginia
Infantry, enlisting at Richmond under Stonewall Jackson, and
later with N. B. Forrest. He also served with J. C. Johnson's
"Special Regiment" in the siege before Charleston in 1864. and
was given an honorable discharge for faithful service ren-
dered during that memorable time; but he recnlisted and came
farther soitth. He was sent to Memphis under a flag of truce
to attend wounded Confederate soldiers, and was there cap-
tured and imprisoned in the Irving Block, where he contracted
typhoid fever. Through the influence of Mrs. E. R. Davis, of
24" Madison Street, he was liberated, and by Iicr gentle min-
istering restored to health and strength.
He was in North Mississippi at the close of the war, and
came to Hcnning, Tenn., and settled in the practice of his
profession. Some years later he was married to Miss Dora
Posey, which union was blessed with a daughter, now Mrs.
J. B. Alsl(,n. of Hcnning.
He was aclivLly engaged in the practice of medicine for
DR. R. W. MARTIN.
more than thirty years. He held a membership in the Masonic
Lodge and the I. O. O. F. Lodge, of Ripley.
He was a good and charitable citizen, a kind and affectionate
husband and father, a zealous Christian, a true Mason and
Odd Fellow, and a brave and fearless soldier.
His remains were interred in Bethlehem cemetery on July
J/, 1903, under the direction of the I. O. O. F. and Confederate
Veterans. No more fitting tribute may be paid his memory
tlian the unconscious influence of his life, which still lives.
Dr. W. H. Cooper.
Hon. C. L. Cooper writes from Shelbyville, Tenn. :
"In reply to an inquiry made by T. M. Emerson, Man-
chester, Tenn., in the March Vetf.r.\n concerning Dr. W. H.
Cooper, I reply for your 'Last Roll.'
"Dr. William Henderson Cooper, son of Dr. Charles D.
Cooper and Elizabeth Lindsey Cooper, was born in Bedford
County, Tenn., December 28, 18.36, and died at Hurricane
Springs, Tenn., in July, i8f)6, of consumption, a resultant of
exposure and pneumonia incident to the war.
"Equipped with a handsome presence, bright mind, superior
social qualities, magnetic address, and a sympathetic heart, his
career as an army surgeon was a success. He was on duty at
the State hospital at Nashville, Tenn., from December 5, 1861,
till March 20, 1862. From there he went to Port Hudson, La.,
where he remained till its fall, after which he was ordered to
report to Gen. Bragg, and reached Chickamauga while the bat-
tle was raging. He was then appointed surgeon of the Six-
teenth South Carolina Regiment, afterwards of Gist's Bri-
gade, with which he remained till the close, surrendering with
it in North Carolina.
"Dr. Cooper remained with his wounded after the battle of
Franklin. He was sent North, but was soon exchanged. I
recall an incident related by him. A member of his regiment
was struck in the forehead by a random ball near Atlanta and
fell as if dead. He had the man carried into his tent and laid
on his bunk, determined to try to save him without resort to
trephining, which so often proved fatal. He removed the
broken particles of bone and dressed the wound. He gave the
man his close attention, and in three weeks secured a dis-
charge for him. Six months afterwards he received an invita-
tion to the man's marriage. I should like to know his name
and if he is .still alive. After the surrender Dr. Cooper
located near Gibson Wells, in Western Tennessee, but ill
health soon forced him to give up practice, and he returned to
relatives in Middle Tennessee, where, after a heroic struggle
lor life, he died, as stated, at Hurricane Springs. Thus were
the high expectations of friends blasted, and the South lost a
loyal son, the medical profession a brilliant representative,
society a cultured gentleman, and the Church a humble wor-
shiper at her altars."
B. B. Bledsoe.
Mr. Brocton Baker Bledsoe died at his home, in Village
Mills, Tex., January 22. He was born in Cobb County, Ga.,
July 19, 1844. He volunteered his services to the Confederate
cause .when barely sixteen years of age. He enlisted in the
Ninth Louisiana Infantry under Hayes in Gen. John B. Gor-
don's Brigade. Mr. Bledsoe often mentioned with satisfaction
that he did four long years' service under so noble a general
for a cause which he prized next to his family. He was wound-
ed at Sharpsburg and was paroled at Appomattox C. H. April
10, 1865.
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CcL. Thomas Tayuk.
Col. Thomas Taylor, of Columbia, S. C, died December 22,
1903, in his seventy-eighth year. Bishop Capers and Rev.
Churchill Satterlec officiated at the funeral. All Columbia
liked and admired Col. Taylor. He was a justice-loving but
kindly and s\Tnpathetic gentleman of the old school, with a
high sense of honor, a big brain, and a still bigger heart. He
was the oldest native male citizen of Columbia.
His grandfather, Col. Thomas Taylor, of Revolutionary
fame, and his granduncle, James Taylor, owned what is now
known as the city of Columbia. The resolution of 1786 estab-
lishing the capital city directed that it be laid out on the lands
of these two gentlemen, on what was known as their "Plains"
plantation.
Col. Taylor was born February 11, 1826, his father being
Ben F. Taylor, a son of Col. Thomas Taylor, of the Revolu-
tion. His mother was Miss Sally Woodville Coles, of Vir-
ginia. He graduated at the South Carolina College. In 1856
he married Miss Sally Frank Elmore. He chose the life of
a planter.
He entered the Confederate army in 1861 as captain of the
Richland Light Dragoons, Hampton Legion. When this cav-
alry was assigned to the Second South Carolina Cavalry, he
was assigned the position of aid to Gen. Hampton, where he
remained until the surrender at Greensboro. Col. Taylor was
in all the important engagements of the cavalry command of
the Army of Northern Virginia.
Col. Taylor has been a member of the Legislature, Presi-
dent of the State Agricultural Society, master of the State
Grange, and under Gov. Hampton he was appointed inspector
of phosphates.
CoL. P. D. Cunningham.
Col. Preston Davidson Cunningham, possibly the youngest
man in the Confederate army commanding a regiment of in-
fantry at the time of his death, on Friday evening in the battle
of Murfreesboro, Tenn., was born in Jackson County, Tenn.,
and reared on a farm. His family was of Scotch-Irish origin,
his great-grandfather having come from Ireland and settled in
Virginia in a very early period of this country, while his grand-
father came from Virginia to Tennessee and settled in Jack-
son County, which was then quite a wilderness. Col. Cunning-
ham's father, J. G. Cunningham, was a successful farmer, mer-
chant, and trader in Jackson County when the war began, in
1861. The Colonel at that time had about finished a good
education at Berrit College, in White County. His father had
reared him for a business man, but the war spirit caught him
in 1861, and he became a member of the Twenty- Eighth Ten-
nessee Infantry. At the organization of the regiment he was
chosen for its adjutant and filled this office for the regiment
most satisfactorily at Fisliing Creek and Shiloh. At this latter
terrific engagement he was slightly wounded on Sunday, but
continued with Lieut. Col. Brown to lead the Twenty-Eighth
in the several charges during Sunday and Monday, the other
regimental officers having been killed or put out of the fight.
At the reorganization of the regiment after the battle of Shiloh,
he was elected lieutenant colonel, and Uriah Brown became
colonel. A short time after this. Col. Brown was taken sick
and died, and Lieut. Col. Cunningham became the colonel of
the Twenty-Eighth Tennessee.
The regiment went on a campaign in Central and Western
Mississippi, along the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers, during
which time the writer was no longer a member of the regi-
ment and cannot give any account of its engagements, but
later on Col. Cunningham and his regiment were called into
old Tennessee and took part in the great battle of Murfrees-
boro. On Friday evening, just about the beginning of the
great charge made by Gen. Breckinridge's Division, Col. Cun-
ningham received his death wound. His. remains were taken
from this battlefield by one of his soldiers, Bryson Draper, to
his old home in Jackson County, and buried on the top of a
mountain about halfway up Jenning's Creek. The letter of
Maj. John S. Bransford, relative to Col. Cunningham's re-
mains, already published in the Veteran, was a worthy tribute
to his memory. He was greatly missed and mourned for by
the Twenty-Eighth Tennessee and all who knew him.
J. A. C.
Frank O. Farley.
Comrade F. O. Farley was born in Virginia June 10, 1845.
Early in the war he entered the Confederate army, serving
under Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, in Gen. J. E. B. Stuart's Cavalry,
undergoing his share of peril and privation. In the battle of
Williamsburg his horse was shot from under him. At the
close of the war he was a prisoner at Point Lookout, where
he had been confined for four months. When released he re-
turned to his mother and sister in Virginia.
The family moved to Texas in 1868, and settled at La
Grange. He was married to Miss O. E. Woods April 30,
1879, and removed to Lavaca County, where he lived the re-
mainder of his life.
Mr. Farley's devotion to the memory of the South's cause
never wavered. He was a member of the Col. James Walker
Camp. His death occurred April 13, 1902, being drowned
while attempting to cross a small stream, generally dry, but
then much swollen by heaN-y rains. He was a model son,
brother, and husband — affectionate, thoughtful, generous, and
chivalrous. He was charitable to his fellow-men. He com-
manded the respect and esteem of all who knew him. While
the end of this noble man was sadly tragic, there is light in
the gloom, for his Christian faith was clear and thorough.
"Our hearts of love cling to thee still.
Thou noble, true, and kingly soul.
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FRANK 0. FARLEY.
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Thy goodness, worth, and generous will
Have won for us a hope in God."
Mr. Farley's remains were taken from Hallettsville to San
Antonio and placed in the Masonic cemetery. After the fu-
neral service by a minister, the Masons officiated. Comrade
Farley was a Knight Templar, and his remains were met by
an escort of Knights at the depot.
Comrade Farley was survived a few months by his mother,
Mrs. Louisa C. Farley, who was a native of Prince Edward
County, Va. She was born October 6, 1818; went to Tex-
as with her son and daughter in 1868 ; and died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. M. A. Mullin, in Oakland, Tex.,
August 27, 1902. She was one of the sweetest and noblest of
women. Her deepest sympathies were with her native South.
She had two sons in the Confederate army; the other (Leroy)
died during the war. She was gentle, considerate, and a de-
vout Christian.
"Who loved like thee, who lived like thee,
O mother, saint, and precious soul?
Our hearts and lives still yearn to be
Like thine, so fit for heaven's goal."
A sister (Mrs. M. F. Ligon, of Austin) and brother (Rob-
ert J. Goode, of Arizona) survive her.
MEMORIAL TO FOUNDER OF MONTEAGLE.
Visitors to Monteagle this year will be gratified in seeing
completed the beautiful stone church in the village near the
REV. JAMES n. WARREN.
station. It is the result chiefly of one woman's irrepressible
zeal, and promises to be a monument for generations to the
Christian faith and liberality of Christian people who attend
the Assembly. There are beautiful memorial windows, of
which descriptions may be expected later. One of these is to
that noble Christian woman, Mrs. Lucy Ransom Warren, and
there is by the side of it a blank reserved by request of the Vet-
eran for Rev. James H. Warren, for whom there should be a
marble or bronze statue in the amphitheater. The editor of the
Veteran was in close touch with the devout young preacher
•when he conceived the idea of a Southern Chautauqua, and it
is well known that to his conception and enthusiasm the South
and the country are indebted for that charming resort for
mental rest and recuperation, and for exalted spiritual life —
a place where parents may send young daughters without
chaperones.
In his zealous and persistent efforts to secure this beneficent
object he shared the cordial cooperation of President J. W.
Thomas and General Passenger Agent W. L. Danley, of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, who interested
themselves in procuring a Pullman car for the committee on
location to other Southern States as well as Tennessee.
(Maj. Thomas is now President of the Board of Trustees,
and Mr. Danley has ever been a member of the Board.)
Many would like to see a memorial window to Mr. Warren
in this beautiful church. It will require at least fifty dollars.
Please report if you would like to share in this worthy tribute.
S. A. Cunningham undertakes to raise the sum, and gives $5.
V. D. C. DAY AT MONTEAGLE AUGUST 4.
Mrs. Judith W. Pilcher, having charge of the arrangements
for the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Monteagle,
Tenn., writes that August 4 has been set apart for that pur-
pose. Mrs. Pilcher never fails in such undertakings, and of
this event she stales : "I am going to see that it is a grand
success and a veritable love feast !" There will be present
several brilliant speakers for the principal addresses, and
many representative U. D. C. women. It is expected that Con-
federate decorations will be lavish. Extremely low rates on
the cars will tend toward the large attendance expected.
The P. F. Liddell Camp, No. 561, U. C. V., through a com-
mittee comprised of Messrs. Lee McMillan, J. J. O'Neal, and
W. F. Hamilton send fine, strong tributes to Gens. Longstreet
and Gordon.
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THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIR-
GINIA.
BY CAPT. JAMES M. M'CANN.
We won on many a bloody field,
And our hearts were filled with hope;
We triumphed over Burnsides —
Routed Hooker, Banks, and Pope.
We "bottled up" old Butler,
Drove the "Young Napoleon" back,
Chased Hunter through the Valley
Like a fox before the pack.
Killed more men for Gen. Grant
Than all "Marse Robert" had,
And down at old Cold Harbor
We whipped him very bad.
And we won the two Manassas's,
Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville ;
We crossed the broad Potomac
Under Lee, Stonewall, and Hill.
Was there ever another army
Like that led by Gen. Lee?
But after all its victories,
The South could not be free.
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The Veteran is in receipt of a neat
illustrated pamphlet announcing the
course of study and corps of teachers
for the summer session of the Peabody
College for Teachers at Nashville.
This institution, of which the Presi-
dent is cx-Gov. James D. Porter, so well
known all over the South as a distin-
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tain to improve under tlie guardianship
of President Porter.
The summer session begins June 8,
and continues to August 3; the courses
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needs of three classes of students — those
who are already teaching and pros-
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jiaring for college.
The summer faculty consists of eleven
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The usual reduced railroad rates have
been made for those who will attend.
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Mrs. Mattie Rylander, of Palestine,
Tex., desires to learn anything possible
in regard to her father's service in the
war, but doesn't even know his company
or regiment. Any one who can give any
information will kindly write her about
it. His name was William Hurst, fa-
miliarly called "Bill," and he entered the
service at Woodardville, Tenn., in June,
i86r, and served in many battles in Ten-
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Dr. J. N. Anthony, of Montevallo,
Mo., inquires about the captain and other
officers of his company, which went out
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CLEVER POEM BY JOHN DIMI-
TRY'S NEPHEW.
H. B. Mayes, of Yazoo City, Miss.,
writes in connection with the following
poem:
"I have fallen far short of my desire,
but my uncle, the late John Dimitry, no
mean critic, spoke so favorably of my
efforts that I have decided to risk them.
He was, it is true, lenient to my youth,
but he was for years chary of commenda-
tion. It was not fill shortly before his
death that he said to me : 'There is a
ring in your poetry that I like. If abk,
I would publish the whole volume at my
own expense.' Of the piece inclosed, he
expressed a wish that it could be set to
music."
Dixie's Glorv.
Some countries boast their riches.
Some countries boast their might.
Some countries boast their banner,
But we have nauglit save right.
Our soldiers were our riches.
Our might was in the truth.
Our banner, stained and tattered,
Has perished with our youth.
Then sing with love of Dixie,
This fallen land of ours,
This land of shade and sunlight.
This laud of leaves and flowers.
Some countries have their Cresar,
Some have their Bonaparte.
Some rule the world in letters.
Some lead the world in art.
But we had men and heroes ;
The richest people we ;
For we had Stonewall Jackson,
And we had Robert Lee ;
Then sing with pride of Dixie,
Til is glorious land of ours,
Tliis land of buds and' blossoms.
This land of birds and bowers.
Some countries send their armies
To confjucr foreign lands ;
Some send their ships and cannon
To thunder their commands.
Triumpliant are their living;
Triumphant are our dead.
Our Stuart, Hill, and Johnston,
Our graves by thousands spread.
Then sing with hope of Dixie,
This conquered land of ours.
This land of tears and laughter.
This land of shines and showers.
Some countries have a Livy,
Their glories to recite;
Some countries have a Homer,
To sing their deeds of might.
But who may tell for Dixie
Her sorrows and her joys?
Who sing her thousand Hectors?
And who her thousand Troys?
Yet sing, O sing of Dixie,
This peerless land of ours,
That 'mongst the perished nation?
A ghost gigantic towers.
H. A. Hawkins. No. 2705 E. Grace
Street, Richmond, Va. : "Abner A. Haw-
kins, a native of Virginia, went to Mis-
sissippi in i860. He lived in Lowndes
County, and enlisted in the Confederate
army at Stark ville in 1861. I am of the
impression that he served first in the
infantry and was later transferred to the
cavalry. I should like to get tlie name
of his commander, and names of those
who served with my father, the regiment,
division, brigade, corps, and all else pos-
sible to obtain. He died in Halifax
County, August, 1863, from an attack of
typhoid fever. Mother had returned to
Virginia after the fall of Vicksburg, in
July, 1863."
W. H. Robbins, Company G, Seventh
Tennessee, Mt. Juliet, Tenn., is very
anxious to ascertain the company and
regiment of J. Piper and W. McCormac.
two soldiers with Gen. Wheeler, killed
in a battle in Wilson County, Tenn.,
eight miles north of Lavergne. He wish-
es to put new markers to their graves.
Some of Wheeler's men can doubtless
give this information.
Special attention is called to the ad-
vertisement in this number of the lith-
ographed pen picture of Gen. John B.
Gordon, late Commander in Chief of
the United Confederate Veterans. This
picture is highly commended by Cap*.
W. II. Harrison and Prof. Joseph T.
Dcrry, of Atlanta, and admirers of our
lamented chieftain will do well to pro-
cure a copy.
Another old comrade, J. P. Hamilton,
of Whitney, Tex., also wishes to estab-
lish his record so that he cau apply for
a pension. He served in Company G,
Forty-Second Mississippi Regiment.
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"IWf A GOOD OLD REBEL."
(Satiric musings by Innls Uandolph.)
O, I'm a good old rebel.
Now that's just what I am.
For the "fair land of freedom"
I do not care a d — ;
I'm glad I fit against it,
I only wish we'd won,
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I done.
I hate the Constitution,
This great republic, too;
I hate the Freedman's Bureau
In uniforms of blue.
I bate the nasty eagle,
With all his brags and fuss ;
The lyin', thievin' Yankees,
I hate 'em wuss and wuss.
I hate the Yankee nation
And everything they do;
I hate the Declaration
Of Independence, too.
I hate the glorious Union,
'Tis dripping with our blood ;
I hate the striped banner,
I fit it all I could.
I followed old Marse Robert
For four years near about,
Got wounded in three places,
And starved at Point Lookout.
I cotched the roomatism
A canipin' in the snow.
But I killed a chance o' Yankees,
I'd like to kill some mo'.
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is stiff in Southern dust.
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us;
They died of Southern fever.
And Southern steel and shot,
I wish they were three million
Instead of what we got.
I can't take up my musket
And fight 'em now no more;
But I ain't agoin' to love 'em,
Now that is certain sure.
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am ;
I won't be reconstructed,
And I don't give a d — .
G. T. Bryant, of Yarrellton, Te.x.,
makes request for the address of Col.
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D. J. Alwine, of Victoria, Tex., wishes
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FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS
An Old and Weil-Tried Remedy.
MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHINC SYRUP
has been used lor i.ver SIXTY VEAHS bv Mil. 1, Ions oI
MOTHERS f,.i Uitir CllILDKEN WIIIIlK TKKTIIINO,
WITH PTiRKECT SOCCE.SS. It SOdTIIES 111,, i HILD,
SOFTENS the GX'MS, AI.I.AYS nil PAIN; TIRES WIND
COEIC. an,l is the best remedy On DIAHPHEA. Sold by
Druggists lu every part oi llie woild. Ki- sure li, ask fer
MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP,
AND TAKK NO OTUKK KIND.
TWENTY-rtVE CENTS A BOTTLE.
On the Parallels;
or, A Story of the Rappahauuock.
By a writer " on the other side."
Tlu- I.oiik is (l,ilic:il,,l to uU tlu.se wh,> ilieii niul
Ihusi. %\ho suffered from the effects of the ^re.it
Civil War. Well written, free from all prejudice,
imd intereslin(r uot (udy to everv old soldier, Coii-
federute or Kederul, but to ull lovers of uubiused
histor\ .
3JJ ftt^f!'. C'ilt clothe
B. Borten, Tliithor and Publisher,
WOODSTOWN, N. J,
Price, $1, Postpaid.
The starting Point of the
Great War between the States.
Inauguration of Jefferson Davis as Presi-
dent of Confederate States of America.
In Front of the State Capitol at Mont-
gomery, Ala., February 18. 1861.
This picture is a facsimile of a photoijraph taUen
on the spot vhile the a'ldit'nce was at pra\er, ami'
a few si-conds after Mr. Davis hat) taken tlie oath
of office as IVcsident of the Confeilerate States,
which was adminislered to him by 1 lowell Cobli.
'Ihe lime of takiiii; the pholoirraph was one
o'clnck, as the Inp of the picture will slmw.
The picture is 22x30 inches, and is for
sale by P. ), MIndcrhout, 123 Adams Street,
Montgomery, Ala. Price, 75 Cents Each.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
And Other Poems and Songs.
Tliisistlietilleof :l Uiiique bouk by J.ie A. Cuu-
ninj;luMU, kuow n as ttie " preacliin^ druuimer."*
The objects of tlie book are to c.vtend fraternity be-
tween the North and the Si>uth; to show the real
ctusc of the war; to refute the slander of the book
known as "IndeTcunsCaliin;" to show that the
carpetbair reconstruclien period was a curse to botll
white and Idack; to show that the enfrauchisement
of the ne-ro violated the decree of Goil throutjh
Xoah, and that the repeal of this enfranchisement
is the only solution of the nepro question ; and tin. il-
ly, that the whole war was a mistake, both sides be-
iu;r more or less in the wnmjj. The book is entirelv
beyiuid ordinary views, and iscalculated to do much
good.
The same nnthor has two hooks of sermons. Vols.
I. and II., defeiulin^ orij^inal t'hristianity, tracing
Ood's Church from its «»rigin in Jerusalem to tin-
present time, and claiming that prophecv indicates
that Ciod will tise the United States asan instru
ment in conuectinu with his Church to briny- about
the millennial au'e. The si-rnumsare iu>ndenonnn:i
tional. and d,-s,.rve a v ivt eirculati-,n.
Thtse books aie publislieit br Ihe McQulddy Printing Co.,
laihillla, Tenn. Price, SO Cenl$ per Voluma.
LOW RAILROAD RATES.
Exceptionally low rates to the Worlti's
Fair city will prevail tiuring the Louisi-
ana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis.
After several conferences with the South-
western Passenger Association and the
Western Passenger Association, Mr. C.
L. Hilleary, the Exposition Traffic Man-
ager, was authorized to make announce-
ment of the rates established.
The following rates will prevail in tlie
territory covered by the Southwestern
Passenger Association :
Season excursion tickets, 80 per cent
of double the one-way fare. No season
ticket will be sold where the rate is less
than $3. Tickets on sale April 15 to
November 15, with final return limit De-
cember 15.
Sixty-day tickets, one and one-third
regular fare ; minimum rate, $5. Tickets
on sale April 25 to November 20, with
final return limit sixty days from dale
of sale, but not later than December 15.
Ten-day tickets, one and one-fifth fare ;
cost of ticket not to exceed one fare
plus $2; no ticket to be sold for less
than $3. Tickets on sale April 27 to
November 30, with final return limit ten
days, but nint later than December 5.
Coach excursion tickets will be sold
at the rate of 70 per cent of the regular
one-way fare; no ticket to be sold for
less than $5. These tickets are limited
to five days from points north of Texas,
and to seven days from points in Texas.
The tickets are not good in parlor or
sleeping cars.
In the territory of the Western Pas-
senger Association the following rates
are fixed : Season tickets will be sold be-
ginning April 15 to November 15 inclu-
sive, final return limit December 15, 'it
rate of eighty per cent the one-way
standard fare ; minimum, $3.
Sixty-day tickets will be sold from
points from which the one-way standard
fare to St. Louis is $3.75 or less at 80
per cent of double the one-way fare;
maximum round trip, $5. From points
from which one-way rate to St. Louis is
more than $3.75, rate will be one and
one-;third one-way fare for round trip ;
tickets on sale April 25 to November
20, inclusive, good returning within si.-c-
ty days from date of sale, but not later
than December 15.
Ten-day tickets from points from
which the standard one-way fare is $8
or more, rate will be one and one-fifth
standard fare for round trip ; minimum,
$10; beginning April 27 to November
30, inclusive, returning not later than De-
cember 15.
All tickets passing through St. Louis
WRTICMIVORAfl
CUR.ES
Colic and Bots
In Horses and Mules
Immc<*lale relief for
Wounds, Burns.
Bruises. Sprains.
Colic. Cramps,
Diarrhoea, Flux
A STANDARD fOR 20 YEARS
Home Treatment for Cancer.
Pr. n. M. By.-s Baliuy oik, for i-«iu-er, is a
]'M>j'iti\o aiut i)ainless euro. Jlost cases aro
treated nt lioniu, without the service of aphy-
eit-iaii. .Send Xur VM)i>k tellini? what t\-<»iidcrftil
tbinjrsaro Ixdiitr doiu» l>y simply anoint int^ with
oils. Tile comliiuation isa set-ri't ; i^ivos instant
relief from i^ain. destroys tlio (-aiicer mii-roltes,
altd restiTos the patient to health. Thousands
of cnni-ofs, tumors, eatjirrh, nlrers. piles, and
nialii^uant diseast.s cnrod in the last U'U years.
If not afiiicted, cut this otit and send it to some
snllerini,' one. Address Dr. li. JI. BvK Co., P.
( ). Box 4iW, Dallas, Tex.
ullir Snlirrlium - Ifirmpljill
llnrrlmstny Aurury,
923 SljirJl Alirnnf,
Cauiutiillr, 1K|j.
Shopping of all kinils t^iven prompt attention.
f;,,.v„. rti-4.I^ Si, ivf ,, ilor. ytaranl^^d.
will permit stop-overs of ten days at
that point.
CONFEDERATE STAMPS
WANTED.
I will pay good prices for all kinds of
Confederate postage stamps and envel-
opes for my curio corner. I am not a
dealer. Those having such relics of the
war, please write me. I am Southern
born. T. C. Harbaugh, Casstovvn, Ohio.
</» PISOS CURE FOR M
i
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FA>Ld.
BcBt CouKh Byrup. Tasi..-^ i.ood. Vm
la time. Bold bv iiruk'^'lsis
g
~ CONSUMPTION y
246
C^OQfederate Ucterap.
people.
more or less crippled and
deformtd. Our methods are
dififereut. Ihey arc tl:c result
of thirty years active ex-
perience^ dont confine the
patient to his bed or room.
are i^ainless and when em-
ployed in time will effect a
cure. Our book, which is
{ree, will tell you all about
it. Write for it.
THE L. C. McLAIN
ORTHOPEDIC SANITARIUM
3100PlneSt., St. Louis. Mo
use. ^
MAGtCFOOD
IT ACTS LIKE
MAGIC
88 n tonic and system regulator for Horse,
Cattle, Sheep, aud Hogs. "The best by
thirteen years' test." The owners and man-
agers of the Magic Food Co., Chattanooga,
Tenn., ami kmIu makers o: the celebrated
Magic Stiiek ami Poultry F. )ods, are Confed-
erate Vet.-rana and memlKjrs of the Forrest
Camp, C. v., and give a guaru:iteo with
every pnekage. If your d;;alor does not keep
Magic Food, they will send a I 0-lb bag, ex-
press paid, on receijit of $J. Jlomy re-
turned if it proves uiisalLsfaet^)ry. Now is
the time to use it. On roccijit of name and
address wo will send a valuable Ixiok on
8to<k and poultry, and Ijeautiful pictures for
framing.
^L ^^^^ ._. ^% .K f^ _ S«n(1 111 your ftiMroti
^ Q a Day 5ure-r.^";;^nr.>,;?
^W ^B^F furnish llif work and Icmli y.u froo, y<.u wurk In
4ho iocnlity whcroyou live. Sriid ui >our &ddroii and we will
•XpUIn the liuiiii«it fully, rrinoinbor wc Kuaruit«p n clear [tn
of |3(ur fV<>r)-day~s\v<>rk.al>iolutelv sur" Urit«-niuti
UOYAL niM KlLTlUIKti CO., Box | 030< Detroit, 111
>Ht
WHO ARE YOU?
Suppose the train ^ou are on colHiles with
another, or the buildlnjj you are in burns,
or vou nn-rl with some other serious :ic-
cid'ent; vcold thoy know vho m am f Our
Hadge — iiuleslructilile— is tlie oiilv sure
aiul safe nu-ans of identification, t'articu-
larlv applicatile to women and children.
B.iJjre and 6iT\ice comph-te for 3|;c.» g^ood
fftr one v«-ar. Smd 25c. for a badge and
s-tTvice toHliy; t&-aorrow aaybe toolato. B;ink
refiTfiiCfS.
COMMERCIAL INDEMNITY CO,, Depf. V, Wainwrigtit Building, ST.LOUIS
NASHVILLE
ashvllle. Chattannojja, and St. L
arriving at
ST. LOUIS
▼lathe Nashville. Chattanoo^, and St. Louia Ity>i
arriving at
OHIOAGO
ov«r the Illinois Centra.! R. R. from Martln^Tann.
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE AND
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
MAINTAINED OVEK THIS
SCENIC LINE.
Ticket ag^ents of the Jacksonville-St, Louis and
Chicago line, and a^^cnts of connectin^j lines In
Florid and the Southeast, will ijive you full In-
formation as to scliedules of tln.J double daily serv-
ice to St. Louis, Chicago, and tlie Northwest, and
of train time of lines connecting^. They will also
sell you tickets and advise ) uu as to rates.
F. D. MILLER, ■ • • Atlanta, Ga^
Traveling Passenger Agent I. C. R. R.
WM. SMITH, JR., - • NASHViixK,TBjra^
Commercial Agent,
TAPE-WORM
no fee. Nofaoting required. Scud I'citamp for 4^-pa^e Hock.
DR- M. NEY SMITH, SpecialiBt.MOO OHve St.. St. Louii, Mo.
Expelled alhr«
in GU niinutei
with tiead, or
JACKSONVILLE
ria Valdosta Route, from Valdosta via Georgia
Southern -j-.d Flonda Kv., from Maccn
via Central of Georgia Ry., from
ATLANTA
via Western and Atlantic R. R., from
CHATTANOOGA
BIG8-
^ I
I Chain of S Colletres owned bybntlneat
i-n and indor^icd by business men,
Fourtrea Cashiers of Bantu are oa
our Board of Pireclors. Uur diplom.i. means
something. Knter any time. Posiiious secared.
i Draughon's
J Practical...
3 Business...
(Idcorporalcd, Capiiai stDck SiO0,0U0.lX).J
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Ft. Worth. Texas, c Montgomery, Ala.
St. Louis, Mo . Galveston. Texas,
Little Rock. Ark. A Shreveport, La.
For ISO p.it'e cataloguo address either place.
If yon prefer, may pay taitioa out of salary af*
ter coarse It completed. Guarantee graduate*
to Vn c^mprtent or no cbarpes ior tuition.
HOME STUDY: BooUkeepinp, Stiortband,
Peniuaiisllip, etc., tauK^t br mail, Write for
100 page BOOKLET oa Uome Study. It's tnr.
MISSO\/^I
TACIFIC
... OR. ...
IRON MOUNTAIN
ROUTE
From ^rr. LO\/I^
and MEMPHIS
Affords Tourist, Prospector,
or Home Seeker the Best
Service. Fastest Schedule
to All Points in
MISSOURI, KANSAS, NEBRASKA,
OKLAHOMA and INDIAN TERRI^
TORY. COLORADO. UTAH, ORE^
GON, CALIFORNL\, ARKANSAS,
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NEW MEXICO, and ARIZONA-
PuLi.MAjj Slekpeks, Frek Rh-
CLINING CllAlR CaKS On ALL
Trains. Low Rates, Free De-
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Ticket Agents, or address
H. C. Townsend
G. P. and T. A.
St, Loins, Mo.
R. T. G. Matthews
T. P. A.
Louisville, Ky.
QoF^federat^ Ueterai).
B/)e Battlefield of
Chancellorsville
ij oJ[fereti
FOK rALE
"yHE oM Tavern. Fairview, Confederate
^ and Union Ijreastwnrks still stand as
leftalt<'r tlio !,'re;it liattle. Several monu-
ments have rcc eiitly been ererted on the
lands, thr.s addiiit: to the interest f>f this
histiirie, ]>la(v. TlK're is a small farm, val-
nable woodlands, and mineral deposits on
the tract, .H'lll acres in all.
CHATtLES M. KcjyETH,
207 SI. Paul Street, Ballimore, Md.
Rife Hydraulic Engine.
Pumps water by water power.
C.in lie used where hydraulic rams
fail. Absolnte.'iir feed.
Will pump thirty feet
hi^'li for each toot of
fall.
Every One GuKranleed.
CHAUNCEY C. FOSTCR, SPtCIAL ACENT,
829 Church Street. NaBhrille. Tenn.
Great
Is
Texas!
The Eyes of
the World Are
Upon Her.
The Home Seeker
Waiils to know about her
" Mati-liloss " Climate and her
Cheap Lands.
The Investor
Wants to know not only about
her Cheap Land and Low
Taxes, but, as well, llcr
Wealth of Mine and Forest,
and this is to let you know that
The International &
Great Northern,
Texns' Cji-»;atest Rnilf-oHd.
Traverses more than a llmusami
miles of the Cream of Texas' Re-
sources, latent and developed, and
that you may learn more about the
C.REAT \. & G, N. COUNTRY
by sending a 2-cent stamp for a
copy of the ILLUSTRATOR
AND GENKRAL NARRATOR,
or 25 cents for a year's file of same,
or by writiiit;
O. J. 1^1* I CK,
a. p. •» T. A.. I. .* O. IN. R. R..
r»ntej*tine, Tex.
NOW DEPOSITED IN TBE BAM
$75,000.00"
IN CASH GIVEN AWAY.
To ,irouse interest in, and to advertise the
tiKKATtST.LOlIfi WOKLD S F.*IK,
this enormous sum will be distributed.
Full information will be sent vou ABSO-
I.I-TELY FREE. Just send your
name and .iddress on a postal card and
we will send you full particulars.
World's Fair Contest Co.,
IO8 N. 81 h street
St 1,0ms. Mo
FORTUNES
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$2,000 IN 30 DAYS
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disnivrriiv Wril.- ).M«t-,l rnr Ini.n-IiiiK p.irii.-iil.r-
KEKTUCKT IRCNTON R:CK OIL COMPANY, LOUISVILLE, KY,
N. C. & ST. L. RY,
VIA MARTIN
Monday
EVERY
Tuesday
DAY
Wednesday
TO
Tliursdav
ST. LOUIS
WORLD'S
.^fg^WJl^ ;-aturJay
^ETZb^r FAIR
Sunday
I ROUTE"
Ticket Office, Maxwell House, Church St.
Telephone 151
H. F. SMITH, W. L DANLEY,
THArriC MGH. CCN'U PASS. »tlT.
NASHVtLLt. TENN.
e deaf are immediately able ^
hear ordinao* eon versa tion
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BEST
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NO TROUBLE rc /tisswER Question*.
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Dallas, texa»
248
Qopfederate l/eterai).
VERY LOW RATES
NASHVILLE
loll THE
Confederate
Veterans' Reunion.
Tickets will be on sale June 10-15,
with final return limit June 18, 1904,
Southern Railway.
An extension of limit until ]u\y lo,
1904, inav be obtained 1)\' depositin<^
ticket with joint agent, Nasbville, at
any time between June lo and i8, and
on payment of 50 cents.
P'or furlht-r information, wrJto
S. H. Hahdwick, General Passenger Afjent.
Washintjton, D. C.
C. A. Benscotkr, Assistant General Passen-
i^er A;;i'nl, Cti:iUaii<>0)ju, Tcnn.
Confederate
Veterans'
Reunion,
Nashville,
June m-16.
LOW RATES VIA THE
From Points in Texas,
Louisiana, and Tlrkansas.
For full iiitormation as to routes,
rat««, time of trains, eto., writ« to
W. C. ADAMS, T. P. A.
Cotton Belt, Nashville, Tenn.; or
E. W. La BEAUME, C. P. A T. A.,
SI. Louis, Mo.
LOW RATES TO
Confederate Veteran Reunioiv
NASHVILLE, JUNE 14-16
For parliculars apply to anv M. A: (). ]i. R. a;_jcnt, or
HA'Ry/'E>^ E. JOJVES. Jr.. T. "P. A... JacKson. Tenn.
X5he
HARRIMAN ROUTE.
Tennessee Central
Railroad.
ARE YOU GOING TO NASHVILLE
TO ATTEND THE Ti X,
Reunion of the
Confederate
Veterans,
June 14.15. 16. 1904?
Re sure U> secure ^^tlr tickets frniii :ill
points in \'iry:inia. North and Soulli Can--
lina, ami Ma>t Tennessee \\l\ Ilarriinaii
aixl tliu T(^iiiieNS(><> ('eiitritl KuilroatI,
;iiid frr)m all points in West Tenncsst'e :irnl
Kentucky via llopkiiisvillp mid tlu*
Tennessee Central Railroail.
The 'i'<'nnes3ee Central Kailroad is tin-
shortest antl most direi.-t route to Nasliville
from these points.
Tickets will be on snle at all ticket ofTices
of the Sonihirn Railway and of the lUinois
t -wtral Ilailroail.
E. H. HIWTON. Traffic Manager.
Nasiivilke, Ti-.n.n.
THE WEST POINT ROUTE.
• 2-S •
Atlanta and West Point R.R.
and
The Western Railway of
Alabama.
Route of U. S. Fast Mail be-
tween the Northeast and
Southwest.
DINING and SLEEPING CARS.
I^hiii-U and ciiriN ciiioiil .mIr'iI-
iilcs In all jioiiils in till'
Si Mil Invest.
J. P. KIULUPS, '
Oeneral Passenj^t^r- Asperity
ATUAINTA, Oa.
(^opfederat^ l/etera.9
249
Souveivir of President Jefferson Davis's Home
:bea.\/vo fR, MIS^S^
Dosigiii'il by ;i Mississippi Dauirlilor of llu/ Co
aud sold for lienelil of llie Beauvoir jiortrsit
Sold Exclusively ii\ Na.sKvi[le by B. H. STIEF JEWELRY CO.. 404 Union Street.
n] LADIES' HAT TIJVS
Make Vseftil and Appreciated Presents.
devoted to travel, 'q
fiction aiNd kindreds
subjects-bcaufifully^
illuitrited. Published
ever/ month and jpid
to lover5 of $ood. literature fer
one dollar a year or ter\ cents a copy-o/\
all trimj aad news sUr^ds. Three monlS^ Iri4l,25''!
Jravel Publishing C?. stL^uij
■ 3uy ^ Copy dn<f looA /ns/(te^
I DESIGNS fOf ('. C. V. blTTCNS FMTNTED FOR EXCLUSIVE
USE OF UNITED CONFEDERA TE VETERANS, hly '■/. If 96.
V. V. V. Sociotv Buttons, (l.ild. Flat; cnamolrrt in
o.lors. Ea<-li $1 00
U. C. V. Society Buttons. Plat<'d. Flag enameled in
colors. Each 2">
U. D. O. Hat Pins. Oold - plated. Flag enameled in
colors. Each ^-"i
U. C. V. Cuflf Buttons. Gold-jilati'd. Flag enameled in
colors. Per i'.nir 1 ''■*
U. S. C. y. Cuff Bntton.s. Gold-plated. Flag enameled
in colors. Per pair 1 "it
U. S. C. V. Lapel Buttons. Gold-plated. Flag enam-
eled in colors. Each :.. 1 no
n. C. y. T'nifMrm Buttons. Coat size. Per dozen .">0
U. C. y. Tniform Buttons. Test size. Per dozen 2.5
U. C. y.fnitorm Button Hatpin. Plated. Each .W
t^^Sentf remittance ttft'th order.
Uniform Button.
Information furnished in regard to retrulation I'. ('. y. uniforms, uniform material, and insignia
of rank. firr/r-?'.s- fur hijtct hnttints must lie iirecinpatxitd hit Ihf irrillrtt tiut}n>ritif of tjintr Camv
Command, , ,.,■ A.liiilnitt. Address J. f. SHIPP. Q. M. GenM, V. C. V., Chattanooga. Tenn.
Awnings
for iSloi\-s, City aiui Country Residences,
Public lUiililings, etc. Get our patent
improved a\\nins;s. We are the largest
manufacturers of awnings, tents, and
Hays in America. We supplv most of
I iidr Sam's needs. We can supply your
needs, however lar^'e or little. Mail
orders a specially. Correspondence
solicited,
'Reference, j\nj' Ban^.
M. G. COTELAJ^T) €9^
*09 lIt/jSf..JV. W.. Wajhington. T>. C.
^ommmmmmmm
A LITHOGRAPHED PEN PICTURE
OF THE
Late Lamented Commander in Chief
of the Confederate Veterans,
Gen. John I). Gordon, his ho
flag^s he loved so well woven inl
two patriotic ([notations taken fro
'■ The Last Days of the Confede
oval on each side of his picture,
tractive memorial, which should
home of every American citizen
net proceeds to he donated to
Cjordon Moiuimcnt fmid.
A Limited Number at
25c. Each.
I
260
Qoofcderate Ueteraij.
WANTED
EVERY MAN, WOMAN. BOY. AND GIRL
in the United States to know tli;it a cheap,
pleasant, harmless, and ABSOLUTE cnre
for the tobacco liabit. in all its fiirms. has been found, and is for sale by
the ROSE DRUG CO.. Watts Building. Birmingham. Ala.
PRICB, $1 PER BOX.
U. C. V.
REUNION
^asllvilIe, Tenn., June U-16,
VIA.
Low Rates.
Superior
Service.
Santa Fe
Go and Meet
the
Comrades
of the
Long Ago.
Ask llie ni-:in'-t SAX'I'A I'l'. iigent fur partuulais, or address
W. S. KEENAN. Q. P. A.. GALVESTON, TEX.
There's Room for Success
In. the Great Southwest.
Have yott ever considered the great advantage of this feature of the
Southwest— plenty of elbow room— where three, live, even leu acres
may Ix^ liad at lint prirc i>f a siiii.'lc acre in your home section? It's
worth cnnsideriiig, especially when the great pro<luctivo worth of
the land is taken into accoimt. It's a woncU-rfully fcrlih; scclion.
There is no heller agricultural section in this country, and farms are
cheap out then — in Arkansas. Oklahoma, and Texas simply be-
cause there are more farms than farmers. Can you alTord in over-
look an opporlunitv of this kindV Our illustrated l)ooklcts will give
you tlio particulars in detail. If not interested yoursiOf, write for
them anyway in belialf of your less favored relatives and neighbors.
(Mention this paper)
Rock Island
System
^w^
ONE FARE
Plus $2.00
For the Round Trip. First
and third Tuesdays of each.
month.
J. N. CORNATZAR,
G.'ul KmX. P11.S.S. Dept.,
Mkmphis, Tens.
JOHN SEBASTIAN,
Pa.ssengor Traffic Manager.
CHICAGO. ILL.
"FOLLO\Y THE FLAG"
TO
CALIFORNIA asd
NORTHWEST.
=^== THE ==^=
WabasH
RAILROAD
and its connections offer verv low rates to
Coionists and II01111- Se^■l^^■^s from
March 1 to April 30, 1904.
ALSO VERY LOW ROUND-TRIP RATE TO
or.*!
On Account of General Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Tictiels .>ii sale April -'J li' Ma\ 1.
I''or further parliiulars. e.lll on or address
F. W. Gkeem;, Hist. I'ass. A^t. Watiasli It.
R,, Uoom loi frl'aii Bids,'.. Louisville, ILy.
THROUGH SERVICE
VIA
L. & N., E. & T. H. and C. & E. I.
2Vestlbuled Through Trains Dally /^
NASHVILLE TO CHICAGO ^
THROUGH SLEEPERS and DAY COACHES
NEW ORLEANS TO CHICAGO
DINING CARS SERVING ALL MEALS EN ROUTE
D. II. HILLMAN, 0. P A.. S. L ROGERS, Geil. Art.
tVANBVILLE. IND. ' NASHVlLLt. TENN.
Qopfederate l/eterai).
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LOW
BATES
To
NASHVILLE
FOE
U. C V. REUNION.
Delegates from LOUISIANA, TEXAS, and the WEST can Travel
Comfortably. Cheaply, and Cleanly by the
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
OIL-BURNING LOCOMOTIVES.
NO SMOKE.:
iNO DUST.z
zNO CINDERS.
Pullman Palace Cars. Excursion Sleeping Cars. Free Reclining Chair Cars. Standard Dining Cars.
T. J. ANDERSON,
G. P. A.
Write for infornialioii to
HOUSTON. TEXAS.
JOS. HELLEN,
A. G. P. A.
a
BIS FOUB
91
The best line to
INDIANAROUS.
REORIA,
CHICAGO,
And all poitUs in Indiana and
Michigan.
CLEVELAND.
BUFFALO,
NEW YORK.
„ BOSTON.
AND ALL POINTS EAST.
Information oliperfully furnialied on ap-
plication at City Tii^ket Offic* " Btg Foar
ICoute," No. M9 Fourth Arenue, or wiile
to S. J. Qatkr, General Agent Paaaea^r
Department, Louisvillb, Kt.
Low Rates to Texas
MAY 3 AND 17, AND
To DALLAS
MAY 16, 17, 18, AND 19.
A little more than one fare for round trip.
4 TRAINS DAILY.
WKirK 111
J. N. CORNATZAR, General Agent Passenger Department,
MEMPtilS, rf/V/V.
Will LTlmlly (nn>ti> ]);is.si'n}rc'r rates to any ])oiiil.
'^mi^umm^^&m
CDCPTIf*! ce •twt'olM'K^ Band
drCb I NuLCO rorratalOK. Air«l<>
»ranted.COELTE»0PIICALCa.cmiI».UI-
262
^oijfederat^ Ueterai).
{F
The Veterans' Route
TO NASHVILLE
IS OVER THE HISTORIC
Nashville, Chattanooga k St. Louis R'y
"THE BATTLEFIELD LINE"
IF YOU PURCHASE A TICKET READING VIA THIS ROUTE
YOU CAN GET IN A SLEEPER
at Memphis, St. Louis, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Augusta,
Macon, Jacksonville, Ki.oxville, Asheville, Salisbury,
Greensboro, Danville, Lynchburg, or Washington,
AND GO THROUGH TO NASHVILLE WITHOUT CHANGE
The Scenery between Atlanta, Chattanooga, and Nashville Is Peculiarly Attractive to Veterans.
H. F. SMITH.
Tra..fflc Manager.
Write for a copy of
"SOUTHERN BATTLEFIELDS."
W. L. DANLEV,
General Passenger Agent.
- - 3
Qopfederate l/eterap.
253
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*&
ESTILL SmiJVGS HOTEL.
Estill SpiMn^js. on tho N., C, &: St. L, Railwuy. midway bctwcon Xaslivilli' ami (.'liHttanooira. is notc^d for its fncilitics as n sHmmer ivsort. Hieb.
alKive the so:i level. e(;uaUy exi'iiipt from the Iviirid ripn- oi tin- X<ir1li and tlie deliilitatini; heat i»l the Nn»(/(, it is nowhere exeelhHi for eomlort. The
surroundings are beautiful : spK-ndid ^^i-oves j>na nmuiitjiin sti-eanis; the noted tishintr stream, KIk Kiver. only one-half mile ti'om hotel. Mineral or
sulphnr. ehalybeate and frerstoiic -vr-li-rs of the hi;:hi--t -iuality. Trains stop at hotrl plallorm. Four daily niail.s. Send l*)r eireular and rat^^s.
C. r. /^l WILLIjA.M B. S'HBLTOJV, owners and Troprietor^, K^itU ^pring^, Tenn.
I
^i"^ " '"^^s^^ Garbonated in Bottles^— 7lt Till Fountains.
/f*^2s^,cious\ * '''""' '''"^^' '^^''S'l""'' Thirst-Quenching Drink
/ fc*^«^^^"^^^. \ MAOE BY
I i>%linF^TniH 1 ^H^fl'rON GHEMIGTIL GO.,
I v/HiUfc"iU*M f Manufacturing Chemists,
\ 0^^^^^^^^^^ j Makers of the Celebrated
\ ^'°^°"'fsr;o'y WHARTON'S INKS
^^»^ -•'^ rot Eocords nnd founlajci Pens, al Xashville, Tenn.
SOUTHERN
EXPRESS
COMPANY.
Express Forwarders to All
Parts of the Country.
Operating on 31,000 Miles
of First-CIass Routes,
with 3.500 Offices
or Agencies.
The Southern Express Company
Sells Money Orders on All Points.
TH£ RATES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
Not. over $.'» .'» rentes
OverSS, not over $10. 8 cunta
"By Test Has Proven Best."
ELIXIR BABEK.
A jircvcntive aj^ainst Typhoid Fever aiui Positive Cure
for all Malarial Diseases, such as Chills, Fever, and .\tjuc,
Loss of Appetite, Biliousness and Dyspeptic Disorclers,
Headache, Pains in tlie P.ack, Side, or Limbs, etc.
Everybody Testifies to tlie
Merits of Elixir Babek.
OvcrS:^!. notovor$30 12 cents
\V.\SHiN<;ruN. D. C. Octnl.ct is. ha-o.
Hf-NTLEMEN: One year aco my IihIp iwo-ycar-old
daughlrrwas seriously ill (or nine weeks wilh ma-
laria. The anxiety Mas very ercat, as well as a
heavy Mil for a dctctur and medicine. This fall she
was acain attacked. 1 sent for a bottle of Klixir
Rahek, and I must say it has passed my most san-
£iiine expectations. She has eiuirely regained her
ncirmal condition, and has had no siens of a return
of the dread disease. Only one-half bottle was used.
Respectfully. A. D. Ha\"\VORTH,
59 K Street, N. E.
\\ ASHiNuniN, 1). C May K), ii>oo.
Il is with pleasure that I speak of the bencrtt I re-
ceived from the use of Bahek. After three years of
constant treatment with the best known remedies for
malaria, I was induced to try Bahek. By first tak-
ing a dose of calomel, the etTcct upon the disease was
most marked after using the first bottle; the second,
however, brought permanent and lasting relief. Four
years have passed, and I have not had a return of the
symptoms. I am able to report equally as good re-
sults in the case of two members of my family.
Thomas J. Jonks.
Over $4(1 not over $.50 18 cents
Over ¥«. not over im 2(1 cents
Over Jill), notover$7.'> 2.5 cents
OverfT.'). not over Sii»i 3(1 cents
Over $1110 at al»ive rntes.
Resurrection Plant.
A shrimkim, dry l>uU of closely iufoldeil Ickvcs
- apparently dead— opens into most beautiful
forms of platolike mo.ssy verdure ; will live for-
ever; can be resurrected at will. Sent post-
liaid, only Ilk;. Complete catjilojirue free.
EVERETT DAVIS MAIL ORDER CO..
■ Tlio tireatost American Mail Order House, "
Department 0, ST. LOUIS, MO.
Insist on cettine Babek. Beware of "something: just as good."
TIT aLL DRUUGISTS, 50c.
Prepared bv KloCYENSKI & Co.. Washington. D, C.
sivn Fok rrsriMOM \i <•
254
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Qo9federat(^ l/eterai),
CONFEDERATE
VETERANS
DAUGHTERS
SONS
We have put in st<x:k beautiful licadings
embossed in red, white, and blue, showing
the official flags of the above organizations.
By printing on the name of the local organ-
ization, witli tlie names of the othcers, a
ver)- attractive letter head is hail at a low
price. Send for samples and prices.
BRANDON PRINTING <SO.
NaSHVILLE, TEW.
Manufacturing Stationers,
Engravers, Printers, Litlio^raphers,
General Office Outfitters
^
(oi>
(jhe Union C^entrai
^m^i'fe tJn
nsurance
L/o.j
^CIr,aNNATI, O.
ASSETS JAN. I. 1902
SVR.PLV3
$}0.048,5?2.48
4.400.311.24
No Fluctuating Securities,
Largest R.a(e of Irkterest,
Lowest Death Ra.le,
Endowmervts at Life
Kates &.n<l Profit-Sha.ring
Policies Specia.lities.
Large and Increasing Dividends to Policy
Holders.
Desirable Contracts and Good Territory open
for Live Agents, Address
JAMES A. YOWELL, State Agent,
27 and 28 Chamber of Commerce, NASHVILLE, TENN.
£##
HEADQUARTERS FOR
EMBLEiVlS, PINS .' BUTTONS
FOR FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Nf W DLSIUN5 A MTLrALTV
Too AHI Sl'IIE TOBkVh M^'NKY 01 OnnniNa TIU'M
■*n. BAUMOAKTEN, SOO W. Baltlmon: it., Batllmora
Low Rates
Ea.sy
Payments
WORLDS
FAIR
ST.LOUIS.1904
BI^WORTH HOTEU.
The only pprmiuient brick hotel wllliin walkin(tilUtiinreof the World's Kiiir grounds. Bi'au-
lifiilly loriitL'il on the hij^lu'st point of land a'ijac^ent to the grounds, Kive niiniiles' walk from
llic north cntrnnre. Maj.'nilli'iut vinw. TranHportation facilities convenient to all points of
InlereBt in St. Louis. ,\ll modern corivcniiMices. Uoonis linlit, airy, nlean, and comfortable.
Pure llltercd water. Hatha. Kosident pliysicians. Dmi; store, etc., etn. Largo dining room,
where meals and lunches may bo ol>tainciI at the lowest possible cost. .Service the best.
All those desirinK to reserve entertainment at Hotel Epworth niav do so bv sending J2 for a
Ccrtillcate of Kntertainmcnt, which will insure tlie hoMer the low' rate of 11 per day for as
many days as desired. We advise our friends to apply at once, as the number of Certiflcatea
so issued will neecssarily be limited, and will bo aitvanred after April 30. Address
Epworth Hotel Co., St. Uouis, Mo.
VmGIJVIA.
EASTERN CITIES
BEST REACHED
VIA BRISTOL AND THE
Norfolk & Western
Solid vestibuled train Memphia and
Chattanoou'ii to Waahin(<tou. D C.
Sleeper Nioinphis to WK-shington, Bal-
timore. Philadelphia, and New York.
Also one troni New Orleans to same
points This train runs via Brbitol imd
Lynchburg The Short Line.
Dining Car ^er%)ice»
Sleeper Knoxville to New York, leav-
ing at 2:35 a.m., open for passengers
after 3:1X1 p.m. Runs via Bristol. Hagere-
town. and Harrisburg. The Shenandoah
Valley Route. Unsurpassed for beauti-
ful scenery.
All information cheerfully fumlshod.
D. C. BOYKIN,
Passenger Agent, Knoxvllle. Tenn.
WARREN L. ROHR..
Western Pass. Agt., Chattanooga. Tenn.
W. B. BEVILL,
General Passenger Agent, Roanoke, Va.
for hoaltli? Huvo yon licen BEATTN'O ABOt"T THE BI'SH. first trying one course and then an-
other. foUowinj; the load of others no wiser than thou, only to find that the game will not come
within your r;;npe?
TUK'PLACF, to HUNT FOR ral.l .its is where ral .hits ARE KXOTVN TO EXIST; the place to
TtrXT tor health is where HEALTH HAS BEKX KXoWX TO BE FOUXD!
It is l.eatiiia uji the woods where X<i (.il'AKIiY H'KKS to hunt for health in a liottle of alco-
li"l and sarsaparilla. or a jmekage of senna and straw ; it is only following the track and trail of
hundreds of disaiii>oinIe<l. tired, and foot.sore hunters. in:inv of whom have fallen hy the wnvside.
Let th.-ir experien.-e, AS WELL AS THE EXPEHIF.'XCE OP SUCCESSFrL HT'XTERS.
(Jril)E vol"! Those who have huntiKi for health AXD FOT-XD IT are comwtent to t(dl
WHKliE IT CAN BK Fc >UXD. Thousands of 8atisHe<l hvmters say tho RoAD LEADS TO VI-
T,Iv( >RE: that the hunter for health, searching amid its subtle curative, healing, and restorative
j.roiterties. will not ln^ disappointed.
If vou have heen Using ot tier tr<^atments without the results that were promised, and that von au-
ti.'ip'ated. THR( i\V THEll AWAY and hi'gin with tliis natural. medieiual ORE: It will not fail yi.ul
YOU ARE TO BE THE JUDGE!
SENT O/V 30 DAYS' TRIAL.
BY MAIL, POSTPAID.
READ OVR SPECIAL OFFER.
IV. W'WA, SK\D to every subscriber or render
W ho writes us. UieUtinniHi; tln't^'oNFFUKllATK
Vkteran. a lull-si7AMl Ono I>ollar jmikHi;© t)f Vitii'-
Ore, by nudl, postpaid, suftiiii-ut for one month's
treatment, to no paid for witliin one months time
after re''' -i pt.it therec(*ivercautriittitnllysay tliat
its use li.-is (I'Miehimor hermoretroofl f liau all the
drntrs and doju's of quacks or £r«><>ii dix-t^jrs or pat-
<Mit lU'-'li'lncs he or she li;is cvt-r n-^inl. Read this
ii\-('r uLrain carefully, nnd un'i'Tstnnd that we ask
"11 r jiay only ivhen \X hsiB done you irnod, and not Ite-
torr. \V.> t;"iko all tho risk. Y'Hi luivo iiothingr to
I'vr. It it does not licuotityou, ycm pay us iioth-
iiiLT. Vil.T'Orr isa natural, banl. adamant ine.roek-
like substance — mineral — Ore — mined from the
1^1-' Hind lik<> t;old and silver, and requires al>out
twenty years for oxidization. It contains fr<'e
It ■ •" • 'JY^0(^y^W^!QO6/V-'J.-<'J'''^W^^^^SS!^'i^SiS^ ir"ii, free sulplnir, .Tnil mMtrni'sinm, and ont' pnck-
'ii^y;'^^Jffiar^^ niT'' will equal in uiedi'inal stn-nudli and rural ive
' -JIi«<"0S«^D;>iJ™«Mrif7'-?A valiu' NHi trallonsof the m- >st p'"'werful. ettiea'ious
niin'-ral water drunk fresh at the spriutjs. It is a
t^eoloixiral discovery, to whieh iiothint>: is added
n\\>\ from whii-h nothing is taken. It is t he marvel
ot theccntnry for curinij smh diseasosas Rlipiiina-
tlsiiis nriftht'sPiscano, Biood rnlsonhii;. lb-art Tron-
Mf. Dropsy, 4'ntiirrh and Tliroiit Afleclions, IdTcr,
Kiihicy. aixl Blatlder Aihnenis, Stoniarh and F'onialp
lti<*or(l('rs, Tinfii'ippr, >lalarlal Fevpr, Nervous Fros-
trntlon, and t^onrral Drhilitj, as thousauils tA»stify.
and a-s no one, answering this, writintr tora jmck-
ai;e, will deny after nsinjj:. Yita'-Ore has curiHl
more chronic, obstinate. jirononnecMl in<Mirable
^^Z>^ cases than any other known medicine, aii'i will
T^. reach such cases with a more rai>id and jiowerful
curative aetion than any metliciuo, combination
of uKxlicines, or doctor's prescription which it is i)ossili].' to procure.
VI r.K*<>UK will do the siinie for you as it has for Inn id reds of readers of the Con'fedkrate Vkt-
KHAN if you will ^rive it a trial. Send for a $1 parkimo at our risk. Ycm have nothing to lose but
the stamp to answer this anno\inc(>ment. If the medieino docs not licnefit you, write us so, and
lliorris no harm done. We iiiiiii no one's nioiipy whom Vita'-Oro cannot licncflt'. (,'an anything bo
more fair? What sensible i>erson, no niatt<'r how ]>re.iudiced he or she may In-, who desiri's a
eiire and is williuffto pay for it, wonld liesitate to try Tila'-Ore on this liberal otYer? One pack-
age is usually sntMeient to euro ordinary eases: two or three for chronic, obstinato cases. We
mean just what wc s:i> in this annonu'-ement. and will do just what we atrree. Write to-day for
a package at our risk and exixMise, txiving your age and ailments, and mention the Confeder-
ATK Vt-rrKKAN SO that we may know that you are entitled to this liberal offer.
NOT A PENNY UNLESS BENEFITED.
'I'his offer will challoutic the atloution and consiiloralion. ami afUTwards llio
grali tilde, of every livuiij jiersoii wlio desires lietler.lieallh. or who suffers pains,
ills, and diseases uliieli have delied iho ineilical world and j;ri>wn worse witli aire.
We eare not for your sUe|itieisiii, Iml ask only your investitralion. and at ourex-
]ieiise. regardless of what ills yon have. l>y .sendiiiff to nsfora paekajjo. ADDKK.'sS
An Old War Veteran
Write
Afi\ Cured.**
Read What a, Tennessee Boy Who Wore the
Gray i Now of Texas) Tells of Vitae-Ore.
Cured after £lght Years of Suffering.
1 li!iv<' been in very poor henllh for oiglit
y«»rs' time, an<l, :ilthniiL;h I to«>k medicines
aad t reatnirnt.s dm initios enl ire pei'i ml. noth-
ing permed I" do inc any ^ood. l..ast .Jnly I
\*a9t;d<en down wiih a very had spell that i
thought was snrtly the hegmiiin^ of the end.
1 was .'iiek tn niy
stomach, and
ever v t !i i n g
si'cnjcrl to be fio-
i n LI around m e
at the rate of
nl'oiit sixty ndles
n minute. I voni-
iti'd ; a clammy
sweat brr.ke onl,
all over, and it
seamed as
thoMi;h I were
d}iiiu'. Wecftllrd
iii a good doctor,
who dia<:nosed
my case as Ver-
tJL'o. This spell
lasted for four
Imiirs. All of
tho doctor,'*'
metlieincs disa-
greed With me,
making me very
sick to my stomach, and in a week 1 hail an-
oilier Bpcjl worse than the tirst. Theteafter
these sjielKs came on me as olton ns two or
three times a week, and would last from ei-rht-
een to twenty-I'our hmns. prouintc more fre-
'jui'ut and of'longer duration as tinu' went on.
I saw the Vita'-f^lre advertisement and wrote
innnediately for a month's trial treninicnf . 1
I'omnicnccd improVinji tslow ly, but enouirh to
sliow me at tho cud of flie trial time tlial Vi-
tte-Ore was doing nie a preat atuonnt ot pond
and 1 pan! for the trial trcitnieiit and orth-red
more. 1 atn still n-iiiEt Vila'-dre, h:i\ ini; near-
ly finished the tluid )>ackage,andani constant-
ly mijirovnig. I miut pay 1 am cured of al-
tiiost all of mytroul'les.aiid UnnU thai I shall
very soon he entirely sound and «'eli, a most
remarkable thing al"mvai:e, whi<-h isnowsix-
tv-five. I I)olieve that Viio'-Ore has saved my
life, and I shall ever praise the Tlieo. Noe'l
Company and this wonderful remedv.
J. R. M.MlsliAT.L,
Farniorsville, Tex.
THEO. NOEL CO..
Veteran Dept.,
Vitae-Ore Bldg.,
Chicago
Refrigerators § Summer
00
"BEAX/TIFX/L
$6
Star Refrigerator
nrilE STAR REFRIGERATOR is tirst-class
-*• ill every respect. The linin>^s vi the ice ciiamber
aiui the provision chamlicr are of higlily polished
zinc. A strong Raised and Coukugated Ice
Rack j^ives perfect drainage. Your ice never
stands in a pool of water.
The Stau has a Be.mtii-ui. Hahdwood Finish,
antomatic catch, brass hinges, and brass lock with
Ice Ca^paLciiy
25 po\ji\ds
'^^ Tile drain pipe is easily :nu
([inckly removed for cleans- |
ing, and is so simple that a
child can easily understand
it.
As we have Init a few of
this special size in stock, we
have decided to offer tliis
6-20 Sta^r Refrigerator
at the splendid price of
$62^
HOW TO SEJVT) MOJWEy
Send money by express money order, post office
money order, or registered letter. Do not send
through ordinary mail.
No order will be considered unless accom-
panied by cash.
AlaskdL Ivef rigeraLtors
TlIK ]?EST RkFRIGEK,\TOK . AT .Vx".
PllItK.
OvKRIIEAP ClKilI..\iloN", patented and
possessed only bv the
Ala^skac
Saves one-third ice, antl makes
the refrigerator so absolutely
odorless that
You c&n keep butter, cheese, milk,
meat. (:ucuii\bers, ai\d onions
ill the provision chamber all at
one time without the slighte;~l
taint of one being communica-
ted to the other.
WRITE FOR. CATALOGUE
AND PRICES
Summer Goods
HammocKiT
Labvn Vasej:
Coolers
Fillers
Freezers
Ice Goods
Write for ceLl&.logue &.i\d
prices. We aLfe jjlad to quote,
even thoujth you stiould not
buy.
Phillips a Bvittorff
MFG. CO.
Hovise FvirrvisKers
NasKville, Tenn.
Vol. 13
NASHVII,I,B, T:ENN., JUNE, 1904
No. 6
QDpfederate l/eterap
LIEUTENANT GENERAL STEPHEN D. LEE
Acting Commander in Chief United Confederate Veterans
Qoijfedcrat^ l/eterai?.
ESTABUISI-IED 18-4-4.
-l>JCORPORA.XED IQOI.
J. M. ROBINSON, NORTON & CO.,
INCORPORATED,
LOUISVILLE, KEINTUOKV,
Cclebnitcd "Ticier" Clotliino and v'Sliirts.
JIGCI^'
*t
FACTORIES:
NEW ALBANY, IND.,
LOUISVILLE, KY.
SALESROOMS:
LOUISVILLE, KY.,
533 to 543 W. Main St., Cor. 6:h.
Our trade-mark stands for everything that is good, but especially for
STRENGTH, DURABILITY, AND SUPERIORITY.
If you like .:. .:. .:. .:. .:. .:. .:. .:.
WELL-MADE, GOOD - FITTING GARMENTS,
get a suit of clothing or one-half dozen of our shirts from your
local dealer.
We also call you" attention to our JOBBING BUSINESS, wliicli every Southern nieroliarit wlio has
tiealt Avith us knows is amonj:;st tiie oldest anil largest in the South, anil which includes:
Dry Goods, Notions, Hosiery, Fans,
Dress Goods, Fancy Goods, Underwear, Umbrellas,
White Goods, Men's Furnishings, Carpets, Parasols,
Linens, Ladies' Furnishings, Mattings, Upholstery,
Ladies' Cloaks, Skirts, and Shirt Waists.
We are always prepared to meet every want, keepings in touch witli all tlie inarkcts of the world, doinp^ our o^vn im-
porting an<l having our own representative abroad. You will find us thoroughly equipped to handle your business, and
we guarantee promptness and satisfaction in the execution of your orders.
We aie agents for a nuTnhcr of Southern faclorics, and can ship Sheetings, Plaid Cottons, Outings, etc., direct from
the mill in b;.le lots, freight paid, giving you very low prices. Write us for quotations.
We make no charge for boxes or drayage.
Qoi>federate l/eteraij.
259
AN INVESTMENT.
NO SPECULATION.
Marieepa "€il ^c,
ROOMS 524 and 525 STARR KING BUILDING,
San Francisco, Cal.
Orujaiii/cd ia Octolni-, i.;uo, and has a
propcrtv valiiallou of $17^,000. Forty
acres of valuable paUntcd laiul in the
Sunset District, and eight acres patented
land in same field not yet developed.
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ompanies.
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THIS JS THE HAT
wliicli will he worn at t'.,e reunion in N'asl.ville in June. We
have made special arrangements to furnish this style in all
jjraiUs. Prices, f\, fi.50, f^, and ;f3, quality guaranteed.
Mail orders rereive prouipt attention from any part of V . S. A.
Send stamps, post office Tiioncy order, or cashier's check.
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The Peimsylvania Hat Co. is also headquarters for Stetson
andOld Hickory Hats. (Genuine Pan.nnias and Straw Hats in
all gra<l<'s and priro.
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Under New^ Management,
Most central location in the cit\ . Two blocks
from the ITnion Station. Strictly first-class in every
particular. The table is our special feature. Hand
baggage transferred to and from the station free of
charge. Patronage respectfulh- solicited.
Kates: $.:, $2.50, and rooms with bath $3 per
(la\ . American Plan.
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Confederate l/eterap.
Official
Reunion Button.
This button, made of har.i
inctul, C'onfederati- gray
finish, iHMrs a fine likeness
of (Jen. John B. Gordon,
thi- thirlern st:irs, the olivr
branch of peace, an inverted
torch, and the letters U. C.
v., the words *'X;ishville,
unt," being- on a scroll.
ICiilire proceeds of sale of
these buttons goes to en-
tertain Confederate Veter-
ans,
Price, 50 Cents,
Visitors to the Reunion
,ytre in-Oiicd io call on
5^-B.H.Stief Jewelry C2. ^l^^
SPLENDID LINES OF
Diamonds, tOatches, Jete/elrj^,
^oxx-Venir Spoons, Trays.
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"A draught lit for the gods to quaff."
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Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Parasols, Fans, Etc.,
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Entered :it tlie post office at Nashville, Tenn., as second-class ni;ttter.
Cnntriltutcirs are ri-quested to use only one side of the paper, and toalihrevi*
ate as iiuich as prarticanlo. The shorter tlie arlicle the sooner published.
Don't send newsiiapers marked. Clip llie article and inclose it with letter.
'I'he date to a snl^seriptiim is alwa\s pi\en to the month tu/or,- it ends. I-'or
Instance, if the Vkti.:ka:j is ortlcri'd to In-gin with Januar\*, the date on mail
list will he Decemlier, and the suhscriber is entitled to that nnmher.
Advertising nites furnished on application. They are very low.
The r/i'// \\:\t was too long aijo to be called the A»/f war, ami when cor-
respondents use that term the wi.iTi^reat will be substituted.
OFFICIALLT REPRESENTS:
I'nitkd Confederate Veterans,
United Daughters ok the Confederacy,
Sons of Veter.\ns, and Other Organizations.
The Veteran is approved and indorsed ofliciallv bv a larger and more
elevated patronage, doubtless, than any other i>ublicatinn in existence. It is
faithful t<> tlie threat trust cmuinitted to it by tlie Southern people.
Tliouirh men deserve, they may not win success;
The brave will honor thel>rave, vanquished none tiie less.
Pkice, $1.00 PER Year. I.v<ii X"IT
Single Copt, 10 Cents, f * "''■ '^'^^•
NASHVILLE. TENN., JUNE. 1904.
Xir, R I S. A. CUNNINGHAM,
iiu. u. ^ Proprietor.
THE NASHVILLE REUNIOX.
The Reunion Committee sends the Southern Press the good
news that all arrangements are perfected for entertaining the
United Confederate Veterans at Nashville, June 14-16.
The Camps of Veterans, the Sons of Veterans, and the three
Chapters of the Daughters of the Confederacy are working in
liarmony with the business organizations of Nashville to fur-
nish an entertainment as nearly faultless as possible.
The fact that these conventions had become so expensive
to cities entertaining so deterred action that it was left for
Nashville to become host again sooner than was expected.
But the capital of the Volunteer State, aided by adjacent com-
munities, is ready. All of the people are in hearty accord,
and arrangements are such that this invitation, to Confederate
Veterans everywhere, is extended without misgiving in any
particular. Arrangements are far better than ever before for
Veterans to meet in their old commands — on the campus of
the Vanderbilt University.
The only variation from former rules of entertainment is
that of giving the "old soldiers" preference. This action will
be approved by every loyal, beautiful woman who comes to
do them honor. While sponsors and their maids of honor
will be entertained by their Department, Division, and Brigade
Commanders, provision is being made for many of them in tlie
homes of our best people, so the committee is confident of
as perfectly delightful reunion as has ever been held. The
orator of the occasion will be Dr. R. H. McKim, of Washing-
ton, D. C, who served in the Army of Northern Virginia, a
most loyal Confederate and a very eloquent speaker.
The Confederated Southern Memorial Association — that of
the "Mothers of the Confederacy" who never ceased their
labors after caring for the sick and wounded, but went right
on erecting monuments for the dead — will hold their annual
convention. The United Sons of Confederate Veterans will
also hold their annual convention, wnth promise of more active
service and zeal than ever before, hence the importance of
this reunion is second to none in the history of the organiza-
tion.
Reasons not heretofore appealing to the heroes of the Con-
federacy should bestir every Southern patriot. An impression
prevails that only a few more of these general reunions will
be held, and as this meeting will be the first since the death
of that magnetic and matchless man, the only Commander in
Chief while living, Gen. John B. Gordon, it will be fitting to
do his memory honor by the largest attendance possible.
-•\t this service Judge Thomas G. Jones, ex-Governor of Ala-
bama, has been selected to prepare resolutions in honoring
Gen. Gordon.
Don't let your bravest and best soldiers fail to come from
lack of means ; provide the small sum for their railroad fare,
and when they arrive we will feed them and provide them
lodging absolutely free of expense.
While first consideration is given the Veterans, as open-
hearted hospitality to all, as was ever given a worthy, patri-
otic people, will be extended.
It is earnestly requested and urged that all Camps report
promptly to Secretary L. R. Eastman the number of Veterans
for whom free entertainment is to be supplied.
Remember the dates — ^June 14-16. The low rate of one cent
per mile each way, plus 25 cents, with extension privilege of
several weeks upon the payment of 50 cents for the deposit
and care of ticket by the railroad agents, has been given.
Committee : M. B. Pilcher, President Frank Cheatham
Camp and Bivouac; Oliver J. Timothy, Merchant; S. A.
Cunningham, Editor of Confeder.vte Veter.\n ; Edgar M.
Foster, Manager of the Nashville Banner.
General Committee: Charles F. Frizzell, Chairman; L. R.
Eastman, Secretary.
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Qopfederati^ Ueterar;.
UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
The following is a list of Department, Division, and Bri-
gade Commanders, their Adjutant Generals and addresses (the
names of Adjutant Generals and Chief of Staff are given next
to their Commanders with rank) :
Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Lieutenant General Commanding, Co-
lumbus, Miss.; Maj. Gen. William E. Mickle, Adjutant Gen-
eral and Chief of Staff, New Orleans, La.
Army of Northern Virginia Department. — Lieut. Gen. C.
Irvine Walker, Commander, Greenville, S. C. ; Brig. Gen.
J. G. Holmes. Macon, Ga.
South Carolina Division. — Maj. Gen. Thomas W. Carwile,
Commander. Edgefield: Col. J. M. Jordan, Greenville; Brig.
Gen. Zimmerman Davis, Commanding First Brig., Charleston ;
Brig. Gen. B. H. Teague, Commanding Second Brig., Aiken.
North Carolina Division. — Maj. Gen. Julian S. Carr, Com-
mander, Durham, N. C. : Col. H. A. London, Pittsboro; Brig.
Gen. P. C. Carlton, First Brig., Statesville ; Brig. Gen. W. L.
London, Second Brig., Pittsboro; Brig. Gen. James L Mctts,
Third Brig., Wilmington; Brig. Gen. James M. Raj', Fourth
Brig., Asheville.
Virginia Division. — Maj. Gen. Theodore S. Garnett, Com-
mander. Norfolk, Va. ; Col. Joseph V. Bidgood, Richmond;
Brig. Gen. Stith Boiling, First Brig., Petersburg: Brig. Gen.
James Macgill, Second Brig., Pulaski ; Brig. Gen. R. D. Funk-
houser. Third Brig., Strasburg.
West Virginia Division. — Maj. Gen. Robert White, Com-
mander, Wheeling; Col. A. C. L. Gatewood, Linwood; Brig.
Gen. David E. Johnston, First Brig., Bluefield ; Brig. Gen.
S. S. Green, Second Brig., Charleston.
Maryland Division. — Maj. Gen. A. C. Trippe, Commander,
Baltimore, Md. ; Col. David S. Briscoe, Baltimore; Brig. Gen.
Oswald Tilghman, First Brig., Easton; Brig. Gen. John F.
Zacharias, Second Brig., Cumberland.
Army of Tennessee Department. — Maj. Gen. Clement A.
Evans, Commander, Atlanta, Ga. ; Brig. Gen. E. T. Sykes,
Columbus, Miss.
Louisiana Division. — Maj. Gen. O. A. Bullion, Commander,
Hope Villa, La. ; Col. A. B. Booth, New Orleans.
Tennessee Division. — Maj. Gen. George W. Gordon, Com-
mander, Memphis, Tenn. ; Col. John P. Hickman, Nashville :
Brig. Gen. J. F. Home, First Brig., Knoxville; Brig. Gen.
John M. Taylor, Second Brig., Lexington ; Brig. Gen. Chy
Stacker, Third Brig., Clarksville.
Florida Division. — Maj. Gen. W. D. Ballentinc, Commander,
Fernandina, Fla. ; Col. Fred L. Robertson, Tallahassee; Brig.
Gen. W. L. Wil'.ich, First Brig., Pensacola ; Brig. Gen. F. P.
Fleming, Second Brig., Jacksonville ; Brig. Gen. W. H.
Jewell, Third Brig., Orlando.
Alabama Division. — Maj. Gen. George P. Harrison, Com-
mander, Opelika, Ala.; Col. Harvey E. Jones, Montgomery;
Brig. Gen. John W. A. Sanford, First Brig., Montgomery;
Brig. Gen. Pinckney D. Bowles, Second Brig., Evergreen ;
Brig. Gen. J. N. Thompson, Third Brig., Tuscumbia; Brig.
Gen. J. W. Bush, Fourth Brig., Birmingham.
Mississippi Division. — Maj. Gen. Robert Lowry, Command-
er, Jackson, Miss.; Col. J. L. McCaskill, Brandon; Brig. Gen.
John A. Webb, First Brig., Jackson ; Brig. Gen. Robert E.
Houston, Second Brig., Aberdeen.
Georgia Division. — Maj. Gen. P. A. S. McGlashan, Com-
mander, Savannah, Ga. ; Col. William M. Crumley, Atlanta ;
Brig. Gen. J. L. Sweat, S. Ga. Brig., Waycross; Brig. Gen.
C. M. Wiley, E. Ga. Brig., Macon : Brig. Gen. A. J. West,
N. Ga. Brig., Atlanta ; Brig. Gen. Charles McWhcatley, W.
Ga. Brig., Americus.
Kentucky Division. — Maj. Gen. Bennett H. Young, Com-
mander, Louisville, Ky. ; Col. W. A. Milton, Louisville ; Brig.
Gen. James R. Rogers, First Brig., Cane Ridge; Brig. Gen.
J. B. Briggs, Second Brig., Russellvillc; Brig. Gen. D. Thorn-
ton, Third Brig., Louisville; Brig. Gen. N. M. Marks, Fourth
Brig., \'ersailles.
ANCESTRY OF THE CHIEF SPONSOR.
Miss Corinne Tebault, of New Orleans, the sponsor of the
South, is a charming and vivacious blonde with queenly car-
riage and exquisitely graceful. She is descended from the
Huguenots and Puritans, and both families have furnished
soldiers and statesmen to the nation as well as to the Con-
federate Slates. Thus she possesses the vivacity of the French,
mingled with the stability of purpose and accuracy of judg-
ment of the English ; she is therefore a representative Amer-
ican of the noblest type. Miss Tebault is an acknowledged
belle, and has been honored frequently as sponsor and maid
of honor by department and division commanders on previous
occasions by both the United Confederate Veterans and the
Sons of Veterans.
MISS CORINNE TEBAULT.
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Miss Tebault's ancestors have distinguished records in the
armies of France, in our own Revolutionary War, in the settle-
ment of America, in our Indian wars, and in the Confederate
army, and in the late war with Spain her brother, Dr. Hamil-
ton Tebault, organized under Gen. Wood the officers' hospital
at Santiago, and was its commanding medical officer. Her
ancestors and immediate family have participated in six wars
— the French army, our Revolutionary War, Indian wars.
War of 1812, Confederate War, and War with Spain.
Miss Tebault is the daughter of Dr. C. H. Tebault, Surgeon
General of the United Confederate Veterans, who served on
Gen. Gordon's staff and is now serving on Gen. Lee's staff,
with the rank of brigadier general. He was surgeon in the
Army of Tennessee throughout the entire war, was surgeon
of the Twenty-First Louisiana Regiment, and later of the
Tenth South Carolina, Manigault's Regiment. Since the war
Dr. Tebault has filled many responsible positions in the State
of Louisiana. He shouldered a musket in defense of the
people's rights on the celebrated 14th of September, which
emancipated Louisiana; and was also one of the committee
which secured pensions to the old veterans in the Constitu-
tional Convention of 1898, of which he was a member for
the parish of Orleans.
Miss Tebault's paternal ancestor, Baron Tebault, was gen-
eral in chief of the French army just before Napoleon's time.
Her paternal great-grandfather, Christopher Hall, of Norfolk,
Va., was in the Revolutionary War, and was a warm friend
of Gen. Lafayette, who was entertained by him when he vis-
ited America. The next year the Hon. Christopher Hall made
a tour of Europe, in 1826, and was entertained by Gen. Lafa-
yette at his favorite chateau, "La Grange," in France. Her
maternal revolutionary ancestor was Gov. William Bradford,
the first Governor of Massachusetts. Her maternal great-
grandfather, the Hon. Seaton Grantland, represented Georgia
in the Legislature and in Congress. He founded the first
newspaper in Middle Georgia, the Soiillicnt Recorder, and
was also one of the founders of the Whig Party in Georgia
and one of the wealthiest men in that State. Her maternal
grandfather, the Hon. D. J. Bailey, of Griffin, Ga., was colonel
of the Thirtieth Georgia Regiment in the Army of Tennessee,
and he also served throughout the Indian war with the Semi-
nolcs and Creeks, being promoted to a captaincy. Col. Bailey
served the State of Georgia as Speaker of the House of Rep-
resentatives and as President of the Senate, and for several
terms in the United States Congress. Col. Bailey and his
father-in-law, the Hon. Seaton Grantland, were both in Con-
gress, at the same time, one a Whig and the other a Democrat.
RtslllENlE OF GEN. STEl'Ht.N ll. l.hh, i_iJL I .MliL ,-. .MISS.
TENNESSEE'S PART IN THE CONFEDERACY.
BV MRS. JOHN P. HICKMAN, SECRETARY U. D. C.
Mrs. William Hume, of Nashville, historian for the Ten-
nessee Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, gives
a succinct statistical history of what Tennessee did during the
\\'ar between the States, what she has done since, and is now
doing. The facts have been divided under separate heads, so
that they may be readily understood.
Battles Fought in Tennessee.
There were fought upon the soil of Tennessee three hun-
dred and twenty-two battles and skirmishes, in each of which
men were killed, wounded, or made prisoners. The more con-
spicuous of them were :
In 1862— Fort Donelson, February 14-16 ; Shiloh, April 6, 7 ;
Murfreesboro, July 13; Hartsville, December 7; Parker's
Cross Roads, December 30; Murfreesboro, December 31-Jan-
uary 2. 1863.
In 1863 — Thompson's Station, March 4, 5; Hoover's Gap,
June 24; Missionary Ridge, November 23-25; Knoxville, No-
vember 29.
In 1864— Fort Pillow. April 12; Memphis, August 21;
Franklin, November 30; Nashville, December 15, 16.
Independent of these, a part of the battle of Chickamauga
was fought on Tennessee soil. September 19, 20, 1863. In this
battle more men were killed and wounded, for the forces en-
gaged, than in any battle of the war. The Confederates lost
17,804; the Federals, 15,851. The Confederate losses were the
greater, as they were the attacking party; however, it was a
great Confederate victory.
Confederate Generals from Tennessee.
Lieutenant Generals: N. B. Forrest and Alex P. Stewart.
Major Generals: William B. Bate, B. F. Cheatham, B. R.
Johnson, J. P. McCown, John C. Brown, Daniel S. Donelson,
W. Y. C. Humes, Cadmus M. Wilcox.
Brigadier Generals: John Adams, F. C. Armstrong, Alex
W. Campbell, J. C. Carter, George W. Dibrell, Robert Hat-
ton, W. H. Jackson, S. R. Anderson, Tyree H. Bell, William
H. Carroll, H. B. Davidson, George W. Gordon, Ben J. Hill,
A. E, Jackson, George Mancy, James A. McMurray, G. J.
Pillow, James E. Raines, Tom B. Smith, James Starnes, A. J,
Vaughn, F. M. Walker, William McComb, J. B. Palmer, W.
A. Quarles, Preston Smith, O. F. Strahl, R. C. Tyler, John
C. Vaughn, M. J. Wright, F. K. ZollicofFer.
This gives two lieutenant generals, eight major generals, and
thirty-one brigadier generals.
Independent of this. R. C. Foster III., W. R. Caswell, John
L. T. Snced, and C. W. Frazier were appointed by Gov. Har-
ris as brigadier generals of the Provisional Army of Ten-
nessee, and greatly assisted in the organization and equipment
of our army.
Tennessee furnished the following commands to the Con-
federate army:
Eighty-four regiments and five battalions of infantry, twen-
ty-two regiments and seventeen battalions of cavalry, twenty
batteries of artillery and four partisan companies.
By the rules of estimates these would make approximately
113.COO soldiers, out of a total of 600.000 soldiers in the Con-
federate army.
Tennessee also furnished to the Federal army 31,092 white
soldiers, making a total of 144,092 soldiers, out of a white
population, in i860, of 739.867.
The Tennessee Confederate Dead.
The Confederate dead buried in Tennessee aggregate 11,782
There are at Shiloh 1.728; Knoxville, 1,600; Nashville, 1,492:
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Franklin, 1,484; Murfrcesboro, 1,34°; Memphis, 1,095; Chat-
tanooga, 905; Shelbyville, 600; Fort Donelson, 464; Tulla-
homa, 400; Jackson, 225; Clarksville. 128; Columbia, 123;
Lebanon, 75 ; Gallatin, 73 ; Union City, 41 ; Lewisburg, 9.
Of course there are a number of others in private grave-
yards, and many in unknown graves. These dead have been
gathered together, and their graves looked after, by the women
of Tennessee.
Confederate Monuments in Tennessee.
In recognition of the bravery, endurance, self-sacrifice, and
devotion of the Confederate soldier, seventeen monuments have
been erected and four contracted for at the following places
in Tennessee: Bolivar, Clarksville, Covington, Gallatin, Kno.K-
ville, Memphis, Lewisburg, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Chatta-
nooga, Columbia, Franklin, Jackson, Lebanon, Memphis (N.
B. Forrest, contracted for), McMinnville (contracted fori,
Nashville (Frank Cheatham Bivouac, contracted for), Paris.
Shelbyville, Shiloh (contracted for), and Union City.
In 1870 the Confederate women of Nashville organized a
Memorial Association. They elected Mrs. Felicia Grundy
Porter President, Mrs. E. W. Hickman Secretary, and Mrs.
Evans Treasurer. They bought a beautiful circle in Mount
Olivet Cemetery, paying $1,500 therefor. Gen. William B. Bate
making the last payment of $300 thereon. In this circle they
buried all of the Confederate soldiers found in the vicinity of
Nashville at a cost of $4,300.
In 1887 the Confederate men and women of Nashville or-
ganized a Confederate Monumental Association, which was
chartered by the State on May 9, 1887. Under this organiza-
tion Col. John Overton was elected President, John P. Hick-
man Secretary, and Maj. M. A. Spurr Treasurer. The Con-
federate women immediately began an active canvass, and
raised in Nashville and Davidson County exclusively $11,700.
On May 16, 1889, the Association unveiled this handsome
monument ]t is erected in the center of the circle at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery— over the graves of 1,492 Confederate sol-
diers, and cost $10,500.
The Association now holds in trust, under its charter, $1,-
200, the interest on which is to keep the circle and monument
in repair.
Confederate Organizations.
There are in Tennessee the following Confederate organi-
zations, whose duties are to keep fresh the memory of our
sainted dead, 10 revere the altars of the old South, to care for
our indigent, maimed, and decrepit soldiers and their fam-
ilies, and to teach the world the history of a people who went
to war for liberty, and not for pelf: 86 Camps of United Con-
federate Veterans ; 40 Bivouacs of Confederate soldiers, most
of which arc also Camps; 46 Chapters of United Daughters of
the Confederacy ; 36 Camps of United Sons of Confederate
Veterans.
The great organization of United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy was effected in Nashville, and Mrs. John P. Hickman, of
Nashville, has been the Recording Secretary from the begin-
ning. Two of the Presidents of the body are Mrs. M. C. Good-
lett and Mrs. John C. Brown, widow of the gallant major
general and Governor of the State.
It is fitting that Confederates the world over be welcomed
to Tennessee. One of her leading citizens said, when it was
proposed to have the second reunion here: "Nashville will
never go back on the old Confederates."
Davis has written to Mrs. J. A. Rounsaville, e.\-President of
the Georgia Division, United Daughters of the Confederac>-,
returning a gift of $160 made her by Georgians. The letter
returning the money says in part : "Inclosed please find check
sent to me from .\tlanta by the gentlemen in whose charge the
money contributed for my use by generous citizens of Georgia
had been placed. As I could not return it to the donors, being
unable to find them, and as I prefer not to accept gratuities
from any source, I know of no better way to dispose of it
than by sending it to the Winnie Davis .\nncx to the Georgia
Female College, at Athens, where I hope some relations of the
donors of the sum may be benefited by it." The money will
be used by the Georgia Daughters of the Confederacy in the
furtherance of their work.
DECORATION DAY AT CAMP CHASE.
The R. E. Lee Chapter, United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy of Columbus, Ohio, through a committee comprised of
Mesdamcs W. B. Van Horn, Charles Baron, and Mary C.
Nicholson, and the President, Mrs. Florence Tucker Winder,
sends this announcement :
"Again the time approaches to decorate the graves of our
Confederate dead who sleep at Camp Chase Cemetery, and the
L'nited Daughters of the Confederacy of the R. E. Lee Chap-
ter, as well as the local Camp of United Confederate Veterans,
hold themselves ready to perform the tender office of placing
your flowers upon those sacred mounds ; and the second Sat-
urday in June, being the eleventh, is set aside as the date for
these ceremonies. .-Ml contributions of flowers, or money with
which to purchase tliem or help defray expenses, will be grate-
fully received.
"Kindly send all flowers to the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, Room 4, Eberly Block, Columbus, Ohio, and all
money to Miss Louise Trabue, Treasurer of R. E. Lee Chap-
ter, U. D. C, Camp Chase, Ohio."
Mrs. John H. (Florence Tucker) Winder, President, never
goes about anything half-heartedly, and her friends at the
South will realize liow gratified she will be by hearty, un-
stinted response to this appeal.
Mrs. Davis Declines Gift.— A special to the New York
Times from Savannah, Ga., May 21, says 'hat Mrs. Jefferson
MISS ELIZABETH THOMAS,
Tennessee's Maid of Honor, Nashville reunion.
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Bvery Confederate veteran at the Nashville reunion is requested to go to
the Vanderbilt University Campus June 15 at 4 P.M. This is for veterans only.
Let every Confederate be present, regardless of all other engagements.
I
GEN, \V. L. CAllEIJ, {' ilA^ TU.E ),
Second in Commam! of the United Confederate Veter.ins.
THE REUNION OFFICI.-IL SOUJ'EXIR BUTTON.
The design of the official souvenir button of the Nashville '
reunion is here given. It is adorned with the beloved features
of the late Coinuiamler in Chief of the U. C. V., Gen. John B.
Gordon, and will be a valuable souvenir of the fourteenth an-
nual convention of the organization. This
lull Ion is sold for the purpose of creating
n fund with which to care for the indigent
veterans who may attend the reunion.
.\ Nashville hardware man, who attend-
ed the recent meeting of the National
Hardware Association in Atlanta, Ga.,
w.is supplied by Mr. Lewis Eastman, the
• fticient Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, with a nice
' t of the souvenir buttons to sell while there. Mr. Irby Ben-
nett. General Manager of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co.,
<'l New Haven, Conn., appreciating the opportunity to provide
the manufacturers with a beautiful souvenir of the South, took
the entire supply. Mr. Bcnndt is a son of the late Capt.
M. T. Bennett, of Lebanon. Tenn., who was a worthy Con-
frderatc comrade. Tl.e \'eter.\n takes occasion in thanking
in to note that the Winchester Company makes the most ex-
tensive line of rifles and annnunilion in the world.
This souvenir button was designed by the Stief Jewelry Com-
pany, of Naslivillc, where it is for sale, as well as at other
I'laces in the city. Price. 50 cents. Send for one or get it
when you come to the reunion.
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VANOtp^aT AVENUE
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HEADQUARTERS OF THE VETERAN.
The office of the Confederate Veteran is at the northeast
corner of the Public Square, Nashville (Southern Methodist
Publishing House), and will be kept open during the -reunion.
On June 13. 14, 15, and 16 the headquarters will be in Ward
Seminary, Spruce Street, the registration headquarters for all
the veterans, and Mr. Cunningham will be at the latter place.
The special attention of patrons is called to the advertise-
ments in this Reunion Number of the Veteran. Many of
these are local, and extend cordial invitations to veterans to
call while in the city ; others offer articles and goods that are
well worth looking at, and many of which would be valuable
souvenirs of the visit to Nashville.
CoNFEDER.VTEn SOUTHERN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.
The Confederated Southern Memorial Association will hold
its fifth annual convention in the city of Nashville, Tenn., on
June 14-16. 1904. The opening feature of the convention will
be the Jefferson Davis memorial service, to be held in Christ
Church, Broad Street, Tuesday morning. June 14. at 10:30.
Address by Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, Bishop of Tennessee.
The convention will be held in the First Presbyterian Church,
on Church Street, near the Maxwell House. Business sessions
will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, June 15-16, com-
mencing at 10 A.M.
Delegates are requested to wear their local association badge
for identification, and to report promptly at Q a.m. Tuesday
morning, June !4, to the Chairman of the Credential Com-
mittee. Official headquarters of the Confederated Southern
Memorial Association will be at the Maxwell House.
Mrs. W. J. Behan. President;
Mrs. Geo. A. Williams, Cor. Sec.
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Qopfederate l/etcrap.
Qopfederate l/cterap.
S. A CUNNINGHAM. KdUor :md Proprietor.
OfBce: Metbodist Publishing House Buililinfr^ NiibhviUc, Tenn.
Thib piililiralinn Is thr p*TMin;il property of S. A. Cunninjjham. All per-
sons whr appr'>\e its princtpU-s and realir-v its beiiffits as an ortr;tn for Ass*»-
ciations throuf^lioul Ihc South are requested to commend its patronai^e and lo
cooperate in exli'nding its circulation, l^/d each one be const^intly diligent.
riFO REi\iOX EDITIOSS—THE CAUSE.
While this issue of the Veteran contains much that is in-
teresting and valuable, the editor is much disappointed in his
failure to include much more that was promised and is ex-
pected, and an explanatory statement is given.
In compliment to Nashville, whose citizens arc active and
zealous for the entertainment of coming guests, the United
Confederate \'cierans and thousands of others, it was in-
tended 10 pay tribute to the home people in the history of
the battle of Xashvillc, including heroism and patriotism of
many yet living. An elaborate supply of engravings was pro-
cured and invitation extended to all the people on both sides
during the sixties to contribute. Worthy interest was mani-
fested, but some of the parties were so tardy in reporting that
many pages were made up of other matter, and then the ad-
vertising increased as it never did before, so that the space in-
tended for reminiscences of Nashville was minimized beyond
expectation.
Another cause of this embarrassment comes in the editor's be-
ing obliged to attend court as plaintiff and witness daily just
when his services in the office and in reunion work are most
needed. This fact will explain to many friends who have re-
quested personal attention to the procurement of homes, etc.,
for the reunion time — persons to whom the editor is so in-
debted that nothing but the impossible would have deterred
him from serving them. (This suit is resultant to the un-
happy libel prosecution of the Veter.^n, which was ended in
favor of the \'eter.\n and is out of court, a judgment having
been given the editor against the plaintiff for costs of the ap-
peal advanced by the defendant. The Underwood suit now in
the courts of New York is in part against the trustees of
the Confederate Memorial Association and the estate of the
late C. B. Rouss in an effort to collect the 25 per cent addi-
tional to salary, etc., on a contract signed by the late W. D.
Qlipley as President of the Board. In that case the plaintiff
demands $25,000 of the $100,000 subscribed by Mr. Rouss.)
The Veteran for July will be devoted to the reunion and
the supplemental data in regard to the battles in the vicinity
of Nashville. Those who would contribute to that feature are
requested to respond as promptly as possible.
Since writing the foregoing it has been decided to omit a
sketch of the Tennessee campaign, lo and including Franklin.
for which elaborate and beautiful engravings are prepared and
which was intended as the leading article. Now let all .who
can send data of what occurred in and near Nashville in that
crucial period report as soon as practicable.
Additional reports on the battle of Nashville may be ex-
pected for free distributions at the reunion and to appear in
the July issue.
Friends who want lo help honor that universally beloved
man of the South, Maj. Charles II. Smith (Bill Arp), arc
asked to help in that cause when at the reunion.
The Sam Davis monument movement appeals constantly to
every person who honors highest heroism. The site for the
monument may be seen on entering the Capitol grounds from
the southwest corner.
KASHIILLE'S INVITATION FOR THE REUXIOX.
Occasional complaint comes in regard to the change of
custom inaugurated heretofore of entertaining guests other
than veterans at this 1904 Reunion of United Confederate
X'eterans. From an important source is the statement of
gratitude that such did not emanate from the State of the
author, who is an important official. Disappointment in this
change has been manifested by others from different sections
of the South; so, in justice to Nashville, a brief statement of
facts is here given.
It was generally understood at New Orleans last year that
one of our most patriotic cities near the sea would ask to en-
tertain the reunion this year, and there was no competition.
MAJ. JOHN W. THC.MAS.
In the eleventh hour it was understood that the city referred
lo decided that the undertaking was loo great for its ca-
pacity, and. although as patriotic as the best of us, it was
thought best not to extend the invitation.
Then it was that the suggx;stion of invitations from both
I.miisville and Nashville be extended, that a selection of place
be deferred and left to the Executive Committee to meet at
a later period. It was fondly hoped that some other city
would apply, but there was no action taken anywhere. A
week or so before the date for the committee to meet, Gen.
Bennett H. Young, of Louisville (Commander of the Ken-
tucky Division), wrote the editor of the Veteran that he
hoped Nashville would come to the rescue, as Louisville had
other obligations in hand and would not be prepared to ex-
tend the invitation. The writer had already brought the mat-
ter before the Frank Cheatham Camp, and but one member
(Colonel Hickman) had indicated a willingness to undertake
the entertainment.
I'pon receipt of Col. Young's letter, the editor of the
Veteran called upon Maj. J. W. Thomas, who, as President
of the Nashville, Chattanooga, & St. Louis Railway, has been
more helpful to the Confederate Veterans since the U. C. V.
was organizid th:ni has any other niaii. .\fter explanation of
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the situation, he suggested bringing the matter before our
business organizations, which was clone before a joint com-
mittee of the Retail Merchants' Association and Chamber of
Commerce. This group of business men were informed of
the conditions, and upon being told that to entertain the vet-
erans who were not able to pay their way would be the specific
favor asked, with one accord the response was: "Do you
bring them here, and we will take care of them." This com-
mittee comprised bank presidents and other leading representa-
tive business men. Encouraged by this inessage, he returned to
Maj, Thomas, and in response to the explanation, he said: "I
ADVISE VOU TO INVITE THEM. NaSHVILI.E WILL NEVER GO BACK
ON THE OLD CONFEDERATES." Hc also Said: "It would be a black
^ye to the South for nobody to invite them."
These few words were enough. No man's word would stand
for more. Thorough explanation was made to the U. C. V.
Executive Committee at the meeting in Louisville, and the in-
vitation was accepted.
.■\t once our Confederates fell in line, every man of them.
The business organizations responded in the spirit of the
pledge by the committee referred to. Young men and older
ones of all classes and associations joined in. and four times
as much money was raised as was stated necessary in the out-
set, and the reunion, under Providence, is bound to succeed.
All honor to the people of Nashville! The General Reunion
Committee have worked assiduously, keeping in mind the mag-
nitude of its responsibility and watching closely every item of
expense. While conforming to the counsel of our late beloved
Commander, Gen, J. B. Gordon, and also of Lieut. Gen. S, D.
Lee, as to the proper economies, the expense still is very large ;
but, in the Nashville business man's way, expenses will be
kept within the limit of contributions, and there will be no
embairassment when the reunion is over concerning the lia-
bilities incurred. No reference should ever be made to this
matter without giving liberal credit to the friends in iNIiddle
Tennessee counlics, who have contributed liberally in pro-
visions or monev.
Convention L'. S. C. V. at Nashville. — Joseph E. Johnsion
Camp, U. S, C. V., at Nashville, is making all necessary ar-
rangements for the coming convention of the Sons of Veterans
during the reunion. The convention will be held at Watkins
Hall, corner Church and High Streets, the first meeting being
on Tuesday, June 14, 3 p.m. The social and business head-
quarters will be in the rooms of the Retail Merchants' Asso-
ciation, 407!/! Union Street. The Commander in Chief and his
staff will have headquarters at the Maxwell House.
On Wednesday afternoon, June 15, the Sons of Veterans will
attend the laying of the corner stone of the monument to the
Confederate private soldiers at Centennial Park. On Wednes-
day evening there will be a grand ball and reception at the
State Capitol in honor of the sponsors, maids of honor, and
Sons of Veterans. On Thursday the Sons of Veterans will
lake part in the reunion parade, forming their line on North
High Street, near Church. As to accommodation and any
other details, visitors may address the Commandant of the
Camp, John H. DeWitt, 51 Cole Building. Nashville, Temi.
The Sons of \'eterans will conform, as far as possible, to the
arrangements made by the General Reunion Committee, which
have been previously announced.
Commander U. S. C. V. at Nashville.
The Vanderbilt University Quarterly says of Mr, John H.
DeWitt, who is active in the work of Sons of Veterans and
for the reunion :
JOHN H. HEWITT.
"John H, DeWitt, B.A., LL.B. (Columbian University),
taught school for three years : at Lawrenceburg, Tenn., in
1894-95 ; at Mrs.
Clark's School
for Young
Ladies, Nash-
ville, 1895-96; at
Washington
College for
Young Ladies,
Washington, D,
C, in 1896-97.
While holding
the latter posi-
tion, and hav-
ing previously
studied law pri-
vately, he took
the senior
course in the
Columbian L'ni-
versity Law
School, gradu-
ating in 1897.
"He was ad-
mitted to the
Nashville bar in
June, 1897, and
has practiced law at Nashville continuously since that time.
In October, 1899, he was elected to the City Council for the
term of two years, and was Chairman of the Finance Com-
mittee. He has been active in many public enterprises, was
attorney for the Tennessee State Anti-Saloon League in 1902-
03, was the author of the famous law which extends to newly
incorporated towns with a population not over 5,000 the pro-
visions of the "four-mile law,' prohibiting saloons within four
miles of a church or schoolhouse, and was also one of the
framers of the amended city charter of Nashville adopted in
1899. He is now editor of The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta.
"He was married on November 4, 1899, to Miss Rebecca
Ward, of Nashville, and has one child, a son. Ward DeWitt,
"Present address, 51 Cole Building, Nashville, Tenn."
Mr, DeWitt's father was the eminent Chaplain M. B. De-
Witt, of the Eighth Tennessee Infantry, but widely known and
beloved in the Army of Tennessee. Mr, DeWitt is the Com-
mandant of Joseph E. Johnston Camp, No. 28, U, S. C. V.,
Nashville, which is very prosperous.
In behalf of the local Sons of \'eterans Mr. De\\"itt will
make an address of welcome at the opening exercises of the
X'cterans on June 14.
ii/ovr.i/£.vr TO ge.x. r. e. lee is Memphis.
Emory Holmes writes of Gen. Snowden and his $5,000 offer
toward a $25,000 monument at Memphis:
"Robert Bogardus Snowden, of Memphis, one of the richest
men in Tennessee, the only man in the Western Army of the
Confederacy who W'as ever promoted for conspicuous bravery
in action from a staff position to a higher rank in the line, has
made the generous offer of a cash donation of $5,000 for a
monument to Gen. R. E. Lee, to be erected in Memphis, pro-
vided that $20,000 lie added to that sum. This proposition
was made in a letter from him to the Park Commissioners of
Memphis.
"Gen. Snowden was born in New York City, descending from
the old Dutch stock, which first occupied Manhattan Island.
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He is in direct line from Everardus Bogardus, the most con-
spicuous of the sturdy Dutch settlers first to establish what
is now New York City. That slock of Dutch people, strong
but gentle, able yet not arrogant, is so closely resembled three
centuries later by Gen. Lee that it is but natural that those who
came of that rich Dutch blood should have a special admiration
for the idol of the South. While Gen. Snowden was born in
New York City.ljle wasirrfired k 'Nashville, »here Ills parents
moved when he was but three months of age. Gr'owing up
among the generation which had learned patriotism and brav-
ery from such models as Jackson, Sevier, Robertson, Carroll,
Coffee, and Bledsoe, and having received martial training at
the Western Military Institute, of Kcntuckj', he joined the First
Tennessee Regiment and began a brilliant military course .is
adjutant, with rank of first lieutenant, under Col. (later Gen.)
George Mancy. With this command he served during the first
year of the war in Western Virginia with Lee and Jackson, at
Cheat Mountain, Sewell, Bath. Hancock, and other important
engagements in that section during the early days of the Con-
federacy. During the next two years he served in the West.
"When Shiloh's ground was about to be bathed in the world's
most heroic blood, Lieut. Snowden was promoted to adjutant
general of Bushrod Johnson's command, and served in that ca-
pacity with conspicuous efficiency at Shiloh and Perryville,
but it was at Murfreesboro, on the last day of 1862, where
Capt. Snowden showed that no staff position, however much
the preparation of an army to fight depended upon it, could
prevent his also being a factor in the consummation of those
plans. The battle raged to and fro, many strong men had
gone down, when a regiment at a critical time and point fal-
tered. Fate hung in the balance. Capt. Snowden saw the sit-
uation, and for him to see was to act. Dashing among the
wavering men, his presence restored confidence, and at the
head of the regiment many of them marched to death as gayly
as to a festival. For this conspicuous act of bravery in action
Capt. Snowden received the distinction of being the only officer
in the Western Army promoted from the staff to a higher
position in the line. He was made lieutenant colonel of the
Twenty-Fifth Tennessee, and served this command after hav-
ing had a brigade under him.
"Col. Snowden was in many bloody actions of the Army of
Tennessee during the second and third years of the war, and
was again directly under Gen. Lee during the last year. Thrice
he was wounded — once at Perryville. again at Murfreesboro,
and then in front of Richmond ; twice also was his mount shot
under him. When the black curtain fell at Appomattox he es-
caped with President Davis. At Augusta, Ga., wlicn the end
came, he surrendered to Gen. Wilson.
■'Col. Snowden was Cominander in Chief of the Interstate
Drill at Memphis in 1895, with rank of major general.
"In a talk with Gen. Snowden of his fine gift of $5,000, he
said : 'We ought to have a monument in Memphis to Gen.
Lee. Memphis is a great city, and is destined to be a far
greater one. The youth from a large and populous territory
come here. Will any one of these future rulers of the repub-
lic not be a better man if he shall have looked upon a noble
statue to this great man and studied his character? Gen. Lee's
private character was as pure and spotless as his public life
was heroic and brilliant. He loved his country and could have
had the highest command in her great armies; but he loved his
native State more, and cast his fortunes with Virginia. His
task was difficult, but he made soldiers out of raw recruits in
a short time. /Vt first there was the natural amount of jealousy
and harsh criticism of him. but he showed no resentinent. He
knew that his cause was right, that all right-thinking men
must come to him, and that the right must prevail over the
wrong. We who served under him soon learned his military
capacity and his high sense of honor, justice, and right. The
enemy also soon learned the force of his genius. Now the
students of war from all nations realize the same that we
know. In the great upheavals of civilization, men of military
genius have from time to lime risen high. Some of them may
have equaled, but none, all conditions considered, surpassed
him, and where in all history is there any life to compare with
the beauty, the modesty, and the simplicity of his after the
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close of the war? It was in the phases of his life shown in
peace that he proved himself higher in the scale of traits we
all admire than any other man of whom we have read. In
the even poise and perfect balance of his whole life he reminds
me more of William of Orange than any other historical char-
acter. My proposition 10 donate $5,000 for a monument has
l)een received with great favor. Since I made it, recently
five men, of their own accord, have volunteered to give $500
each. I do not think that there would be any difficulty about
raising the other $17,500 necessary to erect a handsome statue
to the memory of this great man.' "
This monument movement by Gen. Snowden is indicative
of an advance in such matters. Confederates who are able are
realizing that soon "the story of the glory" must be told by
others. Gen. Snowden honors his comrades living and dead.
Portrait of Jefferson Davis. — Miss Kate Hardin Helm, of
Louisville, has painted a portrait of President Jefferson Davis,
which has place in the Confederate Memorial Hall, New Or-
leans. Miss Helm is one of the two daughters of Gen. and
Mrs. Ben Hardin Helm. The father gave his life for the
South, and a monument marks the spot on Chickamaug-i.
The mother and this daughter reside at Elizabethtown, near
the anccslrpi home of the distinguished family.
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CORPS COMMANDER REPORTS OF THE BATTLE.
Lieut. Gen. S. D. Lee's report of the battle of Nashville,
which was fought December 15 and 16, 1864, is as follows:
"The bloody battle of Franklin was fought November 30,
1864, ending about midnight. The Union army, under Gen.
Schofield, abandoned the field, and retreated toward Nash-
ville during ihe night, and on arrival took position within the
intrenchments surrounding the city, and there they remained
till December 15. Gen. Thomas made no aggressive forward
movement, but steadily received reenforcements, and by the
15th of December he had about 43,000 infantry and 12,000
cavalry. Livermore says his effective force was 49,772 men.
"The Union troops occupied the intrenchments as follows :
Gen. Schofield's army (Twenty-Third Corps) was on the Uii-
ion left, reaching the river (cast) ; Gen. Wood's army (Fourth
Corps) in the center, and Gen. A. J. Smith's army on the
right, extending to the river (west) ; Gen. Wilson's Cavalry
Corps in the rear of Gen. Smith's Army Corps, near the
river; Gen. Steedman's Division was also intrenched along
the river, a little outside of the main line of intrenchments
on the cast. There was also an inside line of intrenchnien's
occupied by Gen. Donaldson's quartermaster men (armed),
guarding the west of the city, when Thomas's army moved out
of its intrenchments to give battle.
"The Confederate army under Gen. Hood pursued the L^n-
ion army on the morning of December I (after the battle of
Franklin), and, arriving in front of Nashville December 2,
began intrenching itself about one mile from the Union
intrenchments around the city, Cheatham's Corps being on
the right and extending across the Nolensville Pike and rest-
ing on the railroad from Nashville to Murfrccsboro, and ex-
tending west almost to the Franklin Pike. Lee's Corps occu-
pied the center, covering the Franklin Pike and extending
almost to the Granny White Pike. Stewart's Corps was on
the left, covering the Granny White and Hillsboro Pikes,
leaving on Hood's left to the river on the west an open
space or distance more than equal to the front occupied by
liis entire army, from the Hillsboro Pike to the river (west),
and through which ran the Harding and Charlotte Pikes.
This large area was covered by one brigade of cavalry imder
Gen. Chalmers (about 1,000 strong), and for a little while
one brigade of infantry under Gen. Ector on the Harding
Pike. Gen. Hood had strengthened his right flank by a re-
doubt on Rains Hill, near the Nolensville Pike, and some
smaller works near the railroad, and his left flank by five re-
doubts on both sides and to the west of the Hillsboro Pike ;
also by a strong line of rifle pits on Montgomery Hill, in ad-
vance of and on the left front of his main line. Two of these
redoubts west of the pike were from a mile to a mile and a
half from the left of Gen. Stewart's Corps, and occupied by
artillery and small garrisons of from 150 to 200 men. The
eff^ective force of Gen. Hood's army was about 23.207 men
(Livermore), a difference of 26,565 men in favor of Gen.
Thomas's army, and greater than Hood's entire army.
"These were the relative positions and numbers of the two
armies on the evening of December 14 preceding the battle.
The weather had been intensely cold, and sleeting from about
December 9 to December 14.
"Gen. Thomas's plan of battle was admirable. Taking ad-
vantage of the unoccupied area on Hood's left flank and be-
tween it and the river on the left, after he filled the intrench-
ments in front of Cheatham's and Lee's Corps with the gar-
rison proper of Nashville and armed quartermaster employees
on a short interior line, he then thrust his entire army west
of the Hillsboro Pike into this open space, Wilson's 12.000
cavalry leading and brushing Chalmers's small force away,
followed by A. J. Smith's army, then next by Wood's army,
then by Schofield's army, placing all this force diagonally
across Hood's left flank. His 'success was due chiefly to a
tactical combination of a superior force.' The battle began
by Gen. Steedman's attacking the extreme right of the Confed-
erate line, and near the railroad (as a diversion), while the
great flanking movement of Thomas's entire army was in
progress and being developed. This inovement was rapidly
developed, Thomas's 12,000 cavalry constantly swinging around
to the left, followed by the three great armies of Smith,
Wood, and Schofield. Soon the cavalry had reached the left
and rear of Gen. Stewart's Corps, and got in the rear of the
divisions of Walthall. Loring, and French. The advanced
rifle pits on Montgomery Hill and the two left redoubts
across the Hillsboro Pike were, in succession, overwhelmed
and carried, and Stewart's left (the left of Hood's army)
was completely turned by the great swinging and encircling
movement to the left by Thomas's army. Reenforcements
were called from Lee's Corps, and they were sent by brigades
until one of his divisions (Johnson's) was sent. Lee's line at
first was thin, and after one division was taken out he had
only a thin skirmish line, opposed by the well-filled intrench-
ments of ihe enemy in his front. The brigades sent by Lee
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to reenforce Stewart arrived alter the redoubts on Stewart's
left had been taken, and were rapidly overwhelmed in suc-
cession by the great swinging movement, which soon got to
the rear of Wahhall's and Loring's Divisions, and they had
to rapidly fall back toward the Granny White Pike, taking
position near dark on the ridges between the Hillsboro and
Granny White Pikes. Night is all that prevented Stewart's
force being cut off entirely.
"The first day's battle, and the complete turning of Hood's
left flank, necessitated a new line of battle by Hood, during
the night of the 15th and l6th of December. This line was
formed about one and one-half or two miles farther south
Cheatham's Corps was moved from the extreme right of
Hood's line to the extreme left, and formed near the Brent-
wood hills, to the left of the Granny White Pike. Stewart's
Corps was on his right, and Lee's Corps then became the
right of the Confederate army, resting on Overton Hill, on the
Franklin Pike. Cheatham's right division, under Gen. Bate,
occupied Shy Hill to the left of Granny White Pike, and his
line was facing west, with Chalmers's Cavalry on his left, and
on both sides of the pike. Stewart's Corps was between the
Granny White Pike and the Franklin Pike, and Lee's Corps
holding Overton Hill and the space to the left of Franklin
Pike to Stewart's right. Hood's line of battle was shorter al-
most one-half, and better than the one he had abandoned on
the night of the 15th of December. Here he awaited the attack
of the enemy on December 16. His position was a critical
one; it virtually left but one road (the Franklin Pike) for his
army to escape on in case of disaster. Wilson's Cavalry vir-
tually held the Granny White Pike, on Hood's extreme left.
"It took some time for Thomas's army to move up and con-
front Hood's army in its new position, but it gradually did
so during the morning of December 16, and his forces were
arranged as follows : Gens. Steedman and Wood confronted
Lee on the Franklin Pike; Wood and Smith confronted Lee
and Stewart between the Franklin and Granny Wliitc Pikes ;
Smith and Schoficld at Shy Hill and around Chcatham'3
Corps, with Wilson's Cavalry Corps on the left of Cheatham,
and continuing the turning operations of the day before
toward the Franklin Pike, now the only road open for Hood's
escape. Gen. Thomas, having virtually cut off Hood's retro-
grade movement on all pikes except the Franklin Pike, deter-
mined to crush Hood's extreme right on Overton Hill, so js
to cut off Stewart and Cheatham from the Franklin Piki^.
Gen. Hood anticipated this movement, and he instructed Lee
to hold that pike at all hazards, and in case of disaster Stewart
was to hold the Franklin Pike at Brentwood till Lee's Corps
had passed to the rear.
"While the great flanking movement on Hood's left w.is
being perfected by Thomas on the morning of December 16
for a continuation of development of Hood's left in his new
position, he ordered Wood and Steedman to assault Overton
Hill (Hood's extreme right). The assault was preceded by a
most terrific concentrated fire of artillery for two hours, from
9 to II A.M. Then the assault was made on the narrow hill
by two brigades of white troops of Wood's Corps and two
brigades of negro troops in Steedman's Division. The assault
was gallantly made, some of the troops getting within thirty
yards of the stone fence occupied by Clayton's Division, and
one brigade of Stephenson's Division on Clayton's left (all
of Lee's Corps). The assaults were made several times, and
so determinedly that one-half of tlic loss of Thomas's entire
army occurred in the attempts to carry Overton Hill and
seize the Franklin Pike to cut off Hood's other two corps
to Lee's left. The repeated assaults were repulsed with great
slaughter, the la't assault being repulsed and the enemy re-
liring out of sight about 3:30 v.si.; and virtually enabling
Hood to feel secure on that pike, so far as defeat on that
part of his army might occur. So anxious was Hood about
l.is right flank that he sent Cleburne's Old Division from his
extreme left to his extreme right to help hold that pike during
Ihe repeated assaults. These troops, however, were soon re-
called to meet disaster on the left, and were not used by
Lte in repulsing the enemy.
"About the time of the last repulse of the enemy at Over-
Ion Hil! (3:30 or 4 P.M.) the great army of Thomas's had
again enveloped Hood's left flank. Wilson's Cavalry working
over and around Cheatham's left tlank. and getting across the
Granny White Pike and in rear of the Confederate left flank,
as it did the day before. About this time also the angle held by
Cheatham's right (Shy Hill), just west of the Granny White
Pike, and near Stewart's left Hank (the left center of Hood's
army), was captured by the Union troops, causing a break
almost in the entire Confederate army, and almost a mad rush
in panic over the hills toward the Franklin Pike by the Con-
federate troops to the left of that pike. The enemy rushed
into the space of the broken Confederate line, Stewart's and
Cheatham's Corps rushed toward the Franklin Pike, and the
entire Union army charged and pursued from the direction
ci the Granny White Pike and toward the rear of Lee's Corps,
which also gave way gradually: Clayton's Division, form-
ing a second line between Overton Hill and Brentwood to
hold in check the enemy, came from the direction of the
Granny White Pike. All that saved Hood's army at thi*
critical moment was the fact that Lee formed this second
line and held in check the enemy. Fortunately there was
no pursuit by the left of Wood's Corps and Steedman's Divi-
sion on the Franklin Pike until it was too late to take advan-
tage of the rear movement of Lee's Corps from Overton Hill.
While Lee was holding the enemy in check with his rear
guard he was notified near dark that the enemy were about
reaching Brentwood. He rapidly withdrew, arriving at Brent-
wood about dark. He found that Stewart and Chcalham had
already passed Brentwood, moving to the rear, that Chalmers's
Cavalry at dark was fighting Wilson's Cavalry less than half
a mile from the Franklin Pike. Lee rapidly passed by Brent-
wood, followed by Chalmers's Cavalry, halting his rear guard
ci.x miles north of Franklin at 10 p.m., sending a small com-
mand to hold a gap east of where he halted in the hills.
POINT FROM WHICH GEN. HOOD WITNESSED FIRST BREAK
OF LINE. SEE DIM HILt TO THE LEFT.
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LAWN OF OVERTON lea's HOME.
Sliowing in Ihe distance the point (see summer lioiise) from wliich Gen. Hood witnessed llie bjttle and directed the movements of his army.
"Lee wns ordered by Gen. Hood to cover tlic retreat of his
army fron^ ilie great defeat at Nashville. The rest of the
army, in great confusion and di.sorder, had moved on to Frank-
lin. Smith's Army Corps and part of Wilson's Cavalry were
east of the Granny White Pike at dark, and Wilson's Cavalry
less than one-half mile of the Franklin Pike, near Brcnt\v(;od.
Most 1 I Wood's Corps were lietween the Granny White Pike
and tlu' Franklin Pike, and Wood's and Smith's armies
pressed from the direction of tlic Granny White Pike.
"The battle of Nashville was the most complete victory of
the war, and won by the Union army. The Confederate
; rmy, althongh it held the field at Franklin, was terribly pnn-
ishcd and much demoralized by its great losses, but covered
itself with a halo of valor equal to any display on any ficiil
ef the great war on either side. The army realized that
Hood's campaign was a forlorn lu^pc, and that the Confed-
eiacy was on its last legs; yet the Confederate soldier, true
to liis duty and in face of inevitable defeat, maintained a
bold front, waiting for final order of his government to de-
sist or to be crushed finally.
"It is difficnlt to get at Hood's losses. He claims to Iiavc
lost 54 guns and lo.ooo men, including his loss at Franklin'
(about 6,252 men killed, wounded, and prisoners). Livcrmore
puts his prisoners at Nashville at 4,462 men, and Thomas's
army lost 3,061 men. Hood did not lose many men killed and
wounded, as he was really flanked and maneuvered into a
tout by Thomas. He could not move his guns, as the horses
were in the rear for safety, and the break the second day was
so sudden and rapid that the horses could not be brought up.
"The PiRsuiT. De(Kmbi:r 17.
".•\s stated, Lee, with the rear .tjuard, composed of Clayton's
Division (brigades of Gibson, Holtzclaw, and Stovall), passed
Brentwood after dark. He was ordered by Gen. Hood to
cover the retreat of his army. His first halt was at Hollow
Tree Gap, about six miles north of Franklin. Here, with Pet-
lus's Brigade, Stephenson's Division and Stovall's Brigad'-,
Clayton's Division and Bledsoe's Battery, he awaited the
enemy. Wilson's Cavalry appeared about 8 a.m., driving
Chalmers's Cavalry and actually many of them passing
thrdugh the infantry rear guard; but they were repulsed with
loss of men and guidons. They again appeared at 9 A.M., and
were driven back with the loss of one hundred prisoners and
several guidons. The retreat was then resumed toward
Franklin, and, althongh frequently attacked, got over the
Harpeth River with loss of some prisoners ; and the trestle
bridge was destroyed.
"The next stand was made about one and one-half miles
south of Franklin, as that city was full of wounded of both
armies from the battle of Franklin. Here the pursuit was
again checked, and here it was that Gen. Lee was wounded
while in charge of the rear guard. The enemy having crossed,
all his cavalry made a most determined effort to rout the rear
guard, composed of Pettus's and Cummings's Brigades of Ste-
phenson's Division, beginning about four miles north of Spring
Hill. Here Chalmers's Cavalry was driven off from the two
small infantry brigades, and they alone had to resist the ter-
rible onslaught of Wilson's entire force. The rear guard,
under Gen. Stephenson, formed three sides of a square, and
slowly cut its way to the rear, being attacked in the front,
Hank, and rear, and keeping this up to within a short distance
of Spring Hill. Here Clayton sent a brigade (Holtzclaw's)
back to help, and formed his other two brigades across the
pike to resist the cavalry, for Wilson had gotten between the
two commands. There could not have been a more gallant
effort to crush a rear guard of any retreating army than Wil-
son made, and certainly never did a rear guard perform iis
critical duty better. The two brigades numbered about 700
men. This was the afternoon after the great victory, and
12.0CO cavalry were trying to ride over the devoted rear guard.
This day's effort really saved Hood's army and gave an ef-
fectual check in pursuit, the effort extending into the night
of December 17. Wilson did not again show such dash and
boldness in pursuit. Gen. Lee relinquished his command
during the n^ht of the 17th, putting Gen. Stephenson in com-
mand of his corps.
"On December 18 the cavalry of the enemy pursued con-
tinually to near Rutherford Creek, and on the 19th to Ruth-
erford Creek, which was up and could not be crossed by the
enemy, because their pontoon train was not up. Wilson's
entire cavalry corps ceased pursuit on the evening of Decem-
ber 19, and went into camp, drawing supplies ; nor did the
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enemy's cavalry renew pursuit till the morning of December
22, thus allowing Hood's army December 17, 18, 19, 20, and
21 to move steadily toward the Tennessee River. Hood's
army crossed Duck River by the inorning of December 20
at Columbia, and resumed retreat December 21. After Gen.
Hood was safely over Duck River with his army, and the
enemy's cavalry had ceased pursuit during December 19, 20,
and 21, owing to high water in Rutherford Creek and the
Union pontoon trains not being up, it gave him (Gen. Hood)
a breathing spell, and the army had pretty well recovered
from its rout and panic. Organizations had been perfected,
and everything was ready to move slowly over the bad roads
toward the Tennessee River December 21. Gen. Forrest, near
Murfreesboro. heard of Gen. Hood's disaster before Nash-
ville during the night of December 16, and under orders re-
treated in the direction of Columbia, on Duck River, to join
Gen. Hood. He reached Columbia with his command on the
evening of December 18, and went into camp at Columbia on
December 19. Some of the enemj^'s cavalry appeared before
Columbia on the evening of December 20 in observation.
"On December 20 Gen. Hood, before resuming his retreat,
organized a strong rear guard composed of Gen. Forrest's
Cavalry and five brigades of infantry under Gen. Walthall,
the two commands being under command of Gen. Forrest.
The enemy's cavalry crossed Duck River on December 22
and resumed pursuit. His infantry never pursued after De-
cember 17, and never came in contact with the rear of Hood's
army. This rear guard was ably handled by Gen. Forrest,
and presented such a bold front that Gen. Wilson showed but
little disposition to press it, except at two points. On Decem-
ber 24 the whole cavalry corps of the enemy resumed pursuit,
and attacked the rear guard under Forrest at Lynnville and
was checked, and again below Pulaski, when Walthall, with
his infantry, gave a decided check and captured a gun and
prisoners. Wilson followed to Sugar Creek, and on December
27 saw the last of Hood's army across the Tennessee River.
The facts in this article are sustained by the official reports in
Serial No. 93. 'War of the Rebellion,' 'The Mississippi Valley
in the Civil War' by John Fiske, Burress's 'The Civil War
and the Constitution of 1859-65,' 'The March 10 the Sea,'
'Franklin and Nashville,' Cox's "Battles and Leaders of the
Civil War.'"
Dat.^ from Cul. J. D. Porter. (Sketch to Come.)
An account of the battle by Hon. James D. Porter, who was
chief of staff to Maj. Gen. B. F. Cheatham, one of the corps
commanders, will appear in the July issue. The following is
from notes kindly made by him by request as aid in the pro-
curement of data in regard to a fatal charge by negro troops
sometime before the general battle:
"The attack on Cheatham, then holding Hood's right, with
corps headquarters at the Greenfield homestead, was made by
Maj. Gen. Steedman with the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and One
Hundredth Regiments of negro troops under command of Col.
Thompson, of the TwelflJi (negro), the Fourteenth, Seven-
teenth (negro), commanded by Col. W. R. Shafter, of the
Forty-Fourth (now a major general in the United States
army), and a detachment of the Eighteenth (negro), under
Morgan, of the Fourteenth (negro), the Sixty-Eighth In-
diana, Eighteenth Ohio, and Second Battalion, under Lieut.
Col. Grosvenor, of the Eighteenth Ohio, afterwards Gen.
Grosvenor, now Republican leader of the House of Repre-
sentatives from Ohio.
"The attacking column formed near the Rains house. The
objective point of attack was a lunette occupied by Granbury's
Brigade and a section of Turner'.s Mississippi Battery, sup-
ported by the right of Cheatham's old division. Cheathain
had his field headquarters at the lunette, and gave orders to
reserve fire until the assaulting column was in close range. A
terrific volley was delivered, and Gen. Grosvenor officially re-
ported that it "stampeded the whole line, and nearly all the
men fled from the field." Maj. Gen. Corbin, of the United
States army, was a lieutenant colonel in a negro regiment,
and with Shafter and the darkies ran for their lives, and it is
believed there was no halt until they reached the city. The
Federal loss was 825 killed and wounded, of which number 120
were killed. Cheatham sustained no loss. This was the first
sham battle ever fought by his men.
"Just as Steedman's advance was made, Cheatham received
an order from Gen. Hdod to move to the li'ft nf the army.
LAWN OF RAIVS PLACE — HV DEEP CUT ON CHAirANOOGA RAILROAD.
Where* somt' aciivu fighting occurred and near wliere many negroes in blue were Ivilled.
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SHV S HILL, WEST OF GRASSY WHI FK I'lKH, WHIiKli T H K CONKKDKRATK LINK WAS BROKEN AND THE STAMPEDE BEGAN.
This was made necessary because the enemy had assauhcil
Stewart's left, driven Manigaiilt and Deas, who reenforccd
Stewart's left, and gained the rear of Walthall and Loring.
Waltliall made a noble fight, retired his line, and tlie entire
corps formed between the Granny White and Franklin roads.
Cheatham formed Bate's Division on Walthall's left. This
placed Bate on the summit of Shy's Hill, where the disaster of
the morrow was to occur. Cheatham's extreme left, held bv
Govan's Brigade of Cleburne's Division, was forced, and oc-
cupied by the Federal forces, until Field, commanding Maney's
Brigade, was hurried forward by ClieathanL It is due to
Govan to state that he covered in open order the line held by
his own and the brigades of Smith and Granbury, who had
been sent by Cheatham to reenforce Lee's Corps at the time
he was attacked by Wood and Stedman. The two brigades
were not returned to Cheatham until after Bate had
abandoned the position assigned him. He deployed his com-
mand in open order, and attacked a line of battle with
this formation, retook and held the left. Field was soon sup-
ported by Gist's South Carolina and Georgia Brigades, Col.
Anderson, of the Eighth Tennessee, commanding. The ravine
to the left of the hill was held by Cheatham's Division, Brig.
Gen. Lowry commanding. .A. fierce assault on this position
was made and repulsed. Cheatham's field headquarters was
on the hill, and five minutes before the disaster at that point
he felt that his entire line was secure against any attack.
During the battle Thos. Benton's, Smith's, and Granbury's Bri-
gades went to the assistance of the center. They returned to
him just in lime for a diversion that enabled him to prevent
the capture of the troops of his extreme left. All along the
line held by Stewart's and Stephen D. Lee's Corps, the fight-
ing in front of Hood's headquarters, near the Lea house, and
in front of Traveler's Rest (Overton's?), was fierce, but our
resistance was successful and satisfactory. Thomas's attack
wa5 feeble. He showed no dash or enterprise. Indeed, the
battle of Nashville exhibited poor fighting.
Note from Gen. A. P. Stewart.
Application was made to Gen. Alex P. Stewart, the otl-.cr
surviving corps commander in the battle, and in reply he
wrote from Chattanooga, Tenn., April 8, that his recollections
were "hazy," and requested Maj. W. F. Foster to write for
him, slating: "He was my engineer officer, was with me dur-
ing ihc battle, and I think could write a much better ami
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VIEW FROM THE OLD OVERTON HOME TRAVELERS KhsT.
Hood's !ic;iiUiu;irter!s l^efore Ihe batlle, looking west.
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more accurate account than I can. Will you please see him
and ask him, as a favor to me as well as to the Veteran, to
write out for you his recollections?"
Representative of Lieut. Gen. A. P. Stewart, Maj. Foster
appreciates the compliment paid him by Gen. Stewart, and
cheerfully responds by a supplemental note :
"Your letter of April ii, inclosing a note from Lieut. Gen.
A. P. Stewart, was duly received, and, holding a request from
my old commander to be even more imperative than his orders,
which it was my habit to obey promptly in former days, I had
hoped to prepare sonic description of the battle of Nashville in
accordance with your request and Gen. Stewart's suggestion.
"However, having been allowed by your courtesy to read the
manuscript of the admirable paper prepared by Lieut. Gen. S.
D. Lee upon the same subject, I find the ground completely
M.^J. WILBUR F. FOSTER.
covered, so that any other description would necessarily, to a
great extent, be only a repetition of facts and incidents already
stated clearly and accurately by Gen. Lee.
"There is one expression sometimes used to which I wish to
enter protest. It has been frequently said that when the line
gave way at Shy's Hill a 'panic' ensued and the entire army
fled in disorderly rout, etc. There was no panic.
"For two days the soldiers in Stewart's Corps had faced an
enemy overwhelming in numbers, and with indomitable pluck
had met and repelled every assault, all the time being con-
scious of the fact that their position was being turned and
would finally become untenable. The lines were extended to
the left from time to time to meet this flanking movement of
the enemy, always in the best of order and with unbroken front.
On the second day, Cheatham's Corps, tran^erred to Stewart's
left, confronted the same enveloping movement so well de-
scribed by Gen. Lee.
"At last the crisis came, anticipated by everybody, when at
about 4 P.M. on the i6th the Brentwood hills, in the rear of
Cheatham's and Stewart's Corps, were being occupied by the
enemy in strong force. Nobody knew better than the Confed-
erate soldiers in the rifle pits that their line could be no longer
maintained, and that only one outlet was open by which to
escape inevitable capture. At that moment the line gave way
at Shy's Hill, and served as a signal for a stampede to the
Franklin Turnpike. This was done, of course, in great dis-
order; but if 'panic' was therfe, I failed to see it. This writer
was in the rush along the foot of the Brentwood hills, and well
remembers certain jibes and sarcastic remarks of the men, but
no cries of terror. The men simply knew, without being told,
that there was but one thing to do, and that was to get to the
Franklin Pike; and they did it, not because they were panic-
stricken, but because it was the proper thing to do."
REGARD OF GEN. G. H. THOMAS FOR THE SOUTH.
Maj. A. W. Wills, Postmaster, sends the following remi-
niscences of Gen. Thomas and the battle of Nashville :
"This terrible battle was fought December 15 and 16, 186.^,
ilie sequel to that of Franklin, November 30, just fifteen days
before. On that night (November 30) the army of Gen. Scho-
field fell back on Nashville, leaving the Union dead on the
battlefield, to be buried by the Confederates. On the morning
of December i, after the Union army had reached Nashville
and were comfortably quartered on the tented field, the rain,
hail, and snow fell in torrents and continued for some ten
days. The surface of the earth was covered with ice. The
Union soldiers were well clad and fed and in comfortable quar-
ters (reenforcements were being received as rapidly as trans-
portation could bring them to Nashville), while the Confed-
erate soldiers, encamped just a mile or more from the out-
skirts of the city, were thinly clad, many without hats or
shoes, in poor quarters, short rations, with nothing to burn
but green timber, as every fence rail for miles had been con-
sumed.
"The lines of the Confederate troops under Gen. Hood rested
on the Cumberland River, above and below Nashville. Gen.
George H. Thomas, familiarly known as 'Pap' Thomas, com-
manded the Union forces. His headquarters were in the old
St. Cloud Hotel building, corner of Summer and Church
Streets. He was master of the situation. Almost hourly he
was waited upon by some of the prominent citizens of Nash-
ville, and the question put to him: 'Had we not better remove
our families out of Nashville to Louisville or elsewhere in the
event of the bombardment of the city?' The stereotyped reply
was all that fell from the General's lips: 'I shall give you duo
warning when the time arrives.' The General seemed to have
the most implicit confidence in winning the battle, if only left
to his own judgment when to bring on the attack. The au-
thorities at Washington were hourly ordering him to bring on
the engagement, but he heeded not the order. Finally like or-
ders came so thick and fast that he replied to the effect that if
the engagement must be brought on before he was ready an-
other commander must be chosen. Gen. John A. Logan was
ordered to assume command. Gen. Logan was serving in the
East. He knew of the fighting qualities of Gen. Thomas, and
was in no haste to reach Nashville. Before his arrival. Gen.
'I'homas, not governed by orders or telegrams, but alone by
tlie situation and surrounding circumstances, on the early
morning of December 15, 1864, moved out on the Granny White
Pike, and the great battle was soon commenced, which lasted
for two days, and was one of the severest struggles of the
war. This battle was said to have 'crushed the backbone of
the rebellion.' This expression was used by Gov. Brownlow
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after the war when presenting a gold medal to Gen. Thomas,
awarded by the State Legislature. The Governor, in the
presentation, said : T give this medal to the general who won
the first Federal victory at Mill Springs, Ky. ; to the general
who saved the day at Stone's River ; to the rock of Chick-
amauga; to the general who crushed the backbone of the re-
bellion at Nashville, Tenn. ; to the general who never lost a
battle; and to the man who, in the opinion of his friends, never
made a mistake.'
"Every foot of the battle ground of Nashville was closely
contested. Thousands of the Confederate soldiers were Ten-
nesseeans. They were in sight of the capital of their native
State, within sight of their own firesides, their homes, and
their dear ones, but their condition and the superior numbers
of the opposing forces in time compelled them to give up the
struggle, hut not until all hope was gone. The hea\'y rains
in the early part of the month had swollen the streams be-
3'ond their banks. This was the condition of Duck River, that
must be crossed in the retreat. Gen. Thomas ordered one of
his staff officers back to Nashville to bring the pontoon train
out to enable a portion of his arm.v to cross Duck River in ad-
vance of Hood, and thereby cut off the retreat of the army that
was left and cause it to surrender, but by some unlooked-for
«rror on the part of the ofiicer intrusted with this important
mission, he guided the pontoon train out the Murfreesboro
Pike until he nearly reached Murfreesboro before he discov-
ered his mistake. This great delay gave time for the Con-
federate forces to make the crossing and continue their march
southward. Il has always been believed, by those familiar with
the facts, that, had Gen. Thomas's orders been successfully and
promptly carried out, Gen. Hood's army would have been com
pelled to surrender, which doubtless would have brought the
war to a still earlier ending. The mistake made by Gen.
I Thomas's staff ofiicer was never officially reported, nor was it
' indeed known to but a few of the members of the staff.
"Gen. Thomas was certainly one of the greatest generals of
tlie Union army. He was a Virginian by birth, a graduate
of West Point, a classmate of Gen. Robert E. Lee. It was
GEN. GEORGE H. THDM.AS.
doubtless a great struggle when the war broke out for Gen.
Thomas to decide his future course. Gen. Lee thought his
first allegiance was to his native State, while Gen. Thomas
thought differently, believed he owed his allegiance first to his
country, and remained loyal to the Union and became one of its
greatest generals, if not the greatest of all the generals in the
L'nion army. He was known for his exceeding kind-hearted-
ness and his great care for his soldiers. He took a personal in-
terest in their comfort and welfare, and was beloved by all
of them. In time of battle his constant thought was to save
the lives of all he could, and to make no useless sacrifices. He
surrounded himself generally with young men, particularly his
personal staff, all of whom, with the exception of one or two,
were between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five. He was
like a father to them. Frequently he would call them together
and advise with them, cautioning them against excesses of all
kinds, and advising tliem to be merciful to the prisoners of
war and to treat them as they would wish to be treated under
like circumstances. A staff ofiicer relates an incident that oc-
curred at headquarters when the General heard that some of
the younger members of his staff had been indulging in a
game of 'draw poker.' He summoned them in his presence
and told them that he was aware of the attractions of the game
among ofl'icers of the army, and he said : 'I don't mean that you
shall not play the game ; but if you will, don't play with my
provost marshal general' (the latter played a scientific or con-
gressional game that w-as destructive to the younger set). This
officer. Gen. Johnson, had a brother in the Confederate army.
"When the war closed there were none more anxious for
peace than Gen. Thomas, and he at once set about restoring all
the property, buildings, houses, etc., in use by the government
to the owners. At that time his headquarters were in Nash-
ville, and he w^as in command of the military division of the
Mississippi. He at once issued peremptory orders to restore to
the owners all the buildings occupied by the army. He
caused the oflicers to occupy smaller quarters, to double up,
where necessary, in order to surrender to the owners their
property, that they might receive the revenue therefrom. He
directed and caused to be restored to the corporations all the
railroads and railroad properties in his division, and his whole
mind seemed to be bent upon restoring peace to the country
and to making happy and contented the returned soldiers of
the Confederacy. Peace and prosperity and the building up
of the country were his watchwords. Gen. Thomas's innate
modesty was one of his great virtues. He believed not in dis-
I)lay and honoring the victorious. His sympathy for those who
had sacrificed their all was ever manifest. He loved his coun-
try and her whole people.
"An evidence of Gen. Thomas's modesty and dislike of be-
ing lionized occurred soon after the war. Upon his visit to
Washington, where he was called on official business, news of
liis coming had preceded him, much to his discomfort. The
morning after his arrival he was called upon by the Mayor of
New York and a committee of fifty prominent citizens. He
was standing in the vestibule of Willard's Hotel when the
committee marched in. The New York Mayor advanced and
said that they came from New York to extend an invitation
for him to visit their city, that they might lionize him. The
General replied: 'I thank you kindly for the invitation, but
please say to the good people of New York City that when
they can receive me as a lamb, and not as a lion, I shall be
happy to visit them.' The Mayor and his committee were so
surprised at the reply that the matter ended there.
"One of Gen. Thomas's great hobbies was national ceme-
teries. He often expressed a desire to see established a na-
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tional cemetery on every prominent battlefield. He selected
the cemeterj- site near Chattanooga at the time the great batllj
was being fought, and in obedience to his wishes it was estab-
lished on that identical spot after the war. He also selected
the location for the National Cemetery near Nashville, Tenn.,
the land, some sixty-five acres, being intersected by the Louis-
ville and Nashville Railroad, with graves on each side of the
track. His desire was, when practicable, to locate all the na-
tional cemeteries on lines of railroads or prominent river-;.
that people should ever be reminded of the terrors and fatal-
ities of war. One exception was made to this rule in Georgi.n.
He desired particularly to locate a cemetery on the Western
and Atlantic Road, near Atlanta, but in the several locations
presented to the General to select from, there was a beautiful
eminence in Marietta, about a half mile back from the railroad.
The place belonged to a Mr. Boyd, a resident of Georgi.i
and a stanch Union man, who insisted upon Gen. Thomas ac-
cepting his place as a gift to the government for a natioml
cemetery. The only consideration asked was that the body of
the donor should be interred within the cemetery inclosurc.
The donation was so magnanimous that the General could not
decline. The place was selected, and the remains of Mr. Boyd
now rest in the national ceinetery."
The author of the foregoing, Maj. A. W. Wills, refers, among
Other matters, to the location of national cemeteries quite mod-
estly, considering that he had charge largely of locating these
cemeteries in the South, and the construction as well, of some
of them, particularly those at Shiloh and Corinth. In addi-
tion to these, he located the Stone's River, Chattanooga, Mem-
phis, Fort Donelson (at Dover), Vicksburg, and others.
Maj. Wills, a native of Pennsylvania, had finished his teens
with educational advantages when the war of the sixties be
gan. For quite a while he was department quartermaster at
Nashville, and staff quartermaster for Gen. George H.
Thomas, and handled seventy million dollars. He was pro-
moted l\ir gallantry in the battles of .^nlietam and Nashville.
His greatest achievement, however, was in the capture of a
Southern girl. Miss Eleanora Willaner, of a prominent South-
ern family. He has been the eflicient postmaster of Nashville
for many years.
Letter from .\ Union Soldier.
Dr. Warren R. King, a prominent physician of Greenfield,
Ind., writing to a friend in Nashville, says:
"It would indeed be a great pleasure to me to visit Nashville
again. Of course the Nashville of to-day is very different
from Nashville of nearly forty years ago. I was there during
the battle. For Sabout three days before, the whole face of
the country was a glare of ice. The gunboat Carondelct, on
which I was .=erving as paymaster's clerk, lay about three
miles below the city, at the right of our armory. One day I
walked along our lines from the boat up to Fort Negley. I
assure you I had a slippery trip of it. The afternoon of the
last day of the battle we were at the landing in the city. I
shall never forget the terrible uproar and commotion of that
conflict. Above the tumult there was, at regular intervals, a
thunderous roar that was said to be the hundred-pound guns
of old Negley. It is useless for me to try to describe the
scene. The magic touch of pen has never been developed, nor
has the tongue been created, that can fitly describe a battle.
"I shall never forget a scene I witnessed the day after the
battle. I was at the stockade vvhen the Confederate prisoiurs
were brought in. All about the gateway the mud was about
eight inches deep and very thin. .\ Union soldier brought in
a prisoner, turned him over to the proper officer, sank down
in that thin mud, and in half a minute was fast asleep. Forty-
two years ago last August I was wounded at Richmond, Ky.
I have suffered more or less ever since."
Founder of D.mghters of the .^mericvn Revolution. —
William li. .Matthews, Jr.. attorney at law, Washington,
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D. C, writes of Mrs. Flora Adams Darling's part in founding
the Daughters of the American Revolution: "After a careful
examination into the records of the society known as the
Daughters of the American Revolution, I am satisfied, from
the evidence and proofs found there, that she unquestionably
founded this society on October II, 1890, at Washington,
D. C. In recognition of her work in founding this society
she was elected First Vice President General in charge of the
organization, and at the same time an honorary life member-
ship was conferred upon her as 'founder of the society.' The
fact that on August 7, 1891, she resigned her life membership
and all other connections with the society does not in the
least detract from the honor due her as its founder."
THE BURSTING OF THE "LADY POLK."
BY COL. WILLIAM D. PICKETT, FOURBEAR, WYO.
The monthly advent of the Veteran is always looked for-
ward to with pleasure by one, like the writer, cut off so far
from the comrades of the past. It always recalls many remi-
niscences of those years — some pleasureable, many how tragic !
The March number was especially interesting. The frontis-
piece has a photo of the inauguration, at Montgomery, Ala.,
of Mr. Jefferson Davis, the first President of the Confederacy.
The writer was present at that ceremony, and can testify to
the correctness of the reproduction. Then among the remi-
niscences is an account of the bursting of the "Lady Polk"
on November 9, 1861. Farther along is an allusion to a dis-
courtesy shown John B. Gordon somewhere in the North by
a band playing in his presence "Marching through Georgia."
As the writer was an eyewitness and, to some extent, a suf-
ferer, of the "blow up" of November 9, 1861, and also an
eyewitness, under favorable circumstance, of the attempted
discourtesy to Gordon, upon which, doubtless, the incident
above alluded to is based, I shall, with the permission of the
editor, relate each incident. It is very desirable and in-
structive for participants in those stirring scenes to correct
through your columns any misapprehension of facts as a guide
to the future historian, so far as these minor details will cut
a figure.
The writer had, early in 1861. raised a company of sappers
and miners at Memphis, with W. D. Pickett captain ; E. W.
Rucker, first lieutenant; Winter, second lieutenant; and
Fay, third lieutenant. Under the supervision of this company,
all the batteries and field works on the Mississippi River be-
tween Memphis and Cairo were constructed. Soon after its
organization I was appointed senior captain of the Engineers
of the Tennessee (State) Army, and was transferred to staff
duty with Maj. Gen. Pillow, and afterwards with Maj. Gen.
Polk. As senior engineer officer, it devolved upon me to
locate and construct the water batteries at Fort Harris. Fort
Wright, and Columbus, Ky. After the works at Columbus
were practically completed, Lieut. Col. De Russey, of Polk's
>iaff, to some extent, had advisory supervision.
After a considerable number of heavy guns had been mount-
ed on the river battery under the high bluffs, with field works
"11 to|i of the bluffs to protect the rear, a ten-inch Columbiad
"1^ nicived, and it was determined to mount it on the edge
•■i the high bluff, so as to have a plunging fire on any craft
■ bat might atenipt to pass — a very commanding position, witli
full circle of fire. This piece was the most powerful gun
1 that dale, but, instead of being smooth-bore, was rifled to
< ight-inch. The projectile, weighing one hundred and twenty-
aht pounds, and being oblong, was designated by the Yanks,
Her seeing its effects, as "lamp-posts." On the day of the
I'.iitle of Belmont this gun could not be used until the Federals
had driven the Confederates from the camps lately occupied
by Col. J. C. Tappan's Arkansas Regiment, who then brought
forward a field batter}', which commenced shelling the steam-
boats engaged in ferrying reenforcements across. At this time
Capt. Keiter, who had charge of this gun, your correspondent
designating "Lady Polk," got in his work and landed "lamp-
post" after "lamp-post" right in their midst as fast as was pos-
sible. This caused the Federals to immediately vacate this
position with their artillery and retire toward their gunboats
up the river.
The incidents to be related occurred on the day after the
battle of Belmont, November 8, 1S61. It was not mentioned
in its proper place that the gun position of the "Lady Polk"
was inclosed by a circular parapet, it being mounted en bar-
bette, a temporary magazine or receptacle for cartridges being
located in the parapet to the right and opposite the trunnions
of the piece. The statement made me at the time by Maj.
A. P. Stewart, the chief of artillery of the post (not Gen.
McCown), was that there were stored in this receptacle from
sixty to eighty cartridges of ten pounds each at the time of
the accident. On the forenoon of the day after the battle of
Belmont, Gen. Polk came on a tour of inspection to the
works, and proceeded tovvard the position of the "Lady Polk."
Capt. S. W. Rucker, of the sappers and miners, and the writer
joined him. On reaching that redoubt, he sent for Capt.
Keiter, of the heavy artillery. On his appearing, the Gen-
eral complimented him and his men on the skill and efficiency
with which they handled the gun in the previous day's en-
gagement in a very handsome manner, which appeared to
gratify Capt. Keiter very much. In an informal conversation
that occurred, it appeared that the gun had a load not dis-
charged on the previous day's fight. He suggested that it be
discharged. To this the General readily acquiesced, and asked
that it be fired up the river to notice its range. Thereupon the
Captain went for the "firing squad." I am sure nothing was
said as to there being anything the matter with the gun or
ammunition, and nothing was said suggesting danger. There
was nothing said to rufife the General's temper; and had there
been anything suggested as to danger of the bursting of the
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piece, Grn. Polk, I am sure, would not have risked the lives
of those around merely to gratify a whim. Yet all such
rumors that our correspondent speaks of went the rounds of
the army immediately after the accident. On the return of
Capt. Keiter, he made preparation to fire the piece.
As the gun was in position to fire. Gen. Polk, Rucker, and
myself were on the parapet just in the rear of the breech and
in direct line of the recoil — myself on the left, Rucker on the
right, and Gen. Polk in between. Sentinel Snowdcn, of the
engineers, was still to the right of Rucker; Capt. Keiler and
the firing squad at their proper positions around. My recol-
lection is pretty distinct. There were thirteen persons exposed,
?nd eleven were instantly killed, the three officers in the rear
of the breech alone escaping instant death.
It appeared that the ignition of the powder in the magazine
was simultaneous with the pulling of the lanyard. After the
explosion I was unconscious until I found myself fifty or
more feet to the rear on my feet, in a dense cloud of smoke
and dust, and with a fierce rain of dirt on my bare head. Find-
ing myself not crippled, my first thought was of Gen. Polk,
and that he must be somewhere near me. The smoke was so
dense as to prevent seeing distinctly five feet. Soon I stum-
bled upon him. He was in a squatting position, with his arms
and cloak protecting his head as well as he could from the
rain of dirt. Assistance soon came from the outside. He
was gotten to his feet well shaken up, but not seriously hurt,
except in the severe shock. Leaving him in the hands of an
abundance of friends, I mounted my horse, that some good
Samaritan had caught, rode to my quarters a half mile dis-
tant, sent for a friend among the surgeons, who promptly
came, examined and reported no serious injury, except the
danger of a permanent disfiguration of my face from a quantity
of unburncd grains of powder driven through the skin from
the explosion. A few hours' work with needle and a thorough
washing of warm water removed these stains, and the next
day I was all right except the scars left by powder grains.
Gen. Polk, being older, suffered more from the shock, the
tympanums of his ears were more seriously injured, and as a
precautionary measure he was kept off duty probably a week.
Capt. Rucker, being less exposed to the blast, was less shaken
up than either. As to the cause of the bursting of this gun,
there were various rumors, without foundation however.
There was only one cause: the treacherous and uncertain
action of cast iron under sudden strain. Its victims during
the subsequent operations can be counted by the lumdreds,
and probably a thousand, in the bursting of Parrott and all
cast guns. This gun was found in four pieces — the breech
found not to the "rear of the line of recoil but in a line not
far from the direction of the blast of the magazine, showing
the almost immediate ignition of the magazine on pulling the
lanyard. The other three pieces, the chase or forward part
and a piece attached to each trunnion, were found in the
direction indicated by the explosion of the magazine. Among
the eleven men killed in this accident were Capt. Keiter, Lieut.
Snowdcn, and the firing squad, who all must have been killed
instantly. Capt. Keiter was a very meritorious officer ; and
had he lived, would have made his mark in that contest.
As a singular coincidence, it so happened that my brother,
then captain, George B. Pickett, of the Confederate States
Engineers, was the nearest person to Lieut. Gen. Polk at the
time of his death, on Pine Mountain, Ga., in 1864, whilst re-
connoitering the enemy's position. It will be recalled that he
was struck by a rifle six-pounder shell, it passing through his
chest, breaking one or both arms. My brother told me the
blood forsook the General's face so instantaneously as to seem
like the shadow of a passing cloud.
On my way back to Memphis, at Washington, Ga., it so hap-
pened that I met Maj. Gen. Gilmer, chief of engineers of the
Confederate army. He and my brother, then Lieut. Pickett,
had served together during the construction of the defensive
works at Bowling Green, Ky., and had become warm personal
friends. He informed me of the recent promotion of my
brother to be major of engineers. He furthermore informed
me that at one time it had been determined by the Confederate
government to transfer the seat of war to the Trans-Missis-
sippi Department, and that certain officers had been selected
from each arm of the service to accompany the government.
He stated that my brother, George B. Pickett, then major of
engineers, had been selected as one of the engineer officers —
a high compliment to a brave and deserving officer. The rapid
pace of events toward the close, however, had prevented the
accomplishment of this scheme.
Maj. E. C. Lewis writes from Sycamore, Tcnn. :
"It gave me pleasure to read Col. W. D. Pickett's letter con-
cerning the bursting of the 'Lady Polk.' I heard Col. Pickett
give the facts in this case at Memphis in 1868. I remember
the time of the disaster. It was greater than any at the
battle of Belmont. The news was brought to Fort Don-,
elson by a steamboat official — Capt. Ben Eagan, of blessed
memory. I think — where I, as a boy, was visiting. I heard
the firing at Belmont, and we were all eager to hear the
result of the battle. The bursting of the big gun was the
more interesting to those at Donelson for the reason that an
exact (I think) counterpart of the 'Lady Polk' was the 'Lady
Bell' at Donelson. This was the biggest cannon of all the
batteries at Donelson, christened after Mrs. John Bell, who
was a Miss Erwin. of Wartracc, all big people, and as Mrs.
Bell was a very large woman, the gun appeared well named.
COL. W. U. PICKETT.
"Col. Pickett was right there; in fact, he was there from
start to finish— from Belmont in 1861 to Savannah in 1865.
I knew him well. Forrest was his firm friend. Everybody ad-
mired his coolness and courage. Pickett never got rattled.
He was always cool, correct in his observations, and precise
in his statements. He is seventy-eight years old, and has
killed more bears than any man in Wyoming."
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Another Account, by M. A. Miller, C.E., Richmond, Va.
In the Veteran for March, 1904, the account by "A. G. G "
of the bursting of the big gun, the "Lady Polk," at Columbus,
Ky., lias my attention. It is to be regretted that "A. G. G."
did not give us his full name. I do not deny his statements,
but give my own recollections of the event.
The gun was an eight-ton Dahlgren, having the caliber of a
thirty-two pounder, rifled, and carrying a one hundred and
sixty-eight-pound long shot with conical point. It was mount-
ed on an iron gun carriage, which in turn was on a wood and
iron chassis. The chassis had a center pivot, so that it could
be traversed around an entire circle, and the gun could be
pointed in any direction. There was a circular parapet of
earthwork entirely around the gun. In the rear of the gun,
when pointed up the river, there was a small magazine under
the parapet, in which were kept a few cartridges of fixed am-
munition for the gun. During the battle of Belmont, on the
Missouri side of the Mississippi River, on November -, 1861,
this gun, which was on top of the bluff on the Kentucky side,
was tired a number of times, and when the Federals retreated
and got out of range it remained loaded. It was served by
the men of Capt. Keiter's Artillery Company from Nashville.
"A. G. G." recites a conversation said to have taken place
between Gen. Polk and Gen. McCown three or four days after
the battle, in which the latter called attention to the fact that
the gun had been loaded while it was "conclusively shown
that it was expanded from heat" by the firing during the Bel-
mont battle, and having cooled "it had contracted and settled
firmly around the bottom of the projectile, and any attempt to
fire it would result in its explosion." Gen. Polk is said to
have answered, "I think we shall have to make the attempt:"
and Gen. McCown replied, "You w-ill excuse me if I do not
remain to witness it," and rode away.
I was on the spot at the time, and continued there for some
time, and I never heard of any such conversation having taken
place. I heard the theory of expansion and contraction ad-
vanced and discussed after the explosion, but not as comin ,'
from Gen. McCown, although he may have first suggested it.
If Gen. Polk had been warned that "any attenint in ti'''- i!
would result in its explosion," and particularly by an officer
of Gen. McCown's w'ell-known ability, he would not un-
necessarily have jeopardized the lives of the gunners and
officers who manned the piece, and his own life by standing
within thirty or forty feet of the gun when it was fired. He
would undoubtedly have ordered all men to places of safety,
and had the gun fired by a slow match. At that time we had no
electric appliances for firing guns. It seems unwarranted re-
flection on Gen. Polk's intelligence to suppose that he would
HOME OF GEN.
B. KURKEST, HEKNA.NUO, MISS.
SO have exposed his men and himself unnecessarily if he had
been warned by such a man as Gen. McCown, or had the re-
motest idea that the gun would explode.
"A. G. G." states that Gen. Polk and staff sat mounted upon
their horses about fifty feet from where Capt. Keiter stood.
This is not in accordance with my recollection. I have a very
distinct recollection of seeing Capt. Keiter standing on top of
the parapet, to the left of the gun and just about opposite the
breech. My recollection is that Gen. Polk and others stood on
top of the parapet, to the left and a little to the rear of the
gun. I stood about thirty feet to the rear and a little to the
right. Lieut. Snowden was on my right, so close that our
elbows touched, and we were in conversation a moment before
the gun was fired.
I distinctly heard Capt. Keiter give the command, "Fire!"
I saw the gunner pull the lanyard. I saw the flash of the
gun. But I never have had any recollection whatever of hear-
ing the report. I was knocked down, but not seriously hurt,
and was on my feet in a moment. Lieut. Snowden was killed
at my side. I stood over him as he breathed his last. Capt.
Keiter and Maj. Ford were killed. The seven gunners, who
stood by the gun, were torn to pieces, so that it was impossi-
ble to tell to which body an arm or a leg or a head belonged.
A countryman, who arrived at the camp that morning to visit
his son, a soldier, who was at a distance of a hundred yards
lo the right, was struck by something, perhaps a piece of the
revetment, and was so injured that he died a few days after.
There were ten others killed.
The powder magazine which exploded, as stated by "A. G.
G.," was the small magazine under the parapet, and not the
main magazine of the fortifications. In my opinion the ex-
plosion of this small magazine caused the most damage. The
gun carriage and chas'sis were blown to fragments, which I
think tore the gunners to pieces. The bursting of the gun
alone might have killed the men, but would hardly have so
torn them to pieces.
"A, G. G." says Gen, Polk sat mounted on his horse about
fifty feet from where Capt. Keiter stood, and after the ex-
plosion was lying by the body of his horse. He was carried to
his headquarters in what was thought to be a dying condition.
In a few weeks he was on duty, but never a well man again.
My recollection is that he was standing on top of the parapet,
as before stated ; that he was knocked down, but was im-
mediately on his feet again, but was not "carried off in a
fainting or dying condition," and was on duty that evening.
He was about fifty-five years of age at that time, and continued
in important command until he was killed by a solid shot
from the enemy's artillery at Pine Mountain, Ga., on June 14,
1864. AH this w-ould not indicate that he was "never a well
man agam."
Hugh Davidson writes from Shelbyville, Tenn. :
"The Capt. Keiter who was unfortunately killed by the
bursting of the "Lady Polk' at Fort De Russy, near Columbus,
Ky., was, just previous to the commencing of the war, con-
ducting a military school at this place. I was too young to
be a member of his company, but I well remember how I
envied the boys in uniforms and their brass buttons. Sooa
after his death, or after the close of the war, this company
had his remains brought to tliis place and laid at rest on a
beautiful mound in Willow Mount Cemetery, erecting a suit-
able monument. When the Confederate Cemetery was estab-
lished here, his remains were removed to it and now lie sur-
rounded by those who fought and died for the 'Lost Con-
federacy.' "
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WOMAX'S BENEl'OLEXT SOCIETY OF NASHllLLE.
In 1866, just after the close of the war, a number of patri-
otic ladies met together to organize what was called the Bencv-
cilent Society of Tennessee, the purpose of which was to fur-
nish with artificial limbs the disabled Confederate soldiers
who had returned from the war maimed and impoverished. The
MRS. FELICIA GRUNDY PORTER.
officers were: Mrs. Felicia G. Porter, President; Mrs. Ken-
drick. Vice President; Mrs. Thomas Marshall, Secretary; and
Mrs. Mary Paul Maguire, Treasurer.
Ladies w-ho were managers (a star indicating a survivor) :
Christ Church : Mesdanies John Kirkman, Godfrey M. Fogg,
George W. Cunningham, John C. Burch, William Cooper,
R. F. Woods. Fannie Leigh,* C. E. Hillman, Robert Martin.
Church of the Advent: Mesdamcs J. M. Ellis, R. C. K. Mar-
tin. Geo. Heyward,* H. J. Jones, Addie Neal, J. H. Callender.*
First Presbyterian Church: Mesdamcs John O. Ewing.
Thomas D. Craighead,' A. J. Duncan, George W. Fall,* R. C.
McNairy, R. B. Cheatham, C. D. Elliott, J. C. French.
Second Presbyterian Church : Mcsdames William Clare,*
Louise Aiken,* Turner S. Foster, J. Lucien Brown.
Howell Baptist Church : Mesdames R. B. C. Howell, Albert
G. Ewing,* Jane Watkins,* J. Darden, J. Dudley Winston,
W. W. Craig,
Christian Church : Mesdames Henry Waltcrson,* Fox Whar-
ton, N. Wharton, Alex Fall,*
Cumberland Church: Mesdames Andrew Allison, W. E.
Ward, David C. Love, Joseph W. Allen,* R. L. Weakley.
McKendree Church: Mesdames Washington B. Cooper, Jane
Thomas, L C Nicholson,* R. F. Nevins, Matt McClung,"
H. K. Walker, Thomas G. Pointer, Listen Stones, J. O. Grif-
fith, William Evans, F. Furman, M. G. L. Claiborne.*
Catholic Church: Mesdames William Heffcrman, J. Feli.x
Dcmoville,* Thomas Farrell, M. L. Cartwright, J. Buddeke.
The following is a partial list of soldiers benefited by this
cliaritable institution. The amounts paid were from $90 to
?r50 each. The county follows each man's name:
J. W, Balantine, Montgomery; Gardner Green, White;
James Campbell, Davidson ; John Donovan, Davidson ; John
Balthrop, Robertson; W, S. Edwards, Maury; Harbert Whit-
bead, Wilson; Michael Johnson, Davidson; Warren Hinson,
Williamson; J. M. Hicky, Maury; John D. Lynch, Franklin;
Thomas Welsh, Davidson ; H. C. Hallam, Davidson ; James
Cloyd, Davidson; James W. Johnston, DeKalb; Thomas T.
I"oster, went to Alabama ; Wood H, Gibbons, Perry ; William
!•". Holmes, Rutherford ; James M. Burchett, Rutherford ;
Francis A. Mayes, Maury; Benjamin F. Mayberry, Hum-
phreys; John R. Farr, Rutherford; John W. Steward, Sumner;
B. F. Stone, Maury; J. W. Rucker, Davidson; P. M. Hall,
Sumner; Pat Mulloy, Davidson; William M. Spain, Ruther-
ford; Charles R. Fclps, Rutherford: James S. Roberts, DeKalb;
J:uiKS M. Taylor, Stewart; M. M. Stansil, Stewart; R. M,
Singleton, Bedford ; Thompson Word, Rutherford ; George
'Jhompson, Wilson ; William R. Nevins, Williamson ; James
M. Kimbrough, Coffee ; Merideth Winstead, Williamson ; L.
L. Duncan, CofTee; Thomas Henefer, Warren; Henry H.
Wells, went to Kentucky ; Pink Helms, Stewart ; Fred B.
Vates, Sumner; Robert H. Anthony, Coffee; A. B. Mills, Giles;
James Necly, Williamson; James M. Moore, Giles; John G.
llanna, Franklin; James L. Goodrum, Bedford; Michael Fitz-
gerald, Davidson : John Creeman, Davidson ; William Mc-
Carty, Davidson; Robert Murphy, Davidson; M. McMurrey,
Davidson ; John Tucker, Williamson ; Alex Bledsoe, Sumner ;
John Tucker, Williamson; John Bass, Giles; H. M. Austin,
Sumner; J. C. Johnson, Williamson; Michael Scully, David-
son; Albert Jamison, Robertson; John W. Dyer, Giles; L. I.
Philips, Bedford ; M. Bowden, Lawrence : A. D. Jackson, Wil-
liamson, T, J. Jackson, Hickman; D. P. Cunningham, Lincoln.
In this cause twelve thousand dollars was expended by Mrs.
Mary Paul Maguire. So great was the demand for assistance
in this respect that these ladies unexpectedly found themselves
in debt to Mr. Morton, wh >
had contracted to supply all
that was called for. The
young Confederate soldiers,
w.ho had returned to Nash-
ville from the war, nobly
came to the assistance of
the ladies, and Albert Rob-
erts (John Happy) com-
posed an extravaganza
called the "White Crook,"
a burlesque upon the "Black
Crook," which was then be-
ing played so successfully
throughout the country.
This play was comprised en-
tirely of male talent, in which thirty-nine of the remaining
flower of the Confederacy took part. To these young men is
due the success of the most remarkable amateur performance
ever given in the South. The debts were all paid, the stage
managers presented with handsome souvenirs, and Mrs. Felicia
Porter gave a magnificent ball at her home on Cedar Street to
the "White Crook" Company.
Of this immortal thirty-nine, very few are living. Among the
survivors are Maj. W. D. Kelley, Chas. Ridley, S. Kirkpatrick.
Of the officers of the Association, Mrs. Felicia Porter, that
grand and noble woman, who gave her time to the cause, also
Mrs, Marshall and Mrs, Kendrick, have long since passed
away, Mrs, Maguire being the only surviving officer.
MRS. MARY PAUL MAGUIRE.
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ONLY CONFEDERATE IN U. S. REGULAR ARMY.
BY COL. R. W. BANKS, OF MISSISSIPPI.
Capt. Walter B. Barker, an heroic Mississippian, is now
serving in the Philippine Island;;.
Capt. Barker has the distinction of being one of the three
ex-Confederates who, during the Spanish-American war, re-
ceived commissions in the United States Regular Army, Gen-
erals Fitzhugh Lee and Joe Wheeler being the other two, and
of the three Capt. Barker is the only one now in active service,
the others being on the retired list.
In view of these facts, and that he acted a not unimportant
part in the Island of Cuba in bringing to light the atrocities
which led to the war between Spain and the United States,
it is deemed timely to make some mention of the incidents
in his Cuban life and experiences that will be new and doubt-
less interesting to Southern readers. The facts to be mentioned
are historic, and it is due to Mis.?issippi, not less than to her
worthy son, that they be recorded and preserved.
In 1861, at the age of fifteen, Walter Barker enlisted as a
private in Company F. Eleventh Mississippi Infantry. The
regiment was ordered to Virginia, where the young recruit
participated in the first Manassas, and thus early was initiated
into the mysteries of battle and the horrors of war. In 1863
he was assigned to duty at the headquarters of Brigadier-
General Joseph R. Davis. The brigade saw niucli hard service,
and was conspicuous on many a hotly contested field, under
Col. John M. Stone, the late lamented Governor of Missis-
sippi. The acquaintance begun in those trying times between
commanding officer and the boy soldier grew and ripened into
a lifelong friendship. The attention of Col. Stone, one of the
bravest among the brave, was attracted to Barker on account
of his youth, unfailing energy, and unflinching courage in the
hour of danger.
Barker served four years in \'irginia, participating in all the
campaigns of Lee's immortal army, and was distinguished for
gallantry on various fields. In April, 1865, he was paroled at
Appomattox, and returned to his home, in Macon, Miss.
In a sliort time after his arrival at Macon he became con-
nected with a New York house, and for nearly twenty years
traveled in Mississippi as representative of leading firms of
that city, always commanding a handsome salary, which was
ever at the command of his faiuily or any friend in need.
A Democrat of Jeffersonian-Jacksonian stamp, he retains
his Noxubee County citizenship when practicable to vote, anil
is always a liberal contributor to campaign funds. For many
successive years he was a delegate from his county to the State
Conventions of his party. In 1864 he represented the State as
a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago.
In 1865. Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar being Secretary of the In
terior, he was appointed Post Trader at Darlington, now in
Oklahoma Territory. This position he held about five years.
In 1891 he was the unsuccessful candidate for Railroad Com-
missioner of Mississippi, being defeated by the late Walter
McLaurin. In Deceiuber, 1893, he was appointed by Mr.
Cleveland Commercial Agent at Sagua La Grande, Cuba, the
duties of which position he assumed in January, 1894. This
post was one for which he was admirably equipped by reason
of his business experience, his high order of moral, physical,
and intellectual courage, and because of his innate love of jus-
tice and liatrcd of wrongdoing and cruelty in whatever shape
or form.
The oftice, during Barker's adiuinistraton, was far froiu a
sinecure; for, notwithstanding the fact that his official home
was in a tropic isle where gentle zephyrs blow and salt sea
breezes drive physical pains and aches away, he found no bed
of roses. In spite of fragrant flowers and shrubs, odor-laden
atmosphere, and golden sunshine, within a year of his residence
at Sagua La Grande yellow jack laid his saffron-hued hand
upon him and he came near dying with the fever. When
convalescent, and before he was restored to normal strength,
the gentle winds gave place to terrific gales, sweeping up from
the Caribbean Sea, and Sagua was swept by tidal waves that
put the principal streets of that port ten to twenty feet under
water. It was a time of terror. Old Boreas and Neptune had
united their forces to bring on a war of elements in the West
Indies, and the winds and waves, in their fury, knew no
bounds until, tired of beating upon the unhappy island, they
spent their force on the Mexican Gulf.
The horror and suffering at Sagua was intense. The pop-
ulation sought safety wherever it could be found. Among
the strong structures of the town was the L^nited States Con-
sulate. The storm came up suddenly in the night. The inorn-
ing dawned upon a subiuergcd city, and tlie spectacle revealed
was awe-inspiring. The frightened populace were struggling
with an awful, unlooked-for condition. To the loss of life
and destruction of property was added the agony of days and
nights of fearful anxiety — anxious waiting and prayerful
watching before the angry winds subsided and the waves re-
ceded.
In this condition of affairs Mr. Barker devoted himself to
saving life, liclping the poor and needy. At iiuminent risk
and by unusual daring he personally saved the lives of several
persons. Fortunately, he was an expert swimmer, and, despite
his weak physical condition, he more than once plunged into
the surging waters to rescue the drowning. The Consulate
being a strong building, and able to withstand the buffeting of
the storm, he gathered there more than twenty score of the
unfortunate, and furnished them shelter and such comforts
as he could during the tliirty-six hours of suspense and anx-
iety that prevailed. When the tide ebbed and the flood flowed
back to the sea. his kindness and matchless daring were
amply rewarded by the grateful recognition of it all by the
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people. Whenever lie appeared on the streets lusty cheers
greeted him.
At the memorial services to an officer who was a victim of
the storm Barker was specially invited to participate in the
ceremonies — a distinction never before conferred upon a civil-
ian or a foreigner in the island. He made himself more than
the pride of Americans. He was the hero of the hour — the
idol of not only the populace, but of the better class of the
Spanish clement that had been taught to respect and honor
him ; for, as all the world loves a lover, so all mankind bless
the brave and generous.
In February of the following year, 1895, the smoldering
insurrection burst into flame. Santa Clara, the province in
which the Consulate was located, proved the hotbed of the
outraged Spanish subjects. Within Barker's jurisdiction there
were about four hundred Americans, a large proportion of
whom had rich holdings in sugar estates. The Americans,
to be sure, took no part in the rebellion, but they were harassed
by the Spanish authorities, who, hating them as citizens
of the republic, devoid of sympathy for monarchy, sought
every plausible pretext to implicate them in the disturbances
on the island. Under such conditions arrests and imprison-
ments on trumped-up charges were things of frequent occur-
rence. The situation was trying; but the greater the perplexi-
ty, the more active and vigilant was the United Slates Com-
mercial Agent. His zeal was untiring, and his tact and cour-
age were equal to every demand. He knew his duty, and dared
to do it. By his capability and fidelity he succeeded, in every
instance, in securing the release of his fellow-countrymen.
The records of the State Department at Washington show
that through Barker's agency claims amounting to three mil
lion dollars were filed in behalf of American citizens wronged
in Santa Clara, by the killing of one and the appropriation or
destruction of the properly of others. These claims are be-
fore the Spanish-American Commission for adjudication under
the Paris i'reaty.
In the last years of the insurrection, when the world stood
aghast at the cruelties of t'ne brutal Weyler, there were in
Santa Clara alone one hundred and fifty thousand destitute
persons — a great starving multitude — but, under Barker's
watchfulness and intelligent management, the needy Americans
were cared for through the fifty-lhousand-dollar appropriation
by the United States Congress in the early days of 1897.
Witnessing the suffering of the miserable rcconcentrados,
Mr. Barker, with other .\merican Consuls, took steps to ac-
quaint his home government and the outside world with the
conditions as they actually existed. Through such exertions
the charitable people of the Union responded nobly from every
section to the harrowing tales told by their faithful represent-
atives. The school children of Mississippi forwarded to Mr.
Barker five huiidrcd dollars through Hun. A. .\. McKinnon,
Superintendent of Pulilic Education.
With sagacity and .system Mr. Barker established relief sta-
tions all about the province of Santa Clara, including more
than forty cities, towns, and villages, and. through such
agencies, managed to furnish food supplies to about forty
thousand people; many were on the verge of starvation and
dying for want of the slalT of life. This he managed to kcpj)
up until his recall, in April, 1898. He worked every day, and
often far into the night. His protests to the Spanish authori-
ties were earnest and forceful. At one time he was so strenu-
ous in condeinnation of the policy pursued by Spanish officers
that the scenes he described read like pages from the records
of the Dark Ages. His boldness and scathing denunciations of
the barbarities he witnessed gave offense to General Weyler,
and that inhuman butcher appealed to the home government
at Madrid for Barker's recall; but Secretary Olncy, apprecia-
ting the value of Barker's services, refused to acquiesce in
Weyler's demand.
The newspapers of the period teemed with notices of ex-
Confederates Fitzhugh Lee at Havana and Walter Barker
at Sagua. Their unswerving loyalty to the flag of the Union
and their fearless, faithful efforts to protect and promote its
honor and glory in those eventful days, when posts of honor
had become posts of danger, were made occasions for laud.i-
tion until all Southern hearts thrilled with pride at the con-
duct of these old Confederates and their work in behalf of hu-
manity.
When the war for humanity was ended, when victory was
on the side of the humane and the future of Cuba was connnii-
tcd to the keeping of Cubans by the generous victors, and the
United States troops were to be withdrawn at an early date
froin the island, Capt. Barker was invited to Sagua La Grande,
given a splendid banquet, and presented by the citizens with a
handsome gold medal properly engraved.
In addition to the honors conferred upon this ex-Confed-
erate by Sagua La Grande, he received similar distinguished
courtesies from other places. When he took his leave from
Cienfuegos, his army station, the fire department of the city,
of which he had been elected honorary president, and the two
Cuban and Spanish clubs escorted him to the steamer, and,
in addition, they were accompanied by three thousand school
children, who joined in the escort to evidence the great love
they had for the good consular agent and gallant soldier, who,
when they were hungry and naked, fed and clothed them, and
who, when they were oppressed, bravely defended them.
Every American newspaper reader is familiar with the story
of the incarceration, and the escape in male attire from the
Siianish pri>on, of the young and beautiful Cuban girl, Evan-
gelina Cisneros. The press was full of accounts of the ro-
mantic daring she displayed and the thrilling experience she
encountered. It is doubtful if all the mysteries of the plot
and the aid she received have ever been made clear to the
understanding of the Spaniards. The fact is not generally
known, but there is among some ot us little room to question
that the .American consular agent, the old Confederate who was
once a >oung hero in giay, in llie chivalry of a nature whose
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OUAKTERS OK THE STATES, NASHVILLE REUNION.
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every fault leans to virtue's side, so far forgot the duty of
cold-blooded officialism as to let his sympathy for the unfor-
tunate girl strangle his implied obligations to noninterference
in such contingencies. At any rate, he was an open sympa-
thizer, if not an avowed rescuer, of the unhappy maid. If
he was not actually particcps criminis in the liberation and
flight of Miss Cisneros, he was at least present at the rescue ;
and, although Capt. Barl<er keeps a still tongue about it, it is
equally cert.iin that her escape was effected just before the
date fixed for his sailing for New York, under orders to return
to Washington to report on the conditions and situation in
Cuba. It is also known that she was taken in charge by him,
and furnished safe escort until delivered into the hands of
her friends in New York City, and that, out of deference to
his wishes, little or no publicity was at the time given to his
connection with the afi'air, lest the engaging in such an escapade
might be regarded as too partisan.
But Mr. Barker, in his consular capacity, was no ordinary
commercial agent. He was something infinitely more than .1
mere compiler of statistics for his government, something
more than a mere protector of his countrymen within hi-;
consular jurisdiction, something more than a mere sympathizer
witli the unfortunate and rescuer of distressed maidens. He
was a close observer of events, a student of conditions, a
correct diagnoscr of situations, and an intelligent prognosti-
cator of results likely to ensue therefrom. As an evidence of
the accuracy of his observation and the soundness of his judg-
ment, it may be mentioned that as early as 1895, before the
insurrection in Cuba against the sovereignty of Spain was
well out of its swaddling clothes, Mr. Barker advised his home
government at Washington, in a special report of the stale
of affairs in the province to whose part he was the accredited
agent, that Spain had practically lost her supremacy in th.=
island, and, in his opinion, it would never be regained. In
other words, his prophecies then arc history now. The scepter
of the Spaniard, which for four hundred years had controlled
llie fortunes and swayed the destinies of the Antilles, had de-
parted, nevermore to be restored until America ceases to be
the land of the free and the home of the brave, and her star-
spangled banner, emblem of liberty, of faith, hope, and charity,
shall be forever furled.
That those who know him best love him most is beautifully
attested by the patriotic women of his native town who. not
less in recognition of his meritorious services to the cause of
humanity in Cuba than for his gallant record as a soldier of
the lost cause, have, in his honor, named their local organi-
zation of the Daughters of the Confederacy the Walter Barker
Chapter of the U. D. C, thus establishing the fact that he is
a prophet not without honor, even in his own country.
In the late summer of KJ02 Capt. Barker, who had long been
stationed at Cicnfucgos as commandant of the port, was, at
his own request, transferred to the Philippine Islands. He
is at present stationed at Batangas Province, about one hun-
dred miles south of Manila. En route to his distant station,
he passed through the States, and visited his home in Missis-
sippi for the first time in ten years. Here he spent less tha'i
ten days, and hurried on to his post of duty beyond the Pacific,
in the distant land of the rising sun. How long this battle-
scarred Confederate veteran will tarry as a dweller in the Ori-
ent is not known. But it is to be hoped that some day he
will return, and his home-coming will bring joy and gladness
to many hearts, even as did Luke Wright's. He can be ten-
dered no such reception as was given Gov. Wright, because
his home is in a small town on the Mississippi prairies; but
he will be as cordially welcomed by hearts as loyal and loving
as those that throbbed with delight at the return of Memphis's
well-beloved son. Bluer skies, fairer elds, more golden sun-
shine, braver men, and nobler women nowhere may be found
than those tliat bless and brighten No.xubee County. There
patriotism is indigenous. It is a cotnmunity to which a visit
is esteemed a glorious privilege, and to the departing guest
ever remains a pleasant memory. To dwell there is an in-
spiration and a benediction, since he who finds a home in East
Mississippi and does not dishonor it has a foretaste of Para-
dise, and is more than half assured of a blessed immortality.
All Mississippi will unite with the writer in praying: "God
bless the good, the generous, the gallant old Confederate,
Walter Barker, who now wears the blue as worthily as forty
years ago he wore the gray !
CONFEnKR.\TE OFFICERS IN PRISON.
PROUD OP HIS FATHER'S COUNSEL.
Comrade N. B. Littlejobn sends from Stillwcll, Ind. T.,
a letter from his captain, Travis C. Henderson, of April 4,
1004. with a note :
"I have not seen him since I was taken off of the battle-
field of Chickamauga, in 1863. I inclose also the parting words
and advice of my father when I enlisted in the army of the
Confederacy, in May, 1861. I enlisted in Texas. I want my
old comrades who are yet survivors to know that I did not
dishonor the cause nor the advice of my father. Capt. Hen-
derson was shot squarely through the shoulders at Franklin
while charging the enemy. I lost my leg at Chickamauga."
Capt. Henderson's letter is from Paris, Tex., April 4, 1904:
. . . "Truly you were a good soldier, from first to last,
at your post of duty. It is my recollection that you were
never absent from the command a single day except from
wounds. In my mental reviews of the past I have you ever
on the roster as a soldier and a gentleman. In those days
when we served together it was a trial of men's souls. Ours
was a gallant band, and none were braver than you."
The words of Senior Littlejobn were as follows:
"My son, I grasp your hand probably for the last time upon
earth. You are going to meet the dangers and hardships con-
sequent to a soldier's life; you may fill a soldier's grave. Let
me impress upon your mind to never fill it dishonorably.
Ever be at your post of duty ; be an honor to our beloved
Southland; go where your superiors in ofticc may order you;
never turn your back upon the foe except when deemed neces-
sary by your commanding officers. Be true to your God, your-
self, and your country. Never bring reproach upon your be-
loved Southland and yourself. Never desert your country;
but, if necessary, die at the post of honor."
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liHy THE SOUTH FIRED THE FIRST SHOT.
(Paper read before the F. M. Cockrell Chapter, U. D. C,
Warrensburg, Mo., by Miss Janet Schurman, Slate Normal
School.]
As each State seceded from the Union, she resumed her
rights and powers as a "free and independent State," and be-
gan to exercise tliem as far as she was able. They claimed
the right to take possession of the forts, arsenals, and other
public buildings within their territory, the sites of which had
been ceded to the general government of the United States
while the buildings had been paid for out of the public fund
to which each State had given its share. While claiming the
right to hold these, each State was willing to pay ^or them,
the terms to be afterwards agreed upon according to the
justice of the case.
South Carolina sent commissioners to Washington to secure
by peaceable means the possession of the two forts (Sumter
and Moultrie) in Charleston harbor. President Buchanan',?
administration would not agree to this, but promised that "the
military status of the forts should not be disturbed," while
the commissioners agreed, on the other hand, that "there
should be no attacks on the forts pending negotiations." South
Carolina scrupulously kept her word of honor; not so, how-
ever, with the parties on the other side. On the night of De-
cember 26, i860, Maj. Robert Anderson, commanding the gar-
rison on Fort Moultrie, spiked his guns and demolished the
defenses as far as possible, and moved his men, provisions,
and ammunition to Fort Sumter, which was much the stronger
fort, nearer to Charleston, more inaccessible to attack, and
which commanded the whole harbor. The Southern people
were naturally very indignant at this "change of military
status." The Secretary of War, John B. Floyd, demanded
authority from the President to order Maj. Anderson back to
Fort Moultrie, and on having his request denied he tendered
his resignation, which was speedily accepted. In his resignn-
tion he said : "I can no longer hold my office under my con-
victions of patriotism, nor with honor, subjected as I am to
the violation of solemn pledges and plighted faith."
South Carolina now sent her military forces to take pos-
session of Fort Moultrie, the arsenal in Charleston, and other
strongholds around the harbor, after which they immediately
began preparations to capture Sumter, if it could be gotten no
other way. Still they had hope of gaining possession of it by
peaceable means, and again sent three commissioners — Messrs.
Forsyth, Crawford, and Roman — to Washington with instruc-
tions and power to negotiate with the Federal government
and to settle all the questions under discussion. In the mean-
time, Gtn. Scott, after having conferred with some of the mili-
tary authorities, recommended the evacuation of Fort Sumter
as a "military necessity," because it could not be provisioned
and reenforced without a great cost both of money and human
life. William H. Seward, Secretary of the State Depart-
ment, refused to recognize these men officially, but still held
out hopes of a peaceable settlement in an informal interview
which he granted them. Judge John A. Campbell, of the
Supreme Bench, assured Mr. Seward in a private interview
that Fort Sumter would be evacuated in the next five days,
and told him to assure the other commissioners of this fact,
besides assuring them that the government would not under-
take to supply Fort Sumter without giving notice to Go/.
Pickens, of South Carolina. Promises, however, are often
made to be broken, and such was the case here. Shortly after
this the newspapers reported large naval preparations in
progress, both at New York and Norfolk, evidently with the
intention of rcenforcing Fort Sumter. On the 6th of April,
when the Federal fleet carrying 285 guns and 2,400 troops
was setting sail for Charleston, President Lincoln, who had
been elected in the meantime, sent a messenger to Gov. Pick-
ens, telling him that he had changed his policy and had de-
cided to provision and reinforce the fort, even if resistance
should be made by the Confederates. This messenger reached
Charleston on the evening of the day on which the fleet would
have arrived had it not been delayed by a storm. This delay
gave Gen. Beauregard, then in fharge of the Confederate
forcts at Charleston, time to consult, by telegraph, with the
Confederate authorities. Acting under their instructions, he
demanded the evacuation of the fort, and, when that was not
granted, a pledge that the guns of the fort should not be
turned on his forces in any conflict l:c might have with the
approaching fleet. Again being refused, fire was opened on
Fort Sumter at 4:25 on the morning of Friday, April 12, 1861.
Maj. Anderson and his men made a gallant resistance, but by
noon of the next day the condition of the fort became des-
perate, and as the waiting fleet outside the harbor did not
enter there was no other alternative left Anderson and his
men but to surrender on the honorable terms offered by
Beauregard — namely, "that he should be permitted to salute his
flag with fifty guns, bring out all the personal baggage of the
garrison, and have free transportation on a steamer to New
York." No lives were lost on either side during this en-
counter; but, by the irony of fate, one of the garrison was
killed during the firing of the salute by the explosion of u
caisson. Thus began one of the most terrible wars known
to history.
From the moment the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter
the telegraph wires were kept hot throbbing with the news.
The slrccis in the oiiii'^ wore crnwdcd with people at bulletin
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boards, and vvl:en the news of the surrender flashed across
the wires the people of the whole country were stirred as
never before. In Charleston the bells rang, cannons were
fired, and the people embraced each other in their excitement.
This same feeling prevailed throughout the whole South. The
Northern people, too. caught the war spirit, and were equally
turbulent in their demonstrations. Men who dared expres.'^
sympathy for the South were mobbed. Newspapers that had
been friendly were forced to hang out the stars and stripes to
protect themselves. The feeling rose at once to white heat,
and the rage against the South passed all bounds.
Three days after the call of Fort Sumter Lincoln issued a
call for 75,000 troops "to subjugate the seceded States," and
was answered in half a week by 100,000 men, who wrangled
for places in the ranks. This call was regarded by the South
as a declaration of war, and was met by stern defiance. In
the South the husband and father left his family and the
youth his school to take up arms in defense of their beloved
homes and their constitutional rights of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness
MISS FRANl i;s M \11-, 1 oKT WORTH.
Sponsor for Texas Division, l^. S, C. V.
New Flag for Stonewall Camp, Portsmouth, Va. —
Stonewall Camp, Confederate Veterans, of Portsmouth, Va.,
elected officers for the ensuing year by unanimous vote as
follows: Commander, G. F. Edwards (reelected); Lieutenant
Commanders, James K. Langhorne and John W. H. Porter;
Adjutant, Thomas Shannon; Quartermaster, W. S. Lang-
liorne ; Surgeon, Dr. George W. O. Maupin ; Chaplain, Charles
H. Eckert : Treasurer, John C. Ashton; Sergeant Major,
Samuel ^'. Browne ; Color Bearer, John E. Foreman ; Vidett,
Joshua Dcnby. .A.t the conclusion of the election of officers,
ihe Ladies' Memorial Association, through its President, Mrs.
Olivia J. Ilalton, presented the Camp with a beautiful flag.
The Portsmouth Chapter, United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, were present, adding a cliarm to tlic ceremonies.
MORE OF THE BATTLE AT NEW HOPE CHURCH.
BY J. D. NORMAN, COURIER FOR LOWRY's BRIGADE.
I notice in the February Veteran, pages 74-76, that Mr.
Stan C. Harley says that if Lowry's Brigade took a con-
spicuous part in that engagement— New Hope Church— he
does not remember it, and that he would be pleased for some
one of Lowry's Brigade to speak out. In reply I state that
Granbury and Lowry's Brigades did the most of the fighting
in the battle at New Hope Church. Granbury 's Brigade and
Col. Baucum's Regiment, of Govan's Brigade, were ordered
to the New Hope line, where so much hard fighting was done
first. The order to Granbury was to go to the relief of our
cavalry, which was being pressed hard. Soon after Granbury
and Col. Baucum reached the New Hope line, the fighting be-
came severe. Very soon Granbury sent a courier to Gen.
Pat Cleburne, requesting more troops, as the enemy was try-
ing to turn his flank. Lowry's Brigade, about two miles
away, was ordered to move at a double-quick to the support
of Granbury. On the arrival of Lowry with his brigade, he
threw his command in line of battle by regiments. Very soon
the fighting became terrific, and continued until the enemy was
repulsed with terrible loss.
I was courier for Gen. Lowry, and was with him before
and through the battle. I was with him during the entire
day, except when bearing messages from him to officers of
his command. I remember that Gen. Hardee rode by the
side of Gen. Lowry and put his arm upon his (Lowry's)
shoulder and said: "General, you have saved the right wing
of the army."
For additional support to what I have written about the
troops who fought this battle at New Hope Church, I refer to
Gen. Cleburne's and Hardee's official report in the "War of the
Rebellion," Series No. 74, Vol. 38, pages 724 to 726 inclusive.
Gen. Cleburne says in part: "My thanks are also due to Gen.
Lowry for the coolness and skill which he exhibited in forming
his line. His successive formation was the precise answer to
the enemy's movement in extending his left to turn our right,
and his line was formed under heavy fire on ground unknown
to him and of the most difficult character, and the stern firm-
ness with which he and his men and Baucum's Regiment
drove off the enemy and resisted his renewed attacks, without
doubt saved the riglit wing of the army, as Granbury had
done before." On page 706 Gen. Hardee states that the slaugh-
ter among the Yankees was terrific, and his loss could not have
been less than 5,000. Seven hundred dead bodies were counted
before Granbury's and Lowry's Brigades. We captured two
hundred prisoners and twelve hundred or fifteen hundred
stands of arms. Our loss was a fraction over five hundred.
Mr. Harley was evidently a good soldier, performing his
duty and not looking about to see who was helping him.
NEW HOPE CHURCH, MAY 27, 1S64.
)iY W. H. REES, COMPANY A, THIRTY-SECOND MISSISSIPPI.
We disclaim all intention or desire to continue the con-
troversy as to what troops participated in the battle of New
Hope Church, May 27, 1864. It has been freely admitted all
the time that other commands besides the brigades of Lowry
and Granbury took some part in that afTair, but that the main
battle was fought by Granbury and Lowry's Brigades and
Baucum's Regiment, of Govan's Brigade, is well settled by
Gen. Cleburne's official report, and if our Arkansas comrade,
whose article appeared in the February Veteran, had been
better informed in this report, he would not have questioned
the brilliant part acted by Lowry's Mississippians and Ala-
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baniians, but would have accorded to tlicm the same just
praise that he did to Granbury's brave Texans.
Gen. Cleburne's report mentions all the commands that were
upon the grounds during the day, including Govan's gallant
Arkansas Brigade and the part that each acted in this en-
gagement, and concludes as follows (Vol. 38, part 3, page
726, "Official War Records"') : "It needed but the brilliancy
of this night attack to add luster to the achievements of
Granbury and his brigade in the afternoon. I am deeply in-
debted to them both. My thanks are also due to Gen. M. P.
Lowry for the coolness and skill which he exhibited in form-
ing his line. His successive formation was the precise answer
to the enemy's movement in extending his left to turn our
right. Time was of the essense of things, and his movement
was the quickest. His line was formed under heavy fire, on
ground unknown to him and of the most difficult character,
and the stern firmness with which he and his men and Bau-
cuni's Regiment drove off the enemy and resisted the r^--
newed attacks, without doubt saved the right of the army,
as Granbury iiad already done."
The following extract is taken from the report of Mai.
Henry Hampton, acting assistant adjutant general on the
staff of Gen. Hardee (same volume, page 706) : "The skir-
mishing continued along the entire line all day, but no serious
assault was made by the enemy until 4 p.m., when he en-
deavored to turn our right where Cleburne was posted, push-
ing forward seven lines of battle against him. The fighting
was very severe and lasted till night, Cleburne driving tlie
enemy back in every attack. This fighting was marked by
great daring on the part of the enemy, some of them getting
as close as thirty feet to our lines. The slaughter among
the Yankees was terrific, and his loss could not have been less
than 5,000 — 700 dead Yankees were counted before Granbury's
and Lowry's Brigades. "We captured 3°° prisoners and 1,500
stands of small arms."
IVHAT FIVE COSPEDERATES DID AT PETERSBURG.
BY GEN. GEOKGE KEEbE, PENSACOLA, FLA.
The following incident I have never seen in print. I re-
late it from memory after thirty-eight years. I cannot give
dates, but it was just before the explosion of the Crater at
Petersburg. I belonged to Company A (was a lieutenant),
Forty-Fourth Alabama, Law's Brigade, Hood's old division,
commanded by Field. This division had been kept on the
move back and forth from Petersburg to the extreme left of
Lee's army, north of the James River, to meet Grant's flank
attacks. At this time it was intended, no doubt, to draw our
troops from the neighborhood of the Crater and weaken Lee's
forces as much as possible. The division was marching
parallel with, and about two hundred yards west of, the line
of breastworks, which was only occupied by our pickets at long
distances apart. The writer was in command of the brigade
provost guard (o bring up the stragglers, as the marcli
was a hard one. All at once we heard a yell in front, and,
looking, saw our boys running pellmell without any order
for the breastworks, and on the other side saw an innumera-
ble host of negro troops marching in regular double-quick
step for the same works. It was a race for life with our
boys, and they won. I immediately ordered the guard to
join their commands. It was but a little while before we re-
pulsed the negroes, with terrible slaughter. In one place I
saw five dead, one on top of the other. In the meantime we
heard shots from a fort about two hundred yards on our right,
which continued for about fifteen minutes, and then saw a
company of negro troops with their white officers march
out and stack arms. The gap between our right and this
fort was unoccupied. I hastened up to the fort, for my
curiosity was excited, and, meiting one of the five Confed-
erates who were in the fort, he led me to the top of the para-
pet, and I saw thirty-one dead negroes lying in the moat sur-
rounding the fort, all shot in the head. As they attempted to
scale the walls, climbing on each other's shoulders, they were
shot by these five Confederates and fell back dead. I was told
that these negroes were drunk. They finally yelled out that
they would surrender. There were over sixty surrendered to
these five brave Texas and Georgia soldiers. The negroes
were heard to say in their franatic efforts to get into the forf
"Shove Corporal Dick up ; he will make them Rebels sur-
render." But, alas ! Corporal Dick met the same fate as the
others who showed their heads over the top of the wall. 1
saw hijii, a large, bald-headed negro lying on his back with
a bullet hole between the eyes. I do not remember the name
of this fort, but think it was Fort Gilmer. If any of the
five brave soldiers who were engaged in this fight are living,
I should be glad to hear from them, and have them correct
any mistakes I have made in this account. I write, as before
stated, entirely frnni memory after these thirty-eight years.
WHEKt DLtLL s AK.MV ASLENDKI) THE ULUhh, I'l llsliURG LANDING.
MOSRY AS A SOLDIER AND PATRIOT.
H. M. Doak, of Nashville, a Confederate proud and an
able writer, reports through the American a most interesting
conference with a few of Mosby's men, of whom were Col.
William H. Chapman, second in rank only to Mosby hiinself,
and Harry T. Sinnott, of Nashville, one of those noted
Partisan Rangers. Extracts only are copied :
"I met three of Mosby's heroes about a year ago in the
chambers of Judge Horace H. Lurton, himself one of Mor-
gan's men, who shared the dangers and hardships of the
Ohio cani])aign. I learned then to know that Mosby's com-
mand excelled all similar commands in history in daring and
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skill, in attack, retreat, and originality of its commander.
Most of such other commands have been largely freebooters.
Mosby's command was uniqne in all respects, in organizatioti,
or the lack of it, in discipline, which, while loose in appear-
ance, was perfect, under an iron will.
"It had no camp. It had no quarters or headquarters. It
rendezvoused anywhere and everywhere. Never more than
about eight hundred men, it scattered after every fight, unless
another were in prospect, stayed in friendly houses, came to-
gether, apparently by accident, hut always canie together
when rendezvous w'as required.
"Most of Mosby"s most daring deeds were accomplished
with small numbers held closely in hand. No other com-
mand of partisan rangers in the world's history went through
with a similar organization and method of 'scatter' and as-
sembly w'ithout becoming a band of highway robbers. Th,;
nearest approach to it in history is Marion's patriot body.
"Mosby's conmiand was organized in the winter of 1863. un-
der the 'partisan ranger' act of the Confederate Congress.
It was the only one of such organizations that Lee did not
reconmicnd the disbanding of. Mosby was Gen. Lee's right
hand, a man he trusted thoroughly and always, both as a
man, a soldier, and a gentleman, and commended at brief in-
tervals during the entire war.
"He operated chiefly in Loudoun and Fauquier Counties,
along the Blue Ridge and Bull Run Mountains, operating upon
the flanks and in the rear of the Federal armies in front of
Lee.
"Mo.sby's own statement of his princijile of war is : 'As a
line is only as strong as its weakest point, it was necessary
for it to be stronger than I was at any point in order to re-
sist attack. To destroy supply trains, to break up the means
of communicating intelligence, and thus to isolate an army
from its base, as well as its corps from each other, to con-
fuse plans by capturing dispatches, are the objects of partisan
warfare. The military value of a partisan's work is not meas-
ured by the amount of property -"'estroycd, or number of men
killed or captured, but by the number he keeps watching.
COL. JOHN S. MOSDY.
GROUP OF MOSIIV'S MEN T.AKEN IN 1866:
J. H. Alexander, Ali Sellle, Cal Maddux, Clem Edmonds, D.in Lee Butts.
Every soldier withdrawn from the front to rear of an army is
so much taken from its fighting strength.'
"Mosby's command killed and captured many more men
than he had during the entire war. He destroyed millions of
property, but his chief assistance to Gen. Lcc lay in the ex-
traordinary aid he rendered in destroying supply trains, rail-
roads, connmtnications, and means of communication.
"Grant had the highest opinion of Mosby as a man and as
a soldier. He had an opportunity to know his value as a
soldier, for he operated constantly and effectively upon
(irant's lines of communication. He was a man of intellect
and culture, well versed in English and classical literature, and
an able lawyer.
"No man ever made war upon more humane or honorable
principles, or more strictly within the rules of war, and yet
he was so persecuted after the war that life became a burden.
He appealed to Andrew Johnson, but of course got no com-
fort in that quarter. He found Grant a man, a gentleman,
and ultimately a friend.
"Drawing the line at Greeley, he supported Grant in 1872.
No man ever bore himself more the friend of his own people.
He sought protection, and no more. He refused oflice again
and again. No man was ever less the sycophant, the time-
server, or self-seeker. He recommended friends for oflice.
In 1877 he accepted the consulship to Hongkong. At that
date none could pretend that he had sought by his course to
benefit himself.
"In a free country where freedom of opinion and expression
are so strongly enjoined and so little allowed, one may see
that a very able, conscientious, and upright gentleman like
Mosby, conscious of aiming only at good for his own people,
should be somewhat astonished at the result upon himself.
In a sense, it was bad judgment to think the course he ad-
vocated could be adopted. It was bad judgment, in a purely
political sense, to advocate it. It does not dimini.sh the force
of the truth that he was a hero, the trusted of the noble and
Godlike Lee, who made no mistakes in men. Mosby's course
since the war has been that of a thorough gentleman, a con-
scientious patriot, preferring truth, as he saw it, to popular
applause, a fit representative of the highest type of Southern
chivalrv."
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SECESSIOX OF KE.WTUCKV.
Mrs. Sophie Fox Sea. Historian of Kentucky Division,
U. D. C, writes in reply to the article by J. Randolph Smith:
"When your contributor has been better informed, he will
doubtless widen his horizon, and see that, after all, the 'elev-
en' he designates as Dixie Land were not the only heroes of
the \\'ar between the States.
"Since the discussion has been opened I have found, even
among generally well-informed Confederates, a great deal of
misapprehension in regard to the part borne by Kentucky in
that great struggle. As State Historian of the United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, it lies directly in my province to do
what I can to put the matter in its true light. In perfect good
temper, and with studied moderation, 1 will mention a few
facts about Kentuck-y. Far more eloquent pens than mine
have been enlisted for Missouri and Maryland. Their sons
and daughters stand sentinels at the gates with the swords of
historic truth in their hands and the glow of ardent fealty in
their hearts.
"In the beginning I may be pardoned for a bare allusion to
a notable incident in Kentuck-y's history of more than a cen-
tury ago. I refer to the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, which
clearly enunciated the doctrine of State rights, and upon
which Jefferson won his memorable victory of 1800. The res-
olutions sounded the keynote, and have been the inspiration
for every utterance touching State rights from that day to
this. A striking, illustration of the sentiment in Kentucky
just before the war was given in the presidential election of
i860. Although the Democratic party was hopelessly divided
between Breckinridge and Douglas, the Republican ticket,
headed by Lincoln and Hamlin, received only 1,366 votes in
tile entire State.
"In the vain hope that war might be averted, and tliat
Kentucky as a border State might be able to prevent the in-
vasion of the South, there W'as a strong sentiment in favor of
armed neutrality. 'Stand with the olive branch in one hand
and the sword in the other,' was urged by ?niiie of nnr most
patriotic sons, honest in their convictions that Kentucky would
wield a mighty influence for peace. But when the govern-
ment threw off the mask and asked for money and troops, the
patriotic Governor of the State, Magoffin, replied that Ken-
tucky would not furnish a man or a dollar to invade and sub-
jugate her sister States of the South. And while the advo-
cates of armed neutrality were still striving and hoping to
protect the South from invasion, the Federal government was
secretly flooding the State with troops. Like a huge serpent,
its coils were being fastened around Kentucky ; and when the
people realized the futility of their hopes, it was impossible,
owing to the presence of a large Federal force, to assemble in
their State capital. Nevertheless, Kentucky did secede. The
vox popuH spoke in unmistakable utterance.
"On November 18, 1861, at Russellville, Ky., a convention
was held, composed of over two hundred delegates, represent-
ing sixty-five counties, a majority of twenty-four of all the
counties in tlie State. It was in session for three days, adopted
an ordinance of secession and a provisional form of State
government. George W. Johnson was elected Governor, and
other executive officers named. Three commissioners were
sent to Richmond to negotiate an alliance with the Confederate
government. And the Congress of the Confederate States ad-
mitted Kentucky as a member of the Confederacy December
10, 1861. Two Senators and twelve members of Congress
were elected by the Executive Council. And during the war
a Congressional ticket was elected biennially by the Kentucky
soldiers. The following is taken from the Confederate Con-
gressional records :
" 'An act for the admission of the State of Kentucky into
the Confederate States of America, as a member thereof.
" 'Section I. The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact that the State of Kentucky be, and is hereby,
admitted, a member of the Confederate States of America on
an equal footing with the other States of the Confederacy.
Approved December 10, 1861.'
"Gov. George W, Johnson wa* killed fiijlilini; in the ranks
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at Shiloh. And the legislative council elected Hon. Richard
Hawes his successor, and he was subsequently inaugurated
with due formality in the Capitol at Frankfort, Ky., October
4, 1862.
"So much for the facts in regard to the secession of Ken-
tucky. Now a word as to the number and character of the
troops furnished by Kentucky to the Confederate army.
"It is difficult to tell the exact number, because there were
so many Kentuckians not attached or credited to Kentucky
commands. A great number of Forrest's immortal command
were Kentuckians. A conservative estimate would place the
number at not less than 40,000. although it has been accounted
much larger. Shall I mention a few of the higher officers ?
Lieut. Gen. Buckner, Maj. Gens. Breckinridge, Preston, and
G. W. Smith, Brig. Gens. John H. Morgan, Roger W. Hanson,
Basil W. Duke, Abram Buford, George B. Cosby, John S.
Williams, J. M. Hawes, Ben Hardin Helm, George B. Hodge,
Joseph H. Lewis, H. B. Lyon, Humphrey Marshall, Thom.i.s
H. Taylor, Lloyd Tilghman, and R. M. Gano. Kentucky con-
tributed a large number of distinguished officers, who, from
their place of residence, were credited to other States. Such
were Albert Sidney Johnston, John B. Hood, and Samuel B.
Maxey, of Texas ; Richard Taylor and Randall Lee Gibson,
of Louisiana ; Claiborne Fox Jackson, of Missouri ; and Daniel
Adams, of Louisiana.
"The record of Kentucky troops for dauntless valor and in-
domitable endurance was not surpassed by any other troops
in the Confederate army. It was blazoned in lire and blood
from Manassas to Appomattox. Thousands suffered the hor-
rors of prison life, and immediately on being exchanged re-
joined their connnands to fight again for the cause they loved
so well. No privations could discourage them. Was it any
wonder? They were the very flower of the youth and man-
hood of Kentucky, a strictly rcprcsentalk'c body. And they
were a volunteer force. Mr. Smith's illiberal spirit, in the
article mentioned above, forces me to ask the world at large.
Who, as a matter of fact, made the greatest sacrifices and suf-
fered most in the War between the States? The troops from
the Southern Slates enlisted upon calls from their respective
States, some reluctantly, and many were conscripted. As I
have said, the Kentucky troops were a purely volunteer force.
They went South in the face of laws of expatriation and con-
fiscation of their property. They separated themselves for an
indefinite time from their families. They were threatened
with all the penalties of treason. They sacrificed their all
cheerfully, uncomplainingly, to fight, and, if need be, to die to
protect the firesides of strangers, whom they loved as brethren.
"An enlightened and generous public will one day, if not
now, realize that it was the border States that suffered most
and sacrificed most, and no considerable numbers, even of the
'eleven,' will begrudge them a memorial shaft so justly
merited."
Protests from Kentucky.
Mrs. Henrietta Morgan Duke, Slate Director of Davi< Mon-
ument for Kentucky and First Vice President United iKiuuli-
ters of the Confederacy, in a criticism of Randolph Smitli's
original attempt to justify the omission of columns for Mis-
souri and Kentucky, writes:
"It may be admitted that the efforts made by Kentucky aiiJ
Missouri to secede were neither so formal as some of the oth-
■ers, nor so strongly aided and indorsed by popular support,
yet it is a fact that the highest and best authority accepted
them as adequate. Action of that kind, undertaken in Ken-
tucky or Missouri, was necessarily in the immediate presence
of an overwhelming hostile power and in the face of a direct
threat of armed Federal interference. On the other hand, the
delegates who composed the Legislatures or conventions which
passed ordinances of secession for those States, which this
writer fondly styles Mr. Davis's 'own eleven Confederate
Stales,' were elected and were able to assemble in absolute
security in the capitals of those States, and to deliberate with-
out fear of factional or forcible interruption. Nevertheless,
Kentucky and Missouri did secede in a manner satisfactory to
the Confederate government and quite sufficient to meet the
requirements of the Confederate Congress; and such seces-
sion, unostentatious as it was, proved 1:0 less successful than
the others, for none succeeded.
"Now, what are the attested facts? First, as to Kentucky:
On November 18, 1861, a convention was held at RusscUville,
composed of delegates from sixty-five counties — a very con-
siderable majority of the counties of the State — and numbering
more than two hundred members. This convention adopted
an ordinance of secession and a provisional form of State gov-
ernment. George W. Johnson, of Scott County— afterwards
killed at Shiloh while fighting in the ranks of a Kentucky
Confederate regiment — was named as Governor, and other
executive officers were named. It is true that the officials of
this provisional government were shortly compelled to leave
Kentucky, but this fact in no wise weakens the contention that
Kentucky was deemed by Confederate authority a seceded
Stale. Quite a number of the officials of even the 'own eleven
Confederate States' became fugitive — very much fugitive — at
different periods of the war. But Kentucky's status, so far as
Confederate opinion and Confederate history are of import,
was settled when the Confederate Congress passed 'an act for
the admission of Kentucky into the Confederate States of
America as a member thereof.
"'Section I. The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact that the State of Kentucky be and is hereby
admitted a member of the Confederate Stales of America, on
an equal footing with the other States of the Confederacy.'
This act was approved by President Davis December 10, 1861.
"The secession of Missouri was as regular and as duly in
accordance with the forms of law as that of any of the eleven
Slates for whom the writer claims the sole honor of such ac-
tion. The Governor and other State officials, and the Legisla-
ture of Missouri — all having been duly elected and their terms
iiii; i'.\Kim:NiiN in ce.nte.n niai. r.\KK. xa.-hulil. ii.nn.
Occ:»sion of dedicating tablet to Col. W. e". Smith, the architect, :i Confed-
erate from Virgin!;!, who Hvetl at Nashville after the Confederate War, anj
dletl while at ttie head of the First Tennessee Regiment, U. S. A., In the Phil-
ippines.
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of office not having as yet expired — had been driven away from
the capital. JcfTcrs<in City, hy Fc<IeraI bayonets, and had re-
assembled at Neosho. .At this place, in September, 1861, the
Legislature passed an ordinance of secession which was signed
by the presiding officers of both houses, attested by the clerks
of both, and approved by the Governor, Claiborne F. Jackson.
Missouri was also admitted as a inember of the Confederacy by
an act of the Confederate Congress, the dale of which I do not
remember.
"It may be asserted that the formal admission of Kentucky
and Missouri into the Confederacy was not in accordance with
the will and wishes of the people of these two States, and
that only a minority of each assented. But this is a matter
which rests in surmise and can never be accurately determined.
The men who were most prominent in the movement — John-
son, Breckinridge, Burnett, Bruce, Hawis, Machen, and others,
who spoke for Kentucky; Jackson, Reynolds, Price, Clark, and
their colleagues, who expressed what they declared to be the
sentiment of Missouri— believed and insisted that the great ma-
joiity of their people desired to be united by political ties to
their brcthrin of the South, as closely as they were already
connected with them by bonds of interest and sympathy. The
Federal officials, both civil and military, seemed to share this
opinion, and it would be nearer the truth to say that during
the 'four years of the war' Kentucky and Missouri were un-
der the Federal ban more than they 'were under the protection
of the Federal flag.' Does any intelligent and well-informed
person doubt that, if the Confederacy had succeeded, the rec-
ognition of its independence would have included Kentucky
and Missouri, and that the people of both States would have
ratified the steps previously taken to make them citizens of
the Confederacy?
"The writer of the article in the Veter.\n asks, 'What would
Jefferson Davis say' to the proposition that Kentucky and
Missouri should be recognized and 'honored' as Confederate
States? Jefferson Davis answered that question when he ap-
proved the acts of Congress admitting them; and if his great
heart could have harbored bitter scorn and contempt for any-
thing, it would have been for such a suggestion coming from
a Southern source.
"But. says this writer, Kentucky and Missouri had also
'Federal Governors' during the war; and. although they were
represented in the Confederate Congress, they had representa-
tives also in the Congress of the United States. The objection
is almost too i)ucrile for notice; but if such rule of construction
should be adopted, it would prove fatal to the claims of some
of the States which the writer admits to have been, beyond
controversy. Confederate States. I will cite a single example,
selecting therefor a State whose record during the entire
struggle for heroic courage and patriotic devotion was unsur-
passed. When the Confederate armies were driven liy over-
whelming numbers from the soil of Tennessee and she was
helpless m the clutch of the invader, that gallant State had a
'Federal Governor' and representatives in the Federal Con-
gress. But will any man of ordinary reason claim that such
inevitable conse<|uence of lu-r tlun condition is just ground for
reflection upon her record or her people?
"But all discussion of this nature is as idle as the provoca-
tion given for it was unnecessary. The right which Kentucky
and Missouri have to be represented in any movement or effort
for the preservation of Confederate memories and the illustra-
tion of the glory and heroism of the South depends not on
their technical claim to have been 'Confederate States,' but,
like that of Maryland, on the conduct of the soldiers which
they gave the Confederacy and the statesmen they sent to aid
her councils.
"If these men were not lacking in valor and fidelity, in wis-
dom and constancy, then surely the zealous wish of their
compatriots — men or women — to honor the cause they served
should not be met with sneer and rebuff. If people in Ken-
tucky, Missouri, and Maryland, whose kinsmen fought and
died for the South, and whose loyalty and devotion to the
Confederate cause neither time nor disaster has diminished,
desire to contribute to the success of an undertaking so worthy
and a memorial so sacred, in heaven's name let not their
efforts be received in a spirit so mean and with criticism so
paltry and unfair.
"The first blocd shed in the War between the States stained
the soil of Maryland, was poured out in the streets of Balti-
more on .'Vpril 19, 1861, when the gallant citizens flung them-
selves against the bayonets of a Federal regiment, because
that regiment was marching to attack their Southern brethren.
On May 10, 1861, a similar sacrifice was witnessed in St. Louis,
when twenty-eight citizens of Missouri were shot down by
Federal troops because of their brave protest against the be-
ginning of coercion.
"These events happened before a hostile foot had trodden
the soil of the 'own eleven Confederate States.' The escort of
twenty picked men who were detailed to accompany and guard
I.1.IZ.\ BENNETT YOUNG, LOUISVILLE, KV.
This three-year-oUi d.iughter of General ;ind Mrs Bennelt H. Voung is
chosen hy the Vktkran for sponsor In 1916.
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President Davis when he attempted escape in the closing hours
of tlie struggle were Kentuckians. When these things are re-
membered, what generous, manly, and really loyal Southerner
will deny these States the fullest and most cordial recognition?
COUKTHOrsE AT TRENTON, TENN.
Confederate Keiic lljll in neiirebt corner upstairs.
VVc do not ask it in the form of honors rendered to the living,
but we do demand that justice shall be done our dead; and be-
cause we love the South, because we revere the memories of
all who died for the cause, no matter whence they came, we
are not willing that the heroic dead of Kentucky, Missouri,
and Maryland shall be forgotten in this sacred tribute to all
that was heroic in Confederate history, and that the noble peo-
ple wlio gave them to the battle and the grave shall bo ac-
counted recreant."
RIGHT REGARD FOR MEMORIAL DAYS.
On April 8, 1904, at the regular meeting of Camp Macon
U. C. v.. No. 1477, Commander Harris reported that he had
a conference with the authorities of the Georgia University
and the Georgia School of Technology in regard to this Camp
action against sports arranged for April 26, 1904, and the boys
of these colleges promise to take the matter up, and in the
future there will be no games arranged for Memorial Day.
Comrade J. W. Wilcox, in reporting the above, adds:
"This one day is set apart to inspire the hearts nf future lic-
rocs with love and admiration for those golden-hearled Con-
fedcrale soldiers who gave up their lives for this dear South-
land of ours, and who in life showed the most devoted self-
sacrificing courage and patriotism which ever illustrated im-
mortal virtues.
"We know that these boys will be true to this sacred prom-
ise for the sacred day, because they arc of that same stock of
Southern soldiers w-hose 'blood nourished the laurels which
otherwise had never bloomed to grace the brow of Lee and
Stonewall Jackson.' and those sacred dead of ours, together
with these few old soldiers who are now living, made tlie
world admire them in war and in peace."
FIRING A CAPTURED CANNON AT FORT PILLOW.
BY LEE H. RUSS, OF SHELBYVILLE, TENN.
Much has been written descriptive in a general way of
the storming and capture of Fort Pillow by that matchless
cavalry leader. Gen. N. B. Forrest : and still very much more
yet remains to be recorded of that glorious victory.
One of the interesting things not yet published was the
novel manner in whicli one of the pieces of artillery captured
there was turned and tired on the Federal gunboat New Era
that lay about a mile off, just opposite the fort.
After the fierce charge that resulted in complete victory anrt
possession of the fort, the writer's suggestion that we turn the
captured cannon that still remained in position at the em-
brasures on the gunboat was at once put into execution. Sergt.
W. H. Mathews and W. E. Lipscomb, both members of the
General's Escort Company, grasped the wheels of one of the
guns and assisted in backing it out from its position, whei>
we turned it in the direction of the gunboat. This done, we-
proceeded to load it, Lipscomb delivering the charge at the
nni?zlc of the cannon, while the writer (acting as No. t in
artillery practice) rammed it home. Mathews, in the mean-
limo. having trained and sighted the piece, was "holding
vent."
When the gun was loaded and ready to fire, the lanyard was
missing. When we scaled the walls of the fort, the Yankee
gunners sought safety in flight, carrying the lanyard with
them. A bright thought struck Malhews. Hastily unbrecch-
ing his gun (a Sharp's carbine), he drew a cartridge and.
forced it. inverted, into the magazine and closed up the
breech, thus cutting off the ball and furnishing liim a Wank
charge; then stepping 10 one side, he deliberately fired hi.*
carbine into the touchhole of the cannon. A puflf of smoke,
followed by the almost deafening crash of the explosion, told
that we wxre masters of the situation.
We watched the flight of this first shot, and found that it
flew too high and some three hundred yards to the rear of tlie
gimboat. Again we loaded and fired as before, tlie M'riter
firing the blank charge into the touchhole of the cannon, and,
failing to get far enough to one side, was struck and knocked
down by one of the wheels as the gun rebounded. This shot
proved to be better, and we were getting the range. This shot
alarmed the crew on board the gunboat, for immediately her
signal bell was sounded, and, while we were reloading, her
hoarse whistle began to answer, and by the time our gufi was-
again ready for action she began to move off upstream.
This third also fell short, as did the former ones, and, glancing
on the water, it passed only a few feet to the rear of the
gunboat. Had the boat remained stationary, this shot wouM
certainly have struck her about the water line, something like
one-third her length. By this time she was under a full head
of steam, rapidly retreating up the river. We loaded and fired!
as rapidly as we could, and succeeded in getting in two more
shots, though harmless ones, before she was lost to sight
around a sharp bend in the river, about a mile above the fort.
W. H. Mathews and W. E. Lipscomb, who participated in.
this novel gun practice, and than whom two braver soldier*
never faced a foe, both sleep the sleep that knows no
waking in Willow Mount Cemetery at Shclbyville, Tenn.
Lipscomb fell mortally wounded in a gallant charge made
by the Escort, and led by the General in person, near Mt.
Pleasant, Tenn. He died the following day. and was buried
at Fouse's Springs. His remains were removed to Shclby-
ville after the war.
Mathews survived the war. but, like the true soldier that he
was, died at his post of duty. He W'as employed as clerk in
the office of the N. & C. R. R. at Shclbyville, and suc-
cumbed to heart failure while standing at his desk.
The '"Fort Pillow Massacre" has recently been reviewed by
Capt. Hugh T. Hanks, of Ripley, Tenn. This subject was so-
thoroughly described by Maj. C. W. Anderson that it would
seem unnecessary to say more in the Veteran, yet Capt.
Hanks's account will have attention later.
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THE FIGHT OF THE RIGHT AGAINST THE MIGHT.
(An ode suggested by the funeral of Lieut. Gen. John B.
Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., January, 1904.)
Akin in blood, but not in tongue,
In common two peoples in difltcrcnt lands yearned for Liberty.
Nurtured under cloudy skies and kingly rule, they seeming
thought
That where bright shone the sun, but temperately.
Must indeed be the true home of their Palladium.
Not counting cost in life or treasure,
They threw themselves into rude barks,
And dared the oceans wide.
The red man's shore, tlie one found.
Where now grows the Golden Fleece which clothes the world.
The black man's veldt, the other sought.
Where in after years were found gems and treasure
Far beyond the dreams of famed Indus.
There built they fabrics of Virtue, Chivalry,
And all that goes to make up pure Liberty,
The like of which has ne'er been known in al! the ages.
* * *
Then came the jealousies, then the quarrels.
And then the Unsheathed Sword.
O those bitter, bitter years
Of Plutonic, but glorious. War
When tlie tattered Legions of Cronje and of Lee
Willi impai-t Titanic
JOHN B. GORDON AF TWENTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE.
(By courtesy of CharU-s Scribntr's S )ns.)
Forced the fight —
The Fight of the Right against the Might !
* • *
Then came the Crash, Appomattox and the End.
With them came the Olive Branch,
But no regrets of the Defenders,
The Defenders of the Cause that lost.
Lost in the Fight of the Right against the Might.
* * •
Nigh unto forty years have passed.
The shotless gun booms from the Capitol,
Stirring the City to the core and signaling
From far and near the dwellers in the lands of the Golden
Fleece
To come and last tribute pay
To one who had led his cohorts
Into the thickest of the Fight
Of the Right against the Might.
No needed emblem to tell in painted or printed word
WTio there lay in public state
To receive tribute
Not only unto himself, but also to the Cause that lost.
That scar upon the cheek
Indelibly marked him the man
Upon whom from a cloudy sky burst the shrieking shell,
Which echoed and reechoed down the. valley.
That glorious morn as with clarion voice
He led the charge — Gordon!
Wondrous it is that by the Grim Reaper .
There any now be left
To tell of the terrors of Little Round Top,
And the gory fields that bathed Virginia ;
But from such few they now gently came,
.■\nd put him away forever from the sight,
But not the hearts of men ;
-And as they marched.
They threw the old War Banners to the breeze,
.^nd in dreams fought again the Fight,
The Fight of the Right against the Might.
* * *
Tell it not in story or in schoolbook to the children's chil-
dren,
Who breathe the air of Diamond Fields,
Or those of tlie Golden Fleece,
That the Cause was wrong because it lost ;
But more clearly and firmly than in marlilc white,
Let this scene upon the Capitol tell them,
.^nd through them the World,
That Duty Done by follower or leader
Is dearer that Life itself,
Whetlier in the times of piping Peace
Or in the lliickest of the Fight,
The Fight for their Palladium,
The Fight of the Right agamst the Might !
— /. T. Dargan.
E.xplanation is made that an accumulation of tributes to
our beloved Commander in Cliief, Gen. J. B, Gordon, pre-
cluded the practicability of publishing all of them. It is
not because those used were more appropriate than the
others. Camps and assemblies meeting later really paid
more concise tributes, but there were too many of them
for the space at command for the "Last Roll." The report
on next page was promised and put in type, but it has been
held over until now.
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THE LORD'S FR.IYER.
[The following beautiful composition was found on the
battlefield at Charleston, S. C, during the war. It was by a
wounded comrade who did not live to get home.
Thou to the mercy seat our souls doth gather,
To do our duty unto thee— OUR FATHER,
To whom all praises, all honor should be given;
For thou art the great God— WHO ART IN HEAVEN.
Thou, by thy wisdom, rulest the world's whole fame.
Forever, therefore— HALLOWED BE THY NAME.
Let nevermore delay divide us from
Thy glorious face, but let— THY KINGDOM COME;
Let thy commands opposed be by none.
But thy good pleasures and— THY WILL BE DONE,
And let our promptness to obey be given
The very same— IN EARTH AS 'TIS IN HEAVEN.
Then for our souls, O Lord, we also pray.
Thou wouldest be pleased to— CIVE US THIS DAY
The food of life, wherewith our souls are fed,
Sufficient raiment, and— OUR DAILY BREAD;
With every needful thing do thou relieve us.
And of thy mercy, pity— AND FORGIVE US
All our misdeeds, for him whom thou didst please
To make an offering, for— OUR TRESPASSES,
And forasmuch, O Lord, as we believe
That thou wilt pardon us— AS WE FORGIVE,
Let that love teach, wherewith thou dost acquaint us,
To pardon all— THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US;
And though, sometimes, thou findcst we have forgot
Tliis love for thee, yet help— AND LEAD US NOT
Through soul or body's want to desperation.
Nor let earth's gain drive us— INTO TEMPTATION;
Let not the soul of any true believer
Fall in the time of trial— BUT DELIVER.
Yea, save them from the malice of the devil.
And both in life and death keep— US FROM E\TL.
Thus pray we. Lord, for that of thee, from whom
This may be had— FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM,
This word is of thy works, its wondrous story
To Ihee belongs— THE POWER AND THE GLORY,
And all thy wondrous works have ended never,
But will remain forever, and — FOREVER.
Thus we poor creatures would confess again.
And thus would say eternally — AMEN.
Gordon Memorial Service at Nashville.
A beautiful and impressive service was held in Nashville on
Sunday afternoon, March 6, 1904, as a tribute to the memory
of Gen. Gordon. The meeting was convened under the aus-
pices of Frank Cheatham Bivouac, in the First Presbyterian
Church. Capt. M. B. Pilcher, of the Army of Tennessee, and
President of the Bivouac, presided ; and Dr. A. A. Lyon, Sur-
geon A. N. V,, as Chairman of the Arrangement Committee,
acted as master of ceremonies. All the active participants were
Confederate Veterans.
The exercises were planned for a unique and pleasing cere-
mony, consisting of a blend of symbolic wreaths, with the Con-
federate battle flag, the American flag, and the banner of
Frank Cheatham Bivouac. First, a wreath of laurel, denoting
victory, was connected with the battle flag, as symbolizing the
heroic military career of Gen. Gordon as a Confederate com-
mander; next, the olive, symbolic of peace, with the American
Hag. under whose stars and stripes Gen. Gordon had immortal-
ized himself, since the close of the war, as a national peace-
maker ; and lastly, the wreath of cypress, the funereal emblent
of death, was attached to the banner of the Bivouac, whose
members were, in a sense, the chief mourners on the occasion.
These beautiful and artistically wrought wreaths were gra-
ciously provided by the several Chapters of the United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy in Nashville, and by them were borne
into the Church, and formally hung in their allotted positions
by representatives of tlic respective Chapters as follows: The
olive by Miss Mollie M. Claiborne, of Nashville Chapter; the
laurel by Mrs. J. W. Fisher, of Bate Chapter ; and the cypress
by Mrs. John P. Hickman, of Kate Litton Hickman Chapter.
This ceremony was unique in conception and beautiful in
execution, and proved an interesting feature of the services.
The regular exercises were opened with an invocation
prayer by Rev. J. C. Cowan, Chaplain of Frank Cheathant
Bivouac and Camp; the reading of Scriptures by Rev. J.
P. McFerrin, of the Methodist Church; and the closing prayer
was olfered by Rev. J. H. McNeilly, an army chaplain.
The special memorial address wns pronounced by Rev.
Lansing Burrows, D.D., of the Baptist Church. Dr. Burrows
had been a personal friend of Gen. Gordon, and had served
with him till the end as a soldier in the Army of Northern
Virginia. His address was appropriate and eloquent, and con-
tributed in no small degree to the comfort of his hearers.
Carefully selected music, rendered by the best talent in the
city — all male voices — lent its charm to the occasion, and will
long be remembered in connection with this memorial occasion.
The benediction was pronounced by Rev. William M. An-
derson, D.D., pastor of the Church.
Thomas E. Walker.
On February 12 Comrade T. E. Walker passed into the great
beyond at his home near Aberdeen, Tex. He was born in
Georgia in 1S28, removing with his parents to Mississippi, and
thence to Texas in 1851. His wife died in 1852, after which
time his life was very unsettled for some years. Later, he be-
gan business in Monlton, Tex., and in 1856 married Miss Nar-
cissa W. Wiggington. Eight children were born of this union,
and his wife and five sons survive him. He entered the Con-
federate service in the fall of 1863, and served with Company
G, Twelfth Mississippi Cavalry, commanded by Capt. John
Hyneman, in its various perils and privations. After some
years of suffering, tlie end came. He was a member of the
Baptist Church and a Mason.
Gen. W. H. Payne.
Gen. William Henry Pajme died in Washington recently,
after a long illness. He was a native of Fauquier County,
Va., but had resided in Washington for some years, and
was counsel for the Southern Railway. Gen. Payne was a
gallant Confederate. He organized and was the first captain
of the famous Black Horse Cavalry, which he commanded at
the battle of Bull Run. Two weeks later he was promoted xo
major, and subsequently to lieutenant colonel, colonel, and
brigadier general. He was three times seriously wounded.
His remains were taken to Warrcnton for interment.
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Gen. V. D. Gboxer
This gallant and distinguislifd Confederate officer, whose
■death, in Norfolk, Va.. on November 26, 1903. terminated a
career of varied and honorable activities, was born in that
city Scptemljcr 7, 1836. His father, George Groner, emigrated
to America from Germany in l8->7, and married Eliza Newci;,
of an old Virginia family, whose father took a brave part with
Capt. Emerson's company of vohmtccrs in the repulse of the
British at Crancy Island in 1812. and whose grandfather was
a captain in the American navy during the Revolutionary War.
Young Groner attended the local schools, graduated with dis-
tinction at the Norfolk Military Academy in 1853, and after
a private course of instruction in law was admitted to the bar
during his twenty-first year. But his active and adventurous
■disposition craved a more strenuous life than the Old Do-
minion then alTorded, and, journeying to Texas in 1859, he re-
ceived from Governor Houston a commission in Bailey's Reg-
iment of Rangers, then in active service on the frontier, where
he displayed that aptitude for military affairs which after-
wards distinguished him in a wide field. He remained in
Texas until after the election of Mr. Lincoln, but when the
War between the States became imminent he returned to Vir-
ginia. Pending the secession of his native State, he executed
under autliority of Gov. Pettus the delicate mission of secur-
ing and transshipping from New York to Jackson a large
<5uantily of arms and munitions for the Mississippi troops;
and later, going to Montgomery with letters of warm rec-
ommendation from Gov. Pettus, he was cordially received
by President Davis and appointed captain in the regular army
of the Confederate Slates, with an assignment to the adjutant
general's department.
For some months alter the transfer of the Confederate gov-
ernment 10 Richmond, Capt. Groner was engaged, under the
direction of the Secretary of War, in the work of organizing
the troops arriving from the South ; but this duty, while dis-
charged with the fidelity and thoroughness which marked all
his life as a soldier^ was not congenial to a bold and cnler-
CEN. GRO.NER.
prising spirit, and in the spring of l86», at his own request,
he was given a cavalry command on the Blackwater River, in
Southeastern Virginia, and won commendation for the skill
with which that line was held intact against a superior force.
Later, in the same year, he was promoted to the rank of
colonel of the Sixty-First Virginia Infantry, with which force
— a Mississippi battalion, a regiment of cavalry, and two bat-
teries— he hold Warrcnton during the first Maryland cam-
paign, and after the return of Lee's army to Virginia, until the
advance of Burnside compelled withdrawal, when he executed
orders to make a rapid movement in front of the Federal
march upon Fredericksburg, at which point he met the van
of Burnside's columns and forestalled their crossing of the
Rappahannock.
After the battle of Fredericksburg, Col. Groner's regiment
was incorporated into Mahone's Virginia Brigade and formed
part of that justly famous command until the end of the war.
In the battle of Chancellorsville his regiment bore a conspic-
uous part, and the conduct of its commander won special men-
tion in the reports. From this time on Col. Groner was
constant in service with the Army of Northern Virginia and
sustained in every engagement the reputation of a cool and
.skillful oflicer. He was a strict disciplinarian and an accom-
plished tactician, and maintained the efficiency of his troops
through all vicissitudes of danger and privation. During the
battles incident to Grant's passage- tiirough the Wilderness,
Col. Groner was severely wounded while leading his regiment
in a brilliant charge; but he rejoined the army at Petersburg,
when only partially recovered, and in the memorable attack
of Mahone's Division on the Second and Sixth Corps of
Meade's army, June 22, 1864, he went into action on crutches
and inspired his men to even more than usual valor by his
brave example. Faithful to the last. Col. Groner led the
worn remnants of his regiment to the closing scene at Appo-
mattox, and surrendered there with a record of unbroken
loyalty and devotion.
After the close of hostilities Col. Groner returned to the
home of his childhood and bore a manful part in tlie struggle
to restore prosperity to his State and people. In the restora-
tion of Virginia's relations to the United States government,
he was an active and influential factor on the conservativ;
side, and in the negotiations at Washington, which culminated
in the readniission of tlie Stale to the Union, he formed
friendships with President • Grant and other leading public
men, which greatly enlarged his sphere of influence and use-
fulness. During the remaining years of his life he was
prominent and successful in many business enterprises, was
an authority on questions of transportation, and full of energy
and public spirit.
In January, 1872, in pursuance of a movement to reconstruct
tlie military power of Virginia, the name of Col. V. D.
Groner was sent to the Senate to he brigadier general of the
Ninth Brigade State Troops, and the nomination was con-
firmed unanimously. Later, Gen. Groner was chief of staflf
to Gov. Cameron. Me was for many years representative of
(lie Boston and Providence Steamship Company, was the first
President of the Norfolk Cotton Compress Company, was one
of Virginia's commissioners to the World's Columbian Expo-
sition of l8go, and held many other positions of trust and
honor.
In 1866 Gen. Groner was married to Katherine R. Campbell,
daughter of the late Jolin A. Campbell, once Justice of the
United States Supreme Court, Assistant Secretary of War to
the Confederate States, and later Counsel for Mr. Tilden be-
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fore the Presidential Commission. Of this marriage (Mrs.
Groner surviving) there are three sons.
It remains to speak of the kindly virtues of the man aside
from his claim to remembrance as a faithful soldier and a
patriotic, useful citizen. No warmer heart was ever the
prompter to a more open hand than that which gave the life
pulse to Virginius Groner. His attachments were warm
and unselfish as his convictions were strong and outspoken.
From a continuing friendship of forty years, begun on the
battlefield and continued through years of change and trial,
until the clods fell upon his coffin lid, one who knew his un-
bending loyalty and partook of his unvarying kindness offers
this sincere, though feeble, tribute to his memory.
Gen. Groner was an aclive member of Pickett-Buchanan
Camp, U. C. v.. and his mortal remains were escorted to the
grave and buried with funeral honors by his former comrades
in arms. W. E. C.
Du. W". F. COATES.
After many months of suffering. Dr. W. F. Coates passed
into rest at his home, in Wills Point, Tex., in March, 1904.
aged seventy-one years. He served as captain of a company
in the First. Arkansas Cavalry, commanded by Col. Arch Dob-
bins, participating in the principal battles which occurred in
the Trans-Mississippi Deparlnicnt until January, 1S65, when,
as senior captain, he took conunand of the regiment, his field
oflicers having been killed or captured during the raid into
Missouri.
After the close of the conflict he removed to Navarro
County, Tex., where he resumed practice of his profession .-.s
a physician and continued at or near Kerens till 1888, when he
removed to Wills Point, where his death occurred. He was
twice married, and leaves a wife and two children. He was
loved by all wdio knew him for his many fine traits of charac-
ter, and in his death leaves many mourning hearts.
Dr. John O. Scott.
At the last meeting of Mildred Lee Camp, of Sherman,
Tex., a special memorial service was held for Dr. John O.
Scott, who died on the 8th of March. For many years he
had been an interested reader and worker for the Vetera.\,
and it is a sad pleasure to pay him this tribute through its
columns. From the resolutions passed by his comrades en
this occasion, the following sketch is given of his life;
"Dr. John O. Scott was born at Locust Hill, near Frankfort,
Ky., in 1837. He graduated from Center College, Danville,
Ky., in February, 1862. He was assistant surgeon to the Sec-
ond and Third Kentucky Regiments and Byrnes Battery, and
was afterwards surgeon to the Seventh Kentucky Regiment,
and participated in the battles of Sliiloh, \"icksburg, Murfrees-
boro, Harlsvillc, and other engagements.
"Dr. Scott was married .\pril 4, 1864. to Miss Ellen C.
Mclvin at Marion, .Ma. He practiced his profession at Owens-
boro, Ky., until 1875, when he came to Sherman, Tex., where
he resided until his death. He was a brother of Dr. Preston
B. Scott, who died some years ago in Louisville, Ky.
"Dr. Scott was a man of classical education and unimpeach-
able private character. His even temperament and jovial dis-
position prompted him always to meet every one with true
and gentle politeness and a smile that portrayed that geniality
of soul which stamped him as one w-ho loved his fellow-men.
"As a physician his record was known to the people of the
city. He was ever ready to obey the call of the sick, be they
possessed of wealth or the inmates of povertj'-stricken homes.
PR. .lOHN O. SCOTT.
.■\s a soldier, in the capacity of surgeon and assistant surgeon,
he was ever at the post of duly. As a writer he did much to
show up the brilliant records of Texas troops. Being pos-
sessed of a great store of eloquence, his word and pen pic-
tures will long live after hiiu. This trait also characterized
him in his affiliation with medical societies.
"Religiously speaking, he was a Christian gentleman, and
liad been a communicant of the Presbyterian Church for many
years. The Camp has lost a devoted member, and his com-
rades a brother ever willing and ready to serve them in their
need."
CoL. J. .\. HrCKNF.R.
John Alexander Buckncr was born in Boone County, Ky., in
1832. His paternal ancestry were English, who settled in Vir-
ginia in colonial limes, and on his mother's side they were
Scotch-Irish, also early settlers of Virginia. His father, Henry
M. Buckner, in early life was a merchant in Burlington, and
subsequently in Covington, and was also the first postmaster
of Covington. John A. Buckner attended the schools of Cov-
ington and Cincinnati, and was sent to Center College, Dan-
ville, Ky., graduating in 1852, after which, having determined
to enter the ministry, he was scut to the Theological College
at Princeton, N. J., and he also attended a course of medical
lectures in New York in order to prepare himself for the mis-
sionary field. In this work he went to Rio de Janeiro, re-
maining until the fall of 1856, when he returned to his Ken-
tucky home. He later purchased a cotton plantation in Louisi-
ana, and became a successful planter. He was married in
1859 to Mrs. Mellie Mason Kcllam, a lady of considerable
wealth and amiable disposition, who died in 1863.
In September, 1863, Comrade Buckner enlisted in the Con-
federate army at Hopkinsville, Ky., and was made captain of
Company A, Eighth Kentucky Regiment, commanded by Col.
Henry C. Burnett, afterwards Confederate States Senator from
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Kentucky. At the battle of Fort Donelson the regiment was
coiTimanded by Col. H. B. Lyon and Maj. P. W. Henry. Upon
learning that surrender had been determined upon, Capt. Buck-
ner disbanded his company, telling them he would not surren-
der, and with Lieut. Pressley Davis he crossed the Cumberland
River and made his way back to Nashville and to Murfreesboro,
where he joined Gen. A. S. Johnston's army, and was in the
battle of Shiloh as volunteer aid to Gen. Charles Clark. In
his official report of that battle, Gen. Clark complimented Capt.
Buckner for his promptness, intelligence, and courage in the
execution of his orders.
In July, 1862. Capt. Buckner was selected by Gen. John C.
Breckinridge to succeed Maj. J. T. Pickett as assistant adju-
tant general upon his staff. When Col. Hunt was shot down
at the battle of Baton Rouge, La., Capt. Buckner was, by
unanimous consent, placed in command of the Second Brigade,
in which position he displayed a high degree of skill and cour-
age; and when Gen. Clark was thought to be mortally woun.i-
ed, and the troops began to fall back in confusion, Capt. Buck-
ner, with the assistance of Maj. Wickliffe, of the Nineteenth
Kentucky Regiment, faced the brigade about and resumed the
attack. Following the report of this action, by Gen. Breckin-
ridge, he was promoted to rank of major, and subsequently
brevcttcd lieutenant colonel for gallantry in battle. He wa.-.
also in the battle of Stone's River, and in his mention of the
officers of his division who had distinguished themselves in the
three days" bloody conflict Gen. Breckinridge says: "It gives
me pleasure to name Lieut. Col. Buckner assistant adjutant
general, who was absent on leave and returned upon the fir.st
rumor of battle."
During 1864 Col. Buckner was in the Trans-Mississippi De-
partment, and subsequently was on Gen. S. B. Buckner's staff,
and placed in charge of the Cotton Bureau, discharging the
delicate and difficult duties of the office with entire satisfaction
to the government.
After the close of the war, Col. Buckner returned to his plan-
tation home in East Carroll Parish, La. Like all brave sol-
diers of the Confederacy, he counseled the acceptance of the
inevitable, and set a good example by turning his attention tc
the raising of cotton and rebuilding the broken levees of the
Mississippi River. He served for many years upon the Levee
Board without compensation, and to his good judgment and
industry, assisted by equally enthusiastic members of the Board,
the planters from Greenville to Vicksburg are much indebted
for their fine levee system.
Col. Buckner married the second time, in 1866, Miss Sue
Covington, a belle of New Orleans and a lady of high intel-
lectual attainments, who died in 1878, leaving one daughter,
Ethel, who married her cousin, H. G. Buckner, of Erlanger,
Ky., in 1890, and with her family how resides at the home
plantation, "The Mounds," in Louisiana.
Col. Buckner was a man of unyielding perseverance, and was
eminently successful in business life.
Sergt. Wii.i.i.\m a. H.m<vkv.
William A. Harvey, sergeant of Company F, Forty-Sixtli
Mississippi Regiment of Infantry, C. S. A., died in Meridian
in February, 1903. He enlisted in the "Con. Rea War-
riors" from Lauderdale County in the early days of 1862, and
participated actively in the battle of Chickasaw Bayou and the
siege of Vicksburg, and when Gen, Pcmherton surrendered
he was sent with the army to parole camp at Enterprise, Miss.
When exchanged, his company was ordered to Georgia and
joined the army of Gen. J. E. Johnston at Kingston about the
1st of May. He was on the firing line from that day until the
close of the Georgia campaign at Lovejoy Station, having
never missed a march, a skirmish, or a battle in which his
regiment was engaged. When hostilities were renewed on the
Tennessee campaign. Comrade Harvey was at his post ready
for duty. He was in the battle of Altoona and at Franklin.
In writing this sketch of his comrade, Capt. R. N. Rca, of
Brunette, La., says : "Sergt. Billy Harvey was always of in-
terest to me. When ready for the fatal charge at Franklin,
with every band in the army playing 'Dixie,' standing in front
of Company F, I looked down the line to the left guide, and
there stood Sergt. Harvey, with a smile upon his face, ready
for the awful fray which would so soon render him helpless.
He was shot through both legs in this battle, the bone of one
being broken so that he was rendered a cripple for life."
Henry Yeatman.
A N'irginian by birth and a member of one of the fine old
families of that commonwealth, Mr. Henry Yeatman in his life
was a typical representative of this great class of people. His
home was in Maryland, and he died recently at his residence
in Catonsville, near Balti-
more. He entered the military
service of the Confederacy in
May, 1861, as a private in
Burroughs's Battalion of Cav-
alry, and in July of 1862 was
transferred to the Confederate
navy, commissioned active
master and assigned as execu-
tive officer of the navy yard,
opposite Richmond, Va., where
he served until the close of the
war. One of his most prized
possessions was the certificate
of his membership in the So-
ciety of the Army and Navy
in the State of Maryland.
After the war Mr. Yeatman became a merchant, and laid
the foundation for a handsome competence. He retired from
active work about twenty years ago, but used his energy in
bringing the property on which he lived almost to perfection
in the production of fruits, flowers, and grapes. He was
endowed with a remarkable memory, and as he had traveled
extensively, his fund of anecdotes and reminiscences was great,
and they were told most interestingly and with dramatic skill.
Comrade Yeatman exercised in his home that hospitality ac-
credited to people of his State, and his friends were many.
A devoted wife is left to mourn tlie companion of so many
years.
Rf.v. Romulus Morris Tuttle.
Rev. R. M. Tuttle died at Greenville, Va.. February 20,
1904. Comrade J. Scott Moore reports concerning him :
"For six years he had served as minister for the Colliers-
town Presbyterian Church, in Rockbridge County. He was a
native North Carolinian, and had served in the Confederate
army from that State as captain of Company F, Twenty-
Sixth Regiment, Pettigrcw's Bi-igade. So modest and unas-
suming was he that few thought he was of the very best Con-
federate soldiers. Above all the honors that had ever come to
him, he prized his captain's commission from the Confederate
government, and second was the privilege of leading his gal-
lant men on the gory fields of Gettysburg and its gun-crowned
Cemetery Hill, July I, 1863. That was a fateful day for his
IIF.N'RV YEATMAN.
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company, for in the engagement that followed every officer
and every man of the rank and file was either killed or
wounded. His company went into action that morning with
eighty-eight men and three commissioned officers. Of this
number, thirty-one were killed and sixty wounded, many
of whom recovered. The gallant Col. Harry K. Bur-
gwyn, of Northampton County, N. C, a graduate of the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, who was in command of the regiment,
was also killed. In the company there were three sets of
twins, of whom five were killed or mortally wounded, and
sixteen men were named Coffey. The following account is
given of a romance connected with the company: .In 1862 a
young woman in man's attire joined its ranks, received the
bounty — $50 — put on the Confederate unifomi, drilled, and
did all the duties of a soldier. Finally she made herself
known, to the amusement of the whole army.
"Again at the battle of Bristow Station, this company went
into the engagement with thirty-four men and officers, thirty-
two of whom were killed and wounded. During Capt. Tut-
tle's service he was wounded six times. The facts as to these
statements Capt. Tattle had preserved by a copy of the Rich-
mond Enquirer in his possession, having given them to that
paper w'hile in a hospital in Richmond. They were indeed a
chivalrous body of men.
"Dr. Tuttle was buried at Tinkling Spring Cluirch on the
22d, Rev. G. W. Finley officiating. The coffin was draped
with a Confederate Hag, afterwards placed at the head of his
grave that passers by might know what manner of man slept
there."
TnoM.\s M. Brenx.\x.
During his lifetime, Thomas M. Brennan was one of Nash-
ville's most skillful and scholarly citizens. His father was a
wealthy landowner near Dublin, Ireland, who gave to his
sons every possible advantage for the acquirement of knowl-
edge. Thomas was graduated with marked distinction froin
Trinity College, Dublin. Having pronounced aptitude for me-
chanical engineering, he made it a special study, and afterwards
served as an apprentice in the Quecnstown Locomotive Works
T. M. BRENNAN.
(1849), where, at the age of twenty-three, he designed and
superintended the building of a locomotive that made great
speed.
In 1851 young Brennan, with a party of gentleman friends,
came on a pleasure trip to America. They visited Rogers's
Locomotive Works in Paterson, N. J. This trip decided Mr.
Brennan's entire after life. Miss Anna Smith Plunkett, of
Nashville, Tcnn., was visiting her kinsman, Mr. John Oliver
Smith, at Paterson, and at a reception given in her honor
they met. It was "love at first sight," culminating in marriage
at the cathedral in Nashville, November 30, 1852.
After his marriage, Mr. Brennan remained in Nashville. He
•soon became the superintendent of the Nashville Manufactur-
ing Works, a large iron-manufacturing concern on First Street.
At this place, under his superintendcncy, there were construct-
ed for the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad eight locomo-
tives— viz., Nashville, Chattanooga, R. I. Moore, Gen. Rob-
ertson, Gov. Sevier, Gov. Blount, Gov. Carroll, Gov. Houston.
Afterwards Mr. Brennan established a business of his own,
which he operated as the Brennan Iron Works. The business
was highly prosperous from the beginning, with a great de-
mand for boilers, engines, and other machinery. The sugar-
rcfming interests of Louisiana were pouring in orders for cen-
trifugal machinery, which was shipped by steamboat, and he
had city contracts to supply water pipes and orders for big gas
mains, some of which are still in use, and rails were cast for
short railroads.
The old waterworks plant was designed and erected by Mr.
Brennan, and, though it was intended to serve a city of 20,000
IJopulation, it did good service for a population of 60.000. His
business assumed splendid proportions, earning a profit of over
?5.ooo per month.
When the War between the States broke upon the country
the Military Board of the State of Tennessee engaged Mr.
Brennan's service for the manufacture of cannon, shot, and
shell for the Confederate army. One of the most difficult
problems the Confederate government had to solve was how
to procure cannon that would be reliable in battle. Through
Mr. Brennan's technical education, he manufactured cannon
not one of which was ever known to explode. Some of the
cannon are still preserved as war relics at various places.
All went well until the news came that the Federals, under
Gens. Buell and Provost, had entered the city (1862), where-
upon the Brennan Iron Works were instantly seized by them.
Mr. Brennan then went South to Elyton, Ala., in what is now
the Birmingham district, and successfully continued to make
munitions of war. He had received a million-dollar contract
when the war ended. Returning to Nashville (1865), he gath-
ered together the remains of his business, and in spite of
devastation and "reconstruction," he set to work with that
same brave, heroic spirit that has ever since caused the South-
erners to amaze the world.
The iron castings of inany of the public buildings of Nash-
ville were made at the Brennan Iron Works. All of the struc-
tural and ornamental iron work of the State Capitol and the
Maxwell House were made at this foundry.
Mr. Brennan was one of the directors of the Tennessee In-
dustrial Exposition of 1871, and he served as Secretary to the
Robertson Association, an organization which greatly relieved
the distress of the city for years. During a smallpox epidemic
in the city, Mr. Brennan remained and nursed the people
whom others neglected. In private life he was a most genial
and hospitable host, an accomplished musician, playing classic
compositions equally well on piano and violin, and composing
music for each instrument. He was a man of handsome ap-
pearance, of cordial manner, and was universally esteemed.
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Alter siiffering from a succession of attacks of paralysis.
Mr. Brennan died October 15, 1887, aged sixty-one years. His
wife survived him until February 14, 1904. dying at the age of
seventy years. Rarely has a woman been more beloved or a
death more universally regretted than that of Mrs. Ann:i
Plunkett Brennan. Esteemed not only for her unswerving
Christian faith, her lofty intellect and high ideals in life, b;it
for her great charity in heart, in word and deed, and for her
sweet, unselfish, refined nature, kindness, purity, sincerity, and
genuine culture were her conspicuous characteristics.
Of a family of nine children, the three youngest survive their
parents: Miss Anna Brennan and Harry W. Brennan, of Nash-
ville; and Joseph P. Brennan, of Memphis; another son, Prof-
T. P. Brennan, Principal of Brennan Military Academy, and
Miss Belle Brennan, first wife of Hon. Lillard Thompson, of
Lebanon, having died in recent years.
MR. U. N. KENNEDY.
David Newton Kennedy was born near Elkton, Ky., Febru-
ary 28, 1820. He was in his eiglity-fiftli year at his deatli.
He came of that grand old Mecklenburg stock, so noted in the
early history of the American Revolution, and which has
given to our Southland so many of its slanchest and most use-
ful citizens. At the age of fourteen he entered a dry goods
store in Elkton, where he remained as a clerk for four years.
In 1838 he went to Nashville, where he was again employed
in a dry goods store. In 1842 he went to Clarksville to go
into business on his own account, and there for sixty-two
years he made his home, being actively and honorably identi-
fied with its varied life and enterprises during this long period.
In 1854, in conjunction with Mr. Glenn, he organized the
Northern Bank of Tennessee, becoming the President of it.
This office he filled for forty-five years, retiring on account
of failing health.
It is due to him that Clarksville has the most beautiful and
well-managed cemetery in the State, outside of Nashville and
Memphis. He was the prime mover in the erection of the
noble monument to the Confederate dead that adorns this
cemetery, one of the most imposing and beautiful shafts to
our fellow-braves to be found in all our Southland. He was
in the Legislature of 1861, and was Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Finance and Military AfTairs. Being physically un-
able to bear arms, he was assigned by President Davis to
service in the Treasury Department of the Confederate gov-
ernment. He was an influential member of Tennessee's last
Constitutional Convention in 1870.
A good and noble man has fallen, and will be missed in
home. Church, and State. "Servant of God, well done." He
is enjoying the reward of a blameless life and of duty well
done.
The editor of the Veteran recalls Mr. Kennedy's zeal for
the magnificent Confederate monument. In an address for
funds he illustrated his character by the statement: "I would
not be willing for that monument to be erected without my
having a part in it. "
Mr. Stephen E. Trice.
It is a coincidence that tributes to the two venerable octo-
genarians—D. N. Kennedy and S. E. Trice, whose lives were
so similar and who had lived nearly three-quarters of a cen-
tury in the same vicinity — should be given at the same time.
Stephen Trice was eighty-four years of age. He was born at
Trice's Landing, Xew Providence, near Clarksville, Teun., in
S. E. TRICE.
1820, a son of James and Zilpah (Mallory) Trice, and died
April 26, 1904.
At the age of nineteen young Trice secured a clerkship ift
the store of Archibald Cant at Hopkinsvillc, Ky. In 1868 he
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and his brother, W. L. Trice, engaged in banking. This then
became his vocation until his retirement when past eighty
years, and then he went regularly to the bank until his fatal
illness of a few weeks' duration,
Mr. Trice was a zealous member of the Baptist Church. In
his brief funeral discourse, Rev. C. H. Nash, the pastor, said:
"In character, in judgment, in service, in liberality, in length
of service, and in loyalty to his Church, he was the most valua-
ble member the Church ever had. He was always regular,
always punctual. He believed it : part of his religions duty to
be in his pew every time the church was opened for services.
He was an eager, attentive, appreciative listener, and in his
home was always a student of God's Word."
Illustrating the steadfastness of his friend to his Church
duties. Dr. Nash said : "If a Spurgeon had been in town and
preached in a Baptist church a block away, Mr. Trice would
have been in his regular place in this church.'
While Mr. Trice at his age did not engage in active service
for the Confederacy, he and his house were ever in thorough
sympathy with the South, and never neglected opportunities
to serve Confederate soldiers. While the Seventh Texas In-
fantry was stationed at Hopkinsville, wMth Col. John Gregg in
command. Maj. Granbury and wife were guests of the family
for a prolonged period. Both these officers were promoted to
brigadier general and both killed — Gregg near Fredericksburg,
Va., and Granbury at Franklin.
Mrs. Trice was of the distinguished Buckncr family — Mrs.
Virginia Buckner Stuart. The two children arc John B. Trice
(Cashier of Planters' Bank and Trust Company) and Miss
Annie Trice.
TJIE LATE VENERABLE IV. P. BREIVER.
W. P. Brewer, Secretary of S. V. Fulkerson Camp. U. C.
v., Bristol, died January 29, 1904. He was born July ,^0. 1826,
at Watauga Springs, near Elizabcthton, Tenn. For seventy
years he had been identified with Sunday school work as schol-
ar, teacher, and superintendent, and for more than fifty-seven
years he had been m elder in the Presbyterian Church, serving
THE LATE W. P. BREWER AND SONS-IN-LAW.
at Elizabethton from his twenty-tirst year, then in First Church
at Jone.sboro, and First Church at Bristol.
Mr. Brewer became a resident of Bristol in December. 1861,
and was superintendent of the railroad and paymaster under
the Confederacy till the close of the war, and was in Richmond
on official duty at the time of the surrender. He had been
identified with Confederate circles ever since.
Rev. J. C. Cowan, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church,
Nashville, and Chaplain of Frank Cheatham Bivouac, is one
of his sons-in-law in the picture given, and Rev. H. H. New-
man. Superintendent of Monroe Harding Orphans' Home at
Nashville, is the other. Both live in Nashville.
Confederate Mining Co.
IN THE BROWN MINING DISTRICT, ARIZONA.
THE first hlock of stock was all sold at the New (Orleans Reunion. The second hloek of stock.
now selling .it $2, it is thought, will all he sold hy the time of the Nashville Reunion, Jiuie
14-16. when it will be advanced perhaps to S5 per share,
When you come to the Reunion hunt up the Confederate Mining Co.'s headquarters. Those buying
stock on the installment plan at the $2 price will be carried around until January, 1905, This will
enable a great many to secure the limit of stock (200 shares) by the new year, when the sale of
stock m.ay be withdrawn from m.arkct.
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M i^ii^iness tdiicatcr with a Tiaticnal i/leputation
ORTY years a bookkeeper wilhoul iii-
lermissioii and with an lionorable
record is surely something out of
the ordinary run of business careers,
especially when this course is an
intrTf'Sling one. R. W. Jennings,
founder of Jennings' Business Col-
lege, closed his fortieth year with the close of the
month just past, and finds himself to-day possessed
of a reputation for capacity as an instructor and for
integrity in all his dealings that should serve as a
beacon light to young men seeking a business call-
ing. As an expert examiner he has been engaged by
some of the largest institutions of the country, and
it is said that he invariably enters upon these exam-
inations with the understanding that if the result
shows up to the disadvantage of tliose who have em-
ployed bim bi.<; statement will be made aeeordintrly.
This has become so well understood
by tlie business public that Mr. Jen-
nings's testimony is sought In the
courts of justice with uncommon fre-
quency, and on all occasions involving
large concerns and great sums of
money. He is just now engaged upon
the books of a large estal)lishment in
Nashville, with a view to offering his
testimony as an expert In an impor-
tant suit at law. He is also an expert
at detecting forgeries, and has many
times been before the courts as a wit-
ness in cases of that Ivind, and It Is
suid that his judgment Is nearly al-
ways correct.
Mr. Jennings Is a native of Kdge-
lield, S. C, where he was born In
1S38. At the age of sixteen, in Jan-
uary, 1855, he became bookkeeper for
the Trion Jlanutacturing Company, at
Trion, Ga. In 1857 he came to Nash-
ville and became bookkeeper for the
old firm of Gardner & Co. Thence he
went to the Planters' Bank. In 1SG4
he was engaged for an extended period
in the examination of the books of
A. T. Stewart & Co., New York, at that
time the largest mercantile firm in the
world. This firm afterwards offered
Mr. Jennings, then but twenty-six
years of age, the position of Assistant
General Manager of their counting-
room on a salary of $3,000 per annum;
but this was declined, with a view then
in iirospect of entering as a partner
in a wholesale house in Nashville. In
lsi;."i we find him teller of the Falls
City Tobacco Bank, Louisville, Ky.,
raid shortly afterwards a partner a;;d
head of the couutingroom in the two
firms of Evans, Gardner & Co., New York, and Evans,
Fite & Co., Nashville. He was afterwards partner
and head of the oflice from 1872 to 18S4 in the whole-
sale bouses of Jennings, Eakin & Co., Jennings, Dis-
nuikes & Woohvine, and R. W. Jennings & Co., all of
Nashville. He sulisctiuently organized the business
college that bears his name, which is now in a fiour-
ishing condition, as shown by the brilliant success
of its graduates, who are filling lucrative positions
throughout the country. — 2\ashville Christian Advo-
cate.
R. W. Jennings, now the Principal of Jennings'
Business College, Nashville, Tenn., was once employed
by the great firm of A. T. Stewart & Co., of New
York, to examine into and report upon their l)Ook.s.
This was successfully and satisfactorily performed,
and gave him at once a reputation as one of the ex-
])prt bnoklcpppers of the country. — 'S'rtr Ynrk f<iin.
For circulars from this school address JEJVNINGS' JillSIMESS COLLEGE, Xashvi/Ie. Tenn.
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NORTHERN REBELLION AND
SOUTHERN SECESSION.
This is one of the latest publications
on Confederate historj'. The author,
Hon. E. W. R. Ewing, LL.B., dedicates
the work to the memory of his father,
"from Sumter to Appomattox a brave
Confederate, until death a citizen of
unblemished life, and ever devotedly
loyal to the imperishable principles of
the American government."
It may be too early yet, to write with-
out partisan feeling a correct history of
the Civil War from '6i to '65, or the
events connected therewith immediately
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early to write a truthful history of the
causes that led up to the war and made
an appeal to arins imperative on the
part of the South ; for these causes are
matters of historical record that had
their origin almost with the formation
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of the course the South was forced to
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in their hypocritical cry in 1861 to pre-
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in 1804, when they openly expressed the
opinion that they had a right to secede,
and their determination to do so, from
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Innumerable instances are taken from
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NASHVILLE, TENN.
Field and Garden Seeds.
Clovers, Timothy, Hungarian, Millet, Blue Grass, Orchard Grass, Red^
top. Peas, Buckwheat, Seed Potatoes, Sorghum Seed,
Seed Corn, Onion Sets, Seed Oats, Etc,
304
(^OT)federat(^ l/etcrap.
VALENTINO'S
SWEET GUM.
The Kind Mother
Used to Chew.
Made of pure sweet {juiii
from tlie trees in old Tennes-
see.
Manufactured by
VALENTINO MFG. CO.,
NASHVlMvK, TKXN.
BLACKMAN'S
MEDICATED
SALT BRICK.
The only GUARANTEEO Tonic.
Blood Purifier, Kidney and Liver
Reru'atorand Aider of Digestion for
all •stock. A >iURK. HIT ON WORMS
AND SURK DEATH TO TICKS No
dosing, no drenching and ro waste ol
feed. Your horse his own doctor.
Endorsed bv thousands. Free des.
criptive circu'ats. testimonials, etc .
on application. Sold bv all dealers at
35c each, or will send direct, one case,
two dozen, all charges paid for 35 UO.
Money refunded if not satisfied.
BLACKMAN STOCK REMEDY CO.,
CHATTANOOCA, TENN.
Mention this I'jiper. 'Special (inci- lo dia V-r*-.
Cancer Cured by Anointing with Oil.
A romljination oi soi.tlniig and Laliny oils
has l>c<'U discov<*rfd ^vlli<■ll rt-iidily cures all
forniH of t-auccr ami tumor. It is satw and sinv.
and may l»o v^*A at lioinn witb»mt ^ain or dis-
fif^u'cnifiit. Koadci's sbould writ^^ for freo
iMK-kH to thn orivrinatorK. Dii. D. M. BykCo.,P
O. H..x4t;^', Dulla.s. Ti'X.
SEND.
CENTb
By Mall | Q (if your
druggist does not
keep it, KOR A BOX OF—
\mmh Corn Sahi.
Guaranteed to cure.
G,E. TOWNSEN0,M.D.,
Bowling Qreeo.Ky
Dropsy 1
Removes all swelling in 8 to M
days ; effects a permanent cure
in JO to fiodavs. Trial treatment
nivcn free. Nothingcan be fairer
Write Dr. H. H, Green's Sons.
Specialists, Box G. Atlanta, Ga.
"Auld Lang Syne"
Souvenir Autograph Pillow Cover.
A moat vnlualile and unique oouvpnir of the Confe<li>r»t<' Ri-nnion. This pillow Is em-
hlomiitii^ of tbo ties thut l»ouiid in llio days of long a^o. Get uno whilo in the citv, and
collect the namea of year friends. bi/.e, :t.'x:^> inebes.
PRICE, 50c.
.S01,I> KXCI,rSIVI'.I.Y IN N.VSIIVII.I.E, TKNN., ItT
CASTISER-KNOTT DRY GOODS CO.. Art Department.
FOR YO'JNG WOMEN
Nashville, Tenn.
Belmont College
Ideal Location and Environment ^''-^-'l?';-. '^« University and CoUege City of tho Sout^
Purk of lo acres, statuary, coiii*erva tones, vine-wreat utKl
pavilions, macadamized walks and drives, flowers and shrubbery. Fields, woods, and bills iu de-
li:<htful proximity, City and country in channing combination. Electric cars t*» north and west
entranoes. Students attend chur<-h of choice in city. Best city lectures, concerts, etc, liberally
attended. Out^loor pimcs; golf, teniu.s, basketball, ridintr, drivint;, bicycling.
Symmetrical Development thoughtful. p.-ayertul ministry to thr^fold nature. Fost^riuK
•' " care of home life ctjiitinued. Health and education hand in hand.
Earnestness and industry carefully developed. O^ntinuous apixjal to the spiritual nature. Ele-
vating and ennobling influences and associations. Christian culture.
P^..^»i:»»..l rv»»>.u..«:i:A» Ten schools in hands of skilled and scholarly si>ecialists, long iden-
Educational Opportunities ^^^^ ^^^^^ institt.tion. Sch .ols of Mu,si,-, Art, and JI.Mleru Lan-
guages in charge of teachers traintnl abroad. Teachers of Schools of Elocution and Physical Cul-
ture graduates of best special schools in t!iis country. Bible courses. Diplomas conferred by
Schools. Advanced c-ourses leading t<j degrees of B. A. and M.A. Preparation for all colleges and
universities. Gnnnnsium and bowling alley; wt)rking laUjratory; stere<jpticon illustrations in
science, literature, history, and Bible. Preparation for travel in this country and abroatl.
W 4lrkn:il P:»*rnnatf<» Students rejiresont 42 Stati's and Territories— Xew Hami)shire to Texas,
Piaiionai Ka. rename oreg.n to Florida, the Lakes to the GuU. Twelve largest cities repre-
sented. Refined and cultured families. Desirable after«chool acquaintances and frienda Early
registration necessary to secure rooms.
Cnmm<»nfiaiinn« '"^® most elegant girls' school south of the Ohio River.'* "A genuine
h'-nesty in everything d.)Uo or attemijted." "We ar.^ pleased with tlm jht-
Bonnel of your matricul:ites." "Belmont proceeds on the prin<-iplc, 'There are no trifles.'"
* I count the day I decided to intrust her to your care and instruction as oneof the most fortunate
of my life."
PRINCIPALS: MISS HOOD, MISS HERON.
Montgomery Bell Academy,
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.
Oldest and LjeadinQ Boys' Sctiool in lUe Glty.
IJEAUTIFUL and spacious jjrounds. Commodious,
well-heated, and wcll-vcntilated buildings. Excellent
library, plivsical appliances, and chemical laborator}-.
Lart^c and competent corps of teachers. Classical course, pre-
paratory for B. A. degree. Latin-Scientific course, preparatory for
B.S. degree. English and Business courses. Graduates are ad-
mitted to the universities without examination. For catalogue,
a.ldrcss S. M. D. CLARK, AM, PRINCIPAL.
CADETS FROM 10 STATES, MICHIGAN TO TEXAS.
Fishburne Military School.
Al)li3 instrnotors, best training, fine Sfji'ial and religious advantage's. Superior climate,
pure air, s]iarkliiig siprings. Fine ciimiius for athletirs. Electric lights, etc.
TERMS, $300. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. waYXESBORO, Va.
Qor>federat(^ l/eterai>
305
USE-
MAGIC FOOD
IT ACTS LIKE
MAGIC
as a tonic and system regrulator for Horse,
Cattle, Sbccp, and Ho^a. "The best l>y
thirteen years' t«'st." Tti..^ owners and man-
agers of the Magic Food Co., Chattanooga,
Tenn., and side makrrs of the celelirat-i'd
Blagic Stock and Ponltry Fotxls, are Confed-
erate Veterans and members of the Forrest
Camp, C. Y., and g\yo a g^uamntee with
every package. If yoxir dealer docs not kncp
Magic Food, they will send a 1 0-lb bag, ex-
press paid, on receipt of $1, Money r-"-
turued if it proves niisatisfactory. N«.tw is
the time to use it. On receijit of name and
address we will send a valuablo book on
stock and jwultry, and Ijeautiful pictures for
framing.
&Ae Battlefield of
Chancellorsville
t'.f offered
FOP^ ^y^ALE
■T^HE old Tavern. Fairview. Confederate
*■ and Union breastwi»rks still stjiinl as
left utter the great battle. Several nionn-
ments have re.-ently been erei-ted on tlie
lands, tlnis adding "to the interest of this
historic plnce. There is a small farm, val-
uable wiMHllRuds. and mineral deiKisits on
the ti'Hct, s:»i» acres in all.
CHAHLES M. tO\;ETH,
207 St. Paul Street, Baltimore. Md.
loilcaf are immediately abl
to hear onlinary c<>nvor.s;itii>ii
h\ (lie Magnetic Oto'
pit one Sound IVaves
whicli penetrate llie deafest ear. A won"
■ ierlul scicntilic invent ion wliieli restores
hearing and banishes head noises.
Guaranteed In v i s i b t e. Effective,
Com fortabte, ami Harmless. Not an
ear drum or triiniitet. Compare il with other
devices, and be Riiided hy your intellipenee.
Hy il.'^ use deafness is no longrera hopeless
affliction. Book FREE,
OTOIMIONI-: CO
UiOJ Xrch street. Room I'hU.uiclphi,). I\i.
121 '
t Q a Day Sureix-i^ir...^^?
ftiB H^H * abaolulel) lure; w«
^i^ ^B^^ f urnl«li llic work and teach yu frno, you wurk in
4h« locBhty wIiiTc>..ij Ine. Srn.I iia >.H,r a.l.lroia anJ we Mill
•xnlaln tlio 1>uiiiieBi f iill> .rpnictiil.er wr guarantee a rli>nr pn.lil
oflSforrvrrvday'a "
■ HASl" -
WHO ARE YOU?
Suppose the train yo\x are on collides -witli
another, orthe building^ you are in burns,
or you meet u ith seme other serious :u-
cident; would thej inow who yoa are ? Our
Badge — indestructible — is the only sure
and safe means of identiticatioii. l*articu-
larlv appIicabU? to women and chihiren.
B:iJg^e and service C(^mph'te for 25c., good
for one yenr. Send 25c. for :i ha'dg-e ami
service to-diy; tc-morrow najte too late. Bank
references.
COMMERCIAL INDEMNITY CO., Oepf. V. Wainwright Building, ST.LOUIS
BIG8*
Chain of 8 Collepes owned by bniineii
men and indorsi-d by business men
Fourteen Cashiers of Banks are oc
our Board of Directors, Our diplom.i raeauj
somethinp. Enter any lime. Positions secured
i Draughon's ^ ^f* ?
\ Practical...
3 Business ..
(Incorpor.ili'd, Capital bii,ck j;)tHi,(Xi(i.i)ii.J
NashvHIe, Tenn. U Atlanta, Ga.
Ft. Worth, Texas, c MontSsmery, Ala
St. Louis, Mo . Galveston, Texas,
Little Rock, Ark. A Shreveport, La.
For ISOpaf^ecatalopuo address eitlier place.
If yon prefer, may pay tuition out of salary af-
ter course la completed. Guarantee graduates
to be competent or uo charges for tuition.
HOME STUDY: Bookkeeping, Shorthand.
Penmanship, <"tc., taujjiu bv ni.iil. Write fol
IIX) pace BOOKLET ou Uome Study. It's tree
VUtll,)
rl(.al>»«liiwlv _ . „
rtiTt vwa to., B.I 1 039, u.it.ii, uici^
MISSO\7n^l
TACIFIC
... OR. ...
IRON MOUNTAIN
ROUTE
From ~,rT. LO\/I.y
and MEMTHI^y
Affords Tourist, Prospector,
or Home Seeker the Best
Service. Fastest Scliedule
to All Points in
MISSOURI, KANSAS, NEBRASKA,
OKLAHOMA and INDIAN TERRI-
TORY, COLORADO. UTAH, ORE'
GON, CALIFORNIA, ARKANSAS,
TEXAS, LOUISIANA, OLD and
NEW MEXICO, and ARIZONA.
PfM.MAN Sleepers, Free Uk-
CMNiNG Chair Cars on All
Trains. Low Kates, Free De-
scriptive Literature. Consult
Ticket Agents, or address
H. C. Townsend
G. P.andT.A.
br. I-ouis- Mo.
R. T. G. Matthews
T. P. A.
NOW DEPOSITED IN THE BANK
$75,000.00
IN CASH GIVEN AWAY.
To nrouse interest iti. and to advertise the
tiKKATST. LOIIIS WOKLI> S F.4I1£.
this eiioimt)tis sum will lie distributed.
Full information will he sent vou Alt.SO-
I.VTKI.V FKKE. .Inst send your
name nud .idilrossou a postal eard and
we will send you full partienlars.
World's Fair Contest Co.,
los N. 81 h .street
f^t Louts, Mo.
THE BEST PLACE
TO PURCHASE
ALL-WOOL
Bunting or
Silk Flags
..f All Kinds,
Silk Banners, Swords. Belts, Caps,
and all kinds of M.Ilt:irv Kq\ilpment
and Society (ioods is at
Veteran J. A. JOEL d CO.,
88 Nassau Street, New York City.
SEND VOll PI5ICE LIST.
VEMt, VIDI, VICII
DuvB.I'i Eureka, cures Dyspepsia, only.
Ouv&l's Never-Fa.il, a. positive cure
Dropsy.
Duval's lixfallible Pile Cure.
DuveLl's Herb Cure for HemorrKage.
for
F. M. DUVAL, 919 Curley SI., Baltimore, Md.
I PAY SPOT CASH FOR
MIUITAR Y
BOUNTY
Land Warrants
Issued to soldiers of any war. Also SnItliiTs' Ad-
ditional Homestead Riglits. M'rite nic at once.
FRANK H. REGER, Barth Block, Denver. Col.
100
l.\V|-|.nlM .<.
]-'nzt;KKAi.i>, .MHi S. Ninth hti
[.ui.l. :i.. LH-iits. W. H.
^(.'t, Na.-<hvilIo, Tcun.
TAPE-WORIYI
KxpfUod altv«
.n tfO iiiiiiutei
it ft tiead. or
no fee. Nfif«BtiT>zrrqiJirr.l .'^piirt L'rfltiiiiip fo^^^-nft^e Uixk.
l)K-M-NtYSMITU,>pOL'ial>M,»00UliveSt., M. Loui«, Mo.
306
QoF)federate l/e!:erap,
NASHVILLE
REAL ESTATE DIRECTORY.
PHiLPOT & eo.,
REAL ESTATE.
City Property, Farms. Timber and Mineral
Lands. Loans. Special Attention
Given Rents.
220 U\IOX STREET.
R. W. TURNER & CO.,
Real Estate, Loan, Rental, and
Fire Insurance Agents.
304 N. COLLEGE ST. Telephone 48.
DUNCAN <£ WADDEY,
REAL ESTATE,
RENTAL, AND LOANS.
214 UNION ST.
Telephone 700.
J. J- MJNT..N.
«,;. A. M^ Kits.
MINTON & MYERS,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
l'l>-to-dat« m every kind of city ijrojKTty.
FannK tor sale and ex<dian(ie for city I)l'oix'rty.
M'e .sell real estjite, collect rents, loan money.
305 N. CHERRY ST. Telephone 1031 .
Yarbrough-Davis Real Estate
Company.
.. PAID-UP CAPITAL, $100,000 ..
217 UNION STREET.
GOODLOE LiNDSLEY,
RLAL ESTATE,
Long Distance Phone 1676,
405 UINIOrsI STREET.
(ill]r ISnlirrtrum - l^rmpl^tU
JJurrl^ariinij Aurury,
323 Sljira Abrmif.
Couiabillr, 3(|j.
Shopping of all kinds g^lven prompt attrntloa.
Gowni made. Satisfaction ifuarant^ed.
nOBERT ELLIOT., Hres. C. M HUGHES, Sec'y and Trea..
NASHVILLE BUILDERS' SUPPLY CO.,
X:;shTillo. Tcnn. Puc. esscr to ('. M. IT\ij.-lies
<i- to. Projirictor.s and JIanntacturerM of STAR
WHITE LIME, and dealers in Ijinie, Sand. ('< ineiit,
Plaster Paris. FiroClav, Fire Brick. Hair. Laths.
Si-\vtr Pipe. Fine Lininiis. Tiles, all kinds Terra
'Jotta<'oc>dH WaUCnjiinL'. andChimney fajis.
I'hono. 4t«. Oflii-os. aHI-aB X. Front Sti t.
Warehouse-s and Yards, 20U-a02 end 114i)-ll.VI X.
A'ont Street.
The Certified Audit Corporation
OF INENV YORK.
AUDITS. EXAMINATIONS. APPRAISALS. REPORTS.
EDWARD OWEN. Vice President and General Manager.
CrIiflrJ I'liia, Ai>oiinl,ii:l.
I-'\-( omtnissioner of Accounts to tli<- Ci:y r/.Ycn' i'ttrl.
PRINCIPAL OFFICES, 170 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY.
BRAMCHES: CHICAGO; PITTSBURG: ATLANTA: 14 Victoria Street, LONDON.
%MWM«M»HMkMI^^«MMINrfWWMWmNrfMN«MI^^«IMMI«^.«
n
REDUCED RATES
VIA.
Ql/EEJSf t^ CRESCEJ^T P^O\/TE
TO TMfci
Ui^ited Cor\federeicte
Veterarvs' R.e\aniorv,
J^a^h-Ville, June 14-10, 1904:
Tickets on s.alo ,7uue liith to l.'itli. and Cor trains scliednled to arrive at Nashville before
noon .7 una l.'i, Ecod returning .Juno IR, with privileifo of extension.
For information, u'ldress
,T. C. COXN. D. P. A.. Chatt nonga. Tcnn.
U. S. t'H.\XDLER. T. P. A.. Kuo.wilk-. Tenn.
A. B. FREEMAX, T. P. A.. Biruiini-llain. Ala.
W. C. RlXEAl^SOX, c. p. A . Cincinnati, O.
WHY AGONIZE I
With Muscular RKeumalism 4nd
readful Neura.lgic P&ins J*
when quick and permanent relief may be had by using
DR.DEWiTrSE.GLE,GTIGGURE?
The safest, quickest, and most certain remedy for relief of pain. Used in
ternally or externally, it immediately relieves Asiatic Cholera, Cholera Mor
bus, DiarrhcL-a, Dvse'nlei-y, Cramps, Colic, Dyspeptic Pains, Neuralgia, Rheu
matism, Lumbago, Toothache, Headache, Sore Throat, Diphtheria, Backache
Bruises, Sprains, Frostbite^, Chills, Fever, and Ague, Flatulency, Indigestion
and many other ills attended by pain.
People Who Know Its Merit Ride Twenty Mi/os to Get It.
It is a doctor in the house in all cases of emergency.
as man. Price, 25c, 50c, and $1 a bottle.
Relieves beast as well
Remember, It Banishes l->aln.
THE W. J. PftRKER 60.. Sole Manutaciurers,
Sead fcr Free Family and Farmer's Almanac,
7 So. Howard St., BALTIMORE, Md.
I
Qopfederate l/eterap.
307
$2,500 Southern Home
Special plans and specifications of this
Artistic Cottaije sent complete, readv to
biiilti from,
For $15.00.
Plans for more elaborate structines,
•asonable price, jirepared bv practical
chitects.
Floor Plana on Application.
J. W. McCLAlX, Architect,
Dept. B. Birmingham, Ala.
DEMOVILLE & CO.,
DRUGGISTS.
Headquarters for Evczvthing in the Drug and Sundzy Line.
'^
Our prescription depart- ^>^
Ly Exerytliing tliat is cool,
ment is our strongest ^
f^ (ieligluful, and refresh-
feature. Nothing but the
ing at our soda foun-
best useil. Prices reasonable.
tain.
Oi'HN Day and Nighp. Nash\-ii.i.f, Thnn. ( )i'i'()srrK AIaxw hi.l
V . I
Grand Opera vs. Ragtime !
WHICH WINS?
It inatt^^rH not,
THE CRAPHOPHONE
will still Ite (HI tuj).
Our oatalof^'UG cmbrares all classes of
Musi^'^— tTi-anil :ind Comic Opera Selec-
tions, Coon Soii)fS, Popular Ballads.
Graphopfiones $4 to $100.
Disc and Cylinder Records,
DISC RECORDS.
I l;Mii.h. tl.
i\^) dozen.
CYLINDER nECORDS, 25c. eich. ^.-1
Visit Our $25,000 Booth at the
World's Fair.
TYPE A H. — S30.
COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH CO.
628-630 Canal St., New Orleans, La.
Northern Rebellion
and
Southern Secession,
BY
MAJOR E. W. R. EWING, LL.B,
^ Tellins Offer!
"We have Iviugrht of the puV>lishers the re-
iiminder of the first edition ot this valnalile
and uiii-onmion Iniok; wo believe in it: we
want all the country, the South especially.
to rea<l it. The Civil NVar is over, but it.s
history is etemaL This stronij young au-
thor has pointed a new path to that eternal
truth.
Therefore, if you will send ns a money or-
der for (*eventy-tive cenla and ton cents in
Stamjis, and }>h\iuisc to finii tlir hnltinn- cf
seventy-five *'euts, the price of the Viook.
jTOTiilod it is sntisfftctorj, and promise to
r 'ud it and let ns know within thirty day?*
of its receijit— and will make your order
vSthin tfH (/(U/.-* i'f rrii'limi this -we will
send you a cloth-bonnd cojiy. Tliere are
;^S(i lafire pa^cs. Retrular jirice. Sl.'ift. I'n-
Icss we believed in you and the iKuik. this
offer would lose us uiouey. Hurry .'
CMiEFrtJ.r ADDiij:s.<i
THE POTOMAC BOOK CO.,
Box 485. ATLANTA. CA.
To the Con-
federate Re-
union at
Nashville
Atlantic Coast Line
iiffiTS tlic (iiiickc!-t and ln>l
service from Florida, South
(Jeor<;ia, and Alabama \ ia
Tifton, Macon, and Atlanta.
leave Jacksonville at S :o5 p..m..
arrivin<j at Nashville 6 -.^^ r..\i.
followin;..; dav. Via Monti^om-
cry,"thc Cradle of the Confed-
eracy,"and L. & N., leave Jack-
.sonvillc at 8:015 p.m., arrivint,'^
at Xash\ille at 7:15 P..M El
ti^ant Pullman Buffet Sleep-
ers on both trains. Superior
service \ ia this route.
W. J. CRAIG, General Passenfjer Agent
Wilmlnglon. N. C.
W. H. LEAHY, Division Passenger A«ent
Savarvnah. Ga
308
Qor;federat<^ l/eteraij.
f?
eONFEDERATE
VETERANS
DAUGHTERS
SONS
We have put in stock beautiful lieailings
cmbosseil in red, white, anii blue, showlnji;
the oriicial Haps of the al>ove organizations.
By printing on the name of the local organ-
ization, with the names of tlie oHicers, a
very attractive letter head is had at a low
price. Send for samples and ]>rices.
BRUNDON PRINTING GO.
XaSHVlLLE. TEKJV.
Manufacturing Stationers,
Engravers, Printers, Lithographers,
General Office Outfitters
««
^
OAo Umon C/entrai
jUi'fc J'n
nsurance
C/O.f
CINCINNATI, O.
ASSETS JAN. I, 1902
SVR.PLV3
$}0.048.5?2.48
4.400.311.24
No Fluctuating Securities.
Largest K.ate of Interest,
Lowest Death Ra.te,
Ervdowments at Life
Kates a.nd Frofit-ShaLfing
Policies Specia.lities.
Large and Increasing Dividends to Policy
Holders,
Desirable Contracts and Good Territory opea
for Live Agents, Address
JAMES A. YOWELL, State Agent,
27 and 28 Chamber o( Commerce, NASHVILLE, TENN.
Confeberatc
Stamps
Manteb
By P. H. inn, 229 N. Summer
Street, Nashznllcj Tcnn.
( 'oni'iHlerat^s, b«^foro cr>minji to tli"/ rv-
nniim, look over ynnr oM lt'tt4'rs and brint,'
to me any envdoiM's tlmt lin\ .- any kind of
('onf('(i»!rat4' Htaiiijis tlxTonn. 1 pay fnnii
one cent to JlO.tXt lor thotie stampa, ucCoi*d-
iiiK to rarity.
fl Hoariij W6IC0II16
■ TO ALL
Old Gonl6[!6rat6S
awa:t:; at
OUR XEW STORE
2t2 and 211 JV. market St.
Spurlock'Neal Go.
IVashvUle, Tenn.
St. Mary's College.^
\
COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL,
SCHOOL OF MUSIC.
FOUNDED BY THE RT. REV. A. C. GARRETT, D.D., LL.D.
Sixtaanth Vear Opans Saptamber IS, 1904.
?
A rolli't^o for Christian "'ducatinn of wonn'n. Culk^^^o, collegu ijreparat4)vy, Rcientitic, and lit-
erary t-our.-os. Bishop A. (.'. (iarrult, iustrurtor in mental science and a^itronnmy. Chissiv-a and
higher mathematics in chart^o «tr Ki'uduatcs of C'ornoll. Wellcsley College, and Triiiitv Uuivcraity,
of Toronto. Natural scieni-o tauj^ht by a yradnatoof UieL'nivi-rsity of jMichi^;an. Two EuroiH«iin
in:*tructors of modrrn liin^ruagcs. ArranKomeuts mmio for foreign travel nndt'r Knpt'rvisi<;u of
Un» college. School of Mii-sic under direction of instructors trained in Germany, Paris (Fran<*eK
and Xew Kn'.:lantl Conservatory of JIusic. Pianobirlo j^mpils < xamnn'il annually by ]S!r. Klahre,
of llie Kew lOngland Conservatory, Boston. Art and chmu painting taught according to tbe best
methods. Health, diet, ami !)hysical culturo in charge of two trained nurses ami teaelier < i phys-
i.al culture. Tlio group of buildings coniju-ises: U)_St. Mary's Hall (st<me); ('*) (Tralf Hall, whieh
is dr-vo1ed to tho S.lir.ols of IMnsic and Art: (^) Hartshorne Memorial Recitation ITall: (4) Tho
^lary Athims Bulklev ]\Iemorial I>onnit^>ry; (5) The S-u'ah Neilson Memorial tor the earo of the
sick. Houses heated liy lurnaces, stoves." and open tires, and ligUt<^d by electricity. A very at-
tractive homo. Artesian well. Milk sni>plied from college dairy. Home-nmdo bread and sweet-
meats. Kight watchman. For catalogue, address
MISS TORBERT. Principal of St. Mary's Collese. Dallas, Tex.
f Potter College 1^^^^^:^
I
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y.
mpilslimit'.'iltoliH). Veiy
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yjddrejj 'Re-O. 35. F. Cabell, Trcsidcni
Qopfederat^ l/eterai)
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Guaranteed too.
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624 Gay Street,
KNO.WM.I.E, TENN.
Book-Keeping.Business,
PHONOGRAPHY,
Type-Writing
Telegraptiy
PATENTS.
MATTHEWS ^ CO.,
SOLICITORS OF PATENTS,
Bond Building. Washington, D. C.
Patents atul Triide-MarUs secured in the United
States and Foreign Countries. Pamphlet of In
structions ftiniished free on application.
^dares. WILBUR R. SMITH,
LEXINGTON, KY.,
Pnr rlreular of hie famous ami rrsponRihlQ
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE OF KY. UHIVERSITY
j Afrarded Sledal at YV^orld^s ExpoRttion.
I Rpforp to tlioiioaiKis of prftduatcs in positlnna,
I CoBtofFnll Battines* Conrse, including Tut-
I tion. Books and lli>ard in family, about $V>0.
i Shorthand. Type-Writing, and Teiegraphy.Specialties.
BfS^Tlip Kentucky UniverRity Diploma, undor ftoal,
awiirdeii craduatee. Literary Ctmree free, if deRired.
No Tacatioo. Enter now. Graduates auccesaful.
In order to hare j/our lettrrs reach us, addrcM onlv,
WILBUR R.SMITH, Lexineton, Ky.
C. E3REVER'S
Russian and Turkish Baths
and First-Class Barber Shop,
FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY.
317 Church Street, NASHVILLE, TENN,
Open dav
« o NiOMT.
W. C. RAE5F1ELD, Proprietor.
(Carbonated in Bottles— 'At All Fountains.
A Clean, Pure, Delightful, Thirst-Quenching Drinl<
MADE BY
WH71RTON eHEMieTlL GO..
Manufacturing Chemists,
Makers of the Celebrated
WHARTON'S IJVKS
For Records and Fountain Pen.-;, al
A'ashiille, Tenn.
Ernest Mii,t;-n»krgki'.
T. .T. "NVoonw.vnn
Scott McGehkh
Phksidknt.
Vice PnnsinrNT.
Secretary.
ORGANIZED 1882.
15 he
Southern
Insurance
Company
OF NEW ORLEANS.
Fire, River, Marine,
Cash Capital,
Surplus, <<
5200,000
96.542
314 Camp St., New Orleans, La,
310
C^oijj^ederat^ Ueterai).
Sterlii\g Silver So\ivei\ir Spoon.
FlsiL^ oi\ Gun Stock Enam-
eled in Colors.
OrriCI^XL SOX/V^EJVm: Mis.-iU-iippi Division. I'. U.V.: Pi-esident Davf s
»n ^% Last Hom<' : Tet^Tans* Homo of Mississippi ;
PP^|\^L $2 Nashville R.-uiiion, HK»4; United Confederate
Teterans; MisKissip]>i Pavilion, World's Fair.
Dtsiirned by a ^Mississipiu Daujrliter of tho Conftnleracy,
ami .solil for honelil of llie IJcauvoir portrait fund.
Sold Exclusively ii\ Na.sKvllIe by B. H. STIEF JEWELRY CO.. 404 Vr\i3n Sireel.
AGENTS WANTED!
War Soiias and Focms
OF THE
Southern Confederacy.
C'olleitcd and edited with personal reminis-
ccnifs of the war. by an rx-Coni<nl<T.iU' aud
well-known author. Rev. H. 51. Wharton, U.D.
Uedicated to the lal"- General J<ihn IS. <ior-
<lon. Indorsed b.v aU the most prominent ex-
C^nfederates and the Daughters of the Cc iuIchI-
erai-y. ('outainsover.Ti«J puyes. Mati-nitic-ently
illustrated. Ilai-e eollection of war son|;s
aiitl |»iH'ni^ dear to every Southern lie:irt.
Kvery true Southerner wants this lMn>k.
Enormous demand. MaKoitieent opportunity
for aijents. Terms liberal. Territory assijrne<l
on applieation. Outlit free. Send at oneo 15
cents to pay jmstage. Don't delay. Address
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.,
JIS Ari-h .ft.. I>ept. K, rhilailelpliiii, Pa.
Use
Apex
Axle Crease
Apex Soap Powder
Ping Pong Soap
Thuv arc all reliable, hii^h-t^rade
Manufactured by
Cassetiy Oii Gom
Ma9hvifie, Tenn.
W&lkins Gas &nd
G&solineEngines
run on an eloc-
t r iir In!t^J:D«to.
Xm battrrii'3 or
li<it tulM's to re-
new. From 2 to
^5 horsMiwwor.
Cntali.)t;ue sent
ou request.
C. C. Foster.
Nashville. Teiin.
^mm^^mmmmyim
American Confectionery Co,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
Manufacturers of tho
Celebrated Lion Brand
CANDY
R. D. HARRIS
MANAGER
McEwen's La\»\dry.
Goods caHed for in any part of the city, includ-
ing Waverly Place and West Nashville. Agents
wanted in every town in the State.
Telephones: 548, 819.
Offices: 215 North Cherry Street, Nashville, Tenn.
H. G. HILL <& CO.,
Public Square and Front St, NASHVILLE, TENN,
THE CHEAPEST PLACE IN THE CITY TO BUY YOUR
T^as, ^offees, ar^d GcJ^^^^^^i^^-
9 STORES.
Qoijfederate l/eterap.
311
<>
\.f. ''-^^^i-Ls'P.i.
9f^i^jfmij0l^ii^SSf^^
<i>
ESTILL STlilJWGS HOTEL,
Estill Springs, on the N.. C. & St. L, Railway, midway bi'twoen Xaslivillc ami (.'hattanooijii. is nntod for its faoilities as a summer resort. Hieh
alx>ve the sea level. e(iuallv exemjjt from tlw frigid rij^or of thi' .V"r(/( ami the dehilit-ating heat Dt the Sinith. it is nowhere excelled for eomfort. The
surrouudinjjfs are beautiful: splendid proves and mountain slroanis: the noted tishin;; stivaiu. Elk River, only one-half mile from hotel. Mineral or
sulphur, chalybeate and freestone \vat<»rs of the hii^hcst (luality. Trains >!"]> at hotd ]>latforin. Four daily mails. Sfud lor circular and rate's.
C. i^. /^l WILLIAM "B. ^HBLTOJV, OUfnerj^ and Tropriefors, B^ltl! ^J'prings, Tenn.
Two Kinds of Fishing
AT
Eastbrook
Tennessee's most beautiful and
popular health and pleasure re-
sort. Five kinds of water. Best
cuisine. Modem appointments.
Write for booklet. Address
Edward Waddle, Prop.,
Caslbrook, Ter\r\,
^rkk ^cmpanii.
Eclipse
Engines,
Thrashers,
Sawmills.
Seconi>-:Hand.— One Ifi H. P. and one 1- H.
P. Advance traction euLjiuos. WitU fricton
clutch; one 10 H. P. Kiohols tfc Shei)ard
traction engine; »»ne 1- H. P. O. S. Kelly
traction eugme : on.> 11 H. P. Eclijise porta-
ble en^^ino: one IJiix-V) liM Hiv -r Spr. ial
Nichols it Shcinird separator, wind stfi'-k'-r
and feeder. tliresluHl less than :.*.(Miii bnshrls
nf ^rain. All thoroiitr' ly repaired and v<^-
]iaintcd. A barirnin on any of these ma-
chines. "W'rit-e for catalojTUi'.
501, 503, 505 Broad Street,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
**Lau^h, and the World Laughs with You.*'
You will laujih and t:ro\v fat lis1.'llin^,' to tlie " Kdison " riiono^'ra]il s. "While in the c^ty visit the
Ray Company's Stores,
13 and IS THR nRGTlDE.
Stringed Instruments, Sporting Goods, and Sheet ^7ws/c.
J. G. PIPER. Manager.
FORTUNES
ITVT r->^ T Y $20 CREW INTO
IN V^ X J.^ $2,000 IN 30 DAYS
ill ilii> K.-miii-ky fiL-l.I, wli.^n- r.-rliiin-'i nn' Ti.iiic n-nllr.-.l In iirw
.li-i-iM,.fi,.,. Wriie postal t,ir Iniin-titii: [.nrtliuirir-
KENTUCKT TRENTON ROCK OIL COMPANY, LOUISVILLE, KY.
The Starting Point of the
Great War between the States.
Inauguration of Jefferson Davis as Presi-
dent of Confederate States of America,
In Front of the State Capitol at Mont-
gomery, Ala.. February 18, 1861.
This picture is a f:icsiinile of a photoirraph taken
on the spot while the audicnc* was at pra\t*r. ami
a fiw seconds after Mr. Davis had taken ilu- oalh
of (ithce as President of the CcMifciIerate Slati-s,
which was adiniiiisterrd to him bv Howell Cohb.
The time of takiiiij \hc plintoijrapli was one
o'clock, as the lop of Iho picture \\ ill shn\\ .
The picture is 22x30 inches, and Is for
sale by P. J, Minderhout, 123 Adams Street,
Montgomery, Ala, Price, 75 Cents Each.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
And Other Poems and Songfs.
This is the title of a unique hook l\vJneA.Cun-
ningliain, known as the " prcacJiing druninier."
The objects <)f the book are to extend Iraternily be-
tween the North and the South; to show the real
cause of the war; to refute the slander of the book
known as " I'ucle Tom's Cabin;" to show that Ihe
carpethaff reconstruct i n period was a curse to both
white and Mack; to show that the enfranclrsement
of Ihe neijro violated the decree of God throug'h
Xoah, ami that the repenl of this enfranchisement
is the only solution of the ne^jro qu-sli(m; and tin;il-
ly, that tlie whole war was a mistake, both sides be-
intf more or h-ss in the wronp;. Tlie hook Is entirely
beyond ordinary views, and is calculated to do much
good.
The same nnOior has two books of se^-mons, Vols.
I, ami II., defenilinjj original Christianity, Iracin^f
God*s Church from Us origin in Jerusalem to the
present time, and cl. liming that prophecy indicates
that God will use the Cniteil Stales as an instru-
ment in connection with his Church to bring about
the miHonni.il aye. Tlie sermons are nondenoinina-
ti"ji:il, and deserve a \ .^^t eircuUition.
These books are published by the McQulddy Printing Co.,
Nashville. Tenn. Price, 50 Cents per Volume.
312
Qotjfederate l/eteratj.
ATTENTION, VETERANS!
W'lu'n you visit Nashville during tlic Reun-
ion, watch out for the LION COFFEE tents
— corner Broad and Spruce Sts., and corner Church and Summer St^-. In harmony with the spirit of hospi-
tality which is made the ke\ note of this Reunion, the Woolson Spice Company will serve FIFT^' THOU-
SAND CUPS OF COFFEE absolutely free to Veterans and their friends.
fs:tcry and Salos'n™, 641-
543 Broad Street, Nastiyill?,
Tenn
Prices, Samples, and
Catalogue on appli-
cation.
GREGORY
Talc Blackboard & Crayon Go.
Manufacturers of and dealers in
General School Supplies
:Miumfiiitui'ors of the Colulivated (Ji-iiRory Talo Blai'k-
Loiiribs, Urctiory Eriiscrs, auvl TjiL- (_'n;yons.
Children's Boards for liomo use and Boards for
c'hurchos a »]w<'ialty.
Sinnr f'i'/j/ PiO'lic ScJnmln fui-l i>rtritlr (■(*?/«(/»-.-( tintt
htii'e<hlititti tl ilic (irr{itirif littuhl'itttnl iiml Enit^i r:
Philudi'hiliia, Pa. : Now Orli'ims, La.; Sun Fram-iM-o.
(■;il.: Ka.-.livillis Tenn.; Dayl. n. O.; U:;l:hind. C'al.;
)(ridi;i'iicirt, C'unn. ; Vn.>4Kar CoUoge, Pout,'likiv]isii'. N.
Y.; Parsona CdIIi-ito, Fairllcld, Iiu ; Jli'liill I'niVL-rsitv,
Tl iron to, Can. ; Uni\'or: i:vof Toxa-^. Austin. Tfx. : Stato
Normal Srlmol, liivfr Fiills, Wis.; Tex.'us Christian Uni-
vorsitv, Wa<-o, Tex.; Winona. Jliss. ; Hloomtlold, N. J.;
Biirliritrton, la. ; Ai>!ih'ton, Wis. ; Louisvillo, Ky. ; Jlid-
dlfliurir. N. Y.; Boonvillo. N. Y. ; Adclbert CoUerjn,
C'lovi'landLO. ; Alameda. O.l. ; Lnko Providence, La.;
Marietta, Wis. ; Chipjxjwa Falls, Wis.
Confederate l/eteraij.
313
LOW RATES TO
Confederate Veteran Reunioa
NASHVILLE. JUNE 14-16
For particulars apply to anv M. & O. R. R. ajj^cnt, or
Kyl'RV£:V £. JOJ^EJr. Jr.. T. T. A... JacKson. Tenn.
Uhe
HARRIMAN ROUTE.
Tennessee Central
Railroad.
ARE YOU GOING TO NASHVILLE
TO ATTEND THE X X
Reunion of the
Confederate
Veterans,
JuneU. 15. 16. 1904?
Be sure to secure ■\mir tickets from nil
points in VirK^inia, N'orlh and Sontli Ciro-
liii;i, ;hu1 East Tcniiessei' via HHrriiiinii
anil the TenneHHpe Central Uailroad,
;ind from all jioints in W'l-st rcnnessce uiid
Kintncky via Ho]ikiiisvilIf> anil tho
Ti'nnt'ssee Central Railroail.
'1 lie Tcnnossri" Ct-titral Railroad Is tlu-
Fhortf'st ami most (Hri'Ct route to Nashville
from Ihese points.
Tickets will be on sale at all ticket offices
of the Sovilhern Railway ami of the Illinois
Central Uatlroad.
E. H. HINTON, Traffic Manager,
N AS11V1LI.K, Th NN'.
THE WEST POINT ROUTE.
— Z-S •
Atlanta and West Point R.R.
and
The Western I^ailway of
Alabama.
Route of U. S. Fast Mail be-
tween the Northeast and
Southwest.
( >|iiT:iriMij fli'iraiil
DINING and SLEEPING CARS.
Quick and convenient sched-
ules to all points in tho
Southwest.
J. R. BILUURS,
(soti«±r'al Passenger Ai^eiit,
ATUAPKITA. a A..
VERY LOW RATES
NASHVILLE
FOR THE
Confederate
Veterans' Reunion.
Tickets will be on sale June 10'15,
■with final return limit June 18, 1904,
Southern Railway.
An extension of limit until Julv lo,
1904, may be obtained by depositing
ticket with joint agent, Nashville, at
any time between June lo and iS, and
on p.iynient of 50 cents.
For fnrtlirr iiif»>riii;ition, write
S. II. ItAHTJWK K, ticncrjil Pass,Miger Agent,
■WiisliingtDM, D. C.
C. A. RHNStOTKK, .\sslslant <^»i'ncr;»l Passpn-
per ,\tr'""t, Cli.illaiioouii, 'I'eiiii.
Confederate
Veterans*
Reunion^
Nashville,
June m-W.
LOW RATES VIA THE
From Points in Texas,
Louisiana, and Tirlcansas.
For full iiifDnuation as to routoj,
rat«s, time of traius, etc., vrrit« to
W. C. ADAMS, T. P. A.
Cotton Belt, Nashvllla, Tonn.; or
E. W. La BEAUME, C. P. i, T. A.,
St. Louis, Mo.
314
Qoijfederat(^ l/eterai>
LOW
BATES
'- NASHVILLE
FOR
U. C V. REUNION.
Delegates from LOUISIANA. TEXAS, and the WEST can Travel
Comfortably. Cheaply, and Cleanly by the
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
OIL-BURNING LOCOMOTIVES.
NO SMOKE.:
iNO DUST.:
:NO CINDERS.
Pullman Palace Cars, Excursion Sleeping Cars. Free Reclining Chair Cars, Standard Dinmg Cars.
\\'rite for information to
T. /. ANDEBSON, JOS. HELLEN.
G. P, A.
HOUSTON. TEXAS.
A. G. P. A.
u
m FODB
yj
The best line to
INDIANAROLIS.
PEORIA.
CHICAGO.
And all points in Indiana and
Michigan.
CLEVELAND,
BUFFALO,
NEW YORK.
BOSTON.
AND ALL. POINTS EAST.
Information cheerrullj furnished oo ap-
plication at City Ticket Office ^*B)g Fo«r
Houte," No. 259 Fourth Avenue, or write
t« S. J. Gates, General Agent Pawenger
Department, Louisvillk, Kt.
U. C. V.
REUNION
Nashville, Tenn., June 14-16,
VIA.
Low Rates.
Superior
Service.
Santa Fe
Go and Meet
the
Comrades
of the
Long Ago.
Ask the nearest .SANTA FE agent for jiarliculars, or address
W. S. KEENAN, G. P. A.,
GALVESTON, TEX.
wmmmmm
CDC<tTI(>l CCAtvh(iIeMla.Beoa
3rCw I AuLCS rorcaUlog. AKtoW
[wanted. CODLTEBOPTICALGO. «Uta(<%IIL ..
Qopfederat^ l/eterai^.
315
(r
"^*fs.
The Veterans' Route
TO NASHVILLE
IS OVER THE HISTORIC
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis R'y
"THE BATTLEFIELD LINE"
IF YOU PURCHASE A TICKET READING VIA THIS ROUTE
YOU CAN GET IN A SLEEPER
at Memphis, St. Louis, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Augusta,
Macon, Jacksonville, Knoxville, Asheville, Salisbury,
Greensboro, Danville, Lynchburg, or Washington,
AND GO THROUGH TO NASHVILLE WITHOUT CHANGE
The Scenery between Atlanta, Chattanooga, and Nashville Is Peculiarly Attractive to Veterans.
H. F. SMITH.
Tra.fflc Manager.
\A/rite for a copy of
SOUTHERN BATTLEFIELDS."
W. L. DANLEY.
General Passenger Agent-
y.
316
(;^oi>/e derate l/eterap.
,"\^/7Tr/' DT?T 17 W^ The j;ate\vay of the Mississippi. The coming great cit)- of the South. The largest Cotton.
±\±L,tlV UJVl^J^^l±\^. Rice, and Sugar Market ill the Workf-.
Oil 8 li fl ,,' ait|j./fl:V'fl'f'tV'ii''r ^I'nV .;ri [i ri' n' li fl I II (1 S ; il|,l
" '' .^^-^^..JU! r ^' gjji" " ' I' '' U.C 'ILXi ICi-IEj. L II II
n' li fl [i Fl ji li : iliilll HI) illlinifi'
" " ■ " "" jj II u j^i_j_nii ;i
•III
5»
''/"'/, -^ TlTln-— y. O/ /^T. >T. «7y-» ,-. ZL/V-k ■/ >^ 7 M<Hkrn. Fireproof. First-class. Accommodatine one tliou-
1 lie i\CW \3l. K^IKIVLCS JtlOiei. saiul -uests. A. R. BLAKELY £- Co., Limited. Proprietors,
Liverpool and
London and
Globe Insurance
Company
Losses Paid in United States
$92,163,692.85
Office in Company's Building
Carondelet and Common Streets, New Orleans, L>a.
Confederate l/eterar>.
317
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY,
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.
KISSAM HALL
800 STUDENTS. 100 TEACHERS.
17 BUILDINGS.
VALUE, - - $750,000
The University offers courses leading to
degrees in the following seven departments:
I. THE ACADEMIC, embracing Classical. Scien-
tific, and Postgraduate Courses.
II. THE ENGINEtRING, embracing courses in Civil.
Mechanical, Mining, and Electrical Engineer-
ing, and Metallurgy.
III. THE BIBLICAL, embracing (he English and
Classical Courses.
IV. THE LAW, covering two years, and leading to
degree oi LL.B.
V. THE DENTAL, covering four years, and leading
to degree of D.D.S.
VI. THE MEDICAL, covering four years, and lead-
ing to degree of M.D.
VII, THE PHARMACEUTICAL, covering two years.
and leading to the degree of Ph.C.
Kissnin Hall, a handsome and cuniiiindiou.s new linrmitory for the accommodation of students in all departments, has recently
beett creeled on the Universit\' Campus.
Ten Schidnstic Fellowships yielding S200 each, are awarded annually Hi the Academic Department to college graduates.
For registers of the sev ral departments and further information, address
M. E. HOLDERI^ESS, Secretary.
€r^ BUrORD COLLEGE ^
J^ASHVILLE, TEJ^JV.
FOP^ tCfOMEJW.
A Limited. Select College for the Higher Culture of Young Women.
T^()N-bil-:CTARl.\N, non diiiomiiiation,-il, Init thoroughly Christian. The scholarly institution within
\| thirly minules of the "Athens of llio South."' Ideal location, offering all the comforts of a ciclightful
*■ ^ sidniVhan home and all the advantages of a great educational center. Unrivaled environment and
opportunities. Spacious campus of twcnty-tive acres. Chalybeate well, freestone spring, and cistern
water. College garden, hennery, and dairy. Charming elev.ation, invigorating atmosphere, and beauti-
ful scenery. Physical culture, "gymnastics", athletics, and all outdoor sports emphasized. Lawn tennis,
basket ball, croqiiet, golf, and archery. An up-to-date, splendidly ecpiipped building, commodious, con-
venient, and comfort.a'ble, with electricilv, waterworks, open fins and steam heat, situated on an excellent
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SUCCESS OF THE REUNION.
So universal is the praise for the Nashville reunion of
igc4. and so gratified are the people that so many, many
thousands came and were joyful that the Veteran would
echo the sentiment to the uttermost. It was not disappointed
in llic spirit of Nashville, for that had before been tested.
All llie people here, whether on the side of the South in the
sixtius or arrayed against it, gave glad welcome to guests,
and as unstinted hospitality prevailed as was ever extended
by a l-.undred thousand people to half as many more. A few
individuals were evidently on the make. Since the days that
Jud:is betrayed the Christ and the elder brother demurred at
the feast of the fatted calf, there have been craven men
whose avarice dwarfed their souls — unless it w'as during that
awful period of the sixties and among those patriots at the
front whose exalted convictions made them ignore money
except where its use sustained life to help the Confederacy —
but tliere has doubtless never been a time and a place that so
exemplified such utter unselfishness as at Nashville, Tenn.,
through the midweek of June, froin the arrival to the de-
parture of the Confederate Veterans.
The committees' manageinent of the stupendous entertain-
ment by young men, middle-aged, and veterans was as thor-
oughly businesslike as that of the Tennessee Centennial, a
type of which was never yet equaled. Wise and practical use
w.is made of every dollar contributed by the liberal-hearted
jHople of Nashville and the adjacent counties. While praise
i-; given to the General Reunion Committee, it is equally due.
Old in a stronger sense, to the subcommittees, whose members
do not share so liberally in public personal acknowledgment.
True, the time was opportune, for now, after forty years,
,t11 the world seems ready to praise the heroism and patient
endurance of the Confederate soldiers. It can avail but little
now, however, since they are falling asleep by battalions, but
it is gratifying, none the less, as it promises well for the
republic, that their children and children's children shall have
a fair chance in future achievements for the common good.
While this Nashville reunion of 1904 has evidently eclipsed
all such entertainments, many, many things might have been
better. It is impossible that the management of such an un-
dertaking be without fault. Better accommodations might
have been provided in many instances. Many coinrades and
other guests might have gone to places where there were bet-
ter accommodations, but when it is recalled that pleading was
made through headquarters in New Orleans and from Nash-
ville for notice to the committees of veterans who were com-
ing, and after deliberate waiting Gen. Mickle designated 10,-
000 veteran badges as sufficient, to which five hundred more
were added, and then at the last moment it became neces-
sary to prepare five thousand more for veterans in the multi-
tude arriving on every railroad in regular and in forty special
trains packed to the limit, some conception may be had of the
embarrassment in locating comfortably the great army in
quick time.
It will require several subsequent issues of the Veteran
to report the important proceedings wnuh should M ;n its
columns. One feature, however, considered here is the proj-
ect of the Veteran. It is a great disappointment that com-
rades did not comply with its pleadings for organization on
the Vanderbilt University campus. Thousands who were
there will bless the day, but many will justify complaint that
comrades did not conform more fully to the plea in the
Veteran for more thorough organization. It was the work
of this editor as "a committee of one" to arrange for that
meeting, and he did his duty, working practically all the day
for it. The university management removed panels of fence,
furnished water, and the Howe Ice Company supplied great
crystal blocks in abundance. Maj. R. H. Dudley, ex-Mayor
of the city and as gallant a Confederate as ever went to battle,
served as marshal (mounted), and every arrangement was
perfected as outlined; but the olden-time discipline seemed to
have been forgotten, so that comrades took their wives and
daughters and groups were formed, and orators, who wanted
to have their say, created such disturbance by applause that
the purpose was in some respects a failure. Be it remem-
bered to the credit of Alabama that her veterans conformed
literally to the plan. Two comrades from that State, the
ranking one a captain, called the regiments by number until
representatives were practically all in line. They so demon-
strated the practicability of the plan that assurance is given
by witnesses of its diligent execution at succeeding reunions.
(These Alabama comrades promised to write of their work,
and reports are awaited anxiously.) There can never be a
better place, however. Dr. Dudley, of the University faculty,
suggested that they occupy more of the campus. It seemed
a pity, for every visitor to the reunion could have rested on
the blue grass under rich shade. It is hoped that comrades
will make amends at subsequent meetings and do their duty
in this respect. The Veteran will aid in every way possible
to this end.
The Proceedings — the Welcomes.
At noon, June 14, the convention was called to order by
Gen. G. W. Gordon, Commander of the Tennessee Division.
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The entire assembly rose and stood while the invocation
was delivered by Chaplain General J. VV. Jones, of Virginia.
He asked divine guidance upon the proceedings of the con-
vention. He thanked the Almighty for the patriot heroes of
the American Revolution and for the grand patriots who
fought for four years to maintain and preserve the principles
for which their fathers fought. He returned thanks for
divine guidance for the old veterans since the close of the
war. He asked that blessings rest upon the entire nation,
and prayed that the nation be a Christian people. Thanks
were returned to God for the magnificent heroes which he
had given to the Confederacy, and that so many of the men
and officers were Christians. Especial blessings were asked
for those who were unable to be present on account of mis-
fortune or sickness. A splendid tribute was paid the late
Commander, Gen. John B. Gordon.
Gov. James B. Frazier delivered an address of welcome.
He was greeted with a tremendous outburst of applause. It
was doubtless the most captivating speech of his life.
Gov. Frazier said in part:
"I was honored in being selected to speak a word of
welcome to this magnificent audience, not because of my
war record, for when you marched to battle to the tunes
of 'Dixie' and 'The Girl I Left Behond Me,' candor forces
me to say that I was actually at home dressed in woman's
clothes. [Applause.] We extend to you a hearty greeting
because you are the remnant of the greatest army of in-
dividual fighters that ever went to battle. The personnel
of thai army was the most magnificent the world has ever
seen. They were the descendants of the men who suffered at
Valley Forge with Washington, the greatest of rebels. Those
men sprang from noble sires. Up to the war the South had
played a conspicuous part in the government of this republic.
A Southern man had written the Declaration of Independence,
Southern men had dominated the Constitutional Convention,
and a Southern man had written the organic law of the na-
tion. It was a Southerner that planted the flag of the nation
on the palaces of the Montezumas. Men who sprang from
such an ancestry could not deliberately conspire and fight for
the destruction of the government they had created. The
Confederate army fought for the great and inalienable right
of local self-government. If you had had equal resources
with our brothers across the line, to-day the stars and bars
would float as the national emblem.
"We love you men of the South for the heroism which you
displayed upon 2,200 battlefields, and we honor you for the
patience and fortitude which you have shown under the ad-
versities which followed the war. You have accepted the
results of that war in good faith. You have not taught your
children hate and malice, but you have taught them to revere
and be loyal to the flag of the nation.
"When you gray-haired old veterans — God bless the
grand old Confederate soldier! — returned from the war, you
solemnly declared that, having fought and lost the battle,
from that day henceforth you would know but one flag, one
country, and one Constitution, and you have faithfully kept
that promise. You have met the problems growing out of
that war with the same coolness and valor and intelligence
that you displayed upon the battlefield. You have reorgan-
ized labor, and to-day the South is producing more cotton and
grain and minerals with free than she did with slave labor.
"I welcome you to the grand old hospitable State of Ten-
nessee. I welcome you to the warmth of her sunshine, and
if that ain't warm enough, I welcome you to some of hei
moonshine. You have solved all the problems in a manner
that should have merited the praise and the honor of every
man in the nation, but for thirty years you suffered the hu-
miliation of sectional jealousy and prejudice, yet when the
war witli Spain was declared the men of the South, true to
their glorious ancestry, marched side by side witli the valor-
ous sons of the North. If I had some magic power, I would
place a garland of glory of forget-me-nots reverently at your
feet. [Applause.] I would weave a melody whose refrain
would be welcome to Tennessee, welcome to the hearts of
the brave and the homes of the free."
The band played "Dixie" and the convention went wild.
Gen. Gordon then appropriately introduced Mayor Williams,
saying that "if any get too much of that moonshine to which
the Governor so kindly referred in his speech, he will take
care of you."
In Mayor Williams's welcome, he said :
"I can recall no period or occasion in the past history of
my life among the good people of Nashville fraught with so
much pleasure as the distinguished privilege this hour affords
— to stand in the august presence of an assemblage of sol-
JOHNSON HOUSE.
£ast of pike midway between Franklin and Brentwood.
diers and patriots such as now confront me — clothed with the
authority emanating from the unanimous desire of every citi-
zen of our great city, to greet you at the very threshold of
your assembling in our midst with the smile of recognition
and the right hand of fraternal fellowship, coupled with the
assurance of welcome, thrice welcome every one of you to
every home and fireside in grand old Nashville.
"We honor you for the many noble deeds of self-defense
made in the defense of that principle so dear to the heart of
every son of our Southland. It matters naught to us whether
the cause you so nobly espoused and bled to sustain was right
or wrong, it is enough for us — your posterity — to know that
your motives were pure, your purposes sincere, and your de-
sire the protection of your homes and your country. What
worthy son would hesitate long enough to determine the right-
eousness of an assault made upon his devoted mother before
defending her with his life?
"History verifies the statement that never before in the an-
nals of civil warfare did so many thousand brave and patriotic
citizens rally with such unanimity of purpose and concert of
action around a common standard, the product of an hour.
The history of that terrible struggle is loo fresh in the minds
of our people to need mention at this time. The patriotiCv;
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impulse and brave spirit so manifest in the inception of the
strife by the Southern soldier abated not, but continued with-
out cessation until the last gun was fired upon the battlefield
and the terms of capitulation were made and accepted by the
contending armies.
"We point you to the thousands of unlatched doors to our
dwellings, ornamented with the cordial smiles of worthy
ON PORCH OF TENNESSEE CONFEUEKATE SLiLDlEKs HUME.
matrons and lovely daughters ready to receive and to enter-
tain you as only a Nashville woman can. Our men, every
one of them, stand to-day with delight, impatiently awaiting
an opportunity to contribute to your peace and comfort while
you are the guests of our city. Our children rise up to call
you blessed and offer the service of their little feet to take
the place of the wooden legs and feet of the old soldier.
Our neighbors have come to the rescue with corn and venison
to feed 50,000; our weather clerk has provided typical
Tennessee weather for your convenience while among us ; our
police have been instructed to deal gently with those who fall
by the wayside under sun or other stroke. Our town is
yours, gentlemen ; make the best of it."
TuLLY Brown Speaks for the Confederates.
Gen. Gordon introduced Tully Brown, Esq.. of Nashville,
an ever-ready speaker who thrills his audiences by vivid por-
trayals of the subject under consideration, and whose happiest
theme is that of his Confederate comrades. Mr. Brown said:
"No speech, no matter how eloquent nor how gracious, can
adequately express the welcome which Nashville extends to
the Confederate veteran. He would be welcome anywhere
in any land, so broad is his fame. His triumphs in defeat
have been so glorious and so magnificent that wherever he
may go his fame precedes him. Of course you are welcome
to Nashville and to Tennessee.
"Tennessee drew her sword reluctantly. She waited long,
until the die was cast, then she nobly threw her broad breast
iKtween the South and the invader.
"When tlie Confederates reached their desolate homes aftei
tlie war, their war had really only begun ; there is no use
to tell lies about it. It had taken all that was in them to
learn to love that old flag again, carpetbaggery and free nig-
gery had been almost too much for their patience and forti-
tude. Yet under such conditions they finally restored the
South to its old place in the Union and supplanted negro
slavery with white civilization.
"Were I Demosthenes or Cicero to-day, I could not over-
praise the Confederate veteran. His courage has no equal
and his endurance knew no end.
"Nashville has decked her homes with brilliant bunting, has
entwined the flags of the Confederacy and of the Union to-
gether— the flag of our Union, which no Confederate will
ever dishonor. But I speak the sentiment of every Southern
soldier when I say that while one is the flag of our country
that we honor and obey, the other little flag of the stars and
bars is the flag of our hearts. [The wildest enthusiasm
greeted this sentiment.]
"I don't know where we will meet next year, but Nashville
extends you an invitation to meet here until the last Confed-
erate soldier is laid in his grave. You saved the country; you
saved it from the horrors and barbarities of reconstruction,
and it is yours ; you are welcome here whenever you may
come."
Gen. Lee's Address.
Gen. Lee spoke in response in part as follows :
"It is impossible for me to respond to the kindly and cor-
dial welcome so fitly spoken to my comrades who wore the
gray, without thinking of the great soldier and orator upon
whom this duty would have fallen, if he had not been taken
from us. It was in historic Nashville, seven years ago, that
his eloquent voice gave utterance to the gratitude of our
hearts to the citizens of this beautiful city for the hospitality
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for which they are famous, and which to-day has laid us
under new obligations. It was here that he placed in your
hands his commission as your chieftain, and sought to retire
into private station. With an outburst of loyal devotion, re-
sistless as the whirlwind, you again called him to be your
leader, and gave him the commission of your unmeasured
love and confidence.
"He was true to your service to the last. His noble voice
is hushed forever. He has answered the great roll call. He
has conquered the last enemy. He has joined his great com-
mander in the white hosts of peace. The armies of the Con-
federacy have marched to fame's eternal camping ground, and
we who meet to-day are only the belated stragglers of that
mighty host who have entered into their immortality.
"The living are brave and noble,
But the dead were the bravest of all.'
"As I listened to the eloquent and comforting addresses of
welcome, it was impossible for me not to recall an oc-
casion now nearly forty years past, when some of us yearned
to enjoy the hospitality of Nashville. Between us and these
hospitable homes there stretched a wall of fire, and instead
of your cordial greetings we heard the thunder of guns.
"The Confederate soldier does not forget that from the
bosom of this old commonwealth came 115,000 men to follow
the banners of Lee and Johnston, and that more than 31,000
were enlisted in the armies of the Union — Tennesseeans be-
lieve with their hearts' blood. They did not count the cost
w'hen the great ques.lions of State or nation had to be settled
with drawn swords.
"We, the witnesses of that great sacrifice, can never cease
to honor Tennessee, for the blood of her sons, for the tears
and prayers of her daughters, for the inimitable spirit which
rebuilt the ruined homes, which has wrenched prosperity
from field and mountain, and has made this wonderful land
once more a thing of beauty and pride to ever>' Southern
heart. You have done well, men and women of Tennessee ;
with peaceful hands you have won back more than your fa-
thers lost.
"Truly in human experience, without the shedding of blood,
there is no redemption. Rather let us believe that the world
is richer and better, purer and greater for the tragic story of
forty years ago, and that the shed blood has brought blessing,
honor, glory, and power, incorruptible treasures of which a
brave and noble people can never be despoiled.
"But, my comrades, it is a great comfort to know that the
South had such men to lose. It was a revelation to the world ;
it was a revelation to ourselves. What a magnificent race
of men! what a splendid type of humanity! what courage,
what grandeur of spirit! what patriotism! what self-sacrifice!
It was sublime. It is wonderful beyond compare. Not all
were conquered. Some of these men came back. I see them
before me now. God has bountifully prolonged their days
that they may illustrate to the ne.\t generation the civic vir-
tues, that they may tell the wondrous story of those days,
that they may stir up in the hearts of youth the emulation of
virtue, the passion for noble achievements, the spirit of sac-
rifice.
"As the close of our day draws near and the work of up-
building our country passes on into younger and stronger
hands, let us make it our mission, comrades, to tell the story.
Do not let your children and grandchildren forget the cause
for which we suffered. Tell it not in anger, tell it not in
grief, tell it not in revenge. Tell it proudly, as fits a soldier-
There is no shame in all the history. Dwell on the gallant
deeds, the pure motives, the unselfish sacrifice. Tell of the
hardships endured, the battles fought, the men who bravely
lived, the men who nobly died. Your dead comrades shall
live again in your words.
"The infinite pity and glory of it all will awake the hearts
of those who listen, and they will never forget. Tell tliera
of Albert Sidney Johnston, of Stonewall Jackson, of Stuart,
with his waving plume, of Forrest with his scorn of death.
Tell them of Wade Hampton and Gordon, the Chevalier
Bayards of the South. Tell them of Zollicoffer, of Pat Cle-
burne and Frank Cheatham, of Pelham, of Ashby. Tell them
of the great soldier with the spotless sword and the spotless
soul, who sleeps at Lexington, in the Valley of Virginia.
Tell them of the great President, who bore upon his sad
heart the sorrows of all his people.
"This, my comrades, is your last commission. Do this for
the dead, that they may be loved and honored still. Do this
for the living, who are worthy of love and honor. Do this for
our country, that when the time is ripe she may again be rich
in heroes and in noble deeds. "Shall not the selfsame soil
bring forth the selfsame men ?'
"When the great account is taken, which page, think you,
my countrymen, will the South most willingly spare? Will
it be the old page torn and ragged, stained with blood and
tears, which tells the story of secession and defeat ; or will it
be the new page of her latest census, with its magruficen]
figures of wealth and prosperity? Whatever she choosei
give us old soldiers the old page to read and read again
This blood and those tears mean more to us than to all tin-
world. The cause in which they were shed will never be
lost to us, and the love we gave it will not die till the last
gray jacket is folded and tlie last gray head is buried be-
neath the sod.
Closing Words to Sons of Veterans.
"My comrades, under your adopted resolutions and orders,
we have with us to-day for the first lime our sons and grand
sons, the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, sitting wiih
us, having the privilege of the floor. It has been a long-clier
ished hope to bring about closer relations between the twi
great federated bodies. These relations are vital to the Veter
ans because their ranks are so rapidly thinning, and the tinv
is near at hand when the Sons must take their places if tl^
federation and its great objects are to be perpetuated. It is
vilal to the Sons, for the inspiration to succeed the Veterans
and carry on tlie work must be absorbed from their sires.
Devotion to the memory of the Confederate struggle is not
inconsistent with the highest devotion to our country, which
has grown a perfect whole out of discord and factions. The
South fought for liberty and tlie right of self-governnum
as guaranteed in the Constitution of our fathers. The Sons
are the heirs, and must, by association with the Veterans
they have met and known, be taught the glorious hereaf;er
that belongs to them. They inherit from them the glory of
tlie matchless courage, fortitude, and endurance wliich tiiey
displayed during that memorable struggle in defending their
principles, their homes, and their firesides, and which de-
veloped an almost Godlike manhood and womanhood. Their
duty will be to guard the record and see that true history is
written, and that the integrity of motive and patriotism be
vindicated after her old men have passed over the river, and
leave only one record as their inheritance. Let us in every
possible w-ay encourage and invite our Sons to be with us
and join us from now on."
Gen. G. W. Gordon then introduced Thomas M. Owen, of
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Alabama, wlio responded to the address of welcome. Mr.
Owen said that for seven long years they had waited for this
invitation, which had come at last, and thanked God that the
Sons were in the house of their fathers to remain. He said
that the organization for which he officially appeared was a
truth-telling, truth-touching organization, and that whenever
the voice of slander should be raised the Sons of Veterans
would ever be raised to silence it. He paid an eloquent
tribute to the heroism and devotion of the women, and said
that he did not believe that during the darkest days of the
war there was a doubting woman in the South. (Prolonged
applause.)
Opening Pkayer by Bishop O. P. Fitzgerald — Second Day.
God of our fathers, taught by thy Word and led by thy
Spirit, we invoke thy presence with us and thy blessing upon
us in this reunion. Though the number of veterans that
meet from year to year grows smaller, their frames feebler,
we gratefully note that tliere is no diminution of their fame,
nor of the affection of our people which finds expression in
these annual reunions. We thank thee that for them defeat
was not darkened by dishonor. We thank thee that our love
for our own heroes, living or dead, is unmixed with any feel-
ing of hatred toward any portion of our countrymen. We
thank thee for the evidences we have of thy blessing upon our
people, that blessing which is more to us, and better for us,
than victory on the battlefield, "the blessing of the Lord that
maketh rich and addeth no sorrow with it." For peace
throughout all our borders, for brotherly kindness, and foi
a measure of temporal prosperity, we thank thee, our gracious
God. And while we miss the presence of our comrade and
chief — our Gordon — we thank thee for his life that was with-
out stain, for his faith that was without cloud, and for his
death that was a victory over the last enemy. We thank thet
here and now for all thy mercies that have not failed in thy
dealings with us as a people, for the wisdom which is from
above that overrules our short-sighted plans and turns even
MISS BESS L. GIl.DER, NEWBERRY, S. C,
Maid of Honor South Carolina Division.
our blunders into blessings. We thank thee for thy presence,
which has been, and is, to us a pillar of cloud by day and
of fire by night. We beseech thee, God of our fathers, still
to be with us and bless us. Help us to bear one another's
burdens ; help us to help each other in every good word and
work. Help all our people in all parts of this nation to fol-
low the things that make for peace. And when the last of
these veterans shall receive their final discharge, may they,
through thy mercy, be ready to join their glorified comrades
in that city of God where no battle word startles the sacred
host with alarm and w-here they shall enjoy unbroken fellow-
ship forever. Amen.
Business proceedings to appear next montli.
Lamar Fontaine on the Vanderbilt Campus.
Will you allow me to thank you especially for the grand
treat your suggestion gave us in the camp fire assemblage on
Vanderbilt campus at our recent reunion in the beautiful
city of Nashville? This feature of the reunion was by far
the most enjoyable of all the rest. Out on the greensward
in the beautiful park, away from the din and bustle of the
seething crowd, we could meet and greet our old comrades,
lie down on the cool grass, and fight our battles over. It is
the sentiment of every old comrade that, instead of packing
us in a crowded auditorium, we be allowed hereafter to have
at least one day in the cool shade and open air of a park or
lawn, with signboards to designate each State, etc. I es-
pecially ask that a particular spot be designated for the
Morris Island Immortal Six Hundred and the survivors of
the other Northern prisons. Will you keep this matter promi-
nently before the committee who have charge of the pro-
grammes of all our future reunions, and have diagrams pub-
lished showing the exact location of each State on the
grounds, also the hours for the special meetings? These
will be of great benefit to the old boys. We go to these
reunions to meet one another, and in tlie crowded halls and
streets the throngs are too great, and the crowds of citizens
and curiosity seekers prevent our getting together. Many
of us seek our friends for days and never find them, and go
home sadly disappointed, so that the reunion becomes a
failure for all such in its best sense.
Thanking you again for the pleasure you gave me on the
Vanderbilt campus, I also tender you in the name of the
men of Camp 1331, of Coahoma County, Miss., our most
lieartfelt good wishes and hope your influence will keep this
feature for us in all future reunions.
W. E. Sloan wrote from Corona, Cal., about "How Com-
rades Can Get Together" on the Vanderbilt University Cam-
pus :
"The plan is certainly all right, but the date is wrong.
Why wait until the reunion is almost over before giving the
old men an opportunity of meeting their old army comrades
face to face? Thousands, no doubt, will be there for the sole
purpose of finding their old surviving friends with whom
they, perhaps, associated in childhood, as well as touched
elbows on many a sternly contested field, and must they be
compelled to roam around or attend dull mass conventions
for two whole days before given an opportunity to meet their
dear comrades?
"The longing desire of my heart is to meet the survivors of
the Ashby Brigade of Tennessee Cavalry, and especially the
Fifth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, not one of whom I have
seen for more than twenty-six years ; and no doubt many of
them, like myself, have for m.any years been hidden away in
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the great West, and may now take advanUge of the oppor-
tunity of meeting their comrades on Tennessee soil, and jour-
ney thither to attend wliat will be to them the only Confederate
reimion on this earth, and all in the hope of grasping the
hands of old friends and talking over the scenes of years
gone by. Many of ihem will, doubtless, arrive in Nashville
the day before the opening session, and will feel lost until
they find some old comrade to talk to. Surely that is, and
should be, the chief feature of these reunions, and not the
hiere conventional business sessions. I heard complaints on
that very point by a Californian who attended the Dallas re-
union, and he found it impossible to find some of his friends
who were there. He might have touched shoulders with them
in the convention hall and still had no way of finding them
out. Do try and find some way of bringing them together two
days earlier."
It would have been better to name the first day rather than
the second, but it was anticipated that comrades would them-
selves talk up that meeting and make the plan known to those
who are not subscribers and therefore not know in time to
attend such meeting the first day.
ECHOES FROM THE REUNION.
Col. W. D. Pickett, of Fourbear, Wj-o., who served on the
staff of Lieut. Gen. W. J. Hardee, writes of it:
"The reunion of the United Confederate Veterans at
Nashville, Tenn., June 14-16, IQ04, will always be classed
as among the noted ones of the order. To one, like the
writer, whose long residence in the Northwest since the or-
ganization of the order had deprived him of the privilege and
pleasure of attending, this reunion was especially impressive.
On this account he has been asked to dot down his impres-
sions of what passed before him.
"What first impressed me was the genuine hospitality and
kindliness of feeling evinced by the citizens of Nashville.
The veteran's badge opened the homes and hearts of every
one, and nothing was left undone to show their full apprecia-
tion of the hardships endured and of the valor displayed by
these veterans in a cause in which all took a common interest.
"What was everywhere in evidence was the genuine afifection
evinced by the veterans, the one to the other. No other intro-
duction was necessary than the sight of the badge. This is
not to be wondered at, for those friendships were formed
amid the privations of the march and amid the storms of bat-
tle in one of the most memorable contests of history. To me,
personally, it will be the red-letter event of a long and some-
what eventful life: the meeting and renewing of old friend-
ships with such men as Stephen D. Lee, James D. Porter, E.
C. Lewis, Geo. W. Gordon, Joe Vaulx, R. B. Snowdcn. Tully
Brown, S. A. Cunningham, W. F. Foster, J. R. Buist, George
Helm, Armistead Collier, and many others accidentally met
in that great crowd.
"The insignia of rank was not very noticeable in the parade.
This is as it should be, for on these occasions there are no
officers or privates. We should all be brethren, comrades, and
friends. The commanding general and his chief of staff set
a commendable example by their plain clothing, and their
example should be followed in future reunions. Of course the
grand marshal and aids should have a distinctive insignia,
and there is none better than the Confederate gray.
"It could but be noticeable, the feebleness evinced by many
of the veterans on parade day ; nor is it surprising when it
is recalled that the youngest must have been nearly sixty
years of age. A few trudged along on wooden legs, many
with armless sleeves, and a iew accompanied by their faithful
wives. Neither these circumstances nor the hot day were
able to keep down the grand manifestations of enthusiasm as
the veterans passed the reviewing stand. Many were the evi-
dences of genuine affection shown the commanding general.
This was not surprising. Stephen D. Lee is by nature a
Democrat, he is by nature the splendid gentleman. When to
these personal qualities are added his long successful mili-
tary career, first under the eye of Lee in Virginia, from whence
he came West as a brigadier, then the brilliant repulse of
Sherman's Corps at Buffalo Bayou, then his distinguished serv-
ices as division and corps commander in the Army of Ten-
nessee until, after the battle of Nashville, he was assigned
the honor of protecting the rear of that lorn and bleeding
army, which he effectually did until wounded ; when these
matters are considered, it must be conceded that the veterans
made no mistake in placing on his shoulders the mantle of
the lamented Gordon.
"My intercourse during the reunion was mostly with of-
ficers and men of Hardee's old corps. It was gratifying to hear
from these universal praise of Gen. Hardee as a corps com-
mander and as a man. The expressions of confidence were
the more gratifying because it is believed he has never
occupied that commanding position among the Southern peo-
ple which his distinguished services entitled him to occupy.
"His corps (consisting at various times of two or three of
the following divisions : Patton Anderson's, Buckner's, Breck-
enridgc's, Cleburne's, Walker's, Cheatham's, and Brown's), in
all the battles that it engaged, never turned its back to the
foe in battle, with the only exception of the battle of Mission-
ary Ridge, when the left of the corps, after having been at-
tenuated to a mere picket line by t'ne withdrawal of troops
to reenforce Cleburne on the extreme right, who had been
closely pressed all day by Sherman's Corps, gave way before
two lines of battle of Grant's veterans. Even then Cleburne
held the right till ten o'clock at night, thereby enabling a
considerable pari of the army to withdraw by a bridge just in
his rear.
"W. J. Hardee was a soldier from start to finish. As a
consequence, there was a complete organization of his corps
from regiment to division. Each was always kept fully
equipped with ordnance, commissary, and quartermaster
stores. The corps was always ready to move with three days'
rations, and at the proper time was always ready to strike
an effective blow. The knowledge of this systematic prepared-
ness gave the men full confidence that they would be well taken
care of on the march and more especially in battle. In
all of this he was ably assisted by some of the best division,
brigade, and regimental commanders that this war brought to
the front.
"The uniform success of Hardee's Corps was due greatly to
its complete organization, ably assisted by his various di-
vision commanders.
"I have never thought Hardee had received proper recogni-
tion from the public men and press of the South— in a word,
Southern public opinion."
Decoration of Confederate Graves at Franklin. — In the
memorial exercises at Franklin, Tenn., June 3 an elaborate
programme was carried out. Mrs. Tennie P. Dozier writes
that in the afternoon at McGavock Cemetery there were short
but interesting addresses by Rev. Jno. W. Haimcr and Messrs.
George Armstead and John Miller, and readings by Miss
Cayce and Mrs. Pinkerton. They tried not to leave a grave
without some flowers on it. The graves of the unknown dead
were decorated by the children of the Franklin Chapter.
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MEMORIAL TRIBI IE TO GEN. J. B. GORDON BY JUDGE T. G. JONES, OF ALABAMA.
"Commander in Chief, Comradrt jnd Feltow-Countrymen:
One of the noblest souls that ever "left or tenanted human
form' has ascended. No words spoken here can add to the
significance of the life that has gone or the nobility of its
lessons; and yet, when we think of Gordon, all our souls cry
out for utterance.
"As we recall his life and. work, we are carried back to the
days of storm and battle, when the differences bequeathed to
the generation of that day by the forefathers rent our land
in civil war, and the South, all unprepared, went out with
naked valor against a world in arms. There come to us the
first passionate rushing to arms and the delirium of those
days, with their visions of glory, happiness, and greatness.
'] hen we live again in the long years of alternate victory and
defeat, hope and despair, in which were melted the ignobler
passions of the strife and a whole people blended in a sterner
consecration to duty, sulTering, and sacrifice. Again we visit
the graves of the slain and stand with the mourners, the
wounded, the sick and dying, in a land harried by arms, where
want stalks abroad, while the very sun seems darkened and
the air is filled with wails. We see the Confederate soldier
clinging to his colors, while wife and child at home clutched
at his courage with cries for bread; that courage whicli sound-
ed all the depths and shoals of misfortune and for a time
throttled fate itself. We hear again the ringing yell of his
onset, his battle anthem for native land rising, heavenward
above the roar of five hundred stormy fields. Then the con-
scious air is hushed with the solemn tidings from Appomatto.x.
Then we view the home-coming of the defeated soldier, the
woe and waste that awaited him there, the hard task of be-
ginning life anew amid the wreck of industries, institutions,
and order. Then we live again some days of peace worse than
the days of war, when misconstruction and passion for a time
misled the victor and the bayonet made law. Then we see,
clear-cut and strong as figures cleft in rock, the Confederate
soldier and the Confederate women rising superior to calamity
and despair, and teaching the world 'how sublime a thing
it is to suffer and grow strong.' Then the sunshine drives
out the darkness, and the mists of passion and misconstruction
fade, to give place to the rehabilitation of the States and the
new Union, with its hopes and happiness and its reconciliation.
"In this flood of memories, Gordon, resplendent in the
beauty of youth and hope and consecration, comes to us again,
as he pleaded at Montgomery, in 1861, for 'a place in the
picture near the flashing of the guns,' and we watch the sheen
of his sword from Seven Pines to Apponiatto.x. The story
of one battle is the story of another, save that with greater
opportunity came the exhibition of higher power, nobler dar-
ing, and sublimer genius.
"At Sharpsburg, while in command of the Sixth Alabama,
he occupied a vital and exposed point on Lee's center. He
promised Lee to hold it, and he held it. He roused his men to
almost superhuman effort, and steadied them against tre-
mendous odds, as he moved along the fiery crest of battle,
the realization of all that warriors dream of, his blood flowing
from four uustanchcd and unheeded wounds, until, stricken
by a fifth and well-nigh fatal one, he was borne unconscious
to the rear. A brigadier, at the head of si.x splendid Georgia
regiments, he retook Mary's Heights, ere other troops who
were to take part realized that the battle was on, and, like
a thunderbolt, dashed Barlow's Division to pieces at Gettys-
burg. In the days of the Wilderness none won more glory
than he. In the early morn, on the 12th of May, when Han-
cock seized the 'Horseshoe' and cut the Armv of Norlliern
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Virginia in twain, and was moving swiftly inside our lines to
complete our destruction, Gordon, in temporary command of
Early's Division, was in reserve, with orders which left him
large discretion and charged him with momentous responsi-
bilities. He decided quickly and acted instantaneously, with
the divine instinct of the heaven-born soldier. He struck like
the lightning flash, halting Hancock's assault at the supreme
moment with one brigade, and then with the rest of the divi-
sion headed the resistless reentering wedge which shattered
all on either side of it, and saved the day. His comrades and
the country felt as did Lee, who said to him : 'You saved
the army and won its admiration by the way in which you
handled your division yesterday. I could not rest satisfied
until you had permanent command of it. I telegraphed the
President, and am glad to give you his reply : that you have
been commissioned a major general to date from the 12th of
May.' It was Gordon whose genius and skill suggested and
executed the daring plan which passed Jackson's old corps by
a swift night march along the base of Massanuttcn Mountain,
despite the obstacles with which nature beset the movement,
and hurled that corps at dawn, with the sweep and power of
an avalanche, upon Sheridan's army, shattering two of its
corps and driving all in disorder to the rear, where its situa-
tion doomed it to destruction, if the concentration he ordered
against it had been left to the hands which struck the first
blow.
"Next he was promoted to the command of Jackson's old
corps, and placed by Lee to defend his right in the days
of his extremity at Petersburg. There with rare skill he
drove back a turning movement on the banks of Hatcher's
Run, little less formidable than the effort which afterwards
wrought our ruin when Five Forks fell. When the end was
nigh, Lee, who held in check what was in the front, but was
threatened in the rear by the disasters which everywhere else
overtook the Confederate arms, selected Gordon to devise and
head the last desperate offensive movement of the Army of
Northern Virginia, to save the failing fortunes of the Con-
federacy. This attack failed, after great initial success, from
untoward causes, which human foresight could not prevent.
He held his lines on the fateful Sunday when our right was
crushed, and such was the fury of his counter attack that the
engineer brigade from City Point was hurried to the support
of the troops who held the only point on his lines which he
did not retake that day. He was ordered to protect the rear on
the memorable retreat from Petersburg. When the time was
nigh for the last attempt of the army to cut through encir-
cling foes, Lee brought him from the rear to the front. With
the small remnant of his own men and parts of Hill and An-
derson's Corps and a body of cavalry under Fitz Lee, Gordon,
as the sun rose on that fateful morning to look on a nation
dying there, dashed furiously against superior forces of artil-
lery and cavalry, driving them back in confusion on the solid
masses of Ord's Infantry, and then stood ready to die until
Lee ordered a cessation of battle. Without any military train-
ing or outside influence to help him upward, Gordon, at the
age of thirty-three, had won a lieutenant gencralcy and im-
mortal fame in one of the world's greatest wars and in one
of its grandest armies.
"What are the chief characteristics of a great captain? He
must have power to compel the affections and inspire the blind
confidence of his followers. He must be able to impress upon
them that he sympathizes with them, watches over their wel-
fare, cares for their lives as for precious jewels, while al-
ways ready to give his own life and rep\Uation for them. He
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must have the insight to discern the strength and designs and
moral atmosphere of his opponents, and correctly to forecast
their conceptions of their own surroundings and dangers, and
the design, strength, and situations, moral or physical, which
they ascribe to him. He must have an abiding confidence in
himself and the ability to think clearly and decide quickly in
time of disaster, conflicting information, or sudden or unex-
pected situations. He must have serenity of character not to
be cast down by adversity, and the moral courage to grasp
opportunity and risk life, reputation, and conmiand on the
hazard of the die. when the good of his cause justifies risk,
or untoward events impel instant decision and action. He
must have that judgment which tempers but does not shrivel
boldness, the strength of conviction which does not halt or
vacillate, or suspend its purpose, in the face of obstacles and
doubt, when he has done his best, and the wisdom which
sees all obstacles in planning and none in c.xeciuion, save those
■which arc insuperable. He must be liberal of praise and
chary of blame, willing to yield his glory to others and to as-
sume faults not his own. He must be unselfish in the large
sense, yielding hearty loyally to superiors and showing gen-
erosity and kindness to inferiors. When to these we add pro-
found belief in the necessity and justice of his cause, the pur-
pose to die rather than be beaten, and belief and practice of
the highest code of religion and morality of his time, we have
the subtle qualities which make the commander and his army
one, molding it the willing instrument of his will, unques-
tioning, despising odds and death, following blindly to im-
molation to sustain his efforts. These are the sovereign gifts
which make the great commander and crown men monarchs
of the battlefield.
"Measured by these tests, Gordon came up to the full
stature of military greatness. Nothing presents more strik-
ingly his possession of the fine fiber of many of these traits
than his conduct on the 5th of May in the Wilderness, when,
after a fierce counter-charge, piercing the enemy's long ad-
vancing line of battle, which had driven our men in con-
fusion, and gave way only along the small front of Gordon's
assault, he found that his victorious men as formed were stand-
ing on the same general line of the enemy, which extended un-
broken on either side, making retreat or advance or inaction
equally fatal. He saw and remedied the situation instantly.
Changing the battle front of his brigade by facing right and
left from the center, so that his si.x regiments, three facing
one way and three the oiher, were back to back, lie was strik-
ing and driving the enemy's exposed flanks like a hammer on
the head of a nail in ten minutes after the situation developed.
No soldier ever displayed higher genius or more heroic quali-
ties than did Gordon at dawn on the 12th of May. when, in
the mists and fogs of the tangled woods, amid the clamor
of disaster and the roar of a victorious assault, which had
poured across our works and was mowing down our lines, he
struck instantly with one brigade at a hostile corps, to gain
time for the formation of the rest of his command; and then,
having lifted his men to an exaltation bordering on fanaticism
by his remonstrances to Lee, who was 'ordered to the rear,'
hurled his division, himself at the head, in a resistless counter-
assault, which reversed the glory of the day and saved the
Army of Northern Virginia. Never was illustrated nicer cal-
culation or better adaptation of plan to time, place, circum-
stances, and means, or comprehension of the moral effects of
attack, than in the movement he advocated and led across the
Shenandoah upon Sheridan's left on October 19, 1864. No
commander ever displayed greater confidence in himself and
in his men than did Gordon at Monocacy. when, the cavalrt-
having attracted attention to his dispositions while he was in
the full tide of a flank movement, he found superior numbers
threatening his destruction if he remained as he was, and yet
strongly posted above the stream, compelling him to attack
them with inferior numbers across open fields studded with
fences and shocks of hay, and make instant changes in his
plans, in sight and under the fire of the enemy. He instantly
perceived and did what was best to do. His rare faculty for
handling and inspiring masses on the field and his lordly per-
sonal courage carried his followers over all obstacles and
drove Wallace back in defeat, though the Monocacy ran red
with their blood, and a third of his division fell, killed or
wounded. Greater unselfishness and higher moral courage to
stake self, reputation, and command on the hazard of the die
for the good of his cause, has never been than when this
young general, whose laurels grew only brighter by contrast
with disasters through which his corps had lately passed,
proposed to Lee, after both had agreed 'that to stand still
would be death, and it would only be death if we fought
and failed,' to find some weak point in Grant's armor and
command the assault upon it in one last desperate eflfort, when
the chances were as one to ten on the side of defeat, and that
he would only wither his fame and link his name, if he sur-
vived, with the memories of a great disaster. His march
around Sheridan's army and assault upon his left at Cedar
Creek, and the flank attack he suggested and commanded on
the 6th of May, in the Wilderness, were worthy counterparts
of Jackson's great movement on Pope and the last stroke of
his genius in overwhelming Hooker.
"He had the sublime faith of Jackson, the sound judgment
of Johnston, the steadfastness of Longstreet or Cleburne, the
genius of Forrest, the boldness and dash of Stuart, the in-i
tensity of Early or Davis, and was as unselfish and pure inj
thought as Lee.
"No soldier who ever commanded English-speaking troops,!
or led citizen soldiery of any race, knew better how to sway|
and inspire the hearts of men upon the battlefield. None ex-
celled him in feeling the pulse of the battle or detecting the!
play of moral forces in the current of fight. He was a bornl
woodsman, and took in as with the glance of an eagle's eyel
the advantages of position. His voice combined the charm of!
a flute with the clearness and volume of a trumi>et. It wasi
worth the risk of battle to see him on horseback amid his I
troops. Maj. Stiles, in his great book, 'Four Years under]
Marse Robert,' gives this vivid picture of Gordon in a charge:
'Gordon was the most glorious and inspiring thing I ever
looked upon. He was riding a beautiful coal-black stallionJ
captured at Winchester, that belonged to one of the Federa^
generals in Milroy's army — a majestic animal, whose neck wa
clothed with thunder. 1 never saw a horse's neck so arched
his eye so fierce, his nostril so dilated. He followed in a trot,
close on the heels of the battle line, his head right in among
the slanting barrels and bayonets, the reins loose upon his
neck, his rider standing in his stirrups, bareheaded, hat itil
hand, arms extended, and, in a voice like a trumpet, exhortingl
his men.' He always had crisp words to rouse the ardor ofi
his men as his line moved into action, and if it was prudent to^
do so, he often told them what was intended, and what he ex-
pected of them. Some of his battle speeches were master-
pieces of emotion and oratory. No leader of ancient or mod-
ern times has excelled him in this respect. There was just
enough glow in acts and speech to inspire confidence that all
was going well, while a battle look beamed on his face which
spoke the joy of fight and unalterable purpose to conquer or
die. It was almost impossible for one to be in his presence,
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or in the sound of his voice in battle, and then feel afraid.
He knew what details and parts others could work out better
than himself, and was always ready to avail of such aid and
to praise it. He maintained discipline more by love than by
force, and yet on proper occasions he was not wanting in
sternness. He thoroughly despised a coward and skulker.
He seldom noticed breaches of discipline, unless very grave,
by the men who were always at the front. No skulker from
the ranks was ever slain by Gordon's hand for fleeing in bat-
tle ; and yet most soldiers had rather face a flaming battery
than incur his expostulation and scorn. His relations with
the officers and men under him were unique; and in many
respects incomprehensible to commanders who believe only in
the unthinking bayonet. He was a frequent visitor to the
sick and wounded in the hospitals, often went through the
camps and along the ranks on the march, and many a time
selected some foot-sore private and directed him to ride his
horse, while he 'walked to rest a little.' The men felt that the
General was not merely a superior officer, but a friend, and
in a degree a kinsman. If his private correspondence and in-
terviews during those days were known, we would be sur-
prised to find how many and what kind of personal con-
cerns, quite apart from those of military life, his soldiers car-
ried to him for advice and help. Once a Georgia youth,
gawky and shamefaced, came to the General's tent while the
General was dictating some correspondence, and asked to see
him privately. I went out, and on my return found the Gen-
eral composing a letter. The private had trouble and a lover's
quarrel to smooth with an absent sweetheart in Georgia. The
General heard him and framed a reply, and Gordon won a
victory for the boy. Yet with all this closeness to the rank
and file, none ever dreamed of taking undue liberty with him
or withholding the respect due his rank and character. He
was a man of deep religious instincts, and took a keen interest
in the spiritual welfare of his men. Many a time at some
church service or great revival among the soldiers he ex-
tended tlic right hand of fellowship to some humble private.
He was not jealous of his reputation or fault-finding, and
during the four years of his service had only one controversy
with a superior officer, and then rather about his men than
himself. He was careful of the feelings of others and quick
to perceive and heal the wounds of oversensitiveness. For a
man of his achievements, he was singularly simple and modest.
Save Willi intimate friends, he seldom discussed any event in
his own military history. He was besought time and time
again by his old soldiers to prepare some memoir of his serv-
ices in the Confederate army, and he yielded at last more
from a belief that such a work might add to the comfort of
his loved ones at home than from any thought that it would
transmit to posterity the record of one whom the world would
not willingly forget. He never exposed the lives of his men
when he could avoid it, and never avoided exposure of him-
self. Amid the heat of fight he never forgot the commander's
duty to watch the whole line, and never allowed the excite-
ment of the shifting scenes of combat to concentrate his at-
tention upon a minor event in his battle. He was buoyant and
seldom cast down, and, no matter how desperate his fortunes,
no brave man ever went out of his presence feeling that all
was lost. Even Lee once said to him : 'General, it is a great
comfort to be with you.' With the mstinct of the hunter for
game, he was always providing food and cquipinent for his
men when within human reach, and he exemplified on march
and in bivouac and camp the prompting of- a lofty soul which
disdained to avoid any of their trials and hardships. It was
this personality and these characteristics which enabled this
}oung soldier, when the shadow of the coming eclipse dark-
ened all our hopes, to rekindle in Jackson's Corps, thinned by
the slaughter of years of incessant battle, and dispirited by
recent disaster, the old enthusiasm, which carried them, undis-
mayed and confident, in that plunge into black death in the
night attack at Fort Sleadman, held them unyielding and
defiant on the long retreat, and at Sailor's Creek, and then
hurled them with the abandon and fire of their early days into
the last charge at Appomattox. Verily, he was a worthy suc-
cessor of Stonewall Jackson.
"Defeat halted neither his achievements nor the sweep of
his fame. Ere he knew it, the warrior had put off the sword,
put on the toga of the statesman, and grappled with the times.
In the evening after the formal surrender at Appomattox, he
gave some counsel to his men, which, viewed at this day, is
remarkable for its prophecy and lofty patriotism. The men
were destitute, despairing, and many of them desperate. They
were soon to return to their homes, not knowing what would
await them there. They crowded about him for consolation
and farewell. At first they came in little knots, and then,
as these left, others would come. He comforted them as best
he could. No man realized more keenly than he the wreck
of the old order and what it meant to these men. Hi's emo-
tions well-nigh overwhelmed him. He remarked that he
'could not stand it,' and went inside his tent. But the men
who loved him and hung on his words would not be denied,
and soon several thousand gathered. Finding no place from
which to address theim, he mounted his horse and rode among
them, speaking from his saddle. Had that address been re-
corded, it would have lived alongside of Pericles's oration in
honor of the Athenian dead in the Peloponnesian War. No
man can repeat the words or describe their power as they
fell from his lips, but the first few sentences and the substance
of what he said are burned in memory: 'I believe in God
Almighty. I have not tortured my mind about what is pre-
ordained and what is left entirely to men. The God who
created the heavens and the earth, and made man, had a pur-
pose. He can smite the waters, and we will pass over dry
shod, or he may stay his hand and allow the billows to roll
about us. Whatever is, is allowed for some divine purpose.'
They could not understand it now, but must trust that some
wise purpose would yet work good out of ill, from all out
miseries and disaster. He bade his followers hope, pointing
out that the men who had been arrayed against us in arms
appreciated the vz\or and nobility of purpose of the Confed-
erate soldier, and that the American manhood in the hearts
of the victors would prevent extreme measures or oppression.
He reminded his hearers that a people no more than an army
could achieve or be worthy of anything without discipline or
self-restraint, and he besought them to take part in civil gov-
ernment as soon as permitted, to be obedient to law and
authority, and not to resort to lawless force to resent indig-
nity and oppression, which for a time might be heaped upon
them. He bade them remember that national disaster could
not destroy character or individuals, or debar them from lead-
ing happy, useful, and noble lives, if only they remained true
to themselves. He pictured the fertility of our soil and the
variety of our resources, the need of the world for our great
staple, and knew that the same energy and devotion which
had made the Confederate soldier illustrious in war would
restore the waste places. There might be trouble with the
old slave; but the old master's intelligence, sense of justice,
and patience with a helpless and ignorant race would in the
end solve the problem. He spoke of his slain brother and the
ties which boui'd us to our dead, and begged tlieir surviving
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comrades to be worthy of thein, and not to leave the country,
but to remain at home to care for the women and chiidreli.
to succor the families of the dead, the destitute, and the
maimed. Force, he said, could not kill principle and truth,
but altered conditi«iii may require diflFerent applications of
them. He referred to early ties which bound the people of
the North and South together, who, notwithstanding the war,
still must feel the benign influences of the same language,
Bible, and God, in national life under a constitution and flag
which were largely the creation of the South. He believed
the passions and mists of the war would soon lift, that the
people would soon understand each other, and that the day
would come to which the young, at least, could confidently
look forward, when we would yet find in the New Union
the happiness, security, and independence for which the fore-
fathers fought. As his words rang out in the solemn hush of
the woods, they came with the force and authority of one in-
spired. Every man who heard him was strangely lifted up
and comforted. The counsels and wisdom of that address
were a part of the moral forces which saved the homeward
march from the stain of violence or wrong, and helped to make
the paroled prisoner the citizen whose conduct and achieve-
ments "in peace won the admiration and wonder of the world.
"Mingled in his thoughts of his old soldiers, and with the
same afTection, were the generation whom the war had de-
prived of education. Gordon had scarcely arranged his affairs
at home, before he began to urge the necessity, and helped to
provide the means, of putting in our schools non-partisan and
non-sectional histories. He insisted that the youth of the coun-
try should be taught the truth concerning our great struggle
and the issues it involved, just as the truth was. He was of
and for and with the people, in every just aspiration, and
counseled with them in all their trials. The people who had
remained at home grew to love him as passionately as his old
soldiers. He became a resistless force in public thought and
life. Georgia twice made him Governor and twice bore him
to the Senate of the United States. Prolific as she has been
of sages, orators, soldiers, and statesmen, no man ever lived
in her borders who had in a greater degree the confidence and
affection of her people, or finer mastery over their hearts, or
wielded it for nobler ends, .^fter the death of Lee, no man had
as wide influence as he in the South, and it was always and
bravely exercised. He was prominent in her councils in the
events which culminated when Hayes declared that 'the flag
should float over States, not provinces,' and it was due to his
counsels and influence, more than those of any one man, that
great calamities were averted, in the then excited condition
of the public mind. It was only "the Chevalier Bayard of the
Army of Northern Virginia,' as General Hill termed him, who
could send the message, and be heeded, when passion was
about to break all bounds in New Orleans, 'Bear and forbear,
even unto death.'
"No man knew better than he that the future peace of the
country and the happiness of the millions who had made such
unparalleled sacrifices to separate from the government to
which events returned them, must rest on surer foundation
than the memory of defeat. He knew the followers of Lee
and Johnston would observe their paroles, but his manhood
taught him that a defeated people could not parole principles
and future generations. He felt that the coining days would
only repeat the past, if the generation which fought from
Manassas to Appomattox sought to implant in the minds and
hearts of their children any judgment of the past, which in-
volved the millions on the one side or the other in dishonor.
He believed that tlic men of those days, who did not create
and could not control the apparently unalterable conditions
which theti wounded the happiness and unity of the republic,
and, finding no other practical solution, marched out, as God
gave their minds and hearts to see and know the right, to
battle and death in defense of their convictions, though they
differed and warred, were 'yet united in the higher and im-
mortal bond of equal fidelity to principle.' He profoundly
believed, and therefore earnestly taught, that the valor, hero-
ism, and sacrifices of the struggle were a glorious and blessed
heritage of the whole American people, and that neither fealty
to the dead nor fidelity to principle, nor any law of honor or
interest, called the people of any section to any other view.
He felt that the man who went into that struggle with pure
heart and came out with clean hands left a proud heritage.
He sought to sow these seeds everywhere He "held
humanity high above all hate.' He appreciated Grant's deli-
cacy of soul at .Appomattox, admired him as a soldier, recip-
rocated the sentiment written by his dying hand at Mount Mc-
Gregor, and was a sincere mourner at his bier. He venerated
Davis and \Hsited him at Fortress Monroe, and when, years
afterwards, he was borne by the love of his people from the
retirement of his home by the sea to his old capital, while the
world looked on and learned that the people for whom he
suffered, had neither forgotten nor deserted him in the hour
of adversity. Gordon was there to do him honor. Gordon,
welcoming Davis, delivered a memorable address from the
spot where the Confederacy was born, which went home to
the hearts of the American people. 'It was idle and wrong,'
he said, 'to expect men on either side, who followed cher-
ished convictions to battle and consecrated the best days of
their lives to a cause, to forget their past, their dead, their
valor, or their achievements. If that time should come to
pass, virtue would wither and die in the land. It was natural,
right, and wise that the people of the sections should glory in
their deeds of valor and the memory of their dead; and if
proper inspiration were drawn from their great lesson, the
country would rise higher, purer, and grander for the strife.
He went all over this land of ours as the apostle of peace.
Thousands heard him in the cities and hamlets of the North,
Elast, and West, and for the first time understood the Confed-
erate soldier as he was and is, and many at the South were
taught by him that patriotism and courage are not sectional.
His work was far-reaching and sublime, and ranks him among
the purest and best of American statesmen. Need any one,
least of all his old comrades, be told that this man was the
knightliest of the kniglitly in his reverence for woman, a
model husband, father, brother, friend, and neighbor, and
grieved none who knew him save when he died.
"The joys of last Christmastidc had scarce ended when the
news came from the Florida shores that our Commander in
Chief had gone beyond the stars. Flags at half-mast on South-
ern Capitols and governors of States paid homage to his mem-
ory. Confederate Veterans and Sons of Veterans and people
by thousands gathered around his bier. Aye, the North was
there too. From camps of his old foes came resolutions and
messages of condolence. A regiment of regulars, sent by the
President of the United States, with national colors draped,
and arms presented, saluted the dead soldier. And there were
other soldiers who did him homage there, who had not fol-
lowed 'the star-crossed banner which has long since taken its
flight to greet the warrior's soul.' Grizzled and maimed mem-
bers of the Grand Army of the Republic stood uncovered and
tearful as we bore his body away. All that is mortal of
him sleeps near Atlanta, in the soil he loved so well, on a
consecrated spot near where Walker and McPherson and
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thousands of brave men fell. There, among them, he will
rise again when the Master sounds the reveille, and the soldiei
'looks into the face which will make glorious his own.' I
know not, as the vast throng wended its way back to the city,
which of all the things that made us love him was uppermost
in the hearts which then paid him each its own tribute ; but
there came to me the words from the soul of Davis, on his
memorable visit, after the love of his people had kissed away
the scar of the fetters, 'It is worth while to have suffered
much to have known you and clasped your hand,' and Lee's
thought of Gordon in the darkest hours of his life: 'It is a
great comfort to be with you.' And thus our Arthur 'has
passed to be king of the dead.'
"And now, in obedience to the conmiand of his loved suc-
cessor, I offer these resolutions :
"Since our last assembling John B. Gordon, Commander in
Chief of the United Confederate Veterans, in the fullness of
his fame and usefulness, has passed from among men. He
valued the office which our love conferred upon him as the
greatest honor of his life. His death is the greatest loss that
could have come to us. It is impossible in formal resolutions
to express what he was to us, and what we were to him. His
life and deeds from the day he entered the Confederate serv-
ice to the hour of his death are known at every fireside in the
South, and the frequent objects of admiration and veneration
abroad. 'His countrymen, in telling them, can give no infor-
mation even to the stranger.' Entering the service as captain,
he had won at the age of thirty-three the rank of lieutenant
general and imperishable fame in one of the world's greatest
wars, in one of its grandest armies. Defeat halted neither his
achievements nor the sweep of his fame. The warrior put off
the sword to become the orator, statesman, and leader of his
people in peace. Georgia twice made him Governor and twice
bore him to the Senate of the United States. After the death of
Lee, no man wielded as wide an influence in the South and
commanded in as great a degree the confidence of her people,
or had a finer mastery over their hearts, or used it for nobler
ends. He was an exemplar of her manhood and of all that is
best in the Confederate soldier in war and peace, and her
counselor in great crises in the recent history of our country.
He loved his home, revered woman, and trusted in God. and
was stainless, unselfish, and loving in all the relations of life.
HON. TIIOWAS C. JONES.
Neither creed nor race bound his benevolence, and at the time
of his death he was the most universally beloved man at
home and the most respected abroad ; therefore be it
"Resolved: i. That the Lhiited Confederate Veterans mourn
for John B. Gordon, and commend the example of his life to
the admiration of posterity.
"2. That we tender our deepest sympathy and love to the
noble woman and wife, whose courage, devotion, and gentle
ministrations sustained and cheered him in all his trials,
shared his danger on the battlefield, and who, from the days
of his youth to the hour of his death, was the inspiration of
his stainless life.
"3. That it would be a reproach to us, not to him, if a suit-
able monument be not erected to point the example of his
splendid memory and virtues, and we, therefore, cordially ap-
prove the 'Gordon Monument Association,' which has been
inaugurated in Atlanta, and ask Veterans and Sons of Vet-
erans and the people at large to aid in this work.
"4. That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes and
a copy be sent to Mrs. Gordon."
CONFEDERATED SOUTHERN MEMORIAL ASSOCIA-
TION.
Mrs. W. J. Behan, President of the C. S. M. A., writes
from Memphis, Tenn., June ig, 1004, to the Veteran:
"I wish to thank you, and through you the Reunion Com-
mittee for their cooperation in making the fifth annual con-
vention of this confederation one of the most successful ever
held. The addresses of welcome were most cordial, and all
our requirements were provided. The good people of Nash-
ville are to be congratulated on the success attending this, the
fourteenth annual convention of the United Confederate
Veterans.
"It was a disappointment not to have a 'Memorial Associa-
tion' to welcome us. We missed the tender greeting that would
have been offered us by these our colaborers of the 'sixties.'
At one lime there was in Nashville a band of loyal, devoted
women who were engaged in hospital work, then when the
war ceased their hearts cried out for the heroic dead who
had been buried where they fell, and at once it was determined
to have their remains brought back to the land for which
they died. After many trials this work of love was accom-
plished, and a magnificent monument was erected to their
memory. It was to these women our hearts turned, and
whose loving welcome we longed for.
"It was my pleasure and good fortune to meet a few of
this original band of workers, though not at present actively
organized, and to learn that an effort will be made to rally
the remaining few who are still proud of the title 'Memorial
Association' and will preserve their identity and perpetuate
the record of their glorious work. They have left a priceless
heritage to the 'Daughters of the Confederacy,' in whom they
feel a tnother's pride, and rejoiced to find that the spirit lives
within their hearts to continue the work begun by their
mothers and grandmothers."
The most important proceedings of the association will be
given herein as soon as practicable. These mothers of the
Confederacy should revive the old organizations wherever
possible, and continue their worthy memorial work.
At Aberdeen, in far-away Washington, a Grand Army Post
aiid the Woman's Relief Corps gathered for an excursion
to Montesano on May 30 to decorate the graves of the Federal
dead. A lone Confederate in gray, Jacob Heater, who served
in the Twenty-First Virginia Infantry, was of the party, and
"friendly greetings were extended to him from every side."
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MEMORIAL TO IVOMEX OF THE CONFEDERACY.
The plan is outlined by which the true feelings of our
Southern people are to be touched that they perform their
loving duty to the women of the Confederacy. At the recent
reunion of the veterans resolutions were unanimously and
enthusiastically adopted, setting forth that the United Sons
of Confederate Veterans have undertaken the loving task
of erecting a memorial to the women of the Confederacy,
and have raised a substantial nucleus of a fund for that
purpose; also that they have expressed a willingness to as-
sume responsibility for the successful issue of this movement
and to labor unceasingly to that end. The veterans feel that
this tribute to our glorious women should be erected and
due honor paid in enduring form to their magnificent services
to the Confederacy, and that their sons now stepping into
their places, endowed with the greater energy of their youth,
shall take up this most worthy work of honoring our noble
women, their mothers.
Resolved, That the United Confederate Veterans' Southern
Women's Memorial Committee is directed to turn over to
the Committee on a Memorial to the Women of the Con-
federacy of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans any and
all funds it may have on hand, and that the said committee
be discharged, and that, having full confidence in the patriot-
ism, devotion, and abilities of the United Sons of Confederate
Veterans, we commit to them the sacred task of erecting this
memorial to these heroines of the Confederate days, believing
that they will use their every effort to bring their work to an
early and glorious consummation.
"Resolved further, That, while committing to our sons the
task of raising this fund, we call upon every veteran and
every true lover of the South to contribute to this end and to
aid the Sons in their effort, and the commander in chief is
directed to appoint a committee of five to cooperate with the
Sons and aid them in every way practicable; we also call
upon the press of the South to bring this movement more fully
to the attention of the people and to aid the Sons in their
noble work."
At their session of Thursday afternoon, Mr. James Mann,
representing the Sons, appeared and read the resolutions
passed by the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, accepting
the sacred trust and in most eloquent language portrayed the
earnest devotion of the Sons to this high duly. He and his
mission were received by the old veterans with much en-
thusism.
Therefore, hereafter the work of raising this memorial
will be intrusted to the more active hands and equally warm
hearts of the Sons, whose success so far gives absolute as-
surance of a most successful and early culmination of the
effort. The veterans will give all the assistance possible. It
is hoped and believed that the younger Daughters of the Con-
federacy will join the Sons in doing honor to their common
mothers. It is as much a duly for the one as for the other.
Mr. James Mann, of Richmond, is the Chairman of the
Women's Memorial Committee of the United Sons of Con-
federate Veterans. He was greatly encouraged by the deep
interest manifested by Lieut. Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Com-
mander Army Northern Virginia Department, U. C. V., in
all that concerns the Sons, and particularly the movement to
draw them into closer union with the veterans and the success
of this the first duty which the Sons have taken up from their
fathers, the paying of this just tribute to our glorious women.
After the adjournment of the convention he conferred with
him, and was most fortunate in securing his active services
in the great work. The Sons will thus be aided by the per-
sistent efforts of Gen. Walker, working for them and their
grand object. This is a very fortunate arrangement. Gen.
Walker, from his distinguished and influential position with
the veterans and as chairman of the Veterans' committee to
help the work, can thus unite the two grand influences of
the Veterans and the Sons into the closest union and direct
them together for the attainment of the desired end.
It is believed that a deep sentiment exists for this noble
object, and it will be now systematically pursued.
The Sons to Build a Woman's Memorial.
Of the important work in hand by the United Sons of Con-
federate Veterans they will evidently press the cause of a
memorial to the women of the Confederacy. Mr. James
Mann, of Norfolk, Va.,
is chairman of the
committee; and Gen.
C. Irvine Walker, of
Greenville, S. C, com-
manding the army of
Xorthern Virginia De-
partment, U. C. v., has
been engaged to work
in this special inter-
est. He will deliver
ectures and in other
ways advance this
cause. Remittances
may be made to either
of these gentlemen.
It is time the men
of tlie South who are
of one mind on this
subject take united ac-
tion. The Veteran
desires to do every-
thing possible to ad-
vance it, and suggests
the propriety of for-
mulating just what is
to be done. From
knowledge of the sen-
timent of Southern
women generally, it is
siihniitted that a build-
ing or buildings for memorial and educational purposes would
be better tluni anv sliaft or bronze. More of this later.
MISS PAULINE iJ.Wlb, kUCK HILL,
Sponsor for S. C. Division, Nashville Keiinion.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee has issued the following appeal:
"My comrades, for some reason our movement to erect a
monument to our patriotic Confederate women who shared
with us all the hardsliips, sacrifices, and trials of the great
war between the States has not met with the success it de-
serves, and mostly because our glorious women have dis-
couraged the work, saying: "No! Let us build monuments to
our heroes; we want no monuments for ourselves.'
"At our recent reunion in Nashville, as the United Sons of
Confederate Veterans had already decided to build the monu-
ment, and had in hand a handsome sum, it was thought best
to turn over to them this duty. They at once accepted the
responsiblity and said they would carry out our wishes. Our
Southern women cannot deny our successors this privilege, )
even while working to build monuments to their heroic dead.
"In placing the duty of building the monument on our Sons,
we unanimously and enthusiastically resolved that, while com-
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niitting to our Sons the task of raising this fund, we call upon
every veteran and every true lover of the South to contribute
to this end and to aid the Sons in their efforts; and the Com-
mander in Chief is directed to appoint a committee of five to
cooperate with the Sons and aid them in every way practica-
ble.
"It must be our great and precious privilege to give our
Sons every assistance we can possibly render; and to carry out
this resolve, I have selected as chairman of the committee
our Lieut. Gen. C. Irvine Walker, whom you have several times
elected to command the Army of Northern Virginia Depart-
ment. I consider him eminently fitted for the duty, because of
his great interest and untiring energy in all of our Confederate
work. He has. too, more than any other veteran, brought
about the practical union of the two great fraternal associa-
tions of the United Confederate Veterans and the United Sons
of Confederate Veterans, who, for the first time, sat together
in the same hall at Nashville. I can fully indorse his ability,
earnestness, and enthusiasm.
"I would therefore earnestly urge and appeal to every
Veteran of our great association and to every other lover of
the Smith and our glorious women to give every assistance to
(jhN. I . IK\ i.M, U .\l kKR.
Gen. Walker and his committee, who are working for a grand
and patriotic object, and to aid our Sons who have so nobly
assumed this supreme object. Help him and them, and I feel
sure that the effort will be crowned by a most deserved suc-
cess. Let the monument not be surpassed in grande\ir and
beauty by any other in our Southland.
"Address Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Special Representative U.
S. C. V. Committee, and chairman U. C. V. Committee, Green-
ville, S. C."
UNITED SONS OF CONFEDERATE I'ETERANS.
N. R. Tisdal. Commander in Chief of the United Sons of
Confederate Veterans, in General Order No. i to his com-
rades, states:
"By virtue of election as Commander in Chief in our conven-
tion at the General Reunion of 1904 held in Nashville, Tenn.,
I hereby assume command of this organization.
"General headquarters are hereby established at Fort Worth,
Tex.
"I hereby appoint I. J. Stockett, of Fort Worth, Tex.,
Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, and Clinton Barr, of Fort
Worth, Tex., Quartermaster General.
"It is with a full appreciation of the labors and responsi-
bilities incumbent upon the office that I assume command of
this glorious organization. It is proper at this time to call
attention to the name of the order, 'United Sons,' and to ask
your earnest interpretation of the meaning. Strife and bick-
erings should have no place in our organization, and the
purposes of this confederation should and will, I hope, be
placed high above personal feeling and ambitions. Let it
be understood that our love for it began in the cradle and will
end only in the grave. Let it be known that we are the sons
of the truest, bravest men that ever faced the cannon's
mouth. Elach son has a duty to perform in perpetuating the
proud records of our soldier fathers whom we love so well.
And still a greater duty, the perpetuation of the memories of
the Spartan mothers of the Confederacy, who are our ever-
lasting pride and eternal love.
"Comrades, when the roll is called, stand up with the con-
sciousness of having done your duty. There are fully one
million sons of the Confederacy, and every one of them should
be in the ranks working with a single purpose. An invitation
should be extended to every one of them. Each member
should constitute himself a recruiting officer and lend his
influence and energies in building up the organization. Let
us all work in harmony in the promotion of the welfare and
growth of the grandest, most glorious organization that
mortal man has ever conceived of. and next year at Louis-
ville. Ky.. meet in love and unity with but a single purpose.
"Where it is practicable it is the desire of the commander in
chief thai all matters should pass through division and de-
partment headquarters in which they emanate."
Capt. W, P. Reddish, of Liberty, Mo., while sending a good
list of subscribers to the Veteran, incloses a notice of the
Confederate monument to be unveiled there on August 10. It
is made of Vermont granite, and is surmounted by a bronze
statue of a Confederate soldier at parade rest. The structure
is twenty feet high, and it is the second monument north of
the Missouri River in that State, the other being at Moberly.
Capt. Reddish will have a pleasant surprise for his people at
the dedication. Over two hundred volunteers enlisting from
Clay County went down in the struggle. They were of
representative families, and their names have been preserved
with the places where they were killed or died.
RESIDFNCE OF HCGH MOORF, BRENTWOOD.
Used as a hospital, after a lighl, by Forrest.
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S. A. CT.'NKINGHAM, Editor and PrnpricU.r.
Office: Mrthodist Publishlrj; U'usc Building, Nashville, Tenn.
Thb pablication li tin- [KTSon.il property o{ S. A. Cunnlncbam. All per-
■OM who approve ils principles and realize its benefits as an ornan for Amo-
dUtons throuehout the South are requested to commend Us patronaee and to
eoOperale in extending ils rirculation. Let each one be constantly diligent.
'Hie list of officers of tlie U. C. V. organization publislicd in
the June Veteran was incomplete and defective. The Trans-
Mississippi Department was omitted, and the error not de-
tected until too late. It may be expected complete and correct
in August issue.
LET EVERY PATRON READ THIS.
On page .r^- there is a comment in regard to the Veteran
that is commended to its friends everywhere. The publica-
tion is a grave responsibility, and its friends would help it
more than they will readily conceive by renewing their sub-
scriptions without waiting for statements. If all would send
direct to the office, without waiting for collectors to call,
they would save the Veteran at least ten dollars every day.
and that sum would enable its publisher to improve it very,
very much. .\ multitude when writing beg pardon for delay,
saying it was "an oversight ;" then many others write to the
office for a statement. This is unnecessary. Look to the date
by your name. That indicates the time to which payment has
been made. Anybody can tell that, yet splendid business men
will impulsively, when it occurs to make a payment, write in-
quiring in regard to when their time is out.
If every subscriber would act promptly upon the foregoing
suggestions, it would be worth to the Veteran at least a
thousand dollars. Why not do so? Again, instead of buying
a post office order for one dollar, ask others to subscribe with
you, proposing to save them all expense of remitting, since
the cost of a money order for several would be no more than
for one. Besides, any who will send direct may deduct all
cost of sending. It is strange indeed that so many will wait
and wait for a collector. Please act on this request now.
These requests are made earnestly, and it is due the Veteran
for each one to examine the date when subscription expires
and write the office. If not convenient to remit, say so, but
show that much interest in the cause. This brief appeal is
made in this dull season in the hope that every friend in
arrears will renew and solicit other patrons before this month
of July expires. Such action would be a real blessing.
In connection with the foregoing, the suggestion is made that
every friend of the Veteran do some missionary work by
sending names to this office for sample copies. It would be a
good time now to procure sixteen new subscriptions and get
the great work of "Rise and Fall of the Confederate Govern-
ment," by Jefferson Davis. See notice on index sent as a
supplement with this issue. The publishers' price of this
work, $14 in half morocco, makes it, as a premium for the
sixteen subscribers, as attractive a proposition as was ever
offered.
With Wyeth's "Life of Gen. N. B. Forrest" at $4, remember
that a year's subscription to the \■;rEl;^^• is given free.
"Two Wars," by Gen. S. G. French, and a year's subscrip-
tion at $2.50, is better worth the money than gold is gold.
"Two Years on the Alabama," by Lieut. Sinclair, $3, will
be furnished with a year's subscription for the $3- "Bright
"Skies," by Dr. H. M. Field, at $1.50, will be supplied with a
year's subscription at that price. In that book there are fifty
pages in regard to the battle of Franklin.
Sovvenir or the Nashville Rel'niox. — In response to
many requests for reunion badges, it is
explained that the supply was exhausted
long before the veterans were supplied,
the attendance having been so much
larger than was anticipated. There was
made, however, a button, herewith il-
lustrated, that was sold for a half dol-
lar. The surplus of that stock ha? been
procured for free distribution to subscribers of the Veteran,
and this splendid souvenir will be sent to every subscriber
renewing direct to the office when requested.
The Veteran committed an error in the June issue by sup-
plementing some notes by Gov. Porter concerning the brigades
of Smith and Granbury. In a desire to compliment Thos.
Benton Smith that given name was used, whereas it was the
brigade of Gen. J. A. Smith, of Mississippi.
A. H. HAVNES. J. J. LEWIS. W. T. JOHNSON. W. D. SMITH.
L. O'B. BRANCH DRUM CORPS OF RALEIGH. N. C.
The only "Old Veteran Drum Corps" in existence. .\c-
knowledgment is made to Comrade A. B. Stronach, of Ra-
leigh, for this picture of the drum corps. On the last day
of the reunion in Nashville the Veteran office force was
given a serenade by the corps, which was much enjoyed.
A similar compliment was tendered by Gen. Bennett H.
Young with the Kentucky band, a similar courtesy having
been extended by him to the Veteran at the Nashville re-
union seven years ago.
SILLINESS AND SHAME OF SWEARING.
The Anti-Profanity League, inaugurated at Hanson, Mass.,
has as its Secretary Rev. Roland D. Sawyer. It is said to
be the only organized movement of its kind in the world.
Secretary Sawyer has published a card quoting a conference
between Gen. R. E. Lee and one of his oflicers who had sworn
in his presence : "General, you know as well as I do what the
army regulations say about profanity, but as a friend. Id me
ask you if that dreadful habit cannot be broken!"
The card referred to contains on the reverse side the senti-
ments of Virginia, the South, the North, and the world's esti-
mate of Gen. R. E. Lee. These cards are offered for sale at
fifteen cents per hundred.
General Secretary Sawyer concludes his letter as follows:
"I wish the greatest success to your magazine in its great mis-
sion, and firmly believe that the verdict of an impartial his-
tory will be :
" 'No braver band bled for a brighter land,
Nor brighter land had cause so grand.
Nor cause a chief like Lee."
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SURPLUS OF THE REUNION FUND.
Col. D. B. Cooper, who has known and been interested in
the cause of the Veteran since it was launched in journalism,
has published a generous appeal in its behalf and suggested
that the surplus from the reunion fund be utilized in sending
subscriptions. The Nashville American favors it.
In gratefully accepting the suggestion, and being determined
to favor such appropriation, the editor, first of all, states that
in such event he would accept so much of the fund as con-
tributors might graciously agree to give on condition that the
Veteran be sent at actual cost, the committee to determine
the amount. It would neither be wise nor patriotic to miss
the opportunity to do so important a service to liberal-hearted
Tennessee patriots. Many of them have no conception of its
far-reaching results.
When at Richmond, in the close competition of Nashville
with other cities then desiring to entertain all the Confed-
erates, the turning point for Nashville was made as stated,
"because it is the home of the Veteran." Then again, when
there seemed to be no place for them to meet this year, the
editor of the Veteran took it up against what seemed to
be insurmountable opposition, and the result is conceded to
be the greatest success of all the reunions.
While contributions to this fund were given without the
anticipation of any return, the committee is evidently under
obligation to tender it to the donors fro rala. As this is not
practicable to those who gave provisions, there could be a
proportionate return in copies of the Veteran, and it would
be a worthy stimulant in the event of future appeals for
similar purposes. A percentage of amounts given in the
larger donations might be asked in return, but in most in-
stances the amounts would be left for such disposition as the
committee might elect. In this way every contributor would
be satisfied, and monthly visits of the Veteran to those who
gave to the fund would be constant reminders of the faith-
fulness of the management.
No monthly publication in all time at the South has equaled
that of the Veteran, and as Tennessee has not patronized it
in proportion to her advantages over other States, such action
as is here proposed would give worthy and lasting impetus
to the work and the cause it represents.
In so far as the editor of the Vetf.ran has personal merit
to consideration in this matter, the fact is mentioned that
at no other time of all the reunions did he give up his per-
sonal business from first to last in looking after the welfare
of guests, w-hcreby many — a multitude who will not come
this way again — were disappointed in failure to find him in
their desires to advance the interests of the Veteran. No
other event approximates these general reunions in impor-
tance to its business feature. It is the sole occupation of the
editor, and the South knows his work.
Gen. G. P. Thruston, seeing, the article of Col. Cooper,
writes from Bccrsheba Springs that if there be any surplus
he desires that the I'ro rata of Prewitt, Spurr & Company, of
which he is President, be devoted to sending the "excellent"
Veteran to the old Confederate soldiers.
[The foregoing was written for local circulation, but it is
copied in the Veteran', as it will explain to friends who sought
him at the headquarters, his usual place at reunions.]
Confederate leaders have a correct appreciation of the
work of the Veteran. In sending out a general order of
acknowledgment to the people of Nashville for what they did
in the recent reunion, mention was omitted of the Veteran
and its editor, so that Gen. Stephen D. Lee promptly sent a
supplemental "official paper" on his return, which is as follows :
7**
Official Letter from Commander in Chief Lee.
Columbus, Miss., June 19, 1904.
Mr. S. A. Cunningham, Editor and Proprietor of tiie Co.nfederate Veteran,
N;isiiville, Tenn.
My Dear Comrade and Friend: 1 have scarcely yet recov-
ered from the effects of the magnificent reunion which Nash-
ville gave to the Confederate Veterans. Before leaving the
city, I had an order issued expressing my gratitude and appre-
ciation to the citizens of Nashville for their munificent hos-
pitality. Somehow, your name was not included among
those who were thanked. This was a great oversight on my
part, for to you more than any one else we are indebted for
the pleasure of going to Nashville and having such a glorious
reception and entertainment. It was you alone who took
upon yourself the responsibility of suggesting Nashville as the
place for our reunion ; it was you who went before the Frank
Cheatham Camp making the appeal and brought it before the
trades associations of your city ; it was you who went to that
broad-hearted citizen, Maj. John W. Thomas, who crystal-
lized your thought and invitation, and you made the formal
invitation to the Executive Committee at Louisville; and now,
my dear comrade, in behalf of all the veterans, I thank you
for your inspiration, which met with such glorious results.
I have been much impressed with the recent numbers of
the Veteran. It is full of historic and reminiscent matter.
It does seem to me tliat every Confederate Veteran should
have j'our magnificent publication in his home, and I now
wish to emphasize and urge upon all our survivors not only
to take the Confederate Veteran themselves, but that it also
be urged upon the younger generation that they may take it
as a necessity: that they may fully understand the cause for
which we fought and which we loved so well. I urge this,
not for your sake, or for mine, but for the record made by
the soldiers, women, and people of our beloved Southland.
With kindest wishes, your comrade and friend,
Stephen D. Lee.
The general order referred to states:
"i. Through the goodness of a merciful Providence, many,
very many, of the survivors of the grandest armies the world
ever produced have been able to meet once more and exchange
tender greetings and loving words, and to enjoy in common
the boundless hospitality provided by the noble and patriotic
men and beautiful and glorious women of the city of Nash-
ville, which was heaped up in immeasurable prodigality for
their enjoyment.
"In many respects this reunion has been superior to all here-
tofore held — in the numbers in attendance, the harmony, and
cordiality of the meeting and the beautiful weather which
prevailed. All these have combined with the generous and
open-handed behavior of the great people of Nashville to
make thi:; gathering a red-letter day in the calendar of our re-
unions. . . .
"2. The wearers of the gray are under obligations to the
difi'erent railroads for the low rates given them: to the vari-
ous hotels and boarding houses for the reasonable charges
made for meals and lodgings. Special thanks are due to
W. J. McMurray, M.D., Commissary General, who had charge
of the Confederate Hotel ; to M. S. Cockrill. Quartermaster
General, to whose painstaking zeal in the collection and dis-
tribution of horses the success of the great parade is in no
small degree due. . . . But above all, honor and praise
should be bestowed on the Chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee. Charles F. Frizzell. for his untiring energy, ceaseless
activity, and never-ending attention to all of its details."
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DISASTROUS CAMPAIGN IN TENNESSEE.
In the greetings to Confederates who come from every part
of the country, the Veteran for this month will contain much
of the history of the campaign under Gen. Hood. It will be
quite as much a matter of interest to home people as to the
veterans, for, strange as it may seem, there has been perhaps
less published about the battle of Nashville than any in the
four years of as great consequence. Reminiscences have been
requested of those who were in the city and the Federals them-
selves, but responses have been so slow that much will have to
appear later, if at all.
The editor of the Veteran, who carried a gun and was
insignificant in that service, will give sketches of what he saw
and remembers, supplementing them with reminiscences of
officials high in authority and others. He presumes to do this
the more freely since many of the illustrations are made from
his view points in the campaign.
A memorable night, to many Tennesseeans especially, was
that at Palmetto, Ga., after the eventful campaign at Rocky
Face, near Dalton, to Atlanta and back to Jonesboro and then
to Lovejoy Station. The Federal troops had fallen back to
Atlanta, and the Confederate army had moved across to the
village of Palmetto, on the Atlanta and West Point road. This
was September lo. 1S64 A truce of ten days having occurred
mm
HARRISON HOUSE SOUTH OF WINSTEAD HILL.
Filled with the wimniled, as was t)ie vard :tIso, from the l»;itt!e of Kr;tnklln.
for exchange of prisoners, there was absolute cessation of hos-
tilities, a welcome diversion from nearly three months of ex-
cessive fighting. President Davis, Howell Cobb (of Georgia),
and Gov. Harris (of Tennessee) were speakers on the night
mentioned, and the Tennessee campaign was the theme. The
wind blew briskly, tattered battle flags were grouped about the
place for speaking, flapping over the pine fires, and when the
President said we were to go into Tennessee there was indeed
wild enthusiasm among those who were ready to face any foes
and undergo all possible privations to breathe the air and greet
the loved ones in their native State. Soldiers from all the
States pulsated with wild enthusiasm.
The march across the country was full of interest. Some-
times rations were acorns and crab apples, but the men were
buoyant with the prospects ahead. On reaching the rich lands
of Maury County, near Mt. Pleasant, and marching across to
Columbia by the magnificent estates of Polk, Pillow, Granbury,
and others, such joy filled the hearts of Tennesseeans as they
had never realized before.
Sunday the army rested about Columbia, and Monday morn-
ing, November 29, a large part of it crossed Duck River a few
miles above the town on a pontoon bridge that was ready at
early dawn. The marching was in the direction of Spring Hill,
and the confidence in Gen. Hood was such that he would surely
cut off the escape of all the Federals who had not already
passed on the Nashville pike.
The head of the column arrived at Spring Hill about an hour
before sunset, and commands were deployed promptly, ready
for any command. Delay of movement there became inexplica-
ble. VVe were in plain view of the Federals, who had tumbled
fences for hasty breastworks. Officers dashed back and forth
along the lines, evidently expecting a mad rush of Confed-
erates. We waited until darkness, but even into the night we
fully expected orders to break their lines and secure the pike.
By and by fires were built by the thousands, it seemed, and we
remained as tranquil through the night as if the war were over,
and poor, silly fellows we were to believe that the day of our
redemption was at hand.
Morning came, and we moved out tlic pike toward Nashville.
As evidence of the condition of the enemy, the writer counted
thirty-four wagons that had been abandoned on the way. and
in some instances all four of the mules to a wagon had been
killed to prevent their capture.
ASCENT OF WINSTEAD HILL, LKFT OF PIKE.
First stand nude by Federals was on these slopes, but thev retired without tirinir. On lilll to tlie right Federal fixed bayonets are recalled
as a sheen of silver In the afternoon sun. The Harrison house above Is to the left and near the point of this view.
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The first appearance of the enemy was to our right of the
pike, east of the Winstead Hill. They soon disappeared, and
we advanced to the top of the range overlooking Franklin.
Gen. Hood was soon at the head of the army, and, riding
down a hundred yards or so to a lind tree which is there yet,
LIND TREE BY WHICH GEN. HOOD TOOK THE LANDSCAPE IN
PLANNING THE BATTLE OF FRANKLIN.
unattended, he examined the fortifications and position of
the enemy, and, ascending to the top of the hill, he said to an
ofiicer, who awaited : "General, we will make the fight."
The editor of the Veteran was at his place as right guide
of the Forty-First Tennessee Regiment, and very near where
the two officers met, and reports this from his personal knowl-
edge. Soon couriers were dashing right and left with orders,
and bands of music gave increased animation.
No event of the war perhaps showed a scene equal to this.
The range of hills upon which we formed offered the best
view of the battlefield, with but little exposure to danger, and
soon there were hundreds collected there as spectators. Our
ranks were being extended rapidly to the right and left. In
Franklin there was the utmost confusion. The enemy were
greatly excited. We could see them running to and fro.
Wagon trains, were being pressed across the Harpeth River,
and on toward Nashville. Gen. Loring, of Cleburne's di-
vision, made a speech to his men. Our Brigadier General O.
F. Strahl was quiet, and there was an expression of sadness
on his face. The soldiers generally were full of ardor, and
confident of success. They had unbounded faith in Gen.
Hood, and he believed he would achieve a victory that would
give us Nashville. Such was the spirit of the army as the
signal was given which set it in motion. Our generals were
ready, and some of them rod« in front of our main line.
With a quick step we moved forward to the sound of stirring
music. The writer was right guide to the Forty-First Tennes-
see ; marching four paces to the front, he had an opportunity
of viewing his comrades, and well remembers the look of de-
termination that was on every face. Our bold movement
caused the enemy to give up, without much firing, its advanced
line. As they fell back at double-quick, our men rushed for-
ward, following the retreat so closely that their men behind
the works lost their last opportunity for our destruction in
getting through their chevaux-de-frise about fifty yards in
front of their breastworks.
Before we were in proper distance for small arms, the artil-
lery opened on both sides. Our guns, firing over our heads
from the hills in the rear, used ammunition without stint,
while the enemy's batteries were at constant play upon our
lines. When they withdrew to their main line of works, it was
as one even plain for a mile. Why half of us were not killed
yet remains a mystery ; for after moving forward so great a
distance, all the time under fire, the detention, immediately
in their front, gave them a very great advantage. Arrived at
the works, some of our men, after a club fight at the trenches,
got over. The colors of my regiment were carried inside, and
when the arm that held them was shot off, they fell to the
ground and remained until morning. Cleburne's men dashed
;it the works, but their gallant leader was shot dead, and they
VIKW OF FRANKLIN — FROM THIS POINT GHN. HOOD PLANNED THE BATTLE.
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gave way, so that the enemy remained on our flank, and kept
up a constant enfilading fire as long as the battle lasted.
Our left also failed to hold the works, and for a short dis-
tance we remained and fought until their outer ditch was almost
full of dead men. Night came on soon after the hard fighting
began, and we fired at the flash of each other's guns. The
works were so high that those who fired the guns were obliged
to get a footing in the embankment, exposing themselves, in
addition to their flank, to a fire by men in houses. One es-
pecially severe was that from Mr. Carter's, immediately in my
front. I (this sketch is finished the first person) was
near Gen. Strahl, who stood in the ditch, and handed up guns
to those posted to fire them. I had passed to him my short
Enfield (noted in the regiment that I was permitted to carry as
a special favor) about the sixth time. The man who had
been firing had cocked it and was taking deliberate aim, when
he was shot and tumbled down dead into the ditch upon those
killed before him. As the men so exposed were shot down,
their places were supplied by volunteers until these *ere ex-
hausted, and it was necessary for Gen. Strahl to call upon
others. He turned to me, and, though I was several feet back
from the ditch, I arose immediately, and, walking over the
wounded and dead, took position with one foot upon the pile
of bodies of my dead fellows, and the other in the embankment,
and fired guns which the General himself handed me. One
other man had position on my right, and assisted in the
firing. The battle lasted until not an efficient man was left
between us and the Columbia Pike, about fifty yards to our
right, and hardly enough behind us to hand up the guns. We
could not hold out much longer, for indeed but few of us were
then left alive. It seemed as if we had no choice but to sur-
render or try to get away, and when I asked the General
for counsel, he simply answered, "Keep firing." But just as
the man to my right was shot and fell against me with terrible
groans, Gen. Strahl was shot. He threw up his hands, falling
on his face, and I thought him dead, but in asking the dying
man, who still lay against my shoulder until he sank forever,
how he was wounded, the General, who had not been killed,
thinking my question was to him, raised up and said that he
was shot in the neck, and called for Col. Stafford to turn over
his command.
He crawled over the dead to the left, the ditch being three
deep, about twenty feet to where Col. Stafford was. His staff
COTTON GIN IN THE LINE OF BATTLE AT FRANKLIN.
officer.^i started to carry him to the rear; but he received an-
other shot, and directly the third, which killed him instantly.
Col. Stafford was dead in the pile, as the morning light dis-
closed, with his feet wedged in at the bottom, with other dead
across and under him after he fell, leaving his body half
standing.
By that time but a handful of us were left on that part of
the line, and as I was sure that our condition was not known,
I ran to the rear to report to Gen. John C. Brown, command-
ing the division. I met Major Hampton, of his staff, \vho told
WHERE GEN. P. R. CLEBURNE FELL.
Carter smokehouse in distance to the left. Detiris of tiurnt sciiool building
(Battle Ground Acadrmyj Intervening. Site of the cotton gin.
THE CARTER MOUSE AT FRANKLIN — VIEW MADE FROM ACROSS THE GARDEN.
The point described in this number of Vhtkkan (by S. A. Cunnlnghain,i. The cotton gin across the pike east, and the locust grcve west.
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me that Gen. Brown was wounded, and that Gen. Strahl was
in command. This assured me that those in command did not
know the real situation, so I went on the hunt for Gen. Cheat-
ham. By and by relief was sent to the front. This done,
nature gave way. My shoulder was black with bruises from
^^k
I could see only what passed directly before my own eyes.
True, the moon was shining; but the dense smoke and dust
so filled the air as to weaken its benefits, like a heavy fog be-
fore the rising sun, only there was no promise of the fog dis-
appearing. Our spirits were crushed. It was indeed the Val-
ley of Death.
A Cross Returned After Forty Years.— In the sad and
gory days of 1864 a soldier of the Fourteenth North Carolina
Regiment was wounded near Winchester. He was carried to
a hastily improvised hospital in the town. As he lay there a
ministering angel, a Mrs. Taylor, of Winchester, removed him
to her home, where, night and day, she sat by his side, thereby
saving his limb and maybe his life. Feeling unbounded grati-
tude for the kind ministry, the soldier on leaving gave his
benefactress a small gold cross, which he had worn contin-
ually during his three years' active service in the war. It was
about the only article of value he possessed. Since that time
he has kept an eye upon the family of Mrs. Taylor, and once
visited them. Recently the soldier, who is Mr. C. A. Hunt, a
citizen of Lexington, N. C, and a prominent Veteran, received
the cross from which he had parted forty years ago. It
was pinned to a silk battle flag, and was sent him by tlie son
of Mrs. Tavlor.
MISS BATSON CR.WKN--, ARKANSAS,
Sponsor for Trans Mlssis.'iippi nel>.irlinenl.
firing, and it seemed that no moisture was left in my system.
Utterly exhausted, the battle over, I sank upon the ground
and tried to sleep, as the battle was over and I could do no
more. With concern for the fate of comrades, I returned to
the awful spectacle at daylight in search of some w-ho year aft-
er year had been at my side. Ah, the loyalty of faithful com-
rades in such a struggle !
The greater part of the battle was fought after nightfall and,
once in the midst of it, with but the light of the flashing guns.
SPRIXC HILL AND BATTLE OF FRANKLIX.
Hon. James D. Porter, ex-Governor of Tennessee, who was
Chief of Staff to Maj. Gen. B. F. Cheatham, commanding
Cheatham's Corps in the Army of Tennessee, gives in the
"Confederate Military History" (the Tennessee volume of
which he is the author) the following account of the affair at
Spring Hill and the battle of Franklin. Gen. Cheatham's re-
port states :
"In pursuance of orders from army headquarters my com-
mand crossed Duck River on the morning of November 29,
1864, the division of Maj. Gen. Cleburne in advance, followed
by that of Maj. Gen. Bate, the division of Maj. Gen. Brown
in the rear. The march was made as rapidly as the condition
of the road would allow, and without occurrence of note, un-
til about 3 P.M., when I arrived at Rutherford's Creek, two and
one-half miles from Spring Hill. At this point Gen. Hood
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gave me verbal orders as follows: 'Get Cleburne across the
creek and send him forward toward Spring Hill, with in-
structions to communicate with Gen. Forrest, who is near the
village, ascertain from him the position of the enemy, and at-
tack immediately. You remain at the creek, and assist Gen.
Bate in crossing his division, and then go forward and put
Bate's Command in to support Cleburne. He should push
Brown forward to join me.'
"As soon as the division of Gen. Bate had crossed the creek
I rode forward, and at a point on the road about one and a
half miles from Spring Hill I saw the left of Cleburne's Com-
mand just disappearing over the hill to the left of the road.
Halting there, I waited a few minutes for the arrival of Bate,
and formed his command with his right upon Cleburne's left,
and ordered him forward to the support of Cleburne. Shortly
after Bate's Division had disappeared over the same range of
hills, I heard firing toward Cleburne's right, and just then
Gen. Brown's Division came up. I thereupon ordered Brown
to proceed to the right, turn the range of hills over which
Cleburne and Bate had crossed, and form line of battle anj
attack to the right of Cleburne. The division of Gen. Brown
was in motion to execute this order when I received a message
from Cleburne that his right brigade had been struck in flank
by the enemy and had suffered severely, and that he had been
compelled to fall back and re-form his division with a change
of front.
"The direction of Cleburne's advance was such as had exposed
his right flank to the enemy's line. When his command was
formed on the road by which he had marched from Ruther-
ford's Creek, neither the village of Spring Hill nor the turn-
pike could be seen. Instead of advancing directly upon Spring
Hill, his forward movement was a little south of west and
almost parallel with the turnpike toward Columbia, instead of
northwest upon the enemy's lines, south and east of the vil-
lage. A reference to the map will show Cleburne's line of ad-
vance. Gen. Cleburne was killed in the assault upon Franklin
the next day, and I had no opportunity to learn from him how
it was that the error of direction occurred.
"Meanwhile Gen. Bate, whom I had placed in position on
the left of Cleburne's line of march, continued to move for-
ward in the same direction until he had reached the farm of
N. F. Cheairs, one and a half miles south of Spring Hill.
"After Brown had reached the position indicated to him and
had formed a line of battle, he sent to inform nie that it would
be certain disaster for him to attack, as the enemy's line ex-
tended beyond his right several hundred yards. I sent word to
him to throw back his right brigade and make the attack. I
had already sent couriers after Gen. Bate to bring him back
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and direct him to join Cleburne's left. Going to the right of
my line, I found Gens. Brown and Cleburne, and the latter re-
ported that he had re-formed his division. I then gave orders
to Brown and Cleburne that as soon as they could connect
their lines they should attack the enemy, who were then in
sight; informing them at the same time that Gen. Hood had
just told me that Stewart's column was close at hand, and
that Gen. Stewart had been ordered to go to my right and
place his command across the pike. I furthermore said to
them that I would go myself and see that Bate was placed
in position to connect with them, and immediately rode to the
left of my line for that purpose.
"During all this time I had met and talked with Gen. Hood
repeatedly, our field headquarters being not over one hundred
yards apart. After Clel)urnc's repulse, I had been along my
line and had seen that Brown's right was outflanked several
hundred yards. I had urged Gen. Hood to hurry up Stewart
and place him on my right, and had received from him assur-
ance that this would be done; and this assurance, as before
stated, I had communicated to Gens. Brown and Cleburne.
"When I returned from my left, where I had been to get
Bate in position, and was on my way to the right of my line,
it was dark: but I intended to move forward with Cleburne
and Brown and make the attack, knowing that Bate would be
in position to support them. Stewart's column had already
passed by on the way toward the turnpike, and I presumed
that he would be in position on my right.
"On reaching the road where Gen. Hood's field quarters had
been established, I found a courier with a message from Gen.
Hood requesting me to come to him at Capt. Thompson's i
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house, about one and a fourth miles back on the road to Ruth-
erford Creek. Here I found Gens. Stewart and Hood. The
Commanding General there informed me that he had concluded
to wait till morning, and directed me to hold my command in
readiness to attack at daylight.
"I was never more astonished than when Gen. Hood in-
formed me that he had concluded to postpone the attack until
daylight. The road was still open — orders to remain quiet un-
til morning — and there was nothing to prevent the enemy from
marching to Franklin."
The following communication, written by ex-Gov. and
Senator I. G. Harris, of Tennessee, then acting as aid to Gen.
Hood (from Drake's "Annals of the Army of Tennessee" for
May, 1877), was furnished to Gen. Hood by James D. Porter,
who was adjutant general on Cheatham's staff:
"Dear Sir: In answer to yours of the 12th inst., I have to
say that on the night that the Army of Tennessee, under com-
mand of Gen. J. B. Hood, halted at Spring Hill on its march
from Columbia to Nashville, Gen. Hood, his adjutant general,
THE m'gAVOCK residence, NEAR FRANKLIN
Maj. Mason, and myself occupied the same room at the resi-
dence of Capt. Thompson, near the village. Late at night we
were aroused by a private soldier, who reported to Gen. Hood
that on reaching the camp near Spring Hill he found himself
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Temporary burial place of Generals Cleburne, Strahl, and Granbiiry.
within the Federal lines: that the troops were in great con-
fusion, that a part of them were marching in the direction of
Franklin : others had turned toward Columbia, and that the
road was blocked with baggage wagons and gun carriages, ren-
dering it impossible to move in order either direction. Upon
the receipt of this report. Gen. Hood directed Maj. Mason to
order Gen. Cheatham to move down on the road immediately
and attack the enemy. Gen. Hood and myself remained in
bed. I went to sleep, and I suppose that Gen. Hood did the
same. At daylight on the following morning we learned that
the Federal army had left Spring Hill and was being concen-
trated at Franklin.
"On the march to Franklin, Gen. Hood spoke to me, in the
presence of Maj. Mason, of the failure of Gen. Cheatham to
to make the night attack at Spring Hill, and censured him in
severe terms for his disobedience of orders. Soon after this,
being alone with Maj. Mason, the latter remarked that 'Gen.
Cheatham w-as not to blame about the matter last night. I did
not send him the order.' I asked if he had communicated the
fact to Gen. Hood. He answered that he had not. I replied
that it is due to Gen. Cheatham that this explanation should
he made. Thereupon Maj. Mason joined Gen. Hood and gave
him the information. Afterwards Gen. Hood said to me that
he had done injustice to Gen. Cheatham, and requested me to
inform him that he held him blameless for the failure at Spring
Hill. And, on the day following the battle of Franklin, I was
informed by Gen. Hood that he had addressed a note to Gen.
Cheatham, assuring him that he did not censure or charge him
with the failure to make the attack."
Maj. Gen. John C. Brown, commanding Cheatham's Division,
gave the following account of the same affair:
"My division comprised four brigades of infantry, command-
ed respectively by Gen. S. R. Gist, of South Carolina, Gens. O.
F. Strahl, G. W. Gordon, and John C. Carter, of Tennessee.
On the morning of Nov. 29, 1864, when I left my bivouac on
the Mooresville Turnpike in front of Columbia, Tenn., the
whole command numbered not exceeding 2,750 effective men.
Gist's Brigade was tlie largest, and Strahl's was next in nu-
merical strength; those of Gordon and Carter being about
equal in the number of effective men. We started on the
march about sunrise, and, after traversing cedar brakes and
pathless woods, crossed Duck River by a pontoon previously
laid, aboi't four miles ?l:ove Columbia, at or iiear what was
known as the Davis ferry or Davis's ford. Conforming to
the daily alterations, my division was the rear of your [Cheat-
ham's] corps. After crossing Duck River, as I now recollect,
at or near Bear Creek, the commanding general, apprehending
an attack on our left flank, ordered your corps, on its march
from that point, to move in two parallel columns, so that it
could come instantly into action in two lines of battle if at-
tacked on the flank. Accordingly, my division was ordered to
form the supporting column, and for that purpose to leave
the road by which the main body was moving, and so conform
its movements to that of the other two divisions (Cleburne's
and Bale's), that in coming into action to meet an attack on
our left flank, it would occupy a place in the rear of and about
four hundred yards distant from the front line of battle. The
march thence to Rutherford Creek was made pursuant to
these orders, and the whole distance thus traversed (five or
six miles) was through fields and woods and over rough
ground, adding greatly to the fatigues of the day. About the
commencement of this movement, or soon afterwards, by the
order of the commanding general in person, the whole of
Gist's and about one-half of Strahl's Brigade were detached
for picket duty, to be relieved by the orders of the command-
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ing general, thus leaving me with about one-half of my divi-
sion.
"When near Rutherford Creek, learning that a crossing
was not practicable east of the road, I changed the direction
of the march to the left into the road, and found Bate's Divi-
sion preparing to cross the stream. After reaching the north
bank of the stream, I was ordered to pursue the road leading
in the direction of the Caldwell place, while Cleburne's and
Bate's Divisions moved at an angle to the left ; but before
reaching the Dr. Caldwell house, I was ordered to change
the direction of my column to the left, and we reached the
'Lewisburg' or 'Rally Hill' Pike, near the toUgate, a distance
of one and a half miles from Spring Hill.
"This was within an hour or an hour and a half of sunset.
I could distinctly see the enemy in force, both infantry and
artillery, at Spring Hill, but did not, and perhaps could not
at that point, see cither troops or wagons moving on the Co-
lumbia Pike. Forrest's Cavalry were on higher ground north-
east of my positon.
"I was ordered to form a line of battle and 'take' Spring
Hill. Gist's Brigade and the detachment from Strahl had not
reported. I formed my line as speedily as worn-out troops could
be moved, and, after throwing forward a skirmish line, ad-
vanced four hundred or five hundred yards, when I discov-
ered a line of the enemy thrown out of Spring Hill, across and
threatening my right flank, and I then discovered for the first
time that General Forrest's Cavalry, which I had been assured
would protect my right, had been ordered to another part of the
field, leaving me without any protection on my right flank or
support in the rear. I had neither artillery nor cavalry, and
was left in a position where I must meet with inevitable dis-
aster, if I advanced on Spring Hill.
"A hasty consultation with my brigade commanders re-
sulted in a determination to suspend the advance and confer
with the corps commander. I need not remind you that in a
very few minutes you were upon the field, and fully approved
of what had been done, as did also Gen. Hood a little later,
when he directed that the attack be delayed until the arrival
of Gens. Stewart and Gist, and in the meanwhile that the
whole command should be held under orders to advance at a
moment's notice. Gen. Gist's Brigade reported a little after
nightfall, and was immediately placed in position on my right.
Gen. Stewart's Corps came up later, and went into bivouac on
the stream in the rear of my right, where it remained until
the following morning. I received no further orders that
evening or during the night to advance or change tny position.
After daylight on the morning of the 30th I took up the line
of march for Franklin, the enemy in the meantime having pre-
ceded, under circumstances of which you are fully advised.
"On the march to Franklin Gen. Cleburne, with whom I
had long enjoyed very close personal relations, sent a mes-
sage to the head of my column requesting an interview. Al-
lowing my column to pass on, I awaited his arrival. When
he came up we rode apart from the column through the fields,
and he told me with much feeling that he had heard that
the commanding general was endeavoring to place upon him the
responsibility for allowing the enemy to pass our position on
the night previous. I replied to him that I had heard nothing
on that subject, and that I hoped he was mistaken. He said:
'No, I think not ; my information comes through a very relia-
ble channel.' He said tjiat he could not afford to rest under
such an imputation, and should certainly have the matter in-
vestigated to the fullest extent as soon as we were away from
the immediate presence of the enemy. Gen. Cleburne was
quite angry, and evidently was deeply hurt, believing that the
commander in chief had censured him. I asked Gen. Cle-
burne who was responsible for the escape of the enemy during
the afternoon and night previous. In reply to that inquiry he
indulged in some criticisms of a command occupying a posi-
tion on his left, and concluded by saying that of course the
responsibility rested with the commander in chief, as he was
upon the field during the afternoon, and was fully advised
during the night of the movement of the enemy.
"The conversation at this point was abruptly terminated by
the arrival of orders for yourself from the commanding gen-
eral. As Gen. Cleburne left he said. 'We will resume this
FLAT ROCK — RESIDENCE OF WESLEY GREENFIELD.
View made from point of Gen. B. K. CtleatlLim's head(|uarters tent,
conversation at the first convenient moment,' but in less than
three hours after that time this gallant soldier was a corpse
upon the bloody field of Franklin."
Maj. Gen. Bate, referring to an interview with Gen. Hood
between the hours of ten and twelve of the night of the 29th
of November, at which Gen. Bate mentioned a conflict in the
orders of the general commanding and the corps commanders
touching the movement of his division, states that Gen. Hood
said: "It makes no difference now. or it is all right, anyhow.
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One of the most advanced positions of tlic Confederates durinjj tiie
Ijattle of Nasliville. Tlie view overlooj^s the city.
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for Gen. Forrest, as you see, has just left, and informed me
that he holds the turnpike with a portion of his forces north
of Spring Hill, and will stop the enemy if he tries to pass
toward Franklin, and so in the morning we will have a sur-
render without a fight." He further said, in a congratulatory
manner: "We can sleep quietly to-night."
Gen. Forrest reported, after the arrival of Cleburne's Divi-
sion at Spring Hill, that he ordered Brig. Gen. W. H. Jackson
to move with his division in the direction of Thompson's Sta-
tion and there intercept the enemy. He struck the road at
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Fitzgerald's, four miles from Spring Hill, at il p.m., just as
the front of the enemy's column had passed. This attack was
a complete surprise, producing much panic and confusion.
Brig. Gen. Jackson had possession of the pike, and fought the
enemy until daylight, but receiving no support he was com-
pelled to retire.
Two small brigades, commanded by Brig. Gens. Armstron.g
and Ross, constituted Jackson's Division. If an adequate
force had been sent forward to take advantage of the panic
and confusion created by Jackson's attack, a second golden
opportunity would not have been lost.
The first intimation of dissatisfaction on tlie part of the com-
manding general at the management of the affair at Spring
Hill was suggested by the receipt of the following note, written
in front of Nashville and dated December 3, 1864:
"^/_v Dear General: I do not censure you for the failure it
Spring Hill. I am satisfied that you arc not responsible foi
it. I witnessed the splendid manner in which you delivered
battle at Franklin on the 30th ult., and I now have a higher
estimate of you as a soldier than 1 ever had.
"Yours very truly, J. B. Hood, General.
"Maj. Gen. B. F. Cheatham."
"On the morning of the 4th of December," says Gen. Cheat-
ham, "I went to the headquarters of Gen. Hood, and, referring
to his note and criticism that had evidently been made by
some one. I said to him: 'A great opportunity was lost at
Spring Hill, but you know that I obeyed j-our orders there,
as everywhere, literally and promptly.' Gen. Hood not only
did not dissent from what I said, but exhibited the most cordial
manner, coupled with confidence and friendship."
At daylight Cheatham's Corps passed through the village
of Spring Hill, and between i and 2 p.m. the army reached
the vicinity of Franklin, and Stewart's and Cheatham's Corps
were put in position. The enemy was heavily intrenched
and was superior in numbers and equipment. On the morn-
ing of the battle. Gen. Schoficld, commanding the Federal
army, had behind his works 23,734 infantry and artillery, and
his cavalry numbered 5,500- Maj. Gen. J. D. Cox, U. S. A.,
upon whose authority these figures are given, states in his
history of the battle of Franklin that Hood delivered the as-
sault on the Federal lines with "two or three hundred less
than 24,000" men, and gives Forrest's strength at 9,000. Maj.
Gen. John C. Brown reported that on the morning of Novem-
ber 20, 1864, lie had not exceeding 2.750 men in his division,
the largest in Cheatham's Corps, and the three divisions did
not exceed 6,000. Smith's Brigade, of Cleburne's Division,
was not present. Stewart's Corps, after Allatoona, was less
than 7.000, and with Johnson's Division, of Lee's Corps, the
assaulting column did not exceed 16,000 men. Gen. Forrest
stated in his official report that the entire cavalry force under
his command was about 5,000.
Bate's Division was on the left, Brown's in the center,
Cleburne's on the right. Gen. Bate says his line "charged the
works of the enemy. My right got to the works (the second
line), and remained there until morning; the left was driven
back. The enemy's works were strong and defiant, construct-
ed on a slight elevation, with few obstructions in front for
several hundred yards. The works to the left of Carter's
Creek Turnpike were not strong, and with a vigorous assault
should have been carried ; a fact, however, not known until
next day." Bate's Division sustained a loss of forty-seven
killed and two hundred and fifty-three wounded. Capt. Todd
Carter, on staff duty with Smith's Tennessee Brigade, fell
mortally wounded near the enemy's works and almost at the
door of his father's house.
No more magnificent spectacle was ever witnessed than the
advance of the two divisions commanded by Cleburne and
Brown ; no two divisions of the army were ever led with
greater skill and gallantry; no generals of division were ever
supported with better ability by brigade, regimental, and com-
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pany officers. The iroops were veterans who had never failed
to respond to orders, although discouraged by recent and fre-
quent disasters; and fully alive to the desperation of the as-
sault about to be made, they advanced with noble courage.
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Gen. Hood's headquarters during occupancy of his army liefore
Nabhville unlit the batlle began.
Before troops of equal numbers in the open field they would
have been irresistible, but to attack intrenched troops, supe-
rior in numbers, advancing over an open plain without cover,
was a disregard of the rules of war, a waste of precious lives,
and a wrecking of an army once the pride and hope of the
Southwest.
Maj. Gen. Stanley, commanding the Fourth Federal Corps,
in his official report, stated: "In view of the strong position
we held, nothing appeared so improbable as that they would
assault. I felt so confident in this belief that I did not
leave Gen. Schofield's headquarters until the firing com-
menced." Maj. Gen. Cox, commanding the Twenty-Third
Corps, and in active command of the Federal line of battle,
undertakes to account for the attack made by Gen. Hood
thus: "His exasperation at what he regarded as a hair-
breadth escape on our part from the toils in which he thought
he had encompassed us at Spring Hill had probably clouded
his judgment. He blamed some of his subordinates for the
hesitation which he seems himself to have been responsible
for, and now, in an excitement which led him astray, he de-
termined to risk everything upon a desperate assault." The
same eminent author, referring to the assault made by Cle-
burne and Brown on the Federal center, says : "They were
seen coming in splendid array. The sight was one to send
a thrill through the heart, and those who saw it have never
forgotten its martial magnificence."
Maj. Gen. John C. Brown, in a report to Gen. Clieatham of
the operations of his command, said :
"After we had dislodged the enemy's advance pickets from
the chain of ridges in front of Franklin, Gens. Bate and Cle-
burne and myself were summoned to the commanding gen-
eral at a point very near the Columbia Turnpike road, and,
as I recollect, both yourself and Gen. Stewart were present.
From that point we had an unobstructed view of the enemy's
works in front of Franklin, across the turnpike road, and for
some distance to the right and left. My position was imme-
diately on the left of the turnpike, while Cleburne was upon
the right. Gen. Bate's position was either in my rear or im-
mediately upon my left.
"The commanding general, after surveying the field, re-
marked in substance : "The country around Franklin for many
miles is open and exposed to the fu'i view of the Federal
army, and I cannot mask the movements of my troops so as
to turn either flank of the enemy, and if I attempt it he will
withdraw and precede me into Nashville. While his imme-
diate center is very strong, his flanks are weak. Stewart's
Corps is massed in McGavock's woods on the right, and I
will send Bate's Division under cover of the hills to the left
in advance of the movement of my center, giving him time
sufficient to get into position to attack concurrently with the
center column. He can connect with Chalmers's right (post-
id upon the Harpeth below Franklin) and with Brown's left.'
The policy of Gen. Hood's decision was not discussed, and
I cannot recollect any question propounded by him to any
one present indicating a desire for an expression of opinion
by any one. He thereupon ordered Bate to move at once,
and directed Stewart to attack with his corps the enemy's left
flank. Cleburne and myself were directed to form in con-
junction, Cleburne on the right and I on the left of the
turnpike, and threaten and (if not routed before we reached
the works) attack the enemy's center; but were instructed not
to move until further orders from him, as he desired Bate
and Stewart, having a longer distance to march, to move in
advance of us.
"After the expiration of half an hour or more, at a signal
from yourself, Cleburne and myself were directed to com-
mence our movement. We advanced our line, attacking
simultaneously the enemy's front line of works (being a
lunette some 400 or 500 yards in advance of the main works).
We routed and drove that line back upon the enemy's main
line with but slight loss to ourselves and without impeding
the advance of our line. Gen. Cleburne and myself met sev-
eral times upon the turnpike road and conferred and acted
in harmony in the movement. When we assaulted the main
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line, we carried the works in many places. Gen. Gordon,
commanding the right brigade of my front line, stormed and
carried the enemy's works at the turnpike road and advanced
a considerable distance within the works, when he and a
part of his command were captured. The enemy rapidly re-
enforced his center from his flanks, and the slaughter in our
ranks was frightful, considering the very short time in which
we were engaged. The loss was so heavy to my front line
that I immediately brought forward the supporting brigades
(Strahl's and Carter's), and we held the works in a hand-to-
hand figlit, with varying fortune, until night closed upon the
bloody conflict. The engagement lasted but little more than
one hour, during, which time the fire of the enemy's infantry
was terrific. Gens. Gist and Strahl were killed on the field,
W'ith nearly all of their staff officers. Gen. Carter received
a mortal wound, from which he died in a few hours. When
I was shot from my horse near nightfall, I had only one
staff officer and two couriers on duty.
"Gen. Carter, whose command was on my extreme left, re-
ported to me once through a member of his staff, and again
in person, that there were no supports on his left and that
flank was being threatened, and on personal inspection I
found that there were no troops on my left at sunset. I re-
gret very much that the loss of my papers will not allow me
to give you in detail the list of casualties and to mention the
conduct of very many officers and men conspicuous for their
gallantry during the engagement. It is just to say, however,
that the entire command did its full duty. The enemy were
intrenched in strong works protected in front by an abatis of
black locust, which was almost impassable, and our advancing
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lines were met by successive volleys of musketry that would
have repulsed any but well-tried and dauntless veterans."
Gist's and Gordon's Brigades reached the outer ditch of
the intrenchments, mounted the works, and met the enemy in
a death struggle. The colors of the Twenty-Fourth South
Carolina, says its gallant Col. Ellison Capers, were planted
and defended on the parapet. Part of both brigades went
over the works. Gen. Gordon himself was captured, and Col.
Horace Rice, of the Eleventh and Twenty-Ninth Tennessee
(consolidated), was wounded inside of the enemy's main
line. Gen. Gordon states that "the gallant Ensign-Sergeant
Drew, of the Twenty-Ninth, bearing the flag of the Eleventh,
was killed as he mounted the main line of works, fell inside
and died upon his colors, upon whose folds are still seen
marks of his blood."
Lieut. James A. Tillman, Twenty-Fourth South Carolina,
led his company over the works and captured forty prisoners
and the colors of the Ninety-Seventh Ohio, this being the
only stand of colors captured by the Confederate forces.
Gen. Gist, gallant gentleman and soldier, was killed in the
advance; Col. Capers was dangerously and his lieutenant
colonel, J. S. Jones, mortally wounded. The loss of officers
and men in Gist's Brigade was very great. On the march
to Nashville it was commanded by Capt. Gillis, Forty-Sixth
Georgia Its senior officer. Col. Capers, recovered and re-
ceived a well-earned promotion. At the close of hostilities
between the States he dedicated himself to the Church, and
in that sacred calling has won eminence and the love of his
people.
Cheatham's Division was commanded after the battle by
the gallant Col. C. C. Hurt, Ninth Tennessee, Gen. John
C. Brown being dangerously wounded. Brig. Gen. John C.
Carter was mortally wounded. Gist and Strahl were killed,
Gordon was captured inside the ei.emy's works. Majs. John
Ingram and Thomas F. Henry and Capt. M. B. Pilcher, of
the division stafl', were severely wornded; Mnj. Joseph Vaulx,
always gallant and reliable, alone escaped unhurt. No divi-
sion of the army ever sustained such a loss in general officers.
O. F. Strahl was born on the banks of the Muskingum,
came to Tennessee in his youth, and was as thoroughly iden-
tified w-ith the State as any one of her sons. He gave to the
Fourth Tennessee its drill and discipline, and made it a
noted regiment; and, succeeding A. P. Stewart in command
of his brigade, added splendor to the reputation won for it
by that accomplished soldier. When Gen. Strahl entered
upon the Tennessee campaign he was just recovering from a
dangerous wound received at the battle of Atlanta on the
22d of July. He was a very accomplished tactician, and al-
ways handled his regiment and brigade with ease and skill.
He was most fortunate in his subordinates, with officers like
Col. Andrew J. Keller; Col. A. F Gwynne, distinguished
at Mill Creek Gap, and called by h' comrades the "Knight of
Gwynne ;" Lieut. Col. Luke W. 1 mlay, severely woimded at
Shiloh, Perryville, and New Hope Church, and Maj. Henry
Hampton, dangerously wounded at Perryville. The officers
of Iiis staff. Capt. Johnston, adjutant general. Lieut. John H.
Marsh, inspector general, soldiers of experience and gal-
lantry, were both killed.
John C. Carter was a native of Georgia, a citizen of Ten-
nessee, where he was educated, entered the service as a lieu-
tenant in the Thirty-Eighth Tennessee, won honorable men-
tion from his colonel at Shiloh, and further promotion and
honor until he was made a brigadier general. He early at-
tracted the attention of his division general, upon whose
recommendation bis final advancement was made upon his
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merit. He had a wonderful gentleness of manner, coupled
with a dauntless courage. Every field oflScer of his brigade
«xcept Col. Hurt was killed, wounded, or captured on the
«nemy's works. In one regiment, the gallant Si.\th, Orderly
Sergeant W. H. Bruner remained the ranking officer.
Gen. William A. Quarles, of Tennessee, was dangerously
wounded and captured. His division general, Walthall, said
of him: "Brig. Gen. Quarles was severely wounded at the head
of his brigade within a short distance of the enemy's inner
line, and all his staff officers on duty [W. B. Munford and
Capt. S. A. Conley] were killed." Col. Isaac N. Holme,
Forty-Second Tennessee, and Capt. R. T. Johnson, Forty-
>Iinth, were severely wounded ; Lieut. Col. T. M. Atkins,
Forty-Ninth, Maj. S. C. Cooper, Forty-Sixth, and Capt.
James J. Rittcnburg, Fifly-Third, were wounded and cap-
tured; and Maj. J. E. McDonald, Fifty-Fifth, and Capt. R. T.
Coulter, were killed, leaving a captain in command of the
brigade.
Brig. Gen. John Adams, of Tennessee, was killed after lead-
ing his command up to the enemy's main line of works. Gen.
Jacob D. Cox says of him: "In one of the lulls between these
attacks, when the smoke was so thick that one could see a
very little way in front, the officers of the line discovered a
mounted officer in front forming for another attack or rally-
ing them after a repulse. Shots were fired, and horse and
rider both fell. The horse struggled to his feet and dashed
•for the breastworks, leaped upon it, and fell dead astride it.
Ihe wounded officer was Gen. John Adams. He was brought
in, and soon died."
Gen. Hood reported the loss of the Army of Tennessee at
4,500. The loss of Schofield's army numbered 2,326 killed,
wounded, and missing. Of this number, 1,104 were captured
by the Confederates, about 600 of them by Brown and Cle-
iburne from the enemy's line in advance of his intrenchments.
Gen. J. D. Cox says the Federal loss in killed was "trifling
everywhere but near the center," the point assailed by Cle-
burne and Brown. No report with list of casualties was ever
made, and no data exist for the ascertainment of the actual
losses of these two divisions, but it must have been 40 per
•cent in killed, wounded, and missing. In Quarles's Ten-
nessee Brigade, of Stewart's Corps, the loss was just as
great, and the death rate in Stewart's and Cheatham's Corps
was out of the usual proportion. It was great enough to make
Tennessee a land of mourning.
The attacks. of the Confederates were repeated at intervals
until dark, and on part of the line until nine o'clock. At mid-
night the Federal forces withdrew and marched to Nashville.
After our dead comrades were buried and the wounded of
both armies provided for, the Army of Tennessee moved for-
ward to the front of Nashville, where, on the 2d of December,
a line of battle was formed and intrenchments provided.
Smith's Brigade, of Cleburne's Division, came up, and Ector's
Brigade, of Stewart's Corps, rejoined the army, which was
now 23,053 strong, opposed to an army under Gen. George H.
Thomas of more than three times that number.
ECTOR'S BRIGADE IN BATTLE OF NASHVILLE.
J. T. Tunnell, first lieutenant commanding Company B,
Fourteenth Texas Infantry, writes from Proctor, Tex. :
"Ector's Brigade was composed of the Tenth, Fourteenth,
.and Thirty-Second Texas and the Twenty-Ninth and Thirty-
Ninth North Carolina Regiments. Gen. Ector having lost
■a leg at Atlanta in'July, the brigade was commanded /by the
senior colonel. Col. Coleman, Thirty-Ninth North Carolina.
"On the morning of December 15 the brigade was camped
on Harding Pike, with a picket line in front, extending across
the pike at the mouth of a lane, in charge of Capt. House, of
the Tenth, on the right and the writer on the left. We soon
discovered a \'ast body of cavalry maneuvering to our left
front, and a little later we saw a large brigade of infantry ad-
vancing upon our left front in line of battle, followed by a
battery of artillerj-. We reported to Col. Coleman, who came
to our line and examined the situation. He instructed us to
hold the line until forced to retire, then to fall back over the
ridge in order, and make a run of about two miles to the
Hillsboro Pike, where we would find him with the brigade.
The enemy threw forward a skirmish line and moved slowly
but steadily forward. Our thin line in rille pits gave them a
warm reception. When they got uncomfortably near, wt
hastily fell back, but in order, over the ridge. We then made
a run for the brigade, fearful of being cut off by cavalry.
"We found the brigade near the Hillsboro Pike in line of
battle fronting west. Very soon a large regiment of cavalry
galloped up in our front to the foot of the hill, probably a
hundred yards distant, and halted Col. Coleman, called to
them to show their colors, for as the morning was gloomy he
could not determine whether they were Federals or Confed-
erates, but they made no response. Then Col. Coleman gave
the command to fire. They returned the fire, but soon re-
treated at full speed. Their loss was pretty heavy, especially
in horses killed. If we had any loss, I did not hear of it.
In another minute or two our brigade was ordered into a re-
doubt near the pike. About this time we heard a heavy battle
in front and to our right. Very soon we could see the Con-
federate lines moving to the rear and to our right, but fight-
ing desperately as they retreated. They and the Federals,
that were pressing them, passed our fort and left us in the
rear. A prompt retreat was ordered, and we moved at a double-
quick on a line parallel with the movement of the troops in the
battle. When we got to the Brentwood range of hills. Gen.
Hood and his staff were on the hill. Gen. Hood rode down
the line saying to all the soldiers as he passed, "Te.\ans, I
want you to hold this hill regardless of what transpires around
you," and the spontaneous answer was: "We will do it.
General." Our line was formed on the brow of the hill front-
ing west. In the meantime the linttle reported above had
MISS FLORENCE ROSE D.\UGHTRY, liOWLINC GREEN,
Maid of Honor for Kentucky Division at Nas'ivUle Reunion.
Qopfederat^ l/eterai).
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ceased and Gen. Bate was re-forming his lines to our right
and in plain view of our line. Soon they attacked him again,
and for a time we stood watching a terrific battle. A battery
of artillery close in the rear of Bate's Infantry on a little
eminence did splendid work. The lines of infantry wavered
back and forth as long as we saw the fight. Before very long,
however, a strong force of infantry attacked our line and made
a desperate, but unsuccessful, effort to drive us from the hill.
Night closed the conflict with our line umnoved. Our losses
were pretty heavy. During the night our brigade was re-
lieved by other troops and placed on the east side of the hill
in reserve. By morning the troops that took our place had
very good fortifications. On the i6th, from our position on
the side of the hill overlooking the Granny White Pike at
a point where the road makes a right-angle turn to the east,
we could plainly sec the assaults made upon Lee's line. About
noon one (Ector's) brigade was ordered to the left, nearly
due south, at a double-quick, to head off a flank movement of
the enemy over the range of hills. When we arrived at the
place, their skirmish line was in possession of the hill, but we
climbed the hill, which was very steep, and drove them off.
We held this hill till late in the evening, when we were or-
dered down to an old country road running down the narrow
valley. When we got to this road we found a column of
troops marching in quick step down the valley, when we
learned that Hood's entire army was in full retreat, and we
were ordered to follow. Soon a brigade of Federals attacked
our retreating column from the west, and Ector's Brigade
was called on to drive them back, which was done by a vig-
orous charge just at twilight. We hastily gathered up our
wounded and carried them to some farmhouses near by and
continued our march, intersecting the Franklin Pike, which
we found full of retreating troops.
"We had no more fighting till we got to Columbia. At this
point Ector's Brigade and four other little decimated brigades
under Gen. Walthall were attached to Forrest's Cavalry, con-
stituting the rear guard of the army to the Tennessee River.
Of all the hard service poor soldiers ever endured, this is
among the worst.
"On Christmas day we left Pulaski, setting fire to the bridge
there when we left. The rascals came up, put the fire out,
and crossed over and attacked us on the first hill. We gave
them a good drubbing, however, capturing some of their
artillery. We made a forced march then to Sugar Creek, only
a. few miles from the Tennessee River, wading the creek in a
late hour of the night and bivouacked at the edge of the
valley, half a mile or more from the creek.
".^t daylight we were aroused and informed that the
Yankees were on our side of the creek. A dense fog rested
upon the valley. After waiting some time for them to make
an attack, which they failed to do. we were ordered to charge
them, and did it very successfully. In trying to cross the
creek on their big cavalry horses, the banks on our side were
so high they could not ascend them, and our boys captured
many large, fine horses. When they were driven across the
creek. Gen. Ross's Cavalry Brigade charged and drove them
for miles. Our brigade got a good Yankee breakfast from
the saddle pockets on horses killed and captured. From there
to the pontoon bridge on the Tennessee River our brigade was
largely mounted."
MRS. CUTLER SMITH, FLORENCE, ALA.
'The memory of dedication of the Florence, Ala., Confederate
monument has as its frontispiece the enthusiastic woman illus-
trated in the above picture with her husband. She was one of
the charter members nf the ^lemorial Association, and had
worked most assiduously for the monument for years. While
the Veteran would not detract by comparison from the great
credit due the President, Mrs. Camper, and other diligent
workers, it has been anxious to record the amazing joy of Mrs>
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Smith when the curtain fell and revealed the magnificent white
structure, capped by a fine specimen of the Confederate sol-
dier. Her face was as radiant as if there had been an audible
summons to "come up higher" to a devout Christian. The
writer never witnessed more unalloyed bliss in a human face.
Sad, but true, our women as well as the veteran soldiers are
dropping out, having finished their course, and now Mrs.
Cutler Smith has the impairment of a paralytic stroke on the
right side. This brief reminiscence is intended specially as a
tribute to her zeal and enthusiasm in the achievement through
years of struggle to honor men who gave their lives for prin-
ciple.
Mrs. Snu'th served as President of the Memorial Association
while the money was being raised for the monument, of which'
sum $1,200 was lost by the failure of a bank. Later the
Daughters of the Confederacy cooperated with the Ladies'
Memorial Association. She is an officer of both associations,
and is an honorary member of Camp O'Neal, U. C. V. Twice
during the war she made her way into the enemy's lines to
serve the Confederate cause, and she proudly owns a badge
given her for her faithful and efficient services. Mr. Cutler
Smith enlisted in Company I, Thirty-Fifth Georgia Infantry,
March, 1862, after having been discharged in the fall of 18O1
for disability. His captain, W. T. Irvine, gives him a fine
record as a soldier, slating that "he was courageous in battle,
patient on long, weary marches, and always at the post of
duly. At the battle of Cedar Mountain he attracted atten-
tion for soldierly conduct, and once in particular, after a long,.
weary march at the second battle of Manassas, he was the
only member of the company when the regiment was halted."
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GEN. S. D. LEE'S PART IN CHECKING THE ROUT.
Quite a carefully prepared and exhaustive paper comes to
the Veteran concerning the remarkable achievement of Gen.
Stephen D. Lee in that crucial period when Hood's army was
dismayed by the overwhelming tlanking forces of Gen. Thomas
on the last day of the battle of Nashville. So much of his re-
port is given as seems important to the general history and to
pay due tribute to Gen. Lee and his men in that wonderful
test of patriotic endurance by as noble men as Omnipotence
has yet created. The paper is by Louis F. Garrard, Colum-
1)us, Ga. :
"As far as I have been able to read, the time which elapsed
between the rout of Hood's army, on the afternoon of the i6th
•of December, 1864, and that when said army reached Brent-
wood, a station four miles to the rear of the battlefield, has
■been left a comparative blank, and what occurred during that
short period has been entirely overlooked, to the detriment of
a man who was and is every inch a soldier, a perfect type of
the American Anglo-Saxon, beloved of his men, and freely
spoken of by them in time of war as one of the bravest men
in the army, a general among generals. ... I refer as a
personal witness, even though a humble Confederate private,
to the time when, about four o'clock in the afternoon of Decem-
ber 16, Gen. Stephen D. Lee formed a rear guard for Hood's
defeated army by his own heroic efforts, and continued in
command of that rear guard all of the night of the l6th and
all of the day of the 17th. After being wounded on the 17th,
he continued in command of the rear guard until nightfall.
When he was physically unable to further remain in command,
he turned over a well-organized rear guard to Maj. Gen.
Stevenson.
"I remember as if it were only yesterday the morning of the
l6th of December, 1864. The morning opened silent and
murky. Not a gun was heard, although everybody expected
that the battle would begin quickly, for the Federal lines were
drawn up and almost in front of the thin Confederate line,
which had sustained defeat on the day before in front of Nash-
ville and had fallen back to a new line, with Lee's Corps to the
right and on or near Overton's Hill.
"The Confederate army was stretched in a single line of bat-
tle. In some places the men were fully five feet apart, while
here and there a single company of infantry was placed in the
rear to support and reenforce such parts of it as might need
their services. It was, in fact, only a good skirmish line, al-
■though the remnant of Hood's army — after the disastrous battle
of Franklin and the engagement of the day before (December
15). Gen. Lee literally opened the fight by exposing himself.
He rode to the left of his corps, and tlicn rode down tlie line of
battle, followed by his staff and couriers. As he passed each
Federal battery he was given a full discharge of the battery.
By the time he had ridden down his line, the battle was in full
progress, and very soon the charging began, and it continued
all day at intervals until about four o'clock in the afternoon.
Every charge made by the Federals in front of Lee was re-
pulsed, and in some instances the Confederates sprang over
their temporaray breastworks and met the enemy, who were
charging, capturing numbers of stands of colors.
"I was with Gen. Lee at the time the line broke. We were
mounted sitting just in the rear of a Confederate battery and
of Clayton's Division. Over on the left we could see confu-
sion, and we saw a Federal line advancing from the rear and
attacking the left wing of Lee's Corps. Everything else had
apparently been swept before it. Clayton's Division was di-
vided by the Franklin pike. Gen. Lee rode across the pike.
taking both stone fences, followed by Maj. Ratchford, of his
staff, and by Robert Howard and myself, of his escort. He
rode until he reached the rear of Stevenson's Division of his
corps, rode right into the midst of fugitives and in the face
of the enemy, who by this time had reached the rear of Pettus's
Brigade. Gen. Lee seized a stand of colors from a color bearer
and carried it on horseback, making himself a conspicuous
object for the Federal infantry. His example was inspiring.
He looked like a very god of war. I recall his words as if
only yesterday. They seemed to come from his very soul, as
if his heart were breaking. One appeal was: "Rally, men, rally I
For God's sake, rally ! This is the place for brave men to die !'
To those who came in contact with him and under the spell of
his presence and personal magnetism the effect was electrical.
Men gathered in little knots of four and five, prompted by in-
dividual gallantry. He soon had around him other stands of
colors, three besides himself carried on horseback — one by his
adjutant general, Maj. Ratchford, one by Robert Howard, and
another by one of his couriers.
"The Federals, meeting with this resistance, hesitated, halted.
They were led by an officer on horseback, with a flag in his
hand. I think he was wounded and fell to the ground. At
any rate, if he was not killed it was not because he was not
shot at often enough. I think his falling aided in checking the
advance. This was late in the evening, and it was misty. The
rally thus made enabled Clayton's Division to form a nucleus,
and they, together with other Confederates, principally Lee's
Corps, formed a line of battle. Gen. Lee came back from his
advanced position to this line, which was formed on one of the
Overton hills and crossing the Franklin pike. In order to
reassure the men. Gen. Lee gave them the command to com-
mence firing by file. I heard him afterwards say that lie
thought this would give them more confidence.
"Of all our artillery, over one hundred pieces, only a few
pieces joined this little band and commenced firing. Right at
the wheel of one piece of artillery I recollect a drummer stood,
a mere hoy. and beat long roll in perfect time, without missing
MISS MARTHA ROBINSON,
Chief Maid of Honor Pacilic Division, U. D. C.
Qoi>federat(^ l/eterap,
851
a note. The line of battle formed across the pike was a mem-
orable one. It was certainly a brilliant array of colors, and
struck me as a rally of color bearers. This line was in the
woods, near Col. Overton's house, and was formed by Gen.
R. L. Gibson, of Lee's Corps, under his direction. A little
farther back, Maj. Gen. Clayton re-formed his division of Lee's
Corps. This division and Gibson's Brigade and other troops
continued to retreat until they reached Hollow Tree Gap, just
north of Franklin, where they went into bivouac. This move-
ment was all made under the direction of Gen. Lee. (See
official report of Brig. Gen. Randal Gibson, made January ii.
1865.) Gen. Hood, in his official report of January 9, 1865,
uses the following language : 'At Brentwood, some four miles
from our line of battle, the troops were somewhat collected,
and Lieut. Gen. Lee took command of the rear guard, encamp-
ing for the night in that vicinity.'
"It is well known that Gen. Hood entertained the highest
regard for Gen. Lee's ability. On page 295 of his book, 'Ad-
vance and Retreat,' he uses this language : 'I might assert with
«qual assurance that, had Lieut. Gen. Lee been in advance at
Spring Hill the previous afternoon, Scliofield's army would
never have passed that point.' I merely mention this extract
to show his exalted opinion of Gen. Lee. [While the worst
lilunder of the war occurred at Spring Hill, the Veteran in
copying this extract does not concur in the censure of any
officer, unless it be Gen. Hood himself. — Ed.]
"Gen. Hood fails to record the fact that Gen. Lee had
checked the advance of the Federal army and had formed a
rear guard before Brentwood was reached. It is this period of
time, commencing between three and four o'clock in the after-
noon, with the rout of Hood's army and its falling back to
Brentwood, that history has been so silent in regard to — Gen.
~' Lee and his con-
spicuous gallantry in
saving the remnant
of Hood's army.
"Gen. Hood, on
page 304 of 'Advance
and Retreat,' says:
'Order among the
troops was in a measure restored at Brentwood, a few miles
in the rear of the scene of disaster, through the promptness
and gallantry of Clayton's Division, which speedily formed
and confronted the enemy, with Gibson's Brigade and Mc-
Kenzie's Battery of Fenner's Battalion acting as rear guard
of the rear guard. Gen Clayton displayed admirable coolness
and courage that afternoon and next morning in the discharge
of his duties. Gen. Gibson, who evinced conspicuous gal-
lantry and ability in the handling of his troops, succeeded, in
concert with Clayton, in checking and staying the first and
most dangerous shock that always follows immediately after
a rout. The result was that after the army passed the Big
Harpeth at Franklin the brigades and divisions were in march-
ing order. Capt. Cooper, of my staff, had been sent to Mur-
freesboro to inform Gen. Forrest of our misfortune and to or-
der him to make the necessary disposition of his cavalry to
cover our retreat.'
"I was present and within pistol shot of Gen. Lee during the
whole afternoon. I had been ordered by him to remain with
him, having his field glasses in my possession, and I know of
my own personal knowledge that no officer from- Gen. Hood
approached Gen. Lee with an order, nor was there any cavalry,
of any command, on the battlefield within sight of Lee's Corps
or of Gen. Lee. It was Gen. Lee's prompt action in rushing
to the rear of Stevenson's Division and rallying the men in the
face of the enemy that created the idea of organized resistance
in the minds of the Federals and caused them to halt, thus
giving Clayton's Division and some of the brigades of Steven-
son's Division time to fall to the rear in comparatively good
order and form, under the direction of Gen. Lee. But for this
action on the part of Gen. Lee, the Federals, who were ad-
vancing on the left flank and rear of our army in a full run,
would have been on all the troops of Clayton's Division in the
rear before they would have had knowledge of their approach
or time to get out in any order. The real rally took place on
the left of the pike, in the rear of Stevenson's Division, and
prior to the formation by Gen. Gibson of the troops above re-
ferred to on the right of the pike and in the rear of where
Gen. Lee was checking the enemy. These facts doubtless were
WISS IT.VLJA BOWER, LOS ANGELES, CAL.,
Sponsor Pacific Division.
MISS MARY ARMISTEAIl JONES, N. C,
Sponsor A. X. V. Department.
MISS FANNIE FRAZIER REDD, LE.XINGTON, KY.,
Sponsor Kentuclty Division.
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never brought to the attention of Gen. Hood. Gen. Lee, in his
official report, fails signally to refer to them.
"In Gen. Lee's official report of January 30, 1865, he refers
to the rout in these words: 'The troops along the entire line
were in fine spirit and confident of success, so much .=0 that
the men could hardly be prevented from leaving their trenches
to follow the enemy on and near the Franklin pike [he refers
to the enemy who had charged his lines and been repulsed) ;
but suddenly all eyes were turned to the center of our line of
battle, near the Granny White pike, where it w'as evident that
the enemy had made an entrance, although but little firing had
been heard in that direction. Our men were flying to the rear
in the wildest confusion, and the enemy following with enthu-
siastic cheers. The enemy at once closed toward the gap in
our line and commenced charging on the left division (John-
son's) of my corps, but were handsomely driven back. The
enemy soon gained our rear and were moving on my left flank
when our line gradually gave way. My troops left their lines
in some disorder ; but were soon rallied, and presented a good
front to the enemy. It was a fortunate circumstance that the
enemy were too much crippled to pursue us on the Franklin
pike. The only pursuit at that time was by a small force com-
ing from the Granny White pike.'
"Gen. Lee says his troops were soon rallied. Yes, indeed,
they were. But who rallied them? On this point Gen. Lee is
silent with his accustomed modesty. He caused them to pre-
sent a good front to the enemy. Let justice be done even at
this late day. There is not a living man who can deny that
Gen. Stephen D. Lee rallied these troops, and to him belongs
the credit of saving Hood's army.
"Farther on in Gen. Lee's report, he says : 'Being charged
with covering the retreat of the army, I remained in the rear
with Clayton's and a part of Stevenson's Division, and halted
the rear guard about seven miles north of Franklin at about
10 P.M. on the i6th.'
"Gen. Forrest did not rejoin Hood's army until the evening
of the i8th of December, near Columbia, about forty miles
from Nashville, at which time he reported to Gen. Hood and
was assigned to command the rear guard of the Army of Ten-
nessee, Gen. Stephen D. Lee, who up to that time had com-
manded the rear guard, which he personally organized, having
to retire from its command by reason of a serious wound. It
was customary in the Army of Tennessee to alternate the dif-
ferent army corps in marching front, middle, and rear. Gen.
Lee had been marching in the rear with his corps from the
l6th of December up to and including the 18th of December.
His corps then assumed the position as the center corps of the
army, and Stewart's Corps, which by this time had been organ-
ized and was in good fighting shape, was placed in the rear.
This is the rear guard referred to by Gen. Thomas, of the Federal
army, in his report, which is to be found in 'Official Reports,'
Vol. XIV., Part i, page 46. Gen. Thomas says : 'Forrest and
his cavalry and such other detachments as had been sent from
Hood's main army joined Hood at Columbia. He formed a
powerful rear guard, numbering about four thousand infantry
and all his available cavalry. With the exception of this rear
guard, his army had become a disheartened and disorganized
rabble of half-armed and barefooted men. The rear guard,
however, was undaunted and firm, and did its work bravely to
the last.' That this rear guard, which took its place in the
rear at Columbia, did its duty, no one will deny. It was com-
manded by Gen. Walthall, of Stewart's Corps.
"In 'The Life of Gen. Forrest,' so beautifully written by
John Allen Wyeth, it is stated (on page 567) that Gen.
Forrest proposed to Gen. Hood to undertake the protection of
his rear and requested that Maj. Gen. E. C. Walthall be placed
at the head of the infantry, to act under his orders during the
retreat, and he speaks of this rear guard as "the ever famous,'
and says that when the uncomplaining sacrifices which these
heroic spirits made are fully known the historian and the poet
will transmit to posterity in lasting form the thrilling story of
the immortal rear guard of Hood's army under Forrest and
Walthall.
"Dr. Wyeth, in his 'Life of Forrest,' uses the following lan-
guage on page 563 : 'Gen. Stephen D. Lee, w ho handled his
corps with such marked ability and success in the two days'
battle in front of Xashville, still held his immediate command
together in excellent fighting shape, and, selecting two brigades
(Pettus's, of Alabama, and Stovall's, of Georgia) of troops,
he, with the cavalry of Chalmers and Buford, organized these
into a temporary rear guard and awaited the onslaught of the
Union cavalry.'
"In a book recently published by Prof. John W. Burgess, of
Columbia University, New York, I am sustained entirely in my
position that it was the individual gallantrj- of Gen. Stephen
D. Lee that saved the Army of Tennessee on the occasion re-
ferred to. In Volume II. of the above work, page 207, in de-
scribing the rout of Hood's army, he says : 'The Confederates
were now routed all along the line, and a scene of confusion
and flight followed. Only the corps commander. Gen. Stephen
D. Lee, stood and rallied around himself a handful of brave
men and formed a rear guard to protect the retreat.'
"One of the participants in this engagement. Col. William
Garrard, of Savannah, a lieutenant, and afterwards captain in
Gen. Pettus's Brigade, and at that time serving on his staff, in
a recent letter says : 'We received the charge of the Federal
cavalry with our two very small brigades, and repulsed them.
We then began our retreat, throwing back the right regiment
of our brigade and the left regiment of the Georgia Brigade,
thus forming three sides of a square. We marched in this
formation some time, facing outward when the Federal cavalry
would charge us, which they did from lime to time ; and finally
we threw a line across the rear of the square, reducing our
frontage accordingly. This formed a hollow square, with our
commanding officers, staflfs, and couriers in the center. This
formation was kept up during the day, the Federal cavalry
attacking us repeatedly and always being repulsed. Our march
during the day was across open fields covered with snow. In
some places the men would sink up to their knees in mud and
slush. There was nothing to do but fight, wliich was done
most gallantly.'
"These are the troops that used this hollow square formation
in battle, possibly the only time it has ever been used in Amer-
ica, that Gen. Thomas speaks of as 'a disorganized rabble.'
This was Lee's rear guard, and it was in recognition of the gal-
lant conduct of these troops that Gen. Lee, on December 18,
while about to yield the command of his corps to Gen. Steven-
son, on account of his severe wound received the day before,
issued General Order No. 67. (See War Records, Series I.,
Vol. XL v., Serial No. 94, p. 706.)
"'Headquarters Lee's Corps, In the Field, Dec. 18, 1864.
" 'Before taking temporary leave of this corps, I desire to
express to the ofliccrs and men of my command my high appre-
ciation of the good conduct and gallantry displayed by them at
Nashville in the engagement of the i6th inst., and to assure
them that they can be held in no manner responsible for the
disaster of that day. I extend to them all my thanks for the
manner in which they preserved their organization in the midst
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of temporary panic, rallying to their colors and presenting a
determined front to the enemy, thus protecting the retreat of
the army. 1 would also respectfully thank the officers and men
of Holtzclaw's and Gibson's Brigades, of Clayton's Division,
and of Pctlus's Brigade, of Stevenson's Division, for the gal-
lantry and courage with which they met and repulsed repeated
charges of the enemy upon their line, killing and wounding
large numbers of the assailants and causing them to retreat in
confusion. I desire also to tender my heartfelt thanks to Maj.
Gen, Stevenson and the officers and men of Pettus's and Cum-
mings's Brigades, of his division, for their skillful, brave, and
determined conduct while protecting the retreat of the army
from Franklin yesterday. Constantly attacked in front and on
either fiank, these brave troops maintained an unshaken line,
repulsed incessant attacks, and inflicted heavy loss.
" 'In conclusion, my brave comrades, 1 beg to assure you
thai I am not only satisfied with your conduct in the recent
campaign, but that I shall repose unalterable confidence in you
in the future — a future which, despite the clouds which seem
to lower around us, will yet be rendered bright by the patriotic
deeds of our gallant army, in which none will gain prouder
laurels or do more gallant deeds than the veterans whom I have
the honor to command,
S. D. Lee. Litulenanl General
"I commenced this paper with a view to doing justice to
Gen. Lee. I have long desired to see him given the credit for
his glorious conduct, not only on the battlefield on the i6th of
December, 1864, but during the time subsequent thereto, when
Hood's army was in deadly peril, during which time he was in
sole charge of the rear guard, of his own formation, . , ,"
A STORY OF AN OLD FLAG.
nv HELEN CARMICIIAEI, RonERTSON, OF NASHVILLE,
.^l the annual luncheon of the New York Chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy, given in the spring at Del-
monico's, I heard an interesting and touching story of the
capture of a Southern flag by a Connecticut regiment and of
its return to the Southland many years after. The flag was
captured by the Thirteenth Regiment of Connecticut Volun-
teers from St. Mary's Cannoneers in the battle of Irish Bend.
Franklin, La., .•\pril 14, 1863. It fell into the liands of Maj.
MAJ, KINNEY AND WIFE,
Kinney, of the Thirteenth Regiment, and, as time sped on.
the sympathy of his wife was enlisted as she looked upon the
tattered and faded folds of the old flag which represented
so nnieh of history and pathos. To her it seemed a sacrilege
to allow the ravages of time to desecrate its one-time beauty.
"It was their pride," she said, "and it waved above the
heads and hearts of fearless men," She could read in its
silken folds the high hopes and pride of those who long ago
had presented it with fondest "God speed you" to the boys
in gray. She knew of the splendid efforts of the men who
bore it aloft on battlefields, and in its fast fading colors she
read heart memories of camp life and of comradeship through
long days of struggle, and then there came one day into this
good w-oman's heart a noble, sweet resolve. Kneeling, she
wove in and out with her needle the broken meshes ; mending
here and there a cruel rent until it bore some semblance to its
old-time glory. Perhaps there fell a silent tear and a prayer
FLAG OF ST. MARY S CANNONEERS,
went up for the union of the gray and blue. Straightway she
went to Maj, Kinney, picturing to him what scenes of happi-
ness would be brought about if the old flag might be sent
home, after so many years, to the surviving members of the
old St. Mary's Cannoneers. Maj, Kinney believed, by proper
action, it might be done. The resolution was accordingly in-
troduced into the House of Representatives by Mr, Joslyn, of
Hartford. Conn., and referred to the Joint Standmg Com-
mittee on military affairs. It was passed on February 19,
1885. directing the quartermaster general to appoint a com-
mittee of the late Thirteenth Regiment of Connecticut Vol-
unteers— namely. Col. Homer Sprague, Maj. Frank Wells, and
Maj, John C, Kinney — to return the old flag to the veterans
nf St, Mary's Cannoneers, When the news reached this Vet-
eran .'\ssoeiation at Franklin, La., the scene of the battle of
Irish Bend, the whole village and surrounding country was
thrilled with excitement. Elaborate preparations were made
for a gala day in honor of the old flag's return. It was sug-
gested by the Connecticut regiment that, should the fair girl
who made the presentation speech in the old days be living, it
would be A pretty bit of sentiment to ask that she honor the
occasion with her presence, and so she did in the charming
person of Mrs. Louise E. Chambers on October 16, 1885.
Mrs. Kinney was the recipient of many exquisite gifts and
much grateful appreciation from the Southrons. The part
she played in the restoration of the old flag was "the touch
that makes the whole earth kin" — a seed, as it were, from
whence is springing a vine laden with fragrant blossoms. This
vine twines lovingly about the monuments erected to the
memory of the Confederate soldier in these Northern States,
and its blossoms, rich with the aroma of peace and love, make
beautiful the graves of the Federal dead in our own dear
Southland. It bliKims above the graves of all strife and sec-
tionalism, and its magic is "brotherly love."
354
(Confederate l/eteraij.
THE GALLANT J. H. TOOMBS.
James K. Langhorne, who was assistant engineer on the
Confederate steamer Chicora, writes from Porismoutli, Va.,
in regard to an article in the March Veteran about the first
steam torpedo boat, the little David. He notes the omission
of J. H. Toombs, who also took part in the attack on the
Ironsides. He states that there were three on board the
David — Lieut. Glasset (first assistant engineer), J. H. Toombs,
and a pilot — when they struck the ship. Thinking that their
little boat would swamp, Glasset and Toombs jumped over-
board, expecting to be captured. 1 oombs, seeing that the boat
did not swamp, swam to her and got aboard. The pilot re-
mained on her. Glasset swam to the Ironsides's chains and
was captured. Toombs found the water had put the fires out ;
and, finding some dry fuel and matches, he relit his fires,
raised steam, and returned to his ship, the Chicora. For his
gallant conduct he was promoled to chief engineer, a position
he galbntly filled to the end of the war.
SIEGE OF SPANISH FORT, NEAR MOBILE.
BY G. T. CULLINS, CALEDONI.'K, ARK.
I have often wondered why more has not been written
about the siege of Spanish Fort. Tliis was one of the hardest
fights of our great war for the number engaged on the Con-
federate side. The siege opened in the spring of 1865 with Gen.
Gibson's Louisiana and Gen. Holtzclaw's Alabama Brigades and
some other small detachments of coniniands that had been cut
to pieces on the Tennessee and Georgia campaign. It was
against a strong force of Federals under Gen. Canby. This
little garrison held Spanish Fort sixteen days against an over-
whelming force, and was subjected to a heavy tiie of its
guns day and night. TI1C Army of Northern Virginia sur-
rendered during this ?iege. I was a lad sixteen years old, and
belonged to Company I, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry. When
we retreated over into Mobile, we learned of Lee's surrender.
We lost there some of our boys who had gone through the
entire war. Among them were A. J. Johnson, Jessec Mondine,
Tom Ray, Willie Duyrett, with many others. 1 wish some
more capable comrade would write of that Spanish Fort siege.
AUTHOR OF ODE TO GEN. J. B. GORDON.
The June Veteran contained an ode by J. T. Dargan, of
Atlanta, Ga., under the caption of "The Fight of the Right
against the Might," which merited marked recognition and
publication. Col. Abbott, of the Atlanta bar, a capable critic,
said of the ode: "It seems to be nothing short of an inspira-
tion." Mr. Dargan actively participated in the scenes he
depicts with such pathos. Before reaching the regulation age
of eighteen, he became a soldier in 1863, and served through
to the end. He enlisted with Company A, Citadel Cadets, a
crack company of young men from Charleston, S. C, com-
manded by ex-Gov. Hugh S. Thompson (at present Comp-
troller General of the New York Life Insurance Coinpany).
Among his army comrades were Hon. Joseph W. Barnwell,
of Charleston ; the late Hon. G. W. Croft, M. C. ; and other
distinguished men in South Carolina. He shared with his
command the fighting and hard service that are commemorated
by a marble tablet now on the walls of the citadel at Charles-
ton. It contains a list of his old command who lost tlieir
lives while in the field.
Mr. Dargan greatly values and takes justifiable pride in the
fact, which so largely characterized the rank and file of the
Confederate army, that the love of liberty of conscience and
action, referred to in his ode, is a natural inheritance. While
English and Scotch blood also courses in his veins, his pa-
ternal strain is Huguenot French. As shown by Smiles in his
"History of the Huguenots" (pages 312-407), the name Dar-
gan is an Anglicism of the original patronymic Dargent — a
family which hailed from the town of Sancerre, in France,
noted for its siege after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.
Emigrating to England, they were given lands in Ireland and
Virginia for services rendered William and Mary. Finally
the branch in Virginia moved to, and settled in, the counties
of Sumler and Darlington, S. C, where, during the Revolu-
tion of 1776, they were ardent patriots and followers of Marion
and Sumter, and where to this day they are still prominent
and largely connected.
This ode by Mr. Dargan is not, by any means, the first time
the public has heard from his forceful pen. In his chosen
vocation of fire underwriting he has, from time to time during
the past twenty-five years, written a number of notable arti-
cles, which are universally recognized by fire underwriters as
among the ablest that have ever appeared in this country,
J. T. UARGAN.
North or South, not the least of which was the prize essay,
when, in competition with the ablest men of his profession,
he captured the Alfred G. Baker gold medal offered by the
Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest at their
meeting in Chicago in September, 1880.
Mr. Dargan is still in the prime of life, and is at present the
President and Chief Executive of what is now generally con-
sidered to be the leading Fire Insurance Company in the
South — the Atlanta-Birmingham, of Atlanta and Birmingham.
J. L. Payne, of the Thirteenth Mississippi Regiment, writes
from Mineral Wells, Tex., of the Franklin battle. He heard
the last command from Gen. John Adams as they advanced to
the charge: "Forward! Guide right! March!" Gen. Adams
had a pipe in his mouth. Comrade Payne was wounded in the
chevau.v-dc-frise in front of the Federal main line of works,
and near where Gen. Adams's horse mounted the breastworks
and both rider and horse were killed.
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CONCERNING A DISTINGUISHED LAWYER.
When it was settled that the United Stntcs government
would pay forty million dollars for the P;iii:mia canal, for
which Mr. William Nelson Cromwell, of New York, is the at-
torney and is to receive the largest fee ever paid a lawyer ($2,-
000,000), the editor of the Veteran wrote the following to
the Nashville American:
"Upon seeing the courteous reference by Senator Carmack
this week to William Nelson Cromwell, the chief counsel ot
the Panama Canal Company, when he was handluig the can.il
subject barehanded, it occurred to me to pay a fitting tribute
to the eminent lawyer.
"Twenty years ago I was very much with Mr. Cromwell.
He lived in a modest home in Columbia Heights. Brooklyn,
and I boarded a little farther from the ferry, and it was my
custom to go by his home and enjoy his good comjianionship
to New York. It was quite the rule, in fact, to join his family
at breakfast, enjoying hot cakes and another cup of coffee.
WILLIAM NELSON CROMWELL.
The fact that Mr. Cromwell's father was killed in the siege
of Jackson, Miss., in which I had prolonged and memorable
experience on our skirmish line, added to, rather than de-
tracted from, our interest in each other. His mother and
only brother, Charles Cromwell, a brilliant, generous soul wlio
died young, were my delightful friends, as was also his lovely
wife.
"Mr. Cromwell had to rely upon his own achievements, and
many a lecture did I give him for working too late into the
night upon his law cases. He always carried a small satchel
with papers, and was thoroughly ready with his clients.
"He was given a partnership, at a very early age, with
Algernon S. Sullivan, an eminent lawyer from Indiana, who
was made the first President of the Southern Society in New
York not only in compliment to his Southern wife but for
his own spirit of good fellowship with Southern people. This
tribute is paid in pride of my prophecy that young Cromwell
would become the first lawyer in this country.
"During these intervening years I have watched his course
with affectionate interest, and I have enjoyed his fraternal
greeting at opportune times.
"The newspapers reported his happy adjustment of a iinn
that failed for $15,000,000. and without asking for a bill they
wrote him a check for a quarter of a million.
"Later he reorganized the Northern Pacific Railroad system,
whereby the bonded debt was reduced some $60,000,000.
"Again, when the billion-dollar steel syndicate was organized
'the papers were written under the direction of Mr. Cromwell.*
"He sought my opinion on one occasion on a question not
in the law books. .'\n art gallery was burned, containing many
paintings of a noted artist, and Mr. Cromwell wanted to know
which was the greater loser, the man who owned the pictures
or the artist, and we agreed that it was the latter. We did
not vote the same ticket, for I, with his pastor, wanted Cleve
land for President; but while Mr. Beecher was not in acccd
with his congregation, Mr. Cromwell said he was bigger than
Plymouth Church.
"While Mr. Cromwell in these later days devoted himself
almost exclusively to the Panama Canal, by which ho now re-
ceives $2,000,000, said to be the largest fee evei paid, he was
never too busy to serve me. and without price."
The paper was sent to Mr. Cromwell's wife, and her re-
sponse is given to illustrate the delightful spirit of friendship
in which it was received:
"New York, March 21, 1904.
"Dear Mr. Cunningham: Thank you for the inclosed clip-
ping. You are the same generous fellow, and I appreciate
your splendid tribute to Mr. Cromwell. Mr. Cromwell sailed
for Paris a week ago, and expects to return in a month."
•■THEY ARE A GREAT PEOPLE."
.■\i-i eminent citizen of a Northern State. Judge Alton B.
Parker, of New York, is reported as having said in a per-
sonal conversation with a friend concerning the section domi-
nated by the Confederate element :
"Eliott, they are a great people ; they are the countrymen of
Washington and Jefferson and Madison and Jackson and Lee.
Their courage and their constancy have never failed. They
have changed velvet for homespun and endured the pinch of
honorable poverty, and are just now beginning to reap the ic-
ward of their great sacrifices. I have implicit faith in their
ability to solve rightly and righteously the difficult problems
with which they are confronted, and I believe it is the duty of
their countrymen at the North to permit them to solve those
problems unmolested by irritating political interference from
the outside."
Battery in Rossville Gap — Inquiry. — Mr. J. P. Smartt,
with the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Com-
mission, writes the Veteran: "I have been trying for many
years to find to what battery a section of artillery belonged
that was posted in Rossville Gap on November 25, 1863, sup-
ported by two regiments of Clayton's Alabama Brigade, on
the extreme left of Gen. Bragg's army engaged on this day.
It was doubtless one of the batteries of the Artillery Bat-
talion serving with Gen. Stewart's Division on this occasion.
If there is an officer or member of this battery alive, I should
be glad to correspond with him as to the position of the re-
mamder of the battery. I should also like to communicate
with any officer or member of Dawson's Georgia Battery, com-
manded by Lieut. R. W. Anderson ; Humphreys's Arkansas
Battery, Lieut. John W. Rivers; Mississippi Battery, Capt.
Thomas J. Stanford; Waters's Alabama Battery, Lieut. Wm.
P. Hamilton ; Scott's Tennessee Battery, Lieut. Jno. Doscher."
356
Qor^federat^ l/etcrar)
"Uncle" Dan Emmett Dies at Hightv-Nine Years.—
After a long lapse of any knowledge from the South's famous
friend who was the author of the music of "Dixie Land" —
he did not call it simply "Dixie" — a note came from the old
man to the Veteran, in which he wrote from his old home,
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, as a postscript: "I am well, and hope you
are the same." Prompt response was made to this letter, and
on that very day he died. The Veteran may republish a
photo engraving of his original "Dixie Land" in the August
number. The note referred to above is dated June 25, five
days before his death.
Maj. Thos. E. Stanly.— Died at Nashville Reunion.
Maj. Thos. E. Stanly was born in Lawrence County, Ala.,
September 8, 1844: and died in Nashville, Tenn., June 14.
igo4, of angina pectoris. He was the son cf Joseph Stanly.
who, with three other brothers, came to this county from North
Carolina about eighty years ago, and since that time the
Stanlys have been prominent people in North Alabama, es-
pecially noted for their fearless integrity. Maj. Stanly was
educated in the schools of his county and at the LaGrange
Military Academy. In 1R61 (at the age of seventeen) he joined
Company G, Sixteenth Alabama Regiment, as a private, and
•was afterwards elected a lieutenant of his company, which
Tie followed through the marches and fights from Fishing
Creek to Chickamauga, where he was seriously wounded,
having his arm badly shattered by a Minie ball. In this con-
dition he was furloughed to go home. The Federals then
occupied the railroad from Tuscumbia to Decatur, but he itiade
his way through the lines to his uncle's, Edward Stanly, who
lived a few miles north of the railroad. In a few days he
became restless and told his uncle that if he would lend him his
shotgun he would join Roddy's Cavalry until his arm got well.
He went out by the road where the Federals were passing at
all hours of the day. Soon a Federal colonel was passing
when young Stanly stepped out before him and ordered him
to dismount, which the colonel did promptly. In a few
moments Stanly was mounted on the colonel's horse, with his
sword and pistols. He marched his prisoner to Gen. Roddy's
headquarters, soine fifteen miles away. On their arrival at
headquarters. Gen. Roddy asked the officer how he came to
let a crippled boy take him. The colonel replied that when a
boy laughed over the barrels of a shotgun full cocked like
that boy did he was dangerous, and he did not hesitate to
comply with his demand.
As soon as his wound recovered he rejoined his old com-
mand, the Sixteenth Alabama, and served with them until the
•close of the war, making for himself a splendid record. On
his return home, in 1865, he commenced the study of law,
and graduated at the Lebanon (Tenn.) Law School in 1867.
He then moved to Augusta, Ark., where he began the law
practice, and was eminently successful. He did not take to
politics, but was elected to the Legislature, and was made
Speaker of the House. In a Democratic convention of his
State he was defeated by Senator Berry by only eight votes
for governor. In i86<j or 1870 he was married to Miss Laura
McCurdy. daughter of Judge McCurdy, of Augusta, Ark., who
survives him with one daughter and two sons, all grown, the
daughter being married to Mr. J. R. Vinson, of Augusta.
Financially. Maj. Stanly was very successful, owning fine
plantations in his county, was President of the Bank of Au-
gusta, and was largely interested in other enterprises. On ac-
count of heart trouble he retired from the prnolice of law in
MAJ. slAi\L\.
order to avoid excitement ; and for the same reason, on being
elected general of his brigade at the last State reunion of
Arkansas, he could not accept. He was personally a man of
wide popularity, true to his friends, temperate in all things,
but absolutely fearless in the expression of his opinions.
Dr. R. B. Porter, of Towii Creek, Ala., who sends the
above sketch, adds a note saying: "I knew Maj. Stanly from
our boyhood; and although for thirty years we had lived in
different States, I had kept in touch with him, and know
of his unceasing generosity to old comrades who had been
less fortunate than himself. He was gentle, kind, and cour-
teous, and these elements were so mixed in him that he stood
before all the world a man."
Richard F. Armstrong.
The recent death, at Halifax, N. S., of Lieut. Rich-
ard F. Armstrong, a native of Macon, Ga., closed the record
of one of the officers of the Confederate States war vessels
Sumter and Alabama. His attractive characteristics, cour-
ageous nature, and devoted loyalty to the cause for which
he gave up his position as cadet at the naval academy at An-
napolis in April, 1861, endeared him to those who had the
pleasure of association with him during the eventful scenes
of the Civil War. His name was one of an honored ancestry
in his native State, and six of them showed their loyalty to
the State of their birth by being in the Confederate service.
One who knew him well, and who was reared in the same
town, says : "Richard was always a daring and fearless boy and
very bright. I think he had a mind that sought knowledge
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even in cliildhood. and as he became older he liad intensity of
feeling above most men, with great will power, stern to his
duty, a devoted son, husband, and fatht-i " His cheerful
temperament always among the anxious scenes of war times
made him a delightful messmate, and his frank, direct avowal
of opinion, readiness in accepting his duties always with a
happy mixture of zeal united with good judgment in per-
forming them, filled up his qualifications as a fine officer.
At the close of the war he went to Halifax, N. S., and a
city paper there says of him that "he was widely known,
highly esteemed, and respected. He was a great reader, a
thorough student of public affairs, and, while always deeply
interested in matters of the United States, he also took great
interest in Canadian afTairs and wrote many valued letters
on subjects of importance to the country, and to Halifax in
particular." His health for some time before his death had
been a serious anxiety to his family, and his remaining in
the climate of Halifax had a bad effect. Lately he resigned
a responsible position in the Canadian Railway System and
moved his family to Kentucky, though he returned to Hali-
fa.x for a wliile, where he died rather suddenly.
In "Two Years on the Alabama," by Sinclair, one of the
officers of the Alabama, is an iineresting sketch of Arm-
strong's career which shows how fine an officer he was in one
cruise to which his personal character added brilliant luster.
The foregoing sketch is by K. L. Gait, M.D., formerly
surgeon of the Sumter and .Mabama, Wclboiirne, Va.
Readers of the Veteran may recall some of Comrade Arm-
strong's sketches. He was author of that superb tribute to
R. F. ARMSTRONG.
Capt. James D. Bulloch, pages 128 to 130 of tlie Veteran for
March, IQO!, and a later tribute to his brother. The manu-
script of this later tribute was so well executed that it was
sent to President Roosevelt, a nephew of the Bullochs, and
cordial thanks were communicated for the President by his
then private secretary, Mr. Cortelyou.
Greeting to Veterans from Ohio. — Mrs. Florence Tucker
Winder, President of the U. D. C. in Ohio, wired greetings
to the reunion June 16, and announced that "the ceremonies
were most beautiful at Camp Chase Cemetery." This gifted
and loyal Daughter of the Confederacy is ever diligent to
honor the men and memories of her Southland.
MONUMENT TO GEN. R. E. LEE AT MEMPHIS.
Col. R. B. Snowden sends a letter from the Memphis Trust
Company, in which the Vice President, Mr. Jno. H. Watkins^
states :
"Referring to the generous offer made by you to donate
five thousand dollars for the erection of a monument to
Gen. Robert E. Lee, provided an additional sum of twenty
thousand dollars be raised, we have to say that in response
to your request the Memphis Trust Company will act as
depository of the funds subscribed for the building of the
Lee Monument. .'Ml subscriptions for this purpose may be
sent to the company marked "For .Account of Lee Monument
Fund," and receipts will be returned and the funds will be held
for the purpose named.''
Reunion if Mosby's Cavalry August 12. — This year's
gathering of Mosby's men is to be at Berryville, Va., on
August 12. It is the anniversary of the capture at that place
of Sheridan's wagon train, in which much loss occurred to-
the enemy.
CH.4NCE FOR A HANDSOME DIAMOND.
Mrs. Mary Fairfax, 235 Second Street, S. E., Washington,
D, C, has a handsome diamond ring which she wishes to dis-
pose of to best advantage, so she will raflile it at one dollar a
chance. The ring cost $525 a long time ago, and is fully worth
that now, as diamonds are continually increasing in value.
Mrs. Fairfax has- the indotsement of the Stonewall Jackson
Chapter, U. D. C, of Washington, which she helped to or-
ganize, and in addition has the encouragement in this under-
taking of others high in authority. The following account of
her has been given :
"Mrs. Mary A. Fairfax, of Washington, who wishes to raffle
the designated diamond ring, is the lady of whom the late Sen-
ator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, said that 'every Southern
Congressman should consider her his constituent at large.'
"She was so indefatigable in her efforts for the comfort of
our men in prison during the war that her Southern friends
said she was "the best Confederate they knew of,' and when
she was thrown into prison (as she was twice) the provost
marshal of Washington said she was "the d rebel in the
District of Columbia.' The courage and tact which she showed
in overcoming obstacles thrown so often in her way she did not
lose afterwards, as she proved by draping her house (the only
one in Washington) in mourning for Jefferson Davis, for
which she received many tokens of approbation from all parts
of the South.
"She has been most shamefully impoverished in consequence
of an order of Congress which authorized the building, in
1871, of a huge negro school (the first one), where it ruined
the best part of her property, and made the retention of the rest
a matter of so much difficulty that it finally became an impos-
sibility. She has now scarcely any resources but in the sale
of her valuables.
"As she, when she had means, gave to our men during the
war, and long after, with both hands, it is hoped that no South-
erner to whom she applies will refuse to aid her to the extent
of taking a chance on the ring."
Ex-Secretary of the Navy H. A. Herbert gives this indorse-
ment : "The above account, which was prepared by one of our
veterans who knows Mrs. Fairfax, agrees with everything I
hear of her. I sincerely sympathize with her in the necessity
which compels her to part with her beautiful things, and hope
she may succeed in her attempt to raffle her diamond ring,
which, having seen, I can testify is superb."
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Jackson and Hill and Stuart
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German and Swede and Finn.
Yankee and D.ane and Dutchman-
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M. C. White, Columbus, Ga., wants
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While guns and muskets sang their
song
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Unmarked, unknown ; yet one so true
Could sweetly rest from further toil,
At Gettysburg, asleep !"
.Another name brought forth reply.
That 'mong the trees so thick and
dark,
Where thousands met to bleed and die.
He lay at night so still and stark
Beneath the starry sky.
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We offer them a silent tear
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And singing birds all meet.
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At Appomattox at the end.
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Managed by "Pracfica! X/ndertvrt'ters.
President, J, T, DARGAN,
Formerly Southern Manager Imperial Insurance
Co., Ltd., of London, England,
Vice President, A, D. SMITH,
Manager Birmingham Underwriters' Agency,
Secretary, ROBERT N, HUGHS, Recently Special Agent Hartford Fire Insurance Co.
Vre.ten-t "Resources, ox)er .JS500.000.
B\isiness Written and Agents Wanted throus^S'^"'' *S«» Southern States.
m
•tmmtim
devcteti to travel 'jr J
nctioi\ai\d kindreds I
subjects-beavififully^^
illuitrited. Publijhcd
ever/ mQi\tf\4^<iS9ld
to lover5 of $ood literature
one dollar a year or tei\ cents a copy-of\
all trAn\5 a^d new? s^4^^d5.^Krecm(>r^t^^ trial, 25''.'
Jravel Publishirv^Co stL^uijj
fionf tsTraye/ incregsinS its Orculstfon SOOOiMff/ftA?
' Buy J Copy jnd Loch ,nside'
THE BEST PLACE
TO PURCHASE
ALL-WOOL
Bunting or
Silk Flags
of All Kinds,
Silk Banners, Swords, Belts, Caps.
■xwA ;ill kiiuls of M lilarv K.iiiipiiicnt
ami Society (iooJs is at
Veteran J. 4. JOEL & CO.,
88 Nassau Street. New York City.
SEXD FOR PRICE LIST.
The Certified Audit Corporation
OP INEW VORK.
AUDITS, EXAMINATIONS, APPRAISALS, REPORTS.
EDWARD OWEN, Vice President and General Manager.
CrIiJtcJ Public A ccoiinia til.
Ex'Comini:isiotwt' t>f Accounts to tti.- City c/ .\'c:r I'ori;
PRINCIPAL OFFICES, 170 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY.
BRANCHES: CHICAGO; PITTSBURG; ATLANTA: 14 Victoria Street. LONDON.
^MMW^^aMMmNr^*
WHO ARE YOU?
SnppostMlie train \on are on colHtles with
another, or tho buildinf^ you ar«* in Iniriis,
or yoii iiU'''t witli some otln-r serious ae-
citl'eni; would they know who you are? Our
Badge — iTuiestructiMe — is tlic only sure
nnd safe means of identiticatton. Particu-
larlv applicable lo women and children.
Badg-c and service complete for 25c., good
for one year. Send 25c. for a badg^c and
service to-diy: tc-ciorrow nay to too late. Bank
references.
COMMERCIAL INDEMNITY CO., Depf. V. Wainwright Building, ST.LOUIS, MO.
CURED
Gives
Quick
Relief.
Dropsy
Removes all swcllinR in 8 to 20
days ; effects a permanent cure
in wto 6odavs. Trialtreatment
civen free. Nothingcan be fairer
Write Dr. H.H.Green's Sons,
Specialists, Box G. Atlanta. Ga.
SEND-i|:* CENTS
By Mall | ^ lif your
druffffist doc.i not
keep it HOR A BOX OK—
TovQsesd's Cors Sahe,
Quaranteed to cure.
G.E. TOWNSEND.M. D.,
Bowling Qreca.Kjr.
362
Confederate Ueterap.
The Eye of the
J^ at i o n
Is Turned Tow.-rd
Id e jc a 4:
The best agricultural, indus-
trial, and commercial oppor-
tunities in the great Southwest
are located alon^' the line of the
Hoti^ton {^L
Tej>cci^ Cert'
tral 7t. 7i.
which traverses the heart of
Texas. The H. & T. C. R. R.
maintains a well-equipped In-
dustrial Department, whose
business it is to represent the
home seeker — the land buyer.
not the hind dealer.
All rce Jests for information
appertaininji to 'J'exas will be
given promjJt attention if ad-
dres^L■d to
Wm. DoKcrty Slanlcy H. Watson
A. C. P. A. Industrial A^ent
HOUSTON. TEX.
The be»t line to
INDIANAPOLIS.
PEORIA.
CHICAGO.
And all puinls in Indiana and
Micnigan.
CLEVELAND,
BUFTALO.
NEW YORK.
. BOSTON.
AND ALL. POINTS EAST.
InfonBfttion cheerfultj fumiehed ob ft|>-
•UeatioD at Cit; Ticket CM>c« ■■ Big foar
Hoat«." No. 259 Fourth ATenuc, or write
(• S. J. GiTis, (ieneral Anni Paasaagar
Department. LotiaviLLK, Kt.
Califounia i^.^.?l?;:'^:
Grand Xo^oc, 1. 9. O. f.,
nu'i'tinc will lie lirM in San Fr.nnci^r'o in
.•re|iteiiu>er. Viiv low r.iies vi.i WAB.VSU
nii'l its connc. lions. The \VAli.\SH is thn
niilT line ruiiiiiMg to tlie Mam KutniiR'o of
the" Wnrll's I'air Grounds. Ilolilers of Wa-
bash lirkct r;ni hnve their bnppnge checked
t) and lioni ilie M.isnillcent Ni'W Wabash
ra-scnjrcr M;ition, directlv at the Main Kn-
ti aiice. Ten ilays' sli>i>-"ver8 allnwed at St.
I-oui- on one-way or rmiml-irip tickets, go-
in^ or return in.:.
Call on or write for particulars
F. W. GREENE, D. P. A., Wa-
b ash R. R., Room 303 TTrban
Building, I,ouisville, Ky.
N. C. & ST. L. RY.
VIA MARTIN
i??«^?r^ Mnnday
^^2rl EVERY
Tuesday
DAY
^i00S^^ Wednesday
' 1 TO
Tluirsday
ST. LOUIS
Friday
^^^^I "WORLD'S
Sunday
& ROUTE"
Ticket Office, Maxwell House, Church SI.
Telephone 151
H. F. SMITH, W. L. DANLEY,
TOAFFIC MGR. CCN'L PASS. AGT
NASHVILLE, TENN.
How to Get There
QUICK
TKe Short Line, Via. Bristol
TO THE EAST
Through Train
No CKaLrvge
Leave XKW < iHI.n.VXS, g. At ('
■ MK.MPIils. s,.iitli,-vii Kv
• ('ll.\lT.\N"(Miii.\ SoiuiinKv.
• KN"i i.WlLI.i;. Suutliern Ky..".
•• liKISToI,. N. Ar W. Rv
Ar iveLYN'lHHI"H(l. X. «: ^V. Rv .
• WASHlN'iiTiiX. l).f..So."J<v
■ BAl.Tl.MiiHK. Md.. P. R. R .'
• PHII.AUKLPHIA. P. R. R. .
XKW VoliK. P. R. R
B( isn )X, X. y.. N. H., & H...
7:30
11:1111
!i:.V,
l:ai
7:1111
\:ib
K:IKI
li>:|.5
ViM
b:a)
p.m.
|i.m.
a.m.
p.m.
p.m.
a.m.
H.m.
e.m.
A.m.
p.m.
p.m.
Through Sleeper New Orleans to
New York
Through Sleeper Memphis to
New York
Tlic liiicsi Diniiiir Car Service.
Rilialile in; 'rmation ell erfuUv fHrnishwl by
Xortiilk Mi.d \SV leni Ruilwav. Iim \V. Xiutu
St. (Read H<i s • Blniki. ('liattauou(ja, Teiiu.
M'.\iii;i:n L. RoHit. Weste;n Pieweiitirer Ajrent,
Cliattan. i>v;h. Telill.
W. B. Bevill, Creneral Passenger At^eut, Ro^
noke, Ta.
NORTH TEXAS
<< POINTS ^
.VIA
Santa Fe
% : W
TO
GeLlveston, and Points
South, East, and
West. ^ ^ Equip-
ment, Service, and Cui-
sine unsurpatssed. <^
W. S. KEENAN. G. P. A..
Galveston, Tex.
(Confederate l/eterap.
Buford College
NASHVILLE, TENN.
A limited,, select home and xiuiversity pve-
paratoiy sehoul foi* tliehighcr culture < f youiiK
women, (iffering exceptional advantages in Mu-
sic, A7't. Elocution, Literature, Science, Mathe-
matics, Lan{;ruages, and in the sti:dy of the Bi-
ble. Forty instructiirs. Recommcnued liy tlie
United States Health Bulletin as "the <>n.'
school having i)ractii-al-y perfect sanitati<;n.
Beatitifnl lawn, surrounded hy giant oaks.
OTEJVS SETTEM'BEP^ IS, 1904-
Writ,' for Ycarl.ook.
MRS. E. G. BUFORD, President
BIG 8'
I Chainof 8 CoUccesowned hTbuilneig
I lufn anil indorsed by business meo.
Fourteen Cashiers of Banks are on
our Board of directors. Our diploni.i means
something. Enter any time. Positions secnred.
i Draughon's /^ ^/7 °
J Practical... /^^^^e/ ^
j Business ... ^^3^K>^c6j |
(Incorporated, Capital fatocli Si(Xl,Oti0.lRi.J
NashvNIe, Tenn. U Atlanta, Ga.
Ft. Worth. Texas, c Montgomery, ftia
St. Louis, Mo . Galveston, Texas,
Little Rock, Ark. A Chreveport, La.
For 150 p.i^e catalogue address either place.
If yoti prefer, may pay tuition out of salary af-
ter conrse Is completed. Guarantee (rraduates
to T^e c^niprtent or uo charges for taition.
HOME STUDY: Bnokkeepinp, Shorthand,
Peiiniaiisliip, etc., taujjht bv mail. Write for
10(1 pate BOOKLET on UomeStndy. Ifs f rei>.
Special Rates
ANNOUNCED BY
Seaboard
Air Line
Railway
Tn Ithnno On !^ummer School. University of
lU Rllllllo. UU. Ueorgia. One tare, plus ^i'l
o-nl^. l"r ronud trip. Tickets on sale July 2, 3.
4. U. IN; final Innit. 1 o days.
miaoiic ^% I ii. ^s^^^s^s^^.
phiHSl, lor round trip. Tickets on sale .Inly in.
11: lliial limit. July Z^. (.'hoice of routes via
Kichuioud ami Washington, or via Norfolk Bay
Line Stennu'r and Baltimore, or Norfclk
Steamer and \Vashingt<'n
Dinhmnnri Wn Xntioujil Association Station-
nlUIIIIUIHI. Vy. nry Ku-inccrs. Um^ fare, olus
^"> ci'iits. li.]' round trill. Tickets on salc.Iulv
3i). ;{1. August I: final limit. August S (»XIA'
D(n'Rl,K DAILY SLRl-:iMX<i TAK LlXIv BE-
TWEKN ATLANTA AND KUHMOND.
Sommer Excursions '^.^^,z:^:^^:i^
(le.ilt'ia, thu Car.iliiias, VIRtilXIA. and the
EAST.
Fur fiirtlirr iiifnrinnfhni trJatirt' tit ntlrs nf
fnrr, nrhniutc:*, rcufrrntiuti nf K/rcjffrficeoHiHm-
(Intinus, rtr.. (T;'jif,i/ tn urarriit Tichft A^jciit. nr
«((.()■«,■< ii.u. J?. ri.KMEyrs, t. p. a., <ir iv.
K. nilll^^TlAX, A. a. p. A., Atlanta, Ga.
Campbell-Hagerman College,
LEXINGTON,
KY.
-I\_
,
dtefcU.:^^
til
^^^^^^£t II '^1 pfei3i ity^ ».^
rwl^^^^^sSsB
BBEIIS
Wm
A woman's college of the
liighc-t oixlcr. embracing six
(timplete departments-- viz .
(1) Litorary and S<-W?ntiiie. ('^\
Music, (1^) Art, (4) Elocution. (.". i
Physical Cnlture. (ti) Domestic
Scieu<-e. Modern buildings.
j>erfectly appoint^'d. Our fac-
ulty is composed of 2.^ special-
ists. Our capacity is limited
to 125 jiupils. Write at once
f "tr bandsume catalogue.
FULL TERM OPENS SEPT. 12, 1904.
B. ('. n.tGElOI AN, rresi.lent,
Lexinetoli, Ky.
UN10NJPJSMA.LB COI^LBOE,
EutauJa, Ala.
i'ounded 1854.
Hume S, lioiil. Christian. Imt nou-denoiniiintiiiual. Faculty nf .skillwl Specialists.
:Mnsic- I1i>))artinent in iliafge nf n directiir who ha.s studied for years with the ma.sters
in llermaiiv aii'l IlnllHnii. Normal Deimrtment. Henthfnl location. Rates reasonil le.
Limitwi uuinlH'r reeoived. Rocmis a--isii.'i)ed in ord.>r of registration. Fall term ojieus
September 14. Send for handsome ilhist rated aiiinial.
Associate Presidents:
MRS. CHARLOTTE BAI,!,,
(IriuliKtIr nfllir liiiliitiin Sl::lr \i:nnal Sclinnl.
MART LYON, B.S., B.I,.,
lu'lhiiui I 'nirrrsitti.
Potter College =
o>vling Green, Ky.
CADETS FKOM 10 STATES, MICHIGAN TO TEXAS.
Fishburne Military School.
Able instructors, best training, fine social and religious advantages. Superior climate,
pure air, s]iarkling springs. Fine caminis f(.»r athletics. Electric lights, etc
TERMS, $300. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. WAYNESBORO, V7l,
or Yovin*^. Ladies
Pupils from thirty-seven States. Twenty teachers. Boarding jnipils limiteil to pHl. VeiT
select. Accommodations of the highest or<ier. i'.tmmended by leading men iu the United
States. Sen 1 for illustrated catalogue giving full jiarticulars.
y^ddre^s l^exf, B. r. Cabeii, 'President
A MISSIONARY RIDGE HOME FOR
SALE AT A SACRIFICE
If you want a delightful Summer Kesidence
here is one at a bargain. A seven-rt.>om house on the Shallow Ford Iit)atl. wi.hin a stone's
thr<)W of the famous B.nilevard. Lot ')1)x1'jO fc»et; g<X)d water; tine view of the hist^iric
city of Chattanooga. Teun.; two blocks from street car line; gt)od shade. For sale cheap
for cash.
Address Mrs. T. W. A^Ucn. Cen. Delt'x^.. JVajhx^t'I/e, Tenn.
Resurrection Plant. TA TEJV T^
A shrunken, dry bull el closely intoldcd leaves
— api>areutly dead -ojiens into most beautiful
forms of i)latelike mossy verdure; will live for-
ever; can bo resurrect+'d at will. Sent post-
paitl, only l(k'.. CN miplete catah^true free.
EVERETT DAVIS MAIL ORDER CO.,
"The Greatest American JIail Oi*der House,"
Department U. ST. L0U15. MO.
"We do everything alnnit Patents.
Pi'ocure them, buy and sell
Prose<-ute infringements. Advice fn'e.
Send sketch of ytmr invention. Oi>iniou /rcc.
Every jmtent reconl at hand.
No patent, no ]iay
'BEJ^E'DICT l^L CO.,
Sis Main Street, Cincinnati, 0»
364
(^oi}federat<^ Ueteraij.
Confederate Mining Co.
IN THE BROWN MINING DISTRICT, ARIZONA.
T
HE first block of stock was all sold at the New O-L-ans Reunion. The secomi block of stock,
now sellin- :it ?2, it is thouglit, will all he soKl by the time of the Nashville Reunion, June
14-16, when it will be advanced perhaps to S5 per share.
When you come to the Reunion hunt up the Confederate Mining Co.'s headquarters. Those buyint;
stock on the installment plan at the $2 price will be carried around until January, 1905. Tliis will
enable a great many to secure the limit of stock (200 shares) by the new year, when the sale of
stock may be withdrawn from market.
SEND FOR BLANKS AND INFORMATION.
R. W. CRABB, TREASURER, UNIONTOWN, KENTUCKY.
^0
TRAVEL VIA THE
SOUTHERN
RAILWAY
Throu<;li
The Great- (ml
est m^^i:x:i
¥
Southern
System
-*
Double Dai-,
ly Service
Nashville to
the East, via 1
Ch attanooj^a
and Asheville,
through
ville to New
York.
Dinin<^ and
O bscr vation
Cars.
1' u 1 1 ni a 11
Sleepiuf^ Cars
on all through
trains.
Elegant Day
Coaches.
"THE LAND OF THE SKY"
.i. JI. Cl-i.p. 4tli Tic- Pres., WasMngton. D. V.
S. H. Hauiiwuk. Pass. Trafllc Munai;or,
■WashiiiKton. U- '"■
W. H. Tavlok, Gen. Pass. At;!., Wa-sliiiiB-
lon, D. C.
C. A. BrNsroTER, Asst. (Jen. Pa-ss. Aijt., Cuat-
t;ii»i"i,'a, Tenii.
J. E. SniiM.EV, Tnivelint; Pass. Agt., Chatta-
li'-io^a, Tenn.
VaLCQLtiorv Da^ys in
CO LORADO
.K\ery eoiidilidn wliiili makt's t\)r pleasure.
whether lu.viirious or simple, i.s fullilleil
" Under llie Turquoise Sky" in the Colorado
IMouutain.s. It i.s the u.atunil plaj^irround
for the Viieatiou-deservina' from this section.
lUustratecl literature sent free on re([uest.
ThrougK Sleeper Service from Memphis
Every Day
jtock island
^ System
^^
LOW KATES ALL SLM.MLJi
CEO. H. LEE. J. JV. CO'R/fA T^A. "R.
U(.-iiL.™l Pass.Miu'.T Anent. Oeuel'al Aixt Pass. \ir\A..
LiTTLK HiicK, Ark. Memphi.-*. Tk.ns.
OrCWIHuLCarorcataloK.AKents
wanted COCLTEBOmCiJi CO. GhlU|0.1Ik
5oR^'@l)rl5AWMK0fe EYEWATER
Qoijfederate V/eterao
365
Rife Hydraulic Engine.
Pumps water by water power.
Can be used where hydraulic rams
fail. Absolute air feed.
Will pump thirty feet
hi^h for each foot of
fall.
Every One €iit»nteed.
CHAUNCEY C. FOSTER, SPECIAL AGENT,
839 Church Street, Nashville, Tenn.
jh ^^^ ^% .^ C^ Send nt your addren
^ Q a Day oureb°tTor;f.r.s:;
g|j ^^^B V absolutely sure; w*
^|f ^B^^ f uroish the work and teach 70U free, y <<u work In
the locality where you live. Sond iiB )out adclr«is and we ulU
•z plain the buBJneii fully, remeiii her wo guaraDt«c a clenr profit
of $3 for every day*Bwi>rk. Bl>solutelv sum Write atone*.
KOVAL BlAMFACTlRINU 10., Box |030> Uetroll, Dicta.
JAOKSONViLLE
via Valdosta Roi:to, from \*:ildt^sta via Georgia
Sonthcrn i.r.(l Florida Ky., from Maccn
via Central of Georgia Ry., from
ATLANTA
via Western and Atlantic R. R., from
CHATTANOOGA
NASHVILLE
ashvllle, Chattanooga, and St, L
arriving- at
ST. LOUiS
vtftlbe Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Loulu Ry.
arriving at
OH/CAGO
over the Illinois Cenir:;,' R. R. frciin Martin, Tann
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE AND
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
MAINTAINED OVER THIS
SCENIC LINE.
Ticket agents of the Jacltsonville-St. Louis anc)
Chlcaeo line, and agents of connecting' line? Ic
Klorloa and the Southeast, A'ill i;ive you full In
formation as to schedules of ihio" (ioul>le daily serv-
ice to St. Louis, Cliicago, and the Northwest, and
of train time of lines connecting. They wiU also
s«Il you tickets and advice you as to rates.
F. D. MIL.LER, ■ • Atlanta, Ga^
Traveling Passenger Agent L C. R. R.
WM. SMITH, JR., . . Xashvxlu:.Tkkm^
Commercial Agent.
PurrljaHing Aprnry,
923 JJlltrB Sixtnat.
EouiabilU, ICg.
Hkopptnp of all kinds given prompt attentloa.
GowDS made. Satisfaction puarante^d.
A'ational Kailroad Co> of Mexico.
Mexican International Kailroad Co.
Interoceanic Raiilway of Mexico.
TRAFFIC DEPARTMKNT.
City of Mexico, April 23, 1904.
Effective May 1, 1904, tlie organiza-
tion of the General Freight and Pas-
senger Departments of these companies
will be as follows :
C. W. Fish, General Freight and
Passenger Agent.
George F. Jackson, Assistant Gen-
eral Freight and Passenger Agent.
George J. Dwan, Assistant General
Freight Agent.
E. A. White, Assistant General
Freight Agent.
F. E. Young, Assistant General Pas-
senger Agent.
The officers hereby appointed will
have headquarters at the general
offices of the National Railroad Com-
pany of Mexico, Colonia Station. Paseo
de la Reforma, City of Mexico, except
Mr. Jackson. A. G. F. and P. A., whose
headquarters are at Ciudad Porflrio
Diaz.
Approved:
W B. RvAx, Traffic Manager;
J. G. MioTCAiiK, First Vice Pres.
I^rf^X/' A f MAINTEUS
■^J*^-' » ■^^l— «AIXL> QRATBS
Have an established reputa^
tinn for correct Style, Filtisli
Workmanship and Material.
Why? Because>K-escII direct
from factory to'home. and
put into our poods the profit
generally allowed the mid-
dleman.
We sell a Beautiful
CABIINEX
iWAINTEU
as low as $6.75
Guaranteed too.
Send for cur handsome hoolc
the' Advance Louner' of the
Royal Line, showing many
bnantlfulnpw deslKns. It will save you money on any kind of
.M.intcls. (.rates. Tiies or Firc-Place Fittinirs,
WHITE MANTEL & TILE CO.
624 flay Street. - - KN0XV1L1.E, TENN.
AGENTS WANTED!
War Soiuis nud Focms
* or THE
Southern Confederacy.
(\)lle('ti'd nnri tailed with personal romiiiis-
oenoes of the war, by nn •■x-Coiift'ilirnlf and
widl-kjiowu author. Rev. H. 'il. Whartmi. D.D.
Dedicated to the Inl"' Oeiicrtil John 15. <i«r-
don. Indorstxl by aU the motst prominent es-
I'onfedorates and the Daupbtersof the Confed-
erai-y. Contains over WKIimge.s. Maunificontly
illustrated. Hare cirllection of war songs
and poems rlear to every Soittliern heart.
Every trtie Sotilhertter wants this hirok.
Enormous demand. MaKnifli'ent opportunity
for agentss. Terms liberal. Territory assiijned
on application. Outlit free. Pend at once 15
cents to pay jiostape. Don't delay. Address
THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.,
718 Arch St., I>ept. K, rhiln.lclpliia, Pa.
TAPE-WORIYI
ro fee- No faflting rcquirrd. Stud -rutarnp for44-paie book.
DR. M. NEY SMITH, Spt'claliet.SOO Olive St., M. Louii, Mo.
Expelle<lftIN»
iti (jO niinutei
tfi head, or
A Pen Picture of the
Late Lamented Gommander in Ghief of the
Gonfederate Veterans,
CJen. John B. Gordon, his home,
woven into a beautiful design \vi
famous lecture, "The Last Da
orisrinal pen drawing w,is prese
erate X'eterans' Reiuiiou at Nas
titin of the proceeds will be do
I'lind. Photographic copies of o
.\tl
Soiillirrn Mriiiorial Co., 1114 Cen,
(iiNTLEMKN: We take pleasu
liandsomc memorial picture of (i
^o artistically gotten up by Mr. 1'
that it will meet in its sale the su(
Sincerely, W. L. Cai.houn,
Prcs.J. B. liordoii Moiiiiwc
J. T. Dkrry,
Secy /. li. (ioiiloii Monument
W. 11. Harrison,
A. I. Wkst,
J. .S. Pratiier,
Mrml'rrs Itxrcrtfii'r ComfttiifC'
ttiry
:nn\
Qor^federate l/eterar^,
FORTUNES 7-ROOM HOUSE. SI, 800
IN OIL
$20 CREW INTO
$2,000 IN 30 DAYS
dl»o.i. '1. .. Writ* |K»ib: ti.r Itji.r. -ilni pani, uai-
(ENTUCKT TDEIITOII ROCI Oil COMHIir, lOUISrilLE, KT.
C I3UEVIIR'S
Russian and Turkish Baths
and FIrst-Class Barber Shop,
FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY.
317 Church Street, NASHVILLE, TENN.
Open Oav and NittHT.
W, C. RAE5FIELD. Proprietor.
/-.
Ourlx-iiulilul little 1 .^^k
of " I).*si^nis to HuiUI " in
■'list I'tT tho iin-v. iiitth-
,ir like it- iCowo>t ami
^t out Full €>f <t«-
V f^iKH^^t plaiiK* niul f<l<*iiK
^ abiiiil lMiil(litic<
1h Worth iiiuiiy dollars
to nny uuo ^oiiit; to luiiltl.
Send S."* €-<'MiH to-day
for a <■"]'>" to
THE PARMELEE ARCHITECT CO.
Box 198, hSOXVILLE, TENN.
PAY SPOT CASH FOR
TO INVALIDS.
I send 100 Carns's Gland Tab-
ids ^-y mail, which cure Ca-
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WAS A MERE SKELETON.
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In August last I sent for a trial package
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still was bed-fast and not able to sit up. She
was a mere skeleton. In fact, two of the
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For Catalogue, ^^ddre^s
MISS KATE, M. HyjJ^T, Principal.
From A. T>. Mayo, JVational Educational Lecturer, Washington, D. C.
I have enjoycil greatly tlie pleasure ami profit of a week spent as a guest at the Stonewall Jackson Inslitvitc in Ahingilon,
Va. My visit was one of educational inspection, which extenitcd through the entire valley ( f Southwe-.t \'irginia anil East
Tennessee, from Lynchl)urg to Chattanooga. With-very few exceptions, it included all the
seminaries for girls in that extended region of country.
In almost every place I saw enough of the workings of
this class of schools and their interior arrangements to
form an intelligent opinion of special schools. I have no
hesitation in saying that I nowhere found an institution
of this sort better ordered or instructed than the Stone-
wall Jackson Institute.
Commendation y^rom Gen. "Robert E. Lee.
Washington College, \'a., June 28, 1870.
Riv. S. D. Stuart.
Dear Sir: In reply toyoursof the i6lh insi., in reference
t 1 the Stonewall Jackson Institute, I assure you that any
scheme designed to perpetuate the recollection of the vir-
tue and the patriotism of Gen. Jackson meets with my
approval. As he was a friend of learning, I know of no
more effective and appropriate method of accomplishing
the praiseworthy object in question than the establishment
of an institution in which the young women of our coun-
try may be trained for the important and responsible du-
ties of life. I hope the institution established by the
people of Southwest Virginia and dedicated to the mem-
ory of Gen. T. J. Jackson may meet with entire success and prove a blessing to the Slate
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, R. E. Lee.
M
Vol. 12
NASHVII,I,B, TENN., AUGUST, 1904
No. 8
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I"
(}im. John C. Brt'ckim-id(;e. the emiueut soldier and statwmnn, after loaviiiii
the Sonatt' at Wn-shiiifctoii and returning to the South, said to his peoi'le: "1
come to defend jour liirtlirii;ht and mine, wliieh is more preiMous than domestie
ease or propert.v or hfe. 1 exchange with i>rond satisfaetion a t*'rm of six years
ill the Senate of the Unit«i States for the mtisket of a Confederate soldier." ^^
Look for skot^'h in the Sejit^mher VKTKnAN.
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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
And Other Poems and Songs.
This is tlu- till.' of a unique bock by Jo.f A. Cuu-
ntngham, known ;is the "pro;ichiii^ drummer."
The objects of the book are to extendiraternity be-
tween the North and tlie Soulh; to sliow the real
cause of the war; to refute llie slandi-r of the book
known as " I'licle Tom's Cabin;" to show that the
carpetbae reconstruclit n period was a curse to both
white and bhtck; to show tiiat the enfranchisement
of the ne*;ro violated the decree of God tlirou^h
Noah, ana ttiat the repeal of this ■' nfranchisement
is the only solution of the negro tjuestion: and final-
ly, that the whole war was a mistake, both sides be-
ing" more or Irss in tlie wrong. Tlie book is entirely
beyond ordinary views, and is calculated to do much
good.
The same author has two books of sermons. Vols.
I, and II., defending original Christianity, tracing
God's Church from its origin in Jerusalem to the
present time, and chiiming that prophecy indicates
that God will use the United States as an instru-
ment in coT-nection with liis Church to liring about
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War Songs and Poems
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Southern
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A collection of the most popular and im-
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dear to every Southern Heart.
ARRANGED AND EDITED WITH
PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR
15^
H. M. WHARTON, D.D.,
Private in (icncrul Lee's Army, author of "A
Picnic in Palestine," "A .^tlI^ih with Aloody,"
" Pulpit, Pew and Platform,*' "tiospcl Talks, **
** Mother, Home and Jesus,'* Iitc, [£tc.
From every State of the South have come these beautiful poems and songs.
With the poems are many incidents and stories of war time told by the author as
seen when they occurred. The heroes of the South and their gallant deeds arc im-
mortalized in the verses of many Poets. Many tunes to which the songs were sung
are given, and this book will receive a welcome wherever the " lioniiie Blue Flag"
and " Dixie " are known. The bravery and heroisTU of the South are the Nation's
heritage, worthy to be perpetuated in this magnificent book of poetry and song,
collected and edited by one who wis himself a "sweet-voiced singer," and who
carried his gun under Gordon and Lee until the last day of .\i)poniattox.
Profusely Illustrated by Rare, Beautiful Pictures
Never before have .so many beautiful pictures of interest to the world and to the
Southern people been collected in one volume. "Jefferson Davis and His Cab-
inet," reproduced from a picture once in the possession of Wrs. Davis, and "The
Burial of Latane," are two of many rare pictures found only in this volume. Be-
sides there arc pictures of the great Commander, Robert E. Lee, both as a Cadet and ;
as a Commanding General, also portraits of the great Generals, and pictures of the many
beautiful Monuments erected in different States. There arc 48 Full-Page Engravings
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SHEPPARD PICTURES FOR THE JEFFERSON DAVIS MONUMENT FUND.
Mrs. N. V. Randolph, Cliairniaii Central Committee of the
Jefferson Davis Monument Association, Richmond, Va. :
"The Central Committee of the Jefferson Davis Monument
Association have a set of three pictures, representing the three
branches of the Confederate army. These plates are executed
from designs in water color by Mr. William L. Sheppard,
whose service in the Confederate army afforded him advan-
tages in the study of types, places, and color in the life of the
Cor.frderate soldier which were possessed by only a few
artists.
"The figures are treated with almost no background, and
only a few accessories appropriate to the branch of the service
represented. ■
"The infantryman is equipped with rolled blanket over his
shoulder, belt, bayonet, canteen, etc. He has stopped for a
moment at the camp fire to light his pipe, and supports his
rifle in the hollow of his elbow, in order to have both hands
free.
"The artilleryman, a captain, stands on the slight slope of a
breastwork, and signals to the gunners to reserve their fire
until he can observe the enemy with his field glass. The smoke
drifting by indicates that a gun near him has just been fired.
"The cavalryman is about to saddle his horse; has the bridle
in his hand, whilst the saddle is on a limb near by. and near it
lie his rolled blanket and saber.
"Attention is concentrated on the figures alone. There is no
newness about their 'outfit.' Their clothing shows service.
"The figures are of the light-haired and dark-haired types
— two of them. The artilleryman's hair is iron-gray, as there
were numbers of iniddlc-aged men in the Confederate service
who should not go unrepresented in this series. The figures
belong to the campaign period of 1863.
"These pictures are sold for the benefit of the Jefferson
Davis monument. The work is done by the Chapters. It is
hoped that ever; Camp and Chapter will buy at least one set,
as it is necessary that the younger people of the South should
know the uniform of their fathers, and not the grotesque
figure of a Confederate soldier in a long frock coat.
"The price is $1 for the set; postage, 13 cents. The size is
10^ inches by 17 inches, mounted upon board 15 inches by 20
inches, ready for fr.iming. Orders to be sent to Mrs. William
Robert Vawter, Chairman and Treasurer Picture Committee,
Richmond, Va."
The committee are so pleased with the presentation above
that they request its further publication with the following note:
The editor of the Veteran presented the Central Committee,
Davis Monument, with 2,000 copies of this print to be
sent to Camps, etc. In sending orders, please remember thir-
teen cents for postage. Mrs. N. V. Randolph, Chairman,
Richmond, Va. ; Mrs. William Robert Vawter, Ronceverte,
W. Va.
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"NORTHERN REBELLION. SOUTHERN SECESSION."
IIY 1.. H. WIl.SliN, DICKEY, CA.
This is the title of a new work just out and advertised in
the Veteran to which I call the attention of its readers
throughout the South. I feel that I am rendering them a
real service in doing so, as well as a real service to the cause
of truth so long and so unrighteously withheld. Long, long
indeed has that cause been buried so deeply under the mass
of falsehood and defamation that it did look as if it could
never be lifted out from beneath it. But the truth is at last
silently but irresistibly emerging from the darkness in which
it has been so long obscured. And this is one of the books
that is going to scatter to the winds much of that falsehood.
It was written by a Virginian, E. W. R. Ewing, LL.B., the
son of a worthy Confederate soldier, and without animosity
or bitterness. It shows on every page the evidences of a
master's hand and one whose acquaintance with his subject
is thorough.
The book is just what its name purports it to be, a history
of "Northern Rebellion rnd Southern Secession." and with
an array of evidence, compiled from entirely Northern sources,
that will be certain to open the eyes of every one who has not
seen that evidence before. Hundreds of thousands all through
our Southland know almost nothing of this evidence. Our
people, and the world too. have been so systematically and
so persistently misinformed by those mendacious publications,
grotesquely labeled "histories." that it is not surprising so few
comparatively know the real origin of that war that so deso-
lated our fair Southland.
Beginning with the formation of the constitution, Mr. Ewing
goes patiently through its subsequent history, showing how all
the principles subsequently contended for by the South had
been openly acknowledged by the courts. Legislatures, and
people of the North generally, and never called in question
until after Lincoln's election; and that the South, in attempting
a peaceable withdrawal from the Union, was only doing what
she had the unquestioned constitutional right to do, and to
which she was simply driven by the Northern people against
her. And there it is as if written with the pen of a sunbeam,
page after page of unimpeachable evidence, showing what
those designs were and who the persons were that attempted
to carry them out — Governors, Senators, Congressmen,
judges, courts, Legislatures, as well as wealthy, influential,
private individuals throughout the Northern States. The
evidence is conclusive and damning. In his history of the
slavery question the author goes far back of the formation
of the government, and by the same array of unimpeachable
evidence, all from Northern sources, shows where the true
sin and guilt of slavery lay. He shows, too, who alone have
ever been the true friends of the negro. He makes the fact
clear that long before the abolition of slavery in the British Em-
pire and even afterwards, and after it had been prohibited in
the Southern States, and by those States themselves. Northern
vessels, built by Northern money, manned by Northern officers,
and backed by Northern capital, were engaged in the slave
traffic with the full knowledge of the Northern people, and
endeavoring to bring slaves into the South, and, failing in
that, carried them to Brazil and other slave markets then
open to them.
O shade of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Theodore Parker
and Wendell Phillips and all "pious," slavery-hating New
England, these slave ships and slave excursions into Africa
were nearly all fitted out in Neiv England ports! "Alas,
poor Yorick!" But I cannot go into all the subject treated
by this able author. Th; book is published by the J. L. Hill
Publishing Co., Richmond, Va.
SONGS AND POEMS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
Many Southern hearts will be gratilied when they read that
Rev. Dr. H. M. Wharton, of Virginia, will issue a large and
complete volume of the "War Songs and Poems of our Con-
federacy." To say that Dr. Wharton has done this work is
all that is necessary to certify to its completeness. He was a
soldier himself in Gen. Lee's army, and loves to sing the songs
of those days. He is well known not only all over this country
but in other lands, and the South is to be congratulated that
he has undertaken to save to us and to coming generations
these treasures of song and poetry.
The volume is dedicated to the late Gen. John B. Gordon,
who wrote Dr. Wharton a personal letter congratulating him
upon his undertaking. He has also received congratulatory
letters from Gov. Montague, of Virginia ; Gov. Jennings, of
Florida; Col. Cabaniss, Gen. Evans, of Georgia, and others.
The book will be profusely illustrated with portraits and
engravings of great value. Among the illustrations will be
the reproduction of a rare engraving entitled "Jefferson Davis
and His Cabinet," which was loaned to the editor for this pur-
pose by the daughter of the late distinguished Gen. Dabney H. ■
Maury, the President of the Daughters of the Confederacy of
Pennsylvania ; also a reproduction of a portrait of Gen. Lee,
taken while he was a cadet at West Point. These two pic-
tures, as well as others in this work, have never before ap-
peared in print.
The book will be handsomely bound in gray cloth, stamped
with the Confederate flags printed in colors. It will be a
large octavo volume of nearly 500 pages, and will be issued
from the press of The John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia. Pa.
Price, in silk-tinished cloth. $2: half morocco. $2.75; full
morocco, $5.
" HISTORY OF WALTHALL'S BRIGADE."
A book, valuable as an historical rcfcrcnco and entertain-
ing as the pages of the best fiction, is the "History of Wal-
thall's Brigade," just completed by Gen. E. T. Sykes. Tlii';
work was given him by Gen. Walthall himself to be writtm
and published after his death, and Gen. Sykes regarded tlu-
request as a sacred trust.
The author is especially equipped for the work, as he w:i^
adjutant general on the staff of Gen. Walthall, participated
in the battles with him, and the subject is of deep personal
concern. Gen. Sykes has papers furnished him by Gen.
Bragg and Gen. Walthall for this express purpose. These
documents include the order book of the brigade from its
organization to the date of Walthall's promotion, also cor-
respondence between Gen. Walthall and others touching the
battle of Lookout Mountain. The author gives graphic ac-
counts of many of the battles participated in by the brigade,
especially Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain. j
Missionary Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church, and the en
gagements elsewhere on the Dalton-Atlanta campaign.
The book is dedicated to the friends and survivors of the
Walthall Brigade. The reader is treated to a full history
of the brigade through victory and defeat, triumph and tears,
and finally the surrender and mustering out of the brigade.
The book is written in attractive style. It is furnished with
a preface and copious notes, in which the author gives his-
torical authority for the contents. The celebrated letter of
Gen. Bragg to the author, under date of February 8, 1873,
and freely copied from in the author's "Cursory Sketch of
Gen. Bragg's Campaign," published in the "Southern His-
torical Papers," Vols. XI. and XH., is given in the appendix.
The manuscript is ready for the publishers, and no doubt
the book will find a ready sale.
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PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND KINDRED TOPICS.
Entered at the post office at Nashville, Tenn., as second-class matter.
Contributors are requested .o use one side of the paper, and to abbreviate
ftsmnch as practicable; these suggestions are important.
Where clippings are sent copy should be kept, as the Veteran cannot
undertake to return them.
Advertisinj^ nites furnished on application.
The date to a subscription is ,^l\v,^ys given to the month hffore it ends. For
Initance, if the Veteran be ordered to begin with January, the dale on mail
Rst will be December, and the subscriber is entitled to that nunil.er.
The *' civil war" was too long ago to be called the "late" war, and when
correspondenls use that term " \V ar between llie btates " will be substituted.
OFFICIALLT REPRESENTS;
United Confederate Veterans,
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
Sovs OF Veterans, and Other Organirations.
The Veteran is approved and indorsed officially by a larger and i
elevated patronji' e, doubtless, than any other publication In exletenoe.
Though men deserve, they may not win success.
The brave will honor the brave, vanquished none the less.
Price, $1.00 per Year. 1 Vr>r YIT
Single Copy, 10 Cents, f ' "'" -^^'■
NASHVILLE, TENN., AUGUST, 1904.
>T„ ^ \ S. A. CUNNINGHAM,
■ f Proprietor.
CAMPS REPORTED BY GEN. (F. E. MICKLE.
The annual report of Adjt. Gen. and Chief of Staff W. E.
Mickle shows tliat there has been an increase of forty Camps
since the last reunion, making the total number now 1,563,
distributed as follows: Texas Division, 314; Georgia Division,
144; South Carolina Division, 139; Alabama Division, 125;
Mississippi Division, 102; Arkansas Division, 100; Tennessee
Division, 88; Missouri Division, 78; North Carolina Division,
76; Kentucky Division, 72; Louisiana Division, 69; Virginia
Division, 65; Florida Division, 47; Indian Territory Division,
46; Oklahoma Division, 25; West Virginia Division, 24; Pa-
cific Division, 15: Northwest Division, 14; ^L•lryland Division,
13; District of Columbia, 2; Illinois. 2; Indiana, i; Ohio, l;
Massachusetts, I.
The indebtedness of the organization has been reduced from
$2,375 lo $750, while the expenses for the past year were
$5,662.23.
ADir. t^l'.N. W. E. MICKLE.
FRATERNAL CONVENTION OF VETERANS.
The survivors of the Confederate and Union armies have
taken steps for an important convention in May, 1905. At
a preliminary meeting in St. Louis the following resolution
was adopted :
"Resolved, That this preliminary gathering, composed of
e,x-Federal and ex-Confederate soldiers and sailors of the
Civil War, heartily favors holding a fraternal convention of
the Blue and the Gray, the survivors of the Federal and
Confederate armies and navies of the war of the sixties, at
Washington, D. C, in May, 1905. on the fortieth anniversary
of the closing of that great war."
Letters were read at the meeting from Gen. Lee and Gen.
Black, respectively, showing that each of said commanders
is in full accord with the objects of such a meeting.
Gen. Black, as commander of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, and Gen. Lee, as commander of the L'nited Confed-
erate Veterans, were requested to appoint a committee of
five veterans to cooperate with the committee appointed by
this meeting to arrange the details of the proposed meeting.
The coinmittee seems to have been chosen at once. It is
designated as follows : Gen. George P. Harrison, Opelika,
Ala., chairman ; Col. W. A. Collier, Clanton, Ala. ; Col. J.
G. Booth, Austin, Tex.; Maj. D. R. Lowel, Middletown,
Conn. ; Col. R. H. Greer, Oroville, Cal. ; Judge Lee S. Es-
tcllc, Omaha : Col. V. Y. Cook, Newport, .\rk. ; J. D. Han-
nahan, Rutland, Vt. ; Judge O. S. D. Ewing, Mount Olive,
Ky. ; Col. Robert Buchanan, St. Louis, Mo.; and the Rev.
E. Henry Byrons, New Smyrna, Fla.
Maj. D. R. Lowell was chairman of the meeting and W.
A. Collier secretary.
SURVIVORS OF THE CONFEDERATE NAVY.
At their annual meeting, held during the reunion at Nash-
ville, the survivors of the Confederate navy elected Capt. H.
B. Littlepage, of Washington, Commander, and Capt. W. F.
Clayton, of Florence, S. C, Secretary. Commander Dabney
M. Scales, of Memphis, had signified his wish to retire from
the office, and recommended the election of Capt. Littlepage.
It had been intended to adopt a constitution and by-laws
at this meeting, but it was decided to omit this. It was the
sentiment of those present that they were bound together with
ties more close than any constitution could produce, and that
by-laws were unnecessary to the organization.
Commander Littlepage, the newly elected chief officer, was
a young lieutenant on the Virginia, the Confederate gunboat
which destroyed the wooden navy of the Union in Hampton
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Roads and impressed upon naval authorities the necessity for
armored ships.
The Virginia drove the Monitor into shallow water, and
virtually won the battle. She was made from the hull of the
old Merrimac, the famous ironclad of the Monitor fight, which
was remodeled after that engagement and rechristened the
Virginia, although the old name Merrimac is retained by many
in writing or speaking of it.
The retiring commander, Dabney M. Scales, of Memphis,
was an officer on the Shenandoah. His cruiser did not sur-
render until six months after the war was over, continuing to
destroy Union vessels on the high seas. Her commander was
out of communication with his government and knew nothing
of the overthrow of the Confederacy.
Declined in Favor of Another. — Col. Ben B. Chism, of
Paris, Ark., writes: "I see in the Veteran that one of your
correspondents states that I was the leader in the daring
venture in which the Federal gunboat Petrel was captured
by the Confederates. While I took part in the enterprise,
Col. John Griffith, of the Eleventh and Seventeenth Arkansas
(consolidated) Regiments, was the commander, and a more
generous or brave soldier never followed the Confederate flag,
and I ask that you make this correction in justice to him and
for the truth of history."
Confederate Army and Navy Medical Officers. — At a
meeting of the Association of Medical Officers of the Army
and Navy of the Confederacy held during the reunion the
following gentlemen were elected officers for a year: Dr. John
S. Cain, of Nashville, President ; Dr. J. D. Plunket, of Nash-
ville, Dr. D. H. Key, of Monroe, La., Dr. William Martin, of
Kingston, Ky., and Dr. Peter B. Bocat, of Florence, S. C,
Vice Presidents. Dr. Cain made a brief address after he had
been introduced by Dr. Gildersleeve, the retiring President.
SONS OP U. C. V.
The report of .^djt. Gen. Hall made at the convention of
the Sons during the reunion showed the general condition of
this organization unsatisfactory. He reported that two-thirds
of the Camps were in arrears, and many had not even paid
charter fees. This should not discourage the Sons.
It was recommended that headquarters for the organization
offered them in New Orleans be accepted, and that a perma-
nent secretary be employed. The number of Camps in all
departments was given as 481, while the number in good stand-
ing was stated as 104. The vote by States was given as fol-
lows: Alabama, 38; Arkansas, 23; California, i; Colorado,
I; Florida, 6; Georgia, .'j; Indian Territory, 18; Kentucky,
19; Louisiana, 34; Mississippi, 15; North Carolina, 14; Ore-
gon, I ; Pennsylvania, i ; South Carolina, 54 ; Tennessee, 44 ;
Texas, 86; Virginia, 36; West Virginia, 13; District of Co-
lumbia, 2; Maryland, l; Oklahoma, i.
The report of Quartermaster General T. S. McChesney
showed receipts during the year amounting to $680.26, com-
prising charter fees, fines, per capita taxes, concessions, but-
tons sold, etc. The disbursements were given at $666.91 ; bal-
ance on hand, $13.35. Gen. McChesney reported that about
$500 had been received by him since making out his report,
which was not included in the above.
The following officers were elected for the ensuing year :
Commander in Chief, N. R. Tisdal, Fort Worth, Tex.; Com-
mander of the Army of Northern Virginia, John J. Davis,
Louisville, Ky. ; Commander of the Department of Tennessee,
R. E. L. Bynum, Jackson, Tenn. ; Commander of the Trans-
Mississippi Department, C. A. Skean, Wapautucki, Tex.
HISTORICAL RECORDS TO BE PRESERVED.
IMPIRTANT Mo\'EMENT ACTION AT NaSHVILLE REUNION.
A movement to establish "Departments of Archives and
History" in all the Southern States was inaugurated at the
Nashville reunion. The determined effort to accomplish this
worthy object owes its origin and impetus to the United Sons
of Confederate Veterans. A published report on the subject
states :
"Realizing the necessity for immediate action, in order to
save from neglect and ruin some of the most valuable histor-
ical data in the South, and in order to establish for posterity
a true account of the War bewcen the States, the Sons of
Confederate Veterans adopted the following resolution, which
was submitted by William Armistcad Collier, Jr., of Memphis,
Tenn.
"Whereas, in view of the facts, set forth in the Supplemen-
tary Report of the Former Historical Committee, that the
archives of the State of Tennessee have been found by a
committee of the last Legislature to be in a deplorable con-
dition— many of the most valuable State records having been
allowed to go to ruin from neglect ; that the archives of the
State of Mississippi were in a like condition previous to the
establishment of a Department of State, known as the 'De-
partment of Archives and History ;' and that doubtless similar
conditions exist in other States of the South; and whereas wc
believe the preservation of historical material to be a sacred
duty which we owe to our State and country, to our fore-
fathers, to ourselves, and to our posterity — and one of the high
objects of the existence of our organization of Sons of Confed-
erate Veterans; and whereas it Ims been demonstrated by the
MISS lOLA riilLfUT, I'lNE BLUFF,
Sponsor for Second Arkansas Brigade.
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States of Alabama and Mississippi that this object can be best
accomplished by the creation and maintenance of a separate de-
partment of State, devoted to 'the care and custody of official
archives, the collection of materials bearing upon the history
of the State, the completion and publication of the State's
official records and other historical materials, the diffusion of
knowledge in reference to the history and resources of the
State, the encouragement of historical work and research,'
etc , and that such department can be maintained and do effi-
cient service at an expense of $2,500 a year ; therefore be it
"Resolved, That we, the United Sons of Confederate Vet-
erans, in convention assembled, do hereby indorse and com-
mend the efforts of the States of Alabama and Mississippi,
and pledge ourselves as an organization, as Camps, and as in-
dividuals, to bring about the early establishment in every
State in the South of similar departments; the purpose of
such departments being to save from neglect, loss, and destruc-
tion the archives of the States ; to collect, preserve, edit, and
make known their invaluable records, and all public documents
and material, which will be necessary in the future to a true
knowledge and understanding of State and Southern history.
"Be it further resolved. That the movement to establish these
departments be put in charge of a special conmiittec, which
shall be appointed for no other purpose; that this committee
be designated 'the Committee on the Establishment of Depart-
ments of History;' that it be made up only of comrades who
will pledge themselves before appointment to appear before the
Legislatures of their respective States, bear their own cx-
))enses, and use every honorable means to secure the enactment
of laws establishing such departments in every State where the
same are needed.
Be it further resolved, That wc hereby call upon the Gov-
ernors of the Southern States to recommend the passage of
such laws, as aforesaid; that we invite the cooperation of all
patriotic organizations and hi.storical societies, and invoke
the aid of the press of tlie South in this important movement."
The Department of Archives and History in the State of
Alabama was created by act of the General Assembly in Feb-
ruary, 1901. In January, 1902, Gov. Longino, of Mississippi,
sent a special message to the Legislature, recommending a bill,
which was immediately passed, to establish such a department
MISS WILLIE J KAN ArKl.\^u^. IINE BLUFF,
Mrtld of Honor, Second Arkansas Brigade.
under the auspices of the Mississippi Historical Society. The
following provision was made concerning Confederate war rec-
ords in that connection:
"That the department is charged with the duty of collecting
data in reference to the soldiers from Mississippi, in the war
between the United States and the Confederate States, both
from the War Department in Washington and from private
individuals, and cause the same to be prepared for publication
as speedily as possible." The value of the department in that
State has already been proved, by the discovery of lost records
estimated to be worth $15,000. Under the administration of
Gov. Vardaman the Legislature has appropriated the sum of
$11,200 for the maintenance of the department, for issuing its
publications and the publications of the Mississippi Historical
Society.
The necessity and great benefit of these dcpartnunts is rec-
ognized by all who give the matter attention. There has been
sad neglect of official records in some States ; in others, wanton
destruction. Several years ago many of the valuable records
of .Mabama were dumped into the river ; and the Capitol por-
ters in Nebraska consigned a part of the archives uf that State
to the flames.
The condition of the archives of Tennessee is fully set forth
in the Supplementary Report of the Historical Committee of
the Sons of Veterans, submitted by Mr, Collier in support of
his resolution. It was secured from a member of the commit-
tee of the last Legislature appointed "to investigate the con-
dition of the State's historical records, and recommend an ap-
propriation for their preservation and assortment."
"The archives of the State of Tennessee have remained so
long neglected that their present condition, when fully real-
ized, will bring shame to any patriotic inhabitant of the 'Vol-
unteer State.'
"Previous to two years ago, all State records of every de-
scription— correspondence, proclamations, muster rolls, officers'
reports, governors' messages, written in their own hand, orig-
inal maps of great value — archives since our State was a terri-
tory, through its career as the State of Franklin, then as the
State of Tennessee, and on through the war of 1812, the time
of Jackson, the Mexican War, the Civil War, down to 1900 —
all these invaluable records were stored away in the basement
of the Capitol building, so completely neglected and abandoned
that when brought to light nearly all of them were found to
have been damaged by water, and many of them totally de-
stroyed.
"L'nder Gov. McMillin, the Capitol Conunission, appointed
solely to repair and improve the building, diverted a small
part of their appropriation to fit up a small room in the attic
above the Hall of Representatives; and then employed a
capable man to assort them, but the appropriation ran out be-
fore much headway was made.
"During this work a certain map was found, showing the
original surveys between Virginia and Tennessee, which, it
is said, might have saved the long and expensive litigation be-
tween these States in determining their respective boundaries.
"By the present condition of the official records, much of the
time of the Adjutant General's office is consumed in searching
for old books and papers for data to assist Federal soldiers
or their heirs in securing pensions from the Government.
"Realizing the di.sgraceful condition of the archives of Ten-
nessee, Secretary of State John W. Morton, of Nashville, intro-
duced a bill into the Legislature of 1903, authorizing the ex-
penditure of $2,500 during the two years to assort and arrange
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the records. The Committee made a personal investigation of
the condition of the records, and not only approved the meas-
ure but was active for its passage. The bill passed the House;
but the Senate cut the appropriation in two, allowing only
$1,200. It is needless to say that little can be expected from
this.
"A bill providing for the establishment of a Department of
History in the Stale of Tennessee will be introduced in the
next Legislature. It will have the indorsement of the Tennes-
see Historical Society, and the active support of its able and
distinguished president, cx-Gov. James D. Porter; and it is
expected that the aid and influence of all the literary, historic,
and patriotic organizations of the State will be exerted in be-
half of the movement.
"The Nashville Banner .said on this important subject: 'The
purpose of the Sons of Veterans is most commendable and
^shoold have all necessary encouragement and aid ; and if
'there are to be separate historical organizations, having like
ipurposes, there might be an arrangement of coordinate socie-
Xries, or departments under adequate State support to consum-
mate the important end of securing and preserving the fullest
possible historical records of the State and continuing the
work indefinitely on lines that will save Tennessee in the fu-
ture from any charge of neglect.' "
C. S. M. A. CONVENTION AT NASHVILLE.
The opening feature of this, the fifth, annual convention of
the Confederate Southern Memorial Association, held in
Nashville, Tenn., was the usual Jefferson Davis memorial
service, which was held in Christ Church, on June 14, at 10:30
A.M. A large congregation attested the interest of veterans
and other Conf ederatt s— men and women. There was not a
vacant seat in that immense auditorium, and many stood dur-
ing the entire service. Gen. Stephen D. Lee and members of
his staff, with a large number of other veterans in uniform,
gave a strikingly impressive military air to the scene. The
church was beautifully decorated in white magnolias and crim-
son blossoms, with battle flags at half-mast. The music was
grand — z chorus of fifty well-trained voices, supplemented by
four noted soloists, rendered Gounod's magnificent arrange-
ment of the Te Deum and a selection from Mozart with fine
effect, the Processional and Recessional hymns being scarce-
ly less effective. But the grandest feature of the occasion
was the address by Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, Bishop of Ten-
nessee. The solemnity and beauty of this service cannot be
described.
From the church the C. S. M. A. delegates went in a body
to the Convention Hall of the United Confederate Veterans
to witness their opening exercises. The president and dele-
gates (C. S. M. A.) were escorted to reserved seats on the
platform. The exercises were most interesting and impress-
ive. Many touching allusions were made to the loss sus-
tained in the death of Gen. J. B. Gordon, whose commanding
presence and matciiless voice were sadly missed ; and when
the convention \>as turned over to Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Act-
ing Commander, he won all hearts by his beautiful tribute to
:his beloved predecessor. The subsequent action of the veterans
electing Gen. Lee Commander in Chief must meet with gen-
eral approval. It was an honor worthily bestowed.
Dr. Owen, a talented son of Alabama, spoke in behalf of tlie
Sons of Veterans, and in glowing words expressed his appre-
ciation of the work of the Memorial Association. A recogni-
tion was most gratifying to the Memorial women present. All
of the addresses were fine, and that of Bishop McKim, of
Washington, D. C. was of great historical value.
The first business session of the C. S. M. A. Convention
was held on the second morning of the Reunion, in the lecture
room of the First Presbyterian Church, which was appropri-
ately decorated with Confederate flags and flowers, with a
large number of delegates and visitors present. An invocation
was offered by Rev. J. C. Cowan, followed by an address of
welcome on behalf of the city by the Mayor. Next came a
beautiful vocal solo, "In Tennessee," by Mrs. Matthew M. Gard-
ner, a grand-niece of President Polk. John H. DeWitt, Com-
mander Sons of Veterans of Nashville, delivered an address
on behalf of the Sons, which was frequently interrupted by ap-
plause, especially when he offered the services of his organi-
zation to the C. S. M. A. in its work. He paid a high tribute
to the work of the Confederation and said: "The Memorial
Associations are perpetuating memoirs that must not be al-
lowed to die, and the Sons of Veterans are anxious to help
them make Jefferson Davis's birthday a legal holiday." It
may be in order here to state that many of the Memorial
Associations have, through their State Legislatures, secured the
passage of a bill making June 3 a legal holiday. Following
Mr. DeWitt came a piano selection by Miss Ellen Rion ; then
an able address by Gen. George W. Gordon, of Memphis,
welcoming the Association on behalf of the Tennessee Divi-
sion, U. C. V. He complimented the patriotic purposes of the
body and proinised the loyal cooperation of the veterans. "The
Land o' the Leal," a vocal solo, was beautifully rendered by
Miss Katherine Stewart, of Nashville; and a recitation by
Miss Will Allen Dromgoole, the well-known author, elicited
prolonged applause. Miss Martha Hill, representing the pres-
ident of the Nashville Chapter No. i U. D. C, delivered a
beautiful address of welcome from that body.
Mrs. W. J. Behan, President C. S. M. A., responded to the
addresses of welcome and gave many interesting facts about
the Confederation work, among them the increase in inter-
est and the compilation of the History of the Confederated
Memorial Associations of the South. After a recess, the busi-
ness session connnenced, with the President, Mrs. Behan, pre-
siding in her characteristic dignity and case. Reports from
the various Associations all gave evidence of good work
during the p?st year. A large majority of the Associations
were represented. Those not represented by delegates sent
reports, which were read. The Confederation now numbers
sixty-five Associations, with an average membership of seven-
ty-five.
The action of Congress in looking to the preservation and
care of Confederate graves in Northern cemeteries was offi-
cially commended. The President called attention to a circular
sent out by her after the death of Gen. Gordon, requesting all
Memorial Associations to contribute to a fund for the erection
of a monument to his memory. Many .-Xssociations in their
reports gave the amounts subscribed by them. Col. Simpson,
of Dallas, Tex., announced that a resolution was presented by
the Sterling Price Camp, U. C. V., of Dallas, Tex., propos-
ing that a medal be given to the women of '6i-'6s — the mothers
and wives of Confederate soldiers — and that the resolution was
adopted as recommended by the Committee on Resolutions.
This is a deserved tribute to the women of those perilous
days, one they will not fail to appreciate, and the medal will
be a precious heirloom to their descendants. A communica-
tion was received by the President from the Society of Ameri-
can Insignia, New York City, asking for the ofiicial badge of
the C. S. M. A., to preserve in this collection ; and the Corre-
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spending Secretary was instructed to send one of the pins for
the purpose. The C. S. M. A. desired to go on record as oppos-
ing the movement to malce Laura Gait, the little girl who very
rightly refused to sing "Marching through Georgia." the
"Daughter of the Confederacy," a title that ended with the
life of Winnie Davis, its first weartr.
The "History of the Confederated Memorial Associations of
the South" was formally accepted, with a rising vote of
thanks to Mr. W. J. Behan, Miss D. M. L. Hodgson, and
Miss Louise Benton Graham, its compilers. The Committee
on Resolutions, composed of Mrs. Gary, of Montgomery, Ala.,
Mrs. Moore, of Portsmouth, Va., and Miss Hixon, of Manas-
sas, Va., hcautifully expressed the appreciation of the C. S. M.
A. for all the courtesies extended hy the citizens of Nashville,
the perfect arrangements for our memorial service in honor
of President Davis, for our Convention, and for kindly wel-
comes given. The Convention adjourned to meet in Louis-
ville, Ky., at the time of the next U. C. V. Reunion.
The last day of the Reunion was given over to the parade
and social enjoyments. The C. S. M. A. had three carriages
in the procession — Nos. I, 2, and 3.
The little hoy outriders formed a very attractive feature of
the parade, in their white-and-red uniforms, and seemed as
intensely Southern and enthusiastic as the gray-haired veterans
who led the march. The parade engendered the greatest en-
thusiasm.
Nashville is to be ci ngratulated upon the success of the
Reunion. Her well-known hospitality was cordially extended
10 all, the Veterans receiving first consideration, as is their due.
CROSSES OF HONOR AT LOI'ISIANA HOME.
The Daughters of the Confederacy made more memorable
April 6, one of the anniversaries of the battle of Shiloh, by
presenting Crosses of Honor to sixty-three Veterans. Mrs.
D. A. S. Vaught, President of the New Orleans Chapter, No.
72, opened the proceedings, saying :
"Veterans and Friends: We are assembled this evening, the
anniversary date of a great battle which took place forty-two
years ago, to do honor to the men who so bravely fought on
Shiloh and other fields, and to convey to them, through the
medium of this little bronze cross, bestowed upon them with
reverence and love, the expression of our high regard and of
our deep respect and of our undying gratitude for their faith-
ful part in the great struggle. Especially do you. Veterans,
who have sought the shelter of this Home, accept this gift with
the filial love of the Daughters of the Confederacy. We will
celebrate this occasion with song and story, but first will call
upon the Rev. Father Janssens, your faithful friend and vis-
itor, to invoke the divine blessing."
EMBARRASSING OMISSIONS.
The list of officers of U. C. V. in the June issue omitted
Trans-Mississippi Department, which is as follows (Texas
revised at recent election) :
Trans-Mississippi DcpOitmcnt. — Lieut. Gen. W. L. Cabell,
Commander, Dallas, Tex. ; Brig. Gen. A. T. Watts. Beau-
mont, Tex.
Texas Division. — Maj. Gen. K. M. Van Zandt. Connnander,
Fort Worth, Tex. ; Col. Geo. Jackson, Fort Worth ; Brig. Gen.
T. H. Edgar, First Brig., Houston; Brig. Gen. T. L. Largcn,
Second Brig., San .\ntonio ; Brig. Gen. J. D. Sharp, Third
Brig., Waco: Brig. Gen. H. \V. Graber, Fourth Brig., Dallas;
Brig. Gen. B. B. Paddock, Fifth Brig., Fort Worth.
Indian Territory Division. — Maj, Gen. John L. Gait, Com-
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mander, Ardmore, Ind. T. ; Col. George H. Bruce, Ardmore ;
Brig. Gen. Tames H. Reed, Chickasaw Brig., McAlester ;
Brig. Gen. D. M. Hailey, Choctaw Brig., Krebs; Brig. Gen,
Charles M. McClcllan, Cherokee Brig., Clarimore ; Brig. Gen.
William E. iJentry, Creek Brig., Checotah.
Missouri Division. — Maj. Gen. Elijah Gates, Commander,
St. Joseph, Mo.; Col. John C. Landis, St. Joseph; Brig. Gen,
James Bannerman, E. Brig., St. Louis ; Brig. Gen. Harvey W.
Salmon, W. Brig., Clinton.
Arkansas Division.— IsHz]. Gen. Thomas J. Churchill, Com-
mander, Little Rock, Ark. ; Col. Dan W. Jones, Little Rock ;
Brig. Gen. James F. Smith, First Brig., Nashville; Brig.
Gen. Wm. \. Roby. Second Brigade, Hamburg; Brig. Gen.
H. L. Routh, Third Brig., Harrison; Brig. Gen. T. W. Mc-
Cown, Fourth Brig., Lockesburg.
Oklalu.ma Dii'ision.- — Maj. Gen. S. J. Wilkins, Commander,
Norman, Okla. ; Col. William RL Cross, Oklahoma City;
Brig. Gen. J. P. .\llen. First Brig., Oklahoma City; Brig.
Gen. A. P. Watson, Second Brig., Shawnee ; Brig. Gen. Sam
Porter, Third Brig., Martha.
Nortlmrst Division. — Maj. Gen. Frank D. Brown, Com-
mander, Philipsburg, Mont.; Col. J. H. Williams, Philips-
burg, Mont.; Brig. Gen. Paul A. Fusz, Mont. Brig., Philips-
burg, Mont.
Pacific Division. — Maj. Gen. A. W. Hutton, Commander,
Los Angeles, Cal. ; Col. E. H. Owen, Los Angeles.
Omission from Sketch of Willi..\m Nf.l.son Cromwf.li..
In an article, page 355, of the July issue much pride and in-
terest was given to an article "Concerning a Distinguished
Lawyer," in which the leading points were omitted and the
error not discovered until about ten thousand copies had
been printed. As supplemental to that erroneous edition the
sketch as printed below will be found interesting.
"I have watched his course with affectionate interest, and
1 liave enjoyed his fraternal greeting at opportune times.
"The newspapers reported his happy adjustment of a lirm
that failed for $15,000,000, and without asking for a bill they
wrote him a check for a quarter of a million.
"Later he reorganized the Northern Pacific Railroad system,
whereby the bonded debt was reduced some $60,000,000.
"Again, when the billion-dollar steel syndicate was organized
'the papers were written under the direction of Mr. Cromwell.'
"He sought my opinion on one occasion on a question not
in the law books. An art gallery was burned, containing many
paintings of a noted artist, and Mr. Cromwell wanted to know
which was the greater loser, the man who owned the pictures
or the artist, and we agreed that it was the latter. We did
not vote the same ticket, for I, with his pastor, wanted Cleve-
land for President ; but while Mr. Beecher was not in accord
with his congregation, Mr. Cromwell said he was bigger than
Plymouth Church.
"While Mr. Cromwell in these later days devoted himself
almost exclusively to the Panama Canal, by which he now re-
ceives $2,000,000, said to be the largest fee evei p.iid, he was
never too busy to serve me, and without price."
The colonel of a Texas Regiment issued positive orders
against "foraging" on a certain campaign. Soon after he had
retired one night the continuous squealing of a hog aroused
the officer, who at once called his adjutant, telling him to find
the officer of the day and direct him to take matters in hand.
The adjutant yawned and said: "Colonel, I know the men
of this regiment better than you do, and I assure you that
that disturbance is not by our men. When they attack a hog
it never squeals but once."
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Qopfcderate l/eterap.
^oi>federate l/eterai>.
S. A. CT-'NNINCIIAM, Edil.>r and Proprietor.
Office: Methodist Pnblishing House Building, Xaihville, Teno.
ThU publication Is the persona! property of S. A. Cunningham. All per-
POO* who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an or^jan for Asso-
Ctetlons throughout the South are requested to commend its patronage and to
Cooperate in extending its circulation. Let each one be constantly dilif^ent.
Much of what was intended for this issue is unavoidably
licld over, that promises heretofore made be fulfilled.
Response to a statement sent in July to delinquent sub-
scribers induces expression of gratitude. True, not half have
answered in any way ; while some write back to stop it, with
maybe two or three years due. A charitable view of the mat-
ter releases them from the knowledge that, if all were to do
likewise, they would involve the Veteran thirty to forty thou-
sand dollars and overwhelm it. Happily, however, very many
responded, and sent with the money much good cheer. To
those who have not answered, IVon't you scud at least a brief
answer? You can state that you intend to pay by and by.
Patrons and good friends of the Veteran omit to do it
valuable service in its advertising. "This is a trial order,"
is often stated by advertisers ; "and if it pays, it will be re-
newed." How easy it would be to mention the Veteran when
writing !
HARVARD MAY HONOR CONFEDERATES.
A telegram to the New York Tribune from Cambridge,
Mass., says Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson,. in his annual
Memorial Day address at Harvard, predicted that in lime
tablets would be placed in Memorial Hall for the fallen Con-
federate Harvard men beside the tablets bearing the names
of the sons of Harvard who fell in the Union ranks. In
connection therewith he said: "We have ceased calling the
war of 1861 the rebellion, and instead speak of it as the Civil
War. Wc have also come to see that the men who fought
for the South bled and died for a principle that was as sacred
to them as the preservation of the Union was to us — the
love of their State and the belief in her sovereign rights."
EDITOR OF THE VETERAN HONORED IN TEXAS.
Col. Duke Goodman, of Fort Worth, addressing the Texas
Division in convention at Temple, July 21, 1904, said:
"Comrades: The hour has now arrived for the election of
officers. I desire before you proceed with the election of
major general, which is the highest office in this division, to
prelude this action with a fitting expression of appreciation
and love. We have with us a distinguished comrade from
another State, a veteran who has done more to perpetuate
the truths of your history and memories of your dead than
any other one man in the South or out of it. I know of
nothing we can do that would be more e.xpressive than to
bestow upon this comrade a distinctive honor, an honor that
no other comrade in our Southland enjoys at your hands.
I now move that Comrade S. A. Cunningham, of Nashville,
Tenn., editor of the Confeuerate Veteran, be elected an
honorary member of the Texas Division, U. C. V."
The motion carried unanimously, and with a rising vote.
exchange for "War Romances" the best their larders afford.
Guests arc requested to reach .Asheville on afternoon trains
Tuesday, August 30, when the Reception Committee will be at
the depot to register, furnish badges and street car tickets,
and assign them to their homes.
The programme for the event is as follows: On the night
of August 30 the Asheville Cliapter of the Daughters of the
Confederacy will give the play "Under the Southern Cross,"
a thrilling war drajiia written by the distinguished North
Carolina authoress, Christian Ried (Miss Fisher). On the
following morning a visit will be made to the Ostrich Farm
and Riverside Park. In addition to the thirty to fifty os-
triches, among which are some of the finest specimens ever
known, there are many rare birds, quadrupeds, and animals.
At ten o'clock, August 31, there will be a general assembling
at the courthouse grounds for addresses and the transaction
of business, the election of officers, division and brigade
commanders, for the ensuing year. At 1 :30 there will be a
parade, and at night will be repeated the play "Under the
Southern Cross."
NORTH CAROLINA STATE REUNION.
The Buncombe County Confederate veterans send greet-
ings to their comrades of the Old North State for a reunion
August 30, 31, 1904.
Their good people will throw wide open their doors to
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
IIkadui akters for tiif. St. Louis Convention.
The Hamilton Hotel has been selected by the Local Com-
mittee as headquarters for the U. D. C. during the convention
which meets in St. Louis October 3 to October 8.
The Hamilton is conveniently located and on direct car lines
to the World's Fair and the Convention Hall, at No. 911 Van-
deventer Avenue. The delegates will travel in the morning to
the Convention Hall in an opposite direction to the World's
Fair Grounds, also the same in the afternoon retuniing to the
hotel, thus assuring satisfactory street car accommodations.
The hotel is also within a short walk of the Fair Grounds.
Rates are such that all can be suited. A special rate has been
made of $2 per day per person, and $1 per day for delegates
occupying cots. These rates also apply to friends accompa-
nying delegates, and cover a period during the convention and
three days before the opening of the convention and three
days after the closing. Parties wishing to secure the benefit
of these rates must communicate direct with W. F. William-
ion, President and Manager of the Hamilton Hotel, at least
thirty days before the convention is to meet. If accommoda-
tio;i£ are desired, all that is necessary is to advise Mr. William-
son. It is not necessary to write a long letter, asking for full
information, nie hotel is first-class in all appointments, the
Local Committee having visited it and gone over all necessary |
points. As before stated, the rate, made especially for this i
convention, is $2 per day per person, and it is expected that j
two people will occupy a single room and four people a dou-
ble room. The cots will be located in large rooms, and are for
ladies only.
We find upon conimiinicating with the diflerciU Passenger
Agents that Eastern, Southern, and Southwestern lines will j
sell tickets to the World's Fair at one rate plus $2 for the round -
trip. No further reductions will lie made for conventions.
The Passenger Associations advise tliat ticket agents at the dif-
ferent stations throughout the South will furnish delegates and
visitors, upon application, all details of the rates, tickets, ar-
rangements, etc.
Comrades at Richmond and in Ray County, Mo., are dili-
gent in building up Confederate organizations in that sec-
tion. -V local paper prints a list of thirty-five Confederate
veterans in the county.
Qoi^federate l/eterai>
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MARGARET SEVERANCE HOXORS TENNESSEE A
Margaret Severance, the delightful sketch artist and en-
tertainer of American fame, was not rewarded with success
among her ow-n people until recent years. She found ap-
plause on the shores of the Atlantic and mingled them with
the cheers from the coast of the Pa-
cific before gaining recognition in her
native Tennessee.
New York has long since recog-
nized her as one of the most unique
character artists on the American
stage. Her original sketch, "The
Eli.xir of Youth," gave play to her
marvelous gifts of impersonation, ft ;ji^r";
has been applauded by some of tho
most cultured audiences of this con- ' "^ ^^^^H ''
tincnt, and pronounced a work of
fine art by the best critics of Amer-
ica. At first magazine work was
given to her. and for a time her
powers (if recitation lay dormant.
Her literary attempts readily found
favor. Her poems and illustrations
were widely copied by the daily news-
papers of this country. Of her na-
tive State she writes:
To Tennessee.
"Where pink and purple blossoms
blow.
And white and ox-eyed daisies grow. '^'R^- m.\r(;.\ret sevkr.\n
And waving cornfields tassel low,
-\nd all the world is mellow :
Where Indian pinks, in clusters, make
Great ruby gems, in emerald lake.
And thrice a billion blossoms shake
Their pollen, rich and yellow :
Where honeysuckles cling and twine.
And fling their fragrance to the vine,
O'erladcncd with its luscious wine.
.\nd low winds play a cello —
Em-em-em.
Where mammy sings my lullaby
And low winds play a cello."
When at lengtli she was allowed a hearing. New York audi-
ences received her with enthusiasm. In 1902 she was ac-
cepted under the great .\morican Lyceum Union, going
abreast with the best entertainers of the age — George R.
Wendling, Bob Taylor, and Thomas Dixon. She has ap-
peared ir! every State in the Union, Canada, and Mexico.
Mrs. Margaret Severance has recently scored a decided
success as an impersonator in humorous dialect, child recita-
tions, and selections from late classics. In the power of
clear-cut characterization she is unexcelled. The remarkable
qualities of her voice have called forth many favorable com-
ments of the .\nierican press. Mrs. Severance's voice is
strikingly Southern in both quality and inflection. There is
a certain !i(|uid melody in its tones that soothes, fascinates,
and conquers. Her range is broad and her progranunes af-
ford a delightful evening.
Her latest work consists of telling stories from the new
books of fiction, old plantation songs, and Southern stories.
In impersonations Iter audiences forget at times the real,
cl:arming young woman, thinking of her as a schoolgirl or
a grandmother.
\'D HER NATIVE SOUTHLAND— A GIFTED ARTIST.
EXTR.^CTS FROM AN EXACTING PrESS.
Proved herself capable of a wonderful range and exceptional
power. — St. Paul Globe.
Responded to deafening applause. — ^Hnllcapolis Tribune.
A wonderful voice, worthy of the
honor she has earned. — The Athe-
nian.
The peculiarities of this tender,
sympathetic voice admirably fitted to
the parts. — AVrc York Herald.
^ _ . ^^^ A lasting impression of favorable
nature. — San Francisco Chronicle.
Truly great in her zrt.—Nezv Or-
leans Times-Democrat.
Her tone and accent are purely
Southern, and her poise perfection
uself. Her audience was carried
away with her in every motion and
.iititudo. She is certainly a genius in
her Hue. — Detroit Free Press.
The best of the season. We want
you again. — Mr. C. A. Richmire,
Secretary of Entertainment, Twenty-
Third Street V. M. C. A., New York.
Her "Elixir of Youth."
In "The Elixir of Youth" she
goes from seventy-five years to a
thirteen-year-old child with excep-
CE. cn.\TT.\Noi GA, TENN. tioual facility.— Doi'/ii American, Netv
York.
The bit of the season. — .Wezv York Journal.
Unique and original. — St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
She conquered the audience. — Chicago Tribune.
A happy thougln artistically presented. — li'ashinston Post.
In the highest degree admirable. — Cincinnati Enquirer.
The transformations are marvelous. — Knoxville Sentinel.
Many other testimonials indicate her rare gifts.
Inscription to John Hammon, of Phillips's Legion. —
An "old veteran" writes from Orangeburg. S. C., April 6,
1904: "Though forty years have passed since the Confederate
war, I give the inscription on a simple stone, in the cemetery
of the Episcopal Church at this place, marking the resting
place of one of the dashing heroes of our Southern army :
■John Hammon, Company G. Phillips's Legion, Young's Bri-
gade. Georgia Cavalry, C. S. A. Killed in battle at Orange-
burg, S. C, February 11, 1865, in defense of a principle that
was right and a cause that was just.' This notice, even at this
late day. may be a source of consolation to some relative,
friend, or comrade of this noble Georgian, to know that his
Ixidy received a decent burial at the hands of those in de-
fense of whose homes he gave his life."
Company C. Thirty-Third Tennessee.^ — John J. Eaves
sends from Chaseville, Tenn., a list of officers and men of
Company C, Thirty-Third Tennessee Regiment. This regi-
ment was coiumanded by .\lex Campbell (Jackson, Tenn.),
with Warner P. Jones as lieutenant colonel and H. C. McNeill
(Paris, Tenn.) as major. The regiment was organized at
Union City, Tenn,, on August i, 1861. Comrade Eaves desires
to know the whereabouts of Bud Autry, of Chambers County,
.Ma., who was a member of some Alabama regiment, and of
James Hughes, of the Twenty-Fourth Tennessee.
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ROBERT H. STOCKTON.
For several months it has been intended to say something
in the Veteran about "Bob" Stockton, of St. Louis. Recol-
lections of this remarkable man are very fascinating.
When at the Missouri Reunion (Columbia, in the fall of
1903), and notified that "Bob" Stockton would banquet a party
of twenty, and that this Editor was of the parly, the unex-
pected compliment created special interest in the young man
whose father it was presumed was a Confederate soldier.
Pity was the thought tliat the big-hearted young man did not
know of the Confederate fame and the struggles for the for-
tune he seemed to be dispensing so liberally, but he was
credited for his loyalty to his father's principles.
The feast had been thoroughly enjoyed, when the master of
ceremonies. Gen. Harvey W. Salmon, called upon Mr. Stock-
ton for a speech. Then it was that his own Confederate rec-
ord was ascertained to be his pride ; and when he told of
how, in that beautiful town after the war, he secured employ-
ment by the month with a weekly board
bill, and his worry over how to get on
until pay day, the prosperity that had
attended him was shown to be of his
own achievement.
The Veter.\N is not fully informed of
his business success; but the venerable
gentleman (Mr. Dorsey) who secured
him a clerkship being present, in a happy
account of young Stockton's efficient
services, said that in seeking aid to a
school enterprise in Columbia sometinic
before he wrote this friend among otlu rs.
and that he promptly received his check
for five thousand dollars.
Comrade Stockton is reticent about
his business affairs, but a letter head rep-
resents him as President of the Majestic
Manufacturing Co. (stoves, ranges, etc.).
and it is in the atmosphere of St. Louis
that he is a man among men, .\ director
in many large financial institutions, and
a forceful character in that great city.
In a postscript on a letter to a friend
Lieut. Stockton says: "I lost my diary
about eighteen years ago, and I would freely pay one thousand
dollars to find it."
Lieut. R. H. Stockton joined the army under Gen. Sterling
Price in 1861 as a private. When his regiment, the Second
Missouri, was reorganized at Tupelo, Miss., he was made
sergeant major, but really filled the place of adjutant about
half the time until the following spring. About this time he
was appointed lieutenant of his company (I). When the
Federal army closed in on Vicksburg after the battle of Big
Black River, the regnnenl was shut up in that city with
Pemberton's army. About June S Lieut. Stockton was sent
out one night with three or four men from his company be-
yond our lines to gain information concerning the enemy's
position, and, getting too far in advance of his men, was
captured. Up to that eventful night he had participated in
every engagement and march with his regjment, and had never
missed a roll call. He was first sent to prison at .Mton, III.,
and afterwards to Johnson's Island.
In March, 1865, Lieut. Stockton was sent out on exchange,
and reached Richmond about the middle of the month. Re-
porting to Col. Bcvier, who was assigning exchanged prisoners
ROIiERT H. STOCKTON.
to their destination, he was informed that while in prison he
liad been promoted to first lieutenant of his company, and on
March 24 the following orders were given him :
"RiCHMoNMi, Va., March 24. 1865.
"Lieut. R. H. Stockton, Company I, Second Missouri In-
fantry, is hereby, by virtue of the power vested in me under
Par. VHI., Special Orders No. 253, from the A. and I. G.
office of October 24, 1864, directed to take charge of the men
(paroled Missouri soldiers) whose names are included in
the accompanying list and conduct them as soon as possible
to Brig. Gen. Cockrell, Commanding Missouri Brigade, now
at Mobile, Ala.
"He will keep strict account of said men by frequent roll
call and personal observation, and report to Gen. Cockrell
all men left sick or absent without leave when he reports the
rest.
"Quartermasters will furnish Lieut. Stockton with trans-
portation to Mobile for one hundred men, and commissaries
will furnish him with rations lor them
while cii route.
"R. S. Bevier, Lieut. Col. and Adjt.,
CockreWs Brigade, commanding
Missouri cr-soldicrs."
Under this order Lieut. Stockton left
vichmond with his men, with orders
for transportation over three or four dif-
ferent railroads, but found none of the
1 rains running after the first fifty miles;
ihcn they had to foot it and subsist on
the country as best they could. He
reached Eufaula, Ala., April 12 with all
his men, but experienced much trouble
m holding them together. There he first
heard of Lee's surrender, and calling the
men in line he informed them of what ,
had happened, and, their duty as soldiers
having ended, to make their way home
as best they could. He continued his
way to New Orleans, and was furnished
transportation to Cincinnati, where he
arrived about May I.
The Men with Lieut. Stockton Furloughed at Macon, j
Ga, .'\pRn. 18, 1865.
First Missouri Cavalry: J. E. F. Robinson, William Gib
bons, George Carson, W. W. Doak, and John Hyler.
Second Missouri Cavalry: J. H. George, D. S. Cannon, and
Henry Cave.
Third Missouri Cavalry: C. C. Porter, John C. Campbel^
E. L. Eddlum, T. Hull, J. H. Hawkins, J. W. Kimmons,
O. Bannon, L. M. Falkner. J. N. Pyle, W. A. Brown, F. Shellj
and John Kimes.
Fourth Missouri Cavalry: L. W. Key, J. Staggs, D. Merrittj
J. A. Huckstop, J. H. Shotwell, D. Thomas, J. C. Honnicutt,
and F. M. Hope.
Fifth Missouri Cavalry: J. F. Liingston and A. M. Ballon.
Seventh Missouri Cavalry: W. F. Rudisill, G. Garrett, an^
R. Clarkson.
Eighth Missouri Cavalry: W. Ansell, G. H. Holley,
Hidgcs, W. R. Maguire, G. W. Smith, and T. S. Childs,
Tenth Missouri Cavalry: S. W. Hargraves, J. M. Pinson,
D. C. Hughes, B. Mellon, John Mays, and M. Doyle.
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Fourteenth Missouri Cavalry: E. Hooper.
Ninth Missouri Cavalry: J. J. Sullivan.
Fifteenth Missouri Cavalry ; J. Crass, F. Clark, A. Rush.
and S. D. Anthony.
Wood's Battalion Cavalry: George Sinith. J. T. Harrison.
J. W. Colbert, and J. Carey.
First Battalion Missouri Cavalry : H. C. Burton and R. H.
Burton.
Marmaduke's Escort: J. S. Jugrani.
Second and Sixth Missouri Infantry: T. J. Marsh.
Third and Fifth Infantry: L. F. Knight.
Tenth Infantry : F. M. Musgrovc. Fristoes Luegon, S. Mc-
Mastcrs, and G. W. January.
Harris's Battery: S. E. Scnrlett. F. M, Proffer, and J. G,
Blount.
Fifth Battalion. Missouri Cavalry.
Proper observance of Confederate Memorial Day for 1904
was had at Waycross. Ga. Business houses were closed and
graves were "banked" with flowers. The oration by Prof.
Pound elicited enthusiastic applause. Crosses of Honor were
distributed.
The Geneva Chapter, U. D. C. observed fittingly Memorial
Day at Geneva, .\la. Solicitor Carmichacl made a fine ad-
dress. Rev. Messrs. McNeil and Harris participated. A
quartet sang appropriately, tlowers were strewn on the
graves, and a volley fired over them by the military company.
About fortv Crosses of Honor were distributed.
TOM RANDOLPH AX li.MIXEXT FIXAXClEk
Introductory to a brief sketch of one of .\merica's most suc-
cessful financiers a brief statement is given of the father:
Capt. J. L. Randolph bas born and reared in Wilson
County, I'enn. At nineteen years of age, in 1849, he crossed
the plains and Rockies, in company with Col. Paul Anderson
and others from Lebanon, Tenn., to California. He einigrated
to Sherman, Tex., in 1859, and commanded the Ninth Texas
Partisan Rangers during the war. .\t one time he had com-
mand of the Regiment of Chickasaw Indians ( Confederate
soldiers) and all Seminole Confederate Indian soldiers.
Capt. Randolph stands behind his only child, Tom. as Director
in the Merchants' and Planters' National Bank, and occupies
the same position in the Commonwealth Trust Company, in
St. Louis. Their relations socially and in business have ever
been remarkably close and often cause very complimentary
comments.
Tom Randolph was born in Rome, Smith County, lenn.
He emigrated to Sherman, Tex., with his parents when a
small boy, and was educated principally in Capt. J. H. Lc-
Tellier's private school, that still nourishes in Sherman. He
enlered the Merchants' and Planters' Bank early after it
was opened as office Ixjy. He soon became paying teller, and
was cashier at nineteen years of age. At the death of Judge
C. C. Binkley, the founder and President of the bank, in
1886, he was made President. The original capital was $150,-
coo. At the death of Judge Binkley it had been increased to
$600,000. The bank has always flourished and paid good
dividends, and stands high in financial circles. On February
8, 190J, Mr. Randolph accepted the presidency of the Com-
monwealth Trust Company, of St. Louis. M that date the
deposits of the company were $l.49,j,6g8.i7 : on February 8,
1904 (twelve months later), the deposits had increased to
$8,854,385.89. Within that time the Commonwealth had ab-
sorbed the Colonial. Hamilton, and Germania Trust Com-
panies. Randoph still remains President of the Merchants'
and Planters' National Bank.
Caiiit'bArs Illustrated Journal s-ays of Tom Randolph :
"He is a man of broad and liberal spirit, and is at all times
ready and willing to aid his fellows. Quick to recognize a
good inveAtniCTit, Mr. Randolph has acquired large interests
in Texas lands and in several banks in the Indian Territory
and Texas.
"The following resolution was adopted March ,^i, 1903,
by the Board of Directors of the Merchants' and Planters'
National Bank :
" 'After years of active service as president of the Mer-
chants' and Planters' National Bank, our associate on its
Board of Directors, Tom Randolph, is moving from Sherman
to a larger field of labor. While his connection with this
institution as its President will be maintained in name and
in fact still, his new home will be in the city of St. Louis,
and there the greater part of his time will be spent in the
discharge of his duties as President of the Commonwealth
Trust Company. We, his associates on this board, wish to
express our appreciation of his long and valuable services to
this bank and to declare to those with whom he shall form
new business and social relations his high character and
sterling worth.
" 'By his grasp of large problems, his thorough understand-
ing of complex details, he has evinced a comprehension of
the theory and practice of lanking and of the laws of finance
which places him in the front rank of conservative and suc-
cessful bankers.
" 'His qualities of mind aiid heart endear Itim to those with
whom he is brought into close contact. Urbane, easily ap-
proachable, with gracious mind and quick synipathies. amid
the demands and cares of a busy life, he has l)een neither
forgetful nor neglectful of his social obligations and the
duties of good citizenship. On the contrary, all things which
TOM RANDOLPH.
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have made for the gcx>d of his people and the upbuilding
of his city have found in him their most ardent advocate,
their most diligent supporter.'
"The Commonwealth Trust Company, with its enormous
capital and surplus, possesses the united strength and com-
bined judgment represented by these officers and Board of
Directors: Thomas W. Crouch, Vice President, formerly
President of the Colonial Trust Company; Edward Hidden.
Vice President, formerly President of the Hamilton Trusi
Company, Henry Koehler, Jr., Vice President, fornrerly
President of the Germania Trust Company; Albert N. Ed-
wards, Vice President, formerly Vice President of the Hamil-
ton Trust Company; W. L. McDonald. Vice President,
formerly \'ice President and Treasurer of the Germania Trus;
Company; L. S. Mitchell, Treasurer, formerly Secretary of
the Colonial Trust Company; and John S. Carter, Real Es-
tate Officer, and Lee Benoist, Trust Officer, who filled the
same offices in the Germania Trust Company.
"The former officers of the Commonwealth Trust Com-
pany, to which the 'new blood' has been added, includes
Lawrence B. Pierce, Vice President, who organized the com-
pan; L. B. Tebbetts. Vice President; J. HL Woods, Secretary;
A. G. Douglass, Assistant Secretary ; J. W. Perry, Manager
Savings Department; W. V. Delahunt, Trust Officer. The
original legal counselors of the company, Bryan & Christie,
still act in that capacity. The President and leader of this
splendid corps of officers, Tom Randolph, comes from the
Merchan.ts' and Planters' National Bank, of which he has
been for several 3'ears the President.
"A late statement of the Commonwealth Trust Company
shows capital and surplus of $5,500,000, with total assets of
$14,620,504.40. A remarkable increa-sc has been made during
the past year in both its saving and check accounts."
PAUL n.tns CrXXlXGHAM. ASSOC. M. AM. SOC.
C. E.
Died July 13,. igoi.
The following memoir was prepared by Maj. E. C. Lewis,
Nashville. Tenn., member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers. It is a reprint from "Trans-
actions of the American Society of Civil
Engineers," Vol. Hi., p. 556:
"Paul Davis Cunningham was born in
-Monroe County, Ga., on November 27,
1869.
"He was an undergraduate of Emory
College, Oxford, Ga. From July to Sep-
tenilar. 1S87. lie was a rodman on surveys for the Atlanta
and I'"lorida Railroad, and then, until February, 1888, Assist-
ant to the Resident Engineer on the construction of that road.
From April to December, 1888, he was rodman and leveler on
surveys for the Tennessee Midland Railway. From .\pn\ to
OctpberV 1889. he w«s leveler on surveys for the Cumberland
Valley Extension of the LouisvilJe and Nashville Railroad,
and then, until February, 1S90, assistant to the resident en-
gineer on the Big Stone Gap residency of that road. In June,
l8gc. he became resident engineer of the construction of the
Decatur. Chesapeake, and New Orleans Railroad, where he
remained until. September of that year. F.'om October. 1890.
until March. iScfl. he was'resident engineer on the construc-
tion of the Clarksville Mineril'. Branch of the Louisville and
Nashville Railread. He, was next engaged as leveler on the
survey of the I'pper Xcniw'^sfeRivcr for the Engineer Depart-
ment. U. S. A., ,wln"ch work rtQClipied his time from May to
October, i8gi. From February, 1892, until February, 1894, he
AMERICAN
SOCIETY OF
was transitman in charge of one of the topographical parties
of the International Boundary Commission between the United
States and Mexico, and from August to October, 1894. he
was v. S. Assistant Engineer in charge of remeasurements
under that Conmiission. From October. 1894, to March. 1896,
his position was that of U. S. Assistant
i'.nginecr on the International (water)
Boundary Commission, United States
•md Mexico, and the": he became Engi-
neer Clerk in the Southwest and North-
west Divisions of the Engineer Depart-
ment. United States .Vrmy, which posi-
tion he held until June, 1898. From July
10 September, i8<)8, he was Assistant En-
u:inccr with the Chief Engineer on the
laflf of the Major General commanding
Kico. He then became Principal Assist-
ant Engineer, Department of Havana, Cuba. In 1899 he was
Acting Chief Engineer in the latter department, and in De-
cember, 1899, became Chief Engineer of the city of Havana.
"On July 10. 1900. Mr. Cunningham, tlieii in Havana, re-
ceived the following cablegram from General Anson Mills
from Washington :
■' 'May I recommend yuu for Consulting Engineer, Bounda-
ry Commission, salary thirty-six hundred a year and expenses?'
"On July 14 he received the following cablegram:
" 'You have been appointed C<insulling Engineer. Mexican
Water Boundary Commission, subject to acceptance of your
resignation as .\ssistant Engineer and Superintendent. Havana
Engineering Department, by Military Go-ernor of Cuba. I
start for El Paso to-daj-. Hope you will join me as soon as
practicable. .\xsoN Mills. Commanding.'
"Mr. Cunningham joined his corps in August. 1900. He was
Chief of Party for the International Boundary Commission,
his work being to follow the course of tht> Rio Grande from
El Paso to the Gulf, a distance of thirteen hundred miles.
The voyage was deemed hazardous, and for half the distance
the party would be cut off from all communication with the
rest of humankind.
"He was drowned in the -rapids of the Rio Grande, below
Eagle Pass, on Saturday, July 13, 1901, and his body was not
recovered until the next Monday. The remains were brought
to Nashville. Tenn.. and then taken to Shelbyville. whcre^
on July 10. they were laid to rest in beautiful Willow Mounfl
Cemetery.
" 'Death loves a shining mark.' Never w-as this adage more
fully exemplified. Paul D. Cunningham was a shining mark
in life and for death. Born of most worthy parents, given al|
the advantages the American youth desires or requires, he
reached manhood thoroughly equipped for the battle of lifp
Cuitured. refined, considerate, of splendid manner and attract!
ive person, with fine social, professional, and official position
and an unsullied escutcheon, what a shining mark ho was-
so shining that death struck him. a h ng way off. full Sfty year^
before his lime.
"Paul Davis Cunningham was elected an Associate Membelj
of the .-\merican Society of Civil Engineers on March i. 1899."
The Bill .Krp Memori.\l. — Mrs. C. A. Allday, Treasurer of
the Barton Chapter, U. D. C, Georgia Division, sends from
Cartcrsville, Ga., the following:
"Please accept five dollars for the 'Bill Arp' (Maj. Smith)
Monument from the Barton Chapter of Cartcrsville, Ga.. who
knew him and loved him well."
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MONUMENT TO KENTUCKY CONFEDERATES.
In the presence of a large assembly from Louisville and
Pewee Valley Col. Biscoe Hindman presented a handsome
granite monument at the Confederate Cemetery, near the Ken-
tucky Confederate Home at Pewee \"alley. Ky., on June iS,
1904, in memory of the veterans now or hereafter to be buried
there from the Home.
On a large platform were seated Lieut. Gov. William P.
Thornc. of Kentucky, Gen. Bennett H. Young, President of
the Home, the donor, and a number of distinguished ladies and
gentlemen interested in Confederate matters. The First Regi-
ment Band of Louisville furnished inspiring music throughout
the ceremonies. Gathered around the large circular mound
on which the monument rests were the brave old heroes of
the Home. There were about two hundred of them in double
line dressed in gray uniforms, and several were holding their
old battle flags. It was an imposing sight. A few of the Con-
federates who have died at the Home have been moved else-
where by relatives and friends, but many express a preference
to be bm-ied in this Confederate lot, especially since this beauti-
ful monument has been erected.
The erection of this monument was due to a pathetic inci-
dent. Some months ago when one of the old soldiers was
dying at the Home he was asked where he desired to be buried,
and he replied: "Ju.st put me over with the other boys in the
cemetery here." .\s grave after grave was added to the Con-
federate lot in Pewee Valley Cemetery, it was thought that a
monument for these brave men would be a fitting recognition
of their valor and courage. Gen. Bennett H. Young was talk-
ing to Col. Hindman about the Home, and incidentally men-
tioned the above pathetic incident, whrn Col, Hindman im-
mediately remarked that he would consider it a privilege and
an honor to be permitted to erect the monument, and directed
Gen. Young to go ahead and put up the monument and send
him the hill. As a result Col. Hindman presented the monu-
ment in a graceful address, in uiiicli he paid high tribute to
the brave men before him and the cause they represented. He
claimed the right to call tlum comrades by inheritance, saying :
"Because he whose name I bear, and whom I honor above men,
drew his sword — stainless like the sword of Robert Lee — in
defense of his country and poured out his blood at Chicka-
mauga and Shiloh, I thank God that I am permitted the high
privilege of presenting this monument to-day to my father's
comrades for the brave soldiers of the Kentucky Confederate
Home. We sing the praises of the Southern soldiers, won on
many a glorious field, where their victories were ever tempered
with mercy, and where they were ever magnanimous to the
foe. With equal pride they sing tlieir defeats, which only
served to add still greater luster to the laurels that circle round
their names. Though the Southern soldiers fought an army
with superior munitions of v^'ar and with far greater numbers
and resources, it is remarkable how few times the starry cross
went down in defeat, and this is no detraction froift the glory
of the brave men who fought under the stars and stripes.
The bravest victors at Inkerman or Albuera, at Worth or
Gravclotte. at Marengo or Waterloo, at Shiloh or Chickamauga
or Fredericksburg or Spottsylvania or the Wilderness or
Pcrryville or Prairie Grove might well envy the glory of
Pickett's defeat at Gettysburg !" Col. Hindman paid eloquent
tribute to the brave men who gave up their lives on the altar
of their country in Northern prisons, where he said "thousands
sleep in unmarked graves, while others have the simple word
'unknown' engraved above their heads ; but beneath that word
is also written 'Confederate soldier.' Their brave struggles
against cold and hunger fill our hearts with sadness and sor-
row, but increase our admiration and love for those heroic
men who in dungeon walls, with scarcely any clothing to pro-
tect them against the rigors of Northern winters, and with
hunger gnawing at theii» vitals, yet, like the immortal god
Prometheus, refused to unbend their manhood to superior
force, and did not shrink from sacrificing their lives rather
tliaii for^nke their country or be false to their sacred cause."
MONUMENT PKESENTED DY BISCOE HINDMAN TO KENTUCKY CONFEIIER.XTE HOME.
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Lieut. Gov. W. P. Thornc was rlicn introduced, and in
accepting the monument on behalf of the commonwealth of
Kentucky he said: "No one regrets more than I the in-
ability of our Governor to be present on this occasion. In
sharing it with you I convey to you his regrets in not being
present. I have a strong inclination to participate in these
exercises while receiving this monument on the part of the
State, and rejoice with you that, while mustered squadrons,
clashing steel, and thundering cannon are doing war's bloody
work in our sister nations, we should be grateful to Him who
now guides us in the ways of pleasantness and the paths of
peace, in the enjoyment of rich blessings of civil and religious
liberty."
Referring to the monument, the Lieutenant Governor said :
"We know that if we could cause this structure to ascend
not only tijl it reached the skies but till it pierced them, its
broad surface could still contain but a part of that which
in an age of knowledge has already been spread over the
earth. History charges herself with making known to all
future times. We know that no inscription on this shaft less
broad than earth itself can carry information of the events
we commemorate where it has not already gone, and that no
structure which shall not outlive the duration of letters and
knowledge among men can prolong this memorial. But our
object is by this monimienl to show in a measure our deep
sense of the value and importance of the gallantry and achieve-
ment of our soldiery and by presenting this work of gratitude
to the eye to keep alive similar sentiments and foster a con-
stant regard to the principles for whicli tliese brave soldiers
fought.
"Human beings are composed not alone of reason but of
imagination and sentiment. Let it not be supposed that our
object in erecting this monument is to perpetuate national or
sectional hostility, or even to cherish a mere military spirit;
it is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate it to the memory
of the gallant men who occupy this Home and lie buried here,
and \vc hope that the Light of Peace may rest upon it forever.
We come not as Federals or Confederates, but as American
citizens to mark a spot which must be forever dear to us and
our prosperity. We wish thai whosoever in all coming time
casts his eye thither may sec that this place where lie these
brave soldiers w-ho waged the greatest battles ever fought is
not unmarked. We wish that this monument may proclaim
to every class and every age the magnitude and importance
of the many battles these men fought. We trust that infancy
may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and
that weary and w-ithered age may behold it and lie solaced
by the recollections which it suggests. We wish that labor
may look upon it and be proud in the midst of toil. We wish
that in those days of disaster which come upon all nations,
and must be expected to come to us also, desponding patri-
otism may turn its eyes hither and be assured that the founda-
tion of our national power still stands impregnable against
the powers of earth. We wish that this column, rising toward
heaven among the spires of so many temples dedicated to
God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feel-
ing of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the
last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore,
and the first to gladden his who revisits it, will be something
which should remind him of the liberty and glory of his coun-
try. Let it rise until it meets the sun in its coming, let the
earliest light of morning gild it, and parting day linger ana
play upon its summit."
Lieut. Gov. Thorne was followed by Gen. Bemiett H. Young,
President of the Home, who made a most touching and elo-
quent address, and presented the history of the Home and all
that had been done for it by the State and its friends. He
then introduced to the audience Mrs. Blackley, who is Presi-
dent of the Daughters of the Confederacy at Pewee Valley,
who were especially interested in the Home. It is expected
that this Chapter will keep kindly, vigilant watch upon this
cemetery.
The Cottrier- Journal published the picture and stated : "It
stands as a fitting tribute to these brave old men who thus die
away from their kindred and homes, and as a magnificent evi-
dence of the profound interest of Col. Hindman in all that
concerns Confederates and his deep and abiding love for that
cause to which his distinguished and gallant father rendered
such noble service."
As is well known by Confederates throughout the South,
Col. Hindman is a son of Confederate Maj. Gen. Tom Hind-
man, of .Arkansas, who was greatly distinguished at Shiloh,
Chickamauga, Prairie Grove, and other hard-fought latlles,
and who showed executive ability of the highest order while
in command of the Trans-Mississippi Department. He is re-
membered by old soldiers as one of the most dashing and gal-
lant generals that the South produced.
rhe ceremonies were concluded by the introduction of the
following resolution by Col. W. O. Coleman. Commandant
of the Confederate Home, which was unanimously adopted:
"Kcsu'.ved by the veterans of the Kenlueky Confederate
Home, That we thank Col. Biscoe Hindman with hearts full
of gratitude and emotion for his munificent gift for our dead
comrades and those who will in the future find their final home
in this sacred and now consecrated spot. Acts of kindness and
beneficence to the living may have some ulterior or selfish
motive, some remote hope of temporal reward : but when given
to the dead to mark and perpetuate their place of burial and
to become a part of the history of each individual never to be
forgotten, these acts illusliatc a principle that cannot die and
a patriotism and fidelity to duty unequaled in the ordinary
aft'airs of mankind. In the latter case the motive cannot be
questioned as representing any other thing than that of love
and charity.
"Here in after years our children and friends will make
pilgrimage to this lovely place,, and with uncovered heads strew
each grave with Howcrs and be guided and impressed by the
lessons taught by this monument and the separate headstones
in this beautiful bivouac of heroism and duty well performed.
We appreciate this the inore when we remember how desolatt
and neglected are the graves of so iriany of our comrades, with
no headstones or shafts of honor to mark their resting places.
"But for Col. Hindman's generosity and tboughtfulncss this
monument might never have been erected. We trust that his
future may be one of uninterrupted pleasure, profit, and happi-
ness, and that he may realize the full fruition of his brightest
and niost cherished hopes."
EsiAi'icji i-KiiM Rock Isi..\nd. — S. S. Priest, of Side View,
Ky., who was a member of the First Kentucky Cavalry, in
sending some data to the Veteran, says : "I was a prisoner
at Rock Island. III., from Christmas, 1863, until December
,v 1864, when I luade my escape and went to Canada. Five
of us escaped through the sewer — John Totts, of Kentucky,
who has since died ; Tom Berry, of Kentucky : Tom Daily,
of Henderson, Ky. ; J. W. S. Emerson, of the Eighth Texas
Cavalry ; and myself. I should like to hear from any of them
through the Veteran or by letter. The last I heard of Emer-
son he was living in Columbus. Ky., but I've never heard of
Berry or Daily since we parted in Chicago."
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FORTY HOURS IN A DUNGEON AT ROCK ISLAND.
BY B. M. HORD, NASHVILLE.
I was a member of Dobbins's Regiment, Walker's Brigade
of Arkansas Cavalry, and a short time after our fiasco at Lit-
tle Rock, where our army abandoned a strongly fortified
position without firing a shot, except a little cavalry skirmish
below the town, I was captured by the Eighth Missouri Fed-
eral Cavalry and, after spending a few days in the peni-
tentiary at Little Rock, was sent with a batch of other prison-
ers to St. Louis and confined in McDowell's old Medical Col-
lege, which had been converted into a Federal prison. Shortly
after our arrival an unsuccessful attempt to escape was made
by cutting through a partition wall that divided the college
from a chapel or schoolroom. I was accused of being in the
plot and, with a number of others, was promptly sent to
Rock Island, some four hundred miles above.
This prison, located on an island in the Mississippi River,
was a square inclosure of some eight or ten acres, surrounded
by a heavy plank fence twelve or fourteen feet high, with a
parapet four feet from the top extending all around on the
outside for the sentinels, and on the inside, ten or fifteen feet
from the fence, there was a shallow ditch called the "dead
line." Prisoners were not allowed nearer the fence than this
ditch upon penalty of being shot without challenge by the
sentinels. Several were killed while I was there who thought-
lessly stepped over the line. Two, I remember, were killed
at different times who, in the excitement of a ball game,
chased the ball across the ditch. The barracks were about
ninety bj twenty feet, built of rough upright boards, with a
partition at one end for a kitchen, which was furnished with
a forty-gallon kettle in which we did all of our cooking save
the bread. The kitchen was presided over by a sergeant of
the barracks and his cooks, who were also prisoners. Wooden
bunks in three tiers, one
above the other, in which
we slept, extended the
full length of the build-
ing on each side. The
barracks were built in
uniform rows across the
inclosure, with a broad
avenue beginning at the
main entrance and run-
ning directly through the
center of the prison.
The houses were num-
bered consecutively from
one up to eighty-four. I
was in barrack twenty-
four.
When we arrived
at Rock Island,
early in Decem-
ber, 1863, Col. Rust
was in connnand
with a detachment
of the Fourth In-
valid Corps. He
was a kind-hearted
old fellow, and just
to the prisoners ;
but unfortunately
for us the old colo-
nel was soon re-
moved, and in his
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BEN M CULLOCH HORD.
place came as inhuman a brute as ever disgraced the uniform
of any country, one A. J. Johnson, with his regiment of
negroes for gur.rd duty, leaving the Fourth Invalid men,
many of whom had grown to middle age in the service on
the frontier, for light fatigue duty, such as calling the roll
of prisoners morning and evening, inspecting the barracks,
etc. Many of these old, battle-scarred veterans and the-.'
officers were kindly disposed toward us, but dared not show
it beyond a word or look, for every devilish device that
could be conjured up in the brain of a savage to make us
suffer was put in force by Johnson. Men were brutally pun-
ished upon the slightest pretext. I saw prisoners tied up to
the fence by their thumbs, their toes barely touching the
ground, in the hot, broiling sun until they would faint, and
when cut down by the guards fall limp and unconsciou.',
while none of us dared approach ; for they were next the fence,
over the dead line, and grinning negro sentinels stood just
above them with ready guns in hand. We were no longer al-
lowed the privilege of buying provisions from the post sutler
or to receive such things from home ; at the same time our
rations had been gradually reduced to less than half the
amount issued to us when we first reached the Rock Island
prison. Hunger began to develop tlic savage instincts that
lie dormant in us all ; men grew ugly in temper, quarrels and
fights were frequent over their scant rations, yet this was
but a foretaste of what was to come.
In the summer of 1864 twelve barracks in the southeast
corner of the inclosure, near the main entrance to the prison,
were fenced off, the occupants transferred to other barracks;
and at roll call one morning we were informed that the
United States government had opened a recruiting office in
our prison, and that all who would take the oath and join the
United States army would be moved into the new pen — calf
pen, we called it — furnished good clothing, bountiful rations,
paid one hundred dollars bounty, the post sutler permitted
to bring in whatever they wanted to eat, and that they would
not be sent South to fight, but out on the frontier to hold the
Indians in subjection. Never, since the Son of Man was
tempted by the devil, was dishonor more cunningly devised
or temptingly displayed. Quite a number jumped at the bait,
mostly men who were willing, to take the oath under any
circumstances ; but after this came the heroic struggle be-
tween patriotism and starvation, for our rations had been still
further reduced under the pretext of creating a "prisoners'
fund" to pay for medicines, caring for our sick, and to pay for
such clothing as the government issued us. (See "Record of
Rebellion," Series II., Vol. 8.) But every few days starvation
would claim a victory. It was pitiful. Gaunt forms with the
glare of wolfish hunger in their eyes, the very pictures of
famine, could be seen going up to take the oath, tears stream-
ing down their faces and curses on the Yankees from their
lips, their poor, shriveled flesh showing beneath fluttering
rags, for when one of this kind was starved into submission,
knowing he would soon be well supplied, he exchanged his
clothes with some more needy comrade.
Dart was the name of our post sutler. He was a kind-
hearted fellow, had made many friends among the prisoners
before Johnson began his starving process and stopped us
from trading with him, but he was now permitted to resume
business with the recruits in the "calf pen." It was some
fifty steps from the main entrance of the prison to the gate of
the "calf pen," and frequently numbers of us would gather
along this space, as near the dead line as we dared get, to
await the arrival of Dart's wagon with supplies for the re-
cruits just to catch a glimpse and get a whiff of the odor
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of fresh bread, meats, and pics as they passed I'rom one gate
to the other. Ah, the odor of those pies ! I will carry to my
grave their odor.
Dart had a dog that would sometimes follow his wagon
into the prison. We were assembled one evening, as usual,
to smell the pies and things, when the front gate swung open
and Dart drove in : the dog came in also. The best of us,
man or beast, sometimes make mistakes. Dart and his dog
were not exceptions. In allowing the dog to follow him was
Dart's mistake. The wagon slopped a moment in our midst
for the sentry to open the gate to the "calf pen;" the dog
took position midway lieneath the wagon — wise dog; a wink,
a significant nod at the dog, passed between a half dozen
prisoners: two stepped around on the opposite side of the
wagon and, unobserved, niade a pass at the dog; the. dog
instinctively dodged to the other side — this' was his mistake.
He didn't understand the advantage of a flank movement.
In an instant a bony, brown hand had him by the back of liis
neck and another clutched his throat : he was tucked under
the skirt of a long-tailed coat, and a moment later three men,
walking close together as if to conceal something from the
crowd behind them, disappeared around the corntr of the near-
est barrack.
I wish to state emphatically that I did not catch Dart's dog,
neither did I tack the skin to the big oak tree in tlie main
avenue that was found there the next morning with a note
attached requesting .some one to "send in another dog," but
I've always conscientiously felt I \vas indebted to Dart for the
hind quarter of a dog. My bunk mate, Charlie Goodwin, how-
ever, had no conscientious scruples about it. He thought the
fruit was overripe — that if it had been pulled greener, say in
the puppy stage, it would have been more palatable. But
Charlie was a bit fastidious. He was head clerk in a swell
confectionary establishment in Memphis, Tenn., when the war
began, accustomed to selling bonbons, fancy candies, and
cakes to ladies, and naturally his taste had become more or
less vitiated for the subslantials of life.
Having sampled the regular prison fare for nmre than ten
months, with such side dishes as I could gel, as our rations
contracted the price of rats expanded until one could not be
had for love or money, I determined to make another effort
to relieve Uncle Sam of any further expense on my account.
I had been engaged in two unsuccessful attempts to tunnel
out, and I knew a negro too well to trust him a bribe, for
•three comrades that I knew were shot and killed by tlie negro
sentinels at niglit after the villains liad accepted cash bribes,
so I decided I would make the attempt disguised as a Yan-
kee. Every morning after roll call a detail of six prisoners
from each barrack was made to carry out the slop barrels
through a little side gate, escorted by a 'Yankee guard, empty
the barrels in the river, and return to the prison. My idea
was, disguised in a Yankee uniform, with a citizen's suit under-
neath, to take charge of a detail, march out with it, discard
my uniform as soon as possible when .safely outside, and in
citizen's clothes the greatest danger would be past. The
prison was constantly searched for contraband articles, es-
pecially Yankee clothes. I had managed to keep concealed
a Yankee blouse and cap, but had no pants, no pistol, and no
scabbard. These last were as necessary as the pants, for the
guards were required to wear pistols when they came in
prison. I had on a Yankee belt when captured, which had not
been taken from me. and the pistol and scabbard I soon pro-
vided. A thick piece of pine board furnished the material
out of which I whittled a good imitation handle of a pistol,
which I stained with ink and glazed over with a lead pencil
to give It the appearance of steel. The scabbard I made from
the knee flaps of my cavalry Itoots. a fine Yankee pair that my
best girl had smuggled out of Helena, .Ark., for me under
her hoop skirt just l)cfore our fight there; but it was a month
later before I secured the pants. 1 was standing one morning
near the main entrance when a two-horse wagon, loaded with
coal and driven by a green-looking Dutchman, came in. The
driver's big blue Yankee overcoat was lying back on the coal,
and I determined to have it. While he was fumbling in his
pockets to find the ticket showing the number of barrack that
had made requisition for the fuel. I advanced and roughly
asked what had detained him. that I had been wailing an hour
for the coal: taking his ticket and signing my sergeant's name
to it, 1 mounted the wagon and directed him to my barrack,
number twenty-four, on the far side of the prison. Throwing
the coat on the wheel horse as I jumped down. I bade him
wait and I would have his wagon unloaded. I went in, in-
formed my sergeant, John Smith — John Rodgers was his real
name, but he belonged to Quantrell's command, and had this
been known his life would not have been worth a day's ra-
tions— of my intentions, and asked that he send out a detail
to unload the coal. I then posted two or three of my friends,
and. while the men were unloading the wagon, they were at-
tracting the driver's attention on the far side from me by
urging him to buy trinkets they had made out of shell, bone,
etc. Unobserved I slipped the coat under my overcoat, car-
ried it into my barrack, lifted up a loose plank in the floor,
dropped it underneath, and went back to watch developments.
Of course the Dutchmaii missed his coat when he started to
drive away, and appealed to the sergeant, who called up the
men ; all declared there was no coat on the wagon — in truth,
they had not noticed it. Then the Dutchman got mad, and
they began to come back at him with unbiblical language.
Being in the midst of five or six" thousand half-starved rebels,
lie curbed his tongue; but within twenty minutes after he
drove out the bugle sounded tiie assembly, and the entire
prison was searched, though without results. Two nights
afterwards, when all was quiet, the coat was ripped up, washed
in our cooking kettle, wrung out dry as possible, the pieces
placed smoothly over the planks in the bottom of my bunk,
my oilcloth over them, my blanket over that, and my bunk
mate and I slept on them for a week (no patent for either
washing or ironing on this plan was applied for). I took
them out at night and, ripping up an old pair of my pants,
placed the pieces over the blue cloth on our kitchen table, cut
out the pants with my pocket knife, and in three or four
nights had them made. No slouch of a job was it, either, con-
sidering it was my first pair, made without thiinl)le or scis-
sors, and much of the thread drawn from my old pants. All
the work had to be done secretly with a shaded light at night,
for the prison was full of spies, but at last I was ready for
business.
Next morning at roll call my sergeant reported me sick;
and when llie Yankee sergeant came in to verify the report,
he fiiuiul nic in my Inmk with a blanket drawn close up under
my chin. sutTering frf)m a severe chill (?), but a moment later
when the bugle sounded break ranks I threw off the blanket,
sprang, out of my bunk in Yankee uniform, the butt of my
pistol showing bravely in tlic scabbard belted under my
blouse — all of which I expected to discard as soon as I was at
a safe distance outside, for the citizen suit I had on under-
neath. Passing out the back door of our barrack as the men
came in the front, I soon found a squad (six men with three
barrels) waiting for a Federal guard to escort them out.
Assuming authority. I ordered them to take up the barrels
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and move forward. We had to march to the far side of the
prison, and when we arrived at the little side gate found all
the scavenger force in line, the first squad standing at the
edge of the dead line, the others extending back in the prison
probably a hundred yards. Glancing from under the visor
of my cap, I saw the officer of the day on the parapet directly
over tlic gate, a negro sentinel on either side, watching, the
line form. He called to me as I came up, asking if I was the
last. Replying that 1 was, he ordered the guard below to
open the gate, and \vc began to pass out. Up to this time it
had been nothing l)ut pure bluff on my part, but as we moved
toward the dead line my nerve began to leave me. From the
furtive glances I gave from time to time at the officer and
sentinels I imagined they were giving me special attention,
and the nearer I approached the greater became my fear that
I bad been betrayed or they had penetrated my disguise and
were only waiting, for me to step over the dead line to shoot.
Had it been a dash or rush with other comrades, I could have
taken my chance with the bunch, but only one at a time could
pass out of the narrow gate, and to be .slowly moving up foot
by foot lo a line that I knew was certain death to cross, with
two negro guards watching me and anxious to .shoot, sent a
tingling sensation down my back and a sharp pain in my
jaws, as if I had bitten a sour pickle. A dozen times I was
tempted to spring behind a barrack before they could shoot, and
give up the attempt, but it was too late now. I was within ten
foci iif the line, and the least wavering or false step would
confirm their suspicions, if they had any, and certainly draw
their fire; so, pulling myself together as best I could, I stepped
over with my men, marched them out the gflte, and saw, for
the first lime in ten months outside of a prison wall, the broad
Mississippi and the city of Davenport beyond.
We had gone a hundred yards down the river bank when
I felt a hand on my shoulder and some one asked, "What
company do you belong to?" Looking up, I saw it was the
officer from the parapet. "Capt. Ameron's," I replied promptly,
at the .same time ordering my squad to "close up." He
walked with me a little distance, and when not more than
fifty feet from where they were mounting guard for the day
be halted me, called to the sergeant of the guard and asked
if the detail from Ameron's company had reported. They
had Facing me squarely to them, he asked if I belonged to
their company. The play was over. The Yanks gave a know-
ing grin and, shaking their heads, pronounced me a "counter-
feit." Calling a sergeant to take charge of my detail of Rebs,
who were as much surprised as the Yankees, 1 was marched
up lo the officers" quarters, stripped of all my clothing, and
after failing to find any money or papers — I had a $io bill
rolled in a small ball and glued to my head under the hair
back of my ear — I was furnished a pair of old second-hand
brown jeans pants, a woolen shirt, and a pair of russet shoes,
without socks. The officers, several of whom had collected,
evidently intended to make me look as ridiculous as possible,
for while I was small, even for my age, the things furnished
me would have been rather large for a six-foot, two hundred
and fifty pound man. Tlien they began to question me as to
where I procured my Yankee uniform. Ihcy could sec I had
designed the pistol and scabbard — but the clothes? I knew
I would be punished severely if I told them I *tole the coat
lo make the pants, so I decided to saddle the whole thing on
a Yankee. I'he recruits in the "calf pen" were permitted to
come out in detachments, accompanied by a guard, morning
and evening to get water at the well in our prison, and I told
my captors that 1 had bought the clolhes late one evening
from one of these guards : did not know his name and would
not recognize his face. They refused to accept the statement ;
but no coaxing, bribes, or threats could make me deviate
from the truth ( ?) of this story, so they ordered the sergeant
to take lue to the guardhouse, put me in irons, and drop me
in the dungeon until my memory improved. The guardhouse
was like our barracks except it was better built, had no bunks
in it, was ceiled and made comfortable inside. Underneath
the room which we used as a kitchen an excavation probably
twelve by fourteen feet and eight or ten feet deep had been
made, which was used for a dungeon. The entrance to it
was through a trapdoor in the middle of the floor, secured
by a bolt on the upper side. The door was lifted up. a ladder
thrust down in the hole, the prisoner descended, the ladder
was withdrawn, the door dropped back, the bolt shot, and —
there you were . in darkness absolutely black. A thirty-two
pound shot on a four-foot chain, with an ordinary spring
lock cuff at the other end, was fastened around my ankle and
I was marched lo the trapdoor. When it was ojjened and I
started down the ladder a horrible, loathsome odor from the
fetid atmosphere below almost caused me lo fall, but, gripping
the chain in one hand and the rungs of the ladder with the
other, I was carefully feeling my way down with my long
russet shoes when the old, familiar challenge of "Who comes
there?" sounded in the darkness below. There was a devil-
may-care tone in the voice that prompted me to answer: "A
friend without the countersign,"
"Advance, friend ! The rattle of that chain is countersign
enough," be answered back.
".A,re you down?" the guard called to me from above.
"Don't know, but I am at the end of the ladder," I replied.
When the ladder was drawn up and the door closed, I saw
I here was a faint, flickering ray of light near my feet that I
discovered came from the open door of a small stove.
"What's your game, and what barrack are you from?" asked
ihe voice that had challenged me. I told him. and he in
turn informed me that he was the unfortunate prisoner who,
a short time before, in a figbl with a comrade had killed him
by striking him in the head with the footboard of his bunk.
The Yankees had taken him out of prison and given him the
choice of either joining the Yankee army or be hung for
nuirder, and he had told tliem to "hang and be d — d," so
they put him in the dungeon to give him time to reconsider.
By his side on the edge of the ray of light I thought I
saw something move, and I inquired if he was alone. "O, no;
you are in select company down here," he replied. "There are
two Yankee deserters condemned to be shot and a crazy
nigger that stands a good chance of going the same way."
He then told me the negro had gone suddenly crazy while on
post, and when the relief guard came around had fired into
the snuad. mortally wounding one of them. He was in the
dimgcon waiting the decision of a court-martial. We had
heard of the incident in prison at the time it occurred, and
there are doubtless many old Rick Islanders yet living who
will recall it. although we attached no im])ortance to it at the
lime. Bui it came back to me then with a shudder of horror,
for when a very small child I had been badly frightened by a
harmless imbecile, and ever afterwards the only argument my
old nurse needed to make me submissive and obedient was to
threaten me with "a crazy man." It was a childish fear, but
one I've never outgrown, and to-day I am more afraid of a
lunatic than anything living. It was but small comfort to inc
when my friend told me the negro was his "bodyguard," and
that he was big enough and strong enough to whip the two
deserters with one hand. The last vestige of nerve was
oozing out of me in a cold perspiration as I realized the situa-
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tion — chained and in a twelve-foot dungeon with a powerful,
crazy negro. I dropped my ball, and the rattle of the chain
emphasized -the horror of ray situation. My knees began to
shake beneath me, and as soon as I could speak without be-
traying my fear I tcld my friend that I would sit down, that
I was rather tired from my morning's experience. "Sorry
I can't ofTer you a chair," he replied. "We recline here mostly,
and, as they have not sent your bed down, you will have to
use one of the Yank's. Nig, get the gentleman a bed." There
was a commotion in the dark — «. then the light shone on two
long, powerful forearms ano . -.k hands that were holding
toward me a plank, some six feet long and twelve or fourteen
inches wide. I could see nothing more, but knew instinctively
to whom the arms and hands belonged, and shuddered as I
took the hoard. Placing it directly in front of the stove under
the ray of light, I stretched myself out on my back, my ball
at my feet, and hands clasped under my head. I have no
idea how long I remained in this position, for there is no
record of time in a dungeon, day or night is all alike — black,
blacker, blackest — but from excitement, fatigue, and fear I
must have fallen asleep, for I was aroused to consciousness
by something pulling on my chain, pressing the cold iron
against my naked ankle, and I opened my eyes. On his knees
bending over me, his face directly in the beam of light from
the stove, and so close to mine I could feel his breath on my
face, with a maniac's gleam in his bulging eyes, was the
hideous face of the negro ; in the shadowy light I could see
my thirty-two pound shot resting in the upturned palm of his
right hand near his shoulder while his left grasped the chain
lower down which he was pulling to give him more purchase
to dash the ball on my head. An electric flash was not
quicker than I took in the situation or a clap of thunder louder
than my scream of mortal terror. He dropped the ball and,
with a maniac's cunning on being discovered, glided like a
snake off in the darkness. My comrade was on his feet al-
most as quick as I, and when I explained that the negro was
about to dash my brains out with my ball, he gave him a
scientific cursing, and I heard him kicking him vigorously in
the dark, at the same time ordering him to "go up in the cor-
ner." In a few moments he came back, told me the negro
would not again disturb me, and to lie down ai^d finish
my nap, which I declined with the truthful assurance that
I was not a bit sleepy. The absolute control this South-
ern boy had over this negro was so incomprehensible to me
that many years afterwards I mentioned the fact to my friend,
the late Dr. J. H, Callender, for many years Superintendent
of the Insane Asylum for Tennessee, and a man of national
reputation as an expert on insanity, and he informed me that
the case was by no means extraordinary; that the negro wa« t
weak-minded creature to start with, that the violent and sud-
den change froin slavery to a United States soldier, the chajge
of climate, habits, etc., had evidently deranged his feeble mind ;
that it was a perfect blank as to his surroundings, but when
thrown in contact with a Southern man, hearing the Southern
dialect, the authoritative tone, and the rough treatment re-
vived in a feeble way his memory of slavery, which made him
docile and obedient to the Southerner, for he only remembered
himself as a slave.
It seemed as if I had been confined in darkness an eternity
when the trapdoor was opened, the ladder lowered, and, in-
stead of calling for one of us to come up and get our bread
and canteens of water, which were our only rations, I was
ordered to come up. It was a moment or two before my eyes
became accustomed to the glare of the light; then I realized
irom the lantern in the orderly's hand that it was night. The
guard was drawn up in open order at a "shoulder," and the
officer of the day standing in the open door. "How is your
memory now about your clothes?" he asked, as I halted in
front of him. It occurred to me he would believe one story
as readily as another, so I concluded to stick to the original
text. "Very well," he replied; "if we can't starve it out of
you, maybe we can shoot it out. Muster the guard outside,
orderly." If I had liecn at myself, I would have known at
once this was all bluff to bully me into a confession, but I was
weak, sick, and frazzled out generally ; and when I heard the
negroes close up and come tramping out behind me, while the
officer marched me in front, it made me wish I was safely
back in the prison once more. The guard was drawn up
outside, and I was left standing some ten or fifteen steps in
front of them. The officer again questioned me about the uni-
form, and I again gave him the same old story. After bully-
ing me Jor a time, and repeatedly informing me that I was
not telling the truth, in a word of three letters, he ordered
the sergeant to put me back in prison. I was put in the dun-
geon Wednesday morning about seven o'clock and was taken
out Friday night about twelve.
I wore the ball for nearly two months, when it was ordered
off by Capt. Ameron himself. He was officer of the day, and
was watching some prisoners clean up the grounds inside the
prison. I walked up close to him and dropped my ball to
attract his attention. He turned when he heard the chain
rattle, looked me over, and asked why I was wearing the ball.
I replied because I could not get it oflf (which was a fib, as
I could pick the lock with a small nail and stout cord as fast
as it could be locked, and which I did every night af ei
getting into my bunk, but was afraid to go without it in div-
time lor fear some spy would report me, then it would have
been riveted on my leg). "What did they put it on you for?"
he inquired. I stated the case, and told him it was a reflection
on the standing of his company, that I had simply claimed to
be a member of it when they immediately proceeded to iron
me. I saw his eyes twinkle a little as he said, "So you are
the little rascal who claimed to belong to my company, are
you?" I confessed I was. In a few moments he turned to go
and ordered me to follow. We had reached the big ditch that
was being dug across the prison, when he suddenly stopped,
looked me square in the face, and asked if my irons were
riveted on. I told him they were not. Without removing his
eyes, he asked me if I had been wearing the ball all the time.
I assured him I liad ( with proper allowance for truth under
the circumstances). "Now, see here, Johnny, I am goins to
have that ball taken off, but I have heard that you fellows can
pick one of those locks in a flash. Let me see you do it," he
said, looking around to see that no one was in hearing dis-
tance. After another assurance from him that the ball should
come off, I took my little nail and string out of my pocket
and in a twinkle had the shackle off. He examined the nail
and the string, then told me to do it again, which I did. He
only said : "Well, I'll be d — . Fasten it back and come along.'
Passing out the gate, he called a sergeant and told him to
take my irons off and put me back in prison. I thought I
detected a sly wink as he nodded his head to me and turned
away.
There is but a short span of life left me, but I would give
a good slice out of it to know if my comrade in the dungeon
is living and to grasp his hand once more, or to meet some of
the members of the detail that I marched out that morning
with the slop barrels, none of whom I knew ; but if any are
living and read this article, they will certainly remember the
circumstances of mv arrest.
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Nearly forty years have passed since my dungeon experience,
yet at times I can feel the hot breath of that burly negro on
my cheek, can see his bulging eyes with a maniac's glare in
them close to mine, and in the shadowy darkness see my ball
in his uplifted band ready to fall and crush my head ; I scream
in mortal terror, and — I feel some one shaking me and a
voice sounding far away, saying, "Husband, husband, wake
up ! You have a nightmare. You must quit eating such heavy
suppers ;" and I wake up to thank God it is only a nightmare
this time, and that it was not caused by overfeeding on Dart's
dog.
"7 C. K."
There are doubtless yet living many veterans who were
prisoners at Rock Island in 1864-65, whose memories will be
revived by the above emblematic caption. They will remem-
ber that secret oath-bound organization of prisoners formed
at the darkest and most trying time of their prison life, a
time when the United States government was using every
means by starvation and bribery to induce the prisoners to
join the United States army, for it was at this time the or-
ganization was formed and the members took a solemn oath
to stand by each oilier under all circumstances and to die in
prison rather than take the oath of allegiance or join the
United States army so long as the Confederate government
was in existence.
The "Seven Confederate Knights," as indicated by the "7
C. K.," had their grips, signs, password, and badge. The
badge was made of bone or shell, and was a star with seven
points. Their motto was: "Dulcc et dccontm est fro patria
mori" (It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country).
W. J. BOHuN.
and at one time contemplated storming the parapets with
stones and sticks, kitchen knives, etc., overpowering the guards,
so as to effect an escape ; but notwithstanding the great
secrecy observed in selecting men to join the organization and
the purposes of the organization, the FederaJs were advised
of the contemplated movement, the guards were doubled, and
other extra precautions taken.
Comrade W. J. Bolwn, from Harrodsburg, Ky., was a pris-
oner at Rock Island and a member of the "7 C. K." He joined
the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry in 1861, first commanded by
Gen. Humphrey Marshall and afterwards by Gen. John Mor-
gan. He was exchanged out of Rock Island in March, 1865,
reaching Richmond, Va., only thirty days before the surren-
der of Gen. Lee, but made his way back to his command and
surrendered with it at Mt. Sterling, Ky., about May i, 1865.
There arc only seven Latin words in the motto, and in each
point of the star was the initial letter of each word ; a shield
was in the center of the star, on which were the emblematic
.letters "C." and "K." and the figure "7."
The organization was formed into companies under officers.
MISSOURI BATTERY IN TENNESSEE CAMPAIGN.
Sam B. Dunlap writes from South St. Joseph, Mo., May 19,
1904:
"I was a member of the First Missouri Artillery. At Colum-
bia, Tenn., on our march to Nashville, we crossed on a pontoon
at Davis's ferry. [It seems that his battery and detachments
of infantry and cavalry were the advance. — Ed.] The night
was very dark and cloudy, and this circuitous march caused us
to traverse some very rough, hilly country, covered with thick
timber and rocks. When crossing a huge bowlder, one wheel
of the gun to which I belonged broke every spoke. The fifth
wheel would not fit. The Federal sharpshooters were whis-
tling Minie balls around us. Seeing a dim light through the
timber, two men were sent to a farmhouse and took a rear
wheel from a wagon, and we proceeded on our slow and per-
ilous march. At Franklin we replaced our broken wheel with
one the Federals had left in Franklin, and moved on to within
three miles of Nashville. We remained but a short time with
the main army, but were again sent with a detachment five
thousand strong, under command of Forrest, to attack Mur-
freesboro, where, after drawing the Federals out of their
strong fortifications, we lost the day by not having a sufficient
infantry to support the artillery, and our company narrowly
escaped capture.
"The weather was very cold for the climate. Rain, snow,
and sleet were severe. Many of our men were almost without
clothing and shoes. I was one of the 'shoeless Confederates.'
"When our lines were broken at Nashville, we were still
near Murfrccsboro and cut off from the main pike, which made
our route of exit very circuitous. It was also very rough and
rocky. We joined the main army near Cohmibia December
19, 1864.
"Two days previous to our arrival, I was entirely barefooted,
and my bleeding, barefoot track could be seen in the snow.
By permission. I and a comrade, Taylor, crossed the river
on a pontoon in advance of the company. We stopped at an
old barn filled w'ith soldiers trying to dry themselves around
some smoking fires, where a boy about fifteen years old. in
reply to my inquiry about shoes, produced a pair of half-worn
cloth shoes and priced them at $15. I gave him a twenty-dollar
bill, and while he was out looking for change I spied a pair
of heavy leather shoes that he also had. Taylor wore the doth
shoes, which were entirely too large for me. If that boy sol-
dier is living, I should like to hear from him. or any oth-
ers who were there.
"Our company surrendered in North Carolina, near High
Point. April 26, 1865. under the noble Gen. Joseph E. Johnston,
Capt. Harris commanding the battery."
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SIEGE OF PORT HUDSON.
BV A. A. STEPHENS. COMPAXV K, FIRST MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY.
About the 20th of May. 1863, Port Hudson was besieged
by Gen. Banks, of the Federal forces, while Gen. Gardner
commanded the Confederate forces. M the beginning the
Confederates had about six thousand, rank and file. After the
second day's battle (he First Mississippi Regiment was di
vided. Lieut. Col. Hamilton commanded one-half, and sup-
ported a battery on the left of the railroad going to Clinton,
Miss., while the other half was commanded by Maj. Johnson,
supporting Col. Johnson, of the Fifteenth .Krkansas, who was
holding a very prominent point on the north side of Thomp-
son Creek.
The first attack on the port was made on the north, which
was outside of the breastworks, and was begun in the after-
noon and lasted until after dark. We lay in line of battle all
night, the next day and night, after sunrise of the next day,
and before the picket was relieved. We were stornud by the
Yanks and driven inside of the breastworks. They made a
general charge all around the line, but we, being well forti-
fied, killed a great many. At four o'clock in the afternoon
the words "Cease firing" were passed down the line, and the
Yanks thought we had surrendered, but they soon learned
better.
They had charged our works on the souih and east llirough
an open field with double column coming up to the ditches,
and what we did not kill we captured, .^s it was near night,
Gen. Banks asked permission to take care of his dead and
wounded. This ended the first day of the siege.
The next day they tried us on the left and up the river
with their colored troops, some of which were so drunk they
could hardly move. They were the first negro troops we had
ever met, and I saw more dead "niggers" there than I have
ever seen before or since.
After this they settled down to regular siege work, throw-
ing up fortifications until the 8th of June. They made anoth-
er general charge, but suffered severely for it. At one place,
in the outside ditch near the battery that the First Mississippi
was supporting, the Yanks were piled upon each other, and for
two hundred yards in front the dead and dying were lying
thick. After this there was no more charging of breastworks,
but constant picket and sharpshooting till the surrender, which
occurred on July 8, four days after the fall of VieUsburg.
Our princii)al supplies were sugar, molasses, and cowpeas,
while the meat we had in the latter part of the siege was
horse, mule, and rats. We surrendered with 3,000 or 3,500
men. The surrender was conditional — all privates were pa-
roled and officers sent to prison. Our lieutenant colonel, A.
L. Hamilton, was a Methodist preacher, a consecrated Chris-
tian soldier, and dearly loved by his regiment. After we re-
ceived our parole and had formed a line to march, he was
permitted to tell us good-by. He died in prison.
CONCERNING BATTLE 01- MISS/ONARV RIDGE.
BY MAJ. THOMAS J. KEY, OF NASHVILLE.
The April issue of the Confeuer.\te Veteran contained an
article from Capt. J. H. Bingham as to "How Errors Become
Historic Facts."
There are some statements in his article that need cor-
recting. The battle took place (on Alissionary Ridge) on
November 25, 1863. In naming the batteries engaged Capt.
Bingham names "Calvert's Battery," which had been com-
manded for a year by Capt. T. J. Key, and Semple's Battery,
which should have been Capl. Goldthwait's Battery. These
batteries were with Gen. Polk's Brigade, and were stationed
almost over the railrtad tunnel on the Ridge. There was con-
flict on Gen. Cleburne's right in the morning, but the Federals
in;mediat-.-ly fronting the tunnel moved toward the Ridge in
force. Several regiments reached the foot of the Ridge, and
were protected by houses in the valley. The writer of thii
article prepared the shell for the purpose of burning the houses,
which he did with success, but other Federal regiments
came up, and in the evening the double lines of Federals ad-
vanced upon Gen. Cleburne's line. The steady fire from th-'
Confederates checked the Federals about a hundred yards
before they reached Gen. Cleburne's line.
The Federals appeared to be accumulating a great anny un-
der the hill, expecting to charge the Confederates and over-
power them. They were so close that the Confederates could
throw stones down the mountain that reached them. .•Miout
this time rcenforcements were sent to Gen. Cleburne, and his
men remained in tiie rear, ready to meet the Federal attack.
Shells from the Federal artillery were bursting on the Ridge,
and I saw one of them explode behind our lines, destroying
several men. One soldier's head was blown into a tree,
where the hair held it suspended on the limbs. The shelling
was done to intimidate our forces, preparatory to charging
our lines, but it failed. Gen. Cleburne came along the line
and gave orders for us to charge down the mountain side and
drive them from their position. In a few moments our men
jumped over the rails and rocks that they had piled as a pro-
tection and caused the Federals to retreat. There was not
more than a regiment, so far as w'e could see, that came to the
support of Gen. Cleburne's command, but they went down the
Ri<lge in the charge, driving the Federals toward the foot of
Ihc mountain.
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CORRECT DATE OF BATTLE AT JONESBORO.
UV W. S. CHAPMAN, lNDIANOL.\j MISS.
Comrade Joseph Erwin, of Swett's Battery, is in error as
to the date of the battle of Jonesboro. It was fought Sep-
teniljer i, 1864. and not .August I. as our comrade has it in
ihc March number of the Veteran. The battle of .August 3;
was called the battle of Utoy Creek, and that of the day fol-
lowing the battle of Jonesboro. 'As proof positive I will pub-
lish, in part, a letter written by me to my wife dated September
7, 1R64. which is as -follows:
"Institute Hospital, Near Macon, Ga., Sept. 7, 1864.
"Dear Wife: I am wounded severely in the head, but as my
skull is not fractured I am all O. K.
"Ow'ing to Gen Hood's recent order I am unable to get
home. Since Gen. Hood took command w'e have lost 15,000
men, killed, wounded, and missing. I am too lazy to write
you a detailed account of the battles at Jonesboro. On the
31st ult. we (Hardee's and Lee's Corps) attacked the enemy
at Jonesboro and were repulsed. The enemy were strongly
fortified. On the 1st inst., Lee's Corps having been sent back,
the enemy attacked Hardee's Corps and many were killed and
wounded. At last, however, massing in front of Govan's Ar-
kansas Brigade, who were in single rank, they took the works,
capturing two regiments. Vauglm's Brigade (commanded by
Col. G. W. Gordon), on the extreme left, marched to the right
and charged the enemy out of the works taken from Govan.
While in the ditch I was struck and left for the rear."
I desire to disclaim at the writing then and now any claim
of superiority over Govan's Brigade. It was my opinion then,
and my opinion now : taken singly or as a whole, there was
never a belter or braver division than Cleburne's in either army
during the stormy days between 1861 and 1865.
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I have written only to correct a date, and furnished the
evidence to support my contention. I have the greatest ad-
miration for the soldiers composing Cleburne's Division.
Cheatham and Cleburne most generally fought side by side
during the war, and my division always felt safe when Cle-
burne was in supporting distance. It was the fate of the two
to go to death together at Franklin, where Cheatham's Divi-
sion, under John C. Brown, division commander, lost thirty-
seven per cent and Cleburne fifty-two per cent of the killed and
wounded comprising the rank and file of the two divisions.
From Peachtrec Creek on to and through the battles of Nash-
ville the best blood of the army was shed with a prodigality
unsparing and unsurpassed in vain endeavors to accomplish
the impossible, until there were left only a few at the sur-
render at High Point, N. C, to commemorate the deeds of
daring of those who fell in the flame and forefront of battle.
Comrade S. J. Eales, of Burton, Kans., writing on the same
subject, says: "As everything now- published in the Veteran
is becoming history, and should be as near the truth as the
nature of the case will admit, allow me to correct a mistake
made by Comrade Erwin in the March number of the Veter.\n
as to the date of the battle of Jonesboro. This battle was
fought August 31 instead of the ist. The Kentucky boys re-
ferred to were the glorious old Orphan Brigade, commanded
by Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Lewis, Breckinridge at that time being
Secretary of War. As I remember it, Govan's Arkansas Bri-
gade was on our left, supporting Swctt's Battery. The writer
was a member of Company F, Fifth Kentucky Regiment, of
the Orphan Brigade, and was so severely wounded in a charge
on the enemy's brcastw^orks in that battle as to be disabled for
further duty during the remainder cf the war; therefore has
good cause to renionibcr the date."
TKJBirrf.S TO XASHVILLE AND THE REUNION.
Col. Bennett H. Young, Major General Kentucky Division,
U. C. v., says of the recent Nashville reunion :
"I want to thank you for your many generous and kindly
words and acts during my stay in Nashville. Your city
covered itself with glory in the hospitable and superb way
that it handled the reunion of 1904. Too much praise can-
not be accorded your people for the liberal efforts put forth
in the care and entertainment of the old veterans. When
Nashville docs anything she always does it well, but this
thing she not only did well but superbly."
Mrs. V. Jefferson Davis writes Chairman of the Committee:
"Nkw YiiKK. 123 W. 44lh Street, June 22, 1904.
"My Dear Col. Ilichiiwii : While your reunion is in ses-
sion, I want to thank you for the exquisite souvenir, on which
is such a fine portrait of our beloved Gen. Gordon. It is a
speaking likeness, surrounded by our splendid flags, which
represent our hopes, the homes of our countrymen, and valor
such as w'as never excelled in the world.
"Though 1 answered your invitation sometime ago, I
write to send my affectionate remembrance to the veterans,
and regret that the limitations of old age keep me from com-
ing personally to sec them assembled in the next dearest State
to me to my own Mississippi — the State of Tennessee.
"Wishing you each one immunity from every sorrow and
success in all things and the happiness which your sacrifices
have earned, your countrywoman,
Varina Jefferson Davis.
"June 22, 1904."
CONFEDERATE MOXiMENT AT FAIRFAX, VA.
BY SUSAN Hf.NTER WALKER. VIENNA. VA.
An interesting event occurred at Fairfax Courthouse, Va.,
on the first day of June in the unveiling of a monument to
mark the scene of the opening conflict of the war between
the States and to commemorate the death in that conflict of
Capt. John Quincy Marr. the first Confederate soldier killed
in action.
The memorial is a rough-hewn shaft of Richmond gray
granite, on the polished face of which are engraved the fol-
lowing words : "This stone marks the scene of the opening
conflict of the war of 1861-65. when John Q. Marr, captain
of the Warrenlon Rifles, who was the first soldier killed in
action, fell 800 ft. s. 46° w. (mag) of this spot, June 1. 1861.
Erected by Marr Camp. C. V., June i. 1904."
The occasion was an important one for Fairfax, the rally-
ing ground for that and all the adjoining counties. The
flay proved wet and muddy, and distances were long in the
case of most of the visitors, hut the venerable courthouse was
filled to overflowing with the veterans and the numerous
visitors the occasion brought forth.
The chief address w-as delivered by Attorney-General .An-
derson, of 'Virginia. He w-as ably follow-ed by Gov. Montague,
and succeeding him came Judge George L. Christian, ex-
Senator Fppa Hunton. Judge John Goode, Maj. Robert W.
Hunter, and Judge D. C. Grimsby. Needless to say the lost
Confederacy was eloquently memorialized and discussed by
such able advocates.
Among the guests of honor were the Misses Marr, sisters
of tbe soldier in whose honor the monument was chiefly
erected. The Lieutenant Governor was also present, as was
Hon. R. E. Lee, Jr.
A band stationed in the quaint balcony above the court
chamber disciairscd nui'-ic betweeu the speeches. The selec-
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tions consisted chiefly of Southern airs, which augtnented the
enthusiasm inspired by the eloquence of the orators. It was.
a day of awakened memories and reminiscences, with reunions
of old friends and comrades who had fought beneath the
stars and bars— a day that will long be remembered in the
hearts of all who were present.
LIEUT. GEN. ALEX P. STEWART.
At the request of a number of Tennesseans, Col. D. C.
Kelley has written the following interesting sketch of Lieut.
Gen. A. P. Stewart, the senior surviving and therefore the
senior or ranking officer of the Confederate army :
"Gen. Alex P. Stewart was born October 2, 1821, in
Rogersville. Hawkins County, East Tennessee. At an early
age his family removed to Winchester, in Franklin County,
Middle Tennessee, whence, in the year 1838, he was sent, by
appointment of Hon. Hopkins L. Turney, as a cadet to the
United States Military Academy at West Point. A class of
over one hundred and thirty entered, of whom fifty-six grad-
uated in 1842. Among the members of the class were Gen.
Gustavus \V. Smith, of the Confederate army. Gen. James
Longstreet, of the Confederate army, and others who became
prominent during the Confederate war; Gens. John Pope,
W. S. Rosecrans, and John Newton, of the Federal army.
"After graduating, in 1842, he was assigned as a second
lieutenant to the Third United States Artillery, and served a
year with a company of that regiment at Fort Macon, Beau-
fort, N. C. At the end of the year he was detailed for duty at
West Point in the department of mathematics, and served two
years in that capacity.
"His health becoming delicate, at the end of two years he
resigned from the army, returned to his native climate in
Tennessee, and became a member of the faculty of Cumber-
land University, at Lebanon, Tenn. He served as such, and
also at Nashville University, until the outbreak of the Con-
federate war, when he tendered his services to Gov. Isham
G. Harris, who placed him on duty to make contracts for the
army which Tennessee was authorized to organize, and in lo-
cating camps. He was finally appointed by Governor Harris
major of the artillery corps, that constituted a part of the
State army. He was sent to Memphis and to Fort Pillow and
to Columbus, Ky., and at the latter place, on November 7,
1861, he took part in the battle of Belmont.
"In the meantime, the people of the State of Tennessee
had, by a large majority, voted in favor of separating from
the United States, and applying for representation in the Gov-
ernment of the Confederate States, and the State army was
transferred to the Confederate service. Gen. Stewart was
transferred with the same rank, major of artillery. A few
days after the battle of Belmont, on the recommendation of
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, he was appointed a brigadier
general in the army of the Confederate States.
"In the spring of 1862 Gen. Stewart was ordered to Corinth,
Miss., and assigned to the command of the brigade in the
division of Polk's Corps that had been commanded by Gen.
Charles Clark, of Mist^issippi. He was engaged in the battle
of Shiloh, and conmianded the division to which he belonged
after the wounding of Gen, Clark.
"He remained with the Army of Tennessee and accompa-
nied it in the campaign into Kentucky; was at the battle
of Perryville, where he commanded a brigade in Cheatham's
division. He continued with the army on its retreat from
Kentucky, and again commanded a brigade in Cheatham's di-
vision in the battle of Murfreesboro.
"In the summer of 1863 he was promoted to the grade of
Major General, and had command of a division in Hardee's
Corps during the operations in Middle Tennessee, and the re-
treat to Chattanooga. In the battle of Chickamauga. in Sep-
tember. 1863, he commanded a division in Hood's Corps, and
on Saturday, the first day of the battle, pierced the cen-
ter of the Federal army. His division occupied the left
of the Confederate army on Missionary Ridge, and was
weakened by the withdrawal of his heaviest brigade by the
corps commander, Gen. John C. Breckinridge, and was left
with only about two brigades and a half to occupy the space
from Bragg's headquarters to Rossville Gap, nearly three
miles. He had been ordered to hold that part of the line, and
in order to do so was compelled to string his men out in a
mere skirmish line. He was attacked in the rear by the di-
vision of Osterhaus, of Hooker's army, and on his left flank
by the division of Cruft, and on the front of his left center
by the division of Geary, of the same army, and in the center
or right front by Johnson's division and Sheridan's of the
Army of the Cumberland. Of course in the face of such over-
whelming odds it was absolutely necessary for his troops to
retire, which they did with comparatively little loss.
"Gen. Stewart was still in command of the division when
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston took command of the Army of Ten-
nessee at Dalton, Ga., in December, 1863, and served with it
throughout the campaign of Atlanta, in 1864. During this
campaign, on the 25th of May, his division, composed of four
small brigades, was attacked while in position at New Hope
Church, but without any defenses, by the entire army under
command of Gen. Joseph E. Hooker. After several hours of
the most heroic fighting, Hooker's army was repulsed with
heavy loss. The three brigades of Clayton and Baker, of Al-
abama, and of Stovall, of Georgia, were in line. The smaller
brigade of Gibson, of Louisiana, was held in reserve.
"When Gen. Leonidas Polk was killed, on Pine Mountain,
Ga., in June, 1864, Gen. Stewart was promoted to the grade
of lieutenant general, and took command of the Army of
the Mississippi just previous to the crossing of the Chatta-
hoochee River. In the battle of Peachtree Creek, July 20,
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I 1864, his command occupied the left of the Confederate army
along Peachtree Creek. The battle was fought by the com-
mands of Gens. Stewart and Hardee. He did not participate
in the battle of Atlanta, July 22, but was engaged with his
command in the battle of Mt. Ezra Church, July 28, and was
wounded, which necessitated his retiring from the command
for a short time. He was with Gen. Hood, who had succeeded
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in command of the army, in his cam-
paign into Tennessee, and participated in the battles of Frank-
lin and Nashville, and later accompanied his command to
North Carolina, in the spring of 1865. He took part in the last
engagement of that army — the battle of Coe's farm.
"After the surrender he returned to his home, in Lebanon,
Tenn., and was for a year or two again a member of the
faculty of Cumberland University, when he resigned and went
to St. Louis, where for five years he engaged in business pur-
suits. He was next invited by the Board of Trustees of the
University of Mississippi at Oxford to accept the presidency.
After once declining, and on the renewal of the proposition, he
accepted. He went to Oxford in 1874 and returned in 1886,
filling the place for a period of twelve years.
"In 1890, after the passage by Congress of the act establish-
ing the National Military Park on the battlefields around Chat-
tanooga and at Chickamauga, he was appointed a member of
the commission that was charged with the execution of the
project, and continues in that position to the present time.
"Gen. Stewart, with his lifelong persistency in avoiding
notoriety, has kept himself out of sight. The time has come
when it is due Tennessee and the men he commanded that he
allow those of us who knew him long and well to speak the
trulli in part at least. He must permit the State to bear the
honors he won for her. He must grant the request of his
old students and soldiers to crown his c'.osirg years with at
least a modest statement of the truth evidenced by our oest
generals that there was no conflict between Christian faith
and Confederate service. Of this fact there has been through
the years no brighter example than Gen. Alex P. Stewart."
A RELIC OF WAR OR PEACE?
Had it been a sword, saddle, field glass, or other accouter-
ment of battle which was recently restored through the kind-
ness of Mr. James H. Welcker, of Knoxville, Tenn., to the
family of a Confederate general, only such interest would have
been awakened as is usually bestowed on relics of war, but in
I the recovery of Gen. Zollicoffer's trunk and the restoration of
I this strictly personal belonging of the private gentleman to his
' youngest daughter there is food for reminiscent thought and
stimulus to affectionate memory. In contemplating the scene
of pillage in which the trunk was dragged from his forsaken
camp on January 20, 1862, when the General lay dead in the
hands of the enemy across the river, one recalls that with the
passing of that trunk from his residence on High Street, Nash-
ville, a few months previous on its departure with its owner
for the seat of war, the door closed forever on a home life that
was ideal in its happy harmonics.
That Gen. Zollicoffer was gracious and kind, that his sym-
pathies were ever open to appeals of distress, and his strong
arm ready to uplift the weak and helpless was realized even
by those who stood most in awe of his grave dignity of manner.
But there were few who knew how gentle was the force with
which he ruled his home. Filling the place of both parents at
once to his six daughters, wlio had lost their mother when the
youngest was still an infant in the arms, he won from them, by
his tender nurture, a double share of devotion bordering on
idolatry and a filial obedience that asked no questions. The
watchful care with which he guided their lives is instanced in
the following extract from one of his letters to the eldest of
the six. In it he says : "While I would not have my daughters
drive business like men, yet I should be proud to see them
tidy, elegant, and intelligent housewives, with such aptitude
for the art of domestic economy as to have plenty, but noth-
ing to waste, live elegantly but not prodigally, and know how
to do or to have done all those little details of business the hav-
ing which well done gives comfort to the home and pleasure to
the family fireside. I do not want you to make wrinkles in
your face by attention to business, but I feel proud that you
have so readily and intelligently adapted yourself to the busi-
ness exigencies I have been compelled to force upon you. You
will be none the less rosy for it, but really more cheerful, con-
tented, and happy from consciousness of having done well
your duty."
What later befell to break up the happy home is a matter of
sorrowful history. In rereading the accounts in Northern pa-
pers of those times, which state that after the battle of Fishing
Creek, in which Gen. Zollicoffer lost his life, the Federal
forces, entering the Confederate intrenchments at Camp Beech
Grove, "found the camp surrounded by a breastwork over a mile
in circumference, with a deep ditch in front. Within it seemed
a city; houses, streets, lanes, stores, stables— everything com-
plete, except the inhabitants. Everything bore the appearance
of the proprietors having stepped out for a moment to soon
again return. Every tent was left standing as if the master
were at home." In picturing to ourselves the rifling by ruth-
less hands of Gen. Zollicoffer's individual quarters, the heart
leaps naturally back toward the domestic peace he had resigned
for battle in his country's cause.
Not lightly had his little flock been left to its fate. The cost
had been deliberately counted, the chances calmly weighed,
before he turned his back on the pleasures and duties of home.
But the firesides of his native land being threatened, Felix Zol-
licoffer could take no other course but to defend them, if need
be, with the sacrifice of home, fortune, and life itself. That he
was not moved by ambition to enter the Confederate service
was evinced in his refusal of a major general's commission
from Gov. Harris on the ground that he "could not consent to
risk sacrificing the flower of Tennessee's manhood through his
i; xperience in military affairs." His chances for preferment
■■• ■ even greater had he consented to join with his lifelong
Whig associates in declaring for the Union, as he was urged.
It was foreign to his stanch nature, however, to do other-
wise than spring to the relief of his invaded country. With
full knowledge of the consequences, he chose the weaker side
in the great conflict, and plainly he instructed his young family
as to the gravity of the situation, not concealing from them the
calamities that might result from a war between the States.
To their childish inquiries, "Will the Yankees ever come to
Nashville?" "Will they take our house and sit, as we do now.
around the fire in this sitting room?" he would answer, pausing
in his anxious pacing of the floor in those crucial days imme-
diately before the State "went out," to reply : "It is not only
probable that our enemies may seize our homes and other prop-
erty, but it is possible that in their revengeful fanaticism they
may hang some of us as traitors if they are finally successful."
Facing this thought, yet unreservedly devoting his all to the
South, he accepted with modest hesitancy a brigadier's com-
mand, and left for the seat of war, commending his young chil-
dren to the care of Providence and their eldest sister. From
Knoxville he wrote back to the latter on September 11, 1861 :
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"Take care of your younger sisters. They are motherless, and
thuir father is powerless to look after them. My only feeling
• jf gloom is that 1 have left my children homeless and under
circumstances in which I cannot watch over their inexperience.
I have a strong faith, thmigh. that there is a just and merciful
Omnipotence, and I know you will to the utmost of your ability
be as a mother to the younger ones. In this great conflict,
which will tax our people to the utmost, I shall endeavor to
do my duty. The responsibility upon me is great in having so
large a command, now about ten thousand men, but I shall do
the best I can to drive back the invaders."
Later, on December 21, he wrote in the same strain, saying:
"1 am much gratified to hear that the children are all well.
They are 'really as orphans, I being unable to be with them
as a father should, but I have a strong trust that Heaven will
preserve them and you and yours. Tell and I
want to see them and kiss them and have them on my knee
very much, and hope to sec them sometime this winter."
Within less than a month his lifeless body was on its way
10 his bereaved family, together with the horse and saddle and
side arms he had used in battle. Nothing of his personal ef-
fects ever came to them from the ravished camp until after a
lapse of forty-yvo years, when his trunk comes to light, awak-
ening a flood of precious memories in those who knew and
loved the man Felix K. ZoUicofFer.'of whom even his political
enemy. Parson Brownlow, wrote ; "Now that he is dead and
gone, I take occasion to say that I have known him for twenty-
five years, and a more noble, high-toncJ, honorable man was
never killed in any battlefield. He was a man who never
wronged an individual out of a cent in his life, never told a
lie, as brave a man personally as .\ndrew Jackson ever was."
./ R.ISN DEED AT DEAD ANGLE.
One of Dan McCook's boys writes as follows :
"Col. Dan McCook's Third Brigade, Army ot tlic Cumber-
land, assaulted the Confederate works of Cheatham's men
near Kennesaw Mountain, Ga., called the 'Dead .\ngle.' In
October and Dcccmltcr, 1503, inquiry was made in the Vet-
ER.\N to an incident of how a Union soldier in broad day-
light with no weapon save a tin cup and a coflFeepot could
walk from the Union works to the Confederate works and
climb over without getting a scratch, and I take pleasure
in relating the facts as seen from Col. Dan McCook's works,
reminding my Confederate brothers that at the point this feat
was accomjjlishcd the lines over which he marched were
just eighty-one feet from face to face of the works at the
"Dead Angle.'
"Col. Allen L. Kahnestock, commanding the Eighty-Si.Nth
Illinois of McCook's Brigade, inade this entry in his diary
that night: 'July I (1864), Friday morning, clear and hot, the
Eighty-Sixlh Regiment relieved the One Hundred and Twenty-
Fifth Regiment (Illinois Vohintccr Infantry) on the first line.
The Rebels commenced fighting by throwing clones at us,
hurling some men, sometimes sending over a cold corndodger.
Our men would say to them, "For God's sake throw rocks,
but none of those corndodgers." Our men would throw over
a hard-tack and say: "Take that; it's Uncle Sam's bread."
They would reply : "Yank, send over some more." There was
a soldier with a tin bucket in his right hand stepped over our
works and marched across to the Rebels. I ordered our men
to shoot him, but before they fired he stepped over their works.
I supposed he was a spy, but in a short time they yelled over
to know "why we sent that fool over." The man was in-
sane and belonged to Col. John G. Mitchell's Brigade, Second
Division, Fourteenth .Vrmy Corps. We arc guituig uur tun-
nel well under their works. This night the Rebs kept throw-
ing over turpentine balls, keeping up a bright light, thinking
we were going to charge them. We intended to mine under
their works (at a point about thirty feet north of the angle)
and blow them up on the Fourth of July, We had six killed
and wounded to-day.'
"The following is taken from the "Hi-story of Col. Dan
McCook's Regiment:' 'A well-dressed man in Federal uni-
form, new and clean, a mess pan in one hand and a small
bucket of steaming hot coffee in the other, performed in broad
daylight a daring feat. Mounting our works, he marched
to the outposl, where three comrades were stationed halfway
between our works and the enemy's, and were protected by
the double trunk of a large tree, where they watched the
movements of the men in the Rebel trenches. When he
reached the tree he passed to one side, dropped his pan, and
with several bounds disappeared over the enemy's parapet.
No one had time to realize that he was a spy, so rapidly did
he perform his perilous journey. The Memphis .-//>/>.•«/, then
published in .Xtlanta, the next morning published an account
of the daring feat. The spy, no doubt, furnished the in-
formation that Col. Dan. McCook's Brigade had such close
liroximity to Cheatham's line that they had already tunneled
under his breastworks, and that they had experimented as
lo the fact reported by laying -pebbles and buckshot on a
drum in the trench. They noticed the rattle on the drum at
every stroke made by the sappers and miners in the tunnel
beneath."
"This man remained a mystery to Dan McCook's Brigade
until 1903, when an explanation appeared in the 'History of
the Thirty-Fourth Illinois,' on page 134, as follows: 'One of
the men of Company I who was scarcely compos mentis, as
the result of a sunstroke earlier in the campaign, after cooking
his meal, with frying pan and coffeepot in hand walked un-
observed out between the picket post and stepped down in-
side the main line of the enemy. They enjoyed the coffee and
kept the man, but were courteous enougli to immediately re-
port the case to his company. His name was Edward O'Don-
neU, and he died a prisoner in Andersonville, September 4,
1S64: "
GVi.V. PETTUS AT LOOKOUT MOU.\TAL\.
liv J. m'kee could, boligee, .\l.\.
In the May Veter.\n Capl. J. D. Smith, in writing of the
"Battle above the Clouds," says : "In the early part of the
fight Gen. Walthall sent a lieutenant around the point to see
if Pettus or Moore would not come to his assistance. . . .
The writer was then sent on the same errand, but the officers
in command refused." Capt. Smith is mistaken in his state-
ment, and unintentionally, no doubt, does Gen. Pettus injus-
tice, as the statement implies that he (Pettus) refused to as-
sist when it was in his power to do so. Gen. Pettus was on
top of Lookout Mountain when he received an order to re-
enforce Gens. Walthall and Moore. He inuncdiately put his
brigade, which was already in line, in motion and sent me,
his inspector general, to notify Walthall and Moore that he
was on his way to support them at the Cravens House. Be-
fore I reached this house I met Gen. Walthall, delivered my
message, and he (Walthall) sent me back with a message to
Pettus to hurry up. which was delivered, and the brigade was
moved at a double-quick. In a few monrents we came up with
the remnants of Walthall's Brigade, and these two brigades
held the enemy in check until they were relieved by Holtz-
claw's Brigade, about eleven o'clock that night.
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1 While Gen. Pettus needs no defense, I write to testify that
he received no "request" to go to Gen. WalthalKs assistance
at the time referred to, hut that he responded promptly to
the first summons lie received, which was an order to support
Walthall and !Moore at the Cravens House.
C.-iUSES OF FAILURE AT SPRING HILL.
Dr. W. J. McMurray, in his history of the Twentieth Ten-
nessee Regiment, just published, has much to say of the fail-
ure to fight at Spring Hill. To it the Veteran is indebted.
On Noveinber 21, 1864, Gen. Hood began crossing the Ten-
nessee from Tuscumbia to Florence. On the 29th he crosssd
Duck River three miles above Columbia with Cheatham's and
Stewart's Corps and one division of Lee's Corps, crossing
Rutherford Creek some five miles north of Duck River, and
marched to Spring Hill. The Federal army in this section was
about i'3,ooo infantry and S,500 cavalry, total 28,500, undoi
Gen. Schofield ' who commanded Sherman's left wing in the
Georgia campaign). On that afternoon Hood, after traversing
the fields and byroads with his army, took position with his
front corps (Cheatham's) within two or three hundred yards
east of the Columbia Pike at Spring Hill, twelve miles in the
rear of Schoficld's position at Columbia. This flank movement
of Hood's caused Schofield to retreat in haste back to Spring
Hill, and that night on to Franklin.
Cheatham's Corps lay within two hundred yards of this re-
treating column and heard them passing almost the entire
night undisturbed, while the object of the flank movement was
to throw the Confederate forces across the pike at Spring Hill
and force Schofield to attack or surrender. This failure to
attack was most serious.
Gen. Hood, in his report of this affair, made December 11,
1864, states: "Maj. Gen. Cheatham was ordered at once to
attack the enemy vigorously and get possession of the pike at
Spring Hill, the road to Franklin ; and although these orders
were frequently and earnestly repeated, he made but a feeble
and partial attack, failing to reach the point indicated."
Again, his history of the campaign, "Advance and Retreat,"
pp. 2S5, 286, states; "Gen. Stewart was then ordered to pro-
ceed to the right of Cheatham and place his corps across the
pike north of Spring Hill. By this hour, however, twilight
was upon us, when Gen. Cheatham rode up in person. I at
once directed Stewart to halt, and, turning to Cheatham, I
exclaimed with deep emotion, as I felt the golden opportunity
fast slipping from me : "General, why in the name of God have
you not attacked the enemy and taken possession of the
pike?''' Lieut. Gen. A. P. Stewart, referring to this state-
ment in a published letter, says: "No such exclamation by
Hood to Cheatham could have been made in my presence."
After that failure of the Confederates (on the night of No-
vember 29) to cut oflf the enemy at Spring Hill, Hood put his
army in motion the next morning and arrived in front of
Franklin, eleven miles north of Spring Hill, about 2 P.M.
Here V.c found Gen. Schofield with the Fourth and Twenty-
Third .\rmy Corps under Gens. Stanley and Cox respectively,
numbering 23,734 infantry and artillery and 5,500 cavalry, in-
trenched behind tw-o lines of earthworks.
Hood, on his .-.rrival in front of the town, formed his three
corps thus: Cheatham, who was in comiuand of Hardee's old
corps, composed of the divisions of Bate, Brown (Cheatham's
old division), and Cleburne, was on the left of Hood's line;
Bate, being on the extreme left of the Confederate infantry,
moved down by the Carter's Creek Pike and the widow
Bostick house. Gen. John C. Brown, who commanded Cheat-
ham's old division, was on Bate's right, with the right of his
division resting on the Columbia Pike. Cleburne was on the
right of Brown, with his left on the pike, the pike being the
guide between these two gallant divisions. Gen. A. P. Stewart,
who had in his corps the divisions of Loring, French, and
Walthall, was on the right of Cleburne, and moved to the
assault across the open fields that lay between the Columbia
and Lewisburg Pikes. The corps of Gen. Stephen D. Lee,
composed of the divisions of Gens. Ed Johnson, Clayton, and
Stevenson, did not arrive on the field until about 4 p.m., just
as Hood was moving to the assault with Cheatham's and Stew-
art's Corps. Johnson's Division of Lee's Corps was ordered to
support Cheatham. They were carried into the battle about
dark, and most gloriously and eflfectively did they do their
work. They were mostly from Mississippi and Alabama. The
two other divisions of Lee's Corps — viz., Clayton's and Ste-
venson's— w'ere not engaged.
Maj. Gen. J. D. Cox, of the Federal army, in his history of
the Battle of Franklin, said, "Gen. Hood moved his troops to
the assault with less men than Schofield had behind his
works," which were well-constructed and the position admi-
rably chosen, and were defended by nearly 24.000 veterans, well-
drilled and superbly armed, taking one line of works and a
portion of the second and lining up in the outer ditch of the
second works. They contended with a force one-third larger
than their own, across the second works, with bayonets and
butts of guns for two long hours — a figlit the like of which has
never been surpassed on this continent — and finally forced the
Federals to retreat from their own trenches, which was aj
grand a feat as the French perforined when they assaulted and
captured the ^lalakhoflt in the Crimean War. O, but what a
sacrifice !
It was here that the noblest, the bravest, the grandest lot of
men, for the number that ever assaulted an enemy, enriched
Franklin's fields with the cream of Southern blood.
The three corps of Cheatham, Stewart, and Lee, when they
crossed the Tennessee River, had about 26,000 men, and very
many of them, not having seen their families for two ycar.s,
went home. Two divisions of Lee's Corps were not engaged,
which reduced these three corps that made the assault at
Franklin to 16,000 men.
In this engagement the Twentieth Tennessee Regiment
fought in Tyler's Brigade of Bate's Division, cotnmanded by
Col. T. B. Smith, which was on the left of the infantry line,
and was not as desperately engaged as were the men to our
right, although Bate lost out of his three little brigades forty-
seven killed and two hundred and thirty-five wounded. Capt.
Todd Carter, who was on the staff of Gen. Tom Benton Smith,
and who was raised at Franklin and went to the war as a
member of Company H, Twentieth Tennessee Regiment, was
killed close by the enemy's works, in the locust grove and near
his father's house. The right of Bate's Division took the
breastworks in their front, and held them until next morning.
This was the first engagement during the entire war that the
Twentieth Tennessee Regiment was engaged in that they
failed to get into the hottest part of tlic battle.
This little assaulting army of 16,000 men charged across a
plain one and a half miles in open view of an army 24,000
strong, magnificently armed and protected by two lines of
works. This heroic little band lost one major general killed
and one wounded, four brigadier generals killed and five
wounded, six colonels killed and fifteen wounded, two lieu-
tenant colonels killed and nine wounded, three majors killed
and five wounded. No men were more gallantly led by supe-
rior courage and skill than was this assaulting column. At the
battle of Waterloo, when the tide of tattle had been ebbing
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and flowing for several hours, and Napoleon thought it was
time to play his favorite tactics — pierce the enemy's center —
he formed the Old Guard in a column, and put at their head
the best and bravest marshal of all that fighting machine,
Marshal Ney. This column was formed on a little eminence
called La Belle Alliance, and swept down across a narrow
valley, up the gentle slope of a ridge, against the right center
of the allied armies, and here met the two brigades of Mait-
land and Adams, and were repulsed by an equal number ;
while at Franklin, the Confederates under Cheatham, Stewart,
and Cleburne crossed a plain three times as wide, assaulted the
enemy one-third stronger than they, behind two lines of works,
and finally compelled him to retreat. The loss of the French
at Waterloo was thirty per cent, and the Confederates about
the same at Franklin. Gen. Cox, who commanded the Twenty-
Third Army Corps of Federals and witnessed the whole affair,
said : "When the Confederates had formed and started for-
ward, no more magnificent spectacle was ever witnessed."
Hood's report showed that out of 16,000 that he put into the
assault, he lost killed, wounded, and captured 4,500, which was
a little over thirty per cent, while the divisions of Brown and
Cleburne lost forty per cent. Brown's Division, largely Ten-
nesseeans, lost almost every field officer.
The gallant George W. Gordon, who commanded one of
Brown's Brigades, was wounded on the enemy's works. Color
Bearer Drew, of the Twenty-Nirvth Tennessee Regiment, of
Gordon's Brigade, planted his colors on the enemy's works,
and was killed. He fell inside of their works and died on his
colors. Gen. Gist, another of Brown's brigade commanders,
was killed in advance of his brigade, near the enemy's works.
The gallant O. F. Strahl, born in Ohio, who was one of
Brown's most trusted brigadiers, was killed near where
the Columbia Pike and the second line of works
crossed, and within a few feet of their works. A
brother to Dr. McMurray, who was sergeant major
of the gallant Twenty-Fourth Tennessee Regiment, was
Icillcd by the side of the noble Strahl. Brig. Gen.
Carter, who commanded Brown's left brigade, was
killed, and Sergt. Brewer was the ranking officer left
of the gallant Sixth Temiessee Regiment.
Gen. John Adams, a Tennesseean, who commanded
a brigade in Loring's Division, was shot near the
enemy's works, and his horse leaped on the enem)'.^
works and fell dead. Quarles's Brigade of Tenncs-
seeans, of Walthall's Division, suffered severely, -i''
did the divisions of I-'rench and Loring. The attack
of the Confederates was repeated on some parts of
the line until nine o'clock at night, and at twelv.:
o'clock the enemy began to withdraw in the directinn
of Nashville.
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL LITERARY SO-
CIETY.
BY MISS CARY DANIEL, COR. SEC.j RICHMOND, VA.
The Confederate Memorial Literary Society, througli
its President, Mrs. Joseph Bryan, appointed in Sep-
tember, 1897, a Memorial Committee for two purposes;
First, to carry out an unfulfilled promise to the donors
of gifts to the Confederate Bazaar of 1893, in memory
of their loved ones, that the society would preserve
these names in a lasting memorial, to be placed in the
Confederate Museum ; and, secondly, to endeavor to
collect as many records as possible of our dead and
living soldiers, to be enrolled likewise in a series of
volumes, known as "The Roll of Honor."
Those names and records sent to the Bazaar are placed con-
spicuously in Volume \. ; the others arc arranged, as far as
possible, in the order of the organization to which they be-
longed. It is sought to collect individual records and sketches
as well as the bare facts of a roster, thus weaving an invalua-
ble history. This work must of necessity be incomplete, and
yet something has been done in the six and a half years since
its inception.
In that time circulars and blanks have been sent to one
thousand Camps. In addition, 12,195 blanks have been dis-
tributed, and 11,254 have been filled out and returned and
bound in seventy-five volumes, which are now on the shelves
of the museum. There is also in hand material for some half-
dozen additional volumes.
Any thoughtful mind must see that the amount of work in
the necessary correspondence, the arrangement, classification,
and indexing of the records is no light thing. It seems pass-
ing strange that our soldiers should not have responded more
enthusiastically to this effort to perpetuate their heroic deeds
We feel that all that is necessary is for the work to be known.
The blanks are furnished free on application to the Cliairman.
Mrs. James N. Dunlop, 307 W. Grace Street, Richmond, Va.
The recent report of the Memorial Committee shows how,
for many years, the Confederate Memorial Literary Socie-
ty has been endeavoring to rescue from oblivion, and to per-
petuate, the names and records of the Confederate soldiers.
The effort has been carried on persistently, in the face of
unlooked-for indifference, dilatoriness, and neglect on the part
of the Camps, the families, and friends of the soldiers, and
the men themselves. It is not only the name and coni-
DR. W. J. M MURRAY.
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niand that is desired, but the minutise and incidents of each
soldier's life, which shall furnish reliable and interesting data
for the future historian. The true history of the War between
the States and the story of the "Rise and Fall of the Confed-
erate States" will have to be written in the future ; and in the
Confederate Museum, in the capitol of the Confederacy, the
painstaking and impartial chronicler will expect to find the
material necessary for his work. Where else can it be found,
if not in the archives of the Southern Historical Society, sup-
plemented by the valuable collection of data of all kinds in
the hands of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society with-
in the walls of the Confederate Museum?
All who have at heart the love of truth as well as the love
of the heroes of 1861-65 and the cause for which they strug-
gled, the love of our own beautiful land and the life that was
once lived in it, should see to it that each man, woman, and
child lays away in this storehouse whatever of material is
within his reach. Some bit of knowledge, or experience re-
corded here, may in that future time serve to make clear 01
liring to light a point otherwise left in darkness or doubt.
Shall the women of the South, who, for nearly forty years,
have wilh unfaltering devotion guarded the memory of the
Confederate soldier, who have lavishly expended time and
labor for the preservation of the truth that shall forever es-
lablish the hard-won glory of lives so freely given, and shall
leach the youth of our land to live worthy of such high en-
deavor— shall they plead in vain for these records — the facts
that can be given by those alone who bore a part in this strug-
gle and saw with their own eyes, those who will be no longer
';,re to tell the tale, and the facts so needed will be buried
■ ith them beyond man's ken?
When it is seen how great has already been the labor — the
immense correspondence and personal research for the sev-
enty-five volumes on file and others now ready — of tliis one
busy, burdened mother and home maker, the Chairman of this
Committee for six years, often weighed down by sickness and
sorrow, yet never giving up her work, surely it is a.sking but
little that the many throughout the South should respond
to her appeal.
A debt of gratitude rests upon the society and the future
generations of the South for the intelligent, faithful zeal
shown in this arduous task, so modestly referred to in Mrs.
Dunlop's report.
All data in the museum has been placed at the disposal
of Maj. R. W. Hunter, who has been so wisely chosen by the
Legislature of Virginia to prepare an official report of Vir-
ginia troops in the Confederate service. There is, no doubt,
much in this building that would have been entirely lost but
for the efforts of this society, begun from the inception of the
Confederate Museum, when the Confederate Memorial Lit-
erary Society was formed in March, 1890.
While all the States have some rosters and individual rec-
ords in these rolls of honor and in their own rooms, Mis.souri
can claim nearly two-thirds of the whole number received.
The U. D. C.'s of that State have sent over seven thousand
verified records, mostly of the dead, with absolutely no cx-
pcnsc to the society. Texas and South Carolina are now
taking much interest in this work, and the Chairman feels
much encouraged. May we not hope that the other States
will be .stimulated to a like effort? These records should,
however, contain the names of the living as well as of the
dead.
The museum is to stand for all time. Here on file will be
the record of the men wlio fought for constitutional rights,
handed down the line from our forefathers, and here forever
will be the testimony of the daring, the heroism, and faithful-
ness of lives which make all lives nobler and better for their
having lived. In years to come the story of the South, with
its romantic devotion between master .-r.d slave, of the fanat-
icism which strove to drag down its chivalric spirit and
noble ideals, of the daring determination and limitless sac-
rifice, the courage and the beauty of unselfishness of its men
and women that sprang to meet the invader, and their almost
superhuman strength and endurance, will read like tales of
the days of Richard Coeur de Lion.
Who then will not be proud to claim descent from this
line of more than kings and conquerors?
Error Concerning Dr. J. C. Lee in April Veteran. — Dr.
J. M. Kcllar wrote from Hot Springs, Ark. : "Believing that
it is the duty of all survivors of the Confederate army to
correct incorrect history, although in some instances, as in
this, it is unpleasant to do so, I beg through the Veteran to
correct an error which occurred on page 186 of your April
issue. I quote from the article; 'Dr. John C. Lee was a cousin
of Gen. Robert E. Lee. and was surgeon general on the staff
of Gen. Thomas C. Hindman, when the latter was in com-
mand of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate
army.' The Doctor may have been a cousin of Gen. Robert
E. Lee, but he was never on Gen. Hindman's staff in any
capacity when he commanded the Trans-Mississippi Depart-
ment, nor was there any such rank as surgeon general of any
department in the Confederate army. I was ordered and
went with Gen. Hindman from Corinth as medical directoi
of the Trans-Mississippi Department, and remained as such
until Gen. Holmes superseded him in command of the de-
partment. Gen. Hindman then became major general com-
manding the army in the field, and I still remained as his
medical director. I have the complete roster of the medical
corps west of the Mississippi River from June, 1862, until the
surrender of the army. This roster is in the original hand-
writing of the Secretary of the Board of Examiners, recom-
mended by me, and appointed from Richmond, Va., and Dr.
John C. Lee's name does not appear in that roster in any
capacity."
Gov. Blancijard's Position on the Negro Question. — In
his recent inaugural address. Gov. Blanchard stated :
"The negro is here. He is a man and a citizen. He is use-
ful and valuable in his sphere. Within that sphere he must
be guaranteed the equal protection of the law. and his educa-
tion along proper lines — mainly agricultural and industrial —
is at once a duty and a necessity. He must be protected in
his right to live peaceably and quietly, in his right to labor
and enjoy the fruits of his labor. He must be encouraged to
industry and taught habits of thrift.
"No approach toward social equality or social recognition
will ever be tolerated in Louisiana. Separate schools, separate
churches, separate cars, separate places of entertainment will
be enforced. Racial distinction and integrity must be pre-
served. But there is room enough in this broad Southland,
with proper lines of limitation and demarkation, for the two
races to live on terms of mutual trust, mutual help, good un-
derstanding, and concord. The South asserts its ability to
handle and solve the negro question on humanitarian lines —
those of justice and right. We brook no interference from
without. It is up to the South to so handle and solve it as to
fumish no occasion for such interference."
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So raiJi.ily arc cuiiiradc-s passing away, and so heavy is the
demand {or space in the "Last Roll" columns, that request,
is made of all who send such trihutcs to make the notices
as brief as possible and have them written clearly. Ancestry
and other data save as Confederate soldiers, if used at all,
should be very brief. Clippings are nearly always too long.
No charee is made for publishing these tributes except where
a picture is used, when two dollars is charged for making the
ejigraving. Every one who has an engraving in the Veter.\n
should pay for it.
(Typewritten lines among the papers of P. I>. Cunningham, deceased.)
The spirits IMMORT.^L. not f.^k away.
To THE MUSIC OF HOPE SING THIS SWEET-TONED LAY:
"Vou think of the dead on Christmas eve.
Wherever the dead are sleeping.
And we, from a land where we may not grieve.
Look tenderly down on your weeping.
Vou think us far; we arc very near,
From you and the earth though parted.
W'c sing to-night to console and cheer
The hearts of the broken-hearted.
The earth watches over the lifeless clay
Of each of its countless sle«pers,
And the sleepless spirits that passed away
Watch over all earth's weepers.
We shall meet again in a brighter land
Where farewell is never spoken;
We shall clasp each other hand in hand.
And the clasp shall not be broken ;
We shall meet again in a bright, calm clime
Where we'll never know a sadness.
And our lives shall be filled, like a Christmas chime.
With rapture and with gladness.
The snows shall pass from our graves away.
And you from the earth, remember ;
And the flowers of a bright, eternal May
Shall follow earth's Uecemi;er.
When you think of us, think not of the tomb
Where you laid us down in sorrow ;
Kut look aloft, and beyond earth's gloom.
And wqit for the great to-morrow'."
Df.ai) of J<if. Pikdw n Bivouac.
Jno. A. Crofford, Adjutant, reports that the following worthy
and brave comrades of Joe Brown Bivouac, Covington, Tenn.,
have crossed over the river since its organization, in i8q8:
Jas. M. Myers, Company B, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry ;
Jno. W. Martin, Company 1. First Confederate Cavalry; W.
H. Strange, Company B, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry : Nutc
McMullens, Company I, Fourth Tennessee Infantry; G. W.
Overall, Company B, SeventI; Tennessee Cavalry ; Joseph
Forsyth, Company C, Ninth Tennessee Infantry ; J. C. Cul-
breath. Third Arkansas Cavalry: J. A. Osburn, Twenty-Fifth
Virginia Battalion: J. S. Brinkley, Twelfth Tennessee Cavalry;
K. B. Bell, Fourth South Carolina Cavalry: J. D. Wilson,
Company B, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry ; Jas. A. McFerrin ;
Jeff Adair, Company A, Second Mississippi; Jas. W. Lennon,
Company C, Ninth Tennessee Infantry; H. S. Sigman, Com-
pany B, Thirty- Second North Carolina Infantry.
ChAS. W. RlX-ENBARK.
Among the number of noble spirits who were unselfishly
devoted lo the cause of the South was the courteous, gen-
erous, and brave Chas. W. Rivenbark, who died recently at
Charlotte, N. C. He was among the first to respond to the
call to battle, vohmtecring for the period of the war in the
Lillington Rifle Guards, afterwards known as Company C.
Fir.^t North Carolina State Troops. Although a private, his
IK-rfcction in military tactics was such that after being trans-
ferred to Doles's Brigade, in 1862, he was detailed to drill the
raw Georgia companies. He was promoted to second sergeant,
and fought through to Gettysburg, where he was captured and
remained a prisoner of war to the close.
George Lafayette McDonald.
Geo. L. McDonald, born and reared near Ooltewah, Tenn.,
son of William McDonald, died of heart disease at his home
in Asheville, N. C, on June 3. He enlisted under Capt. Tyner
in Company K, First Confederate Regiment, at Chattanooga
in August. 1862. and was with the army until the surrender
at Greensboro in May, 1865. When returning home through
East Tennessee, he and about seventy-five others under Capt.
Reagan were arretted ;il Cleveland, put in the courthouse,
and ne.Nl day taken to Chattanooga, where their horses and
arms were taken from them by the F'ederals.
Any comrades who were with him at that time are re-
quested lo communicate with the family at No. 50 Bailey
Street, .-^shcvilie. N. C.
I,. B. Peniii.kton.
L. B. Pendleton was born in Spottsylvania County, V'a., in
1840: and died in Washingion Grove, Md., during December
of 1903. He volunteered in the Confederate army early in
1861, joining Company D. Thirtieth Virginia Infantry. He,
engaged in many battles, the most .severe of which was Ar
tietani, where he received three wounds. After his death
bullet was removed from his leg, where it had lain imbeddei|
all these years. When sufficiently recovereil from his wound
he rejoined his command, and was in many engagements till
1864, when he w-as captured and confined at Point LookouJ|
Md. He was exchanged just before the surrender, but neve
got back to his command. His brollu-r Janu-s. who was cap'^
tured at (he same time, died in prison.
J.-..\1KS .\. HiCNDKlCKS.
J. -X. 1 UiulricKs was born in Simpson County, Ky., in i8.^,W
and ulien thirteen years old his parents moved to Mis.souru^
111 the summer of 1861 he enlisted in Company E, Gilroy"!
Scouts. Shelby's Brigade, Mis.souri Volunteers. He rose
the rank of first lieutenant and served to the close of thj
war. He \\as in Texas at the surrender, and went with htl
cominaiul into Mexico, returning to Mis.souri in 1866. Hfl
went to Montana in 1884 and engaged in mercantile pursuitsi
He was one of [he organizers of N. B. Forrest Camp ol
Helena, and was an active and devoted member. His deatf
occurred on April 11 after a lingering illness. He leaves
wife, five sons, and three daughters.
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399
John S. Robertson.
John S. Robertson was born in Howard County. Mo., in
1835 ; and died in Hvnilsville, that State, on March 8, 1904. He
(ntcred the Confederate army in 1861, and served under Price
to the close, when he was acting captain of his company,
Pind^l's Battalion of Sharpshooters, Parson's Brigade. Until
ill health caused him to resign, he was Adjutant of the Thomas
G. Lowry Camp, at Huntsville. An old friend said of him:
"He was the most unseltish of men, never thinking of him-
self, but always of the welfare and happiness of others." He
was never married, and wlien his health began to fail made
his home with his niece, Mrs. Will Rutherford, wlio cared for
liim with the love and devotion of a daughter. Comrade
Roberlson was a Mason of high standing for over thirty
years, and the beautiful les.sons taught around the "sacred
altar" made iiim a shining light among men.
Frederick August St.\i.i..
F. A. Stall was born in the province of Westphalia, Kingdom
of Prussia, Germany. He emigrated to America in 1852 and
settled in New Orleans. From there he went to Sparta, La.,
where he made his home for many years. In 1862 he enlisted
in the Confederate army, and, being a shoemaker by trade, he
was detailed as shoemaker for Polignac's Brigade, Trans-
Mississippi Department, in which capacity he served till the
close of the war. He had two brothers in America, Julius
and Ben. The former belonged to the Ninth Louisiana Regi-
ment, A. N. v., and was killed at the battle of Chancellorsville.
Comrade Stall went to Wellington, Tex., in 1898, and was
a member of Walthall Camp there at his death, which oc-
curred on .April 26. Intellectualiy he was above the average,
Iiis mind being well trained and active to the last. For nearly
fifty years he was a member of the Methodist Church, and lie
was a bright Mason, being a life member of his lodge and
its worshipful master for a year. He was buried with Ma-
sonic honors.
Henry D. Beai.i., of Co. B, Twelfth Vikcini.x Cav.\i.ry.
Bushrod C. Washington, of Cliarlestown.' W. Va.. writes of
his comrade :
"Among the survivors of the War between tlie Stales, who
were followers of the standard of the Confederacy, the ine.v
orable reaper has gathered a great harvest of heroic souls,
and still gathers. But he has not laid low a truer representa-
tive of Southern chivalry than our late comrade, Henry D.
Beall, who departed this life at his residence in Baltimore,
Md., on November 13, l'X'2, in the sixty-fifth year of his age.
"It is to his integrity as a man, his courage, daring, and
sagacity as a soldier and scout, and his sincerity as a friend,
that this column is especially dedicated.
"Henry Beall — 'Col. Beall' being his familiar honorary title
— w^as born in Jefferson County, Va. (now West Vir.ginia).
before that county, as a war measure, was torn from the body
of the mother commonwealth. He came of good old English
ancestry, his father being Thomas Nicholas Beall and his
mother a Miss Wiltshire, of Jefferson County. George Beall,
the founder of Georgetown, D. C., was an ancestor, as was
also Gen. Ninian Beall. one of the revolutionary leaders. The
M'iltsliires imigrated from Wiltshire, England, to this coun-
try at an early period of its liistory, and in the great War be-
tween the Slates tliis family furnished to the Southern cause
soldiers of distinguished records as patriots and heroes.
"Born and bred into the political faith of the Old Line Whig
party, he was one of that large and conservative body of Vir-
ginians who were not secessionists when the war cloud first
lowered, but who wished and hoped for the preservation of the
Union. Familiar with the history of the Union and the con-
stitutional limitations of Federal power, he knew there was
no authority vested in the general government to coerce a sov-
ereign State. When, therefore, the seventy-five thousand
were called out by the Federal Executive to march through
Virginia and attack the seceded States, Virginia quickly passed
the ordinance of .secession, and Henry Beall declared for his
Stale and entered the army of the Southern Confederacy.
"He enlisted as a private in Baylor's Company of Light-
Horse Cavalry, which served first under that pink of chivalry,
Gen. Turner .Ashby. in the famous Valley campaigns of Stone-
wall Jackson, and later under 'Jcb' Stuart and Wade Hampton
as Company B, Twelfth V'irginia Cavalry. That company was
composed of the flower of Jefferson County youths, among
whom as a private served the late Hon. William L. Wilson,
member of Congress and Postmaster General, and others who,
surviving the war, attained distinction in civil office and pri-
vate enterprises.
"The soldierly qualities of Henry Beall at once asserted
themselves, and commanded both the admiration of his com-
rades and the confidence of his commanders.
"Always well-mounted, well-armed, and ready for duty, he
was up to the front in almost every liattle in which his com-
mand was engaged.
'Ihtre was nothing spectacul.ir in his bearing as a soldier,
and he was free from the habit of self-adulation and the nar-
rating of his own exploits, a weakness with some comrades
around the camp fire. But he was full of animation and fond
of jest and anecdote, and often indulged his irrepressible wit
under the most trying and adverse circumstances, and thus, on
the dismal march and in the weary encampment, would often
rescue a laugh from disheartened comrades from the very jaws
of their despondency. He was frequently detached from his
command for scout duty, for which his love of adventure,
coolness, and good judgment particularly fitted him. His pre-
vious training as a newspaper man, in which tlie acquiring of
information is a science, coupled wth his remarkable power of
memory, gave completeness to his equipment for that kind of
service. The information he secured nf the numbers, posi-
tion, and movements of the enemy he made it a rule to
obtain, as far as possible, at first-hand. This kept him always
in dangerous proximity to the Federals in the rear of their
armies and inside their lines. He always wore his uniform and
carried arms, which was the distinction between a scout and
a spy.
"The following incident, whicli is well vouched for, will give
some insight into the resourcefulness, self-confidence, and a\i-
dacious courage which rendered the services of Henry Beall
so valuable to "Jeb' Stuart and Gen. R. E. Lee.
"Gen. Lee, desiring to know something of the numbers and
movements of Pope's army before making the attack known
as the second battle of Manassas. Henry Beall was directed
by Gen. Stuart to scout in the rear and on the flank of his
antagonist. He went, accompanied by Sergt. James H. Conk-
lyn. of Company B. Twelfth \irginia Cavalry. After numer-
ous adventures within the Federal lines, they arrived aftei
dark at the residence of a gentleman, known to Beall. close
l)y a Federal encampment, part of Pope's army. It was from
tliis family that Beall expected to obtain valuable information.
When they got close to the house they heard the music of a
violin, and could see through the window that there were Fed-
eral soldiers inside dancing a cotillion with the young ladies.
Sergt. Conklyn. supposing that the game was up, asked Beall
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what they should do. 'We shall go inside and dance a set
with them,' Beall replied without hesitation ; 'and if you
don't feel like going, you can stay by our horses until I re-
turn.' But Conklyn preferring to stay by his companion, in
whose resourcefulness he had implicit confidence, they hitched
horses, and together approached the house by the front door,
and, without drawing arms, quietly entered the room among
the dancers. The surprise of the parties within can better be
imagined than described. 'You were having such a good
time,' Beall remarked to the Federals, 'that we thought, if
there is no objection, we would come in and dance a set with
you.' Conklyn says he himself kept a close eye on the Fed-
erals' muskets, which were stacked in a corner of the room,
while a set was made up, in which Beall danced with one of
the ladies of the family whom he knew. It goes without say-
ing that during that set he obtained the information he was
seeking. The cool audacity of the adventure had exactly the
effect upon the Federals that Beall had counted upon. They,
of course, supposed that the house was surrounded by Con-
federate cavalry and that resistance was useless. 'It was a
solemn dance,' says Sergt. Conklyn, 'on the part of the Yan-
kees, who expected to be marched off as prisoners of war.'
Beall and Conklyn quic->'ly withdrew from the room and rode
off without molestation.
"Few men could have conceived and successfully e.xccuted
so bold an adventure, especially upon the exigency of the
moment.
"It was the qualities here displayed, coupled with his entire
trustworthiness, that gained for Henry Bcall his reputation
as a scout and entitled him to the confidence of his com-
manders. In the summer of 1864 he had the misfortune to fall
into the hands of the Federals while scouting close in the rear
of the army of Gen. David Hunter, near Lexington, Va. At
the time of his capture the writer and Private John Creighton
— all being members of the same company — were with him,
and barely made their escape. A graphic description of the
incident, written by Beall himself, appeared in the Baltimore
Sun of March 16, 1889. At the request of Gen. John C.
Breckinridge, who commanded the Confederate forces in the
Valley of Virginia, and who at the time occupied a position at
the western base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Waynes-
boro, Henry Beall, with the writer and Private Creighton,
had followed close upon Hunter's army for the purpose of as-
certaining his numbers and movements. When near Lexing-
ton, in sight of the smoke ascending from the Military Insti-
tute and Governor's home, which the Federals were burning,
we were informed by citizens that another detachment of Con-
federate cavalry was ahead of us. This surprised us, and at
the same time threw us off our guard. There was a spring
over the fence close to the road, and Beall had dismounted to
get a drink. Creighton and myself were in the saddle, sitting
carelessly and off guard. Suddenly there appeared around a
turn of the road in front of us, at close pistol range, what ap-
peared to be the detachment of Confederate cavalry we had
been informed of — some ten or fifteen of them. TTiey formed
across the road and asked what command we belonged to, and
to our reply, 'Company B, Twelfth Virginia,' saluted with a
volley from their pistols and charged. Beall had started for
his horse at first sight of them, but not in time to mount be-
fore they fired. He used his pistols, however, with good effect,
and Creighton and myself tried to hold them in check while
he mounted, but they were too much for us. They turned out
to be a squad of 'Jesse Scouts,' from the Fifteenth New York
Cavalry, commanded by Capt. Elliott, and the Confederate
uniforms thev had donned had caused the citizens to take them
for Confederates and enabled them to surprise us. Beall was
overpowered and raptured, but not until he had exchanged
shots with Capt Elliott, in which he shot the Captain in the
left leg and wounded his horse, himself receiving a bullet
from the Captain through the coat sleeve of his pistol arm.
They gave up the chase of Creighton and myself after ^a half-
mile running fight, when the horse of the foremost man fell
to one of our bullets.
"Beall, after enduring great hardships as a prisoner on the
long march through the mountains of West Virginia, was
taken to Camp Chase, where he was incarcerated until the end
of the war. .\ftcr (he war he devoted himself to journalism,
and was widely
known in the South
as a writer of fine at-
tainments.
"At the time of his
death he was a valued
member of the edi-
torial staff of the
Raltimore Sun. hav-
ing been connected
with that paper for
twenty-eight years.
"He was a member
of the James R. Her-
bert Camp of Confed-
erate Veterans. His
remains were interred
in the soil of Vil-
ginia. at Charlestowr.
on n commanding
knoll facing the Blue
COL. H. D. BEALL. Rj^gg Mountains,
over whose summit the sun in his diurnal circuit casts his first
rays upon his grave.
Nath.aniel Holmes.
On March 20 Nathaniel Holmes died at his home in Selma,
Ark. He was born near Hprn Lake Depot, Miss., in 1843,
and was educated in the academies of his native county,
DeSoto. He enlisted in the Confederate army in May, 1861,1
as a member of Company A, Memphis Light Dragoons, andj
participated in many battles of the West, including Belmont I
and Shiloh. He was captured near Vicksburg in 1863, andj
held a prisoner at Camp Morton for eighteen months, where!
he underwent the "cold cheer" and all the privations andl
hardships incident to that prison. The cause of the South,]
as well as its memories and traditions, were dear to him to|
the last.
Comrade Holmes was a devoted husband and father, a con-l
sislent member of the Church, and zealous in all good works,!
so that death was met with the calm resignation of "a truef
soldier of the cross.
James A. McAlfine. .>
J. A. McAlpine was born in Alabama in 1845, enlisted in!
Company E, Twentieth Alabama Regiment, in 1861, and par-l
ticipated in all the battles in which his regiment took partj
up to the battle in front of Nashville in December, 1864, where]
he was captured and taken to Camp Chase and kept till thej
final surrender. I
In the dark days of reconstruction Comrade McAlpine wasJ
prominent and efficient ; bold, but always conservative. Hia
death oeciM-red May 10, 1004. Three daughters survive him."
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AnjT. Gen. S, P. Greene.
Tlie Texas Division of United Confede.'ate Veterans has
sustained a sad and irreparable loss in the death of Comrade
S. P. Greene, of Fort Worth. In a memorial address, the fol-
lowing named committeemen, K. M, Van Zandt, R. M. Wynne,
B. B. Paddock, R. E. Beckham, and Dnke Goodman, say:
"We, your committee appointed to prepare a fitting expres-
sion in mcmoriam of our departed comrade. S. P. Greene, ex-
Commander of this camp, and Adjutant General upon the staff
of Maj. Gen. K. M. Van Zandt. Commander nf the Texas Di-
vision, L'. C. v.. report that
"Whereas Comrade S. P. Greene, a distinguished member of
this association, died on the 29th day of June, 1904, we, his
comrades and members of this association, deem it fit to have
spread upon the records of this association, over which he pre-
sided wUh ability and honor, this tribute to his memory.
"Judge Greene joined the army of the Confederate States as
a soldier when yet but a boy from the State of Georgia, and by
bis soldierly conduct and manly deportment won rapid dis-
tinction, as evidenced by his frequent promotion.
"As a man, he was gentle, generous, noble, living in strict
conformity to the golden rule. As a lawyer, he was a safe,
conscientious counselor, faithful to his trusts and vigilant and
zealous in the interest of bis clients, yet always courteous to
his adversaries. As a judge, ho was capable, just, and upright.
\\'orth, Tex., paid pathetic tribute to his friend of many years.
They were fellow Georgia Confederates, fellow-lawyers, and
their aspirations and sentiments had been very similar. He
said : "I think of him as the youth who in the verj- beginning
of our struggle responded promptly to the call of his State,
and, with knapsack and gun, entered the ranks as a private
soldier. I think of him in his young manhood as the head
of a company of gallant Georgians, having by faithful and
efficient service merited promotion. I think of him return-
ing, at the close, to his State and home, desolated by the mer-
ci'ess hordes of Sherman, to engage in peaceful pursuits, but
again forced, in defense of home, to resist the infamous meth-
ods of reconstruction. 1 remember him as a young lawyer,
having the care of an orphaned family, bravely struggling to
establish himself in a new- home in Texas. I remember when,
after years of varying success, he visited his old home and re-
turned with a fair but fragile companion, to whom his after
years were one continuous period of devotion. For more than
thirty years he was my friend, and during that time I never
heard him utter an expression which might not with propriety
liavc been spoken in the most refined society. In his career as a
lawyer he was a safe counselor, a courteous adversary, and
an upright judge. He was an exemplary citizen, a devout
Christian, a fond husband, a kind neighbor. As a member of
our beloved organization he was ever zealous, and in his death
our Camp and the Texas Division at large have suffered a
great loss. A beautiful life is ended, but its beneficent in-
lluence will survive to gladden generations."
His integrity was unquestioned. As a citi/tn. he was loyal
to his Slate and country. .'\s a Christian, he was steadfast
in his faith .•\nd zealous in his cflforts to promote the cause
of his Master. .-Xs a liusband. he was loving and tender. As
a brother, he was self-sacrificing, unselfish, and devoted.
X'iewcd as a lawyer, jurist, soldier, citizen, husband, brother,
friend, his life was \iseful, beautiful, and blameless."
In bis memorial address. Judge R. E. Beckham, of Fort
LiEVT. Col. E. M Dodsox.
Col. E. M. Dodson was born in Dekalb County. Ga.. Fel>
ruary 20, 1835; and died April 17, 1904, at his home, in Chatta-
nooga. Tcnn., where he had been a prominent lawyer since 1871
Col. Dodson was one of seven brothers, six of whom served
in the Confederate army and two bad been soldiers in the
Mexican war.
At the first call of bis State, in 1861, for twelve months'
troops he responded, and, as lieutenant in a company from
Catoosa County, was sent to Pcnsacola, Fla. He soon re-
signed from this company, joined another as private, was
.nflerwards elected captain, and at the expiration of the twelve
months he reenlisted, organized Company D, of the First
Cieorgia Confederate Regiment, w'as again elected captain,
and served with this regiment to the close of the war. In the
battle of Missionary Ridge. November 25. 1863. he was shot
ihrough the head, the ball passing through just below the
lirain. He was carried from the field, although his life was
despaired of. He finally recovered, and was promoted to major
for bis gallantry at Missionary Ridge.
On June ig, 1864, when the Federals had broken part of our
line at Kennesaw Mountain, Col. Dodson. then in command
of his regiment, was ordered to restore it. which he did, lead-
ing the charge, but at a fearful cost; a bullet entering his groin
became imbedded in his spine, from the effects of which he
never fully recovered. The ball could not be extracted, and
that was finally the cause of his death. For conspicuous gal-
lantry be was again rccominended for promotion, this time to
lieutenant colonol ; but, having been permanently disabled, he
was not commissioned.
At the close of the war Col. Dodson began the practice
of law at Ringgold. Ga.. and in June. 1866. married Miss
Frances, a daughter of Capt. Hamilton Garmany. a pioneer set-
tler of that section and a prominent man. In 1871 he moved
to Chattanooga, and became a leader in his profession.
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Qopfederat^ l/eterap.
At a meeting of X. B. Forrest Camp. No. 4, U. C. V., Chat-
tanooga. Tenn.. held on .^pril 22. 1904. a preamble and reso-
lutions were adopted, as reported by a committee composed of
Tomlinton Fort. T. M. McConnell. \V. H. Paj-ne. Q. W. Wil-
lingham. and W. L. Eakin. in which they say :
"He was one of a family of eleven, seven sons and four
daughters. Of the seven sons, six were soldiers in the Con-
federate army and two were soldiers in the Mexican War.
One of them was a lieutenant in Capl. Jack Hay's Company
of Texas Rangers, and afterwards commanded the Indians
of Arizona who enlisted in the Confederate army. Two sis-
ters and two brothers survive him. One of his surviving
brothers is Mr. George W. Dodson, of Burnett, Tex., who
was a soldier in the cavalry brigade commanded by United
States Senator John T. Morgan. The other surviving brother,
LIEUT. CUL. E. .M. DODSOiN.
Prof. John L. Dodson, of Oxford, .\la.. physically una1)le to
enter the army and the only male member of the family who
did not, was in charge of the Oxford College for mure than
thirty years, und during a greater part of that time 0110 of the
r.oard of Examiners under the public school laws of Alabama.
"While captain of Company D, First Georgia Confederate
Regiment, Noveiriber 25, 1863, in the battle of Missionary
Ridge he was wounded, a musket ball passing through his
head, just below the brain, leaving a scar for life. He was
taken from the field and not captured, but it was months
before he could return to duly. He was promoted from cap-
tain to major for gallantry in the battle of Missionary Ridge.
"On June 19, 1864, at Kenncsaw Mountain," the Federal
troops had broken our line, and Col. Dodson, then major of
his regiment, was ordered to restore it. He led the charge
and re-formed the line, but at an awful cost, being left lying
on the field, wounded in the groin, with a bullet imbedded in
his spine, from the effects of which he died yesterday, and
we will bury the bullet which had never been removed. He
was recommended for promotion from major to lieutenant
colonel for gallantry in the charge led by him on Kennesaw
Mountain, but was permanently disabled by the wound he
received, and never for that reason commissioned.
"No one of those of us who served in the Confederate army
suffered more for us, for our cause, to establish and main-
tain the rights of local self-government for which we fought
than he did. yet he was never heard to say aught against
those who were in the Federal army. No one was braver or
truer to our cause and no one more modest in claiming credit
for what he had done and suffered.
"At the close of the Civil War he again began practicing
law at Ringgold, Ga., and, being gifted with a lawyer's brain,
his success was ever remarkable.
"On June 21, 1866, be married Miss Frances P. Garmany,
a daughter of Capt. Hamilton Garmany, a pioneer in the set-
tlement of that section of Georgia who had the reputation of
having been wounded more than twenty times in fighting the
Indians in wars with the Seminoles in Florida, Creeks in
South Georgia, and Cherokees in Alabama. Capt. Garmany
represented his county in the Georgia Legislature, was princi-
pal keeper of the Georgia penitentiary, and occupied other
positions of honor and trust.
"In 187 1 Col. Dodson removed to Chattanooga, and there
formed a partnership in the practice of law with Chancellor
T. M. McConnell and the Hon. John A. Moon, which con-
tinued several years until Chancellor McConnell became clerk
and master of the chancery court at Chattanooga and Judge
Moon became judge of this circuit.
"In 1884 he was a candidate for Congress from this district.
Hamilton County had three candidates, and the Hon. John R.
-Wal, of Rhea, was the nominee. The campaign was so con-
ihicted ll.al no ill will grew out of it. *
"Comrades, we are about to consign to the grave one who
has illustrated 'our God-favored country' in every walk of
life, and on his tomb let it be written, 'Here lies the body of
a full-grown man measured by any and every standard. We
point to his example with pride;' therefore be it
"Ri'sok'cd: i. That the syjnpathies of this Camp are ex-
tended to the family, to this connnunity, and to the State
al their and our common loss by the death of one who hon-
ored us while he lived, and now who. that he is dead, we
iiiinor.
"2. I liat a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions
be furnished the family of the deceased, the Confederate
V'eter.\n. the city papers, and that a page of our record be
devoted to the memory of the deceased.''
The engraving for this sketch was furnished by Col. Tom-
linson Fort so spontaneously and generously that a note is
made as suggestive to others.
Wll.I.l.VM AlMISOX.
William Ainiisoa was born in France in 1836. His father
was a soldier under Napoleon I. He emigrated to this country
when the son was quite young and settled in Nashville, Tenn..
where Comrade Aimison lived up to the time of his death, in
I'ebruary. 1504. He was educated in the local schools of
Xashville. In 1801 lie entered the Confederate army as a pri-
vate in the Forty-Fiuirth Regiment of Tennessee Infantry. He
was later tiansferred lo the .\rniy of Northern Virginia, and
was in many of the severest battles fought by that army ana
in many smaller engagements and skirmishes. He was
wounded and captured early in i8b4 and remained in prison till
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403
the close of tlie war, when lie returned to Nashville and en-
gaged in the printing business. He was deeply interested in
everything pertaining to the Confederate veterans, and was one
of the original members of Frank Cheatham Bivouac, an or-
ganic member of Company B, I'. C. V., and was first lieu-
tenant of the comjiany until poor health compelled him to
resign.
Comrade Aimison was a modest, retiring gentleman, kind
and courteous to all, but a man of pronounced conviction and
decision of character and sterling integrity. At one time he
represented Davidson County in the Legislature with perfect
satisfaction to his constituency and with benefit to the State
and credit to himself.
The foregoing is from a memorial tribute by a couunittee
of his company.
(i. M. Mai«;.\kt.
G. M. Margart was born in Charleston, S. C, in 1848: and
entered the Confederate army in .\ugust, 1861, in Company
B, Twenty-Fourth Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, when
he was but one lunnth over thirteen years old. He bccaiue
attached to the Army of Tennessee, and participated in nearly
all the cngageiuenfs fought by this army. He was twice
wounded, and surrendered with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's
army at Greensboro, N. C, on May 2, 1865. At the time of
bis death he was a member of Frank Cheatham Bivouac and
nf Company B, Confederate Veterans, of Nashville. Coiurade
Margart was a gallant soldier, a good citizen, and true friend.
His death occurred on May 17.
The foregomg is from the Memorial Committee's report.
■>^ Gen. Jo.sei'h H. Lewis.
Doubtless many Kentuckians will not have heard of the
dtath nf dear G<n. Lewis until they see this notice. It had
been the pride of tlie members of the Orphan Brigade that
their last commander was ever present to preside at their an-
nual reunions. It was so fitting in every way that in future
gatherings lie will be greatly missed. He was their leader
and their counselor. In battle he would command his men to
lie low, and yet, apparently forgetful of self, he would jlasb to
the front on bis horse, with sword waving overhead. It was
this interest in bis men and this recklessness of self that created
an ardor for Gen. Lewis thai will ever remain in the memory
of his old soldiers.
His integrity was of that rugged kind that will stand all
tests. It will enshrine his rulings as a jurist in the memories
of his fellows. Tlierc should be a bronze statue of him in his
beloved Kentucky to remind the growing generations of a
character who honored his State and his beloved Southland.
Gen. Joseph Horace Lewis was born in Barren County, Ky.,
October 29, 1824 : and died at his home, near Duval Station,
Ky., July 6, igc4. He was educated in the Kentucky schools,
and graduated at Center College in 184,^. Adopting law for
his profession, he entered the ofiTice of Judge C. C. Tompkins,
of Glasgow, Ky., and was admitted to the bar in 1843.
His earnestness and brilliant abilities soon drew him into the
field of politics, and three successive times he represented the
Henry Clay Whigs in the State Legislature; but as the ex-
citing political developments began to. draw the lines more
sharply between the North and South and war clouds hovered
over the land he left the Whig Party, proclaimed himself a
State rights Democrat, and in i860 espoused the cause of his
great statesman. Breckinridge. When the result of the elec-
tion was known Gen. Lewis was one of the first prominent
sons of Kenluckv to declare that the hoiMr and interest of bis
State demanded she should withdraw from the Union ; and
when Camp Dick Robinson was established, believing that this
in itself was a violation of the neutral policy of the State, he
at once went to work raising troops for the Confederacy.
Consolidating bis recruits with those of Col. Cofer, he formed
the Sixth Kentucky Infantry, of which he was chosen colonel.
He first led his regiment in battle at Shiloh, and the daring
courage of a soldier at once won for him the admiration of his
men as bis native ability had won tlie applause of his constit-
uency in the political field. In the two days of that memorable
struggle on the banks of the Tennessee Col. Lewis and bis Ken-
tuckians were in the thickest of the fight. Two horses were
shot under him, but on foot, in the mud and mire with his
men, he helped cover Beauregard's sullen army in retreat to
Corinth.
Being ill ami in the hospital at the time, be missed the Baton
Rouge fight, but with this exception he led his men in every
battle they were engaged in from Shiloh to Bentonvillc, N. C.
At Stone River he was conspicuous for bis courage, and after
Chickamauga be was promoted to brigadier general, given
command of the famous Orphan Brigade, and was in the
severest Iiattles of the war, with which his name and the fame
of the Orphan Brigade arc inseparably connected.
At the close of the war Gen. Lewis returned to Glasgow,
Ky., and resuived the practice of law. lu 1870 he was elected
to fill out an unexpired term in Congress, and at the close of
the term was reelected for another two years. In 1880 he was
elected circuit judge, but resigned to become a candidate for
iOi
Qoofedera ti^ l/eterar?,
the court of appeals bench. He was elected and twice re-
elected, serving continuously until 1899, when he retired to his
farm in Scott County, where he resided until his brilliant and
eventful life was closed by death. Through his long life his
career was one of distinction. As a soldier, statesman, and
jurist he will rank as one of the foremost sons of Kentucky
in his day. As an officer he never courted favor from those
above him, but w'on his honors fairly in peace and in war on
an open field of battle. None will mourn his loss more sin-
cerely than the survivors of the Orphan Brigade", between
whom there was that undying attachment of men who have
stood together for years, undaunted in the face of death, and
wIk) suffered privations such a; only a Confederate veteran
knows.
Gen. Lewis was twice married : November 29, 1845, to Miss
Sarah Rogers, of Glasgow, who died in 1858, leaving two chil-
dren, John (the beloved "Jack") Lewis and Mrs. S. H. Burn-
ham, of Lincoln, Nebr. ; in 1883 to Mrs. Cassandra Johnson,
the widow of Mr. Jilson P. Johnson and a daughter of Gen.
'ITiompson B. Flournoy, of .\rkansas. These three and several
grandchildren survive this noble man.
Resolutions of Respect.
.\t a called meeting of the Joseph H. Lewis Chapter, U. D.
C., July 9, al the home of Mrs. E. L. Samuels, Frankfort, Ky.,
the following resolutions of respect were ado])ted to the mem-
ory of the late Gen. Joseph H. Lewis ;
Whereas God, in his infinite love and mercy, has called from
our midst our beloved friend, Gen. Joseph H. Lewis (born
October 24, 1824; died July 6, 1904), to join the ranks of
the vast host of comrades who have tented beyond the river ;
be it
Resolved: 1. That in the death of our beloved Commander,
Gen. Joseph H. Lewi*, for whom our Chapter was named, we
have lost a true friend, a hiyal sympathizer, a faithful citizen-
soldier, and a Christian compatriot.
2. That we, as a band of Daughters, render this expression
of regard and condolence with grieved hearts, feeling that in
the passing of Gen. Joseph H. Lewis this Chapter has suf-
fered the loss of a tried and true friend.
3. That we tender to his bereaved family our assurance of
mingled sorrow and respect.
Committee: Mrs. South Trimble. Miss Eliza Overton, Mrs.
Nelly Stedman Cox.
E. K. Sloan.
A comrade writes from Lisbon, Tex.: "Ezekiel K. Sloan
was tx)rn in Sevier County, Ark., October 22, 1845; and died at
his home, in Dallas County, Tex., July 24, 1904. He was a
member of Camp Sterling Price, U. C. V. At the age of eight-
een years he joined Company 1, Nineteenth Texas Cavalry, and
M rved through the war, making a gallant soldier. When the
summons came he expressed himself as having no fear of death.
His father served under Gen. Sam Houston in the Texas war
and in the battle of San Jacinto."
Capt. Robert Beaty Mason.
Capt. R. B. Mason, after a long illness, died suddenly of
heart failure at his residence, in Athens, Ala. He had a host
uf friends, for his warm heart and genial disposition had
endeared him to many.
Capt. Mason's progenitors on both sides were of old Vir-
ginia families, but were early settlers in .Mabama. The large,
old-fashioned family residence of the Masons, vfith its mass-
ive coluinus and avenue of lofty cedars, is a landmark i;;
Athens. '1 here Capt. Mason was born June 27, 1846, and
there he spent the years of his useful life. He was noted
for his devotion as son, husband, father, and neighbor. His
wife, who was the beautiful and admired Miss Mollie Garrett,
preceded him to the Beulah Land. He was alw.ays an entirely
manly character, true to principle, true to his friends, and
true to any cause he espoused.
Second to his devotion to the memory of his wife, so
beautifully tender, was his devotion to the Southern Con-
federacy, "the storm-cradled nation that fell."
Robert Mason was only sixteen years of age when in 1862
he joined Gen. P. D. Roddy's command, but he served gal-
lantly with other Limestone youths in that body of cavalry.
After the Civil War he ever revered the memory of the
Confederacy; he attended every great reunion of the veterans.
Six years ago he was appointed a brigadier general on the
staff of Gen. J. B. Gordon, Commander of the U. C. V. It
was in obedience to his request that he was buried in his
suit of Confederate gray. The Daughters of the Confederacy
attended his funeral in a body, and placed on his casket a
floral of white and red carnations. The veterans assembled
in the grounds of the stately ancestral home before the
funeral and followed his hearse to the grave. Capt. Mason
was also a Knight of Pythias.
The funeral services were held in St. Timothy's Protestant
Episcopal Church, the rector. Rev. Horace Weeks Jones,
reading the burial service. The outpouring of people, both
from town and country, in respect to the memory of the noble
dead, was such that the church could not half hold them.
I, All. .M.\.-ll.\.
There was a large attendance of colored people. Capt. Mascn
was greatly loved and respected by them. Some fifty or
seventy-five of these colored people came up from the old
plantation at Brown's Ferry to gaze, through their tears, for
the last time on the kindlv face of their dead friend, and
(^opfederat^ Ueteraij.
405
d-ring the funeral services at the church they occupied space
in the vestry rooms on each side of the chancel.
Mrs. R. S. Saunders, of Athens, who wrote a tribute to
Comrade Mason, sends this tribute to "Ole Marster:"
"After the burial of Mr. Robert Beaty Mason at Athens on
May 20 last a paper, of which the following is an e.xact copy,
was sent in to his children by one of his negro tenants.
Hardly legible handwriting, bad spelling, absence of punctua-
tion marks, all attest its genuine originality, but none the less
it is an eloquent tribute to Mr. Mason's justice and kindness
of heart, and a strong testimonial to the existing relation be-
Iietween the former slaveholding "Ole Marster" and his negro
tenant of to-day :
" 'i am comPell to say that my all and all is gon he has Ben
the friend for his ncgrose now he is gon and we are lost thir
is no man like him for his negros and i hupo tlio angels will
meet him and i hope that heven will crown him, God save
him for he has fought a good fight.
"'Save my Marster, I!ti,i,?k Varbrough.'"
Lee \\". Reynolds.
L. W. Reynolds was born in December, 183(1 ; and died .-\pril
'7. 1903, at liis home, in Pulaski, Tcnn. When the Soutli
called forth her sons to battle in 1861 he was among the first
to b:ick!c on his armor. Enlisting in Company .'\, Third Ten-
nessee Regiment, as a private, he remained tci the end n true
and brave soldier
He participated in
many severe engage-
ments, and at tlie
battle of Raymond,
Miss.. received ,t
wound which caused
his death after near
ly forty years of pain
and suffering, born^
patiently and wit):
Christian forlitud'
I'hose who knew
him best testify ti
the manliness of hi-
character as soldier
and citizen. His
gallantry in the field
and his unostenta-
tious demeanor as a
private citizen won
fur him the admiration and respect of his comrades and the
general public. When his regiment was captured at Fort Don-
clson he was at home sick, but he reported to the army at
Corinth, Miss., and was in the battle of Shiloh and other mem-
orable engagements until disabled for further service at Ray-
mond. A widow and a large family connection are left with
many friend's to do honor to his memory.
Coi.. P. I". De Gournav.
Col. Paul Francis de Cnnirnay, a Frenchman of noble birth
and a distinguished Confederate, died in Raltimcu'c. July j6.
iyo4, after a lingering illness.
Col. Dc Gournay was the Marquis De Gonrnay de Marchc-
ville, and was Ixirn in Brittany about seventy-eight years ago.
LEE W. REYNULUS.
He owned and managed, through resident agents, extensive
lands in France, which have been in his fainily for many
years. The best blood of the republic flowed in his veins.
He came to this country from Cuba, where he managed his
father's estates when a young man. He had fought for the
island's cause and rendered distinguished service. Coming to
the United States, he located in New Orleans, and lived there
for a number of years.
At the beginning of our great war lie was the editor of the
New Orleans Picayune. When the war broke out he equipped
at his own expense a company of artillery, of which he was
the captain, and was sent to join the army in Virginia. He
served gallantly at Yorktown, where he constructed and
manned the breastworks in the famous Seven Days' Battle of
June, 1862. He had succeeded to the rank of major of artillery
in the Army of Northern Virginia about tlie time Gen. John-
ston was wounded, and he was transferred lo the Southvi'est.
He w^as one of the defenders of Port Hudson and went through
the four months" terrible siege at that place, being forced to
capitulate only wdien on the verge of starvation. Col. De
Gournay was severely wounded at Port Hudson, being struck
in the breast by a piece of shell. He was there taken prisoner,
and remained a prisoner to the end of the w-ar, being confined
part of the time at Port Hudson and part at Johnson's Island.
He was made lieutenant colonel, commanding a battalion,
just before the fall of Vicksburg, which precipitated the fall
of Port Hudson. He was many times commended for bravery,
and was one of the most efiicicnt colonels of artillery in the
army.
At the close of the war Col. De Gonrnay went to Baltimore,
where he taught French and WTOte for various publications.
He was a very scholarly man, a gentleman of the old school,
with a most exalted notion of personal honor. He returned
to France, spending about two years there, wdien he returned
10 Baltimore, serving for seven years as Vice Consul for
France. He was a member of the Maryland Society of the
.\rmy and Navy of the Confederate Stales and the Isaac R.
Trimble Camp of Confederate Veterans.
The funeral took place from the Innnaculate Concepiion
Catliolic Church, Rev, Thomas M. O'Donoglnie officiating.
Capt. James R. Wheeler and the Maryland Line Confederate
Veterans had charge of the funeral arrangements.
Col. De Gournay is survived by a widow and one daughter.
Miss Blanche de Gournay.
John B. Peters.
After many weeks of sickness and suffering, John B. Peters
died at his home, near Maysville. Ky.. .\pril 18. Comrade
Peters came of one of the best families of Kentucky. He was
born in Woodford County in 1837, the family subsequently
moving to Bath County, where he grew to manhood. In-
tensely Southern in feeling, he enlisted under John H. Morgan
in 1862, becoming a member of Company F, of the Ninth
Kentucky Cavalry. L'nder this daring leader he shared the
war's hardships and dangers, which were especially severe
that winter during the campaign into Kentucky. Although
his regiment did not go with Morgan on that raid into Ohio,
some of its members had permission to do so, and among
them was John Peters. He bore himself gallantly, but was
captured with others and confined as a prisoner at Camp
Morton, bcin.g afterwards transferred to Camp Douglas, where
he remained till exchanged about April i, 1865. He then
reported to (jcn. Duke, whc connnandcd the remnant of Mor-
gan's Division, and with him surrendered on May 7, 1865.
406
(^oofederat(^ Ueterar>
ALBERT PIKE,
BORN DECEMBER 29, 18O9. DIED APRIL 2.
.891.
"The friendships sealed in younger days
Still firm and faithful last,
And newer friendships brighten in
The light of days long past."
The poem thnt ni^de the name of Al-
bert Pike immortal was changed slightly
by him at least once after it was first pub-
lished, and the verses were rearranged.
Frederick Webber. "Secretary General,"
sends it from Washington, with this
note : "Thinking some of his old friends
and brethren might like to have it as
originally published, I present it to them.
The verses which he desired to be con-
sidered as the poem after 1872 are print-
ed in italics I also add one verse which
lie never did publish, and which, I trust,
will enhance its value."
Ex'ERV Ye.\r.
The Spring has less of brightness,
Every year;
And the snow a ghastlier whiteness,
Every year ;
Nor do Summer flowers quicken,
Nor Autumn fruitage thicken,
As they once did, for they sicken,
Every year.
Life is a count of losses,
Every year:
For the u^eak are heavier crosses,
Every year:
Lost Springs with sobs replying
Unto lueary Autunuis' sighing,
ll'hile those we love are dying,
Every year.
It is growing darker, colder.
Every year;
As the heart and soul grow older.
Every year ;
I care not now for dancing.
Or for eyes with passion glancing.
Love is less and less entrancing,
Every year.
The days have less of gladness,
Every year:
The nights more weight of sadness,
Every year;
Fiiir Springs no longer charm us,
The winds and weather harm us.
The threats of death alarm us,
Every year.
There come new cares and sorrozvs,
E.vcry year;
Dark days and darker morrows.
Every year:
The ghosts of dead loves haunt us,
The ghosts of changed friends taunt us.
And disappointments daunt us,
Every year.
Of the loves and sorrows blended.
Every year ;
Of the charms of friendship ended.
Every year:
Of the ties that still might bind me,
L'lilil Time to Death resigns me,
My infirmities remind nic.
Ever>' year.
Ah, how sad to look before us.
Every year;
While the cloud grows darker o'er us.
Every year ;
When we see the blossoms faded,
1 hat to bloom we might have aided,
.^nil immortal garlands braided,
l-lvery year.
To the Past go more dead faces.
Every year;
As the Loved leave vacant places.
Every year;
Everywhere the sad eyes meet us,
In the evening's dusk they greet us,
And to come to them entreat us,
Every year.
"You are grovjing old," they tell us,
"Every year:
You are more alone," they tell us.
Every year:
You can it 111 »ii7 new affection,
You have only recollection,
Deeper sorrow and dejection,
Every year."
Too true! — Life's shores are shifting,
Every year;
And we are seaward drifting,
Every year;
Old places, changing, fret us,
The living more forget us,
There arc fewer to regret us.
Every year.
But the truer life drazcs nigher.
Every year;
And its Morning Star climbs higher,
Every year;
Earth's hold on us grows lighter,
And the heavy burdens lighter,
And the Dozen Immortal brighter.
Every year.
Our life is less worth living.
Every year ;
And briefer our thanksgiving.
Every year ;
And Love, grown faint and fretful.
With lips but half regretful.
Averts its eyes forgetful.
Every year.
"Lorna Carswell, A Story of the
South." by Comer L. Peck, is one of the
latest and deserves to rank as one of the
most faithfully drawn historical ro-
mances w'rittcn on that eventful period
of our country from 1855 to 1875. Every
feature of the story is drawn from actual
life and circumstance at the time, and
their truthfulness can be recognized by
every one old enough to remember the
plantation life before the war, the dark
days of the great strife, and the even
darker days of "reconstruction."
MISS LEON.\ TIND.SLL, FAYETTE, MO.,
Sponsor ;it Columbus (Mo.) Reunion.
F. II. Huron, of Danville, Ind., who
was color bearer of the Seventieth In-
diana Regiment, asks if any of the Vet-
EKA.Ni readers know of the family of an
iilllccr named Calvin Chitty. who was
niorlally wounded at Peach Tree Creek,
Ga., July 20, 1864, and died that night.
-Mr. Huron says: "He gave me a mes-
sage for 'wife and children,' to be sent
lliem when I could,' to let them know
how he died. He gave me the name of
the town where they then were (I think
it was in Alabama), but before the war
was ended I had forgotten the place,
and though I have since made repeated
cfTorls to locate the family, through
Southern papers and the War Depart-
ment al Washington, I have been unable
to do so. Calvin Chitty died as brave'
men die. I should like to learn of hi-;
family."
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407
MRS. (). A. t AKR.
Fonmlcr and Donor of C;irr-Burilettr ColloKf,
Slicrm:in, Tex.
.-i .MUNIFICENT GII-T FROM A
SOUTHERN WOMAN.
Carr-Burdette College is ideal and
momimcntal. It was projected, buill.
equipped, and donated by Mrs. (). A.
Can- for tlie higher ediieation of South-
ern girls. With its efficient faculty, up-
to-date department equipments, elegant
home f\u-nishings, and mild, healthful
climate, it attracts the best patronage
not (inly from the Southern but from
the colder States. The editor has
visited Carr-Bnrdettc, and candidly
states that one must see it in order to
have any adequate idea of the up-to-
date character of its college equipments,
the comfort and elegance of its college
home, and the refinement of all its ap-
pointments.
Mrs. Carr offers one free scholarship
in piano to a gifted, advanced student
and one free scholarship in voice cul-
ture to a gifted, advanced student. This
is a rare opportunity for two talented
girls. .Applications for the scholarships
should be made at once, as. all other
The Experience of Elder Wilson —
How He Was Cured of a Bad
Cancer of the Nose and
Face.
Ancxtrart froma Iciu-r ilatoii JIarcli 17. 1(104:
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Byo (%!.. applied t\v4v treatTiuMifc as ilircftcd.
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have no intenvst in inakint; t^iis statemeiit save
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There is absolutely no need of tho knife or
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nient. The ('oml)ination Oil t"me tor t'aiieois
is s >othin^! and tialmy, safe and sure. Write
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See advertisement in this issue of the
X'eteran and send at once for cata-
logue.
TO MADAME DE CHARETTE
(Nee Antoinette Polk).
Beneath the sky
Where you and I
Were born ; where beauty grows,
Up from the sod
At touch of God
There sprang a stately rose.
It grew, and men in wonderment
Beheld the beauteous lhin§ —
.Mas, for Hope which wooing went.
And Love which sorrowing.
Learns that the flower it loves the best,
I'lic one it guards the tenderest,
The hand of Fate transplants!
Our Southern rose
Now sweetly grows
.•\mong the hills of France.
Go search the gardens of Vendee.
Which poets long have sung :
Go cull the flowers that blush llie hills
tH Picardy among.
Land of Romance I
Fair land of France !
With all your glorious flowers.
Lilies of old
And cloth of gold.
We needs must lend you ours!
Right well I guess
For loveliness.
For beauty in repose,
There is no lily in all France
Can match our Southern Rose.
—Dr. John Allan W'ycth. iSSi.
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That the ingredients wdl ilo all this is the
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If you arc contemplating a trip to the
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Monteagle is one of the most delight-
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the scenery always attractive and inter-
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with its schools, lectures, attractive cot-
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pleasant place to spend the summer.
For illustrated summer folder, write
to W. L. Danlcy. General Passenger
Agent, N., C. and St. L. Ry.. Nashville,
Tenn.
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UTAH RESORTS.
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It carries Pullman sleepers, parlor cafe
cars, and free reclining chair cars.
Reaches Tcxarkana. Dallas, Fort Worth,
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Cheap home seekers' tickets on sale
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Qopfederat^ l/eterai).
409
CURES ECZEMA
ALL SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES, OLD SORES,
HUMORS, SWELLINGS.
IF YOU HAVE
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.ioints, ami back, hands, fingers, arms, and legs
eriintled by rheumatic pains, hawking, si)itt ing.
nosc-blec(bng, ringing \n the ears, sick stoniMi h
of catiirrh Jire sure signs of an awful loisom-d
condition nf the blood Botanic Blood Balm
(B, B. B.) stops all aches and jmins, the jioison
is desti'oyed. and a leal. permanent cure is
made of the worst rheumatism <.ir foulest ca-
tarrh.
Cures Itching Eczema, Watery
Blisters,
on any part of the body. B. B. B. stops the in-
tsnse it^'hing, heals every sore, seali. or scale
by giving a pure, lioaltliy food supi)ly to the
body. Cools the bloo.l. (.'nres old cases.
CANCER,
S\i]inuvntine Swelliiifirs. Eating Soros of all
kiiKls inroil by B. B. B. after sui'L'ioal opi-ra-
tions. itlaslfrs. sin'cialists, and all else fail.
Blood Balm kills the Cancer Poison in the
lilood and lieaLs the sores perfeotly. If you
have a iiersistent simple wart, swollen ^lan<ls.
shootinR, stiniiintf jiains, take Blond Balm and
they will dlsap]>ear herore they develop into
Cancer. Thousands of cures of Cani'er made
hy Blood liahn l>y following the simple special
directions with each l)()ttle.
Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) Is
lile-.i.vnit and saf.' t.. lake. Thoroughly tested
for thirty jears. Composi>d of Pure Botanic
Ingredients. Strengthens weak kidneys and
weak stomachs, cures Dyspepsia a perfect
lilood pni'ificr.
SI .00 per liuxc bottle at all drii^
stores. If taken in siiflieient i|iianti-
ty, ns (lireeted on label, and not enred,
moiiPV ^vill lie reinnileil.
SAMPLE OF B. B. B. SENT FREE.
Write Itlood Balm Co., .Vtlanta, (ia., and sani|il«' of .jiood Balm, willi many
tesliiiionials and eiiviilaf.s on Blood DKsoases, \vill be sent you at once, prepaid.
Deserilie vonr ti'ouble. and special free nie<Heal advice sent in sealed letter.
1^1^ "V/" A I ^'AINTRUS
H.-wc an cstalilivlictl rcputa
tion fnr correct Style. Finish
M'orlcmansliip and Material
Why? Because wesell direct
from factory to^home. and
put into OUT Roods tlie profit
generally allowed tlic inid-
dlcm.ln.
We sell a Beautiful
CABIINET
AlAINTEL
as low as $5.75
Ouaranteed too.
Send for our handsiinie*l'ook
the* Ad v.ance Courier "of the
Royal Line, showing many
bMDllfnlnrw de.lini.. It will save you moncyonany Iclndof
Mantels. Grates. Tiles or Fire-PIace Fittings.
WHITR MANTEL & TILE CO.
624 Pay Street, - - KNOXVII.LE, TENN.
FOR OVER SIXTV YEARS
An Old andWell-Tried Remedy.
MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHINR SYRUP
ha-i li.-en u«ol lor ovor .slXTV VKAKS hv MlM.lo.ss ol
MOTHKK> (..I lluir CIIILUKEN WHlliF. TKKTHINc},
WITH PEKFICCT slICl'ESS. It SOOTIIKS tlio CHILD,
SOFTENS IhoCFMS, AI,I..\T8 nil TAIN; CfKES WIND
COLIC. nt)d n Iho ho«t romodv foi IHARUllKA. Sold by
DruEfiists III ,-v..iv [tnrt ol llio world. Bi> pure to asit for
MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP,
AND TAKE NO OTHER KINH.
TWBNTY-miVE CENTS A BOTTt-C.
®ljr fiabrrlBon - iJfrmpIjtU
JJurrl^aaing Agrnry,
923 (EMrli Abrnur,
Eauiabillr, 9ig.
swopping of all kind* glyen prompt attcjitloa.
GowDi made. Satisfaction ^arantead.
THE WEST POINT ROUTE
Atlanta and West Point Railroad,
The Western Railway of AlabaiT...
Transcontinental Lines
Fast Mail Route
Operating the fastest scheduled train
in the South. To
TEXAS. MEXICO, CALIFORNIA
and all Southwestern points.
Superb dining cars; through Pullman
and tourist sleeping cars. For special
rates, schedules, and all information, ad-
dress
J. B. Heyward, D. P. A.,
Atlanta, 6a.
THROUGH SERVICE
VIA
L. & N.. E. & T. H. and C. & E. I.
2Vestibuled Through Trains Dally ry
NASHVILLE TO CHICAGO ^
THROUGH SLEEPERS and DAY COACHES
NEW ORLEANS TO CHICAGO
DINING CARS SERVING ALL MEALS EN ROUTE
n. H. HILLMAN, a. P A.. S. L ROQERS, Gen. Aft.
Mention VETERAN when you write.
•ilO
Qoofederate l/eterarj,
7-ROOM HOUSE, $1 ,800 FORTUNES
INC
•■'' BY MAIl^ '^'^1
DinEcirlihoM MANvracnrRER
A ck.m record of satisfied customers and
46vearsof honest dealing, true quality, stvle.
finlsli and iveieht A record any manufact-
urer might feci proud of.
Our plain gold rings are sold for a.s low as
it is possible to sell reliable plumb quality
rinES.
No charEC for EngravinE Initials, Mottosor
names. Write for our ilhistralcd catalogue
of Watches, Jcwelrv. Silverware, etc.
C. p. BARNES A. CO.
504-506 W. Market SI LOUISVILLF, KY.
BEST
PASSENGER SERVICE
IN TEXAS.
4-IMPORTANT GATEWAYS-4
OTirbeautif ul little >f<^ "k
of •' IV'sipns to Build" is
jnst otT tho press noth-
ini^ liko it. Nvwe-^t aiid
.' Ust ont Full nf <l*-
i NiL^ns. plans, niul idt-jiK
;i>*<>ut Iniililiii^.
, ia Wiiith iimny dollars
Mf d^ to HXiy onegDing' to liiiild.
Z^ Rond %Ti e-fiiis t<»-day
■' for a •■'>i'y to
THE PARMELEE ARCHITECT CO.
Box 198, KNOXVILLE, TC^/V.
I PAY SPOT CASH FOR
IN OIL
$20 GREW INTO
$2,000 IN30'*^YS
In •».. K. iiiij-'kv Ii> 1.1, wl^rc r.Tiui.r^ Bn- l«-lni; rvnllfoi t ttfw
dl»n<\> rl, >. U'rlic poM*! fi>r luit-rr>iltiK part leu Imr*
KENTUCKT TRENTON BOCK OIL COMPANY, LOUtSTILLE, IT.
MILITARY
BOUNTY
Land Warrants
Issued to soldiers of any war. Also Soldiers* Ad-
ditional Homestead RiEhts. Write me at once,
FRANK. H. REGER, B:u^th Block, Denver, Col.
C BREVER'S
Russian and Turkish Baths
and First-Class Barber Shop,
FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY.
317 Church Street, NASHVILLE, TENK.
OpCn Day Ar^o Niomt.
W. C. RAE5FIELD. Proprietor.
FortuiK^s in this jilant Eiisil -'
timwii. KiHits ami .'L-txli for
salt*. R<K)m in v«nir nurden.
Plant in fall B<«.klt't and
lua^'azino. 4r. Ozark Ginseng Co, , 335 Main St . Jopiin. Mo.
Ta-'P
NO TROUBLE rO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
a
E. P.TURNER,
Qenx Pass'r and Tiokit Aqent,
Dallas, Tex*»
The
Harrtman ^oufe
Travel via the TENNESSEE CENTRAL RAILROAD
to all Summer Resorts cast. The shortest and most direct
route to all interior resorts and Atlantic Coast Watering Places.
Through tickets on sale at all coupon ticket offices. See that
your ticket reads via the Tennessee Central Railroad. For
further information a]iply to
E. H. Hinton, Traffic Manager. JWajh-<Jille, Tenn.
A BOOM
does not, ultimately, bring alxmt thu best results to a i*ommuuity.
THE PAN HANDLE
is NOT on a boom, but is en,ioyint? the most i'iii»iil growth of any section of Texas.
WHY?
Because only recently have the publif at lart;e j-ealized the oiiporttmities whit-h this
northwest section of Texas oifors. Tho larj^e ranches are lieing divided into
SMALL STOCK FARMS
Wheat, Corn, Cotton. Melons, and all kinds of feed stuflfs are being raised in abun-
dance, sni'passinpr the expectations of the most sanmiino.
A country abonndinj? in such resources (tried aitl itroven), tojjetber with the
LOW PRICE
of linds, cannot help enjoyinE a mo.st rapid growth, and that is what is happenintr in
tho Pan Handle.
"The Denver Road"
has on sale daily a Iow-rat» home seeker's ticket, which allows you stop-ovovs at nearly
itll points, thus giving you a chance to investigate the various sectiousot the Pan Handle,
Write A. A, GLISSON, General Passenger Agent, Fort Worth. Tex,,
For iKimphlctsanl ,.... information.
Qopfederate l/eterai}.
411
THE BEST PLACB
TO PURCHASE
ALL-WOOL
Bunting or
Silk Flags
of All Kinds,
Silk Banners, Swords, Belts, Caps,
and all kinds of M:lit;irv Kquipment
and Society Goods is at
Veteran J. A. JOEL & CO.,
88 Nassau Street, New York City.
SF.XD FOR PRICE LIST.
JAOKSONVILLE
vlaValdosta Route, from \*aldnsla via Georg^U
Sonthern ..r.d Florida Uv., from Maccr.
via Central of (Jeorgia Ky., from
ATLANTA
via Western and Atlantic R. R.^ from
CHATTANOOGA
NASHVILLE
uhvllle, Chattanoojra, and St. L
arriving at
ST. LOUIS
VlAthe Nashville, Chattanoofra, and St. Ix>u1b Ry,
arriving at
AND AT
CHICAGO
rthelUlnoU Centra! R. R. from Martin, TanD
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE AND
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
MAINTAINED OVER THIS
SCENIC LINE.
Ticket apenls of llie JacUsonville-Sl. Louis and
t'blcaeo line, and aRenls of connecting lines Id
Klorltia and the Southeast, will tive you full In
formation as to schedules of thi,3 ooiible d.^ *- serv
Ice to St. Louis, Chicago, and the Northwest, and
of train time of lines connectinj^. They will also
Bell you tickets and advise you as to rates.
F. D. MILLKU, - • Atlanta, Ga-
Travellng Passenger Agent I. C. R, R.
WM. SMITH, jn., . . NAsiiviiXK,TH»m,
Commercial Agent.
The Certified Audit Corporation
OF? INENV YORK.
AUDITS. EXAMINATIONS. APPRAISALS, REPORTS.
EDWARD OWEN, Vice President and General Manager.
Criiji.-J riiblic Aicounlnnt.
Ex-i'ommissioner of Accounts to tlif City nf Xc-rr I'orA:
PRINCIPAL OFFICES, 170 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY.
BRANCHES: CHICAGO; PITTSBURG; ATLANTA: U Victoria Street. LONDON.
VmN^*MM«^^a«IMM,^^a«MimkrflMWMMMmta^MNM«%^«
Great
Texas!
The Eyes of
the World Are
Upon Her.
The Home Seeker
Wants to know .ibout her
"Matchless" Climate and lier
Cheap Lands.
The Investor
Watits to know not onlv about
her Cheap Land and Low
Taxes, but, as well. Her
Wealth of Mine and Forest,
and tliis is to let vou know thai
The International &
Great Northern,
Texus* Oi-eatest Rfaliron<.l.
Traverses more than a thonsaml
miles of the Cream of Texas' Ri-
sources, latent and developed, and
that you may learn more about the
c;re.\t I. \- (i. X. cou^;TK^■
by sending a 2-cent stamp for a
copy of the ILLUSTRATOR
AND GENKRAL NARRATOR,
or 25 cents for .a year's tile of same,
or by writing
D. J. PRICE,
O. P. «Si T. A.., I. <<t O. P». R. R.,
Piilt;»tine, Tex.
MISSO\/^I
TACIFIC
... OR. ...
IRON MOUNTAIN
ROVTE
From J'T. LO\/I.^
and MEMTHI.y
Affords Tourist, Prospector,
or Home Seeker the Best
Service. Fastest Schedule
to All Points in
MISSOURI, KANSAS, NEBRASKA.
OICLAHOMA and INDIAN TERRI-
TORY, COLORADO, UTAH, ORE-
GON, CALIFORNIA, ARKANSAS.
TEXAS, LOUISIANA, OLD and
NEW MEXICO, and ARIZONA,
PuLi-MAN Sleepers, Free Re-
clining Chair Cars on All
Trains. Low Rates, Fn-e De-
scriptive Litertitiire. Consult
Ticket Agents, or address
H. C. Townsend R. T. G. Matthews
G. P.andT. A. T. P. A.
St. Ix)uis, Mo, Louisvili.k, Kv.
mv^mmmmm^im.
412
Qopfederat^ Ueterap.
The Eye of fK«
jV ai i o n
Is Turned Toward
The best agricultural, indus-
trial, and commercial oppor-
tunities in the great Southwest
are located along the line of the
Houston i^
Tejcas Cen-
tral 7(. 7(.
w liich traverses the heart of
Texas. The H. & T. C. R. R.
maintains a well-equipped In-
dustrial Department, whose
business it is to represent the
home seeker — the land buyer,
not the land dealer.
All rei. uests for information
appertaining to Texas will be
given prompt attention if ad-
dres^e^i to
Wm. Doherly Stanley H. Watson
A. G. P. A. Industrial Ajjent
HOUSTON, TEX.
u
m FOOB
ff
The best line to
INDIANAROUS.
REORIA,
CHICAGO,
And all points in Indiana and
Michigan.
CLEVELAND.
BUFFALO.
NEW YORK.
L BOSTON.
AND ALL POINTS BAST.
Inform&tion oheerfullj furDiBt)«<l on a^
plicatioD at City Ticket Offlo* ^* Big Fcmr
Boute." No. 259 FourUi Arenn* cr write
t« S. J. QATI8, General Agent PuMag«r
Department, I>ouiivillk, Kt.
Calitounia fo'.^'lT^f,
1l\nfobt3 Ccmplar, anJ) Sovereign
OtanO Xo&fle, 1. ®. O. f.,
meeting will l>o liolii In San Frnncisro in
.^^cpiemoer, Vcrv tow r.-itt';* via >\AliASU
and its copincftiMns. Tlie \V.\li.\SH is thn
only hne lunniiiK to llie Main Entrance of
tlie'WorM's Fair Grounds. lloMersoJWa-
basli ticket can have tlicir bageagc checked
ti and fiom the Mnsniflccnt New Wabosli
l"asseni;ef Station, directly attlie Main En-
trance. Ten days' stop-overs allowed at St.
Louis on one-way or lound-irip tickets, go-
in;X or returninjr.
Callon or write for particulars
F. W. GREENE, D. P. A., Wa-
bashR. R., Room aosTTrban
Building, Ivouisville, Ky.
N. C. & ST. L RY.
VIA MARTIN
^0^^ Monday
^^3^ EVERY
Tuesday
DAY
Wednesday
TO
Thursday
^ ST. LOUIS
Friday
I "WORLD'S
■^^i^.
S.iturday
FAIR
il^^^Kl Sunday
^^^^m ROUTE"
Ticket Office. Maxwell House, Church St.
Telephone 151
H. F. SMITH, W. L DANLEY.
Tnnrrtc Mon. gen-l pass, act
NASHVILLE, TENN.
How to Get Thero
QUICK
The Short Line. Via. Bristol
TO THE EAST
Throvigh Train
No CKa^rvge
Leave XEW ORLKAXS. Q. & C
• MEMPniS. S.jutliiMn Rv
CIl.XTT.VN'i H >(i.\. Sonthn Ky.
■ KNii.WlLl.E. Sonthcin Rv
" HKISTc il.. N A: W. Rv
.Xiivol.YNtlllilUi;. X. &\V. Ry...
• W.\SIlIXiiTiiX. U.C.So. Rv
• HAl.Tl.Mi iHE. Md., P. R. R
• 1'HII,.\11KI,PH1A. P. R. R.. .
Xi;\V ViiHK, P. R. R
■• lii >S1' )X, X. Y.. X. H., A: H ..
7:30
11:1X1
!I:,V,
l:ai
r:t«l
1:45
(i:.t'
»t:(lll
in:l.i
p.m.
pm.
U.lll.
p.m.
p.m.
H.m.
H.m.
a.m.
a.m.
p.m.
p.m.
Through Sleeper Ne>v Orleans to
New Vork
Through Sleeper Memphis (o
New York
The liiu'st Dining Ctir St-rvifo.
Rclialilo iiifonnation oil prfuUv fiirnishcil V>y
X.irf.ilk and \Ve-t<-rii Railway. IIHI W. Ninth
St. (Read House Bloik), t'hattanoo){a. Toiin.
^V.^RItKN L. Ronii. Western Pa.s.seiiger Aiieut,
Chattanciopi. Tenu.
AV. B. Bkvii.i., (tcneral PiL-vsoup-r Au'cut, Roa-
nok,-. Va.
NORTH TEXAS
^ POINTS ^1
VIA
Santa Fe
^ w
TO
GaLlveston, and Points
South, East, and
West. ^ ^ EqMip-
meat, Service, and Cui-
sine \ins\irpa.ssed. ^
W. S. KEENAN, C. P. A.,
Galveston, Tex.
C^oi?federate V/eteraij.
413
M*
JOI^f \/s
If*
XN a mining proposition that will pay you an income for life.
X T/te Cottfedcrate Mining Co. owns outright 180 acres of rich
mineral land — rich in copper and gold — located in Maricopa
County, Arizona.
We advise you to buy this stock now, as we shall soon have
funds enough to carry us to the dividend period. Then the
stock will be beyond reach. Write us to-day.
ADDRESS
R. W. Crabb, Treasurer, Uniontown, Ky.
TRAVEL VIA THE
SOUTHERN
RA IL WA Y
TKe Great- ^ Through
est {^5^ Sleeping
Southern
System
Double Dai-,
ly Service
*
Nashville to
the I'2ast, vi;i
Ch attaiu)o<^:i
and Ashevillc,
throufjh
Car Nash
\ ille to New-
York.
Dining antl
Observation
Cars.
Pull m a II
Sleeping Cars
on all through
trains.
Elegant Day
Coaches.
"THE LAND OF THE SHY"
•T. M. Cur. p. 4tli Vici' Pros., 'U'ftshington, D. V.
8. H. Hahiiwick. Pass. Traffic Manager,
"Wasbinjiton. I>. C
W. H. Tayloe, Gen. Pass. Agt.. Washing-
ton D. C.
C. A. BKNSroTKn. Asst. (ten. Pass. Agt., Cbat-
tanot>ga. Tenn.
.T. E. Snipi.EV. Traveling Pass. Agt., Chatta-
nooga. Tonn.
Summer at
Hot Sprirvgs
For those who go - J lot Springs, .\rkansas, for
the henelit of heallii, the summer is really the best
time. Her fortunate location, high up in the foothills
of tlic Ozark Mountains, insures a cool and delightful
climate, and physicians are united in the opinion that
tiie waters are more benelii ial during the summer
season.
Oi\e Fa.re Plvis $2.00
For the Ivounii Trip Throughout tlie Summer.
Rock Island
System
WIJTTE FOIJ 1500KLETS.
GEO. H. LEE. J. /f. CO'RJVAT.ZA'R.
(icneral Fiis,senger Agent, Cieueral Agt. ru.-<s. Depl.,
LiTTi.K Rock, Ahk. Memphis, Tknn.
wrCW I HuLCd rorontaloi;. Atrenta
waDtcd C0CLTEB0PTlClLCO>Clil«W<>>UU
Vofe?@|)rl5AWHI50fljEYEWATER
414
(;^oi>/ederat^ l/eteraij.
BUFORD eOLLBGE
NASHVILLE, TENN.
FOR YOUNG WOMEN. LIMITED AND SELECT.
Tht Di!lincli><-ly L'nivctMly Prcparjtoty College ol
the Souih lot Women. Palrom will seek in vain a moic
iiical location than "Bcaulotl." Fcacclully she icsu
amid the "ntcnjlh and brauly" o( hill and lale and
michlr (orcM »cenc. yrt in clo»c touch with Ihc Brcat ed-
ucational ccntci o( the Soulh. A charminEcampus of 25
■cirs. putc ait, water, and food, combined with outdoor
alhletlct, a tplcndidiy equipped liuildinc. perfect sani-
tation, and constant petwinal care piomotc the excellent
health o( the student body. The limited enrollment.
Christian atmosphere, comprehensive curriculum, lead-
ine to deerees and preparing for all universities, with
Conservatory ad\anlages in Art. Music, and Expression,
nust commend this thoroujh coUeEC to all ihoushllul
parents. The cultured faculty of university jraduales.
•trenethened by the scholarly lecture corps and access
to Vandelbilt laboratories, offer unrivaled opportunities
for "The Makine ol a Woman." Write for beautiful
"Ciay and Cold yearbook." and read tlie testimony ol
enthusiastic patrons Irom every section of the country.
' MRS. E. C. BUFORD, Prgaldanl.
BIG8g
I ChainofSColleircsownedbybuiineM
«'n and indorsed by busiiicss luetu
fourtren Cashiers of Banks are on
■our Board of directors. Our diiilorn.a means
sometliinir. Knter any lime. Positious secared.
i Draughon's
J Practical...
"^ Business... _
(lucorporaicd, Capital block SJOI.I,000.00.>
ftashvHIe, Tenn. U Atlanta, Ca.
ft. Worth. Texas, «; MontSomery. Ala.
St. Louis, Mo ^ Calve&lon, Texas,
Little Rock, Ark. A Shreveport, La.
For ISO page catalogue address either place.
If yon prefer, may pay ttiitioti out of salary af-
ter course !• completed. Guarantee graduates
to be competent or no charges for tuition.
HOME STUDY: Bookkeeping, Shorthand,
Penmanship, etc., tauKht by mail
100 pat'e BOOKLET on Home Study
Write for
It's Iref
Special Rates
ANNOUNCED BY
Seaboard
Air Line
Railway
Tr\ Hlhnno On Snininer Sc-liool, I'liiversity of
10 mm\ UU. (i.'<.iKia. Olio fare, jilus Si
ci-iits, lor inuiid tfiji. Tieltets on sale .July 2, 3,
■1, 11. If* ; Hiiiil limit, l.'i days.
fitU N 1 MeetiiiK.Inil'i^''ial Council,
Rictimfl, VQ.
riiiuiiiivi ^;-ij, ■■• u, MystieSlirinors. One fare,
l)lus ;:l. tor round trip. Tiekets on sale .Inly 10,
11: linnl limit, .luly Si. fhiiico of i-tmtes yia
Rieliuionrt iind Wiisliiujiton. or via Norfolk Bay
Line Steimiei- and Bnltiinofo, or Norfolk
Steamer auil Wfusliingt<in
n National Assoeiation Station-
-U. ary KuKineers. ( >uo fare, phis
•£> cents, f.ii- round trii). Tieki'ts on sale .Inly
ai. :il. AilKiist I: final limit. Aiiu-iist « ( IXT.Y
DOUBI.K DAILY SLEEPIXd CAK MNIC HE-
T\VEEN ATL.WTA AXU !:I( Il.MOXl).
suinmer Excufsions '^^iz^::^rr^:^':^
Georgia, the Caroliiias, VIRIilXIA, and the
EAST.
For further informtit hill rrhilirr In rnlin nf
fare, ncliedulcK, rcmrmition nf »\tc\icr (.ivviimnw-
datUmn, clc. npjWj/ tn nearest Tlekcl Aqciit, nr
■addrcus U'M. II. VLKMEXTS, T. P. A., nr W.
E. crilUSXIAN, A. a. p. A.. Atlanta, Ga.
St. Mary's College.
T
COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC.
FOUNDED BY THE RT. REV. A. C. GARRKTT. U.D., LL.l).
Sixteenth Year Opens September 15, 1904.
?
A coUeiie for Christian education af women. College, <x>lle(to preparatory, fw-ientifle. and lit-
erary courses. Bishop A. C. (jarrott, instructor in uiuntal science and iistrononiy, Cliissics and
higher mathematics in charge of gradtiatcs of t'omoU. NVellesley CoUeg;-. and Trinity University,
of Toronto. Natural science taught liy a graduatet't Ihe University of Jlicliigan. Two ICuroiH-an
instructors of modi'rn languages. Arrangements made for foreign travel under siiiKTvisi.m of
the college. School of Mu-sic nnder direction of instructors traiueil in (ierniany, Paris (France),
and Xew England t'oii.servat<iry of Jhisic. Pianotorte pupils cxauuneii anuually liy Mr. Klahre,
of tlio New England Cimservatory. Boston. Art and china painting taught according to tlie best
methods. Health, diet, and physical culture in charge of two traincnl nurses and teacher of phys-
ical culture. The gr.mp of buildings comprises: (1) '^t. Mary's Hall (stone); (-> Oral) Hall, which
is devoted to the Schools of Music and Art: (3) Hartshoriie Memorial liecitatani Hall: (4) The
Marv Aihims Bulklev Memorial Uonuitory; (.1) Thc^ Sarah NeiLsou Memoritil lor tlio care of the
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been made of $2
per day per per-
son for rooms— European plan— and $1 per day for delegates
occupying cots. These rates apply also to friends accompany-
ing delegates. Parties wishing rooms should apply to W. F.
Williamson, Manager of the Hamilton Hotel, at once. No
deposit necessary. At the rate stated specially— $2— two peo-
ple will occupy a single room and four people a double room.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy are requested,
on arriving in St. Louis, to wear a red and white ribbon, so
that the Sons of Veterans may recognize them at the I'nion
Stitinn. It is their purpose to show them every courtesy and
attention. A table of Southern literature will he in Conven-
tion Hall. Sonthoin a\ilhnrs and writers are requested to
send books, magazines, and other literature to Mrs. Theresa
Freeman, 4374 Morgan Street. On arriving at Convention
Hall, No. 911 North Vandcvenler Avenue, the Daughters can
obtain infortnalion of the Registrar, Mrs. Robert McCullough,
or at the Bureau of Information. Mrs, George H. Hunt.
Mrs. A. W. Rapley (2816 Locust Street), President of the
Missouri Division, U. D. C, is doing everything possible for
the success of the convention. The different passenger agents
for Eastern, Southern, and Southwestern lines will sell tickets
to tlie World's Fair at one rate, plus $2, for the round trip,
good for fifteen days. No further reductions will be made for
the convention.
The Missouri Division will hold ils annual convention Oc-
tober 10-12, so that State delegates can attend both conventions
on the sajne visit to St. Louis.
x.-isririr.LE daughters at the keuniox
WV MRS. JOHN 1'. HrCKMAN,
To the Confederate Veteran: I notice in the June, 1904,
number of the Veteran an article from Mrs. W. J. Behan,
President of the Confederated Southern Memorial Associa-
tion, in which she says: "It was a disappointment not to have
a memorial association to welcome us." I can't imagine how
Mrs. Behan could have wanted a more cordial or hearty wel-
come than she received in Nashville. The Daughters of the
Confederacy secured for her association the elegant basement
of the Presbyterian Church, and they extended to her every
courtesy. Our reunion committee furnished her four hacks
for the parade, which more than seated her delegates. In
fact, the delegates filled only three hacks, and one was given
back to the committee.
Immediately after the war a memorial association was
formed in Nashville, its object being to gatlicr our dead
together from the cemeteries and battlefield of Nashville. It
bought a beautiful circle in Mount Olivet Cemetery, in
which it buried one thousand, four hundred and ninety-two
soldiers, at a cost of six thousand, eight hundred dollars.
Its object having been accomplished, it ceased to exist. A
few years thereafter another memorial association was formed
in Nashville. Its object was to build a monument over our
dead in the Confederate circle at Mount Olivet. The monu-
ment was erected, at a cost of ten thousand and five hundred
dollars. There was no qualification for membership in eitlier
association, save a contribution, and any one who subscribed
as nnich as five dollars was a member of either association.
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All ladies who belonged to the associations who arc living and
who are eligible to membership now belong to the Daughters
of the Confederacy. 1 he memorial associations did a grand
and noble work in their lime, and they will ever be grate-
fully remembered by the Southern people. The Daughters
of the Confederacy are now doing the work that was done by
them, and since their organization, in 1894, they have built
a large number of monuments and cared for a large number
of Confederate soldiers, their widows and children. The
memorial associations of Nashville, having accomplished their
objects, have gone into innocuous desuetude, and their work
has fallen upon worthy shoulders — tlie United Daughters of
the Confederacy.
[In printing Mrs. Behan's letter referred to in the fore-
going it was without thought of any spirit of controversy.
As President of the Confederated Southern Memorial As-
sociation, one branch of which was so strong in other days
at Nashville, she evidently meant only to express her regret
that there was not an active organization here to greet and co-
operate with them. She expressed her gratitude in various
letters for courtesies and kindness shown her officially and
personally, naming various members of the Daughters of the
Confederacy. — En.]
FLORIDA DIVISION— ANNUAL CONVENTION.
The annual convention of the Florida Division, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, was held at Lake City on
Wednesday, May 4, Mrs. Roselle Clifton Coolcy, President,
presiding.
This Division now lias twenty-three Chapters and eight hun-
dred nieniljcrs, and is in fine condition. The Division gives
annually a handsome gold medal for the best historic essay,
the four State schools competing. This year's medal was won
by Mr. George Skermer, of the State College, at Tallahassee.
The local Chapters at Jacksonville and Gainesville also give
gold medals, the contestants being the pupils of the local high
schools.
The Florida Chapters place headstones at the graves of
all veterans, buy uniforms for the occupants of the Soldiers'
Home, observe all Southern holidays and Memorial Day. The
historic papers of this Division are also of especial value.
This convention marked the close of tlie second term of
office as President for Mrs. R. C. Cooley, and it was a matter
of general regret, as she has never spared herself where duty
was concerned. 1"he splendid condition of the Division shows
the good judgment and excellent talent of the executive head.
Mrs. Cooley has compiled a complete and yet simple parlia-
mentary manual. It is being widely used in the U. D. C. and
in clubs.
The following was unanimously passed on her retiring from
the presidency :
"Florida Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy.
"Permit me in behalf of this Division to express our appre-
ciation and recognition of the valuable and loyal services of our-
gifted and gracious retiring President, Mrs. R. C. Cooley.
"Her administration has been characterized by marked dig-
nity and strict allegiance to the spirit and principles of our
organization. In the executive chair she has impressed all
and given inspiration as a friend and adviser. She has been
ever ready with timely sympathy and wise counsel. The
prestige and honor of our organization has been preserved.
"The Division feels the impulse to larger effort on all lines
that will preserve and perpetuate forever the great underlying
truths upon which we were called into existence.
"We would assure you, Mrs. Cooley, of our sincere senti-
ments of esteem. To your successor we pledge our united
loyalty and help.
"Very respectfully submitted. Mrs. John M. Taylor.''
The officers for 1904-05 are: Mrs. H. E. Stockbridge (nee
Belle Lamar), President; Miss A. C. Caruthers, First Vice
President : Mrs. M. C. Drysdale, Second Vice President ; Mrs.
J. Lee McWray, Third Vice President; Mrs. R. G. Blake,
Fourth Vice President; Mrs. S. Boteler Thompson, Corre-
sponding Secretary; Mrs. G. W. Lamar, Recording Secretary;
Mrs. William H. Dial. Treasurer ; Miss Mary Wittick, Regis-
trar; Mrs. Fannie R. Gray. Historian.
The next State convention will be held at Pcnsacola, open-
ing on the first Wednesday in May, 1905.
WAR TIME EXPERIENCES AT FRANKLIN.
UY MRS. JOHN C. GAUT. NOW OF NASHVILLE.
I had many experiences during the four years of our sad
and unfortunate war with the North, for which I gave my
time, my means, and was always ready to do for our noble
cause, which was so near to my heart. I am writing in my
dear old home at Franklin, recalling the memories of the
past, and so I am reminded most vividly of that awful and
bloody battle on November 30, 1864. We were told that the
Yankees would make no stand here, as they feared our army,
pressing forward so rapidly, would capture their pay train.
The Federals changed their plans and built breastworks.
The fighting conimcnced about 4 p.m., and not long after-
wards a stampede with the advance guard took place, the
men and teamsters hurrying toward the river and fortifica-
tions. One poor fellow ran by my gate with his arm shot
and holding the broken part in his other hand. I hastily
cut oft' a part of a window curtain and called to him to let
me help him. He stopped, and I placed his arm in a sling.
.■Another just behind him was wounded also, and was so weak
;iiul exhausted that I gave him water and whisky. I did for
them what I would have wished their people to do for our
boys. It seemed, however, only a few minutes till Gen. Scho-
field, who was at the fort, rallied the men, and those not
wounded returned. That was w-hen we lost so many of
our brave ofiicers and men on the breastworks.
The firing became so terrible, the balls falling in every
direction, that I took
my children and serv-
ants into the base-
ment. About f e n
o'clock the fi ring
ceased to some extent,
and I came up, lighted
my hall, and looked
out on the street. I
saw four men at the
gate, who asked if
tliey could get some-
thing to eat. I asked
what regiment they
belonged to, not know-
ing whether they were
Confederates or Yan-
kees. They answered
that tlicy belonged to
the Twenty-Eighth
Mississippi. I could
not repress the tears
of joy to tliiiik we
were once more victorious and had our boys with us. I in-
.MKS. John c. gatt.
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vited them in and gave them a nice supper. I had been having
food prepared all day for soldiers. Soon afterwards my old
friend, Gen. B. F. Cheatham, rode up, then dear Gov. Harris
and Bishop Quintard. The house was soon filled, and all
were fed. Among the number was my cousin, Charley Ewing,
who said that I could not feed the army. Among my guests
were Maj. Joseph Vaulx, Trim Brown, and Maj. Kelley. I
gave my home almost entirely to the army passing back and
forth from Nashville until our troops retreated South. I had
several wounded, among whom were Capt. Tom Henry, of
Clarksville, Capt. J. M. Hickey, now of Washington, who
lost a leg and whose wound I dressed for several months,
and Capt. Ma! Pilchcr, who was with me six weeks until he
was sent to prison. My house was then taken by the
Federals for a hospital, and also for provost marshal head-
quarters by a German, Capt. Kolum, who fell in love with
my daughter, Annie Sims. He was also a gnat friend of
Capt. Pilcher's. 1 went to Nashville and got clothing for
Capt. Pilcher, and Capt. Kolum had his tailor to come to my
house- and make up his clothes. We converted him lo our
cause, and he went to New York, gave up his company, and
in returning home was shipwrecked on the ocean. We felt
very sad over his untimely death.
After the war I was made president of the society for
sujiplying limbs to the maimed by that noble woman, Mrs.
Felicia Grundy Porter, who did so much for our soldiers.
I gave two entertainments in Franklin, from which I realized
eight hundred and fifty dollars net, and have Mrs. Porter's re-
ceipts for same. I was also .'\uxiliary President for the
Clarksville Orphan Asylum, which Mrs. Porter organized, and
for which I made several hundred dollars and took orphans
of our dead soldiers to the home.
Soon after the fall of Sumter my daughters, with other
help, made a large Confederate fiag. After dark we had some
men to hoist the flag on my double-story porch, and all were
astonished to see it waving there the next morning. Some
thoughl it very impudent, and among the number my old
friend. Judge John Marshall.
My cousin's husband, Col. Acklin, died in Louisiana, leav-
ing a large amount of cotton on the plantation unprotected.
She insisted on my going down with her, thinking she could
sell the cotton in New Orleans, which would have been im-
possible, as it was in Confederate lines and being watched. The
navy gunboats were on the river near by. I went one hundred
and fifty miles eight times, in the Confederate lines, to Jackson
and Clinton, La., and finally got permission for her to ship the
cotton to Europe. Then we got from Admiral Porter and
Capt. Ramsey, of the Choctaw, a permit to take it to New
Orleans, and she realized nine hundred and sixty thousand
dollars. It was a tremendous undertaking, and I felt very
proud tliat I had been the cause of saving her cotton, which
so few had succeeded in doing. She had received orders,
with all in the parish, from Gen. Polk to burn the cotton to
prevent its being captured by Sherman's men. Through the
intercession of Col. Dillon, at that time a member of Gen.
Polk's staff, I secured the General's permission for Mrs.
Acklin to store her cotton "at some safe place on the river"
until it could be exported.
SHINING MARKS IN DEATH.
Two unusually sad deaths to the people of Nashville oc-
curred in the closing days of August. Mr. E. C._ Stahlman,
Vice President of the Banner Publishing Company and one of
the Associated Press Agents for Nashville, a cultured, genial,
delightful gentkman. was on the river on a pleasant after-
noon with some friends in a naphtha launch. The machinery
getting out of order, Mr. Stahlman got in the water to as-
certain the trouble, after which, the water being pleasant, he
darted off for a swim, being an expert, when he suddenly
disappeared and did not rise again. His friends were horri-
fied, and made every eflfort to reach him. but without success.
It is thought that he was taken with cramps. Widespread
expressions of sorrow have been received from friends and co-
laborers in journalism from all over the country, while at
home sympathy for the wife and four children, the father,
Maj. E. B. Stahlman, the father-in-law, Maj. James Geddes,
and their families is universal.
Mrs. Birdie Brown Burch, daughter of Gen. John C. Brown
and wife of Mr. John C. Burch. who bears the full name of
his honored father, was at their summer home in Pulaski,
when she was taken suddenly and violently ill, and soon her
condition was hopeless. She was buried in the family lot at
Pulaski, in which there are handsome monuments to her
father. Gov. Brown, and her two lovely sisters. Mrs. Burch
was President of the Nashville Chapter, U. D. C, a lovely,
beautiful woman, who loved everybody and who was uni-
vcrsallv beloved.
Dr. J. William Jones, Chaplain General U. C. V., writes of
Dr. Wharton's "Di.\ie:" "There has been a very general desire
that there should be new words — not nc:c music — to our pop-
ular Confederate song. Various changes have been made in
the coarse negro dialect of the original, but not one has been
generally adopted, so that we have many different versions."
U. D. C. HEADQUARTERS IN ST. LOUIS.
In a "Notice to Delegates and Friends to the St. Louis
Convention" Mr. W. F. Hamilton, the President and Manager
of the Hamilton Hotel Co., headquarters for the U. D. C,
states :
"The management of the Hamilton Hotel desires to inform
parties wanting hotel accommodations that the Hamilton is
headquarters for the convention ; that a special rate has been
made of $i and $2 per day per person, European plan, for
the delegates and their friends. The $i per day rate applies
10 rooms in our cottages adjoining the hotel, and to some of
the large rooms of the hotel where several people will occupy
the same room in single beds. The $2 per day rate is for our
best accommodations. In either case two people are to occupy
a single room, and three or four people a double room, but
there will be no overcrowding.
We have made extensive preparations to entertain this con-
vention, and would suggest that parties desiring to secure ac-
commodations notify us at once, and we will reserve same for
them. If you are unable to notify us in advance, come any-
way, as we will have ample room for all.
Meals will be served, to those who desire to patronize our
cafe, at low rates.
To reach the Hamilton Hotel from L^nion Station, take an
Eighteenth Street car north and transfer at Washington Ave-
nue to a Page car, which passes the door of the Hamilton.
We are very busy, and suggest that you simply notify us
that you are coming, and how many in your parly, and we will
attend to the rest.
If you come to the Hamilton, you will find all conveniences,
and will be where you can meet friends from other places.
The sketch of Gen. John C. Breckinridge promised in this
issue is deferred because it was expected from a comrade so
capable that no substitute was acceptable.
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Qo9/2derate l/eteraij.
Confederate l/eterar?.
S. A, CUXNINOHAM, EJUcr anJ Proprietor.
06^1 Mclhodist Publishing House BuilJing, Nashville, Tenn.
ThU publication is tlit* personal property o{ S. A. Cunningham. All per*
poaa who approve its principles and realise its beiu-lits as an orj;;in for Asso
Ciatkna t'nroughout the South are requested to commend its pntronae'C and to
•oOperute in extending its c-ir«.'ulation. L.et each one be constantly diligent.
SI.\uiL.U< CHARACTER Ol- 1 1 IE IJiTERAX.
Readers of the Veteran, even those who have been famiHar
with it from the beginning, hardly realize how its character-
istics differ from any other periodical that has ever existed.
Since civilized man has occupied the American continent, tlic
South has been practically unsuccessful in all attempts at
monthly journalism. It would be a sad story to relate the
many worthy attempts that have failed.
For many years after the great war, especially through the
bitter years of Reconstruction, an attempt at such a periodical
as the Veteran would doubtless have been suppressed. In
its own good time, however, its conception occurred to a
weak but ardent influence — a man who launched it in the full
faith that it had merit and who determined to keep at it as
long as he might be sustained. From the beginning an honest
motive was understood by veterans of the Union army as well
as the Confederate, and for nearly a dozen years the little
bark has sailed in clear water. It has not always been through
calm sea, for, in the prolonged effort to crush it through a
suit for libel, that cost of its treasure several thousand dollars,
the years were dark, but its guide never lost faith and cour-
age that in the end it would be victorious. Through all those
years it has been maintained by the legitimate patronage that
comes only to periodicals with vast resources and large sur-
plus sums to be expended in emergencies. It has all the
while, too, been handicapped by the reputed ill fate of South-
ern periodicals, and also by partisan prejudice of a large class
who advertise through Northern magazines. Not only this,
but the special patrons — the Confederate soldiers — are all the
while dropping out of this life in an accelerated ratio, and
their sons are far from espousing their spirit, as are their
daughters. In spite of all these conditions, which threaten fa-
tality, the Veteran has exhibited a steady growth that can
hardly be found in all journalistic records. The plan proposed
a few years ago to raise a fund to perpetuate it found earnest
friends to cooperate, but they were so few that by and by
the plan was abandoned and tlw money 'u'us returned to the
subscribers, and thusc friends lucre put on a free list for life!
From a sense of duty these facts arc related in llie ho])e of
stimulating all friends to an active interest in its behalf. Most
of them seem to forget that it is a most exacting enterprise,
and that it requires not less than fifty renewals or new sub-
scribers every day to keep even. Many families are so indif-
ferent that, when the head, who had taken and enjoyed the
Veteran for years, is put under the sod, they order it dis-
continued without even loyally enough to the memory of the
comrade to send a notice of his death, and frequently refuse
even to pay any arrears that may be due. Others will Ul tin-
time run over and decline to pay, complaining that it should
not have been continued without orders. Many are the draw-
backs from the success that would attend the faithful service
rendered by so many thousands of friends.
How to overcome these misfortunes is a matter of concern
not only to the management but to every friend who desires
to see it sustained and made better and better each year.
Some one asked recently if no rich person, who is growing
old and is anxious to do the greatest possible good willi his
money, had made a contribution to it. There is certainly no
other possible way so promising of success in all that enno-
bles a people as lo contribute to the circulation of the Vet-
eran. With such persons as could and would like to contrib-
ute in this way cooperation would be given in any plan pro-
posed. Not only would it be a blessing to thousands who are
unable lo subscribe, but sample copies might be put into the
hands of many who would become liberal patrons in this way.
Another and a most important suggestion — and it is made
here as a request — is that, wherever there be a Confederate
gathering of men or women, some one should publicly dis-
cuss the Veteran and urge its importance. It would be hard
to conceive the good that would result. Eloquent patriots
discuss the importance of history and of the importance in
maintaining the various organizations created for the very
purpose that the Veteran is published. To large conventions
the editor is introduced, and audiences are extremely con-
siderate; but it is impossible for him to attend all of the State
conventions, and, if he could, it would be far better for another
to present its merits and to appeal for extending its circula-
tion. Who will promise that the cause of the Veteran shall
have attention at the meetings of Camps, Brigades, and Di-
visions? Comrades, heed this request. There is never a
meeting of Confederates that there are not many well-to-do
Southerners who don't know anything of the Veteran and
who would be gratified to become subscribers. Its merits — or
demerits — should be discussed at every Confederate gathering.
This cooperation, entered into as suggested, would increase
the list to double what it is, and the beneficial results could
not be estimated. Who of you will write the oflice, that this
matter shall have attention ? There will always be copies for
gratuitous distribution at any meetings when request is si'ut
and notice of such meetings published in advance.
Friends whn are loyal and liberal to the Veteran often
overlook its interests. There are stacks of books, the very
best, in the office ready for mailing that are furnished as
premiums or at very low prices in connection with the Vet-
eran, that should be ordered liberally. "The Rise and Fall
of the Confederate Governtjient," for instance, in handsomest
and most durable binding at half price, $7 for both volumes,
while the pu.blishers" price is twice that. (To this postage
(ir expressage, sixty-five cents, should be added.) Then, "Two
Wars," by Gen. S. G. French, one of the most fascinating and
accurate histories ever written, at $2.50 with a year of the
Veteran. "Bright Skies," a book by the eminent H. M.
Field. D.D.. is furnished with a year of the Veteran for the
price of the book alone, $1.50.
An erroneous statement has gone the rounds of the press
in tlKii Dr. Gerald Bertram Webb, who married Miss Varina
lIciwiU Davis Hayes, granddaughter of Jefferson Davis, was
related lo Gen. U. S. Grant. Mrs. Hayes, the mother, de-
sires this corrected, and would appreciate the statement ky
papers that printed the error.
Dr. Webb is an Englishman of a fine old family. He is a
relative of the Duke of Norfolk through his father, while
his mother is of an old, distinguished French family. He is
a leading, young physician at Solorado Springs ; he is mag-
netic, sympathetic, and skillful as a surgeon and physician.
Mr. John L. Kirby, a notably accurate journalist, notes an
error of his on page 441, this issue, in regard to the date of
extending the Confederate lines across the Watkins farm
in the battle of Nashville. It should be the morning of the
second day. December 16, and on the left wing of the army.
Qoi}fcderate l/eterap.
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THE ORGANIZATION OF i\ C. V.
BY CAPT. LEON JASTKEMSKI, BATON ROUGE, LA,
A friend has sent me a clipping from the Chattanooga News
of June II, wherein it is stated that my old friend and es-
teemed comrade, Capt. J. F. Shipp, of Chattanooga, "was the
originator of the idea which culminated in the organization of
the United Confederate Veterans, and to him is due the credit
for this splendid organization."
It is also stated that he advocated the formation of this
federation at a hanquct of the Association of the Army of
Northern Virginia, Louisiana Division, at New Orleans on
January ig, 1889, at which President Jefferson Davis made a
striking address.
Capt. Shipp is doubtless correct to the extent of having
advocated this idea at the time, yet the work of originating
and forming the organization was done by others. For the
entire truth of history all the facts in connection with this
splendid organization, whicli is second only in historic inter-
est to the Confederate army itself, should he carefully gathered
and made of record ere it is too late.
In 188S T had the good fortune of witnessing the reunion of
the Grand Army of the Republic at Columbus, Ohio. The .spec-
tacle was so inspiring and suggestive that the Confederates
should likewise form themselves into a grand federation that,
on my return to New Orleans, I conferred with Maj. E. D.
W'illett, the foriner gallant major of the First Louisiana Vol-
unteers, A. N. v.. on the subject. The result was that we
decided to introduce a resolution before the Association of the
A. N. v., Louisiana Division, of which he was President, in-
viting other Louisiana Confederate associations to appoint
conference committees to consider the matter and to report
hack their conclusions. As the records of the associations re-
ferred to are in New Orleans, I cannot say exactly when these
steps were taken, but I believe that it was before January 19,
1889, as there were unavoidable delays because the associa-
tions met monthly and at different times. At all events, I
had the honor of writing the resolution which inaugurated the
movement. It was presented before the .•\ssociation of tlic
Army of Northern Virginia by Maj. Willett and seconded by
me. The resolution was unanimously adopted, and we were
appointed later on the Conference Committee.
In Col. Robert C. Wood's "Confederate Handbook." a most
reliable work, page 92, which is before me. I find tlie following
— viz: "In response to a call issued by joint committees repre-
senting the Associations of the Army of Northern V'irginia.
the Army of Tennessee, and the Confederate Veteran Cavalry
a convention of delegates from other Confederate associations
was held at New Orleans June 10, 1889. . . . The con-
vention met in pursuance of the call, with delegates from ten
associations in attendance. With a view of effecting a per-
manent organization, a connnittee on organization and reso-
lutions was appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws, etc."
I had the honor of serving on this committee and of -sug-
gesting the name of ''I'nited Confederate Veterans," which was
adopted and which has stood despLt? subsequent efforts to
have it changed. In the convention I also had the honor of
placing in nomination the name of our glorious and lamented
Commander, Gen. John B. Gordon. These are facts on record
in the associations and doubtless in the U. C. V. General Head-
quarters.
How much time was spent in securing the concert of action
leading up to these events. I do not recollect. Capt. Shipp
was an ardent coopcrator. as is shown by the fact that N. B.
Forrest Camp, of Chattanooga, is Camp No. 4, U. C. V. In
view of this initiative, as above described, the Association of
9*
the Army of Northern Virginia, Louisiana Division, became
Camp No. i and the Army of Tennessee Camp No. 2, both
of New Orleans. Gen. Leroy Stafford Camp, of Shreveport,
became No. 3; Jeff. Davis, of Alexandria, No. 6; Ruston,
No. 7 ; Veteran Confederate States Cavalry, of New Orleans,
Camp No. 9, etc.
There is glory enough for everybody, organizers as well as
those who came in afterwards, to make the organization the
superb one it has become, but to accurately establish its his-
tory from its inception, it is well that all the facts should be
cleared up now.
CHIEF IN COMMAND OF i'. S. C. V. MARRIED.
A wedding suitable to report in the Veteran occurred at
Fort Worth, Tex., July 23, 1904, in which Miss Virginia Ball,
of Fort Worth, Tex., became the wife of N. R. Tisdal, Com-
mander in Chief of the Sons of U. C. V.
Mr. Tisdal, as is well known, has been for several years
prominently connected with the United Sons of Confederate
\'eterans, and at the last convention, in Nashville, was made
Commander in Chief of the order. Before that time he was
Commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department. Miss Ball,
who is the daughter of the county treasurer, was Assistant
Commander of that Department.
The wedding was arranged along military lines. Tho bride,
groom, and attendants wore the gray uniforms and caps of the
Confederacy, with shoulder straps indicative of rank.
Professor Bauer served at the organ, and Miss Nanon
Davison arose in the choir gallery and sang "All for You ;"
then to the strains of Lohengrin's wedding chorus the bridal
procession entered. It was comprised of the following :
Ihomas P. Stone, of Waco, Past Commander in Chief, and
COMMANDER IJJ fHlEF TISDAL AND WIFE
Miss Birdye Yeatcs, Chief Maid ot-iionor of Texas Division
at late rcijnion ; W. P. Lane. Division Commander jfe^f- Texas,
a'lld Mrss.Crances'Voat^s,* Sponsor for Texas Divi^^ii ;' 1. J. .
Stockctt, .'\djutant Gcilpral and Clmf of^teff. 'and J^ss ^a .
Mac Scott, Assistant Adjutant' Dr. L. .\, Su'^s arid Miss **^
Margaret E. Neal, of Carthage ; W. J. Gilvin and Miss Maiy
Ball ; Dr. J. T. Wiggins, of Rusk, and Miss W. V. Keith— all
officials in the U. S. C. V. Then came the maid of honor,
Miss Nona Leach, recent Sponsor for the Trans-Mississippi
Department, with J. M. Ball as best man. Following these
came the bride on the groom's arm. and the four passed
through the line of attendants and proceeded to the altar, where
Dr. .Monzo Monk waited to perform the ceremony.
An informal reception followed in the vestibule of the church,
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after which Mr. and Mrs. Tisdal departed for the reunion at
Temple, in company with a goodly company of friends. They
*'ere the recipients of many handsome and beautiful gifts,
while letttrs and telegrams from various States were received
STAFF OFFICERS TO COMMANDER IN CHIEF
GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE.
Major General William E. Mickle, of New Orleans, La.,
Adjutant General and Chief of Staff; Brigadier Generals D.
R. Gurlcy, Waco, lex., H. A. Newman, Huntsville, Mo.,
George F. Alford, Dallas, Tex., Assistants Adjutant General.
J. F. Shipp, Chattanooga, Ter.n.. Quartermaster General ,
E. D. Willett, Long Beach, Miss., Assistant Quartermaster
General.
William B. Bate, Nashville, Tenn , Judge Advocate General:
Cols. B. F. Jonas, New Orleans, La., and E. M. Hudson, New
Orleans, Assistants Judge Advocate General.
Thomas G. Jones, Montgomery, Ala., Inspector General
C. H. Tebault, M.D., New Orleans, La., Surgeon General :
Cols. J. B. Cowan. M.D., Tullahoma, Tenn., and C. H. Todd,
M.D. Owensboro, Ky., Assistants Surgeon General.
Bennett H. Young, Louisville, Ky., Chief of Ordnance.
John J. Hornor, Helena, Ark., Paymaster General.
E. G. Williams, Waynesville, Mo., W. C. Stubbs. Thomas
E. Davis, Page M. Baker, and W. T. Blakemore, New Or-
leans, La., Charles E. Hooker, Jackson, Miss., Aids-de-Camp.
Rev. J. William Jones, Richmond, Va., Chaplain General.
Aids: Cols. F. P. Fleming, Jacksonville, Fla.. W. A. Mont-
gomery, Edwards, Miss., Joseph Hodgson, A. R. Blakely, A.
A. Lclong, David Zable, W. G. Coylc, Blayney T. Walshe, J
A. Harral, James Dinkins, Joseph Demoruelle, New Orleans.
John W. Morton, S. A. Cunningham, Thomas Claiborne, Nash-
ville, Tenn., John W. Daniel, Richmond, Va., S. H. Buck,
New York City, Charles P. Ball, Cartersville, Ga., A. J. West,
Atlanta, Ga., Philip H. Fall, Houston, Tex., V. Y. Cook, New-
port, Ark., W. J. Woodward, Wilmington, N. C, John B.
Pirtle, Biscoe Hindman, W. B. Haldeman, Louisville, Ky.,
John W. Faxon, Chattanooga, Tenn., C. W. Anderson, Mur-
freesboro, Tenn., Allen Barksdale, Ruston, La., Timotliy E.
Cooper, W. J. Crawford. William M. Forrest, Memphis, Tenn.,
Paul Sanguinetti, Montgomery, Ala., Frank A. Hervey, Sr.,
Mobile, Ala., Paul A. Fusz, Philipsburg, Mont., Wallace J.
Barnard, San Francisco, Cal., J. W. Reed, Chester, S. C, W.
D. Pickett, Four Bears, Wyo., H. M. Dillard, Meridian,
Tex., T. H. Jones, Atlanta, Ga., Henry Moore, Texarkana,
Tex., Henry Moorman, ^tnaville, Ky., N. G. Pearsall, Cov-
ington, La., B. B. Paddock, Fort Worth, Tex., R. G. Provine,
Coles Creek, Miss., C. C. Slaughter, Dallas, Tex., James E.
Wood. Marianna, Ark., W. B. Woody, Rockdale, Tex., W.
C. Jones, Greenville, Tex., Maj. George H. Cause, Slidell, La.,
Capts. Lamar C. Quintero, New Orleans, La., W. W. Whit-
tington, Jr., Alexandria, La., William E. Mickle, Jr.. Mobile,
Ala.
As a footnote to this list Gen. Lee states: "The General
Commanding is cognizant of the fact that in some instances
the rank assigned is not recognized by the Constitution, but
the pure and patriotic action of his beloved predecessor and
his able and zealous Adjutant General was taken in the best
interests of the Federation, and has his most hearty indorse-
ment. The organization has grown to such proportions now
that its interests will be best promoted by a strict adherence
to all laws, and this course he intends in future to follow. He
commends most earnestly the action looking to a closer union
of the U. C. V. and L'. S. C. V., and in the near future will
add to his staff a projier representation from the Sons."
FORREST'S ESCORT.
The following roll of members who surrendered at Gaines-
ville, Ala., May 5, 1865, is furnished by J. N. Taylor, Secretary
of Forrest's staff and escort :
Staff: Majs. J. P. Strange and C. W. Anderson; Lieuts.
William M. Forrest, Sam Donelson, C. S. Severson, R. M.
Mason, and G. V. Rambaut; Capts. George Dashiclds, Charles
H. Hill, and J. G. Mann; Drs. J. B. Cowan and G. W. Jones.
Officers: J. C. Jackson, captain; Nathan Boone, Math Cort-
ner, and George L. Cowan, lieutenants ; M. L. Parks, first
sergeant; W. E. Sims, second sergeant; W. A. F. Rutledge,
third sergeant; C. C. McLemore, fourth sergeant; W. H.
Mathews, first corporal; H. J. Crenshaw, second corporal;
W. T. H. Wharton, third corporal; P. C. Richardson, fourth
corporal ; R. C. Kecble, fifth corporal ; W. F. Watson, bugler.
Privates- J. N. .Anderson, A. D. Adair, H. L. W. Boone, J.
H. Bivins, P. P. Bennett, J. W. Bridges, W. A. Bailey, S. E.
Batts, W. F. Buchanan, J. O. Crump, W. C. Cooper, Alex
Cortner, Sam Carter, Joe Cunningham, Silas J. Clark, E. C.
Clark, Thomas Childs, T. G. Chairs. S. W. Carmack, D. H.
Call, C. A. Crenshaw, George R. Dismukes, W. R. Dyer, H.
F. Dusenberry, Phil Dodd, L. A. Dwiggins, J. G. Davidson,
G. W. Davidson, F. M. Dance, T. J. Eaton, John Eaton, W.
D. Elder, S. W. Edens, M. M. Emmons, M. A. L. Enochs,
.\. Forrest, J. D. Fletcher, George W. Foster, George W.
Felps, R. E. B. Floyd, R. C. Garrett, J. S. Garrett, George C.
Gillespie, G. W. Hooper, H. A. Holland, D. C. Jackson, John
F. Key, A. W. Key, W. S. Livingston, H. D. Lipscomb, C. T.
Latimer, E. E. Linch, Thomas C. Little, W. T. McGehee, T.
N. McCord, R. F. McKnight, B. F. Martin, J. O. Martin, R.
H. Maxwell, O. W. McKissick, A. McEwin, T. H. Moore,
J. M. McNabb, J. W. Newsom, F. C. Nolan, J. K. P. Ncece,
E. P. Oakly, D. C. Padgett, B. A. Pearson. J. B. Pearson.
T. R. Priest, W. R. Poplin, D. G. Roland, C. H. Ruffin. R.
Felix Renfro, J. K. Reaves, John W. Srell, Joel Reese, W. L.
Shofner, J. K. Stephenson, G. W. Stevenson, C. Searback,
W. R. Shofner, A. M. Spencer, Noah Scales, H. C. Troxler,
J. N. Taylor, W. F. Taylor, L. E. Thompson, W. A. Thomp-
son, J. R. Troop, E. F. Tucker, A. (Sandy) White, T. H.
Wood, Mark G. Watson, W. A. Woodard, J. H. Womack, J.
II. Word, W. D. Ward, Flinch Woodard, A. .\. Pearson.
L. H. Pass and W. H. Moon were both in prison at the time
of the surrender, and there were other members of the com-
pany who were entitled to be paroled at Gainesville, who were
unavoidably absent on detached duty or were sick in hospitals.
A Comrade's Experience. — M. A. Davis, now of Lawrence-
villc. 111., but foriTierly a member of the Seventh North Caro-
lina Infantry — a battle-scarred veteran — in renewing his sul)-
scription, writes: "On the last day of September, 1864, I
was shot in my right hand and on the same day struck on
the head with a fragment of shell; but I considered myself
lucky to get off thai cheap, for I was in the fight of New
Berne, N. C, Hanover Courthouse, Mechanicsville, Gaines's
Mill (where my captain and colonel were both killed), Mal-
vern Hill, Frazier's Farm, Ox Hill, Cedar Run, Second Ma-
nassas, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Shepherdtown, Fred-
ericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Preston Station,
Spottsylvania Courthouse, Wilderness, Hanover Junction,
Petersburg (June 22, 1864), below Richmond (July 25, 1864,
and again August 25, I think it was, 1864), Reams Station,
and Petersburg (September 30, 1864), where I was wounded
as above mentioned."
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REMINISCENCE OF RECONSTRUCTION.
BY CAPT. RODERT m'cULLOCH, ST. LOUIS.
It was never too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, or any
other adverse condition to hinder the assemblage on fifty-two
Sundays of the year at "Falling Spring" Church of those who
loved to listen to dear Mr. Junkin as, with eloquence and
kindly persuasion, he taught the right.
"Falling Spring" was the church founded by the Scotch
Presbyterians, who were the pioneers on the Southern border
of Rockbridge County, in old Virginia. A large part of Mr.
Junkin's llock came from the beautiful valley that skirted the
James and North Rivers, hemmed in by splendid mountains
on either side. The roads from this valley to the church
wound across the mountain, one side being high ground and
the other, in many instances, an abrupt precipice. One Sun-
day in the early summer of 1865, just at the close of the war.
the carriage of Dr. Watson, occupied by Mrs. Watson and
two of her daughters and driven by a negro boy, was return-
ing homeward from Falling Spring; at a narrow point in the
mountain road the carriage of a neighbor, also driven by a
negro, was hurried past the Watson carriage in such a manner
as to force it to the extreme side of the roadway, greatly
<'ndangering the lives of its helpless occupants. Mrs. Watson
and her daughters reached home free from physical injury,
but their nervous condition made the attempted concealment
of the occurrence from the Doctor impossible. Dr. Watson
was kind-hearted, generous, greatly beloved by all who knew
liim, and devoted to his family. His indignation toward the
driver of the other carriage was very great, but he was pre-
vented by the importunities of his family from going in search
of the miscreant who had imperiled their lives. However, the
next day, while traveling in the discharge of his professional
duties, he was passing a field in which the negro who had
driven the neighbor's carriage was plow-ing, and, hitching his
horse to the fence, he went over to the plowman and re-
proached him for his reckless driving the previous day. A
quarrel ensued, hot words and perhaps blows ; the negro ran
and the Doctor fired in his direction to stop him, wounding
him in the leg. The Doctor took him home, dressed the wound,
and, leaving him in tlie care of Dr. McChesney, went to a
magistrate, stated what had occurred, surrendered himself as
a prisoner, and was released under bond and abundant security.
Having a pistol was no evidence of wrong intentions, as we
were then citizens of District No. i. Gen. Schofield was
. military governor, and the custom of going armed had not
been discontinued. It must also be said to the credit of the
negroes that they were well-behaved up to that time, their
newly acquired freedom having not changed their respectful
manner toward their former owners.
The shooting was unpremeditated, unforeseen, and unfortu-
nate. In spite of skillful treatment, the negro died. Dr. Wat-
son was tried and acquitted. Maj. Carse, who was provost
marshal at Lexington, the county seat, took great interest in
the trial, and he and the Doctor became friends. When the
Doctor was released, he bade Maj. Carse good-by and extended
him a cordial invitation to make his house a stopping place
should either business or pleasure bring the Major down the
the beautiful valley on the James.
It was a beautiful September day when a number of us had
assembled in the Highbridge churchyard to pay the last sad
tribute of love and respect to one of our 'ead comrades, Har-
ry Arnold. The funeral ceremonies ovc. we mounted our
horses and turned homeward, one and am er dropping out of
the procession as his home was reached There were five
of us still left, one of whom was Dr. Watson, and we were
nearing the point where he would leave us for his home, when
we observed a solitary horseman approaching us. When he
came within greeting distance we recognized him as Major
Carse, the provost marshal, with headquarters at Lexington.
There was a pleasant exchange of courtesies, and the Major
reminded Dr. Watson of his previously proffered hospitality,
and expressed a desire to enjoy it if the option on its accept-
ance remained open. The Doctor was very hearty in renewing
his oftcr of a night's shelter, and in a few minutes more a
cheery good night rang out as the Doctor and the Major
turned away to the north and we continued cast.
We separated as each reached his home. Supper was soon
over and sound sleep came without wooing. A pebble came
against my window, and in an instant I was inquiring of
Charles, a faithful old servant who stood just under me, as
to what was wrong. He replied: "The Yankees have just
gone down the towpath with Dr. Watson. They are taking
him 10 Richmond to hang him." There was just one tlio\ight
with me, and that was that "we must rescue him." Charles
was told to saddle my horse quickly. I dressed in haste, and,
directing Charles to go down to Dave Mohler, who lived half
a mile away, and tell him to mount his best horse and with his
pistols to go to the "Point" and wait for me. I rode hurriedly
in the other direction for more help.
A mile up the river and across it were the two Paxton
families and the Obenchains, and I knew there was one boy
in each household who would go with me on any mission.
The boat was on their side. Fortunately I made them hear
me. they ferried me over, the story was told them, and we
soon rccrosscd the river. A ride of two miles brought us to
the "Point," where Dave Mohler was awaiting us. It was
already midnight, and we had no time to hunt for others; so
our little band consisted of Joe Paxton, Mac Paxton, Dave
Mohler, Frank Obenchain, and myself. We were well-mounted
and well-armed.
The party having Dr. Watson prisoner was variously esti-
mated by those who had seen them at from twenty to forty,
armed and mounted men, none of whoip were in uniform.
It was thirty-five miles to Lynchburg, and they had three
hours the start of us ; but we planned that by hard riding wc
could overtake them while it was yet dark; and, by the sur-
prise and fierceness of attack, and our thorough knowledge of
the country, we could rescue the Doctor and get away into the
hills before they realized the smallncss of our numbers. They
would not venture to follow us where we could so readily
lose them. Our good horses bore us swiftly down the tow-
path, the towering mountains on our left and the roar of the
beautiful river as it dashed through the long falls on the right.
Five miles down was the rope ferry, where we must cross
the river. Very soon we had covered the distance, and the
Ridgeway house at the ferry loomeJ up before us ; but it was
lighted, and we saw that there were men apparently on duty.
Wc halted and held a council of war, our surmise being that
we had overtaken our party, that, the river being very much
swollen, the Ridgeway boys had refused to ferry over so large
a party in the darkness of the night, and they were waiting for
the morning. It was arranged that I should go down to the
house, find Dr. Watson, tell him that I had a rescuing party,
and bring him away with me, without a fight if possible;
otherwise, a pistol shot was to bring the four boys to my help,
and we were to do our best. But we were full of confidence,
even with the odds so large against us. The approach to the
house was made as quietly as possible, my four companior-.
remaining about two hundred feet away, the darkness coi
cealing them. The house was in full view, and they coul..^
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rcacli it very quickly when necessary. The sound of my
horse's feet brought one of the young Ridgeways to the porch.
He recognized me and seemed to guess my mission.
"Have you got Dr. Watson here?" 'I asked.
"Yes. and he has a large escort ; they came after nine
o'clock. The river is very high, the crossing is dangerous
in the dark, and we refused to risk it until morning."
I dismounted and threw my rein over a hook on the porch
as he spoke.
"Where are they, and what is their number?" I inquired.
"There arc about thirty of them. The Doctor and eight of
his escort are in a large room upstairs, and the others out in
the hayloft. They are heavily armed and evidently soldiers,
though not in uniform."
"Where is their sentinel ?" I asked.
"They have no one on guard. We told tlitm that one of
us would be up all night."
"Show mc the way to the room where the Doctor is." I re-
quested.
He went with me to the foot of the stairway and said: "Ihe
door is immediately at the head of this stairway."
I went up hurriedly, turned the bolt, and, pushing open the
door, stepped into the room, which was entirely without light,
calling to Dr. Watson as I stepped in. There was immediate
springing from bed with the clicking of pistols, and the cry:
"Who is there?" I closed the door behind me and asked the
Doctor if he didn't recognize my voice. His reply was the
query: "Is that you, Capt. Bob?" "Yes," I said, "and we have
come to take you back home."
During all this the officer in charge had called for a light,
which was quickly brought from below by those who were
listening eagerly for developments. I allowed the door to
open behind me, and the light made me the focus of nine pairs
of anxious eyes. Eight of the tnen were standing in various
conditions of dress and undress and each with a pistol in his
hand, the Doctor was in a sitting posture on a cot, I with my
back to the door, which I had closed, and young Ridgcway
holding a lamp which lighted the scene. The situation was
dramatic and intense, and was relieved by my saying: "Doctor,
we heard of your arrest and have come to your rescue. We
are going to take you back home. Come with us ; we have no
time to lose." The Doctor hesitated, and interest now centered
on him, but the pistols all pointed my way. I was well armed,
but with nothing in sight. I had the advantage of being the
least excited of any one in the room, and felt that I could,
if necessary, fire several effectual shots before I could be hurt.
However, diplomacy and nerve were the weapons for nu- to
use, and not bullets.
The Doctor broke the silence by saying: "If I go with you.
the whole United States army would be sent to rearrest me,
and you, my good friends, would be answerable for more than
I am held for. I will not go." His answer was a disappoint-
ment to me and a relief to all the others in the room. Their
pistols were involuntarily lowered and the intense nervous
strain yielded in a long, deep breath. Then followed an hour
of persuasion and argument. I represented to the Doctor
that his trial would be only a farce, ending speedily at the
gallows. The officer in charge became much interested, prom-
ising his personal eflforts as to the Doctor's rights. I told the
Doctor that we had an abundant force of his friends in waiting
outside, and that, while tliere would necessarily be some sacri-
fice of life by reason of the resistance of our rescue, we were
going to take him back with us ; but persuasion was in vain.
Actuated by his concern for his rescuing friends, he positively
refused to go with me. I returned to our little band and
sadly we rode homeward, the dawn just revealing the beauti-
ful mountains and river as we said good-by and separated.
The news of the attempted rescue spread over the country
from Lexington lo Richmond : but the secret of our small
number and identity rested entirely with our own party of
five, and for a year my identity was the only one discovered
to the public.
When Dr. Watson and Maj. Carse left us they proceeded on
the road to the Doctor's house, which was half a mile up the
mountain gorge from the river, thick woods being on either
side of the road. When they were within a few hundred feet
of the house the Major suddenly reined up his horse, which
seemed to be a signal, as they were immediately surrounded
by a body of mounted and armed men coming from the woods.
The Major informed the Doctor that he had been directed to
arrest him and bring him to Richmond to answer before a
military tribunal for the shooting of the negro. They had
a horse for the Doctor, who was allowed to pack his saddle-
bags with a change of clothing, to bid his family a hasty
farewell, and then the cavalcade started on its hard night
ride of thirty-five miles to Lynchburg.
riie Ridgeway boys ferried the party across the river the
next morning. They rode in all possible haste to Lynchburg,
took the train there, and soon turned their prisoner over to
the provost marshal of Richmond.
Friends of Dr. Watson went to Washington and brought
back to Richmond a peremptory order from President Andrew-
Johnson for the release of the Doctor, having convinced the
President that the Doctor had been properly acquitted by the
civil authorities at Lexington.
The Doctor, being restored to liberty, was concerned for
myself. He sought a personal audience with Gen. Schofield,
which was promptly accorded him, and he asked the General
if I was to be arrested on the charge of interference with
soldiers in the performance of duty. He replied : "I respect
your young friend for his conduct, and he shall not be ar-
rested while I am in command of District No. I."
The Doctor lost no time in returning to his home and
friends, and the little episode w'as closed forever.
Robert McCuUoch was a cadet at the \'irginia Military In-
stitute at Lexington in 1861, and with the corps of cadets was
ordered to Richmond in April of that year by Gov. Letcher
as a drillmaster. He continued in this performance of duty
imtil July, when the corps of cadets was disbanded by the
Governor, and they soon scattered throughout the entire i
Southern army. IMcCullocli went from Richmond to Win-
chester with the Eleventh Georgia, arriving there July 19, as
Johnston's army was on the march to Beauregard's help at
Manassas. He left the Georgia regiment and fell into the
ranks of a Rockbridge company of the Fourth Virginia In-
fantry, of Jackson's Brigade, and served through the battle
of Sunday. July 21. the day that Jackson gained the sobriquet
of "Stonewall."
In the last linur of the battle fresh troops came on the
field, and he fell into the ranks of Company B, Eighteenth
Virginia Infantry, continuing the figlit with them, and was
wounded. He remained with this regiment throughout the
war. He served as private, lieutenant, adjutant, and captain
of Company B. He was several times wounded : at First
Manassas, the Seven Days' Fight around Richmond, Second
Manassas, and twice at Gettysburg, when in command of his
company, and where each member of the company was struck
by a bullet. The Eighteenth Virginia served in Garnett's
Hrii,'ade, of Pickett's Division, at Gettysburg on July 3.
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He was Commander of the Confederate Carp in St. Louis,
and, as the Camp met the night of his return, the Commander,
Frank Geaunie, resigned in order to put him at once in his
old place as Commander. He is a zealous Confederate.
Capt. McCuIIoch has made good a promise to furnish the
Veteran the foregoing story, designated "Reminiscence of
Reconstruction."
Capt. McCulIoch married Miss Emma Paxton, of Rock-
bridge, and they moved West soon after the war, landing in St.
Louis. After a year he engaged in the street railway busi-
ness, which he has continued to the present time. He has a
son, who is his assistant, and two daughters.
Capt. McCulloch's career in street railway service is so
extraordinary that a brief account is here given. Soon after
he engaged in it he had charge of a line that ran a dozen
cars, while there were almost a score of street railway cor-
porations in St. Louis. Consolidations were inaugurated and
he maintained a prominent position, but left St. Louis for a
I)referable place in street railroad service in Chicago. He
went from St. Louis the night he gave up his official rela-
tions there, and the next morning went to work in his new
lield in Chicago. After four years and seven months he was
induced to return to St. Louis as the Vice President and
General Manager of the St. Louis Transit Company, com-
prising all tlie street railway lines in the city except what is
known as the Suburban Railway. Capt. McCulloch is an
ardent business man. He never lost a day in the change back
to St. Louis, as was the case in going.
Capt. McCulloch is a practical street railroad man, having
experience in every feature of construction and operation
of the St. Louis lines. The magnitude of that business may
be the more nearly comprehended when it is known tliat there
are three hundred and forty-five miles of single track, nearly
two hundred miles of street occupied, and that one thousand
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to one thousand, one hundred cars are carrying about a
million of persons each day. Of the five thousand employees,
about four thousand are conductors and motcrmen.
This St. Louis Transit Company is capitalized at $65,000,000
— in preferred stock and bonds $45,000,000, and in common
stock $20,000,000. When the great consolidation was per-
fected through Brown Brothers, they selected a manager, who
failed to succeed, and a second and a third manager were tried
before Capt. McCulloch was recalled from Chicago. His re-
turn was a notable event and of widespread congratulations
in the Fair City. St. Louis was very much concerned about
transporting visitors to the Fair, and McCulloch was believed
to be capable of achieving the results desired. The great test
came on opening day, and the Mirror, in a comment, said:
"• ■ ■ But the signal success of the Fair opening was the
service of the Transit Company. Everybody's hat is off to
the management. The arrangements were as nearly perfect
as human arrangements could be. One certainly never would
have thought there were so many street cars in the world as
the Transit Company had in service. The cars did not move
very fast, but they kept moving all llic time. They ran so
close together that the people were content to take their time.
This was done without depriving any of the lines of the sys-
tem of good service. There was no crowding anywhere.
When the people started from the grounds, the way the cars
ate up the crowds at the various termini was almost miracu-
lous to behold. The crowds melted with a rapidity that
caused the bitterest critics of the company to retract all their
prophecies of disastrous incompetency. Not only were these
features of the service remarkable, but there was not a serious
accident to the company on any branch of the system during
the twenty-hour rush. There were no delays occasioned by
cars oflf the track : the pow er never gave out for a minute.
The crowds returning home in the evening, to all sections of
the city, were carried in the quickest possible fashion. There
was not a point at which the Transit Company's preparations
failed. The Transit Company saved the day. It made the
people forget the raggcdness of inany features of the Fair.
It made them forget the bad appearance of the roads near
the Fair site. It made everybody feel good over the thought
that the visitors to the Fair from abroad wouldn't be handled
in cattle car fashion. The Transit Company was supposed to
l>e the weak spot in the situation. It was the strong spot. Its
preparedness in every detail helped out all the other trans-
jiortation systems and made the handling of two hundred thou-
sand to and from one point at one time, and all other pas-
senger service as well, a marvel of smoothness and comfort.
This matter of passenger service to the Fair was tlic one thing
that worried the men who have the city's and the Fair's in-
terest most at heart. President Francis wrote Capt. McCulloch
hearty congratulations upon the success of the street car
service."
JEFFERSON CO UN TV (MISS.) CONFEDERATES.
Commander Jno. W. Broughfon, of Camp J. J. Whitney,
I". C. v.. of Fayette. Miss., and E. Conklin, of Omaha, Nebr.,
have raised two thousand dollars for a Confederate monument
at Fayette, Miss., to the memory of Jefferson County (Miss.)
Confederate soldiers. The monument will stand twenty feet,
two inches high, will be made of Vciinont granite and sur-
mounted by a Confederate soldier in Italian marble. The
unveiling ceremonies w'ill take place early in November, 1904.
Commander Broughton has also recently been instrumental
in organizing a Camp of U. S. C. V. in Fayette, Miss., and
these Sons, in recognition of his faithful service in raising
funds for the monunicnt, have named their Camp in his honor.
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A MISSOURIAN'S FEELINGS ON THE SURRENDER.
(Written by Capt. Porter, of Price's Division; tune, "My
Maryland." On hearing of the surrender. Capt. Porter hur-
riedly wrote the following and handed it to one of his men.)
Who c.n portray ti.e deep disgust
Missourians feci when they arc told
lo lay their banners in the dust,
Lay down their arms and be paroled?
"Yield to the Yankees?"' O, that thought
Thrills madly through my 'wildered brain:
Give up the cause for which we've fought.
And humbly be base laves again?
(Rrppat last strain on these* four lines.)
March backward through this land of flowers.
All covered o'er with bloody graves,
.■\gain to seek our Western bowers
And tell our mothers we are slaves.
Thank God, my father does not live
To witness this his son's return ;
'Twould cause his proud old heart to ache.
His aged cheek with shame to burn.
He sleeps within his native State,
Where Sionewall Jackson wrote his name,
.\nd Robert Lee succumbed to fate.
But kept his honor and his fame.
My mott'-'j locks with grief arc gray,
A-'i .nine are, too, with toil and strife ;
I go to soothe, as best I may.
Her pathway down the hil! of life.
I know she'll soothe me all she can
And tell mc that regrets are vain;
But I'll never rest while Dixie's land
Groans 'neath the despot's iron chain.
To-morrow's sun, that lights the world
And gilds old ocean's foamy waves.
Will beam on Yankee flags unfurled
Above surrendered, restless slaves.
Sweet land of sunshine and of flowers.
We yet would die, would die for thee,
If this last bloody act of ours
Could only set thy people free.
Bethel Monument .\t Hampton, V.^. — An association has
been organized for the purpose of erecting a monument at
Big Bethel, near Hampton, Va., to commemorate the first
regular battle of the War between the States, and to mark
the spot where the first Confederate soldier fell in active battle.
This matter has been placed in the hands of a committee at
Hampton. Va., and confidently appeals to every Confederate
organization for contributions to this most worthy and long-
neglected object. Mrs. Robert S. Hudgins, Treasurer, Hamp-
ton, Va.. is authorized to receive contributions. E. A. Sem-
ple, R. E. Lee Camp, C. V., is Secretary, and Mrs. Robert
S. Hudgins, U. D. C, is the Treasurer of the committee.
This report is by Mrs. George W. Nelms, 3210 West Avenue,
Newport News, Va.
Inquiry Concerning David M. Lvle. — R. T. Owen, Adju-
tant of the Camp at Shelbyville, Ky., inquires as to the regi-
ment, etc., to which David M. Lyle belonged. He went from
Shelbyville to Te.xas and enlisted in a regiment from that
State. His relatives are anxious to learn of anything con-
nected with his career in the Confederate army.
MEMORIAL DAV IN SHREVEPORT.
Memorial Day — the anniversary of the birthday of Jefferson
Davis — was observed in Shrcveport, La., with appropriate cere-
monies. The banks were closed and the courts held no ses-
sions. Memorial services were held at the First Methodist
Church, where the Veterans, Sons, and Daughters gathered
together to pay a reverent tribute to the noL'ic dead.
The church was decorated with a profusion of beautiful
flowers. The cross and bars hung over the chancel. Smaller
flags marked off the scats reserved for the veterans of LeRoy
Stafford Camp, United Confederate Veterans.
The ceremonies were begun by tMe choir singing "Tenting
on the Old Camp Ground." All of the music was rendered
in a manner particularly approprialt
Hon. A. J. Murff, in an able address, said :
"There is always a halo surrounding a people who fight for
their homes and their country, and this halo is intensified
when they contend against vast odds. There is an innate senti-
ment in the human breast that always makes us admire the
sublime generosity and patriotism that actuates a man to un-
hesitatingly fling himself into the scales to redress the uneven
balance where his country's fortune hangs. . . . We admire
their noble deed.-, fellow-citizens, the more because they were
our own. Their dangers, toil, and suffering were all for us ;
and as long as our Southern blood courses, as long as there
is a Southern tongue to call the long roll of our bloody
battles, as long as there is a Southern daughter to scatter
flowers upon the graves of the dead and Southern sons to pay
tribute to the Southern cause, just so long shall Southern
hearts warm to the memory of those who fought and died
for her.
"At Port Republic, when the Federal battery wa*; decimating
the Confederate ranks, Stonewall Jackson said to Gen. Taylor
in his stern, curt tone: 'General, can you take that battery?
It must be taken.' Gen. Taylor turned to his men, his voice
ringing out clear and distinct through the battle's roar, and
said: 'Louisianians, can you take those guns?' The answer
was a Rebel yell, and three hundred and eighty Louisianians
rushed to the top of that hill and at the bayonet's point took
the battery. The noble Jackson, seeing it, turned to Taylor
and said: W-ho could not win with such men as these?'
"Again, in the seven days' fighting around Richmond, in the
aloomy shades of the Wilderness, at Chancellorsville and
Fredericksburg, Louisianians followed through the fiercest
storms of war that ever desolated our country. In Hill's
Corner, at Gettysburg, when human effort, human strength,
and human courage could do no more, the Louisiana Tigers,
Whecler'.s Brigade, faltered and fell back for the first and
last time. .Xl Mansfield Mouton's Brigade, marching across
an open field a half mile long, stormed the Federal battery
fortified by intrcnchmcnts and masses of infantry. The noble
Mouton fell at the head of his army, and the gallant Mercer
Canfield, whose only daughter I have the honor to love and
cherish, fell with the battle flag in his hand; but ihc daunilos>
courage of the Southerners carried the day. and the thirty
thousand Federals retreated before the five thousand boys wli.^
wore the gray.
"Some of us, myself among the number, missed the glory
and peril of that dread struggle. We were born, as it were.
out of season, and inherit only the memory of dangers dared
and sufferings endured for us. But if we had been of those
who bore the heat and burden of the day, who bared their
breasts to the most dreadful storms of war that ever desolated
our country, we could gladly say, as did Senator Daniels
C^opfederat^ l/eterap.
431
at New Orleans a few years ago: 'That we stood in the thin
gray lines will ever be the proudest memory of our lives !'
"Since we cannot claim that proudest memory, let it be
the proudest memory of our lives to love, honor, and cherish
the memory of those grand old soldiers who, after four long
years' struggle, were not beaten, not conquered, but simply
crushed by overwhelming numbers.
"But, fellow-citizens, while we sing praises to the memory
of our Confederate soldiers, let us nor pass over in silence the
noble womanhood of the South. VV'hat brush could paint the
picture of her martyrdom? What tongue could tell the pa-
tient heroism with which that martyrdom was borne? With
more than Spartan heroism she sent her loved ones to battle
and to death. Mothers parted with sons, wives with hus-
bands, sweetheart with sweetheart, not with sobs and groans
of anguish but with brave words and cheering smiles, bidding
them go in answer to their country's call.
"And though heart-sickening suspense and haniiting fear
were her companions by day and by night, and though the
tidings from every battlefield brought the sad news that some
loved one had fallen, she trjd the burning plowshare of her
ordeal with unfaltering step, offering her loved ones a holo-
caust to the god of battle. At the loom and spinning wheel,
on the battlefield and in the hospital wards, she was ever
the same noble character, stripping her storeroom of necessary
provisions that her soldiers might not go hungry ; stripping
her bed of the necessary covering that they might not grow
cold ; never faltering, never losing hope, even in the darkest
hour: never for one moment doubting the supreme justice of
her country's cause, and ever willing for the sake of that
cause to dare and endure all things. O, noble womanhood
of the South, could we build a monument to your memory
that would reach to heaven itself, it would be but a poor
tribute to your worth ! Brick and stone would perish and
crumble to the earth, but down in the deep recess of our
licarts memory has built a statue to you that shall not perish,
hut live forever. . . . God bless the old veterans and God
bless the noble daughters of the Confederacy — these noble
women who are ever standing like guardian angels around the
tomb of our departed glory, ever keeping it fresh and green
with sweet flowers of love and devotion !"
Then followed the "Bonnie Blue Flag," sung by the choir.
The presentation to the veterans of the bronze crosses of
honor, given by the Daughters of the Confederacy, was made
by Mrs. Montfort S. Jones. She said : "Honor to the living ;
loving remembrance of the dead. 'Lest we forget' — lest wc
forget- — it is well to hear the glorious story of tliat past told
us once in a while; to think of the years so long ago, of the
boy marching away from the sheltering roof of home to the
lentless and rainy bivouac, unflinching under the dreadful
clouds of war, sacrificing the years of stalwart prime to the
stern yet noble voice of duty. The years of strife rolled on.
and the blue-eyed boy became the bronzed man — danger's
comrade, victory's darling again and again. Our sad-eyed
mothers who girded on the swords of their sons and husbands
have told the magnificent story — the story of these brave men
in the ranks, many of whom were buried in long trenches on
the battlefield, many who died on cots marked only by num-
bers in the hospital, and some who slept where no white stone
sentinels their rest; in Virginia, in Ohio, in Mississippi are
kinsmen of ours, and we arc bound to them by the cords of
love and death. We are told that the lapse of silent years
softens the realization of the scenes of war, the pathos, the
heroism, the fierce joy, the grief of battle. We pay homage
to the glorio\is dead, and we pay homage to their gallant com-
rades who are still with us. We and our children and our
children's children shall hold them in honor forever. The
story will live on. It is embalmed in song, in history; it is
cast in bronze, sculptured in marble, enshrined in the hearts
of the people of our glorious Southland ; it lives in the mem-
ory of the world. And we plead that all mothers, all teachers
instill into the tender hearts of the young boy and girl a love
and reverence for the soldiers of the South — the sacred dead
and those who are still with us. We will lovingly place the
rosemary of remembrance above the hallowed dust, and the
Southern cross of honor, the iron cross, we will give to our
veterans as a memorial of their valor and chivalry."
Mr. Chase, on behalf of the Camp, accepted the crosses in a
feeling speech, in which he spoke of how much they repre-
sented to the veterans.
After the benediction, those present adjourned to the ceme-
tery and decorated the graves.
The foregoing, together with an address by Mrs. M. S.
Jones to appear later, came in due season from Mrs. M. G.
Swann, of Aldens Bridge, La.
M NEW VERSION OF DIXIE.
BY M. B. WHARTON, D.D.
O ! Dixie's land is the land of glory.
The land of cherished song and story ;
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie land !
'Tis the land that patriots love to dwell in,
The land our fathers fought and fell in,
Look away, look away, look away. Di.xie land!
Choius.
I'm glad I live in Dixie,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
In Dixie's land I take my stand.
To live and die in Dixie.
Away, away, away down South in Dixie,
Away, away, away down South in Dixie !
O! Dixie's land is the land of flowers,
Of sunny skies and shady bowers.
Look away, look awaj', etc. !
Where the long moss to the oak is clinging
And the mocking bird is nightly singing,
Look away, look away, etc. !
The blue and gray went out to battle.
And loud they made war's thunders rattle.
Look away, look away, etc. !
The fight we lost, but won a glory
Which still will last when time is hoary,
Look away, look away. etc. !
Still Dixie's land is the land of freemen.
Of soldiers brave and gallant seamen.
Look away, look away, etc. !
The land where rules the Anglo-Saxon,
The land of Davis, Lee, and Jackson,
Look away, look away, etc. !
And Dixie's land is the land of cotton,
Whose ancient sway is not forgotten,
Look away, look away, etc. !
From his snnw-whitc throne our king :'.dv.'incc?
To break the world's commercial Unices,
Look away, look away, etc. !
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And Dixie's sons will stand ;ogether.
In sunshine and in stormy weather,
Look away, look away, etc. !
1 hough lightnings flash and mountains sever,
Count on the gallant South forever.
Look away, look away, etc. !
WORDS FOR -DIXIE'- BY REV M. B. WHARTOS.
The most pleasing new words for "Dixie"' so tar are those
en the preceding page hy Rev. M. B. Whartin, D.D
The proposed changes are ii creasing coniiniially. hut so far
Veteran organizations turn them
down with emphatic majorities.
One author commends words writ-
ten a long time ago and argues
that the music being the same gives
that version special merit. It is
ludicrous to admit half robbery,
taking the music of "Uncle Dan"
and to claim credit by the use of
other words. Rev. M. B. Wharton,
D.D., of Eufaula, Ala., has wriuen
the most popular words so far,
and they are to appear with com-
mendations ffom high sources
No one seeks to clianj^e Kmmctt's
music. Dr. Wharton has given
this subject much thought, as his version clearly shows.
Prof. A. M. Van Hoose. President of Brenan College,
Gainesville, Ga., writes the author commending them highly,
as "by far the best and most appropriate of any written."
Mrs. Emma Terry Pollard, of Atlanta, Ga., the celebrated
soprano, writes: "They are beautiful and valuable, and ought
to be universally adopted. I am often asked to sing for U. D.
C.'s and at reunions, and will always have them on my pro-
grammes."
The author of different words for the unchangeable music
of Dixie who can secure their adoption by Confederate organ-
izations may well be proud of a great victory.
DANIEL DECATUR EMMF.TT.
The term "Uncle Dan" is used in the Veteran as conveying
an affectionate remembrance of the author of the most inspiring
air that was ever created. His "walk-around" doggerel never
conveyed meaning and sentiment to the writer until its pa-
thetic review after his death. Then it was that the section-
alism of that time in all of its bitterness — less than two years
before the armies of the two sections were at deadly war — gave
significance to his ardent zeal for the Southland, in which both
of his parents were born.
The editor of the Veteran treasures the nu>niory of a some-
what intimate relation toward the author of "Dixie." A visit
to his little cabin home, near Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where he
was born, and association with him at various times and
places, gave thorough knowledge of his rugged integrity and
of his sympathy for all kuman suffering. The tune of "Dixie"
exhibits the qualities of liis mind and heart as well as did
the words express his fondness for the South. He was re-
sourceful. The minstrel company of which he was a member
was in hard lines, and the manager, realizing the emergency,
put it upon Daniel Emmett to revive the spirit of their per-
formances, and these conditions gave birth to "Dixie."
Before the writer of this sketch was Iwrn Dan Emmett
"organized the first band of Ethiopian minstrels that the world
ever knew." With it he not only made great success in this
country, but toured England, Ireland, and Scotland. He con-
tinued on the stage forty-four years longer, retiring prac-
tically in 1888. While ever a diligently sober and economical
man, he was so unselfish that in his old age he shared the
beneficent actors' fund ; but that having been discontinued,
through the agency of the writer it was restored to him and
various small sums from the South were sent to him.
In 1895 the great-hearted minstrel manager, Al G. Field,
brought "Uncle Dan" on his last trip South. At Nashville,
on that trip, he sat for a picture, and, under a large, fine photo-
graph, he wrote: "Daniel D. Emmett, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, aged
eighty years. Author of 'Dixie's Land.' To my much-es-
teemed friend, S. A. Cunningham, Septeml>er 14, 1895."
At the last Al Field was on hand to do the honors, regard-
less of expense. The photo for below engraving was thought- -
fully sent by him, as were various newspaper reports of his
career at the time of the death.
At the funeral, in which Rev. W. E. Hull officiated, the
songs were: "Lead, Kindly Light," "Jesus, Lover of My Soul,"
"Nearer, My God, to Thee," and, as the casket was being
lowered into the grave, the Mt. Vernon Band played "Dixie."
Dr. Hull took an active interest in the occasion, and is doing
what he can for the widow, who is in need.
The authorship of "Dixie" has been questioned, as have
been nearly all successful productions. In this Al Field
comes to the front in a defense. He produces an issue of
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the New York Herald and other New York papers of 1859,
containing many articles about the tune and song.
"Old Dan Tucker." "Our Cross oher Jordan," and others
are without question. A facsimile of a sheet of music, "en-
tered according to act of Congress," shows that it was copy-
righted by Frith, Pond & Co., New York, in i860.
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OUR SECOND CAMPAIGN TO NASHVILLE.
BY C. T. CULLENS, CALEDONIA, AR .
According to plans, I met my old comrade, L. B. Thweatt,
of Sulphur Springs, Tex., at Camden, Ark., Sunday, June 12,
on our second canyjaign to Nashville. Nearly forty years
ago we were answering to roll call in Company I, Eighteenth
Alabama Infantrj", on the way with Gen. Hood to Nashville.
On entering the outskirts of the city we were fired upon and
held at bay by an overwhelming force of the enemy under
General Thomas. We showed a bold front for several weeks
till the regular battle opened, on December 15. Lee's corps
occupied the Franklin Pike and was exposed to a heavy fire
of artillery all day. That night the army was withdrawn and
posted in a new position to the rear. Our command was be-
hind a stone fence on Overton Hill, still covering the Franklin
Pike, and our brigade was ordered to hold this stone fence at
all hazards. Gibson's brave Louisiana Brigade was on our
left. The first attack was in its front, and we trained our guns
on them. This force must have been two or three to our one.
Our ranks were already thin from casualties in other battles,
so that we were not much stronger than a good skirmish line.
Soon after the enemy was drawn back from Gibson's front, our
brigade was assaulted by three lines of negroes and a line of
white troops in their rear. Then the right wing of Gibson's
Brigade turned a cross fire that helped us to cut down the four
strong lines that were fighting for the key of Hood's position.
They were repulsed ; and when the smoke cleared away, a
glance to the front showed the bloody field of Overton Hill
strewn with dead. We had broken the backbone of the enemy's
left wing and held the pike for Lee. It was here my regiment
captured a silk flag with this inscription : 'Thirteenth U. S.
Colored Infantry. Presented by the Colored Ladies of Mur-
freesboro."
Late in the afternoon our lines were broken away to the
left. We held our position until the last moment, and were the
last to leave the field covering Hood's retreat.
In our Nashville campaign this time we were given a dif-
ferent reception. The doors of the city were opened to us.
It is an old saying that the nearest way to a man's heart is
through his pocketbook, but the Nashville people convinced
me that the nearest way to my heart was down my throat.
Thweatt and 1 were both delegates from our respective Camps
to the reunion, and after attending the business meetings we
went out to view the old battleground. We failed to locate any
particular spot except the memorable stone fence of Overton
Hill, where I stood, a sixteen-year-old boy, ana fired six guns,
while my old comrade fired eight, that the other boys loaded
for us. This place looked very natural. We gathered up
some relics to carry home, and as we clasped hands across
this historic stone fence it brought some pleasant things to
mind, together with many sad ones, as the tears on each of
our cheeks bore witness, for we are the only two of our com-
pany now living, that we know of, that were present at this
fight. Our service together made ties between us that will last
till the final roll call.
Many thanks to Mrs. John Thompson for courtesies shown
me when I visited her residence on the old battleground,
seeking information as to positions and locations of the army,
and acknowledgment is also made to others I met on the old
battle ground for kind and generous treatment. They showed
the warmest admiration for the boys that stood behind the
Southern guns. I hope the U. C. V. Association will live long
enough to be called back to Nashville.
FORREST COVERS HOOD'S RETREAT.
Col. H. A. Tyler, Hickman, Ky. :
"I have just read, in the July number, extracts from a 'paper
by Louis F. Garrard, Columbus, Ga.,' concerning 'Gen. S. D.
Lee's part in checking the rout' of Hood's army from Nash-
ville. I do not wish to detract in the least any praise due Gen.
Lee for services on that occasion, but, in the interest of true
history and fair play, I must correct one statement made.
He says: 'Gen. Forrest did not rejoin Hood's army until the
evening of the i8th of December, near Columbia, about forty
miles from Nashville, at which time he reported to Gen. Hood,
and was assigned to command the rear guard of the army.'
"On the l6th inst., the day the rout began, Buford's Division
of Forrest's Cavalry was encamped around the Brick Church,
near the Hermitage. We rode all night and took position
just in rear of Hollow Tree Gap just before daybreak (17th).
We found Rucker's Brigade of Chalmers's Division of For-
rest's Cavalry already in position just up the gap in our front
and acting as the rear guard picket. Day had not fully dawned,
when the Federals advanced and charged Rucker's Brigade,
and wounded and captured that gallant officer and put his
brigade to flight. Buford at once ordered his division for-
ward, and met the enemy and drove them back and held the
position for some time. Soon after, we fell back and attempt-
ed to cross the Harpeth at Franklin. Gen. Buford had crossed
with Bell's Brigade. I was at the time his acting inspector
general and was at the head of the Kentucky Brigade, con-
ducting it to the ford to cross, when we were charged by
the enemy. I at once ordered the brigade to wheel, front
into line, and make a countercharge, which was most quickly
and gallantly done, and soon we closed in a deadly hand-to-
hand conflict. What would have been our fate, God only
knows, for they greatly outnumbered us and began closing
around our flank, when Morton's guns, that had already crossed
the Harpeth, opened up on their flanks, and soon we were able
to withdraw under cover of his guns and cross the Harpeth
in perfect order. Again, later that evening, a few miles north
of Spring Hill, we had been pressed back upon our infantry;
a division, Clanton's I understood it was, had been halted and
formed across the pike. The Federals charged in overwhelm-
ing numbers, and it seemed that the division of infantry was
doomed to capture, as they were on the verge of being sur-
rounded from both flanks. At this critical moment, Buford's
Division charged on the left, and Chalmers's Division on the
right, and drove back each column and thus enabled Clanton
to withdraw his division in safety. Soon after this. Gen.
Buford and I were together re-forming our lines, when another
charge came. The enemy's cavalry swooped down upon us
with drawn sabers, cutting and slashing us from right to left.
Three soldiers assaulted Gen. Buford at one time. One he
shot ; another he struck over the head with the butt of his
pistol, knocking him from the saddle, but breaking his
pistol ; and the third he grabbed by the hair and pulled from
his saddle and thus escaped. They swarmed around me like
a flock of blackbirds. How I got out of it with a whole skin,
I do not know. My face was powder-burned and my hair was
scorched from a pistol shot thrust in my face at the moment of
discharge, and I found myself with two severe bruises on the
shoulder from saber strokes. So it is, I have a faint recollec-
tion that Forrest's men rendered some little service in covering
Hood's retreat before he reached Columbia; and where For-
rest's men were engaged the General was sure to be found
in the thickest of the fray.
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CONFEDERATE REGIMENT A NATIONAL GUARD.
Headquarters First Regiment Reserves, C. V., N. G.
S. T., Memphis, Tenn., May 22, 1904.
The First Regiment Reserves, C. V., N. G. S. T., has been
organized, the officers commissioned, and the six companies
of infantry and one troop of cavah-y composing same have
been duly mustered into the State's service. The roster of
the regiment, now on file in the Adjutant General's office,
Nashville, Tenn., shows thirty commissioned officers and three
hundred and ninety-two enlisted men (averaging fifty-six
enlisted men to each company or troop), aggregating four
hundred and twenty-two.
The following is a roster of the commissioned officers of
said regiment — namely :
Field: Edward Bourne, Colonel (Memphis); J. H. Mc-
Dowell, Lieutenant Colonel (Union City) ; Mark S. Cockrill,
Major (Nashville).
Staff: Thomas J. Happel, Major and Surgeon (Trenton);
A. L. Elcan, Captain and Assistant Surgeon (Memphis) ;
Robert F. Ward, Captain and Adjutant (Memphis) ; C. B.
Simonton, Captain and Quartermaster (Covington) ; Milton
B. Hurt, Captain and Commissary (Jackson) ; E. B. McNeil,
Captain and Chaplain (Jackson).
Company Officers.
Troop A, Nashville : George F. Hager, Captain ; W. T.
Hardison, W. G. Bush, and Frank Anderson, Lieutenants.
Company A, Memphis : George B. Malone, Captain ; S. A.
Munson, J. J. Cox, and L N. Rainey, Lieutenants.
Company B, Nashville: Spencer Eakin, Captain; L J. How-
lett, T. H. Maney, and P. M. Griffin, Lieutenants.
Company C, Jackson : Lawrence E. Talbot, Captain ; Thom-
as J. Dupree and W. T. Utley, Lieutenants.
Company U, Covington : John A. Crofford, Captain ; John
J. Stone and James R. Fallem, Lieutenants.
Company E, Union City : I. N. Branliani, Captain ; J. S.
House, J. H. Sandling, and Abe Miller, Lieutenants.
Company G, Trenton : W. O. Gordon, Captain ; S. P. Reed,
W. W. McCall, and N. B. Johnson, Lieutenants.
CAPTURE OF TWO FEDERAL GENERALS.
In an official letter from Headquarters Army of Northern
Virginia, dated February 24, 1865, Gen. R. E. Lee wrote to
Hon. John C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War :
"Gen. Early reports that Lieut. McNeil with thirty men on
the morning of the 21st inst. entered Cumberland, Md., and
captured and brought out Generals Crook and Kelley, the
Adjutant General of the Department, two privates, and the
Headquarters flag, without firing a gun, though a considerable
force was stationed in the vicinity. He said : 'Lieut. McNeil
and party deserve much credit for this bold exploit. Their
prisoners will reach Staunton to-day.' Gen. Lee."
The above is the only official report ever made of this
most daring and successful feat. Several members of the Com-
pany were young men who had lived in Cumberland, then a
town of some eight thousand inhabitants and at that time sur-
rounded by ten thousand Federals in winter quarters. Gen.
Kelley had his headquarters in the Barnum Hotel, and Gen.
Crook was sleeping at the Revier House, of which a Mr.
Daily was proprietor, and with whose daughter. Miss Mary,
Gen. Crook was very much in love (they afterwards married).
Miss Daily had a brother in McNeil's Company who assisted
in capturing Gen. Crook, and in the rush secured what he
thought to be official war papers of the General, but on inves-
tigation next morning, much to his disgust, proved to be only
love letters from his sister to Crook.
Snow covered the ground and it was bitter cold on the night
that McNeil started on his bold venture, February 21, 1865.
Taking the main highway, he started on the most direct route
to Cumberland. It was not long before he was challenged
by the Federal pickets, and in response to their challenge an-
swered, "Friends from New Creek," where there was a Fed-
eral garrison a few miles west of Cumberland. Riding up
rapidly from there, he and his party captured the two pickets
and at the muzzle of pistols made them give him the counter-
sign, "Bull Run," for the night. There was no trouble in pass-
ing the inner guards, and they rode on into the city, represent-
ing themselves to be a Company of Ohio Cavalry, singing Yan-
kee songs and bandying jokes with belated Yankee soldiers
quite plentiful on the streets, although it lacked but an hour
and a half of daybreak. A squad of ten was sent to each hotel ;
no trouble was experienced in passing the sleepy guard, with
the countersign and the "important information for the gen-
eral." Going direct to the room designated, the generals were
aroused, and in response to the urgent knocking they opened
the doors to look into the muzzles of a half-dozen pistols
and hear the assertion, "General, you are a prisoner; dress
quickly and keep quiet if you value your life. Any attempt
to give an alarm will compel us to kill you instantly. Keep
quiet and go with us, and you will not be harmed." Along
with Gen. Kelley, his adjutant general, Capt. Melvin, was
also captured. While this was going on at the hotel a squad of
men were playing havoc with tlie telegraph wires and instru-
ments. In the meantime McNeil had required Gens. Kelley
and Crook to send an order to the stables for their best horses,
as if they wished to make an early visit to their outposts. In
less than a half hour the work was completed and McNeil
had assembled his men and five prisoners — two generals, one
captain, and two privates — to make his way out of the midst
of the Federal anny. He completely enveloped his prisoners
by placing a squad of his men in front and rear and others
on each side of them, all with drawn pistols w'ith instructions
to shoot if any attempt to give an alarm was made. Skirting
the sleepy army, he soon came to the camp gdard, and in re-
sponse to the challenge answered, "Company B, Third Ohio
Cavalry, with the countersign, and in a hurry." Instead of
calling for the countersign, the officer asked, "What's up?"
McNeil replied: "O, old Granny Kelley has had a bad dream
that the Rcbs are after him and is sending us out in this bitter
weather to scout the other side of the river. He's a regular
old granny. Don't you wish Grant would relieve him, and put
Crook in command ?" To this the officer gave a hearty assent
without dreaming that "Granny Kelley" was within ten feet of
him, listening to the compliinentary (?) remarks, and that
Crook, who w^as riding by his side, was nudging him with his
knee and only kept from laughing outright by feeling the cold
barrel of a pistol against his side. At Moorefield McNeil
stopped sufficiently long to feed his men and horses, and then
continued his rapid ride to the Virginia line. Great was the
consternation in Cumberland next morning when it was discov-
ered that both generals had been spirited away. A hot pursuit
was at once ordered, and the pursuers only twenty minutes
behind the daring little band when they rode away from
Moorefield. But McNeil safely landed his game, having rid-
den about ninety miles since starting on the expedition in
thirty-six hours.
The V'eteran is indebted to Comrade E. S. Cunningham,
of Dufton, Ala., for the above interesting account.
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FLAG OF THE SOUTHLAND.
BY GEORGE F. ALFORD.
Flag of the Southland, Flag of the free,
Ere thy sons will be slaves they will perish with thee !
Thy new risen stars shall light liberty on,
Till the hosts of the tyrant are scattered and gone !
Whether victory sits on the Southern plume.
Or disaster doth come in some hour of gloom,
Freedom's hosts will still rally where'er thou shall be,
O, Flag of the Southland, Flag of the free !
Flag of the Southland, thy glory has been
To be baptized in blood 'mid the great battle's din :
From Manassas' red plain o'er the mountain steeps
Thy stars keep their vigil where Washington sleeps.
And the breezes of Vernon have borne on the shout
Of thy triumphant sons as the foe took the rout ;
Valor's trio of genius — Hood, Johnston, and Lee —
Guards the Flag of our Southland, the Flag of the free.
On the plains of Missouri thy valorous sons rise
To wrest from the foe what he gained by surprise :
And e'en on the field where his triumph begim,
McCullough for thee a new glory has won ;
And the Southern heart and the Southern hand.
From classic Potomac to bold Rio Grande,
Will rush ever to battle when floating they see
The Flag of the Southland, the Flag of the free !
Gen. Alford was a wealthy planter in those days, and the
spirit manifest is quite characteristic.
OLD MUSTER ROLLS.
BY GEORGE G. GRATTAN, HARRISONBURG, VA.
Not long since a mechanic, in making some repairs in an old
house in Harrisonburg, Va., found some rolls of Confederate
companies mustered for pay in the summer of 1861.
These rolls have been given to the custody of Col. D. H. Lee
Martz, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, at
Harrisonburg, and thinking that they may be of interest to
some of the surviving members of the companies, a list is here-
with given : Forty-Second Virginia Regiment, Company C,
Captain Buford, and Company E, Captain Dyerly; Twenty-
First Virginia Regiment, Company A, Captain Moseley, Com-
pany E, Captain Leach, and Company I, Captain Mitchell ;
Sixth North Carolina Regiment, Company E, Captain Kirkey,
and Company \, Captain Shipp; Fourteenth Tennessee Regi-
ment, Company A, Captain Harrell, and Company L, Captain
Hewett; Lunenburg Cavalry, Captain Hatchett.
Any one desiring further information can communicate with
Col. D. H. Lee Martz, who is a gallant Confederate veteran.
INQUIRY ABOUT CAPT. T. H. HOLCOMB.
Mr. Joseph R. Anderson, President of the Virginia Milita-
ry Institute Alumni Association, and who is engaged in com-
piling a record of all the old cadets, desires to learn of T. H.
Holcomb, and writes as follows: "In 1856 Thomas H.Holcomb,
of Mecklenburg County, Va., graduated at the Virginia Milita-
ry Institute and shortly afterwards moved with his father's
family to Georgia. On the evening of the first day's battle at
Seven Pines Maj. William D. Shelton, of Virginia (an old
V. M. I. comrade of Holcomb's), states that the regiment to
which he belonged came over from the south side of the
James River and were halted just before going into battle.
While standing, a Georgia regiment passed by, and Thomas
H. Holcomb was in command of one of the companies. Shel-
ton instantly recognized him, as did several others of the Vir-
ginia regiment who had been his friends and college mates
at the V. M. I., and they shook hands with him as he passed
with his regiment. Holcomb's regiment went at once into the
thickest of the fight, and it was said next morning that Hol-
comb was killed, though it was never positively proven. It is
earnestly desired to set at rest the doubt of Capt. Holcomb's
death at Seven Pines. If this should be read by any of his
family or any of his old comrades of that Georgia regiment,
the number of which has been unfortunately forgotten, they
will confer a great favor by communicating with me at Lee,
Va. Upward of two hundred of the old V. M. I. cadets gave
their lives for the cause they loved so well."
Capt. G. W. Arrington writes from Canadian, Tex., an
inquiry concerning Dr. Charles Foreman, of Summit Point,
Va., who lived for a while after the war in .Vtchison County,
Mo., and who scouted in the valley during the spring of 1865
with Johnnie Orrick, of Mosby's command.
OLD DOMINION CHAPTER, LYNCHBURG.
At a recent meeting of the Old Dominion Chapter, L'. D. C,
of Lynchburg, Va., the following officers were elected : Mrs.
J. Davis Christian, President; Mrs. J. W. Martin, Mrs. With-
ers P. Clark, Mrs. Peter J. Otey, Mrs. Rawley W. Martin,
Vice Presidents; Miss Hilda Forsberg, Recording Secretary;
Mrs. Hubert B. Watts, Treasurer; Mrs. W. M. Strother, His-
torian; Miss Maria Walker, Register; Miss Elvira A. Jones,
of Roanoke, Corresponding Secretary.
Mrs. Christian, the President elected to succeed the late
lamented Mrs. C. E. Heald, is a daugliter of Maj. Edward S.
Hutter, so well known among Virginia veterans. Her mother
MRS. JANE BAVIS CI1RI^^T1AN,
I'leiiceiil o. llie OlJ l>oininii>n Cliajjler.
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was Miss Nannie Langhorne, a member of the distinguished
Virginia family of that name. In grace of manner and charm-
ing personality Mrs. Christian has no superiors, and that her
record as a wise presiding officer will be noteworthy goes
without saying. She has the support of one of Virginia's
leading Chapter of Daughters.
MORE OF THE -LADY POLK" EXPLOSION.
Gen. E. W. Rucker, of Birmingham, Ala., complies with our
request to give his recollections of the bursting of the gun
"Lady Polk."
He does not concur with Col. Pickett in his recollections
that the accident occurred on the morning of November 8,
1861, the day after the battle of Belmont. Gen. Rucker recol-
lects that on the 9th he went to Memphis, remaining one day,
and returned to Columbus on the nth, the train arriving
there about noon. After eating his dinner, he went up on the
hill to where the "Lady Polk" was mounted.
"To be more certain as to this date," Gen. Rucker states,
"I wrote to Mr. Hugh Davidson, at Shelbyville, Tenn., and
requested him to copy the inscription on Capt. Keiter's monu-
ment, and he wrote me the following: 'Capt. W. N. Keiter,
C. S. A., a native of Virginia, was killed by the bursting of
the "Lady Polk" at Columbus, Ky., November 11, 1861.' "
Gen. Rucker states further in regard to the matter :
"My recollections are that Gen. Polk, Col. Pickett, and
myself were standing together on the parapet on the south
side of the gun, and in the order stated by Col. Pickett, but that
Col. Pickett was directly opposite the trunnions and Gen. Polk
and I were to his right toward the breech. I remember that
while we were talking Capt. Keiter approached us and in-
quired of the General if he did not wish to step to the wind-
ward and observed the eflect of the shot. His answer was:
'Well, well! If it has any range, I will see where the shot
falls in the water. Go ahead.'
"Capt. Keiter stepped off the parapet to the rear of the
gun and gave the order to fire, and the explosion was the re-
sult. In a few moments a large crowd assembled, and Gen.
Polk and Col. Pickett were carried away. I was only stunned
a little, and required no aid or attention. Gen. Polk was con-
fined to his room for several weeks. Col. Pickett was about
the next day, attending to his duties as usual.
"I saw Gen. John P. McCown at Columbus and several
times afterwards at Island Number Ten, where he was in com-
mand after the evacuation at Columbus, and talked with him
about what he thought was the cause of the explosion, and
I know that he had no fixed opinion about the matter. On
one occasion when I brought to his attention the fact that
it was currently believed the gun had been loaded when it
was hot on the day of the battle of Belmont, and possibly
afterwards there was a contraction which caused the acci-
dent, he said: 'I do not know whether that was the cause or
not ; but it is a good plan when guns of any kind are not in
use to keep them empty, and never load them except when
you know you are going to use them.' "
J A. Hughes, Center Point, Ark., writes of it :
"Permit me to contribute to the 'Lady Polk" correspondence
in the June and other issues of the Veteran. I belonged to
Company G, Twelfth Arkansas Infantrj', E. W. Gantt, Colo-
nel. Our regiment was and had been camped on the last rise
south of the gun, some two hundred and fifty yards away, for
ten days. I strolled around the gun before the Belmont fight,
and asked one of the guards, an Irishman, where they were
{rom, and was told Nashville, Tenn., and that he had be-
longed to the United States army.
"I witnessed the battle of Belmont across the river. There
were two regiments encamped there in tents. In the afternoon
we were lined up and marched out northeast a mile or so to
meet a supposed attack by land, but we did not remain long
before returning to the fort.
'On the day of the disaster, about four o'clock, I was
loitering around this gun, being attracted by the gathering, as
I supposed, to drill. I was to the left of the gun and some
thirty feet from the earthworks and the same distance from
the bluff, which was covered with forest growth. I was
watching the muzzle of the gun elevated, and heard Gen.
Polk say: 'Take sight at a tall tree up the river.' It was
several miles away. To my surprise, the command to fire was
given. I instantaneously remembered the counsel of my mother,
which was : 'If near a cannon when discharged, squat or bend
the legs.' Having done this, when the explosion came my face
was south toward camp, and I ran as fast as I could through
the smoke. About thirty steps across some corn ridges I
noticed some one lying in a furrow, and I did likewise, and
I will never lie as low again while I live. A breeze blew
away the smoke, and when 1 looked south it seemed that my
whole regiment was coming. I heard a voice ring out: 'Go
back ! The bombs will explode I' Promptly a guard was
formed around the place. I went to our surgeon and got
some remedies for my ears, and soon one of my regiment
called, with, blood oozing from his ears. A large part of the
breech end was blown to near where I stood.
"Another gun, smooth-bored, was brought near our quarters
to replace the 'Lady Polk.' Wc left that place later on for
New Madrid, where we were bombarded on March 13, 1862.
We evacuated, moving down the river to Tiplonville, on the
Tennessee side. On March 18 (my twentieth anniversary)
three companies of my regiment waded Reelfoot Lake for a
mile before day. We returned after night to guard Rucker's
Battery. On April 8 we were surrendered by Gen. McCall
and Col. E. W. Gantt. The latter took the oath a year or so
before the surrender and wrote a Digest of Arkansas Laws
under Radical rules.
"We were at Camp Douglas the greater part of our prison
life, where many died of scurvy from eating salt meat. We
were exchanged at Vicksburg October 23, 1862, and sent
from there to Port Hudson, and reniaiiud there till sur-
rendered, July 9, 1863. We w-ere then paroled and scattered
'to the four winds.' We returned to service in December,
1863, and were disbanded at Marshall, Tex., in May, 1865,
under Kirby Smith."
Considerable space has been given this horrid accident ; but
it was a momentous event, and illustrates the vivid memories
of those who were present after nearly forty-three years.
The wife of Judge W. S. Bearden, of Shelbyville, who was
Miss Maggie Whiteside, widely known and greatly admired
in the army (for she was in the Southern lines and cheered
many soldiers in field and hospital), sends the Veteran a
funeral notice of Capt. Keiter which had been preserved by
the family all these years. It is as follows:
Funeral Invitation. — The friends and acquaintances of
Capt. Wm. Keiter are requested to attend his funeral from
the Presbyterian Church, at 9:30 o'clock. Services by Rev.
Mr. Allen, Friday morning, November 15, 1861.
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THE MAN IN GRAY.
When fades away the man in gray,
Where shall our glory dwell?
With our cross on his breast, he goes to his rest.
As the years like beads we tell.
May his son in blue prove him as true
As glory's knight in gray !
May his arm be as strong, his endurance as long.
When duty shall call him away !
Will he fight for pay as the man in gray
Fought for defeat and loss?
Will his flag of stars and conquering bars
Be loved like our broken cross ?
He is marching away, the man in gray,
But glory keeps step by his side ;
When he rests above in the tents of love
May his spirit with us abide !
Amen. — H. C. R.
Atlanta, Ga. For Decoration Day.
LEE AND JACKSON DAY.
Mrs. Fred A. Olds, President North Carolina Division,
U. C. v., wrote from Raleigh on April 15 :
"I note in the March Veteran a letter from Judge John N.
Lyle, of Waco, Texas, relative to the 19th of January being
made "Lee and Jackson Day.' He rather reflects on the U. D.
C. convention at Charleston, in that no action was taken by
them. Our presiding officer at that convention needs no de-
fense by me, for her ever-ready willingness to handle any
matter brought to her attention is well known of all who have
attended the conventions over which she presided. I feel
sure such a resolution did not reach her. Not until early in
January did the action of the veterans in Staunton, Va., come
to my knowledge. Then I did the best I could to reach my
Chapters and tell them of this resolution. Quite a number of
them complied, and ne.xt year I hope that all will do sc.
"The North Carolina Memorial Day is May 10, the date
commemorative of the death of Stonewall Jackson, but we
cannot honor him too much, so it is hoped hereafter that
January 19 will, all over the South, and wherever there is a
Daughter of the Confederacy, be celebrated as 'Lee and Jack-
son Day.'"
THE OLD HAYES HOMESTEAD, NASHVILLE.
BY Ltn,A HAYES LAWRENCE, ORLANDO, FLA,
"Rokeby," the old homestead of the Hayes family, is one
of the landmarks of Nashville. Huge, massive, palatial, it has
stood for nearly a hundred years in all its colonial grandeur.
Oliver Bliss Hayes was one of the pioneers of Nashville, and
his personality was stamped upon the growing city, as to-day
his name and his children's names are stamped upon the city's
streets — Hayes, Addison, Laura, and Adelicia Streets all tak-
ing their names from the family.
Mr. Hayes owned nearly all of High Street, his stable being
on the site of the present stone block erected and donated to
the city by Samuel Watkins, at the corner of High and Church
Streets. Later he purchased of Col. Childress the vast estate
of "Rokeby." Being one of the wealthiest men of his day,
Mr. Hayes retired from the profession of law and divided his
time between preaching the gospel and beautifying his mag-
nificent home.
"Rokeby" is of splendid architecture, and stands as proudly
erect now as when the stone and brick were first wedded by
the mason's trowel. Winter's blasts and summer suns, war
and peace, have scarcely made any marks to show their pas-
sage. The two hundred and fifty acres of pleasure grounds
have dwindled to less than five; the wide flower gardens, once
the city's pride, have been cut up into streets, and from its
orchards has sprung that miniature city known as Belmont
Heights. The "Big Spring" which, under spreading trees and
sheltering rocks, was the source of the famous Hayes branch
is now walled in and furnishes a water supply to houses built
up all around it.
The house alone remains the same ; the door through which
a carriage and pair could pass still opens into a hallway as
large as some modern houses, and the stone lintel, worn with
ithe tread of its many years, tells a mute story to all who care
to read. It tells of the great gatherings held here, of the men
high in power, of the kings in intellect who were "Rokeby's"
guests. It tells of the weddings of the daughters of the house
— the beautiful .\delicia to the millionaire Isaac Franklin; and
of the double marriage of Laura to George W. Shields, and
"KOKUll'i As IT Is iv-l'.\\.
Corinne, who was called the most beautiful woman of Ten-
nessee, to W. L. B. Lawrence. It tells us of the birth of
grandchildren to keep alive the grand old name ; and, alas ! it
tells, too, of death after death, till slowly the old family has
passed away, and Mrs. Lawrence is the only one surviving of
all the children who clustered around the doorway where O.
B. Hayes sat, a king in his wide holdings.
Two years ago "Rokeby" was sold to Mr. John L. Kirby,
the assistant to the Book Editor at the Methodist Publishing
House, and by him and his family the beauties of the place
are held sacred, and all the traditions of the Hayes family
will be preserved for future generations.
[Mr. J. Addison Hayes, of this family, is father of the only
grandchildren of Jefferson Davis. — Ed. Veteran.] '
Thomas P. Cox, of Nashville, Tenn., sends the following
note to the Veteran : "When the Yankees arrived in Nash-
ville under Bull Nelson after the fall of Fort Donelson the
following ladies were members of the Confederate Nurses'
Association: Mrs. Felicia G. Porter, Mrs. John Nichol, Mrs.
John Bell, Mrs. Sue Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Jane CockrcH Watkins,
Mrs. Addie G. Cox, Mrs. Susan McC. Clark, and Mrs. Alfred
Hume. Drs. W. K. Bowling and William Smith were in
charge of the hospital, which was located back of the present
Terminal Station, near a coal dump. Nicholas, an Irishman,
did the nursing at night. He has since died."
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ON NASHVILLE BATTLE LINE— W ATKINS FARM.
At the time of the battle of Nashville the Samuel Watkins
farm, three miles out on the Hillsboro road, was in charge of
my stepfather, Edward H. Allen, and his family (my moth-
er and her two very young daughters). Early on the morn-
ing of the first day, December 15, the Confederate line of bat-
tle on the right wing was extended across this farm west of
the turnpike and just south of the dwelling house, which
stands on an eminence in the center of the lands. The place
thus became for a while the skirmishing ground of the op-
posing armies. Rifle pits for the Confederate sharpshooters
were located not far to the north of the house, and soon there
was a lively exchange cf shots with the enemy posted along
the outer defenses of the city.
While this preliminary "target practice" was going on. Gen.
Frank Cheatham and several members of his staff rode up to
Mr. Allen's doorway. They were greatly fatigued from the
labors and vigils of the previous night in preparing their brave
command for the impending conflict. No sooner was their
hunger made known than my mother began breakfast for
them; and she and the little girls served the General and
his officers while they sat upon their horses, saying it would
not be prudent for them to dismount at that critical juncture.
One of these sisters (now Mrs. C. C. Bishop, of St. Louis)
wrote me recently: ".^s my mind goes back to that awful
period, I can see my mother standing there waiting for Gen.
Cheatham to finish a meal she had takc.i to him. and myself
pulling at her dress to make her go into the house, for the
bullets were coming thick and fast all around us. Finally the
General told us we had better go in, as the soldiers were com-
ing closer and we were in great danger."
Even before this strange al fresco repast ended, the nearer
Federal batteries hurled their heavy projectiles through the
brick walls of the house, and the sharpshooling grew more
and more deadly at that point, compelling the inmates to re-
treat to the cellar. The group of officers in gray were the ob-
jects of this hot firing; and while they withdrew unhurt, two
or three of the soldiers on duty were killed in the farmyard
near by.
Realizing the family's peril, Gen. Cheatham, with his wonted
thoughtfulness and sympathy, directed their removal beyond
the zone of hostilities. For this purpose ambulance and
wagon were sent for the conveyance of Mr. Allen's house-
hold and such effects as they desired to carry with them.
Calling down blessings on the good General for their deliv-
erance, these innocent victims of the war retired to the peace-
ful home of kindred in Williamson County.
Soon the battle raged in earnest; and Gen. Clieatham, the
dauntless hero of many bloody fields in Mexico and in his be-
loved Southland, led his eager battalions into the deadliest
breach, utterly heedless of his own safety, as in other memo-
rable struggles with the foe — notably at Stone's River, where
three of his horses were slain under him and he received pain-
ful wounds. Unspeakably sad it was that valor so sublime
should prove unavailing. The day was indeed a dark one for
the bleeding South when Hood's brave legions had to accept
defeat.
Sometime after the battle I visited the farm, to which the
involuntary exiles had returned. The rents in the walls of the
house, torn by cannon shot on that fateful December morn-
ing, had not been repaired; underneath the barn and stables
lay a number of unexplodcd percussion shells ; here and there
a soldier's grave dotted the hill slopes ; the rifle pits were still
intact, grim reminders of the fusillade that came upon the de-
voted place ; and all around were evidences of cruel devasta-
tion. But ere long the ruder traces of war disappeared from
the whole countryside ; and now it verily blossoms like the
rose, as if gratefully to keep alive the memory of the noble-
fouled Cheatham and his men.
WATKINS F.\RM HOME.
The preservation of this battlc-scarrcd home is safely con-
fided to Mr. Harry Stokes, its present owner and occupant.
My friend Dr. W. A. Matthews is cordially thanked for the
accompanying view of the house, taken only a few days ago.
John L. Kirby.
Eighty Barefooted Confederates. — H. McCorkle, who wis
a lieutenant in the Thirty-Seventh Georgia Infantry, writes
from Thomson, Ga. : "In reply to your request for reminis-
cences of the battles about your beautiful city by the Cumber-
land, I send you a short sketch. The Thirty-Seventh Georgia
Regiment, to which I belonged and with whom I served, was
of William B. Bate's (now one of Tennessee's Senators) Di-
vision. After the carnage at Franklin, we were ordered to
Murfreesboro to look after a corps of the enemy at that place.
Our division, in connection with Gen. Forrest, engaged the
enemy on the afternoon and night of December 12. They were
not dislodged, but were kept inside of their works. The
weather then became extremely cold, and our men were poorly
clad. What I wish to emphasize is the loyalty and heroism
of the Confederate soldier. At sunrise on one of the coldest
days I ever experienced, I was detailed from my company to
report at division headquarters for special duty. Eighty of us
were soon in line in front of Col. Bate's tent. Not a man in
that company had shoes on his feet, and many were without
a blanket. The General ordered me to take coinmand of
those men and march them to a little station up the road, a
distance of about six miles, where there was a supply of
wood, and to build fires and keep as comfortable as possible
until the weather should moderate. I obeyed orders, and, as
I marched my command up that frozen pike, I felt that I
had as brave a set of men as ever shouldered muskets. Ar-
riving at the destined point, we soon had fires amidst the
shouts and huzzas. We spent one day and night there. Early
on the morning of the 15th our division began to file by on
its way to Nashville. These brave boys, as their commands
passed, fell into their places without orders, leaving me with-
out a command. A large per cent of these men were Teii-
nesseeans, and many of them fell in battle near the city with
their faces to the foe. I should like to hear from any sur-
vivors of that invincible eighty."
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GENS. ANDERSON AND LYTLE—A REMINISCENCE.
Mrs. Patton Anderson, of Palatka, Fla., wrote the Veteran :
"When the Veteran came in March of last year asking
if any of Patton Anderson's family would give the address of
Gen. Lytle's family, that his sword might be returned to them,
I did not remember the address. I did not believe the sword
referred to was Gen. Lytle's. So many years had elapsed
since I had heard my husband speak of it. I wrote his aid,
Capt. Wm. M. Davidson, living in Jacksonville, to ascertain
if my recollection was correct before writing you. When his
reply came I was packed and just starling for the mountains
with a very ill daughter. She continued to grow worse until
in March of this year she left me to join her idolized father and
other loved ones gone before. Of course every moment of
my time and every thought was occupied with her.
Last month's Veteran again alluded to the matter, saying
the address had been found and the sword forwarded. For
history's sake, if that is what you wish, I will tell you what
I know. Gen. Lytic and Gen. Anderson were always warm
personal friends. The friendship nny have begun at college,
or in Mexico. At Charleston, before the war, when the Dem-
ocratic party was so divided, they believed the country would
be divided and there would be war. Both being Slate rights
Democrats, each felt that his first duty would be to his State,
and as they bade each other farewell there they promised that
nothing should ever interfere with their friendship, and if either
should ever be in trouble the other was to assist him in every
way practicable.
At Chickamauga, my husband's courier (a boy from Hernan-
do, Miss., but I have forgotten his name) told him that a gen-
eral officer had been killed. Gen. Anderson rode to the place
designated and, much to his grief, found it was Gen. Lytle.
He dismounted and took his ring, a lock of his hair, several
daguerreotypes from his pockets, his sword, and his pistols.
A wounded Federal near by replied to his question about the
handsome spurs : "A Rebel took them oflf and has gone up
the lines." Gen. Anderson placed a guard over the body and
rode up the lines. Seeing the same courier referred to, he
asked him if he had seen any one with the spurs, and he replied:
"I took them myself, General, and buckled tliem on 'old
Blucher's' heels." This was Maj, Thompson, of Hernando,
Miss. Soon Maj. Thompson was killed and his body stripped
of such articles as could be made use of, and the spurs were
gone. As soon as was practicable Gen. Anderson went to
Gen. Bragg and asked as a personal favor that the body, with
the articles he had, be sent through to the family, to which
Gen. Bragg agreed. It had just been reported that Gen. Dan
Adams was mortally wounded and perhaps they would ex-
change for him, which they did. Gen. Adams got well and
continued to fight to the end. Gjh. Lytle's sword, pistols, etc.,
were given on special occasions and were all very handsome.
I think there were some jewels about them. Gen. Anderson
knew the history of each. Gen. Anderson and Gen. Walthall
both tried to procure the spurs after the war, but never heard
of them. Capt. Wm. M. Davidson, Gen. Anderson's aid. Was
with him that day. He lives now at Jacksonville, Fla."
In concluding her most interesting letter, Mrs. Anderson
states: "In about 1867 or 1868, the colonel of the Si-xteenth
Louisiana Regiment came to Memphis, where we were living,
and presented to my husband the flag of that regiment, saying
that the men wished him to have it. Gen. Walthall was with
us when he brought it home. When unfolded, it brought the
tears to their eyes. It is useless to try to tell how he valued
it. We had a box made especially for it and kept it upstairs
in a bureau drawer. I thought one day, when I was putting
naphtha balls in, that, in case of fire, I might not be able to save
it, so brought it down and put it in a bookcase in the sitting
room, near where I always sat to sew. In September, 1902, it
was stolen from me by a man we were entertaining as a Con-
federate soldier and a gentleman ! My sons heard once of his
offering it for sale in Texas. We had never imagined before
that who had taken it. Before they could get a message to the
place he was gone, but had the flag. We have learned that he
is dead and that it was not among his effects at the time. When
I had the flag it had on it "i6lh La. Shiloh." The letters
were made of white strips of cotton run on, and one of the
figures of the '16' was gone and just the threads were left."
Information in regard to this flag would be greatly appreci-
ated by Mrs. Anderson.
KIRBY SMITH CHAPTER, U. D. C, GAINESl'ILLE,
FLA.
This chapter was organized seven years ago and has a mem-
bership of ninety, second to the largest Chapter in Florida.
The president, Mrs. H. H. McCreary, is serving her fourth
term.
On January 19, 1904, General Lee's birthday, a handsome
monument erected to the memory of the Confederate dead of
Alachua County, Fla., by this Giapter was unveiled with im-
pressive ceremonies. A cut and description of this beautiful
monuniem will be furnished the Veteran later. This Chapter
MISS E. MYRTLE 1-ENNELL, FLORIDA.
has bestowed nearly two hundred Crosses of Honor upon mem-
bers of the Stonewall Camp, U. C. V.
The above picture represents Miss Myrtle Fennell, who was
Maid of Honor of the Florida Division at the Reunion of the
Confederate Veterans held recently in Nashville. Miss Fennell,
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a member of the Kirby Smith Chapter, is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. L. W. Fennell, of Gainesville, Fla., and the grand-
daughter of Lieutenant John Wesley Price, who served hon-
orably in the Confederate Army.
A MONUMENT TO THE FAITHFUL OLD SLAVES.
As the President of the North Carolina Division, U. D. C,
I heartily indorse "the following letter from Mrs. Aston, and
hope the Daughters will take some decisive action in the
October convention looking to the erection of this monument.
The letter is addressed "to the Daughters of the Confederacy
end all the women of the South." Mrs. Fred A. Olds.
Mrs. Aston's Letter.
My Dear Sisters: Will not every one of you raise your
voice with mine in making amends for a long-neglected duty
in rearing a monument to our faithful old slaves?
Of all people that dwell upon the earth, I think these de-
serve the grandest monument. Soon all this generation will
have passed away. Let us hasten with the work while some
of us still survive.
Confederate veterans have for some time been speaking
of raising a monument to the Southern women. We ap-
preciate this, and thank them for their remembrance of our
self-denials and hardships which tried women's souls ; but
what else could have been expected of us when our dear
ones were at the front? While this was the case we felt
we were enduring this for sacred ties of kindred and country.
How different with the faithful slaves ! They did it for love
of masters, mistresses, and their children. How nobly did
they perform their tasks! Their devotion to their owners,
their faithfulness in performing their labors and caring for
us during these terribly disastrous years, and their kindness
at the surrender, while we were powerless and helpless, have
never been surpassed or equaled.
At the time of the surrender we were entirely defenseless.
Our noble, famished, ragged patriots were still away from
their homes, and among us was a band of robbers who were
bad counselors to our slaves. Their kindness and their de-
votion to us was the most beautiful this earth has ever wit-
nessed.
From the Mason and Dixon line to the Gulf and from the
Atlantic to the Gulf there was not a massacre, house-burning,
or one of those unmentionable crimes which are now so com-
mon in the whole country. Think of this ; 'tis wonderful.
Our gratitude to God and love for the old-time servants
should be boundless.
Who will say they do not deserve the greatest monument
that has ever been erected? This acknowledgment from us
to them of our appreciation of kindness and devotion shown
by them to their former owners would be in their last days
a beautiful thought. To those of their race of the present
generation it would verify the character of the Southern peo-
ple, their former owners, and also show the true relation that
existed between master and servant.
Would it not be an act of justice for the women of the
South to ask our noble men if we may not be permitted to
turn this monument over to those who, if not more deserv-
ing, arc equally so with our Soullicrn sisters? I would sug-
gest that when it is erected a tablet might be inserted bear-
ing this inscription: "Given by the Confederate Veterans as
a memorial to the women of the South, and given by them in
memory of the faithfulness of our former servants."
Mr.s. C. Gili.iland Aston,
V9 Church Street, Asheville, N. C.
THAT PERILOUS RIDE AT CHICKASAW BAYOU.
H. H. Hockersmith writes from Springfield, Tenn. :
"Editor Veteran: Quite awhile ago I made inquiry in the
Veteran as to whether there was any old comrade living who
could give the name of the man who "rode into the very jaws
of death" at the battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Miss., fought in
1863. Some two or three have already claimed this honor,
or rather their friends claim it for them, the last one being
that of Gen. Stephen D. Lee, whose article appeared in the
Veteran giving the credit to a soldier by name of Champion.
"Now I have no reasons to doubt but what Comrade Cham-
pion did make a daring ride; and if he did, all praise should
be accorded him. Vet I have two positive reasons to know
that Champion was not the man who made the ride in ques-
tion. Gen. Lee stated that Champion was carrying a dispatch
to Gen. Pemberton at Vicksburg, whereas, as has already been
stated, the hero upon this occasion was bearing a dispatch
from our right to left, atid delivered it, as I afterwards
learned, to Gen. Withers in plain view of the writer and
scores of others. And this is the first positive reason. I re-
ceived a letter from Comrade Martin, of Vicksburg, Miss.,
which so thoroughly and completely described the incident
as to 'dovetail' in .so nicely as to what I saw as to not leave
a shadow of doubt upon my mind as to the real hero, whom
he slated was none other than 'Dick' (Richard) Wildy, of the
Forty-Sixth Mississippi Regiment, and, as a matter of justice
and history, I cheerfully back his statement. Comrade Mar-
tin also gave me a short sketch of the life of this gallant
soldier prior to, during, and after the war, which was grand
almost beyond conception, stating that Wildy became a suc-
cessful lawyer and moved to California, where he died some
twenty-eight or twenty-nine years ago.
"Most assuredly no one would pluck the laurel from the
wreath of glory from Comrade Champion or any other hero,
but history must not accord to him the ride made by another
on this occasion. As has already been said, many daring feats
w-ere accomplished during the war, but none more so than
this ; and were it possible to erect a monument to the clouds,
it would not be too high to commemorate and perpetuate the
name of Richard Wildy, of the Forty-Sixth Mississippi Regi-
ment, in liis daring and hair-lifting 'ride into the very jaws
of death' at Chickasaw Bayou in 1863. Peace to his ashes
and rest to his soul."
Lieut. C. A. Hunt, of Lexington, N. C. — In a' letter from
Comrade T. B. Beall, of Salisbury, N. C, he states : "In the
July Veteran I sec mention of Lieut. C. A. Hunt, of Lexing-
ton, N. C, in connection with a golden cross presented to
a kind lady of Winchester, Va., for her ministrations to him
when wounded at that place. He was a friend and comrade
of mine, and the A. N. V. had no better or braver soldier.
In the battle of Spottsylvania C. H., the enemy broke Lee's
line to our right, and our division was ordered to charge over
our breastworks and take them in the flank and rear. The
undertaking being so hazardous, the whole line hesitated;
but Lieut. Hunt sprang upon the top of the works, raised his
sword above his head, and ordered the line forward. His
brave example so animated the command that the men moved
at once and passed over the works without hesitation, and
by this fearless move helped to save the army from a great
disaster. I don't believe in waiting till a man is dead before
telling of his good deeds and brave acts. If more of it was
done, we should be a happier people and great justice be done
our fcllow-man."
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WHAT "MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA" MEANS.
BV MILFORD OVERLEY, OF FLEMINCSBCRG, KV.
Since little Miss Laura Gait refused to sing "Marching
through Georgia," as required by her teacher, the question
has frequently been asked by those not familiar with the
history of the War between the States what "Marching
through Georgia" means, that any one should object to
singing it or hearing it sung. For the enlightenment of such,
as well as to give some details of tliat march that have never
been published, I desire to ans'wer the question.
But first, the name, the title is not what it should be.
Let us give credit to whom credit is due, and call it "Sherman
Marching through Georgia and the Carolinas," for it was he
who conducted the march, and he e.x.tended it on through the
Carolinas. It means murder, robbery, arson, and nearly all
the other crimes enumerated in the black calendar, the details
of which would shame vandalism itself.
William Tecumseh Sherman was considered one of the
ablest generals in the Federal army, but he was a cruel one,
waging w-ar with little less barbarity than did the savage chief
whose name he bore. His celebrated march through Georgia
put a stain upon his name that will cling to it as long as it is
found upon the pages of history — a march the most infamous
in many of its details that was ever made by civilized soldiers
in a Christian land.
His was a fine army, composed chiefly of brave, hardy
Western men ; but many of them, like their leader, had little
regard for the rules of civilized warfare, and some were there
for no other purpose than to rob and plunder. There were
honest, patriotic officers and men in that army who conducted
themselves as true soldiers, and who were in no wise responsi-
ble for the outrages perpetrated by the bad men among them.
About the first week in May, 1864, Gen. Sherman, with
about one hundred thousand men and two hundred and fifty-
four pieces of artillery, started on his march through Georgia
— his "On to Atlanta," which was then his objective point.
He was opposed by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, with an army
of forty-five thousand Confederates. This included Gen.
Joe Wheeler's cavalry corps, in which was a little brigade of
Kentuckians, that followed and fought the Federal army
from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Greensboro, N. C. The writer
of this was a member of that brigade, and he was on duty
with it during the entire campaign, much of the time in com-
mand of a company of as brave, active, loyal Confederates as
ever wore the gray, and few had better opportunities than he
of knowing what "Marching through Georgia" means.
The Confederate army lay at Dalton, near the Tennessee
line, about one hundred miles from Atlanta. Here Sherman
confronted Johnston with vastly superior numbers, and at the
same time, by a flank movement, sent an army to cut his line
of communication (the Western and Atlantic Railroad) at
Resaca, eighteen miles in the rear. This compelled Johnston
to fall back to Resaca, where a bloody battle was fought, but
our men held the road. By this flanking process, repeated
every time Johnston offered him battle, the Federal com-
mander at length reached the Chattahoochee River, eight
miles from Atlanta. He was two months on the way, averag-
ing less than two miles a day, and it cost him about one-
fourth of his army to get there. Johnston resisted his advance
with all the means at his command, fighting him daily at some
point along the line, and defeating him in several hard-fought
engagements. From the beginning of the campaign to the fall
of Atlanta was about one hundred days, and so incessant
was the fighting during the entire time that some historians
call it "The One Hundred Days' Battle."
The territory over which the armies marched and fought
was, before the war, one of the most beautiful and productive
in the South. It was the great wheat-growing district, the
storehouse of Georgia, and now the broad fields of grain were
almost ready for the harvest. Plains and valleys were dotted
all over with cities and towns, whose wide, clean streets, bor-
dered with evergreen shade trees, their handsome and com-
modious churches and public buildings, tlieir elegant resi-
dences, surrounded by spacious grounds, ornamented with
rare shrubs and flowers, and with a songster in every bush —
all these combined to make them exceedingly attractive. There
were many very beautiful country homes and some stately
mansions, where were all the comforts that wealth could give.
It was a lovely land, and its people were prosperous and
happy till the war came and with it the ruthless invaders of
their homes.
The Federal army moved on parallel roads, its flanking
columns and its cavalry extending far out on the right and
on the left covering many miles of territory. Not less than
twenty thousand camp fires were kindled every night, out
buildings, shade trees, and fences furnishing most of the fuel.
More tlian ten thousand horses were fed daily, many of them
upon the ripening wheat, much more of which was trampled
d^wn and destroyed than was consumed. Some, in lieu of
stables, were fed in yards and gardens, among flowers and
fruit and ornamental trees. Public buildings were destroyed,
and private residences burned on the most trifling pretexts.
To have been the headquarters of a Confederate general was
sufficient cause for the destruction of any building, either pub-
lic or private. Soldiers, unbidden, entered dwellings and, with
dirty feet, tramped over finest of carpets, through halls,
sitting room, and parlor, and finally to the dining room, their
objective point, where cakes, pies, and silverware were sup-
posed to be kept. Pork and poultry were in great demand,
and there was scarcely a hog or a chicken left anywhere along
Sherman's line of march from Chattanooga to Atlanta ; in-
deed there was little of anything left, save naked lands, dese-
crated homes, and destitute women and children. This is what
"Marching through Georgia" means.
The Federal army crossed the Chattahoochee River about
the middle of July, and soon the Gate City was besieged. Gen.
John B. Hood had succeeded to the command of the Con-
federate army, and several unsuccessful assaults were made
on Sherman's fortified lines. At length that general, by re-
sorting to his favorite tactics, flanked Hood out of Atlanta,
the Confederates retiring to Jonesboro, twenty miles distant.
On the 2d day of September Sherman took possession of the
city, and very soon after issued an order for its depopulation,
claiming that it was to be held as a military post. Mayor Cal-
houn and the City Council respectfully petitioned him to re-
consider his cruel order and permit the people, nearly all of
whom were women and children and aged men, to remain in
their homes, recounting the hardships, privations, and suffer-
ing that the enforcement of this order would inflict upon them.
But the Federal commander was inexorable ; he would not
yield to the plea for mercy; his order must be obeyed. Gen.
Hood, writing to him upon the same subject, concludes his
letter as follows : "And now, sir, permit me to say that the
unprecedented measure you propose transcends, in studied and
ingenious cruelty, all acts ever before brought to my atten-
tion in the dark history of war. In the name of God and
humanity I protest, believing that you will find that you are
expelling from their homes and firesides the wives and chil-
dren of a brave people."
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The aged and infirm, the cripple upon his crutches, the
mother with her young babe in her arms, little children carry-
ing bundles, the rich and the poor — all were driven from their
homes to find shelter and food they knew not where. But
they went with the one consoling thought that sometime
they would be permitted to return ; and so they were, for in
less than three weeks Sherman withdrew all of his troops
from Atlanta and started on his famous "march to the sea."
Then the exiles returned, but it was to find only heaps of
ashes and blackened walls where once had been their happy
homes. The heartless wretch had burned the city. And this
is what "Marching through Georgia" means.
In the meantime Gen. Hood and his army had faced about
and made a bold dash for Tennessee. Sherman followed
as far as Gaylesville, Ala. Then, dividing his army, he sent
part to Nashville to aid Gen. Thomas in defending that city
against Hood, and with the remainder he returned to Atlanta,
destroying the railroad belonging to the State from Chatta-
nooga to Atlanta, and taking with him the soldiers that had
been left to guard it.
On November 15, after burning Atlanta, Sherinan began
"Marching through Georgia," as pictured in Yankee histories
and as sung by Nortliern schoolmarms, his objective point
being Savannah, near the Atlantic Coast. With his sixty-
five thousand veterans and a small army of negroes and
"bummers," the latter being white men who followed the army
to steal, rob, and plunder, he cut a great, black swath of
desolation and ruin, more than fifty miles in width and three
hundred in length, through one of the finest sections of the
South — through the very heart of Georgia — with only Wheel-
er's cavalry to oppose him. Moving his columns on several
parallel roads, many miles apart, his scouts, foragers, and
bummers swept over the intervening territory and far out
on the flanks, gathering supplies for men and horses, paying
for nothing, but destroying much that could not be carried
away. Families were robbed of their meat, flour, meal, pota-
toes, canned fruit, sugar, and preserves to feed the army of
invaders, the negroes and the bummers. Horses, mules, and
wagons were taken to form a supply train for these negroes
and buiraners. Cattle and hogs that were suitable for food
were butchered and eaten ; others were killed and left lying
where they fell. I saw a poor woman's only cow, that had
furnished the chief subsistence for the family, lying dying at
the door of her humble cottage, with a Federal bayonet
through her body.
Mills, factories, cotton, cotton gins, barns, granaries, bridges,
workshops, public buildings, and many country dwellings
were burned. Railroads, engines, cars, and telegraphs were
destroyed. Private homes were entered and ransacked from
cellar to garret, and every article of value that was wanted
and could be carried away was taken, including fine quilts,
blankets, clothing, musical instruments, etc. Old men, with
guns presented at their breasts, were forced to give up their
money and tell where their silverware was concealed. Ladies,
to save their homes from the torch and themselves from abuse,
gave up their watches, their finger rings, and other articles
of jewelry to the vandals and villains who demanded them.
These human vultures, these fiends incarnate, ate their stolen
provisions and sweetmeats witi-. silver knives, forks, and
spoons ; and at night, in their dirty camps, slept under finest
of blankets and quilts. This robbery and desecration of homes,
this wanton destruction of property, this cruel warring upon
helpless women and children by destroying their homes and
their means of subsistence, is what "Marching through Geor-
gia" means.
On December 21 the Federal army took possession of the
city of Savannah, Gen. Hardee, with the Confederate garri-
son, retiring to Charleston. Sherman did not bi^rn the
city, but kindly presented it to President Lincoln as a Christ-
mas gift. Reporting to the Secretary of War, Sherman says:
"The army is in splendid order and equal to anything. We
have not lost a wagon on the trip, but have gathered in a
large supply of negroes, mules, horses, etc., and our teams
are in far better condition than when we started. We have
utterly destroyed over two hundred miles of rails, and con-
sumed stores and provisions that were essential to Lee's and
Hood's armies."
Having suflicicntly rested and recupera,ted his troops, about
the middle of January Gen. Sherman began his march through-
the Carolinas. His army, like a huge, hungry bird of prey,
with wings extended wide, swept northward toward tilie
already doomed capital of the hated Palmetto State, reaching
it on the morning of February 17. The Confederate com-
mander, realizing his inability to successfully defend the city,
and not wishing to give Sherman the slightest pretext for
destroying it, quietly withdrew his troops and Mayor Good-
wyn, with a flag of truce, met the advancing enemy and for-
mally surrendered it, asking for and receiving a promise of
protection for its people and their property. But that prom-
ise was made to be broken ; and proud, beautiful Columbia,
w-as destined to share the cruel fate of her sister Atlanta.
Her public buildings, her elegant homes, her stately mansions,,
the palatial residence of Gen. Wade Hampton, of Lee's army,
one of the most beautiful and costly homes in the Confederacy
^all were doomed to destruction. Gen. Hampton had come
down from Richmond to aid in the defense of his capital and
his home ; but when Gen. Beauregard, the officer in corrmiand,.
decided to make no defense, it was Hampton who gave tlie
order to see that no cotton was fired for fear of burning the
city. He entertained a hope that the enemy would spare it;
but it proved to be a vain, delusive hope, for in a few hours
after Sherman entered it his soldiers and bummers were pil-
laging and burning it.
The following extracts from private letters, afterwards pub-
lished, written by two laaies who lived along Sherman's line-
of march in South Carolina, will convey to the reader a fair
idea of the pillaging done in that State: "Sherman has gone,
and terrible has been the storm tTiat has swept over us with
his coming and going. They deliberately shot two of our
citizens — murdered them in cold blood. Tliey hung up three
others and one lady, merely letting them down in time to
save life, in order to make them tell where their valuables
were concealed. Their rude hands spared nothing but our
lives. Squad after squad unceasingly came and went and;
tramped through the halls and rooms of our house day and-
night, during the entire stay of the army. At our house they
killed every chicken, goose, turkey, cow, calf, anci even our
pet dog. They carried off our wagons, carriages, and horses,,
and broke up our buggy, wheelbarrow, and garden imple-
ments. Our smokehouse and pantry, that a few days ago
were well stored witli bacon, lard, flour, dried fruit, pickles,,
etc., now contain nothing wliatever, except a few pounds of
meal and flour and five pounds of bacon. They took every
garment of wearing apparel save what we had on."
"At first I very politely unlocked several trunks, assuring;
them (the soldiers) that they contained only ladies' apparel.
We remained in the sitting room from twelve o'clock to six,
while this band of one hundred and fifty men ransacked every-
nook and corner, breaking open trunks and boxes, singing,.
whistling, and swearing. At last one young villain came in,.
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fastened the door, demanded our watches, and, using the most
profane language and terrible threats, ordered us to confess
where our gold and silver were buried, laying his hands on
Pauline's shoulder and mine while we obediently emptied our
pockets. They marched Dr. into the entry, stripped the
poor old gentleman to llie waist, robbing him of the one
thousand dollars he had succeeded iiv bringing from his own
house, which had meanwhile been laid in ashes."
The last act of barbarism I saw Shcnnan's soldiers commit
was near Bcntonvillc, N. C, on the morning of the last great
battle for Southern independence. On the preceding night
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who was commanding the Confed-
erate forces, quietly moved his army from Smilhfield and
threw it directly across Sherman's path at licntonville. Gen.
■George G. Dibrell's cavalry division, conii)oscd of his own
brigade of Tennesseeans and Col. Breckinridge's Kcntiickians,
was falling Ijack in front of one of the advancing Federal
• columns, the writer of this commanding the rear guard, closely
followed by the enemy's advance. We had just crossed a
narrow swamp, when I was ordered to face about and hold
the enemy in check while the division formed in battle line
in front of Johnston's infantry, which was not far away. Of
•course the check was a brief one, and on retiring we passed
by a neat, comfortable-looking farmhouse, occupied by women
and children. Halting some distance beyond and looking
back, we saw Federal soldiers enter the house. Presently
women were heard screaming, in a few minutes the build-
ing was in flames, an^d another family was homeless. Soon
the fight was on, and round the smoking, smoldering ruins
•of that North Carolina home was fought the last great battle
for Southern independence, and the world knows the result.
Sherman's raid was ended, and he was a great hero. With
his grand army of veterans, almost unopposed, he had over-
run and desolated the fairest sections of the South, burning
■cities, towns, and country dwellings; had wantonly destroyed
many millions of dollars' worth of property, both public and
Iprivatc ; had made homeless and destitute thousands of women
and children and aged men by burning their houses and de-
stroying tlieir means of subsistence. And it was to glorify
him for these deeds of barbarism that "Marching through
Georgia" was written, and it is for this that it is sung.
■■HISTORY OF THE DOLES-COOK BRIGADE."
Col. Joseph T. Derry, of Atlanta, Ga., writes that one of the
best contributions to the story of the War between the States
that he has ever seen is the "History of the Doles-Cook Bri-
gade, Army of Northern Virginia," by Mr. Henry W. Thom-
as, who was a member of Company G (Putnam Light Infan-
try), Twelfth Georgia Regiment. Mr. Thomas has carefully
compiled the record of this famous command.
Every son or daughter of any ofliccr or soldier who served
in this brigade should have a copy of this book.
Colonel Derry, in his enthusiasm for the work, states : "In
every family in this State which cherishes with pride the rec-
ord made by the gallant sons of Georgia in the tremendous
conflict that shook this continent and filled the world with
wonder, the graphic description of marches and battles herein
contained will be read with pleasure and profit."
There is a sketch of each regiment composing the brigade,
prepared by a member of such regiment, and a complete ros-
ter of the officers and privates of each company, with a rec-
ord of the services of each. Nor did the author forget the
faithful slaves, who followed their masters to the war and
were true to the last.
This is strictly a Georgia book; for tlie author is a Geor-
gian, it is published in Georgia by the Franklin Publishing
Company, of Atlanta, and concerns Georgia soldiers. The au-
thor and the publishers deserve liberal patronage.
Although a Georgia book, it is a condensed history of the
campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia, in all of which
the Doles-Cook Brigade participated, and hence will interest
greatly any Southerner.
This work contains over seven hundred pages, including il-
lustrations. The price is $3 a copy. Apply to the author, or
to the Franklin Publishing Company, of Atlanta, Ga.
LAURA CALT, KENTUCKY,
Who woiiUI not sing " Mh rolling lljrough Georgia.'
ARKANSAS SHARPSHOOTERS AT VICKSBURG.
Capt. John S. Bell, of Pine BluflF, Ark., who commanded
Company A, pf the Twelfth Batlalion of .\rkansas Sharp-
shooters, sends an interesting history of this command of Gen.
"Missouri" Green's Brigade, who were almost constantly on
the fighting lines from the 23d of April, '63, to the surrender
of Vicksburg, on the 4th of July. The following are extracts
from this account :
"T frequently went into the city to look after my wounded
in the hospitals, generally after dark, as there was less danger
of being 'picked off'' by a Yankee sharpshooter, In passing
along, I often heard music, and, on stopping to investigate,
would find it came from under a hill or bluff. The citizens
had dug 'bombproof rooms under such places, and were living
in them as best they could. But the ladies did not occupy
these rooms all the lime, for I never failed to find on reaching
the hospital old and young ladies ministering to the wants of
our sick and wounded, notwithstanding the Yankees seemed
to fake special delight in shooting at our hospital flags . . .
We were getting short of gun caps when one night some dar-
ing fellow would drift down the river through the Yankee fleet,
between two logs covered with brush, and bring us quantities
of percussion caps 'done up' in oilcloth to prevent them from
getting damp. ... On the night cf June S, I was ordered
to take charge of the Crescent Fcrt, where I remained to the
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end of the siege. The enemy had approached by parallel ditches
to within forty feet of this fort, and were excavating to get
beneath our fort to blow it up. In fact, they were so close we
could throw a six-pound shell over into thcfr works, and they
would retaliate by throwing hand grenades at us. These were
about the size of a goose egg, with a cap on one end and a
feather on the other. The Major, who had been in command
'of the fort and whom I had relieved, informed me of the situ-
ation and incidentally remarked that he was glad enough to
get out, as he had been expecting to be blown up every day.
After showing me around and giving me information and pre-
caution, he carried me to the right side of the fort and. point-
ing to a solitary pine tree on a knoll probably five hundred
yards away and with some forty feet to the first limb, informed
me that every morning a Yankee sharpshooter would climb
up in the forks of the tree, that he had killed one of his men
and wounded several in the fort, that he had tried to dislodge
him, but had not. Wishing tne a pleasant (?) time, he marched
his men out, and I took conmiand. Next morning our adjutant,
John Dupuy, and I were making an inspection of the fort,
when our friend in the tree promptly gave us to understand
he was ready for business by sending several bullets near our
heads. I called several of my best shots over and had them
try their hands on him, but all failed to hit him ; he made it
dangerous for a man to cross the fort for several days. Finally
a little fellow named White came up and proposed to go out at
night, crawl close up to the tree before day, hide under the tree-
tops that Iiad been felled to impede the Yankees in charging,
and, as soon as it was light enough to shoot, pick off the
Yankee in the tree. I told him that it was a desperate risk,
as he would be several hundred yards inside the Yankee lines;
but he only laughed and said he was a desperate man. I con-
sented, and he left the fort about 3 a.m. At daylight, with
n number of our men, I was watching the tree and had about
<:oncludc(l White had failed, when I saw a puff of smoke rise
from the brush about fifty yards from the tree. The report of
the rifle had not reached nie when I saw the body of a man
tumble like a squirrel out of the fork some fifty feet from the
ground. All was quiet for some ten minutes, when we saw
a squad of Yankees move toward the tree. They found their
man dead all right, but seemed to be puzzled as to who killed
him. We opened fire on them and they picked him up and
left. When White returned to the fort that night, he reported
that the man had climbed the tree before daylight, but it was
too dark for him to see the sights on his gun, so he had to wait.
After shooting he ran some distance and hid in a ravine, where
Tie remained concealed in the brush all day. He saw the Yan-
kees looking for him, and several times they were close to his
hiding place. ... A few days after this, the Jackson Road
Forty a half mile to our right, was blown up. Great chunks of
earth, mixed with men, were hurled thirty or forty feet into the
air. This of course made us nervous, for we knew they were
tunneling under us.
"One morning Gen. Green, with two of his staff, came into
our fort to inspect the position of the enemy in our front. I
warned him not to look through the portholes until we fired a
few shots to keep the Yankees down. He failed to heed the
warning, and at the second porthole through which he looked
was shot and instantly killed. He was a gallant soldier and a
gentleman. About this time our rations began to grow alarm-
ingly short. On the 25th of June they consisted of ground peas
made into bread and a half pound of mule meat ; and on the 2d
of July we waited in vain for even that scant supply. I sent
to inquire what caused the delay, and my messenger on re-
turn said there was nothing more to issue. That night a twen-
ty-five-pound keg of powder was placed in the mine we liad
dug under the Y'^ankee mine and the fuse laid in the fort. At
daylight it was touched off, demolishing one of the enemy's
trenches and killing all who were in it.
"On the afternoon of July 3, about four o'clock, an orderly
handed me a paper containing the information that Vicksburg
would be surrendered the next morning, July 4. at ten o'clock.
I gave Dupuy the order to read to the men, and I watched the
effect. Some seemed pleased, some shed tears, and others
swore. After the order was read, young White, who had
shot the Yankee out of the tree, came to me and said : "Well,
Captain, the time has come when I must tell you who I am."
He then informed me that he had first enlisted in Gen. Grant's
regiment in Missouri, but afterwards concluded that he was
on the wrong side; he had deserted and joined our battalion.
Grant's old regiment happened at that time to be in front of
us, and if he surrendered death would be certain. He had
heard of the man who had brought us the gun caps, and he
propo.sed, if I would give him a paper showing that he had
not deserted from us, to leave the city the same way. I gave
him the paper, and that night some of the boys helped him
build his raft and set him adrift. I never expected to see him
again, for the river was filled below with Yankee boats of
every description, but one of the first men to report at parole
camp in Hempstead County, Ark., was little Tom White. We
surrendered next day and were kiudly treated by the Yankees.
STOXEWALL JACKSOX'S "LITTLE SORREL."
DR. M. S. BROWNE. WINCHESTER, KV.
I read with much interest in the Veteran the criticism of
H. T. Owen, of Richmond, Va., on the accuracy of H. T.
Boyd's statement concerning the appearance of Gen. Garnett
when he made the immortal charge at Gettysburg, and who
concluded his criticism of such inaccuracies by saying: "I
heard a gentleman of high character a short time since de-
scribing the appearance of Stonewall Jackson on the battle-
field of Bull Run, mounted on Little Sorrel, when it is a
well-known fact that Gen. Jackson did not own this horse
until after this battle was fought."
The critic is sometimes open to criticism himself, and, as
Comrade Owen says we should get the truth of such things
for the sake of history, therefore I am sure he will take no
offense when I correct him as to the time Gon. Jackson owned
Little Sorrel.
On May 9, 1861, when Col. (afterwards Stonewall) Jack-
son was in command at Harper's Ferry, and before traffic,
except contraband of war, was stopped over the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, our forces captured a train of freight
cars — four loaded with beeves and one with horses — con-
signed to the U. S. A. at Washington, D. C, all of which
were turned over to the Confederate quartermaster. Col.
Jackson saw and fancied one of these horses, bought him
from the quartermaster, and took him for his own use. .Xnd
that United States government horse purchased from the
quartermaster that day is the same "Little Sorrel" that be-
came so famous as Stonewall Jackson's war horse, and which,
after passing through the taxidermist's hands, may yet be seen
in the nniseum of the Soldiers' Home in Richmond.
Comrades at Richmond and in Ray County, Mo., are dili-
gent in building up Confederate organizations in that sec-
tion. A local paper prints a list of thirty-five Confederate
veterans in the county.
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Qoofederate l/eterarj,
JEFFERSON DAVIS TO BE HONORED BY TEXAS.
"Jefferson Davis, the uncrowned king, enthroned in the
hearts of his people." — Hcnrj- VV. Grady.
In December, 190X the Daughters of the Confederacy in
Houston, Tex., resolved upon having the birthday of ex-
President Davis made a legal holiday in Texas. Miss Katie
Daffan, President U. D. C, Texas Division, appointed a
committee to present this subject to the next Legislature,
and to use our best efforts to secure this result. We cheer-
fully accepted the position. The committee is as follows:
Mcsdamc-s D A. Nunn, Chairn;an, Crockett ; John H. Reagan,
Palestine; L.ucIIa btyles Vincent, Stephenville; Rollin W.
Rodgers, lexari^ana; P. E. Douthit, Angleton; J. E. Arm-
strong, Center; John Rcagnn, Elkhart.
The appeal is beautiful. In substance it states :
"In the whirl of bu-v life, amidst a generation that has
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
come upon the stage since the memorable struggle of 1861-65,
it is appropriate that this great State should pause at least
once a year and take note of the heroic deeds of that great
struggle — a struggle by the South for liberty and self-gov-
ernment. . . .
"We might give a list of the generals of the Southern
armies, and truthfully assert that their deeds have never
been surpassed; so of our Southern boys and men, who filled
the ranks and obeyed their commanders. But we had only
one President, one commander in chief of that great strug-
gle, and that was Jefferson Davis.
"Mr. Davis did not make the war nor was the secession
movement of his choosing nor in the manner he advised.
He commended that the Southern States take counsel
together and act in unison. His selection as President of
the Confederacy was not of his seeking, for he preferred to
enter the field as a soldier and command an army. But by
the unanimous choice of the Southern people he was selected
as the one best qualified and fitted for the most trying and
reiponsible position of President and commander in chief.
He did not falter, nor did he hesitate, but, as at the battle
of Buena Vista, he decided quickly.
"He was consecrated to his work, and to the last his every
thought and effort were devoted to the cause of his people;
and when from sheer exhaustion our armies had melted
away and surrender came, and he made a prisoner in chains,
he resisted the indignity with all the power his God had
given him, and afterwards, though demanding his constitu-
tional right of speedy public trial, was, after long imprison-
ment, released without trial, not from consideration of mercy
but because his vindication would surely follow ; and there-
after he was persecuted by his enemies until his death. Thus
he became a martyr to our cause and for our people.
"From early manhood, as a soldier on the battlefield in the
Mexican war of 1845, afterwards in the halls of Congress,
as Secretary of War in 1852-56, subsequently as President
of the Confederate States, thereafter as prisoner in a United
States bastile, and finally in his retirement at his private
home at Beauvoir, he displayed traits of character and quali-
ties of mind and heart that marked him as one of the greatest
men this world ever produced. His character deserves to
be studied and emulated. It is a duty we owe ourselves and
our posterity to honor this great man, this noble patriot, by
setting apart one day in each year as a legal holiday, when
the truth of history may be called to the attention of succeed-
ing generations.
"We appeal to all who share with us these sentiments to
actively engage and cooperate with us in this work, to the
end that the 3d day of June of each year shall be made a
legal holiday."
Hon. John H. Reagan, a close personal friend of ex-Presi-
dent Davis, and only survivor of the Confederate cabinet,
says: "If any man ever earned from his people a perpetual
memorial testifying their gratitude for services rendered,
for almost or quite unexampled patriotism and devotion to
the services of his people, it was Jefferson Davis. And I
shall be glad if his birthday can be made a legal holiday for
Texas. And if the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Con-
federate Veterans, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans
will ask this of the Legislature, I doubt not they will pro-
vide for it."
The veterans of Texas, in convention at Temple, July 21,
1904, adopted resolutions of hearty commendation in the
appeal that the birthday of ex-President Jefferson Davis be
made a legal holiday.
RECORDS OF WALTHALL'S BRIGADE.
Rev. E. A. Smitli, of Brewton. Ala., formerly sergeant
of Company A, Twcnly-Ninth Mississippi Infantrj-, Wal-
thall's Brigade, has just issued from the press a pamphlet of
some ninety pages that will be of unusual interest to all who
served in this distinguished command during the great war.
The pamphlet contains a list of all the general officers and
staff, all field and regimental officers, and the names of all
the living, survivors of the brigade, as far as known, with their
post office address; and, in addition to this, the original names
of the companies and their total enrollment. This work is
suggestive to other veterans, as it will be of much value to
the future historian. Comrade Smith says in his introduc-
tion: "It is to be regretted that this work was not done
thirty years ago, and even now every brigade that was in the
Confederate army is missing a golden opportunity in not
doing similar service."
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M^HAT OUR SOi'THERN MOTHERS ARE DOING.
"HiSTOHY OF THE CONFEDERATED MEMORIAL ASSOCIATIONS
OF THE South."
'I"he Confederated Southern Memorial Association has pub-
lished a record of its work that should be in every Southern
home.
The book contains three hundred and eighteen pages and is
beautifully illustrated, having about eighty half-tone cuts; and
we arc selling it at the low price of one dollar and twenty-tive
cents delivered. A copy was submitted to the Historical Com-
mittee, at Nashville, and received a strong and unanimous
recommendation. Gen. Clement A. Evans, Chairman of that
Coinmittee, sends an extract : "The Committee departs from
its own rules in order to make a special recommendation of
the 'History of the Confederated Memorial Associations of
the South.' This beautiful book was prepared and published
I)y the ladies of the Confederated Southern Memorial Associa-
tion, and tells the story with handsome illustrations of 'that
superb, noble race of Southern women' who suffered with us
in the epoch of war, and were the first to overflow the graves
of our dead with beautiful flowers and to build monuments
to their nicmciry."
Further notice will be given this splendia work. In the
meanwhile the Veteran volunteers reference to Mrs. W. J.
Behan. at White Castle, La., who, in her zeal to circulate this
information, will attend to having orders filled at once.
Mr. Carter's Parole. Second Tennessee Cavalry. — S. A.
Pepper, Esq., of Memphis, left at the Veteran office during
tlie reunion an old pocketlxiok containing a parole given at
Charlotte, N. C, May 3, 18O5, of Carter, private, of
Second^ Tennessee Cavalry, Capt. N. C. Crawford, Company
1. It was found in the Pullman car "Avalon," 10-4-03.
That Lightning Bug Fight. — W. L. Blair, of Company
1. First Tennessee Infantry, in writing of the fight at "Dead
Angle," on Kcnnesaw Mountain, mentions the incident of
I lie liglitniug bug fight, so well remembered by many of Jo
Johnston's army, and says it was Canty's Brigade ot Ala-
bama troops that did tlie shooting at the bugs, and that his
lirigade joked them wonderfully about it. A Tennesseeaii
would call to another in the hearing of Canty's men : "Say,
Gen. Cheatham is going to Atlanta to-day." His comrade
would ask, "What for?" and the first would shout back, "To
get blacking to put on the tails of the lightning bugs to keep
Canty's men from wasting their ammunition."
But it was not long before Canty's men came back at us
stroiTg. The Yankees Ijad made a lodgment close up to our
lines. Everything was banging on a hair trigger; a man
<iii either side dare not show an inch of his hat above the
breastworks. It was night, everything perfectly quiet along
the entire line, wlien we were startled by hearing a Yankee
' just in front of us shout: "Forward, double-quick, charge."
' We thougjit they were on us, and without waiting for orders
I poured a volley out in the darkness. The report of oui
1 arms was the only sound, and after that died away cvery-
j thing was again quiet. The Yankees, knowing our expect-
j ancy, had, out of a pure spirit of devilment, shouted the
I order, and, anticipating the result, were well under cover
I when we fired. But this quieted the joke on Canty, for when
I we attempted to guy them they would say Gen. Cheatham
\i liad gone to Atlanta to buy candles for his babies who were
afraid to stav in the dark.
.\ paragraph on page 3=4 of the July \'eterax referred to
Comrade J. L. Payne, of the Thirteenth Mississippi Regi-
ment, when it should have been the Fourteenth. Comrade
Payne wonders yet why the Confederates did not cut oflF the
Federal retreat at Spring Hill on the night before the battle
of Franklin. The July Veteran has more of explanation on
that subject than has appeared in any periodical, and yet it
doesn't explain further than is done in the statement of Maj.
Mason (page 343), that he was given an order to Gen. Cheat-
ham by Gen. Hood which he failed to deliver. The Federal
strength was evidently greater at Nashville than we im-
agined, so we could not have taken it. even with Schofield
cut off at Spring Hill.
FROM RED RIVER TO BLACK RITER.
BY T. H. rattan, fort WORTH, TEX.
1 know now I ought to have joined the Confederate army
sooner, but I Iiad just married me a wife and bought fourteen
yoke of oxen, so could iint tear myself away until April, 1861
^ ^ ' t .some went in later
than this). I joined
I ^^^M Company A, Burnett's
' ^^ ^^^^ Battalion. Maxey's Bri-
.i;adc. and we cut our
milk teeth as soldiers
"11 Red River, dividing
the time evenly between
drilling and eating pies.
V, "~ I /'^ yV ^^ '" ^^^"' from there to
•.J 1 ^ J W '"'" K"dson, and im-
3 * ., JL,'-''J W mediately our wisdom
teeth began to swell the
gums, so by the time
Farragut's fleet steamed
up we had a full set,
and by the time he
passed our batteries they were full grown. I know this to be
a fact, because the cannonading was so terrific and shells came
so thick and fast that my teeth were set on edge, but some of
the boys were aflfected differently — their hair stood on end.
From Port Hudson we were hurried to Jackson. Miss., to
reenforce Gen. Joe Johnston. If there was anything needed
to make us full-grown soldiers, old Joe put on the finishing
touches. It was "hot times" in or out of "the old town.'' night
or day ; the fighting was hot. the weather was hot. and the
water, what there was of it, was hot. We lost many gallant
soldiers in that campaign along Black River.
The Yankees, let me tell you. had some wouderfiilly good
sharpshooters with them at that time. They would get in the
lop of high trees and pick our fellows off. I saw one of our
boys fire seven shots at one of their sharpshooters before he
succeeded in tumbling him out. Adjt. Doolan, Capt. Wirt
Smith, and others I cannot now recall, were killed. We were
retreating across the Big Black on the night of July 5 when
news reached us that Vicksburg had surrendered. We fought
for seven days around Jackson, but retreated across Pearl
River, burning the bridge behind us. Shortly after, I got a
transfer to the Thirty-Second Cavalry, west of the river, and
saw some service on the seaboard of Texas. In tlic spring of
1865 we went up to Mansfield, where we met Gen. Banks, and
we soon had a foot race or horse race down to .\lexandria,
with Banks and his men in the lead. It was not long after
lliis when I was given an unlimited leave of absence in the
shape of a parole, of which I took advantage to hunt up my
wife and oxen. I found my wife, but the cattle were gone.
T. II. katva.n.
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Confederate l/ete-ai?.
So rapidly are comrades passing away, and so heavy is the
demand for space in the "Last Roll" columns, that request
is made of all who send such tributes to make the notices
as brief as possible and have them written clearly. Ancestry
and other data save as Confederate soldiers, if used at all.
should be very brief. Clippings are nearly always too long.
Ko char?e is made for publishing these tributes except where
a picture is used, when two dollars is chnrged for making the
engraving. Every engraving in the Veteran should be i)aid
for.
"There is no death; the stars go down
Only to rise on some fairer shore;
.\nd, added to the luster of heaven's bright crown.
Shine on for evermore."
"There is a day of sunny rest
For every dark and troubled hour.
Though Grief abide an evening guest,
Joy surely comes at earliest hour.
For God will mark each sorrowing day,
And number every falling tear;
And heaven's long age of bliss shall pay
For all his children suffer here."
"He is not dead, but has simply passed
Beyond the mists which blind us here.
Into that serener, sublimer sphere,
Where winding sheets are never woven,
And funeral knells are never rung;
Blessed land beyond the skies.
To reach it we must die."
Andrew J. McLeniion.
With the death of A. J. McLendon Memphis lost a promi-
nent and valued citizen, whose public service, personal integ-
rity, and honesty of purpose had won for him the esteem and
friendship of old and young. Two years ago he slipped and
broke his hip, from which he never recovered. Other troubles
came upon him, culminating in his death.
Sheriff McLencon was born in Pontotoc, Miss., in 1S44.
At an early age the support of the family devolved upon him,
and its duties were faithfully performed. He volunteered for
the Confederacy in 1861 as a private in Company C, Basker-
ville's Battalion of Mississippi Cavalry, which was afterwards
recruited to a regiment and known as the Eighth Confederate
in Wheeler's old brigade. His services came to an honorable
end at the battle of Perryville, where he was badly wounded.
His leg v/as amputated, and, when able to be moved, he was
taken to Camp Chase and held till the exchange in June,
1863. After the war he attended school in Covington, Tcnn.,
and engaged in business there. He went to Memphis in 1866,
and began his political career as bookkeeper in the city of-
fices. He was elected sheriff of Shelby County in 1888, and
served three terms. In 1894 ht- was elected county trustee,
CAPT. ELKINS.
holding for two >ears. He again went into private business,
retiring about a year ago on account of ill health.
He was an honorary member of Company A, Confederal.-
Veterans, and his last request was that he be buried in his
uniform of gray. He was a member of Elks Lodge, and also
of the Knights of Pythias. His wife, who wa? Miss SalMi
M. Hawthorne, survives him.
Capt. John L. Elkins.
John L. Elkins was born in Bedford County, Tenn.. in
1842, enlisted in Company E, Twenty-Third Regiment, Ten-
nessee Infantry, in 1861, and
was elected second lieutenant
in July, 1862. He was pro-
moted to captain early in 1863.
and commanded his company
till the consolidation of the
Seventecjith and Twenty-
Third Regiments in October
of that year. Being the junior
captain in the Twenty-Third
Regiment, he was placed as
a supernumerary and assigned
to command Gen. Buckner's
Division, Provost Guards. In
.\ugust. 1864, he was assigned
liy tlv,' Ccnscript Bureau to
duty in Alabama. He was paroled at Ccnlerville, Ala., on May
14, 1865.
Capt. Elkins was in many important battles of the West —
Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Knoxville.
and Drewry's Bluff. He was a soldier in all that the word
implies, steadfastly at his post and ready for duty. He never
ordered a man to go where he would not have willingly gone
himself. He was married in 1867 and moved to western
Kentucky, where he lived until his death, February 16, 1904.
near Folsomdale. A wife, son, daughter, and a host of
friends survive him. ■
Rev. J. J. Harris.
Rev. J. J. Harris was born in Hall County, Ga., in 1827. Ai
the early age of seven years he was converted and joined tin.
Methodist Church, and in 1856 was licensed to preach. In
September of i86i he was commissioned as chaplain of the
Twenty-Sixth Tennessee Regiment, was captured at Fort Don-
elson, and experienced the horrors of prison life at Camp
Douglas for sixteen months, during which time he very nearly
died more than once. His physician told him that he -was
going to die and asked for any message he wished delivered
to his wife. Comrade Harris looked him straight in the face
and said: "Doctor, I am going to live to take the message to
her." He served as chaplain till the close of the war, then
joined the North Carolina Conference, and was transferred
to the Northwest Texas Conference in 1883, where his work
continued till 1899, when he was superannuated. His death
occurred in December, 1903, and he waslaid to rest at Merid-
ian, Tex. A beautiful monument was placed at his grave.
His daughter. Miss Mattie F. Harris, writes from Iredell,
Tex., that they would be glad to hear from any survivors
of his regiment.
GEORfiE E. Ronr.EKS.
With deep sorrow Marniadu!<c Camp, of Moberly, Mo., an-
nounced the death of George E. Rodgers at his home, in Ran-
dolph County, Mn., last March. Tic was a member of Com-
Confederate Ueteraij,
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pany C, Eleventh Tennessee Infantry, Rains's Brigade,
Cheatham's Division, Stewart's Corps. Comrade Rodgers
lived the life of a Christian.
E. M. Bee.
Another gallant old comrade and true friend has crossed
over the river. Mr. Bee died at his home, in Brookhaven,
Miss., on July 25, 1904, at the age of seventy-four years. He
was a native of Georgia, and was a member of -the Washington
Artillery, serving with it in Virginia. No Confederate soldier
could ask for a better epitaph or one more expressive of hard
Init glorious service than to have inscribed on the stone that
covers his dust : "A member of the Washington Artillery.
With the Army of Northern Virginia from 1861-65." Neither
can a man have a better tribute paid to his worth as a
citizen than to have it said that for forty-seven years out of
a lifetime of seventy-four he had been employed in an im-
portant office of trust by the same corporation, and resigned
only on account of poor health and age.
Comrade Bee is entitled to the epitaph and the tribute. He
was a gallant soldier, a respected and beloved citizen, and a
Christian gentleman. It was his stalwart arm that carried
aloft the flag of the Washington Artillery. He died sur-
rounded by wife, children, and grandchildren. He leaves a
widow and eight children, all grown, fourteen grandchildren,
and two great-grandchildren. His sons and daughters are :
Barnard Bee, of Osyka, Miss.: Mrs. W. H. Hartwell, of New
Orleans; Mesdames W. W. Henderson and L. H. Baggctt.
Miss Emma Bee, and Messrs. Eugene, William, and Robert
Bee, of Brookhaven.
Capt. Hih;h Fields.
One of the best-known citizens of Western Kentucky was
lost to the State in the death of Capt. Hugh Fields at his
home in Livcrmore. He was born in New Orleans in 1847
and reared in Vir-
ginia, but had spent
the past thirty years
in Kentucky.
Capt. I^ields was
one of the best types
of genuine Southern
manhood, his ances-
tors being in the best
sense aristocrats of
Alabama. He served
four years in llu
C o n f e dcracy, a n il
from second sergean'
rose to the captaincy
of Company A, Fif
teenth Alabama Reg
iment. He is said n-
have participated i n
thirty battles, and was
wounded three times.
V.y his gallantry and dcvcition he won the esteem of the best
soldiers in that famous old regiment, which was actively en-
gaged in nearly fifty battles. After the war he was successful
in business, and was universally admired for his brilliancy and
the courteous treatment of all with whom he came in contact.
Capt. Fields was a member of Rice E. Graves Camp of
Owensboro. which sent representatives to his funeral. His
wife and two daughters survive him.
I .\rr HUGH FIELDS.
W. E. Whitesides.
Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, of Baird, Tex., lost a mem-
ber in the death of W. E. Whitesides, who died at his home,
near Putnam, on April 22. He entered the Confederate serv-
ice in 1861 as a member of Company B, Twenty-Eighth North
Carolina Volunteers, serving in the Virginia army under
Jackson till his fall, at Chancellorsville, and then under A. P.
Hill. He was a brave soldier and much liked by his com-
rades for his bright and cheerful ways in camp.
W. F. Ki.N'G.
W. F. King died at his home, near Mt. Vernon, Tex., on
January 29. He was a member of Benjamin McCulIoch Camp.
He was born in 1833 in Hall County. Ga.. went to Alabama in
1858, thence to Texas in 1865, after having served as a Con-
federate soldier in Capl. Nicholson's Company of the Forty-
Fourth Al;;I).mia Infantry. He was also a zealous and con-
scicntioiK .soldier of the cross, and in his death the community
lost one of its best members.
Lieut. J. C. Dodds.
On December 6. 1903, James C. Dodds, member of Ike
S;one Camp, of Henderson, Tenn., died suddenly of apo-
plexy. His funeral was conducted according to the rites of
his camp.
Comrade Dodds was a gallant soldier of the Confederate
army, having served as second lieutenant of Company D.
Tuinty-First Tennessee Cavalry, and to his daring leadership
much of the efficiency of his company was due. He was
severely wounded in the shoulder at the battle of Price's
X Roads, from which he sufifercd during the remainder of his
life.
More than twenty years ago this comrade originated the
idea and arranged for the reunion of Confederate veterans in
Henderson County, which was held near Middle Fork in Au-
gust. 1883. Since then thousands of people have assembled
annually at that place with the veterans of the county.
Benjamin F. Camp.
Bcnj. F. Camp was born in Jefferson Comity. Ky., in 1837:
and was among the first to volunteer for service in the Con-
federate army at the outbreak of the Civil War, enlisting in
the First Kentucky Infantry, under Col. Ben Hardin Helm.
His regiment became a part of the famous Orphan Brigade,
and he fought throughout the great struggle, distinguishing
himself on several occasions. When the war was over, he re-
turned to Louisville and studied law. He formed a partner-
ship with Alfred Pope, which continued until Judge Pope
was elected judge of the chancery division. He was several
times elected a member of the Louisville School Board, and
in 187s was elected president of that body. He was later
chosen a member of the Kentucky Legislature, serving three
terms. Tic was a member of the George B. Eastin Camp, U.
C. v.. and the pallbearers were taken from among his o'd
army comrades.
CcL John Taylor Worn.
A history of the eventful life of this remarkable man, who
died in July at Halifax, Nova Scotia, is as a thrilling page
of fiction. .V grandson of a President of the United States, a
nephew of the President of the Confederacy, a veteran of
two wars, a graduate and instructor of the United States
Naval Academy, an officer in the United States navy, a com-
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mander in the Confederate States navy, a colonel in the Con-
federate Slates army, and a member of the stafT of President
Davis — all gave scope for developing in the highest degree
his ability as a soldier, as well as the finesse of a statesman.
Col. John Taylor Wood was born in 1830 at Fort Snelling.
in the Northwestern Territory, now a part of the State of
Minnesota. He was a son of Gen. Robert C. Wood and his
wife, Anna Taylor Wood, who was a daughter of Gen. Zachary
Taylor, President of the United States. (President Davis's
first wife was also one of Gen. Taylor's daughters.)
Young Wood entered the United States naval service in
1847. Ai that early day midshipmen received much of their
training at sea. Wood was placed on the Old Line of battle-
ship, Ohio, a vessel of seventy-four guns, then on duty in
the Pacific. He took part in the fight with Mexico; and in
1853, after having finished his preparation at sea, he caine
back to -Annapolis to prepare himself for graduation by study
and instruction ashore. In the class of that year he stood
number two, which gave him the rank of passed midshipman
in the United States navy. Wood was then assigned to the
frigate Cumberland, which lie was to help make famous in
later years by serving on the boat that destroyed her. .\t
the time of his joining her she was in the Mediterranean
squadron. Promoted to lieutenant in 1855, he was sent to
the Naval Academy to act as instructor in guimcry and
ordnance, and had under him as one of the undergraduate
midshipmen a boy from Vermont named Dewey. This young
pupil rose to be the hero of the I'ederal service and the ad-
miral of the navy.
Lieut. Wood was on the Naval Academy staff when the
storm broke. He tried to resign in order to join the Con-
federacy, but his resignation was refused. He per«isted, and
was dismissed. When he reached the South he received a
commission as lieutenant in the Confederate Slates navy.
To this was added a coirimission as colonel in the Confederate
army, wl.icli he was to use afterwards in a novel way.
Seven years after having begun his work as an officer in
the United States navy on the Cumberland, he was an officer
on the ironclad Merrimac, Confederate States navy, when that
famous warship sent the Cumberland to the bottom. He was
still on the ironclad when her rival, the "cheese box," ap-
peared in Hampton Roads and began the battle that was to
change the construction of the navies of the world. From
her he went to the Richmond, remaining until the middle of
1863, when he took up duties as aid to the President, which he
continued for one year. He coniniandeil the Tallahassee from
then to the end of the war.
In the meantime he had some exciting experiences and saw
much active service. He had been made a commander in
September. 1863. For "gallant and meritorious conduct"
in boarding and capturing with an expedition under his com-
mand the United States gunboats Satellite and Reliance he
was advanced again. The Confederate Congress passed a
joint resolution thanking Wood and the men under him for
their daring and brilliantly executed plans. In the resolu-
tion were included the capture of the transports Elmore in
the Potomac, the Alleghany, the transports Golden Rod, Co-
quette, and Two Brothers in the Chesapeake, and the gunboat
Underwriter in the Neuse River. He made prisoners of the
crews of all of these vessels. He became noted for the agility
with which he moved from one stream or bay to another miles
away. He would carry his boats, his boarding cutters, across
the land on cars to spring upon a Yankee vessel from some
unexpected place. He was here, there, and everywhere, being
absolutely amphibious. For his resorting to ihe shore to get
to another place when he heard of a possible prize there, he
was dubbed "The Horse Marine."
As an officer. Wood was known as a very strict discipli-
narian, even when he was a young lieutenant acting as an
instructor at the Naval Academy. But his strictness was the
strength of a real leader and not the mere exercise of power
of a man whom accident has given authority. He was also
a conscientious, pious man. He never went into battle that
he did not first hold prayers with all of those in his command,
just as did "Stonewall" Jackson.
His popularity was such with the enlisted men of the serv-
ice that when he gave an order twenty men would be on the
jump to execute the command, although one man could have
done it. He was captured with Mr. Davis at the close of the
war, but made his escape. With Breckinridge, he crossed
from Florida to Cuba in an open boat, and in 1865 went to
Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he continued to live up to the
time of his death, engaged in shipping and marine insurance.
He was also for many years Secretary and Treasurer of the
Halifax Pilot Commission. In all the varied and changeful
circumstances of his life Col. Wood showed a capacity and de-
lerminalion, mixed with personal integrity and purity of mo-
tive, that gained for him the sincere attachment of his friends
and the respect, if not admiration, of his enemies.
Col. Wood was married in Annapolis, Md., to Miss Lola
Machubin, daughter of George Machubin, for twenty-five years
treasurer of Maryland. Of this union have been born five sons
and four daughters.
C.MT. G. B. Miller.
G. B. Miller was bom in Benton County, Tenn., about 1827.
When young he engaged with his father in the dry goods busi-
ness at Yorkville, where the family had removed, but after-
wards settled in Dyersburg. When the Southland called for
volunteers in her defense
he at once offered his
services, and in Novem-
ber, 1861. made up a
company, of which he
was elected captain, with
II. T. Hanks first lieu-
tenant. This was Com-
pany E, of the Forty-
Seventh Tennessee Regi-
ment. In the battle ol
Shiloh Capt. Miller was
so badly wounded thai
his career as a soldier
was cut short, and for
the rest of his life he was
a sufferer from that
wound. He was a con-
sistent Christian and a
Mason of high degree.
He died on May 4. 1903.
and was buried witli Masonic honors. He was twice married,
and left a wife and five cliildieii.
C.M'f. U. (.. WELCH.
Capt. Wm. Gatewood Welch, a distinguished jurist and
Confederate veteran, died at Stanford, Ky., May 3, aged
sixty-five years. He was captain of Company A, Third Ken-
tucky Cavalry, Cause's Regiment, Morgan's Command, and
made an honorable record throughout his service.
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Q;oi)federate l/eterap.
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Rev. E. B. McNeil.
H. C. Irby writes from Jackson, Tcnn., this tribute:
"Another brave, noble, viseful soldier has answered the
last roll call. Comrade McNeil was born in Franklin County,
Tenn., August 13, 1837: and died August 2, 1904, in Jackson.
Tenn. He was educated for the ministry at Union University
(Tennessee), from which institution he was graduated in May,
1861, and immediately joined the First Mississippi Infantry
Regiment, and with that and the Forty-First he ser\ cd to the
close of the war, at which time he returned to Pontotoc County,
Miss., and resumed the active work of the gospel ministry
with great success. In December, 18S1, he moved to Jackson,
Tenn., and served the First Baptist Church as pastor for a
time and, until declining health, he served Churches in Madi-
son and adjoining counties. In his ministry he was very suc-
cessful, being fluent, wise, and con.servative. He was a charter
member of John Ingram Bivouac, and served it for five years
as president in the most successful way. He was a trustee
of the Tennessee Soldiers' Home, a member of the Board of
Pensions, an active member of the Board of Trustees of the
Southwestern Baptist University, chaplain by appointment of
Gov. Frazier of the First Tennessee Regiment of Veterans, and
was an active Mason. In all these relations he was a great
success, never faltering in any duty. He left a noble Christian
wife, who helped him in all his labors. He left six sons, all
pure and clean, following in the footsteps of a godly father.
He will be greatly missed in all the walks of noble manhood.
John Ingram Bivouac mourns him as one of its most useful
;nid influential members."'
Capt. Frank Bennett.
Capt. Frank Bennett died at his home, in Wadesboro, N.
C, July 20, 1904, aged si.\ty-five. In 1861 he joined the Ellis
Rifles, which were a part of the Twenty-Third North Caro-
lina. He was elected captain of his company in 1862, and
served gallantly through the war. He was severely wounded
on skirmish line the day before the battle of Seven Pines.
After recovering he returned to his company, and in the last
days of the war lost an arm.
He was elected Coniniandanl of Anson Camp No. 846. U.
C. v., in 1898, and was continued in this office by successive
elections until his death. He married Miss Elizabeth Curry,
of Georgia, in 1876, who, with a son and daughter, survives
him.
Capt. George W. McDonald.
E. Porter Bell, of Florence, Tenn., writes of him:
"Capt. George W. McDonald was born January 12, 1834 ;
and answered the last roll call May 13, 1904. He entered
as a private in Company K, Seventeenth Tennessee Regi-
ment, and for heroism displayed he rose to the rank of
captain. He was captured in the battle of Chickamauga, and
was confined in prison until the end of the war.
""When the struggle ended he came to Rutherford County,
Tenn., and married Miss Isabella Ward, of Smyrna, who,
with five children, survives him.
"Having been a good soldier, he made a good citizen, help-
ing to build up the waste places of his much-loved South-
land. He was a faithful husband, a kind and affectionate
father, a good neighbor, and made himself useful to both
Church and State. He died as he had lived, a Christian
gentleman, and his death has left a void, both in the Church
in which he had been an honored deacon for a number of
years and in the community in which he lived."
A FAITHFUL NEGRO— "UNCLE CLAIBORNE."
Hon. J. JM. Dickinson, Chief Counsel for the Illinois Central
Railroad, writes to the Nashville American from Chicago, 111.:
"Rapidly the old slaves and the old slave ow-ners are passing
away. In a few years not one will be left. The bonds of
affection and duty between very many of them were strong.
This has been a conservative mfluence in the South, and has
undoubtedly often prevented the relations between the races
from becoming acute. The fiUurc nuist lake account of the
elimination of this wholesome factor. Not only as an office
of love, but to help to impress upon the minds and hearts of
the younger generation the lesson taught us by those, white
and black, who, amid all of the racial turmoil of the years
subsequent to the Civil War, lived together in unbroken peace
and friendliness, discharging nuitual offices of duty and affec-
tion even unto the grave, I write to commemorate the char-
acter of Claiborne Hines, a full-blooded negro, who at the
age of seventy-nine, at Travelers' Rest, in Davidson County,
Tenn., the historic home of the Overtons, which had been his
home uninterruptedly for forty years, passed away amid the
honor and affection of all who knew him.
"He was 'Uncle Claiborne' to every one but Col. John
Overton, who was the only person, white or black, that called
him Claiborne. If truth, honesty, faithfulness in the dis-
charge of every duty, large and small, and undeviating daily
practice of the faith of a simple Christian make a soul white,
then never did there appear at the bar of final judgment a
whiter soul lli:iii (hat which went up from that pure-minded
negro. Col. and Mrs. Overton trusted all of his words and
acts with implicit confidence. I have often heard both of
them say that they never knew him to say or do anything but
what was right. This is the concurrent testimony given by
Miss Mary Maxwell, a sister of Mrs. Overton, and all wlio
knew him. There was a strong bond of affection between
I'ncle Claiborne and that family down to the third genera-
tion, and nothing ever occurred to weaken it.
"^s long as Col. and Mrs. Overton lived he never went to
bee vithout, of his own accord, tapping at their window and
saying, 'Marse John' or 'Miss Harriet'— as the case might be—
'do you want anything?' The answer was almost invariably.
'No. thank you. Claiborne.' or 'Uncle Claiborne.' and then the
mutual 'Good night,' but his practice never varied, for he felt
in his loyal heart that he must have his dismissal.
"After Col. Overton died and Mrs. Overton sickened and it
was determined that she should go on that trip to Florida
whence she never returned alive, Uncle Claiborne went to her
door and. brushing the tears from his eyes, entreated her not
to go, saying: 'Stay with us. Miss Harriet. We will take care
of you and help b'ar you up.' A thousand instances could be
recalled of his constant and loving care. No wonder that they
all loved him. No wonder that Mr. Overton's son, who suc-
ceeded to the home place, felt it a privilege to support him
in his old age, a privilege for which there would have been
rivalry from other members of the family but for the fact
that he preferred to pass his last days at his old home : and
no wonder the family felt that it was right that his funeral
should take place in the old mansion, from which had been
borne his old master and mistress, who loved him and whom
he loved so tenderly.
"There may be some who will have no sympathy with this
tribute, but they will not be found among those who cherish
the best sentiments and traditions of the South."
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C^opfcderat^ l/eterar).
A TALENTED ARTIST— MISS BELLE KINNEY.
Miss Belle Kinney, a young sculptor of Nashville, Tenn.,
is a recognized gjenius in sculpture. Miss Kinney is of a
long line of talented ancestry, two of whom achieved dis-
tinction in the American Revolution. Josiah Lawrence, of
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Xorlolk, \"a., who was one of the first scientists and teachers
in Tennessee, was her great-grandfather. In this branch of
the family there have been several artists of distinction. Her
people were ainong the early settlers of Nashville, possessing
means and culture, but their fortunes were those of the
South. Her father, the late Capt. Daniel C. Kinney, was in
the Confederate service on the Mississippi River until the
transports were captured and taken to Memphis.
The South, with its history, valor, and romance, is to Miss
Kinney a dearly loved land of enchantment, wherein her art
seeks its ideals. She has already received tlie commission to
make a monument of James Robertson. In her studio are
two models of Confederate soldiers. She is engaged upon
a model of Sam Davis for competition before the committee.
During the reunion Miss Kinney's studio was visited by num-
bers of veterans, who left her a valuable fund of humor and
stories.
The Battle of Franklin. — In sending his subscription to
the Veteran, Comrade J. L. Boswell, of Plain View, Tex.,
writes: "Permit me to correct two little errors in the July
Veteran that occur in reference to the battle of Franklin.
Il is stated that when we came in sight of Franklin and be-
gan forming our line of battle 'Gen. Loring, of Cleburne's
Division, made a speech to his inen.' This is a mistake.
Loring commanded a division in Stewart's Corps. Gen.
Lowery, a Baptist preacher with whom I was personally ac-
quainted before the war, commanded a brigade in Cleburne's
Division. Doubtless the printers made the mistake of setting
up Loring for Lowery. The paragraph that speaks of Com-
rade Payne, of the Thirteenth Mississippi, and the last com-
mand of Gen. John Adams is also a mistake. The Thirteenth
Mississippi was in Virginia and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Mississippi belonged to Gen. Adams's Brigade. As to the
last command issued by Gen. Adams I can only say this, that
Maj. Garrett, who was commanding the Twenty-Third Missis-
sippi, also of Gen. .Adams's Brigade, had halted his men at a
rock fence about two hundred yards from the enemy's works.
There were two osage orange hedges in front of us through
which Gen. Adams could not ride, making it necessary for
him to ride around the ends. He passed directly in front of
us for this purpose, and as he did so called out the order,
'Move forward, Maj. Garrett,' and it was not more than three
minutes after this that he was shot. I take it that tliis com-
mand was given after the general command to his brigade
of 'Forward ! guide right ! march,' as heard by Comrade Payne
when the entire command was ordered forward."
••DAD AND SMOKER.-
BY BEATRICE CUNNINGHAM.
Miss Beatrice Cunningham, of Cadiz, Ky., Vice President of
the Alex Poston Chapter, U. D. C, of Trigg County, and who
was sponsor for that and adjoining counties at the reunion in
Louisville and again at Memphis, has recently published a
l)Ook which will doubtless prove of much interest in lier State.
She has taken a period in the history of Kentucky full of ro-
mantic possibilities, a time when one Tate, who was State
Treasurer of Kentucky, absconded with $300,000 of State funds,
and the chief mterest of the story is drawn about this man who
fell so far.
Miss Cunningham controls the sale of the book, the price
of which is $1.
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WILLIAM A. ROBY, HAMBURG. ARK.
William A. Roby is a native of Noxubee County, Miss., and
served as a private in Company A. Muldrow's Regiment of
Mississippi Cavalry,
Perguson's Brigade,
Jackson's Division,
Army of Tennessee.
The command was
surrendered at
Brown's Ferry, on
the Ocmulgee River,
May 9, 1865. In
igoi he commanded
Jas. Norris Camp,
No. 1309, in 1903
was Inspector Gen-
eral on Gen. Jor-
dan's staff. Second
Brigade, Arkansas
Division. U. C. V.,
and in November of
1903 was elected to
his present position.
Comrade Roby is
of a list of zealous
Confederates in .A,r-
kansas who served
in subordinate ca-
pacities during the
war. who afterwards
forged to the front
in business life, and
when these organi-
zations were formed
— for the highest
purposes known to
Christian patriots —
they rallied and with unsluilcd purses conlributcd to the honor
of their State and the Southland in demonstrating their devo-
tion to the principles for which they suffered and imperiled
their lives as long as their leaders maintained hope of final
victorv.
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BY \V. J. EOHON, DANVILI,E. KV.
There are a few inaccuracies in the article on "The Seven
Confederate Knights" in the August number of the Veteran
which I would like corrected. The figure 7 should have been
between the letters C and K: thus, "C 7 K."
The idea of storming the parapets at Rock Island prison
and overpowering the guards did not originate in the order
of "The Seven Confederate Knights." but occurred be-
fore the order was organized. The betrayal of that contem-
plated movement and the building of the "Calfpen" (into
which so many of the hungry boys went) were the cause of
the forming of the order. It was planned in order to see who
was loyal, even unto death, for there were many who grew
desperate by reason of their long confinement, the cold which
was intense during the winter, and hunger produced by short
rations, and yielded to temptation to get out of the prison.
even at the sacrifice of honor.
rhe order was formed into "Divisions." I was a member of
the First Division formed, and elected commander of cither
the Second or Third Division. There were but a limited num-
ber who united with the order. I have not met more than half
a dozen of them since the war.
The Fourth Kentucky Cavalry, to which I belonged, was
commanded by Col. Henry L. Giltner, and was a part of Gen.
Humphrey Marshall's command. After Gen. Marshall was
elected to the Confederate Congress, and Gen. John H. Morgan
escaped from prison, the regiment was transferred to Gen.
John H. Morgan's command, and was with him on his last
raid into Kentucky, in June, 1864. My old home was Har-
rodsburg, Ky., but for nearly thirty years my home has been,
and now is, Danville, Ky., where I shall be glad to have any
of my quondam fellow-prisoners or "Knights" address me.
'To GiT Thar Fustest with the Mostest." — Samuel
Emerson's reference to a remark imputed to Gen. N. B. For-
rest in an article in Munscy's Magazine on "Japan's Naval
Heroes" goes so far beyond consistency that to cultured people
it is ridiculous, but others will accept it as literal truth. A
worthy criticism concludes as follows : "The sacred memory
of Gen. Forrest is beloved in every home in the Southland,
his military career is the pride of the nation, and foreign mili-
tary authorities have been unstinted in their praise of his
genius as the world's greatest cavalry leader. Mr. Emerson
shows not only a surprising lack of knowledge of a historic
character but also of the Southern people. 'To git thar fustest
with the mostest' is certainly not a Southern idiom, neither
could it be found among the extreme provincial classes. The
magazine mentioned is criticised for permitting such a gross
error 10 appear."
M.\ST}-K JAMES KEATING
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BANNERMAN.
In the contest inati-
gurated by the Curti"?
Publishing Company,
of Philadelphia, in the
latter part of 1903,
Master Bannerman
was one of the twelve
whose pictures were
selected as of the
most beautiful chil-
dren in America. The
prize offered was a
bust portrait in oil,
painted by Walter
Russell, of New York,
who is conceded to
be the finest painter
of children in the
country. Mr. Russell
made a trip to the
home of each child to
make the portrait
froin life, traveling
thousands of miles
from one end of the
country to the other,
and for his work and
expenses he received
$20,000. This hand-
some lad is a son of
James Bannerman, of
St. Louis, one of the
Brigade Commanders
of the Missouri Di-
vision, U. C. V.
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AS UNKNOWS CONFEDERATE.
Jim of Biloxi — thai is all —
It is graven into the marble wall,
Down where the monument rises fair
In the soft Virginia air,
Among a hundred comrades' names ;
Their country's heritage— and fame's.
Jim of Biloxi — nothing more ;
Naught of his name or fan
Save that down where tl ; rivci la;;
And the regiment struggled man to man,
A humble son of the fighting South
Gave his life at the musket's mouth.
Perchance where the Sunflower River
flows
Through gardens of jessamine and rose.
Or where the Gulf Stream washes far
Its tides of blue to the morning star,
Some one still waits by the shoreward
foam
For Jim of Biloxi to come home.
Name and life and cause — all lost —
Last and least of the mightiest host
That ever wrote in the blood of men
A dream that shall never be dreamed
again,
Gone like the strain that the bugles
blew —
Jim of Biloxi, we drink to you.
— James Lindsay Gordon.
J. B. Minor, of New York City, makes
vigorous protest against delay in erect-
ing the Jefferson Davis Monument, and
thinks it should be completed so as to
be dedicated by May, 1905. He says:
"My old corps commander. Gen. Long-
street, and also Gen, Gordon, have just
gone, and I was hopeful that Gen. Gor-
don, at least, might have been in com
mand at the time. Don't let us all die
before its completion, for I think that
every old soldier would make a spe-pjal
effort to be in Richmond then There
are very many of us who cann 'l In ,1;
all the reunions, but this occasion would
call for a special effort from those who
can travel at all."
ARMIES OF XORTH AND SOUTH.
Mr. Cassenove G. Lee, of Washing-
ion, a recognized authority on Civil War
statistics, prepared for the Baltimore
Sun a table showing the enormous nu-
merical superiority of the Northern
army over that of the South during the
Civil War. Mr. Lee's figures show that
the total enlistments in the Northern
army were 2,778,304, as against 600,000
in the Confederate army. The foreign-
ers and negroes in the Northern army
aggregated 680,917, or 80,917 more than
the total strength of the Confederate
army. There were 316.424 men of
Southern birth in the Northern army.
Mr. Lee's figures are as follows:
Northern Army.
Whites from the North 2,272,333
Whites from the South 316,424
Negroes 186,017
Indians 3,530
Total 2.778.304
Southern army 600,000
Nortli's numerical superiority. .2,178,304
In the Northern army were:
Germans 176,800
Jrish 144,200
British Americans 53,50O
English 45,500
Other nationalities 74.900
Negroes 186,017
Total 680,917
Total of Southern soldiers.. 600,000
Southern men in Northern
army 316,424
Foreigners 494,900
Negroes 186,017
lotal 997.341
Armies at the War's End.
Aggregate Federal army May i,
1865 1,000,516
Aggregate Confederate army
May I, 186s 133.433
NiTMPF.R i.v Battle.
Confedfr;iU*s. Federals.
Seven days' fight 80,835 115.249
Antietam 35,255 87,164
Chancellorsville 57.212 131,661
Fredericksburg 78,110 1 10.000
Gettysburg 62,000 95,000
Chickamauga 44.000 95,000
Wilderness 63,987 141,160
Federal prisoners in Confeder-
ate prisons 270,000
Confederate prisoners in Fed-
eral prisons 220,000
Confederates died in Federal
prisons 26.436
Federals died in Confederate
jirisons 22.570
FOH KIDNEYS. BLflDDEQ, I
Now Discovery by WhicK All Can Now
£&si!y Cure Thvemselvos at Kome—
Doos Aw&y wItK S\jr;;lcal Opera-
tions PoiiJ'JvcIy Cures Brlftht's
Disease and Worst Cases of
Rheumatism — T h\ o u -
sands Already Cured
—Not© Indorsers.
TRIAL TREATMENT AND 64-PAGE BOOK FREE.
At Jaet there is n eclentilic way to cure your-
self of any kidney, bUuIdtr, or rtienniiaic <iis-
easc in a veiy i^lioi't time in yonrow n tioiue nuct
■without the expense of cltunoi-g, tlrujrj;istsi, or
sui'ireons. The credit belnnjr-* to I>r. Kdwin
Turnor-k, a nofd Krencli-.Vuierlcan itliysicinn
and MTicniisi, who has made n lifelong study of
' • None can Bay thsy aro incurable until they have
tried my discovery. The teat is tree.
these diseases, and is now In sole possession of
certain ingiediciils wliich have all alouj; been
neeiled. anil wiiliout which cures were inijx'ssi-
ble. The doct<ir Bccms jiislilled in his t>trong
statements, as the treatment has been thor-
oughly invesli^aicl, beside-^ heiu^ tried in hos-
pitals", baniiarinms, etc., and h;islH'eu fouml to
be all that is elaiineti for it. It contains noth-
ing harmful, hut, iieverLheless, the highest au-
tlmrilh^a sav it. will ]Mi>itively cure Bright*s
disease, iliauetes, ilropsy, gravel, weak back,
stone in lliebladder, l^lnatcd blad<ler, fre((ucnt
desire to urinate, alliuminuria, sii;,'ar m the
urine, pains in tlie back, le^'s, siilep, and over the
kidiu'Vs, sweliiuicof the feet and ankle-, reten-
tion o"r III ilu^ si-aldiujr, petting up nl;:lit8, pain
in llie bhuldcr, wetllu^r the bed and such rheu-
matic alVect ions as chronic, muscular, or intlani-
matory rheumatism, sciatica, rheumatic neu-
ralgia. lumltMuo, gonl, etc., which are no\r
known to he dvH.' entirely to uric acid poison la
the kidneys— in short, 'every form of kidney,
bladder, or urinary trouble iii man, woman, or
child.
That the ingredients will do all this is the
oiiiuion of such autliMntics as Dr. Wilks, of
Guy's Hospital, L<mUon, the editors of the
United Slates Dispensalory and the Americiin
riiarmaeopaMa, both ollicial \\orks, Dr. II, C.
Wood, uu-mlu-r of the Naiiou.-d Academy of
Science, and a lonpli.sL iif others who hpeak of it
in tlie hl;rhcst leruis. liut all this and ni<n-c is
explained in a ('.l-pa;re illustrated book which
Kcls forth the dttctor's original views and goes
deeplv into the subject of kidney, hl;nidcr, and
rhcun'iniic <ii.sc:iscs. He wants you to have this
book as well as a trial treatment of hisdiscov-
ery, and v»ui can get them entirely free, without
stamps or monev, by addressing the Turnock
Medical Co., 2 I'.ts Bush Temple, Chicago, III.,
and as tlionsaiii Is have already bi-en cured, there
is every reason to bclirvc it will cure you If
only you will l)e thouglitful enoui:h to >end for
the free trial ami b<K>k. Write the llrst spare
moment yi>u have, and ymi will sot>n be curcd-
It would seem that any reader so afflicted
should write the company at once, since no
money is involved and the indorsements are
from such a high and trustworthy soui-ce.
Qopfederate l/eterap
457
FASTER TIME TO TEXAS.
COTTON BELTS IMPROVED SERV-
ICE BETWEEN MEMPHIS
AND SOUTHWEST.
$15 to Texas and Back.
1 rain No. 3 iiuvv leaves Meiiiplus ai
7:4s P.M. and makes a fast run to J exas.
It carries Pullman sleepers, parlor cafe
cars, and free reclining chair cars.
Reaches Texarkana, Dallas, Fort Worth,
and Waco several hours earlier than
heretofore. Makes direct connections for
Paris, Bonhani, Whitesboro, Marshall.
Longvievv, Palestine, .\ustin, Shreveport,
Beaumont, Houston, San Antonio.
Train No. I leaves Memphis 8 40
A.M., carries parlor cafe car and chair
cars; Pullman sleepers from Fair Oaks
to Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, Corpus
Christi, and South Texas Points.
Cheap home seekers' tickets on sale
first and third Tuesdays of each month
— one fare plus $2 for the round trip,
stop-overs both ways and 21-day return
limit.
Special. On August 9 and 23 and
September 13 and 27 home seekers'
tickets at rate of $15 for the round trip
from Memphis to Dallas, Fort Worth,
Waco, Houston, Galveston, San An-
tonio, Corpus Christi. Brownwood,
Aniarillo, Quanah. and intermediate
points.
For full particulars and Texas litera-
ture, time tables, etc.. write to
W. C. ADAMS, T. P. A.,
Cotton Bell, NasEivilie, Tenn.
William A. Smith (Captain and As-
sistant Adjutant General, C. S. A.),
served with Walker's Division, com-
posed wholly of Texas infantry, for
nearly two years of the was as .'\ssist-
ant .Adjutant General of the Division,
and during that time kept a diary which
contains much information as to dales,
events, etc., that might interest sur-
vivors of that organization. Capt.
Smith has sent this notice to the Vet-
eran as being likely to meet the eyes
of surviving members of that command,
who might wish data for any purpose
Addrcs'i Uiin at Fredericksburg. Vii.
.\sk your fricn'ds to subscribe for tl'c
^ KTF-R.w S|H cinu-n mpie's free
PISO'S CURE FOR
eURfS WHER{ ALL ELSE FAILS.
I Best ("UKh Syrup. TafUs (;.>.h1. Vac ,
In Hme. Hold by tlniLrul-^ts
CONSUMPTION y>
World's Fejcir Rooms
$1.00 — Per Day — $1.00
Visitors will cxprricncr no end of trouble unless the)' air.iner („t .n, cmmoj jti,„is in .ijiancc o( their arrival in
Si. Louis. During the heielit of the season the capacity of the city to take care of its visitors will be Ercatly taxed,
and It will be almost impossible to secure accommodations of any nature unaided.
Travel," the well-known and widely read macizine of travel and fiction, the leadine feature of which is the
World s Fair, has listed over 10,000 carefully selected rooms in refined private families and family hotels Great
care has been used in selecting only houses in respectable locations. "Travel" E'larantees the respectability of
both the house and the location. The rate is $1 per day in rooms accommodating from two to four persons each
The houses are all situated m the beautiful and fashionable West End, within a (cw minutes' walk or ride of the
I- air (Irounds.
TRAVEL'S OFFER, in order to advertise "Travel" and get it before the World's
«-#«-^. Fair visitors, we have established an Information and Rooming
House Department in Rooms 212. 214 (J.ld Fellows Building (opposite Post Office* (or the accommodation and con-
venience of subscribers and friends o( " Travel." There is absolutely no charge connected with this service. In
fact, you will confer a favor on us by calling and taking advantage of it.
Write us for circular giving lull information. Should you desire to become posted on the Fair, it will pay you to
subscribe for Travel." «i a year: three months' trRl. 2! cents; single copies. 10 cents.
THAVEL -PX/SLISHIJ^fG CO.
Infarn\aIior\ and Rooming House Department I, Odd Fellows Building, Si. Louii, Mo.
The
Harriman ^oute
Travel via the TEXNES.SEE CK.VTRAL RAILROAD
to all Summer Resorts cast. The shortest and inost direct
route to all interior resorts ami Atlantic Coast Waterin^r Places.
Throujjh tickets on sale at all coii]>on ticket otficos. See that
your ticket reails via tiie Tennessee Centr:il R.iilroatl. For
furthcr inforinalion applv to
E. H. Hinton. Traffic Manager. J^ash-Villc. Tenn.
Capt. S. A. Pepper, of Memphis.
Tenn., 303 Main Street, has in his pos-
session a worn and torn Confederate
parole, issued to McClister, at Char-
lotte, N. C, May 3. 1865. and signed
by Capt. N C. Langford, of Company
I. Second Regiment, Tennessee Caval-
ry. The parole was found sometime
since by the porter on the Pullman car
.'\valon. and was turned over to Capt.
Pepper. The name McClister does not
appear distinct, and the initials are en-
tirely missing. The owner can secure
this by addressing Capt. Pepper.
This is to request all members of
Capt. B. T. Shockley's Independent Es-
cort Company of Al.ibania Volunteers
who have not alreaiiy communicated
with me to do so at once. I ask this in
order that I may place every living mem-
ber of this company in touch with each
other. .Address
MORG.VN S. GlI.MF.R.
.Assessor's office. Montgomery. .Ma
Oil Cure for Cancer.
Dr. 1). I\[. B\o has diM'ijvrred a eoinbiliatimx
of vWn that rt'adily euro caiu'er. oatari'b. tu-
mors, and inaliLTUant sltiu disease*. He lias
cured th'>iisa-.ids"of iiersoiis witliiu ttie a tti'n
yi^ars, over one hundred of who-n were tdiysi-
ciatis. Readers havitii! friiMids nfttieted snonld
c.it t'tis out aiitl send it to tliem. Book sont
free giviuii 1 artieulars and jirioesof Oils. Ad-
dress tlie lioiue oftii-M, Dr. D. M. Bye I'o.. Bo.\
4;V.'. l')allas. Tex.
School Girls and Boys
Earu a "WATCH, SIUXET RIXG, or FOUN-
TAIN" PEN l.j- .selling (J o pies of " Son^ of the
Confederacy and Plantation Melodies" at 60
cents earh. Order at onoe.
Mrs. Albert t^itchell, Paris, Ky.
S. R. Strain, of No. 4.^^ Ninth Street.
f^rooklyn, N. Y.. would like to know if
Hcnjainin F. Walker, of the Fifteenth
Arkansas Infantry, is si ill liviiii; He
thinks he was first lientcnant.
Watkins Gas and
GasoIineEngines
run vn nn olor.-
trio mii^noto.
Xo battt-rii's or
lii't tulx's to re-
iH'w. From 3 to
'S) borst']n)wer.
Cataloiruosent
ou rt'iuu-st^
C. C. Foster.
Xa.->hvillu. Teuu.
C BREV'ER'S
Russian and Turkish Baths
and Flrst-Class Barber Shop,
FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY.
317 Church Street, NASHVILLE, TENN.
Or^eN Dav ano NiOMT.
W. C. RAESFIELD, Proprietor.
458
Coi^federat^ l/eteraip,
The Eye of the
J^ ai i o n
Is Turned Tow.-rd
Id e ^ a ^
The best agricultural, indus-
trial, and commercial oppor-
tunities in the great Southwest
are lorateii alnng the line of the
Houston {^
Te^a^ Cen-
tral "R. rR.
whiih traverses the heart of
Texas. The H. & T. C. R. R.
maintains a well-equipped In-
dustrial Department, whose
business it is to represent the
home seeker — the land buyer,
not tlie land dealer.
All requests for information
appertaining to Texas will be
given prompt attention if ad-
dressed to
Wm. DoKerty Stanley H. Watson
A. C. P. A. Industrial A^enl
HOUSTON, TEX.
a
m FOUB"
The best line to
INDIANAROUS.
REORIA.
CHICAGO,
And all points in Indiana and
Michigan.
CLEVELAND.
BURFALO.
NEW YORK,
■^ BOSTON.
AND ALL POINTS EAST.
InformatuHi cheerfully furnished oa ft^
pLioatioD at Cilj Tioket OI&c« "Big Ttmt
Boute." No. 259 Fourth ATennt, « write
t« 3. J. Gates, Gent^ral Agent raaaaagar
Department, Ixii'uvillb, Kt.
dalifonua ^Vn?yT^1\
tvUlijbts Ucmplar* anO Sovereign
GranD Xo^ilC, H. ®. O. f.,
Hurting will Uc hcM in San Franc i^<'o in
>t-'iiteml)ei". Vciv low rati's vi:i \V.\BASH
ii'i-i its coiinc.-li.ais. Tlie WAHASH is tho
only line running lo the Main Knliiiiic'c of
tiie \VnrM'8 Fair Grounds. IloUlors of Wa-
bash tii-kot r;in have their bajrpage checked
t'> ami Irom the MajmificLMit New Wabflsh
I'assenger Station, directly at the Main Kn-
tiance. Ten days' slop-overs alhiwcd at St.
I^oni-; on one-way or round-trip tickets, go-
iiiiX ur returning'.
Call on or write for particulars
F. W. GRE^N^, D. P. A., Wa-
bash R. R., Room 303 Urban
Building, Louisville, Ky.
N. C. & ST. L. RY.
VIA MARTIN
^^-*'-**TrU Monday
^^^%l EVERY
||^j|g3S» Tuesday
^^^gjgjiafc Wednesday
mi TO
Thursday
II ST. LOUIS
r^riday
I "WORLD'S
|7j?f^*\ Saturday
Sunday
I ROUTE'
Ticket Office. Maxwell House, Church St.
Telephone 151
c
H. F. SMITH, W. L. DANLEY,
TRAFFIC MGR. GCN'L PASS. ACT.
NASHVILLE, TENN.
How to Get There
QUICK
The Short Line, Via. Bristol
TO THE EAST
Throvigh Train
No CKa-rvge
Leave NEW < iHI.KAXS. y. A; C
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Throutjh Sleeper Memphis lo
New York
'llic liiicst Diiiinjr Car Service.
Reliable infornmtioii ell' erfuUv furnished by
Niirf.>lk and We-teni Railway." IIRI W. Ninth
St. (Read House Blocki. Chattanoopa. Teun.
AV.MiiiKN L. RoHH. Wosteru Pa-s-senger ARcnt,
Cbattaiifioxa. Teiin.
W. B. Bkvii.i., General Pajisenijer Ayeiit, Roa-
noke, Va.
NORTH TEXAS
^ POINTS ^
VIA
SantaFe
TO
Ga.lvestoi\, and Points
South, East, and
West. ^ ^e^ Equip-
ment, Service, and Cui-
sine unsurpa-ssed. *<:^
W. S. KEENAN, G. P. A.,
Galveston, Tex.
Qopfederate Ueteraij.
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THE BEST PLACE
TO PURCHASE
ALL-WOOL
Bunting or
Silk Flags
of All Kinds,
Silk Banners, Swords, Belts, Caps,
and all kinds of Military Equipment
and Society Goods is at
Veteran J. A. JOEL <S CO.,
Sa Nassau Street, New York City.
SEND FOR PRICE LIST.
JAOKSONVfLLE
▼l» Valdosta Route, from Valdnsta via ».7eorglt
Southern ,,nti Klonda Kv., from MacrJi
via Central of Cieor^i;! Ry., from
ATLANTA
via Western and Atlantic K. R., from
CHATTANOOGA
NASHVILLE
sishvUlr, Cliallaiinotra, ;nul Si. 1
arriving at
ST. LOUIS
TUthe NashvUlr, Cliallaiinotra, ;nul Si. 1 <mls R^
arriving at
OHIOAGO
over the Illinois Cenlr^J R. R. from Martin, Teni.
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE ANL
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
MAINTAINED OVER THIS
SCENIC LINE
Ticket apenls of the JacUson\ illo-St. I^>uis anf
Chlcftto line, and aj;enl3 of connecting lines It
Florida and the Southeast, will L'ive y<m full In
formation aa to schethilesotthij donhle da.'*v »erv
lc» to St. Louis, Chicago, and the Northwest, ar-
o< train time of lines connectintj. Thry wlU •!»-
sell jou tickets and ailvise you as to raiea.
F. IX MI1LJ.KR. . Atlanta, Ga
Tra\/«lln)j Passer.ger Agent I. C. R. R.
F. R. WllliKLKll, NAS11V1I.E.K, Tknn.
Commercial Agent.
I
fMH^MMMNI^Nh
,
The Certified Audit Corporation
OR INEVV VORK.
AUDITS. EXAMINATIONS, APPRAISALS. REPORTS
EDWARD OWEN. Vice President and General Manager.
OrlifirJ Pu/i/l, ArcoiitilatU.
Ex'Commission^r of Acrmntfs to tin- City of Xev.' York,
PRINCIPAL OFFICES, 170 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY.
BRANCHES: CHICAGO; PITTSBURG; ATLANTA: 14 Victoria Street. LONDON.
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TACIFIC
Great
Is
i'exas!
7iAILWA:y
nR
The Eyes of
the World Are
Upon Her.
IRON MOUNTAIN
ROUTE
The Home Seeker
Wants to know about lu-r
" Matchless " Climate and her
rrom ^rr. lo\/i^
and MEMTHI^
Cheaji I^ands.
The Investor
Wants to know not only abcjt
her Cheap Land and Low
Taxes, but, as well, Her
Affords Tourist, Prospector,
or Home Seeker the Best
Service. Fastest Schedule
to All Points in
Wealth of Mine and Forest,
and this is to let joii know that
The International &
flreat Northern,
Ttixas* Oriiateiit RnllroncI,
Traverses more tlian a thousand
miles of the Cream of Texas' Re-
MISSOURI, KANSAS, NEBRASKA,
OKLAHOMA and INDIAN IHKRI-
TORY, COLORADO, UTAH, ORE-
GON, CALIFORNIA, ARKANSAS,
TEXAS, LOUISIANA, OLD and
NEW MEXICO, and ARIZONA.
sources, latent and developed, and
that you may learn more about the
GREAT l"& G. N. country
by sending a 2-cent stamp for a
copy of the ILLUSTRATOR
AND gi:ni:r.\l N-VRRATOI^,
or 25 cents for a year's fde of same,
or bv writing
D. J. PRICK.
0. P. .* T. A.. 1. & a. IN. R. R.,
l>iili^Mtiiie, Tex.
Pullman Sleepers, Frf.k Re-
clining CiiAiR Cars on All
Trains. Low Rates, Kn-e De-
scriptive Literature. Consult
Ticket Agents, or address
1 H. C. Tewnsend R. T. G. Matthews
G. P. ai«l T. A. T. P. A.
St. Ixjvis, Mo. Louisville, Ky.
m^^m\mmmxmmm\
4430
(Confederate l/eteraQ,
Civil War Pictures Wanted
I'liciiu};ru|il]S, sUi-tflies, :iiid liriiils I'f
army sct'iirs. i';iiii|is. forts, etc.: war-
time? iiiirtraits of <i11ic(>r.s, ami nlics <>(
the war. ARNOLD A. RAND.
V.> M.lk sir.-, t. I>M>i. N M*-.^.
Keiiam cancer Hospital,
R-ICHMOND. VA.
We Cure Cancerj, Tumors, and Chronic
Sores without the use of the knife.
■% CURED
Dropsy ss
Removes all swelling in 8 lo jo
days ; effects a permanent cure
injoto 6odavs. Trialtreatment
ffiven free. KothinRcan be fairer
Write Dr. H. H. Green's Sons.
"^Specialists. Box G, Atlanta. Ca.
BEST
PASSENGER SERVICE
IN TEXAS.
♦-IMPORTANT GATEWAYS-4
TV'P
MO TROUBLE rc aNswcR Question*.
P. TURNER.
GEN'L PaSSR and TlOKfT AOENT,
DALLAS. TEX»»
LOW RATES
FROM
MEMPHIS
Round Trip=$t5^Rounit Trip
TO
Am.Trillo, Qiianah, Vernon, Kort \Vorlli, Dallas, Sail Angelo,
San Antonio, (jalveston, llou.-ton, and other Texas I'oints.
-\Iso to all points in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, except
where one fare plus $j malves less. Tickets on sale August
.■3 ami .Sepleniher 13 ami jy.
Round Trip=One Fare Plus $2=Round Trip
To All Points in Texas, (Jklaiioiiia, ami Indian Tcrriturv.
Tickets (mi sale lirst and third Tuesdavs of each nionlli.
ONE WAY=$30=0NE WAY 12 CALIFORNIA
Other Pacific Coast points in proportion.
Tickets on sale .September 15 to October 15 inclusive.
p. P. MacKINNON, T. P. A.,
NASHVII-LE, T£NN.
full iiiforiu.ilinti.
J. N. CO:?NATZAS, Con'l AganI Pass. Dopt.,
MEMPHIS, TENN.
A BOOM
does not. ultimately, bring about thi- l"->t n'-ult-; t.. n .■.■mmuuity.
THE PAN HANDLE
is NOT on ft hoom. hut is enjoying; the most rapitl ^rrnwtb of any nectiou of Texas.
WHY?
Because only ret«ntly have the puhUc at lar^o realized the op{)ortuuities which this
northwest section of Texas offers. The large ranches are heing divided into
SMALL STOCK FARMS
Wheat, (.'oni, Cotton. Melons, an<l all kinds of ti'cd stuffs an? bein>f raised in ahun-
danc<*. suvpassiufc tin? cxpcftiitions of the most san^minc.
A country abounding in svich resources (tried and proven), together with the
LOW PRICE
of 1 -nds, i-annot help enjoyinir a most rapid growth, and that is what is happening in
the Pan Handle.
"The Denver Road"
has on sale daily a low-rat« home seeker's ti'ket. which allows you stop-<^vers at nearly
kH points, thus giving yoi. a < banco tu investigate the varitJiLssectifiasot the Pan Handh*.
Write A. A. GLISSON, General Passenger Agent. Fort Worth, Tex.,
For j'aTii]ihli'1s an:l ..... informal imi.
'iS^'mmmmmwmi
TAPE-WORIYI
rinffe. ,\'. fnatiTig r-TjiJirn]. Snui !'.■ utanip fur 4t-iiaz« Hock. '
I)B. M. NKY SMITH, :SpcclahHt,8O0 UlivcSt., St. Loun, Mo>
Expelled ftlh«
ill G(J iniiiutM
wi(h bend, or
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461
CURES BLOOD POISON
IF YOU HAVE
Pimples orOITciisivoKniplions, SploU-li-
esor roppor-Coloivd Eniplioiis, or Kasli
oa the Skin, MoikI feels hot, with Iteh-
ing, Burning Skin, Scabs and Scales.
Siippnrating Swellings. Glands Swollen,
Ulcers on any part of tlio body. Old
Eating Sores, Scrofula, Caibuncles,
Pains and A<'lies in Bones or Joints,
Hair or Kyelimus falling out, in ]>ali-lies.
Persistent Sore Moutli. (innis. orTliroat.
or Tainted, Iui])uro Blood, ilien yoii
have Blood Poison, eilber inheritc<l or
coutraeled.
Take Botanic Blood Balm,
according to direi-lions, and .soon all
Sores. l'iiu])les. ami Kruplions will he.al
perfectly. Aches and Pains cease. Swell-
ings subside never to i-ctnrn, ami a ])er-
foct cvire be made, (iives Skin llio rich
glow of perfect health, makes blood
pure and I'ich.
Rheumatism and Catarrh,
These diseases, with aches and pains
in bones, joints, and back, liands. lin-
gers, arms, and legs crippled by rheu-
matic ])ains, hawking, spilling, nose-
lilceding. ringing in the ears. sickst<mi-
ach, or c:'tarrli, are sure signs of an
awfully poisoned condition of the blood.
Botanic Blood Halm slops all ach(>s and
pains, the ]ioisou is destroyed, and a
real, permanent cure is made of the
worst rheumatism or foulest catarrh.
Cures Eczema, Watery Blisters,
on any ))art of the body. .Stops the in-
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scale by giving a pure, healthy blood
su])iily to the'skin. Cools the' blooil.
Cui-es old cases. Blood Balm guaran-
teed lodothi.s, curing the worst Kcze-
ma liy sending a Ihiod of warm, rich
lilood to the ali'ccled ])arts.
CURES CANCER
of all kinds. Suppurating Swellings,
Kating Sores of all kinds, after surgi-
cal operations, plasters, sin'cialisis. and
all else fail. _ Bloo 1 Halm kills the Can-
cer I'oison in the blood, and heals the
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and they will disajipear before they de-
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of Cancer miule by taking Botanic
I'lood l',alm.
Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) Is
pleasant and safe to take. Thoroughly
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Botanic ingredients. Strengthens
Weak I\idn(>ys anil Weak .Slomaehs.
cures l\vs]ic])sia.
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Follow (lircclions on lain I.
Money returned if Blood Balm does
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acres of valuahlc patented land in the
Sunset District, Kern County, Cal., and
eighty acres located land in same field
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Have erected nine-tenths of the Confederate Monuments in the United
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C/nthiana, Ky.
Lexington, Ky.
Louisville, Ky.
Raleigh, N. C.
J. C. Calhoun Sarcophagus,
Charleston, S. C.
Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne,
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Helena, Ark.
Macon, Ga.
Columbus, Ga.
Thomasville, Ga.
Sparta, Ga.
Dalton, Ga.
Nashville, Tenn.
Columbia, Tenn.
Shelbyville,Tenn.
Franklin, Tenn.
Kentucky State Monument,
Chickamauga Park, Ga.
Lynchburg, Va.
Tennessee and North Caro-
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mauga Park, Ga.
Winchester, Va.
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ity of material, write them for designs and pries.
Qo^federate l/eterap.
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cf»
JOIJSf \/S
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TN ;i mining proposition that will pay you an income for life.
X 71ie Confederate Mining Co. owns outright 180 acres of rich
mineral land — rich in copper and gold — located in Maricopa
County, Arizona.
We advise you to buy this stock now, as we shall soon have
funds enough to carry us to the dividend period. Then the
stock will be beyond reach. Write us to-day.
ADDRESS
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RANGE
RENT
Less than
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Price ol family size National Steel Range $40.00
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Cost per niC-1 2'5c.
Deduct from this the one-third in
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COMPLlMLNrARV
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ECONOMY
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No. 10
Qopfederate l/eterap
i
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Qor^federat^ l/eterap.
it Union Central it
Life Insurance Co.
THE GREAT POLICY HOLDERS' COMPANY.
assets Over " $UO,000.000.00
Surplus Over 6,000,000.00
npiIIS company increaseil its surplus
-*■ ill the year 1903 more than an\-
other life insurance company in the
United States. J Aso paid the larf^-est
dividend to its policy holders. These
facts alone should convince any one
that the UXION CEXTRALis the
best to insure in. Call at ou-- otlice,
and we can show vou li\ ing examples
compared with the leading companies.
" We challenge comparisons."
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27-29 Chamber of Commerce, NASHVILLE, Tf/V/V.
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A STORY OF THE SOUTH ^c -< By COMER L. PEEK
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Jacksonville. Fla., Sept. 16, 1903.
Comer L. Peek, Esij., Starke. Fla.
Dear Sib: I have read "Lorna Carswell" with
much interest and pleasure You have been
very hajipy in presenting a true picture of the
home life of the Southern planter and his fam-
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If
War Songs and Poems
Southern
Confederacy
A collection of the most popular and im-
pressive Songs and Poems of War Times,
dear to every Southern Heart.
ARRANGED AND EDITED WITH
PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR
BY
H. M. WHARTON, D.D.,
Private In General I.ee's Army, author of "A
Picnic in Palestine," " A Month with Atoody,'*
" Pulpit, Pew and Platform," "Gospel Tolks,"
*' Mother, Home and Jesus,*' Etc., Etc.
From every State of the South have come these beautiful poems and songs.
With the poems are many iucideiits and stories of war time told by the author as
seen when they occurred. The heroes of the South and their gallant deeds are im-
mortalized in the verses of many Poets. Many tunes to which the songs were sung
are given, and this book will receive a welcome wherever the " Bonnie Blue Flag"
and " Dixie " are known. The bravery and heroism of the South are the Nation's
heritage, worthy to be perpetuated in this magnificeut book of poetry and song,
collected and edited by one who was L.h-.self a "sweet-voiced singer," and who
carried his gun under Gordon and Lee until the last day of Appomattox.
Profusely Illustrated by Rare, Beautiful Pictures
Never before have .so many beautiful pictures of interest to the world and to the
Southern people been collected in one volume. '* Jefferson Davis and His Cab-
inet," reproduced from a picture ouce in the possession of Mrs. Davis, and "Tlie
Burial of L.atane," are two of many rare pictures found only in this volume. Be-
sides there are pictures of the great Commander, Robert E. Lee, both as a Cadet and
as a Commanding General, also portraits of the great Generals, and pictures of the many
beautiful Monuments erected in different States. There are 48 Full-Page Engravings.
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PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND KINDRED TOPICS.
Enteri'd at the jinst ofiicc at Nashville, Tcnn., as si-cond- class matter.
Contriliutors are requested to use only one side of the paper, and to abbrevi-
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dertake to return them. Advertising rates furnished on apjilication.
The date to a subscription is always given to the month hi-forr it ends. Ff>r
instance, if the Veteran is ordered to begin with January, the date on mail
list will be December, and the subscriber is entitled to that number.
The Cli'l/ war was too long ago to be called the lalf war, and when cor-
respondents use that term " War between the States** will be sub.stituted.
The terms " new South" and "lost Cause" are objectionable to the Veteran.
OFFICIALLV HEPRESEXTS;
ITniteu Confederate Veterans,
I'nited Daughters of the Confederacy,
Sons of Veterans, a.:d Other OroanI3:ations,
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The Veteran is approved and indorsed ofliciallv b\' a larir«'r and more
elevated patronage, doubtless, than any other publication in existence.
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The brave will honor the brave, vanquished none the less.
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NASHVILLE, TENN., OCTOBEK, 1904.
No. 10.
S. A. CUNNINQHAM,
Propriktor.
THE SOUTHERN WOMAN'S MEMORIAL.
BY B. M. HORD. NASHVILLE, TENN.
It is gratifying to every true Confederate soldier tliat a
monument or memorial of some kind is to be erected to the
patriotic and noble women of the South, who, from i86i to
1865, by their devotion, heroic suflfering, and sublime faith,
did more to sustain the courage of her soldiers and the cause
for which they fought than the best-equipped of our armies.
This loving tribute to her memory should have been paid
long since — yea, before the first stone was laid for a monument
to our dead comrades. But, ever forgetful of self and loyal
even unto death, the smoke of battle had scarcely faded from
our stricken Southland when she began, with the same old
heroic devotion, to gather the bones of her beloved dead, on
grounds hallowed by her tears, that she might scatter flowers
over their graves and build monuments to their memory.
Building this memorial to the woinen of the South will be a
work of love and reverence to the old veteran, his sons, and
daughters ; and for this reason, if no other, this work should
be conducted in such a way as to leave no room for dissension.
It occurs to me that before any subscriptions to this fund
are called for it would be proper for the Memorial Committee
to procure a suitable design of the monument or memorial, or
whatever they propose to build, get estimates of the cost, and
submit suggestions as to the location. .Ml of these matters
should come properly before the veterans at their reunion.
The Memorial Committee could not, therefore, better employ
their time between now and the next meeting of the Veterans
than to this end. When these matters are decided, there would
be some definite end to work to, and the money necessary to
carry out the purposes could be speedily raised. Our unfor-
tunate experience with the "Battle Abbey" fund should teach
us a lesson as to the dangers of discord that might arise from
gathering a large sum of money without first definitely de-
ciding how, where, and when it shall be expended.
Let us know exactly what this money is to be expended for,
how much, and where, and then — call for subscriptions.
The above communication is most timely, and its sugges-
tions should be heeded. The editor of the Veteran recalls
in this connection the spirited expression of Mrs. V. Jeflferson
Davis when he called upon her to give the pleasing notice that
the Southern people intended to erect a monument to her hus-
band. She said, her eyes sparkling as if her soul were stirred
for all eternity: "/ hope it will be something of constantly
recurring benefit to mankind."
Mrs. Davis voiced in that the sentiment of Southern woman-
hood. They have never encouraged the monument movement
except upon such plan. Suppose we had a million dollars,
what would we do with it ? A structure of granite and bronze
might be very handsome, but there would be no end to con-
tention as to location. Why not create a fund in each State
to be used for educational and historic purposes? A bronze
figure might be agreed upon and duplicated for each South-
ern State and territory and memorial buildings be erected in
each to be managed by the Daughters of the Confederacy
and Memorial Associations. Such building might be in pro-
portion as the ability of its people to erect, and the statue be
provided for each by the general fund.
The Veteran is, with all others of the South, in favor of
such tribute, but it emphasizes the amperative need of definite
plans before satisfactory contributions will ever be made.
Gen. C. I. Walker and the Sons of Veterans are working in
the best of faith, and when they see these hindrances removed
tlieir purposes will be speedily accomplished.
Confederate Dead at Little Rock. — Recently, while grad-
ing a street in Little Rock, Ark., the workmen uncovered a
number of graves, which proved to be those of Confederate
soldiers who died in April, 1863, in a temporary hospital which
was located in that vicinity. Just under the surface a num-
ber of headstones were plowed up. Seventeen in all were
found. It is said that there are fifty Confederates buried in
this burying ground. Boys and others have carried the stones
away until but six remain. The inscriptions found are as fol-
lows: M. V. Henley, sergeant Company B, Missouri Vol-
unteers ; died April 29, 1863. T. Barnett, Company B, Mis-
souri Volunteers; died April I, 1863. John Hamilton, Com-
pany F, Missouri Volunteers: died April 20, 1863. T. Har-
nett, Caldwell's Regiment, Company B, Missouri Volunteers ;
died April i, 1863. G. P. Ashworth, Caldwell's Regiment,
Company K : died April 14, 1863. J. T. G. Snuffer, Caldwell's
Regiment ; died April 22, 1863. J. B. Gregory, Steens Regi-
ment, Missouri Volunteers; born June I, 1835; died April
12, 1863. The matter was brought to the attention of the
members of Omer R. Weaver Camp, U. C. V., and they at
once took steps to have the bones reinterred in the Confed-
erate cemetery.
The date for the annual reunion of the Kentucky Division
has not yet been set, as it is desired to dedicate the new build-
ing at the time, and that i^ not y t completed.
470
QoF)federate Ueterai).
GENERAL JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE.
BY COL. J. STODDARB JOHNSTON, LOUISVILLE, KV.
John Cabell Breckinridge was born in Lexington, Ky., Jan-
uary i6. 1821. His father, Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, who,
at twenty-nine, had been twice Speaker of the Kentucky
House of Representatives, and was Secretary of State three
years before his death, at thirty-five, was the son of John
Breckinridge, who, dying at the age of forty-five, had also
been twice Speaker, United States Senator, and Attorney-Gen-
eral in the Cabinet of Mr. Jefferson. His mother was the
daughter of R.v. Samuel Stanhope Smith, President of
Princeton College, and through her mother, the wife of Rev.
John Witherspoon, President of the same institution and
signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a direct le-
scendant from John Knox, the Scotch reformer. After
graduating at Center College, Danville, Ky., in 1839, Gen.
Breckinridge studied law, and for a time practiced his pro-
fession in Burlington. Iowa, but returned to Lexington and
soon attained a high position at the bar. In 1847 he became
major of the Third Kentucky Volunteers, and served in
Mexico until the close of the war. In 1849 he was elected to
the Legislature as a Democrat, and rose rapidly into promi-
nence. In 1851 he was elected to Congress from the Ashland
district, which had long been a Whig stronghold, and was re-
elected in 1853 by an increased majority. At the expiration
of his second term he declined a rcnomination to devote him-
self to the law, having also declined the mission to Spain.
In 1856, without having been an aspirant for the place, he was
elected Vice President on the ticket with James Buchanan,
being of an age barely eligible, and before the expiration of
his term was elected United States Senator, being also in
i860 the candidate of the Southern wing of the Democratic
party for President, an accumulation of honors without a paral-
lel. At the close of his service as Vice President he took his
seat in the body over which he had presided with such con-
ceded ability, but in a few months his civil career was cut
short by the Civil War.
In the fall of 1861, when Kentucky was invaded by the
Federal army, in violation of her neutrality, by which it was
hoped to arrest the war and lead to the restoration of peace,
he went South and, resigning his seat as Senator in a letter
addressed to the people of Kentucky, was appointed brigadier
general, and assigned by Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston to the
command of a brigade at Bowling Green, Ky. At the battle
of Shiloh he was placed in command of the reserve corps ; but
at his own request, on the first day, participated in the thickest
of the fight. In the critical charge, in which the commander
in chief lost his life, Breckinridge was present, animating
by his example his untried troops. When the army fell back
to Corinth he commanded the rear guard, and successfully
covered its retreat, a similar duty being assigned him when
that place was evacuated. For his gallantry he was promoted
to a major generalship, and was assigned with his division
to the defense of Vicksburg, under Gen. Van Dorn, his com-
mand comprising three-fourths of the troops who, in July,
1862, resisted the memorable bombardment by the Federal
fleet. He again distinguished himself in his attack on Baton
Rouge, August 8, which failed of success only from the in-
ability of the Confederate gunboat Arkansas to cooperate in
the attack.
Being assigned to the defense of Port Hudson, he was un-
able to accompany Gen. Bragg in his expedition to Kentucky.
as that officer desired, but later starteci from Knoxville with
an improvised division to join hinii ;,JPefore reaching Cum-
berland Gap he was apprised of his (Gen. Bragg's) retreat
from the State and ordered to Murfreesboro, as the advance
guard of the army, to resist Gen. Rosecrans, then concen-
trating his forces at Nashville. In November the army of
Gen. Bragg joined him, and he remained there until the re-
treat after the battles of Murfreesboro, again distinguishing
himself in action and bearing the brunt of the second battle
on January 2, 1863, in which his division suffered heavy
losses. After wintering near Tullahoma, in May he was sent
to the army of Gen. J. E. Johnston, in Mississippi, and partici-
pated in the fruitless campaign which ended in Grant's cap-
ture of Vicksburg. In September he rejoined Bragg, and
commanded a corps in the battle of Chickamauga with re-
newed distinction in his attack upon the intrenched position
of Gen. Thomas. He also participated in the battle of Mis-
sionary Ridge, November 25, 1862. In January following,
while in winter quarters at Dalton, Ga., he was assigned by
President Davis to the command of the Department of South-
western Virginia, a diflicult field, in which a number of liis pred-
ecessors had found discomfiture, but from which he emerged
with enhanced distinction. When Gen. Grant, in May, 1864,
crossed the Rappahannock in his aggressive campaign against
Gen. Lee, Gen. Breckinridge was ordered to Staunton, Va., to
resist the advance of Gen. Sigel against that place, and by a
rapid march through the mountains met that officer at New
Market on May 15 and defeated him with a greatly inferior
force in a brilliant engagement, compelling his retirement to
the Potomac. He then, under orders from Gen. Lee, rapidly
transferred his command to Hanover Junction in time to pro-
tect the bridges across the North and South Anna Rivers
from Sheridan's raid, and on May 22 was joined there by
Gen. Lee, who fell back to that position after the battle of
Spottsylvania C. H.
In the battle of Second Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864, Gen.
Breckinridge held the right of the line, which successfully
resisted the assault of Hancock's Corps, resulting in the de-
feat of Gen. Grant and compelling him to relinquish his com-
paign against Richmond on the north side of the Potomac
and his retirement to the south bank of that river. In a few
days Gen. Breckinridge was sent by Gen. Lee, with his com-
mand, to the Shenandoah Valley to resist the advance of Gen.
Hunter ; but, not arriving in time, repaired to the defense of
Lynchburg, threatened by that officer. Early's Corps ar-
riving there soon after. Gen. Early assumed command, and
Hunter was compelled to retreat, closely followed, to Salem,
whence he escaped through the mountains to the Ohio through
the Kanawha Valley. Early then turned northward, accom-
panied by Breckinridge, whose command was increased to a
corps by the addition of Gordon's Division, and participated
in the campaign into Maryland. On July 9 he commanded
in person in the battle of Monocacy, when Gen. Lew Wallace's
command was defeated and fell back toward Baltimore, Early
pressing on toward Washington, in sight of which he arrived
two days later before the fortifications at Silver Springs, the
residence of F. P. Blair, Sr. The arrival at Washington of
Franklin's Corps, hastily detached from Gen. Grant's army,
rendered an attack inexpedient, and Gen. Early, having suc-
ceeded in his object to divert troops from the Potomac, re-
turned to the Shenandoah Valley. Gen. Breckinridge, in the
subsequent campaign, participated in a number of battles,
chief of which were the second battle of Kernstown. July
26, where the Federals were again driven across the Potomac,
and the battle of Winchester. September 19, after which Gen.
Early retired across the Shenandoah at Fisher's Hill.
A few days later Gen. Breckinridge was ordered to return
to his department on account of a threatened invasion by Gen.
Qopfederati^ l/eterar?,
471
Burbridge from Kentucky, who was defeated at Saltville and
the department relieved of danger. In February, 1865, he was
appointed Secretary of War, and was in the discharge of his
duties there when Richmond was evacuated, April 3, 1865.
He retired with President Davis to North Carolina after the
surrender at Appomattox and participated in the conference
between Gens, Johnston and Sherman, resulting in what was
known as the Sherman-Johnston Treaty. The assassination
of President Lincoln led to its rejection at Washington, and
on April 25 Gen. Johnston capitulated to Gen. Sherman.
Gen. Breckinridge, more fortunate than his chief in the re-
treat which followed, made his way to the Florida Coast and
thence in an open boat to Cuba, from whence he went to
England, where he was cordially received. He subsequently
went to Canada, remaining there a year or two; but, not being
embraced in the amnesty, he returned to England, and during
his residence in Europe made a tour of the Holy Land.
Finally, in the spring of i86g, there being no inhibition, he re-
turned to Kentucky, and remained there in the quiet pursuit
of his profession until his death, in Lexington, May 17, 1875,
among a people who idolized him living and still cherish his
memory with devotion. In 1883 the Legislature, in pursuance
of a bill introduced by Capt. T. J. Bush, an ex-Federal officer,
erected a handsome monument to him in Lexington, sur-
mounted by a life-sized statue in bronze.
In early life Gen. Breckinridge was united in marriage with
Miss Mary C. Burch, of Scott County. Ky., who shared his
trials during the greater part of the war and in his exile,
and with four children survives him. The latter are: Maj. J.
Cabell Breckinridge, of Arkansas, who served on his father's
staff; Hon. Clifton R. Breckinridge, ex-member of Congress
from Arkansas and ex-Minister to Russia, who also served
in the war ; Mrs. J. Andrew Steele, of Kentucky ; and Mrs.
Anson Maltbv, of New York.
NOVEL WAY TO RAISE MONUMENT FUNDS.
The Confederate Monument Commiltee, of Chester, S.
C, has adopted a novel way to raise money for a Confed-
erate monument there. The committee was appointed by
the Walker-Gaston Camp to assist Chester Chapter
Daughters in raising funds for the erection of a monument
in the city of Chester for Confederate soldiers and nolile
women, both living and dead. I. W. Reed. Commander
ot the U. C. V. Camp at Chester, is chairman of the
committee. A circular appeal is issued to let future gen-
erations sec the push, the thrift, the get-up-and-get spirit
which Chester is manifesting in the year 1904. A gradu-
ated price list is given. All Churches — name of denomi-
nation, officials, and numerical strength — will be inserted with-
out charge; also newspapers of county, with any item of
historic interest, and public libraries, name, location, etc.
Pay will be required as follows: County officials, name of
each ofiice, with any important data, $10; city of Chester
officials, and anything worthy to be preserved, $10; ma-
chine or woodshop officers, history, etc., $2.50; railroad
depots, each office, naming all employees in each, $1.50;
each secret order, name of officers, and strength of order,
under seal if preferred, $2.50; papers outside of county —
weekly, 50 cents, semiweekly, 75 cents, daily, $2; mag-
azines, periodicals, each, $2; .ach hotel, name of proprie-
tor and employees, $2: dru_; stores, $1: boarding houses.
names of proprietors, and employees, $1 ; boarding houses,
SO cents; business club 01 lodge, officers and number of
members or any item of interest, $2.50. Various other
terms are scheduled.
GEORGIA CAMPAIGN— JONESBORO, UTOY CREEK.
Fayette Hewitt, Frankfort, Ky., Adjt. Gen. Orphan Brigade:
"On page three hundred and ninety of the Veteran for
August there is an article upon the 'Correct Date of the Battle
at Jonesboro.' In this the battle of Utoy Creek is mentioned
as having occurred on August 31. That is incorrect. Utoy
Creek was fought by the Orphan Brigade on August 6 at
a point on the Sandtown road, on the west side of Atlanta,
about six or seven miles from the fortification. Jonesboro is
twenty-one miles south of .\tlanta, and the battle there was
brought about by Gen. Sherman's flanking movement, by which
our position at Atlanta was lost. The battle at Jonesboro
was fought on August 31 and September i.
"The Orphan Brigade, with other troops, was ordered down
to Jonesboro, as they had been on a former occasion, to meet
what was regarded as a sort of raid by the enemy, but we
found there a very large portion of Gen. Sherman's army.
We made an attack on August 31, which was repulsed with
considerable loss to us. With a little change of position a
line was assumed by the Confederates, which was charged the
next day by a heavy force of the enemy, and our line was
broken by a defective angle in it, giving the enemy an oppor-
tunity to come up close to our line before they were exposed
to fire. It was broken in front of Vaughn's Brigade, and the
capture of Atlanta followed."
An Active Working Chapter at Bardstown, Ky.
The Crepps Wickliffe Chapter, U. D. C, was organized at
Bardstown, Ky., in
1898 by Mrs. Hen-
rietta Morgan Duke,
and is fifth, numer-
ically, of the forty-
four Chapters in the
Kcntuck-y Division.
Its membership
comprises some of
the most prominent
women in the town
and county. Its
President is Mrs.
Edmonia Roberts,
widow of the late
Charles Roberts, of
Oxford. Miss., who
faithfully served the
Confederacy during
the four years' war
between the States.
This is a working
as well as a growing
Chapter. One of
their recent under-
takings was prepar-
ing material and
weaving a rag car-
liet, which is now
on exhibition and
for sale at the St.
Louis Fair. Its
members take an active interest in all Confederate matters,
and the zeal of its President is ever first for the maintenance
of organizations whose purpose is to honor the people of the
South in their patriotic undertakings.
MRS. EDMONIA RUIIKKTS.
472
Qo9federat(^ l/eterai).
ABOUT MORGAN'S OHIO RAID.
In a personal gossipy letter, written from his home at
Covington, Ky., Theo F. Allen, who fought for the Un-
ion and was then wicked enough to kidnap a Southern
girl, states that there are quite a number of former mem-
bers of Gen. John Morgan's Confederate Cavalry who read
his contribution to the February number of the Veteran,
describing the Morgan raid through Kentucky, Indiana,
and Ohio. The raid was one of the most picturesque and
interesting events of the war, and, without doubt, was
witnessed by the greatest number of people who ever saw
a military operation in this country or elsewhere, as not
less than half a million people must have seen the move-
ment in progress.
He writes: "I was asked by Mr. Helm. President of the
First National Bank, to step into his private office. He
closed the door and said: 'I have read your contribution
in relation to the Morgan raid in the Confederate Vet-
eran with the greatest interest, and consider it one of
the fairest descriptions of this picturesque event that I
have ever seen.' " Mr. Helm was a soldier in Duke's Sec-
ond Kentucky Cavalry, Morgan's Division, and was on
thi-s raid.
Mr. Allen writes further: "Slapping me heartily on the
back, Mr. Helm said, "You fellows were pretty hot after
us up near Pomeroy, Ohio, where my horse was wounded,'
and he stated that the Federal forces were so close to
him there as to see the color of his hair, and one of them
called out, 'Halt, you red-headed son of a sawbuck!' Mr.
Helm was red-headed, but his hair is pretty well whitened
now.
"I have been invited to deliver an address before the
Grand Army Post here, describing the interesting events
of the Morgan raid.
"The corresponding secretary of the Daughters of the
Confederacy at Franklin. Tenn., has kindly sent me a
couple of bullets which she dug up out of her garden last
spring when she was setting out her flowers. These she
sends me as mementos of the desperate battle of Franklin,
in which I was a factor, and in further consideration of my
ten-dollar contribution to the fund they are raising for the
erection of a monument on the Franklin battlefield."
CONFEDERATE CANNON AT GAINESVILLE, ALA.
Mrs. D. H. Williams writes that the Ladies' Memorial As-
sociation of Gainesville, Ala., has succeeded in having removed
to their Confederate Cemetery, after many tmsuccessful at-
tempts, an old siege gun left there by Gen. Forrest when he
surrendered that place. May, 1865. "It was quite an under-
taking, as it lay near the river, partly buried in the sand, for
so many years. This was the only relic of our great 'war
for the Constitution' that we could boast of, and now that
we have accomplished the difficult work we feel that our
cemetery, where lie buried one hundred and ninety-two brave
heroes, is complete with its modest shaft of white marble; and
when our old soldiers have answered their last call something
will remain to remind our younger generations of the brave
deeds of their fathers, those who fought for what they knew
was right."
In regard to the old gun's having been left by Gen. Forrest,
Charles Bean wrote from Brownwood, Tex. : "I was under
Gen. Bedford Forrest and surrendered to Gen. Canny at
Gainesville, Ala. The old cannon was left by Gen. Forrest."
SWIFT RETRIBUTION FOR HOUSE-BURNING.
BY W. W. PATTESON, MANTEO, VA.
The vandalism and ruthless destruction of property in the
Valley of Virginia by the Federal army was greater perhaps
than in any other section of the South. There were, no
doubt, many individual incidents that occurred on Sherman's
infamon* march to the sea that equaled in barbarous cruelty
those in Virginia, but certainly none that surpassed them.
On the 20th of August, '64, a part of the Fiftli Michigan
Cavalry were sent to burn a number of handsome private
dwellings in Clark County. It seemed to be providential
that on that same day Companies C, D, and E (Forty-Third
Battalion of Mosby's Command), under Capt. William H.
Chapman (afterwards lieutenant colonel), were marching
from Fauquier County over to the west side of the Blue
Ridge. As soon as we reached the top of the ridge, we saw
the smoke of the burning buldings, and at once took in the
situation. We quickened our pace, crossed the Shenandoah
at Castleman's Ferry, and went in a gallop m the direction of
the fires. We first came to the McCormack property, the
fine dwelling now a mass of smoldering ruins. Hurrying on,
we soon came in sight of Col. Morgan's residence, and near
by the Souer homestead, both burning. The latter had been
fired early in the morning as the Yankees were passing, but
had been put out by Mrs. Shephard and her little children.
Returning, the Yankees again fired it, and when we came
up Mrs. Shephard and her little ones were clustered in one
corner of the yard, watching the flames consume their
house. Orders had been passed back from our officer in
front to "wipe them from the face of the earth, neither ask-
ing nor giving quarter," and the sight of this helpless woman
with her little children surrounded by a set of howling, plun-
dering thieves served to emphasize the order, and we went
at them with a yell. It was a sharp, quick, and clean little
fight; no prisoners. The Yankees were handicapped with
all kinds of plunder. They had pillaged all the houses of
every movable article before burning them, but would not
allow the owners to remove anything, not even clothing, ex-
cept such as they had on. In going back over the ground
to a place where I had persuaded one of the thieves with a
shot through the head to stop early in the chase in order to
get his horse and pistols. I found him lying with a lot of
papers scattered around that fell from his pockets as he
tumbled off of his horse. I got nearly a handful of jewelry
of all kinds, tied on to his saddle, which I secured with
his horse, also two rolls of goods, including lace curtains,
ladies' wearing apparel, blankets, sheets, etc., and two bot-
tles of wine. Our command recrossed the Shenandoah in the
evening with quite a number of captured horses. In looking
over the dead man's papers that night, I found one evidently
from his best girl, asking him to send her some of the things
captured (?) from the houses of the Rebels. This was but
a sample of the many letters found on the bodies of the
house burners that day by members of our command, and
this was the kind of warfare waged by Sheridan and Hun-
ter in the fair Valley of Virginia.
Entered Regular Service at Under Fifteen Years. — W.
D. Peak, of Oliver Springs, Tenn., was born December 22,
1846, and volunteered in the Confederate service in August,
1861, as a member of Company A, Twenty-Sixth Tennessee
Regiment. If there were any younger soldiers in the army as
early as the time of his enlistmei.t. Comrade Peak would like
very much to hear from them. Give name, date of birth, and
date of enlistment.
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473
GEN. E. C. ir.lLTHALL.
Rev. E. A. Smith, who served in the Twenty-Ninth Mis-
sissippi Regiment, has just published "Records o£ Wakhall's
Brigade of Mississippians" in an elegantly printed pamphlet
of ninety pages. It does not purport to be a history of the
brigade. This fact is mentioned to avoid confusion with the
history in preparation by Col. E. T. Sykes, who was assistant
adjutant general on Walthall's staff. The preface to this
publication was written by Hon. Charles B. Howry, now As-
sociate Justice in the United States Court of Claims at Wash-
ington, who was a comrade and messmate of the author. Mr.
Howry, in this preface, states;
"Walthall was the Prince Rupert of the .\rniy of Tennessee.
He was alert and careful, aggressive and cautious, firm and
sagacious, wise and just. Obedient to authority himself, he de-
manded implicit acquiescence in his own orders. Left to him-
self, he asked no advice and took none. A rigid disciplin-
arian and intolerant of any deficiencies of conduct, he was be-
loved by his men. Though he fought them with dash and
spirit, it was always with care and skill. His men gave to
him their confidence from start to finish, accepted his orders,
and fought without reproach or the slightest question of the
danger incurred. .As a brigade and division conmiandcr he
proved to be one of the most efficient officers of either army.
. . . No labor was too great in the discharge of his duty
which he did not undertake. He was alive to everything.
His efficiency and skillful managemert attracted so much at-
tention that he was seriously considered at one time for the
supreme command. As a type of volunteer general, he was
one of the best the war produced.
"Sensitive to a fault and imperious to a degree, he brooked
but little opposition and no familiarity. With all the jealousy
which one of his proud nature had for the things which were
his due, he was never arrogant or petty. Looking back to
his career as a soldier, I should say his greatest defect was
his e.xtreiuc modesty. He did not trust himself quite enough
for exigencies. He never evaded anything nor retreated when-
ever he thought he could fight ; but, in the desire to avoid the
sacrifice of life without results, he sometimes balanced the
chances a little too long- for complete success.
"The dead commander has gone to his final account. His
comrades believed he was great, and they knew he was fear-
less and true. To them he was the knightliest figure of the
war, and they feel that his place in the jianthcon of fame is
secure."
Comrade Smith supplements Mr. Howry's sketch:
"He was a young lawyer in Coft'eevillc, Miss., when the war
broke out, in 1861. He was rising rapidly in the practice of
his profession, and, had he not laid aside his pen for the
sword, would nuich sooner have reached the eminent distinc-
tion to which he afterwards attained. But he was a 'natural
born soldier,' and entered that splendid regiment, the Fifteenth
Mississippi, first with the rank of lieutenant, whence he rose
to that of captain, then to that of lieutenant colonel. He so
distinguished himself in the battle of Fishing Creek that soon
afterwards he received a commission from the War Depart-
ment to organize a regiment. He resigned from the Fifteenth,
liurried home, and soon organized the Twenty-Ninth. In the
latter part of 1862 he was made brigadier general, and on
June 10, 1864, received his commission as major general, to
which he was urgently and repeatedly recommended to the
War Department by both Gens. Polk and Johnston. This
position he held till the close of the war.
"Gen. Walthall was a man of courtly bearing, polished in
his manners, and had a magnetism about him that drew
1(1*
every one to him with an irresistible power. This latter
quality was eminently conspicuous in the hour of danger.
Whenever he waved his sword, galloped to the front, and
called on his men to charge they caught the inspiration of his
sublime fearlessness, and with the wild Rebel yell fo'.lowed
him into the very jaws of death. He once said, almost with
tears in his eye. that he never knew his troops to face to the
rear until he gave the command.
"Chief Justice Lamar said of him: 'Of all the great men
Mississippi has produced, Gen. Walthall stands out in boldest
relief, in moral purity, strength of mind, heroism of soul, and
commanding influence among men."
"Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, said of him : 'If I were
to select the man of all others with whom I have served in
the Senate, who seemed to me to be the most perfect example
of the quality and character of the American Senator, I think
it would he Edward C. Walthall, of Mississippi.'
"He died in the city of Washington, April 21, 1898. and his
remains were sent to Holly Springs for interment. His noble,
gifted wife (nee Miss Mary L. Jones), whom the whole bri-
gade tenderly loved, and of whom they were always proud,
followed him on December 10 of the same year.
"The funeral train brought, besides the faniil , the Con-
gressional delegation of eight Senators, six Congrtssmen, sev-
eral judges, and a host of others honored in Mississippi and
in the nation. Another train brought three hundred and fifty
citizens of Yalobusha County. A vast procession (6,000 in
number) followed the hearse. Among them were many of his
old brigade, who. with solenui countenances, followed their
beloved commander.
"The services were held in Christ Episcopal Church, Holly
Springs, and conducted in his own impressive style by Bishop
Thompson. He said : 'The great white light that beats upon
the throne and blackens every blot had found not one blot
upon Gen. Walthall's character. He was open, manly, frank,
absolutely sincere, and was ever beyond the reach of fear or
flattery." "
Courtesy Char.\cteristic i.f the Lees. — L. C. McAllister,
of Nashville, Tenn., writes : "Many stories have been told
which tend to show how courteous Gen. Robert E. Lee was
to his men. The following illustrates that Gen. Stephen D.
Lee possessed like characteristics: Just prior to the fall of
Vicksburg I was ordered to take command of the dismounted
men of Ferguson's Cavalry Brigade and report to Gen. Stephen
D. Lee at Jackson, Miss. When I did so, I was greatly sur-
prised at his courteous treatment. A few days after my ar-
rival in Jackson I met a lieutenant of our brigade, who asked
me to help him in his duty. I told him I had no objection,
but Gen. Lee had ordered me to rem.ain where I was until Gen.
Ferguson came in, when I was to report to him. The lieu-
tenant then requested that I go with him to Gen. Lee's head-
quarters. He explained that his men were overworked guard-
ing the prisoners of our brigade ; that he had only ten men to
guard about eighty prisoners, and that I had some seventy
men of the same brigade (formerly of his Okolona Provost
Guard) not engaged. When the lieutenant had finished his
story, Stephen D. Lee, Major General Commanding the Depart-
ment, turned to me and very courteously asked: 'Sergeant,
would it be agreeable to you to report to the lieutenant?' I
was not even a sergeant."
Comrade McAllister was a corpora! in Company E, Fifty-
Sixth Alabama Cavalry, Ferguson's Brigade, and now resides
in Nashville.
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(Confederate V/eterap.
S. A CUNNINGHAM, KJiK.r ji.d Proprietor.
Office! Methtxlibt PuMishini; Hotist- BuiUlinj:, K:u>hville, Tenn.
Till* piiMicalion is Ihc p*-rson:i! property of S. A. Cunninjlhain. All per-
sons who appntve its principles and rciilizc its benefits as an organ for Asso-
claUofis throuelinul the South are requested to commend its patronage and to
cooperate in extending its circulation. Let each one be constantly diligent.
The Veteran regrets failure to secure the piclurc of Mrs.
L. McC. (A. T ) Siiiythe, President of the United Daughters
)f the Confederacy, for this number. Her modesty prevented
response to the first request, and when appeal was made for
consistency with her predecessors she was at her summer
home, inaccessible to an artist. In a note at end of letter
expressing regret in not complying, she says: "Put some more
pretty sponsor, and nobody will miss me."
GEORGIAXS TAKE ACTION FOR THE VETERAN.
In responding to the editorial in the Veteran for Septem-
ber, the Georgia Division acted promptly and exactly in the
spirit designated. See page 424.
At the c ■inclusion of the reading of the resolutions by tho
Special C( nmittee on Resolutions, of which Dr. W. B. Bur-
roughs, of Brunswick (Ga.) Camp, was Chairman, he an-
nounced that Capt. Park had a special resolution which he
desired to offer, but it had not been submitted to the com-
mittee, upon which the General Commanding recognized
Capt. Park, of R. .■\. Smith Camp No. 484, Atlanta, who said:
"Mr. Commander and Confederate Comrades, I beg to
submit the following brief but deserved resolution, which I
am quite sure will meet with a cordial response and approval
at your hands:
"Resolved by the Georgia Division, U. C. V., in session at
Rome, Ga., September 15, 1904, That wc most highly com-
mend our official organ, published in Nashville, Tenn.. by
our comrade, S. A. Cunningham, called the Confederate
Veteran. We earnestly desire this splendid magazine to
be taken by every Confederate soldier and son of a Con-
federate soldier. It is fully worthy of the high esteem in
which it is held as ;'.•.,■ exponent of the Confederate principles
and facts. We urge every Camp Commander to appoint some
comrade who will bring the Veteran to the attention of
Confederates and Sons of Confederates of all Camps and at
reunions of all brigades, regiments, and companies. R. E.
Park, H. L. Middlebrooks, M. J. Cofcr, Committee."
The acceptance of the resolution was so manifest that
when a motion to adopt it was being oflfered. Captain Park,
the State Treasurer of Georgia, one of the State's first citi-
zens and an ardent Confederate, intt-rruptcd the proceedings
by saying:
"Allow me to say a few words before you submit to a vote
what I have just read. It is proper for me to speak of Mr.
S. A. Cunningham, the faithful and accomplished editor of
the CoNFBDERATE VETERAN, who, I am glad to announce,
is present in the convention. I have not mentioned this
matter to him, and it will come as great a surprise to him
as to any one in this assembly.
"A dozen years ago Mr. Cunningham determined to pub-
lish a magazine devoted to Confederate history, and he soon
launched the Confederate Vf/feran, at Nashville, Tenn.
This with him has been a labor of love, but amidst many dif-
ficulties he has achieved the richest and most deserved suc-
cess. No man within the sound of my voice, and no one,
I might say, in the Confederate States, has done more to
perpetuate the heroic actions and glorious memories of
the Confederate dead and of Confederate survivors than
S. A. Cunningham. No more gentle, generous, courteous,
and courtly gentleman, no more devoted and unselfish Con-
federate than this modest citizen and friend of our lost
Confederacy can be found, and I certainly trust that you
will adopt this resolution of confidence and approval by
a unanimous and rising vote. It will be a tribute worthily
bestowed and richly deserved.
"Every Confederate Veteran, every son of a Veteran, and
every Daughter of the Confederacy should encourage our
gallant friend by becoming a subscriber to his excellent
historical magazine, and I hope that you will cordially carry
out the purpose of this resolution upon your return to your
respective homes.
"When you have taken this vote of approbation and in-
dorsement, I will take great pleasure in introducing Mr.
Cunningham to this splendid audience."
The resolution by Capt. Park having been adopted unani-
mously and enthusiastically, Mr. Cunningham was called to
the stand. Instead of discussing the Veteran, however, he
said that he would leave that subject to others; but he would
submit his report upon the erection of a memorial to the
beloved Charles H. Smith ("Bill Arp"), a movement he in-
augurated without the knowledge of the family, and asked if
the Georgia veterans approved it. When their approval was
cordially expressed, he showed that Georgia, outside of Car-
tersville, had given but six dollars to the fund, and of that
five dollars was from Capt. Park, of Atlanta, for himself,
wife, and daughter, and one dollar from T. S. Jones, of
Macon. He stated that there were fifteen subscriptions from
Tennessee, thirteen each from Texas and Kentucky, twelve
each from Louisiana and Alabama, eleven from Arkansas, ten
from Florida, seven from Missouri, three each from Missis-
sippi and North and South Carolina, two from Virginia, and
one each from West Virginia and New Mexico. This list is
to be published in full before the year is out. Won't you honor
your name by senciing one dollar?
Responding to Mr. Cunningham and Capt. Park, Gen. P.
A. S. McGlashen, Major General Commanding the Georgia
Division, said : "Comrades, the action of Mr. Cunningham
needs no indorsement at our hands. No man in the entire
South has done more to familiarize the veterans and reading
public with the deeds, heroism, and soldierly qualities of the
soldiers of the South. His magazine is a grand vindication
of the South and its motives, a perfect mine of information
for the historians of the future, and should be in the hands
of every veteran and lover of the late Confederacy."
"Gen. Clement A. Evans, Commander of the .'\.rmy of
Northern Virginia Department, said iircviously : "I am glad
indeed that Capt. Park has spoken so warmly and justly about
our visiting comrade. It is one good soldier giving well-
deserved praise to another. I will say that our cause had no
braver soldier in battle than Cunningham and no more earnest
and valuable exponent and defender in peace. The flag of the
Veteran, which he has edited and published so many years,
has been flying at the front to represent the whole truth and
worth and sacredness of our Confederate history. We are
indebted to the persistence and the fidelity of its editor, the
soldier who is our welcomed guest, for the great good it has
done. It has nut made him rich, and never will ; but it has
done better by giving the riches of truth to others, the riclies
of his comrades' esteem, and the personal satisfaction that his
life has been well spent and all spent for one great and sacred
purpose."
Qopfederate l/eterap.
475
GENERAL OFFICIAL STAFF U. S. C. V.
N. R. Tisdal, Commander in Chief, sends out from gen-
eral headquarters of the United Sons of Confederate Vet-
erans General Orders No. 2, in which he announces his offi-
cial staff.
Inspector General: Geo. R. Wyman, Louisville, Ky.
Commissary General: A. Villert, St. Francisville, La.
Judge Advocate General: B. H. Kirk, St. Louis, Mo.
Surgeon General: Dr. R. G. Thurmond, Jr., Tuscumbia,
Ala.
Chaplain General: Rev. P. G. Sears. Meridian. JWiss.
Assistants Adjutant General: S. Y. T. Knox, Pine BIufT,
Ark.; C. S. VVelsch. Fort Worth. Tex.; J. M. Ball, Hous-
ton, Tex.; R. Lee Zell, Birmingham, Ala.; H. L. DuVal,
Charlotte, N. C. ; W. W. Old, Norfolk, Va. ; W. R. Kivett,
Boise, Idaho.
Assistants Inspector General: J. A. Cummins, Bowie,
Tex. ; L. M. DeSaussure, Memphis, Tenn. ; E. Brown Thoma-
son, Richmond, Va. ; T. Sydney Frazer, Union Springs, Ala.
Assistants Quartermaster General: Chas. T. Edwards,
Stoney Point, Va.; R. T, Simpson, Jr., Florence, Ala.;
W. V. Keith. Fort Worth. Tex.
Assistants Commissary General: J. F. Easlcy, Ardmore,
Ind. T.; John M. Adams, Fort Worth, Texas; Chas. P.
MacGill, Pulaski, Va.; Col. Ed. G. Caldwell, Jacksonville,
Ala.
Assistants Judge Advocate General: C. A. Wright, Brady,
Tex.; Blackburn Smith, Berryville, Va. : J. H. Crossland,
Montgomery, Ala.; Geo. N. Denton, West. Tex.
Assistants Surgeon General: Dr. Frank H. Hancock. Nor-
folk, \'a.; Dr. J. T. Wiggins, Rusk, Tex.; Dr. Robert
J. Hargrove, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Assistants Chaplain General: Rev. Dr. T. P. Epes, Not-
toway. Va. ; Rev. O. J. Goodman, Stockton, Ala.; Rev.
J. M. Gross, Durant, Ind. T.
Your Commander desires to see a greater activity among
the Sons during the entire year. Anything that is worth do-
ing at all is worth doing well. Let every one take an in-
terest in the great work before us and strive to carry out
the purposes of the organization.
ours. Two men stand out conspicuous as elevators of South-
ern sentiment; they are R. E. Lee and John B. Gordon. These
names the people will cherish the more as the years go by."
Renewing Subscriptions. — Statements were sent to many
in arrears with their subscription in July. Answers have
usually been kind. Many have not j'et answered, but it is sin-
cerely hoped that they will do so soon. Here is an interesting
reply: "I am ashamed of the fact that I let my subscription
get in arrears. You are doing a grand work, and ought to be
sustained by all old Confederate soldiers who are able to do
so. It is true I have carried a hc;ivy burden since the war.
for I have reared and educated seven daughters and two boys
by my own exertions, and in addition worked ten years after
the war to pay old debts, owing five dollars where I had one,
but I succeeded at last in paying them and accumulating some-
thing for old age. My wife, who died four years ago, com-
menced taking the Veteran, and I have kept it up in her
name, and expect to take it as long as I live. I contributed five
dollars in cash toward feeding old Confederates at the reunion
at Nashville, and I have seen it stated that the money was not"
all used. I want mine, if any, turned over to the Veteran."
In sending his renewal. Prof. J. H. Brunner writes from
Sweetwater, Tenn. : "One cannot be a reader ot the Confed-
erate Veteran without feeling strengthcr.cd in bis love of
country and his race. There is no better race or country than
The Bethel Monument. — At a celebration held last
June at Big Bethel, Va., by the Confederate organizations
of Elizabeth City, York, and Warwick Counties, and the city
of Newport News, to commemorate the battle of Big Beth-
el, which took place June lo, 1861, which was the first ac-
tual engagement of the war between the States, and where
fell the first Confederate killed in battle, Chas. E. Wyatt. of
North Carolina, the Bethel Monument Association was
formed. The object of the Association is to erect a suitable
monument on that battlefield in memory of these facts. Va-
rious committees from the organizations of Veterans. Daugh-
ters, and Sons were appointed for the purpose of raising
funds, selecting designs, etc., for the monument, and it was
also determined to address a circular letter to all Confed-
erate organizations in the South, inviting them to con-
tribute to tlie fund.
All contributions should be sent to Mrs. R. S. Hudgins,
Treasurer, Hampton, Va. It is the desire of the committee
to have the monument ready to unveil at the next annual
reunion. June 10, 1905, the forty-fourth anniversary of the
battle.
COLOR BEARER AND GUARD AT PERRYVILLE. KY.
In the battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862, W. H.
White was color bearer, and John McConnell, J. C. Biles, H.
L. Moflitt, and Jasper Roberts were color guards of the
}. C. nll.ES. W. H. WHITE, JOHN M tO.\ NEl.l.. H, 1.. MdFFITT.
Sixteenth Tenucssec RegimeiH, all of whom were wotindcd,
Mr. Roberts mortally.
On May 19, 1904, at the unveiling of the monument, the
above group picture was taken. This was the first time these
comrades had been together since they were at Perryville.
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^fo.\^u^^E.\■T at greessboro, ala.
The good Southern women of Greensboro, Ala., are happy
in having completed and dedicated their Confederate monu-
ment. The ceremonial part was attended. May 12. at the con-
clusion of the State Convention United Daughters of the
Confederacy in that patriotic town. After the invocation by
Rev. Dr. S. M. Hosmer. Hon. E. W. DeGraffenreid, the mas-
ter of ceremonies, introduced the speakers, giving the order
of the programme, etc. A male quartet sang "Tenting on the
Old Camp Ground."
During the singing of "Bonnie Blue Flag," by Mrs. Thomas
E. Knight, a tableau was formed, with Miss Mary Thomas
Pickens representing the "South." and young ladies repre-
senting each of the States of the Confederacy grouped in the
form of a Southern cross. The States were represented by
Misses Sadie, Julia, and Kathrine Randolph, Maria Locke.
Annie and .\my Scay, Kathleen Waller, Nettie Redus. Mary
Campbell Jones, Annie Lawson, Rosalie Tutwiler, Carrie Wil-
liams, of Greensboro, and Miss Margaret Johnson, of Selma.
Hon. Thomas E. Knight, in behalf of Mrs. Mary G. Pickens,
Chairn'an of the .Monununt Committee, then read its report,
which was addressed to
"Madam President of
the Alabama Division
of the U. D. C, Ladies
of the Memorial As-
sociation, Daughters of
the Confederacy, and
Veterans :"
"We as a committee
appuinted several years
ago by the President
of the Memorial As-
sociation, Mrs. J. D.
Webb, President also of
the U. D. C., now re-
port.
"The work assigned
this committee was to
raise the money and
have the monument erected, in loving memory of our Con-
federate soldiers, which for many years has been their earnest
desire. With $125.45 to begin with in money, and all the neces-
sary energy and determination to get up the balance, no work
was considered too hard for our Confederate soldiers; and by
the generous contribution of our men and women and help of
the 'Daughters,' and all we have asked, with few exceptions, we
have the pride and pleasure of seeing our efforts crowned with
success in the unveiling of this monument. We sadly regret the
absence of our beloved President, Mrs. James AL Hobson,
who has passed over to her reward. She loved this work,
and looked forward to being with us to-day. Her gentle spirit
and influence is with us, and will ever be with us.
"This monument has been paid for in full to Messrs. Elledge
& Norman, of Colum-
bus, Ga., whom we
most heartily recom-
mend to any one wishing
such work done. We
now commend it to the
loving care of the
.Memorial Association,
Daughters of the Con-
federacy, and to tlie
Neterans. It is placed
on a spot given for that
I>urpose by the Hale
County Commissioners,
and we give it into the
sacred care and protec-
tion of our mayor and
town authorities and our
community. We sin-
cerely thank all who
lave helped us.
"Respectfully, Mrs. R.
J. Nelson, Miss Martha
Voung, Miss Mary E.
.\v;ry, Mrs. J. C. Pierce,
Mrs. Mary G. Pickens."
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Then "Dixie" was beautifully sung by Miss Mary Thomas
Pickens, with the chorus of the thirteen young ladies repre-
senting the States of the Confederacy, and the scene of these
fair daughters of the South sounding the words of that grand
hymn was indeed a beautiful and touching one.
Hon. VV. E. W. Yerby, in behalf of the mayor, made a
speech, accepting the trust imposed on the city by the ladies
of the Memorial Association. A beautiful address was de-
livered by Mrs. F. S. Woods, the President of the Alabama
Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. A
song, "Cover Them Over with Beautiful Flowers," was then
sung by a quartet composed of Mrs. T. E. Knight, Miss Emma
Latimer, Messrs. Richardson and Ward.
Ex-Gov. W. C. Oates's address was one to be long remem-
bered. Abounding in beautiful flights of eloquence, he paid
his tribute to tlie gallantry and heroism of his comrades, the
wearers of the gray. The benediction v.'as then pronounced
by Rev. R. H. Cobbs. D.D., the pastor of St. Paul's Church,
and "taps" was sounded by Bugler Williams.
Then the entire audience adjourned to the front of the court-
house, where stood the monument to be unveiled. Little Miss
Rebecca Erwin Jones unveiled the beautiful marble figure of a
Confederate soldier standing at parade rest. The monument is
a magnificent piece of sculpture and stands clear to the height
of thirty feet. It is immediately in front of the courthouse
and shows to good advantage to all passers. The names of
about five hundred old Confederate soldiers are engraved on
the base and sides of the monument. Much praise is given to
Mrs. Mary Pickens, the Chairman ci the Monument Com-
mittee, together with her associates, for their faithful and
untiring labors.
It was a pathetically sad fact that Mrs. Hobson did not live
to participate in the dedication. She was the President of
the Ladies' Memorial Association for several years and an
active worker in the Daughters of the Confederacy, whose con-
centrated efforts brought about this successful achievement.
Mrs. Hobson was Sarah Pearson, daughter of Judge Rich-
mond Pearson, for many years Chief Justice of North Caro-
lina, the wife of Judge J. M. Hobson, and the devoted mother
of Richmond Pearson Hobson, whose name will be a record
of honor while there is a history of the Spanish-American war.
MR. DAllS'S BIRTHDAY A LEGAL HOLIDAY.
A number of Camps of Confederate veterans in Texas will
probably petition the next Legislature to make President
Davis's birthday a legal holiday in that State. At a recent
meeting at Waco Comrade J. D. Fhaw, editor of the Search
Light, at Waco, spoke as follows on a resolution introduced
for this purpose :
"I cannot permit that resolution to be voted on without an
expression of my gratitude at having lived to see such a
movement advocated in our State. For many years after the
war the name of Jefferson Davfs was seldom mentioned in
public, even in the South. When we first began to hold
memorial exercises and meet in Confederate reunions the
custom of speakers was to mention Lee, Jackson, Johnston,
and other of our military leaders. Whether from fear of
Northern criticism or in deference to Northern prejudice, I
cannot say; but, seemingly from one or the other, there was a
disposition to overlook Mr. Davis. When, several years ago,
I commenced to speak for the Confederates I adopted the rule
of placing our heroic President above all of our representa-
tive men, and I rejoice to sec that rule adopted now by nearly
all our speakers.
"Gen. Lee and our other military leaders in that mighty con-
flict deserve all the praise they have ever received at our
hands: but of all the great men we had, no one so grandly
represents the high social character of Southern people and
so completely typifies in his own personality the statesman-
shij). patriotism, and devotion to principle, characteristic of the
South, as docs Jefferson Davis, who was not only the incarna-
tion of Southern character and civilization, but became also
at the close of the war our vicarious substitute as a sufferer
at the hands of our enemies, thereby illustrating, in chains
even, the heroic fortitude characteristic of Southern manhood.
I trust the movement to make his birthday a legal holiday will
succeed not only in Texas but in all the Southern States."
MRS. MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEKW.
Mary Ashley Townsend (nee Van Voorhis ; pen name.
"Xariffa"). born in 1836 at Lyons, Wayne County, N. Y., was
descended from the Van Wickles, 01 New Jersey, and the Van
\'oorhis, of Duchess County. N. Y. In the fifties she married
Mr. Gideon Townsend, of Fishkili, N. Y., and in the sixties
they removed to New Or-
leans, which city became
their future h o m e.
Three daughters were
horn of this marriage:
Cora A., Adele C, and
Daisy B. Townsend. The
two last named are liv-
ing. The genius and
scholarly attainments of
Mrs. Townsend won for
her highest rank among
r^|^r3BB^taAA{||fl|^^_ , Southern which
^^^/^^^^^^^^g the
lime of her death, June
-, 1 901.
From the date of her
residence in New Or-
leans, Mrs. Townsend
was closely connected with the literary life, ventures, and
interests of that city. To every notable occasion in its his-
tory she contributed the nobility and grace of her thoughts.
She was officially appointed poet of the New Orleans E.x-
position of 1884, and was chosen to write the poem for the
opening of its Woman's Department. In compliance with of-
ficial requests. Mrs. Townsend wrote the poems on the oc-
casion of the laying of the corner stone of Tulane University,
the opening of Howard Memorial Library, the Convention of
the Press Association, the first Confederate reunion of 1892,
the meeting of the Southern Educational Association, of the
unveiling of the Albert Sidney Johnston monument, of the
Stonewall Jackson statue, and of the Confederate Cavalry re-
union. She also wrote the ode to the Confederate dead buried
ill Greenwood Cemetery ; the inspiring lines "At Winchester,"
read July 4. 1896, at the unveiling of the monument to Louisi-
ana's soldier-heroes ; "The Merrimac," read before the Frank-
lin Buchanan Camp in Norfolk; and was selected by the New
Orleans Chapter, U. D. C., to write the poem on the celebra-
tion of the birthday of Robert E. Lee. Her last poem, "A
Georgia Volunteer." is too well known to readers and lovers
nf the best poetry to be more than referred to here. That most
exalting of love poems, "Creed," which won for Mrs. Town-
send instant fame, crossed the. Atlantic and has been translated
into several languages, as have other of her poems.
Mrs. Townsend was a prolific, though careful, writer. Her
works include a novel, "The Brother Clerks" (New York,
M.\RV ASHLEY TuWNStND.
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1859), "Xariffa's Poems" (Philadelphia, 1870), "Down the
Bayou, and Other Poems" (Philadelphia, 1881), which have
passed through several editions, the last being a revised one
by the author. Her latest volume, one of sonnets, entitled
"Distaflf and Spindle" (Philadelphia, 1895), in exquisite ten-
derness, description, nobility of thought, and beauty of lan-
guage, proves her to be the equal, if not the superior, of Mrs.
Browning in the masterly handling of this form of verse.
Besides her poetic writings, Mrs. Townsend wrote enough
of essays, short stories, correspondence of general interest,
and a work of travel to make, of each, a volume. A new book
of her unpublished poems is now in course of preparation
by her daughter, Adele Townsend Stanton.
American literature must grant a lasting place of honor to
Mary Ashley Townsend, for whom this claim is best recog-
nized in the imperishable beauty, form, and quality of her
poetry.
The Veteran is especially interested in this tribute, its
editor having had the pleasure of a cordial friendship with the
family and preserved well-written letters from the mother of
the gifted author after she was ninety years of age, and a
friendship with Capt. W. R. Lyman, a brother, who was promi-
nent in New Orleans and is now a bank president of Ruston,
La.
A remarkable coincidence in this family is that, of three
daughters of the venerable Mrs. Lyman, two reared two
daughters each, and their younger daughters married the
sons of the two Secretaries of War. The one living in New
Orleans married a son of Edwin M. Stanton, and the other,
living in New York, married a son of James A. Seddon, Con-
federate Secretary of War.
THE TEXAN WHO HELD GEN. R. E. LEE'S HORSE.
Leonard Grace Gee, of Velasco, Tex., sent the following
to Judge John N. Henderson, of Bryan, Tex. :
"Dear Sir: The following I distinctly recollect of having
transpired just previous to the battle of the Wilderness:
"On May 6, 1864, Gen. R. E. Lae ordered Hood's Bri-
gade to come to the front. When we arrived there, Gen. Lee
was on the ground. On meeting us he asked Gen. John
Gregg, who commanded Hood's Texas Brigade, what troops
we were. Gen. (''"'■Vw
Gregg replied :
'Hood's Texas
Brigade.' Gen.
Lee said : '1 sent
for them to go
and drive out
those people, as
they would lie on
their arms and
shoot at us all
day.' Then Gen.
Gregg said to
his brigade:
'Gen. Lee wants
us to go and
drive those peo-
ple out. Remem-
ber, Hood's Bri-
gade, that Gen.
Lee's eyes are on
you and his heart
is with you. Forward! Guide center!
gade responded instantly.
"Gen. Lee did not address the soldiers, but addressed him-
self to Gen. John Gregg. As soon as the latter gave his
order 'Forward !' Gen. Lee, with hat in hand, said, 'I know you
will go,' and made the attempt to go also, when I caught his
bridle rein and turned his horse back and said to him that we
MISS EULA GEE. DALLAS, TEX.^
Dauglrer of Comrade L. G. (let- anil Sponsor for Camp 50i, V . C. \'.. \'elasco.
would go and for him to go back. About that time Capt.
Kerr and others came up on horseback and also told Gen.
Lee that he must go back. After I turned the horse of Gen.
Lee by the bridle I went forward with the brigade into the
battle, and was shot, from which wound I still suffer.
"In the year of 1866, at Independence, Tex., I sat for Maj.
McArtle to paint my picture while holding the bridle nnd
turning Gen. Lee's horse at the battle of the Wilderness in
Virginia, and he sent it to Austin. While it was in the capitol
building, to be bought for the Stale of Texas, the capitol build-
ing was burned and the picture with it. I believe Maj. Mc-
Artle, who knows the facts, is still alive."
Formal affidavit was made to the foregoing.
L. C. GEE, VELASCO, TEX.
March !' The bri-
SoME Who Discontinue Their Subscriptions. — At the
end of a year a man in Louisiana writes: "I did not want it
unly for one year, as I would not pay for it and I will not
pay for it." Another, a comrade, writes from Texas : "Cir-
cumstances have been against me for two or three years, and
I must ask you to discontinue. I send you the names of some
comrades who are not taking the Vetek.\n. . . . Hoping
the Veteran may outlive the editor," etc. Another Texan
writes: "I am getting old and blind and am not able to pay
for it." \ letter from California, inclosing three dollars,
states: "I have enjoyed it very much, but, being very busy,
don't have time to read much, so please discontinue when time
is nut." A Georgia letter states: "You are right in presuming
that I am a friend to the Veteran, and it is with regret that
I must give it up; but I am unable to take it longer."
Confederate V/eterap.
479
ANNUAL REUNION VIRGINIA GRAND CAMP.
The Seventeenth Annual Reunion of the Grand Camp of
Confederate Veterans of Virginia was held at Lynchburg Sep-
tember IS and 16. This is said to have been the largest, most
successful, and most enjoyable meeting ever held by the vet-
erans in the Old Dominion. Aside from the three or four
thousand old soldiers present, there were some eight or ten
thousand visitors, making one of the largest gatherings ever
assembled in Lynchburg. There were between twelve and
fifteen hundred veterans in the parade.
The most interesting feature of the proceedings was the
report of Senator John \V. Daniel, Chairman of the Historical
Committee. He touched upon a theme in which all Confed-
erate soldiers and their sons and daughters are vitally inter-
ested when he said : "The Fifty-Seventh Congress provided
by law for the full publication of all the muster rolls of all
the armies of the United States and the Confederate States
alike. So colossal a task has never before been undertaken
Iiy a great nation. It deeply concerns us. Having lost our
own records, it is only through this agency that we can ever
hope to see saved from oblivion the names and numbers
of the valiant host we sent forth to battle. No State is so
much in need of its self-help as Virginia now. The rolls in
possession of the United States are incomplete. The War De-
partment, through the Secretary of War and through the
keeper of records, who is not officially known as the 'Military
Secretary,' and has the rank of a major general in the army,
lias called upon us to assist in supplying these deficiencies.
In short, the United States provides the means and offers
to defend and print our Confederate history, and calls upon
us to defend ourselves by helping it to do it. We should
spring to our feet to do it with a. right royal Rebel yell, and
should not let the jell be for ourselves alone; we should put
an upper story on it and add three times three and a tiger for
Uncle Sam in his present amiable mood toward his old-
time so-called 'Rebel' friends."
After Senator Daniel's report Grand Commander George
L. Christian introduced Gen. C. L Walker, of South Carolina,
who spoke earnestly and eloquently in behalf of the move-
ment to speedily erect a monument to the women of the Con-
federacy. He explained how this work had been shifted from
the shoulders of the old Veterans of those of the young and
stalwart Sons, and, while urging them to push the work
forward, at the same time expressed his confidence in their
patriotism, ability, and willingness to give as good account
of themselves in this work as their fathers, mothers, and sis-
ters had done in their work from 1861 to 1865. "Never let
it be forgotten that the South could not have been what it
is to-day and what it will be but for the daring, endurance,
and suffering of your fathers, and more especially the heroic
devotion and sublime faith of your mothers."
A meeting of the Sons was held at the same time as that
of the Grand Camp of Veterans, and the election of officers
for the ensuing year resulted: E. Lee Trinkle, of Wythe-
ville. Division Commander; A. H. Jennings, of Lynchburg,
Commander of the First Brigade; and Edwin H. Courtney, of
Richmond, Commander of the Second Brigade. A grand re-
union ball was given by the Garland-Rodes Camp of Sons to
the sponsors, maids of honor, visiting Sons, and Grand Camp
officers.
Two of the most interesting figures in the parade were the
distinguished United States Senator John W. Daniel, march-
ing along, assisted by his crutch, in the ranks of the old sol-
diers, and little Ruth Vest, the charming little ten-year-old
daughter of Col. Vest, of Brookneal, who. dressed in a suit
of Confederate gray, marched the entire distance covered by
the old soldiers. The same spirit animated the Senator and
the child.
"Lord God of hosts, not yet, not yet
Do we forget, do we forget !''
Hon. N. C. Hanson, Jr., welcomed the veterans to Lynch-
burg and Gen. Thomas T. Munford extended greeting in
behalf of Garland-Rodes Camp. The response was by Col.
William H. Stewart, of Portsmouth, in such an address as
could be made by but few men.
Col. Stewart's Response to the Address of W'elcome.
Gen. Munford : I am commissioned by the Grand Camp to
return thanks for the hearty welcome — the love offering of
Garland-Rodes Camp.
Love is th:; tcnderest word in the English language. Love
is the strongest thing on earth, the highest thing in heaven.
It is the power of all that is good; it is the glory of all that
is beautiful. Infinite love is the crown of Almighty Power.
You have greeted us with hearts overflowing with love, giving
us the greatest thing on earth or in heaven. You speak it not
only in sweet latigiiage, but publish it in the decorations of
your hills, your temples, and your homes; declare it in fes-
tivities fit for the pure in heart. Such a soul-stirring welcome
makes our hearts leap with joy and our feet tread your ave-
nues as sacred ground.
Friends of Lynchburg, God bless you for this royal recep-
tion ; God give us abundant gratitude to appreciate it. The
splendid purple of imperial [ ower could not elevate our pride
to such a high degree as this recognition. Here is no glitter
of national eclat, no boasting of overpowering success, no
exultation over conquered provinces; but the halo of pure
goodness from that spiritual power which is balm for the
wounded and life for the dead.
Your ladies bear Hags with memories — flowers with per-
fumes to testify to your goodness and to touch our souls with
lendcrest praise that strikes deepest into our hearts and binds
our affections with chains stronger than iron or steel.
tribute to southern women.
Our Southorn ladies — how strong in tenderness ! how pow-
erful in goodness ! how sweet in voice ! how perfect in pleas-
antness ! how wonderful is the weight of their helpfulness to
men !
For eleven years the men of Jamestown struggled, once
deserted, often heartbroken to go, ever failed to establish the
first permanent English settlement in America until the widow
and the maidens came to cheer their hearts and uphold their
arms in the battles of the wilderness. Afterwards there was
nevermore a thought of desertion, and the hopes of a free land
embraced in the arms of the two greatest oceans of the world
never waned until puritanical fanaticism chafed the spirit of
cavalier into the combat between the sections of our Ameri-
can union.
When the fight was on and the legions of the South met
the world in arms our ladies fed hungry soldiers, nursed the
sick, wiped away the flowing blood of the wounded, rejoiced
with us in our victories, sympathized with us in our defeats,
prayed with the dying, and, when the surrender came, their
unconquerable spirit braved the storm until life came back to
murdered States. Our Southern women do not need the
magic name of Robert E. Lee nor of Stonewall Jackson, the
fame of Albert Sidney Johnston nor of Jefferson Davis, to
make their deeds of love and self-sacrifice shine before the
world — a leaderless army without uniform or rank — but with
all the graces of temperance, goodness, virtue, courage, charity.
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faith, and hope shone through the clouds of Appomattox as
a rainbow in its splendid colors of promise.
The new flowers which have sprung through the bloody
ashes of war to give indestructible States in an indestructible
Union have been trained and cultivated by the peerless nerve
of Southern women rather than the industrious l)ehavior of
the surrendered Confederate men. Their beautiful virtues
and graces have gilded our glorious memories through every
generation with unfading splendor. They are amongst the
women of the world as the roses are amongst the flowers of
our Southern homes. The comeliest and the strongest monu-
ment in the land must be dedicated to the Confederate women
of 1861-65, that the mothers and daughters of that war may
live forever in the memories of men.
ONE OF GEORGIA'S YOUNGEST SOLDIERS.
MATTHEW J. MDONALD.
Matthew J. McDonald, nicknamed in his regiment "Mol-
lie," enlisted in the summer of 1863 in Company I, First
Georgia Cavalry, at the age of fourteen years. He served
continuously with this regiment until January, 1865, when he
was captured at Robcrtsville, S. C, and was kept a prisoner
at Fort Delaware until about June, 1865. He went to Hous-
ton, Tex., in 1866, where he died of yellow fever October
I, 1867. The accompanying picture was taken in Texas a short
Another Youth Who Wore the Gray. — Dr. M. W.
^^^ Jewett, Commander of the Ivanhoe Camp,
^^^^ U. C. v., No. 1507, of Ivanhoe, Va., has
^^^ a fine record as one of the youngest Con-
^^^HK federate soldiers regularly enlisted. He en-
^^^^^^ tered the service of the Confederacy when he
^^^^^B was thirteen years old, enlisting as a private
v^^^^B in the Fifty-Ninth Virginia Infantry, and
^^^^^ served at Charleston, S. C, in Florida, and
finally at Petersburg, Va. In addition to
being Commander of his Camp, he is as-
sistant surgeon on the staff of Gen. James
Macgill, Commanding the Second Brigade
of the X'irginia Division, U. C. V.
MATTHEW J. M DONALD.
while before he died, at tlie age of eighteen years. While in
Texas he was in the drug business, and gave his life during
the fearful epidemic of 1867 to the care of the sick. His life
there during the epidemic was like his war record, full of
brave deeds and self-sacrifice. "Mollie" McDonald, of the
First Georgia Cavalry, was a loving, daring cavalier. His
surviving brothers are Mark and Luke McDonald, of Rome,
Ga., and John McDonald, of Aberdeen, Miss.
The Youngest on Record. — Comrade G. K. Crump, of
Tunica, Miss., writes: "I have seen several claims made as
to the youngest Confederate veteran, but I met recently one
who, at time of enlistment and amount cf actual service
rendered, surpasses any record I have yet seen. George S.
Lamkin was born at Wir.nni, Miss., November 3, 1850. He
joined Stanford's Mississippi Battery, at Grenada. Miss., on
August 2, 1861, and at "i-'ilioh, before he was twelve years
old, was badly wounded. At Chickamauga he was wounded
twice, once quite seriously. Mr. Lamkin was very tall
for his age when he entered the service, and is now a man
six feet and four inches tall. He lives at 88a Adams Street,
Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Lamkin is of a retiring disposition, and
was averse to my mentioning this matter, but I think it should
be known as a matter of history."
REUNION RATES TO JACKSON. TENN.
Joseph Richardson, Chairman Southeastern Passenger As-
sociation, announces excursion rates to Jackson, Tenn., and
return on the Frisco System. Illinois Central, Louisville and
Nashville, Mobile and Ohio, Nashville and Chattanooga, South-
ern, and Tennessee Central Raliroads. From all points in
State of Tennessee; one cent per mile, plus arbitraries, plus
twenty-five cents per capita for the round trip (minimum rate
fifty cents). The twenty-five cents in the rate to be retained
by the selling lines.
Tickets are restricted to continuous passage in each dircc
tion and will be sold October 11 and 12, with final limit Oc-
tober 14, 1904.
The following rates embraced in this tariff are: From Bris-
tol, $10.60; Chattanooga, $5.75; Columbia, $4.25; Cumberland
Gap, $9.25: Grand Junction, $1.20; Harriman Junction, $7.35;
Humboldt, 60 cents: Jellico, $9.20; Knoxville, $7.95; Martin,
$1.35; McKenzie, $1.10; Memphis, $1.95; Milan, 70 cents;
Nashville. $3.30: Paris, $l..t5; Rives. $1.40; Sonicrville, $1.10;
Union City, $1.50.
Confederate Families to Be United.— The engagement and
approaching marriage of Gen. James Macgill, of Pulaski, Va.,
and Miss Lucy Lee Hill, daughter of the famed Confederate
chieftain, Lieut. Gen. A. P. Hill, is announced. Miss Hill
was born in Richmond during the War between the States,
but for a number of years has been living in Chicago, where
she has been identified with a leading magazine. She
is a lady of rare literary attainments and is widely known in
social circles throughout the country. She is a favorite among
the old veterans, aside from her own channing personality, on
account of the glorious record of her famous father. Gen.
Macgill is a prominent planter in Pulaski County, and lives
the life of a country gentleman, residing in a palatial home.
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CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.
The report of the Executive CiMiiniittee of the Confederate
Memorial Association to the Board of Trustees of tlie Con-
federate Memorial Association, made at the Nashville re-
union, contains the following:
"We secured the amendments to our charter, which
were submitted to a meeting of the Board held in the city
of Washington February 19, 1904, and as amended it was
unanimously adopted. We have done everything in our
power to get a trial of the suit against our Association,
brought in New York City by the former Secretary and
Superintendent (J. C. Underwood), through his as-
signee, John W. Shaughnessy, but up to this time we have
not succeeded, owing to the very crowded condition of the
docket of the United States Court in Brooklyn, in which
the suit was brought and is pending. The chairman and
other members of our committee have made several trips
to New York to try to push this matter to successful con-
clusion. We have been exceedingly anxious to fix the date
for laying the corner stone of our 'Battle Abbey,' and to
push the building to completion, but have felt we ought to
wait on the $40,000 balance of the Rouss donation, which
is hung up by the injunction gotten out by Underwood. Our
Treasurer now has in his hands $105,871.32 in the Virginia
Trust Company, and the note of the city of Richmond for
$50,000, which can be at once converted into cash. The
Secretary and Superintendent has reliable subscriptions for
$10,000, which can be collected on call, and other subscrip-
tions on which he hopes to realize. So that as soon as we
can get the $40,000 balance from the Rouss estate, which
counsel are confident we will do whenever they can get a
trial of the Underwood suit, we will have in hand over the
$200,000 necessary tn push the great enterprise to a happy
conclusion. . . . We again very earnestly urge our friends
everywhere to make contributions, large or small, to this
great enterprise, which should command the practical sym-
pathy of all true Confederates, and of all who wish to see
the Confederate cause, and its adherents, vindicated at the
bar of history. By order of the Executive Committee.
"RoBT. White. Chairman."
The Secretary and Superintendent. Dr. J. Wm. Jones,
has been doing a great deal of "educational work" during
the year — sending out thousands of circulars and personal
letters, lecturing and speaking in important centers — and
though he has been enabled to turn into the treasury only
$1,442.41 in cash, he has secured a number of reliable sub-
scriptions, and many promises of future help upon which
he confidently expects to realize.
It has been a specially unfavorable year for the collection
of funds for our object, because there have been so many
other similar objects, general and local, which have been
pushed for contributions.
The Davis mojiument fund, now happily nearly complete:
the monument to J. E. B. Stuart, the Forrest monument, the
monument to Wade Hampton, the Beauvoir Soldiers' Home,
the Kentucky and the Missouri Soldiers' Homes, the Stone-
wall Jackson Memorial Hospital, the Home for Needy Con-
federate Women, the monument to our late beloved Com-
mander, General John B. Gordon, and many other local
monuments — all most worthy objects — have appealed so
strongly to our people that it has been hard to get a hear-
ing for this enterprise.
\\'e ought bv all means to add largely to the fund we have
10**
secured for the following reasons: We have, by the terms
of the gift of Comrade Rouss. to set aside $100,000 as a per-
manent endowment, the annuity on which will maintain and
perpetuate our great memorial after we have passed away.
We will need funds to establish a complete library of Amer-
ican history, and to collect pamphlets, manuscripts, etc.,
by which we can give all inquirers the truth concerning our
glorious history. We shall need funds for the portrait gal-
lery and "Hall of Fame.'' in which shall be gathered the
portraits and statues of our leaders, of the heroes of the rank
and file, and of noble women who did so much to help on
our great struggle for constitutional freedom.
We earnestly appeal for help in one of the following ways:
Cannot our friends in the several States raise, by private
subscription or State appropriation, the funds with which
to place a statue of their own selection in our "Hall of
Fame?"
The statues of the patriot heroes of 1861-65 "'ay be denied
places in the "Hall of Fame" in Washington; but we can
put them in our "Battle Abbey," in the old capital of the
Southern Confederacy.
Let Camps of Veterans and Sons. Chapters of the Daugh-
ters, and Memorial Associations make us donations; let in-
dividuals make contributions, large or small, as they may
be able. Send the names and addresses of parties able, and
probably willing, to help to the Secretary. Arrange for the
Secretary to deliver lectures for he benefit of this fund, di-
viding proceeds with some local object when desired. We
cordially congratulate our friends generally that we are at
last within reach of the beautiful Memorial which was
founded by our lamented comrade, Charles B. Rouss, and
we confidently appeal to them to help us make it worthy of
our Confederate Cause, our leaders, our self-sacrificing pri-
vate soldiers, our devoted women, and our Confederate peo-
ple generally.
We have erected monuments to individuals, and to classes
of our heroes; let us make this a monument to them all, as
well as a great library and depository, from whence the
future historian may draw material with which to tell the
true story of our great struggle for constitutional freedom.
."MI checks should be made payable to the order of George
L. Christian. Treasurer C. M. A., and sent to J. Wm. Jones,
Secretary and Superintendent. Richmond. Va.
It is proper to add that every dollar now contributed to
this fund goes into the treasury without the deduction of a
cent for salaries, commissions, or expenses of any kind
whatever, these being met out of the interest en our invested
funds.
With thanks for the kind consideration so generally shown
your Board in the past, we go forth to the future with hope
and confidence.
By order of the Board. Clement A. Evans, President.
TO UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
Mrs. O. A. Carr, President of the Carr-Burdette College,
Sherman, Tex., Chairman Progranune Committee, writes :
"Mrs. J. C. Lea, of Dallas, Tex., the 'Ranch Queen of
Texas.' assisted by prominent ladies of the great Lone Star
State, will entertain the Daughters of the Confederacy at the
World's Fair. St. Louis, in the Texas Building. October 7,
1904, from 3 to 5 P.M.
"The United Daughters of the Confederacy are cordially
invited to be present at the reception given in their honor.
It will be characteristically and ideally Southern."
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PARTICULARS OF GCV. JOHN ADAMS'S DEATH.
BY CAPT. THOMAS GIBSON, NASHVILLE.
In your issues of July and August menlion is made of the
death of Gen. John Adams in a way that, to the casual reader
or one not familiar with the facts, is calculated to rob that
gallant soldier of a part of the glory he won on the bloody
field of Franklin at the cost of his life. Both the notices I
refer to are taken from the last book (he wrote two) of Maj.
Gen. J. D. Co.x, U. S. A., on the battle of Franklin. It says :
"In one of the lulls between these attacks, when the smoke
was so thick one could see only a very little way in front,
the officers of my line discovered a mounted officer in front
forming for another attack. Shots were fired, and horse and
rider fell. The horse struggled to his feet, dashed for tlie
breastworks, leaped upon them, and fell dead astride of
them. The wounded officer was Gen. John Adams. He was
brought in, and soon died."
The inference is that Gen. .\dams was killed some distance
out in front, and that his wounded horse struggled to his
feet, dashed for the breastworks, and fell dead across them.
.\ny one writing history should be careful to gather facts.
Now, the true and correct statement of Gen. Adams's death
is embodied in Gen. Cox's report, made directly after the battle
and published in Volume XLV., Part I., page 352, "Official
Records War of the Rebellion," in which he says : "On reach-
ing the osage orange hedge in front of Stiles's left, they first
endeavored to force their way through it. The tough and
thorny shrub foiled them, and they attempted to file around
the hedge by flank and under a terribly withering fire from
Stiles's and Casement's Brigades and the batteries on the
flank. In front of Stiles's right and Casement's left, the ob-
structions being fewer, the enemy advanced rapidly and in
fine order up to the breastworks and made desperate efforts
to carry them. Their officers showed the most heroic example
and self-sacrifice, riding up to our lines in advance of their
men, cheering them on. One general officer (Adams) was
shot down upon the parapet itself, liis horse falling dead
across the breastworks," etc.
In his first book on the battle of Franklin, written a few
years after the war, in mentioning the incident. Gen. Co.\ is
evidently guided by his official report, for he says : "Against
Casement's line, Walthall's and Loring's Divisions made the
assault. . . . Gen. John Adams led his brigade, riding
straight at the ditch, leaping it and mounting the parapet,
where his horse was killed astride of it."
Gen. Casement, U. S. A., above mentioned, wrote to Mrs.
Gen. Adams in 1891, saying: "It was iny fortune to stand in
our line within a foot of where (icn. .'\dams succeeded in
getting his horse's forelegs over our line, and the poor beast
died there. . . . There was not a man in my command
who witnessed this gallant ride that did not express his
admiration of the rider and wish that he might have lived to
wear the honors he so gallantly won."
Col. Edwin A. Baker, U. S. A., of Gen. Casement's Bri-
gade, and who received and cared for Gen. Adams on tlie
field, wrote to Mrs. Adams in 1891, and in speaking of the
incident of Gen. Adams's death said : "By this time they were
within a few paces and received a terrific volley from our
guns. They fell by thousands, and their decimated ranks fell
back only to re-form and come back again. I doubt if in the
history of the world a single instance of sucli desperate and
undaunted valor can be produced. In one of these charges,
more desperate than any that followed. Gen. Adams rode up
to our works and, clieering liis nu-n. made an attempt to leap
his horse over them. The horse fell dead on top of the works,
and the General, pierced with bullets, was caught under him.
As soon as the charge was repulsed our men spranj^ upon the
works and lifted the horse, while others dragged the General
from under him. He was perfectly conscious, realized his
condition, and asked for water. One of the men gave him
his canteen and another brought some cotton from an old gin-
house near by and made him a pillow. The General gallantly
thanked the men for their attention and, in answer to our
expressions of sorrow for his sad condition, said quietly, 'It
is the fate of a soldier to die for his country.' and expired."
Thus it is shown from Maj. Gen. Cox's official report, from
his first book (written when the circumstances were fresh in
his mind), from the testimony of Gen. Casement (whose forces
opposed Gen. Adams), from Col. Baker, U. S. A. (who cared
for the dying hero), all of whom witnessed the incident, that
Gen. Adams and his horse were both killed on top of the
enemy's breastworks and that Gen. Adams did not "fall"
out in front, not even "a very little way," as intimated in
the extracts taken from Gen. Co.x's last book, written thirty
years after the occurrence.
There is only one way I can account for Gen. Cox's state-
ment that "horse and rider fell" when his men fired. Old
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GEN. JOHN ADAMS.
Cliarley, Gen. .Vdams's war horse, had that peculiar habit,
noticed in a number of prominent officers' horses during the
war, of sometimes squatting close to the ground when under
lire. 1 was adjutant general on Gen. Adam's staff, and have
seen the horse do this many times. It might have been that
Gen. Cox's informant saw him do it as Gen. Adams was
aligning his men for the last desperate charge that old Charley
and his heroic rider were ever to lead, and assumed that both
horse and rider had fallen.
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In a very interesting letter of historical value, written by
•Col. W. D. Gale, A.A.G.. on Lieut. Gen. A. P. Stewart's
staff, dated January 14, 1865, to Mrs. Gale (see Veter.\n for
January, 1894), he states: "I rode over the field early in the
day before the details which I ordered had begun to bury
the dead. It was awful ! The ditch at the enemy's line, on
the right and left of the pike, was literally filled with dead
I bodies lying across each other in all unseemly deformity of
\ violent death. Gen. Adams rode his horse u/^on the breast-
I works, and both horse and rider fell there." Note that Gen.
Adams belonged to Gen. Stewart's Corps, hence the value of
Col. Gale's testimony fresh from the battlefield.
■CRUSHING M'COOK'S CORPS AT CUICKAMAVCA.
Col. Smith I). Atkins, Commander of the Ninety-Second
Illinois Regiment of Mounted Infantry, and who made a des-
perate but ineffectual attempt to check our troops as they
poured through the gap made the first day in the Federal
lines by the giving way of King's Brigade, gives an interesting
account of how we crushed McCook's Corps, of Gen. Thomas's
anny. Quoting from the history of the Ninety-Second Il-
linois, he says (after being repulsed in their effort to check
our line) : "The regiment sought the left flank of the enemy
that had repulsed it, passed around it, and found Wilder's
(Federal) Brigade in the rear, wliere they formed and re-
mained in line of battle all night, while the rest of the brigade
was drawn back and formed on the right of McCook's Corps.
Shortly after sunrise the next morning a heavy column of
Rebel troops was observed passing around the left flank of
the Ninety-Second, making no noise, unaccompanied by any
mounted officer, and frequently baiting as their light skirmish
line in front would halt. Information was at once sent to
McCook advising him of this movement, but he irritably de-
nied the truthfulness of the information. Little by little, and
as silent as darkness, the gray-coated columns crept steadily
around toward McCook's left. Lieut. Col. Sheets, of the
Ninety-Second, was himself sent to inform McCook of the
threatening danger, and was most discourteously received by
McCook. So the Ninety-Second could only stand and await de-
velopments. They could have made no impression by charging
on that dense mass (we understood it was Longstreet's Corps),
and they could not have done so without positive disobedience
of orders in leaving the position assigned them. Hours
passed, and then, with a yell and irresistible force, that quiet,
heavy cohmin of Rebels sprang upon McCook's left, and in
less than ten minutes it was irretrievably lost; and in a short
time that amazed general, who had been twice warned of his
danger, looked on helplessly and saw his corps broken into
fragments and floating off from the battlefield in detachments
and squads like llecks of foam on a stream. The Ninety-
Second fell back and joined Wilder's Brigade, that w'as on the
right of McCook's Corps. Wilder could see from the hills
that McCook had occupied the heavy columns of the Rebels,
and conceived the bold idea of charging through them, taking
them in flank, and joining Gen. Thomas on the left. He had
five regiments and a sjilendid battery, and, excepting three or
four of his companies, all of his men were armed w'ith Spencer
repeating rifles. His idea was to form two regiments in the
front line of battle with opening in center for his battery,
with a regiment on each flank in column, and with the Ninety-
Second in line of battle in rear of the battery. Wilder was
just the man to conceive and lead such a desperate charge.
The Ninety-Second was just moving into the position as-
signed it in the charging column when Charles A. Dana, As-
sistant Secretary of War, rode up to W'ilder, ordered him not
to make the attempt, and to withdraw his command to Chat-
tanooga. Wilder gathered up the artillery McCook's com-
mand had abandoned, about a hundred ambulances of his
wounded soldiers, and sullenly retreated, followed by For-
rest's Cavalry, going into bivouac after dark about five miles
south of Chattanooga in the shadows of Lookout ]\Iountain."
WALTHALL'S BRIGADE AT CHICKAMAUGA.
BY CAI'T. J. D. SMtTH. HOUSTON. MISS.
About the 12th of September Walthall's Brigade, consisting
of the Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Ninth,
Thirtieth, and Thirty-Fourth Mississippi Regiments, moved
to Lafayette. Ga., where we remained one day. On the 14th
Hill's Division, to which we w'ere attached for the purpose,
made an effort to capture a large force of the enemy who had
incautiously exposed themselves. They, however, were ap-
prised of our movement, and by a rapid movement escaped.
Late in the evening of the 17th we made an attempt to
capture Alexander's bridge, which spanned Chickamauga
Creek. It was defended on the north side of the creek by
Wilder's Brigade, concealed in one of the most impenetrable
thickets I ever saw, while we were in open ground. The
planks of the bridge had been removed, and, it being impossible
to cross, we moved down the creek a short distance, and about
sundown waded the stream, the enemy in the meantime having
retreated. We moved forward something over a mile and
bivouacked for the night.
The next morning (the i8lh) at daylight we were formed in
line of battle, awaiting orders to bring on the attack. Our
position was on the extreme right of our line, our right flank
being protected by Forrest's Cavalry. About sunrise Hood's
Division, of Longstreet's Corps, passed our line, moving to
the left wing of the army.
We were soon ordered forward to engage the enemy, who
gave us a very galling fire of musketry and artillery. We re-
turned their fire, raised the Confederate yell, charged, and
drove them from their position. Ector's and Liddell's Bri-
gades, successively, had already made an effort to dislodge
them, but had failed. Gen. Walthall then went to Gen. Polk
and asked him to let him charge them with his brigade, and,
after some hesitancy, he consented. Walthall assembled his
regimental commanders and told them to withhold their fire
until they reached the works, saying that the other two bri-
gades had lost their advantage by stopping to fight. He or-
dered us to go at a double-quick to a slight depression of
ground between the enemies' line and ours, and there drop
down and rest until he gave orders to charge. At his com-
mand we were to rise and rush, without firing, with all speed
to the works. The scheme worked like a charm, and the
enemy were swept away by the rapid onslaught. We captured
a whole park of artillery, consisting of seventeen splendid
cannon, although it was supported by Gen. Baird's Brigade of
LTnited States Regulars. Another authority states that it was
Van Cleave's Division. This was a grand charge, and it
made Walthall a major general, but it cost us the lives of
many of our bravest men.
.'\bout sundown Cleburne's Division, which had been in re-
serve, came to our relief, and in another grand charge they
drove the enemy still farther to the rear. The writer was
senior captain of the Twenty-Fourth Mississippi, and entered
the battle acting as major, but before the fight was over the
other field officers were wounded, and he had command of the
regiment.
On the next day (Sunday) it was nearly ten o'clock before
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a gun was fired, although it was understood that the battle
was to begin at daylight. Breckinridge brought on the at-
tack, and, being hard pressed, our brigade was hurried to his
support. We soon checked the enemy's advance, and finally
drove him rapidly to the rear.
Late in the evening Granger's Division of fresh troops
(Federal) made a gallant charge upon our line which we suc-
ceeded in checking, though their cannonading was very se-
vere. We were now far to the front, when all at once we
noticed that some sort of a stampede had struck the Federals,
and they were making a wild, uncontrollable rush for Chat-
tanooga. As our brigade was somewhat along their route,
they plunged right through our line in their wild race for
safety. Horsemen, footmen, wagons, caissons, cannon — all
rushed by us, over and about us, and we were powerless to
check their thoroughly terrified men.
This occurred about nightfall. Ne.xt morning Gen. Walthall
ordered me to take my regiment and go to the front and "hunt
for Yankees." I deployed skirmishers, and after advancing
about a mile I came across an immense hospital belonging to
the Fourteenth Army Corps. I informed the surgeon in charge
that he was within our lines and asked him where was his
army. He replied: "In Chattanooga."
Thus in brief I have given the part that Walthall's Brigade
played in the great and bloody battle of Chickamauga.
LUMSDEN'S BATTERY AT BATTLE OF NASHVILLE.
BY JAMES R. MAXWELL, TUSCALOOSA, ALA.
Capt. Charles L. Lumsden was a graduate of the Virginia
Military Institute, and at the outbreak of the war was mili-
tary instructor of the corps of cadets at the University of
Alabama. Under authority of the Confederate War Depart-
ment he organized a battery of light artillery, all the officers
and men volunteering from Tuscaloosa County, Ala., and
served throughout the war. But it is only of the part this
battery played at the battle of Nashville that I write ; and be
it understood that the writer was only a sergeant who, during
most of the fight, was handling the trail of the fourth gun of
the battery, aiming it at the enemy, while the cannoneers were
doing their part loading and firing.
Gen. Hood's line extended from about the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad on the right to a little beyond the
Hillsboro Pike on the left, about three and a half miles from
Nashville. From the left of Hood's line to the Cumberland
River, below Nashville, there were several miles of farming
country crossed by the Harding and Charlotte Pikes, which
were picketed by Gen. Chalmers's Cavalry, of about one thou-
sand men, and Ector's Skeleton Brigade, seven or eight hun-
dred strong. Gen. Hood had ordered five redoubts to be built
to protect his left; three of them at the end just in rear of
his intrenched line and the other two about a mile in rear
of his extreme left, the troops occupying these latter two
being ordered to "hold them at all hazards." These two re-
doubts were numbered four and five.
About December 9 Lumsden's Battery was ordered to oc-
cupy Redoubt No. 4. The battery consisted of four twelve-
pound smoothbore Napoleon guns that at six or eight hun-
dred yards could be used with fair accuracy. Arriving at
0"r position, we found that a slight trench, indicating the posi-
tion of the guns and with a shallow ditch on either side for
the infantry that were to support us, was all the fortifications
that had been made. The weather was extremely cold from
the 9th to the 14th : snow, sleet, and ice, with the ground
frozen every morning. With a few old picks, shovels, and
axes we succeeded in getting up breastworks in our immediate
front, perhaps some seven feet h i;h, with embrasures for the
guns. All the horses, except c.ic or two for courier work,
were sent to the rear in charge of Lieut. Caldwell and the
drivers, and we were then "ready for action."
There were present for duty Capt. Lumsden, Lieuts. E. H.
Hargrove and A. C. Hargrove, Orderly Sergeant Mack Shiv-
ers, Sergeants James Jones, John Little, James Cardwell, and
J. R. Maxwell in charge of the first, second, third, and
fourth pieces, respectively, with a complement of one gunner
and nine cannoneers to each piece, making a total of forty-
eight men, rank and file. One hundred infantry, under Capt.
John A. Foster, of the Twenty-Ninth Alabama, was our sup-
port, and were in the ditches on each side of the battery.
These ditches were about two feet deep.
The sleet and snow had melted by the morning of the 15th
and a heavy fog concealed everything. Scattering shots and
an occasional wounded man coming from the front told us
that the enemy was on the move around Hood's left flank.
Gen. Thomas, in command of the Federal army, moved out
from his right with the Fifth Division of his Cavalry Corps,
Gen. Hatch commanding, with two brigades of four regi-
ments each, supported by Knipe's Division of Cavalry in re-
serve, while A. J. Smith's Corps was the right wing of his
infantry.
Gen. Chalmers's one thousand Confederate cavalry was first
struck on Richland Creek by Hatch, who had dismounted six
of his eight regiments, and driven back rapidly. Smith's In-
fantry Corps, pivoting opposite Hood's left, made a left wheel
with a thick cloud of skirmishers in front, driving back Ector's
Skeleton Brigade, which had been extended until they were
nothing more than a thin skirmish line. It was about 11 a.m.
when Ector's men passed us in retreat, going on both sides
of our battery, leaving the bushy hollow in our front and to
our right front full of Federal sharpshooters. Capt. Lumsden
called to the officer to rally his men and help us hold our
position, stating that we were ordered to hold it at all hazards.
"It can't be done, sir ; there is a whole army in your front,"
was the reply, and away they went. About this time our
MISS PATTIE KICGINS, LAKELAND, FLA.,
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part of Ihe game opened. Three eight-gun batteries took posi-
tion on a ridge about six hundred yards from us and opened
fire on our battery. "Cannoneers, to your posts! Load shell
si.\ hundred yards ! Battery, ready ! Fire !" were Capt.
Lumsden's orders, and at it we went with four smoothbore
guns behind the slight breastworks mentioned against twenty-
four rifled pieces.
Corporal Ed King, of my gun, soon got the range, but was
wounded by a splinter, and I was ordered to "take the trail."
This suited me, for I had been gunner during the whole year's
work, from Dalton to Atlanta, and was glad to get back in my
old place again. The dirt, chunks, and stones were knocked in
showers about us by the twenty-four guns of the enemy. For
two hours we kept up the fight with that Yankee battery.
Twice Capt. Lumsden had sent word back to Gen. Stewart
telling him the situation: that a charge would sweep us off
at any moment. The only reply was, "Hold them back as
long as you can." It was about one o'clock when suddenly,
and square off to our left about five hundred yards, another
Federal four-gun battery opened on us, completely enfilading
our position. My gun, being our left piece, was ordered to
open on it, and the ne.xt gun to me was withdrawn sufficiently
from the embrasure to give it range across the rear of my
piece, and with solid shot we began to pound them. It was
not long before we drove them off and again turned our atten-
tion to those in front. In whirling my gun back I broke off
the rear pointing ring on the trail, but quickly looping it with
a trace I soon had her "barking" again through the embrasure.
Just then Private Horton, No. 3 of my gun, went down,
with a shot in his groin ; he was carried to the rear, and that
night we buried the poor fellow near the Franklin Pike.
Helm Rosser, a lad of seventeen, the youngest of three
brothers that belonged to Ihe battery, had his head shot off by
a shell, scattering his brains in the face of Capt. Lumsden.
Shortly after this the captain slionted: "Look out, men! give
them canister!" They had. unobserved, worked around our
left under the hill and were making a rush on us. One more
discharge through the embrasure and one to my left were all
I had time for before they were on us. I ran to my right,
and as I did so the piece next to me was whirled to the left
and pointed toward the Yankees, swarming a few feet away
from my gun. "Look out, Jim," shouted the gunner, and I
fell directly under the muzzle, the discharge passing over me.
The gun was loaded again with a double charge of canister,
and Capt. Lumsden ordered, "Fire!" but the primer would not
work, and, as the Yankees were almost in arm's reach of us,
the captain told us to look out for ourselves. One of the men
had another charge of canister in his hand when this order
was given, and he threw it into the muzzle of the gun as he
turned to run. I learned afterwards that when the Yan-
kees turned it on us it exploded. I had gone about fifty yards
down the hill on the jump when I ran over an Enfield rifle
that was cocked, the glitter of the cap catching my eye. I
snatched it up, turned, and fired at a fellow standing on one
of our guns whirling his cap over his head, but did not tarry
to see what damage I did. Obliquing to my left, I soon struck
the pike and caught up with our infantry, forming behind a
stone wall. One of them called to me as I came up : "Say,
partner, it was prcttty hot over on that hill, wasn't it? You
fellows certainly held them back longer than we expected."
After resting awhile, I went to a red brick house, where I
found Capt. Lumsden reporting to Gen. Stewart and com-
plaining about being sacrificed. I heard Gen. Stewart say :
"Look at the situation, captain; you can see it could not have
been helped, hut you and your men did all that men could
do." That night I was pouring water from a canteen for
Capt. Lumsden to bathe his face and hands. I noticed that
he would pick something from his beard, and I asked what it
was. "That is poor Rosser's brains. Maxwell," he replied.
I learned afterwards that six of our infantry support were
killed by one shell, and that an infantry lieutenant and two of
his men were killed while helping to handle the first section.
They had been forced to seek protection in our works, as
their trench became untenable during the terrific artillery duel
and there was nothing they could see to shoot at. But when
twelve regiments of Yankee infantry and four regiments of
their dismounted cavalry armed with Spencer rifles charged
that little squad there was nothing they could do but fire
and run, as they couldn't fly. Vision of a Yankee prison
added speed to my heels, and nothing but a Yankee bullet
could have caught me as I went down the hill.
The force lined up in our front about 11 a.m. consisted of
about fourteen thousand, according to Federal official reports.
It was McArthur's Division, of A. J. Smith's Corps, composed
of Cogswell's eight-gun battery. Second Iowa eight-gun bat-
tery, and Second Missouri eighteen three-inch rifle guns.
The two latter report to have fired one thousand rounds
each, and it is presumed Cogswell did the same. Supporting
these guns were two lines of battle, twenty paces apart, made
up of twelve regiments of infantry. In addition to these,
about I P.M. Hatch came up with his two brigades of dis-
mounted cavalry and a four-gun battery — amounting in all
to 12,457 men and 732 officers, infantry, artillery, and cavalry
ithat were stopped for three hours by Lumsden's little four-
gun battery manned by forty-eight officers and men, for our
supports could do nothing to assist us. The truth is, that
if the Yankee skirmishers had followed up Ector's skirmishers,
who passed us about II a.m., we would liave been forced to
surrender at once and almost without firing a shot. As it
was, they spent three hours on us and over three thousand
shells, to say nothing of the damage we did them.
VIRGINIA MONUMENTS AND CEMETERIES.
The Committee on Monuments and Cemeteries appointed
by the Virginia Division, U. D. C, is diligent in its important
work. A circular letter to all Chapters of the Virginia Di-
vision United Daughters of the Confederacy, Memorial As-
sociations, and Confederate organizations states: "It is the
work of the ccmmittee to prepare a complete report of all
Confederate monuments and cemeteries in the State of Vir-
ginia. In compiling this report we ask the assistance of all
Virginia Chapters, U. D. C, Memorial Associations, and
Confederate organizations. Kindly correspond with Mrs. A.
C. Wyckoff, Chairman, Laurel, Md., representing the Seven-
teenth Virginia Regiment, giving full report of all Confederate
memorial work in your immediate vicinity. Of monuments
give location, exact date of erection, unveiling, approximate
cost, etc. Photographs of monuments are especially desired.
Of cemeteries give location, num'.ier of soldiers buried, graves
cared for, etc. We will gratefully receive any information
of intrinsic value and historical interest. Daughters of the
Confederacy, it is our privilege, our sacred duty, to place on
record the Confederate memorial work in Virginia.
Mrs. a. Cornelius Wyckoff. Chainiian,
Seventeenth Virginia Regiment Chapter.
The members of the committee other than Mrs. Wyckoff
are : Mrs. Bennett T. Gordon, John S. Mosby Chapter ; Miss
Lucy Neville Gold, Stonewall Chapter: Mrs. James Williams,
Shenandoah Chapter ; Mrs. Margaret L. Preston, Smythe
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County Chapter. This committee seeks volunteers for infor-
mation, especially in the counties of Stafford, King George,
Westmoreland. Northumberland, Lancaster, Middlesex, North-
ampton, Accomac, King and Queen.
LIEUT. GEN. W. J. HARDEE.
BV EX-COV. J.\S. D. PORTER. .VASHVILLE. TENN.
Under the title of "Echoes from the Reunion," in the July
Veteran, my old friend and comrade. Col. W. D. Pickett, of
the State of Wyoming, himself one of the strongest and most
distinguished soldiers in the Army of Tennessee, correctly
writes that "Southern public opinion" has never accorded the
recognition of the achievements of Lieut. Gen. Hardee, as they
so preeminently deserve. It cannot be explained, unless it
grows out of the fact that inferior soldiers now living are
so persistent and industrious in keeping themselves in the
public eye that many of the real heroes of the war are for-
gotten.
Animated by the suggestion of Col. Pickett's paper herein
mentioned. I have written the following brief tribute to one
of our foremost soldiers:
William J. Hardee, native of Georgia, educated at West
Point Military Academy, resigned from the army of the
United States in 1861, was at once commissioned a brigadier
general in the Confederate army, was on duty in Arkansas
until tlio a>immn nf that year, when, with the troops under his
accomplished soldier in the Army of Tennessee. He knew the
science of war in its every detail. He was familiar with the
duties of the general staff, and made it a constant study and
the subject of the most watchful care.
His opportunities had been great. He was for several years
commandant of cadets at the Military .\cademy ; he was the
author of the standard work on military tactics, and was a
great authority on that subject. He attended the Cavalry
School of Saunier, in France: he served in Florida and on
the plains ; he was with Taylor at Monterey, with Scott
from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico, and was always com-
mended for gallantry and skill. At Bowling Green he was
the right arm of Albert Sidney Johnston, as he was subse-
quently of Joseph E. Johnston. He led the advance to Shiloh
Church and brought on the battle, and conducted his part of
it with consummate skill and won promotion.
Gen. Bragg was equally distinguished at Shiloh. Next to
Sidney Johnston he was the favorite of Jcflferson Davis over
all Confederate soldiers; but Hardee was the better soldier.
Bragg delivered battle with judgment and skill, but a slight
reverse caused him to lose his head. A reverse to Hardee
was an inspiration to renewed and greater action, and in an
effort to restore a broken line or to recover lost ground his
resources were without limit. From Shiloh to Bentonville no
field was lost through fault of his. One of these days, when
the Veteran has a surplus of space and I have more leisure,
I will recount to its readers the story of his campaigns. But
I will correct one misapprehension prevailing in the minds
of our comrades. It is believed by many of them that the
command of the army was offered to Hardee when Johnston
was relieved. The contrary is true. When Hood was ap-
pointed to it. Hardee complained at its injustice, and was
relieved from the conuuand of his corps at his own request.
Mr. Davis replied to him, by way of excuse: "When Bragg
was relieved at Dalton, you asked for the assignment of Joe
Joliiiston to the command of the army, when you were already
in conuuand as next in rank to Bragg." Hardee answered:
"Yes, but the officers and men, without exception, desired that
Johnston should command them, and I would not permit my
own ambition to come between theijt and their wishes." The
Army of Tennessee had long been dissatisfied with Gen.
Bragg, and Gen. Hardee believed that it was wise to put an
acceptable man at the liead of it. As a lieutenant general he
belongs to the same class with Stonewall Jackson, and yet
at the late Confederate reunion no public mention was made
of his name.
.N'Hshvillf, Tenn., Auf^ust 2y, l<;o^.
LIEUT. GEN. W. J. HAKUEE.
command, he joined Gen. A. S. Johnston at Bowling Green,
Ky., and was thereafter identified with the Army of Tennessee
until after the battle of Jonesboro, Ga., in 1864.
Gen. Hardee was promoted to major general, and was made
lieutenant general for conspicuous conduct at Shiloh.
In the judgment of the writer. Gen. Hardee was the iriost
,V CiiivAi.Rors Act of a Federal Officer. — At the battle of
I^lissionary Ridge W. H. Surlcs, an officer in the Second Ohio
Infantry, captured Lieut. A. M. Wing, of the Thirty-Second
•Maliama Infantry, and took possession of his sword. Mr.
Surles has long desired to return this sword, but could not lo-
cate the original owner until recently, when, through the un-
tiring efforts of Mr. Archie Scaright, a inember of the Sons
nf Veterans, G. .\. R., Lieut. Wing was located and the sword
returned, l.ieul. Wing lives at Jack.son, Ala., and is a mem-
ber of Camp Calhoun. U. C. \'. His name is embossed on
the blade, and when it was returned his Camp passed the fol-
lowing resolution, a copy of which was sent to Officer Surles:
"We hereby tender to Officer W. H. Surles our appreciation
of tlie spirit that moved him to perf<jrm this generous act;
that it indicates that spirit of reconciliation and soldierly gal-
lantry which are greatly commended and reciprocated. We
wish and pray for him a long, happy, and useful life."
(Confederate l/eterai).
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GEN. GEORGE H. THOMAS.
BY MISS KATE MASON ROWLAND. RICHMOND.
There is an article in the June Veteran, headed "Regard
of Gen. George H. Thomas for the South,'' by Maj. A. \V.
Wills, a Union officer. To a Confederate, and a Virginian,
it sounds like irony to speak of a Northern invader's "re-
gard" for the South: for a Northern general Maj. George
H. Thomas became in 1861, though he had been a Virginian.
The writer of these reminiscences says: "Gen. Lee thought
his first allegiance was to his native State: while Gen. Thom-
as thought differently, believed he owed his allegiance first
to his country (?), and remained loyal to the Union. The fol-
lowing letter of Gen. Thomas shows conclusively that he
thought his allegiance was to his native State, which was of
course his "country;" and that it would be dishonorable to
remain in the service of the United States: that to be loyal
to 'the "Union" of the Northern States when Virginia was in
a "Union" of Southern States, and to draw his sword against
her and his home and kindred would be an act alike "reinil-
sivc to honor and humanity."
I give you a copy of Gen. Thomas's letter — the original
is on file in the archives of the Virginia State Library— that
your readers may see how Gen. Thomas stood on this ques-
tion :
"New York IIhtei,. Maroli u. 1861.
** His Excellency, Gov. Ji hn Lelcher, Ricliiii lui, V. .
"Dear Sir: I received yesterday a letter from Maj. Gilham.
of the Virginia Military Institute, dated the — ^th inst.. in
reference to the position of Chief of Ordnance of the State,
in which he informs me that you had requested him to 'ask
ine if I would resign from the service, and if so, wlicther that
post would be acceptable to me.' As he requested me to
make my reply to you direct. I have the honor to state, after
expressing my most sincere thanks for your kind offer, that
it is not my ■:cisli to lc(fvc the service of the United States as
long as il is Jtonorohle for me to remain in it; and. therefore,
as long as my natii'e Slate. I'irgiiiia. remains in tlie Lnion.
it is my l^url^i'se to remain in the army unless required to /Per-
form dutes aiihe refulsire to honor and humanity.
"I am, sir, very respectfully.
"Your obedient servant,
"George H. Thomas.
"Major U. S. Army."
What was it that caused Maj. Thomas to change his views
so quickly as to what was so "repulsive to honor and hu-
manity?"
The other letter is dated August 5, 1904. and was addressed
to Rev. E. H. Byrons :
"My Dear Sir and Brother: 1 have your recent letter, and.
to be frank with you, I will tell you that, whether you intend-
ed it or not, you have placed me in a false light before my
own federation of U. C. V., and tlie entire country, witli ref-
erence to my position and attitude toward the preliminary
meeting of the Blue and Gray at St. Louis, looking to the
reunion of the two great organizations of the G. A. R, and
U. C. V. in Washington next year. I reminded you that you
have written me so many letters, all of which I have in my
possession, and I say that there is not a line in these letters
which authorizes you to commit me by resolution, as you did
in the St. Louis meeting, as absolutely favoring the great
reunion of the Blue and Gray in Washington. I call your
attention to the last paragraph of my letter of January 21,
1904, in which, after giving my views, I distinctly say: 'I
therefore beg to be excused from the public expression of
opinion in this matter, at least until your work and plan
have been fully developed.' I call your attention also to
another one of your own letters, in which you say: "It is
settled that the Blue and the Gray are to have an informal
meeting at St. Louis, July 15, 1904. whether you [I] pat
ronize it or not.' I call your attention also to your letter
late to me. in which you say: 'I am in correspondence with
Gen. Black; both you and he are asked to appoint five men
each.' Gen. Black wrote a good letter for the Veterans —
that is, one that pleased them, and which he gave permission
to be read. Your views touching a social gathering of the
Veterans were mentioned:" nothing, however, was read or
said of any special message from you to the St. Louis meet-
ing. I took the liberty, after Gen. Black's letter was read,
to state that, in all my correspondence with you, you
were fully as much in sympathy wth all social gatherings of
the Blue and Gray as was Gen. Black, and I also read a
short letter where you had once spoken kindly of the soldiers
of both sides, but your name was not used in any 7i'ay as a
l^romoter of the St. Louis meeting.
"Now, my brother, you have taken my always conservative
letters and remarks, and made them appear as you did in
those resolutions as representing me 'in full accord with the
objects of this meeting' — viz., the St. Louis meeting. And in
doing this you have put me in a false attitude not only before
my own federation, but before the whole country. Gen.
Black and myself occupy two very responsible positions,
and politicians are constantly trying to influence sectional
feeling, and taking advantage of any misstep that may be
made by the L^nion and Confederate organizations. There
are many conditions surrounding our positions, and it be-
hooves us to go slowly, and not make any mistake. You
have no doubt noticed that in New Orleans, T.,ouisville. and
other places a race issue looms up even among the LTnion
N'cterans, and in any steps that the Grand Army of the Re-
public and the United Confederate Veterans may take with
reference to any reunion, they must be safely guarded. The-
oretically, if we could have the reunion you propose, it would
be a grand affair, but I have always felt that practically it
would bring out issues which would be unpleasant and do
great harm. As a minister of the gospel, you do not come
in contact with these abnormal conditions as those of us
who have had to meet them."
./ HOME FOR XEEDV C0XFEDER.4TE IfO.MEN.
On July I. at Richmond, Va., the Home for Needy Con-
federate Women was dedicated. This is the first "Home"'
of this kind that has yet been opened, although a similar
movement has been started in Texas. This matter should
have the attention of the Veterans, their sons, and daughters,
in every State in the South, for, as Gen. Lee says in a gen-
eral order approving the action at Richmond, "It is a just
and tardy tribute to the greatest body of human beings the
world has ever known, the women of the Confederacy."
No one questions the necessity of caring for our old and
needy veterans that they may pass their remaining days in
comfort and free from want. Equally great, if not greater,
is the necessity of caring for the old wives and mothers,
who in giving their husbands and sons to the Confederacy
gave their all, and even after these were lost continued with
tireless energy, unwavering faith, and sublime courage to
help the cause for which their loved ones died. Such women
or the^r daughters should never be allowed to suffer in a
country as prosperous as ours.
488
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LEE AND LONGSTREET AT GETTYSBURG.
Maj. J. Coleman Alderson writes from Charleston, W. Va. :
"Editor Veteran: I was first lieutenant commanding Com-
pany A, Thirty-Sixth Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, Jenkins's
Brigade, which led the advance of Lee's army into Pennsyl-
vania. Immediately after reaching Carlisle, June 28, Gen.
Jenkins sent me with orders from Gen. Lee to Gen. Early,
who was marching on York, Pa. I selected only five trusted
men from my company to accompany me. The whole country
was arming and in terrible excitement. We reached Early's
headquarters, a few miles south of York, about twelve o'clock
that night. After delivering Gen. Lee's orders, abbrevi-
ated notes of which I carefully made and which I have to-day,
I returned and learned that my command had moved on to
Harrisburg. Gen. Ewell assigned me temporarily to Gen.
Rodcs's staff.
"About ten o'clock on the morning of July i I rode up to
the top of Oak Hill, some distance north of Penn.sylvania Col-
lege, and saw that it commanded the whole Federal army.
I immediately reported this fact to Gen. Rodes in the pres-
ence of Gen. Ewell, and he ordered Col. Carter to occupy that
commanding position with hi? entire battalion as quick as pos-
sible. The batteries came up on a dead run just in time to save
Heth's Division, which had been driven back across Wil-
loughby's Run by the Second United States Army Corps, Gen.
Reynolds commanding. Reynolds soon fell mortally wounded,
where his magnificent statue now stands.
"About 4 :30 o'clock that afternoon I was sent to Gen. Lee
with some information. I found him standing alone on an
eminence in an open field, some distance to the right of Heth's
Division, with the bridle rein of Traveler thrown over his right
arm and looking anxiously through his field glasses at either
Gen. Gordon's or Rodes's command retiring from Cemetery
Ridge. While I remained standing within a few feet of him I
heard the clatter of horses' feet. I turned and saw Gen. Long-
street galloping up, with his long b'.ack beard floating over his
shoulders and an orderly following a few paces in his rear.
He dismounted, stepped to the front of Lee, and gave him the
regular military salute. Lee responded and instantly said ;
'General Longstreet, where is your command?' Both faced
about, and Longstreet, pointing, said: 'General, there comes
the head of my column where you see that dust rising.' It
was three or four miles in our rear. Gen. Lee replied quickly
with flushed cheek: 'I am sorry, sir, you were not up sooner,
as I had ordered you.' Longstreet replied: 'I hope, General,
I am not too late.' Lee said : 'If you had come up sooner, as
I expected you, I intended to send you in the rear of those
hills, and we would have captured those people [he always
called the Yankees "people"] this evening, but you are too
late, sir; I hope they will be there in the morning.' Long-
street insisted two or three times that he could have at least
two of his brigades up in time to go in the rear of the enemy,
or 'those hills;' but Lee repeated again: 'You are too late, sir,
to go on this evening.' It was then about 5 p.m. Lee ordered
him to bring his command up on his right and let it get some-
thing to eat and a good night's rest and, pointing to what
afterwards proved to be Little Round Top, said, 'I want you,
sir, to occupy that point at daylight in the morning,' evidently
not knowing its name at that time; but he well knew that it
commanded the whole ridge. Cemetery Ridge, three or four
miles around to Gulp's Hill. Longstreet then mounted his
horse and started back to his command ; but, when he had
ridden about fifty paces, he wheeled and came back, •saluted
Gen. Lee without dismounting, and asked: 'Where is Gen.
Stuart?' Lee replied earnestly, with uplifted hands: 'I have
not heard one word from Stuart since we crossed the Potomac
River. I have lost my eyes and ears' (meaning his cavalry).
I have given you almost verbatim every word which passed
between Lee and Longstreet on this occasion. They are in-
delibly engraved on my mind, and I remember them as dis-
tinctly as if they had been spoken yesterday.
"It is a well-established fact that Longstreet never at-
tempted to occupy Little Round Top till four o'clock on the
afternoon of July 2, when the enemy had taken possession
of it only a few minutes previously. Gen. Pendleton, Gen.
Lee's chief of artillery, in a public lecture, years after Lee's
death, announced that "Lee had ordered Longstreet to attack
at dawn on the second day of Gettysburg, July 2, and that
such attack would have been successful,' etc. On the night
of June 30 Longstreet had camped with his corps at Chambers-
burg, only twenty-five miles away. He could easily have
reached Gettysburg by two or three o'clock on the afternoon
of the 1st.
"On page 160 in Gordon's book he says in a footnote: '(i)
Gen. Lee distinctly ordered Longstreet to attack early the
morning of the second day ; . . . that Longstreet delayed
the attack until four o'clock in the afternoon, and thus lost
his opportunity of occupying Little Round Top, the key to the
position, which he might have done in the morning without
firing a shot or losing a man. (2) That Gen. Lee ordered
Longstreet to attack on the morning of the 3d at daybreak,
and that he did not attack until two or three o'clock in the
afternoon, the artillery opening at one o'clock. (3) That Gen.
Lee, according to the testimony of each one of his staff of-
ficers who were present when the order was given, ordered
Longstreet to make the attack on the last day with three di-
visions of his corps and two divisions of A. P. Hill's corps,
and that instead of doing so he sent fourteen thousand men
to assail Gen. Meade's army in his strong position and heavily
intrenched. (4) That the great mistake of the halt on the
first day would have been repaired on the second, and even
on the third day, if Lee's orders had been vigorously executed,
and that Gen. Lee died believing (the testimony on this point
is overwhelming) that he lost Gettysburg at last by Long-
street's disobedience of orders.'
"Longstreet, not Meade, defeated Lee at Gettysburg. Gen.
Grant, in his 'Memoirs,' admits that if Meade had lost his army
there it was doubtful whether the United States government
could have recruited another."
MIbb IRENE p. BOTT, MONTICELLO,
Sponsor for Florida Division, Nasliville Keimion.
Qopfederatc Ueterap.
489
THE CRUISE OF THE SHENANDOAH.
At a meeting of the survivors of the Confeaerate navy,
during the recent reunion in Nashville, a most interesting
paper prepared by Capt. W. C. Whittle, of the C. S. navy, was
read by Mr. Dabney M. Scales, who also served on the same
vessel as lieutenant with Capt. Whittle. The object of the
paper was to pay tribute to the courage and many manly
virtues of the late John Thompson Mason, of Baltimore,
who was passed midshipman on the Shenandoah, under
Captain Whittle.
John Thompson Mason was a son of Maj. Isaac S. Row-
l?.nd, a volunteer officer in the Mexican War, and Cathrine
Armstead Mason, of Loudoun County, Va. He was born in
1844. His father died when he was only five years old, and
his maternal grandfather, John Thompson Mason, of Vir-
ginia, having no son of his own and wishing to perpetuate
the distinguished name of Mason, requested that this child
should take the name, which was done by act of court.
Young Thompson's friends secured for him an appointment
to the United States Naval Academ>, but the war came up
before he entered, and he joined the Seventeenth Virginia
Regiment. Shortly after the battle of Manassas he was ap-
pointed midshipman in the Confederate Navy and sent to the
naval school ship Patrick Henry. He served at Drury
BlufT, and was then sent abroad for service on one of the
Confederate cruisers running the blockade at Charleston,
S. C. Young Mason went to Abbeville, a quiet town in
France, where he applied himself assiduously to the study of
MISS PAL'LINE SULLIVAN, OCALA,
Mail] of Honor for Florida Division, Nashville Reunion.
his profession and in gaining a thorough knowledge of the
French language, succeeding admirably in both.
About this time Capt. W. C. Whittle, a son of Commodore
Whittle and nephew of Bishop Whittle, of Virginia, met Ma-
son, who had passed his examination and secured his ap-
pointment as "passed midshipman" In October, 1S64,
he was assigned to a cruiser, gotten out from England
for the Confederate Navy, and with Commander Wad-
dell and other officers of the prospective cruiser, except
Lieut. Whittle, sailed from Liverpool on the consort steam-
er Laurel to meet their ship elsewhere. Capt. Whittle writes:
"I was assigned to the ship as her first lieutenant and
executive officer, and sailed from London on board of her
under her merchant name. Sea King;. The two vessels,
by preconcertion, met at the Madeira Islands and, leaving
there in company, sailed to Desertas Island, where the Sea
King was christened and commissioned the Confederate
States Cruiser Shenandoah, and the guns, ammunition,
and equipment were transferred from the consort Laurel
to the cruiser Shenandoah, which promptly started on
her memorable cruise. Her officers were Lieut. Commander
James I. Waddell, of North Carolina; W. C. Whittle, of Vir-
ginia, First Lieutenant and Executive Officer; Lieuts. John
Grimball, of South Carolina, S. S. Lee, Jr., Virginia; F. L.
Chew. Missouri; Dabney M. Scales, Mississippi; ,:,ailing Mas-
ter Irvine S. Bullock, of Georgia: Passed Midshipman Orris
A. Brown, Virginia; and John T. Mason, Virginia. Sur-
geon C. E. Lining, South Carolina; .Assistant Surgeon F. J.
McNulty, District of Columbia; Paymaster W. B. Smith,
Louisiana; Chief Engineer M. O'Brien Law, Louisiana;
Assistant Engineer Codd, Maryland; Hutchinson, Scot-
land ; MacGreflfery, Ireland ; Master Mates John Minor, Vir-
ginia, Cotton, Maryland. Hunt, Virginia; Boatswain Har-
wood. England; Gunner Guy, England; Carpenter O'Shea,
Ireland: Sailmaker Allcott, England.
Lender these officers and subordinates this gallant ship
made one of the most wonderful cruises on record. She was
a merchant ship which had not about her construction a
single equipment as a vessel of war. Her equipment — such
as guns, ammunition, breechings, carriages, etc. — were all
in boxes on her decks, and these gallant officers and a few
volunteer seamen from her crew and that of her consort
were to transform and equip her on the high seas, and in
all kinds of weather. None but the experienced can appre-
ciate what a Herculean task that was. But it was enthusi-
astically undertaken and accomplished, and none were more
conspicuous and untiring in his efforts to bring order out
of chaos than young Mason.
Our gallant little ship spread her broad canvas wings and
sailed around the world, using her auxiliary steam power
only in calm belts or in chase. We went around Cape of
Good Hope, thence through the Indian Ocean to Mel-
bourne, Australia, thence through the islands of Polynesia,
passing the Carolina, Gilbert, and other groups, on north-
ward through Kurile Islands into the Okhotsk Sea, until
stopped by the ice. We came out of the Okhotsk and went up
the coast of Kamchatka into Bering Sea, and through Bering
Strait into the .'\rctic Ocean, until the ice again prevented
115 from .going farther, so we turned, passed again through
the Aleutian Islands, into the Pacific Ocean. By this time
ue had absolutely destroyed or broken up the Federal whal-
ing fleets.
While sweeping down the Pacific coast, looking for more
prey, we chased and overhauled a vessel flying the British
490
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flag. On boarding her we found it was the British bark
Barracoula, bound from San Francisco to Liverpool.
This was August 2, 1865. From her captain we learned
the war had been over since the previous April. The -f-
fect of this crushing intelligence on us can better be imag-
ined than described. We found that much of our work
of destruction to the whaling fleet of the United States had
been done after the war closed, unwittingly of course, for
from the nature of their work the whalers had been away
from communication almost as long as we had, and were
equally as ignorant of results. We promptly declared our
mission of war over, disarmed our vessel, and shaped our
course for England with well-nigh broken hearts. Wc jour-
neyed around Cape Horn, and on November 6. 1865,
arrived at Liverpool and surrendered to the British gov-
ernment through their guard ship Donegal by hauling
down the last Confederate flag that ever floated in defiance
to the United States, after having circumnavigated the globe,
cruised in every ocean except the Antarctic, and made more
captures than any other Confederate cruiser except the fa-
mous Alabama.
After a full investigation of our conduct by the law offi-
cers of the crown, it was decided that we had done nothing
against the rules of war or the laws of nations or to justify
us in being held as prisoners, so we were unconditionally re-
leased by the nation to which we had surrendered. But the
authorities of the United States considered us pirates and
in their heated hatred at that time would have treated us as
such if we had fallen into their hands, so we had to find
homes elsewhere than in our native land. Four of us (S. S.
Lee, Orris A. Brown, John T. Mason, and myself) select-
ed the Argentine Republic, in South America, and sometime
in December, '65, sailed from Liverpool in a steamer for
Buenos Ayres, via Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and Montevideo.
After prospecting awhile, we went to Rosario. on Rio Pa-
rana, and near there bought a small place and began farm-
ing.
As the animosity of the Federal government began to sof-
ten toward us, Brown and Mason returned home, Lee and
myself coming sometime later.
On returning home Mason took a law course at the Uni-
versity of Virginia, graduated, and was brilliantly success-
ful at his profession. He settled in Baltimore, and married
Miss Helen Jackson, of New York, a daughter of the late
Lieut. Alonzo C. Jackson, of the U. S. navy. His wife, two
sons, and two daughters survive him."
THE EMPTY SADDLE.
BY MAIE WILLIAMS SPERRY.
(A riderless horse, bearing a saddle decorated wiih lloweis, was a feature of
the parade a1 the Niishville reunion, June, n^i'l, and a pathetic reminder of
that gallant soldier and hero, Sam Davis )
A strange new stillness fell amid the whirl
Of that vast throng : there Icgioncd soldiers stood,
While angels stooped and dipped their spotless wings
In crimson dye of our dead hero's blood.
Historic hills rose high and full of song;
The morning flung hor blandest, sweetest smile,
Like petals from a wild rose freshly blown.
To aureole his memory the while.
List to the measured tread, the nuiflled drum —
Was it but fancy born of 'wildcring day,
Or presence of a spirit that might speak,
There marching on in uniform of gray?
.•\ comrade led his flower-laden steed.
Saddle entwined with roses white and red.
Which seem and are a language of his life,
And silent tribute to his spirit fled.
Confused like hues of sunset were the wreaths;
The white and blue, commingled with the red,
Gleamed in the sunlight, striving thus to still
Our hearts bowed down 'neath blue so lightly spread.
Unconsciously the awed and mighty sea
Looked up to God, as Southland's plaintive air
From velvet flute note fell in harmony
That reached the sky to burn on record there.
The thoughtful boy, just blossoming to youth.
With cheeks as red as rain-washed roses are.
Asked meaning of the crape, the dangling bloom —
"Speak low : Sam Davis' soul has crossed the bar."
Strange fancies teemed that youth could not divine,
But vaguely guessed what deep hurts you and I
Held fettered in our patriotic breasts.
Grasping alone the shadows passing by.
The steed passed on, beyond all questioning —
As weight of some unalterable truth,
A pathos fell, too deep for mortal speech
Or understanding of our following youth.
All gathering years shall call Sam Davis forth,
In glory lie shall rise and live alway ;
The turf is soft and green, with deeds like stars
O'erspread, to mark where one more martyr lay.
What nameless knowledge broke through to his heart.
When he with quiet rapture firmly stood,
.\nd faced the enemy, calm and unmoved.
And sacrificed his last brave drop of blood !
God's purpose in his soul well shaped the act.
The lofty hope, blent in a crystal life.
Held boyhood's grace and manhood's strength divine.
Beyond the cruel touch of human strife.
It mattered not if in this flame of life
Not e'en a single mote or moth was caught.
He did not care for earth's dissolving fame;
'Twas justice that his soul of honor sought.
Ah, joy! that martyred soul is now at rest;
He struggled long enough all things to leaven,
And death has done all it can ever do —
It took his life to send it straight to heaven!
Let winging whispers stir the silent air,
Bid presence of his spirit burst the sod,
.And bloom in blessed stars as lily white
As sinless angels looking through from God.
Company H, Second Alabama Cavalry. — Comrade E. 11.
Robinson sends a roster of his company (H, Second .Alabama
Cavalry), showing ninety-one privates and thirteen commis-
sioned and noncommissioned officers. Col. R. G. Earle com-
manded the regiment, with John P. West as lieutenant colonel
and John W. Carpenter major. F. E. Richardson was cap-
tain of Company H, with John Marshall, E. K. Robbins. and
W. L. Minims lieutenants. The company was made up of
young men from Monroe and Conecuh Counties, Ala. Com-
rade Robinson says, in sending the roster: "I cannot give a
correct list of killed and wounded or those dying of wounds
and sickness, as I lost a leg and left after Rcsaca."
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CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT NEOSHO. MO.
During the War between the States, and beginning at the
lime the Missouri Legislature was in session at Neosho, one
hundred and thirty-
five Confederate sol-
diers were buried in
Neosho Cemetery.
Some had been killed
in battle; others died
of sickness. They
were unknown, with
no friendly hands to
care for their graves
for years. Finally a
few sympathetic
hearts were moved
in their behalf, and
by subscription this
shaft and figure of
granite were erected
to their memory, with
appropriate ceremo-
nies. The address of
tlie occasion was by
Hon. N. E. Benton,
Congressman for the
Fifteenth Missouri
District, following a
masterly account of
the causes leading to
the war in Missouri
by Judge \ allianl, ni St. Louis. Misses Carl Fleming and
Mary Lewis pulled tlic cords that brought to view the beauti-
ful monument, which was hailed by shouts of the multitude
assembled, amid the music of the band and firing of guns.
Dr. r^. C. Vates gave a history of the work in erecting this
monument. It is the pride of that community.
BETHEL MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.
.\t a celebration held June lo, 1904, at Big Bethel, York
County. Va., by the Confederate organizations of Eliz-
abeth City, ^'nrk. and Warwick Counties, and the city of
Newport News. Va., to commemorate the battle of Big
Bethel, which took place June 10. 1861, and which was the
first actual engagement of the Civil War and where fell the
first Confederate killed in battle, Charles E. Wyatt, of North
Carolina, the Bethel Monument Association was formed. Its
purpose is to erect a suitable monument on that battlefield.
.\t a subsciiueiU meeting of the Bethel Monument Asso-
ciation, a central committee composed of representatives of
the Confederate organizations — Veterans, Daughters, and
Sons — was formed for the purpose of raisin.g funds, select-
ing a design, etc., for the erection of an approi)riatc monu-
ment.
'l"he commiltee reports tliat it is already meeting with
the most gratifying encouragement and success.
.Ml contributions should be sent promptly to Mrs. R. S.
Iludgins, Treasurer. Hampton, Va. It is desired to have
this monument unveiled on June 10, 1905.
Mrs. R. S. Hudgins is chairman and E. A. Semple is secre-
tary of the committee.
.\ HisTrRv 01- Hf.nrv County (Tenn.) Command.—
Lieut. Edwin 11. Reynolds, of Company K, Fifth Ten-
nessee Infantry, organized in Henry County, Tenn., has
just published a history of all the commands that entered
the Confederate States army from that county.
The book, of 300 pages, printed in clear type, on e.xcel-
lent paper, and neatly bound in cloth, contains the names
of 2.500 soldiers, with a short military record of nearly
all of them, and is embellished with thirty half-tone por-
traits.
It is the only book in which can be found so complete
a record of the gallant and heroic soldiery of Henry Coun-
ty, the "Volunteer County" of the "Volunteer State." Only
a limited number is published, and those who order early will
be sure to secure a copy.
On receipt of the price. $2, the book will be sent by
mail postpaid, or by express or freight prepaid. .\11 orders
should be addressed to E. H. Reynolds, loi E. Seventh
Street. Jacksonville, Fla.
WELL-DESERVED TRIBUTE TO A COMRADE.
Comrade W. F. McClanahan. of Sabine Pass, Tex.,
writes: "I have intended for some time to send you an
account of Col. W. P. Lane's charge with the First Battalion
<if the Third Texas Cavalry at Oak Hill, Mo., but ill health
has prevented. I joined the Third Texas at Dallas, in
June, 1861, and was color sergeant of the regiment, carry-
ing the flag in the charge referred to above. When we
reorganized at Corinth, after the battle of Shiloh, I joined
the Tenth Texas Cavalry. Ector's Brigade, French's Divi-
sion, and served with it to the close of the war. When
the U. D. C. were giving crosses of honor to us old fel-
lows, I wrote to my captain to send me a certificate of my
service, and received the following:
"Fort Worth, Tex., Sept. 26, 1892.
"To Whom It Mtiy Coiicrni : W. F. McClanahan was in
Company F. Tenth Regiment of Texas Cavalry, Ector's
Brigade. It served mostly in the Army of Tennessee, was
in the battles of Richmond, Ky., Murfreesboro, Chicka-
maug,i. and numerous other places. No soldier was more
faithful, more courageous, more self-denying, more de-
voted to duty in line, on picket, in camp, or wherever duty
called than Bill McClanahan. He was a good musician, but
left the band of his own volition to take a rifle in the ranks,
where he sought danger and seemed to find pleasure in
exposure. I thought his disregard of danger bordered on
recklessness. A. J. Booty,
Captain Company F, Tenth Texas Cavalry."
While I asked only for a certificate of service, it was
gratifying to know that my captain hold such high opinion
of my services as a soldier. 1 am old, worn-out, enfeebled,
and waiting for the bugle note of the final assembly, but
I think this certificate is the richest inheritance I can leave
my grandchildren.
H.\krisondi;rg ME^toRIAL Association.— .-Vn old and bon-
nred Ladies* Memorial Association is that of Harrisonburg,
\'a. The ladies of Rockingham County met in the court-
house in Harrisonburg on June 19, i8b8, and organized the
"Ladies' Memorial .Association of Rockingham County," the
object of which was to care for the graves of the Confederate
soldiers buried in that county. Mrs. Juliet Strange was unani-
mously chosen President, and filled the position admirably
until her death. This association is still in existence, and as
evidence of its work a handsome granite shaft commemorates
the heroic deeds of the Confederate dead who lie beneath its
shadow. The association observes the 6th of June as their
decoration day.
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BAIN BRIDGE CHAPTER. U. D. C.
Some representative ladies of Bainbridge, Ga., met at
the home of Mrs. Jno. E. Donaldson on the 19th of March
and organized a chapter of ETaughters of the Confederacy,
and by unanimous vote it was given the name of that
fair little city. .\ good membership was enrolled and the
following officers elected:
Honorary Officers: President, Mrs. Charles Geddes Camp-
bell; Vice Presidents, Mrs. Geo. D. Griffin, Mrs. W. M.
Legg, Mrs. A. H. Russell.
Acting Officers: President, Mrs. Jno. E. Donaldson; Vice
Presidents, Mrs. Charles H. Caldwell, Mrs. Jno. M. Brown,
Miss Frances B. Jackson; Recording Secretary, Mrs. B. M.
Nussbaum; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. E. J. Perry;
Treasurer, Mrs. A. S. Townsend; Registrars, Mrs. R. A. Mc-
Tyre, Miss Varina Russell ; Historian, Miss Annie Campbell.
The special objects of this Chapter will be to mark the un-
known graves of the brave soldiers of the South; to erect
a monument to the memory of their Decatur soldiers; and
to gather a true history of their noble deeds, that the com-
ing generations may know that for which their fathers fought
and died.
Memorial Day was fittingly observed by this Chapter,
with an address by Hon. James M. Griggs, of Dawson, Ga.
The "Mrs. Stonewall Jackson Chapter," U. D. C, of Pur-
cell, Ind. T., was chartered January, 1902, with thirty mem-
bers. Since its organization response has been made to
every appeal for memorial and other charitable work, and
there is now a fund of $130 on hand toward erecting a foun-
tain in that town in memory of the Confederate dead.
This is one of the youngest Chapters in the division, but
its work so far proves it to be composed of the same great
women who upheld the cause of the Confederacy and by their
zeal doubled the strength of her soldiery.
STONEWALL JACKSON'S DEATH.
Capt. Murray F. Taylor, of A. P. Hill's Stafif, San Simeon,
Cal., writes:
"In a back number of the Confederate; Veteran is a
statement by Capt. W. F. Randolph concerning the death
of Stonewall Jackson, in which he says that Col. A. S. Pen-
dleton, Adjutant General of Jackson's Corps, as soon as he
heard that General Jackson was wounded or-'ered him
(Randolph) to go for Gen. Stuart.
"After Gen. Jackson was wounded, Gen. Hiu succeeded
him in command, and was the only one with authority to
turn over this command to Gen. Stuart. When Gen. Hill
himself was wounded, he sent for Gen. Stuart by Capt. R.
H. T. Adams. Capt. Randolph may have been sent by Col.
Pendleton, but Capt. Adams was sent by Gen. Hill, and Gen.
Stuart came upon Gen. Hill's summons. I make this state-
ment not wishing that a soldier who, after bearing so con-
spicuous a part in every battle participated in by the Army
of Northern Virginia in the four years gave his life for the
Confederate cause, as did Gen. Hill, should be ignored in
describing this battle, as has been done by Capt. Randolph
and some others, all of whom probaI)Iy did so unintention-
ally, not knowing the facts as I know them. I was on the
staff of Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill, and was in a position to be
familiar with what occurred before and during the battle.
"When Gen. Hooker crossed the Rappahannock at the
United States ford with 'the finest army on the planet'
and Gen. Lee was informed of the fact, he began his march
to strike the enemy and not to retreat toward Richmond,
as Hooker supposed he would do. In marching to Chan-
cellorsville, some distance above Salem Church, which is
about three miles from Fredericksburg on the Chancellors-
ville road, we found Hooker's advance, and after pressing
them they fell back toward Chancellorsville.
"When arriving in the neighborhood of Chancellorsville,
Gen. Hill, who was in advance with his division, threw
forward Gen. Archer with his brigade to feel the enemy and
find out if it were practicable to attack from the Fredericks-
1)urg direction, from which our army had advanced. I ac-
companied Gen. Archer to report the result to Gen. Hill.
Upon advancing sufficiently Gen. Archer decided that an
advance was not practicable, and so I reported to Gen. Hill.
"On my return. Gens. Lee, Jackson, and A. P. Hill were
together, and a few moments after making my report from
Gen. Archer, Gen. Hill called me to the place where the
three men were in consultation. Gen. Lee had spread out
before him a map of the country. Gen. Hill asked me if I
was familiar with the roads through the section between the
old Catherine furnace and the Orange C. H. road,
between Chancellorsville and Orange C. H., indicating the
desired route by pointing to the map held by Gen. Lee.
Gens. Lee and Hill knew that my home was on the Rap-
pahannock, between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
I replied to Gen. Hill that I had not hunted in this
country since I left home for school several years before,
but that there had always been numberless roads through
the woods, used by wood choppers, of which I had only a
general knowledge. He then asked if T knew any one who
could be absolutely relied upon who could be secured as a
guide. I replied that a famous hunter. Jack Haydon, lived
near the river, and I knew was in our lines, as when exam-
ining the country on the right that day I saw him. A mes-
senger was sent with orders not to return without him.
Jack Haydon, fearing the Yankees might move m on his
home, had gone into tl>e bushes near liis home to spend the
night.
Soon after passing the furnace Jack Haydon reported to
Gen. Jackson and directed him to the Orange C. H.
road. When Gen. Jackson reached the desired point he dis-
missed Haydon, as he had no further use for him, being in
the rear of Hooker's "Grandest Army on the Planet." As
Jack Haydon was about to return he rode up to Gen. Jack-
son and stated that he desired him to do l.im a favor. The
General was curt in saying "What is it, sir?" Jack replied:
"Take care of yourself." Many times afterwards, before I
c-ame to California to live, Jack Haydon and I laughed at
liis request, and often he used to say, "O, if he had done
so!" When visiting my home in 1891, Jack and I referred to
this incident.
It is not necessary for me here to refer to anything but the
formation of Gen. Jackson's Corps in preparing for the
attack on Hooker's flank. Brigadier General Rodes's Di-
vision, formerly D. H. Hill's, was formed in front. Brig-
adier General Colston, who that day was in command of
Trimble's Division, formed the second line, and Gen. A. P.
Hill, with his division, formed the third line. When the at-
tack began and Gen. Hill found that his division could not
keep up its formation at the rapid pace Gen. Rodes was
driving the Yankees, he moved his division by the flank
back into the Chancellorsville road, and the head of the first
brigade was kept nearly even with tlie line of Gen. Rodes's
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Division. Often our division had to double-quick down the
open road to keep pace with Rodes.
When it was evident to Gen. Hill tliat it was necessary for
Rodes to re-form his line of battle, he proposed that he him-
self relieve him, stating that his division had marched in
column while Rodes's must necessarily need re-forming, com-
ing, as they had done, at such rapid speed through the woods.
Rodes thanked him, and as brigade after brigade came up
they were filed to right or left.
While this was going on. Gen. Jackson rode up accompa-
nied by Capt. Bosvvell and one or two couriers. Gen. Jack-
son asked Gen. Hill how long before he would be ready
to advance. Gen. Hill answered, "In a few moments," as
soon as he could finish relieving Gen. Rodes. He then asked
Gen. Hill: "Do you know the road from Chancellorsville to
the United States ford?" Gen. Hill replied: "I have not
traveled over it for many years." Gen. Jackson turned to
Capt. Boswell and said: "Capt. Boswell, report to Gen. Hill.
Gen. Hill, when you reach Chanci-llorsville, allow nothing
to stop you; press on to the United States ford." He then
rode out in front of us, it seemed as if waiting for us to ad-
vance. Gen. Hill sat on his horse in the road and nearly on
a line with Lane's men. His staft and escort were in front
of the lines which had just relieved Gen. Rodes, when some
one cried out, "Yankee Cavalry!" At once the Eighteenth
North Carolina Regiment of Lane's Brigade, mistaking us
for Yankees, opened fire.
The eleven of our staff, including Capt. Boswell, who
were in front of this regiment and within a few feet of \t,
together with their horses, were either killed or wounded,
except Capt. Watkins Leigh and myself. Capt. Leigh at
that time was the ofticer in command of the rear guard of
Gen. Hill's Division, but was doing staff duty.
Gen. Hill, being on the line with this regiment, escaped
the bullets, but Gen. Jackson, being in front, was in the line
of fire. My horse fell on me, and I couid not move. I heard
Gen. Hill's voice as he called to know if any of his staff were
alive; when I spoke he sprang from his horse and was as-
sisting me when a courier came up and told him that Gen.
Jackson was wounded. Gen. Jackson was at this time about
fifty yards from the front of our line, where the courier found
us. Gen, Hill then said to nic : "Help yourself; I must go
to Gen. Jackson; don't tell the troops." A soldier soon
helped me from under my horse.
My uncle, Capt. Forbes, of the Nintli Virginia Cavalry, was
among the mortally wounded.
Capt. Forbes's horse was killed, and he was shot through
the body. I secured a litter and had him taken to Melzi
Chancellor's house, about two miles from the Chancellors-
ville house. On the way I met Lieut. Smith, of Gen. Jack-
son's staff, whom I informed that Gen. Jackson was wound-
ed. This was the first intimation of the fact that he had re-
ceived.
Returning to the front, I met Gen. Hill, riding with his
foot out of the stirrup, with that superb artillery officer.
Maj. Wm. Pcgram. leading his horse and walking by his
side.
With great anxiety I spoke to Gen. Hill, supposing he was
wounded and not knowing how seriously. Gen. Hill told
me that after leaving me and assisting Gen. Jackson he had
been shot in the calf of the leg, that the wound was serious
enough to incapacitate him for continuing in command, and
that as there was no major general to succeed him he had
sent Capt. R. H. T. Adams, his chief signal officer, for Gen.
Stuart. He then said: "I sent Capt. Wilburn. Gen. Jackson's
signal officer, who arrived after I reached Gen. Jackson, to
inform Gen. Lee that Gen. Jackson was wounded; you must
go now and tell him of my misfortune and that I have sent
for Gen. Stuart to take command here." He then seemed to
realize that I had lost my horse, and, turning to Maj. Pegram,
ordered him to supply me with the best horse in his battal-
ion; which Maj. Pegram did. and I finally reached the place
where Gen. Lee was resting and reported my instructions to
Col. Walter H. Taylor, who was standing near a small camp
fire. Gen. Lee had retired to rest, but he said that Gen. Lee
must know that Gen. Hill had been wounded and Gen. Stu-
art sent for.
I was very much exhausted, as I had had no rest for for-
ty-eight hours, and lay down, awaiting Col. Taylor's return.
I must have dozed, for suddenly I became conscious of Gen.
Lee's presence. Upon attempting to rise he told me not to
do so until he had finished his instructions, but to rest as
long as I could. He then stated that he deplored the wound-
ing of Gen. Jackson and of Gen. Hill, and that he entirely
approved of Gen. Stuart's being sent for to take command.
"Tell Gen. Stuart," said he, "that I cannot express my sor-
row at the wounding of Gens. Jackson and Hill, but that
it is a satisfaction to know that the mantle of these soldiers
has fallen on one so worthy. Tell Gen. Stuart at dawn of
day to attack and allow nothing to stop his advance; that
when he can drive the enemy back sufficiently for me to
unite with his right we will try to drive them into the
river."
I noticed he held in his hand a small parcel, and as he
finished his instructions he said with a smile upon his face:
"My friends here think I am always hungry and have
wrapped this up for me to eat in the morning; now I know
that, besides being very tired, you have had nothing to eat ;
take this and eat it as you ride. Remember the importance
of your reaching Gen. Stuart in time. "
I declined his breakfast, saying I had been eating Yankee
rations the whole night. I was almost ready to faint from
hunger, but I would have as soon taken the food from the
Church altar as to take his breakfast, for I felt there would
be nothing more to eat for him until after we had cooked
Joe Hooker's goose.
As I walked to my horse, Maj. Tom Ballard, of Rich-
mond, who was in charge of one of the reserve wagon trains
and who was standing near the camp fire with Col. Taylor
when I rode up, followed me, and as I was in the act of
mounting, said, "Taylor, I heard you tell Marse Robert that
he, and he knew you were lying; but if you had taken his
breakfast, noncombatant as I am, I'd have challenged you.
Take this;'' and he handed me a canteen of brandy. I have
taken in my life all kinds of drinks, but I have no recollec-
tion of any as good as that which I drank that night from
Maj. Ballard's canteen. He then gave me a handful of
sandwiches, and I started on my return.
I reached Gen. Stuart as he was mo' nting his horse, ami
delivered to him Gen. Lee's instructions.
Sometime after coming to California it occurred to me
that a statement from Capt. Adams as to Gen. Jackson's be-
ing wounded and Gen. Hill's sending for Gen. Stuart might
establish beyond a doubt how it occurred, as I had heard
several people speak to the effect that Gen. Jackson had
placed Stuart in command; so I wrote for a statement, feel-
ing assured that it would confirm wha I know to be the case.
I have Capt. Adams's letter, in which he states that just
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before the fatal volley was fired Gen. Hill sent him with some
message to Lane; that as he passed the line of l^ane's troops
he saw the men raise their guns and fire; that a few steps
behind the line he found Gen. Lane and told him his men
had fired in the direction of Gens. Jackson and Hill, and
that Lane was greatly concerned; that as soon as the firing
ceased he rode down the road to where he knew Gen. Jack-
son had been the moment before; that, going toward him.
he overtook Licnt. Morrison, of Gen. Jackson's staff, and
about the time they met a Yankee olVicer stepped into the
road, whom they made prisoner. Captain Adams taking his
sword and canteen ; proceeding a short distance farther,
they saw Gen. Jackson supported by Hill, who was band-
aging his wound, with only a courier beside him; Gen.
Jackson seemed about to faint, when Adams gave him whis-
ky out of the captured canteen; soon Capt. Wilburn came
up and was sent by Gen. Hill to inform Gen. Lee; that after
Jackson was sent to the rear Gen. Hill was wounded and
asked Adams to go for Stuart, as he was incapacitated for
command by his wound; Capt. Adams found Gen. Stuart and
delivered the message.
These facts are from his letter written to me in California
many years ago.
Gen. Hill has often stated to me that when he reached
Gen. Jackson onlj' one or two couriers were with him, his
stafT being absent on other duties.
Among those wounded on our staff were Col. Wm. H.
Palmer, the adjutant general of our division, now president
of the City Bank of Richmond. His horse was killed and his
shoulder broken. Maj. Conway R. Howard, Gen. Hill's
chief engineer, had his horse wounded and it ran with him
into the Yankee line, only stoppmg when he reached Gen.
Hooker's headquarters, near the Chancellorsville house, to
whom he surrendered. His ride is probably the most re-
markable on record, and for several days after the battle we
searched for him in the wilderness woods. As his horse bore
him down the plank road at Gilpin speed he was the target
for every Yankee within range, but escaped with only his
bridle rein cut in two and his stirrup leather severed.
The mistake of the North Carolinians was one of those
unfortunate ones from which no troops are exempt, mistak-
ing friend for foe; a Virginia brigade did the iame thing in
the same wilderness, and only a few miles distant, the follow-
ing year, when they killed Gen. Jenkins and wounded Gen.
Longstreet, which mistake resulted in saving Gen. Grant's
army from destruction, as the fatal mistake of the North
Carolinians saved Hooker and his army that night at Chan-
cellorsville.
A later letter from Col. Taylor concerning it states:
"You ask if Capt. Boswcll was with Gen. Hill or with Gen.
Jackson. Gen. Jackson ordered Capt. Boswell to report
to Gen. Hill, which he did as he ("Gen. Jackson) rode to the
front, accompanied by only two or three couriers. Capt.
Boswell fell within a few feet of me. and I saw his body
on the field before I removed my uncle, Capt. Forbes, who
was wounded by the same fatal volley.
"The afternoon of the fight at Chancellorsville. I rode
back to the rear, where Gen. Hill was resting in his ambu-
lance, suffering from his wound of the night before. I
accompanied him on horseback, he in his ambulance, down
the plank road toward the Chancellorsville house. When
we reached the spot where his staff had been fired into
the night before, the horses that had been killed were lying
close together, and as we stopped to examine the ground,
we recognized the different horses belonging to our staff
and escort. Proceeding about seventy-five or a hundred
yards farther. Gen. Hill stopped his ambulance and pointed
out to me the place where he had found Gen. Jackson after
he was wounded.
"If Capt. Randolph was with Gen. Jackson when he was
wounded, he could not have been with Capt. Boswell, who
was shot down with others of Gen. Hill's staff.''
Alabama State Reunion. — The Veteran acknowledges
the receipt of an invitation through Comrade A. C. Oxford,
adjutant general and chief of staff to Maj. Gen. Harrison, to
attend the U. C. V. State reunion for Alabama, to be held in
Mobile, November i6 and 17.
SKETCHES OR INFOR .\I ATION WANTED IN REGARD TO THE ABOVE.
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PERILS OF RECRUITING IX ARKANSAS.
In a sketch of the services of Capt. Pleasant Buchanan in
the Confederate war, J. Mont. Wilson, of Springfield. Mo.,
gives the following :
"Pleasant H. Buchanan was professor of mathematics in Cane
Hill College, Washington County, Ark., when the Confederate
war began. When the first call for troops by the State was
made a company of the college hoys and the surrounding coun-
try was at once organized, and Pleasant Buchanan was elected
captain, the president of the college serving in the company
as a private. It was made one of the companies of Col.
Gratiot's Third Regiment of Arkansas State Troops. This
regiment took a very active part in the battle of Oak Hills, or
Wilson Creek, fought on August lo, 1861. Gen. Lyon, the
Federal commander, was killed in their front. After the
State troops were disbanded. Capt. Buchanan inunediate'y
raised another company about September. 1861, and it be-
came Company H, of the Fifteenth .Arkansas Infantry. They
went into winter quarters at Blake & Black's Mills, near
Cross Hollows, Benton County, Ark., with the Third Louisi-
ana and McNair's Regiment from South Arkansas.
"When Gen. Price retreated from Springfield, Mo., before
Gens. Curtis and Sigel, his regiment, the Fifteenth Arkan-
sas, was the first to reenforce Gen. Price at Elkhorn Tavern.
The battle of Elkhorn, or Pea Ridge, was fought a week or
two later, early in March, 1862.
Gen. Price fell back to Boston Mountain, where Gen.
Ben McCuIloch united his forces with him. They advanced
north and gave battle to Gens. Curtis and Sigel on Pea
Ridge, in Benton County. During the fight of the second day
Capt. Buchanan, his first lieutenant. Patent Inks, and some of
his men penetrated the Federal lines and were captured. They
were sent to prison on Johnson's Island. His regiment was
transferred with Price's army to Corinth, Miss. After the
siege of Corinth, when Gen. Bragg took command of the army,
at Tupelo, Miss., he reorganized it and compelled the dilTercnt
regiments to fill all the vacancies of company commissioned
officers. When Capt. Buchanan and Lieut. Inks were ex-
changed in the summer they found theinselves without a
command.
"They made their way to Northwest Arkansas and at-
tached themselves to Gen. T. C. Hindman's army. Capt.
Buchanan fought as a private in Capt. Earl's (Cane Hill)
Company, of the Thirty-Fourth Arkansas Infantry, at Prairie
Grove. He was slightly wounded in the side, the ball passing
through his canteen before it struck him. This was in De-
cember, 1862. Gen. Hindman's army fell back to Little Rock,
and spent the balance of the winter there. In the spring Capt.
Buchanan received a commission from the War Department
to raise a cavalry company of Partisan Rangers. He went
to Northwest .Xrkansas about May, I think, and in sixty days
had organized about fifty men. He attached his men with
Capt. Buck Brown, of Benton County, with the aim of raising
a battalion. He began active operations at once against the
Federal forces operating from South Missouri and Fort Gib-
son and numerous scouting and foraging parties through
Northern Arkansas, alone or with Capt. Brown or any other
Confederate troops, as the occasion required. The company
was constantly on the move that sununer, and engaged in
many fights and skirmishes. On one occasion part of each of
Buchanan's and Brown's companies caught a Federal scout
going from Springfield. Mo., to Fort Gibson, Ind. T., killing
and wounding a few and capturing the captain of the scout
and twenty-two of his men. At another time they charged a
Federal scout occupying Fayetteville, losing one man, but
drove them out of town, capturing the commanding oflicer and
some three or four men. In the fall Col. Brooks's Cavalry
Brigade made a raid through Northern Arkansas and Southern
Missouri. Capts. Brown and Buchanan joined forces with
him and did most of the scouting and picketing for his com-
mand. This command started to Cassville. Mo., to capture
some Federal supplies. On the way they heard of a large
force of Federals, with infantry, artillery, and cavalry, camped
just below the Missouri line, guarding a supply train. Col.
Brooks's plan was to attack about daylight, so he sent Lieut.
Inks with a squad from each of Capts. Buchanan's and Brow'u's
companies as an advance guard, with instructions to attack
vigorously and he would support him at once. We did so,
capturing their pickets and fighting their infantry and artillery
for an hour. It got so hot that we had to send to Col. Brooks
for the support he had promised, and found his command in
line behind a fence a mile in our rear. In answer, he sent
Capt. Buchanan and his company as infantry to drive them
back. He moved quickly, deployed in line of battle, and drove
them back into their camp or the field surrounding it. Wc
quietly drew ofT, and that ended the fight.
"We moved over on War Eagle and King's River, in Madi-
son and Carroll Counties, and came in contact with the Federal
Gen. McNeil, who had followed Gen. Joe Shelby out of Mis-
souri on one of his raids up near Springfield. We fought his
command for two days continuously. Capts. Buchanan and
Brown were in the rear guard nearly all the time. The next
day Col. Brooks decided to go South for the winter. A
part of these two companies were scattered through the coun-
try scouting, and did not know of this move til! after Col.
Brooks's command was south of the Arkansas River.
"Capt. Buchanan intended to complete the organization of
his company by electing the other officers the first time we
were in camp long enough. When we went into camp in
Southern Arkansas we found, with the squads left in Northern
Arkansas and some others dropping out on a nine days' and
nights' march (as we stopped only long enough for our horses
to feed and rest), that he was short of the number required
to make a full company and elect a full quota of officers.
"The squads and scouts left in Northwest Arkansas not
coming South, as expected, Gen. W. L. Cabell, commanding
the division, detailed Capt. Buchanan to take eleven picked
men and liorscs from these two companies and go to North-
ern Arkansas and bring out these men. His instructions
were to avoid all towns. Federal posts, or large bodies of
Federals, gather up all the squads or individuals, not to do
anything to alarm the Federal posts in the country, and avoid
any engagement till across the Arkansas River. This was a
very hazardous undertaking, as the Arkansas River was forda-
ble at this season of the year at only a few places, and every
dugout, canoe, or boat of any kind had been burned by the
Federals, except at large towns, where guards were constantly
watching the river. There was a chain of posts on the nortli
side of the river, from Little Rock to Van Burcn, and one on
the south side from Little Rock, by Arkadclphia, Caddo Gap,
and Waldron, to Fort Smith. Every mill and village in North-
west Arkansas had a post, and scouts passing daily. The
worst feature was the leaves off the trees and no forage at
all in the country, and no meat or bread for the women and
children.
"It took a level-headed, cool man. and plenty of nerve back
of it, to accomplish this, and that was the very reason Gen.
CTabell selected Capt. Buchanan for the important undertaking.
We had no trouble till we came near Waldron, forty miles
south of the Arkansas River, with a post of one thousand men,
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and scouts constantly passing between Caddo Gap and Fort
Smith. We made a circuit around the town and ran into some
outposts that fired on us, but hit no one. We finally struck
the Fort Smith road west of Waldron. This all had to be
done after night. We aimed to travel till after midnight, and
then turn north to the river and cross the first place we could
do so without being discovered. We had been riding quietly
on this road only two or three hours, when we came on to a
Federal scout in a house near the road. They hustled around
lively with their guns, and we expected to have hot work in
a few seconds ; but Capt. Buchanan rode straight up to the
house and inquired if it was the military road to Fort Smith,
and by his coolness made them believe we were a Federal
scout going to Fort Smith. He rode quietly back to us and
moved down the road in an ordinary walk till we were out of
sight and hearing, when we rode rapidly toward Fort Smith
for an hour. An hour or two before daylight we turned off
the road and traveled due north by the north star for the
river. We reached it, I think, the next night just before day-
light. Traveling all that night by the north star, we struck the
river nearly opposite the mouth of Big Mulberry. We hid our
horses in a deep slough that made into the river, fed and
rested them, while some of us slept and otliers reconnoitcred
the river for a crossing.
"We decided to try it on a bar just above the mouth of Big
Mulberry. Just as the sun went down we rode into the river,
and made it without getting into swimming water; thence
four miles north to the road from Ozark to Van Buren, through
underbrush, brambles, brier thickets, and a very dark night.
It did not take long to tear down the telegrapli wire and drag
it out in the woods in sections. We then took all the roads
leading in the direction of Cane Hill, traveling hard to cross
the Fayetteville and Van Buren road before daylight, so we
could get to Boston Mountain and rest during the day and
reach Cane Hill the next night.
"My, how it did rain that day ! The drops looked as large r.s
twenty-five-cent pieces. We crossed over the mountain and
reached Fola Grays, the first house we dared to approach after
crossing the river. We learned that Maj. Wright was in com-
mand of a post at Cane Hill, composed of Federal 'Pisi In-
dians' and negroes. We circled round this place, and all
separated, going two and two together to their respective
homes, and then began at once to get word to all the scat-
tering men and squads in Benton, Washington, and Madison
Counties to be ready to start South on a certain date, our
rendezvous to be the Twin Mountains, in Benton County,
near the Osage fork of the Illinois River. I went with Capt.
Buchanan to his home. His brothers, William and James,
were at home on sick leave. They wanted to go South with
us, but had no horses, and there were none to be bought in the
country, the Federals having taken all.
"We had learned that Maj. Wright's headquarters were at
Mr. James Hagood's, and that his horses and some of the
other officers' horses were kept in stables about one hundred
feet from this house, with a guard near by. The captain de-
cided that we could go down there the night before we started,
get their horses, and mount his brothers. So we four went
and let the fence down around the lot, but ran onto a guard
in the lot ; then we had to get away quietly. My sister was
at White McClellan's, only a quarter of a mile away, so 1
went by to tell her good-by, and the captain went with me,
as Charlie McClellan was going with us. While there Miss
Emma Hagood and Amanda Hinds told nic that they had tied
Maj. Wright's horse to the fence just in the rear of the dwell-
ing, where we could get it. I asked the captain if he would
allow me to go and get it. So I did, and we all four re-
turned to his mother's and left before daylight, moving out
in the barren timber toward Rhea's Mill, and stopped to feed
our horses before starting for the Twin Mountains.
"William Rhinehart and Guy Blake, two of the escort, had
joined us, and in thirty minutes more we would have been
on our way and they would not have been able to come up with
us. Our horses all had their bridles off. The captain was
lying down on some leaves with a paper over his face. Wil-
liam Buchanan had procured a plug of a horse and Jam:s
had gotten a mule.
"When I first saw the Federals they were about one hun-
dred yards away, deployed in line. I called to the boy?, and
each one sprang to his horse. As we did this they began
firing and charged us. My horse and the captain's mare stood
with their heads near together. As I sprang into my saddle
and wheeled my horse, the captain was standing in his stir-
rup, with his right leg nearly in the saddle. Rhinehart and I
ran together, and we had gone about one hundred yards
when the captain's mare dashed by us. I was satisfied then
that he was shot. Will and Jim Buchanan were shot before
mounting. They ran at Jim to shoot him while he was tryini;
to bridle his mule, and he fought one of them with his bridle
for fifty yards before he could shoot him.
"I have heard that I was censured as being the cause of
their death by taking that horse. It is possible we could have
gotten away without their making such an effort to find us,
if I had not taken the horse. It was the suggestion of the
captain that we get the officers' horses to mount his brothers,
William and Jim Buchanan, and we were only prevented by
the guard. I did not offer to go for the major's horse till
the captain cheerfully gave his consent. I also heard at that
time that the negroes had reported to the Federals that we
were there and put them on our trail. Maj. Wright's orders
to the troop of Federals sent after us were to take no prisoners,
as I have learned since.
"I was in Capt. Buchanan's classes in college, was in his
infantry company till captured, again was one of the first to
join this cavalry company, was in his mess from that day till
he was killed, and I never saw a more perfect Christian gen-
tleman. With my intimate and varied association with him
I never heard him utter a word that could not have been
spoken in the presence of a lady. He was as brave as the
bravest, very cool, and never got rattled in a fight. He was
a model officer and soldier, and was respected by all of his
men. I never saw but one soldier refuse to do anything he
told him. In his cool, quiet way he convinced that fellow that
he had better do it, and do it quick. He was so modest and
unassuming; it was only those who were intimate with him
that knew his real worth and merit."
The brutality of the Federals after these men were killed
is beyond precedent. In a letter from Mrs. to Comrade
Wilson, author of the foregoing, she states :
"In regard to the death of the Buchanan brothers I will
tell you what I remember of the circumstances. It is painful
to me, even at this day, to recall that scene. Mrs. Buchanan
requested some of us to go and care for the bodies and
keep the hogs from getting to them. Mrs. , of Little
Rock, and I volunteered to go for her sake. We had gone
about halfway to our old home place — about a mile — when
we heard the scouts coming in with the bodies, and we
waited for them to come up. The bodies were stripped of all
clothing save the under-garments. We asked the captain to
take them down to their mother. He would not consent,
but said he wanted us to go down with them to Boonsboro.
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We got into the ambulance with the dead boys lying in the back
part, so powder-burned and blood-stained that we could not
recognize them. They drove at full speed all the way, yelling
and shouting: 'Hurrah for Capt. Buchanan!'
"After arriving at Bonnsboro and I went to a resi-
dence until they had washed the faces of the dead boys, then
we recognized each one. They were shot in the face and
head, but no other violence that I remember, except that
Capt. Buchanan was stabbed in the side three or four times.
The Federals then took them back up home to their mother.
Two of the old citizens went with us in a separate hack.
"They were dressed in their graduating suits, which Mrs.
Braden got from their hiding places i i the attic. As far as
I know, everything was conducted in order at the burial. I
did not P.O. . . . Never can I forget that moonlight ride
with those dear boys thrown in like butchered swine, and the
yells of those negroes and Indians!"
The other lady who accompanied them on that sad mission
recalls the awful event, and writes of it minutely, even quot-
ing the words of participants. She mentions, for instance,
that while an Indian, Rcdbird, was looking at Jimmie he said:
"That was one brave man. I hate to kill him; but I have to,
as he kill mc."
CoNFL-siNG Gens. Loring and Lowry at Fk.\nklin. — Com-
rade J. L. Boswell, of Plainview, Tex., corrects an error in
the Veteran in regard to Gen. Loring in the battle of Frank-
lin, saying he did not make a speech to his men as reported ;
that he commanded a division in Stewart's Corps. "Gen.
Lowry, a Baptist pre;ichcr with whom I was acquainted before
the war. commanded a brigade in Cleburne's Division, and
it must have been he that made (he speech referred to." The
editor of the Veteran has sought for years in vain to know
who it was that Gen. Hood approached just after examining
the enemy's lines from Winslead Hill, and, riding back, ap-
proached an officer also cm horse, and said : "General, we will
make the fi;ilil," The two clasped hands.
SERVICE OF DR. J. C. LEE FOR CONFEDERATES.
In the Veteran for .Kugiist appeared an extract from a
communication of Dr. J. M. Kellar in reference to the rank
and position of Dr. J. C. Lee in the Confederate service. On
investigation the Veteran ascertains from Mrs. J. C. Lee
that there was an error in the statement irlade on the subject
in the April Veteran. Dr. Lee was not the surgeon general
in Gen. Hindman's staflf, as stated, when he was in command
nf the Trans-Mississippi Department.
The following is an extract from a letter received from a
gentleman who is a warm friend of Mrs. Lee's: "Dr. J. C.
Lcc was a close personal friend of Gen. Hindman while he
commanded in Arkansas, and when the General was ordered
to San Antonio in November, 1864, he sent for Dr. Lee, who
was his family physician until July i, 1865. Their intimate
friendship continued after the General went to Mexico, and
ceased only with his death, at Helena, Ark., after returning
to this country. Dr. Lee never held any official position in
the Confederate army, on account of physical disabilities.
Being a man of wealth, it was his pride and pleasure to con-
tribute in every possible way to the Confederate cause as an
original secessionist. The services of Dr. Lcc to the Confed-
eracy were of inestimable value, and the memory of them will
always be treasured in the hearts of hundreds of Southern peo-
ple who were the recipients of his kindly attention and medical
skill. He was a tireless worker, often going day and night in
the practice of his profession, and supplying the families and
soldiers not only with medicine but food as well. When the
first troops w-ent to Louisville, Ark., he turned his own home
into a private hospital, and took care of many of Col. W. B.
Ochiltree's soldiers and others of Gen. Randall Gibson's Bri-
gade."
He continued the practice of medicine upon a petition of
the people of his county, who considered his services invaluable
as a physician to the soldiers and their wives and children.
In November, 1S63, the medicines gave out. and Dr. Lee took
a trip to Mobile, Ala., to procure them. He was successful,
to the great relief of the soldiers' families, as sho\?n by the
following document:
"The State of Arkansas, County of Lafayette.
"I, James M. Montgomery, Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Lafayette County, in the State of Arkansas, do hereby certify
that Dr. John C. Lee, the bearer hereof, is a citizen of said
County of Lafayette ; is also a practicing physician in good
standing, and is, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a
good and loyal Southern man. He being desirous to go to the
city of Mobile for the purpose of purchasing medicines, this
certificate is given him with a hope that it will enable him to
pursue his journey unmolested, and insure him the respect
.ind treatment due a true Southern gentleman.
"In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and official
seal at Lewisvillc. Avk.. this loth day of November. A.D.
180)2.
"J. M. Montgomery. Clerk; Len B. Green, Judge of Circuit
Court, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Ark. ; James K. Young, Prose-
cuting Attorney of Sixth Circuit of Arkansas."
The following winter his time was occupied with the arduous
duties of his profession among the Confederate people. In
Marfh, 1864. Dr. Lee was especially detailed by Lieut. Gen.
Kirby Smith for an important connnission. as set forth in
Special Orders No. 65, from the headquarters of the Trans-
Mississippi Department, dated Shreveport, March 17. 1864,
as follows : "Dr. J. C. Lee and R. B. Jones have permission
10 take from Lewisville, Ark., to the Rio Grande twenty-five
bales of cotton and five thousand pounds of tobacco for the
purpo.sc of procuring medicines, he having given security that
the proceeds will be invested in that way. During his trip
there and back his wagons, teams, and drivers will be ex-
empted from molestation of any kind." On the Doctor's re-
turn he was personally complimented by Gen. Kirby Smith
for his energy and integrity in carrying out these orders.
Dr. Thomas M. Owen, Director of Department of Archives
and History of Alabama, writes from Montgomery, Septem-
ber 16, 1904 : "The publication of the sketch of Mrs. Lee
contained two mistakes which she has spoken to me about,
and I think no one could regret more than she that any errors
could have crept into the sketch. From statements made by
her to me Dr. Kellar is correct in his statement. I wish to
say, however, that the statements in her sketch as to the
L'nion sentiment in Louisville in the winter of i860 and 1861
and as to the flag-raising incident are all correct. She has
exhibited to me old diaries, letters, and other papers which
clearly substantiate these facts, the other error being that
the flag-raising occurred after Lincoln's proclamation. It
occurred on January g, 1861, three months before Lincoln's
proclamation."
Let this one rule prevail: See to it that the Veteran is in
every Southern home. One dollar a year is a light tax for so
much return.
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Leonidas Colweli- Balch.
Leonidas C. Balch was born in Panola County, Miss., No-
vember 20, 1842 ; and closed his career at the home of his
later years, in Little Rock, Ark., April 18, 1904, beloved by those
who were nearest to him and knew him best and respected
by the entire com-
munity, while hi-
death was regrettec!
by all who knew
him.
On May 18, 186 1.
young Balch en-
tered the Confeder-
ate army, join
i n g the Twelflli
Mississippi Infan-
try. He was so
severely wounded
at the battle of
Seven Pines that
for many months
his life hung in
the balance, and
was saved only by
the devotion of
those historic wom-
en of old Virginia
whose names and
fame have come-
down to us with
loving praises as an example to other generations of .American
women. The wound never entirely healed, and to the day
of his death was the subject of constant medical attention.
Considering such a lifelong burden, it is wonderful that he
possessed such an iron will and determination as to enable
him to lead so vigorous and useful a life. "•
Comrade Balch was admitted to the practice of law in
1870, and soon became a leader among the entire bar of North
Mississippi. Influenced by friends who had preceded him,
with his family he removed to Little Rock in 1881. His
practice there was limited, as much of his pleading was in the
eastern portion of the State, where he was widely known.
Those who came in personal contact with him recognized at
once not only an able counsel, but, what is better and rarer,
a truly good man, governed in both professional and business
life by a clear and singularly well-balanced mind and by a
quickened conscience which developed to a remarkable di'gree
uprightness and purity in his personal life.
Three weeks before his death he sent for a friend and
calmly gave directions as to the details of his burial and as
to his worldly affairs, with all the air of hope, as though
about to take a journey. Then, as the end approached, he
measured the hours, and on the day of his death he called
his family about him and announced that the end was at
L. C. BALCH.
hand, and, folding the drapery of his couch about him, he
laid him down as if to peaceful sleep.
It was not like a house of mourning. With such a blame-
less life record, with such a strong but gentle spirit, those
around him could not but feel that he had "filled the meas-
ure of his days with usefulness" and that he had left to his
family and to the world a legacy of honor, the fruit of a
well-spent and heroic life, and that in God's providence we
should not mourn that he had been released from his long and
patient suffering.
Representatives of the bar expressed sympathy with the
widow and family in their bereavement in the resolutions
passed as a tribute to his memory.
Cotnrade Balch was an ardent Confederate, boldly vindi-
cating every principle that actuated his people. It will be
remembered that he recently commanded the U. C. V. As-
sociation of Arkansas, with the rank of Major General.
Mks. Elizabeth Brown Burch.
The Veteran for September announced the death of Mrs.
John C. Burch, of Nashville, the last surviving daughter of
Gen. John C. Brown. More than such mention was merited.
Elizabeth Brown Burch was born March 8, 1870; and died
August 31, 1904. She was the wife of John C. Burch and
daughter of John C. and Elizabeth Childress Brown. Her
homes had ever been in Pulaski and Nashville, Tenn , e.xcept
when, in her childhood, her father was Attorney, Receiver,
and President of the Texas and Pacific Railroad. She at-
tended Martin College in Pulaski, the Convent of Visitation
at Georgetown, D. C, and Mrs. Reed's School in New York
City. She was always ardently devoted to the Confederate
cause, and at the time of her death was President of Chapter
No. I, Nashville, not only tlie first but one of the largest
(
MRS. BIRDIE BROWN BIJRCH.
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Chapters, U. D. C, in the great organization. She was elected
Secretary of the Campbell Chapter, D. A. R., but had resigned.
Her only child, John C. Brown Burch, was born in May, 1898.
(This son will ever have occasion for pride in his ancestors,
whose names he bears. His father's father, John C. Burch,
was the leading man in the press of Tennessee for many years.
PUI.ASKI LEMETEK\ — .\ 1 i_,K.\\t> ||^ i.KN. BROWN AND HIS THREE
DAUGHTERS.
He was adviser in all great political issues, and was Secretary
of the U. S. Senate at the time of his death. His maternal
grandfather, John C. Brown, was an able lawyer. He was pro-
moted from the command of his regiment to major general,
and was in command of Cheatham's Division when wounded
in the battle of Franklin, near the close of the war. After the
war he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention,
whereby legislation was enacted to overcome certain carpet-
bag rules in the State; he was afterwards Governor of the
State, and also connected with great railroad enterprises, anv1
at the time of his death was President of the Tennessee Coal
and Iron Company, the largest corporation that had ever been
organized in the South.)
Mrs. Burch was a lovely woman, her licautiful face ever
beaming with kindness, so expressive of her words in the crisis
between life and death when she emphasized her true character
in saying: "I love everybody."
Mrs. S. H. Stout.
"A mother is a mother still.
The holiest thing alive."
From a beautiful tribute by Mrs. George Langston to the
wife of Dr. S. H. Stout, whose death followed so soon that
of her distinguished husband, the following notes are taken:
Martha Moore Abernatliy was born in Giles County, Tenn.,
January 19, 18.50: and in April of 1848 she united her destiny
with that of Samuel H. Stout, to whom she was the truest
and tenderest friend through every varying fortune. When
the war came on, with its peculiarly trying times, and the
husband was giving his care to the w'ounded and dying in
hospital and camp, she too listened to the bugle call of duty.
Not alone to her family were hor energies devoted. She
went beyond this in giving strength to the weak, faith to the
unbelieving, and honor to the Southland as wife, mother, and
friend. And in the darker days which followed the close of
the war, amidst the confusion and bitterness of feeling and
unpleasant associations, the universal motherhood of this
noble woman pierced the rift of blackness, and by faith she
looked beyond and hoped for better things to come, and so
inspired all by the oneness of her love.
Afterwards they became residents of Cisco, Tex,, where
Dr. Stout was prominently connected with the development
of the town, especially in its educational and municipal depart-
ments, and here his wife made for herself a place in the
hearts of all. In later years their home was at Clarendon ; and
it was here, on September 18, 1903, that the hands lovingly
joined so many years before were unclasped and the hus-
band entered ihe spirit land; and here, on July 10, 1904, the
loving wife followed him whom she had so willingly followed
all the days of her life. Faith looks beyond, and we see them
united forever, where
"There's perpetual spring, perpetual youth.
No joint-benumbing cold nor scorching heat,
Famine nor age have any being there."
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.
B. F. Short.
.\ tribute by John A. Miller, Commander of his Camp:
"B. F. Short, of Company F, Fourth Regiment of Tennes-
see Cavalry, C. S. A., on July 26, 1904, answered the sum-
mon* of the mystic angel and crossed over the dark river
to dtt^ell in the white tents of the silent, there to rest till
the reveille of the resurrection morn shall awaken him to life
eternal. Comrade Short was buried in Mount Hope Ceme-
tery, Franklin. Tenn., by McEwen Bivouac, of which he was
an honored member. He was a soldier true and tried till
the surrender, and was esteemed by all who knew him as
citizen, neighbor, and friend, and in his family was a model
of devotion.
"A few years ago a reunion of the five brothers of this fam-
ily was held in Franklin, notable for the fact of their having
B. F. SHORT,
been separated thirty-five years before and having passed safely
through the dangers of the war, and still living in the en-
joyment of good health and happy homes. Of the five broth-
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ers, \V. A. Short, the elder, enhstcd in October, 1862. in
Capt. Hobbs's Company, Tenth (Col. Cox) Tennessee Cav-
alry, served through the war, and surrendered with Gen. For-
rest at Gainesville, Ala., never having been wounded or cap-
tured. Jno. J. Short was a mcnibir of Capt. McEwen's Com-
pany, Forty-Fourth Tennessee; was captured in 1862 and sent
to Camp Chase, then to Rock Island; was sent to Richmond
for exchange and served till the close of the war, surrender-
ing at Greensboro, N. C with Gen. J. E. Johnston. Jesse
A. Short enlisted in May. 1861, in Carter's Company of the
Twentieth Tennessee Infantry; was wounded at Murfrees-
boro, Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, Resaca, and Jonesboro,
Ga.; served through the war. Henry M. Short was also a
member of Carter's Company of the Twentieth Tennessee;
he was wounded at Shiloh and at Franklin ; served through
the war. however, and .surrendered with Gen. Johnston at
Greensboro. B. F. Short served in Pierce's Company of the
Fourth Tennessee Cavalry during the war. and was never
wounded or captured. He surrendered at Washington, Ga."
Dr. H. G. Logan.
Dr. H. G. Logan, Adjutant of V. Y. Cook Camp, of New-
ark, Ark., died on June 23, 1904. He was born in Cleveland
County, N. C, in 1847, nnd entered the Confederate army in
May, 1861, serving to
the close of the war
as first lieutenant of
Company D, Second
North Carolina Jun-
ior Reserves. Dr.
Logan was a practi-
cing physician, and .i
great part of his time
and services was
given to those in dis-
tress and need. What
a beautiful retrospect
he has left his family
and friends ! No one
ever appealed to him
in vain, though the
demands upon him
were constant. Since
his death his young
daughter, Miss Ellen,
is acting adjutant of the Camp, an honor worthily bestowed,
for to her it is a labor of love, and her official services are
promptly and faithfully performed. This Camp has a
mortuary fund on the assessment plan, available at the death
of a member, and was the first in all the confederation of
Camps to advocate an immediate and closer affiliation of the
Sons of Veterans with the old soldiers.
Edward Edgar.
Edward Edgar, Lieutenant Commander of Camp Sutton, at
Port Lavaca, Tex., died at Santa Rita, N. Mex., May 25. In
all his extensive acquaintance none knew him but to love him.
Comrade Edgar was educated in the schools of New Orleans,
but at the age of twelve went to Calhoun County, Tex. In
1861 he joined Company D, Sixth Texas Infantry, and was
sent to Arkansas Post, Ark., where he remained until its
fall, when he was sent as a prisoner of war to Springfield, III.
Later he was exchanged at City Point, Va., and immediately
resumed service in the Confederate army, sharing in the
DR. H. G. LOGAN.
glory of that unfaltering band through many battles and
vicissitudes until the surrender of Gen. Johnston at Benton-
ville, N. C. He was married in 1877 to Miss Annie B.
O'Niel, of Port Lavaca, who, with two children, survives him.
Sutton Camp, C. V., formed a noble squad, and with flag
unfurled escorted the body of their comrade to its last rest-
ing place.
Dr. a. a. Marsteller.
A. A. Marsteller was born at the old family homestead
in Prince William County. V'^a., in September, 1844; and died
May 17. 1904. He joined the famous Black Horse Cavalry
under Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, and soon \von the confidence and
esteem of his great leader by his daring and adventurous
spirit, and who mentions him in one of his official reports
as a lad of "extraordinary daring and individual prowess."
Gen. R. E. Lee ordered the report to be sent to President
Davis and the Secretary of War, and in forwarding the same
added : "As a bold deed, it may interest and please."
Young Marsteller studied medicine, graduating with the
highest honors of his class. At the request of Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, he located in Stafford County, near Gen. Lee's estate.
Wide Water, and became his family physician. He afterwards
removed to Washington, D. C., where he built up a large and
lucrative practice, from which ill health finally compelled,
him to retire.
As a soldier, his record was brilliant ; as a physician, he
was eminently successful ; as a surgeon, he was a bold and
skillful operator; as a citizen, he was honored and beloved
by all who knew him. He was a devoted husband and fa-
ther, and leaves a wife and two children, a son and a daugh-
ter, to mourn their loss.
Capt. Richard Catesby Wiggs.
Capt. R. C. Wiggs. well known throughout the Chickasaw
Nation, died on the 7th of June, 1904. He was a man of the
liighest and noblest traits of character. He was born in
Lexington, Ky., in 1838; and lived in the Chickasaw Nation
lor about thirty-three years, residing at Oakland since 1874.
.\t the outbreak of the war he assisted in raising Company
C of the Eleventh Texas Cavalry, the first company formed
in Grayson County. Two years after its organization he
was elected captain and was then made assistant inspector
general of cavalry, under John A. Horton. He participated
in all the battles of the .A.rmy of Tennessee, and was twice
wounded. Always found at his post of duty, he loyally de-
fended the cause in which he believed, and was a brave and
faithful soldier.
Capt. Wiggs was an intermarried citizen of the Chickasaw
Nation, and held office under the Indian government at
different times, having been, respectively, sheriff and county
clerk of Pickens County, both of which offices he held sev-
eral terms. He performed the duties of these offices at a
time when conditions were quite different from those of to-
day, the Indian courts and government then being the only
local institutions of government. In his official position,
as in his private life, he had the entire confidence and es-
teem of the full-blooded Indian, as well as all other citizens,
because in his dealings with all he followed the golden rule
of conduct. He was truly loyal in all the relations of life— to
his family, his friends, and his government.
He leaves a wife and three children.
(;oi?federat(^ Uecerap.
601
The s; /J f ^^^^f ^/^ EMMETT-S -DIXIE.'- .-ords to our loved 'Dixie.' It seen, a poor tribute to En,-
Ihe September .ssue of the Veteran h:.. aroused animated n,ett, just now in the yet present gloon. of his passing, to
d.scuss.on upon changing the words of "Dixie." A spirited think of such a thing. There is but one "Dixie ' Let poet-
won.an wr.tes from far out West : asters trim, and all the prima donnas of the world adop'the
Don t you ever et any man or woman change the words new one, still there is only one 'Dixie' to the torn heart of
of Emmetts •D,x,e.' It would be sacr.Iege! Ifs the South's true Southrons-the one of Emmett's. It is the colorTn<! of
Marse.lla.se. If the words 'passed muster' nearly half a the old version that makes it so loved and famous. Any
cen ury, surely they are fit for the rest of tm,e and eternity! change would rob the song of its time-worn and old South
Just as well cliange Old Hundred or 'Jesus, Lover of My prestige. It came from the heart and so'ul of a man when
Soul! . . . Then, too, isn t juggcr all the style? Don't history was warm in its making"
they write nigger, talk nigger, sing nigger, act nigger, /'reach
nigger? The one being big:.icst iiiggcr gets most pay, most
notoriety, and most gratification !
"Wasn't it nigger that 'Dixie' inspi'>.d the boys in gray to
'walk around' as no boys ever did before or can do again?
If I wanted fame, I'd strike at original things, not wait until
a poor fellow had passed into the great beyond to meddle
with his production and try to share his glory. 'Dixie' is too
great for a second fiddle! It makes my heart ache to con-
template."
Miss Beatrice Cunningham, of Cadiz, Ky., writes of the orig-
inal "Dixie:" "I come with a grievance. I have observed with
some wonderment tlie signs of a possible adoption of nczv
PATRON AND FRIEND OF DAN EMMETT, ORICiNATOR OF MINSTRELS.
In connection with the fine old man. the author of "Dixie,"
Mr. Al G. Field, p.-op ietor of what is doubtless the greatest
minstrel show- ever orgamzcd. on a rPcent visit to Nashville,
paid respect to the Veteran by a serenade to Dan Emmett's
friend. The Nashville Banner said of the circumstance :
"Once again the Al G. Field Greater Minstrels made their
presence felt in Nashville, for parade No. 2 was given by that
organization this morning. This tine the entire company
was installed in carriages and two tallyhos. and made a tour
of every part of the city.
"I he factory districts were visited and concerts were given
in front of several manufacturing establishments. The work-
ing people were much gratified, and showed their appreciation
of tlie music by enthusiastic applause. Clas-
sic and popular airs were played, and withal
the music was an excellent tonic during the
hours of labor.
"However, the feature of the parade was
really the concert given in front of the office
of Mr. S. A. Cunningham, editor of the Con-
federate Veteran and a friend of Mr. Field.
These gentlemen have been brought very
close together through their mutual regard
tor Daniel Decatur Emmett, the author of
Dixie.' . . "
Some reminiscences of "Uncle Dan Em-
mett" are promised by Mr. Field ere long.
Those who best knew this mel'.jiv-hcarted.^
courtly old man owe to his memory expres-
sions for the public.
The protests lierew-ith recorded are but of
many which have been entered against chan-
ging the words of "Dixie."
It is hardly fair to intimate that such
change has been contemplated only since the
passing of the venerable Dan Emmett. The
patriotic lines by Gen. Albert Pike were writ-
ten when the storm of battle in its fury was
over the South, and often since then differ-
ent compositions have been submitted from
time to time as more in accord with what we
wished to be our national air. A mimber of
these compositions have been published in the
X'eteran, but none have been given with a
view to take from the original composer any
of the honor which has been accorded him.
It is simply wished to secure words which
will have a deeper meaning when sung to the
air which had the power to quicken the lag-
ging footsteps of every weary soldier and still
thrills the hearts of multitudes throughout
the length and breadth of this land. Indeed,
"Dixie" thrills audiences in every country
where it is heard.
502
Qopfcderat^ l/eterai>.
GEN. S. D. LEE IN REGARD TO BLUE AND GRAY.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee lias been so misrepresented in con-
nection with the proposed reunion of the veterans of Union
and Confederate armies that he sends copy of his letter
in regard to it.
"Columbus, Miss., July 29. 1904.
" CoiniiiaDder D. R. Lowrll. Muldlft<»n. Conn.
"My Dear Sir and Contradc: I have yours of July 25, with
reference to the 'Blue and Gray meeting.' recently held in
St. Louis, and inclosing the printed synopsis of the proceed-
ings and resolutions. In compliance with said resolutions.
you as chairman of the committee, appointed by the meet-
ing, ask me as Commander of the U. C. V. Federation, to
appoint a committee of five Confederate veterans, to co-
operate with your committee; to arrange the details of the
proposed fraternal convention of the 'Blue and Gray,' to be
held in Washington, D. C, May, 1905. A similar request
has been made of Gen. Black, Commander of the G. A. R.
Organization, as to the appointment of a similar committee.
"Rev. Mr. Byrons, who inspired the movement, has placed
me in an anomalous position by the following resolutions :
'Resolved, That whereas letters read at the meeting from
Gen. Lee and Gen. Black, respectively, show that each
of said commanders is in full accord with the objects of this
meeting.' etc. He certainly gave coloring to my views not
borne out by any of the letters written him, nor did I
send any message to the St. Louis Convention, as you men-
tion in your letter to me.
"I am thoroughly satisfied, both from observation and
experience, that the survivors of the great war, on both sides,
entertain for each other the highest regard and respect, and
when meeting together their intercourse is of the most cor-
dial and pleasant character, feeling that each side performed
what they considered a patriotic duty, as they saw it; yet
when it is proposed to have a social joint meeting of the
two great federations, my opinion is, such a reunion should
only be brought about through the appointment of commit-
tees by the two commanders of the G. A. R. and U. C. V.,
after the matter had been presented to, and discussed by,
the two bodies, at their annual meetings, and their full ap-
proval given. I do not think 1 would be justified in com-
mitting the U. C. V. Federation to such an important step,
without their being consulted about it beforehand, and in
such a hurried manner.
"I have continuously put myself on record, by resolution,
and in all public utterances, as favoring all efforts tending to
perfect reconciliation, and obliteration and allaying of all
sectional bitterness and estrangement as between the North
and South, and, so far as my observation goes, I do not hes-
itate to say that my views have been generally reflected by
the surviving Veterans of the dead Confederacy.
"Unfortunately, though, I have been present at many of
these Reunions, when some unwise or inconsiderate person
said or did something which marred the occasion, and, m a
measure, would destroy the good effects desired. I might
recall two notable occasions; one the clash between the Gov-
ernors of New Hampshire and Tennessee, at the dedication
of the Chickamauga Park; another at the unveiling of the
McPherson Monument, at Atlanta, when the commander
of the G. A. R. (I think) and General Gordon clashed. I
might name others.
"It seems to me almost a miracle how the two sections
have gradually come together, and in the lifetime of many
of the survivors we have been able to see the era of good
feeling, and forgetfulness of the weird and bloody past so
universal. It would seem to mo. we had best let well enough
alone. The proposed reunion is a matter, if made a success,
which should not be perfected too hurriedly or inconsiderate-
ly. Rev. Mr. Byrons worked most industriously by corre-
spondence and through the public press, yet I learn that not
over eighty or one hundred persons (after all his earnest
work) were present at the St. Louis meeting, so that gather-
ing could hardly be considered an enthusiastic or representa-
tive one on either side.
"I assure you. my dear comrade, nothing would give me
more pleasure than to cooperate with you, and especially
Gen. Black, whose broad and liberal views I know, in
bringing about a better feeling, if possible, between the two
sections than already exists ; yet I feel we had best con-
sider the matter more maturely before acting in haste, un-
advisedly, and possibly injudiciously. Please send the in-
closed copy of my letter to Gen. Black.
"With kindest wishes for you, personally, and reciprocating
the noble, patriotic motive which inspired you and others
who participated in the St. Louis meeting."
COLLECTINV. CONFEDERATE LITEIi-ATV RE.
Mrs. Theresa J. Freeman has been appointed custodian of
the display of Confederate literature at the National Conven-
tion, U. D. C., to be held in St. Louis, October 4, 1904. Mrs.
Freeman has written and published several books, and has
now ready for the press the life- of "Dorothea Mason," her
ancestor of England and the mother of John Rolfe, who mar-
ried the Princess Pocahontas, of American romance and song.
She also has "The Emigrants," a new and thrilling story of
Southern life finely illustrated.
Mrs. Freeman has received a number of fine works from
Southern authors. She expects to make a fine display of the
works of many talented women throughout the Confederacy,
and to aid in bringing before the American readers and chil-
dren in this century, and in centuries yet to come, the portray-
al of the true life of the South.
Mrs. Freeman's address is No. 4374 Morgan Street, St.
Louis.
With pride and satisfaction announcement is made of
the dedication on July i, at Richmond, Va., of a Home
for the Needy Confederate Women. The General Command-
ing gives his hearty approval of this action of Virginia
comrades and urges its imitation in some form throughout
our bounds, "thus showing that these angels of mercy have
an abiding place in our affections."
'll.^TTLE AUIiEV BUILLUNG AT WORLD S FAIR.
Qopfederate l/eterap.
503
"THE WHITE CASTLE OF LOUISI-
ANA."
A sincere friend and well-wisher
writes of this book :
"Mrs. D. G. Murrell, author of the
latest Southern book, 'The White Castle
of Louisiana,' lives in Paducah, Ky.,
though a native of Louisiana. Her
father, Mr. Randolph, was a large sugar
planter, a Christian gentleman of the
old school, and faithful to the Confed-
erate cause.
"Mrs. Murrell has been for some time
Historian for the U. D. C. Chapter of
Paducah. Her home is one of the hand-
somest there, and within are many rare-
souvenirs, some of them gatlicrcd in dif-
ferent parts of the world by herself.
"Woven in romance of fiction arc ac-
curate descriptions of the times she
writes of, the customs and feelings of
people during the great struggle of 1861
to 1865, running into the sequel and its
results, and Mrs. Murrell has been
thanked many times for putting the con-
tents in permanent form.
"This is not only a Southern story,
but is published by a Southern firm —
John P. Morton & Co., Louisville, Ky.
It is impartial, stating matters only as
they e.xisted, leaving readers to form
their own opinions, though the outsider,
the woman, the dog, and the darky, who
pick up the story in succession, indicate
tliat the life, never to be again, was the
most delightful one to live. Hence, the
author has deviated from the regular
mode of story-telling. However this
may be criticised in a new writer, it
would doubtless be considered unique
and to the point in an old one. Those
who understand tlie importance of such
accurate description and know the value
of it cannot fail to find it charming in
its choicest language and in the selec-
tion of subjects interesting to all who
compose our great nation."
John .'\. Trimble, of Augusta, .\rV.,
who served in Company D, First Mis-
souri Cavalry, would like to find some
of his old comrades in order to prove
bis service and gain admittance to the
Soldiers' Home. The company was mus-
tered in at Springfield, Mo. Seventeen
of them were paroled.
CONSUMPTION CURED.
An <Ai\ pli.vsi^'inti. n-tin-il ri-"ni in-in-lirf. !in<!
plari><l ill h\>i IhukIh It.v iiii Kiist liiilia tnUsittUHry
tho frirmula «if n Hiiii|>U' \»'i.'ctal>lp vrliifdy for thn
spo(.,lv aii'l itf rnianriit cure of ('nnsiiiii]itioii, Ui-nn.
' liitK. 1'r.tarrli, AKthiiia. nnd iiM Tliro.Ht. aii'l l.tiiiL'
AtVi-r-riiinv; also a imsituo nml radinil ctiri' fnr
NtTvonv Ofhllity alicl aU Nfi'vons CoTiiplnillts. \\n\-
itii: I.'vtctl its wrMKiorfnl onvntivo power in 1 lion
naiHls of cases, ami ciosiritur to roliovc liiiniati Kiif-
feriiu:. I will KPiirl frc- of eluir-ro to all wiio wisli it
tliis recilu'. witll fMll (livoettoiis for ]irppariii|t ami
'■■^'iiL'. Split l>v innil. by aitdrpasin::. with Rtt>ln|>.
-■■ '- \l. A. Xoycs. m; Powers l.loek.
MRS. O. G. MURRELL.
MILDRED LEE CLARK,
President Stonewall Jackson Children of tlie
Confeileracy in Xew York City.
Tile growtil of tlie Cliildren of the Confed-
eracy is so widespread tliat much usefulness
may be expected.
VIRGINIA.
BY V. V. HUNT, M.D., CORDELL, OKLA.
State of the gallant cavalier, whose blood
and pride descend
To nerve thy sons, to daughters chaste
transcendent beauty lend :
State of the hero and the sage and
choicest of the fair,
rhy sons with Raleigh swept the seas,
with Lee did fortune dare.
Mother of Presidents, and State that all
for freedom gave
By James and Rappahannock's banks
and Chesapeake's wild wave ;
Whose daughters held aloof the flag for
which their kinsmen died,
.And kissed expiring patriots' lips, sink-
ing in crimson tide.
The "Seven Days' Fight" thy valleys
saw through glory's fiery pall ;
Antietani ! • Fredericksburg ! The strife
that saw God's Jackson fall !
Virginia ! Foremost in the charge and
last in the retreat.
The memory of thy great cause lives —
holy, serene, and sweet.
O, Richmond ! widow laurel-crowned,
within whose arms rest
Those pulseless forms I love so well —
wife, with babe on breast.
O, Hollywood! O, Hollywood! Canst
thou return to me
.\ daughter of Virginia as lovely half as
she?
Mrs. E. Lalane Aveilhe, Treasurer of
Tampa Chapter, U. D. C, writes that the
list of contributors to the memorial win-
dow to Father Ryan in the new Catholic
Church there has been destroyed by fire,
and she asks that all the Chapters con-
tributing will kindly notify her by card
of the amount sent, also date of sending,
if possible, as they wish to get matters
straightened out and credit given to
whom credit is due. Mrs. P. G. Mook,
2472 Highland Avenue, Tampa, Fla., is
now the Corresponding Secretary.
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With the he^t love to you and your kind treat-
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I'liiitofjraidis, .slii'tt lies, and jiiiiiis (if
army seems, cuiups. furts. eic: « ;u-
time portraits of olliior.s, and relics of
the war. ARNOLD A. RAND,
IN Milk Street. Bosto.v, Mass.
L. T. Cosby, Abingdon, Va. : "Our
county authorities have just appropri-
ated two thousand dollars for a monu-
ment to our Confederate dead, and this
sum will be supplemented by the citi-
zens for at least that amount. The
heroes of King's Mountain marched from
this place, also a gallant host of Con-
federates."
L. R. Wallis, of Cadiz, Ky., asks for
the words of a song of which the follow-
ing is a part :
"The North and South once wore a
yoke.
But now the tie's forever broke;
The reason why I'll tell to you,
Our leaders did not prove true."
W. C. Willey, of Spring Hill, Ky.,
wants to hear from Comrade Simmons,
who was of Company G (Capt. Moore-
field), Tenth Tennessee Cavalry. When
last heard from, he was in Wolfe City,
Tex.
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CONSUMPTION ^
PAR.-IPURASE ON "AULD LANG
SYNE."
nv B. L. RIDLEY, MfRFREESBORO. TENN.
Can Southern hist'ry be forgot,
.\nd never brought to mind,
Can we live o'er times like '6i,
And the days of Auld Lang Syne?
Clwrus.
(Repeat last line, then last two.)
Our women said with smiling tears,
"If you would win the fair.
Go to the field, where honor calls,
And win your sweetheart there."
With Lee on land and Scmmcs on sea,
.^nd Davis at the wheel,
With Southern pride and chivalry.
Our squadrons took the field.
The battle raged, and blood was shed
Until our ranks were thinned.
Four years we fought 'gainst fearful
odds,
'Till numbers drove us in.
Our flag went down, but glory crowned.
Impressed on every mind,
Our Southern boys won matchless joys
In the days of "Auld Lang Syne."
And now the mem ry of those days
Our meetings bring to mind;
We grasp your hand in hearty cheer.
For the .lays of "Auld Lang Syne."
A. Wren, of Gatesville, Tex., writes :
"James Wren enlisted at Tuscaloosa,
Ala., in 'V..^ spr'rg of 1864. He went to
Mobile, and his letters show that he was
on C. S. Steamer Richmond, Capt. Par-
ker's company. One letter mentions
Marvin's or Marion's Corps. He has
not been heard of since November, 1861],
the date of his last letter near Richmond,
Va. Any information as to whether he
is living or dead will be thankfully re-
ceived by his brother."
Attention, comrades ! Did any of you
know "Tone" Hutchinson as a soldier
during the war? He lived in, and vol-
unteered from, Wayne County, Ky., and
his widow thinks he may have belonged
to Capt. Coffee's company, in Breckin-
ridge's command. Any information
should be sent to Mrs. Dora Hutchinson,
Beebc, Ark. She is poor and needy. —
Rev. F. R. Noe, Beebe, Ark.
Dr. S. W. Turpin, of Lettsworth, La.,
wants the address of Dr. William M.
Gentry, who was brigade surgeon to
Gen. Bushrod Johnson. If not living,
would like to know the place of his
burial.
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Qoijfederat^ Ueteraij.
505
Harvest for Good Solicitors.
STORY or STONEWALL JACKSON
By Willinm C. Chase. iMost comi)l._-te life of
.hir-ksnii jmbiisiied. Imi'used by the wido\v
■ >f ti'ii .lacksoTi, Cnmniaiiders of the U. »". V..
ami the press of the entire country. Hiehest
inninii^sioii to agents. Ex<-lu5:ivi' territoiv.
Address D. E. LUTHER PXTBLISHTNG CO.,
Atlanta. Ga.
Keiiam cancer Hospital,
RICHMOND. VA.
Wc Cure Cancer*, Tumors, and Chronic
Sore* without the use of the knife.
CURED
Gives
Quick
Relief.
Dropsy
Removes all swelling in 8toao
days ; effects a permanent cure
in 30 to 6odavs. Trial treatment
eiven free. Nothingcan be fairer
Write Dr. H. H. Green's Sons,
Specialists. Box G, Atlanta. Gi.
JTO TEXAS
Via Memphis and the
Cotton Belt Route
$8.50 One Way
$15 Round Trip
One-way colonist tickets will be
sold from Memphis, on September
20, October 4 and 18, to Texas
points at rate of $8.50.
Kouiiil-trip houieseekers' ticke^s
from Menipliis on September 30
and 37, October 4 and 18 at rate
of $16.
The territory to which above
ralos applj' includes Dallas, Ft.
Worth, Waco, Aniarillo. Houston,
Galveston, San Antonio. Corpus
Christi, and intermediate points.
Round-trip tickets permit stop-
overs eitlier way, 21 days' retnrn
limit.
For full particulars »nrt Texas map,
literature, time tables, 9tc., write to
IV. G. TIDTIMS, T. P. ....
eotton Belt, \ashville, Tenn.
TWO OLD JOHNNIES.
BY T. C. HARBAUGH.
Again for us the bugles play,
Again we don our suits of gray — -
We're comrades still ; the same old lines
Seem moving 'neath the crested pines;
I hear the inad guns' opening roar,
I see the foemen's ranks once more,
I hear the colonel's "Charge !" and then
The onsweep of a thousand men.
We meet to-day, old comrade mine.
Not as we met 'neath oak and pine;
Hand clasped in hand, we silent stand,
The remnant of that gallant band.
Some comrades dear are camping ever
Where angels guard Potomac's river,
.\nd some went down the day we stood
In Chickamauga's fire-swept wood.
We meet beneatli the skies once more,
We stand together as of yore;
Our eyes are moist, our voices low.
I say: " 'Tis Jim!" You cry: " 'Tis
Joe! "
Ah me, what sacred memories come
From out the past at tap of drum !
And in the bugle's stirring strain
We are not old, but boys again.
O comrade mine, the river flows
Where all are friends and none are
foes.
Soon we shall break this earthly spell,
And hear God's sentry: "All is well!"
Each year we spread the sweetest blos-
soms
Upon the bravest, truest bosoms.
Where sleep the boys who formed the
lines
Beneath the cannon-shattered pines.
They look at us and laugh and say :
"Just two old Johnny Rebs in gray !"
But, comrade dear, they cannot know
The sacred ties that bind us so;
They cannot sec the graves tliat lie
Beneath the balmy southern sky.
Nor know how in the past we stood
Where Mars strode through the war-
struck wood.
Ere long for us will beat tattoo,
.\s beats it for the boys in blue;
No hatred in our hearts to-day,
Although we wore the Southland's
gray:
.\nd when they bear me to my rest.
The old, torn blouse upon my breast,
May some one's mother sweetly say:
"God rest the one who sleeps in gray !"
James Melvin, of Kossuth, Miss.,
would like to heir from any surviving
members of the Whitworth Sharp-
shooters, Cleburne's Division.
A VALUABLE WORLD'S FAIR
FOLDER— FREE.
It you are going to the World's Fair,
St. Louis, write W. L. Danley, G. P. A.,
N., C, and St. L. Ry., for thirty-two-
page illustrated folder, containing bird's-
eye view and ground plan of the Ex-
position, list of hotels, map of the city
of St. Louis, and other interesting in-
formation regarding the Fair.
The best route to St. Louis is via the
Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis
Ry. Very low rates are now in eflfect.
"A Belle of the Fifties" is the title of
the latest Southern novel from the pub-
lishers, Doubleday, Page & Co., New
York. The book is the memories of
Mrs. Virginia Clay Clopton, of Alabama,
gathered from conversations, letters, and
memoranda, and prepared for publica-
tion by .-Vda Sterling. These memories
contain much of unpublished history.
Many incidents are related that throw
light upon facts which, at the time they
happened, seemed dark and mysterious.
Mrs. Clopton was fortunate in liaving
kept hundreds of letters, some of them
having been written by the most promi-
nent men of the period through the ad-
ministration of Pierce and Buchanan
and up to the year after the close of the
War between the States. The book is
liberally interspersed with anecdotes and
incidents of the most interesting men
and women of that period.
"Experience of a Confederate Chap-
Iain, 1861-65." By Rev. A. D. Belts,
D.D., of the North Carolina Conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church. South.
This is a 5x7 booklet of 100 pages neatly
bound in "Rebel Gray," containing ele-
gant half-tone engraving of a group of
Confederate chaplains and a present-day
portrait of the venerable author. It
makes thrilling reading for Confederate
veterans. Price, 25 cents, postpaid. Or-
der of Daniel L. Betts, Publisher, Pied-
mont, S. C, or of the author at Lil-
lington, N. C.
Special attention is called to the ad-
vertisement in this number of the book
by Mr. Comer L. Peck, of Florida.
Under the title of "Lorna Carswell," the
author has given a historical romance
faithfully drawn from events in that
period of our country from 1855 to 1875.
It is his sincere desire that these facts
should be known widely, and in giving
them a romantic garb he has simply
made them -of more interest to the gen-
eral reader without in any way pervert-
ing the truth. The book is highly com-
mended from high sources.
506
C^oQfederate l/eteraij.
SOVTHIVEST TEXAS, ST. LOUIS.
BROWNSVILLE. AND MEXICO RY.
Along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico,
between Corpus Christi on the north and
Brownsville on the south and extend-
ing westward up the fertile valley of the
Rio Grande for a hundred miles, a mag-
nificent territory has recently been
opened to the world by the construction
of the St. Louis, Brownsville, and Mexi-
co Railway, and which gives promise of
great activity in the development of that
section, heretofore left to nature's way.
This section of Texas, entirely di-
vorced heretofore from the commercial
and industrial world, and through un-
certainty of rainfall and absence of
moisture by any other means, stifled
every thought of agricultural develop-
ment.
Brownsville, a little city of a few thou-
sand inhabitants, and situated near the
mouth of the Rio Grande, was the center
of a prosperous small community for
whom the fertile soil under irrigation
from the river provided a generous
livelihood, but a vast stretch of apparent
desert lying to the north and west
blocked every move to secure rail com-
munication with the outside world.
During the past few months the en-
tire section has undergone a marvelous
transformation. Artesian water in un-
limited quantities has been discovered
throughout the entire territory, from
Corpus Christi to Brownsville, and a
new railroad, the St. Louis, Brownsville,
and Mexico, recently put in operation,
has liberated the section and presents it
to civilization.
Much has been done already to demon-
strate the remarkable fertility and pro-
ductiveness of the soil under irrigation,
and an army of home seekers is taking
advantage of its numerous opportunities
for scientific and diversified agriculture.
It appears that truck-gardening will
be developed first, as early vegetables
are always "early" during every month
of the year, and thrive at Christmas as
in the warmer days of May.
Sugar cane produces forty tons to the
acre and rice two cuttings a year, the
second of which is sufficient to pay all
cost of producing the entire crop. Al-
falfa yields from eight to ten crops dur-
ing the twelve months of the farming
year, each of which averages more than
a ton to the acre. Cotton and corn pro-
duce as abundantly, the second-named
yielding tw-o crops a year. Oranges,
lemons, and bananas grow rank in the
yards of private residences in both Cor-
pus Chris. i and Brownsville, and will
eventually become paying crops.
New towns are springing into exist-
ence at various points along the line, and
offer attractive inducements for the es-
tablishment of various industrial enter-
prises.
The railroad company, under the di-
rection of Mr. William Doherty, tin-
General Passenger and Ticket Agent —
offices at Corpus Christi — is directing
its efforts toward a rapid development
of its territory by securing lands at low
prices for home seekers and in every way
lending encouragement to prospective
investors.
L. R. Gunn, Waynesboro, Miss : "I
would like to make inquiry for a com-
rade from whose hand I extracted a
Minie ball during the battle of Chicka-
niauga, on September 20, 1863. I was
acting adjutant of the Seventeenth Mis-
sissippi Regiment in that battle. I have
forgotten the name of this comrade ; but,
if still living, he will doubtless remem-
ber the circumstance."
James Archer, Jr., of Pine Ridge,
Miss., wants January and March num-
bers of the Veter-^n for 1893. Please
write him before sending, stating price
asked.
James K. P. Graves, of fndependencc,
Oregon, was a member of Company A,
Tenth Missouri Regiment, and would
like to hear from some surviving mem-
ber.
FLAVELL'S ABDOMINAL SUPPORTER.
Give exact circumference
of ab<lomeu at K, L, M.
Silk Elastic
Thread Elastic
$5 00
3 00
Goods oeot by mall upon receipt of
price. Safe tlellvery KURruDtecd.
Senii fur pamphipt of Elastic Stocklngs, Trusses, Etc.
6. W. Fla«ell&Bro.. 1005 Spring Gardtn St.. Philadelphia, Pa.
«rE« I MlfLCa rortstatog. A«ents
wanted. COULTIBOPfWUi W. CUMa^Db
TilLL AliT'S CREAT 'BOOK.
"From the Uncivil War to Date."
1 famous writinKs, selected by himself shortly before his death.
I large tyjie. with wide margins, biography and illustration.s. $2.
The best of his famous writines. selected by himself shortly before his death. Memorial Edi-
tion, printed from l«.f,w -..j... " o .-o.-r-v ; . , .
Golderv opporlunity for canvassers. Ui-eatest seller issued in many years. Agents .>-
porting as high as twelve orders per ilay. Literal terms. Send thirty cents in stamps tor outht.
H\/T>CIJVS- 'P\/'BLISHIJ>fG CO.. Atlanta. Ga.
School Girls and Boys
Earn a WATCH, SIOXET RING, or FOUN-
TAIN PEN by .selling 6 c*.pie3 of " Songs of the
Confederacy and Plantation Melodies" at 60
oents each. Order at once.
Mrs. Albert nlitchell, Paris, Ky.
Rife Hydraulic En||ine.
Pumps water by water power.
Can be used where' hydraulic rami
fail. At>»olute air feed.
Will pump thirty feet
high for each foot of
tall.
Every One Guaimntcesl.
CMAVNCCY C. rOSTCR, SPECIAL AGENT,
8*0 Church Street, NatbTllle, Tenn.
BEST
PASSENGER SERVI6B
IN TEXAS.
♦-IMPORTANT GATEWAYS-4
e. P.TURNER,
Oen-l Pass'r and Tiokit AOENT,
Dallas, Ttx»*
WMMMil
Qoi)federatc l/eteraij.
50T
THE BEST PLACB
TO PURCHASE
ALL-WOOL
Bunting or
Silk Flags
of All Kinds,
Silk Banners, Swords. Belts, Caps.
and all kinds of Milltarv Equipment
and Society Goods is at
Veteran J. A. JOEL & CO.,
B8 Nassau Street, New York City.
SEND FOR PRICE LIST.
JAOKSONVfLLE
tI» Valdosta Rou(e, from \'aldosta via Georgia
Southern ioid Florida Kv., from Macc;n
via Oentral of Georgia Ry., from
ATLANTA
via Western and Atlantic R. R., from
CHATTANOOGA
NASHVILLE
m«hvlUe, Chattanoopa, and St. L
arriving at
ST. LOUIS
¥U the Nm«hvlUe, Chattanoopa, and St. LouU Vtj.
arriving at
CHICAGO
over the Illinois Centra! R. R. from Martin, Tenn
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE AND
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
MAINTAINED OVER THIS
SCENIC LINE.
Ticket agents of the Jacksonville-St. Louis and
Chlcu;o line, and agents of connecting- Hi^es Ic
Florida and the Southeast, wIU eive you full In-
lomuUlon as to schedules o€ttii^ doublo da"y serv-
ice to St. Ixnils^ Chicago, and the Northwest, ano
ol train time of lines connecting-. They will alsc
■eU you tickets and advise you as to rates.
P.D.MUXER Atlanta, Ga.
TkavvBog Passenger Agent L C. R. R-
F. R. WHKELER, Nashville, TtNN..
Commercial Agent.
/
^WFFTHFAPTQ ^■^^^' '^^^ mothers:
O TT L^L 1 ll£^rV.IX 1 Oa P""- '■<'™«i5' is cniarantm-rt to permanent-
i,ok:* c « J 1 , ^ , ' '}' iiVLTe the wnLsky- and beer-drinkinK
5»I^if„.^'''v '""",''• and harmless. Can be secretly given without the patient's knowledge
bend for particulars and consultation FREE. Address = -^^..ni»<igD.
CMBIVIICAU AND IVIBDICAU
W. B. BLIRKE. Secretary and Treasurer.
ASSOCIATION.
Atlanta. Oa.
The
Harriman ^oute
Travel via the TENNESSEE CENTRAL RAILROAD
to all .Summer Resorts east. The shortest and most direct
route to all interior resorts and Atlantic Coast Waterinjj Places.
Throurjh tickets on sale at all coupon ticket ottices. See that
your ticket reails via the Tennessee Central Railroad. For
further information apply to
E. H. Hinton, Tragic Manager. J^ajhOille. Tenn.
Great
Texas!
The Eyes of
the World Are
Upon Her.
The Home Seeker
W.-ints to know about her
" M.itchless " Climate and her
Cheap Lands.
The Investor
Wants to know not only about
her Cheap Land and Low
Taxes, but, as well, Her
Wealth of Mine and Forest,
and this is to let you know that
The International &
Oreat Northern,
Texas' Oi-eatest Railroad,
Traverses more than a thousand
miles of the Cream of Texas' Re-
sources, latent and developed, and
that \'Ou may learn more about the
GREAT I. & G. N. COCNTRY
by sending a 2-cent stamp for a
copy of the ILLUSTRATOR
AND GENERAL N.VRRATOR,
or 25 cents for a year's file of same,
or by writing
O. U. PRICE.
O. P. .» T. A., I. dk a. IN. R. R..
Palestine. Tex.
MISSO\/llI
TACIFIC
• • • 01^ • • •
IRON MOUNTAIN
ROVTE
From ^T. LO\/I.y
and MEMTHI,y
Affords Tourist, Prospector,
or Home Seeker the Best
Service. Fastest Schedule
to All Points in
MISSOURI, KANSAS, NEBRASKn\,
OKLAHOMA and INDIAN TERRI'
TORY, COLORADO, UTAH, ORE'
CON, CALIFORNIA, ARKANSAS,
TEXAS, LOUISIANA, OLD and
NEW MEXICO, and ARIZONA
Pullman Slskpbrs, Freb Re-
clining Chair Cars on All
Trains. Low R.ites, Free De-
scriptive Literature. Consult
Ticket Agents, or address
H. C. Townsend
G. P. and T. A.
St. Lovis, Mo.
R. T. G. Malthew*
T. P. A.
Louisville, Ky.
J
ioREtm|)rl5AAC-||i0HI50f(;EY£WATFR
508
Qopfederat^ l/eterap.
The Eye of the
J^ at i o n
Is Turned Toward
Id e ^ a ^
The best agricultural, indus-
trial, and commercial oppor-
tunities in the great Southwest
are located along the line of the
TejccL^ Cen-
trai rR. 7?.
which traverses the heart of
Texas. The H. & T. C. R. R.
maintains a well-equipped In-
dustrial Department, whose
business it is to represent the
hoove seeker — the l&nd buyer,
not the land dealer.
All requests for information
I appertaining to Texas will be
given prompt attention if ad-
dressed to
Wm. DoKerty Stanley H. Watson
A. G. P. A. Industrial A^nl
HOUSTON, TEX.
a
m w
The beet line to
INDIANAPOLIS.
REORIA.
CHICAGO,
And all points In Indiana and
Michigan.
CLEVELAND,
BUFFALO.
NEW YORK,
BOSTON,
AND ALL. POINTS MAST
iBfonsatioo cheerfully <«nii«l>e4 ob a»-
■Uaatton at CitT Tick«t (>•«• ''Big ttmr
■••t*," No. at Foartk ATeBB*, «- witta
t» t. ). Qatm, General Anat Fain^iK
DepartHcat, Louiitiixb, Kt.
California ll^'i'l^n]
tvUiflbta Ccmplar, anO Sovereign
(3ran0 TLoitQC, 1. 9. O. f.,
inectinK will lie held In San Francisro in
September, Very low rales via WABASH
and its conneolions. The WAliASH is tho
only line I'unning to the Main Kntrunce of
theWorM'a Fair Grounds. Holders of Wa-
bash ticket can hnve their bageage checked
to and from the Mnfrnillrent New Wabash
rasscnger Statimi, ilucctly at the Main En-
trance. Ten days' stop-civers allowed at St.
I^uis on one-way or roiind-irip tickets, go-
ing or returning;.
Gallon or write for particulars
F. W. GREENE, D. P. A., Wa-
bash R. R., Room 303 Urban
Building, l,oiii8ville , Ky.
N. C. & ST. L RY.
VIA MARTIN
Monday
EVERY
Tuesday
DAY
Wednesday
TO
Tliursday
ST. LOUIS
Friday
"WORLD'S
Saturday
FAIR
Sunday
ROUTE'
Ticket Office. Maxwell House, Church St.
Telephone 1 51
H. F. SMITH, W. L. DANLEY,
TRArFIC Man. aCN'L PASS. AOT.
NASHVILLE, TCNN.
How to Get Therm
QUICK
The Short Line. Via. Bristol
TO THE EAST
Throvigh Train
No CKa-rvge
Leave XKW ( iliI.EAXS, Q. & C 7:30 p.m.
■ .MKMPIIIS. S,.uthein Rv ll:«l p.m.
■ (•HArT,\N(l(>i;.\.S<mttinRy. 9:.'i.') a.m.
•■ KNd.XVILLE. Southern Rv 1:30p.m.
•• BHIST< iL. N. 4; W. Rv ' 7:t») p.m.
AriveLYXCHMrRG. X. & W. Rv 1:« a.m.
• WASIllXOTuX. D.CSo.lty. 6:.'>2 a.m.
•• BAl.TlMc lliE. .Md,, P. R. R 8:l»l a.m.
• PHILADKI.PHIA, P. R. R 10:1,5 a.m.
■' NEW YORK, P. K. R 12:43 p.m.
" BOSTON. N. Y., N. H.. & H »:-S) p.m.
Through Sleeper New Orleans to
New York
Through Sleeper Memphis to
New York
The finest Diuinar Car Service.
R,_'liable information eh, erfuUv furnishe<l by
Norfolk and Western Railway." 109 W. Ninth
.St. ^Kead House Bloekl, t'hattanooga, Tenn.
"\V.\KKKN L. RoHR. 'Western Paiwenger Agent,
ChattaiicH>ga. Tenn.
"W. B. Bevii,!,. (ieneral Paiiseuger Agent, Roa*
noke. Va.
NORTH TEXAS
^ POINTS ^
VIA
Santa Fe
TO
GeLlvestoiv, and Points
South, East, and
West. ^ ^ Equip-
ment, Service, and Cui-
sine unsurpatssed. ^
W. S. KEENAN. G. P. A..
Galveston, Tex.
Qopfederate l/eteraij.
509
Manless Land for Landless Man
And for him whose acreage is limited 1>ecau.se he cultivates a high-priced farm. There are
vast tracts
IN THE GREAT SOUTHWEST
Within stone's throw of farms in tho highest state of cultivation which are practically
manless, anil can be secured at one-fifth to one-tenth the market price per acre of an "<)la
State" farm. Write lor illustrated literature descriptive of Arkansas, Irjian Territory,
Oklahoma, or Texas.
Very Low Round-Trip Rates
To any Southwestern point every Tuesday in September and the tirst and third Tuesdays
in OctolKjr and November.
Rock Island
System
GE,0. H. LEE, J. J^. CO'KJ^A.T^Al'R.
General Passenger Agent, General Agt. Pass. Dcjit..
T-iTTi,K RiMK. Ahk. Mkmpims, Tknn.
^yire you Gotn^
East?
ir .yO. TAKE THE
SEABOARD
AIR. LINE RAILWAY.
DIRECT ROVTE AND A
PLEASANT ONE BETWEEN
South and East.
Superb TrSkinal
Pullman Dr&win^-Room Sleepers!
Comfortable Thoroughfare Cars I
C&.fe Dining Ca.rsl
For information as to rates, resem-
tions, descriptive advertising matter,
call on your nearest ticket agent or
address
WILLIAM B. CLEMENTS. T. P. A..
Atlanta, Ga.
Chu'Iei B. Ry«.n, W. E. CKristiut,
Q. P. A., A.G. P. A.,
Portsmouth, Va. Atlanta, Qa.
TRAVEL VIA THE
SOUTHERN
RA IL WA Y
The Great- ^ Through
— ' GBt!^ S 1 c e p 1 n g
^j-^^Car Nash-
ville to New
est
Southern
System
Double Dai-
ly Service
*
Nashville to
the East, via i
Chattaiioog-a
anil Ashevillc,
through
York.
Dining and
Observation
Cars.
1' u 1 1 m a n
Sleeping Cars
on all through
trains.
Elegant Day
Coaches.
" THE LAND OF THE SKY "
J. M. CcLP, 4th Vice Pros., W«shingt<in, D. t".
S. H. Hardwu-k. Pass. Traffic Manager,
■Washington, D. C. ..„,,.
W. H. Tavlok, Gen. Pass. Agt., Washing-
ton, D. C.
C. A. Benscotkr, Asst. Oen. Pass. Agt., Chat-
tanooga, Tenn.
J. E. Shipt.ev, Traveling Pass. Agt., Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
TAPE-WORM
DOfM. Nof«iting_ Inquired, Pond Scutdrnp for 44-p*z« Book.
DR. M. NEYSMrril. Speclfeilit, 800 Olive St.. bu Loute, Mo.
in tkl niii)tit«f
with boAd, or
'm^iBmmmmmy/m
THE WEST POINT ROUTE
Atlanta and West Point Railroad,
The Western Railway of Alabair.^.
Transcontinental Lines
Fast Mail Route
Operating the fastest scheduled train
in the Soutl>. To
TEXAS, MEXICO, CALIFORNIA
and all Southwestern points.
Superb dining cars; through Pullman
and tourist sleeping cars. For special
rates, schedules, and all information, ad-
dress
J. B. Heyward, D. P. A.,
Atlanta, Ga.
THROUGH SERVICE
VIA
L. & N.. E. & T. H. and C. & E. I.
2Vestlbijled Through Trains Dally />
NASHVILLE TO CHICAGO dL.
THROUGH SLEEPERS Axa DAY COACHES
NEW ORLEANS TO CHICAGO
DINING CARS SERVING ALL MEALS EN ROUTE
D. H. HILLMAN, 0. P A.. S. L ROOERS. Qcn. Aft
CVANSVILLE,
/ILLE. TtNM.
Mention VETERAN when you write.
510
Qopfederat^ l/eterap.
IN a mining proposition that will pay you :in income for life.
The Confederate Mining Co. owns outright 180 acres of rich
mineral land — rich in copper and gold — located in Maricopa
County, Arizona.
We advise you to buy this stock now, ; we shall soon have
funds enough to carry us to the dividend period. Then the
stock will be beyond reach. Write us to-day.
ADDRESS
R. W. Crabb, Treasurer, Uniontowrv, Ky.
THE MULDOON MONUMENT CO.,
322, 324, i26, 328 GREEN STREET, LOUISVILU, i(Y.
'OLDEST AND MOST REUABLE HOUSE IN AMERICA.)
Have erected nine-tenths of the Confederate Monuments in the United
states. These monuments cost from five to thirty thousand dollars. The
following is a partial list of monuments they have erected. To see these
aionuments is to appreciate them.
Cynthiana, Ky.
Lexington, Ky.
Louisville, Ky.
Raleigh, N. C.
J. C. Caliioun Sarcoptiagus,
Ciiarleston, S. C.
Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne,
Helena, Ark.
Helena, Ark.
Macon, Ga.
Columbus, Ga.
Thomasville, Ga.
Sparta, Ga.
Dalton, Ga.
Nashville, Tenn.
Columbia, Tenn.
Shelby ville, Tenn.
Franklin, Tenn.
Kentucky State Monument,
Chickamauga Park, Ga.
Lynchburg, Va.
Tennessee and North Caro-
lina Monuments, Chicka-
mauga Park, Ga.
Winchester, Va.
'/hen needing first-class, plain, or artistic work made from the finest qual-
ity of material, write them for designs and pries.
YOV ARE TO BE THE JVDGE
It \Va,« Trij»* 1:2 Vear*» A^o
AIND IT IS TRUE IN O W
Alan Says^ to Prove
lononiici'tl iiiiMirablc of Briqhrs
f^«i2a<J Wliat a IVliot-iiKan
IlKKMANSViLLE, Mini.— Ihail been , _ _
Disease In* three cniinont phj-sicians, vlu-n I roinmeni'cd Il^in'^ vitae-
Ore. I \vci^'lu'll abnul. KiO pnmuls, but in tliree inonlhs I \\-(Micho<l 14r>
ItomidH and was well and hearty. JIavo not snfTprod with my kbineya
sinrr, an<nt is twelve years miuu* I ilvst u-«od tlie V.-(>. I am now 5i>
\ oars old and bi-lii'vc i am pood for thirty years yet if I can baye V.-O.
U. H. Noiuiios-.
It
IVOT INKW, BLTX TRUB
Dauiel Webster once said about a certain iioliticul proposi-
tion: "There are lots of new thin::s about it and lots of true
tbinirs, Imt the trouble is that the NKW things are not TRUE
and theTUrK thin;rs are not N t-W."
Thirty days' trial— the proprietors take &.1I the risk—
you KqlVC nothing to lose. You are to be the iud^e
You liaye seen it before — all of you liayc. It has appeared
in this paper a dozen times a year tor a number of years. You
have all seen it, even though you may not have answered it.
It is not new, but it is all true. Yon haVe but to write, to send
for it, to direet that it be sent to you— and it is sent to you. No
questions, no quibbling, no money. If you want to pay for it, all
- -' ■ "■ ' * — J---* I ••- Enon-h ai"e satisfied,
ltIu. If you dont, you don't have to
What Yitae-Ore Is :
II^Ml'. 11 J^OU (It'll |j, JUU UUIIl lldVC lU. I.IIIMI^M 41 iV 3BIISIICU,
eiiuugh want to pav, enough do pay to make it pay the adver-
tiser, to make bis fame grow from year to year like a green
bay tree; and it is berause it is all triie. The claims for Vita?-
Hre are not new, but they are all true. Y«uir fcllow-reailcrs
who have sent O-r a package and tested it have proven Ibis. Its
history is an open book tliat all may read, and all will find it all
true.
If you arc sick and ailing, no matter what the trouble may
be, if you need be^>, if you want help, here Is the help lor you.
How can you, in justice to yourself and your family, your
frieufis, and those around you, refuse to accejit? How can you
refuse to be betind to the !ielp von want? liememher, we tai.a
all the risk! You are to be the jnd-e. IT IS ALL TRUE!
Sent on 30 Days* Trial— Read This Special Offer
WE WILL SEND to every worthy sick and ailing person wlio
wnles us, nientioninLC the Cunkkpi-UATK Vktekan, a full-
siKed 51 i>ackage of VIT,K-<)RK by mail, jiostpaiil, sntlieient
for one month's treatment, to be paid for within one month's
lime after receipt, if the receiver can trutiifuUy pay that its
use has done him or her more good than all the drugs and doses
of <|uacks or good doctors or patent medicines he or she has ever
u-^ed. Uead this over ajrain carefully, and understand that wo
avU our i«av only when it has done "you good, and not before.
We take all 'the risk; you have nothing to lose. If it docs not bcue-
ilt you, you iiay us nothing. We give you tliirty days' time to
try tiie meuicine, thirty days to see results before yoxi need
]iay 119 one cent, and you do m>t pay the one cent unless yon do
>-ee the results. You are to be the judgel We know that when
I his mon til's treatment of VlT.T--< t\lV. haseilhcr cured you, or
I'Mt you on the road to a e\ire, you will be more than wdling to
pay. \Ve know Vita'-Ore, an<l are willing to take the risk.
Vita*-Ore is a natural, hard, adaman-
tine, roeklike substance— mineral — Ore
' — minccl from the groundlike gold and
silver in the neif^bborliood of a'oncc powerful, butnow extinct,
iiilmral spring. It re<inires twenty years for oxidization t)y
e\iH)Mire to ilie nir, when it slakes down like lime, and is then
of iiie<liiinal value. It ccmtains free iron, free sulphur, and
! 1 ee m:iirne-iuin, tliree properties widch are most essential for
tlic reteiuion of healtli in the human system, ami one package
—one ounce — of the UKK, when mixed with a quart of water,
will equal in medicinal strength ami curative value 800 gallons
of the most powerful mineral water drunk fresh fnmi the
springs. Jt is a Rcological discovery, to which nothing is add-
ed ami from which nothing is taken. It is the marvel of the
eeiiiiiry b>r curing such diseases as Rheumatism, Bright's Dis-
ease. Blood Poisoning. Heart Trouble, Dropsy, Catarrh and Throat
Affections, Liver, Kidney, and Bladder Ailments, Stomach and Fe-
male Disorders, La Grippe, Malarial Fever, Nervous Prostration, and
General Debility, as thousands te-lifv, an-I as no one, answei hie
this, wriUngfor apaekaL-e, will deny after u-ing. VIT^-ORE
has cured more chronic, obstinate, pioi -unced incurable cases
ilian any other known mediciiie, and \\ill reach such cases
withamorera])idand powerful curative act iou than any med-
icine. coml)ination of medicines, or doctor's piesenptiims
wbicli it is jiosslble to procure.
Vita'-Orc will do tlie same for von as It baa for liundreds of
r)'a-lers ot the CONFiiOKKATE Vi:tkuan, if y<ni will pive it a
trial. Send for a *1 package at our risk. You have noibingto
lose but the stamp to answer this announcement. Wc want no
one's money whom Vita'-Ore cannot benefit. You are to be tbo
imliie! Can anvlhingbc mi>rcfair? What sensible ]»erson,no
"mailer how prejuiliced ho or she mav be, who ilesires a cure
and is willing to pav for it, would hcs'itate to try Vita^-Ore on
iliis liberal ofVcr? <tne paekairois usually snfilcient to cure or-
ilinary cases; two or three f<ir cliroiiie, obstinate cases. We
ineanjust what wc say In this announcement, and will do just
as wo apreo. Write to-day for a package at our risk and ex-
jien>;e, giving aire and ailments, and mention the Conpkdkkatk
ViTKKAN, SO we may know tliat you arecntilleil to this lilveral
olTer.
INot a Renny Unle^j^ You Ar© Benefited
This olTer will challenge the attention and consi.leration, and afterwar.ls the gratitude, of every living person who desires better health or
who enlVers pains, ills, and diseases wliicli have deiled the medical world an<l grown worse wilb age. U e care not for your skepticism, out ask
only your inve-iiKalion. and at our exi^ense, re;;ariiless of what ills y.m have, by writing to us for a package. Address
THEO. NOEL CO., VETERAN DEFT., VITAE-ORE BLDG., CHICAGO
Largest SoutKeriv Importers
100 -Piece Dinner Set
WE arc ulle ui llii;
five large im-
porters of china in
the Unilcd States;
one of tlie fc\%' firms
wlio can afford buy-
ers wlio live in Eu-
rope, and quickly
snap up for us any
bargains they see.
It pays to share
bargains with your
customers
This is our
claim to your
preference.
$12
50
Best English Porcelain, with traced gold deco-
ration. Thin, dainty China, with decoration of
very artistic pattern, something which you will
always be proud to have on your table.
100 -Piece Dinner Set
$625
TRADE-MARK
English print dinner set, standard make, border
pattern; colors of decorations, green, blue, and
pencil. Fine value for the pr'ce. For a family
dinner set, this is hard to equal. And so cheap!
If you desire to buy, we will ^ladiy mail individual butter plate of either set to show exact color and pattern
FITS LIKE A GLOVE
We know of noth-
ing which beats the
coal claw for keeping clean liands in winter. Four sharp,
strong, iron fingers liold tlie coal so It can*t possibly fall.
Hang it on the side of the coal scuttle. Always in place.
Saves dropping coal on the carpets and hearths.
Enterprise Trivet "2.^0
Almust as i;<Kid 3S a little
stdvc. Saves lots (if trouble Sunday
nights by boiling coffee, toaiiliiig bread,
hraling watt-r, etc.
Brass Fire Sets
This set illtlud^■^ poker, shovel, tongs,
and stand. F-ery parlor and sittins
room out »3
have one of
these sets.
They make the
room look ar-
tistic.
A\
J
Burnished Brass Fender
A beautiful piece of metat work, which is
just the thing for your parlor hearth.
$5^
PHILLIPS (Ei BUTTORrr
MFG. CO.
Hou4'e Furni4:hers
Nashville, 217-223 North coiiege Street, Teiinessee
11. C. ToMl.lNSDN. All. M;;r.
Vol. la
NASHVILLE, TENN., NOVEMBER, 1904
No. II
Qopfederate l/eterap
Mr .lohii S, \Villiilm^ li.'iir^ ii iiMfiuiiil r<'imt;i1 i..ii. iiinl it is "I ri-cilit t;' j"^
rmntrv His latlu-r, Clir siojiIilt Hnrris WMliiinis. cnl stcil n» a in-ivHli' siililu-r
m !i Mc-nipliisiToiiii.' ri.iiiiiiiliy early in ISiil. 1mt(i(iv, Isliniu U. Harris TOmmis-
siciiiid liim tci raisr a ri'iriineut, and as tin' piMiiiit loiimiandi'r ol tlu" Iwrlity-
Srv.-iilli Ti-mir>si-i> R. tiimcnt Ik- was kill. <i in tin- batth' of Shiloh .>n Sunday-.
This son . if H martyr to tin- ransc of tlir South u)ihoMs tbi' iirincipli's ot his
h.iii.'r. .1 Mii.'.'^t.'V- .'irln.ilii .1 in an ai'dr.--.^ I'.'nin ii\,Mish.vi
.1
rl- -:r;l>3Wym';g^'v.~'-.
514
Qoofederat? Uetera:)
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ESTABLISHED 1358
THE B, //. STIEF JEWELRY CO.
AHTICLKS ACTUAL SIZK l>K ILLUSTKATIO.N.
4KI1IC
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Rinti. '•i'ZivX D*v;r(*i\ Heavy S15
Sanifv witli Diatnond '.M
SiLTui-tKiiin. S.ilia Iruld IS
:^:,*nd D<'^;n*o Jjuim^ Buttxjn 'A
:L*ih1 Di'irrco Lapol Button. 3
Ilanih' Pin
Sc;irl Pin, Pearls 3
Knii^ht T<'Hii>lnr Charm 3')
Uianioiiri liin^ 40
Shrine Jjapcl B:itton
Brf
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Scarf Pin, one Pearl 1
Si-arf Pin. Roman (iold 1
Scarf HoldiT. Rose Gold 1
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S.-art
Brooc
Br oc
Broo.
Scart
Sr.-irf
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Bn.uc
Broo..
Brooc
Scarf
h, Pearls
h, Pearls, Diamond Canter.
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Pin, two Pearls
h, Pe
h, allPe.rls 1
h. Crown, Pearls.
Pin, one Pearl
Pin..
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Teaspoon. S^.lid Silver..
h, Roman, Diamond Center...
h. Peirls
Pin, Diamond Center.
The.se are only a few of the many attractive tbin)^ we have to offer. Onr mail order dl•^)ar^ment is prepared to handle your business
(iromptly, and w.- tjuarantee satisfaction. Our eataloj^ue "('"* contains illustrations of about 4,iHK) items of Jewelry, Watcihes. Silverware,
roilet (ioods, and Novelties. Write for booklet. "Holiday Gifts."
THE B. H. STIEF JEWELRY CO., -
404 Union Street, Sashvllle, Tenn. JAS. B. CARR, Treasurer and^anager.
C^opfederat^ l/eterai?.
515
Zl Manufacturers
OF HIQH-GRADE WOMEN'S WEAR
Mfikinc c^riiietits to onler
an. I si'lling direct to the
Wearer
\\V' MiTn lliv tiuvLT tins
Man=Tailored
Tourist Coat
al a si>ci ial pricc^
$7.50
, .47 — \\'nnien's
Man-Tailored
Tourist Coat
Hadu Iroiii wool mix-
tures in netit pat-
terns. Intost stylo,
pnlcli I'ncic o"t s .
fancy cuff. L.i lc
stylo back will.
Ix'lt, •irniiirimtcd
^v i I li buttons.
Inliiu'd. A coat
lli't will rclnil
..lily al $1(1
R. H. GRAYDON AlFG. CO. 'S.\;T;;r,'\\;
I3|^ V^ A I MA^fTELS
■^^^^-^ * ./-V1.-4A.INL> ORATES
H.ivc .in establislicd rcputa-
tirin for correct Style, Finish,
"Workm-inshipand Material.
AVhy? BecausewescII direct
from factory to'home, and
put into our poods the profit
generally alloMcd the mid-
dleman.
We sell a Beautiful
MA. INTEL
as low as $5,75
Guaranteed too.
Send for mir liand?;ome Ixtok
the" AdvantcCourier"of the
Royal Line, showing many
bpantirutorir dPklirni. It will save you money on any kind of
M.intrls. Grate!^, Tiles or l-irc-PIace ritliiijrs.
WHITE MANTEL & TILE CO.
624 Pay Street. - - KNOXVILLE. TENN.
GATARRH=ASTHMA
1 hroDt, I, line*, llrnf-
in'ss. Hiiii Itrt-ath, j
('UKEI> While Voa \
SKKKI*. Hard Cftses
prefi'rred. 60dflyeFreel
Womlerful Inhalant;'
^Common Sense Appllca- I
.(^^tlon; Aninztng Results.
'' TTuvpf-nslve, Pleasant,
^riiMito, Safe, Certain. .
' AvtmiUhlnB Cur»*s of.
Asthma and Knitg^s. j
Hook with ample proof
y. _(vnd valuable inft>rnia- j
' tion Free. CnMhi»out^\
it mnyniit iipprnr enjniti.
^ C. O. CATAKItll CIKK. IS40 TnnBan'n St., CHICAGO
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I'll-., the names of tin- >niici\s. and jjost ollicc adi'.ivsscs.
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at
For
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porting as bi(;1i us twolvo ord -rs jirrday. LilxM-iil t 'rnis. S.Mid thirty oont.H iii stamps lor outfit.
HX/rtGIJ^S ■PX/'BLISHIJ^G CO. Atlanta. Ga.
SWEETHEARTS.
WIVES. AND MOTHERS:
Our remedy is guaranteed to permanent-
ly cure the wlusky- and boi^r-drinking
haltit. Safe, sure, and harmless. Can be secretly jfiven without the patient's knowledge.
Send for partieiilars and consultation FREE. Address
CHHMICAl^ AIND MEDICAL
W. B. BURKE. Secretary and Treasurer.
ASSOCIATION,
Atlni-ita.
Oa.
t . B R K \ E R ' S
RUSSIA/S AND TURKISH BATHS
and First-Class Barber Shop lor Gentlemen Only.
SU Chunh St., .NASllVILLK, TENN.
Russian and Turkish Baths for Ladies Only,
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING.
Open day and night. V . C. It tKSKIKI.D, Proprietor.
Harvest for Good Solicitors.
STORY or STONEWALL JACKSON
Hv Willinni C. Chnsc. Most onnipl.'to life of
.l:i,-ks..n i.nlilislK-il. Ii..l..ls.il l.v Ili.> wiil.nv
"f *:rii .lackKon. ('unniiaiuhMs nf ihu ('.('. V..
mill till' invss "f till' i-iiliii>.Miii,iMv. ili(;lii"'t
coinniissinii to at'i'iits. F.M-liisivi- ti'vritnry.
A.l.lr. »» D. E. LUTHER PUBLISHINO CO..
Atlnntn, G.'».
510
Qoi>federat^ \/eterai>.
BUFORD COLLEGE
NASHVILLC. TCNN.
FOR YOUNG WOMEN. LIMITED AND SELECT.
The Di»lincli»rlv Liii*rr*ii>- I'rcpatatofv CoIlcEC of
the South for Women. Patronf will »rck in vain a more
ideal Incaiion than "Bcaulort." Peacefully she trkts
amid Xhf "ttrcneth and beauty" of hill and vale and
mighty foie»t scene, yet m close touch with the great ed-
ucational center of the Soulh, A charming campu« of 2f
acres, pure air, water, and food, combined with ouldoor
athletics. I splendidly equipped building, perfect fiini
tation, and con>tant pcrM^>na? care promote the excellent
health of the student body. The limited enrollment.
Christian atmokphcrr. comprehensive curriculum, lead-
ing to degrees and preparing tor all univctiiiies. with
Consrtvalory advantages in Art. Music, and Expression,
must commend this thorough college to all thoughtful
parents. The cultured faculty of university graduates,
strengthened by the scholarly lecture corps and access
to Vanderbilt laboratories, oflcr unrivaled opportunities
for "The Malting of a Woman." Write for beautiful
"Gray and Gold Veatbook." and read the testimony ot
enthusiastic patrons from every ^ectio^ nt the country.
MRS. E. C. BUFORO, Prasldant.
Scholarship Free
Fob one Month. Clip and send cr
present this notice for
particulars.
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ALL EX^CONFEDERATES
SHOULD HAVE A COPY OF
Robert Dcvoy — A Talc of the
PALMYRA MASSACRE,
By FRANK H. SOSEY,
October l8. l86z, ten Confederate prisoners were taken
from ihr jail at Palmyra, Mo., scaled upon ten pine cof-
fins, and shot to death by orJcr of Ccn. John McNeil,
commanding the Union forc« 9 in North Missouri. No
incident of tlie Civil War has attracn-d such altrntion as
the Palmyra Ma. acre, yet until now no history of the
terrible tragedy has been written for general circulation.
In this book appears a true and graphic account of the
tcrri'ilc butchery, a:id t!ic causes leading to ii, a copy of
the farewell lelt^-r of Hiram Smith, the yonng hero who
died in tlie pl.-..e of one of the condcmnrd men. the
change being m.ide only two hours before the time set
for ihc execution, and the terrible terms on which the
wife of the reprieved man secured his liberty at the
hands of the l*n>vo>t Mar:;hal. \V. R. Strachan.
The publication of this l)ook at the present time \s
particularly appropriate, as the Palmyra Confeder.ite
Monument Assncialion has been formed for the purpose
of erecting a monument to the memory of the martyrrd
soldiers.
Bound in Cloth, by mall, SI.OB; Paper-bound, 50 cents.
PALMYRA SPECTATOR, Palmyra, Mo.
FLAVELL'S ABDOMINAL SUPPORTER.
(iivo exact circunift.ronoe
of aljiiouieu lit K. L, M.
Silk Elastic ■ $5 00
TKreid Elastic ■ 3 00
■lit t.v mail ti|>(,ii rfi'oipt ot
S:.r.- .l.llv.rv .'luirniiiL-cd.
Send for p«niphi»i of Elastic stockings, Trusses, Etc.
8. W. Fla«ell&Bro., 1005 Spring Garden St.. Philadelphia Pa.
ioRElmDrljAAeiJioHWEYEWATER
I Not
Cheapest
Least
Expensive
THE, CREjAT
MAJESTIC
MALLEA'BLE IlKOJSf AJSID STEEL
-^E^ RANGE ^
Is noNv for sale tKroughout the SoutKerrv States by first-class dealers
r
La-ifj- longer
Hcais more ii^aler
Heals it quicks''
Gi-de-r better general
Sati-ifaction
Than any other
If iiitercsttHl. write for catalogue ami prices, anii ask wliy \vc claim the
maje;stic the; best
MAJESTIC MFG. CO., 2026 Morg.,. s.., ST. LOVIS
t^^
SINCE 1858
C. p. BARNES ft CO.,
Headquarters For Santa Claus for
Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry,
Silverware and Optical Goods.
Ilfispromi of imr niJUlalion .tiicI <.ur
line, as we si-U nothuiK but the best
at prices tliat are rinht. lie will be
very pleased to deliver your order fer
you. Our new illustrated 52 page Cat-
aloj^e sent free on refjuest.
C. P. BARNES 4 CO.
504 « 50e W. Market St. LOUISVILLE, KV.
School Girls and Boys
Earn a WATCH, SIGNET RING, or FOUN-
TAIN PEN by selling li eopies of " Sotigs of ths
Confederacy and Plantation Melodies" at 50
cent« each. Order at onco.
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Quick
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Removes all swelling in 8 to JO
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.given free. Nothingcan be fairer
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Knteri'd at the pcist offici- at Nashville, Tenn., as second-class matter.
Contributors are requested to iiw only one side of the paper, and to abbrevi-
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Where clippings are sent copy should be kept, as the \'ktf.rax cannot tm-
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instance, if the "N'etfkax is oriJered to be^^in with January, the date on mail
list will be December, and the suliscriber is entitled to that number.
The ("A'// war was too long" ago to be called the latf war, and when cor-
respondents use that term *' War between the States'* will be substituted.
The terms " new South" and "lost Cause'* are objectionable to the Veteran.
orrrciA llv r epresex ts .•
Unitki) Confederate \'tTM(ANs,
United Daughters of the CoNFEnERAcv,
Sons of Veterans, a.d Other Orga>hzatioxs,
Confederated Soithern Memorial Association.
The Veteran is approved and indorsed oflicially by a larger and more
elevated patronage, doubtless, than any other publication in existence.
Though men deserve, they may not win success;
The brave will honor the brave, vanquished none the less.
Price, $1.00 per Year
Single Copy, 10
ll^l Ko'- XII.
NASHVILLE, TENN., NOVEMBER, 1904.
VT„ 11 J S. A. CUNNINUHAM
L^K). 11. ( Proprietor.
ISSLES OF THE ir.lR DISCISSHP.
AnriREss to Company A, U. C. V.. .\t .Memthis.
[The following are extracts frntii a printed a(ldrcs,s by Hon.
John Sharp Williams. Member of ibc V. S. House of Repre-
sentatives from Mississippi. The pamjihlct is sent out with
the compliments of Col. R. B. Snowden, from Memphis.
Tenn]
One of the I'en ConnnaMclinenl^ delivered by Jehovah to
Moses on Sinai, and not the least of the ten. is ibis: "Honor
thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the
land which the Lord thy God givcth thee." Like all the other
commandments of God to his children, this applies not only
to the individual man, but lo men in the aggregate — men in
organized .societies forming governmeiUs, constituting peoples.
Just as the boy who does not honor his father and mother is
apt lo bring his own life lo an untimely end. as a eonsccpiencc
of experimenting in new and foolish paths to the neglect of the
advice, accumulated experience, and teaching of those who
have seen the world before him, so a people who forget the
history, despise the traditions, ignore the ideals, and fail ti
share the aspirations of their ancestry are a people not apt
to conserve anything — neither their own power nor great-
ness, nor their very living in the land itself. . . .
We hear nnich about a "New South." Ihcre is no New
Soutli. What there is of change is a change in the direction
of the energies of the people; and if there be anything great
and good in the so-called "new" South, as far as I have been
able to ascertain, it is always something whose growth has
its roots in the soil of the Old South. Everything admirable
in the so-called "new" South is b\nh upon the old. as a house
is builded upon the rock of its foundation. We hear much
<if letting the "dead past bury its dead." No poet who was a
philosopher, and perhaps no real ])oet, would ever liave uttered
that sentence. There is no such thing as a dead past. . . .
Ladies and gentlemen, thirty-nine years ago there oc-
curred near the little village of Appomattox, in the State of
N'irginia, one of the most memorable and pathetic scenes in
all history. A few ragged and half-starved men were snrren-
<lcred, and with them there was seemingly surrendered a cause
for which they had fought for four years. This seeming
made it sadder. It is useless lo picture the scene: Lee for
tlu first time for many montlis in bright new miiform, with
new sword: Grant, rough from the field, with his officers about
him; the few brief words spoken around the table, where the
teriTis were agreed to ; the silence and sadness which pervaded
the minds and marked the conduct even of the Federal offi-
cers and men : the scene a lew minutes later when the Confed-
irate chieftain was among his men; tlie tears coursing down
nigged cheeks, that had perhaps never felt them before : men
iitnrnina, with no vision of hope to cheer them, to lives of
hardship and of labor : a despairing people and a desolate
land! It is useless to picMu-e all this. I say, because the imag-
ination of each old veter.ir here pictures it all for himself, a!id
I very child has heard it told so often that it ])resenls itself
in vivid coloring even to his mind. This marked really the
war-close of a great struggle, and when we gather, as we
yearly do, upon the anniversary month of that event, on our
decoration day, the celebration, in its beauty and in its sad-
ness, is a fitting one. . .
Rut in everything which rational men do. in which there
is either beauty or pathos, there must also be a reason. What
is it. then, which we celebrate on an occasion like this? Is
ii mere physical emtrage? If it were, the world in all of
its history could not find a physical courage superior to that
of the men who died or surrendered under Lee, Jackson, and
the Johnstons. But mere physical courage is a thing too com-
mon amongst the men of the race to which we belong to be
worthy of any sort of celebration for its own sake. Mere
fighting is no virtue: far from it. Indeed, the man who is
not great enough and brave enough not to fight when he
ought not to is a poor excuse for a man. S)>eaking for my-
self, I have no admiration of the professional fighter, whether
he be a Te.xas cowboy or a West Point graduate. . . . Why
do we meet ? What is the jjurpose of our coming together? Is
it to keep alive the memory of a "lost cause?" Is it the "lost
cause" which we celebrate? Not a whit of it, for, if it is,
we have no cause to celebrate. In the economy of God, there
ire no los; causes in this world, except wrong causes. Ir.
every cause which has ever existed, whether it has apparently
prevailed or apparently gone down, there have been some
things — mere accompaniments, perhaps — which were wrong,
but in every cause worthy of celebration there have been
things which were not wrong but right, and which, being eter-
nally right, have not gone down as lo.st forever, tbongh. per-
haps, temporarily eclipsed. .
Wc meet lo celebrate the cause and tin- nun of the six-
ties. What was the cause? Was it secession? Not a whit
of it. Secession was merely the remedy which was invoked
for the assertion of a right, for tlie maintenance of a cause.
It had been twice before virtually invoked in these United
States, though the sword had not been drawn to support its
invocation — once by New Englanders. in opposition lo what
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they considered the tyranny of the Embargo Laws, and once
by the South Carolinians in denial of the constitutional right
of a government of all the people to levy tribute upon all the
people in order to make the capital of a part of the people
more profitable, or the labor of a part of the people better
compensated. War delcrniined that the remedy should fail,
and I think we are all agreed that it is well that the remedy
failed. 1 think we are all ready to go forward, marching
shoulder to shoulder, with an eye to the possibilities of the
future, rejoicing in the lusty strength of a great and reunited
people. What was the cause, then? Was it slavery? Not
a whit of it. Slavery was undoubtedly the occasion of the
quarrel and of the figlit ; but had the South been attacked in
any of her other property or civil rights, she would have de-
fended them just as readily; in fact, more readily than she
did in this case. It was merely upon the side of slavery that
our right to local self-government was attacked. . . .
But there was something else, and even a greater cause
than local self-government, for which we fought. Local self-
government temporarily destroyed may be recovered and
ultimately retained. The other thing for which we fought is
so complex in its composition, so delicate in its breath, so
incomparable in its symmelrj', that, being once destroyed, it
is forever destroyed. This other thing for which we fought
was the supremacy of the white man's civilization in the
country which he proudly claimed his own ; "in the land which
the Lord his God had given him;" founded upon the white
man's code of ethics, in sympathy with the white man's tra-
ditions and ideals. Our forefathers of the forties and fifties
and sixties believed that if slavery were abolished, unless
the black race were deported from the American States, there
would result in the Southern States just such a condition of
things as had resulted in San Domingo, in the other West
Indies Islands, and in the so-called republics of Central and
South America— namely, a hybridization of races, a lowering
of the ethical standard, and a degradation, if not loss, of civ-
ilization. . . . Slavery is lost, and it is certainly well for
us and the public — perhaps for the negro — that it has been
lost. But the real cause for which our ancestors fought back
of slavery, and deemed by them to be bound up in the main-
tenance of slavery — to wit, the supremacy of the white
man's civil ization.^|^fc|upremacy of the ethical culture,
which had bee|fl|[^^^^M)uilt up through countless gener-
ations— has n^^l^^^^^^We have not had the experience
of the counties tot^Prouth of us; but I ask you, my friends,
in all ipbciness and candor, to ask yourselves how and why
we escan^pthe evils which befell others from identical causes,
under snnilar, thougli not identical, conditions? What pre-
vented the Africanization of the South? We escaped, but
those of you, even no older than I am, will remember by what
a slender thread we held to safety. You will remember the
ten long years of so-called reconstruction which made the
four long years of war itself seem tolerable by comparison,
the ten long years during every day and every night of
which Southern womanhood was menaced and Southern man-
hood humiliated. . . . The brethren of our own race, in
our own country — the country whose pen had been Jefferson,
whose tongue had been Patrick Henry, and whose sword had
been Washington — were against not only us but the race
itself — its past, ■ its future — were seemingly bent only on two
things — our humiliation as a race in the present, our subordi-
nation as a race in the future. . . . There is no grander, no
more superb spectacle than that of the white men of the
South standing from '65 to '74 and '75 quietly, determinedly,
solidly, shoulder to shoulder in jihalanx, as if the entire race
were one man, unintimidated by defeat in war. urawed by
adverse power, unbribed by patronage, unbought by the pros-
pect of present material prosperity, waiting and hoping and
praying for the opportunity which, in the providence of God,
must come to overthrow the supremacy of "veneered sav-
ages," superficially "Americanized Africans" — waiting to re-
assert politically and socially the supremacy of the civiliza-
tion of the English-speaking white race. But what gave
them the capacity to do this sublime thing, to conceive it and
to persevere in it to the end? to vi-ait like hounds in the
leash — impatient, yet obedient to the call of the huntsman's
horn — which came upon the heels of the autumn elections in
the Northwestern States in 1874? What gave this capacity
to the "easy-going, indolent, life-enjoying" Southerner? What
if not four years of discipline, training, hardship? Four years
whicii taught the consciousness of strength and mutual cour-
age, ilie consciousness of capacity for working together, the
powLT and the desire of organization, and which gave them,
with it all, a capacity for stern action W'hen required by stern
events? But for the war — the lessons which it taught, the
discipline which it enforced, the capacity for racial organiza-
tion which was born with it — I, for one, do not believe that
conditions in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Mississippi to-day
would be very far dilTcrcnt from what they are in Hayti, Cuba,
or Martinique.
Neither of these causes is a lost cause. . . . The very
nun who told us in the sixties and the seventies that "one
man was as good as another," no matter what the state
of his civilization, no matter what his race traits and tenden-
cies, are the very men who now, in establishing new gov-
ernments in the new insular possessions, not only admit,
but strenuously contend for the necessity of making such
provisions of law as will prcvL-ni tlu' white men in those pos-
sessions from being ruled by ether races. The act of Congress
for the government of tlie islands of Hawaii is almost iden-
tically the Mississippi Constitution reenacted, and the reason
for its passage was the same — namely, to secure, as far as
possible, without violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments, the w.hite man's supremacy there, and this, too,
although the native Kanakas in the Hawaiian Islands have
a percentage of illiteracy less than that of any State in the
Union .except one, and although the white men in the islands
do not constitute one-fifth of the population.
My friends, there is no other instance that 1 know of
where men having apparently lost a cause by four year> of
fighting subsequently preserved it by ten years of unterri-
fied solidarity, superb patience, and magnificent conunon sense.
I believe the world knows about us now these two things:
First, that we have the strength of a giant ; and, secondly, that
we can be trusted not to use it like a giant — brutally and irra-
tionally. So much for the cause of the sixties. . . .
And yet, my friends, there are people who say that al)
this sort of talk is "sentiment ;" that what we want to do is
to "come down to cotton and corn and pork ;" buying and
selling, negotiating bank exchange; that everything else is
"sentiment," and that seiitiment is "rot." Let it be a point
with you, young boys and girls, to remember that the only
thincr ill this world which is not "rot" is sentiment. That
thnig IS rot which can last a man only a lifetime — which rusts
and corrupts and decays — that thing, in other words, which
can rot. Your cotton and proiluce are "rot ;" your bank ex-
change is "rot;" your talk about mere material prosperity, as
the chief aim and object and existence of man, is "rot,"
because when you come to lie down and die and be placed
withi" your narrow habilation, six or seven feet by three or
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four, not one of these things, nor things gained in this way, can
you carry with you, nor present as a part of yourself at the
chancel of God. They are well enough— we want them, and
plenty of them — but they are of the earth earthy and exceed-
ingly temporal. It is only your sentiments and the principles
upon which they are based, as a house founded upon a rock,
and the purposes, aspirations, and ideals which grow out
from them, as a tree does from its sub-soil roots, that yon
can carry with you, because they have become a part of your
immortal souls. . . . Business is all riglii, so is money-
making. Every man should be diligent m business. We have
apostolic authority for that. Every man should want to make
money, in order that he may look all other men straight in
the eye, with the independence of a true manhood, owing no
man anything, saying with poor Bobbie Burns :
"Not for to hide it in a hedge.
Nor for train attendant ;
But for the glorious privilege
Of being independent."
But the man who subordinates his nature, who prostitutes
his chief energies, to the business of piling one dollar upon
another, who forgets that there are flowers and poetry, a past
and a present for himself and for his race, on earth and in
heaven, who has narrowed himself to the point where every-
tliing but money-making and so-called business has become
"rot," would be bored to death in the kingdom of heaven
in twenty-four hours. ... A country without memories
is without history, a country without history is without tra-
ditions, and a country without traditions is without ideals and
community aspirations, and a country without these is with-
out sentiment, and a country without sentiment is without
capacity for achieving noble purposes, developing right man-
hood, or taking any truly great place in the history of the
world.
I have talked about your leaders, but, my friends, what
makes leaders ? . . . Tlic greatest leaders nnist have fol-
lowers worthy of them. . . .
I have mentioned some of the great leaders on land and
at sea of the great army of the Confederacy, but have failed
as yet to mention its crowning glory, which was the private
soldier.
Taken all in all, no body of private soldiers like that of
the Confederacy has ever existed or fought under any leader-
ship. They were equally great on the march ; on the defen-
sive; on the attack, when the order to charge came; in prison,
where "durance vile" and suffering for food on the one hand,
and the temptation of offered freedom on the other, were
equal inducements to desertion.
1 remember the Confederate soldier best of all when he was
on the march. I can sec him now winding his way through
the dust, shoe-mouth deep, unwashed, unkempt, but jovial
still. I can hear his voice as he passes the big gate : "Buddy,
does your grandma know you are out?" "Sissy, who painted
your lips so red?" No wonder that, with all the raiding and
counter-raiding, passing and counter-passing of war, the boys
of my age — nine, ten, or eleven years — thought that the j oiliest
life in the world must be that of a soldier, and looked forward
to the time when they might be permitted to participate in it ;
not as a day of great responsibility, inaugurating a life of
much danger, but as a sort of holiday, when fun would be
unending and jokes ever recurrent.
Th'~rc existed once a man by the name of Hannibal ; later
a Corsican, Napoleon Bonaparte by name; earlier another Ital-
ian from Rome, of the genus Julius, surnamed C»sar —
all of whom thought they knew something about the impor-
tance of time in military operations, something about march-
ing infantry, so as to be "at the point of crisis with the largest
numbers first ;" but one Thomas Jonathan Jackson, surnamed
"Stonewall," because he could, when that was the thing
to do, stand still like a stone wall, might, in this game of
marching, have given either of these world captains an
advantage of three out of five and beaten them to the goal; and
an unlettered man, guiltless of military training, untutored
n. the SL:-.nce of war. half West Tennesseean and half North
-Mississippian, by name Bedford Forrest, could not only have
taught them how to move cavalry quicker than they knewr,
but could have revolutionized for them, as he did for the
modern world, the art of war by changing cavalry into
"mounted infantry," with all the advantage of cavalry on
the march, and all the advantage of infantry in the fight.
. . . One of the inexplicable tilings to me about the South-
ern soldier is this, that he seemed to have been, for the most
part, without a sufficiency of anything in the world except guns
and ammunition. He developed a marvelous and unparalleled
capacity for starving and going naked, but somehow he
seems never to have been without guns and ammunition, at
least enough to start a battle on.
1 have said the Southern soldier was great on the march,
but marching, after all, is only "getting there." . . . Critics
were right when they said the Southerner would be great on
the charge. The world has witnessed some great charges
in its day. . . . But where, in all the history of all the
charges, do you find exploits comparable to that beginning
at Savage Station and continuing on through the seven days
and ending at Malvern Hill? to that of the Texans, when
they told Lee to go to the rear, in the Wilderness? to that
suicidal, murderous, and unavailing onslaught of the Confed-
erate infantry upon the breastworks of Franklin? and, above
all. to that of Pickett and his men at Gettysburg? I can see
them now, the reluctantly obedient and sullen corps com-
mander sitting upon the fence, Pickett saluting and asking:
"General, shall I carry my men in?" Longstrect's bowing
without a word. I can hear the Virginian giving his orders,
see him in his place with head bared, see the sweep of the line
without a break, as it goes across and up the long slope, the
orders almost noiselessly passed to clqs^jm as the artillery,
and later the musketry, tear the rank%^H^H(s ; I can see the
long slope from one end of that gra;^^^^H|M^ther. in the
course of it.s march by the dead and d^^Prcai^^; the few
who attained the height vaulting, sword in hand, or with
clubbed musket, into the enemy's intrenchment. I^^^see
them looking about to find themselves surrounded b^klue-
coated soldiers — more than enough without arms to have tied
them with pocket handkerchiefs. I can see those few — O, so
few — looking back over that long, long slope to find not one
gray coat in sight for a support — Lee's orders not carried out.
I see them then, despair of desperation settling upon them,
some surrendered and some beginning to break back to the
Confederate line; I can hear later the anguished and agonizing
reproach of Pickett, when he states to Gen. Lee that his
n^agnificent division has been swept out of existence, and I
can hear Lee, with a greatness of soul, a magnanimity of
which he alone was capable, saying, "Never mind, General,
it has all been my fault," and to the men : "You must help me
get out of this as best we can." In comparison with this
demonstration of the courage of the soldier and the magna-
nimity of the leader, what could you quote from all his-
tory? . . .
But if this Southerner were a great soldier, wha" made
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him so? There must be some reason for it. or else it cannot
be true. What are the private soldiers of a volunteer army?
They are simply the plain people in uniform. The soldiers
of the Confederacy were great then, because they were a great
people, because they were a free ami equal people, an ultra
democratic people. Free. i)roud of their liberties, proud of
their determination to maintain ilu-m; e<|ual. no man daring to
assert, throughout all the Southern land, any inherited or
acquired superiority over his fellows, except that given by
character and knowledge. ... In the Confederate army
there marched, 'shoulder to shoulder, men whose fathers
owned their hundred negroes and their five thousand acres,
and the sons of overseers or of poor yeomanry, who owned
nothing e.xcept the crops they made each year. The Con-
federate soldier, when off duty, if intimacy in private life justi-
fied it, as it nearly always did. called his colonel "Henry."
his captain "Jim" or "Jack." I have frequently heard nu-ii,
up North especially, talking about "Southern aristocracy."
Except in the early days upon the tide water of Virginia and
in the low country of South Carolina, nobody in the South
ever assumed to be an aristocrat, for if he did the 1)alance
"jes' laflfed," and even in those localities the assunijuion owed
its birth to colonial conditions and died nut, or was dying out,
with them. Talking once in the cloakroom at Washington
to a gentleman from the North, who had said scmuihiug about
Southern aristocracy, I said: "It takes just two things to
constitute an aristocrat down South: one is to be white and
the other is to be decent." Being white costs nothing — a
man is born that way. Being decent is not expensive — water
is cheap, all that is necessarily added is to be clean in thought
and speech, as well as in person. Thus, we can all be Southern
aristocrats whenever we choose. Our people were always
democratic; in fact, slavery bad that effect in the Smuli, wliicli
it has had in all countries where one race has held aiiotlur
in slavery. The line of demarcation between the slave and
the free man was a line so broad and so marked that it vir-
tually wiped out all other lines of demarcation in society. . . .
In enforcement of what 1 said to my Northern friend
in the cloakroom. 1 added that in my own town I had seen
a citizen paint the outside and paper the inside walls of a fel-
low-citizen and afterwards dined at that fellow-citizen's house,
with the Governor of the State, and the bishop of the Episco-
pal Church, and that he dined there as the admitted equal of
his host and of the guests, without condescension of any sort,
simply because be was a good citizen and had been a good
Confederate soldier. . . . This i)Iain people, such as I
have described them, being put in uniform, constituted what a
generous-minded Nortlieni officer li;is called "the incom])arabIe
infantry of Nortbern Virginia, with bare feet and tattered
uniforms, but bright muskets." Well might he use the word
"incomparable." What other soldiery in the history of the
world, viewed solely in the cold, historical light of actual ac-
com|)Iishment, has been comparable to it? . . . The "plain
people in uniform." the private soldiers of the Confederacy,
were great, because of their democracy, race pride, and en-
vironment. But in addition to environment there are other
things which determine the character of a man or of a peopK-.
Heredity is one, ))erbaps the chief. . . .
Their ideal was all that was highest and best and bravest
and most chivalrous among the acquirements of the race to
wdiich they belonged — the culmination of duty and persnnal
honor. . .
Men are made great soldiers by what they fight for as
much as by what they are, and you old veterans, growing
daily older in years and fewer in muiibers, do not imagine
that you and those who fought with you deserve all of the
credit for the magnificent courage, the superb fortitude, which
you displayed. You showed the "mettle of your pasture."
Vou ought to have fought better than anybody else. You
fought for more than anybody else ever did. You had more
lo fight for. You not only fought for the right of local self-
government, for the supremacy of the race, and for the very
life of your civilization, but you went forth lo fight for them
at the bidding rf a pure, home-keeping womanhood, the very
tlower and fruit of it all; the sweetest, gentlest, purest wom-
anhood that the world has ever seen, and, too, a womanhood
which encouraged lo action and pointed the finger of scorn
at the laggard. Vou fought for all these and. last but not
least, for your land. The land itself was and is a glorious
thing. The land we live in 1 I'lie land we love ! God sun-
kisses the heights and throws shadows upon the valleys of no
sweeter land in all tliis world. It is a laml tn live in. a land
to die for. . . .
The Southern people present the unparalleled spectacle
to the world of being the only people who. for four years,
bore upon the points of their bayonets a cause which appar-
ently they lost, and, coming forth from the struggle ruined
and despairing, came forth at least not discordant. They
alone of all men under such circumstances have failed and
refused lo make a scajiegoat of a single great man in their
military or civil eniploy. who led them to the unsuccessful
issue, 'I'hey know. wliatr\cT the world may think, that it
was they themselves win. led themselves. They and their
children will brook no word of reproach of Lee, of Jackson,
of the Johnstons, of Hampton, of Stuart, and their jialadins,
nor upon their military leaders, nor of reproach or censure of
"The Great Mississippian," who, in his person, bore the suf-
ferings of us all, and who lived at llu- conclusion for only
one ijurpose- — to draw up and give to the world a dispassionate
and true account of the cause for which you fought and of
the manner in which you fought it — Jefferson Davis. . . .
Once upon the lloor of the House of Representatives, while
paying but scant attention to the ruiming debate, there fell
upon my ears from the lips of a Northern Representative a
contemptuous reference to the "poor white trash of the South."
The remembrance of all they had been, and all that they were,
was in my lu.in, 1 said, .-is I would have you all say: "We
have poor nuii in the South, as you have in Massachusetts,
but the poor men are not always, nor generally, 'trashy.' We
have 'trashy" men in the South, as you have in New England,
but some of the trashiest of them are the richest. , , . They
are the only body of so-called "common people." of wdiom it
may, as a rule, be said that they can neither be bought nor can
they be scared,"' I might have said that if the poor peoph'
of the white race in the South are to be designated as "poor
white trash." the gentleman himself and all Northern men
might find cause for serious reflection. It there was a class
in the South to whom the application might have been applied,
it was the class from wdiich Abraham Lincoln sprang — the
poorest of the poor, and the thriftless poor, at that. Bone
of our bone and sinew of our sinew, he received from a South-
ern .incestry on both sides— and especially ujion his mother's
side — his patient courage, his imperturbable perseverance, his
loyalty to his ideals, and. above all, the ch;iracteristic coirimon
sense and sense of humor of the Southerner, 1 might have
told them that they got not only the head of their civil gov-
ernmeni and the chief of their land captains from our blood
or territory, not only Lincoln and Grant and the Rock of
Chickamauga— George B. Thomas— but that when they wanted
a sea captain worthy of the Vikings of the race they got him
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in the person of Farragut, of Tennessee, raised out near Knox-
ville, amidst and one of the class which they contemptuously
call "poor white trash." . . .
This sentiment, which some people say is "rot," is the
heritage which came with disaster and with many ruins. As
a great orator has said: "A land without ruins is a land
without memories, a land without memories is a land without
history." . . . Father Ryan has better expressed it, tak-
ing as his text the words of the orator whom I have quoted :
"Yes ! give me the land where the ruins are spread,
And the living tread light on the hearts of the dead;
Yes ! give me a land that is blessed by the dust
And bright with the deeds of the downtrodden just.
Yes ! give me the land where the battle's red blast
Has flashed to the future the fame of the past ;
Yes ! give me the land that hath legends and lays,
Tliat tell of the memory of long-vanished days ;
Yes I give me a land that hath story and song,
Enshrining the strife of the right and the wrong;
Yes ! give me a land with a grave in each spot.
And the names in the graves that shall not be forgot ;
Yes ! give me the land of the wreck and the tomb,
There is grandeur in graves — there is glory in gloom ;
For out of the gloom future brightness is born.
And after the night comes the sunrise of morn ;
And the graves of the dead with grass overgrown
May yet form the footstool of Liberty's throne.
And each single wreck in the war-iiath of might
Shall yet be a rock in the temple of right."
The Confederacy had its poets, as it had its land captains
and its sea captains — Timrod and Hayne and Thompson —
but he who came nearest touching tlie very heart of the peo-
ple was Father Ryan. . . .
Now, my friends, I have spent over an hour in trying to
"utter the thoughts that arise in me," and yet I might have
uttered them better in a much shorter time, without weary-
ing your patience, had I quoted the words, rising to a climax,
of one verse of that great poem which every Southern child
should learn by heart, "The Sword of Robert E. Lee," written
by this same "Priest-Poet" of the Confederacy, from whom
I have read. Speaking of the sword of Lee, the very flash
light of the cause, as its w-carer was the very type of the men
of the sixties, he says:
"Never hand
Waved sword from stain as free,
Nor purer sword led braver band.
Nor braver bled for a brighter land.
Nor brighter land had a cause so grand.
Nor cause a chief like Lee!"
REUNION OF NORTH CAROLINA J'ETERANS.
The annual reunion of North Carolina Confederate Vet-
erans was held at Ashcville on the 30th and 31st of August.
No such assemblage has ever before gathered in the Old North
State, and perhaps never will again, for the old veterans
are rapidly passing away. Probably three-fourths of the sur-
viving remnants of the one hundred and twenty-seven thou-
sand soldiers North Carolina furnished the Confederacy were
present. In addition to those residing in the State there
were representatives from twelve other States present. Among
the distinguished visitors in attendance were Gen. Stephen D.
Lee and his adjutant. Gen, William Mickel : Gen. C. L Walker,
of Charleston. S. C, : Gen. Cullen A. Battle and Hilary A.
Herbert, cx-Sccrctary of the Navy, of Alabama ; Gen. Car-
wiles and Col. Rutledge, of South Carolina; and Chaplain
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Gen. J. W. Jones, of \'irginia. Of the State's prominent men
present, were Gen. W. P. Roberts, said to have been the
youngest general in the service, commanding a brigade at
twenty-three years of age ; Col. Lane, of the famous Twenty-
Sixth Regiment; Gens. J. S. Carr, James L Metts, P. C. Carl-
ton, William L. London, Judge A. W. Graham. Hon. Paul
Means, Cols. John S. McElroy, W. W. Stringtield. and many
(■tilers.
Never was the proverbial hospitality of the good people of
•his beautiful little town more severely taxed. They had ex-
pected and prepared for a large attendance, but nearly four
times as many came as were looked for; yet every one was
cared for and most generously entertained.
In the parade were a number of famous old flags, the Bethel
flag being perhaps the most interesting. This flag was made
by young ladies of Ashevillc. the Misses Woodfin, Miss Fannie
L. Pattou, and Miss Kate Smith, and presented to Capt. W.
W. McDowell's company, the first going out from Asheville
and taking part in the first land engagement at Big Belhcl
Church, Va., June 10, 1861. On the company's reaching Vir-
ginia it became a part of First Regiment, commanded by D.
H. Hill, of North Carolina. This flag was adopted as the
regimental flag, and in a sense had a baptism of blood of
the first Confederate soldier killed in a land engagement of
the great war of 1861-65— Henry L. Wyatt, of North Caro-
lina. In the parade was also the flag of the Thirty-Ninth
North Carolina Regiment, bullet and shell torn, having gone
through sixly-seven battles, and carried on this occasion by
Wesley Shclton, of Jackson County, who carried it in seven-
teen battles.
A courtesy appreciated by the old veterans was shown them
by Mr. G. W. Vanderbilt, whose palatial residence and
grounds, near Asheville, perhaps form the most magnificent
estate in the world. Although in Europe. Mr. Vanderbilt di-
rected that the Veterans be admitted on a day other than that
allowed to the general public ; and. without any charge, he
also furnished transportation for great numbers of them over
the estate. His superintendents of the various departments
did everything in their power to make the trip one of great
pleasure. Lemonade was served to the visiting hosts, and
at the dairy ice cream was given to the vast multitude.
The Asheville reunion and the hospitable people will long be
remembered by all who were so fortunate as to attend.
SECOND BRIGADE, KENTUCKY DI VISION,. U. C. V.
The annual reunion of the Second Brig.ide. Kentucky Di-
vision, U. C. v., was held at Earlington, Ky., on the 21st and
22d of September. A large attendance of Veterans and
visitors taxed the hospitality of the little town to its full
capacity. A bountiful old-fashioned barbecue was served at
Lakeside Park. Speeches were made by United States Sena-
tors Blackburn and McCreary ; also Gen. Bennett Young, Hon.
J. W. Lockelt, and others. In the absence of Gen. J. B.
Briggs, who was calUd on urgent business to New York, Col.
L. D. Hockersmith was in command of th',- brig.-'de. Col.
Hockersinith was a captain in the Tenth Kentucky Cavalry,
under John Morgan, and was captured with him in Ohio. It
was Capt. Hockersmith who planned and carried into execu-
tion the way by which Gen. Morgan and his party escaped
from the Ohio penitentiary.
At the business meeting of the brigade the following officers
were elected: Frank A. Owen, of Evansville, Colonel of the
First Kentucky Regiment, Second Brigade: Maj. Charles F.
Jarrclt. of Hopkinsville. Lieutenant Colonel; Maj. Ben F.
Trumbo, of Morganfield. reelected Major of First Battalion;
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Maj. janies H. Bozarth, reelected Major Second Battalion;
James Millen, reelected Major Third Battalion. John Moore-
field was elected Quartermaster and J. R. Dean, of Earlington,
was elected commissary, with rank of captain.
Comrade Owen, the newly elected Colonel of the First
Kentucky Regiment, entered the Confederate service at the
age of fifteen in the Eighth Kentucky Infantry in 1861, was
wounded and captured at Fort Donclson, escaped from prison .
at Camp Morton, helped to recruit the Tenth Kentucky, and
was made adjutant of the regiment.
One of the most enjoyable features of the reunion was the
entertainment given at the Temple Theater by the ladies of
Earlington and adjoining towns. Tlie programme was made
up of music, vocal and instrumental, old Southern airs, reci-
tations, and tableaux.
REPORTS OF REUNIONS.
Reports of so many county and Camp reunions are sent in
that only a passing notice can be given, on account of the
limited space of the Veter.\n. Doubtless there is more gen-
uine enjoyment in these smaller gatherings than in the gemral
reunions, as the men know each other as if brothers of the
same flesh.
The annual reunion of Coryell County Confederates was held
at Gatesville, Te.x., in July, lasting four days. This has grown
to be the largest county reunion in the State. "Confederate
Park," where the meetings are held, is within four blocks of
the public square, has seventeen acres inclosed and set in
Bermuda gras.?, a large auditorium, grand stand, two artesian
sulphur wells, and fenced off are the grounds where baseball
and other sports arc engaged in.
Officers elected for the following year are : W. A. McBcth,
Commander; W. L. Saunders, E. L. Lawrence, J. W. Sherrill,
Lieutenant Commanders; R. L. Suggs, Adjutant; F. M. Jones,
Assistant Adjutant; T. J. Stevenson, Color Bearer; R. Y.
Price, Chaplain; Miss Clara Brown, Sponsor.
Stonewall Jackson Camp, of Archer County, Tex., held
its annual reunion at their regular camp ground, just south of
Holliday, for three days in August, a large crowd being in
attendance. Many camped on the ground, whicli comprises
one hundred and ten acres, well fenced, and in a beautiful
grove. Bach day was spent pleasantly. Forty-six members of
the Stonewall Camp responded to roll call, hardly two from the
same command; others in attendance were Confederates of
the county. Sons of Veterans, and visitors, numbering in all
over a thousand. Credit for the good order and good time
enjoyed was largely due to Maj. Robert Cobb, Commander of
this Division, and Capt. Lowery, of the Sons of Veterans.
At the annual meeting of Willis L. Lang Camp,"~of Marlin.
Tex., the following oiificers were elected: Connnandcr, D. H.
Boyles; Lieutenant Commanders, Alex Frazier, S. D. Hutch-
ings, and J. T. Owens; Adjutant, Q. J. Cockrell ; Surgeon,
Dr. J. C. Shaw; Chaplain, H. F. Spencer; Ensign, H. Travis.
Several comrades of this membership passed away during.
the year: John Reynolds, Company E, Second Texas In-
fantry; George H. Perkins, Corporal Company B, Fifth Texas
Cavalry; N. Melton, Co. H, Forty-Third Mississippi Infantry.
Stonewall Jackson Camp, of Archer City, Tex., reports the
death of the following since the last meeting: Capt. W. M.
Fuller, Lumsden's .Alabama Battery; D. A. McKinsey; IJ.
W. James, Company I, Second Arkansas Infantry; E. W.
Simmons, Company I, Fifth Tennessee Cavalry; and Capt.
John Myers.
ResolutiL.ns were passed by the Camp in its amiual meeting.
expressing the loss to the Camp in the death of these com-
rades as well as to their communities, and sincere sympathy
was extended to the family and friends of each.
DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY IN MONTANA.
Miss Evie Morris, Secretary of the Winnie Davis Chap-
ter, U. D. C.. at Helena, Mont., writes the Veteran :
"Mrs. J. L. Patterson, of Bozenian, Mont., lias organ-
ized three Chapters of United Daughters of the Confeder-
acy in this State, and she is now most deservedly Pres-
ident of the State Division. The M. A. E. McClure Chap-
ter, Bozeman, was the first organized; the Winnie Davis
Chapter, Helena, second; and the Robert E. Lee Chapter,
Livingston, third. We rejoice in being able to have a Di-
vision and to cooperate with the Daughters of the South.
"The Winnie Davis Chapter was organized in April,
1903, with 18 charter members, and there are now 41 mem-
bers. The Woman's Relief Corps of the G. A. R., in annu-
al convention, condemned us, saying we were sowing sedi-
tious seed and teaching unwholesome truths to our chil-
dren: but we have persevered, working .harmoniously to-
gether, and feel sure that we have proven that we are simply
living up to our motto: 'Charity to the living, honor to the
(lead, and the preservation of tlie truth of history.'
"Our President, Mrs. R. A. Bell, is from Kentucky; our
Vice President, Mrs. C. H. Head, is from Mississippi; our
Treasurer, Mrs. Henry Loble, is a Montanian, but the
daughter of a Mississippi Veteran; and our Secretary, Miss
Evie Morris, is from Tennessee; while Texas, Kentucky,
Missouri, Maryland, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Ten-
nessee, District of Columbia, Alabama, North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Montana have given us enthusiastic
and faithful members.
"On January 19 we gave a large reception, having as
our guests the Southerners of Helena; and we presented
twenty Southern crosses of honor to the Veterans — the first
ever presented in the Northwest Division. On June 3 we
entertained the mcnil>ers of the N. B. Forrest Camp here,
and presented fourteen crosses of honor. There are many
more Veterans in Montana whom we hope to be able to
honor with crosses, but some of them live in remote parts
of the State, where there are no Camps, and so we cannot
work as rapidly as we should like.
"We have a course of study outlined for this winter, em-
bracing Southern history, heroes, statesmen, and women,
;ind intc 111 ili.it to In only llie beginning of our work"
VAN CLUSE. NEAR I'l KT OlUbUN, .\UsS., HO.ME OE GOV. B. G.
HO.MPHREY, FROM WHICH HE WAS EJECTED.
(^or}jederat2 Ueterar>
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HOOKER SLANDERED CHEATHAM'S DIVISION.
From the eighth volume of the Confederate Military
History, published in 1899, written by ex-Gov. Jas. D. Por-
ter, and edited by Gen. Evans, of Georgia :
"Gen. Grant, in forwarding Hooker's report under date of
March 25, 1864, placed this indorsement upon it : 'Attention is
called to that part of the report giving the number of prisoners
(6>S47) and small arms (io,ooa) captured by him, wliich is
greater than the number captured by the whole army.'
"This General Hooker, who was so defiant of histor-
ical accuracy, is the same General Joseph Hooker who was
the author of a slanderous communication addressed to
the Hon. S. P. Chase, dated December 26, 1863, and pub-
lished in 1900, on page 339, Series i. Vol. XXXI., Part
2, of 'Official Records of the Union and Confederate Ar-
mies,' in which the following statement was made: 'Before
the battle of Lookout. I had opened communication with
Cheatham's Division, holding the summit of the mountain.
and had good reason to believe that I would have succeed-
ed in bringing in all of liu- enlisted men with some of the
officers but for thiir untimely removal. They were re-
lieved by Stevenson's Division. The only conditions I re-
quired were that they should give themselves to me with
arms in their hands, and take the oath of allegiance; theirs,
that they should be permitted to return to their homes, or
go where the conscription could not reach them. You will
remember that when Bragg retreated from Tennessee he
was compelled to march the Tennessee troops under guard.'
"No man, living or dead, could have believed that there
was the slightest foundation for this story. It was evident-
ly prepared with the expectation that the author of it would
be exalted for his supposed zeal in the prosecution of his
missionary labor in beguiling Cheatham's Division from
allegiance to their country and to their honor, and with no
'm^wi$
SAVS HE WAS STO.NUWAI.I. JACKSON S COOK.
expectation that it would be publi>hed as a part of the
historj' of those perilous days.
"Cheatham's Division never occupied the summit of the
mountain. The First and Twenty-Seventh Tennessee, of
Mancy's Brigade, then a part of W. H. T. Walker's
Division, were there on picket duty for about ten days in
October; and this consolidated regiment is the same re-
ferred to in handsome terms by General Cleburne for par-
ticipation in the battle of November 25. when, united
with troops from Texas and Arkansas, Sherman's forces
in their front were driven from the field.
'"You will remember,' said the American Munchausen, 'that
when Bragg retreated from Tennessee he was compelled
to march the Tennessee troops under guard.' Judge Chase
could remember nothing so idiotic or impossible. It
is a pity that the author of the slander had not remem-
bered the lesson taught in Dickens's 'Great Expectations:'
'Don't you tell no more lies, Pip ; that ain't the way to get
out of being common, old chap.' When Bragg retired
from Tennessee. Cheatham's Division constituted the rear
guard of the army, and its last service before ascending
the mountain was to drive, in inglorious confusion and re-
treat, the Federal cavalry by which it was assailed at
Cowan. When it reached Chattanooga it was stronger than
when it retired from Shelbyville; furloughed men and
volunteers joined it .^ii route, and in many instances ran
the gantlet of Federal pickets, scouts, and cavalry. In
addition to the Tennessee brigades of Cheatham, John C.
Brown's and Bushrod Johnson's were composed exclusively
of Tennessecaris, and Bate's, Polk's, and Smith's were large-
ly Tennessee troops; and these, with the artillery and cavalry
from that State, constituted a force too strong and too
spirited to 'march under guard,' unless they had been led
by tile vaunting 'hero of the battle above the clouds,'
"Gen. Cleburne, in his report of the battle of Missionary
Ridge, fought a few days after the perpetration of Hooker's
slander, said : 'The First and Twenty-Seventh Tennessee,
Col. H. R. Field, were moved in front of the works to a
very exposed position. Cumming was ordered to charge the
enemy with the Fifty-Sixth and Thirty-Si.xth Georgia;
twice he was checked and had to re-form, and Warfield's
Arkansas Regiment and the gallant First and Twenty-Sev-
enth Tennessee prepared to share his next effort. At the
command the whole rushed forward with a cheer, and the
enemy, completely surprised, fled. The column returned
with eight stands of colors and five hundred prisoners.'
" 'Fighting Joe Hooker' is dead, but a posthumous slan-
derer deserves no mercy or pity; therefore, upon the au-
thority of the late Gen. Dabney H. Maury, I will explain
how Hooker acquired his martial sobriquet. A club of ca-
dets at the U. S. Military Academy, at West Point, met for
the discussion of a question involving the rights of the
States. Among the disputants were Cadets E. Kirby Smith
.Tnd Joseph Hooker. The last named was full of vanity and
conceit. an.I indulged in remarks that were personally of-
fensive to Cadet Smith. After adjournment. Hooker was
.isked for an apology, which he declined with a jeer; there-
I'pon Cadet Smith gave him a half dozen kicks on the seat
■ if his trousers, which were not resented. He was after-
wards known in the cadet corps as 'Fi.ghting Joe Hooker,'
.1 name that he could not repudiate and that he dared not
anpropriate. and yet there arc thousands on both sides of
tlie line who believe that he had honorably won it on the
battlefield in the War between the States."
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C^oofederate l/eterao.
Qopfederate l/eterap.
S, A CUNNINGHAM. Editor and Proprietor.
Office; Methodisl l*uhlishin^ Iluusc BuilUini,', Nafc))\ille, Tcnn.
Thii piihlicalion Ie Ihi* r>iTson:tI pmp«Tty of S. A. dinningliam. AH per
•ons whc appr<i\r ils principles and realize Its ht-iu-tils as an oruan for Ass»>
clatinns thrr'u^liuul I he South art* rcqut-stcd lo conimmil its pnlrnrraire and to
coOp<T;tte in extending' its ctrciilation. Let each one he consLanllv dili^^ent.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS COMMENDED.
In prosperous times purse strings arc easily loosed and
the holiday season is prolific of good will and unselfishness.
After anxious meditation about how to do the greatest
good to the greatest number in connection with the class
for which the Veteran was launched, it has been decided
to make an unprecedented offer in behalf of poor Veterans
and the families of such. The old soldiers arc dropping
out with sorrowful rapidity, and those who would do them
a service in this world must do it quickly. It is stated that
Union veterans are dying at the rate of one hundred every
day, and the Southrons are evidently falling out of line in
equal proportion.
The extraordinary ofTer is made now in an appeal lor
these noble patriots to supply them to the extent of ten
thousand for the next year at half price. The plan is to
accept one dollar in payment for two subscriptions to those
who are unable to pay. Prosperous Confederates and
younger men who would like to give the greatest possible
pleasure for a very small sum are commended to this meth-
od of giving two families pleasure each month for a year
by remitting one dollar and giving the names of such per-
sons as described between now and January I. It is not
expected that this sum would pay the expense of publica-
tion, etc., but the good and satisfaction would riclily com-
pensate for the free labor and the sacrifice.
Remittance may be made now or any time before Christ-
mas, and a handsome certificate of the compliment be mailed
in time to reach the beneficiaries, giving names of donors,
with a Christmas greeting.
This proposition should enlist at least ten thousand per-
sons who take the Veteran, and it would furnish a testi-
mony to the loyalty of our people that was never equaled.
This beneficence would make the donors happy to all eter-
nity. Those who renew for their own subscriptions would
do well to inclose one dollar more with the names of two
who can't afford to subscribe.
While it is suggested that one dollar be utilized for so much
good, there is no limit to the extent of this proposition.
Any great-hearted person may send a list of such persons as
large as he chooses with the half price for one year only,
the only stipulation being that recipients cannot afford to
pay the subscription price.
Let us put the Vktf.ran in every Southern home. To in-
vestigate wilh a view of supplying the comrades designated
would be fine. It would in a way be a thorough canvass
of the South, and many would subscribe for it.
If this plan is taken up promptly by well-to-do people, a
separate "benevolent" mail list will be made, but all to expire
with 1905. This is the best ofTcr ever made by a journal in
behalf of a class of worthy poor, and it should stimulate all
other? to lii)eral patronage.
l\ D. C. IN CONIEXTION.
The Eleventh Annual Convention United Daughters of
the Confederacy at St. Louis, October 4-8, was notable in
many respects. Despite the various fascinating attractions
in the city and at the World's Fair grounds, the large body
quite regularly attended morning, afternoon, and night to
the various important interests in hand. If every veteran
and friend of the cause who engaged those noble women
could have seen how diligent and zealous they were, the im-
pression would be as lasting as the most thrilling and impor-
tant events of the year. An entire issue of the Veterai*
might well be devoted to the proceedings. The plea was
made to the Presidents of the Slate Divisions to send concise
reports, and the manifest appreciati(jn of the suggestion in-
duced the belief that they would be sent promptly. It is very
desirable to make a showing to the credit of that great organ-
ization in the December Veteran ; and if every State Presi-
dent will be prompt in sending in condensed reports, they may
be published just as the authors would like them.
It is said ,to have had larger attendance than at any previous
convention. While business was strictly attended to, there
were several brilliant entertainments given by the Missouri
Division to their visitors. The Memorial Society gave an
elegant reception. The State Pavilions at the World's Fair —
Kentucky, Texas, and Mississippi — all excelled in hospitality.
A dinner was given hy Mrs. Anne Washington Rapley in the
Tyrolean Alps to the general officers. State Presidents, and
some personal friends. This dinner was one of the most
elegant and magnificent affairs that has been given during the
Fair.
The State Convention of the Missouri Division met Oc-
tober 10 and II. Ils President, Mrs. A. W. Rapley, presided
with much grace and dignity. There was the greatest har-
mony in tlie work, and much was planned for the ensuing
year. The Daughters of Missouri are to build a handsome
monument at the Confederate Home, near Higginsville.
The Macciii.i.-Hh.i. Wedding. — By request of the A. P.
Hill Camp, of Petersburg, Va.. the marriage of Gen. James
Macsill. of Pulaski, Va., and Miss Lucy Lee Hill, daughter
of Gin. A. P. Hill, will take place in St. Paul's Church of
that city, under the management of the Camp, on November
16 at 5:30 P.M. All veterans will be in uniform. Formal
invitations are not issued.
The three engravings on page 494, October Veteran, were,
first, that of Comrade O. L. Chesnutt. of Tifton, Ga. ; the
central picture was that of J. L. Lemonds. of Paris, Tenn.,
s sketch of whom appeared in the "Last Roll" on page 468
of tlie Veteran for October, 1903; and the tllird, the one
in checkud .'suit, on the right, is that of comliade and con-
frere Dr. F. E. Darnel, of Austin, Tex. He is the editor and
publisher of the Texas Medical Journal. The Chesnutt en-
graving is to go with an important paper yet to appear.
It is most difficult to keep track of engravings, ambrotypes,
etc., not properly marked. Others like these are on hand.
While sending, renewal of his subscription, Maj. Sidney
Herbert, of the Savannah (Ga.) News, states: "The Veteran
is a very fine publication, and does credit to you. As I have
been a journalist fifly-three years (twenty-eight on the Nezvs),
I ought to know a good thing when I see it."
Qo9fedcrat(^ l/eterap.
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SLAl'E MONUMENT QUESTION.
Just now, throughout the South, this subject is being
much discussed in a great many United Daughters of the
Confederacy Chapters. I am a Daughter, and I have giv-
en the question much thought; was born and reared in the
capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, as were my people
back to the settling of Jamestown. During the past ten
years I have lived in different large cities, spending several
years on the Pacific Coast, and have at times been nearly
consumed with a great desire to see my dear Southland
and sacrificed financial interests to be here, and yet I have
come to look at all that concerns it with practical senti-
ment.
This is not the time for erecting monuments to the old
slave — if there will ever be a time. Our country is already
black with their living presence. Shall there be a black
monument erected in every fair Southern city or State,
when there is not a State in the South not in mourning for
some beautiful woman whose life has been strangled out by
some black fiend? You say this monument is for the old,
faithful mammy and uncle of slave times? I say they were
fully rewarded for faithful trust. I am told by a prominent
Veteran that only ten per cent of the slaves remained with
their masters after their freedom. You can count on your
hands the mammies now living. The negro of this gener-
ation would not appreciate any monument not smacking
of social equality. The North would not understand the
sentiment. It is a woefully mistaken sentiment that would
spend one dollar on a black monument wl en there are hun-
dreds of women, young and old, descending from the Con-
federacy, who are in want because the homes and the in-
comes which should have riglitly descended to them were
swept away by the ravages of the foe. In a large South-
ern city a small venture (lack of funds) at a Home for
the Heroines of Our War for State Rights was begun, and
six ladies who Imd known great wealth and affluence were
taken from the pporhouse and given refuge in this Home.
They were too proud to ask alms!
If any money is available for monuments, let a great
Monumental Home be erected in aome Southern city, pref-
erably selecting a mild climate where the orange blossoms
and the mocking bird fill the air with perfume and song,
and help woo away sufferings past. Let this Home be a
monument to the noble women of the Confederacy who
gave their sons, husbands, and fathers to die on the bat-
tlefields for the great and holy cause, without a murmur!
In the rotunda of this Monumental Home to the Women
of the Confederacy might he placed busts and statues of
noted women of the Confederacy, even might there be
placed in this rotunda busts of some of the famous women
of the present day who have worked so indefatigably and
accomplished such Herculean tasks with their U. D. C.'s.
Make this Monumental Home a great Southern cause; call
upon the wealthy men of the South to endow it, insuring
its endurance, so that generations hence it may be a ha-
ven for any one proving connection by heritage with the
Confederacy. In another half generation any one so prov-
ing will be the most honored of the land. Let every Chap-
ter U. D. C. throughout the South unite as one in collectnig
funds for this great Home.
If there is any money available for black monuments,
provide more freely for needy Veterans, for in the course
of nature a few years hence will see them among us no
more. Wonders have already been done in placing monu-
ments to the heroes of the Confederate War. Now look to
the living before it is too late. Instead of raising a black
monument to mar any Southern city (go away and stay
a year and see how black it looks already), secure an au-
thentic list of the Southern homes desecrated by the freed-
man during the past forty years.
The time is not far off when such a mistake as a black
monument would be unalterable. Lay the question on the
table indefinitely. When our now solid South has fully
disposed of erecting a Monumental Home to the noble
women of the South, and more comfort has been given
to the dear Veterans— then would be the more perfect time
for such a mistaken sentiment, if the unwisely sentimental
prove in the majority.
A great many people read the Veteran. May these ear-
nest words find response in enough hearts to make the ma-
jority for shelving the proposition!
I was present at a U. D. C. meeting recently, when this
slave monument question was brought up, and I testify that
it raised pandemonium, every one protesting emphatically
against it, save one, the leader who made the motion, and
she was actuated by overkind motives, as her life is given
to good works. This occurred in one of the most aristocrat-
ic Chapters in the South. The feeling was intensely against
it. .All honor to the faithful mammy and uncle of slave
lime! all honor to every self-respecting negro of what-
ever age or time! Wlien the Southern home is as safe with
the black man as with the white man. then consider black
monuments.
I would like to correspond with any reader of the VeteIr-
.\N on the subject, and I would be obliged to any one
for furnishing me with dates, and names of cities where
murders and outrages have been committed on white men
and women by the colored man since his freedom. The
information is desired for historical work.
My expression above on the slave monument question
is my individual opinion apart from the opinion of any
Chapter.
With great love and reverence for everything between
the leaves of the Veteran, I am, always, its true friend,
Mrs. W. Carleton Adams.
H7 Linden Street. Meiii)ihis, Tenn.
Testimo.ny of His Service Sought from Comrades. —
W. T. Oliver writes from Laurel Hill, Fla., in the hope
of establishing his record as worthy Of a pension. He states
that he enlisted at Laurens C. H., S. C, February 6, 1861,
for one year; that he went to Charleston, where he was
mustered into service February 14, 1861, Company, First
Battalion, Heavy Artillery. At the end of a year he re-
turned to Laurens C. H., and then joined Company A,
of the Third South Carolina Regiment, serving with it
until December, 1862, when he was detailed as a shoemaker,
serving in that capacity until May, 1865, when he was dis-
charged at Augusta, Ga. He evidently did not keep his dis-
charge papers, and now that he is unable to earn a living
he seeks the testimony of comrades as to his service, in the
hope that he may share in the pensions that are paid dis-
abled Veterans. It would be a great favor to him if com-
rades who knew him and his service would write of it.
The most important feature is that part that relates to the
close of the war as to when and how he was discharged.
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REMINISCENCES OF RINGGOLD GAP.
BY W. \V. GIBSON, WILLS POINT, TEX.
Who of Cleburne's Division does not retain a vivid remem-
brance of the trying ordeal through which we passed about
daybreak on the morning of November 27, 1863, when we
were ordered to ford the Chickamauga River just west of the
little town of Ringgold. The morning was dreadfully cold,
and thin sheets and crystals of ice were dancing over the water.
Many of the boys sailed in like horses with their harness on,
while others, more thoughtful of their future comfort, disrobed
themselves of their nether garments. The writer was among
the latter, but had the misfortune, when about mid-stream,
to stumble over a bowlder and drop his pants in the water.
If anything was there said derogatory to the State of Georgia
or the Chickamauga River, the United States or the Confed-
erate States, I desire to say that I am in a calmer mood now
and take it all back. Crossing over, we were marched rapidly
up through the town to a narrow gorge where the river had
cut its way through the mountain, and thrinigh which ran the
Western and Atlantic Railroad. Here we formed a line of
battle, facing the town. To our right extended a long, high
ridge ; to the left, between the railway and the river, was a
little narrow strip of wooded valley widening out in the di-
rection of the town.
The ridge above mentioned was selected by Gen. Cleburne
as his line of defense, and on which the division was at once
formed. Company D, to which I belonged, and Company K,
of the Sixth and Seventh Arkansas Regiment, were posted in
the little valley to the left of the railroad; while Company E
was sent across to the south side of the river, where they
took position on a high bluff. A skirmish line was thrown
forward about one hundred or one hundred and fifty yards
to the edge of the timber, while our two companies were or-
dered to lie down in line of battle. A blue cloud of Federals
could be seen advancing through the town, pre'ceded by a
heavy skirmish line; they were soon engaged with our skir-
mishers, and were driven to take shelter behind barns, houses,
fences, etc., where they began a galling fire on our position.
About this time Gens. Cleburne and Breckinridge came along
our line on foot, observing the disposition of the enemy's forces
in our front. They stopped just at the right of our company,
where they remained a few minutes, sheltered behind a large
tree. I saw a line of battle moving across our front to the
left, and not exceeding three hundred yards from us. As
their left wing reached the enfilading point a masked battery,
just across the railroad on the spur of the ridge, caught them
with double-shotted canLster from all of the guns at once.
Every man fell to the ground, and, from the way their hats,
caps, guns, and accouterments went flying in the air, I had
not a doubt that the entire line was annihilated, and exclaimed :
"By Jove, boys, it killed them all." Gen. Breckinridge and
"Old Pat" smiled at my boyish credulity, while the latter said
to me good-naturedly: "If you don't lie down, young man,
you are liable to find that there are enough left for you to get
the top of your head shot off." In a little while our two
companies were ordered forward to our skirmish line, each
man taking such shelter as came his way.
A good-sized white oak tree fell to my lot, and did me good
service for a couple of hours or longer, during which time I
verily believe it was struck by a thousand balls, and only once
was I touched — a mere scratch. While behind that tree I
witnessed an incident never seen by me before or afterwards
on any battlefield. Hearing frequent reports near me, re-
sembling the discharge of a small pistol. I listened and watched
to tell from whence it came, and was not long in seeing small
puffs of smoke in mid-air near me. from which the reports
came, and I knew at once that the enemy were shooting ex-
plosive bullets. I am sure there can be no mistake about this
matter, for I saw and heard more than a dozen.
All this while there was "music in the air," and the earth
was fairly trembling under the shock of battle up on the right
The boys afterwards told us that tlie enemy first came at them
in a "rollicking" sort of way. In their first advance they came
through the woods, whooping and yelling in imitation of
driving cattle. They found the "cattle" all right, but some-
how there was a hitch in the driving. Gen. Cleburpe had
formed the division in double line of battle, one immediately
behind the other. As the enemy advanced to close range the
front line would fire and lie down and load, the rear line
firing over their heads. Time after time line after line
of Federals charged up that ridge against Cleburne's lines,
only to be shattered and hurled back in the valley.
Things were "distressingly interesting" behind my tree,
the bare exposure of my hat brim or end of my gun barrel was
greeted with a shower of balls. It was only a few yards
nil my left to the river, so I made a break in that direction,
and landed safely behind its protecting bank. Passing down
the bank thirty or forty yards. I found my chum, Phil Turner,
enjoying one of the softest snaps to be found on that battle-
field. In a small washout near the top of the bank Phil had
ensconced himself, with plenty of room to load and fire.,
Joining him, we had a picnic firing at short range for
some time, when I happened to notice that all firing had
ceased along our line, and, what was more significant, there
was not a "Reb" in sight. We learned afterwards that the
order had been given for the command to draw off quietly, a
few at a time, and our failure to get this word was the, cause
of our being left. I called Phil's attention to the fact that our
people were all gone, and that we two, for the moment, were
enjoying the distinction of fighting the greater portion of
Grant's army. Realizing the inequality of the contest, Phil
suggested that we must get out of there, and get out at once.
In order that we might not draw too heavy a fire, he proposed
lliat \vc go one at a lime, at the same time telling me to make
the break. This I did, and after running some seventy-five or
a hundred yards I felt like nothing but the swiftest of the
bullets could catch me ; but about this time one did catch me
on the thigh, and I thought myself a "goner," but looked
around in time to see the bullet fall at my heel, proving con-
clusively that my movement up that gorge was so near in
unison with the speed of that ball, coupled with the fact that
it had first struck a tree and glanced to my leg, that the hurt
amounted to a severe bruise only, and in nowise retarded my
speed. Another run of two hundred yards or so took me to
the railroad bridge over which the command had crossed, with
Phil close at my heels.
This bridge was one of those old-style structures, having a
shingle roof over it and weatherboarded sides. To our dismay,
however, we found that our people had set it afire after crossi-
ing, and it was then burning fiercely. Gens. Breckinridge
and Cleburne were sitting on their horses on the opposite
bank, watching it burn; they called and told us that there was
a ford down to our right a hundred yards or so. Remembering
our experience of the early morning, Phil said he could not
wade that river again. "I am going to cross on this bridge
or not at all," he said. I remonstrated, seized him by the arm,
and tried to pull him with me in the direction of the ford; but,
jerking loose, he hastily wound his blanket around his head
and dashed into the burning bridge, leaving not a doubt in
my mind that he had gone to an instant and horrible death.
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Running down to the ford, I waded over, the bullets splashing
the water like hailstones around me as I did so.
Once over, my route led me near the point where the gen-
erals were still standing. As I passed Gen. Cleburne I said:
"General, that battery didn't kill quite all of them this morn-
ing, but what was left have been taught a lesson in good man-
ners." He instantly recalled the incident of the morning, and
smilingly replied : "You are quite right, young man. I am
proud of what you boys have done to-day, and I don't think
they will bother us any more this evening." With such a
compliment as this I felt that if I only had Turner out of
that burning bridge I could go back and fight them again.
By this time the bruise on my leg, caused by the glancing
ball, was paining me so that I could not help limping, seeing
which he very kindly inquired as to the nature of my hurt and
congratulated me on my escape. On going down the railroad
Turner was one of the first men I came up with ; and what
a sight he was, to be sure ! His blanket, of course, went up
in the flames at the bridge, his hair below his hat was all
singed off, his eyelashes, eyebrows, and mustache were all
gone, while his clothes were scorched and charred all over.
Jack Williams, his bunk mate, said of him that night that
he "looked like a cat that might have been pulled through
Hades by the tail;" that he could interpose no valid objection
to Phil's being sacrificed as a burnt offering upon the altar
of his country, if the exigencies of the case demanded it : but
did hate like blazes to lose that blanket, and thouglit that a
detail should be appointed to "keep Phil out of tlie fire, as he
did not seem to have sense enough to keep out himself." The
check of the enemy for a day gave Bragg's army ample time
to reach a place of safety, taught the Federals that "march-
ing through Georgia" was not all smooth sailing, and gained
for Cleburne's Division the thanks of the Confederate Con-
gress.
'WWTlllih'S" OF THE CONFEDERACY AT NASH-
I'lLIAl.
In its report the Committee on Resolutions, at the last
session of the Convention of the Confederated Southern
Memorial Association in Nashville, adopted the following:
"Whereas the cycle of time has rolled another year around
and brought about this great Reunion of our honored Vet-
erans, .giving the privilege to the Confederated Southern
Memorial Association to meet with them again at the same
time and place ; and whereas the cordial and gracious invi-
tation given by Nashville has called us together in this his-
toric city where every hilltop was the scene of battle and
carnage and of courage and valor unsurpassed in any coun-
try or any clime; therefore be it
"Resolved: i. That the welcome from a city of such a glo-
rious past fills our hearts with tendirest gratitude, and that
our profoundcst thanks be extended to the Rev. Wm. M.
Anderson, D.D., of the First Presbyterian Church, for the
use of the Indies' parlors and to those ladies who so taste-
fully beautified it with flowers. Confederate flags, etc.
"2. That we express also our appreciation and thanks to
the Rev. Mr. Reiss, for the sacred and solemn services
held in Christ Church in memory of our lamented and only
President, to Right Rev. Thos. F. Gailor, Bishop of Ten-
nessee, for the glorious eulogy of the great and stainless
life of Jefferson Davis, also to the choir for the sweet strains
of soul-inspiring music.
"3. That we express our lasting obligations to His Honor
the Mayor and the city officials, to His Excellency the Gov-
ernor of the State and State officials, to Col. L. C. Gar-
rabrant, Col. George C. Porter, Dr. J. R. Buist, Mr. S. A.
Cunningham, Col. John P. Hickman, to the press of the
city, to Mr. John H. De Witt, Commander of the United
Sons of Confederate Veterans, to the United Daughters of
the Confederacy of Nashville, and to Gen. George W. Gor-
don, Commander of the Tennessee Division, U. C. V.
Special thanks are due to Col. Charles F. Frizzell, Chair-
man of the Reunion Committee, and to all others who as-
sisted in making this Convention one long to be cherished
in pleasant memories.
"4. That the Confederated Memorial Association, here
assembled in its fifth annual convention, prays that every
blessing shall rest upon all within this historic city.
"Mrs. Chappell Cory, Chairman: Mrs. Mary E. Moore,
Miss Lillie Hixon, Committee.
"Daisy M. L. Hodgson,
"Recording Secretary."
A BIBLE SAVED COL. JOHN GRACEV HALL'S LIFE.
A. B. Hill, Memphis, Tenn., writes of Col. Hall:
"Jshn G. Hall waSi born in Hardeman County, Tenn., 1834,
but in his infancy the family removed to Tipton County,
where he was reared. He graduated from Center College, at
Danville. Ky., in 1855, ^"d subsequently from the Lebanon
Law School, of Tennessee, having chosen law as a profession.
He was located in Memphis, practicing his profession, when
the tocsin of war was sounded in 1861, and was one of the
first to offer his services for his country, enlisting in the
'Shelby Grays.' In the summer of 1861 he was sent out to
his old neighborhood to raise and organize a company. En-
listing the services of Capt. B. M. Browder, of Covington, a
veteran of the Mexican War, by the first of November they
bad organized a company of one hundred and four fine sol-
diers. B. M. Browder was elected captain and John G. Hall
first lieutenant. In December, with nine other companies, it
was organized into the Fifty-First Tennessee Regiment, of
vi'hich Capt. Browder was made colonel and John G. Hall
elected captain of this company, afterwards known as Com-
pany G. This regiment and the Fifty-Second Tennessee were
ordered to Fort Henry in January, 1862; but soon after had
to evacuate the fort, going to Fort Donelson, where all of
both commands were captured. Capt. Hall and other officers
were taken to Johnson's Island, where he remained until ex-
changed the next September at Vicksburg. In December of
1862 his command was sent to Port Hudson, La., and took part
in the midnight battle of March 14, 1863. On April 8 Capt.
Hall, with his command, was sent to Bragg's army, then sta-
tioned at Tullahoma, Tenn., and at the reorganization of the
army in May the Fifty-First and Fifty-Second Regiments
were consolidated, and Capt. Hall was elected lieutenant colo-
nel of the consolidated regiment, John Chester, of Jackson,
Tenn., being elected colonel.
"The next engagement in which the regiment took part
was the battle of Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863.
Col. Chester was absent on sick leave, and the command de-
volved upon Col. Hall ; and here, as at all other times, he bore
himself in such a manner as to elicit the praise of all who
served with him. Dining the North Georgia campaign, last-
ing about ninety days. Col. Chester being still absent, Col.
Hall had command of the regiment the entire time.
"An incident in his career which came under my immediate
observation is here given as worthy of note. Near Adairs-
ville, Ga., there was a large cotton plantation, on which stood
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a fine, palatial residence, with a long row of negro cabins in
the rear of the house, extending back to a large ginhouse.
Col. Hall received orders to advance a quarter of a mile or
more and dislodge the enemy, then in possession of those
houses, and to hold as long as possible. We advanced at
a doubie-quick, reserving our fire till within seventy-five yards
of the house, when the colonel gave the command to fire
and then to charge, which we did with the Rebel yell, and
in a few minutes had possession of all the houses except the
ginhouse, which was too well-fortified, as well as protected
by the enemy's batteries. After getting the men stationed
in the houses and behind such other protection as we could
find, the Colonel and I walked out to the front to take a better
view of the situation. We had been there but a few minutes
when a ball struck him on the left breast, just above the
heart, passing through his clothing and into a Bible, which
he had in the pocket of his over-shirt, and lodged in the very
center of it. Thus was his life saved by a Bible, the gift of
his mother before leaving home. He told me afterwards
that when the ball struck him it felt as though it had passed
through his body. I thought he was killed, as he would have
fallen to the ground had I not caught him.
"I called the infirmary corps and had him carried to the
rear of the house. Being the next in command, I continued
my observations for a short time. After concluding that tlie
best thing to do was to hold the ground we had, I returned
to the house, expecting to find the Colonel in death's cold
embrace, but to my surprise I found him sitting up and hold-
ing in his hands the Bible that had saved his life. I suggested
that he send it home to his mother just as it was, and it is
now in the possession of Mrs. Dr. F. S. Raymond, of Mem-
phis, who was the wife of Col. Hall at his death. He took
command of the regiment in an hour after being shot.
"Col. Hall was a true, brave, conscientious, faithful man
and a good ofiicer and soldier. He was with his command
during the entire war, never losing a day from duty, and
surrendered with Gen. J. E. Johnston at Greensboro. To
add to all his virtues, he was a Christian gentleman, living
and exemplifying the teachings of the Master.
"On returning to his home he took up the duties of a
private citizen, and set about to help build up the devastated
country in that quiet way which at all times characterized
the man. He was married to Miss Mary E. Munford, of
Covington, daughter of Col. Richard Munford, one of the
pioneers of Tipton County and an officer of public trust for
many years. He di*d at Covington on July 19, 1881."
COL. DANIEL S. TROY'S SASH.
Mr. R. E. Troy, of Birmingham, Ala., has been gratified by
the- return to him of a sash used by his father, Col. D. S.
Troy, when commander of the Sixtieth Alabama Infantry.
With it he received the following letter from San Diego, Cal.,
dated May 27, 1904:
"I have intrusted to Mr. T. T. Hillman's keeping for you
a precious relic of your father, and which I know you will
greatly prize.
"In 1865 I was post surgeon of the military prison at
Hampton Roads, Va. A young Confederate prisoner was
brought in, subsequently paroled and sent home, who had
been captured in the neighborhood of Petersburg. He told
me that he was Col. Troy's orderly, and that they had been
separated by the accidents of war for some months; that just
before the separation he had had charge of the Colonel's bag-
gage, which had been taken by his captors. He had managed
to secrete the crimson silk officer's sash, belonging to the
Colonel, by putting it under his shirt, hoping to keep it for
him. I prevailed upon him to part with it, as there was not
much likelihood of his being able to retain it long, and thus
I became its possessor.
"I have been trying for some years to find either Col. Troy
or his family, that I might riturn it to them. Incidentally
mentioning the matter in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Hill-
man, I learned that he had long known Col. Troy, whose son
was then in his employ. It is a pleasure to me to return it
to those who will greatly prize it. The sash has always been
cared for as a relic of the war.
"Vours very truly, P. C. Remondino."
Dr. Remondino is President of the Board of Health in San
Diego. Mr. Troy writes that his father entered the service
as captain in an artillery company, but was transferred with
the same rank to infantry in 1862. In 1863 he was made
major in the Sixtieth Alabama Regiment, and was promoted
later to lieutenant colonel of the regiment. At Bean's Station,
Tenn.., he was shot through the arm, and at Hatcher's Run,
near Petersburg, he was shot through the body and left for
dead in the hands of the enemy.
Mr. Troy is anxious to locate the orderly referred to as
having had the sash. Col. Troy died in 1895. He had never
mentioned having had such a sash, but it was developed later
that it had been knitted for Col. Troy by his wife. The
"orderly" referred to thought Col. Troy was killed in the
battle of Hatcher's Run.
[In a personal note to the editor of the Veteran Mr. Troy
writes : "While in Havana, Cuba, after the Spanish-American
War, I was record clerk in the Engineering Department of
the city during the time your son was chief engineer, and
the correspondence between you and him passed through my
hands, which makes me feel that I am not writing to an en-
tire stranger. I, as well as every other man who was under
him in Havana, will always entertain for him the highest
regard."]
EQUESTRIAN STATUE TO GEN. J. B. GORDON.
Col. W. L. Calhoun, Presi 'ent of the John B. Gordon
Monument Association, sends an appeal to all Confederate
organizations and the committees appointed on the Gordon
Monument Fund, in which he states:
"The first day of November next, and thereafter, is the
time fixed for the collection of such amounts as shall have
been and will be subscribed to the fund for the erection of a
monument to perpetuate the memory of that heroic son of
the South, General John B. Gordon. Reports have not
before been asked for; but it is now of vital importance
•that we have statements from all engaged in this work.
"Our purpose is to erect an equestrian statue, which will
cost about $30,000, and which must be raised by popular
subscription. Please send remittances to E. H. Thornton.
President Neal Loan and Banking Company, Treasurer,
Atlanta, Ga."
Still Another Young Confederate. — G. K. Crump, Tunica,
Miss.: "I have recently met a Confederate soldier who is
younger than any I have seen an account of. His name is
George S. Lamkin, of Memphis, Tenn. He was born at
Winona, Miss., November 3, 1850, and joined Stanford's Mis-
sissippi Battery at Grenada August 2, 1861, and served through
the war; was badly wounded in the battle of Shiloh before he
was twelve years of age, and was again badly wounded twice
in the battle of Chickamauga. He was very tall for his age,
and is now six feet four inches high."
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BRICE'S X ROADS FROM A PRIVATE'S VIEW.
EV HENRY EWELL HURD, NASHVILLE, TENN.
Reading the various reports of this fight, one would think
that Gen. Forrest had the battle of Brice's Cross Roads all
planned and figured out days before it was fought, even to
time and place, whereas Gens. Buford, Lyon, and Rucker
had all insisted on fighting at the council held at Baldwin
only the night before the battle, and they should have some
credit. Gen. Buford particularly contended we could whip
the Yankee cavalry before the infantry got up. "Fight 'etn,
and fight d — d quick," were his words. Three of Gen. Bu-
ford's staff had been members of our company, and we fel-
lows of Company D, Third Kentucky Regiment, knew every-
thing that was said or ordered at headquarters almost as
soon as "old Abe'" himself. The facts of the case are that
the Sturgis raid was a great surprise to us. Scouts had re-
ported all quiet at Memphis. Gen. Forrest had started with
Buford's Division, composed of Bell's and Lyon's Brigades
and Morton's and Rice's Batteries, to Middle Tennessee, and
while we were making tracks for Tennessee, overjoyed at
the idea of being again among our kind-hearted Tennessee
friends, and incidentally hitting Sherman in the back. Gen.
Sturgis was beliind us in Mississippi, burning, plundering,
and laying the country in ruins. We were three days on our
march before wc got news of Sturgis, and had all that dis-
tance to retrace, through the worst mud I ever traveled
(i\ er. We reached Baldwin, ten miles from Brice's Cross
Roads, on the evening before the fight. There Gen. Forrest
found out the enemy's cavalry wore at Brice's Cross Roads
and his infantry camped at Stubb's farm, nine miles farther
west, (m the Ripley Road. He held a council with his offi-
cers, and it was determined to try and whip the cavalry be-
fore the infantry could get up. Buford went back to bring
up Bell's Brigade and place the Second Tennessee, Col. Bar-
teau, so they would reach the flank of the enemy west of
Brice's; orders were sent to Rucker and Capt. Morton to
"move up," and Forrest started with Lyon's Brigade toward
Brice's Cross Roads at daylight. We met the enemy a mile
or so north of Brice's house, on the Baldwin road, early in
the morning. Two companies of the Twelfth Kentucky were
sent forward, mounted, to feel of them. They did not like
the way they felt, and came back faster than they went. The
Third Kentucky was then dismounted and thrown forward
to take their places. The Third, Seventh, and Eighth Ken-
tucky had served nearly three years as infantry before they
were mounted, and had all an infantryman's contempt for
cavalry fighting; but they changed their opinion before they
liad been with old Bedford long.
We deployed in skirmish order on the left of the road,
moved forward, and soon had our brigade in line, driving
the enemy in front of us through a densely wooded country.
Rucker came up and took position on our left, and was soon
heavily engaged. We. having served as infantry, were agree-
ably surprised to see him with his dismounted cavalry keep
up his side so well ; and all day long, when Rucker got
"busy," our boys would shout out: "O, my Rucker," "Stay
with him, Rucker." Even when we had trouble of our own
in front, we found time to cheer Rucker.
Johnson came up and took position '.^n our right Wc
found wc had a heavy force in our front armed with Spencer
rifles that shot seven times to our once, for wc still had our
old Enfields. We never tried to keep up with the enemy in
number of shots, but we had had so much practice that
when wc did shoot we mostly "got meat." We had no trou-
II**
Lie driving them whenever we cared to, but Gen. Lyon cau-
tioned us to "go slow; we don't want to crowd them too
much till Bell and Morton get up." From early in the morn-
ing till 12 o'clock Rucker and Lyon fought three times their
number, and all the time their lines were close up — had to
be to see anything in that dense undergrowth, and we could
hear every order the Yankee officers gave. The roar of their
batteries, bursting shells, falling timber, ceaseless cackle of
their Spencers, and deadly work of our old Enfields will never
be forgotten by any of that command. We fought back and
forth over the same ground so often that it was strewn
with the dead and dying, and — hot ! with not a drop of water
to drink. At last we heard the welcome sound of Morton's
men and saw his guns coming down the road under whip
and spur, the horses reeling with exhaustion from the pace
and the distance they had come over the heavy roads. Our
alignment then was right across the road, and the first gun
was placed in front of our company, and soon opened on the
Yankees, but after a few shots Morton found a better ele-
vation in an old field just in the rear of our line, where he
could do better work, and moved over there.
We had the enemy driven back to the Brice house when
Morton came up. They had drawn in their lines and planted
their guns so as to rake both roads; and back of the guns
they had dismounted cavalry, with such infantry as had
reached them, and were trying to hold their own till more
could come up; Shortly after Morton arrived Lyon got
word from Gen. Forrest that Bell also had reached the field,
had taken position on Rucker's left, and to move every-
thing forward. Between us and the house was a strip of
heavily timbered land, and then the lawn fence, with a gentle
slope of one hundred and fifty or two hundred yards back to
the honsc. The Yankee battery was behind the house and
supported by infantry. Our skirmishers moved forward
through the woods; Morton limbered up and followed down
the road just behind us. We reached the fence and ceased
firing, dressed up our line, and, at the word "Charge!" cleared
the fence at a bound and started straight for the gun.-;. Now
could be seen the eflfect of drill and thorough discipline on
troops. Our old infantry regiment swept up toward the
house, lines straight, double-quick, trailing arms. Shot
and shell tore great gaps out, but they were closed so quickly
one would scarcely notice it. Rucker's and Bell s men
jumped tlic fence the same time, farther along, and started
pellmell toward the house, some of the men forty yards in
front of the others, and some firing as they ran. Johnson,
over on our right, advanced also, but I could not sec him.
Pool, Rosencrantz, and two comrades were within forty yards
of the battery, when all of us went down at once. I had pulled
my cartridge box around on my hip, so that I could get at
it handier. A ball struck one corner of it, spun me around
and knocked me down, but I was not hurt. I jumped up
and started again, but luck was against me. I had drawn
a pair of pants sometime before that would come nearer
fitting Gen. Buford, who weighed three hundred and twen-
ty pounds, than me, a slender boy; and the only way I
could keep them up was with my belt. The ball that
struck my cartridge box jerked the belt up over the waist
of the pants, and the first jump I made to go forward
they dropped around my ankles like a pair of hobbles and
threw me flat. I whirled over on my back and gave a vicious
kick with both of my feet, and they went off my heels like
a shot, striking square in the face one of our boys-just rush-
ing by with his eyes fixed on the Yankee battery. He
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thought it was a shell and could not understand why his
head was still on. Pool was struck in the head, making a
scalp wound. I left him flopping around like a chicken
with his head cut off. Rosencrantz was struck in the face,
the ball ranging back into his neck and killing him. I got
up to the house at last. Mrs. Brice's daughter ran out
on the porch when she saw us coming, and waved her
handkerchief to us. The gunners left the guns. We
stopped about ten steps in front of their supporting line,
and delivered our first volley; it was a "deadener." They
began to retire, firing as they went. I had fallen heir to
a Spencer that morning, and had just recharged the mag-
azine when I felt a sharp rap on my shoulder. I looked
around, and was surprised to find it was a saber in the
hand of Gen. Forrest, who pointed down the road toward
Ripley. I looked and saw, about one hundred yards ofT, one
gunner making desperate efforts to save his gun; all the
rest had run away and left him. There were three pairs of
horses hitched to the gun, and he was mounted on the
lead team, lashing and spurring furiously. The wheel
team did not care to hurry. I fired at the fellow's back,
and he tumbled off. I looked up to see if that was what
old Bedford wanted. He smiled down on me as sweetly
as some young girl that had just recei'ed her first pro-
posal. The horses, missing the hand and voice that con-
trolled them, took fright and bolted down the road as
hard as they could go, found the bridge blocked, and, in
trying to cross the creek, bogged down. I expect Capt.
Morton or some of the battery fellows remember fishing
it out. Morton had followed close behind our lines and
taken position on the right of our regiment, commanding
the road to the creek, along which any reenforcements com-
ing to the enemy were bound to pass, the battery boys work-
ing like double-geared lightning and firing double charges.
The gun would jump off the ground at every discharge,
but would hardly hit the earth before they would have an-
other charge in. They kept a constant stream of old iron
going down the road after the Yankees, but they retired
slowly, firing as they went. We drove them through a strip
of wood and across a bottom field on the creek, where they
got some reenforcements, formed a line with their backs
to the creik, and stood us off for some time — in fact, it
looked as if we had got to the end of our rope, with only
about a hundred yards between us, and it fairly raining
bullets. From where we were we could see a long line of
their infantry coming up the Ripley road as fast as they
could lay foot to ground, and fresh batteries rushing across
the fields beyond the creek, taking up commanding posi-
tions, while we had every man in the fight we could put in,
even to some horse holders. Morton was crowding them
with his guns almost at pistol shot range, and yet they
stood their ground manfully. It was all open country in
front of us now, and away across to our right we could
see Barteau and his gallant old Second Tennessee begin-
ning their move on the flank and rear of the Yankees.
They were deployed mounted, long distance apart, advan-
cing toward the Ripley road, and firing as they came. We
could see the smoke from their guns, but it was too far off
to hear them.
The good news that Barteau was on their flank had scarce-
ly passed down the line, when some one found Capt. Tyler
with two companies of the Twelfth Kentucky over on the
other flank of the enemy creating wild consternation.
Barteau and Tyler could not have timed their attack bet-
ter if they had practiced a week. Just then we heard old
Buford's voice. He had been with Barteau and Bell all
day, and that was the first time we had heard or seen him.
He was an old West Pointer, and had a voice one could
hear two miles. "Attention, battalion ! Cease firing," he
called out. We ceased instantly, Rucker partially, and
Bell not at all. Down the line old Abe came, making the
dirt fly, and reined up in front of Bell. "D — n you, cease
firing," he yelled. They stopped. "Fix bayonets" was the
next order. We had bayonets when we were first mounted,
but had a fool idea when we were mounted that we would
do the rest of our fighting on horseback, so we very promptly
lost (?) our bayonets. Gen. Buford knew that as well as
we did. but he was talking for the benefit of the Yankees,
who could hear him as plainly as we. "Forward, guide
center, march." The whole line moved forward, and as
Buford said "Charge!" they rushed forward. The enemy
fired until we got pretty close, then threw down their
guns and surrendered, or waded the creek. We fired a
volley in their backs as they came out on the opposite side.
We waded the creek after them, stopping only long enough
to "dress up our line." They formed another line in front
of us, and we went on to that. Morton found the bridge
blocked, and had to clear that off before he could get his
guns across to us. With his help we soon moved that
line. I don't remember just how many lines we did rush,
but I remember the last ones were the negroes ; they had
sworn before they left Memphis never to take any of For-
rest's men prisoners, and they kept their oath. They did
not put up much of a fight — seemed more intent on getting
rid of their equipments and plunder. The Yankees had
made a clean sweep for five miles on each side of the road
they marched over, and all the plunder except that they de-
stroyed fell into our hands. You could pick up anything
from a lady's fine silk dress to a string of live chickens.
We found their wagons (two hundred and fifty parked)
loaded with ten days' rations.
We kept on across the fields in line of battle till dark,
and then went into camp. We lost some good soldiers at
Brice's Cross Roads, but as straws show which way the
wind blows, so will the dead on a battlefield show where
the fighting was hardest. One of our company was on the
Ijurial detail, and he told me a few days after that he found
the dead thickest around the house and on the creek: that
is where our old Enfields went along.
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AT ARLINGTON.
BY LASALLE CORBELL PICKETT.
Many the brave on Arlington's height
Sleep the long sleep through death's solemn night.
Resting from battle, they silent lie
Under the luminant arch of sky.
Proudly they rest, their fierce warfare done.
Under the stars and under the sun.
Names written high in the temple of fame
Flash from these stones like scimiter's flame;
Names that are blazed on history's scroll
With the lightning of swords 'mid guns' deep roll —
Names that will thrill the heart of the world
Wherever freedom's flag is unfurled.
Bravely they fought for stars of the blue,
Gleaming in triumph the storm clouds through,
Keeping their faith through the gates of fire.
Hurling their lives on war's funeral pyre.
Folded within their country',"; bright stars.
Peacefully rest they from all life's wars.
Under the sun and under the stars,
Wrapped in the folds of the stars and bars.
Peacefully rest a brave little band —
Heroes who fought for the sunny iand.
Nameless the slabs above their lone graves;
O'er them no banner victorious waves.
Under the slars and under the sim
Silent they sleep, life's battles all done.
Bravely they fought in fiery days,
'Mid the crash of guns and saber's blaze —
Fought for the Southland they loved so well—
For the dear Southland they fought and fell.
Calmly they sleep ; the w-orld passes by, '
Heeding them not where they lonely lie;
Marble tells not of their valor's worth;
Nameless they rest in the quiet earth ;
Epitaph sounds no paean of praise ;
History weaves no chaplet of bays.
Lovingly there the Southland doth weep
Over the graves where her soldiers sleep.
Only the flowers of memory there
Blossom in radiance, fragrant and fair.
Ever above that most sacred sod
Reverent prayers float upward to God.
Lonely in death the South's soldiers lie
Under the sheen of a cold, alien sky ;
Memories fond their faithful watch keep
Over the place where our fallen brave sleep.
But in the beyond, above the earth's sod.
All stand alike by the throne of our Go^.
On a "Picnic" with Gen. Pettus. — Mr. J. K. Landers,
of Jacksonville. Ala., who was a member of Company B,
Thirtieth Alabama, that took part in the siege of Vicks-
burg May i6 to July .,, 1863 — and was of the brave little
band comprised of three Alabamians and about thirty
Texans, of Waul's Legion, who were led by Ge-.i. E. W
Pettus, on May 22, 1863, in the recapture of a fort that
had been taken by the enemy in a hand-to-hand fight with
grenades, buts of guns, and bayonets, desires to hear from
any of the old boys that were on that picnic.
DOUGLAS'S BATTERY IN BATTLE OF NASHVILLE.
BY ED W. SMITH, TYLER, TEX.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee's report of the battle of Nashville
stirred the fountains of my memory and set me to think-
ing. I was a participant in some of the scenes and inci-
dents that he so vividly describes.
Passing over the operations of the first day's battle, on
the 15th of December, and night following, I give some per-
sonal recollections of the battle and rout of the i6th.
Douglas's First Texas Battery, of which I was a private
member, was attached at the time to the division of Gen.
Edward Johnson, of Lee's Corps, which formed the ex-
treme right of Hood's army, facing Nashville, Douglas's
Battery occupied a position west of the Franklin Pike and
near the base of a hill, what Gen. Lee calls "Overton Hill."
In common with the other commands on that part of
the line, we occcupied some temporary earthworks, and
were perhaps seventy-five yards in the rear of a stone fence.
I distinctly remember the fierce concentrated Federal artil-
lery fire from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.. alluded to by Gen. Lee,
and the occasional bellowing of the guns of Fort Negley,
to which a Northern writer refers. An open space of two
and a halt miles lay between our lines and those of the
Union army, drawn up around the southern suburbs of
Nashville, and we could distinctly see their movements.
Folowing this cannonading two battle lines of two brigades
each — one of white troops, and the other of black — emerged
from the L'nion camps and began to move toward our lines.
The negroes were in front. On they came in splendid or-
der, banners flying, mounted ofticers with drawn swords
careering up and down in front of the lines. Then our
artillery had its opportunity. AH of Lee's guns from the
center and wings of his line were turned loose upon the
negroes. At first, under the rallying cries and brandishing
swords of their white oflScers, they preserved their align-
ment in the face of the galling, direct, and enfilading fire
of our artillery. Our men were in the white heat and ex-
altation of battle, and through the brazen throats of their
guns poured death and destruction into the ranks of their
black foes. Negro nature could stand no more, and. in
spite of the domination of their officers, their lines began
to waver, and fell back in confusion on the white battle line,
<ome distance in the rear. In due time their lines were
re-formed in the same order, and another attack was at-
tempted, only to be rolled back as before. In the meantime
the Federal forces were making a terrific onslaught on
Hood's extreme left, west of our position, and. with their
vastly greater numbers, continually overlapping and seek-
ing to turn that flank of our army. Emboldened by the
progress of the assault on our left, the attack was renewed
about 4 P.M., on Lee's front. In spite of the destructive
work of our artillery— the infantry, under orders, re-
serving their fire — the black and white lines in our front
came inexorably forward. Closer and closer they came.
We began to give them double-shotted loads of canister
direct in their faces, and our infantry turned loose its fire.
The demons of war were reveling in the high carnival of
battle. The enemy had reached and were beginning to leap
the stone fence in our front. Just at this juncture somebody
shouted, "Look to the west!"' and, turning in that direc-
tion, we saw that the old fields far to the southwest were
covered with a mass of Confederate soldiers fleeing diago-
nally across our rear, in the direction of the Franklin Pike,
the only way open to retreat. With lightninglike celer-
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ity, under orders from Capt. Douglas, our battery horses
were brought forward, and wc succeeded in escaping with
only the loss of two of our artillery pieces. The brave sol-
diers of our left wing had not been driven in open con-
flict, but the overlapping Yankee infantry, supplemented by
Wilson's corps of cavalry, bad succeeded in turning our po-
sition and getting in our rear, so that the only resource left
was flight.
We had a close call on our immediate part of the line.
The Yankees were right on us and shouting, "Hall! halt!"
and peppering us with their small arms; but I know of no
loss, cither by death or capture, except Edward Johnson,
our major general, commanding. He was a short, thick-
set man in, apparently. later middle life. He failed to
reach his horse, and undertook, with the rest of us, to
climb the hill on foot, but was soon captured. This was his
second imprisonment.
The retreat from all parts of the line converged on tlu-
mouth of the Franklin Pike, just south of the hill, where it
entered a long lane bordered by stone fences. Here the
scene beggars description. The mouth of the lane was
choked by great masses of wagons and artillery, the drivers
in a frenzy of fright and panic, the infantry overleap-
ing the stone fences and spreading through the fields, and
the enemy in hot pursuit. Just in this emergency Gen.
Lee rode up and called for volunteers to make a stand to
check the pursuit. I remember that he asked if there
were any South Carolinians present, and asked them to
rally to him. he himself being a South Carolinian. Capt.
Douglas manned a section of the battery from his com-
pany, and with the support of a few dozen detached in-
fantrymen, went back nn the hill under the leadership of
Gen. Lee, and. unlimbering his guns, fired a number of
shots in the direction of the enemy, who were just under
the brow of the hill. This had the desired effect, and suf-
ficed to unchoke the pike and give the army a chance to
stretch out in orderly retreat. Following along in the
wake of the army, we were halted late at night a few miles
north of Franklin, and we lay down in our wet clothes on
the soaked earth for such rest as we could get. In the
midst of fitful slumber we were aroused in the middle of
night by another downpour of freezing rain.
MELANCHTHON SMITH'S BATTERY.
BY W. H. SMITH, WEALTHY, TEX.
I notice in your magazine that mention is made of Capt.
Melanchthon Smith's Conip.-my as the "Chicasaka Desper-
adoes." Having been a member of this company, I disclaim
this title as it is generally understood. This company was
made up of some of the best young men in Clark County,
Miss., and intended for the infantry, hut, after arriving at
Union City, there was not a sufficient number of infantry
companies there to form a regiment, and we were given
the choice of either joining a Tennessee regiment of infan-
try or reorganizing into a coinpany of artillery. We chose
the latter, and elected Melanchthon Smith captain, and were
attached to Cheatham's Brigade. We participated in all
the great battles fought by the Army of Tennessee, except
the battle of I'ranklin. We missed this on account of hav-
ing been left behind to guard a ford on Duck River. Our
battery at first consisted of six pieces — three six-pound
smooth-bores, one rifled piece, and two twelve-pound
howitzers. .^fter the battle of'Shiloh, when Cheatham
was made major general, and George Maney promoted to
brigadier, our battery was reduced to four pieces, consist-
ing of two twelve-pound Napoleons captured at Shiloh,
our rifled gun. and one of our howitzers. At Perryville we
were given two more twelve-pound Xapoleons captured from
the enemy, giving us a complete battery of four Napoleons.
Not having sufficient horses to haul ofT our old inferior
guns, we cut them down and threw them into an old well
near the battlefield.
Speaking of Perryville reminds me of two memorable
incidents. I was a gunner, and my piece, as well as the
others, was hotly engaged, when I heard some one say:
"Let me try my hand at them." Looking up, I saw that
it was Gen. Cheatham I stood aside, and he fired sev-
eral rounds, pointing the gun and directing the fire appar-
ently with as much pleasure as a boy shooting at rabbits.
The other incident was that of Corporal Jim Sunivall. It
was Jim's duty to stand at the fimbL^r chest during battle
and prepare the ammunition, putting the fuse into the shells,
etc. While thus engaged, a shell from the enemy exploded
just over his head above the chest ami fireil the packing
around the pow'der. Sunivall simply raked the ignited pack-
ing out of the chest, and continued preparing his ammu-
nition as if nothing unusual had happened.
It w-as at Chickamauga that our battery did its bloodiest
and perhaps most effective service. On the morning of the
first day's fight our division (Cheatham's) was in reserve
for a while, and our guns were in position perhaps a half
mile to the rear of the main line of battle, with an open
piny woods in our front, right, and left for two or three
hundred yards. About midday, while the battle was ra-
ging furiously in our front, our division in the meantime
having gone in. we discovered that three Yankee lines of
battle were steadily pressing our men back. When they
reached our guns, an efTort was made to rally on the bat-
tery, but without avail, and wc were soon left without sup-
port: but as soon as the last of our men had cleared the
guns, Lieut. Turner, who was in command of the battery,
gave the order to fire. We were double shotted with can-
nister, and when we iircd it cut a swath in the advancing
lines. They made a simultaneous effort to turn our flanks,
but, wheeling the end jiieces to the right and left, we fought
them off, at the same time keeping two pieces firing in front.
They claim to have left three hundred dead in our front
and flanks as the result of our battery fire. Geaeral Cheat-
ham rode up after we had driven them back the last time,
iiiid. after complimenting Lieut. Turner, said: "Lieutenant,
you shall be captain of this battery from this time on. I
have never seen artillery do such fearful execution in so
short a lime. Later in the evening, when Gen. Maney asked
Gen. Cheatham to relieve Turner's battery, the old man said:
"No, let it stay where it is; for if it had not been for that
battery, the Yankees would have been all over this country
to-night."
THE FIGHT AT DEAD ANGLE.
BY J. L. W. BLAIR, COMPANY I, FIRST TENNESSEE.
On the morning of June 27, 1864, we were informed by
Gen. Cheatham that the angle in our line, held by our regi-
ment (First Tennessee, Col. H. R. Fields, commanding),
would be attacked by a strong force of the enemy during the
day, and we were commanded to hold the works at all hazards.
We waited anxiously for the Federals to open the fight. We
could see some activity in a battery on a bill opposite our
position, and about ten o'clock a furious cannonading began.
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It was very liot. and we had our blankets stretclied to shelter
us in the trenches : but when the shells began to come our
way blankets went down, and we kept out of sight until that
part of the programme was finished.
The shelling was to cover the advance of the infantry,
and as soon as it ceased we looked down the long, wooded
slope and saw the enemy advancing, cheering as they
came. Our cartridge boxes were quickly adjusted, every
gun was in place, and when the order was given to fire
a sheet of flame burst from under the head logs and tlir
missiles of death crashed through the enemy's lines. The
brigades on our right and left, as far as they could reach
the enemy, poured in their fire, and a battery on our ieft
shattered their lines with an enfilading fire of grape and
canister. For about twenty minutes it was "hot times." The
Yankees came on gallantly, and some reached the top of our
works, but only to come over as prisoners, while others fell
almost at the muzzles of our guns. Many took refuge be-
hind trees, but were picked off. Nine were killed beliind one
tree.
One new recruit, wearing a straw hat. was seen after the
battle behind a rock near our works. Wc invited him to come
in, and he very promptly accepted our invitation. After the
smoke of battle cleared away we saw that a part of the at-
tacking force had taken shelter under the abrupt slope of the
hill on tlie right of our regiment and were fortifying, which
was a part of their original plan. If they failed to drive us
in the assault, they would get a lodgment and inine us out.
Being one of the guards on the battlefield while the Fed-
erals were burying their dead, the opportunity \vas presented
of passing our compliments, and the Yanks seemed glad to
get a chance to talk to a Johnnie about the fight. One big,
^trapping fellow said that they had two divisions, thirty regi-
ments, massed on our frotit. This was against one regiment
of Confederates (in single line) of two hundred men, judging
from the size of my company (I). We were reenforced near
the close of the fight by another regiment of our brigade. I
lielped to fortify that part of the line, and we took pains to
make it as safe as digging could make it. The rear of the
trench was made deep enough for a man to stand straight
without being exposed while loading, then step up, placing tho
gini under the "bead log," with which the works were sur-
mounted, fire and stcj) liack, load and come again ; but thore
was no clirz'oiix-dr-ji isc in front lo retard the enemy's ad-
vance. I think the Federal dead were about eight hundred,
and our loss was thirteen killed and seventeen wounded.
t)f course the First Tennessee docs not claim all the honor.
We simply did our duly and no man shirked.
A little incident occurred a few days after the battle which
reminded us of the "battle of the lightning bugs " Phc
enemy lying so near us, we were required to watch all night
and keep up occasional firing, so that sleep was out of the
question. We were finally relieved by a regiment of our bri-
gade and allowed to retire a few hundred yards to rest.
About midnight we were aroused by a terrific firing, and
learned that a Yank had ordered in a loud voice, "Forward,
double-quick, charge." just to sec what would happen. The
boys had jumped to their guns and poured in volley after
volley, which amused the Yankees very much, who were a
[ short distance away lying in their trenches. The Federals
approached us by a mine, and when our great commander.
Joseph E. Johnston, thought they had gotten near enough
he moved liis base, and the Yanks got up one morning to
find that the Johnnies were gone.
(7£A'. FORXEVS ADDRESS TO HIS MEN.
T. J. Wesson, of Camden. Ark., sends copy of an address
issued by Maj. Gen. John H. Forney to the soldiers of his
division at Hempstead. Tex.. May 7, 1865. The division
commanded by Gen. Forney in the Trans-Mississippi Depart-
ment was known as Walker's Texas Division. Soon after
this address Gen. Forney was relieved and Gen. Walker placed
in command. It is thought that this address was among Gen.
Forney's last acts as commander. Comrade Wesson, in the
beginning of the war, at a very youthful age, was over a year
in the Virginia army from Arkansas, and at the close, at nine-
teen years of age, was a clerk in the Inspector General's De-
•partment. Forney's Division.
"HEADQt ARTKRS FoRNEv's DIVISION,
"Hemi'stead. Tex.. May 7, 1865.
"Soldier.!:: .\fter having been so long and arduously en-
gaged in the service of your country. I know that the news
from the other side of the Mississippi River is calculated to
depress your spirits, and I therefore desire to say to you a
few plain words. I call upon you to listen to me as one that
has the same interest at stake as yourselves. You should
recollect that all the news we have received is from Northern
telegrams, direct from (he hands of our enemies, who would
much rather whip us by dispatches than in any other way.
They tell us that our friends in the East arc whipped, have
surrendered, are conquered. Some of it may lie true, but a
i>rcat deal of it is doubtless false. In this uncertainty let us
hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst. At the
same time 1 conjure you to stand firm. Let us wait to hear
from our own side of the question. Of course the news is far
from diet ring. Wc all feci depressed : we all feci that it is
time to consider well how to act. But it grieves mc to learn
that some of you, I cannot think many, are willing to sacri-
fice the fair renown of the division by leaving it now, and it
is to them that I am speaking. I am fully informed of your
secret meetings, your spoken plans, and your written jiledges,
and T tell you plainly that the public property under my
charge nui.st and shall be protected.
"But why are you acting thus? Think, are you acting
honorably, nobly, wisely? It is fully a thousand miles from the
■-ccne of action in Virginia and North Carolina. Shall the
great Stale of Texas quail before the enemy has come in
^ight of her shores? And shall the proud men of Texas
throw down their arms and run cowardly home before the
enemy has set foot in the State, or they have even been asked
to surrender? Should the worst come 10 the wonst, you cer-
tainly can make better terms and stipulations banded together
as an army with arms in your hands than you can scattered
and dispersed all over the country. Should the enemy invade
the State in large force, you surely cannot believe tliat our
generals would be guilty of the madness of sacrificing our
lives without a strong probability of success and unless there
was some great end to be obtained.
"In conclusion, I appeal to you as men and soldiers. I ask
you for the honor of your Stale and your homes, in the name
of your wives and children, in the name of those gallant
Texans who have fought and toiled on every battlefield of
this war. to do your duty, orderly and quietly, until the
proper authorities shall say when and on what terms wc shall
be discharged. My interest is the same and identified with
yours. My only object is now. and will be, to do what I con-
ceive to be the best for you and the country at large. Be
firm, then, and irreproachable. When we go lo our homes
let it be with honorable discharges in our hands.
John H. Forney. .Maj. Gen. Comiiuindiiig."
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C^opfederate l/ete-ai^,
RELATIVE STRENGTH OF THE TWO ARMIES.
The following communication ij from John H. Traylor,
of Dallas, Tex. Mr. Traylor served in the Army of North-
ern Virginia throughout the War between the States. He was
wounded three times. He was a member of Company B.
Fourth Georgia Infantry, which was most of the time in
Doles's Brigade, Kodes's Division, Jackson'? Corps.
He moved from Georgia to Texas soon after the war,
where he has been prominent politically, having lilled various
official positions. Among these he was a member of both
Houses of the Texas Legislature, and recently Mayor of
Dallas. He is now Commander of Camp Sterling Price,
U. C. v., the largest Camp in the South.
Comrade Traylor writes of the comparative resources and
strength of the Federal and Confederate armies during the
War between the States and the number of soldiers furnished
by each of the Southern States :
"It may with reasonable certainty be said that there is not
in existence full and reliable data to determine accurately
the number of soldiers enlisted in the Confederate armies
from 1861 to 1865 by each of the fifteen slave States, or
probably any one of them; or the numerical strength of
the Confederate army at :iny particular time of its ex-
istence; or the total number of men embodied in the Confed-
erate service during the entire period of the Civil War.
"The census of i860 gave the thirty-three States of the
Union a populatio.. of 31,443,790. Of these, the fifteen slave
States had 12,140,296 inhabitants, of which more than 4,000,-
000 were slaves; leaving the eighteen free States with an
aggregate population of 19,303,494.
"Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware consti-
tuted what were called tlie border slave States, and their
population, with West Virginia, numbered 3,500,000. The
most of the inhabitants of these States, from association or in-
terest, sympathized v/ith the South, and many of their peo-
ple, excepting Delaware, fought in the Confederate army.
But they were so overwhelmed and terrorized by the Union
armies early in the war, while some of them were hesita-
ting, and others contending for neutrality, that their con-
dition became so perilous that they were deterred from
obeying their inclination; and thrfiugh choice, coercion,
intimidation, and for the protection of their property, the
large majority of them were, gradually, in one way and
another, drawn into the Union armies; and they furnished
the Federal government 275,000 of the best soldiers to be
turned against tlie Confederacy. Of this number, Missouri
furnished 109,111; Kentucky, 75,760; Maryland, 46,638; Del-
aware, 12,284; Slid West Virginia. 32,068. These arc nflicia!
figures.
"The other eleven Southern States, unless Tennessee be the
exception, were practically a unit in support of the Southern
Confederacy. Yet the War Department of the Federal gov-
ernment reports the following ninnlier of soldiers furnished
the Union armies during the War between the States hy
these eleven States — to wit: Tennessee, 31,092; .Arkansas,
8,289; North Carolina. 3.156; Alabama. 2.576; Florida.
r,29o; Louisiana, 5,224; Mississippi, 545; Texas, 1,965; and
to these add the Indian Nation, 3,500, making a total of 57,-
637.
"There is no report of any organized enlistments from
Georgia, South Carolina, or Virginia, unless Virginia is in-
cluded in the reports of West Virginia.
"Thus the Southern Confederacy had to depend mainly for
its sources of supply upon tliese eleven States, with an ag-
gregate population of 9,000,000, of which nearly 4,000,000
were slaves.
"Senator John Sherman is quoted as follows : 'It may
be said with reasonable precision that while many of the
inhabitants of the border slave States fought in the Con-
federate army, this loss was more than compensated for
by the effective aid rendered by the loyal men who joined the
Union army from the rebellious States.'
"In this statement I think he was clearly in error, and we
of the South would have been unwilling to exchange the
soldiers from Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland, who so
gallantly did service under Breckinridge, Buckner, Morgan,
Price, CockrcU, Marmaduke, Bradley Johnson, and others,
for the few thousand from the eleven Confederate States
just enumerated who took up arms for the Union.
"The Confederate government, realizing it would require
all its resources to sustain the government, after having mus-
tered into service many volunteers for one year, on the
16th of April, 1862, passed an enrollment act which called
into service all white men between the ages of eighteen
and forty-five who were not legally exempt from military
service, and requiring all the twelve months troops, whose
time had not then expired, to continue in the service for
the period of the war. Further legislation by the Confederate
Congress in February, 1864, extended the enrollment so as
to include all white male residents of tlic Confederate States
between the ages of seventeen and fifty.
"The Federal government, too, was almost as hard pressed
as the Confederacy. It was importing and enlisting foreign-
ers, and by the act of Congress of March 3. 1863, provided
for the enrollment of all able-bodied male citizens between
the ages of twenty and forty-five, and granted freedom to all
slaves between these ages who would enlist in the Union
armies, and, in addition, offered rewards for enlistments, in
the shape of large bounties paid in money for one year's
service, and doubling and trebling this bounty for two and
three years' service, respectively. As a result the Union
armies enlisted in the aggregate in the army and navy from
April, i8Ci, to 1865, 2,780,478 men, of whom 93,000 were col-
ored troops from the slave States. Some of these enlist-
ments were for three, six, and twelve months, but 2,028,630
for three years.
"Against these tlie Southern Confederacy enlisted a to
tal of about 895,654 men in its service during the four
years of the Civil War. the length of service for one and
three years, lespectively. but mainly 'three years or the
war.' Thus it will be seen that the eleven Confederate
States, with a white popul:ition of 5,000,000, had to combat
the 19,000,000 people of the free Stales, all the foreigners
that could be induced to enlist in the Union army by the
ofTer of large bounties, 275,000 of the best troops in the
Union army furnished by the border slave States, 93,000
colored troops from the slave Statt-, 54,137 soldiers from
the eleven Confederate States, and 3.500 Indians from the
Indian Territory.
"Having given the ofiicia! facts and figures above stated,
I submit the fable below of the estimated number of sol-
diers enlisted in the Confederate service from 1861 to 1863.
and the estimated quota furnished by each of the Slave
States, .\fter careful inquiry, I find the States so deficient
m reliable official data that I believe the facts can be never
arrived at by basing the figures on the white population of
these States, considered in connection with their physical
I'ondition and environments at the time. The patriotism.
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635
the public sentiment, and the conscript laws of eleven of
these States composing the Confederacy were such that it
would be invidious, in the absence of correct official figures,
to credit any one State with more loyalty or more soldiers
than any other in proportion to the white population re-
maining in the Confederate lines; hence I adopt, as the
correct basis, the white population of each of these States,
as each sent to the field to bear arms, in one or the oth;r
armies, practically every man liable for military duty. The
estimate of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and even Vir-
ginia, may be less accurate ; for in the case of the first
three it is not probable the male population so universally
did service as those of the eleven Confederale States farther
South, and in case of Virginia it is complicated with the
withdrawal of West Virginia, in 1862. taking away a popula-
tion of something like 400,000 inhabitants. But I take the
census of 1870 as a basis, which gave Virginia 1.225,163
inhabitants, and West Virginia 442,014, while the two as
Virginia in i860 had 1,596,318, of wlioni 548,907 wore col-
ored. Taking these proportions for i860 would give Vir-
ginia a white population of 769,713, and of free negroes and
slaves 403,377. While I find no official report of Union sol-
diers from Virginia, a reasonable supposition is that there
were some and they were included with those of West Vir-
ginia. This, however, is an assumption; but if such were
the case, the number would be offset by enlistments with
Virginia troops from Wesl Virginia.
"Therefore, I submit the following tabulated statement
of population by the census of i860 and estimates of Con-
federate soldiers furnished by each Southern State, except
Delaware, to both the Union and the Confederate armies dur-
ing the War between the States; those of the Union army
being official, and those of the Confederate estimated. Free
negroes and slaves are included in the column as 'Negroes.'
The population of any State can be arrived at by adding to-
gether the whites and negroes.
Alabama
Arkans:!!,
Florida
Georgjia
Kenlucky
Ln,iislana
Marvland
Mississippi
Missouri
Xorrt^ Clrollna..
Soiilh Carnlina ..
Tennt-ssee
Texas.
Virelnta
Indiaa Nation,.,
Total
Willie
i'oiiiilniiun.
3^4. '9'
59'.5SS
"JiQ.S'T
'■o6i S<x^
(1^1 , 1 00
S2C 7S2
Nesrom.
437.770
■ i.,vw
6j,'>77
465,'ios
2^6, lfx>
350 37,i
437-t'4
" iS .Sn.i
4I2.V4
iS_i 019
i<S2,g?i
4"3.377
Union
Amiy.
'•570
S,2S4
1,290
"7S.7f«
5. "4
40,6.^>*
109,1 1 1
3'.09>
'.965
?J00
■ I 2S9.14I
('uQlvflvrfili-
Army.
94.S13
40.344
I2.09i
109.4JS
40,000
oo.o.t;
7,coo
^4,87(1
.: 5,000
102,027
.^•2 59.1;
9^.92.=;
128.2^;
2.00b
Sg;.654
"Tt will be seen, according to these figures, that the South-
ern Confederacy had enlisted during the War between the
States 895,654 men, and the Union army 2.780,478. It is not
probable, however, that the Confederacy enlisted over about
seven hundred thousand, or, at most, seven himdred and fifty
thousand difTcrcnt individuals, as many enlisted more than
once, being discharged from one cause or another; but the
larger number of recnlisted were the troops that earlier in
the war volunteered for one year, and at the expiration of
that time, most of them, if not all, recnlisted. The same ap-
plies to the Union armies, for while the number enlisted was
2.780.478. they figure the aggregate, reduced to a three years"
standard, at 2.320,000 men. In either case it will be seen the
Confederate forces were about one-third the Federal.
"The aggregate of enlistments in the Confederate army
will appear extravagant, as we have been in the habit of
calling it six hundred thousand. It appears that writers,
from a Southern standpoint, have hesitated to give the
supposed aggregate, but have not been backward in credit-
ing their respective States with a larger number than is
here given. Hon. James G. Blaine, in a speech in Con-
gress, in comparing the respective forces of the two armies,
said: 'There arc no records which give with accuracy the
number of men in the Confederate Army. The general aggre-
,a;ate for the four years is, upon the best authority attain-
able, placed at one million, one hundred thousand men.'
"I have written to the proper officials of several of the
Southern States as to the number furnished by their respect-
ive States. All, excepting the State of Texas, reported a
greater number than I have estimated where an answer was
given, but none could answer with absolute certainty. These
calculations of the number enlisted in the following eleven
Confederate States are made on a basis of the white popula-
tion as shown by the census of i860, in each State deduct-
ing the number shown by official figures to have served in
the Union armies.
"From the best information 1 have obtained, it appears that
about eighteen and one-half per cent of the white popula-
tion actually entered the service of the two armies from the
following States — to wit, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Lou-
isiana, Mississippi, and .South Carolina. The reason the
proportion is the same is because the conscript law could be en-
forced in about all portions of these States.
"For North Carolina and Virginia I take sixteen and two-
tliirds per cent, or one-sixth of their white population, be-
ing a smaller per cent than the States natned above, mainly
because parts of these States were at all times r ccupied by
the enemy, hence the Conscript Act could not be enforced
and men not exempt remained at home for the protection
of their families and property.
"For the States of Arkansas and Tennessee I take as a
fair basis fifteen per cent of the whites, as in each of these
States a portion of its territory was occupied by a dis-
loyal element, and a still larger area was alternately occu-
pied by first one army and then the other, resulting in
many perplexities in organizing the State's military force,
so it was largely a matter of choice in some sections if the
men joined either army. In Texas I take it that twelve and
one-half per cent is a proper basis. The country being sparsely
settled, and its frontier being exposed to the incursions of
both Indians and Mexicans, the laws made exemptions for
the purpose of protecting the settlers against these dangers.
".As North Carolina had in its State 39.512 more white peo-
ple than Georgia, it might appear that the discrepancy in the
number of troops enlisted in the Confederacy in favor of
Georgia was not sufficiently accounted for by the occupation
of a portion of the former State by the Federals. But this
is corroborated by reference to official records of the War
of the Rebellion, Series 4, Vol. 3, page 99, made by a Co'i-
federate officer. I insert the following quotation: "North
Carolina, with a larger white population than Georgia, has
put less in the service than that State. This disproportion
is owing to the occupation of a part of North Carolina by
the enemy, and the fact that the- exemption list is much
swollen by the requisitions ol the Governor of the State.'
This was in February, 1864. I suppose the e 'requisitions
of the Governor' were for militia service, js it is known
that North Carolina and Georgia, by reason of their posi-
tions and conditions, furnished a much larger militia force
than the other States.
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Qoi}federate l/eteraij.
■'As to Maryland, I have had to guess at the enlistments
in the Confederate service, with but indiflferent sources of
information. The number in the Union Army, in every
instance, is official.
"The conditions existing in Missouri and Kentucky during
the War between the States were peculiar, in that these
States during a portion of the time were represented by two
governments— one maintaining its allegiance to the Federal
Union, the other forming an alliance with the Confederate
States. These exceptional conditions, and others, resultmg
from the geographical position of these States and the di-
vided sentiment of the people, formed them into hostile fac-
tions.
"But notwithstanding these difficulties, in addition to those
regularly enlisted in the Confederate .\rmy, each of these
Slates, and especially Missouri, whose territory was not oc-
cupied by such large hostile armies, enlisted a number of
companies formed for local defense, and usually designated
as 'Partisan Rangers,' which were sufficiently numerous to
give the Federal authorities much annoyance and occupy
the attention of a large military force that would otherwise
have been available in other fields.
"It is not improbable that the critic (from commendable
motives, too) will think his State enrolled more men than
is here accredited to it, and that the aggregate is too great,
notwithstanding this will be an inconsistent position to
t.-ikc.
"The records of the War Department of the number of
Union soldiers put into the Union armies by the Northern
States, based on the population by the census of i86d, show
that Maine. Massachusetts. Michigan, and Ohio enlisted
about twelve per cent of their entire population; and Indi-
ana and Illinois, fourteen and sixteen per cent, respectively.
The greater per cent of these two States is probably account-
ed for by reason of their rapid settlement about this time.
"The writer has carefully considered all the information at
hand, but has had to rely on his best judgment in reaching
conclusions, and while he believes the figures here given as
f> the number of soldiers furnished by each State to the
Confederacy is approximately and relatively about correct,
the estimates are not presented in a dogmatic spirit, as he
is well aware they arc not absolutely so ; and he will have no
controversy with those who may differ with those views,
but trust that the data here given, with such other as may
l)e obtainable, will afford opportunity for some one to write
n more accurate statement."
THE GEORGIA REUNION AT ROME.
The proceedings of the Georgia Division, V. C. V. Con-
vention, held at Rome Septeinbcr 14 and 15, 1904, are re-
liorted as follows by Frank T. Ryan. Secretary:
"The sixth annual reunion of tlie Georgia Division, U. C. V'.,
met on September 14, 1904, under commodious tents which
had been prepared for our coming, fitted with platform and
seats, at 2 p.m., with Gen. P. A. S. McGlashen. Command-
er, presiding. The convention was opened with religious
ilevotion by singing "Nearer. My God, to Thee,"' after which
the Rev. R. B. Headen offered a fervent prayer.
"In the absence of the Secretary, Col. J. Colton T.y-
ons was elected. W. W. Hulbcrt, Thomas J. Lyons, and A.
J. Hinton were chosen as the Committee on Credentials. The
speakers were Gov. Joseph M. Terrell, Hon. C. H. Lavender.
Mayor of Rome, ex-Congressman John \V. Maddux, and
Mr. Edward Maddux. The latter, a Son, spoke in behalf of
the Sons of Veterans.
"In his address of welcome, the Mayor said: 'There are
no keys to Rome, for when it was learned that the Veterans
had accepted the invitation to hold their reunion here, the
locks were taken off the gates."
"Congressman John W. Maddux made the address in be-
half of the Floyd County Camp of Confederate Veterans.
He said that he had been so severely indisposed for days
that his doctor had forbidden his saying anything, but he was
determined to speak anyway. His fine, patriotic address was
clicered to the echo.
'Mr. Kdwar<l Maddux, in behalf of the Sons of Veterans.
welcome<l the old soldiers to the city. This brilliant and gift-
ed young Roman's splendid address was listened to with close
attention and cheered.
"Gov. Terrell, a guest of the occasion, delivered a fine
address. [He honored Georgia. — En.]
"Capt. W. H. ('Tip') Harrison, of Atlanta, then addressed
the convention in response for and in behalf of the Veter-
ans. This popular comrade made everybody happy by his
address.
"Gen. C. A. Evans. Commanding the Department of
Tennessee, made a humorous, eloquent, and characteristic
address, which met with continued and renewed applause.
"The Committee on Resolutions was announced — viz..
Dr. W. R. Burroughs, of Brunswick: Col. T. O. Waddell.
of Cedartown : (jcn. J. 1.. Sweet, of Waycross ; W. S. Shep-
])ard. of Coluinbus.
"Gen. P. A. S. McGlashen. the Division Commander,
made his annual address, which was heartily applauded.
Capt. H. T. Davenport, of .A.mericus. emphasized the re-
marks of tile Division Commander for his timely sugges-
tions relative to Camps paying their dues.
"Gen. Evans presented a picture to the Georgia Divi-
sion, U. C. v., on behalf of Mrs. Lilly Leake Oglesby, of
Quitman. Ga.. who was thanked by the Convention.
"The entertainment at night was had in the large tent,
filled to overflowing. - It was under the direction of the
Daughters of the Confederacy and the ladies of Rome in
general, assisted by young men. Such songs as 'Old
Black Joe," sung by Mr. J. C. Walters, in his rich baritone
voice, with the plaintive voices, as of angels in the dis-
tance, answering. 'I am coming." caught the fancy of the
Veterans, and dimmed eyes, tremulous lips, paid the high-
est tribute to the singer and the song. The belles of the
sixties, as they sang 'Lorena" ;uul 'The Captain with His
Whiskers Took a Sly Glance at Me,' took us back in mem-
ory to the time when we too were the beaux of the sixties.
It was surely a pathetic scene, and was heartily enjoyed by
the multitude present. 'Tip' Harrison led the song, 'We Are
Old-Timc Confederates,' which 'brought down the house.'
The evening wound up with an old-time jubilee. Miss f'lllis,
expression teacher at Shorter College, and Miss Estelle
Mitchell, dialect reader, contributed largely toward the
evening's entertainment.
"On the second day the meeting was opened with a fer-
vent prayer by Rev. W. .\. Parks. W. F. Penniman had
sent the following communication to Commander Mc-
Glashen: 'Owing to an increasing infirmity (deafness), I
feel constrained, for the good of our Association, to ten-
der my resignation as Secretary of the Georgia Division.
I feel that I can do justice neither to the Division nor
myself under the circumstances.' On molinn, the resigna-
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537
tioii was accepted and the Secretary instructed to 'express
to him our regrets that his infirmity forces him to resign
the office he so ably filled.'
"When the Chairman, Gen. McGlashen. announced that
tlie nomination of a Secretary was in order, the name of
Frank T. Ryan was presented by Col. J. Colton Lyons,
which was promptly seconded, and, being put to the Con-
vention, he was declared elected.
"For the election of a Commander, Chairman McGlashen
vacated the chair, and called for Gen. Wiley to preside.
"Gen. Sweet, of -Waycross, with appropriate remarks
placed in nomination for reelection Gen. P. A. S. Mc-
Glashen, of Savannah.
"In a very eloc|uent manner Comrade J. T. Hunter, of
Harnesville, offered the name of Gen.- A. J. West, of Atlan-
ta, as Commander. Col. Waddell .-nid Capt. Davenport,
of .Americus, seconded the nomination of Gen. McGlashen
as Commander.
"Capt. Tom I,yons, of Cartersville, with great earnestness
urged the nomination of Gen. \. J. West as Commander.
"During the discussion Gen. McGlashen arose and. with
great feeling, asked permission to withdraw his ii,imc. but
his supporters with earnestness would not consent.
"In the midst of the voting, Cicn. West arose and asked
permission to withdraw his name, and recommended that
the election of Gen. McGlashen be made unanimous, which
was granted, and Gen. McGlashen was elected Commander
of the Georgia Division for the ensuing term.
"Greetings were ordered sent to the Virginia liivision.
then in session at Lynchburg.
"Mrs. Jas. A. Rounsaville was introdnce<l. and in a very
pleasant manner tendered the tliaid<s of the Daughters of
ilie Confeder.icy In tlie asseiubled Confederate Veterans for
tlie help they had given them in erecting the monument to
President Jefferson Davis. She took occasion to say that
funds arc still, needed to properly completi' the Winnie
Davis Memorial at Athens,
".\ftcr the Convention adjourned the election for the dif-
ferent Brigade Commanders look place.
"Gen. West, in an eloquent address, introduced Miss Eliz-
abeth Luiupkin. of .South Carolina, who delivered a won-
derfully thrilling address to the large crowd assembled. Her
remarks created an enthusiasm rarely ever witnessed, and
for a time confusion and noise reigned. The Veterans
struggled wiili e.irh other to reach the platform to shake
her hand and tell her Imw much they appreciated what she
said and how slie said it. It was pandemonium, and it was
(|uitc a time before order was restored.
[Here official action was taken in )> half nf tin- Com-kd-
ER\TF. Vf.tbran. reported in October issue, page 474.]
"The Committee on Resolutions submitted the following,
which was adopted: 'That we recommend to the several
Camps a rigid enforceiueni of the rule not to admit to
membership any one except tijion satisfactory proof of
service in either the army or navy, and that no one be ad-
mitted to iriembership wlio des.-rted. .iiid that only those
thus ailmitted be grantcl certificates entitling them to
crosses of honor; provided, however, that any one deemed
worthy may be elected an lumorary member of a Camp.'
"'Resolved, Tliat Captain Comiuanders of all Caiups now
in arrears of dues to either the Division or General Head-
quarters be urged to priHee<l at once to collect and pay
the same.'
"It was made a rule governing the difTerent Camps that
no member seeking to change his membership from one
Camp to another shall be received into the Camp to which
he applies unless he produces a letter of discharge, granted
by his foriner Camp in regular session, signed by its Com-
mander and Secretary, certifying that he was a member of
such first Camp in good standing, and that his discharge had
been granted at his own request, for tht purpose of mak-
ing his application to said second Caiup for membership.
"Expressions of sorrow were proposed for the death of
'that big-bodied and big-hearted Maj. G. M. Ryalls,' and
to his immediate family and friemls our sincerest condo-
lence was tendered.
"Thanks were tendered to the various railroad compa-
nies of the State for reduced rates to the reunion."
The follow^ing tribute was paid to Georgia chaplains;
" 'Whereas, in appreciation of the faithful and arduous
services rendered by the Chaplains of the Confederate
.\nuy, both in the field, as well as in the many Confederate
hospitals, where they served at all times, at the risk of
their lives if necessary, and gave much relief, both spiritual
and physical; therefore be it
Resolved, That it is hereby recommended that the sur-
viving Confederate Chajjlains belonging to this Division
be requested to coiunnmicate with each other, with a view
of forming themselves into an association, to be known as
tlie Confederate Chaplains' Association, that it may be an
adjunct of this Confederation.'
"Mayor Bridges Siuith, of Macon, in behalf of the city
of Macon, its Chamber of Commerce, and other organiza-
tions, and its people in general, invited us to hold our next
convention in the city of Macon, saying that, notw-ithstand
ing Rome had outdone herself, and had treated us so well,
if we would hold our next convention in Macon, he would
solemnly obligate himself to treat us equally as well, and
if possible a little better than Rome had done.
"Every Roman seemed determined to outdo the other, and
the conse(|uence was. we had one of the pleasantest and
bajipiesl reunions in the history of the State."
OUR NEGLECT OF SHILOH NATIOXAL PARK.
nv MRS. J. W. TRWIX. S\V.\NN.\H. TENN.
It was not the purpose of this article to give a descrip-
tion of the magnificent Shiloh Park, nor of the beautiful Na-
tional Cemetery inclosing and hallowing within its sacred
precincts the graves of thousands of Union soldiers; but to
emphasize the deplorable fact of the South's apathy and
neglect of the opportunity to honor the memory of her
valiant sons. It is also to call attention to the work of the
Daughters of the Confederacy in connection with this ba.-
tlefield; to awaken, if possible, their dormant energies, to
stimulate interest and arouse them to active cooperation
with the few who arc throwing heart, soul, ant! their most
earnest endeavor into the sacred duty of rendering homage
— long delayed — to the immortal heroes of Shiloh,
Just here it occurs to quote a paragraph from an article
by the editor. Dr. G. B. Winton, in the Nashville Christian
Advocate: it is so pertinent to the subject. Having just re-
tu'ned from a visit to this famous battlefield, of which he
gives an interesting account. Dr. Wintin says: "But on all
that widespread field, where they fought so long and well,
their comrades and their sons have not lifted a single shaft
U) their inemory. More than a hundred costly monuments
to Federal dead, and not one for the men of the South ! 1
was shocked and sad to learn of such a thing. What can it
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mean? Can the Daughters of the Confederacy afford cost-
ly junketing trips and useless balls while this continues?
The United States has set up a siege gun with a bronze tab-
let where Johnston fell. And that is all."
Besides the monument to Gen. A. S. Johnston, above re-
ferred to, the United States government has placed a
similar one in honor of Brig. Gen. A. H. Gladden, these
being the only generals who were killed in the battle.
But the prime motive and the facts which inspired the
writing of this communication have yet to be given. In
March, 1900, a few patriotic women of Savannah, Tenn.
(twenty-six in number), organized themselves into a Chap-
ter of the U. D. C, the primary object being to secure
funds for the erection of a monument on Sliiloh battlcfield
in memory of all Confederate soldiers who participated in
the battle. Shiloh Chapter, No. 371, has for its motto, "The
Heroes of '6i-'6s: Their Valor Is Our Heritage." To what
extent we shall claim and honor this priceless heritage is
yet to be determined. Soon after organization, Shiloh
Chapter sent out circular letter-; to the number of 200 or
more to Chapters in those States having sons in this battle
and who yet lie in unhonored graves. These letters ap-
pealed for aid in erecting a monument to their memory.
Some responses were received and donations made by a few
Chapters and individuals, whose names are gratefully re-
corded in the annals of Shiloh Chapter. To the large ma-
jority, who have yet made no contribution to this memorial,
we again present its claims. Let us unite with it.
The Tennessee Division, U. D. C, has recognized the su-
preme importance of this work, and the claims of the Shi-
loh monument have been presented and donations voted
at two successive conventions of that body, which donations
are to be continued annually until the necessary amount
shall have been secured.
Contributions may be smt t) the president of Shiloli
Chapter, Mrs. James W. Irwin, or to the Treasurer, Mrs.
Daniel A. Welch, Savannah, Tenn. We ask all Daughters
of the Confederacy, and all others interested in the cause, to
help us, that this memorial be not long delayed.
May the throngs of visitors who make annual excursions
to S'-loli Park be no longer confronted with the sad spec-
tacle of unrequited valor, but, through our united elTort, may
this broad domain present at least one memorial in marble
or bronze which shall speak eloquently of the heroism of
the sons of the South and of the loyalty and devotion of the
Daughters of the Confederacy!
SHILOH.
Where rippling waters of the Tennessee
In rhythmic flow
A requiem sing, historic Shiloh stands.
Her tragic woe
Is writ by sculptor's art. In her calm face
There lingers of her passion not a trace
To mar its peaceful glow.
We scarce can picture it all seamed and scarred
With crimson stain
Just while ago; nor scarce our ears can catch
The minor strain
Within the river's flow. This sacred hill
Stems but a place to pause in rest until
Tired feet shall feel no pain.
This "silent city" shows a nation's love.
And honor due
Is paid unto the mem'ry of her sons
Who wore the blue
And gained the victor's crown. Yet, from life's toil
Beneath the same love-consecrated soil
Sleep other hearts as true.
This fair white city fairer yet shall be.
And some glad day
Beatitudes, anew, around her brow
In hallowed ray
Like nimbus crown shall shine. For love shall own
Her debt to valor, by memorial stone
To those who wore the gray
—M. B. W.
FIRST VICTIM OF THE WAR.
In a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser. Capt. James R.J
Crowe, of Sheffield, Ala., wrote: "It might be o' interest to!
many readers to learn the fact that the first person to losej
his life in the war between the States was an Alabamian,,
Noble Devotee, a young minister of Selma, Ala., who was)
drowned at Fort Morgan early in January, 1861. Alabama}
seceded on the nth day of January, 1861. Several compa-
nies of volunteers from Marion, Selma, Tuscaloosa, andj
Mobile were ordered by Gov. A. B. Moore to go to Forts
Morgan. Noble Devotee was with one of the Selma com-,
panics. We were short in rations, and young Devotee vol-
unteered to go to Selma and Marion and get our friends!
to send provisions. In boarding the steamer that lay at]
the wharf, he made a misstep and fell into the bay and was!
drowned. His body was recovered several days afterwards]
and sent back to Selma for interment. He bad in his pos-
session at the time more than a hundre ' letters written by^
the bovs to their loved ones at home."
MOSBY'S MEN WERE NOT GUERRILLAS.
A magazine published in New York is printing a series
of articles under the title of "Recollections of a Mosby
Guerrilla." There would be nothing surprising in this, for
there are a number of Northern publications that seem to
find pleasure in using the most opprobrious terms when writ-
ing or speaking of anything connected with the Confederacy
or the South, but it is astonishing that the writer of these
articles, who was one of Mosby's famous followers, would
permit himself and his comrades to be stigmatized as guer-
rillas.
Mosby was a commissioned ofticer. a colonel in the Con-
federate service, and as such was subject to the laws of the
service; the men under him were required to obey his com
niands as strictly and promptly as were the soldiers of any
other company, battalion, or regiment in the service re-
quired to obey the orders of thtir officer*-. The standing of
Mosby and his men as Confederate soldiers was recog-
nized and acknowledged by the L^nited States government
during the war. Some of Mosby's men were captured
and threatened with hanging as guerrillas. The Confeder-
;ite government quickly interposed, stating they would
promptly retaliate if the men were treated otherwise than
as prisoners of war. This alone would establish the fact
that Mosby and his command wcrj regular Confederate
soldiers. Yet. to excite a morbid curiosity, and thereby
increase the sale of the magazine, the editor (for it is not
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presuiiialjle that one of Mosby's men would have done it)
IS permitted to use the sensational and really unwarranted
title of "Recollections of a Mosby Guerrilla."
EXTRACTS FROM GENERAL ORDERS U. C. V.
The following committees have been appointed in accord-
ance with resolutions passed at the Convention held in
Nashville last June:
A Committee of Ways and Means, to devise and make an
appropriate medal in commemoration of the sacrifices, en-
durance, and matchless heroism of the women of the South,
the committee to prescribe regulations for bestowal of the
medal. This gracious idea originated with Camp Sterling
Price, of Dallas, Tex., ably seconded by R. E. Lee Camp,
of Fort Worth. Members of this committee are: J. B. Simp-
son, of Sterling Price Camp, Dallas, Tex.; Gen. K. M. Van
Zandt, of R. E. Lee Camp, Fort Worth, Tex.; Capt. Jos. F.
Johnston, of Hardee Camp, Birmingham, Ala.; J. Ogden
Murray, of Turner .\shby Camp, Winclicster, Va.; Col.
Jno. W. Faxon, of N. B. Forrest Camp, Chattanooga, Tenn.
I As the United Sons of Confederate Veterans have under-
taken the erection of a memorial to honor the women of
the Confederacy, the U. C. V. Committee for a Southern
Woman's Monument has been di^charged and directed to
turn over to the Sons' committee any and all funds it may
have on hand for that purpose, the latter assuming all re-
sponsibility for the success of the movement. A committee
of five has been appointed by the Commander U. C. V. m
cooperate with tlie Sons in behalf of this movement, as fol-
lows: Lieut. Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Comg. :\. N. V.
Dept., Charleston, S. C, Chairman; Brig. Gen. J. F. Shipp,
of N. B. Forrest Camp. Chattanooga, Tenn.; Col. Chas. S.
Arnall, of Atlanta Camp, .Atlanta, Ga.; Brig. Gen. W. A.
Ramsey, of Hugh McCollum Camp, Camden, Ark.; Brig
Gen. Jas. L Metts, of Cape Fear Camp No. 254, Wilming-
ton, N. C.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons
of Veterans having appointed committees to act with the
U. C. V. relative to the selection of suitable words for the
battle hymn of "Dixie." the following have been appointed
from the United Veterans to confer with the other commit-
tees and report at the next annual reunion such recommen-
dations as the joint committees may deem proper: Maj.
Gen. Geo. P. Harrison, commanding Alabama Division,
Chairman, Opelika, Ala.; Gen. R. B. Coleman, of JcfT Lee
Camp, McAlcstcr. Ind. T. ; Lieut. Col. Geo. N. Saus,sy, of
S. M. Manning Camp, Hawkinsville, Ga.; Capt. J. M.
Garnctt, of Franklin Buchanan Camp, Baltimore. Md.; Lieut.
Col. O. L. Sclumipert, of J. S. Nance Camp. Newberry, S. C.
Particular attention is directed to the following recom-
mendation of the Historical Committee al the last conven-
tion, and which was fully approved:
"Another highly important subject taken into consider-
ation by the committee is the prison life of Confederate and
Federal soldiers, covering the general subject of their num-
bers, deaths, and general treatment. A large amount of
data has been collected which the committee ask may be
filed and referred to a special committee consisting of Sam-
uel E. Lewis, ^T.D , Hon. George L. Christian, and Rev.
J. William Jones, D.D,; and that this special committee con-
tinue this investigation and make report at the next annual
meeting of this convention."
"The general commanding feels that there is no matter
that can be brought to the notice of our order which merits
more consideration. Grave wrong has been done the South
in the dissemination of falsehoods concerning the treatment
of Federal prisoners by the Confederate government, and
he urges this committee to make a most exhaustive examina-
nation of this whole subject, and he hopes that every as-
sistance possible will be given by the entire membership of
our Federation."
State reports of annual conventions should always be sent
to the Veteran, as they are of interest to the general reader
and incidentally suggest beneficial plans for comrades in other
States.
Fighting "Ji'I'iter" from Yorktown.— Comrade J. W.
Minnick, Grand Isle, La., in writing to the Veteran, says:
"I recently saw the following in a New Orleans paper; 'On
the night of September 2.?d the planet Jupiter was unusually
bright and was taken by the garrison at Vladivostok for a
Japanese reconnoitering balloon. The soldiers were pre-
paring to fire on it when their error was discovered.'
"This incident of the w^ar now going on in the Far East
reminds me of something similar that happened at York-
town in '62, while McClellan's army was in our front near
that historic old town. The First Company of 'DeGour-
nay's Heavy Artillery.' of which I was a member, were
still in their winter quarters at Cornwallis's Cave, on the
^'ork River beach, manning an eight gun water battery
of 32s, and a signal gun on the spot just above, a long
,32 (the longest of its caliber ever cast, probably) placed
there for the reason of its long range and, as sentinel.
10 give notice of tlie approach of the enemy's ships from
Ijclow.
"One morning, about an hour before dayliglit, the wide-
.Twake sentinel, who had no doubt been holding a short con-
fab with Morpheus, opened his eyes toward the east, and
what he saw must have put his somnolence to flight instantcr
and his nerves on the 'ragged edge,' for with bated br-ath
he aroused his sleeping comrades with. 'Get up, boys, get
up. The Yankee fleet is coming up the river,' and when
they also, 'with slumber-laden eyes,' looked through a slight
m\?.\. which hung like a veil over the river and saw a bright
reddish li.cht apparently about four miles away, they leaped
to their stations, and in a trice 'Long Tom' was charged and
^ending his iron welcome straight at the approaching light
through the still morning, and with a roar that almost lift-
ed us out of our bunks in the quarters below. Talk of
bu>:t!c! In two minutes every man was in his place 'In
battery.' the .gun.s were charged and ready. Expectantly
we awaited the approach of the hostile fleet. The li.ght rose
higher and higher, and still no enemy's vessel liove in sight.
At last one of the boys sang out. 'Say, Major, that's no
headlight; that's the mornin.g star;' and so it was.
"Well, maybe we didn't guy 'Long Tom's' crew after that
for fighting Jupiter, and not a little bit. We told them that
if they were going to fight the solar system they deserved
credit for selecting the hig.gest star in sight.'
With pride and satisfaction announcement is made of the
dedication on July i. at Richmond. Va.. of a Home for
Needy Confederate Women. The General Commanding gives
his hearty approval of this action of Virginia comrades, and
urges its imitation in some form throughout our bounds,
"thus showing that these angels of mercy have an abiding
place in our aflFections."
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Qoi>fedcrat^ l/eteraij.
A BOYS FIRST BATTLE.
BV PROF. H. M. HAMIl-L. NASHVILLE, TENN.
The incidents of one's first battle are not easily forgot-
ten. The fine tribute from Col. J. Stoddard Johnson, of
Louisville, to Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, in the October Vet-
eran brings back vividly to memory my first time under
fire. 1 belonged to Finncgan"s Brigade, made up from the
odds and ends of the last crop of Florida soldiers, chiefly
boys, and enrolled in the winter of 1863-64. .Xftcr organi-
zing and drilling for several months in Florida, we were
hurried to the front of the Army of Northern N'irginia, and
given place in Mahone's Division, along with the veteran
soldiers of Lee. 1 can remember how the old soldiers
made mock of our green and unsoldicrly looks and ways,
and duW)ed us with nicknames thai made us for a time
the iest of the army. 1 cannot blame them. Falstaff's va-
riegated soldiers would have put us to shame. 1 remember
that, for lack of better guns, some of us were equipped with
ancient big-bore Belgian muskets. If there was one decent
uniform in my regiment other than those of the officers.
1 fail to recall it. Some of us had brought along our neck-
ties and handkerchiefs, and dazzled the eyes of Lee's clay-
colored veterans for a season with our nicely laundered
white shirts. I can recall the day when, under the laughter
of the old soldiers, I bundled up my gala day toggery and
cast it feelingly into a near-by thicket. The smell of gun-
powder, save at Ocean Pond, Fla.. where we had little
more than a skirmish with Seymour and his negroes, was
unknown to us up to the day. in May, '64. when we took
place in the trenches of Virginia, and began to dodge the
shot and shell of Grant's army.
It was not long, however, until our real mettle was tried.
Grant was getting ready on the north side of the James
to make his last desperate niovcnicnt ui)c)n Richmond,
Hancock's Corps was in our front, and we kept digging
rude trenches and occ.ipying iluni day by day. yet swing-
ing southward until we came upon the scene of tlie first
great battle of Cold Harbor. The armies were again to be
pitted against each other on this historic ,t;round. Finnc-
gan's Brigade was moved up at sundown in the rear of Gen.
Breckinridge's line. Confronting that thin line of brave
men, which Col. Johnson praises none too strongly, were
Hancock and his corps, the picked fighters of Grant's
army, to whom was committed the first assault which Grant
was to make toward breaking Lee in two and forcing the
capture of Richmond. It was the night of June 2. that our
brigade, knowing nothing of the deadly work of the mor-
row's plans, lay ujion arms at the foot of tlic long slope
leading up to Breckinridge's line of trenches. My regi-
ment was the Ninth Florida, and Gen. Finnegan's little
tent and horse were near me as I slept. Early in the morn-
ing of June 3— A misty, chilly morning — I had begun to
boil my coffee and make ready for a rude breakfast, the
men asleep about me. Suddenly the ragged crack of mus-
ketry began at the top of the slope, followed in a moment
by the boom of cannon and the screaming of shells. .\
minute more and the brigade was on foot, musket in hand,
and Gen. Finnegan. on horse, was racing u|) and down
the line, crying: "Get ready, men: fail into line and charge."
Looking upward, the long slope of green was filling in with
broken groups of gray and blue, wreathed in the smoke of
their guns and fighting desperately over the hillside. We
knew then we were in for it. and I am frank to say it was
the one battle out of many in which our brigade seemed
never to have a thought of danger from .shot or shell. Un-
drilled as we were, and unused to the ways of veteran sol-
diers, we swung into tliat first charge in a way that won
commendation from more than one veteran. Gen. Finnegan
was a born fighter, of hot Irish blood, and I have a very
vivid memory of how his stumpy figure, and fiery horse
went flashing to and fro ahead of his men. I distinctly
c.".ll to mind two incidents — my first sight of a wounded
man. ami my first shot as a soldier. Hancock's men had
dashed upon Breckinridge in a heavy assault at the break
of day, and while many were yet asleep had broken his
line and were pouring down the slope upon us. The Min-
ie balls were coming thick and fast, and just to my left
Corporal Wall, of my company, reeled and fell against
me with a shattered arm, begging me to take him from the
field. A minute more I saw to the right, a hundred yards
;iway, a big bunch of men in blue, and. aiiuing my old
Belgian at its center, I fired my first gun. It was a hot,
liand-to-hand fight, for how long I could never know.
Our Florida boys somehow took to it easily, and kept up
tlieir well-aimed firing as coolly and deadly as long-tried
Mildiers. We retook Breckinridge's broken line, planted
ourselves in his trenches, and then for twenty-four hours
held them against repealed assaults, until, away toward mid-
night, when a lull came to the firing, the veteran troops to
right and left of us took up the cry: "Three cheers for
Finnegan's Brigade." I need not say that we felt good
over it. and 1 am not ashamed to say that we deserved it.
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Slept, at tlie foot of the slope, we had fought our first all-
day and all-night battle without food or water, and we
needed the cheers that rang up and down the lines to com-
pensate us. We did one foolish thing, .\fter retaking the
lines, we stopped in them and failed to push on and take
possession of the picket pits of our own and the enemy's
lines. We discovered our mistake when it was too late.
Hancock's men. driven back slowly and sullenly, fell into
these sheltering pits and poured a deadly fire into us at
every sight of gray cap or coat. One or two rash yet
brave attempts were made by handfuls of our men to drive
the enemy back upon their main line, and not a few of our
Florida boys in the attempt found it their last as well as
their first battle. Sometime ago a writer in the Veter.\n
l).ud tribute to gallant young Major Pickens Bird, of our
brigade, who led one of those desperate assaults, and,
wounded again and again by Hancock's sharpshooters, lay
dying for hours just in front of our breastworks If I
am not mi.-.taken, more than one of our men were shot in
the effort to respond to his cry for water. Within ten
minutes from the time we retook the trenches three men
were shot — all of them through the head — within a few
leet of where I stood.
I had my first homesickness that night, which I trust
was pardonable in a bny of sixteen. The chill night, with
lack of food and blanket, had set me shivering, and my kind-
hearted captain. W. F. Frierson. advised me to step back
under cover of darkness and secure a blanket from one of
the many dead men in blue who lay thick along the slope
n|) which we hid charged. Waiting for a lull in the firing.
1 took his advice and partly crawled and partly ran until
1 fell over a body. Cutting the strap that bound it about
liis shouTders, I rolled the dead man as gently as I could
from off his big, heavy "U. S." blanket, and returned in safety
lo my post, and slept in comfort. Next morning when 1
removed it I found I was besmeared with the blood and
brains of the poor fellow, whose head had been lorn off by
a passing shell.
l^r.AG 01- ALABAM.l REGIMENT NOT CAPTURED
Lieut. Col. W. Inzer, Thirty-Second and Fifty-Eighth
Alabama, Consolidated, writes from Ashcville, .Ma., on July
14, 1004. of his surprise, on an examination of the official rec-
ords of the war. to find in the report of Federal Gen. H.
W. SI'Ocum of the battle of Resaoa. Ga., May ^ and 15. 1864.
that "a captain and a private soldier of the "reenty-Seventh
Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, captured the flag of the Thir-
ty-Second and Fifty-Eighth Al.ibama Infantry Regiments,
Consolidated." See oflicial records of war, part 73, page 22,
.'\tlanta campaign. Mr. Inzer adds: "I knew that this com-
mand at no time lost its colors during the war; even at the
surrender the enemy did not have the pleasure of looking
upon the sacred colors of this command. At the surrcn-
iter of the Thirty-Second and Fifty-Eighth in Meridian.
Miss., in April, 1865, James Freeman, the gallant color bear-
er, tore the flag from the staff, put it in his boot leg.
and brought it home with him. And this same old flag has
been for years in my possession, and is now. My first con-
elusion was that the whole thing was false and without any
^ort of foundation or excuse. However. T concluded to cx-
.iinine the nfiicial records, and found on page 59 of said
\olume that Brig. Gen. Ruger says, in his report subse-
.Micntly made by the litutenant colonel of the regiment: "In
the battle of Resaca, on the 15th of May, 1864. the flag and
commander of the Thirty-Eighth Alabama were captured."
In the same volume and on page 64, and in a report subse-
quently made by the lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-
Seventh Indiana as to the part taken by that regiment in
the battle of Resaca, on the 15th of May, 1864, he says that
Col. Lankford, the colonel commanding the Thirty-Eighth
.Mabama Regiment, was captured with the colors of the
Thirty-Eighth .\labama Regiment. The several reports of
the Federal ofticcrs above mentioned, when taken together,
conclusively show that the Twcnty-beventh Indiana Regi-
ment, if it captured any Confederate flag at the battle of
Resaca. Ga.. took that of the Thirty-Eighth Alabama Regi-
ment, and not the colors of the Thirty-Second and Fifty-
Eighth Alabama Regiments. Consolidated."
Miss Mattie W. Harrell, of Selma, Ala., also sends to the
Vetdr.\n an interesting acomnt of the flag of the Fifty-
Eighth Alabama Regiment and that of the Ninth Battalion.
Both were made and presented in the name of Miss Jennie
Hungerford, now living in Uuiontown, .Ma. The first flag
was presented to the Ninth Battalion .Mabama, command-
ed by Col. Bushrod Jones, with Walter Hungerford, a
brother of Miss Jennie, as adjutant. Later, when the bat-
talion was merged into the Fifty-Eighth .Mabama, of which
Bushrod Jones was colonel and John W. Inzer lieutenant
colonel, Miss Jennie gave them a regimental flag.
There is an interesting and patlutic history connected wdth
both of these flags, of which Miss Harrell writes. In the
nghting around Atlanta Adjutant Hungerford was killed
,ind his body sent home to his mother and sister at Union-
town, Ala. Shortly afterwards. Colonel Jones, thinking
the mother and sister would appreciate the old battalion
llag. which had been preserved, sent it to them.
The flag of the Fifty-Eighth continued to wave iij the
forefront of battle through Hood's campaign into Tennes-
see, and floated over a portion of that invincible rear
guard as the crippled anny marche<l back. It was next un-
furled at Spanish Fort; from there the regiment went to
Meridian, Miss., where the men were paroled and the
flag disappeared, as explained above by Col. Inzer.
But there was a greater love, because it was a woman's
love, woven around the other flag, that of the Ninth Battal
ion, sent to the heart-stricken mother and sister. While
Freeman was tramping home with his sacred treasure se-
cure in the leg of his boot, a Yankee officer had rudely
quartered himself in the spacious old Hungerford mansion
in Uniontown, Ala. Wishing to capture (?) a few tro-
phies to carry home, he consulted with his friends and as-
sociates, the negroes about the place, as to what the Hun-
gerford family had, and on hearing that they had a Con-
federate flag, promptly demanded it. The frightened girl
tearfully pleaded a mother's and sister's right to the be-
loved relic, but to no avail: then turning on him with in-
dignant wrath, she said: "Many brave men have died de-
fending that flag, and one woman will do likewise!"' The
mother, in an adjoining room, hearing the conversation and
knowing their inability to save it. rushed to the place where
the flag was concealed, drew it out, placed ir on the hearth-
stone, and burned it up. That night she and her daughter
gathered the ashes in a box, quietly went to the little grave-
yard near by, and buried the ashes above the sacred dust
of the patriot son and brother
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QoQfederate l/eterarj.
And when for you the last tattoo has sounded,
And on Deatli's silent field you've pitched your tent,
When, bowed through tears, the arc of life has rounded
To full content —
We that are left will count it guerdon royal ;
Our heritage no years can take away
That we were born of those unflinching, loyal,
Who loved the flag, who wore the gray.
Coi.. Prentiss Ingraham.
Just a few days after his arrival at the Bcauvoir Conteder-
ate Home, the goal of his hopes and which had been the
home of the chieftain he had loved so well, whose fortunes
he had followed willingly in triumph and disaster. Col. Pren-
tiss Ingraham passed to the home beyond — August i6, 1904.
He had made the long journey from Chicago to the Gulf
when in bad physical condition and did not rally from the
exhaustion of the trip, though everything was done for him
within the physician's skill and loving care of his comrades.
Prentiss Ingraham was born in Natchez, Miss., December
28, 1.843; and served as a Confederate soldier from April,
1861, to 1865.
The following sketch was prepared by Commander Owen,
of the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York, of which
he was a member:
"Comrade Prentiss Ingraham served a short time in the
cavalry; was transferred to Battery K, Capt. Abbey, With-
ers's Regiment Light Artillery; appointed to sta:ii; served
through first attack on Vicksburg, Snyder's Bluff, Chicka-
saw Bayou battles; later through siege of Port Hudson,
where he was wounded and captured; then ordered to
Ross's Brigade, Texas Cavalry, staft duty; later command-
ed scouts with Ross's Brigade; through Tennessee. Geor-
gia, and Mississippi campaigns and attending battles; went
to Mexico at the close of the war, and later went into foreign
service. Col. Ingraham joined this Camp on May 3, 1901.
»nd has always been and is now a member in good stand-
ing."
The following will also be read with interest:
"This is to certify that Col. Prentiss Ingraham, now re-
siding in New York City, was the founder of the Charles S.
Winder Camp, No. 989, of United Confederate Veterans, and
he was lieutenant commander of this Camp during the sev-
eral years he resided in Easton, Talbot County, Md.
"Oswald Tilghman,
"Commander Charles S. Winder Camp, No. 989, U. C. V.,
and Brig. Gen. Commanding First Brigade, Maryland Di-
vision, U. C. V."
Col. Ingraham was also an author of note, having pub-
lished a number of books and been a contributor to -.any of
the best literary periodicals of the land. He had resided in
London, where he followed literature ..s a profession. He
is survi\^.d by his wife, two daughters, and a son, Mr. Lang-
Uy Ingraham. of Atlanta, Ga. Of late years Col. Ingrahams
home had been in Chicago.
L. B. Pendleton.
L. B. Pendleton was born in Spottsylvania County, Va.,
in 1840 ; and died in Washington Grove, Montgomery County,
Md., December, 19OJ. He volunteered in the Confederate army
early in 1861, joining Company D, Thirtieth Virginia Infantry,
engaging in many battles, the bloodiest being that of Sharps-
burg, in which he received three wounds. In one of these a
ball was embedded in his left leg, alongside the femoral artery,
and was cut out after his death. Recovering from his wounds,
he again joined his command and participated in many battles,
until, in 1864, he was captured and confined in Point Lookout
Prison. He was exchanged just before the surrender at Ap-
pomattox, but never got back to his command.
William J. Stone.
This tribute is by Rev. N. B. Hogan, Springfield, Mo.:
"William James Stone was a son of William H. Stone,
one of the first settlers of Stafford County, Va., where he
was born in Drccnibcr of i8,?0. He was married to Miss
Ellen S. Foster, of Spottsylvania County, on June 18, 1862,
and his death occurred on June 17, 1903, just a day before
their forty-first anniversary of married life. His wife, four
daughters, and eight sons survive him.
".■\t the commencement of the War between the States,
Comrade Stone en-
listed in Company I.
Sixth Virginia Cav-
alry, and served with
distinguished gallan-
try throughout the
bloody contest, and
was promoted on the
field for bravery and
daring just after the
battle of Strasburg.
.■\fter some 'a a r d
fighting, our forces,
under Gen. Early,
had been repulsed.
The flag bearer, Ed.
Wright, was killed,
and as he fell from
his horse Comrade
Stone caught the flag. Waving it above him, he begged
the retreating men to rally by their flag, and the fight was
won. For this he was promoted to Captain.
"In 1868 Comrade Stone located with his family on a
tract of land near Sparta, Mo., removing thence to Spring-
field just a few years prior to his death. After the religious
services of his funeral, Campbell Camp took charge and
laid him to rest among the departed comrades in the beau-
tiful Confederate Cemetery near the city."
Dr. James L. Jones.
James L. Jones was the third of nine children born to
Daniel and Jane Bunyard Jones, of Cleveland, Tenn. In
1849 the family moved to Texas, living in Houston County
till 1867, when they removed to Grayson County and made
that their permanent home. At the time of his death Dr.
Jones was a little over sixty-three years old.
In 1863 he joined Col. Likens's Regiment of Te.xas Cavalry,
and served to the close of the war. In 1867 he began the
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543
study of medicine, and, though handicapped by the lack of
preliminary education, and having no means of attending a
medical college, his close observation and good judgment made
him a good doctor, and he soon won the confidence of his
people.
In July of 1900 Dr. Jones was stricken with paralysis, from
which he never fully recovered, and death relieved his suf-
ferings on December 30, 1903. The resolutions passed by the
citizens of Denison, where he lived, testify to the esteem
in which he was held and of the loss to his community in his
passing away. In his home, as husband and father, his charac-
ter showed at its best; as a citizen, he was charitalile and kind;
and as a physician, he was also a friend.
Rev. p. G. Robert.
Rev. P. G. Robert, who entered on his rest in St. Louis
September 26, was a member of Camp No. 731, Missouri Di-
vision, U. C. V. He was a soldier of the South whose dear-
est remembrances in the evening of his life were the years
he gave to the cause he loved. When the war broke out Mr.
Robert was a rector of Newport, Isle of Wight County,
and Soulhwork, Surrey County, Va. ; but when Virginia
voted not to secede, he resigned his parishes there, deter-
mined to move South. He had accepted a parish at Ope-
lousas. La., and had gone to Richmond to make arrange-
ments to move his family. While there he met Bishop Polk,
who told him that he was more needed in the army than in
any parish. Mr. Robert replied that he had already endeav-
ored to get into the army, and had offered his services as
chaplain, but found that political influence was needed to se-
cure a commission, and he had none. Bishop Polk told him
to wait, and the ne.xt day the Bishop brought him a commis-
sion as chaplain in the Second Louisiana, the first chaplain's
eommissinn issued after the government reached Rich-
REV. P. G. ROBERT, D.D.
mond. Mr. Robert served sixteen months with the Sec-
ond Louisiana, and was then transferred to the Thirty-
Fourth Virginia, which was then a Leavy artillery regiment
stationed at Yorktown. The Thirty-Fourth was afterwards
made an infantry regiment, and Mr. Robert went with it
during the remainder of the war. With Wise's Brigade, of
which the Thirty-Fourth was a part, he served under Gen-
erals Lee and Jackson, and in 1863 he went with the brigade
to Charleston, S. C. He was in the fights around Peters-
Inirg and was surrendered with the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia at Appomattox.
Mr. Robert returned to his priestly duties after the sur-
render, but in i866 he was called to Christ Church. Little
Rock, and in 1869 he moved to St. Louis, where the re-
mainder of his life's work was done. Until age destroyed
his strength, he was rector of the Church of the Holy Com-
munion, which he built up from the beginning.
Mr. Robert married Miss Elizabeth Scott, daughter of
Dr. Edward Pegram Scott, who survives him. He left five
sons living out of nine children who were born to him.
In the years of his retirement no subjects appealed to his
interest except the work of the Church to which he had de-
voted his life and the cause for which he had risked it, and
from which he never withdrew his loyal devotion. His last
work was to copy for preservation the letters he wrote to
and received from his wife while he vas serving in the field.
Believing fully in the righteousness of the cause of the
South, he never swerved in his loyal devotion to the star-
crossed banner of the Confederacy, which grew dearer to
him as the evening shadows settled around him. and he was
often heard to express satisfaction that in the h'gher life he
should know why a cause so just should seem to have failed.
The foregoing sketch fails to chronicle the marvelous
intellectual power of Dr. Robert. It is very rare that the
ability to express one's views with such force and concise-
ness is given to man. He was gifted in the use of rarest
and strongest words very similarly to the late beloved Col.
Thomas C. Howard, of .Atlanta, who was the Confederate
postmaster on wheels before and after the fall of Atlanta.
Doctor Robert's terse papers in the Vetteran from time to
time for a decade will be recalled, but it is reserved for
those who knew him intimately to remember his power to
thrill and his zeal fov his pniple of the South, second only
to the cause of his Lord.
W. C. King.
Washington Crane King, a Confederate veteran and well-
known business man of Washington, D. C, died at his home
on August 2. 1003. Mr. King was a native of Washington
and of a Virginia family eminent for its services during the
Revolutionary War. His great-grandfather. Col. Miles King,
was a distinguished ofl!iccr. At the breaking out of the War be-
tween the States Mr. King went South with his father, Maj.
Charles Kirby King, and served for a short time as captain's
clerk in the Confederate navy, being present at the famous
battle of Hampton Roads. He afterwards joined the Nor-
folk Light Artillery Blues, and served with conspicuous gal-
lantry in that battery throughout the war. At its close he
returned to Washington, where his upright character gained
him the respect of all who knew him, while his genial disposi-
tion and ready humor made him a host of friends who sin-
cerely mourned their loss. He was survived by his widow
and two sons, Charles Kirby King, of Philadelphia, and Ed-
win Fitzgerald King, of /Vtlanta. Ga.
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C^OQfederati^ XJetera^
Col. K. M. Sands.
Col. Robert M. Sands, a prominent citizen and Confederate
veteran, died at his home, in Mobile, Ala., November 17. 1903.
.\fter graduating with distinction at the Spring Hill College,
near Mobile, he entered the cotton warehouse business in
Mobile and was eminently successful. About two years prior
to the War between the States he consented to give, even to
the detriment of his business, military instruction to the
senior students of his old Alma Mater, Spring Hill College,
which he continued up to the breaking out of the war.
When Alabama passed the ordinance of secession Capt.
Sands offered the services of the Mobile cadets to the Con-
federacy, and they were mustered in as Company A, Third
Alabama Infantry. They were sent to Virginia, and became a
part of Mahone's Brigade. Afterwards, in 1862. they wore in
Battle's Brigade, Rodes's Division, Stonewall Jackson's Corps.
After the battle of Seven Pines Capt. Sands was promoted
to major, and shortly after to lieutenant colonel of his regi-
ment, which he commanded in most of the principal engage-
ments participated in by the Army of Northern Virginia, from
Seven Pines up to August 20, 1864, when ill health compelled
him to accept retirement on the invalid corps until March.
1865. when he was ordered to Talladega, .\la., as commander
of the camp of instruction at that point, and was there paroled
at the close of tlie war.
Capt. Henry Stakk.
Jefferson Lamar Camp, of Porterdalc, Ga., pays tribute to
the memory of Capt. Henry Starr, an honored member, who
was born and reared in Newton County. At the age of
twenty-three, in the full flush and .strength of early manhood,
he went out with the Young Guard, the first company from
the county, to represent Georgia on the soil of grand old
Virginia in that mighty struggle between the sections. He
acted as junior second lieutenant of his company until the
reorganization of the Third Georgia, when he was chosen as
second lieutenant. Not long after the series of battles about
Richmond, in which he participated with great courage and
gallantry, he was promoted to a captaincy and assigned to
duty in the Ordnance Department of Wright's Brigade until
the close of the war.
States are enriched and made strong by the example of
such lives as that of Henry Starr. Since the war he went
in and out among his people, bearing a spotless character and
living on a plane of e.xalted citizenship.
S. S. Priest.
S. S. Priest, of Sideview, Ky., died on the 25th of July,
and was buried at Mount Sterling, Ky. He joined the
First Kentucky Cavalry in February, 1862, in Company C,
which afterwards became Company A. He was captured in
October of 1863, escaped from Rock Island prison in De-
cember, 1864, went to Canada and remained till the end of
the war. He was with John Yeatos Beall in Canada. Com-
rade Priest was sixty-eight years of age.
Herman Wohleben.
J. G. Deupree and S. B. Carothers, a committee, send trib-
ute to Herman Wohleben, from which the following is taken :
"Herman Wohleben was born at Frankfort, Germany, on
February it, 1837. When he was a child his father's family
came to America, He wedded Miss Katrina Smythe on Sep-
tember 18, 1856, and soon afterwards came South, locating at
Oxford, Miss. At the breaking out of the War between the
States he was among the first to enlist in Miller's Battalion.
Mississippi Cavalry. His command surrendered at Gaines-
ville, Ala., but he had been seriously wounded at Franklin,
Tenn., and was at home waiting for his wound to heal when
the war closed. He was at Shiloh. Holly Springs, Thompson's
Station, Resaca, Dallas, New Hope, .\tlanta, Altoona, and
Franklin, and in many minor engagements. He was a man
of singular courage and great shrewdness, peculiarly endowed
with qualities of head and heart necessary to a successful
scout. On many occasions he was detailed for special service
in the perilous duty of entering the lines and the encampment
of the enemy to get information for our commanding general.
"One of the most characteristic incidents in Comrade Wohle-
ben's military career occurred when Grant's army first entered
Oxford. He and a fellow-soldier were the only Confederates
in town, they having spent the night with their families, in-
tending the next morning to join Pemberton's retreating army.
As the head of the approaching Federal column appeared
north of town these two opened a rapid fire upon the enemy
from the public square with their repeating rifles. The Fed-
erals halted, threw out a line of skirmishers, and made prepara-
tion to drive out the Confederates and capture the town.
They kept up a rattling fusillade until the Federal skirmishers
had deployed and executed a Hank movement around St.
Peter's Cemetery and appeared coining in from the east, thus
threatening the right flank and rear of Oxford's gallant army
(?) of defenders. The Confederates, u// twu of tlicm, retreated
in good order a quarter of a mile south and took position again
10 renew their stubborn resistance. The Federals made haste
to occupy the deserted square, and again cautiously proceeded
to advance against what they sujipose'd to be Pemberton's
rear guard, succeeding in gradually driving the Confederates
back another half mile or more. Here the Confederates again
halted and defiantly held their position until the enemy, having
discovered the smallness of the Confederate force, boldly
charged, drove the two Mississippians before them, and took
undisputed possession of this classic little city."
W. F. Porter.
W. F. Porter enlisted in the Confederate army when
about sixteen years of age, and served in the Trans-Mis-
sissippi Department. In the battle of Fayetteville, Ark.,
when Gen. Price made his raid into Missouri, in the fall of
1864, Comrade Porter had his horse killed under him. As
a soldier he was brave and daring, and after the war he
was deeply interested in everything Confederate. His death
occurred on May 4, I904-
There were four brothers 01 this family who .■-crved the
Confederacy. T. B. Porter was killed at the battle of Cor-
inth, and C. C. Porter at Richmond, Ky. J. B. Porter
had a narrow escape at the battle of Franklin, and is now
the only survivor of the four. His home is at Harmony.
Capt. George R. Con(;d()N.
Died, Se|)teniber 23, IQ03. Capt. Geo. R. Congdon. He was
Lieutenant of Capt. T. Pinckney Alston's Company (F),
First South Carolina Volunteers, Greggs, and was after-
wards elected Captain of Company K, Twenty-Sixth South
Carolina Regiment, November 17, 1862. He was wounded in
the second battle of Manassas, and on January 9, 1864. was
appointed to "acting master's mate" in the navy of the
Confederate States, on Steamer Peedee, which was burned
by orders from Richmond.
If there are any survivors of these two companies or
gunboat, they will confer a great favor by communicating
with Geo. R. Congdon, of Georgetown, S. C.
Confederate l/eterap.
545
Dk. Granville Cecil Sandusky.
The death of Dr. G. C. Sandusky, of Shelbyvillc, Tenn.,
which occurred September 8, 1904, was a public calamity.
Although seventy years of age, he was until a brief while
previous in excellent health ; indeed, he and his family of sons
and daughters were all nobly developed. Dr. Sandusky was
of unusual mental ability and noted for his devotion to prin-
ciple.
He served in the Confederate army from Kentucky, and
was one of the South's truest heroes. A thrilling experience
of his in an East Tennessee campaign was published in the
Veteran a few years ago. A note from his diary, kept dur-
ing the war, states: "Was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
Third Confederate Cavalry. September 14, 186,3." But it seems
that his commission was never received.
Dr. Sandusky was a close Bible student and a Raptist min-
ister. He took active interest in public matters. He and his
faithful wife, who was Miss Ellen T. Rogers, were an honor
to the community in which they lived. She survives him.
A committee of the William Frierson Bivouac at Shelby-
villc, comprised of Jno. W. Woodward, Jo. A. Thompson, and
Thos. G. Stewart, concludes as follows:
"At the end of three score and ten years his life is ended,
and to such as be is extended the welcome "Well done." for he
is surclv wortbv to tutor into the joys reserved for the faith-
ful.
"Resolved. That, as members of .William Frierson Camp,
No. 83, of United Confederate Veterans, out of respect for
the memory of our deceased comrade we wear the usual badge
of mourning for thirty days.
"Resolved. That we tender to the members of his bereaved
family our sinccrest sympathy, and instruct the .Adjutant of
the Camp to furnish them with a copy of this meinorial."
JuuuE W^LLl.^M Dulanev.
Judge William Dulaney, a distinguished member of the
Bowling Green bar, died at his home in that city on July
10. Judge Dulaney graduated from Center College in 1857.
Choosing law as his profession, he went into the oflice of
Judge W. V. Loving and obtained his license to practice
m 1859. I" 1861 he entered, as a private, the Buckner Guards
of Kentucky, but was soon transferr d to Col. R. J. Breck-
inridge's Regimeni, Morgan's Command. After the war
he resumed the practice of law, was elected Judge of the
Court of Common Picas in 1869. just at the close of the war,
which shows the respect and esteem in which he was held
even by his former enemies. In 1880 he was elected Judge
of the Warren County Circuit Court, and held this position
lor six years, declining reelection, making his term of serv-
ice on the bench seventeen years. On November 30, i860,
a short time before entering the Confederate Army, he
married Miss Jane Barclay, who survives him.
The death of Judge Dulaney was the occasion for a meet-
ing of his friends and associates of the Bowling Green
bar. where suitable resolutions, expressive of regret and
sympathy, were passed, and eulogistic speeches of his abil-
ity as a lawyer, his worth and integrity as a man and citi-
zen were expressed.
ChANNING Af. RlTT.
Sfonewall Camp, of Portsmontli, \'a., recently lost a val-
ued member in the death of C. M. Butt. He was born on the
27th of May, 1845, and served gallantly in the Confederate
army. During the latter part of April, 1862, while serving
as clerk in the post office at Portsmouth, he applied for
membership in the Old Dominion Guards, but was rejected
on account of his youthful a,E;e, being only sixteen years of
age. .\s he was zealous in his purpose to enter the service,
he resigned his position and enlisted as a private in the In-
dependent Signal Corps of the Confederate States, and
served in that branch of the army until the close of the war.
When the Federal fleet which landed at Bermuda Hun-
dreds in 1864 compelled the evacuation of the stations along
the James River, his corps was formed into an infantry bat-
talion, and he performed infantry duty at Fort Clifton for
several months and also on the retreat from Petersburg. He
was paroled at Burksville Junction on April 13, 1865, as a
result of the surrender of General Lee. He was faithful in
the discharge of every duty.
Joseph Lorenzo Bilisoly.
J. L. Bilisoly was born in 1840, and died May 14, 1904.
He was a prominent citizen of Portsiuouth, Va., being
cashier of the Bank of Portsmouth, a director in the Star
Publishing Company, and interested in many other insti-
tutions connected with the upbuilding and prosperity of the
city. He had also served as commander of Stonewall Camp,
U. C. V.
Comrade Bilisoly entered the Confederate service as a
member of the Old Dominion Guards. Third Virginia Vol-
unteers, afterwards Company K, Ninth Virginia Regiment,
and participated in the following engagements: Seven Pines.
Warrenton Springs, Second Manassas, Harper's Ferry.
Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg.
He acted as sergeant major of the regiment after Gettys-
burg, was in the field with Pickett's Division from its for-
mation at Culpcper C. H. to the surrender at Appo-
5m
^oofederate l/eterao.
mattox. He was never absent from his command during the
entire progress of the war, save for one short furlough in
August, 1864. He was the only clerk left at headquarters
on the pth of April, 1S65, and he did all the writing for the
assistant adjutant general, filled out paroles for Gen. Pick-
ett and staff, and made out the last report of the division.
Mrs. Thomas Sefton.
At tho death of Mrs. Mathilde Macbeth Sefton was stilled
one of the noblest hearts that ever beat true to the Con-
federate cause. A devoted Christian, she was from child-
hood an active member of the First Presbyterian Church
of New Orleans, under the pastorate of the late Dr. B. M.
Palmer, and in which four generations of her family had
worshiped. Constantly connected with its charities, she
still found time for faithful service to the Christian Wom-
an's E.xchange, being one of its original members, and her
zeal in its good work never flagged until the iron clasp of
ill health stayed the willing hand. Her loyalty to the Con-
federate cause was attested by her life. Although only a
girl in years, she joined with her mother a little patriotic
band of women whose purpose was to sew for and clothe
the Confederate soldiers, take care of the sick and wounded.
and help the widows and orphans of the Confederacy.
Many noble deeds were performed in their patriotic work.
and even t'l tbi~ day the Ladic;' Memorial ,\ssociation of
MRS. THOMAS SEFTON.
New Orleans n'aiiilains its record in the performance of
duty. Gen. Phil. Sheridan would not permi* them to use
the word "Confederate," so they styled themselves "Benev-
olent," and thus was the nucleus of one of the grandest asso-
ciations ever formed. Quietly they would meet at the different
homes, quilt quinine into skirts, and send them to the hospital.
On one occasion Mrs. Sefton's mother risked her life in carry-
ing them through the lines to the needy soldiers.
This Society, of which Mrs. Sefton prided in her member-
ship, raised the first Ccmfederate monument in New Or-
leans, the monumental city of the Southland. This monu-
ment represented on its pinnacle the private of the Confed-
erate Army, delineating, true to life, the refinement and
lofty character of the men who shouldered the musket and
marched through fire and blood in defense of home. On
its sides are the busts of the giant leaders. Gens. R. E. Lee,
Albert Sidney Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, and Leonidas
Polk.
To maintain the beautiful memory of the departed brave
was one of Mrs. Sefton's dearest works, and a Memorial
Day never passed without her presence until debarred by
ill health. VN'ith her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Macbeth, she
visited the Confederate prisoners whenever a permit could
be obtained, and carried to them the dainties which she so
deftly prepared. Her heart being in the work, she there-
by developed an art for which she was so justly noted — a
connoisseur in the giving of fine dinners whenever the hos-
pitable doors of her beautiful home were thrown open to
her congenial guests. No worry or hardsl^ip was a sac-
rifice when done for the c;rHSe for which her dear ones had
died.
On one occasion, close to nyidn-ight, the doorbell
startled the family, and the surprise was added to when the
servant brought in to the ladies a bunch of violets with
a card bearing the name of Mrs. Macbeth. The card and
flowers had been in a basket of dainties taken to the pris-
oners the day before. Quickly suspecting that they were
escaped prisoners and had made good use of the mother's
card and address, Mrs. Sefton hastily descended to the par-
lor, where the soWiers confronted her with their fingers
pressed significantly upon their lips. Readily taking the
cue, she greeted them as old friends and sent the servitor
to spread a supper at once in the old, hospitable way.
.\waiting an opportunity to escape, the soldiers remained
indoors several days. In the meantime one of them was
taken ill, and on the arrival of the trusted physician it was
pronounced a genuine case of smallpox. By the coopera-
tion of the physician, these noble-hearted women kept their
secret, and with .prudence and good nursing the soldiers
were all able to escape through the lines to their commands.
One more incident chosen from the many will attest Mrs.
Sefton's courage. She was one of the ladies who were
in, the famous "Battle of the Handkerchiefs."'
The ladies of New Orleans went down to the levee en
masse to catch a glimpse of the Confederate prisoners who
were to be exchanged, and if possible to send loving mes-
sages to dear ones in the army, and all to bid a Godspeed
to the departing soldiers, of whom there were several se-
verely wounded, among them Gen. Chas. Clark, after-
wards Governor of Mississippi, who was carried on a stretch-
er. So much sympathy for the wounded and such an ex-
hibition of joy at their exchange soon excited the ire of
the authorities in power, and while the levee was ablaze
with colored parasols the artillery was ordered to dis-
perse the crowd. The streets were alive with white hand-
kerchiefs, fluttering like so many butterflies. Suddenly thun-
dering along came the heavy artillery. The brave women
fled ahead of the cannon, their handkerchiefs continuously
waving a farewell. Finding the artillery unavailing, the or-
der was given to "Charge bayonets!" and Mrs. Sefton, with
others, found herself driven up two flights of stairs at the
point of a bayonet. Here they sought an open window,
from which, though breathless, yet still undaunted, they
Muttered a final Godspeed with their handkerchiefs.
Qopfederate l/eteraij.
547
Gentle as brave, the home life of this noble woman was
as perfect as can be conceived. She submitted to the di-
vine will and bore heroically the intense agony without a
murmur. Surrounded by all the affection and luxuries that
entice one to live, she gladly awaited the Master's sum-
mons. When the tidings passed that the sweet spirit had
fled, messages from far and near all bore the same beau-
tiful tribute of love. Few women in New Orleans have
ever left a larger circle of truly devoted friends. The little
Confederate badge was placed, by request, over her heart.
Our loss would indeed be irreconcilable did we not re-
member the glad joy with which she welcomed the final
call — "the joy of the believer."
WOMAN'S APPEAL FOR A WOMAN.
An impulsive letter from Mrs. Martha S. Gielow, of Ala-
bama, is so pregnant of worthy sentiment that it is given in
full without the knowledge of the gifted but recetltly very un-
fortunate woman in whose behalf she writes. The Veter-
an happens to know that Mrs. Pickett has lost largely through
a defaulter:
"I am sending you a poem which was written nearly
twenty years ago by Mrs. Gen. Pickett, a tribute to the
Confederate dead who are buried at Arlington. For about
twenty years Mrs. Pickett has with her own hands, in com-
pany with some near and dear friends, decorated the Con-
federate graves at Arlington. The flowers for that pur-
pose have always been gotten with money received for
her 'Memorial' story — a story written yearly to secure
means for ihat purpose. Now, when others are beginning
to make much over ths decoration of the Confederate
dead at Arlington, I think it well for it to be known that
the widow of our noble Pickett has been keeping their me-
morial for these twenty years.
"Mrs. Pickett is once more the victim of a sad and se-
vere accident. For six months she has been helpless with
a broken limb, licr ankle being still in a plaster cast. Of
course that renders our dear lady helpless. Her position
in the tlovcrnnient Pension Oflfice is necessarily given up,
and just when her lecture on 'Pickett's Charge' is in de-
mand for the historical gatherings and lecture courses she
lies helpless, her nerves shattered, and her hopes seemingly
gone. To offer her aid would be useless. She has ever
declined pensions and assistance of all kinds except what
she could win with her own brain and hands. But there is
a way in which we can help her, and help her we must.
Every Daughter of the Confederacy should buy a copy of
her lovely book, 'Pickett and His Men.' Our Chapters
claim to be gathering the history of those stirring events
in their archives, and surely no hero of our Southland
stands more revered than General Pickett and no deed
more glorious than his immortal charge at Gettysburg.
This book is charmingly written, and, though Mrs. Pickett
has written many others, it is for 'Pickett and His Men'
that the Sons and Daughters should subscribe. Let us
try to send cheer to this gracious, queenly woman by a great
roll of subscriptions to her book.
"Don't wait to send flowers when the broken heart
ceases to beat. Let us send sunshine to her now and en-
courage her recovery by the only aid we can offer. And
in aiding her thus we aid ourselves by this valuable addi-
tion to our records, which should be in every Southern
home. Two dollars is a small amount for such a treasure,
a small tribute to pay the dead hero we love by thus re-
lieving the distress of his dear one. Surely the Southern
people should rise with one accord and subscribe at once
for the grand book of this gracious woman, who never
needed to be urged to the cry of distress in others. Let the
Veteran start the good work— let us get a thousand sub-
scribers and bring good cheer to our stricken sister."
The Veteran unhesitatingly indorses all Mrs. Gielow
says about Mrs. Pickett and her book. This is not an
appeal for charity, but for the assistance that should be ac-
corded one who occupies a high place in the hearts of the
South, who has ever been loyal ..nd true, and whose work
should be fitly acknowledged in this way. Mrs. Pickett's
address is "The Cumberland," Washington, D. C. Price
of book, $2.25, postpaid.
INSPIRATION OF "MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME."
Miss Mary K. Ewell, of Norfolk, Va., appointed by Gen.
Stephen D. Lee Maid of Honor for the Nashville reunion in
June, 1904, sang "My Old Kentucky Home" when Louisville's
invitation was presented by Gen. Bennett H. Young, Com-
mander of the Kentucky Division. As she advanced to the
stage, with the Confederate colors at her throat, with her
graceful, lithe form bowed to the great audience, and. with a
voice which rivaled the mocking bird, sang "The Sun Sliincs
MISS MARY K. EWELL.
ckv IK
the immense crowd went
Bright on My Old Kentuc
wild.
Gen. Young, with a story of the devotion of the Kentucky
Confederates to the cause of the South, had touched the deepest
and noblest emotions of the mighty host of veterans, and they
were prepared with the first notes of that glorious old song
sung by Miss Ewell to go into ecstasy. With the first note
she captivated them, and with the second all opposition to.
Louisville was removed.
548
Qopfederat^ l/eterar?,
COTTON INTERESTS IN THE SOUTH.
Mr. S. M. Innian, a native of Tennessee, who served as a
Confederate soldier in the sixties and afterwards amassed a
fortune in the cotton trade in Georgia and New York, has
written a paper that will amaze and gratify patriotic South-
erners :
"Few of us without studying the question realize what
an important part this staple plays in the financial and in-
dustrial history of the world; and the South holds the pro-
duction of this great crop almost without a rival, furnish-
ing nearly 80 per cent of the world's consumption. Lim-
ited by climatic conditions to our part of the Union, the cot-
ton growers of America have the most perfect agricultural
monopoly of the world.
"For forty years foreign lands have by governmental
influence and money, and by private capital and enterprise,
tried to build up cotton-growing in competition with the
South. But the aggregate foreign crops increase very lit-
tle, and to supply the ever-increasing demand of about
300,000 bales a year for an average increase in the world's
consumption, the world must depend upon our country.
"If we keep out of debt and market this crop wisely
without the pressure of debt, we ought to benefit enormous-
ly as time goes on from this great treasure. This year's
cotton crop, including the seed, sold for $650,000,000. Be-
sides furnishing the mills Nortli and South with all they
used, we exported enough to bring $650,000,000 gold to
this country. This is one-fourth as much gold as Califor-
nia has produced since the discovery of the precious metal
there.
"Six hundred and fifty million dollars was enough to buy
every bushel of wheat raised in the United States and leave
a hundred and fifty million to the good. It was enough to
buy and pay for half the corn crop of two and one-fourth
billion bushels grown in the United States. The corn crop
is the only one of the great crops that exceeds in value the
cotton crop.
"Iowa is the greatest corn-growing State in the world,
and produces one-eleventh of the total corn crop of the
United States ; yet this year, after growing her corn and
wheat crop, Georgia sold '..er cotton crop for $80,000,000,
enough to pay cash for every bushel of corn grown in Iowa.
"It should encourage us to feel that back of us we have this
imperial money-producing crop ; a perpetual inheritance
hedged about by climatic conditions and protected from
world competition which threatens the other crops. Once
free from debt, let us stay out of debt and control our own
product, and we will see no more five- or six-cent cotton
crops.
"The question may be asked : With such advantages, why
does not Georgia and the South advance more rapidly in
wealth ? 1 reply : Our people are advancing, and the in-
crease has been great during the past three years, but this
advance is in the face of a tremendous drain which is not
apparent to every one.
"Through the operation of the tariff and internal revenue,
it is estimated that the South pays $30,000,000 a year toward
the government pension bill. This sum is (except a small
fraction) transferred to Northern States and the mountain-
ous districts of the South, and helps enrich them. Geor-
gia's proportion of this payment is some $4,000,000, equal
to half her State's debt, paid every year. If it were paid by
the State as a direct tax, it would probably raise a political
revolution; but this drain goes on so silently that many
are not aware of it, and it will go on when the last man who
fought against the Union is dead, and perhaps when all his
children are dead.
"The- defeate<l in modern .wars have usually paid the pen-
alty ; but this is the most ingenious, insidious, silent, and
enormous penalty ever laid on a defeated people — in the
aggregate, a far greater penalty per capita than ever Napo-
leon laid upon those whom he crushed, or the Germans
exacted from the French.
"Had it not been for our natural resources and energy,
we would never have stood up under it. But, in spite of all
iliis, things are coming our way. We are getting out of
debt ; we are doing better farming, more manufacturing,
and learning better how to market our crops.
"We are manufacturing two million bales of cotton a
year, adding easily $100,000,000 to the value of the raw cot-
ton. The future is bright with promises if we are but true
to the high character, the indomitable energy, and the great
souls of the fathers and mothers who, coming out of the
most desolating war in modern history, found the country
a desert and brought it to its present position of greatness
and prosperity.
"P. 6".^Since this letter was written the government re-
port of exports showed that the value of cotton exported for
the year ending July l was $370,000,000. This is $27,000,000
more than the combined value of all the grain breadstuffs
and meat products exported from the United States for the
same period."
Capt. W. C. Bvrd's Gallantry at Perryville. — Capt J.
C. Jamison, of Guthrie, Okla., writes: "I was a prisoner at
Johnson's Island in July, 1863, when a captain, W. C. Byrd,
of Monticello, Fla., was sent in. He had been desperately
wounded at Perryville, and was left at a farmhouse near the
battlefield when our army fell back, not being able to be
moved. His conduct at Perryville had been so gallant as to
attract the attention of Gen. Bragg, and was reported to the
department at Richmond. For months he hovered between
life and death at the farmhouse; but as soon as he was able
to be moved, the Federals who had discovered his place of
refuge took him to the Louisville Federal Hospital. About
tliis time word reached the home of Capt. Byrd that he had
died of his wounds, and the sad news was properly reported
to the authorities in Richmond. From Louisville Capt. Byrd,
still on crutches, was sent to Johnson's Island, where I first
met hiuL We soon became warm friends, and a more fear-
less, courteous, modest gentleman I have never met. We were
exchanged together at City Point, and the morning after our
arrival in Richmond we paid our respects to the Secretary
of War, Mr. Seddon. We introduced ourselves. Byrd was a
mere sliadow on crutches, but at the mention of his name and
rank Mr. Seddon looked at him with manifest surprise; and
after learning he was from Monticello, Fla., went to a large
iron vault, took out a heavy ledger, opened it. and called Capt.
Byrd's attention to a record where he had been promoted to
a colonel upon recommendation of Gen. Bragg for gallant and
meritorious conduct in the battle of Perryville, and across
this record was written, in red ink, 'Canceled by death from
wounds received in the battle of Perryville.' I can never
forget the pleasant, though surprised, look of Mr. Seddon or
his cordial greeting of Capt. Byrd when he made this dis-
covery. I should like to know what became of Col. Byrd."
(Confederate l/eterap.
549
BOOKS SUPPLIED BY THE VETERAN.
In this number of the Veteran is given a hst of books that
should be in every Southern Hbrary; at least, many of them.
Some of them are out of print, however, and can be procured
only through the medium of second-hand stores; of others
that are still procurable, the Veteran has arrangements by
which many can be secured at a reasonable price.
"Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government." By Jef-
ferson Davis. In half Turkey morocco, express prepaid,
$7.65. The regular price in this binding was $14. Premium
for 15 subscriptions to the Veteran.
"Destruction and Reconstruction." By Gen. Richard Tay-
lor. Price, $2 ; with the Veteran one year, $2.75 ; premium
for 8 subscriptions.
"Narrative of Military Operations." By Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston. Price, $4. This is the $() edition, half morocco.
With the Veteran, $450; premium for 12 subscriptions.
"From Manassas tu Appomattox." By Gen. James Long-
street. Price, cloth, $4; sheep, $5; prcnuuni for i^ and 14
subscriptions.
"Reminiscences of the Civil War." By Gen. John H. Gor-
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"Two Wars, An Autobiography." By Gen. S. G. French,
Price, $2; with the Veteran, $2.50; premium for 8 subscrip-
tions. This is one of the most accurate and fascinating stories
of the Mexican and Civil Wars ever written.
"Life of R. E. Lee." By Fitzhugh Lee. Price, $1.50; with
the Veteran, $2.25; premium for 6 subscriptions.
"Life of Stonewall Jackson." By Col. G. F. R. Hender-
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premium for 12 subscriptions.
"Life of Forrest." By Dr. John A. Wyclh. Price, $4; with
the Veteran, $4; premium for 12 subscriptions.
"Pickett and His Men." By Mrs. LaSalle Corbell Pickett.
wife of Gen. George E. Pickett. Price, $2.50; with the Vet-
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"Memoirs of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston." By Hughes. Price,
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"Four Years under Marse Robert." By Maj. Robert Stiles.
Price, $2; with the Veteran, $2.50; premium for 6 subscrip-
tions.
"Reminiscences and Letters of R. E. Lee." By Dr. J. Wil-
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premium for 12 subscriptions.
"Campaign and Battle of Chancellorsville." Allan & Hotch-
kiss. Price, $3.50; with the Veteran. $4; preinium for 12
subscriptions.
"Two Years on the Alabama." By Lieut. Arthur Sinclair
(serving with Admiral Semmes). Price, $3; with the Vet-
eran, $3.50; premium for 8 subscriptions.
"Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy." By
James Morton Callahan. Price, $1.50; with the \'^eteran,
$2.50; premium for 6 subscriptions.
"Southern States of the American Union." By Hon. J. L.
M. Curry. Price, $1.25; with the Veteran, $2; premium for
4 subscriptions.
"Story of the Confederate States." By Prof. W. T. Dcrry.
Price, cloth. $2.50: half morocco. $3: with the V'eteran. $3
a"<l $3-.So; premium for 12 and 14 subscriptions.
"Hancock's Diary." By R. R. Hancock, a member of Bell's
Brigade of Forrest's Cavalry. Price, $2; with the X'eteran.
$2.25; premium for 8 subscriptions.
"Military Annals of Tennessee." By Dr. J. Berrien Linds-
ley. Price. $5; with the Veteran, $5.50.
In addition to these historical works, the \'eter.\.\- will be
pleased to fill orders for the lighter works of fiction. The
ever-popular books of Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler
Harris can be gotten for our patrons at regular prices. The
latter autlior has a new book now in press under the title of
"The Tar Baby, and Other Songs of Uncle Remus," which is
in the style of "Uncle Remus," and the price is $2.
Write us for any book that you may want, and we will
ascertain the price and let you know.
RECOLLECTIONS AND LETTERS 01- GEN. ROBERT
E. LEE.
The publication of these papers by Capt. R. E. Lee. the
youngest son of General Lee. through Doubleday, Page
& Co., is a matter of historical interest not only to this coun-
try, but throughout the civilized world; for while we can
claim him as our own and cherish his memory with un-
speakable love and pridi-, llu- wurld can justly claim him
as one of its greatest captains.
The book does not try to establish new truths about
the policies or battles of the Confederacy, but truthfully
reveals to the world, for the first time, the personal corre-
spondence between the great general and his family. Save his
devotion to the South, there were none so sacred as these.
Great as the world concedes Gen. Lee to be as a military
chieftain, knightly soldier that he was, yet, after reading
these letters, one cannot but feel that as a private citizen,
Christian gentleman, a most tender and affectionate hus-
band and father, he was as great as when glancing over the
victorious columns of his "incomparable infantry."
Aside from these letters of his father. Capt. Lee gives
many interesting incidents of his private life, showing his
domestic traits of character, his love of quiet home life, his
quiet humor, his special fondness for little children and pets
of all kinds, and his almost human love for his old gray
war horse, Traveler.
The innumerable marks of affection and loyalty from the
Southern people touched him profoundly. When his health
failed and he made what became a triumphant trip to the
South he almost shrank from the crowds that did him hon-
or. He said: "I am only a poor old Confederate."
Tempting business offers came to him. but he declined.
To one proposition he made this reiily: "I am grateful,
but I have a self-imposed task which I must accomplish.
I have led the young men of the South in battle ; I have
seen many of them die on the field; I shall devote my re-
maining energies to training young men to do their duty
in life."
In the fullness of the closing years at Lexington his
great heart went out in aflfectionate sympathy with his bat-
tle-tried comrades!
"Traveler" was with him in those last years. Almos-
to the end he continued his rides. Often he rode alone,
galloping home through the twilight. .-Mways his thoughts
were for his State. Once during his last year, one of his
young cousins, in talking with him. wondered what fate
was in store for "us poor Virginians." The General replied,
with his earnest, softened look: "You can work for Vir-
ginia, to build her up again, to make her great again. You
can teach your children to love and cherish her."
You finish these "Recollections and Letters of Gen.
Lee" with a deeper and truer veneration of his character
and purpose. It is an intimate view of a noble and chival-
rous career.
550
(;^oi)federate l/cterarj.
THE R. H. LEE MINE /.V COLORADO.
Attention is called to the splendid showing on our back
cover page of the Southern Mining, Milling, and Dev'opnieut
Company, controlled entirely in the South. The General
Manager, Mr. W. H. Crawford, and Mr. J. T. Spaulding, the
Secrctarj' and Treasurer, are Nashville men well known for
their capacity and integrity.
Just as the Veteran goes to press a letter comes from Mr.
F. A. Babcock, the Superintendent, to the General Manager,
slating: "Have struck ore in tunnel that we are now entering.
The vein is eighteen inches wide, and it looks to me that we
are soon to be 'Bonanza Kings.' All excitement here; it is
the greatest strike in years." The assay referred to, made by
Mr. H. K. Miller, an assayist with well-established reputation,
is: Silver per ton, 1.327 ounces ($796.20); and gold per ton,
$80.88.
THE RAILROADS AND THE WORLD'S PAIR.
St. Louis people will certainly deserve a rest after another
month. Those who have been much at the Fair cannot but
have deep sympathy for the strain upon all who cater to
the public. Working girls — at the Union Station Restaurant.
for instance — must be quite exhausted through the perpetual
rush for so many months. A half million people there, no
doubt, are more or less affected by it to an exacting degree.
Will there be any exhibition next year? The Veter.^n
suggests it. It seems too bad that so many great buildings
in which is invested many millions of dollars are to be de-
stroyed while in such good condition. Hundreds of thou-
sands who can't go this year would do so next, when the
exhibition, though perhaps diminished, would be refined —
and there is great room for that — and it would do at least
commensurate good. Another cxhi))ition would enable the
management of the great Fair to reduce in large proportion
the unavoidable loss in so great an enterprise.
Then the railroads would certainly favor it. It would be
difficult to conceive the aggregate sum that it has paid to
them. Some of the railroads have been arbitrary and illib-
eral. This complaint can hardly be made against any South-
ern roads. Taking Nashville, for instance, most liberal
rules have been maintained. Extra trains arc used when-
ever necessary and low rates have been the rule. The
Louisville and Nashville has rendered excellent service with
splendid equipment, ll furnishes special service and often
very low rates for entertainments and public gatherings of
importance. The system is progressive in aiding the de-
velopment of industries throughout its territory, and adver-
tises without stint the various resources on and adja-
cent to its lines. Its record for low freight rates as against
places with greater competition is well known. While
Nashville has not as high an oftkial as formerly, its manage-
ment is well represented in the city, and Nashville is hon-
ored in the selection of its leading counsel, Mr. Chas. N.
Burch, of whom all its people are proud. He is a Confed-
erate Son, while such Veterans as Robert Gates and John
G. Cisco, attorney, are Industrial and Immigration Agents
for the sy.stem, homogeneous to the people who patronize
the company.
The Nashville. Chattanooga & St. Louis system, in con-
nection with the Illinois Central, does all that could be
expected for the territory of its lines. It is one of the
most enterprising systems in the Union in supplying trans-
portation facilities to the Fair. There doubtless never
was a railway system managed more satisfactorily and more
pleasing to its patrons. Its official headquarters are in
Nashville, and its managers, ever quick to see the needs of its
patrons, respond promptly and generously. The territory
in the States which it traverses is favored as thoroughly
as that on any line in the land.
Management of the Spanish-American War CRiTiciSEa
— Isaac R. Sherwood, of Toledo, Ohio, who evidently had
experience in service for the Union in the sixties (he take*
the Veter.vn), made an address, which is published, in
which he criticises the management of the Spanish-Ameri-
can War, and quotes: "Killed in battle or died oi wounds,
329. Died in the camps of the United States from neglect,
embalmed beef, and incompetent medical and military staff,
5277." Then he comments: "Since history was born out of
the womb of the centuries there has never before been a
war, in any country, pagan or Christian, with such a ter-
rible record of camp fatalities as this. All this in the face
of the fact that we had the best array of living soldiers,
ripe in actual war experience, who offered their services
10 the President."
\ \ll Ji il.V ALLEN (of MISSISSIITI,! .\T HOME.
The recent reunion of the Second Kentucky Brigade
cifcurred at Earlington and was very much enjoyed. (3ol.
Bennett H. Young, commanding the Kentucky Division,
w-as the principal speaker. Col. F. A. Owen, of Evansville,
was chosen to command the First Kentucky Regiment in
the brigade. As former adjutant of that regiment, Com-
ri'de Owen made a detailed report of each Camp, giving
the number of the living, how many have died since the
organization, and how many in the Home at Pewce Val-
ley. The oldest organized under the rule of Tennessee
Bivouacs, organized in 1866, has living 26, one of whom
is in the Confederate Home, and 36 have died. The Mad-
isonvillc Graphic slates:
"The newly elected Col. F. A. Owen joined the Eighth
Kentucky Infantry at the age of fifteen, in 1861, and was
elected first duty sergeant. He was wounded at Fort Don-
clson February 15, 1862. Me escaped prison at Camp
Morton, Ind., March 16, 1862. He was first recruit of the
Tenth and was made its adjutant. He was surrendered
at Johnson's Island June 22, 1865, and since that time has
been a commercial traveler."
Confederate l/eterat).
551
A CTTKE FOR ASTHMA.
Asthnift sufl'Tcvi^ need ni> Inntjer lone home and
Imtiincss ill onl.r to be onre<i. Xntiii-<' ims pr'i<hu'e<[
el nil If li-nii'ily tlmt will p'TUUiiu'iitly cure
— ■ iif tli'^ Inncs and briiiicliinl
■■OLD J-QICES."
BY IluWARD WEEDEN.
"Old Voices" is the latest of Miss
Howard Weedeii's productions, just is-
sued from the press of Donbleday, Page
& Co., New York.
To one familiar with the unapproach-
able negro dialect poems and pictures of
this gifted writer it is sufficient com-
mendation to say that this last is the best
work she has yet given to the public.
Miss Weedcn devoted two years to the
preparation of this book, and it is a work
of art and sentiment from the outer
binding lo the last line it covers. It is
a larger volume than any of her otlicr
books, has elaborate and artistic border
decorations by Cora Parker, while the
negro portraits, with which the book is
profusely illustrated, are such as could
come from under the pencil of Miss
Woedcn only.
The volume is dedicated to her friend,
Joil ClKinilli-r Harris (T'ncle Remus).
LITERARY NOTE.
The lovely Tennessee Valley is the
scene of "Forestfield," a story of the Old
South, by Robert T. Bentley, a striking
novel of two great periods in the South
just before and during the Civil War.
It is in one sense of the phrase a hi.stor-
ical novel, but so original in treatment as
to make it unique among books of that
class. A panorama of the Old South
during the war passes before the reader's
eyes, and the destiny of the New South
is painted in a bold manner, the predic-
tion being made that an exodus of the
negro race to Africa will occur in 1913,
the fiftieth anniversary of emancipation.
The characters and customs of the old
regime, now almost gone, are vividly de-
scribed, and contrasted wlh the busi-
nesslike and less courtly spirit now mak-
ing its way through that section. Slave-
stealing, slave-selling, and on the other
hand the tender relations which often
existed between master and slave, South-
ern chivalry, the battle of Manassas, the
bravery of Confederate soldiers and
hardships undergone by the Southerners
during the dreadful period of the war,
and the devastation encountered every-
where in the South after the great con-
flict, are all vividly depicted in a sin- 1
cere, historical spirit which both South-
erners and Northerners must respect.
New York : The Grafton Press, pub-
lishers. i2mo, cloth. Illustrated. $1.50. j
"ORDER NO. II."
This novel, by Caroline Abbott Stan-
ley, is one of the best written since the
Civil War, having as its foundation
scenes and incidents of that unhappy
period. It is a love story delightfully
told, but ingeniously interw'ovcn in the
frightful and internecine border warfare
that raged so dreadfully in Missouri
and Kansas from 1S60 to 1865, the hor-
rors of which can be realized only by
one who witnessed the scenes so faith-
fully portrayed by the author.
The most vivid, and not the least
jileasing, pen pictures in the book, es-
pecially to those familiar with planta-
tion life before the war, are the servants
and the sunny days at "Keswick" before
touched by the blighting hand of war.
It is a delightful book, and gives a true
picture of life in the South previous to
the war. as well as the awful period of
which it treats.
Published by the Century Company,
New York.
A correspondent wishes to procure a
copy of the poein by Father Ryan, be-
ginning :
"Tell it as you n;;iy.
It never can be told ;
Sing it as you may.
It never can be sung.
The story of the glory
Of the men who wore the gray."
A book of his poeins not being at
hand, the favor of a copy of this poem
will be appreciated.
Dr. B. W. Holcomb, of Aspermont,
Tex., President of the Masonic Rural
Association, of Cumming's Brigade,
Georgia Volunteers, with one hundred
and twenty-two names, which he has in
his possession, would like to hear from
all of them.
Shirley C. Ashby, of Helena, Mont.,
inquires for Col. C. S. Venable, who
served on Gen. R. E. Lee's staff.
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C. C. Matthews, of the Confederate
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ment, from which he was transferred
to Forrest's Cavalry. This comrade was
captured and died at Camp Chase, Ohio.
Frank M. Duflfy, of Guthrie. Ky., is
very anxious lo secure the address of
Capt. W. H. Pharr, who commanded a
company of the Third Regular Eng.
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II
No section of the country is more
prosperous than the Southwest. No sec-
tion is showing such gains in wealth and
population, and no other section offers
the opportunities for securing homes and
making a start in the world as are to
be found in the Southwest.
With cheap lands and fertile soil that
will grow anything raised in the North,
is the added attraction of a mild, even
climate.
Live cheaper, make more, and save
more — surround yourself with more
comforts.
Write for our descriptive literature —
tells all about that great country — and
let us help you find a location.
Very low round-trip rates via Cotton
Belt Route— one fare plus $2 — on first
and third Tuesdays of each month to
points in .Arkansas, Louisiana, and
Texas
W. C. ADAMS, T. P. A.,
Cotton Bell, Nashville, Tenn.
W. T. Oliver, Laurel Hill, Fla., is in
search of some one who can give proof
of his service in the war. He enlisted
at Laurens C. H., S. C, February 6,
)86i, and was mustered into service on
the 14th of that month as a member of
Company A, First Battalion of Heavy
Artillery. After twelve months' serv-
ice with this battalion he was with
Company A, of the Third South Caro-
lina Regiment, till December of 1862,
when he was detailed for a shoemaker,
in which capacity he continued till the
surrender at Augusta, Ga., in May, 1865.
He is now in need, and can procure a
pension from his Slate if his service can
be proved.
Jos. R. Haw, No. 700 Armistead
Avenue, Hampton, Va., wants to know
if Capt. Morgan, who was a quarter-
masler, and Lieut. Morgan, of Company
H, Fourth Tennessee Battalion of Cav-
alry, Dibrcll's Brigade, are living. Also
wants to get a good account of the serv-
ices of Shaw's Fourth Battalion of Ten-
nessee Cavalry. Some comrade should
be able to furnish this.
A sister of Adjt. H. F. Jones, Cobb's
Legion of Cavalry, wishes to know if
Mr. J. W. Walter, of Hamilton Crossing,
Va., is still alive.
THL KHD, UNITE, AKD RED.
On the banks of the Potomac
Is an anny so grand
Whose object is to subjugate
Dixie's fair land.
They say we have split
This great Union in two,
And altered the colors
Of the red. white, and blue.
Cliorus.
Hurrah! hurrah! We're a nation they
dread.
Three cheers for JeflF Davis, the Red,
While, and Red.
Our flag it is simple,
But by it we'll stand ;
It floats from the Potomac
To the great Rio Grande;
It floats o'er a nation
i he Yankees most dread,
Always defending
I'hc Red, White, and Red.
O Dixie, fair Di.xic,
The land of my birth,
The dearest and happiest
Land upon earth ;
I'nto her colors
I'll prove a Con fed,
-And die in defending
The Red, White, and Red.
Conway Humphreys, Stillwater, Okla.,
seeks information of Sam Humphreys,
who enlisted in Lafayette County, Mo.,
under Capt. Withers. Sam was with
the Missouri troops al the surrender of
Vicksbiirg, after wliich he went back to
the army and was reported killed at Ken-
nesaw Mountain. If any of his com-
rades can give any information of his
fate, it will he appreciated. He would
have been nineteen years old had he lived
until March, 1865.
Robt. J. Rhodes, of Whiteville, Tenn.,
one of Fern si's old regiment, wishes to
learn the names of the five men captured
by Foilrest at Morning Sun between
Memphis and Somerville, just about the
time of the capture of Fort Pillow. He
thinks it was Gen. Sturges's command,
and that one of the men was a captain,
a merchant of New York. Stopping in
a store at Somerville out of a shower of
rain, this captain met with Mr. Reid, to
whom he had sold goods, and by him
was reassured as to being in safe hands.
Mrs. W'innie W'oodsiel, of Austin,
Ark., would like to hear from any of the
survivors of Company K, Forty-Third
Alabama Regiment of Infantry, who
knew her husband, W^ J. T. Woodsiel,
conimonlv called Tom.
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SOLDIER ON A HORSE.
Copy of this old song is given by \\',
P. Bumpass, of Puryear, Tenn.. in re-
sponse to the request made liy Rev. A. T.
Goodloe.
Old Forrest on a spree was lient.
Soldier on a jubilee ;
And to Padnc be went.
Soldier on a horse.
Chorus.
Walk along, jog along.
Soldier on a jubilee ;
Walk along, jog along,
Soldier on a horse.
Col. Duckworth, with part of the crew.
Soldier on a jubilee;
Taken Union City, too.
Soldier on a horse.
At Fort Pillow wc had our sport.
Soldier on a jubilee;
Shootin' nig.i»ers in the fori.
Soldier on a horse.
Have you ever been to .Xberdeen.
Soldier on a horse?
Prettiest girls you ever seen.
Soldier on a horse.
■■iirr.n.ui.-
Lily Ryan, t'orinerly of tliallanooga.
writes of "Huldali :"
" 'Hiildah.' the latest otTering from
the pen of those two brilliant young
Siniithern writers, Grace MacGowan
Cook and .-Mice MacGowan, of Cliatta-
noiiga, Teini.. has been ushered into the
literary world by the Bobbs-Merrill
Pnblishin.g Company, handsomely bound
and iH'.'uUifully illustrated.
"'lluldair is distinctly a success, and
the >tory is original and interesting from
the first page to the last. It is some-
thing of a character sketch, but the
story is written to make a background
from which the character of "Hnldah'
looms forth, ller refreshing jihilosoiihy.
her terse expressions, and her genial
and happy temperament, coupled with
her ability to make the most of a bard
career and find good in .all things, come
like a breath of sweet-scented breeze
across a field of lilies. It is a liook writ-
ten to ujilift and enlighten and briii.g here
a tear only to be rapidly succeeded by
a hearty laugh at the numerous funny
escapades suffered liy lur :uid her
lirood' (as she calls them I of orphans;
for 'Huldah' is a motherly soul, and .it
her home in the Western cattle country
she rules supreme as the mother to the
entire district, from the kindly, rough,
and happy-go-lucky cowboys dow'n to
the little children whom she has from
time to lime ailopted.
If yovx are ^oin^ to tKe
WORLD'S FAIR
T«Ko tWe
^M
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General Passeneer A(.-enl. N. C, & St. L. R'y.
Nashville, Tenn.
" I here i^ no moral preached m lbl.^
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that is to be brave, to be strong, to
laugh much and weep little, to bring a
-treak of sunshine and •-ontlie pain, to
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enme by trouble.
"The book as a whole gives a glimpse
into ;be life of the West in a new- and
original vein, touching up mucli of its
]>atlios and pleasures, and is cleverly
wrillen throughout."
C'. IL .\iidiews. iMilledgeviUe. Ga.: "1
saw- published sometime ago in tabular
form the numbers of each command that
composed G. M. Sorrell's Brigade, in
Mabone's Division. .A. P. HilTs Corps.
A. N. v., who surrendered at .Appomat-
to.x. This brigade was previously
Wright's Brigade, and was composed of
the Third, Twenty-Second, Forty-Eighth,
and Sixty-Fourth Regiments, and the
Second and Twelfth Georgia Battalions
of Infantry. I have lost sight of the
publication mentioned, and would like
to get the information from any who
can give il."
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Dr. W. C. Holmes, of Trenton, Te.x.,
who was captain of Company H, First
Mississippi Battalion of Sharpshooters,
Fcatherslon's Brigade, Loring's Di-
vision, Polk's Corps, writes: "At the
battle of New Hope Church I was left
with twenty-five desperately wounded
men to fall into the hands of the enemy.
All died but four, who made their es-
cape into the Confederate lines during
the terrible fighting around Atlanta.
They were myself, Allen, a young boy
of the Twelfth Louisiana Regiment, arm
Home Treatment for Cancer.
Dr. I). M. Bye's Biiljny OiK, f,,i- Cainor, iin- a
pOHitive jukI jiainlessi'iiro. M.istcasi^sui-u trintt-
e\ at homo, witliniit tbo Kci-\'ii'G of a pl)y^i<"ian.
Send for book t^iliiitf what woiidcrlul things
are beinp; (hm ■ t)y_ simi^ly anointin;^ witli oils.
The combination"i.i a secret: ^iv^:■s iustant i'..-
lii'f from )iain. de-^troys tho rrmcer inicrolics.
and rpstoi-f..; the jtatic'iit to health. Thousands
of .■ani'cr.s, tumors, catarrh, ulcers, iiiles, and
malignant di I'luscs cured in tho last ten year.s.
If not artiict^'d, cut this out and send it to some
suffering one. Address Dr. D. M. Bye Co., Box
462. Dallas, Tex.
off; Joe Blythe, of the Fifth Missouri,
leg oflf ; — Shoemaker, of the Thirty-
Third Mississippi, arm off and the other
badly disabled. If any of these comrades
are alive, I would like to hear from
them. Dr. Hayes, the surgeon left in
charge of us, was from 'Tuscumbia or
Florence, Ala. He was a most elegant
gentleman and a whole-souled soldier.
For two months we were left to our-
-lives out in the woods at Mount 'Tabor
Church Hospital in full hearing of the
ilcsperate struggle of our comrades at
K'.nnesaw Mountain and around At-
lanta, and, like the caged eagle hearing
the screams of its companions, we could
only beat against the bars of our en-
vironment, with the soldier's forlorn
hope that all would be for the best ; but
not one word could we hear. Forty
years have brightened our hardships into
transcendent glory and, old men now,
we would like to hear from one another,
especially Dr. Hayes. Anything from
or of him will be appreciated. Also to
the relatives, descendants, and comrades
of Lieut. Col. Harrell, of the Thirty-
Third Mississippi, I can give particulars
of his death and burial."
R. D. Heffner, of Camp Barksdale, at
Kosciusko, Miss., inquires as to the regi-
ment, etc.. to whicli Granville L. Heft'-
ncr belonged. lie went from Holmes
County, Miss., to Texas, and enlisted in
a regiment from that State. His rela-
tives are anxious to learn anything of
his career in the Confederate army.
Dr. H. A. Moseley, at No. 325 Main
Street, Dallas, Tex., has been asked to
act as Chairman of the Historical Com-
mittee of Company E, Fourth Tennes-
see, Starnes's old regiment, and he would
like to have any surviving members of
that company report to him any en-
gagement or scout or battle or skirmish
in which it was engaged, that his report
may be as comprehensive as possible at
the annual meeting in 1004.
The survivors of the Thirty-Seventh
Alabama Regiment have been trying for
years to recover the flag which was pre-
sented to the regiment by the wife of
Col. James Dowdell, commanding. It
is still in existence, and the heirs of the
Colonel would be greatly pleased to have
it in their possession. Any information
about it can be sent the Veteran.
W. H. Kearney, of Trezevant, Tenn.,
wishes to hear from Dr. W. J. W. Kerr,
of Company L, Sixth Tennessee Volun-
teer Infantry. lie was in Texas when
last heard from.
Deafness
Can Be Cured.
I Ilurc* Made tlir Must )l;ir\. I<iii<^ Divouvrry fur the
Positive (ureuf llcufnevs aii<1 llritd NuUdh,
anit 1 t.lw till* Secret Krev.
ViiUx Tills n'oiHltrrnl, Mystrriuiis Tuner I Have
Maili- rio|ile lh*«r fur \ vnrs \\vn\ tlie Tick
of a \>;itrh in a Ken Minuli-8.
Send Me \o Money— Simiily Write M« about Your
Vase aiu\ I senil \uu the Si-i'ret Ijjr Ue-
tuni Mail AbKulutelf Free.
Aflor yc.Trs of n-i*avcli .ilmig the lines of the
<U'r !»»*»■ sVieiiiille niy-sti-rii's of lln' <kh'uU ami in-
vj.sihle nf Nalurc-foi-cus I have fouml tlio cailt^
.-111' I cure of ileafiicss an<l hca-l noKi'-^. ami I have
hioii I'lialiU'il liy Miis fame niysleriourt Unowl-
('(IjroaiKl [Hnvcrto ;;ive to many imrorlnnatt' and
t^iitrcnng persons perfect he;ii-iiig^ a^ain; and I
*.^:c-
7 ^ t '-j'i^\
I Have nenionslnited Tlnit Deafness Tan Ite rnred.
—Dr. U\iy Clifford rowtll.
s:iy to those who have thrown away tlicir money
oil cheap apparatus, salves, air im'nips, washes',
dourhes, and the li^t of innunicrahle tra^h that
is oircred the piibli'* thi-mr^h naming ailvertiM--
nienls, 1 can .ni'l will enn- you, and cure yon to
hlav cured. 1 a-k no money. JMy ire:itment
nietliod IS one th;tt i-^ m) simple it can he used in
\ourown home. You can inve^^tl^jatc fully, nl)-
.-olutely free, and you ]):iv for it only afleV y<m
;iie lln)roui;hly ciMivineoil that it will cure you,
aa it liafl tliousandsof oLliers. It seems to muke
no tlitVcrence with tliis niarvcloue new method
how long you liave hcen deaf nor what caused
your deafness, this now treatment will restore
your hearing qmekly nml ])erni:inenlly. No
inatter how many remedies have failed yon, no
matter how many doctors have pronounced your
case hopeless, this new mn?ric method of treat-
ment will cure you. I prove this to your enr ire
Hatisfactlon boTore you pay a cent for it. Write
lo-dav, and I will send you full mrormalion ah-
s^luteJv free hv return mail. Address Dr. (luy
ClilTor-'l Powell, l*2i;i Andilorium Unildini;, IV-
oria, III. Itememher, .send no money— simply
your name and nd'Iress. You will receive an
Imnietiiate answer and full information by re-
turn mail.
Miss Sue M. Monroe, of Wellington,
Va., writes about the graves of some
Alabama soldiers buried on a farm near
her, who died from wounds and sick-
ness after the second battle of Manas-
sas. There is also among them one
member of the Ninth Louisiana. Miss
Monroe wishes to have the graves
ftnced iti with wire, which will not be
expensive, and any contributions for
that purpose will be so applied. Some
Texas ladies arc raising money to have
the graves of some Texas soldiers
fenced in there, and Mjss Monroe takes
great interest in looking after this work.
Figfht Fire with Fire
rifJIfr Natnn's ppoiiy «i|h Nature's Remedy. Follow
* ■*'■■ * the exjnnplo of the itluiiisman and nso the
til :i|)oiisi\liirh nnlHrc fins plnocd in joiir haiuls! Ynu .ant
> bark thrt tide with a Iiroom. " Ymi wouldn't trv. nor
d vnu try, to vtsist. to sMcfp hark <lis«'ase ■n'itha'liottlo
ot ulrnliol and .sars;i]»nri)lii or a ]ui<'ka^i' of senna and straw.
If y Mir li..ns(' wen> Inirninir. von would not finht tin- tlann^s
vilha bottU'ofKandoCnlotrno: and when VOCR IMKR-
N \L HOI SK. tliodwollinir pla.v of your life, your Titality. ia
I'lirnini; and beini; destroytxi by tlie riiv;iges of wa.stini?.
insidious diseases, it is .iust as'fnolhardv to attempt to
elu.M'k the flames, to stop tbo destruction with a sweet-
tJistin^r sweet-Hmellint? pill, tablet, or compound made to
sell and to sell only.
your ills, lias eombined the subtle clement-s of IU<»\. SI'I*-
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mars uiventivo and creative genius has lM?en unable todn]>lieato or counterfeit. She placed
it in the^rrouud where it was found, for what puriH)se if not torelii'vcnndrure the illsol'mau-
kindl
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from all oth.-rs, and ean b.' otTer.Ml in a ditTerent way. a way that "sellers of m«*<lii'ines "
ilin-f not duplicato. If y<ni are >,i.k and tinnl of quacks, si.k of dosinir yourself day aft^T
day. with ea<di sunrise tindin>j no rhati!:«< in your rmiilition. if you are sick* of beinp iinv>osed
uivm. try this natural curtiii: jiud henUuir ore. IT WILL NOT KAM- MW. Read our special offer.
JK"ot/ A.re to 'Be the Jxidge!
WE WILL SEND
to every BiibBcriliPv nn<l r*^adr
ORK, by miiil. i>i>stimiii, siiffifi
tiiiio iifhT rr.'.-ipt. if thf rcc-cii
than till the drnu's and linscs of
>f till" fONFFPrUATr A
, for .'le- ni.vnttrs tm
.■an IniMifnllv snv th
■ks ..r t:.....r.l.i
iTru\x a, fuU-'iizf'fl $1 pnrkacf of VIT.I^-
IiiiPiit. to l.R ]mi(l for within one niontli's
t its nst* 1ms dono hini rtr her iiiort- c.i.iil
patent meiliciiirs he c)r slic hag
<b li<-iui liiis i.vi-r acniii carefiilly, inul innii-rstanil tliiit we ask ourpav only when it lins d..„.
\ 1.11 L'ood. anil not hi-forc Wo lak« all the risk; you have nothing lo Iobo. If it <loes not benoflt you
> I'll imy lis iiMthini:. Wo triyp you thirty days' time to try tbo inodieiue, t)iirty days to see rps'uUs
Im ifn-ii you nrcd ]tay w*. ono <-oTit. nud you do not imv the oiu" ociit unli-ss vou do spp the results
You are to be the ludget Wp kno\v that \vh<>n this in'>nth's treatment <»f YIT^-ORE hns eitb*]
• umd you i>r put you on tlio road to cure you will bo more than wIIHuk to pay. We know VIT.TI
'>HK iind are wiUme to take tlie risk.
WHAT VITAE-ORE IS:
Vitft^-Oro is a natural, 'oinl. adinn,
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lune. and is tben of inediciniil vnlur
three properties ^vllil•h nre ini)st rssci
one paeknu'p— on<- ounee— of the OKK.
streuL'tb and mrntiye Mihte SIX) enll
sprin!:B. It is a ire
It is the maryel 4>f th.
enl diseov.-ry lo wbi.h noth
ititury for cMirint: surh dise
iilin. . r..,klik.- t.ubNt*»u.t^niinerftl— ORE— mined from t
iHML'hliorboi.d (if ft once powerful, but now extinct, ininei
xiiiizalion by exposure tf> the nir. when it slacks down H
It (Miitnins fiee iron, free sulphur, and free maiftiesiu
ti:il for tbi' leiention of beftlth \\\ the human system, n
ivben mix- d witli n quart of water, will eonnl in nieiliein
f tbe most ]»n\verfnl niineral water drank fresli from t
Ided and fro
vhirli
ot)n
ItheuiiiAlIsm, ItrlRht*8 Disense, Itlood Poisoulnff. Heart Trouble, Dropsy, ( atarrh :ind Thrual
Afferliuus, L!rer, KMue). nnd Hladiler Athueuls, SInmarh and Female Disorders, La
(jrippe, Malarial Fever, XervuuR rnistration, and (Jeneral neliility,
as thousands testify, and as no one. answerinc this, writinc for a i>ackairr, will <ieny after nsinp.
\'n','K-()l{K has eure<l more chronic, obstinate, pronounced incurable cases than any other known
medicine, and will reach such cases with a more rapid and j>o\\erful curative aetion than any
medicine, comhimiiion I'f nir-dieincs, or doctor's jircseriptiim which it is possible to procure.
Vitfc-Oro will di) the sinne for you as it has for hundreds i>f readers of the Confkdkiiate Vftkran
if yon will jriyn it a trial. Send for a Jll packnL'O at our risk. Yiu» have nothing to lose bnt tlw
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\'itie-Oie on this libi'rnl otTer/ One imekaco is usintlly sutHcient to cure ordinary cases: two or
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SICK UNTO DEATH."
H&d Kidney. Liver, eLixH Stomach
Troubles for Metny Yea.rs.
•A NEW LEASE ON LIFE."
For nuiiii- years I liad kidney and liver com-
plaints, ami for the last three yt ars I have liud
stomach trouble. 1 kept iro wine worse .md weaker
every day, and tried doctors and several potent
medicincH without any relief until 1 bud iriven \\\y
all hope of ever getting any betti-r. I saw your
advertisement and
thonnht 1 Would
Ci v e Vitn-.Ore a
trial. While wait-
inj; for the medicine
to como I crew so
weak I could not sit
tii> more than live
minutes at a time.
My neighbors sai<l
that 1 was t'oiiii; to
dii'. an<l my wife
wiinti'ii lo send me
up t-> t he hos]>itai at
port land. butilid not
know how to get me
t liere, 08 1 was un-
able to Kland the
ride. 1 received the
full thirty-day trial
treatment ady er-
tiscd, and hetran
__ _ immediately to take
the Vito'-Ore as directed. In four doys' time I
was able to sit up all day, which I had not done
for six months, and now* 1 am able to ride to town,
a distu'iee of (Ifleen miles, over n hilly country,
and walk tuo milrs to the post ollU'c. 1 am now
on my se.-oiKl package ()f \'itre-Ore. .\11 myneit'li-
hors and friends marvel at thecreal chance in my
condition in so short a time, and all y>vo full
credit to yon r treatment. I cannot say enough
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tbe Tlieo. Noel (Vnnpanv for a new lease on my
life, Jl. HfTTFKPir:i,n, CU'vclaiid, Oregon.
NOT A PENNY UNLESS BENEFITED.
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This offer will challenge tbe attention and consideration, and
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THEO. NOEL CO.,
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CHICAGO.
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T ejects Cert-
tral rR. "R.
which traverses the heart of
Texas. The H. & T. C. R. R.
maintains a well-equipped In-
dustrial Department, whose
business it is to represent the
home seeker—llie land buyer.
not the land dealer.
All requests for information
appertaining to Texas -Aill be
given prompt attention if ad-
dressed 10
Wm. Doherty Stanley H. W»lioi\
A. G. P. A. Industrial A^eot
HOUSTON, TEX.
J
a
m FOUR"
The be*t line to
INDIANAPOLIS.
REORIA.
CHICAGO, I
And all points in Indiana and
Michigan.
CLEVELAND.
BUFFALO.
NEW YORK.
BOSTON,
AND ALL POINTS SAST
Information cheerfully fumi«h«4 oa a^
alMation at CitT Ticket OOc* " Bik Fa«T
Boat*," No. 26« Fourta ATennt •r wrtla
M 8. J. Gatis, General Aceat PuMsgar
Darartment, Lodisvillb, Kt.
Calitotnia 5'o^'„?{'aT'c^:
•Rniflbts templar, an& Sovcrdon
OtanD Xo&flc, II. ®. O. f.,
ineoting will lip hcWl In San Francisro in
null its conne.u..ns. The \V.\1 ASH m tho
„nly line niiiiunK 10 llio Main Kuliance ..f
the World's fair Groun.ls. Holders of H a-
bash ticket can li:ivc tlicir bageage clieekua
to an.l l.om ilie >'•'?:"•"":'■■", VViSi^f.
l-a-iscn-'cr Slatinn, ilncctly ut the Main Kn-
Ixjuis on one-way or r..iin.l-trip licLcls, go-
iiip or ictiiriiinfT. ^^__^_^^_^^__
Call on or write for particulars
F. W. GREENE, D. P- A., Wa-
bashR. R., Room 303Url>an
Building, lyOuisviUe, Ky.
Great
Is
Texas!
The Eyes of
the World Are
Upon Her.
The Home Seeker
Wants to know about hor
"Matchless" Climate and her
Cheap Lands.
The Investor
\\'aiits to V;no\v not only about
her Cheap Land and Low
Taxes, but, as well, Her
Wealth of Mine and Forest,
and this is to let you know that
The International &
Great Northern,
Texas' Or«satest Roilnoaci,
Traverses more than a thousand
miles of the Cream of Texas' Re-
sources, latent and developed, and
that you may learn more about the
(JRKAT l.'i^ (;. N. COl'XTRV
bv sending a ;-cent stamp for a
copy of the ILLUSTRATOR
AND GENERAL N.VRRATOR,
or 25 cents for a year's file of same,
or by writing
O. J. PRICH,
a. I-. .& T. A., I. «& G. IS. R. R.,
Polestine, Tex.
How to Get There
QUICK
The Short Line. Vis*. Bristol
TO THE EAST
Throvigh Train
No CKaLFvge
Lcavu KEW OKLEAXS. Q. & C
• llEMPniS, Sinitlic n Ry
• (■H.ATTAXniKJA.Soiitfrii Ry.
•• KN'i'XVlLI.K. Soiitlii-rii Ry
•• HUlSTiiL. X A; W. Ry
Arivel.YNCHHrKC. X .& W. Ry .
• WASHlNliTllX. D.f.So.Ry
• HAI.llMi iKK. -Mil., P. K. R ■
• I'llll.ADKLPHlA, P. R. K...
XKW YliKK, P. R. R
• BOSTiiX, X. Y.. X. H., A: H ..
7:30
ll:tX)
11 ;M
. l:a(
7:110
. 1:45
. (i:.'i2
. 8:110
ln:15
MM
. 1<::!0
p.m.
p.m.
a.m.
p.m.
p.m.
a.m.
H.m.
a.m.
a.m.
p.m.
p.m.
Through Sleeper New Orleans to
New York
Through Sleeper Memphis to
New York
'\'\w liiu'st IMiiiuff Cm- SiTvu-e.
R.liuM.' iuli.nimtionch erfuUy furnishojl by
Xiirfolk and \Ve-t«'rii Railwuy. lim W. Ninth
hit. (Ri-ml Hoiisii Bknkl. (UiuttaliooKa. Teun.
W.iHiiKN \j. RoHH, Western Pa.s.senger Agent,
CbHttaiiiKina. Tenn.
\V. B. Bkvii.i,, trcneral Pa.s.senger Agent, Roar
in.lki'. V:i,
NORTH TEXAS
^ POINTS ^
VIA
Santa Fe
= TO
Galveston, and Points
South, East, and
West. ^ ^ Equip-
ment, Service, and Cui-
sine unsurpa-ssed. ^
W. S. KEENAN, G. P. A.,
Galveston, Tex.
Qopfederate l/cterai).
557
FRISCO SYSTEM
Chicago and Eastern Illinois R. R.
Double Daily Trains
BETWEEN
5t. Louis AND Chicago
MORNING AND EVENING
From LaSalle Street Station, Chicago, - 9:50 a.m.
From Union Sta. (Merchants' Bridge), St. Louis. 9:30 a.m.-
9:10 p.m.
9:46 p.m.
Morning or evening conncctii)n at botii tei'niini willi linev (ii\crginii.
I'.ciuipinent entirely new and modern throiighont.
.\ I)OUr!LE-TRA(. K RAILWAY.
KqiiipiH'd \vitli praetic.-il and approved -.afelv appliances.
SuhviaiiiKilh <-on^l|■ll^!l■ll.
TRAVEL VIA THE
SOUTHERN
RAILWAY
The Great- fi^ Throu
est ^Sj2^«i^-M'>"K
SoutKern
System
Double Dai-
ly Service
Nashville t(5
the ]*".-ist, via
Ch attauoOLCa
and Ashcville,
ihiouirh
'f*^ Car Nash
ville to New
York.
Diiiiiifj and
O h sc r v a t ion
Cars.
P n 1 1 m a n
yiecpintj^ Cars
(111 all through
trains.
Elegant Day
Coaches.
BEST
PASSENGER SERVICE
IN TEXAS.
^-IMPORTANT GATEWAYS-4
••THE LASD OF THE SKY"
.T. M. C'tn.p. 4th Vice Pres., Washington, P. C.
S. U. HAr.i>wUK. Pn-ss. Traffic M;inu(;ei-,
Washiiitilon. D. V.
W. H. Tavlok, Gen. Pass. Agt., Washing-
ton, U. C
C. A. BENseOTER. As.st. Cen. Pass. Agt.. Chat-
tanooga, Tonn.
J. E. .Shipley, Traveling Pass. Agt., Chatta-
nooga. Tenu.
Kciiam caiGGi Hospital,
R.ICHMOND. VA.
Wt Cure Cancers, Tumors, and Chronic
Soru without the use of the knife.
^mmmmyim
P.TURNER,
Oenx Pass'R and Tiokit Aoemt,
Dallas. TexA»
THE BEST PLACB
TO PURCHASE
ALL-WOOL
Bunting or
Silk Flags
Silk Banners, Swords, Belts, Caps,
and all kimls of Military Kqtiipment
ami Society (iootls is at
Veteran J. A. JOEL * CO.,
88 Nassau Street, New York City,
SEND FOR PRICE LIST.
JACKSONV/L
vl» Valdosta RoiUe, from \*;ildosta via Georg^
Southern .a-.O Florida Uv., from >Iaccn
via Central of (icor^i.i Uy., from
ATLANTA
via Western and Atlantic R. R., from
CHATTANOOGA
NASHVILLE
ishvllli-, Ch:ill:in.«.gn, ami SI. L
arriving al
ST. LOUIS
•1» Ihe Nishvlll,-, Ch:ill:in.«.gn, ami SI. l^oul* Ry ,
arriving al
OHIOAGO
over Ihe miDols Cenlrii! R. Tl. f roin Martin, Tenn.
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE AND
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
MAINTAINKD OVKR THIS
SOENIO LINE.
Ticket 3iB-ents of the Jacksonvillc-St. Louis anc
Chtcaeo !lne» and agents of connecting Jines *):
Floridft and the Southeast, .vill pive you full In
formation as to schedules of tnij douMe da''v set-v
Ice to St. Louis. Cliicago, and the Northwest, ai-^c.
of train time of lines connecting. They will aiuo
■ell you tickets and advise you as to rates.
F. D. MUJ-KR, - Atlanta, Oa^
Traveling Passenger Agent I. C. R. R.
K. K. WHEELER. N ^shvii.le, Tenn.^
Commercial Apent.
558
Qoijfederate V/eterap.
Manless Land for Landless Man
An '. for liiin whose acreage is limited because ho cultivatea a hiKh-|>ri*«Nl iunn. Tlieio aro
IN THE GREAT SOUTHWEST
Within stone's throw of farms iu the hijrhc.st state of cultivation whiih are i)rmticHlly
niuuless. and ran Iw.* se<-urtMl at ont-lifth to one-tenth the market pri<H* \*er aero of an "Old
State" farm. Write lor illiLstratcd lit^eraturo descriptive of Arkansas, Iriiau Territory,
Oklahoma, * <r T<-xiis.
Very Low Round-Trip Rates
To nny Sonthwestrrn poiut every Tuesday iu September and the tU'at and third Tutisdavs
III ( tcioln-r iind Xovenibor.
Rock Island
System
GEO. H. LEE.
J. JV. CO'RJ^AT^A'R.
(i.-nenil Pas-sonijiT A'^ent. Guuiial A;.'!. I'a^s. Di ].t..
Little Rock, Auk. ilKMPHis, Tk.nn.
TACIFIC
• • • vt^ • • •
IRON MOUNTAIN
ROUTE
From ^T. LO\/I,y
and ME.MTH1,J-
Affords Tourist, Prospector,
or Home Seeker tfie Best
Service. Fastest Schedule
to All Points in
MISSOURI, KANSAS, NEBRASKA.
OKLAHOMA and INDIAN TERRI-
TORY, COLORADO, UTAH, ORE-
GON, CALIFORNIA, ARKANSAS.
TEXAS, LOUISIANA, OLD and
NEW MEXICO, and ARIZONA.
Pullman Sleepers, Free Re-
clining Chair Caks on All
Trains. Low Rales, I'Vce De-
scriptive Literature. Consult
Ticket Agents, or address
H. C. Townsend
G.P.andT.A.
St. Louis, Mo.
R. T. G. N&tthewa
T. P. A.
Ix>UISVILLR, Ky.
LVAhSVILLMERRE HAUTE RR-
THROUGH SERVICE
L. & N., E. & T. H. and C. & E. I.
2Vesllbuled Through Trains Dally /^
NASHVILLE TO CHICAGO 4L,
THROUGH SLEEPERS and DAY COACHES
NEW ORLEANS TO CHICAGO
OININO CARS SERVINO ALL MEALS EN ROUTE
D. H. HILLMAN. 0. P A.. S. L ROGERS, Oep. Ajt.
J
CQaDaySure^
^i0 ^mKW furnish the work and leach y<
Send us yonr ftiKlrcf
and wc will elmw ).>
t to tndlte 13 ud^
•biolut«ly ^urc; w
furnish the work and teach you free, yoti wi>rk i
* ■ • and wo » 1
Ih'- locality wlieri" joii live. Send ui y-'Ur (iddr
cxi'Uiiitii« 1)1111 iii-ss fully, reroemher we guar »ii tee ftc)<-i>r profit
cf *:i foffvcry 'lay's work,ali>oiiitely iure. Write nt on. r
UUV4L niMI-ACTlHIKiU CO., tiox 799, l)etroit,3Jlch
THE WEST POINT ROUTE .,
Atlanta and West Point Railroad,
The Western Railway of Alabair...
Transcontinental Lines
Fast Mail Route
Operating the fastest scheduled train
111 the South. To
T£;'.S. IVIEXICO, CALIFORNIA
and all Southwestern points.
Superb dining cars; through Pullman
and tourist sleeping cars. For special
rates, schedules, and all information, ad-
dress
J. B. Heyward, D. P. A.,
Atlanta, Ga.
^yire you Goin^
East?
IF _/-0. TAKE THE
SEABOARD
AIH LINE RAILWAY.
DIRECT ROVTE AND A
PLEASANT ONE BETWEEN
South and East.
Superb Tr&ins!
Pullm&n Dra.win^-Rooin Sleepers)
Comfortable TKorougKfare Cars!
CsLfe Dining Ca.rs!
For information as to rates, resem-
tioni, descriptive advertising matter,
call on your nearest ticket agent or
address
WILLIAM B. CLEMENTS. T. P. A..
Atlanta, Ga.
Chftjles B. RyBLn,
G. P. A.,
PORTSMODTD, VA.
W. E. CKrisli&.n.
A. G. P. A.,
Atlanta, Oa.
Mention VETERAN when you write.
Qopfederate l/eterai>.
559
B E A. U V O I R "
The las( home of Jeffersoix Davis. President of Ihe Confederate States of America.
A SUITABLE HOLIDAY GIFT FOR ALL CONFEDERATES "^'^^ ^^^'^^^ simulates a musket. Conf.d.mte Aae cnwicd in
colors on stock; the bowl shows a photographic view of Beauvoir
I." spi>nn IS snha Ml*cr. s.uifi (itH^h, and llic propoflions such a« to add braiitv to strength and duraliility.
a= it was at date of death i>f Mr. Dav
TATE ^yICE/fT.y-
MISSOURI — Si. I.oiiis. Mctmod and jaccatd Jewelry t-o. .\LAB.\M,\ — Mobile. E. <) Zadek Jewelry Co
TENNESSEE-Nashvillc, B. II. Srief Jewelry Co. MISSISSIPPl-Culfpott, Mrs. Lucy W . Rowe, Vice Presidctit Mississippi
TEX.\S— Dallas. James I.inz & Brother. Division. I'. D. C: President Beauvoir Chapter U. D. C. of CuKport
KFNTffKV-l.ouisvill,-, William Kendtitks Sons.
THE GREAT GAME
At oncp takf'S oorninain* <»f Ihc brain ;iiul tjiv('>;i
now pleasure one ran't sli;iUi»olT. llniu-o uiiuiislaU-
;ibly fclipscs cvcrythiiiir intlio u'ame limi and iin':ins
a iirounnnced sensation in yonrcomnmnity it's fairly
alivo Willi endless new situations and amusiiitr com-
liinaLloiis. Ka.s.v to learn and keenly interestintr to
Imih the youn^' and tnecld. Anybody can play it—
sue<'essrully playoii !it proirressive panics, as well as
individual tables. UoTards.
None of the obiections of pIa.yiT\g
ca^rds. Pure social fun.
Your dtiihr S'U.< liimrn fur 50 cents, or
ordtr dirtri /nun ua. 50 cents, jntstuuf imid.
Makers of Bird Center Etiquette. A card came
from oritjinal iirawuii-'s h\ John T. McCutcheon.
All dealers, or 50 cents, iirepaul.
HOME GAME CO., 92 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO
Copjr'i-lit.iaoi.
The Robertson - Hemphill
General Purchasing Agency
LOUISV/LUE. KY.
SHOI'riNi: MK .\I,L KlN'tlS PltoMl'ri.V AriKNliKn To.
.:. .:. S.xMi»LKs Sknt. .;. .:.
WEDDING TROUSSEAU A SPECIALTY
\\\' jjcl iiiir .styles ilirecl from Paris. W'v iiiiiko
(li'osscs ill lirsl-i'liiss .slylo :U n'as()Ual)lc jirici'.s. eharl
fur si'lf-niiMMirciiicnl ;iiiil t'sliiii:tli'.s SfUl.
Hats and Ciiristmas Shopping Given Special Attention
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Reference. Third National Bank.
pm'^z
Abncr Acetylene Generators.
The best and most
ecorioini cal 1 iff ht
kiKiwn for home,
chnrrh, schddl, store,
fat:tory, and town
light. Fnmi lo to
20,000 Iig:ht cap:ici-
ties. Carbide feed
type, prod uc \ ng a
pure, cool pas. Ke- '
suits guaranteed.
Circulars on applica-
tion.
Cliiiuncey C. Foster,
329 Church St.,
Na.shville. Tcnn.
TATEJSfT^
Wo do evorytbin^' alKiut Patonts.
Procure them, buy and sell
Proseeiito infriii>rements. Advice //r**.
Send sketch of your invention. Opiniou/re<.
Every ])atcnt re<-ord at band.
No patent, nojiny
-BE/iEniCT r^L CO.,
519 Mam Street, Cincinnatit Ou
Capital Stock. $1,000,000 || nashville, tenn. \\ Shares. Par Value. $1.00
Incorporated under the laws of Oklahoma. Property ( 1 72.20 acres ). Silver Plume, Colo.
OFRCERS
\ C. W. GARRISON, President.
' I. T. SPAULDING, Secretary and Treasurer.
Vf. H. CRAWFOKD. Vice President and General Manaper.
WARREN K. SNYDER. Attorney.
DIRECTORS
(i. \V. (iAHIilSdX. <)klali..iim Cilv. Dklii.. H..t..| i'f..iin.-l..r-
W H. (HAWI-dUL). Xaslivill.-. Tinn.. Mines aiul .Milium' I)n,k,r.
.J. T. .SPAL I.UI.Vii. XasliviUf. Tfllli . Railn a<l Claiiii Aui-iit
^^'•^.'*i*Si'J^ SXYIIEK. Lawyer. Oklahoma C'itv.OklH.
('. H. DYER, .-iilvi-r Piiinie. (.'..lo.
W. A. MKJAUtiHY. i "klalioiiia City, Okla.. Cattlfuiaii.
H< iX \V. A. M.V.WVKI.I. Vuk.iii Citv, 1 ikUi.. Editor, and Meinlier. I
t tklulioiiia l.cKiftla'.urt*.
UK. W. H. WHITK. XiLslivilK-. Tenn . Ueiiti.st.
(i. I). HK'KS. Tullalioma. Tenn.. As.<t. Siiiii. otX.. C. cSt St. L. Ky.
\V. I, IIAI.SICY, lli.ut.sviU.-. Ala.. Whiilesaletrr.H-cr.
.MA.Iili WILLI.S J. JIILKER. Uinnin;;liani. Ala.. Capitalist, C..:.l
and Iron.
Tlio III,.
.' is a picture of the fiice. or
.--------- -:!V<'\°'' '"'t™.'''*"' "/ t^''" '.''''''"rt E. Leo" tiiiinel, showinic-soiiieotthoofHceiY anil niiiK>r^ Bejjinniuit on
uieictt in- liMtman i.s !■. A. B;l)CMi-k. llieStiijenntemlentaml liniina Expert: ne;;tii.I. T. .■^pauldin^t. Serretarv and Treasui-ev. of Xa.shvinc.
iMiii.: the third, fllth, a:id si.xth are mine/s: the fourth is W. H. Crawlord. Vice President ami Ueiienil .Alaii';!!;!'!-, of Xashville, Tenn.; and
the seventh, leaning on the burro, is C larles H. Dver. one of t ■ ilireetorsof the company.
/■I 11 *'"i,^ property is located si.x miUM southwest of Silver Pluino, (.Moar Creek C!ountv, Colo., in the West .^lyentiiie tiold District, on Mc-
' ic.llan ,Mou!ltain, the cener of tile tiolil-proiluei.is,' region of the Roekv .Mountains, olilv live iiiil.-s I roni tlie cel.'l.retod ■Seven-Tliirtv" mines
wUiih have pro;liicei over SIii,i««i.iliiii, and t lie •■Terrilile" mim , whieli lia^solil more tliaii ss.iiiii.ikiii wortli ..fore. .Mil'lellaii Jlountain is trav-
er-seil by a netwo. k of veins, many of them very riili, and lieinj; w..rl:fd liv divid-nd-iiiviiiir eomimni.-s. Into this nioiin'aiu w.. liave
driven two t.innels, the •Robert E. Li'b" and "TuTinel X... L'. ' Tlio pii.ieipal work is in the -KolK.rt K. Lee.' which is lieiiin ilrivon straiitlit
into I lie mo intain. Or.' from lliis tuniiid assays from S.si) to Siilli) jier ton.
■11 ,*''"'''* isnowsel i:igat 'ir, c-iiis iierHliare. but the indications are so favorable that this prii-e will prevail only a short time, when it
will 111) atlvan ■ d to 51) cents, or taken J'rom the mark't ulfoKctlier. Many stockholders ar.i incniLsini; their holding's. iiive.sti^,Mtion h ;vinK
<-'/iivince<l them that thi- stock will reach thedivideiiil-payiiii,'stiine in a. short time. .Mining e.vperts place a high valuation upeu our property,
and do not hes-itatu t<> recommend it .'is an investment. i i .■
"Opiiori iiiiily comes lo every niaii; 8lK'cess lies in ;;riispiiit; it." C:i|itl.->liKts <.<i |e (|in| tin- siiresl eliiiiice for i iclics lie>
consi-ry.'iiivc ni-iiin:; iiivesi nii.|iis. 1«I(») hivesled in <;r:iiiili' N<iiiiilaiii in IKK.", sold in 1«K!» lor .'SI7.-.,IMM>, Tlii'ri' is no Kiiin uilli,
some risk. .Vny aniouni ^obl— lr.,iM leii shares up.
For a short time stock will be solil on the installm.'nt plan to those who prefer it 1<) percent cash, anil lo pei iil a mi>iilli.
We reter to the mercantile injencies, or t*i anv bank in anv citv where our directors live. Iiivestjuatio :i invited.
Should you desire to investiKat.e. send yur address 1., 111., (ieiieral Maiiai;ei-. and a ..ojiv .if ..in- Pi-..spe,iiis will b.. mailed vou.
, III
W. H. CRAWFORD, Vice President and General Manager.
50,000 shares will be sold at 23 cents.
73 Arcade, Nashville, Tenn., Office of tlie Company,
Par value, SI. 00. ^ash or fime payments. I
READ "SIMPLE REQUEST OF PATRONS," PAGE 576.
Vol. 12
NASHVII,I.B, TBNN., DECEMBER, 1904
No. la
Qopfederate l/eterai?
GROUP OF GENERAL AND STAFF OFFICERS, FLORIDA DIVISION, UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
M. K. tnop.-r. JmIii. It. \V;iIl..n. l->.ii.k M. 1 LtrriM.n. ti. A. Lalliam. Dr. P. A. Smith.
St. Auiiustrnr. T:iiiinii Pi'ns:icnla. t-Vrnui.tlinii. ,\nthi>ny.
Kn-d I,. Holirrlsiin. Adjiitanl Gcm-ral. T;in;ih:isspr. ^^'. 1>. It;iltcntinei Commander, Ffrnandiii:). G. N. S:mssv. HawkinsvilU', (»a.
562
(^oijfederate l/eteraij.
jfur (ThriGlmaa C^iftavalir |Jrrni l^trturpB
OolJ McJai. -1 U.u:> I >po!i--ion. laH^ l^'-J Mda- l'^-' I ir'»"""i-
The World's Great PainUngs. Beautiful for Christmas Gilts.
r\W rrUX CAPII (or is ot moic; I20 for Sl.oo. A»»ortfd
UNLCLNI LAl/Il a, a,,i„d; iiit, s'txS. (The ont-ccnl
nuiurc« Jtc IP' t- 'cvrti lirnc* ihr .i/<- of ihi. Sislinc M»doiina.l Call-
locu.rof a ihou»a..<l inijM picturrf and four s'-.«8 pictures for wo-cenl
iomp dMrine Otcfmbct. if >ou mention the Ve than. .. , „ ,„,
Send IS cent, for 15 Art Subject, or art booklet Madonnas. »' »5 '"'
children; or 50 cents for 11 Extra Size. lo«li; or $1.00 for Chxislma.
Set No. I of no beautiful pictures: or $1.00 for The Perr> Maeazine.
THE PERRY PICTURES COMPANY
Trtmont Temple, TieJlon
146 Fifth Axttnut, J>letM, yorK,
Send all mailorder, .0 Maiden. BOX 1917, MALDEN, MASS.
Or./^r InJar. roil ^vill --hli IK ordrr again -BikeH vim srf lio-.i,
Sent Under a Guarantee
The HYGItNlC
PERFECTION MATTRESS
$■< ^ r' f\ Delivered anywhere
j. ^^OU i" the United States
7!;,ooo ill u^c unJ everyone giving entire
satisfaction.
Made in one continuous ImU. Will never
befome lum;>v or packcii. Is dust ami ver-
min proof and is rcnovaied l\v sunning.
OUR guakantee:.
Sleep on ii hixlj nijilit.s. and if yuu arc not
thoroughly saiislicd— if it is not .-superior to
any ^50.00 Iiuir mattress in ik-anliness, com-
fort and durability, return it and get your
THE HYGIEfllC PERFECTION MATTRESS.
It Cannot rail to Give Entire Satisfaction.
Pkki-ection Mattki.ss Co..
Ilirminr^ham, Ala.
Gentlemen: — After a thorou/^Ii test of the
Hygienic I'litent Perfection Miitlress, I do
not Iicsiltite lo pr<>ni»unce it the beet mat-
tress I have ever used. lis t laslicity and
general c(.niff»rl I have never seen equalled
m any mattress. It cannot fail to give en-
tire satisfaction.
Y«)urs truly,
A It. CUKUY,
Tastor Second I'reshyterian Church, Mem-
phis, Tenn.
WRITE TODAY FOR FREE LITERATURE.
ADDRESS
PERFECTION MATTRESS CO.
222 2Ut Sireel N liirminskam, Ala.
REST
PASSENGER SERVICE
IN TEXAS.
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PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND KINDRED TOPICS.
Entered at the post office at Nashville, Tenn., as second-class matter.
Contributors arc requested to use only one side of the paper, and to abbrevi-
ate as much as practicable. These suggestions are important.
Where clippings are sent copy should be kept, as the Veteran cannot un-
dertake to return them. Advertising rates furnished on application.
The date to a subscription is always given to the month brfore it ends. For
instance, if the A'htekax is ordered to begin with January.'the date on mail
list will be December, and the subscriber is entitled to that "number.
The mxVwar was too long ago to be called the /a/r war, and when cor-
respondents use that term *' War between the Stltes" will be substituted.
The terms " new South" and "lost Cause" are objectionable to the Veteran.
OFFICIALLY REPRESEXTS :
I'.NiTKD Confederate Veterans,
United Daighters of the CoNFF.nERACY,
Sons of Veterans, a..-d Other Organizations,
Confederated Sovthern Memorial Association.
The ^ etera.n is approved and indorsed officially bv a larger and more
elevated patronage, doubtless, than any other publication in existence.
Though men deserve, they may not win success;
The brave will honor the brave, vanquished none the less.
Prick, $1.00 PER Year. Ivm YIT
SiNOLK Copt, 10 Cents. ( ' "■" ^^^•
NASHVILLE, TENN., DECEMBER, 1904.
vr„ 1.' J S. A. CUN-NINQHAM,
iiu. i~. ^ Proprietor.
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
The reports of proceedings at the St. Louis Convention,
U. D. C, are given herewith as fully as practicable. Division-
Presidents have not responded with condensed statements, as
requested ; but the extracts from their full reports are as com-
prehensive as could be given ir,' the space.
Responding to the address of welcome, Mrs. Smythe, Presi-
dent, said :
"It is difficult to properly express the gratification of this
Association at the earnest welcome to which we have just
listened, so kindly, warmly, and eloquently extended.
"To the Missouri Division of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, to the charter Chapter of that Division, and to
the first diaper of the Daughters of the Confederacy, all of
whom have so kindly held out to us welcoming hands ; to the
Children of the Confederacy, who have gladdened our ears
by the familiar and loved strains of 'Dixie' — we return our
affectionate thanks.
"And yet there is much besides that should be said, and even
a more practiced speaker might find it hard to give expression
to the thoughts that rise at his moment.
"To many of us old enough to remember St. Louis 'the
gateway of the West' has seemed like a place of dreams, a
city that has sprung up almost by magic in scarcely more
than a generation. It is still more like a dream at this day,
when the magic city has gathered within its walls so many
beautiful and wonderful objects collected from the four corners
of the earth — arts, sciences, manufactures — the new and the
old, all represented.
"Can it be that we are standing where stood the trappers,
the traders, and the 'mighty hunters' of whose exploits we
heard as children, even before, with maturer iriinds, we could
fully appreciate the courage and the wonderful spirit of ad-
venture exhibited by these early settlers? Many have been
the changes and vicissitudes through which this great region
lias passed ; from the hands of the Indians to the rule of the
French ; thence to the Spaniards and English ; to the French
again; until finally it joined hands with the United States,
the one hundredth anniversary of which alliance is now being
so grandly celebrated.
"But to us, Daughters of tlie Confederacy, there is an in-
terval which we must hold dearest of all — the years when
Missouri, under the leadership of the patriotic Gov. Jack.son
and the gallant Lieut. Gov. Reynolds (a gift to Missouri from
South Carolina), entered heart and soul into the noble strug-
gle for Southern independence, the memory of which it is
the purpose of our Association to honor and perpetuate.
"The Confederate soldiers of Missouri, men like John S.
Marmaduke. Joe Shelby, of Shelby's Battery, the heroic
Sterling Price, and many, many others, are too well known,
remembeicd. and loved to need such words as mine to recall
them. Their historian thus describes tlie first gath.ring of
these soldiers: 'This was the patriotic army of Missouri. . .
There were the old and young, the rich and poor, the grave and
gay. the planter and the laborer, the farmer and clerk, the
hunter and boatman, the merchant and woodman. . . .'
"Many of these men were entirely unarmed and 'rude and
incredible devices were made to supply these wants; trace
chains, iron rods, hard pebbles, and smooth stones were sub-
.■-tiluted for shot.' And thus, in the words of President Davis,
'unsupported, save by the consciousness of a just cause, . . .
Missouri without arms or other military preparation . . .
took up the gauntlet thrown at her feet and dared to make
war in defense of the laws and liberties of her people."
"We are proud to tread the soil so defended ! But a long
past separates those days and this gathering — a past full of
loss and gain, joy and sorrow, and, above all, of change.
The being of our Association springs from grief and disap-
pointment— from the terrors of war and the sorrows of en-
.■-uing years — but through those clouds of suflfcring shine bril-
liant, noble deeds ; and, while we keep before us ever faith-
fully the memory of sad and terrible days, we do not forget
the glory, and by the light of that glory we look to the future
and hope to make that future better and brighter for those
who follow us."
Mrs. Smythe also spoke feelingly of the recent death of
Dr. P. G. Robert, whose wife, Mrs. Robert, President of the
M. E. McLure Chapter, had aKv.-tys been devoted to the in-
terests of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and would
have been the "first to welcome us."
"We deal as an Association with memories — many say to
us with things of the past, intangible, useless, and better for-
gotten— but we know the precious value of those memories,
and trust that future generations will be cheered, strengthened,
and made more courageous in the battle of life by the records
that we preserve and hand down to them."
extracts from reports made a t st. lofls meettng.
Alabama, Mrs. F. S. Wood, President.
A most encouraging report was made of the status of the
.Mabania Division and the work accomplished in that State
666
Qorjfcderat^ V/eterap.
during the past year. Six new Chapters were added to the
Division, and the roster now gives fifty-two active and en-
thusiastic Chapters, with a membership of twenty-one hundred,
and interest is continually increasing. The Children's Aux-
iliaries are also growing in proportion, eleven having already
been organized in little more than a year.
The Confederate Home at Mountain Creek has been formally
donated to the State by Capt. J. M. Faulkner, and with its ac-
ceptance the Legislature has appropriated twenty-five thousand
dollars for its maintenance. In addition, Alabama gives three
hundred thousand dollars in pensions to Confederate soldiers
and their widows. A number of individual Chapters have
furnished rooms in the Home, and donations are liberally
made in articles of comfort and reading matter. The Legis-
lature is also aiding the U. D. C. in compelling universal use
of a history selected by an advisory committee, and Southern
history is being taught impartially and in truth, A literary
programme is now a feature of the annual meetings of this
Division, thus encouraging and developing latent talent and
increasing knowledge of Southern history.
The badge adopted by this Division is of gold, with the de-
sign of the first capitol of the Confederacy encircled by an
enameled ribbon in red and white, bearing the words "Ala-
bama" and the letters "U. D. C."
The standing committees are doing good- work also ; that
on the Shiloh battlefield monument reports collection of five
hundred and seventy-eight dollars for last year as the result
of entertainments given by a number of Chapters. The same
method for contributions will continue for this year. The
"Dixie" committee is making earnest efforts to impress the
fact that the words of the original version do not represent
the sentiment for the time, and the adoption of more fitting
words has the commendation of the committee.
The erection of monuments to the Confederate soldiers con-
tinues, each year one or more Chapters reporting the placing
of one in its home town.
Arkansas, Mrs. L. C. Hall, President.
Four new Chapters were added to the Arkansas Division
within the past year, and they promptly fell into line in taking
up the work of the organization. The Pat Cleburne Chapter,
of Forrest City, had not been organized two weeks when its
members announced that they intended to erect a Confederate
monument there, and the prospects are bright for its being
done. The Mrs. J. M. Keller Chapter, of Little Rock, is noted
for its assistance in all good works, and its latest enterprise is
the erection of an annex to the Soldiers' Home, where the faith-
ful wives of the veterans may be with them during their declin-
ing years. All of the Chapters arc interested in some special
undertaking; but all have joined witli the Memorial Chapter
at Little Rock in securing a State monument for Arkansas's
Confederate soldiers, which will be unveiled in March. It
is called "The Defense of ihc Flag," and is tlie work of the
celebrated sculptor, F. W. Ruckstuhl.
The Memorial Chapter has given much of its time and
means to the Confederate Cemetery, having inclosed it with a
massive stone wall and placed marble headstones at six hun-
dred graves. Its latest work is placing a marble coping around
the graves of nine hundred unmarked graves of Confederates
who died in the hospitals of the city during the war and were
buried in Oakland Cemetery. Altogether the Arkansas Di-
vision is in a prosperous condition at present, with fine pros-
pects for the future.
Flckiua, Mrs. B. L. Stockbrilce, President.
A noteworthy fact in connection with V. D. C. work in
Florida is that the new Chapters show a much larger cliarter
membership than the earlier organizations, strong evidence
of increasing interest and strength of our cause. Four new
Chapters have been formed during the past year, making
twenty-five for this Division, with about nine hundred members.
The work of the Florida Division has followed closely the
hnes of the Constitution. This Slate during the war bore a
part difl'erent from that commonly accredited to her. Be-
sides being the "Smokehouse of the Confederacy," the bat-
tles fought on her soil were among the most sanguinary and
decisive. The Confederate victory at Olustee prevented the
separation of Florida from the Confederacy, and the defeat
of the Federals at Natural Bridge saved the capital of the
State, prevented the establishment of a permanent base on the
west coast, and preserved the salt works upon which the
South depended largely for its supply.
The Division and several Chapters now offer gold medals
to different educational institutions of the State for the pur-
pose of promoting the study of Confederate history.
A monument was unveiled by the Kirby Smith Chapter
at Gainesville on the 19th of last January to the memory of
the Confederate dead and to Gen. E. Kirby Smith, the only
native Florida general. The Dickison Chapter, of Ocala. has
a fund for a memorial shaft in its cemetery. The Tampa
Chapter is cooperating with local veterans in raising a thou-
sand dollars for a memorial window to Father Ryan in the
new Tampa cathedral. Increasing interest is being manife.stcd
in caring for the resting places of the Confederate dead, nearly
every Chapter having a special cemetery fund, and at Pensa-
cola, where there is no cemetery, the Chapter has full charge
of the city square where is located the Confederate monu-
ment. The Florida Division also responds liberally to outside
calls, and reports the distinction of having given two dollars
to every member of the Division toward the Jefferson Davis
Monument Fund.
The Soldiers' Home at Jacksonville is the chief beneficiary
of their work and care, the parent Chapter, Martha Reid,
having personal supervision through a committee. Most
cordial relations exist between the Chapters and Veterans,
and cooperation is given on both sides in any laudable under-
takings. Memorial Days are universally observed, the bestowal
cji crosses of honor being a prominent feature of the oc-
casions.
The special object and desire of this Division is the erec-
tion of a monument to keep alive the memory of the battle
of Olustee. An appropriation from the Legislature for this
purpose has placed this object nearer achievement.
California. Mrs. N'ictor Montgomery, President.
The California Division reported much work done, large
results, and a hopeful outlook. Eight new Chapters were
added within the year, making a total of fifteen for the Di-
vision, and the membership increased from five hundred anj
ninety-three to one thousand, two hundred and sixty-five.
The increase represented much hard work and enthusiasm in
a Slate where the Southern clement is so decidedly in the
minority.
The Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter, of San Francisco, is
the pioneer Chapter of the Division, and has a membership
of nearly three hundred. [See an elaborate report of its work
elsewhere in this issue.— Ed.] It is hoped that a Confederate
Home may yet be established in California as a memorial to
that distinguished general, A. S. Johnston. There are two
other Chapters in San Francisco: the Jefferson Davis, with
three hundred members, and one of the younger sisterhood.
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the Dixie, both of which are active and enlhusiastic Chap-
ters. The Los Angeles Chapter made the same large increase
in membership as have Chapters in other sections of the
Division, having grown from sixty in 1903 to one hundred and
twenty-eight in 1904. A large charity ball is given every year
by this Chapter, which is a success in every way. The R. E.
Lee Chapter, of Los Angeles, also maintains the same repu-
tation for activity.
The special work of the Stonewall Jackson Chapter, of San
Diego, is to secure a plot of ground in the City Cemetery for
the last resting place of men who wore the gray. Emma
Sanson! Chapter is the only one in the State which perpetuates
the memory of this daughter of the South.
John B. Gordon Chapter was organized last year, and has
taken its place abong the older Chapters and won its way to
recognition and esteem. There are other Chapters of later
organization as well, all of whicli can he conmuMuIid for tlieir
interest and good work.
Georgia, Mrs. S. T. C. Hull, President.
As a Division, the Georgia Daughters have undertaken no
new work on a large scale the past year, but rather have tried
to finish up the work of previous years. The Winnie Davis
Memorial is now a part of the State Normal School, and as
State property will be properly cared for. It is filled with
tager, earnest working girls, who will hereafter make ample
returns to the State for benefits received by teaching a certain
number of years in the public schools. The completion of
this building gave an impetus to the educational work of many
Chapters of the Division, opening a vast field for their ener-
gies. The Charter Chapter at Savannah commemorated its
tenth anniversary by furnishing a room in the -Winnie Davis
Memorial in memory of all who have passed from its ranks
in those ten years.
The Georgia Division is also assisting the Veterans of that
State in raising a monument to Gen. John B. Gordon, to
which they have contributed two hundred dollars and expect
to do more. Cliarity work has not been neglected. The Di-
vision has prospered financially, one Chapter alone having
earned $1,921.82 by hard work. Nine new Chapters have been
chartered since January, making a total of eighty-four, with a
membership of three thousand, nine hundred and sixty-two.
Georgia leads all the -other States in total contributions to
the Jefferson Davis Monument Fund, the charter Chapter
alone having contributed $905.50. and is ready to do more in
order to help its completion.
There arc sixteen Chapters of Children of the Confederacy
in this Stale, with a membership of four hundred and sixteen
Four of the Chapters raised four hundred and twenty-two dol-
lars during 1904, part of which was used to furnisli two rooms
in the Winnie Davis Dormitory and two hundred and seven-
teen dollars was contributed to the local monument fund ;
they also contributed to the Jeflferson Davis Monument Fund.
The future of the U. D. C. association depending on the chil-
dren, it is earnestly commended that they be trained in tlie
proper interest for such memorial work.
Illinois, Mrs. Thomas M. Long, President.
Almost williin the shadow of the ruins of the old peni-
tentiary at Alton, 111., whose history is so fraught with horror
and painful memories, there is a beautiful place — but so neg-
lected— where lie in confusion the bones and ashes of nearly
twenty-one hundred Confederate soldiers who gave their lives
up in prison and hospital, far away from home and loved ones.
For some years past, on each Decoration Day, a few people
who had not forgotten went to this place and strewed flowers ■
sent from Southern homes, and, with a simple prayer, a
hymn, and an address above these quiet sleepers, they were
left again to their undisputed rest. But that was not all-suf-
ficient to a few Southern women whom fate had decreed
should live at Alton, so a Chapter has been formed there
with a membership of twenty, every one ready to begin the
improvement of this neglected burial ground of the Confed-
erate dead. This is the only organization of Daughters of the
Confederacy in Illinois, and these wives and daughters of men
who bore the brunt of battle for the cause of the South have
given their Chapter the name of that boy hero of Tennessee
who counted honor above life, Sam Davis.
In possession of this Chapter there is a record of seven
hundred names of those buried at Alton — hardly a third of
those brave men — and among them is the name of a woman,
whose identity was not discovered till after her death. She
had been in the heat of battle, had suffered the horrors of
prison life — all for the sake of a husband or lover whom she
had followed to an unknown grave on the hillside.
Any one wishing to trace a relative or friend who was in
this prison can write to Mrs. Thomas M. Long, of Alton, who
will submit the record for inspection.
Indian Territory, Mrs. W. T. Culbertson, President.
Witli just a little more than a year of existence the Indian
Territory Division numbers fourteen Chapters, with a mem-
bership of four hundred and ninety. At the first annual meet-
ing, last August, it was agreed that each Chapter make
special endeavor to raise funds for the contemplated Con-
federate Home of the Indian Territory, the need of immediate
action being felt in order to cherish and comfort the old vet-
erans whose stay on the earth is now necessarily brief. Other
matters have also had attention by the different Chapters of
this Division, and the promise for the future is that it will
grow in good works and strengthen with the years.
The annual meeting was held at Checotah, the home of the
Winnie Davis Chapter, now numbering sixty members. They
entertained the Daughters there, and also assisted in the enter-
tainment of the Veterans on the same date.
Louisiana.
A number of Chapters have been added to the Louisiana
Division during the year, and all are reported as especially
active in good works. The Charter Chapter, of New Orleans,
has a roll of four hundred and twenty-five member':, a^d they
are now interested in securing funds for a monuineu'. i • Gen.
P. G. T. Beauregard, 'ihis Chapter has also a benevolent
fund for assisting indigent veterans, and special interest is
given to the Soldiers' Home in that city.
Joanna Waddill Chapter, of Baton Rouge, has carried on a
library especially devoted to Southern literature. The Shrcve-
port Chapter has raised ten thousand dollars for a monument,
and has given the order for the design. The Mildred Lee
Chapter, of Thibodcaux, has erected a monument to thirty-
nine members of Company A, Second Texas Cavalry, killed
at the battle of Lafourche Crossing, June 21, 1863. It was
dedicated during the last State Convention held there. Camp
Moore Chapter has taken up the work of reclaiming the land
wherein lie buried so many soldiers who died at the deten-
tion camp in that vicinity, and the Legislature has appropri-
ated one thousand dollars toward this work.
The State Division has two standing committees — Cus-
todian of the Confederate Home and Recorder of the Crosses
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of Honor — as they wish to keep a perfect record of all crosses
bestowed and the record of those veterans receiving the crosses.
Special supervision is given to the history and literature
studied in the schools and other matter that would tend to
pervert the ideas of the young as to the cause for which their
fathers fought. Through the efforts of Louisiana Camp, No.
2, Army of Tennessee, a musical primer, containing a version
of the "Star-Spangled Banner," with a verse by Oliver Wen-
dell Holmes on the abolition of slavery, and the "Battle Hymn
of the Republic," was thrown out.
Maryland, Mrs. L. W. Wright, PreSident.
Maryland Division also reported encouraging increase in
membership and interest in the work. The Baltimore is the
banner Chapter of the U. D. C, having a membership of seven-
hundred and thirty. These Daughters have undertaken to
place a memorial window in the Maryland Room of the Con-
federate Museum at Richmond, which will be a reproduction
in stained glass of the Confederate monument erected to the
j«romen of Maryland. The design is being executed by Tif-
fany & Compai'v, of New York. This memorial will com-
memorate anew the glory of the soldiers and sailors of Mary-
land in the service of the Confederacy, as well as the love and
sacrifice of the Maryland women who sent their best beloved
to fight for the South. It will be the work of the Baltimore
Chapter for the ensuing year, in addition to their regular
work of dispensing charity and relieving the necessities of un-
fortunate Confederates. One hundred dollars has been con-
tributed to the Wade Hampton Monument Fund.
Other Chapters are reported in satisfactory condition, and
all will assist in raising funds for the memorial window in
Richmond. Maryland Daughters are now, as ever, showing
their devotion to the Confederate cause.
Missouri, Mrs. A. W. Rapley. President.
Missouri has shown encouraging increase in membership
for that Division, several new Chapters having been chartered
since the last convention. Chapters of Children of the Con-
federacy are also flourishing all over the State.
Special commendation can be given this Division for its
work in getting up records of Missouri soldiers. In two years
nearly fourteen thousand names have been secured and sent
to the Confederate Museum at Richmond to be bound in book
form and placed in the Missouri Rooiri. No more important
work could be undertaken by this organization.
After long and untiring efforts, Missouri Daughters have
secured from the Confederate Association the burial ground
adjoining the Confederate Home at Higginsville, and at a
cost of fifteen hundred dollars it has been fenced and head-
stones placed at the graves. A monument will be erected
there in the near future.
Montana.
The U. D. C. in Montana are earnest and interested mem-
bers of the organization, and, though the Division numbers
only three Chapters as yet, a great deal has been accomplished
in reviving and instilling the great principles of the Southern
cause in the hearts of those now separated from their own
people. The Chapters are located at Bozeman, Livingston,
and Helena. Bozeman has the charter Chapter, and its mem-
bership has increased from nine to thirty-seven.
Nebr.\ska, Miss Grace Conki.yn, President.
The Nebraska Division was represented by the Chapter at
Omaha, which was organized fast May with twenty-three
charter members, with nine additions since. The luembers
are all enthusiastic workers, and at the next National Con-
vention hope to report a larger Division and much good work
done.
New York Chapter, Mrs. J. H.' Parker, President.
A most interesting report was made by Mrs. James Henry
Parker, President, of the relief work done by the New York
Chapter, in which it is ably assisted by contributions from
outsiders. No work could be more noble than this, and the
hearts of both Northern- and Southern-born are deeply touched
by the many cases which are presented for attention. In
such work every Chapter of the Division takes a noble part.
The New York Chapter is steadily growing in prosperity and
membership, having four hundred and thirteen full members
and one hundred and thirty-eight associates. Its entertain-
ments are noted for their brilliance and success. At a luncheon
at Dclmonico's last April the guest of honor was Mrs. Sarah
S. Kinney, of Connecticut, who has the love of many South-
ern hearts for her part in returning the flag of the St. Mary's
Cannoneers, captured at the battle of Irish Bend, Franklin,
La., April 14. 1863. An account of this kind act was published
in the Veteran.
South Carolina, Mrs. H. S. Burnet, President.
South Carolina has a Division composed of more than forty
Chapters, w'ith a membership of seventeen hundred actively
interested Daughters. The utmost harmony prevails in their
work, and the special object now taking their energies is the
monument to Gen. Hampton. Many other things have had
attention as well, and contributions made to many worthy
objects and funds. The children of the State have had special
thought, and prizes have been offered for the best essays on
subjects tending to perpetuate the history of the Confederacy.
The Chapter at Charleston helped to entertain the veterans
at the late State reunion held there, which lingers delightfully
in the memory of all who attended. Many new members have
been added to the Division during the year.
Tennessee, Mrs. F. W. Oehmig, President.
The Tennessee Division has had four additions since the
State Convention last May, and, by the appointment at that
time of a committee for organizing Chapters, a still larger
increase may be expected at next report. There are now
fifty-one flourishing Chapters, with a membership of two thou-
sand, five hundred and fifty-two.
The special object of the work of this Division is the Con-
federate Home, located near Nashville on the Hermitage
property. Through their efforts a matron has been installed,
who is able to do much for the comfort and welfare of the
inmates. Interest is steadily growing in educational work,
that the boys and girls of Tennessee may take high place in
the life before them.
Texas, Miss Kate Daffan, President.
The largest Division of the organization is that of Texas,
which has one hundred and fifty-five Chapters and nearly eight
thousand members, and the work of organizing new Chapters
proceeds continually. This State of magnificent distances has
been divided into four districts, and each of the four Vice
Presidents has one for her field of organization. These ladies
compose a Committee on Chapter Extension, and individual
Chapters are also encouraged to bring into line the villages
and towns nearest them. In addition to Memorial Day, a
number of other dayi; have been set apart for special observ-
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ance in the "Lone Star" State, notable of which is "Texas
Heroes' Day," when those soldiers whose identity bears upon
the State are lovingly honored. Prominent among these are
Albert Sidney Johnston, Dick Dowling, Pat Cleburne, Gen. L.
S. Ross, and others. The anniversary of the battle of Sharps-
burg, September 17, is set apart in honor of Gen. Hood.
The Confederate Home at Austin is always remembered,
and at Thanksgiving time "sunshine boxes" are sent to the
inmates. Many improvements have been made in the Home
at the suggestion of the Daughters, and much furnishing done
that adds to the comfort and pleasure of the veterans there.
Official visits are made by the officers of the Division, and
other members are urged lo go often.
.•\t their last convention the Daughters of Texas determined
to erect a home for the indigent wives and widows of Con-
federate soldiers, in which they have received much encourage-
ment. The plans and place of location will be decided upon
at the next convention, in December. A room in the State
capitol building was bequeathed the Texas Division by Col.
Norton, who furnished the stone for this building, and here
will be placed all relics, books, portraits, etc., of historic
interest, thus securing a real Confederate museum. The Com-
mittee on "Inspection of Text-Books" has been ably assisted
in its work by the heads of universities. Church schools,
and the State Text-Book Committee, and an effort has been
made to place in the schools a fair and impartial account of
the War between the States. The Library Committee has
been active n placing in public and school libraries the proper
books for the study of history. Children's Auxiliaries have
been organized, which work under the Parent Chapter.
The Legislature is to be petitioned to have observed Jef-
ferson Davis's birthday throughout Texas. Largely through
the efforts of the Daughters, an appropriation was made for
a monument to Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston at Austin, and
this will be unveiled in January, 1905. Other monuments are
contemplated to honor Texas heroes, one of which will be to
the Texas dead at Chickamauga. Many other good undertak-
ings are occupying the attention of the Texas Daughters, and
the good wishes of the whole organization go fortli for their
untiring energy.
Utah.
Even from Utah a report was made to the convention, a
Chapter having been formed sometime since at Salt Lake
City. An "Intermountain" reunion has been proposed for
these Western Chapters, which would doubtless result in
spreading the interest in the organization out there.
Virginia, Miss M. R. Jenninos, President.
The past year's record of the Virginia Division shows a
roster of eighty-eight Chapters, with about four thousand mem-
bers. Ten new Chapters were enrolled, and went vigorously
to work for monument funds, charity, etc. The Chapter at
Floyd, Va., hardly a year old, has raised six hundred and
seventy dollars toward a Confederate monument on their
Court Green, and the others have been equally as energetic.
Over seven thousand dollars has been raised and expended
by thirty-five Chapters of this Division, the largest sum being
$1,000 by the Mary Custis Lee Chapter, of Lexington, to buy
Stonewall Jackson's home for a memorial hospital, $1,000
by the Middlcburg Chapter for a lot and Confederate memorial
hall and piano, and $1,140 by the Pickett-Buchanan Chapter,
of Norfolk, for aiding widows, contribuling to monuments,
etc. The Home for Needy Confederate Women at Richmond
has had the assistance of a number of Cliapters. others have
done special charity work, monument work has been ener-
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getically carried on, and the efforts of Veterans of the State
to eradicate all objectionable books from the schools ably
seconded by Virginia Daughters. This Division makes a fine
showing in every way.
Washington, D. C.
Three Chapters were reported from Washington, D. C, and
next January a meeting will be held to form a Division there.
The Stonewall Jackson is the charter Chapter, and has
seventy-five enthusiastic members. The R. E. Lee and the
Southern Cross were formed within the last two years. All
Southern organizations of Washington join in decorating Con-
federate graves at Arlington, and efforts arc being made now
lo erect a monument there. The R. E. Lee Chapter is es-
pecially interested in this movement, and has appointed a
committee to secure contributions, which can be sent to Mrs.
Ella Beall Moat, Treasurer, 1724 Corcoran Street, Washing-
ton. Other undertakings have the cooperation of this Chapter,
and much work will be accomplished by the enthusiasm of the
Division.
Reports from Kentucky, Mississippi, and North Carolina
are not in hand, but the work in each State is progressing
nicely and shows much good accomplished. The great or-
ganization is accomplishing more than could have been antici-
pated.
The Winnie Davis Chapter. No. 709, U. D. C. — This
Chapter was organized at Colusa, Cal., early in 1902. There
were only five ladies at the first called meeting. For more than
a year all stood still, because of the local situation and the se-
vere illness and death of the Secretary, Miss Olivia Cooper.
Mrs. J. S. West was the first President. This Chapter united
with the Camp in a reunion October 28, 1903, having reorgan-
ized, under a charter June 28 previously, with fourteen mem-
bers. On January iq, 1904. the Chapter, having increased to
ihirty members, held its annual election, and elected Mrs. Will
S. Green President and Mrs. H. M. Albany Vice President.
They have worked faithfully and at great disadvantage. At
St. Louis the Chapter had three votes in the convention
through its membership of seventy-three. This is the only
Chapter north of San Francisco, Cal., and is represented by
members over a radius of one hundred miles. It is the only
one in the great Sacramento Valley. It works in connec-
tion with Camp Pap Price, which is the only Camp in North-
ern California, and which is also domiciled in Colusa.
Seeks Knowledge of Comrades. — John R. Long, now Presi-
dent of the Tahlequah Presbyterian Academy, Tahlequah,
Ind. T., but during the sixties was sergeant in Company D,
Third Missouri Cavalry, captured at Black River Bridge,
Miss., May 17, 1863, and thereafter spent the remainder of his
soldier life as a prisoner of war in the Northern prisons of
Camp Morton, Fort Delaware, Point Lookout, and Elinira,
would be delighted to hear from any of his old army com-
rades or fellow-prisoners who may chance to remember him.
Confeuekate Veteran Camp of New York. — The new of-
ficers of this Camp for the ensuing year are: Commander,
Edward Owen; Lieutenant Commander, H. N. Bullington;
Adjutant, Edwin Selvage; Paymaster, Thomas L. Moore;
Cliaplain, Rev. George S. Baker; Surgeon, Dr. J. Harvie Dew;
Executive Committee, Samuel P. Paul, J. E. Graybill, J. J.
Rivera, Fred C. Rogers, S. G. Schenck. The headquarters are
in the Fifth ,\venue Hotel.
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U. D. C. PRESIDENT'S REPORT AT ST. LOUIS.
The following report was submitted in pamphlet to the
delegates in the St. Louis Convention by the President, Mrs.
Augustine T. Smythe :
"Ladies: It is with great pleasure and some alarm that I
greet you from this unaccustomed position. But I see many
familiar faces, still more that are friendly, and I fee! sure
that all of us, working to the same end, will unite in an earnest
desire for harmony and success, and that, therefore, all will
give me their kindly sympathy and help and pardon all short-
comings.
"Stale of the Order. — It is but eleven years since our As-
sociation was formed. The first printed minutes were of the
Third Annual Convention, held in Nashville in 1896, when the
report showed eighty-seven Chapters. The full list of mem-
bers was published in the slim pamphlet which contained also
these minutes. The last minutes of 1903 show seven hundred
and forty-five Chapters and thirty-eight thousand, eight hun-
dred and ninety members, and our Recording Secretary will
tell you of still further increase. Not only in numbers but
in earnest purpose and accomplished work we have made
steady progress. To enter into details on these points would
be to infringe upon the Division reports, and they are there-
fore left untouched. To raise and dignify the Division we
should do all in our power. The strength and durability of
our work lies in the Division, and we should heartily com-
mend all efforts at perfecting, systematizing, and strengthen-
ing this work. There should all disagreements and difficulties
be settled, the Division being the proper arbiter in such cases.
"Division Work.~ln the Division work should be prepared
and condensed for these general meetings. Time would thus
be saved, subjects better presented, and the united body would
be enabled to accomplish more of what is properly its duty.
While on this point, will the Division Presidents pardon the
suggestion that in making their reports they omit all gener-
alities and confine themselves strictly to the facts of the work
of their States? In general principles and in love of our work
we are all agreed, but by short, terse reports of the manner
of work in different States many valuable and original ideas
are suggested. Above all, let us preserve the dignity and
high tone of our work. So conspicuous a body as our As-
sociation has become cannot afford on these public occasions
to give any ground for unkind criticism. Work well prepared,
well thought out, and briefly reported has a dignity of its own
which cannot be lowered by fault-finding.
"Gen. John B. Gordon. — While prosperity has attended us,
we have also been called upon to endure sorrow and bereave-
ment. Death cuts off yearly some that are dear among us,
and with the veterans their dwindling ranks show only too
plainly how, slowly but surely, the older men and women who
lived through those years of noble struggle, and came out of
them determined never to forget, are passing over the river
to join the great multitude on the other side. During the last
year the Association of Confederate Veterans has been griev-
ously afflicted in the loss of its dearly loved Commander, the
gallant, knightly gentleman, John B. Gordon. As an expres-
sion of our sense of this loss a handsome wreath of laurel
bound with the Confederate colors and draped in crape was
sent to Gen. Gordon's funeral in the name of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy. A telegram of condolence was
dispatched to the grief-stricken widow, and a committee con-
sisting of our ex-Presidents, Mrs. James Rounsavillc, Mrs.
Edwin G. Weed, and Mrs. Katie Cabell Currie, has been
asked to prepare and present for your consideration resolu-
tions expressive of our affectionate sympathy with the As-
sociation of Confederate Veterans in this our common af-
fliction.
"Mrs. F. A. Olds. — ^Ve are also called upon most especially
to mourn with the North Carolina Division of Daughters of
the Confederacy. They have within the last few weeks lost
by death their able, efficient, and beloved President. Mrs. F.
A. Olds. Their loss is our loss, and our sorrow mingles with
theirs.
"Jefferson Davis Monument. — The most important work of
the Daughters of the Confederacy is the completion of the
Jefferson Davis Monument. Full particulars of this work will
be given you by the officers of the Jefferson Davis Monument
Association. The Chair need only assure you that all is mov-
ing on harmoniously and impress upon you the necessity
for a vigorous final effort to complete this great work. We
have not yet the entire sum necessary, but it could easily be
raised by united action on the part of Chapters. Your Presi-
dent feels that there is no need to recommend to this Associa-
tion a liberal appropriation for this object so dear to us all.
Your generosity of past years justifies this confidence.
"Committee on Jurisprudence. — Most important perhaps is
a Committee on Jurisprudence — that is to say, a committee
to sit during the convention and to which shall be referred
all questions of the interpretation of the law as laid down in
the Constitution and By-Laws of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy. As all your former Presidents know, num-
berless questions are asked year by year which must be de-
cided by the President according to her conscientious under-
standing of our wTitten law. The very same point may arise
with each succeeding President, so that with all the labor and
effort spent no progress is made ; there has been no perm.inent
recorded decision. A Committee on Jurisprudence should be
.ippointed at the opening of each convention, to whom all de-
cisions mentioned by the President in her report should be
referred to be approved or disapproved by them and then
reported to the convention, which by its final approval or
disapproval sets the seal upon these decisions and so puts them
beyond future doubt. With each year a certain number of
questions will thus be set at rest and a system of law estab-
lished, to be found on record in the minutes. Without such
,i record, each President is liable, perhaps unconsciously and
unintentionally, to reverse the decision of her predecessors.
.\ list of such decisions made by your President during the
past year is appended. It would seem that in order to carry
on the work of these conventions certain additional commit-
tees are advisable."
Concerning decisions, Mrs. Smythe states:
"Decisions. — That the President has no power to interfere
in disputes between Divisions and Chapters on points on which
Ihe Constitution of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
is silent. That certificates of membership in the United
Daughters of the Confederacy and badges cannot be taken
back from members resigning from the Association. That
the President has no authority or control as the Constitution
now stands over so-called Auxiliary or Junior Chapters, no
such Chapters being mentioned in the Constitution of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy. That while young
girls and children may be admitted as members in regularly
chartered Chapters of the L^nitcd Daughters of the Confed-
eracy if those Chapters so desire, children are not competent
to get out charters for Chapters of United Daughters of the
Confederacy. That titles cannot be applied to persons or places
at the discretion of the President or other officers unless con-
ferred by the vote of the Association. On this point a word
should be said : It is becoming the habit to put on many papers
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of the United Daughters of the Confederacy the word 'Head-
quarters.' This is apparently not disapproved of by many,
as it has also been put on some State papers — as the Divisions
have a perfect right to do if so disposed — but to others it is
disagreeable, and it is truly and properly said has never been
formally adopted or conferred on any place by the United
Daughters of the Confederacy. The title does not seem ap-
propriate for the use of a woman's society, and inquiry shows
that so far as has been ascertained it is not used on the papers
of any other woman's society, and lays us open to the ques-
tion not infrequently and laughingly asked if we are a military
organization. This point may seem a trifle, but trifles bring
about friction and cause irritation. That a State Division
wishing for reasons good to itself to number its Chapters
within the Division in any particular way may do so, provided
the Chapl ;rs shall in printed rosters have also plainly at-
tached the number of the charter issued to them by the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, That the authoritative decision
of a body can only be obtained from such body when legally
assembled and acting as a whole. The action of the component
parts acting separately and individually is not the action of
the body. That, as the constitution now stands, grandnieces
are included among those eligible to membership.
"Concerning Proxies. — A Chapter sending no delegates to
a convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy may,
under the provisions of our Constitution, send its proxies as
follows : To the Division President of its own State or to a
delegate from any Chapter of its own Division. If no Presi-
dent or delegate from its own State attend the convention,
and if a member of the Executive Connnittcc of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy from its own State be at the
convention, the Chapter has the option of sending its proxies
to that member of the Executive Committee or to the Presi-
dent or delegate from any other State, If there be no member
of the Executive Committee present from its own State, then
the Chapter should send its proxies to a delegate or th<:
President of any other State Division, In no case can a mem-
ber of the Executive Committee hold proxies except from
Chapters in the Division of her own State, and then only
in case there be no delegate or Division President from
her State,
"Committee on Stationery. — A Committee on Stationery
should also be appointed to serve throughout the year, whose
duty it shall be, with due regard to necessary economy, to
provide such writing paper as may be necessary for the use
of the working officers of this Association, and to supply at
suitable prices to such Divisions, Chapters, or members as
may desire it writing paper with the insignia of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, As work progresses it changes.
The preference and convenience of officers vary, and it is
unreasonable to expect of Secretaries as much time and con-
sideration as these varying circumstances require. Different
kinds, qualities, and shapes of paper are needed for different
occasions, and ought to be provided ; as. for instance, pads of
single slicets to be used if the oflScers find help in the use of
a copying book, which is almost a necessity to any one wishing
to preserve for reference copies of many letters. In regard
to stationery, it is well to call attention to the point that with
the increase of honorary officers the list of names at the top
of the sheets of paper increases and occupies space. On in-
quiry, it is found that the genera! habit of societies is to put
on their stationery the names of working officers alone or else
no names. This might well be referred to this committee,
which could act upon it in consultation witli the officers.
"Committee on By-Laxvs.^\ Committee on By-Laws may be
necessary to prepare and present for consideration before the
close of this convention any by-laws which may be made neces-
sary by the possible adoption of any of the President's recom-
mendations.
"Publication of Minutes. — In reviewing the work of the past
years the President sees that one burning question is always :
'Why is the publication of the minutes delayed?' Knowing
this delay to be often a cause of annoyance and an impediment
to work, she has given the matter close consideration, and
makes the following suggestions of possible causes of delay
and possible remedies : Some Chapters and Divisions elect
their officers in the early part of the year, and delay sending
their State rosters to the Recording Secretary of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy until after these elections have
taken place. This is all wrong, and a by-law should be passed
to the effect that the State or Chapter rosters not in the
hands of the Recording Secretary of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy before a fixed date shall not appear in the
minutes. Again, sometimes by accident or otherwise, reports
from various committees have not been made in writing or
fully prepared and digested before their presentation, and delay
is caused by the further work necessary in reviewing them.
No committee has a right to present its report to the conven-
tion except in writing in the words in which it is to appear
in the printed minutes unless, of course, it has been amended
by the convention. Then again resolutions are not alwa"«
written and handed at once to the Secretary. They are some-
times voted upon, and the mover defers putting them into just
the proper shape until she shall have more time. The result
sometimes is probably a long delay spent in pursuit of such
missing resolutions. These habits are so contrary to all ac-
cepted rules of parliamentary proceedings that a by-law on the
subject seems scarcely necessary, but as a reminder it might
be well to adopt one showing definitely in this respect the
duty of chairmen of committees and movers of resolutions.
These causes of delay are matters of speculation with your
President. There may be others, and in order to discover
and deal wisely with them the Chair recommends that a com-
mittee be appointed to consult with the President. Recording
Secretary, and such others as they may think advisable, for
the purpose of ascertaining the cause of delay of the minutes
as well as the best means of doing away with such causes,
this committee to report before the close of this convention.
"Committee to Correct Minutes. — In addition to the above
committees, the Chair recommends that she be authorized to
appoint immediately, as was done last year, a committee to
revise and correct the minutes, as even with the most compe-
tent stenographers mistakes wil' c ur.
"Crosses of Honor. — No doiiui .e-- .ts have come to your
ears of the misuse of the cros.; . of honor — reports that
counterfeit crosses were being made and worn by those who
had no right to them. These rumors were early in the year
brought to the attention of your President, who immediately
made all inquiries, and she is glad to tell you that certainly
no intentional wrong has been done. By some mistake or mis-
understanding in preparing for certain reunions badges were
made and dislrilnited among the veterans which certainly re-
sembled closely the cro s of honor. These evidently gave rise
to the painful reports, and j'our President immediately re-
quested the Corresponding Secretary to send out circulars
to every Division Commander among the veterans, requesting
the disuse and destruction of these badges. The President
also communicated personally by letter with several of the
veterans in .nuthority, who gave her all aid, Adjt. Gen, Mickle
most kindly incorporated our circular in one of his general
orders, which was sent to every Camp, and so we hope that
trouble is a thing of the past."
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ALABAMA REUNION U. C. V.
The fifth annual reunion of Alabama Veterans was held in
Mobile November 15 and 16. In the magnificent greeting ex-
tended them Mobile did honor to herself and emphasized the
fact that the people of no city in the South are more loyal
to the glorious memory of the Confederate soldier, and es-
pecially the Veterans of Alabama, whose State is designated
"the cradle and the grave of the Confederacy."
The classic old town was gorgeously dressed in holiday
attire for the occasion, and the generous, warm-hearted hos-
pitality extended the old \'etcrans was most gratefully ap-
preciated. The Veterans were indeed guests of honor, and by
that inherent hospitality characteristic of the South Mobilians
made them feel that it was an honor as well as a pleasure to
minister to them.
The attendance was the largest that has ever assembled in
a State rcu!iion. All the general officers were reelected — Maj.
Gen. Harrison, Division Commander, with all of his old bri-
gade coniniandcrs. Gens. W. .'\. Sanford, P. D. Bowles. J. N.
Johnson, and J. W. Bush. The beautiful souvenir programme,
with an exquisite hand-covered steel-engraved Confederate
flag on the outer cover, was carried out in detail with system-
atic order. .Xppropriate addresses of welcome were made
by Lieut. Gov. Cunningham, Mayor P. J. Lyon, of Mobile, and
Comiade O. J. Semmes in behalf of the Veterans of Mobile,
and all were enthusiastically received by the great crowd. A
beautiful tribute to the Confederate dead and the women of
the South was made by Gen. Harrison.
The Sons or Veterans.
Like their mothers and fathers, the .\labama Division, U.
S. C. v., are truly loyal, and perhaps their organization is the
most active of any in the South, unless Texas be excepted.
They held their annual meeting at the same time as the Vet-
erans, and used their best efforts to make the reunion of the
"old boys," as well as their own, the brilliant success it was.
Their first care was for the old Veterans.
The Sons were called to order by their Division Commander,
Thomas M. Owen, of Montgomery. Maj. E. M. Roliinson, of
the Mobile Sons, delivered the address of welcome, which was
responded to by Hon. M. Screws, of Montgomery. Hon. W.
R. Bankhead, of the Huntsville Sons, delivered the annual
address. Comiriander Owen presented to the conventioii the
sponsors and maids of honor, who occupied seats on the plat-
form, and explained that the object of the Sons was to care
for the living, look after the Soldiers' Home, and honor the
memory of the dead. .\ special work of theirs at present was
to liuild a .suitable monument to "the gallant Pclham." Hon.
W. R. Bankhcad's annual address was on the "Life and Char-
acter of John Pelham," and his beautiful tribute to this young
hero was enthusiastically received.
Commander Owen's annual report showed the organization
of the Alabama Suns to be in a most prosperous condition,
and it was resolved to organize it into five brigades. The
following Sons were elected brigade commanders: George W.
Duncan, First Brigade; Howard Gaillard, Second; H. M.
McNutt, Third; E. A. Grayson, Fourth; J. C. Owen, Fifth.
Thomas M. Owen was unanimously reelected Division Com-
mander by a rising vote. The following resolution was also
unanimously adopted : "That Comrade Thomas M. Owen is
hereby respectfully proposed for the position of Commander
in Chief of the United Sons of Confederal Veterans at the
election therefor in Louisville, Ky., in 1905."
The parade, as usual on such occasions, was the most ?.t-
traclivL- feature of the meeting. The city was filled with
thousands of visitors, who cheered the old fellows as they
passed. The large number of Veterans and Sons participating
in the parade necessitated the Commander in Chief, Gen. Har-
rison, to form his column after the order observed at the
general reunions of the U. C. V.'s — different brigades on dif-
ferent streets — and as the column passes each brigade to file
into position assigned it in general orders, carriages with
sponsors and maids of honor following the column. Behind
the Veterans came the Sons in the same order of march, with
Division Conmiander Owen and his staff at the head of the
colunni. The march was by the courthouse and the Semmes
monument, where they were reviewed by Gen. Stephen D. Lee.
KENTUCKY CONFEDERATE HOME.
Dedication of New Buildings — Division Reunion.
The State of Kentucky has shown most abundant liberality
in its provision for the comfort and convenience of the in-
mates of the Kentucky Confederate Home. Organized in
1902, it is now claimed to be the best-equipped home for Con-
federate invalids in the South
The last Legislature of Kentucky appropriated fifty-seven
thousand dollars for additional buildings, including a new in-
firmary. When the Home was originally organized, in 1902,
the Confederates of Kentucky and their friends purchased for
the Home Villa Ridge Inn, at Pewee Valley, a recently built
and modcrnly equipped building, containing one hundred rooms
already furnished. Nobody in Kentucky at that time believed
the State had enough needy Confederates to fill this building,
and the most sanguine estimates always limited the number
of probable inmates to eighty.
Forty years from Shiloh. Chickaniauga, Stone River, Harts-
ville, Resaca, Atlanta, and Baton Rouge have made wonderful
changes in the gallant Kentuckians who as Confederate sol-
diers had won renown on fierce fields of conflict, and to those
who had marched side by side with those Kentucky boys who
had responded to the call of the South in 1861, it was all
but impossible to believe that the aged and infirm men
who had filled the Kentucky Home were the same dashing
young soldiers who had won glory for their State in those
historical days.
The Home was opened in November, 1902. Up to this time
two hundred and seventy-nine inmates have been received, of
whom more than thirty have died, leaving now at this time
on the rolls of the Home about two hundred and twenty-five
men.
The Kentucky State Reunion was called at the Confederate
llonie on the nth of November, and in conjunction with this
reunion the new buildings were formally dedicated and turned
over to the State. These consisted of one large building,
with three wings in which there were forty rooms to be
used as an infirmary, all on the ground floor. In addition,
beautiful operating rooms, nurses' rooms, parlors, libraries,
and smoking rooms were added to the building and additional
quarters for eighty men. The infirniary was constructed wifh
all modern appliances: it has beautiful light, magnificent air,
more than a dozen bath rooms, water closets, and all surgical
conveniences. In addition, forty rooms for invalids have been
furnished with fittings equal to the best infirmaries of the
country. A large acetylene gas machine supplies the building
with light as brilliant and effective as electricity. Steam heat,
fire escapes, and elevators form part of the preparation in the
new building, and a beautiful park of nine acres was purchased
and laid out in artistic style as an addition to the grounds
already used by the State for the Home.
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A vast crowd gathered to witness tliis new departure at the
Home. It was estimated that more than three thousand peo-
ple gathered on the grounds to congratulate the trustees and
to hear the addresses in connection with the exercises. Old-
fashioned Kentucky burgoo supplied the wants of all the
visitors, and there was more than enough and to spare when
all had been fed. The day was beautiful, and the handsome
grounds of the Home never showed to more splendid ad-
vantage than when the new buildings were thrown open to
the public for inspection.
Every room has an iron bedstead with brass mountings,
handsome chiffonier, table, chairs, rugs ; and the linen, com-
forts, and blankets were handsome enough to satisfy the de-
mands of any housewife. It was a great pleasure for the
Confederate Veterans and their friends to see these handsome
provisions made for the heroes who wore the gray, but who
are now by time and disease incapacitated for labor.
Col. Bennett H. Young, Commander of the Kentucky Di-
vision, and also President of the Kentucky Home, was master
of ceremonies. Promptly at twelve o'clock he called the great
assemblage to order, when the exercises were opened by prayer
by the Rev. L. H. Blanton, D.D., of Central I'niversily. him-
self a Confederate soldier in the Army of Nnrllu-rn Virginia.
Gen. John H. Leathers, formerly commander of the Third
Brigade and now Commandant of the George B. Eastin Camp,
Louisville, made a brief address, which was greatly appreciated
and applauded. He jocosely apologized for being born in
Virginia, but claimed that his forty years' residence in Ken-
tucky and his marriage to a Kentucky woman measurably
atoned for the offense. He in turn introduced Senator Sam-
uel E. DeHaven, member of the Kentucky Senate, in whose
district the Home is situated, and who had liecn lielpful in
enacting the legislation which created the fund for the new
improvements. Senator DeHaven made a most happy and
telling speech, and he was followed by Col. Young, who
formally turned over the buildings to the Slate of Kentucky
in behalf of the Trustees. Brief speeches were made by Gen.
J. B. Briggs. Commander of the Second Brigade, U. S. V., and
Senator William George, who had always done valiant serv-
ice for the Confederate Home in the Kentucky Legislature,
after whicli the buildings were received by Lieut. Gov. Thome.
Gov. Beckham, owing to important official engagements, at
the last moment found it impossible to be present and
receive the buildings. Col. Leland Hathaway, of Winchester,
Ky., who was one of the soldiers with President Davis when
captured in Georgia, closed the exercises and addressed the
inmates of the Home, whom he congratulated on the superb
accommodation which the State had provided for those who
had fought for the South.
In addition to the splendid appropriation' made for the in-
firmary and additional quarters and other improvements, the
Legislature increased the appropriation for the support of the
inmates of the Confederate Home from one hundred and
twenty-five dollars to one hundred and seventy-five dollars,
which makes this Confederate Home the best endowed of
any home in the South.
Mrs. Thomas M. Worcester, of Cincinnati, who was formerly
Miss Davie Lindsey, of Owenton, Ky., has undertaken to
furnish and equip the library, which she is doing in royal
style; and when complete it will be as handsome as any private
library in Kentucky. Mrs. T. A. Lyons, of Louisville, has
undertaken to furnish a parlor in memory of her husband, who
was a brave and gallant Confederate soldier. For twenty-
five dollars any person can name a room in honor of any
Confederate soldier, cither living or dead. A large number
of persons avail themselves of this privilege. S. A. Cunning-
ham, editor of the Veteran, secured the privilege of naming
one of the rooms for Charles Herbst, that chivalrous Ken-
tucky soldier whom so many Kentuckians remember with
pleasure, although he resided in Georgia — Atlanta and Macon
— after the war. Col. J. G. Craddock, of Paris, Ky., named
a room for himself, using in payment for it his Mexican pen-
sion money. W. N. Jurey, of Pewee Valley, named a room
in memory of his brother, William Jurey, who was a member
of Gen. John H. Morgan's command. A room was also named
in memory of Capt. Milton G. Barlow, of John C. Breckin-
ridge's staff.
Kentucky has set the other Southern States a great example
in providing handsomely and bountifully for the care and
maintenance of Confederate soldiers.
In the Confederates of Kentucky S. A. Cunningham, editor
of the Veteran, was presented by Gen. Young, who paid to
KENTUCKY CONFEDERATE SOI.niERS' HOME, WITHOUT ANNEX. PEWEE VALLEY. NEAR LOUISVILLE.
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him fitting recognition for the labor and toil which he has given
in defense of the glory and patriotism of the Confederate sol-
dier and in vindication of the cause of the men who fought
for the South.
At the reunion, with great enthusiasm, and with acclama-
tion and a rising vote, Gen. Bennett H. Young was elected to
succeed himself as Commander of the Kentucky Division.
Gen. James Rodgers was reelected as Commander of the
First Brigade, Gen. J. B. Briggs of the Second, Gen. B. Thorn-
ton of the Third, and Gen. James B. Clay of the Fourth.
The meeting took steps to interest the people of Louisville
in the Confederate reunion to be held in Louisville next
spring (June 6-8, 1905), and it was the hope of all the Ken-
tucky Confederate?; that this shall be for Kentucky a reunion
worthy of the Confederate cause and worthy of Kentucky's
hospitality.
FLORIDA DIVISION— MRS. PATTON ANDERSON.
The Florida Division held its convention for 1904 at Ocala.
The attendance was not large, but in quality it was a credit
to the State and the cause represented. Report of the pro-
ceedings is deferred, except the tribute herein paid to the
widow of Gen. Patton Anderson. Comrade Enslow offered
the following preamble and resolution :
"This assemblage desires to render honor to a worthy widow
of a distinguished Confederate soldier — Gen. Patton Ander-
son— who raised and commanded one of the earliest organized
companies which went from Florida, and who was soon pro-
moted to command the First Florida Infantry. His estimable
wife, long a resident and still a resident of this State, con-
tinues her devotion to the memory of our Confederate war.
In recognition of her merit and the great military achieve-
ments of her husband; be it
"Resolved, That the general in command of this Division
be requested to extend to her an invitation to be the guest of
this Division at the coming reunion at Louisville and chaperon
the sponsors and maids of honor from this State."
Comrade Samuel Pasco, ex-United States Senator, seconded
the resolution, and said that he had had the honor to serve
under Gen. Patton Anderson in the Western Army, and could
testify as to his courage and ability as a military leader.
They were both residents of Jefferson County when Florida
passed her Ordinance of Secession, in 1861, and united her for-
tunes with her sister States of the South in forming the
Southern Confederacy.
Patton Anderson represented his county in the State Con-
vention which passed this ordinance and his State in the
Provisional Congress, at Montgomery, which framed the Con-
stitution of the Confederate States; but when the first call was
made for troops to maintain the new government, he resigned
his seat in Congress to enter the military service. He went
from Monticello to Pensacola as captain of the first company
from his county which joined the Confederate army. His
company formed a part of the First Florida Regiment, and he
was made colonel. By successive promotions he reached the
rank of major general, and took a prominent part in all the
great battles of the West. His distinguished services fill a
large space in the annals of that splendid army which fought
under Bragg, Johijston, and Hood.
The war left him with slender means for the support of his
family, and when he died, not many years later, the burden
fell upon his beloved wife. She was thoroughly devoted to
the Confederate cause, and cheered and aided him as long as
he lived, both in war and peace. When he was called to
leave her, she met the changes of fortune bravely, and taught
her children to honor those who fought for the South and
to revere the memory of those who gave their lives for their
country.
She now lives in Palatka, enjoying the love and respect of
her neighbors, and is held in high esteem not only by the
GK.VNUCHILDKKN UK GEN. I'ATIUN .\XDERS(IX.
veterans of Florida, but by many all over our Southland
who followed her husband's battle flag to danger and to glury.
The Division passed resolutions of sympathy and esteem
for Gen. J. J. Finley, in the shadow of death after a long and
useful life. He died a few days thereafter. Tribute was paid
to the widow of Gen. J. J. Dickison.
The Veteran Commended in Florida.
Gen. George Reese, ever, iaithful to the Veteran, intro-
duced the editor, and said: "Comrades, it has been my pleas-
ure to introduce to this gathering of Veterans many persons,
but the pleasure accorded on this occasion is the greatest ^nd
most appreciated. I beUeve the service rendered by the editor
of that magnificent magazine, the Confederate Veteran, is
not surpassed by the service of any organization or individual
connected with t'.ie order. He has always been true to the
cause, and in the hour of adversity he has never faltered or
failed in his efforts to promote the good of the Veterans. I
believe the Veteran will, in coming time, be a handbook for
historical reference and (irovc to be the best and truest his-
tory of the war for right and justice. It is for 'these reasons,
Veterans, that it aflfords me the special pleasure to introduce
him to the Florida Division."
A group picture of Gen. W. D. Ballentine, Adjutant General
Fred L. Robertson, and other prominent officers of the Di-
vision appears on title-page. The proceedings will appear
next month.
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MAKE IT A PERMANENT FEATURE.
BY W. T. HUFFMAN, BESSEMER, ALA.
It has been several months since our reunion in your city,
but not too late for me to congratulate the editor of the
Veteran upon the success of his special feature of the pro-
gramme for bringing old comrades together. I refer to the
meeting of old soldiers on the Vanderbilt campus. This, to
me, was the most enjoyable part of the reunion, as I presume
it was to many other of the "old boys" who carried a musket,
and it only needed the cooperation of the different brigade
commanders to have made it a complete success. I do not
understand why such arrangements have not been made be-
fore for the pleasure of the private soldier, for it is the only
possible or practical way that those who now live in different
States, but were in the same commands during the war, can
with any degree of certainty meet each other.
To give a "grand ball" to the officers and sponsors and a
concert with speech-making, etc., to entertain the privates is
all right enough, but it is not for these frivolities that they
attend these great reunions. I am speaking for the private
soldiers, the men who did the fighting and made the generals.
These are the men who compose the great majority of the
U. C. V.'s, and it is these who should be first considered in
arranging a programme for the pleasure and entertainment of
veterans.
Attending these annual meetings is a heavy tax, financially
and physically, to a majority of these old veterans, many of
whom h:ive nearly reached the allotted space of man's life ;
but the hope of once more grasping the hand of comrades
they have not seen since they stood shoulder to shoulder in
the shock of battle forty years ago warms the blood in their
old frames, and they cheerfully make the sacrifice. One
hour's intercourse between such men is more to them than all
the rest of the three days' meeting. The question is. How can
this be brought about in the general confusion incident to
occasions of this kind? No better plan has been suggested
than that of the editor of the Veteran at our Nashville re-
union. Have a specified place and time where all the States
will have headquarters and where a man from each State can
find a man from another. I hope the committee in Louis-
ville who have our next reunion in charge will make some
provision of this kind for the pleasure of the old private sol-
dier. There is nothing that would delight him more, and it
should be made a permanent feature of our reunions.
I wish to corroborate what Comrade Cullens wrote in the
September Veteran. I was a member of Company G of his
regiment— the Eighteenth Alabama. My impression is that
we captured two stands of colors at Nashville; but I dis-
tinctly remember the inscription on the flag captured from the
Thirteenth United States Colored Infantry. I mentioned this
incident to Gen. Lee at our Nashville reimion, and he said
that he remembered it distinctly. I was captured near Frank-
lin the next day and sent to Camp Chase.
will seat not less than eight nor more than ten. The price
of dinner tickets will be $5, exclusive of wine. The
boxes, holding six, eight, nine, and ten chairs, will be $12,
$16, $18, and $20 each. Single chairs $2 each."
Annual Dinner by the New York Camp.— Maj. Edward
Owen, Commander of the New York Camp of Confederate
Veterans, sends out a circular: "The fifteenth annual dinner
in honor of the memory of Gen. Robert E. Lee, given under
the auspices of the New York Confederate Veteran Camp,
will be held in the Grand Banquet Hall, at the Waldorf-
Astoria, on Wednesday, the 25th of January, 1905. Hon.
Isidor Rayner. United States Senator elect from Maryland, and
Hon. A. C. Braxton, of Virginia, have been invited to re-
spond to appropriate toasts. Again the ladies are to be invited
to the dinner and to join in the festivities and songs. Tables
United Sons — Change of Headquarters. — N. R. Tisdal,
Commander in Chief of the United Sons of Confederate Vet-
erans, has changed his headquarters from Fort Worth to
Rusk, Tex. In announcing this change. Commander Tisdal
also issues a stirring appeal to all Sons of Veterans, in which
he says : "Devotion to duty is a theme for poets, a beacon
light for worshipers at the shrine of ancestry, and a heritage
to hand down to posterity, that should inspire the sons of
such sires as ours to great activity in the work that has been
committed to us. Remember the duty that is ours, and 'fall
in,' 'close en the colors,' 'forward, march 1' and never fall
back, no matter what obstacle you have to overcome. Recruit
your ranks and organize new Camps, if in your power. It
matters not whether you be an officer of the Confederation
or not, we are all working in a common cause."
H. p. Figuers, a lad at the time, writes as follows in a
letter to the editor of the Veteran from Columbia, Tenn.,
November 30, 1904 : "Forty years ago this day, with your short
Enfield, you were marching toward Franklin, on account of
which I got ro sleep that night. The glories and the horrors
of that night are never to be forgotten. I hope you will live
forty years more."
Texas Confederate Troops.— In the November Veteran
(page 535) a lost figure caused the number of Confederate
soldiers from Texas (S9,32i) to read 5,321.
"NORTHERN REBELLION AND SOUTHERN SE-
CESSION."
liV D. B. sanford, milledgeville, ca.
Some critic has suggested that Mr. E. W. R. Ewing,
the author of the above book, was probably premature in
publishing the same just at this time, that the people are
not yet ripe and ready for such a revelation or history.
I do not agree with the critic. Truth is always in order
and cannot he promulgated too soon. This book ought
to be read and taught in every school in the United States,
for the South has been under the ban and ostracized for
forty-odd years by the North, East, and West, just simply
because they have not been informed and taught the facts
as they existed then and exist yet. Mr. Ewing has imn:,:.!-
talized himself by writing this book and putting "in a nut-
shell" truths and history that would require a lifetime for
the people to learn by research. He deserves the most grate-
ful thanks of all truth-loving people throughout this broad
land of ours for this instructive am! interesting work, and
it should be in the hands of all thinking people in this
country.
Mr. Lincoln taught and promulgated the principle that
might made right, and his people adhere to that principle
yet like a piece of steel to a magnet. The perusal of Mr.
Ewing's book will convince all unbiased and thinking peo-
ple that the South was not responsible or to blame for that
four years' cruel war. This section of the Union stood by
and on its constitutional rights, but it was crushed into the
dust by the might and fanaticism of the other sections.
This book is supplied by the Veteran for $1, with a year's
subscription for $1.7.^?. -ind free with a club for $4.
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S A CUNNINGHAM. Editor and Proprietor.
Office! Methodist PuMishinp House Buildinjj, Xashvillc, Tenn.
This puMicalion is tne personal propi-rty of S. A. Ciinnlnpham. All per-
•ons whr approve its principles aiid realize its benefits as an orjjan for As*o-
idatlonslhrouplioul the South are requested lo commend its patronage and to
cooperate in extending its circulation. Let each one be constantly dilinenU
SIMPLE REQUEST OF PATRONS.
It is not asking too much of every person whose printed
address is on the Veteran subscription list to request an in-
spection of it — whether on the maga/:ine or the wrapper — and
see that the name and initials, also the street number, are
correctly given. Another very impoi lant matter is to see
that the date of subscription has been advanced to the time
paid for. Errors arc committed in failure to give credit to
advance the date. It is human to err, and this request is made
that every person whose name is printed be started with tlie
new year as free from error as possible. Of course if the
date is behind January, 1905, so much is due at one dollar
per year. It would be gratifying to have all pay promptly;
but where such is not convenient, it would be a favor to
show respect for this request by writing that it will have
attention later on.
The methods of the Veteran are on honor. No legal
process has ever been used to collect subscriptions, nor will
any be. No "collection agencies" are used. So it is solely
upon faith of integrity and good will that this department is
conducted.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS COMMENDED.
Repeated Notice with Comment.
In prosperous times purse strings are easily loosed and
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577
CHIMEORAZO HOSPITAL DURING 1861-1865*
BY DR. JOHN R. GILDERSLEEVE, OF TAZEWELL, VA.,
Ex President Medical Society of Virginia: President Association Medical
Oliicers of Army ard Xavy of tlie Confederate States.
To tile Association of Medical Officers of Army and Xavy of the Confederacy.
One year ago we held our annual meeting in New Orleans,
the beautiful Crescent City of our Southland, and through your
kindness I was honored by election to your highest office. In
accordance with a time-honored custom, it devolves on me to
deliv'T the annual address before your body ; but before doing
so, let me again express my heartfelt thanks for your kindness
in selecting me from the "rank and file," with no special
fitness, no claim for extraordinai"y service rendered, no promi-
nence in the subordinate rank held, to entitle me to this distin-
guished honor; and though I feci unworthy of the great trust
bestowed on me, I hope, sustained by loved friends and old
comrades, to merit at least your approbation in my efforts to
discharge the duties of my position, and am indeed inost
grateful, and feel an honest pride in being so exalted.
My loyalty, zeal, and devotion to the Confederate cause was
never in question from the i6th day of April, 1861, when I
entered the service ;\ private, to those .sad and cruel days when
the pall of darkness rested on our furled banners in 1865.!
I am here, then, in obedience to your commands. ;ui(l my
effort will be directed to filling as best I can this position of
so much trust and responsibility ; and happy indeed will I be
if I can contribute anything worthy of your consideration in
my efforts to preserve for our children and for future genera-
tions the historic truths of our branch of the service in the
dark days of our struggle for home.;, principles, and honor.
I have selected as the subject of my address the most noted
and largest military hospital in the annals of history, either
ancient or modern. Chimborazo Hospital, at Richmond, Va..
1862 to 1865, and in connection therewith the commandant and
medical director, Surgeon James B McCaw, his staff, and
my confreres in other fields of the Confederate service.
East of the city of Richmond, whilom capital of the Con-
federate States, and separated from the city proper by the
historic Bloody Run Creek, is an elevated plateau of nearly
forty acres, jommanding from its height a grand view : on
the soulh, the river, spanned by many bridges, sliips in harbor,
Chesterfield and the town of Manchester; on the east, a long
stretch of country, cultivated fields, forests, hills, and daks,
and the tawny James on its tortuous seaward way ; and on
the west, the city of Richiiiond. its churches and spires, the
capitol, public buildings, dwellings and manufactories, the
whirling, seething, rushing falls of the river, and beautiful
Hollywood, "the city of our dead."
On this high and picturesque point, so well adapted to
hospital purposes, in the year 18A2, when the Federal troops
moved in force on Bull Run, and the real campaign began.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston reported that nine thousand men
would have to be sent hack to Richmond for admittance to
hospitals before his army could proceed.
That grand old Roman and chief. Surgeon General S. P.
•Address of President, delivered before the Association of Medical Officers
of the Army and Navy of ttie Confederacv during its annual session, held at
Nashville, Tenn.,June i(i'», i*x»4.
tDr. Gilderslec\e's tiiree brothers— Hasil, Ilcnjamiii, and (iilbert— likewise
servetl gallantly and faillifully in the great Atmv of Northern \'irpinia from
beginning to close of the war. The eldest. l*rof. Basil (Jildersleeve, of Johr.s
iloplfins I'niversity, was on staff duty in the ticld, and received desperate
wounds in llie baltles around Kicliinond; the second. Henjainin, sliared the
well-won fame of tlie Fiist V'iri^inia Infanirv: anti the yoim^er, (Jilbert, was
a captain nf cavalry with Stuart. The father of these noble brotliers was a
tiisting 111 shed I'resbyterian divine, educator, and writer of South Carolina: and
tlieir uranilsire was an otliccr in the Continental Army. — ICl>. Vkthhan.
Moore, at once went to see Dr. James B. McCaw, of Rich-
mond (who was not then in the medical service, having en-
listed in a cav.ilry company), and as the result of a confer-
ence held, and at the suggestion of Dr. McCaw, Chimborazo
Hill was selected as the most favorable site ; and early in
1862 the hospital was opened. In one week two thousand
soldiers were admitted, and in two weeks' time there were in
all four thousand.
The Surgeon General had only twenty-five hundred beds
when Gen. Johnston made his report. Work was at once com-
menced, and one hundred and fifty well-constructed and venti-
lated buildings were erected, each one hundred feet in length,
thirty feet in width, and one story high ; though not all built
at one time, but as needed to furnish comfortable quarters
for the sick and wounded. Five large hospitals or divisions
were organized; thirty wards to each division. These dimen-
sions allowed of two rows of cots on each side of the central
aisle ; the capacity of each ward from forty to sixty. The
buildings were separated from each other by wide alleys or
streets, ample spaces for drives or walks, and a wide street
around the entire camp or hospital. The hospitals presented
tlie appearance of a large town, imposing and attractive, with
its alignment of buildings kept whitened with lime, streets
and alleys clean ; and with its situation on such an elevated
point, it commanded a grand, magnificent, and pleasing view
of the surrounding country for many miles.
The divisions of this immense hospital were five, or five
hospitals in one, with five surgeons, each one of the five in
charge of a division ; also a number of assistant and acting
assistant surgeons (45 to 50), each in charge of several wards
or buildings, and subject to surgeons of divisions, and alt
subject to Surgeon James B. McCaw. the executive head.
With natural drainage, the best conceivable, on the east,
south, and west, good water supply, five large ice houses, Rus-
sian bath houses, cleanliness, and an excellent system for the
removal of wastes, the best treatment, comforts, and results
in a military hospital in times of w-ar were secured.
For the purpose of making the hospital an independent
institution, the Secretary of War designated Chimborazo Hos-
pital an army post, and Dr. McCaw was appointed comman-
dant ; an officer and thirty men were detailed and stationed
there, and everything was conducted scion les regies.
As the commandant. Surgeon McCaw. was not in the regu-
lar army of the Confederacy, the Surgeon General said: "I
do not know what name to give the hospital or its chief." Not
w'ishing to call it a general hospital, at Dr. McCaw's sugges-
tion it was given a distinclive name and called Chimborazo;
and Dr. James B. McCaw was made comniandaiit and medical
director in chief.
In 1861 there was on what is now known as Chimborazo
Park or Hill but one house, owned by Richard Laughton, and
a small office building. When possession Vifas taken of the
hill it was separated from Church Hill on the western side
by Bloody Run gully. (After the war a street was built
across the ravine connecting the two hills and completing the
extension of Broad Street.) A large house north of the
hospital was occupied as headquarters by the medical director
and chiefs of divisions, with a clerical force.
The five hospitals, or divisions, were organized as far as
possible on a State basis ; troops from the same States being
thrown together and treated and cared for by officers and
.'.llendants from their own States.
In addition to the one hundred and fifty buildings, there
were one hundred "Sibley tents," in which were put from
eight to ten (;(mvalescent patients to a tent; these tents were
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pitched upon the slopes of the hill, presenting a very impos-
ing sight.
Oakwood Cemetery, which up to that time had been com-
paratively a small graveyard, was created by the hospital. It
was near, suitable, and accessible, and is sacred to the memory
of many brave soldiers who gave their lives for our cause.
The loyal women of Oakwood Memorial Association erected
a beautiful shaft on a grassy mound, midst the graves of the
"boys that wore the gray," with the following inscription on
the four sides of the base:
In memory of Sixteen Thousand
Confederate Soldiers from Thir-
teen States.
Erected by the Ladies' Oak-
wood Memorial Association, Or-
ganized May 10. 1866.
Maryland, Virginia. North
Carolina, South Carolina, Ten-
nessee, Arkansas, Florida.
This Epitaph of the Soldier
who falls with his Country is
written in the hearts of those
who Love the Right and Honor
the Brave.
Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana. Kentucky.
As soon as the hospital was opened, the large tobacco fac-
tories of the Grants, Mayos, and others were secured, their
business being practically at an end for the period of the war,
and the boilers from these factories were utilized in making
soup in the soup houses, and the large supply of splendidly
seasoned wood, used in making tobacco boxes, was fashioned
into beds and other furniture. The hands employed in fac-
tories were put to work in doing manual labor, incident to
building, etc., in our hospital construction. A guardhouse
was erected separate from other buildings, for unruly con-
valescents, attendants, ct al. In addition, the hospital built
five soup houses, a bakery, a brewery, and five ice houses.
Mr. Franklin Stearns lent the hospital his celebrated fartn,
Tree Hill, for the pasturage of from one hundred to two
hundred cows, and from three to five hundred goats. The
latter proved to be the best subsistence available in supplying
the hospital with "kid"' meat, a most palatable and nutritious
food for sick and convalescent i)atients. Some idea of the
dimensions of the bakery may be had from the fact that from
seven thousand to ten thousand loaves were issued per diem :
a loaf per man and attendant would not go around.
Scip was made out of the grease taken from the soup
houses ; the lye was imported through the blockade.
An additional fact — the hospital never drew fifty dollars
from the Confederate States Government, but relied solely
upon the money received from commutation of rations. The
medical departments and subsistence departments were organ-
ized all to thcniselve.5, and the money from commuted rations
was used to buy what was necessary.
The hospital trading canal boat Chiniliorazo, Lawrence
Lottier in command, plied between Richmond, Lynchburg,
and Lexington, bartering cotton, yarn, shoes, etc., for pro-
visions. This was only one of the hospital's many resources.
At the close of the war the Confederate government owed
the hospital three hundred thousand dollars, which Mr. Mem-
niinger. Secretary of the Confederate States Treasury, agreed
to pay in gold on the 29th of March ; and on the 3d of April
the city of Richmond was surrendered.
The total number of patients received and treated at Chim-
borazo Hospital amounted to seventy-six thousand (.out of
this number about 17,000 were wounded soldiers), and it was
the first military hospital in point of size in this country and
in the world ; the next largest hospital in .-Vmcrica being
the "Lincoln," at Washington, D. C, which reported a total
number of forty-six thousand patients; and the next largest
hospital in the world was the "Scutari," in the Crimea,
which reported a total of thirty thousand to forty thousand
patients. The percentage of deaths at Chimborazo was a
fraction over nine per cent. Complete records were kept, and
are still in existence in the office of the Surgeon Genera! at
Washington. D. C., upon which the name of every patient can
be found when wanted, and the cause of his death.
The organization of Chimborazo Hospital was as follows :
Surgeon James B. McCaw, Commandant and Medical Di-
rector. First Division, Virginia — Surgeon P. F. Brown, of
.\ccomac, Va., in charge. Second Division, Georgia — Surgeon
Habersham, of .Atlanta, Ga., in charge. Third Division. North
Carolina — Surgeon E. Harvie Smith in charge. I'ourth Di-
vision, Alabama — Surgeon S. N. Davis in charge. Fifth Di-
vision, South Carolina — Surgeon E. M. Seabrook. Charleston.
S. C, in charge. The medical staff numbered, or averaged,
about 40 or 45 in all. There was also a Medical Examining
Board, composed of the surgeons of divisions, to pass on ques-
tions of furloughs and discharges.
.Among the staff were the following named gentlemen : John
H. Claiborne, commissary; Col. .\. S. Buford, quartermaster;
Charles Wortham. quartermaster; Paine and Kent, our com-
mission merchants, and many others. Every man did his
whole duly, and everything went on without a hitch. The
total staff numbered one hundred and twenty.
Mrs. Dr. Minge was chief matron. There were many in-
teresting characters among the matrons, and one in particular
was Miss Mary Pettigrew, who was chief of the Virginia Di-
vision; she was a sister of Gen. Pettigrew, of North Caro-
lina, and was about twenty years of age. Also a Mrs. Pender,
Mrs. Baylor, Miss Gordon, et al. — forty-five in all. Rev, Mr.
Patterson, a Greek by birth, was chaplain; he came to this
country when a grown man, and was a very valuable officer.
The city of Richmond was surrendered Monday, April 3,
1865, Gen. Godfrey Weitzel's Brigade in the van of the ad-
vancing Federal army. The General rode up the hill, and
when he came through the post he was received by the whole
corps of hospital officers in full imiform. Gen. Wcitzel gave
a free pass to the commandant and his entire medical corps,
took them under his protection, and issued a verbal order that
all Confederate soldiers there should be taken care of under
all circumstances. Furthermore, he offered to put the com-
mandant in the general service of the United States, so that
he might issue requisitions, etc., and have the same filled, as
ruiy other medical director in the United States army. As
Gen. Lee had not then surrendered. Dr. McCaw respectfully
declined the proft'ercd a|)pointment, but vohnilarily continued
10 perform all the duties incident to tlie position he held, and
never solicited anything at all from llie Federals other than
the passes in and out of the lines.
When we consider the size of this great military hospital,
the number of soldiers admitted, treated, furloughed. dis-
charged, and buried; its successful work for nearly four years;
the perfect discipline, order, and harmony that existed from
its establishment to its close; the immense amount of work
done; the difficullies always attending the securing of sup-
plies for sucli a large body of invalids, especially toward the
closing days of the Confederacy ; and also the generous
rivalry between other posts or hospitals located in Richmond;
(Confederate l/eterai>.
579
and lastly, the comparatively low mortality, we cannot but
accord to Dr. James McCaw, Medical Director of the five
Chimborazo hospitals, and its efficient commandant, the high-
est praise, and concede that he was in fact and in deed primus
inter pares. A beautiful loving cup was presented to him in
1901 at a banquet given by the Academy of Medicine of Rich-
mond and friends on his retiremein after fifty-seven years
from the active practice of medicines. — ^-
Dr. James B. McCaw was born in Richmond, Va., July 12,
1823; graduated M.D. University of the City of New York.
1843 ; Editor Virginia Medical and Surgical Journal, 1853 to
1861 ; Editor of Confederate States Medical and Surgical
Journal, 1861 to 1865 ; Professor of Practice of Medicine and
of Chemistry, and Dean of the Medical College of Virginia,
twenty-eight years — now Emeritus Professor, Surgeon C. S.
Army ; Medical Director during Civil War of the five Chim-
borazo hospitals in Richmond, Va. ; a charter member and
one of the founders of the Medical Society of Virginia, and
chairman of the convention which organized the society in
1870 — Vice President in 1871, Resident Honorary Fellow in
1894; Ex- President of the Academy of Medicine, Richmond.
Va. ; honorary member of the Medical Society of West Vir-
ginia ; member of the Association of Medical Officers of the
Army and Navy of the Confederacy, and of other societies.
Fellows and comrades, you will, I hope, pardon me if for a
brief space I become personal. My object is simply to pre-
serve in regular order, and to perpetuate, the names and posi-
tions held by my most intimate associates in the medical serv-
ice of the Confederate army ; and, if time permitted, it would
have been a pleasant task to present in this paper biographical
sketches of each friend and associate herein mentioned.
My first hospital service dates from 1862, after my dis-
charge from the service on account of illness — I was then a
private in the Richmond Howitzers. I entered liospital "Mid-
way," between the University of Virginia and Charlottesville,
Drs. James L. Cabell, John Staige Davis, B. W. Allen, Peter
Winston, and others in control. The first three were professors
at the University of Virginia. Dr. Cabell, surgeon in charge,
was a man of profound knowledge and varied information,
and a fine executive ofliccr. It was said of him that he could
fill creditably any chair at the University. Dr. Davis had a
Southern reputation as a brilliant and beautiful lecturer. Dr.
Allen was an anatomist and a skillful surgeon. Dr. Winston
left his studies in Paris and returned at the commencement
of hostilities, and at once entered our service. My connec-
tion with the hospital was brief, but long enough to retain in
my heart the warmest feelings for each one of my associates.
The exigencies of the service demanded all who could ad-
minister to the sick and wounded of the army, and I received
an appointment as contract physician — 1. e., acting assistant
surgeon — July 8, 1862. from Surgeon General Samuel P.
Moore. The name of that grand head of the medical de-
partments of tlic Confederacy impels me to acknowledge his
kindness of heart to all of his subalterns ; also his great work
as an organizer, his remarkable executive ability, fitness for
the high position, and his official work. Resigning his posi-
tion of surgeon in the United States army, he was appointed
surgeon general of the army and navy of the Confederacy in
June. 1861, and continued in office until the surrender; then
engaged in practice at Richmond. Va., until his death. He was
born in Charleston, S. C. in 1813 ; and died in Richmond, Va.,
May 31, 1889. He was chosen President of the Association of
Medical and Surgical Officers of the Army and Navy of the
Confederate States, at .Mlanta, Ga.. May 25, 1874.
On my appointment I was assigned to duty at Howard's
Grove Hospital, Richmond, Va., Dr. James Bolton surgeon in
charge. The tents and buildings were crowded with wounded
soldiers from battlefields after a seven days" fight below Rich-
mond. Dr. C. D. Rice, of Charleston, S. C, succeeded Sur-
geon Bolton, and I was ordered to Receiving and Distributing
Hospital No. g, "Seabrooks Warehouse ;" twelve hundred
beds ; Surgeon C. W. P. Brock in charge : .\ssistant Surgeons,
John Gravatt, Port Royal. Va., J. W. Brock, Richmond, Va.,
Richardson, Texas, John Bragg, Petersburg, et al. Dr.
C. W. P. Brock was one of the youngest men in the profession,
and is now chief surgeon of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road, Ex-President of the National Association of Railroad
Surgeons (1893), Ex-President of the Alumni Association of
the Medical College of Virginia, and has lield many other
positions of honor and trust.
I was ordered to Chimborazo Hospital after a short
service at No. 9, and assigned to Division No. 5, "South
Carolina;" afterwards to Virginia, Division No. i, and re-
mained until January, 1864. Ordered to appear before the
Army Medical Board, composed of Surgeons Gedding, Hol-
brook, and Robertson, in Charleston, S. C, I passed a success-
ful examination January 15, 1864. and was commissioned as-
sistant surgeon Confederate States army, and ordered to re-
)iort to Medical Director J. D. S. Cullen, of Lieut. Gen. Long-
street's Corps, at Knoxvillc, Tcnn. I reported to Surgeon
Maury, in absence of the medical director, and vias ordered
by him to report to Medical Director Frank .\. Ramsey, of the
Army of Tennessee, and by him ordered to report to Surgeon
R. D. Hamilton, Bristol, Tenn. A short time there I wasi in
charge temporarily of Wayside Hospital, and in hospital at
Abingdon, Va., under Surgeon R. O. Curry; then in charge
of transportation of sick and wounded from Gen. Lor.gstreet's
army to hospitals along line of railroads in Virginia.
On Gen. Longstreet's return to the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia, I was assigned to Kcrsliaw's Brigade, and from the Wil-
derness to the surrender was with the Twentieth South Caro-
lina Regiment (a short time with the Seventh South Caro-
lina). On the retreat from Charleston, S. C, of Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston's army I was captured at Fayetteville, N. C, and
was paroled on the 13th day of May, 1865, at Charlotte. N. C,
by Capt. N. Haight, U. S. Army.
The medical staff of Gen. Kershaw's Brigade, afterwards
Gen. Conner's Brigade, was: Dr. James, Brigade Surgeon;
Second South Carolina Regiment — Surgeon Simon Baruch,
now of New York, and well known in connection with hydro-
therapy ; Assistant Surgeon Nott ; Third South Carolina Regi-
ment— Surgeon James Evans. Assistant Surgeons Dunlap and
Mackie; Seventh South Carolina Regiment— Surgeon Carlyle,
Assistant Surgeon J. R. Gildersleeve ; Eighth South Carolina
Regiment — Surgeon Pearce, Assistant Surgeons Neal and
Speake; Twentieth South Carolina Regiment— Surgeon A. S.
Sally, Assistant Surgeons D. W. Bartron and J. R. Gilder-
sleeve. Dr. Sally was a highly educated gentleman of the old
school, honest, upright, and pure ; a writer and local historian.
My roster would be incomplete if I omitted that grand and
venerable bishop, William W. Duncan, of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. South, who was chaplain of the Twentieth
South Carolina Regiment.
Of the many Confederate surgeons who were in the different
fields of service, a number have since achieved State and na-
tional reputations, due in a measure to the stern lessons incul-
cated while participants in the bloody drama more than four
decades ago, which were potent factors, developing in the
subsequent battles of life a courageous bearing and self-reliant
aggressiveness, ultimately leading to success — from defeat to
victory.
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C^or^federate l/eterarj
A PERMANENT CONFEDERATE BENEFACTION.
(From the narrative printed in an flr^iuit 1>rochurt- for the \V. K. I. anti their
frienils. hy Hon. W. A. Courtenay, former ChapUin anil Chairman of Trustees.)
The history of "old Charleston's loyal sons" has been so
continuously prominent in the annals of our country that it
is only in order to refer very briefly to it here.
The Washington Light Infantry was founded by William
Lowndes, in 1807, upon receiving the news of the "Leopard
and Chesapeake" affair. Its roll of thirteen commanders,
down to 1861, reveals the character of its membership—
Lowndes, Cross, Crafts, Simons, Miller, Gilchrist. Ravencl.
Lee, Jervey. Porter, Walker, Hatch, and Simonton.
The public observance of Washington's birthday, by an
oration and social functions, on February 22 was an annual
feature of W. L. L life, and the annual response from the
community indicated the highest public favor. This observ-
ance was continued up to and in the war period, the last
celebration taking place in Fort Sumter, while the command
was part of the garrison of the gateway of Charleston, on
February 22, 1862.
Referring to earlier annals, the W. L. L was designated,
with the "Fusilcer Francaise," as the special guard of honor
to Lafayette upon his entrance in the city in 1825. Capt. W.
H. Miller, commanding the Escort Battalion, announced all
his orders in French.
On April 19, 1827, the venerable widow of Col. William
Washington, of the Revolution, delivered to Capt. R. B. Gil-
christ, in front of her residence, at South Bay and Church
Streets, her husband's crimson battle flag, which had been
identified with the battles of Cowpcns, Guilford Courthouse,
Hobkirk's Hill, and Eutaw Springs, in 1781. This great dis-
tinction has ever since had a marked influence on the life of
the corps.
In the ante-bellum career of the corps there was maintained
an esprit de corps, watchful and virile. "Success" was the
rallying cry, and, without a single failure, uniformly crowned
all company efforts. Witness the great parade of July 4,
1846. under Capt. W. D. Porter, with one hundred and forty-
six members in line; and, fourteen years later, on July 4,
i860, under Capt. C. H. Simonton, with one hundred and
forty-four members in line— both parades decisive tests of
company pride and strength. Further mention of notable
events is not possible in this necessarily brief narrative.
The recognized eminence, military and social, of the W. L
I. was shown at the opening of the great struggle of 1860-65.
The first militaVy order issued in all the Southland, in antici-
pation of that momentous struggle, was to the W. L. I. to
take possession and guard the United States arsenal in Can-
nonsboro a few days after the presidential election, Novem-
ber 6, i860, and the service was continuous thereafter : first,
imder ihc authority of the State, and then, "for the war," in
tin- Confederate army, "one company in peace, three full
companies in war, one hundred and fourteen dead," and so
the W. L. I., of Charleston, has the longest war-service record
of any company in the South.
"The affair of the Leopard and Chesapeake involved no
desecrated homes, no abandoned altars, no social insults, no
unspeakable injuries. What wrongs perpetrated by England
can compare in results with the storm of fiery dcso'laliorj that
swept over our country and left us in 1865, from the sea-
board to the mountains, in fettered destitution, without a
home, without a country, and almost with a hope? The
question of duly in i860 repeated the demand of 1807; that of
1865 comhimd tluni both. What do my people need? Arms
and a life! Let llicni be given! This was the f|ucstiiin of
1807 and of i860: What do my people need? Bread and
hope ! This was the great question of 1865. Bread and hope
were given, and something more was added. The bivouac of
the dead was marked with a shaft of honor, that the stranger
might know that the men who slept there died for their coun-
try. What heart and hand could do for the widow and orphan
was done, and in the charter of the 'Charitable Association'
was laid the corner stone of this 'reorganization of the old
corps of 1807.' "*
The war ended in the spring of 1865, and Gens. Lee and
Johnston, in final orders, so announced to their respective
armies, and advised the soldiers to return to their homes and
resume their citizenship.
Charleston had made a protracted and successful defense,
had "been kept virgin to the last," but at untold cost and
sacrifice. With most of the city for many months within
reach of hostile guns and shot and shell, a large part of the
population had become refugees in the interior of the State.
From .\ppomattox and Greensboro, from prison camps and
hospitals, the Confederate soldiers from Charleston slowly
made their way homeward during the summer and fall of
1865. Many foimd their families elsewhere, and did not re-
turn to the city. Those who finally did so saw it desolate
and uninviting, grass growing in its deserted streets; con-
flagrations had destroyed large sections of the city; shot and
shell had done much damage to property. To many it seemed
"On the tomb of Hope interred
Stood the specter of Despair."
These were the conditions which tlic W. L. I. survivors
had to face in their former happy and well-appointed homes;
poverty was on every hand ; the currency of the country had
dropped out of sight and use. Of course no military organiza-
tian was permissible. The first thought was an organiza-
tion of W. L. I. survivors to help the dostitule families of
ihc "unreturning brave."
With the coming in of the new year, on January 11. 1866,
a meeting of W. L. I. survivors was held in the parlors of the
Charleston Hotel. Capt. James M. Carson presided and
Scrgt. W. M. Muckinfuss acted as secretary. The object of
the meeting was announced by Capt. Carson to be the organiza-
tion of the "W. L. I. Charitable .Association," to assist the
families of those W. L. I.'s who had fallen or were disabled
in the late struggle. This was voted unanimously, and the
following committee was elected to prepare the necessary
papers, draft of constitution, etc. : Capt. J. M. Carson, Col.
C. H. Simonton, Lieut. H. B. Olney, William E. Holmes, and
William E. Procter.
This committee reported to a meeting held at the Masonic
Hall on February 22, 1866, and proceeded to organize the
"W. L. I. Cli:iritalilc .Association," and elected the following
oflicers :
1866 — J. M. Carson, President ; C. H. Simonton, Senior
Warden; H. B. Olney, Junior Warden; J. L. Honour. Secre-
tary and Treasurer.
In the subsequent years the following ofiicers were annually
elected :
1S67— J. M. Carson, President; H. B. Olney, Senior
Warden; Samuel J. Burger, Junior Warden; J. L. Honour,
Secretary and Treasurer.
1868— J. M. Carson. PieMdeiil ; II. B. Olney, Senior
Warden; H. I. Greer. Jinnor Warden; J. L. Honour, Secre-
tary and Treasurer.
i86g — C. H. Simonton, President; H. B. Olney, Senior
"Gen. !■". \V. Capers's aildn-ss befnri' W. I,. I., |S;(.
C^opfederate Ueterar).
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Warden; 'l'. G. Barker, Junior Warden; J. L. Honour, Secre-
tary and Treasurer.
The same were reelected for 1870.
1871 — H. B. Olney, President; J. L. Honour, Senior Warden;
F. L. Parker, M.D.. Junior Warden ; D. P.. Gilliland, Secre-
tary and Treasurer.
1872— J. L. Honour, President ; F. L. Parker, M.D.. Senior
Warden; A. W. Taft, Junior Warden: D. B. Gilliland. Sec-
retary and Treasurer.
The same were reelected for 1873.
There are now few who can recall those nine years —
1866-74 — with the privations, humiliations, and poverty in-
cident to those deplorahle tiines of carpetbag and ignorant
rule, and in stating what was done in tho.se years those con-
ditions must be kept in view.
The money help disbursed to those who needed assistance
was as follows: 1866-67, $152; 1868, $201.50: 1869, $118.70:
1870, $187; 1871, $224.50; 1872, $190.50; 1873, $229; 1874
$l6g — a total of $1,472.20, or an average annually of $163.58.
Considering all the circumstances — the universal impoverish
ment of the community, and, of course, the very limited means
of survivors — it is a unique, a marvelous exhibit, and is en
titled to this permanent record ; all being the contributions of
members, except a gift of $150 from the late James T. Wels-
man, which, with some other surplus funds, was invested to
start a permanent charity fund. This amounted, in certain
securities at par, to $744, and was transferred at the consolida-
tion of the "Charitable Association'' and "W. L. I. Rifie Club"
in 1875 ; this, then, is really the corner stone of the present
"Annuitants' Fund" of the Washington Light Infantry of
$17,000 now held by the trustees of that fund, of which ref-
erence will be made hereafter.
The political condition of South Carolina, then called "The
Prostrate State,'' was so deplorable that the inability to have
regular military commands and the need of an organization
of armed men led to the forming of "rifle clubs," mostly on
the basis of old military commands. The W. L. I. took part
in this movement, and the first large turn-out of armed men
seen in Charleston since the war was in the celebration of
Washington's birthday in 1873, when, upon the invitation of
the W. L. I., all the "rifle clubs" paraded together, and about
one thousand men, with arms in their hands, marched through
the streets of Charleston.
The writer had been called to the command of the Rifle
Club in May, 1872, with the promise of a sliort two-year
service to secure a permanent life to the organization. With-
drawing from the command on May 22, 1874, this extract is
made from his letter of resignation : "While attention to
military studies and exactness in drill should mark your future,
be ever mindful of those in whose homes are the vacant chairs,
whose young lives have been darkened by broad shadows
from recent battlefields — the widow and the fatherless. Let
us illustrate our times with deeds of charity and of kindness;
and, if incentive is wanting for renewed exertion in this direc-
tion, refer to the records of our own 'Charitable .Kssociation'
for reminder of what earnest men can do. . . . Under
their auspices they also erected the first memorial shaft raised
in South Carolina in honor of the dead of the war."
Within one year the Easter Fair was held, the most bril-
liant public entertainment ever seen in Charleston, made so
largely by the taste, talent, and energy of the late I\faj. R. C.
Gilchrist and the effective work of the members of the Rifle
CUib. The net proceeds were over $8,000. In dealing with
this handsome result, the Rifle Club created a trust (of five
members), separate from the general treasury of the command.
The trustees have, in twenty-eight years, by judicious invest-
ments and reinvestments, doubled the original amount of
1875, and, as far as is known, this is to-day the only Perma-
nent Confederate benefaction in the South. The manage-
ment of this fuqd has been conducted throughout without one
cent of cost for the administration — a labor of love by the
trustees !
B.^TTLES PARTKtr.\TED IN BY W. L. I. COMPANIES. 1860-65.
Appomattox. Battery Wagner. Boonesboro Gap, Bermuda
Hundreds, Cold Har-
bor (ist and 2d),
Chickamauga, Charles
City Road. Campbell
Station, Deep Bottom,
Darby Town Road,
Drewry's Bluff, El-
kin's Landing, Fort
Sumter, Fort Fisher,
F a r m v i 1 le , Tenn.,
Fort Anderson, Fred-
ericksburg, Gaines's
Mill, Knoxville, La-
nier's Station, Le-
gare's Point, Manas-
sas (1st and 2d),
Malvern Hill, Nine
Mile Road. New Mar-
ket, Petersburg. Rich-
mond, Riddle's Shops,
Rivers, S. C, Seces-
sionville. Seven Pines,
Sharpsburg, Swift
Creek, Thoroughfare
G.ip. Turkey Ridge,
Town Creek. Wal-
thall Junction, Wel-
don Road, Wells's
Valley, Yorktown,
besides many smaller
w. L. I. MONUMENT. engagements.
Inscription on the Monument.
The gray granite obelisk, in honor of the dead of the W.
L. I., stands in Washington Square, is forty-five feet high,
and bears, in a bronze panel, this pathetic inscription :
".■\l every board a vacant chair
Fills with quick tears some tender eye.
And at our maddest sports appears
.■\ well-loved form that will not die.
We lift the glass, our hand is stayed;
We jest, a specter rises up;
And, weeping, though no word is said.
We kiss and pass the silent cup."
This shaft commemorates
The patience, fortitude, heroism,
unswerving fidelity to South Carolina,
and the sacrifices of
The Wa.shington Light Infantry
In the War between the States, 1860-65.
One company in peace; three full companies
For the war.
Besides the maimed, wounded, and captured
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one hundred and fourteen died in battle,
in hospital, or on the weary wayside.
In obedience
To a sentiment of honor and the call of duty
and in pledge of their sincerity they made
The last sacrifice, they laid down their lives,
Officers and men ;
They were of the very flower of this
ancient city, her young hope and fair renown.
"Fortuna non mutat genus."
Erected 1891.
Mr. and Mrs. William Ashmead Courtenay celebrated their
golden wedding day, October 19, at their beautiful home,
Innisfallcn, Newry, S. C. Responding to the request of a
friend, who suggested an account of the event for the Vet-
eran, the venerable head of the family wrote the editor :
"I inclose a card which shows that it will be only a family
gathermg at dinner — three generations, third, fourth, and fifth,
represented While grateful for our preservation through all
the vicissitudes of half a century, the long procession of dead
friends shadows our quiet festal day."
WHEELER ON SHERMAN'S FLANKS IN GEORGIA.
BV W. C. DODSON, ATLANTA, GA.
The article in the September Veteran telling what "March-
ing through Georgia" means must stir the blood of every true
lover of the South. As stated, Wheeler's Cavalry was the only
command to oppose Sherman's hordes, and, though this was
comparatively a feeble force, too much praise cannot be given
them for what ihcy accomplished. They were not strong
enough to fight pitched battles, and could not even naturally
retard Sherman's march; but they hung on his flanks and rear,
and by confining his march to narrower limits saved millions
of dollars' worth of property from destruction.
This command had of necessity to subsist upon the already
depleted country, and thereby incurred much prejudice from
the citizens, who did not realize that where we consumed one
dollar's worth of food and forage we saved one hundred times
as niucli from the torch of the incendiary. That Sherman
himself realized this is evidenced by his saying on more than
one occasion, during and after the war, that Wheeler and his
cavalry gave him more trouble than all other Confederates.
As evidence that time has not entirely eradicated the
prejudice against my old command in the minds of some of
the people of Georgia and South Carolina, I mention that only
recently there appeared in one of our Atlanta pai)ers an article
from a talented lady correspondent reciting the hardsliips and
privations she experienced from the depredations of "Wheeler's
Cavalry and Sherman's bums." O, the pity of it, that this
should come from the pen of a Southern woman ! Of course
she did not know that all that stood between the homes of
her people and Sherman's bummers, and often between South-
ern women and a fate worse than death, was this same
Wheeler's Cavalry, which she indirectly denounced.
It is not my wish to perpetuate the passions of the Civil
War by reciting its horrors ; but lest we forget, and lest our
posterity should not know what "Marching through Georgia"
meant, I will recount a few incidents,
Maj. J. P. Austin, of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry (William
C. P. Breckinridge's Regiment), relates that shortly after his
regiment left Milledgevillc, Ga., in the wake of Sherman's
army with a detachment he charged upon a squad of "bums"
who were looting a house. .'Xs his boys rushed in, yelling
-and shooting, they discovered that the house and contents
were almost completely wrecked, an elegant mirror over the
mantel and other furniture smashed, the piano split open with
an ax, and a fire kindled under the house. In one room
they discovered a blue-coated scoundrel holding a young lady
in his arms, and using her as a shield to escape the fast-flying
bullets. Presently, Austin relates, the young woman stiffened
herself and, with a look in her eyes such as Joan of Arc must
have worn when she was going to the stake, exclaimed : "Shoot
through me and kill him." They killed him all right and all
of his companions in crime; but the brave girl was not in-
jured, though her face was spattered with blood, as one of
the Kentuckians, watching his opportunity, reached over her
shoulder and blew the miscreant's brains out.
A reputable physician, now residing near Milledgeville, Ga.,
relates that in South Carolina, as he, with a squad of scouts
from the Third Arkansas Regiment, Harrison's Brigade of
Wheeler's Cavalry, were passing a farmhouse, they saw an
old man leaning on the gatepost crying. He was a Baptist
minister, and told them that a party of Sherman's men had
just left his house, after outraging his daughter.
Horse flesh suffered for a few miles after this; but when
the fiends were overtaken, the old white-haired man of God
and his despoiled daughter were avenged. The Arkansas
boys killed all but one of the ravishing party ; and he, being
only a youth and desperately wounded, was spared when he
pleaded : "Boys, I know why you do this, but I had nothing
to do with it."
The "Ofiicial Records of ilu- War of the Rebellion" contain
considerable correspondence between Kilpatrick and Wheeler
and Sherman and Hampton about the killing by Wheeler's
men of twenty-eight of Kilpatrick's command, and twenty-
eight of our men (one a niomber of my company) were de-
tailed to be shot in retalialion. Wheeler insisted to Kilpatrick
that his men ought to have been killed, and threatened, if our
men were shot, that twice the number of Federals would be
executed, and ofliccrs selected. Our men were exchanged.
These twenty-eight men were killed by squads of scouts
under command of two lieutenants- of my regiment, the Fifty-
First Alabama, Partisan Rangers. One of these ex-lieutenants
opens the monthly meetings of our Camp with prayer, and the
other was until recently president of a female college in
Alabama. I have never been able to get the details from these
scouts, for they are averse to talking about it.
These incidents were related to nic by individual members
I if three regiments, and no doubt other conmiands had similar
experiences. Sherman's "Marching through Georgia" and
South Carolina was not altogether a picnic, for, besides the
lone chimneys and blackened ruins which marked his route,
ihe buzzards feasted on the carcasses of "missing" bummers.
"UNDER CONFEDERATE FLAGS."
."V Richmond (Va.) special of November 16 states: "Amid
a profusion of Confederate flags, while the banner of A. P.
Hill Camp rustled its folds above their heads. Miss Lucy
Lee Hill and Gen. James Macgill were united in marriage at
5:30 o'clock this afternoon in St. Paul Episcopal Church,
Petersburg. It was a military wedding, with a choral service,
and all the ushers were Sons of. Veterans and active in that
organization. Bishop Randolph, assisted by Rev. Dr. Bunting,
performed the ceremony. Mrs. William Macgill was matron
of honor, and the groom's son, Charles Macgill, was best
man. The bride was escorted to the altar by Stith Boling,
Past Grand Commander of the State Grand Camp of Vet-
erans."
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"RECOLLECTIONS AND LETTERS OF GEN. LEE."
(Further extracts from the work by Capt. R. E. Lee.)
Concerning the death of "Jeb" Stuart, Captain Lee writes :
"The death of his dashing chief of cavalry was a great
blow to Gen. Lee. He was on Traveler when a courier
dashed up with the news that Stuart was mortally wounded.
Gen. Lee was evidently greatly affected, and said, slowly,
as he folded up the dispatch: 'Gen. Stuart has been mor-
tally wounded; a most valuable and able officer.' Then,
after a moment he added in a voice of deep feeling, 'He
never brought me a piece of false information,' turned, and
looked away."
At Appomattox, when tlie Inst heroic attempt was made
with Gordon and Fitzhugh Lcc to break through the lines
of the enemy, and Col. Venablc informed Gen. Lee that it
was not possible, he said: 'Then there is nothing left me but
to go and see Gen. Grant." When some one near him,
hearing this, said, "O, General, what will history say of
the surrender of the army in the field?" he replied, "Yes,
I know they will say hard things of us; they will not un-
derstand how we were overwhelmed by numbers; but that
is not the question. Colonel; the question is. Is it right to
surrender this army? If it is right, then I will take all
the responsibility." And he did.
"A day or two after the surrender Gen. Lee started for
Richmond, riding Traveler, who had carried him so
well all through the war. He was accompanied by some
of his staff. On the way he stopped at the house of his eld-
est brother. Charles Carter Lee, who lived in Powhatan
County. He spent the evening in talking with his brother,
but when bedtime came, though begged by his host to take
the room and bed prepared for him, he insiste ' on going
to his (lid lent, pitched by the roadside, and passed the
night in the quarters that he was accustomed to. On April
15 he arrived in Richmond. The people there soon recog-
nized him; men, women, and children crowded around him,
cheering and waving hats and handkerchiefs. It was more
like the welcome to a conqueror tlian to a defeated pris-
oner on parole. He raised his hat in response to their
greetings, and rode quietly to his home on Franklin Street,
where my mother and sisters were anxiously awaiting
him. Thus he returned to that private fainily lif; for which
he had always longed, and became what he always desired
to be — a peaceful citizen in a peaceful land."
To his son at this time he wrote, referring to tii- pro-
posed indictment of prominent Confederates:
"... As soon as I can ascertain their intention to-
ward me, if not prevented, I shall endeavor to procure
some humble but quiet abode for your mother and sisters,
where I hope they can be happy. .Xs 1 before said, I want
to get in some grass country where the natural product of
the land will do much for my subsistence. . . ."
But he finally accepted the presidency of the Washing-
ton College, at Lexington, Va.. and in doing sj felt that
he was taking a constructive step toward the upbuilding
of the land to which he had given his best services.
"General Lee was always romping with the little ones.
He petted the two younger children a great deal.
"Our greatest treat was to get into his bed in the morn-
ing and lie close to him, listening while he talked to us in
his bright, entertaining way. He was very fond of having
his hands tickled, and. what was still more curious, it pleased
and delighted him to take off his slippers and place his feet
in our laps in order to have them tickled. ... He would
often tell us the most delightful stcries, but the command
would be, 'No tickling, no story.' "
Capt. Lee speaks of his father's punctuality, a character-
istic that marked him all his life. Writing of him as com-
mandant at West Point, he says:
"My father was the most punctual man I ever knew. He
was always ready for family prayers, for meals, and met
every engagement, social or business, at the moment. He
expected all of us to be the same. I never knew him late
for Sunday service at the post chapel. When he could
wait no longer for my mother he would march along to
church by himself, or with any of the children who were
ready. There he sat very straight — well p the middle
aisle."
On April 20, i86r. Gen. Lee resigned his commission
in the United States army. In a letter to his sister, he says:
"With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling of loy-
alty and duty of an .\merican citizen, I have not been able
to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives,
my children, my home. ... I knov/ you will blame me;
Init you must think as kindly of me as you can, and be-
lieve that I have endeavored to do what I thought right."
But Virginia had joined the column of her Southern sis-
ters, and Lee was placed in command of her State troops.
There came victory at the first battle of Bull Run. Of
the great battle he wrote to his wife:
"... That, indeed, was a glorious victory and has
lightened the pressure upon our front amazingly. Do not
grieve for the brave dead. Sorrow for those they left be-
hind— friends, relatives, and families. The former are at
rest; the latter must suffer. The battle will be repeated
in greater force. I hope God will again smile on us and
strengthen our hearts and arms. I wished to partake in
the former struggle, and am mortified at my absence, but
the President thought it more important that I should be in
Richmond. I could not have done as well as has been done,
but I could have helped, and taken part in the struggle
for my home and neighborhood."
The deep religious feeling of General Lee is always mani-
fest. On Sunday, December 8, 1861, he wrote to his wife:
"I cannot let this day of grateful rejoicing pass, dear
Mary, without some communication with you. I am thank-
ful for the many among the past that I have passed with
you. and the remembrance of them fills me with pleasure.
For those on which we have been separated we must not
repine. If it will make us more resigned and better pre-
pared for what is in store for us, we should rejoice. Now
we must be content with the many blessings we receive.
If we can only become sensible of our transgressions, so
as to be fully penitent and forgiven, that this heavy punish-
ment under which we labor may with justice be removed
from us and the whole nation, what a gracious consumma-
tion it wmII be of all we have endured!"
No act in Gen. Lee's whole military career was more
typical of his sense of justice and impartiality than when
he allowed his son (the compiler of the present volume)
to enlist as private. Robert was then a student at the
L'niversity of Virginia. He was wild to get into the army.
On this subject General Lee wrote as follows to his wife:
"I w-rote to Robert that I would not consent to take boys
from their schools and young men from their colleges and
put them in the ranks at the beginning of a war. . . .
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The war may last ten years. Where arc our ranks to be
filled from?"
But in the spring of 1862 Gen. Lee allowed his son to
enlist. He joined the Rockbridge Artillery. Of the cir-
cumstance Captain Lee wrote of his father:
"He was just as sweet and loving to me then as in the
old days. I had seen so little of him during the last six
years that I stood somewhat in awe of him. I soon found,
however, that I had no cause for such a feeling. He took
great pains in getting what was necessary for me. It
was characteristic of his consideration for others and the
unselfishness of his nature that at this time, when weighed
down, harassed, and burdened by the cares incident to
bringing the untrained forces of the Confederacy into the
field, and preparing them for a struggle the seriousness
of which he knew better than any one. he should give his
time and attention to the minute details of fitting out his
youngest son as a private soldier. Neither my mother,
my father, my friends, expected any other course, and 1
do not suppose it ever occurred to my father to think of
giving me an office, which he could easily have done. I
know it never occurred to me. With the good advice to
be obedient to all authority, to do my duty in everything.
great or small, he bade me good-by and sent me off to the
\'alley of Virginia, where the command in which I was
about to enlist was serving under 'Stonewall' Jackson."
Capt. Lee became a private in his father's great army.
How he met his father he tells us as follows:
"The day after the battle of Cold Harbor, during the sev-
en days' fighting around Richmond, was the first time I
met my father after I had joined Gen. Jackson. The tre-
mendous work Stonewall Jackson's men had performed,
including the rapid march from the Valley of Virginia, the
short rations, the bad water, and the great heat, had be-
gun to tell upon us. On this particular morning, my bat-
tery had not moved from its bivouac ground of the previous
night, but was parked in an open field, all ready, waiting
orders. Most of the men were lying down, many sleeping,
myself among the latter number. To get some shade and to
be out of the way, I had crawled under a caisson. Sud-
denly I was rudely awakened by a comrade prodding me
with a sponge staff, as I had failed to be aroused by his call,
and was told to get up and come out, that some one wished
to see me. Half awake, I staggered out, and found myself
face to face with Gen. Lee and his staff. Their fresh uni-
forms, bright equipments, and well-groomed horses con-
trasted so forcibly with the war-worn appearance of our
command that I was completely dazed. It took me a mo-
iiu-nt or two to realize what it all meant, but when I saw
my father's loving eyes and smile it became clear to me that
he had ridden by to see me. I remember well how curi-
ously those who were with him gazed at me, and I am
sure that it must have struck them as very odd that such
a dirty, ragged, unkempt youth could have been the son
of Gen. Lee." ^
Continuing, Capt. Lee says:
"When I again saw my father, he rode at the head of
Longstreet's men on the field of Manassas, and we of Jack-
son's Corps, hard pressed for two days, welcomed him, and
the divisions which followed him, with great cheers. The ri-
fle guns from our battery had been detached and sent to join
Longstreet's advance artillery, under Gen. Stephen D. Lee,
moving into action on our right. I was No. i at one of these
guns. We advanced rapidly, from hill to hill, firing as fast
as we could, trying to kee|) ahead of our gallant com-
rades, just arrived. As we were ordered to cease firing from
the last position we took, and the breathless cannoneers
were leaning on their guns. Gen. Lee and staff galloped up,
and from this point of vantage scanned the movements of
the enemy and of our forces. The General reined in
Traveler close by my gun. not fifteen feet from nic. I
looked at them a few minutes, and then went up and spoke
to Capt. Mason, of the staff, who had not the slightest
idea who I was. When he found me out he was greatlv
amused, and introduced me to several others, whom I al-
ready knew. My appearance was even less prepossessing
than when I had met my father at Cold Harbor, for I
had been marching night and day for four days, with no
opportunity to wash myself or my clothes; my face and
hands were blackened with powder sweat, and the few gar-
ments I had on were ragged and stained with the red soil
of that section. When the General, after a moment or
two, dropped his glass to his side, and turned to his staff,
Captain Mason said: "General, here is some one who wants
to speak to you.'
"The General, seeing a mucli-begrinied artilleryman, sponge
staff in hand, said: 'Well, my man, what can I do for you?'
I replied, 'Why. General, don't you know me?' and he of
course at once recognized nic. and was very much amused at
my appcar.-uux- and most gl.id to see thai I was safe and
well."
Hut the most dramatic meeting between father and son
was at Sharpsburg, which Capt. Lee describes as follows:
"As one of the Army of Northern Virginia, I occasion-
ally saw the Commander in Chief on the march, or passed
the headquarters close enough to recognize him and mem-
bers of his staff; but a private soldier in Jackson's Corps
did not have much lime during thai campaign for vis-
iting, and until the battle of Sharpsburg 1 had no oppor-
tunity of speaking, to him. On that occasion our battery
had been severely handled, losing many nun and horses.
Having three guns disabled, we were ordered to with-
draw, and while moving back we passed Gen. Lee and sever-
al of his staff, grouped on a little knoll near the road. Hav-
ing no definite orders where to go, our captain, seeing the
commaniling general, halted us and rode over to get some
instructions. Soane others and myself went over to see and
hear. Gen. Lee was dismounted with some of his staff
around him. a courier holding his horse. Captain Poague,
commanding our battery, the Rockbridge Artillery, salut-
ed, reported our condition, and asked for instructions. The
General, listening patiently, looked at us — his eyes passing
over me without any sign of recognition — and then ordered
Capt. Poague to take the most serviceable horses and men,
iiKui llie uninjured gun, send the disabled part of his com-
anand back to refit, and report to the front for duty. As
Poague turned to go, I went up to speak to my father.
When he found out who I was. he congratulated me on
being well and unhurt. I then said : 'General, are you going
to send us in again?' 'Yes, my son,' he replied with a
smile, 'you all must do what you can to help drive these peo-
ple back.' .Accounts of this meeting between Gen. Lee and
myself have been told very often and in many different ways,
but the above is what I remember of the circumstances."
Of the hard winter of 186,^. Capt. Lee, who had been pro-
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nioted and was then serving on the staff of his brother.
Gen. W. H. F. Lee, says:
"During this winter, which was a very severe one, the
suiiferings of Gen. Lee's soldiers on account of insufficient
shelter and clothing, the scant rations for man and beast,
the increasing destitution throughout the country, and his
inability to better these conditions, bore heavily upon him.
But he was bright and cheerful to those around him, never
complaining of any one nor about anything, and often in-
dulging in his quaint humor, especially with the younger
officers, as when he remarked to one of them, who com-
plained of the tough biscuit at breakfast : 'You ought not to
mind that ; they will stick by you the longer.' "
Yet Gen. Lee was cheerful, even humorous, in the midsi
of discomfort and cold. To his wife he wrote:
"The cars have arrived and brought me a young Frencli
iil'ticer, full of vivacity, and ardent for service, I think the
appearance of things will cool him. If they do not. the
night will, for he brought no blankets. '"
The General was always the Christian knight in the very
midst of war's alarms. His son, Fitzhugh Lee, was captured
by the enemy. Of this event he wrote to his wife:
"I have heard with great grief that Fitzhugh has been
captured by the enemy. Had not expected that he would
be taken from his bed and carried off, but we must bear
this additional aflliction with fortitude and resignation, and
not repine at the will of God, It will eventuate in some good
that we know not of now. We must bear our labors and
hardships manfully. Our noble men are cheerful and con-
fident. I constantly remember you in my thoughts and
prayers."
FLANKING HOOD AT NASHVILLE.
BV CAl'T. THEODORE C. CARTER, COMPANY K, SEVENTH MINNESOTA
INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS. PEADWOOD, S. n.
Editor Veteran: Being absent from home. I did not see
your invitation to "both sides" to contribute articles with
reference to the battle of Nashville. It is now late: but if there
is anything in the following recollections of a line officer
who wore the blue which you think will interest your r.-'nders.
you can use it.
Previous to the battle our regiment, the Seventh Minnesota,
ill the Third Brigade, First Division, Sixteenth Army Corps,
lay along the outer line of works in front of Nashville, our
right resting on the railroad running to Johnsonville. On
the morning of December 15 we marched out through the
fog and formed in column of brigades on the left of the
Harding Pike, and about a mile and one-half in advance of our
works. Here we deployed into line, and I think that our regi-
ment was on the extreme left of our corps. We then marched
in line of battle for some distance, when it was discovered that
there was a long interval to our left wliich was unoccupied.
We lay here until some time in the afternoon, out of range
of small arms, but subject to the fire of a battery on a high
point just to the left of the Hillsboro Pike, which was annoy-
ing, the guns being well served by experienced gunners. Late
in the afternoon we were ordered to storm the works in our
front, being stone walls with a redoubt on the right of the
Hillsboro Pike, just opposite the battery mentioned above.
We advanced on the run down a gentle slope and through
open woods until out of breath, when we lay down for a few
minutes ; then we ran down across a little brook and lay down
under covel" of the slope ascending to the redoubt. We went
into the redoubi. or suc'n portion of our regiment as fronted
on it did. which included my company. Of course all of this
was not done without opposition on the part of the Confeder-
ates. We suffered from the direct fire from the works as-
saulted, and also from a cross fire, enfilading our line part
of the time, from the fort on the hill across the pike.
We had scarcely gained possession of the vv'orks when the
fort across the way opened upon us, not regarding the fact
that there were about as many Confederates with us inside of
the redoubt as there were of our own men.
It is almost a miracle that any one was left alive in that
redoubt, for the gunners cut their fuses so that every shell
Inirst inside of it, and there did not .seem to be ten seconds'
interval between the discharges. Col. S. G. Hill, our brigade
commander, gave the order to charge the fort on the hill, and
was shot through the head the next moment. Our major heard
the order and repeated it: we jumped down from the wall,
and, led by Col. Marshall, crossed the pike and climbed the
bill, ihe Confederates leaving the fort as we got to it. We
followed on through the woods until dusk, when we biv-
ouacked for the night. As we followed the Confederates who
evacuated the fort on the hill, we did not leave any one to
take possession of the guns, and I saw a line of our troops
advancing toward it from the front, but several hundred yards
distant. They bravely marched up to it and carried the works,
and received the credit, which their commander claimed in his
report, and which, so far as I know, was never disputed, as
the reports were never seen until publishc<l by the govern-
ment.
I have just looked over the reports of Col. Wolfe, com-
manding the Third Brigade, Second Division. Detachment
.Vrmy of the Tennessee (by which we were designated at
Nashville instead of Sixteenth Corps), and find he claims that
his skirmishers captured the fort : but from Gen. Smith's
report it seems that the Fourth Corps captured it. It might
be interesting to ascertain how many guns were captured at
Nashville, taking the statements of our generals and subordi-
nate commanders as being correct.
.'\lthough tired out with the day's experiences, the night was
so cold that I could get no continuous sleep. We were
aroused long before daylight of Ihe i6th and made a long
and weary march, hailing at some newly constructed works,
probably the abandoned Confederate line of the day before.
Here we halted, but in a few moments an orderly rode up on
the gallop, and the next moment the bugle sounded the "as-
sembly." followed by the "march." . . . We swung to the
right, with my company on the "moving flank." and it was
hard work to get through the woods: but finally we came out
to a road, crossing which we went into a field and into a
ravine which led up to the rear of the "Bradford House." In
this ravine we stopped to catch our breath, and found it a good
place to be in, as a brisk cannonading was being carried on
over our heads, one of my men being wounded from a piece
of shell while resting there.
Directly the regiment began moving to the right by the
flank, and as my position in line of battle when on the march
was on the left of my company, and as the ravine was narrow
and the comiiauy strung out in single file, it took me some
time to run to the head, which saved my life, for when within
about twenty feet of my proper position, the regiment coming
out of the ravine on to the grounds around the "Bradford
House," a shell from the Pointe Coupee Batterj' (Louisiana
Troops) burst and killed the rear man of the company in front
of mine and the first man of my company.
We went into line at right angles to the Granny White Pike,
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our left slightly in advance of the house, but a little to the
right of it, the Twelfth Iowa being between us and the pike.
Here we lay in the rain skirmishing until about 3 P.M., when
we saw one of our regiments on the extreme right of our line
(on Shy's Hill) begin a charge on the Confederate works. As
we saw them go over the works and heard the cheering we
realized that the business was "catching," and that in a few
minutes we would have to do the same thing.
About the time the first regiment had reached the Confed-
erate works the next one to it started, and in that order they
kept on until but a short distance away from us, when our
colonel, who was commanding the brigade that day, rode from
our right and rear and ordered us to charge.
We rose and, throwing down the fence, advanced on the run
until we reached the Confederate rifle pits, made of rails,
where we halted for breath. The field was a hard one to
travel over, the nuid being ankle deep. Directly we advanced,
the regiment obliqued to the right to get through the only
gap in the wall ; in fact, the only one for a long distance either
way. My company was directly in front of the Pointe Coupee
Battery, which had poured grape, canister, and shrapnel into
us from the moment we started, and the supporting line had
also done their share with their rifles. The works, a stone
wall built up very high, with rails laid a part of the way from
the top and sloping to the ground toward us, had no opening
in our front, except a slight notch at the top, just to the left
of the battery. The greater portion of my company had,
as was right, "touched elbows" to the right, while ten or
twelve had touched to the left ; and, as I was looking to the
front, calculating how we could get over the wall, I had not
noticed the oblique movement. As soon as I saw it, there
being a wide gap in my company, I told the boys that we
would go right ahead. We reached the wall just as the
"break" came, and the notch in the wall was so high, and I
was so badly used up with a stitch in the side, that the boys
had to boost me up to the notch, through which I climbed
and dropped to the ground just as my colonel came along
inside the line on the gallop, calling out : "Lay down your
arms and surrender." There were but four or five men in the
battery, one the commander, Capt. Alcide Bouanchaud, and
they had ceased resisting. I told the men who were with
me to follow me, and went to the support of my colonel,
who was entirely alone and surrounded by, apparently, thou-
sands of the Confederates. In the morning, before we ad-
vanced, I had told my second lieutenant, James B. Turrittin,
that, in the event of our capturing any cannon that day, to take
a guard and stay with them. This he did, as our company,
after getting inside of the works, advancing by the left
flank, were the first to reach the battery. And now I learn
from "history," if the reports of oflicers are history, that the
brigade directly on our right captured the battery; and, in
fact, the brigade commander, with his staff, rode down and
ordered my lieutenant to take his men and rejoin his regi-
ment. But the lieutenant told him flatly that he would only
be relieved by his own officers. . . . The two brigade com-
manders got together — I think they were politicians — and
agreed to divide the guns, each taking two.
I also learn from the same source that the command on
my left, which did not start until after we did, also captured
those same gims ; and they even went one better, for one of
their men captured (?) the guidon of the battery, and re-
ceived notice in general orders and a Congressional medal
for bravery in action — all of which should teach soldiers that,
when they capture anything, they should rummage around and
see that there is not anything left lying on the ground, and
take the whole aggregation with them. Such is glory.
Now, I never thought much about the glory business until
since I began to read history from the "Rebellion Records."
I now see how it is done.
I forgot to say in the proper place that there was no inten-
tion of charging the Confederates on the l6th. as we had
received orders to intrench, and our details sent for intreu'-h-
ing tools had nearly reached our lines when the charge took
place. Besides, Col. Marshall told me a few days after, that
he went to Gen. Smith's headquarters and urged the General
to make a charge, that the General said : "No, there will be
no charge. We are going to intrench." While talking he
heard the noise of the charge, the increased fire, and the
cheering, and he said to the General, "They are charging
now," to which the General replied: "No, I don't understand
that there is to be a charge." But the Colonel did not wait
for any more words^ — he put spurs to his horse and dashed up.
as I have described, and ordered the charge.
Tennessee Flags at Gettysburg. — There were only three
organized regiments of Tennessee troops in the Army 01
Northern V'irginia — the First, the Seventh, and the Fourteenth.
All three were members of Archer's Brigade and participated
in Pickett's memorable charge on the last day at Gettysburg.
Lieut. Col. S. G. Shepard, of the Seventh, in his report of the
action of Archer's Brigade on that day says, in speaking of the
Tennesseeans: "The First Tennessee had three color bearers
shot down, the last falling at the enemy's works and the flag
being captured; the Fourteenth had four color bearers shot
down, the last falling at llie enemy's works; the Seventh
had three color bearers shot down, the last falling at the
enemy's works, but the flag was saved by Captain A. D.
Norris, who tore it from the staflf and brought it out under
his coat."
"Brave Tennessee ! Reckless the way
Virginia heard her comrade say.
'Close round this rent and riddled rag,'
What time she set her battle flag
Amid the guns of Doubleday."
Tribute to Gen. W. J. Hardee. — Concerning Rev. P. D.
Stephenson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Woodstock,
Va., who was chaplain of Govan's Brigade, Cleburne's
Division, Hardee's Corps, wrote to ex-Gov. James D. Porter,
Nashville, as follows: "My Dear and Honored Sir and
Comrade: I read last night your short tribute to Gen.
Hardee in the October Veteran, just to hand. You say:
'One of these days, when the Veteran has a surplus of
space and I have more leisure, I will recount to its read-
ers the story of his campaign.' These words embolden me,
stranger though I am. to drop you this note, .^nd my ob-
ject is to beg you to do that thing at once. It will be at
the cost of much labor and self-sacrifice, I am sure, for
a busy man like you, but I believe I can speak in the name of
the whole army of Tennessee, and especially 'Old Relia-
ble's' own corps, when I plead with you to rescue his name
from the reproach of the oblivion now threatening it. Gen.
Hardee, in my judgment, came nearer to Gen. Lee in round-
ness and greatness of gifts and character than any other of
our commanders. His modesty kept it hid from the public
eye, but his soldiers knew it. He never made a mistake, nor
failed in any self-originated undertaking."
Gov. Porter has several letters of like nature, and every
surviving soldier of the Army of Tennessee would be grat-
ified to see imperishable record of the honor due Gen. Har-
dee.
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FROM GROUP OF CI IS MADE FOR U. S. C. V.
Col. W. A. Polk, of Corsicana, Tex., sends the following
notice: "There passed away about two years ago, in Bloom-
ing Grove, Tex., W. R. Chambers, who was a lieutenant
in the Second Missouri Cavalry, under Col. Robert Mc-
Culloch. He served under different brigade commanders,
in Buford's and Chalmers's Divisions alternately, under For-
rest. His widow is now a resident of Columbus. Miss.,
which State is paying a nice pension to the widows of Con-
federate soldiers. Mrs. Chambers is in very reduced cir-
cumstances, and any information in regard to Lieut. Cham-
bers's war record, addressed to me. will be promptly for-
warded to her."
THE BUGLES OF THE GRAY.
BY T. C. HARBAUGH.
I Stood one night where Shenandoah
Goes singing to the .sea;
'Neath bush and pine and crag and vine
It sang a song to me;
The cricket had retired to rest.
Hushed was the saber play,
r.ut far and near I seemed to hear
The bugles of the Gray.
The starlight fell upon the waves,
The night was clear and still,
Mclhought I saw the camp fires gleam
Upon a battle hill ;
And through the lone pines seemed to conic
In mellow notes, but gay,
Now mingled with the magic drums.
The bugles of the Gray.
I seemed to see beyond the stream
The stainless sword of Lee,
To catch the flash of Stuart's plume
That led to victory;
I listened 'mong the somber pines
That stretched so far away.
And lieard along the battle lines
The bugles of the Gray.
lint ah ! it must have been a dream
Where flows the river fai";
I look and sec no lines of Lee,
I'or all is stillness there;
The tender brave who nobly died
Where carnage held its sway
\\ ill hear no more along that shore
The bugles of the Gray.
They're hushed fore'er, no more they'll blow.
The lips they touched are still.
The rider and his steed doth rest
LTpon the ghostly hill;
Hut ah! a people loved to hear.
By night as well as day.
Where sweetly flows the Shenandoah,
The bugles of the Gray.
They're silent where they sweetly blew,
Tlicy stirred heroic souls;
\ people weep o'er those who sleep
Where far the river rolls;
r.ut that fair night by Shenandoah
I surely heard them play,
.\nd still I hear in accents clear
The bugles of the Gray.
THE FIGHT AT FORT GILMER.
BY DR. T. J. MAY, ENNIS. TEX.
In the June 'Veteran, page 286, Gen. George Reese, of Pen-
.sacola, J-'la., gives an account of what he saw five Confederate
soldiers do at Fort Gilmer, in front of Richmond, not Peters-
burg, as the heading of the article indicates. I was one of
the five men he refers to, and remember the circumstance
Gen. Reese describes just as distinctly as if it had happened
last week. This bloody little fight sounds so unreasonable
that I would never have written an account of it had it not
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been first mentioned by one who witnessed the results and
did not himself participate in it, but at the same time ex-
pressing a desire to know if any of the five men who defended
Fort Gilmer were yet living. I do not remember the exact
(late, but it was in the spring of 1864. Hood"s Texas Brigade
was stationed to the right of New Market Heights. The First
Texas was on the left, in a creek bottom heavily timbered, the
Fourth next to the First, the Fifth next, and the Third Arkan-
sas on the right, 'ihe negroes charged our line before it was
light enough for us to sec them two hundred yards away.
Just before daylight our pickets in front began to fire, and
instantly our men were up and formed before the bugle could
sound the assembly. Shortly our pickets bounded over the
breastworks, shouting out: "Niggers, boys, niggers." By the
time the last ones got inside we could dimly see the first
line approaching through an old apple orchard in our front.
"Make every shot count, boys," was the order, and we did.
The negroes made a dash for the timber in front of the First
Texas. They were four lines deep when they made a rush for
our works, and some of them got over. Word quickly passed
up the line that the First Texas and the negroes were fighting
it out in the ditch together. Without waiting for orders the
Fourth dashed for that part of the line, and killed all the
negroc> inside, except a few that were taken prisoners.
Just after sunrise a courier galloped up and informed Gen.
Field that the Yankees had captured Fort Harrison, about
three miles to our right and on the same line with us. This
necessitated our withdrawal lo an inner line, a half mile in
our rear, and nearer Richmond. In falling back I became
separated from my command, and reached the line near a little
fort, unoccupied at the time, in which were two cannon. .V
comrade named Stewart was with nie, and in a few minutes
three other soldiers came in. If I remember correctly, two
were North Carolinians and the other from Georgia. The
negroes had followed us closely, and in a few minutes we
saw their lines coming. I remarked tliat if we had any one
who knew how to handle the cannon I thought we could
stand them off for a time at least, whereupon the two "Tar
Heels" said they knew how to serve the guns. There was
plenty of ammunition, and at it we went, giving them first
shell, and, as they came nearer, grapcshot and canister. They
tried to break ranks several times and fall back, but their
white officers behind them, slashing right and left with their
swords, drove them on, until they got to our works and in the
moat that surrounded the little fori.
We had abandoned the cannon and gone to our muskets
just before they reached the ditch, and as soon as one would
show his head above the works we would shoot him. They
would lift each other up on their shoulders, but it was certain
death when they showed their heads. After we had killed a
number of them they appeared to get tired of that kind of
exercise and gave us a breathing spell, when one of our
artillery fellows found time to cut and light the fuse to a
shell, which he threw over amongst them ; it exploded, evi-
dently doing much damage, for, after tossing over the second
one, they yelled out that they would surrender. My recollec-
tion is that something like four hundred surrendered; but I
do know that there were between forty and fifty killed in the
moat, some by the shells, but most of them were shot in the
head. I desire to say to Comrade Reese that I am the one,
of the five in the fort, who carried him up on the parapet and
showed him the dead negroes in the moat beneath us. I
remember the incident distinctly.
■FICHTIXG" KILPATIilCK'S ESC.^^'l:.
llV H. II. SCOTT, MORG.^^.\. s. c.
In the April \'eteran, page 177. Lieut. Col. John W. Inzer,
of the Twenty-Second and Fifty-Eighth Alabama Infantry,
writes of how Gen. Kilpatrick's command was surprised and
• hat officer's pistols and holsters" were captured by Gen.
Wheeler's command. Comrade Inzer's informant (he writes
from hearsay) is mistaken. Gen. Wade Hampton is the one
entitled to the honor of surprising Kilpatrick. Comrade
Inzer says : "Gen. Wheeler divided his command and sur-
rounded Kilpatrick's camp that night. He first sent out scouts
lo take in the Yankee pickets ; this was done successfully, and
at break of day the command was ordered -to cross a marshy
swamp and attack the enemy."
Now Lieut. Gen. VYade Hampton, in command of all the
cavalry, including Wheeler's, was present. The writer, who
was one of Gen. Hampton's headquarters scouts, and Capt.
.Shannon, chief of Wheeler's scouts, rode in front of our
colunms most of the day, Gen. M. C. Butler's Division lead-
ing. We struck the road on which Kilpatrick was moving
a little after dark, in his rear, and it was at that time we
captured his rear guard pickets. Consequently there was
nothing to interrupt our march. Gen. Hampton, Capt. Shan-
non, and I, riding in front of the column, soon came within
sight of Kilpatrick's camp fires, w-hen Gen. Hampton ordered
me to go back and "tell Gen. Butler to halt the command, dis-
mount, and hold their horses;" and they did hold their horses
all night in the road. Next morning Gen. VYhecler was or-
dered to cross a swamp and get in the rear of Kilpatrick.
Owing to the marshy condition of his route, he failed to gel
all of his command over in time, and Butler's Division did
most of the fighting that day.
The troops that led the charge were Colib's Legion, com-
manded by Col. Gibb Wright. I well remember this, for Gen.
Butler said to me as we were forming: "Now, Scott, you have
been trying all along to get stripes on your collar. If you will
bring Kilpatrick out to-day, you shall have them." I asked
what command was going to lead, and when he told me
Cobb's Legion I rode up to Col. Wright, who knew me as one
of Gen. Hampton's scouts, and got permission to go with
him. "Fall in here by me," he answered, in reply to my re-
quest, and he and I were the two front men in the column.
We rode some distance into Kilpatrick's camp before Col.
Wright ordered the charge, and would doubtless have sur-
rounded his headquarters had it not been for some of our men,
who were prisoners. Kilpatrick had captured about three
hundred, and, as we got up so they could recognize us, they
gave a genuine old Rebel yell. Then Col. Wright ordered
the charge, and at it we went. Gen. Kilpatrick was up, had
on slippers, and was looking at his horses ; and in that condi-
tion made his escape. I know nothing about the capture of
Kilpatrick's pistols or holsters; but if the orderly sergeant
of Company E. Fifteenth Alabama Cavalry, led the charge of
the attacking party, as Comrade Inzer has heard, and cap-
tured the holsters and pistols, it was after we had run over
Kilpatrick's headquarters and taken his camp.
Now in reference to Kilpatrick's spotted horse : A man
named Watkins, of Cobb's Legion, from Augusta, Ga., cap-
tured the horse, and I am satisfied that Gen. Wheeler never
threw his leg over that animal, for afterwards, during the
armistice at Hillsboro, N. C, Watkins was a member of the
escort to Gens. Johnston and Hampton and rode the spotted
horse. Gen. Kilpatrick saw and recognized him, and gave
Watkins two good horses for him.
I write this only to correct errors and to give honor to
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whom honor is due. Comrade Inzer's informant is also wrong
about the little fight at Fayetteville. N. C. where he says
"Wheeler gave Kilpatrick a good thrashing." Wc entered this
town about eight or nine o'clock in the mnrning. Wheeler's
command in front. I asked Gen. Hampton linw long he would
be there, as I wished to get breakfast at a private house. He
consented. When I came out after breakfast T saw- some of
Wheeler's men falling back. They informed me that the Yan-
kees had charged their advance squad and cut it in two. I saw
some troops near the river, and, as it was my duty to find out
what was in the town, I rode down four or five blocks. When
I came to the market house there was a squad of ten or fifteen
Yankee cavalry in line, who fired on nie as I passed. Near
the river I met Gen. Hampton and reported wdial I had seen.
There were four other scouts with him. Turning, he .said:
"You scouts follow me. Where are they. Scott?" When we
turned the corner of the street they were silting as 1 had left
them. The General ordered us to charge, and in we went.
We killed some, captured some, and soon had them on the
run. Turning back, we saw another party that had come in
the street behind us. .-Vgain we were ordered to charge, and in
we went. I saw Gen. Hampton cut tw-o out of their saddles
with liis saber. In these two little bruslies we killed thirteen
and cajilurcd twelve.
Now to convince Comrade Inzer of the truth of ibis state-
ment I submit a copy of a letter in my possession, written by
Gen. Hampton, complimenting the little squad that w-as with
him on that occasion :
'*T<i Lieut. Ilarleston, Charleston Light Dragoors.
"Lieutenant. I eonnnend to you Privates Wells. Bellinger.
and Fishburn. of your company, who, with Private Scott and
one member of Wheeler's command, whose name I regret I
do not remember, acted with conspicuous gallantry in charg-
ing and driving from the town of Fayetteville that portion of
the enemy's cavalry that had entered before it had been
evacuated by my troops. Their conduct on this occasion re-
flects high credit on thcni as soldiers.
"Your obedient servant. W.mie II.\MfTON'. Lieut. Gcii.
"March lu, iS/tt; "'
In after years, when Gen. Hampton was Railroad Connnis-
sioner and out on the Pacific Coast, a man came up and intro-
duced himself as Deane Day. stating that it was tlie first time
he had seen the General since that memorable morning of the
market house in Fayetteville, N. C. ; that he was then chief
of scouts for the Fourteenth Army Corps; thai be had sixly-
Iwo men in town that morning, but tlial, cateliing his squads
divided and surprising them, besides figliting like devils, we
had fairly licked him. Day was captured and had on a Con-
federate gray tmiform. Gen. Hampton told him he would
certainly have had him shot the next morning h;id he not
made his escape tli:;t night.
GEN. WHEELER IS THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN.
HY W. H. D.WIS. FOURTH TEXNESSF.E r.W.M.RY, D.XLLA.S. TEX.
The sequel to our fight with Gen. Kilpatrick as described
on pages 70 and 77 in the Feliruary number of the Veteran
[To which this is a cominuation. — Fn.| was a general ad-
vance of Sherman's entire army at daylight of May 7,
1864. His line of battle was more than a mile in length,
covered by a heavy line of skirmishers. Of course Joe
Wheeler's men were always in evidence when Mr. Kil-
patrick made a sally from the F\deral Infantry, .ind every
inch of the terra tirnia w.is stubbornly contested, but about
It A.M. Mr. Yank got too frisky for us and told us to —
Backward March! But the Johnnies didn't like that: so
we picked our dints afresh and were ready to measure
swords again.
On the date mentioned, at daylight. Sherman's bugles
soimded, "Forward!" Little Joe had slept with one eye
open, and soon after day dawn. Old Paul having taken his
usual decoction of "pine top" and his libation of boiling cof-
fee from his quart tin cup, yelled out, "Bill! [Bill was his
nigger], put my saddle on Doak !" — his war horse — and in
quick succession Jim Nance's old battered bugle sounded
"Boots and Saddles." In a jiffy every man was mounted
and in line.
Kilpatrick's cavalry was in advance of the infantry skir-
mishers, and of course were the first to encounter our pick-
ets, the officers of whom had been advised by scouts of
Sherman's general advance, and were stubbornly resist-
ing every foot of ground from behmd obstructions and
rail breastworks at various points north of Tunnel Hill,
Our brigade — then composed of the First Tennessee, Maj.
Jos. J, Dobbins; Second Tennessee, Capt. John H. Kuhn;
Fourth Tennessee. Lieut. Col, Paul F. Anderson; Fifth
Tennessee. Col, George W. McKenzie; and Ninth Ten-
nessee Battalion, Maj. Jas. H. Akin — was known as Hume's
Brigade, but in command of Col. James T. Wheeler, Gen.
Himie being in command of the division composed of
Grigsby's. Harrison's, Hannon's. and his own brigades.
.\ little after sunrise our brigade, with Capt. Ben F.
Wliite's battery, took position on the hill over the tunnel
tbriuigb which the W. & \. Railroad runs, and success-
fully resisted several combined attacks of infantry and cav-
alry. .'\bout II o'clock we were forced to abandon the hill,
and at }. o'clock we were driven back to the fortifications
occupied by our infantry.
On May 8 we were moved to near A'arnell's Station,
on the Cleveland and Dalton Road, wdiere we met Gen.
McCook with 5.000 Feddies. Our brigade formed on a
black-jack ridge just west of the railroad, fronting west.
McCofik's men occupied a similar hill in our front — an
open valley with an occasional dead tree intervening. Some
desultory firing was going on, the two lines being about
two himdred yards apart, and Gen. Hume and Old Paul
were sitting on their horses, discussing the situation while
awaiting orlers. wdien Gen. Hume was hit on the chest by
a spent bullet which caused considerable pain but did not
lacerate the flesh. .At this juncture our skirmishers were
sent forward, and simultaneously Gen. McCook ordered
his skirmish line forward. Heck Gann, of Company E, and
1 leaped over the fence together, and our line moved for-
ward at a quick trot. The Yanks saw at once that we had
started to continue going, and after we had arrived within
one hundred yards of them they beat a retreat, but kept
pumping Spencer rifle bullets at us until within the timber,
when their main li-ie delivered at us a solid volley. As
we simultaneously fell against the tree. Heck ejaculated
excitedly: "'Coon.' did you «ee that volcano explode up
thar on the hill?" Our main line was preparing for a charge
on horseback, but before our bugles blasted the signal
"Forward!" the enemy delivered another solid volley and
retired, leaving some eight or ten of their skirmishers on
the field. We lost five men slightly wounded. .\t nightfall
wc were withdrawn to near the right of our infantry line.
May 12 we moved again to near Varneil's Station, and fell
uiion Gen, Stoiu-nian's Corps and drove it to Rocky Face
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Ridge, killing, wounding, and capuiring 150. The rout-
ing of Stoneman's men was so complete, and their conster-
nation so great, that they fired four hundred wagons loaded
with supplies to prevent them from falling into our hands.
Our scouts ascertained that all but about two divisions
of the enemy were rapidly marching toward Resaca. Gen.
Johnston having abandoned Rocky Face Ridge the night
previous, Little Joe's entire corps occupied his breast-
works at daylight. May 13, and after several severe en-
gagements, in which the enemy must have sustained heavy
loss, we retired gradually and in good order toward Til-
ton, where we were reenforccd by Gen. John C. Brown's
Brigade of Infantry. Here the enemy held our front
in superior numbers, while he turned our left flank, causing
Gen. Wheeler to form his command in a right angle. The
enemy furiously attacked both our fronts with many times
our number, but were held in check until 9 p.m.
Continual fighting was the order of the day, and on May
15 we were ordered to a point south of Oostanaula River,
near Resaca. Gen. Stoneman essayed to capture Gen. Har-
dee's hospital. We met his attack with alacrity ; we hit them
so quick and so hard that the enemy seemed dazed, and
they no doubt wondered how it all occurred — and their hospi-
tal was in our posession before they were aware of it.
That night about midnight. Gen. Johnston having aban-
doned his works, we occupied them. There were two 150-
pounder siege pieces about the center of our line that were
fired at regular intervals during the night. Their doleful
boom created a feeling of lonesomencss, and I felt — and I
suppose that the rest of the Johnnies and Yanks did too — as
if they were knelling the "last syllable of recorded time."
At 4 .\.M.. May 17, we occupied the breastworks which
Gen. Johnston had abandoned during the night — which the
enemy quickly discovered and opened their batteries. About
daylight our brigade was crossing the river through a
weatherboard-covered bridge, while solid shot and shell
were making kindling wood of it. Capt. Ben. White's bat-
tery chimed in from the bank of the river for which we were
headed in regular cadence, responsive to oui- vociferous
yells. Neither a man nor a horse was touched. Wheeler's
Corps was always between the "webfeet" and the enemy,
except in general engagements, when at least half of his men
were dismounted and fought as infantry, while the re-
mainder, mounted, guarded the right and left flanks, giv-
ing the commanding general hourly information.
After skirmishes day and night — and many of them were
battles — on May 20, our corps, except Allen's Brigade,
which had been sent to Gen. W. H. Jackson's assistance,
was retired across the Etowah River late in the afternoon
The two days following we fed and rested ourselves and
horses, the boys for the most part putting in the time
sleeping. May 23, at an early hour, our buglers blasted
"Boots and Saddles," and in less than an hour we were re-
crossing the Etowah, and that day and night scouts were
dispatched in all directions, like the opening of a fan, to
ascertain the strength, location, and movements of the en--
emy. At midnight. May 24. after quietly resting that day.
we moved toward Cass Station. Gen. Kelly had been sent
out from our left wing, while Fighting Joe, with Hume's
Division, went out from our right wing, the objective poirt
of both columns being Cass Station, in Sherman's rear.
Gen. Kelly, having had several hours' start of our column,
was within striking distance of a large torce of infantry and
cavalry, and at. once struck. Being in hearing distance of
Kelly's guns, we quickened our pace, arriving ii the nick
of time to prevent his defeat. The appearance of our di-
vision seemed to have a wholesome cfTect on his men and a
demoralizing influence on the enemy. Paul's people and
the Eighth Texas were quickly in line together, when Lit-
tle Joe observed a large force of Kilpatrick's Cavalry rap-
idly advancing' on us and orderedwus to meet them in a center
charge. The enemy charged with a ferocity that was dazzling,
but they were just the kind of people we wanted to get mixed
up with. Our bold dash and excellent use of six-shooters
very soon decided us the victors, hut it looked at one time
like defeat for George Schutt's perforated old battle flag,
but victory smiled. During the charge the horse of Lieu-
tenant Jas. H. Williamson, of my company, ran away with
him, taking him through the enemy's line, and contin-
ued the run for one hundred yards beyond before he could
control him. At this juncture the enemy's line wavered,
and we drove them back in confusion. Lieutenant Wil-
liamson rejoined his company by rumiiiig through their
stampeded line. .At this moment Allen's Brigade, which had
been appointed to take off the captured mules, horses, and
wagons, etc., was being hard pressed, and Gen. Hume or-
dered us to his assistance. This time we were put square
on our mettle, for the Feddies were making determined effort
to. recover their losses, and the Johnnies were opposed to
yielding the good grub they had corralled, and at them we went
without the faintest idea of defeat. Our six-shooters
versus Spencer rifles turned the trick in our favor and made
us masters of the situation.
The resuit of our expedition was the killing and wounding
of over 200 officers and men, capturing and safely conduct-
ing to our own lines eighty wagons and teams, 182 pris-
oners, 300 horses and saddles. 125 nniles : the destruction of
a large amount of stores; and burning 400 wagons loaded
with arnty supplies at Cass Station.
May 26 we regained our main army near Dallas, ami
took position on the right flank. Our total effective strength
at Cass Statiui; vva.s' 822 men, who accomplished what we did
in the face of 3,000 cavalry and 15,000 infantry. How differ-
ent from the same trick attempted by Generals Stoneman
and McConk south of the Chattahoochee, which I will de-
scribe later on.
Gen. Johnston sent the following message to our com-
mander:
"He.^dqiwrthrs May 25, 1864.
"Ge)i. Whcclcr: Gen. Johnston congratulates you on your
success in the enemy's rear. He wishes the captured wagons
sent to the chief quartermaster.
W. W. M.\cK.\i.i., Chief of Staff."
May 27 Paul's people rejoined their old chums. 'Third
.Arkansas, Eighth and Eleventh Texas, commanded by Gen.
Tom Harrison, than whom a braver man never bestrode a
horse. This was a memorable day. ,iiul will live . forever
fresh in the recollection of every member of Hume's and
Kelly's Divisions. The event was the battle of New Hope
Church. The enemy iff two divisions of infantry were mak-
ing a desperate attempt to gain our rear by turning our
left wing. We met them on foot, and in the open pine
forest repulsed them with immense slaughter, driving them
back to their breastworks. Being reenforccd by our infan-
try, we re-formed in the rear of New Hope Church, which
faced west, under a galling fire of grape, canister, and
shrapnel. Our bugles sounded "Forward." and by a slight
rletuur we circumvented the church when Jim Nance blasted
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591
"Charge!" The enemy's line of earthworks was then about
one hundred and twenty-five yards distant. We vented a
yell and threw ourselves into the breach and accomplished
a victory that cost us dearly, but wrote the name of Har-
rison's Brigade high up on the scroll of fame. We fought
ten times our number, and from the- bullet holes in the north
wall of the church. I cannot realize how any of us escaped.
We left a large percentage of our knightly comrades wel-
tering in their blood. They were the conquerors, for they
died in the lap of Victory, but we who survived the bloody
struggle must mourn our loss and lament in defeat. "A
many a time and oft'' I have wished that my life had been
sacrificed on my dear Southland's altar ; for when that flag
we had so "gladly, wildly, madly" followed when the parch-
ing heat of the summer solstice was almost beyond hu-
man endurance, when the north wind's blast "poured round
all," making "fields and forest bare." was forever furled.
my hopes and happiness went down with it.
From May 6 to May .^i Wheeler's Corps, never number-
ing over 3,800 effective men. captured 982 prisoners, four
stands of colors, 1,200 horses, 500 mules, 1,500 beef cattle,
ei.^hty wagons, and burned or caused to be burnc<l 800 wag-
ons loaded with army sni)plies, besides half .a million dollars'
worth of the same in station buildings along the W. & A. Rail-
road, several miles of which were torn up and numerous
bridges burned. God only knows how many we killed and
wounded. Our losses in the time mentioned were : ".l killed.
341 wounded, 53 captured. 81 missing; total, 548, or 16 per
cent.
located them by the smoke of their guns coming out of the
leaves. We fired on them, and two fell out like squirrels ;
the otlier came down and ran as I never saw a man run be-
fore.
"I was captain of Company A, Lewis's Battalion."
No Change in the Words of "Dixie." — At a business
meeting of the United Confederate Veterans during the reunion
Gen. George P. Harrison, of Opelika. Ala., introduced a reso-
lution at the request of the Alabama Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, asking that the Veterans appoint a committee to confer
with the Daughters upon the matter of revising the words of
"Dixie." After a prolonged discussion, Gen. Cabell, of Texas,
opposed the appointment of the committee and said : "That
song furnished us inspiration through four long years of fight-
ing. It has furnished inspiration ever since, and I don't think
that we, standing with one foot in the grave, should permit
any change in those words." The Convention finally voted to
appoint a committee, however, as a matter of courtesy to the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
That Hard Siege of Spanish Fort. — A letter from Eli
Davis, East Lake, Ala., states : "I read with interest G. T,
Cullins's article in the July issue (page 354) of the siege of
Spanish Fort, near Mobile, Ala. I was one of the first to
strike the Yankees at Hollywood, below the fort. We fought
them until they forced us back into the ditches of the fort.
The report that they were heavily recnforccd at Hollywood is
true. I was in one of the detachments from Tennessee and
Georgia of which Comrade CuUins spoke. I went through the
fight at Missionary Ridge and New Hope Church and other
hard battles, and from the time the fight at Spanish Fort com-
menced until the end it was as hard as T was ever in. We
fought two days before they forced us back to the ditches. For
sixteen days we had a hard time. I well remember the night
when three lines of battle charged our picket line, but we forced
them back. At daylight they were two hundred yards in
our front, behind stumps and logs. By 11 a.m. they had
killed or wounded all in my pit but myself. . . . Three
of them climbed a sweet gum tree, the only tree in front
nearer than mu- mile, and at one o'clock they fired on ns. We
MONUMENT AT LIBERTY. MISSOURI.
With appropriate ceremonies the Confederate monument at
Liberty, Mo , was unveiled on the ist of October in the pres-
ence of a good crowd, notwithstanding the rainy weather. A
splendid dinner was served afterwards to all who attended
by the Daughters of the Confederacy. Senator Cockrell made
confederate MONTMENT at I.lliERTV. MO.
the address of the occasion, referring to that date as his
seventieth birthday and expressing pleasure at being with
Clay County people on that anniversary. His address was
followed by one from Maj. P. ^^ Savery. of Tupelo, Miss.
The erection of this moniiment is due to the special effort
of Capt. P. W. Reddish, who inaugurated the movement, and
was ably assisted by other Confederates of the county. His
report shows that the monument complete cost $1,135.20, and
a balance of $115.95 he has placed iu llic hands of the county
court as a fund for the care of the monument throughout the
coming years. This work was done by Comrade Reddish
through his love and affection for the dead comrades who
never knew the result of the war.
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QoF>federat(^ l/eteraij.
ENGINEERS IS USE OF BATTLE.
BV W. C. POWELL. BAIRD, TEX.
In Senator Daniels's history report, made to the Grand Camp
of Virginia Confederate Veterans, in which he styles the loss
of the War Department records "The Tragedy of Virginia,"
and appeals to all veterans to assist in restoring those records,
he refers in the following words to the Engineer Troops of
the A. X. V. : •'Col. T. M. R. Talcott. of Richmond, Va., was
colonel of an engineer regiment. They were not only daily
and nightly hard at work on Lee's retreat, but they were in
tlie line at Appomattox with guns in their hands, and, as I
believe, shot the last gun and killed the last Federal soldier
that fell on the field."
I was in that "line at Appomatto.x," and what Senator
Daniels gives as his belief I wish to confirm and put upon
record as a fact. Col. Talcott commanded the First Regi-
ment of Engineer Troops, and I was sergeant in Company I
of that regiment. At Petersburg, on .^pril 2. we were armed
with Mississippi rifles, and served as infantry, the men car-
rying rifles, with eighty rounds of ammunition, in addition
to picks, shovels, and axes. On the night of April 8 we were
in the rear guard at .Appomattox River, and very early in
tlie morning were roused u]) and hurried to the front. The
sun was well up when we got there, and the fight was on.
We were put in on the left with Gordon's Corps, retaking a
battery of artillery which I understood had been taken first
by the Federal cavalry, then retaken by our cavalry, again
by the Federals, and again by our command as infantry.
Shortly after we got to the summit of the hill, on which this
battery was located, and formed into line, all hostilities seemed
to cease. There was no firing in any direction and no Federal?
were in view. Open, cultivated land for about one-third of a
mile wide was in front of us, and then heavy woods ; to the
right and left of us our lines were in plain view. After hold-
ing this position some lime, I could sec the different troop-.
of our line marching off the field to the rear, and while these
movements were going on Gen. Custer and staff, with some
of our oflficers. passed to our right going to the rear. Wc
thought they were prisoners and gave them a hearty cheer.
In a short time our little line of about three hundred and fifty
men was all that was left in sight. Then from the woods
in front of us came a most tremendous cheering, and, think-
ing that the preliminary for a charge. Col. Talcott gave the
command, "Ready."
Soon from the woods came a solitaiy horseman, riding
straight for our line at top .speed, and we, thinking him one of
our captured cavalrymen making his escape, also cheered
him to the echo ; but when he was in close speaking distance
of us he rose in his stirrups and, with saber uplifted, called
out, "Lay down your arms, you damned Rebels, and sur-
render," when some fellow in the command exclaimed, "He
is a Yankee, shoot him." and. without any command
from the officers, about thirty-five or forty shots were fired,
and the man and the horse went down, the man rolling like
a ball over the head of the horse with enough momentum to
bring him up to and, I believe, through our line, and when he
straightened out he was dead. A few moments then elapsed,
when out of the woods came a man on foot with a white flag
and waved it. Col. Talcott sent Sergt. DeLacy, of our com-
pany, with a white flag to meet him. After meeting and
talking with the man, DeLacy returned and reported to Col.
I alcoll iliat the V'ankee said "Lee had surrendered." In
a few moments a courier rode up to Col. Talcott, confirming
the report, I suppose, and wc were marched down in the
valley, where the rest of the army was encamped. Why we
were overlooked when the rest of the lines were withdrawn
I suppose was because Col. Talcott reported direct to Gen.
Lee, there being no other general officer over him. and in the
confusion no order was sent to him of the surrender. I have
seen it claimed in the Veter.\n by some North Carolina regi-
ment of Gordon's Command that they fired the last shot at
Appomattox. In actual battle, that may be so, for this man
met his death by his own rashness or insolence sometime after
the surrender.
GRACIE'S BRIGADE AT DRURY'S BLUFF.
r.V W. B. STAN'SEL, CARDIN, ALA.
In the May ViiTERAN I see an account of the fight at Drury's
Bluff, by Comrade Scay, of the Eleventh Virginia Infantry,
'hat is incorrect, so far as Gracie's Brigade is concerned. He
says: "Gracie's Alabamians were advancing rapidly and were
soon engaged at close quarters. . . . The wounded were
coming back rapidly (the Tenth Alabama was in our immedi-
ate front), crying, 'Boys, go in there; they are needing you
badly.' " Now the Tenth Alabama was not in Gracie's Bri-
gade. The Forty-Fir.st was on the left and the Forty-Ninth on
the right. The latter failed to get to the works, but lay down
about a hundred yards in front of them, and kept up a heavy
fire until the last Yank in the works was either killed or had
surrendered.
I am not writing from memory entirely, but from an old
diary made at the time, which says: "On May II, 1864, we
were at Drury's Bluff. That night went to Richmond. On
I2lh fought cavalry in front of Richmond. On night of I2th
started back to Drury's Bluff. Arrived there on 13th thor-
oughly exhausted. Rested on the 14th until in the evening,
when we moved to the extreme right (our left) of Yankee
army. .About 11 i'.>r. had sharp fight with Yankees, and lay
on our arms all night until morning of 15th."
This was the day of the fight, and not the 17th, as Com-
rade Seay says. The fog was so dense that we could not see
any distance in front of us. We moved forward (the Forty-
First -Vlabama) some distance before we struck the enemy,
and without a yell or a halt went over their breastworks
before they knew we were near them. They made but little
resistance, but ran like turkeys.
The firing was now heavy on our right, and when we were
about one hundred yards in the rear of the enemy's works we
were moved by the right flank through a dense pine thicket,
then again by the right flank, and we soon had Heckman's
Brigade of Yankees on their way to Richmond. If Comrade
Seay had examined the dead in front of his command, he
would have found dead Yanks shot in the back and bullets
in the inside of the logs of their breastworks, the resiflt of
our attack in the rear. I don't know who got Gen. Heckman's
sword or pistols, for immediately after they surrendered my
company was sent out on the Petorslnirg road. In a few
moments Heckman's adjutant rode up to us with orders for
the General, and was the most surprised man one ever saw
when informed that his general was on his way to Rich-
mond a prisoner, and that he would have to go the same way.
'I'he Forty-First. Col. Stansel commanding, was then sent
forward to skirmish. Nothing stopped us, and we soon had
Butler's headquarters and his cnnnnissary supplies. We con-
tinued to press forward, and when night came and the l.sth
day of May. 1864. closed, ilu' Forty-First .Alabama had been
imder fire from morning initil niglil without having been
stopped at all in their advance.
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/. HARVEY MATHIS CHAPTER U. D. C.
Last September a number of prominent ladies of Mem-
phis formed a new Chapter of U. D. C. and most appro-
priately named it in honor of that gallant old Veteran and
affable, courteous gentleman and scholar, J. Harvey Mathis,
whose answer to the last roll call has not yet been properly
recorded in the Veteran. The Chapter adopted as its
motto the same that had guided through life the man after
whom it was named: "In small things, liberty; in great things,
unity; in all things, charity."
The charier members comprise thirty representative
Southern women in Memphis. At the second meeting of
the Chapter the membership was increased to fifty-seven.
MRS. J. .1. WILLIAMS.
Mrs. J. J. Williams, the wife of the Mayor and niece of Gen.
Frank Cheatham, was elected President; Mrs. Joel Winn,
Mrs. W. Carleton Adams, and Mrs. J. P. Jordan, Vice
Presidents; Mrs. W. A. Collier. Recording Secretary; Mrs.
Virginia L. Mathews. Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. W.
J. Saunders, Treasurer; Mrs. Joseph Gray Miller, Historian;
Mrs. Eugene J. Carrington, Registrar; Mrs. Ellen Maria
Watson. Chaplain. The Chapter was represented in the
St. Louis Convention, U. D. C.
MATERIAL TRIBUTE TO WOMEN OF 1861-65.
Ihe Confederate Veterans of the Gloucester County Me-
morial Association, of Virginia, have taken the initiative in
showing their appreciation of the loyal devotion of the women
of the South from iSfii to 1865 by placing to the memory of
the women of Gloucester County a beautiful marble tablet
in the walls of the circuit court room of Gloucester C. H.
There is not, perhaps, another town in the "Old Dominion"
richer in historic memories, from colonial days to the present,
than this little old countv seat of Gloucester. Around the
walls of the court room are portraits and tablets of distin-
guished statesmen, patriots, and soldiers who claimed Glouces-
ter as their home before and during revolutionary days,
and whose descendants, animated by the same spirit and to
tight for the same principles, went out from there in the
revolutionary days of 1861. A more appropriate place could
not have been found for placing this memorial to their be-
loved women than amongst these cherished treasures of the
past.
The tablet is a work of art, a beautiful marble slab five
and a half feet high by two and a half wide. The great
seal of the Confederate States is carved at the top, and just
beneath it, crossed with the battleflag, is the Confederate
flag, both so beautifully carved that they appear to drape
gracefully over the following in.scription, copied mainly from
Jefferson Davis"s dedication of liis book, the "Rise and Fall
of the Confederate Government:" "This tablet is erected by
the Gloucester Memorial Association lo the memory of the
women of Gloucester during the Confederate days of 1861-65,
whose pious ministrations to our wounded soldiers soothed
the last hours of those who died far from the objects of their
tenderest love, whose domestic labors contributed much to
supply the wants of our defenders in the field, whose zealous
faith in our cause shone a guiding star undimmed by the
darkest clouds of war, whose fortitude sustained our sol-
diers under all the privations to which they were subjected,
whose floral tribute annually expresses their enduring love
and reverence for our sacred dead, and whose patriotism will
teach their children to emulate the deeds of our revolutionary
sires. November 7, 1904."
On this date (November 7) it was unveiled with elaborate
ceremonies and in the presence of a large and patriotic crowd.
The old veterans, under Maj. W. K. Perrin, formed on the
square, and with several U. D. C. Chapters marched lo the
courthouse. Prayer was oflfered by Rev. W. H. Groves, and
the opening address by W. E. Wiatt, President of the Glouces-
ter Memorial Association. The following programme, in-
terspersed with music, was then carried out, assisted by
thirteen great-granddaughters of Confederate great-grand-
mothers, representing thirteen Confederate States, one grand-
daughter representing "The Southern Confederacy." and one
granddaughter representing "Maryland;'' all under the super-
vision of the (laughter of a Confederate Veteran. The tablet
was unveiled by a great-great-granddaughter of two great-
great-grandmothcrs, who were Gloucester women in Con-
federate days. The presentation address was by Comrade
J. N. Stubbs and the address accepting by Comrade Maryus
Jones, after which addresses were delivered by Comrades
T. S. Taliaferro, Charles Catlett, John N. Tabb, R. A. Folkes,
W. W. Williams; also an address by Hon. J. L. Taliaferro,
a Son. A resolution was adopted requesting the Circuit Court
of Gloucester to set apart a page in the records for these pro-
ceedings, to which Comrade G. T. Garnctt, Judge of the
Circuit Court of Gloucester, responded.
CONFEDERATE REUNION AT LYNNl'ILLE, TENN.
The annual reunion of the Harvey Walker Camp, of Giles
County, Tenn., is the occasion for a general meeting of Con-
federates and citizens in that immediate section of the State.
At the last reunion, in September, Capt. W. G. Loyd. a mem-
ber of the Second Louisiana Infantry, of the Army of North-
ern Virginia, from April, 1861, to Appomattox, May 8. 1865,
made an eloquent address, punctuated throughout with patri-
otism, pathos, and humor. Amongst other things, he said:
"The glory of the Confederate soldier is in the fact that he
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went forth from the people's homes to the field of battle and
back to those homes from the field of battle; that he suffered
for a people's cause without pay ; that he carried the peo-
ple's standard without rewards : and when all was lost save
honor, he worked as he fought, with his whole soul, and
achieved victories of peace that outshine all the fields of war.
The heroism, the patriotism, the self-sacrifice, and the patient
sufferings in tribulation ;»nd misfortune are virtues exhibited,
created, and consecrated by that struggle, which were not
lost, are not lost, and can never die."
Comrade Loyd was a prisoner at Elmira, and was exchanged
March 3. 1865.
ADDRESS TO TEXAS VETERANS.
Col. Duke Goodman, Inspector General Texas Division, U.
C. v., made an address to the Confederate veterans of Falls
County, in Marlin, Tex., September, 1904, in which he stated :
"Comrades, it is my purpose to call your attention to the
duties we owe to each other. In my official report to the
State Reunion, at Dallas, Tex., July 30 and 31, 1902, I called
the attention of my comrades to the loose manner of re-
ceiving members into Camps. Our Constitution expressly
commands as follows:
" 'Art. III. Sec. 3. Every Camp will be required to exact
of each applicant for membership in its rank satisfactory proof
of honorable service in the army or navy of the Confederate
States, and an honorable discharge or release therefrom.'
"This requirement is for the purpose of keeping out of the
ranks all those who deserted anj those who stayed at home in
the brush, and any Camp neglecting this command should at
once call a halt, for such n Camp is not acting from a consti-
tutional and legal standpoi :•
"In my report made at the n .•.tiion at Sherman, Tex., July
15 and 16, 1903, I called attention lo lliis day of commercialism,
and urged upon my comrades to steer clear of the breakers
that will eventually overshadow our beloved organization if
not safeguarded against.
"In my report at Temple, Tex., July 20 and 21, 1904, I called
the attention of the Texas Division, U. C. V., to the increasing
distress existing among our comrades. This is a serious con-
dition that confronts us, and one tlial the U. C. V. organization
must meet. I advise that some plan of universal relief be
formulated that will more equally distribute this burden.
Our comrades should give this matter serious consideration,
and be prepared to offer at our State reunion at Galveston,
Tex., in 1905, and have it adopted, some such plan. Maj.
Gen. K. M. Van Zandt is receiving from comrades over the
State letters noting the fact that the demand for relief was
getting greater than they could stand, and asking him to
issue a letter to all the Camps, asking them to assist in this
matter. Gen. Van Zandt is ever ready to act for the best
interest of his comrades; but this grand old veteran shrinks
from this request, as it is too mortifying for him to parade
before the pubic the distress existing in the ranks of his com-
rades. He regards the U. C. V. organization in the light of
a large family, whose infirmities should be as sacredly guarded
as those of an immediate family.
"I have in mind a commendable plan. Let every Camp in
the State issue to each member whom they know to be con-
stitutionally eligible to membership a card of membership,
so if a comrade finds himself in some other locality, and in
distress, he can call upon the nearest Camp, whose duty it
shall be to look after the comrade, and, if aided, to send the
bill to his Camp, whose duty it shall be to remit to the Camp
extending this aid; and, if the comrade shall die, to see to it
ihat he has a Christian burial, becoming a Confederate soldier,
the expense of this last sad act on our part to be paid by the
Camp of which he is a member. This plan, I believe, would
be the means of arousing renewed interest in our organization.
I have heard many of my comrades say that they would join
some Camp if they could see any good in it. We all do not
think alike ; some are working to erect monuments, while
others do not approve of spending so much money for marble
and granite shafts while there is so much suffering in our
ranks.
"It is my opinion that if some universal plan is adopted for
the relief of our less fortunate comrades a greater care would
be exercised in admitting members into our ranks. I see
some of you wearing crosses of honor. Where did you get
them, and what was necessary on your part to secure them?
I will tell you. Our beloved United Daughters of the Con-
federacy gave crosses of honor to you ; but they required
you to fill out a blank application, to be signed by the Com-
mander and Adjutant of your Camp and certified to by two
members of the Camp. These officers and members, by sign-
ing the same, say to these dear ladies that you are a true
Confederate veteran, worthy to wear a cross of honor. Un-
less the Constitution is lived up to, how do these signers
know that you were entitled to the honor of a cross? If you
are worthy to wear a cross of honor, you are also worthy of
assistance at the hands of your comrades and to be a member
of some Camp of U. C. V.'s.
"I desire to see a Confederate home in North Texas on the
cottage home plan, where our comrade and his old wife can
pass the remaining years of their lives together in a cottage
to themselves. They can enjoy their flowers, their vegetables,
their chickens, and their cow as they were wont to do in the
days of their young manhood and young womanhood. This
can be accomplished at one-half the cost to tlie State that the
pension system is now taxing us, and accomplish many times
the good. I learn that the U. D. C. organization is working for
another home. I would advise my comrades to help the dear
women in their noble efforts. They are always doing some-
thing good, God bless them! and you should rally to their
support.
"There has been a movement on foot since 1866 to erase
everything Confederate from the minds of the people. They
first attacked our history and distorted that; they next at-
tacked our societies, and for a time forbade us to meet and
assist each other; they forbade us erecting monuments; but
time, the destroyer of all evil, has defeated them. I. for one,
am opposed to any change in the words of 'Dixie.' My sainted
mother and sisters and your sainted dead delighted to sing to
the tune of 'Dixie:'
'Old Missus marry Will-de-weaber,
Willium was a gay deceaber:
Look away ! Look away I Dixie Land.
But when he put his arm around 'er
He smiled as fierce as a forty-pounder.'
And I fancy I can hear those sweet voices now. The
words of 'Dixie' were good enough then, and they are good
enough now; let them alone; they are one of the earmarks
of our Southirn Confederacy, and should not and must not
be disturbed."
COMMENTS FROM ROCK ISLAND COMRADES.
Comrade Hord's article in the August Veteran, "Forty
Hours in a Dungeon at Rock Island," has revived the mem-
ories of quite a number of old soldiers who were confined
in this fearful death trap. A number of letters have been
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received at this office, not only corroborating fully the state-
ments he made, but saying he fell far short of giving an
adequate idea of the cruelties and sufferings the Rock Island
prisoners were subjected to.
Mr. Ed H. Miller, of Los Angeles, Cal., writes: "I was
a member of Company B, Eleventh Tenn ssee Infantry, was
captured at Missionary Ridge, sent to Rock Island prison,
and was in Barrack 47. I am the man that caught Dart's dog
that he speaks of. J. -White killed it, and took as his share
for the job the liver, etc. Of course White ate it all at one
mess, and it put him on the sick list for several days. S. W.
Abby, who lives near Nashville, Tenn., was sergeant of our
barrack, and I was the commissary."
Mr. T. Y. Brannock, now of Nevada. Mo., writes: "I read
Comrade Herd's article with much pleasure. I knew him well
ui prison, was in the same barract: (24> with him. and
have often wondered what became of him, as I had never heard
of him after he left prison on exchange. I kept a diary
while in Rock Island prison, and have it yet. Referring to
it after reading his article, I find recorded: 'Nov. 6, 1864,
Ben Hord tried to escape disguised in Yankee uniform; was
captured and balled and chained.'" He adds: "I well re-
member our feast on Dart's dog ; ate a piece of it myself, and
it smelt powerful good when roasting before the hot stove."
Comrade Ed D. Jones, of Hudsonville, Miss., who was
also a prisoner at Rock Island, in Barrack 16, states: "Com-
rade Hord's article in the Veteran is a good description of
our prison and suffering, but he does not mention the crimes
connnitted by the Yankee soldiers. The prisoner he speaks
of as having killed another I think is yet living, and in this
State."
fired by his own men entered his right eye and came out
his left temple, cutting out both eyes. He was captured and
sent, a blind prisoner, to Fort Warren. .After a time he was
-THE PARTISAN RANGERS."
The latest and certainly one of the most interesting chap-
ters of Confederate war history ha> recently been given to
the public under the above title with the memoirs of Gen.
Adam R. Johnson, of Burnet. Tex.
The biographical sketch of Gen. Johnson shows that he
was born in Henderson, Ky., February 8, 1834, and when
twenty years old went out on the frontier of Texas to follow
his profession of surveyor. The border at that time was in-
fested with savage tribes of Comanche Indians who claimed
the land as their own. and it was in fighting these wily foes
that the courageous young Kentucky Ixw took his first lessons
in skill, patience, endurance, and strategy that afterwards
made him. first, a famous scout for Forrest, then a bold and
daring colonel in the Confederate ariny, and, later, one of its
most brilliantly successful brigadier generals. His brigade was
with Morgan when the latter made his famous and fruitless
raid through Ohio, and Gen. Johnson was the only one of the
general oflicers who escaped across the Ohio River with any
part of his connnand intact.
But the most brilliant work of Gen. Johnson was within
the borders of "Johnson's Confederacy," Southwestern Ken-
tucky, and along the Tennessee and Ohio Rivers where, cut
ciflf from all hopes of assistance from the Confederate govern-
ment, left to his own resourceful energies to supply himself
with. men, arms, and munitions of war. he reigned supreme.
By his wonderful will power and personal magnetism he held
his men in perfect discipline, and not only defied the Federal
government to drive him out, but, with his twelve or fifteen
hundred men, whipped, in a body or in detail, every force
that was sent against him. It was in the very moment of
victory in one of these engagements that a ball from a volley
GEN. ADAM R. JOHNSON.
exchanged, and on reaching Richmond was called on by I'resr-
dent Davis and members of his cabinet, who urged him to
accept papers honorably discharging him from the service,
which he politely declined, and to their profound astonishment
asked for orders to again take command in his old depart-
ment, with transportation for himself and men. These were
given him, and he was on his way to Kentucky with many
of his ^Id men and officers he had picked up at Macon, Miss.,
when news of Gen. Lee's surrender reached him, soon fol-
lowed by that of Gen. J. E. Johnston. Bidding farewell to
his men, he made his way to Texas.
Blind, bereft of his property, his cause defeated, the coun-
try overrun with the carpetbagger of those infamous recon-
struction days, ye; with magnificent courage, the indomitable-
will, the tireless energy of the man were unshaken; but, or.
the contrary, these qualities have never shone more brightly
than since the war. No m;in has done more — but few have
done as much — toward advancing the material interests of his
State and building up the waste places, especially in Burnet
County, where he now lives; and it will be gratifying to every
Confederate veteran to know that this blind old hero, in war
and in peace, has reaped a substantial reward that will make
his last days perhaps the happiest of his eventful and re-
markable life, the record of which in "The Partisan Rangers"
reads like a thrilling romance.
Henry L. Wvatt. — In reporting the Bethel Monument As-
sociation in the October Veteran (page 491) the writer is
made to say that it was Charles E. instead of Henry L.
Wyatt who was the first soldier killed in any regular battle
of the Confederate war. It occurred on June 10. i86r.
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//THJiSOn,
Life's labor done, as sinks the clay,
Light from its load the spirit flies ;
While heaven and earth combine to say,
■"How blest the righteous when he dies !"
Notice has been received of the death, at Laredo, Tex..
■on the 2d of September, of Capt. Cristobal Bernavidcs. in the
sixty-sixth year of his age. No particulars are given and
no date of his service. He was a subscriber to the Veteran.
The William R. Scurry Camp, of Victoria, Tex., reports the
•death of three members during 1904: Thomas Nevin, Company
A, Waller's Battalion ; Frank R. Pridham, Company C, Fourth
Texas Cavalry; John R. Swain, "one of Bob Lee's boys."
The William P. Rogers Chapter, of Victoria, also mourns
the loss of a beloved honorary member. Mrs. Mary Weissing.
Cai't. Milton Russell.
On December 4. 1903, at Chattanooga, Tenn., there "passed
over the river" one of nature's noblemen, Capt. Milton
Russell. The following resolutions passed by N. B. For-
rest Camp, U. C. v., of which he was Commander at the
time of his death, give a brief history of his life and serv-
ice as a soldier and citizen:
"Milton Russell was born Jinu- 13, 1837, in Camden Coun-
ty, Ga., the son of Henry Richard Russell, an Englishman
who before the American Revolution had removed to the
Bahama Islands, where his father was a planter. He re-
moved to Camden County, Ga., where this son Milton was
born. His mother was Miss Carolii.e Hardee, a daughter
of John Hardee, a major in the war of 1812, and a sister of
Lieutenant General W. J. Hardee and of Noble Hardee, a
merchant of Savannah, Ga. Capt. Russell was educated
at Norristown, Pa., and at the Georgia Military Institute,
at Marietta, where he graduated in 1857. He married Miss
Henrietta E. Barden, a daughter of Nathaniel H. Barden and
relative of Gen. A. Ranee Wright and Gilbert J. Wright.
of the Confederate army. Surviving him are three sons
and two daughters. Capt. Russell enlisted at Dalton, Ga.,
September 19, 1861, in Company C, Fourth Georgia Bat-
talion, and was elected First Lieutenant of that company.
The battalion was merged into the Sixtieth Georgia In-
fantry, of which Lieut. Col. Styles, of the Fourth Battalion,
became its colonel and remained in that command until the
close of the war. October 7, 1862, he was promoted to
captain of his company, and commanded it until September
19, 1864. Three years from the date of his enlistment, while
commanding his regiment in the battle of Winchester, Va.,
he was wounded and captured, then paroled at Fort Dela-
ware, June 16, 1865.
"Captain Russell returned to Walker County, Ga., to re-
side after the close of the war. He was elected ordinary of
that county, and served as such for sixteen years, from
1869 to 1885. He then removed with his family to Chattanoo-
ga, where he afterwards resided. He was elected to serve
two terms as a justice of the peace in the Chattanooga district,
and had served ten years as such.
"N. B. Forrest Camp honored him with every office in its
gift, and he died as its Commander, the highest mark of re-
spect we could pay him as a soldier, a citi/en, and a man.
"One of the heroes of Malvern Hill, the seven days' fights
around Richmond, Cedar Run, Second Manassas, Boons-
boro Gap, Chantilly, Harper's Ferry, Crampton Gap,
Sharpsburg, Shepherdstown, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg,
Spottsylvania, and the record made by Jackson's Corps, up
to September 19. 1864, is the record of our Commander, who
left one arm on the field, and who carried in his face the marks
of the battle of Fredericksburg."
Edward Bicgers Moblev.
This chivalrous son of the South died suddenly of apoplexy
while talking with a friend on the street in Rock Hill, S. C,
June 24 last. He had only a few days before returned from
the Confederate reunion at Nashville, where he exchanged
happy greetings with old comrades in arms and formed many
new social ties. At the time he was stricken his health was
seemingly perfect, and his death came as a great shock to
his family and to all who knew him. An editorial in a Rock
Hill paper states :
"Comrade Mobley was a son of the late Edward Biggers
Mobley, and was born in Chester County, S. C. .April 11,
1840. When the war broke out, he was a member of the Cal-
houn Guards, of Chester ; and when that historic command
went forth to battle, he accompanied it first to the coast and
afterwards to Virginia, where the command was known as
Company A, Sixth South Carolina Volunteers. After the re-
organization he became a member of Company F, Sixth South
e. b. mobley.
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Carolina Volunteers, and as such served thvuughout the war,
having participated in all the important battles from Manas-
sas to Appomattox. He was a faithful soldier, as brave as
he was modest and gentle; and his cheerfulness under most
adverse circumstances, in camp and on the march, was a
benediction to his comrades. He never believed the cause for
which he fought was dead, because it was founded on truth
and h^'ior, and was therefore imperishable. He venerated
evei.v'h ag pertaining to the Confederacy. At the time of his
death Mr. Mobley was Commandant of Catawba Camp, U. C.
v., of Rock Hill. He was Colonel on the staff of Gen. T. W.
Carwyle, of the South Carolina Division, U. C. V., and his
interest in the affairs of that surviving army in gray was un-
flagging. He was a private in the ranks from the beginning to
the close of the awful strife, and gloried in the fact. His life
was simple and unostentatious, but in honesty of purpose and
integrity of character he was a king among men.
"On December li, 1867, Mr. Mobley was n^irried to Miss
Carrie Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. John Masscy. The
widowed wife survives with three children, Mrs. G. H. Greene,
of Chester, Mr. Ladscn Mobley, and ^fr. Hazel Mobley."
L. V. Feltus.
.\nothcr gallant Mississippian has crossed over the river
to join many advanced heroes. On May 14 L. V. Feltus.
quartermaster sergeant of the Sixteenth Mississippi Infan-
try, Featherston's Brigade, bivouacked again with comrades
of the sixties. He was born and reared near Woodville,
Miss., and joined Company K, Sixteenth Mississippi, at the
outbreak of the war, under Col. Posey. He was promoted
to brigade quartermaster sergeant, and frequently served
a,' adjutant and aid on Gen. Featherston's staff. He was
in all the battles and campaigns ot his command. His course
after the war proved that he was not only brave and fear-
less on the field of battle, but equally so in meeting the re-
quirements of citizenship. He removed to Adams County,
near Natchez, about 1886, and in that community spent the
remainder of his life, respected and beloved by all who knew
him for his many noble qualities of heart and mind.
BuKous R. Miller.
Born in Rutbcrfcird County, Tenn., March 12, 1843, B. R.
Miller enlisted as a private in the Second Tennessee Regi-
ment, Company F, in April, 1861. In 1862 he was transferred
to the Army of Tennessee, and
served with Gen. Cleburne's
command.
Comrade Miller was twice
wounded— in the battles of Rich
mond. Ky., and Chickaniauga,
He was captured in the battle of
Peachtree Creek and taken to
Camp Douglas. Here he was
confined till March, 1865, wlien
he was taken out with others foi
exchange to Point Lookout, Md .
and from this place he was pa-
roled June IQ, 1865. having been
a brave and true Confederate sol-
dier to the end.
After the war Comrade Miller
engaged in the mercantile busi- ^j. ^ soldier
ness at his home, removing a few
years later to Memphis, where he was married to Mrs Laura
E. Elliott in 1885. He afterwards located in Chattanooga,
where his death occurred on the 4tli of May, 1904. He was an
BUROUS R. MILLEK.
exemplary member of Forrest Camp, U. C. 'V., and by these
comrades the last services were conducted and he was laid
to rest in their beautiful cemetery at Chattanooga.
Elijah '\^'ATTS.
Elijah Watts, an old Confederate soldier of Bakerville,
Tenn., died September 2, 1904, aged 75 years. He was a
member of Easley's Company, Forty-Eighth Tennessee. He
was a good soldier till the surrender, and afterwards a
good citizen. For him now the last bugle has sounded
and to the last roll call he has answered "Here !"
George W. O'Neal.
The committee appointed by Stonewall Jackson Camp
of Mineral Wells, Tex., passed resolutions in honor of a
fellow-member, Geo. W. O'Neal, from which the following
is taken :
"George W. O'Neal was born in Polk County, Tenn.,
October 3, 1843, and enlisted in Company C, Third Ten-
nessee Infantry Regiment, serving throughout the war.
He was paroled in May, 1865, in Florida. After the war he
moved to Texas. His death occurred on June 17, 1904.
His Camp has lost an active, zealous member, and his fam-
ily an affectionate father and husband."
"Wilson. Company E. Fifty-Fourth Virginia Regiment."
Mr. C. H. Gambill, of Lavergnc. Tenn., writes: "When
Gens. Bate and Forrest were returning to join Gen. Hood
at Nasliville, after their attempt to capture Murfreesboro in
the winter of 1864. about two miles west from Lavergne and
a mile from the N., C, and St. L. Ry., a sick Confederate
soldier was taken from a wagon by three comrades. During
the night he died, and they dug a grave and buried him early
the next morning At the head of th-,- grave they placed a
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board wilh the above inscription cm on it. Thinking it prob-
able the relatives or friends of this soldier may never have
iieard of what became of him, I send this incident to the
Veteran for publication.
J. T. Brinker.
A committee comprised of W. H. King, H. P. Acker, and
H. Sullivan, of the Mat Ashcroft Camp. U. C. V., of Sul-
j)hur Springs, Tex., paid tribute to Comrade J. T. Brinker,
I. T. nRINKER.
vho died December 28, 1903, in which the following .statements
iirr made:
"He was born in Alabama in 1839, and while on a visit to
relatives in Louisiana, in 1861, he entered the Confederate
service as a member of the Twelfth Louisiana Infantry. He
remained with the regiment two years, serving in Kentucky,
Tennessee, and Mississippi. He was then transferred to the
Nineteenth Alabama Lifantry, and remained with it until the
surrender of Gen. J. E. Johnston's forces at Benton, N. C.
"Within a month or two after the war J. T. Brinker became
a resident of this county, settling first on a farm near Como,
and was there inarried, in 1875, to Miss Dink McGlamery,
but was never blessed with children. He moved to Sulphur
Springs in 1883, and engaged in the grocery business with his
brothers. Bunk and Henry Brinker. J. T. Brinker closed
his connection with Brinker Bros, some years ago and moved
to Western Texas ; but was gone only a year or so when he
came back to this city, and here remained until death claimed
him. He did not enter the active business world again, but
pursued the even tenor of his way down the hill of life, with
a kindly word and a friendly hand clasp for young and old ;
and when the time came for him to pass out into the unknown
world, he met the grim monster, death, as he had often be-
fore faced him on the battlefield — without a tremor, well as-
sured of a happy entrance into that spiritual building, that
'house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.'
"This genial, kindly friend and comrade was known to
many in the community as Uncle Jack, and by this endearing
title he was often called by men as old as himself, as well
as by most of the younger people. He was a good soldier, a
faithful husband, and a good man."
Col. Timothy Pickering Jones.
At the age of ninety years, Col. Timothy P. Jones died at
Seguin, Tex., on the i8th of October. He was born in North
Carolina, but the family removed to Jackson, Tenn., when he
was a small boy. That was his home till 1882. when he went
to Seguin, Tex., residing there afterwards. He was a room-
mate of Edgar Allan Poe while a cadet at West Point.
Col. Jones crossed the Sabine River into Texas the day he
was twenty-one years old as a soldier, and served that repub-
lic for two years. He was captain of the Second Tennessee
in the war with Mexico, and as lieutenant colonel commanded
the Sixth Tennessee Lifantry at Shiloh. After that battle
the Sixth and Ninth Tennessee were consolidated, and Col.
Jones served with Forrest. He was a personal friend of
David Crockett, and knew nearly all the leaders in the Texas
republic.
A. J. Rogers.
Report of the death of a member of Henry E. McCul-
loch Camp, at Balliiiger, Tex., comes from .'\djulant H.
D. Pearce:
"Comrade Andrew Jackson Rogers was born on Febru-
ary 21, 1846, in Choctaw County. Miss. He came to Tex-
as in 1840. When seventeen years old he enlisted in
Company E, Thirty-Third Texas Cavalry, and served faith-
fully to the end. After the war he worked vigorously to t-
habilitate his country and rear his family of fourteen ch I
dren, having twice married He died at his home, neai
Paint Rock, Tex., of cancer of the jaw and throat, Octo-
ber 3, 1904. He W.1S buried in the Paint Rock cemetery.
Comrade Rogers was a consistent member of the Baptist
Church and a man of sterling character."
Gov. Hugh S. Thompson.
Hugh Smith Thompson, former Governor of South Caro-
lina, who had been ill for some months in New York, died
November 20 at his residence in that city. The body was
taken back to his native State for burial.
Mr. Thompson was born in Charleston January 24. 1836,
He was educated at the South Carolina Military Academy,
graduating in the class of 1856, and was promoted to one of
the chairs at the main academy in Charleston.
In the war he was attached to the cadet battalion, and ren-
dered excellent service in the defense of the coast section.
After the war he was made the principal of the Columbia
Male Academy, and continued in that employment until
elected, in 1876, to the office of State Superintendent of Edu-
cation on the ticket led by Gen. Wade Hampton. He was re-
elected twice, and gave an admirable administration. He was
elected Governor nf the State, took office in 1883. and was re-
elected in 1884. His administration was marked with great
success, and he made a high record as chief executive.
President Cleveland tendered him the position of Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, which he accepted, resigning the
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oflRce of Governor to Lieut. Gov. John C. Sheppard. At the
close of the administration, Mr. Cleveland nominated him to
a place on the Civil Service Commission; hut this nomination,
as many others, failed of confirmation in the Senate. Later
President Harrison named Gov. Thompson for the same place,
and he was promptly confirmed by the Senate. His associates
on the Commission were Theodore Roosevelt and Charles
Lyman.
Mr. Thompson continued a Civil Service Commissioner until
1892, when he was offered and accepted the position of Comp-
troller of the New York Life Insurance Company, which he
held up to the time of his death. It was a place of great re-
sponsibility and influence.
Gov. Thompson retained the friendship of Mr. Cleveland
to the end of his life, and was also intimate with President
Roosevelt. Gov. Thompson's wife was a Miss Clarkson, who
survives him, as do several sons and daughters.
Hon. W. T. McCiuston.
A committee from Statham Farrell Camp of Winona,
Miss., sends resolutions in honor of W. T. McCuiston, a
prominent member of the Camp and a high representative of
his State. He was a true and brave Confederate soldier, hav-
ing served in Company E, Fifteenth Mississippi Regiment,
at the age of seventeen years. He was sixty years of age.
His record is also that of a most excellent citizen, and the
influence of his life will not soon pass away.
William Sharkey.
William Sharkey was born in Botetourt County, Va., in
June, 1839; and died in Los Angeles. Cal., in October, 1904.
Removing to Texas in his boyhood with his father. Judge
John Sharkey, and his large family, William became identi-
fied with the State of his adoption. He enlisted in September,
1861, as a private in Company G (called the "Havalinas"),
Eighth Texas Cavalry, Terry's Texas Rangers, and was
paroled in May, 1865.
During the yellow fever epidemic in Victoiia Wil'iani
Sharkey faithfully cared for the sick, and there are yet a few
survivors of that dreadful scourge who remember his minis-'
trations. When suffering Memphis made an appeal to the
world for help, he responded, saying he had no wife nor child
to mourn for him should he die. He remained at his post,
nursing the sick and dying, until the scourge was spent.
In every walk of life he was modest and unassuming, main-
taining a quiet dignity in all surroundings. The last months
were filled with pain, borne with Christian fortitude. For
several years he had lived in the genial climate of California,
and it was there he passed away, looking forward to the
reunion with loved ones beyond. Two sisters survive of the
large family.
Dr. J. B. Neil.
Dr. J. B. Neil was born November 14. 1837, in Marshall
County, Tcnn.: and died June 27, 1904, in Nashville. He
studied medicine before the War between the States, and
graduated after its close in the University of Nashville and
from the Medical College of Missouri. He enlisted as a
private in the Confederate army early ir. 1861 in Company
F, Seventeenth Tennessee Infantry, and so served until as-
signed to the medical department of his command. Dr. Neil
shared the trials and hardships of his regiment from first
to last, and was surrendered under Gen. Lee at Appomattox.
He represented his county and Williamson in the State Senate
in 1889 and 1890 with distinguished ability as a statesman.
He was ever prominent in the medical profession, and was
quite popular as a citizen, winning faithful friends. He was
a consistent Christian, and was a member of long standing
in the Christian Church. He was a fond and devoted father
and husband, ever making any sacrifice to promote the com-
fort and happiness of his family. He was an esteemed neigh-
bor and friend, heartily lending assistance to those in need.
He was a soldier of high order, and was a member of high
standing in Frank Cheatham Bivouac, having been its Presi-
dent. He was a member of Company B. Confederate Vet-
UR. J. B. NEIL.
erans, of Nashville, and its surgeon. He was an all-round
model man. Therefore, be it resolved by Company B, that in
the death of Comrade Neil we have sustained an irreparable
loss, and the city of Nashville has lost one of its most valued
citizens.
Committee: Ralph Neal, M. M. Gee, and Deering J. Roberts.
Dr. Neil left surviving him his widow, Mrs. Tabitha Jane
Neil, and six children: Dr. D. R. Neil, physician; Hon. Albert
B. Neil, attorney, who represented Marshall County in the
State Legislature of 1899; Dr. Ewell Neil, dentist; Dr. Har-
dee Neil, druggist; J. B. Neil, Jr., and Miss Annie D. Neil,
who are students at Vanderbilt University.
The funeral of Dr. Neil was most impressive. It was con-
ducted under the auspices of the Frank Cheatham Bivouac
and Camp, and the sense of his worth was manifested by all
present.
G. Kann, of Woodville, Miss., reports the passing of two
comrades into the spirit land. Hiram T. Smith, who served
in the Twenty-First Mississippi Infantry, died in June, and
Dr. John F. Therrcl, of the Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry,
on August 16, 1904.
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Qorjfederate l/eterap.
/ AM DREAMING.
BV W. P. CARTER.
Awake, awake, thou dreamer !
Awake to the mournful blast —
Notes of our martyred freedom,
Dead music of the past!
Awake ! the spear is broken.
The blade hath turned to rust.
And the warrior's red-cross banner
Droops o'er the warrior's dust.
Awake, awake, thou dreamer !
The voices of the slain
Come o'er the still, deep waters
In sad and solemn strain !
And the night winds echo sadly
The song of buried years.
And morning brings upon its crest
A rivulet of tears.
What see you, silent sleeper,
In the far-off land of dreams?
What see you by the valleys
And the pleasant-sounding streams?
Are there orange groves in blossom?
Is there gold upon the strand?
Is there joy or is there mourning
In the far-oflf pleasant land?
I am dreaming, I am dreaming,
And the lightning's lurid glare,
Like a meteor in its madness.
Rushes through the midnight air ;
And I see the red-cross banner
In the rifted cloudlet wave,
And I hear the battle shoutings
Of the gallant and the brave.
I am dreaming, I am dreaming.
And the cannon's deadly roar
Rolls up the steep, blue mountain
Along the other shore ;
And I see a lordly gentleman
Ride out to lead the way;
He is the knightlicst gentleman
That ever wore the gray.
Down to the shock of battle.
Through fire and smoke and blood.
He rides him down right gallantly
To stem the ebbing flood.
Two glittering stars about his throat —
No sword he wears, I ween —
He is the comeliest gentleman
That ever I have seen.
So calm, so stern, so debonair,
No plume upon his crest,
He goes the war path gallantly.
No shield upon his breast.
He rides the good horse "Traveler,"
Right to the fore rides he —
His sire was "Light Horse Harry,"
And his name is Robert Lee!
And yonder in the tempest^
Down by the smoky plain —
Rides one in armor burnished bright,
And burning spear amain ;
His brow is clothed in thunder.
His right arm raised on high.
Marslike he rides to battle
As he rode in days gone by.
I am dreaming, I am dreaming,
And the blushing rose of morn
Is shaking from her leaflets young
Bright crystals of the storm.
The midnight is asunder —
Still the carnage revels high,
And still rides "Stonewall" Jackson,
As he rode in days gone by.
Now hark ! the bugle pealing,
See the flashing sabers shine
.^gainst the day god of the east,
Along the charging line.
I hear a merry clink of steel.
And a laughter ringing far,
'Tis the chestnut-bearded Stuart,
Our "Harry of Navarre."
I am dreaming, and there's weeping
In yon grove upon the hill.
There a noble form is hushed in death,
A giant heart is still.
On the banner of his legions
His star of glory shines;
'Tis Rhodes, the fair-haired chieftain.
Who charged at Seven Pines.
I am dreaming, I am dreaming.
And a black plume floats on high,
So graceful, yet so terrible,
Above a flashing eye ;
The mountains quake and tremble.
Still that warrior takes no heed;
'Tis Ashby rides the vale of death.
Upon his milk-white steed.
And O ! a song of boyhood
Is floating up the glen.
And a happy voice of bygone years
Is cheering on his men.
ROSA LOWKY
Grandd;iiighter of (i'
With gleaming eye he charged —
And a soul for a soldier's fate,
'Tis Ramseur, dashing Ramseur,
The pride of the Old North State.
Who comes with visage strong and stern^
L'pon his foaming bay?
A stout and hardy fighter,
"Old Blucher" clears the way.
With sturdy cane of oak aloft,
He leads them up the glade;
'Tis Allegheny Johnson,
With the old Stonewall brigade.
I am dreaming, I am dreaming.
And the flaming dogs of death
Are bursting grape and bombshell
Upon the battle's breath.
And there beside the cannon's mouth.
All battle-scarred and grave,
Stands Hood, the lion-hearted.
The bravest of the brave.
I am dreaming, I am dreaming,
And the stars and bars on high
Wave o'er the fiery Ewell's front —
His is to do or die.
And a sound of distant music
Brings back old home-time joys —
'Tis the son of old Zach Taylor
And his Louisiana boys.
And yonder, cheering on his braves.
Is Hill, Virginia's pride;
The handsome John Magruder
Is fighting by his side;
Bold Pegrani holds the bridge to-day.
With Garnett at the ford;
And I see the gray-haired Armistead
With his hat upon his sword.
Charge ! Dearing, charge ! the Northmen
Are pressing Pender sore,
And Cobb, the valiant Georgian,
Can hold his own no more.
See Pettigrew among them.
No quarter does he beg ;
And yonder sleeps the sleep of death
The gallant Maxey Gregg.
I am dreaming, I am dreaming,
And my comrades of the past
Are waiting in the valley
For the bugle's onward blast —
John Pelhani, Brown, and Pegrara,
Will Randolph, true and strong.
And the smiling, boyish Lattimer,
A sunbeam in that throng.
Awake, awake, thou dreamer!
The voices of the slain
Come o'er the still, deep waters
In riplets bright with fame.
Awake ! the spear is broken,
The blade hath turned to rust.
And the warrior's red-cross banner
Droops o'er the warrior's dust.
Boycf, V':l., Octnlier IJ. lSS[.
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"I have a goblet, salt stand, and salt
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B. L. Rhoads, of Auburn, Ky., wants
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who took care of him and his comrade
during the war. He mentions Miss Ida
Boench and Mrs. Cartwright, and says
they took him and Anderson Mcintosh
out of the hospital and cared for them
as if members of their own family,
nursed them back to life, and sent them
out while the Yankees were still in the
city. This was after our forces had
evacuated Nashville. The two families
lived in the liamc house near the capitol.
O. C. Wliitaker, of Guntown, Miss. :
"1 rotice in my last Veteran another
'youngest' Confederate. There seems to
be as many that claim that distinction
as there are men that claim to have led
Gen. Lee's horse away from the battle-
field at Spottsylvania C. H. on the 12th
of May, 1864. Just after reading in the
Veteran of this youngest soldier, I
picked up a paper and saw an account of
another youngest soldier, who says ho
belonged to Company H, Twelfth Ala-
bama Regiment, and among the battles
he was in he mentions First Manassas.
I belonged to Company I, Twelfth Ala-
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the First Manassas battle. Well, the old
boys just forget things, that's all."
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OFFICERS
\ G. W, GARRISON, President.
( J. T. SPAULDING, Secretary and Treasurer.
W. H. CRAWFOVD, Vice President and General Manager.
WARREN K. SNYDER, Attorney.
DIRECTORS
Q. W. GARRISON. Oklahoma Citv. Okla.. Hotel Propriiitor.
W. H. C'KAWFOHD, Niisliville, Tenn.. Mines ami Mining Broker.
,1. T. SPAULUINO, Nashville, Tonn., R.-iilr.>Hd Claim Agent.
WARREN K. SXYIIKR. Lawyer, Oklahoma Citv, Okla.
V. H. DYER, Silv.-i- Phime, Colo.
W. A. McUAUOHY, Oklahoma City, Okla., Cattleman.
HON. W. A. MAXWELL. Yukon City. OkLi.. Editor, and Meml>erof
Oklahoma Leijislatiire.
DR. W. H. WHITE. Na.shviUe. Tenn., Dentist.
B. D. HICKS. Tullahomn. Tenn.. Asst. Supt. otN., C. & St. L. Ry.
W. L. HALSEY'. Hiintsville. Ala.. Wholesale Grocer.
MAJOR WILLIS J. MILNER, BirminKham, Ala., Capitalist, Coal
and Iron.
The above is a picture of the face, or entrance, of the " Robert E. Lee " tunnel, showing some of the offlcero and miners. Bejjinniu^ on
the left, the first man is Y. A. Balicock, the Superintendent and Mining Expert: next is. T. T. S]m«lding, StH*retary and TrcMisnrer. of Kashville.
Tenn.: the third, tilth, and sixth are miners: the fourth is W. H. Crawtord. Vice President and General Manager, of Nashville. Tenn. ; and
the seventh, leaning on the biirr(». is Charles H. Dyer, one of t ' e directors of the co'upany.
Our proiu'Vty is located six miles southwest of Silver Piuine. CU'ar Creek CountV. Colo., in the West Argentine Gold Disti-ict. on ISIc-
t^lelhiu Mount;i ill, the center of the goIdMiroiluciiii; reirioii of the Ro.kv Mountains, only five miles from t lie eelel. rated ' Seven-Tliirtv" mines,
which have jiroduced ov.'r $lli,(Hlll,lKln, and the "Terrible ' mine, which li.is solil more than SS.(liiri.(KHI worth of ore. McCIellau .Mountain is trav-
ersed li.v a network of veins, manv of them very rich, and being worked by dividend-paying companies. Into tliis mountain we have
driven two tunnels, the "lioltert E. Lee"* and "Tuniiel No. :;." The jirineipal work is in the "Roliert E. Lee." whi<'h is licing driven straight
int^> the mountain, tire from this tunnel a-ssays from S>*0 to Si'iiM) jier t^ui.
Stock is now selling at «n cents per share, but the indi'-ations are so favoralile that this jiriee will ]U'evail only ashort time, when it
will b,> advan.cd to .'fll cents, or taken from the market altou'..tlier. I\Iany stoekhohiers are increasirg their holdings, investigation h.aving
con \-i need them tliat the st<^ck will reach tliedividend-j'aying st.-ige in a short time. 31 ining experts place a high valuation upon our proiierty.
ami do not h**sitate to rcconuneiid it as an investment.
*M>p)>orliinit.v riiiiies In every man; success lies in graspinu: it." Capitalists concede tli.nt tbe snri'St chance for riclies lies in
eonservalive mining investments." .-SIOO invested in (Granite MiMinl:iin in IS8.', sold in 1SS!> l»>r *7."»,<M»t>. There is no ^ain wtllionl
some 1-isU. .Any aiiioiiiit sold — from ten sh.'trcs up.
For ashort time sto.k will lie sold on the installment plan to those who prefer it -10 per cent rash, and 10 pi-r c.-iil .-i uicmhIi.
We refer to the mercantili' agiMi.-ies. cu- to any bank in any city whore our directors live. Investigation invited.
Sli.mld you desir,. to investigate, send your address to the General Manager, and a co]>y of our Prosiiectus will be mailed you.
W. H. CRAWFORD, Vice President and General Manager.
73 Arcade, Nasliville, Tenn., Office of tlie Company,
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CHmSTMAS, 19 04^
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Mr,
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least smoke, smut, nr inconvenience. Q -
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