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INDEX.
Veteran.
PUBLISHKD MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF
CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND KINDRED TOPICS.
VOLUME XIII.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Nashville, Tenn.
1906.
LXDEX VOLUME \III.
Address by Miss Ijiiriipkin 29S
Address by Dr. R. H. McKiiu 113
Addr*'ss to Veterans 504
Alleghany Roughs 365
Allen. Henry Watkins 412
American Women, by Wolseley 501
Arkansas' Militar.v. Record 67
Army of the Cumberland 563
Amall. Col. C. S 151
Appomattox Banquet 251
As.sassination of Lincoln 14
Assault upon Fort Gilmer 269
Averitt. Rev. J. B 369
Barefooted Buy at Gettysburg 209
Bate, Wm. B 152. 2o7. 2U.S
Battle, Joel Allen 254
Battle of Cedar Creek, corn ct account 251
Battle of Chickamauga 72
Battle of Hartsville 454
Battle of Murfreesboro 410
Hatth' ot Nashville 68
Battle of Port Walthall 27
Battle of Steven's Depot 561
Ba.\ter, Jerre 182
Birthday of Lee 53
Birthplace of General Lee 13
Blockade Runner. A Successful 25
Boutell. Patriotic Mr 220
Breekenridge, Gen. Jno. C 257
Brown. Tally ,on General Forrest 445
Buford's I>ivision in Hood's Rear 161
Buried at Red Sulphur Springs, W. Va 564
P.uri^'d by his Class mates 254
CabeH's, Gen. W. S., Birthday 55
Camp Morton, Life in 265
Captured by Capt. M. S. Cockrill 126
Capture of Hartsville 454
Capture of Hecknian's Brigade 164
Capture of the Mazeppa 566
Captures by the Eighth Confederate Cavalry 45S
Capturing the Negro Flag 253
Carpenter's Batter.v 365
Cavalier of the Soutii 503
Cavalry Charge at Chancellorsville 452
Cavalry of Hood's Left at Nasliville 2.S
Chaffln's Farm Fight 418
Charge at Spanish Fort 226
Chati.p.ni Artillery of Savannah 12
Children of Confederacy in New York .'593
Children's Stories of the War 408
Choctaw Indians as Confederate Soldiers 560
Clansman. Comment on The 227
Clark. Judge Walter 104
Cleburne's Division at Franklin 27
Cleburne's Division at Missionary Ridge 28
Cobb's Battery, Not Captured at Shiloh 6S
Coffin of General Lee 112
Comforting War Reminiscences 363
Commanders, Texas Brigade 407
Comrade in Need 562
Company G, First Georgia Cavalry 71
Conditions of Army Near Close of War 225
Confederate Benefit Fund 112
Confederate Cemetery in Chicago 304
Confederate Cemetery for Arkansas 326
Confederate Christmas 572
Confederate Dead at Sliepherdstown, W. Va. . 170
Confederate Dead Buried in Kentucky 74
Confederates Condemned as Spies
Conf<'derates in Congress
Confederate Flag from Wisconsin
Confederate Home at Austin....
Confederiite Memorial Association
Confederate Memorial Association
Confederate Soldier. Thi'
Confederated Memorial Association .
Conrad. Capt. T. N
Coon Was Kxehanged
Correction of Errors
Cotton Crop Estimates
Cox, Gen. W. R.. Married
Crosses ot Honor, Report on
Crosses of Honor to Texas ^'eterans .
(Cruelty to Mr. Davis
541
44S
34
if Spottsylvania.
;19. 247. 32'
1 :;
, 39 •
Dana, C. A., on Cruelty to Mr. Davis. . .
Davis's Birthda.v a Holida.v
Davis's Election. Notice of
I-)a\'is in Days of Emergene.\'
Da\'is, Jefferson, Prison Life of
Davis, Jefferson. The True
Davis, English Tribute to . . .
Da\'is Monmnent Inscriptions
Davis. Sam
Days of Emergency to President Davis.
Daring Deed of Ike Davenport
DeGournay's Battallion of Artiller.v. . .
Design of First Confederate Flag
Died for their State
Disaster at Maxwell House
Dicbanding President Davis's Escort..
Divided in War Times
Dixie, Don't Like
Dodd, David O
Double Reimion at N.ishviile
124
iin
578
349
536
166
. 271
271
. 324
369
4S6
245
487
420
463
16S
4S6
.111
30
509
31'i
16
ISO
550
69
300,
Early and His Campaigns
Early, General, to His Chaplain
Echoes from B.attle of Murfreesboro .
Ector's Brigade at Cliickamauga
Ector's Brigade, Errors Concerning.
Editorial 8, 5G, 102, 160, 200, 244,
Eighth Confederate Cavalry
Election Notice to President Davis
EUenherger, Henr.v, Inquir.v for
Emmett, Dan, and Dixie's Land
Bnglisli Tribute to Davis
Errors Corrected
Escape of General Pettus from Johnson's Island.
Escape from New Orleans Prison
Escort to President Davis Disbanded
Estill. Col. J. H
Experif nces in I'rison b.v a Girl
Excusalile Misrepresentation
392. 491.
511
459
410
308
457
540
4 58
369
317
101
420
324
19
19
25
181
506
71
P^all of Riclimonil 305
Fall of Fort Fisher 131
Father and Son Confederate Veterans 59
Fate of Heroic Georgian 256
Field. Al. G 241
Fight at Clinton, La 122
Fight at Fort Gilmer 123
Fighting near Port Gibson 225
First Arkansas Brigade at Chickamauga 166
First Confederate Flag o«9
First (Confederate from Kentucky 499
First Confederate Monument II
Flag and Uniform of the Confederacy 222
Flag of the Thirteenth United States Infantry 1„
■J-orrest, Gen. N. B i^^
Qopfedera
Forifst Camp Recoi'd 3il4
l-'orrest Cavalry Corps at Reunion J(I5, 324
I''orrt'St Monument at Memphis 3iJ9
l-'ori-est Monument Invitation 20G
Forrest's Guntown Victory 463
Fort Gilmer Assault 269, 413
Fort Harrison Figlit 4 1 S
I'Vealt ol" liigluning in 'Uii's 462
I'-ree Transpnrlaliuii tor X'eterans 1511
Galvanized Yanks ■. . . 24!i
G. A. R. Meeting 40;i
Gantt. Judge J. B 4oii
General Orders Ind
GeorKia Pension 24 4
Georgians Noted in the Confederacy Iii4
(Jordon Monument Association 244
Grant, setter from 2 n;
Grant us Friend to McLaws 3ii i
Gray Coat. An Old '. 14
Grewsome lixperienees at Petersburg 3.'
Grinslead. Ilirani \j 406
Hannnond. Honor tt) l*ri\'ate .Jolin HO
Hampton Roads 26S. 32. i
Harris, .1. K. P <Oii
Harris. Jiio. R 44S
Harrison. I >r. W. C 309
Harliauali. 'I". C 41
Hard l*'ighting \'irginians 30ti
* Heckm.an's IJrigade. Capluri' of 1)14
Heroes of Sabine Pass 55, 497
Heroic servici' at Baton Rouge 1.")
Hlirs Tribute to l^ee 49
Hewitt. Dick. A True Confederate 15S
Histor.v of Confederate Flags atui Seals 101
I lenderson. Mrs. lazzie George 533
i lolding ■Traveler" 266
Home fui- t,'onfederate Women 70, 159
Hood atnl Cliiekamauga 552
Hooper. Mrs. Kali' 249
How CJonfederates Ti'eated a Federal 2'2s
How Some Flags Were t^^aptured 25U
I low Some History Is Written 1 11
Huse, Major, of the Secret Service 65
Inunortal Six Hundi'ed 519
incidents of Trip to Calil'ornia 485
Infernal Machines 45S
hupiiry foi" Prison Comrades 13i»
Institution for Negores lilo
Irving Hloek Hastile 314
Jacliet of Gray 564
Jack.son. Andrew. Jr 329
.Jackson at Cliancellorsville 229. 232
,Iefferson, Jo.si>pli 20S
.Tohnny Reb and Liiliy Yank 246
Jolinson's Island i*rison 253
.lohnson. R. Y., at Franklin 457
Johnson. Col. Thos 498
Jonas. Ma.i. S. A 246, 409
Jones's Raid Through West Virginia 449
Jotirney from Missouri to Texas 562
Kentucky's (;iris lo llie Confedrraey 200
Kilpatrick's Spotteil Hoi-se 315, 456
Kipling to a Southern Girl 244
Knife ]''onnd in a 'I'ree 20>;
l<:ing. Cancer of Col. H. B 129. 306. 497
L(\ilhers. Capt. Jno. H 205
Lee Camp I>inn(»r 110
Lee. Gen. R, F. 16". 274
Leo. Gen. R. 10.. as a Coilegi' President 35S
Ix'e. Gen. S. !>.. Commamii'r in t'liief 2S4
Lee to the Rear in Rronze 12
Left Wing of lUr l''reneli Arm.v 463
18201
t^ l/eterar;. ^C.7V? ^ a
^ V, )^
Letter Irom V. S. Grant ou!
Liddell's Division at Chickamauga 22
Life in Camp Morton ' 255
Limit to Negio Troops j„
Lines on Confederate Note 046
Literary Soutli. The ^gj.
Literary Talent in North Carolina . . . . 504
Little Giffln of Tennes.see [ 0-3
Lost Livi s for Comrades ^gr^
Marrast. Col. Jno. C jj.)
Marriage under Dimculties 6S
Maxwell House Di.saster 223
May, Jerry W ,".,
MoC^ulloeh. Death of General 55^
MeCulloeh. Col. RobI ' " " ;{r,
MelCweo Bivouac and Camp 161
Meiial Presented Fditor .t;4(i
.Memorial \}ny ^^^
Miniorial Day in Baltimore 345
.Memorial Order of the Confederacy 499
-Memories of the Sixties 61
Miles's Cruelty to Mr .Davis 217
Military Record of Arkansas 67
Mississippi at Gettysburg 572
Mi.ssouri Girl's Prison FxperiiMice 50fi
Mistakes Correeled 3Q <;
Mixed as to Identity 56]
Monument at Birmingham 249
MonmnenI at Carroilton Miss 211
.Monument ;tt n,versl>urg. Tenn 342
Momuni'iU at Kufaula. Ala 12
Mommieni at Huntsville. Ala 538
Monumint at Little Roek. Ark , 350
.Monument at Montgomery. Ala 20
MonmnenI at Shiloh 437
Monument at Suffolk .\'a 127
Monumenl. First Confederate n
Monumint. North Carolina at .\ppomaltox 112
.Monumenl lo Fiiitlifui .Slaves 123
Monument to Father R.van 7S. 299
Monumenl to Gen. N. B. Forrest 3S9
Monument to (Jen. Jno. B. Gordon 244
Monument to Hon. Jim. H. Reagan 207
.Monument to .Tohn Pelham 170
Monument to .Soulhern Women 159,212.214.247
Moore. Jack 163
Moore. Thos.. and wife 16
Morgan s Cavalry at Shiloh 206
.Morgan. Family of Mrs. H. H 222
.Miu-gan's Raid into Kentucky 571
Mosby's Men 211
My Old Kentucky Home 367
Nance. Capt., of Texas 77
Nashville Route. The 183
Negro Commander. G. A. R 245
Negro Communed at St. Paul 360
Negro l-'lag Captured 253
Negro Troops 1 0
Night after Battle of Manassas .■ 459
North Carolina Troops, Record of 132
Not Dead Vel K 213
Ochs. Adolph S .' 57S
Oldest (Confederate Organization 341
Ohl First Virginia Infantry 391
Old St. Leger 80
Old Soutli. The Sa. 216
I ipilyke's Brigade at Franklin 563
(\sborne. 'I'hos. D 205
Ovi^r His He.irl tlie Piel\n-e of Lec> 24
Peabody College for Ti'aehers 3fiS
Peck. Nannie King 244
Pelham Mommient 170
Perkins. Fncle Jerry , ■ . 422
Personal ICxperiiMices at Harrisburg 361
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Personal Visil to 0< mnil L.ee lUS
f'icketfs W. U., Mfxic-un Pension 1 li
l^iuiieer Lifo in Arkansas :J49
Poiiuiexter. Tiitnitc In Mrs. Kate C 32S
I'Dit Gibson 22.",
I'ortiait of General IjW and Traveler Ss
Prayer of a Drummer 562
i'lcsidcnt at Louisville 20C
Trice's Raid through Mis.souri 221!
I'riohard. Mr.s. M. J 391
Prison Life of Jefferson Davis 245
Pri.son Life. Records of 455
l^rison Experiences lo.'i
Prodigal's Return. The ID:;
Promise of Sectional Millennium in;i
I'ronioted on the Field 17
Pi-op<5sed Law for Tennessee 54
Pur-suit of General Stur.y:iss IT
Railroad Rates to Reunion 204
Rallying with a Frying Pan 72
Rebel Yell. The 500
Rebel Yell. The Last 250
Records of Prison Life ' 455
Reagan. Death of Hon. Jno. H 151
Rebel Scout. The 220
Refused Stolen Meat 401
Relative Numbers in the War 307
Relative Strength of the Two Armies. . . . ; 60. 307
Reminiscences of Johnson's Island 253
Return of Confederate Battle Flags 206. 551
Return of Sword 25i;
Reunion Arrangements 149. 241
Reunion at Louisville 90.150,197.293
Reunion at McAlester. Ind. T 329
Reunion Echoes from Louisville 341
Reunion. Florida State 9
Reunion. Georgia State 541
Reunion Headquarters 241
Reunion, Mis.souri Division 214
Reunion. Mountain Remnant Brigade 26<»
Reunion. Mosb.v's Men, Annual 511
Reunion of Company C, First C. and C. Indian Brigade.... 77
Reunion of Compan.v G. First Georgia Cavalry 16, 71
Reunion, "Old First" Virginia Infantry 391
Reunion. President and Secretary 205
Reunion. Thanks to Committee 32 4
Richmond Howitzers and Third Arkansas 210
Roo.sevelfs Visit to the South 4^
Rucker, Amos 499
Russell, Col. E .L ISO
R.van Memori.al Window 216
Ryan Mojimnent. Father 7S
Saiiine Pass Heroes 497
Saved by his Bible 127
Secret Service 65
Sego. Tom 454
Senior Chaplain. C. S. A 369
Servants in Prison Ill
Sharpshooters at Louisville 20S
Sick Comrades at Nashville in '62 26
Soldier of the Blue at Reunion 411
Solid South Room in Museum 56-"i
Southern Cross of Honor . . .' 171
Southern Heroes 91
Southern Heroine in Need 249
Southern Literature 57, 286
Southern Woman's Monument. . . .159. 212. 214. 247. 272. 300. 344
Southern Women. Loyal Hearted 44.S
Southrons Remembered 271
Sp.anish Fort 15
Sp.mish Fort. Charge at 22'1
Spirit of Memorial Da.v 454
Standing Stone at Monterey 1S3
StokPs, Lieut. Bradley 503
Stories of Scout SerxMc:* 66
Stories of the War to Children 40S
Stor.v ot a Song ., 172
Strategy at New Creek .Station 210
Stratford. Birthplace of (Jeneral Lee 13
Stn-nstli of r. S. .\rmv and Navy .'iiI-65 32
T.ittei-ed Remnants
Tennessee Bivouacs
Tenth Tennessee. Tl".e Famous
Terry's Texas Rangers
Texas Bri:?ade Commanders
Third .\rkan.sas and Richmond Howitzers.
Thirteenth Virginia at Fredericksliurg. . .
Tliirty-Sevenlli Virginia Infantry
Thrilling Event Recalleil
Thrilling Experiences of Col. Lang
'I'reatioint of Jefferson Davis
Treatment of Prisoners
Tribute of Mis.souri to Louisvilli'
Tribute to Col. Knauss
'I'ribute to Faithful Slaves
'I'ribute to General Lee in Seattle
•I'livner, Bill
313
457
553
316
407
210
20
, 124
491
497
102
401
20J
S3
320
15,"!
454
Under Sentence of Death.
Union Officer's Comment .
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V. Commander. Mis.souri Division
V. at DeQueen. Ark
V. at Lynchburg. \'a
V. at St. Louis, Mo
V. in Montana
V. in Montgontery county. Miss
^'. in Tennessee
V^., Northwestern Division 121,
V. Officers
V. of Southwest Arkansas
v., Forrest Camp Record
C. Annual Convention 485.
C. at B-ntonville. Ark
C. at Camden. Ark
C. at Denton, Tex
Cat Gainesville. Fla
C. at Norfolk. Va
, C. Convention 243,
C. Convention, North Carolina Division
C. Convention, Northwest Division
C. Convention. Texas Division
C. Day at Monteagle, Tenn
C, First Georgia Chapter
C Flag to Helen Plane Chapter
. C. Florida Division
C. California
, C. of San Francisco
C .of Texas, Five Anniversaries
C. in Ohio. Work of
C. Officers Salaries
. C. New Officers
C. New Officers. Louisiana Division
C. Papers Read at Montgomery
C. v.. Correct History
C. V. Department 301. 346, 398. 446, 492
C. V. Divisions
C. V. First Order New Commander
C. V. General Order
C. V. in Oklahoma
C. y. in Parade
C. V. in Washington. D. C
C. V. Officers
C. V. ot St. Louis
C. V. New Commander
157
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445
324
212
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499
502
400
394
533
166
406
341
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305
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247
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275
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70
82
393
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247
91
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545
242
303
214
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169
241
212
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Veteran in California 309
Vindicating Record of his Colonel 573
Visit of the President to the South 4SS
Wants to locate his "Johnnie" 125
War Experiences at Ripley. Miss 262
War Records for the Family 170
Qopfederat^ l/eterar),
War News 4iiS
War Stories to Children 411S
Weedon, L<ieut. Col. John ; 44;^,
Welby. iMrs. Mary , ;J2G
What a Fedi ral Did at Cold Harbor 4GJ
NVhat Happened at Hampton Roads 268
Wheeler's Cavalry Around Atlanta lH'
Wliite People anil Negroes 4:^1
Who Captured the Negro I'"'lag Iji;
Who Stole the First Cnk-ken, C. S, A.? 417
Williams's Kentucky Bri.i^ade 4(io
With C.eneral Lei in the Old Army IC.T
With Walthall at Nashville G6
\\'ittieisms of Bisliop Wilmer 5]S
Wolseley on American Wonn-n Ttiti
Woman's Memories of the Sixties 1; I
Wood. J. P L'ii1.:U7
VanU Visits tile Soutli 125
Viamgesl Conl'e<lerate Solilii^r 562
Vciimgest "Son of a Veteran" 4!ti)
ZolliiclT.i- H.ur:u-ks.
22s. 313
POKI'HY,
.\ Lonely C.rave 456
.\ Rose from Chancellors>-ille 22S
A Soldier Tramp 24.S
.\ Son's Tribute 5"n
Bi'onze statue of Lee in Richmond . Ji;t
Chickamauga L 41
Christmas tlreeting 41
Come Thou With Me 233
Confederate Reimion ; 2S9
Coniiuered 285
Dixie 12s
Fragments 367
(jeniral Sterling I'ric- 508
(_Trandma's I'^lour 501
I lomesick 565
La Battaile des Mouclu>ir 367
Li'p at Lexington 59
Lee to the Rear -. . . 221
Little Giffen of Tennessee 273, 343
Magnolia and Pine 247
Memorial Day 327
Memories of a Confederate Veteran 274, 552
My Old Gray Jacket 40
My Old Kentucky Home 221
Old Way of Happy Days now Dead 16.'i
Only a Private 33
One of Forrest's rtlen 285
guaulri'll's Call 51S
Kiturn of the Flags 360
SpiT'its Tinm<)rl:il • 1
The Blue and not the Gray 451
rhc Confederate Private 69
The Confederate Note 246
The Face of My Dead 37fi
The First Martyr 42ii
The Last Hymn 41
The Lesson of Life 56
The Motner's Offering : 506
The Old Confederate Gray 364
The Ohl Jolumv's Letter 131
182
The Parting Soul 444
The Pride of Battery B 330
Tile South Trie<l as by Fire 26S
The Triumph of Davis 330
To a Federal Colonel 417
Tribute to Dr. Buist 276
Tributf' to I'ather Ryan 7s
Trilnite to Virginia si
Wr Would Xo( l-^orget 272
Winn Tliis Cruel War Is Over 331
William Kenneth .McCoy 5)2
ILU'STRATIONS.
Ancestral Home of Mrs. Morgan 222
Arkansas Confederate Monumeni 351
Bate's Casket at the State Capitol 152
Camp Morton Prison 265
Children of Jeffi'r.son Davis 4G0
<"hnrcli at Shiloh Time of Battle 442
fonfederate Flag 509
(Confederate Medal 5411
Confederate Monument at Cheraw. S. C 11
Confederate Memorial Services at Arlington 337
Confederate Monmnent at Dyersburg. Tenn 342
Confederate Monument at Montgomery. Ala 20
Confederate Soldiers 2SS
Daughters of Confederacy in .\rUansas 24
Dedication of Momnnent at D.versburg 343
Dedication of Monument at Hunts\-ille 539
Design for Jefferson Da\-is Monuntent 313
Dick r>owling Monument 407
■^orrest Camp, Chattanoogii. at lyouisvllle 397
Fort Negley in 1.S65 245
General Lee Reviewing Parade at Louisville 346
General Lee on Tr.aveler 49
Group of Members. Camp No. 770. Los .\ngeles 329
Group of Members. Young County Camp. Graham 14
(Jeneral Jackson and Staff 232
t^roup of Texas Division, V. D .C, at Waco 1
Group, Executive Committee, Louisville 194
Home of .Mr.s. Patterson at Winston. N. 1' 504
Ljiying Cornerstone, Woman's Monument. Ahu'on. Ga 543
Louisville Views:
Boy.s' High School 201
City Hall 1 9H
Columbia Building 201
Court House 203
Custom House 199
Gait Hou.se 197
(Salt House. Kxterior and Lobby 241
Girls' High School 203
Louisville Trust Cotupany 197
Masonic Biiililing 204
Kentucky Blind School 203
.Seelbach Hotel 201
Shawnee I*a rk 197
Union Depot 197
Union Station 199
"Lee to the Rear" in Bronze 12
Letter by General (Jrant 21fi
Maxwell House in 1S61-5 224
Map of Shiloh Battle Field 438-9
.Mi'uiorial Cup .• »''4
Monmnent to Forrest at Memphis 385
Monument to H. L. (Srinslead ■'Ofi
Monument to Mosby's Men 511
Mrs. I'orney-Smith. Mother, and (irandfather 349
Ohl Voecomico Church 13
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(^opfederat^ l/eterai>.
statue of General Gordon 24J
.Standing Stone at Monti'rey 1S3
Slate Capitol ■ ^'^
Stratfonl House 1 •'
Tennessee River at I'ittsburg Landing ^41
'i imes Building'. Xew Yorli City -J i i*
L\ D. C. at Waxaliaehie 57
I'nder liis Old J^'lag at Mt. Olivet 153
rnveiling of .Monument at Slilloh 433
\'i'-\v.s III LtMiis\illi- K'-uni(iii I':ir.nle 2SU
L.AST ROLL.
Adams. John . . . .
Aills. Dr. \Vm..
.\lston, Thos. I'. .
-Andrews. Col. C.
.Anglin. J. C. . . .
.\rnold. J. N . . . .
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Barrow, John 574
Bailey, Chas. H . .
Bailey. Geo. H . .
Baird. Haj. ,1. T . .
Baker, Jno. B . . . .
I3angs. Steve. . . .
Bate, Gen. Wm. B.
Battle, Gen. C. A . .
Battle. Judge X. W
Baylor, Mrs. G. W
Beasley, Jno. G . . . .
Bennett, Mrs. .S. L.
Bigstaff, M. E
Black, Green
Blaine, W. C
Blount, David
Boles, Calvin
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424
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Booth. Moses 467
Bouldin. Dr. H
Bouldin, Miss Susie...
Bowling, T. R
Br.agonier, R. C
Breckenridge, W. C. P.
Brent, Wm. .\
Briiwn. Capt. B. T
Brown, Col. J. \V
Brown, M. X
Brown, Jesse 10
Biiist, Dr. E. S
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467
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Burger, Rich.ard 176
Callan, M. V 176
Campbell, Jos, F 467
Campbell, Maj. T. C 516
Carney. Jno. L 38
Carter. E. K 235
Cayce, E. B 322
Chambers, W, J 575
Clark, Capt. M 235
Clinton, S. H 516
Coleman, J. B 575
Colquitt, Col. J. W 241
Cooke, A. M 424
Cooper, W. P 426
Cox, Austin 179
Crabb, Mi's. R. W 38
Cummings, T. H 372
Halgarn, Stephen S.
r»arling. J. J
Ilaugherty. Jas. N. .
Doak, Dr. W. H . . .
Doran. W. R
Drake. S. C
riudley, Bishop
Dudwoody, Ma.1. C. .\ .
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176, 240
467
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136
244
320
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I^Mb', i;ov. J. P
l^Ks;*\>WD
iqPFarc^, G. V 283
Edwards, W. H 234
Elender, Jacob 467
Fain, J. P
Farinholt, Ma.i. \V. 1 1 .
l-'aris. Dr. A. A
Ferrara. Antonio
Field, A. G
Finle.v, Gen. J. J
Finney. Wm
Fleeman, J. M
Florence, C. B
Fly, G. W. L
234
23S
3211
36
241
37
3"* 3
40
134
Gay, Capt. W. L, 371
Gilbert, Thos. H 86
Gillenwater, J 237
Godfrey, J, W 131
Goodman, Duke 151
Goree, MaJ. T. J 238
Graybill, Rev. A. T 236
Green, Gen. J. W 235
Green. Gen. W. S 375
Gregory, Capt. E. S r,7ii
Griffith, Gen. J. S 136
Hackney, Jesse E 179
Hany, W. C 36
Hale, N. M 319
Halsey, Edw. L 240
Hamilton, Jno. B 243
Hardaway, Jno. T 236
Hardaway, R. H 241
Harrell, Capt. J. D 575
Harris, Capt. F. S 177
Hatfield, F. M 36
Hatfield, Geo. W 40
Haughton, Mrs. S. B 17!)
Hazzard, Capt. W. M . . . . S4
Henderson, J. B 466
Henry, Capt. E. .M . . 424.513
Herring. Wm. H 279
Hill, Mrs. D. H 39
Hooper, Jno. H 135
Horner, MaJ. J. J 2 42
Howell, Capt. E. P 426
Hubbard, David 84
Huffman, A. C 234
Hughes, John 174
Hulsey, J. W 460
Hu.se, Maj. Caleb 243
.lames. Jno. A 323
Jenkins, Capt. J. H 516
Jennings, Alex K 466
Johnson, W. B 87
Jones, Andrew J 36
.Tones, Mrs. Applewhite... 576
Jones, Israel 373
Jones, J. H 174
Julian, M. S 276
Kearney, Capt. H. W..., 23S
Keathley, Jerry 176
Kelly. J. F 276
Kell.\'. W. 0 321
Kenney, Mike 319
Kent. W. C 371
Kincaid, W. G. W 136, 242
Kindred ,Capt. E. T 39,85
Lanibith. Jno. .M 237
l.angston. Dr. A. N 322
hartigue, C. E 279
bee. Gen. Fitzhugh 280
],ee. Miss Mildred C 318
Leonard, David 234
Lester, .Mrs .S. H 517
Livingston, Jas. L 38
Livingston, Capt. T. B.. 174
Loflaud, Chas 176
London, W. B 574
Love, t/apt. J. E 135
Lovett, J. A 375
Lumpkin, Wm. J 279
Lyen, E. W 513
Mahoney, I. T 279
.Major, R. W 40
-Manson. Dr. H. \V 576
-Marks, N. M 135
.MeCallum, Capt. J. R. . . . 321
.dcClanahan. Capt. B. F. . 38
-McClellau. J. W 237,321
McCormack, Dr. P. ,1 . . . . 156
McCulloch, Thos. R 36
McDonnell, Jno 322
McDowell, Judge W. W.. 468
McFadden, R. H . . . . 179
McFall, Dr. A. C 370
McGavock. Mrs. Caroline. 177
McGhee. Hal 323
McQuown. B. K 39
Melton, Jas. A 234
Mershon, M. L 174
Miller, J. K 87
Miller, Capt. M. A 175
Miller, Capt. J 32(:
Miller, Miss M. E 515
Monroe. N. C S5
Moore, Alfred G 238
Moore, Rev. F. M 134
Moore, Mrs. K. W 576
Moore, H. C 323
Moores, J. W 371
MorKan, Maj. W. H 574
Morris. Jas. .\ 466.516
Nash, Col. C. A 240
Neilson. Jas. C 244
Nel.son. L. H 87
Nettl.-s, R. H 373
Newberry, Dr. T. L 319
Nixon, Tho.s. G 515
Norvell, O. B 425
Norwood, Mrs. F. 1 517
Nutzell, Conrad 86
Odom. J .R 283
O'Donnell, Jack 173
O'Ferrall, Gov. C. T 514
Old.s, Mrs. F. A 37
Owen, Mrs. A. B 574
Owens, J. T 283
Ownhv. Jonathan W 36
I'archnian, Jno. L 426
Park. Mrs. S. S 424
Patrick, Miss Sadie 84
Patter.son, Capt. W. H... 236
Peak, Capt. C. S 577
Pearce, L. W 237
Peddicord, K. 1" 466
Perrin, .M. K 151
Perrin, Maj. W. K 174
Perrow, H. W 174
Pettus, Dr. W. D 424
Phillips, Mrs. \V. R 515
Pitts, Capt. F. L 2SU
Porter, Dr. R. B 575
l'r.\or, \V. A 235
I'tnlue.N', J. \\' 375
Rapier. Col. .1. L 277
Reagan, Hon. Jno. 11. . . . 154-5
Rhett. Col. R." B 323
Rich, S. D 85
Robbin.s, Maj. W. .\1 373
Roberts, Samuel 517
Robinson. Jeri".\- 577
Robin.son. .M;iJ. iX. T. N.. 39
Russell, Milton 36
Russell, M. N 276
Scott, Ja». J 374
Sellers, Capt. E. T 237
Simp.son, J. B 136
Sloan, Dr. J. T 279
Smith, Jno. -■Augustus. . . . 36
Smith, Jake F 23s
Smith, Capt. H. H 236
Smith, W. W 323
Spencer, J. .\ 373
Stafford, J. N 135
Stainback, Rev. G. T 282
Steele, W. C 321
Stephenson, J. W 574
Stevens, E. L 270
Stigleman, Dr. C. M 277
Stokes, Bradley T 13 4
Stone. Gervis H 516
Stone, Jas. J 235
Stuckey, Augustus 36
Svdnnr, .Mrs. A. E 27S
Tate, Walter 36
Tatham, J .F 514
Taylor, J. M 277
Taylor. Dr. R. K 277
Taylor. Capt. W. H 237
Temple, Dr. B. B 467
Terrell. A. C 319
Terrell, Wm 242
Thomas, Gen. B. M 424
Thompson, Robt 514
Thorpe, Capt. S. R 517
Tomlin.son, Jos. .\ 241
Turner. Capt. G. R 516
Vertner. Mrs. C. K 39
Walke, Dr. F. A 318
Ward, John Shirley 86
Warmack. Dr, R. A 235
Warner, W, A 176
Watts, G. W. H 574
Wat.son, A. S 242
Wells, J, H 466
West, p. M 321
White, Jno. W 370
Whitehead, Capt. J. T. . . . :'.9
Whiteside, H. C 239
Whittle. Elisha ' 37
Wilkerson, W. C 135
Wilson. H.^nry 322
Wil.son. Thos. H 134
Winston, Capt. J. M 283
Winston. P. H 234
Wood, C. H. F 279
Wright, Capt. W. F 323
Qopfederat^ l/eterap
AUTilOI4S.
T.
Alleil. C.
Allen. T. F
Anderson, K. P
A.shby, T. A..
H., H. A
I!;uk'y. J. M
I'.iuuly. .1. M
Ilart(»n. Randolph...
Ilattcn, R. X
!'.('( .'^on. Jas
liehan, Mrs. W. J. .
lUrdson. J. C
I'.rti'ki'nridge, (i. W
I'.rittain. B. F
lirtnva. \V.
lironn. 'I'.
Ilrook.'s. U.
lirnniier. J.
Ilnui.swiek.
ItncU. S. n. . .
liiitlir. N. K.
C.
L.
R.
II.
A.
r.-inipiicii. w. A :;
l.'anlzon. Clia.s. E
Carpenter. N. M
J-arroll. V. V
l^'urter. T. G
I'arnther.s, W. G
l^ason. Mrs. Jno. R....
Cheney. H. J
Clay. H. B
deyeland. Margaret C.
I'lalborno. Mrs. M. E..
Cloptnn. Mrs. V. C. . . .
Cole. C. M
Collier. W. A
r"ox. 'I'. U
;"ook. V. Y
Coab.v. (5<'o. B
Cnlllns. G. T
Cninmhij;'. Mrs. Iv. H. .
(^^inninins's. C C
Cmmnins. J. .\
Curl. .\
Oana. C. A
Daniel. L. S
i->anH'ron. E. H
i">avenporl. J. S
Davis. Mr.s. T. C
Davis. Mrs. V. Jefferson . .
Dawson. W. 1-^
Diaderieli. Dr. C
I )eiloxn'na,\'. Col
l>eSpain. Mrs. W. T
Diinitry. John
Dixon. Thos.. Jr
Dodson. W. C 2i3,
Dot.son. .]. W
Duke. H. W
Dunawa.v. J. M
Dnndn.s. W. S
41S
JU
35
358
SOS
551
256
452
270
110
247
211
415
170
22S
360
454
247
317
..".11
1 12
. 4in
1i;
79
226
456
506
4 3I-.
7 2
40S
61
53'«
262
5 4
18
15
HIT
121',
410
314
55
122
271
369
Eborhard. E.
Edward.s. A.
b^niannol, S. .
Evans. C. A.
Ev.'. V. E .
Ill
131
4.S6
33
325
30
166
412
227
457
12:.
440
l.T
265
125
225
17
376
90
b'nil. Philip II 4!I7
I'Mlzgerald. Mrs. F. M.... 444
I'Managan. W. A 123. 250
Flood. F. W 4oS
Fowlk.-s. .Tos. F 421
H.
J.
B.
W. .
F. . .
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Dnke
J. .\.
s. ei .
M. ..
M. . .
H.
360,
Garwood. G. B.
Gerald, Florenei'
Gibson, W, W. .
Grabcr,
Gracey,
Grady.
Goodman.
Gi'anberry.
Gram. Clia
Grant. F.
Grirtin. 1>.
Greenwood. Albert . . .
Grimih. F. M
Gnlhrey. D. M
(Iwin. Mrs. M. M
lI.irbanKh .T. C
13I.22,S. 247
Harper. Mrs. F. J. . . .
Ilarri.s, W. I)
Herman. ]\1and V . . . .
lleyward. .I;in'- .^ere\
Milliard. Mr..*. V. B. .
Hollnian. F. G
I lord. IT. E
Hood. .Inn. J
Jarreit, C F
Jenkins. A. E
Jenkins. J. \V
Jett. W. A. I
Jolmson. Re\'. Ji>s
.Johnson. R. V
Jolmson. W. P
Jolmstitn. John
Johnston. J. S. . 363. 391,
.lones, n. W"
Jones. J. \\'
121
172
30S
316
566
2S
34
4 13
4I!J
573
553
256
267
or
41.
420
364
226
504
Kearney. W. H . .
Kemper. l.;ilrn \"
Kini'annun. .I:is . .
7S
271
.361
551
126
315
59
251
454
457
210
2S
B52
'*7
401
6S
512
ISO
Leathers. Jnn, II.
Lee. Gen. S. 1). . .
Lee, Cassanove G.
Le.ster. J. H
Little. T. C
Lively. E. H
. .. 209
. . . 294
60. 307
66. 561
. .. 159
. . . 226
c.alibell. Mrs. P.v:
i;arrell. W. R. . .
Long. W. M 491
Lott. Jesse B 416
Lowry. Robt 159
Lmnpkin. Elizabeth 29.S
.\laelean. Clara 1) 360
Maim. .las. M 304
Martin. J. H 417
Martin. Judge 269
Matlock. P. M 16S
Mayes. R. B 330
McAllister. \V. M 365
McAllister. L. C 22
McCann. Jas. M 171
McCanne. Mrs. \*. Y 456
AloCarty. W. T 459
McGlashan. P. M 541
Mclver. Evander 126
McKlm. Rev. Randolpli II. 113
Molvlnnon. Mrs. A. S. . . . 19
MeLendoii, L 24 1
MeLeod. Mrs. B. D 11
McWhirter. G. I. C 462
Meek. J. W 50 1
Merrifleld. J. K 563
Miller. Mrs. I''. M 305
.Miller. .IK 417
.Miller, .M, A 157
Mills. Chas. H 407
Minnieli. .1. W 22. Ill
Minor. J. B 72
MolTett. G. H 105. 449
Montgomery. Mrs. V 534
Moore. Jas. B 41S
Moore, Mrs. K. W 326
Morgan. A. S 353
Morrison. J. G 229
Morton. Mary Iv 417
Neilson. T. H 497
Xel.son. H. K 250
Nicholson. A. O. P. . . . 111. 163
.\ixon. \V. C 213
North. Dr. A. C 16S
Oekenden. Mrs. 1. .M.
Drgain. Mrs. K. .\ ^,
Osborne. Thos. D «^ 19".
Overley .Milford..^"
Owen. Com. T. M . .
342. 346. 39S. 4Jil. I7J,
Palmer. \V. H
Park. R. E
Penn. R. Haden
Perry. II. H
Perry. \V. Kemp
Potts. J. N
Porter. Jas. D
Price. C. B
Priehard. Mrs. W. B. . . .
,'. I -. ,
232
542
219
413
562
306
4 42
121
274
R.indali. Jas. R 83
Randolph. .Mrs. J. 341.400.572
Reid. Christian 503
Rice. E. C 127
Roilgeri?. S. D 570
Rogers, Ja.s. R Hi 4
Ro.gers. J. S 65
Rone. Jnv). T 166
Roy. T. B 71
Salmon. II. \V . .
Sau.ssey. G. W.
Sea. Mrs. S. F. .
Se.iy. \V. M
Selm.an. \V. E. .
Sims. M. W. . . .
Sims. R. !••
Shannon. T- N . .
Sliepherd. II. E.
159
33
74
164
491
253
130
458
34 5
Sinnotl. H. F 511
Smitli. Bridges 272
Smith. Mr-s. C. A. Forney. 249
Smith. Jessica R... . 127.509
Solari, Miss M 123
Spann, S. 0 560
Stradley. J. H aos
Strange. \V. H 422
Swift. Chas. J 273
Tarrant. E. \V 66
Teager, M. M 506
Tench, Jno. \V 214. 32S
Terry. F. G 161
Thompson. Mrs. l-'rank.... 285
Tliompson. Jno. R 221
I'hompson. R. L 454, 571
Imiston. G. P 254
I'l.knor. F. 0 273
r..||ry. W. P 255
r\ |.-r. II. .\ 499
Tyler. R. C 225
Tyler. W. C 17
Vest. Senator 26S
Walker. Gen. C. 1 448
Walker. Mrs. S. H 13
Ward. John Shirley 455
Washburn. W. A 27
Watson. Mrs. S. H 6
Weisiger. David J 285
Weidemeyer. Mr.s. J. M.. 562
West. Decca Lamar 272
White. Mrs. .\. B 538
Williams. B. J 310
Williams. Mrs. F. McD.. 393
Williams. J .W 294
Wiliingham. J. W 394
Wilson. S. F 438
Wilmotb. Jacob V 561
Winder. Mr.s. F. T 83
Winder. Mrs. J. R 417
Winston. W. E 253
Wise. George 33
Wright. A. 0 266
Wroc, Mrs. M. J 443
Yates. C. L. . .
Young. B. B .
Young. T. J. .
463
217.257. 564
68
PORTRAITS.
.\dams. Mrs. W. C 64
.\llin. Capt. John 177
.\nderson. Col. Kollar. . . . 500
Askew. Miss .Vnne J 330
Averitt. Dr. J. B 369
Bailey. Chas. H
Bate. Gen. Wm. B
Battle. Joel Allen
Baugb. Mrs. W. P
Baxter, Col. Jerre
Beall. Gen. W. R. N
Herr>'. Senator Jas. H. . . .
Bouldin. Dr. H
Bnxildin. Miss T.#ucii' T . . . .
Breckenridge. Gen. Jno. C.
Urittain. Dr. B. F
Brown. Mart
Brown, lion. Tully
Buchanan. Admiral F. . . .
Buckner. Gen. S. B
Bnrger. Richard
134
153
254
71
182
128
541
282
250
257
306
244
445
125
202
176
Carney. Capt. J. L. . .
Cb.idwell. Mi.ss Kate
Cheatham. Gen. B. F
Chalaron. Gen. J. A . .
Cheney. Miss Leonora
Claiborne. Mrs. M. E
Clark. Mildred Lee..
Clark. Judge Walter.
Cole. Miss Alice Y. . .
Cole. Miss Katie.. 1st
Coleman. J. B
Conrad. Capt.ain
Cook. Varina Davis. .
Cooper. Miss Annie F
Currie. Mrs. K. C
Daffan. Miss Katie.
Davis. Jeffer.son
Dickinson. L. T
Dozier. Dr. O. T. . . .
Dudley. Bi.shop
Calif. Mrs. J. F 1st p. June
Carmack. E. W 473.522
Edwards. Ma.i. G. V.
Emmett. Daniel T>..
Estill. Col. J. H
38
211
128
460
440
61
393
104
346
June
576
220
352
316
5
580
394
91
24 4
283
97
181
QoFjfederat^ l/eterap
Hvaiis. Miss Lucy.
Kvaiis. tfarali Lee.
Kvans. Col. M. L.
Ewing, K. W. R...
Faris. Ur. A. A . . .
Field. Capl. A. G.
Fitch, Ur. \V. B...
Fly. G. W. 1
Foster. Miss Mary t
Frazirr. Miss Julia D
GabbcU. Mrs. S. E. .
Gaiennii'. Capt. Frank
Gay, Capl- W. L
Gordon. Gen. G. W. .
Gracey. Capt. F. P. . .
Green. Wm. Seniple . .
Gregory. Capt. Edward
Griffin. P. M . .
Griffith, Gi-n. J.
254S Jt'r\'fy. Judgt' T. 1)
345 .Inhnson. Mi.ss Annie
61 Jcilinson, Col. Benj. I....
SS liihiisfin. Col. Thus
Johnston. Albert Sidney..
32(1 Johnston. Jos. E. . . . 7. S7
:i41 Jonas, Maj. S. A
469 Jonas. Miss Annie Lowe..
235 Jones. Mrs. K. P
32u Jordan. Mi.'ss Gray Blanelie
544
471
260
3U6
498
122
122
246
275
34r>
312
Haldeman. Miss
Kaldeman. \V. X
II:ilr. X. .M
ftill. VV^^I U. M.
illon. .Mis S. \V
I l.nii:iiiuli, r C. . . .
Hardee. G'ti. \V. J. .
Harris, Capt. F. S. .
Harris. Miss Violet.
Harrison. Miss Daisy
Harrison. Dr. W. C . .
Haughton. Mr.s. S. B
Hayes. Mrs. M. H. D
Hendenson. Mrs. L. G
Henry. Gen. E. M. . . .
Herndon. Miss Franc'.^es
Heuser, Mrs. Henry . .
Hickman. Mrs. Jno. P
Horner. Maj. J. J. . . .
Howell, Capt. Evan P
Hunt, Dr. V. V
Hunter Alcvander. . . .
Huse, Ma.i, Caleb
Jackson, Andrew, Jr.
Jeffer.son, Joseph ....
Jetton, Capt. C. W. . .
1
1
2r.3.
309
309
17!1
14.j
529
513
202
201
211
242
426
90
246
243
329
20s
15
Ivincaid. G. \V. G 242
King, J. W 15
Lake. A. C 59
Lake. Capt. L 59
l,.irig (■ .1. D. B i:io
T. J 390
Leaell^^^^^lsie L 302
E 53
ind Gordon. . . 580
Gen. Fitzhugh 2S0
Gen. Stephen D 2S4
hers, Capt. Jno. H. . . 209
Wm. B 73
Capt. J. H 66
Miss Lila.. 1st p. June
^liss Mary Louisr-. . 211
213
ILss Elizabeth. 29.S
~-l-<mjpkin. W. J 279
Marrast, Coj^^Bc 162
Jeri^^^^
Ma.Ja|^^^^^PF.
MeCli^H^^T^ W 321
MeCo^^^General 177
McConnell, Mrs., and chil-
dren 311
McCormick, Dr. P. J 156
McCuUoch, Col. Robt.... 35
McDonnell, John 322
McDowell, Judge 4fi.S
McEwen, Jno. L 161
McFall, Dr. A. C 370
McGavock. Mrs. Caroline. 17S
MeKim, Dr. R. H 113
MePherson. Ernest 306
Mill.r, Mrs. F. W 305
Mill.;r, J. K
Miller, Capt. M. A. . .
Montgonier.v, Miss G .
Montgotnery, Mrs. \'ietor
Monroe, N. C
Moore. Alfred G
Moore. Mr. and Mrs. T
Moores. J. W
Morgan, Col. A. S
Morris, Jas. A ,
Morris. Sergt. J. W. . .
Morton, Capt. Geo. C.
Munnerlyn, Miss Olivi:
Na.sh, Col. C. A
S'eale, Walter
Norton, Capt. Geo. C.
Norwood, Mrs. F. I. . .
Gates, Gen. W. C. . . .
Ochs. Adolph S
O'Ferrall. Gov. C. T . .
Olds. Mrs. F. A
Osborne. Miss Julia . .
Osborne, Thos. D. . . .
Owen, Hon. Thos. M.
Parrish. Mrs. L. Kirby
Peak, Capt. C. S
Peek, Nannie King...
Peddicord, K. F
Perkins, Uncle Jeri-y .
Perrow, H. W
Phillips, Mrs. W. R. .
Pitts, Hon. F. L
Polk, Gen .Leonidas . . .
Porter, Dr. R. B
Prichard. Mrs. W. B . . .
Randolph. Mrs. Janet.
Rather. Miss Elizabeth
Rapier, Col. J. L
Reagan, Hon. Jno. H.
Renaud. Gordon Burr .
Reynolds, Miss Lela. .
Ri:)binson, Jerr.v
Rogers, Miss Caroline.
Rugeley, Capt. E. S. . .
Russell. Col. E. L
Russell, M. N
87
175
341
535
85
238
16
371
354
516
15
287
461
240
, 472
287
517
470
57S
, 514
37
242
205
30 3
S8
577
244
466
422
174
515
280
12s
575
391
4011
325
277
, 207
496
494
577
460
465
180
276
.^ale, Mrs, V. M 247
Sahnon, Harvey W 214
Sanders, Major D. W.... 252
Scarborough, Miss 259
Scott, J. J 374
Semnies, Raphael 580
Sheehan, Will T 549
Shipp, Gen. J. F 394
Sinnolt. Miss Elizabeth.. 256
Smith, Capt. H. H . .
Smith, Miss Mary H
Smith, O. R 509
Smith. W. W
Sorrel. Gen. E. M . .
Spencer, J. A
.Stephens, Hon. A. H
236
273
509
... 323
... 469
... 373
125,310
Stainback, Rev. G. T 282
Stoke-s, Bradley 503
Stone, Jno. B 215
.Swift, Miss Lena.. 1st p. June
Sydnor, Mrs. Annie E..., 278
Taulman, F. A 16
Taylor, R. L 472. 521
Terrell, A, C 319
Terry, Miss Mary Louise. 251
Thompson. Miss Margaret. 274
Thomas. Gen. B. M 425
Thruston. Gen. G. P. . 255. 563
Trantham. Miss Ada 1... . . . 299
Walke. Dr. F. A
Watson. Mrs. S. H. .
Ward, John Shirley..
Webb, Ben R
Weigle, Miss Nell
Weidemeyer, Mrs. J. M
Wheeler. Miss Carrie P
Whiteside, Henry C...
Wiley, C. M
Wilson, Miss Addie F.
Winder, Mrs. F. T
Winston, Capt. J. M. .
Wood, J. P
Woodberry, S. B
Vance.w lion. W. L,
Voun.^:. Bennett H. .
318
6
86
520
495
562
200
239
542
213
82
283
317
564
125
261
Vol. 13
NASHVIIvI^E, TBNN., JANUARY, 1905
No. I
Qopfederate l/eterap
Comforting Sentiment Concerning the "Spirits Immortal"
(Rkpi
>M Vktkhan for AuarsT. ItKM. Ske PaokSAH, with Note in Brackkts. 1
"You think of the dead on Christmas Eve,
Wherevcl- the dead are sleeping,
And we, from a land where we may not grieve
Look tenderly down on your weeping.
You think us far; we are very near,
From you and the earth though parted.
We 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 sleepers.
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 i
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 December.
When you think of us, think not of the tomb
Where you laid us down in sorrow ;
But look aloft, and beyond earth's gloom.
And wait for the great to/morrow,"
GROUP OF TEXAS DIVISION, UNITED DAUGHTERS Of THE CONFEDERACY, WAXAHACHIE, DECEMBER, 1904.
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CONVENTION TEXAS U. D. C. AT IVAXAHACHIE.
The memorable convention of the Texas Division, U. D. C,
in Waxahachie will long have associated with it an illustra-
tion of what a great-hearted, loyal people can do. During the
four days there was no evidence that cominercialism domi-
nated a single person. True, the sentiment of the people was
th(»roughly with the cause for which the noble women are
laboring.
There are some remarkable facts in the history of that
section. In 1870 Waxahachie, the county seat of Ellis County,
had a population of 800; now it has 8,000. The deposits in
the banks of the county amount to $3,500,000. Unimproved
land in 1897 was worth $3 or $4 per acre, and improved $10
to $12; now wcll-iniprnvcd farms can be sold for $100 per
MISS KATIE DAFFAN.
acre. Waxahachie has long been the largest cotton market
from the wagons in the world. In 1894 Ellis County raised
120,000 bales, and Waxahachie handled 65,000 from wagons.
Last year the county raised 108,000 bales, and Waxahachie
got 34.000. Since 1894 other strong cotton market towns in
the county have curtailed the receipts of Waxahachie. This
year the cotton crop of Ellis County will be over 130,000 bales
Miss Katie Daffan, the President, was all the more happy
officially and personally, as it was in her home county of Ellis.
Much zeal was manifested in behalf of delegates, who were
untiring in their efforts to achieve the best results.
Many telegrams of greeting were received during the con-
vention, one from Mrs. John P. Hickman, Secretary of the
general organization ; and Miss DafTan, the President, sends
a copy of a telegram received after the adjournment of the
convention from the wife of the President of the Confederate
States in response to a loving greeting sent her by the Daugh-
ters of Te.xas :
"New York, N. Y., December 10, 1904.
"Miss -Katie Daffan, Waxahachie, Tex.: Thanks and much
love to my husband's friends and mine own.
V. Jefferson Davis."
The most conspicuous feature of the convention of Texas
Daughters was unity and zeal to establish, as fully as pos-
sible, correct history. All else was most worthily made sub-
servient to that. Illustrations by Mrs. Orgain, in quoting
from ultra-partisan books and magazines of the North, gave
intense emphasis to the importance of counteracting for truth
and for the good of the country, as fully as practicable, these
wicked falsehoods. In calmly meditating ujwn these things,
it is evidently fair and just to bear patiently with Northern-
ers who know of the South only through such wicked per-
versions of facts. To print these quotations would astound
many people in the South and arouse them as nothing ever
has to active promulgation of the truth. With such misrepre-
sentations as quoted it is hardly to be wondered at that
charitably disposed people at the North give so lavishly, and
all to one side of the race issue, against their own blood her-
itage. An illustration is here given in regard to Northern
histories by a young gentleman, yet a college student, who is
spending the winter in Florida with his family, and who has
recently been reading the Veteran. He writes the editor:
"I wish to thank you for several copies of the Confederate
Veteran. I have read all of them from cover to cover, and
Qopfederate Ueterap,
enjoyed tliem extremely. I like very much the whole tone
of your periodical. You in the South cannot be blamed for
feeling indignant at the limited amount of space wliich is
given your soldiers and statesmen by historians. I observed
this fact when studying the history of the United States,
but supposed, of course, you used in your schools histories
written by SoiTthemers."
HisTCRiAN Mrs. S. H. Watson's Report.
In making her third annual report as Historian of the
Texas Division. U. D. C, Mrs. S. H. Watson, of Waxahachie,
gave a retrospect of the work, and was most complimentary
to her predecessor. She claimed two important requisites for
herself — "steady, persevering energy and a keen sense of
duty." In the language of her report she states :
"My effort has been to lead the Chapters month by month
through the years of 1861, 1862, and 1863. We commenced
with the startling events that proved to be the tocsin of war
and desolation in our beautiful land. From Lincoln's procla-
mation and the fall of Sumter we came to war in reality,
and discussed the thrilling battles of 1861 and 1862 until we
reached the decisive Gettysburg, the turning point in the his-
tory of our beloved Southland.
"I led the Chapters through a course of colonial study, be-
ginning when were first applied the distinctive appellations
of North and South, the small cloud no larger than a man's
hand that foreshadowed the future storm. We followed this
as it lowered and widened over the political heavens and
finally burst in its fury, sweeping away peace, love, and unity.
We have walked together with Alexander Stephens round
about the Declaration of Independence, talked of the great
Southern statesman who wrote and, with many other Southern
men, fearlessly placed his signature to this masterpiece of
pure patriotism and eloquence drawn from between the covers
of the Bible; from thence to the Constitution of 1781 and
the revised one of 1787 on to the rights and sover.eignty of
the State as held by the South in 1861. In a word, I have
endeavored to fasten, especially upon the minds of the younger
. generation, the important part the South took in the forma-
tive period of the nation. We should know these things to
properly appreciate the fact that we are born Southern women ;
and to be Daughters of the Confederacy is our birthright,
from which we must not lightly part for a mess of pottage,
for it is an inheritance that comes to us through anguish,
desolation, and the blood of brave men. It gives us an in-
alienable right to cherish memories of our heroic dead.
"O, how many of them were so young when they set out,
and so full of the fire and vigor of youth! Almost every
State recalls with tender pride a Sam Davis, a David O.
Dodd, a John Pelham, a Dick Dowling, and a host of others
who gave up life rather than sacrifice personal honor and
who fell in the din of battle or did deeds of wonderful daring.
These are all gone, and we have only the memory of them
and their graves. But some of our veterans, the living rem-
nant of the grandest army in the annals of history, are with us
yet and claim our reverence and care. Let us earnestly seek
to cheer and make comfortable their declining years and give
them their true place in Southern history.
"In addition to this course of study I have for the past two
years arranged the programmes for the auxiliaries, the first
year by request of President Mrs. Cone Johnson and the past
year in compliance with a similar request from Mrs. Moore
Murdoch, the chairman of the auxiliaries. In this connection
I would recommend to be used by the auxiliaries a war cate-
chism arranged by Mrs. Stone, of Galveston. I believe the
adoption of this catechism by the leaders of the auxiliaries as
the basis of their historical work with the children would
interest and insure a very satisfactory result.
"This year Veuve J. Davis Chapter, of Galveston, Bene-
dctte E. Tobin Chapter, of Palestine, the Navarro Chapter,
of Corsicana, the Oran M. Roberts Chapter, of Houston, and
the Bell County Chapter, of Belton, take the lead in reporting,
and deserve special mention in the order in which I have
named them. Mrs. Margaret Watson, of the Galveston Chap-
ter, has written me a letter every month during the year, con-
taining not only a report of her work but friendly sympathy
and beautiful thoughts.
"Mrs. Price, of Palestine, Mrs. Emerson, of Corsicana, Mrs.
Steele, of Houston, and Mrs. Hughes, of Belton, assure me
that interest in historical study in their Chapters is growing
most encouragingly. The Oran M. Roberts Chapter, of Hous-
ton, met during the summer months and continued their study
of the programmes. Mrs. Hughes reports the Belton Chap-
ter and the reference books used by the Chapter. Mrs. Steele,
of Houston, suggests, as a solution of the book problem that
has arisen from the difficulty in securing suitable reference
books, that I select some history, and use that alone in arran-
ging the questions on the monthly programmes. She thinks
that to secure one history would be within the reach of the
Chapters. I have made it a rule to adopt suggestions when
it is possible, and I am convinced that they will work for the
betterment of the cause. While I approve Mrs. Steele's sug-
gestion, I note that for the past two years I have taken my
subjects and questions almost entirely from Jefferson Davis's
work, the "Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government,"
with an occasional one from the Confederate history of the
War between the States and the common school histories ;
also, in selecting what I term additional questions. I used last
MRS. S. H. WATSON.
Qoi)federate Ueteraj).
year Curry's "Southern States of the American Union," and
this year I have used no other than Alexander Stephens's
work, "The War between the States," and I do not think I
could make a belter selection. I have expressed a willing-
ness to send copies of answers when it was so desired, and this
I have done in many instances.
"I would say a word in exoneration of the seeming remiss-
ness of State historians in sending reports this year. I am
quite sure the historians have been faithful and have carried
the work on. In fact, under the fine leadership of competent
and enthusiastic women this historic part of the U. D. C.
which is so important, has grown to such an extent that now
I am proud to say that it is easier to recount the Chapters
who do not follow my programmes than those who do. and
I feel that along this line a good foundation has been laid
during the past three years for the perpetuation of this
organization.
"I sent out the contest that resulted in this evening's pro-
gramme early in the spring, and the closing days of Septem-
ber brought in the last of the manuscripts responsive to the
cali. There were several new contestants this year, and I
am glad to introduce two names that have never before
appeared on the programme. The play founded on an inci-
(Unt of the war properly belongs to last year's programme;
but failing to get it staged in Houston, I reserved it for this
occasion. This convention should be proud of its literary
evening, because it is unfolding a wealth of interesting war
incidents, developing Southern patriotism, and bringing to
the front the literary efforts of many bright women of Texas."
Additional reports, including the list of new officers and a
finer picture than that on our front page, are to appear later.
About New Words to "Dixie." — Col. G. N. Saussy, of
Hawkinsville, Ga., one of the committee appointed by Gen.
S. D. Lee to assist the committee of the U. D. C. in selecting
suitable words to adapt to the air of "Dixie," requests tho?<
having copies of such poems to furnish him with duplicate-
at as early a date as practicable, that he may be in position to
discharge this duty intelligently.
"THE OLD SOUTH."
A little book bearing the above title was issued from the
Nashville Methodist Publishing House just before the Christ-
mas holidays. With its memories of the Old South the holi-
days are peculiarly freighted. It is beautifully printed and
bound, and there are interspersed characteristic pictures from
the scenes and persons commemorated. The author is the
widely known Sunday school trainer. Dr. H. M. Hamill, whose
addresses from the platform and writings in books and papers
have been heard and read by many thousands. To most of
these it is doubtless known that he was an Alabama boy, and
as a mere lad served in the closing days of the Confederacy
under Gen. I.ee. In this little book he tells: "I was born in
and of the Old South. Whatever is good or evil in me I
owe chiefly to it. Habit, motive, ideal, ambition, passion and
prejudice, love and hatred, were formed in and by it. The
spell it cast upon my boyhood is strong upon me after more
than a generation is gone." And then, with a heart full of
love for his theme, the writer through the eighty vivid, beau-
tiful, and tender pages sets forth the Old South as he saw
and heard it before the last great tragedy of its history came.
Historically, socially, educationally, politically, and religiously
the book carries us back to the unique days and persons of
ante-bellum memory, making it all very real to those of us
who were a part of the times.
But while the book deals in memories, it has a vital rela-
tion to present-day problems, and discusses some of these in
mosf forcible fashion, especially the problem of the negro and
the place of the South in current nati'onal politics. The little
book is a strong and peculiarly timely one, and the Veteran
commends it to the living who lovingly cherish the memories
set forth by it, as well as to the younger generation by whom
the Old South should be clearly understood.
In connection with this interesting publication is the fact
that another minister, Rev. George A. Lofton, a widely known
and popular author, wrote a book just about the same size
as Dr. Hamill's, entitled "The Old South in Verse," and paid
his respects with it to the Vetek.\n. Just as the Hamill book
came from the press Dr. Lofton read the book and wrote the
Veteran : "You asked me to read Dr. Hamill's little book,
'The Old South," and give you my opinion. I read it at one
silling. It is just as I would write it had I the same ability
and inspiration. It is a conservative, but strong and vigorous,
presentation of the subject discussed, and exceedingly com-
prehensive for the short space occupied. I regard it as a very
valuable little book, preserving in vivid form the material,
intellectual, social, political, and religious aspects of the Old
South, and it ought to be in the hand of every Southerner,
especially the young Southerner."
This "Old South," by Dr. Hamill, will be furnished by the
Veteran for twenty-five cents, or free to any subscriber who
will send a new subscription in renewing. Get it promptly.
"JOHNSTON'S NARRATIVE."
The Veteran has just procured from some publishers and
jobbers the entire stock of Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston's history of his part in the
, ^ Confederate war, known as "Johnston's
^L^ j| , Narrative." It is in both bindings,
r' ^ \ sheep and morocco, and will be sup-
i>licd by the Veteran at half the list
'/ prices— the $5 work for $2.50, and the
$6 for $3. No Southerner's library will
be complete without this work and
"The Rise and Fall of the Confederate
Government," this entire stock being
owned also by the Veteran and supplied at half the list price
of $14 — $7 for both volumes, postage or expressage sixty-five
cents added.
ABOUT AN ADVERTISEMENT IN THE VETERAN.
In response to inquiries concerning the Southern Mining,
Milling, and Development Company, now being advertised in
the Veteran, the statement is made that the property of this
company is in a gold-producing section of Colorado in the
immediate vicinity of a number of rich dividend-paying mines.
The management is by men known to be honorable, who stand
high in business circles, and enjoy the confidence of the com-
munity in which they reside. The Veteran has implicit faith
that the management will deal in utmost good faith.
The company has men at work driving the Robf. E. I.ee
tunnel into the heart of McClelland Mountain, where other
men have found gold in paying quantities, and it is but reason-
able to suppose that this tunnel will cut veins as rich as any
that have yet been found.
While the prospects for this company are most flattering,
the Veteran does not advise on the subject either to buy or
sell, but makes the above statement in response to many ques-
tions. It is understood that Bradstreet's Mercantile Agency
at Nashville, Tcnn.. has made a commendatory report on this
company and its affairs.
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Confederate l/eterap.
S- A CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Methodist Publishing House Building", Nashville, Tenn.
This puhlicatiop is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All per-
sons who approve its principles and realize its benetits as an org^an for Asso-
ciations throughout the South are requested to commend its patronage and to
cooperate in extending its circulation. Let each one be constantly diligent.
THE VETERAN NOW IN ITS TEENS.
With this number the Confedekate Veteran begins its
thirteenth jear. It is occasion for expression of gratitude
beyond the ability of its founder. Meditation upon the subject
recalls a large multitude of cooperators who have finished
their work and laid their burdens down. They have answered
''the roll call up yonder." Ah, how many, many Christian
patriots did their duty faithfully to the end !
The editor will be pardoned for the boldness to assert in
this connection that, actuated by the highest motives for life
and eternity, he has done his very best to make the publication
as fully as possible all that its exalted name implies. While
to err is human, he has no apology for any sentence ever pub-
lished in its pages so far as motive was concerned. He pleads
for the cooperation in the future.
As there happens to be in his desk at this writing an ac-
ceptable story of the Veteran by a careful contributor,
which was not intended for use in its pages, the impulse
controls to print it, as no other class of persons is quite so
much interested. It is designated as a "History of the CoN-
l-EDERATE Vetekan," treating of its origin and achievements
during twelve years.
It is well known that high-class magazines have not suc-
ceeded in the South as they have in the northern and eastern
rarts of the country. Many repeated efforts have been made ;
but the only Southern magazine which has survived for more
than a brief season is the Confederate Veteran, published
in Nashville, Tenn. It was founded by S. A. Cunningham.
The Veteran represents a distinctive branch of thought and
of endeavor, and has long ceased to be an experiment, having
completed a dozen years of successful service. For these
twelve years it has never missed an issue, and for a decade
its circulation has been large.
Apart from the historic value and sentiment associated with
the Veteran, it is of general interest to note something of the
conception and growth of a publication which stands alone
in its peculiar field, which leads all other like publications,
and which, by the persistent efforts of one man, has become
a potent force in the field of Southern literature. So strong,
indeed, is it that the circulation of the Veteran has extended
beyond the area that inspired it, and is finding a foothold
in the North, especially among the men of the Union army
who bore their part in that great historic conflict of the
sixties, the influence of which is certainly doing, great good.
Conception of the Veteran.
The conception of the Veteran was not, after all, an enter-
prise— it was rather an evolution, and its beginning was sur-
rounded by no fixed resolve to "establish a magazine," but
rather to serve a specific purpose.
Immediately after the death of President Davis the South-
ern Press Association began the movement to erect a monu-
ment to him. The president of the Association — at the head
of the Nashville American, now Judge J. W. Childress, of
Nashville — at a meeting of the directors in Atlanta proposed
that S. A. Cunningham be employed as agent to travel in the
South and enlist public interest in the memorial. This was
without the application or even the knowledge of Mr. Cunning-
ham. He accepted the assignment, however, and soon sums
of money were paid to him whereby a much greater responsi-
bility was incurred than he had anticipated. Being under no
bond and free from technical restraint, he became impressed
with the necessity for specific public acknowledgment of all
funds received, and hence resolved to print the record on his
own account.
The form of publication and the name were instinctive,
and the first issue was exactly similar to all that have suc-
ceeded, beginning with that of January, 1893, save that the
number of pages have been increased.
From this beginning to its present firm place in the world
of periodicals the Veteran has progressed steadily. Com-
munications for its columns are supplied from every part
of tlie South and from many Union veterans at the North.
A multitude of events in the lives of ex-Confederates of
interest and of value to the public have appeared in the
Veteran, and rarely does a well-known Southern life "cross
over" but has its requiem beautifully and appropriately re-
corded in the Veteran.
The Last Roll
is a department devoted exclusively to this purpose. The
illustrations and portraits found here, as well as in all parts
of the magazine, are a distinctive feature, and many are well
worthy of separate preservation. The term "Last Roll,"
originating in the Veteran, has become quite national, minis-
ters using it in pulpit and Congressmen applying it as well
in sacred records at the Capitol.
But the living too have place in the Veteran. The past
does not claim its attention to the exclusion of the present.
Mr. Cunningham endeavors to keep in touch with all the State,
as well as the general, organizations bearing the name Con-
federate. The Veteran is the more strengthened in being the
Official Representative of More than Two Thousand
Camps of Veterans and Sons of Veterans, Chapters of Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, and the Confederate Southern Me-
morial Association, representing over fifty thousand members.
This founder of the Veteran has directed its every issue,
and has been courageously faithful to its every duty during
this long period of years. Thrilled by the widespread and
Unstinted Commendation of the Southern People,
he has performed peculiar duties to the extent of his ability,
and the success of the Veteran causes inexpressible grati-
tude and the determination to press on with vigor to the end.
A Larger and a Broader Field.
The Veteran has been confined mainly to the Southern peo-
ple, but should be better known among those who served the
Union while Confederate history was being made. Many Grand
Army statesmen have been patrons of the publication through-
out its history, and show a most cordial friendship for it.
The Veteran is not a financial venture, not a "money-
making enterprise ;" but it is engaged in a sacred work, and
the cordial cooperation of all liberal-minded patriots in the
United States is most earnestly sought.
It is well to remember that the publication of the Veteran
is very expensive and that each copy must bear its part. Re-
cently a subscriber had changed his office and failed to
receive his copy. This he explained in remitting, but added :
"I am not willing for the Veteran to lose it."
Qopfederate l/eterap.
FLORIDA CONFEDERATE REUNION.
The fourteenth annual encampment of the Florida Di-
vision, U. C. v., met at Ocala November i, 1904. Adjt. Gen.
Fred L. Robertson called the Veterans to attention.
The Daughters of the Confederacy opened the proceedings
by singing "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name," after which
Rev. I. G. Waddell, in a beautiful and touching prayer, in-
voked God's blessing on the Veterans and upon those near
and dear to them, and upon all Confederate Veterans every-
where. The Adjutant General read several communications
of interest to the Veterans, the first a dispatch from S. A.
Cunningham, editor of the Veteran, saying that he would be
in Ocala on Wednesday, which announcement was received
with applause, as many of the Florida Veterans who had
never met Comrade Cunningham, and who have been reading
his valuable magazine for years, were anxious to make his
acquaintance. This was followed by a letter from Gen. S.
D. Lee, expressing profound regret at his inability to be
present. He said ill health alone forbade his taking the trip.
Letters of greeting were read from Gen. P. A. S. McGlashin,
commanding the Georgia Division, and Col. W. M. Crumb-
ley, of Atlanta, Ga., Adjutant General of the Georgia Division,
and regret that they could not attend. Gen. C. A. Evans — not
like the man of old who had married him a wife — was detained
by the marriage of Iiis first granddaughter.
Gen. George P. Harrison, Commander of the Alabama Di-
vision and the youngest general in the Confederate army, was
present, and the announcement was made that he would de-
liver an address at the night session. The Adjutant General
further announced that Gen. William E. Mickle, .Adjutant
General of the U. C. V., would be with the Veterans during the
encampment. He read a letter from Gen. Bennett H. Young,
the whole-souled Commander of the Kentucky Division, invit-
ing the Florida Veterans to be his guest at Louisville. The in-
vitation was received with an old-time yell that brought
vividly back to mind the days when "Old Jack" or a "cotton-
tail" could evoke a whirlwind. Gen. W. D. Ballantine, Di-
vision Commander, presided at the night session. Miss Sara
Whitfield sang " 'Way down upon the Suwanee River," the
Veterans and guests joining in the chorus.
Hon. H. A. Ford, in an eloquent address, welcomed the
Veterans to Ocala. He said : "It may seem somewhat inap-
propriate that I, an Englishman, should have been selected
to make an address of welcome on behalf of an American
city to a visiting Division of Confederate Veterans; but when
I tell you that eight and twenty years ago I had the good
fortune to get a Southern girl for a wife, I feel sure that you
will all. or, at all events, the married men amongst you, fully
appreciate the fact that long ago my English individuality
must have been absorbed by the American individuality of
my better half." The Southern Englishman's address received
liberal applause.
Commander S. Pasco, ex-United States Senator and a Con-
federate Englishman who served through the entire war, was
introduced, and made a beautiful response that was full of
local historical references extremely interesting. Maj. S. L.
Izlar too voiced the welcome of Marion County Camp, No.
56, which he did splendidly. His address was full of beauti-
ful pathos until the close, when he set the audience in a roar
of laughter at his unique welcome.
Brig. Gen. F. P. Fleming was called upon to respond to
the welcome of Marion Camp. His address did not suffer
in comparison with its predecessors. It too was full of his-
torical allusions, but mostly of a personal nature that wrought
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its way home to the people of Ocala. Gen. Ballantine then
introduced the former Commander, Gen. E. M. Law, who pre-
sented Gen. George P. Harrison, the Commander of the Ala-
bama Division. Gen. Law spoke of him as one of the truest
of the brave, gallant and eloquent. Gen. Harrison did not
disappoint his audience. He said that he was on the pro-
gramme for the morrow, and had hoped to write his speech
during the night. In fact, he came only to bring the congratu-
lations of one hundred Camps of Alabama to their comrades of
Florida. He never felt it a burden to fight or talk for "Dixie."
He related a number of incidents pertaining to the hardships
of the Confederate soldier under all conditions. His speech
was full of good points and rich stories that elicited hearty
applause, and at its close he received a great ovation.
The Major General appointed the following committees:
Comrades George Reese, Henry Carter, and Thomas W.
Givins, Committee on Credentials ; Comrades S. Pasco, R. J.
Magill, and James R. Broome, Committee on Resolutions.
At nine o'clock November 2 the encampment was convened.
Comrade F. G. Railcy invoked the divine blessing. The Com-
mittee on Credentials presented its report. The committee
found the Division to be composed of forty-one Camps,
thirty-eight in good standing, one Camp dormant, one Camp
unreported, owing to death of officers, and one Camp just
organized, but not officially reported by the Adjutant General
of the Division. Twenty-six of the Camps were present by
delegates, and all the Camps in the Division were in good
standing at general headquarters, as is shown by General
Order, No. 21, from U. C. V. headquarters. The report was
adopted.
Gen. Ballantine's annual report contained many valuable
suggestions. He especially urged the Sons to organize Camps
of Sons, that they may in years to come represent their
fathers and preserve to further generations a true history of
the deeds of the soldiers of the South. He spoke of the Con-
federate soldier, his devotion to his cause, his poor equip-
ments and small numbers, as compared with his opponents.
While doing so, he paid a handsome tribute to the gallantry
of the Federal soldiers on the battlefield. He paid a high
compliment to the Daughters of the Confederacy, saying that
to them the South owed all that it had ever attained. He
urged the Veterans to contribute liberally for the memorial
to the women of the South. Touching pensions, he advocated
several changes in the l;:w, one of which was a repeal of the
clause compelling the applicant to trace his disability to
injuries, disease, or exposure during the war. Another was
the appointment of a commissioner of pensions who should
personally acquaint himself with the condition of all appli-
cants, and from whose decision an appeal shall lie to a
board composed of three supreme court justices ox a specially
appointed local board. During the year three new Camps have
been added to the Division, three dormant Camps revived,
adding four hundred names to our rolls, from which must be
deducted two hundred and eight deaths and suspensions, leav-
ing a net increase of one hundred and ninety-two memders.
The Adjutant General presented his report, in which he gave
a short history of the Division. It was organized in Ocala
December 16, 1891. While the condition,,of the Division is
very satisfactory, there is room for improvement, there being
still large numbers of veterans unaffiliated wfth Camps. He
urged comrades to use every effort to organize new Camps
and recruit the Camps already organized until every worthy
veteran is enrolled, because this enrollment may be the only
record of service in the years to come, and such record
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will be invaluable to children and to historians. The minds
of our children have already been poisoned by travesties on
truth — so poisoned that it will take years to undo the mischief
that has been done, and but for the noble woman of the South
the situation would be worse than it is. They never forgot
the Confederate soldier or the cause for which he fought ;
while we, in the scramble for bread for them and our children,
forgot all except present needs. In conclusion, he urged the
Veterans to join Camps and Adjutants to get in detail the
records of each member. The report was adopted without
a word of objection.
Comrade Harris announced an excursion to Silver Spring,
a reception by the Daughters of the Confederacy in the hall
after the adjournment of the convention, and a complimentary
ball to the sponsors at the Armory.
Comrade Boyleston presented resolutions relative to the
lot on which Gen, J. J. Dickison is buried, asking a contribu-
tion to purchase the remaining half of the lot and to erect
a monument over his grave, which was adopted without
reference.
The report of the First Brigade showed an enlistment of
four hundred and thirty-six Veterans in the several Camps
of that brigade.
Gen. Fleming having been called to Washington on legal
business, there was no report from the Second Brigade.
Gen. Jewell presented tlie report of his (the Third) brigade,
which now numbers fourteen Camps. He also reported the
organization of Camps of Sons at Orlando and at Lakeland.
Gen. Jewell asked, and was granted, permission to present,
and have considered without reference, resolutions relative
to the death of Gen. Gordon and the monument to his
memory. The resolutions were adopted.
Gen. Mickle was introduced by Gen. Jewell, and. in response
to repeated calls, made a speech that stirred the "old boys"
to enthusiasm.
The Adjutant General was directed to inform Gen. Younc;
that the Florida Division would answer to roll call in Louis-
ville, in June, 1905.
Telegrams were sent Gens. Finley, Miller, and French.
At the hour designated the Veterans reassembled.
Comrade Reese introduced S. A. Cunningham, and paid
high tribute to the work done by the Veteran. He received
a most cordial welcome.
The Major General then presented the Division sponsor,
Miss Violet Harris, and Misses Johnnie Liddon and Jessie
Palnarton, maids of honor — all of Ocala.
Gen. Jewell introduced Miss Stella M. Peter, sponsor, who
read an original poem. "The Confederate Fray," which received
hearty applause. Misses Duncan, of Tavers, and Howard, of
Orlando, maids of honor for the Third Brigade, were then
presented.
Gen. Law, in a graceful address, presented the sponsor for
the Second Brigade, Miss Julia Telfair Stockton, and her
maids of honor, Misses Elizabeth Liegere Fleming and Kate
Hewes Freeland, of Jacksonville.
In the absence of Gen. Wittich, Gen. George Reese, in ele-
gantly chosen terms, presented Miss Johnnie Gettes, sponsor
for the First Brigade, and her maid or honor. Miss Lilly
Erwin, of DeFuniak Springs.
Gen. Ballantine presented Miss Curma Lutham, sponsor for
Nassau Camp, No. 104, and Comrade Harris, on behalf of
Marion Camp, introduced as its sponsor Miss Evelyn Pelot,
with her maid of honor. Miss Grace Hatchell.
Miss Irma Blake, "a rank little Reb" not yet in her teens.
sang "Dixie," and was surprised at the chorus that joined
her and the applause she received.
The Resolution Committee reported a resolution, asking the
State to establish a Department of Archives and History, which
was adopted; one directing the Adjutant General to publish
the proceedings, which was adopted; one relative to the
Battle Abbey, which was adopted.
A resolution was found on the Adjutant's desk suggesting
that every Camp provide itself with a number of buttons,
wliicli can be cheaply procured, and as a veteran joins a Camp
liresent hiin with a button, with a request that he wear it
or the regulation button, so as to be recognized.
A resolution was presented inviting Mrs. Patton Anderson
to be the guest of the Division and chaperon the sponsor for
Florida with her maids at the Louisville reunion. It was
adopted and the Adjutant General directed to extend the
invitation. [Mrs. Anderson has accepted the invitation.]
Resolutions relating to Gen. Dickison were presented and
adopted, and the Adju*ant General instructed to forward
copies to Mrs. Dickison.
A resolution limiting the time the Major General is to serve
was presented, discussed, and adopted.
Resolutions of thaiiks to the transportation companies, to
citizens of Ocala, Marion County, the press, and others who
had contributed to th( success and pleasure of the Veterans
were presented and adopted.
The next business in order being the election of Major
General, Gen. W. D. Ballantine was placed in nomination,
and the Adjutant General instructed to count the vote of the
Division for him,
Pensacola and Jacksonville were both named for the next
place of meeting. Jacksonville was selected.
At the conclusion the Veterans joined in singing the dox-
ology. Rev. Norris, a member of Orlando Caiiip, Sons of
Veterans, pronounced the benediction, and the fourteenth an-
nual encampment came to a close.
After the close of business the sponsor held a reception
on the stage and then adjourned to the armory for the ball,
and at the close of the sponsor's reception the Daughters of
the Confederacy received the Veterans in the hall.
Owing to inclement weather, the parade was abandoned.
During the reunion quite a number of the members of
Company G, Fourth Florida Regiment, called to see Mrs.
Badger, widow of the late Col. Badger, of that regiment, who
was greatly beloved by all his men. The visit was delightful
both to the hostess and her guests.
LIMIT TO NEGRO TROOPS.
Under the revised statutes of the United States only two
regiments of negro infantrymen and two regimeaits of negro
cavalrymen are allowed. Section 1104 reads: "The enlisted
men of two regiments of cavalry shall be colored men." Sec-
tion 1 108 reads : "The enlisted men of two regiments of infantry
shall be colored men." These are the only two sections of the
.statutes, of the three hundred and fourteen that deal with the
organization, government, etc., of the regular army, that pro-
vide for negro troops. No provision is made for negroes in
any save these two branches. It is further pointed out that,
though Congress has from time to time increased and de-
creased the number of men allowed the regular army, never
has there been any change in regard to negro troops. This
precedent is likely to be maintained. To eliminate negro
troops entirely from the army as they are from the navy
would meet with general approval. North as well as South,
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THE FIRST CONFEDERATE MONUMENT.
BY MRS. B. I). m'lEOD, BLENHEIM, S. C.
The ladies of Cheraw, S. C, claim the credit of having
erected the first monument to the memory of the Confederate
dead. My brother, Rowland Gooch, now of Nevada, Tex.,
served in the Western
Department of the | ^, j V ^^ VA 1,-,— I
Confederate army. He
was captured at Island
No. 10 in April, 1862,
and confined at Chica-
go, in Camp Douglas,
until the next Septem-
ber. He participated
in the terrible battle
of Franklin, Tenn. He
is zealous for every-
thing relating to the
cause for which he
fought, and he requests
me to send you an ac-
count of the origin
and the erection of the
first monument to the
Confederate dead, lo-
cated in Cheraw, S. C,
in the cemetery of
St. David Episcopal
Church, which is one
of the oldest churches
in South Carolina. It
was used by the Brit-
ish for barracks dur-
ing the Revolutionary
War.
Cheraw claims not
the honor of origina-
ting Memorial Day,
from which she con-
ceived the idea of
erecting a monument
to • the Confederate
dead. The Ladies'
Memorial Association
of Columbus Ga., was organized in the spring of iSOO, and at
its request the 26tli of April, the anniversary of the sur-
render of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, was chosen as the date
for the first memorial service in the South. It was held in
the old St. Luke Methodist Episcopal Church of Columbus.
The address was delivered by Col. James M. Ramsey.
Mrs. Charles J. Williams, of Columbus, was chosen Secre-
tary of the Columbus Ladies' Memorial Association, and
in a letter addressed to the press and ladies of the South
regarding Memorial Day Mrs. Williams states: "We cannot
raise monumental shafts and inscribe thereon their many
deeds of heroism, but we can keep alive the memory of the
debt we owe them by dedicating at least one day in each year
to embellish their humble graves with flowers. . . ."
It is readily seen that the Columbus Memorial .Association
cherished no idea of erecting a monument The ladies of
Cheraw responded promptly to this call and organized a
Memorial Association, and set apart a day — May 10 — on which
they visit and embellish with flowers the graves of their be-
loved and honored soldier-dead. They decided without delay
to mark the spot of their heroes with something more durable
and lasting than flowers, and so the idea of a monument was
horn. The faint-hearted (and the most of them were men)
decried the undertaking, saying that the United States would
not allow such honor to be conferred on Confederate dead.
The women, however, were determined, and gave entertain-
ments, festivals, concerts, etc. They raised one thousand dol-
lars, and ordered the monument. This monument is of pure
Italian marble, and is sixteen feet high. '
The Cheraw Chronicle (May 7, 1903) says in regard to it:
"There is no doubt that the ladies of Columbus, Ga.,
originated Memorial Day, but we still claim for the ladies
of Cheraw the credit of being the first to erect a monument
to the memory of the Confederate dead. At whose sugges-
tion the Cheraw Ladies" Memorial .\ssociation was organized,
we are unable to say. The only record on the subject that we
know of is as follows : In the summer of 1866, Dr. C, Kollock
being Chairman of the Committee of Organization, the Ladies'
Memorial Association was formed — Mrs. B. D. Hearsey (now
Mrs. B. D. McLeod), President; Mrs. F. M. Mclver and
Mrs. W. J. Vercen, Vice Presidents; Miss J. C. Pritchard. Sec-
retary and Treasurer. The monument was unveiled in June,
1867. The address was delivered by Judge J. H. Hudson, of
Rennettsville, S. C. The cost of the monument was one thou-
sand dollars. Beneath its shadow lie the sacred remains of
sixty-two brave soldiers who gave their lives for the Con-
federacy so dear to us all.
"Mrs. Charles J. Williams sent out her letter March 12,
1866. The Ladies' Memorial Association of Cheraw was or-
ganized in the summer of 1866. and the monument was un-
veiled in June, 1867, one year after the organization of the so-
ciety. Evidently Mrs. Williams's letter inspired the organiza-
tion, but the members of the Cheraw society decided that Mrs.
Williams was wrong in her assumption that 'we could not
raise monumental shafts.'
"What a monument to woman's devotion ! In a land that
was neither a food-producing nor a manufacturing one, and
through which Sherman had just marched with his horde,
leaving behind him desolation and a desert of ashes, the
patriotic women of the town determined that a suitable me-
morial should be erected to the memory of their brave soldiers.
"On the battlefield, in the hospitals, the noble women of the
South bore alike the burden of woman's devotion and man's
care. Then, after the smoke of the battle cleared away, these
devoted women of the South came, and they continue to
come, to the soldiers' graves with choice plants and bright
flowers. . . ."
The inscriptions upon this "first Confederate monument"
will be read with interest. Upon entering the gate of the in-
closure and looking north, the inscription in circular form
over the design of a harp states : "Erected by Ladies' Me-
morial Association." Then under the harp : "To the memory
of our heroic dead who fell at Cheraw during the war 1861-65."
On the west side, above the design of anchor: "Loved and
honored, though unknown," and under it "Hope." On the
south side are these words :
"Stranger, Bold Champions
Of the South revere.
And view these tombs with love,
Brave Heroes slumber here."
On the east side is the figure of a falling tree, over which is
"Fallen, but not dead," and under it :
"They have crossed over the River.
And thev rest under the shade of the trees."
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THE CHATHAM ARTILLERY OF SAVANNAH.
One of the oldest military organizations in the United
States is the Chatham Artillery, of Savannah, Ga., and two
of its principal officers, Capt. George P. Walker and Lieut.
Harry S. Dreese, have doubtless served longer in one com-
pany than any other members of either the regular army or
the National Guard of this county. Both entered the Con-
federate army in 1861, and became members of the Chatham
Artillery during the war — Capt. Walker in August, 1863,
and Lieut. Dreese a year later, in 1864. Both have served
continuously in the company ever since, until a few weeks
ago, at their request, the Governor placed them on the retired
list.
The Chatham Artillery was organized back in 1786, and
is the proud possessor of two six-pound brass pieces captured
from Cornwallis at Yorktown. One of the guns was pre-
sented to the company by Gen. George Washington and the
other by the Marquis de Lafayette. They were too anti-
quated and highly prized for the battery to use during the
■War between the States, and, for fear that some of Sher-
man's valorous bummers might capture (?) them if left in
sight, they were buried, and only resurrected long after the
excitement of the war had subsided, and are used now on
special occasions to fire salutes, etc.
In 1886 the Chatham Artillery celebrated its centennial, and
entertained an encampment embracing troops from ten different
States for nearly a week. During this time President Davis
was their guest of honor in the city of Savannah.
-LEE TO THE REAR" IN BRONZE.
The photograph of "Lee to the Rear" is taken from a small
bronze model, conceived and made by Dr. D. G. Murrell, a
prominent physician of Paducah, Ky., and presented to the
R. E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans, at Richmond, Va.
Dr. Murrell knew Gen. Lee, and often saw Traveler while at-
tending the university at Lexington, Va., and his intense
admiration for this truly great man inspired him with the
desire to perpetuate his memory in bronze, which would show
the heroic courage of the great soldier and at the same time
the sublime and tender love of his men for him, one occasion
by some of his private soldiers seizing the reins of his horse
and leading him out of danger, while others were crying out :
"Lee to the rear."
Dr. Murrell hopes that his little statuette will be the means
of starting a movement that will result in having a bronze
statue of heroic size made, commemorative of Gen. Lee in his
devotion of his soldiers.
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT EUFAULA, ALA.
November 24 was a red-letter day for the good people of
Barbour County, Ala., and especially the Barbour County
Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, for it
was the consummation of a labor of love in which those
noble and patriotic women have been engaged since iSq"- —
the dedication of a monument to the Confederate soldiers
and seamen of Barbour County, Ala.
The shaft is of Georgia granite, beautifully polished so as
to produce two shades of gray, and is thirty-five feet high.
On top of this, exquisitely carved in Italian marble, is the
statue of a private Confederate soldier, with his accouterments,
standing "at rest." The monument complete cost $3,000.
Ten thousand people assembled in the little town to witness
the interesting ceremonies of unveiling the monument. The
procession formed at the courthouse and marched out to the
grounds. The Eufaula Rifles, headed by a brass band, led,
followed by veterans, sons, and grandsons, floats filled with
beautiful young girls representing the different Southern
States, and behind these carriages with old veterans too
feeble to walk, distinguished visitors, officers, and speakers.
Arriving at the monument, the ceremonies were opened with
prayer by Rev. E. L. Hill : then the reading of the list of of-
ficers and men of the First Alabama Regiment, a list of
companies from Barbour County, and the roll of Eufaula
Companies. The Eufaula Rifles fired a salute, and Misses
Mary Merrill and Ida Pruden drew the cords whereby the
splendid, beautiful monument stood a feast for all eyes.
The presentation of the monument to the city, in the name
of the Barbour County Chapter of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, was made by Miss Mary Clayton, the or-
ganizer of the Chapter and a daughter of Gen. H. D. Clayton.
The Mayor, George H. Dent, responded in behalf of the city.
Hon. B. H. Screws, the orator of the day, made a beautiful
address, after which tributes of love and reverence for the
Confederate soldier in form of evergreen wreaths were placed
around the base of the monument by the Robert E. Lee Chap-
ter of Children of the Confederacy. Rev. E. L. Hill pro-
nounced the benediction. Many groups lingered around in
admiration of the beautiful monument, and more than one
old veteran was heard to say that it was as much a monument
to their loving loyalty to the memory of the Confederacy* as
it was to the courage and devotion of their old comrades.
Col. W. D. Pickett's Pension as a Mexican War Vet-
eran.'— The many friends of this accomplished gentleman and
soldier will be pleased to learn that he has recently received
from the United States government fifteen hundred dollars
accumulated back pensions due him as a Mexican war vet-
eran. In applying for the pensions. Col. Pickett stated that
he did not ask it because he was in need of a pension, but
because it was due him for services in behalf of his country.
Col. Pickett joined the United States army when a mere boy,
and fought with distinction through the Mexican War.
When the War between the States began, in 1861, he entered
the Confederate army, and again won distinction on the
battlefield. He is one of the very few Confederate veterans
living who fought through two wars and is now carried on
the pension rolls of the Federal government. Col. Pickett
is now living at Fourbear, Wyo. ; but his many friends in
Kentucky and Tennessee anticipate with pleasure his retire-
ment from active business pursuits, and that he will return
to these States, where he may spend his declining years among
those who will ever be proud of him for his active, useful, and
noble life.
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STRATFORD, BIRTHPLACE OF ROBERT E. LEE.
BY SUSAN HUNTER WALKER, TRINITY RECTORY, LONG GREEN, MD.
In the bleak cold of a January day Robert E. Lee, the
Southern Commander, was born at Stratford, Westmoreland
County, Va. The little child grew healthily, and developed
broadly in the spacious home of his distinguished ancestors.
Stratford on the Potomac is one of the best-preserved of
the colonial homes of Virginia. It is a massive pile of
English brick, constructed somewhat after the form of a
flattened letter H. It is almost ruggedly simple, and its
architecture is unique, from the high basement to the two
great clusters of chimneys upon its roof. No ornamental
feature of architecture or of decoration beautifies or mars
its substantial simplicity. It stands solidly and squarely on its
firm foundation, as did its builders and inhabitants through-
out all their generations.
The main entrance to the house is by a long flight of sand-
stone steps that lead to the central door. This is supple-
mented at each end by a long staircase, which enters upon
a passage e-xtending through the entire length of the house.
The mansion contains in all eighteen large square rooms.
BIRTHPLACE OF GENS. RICHARO HENRY AND ROBERT E. LEE.
There is little variety in these well-lighted, high-ceiling
chambers, except in the case of the central hall, which is
worthy a special word of description. It is a fine apartment
about thirty feet square, and forms a connecting link between
the two wings. It is handsomely paneled in oak from floor
to ceiling, with decorative pilasters relieving the panels at
short intervals. This was undoubtedly the family gathering
place, as four roomy glass-front bookcases have been set in
the panels of the wall.
Stratford was built by Thomas Lee, fifth son of Richard
Lee, whose father, Col. Richard Lee, was the first of his
family to come to the colony of Virginia. He came from his
home in Shropshire, England, in 1641, forced by loyalty to
the Royal cause to abandon his native land. Thomas Lee
built Stratford in the early years of the eighteenth century,
naming it after his English estate. It was burned, and, with
the aid of fifty thousand dollars from Queen Charlotte, was
rebuilt in its original design in 1729.
This Thomas Lee was Prcsidait of the Colony, and after
serving in this capacity for some time was made Governor by
royal appointment. Col. Lee died, however, before the com-
mission as Governor reached him. A flat tombstone in the
grove near the house covers the graves of his wife and him-
self. It bears the following inscription: "Here lies buried
the Hon. Colonel Thomas Lee, who died November 14, 1750,
aged sixty years, and his beloved wife, Mrs. Hannah Lee.
She departed this life January 25, 1749."
President Thomas Lee had six sons, the names of whom
have gone down to history as synonyms for patriotism, cul-
ture, and high character. They are as follows : Philip Lud-
well, Thomas Ludwell, Richard Henry, Francis Lightfoot,
William, and Arthur. Philip Ludwell Lee, the eldest son and
inheritor of Stratford, had a daughter, Matilda, to whom the
estate was bequeathed. She became the first wife of her
cousin sometime removed, "Lighthorse Harry" Lee. On her
death she left Stratford as a home for her husband and
children until the majority of her eldest son, Henry. Here
it was that "Lighthorse Harry" Lee brought his second wife,
Miss Ann Carter, who became die mother of Robert E. Lee.
Old Yeocomico Church.
At a very age this babe, destined to become one of Vir-
ginia's greatest sons, was brought to the house of God for
baptism. The font from which Robert E. Lee was received
into the fold of Christ's Church is to-day in existence and used
in old Yeocomico Church, Westmoreland County, Va.
Yeocomico is sixteen miles from Stratford ; but in those
old days time and means were plentiful, and a ride of this
length to church was a weekly or fortnightly occurrence with
a goodly proportion of Yeocomico's congregation. This old
parish church of the Lees, the Carters, of Nomini Hall, the
Corbins, Turbervilles, and many others of the old families
of this historic section is still in a fine state of preservation,
and one of the best examples of pre-Revolution houses of
worship still m use in Virginia. It is, too, a charming de-
parture from the common "barn" type of colonial church
architecture, being cruciform and decorative in some of its
features. It was built in 1706 with bricks brought from the
mother country, and they have stood the two hundred years
of their existence with admirable fortitude.
Over the main entrance is a picturesque Gothic porch, which
recalls old England. The door reached through this is a mass-
ive affair of double planking, held together by handmade
bolts, and its huge wrought-iron hinges extend across lialf
its surface. It is so heavy with its weight of wood and years
as to be difiicult to open, and for convenience a smaller door
has been cut within the larger, that one may lift the latch
and enter God's house with greater ease.
Two brick aisles transect nave and transept. The former
leads to the railed chancel, which holds the venerable altar.
OLD YEOCOMICO CHimCH.
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and the font of the native gray sandstone, hoth of wliich have
been in use since the church's beginning, and both of which
undoubtedly performed their part in hallowing the lives of
Robert E. Lee and his famous forebears.
Yeocomico Church stands in a well-shaded God's acre,
wherein repose the bones of the departed flock of the neighbor-
hood. Completely surrounding the churchyard is a substan-
tial brick wall, which protects the historic old church and
yard from desecration by ruthless man or beast.
In the war of 1812 Yeocomico Church suffered desecration
at the hands of the soldiers who were set to watch the British
who came up the creeks from the Potomac on destroying ex-
peditions. They tore down the wall about the churchyard,
used the church as a stable, and finally abandoned it to the
mercy of the elements and stray flocks and herds of the
neighliorhood. The holy table was not left untouched, and
the hallowed font was desecrated. Bishop Neade says, in his
journal of 1838, in regard to these things: "The communion
table was removed into the yard, where it served as a
butcher's block, and was entirely defaced. Being of sub-
stantial material, however, it admitted of a new face and
polish, and is now restored to its former place, where it will
answer, we trust, for a long time to come, the holy purposes
for which it was designed. Nor was the baptismal font
exempt from profanation. It was taken some miles from the
church and used as a vessel in which to prepare the excite-
ments to ungodly mirth. This, however, was not long per-
mitted, and it is now restored to its former place."
The church was again despoiled in the War between the
States, but again it was restored, and now we hope it may be
left unmolested to carry on its good work for ages to come.
The .\ss.\ssination of President Lincoln. — The Religious
Telescope^ Dayton, Ohio, says : "It was slavery's attempt, in
its death struggle, to deal a stunning blow to the head of the
nation that was crushing out its life — a blow dealt in a des-
perate revenge for its having been compelled to submit to
the triumph of liberty. It was slavery, in its dying throes,
administering to itself its own scorpion sting, thereby render-
ing its own character doubly despicable, and its own death
more certain and everlasting. Hence, the cause (slavery) of
Lincoln's assassination being forever annihilated, no such des-
picable crime can again spring from that source." Slavery
was in no way responsible for the assassination of Mr. Lincoln,
except in so far as it was connected with other causes that
brought on the War between the States ; and after a searching
investigation, where all the evidence that passion and prejudice
could produce was brought tu bear, it was clear that no
citizen of the Southern Confederacy had anything to do with
this despicable murder. Booth, who assassinated Mr. Lin-
coln, was not a citizen of the Confederacy ; at no time was he
a resident of any of the seceded States. As well might the
assassination of Garfield or McKinley be attributed to the
South and to slavery as the assassination of Mr. Lincoln.
An Old "Gray Coat'' of "Tan Color." — During the re-
union at Nashville there was on exhibition at General Head-
quarters an old moth-eaten cloak made of some brown mate-
rial and lined with red cloth that attracted more or less atten-
tion, and was left by the owner at the headquarters. A paper
pinned to it stated that "This cloak was worn by Tom Trip-
lett through the war. He was a member of Stewart's Black
Horse Cavalry. Enlisted when only fifteen years old and was
so small that he could not mount with his equipments or
without assistance. Comrade Triplett was born and reared
in Fairfax County, now Alexandria, Va., and now lives at
Pine Bluff. Ark. The cloak is at the Veteran office.
Convention of North Carolina U. D. C. — Only brief
mention is here made of the eighth annual convention of the
North Carolina Daughters, which was held at Fayetteville on
the 28th and 29th of October. The Daughters decided to place
a portrait of Gen. Ransom in the North Carolina Room at
Richmond. The 23d of August was selected as the day for the
presentation of the crosses of honor, and a committee was
appointed to petition the Legislature to provide for marking
in some suitable way the spots where the North Carolina
troops fought during the war, and especially at Gettysburg.
YOUNG COUNTY (TEXAS) CAMP, U. C. V., GRAHAM, TEX. COMMANDER R. C. m'pHAIL IS SECOND ON RIGHT OF COMRADE IN CHAIR.
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HEROIC SERVICE AT BATON ROUGE.
Col. V. Y. Cook, of Newport. Ark., who was a Confed-
erate private, colonel in command of the Second Arkansas
Infantry, and major general in command of the Arkansas
Division, U. C. V., rfi)orts a thrilling account of service by
his Confederate captain and two comrades. He sends also
a picture of the group :
"The picture is that of the three hrave men who hurned
the Federal cantonments at Baton Rouge, La., August 5, 1862.
CAPT. C. W. JETTON, SERGEANT J. \V. MORRIS. PRIVATE J.
W. KING.
"After a hard-fought battle the. Federals were driven from
their position rearward of their encampment under iirotection
of their gunboats, when Gen. Breckinridge called for three
volunteers to go forward and hum their encampment, which
occupied a positinn between the two armies. Immediately
Capt. Charles \V. Jetton, of Company H, Seventh Kentucky
Infantry, and two of bis enlisted men, Sergt. John W. Morris
and Private Jahies W. King, volunteered for the perilous en-
terprise. They lost no time, and soon succeeded well with
their work.
"The Federals, seeing their encampment in Hames, trained
their heavy ordnance from the gunboats upon their deserted
quarters, using canister, shrapnel, and solid shot, which fell
thick and fast. Had they known the burning was the work
of only three men. and that Gen. Breckinridge with his army
had retired out of range of these death-dealing missiles, they
would soon have routed these three Confederates. They were
so busy with torches that they did not realize their danger nor
tire of hazardous performance. Finally the gunboats ceased
firing, and a line of infantry advanced just as these gallant
three were firing the commissary and sutler's stores. Pri-
vate King, seeing that the Federals were closing upon them,
grabbed some hats, and Sergt. Morris a knife, gold pen, and
a few pairs of shoes. Just then Capt. Jetton joined them at
the sutler's tent and said: "Hold on, boys, I must have a pair
of these pants.' Right here the two men 'got wrong' with
their captain for the first and only time during the war. The
entire company tliought they had the best captain in the
service.
"Had Capt. Jetton gathered an armful of pants and gone
right on, that would have looked like business; but he wanted
only one pair of trousers, and he was determined to get a
tit. He continued looking at the numbers, and tried the
length of several pairs, keeping at it until the enemy got
very near them. King and Morris advised their captain of
the danger, but hurry he would not. The well-worn 'bosom'
of the pair he had on so indicated the necessity of a new pair
as to mitigate his seeming indifference to danger. The
captain finally got a fit and the three started on a lively run,
the Federals in close proximity and their bullets Hying
around the heroic three like mad hornets.
"They had not gone very far when they came upon a Con-
federate soldier caring for his brother, who was mortally
wounded. The man called to know if one of them would
help him move his brother to a shade some distance in the
rear, when Private King, like the good soldier he always
was, regardless of conditions, and though hard pressed by the
enemy, gave a helping hand, aided in carrying the wounded
man to the place designated, then he followed his fleeing
comrades to the extent of his sliced through a hailstorm of
bullets.
"In March, iSCi-t. this regiment was mounted and assigned
to Gen. Forrest's Cavalry Corps, with which these men did
valiant service in many arduous campaigns and hotly con-
tested battles. All of them are yet living, honored and re-
spected by all who know them."
Spanish Fort. Near Mobile. — Comrade Jesse M. Duna-
way. of Avalon, Tex., writes: "I notice in the Veteran
il\at mention is made of the fight at Spanish Fort. I
would like to see a full account of the fight from some of
my old comrades in the VeteIran, for it was a heroic de-
fense. It was estimated that the Federals outnumbered
us fourteen to one. I was there, a number of the Twenty-
First Alabama, and our regiment had position, as support,
between two of our batteries for sixteen days and ni'ghts.
.\nother thing I should like to know is if the Confederate
dead at Ship Island have ever been cared for. I was cap-
tured at Fort Gaines and carried, with thirty-five other pris-
oners, to Ship Island. We were guarded by negroes and
had to submit to brutal treatment from them. We were
forced to carry green pine cord wood on our shoulders for
seven and a half miles, and if we fagged under the load
the negroes would prick us with their bayonets. We left
eighteen of our thirty-six prisoners buried in the sand at
Ship Island, their old ragged blankets answering the dou-
ble purpose of winding sheets and coffins.
I surrendered at Meridian, Miss., in May, '65. and hear<l
Gen. Maury H. Dabney (Little Shorty, we used to call
him) deliver to us his farewell address.
Flag to the Helen Plane Chapter. — Mrs. G. I. Teasley.
of the Helen Plane Chapter, at Canton, Ga., reports the dona-
tion of a flag by the noble woman in whose honor it was
named, stating: "The flag was presented at the Elberton
convention and is an exact copy of the battle flag of the Con-
federacy, for which our fathers bled and our mothers prayed.
In accepting the flag, let ns seek to emulate the virtues of
the donor in her beautiful love and loyalty to the traditions of
the South and strive to attain the highest and best in all things
good and benevolent for which our organization stands."
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CONFEDERATES IN MONTANA.
At the last important meeting of Confederates in Montana
the body elected Paul A. Fusz as Commander for the North-
western Division, and George F. Ingram was elected the Com-
mander for the Montana Brigade. In the evening there was
a reception, at which there were seventy-five guests, given
by Winnie Davis Chapter. Gen. Ingram was master of
ceremonies. The speakers were Dr. W. G. Eggleston, Chief
Justice Theodore Brantly, former Gov. Preston H. Leslie,
and Gen. Frank D. Brown.
One of the numbers on the programme was a solo by Mrs.
J. L. Patterson, of Bozeman, State President of the U. D. C.
There were a number of Southern songs, in which the
audience joined heartily. Refreshments were served during
the evening. The hall was decorated for the occasion, several
large flags of the stars and bars being in the decorative scheme.
Paul A. Fusz, the new Commander of the Northwestern
Division, U. C. V., was born in Hericourt, France, August
5, 1849. His parents came to St. Louis (United States) in
1852. In August of 1864 he joined J. M. Utz in procuring
quinine and other medical supplies for the army and getting
them out of St. Louis. Upon going out of the Federal lines,
Utz and his recruits were captured as they rode to join Price's
army. He and young Fusz were taken to St. Louis, tried, and
condemned to death. Utz was executed and Fusz was paroled
by order of President Lincoln.
FLAG OF THE THIRTEENTH U. S. INFANTRY.
BY N. M. CARPENTER, EUTAW, ALA.
In the September Veteran there is an account, by Comrade
G. T. Cullins, of Caledonia, Ark., of the capture of this flag
at the battle of Nashville, wherein he confuses a little incident.
I was in command of the Thirty-Sixth Alabama Regiment,
and Capt. Knox, of Company B, was on my extreme right.
After the firing had somewhat ceased and the negroes began
to retreat, Knox, seeing the color bearer still standing at his
post, jumped over our breastworks, caught up one of the
enemy's guns, shot the color bearer, and captured the flag,
which had the following inscription on it: "Thirteenth U. S.
Colored Infantry. Presented by colored ladies of Murfrees-
boro."
On our retreat, while camping at Columbia, Tenn., Gen.
H. D. Clayton sent for the flag, and had it put in his wagon
for safe-keeping. Unfortunately, the mules got hold of it
one night and damaged it greatly, but the mutilated remains
are yet preserved in this (Greene) county.
THOMAS MOORE AND WIFE, ELIZA JANE.
This venerable old couple were married in 1837. The an-
cestors of Mr. Moore went to Kentucky in the days of Daniel
Boone. He was born in Mercer County, of that State, in
1815, and his wife, Eliza Jane Dodd, in Barreni County in 1818.
In 1853 they moved to Burnet County, Tex. Mr. Moore
was ?. member of the secession convention of Texas, in i86l,
and acted in the Civil Department of the Confederacy during
the war. In 1867 they moved to Waco, where Mr. Moore
died in 1898. Mrs. Moore is a remarkably well-preserved old
lady in mind and body. She has eight children living — five
sons and three daughters — to comfort her in old age.
DIVIDED IN WAR TIMES.
Herewith is a war-time picture of F. A. Taulman, of Hub-
bard City, Tex., taken just after he enlisted in the Confederate
army, in 1861. He was a member of Company G, Thirty-
Second Texas Dismounted Cavalry, Ector's Brigade. He
went to Fayetteville,
Ark., in September of
1861, and joined (3en.
Ben McCulloch's escort
at Camp Jackson. He
was with McCulloch
until that general's
death, at Elkhorn (Pea
Ridge). He was cap-
tured at Blakely, Ala.,
on April 9, 1865, the
day of Lee's surrender,
with the whole garri-
son, and sent to Ship Is-
land, where he had a
taste of discipline as
dispensed by big buck
negroes with bayonets
and Yankee uniforms.
Fortunately he did not
have to stay a great while, release coming on May 6, 1865.
Comrade Taulman was the recipient of a cross of honor be-
stowed by the Daughters of the Confederacy of Hubbard City
some time since. The father of this comrade was an ultra-
Unionist. In a letter to a friend during the crucial period of
this country he states: "My second son, Francis, who went
to Texas in June, i860, I have not heard from since the mail
communication was cut off last July. I advised him to come
home in my last two letters to him, as I expected trouble there ;
but he seemed to think there was no danger, and stayed too
long to be able to get away." It would be difiScult to imagine
the elder Taulman's thoughts when he afterwards learned that
when he wrote this letter his son was a Confederate soldier.
F. a. taulman.
MR. AND MRS. THOMAS MOORI.
Reunion of Company G, First Georgia Cavalry. — A sad,
yet pleasant, reunion at Rome was that of Company G, First
Georgia Cavalry, held during the State Encampment, U. C. V.,
at the residence of W. D. Jones. This company was the first
one of cavalry that left Floyd County, March, 1862, with a
membership of eighty-seven, rank and file. Recruits came dur-
ing the three years, running the number up to one hundred and
forty. There are now living twenty-three, eleven in Floyd
County— viz., T. S. Burney, G. W. Warren, H. T. Moore, D.
P. Philips, H. H. Waters, Sol Everett, John Corley, James Sel-
man, W. D. Jones, W. A. Overby, and W. L. Aycock. Lieut.
George A. Webster, Waterworks Department, Atlanta, Ga.,
is the only living officer. He and the first nine named were
present at the dinner table of W. D. Jones. After the splen-
did dinner and music they spent an hour together, at the con-
clusion of which they sang "God Be with You Till We Meet
Again."
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PROMOTED ON THE FIELD FOR GALLANTRY.
BY S. EMANUEL, NEW YORK.
In the New York Sun appears a review of "Four Years
under Marse Robert," by Major Robert T. Stiles, in which
he asserts that he "never saw or heard of a promotion on the
field, and does not believe such a thing ever occurred dur-
ing the war." While Maj. Stiles is in the main correct —
as promotions on the field were so rare as to be almost un-
known in the Confederate service — yet they did occur. One
such came under my observation — that of Lieut. C. Carrol
White, commanding Company A, Tenth (Manigault's) South
Carolina Regiment, in front of Murfreesboro, Tenn., Decern
ber, 1862.
Maneuvering had begun, incidental to the great battle
that followed. Company A was deployed as skirmishers,
when, quick as lightning, a squadron of cavalry — the Fif-
teenth Pennsylvania — thundered down the line, striking the
right of Company A, capturing Lieut. White and many of
the two first groups. White, detecting indecision in the
faces of his captors, gave the command. "Company AI
rally on the right group! commence firing; don't mind us."
White and his men dropped to the ground, his order was
quickly obeyed, and the deadly fire from nearly one hun-
dred Enfield rifles was sent into the enemy's ranks, emp-
tying many of their saddles — two officers. Majors Herring
and Rosengarten, falling, besides many of lesser rank. This
command was formerly the Philadelphia City Troop, com-
posed, in part, of the elite of that city. White and his as-
sociates each grappled with one of the enemy, and brought
them, prisoners, into our line. Lieutenant Francis S. Par-
ker, aid to Gen. Bragg, was on that part of the field when
the incident occurred. In a letter received from him some
years ago. now in my possession, he said : "I presume of
course the episode at Murfreesboro of Capt. White's brave
'Rally on the right group !' is remembered by you. I recall
the sensation of so many years ago as if it had just occurred.
The position from which I was to observe and report was
on our left, and so I became aware of the occurrence. It
was a rare exhibition of presence of mind, and the act of
true courage of the soldier." Upon this affair being made
known to Gen. Bragg, he immediately ordered Lieut.
White's promotion to a captaincy. In further recognition of
Capt. White's bravery, after the battle had been fought Gen.
Beauregard, at Charleston, needing a battery of rifle guns,
requested Gen. Bragg to furnish him with them. Gen. Bragg
acquiesced. Annexed is a copy of Gen. Bragg's letter to Gen.
Beauregard, accompanying the guns.
"Headquarters Army of Tennessee,
Tin-LAHOMA, Tenn., May 27, 1863.
"Dear General: It is a source of much gratification for me
to be able to respond to your request for a battery of rifle
guns from our capture at Murfreesboro. My aid, Lieut.
Francis S. Parker, and Capt. C. C. White, Tenth South Caro-
lina Regiment, are charged with the mission of delivering these
guns to you in Charleston as soon as they can be put in
proper, serviceable condition. As the two fine regiments from
that historic State were conspicuously distinguished on the
bloody field which yielded up these trophies, their able rnd
gallant commander, Col. Manigault, has been requested to
furnish four names from among the most honored of his
fallen officers to be placed on the guns.
"Very respectfully and very truly yours,
Braxton Brack."
THIRTY-SEVENTH VIRGINIA INFANTRY.
W. C. Tyler, of Company A, writes from Kansas City, Mo. :
"If your columns are not too crowded, I should like to say
a word about my old regiment, the Thirty-Seventh Virginia
Infantry. This regiment was made up largely from the
Counties of Washington, Scott, and Tazewell, Southwestern
Virginia. We were mustered into service in May, 1861, and
went into camp at Abingdon, Washington County. From
there we went to Richmond, and thence to Staunton, where
we took up our line of march for Laurel Hill to meet Gen.
McClellan, who was at Philippi. The regiment was then com-
manded by Col. S. V. Fulkerson, one of the bravest of the
brave. After a long and tedious march we reached Laurel
Hill, where we dug intrenchments, built breastworks, and
were regularly initiated into the duties of soldier life.
"In about ten days Gen. McClellan commenced his advance.
which made him commander of the Army of the Potomac.
After a severe fight with Col. Pegram's small force at Rich
Mountain, he succeeded in flanking Gen. R. S. Gamett's posi-
tion at Laurel Hill, who was forced to retreat through the
mountains, and was attacked and killed at Carrick's Ford, on
the Cheat River. The command then fell to Col. (afterwards
Gen.) William B. Taliaferro, and we continued our retreat to
Monterey, Highland County, Va., whence, after resting and
recruiting, we advanced to Camp Bartow, on the Greenbrier
River. There we remained, marching, countermarching, and
skirmishing with the Yanks, until early in December, when
we took up our line of march for Winchester, where we
became a part of the immortal Stonewall Jackson's Division.
From that time the Thirty-Seventh bore a conspicuous part
in all the battles from Kearnstown to Appomattox, ever in
the thickest of the fray. Col. Fulkerson was mortally wounded
at the first battle of Cold Harbor, and from that time the
regiment was commanded by Col. T. V. Williams, who still
survives, and is living at Edinburg, Grundy County, Mo.
"The regiment was made up of as fine fighting men as there
were in the army and commanded by as gallant officers as
ever drew sword in defense of a righteous cause — such men
as Capts. Lancaster, Preston, Reed, Wood, Shumate, and
others. I hope that many surviving comrades will see these
notes and call to mind the noble Thirty-Seventh and its gal-
lant officers who were at Kearnstown, McDowell, Winchester,
Port Republic, the seven days' fight around Richmond, Cedar
Mountain, Second Manassas, Ox Hill, Sharpsburg. Freder-
icksburg, Chancellorsville. Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spott-
sylvania, and on to the end. where the flag went down, but
glorious still. To all of my old comrades I wish health,
happiness, and length of days. May their last days be as
peaceful as their former days were glorious! Please all sub-
scribe for the Veteran."
PURSUIT OF GEN. STURGISS.
BY HENRY EWELL HORD.
Having whipped Sturgiss at Brice's X Roads, at dayliglit
next morning we took the road in pursuit of him. Gens. For-
rest and Buford rode together at the head of Lyon's Brigade,
Third Kentucky leading. I think Gen. Lyon had been de-
tailed to take charge of the battlefield, prisoners, plunder, etc.,
we had captured the day before. There was one regiment, the
Twelfth Kentucky, in advance of us, though not in sight. The
first thing we came upon that looked like war was a large, fine
ambulance full of dead Yankees, packed in so tight that they
held each other up on the two long seats on each side of the
ambulance. Forrest and Buford halted to have a look at
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them. They had evidently been abandoned by their friends
probably before they were dead, as the horses were gone. It
takes a good deal to move an old soldier, but every face showed
sorrow for the poor fellows left there to die by their friends.
Under the seats were two little closed-up closets with a small
door in the end, doubtless to carry the dead.
One of our boys noticed the doors. They excited his
curiosity, and he jumped off his horse and opened one. The
Yankee driver had a number of live geese, which no doubt he
had stolen, confined in there, and as soon as the door opened
out flew an old gander with a low hiss. The fellow was stoop-
ing down peeping into the door, his face so close he could
not see what it was. He got only a glimpse of something
while, which he must have taken for ihc ghost of the dead
men overhead, for it scared him pretty nigh into fits. I never
heard a fellow yell so in my life. He fought and yelled, and
as fast as he knocked one out of his face another would fly out.
The rest of us on our horses could see what it was, of course,
and the whole command joined in the laugh. After the geese
had all got out and the fellow had somewhat recovered his
nerve he started to mount his horse, when somebody in the
ranks told him to open the other door. He glared around at
his tormentors, and answered: "I'll be d— n if I do." His
emphatic language started everybody to laughing again, even
Gen. Forrest joining in; but the "old man" was the first to
think of business, for, turning to Gen. Buford, he said, "While
we are laughing at that d— n fool the Yankees are getting
away. I'll go on; you follow as fast as your horses can stand
it;" and, striking a lope, he was soon out of sight.
It was not long till we heard firing in front, and the boys
commenced yelling: "Old Bedford's treed." We soon got a
"hurry up" order. The command passed down the line, "Keep
closed up if it kills your horses," 'and away we went. When
we struck the Yankees we "formed fours" and sailed in, tore
their line all to pieces, and scattered them in every direction.
While we were re-forming and gathering up prisoners the
next regiment would take the lead and sweep down on them.
and in that way we worked a sort of endless chain attack that
did not allow them to halt to rest or get water. Only once, at
Ripley, I think, we were dismounted and formed a regular
line of battle, and there we completely routed them and cap-
tured their last gun.
Gen. Forrest had handed out some mighty nice taffy to
Capt. Morton and the battery boys on the way they handled
their guns the day before, and they had left camp that morn-
ing all "puffed up" with new guns, eight horses to each gun,
and the firm determination to break all records and have old
Bedford pat them on the back some more. Although they
killed six horses, they never were able to get near us. It
was a cavalry fight all the way through, and a friendly rivalry
between the different regiments to see which could outdo the
others. I am not sure but that we counted some of our
prisoners twice. Once Gen. Forrest himself took part of
Rucker's and Bell's Brigade and tried to get around the
Yanks, but it did not work. When he got back into the
road they were on he was in our rear.
At Salem Gen. Forrest had to be taken off his horse, he was
so near fainting from fatigue. Gen. Buford was not, how-
ever. Mounted on a Kentucky thoroughbred, one of his own
rearing, he hung on to that flying column, and every chance
he got would rush down on them. I don't think he would
ever have thought of holding up as long as anybody's horse
could keep up with him. Two Yankee stragglers were the
cause of our finally halting. They mistook us for their troops,
and rode the whole length of our command, from rear to
front. We saw them, but thought they were some of our men
returning from taking prisoners to the rear. It was about
eleven o'clock at night, and too dark to see the color of uni-
forms. Just as they were passing Gen. Buford, who was
riding at the head of our column, one of them asked : "Whose
command is this?" Gen. Buford answered: "My command,
A. Buford." "Good Lord!" said the Yank, and we could
hear the rip, rip of their spurs as they dashed down the road.
"Halt !" yelled Old Abe ; bang, bang, went his pistol, but
they made good their escape ; then he halted his command,
rode back, and wanted to know where those Yanks came from.
When some one told him they came down the line, he made
things blue and brimstony with his profanity, and told us,
among a good many other things, that we were "a lot of d — ^n
sandlappers riding along half asleep" and let the Yanks ride
over us. Some one told him it was too dark to see colors. "See
h'll," yelled Old Abe; "sn;ell 'um." We were passing through
a dense forest at the time, and the General got suspicious of
an ambuscade, so he ordered. one of his staff, Maj. Turk, to
dismount twenty-five or thirty of us and deploy as skirmishers.
I was one of that unlucky lot. We had not gone fifty yards
before I stumbled over something and came near falling. I
looked back to see what it was, and discovered that it was a
Yankee sitting at the foot of a tree sound asleep. I woke him
up, told him he was a prisoner, and called to the other fel-
lows to look close, that there were Yanks about. Pretty
soon all up and down the skirmish line I could hear the boys
waking up sleeping Yankees. We kept on about half an hour,
and had taken quite a number of prisoners, when I heard
Gen. Buford call: "Turk, where are you?" "Here, General,"
answered Turk, who was out in the brush with us. "Call
in your skirmishers, take some of them down the road, and
put out a picket. We will stay right here till morning.
Every d — n man with me is sound asleep."
Maj. Turk had been lieutenant in my company for years,
so when I heard his order, "Skirmishers, rally on the road,"
I skipped back to my horse, for I was pretty certain to get a
job of standing picket the rest of the night if I "rallied."
I jerked my saddle off "Old Pete," crumbled up some crackers
for him to eat, and was asleep before one could count a dozen.
Next morning we found we were si.xty-five miles from Brice's
X Roads, without corn or rations and nothing in the country
to subsist upon. So Gen. Buford started the prisoners back
under guard, and disbanded the rest of our brigade to hustle
for themselves to get back to Guntown as soon as they could
and pick up all the Yankee stragglers they came across. Part
of Bell's Brigade followed the Yanks still farther, but I don't
think they caught up with them again. I should state that
nobody cared for Old Abe's cursing ; his bark was ever worse
than his bite. He was one of the kindest-hearted men I
ever knew, except the peerless John C. Breckinridge, the best
man we ever served under. Turk told me ne.xt morning that
he, as well as the pickets, went to sleep on post, and slept till
daylight. The fact was, we had about reached the limit of
endurance for man and horse.
GEN. PETTUS ESCAPES JOHNSON'S ISLAND.
BY T. B. cox, WACO, TEX.
In May, 1863, there was fought near Port Gibson, Miss.,
one of the hottest little battles of the war. Gen. Pemberton
had sent a detachment four thousand strong to support the
siege guns at Grand Gulf, about thirty miles below Vicks-
burg, commanded by Gen. Bowen. The Federal gunboats
had repeatedly made unsuccessful efforts to destroy the forts
and effect a crossing for Grant's army.
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Gen, Grant, having failed in his assaults on Vicksburg from
the front, adopted this strategy, and it won him the rear of
this Gibraltar of the Confederacy. Grant left Sherman with
his division to keep up a feint against Pemberton in front,
while he, with an army said to be ninety thousand strong,
moved down the west side of the river, and, failing at Grand
Gulf, effected a crossing at Brunisburg, ten miles below,
before Gen. Pemberton was advised of the move. Gen, Bowen
the same night marched with his four thousand out on the
Port Gibson and Brunisburg road to within eight miles of
the latter place and formed a line of battle, not knowing that
he was to measure arms with Grant's whole army, save the one
division left in front of Vicksburg.
There was some fighting that night between the pickets,
skirmishers, and artillery: but the next morning, without
fortifications of any kind, the four thousand met Grant's army
in open field, and poured volley after volley into the crowded
ranks of the infantry covering our entire front and right
flank. The Sixth Mississippi made desperate charges on bat-
teries that were sweeping the field with grape and canister,
only to bo forced back by Grant's overwhelming force massing
on every part of the field. For much of the day the four
thousand, swinging right and left, held in check the ninety
thousand, with Gen. Pcmberton's army twenty miles away
marching to our assistance, but which never reached us.
Gen, Bowen's little sorrel had been shot from under him, and
Gen. Tracy was killed in the second desperate attempt to
counteract the flanking columns. The entire line of the four
thousand was now enfiladed, and the enemy was in the rear of
the right wing before any idea of yielding the field occurred
to the gallant four thousand. When finally the order came
to fall back, half of the line was enveloped and about one
th<)U.sand others were cut off and captured in the open field.
Gen. Pettus and the writer were of this number. Gen. Pettus
was at that time lieutenant colonel of an Alabama regiment,
anil 1 was sergeant major of the Sixth Mississippi. The
prisoners, about eight hundred, were marched to the river
that night. We were so overcome by fatigue and loss of
sleep for the two preceding days and nights that we could
scarcely \\'a\k. Occasional halts were made for rest, when all
would fall asleep. The night was quite dark, and the guards
would have to shake the prisoners to wake them up.
Gen. Pettus was fortunate in being out of line at one of
these halts, and in the darkness was not missed by the guard.
Finding himself alone, he hastily made for the woods and
escaped. He rejoined his regiment in time to participate at
Champion Hill and Baker's Creek, and with Pemberton was
forced into Vicksburg. During the siege his colonel (Garrett)
was killed, and Gen. Tracy having already fallen, he was
promoted to the rank of brigadier general. He survived the
siege of Vicksburg, surrendered with Pemberton's army, and
afterwards won distinction with his brigade on many fiercely
contested fields to the end of the war. The rest of us were
taken to the Alton penitentiary, where many died with the
smallpox. Some were sent on to Johnson's Island from the
penitentiary, where the survivors lingered till the close of
the war. Others were exchanged at City Point, in which
number I was counted, to continue the fight until surrendered
at Greensboro with Gen., Joe Johnston.
ESCAPE FROM NEW ORLEANS PRISON.
The following paper was read before the Granbury Chapter
of the U. D. C., at Granbury, Tex,, by Mrs, Annie S, Mc-
Kinnon, of Tascosa, Tex, :
"This is the story as it was told by the veteran himself.
It was in an unsuccessful attempt to capture Fort Butler, near
the little village of Donaldsville, in Louisiana, that Samuel
Hancock Smith was captured. He was shot from the parapet,
and received a terrible wound. It was two o'clock in the
morning of June 28, 1863, when he was shot. The Federals
placed him on an .old sailcloth beside a dead comrade of theirs,
and there he lay from 8 a.m. until 3 P.M., covered by thou-
sands of flies. Finally, after piteous pleadings, the Yankees
carried him to a tent, and he was placed beside the dying body
of a major of the Confederate army. This gentleman, by the
way, was a member of an old Virginia family of gentle birth
and wealthy. While in his death agony, the poor boy twitch-
ing convulsively as if struggling to hold the noble spirit,
human vultures appeared, tearing the ring from his finger,
the gold buttons from his shirt, and rifling his pockets.
"You can imagine the condition of the wounded soldier who
received no medical attention from the day he was wounded,
the 28th, until the 3Qth. They thought his wound was fatal,
and momentarily expected the end. On the 29th the prisoners
were started by water to New Orleans, arriving there the fol-
lowing evening.
"With the rest of the wounded Mr. Smith was put in the
prison hospital, and remained there five months before he
became convalescent. His life was due to that grandest body
of women that ever lived, the 'women of the Confederacy.'
Those who dwelt in the beautiful, quaint old city of New
Orleans were ceaseless and untiring in their efforts to alleviate
the sufferings of their soldier boys in New Orleans prisons.
All the wiles of the feminine heart, all the arts of a woman's
nature, were brought into play. One beautiful lady (her
picture is a treasured possession) claimed Smith as her
nephew and a young lady as cousin, so they got to visit
him daily, taking to him fruit and other delicacies. But for
a water bed furnished by the ladies of the city he would
surely have died. This kept down inflammation, and he lay
on it three months. As soon as he was able to sit up he was
taken to the prison house proper (the old customhouse),
where the prisoners were herded together, many in a room.
Their beds were filthy blankets, and their fare was bread,
water, and said to be 'mule meat.'
"Mr. Smith was once placed in a cell in solitary confine-
ment for infringement of prison rules; but the thing that
stung was to march between two rows of grinning, jeering
negro soldiers, with bayonets ready to run him through if he
made the least sign. Truly a brave sight I One poor, weak,
emaciated, handcuffed white boy, hardly able to move a
muscle, forced to march between lines of dusky demons,
whose ancestors yet live in the jungles of Africa, In the
cell he was fed on bread and water, with one gnod meal for
Sunday, Here he stayed three weeks.
"The following incident may offend the delicate sensibili-
ties of some, but it serves to illustrate the soldier's loyalty,
and more especially love for fun, even under the prison's
shadow. A cavalry recruiting officer came at several dif-
ferent times, his special purpose being to persuade them to
desert. He painted glowing pictures of the fine horses they
would have to ride, the clothes they would wear, the food
given to eat, and the bounty offered by President Lincoln.
But the boys got tired of it. They swore at him and made
sport of him. but all to no purpose. So, to quote their, own
words, they 'lay for him,' and tobacco juice was the watch-
word. Several of the boys became interested in his story (?),
and asked all sorts of questions. How elated he felt when
such a crowd gathered around ! He already had visions of pro-
motion. It was winter, and he had on a heavy army overcoat
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The boys behind chewed vigorously, and expectorated unerr-
ingly always at some point on that overcoat. He waxed
eloquent, the boys in front grew feverish, and the boys behind
never missed an aim. Tobacco juice actually trickled from
the Federal cavalryman's overcoat as he made his most un-
ceremonious exit, never to return.
"The young lady who had called Mr. Sinith 'cousin' in the
hospital had not forgotten him. She and 'Aunt Sallie,' the
elderly lady, came often to the regular prison. One day she
seemed a bit nervous ; her hoop skirts stood out even more
stiffly than usual. When she went away there was a rope of
sufficient length to reach the pavement stowed safely up the
fire flue. The terribly injured back and one useless arm pre-
cluded all hope of escape to Mr. Smith. Fifteen or twenty
fellows got away, however. The last fell when about halfway
down, and was rendered insensible.
"There was a second siege of hospital life for Mr. Smith ;
he took smallpox, and was in the hospital five weeks. Finally
came welcome news that there was to be an exchange of
prisoners. With a number of others Mr. Smith was put on
board the steamer Polar Star at the rear of Bank's fleet.
They steamed up the Mississippi into the Red River. When
not far below Mansfield the news came of Bank's defeat,
and the boat was reversed and started back to New Orleans.
Mr. Smith and a comrade named Snell resolved on escape or
death. It was nine o'clock at night when they made a dash for
liberty. Snell went overboard first, and the guard was taken
so by surprise that when he fired at Snell the bullet fell
short of the mark; Smith then knocked the gun up and
jumped. The guard thought he had shot Mr. Smith through,
and reported him dead. A comrade watching the affair
thought so too, until meeting him at the U. C. V. at Dallas.
With only one arm, he could do but little swimming. He
relied on floating, but was so exhausted and nearly strangled
when he reached the shore that he could not pull himself
out. Fortunately, his comrade was near and rescued him.
"Then came nine days of weary wandering and almost
starvation. They were in the jayhawker strip, with Yankees
all about. There were lagoons to traverse, with their cypress
knees, mud, and water. Their first help was from an old man
at a little cabin. He had little to give, but told them to travel
only at night and to hide in' the deepest, darkest thickets
in daytime. They grew so weak, stiff, and sore that the
time came when the wounded man was the stronger. Their
food was principally the young shoots and twigs of trees.
In an old, deserted cabin they found a bacon rind and a few
ears of corn, and on these they feasted. Finally they came
to a cabin, where they got a good meal, and the woman di-
rected them to a settlement six miles away. There they
found one of their recruiting officers, and he sent them to
their old command at McNutt Hill. On the eleventh day after
their escape they walked up to their commanding officer. Mr.
Smith had been reported dead, lost from the Polar Star.
The officer, Capt. John W. Squires, threw up his hands and
exclaimed: 'My God! can this be Sam Smith?'"
MONTGOMERY CONFEDERATE MONUMENT.
"Through the untiring energy and boundless influence of
the Ladies' Memorial Association, this monument day by day
grows heavenward, a beautiful and blessed soul tribute of the
South to memories which can never die, but which shall
live through the cycles of time, admonishing hoary age and
thoughtless youth of a storm-cradled nation that went down to
rise no more, leaving behind it, in inextinguishable brilliancy,
Jboth wisdom and truth, to guide us ever onward and upward.
Near its base the Southern Confederacy was born. It is
indeed a hallowed spot. Here it was that the new nation
was committed to the keeping of Mr. Davis, and echoing
in the hearts of many yet living are his responsive words :
'I will, so help me God.'
"Causes which gave birth to the Confederacy are, like it,
buried to rise no more. The monument is the tombstone of
both. While it commemorates the fatigues, hardships, and
privations incident to soldiers whose government could not
equip or feed them, it also memorializes the tears, the ago-
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT MONTGOMT-KY, AI.\.
nies, the blood, and death of noble men who gave their
lives a sacrifice upon a country's altar. Its mounting spire is
no threat of antagonism to the Stars and Stripes, and is
an assurance that the New South cherishes fond recollections
of the past and clinging hopes of the future."
The above lines were written by a Confederate, Jas. W.
Powell, formerly of Montgomery, Ala., at the request of
B. L. Aycock, Esq., of San Antonio. Comrade Powell re-
sides now in San Antonio, Tex. He affiliates with Albert
Sidney Johnston Camp No. 144 of Confederate Veterans.
He heard the words from Jefferson Davis's lips, "So help
me God." With moistened eye he relates that scene of scenes
where Mr. Davis took the oath of office.
THIRTEENTH VIRGINIA AT FREDERICKSBURG.
ADDRESS OF CAPT. S. D. BUCK, OF BALTI MORE, MD., BEFOKE THE BUCHANAN
CAMP, U. C. V.
The first battle of Fredericksburg had been fought and
won. Burnside followed the fate of his predecessors, and
now the two armies rested upon the banks of the beautiful
Rappahannock River, which for months was the dividing line
between the hostile forces. Jackson's Corps after the battle
in December went into winter quarters at Moss Neck, guard-
ing the villages and ferries from Fredericksburg down to
Port Royal. The Army of the Potomac was being recruited
from every clime under the shining sun, while the Confed-
erates could only rest and hope in the heroism of their mem-
bers and be recruited from the "cradle" and sick rolls; but
the few we had were tried and true, and could withstand the
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hardships of army life, sing the songs of patriotisni, and
glory in the deeds accomplished. McClellan, Burnside,
Shields, McDowell, Banks, and others had measured swords
with Lee and Jackson, and now "Fighting Joe Hooker" took
command of the Army of the Potomac, an accomplished
soldier, and with an army that had never before been equaled
in number and equipment much was expected of him. The
press of the North, under flaming headlines, declared Rich-
mond would fall in thirty days.
Monday, April 27, Hooker's preparations were completed,
and Tuesday night his first, third, and sixth corps were at
Franklin's Crossing, three miles below Fredericksburg. Stone-
man had begun his cavalry raid to the James River, and that
brilliant leader, J. E. B. Stuart, had his forces in motion, and
captured prisoners from Howard, Slocum, and Meade.
Pardon me for digressing just a moment. I cannot pass
by the grave of one who fell March 17, at Kelly's Ford,
Maj. John Pelham. Roses and lilies bloom and bow their
heads over his grave where he sleeps in his Southland, and
I feel like bowing my head in thanksgiving that God gave
Pelham to the South. Lee, the immortal, baptized him "Pel-
ham the gallant," when his Napoleons thundered upon the
flanks of Burnside's army. I had the honor of fighting by
his side at Sharpsburg when' the Thirteenth supported his
lattery on our left, and was promoted to first lieutenant
in the provisional army of Confederate States for conduct
on that field. The horses could not drag the heavy guns
over the plowed field, and the men of that grand old regi-
ment almost carried the pieces to a position only a few
hundred yards in front of the enemy, and Pelham loaded •
each gun with double charges and kept thousands of the
enemy back. I see him now, and wish I could portray the
picture on canvas, that every Southern boy might see it
and be proi'd that such an example was left him. He was
taken from us, and we mourned our loss.
"But his fame on brightest pages.
Penned by poets and by sages,
Shall go sounding down the ages."
Hooker crossed at Germania and Ely's Ford. Gen. Stuart
had discovered Hooker's plans, and at once informed his
illustrious chief that Hooker was concentrating his whole
army at Chancellorsville.
As my paper is to treat upon the Thirteenth Virginia at
Fredericksburg, I must leave Hooker in his trenches at
Chancellorsville and turn to Early. Gen. Sedgwick, with
twenty-five thousand troops, crossed the river three miles
below Fredericksburg April 29. Jackson's Corps drew up
in front of him. D. H. Hill was on the right at Hamilton's
Crossing, his right on Massaponox Creek. It was discovered
by Gen. Lee that Sedgwick's move was a feint. In conse-
quence, he ordered Jackson to leave one division of his corps
in front of Sedgwick and to move on Chancellorsville with
the rest of his troops. Gen. Early's division of eight thou-
sand was left to confront Sedgwick with twenty-five thousand.
Jackson moved out Wednesday night late, and the entire line
W3% occupied by Early. My regiment, the Thirteenth Vir-
ginia, ur.'der Col. J. B. Terrell, was on picket duty at the old
gas house. Col. Smith (Extra Billy) commanded the brigade.
The morning the Federals crossed we were ordered back, and
formed a skirmish line, the three right companies on the
road leading down to the river and the others, or left wing
of the regiment, swung back from the road, connecting, I
think, with a North Carolina regiment. As we moved back
from the river and were deploying as skirmishers the first
shell from Falmouth Heights greeted us, and as we marched
back to the Bowling Green road the enemy had good prac-
tice at us, but did no harm. Part of the regiment took posi-
tion against the south bank of the road, the condition of
which gave us good protection. Companies I, K, and H (the
latter my company) were protected by the embankment on
each side of the road, while the companies on our left were
in open field; but the soil being light and sandy, the men
were soon at work throwing up rifle pits, and almost every
fellow dug a hole that protected him to the waist. I was
on the extreme right and within speaking distance of the
enemy, who had moved forward and were in the road to our
left and on our right, conformed to our line and in the open
field. We were not over two hundred yards apart, and not a
musket had been fired. As before stated, my company, with I
and K, occupied the right of the regiment and of the army.
The Colonel was near-sighted and came to where I stood,
watching our flank, which was exposed, and, handing me his
field glasses, asked me what was going on in front. After a
careful examination, I told him that the lawn in front of
the stone house was full of soldiers and many officers. He at
once sent a messenger back to report this fact, and suggested
that artillery should open on them, which was done, and
heavy firing soon began on both sides. I learned later that
our shells did great damage, as the house was the headquarters
of a general officer. While this duel was in progress Col.
Terrell became very restless, and again appealed to my better
sight. I took the glasses and described the position of the
enemy's line of battle and their battery in our immediate
front. Their infantry occupied the roadbed in front of our
' left wing. He said that the left must move forward and pos-
sess the road. Had his eyes seen what mine did, he would
have hesitated; but he knew what he was doing, and believed
the regiment would take the road if ordered to do so. Draw-
ing his sword, he in a loud, sharp voice ordered "Right
wheel." The order almost took my breath, as I knew the line
of battle in the road within two hundred yards of where I
stood would deliver a deadly volley as soon as our men rose,
and so did he. I was first lieutenant, and several senior
oflScers were present; but. taking in the situation, I leaped
into the road and called the men to follow. The enemy gave
our left a direct volley. I ordered a left oblique fire, and
struck them square in the flank and in the back. Their line
broke, and as they crossed the road our men who had not
gotten in position in time for the first fire now got their
work in. Our left sufTered terribly, but gained the position.
The slaughter, for numbers rngaged, was heavy. I could
almost walk on the enemy's dead for one hundred yards
without touching the ground. We drove them back, but
could not cross the road on account of artillery; but we
rendered the battery in our immediate front useless by killing
every man who ventured to it. We had it our way for only
a short time. As they could not dislodge us from the front,
they moved to our left flank two pieces of artillery, plant-
ing them three hundred yards away on a knoll, and raked
us with grape, canister, and shrapnel for two hours. In this
engagement I was shot. The ball lodged in my blanket, mak-
ing thirt.v-two holes.
I never saw a hotter place, but we stuck to the position,
holding it until next day, when we saw the United States
flag on the hill at "Marye House." We fell back that night
and joined Gen. Early, marching to Chancellorsville. Next
day we were met by Gen. Lee, who had disposed of Hooker,
and now came down to pay his respects to Sedgwick. Gen.
Early put Col. Terrell again in front with the Thirteenth
Virginia as skirmishers "to feel the enemy." The position
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they occupied was very strong. We made five distinct charges,
and broke their lines every time, but could not hold them.
From the plank road leading from Orange C. H. to Fred-
ericksburg, looking northwest, we could see plainly their lines
on the hill protected by underbrush. To get to them we had
to cross a bottom for fully a quarter of a mile, in the center
of which there was a ditch several feet deep and a small
stream of water, and on charging across this field the com-
mand had to jump this ditch or get down into it on one side
and climb up on the other. -When we got to this point we
received a heavy volley from the enemy on the hill in front,
which caused the men to take advantage of the protection
thus afforded, and some time was lost in getting them for-
ward. Col. Terrell led the charge, and as we dashed up the
hill through the bushes a terrible fire met us from the woods
held by the enemy; but on we went until within a few yards
of the line, when they broke and fell back, but before we
could get into the works another heavy line of skirmishers
came up and drove us back. Five distinct charges were made
by the regiment, and every time reenforcements came up in
'time to check us. In the first charge a Federal officer was
holding his men to their works by his own reckless courage :
standing on the works and urging them to hold on to their
position. One of my company was wounded by my side
(M. C. Copenhaver, a gallant soldier), and as he fell I took
his gun and fired at the officer, who fell either by my shot or
some one else's. As we fell back, Gen. Early sent forward
another regiment to relieve the pressure. At the ditch re-
ferred to above we rallied, and my orderly sergeant, James
W. Legg, an excellent soldier, was killed. I saw the lint
fly from his gray coat when the ball struck him, and he fell
forward in the ditch. I jumped down and tried to lift him
up, but could not. When I got up I was alone, the command
having left me, and for fully two hundred and fifty yards
I ran, "because I could not fly," and every jump a bullet
struck near me. This is the only time I ever tried to carry
a man off the field. It is a wrong principle; better protect
your friends by driving the enemy. I had the misfortune
to run a ramrod through my hand in trying to load a musket.
It was bleeding freely and the Colonel ordered me back to
the surgeon. It was a painful wound, but was well in a few
days. There was not a better regiment in the army than the
Thirteenth Virginia. Gen. Lee said, "It was a splendid body
of men;" Gen. Ewell, "It is the only regiment that never
fails ;" Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, "It always does exactly what I
tell it ;" Gen. Early, "They can do more hard fighting and be
in better plight than any other troops I ever saw."
About 4 P.M., May 30, 1864, the gallant Col. Terrell fell at
Cold Harbor. His commission as brigadier general was at
Gen. Lee's headquarters when he fell, and he did not know
of this honor;
"But his name shall never be forgot
While Fame her record keeps,
And Glory points the hallowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps."
The day after the charges referred to, as we were going
to camp, an artillery regiment on the roadside, overlooking the
position we fought for, and who saw the charges we made,
gave us three cheers, and said they regretted that they could
not help us, but could not do so without hurting us, as we
were too close to the enemy. With such commanders as
A. P. Hill, James A. Wheeler, and James B. Terrell, it is not
surprising that the regiment stood as it did and received
compliments from the commanding generals and others.
How the past looms up before me I I dream of the army.
I hear their martial tread. I dream of those who touched
elbows in the charge, I dream of the cause for which we
fought ; but the Confedrate soldier is no dream, the flag under
which he marched is no dream. It was real, and the deeds
of the Confederate army have been written in blood upon
the pages of history, and will stand in golden letters through-
out the ages. Time will but brighten and add to its glory,
and generations to come will be proud to trace their lineage
to the men whose deeds and daring electrified not only a
nation but the world.
LIDDELL'S DIVISION AT CHICKAMAUGA.
BY J. W. MINNICH, GRAND ISLE, LA.
In the October issue of the Veteran is a communication
from Capt. J. D. Smith, of the Twenty-Fourth Mississippi,
concerning the battle of Chickamauga, which is a very in-
teresting and truthful account from Comrade Smith's point
of view as remembered by him after a lapse of forty-one
years ; but it is calculated to still further "confound the con-
fusion" resulting from the various conflicting reports, of-
ficial and others, of the operations conducted, or misconducted,
during those two terrible days in the woods of Chickamauga.
With the operations of the second day I have nothing to do ;
my command saw absolutely nothing. But of the operations
of the first day at and in the neighborhood of Jay's Mill, irj
front of Baird's and Brannan's Divisions, I was not only
an eyewitness to all that occurred, but an active particip."nt
from the firing of the first volley by Croxton's Brigade of
Brannan's Division at 7:30 a.m. until both he and Baird were
driven back into the woods, "after five hours of fighting,"
according to Federal official reports.
Now the main question is: Who did the driving? Gen. Hill,
in his Century article some years ago, says it was Liddell's
Division, thus: "Baird now began a readjustment of his lines,
and during the confusion of the movement Liddell's Division,
two thousand strong, struck the brigades of Scribner and
King and drove them pellmell, capturing Loomis's Battery,
commanded by Lieut. Van Pelt," etc. This does not agree
with Capt. Smith's account of the "shooting match," as seen by
myself and others of my command who added our mite
toward inducing Baird to take to the woods. Nor do any of
the official or unofficial reports which have come under my
notice agree with the actual facts of the first four hours of
fighting on the 19th — that is to say, from 7:30 a.m. till high
noon.
There is a lack of accuracy in the dates given by Com-
rade Smith, unless it be a misprint by the Veteran's type.
He says it was on the i8th. My own recollection is that it
was on the 19th, and it is upheld by every mention of the
battle heretofore published. It is evident that Comrade
Smith's memory has become somewhat confused in the race
with time, and he sadly mixes facts with faulty memory.
In the first place, he says that "our position was on the ex-
treme right of our line," and "our right flank being protected
by Forrest's Cavalry;" and farther down he speaks of the
enemy's "works." This would naturally cause the reader to
conclude that the enemy had time to throw up some kind of
protection against our assaults. Comrade Smith has evidently
confused the events of the second day with those of the first.
Vanderveer's Brigade, of Brannan's Division, was the ex-
treme left of Rosecrans's army on the morning of the 19th
(and remained in its first position until late in the afternoon),
its skirmishers throwing their bullets into the right flank
and rear of Forrest's First Brigade of Georgia Cavalry dis-
mounted on the hill in front of Jay's Mill, and, passing over
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our line, went in the direction of Baird's lines, who were less
than four hundred yards in our front and left. To Vander-
veer's right and directly in our front was Croxton's Brigade,
of the same division, three hundred to four hundred yards dis-
tant, perfectly concealed by the scrub black-jack brush. On
Croxton's rear and right was Baird's Division. (See Roster,
page 4.) These were the two divisions which attacked the
First Georgia Brigade, dismounted, on the low hill in front
of Jay's Mill, and were held in check by it until Walker's
men (Liddell's Division) came in after 12 m. and drove Baird
■and Croxton off the ground, Vanderveer holding his posi-
tion an hour longer, if not more.
Now the question is: Whose brigade was it that drove
Baird and Croxton from our front? We knew at the time
that they were of Walker's Corps. The extreme right of the
line was so close to me that I could almost note the expression
of the nearest man. As the line reached the fence, holding
their guns at "ready" in their right hands, with the left they
pushed the rails until they could step over and align on the
wood side next to the enemy, never taking their eyes from
the brush in front, where Baird's men lay concealed less than
one hundred and fifty yards distant. There was, and had been,
no "confusion" in Baird's lines up to this time. Baird and
Croxton were both waiting and ready.
Comrade Smith says that these were Walthall's men "on the
extreme right of the line." But he says that "Ector's and
Liddell's Brigades, successively, had made an effort to dis-
lodge them, but had failed." Gen. Hill says it was "Liddell's
Division, two thousand strong, that struck the brigades of
Scribner and King and drove them pellmell." But here is a
fact which will be vouched for by every living member of the
First Georgia Brigade who was in the fight that day :
These were the first infantry to come on the field within the
range of our sight and hearing, and the only works they
were called upon to drive Baird and Brannan from were the
works of nature — i. e., big trees and scrub black-jack. There
had been no previous attempts to dislodge Baird from the
direction of Alexander's House, where Walker's Corps lay,
as we from our position could plainly see, there being a wide
field to our left over which these gray lines advanced.
The Federal reports say of Baird and Brannan that "after
five hours of fighting the divisions were withdrawn." We
say that with the exception of Vandcrvcer's Brigade they
were driven, and it was most beautifully done, but at a cost
of one-half of the driving force. But again official reports
say that Ector's and Wilson's Brigades were first sent against
Baird and Brannan (Wilson's) "sometime after eight o'clock,"
and Ector's "about nine;" "and at 10:30 Liddell's Division
was also sent to the right." Both divisions became heavily
"engaged." (See Rosier, page 24.) Now this does not at all
tally with Capt. Smith's account, nor does it tally with the
facts; and, so far as Wilson's and Ector's operations any-
where near the mill are concerned, before Liddell's Di-
vision routed Baird and Croxton, it does not tally at all. I
have always had too high a regard for Gen. Walthall to en-
deavor to detract in any way from his gallant record.
When we write history, let us have facts, not fancies or
beliefs. As before stated, there was a wide-open field to our
left, and for a full quarter of a mile we had from our left
an almost unobstructed view ; and until we saW Liddell's
Division coming over it nearly half a mile distant we had not
seen a single infantry command. Official reports say that
"at 10:30" Licidell was sent to the right — that is to say, at
10:30 the order was given for Liddell to hurry to the relief
of Forrest's Brigade at Jay's Mill, which was being battered
out of all semblance of organization by Baird and Brannan.
None of Bragg's corp or division commanders made a move
without orders from headquarters, therefore we can well
surmise that the order to hurry to our relief came direct
from headquarters, and headquarters were at Leet's Tanyard,
seven miles distant. Certain it is that Liddell did not fire a
shot until after 12 M.
Gen. Forrest rode along the front of our line after 10 a.m.
He no doubt recognized the great value our position would
be to the enemy, and encouraged us thus: "Hold on, boys,
the infantry is coming ; they'll soon be here to relieve you."
No doubt he believed that himself, but the "soon" seemed
to be the longest of its kind ever spun out. But when the
relief did come it came with the force of a battering-ram, anj
in less than fifteen minutes Baird was going to the rear,
taking Croxton with him. Now, who did the driving, Wal-
thall's Brigade alone, or did Govan's (Liddell's) help? It
was a pretty heavy contract for a single brigade to under-
take. Liddell's Division was composed of Govan's and Wal-
thall's Brigades, and this is the first time I have seen it
stated that either of them went into that action separately.
.Another thing which convinces me that Comrade Smith con-
founds the events of the second day with those of the first is
his statement about Walthall's asking permission to "charge
them." According to all statements heretofore given us.
Walker's Corps was bivouacked near Alexander's House
(which was only a short distance from the bridge of the
same name), more than a mile in a straight line from where
we were at the mill, and Baird and Brannan in our front were
still farther by not less than three hundred yards, and no
previous assault had been made on either. We did not assault,
but acted strictly on the defensive against four times our
own number and completely concealed.
It is strange how we see things and remember events so
differently, and bow glaring errors, based on faulty informa-
tion no doubt, are published and accepted as history. The
first day's fighting at Chickamauga has about as many errors
to its credit as any battle ever fought. It was fought in the
woods, and errors grew on every tree. One of the most
glaring is the official account of the opening of the battle, and
it is perhaps from this that Comrade Smith gleaned the idea
of the unsuccessful assault on Baird by Ector. Let us first
examine Gen. Hill's version, a most fanciful sketch of an
event that never happened. Gen. Hill's Corps was "the ex-
treme left" with center at Glass's Mill, six and a half miles
from where the fight opened, not by roads, but as the crow
Hies, and it is presumable that he was with his corps, inas-
much as the order of battle had been delivered by Gen.
Bragg to his corps commanders the evening previous (the
18th), and could have had no personal knowledge of what was
liappening on the extreme right of a six and a half mile line.
He says: "Croxton's Brigade, of Brannan's Division, met
Forrest's Cavalry on the Reed's Bridge road and drove it
back on the infantry, two small brigades under Ector and
Wilson. These advanced with the 'Rebel yell,' pushed Crox-
ton back, and ran over his battery, but were in turn beaten
back by Brannan's and Baird's forces." Of all the errors
ever published about this fight, this is about the worst. The
only truth in it is the fact that two of our regiments (cavalry),
the Tenth Confederate and the Third Georgia, were met by
Brannan and driven back, not on the infantry but on the other
part of their own brigades at Jay's Mill. This was about
7 :30 A.M., and Ector and Wilson were then near Alexander's
House, more than a mile distant, with the rest of their
corps (Walker's).
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Now let us look over the official fancy sketch on file at
headquarters, Office of Records of the War of the Rebellion,
and given to the world upon the occasion of the dedication
of Chickamauga Park, September 19, 1895. It says: "Bran-
nan was ordered forward quite early on the 19th to beat up
a Confederate brigade reported to be isolated on the west
side. Brannan soon ran into Forrest's Cavalry, and speedily
drove it back [that much is true, but right there the truth
stops short and fancy takes the reins] on the infantry, which
disclosed not a lone brigade, but a vast force pressing for-
ward to seize the roads to Chattanooga." The "vast force"
was the First Georgia Brigade, dismounted, with a "park of
artillery" (?), consisting of two three-inch Parrotts and a
twelve-pounder Napoleon, on the hill in front of Jay's Mill
waiting for him. Four skeleton regiments and one battalion
(about one thousand men), and one regiment with about six
hundred effectives— six all told— against Brannan's nine; and
about a half hour later (see Roster, page 4) a brigade of four,
at least, of Baird's Division and three batteries. According
to their own account, it was four and a half hours later that
they had their first sight of any infantry whatever. But we
were lying prone on the bare crest, and had long guns of
all patterns, from the converted flintlock to the most im-
proved Belgian, Springfield, Minie, Austrian, and Enfield.
We might have looked like infantry, and doubtless they
thought we acted as if we had a whole corps to support us;
but the "vast force" they met at the starting of the row was
vast in their imagination only. While it is true that a con-
siderable number of our troops had crossed the river during
the night of the i8th, not a single regiment was to be seen
by either Brannan or Baird from their position in the brush
on our front. Hence, they could not in any manner estimate
the force in their immediate front.
Gen. Henry V. Boynton commanded an Ohio regiment in
Vanderveer's Brigade (the Thirty-Fifth Ohio), and in a letter
on the subject he says that it was the stubborn resistance to
their advance at Jay's Mill which caused the belief that they
were opposed by "a much larger force than you now reveal
to us." Nor does he, an active participant, make any men-
tion of any previous attempt upon Brannan or Baird, nor has
be any knowledge of Croxton having been "run over" by
Ector and Wilson ; and he was certainly in a position to
know if anything of the kind had happened, as this brigade
joined his on the right. None of the official reports make
mention of any assault having been made upon Baird by
any infantry whatever until after he had been driven from
his first position by Liddell's Division, of which Comrade
Smith's brigade (Walthall's) formed a part. In his eager
pursuit of Baird, Liddell suddenly found himself flanked by
Gen. Richard W. Johnson's division of fresh troops sent
hurriedly forward from Kelly's Field to the support of Baird,
.ind by Johnson's and Baird's reorganized division was in
turn pushed back almost to the very spot from which he had
driven Baird only an hour or so before. Capt. Smith makes
no mention of this retrograde movement, when impelled
thereto by a superior force, and yet his brigade was engaged
in it. It is a well-known fact that our troops did not have
a walk-over on the first day any more than they did on the
second, nor was their path strewn with roses either day.
It was a kind of seesaw game, although it finally resulted in
the Yankees having but a small part of the board left to hang
to when night came, and by the second night they had slid
olT altogether.
I would not have written to such length but for the fact
that the Confederate Veteran is not only the mouthpiece
of the Confederate soldiers, but is intended to perpetuate
their deeds — a faithful history of their achievements — and its
pages should not be mixed with errors. Its aim is the truth
and fairness toward all concerned, and we, each and all, who
contribute to its columns should not allow any unjust dis-
crimination to mar its pages. Let us all remember right be-
fore we write, nor rely on memory alone.
OVER HIS HEART THE PICTURE OF LEE.
One of the "Old Guard" of the great Napoleon was dying
on the field of Waterloo. The surgeon in attendance was
probing for the ball that had entered the stalwart form near
the heart. The case was a hopeless one, but there was no
groan of pain from the dying hero. He looked up at the
surgeon and said, as the steel instrument entered his breast :
"Go deeper, go into the heart, doctor, and you will find the
Emperor there." This has been handed down through the
years as an example of love and devotion on the part of a
soldier for the general who sent him into battle and to death.
By some it is considered a pretty story from the imagination
of a smart writer, and soon forgotten. Yet there occurred in
Augusta, Ga., an incident that illustrates the love of the old
soldier for his leader.
About fifteen minutes prior to the departure of the four
o'clock train on the Georgia road an old gentleman entered
one of the cars of the waiting train and deposited his bundles
in convenient places. He was perfectly sober and apparently
in perfect health as he took his seat in the car. Suddenly
there was the sound of some one gasping for breath, and
the nearest passenger turned and saw the old gentleman
evidently in the throes of death. The alarm was sounded,
the services of a physician were secured, but death claimed
the old gentleman before the doctor could get to him.
No one in the car seemed to know the dead passenger, and
a search through his clothing began to see if there was any-
thing that would serve as an identification. A little inner
pocket was found on the left side of the vest, a very unusual
place. There was a paper resting in the bottom of the pocket,
and when taken out it was found to be a badly faded, much-
worn picture of Robert E. Lee. It was evident that this
picture of the great chieftain had rested over the heart of this
old soldier for many years. Jabe Griffin had been true through
four decades to the memory of the man to whom he had given
love, devotion, and confidence away back in the sixties when
the war call sounded through Dixie Land.— Augusta (Ga.)
.Chronicle.
DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY IN ARKANSAS.
Qopfederat^ l/eteraij.
V. Y. COC A,
NOT LOAIMABLt
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DISBANDING PRESIDENT DAVIS'S ESCORT.
BY L. C. m'aLLISTER.
At the Nashville reunion I met a comrade of the Second
Alabama Cavalry, Ferguson's Brigade, who informed me that
he was one of Mr. Davis's escort that accompanied Gen.
Ferguson to Gen. Breckinridge's headquarters, and was there
paroled and disbanded by Gen. Ferguson. He stated that
he had found it difficult to join any Confederate Camps, be-
cause he did not have a parole signed by a Federal officer.
As there may be others like my Alabama friend, I think it well
to publish the circumstances under which these paroles were
given and a list of those to whom they were issued. I filled
out many of these papers and kept a list of names; and while
it may not be complete, it is very nearly so.
We were camped near Washington, Ga., Gen. S. W. Fer-
guson's Brigade, with some other cavalry, acting as escort
to President Davis. The gold and silver of the treasury had
been paid out to the troops, our regiment receiving twenty-
five dollars per capita, men and officers alike. Gen John-
ston had surrendered, and much discussion was indulged in
by men and officers as to whether or not we were included
in that surrender. On the evening of the 4th of May, 1865,
Gen. Ferguson ordered the command to 'saddle up." Col.
Boyle, of the Fifty-Sixth Alabama, refused to obey the order
unless informed that we were not to engage in hostilities,
stating that he believed we were included in Gen. Johnston's
surrender, whereupon Gen. Ferg ison, who thought otherwise,
saying Gen. Johnston had not included Mr. Davis's escort
in the troops surrendered, ordered Col. Boyle under arrest.
When marching orders were given, the other officers of the
regiment refused to obey unless Col. Boyle was relieved.
Gen. Ferguson then sent word to the men and officers of the
brigade to meet him near the center of the camp. He made
us a little talk, said that he did not think we were included
in the surrender of Gen. Johnston ; had hoped that his bri-
gade would be the last troops to surrender east of the
Chattahooche River, but was unable to enforce his orders,
and he would be pleased to have as many of the men and
officers as chose to do so accompany him to Gen. Breckin-
ridge's headquarters, some four or five miles west of Wash-
ington, where he would report that he no longer had a bri-
gade. Between ninety and a hundred men and officers went
with him.
That night we discussed the matter freely, and decided
we would escort Mr. Davis to the Mississippi River, or to
Mexico if he desired it. Next morning, however, Gen. Fer-
guson called us together and informed us that Gen. Breckin-
ridge had told him we "could do no more," that Mr. Davis
had gone on, and for us to take advantage of Gen. Johnston's
terms of surrender. Gen. Ferguson then said that he wished
to shake hands with every man who had stood by him to the
last, and as he passed down the line the men. as well as the
General, were all crying. Every man was furnished with a
written parole signed "By Command of S. W. Ferguson,
Brigadier General ; T. K. Irwin, Captain ard A. A. A. Gen-
eral." I wrote the paroles for the men and saw Capt. Irwin
sign them. Capt. Irwin was then placed in command of us,
.Tnd we started for home. We soon came up with some Yan-
kee cavalry, and when we informed them that we had sur-
rendered under Gen. Johnston they made no further inquiry,
but told us that we must give up our arms, which we did, leav-
ing them in a house about seven miles west of Washington. I
acted as quartermaster for Capt. Irwin as long as we were
together.
The followinp: is the roll of men who reported to Gen.
Breckinridge May 4, 1865, being the last command to report
for duty to the Secretary of War of the Confederate States:
Brig. Gen. S. W. Ferguson.
Staff Officers.— dpts. T. K. Irwin, A. J. Sykes, C. Rice,
and F. E. Richardson; Maj. J. M. Foster; Lieuts. J. A.
Tomlinson and J. W. Thompson.
Second Alabama Cavalry.— R. M. Hill, Surgeon; H. T.
Cochrane, Major. Company A: William Prater, O. Hester.
Company C: W. Lawrence, T. Parish. Company D: W. H.
Clements, Sergeant; C. Martin, J. Dockery, N. Gore, T.
Carson, and J. Sanders. Company G: C. D. McQueen and
J. H. Tekel, Sergeants; H. H. Tekel. Company H: E. K.
Robbins and F. Boykin, Lieutenants; G. W. Tunstall and
W. A, Riley, Sergeants; A. H. Bradley, Frank Feagin, R.
E. Hodges, W. R. Hodges, E. R. Hodges, J. J. Hodges, W.
H. Richardson. William Turk, and Jesse Walker. Company
I : D. Hagood.
Fifly-Sixlli Alabama Volunteers (Cavalry). — Company A:
L. D. Williams, Sergeant; J. W. Benbau, J. C. Fonville, D.
H. Graham, R. H. Jarrett, and J. Mastin. Company B: T.
Kemp, Pollard, F. Riley, and J. T. Wrenn. Company
D: S. G. Evans, J. S. Hays, and N. Knight. Company E:
L. C. McAllister and J. Sanders. Comppny H : R, Baker,
Sergeant.
Twelfth Mississippi Cavalry. — A. D. Cox, Sergeant Major.
Company A : M. Henry, Sergeant. Company B : F. Brown.
Company C: G. P. Walker. Company D : C. M. Graham,
Second Lieutenant. Company F: J. H. Lewis and W. P.
Acker, Lieutenants ; G. W. Scale, J. W. Lindsey, and J. J.
Carter, Sergeants ; C. M. Boulton, G. W. Acker, A. A. Bolton,
J. C. Bridges, J. A. Dennis, J. H. Sansom, Young Wall, F.
M. Wall. A. S. Wier, William Wyatt, and A. Pierce. Com-
pany H : S. Maddox. Company I : J. Rule. Company K :
J. Deaton, Sergeant; I. Sparks.
Muldrove's Regiment. — W. H. Moseley, Surgeon. Per-
rin's Company: C. E. S. Gulley, Sergeant; S. S. Garner,
J. B. Hull, P. S. Hull, and G. W. Hull.
Ninth Mississippi. — J. Saulsberry, Kittrell, and
Gustavus.
Miscellaneous. — W. R. Stratten, Fortieth Alabama In-
fantry; P. B. Thompson, Duke's Brigade; G. A. Hodges,
Company D, Fourth Texas Infantry.
The initials of Dr. Hill, Surgeon of the Second Alabama
Cavalry, are almost illegible on the old roll. This man lived
at Mount Meigs, Ala.
A SUCCESSFUL BLOCKADE RUNNER.
Mrs. Maggie Mohler Gwin, of Baltimore, Md., sends some
interesting reminiscences, pathetic as well as amusing, of her
experience when a young lady in the Valley of Virginia during
the war, from which the following incidents are taken :
"It was a gloomy evening, raining in torrents, when a young
lieutenant, a friend of the family, rode up to our gate, dis-
mounted, and came in. We could hear the water slushing in
his boots as he walked up on the porch, where we were as-
sembled to meet him, and, knowing how gently he had been
reared and his fastidious tastes about dress, we insisted that
he exchange his wet boots for a pair of nice, dry, homemade
carpet slippers; but he persistently refused, insisting that he
was quite comfortable. It was not until next morning that we
understood his refusal, when 'Bike,' the negro boy whose duty
it was to look after the boots and shoes of our guests, came
in and, with the whites of his eyes showing conspicuously,
said : 'Miss Maggie. I knows why dat soger wouldn't pull off
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'is boots whar you all wuz las' night, kase de legs of his
breeches wuz scorched off most up to his knees, 'n he didn't
have on nary sign of a sock nuther.'
"It is needless to say that the embarrassed lieutenant went
oflf with a warm pair of socks that morning. I had three
brothers in the Confederate army: One killed at Chancellors-
ville carrying the colors of the Tenth Virginia, another on
the staff of Gen. Maury, and the other one of the cadets of
the V. M. I. that took part in the battle at New Market and
afterwards one of Mosby's famous followers. On more than
one occasion when the Federal raiders and house burners
were devastating the fair Valley of Virginia the mention of
Mosby's name stopped the pillaging and hastened their de-
parture.
"The growing scarcity of medicines and other necessaries
of life suggested the idea that I might run the blockade and
get these needed supplies. How to pass through the Federal
lines without having to take the oath, which I determined not
to do under any circumstances, was the question. We had
only Confederate money, but we had safely secreted some box-
es of plug tobacco, which were good for greenbacks if we
could only get them inside the Federal lines. Getting the
wife of a neighbor to chaperon me, we hired a safe old horse
and spring wagon. Arranging the boxes of tobacco for a seat,
and covering them with a cushion made of an old sack stuffed
with straw, we drove down the valley near the picket post
to where a relative of mine lived, claiming protection as a
British subject. We remained their several days, getting ac-
quainted with the Yankee guard sent to proect her house and
gathering such other information as might be useful in our
enterprise. We finally made arrangements with a 'good
Union man,' who had permission to pass in and out of the
lines, and who had a son in the Confederate army that we
had befriended on several occasions, to haul our tobacco in
under a load of hay and meet us at a certain place inside.
"The next thing was to get through ourselves, for the good
man could not smuggle us through under the hay with the
tobacco ; so we dressed like the people of the neighborhood,
with sunbonnets and white aprons to complete our attire, and
with baskets swinging on our arms we went singing down
the road to a blackberry patch where the pickets were posted.
and at once began industriously to fill our baskets as well
as our mouths with berries, all the time gradually working
our way inside the line. The pickets paid no attention to us
whatever after seeing that we were only gathering blackberries,
and in a short time we had wandered out of their sight in the
bushes. Hurrying to the meeting place, we found our friend
with the tobacco all right, which, with his assistance, we suc-
ceeded in quickly disposing of and purchasing a supply of
medicines, coffee (ah! sure enough coffee), tea, sugar, calico,
tableware, etc. How our hearts thrilled with pleasure, as we
'laid in our supplies,' to think of the comforts we would carry
to our suffering friends at home ! But getting out with our
purchases was a more serious problem than getting in. Again
we appealed to our Union friend. He was carrying us to
a point where he thought we could get through, and were
almost at the pickets in the little village of Kearneysville,
when, in a mo.ment, without warning, we were in the midst
of one of those sharp, quick, and unexpected fights that made
Mosby's men so famous. The bullets whizzed around us,
but we cared nothing for that when we saw the Yankees
break and run. I jumped up on the fence by the roadside
and swung my old sunbonnet around and around my head as
our boys came dashing in on them and shouted : 'Give it to
them, boys.' A silver-haired doctor now living in Baltimore,
who was one of Mosby's bravest where all were brave, says,
in telling of this incident, that I said, 'Give it to 'em hot,
boys ;' but I deny the 'hot' part of it. I will say, however,
that the mother of this same doctor had requested me to bring
him out a pair of cavalry boots.
"Hoop skirts were worn in those days ; and if we girls could
not always get the spring steel variety, we would take a small
grapevine and run it in the tucks of our skirts, making it
answer the same purpose as steel. I confess that, with a
woman's vanity, I had on one of those grapevine varieties at
the time of which I write. Packing the legs of the boots full
of contraband articles for our friends outside, such as medi-
cines, etc., I ran a stout cord through the straps and then
tied it securely around my waist under my skirts. While
standing up the boots behaved very nicely and kept very quiet,
but when I would sit down they would strike the floor with
a thud that would take all the color out of my face and make
my heart beat almost audibly. Reaching the home of my
'British subject' relative, she procured me a pass through
the outside pickets from Gen. Reno, and while they were
examining my pass I sat in the wagon humming 'Sweet Alice,
Ben Bolt,' looking so innocent, notwithstanding the annoyance
the cavalry boots were causing me, that one would have
thought I was looking straight under the slab where poor
Alice slept. When permission was given me to 'pass on,' I
soon had my old horse putting his 'best foot foremost' until
I was safely out of sight and sound of soldiers.
"The inconveniences of my trip and the risks incurred were
as nothing compared to tlie joy of my friends in seeing me
safely home again and the grateful thanks of those whose
wants I was able to supply, and they were many, for I had
brought out a good supply of second-hand clothing, shoes,
etc., that kind friends in Baltimore had sent to the needy of
Virginia."
SICK COMRADES AT NASHVILLE EARLY IN 1862.
The following is a list of sick Confederate private soldiers
and noncommissioned officers remaining in the Blind Asylum,
Nashville,. February, 1862. It is presumed that they were
there when Nashville was evacuated by the Confederates.
The letter following the name of the regiment is that of the
company to which the soldier belonged :
Isaac McEntire, 5th Ark., K ; F. M. -Wakeland, 7th Tex.,
H ; C. J. Martin, 3d Miss. Bat. ; G. W. Huffman, 3d Miss. Bat. ;
W. H. Means, Okochickama, Miss.; J. A. House, 5th Ark., F;
J. L, Means, Okochickama, Miss.; John Turner, 9th Ark., C;
R. A. Roberson, 2d Ky., K; John Kane, ist Ark., B ; J. G.
Ogilvie, gth Ark., B; N. J. Butler. 3d Miss. Bat.; Andrew
James, 6th Miss., G; Alexander Holly, Marmaduke's Bat.,
Ark. : James Power, 3d Miss. Bat. ; J. E. Hudson, 9th Ark.,
A; William Dodson, 19th Tenn., F; S. E. Wilson, loth Ark.,
E; W. A. Johnson, loth Ark., E; -W. T. Myhand, 5th Ark.,
K; T B. Tillman, 7th Miss., F; Alex Irwin, loth Ark., H;
W. B. Thornton, loth Ark., D ; A. B. Stanhard, Filer's La.
Bat.; J. W. Deen, Allison, Tenn., Billington's Company; W.
A. Boys, Wagon Master 8th Ark. ; J. M. Cannon, Johnson's
Art., Eldredge's Company ; Elihu Tilley, Johnson's Art,
Eldredge's Company; .-Mex Harrison, 2d Miss., K; R. B. Lan-
ford, loth Ark., E; William Kelly, 6th Miss., D ; F. A. Green,
Texas Rangers, F ; J. P. Herndon, Johnson's Art., Eldredge's
Company; W. R. Watkins, 1st Mo., C; Augustus Haynie, loth
Ark., B ; T. P. Hughes, 8th Ark., D ; G. B. Hodges, Quarles's
Tenn. Regt. ; G. M. Ferrell, 6th Ark., C ; Henry Whatley, 8th
Ark., A ; J. C. Hogan, 9th Ark., I ; Robert Richie, John Stew-
art's Company, Ala. ; L. L. Fonville, 25th Miss., A ; Josiah
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Dyer, 24th Tenn., H; Demps Arrington, loth Ark., E; John
S. Dupree, ist Ark., F; Thomas Shaughnessy, loth Tenn.,
C; L. Watkins, 5th Ark., G; A. S. Cathon, Col. Gautt's Tenn.,
Whitehead's Company; J. J. Smith, 6th Miss., C; D. R.
Robinson, 4th Ky., I ; A. T. Kendall, 4th Ky., I ; B. Stewart,
and R. R. Kirkland, Hale's Ala.; J. K. Polk, 15th Ark.,
C; E. L. Mankin, unknown; Lem Outland, 4th Ky., G; E.
B. Cattell, 3d Ky., I; .W. H. Upton, Hale's Ala.. Edwards's
Company ; J. M. Ferguson, 4th Ky., G ; Eugene Vandevier,
3d Ky., I ; W. W. Taylor, Hale's Ala., Edwards's Company;
F. M. Haley, 44th Tenn., A; H. H. Malone, 4th Ky., K; W.
C. Keel, 2d Ark., E; John Nunnelly, 24th Tenn., Goodner's
Company; F. H. Harris, 9th Ark., A; Henry Houston, Hale's
Ala. ; W. A. Smith, Hale's Ala., Fletcher's Company ; A. J.
D. Reed, 23(1 Tenn., G; E. W. Smith, ist Ark., A; Felix
Farley, 22d Miss.. D ; Newton C. Nix, Ferguson's Tenn.,
Osborne's Company; William Ralph, Ist Miss., B; David
St. John, 3d Ky., A ; A. T. Cahoe, 20th Miss., H ; Henry
Morris, 3d Ky., .\ ; T. C. Walston. 3d Ky., H ; Pleasant
Craig, Hale's Ala. ; one unknown.
The above is as correct a list as I can make out in the
present confused and disordered condition of the hospital.
A. A. Hatcher, Acting Surgeon.
on Monday morning, May 16, near Drewry's Bluff, and irj
which battle we forced the Federals back under the cover of
their gunboats in James River? That was a heavy battle; and
our left wing, near the James, where the battle opened, and
Lightfoot's whole battalion of sixteen guns was engaged, suf-
fered severely in both killed and wounded. But we saved
Richmond, and prolonged the life of the Confederacy another
BATTLE OF PORT WALTHALL.
BY B. W. JONES, SPOTTSVILLE, VA.
Jasper Kelsey, of Lynnville, Tenn., writing in the Veteran
of the Twenty-Third Tennessee Regiment, of which he was
a member, states : "In April of 1864 the regiment was in a
hard-fought battle on the Southside Railroad, between
Petersburg and Richmond, losing a great number of men in
killed and wounded ; but by that fight they saved the rail-
road connection between the two cities."
It was not in April, but on May 7 of that year, that the
battle he writes of was fought. It occurred at Port Walthall
Junction, on the Rirhmond and Petersburg Railroad, and not
on the Southside road, which ran from Petersburg to Lynch-
burg, and is now a part of the Norfolk and Western system.
It was indeed a "hard-fought" battle ; and but for the reso-
lute stand made by Gen. Hagood, with his brave South
Carolinians, and Gen. Bushrod Johnson, with the no less
bravo nicn imder his command, aided by detached commands
hastily brought together, the Federals might easily have walked
right along into Petersburg on that day, and changed the
whole character of the summer campaign between Lee and
Grant.
This writer was there with the only compatiy of artillery
on the Confederate side (Hawkins's Battery of four twelve-
pound Napoleon guns and a part of Lightfoot's Artillery Bat-
talion), and has a vivid recollection of the entire engagement.
Does Mr. Kelsey recollect anything about the four guns that
occupied the high ground a little to the west of the railroad
cut, where the infantry were put into line? Did the Ten-
nessee troops occupy that cut just in front of the Federals as
they came down in the field on the east side of the railroad?
Or were they farther up the railroad toward Richmond, where
the Federals attempted the flank movement and made the
desperate charge to gain the railroad track?
The battle lasted about three hours, I think, and the gun
at which I served sent at them about one hundred rounds
of shell. Our four guns did much to hold the enemy in check.
Our loss was light — six men wounded, of whom one subse-
quently died.
Was Mr. Kelsey in the other still heavier battle against
Butler, in which Beauregard commanded on our side, fought
CLEBURNE'S DIVISION AT FRANKLIN.
BY PRIVATE W. A. WASHBURN, OF BOGGY, TEX.
I wish to correct the statement in the July Veteran that
"Cleburne's men dashed at the works, their gallant leader
was shot dead, and they gave way." I was a private in Com-
pany H, First Arkansas Regiment, Govan's Brigade, State
Troops, which later, when entering the Confederate States
service, became the Fifteenth Arkansas. On the evening of
November 30, 1864, near sunset, our division (.Cleburne's)
ascended the high hill south of Franklin. The town in the
valley of the Harpeth lay a beautiful sight beneath us.
Govan's and Granbury's Brigades filed to the right, and after
reaching the foot of the hill were soon drawn up in line of
battle and ordered to load. Lowrey's Brigade was not in line
with us. Gen. Govan dismounted, and Gen. Cleburne rode
along the line, cautioning us to save ammunition and "use the
bayonet."
The command "Forward" was given, and we moved in
perfect order. I glanced to right and left, and observed the
whole line moving the same way. Skirmishers were ad-
vanced until we drew the fire of the enemy's first line of
works, some two hundred yards away; and, as Cleburne always
did, we were halted, skirmishers withdrawn, bayonets fixed ;
and at the command, "Right shoulder shift ; forward ; double-
Cjuick : march!" wc went forward, and in three minutes'
lime wc were over the advance works and had them on the
run — those who didn't lie down. We delivered a telljng
volley, and they left the ground blue with their dead and
wounded. We rushed on, not stopping to re-form, keeping
near them. We could never have reached their inner line
if it had not been that their first was between us and their
main line. They were only about fifty yards ahead when they
got over tlicir works, but from there to the main line we
were in a besom of destruction — musketry and canister "filled
the air." We did not dash at the works, but onto them ;
many went over. I — out of breath — climbed on top of the
works. We had never seen the Federals fail to run before
under like circumstances. I brought down my gun to fire,
and was shot in the arm, clothes riddled, and my gunstock
broken.
Now, as to Cleburne's men failing to hold the works to the
right of the pike, they held them as well as did Brown's or
any other division. What was left of it lay down on the
outside, and the Yanks on the other side of them. The fiank
fire that the writer endured was from closer by, and was
made possible by the works being constructed in angles. Our
boys kept their fire down to some extent by shooting and
throwing dirt. After we were against the bank we couldn't
be harmed from the front, as we were in the ditch. Our men
hurt them pretty badly by firing up under the head logs.
If Cleburne's men got to the left of the Columbia Pike, I
cannot tell ; but some of Brown's Division were to the right,
from whence the troops, who failed to hold the works, let an
enfilading fire on Strahl's men. Gen. Gordon was to the right
of the pike. How or why, I know not. He was as gallant,
brave, and daring a soldier as ever drew a blade. I saw himi
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yield nis sword and surrender. I surrendered at the same
time with about fifty others. When the Federals left, myself
and two others were suffered to come back across the river.
Fifty-two per cent of Cleburne's Division were disabled
from the abattis to the top of the works. My regiment was
about three hundred strong when they filed to the right of
the hill that November evening, and never mustered over
sixty guns after. President Davis, in his "Rise and Fall of
the Confederacy," describes truly the affair as it was. Our
Confederate Veteran is our historical record, and every care
must be taken to prevent these unjust reflections resting on
troops with such reputations as Cleburne and his division
liad won. If old Pat could have lived thirty years longer,
such reflections would not have been made.
CLEBURNE'S DIVISION AT MISSIONARY RIDGE.
BY B. F. GRADY, CLINTON, N. C.
The numerous publications in the Veteran and in the
Chickamauga Park Dedication about the Chattanooga battles
do injustice to Cleburne's Division and to Granbury's Bri-
gade. I have been surprised at this, though it is probably
•due to the fact that all the prominent participators in the
tattles are dead, most of them being killed at Franklin. After
Sherman got ready to attack Bragg's right on Missionary
Ridge, Cleburne hurried there to check him. When we were
preparing to climb a spur of the mountain, the Yankees made
their appearance on its top. We then took position on the
ridge just in our rear. My company (K, of the Twenty- Fifth
Texas Dismounted Cavalry) went forward and skirmished till
midnight, and when we were relieved we found that the bri-
gade (Granbury's) had erected a breastwork across the ridge.
We went to sleep, but before day Gen. Cleburne ordered us
to move back a few hundred yards and take a position across
the ridge. On a ridge to our right (a valley between us) we
could see Lowry's Alabama Brigade at right angles to us;
but it was never attacked. I do not know who was on our
left, but think it was Govan's Arkansas Brigade. We had
no time to prepare any defensive works before we were at-
tacked. The fight lasted all day, Sherman doggedly determined
to drive us away ; but we held the ground till about nine
o'clock at night, when we learned that Bragg had been routed.
Then, engaging a little in what "our army did in Flanders,"
we abandoned the ground. The next day our division was
selected to guard Bragg's rear to Tunnel Hill. We waded
the Chickamauga at Ringgold, and next morning the pur-
suers were upon us ; but we repulsed their every attack till
perhaps two o'clock, thus giving the remnants of Bragg's
artillery and wagons time to get out of reach of the invaders.
We then withdrew, and the enemy stayed on the other side
■of Taylor's Ridge.
I am not willing for Cleburne's Division, and particularly
Granbury's Brigade, to be passed over in silence when these
battles are up for discussion. A well-kncwn history of the
United States, and written by a South-^rner, says that in the
Chattanooga battles Bragg "was defeated everywhere," which
is very unjust. Sherman's defeat, in his .'banking movement
on Missionary Ridge, was perhaps the worst he ever suffered,
unless we give Vicksburg credit for a more damaging repulse
when Sherman and McClernand went there in December,
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CAVALRY OF HOOD'S LEFT AT NASHVILLE.
BY JOHN JOHNSTON, MEMPHIS, TENN.
Rucker's Brigade of Cavalry held the extreme left of the
Confederate army in front of Nashville. I was a member of
the Fourteenth Tennessee, then commanded by Col. R. White.
We were in camp back of the Cockrill place and just north
of the Charlotte Pike.
The morning of December 15 dawned bright and clear.
Just after breakfast we were called to arms, and, hastily mount-
ing, went off in a gallop. As we rose the hill we were greeted
by the sound of artillery over toward our right front, which
betokened the opening of the battle. Riding rapidly forward
for a few hundred yards, we were dismounted and placed be-
hind a line, of rail stacks on a sort of bluff. The ground in
our immediate front was a low level, several hundred yards
back to the foot of a range of hills.
We soon became hotly engaged with the enemy's skirmish
line, which lasted for some time. We rested quietly for a
little while, when suddenly some one exclaimed: "Lookl
look I Just look at the Yankees !" Springing up and looking
over our rail piles, we beheld a sight which filled us with
awe. About half a mile away, but in plain view, there ap-
peared an immense number of the enemy's infantry, as we
supposed, coming over the hills and marching with quickstep
down the slope toward us, forming into one, two, three, four,
five, or six lines of battle — how many, I could not say — and
marching as steadily as on dress parade. Their line of march
was not directly toward us, but across our front, so that
when they got opposite us we were squarely on their right
flank and about three hundred yards or less away. In fact,
they seemed to have ignored us and to have directed their at-
tack against a line of our troops directly in their front and
apparently running nearly at right angles with us. We stood
quietly looking on at the masses of the enemy passing our
front, feeling helpless. Our line was very thin, and we
could not muster over twelve hundred in all, while
there must have been as many thousands of them. About
that time the general engagement to our right front seemed
to open up, and, after firing a few scattering shots, we walked
back, mounted our horses, and rode to the back of the field
in our rear. Here we met McDonald's Battalion, led by
Capt. Barbour. After conferring awhile, we filed off south-
ward, led by McDonald's Battalion. We did not know what
had happened in our front, and never knew until I recently
read an account of it in Dr. Wyeth's "Life of Forrest." From
this narrative it would appear that the great masses of Federal
troops that passed before us that morning were Wilson's
Cavalry dismounted, and that they were attacking Ector's
Brigade of Infantry, which was to our right. I think this
must be a mistake. They looked like infantry, and I have al-
ways believed that they were.
Following the lead of McDonald's Battalion, we came to
where Gen. Chalmers's headquarters had been. The Yankee
cavalry had run into them but a short while before, but none
were then in sight. Turning to the left, we moved eastward up
a ravine a little way, then rapidly up and over a rough, steep
hill on our left. As we were ascending the hill Gen. Chal-
mers rode up alongside in a gallop, urging us forward
Reaching the crest of the hill, we were thrown into line, fa-
cing northward and down a long, sloping hillside covered with
sedge and patches of small trees and bushes. A few hun-
dred yards down the slope we saw a line of mounted Yankee
cavalry advancing up our way. Without halting even to form
we charged, and much to my surprise they gave way. This
was repeated several times, until, being reenforced by heavy
lines of dismounted men, they advanced steadily up the hill,
and we retired slowly before them southward, until we
crossed a small stream and took position behind a high ridge
on the southern side, with the Harding Pike just to our
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left. Here, with our riflemen posted on the crest of this
ridge, reenforced by a small battery, »f repulsed several
charges of cavalry and held our ground until night came to
our relief. While the fighting virs going on at this point
the gunboats on the Cumberland, though out of sight, threw
a number of immense bombs in our direction, which exploded
not far in our rear.
About dark the fighting ceased in our front, and we were
quietly withdrawn and moved out, with Col. D. C. Kelley at
. the head of the column, in a southeasterly direction toward
the Hillsboro Pike. Striking into a cross-country road, we
followed it until we came to a farmhouse. Col. Kelley had
the owner brought out, and he guided us to the Hillsboro
Pike, which we reached about midnight, or possibly later,
and, turning to the left, followed it for a quarter or half
mile toward Nashville. Presently we saw the flickering of a
fire several hundred yards in our front, which we approached
very slowly ; then came the flash of a gun and the whir of
a bullet. Halting for a few seconds. Col. Kelley in low tones
gave the order to countermarch, and led us back down the
pike for a short distance. Some of us were then formed into
a skirmish line across the pike, and the balance of the com-
mand went back a little way and took position on a low ridge
at a place where a cross road led oflf toward the Granny White
Pike, and fortified by piling up logs, rails, and brush. In
the meantime the enemy had pushed forward their outpost
until they came in contact with our skirmish line. They ex-
changed a few shots with us and then retired. We could
tell their whereabouts only by the flash of their guns. We
sat on our horses quietly until day dawned, dark and
lowering. The mist soon turned to a gentle rain, and later
was mmgled with snowflakes. It was late in the day before
the enemy appeared in our front. For some lime our skirmish
line only was engaged, but after a while they came on in force,
and we were pressed slowly back to our main line. The
skirmishing now became spirited, and we were freely shelled
by their artillery as we rode up the crest of the hill on which
our line was posted.
In a few minutes after we reached our main line the
Seventh Alabama came marching afoot from our right front
As soon as they reached us we mounted and moved off
hastily in the direction of the Granny White Pike. It was
growing dark when we reached the pike. The head of our
column turned to the left and we rode up the pike toward
Nashville a short distance, and came to a halt at a lane, with
a small field on our left. Just then the report of a gun was
heard in our front, and a bullet came singing down our line.
The front of our column had already been formed squarely
across the pike. We were faced to the left; the fence thrown
down, we rode inside, dismounted, and were hurriedly marched
across the field to the fence on the west side and took position
behind it, our line being at right angles with the line of our
Other men who had formed across the pike to our right.
Others formed on our left, and extended probably into the
open woods beyond the south fence. Here we became im-
mediately engaged. The enemy's cavalry in overwhelming
numbers were already close on our front and flank. Wilson's
whole cavalry corps (as we have since learned), estimated
at from seven thousand to ten thousand, was now attacking
our small force. Hood's army had been driven from its last
position and was now making its way to and down the
Franklin Pike, and this cavalry force, including the force we
had been fighting over on the Hillsboro Pike — which had
doubtless followed us — was now endeavoring to force its way
down our road to strike Hood's army on the flank, and we.
not over twelve hundred men, stationed across the Granny
White Pike and to the westward of it, were the only protec-
tion to Hood's army in that direction. We — that is, the private
soldiers — did not know all of this then, nor did we know of
the fearful odds against which we fought, but we were in'
fine spirits and sprang to our work with alacrity and en-
thusiasm. Kneeling or crouching down behind that rail fence,
which constituted our only protection, we poured a constant
stream of shot out into the night. We could see nothing;
the mist and darkness had covered all in front, and we shot
blindly out into the dark woods, our whole line from right to
left being one continuous blaze of musketry. In all that
we were greatly encouraged and animated by Col. Kelley, who
gallantly sat his horse and rode up and down behind us,
cheering us and calling out to us : "Pour it into them, boys I
Pour it into them !"
How long this lasted, I do not know. I thought about thirty-
minutes, but some say until midnight. It all came to an end
very suddenly. While we were in the height of the battle,
with no sign of wavering, a young friend of mine, immediately
at my right, sprang to his feet and exclaimed, "There they
are now !" indicating that he saw the enemy's line but a few
feet away. Instantly our whole line rose and began to fall
back. Surprised and astonished, I called out, "O no; don't,
run, boys !" but it was of no avail — all were in full retreat,
and we could do nothing but make a run for our horses,
which were held on the other side of the field near the pike.
What my friend saw I don't know, and whether anybody
else saw the situation as he did I cannot tell, but the whole
line seemed to give way all at once. And we did not fall
back any too soon, for the enemy had almost completely en-
veloped our left, and in a few minutes more would have been
in possession of the pike in our rear and our way of retreat
in that direction effectually closed. As it was, quite a num-
ber of our men were captured before they could reach their
horses. After getting into my saddle with some difficulty, I
was hailed by a companion, who had been left afoot. Di-
recting him to climb up on a fence, he succeeded in getting
behind me. But all this consumed some minutes of very
precious time, and when we rode onto the pike our comrades
had all fled, and we were left alone. Going down the pike at
a lively pace, we saw, about one hundred feet to our right, a
group of mounted men crowding together and cheering as
if winding up some sort of a scrap or chase. We could see
them but dimly, and at first thought they were some of our
men, but, fearing we might be mistaken, rode past. It turned
out that this was a party of Yankee cavalry who had just
finished up a fight with Gen. Rucker, and had captured him
after shooting him from his horse. Riding down the pike
for several hundred yards, we turned off into a little country
road that diverged eastward from the pike, and soon found
ourselves alone. All was now quiet, and no sound of battle
was heard. We went down this road for a mile or two.
when we came upon the Franklin Pike, and greatly to our
surprise saw our infantry passing down it, seemingly in a very
disorganized condition. Just as we reached the pike the
clouds parted and the moon came out and flooded the scene
with a brilliant light.
My heart sank within me when I came thus upon our
routed army, for, strange to say, during all the two days that
had just passed we had heard no sound of battle but our own
and had very little information as to what was going on over
on our right. But now I realized that the battle was lost
After looking sadly upon the scene, my companion and I rode
back about fifty yards from the pike, procured some forage
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■for our horses (he having captured a loose horse), wrapped
the hahers around our arms, laid down in a fence corner, and
■went to sleep. When we awoke the sun was up, Hood's army
had all passed, and no one was to be seen but an occasional
barefooted straggler bivouacking by the roadside. There was
not a sound or sign of impending battle ; all was as peaceful
and quiet as if no war had been. But, realizing that we must
be in an exposed position, my companion and I mounted our
horses and rode down the pike toward Franklin. Going a
mile or more, we came upon Gen. Hood and his staff and a
number of soldiers at a place where a road seemed to come
in from the direction of the Granny White Pike. Gen. Hood
was sitting on his horse very quietly, and was looking up the
road as if expecting the appearance of the enemy in that
direction. He had a worn and dejected look. A few men
had rallied at this point, and I found there a number of my
own regiment who, I suppose, had followed another road to
this place. After waiting here for some time, we gathered
quite a respectable regiment of cavalry, and under orders
from our chief we took a road that led off in a southeasterly
direction from the main pike, and followed it until we came
to a halt on the wooded hills south of Franklin and east of
the Columbia Pike. It must have been as late as seven
o'clock when we left Gen. Hood on the Franklin Pike, and
nothing had been seen of the enemy up to that time.
Col. D. C. Kelley adds to the above paper, by request;
"The account of the part taken in the battle of Nashville
by your correspondent is more accurate than is generally made
by a private in the ranks. For the benefit of the future his-
torian it may be well enough to say that Col. Kelley, by
order of Gen. Rucker, was in command of the cavalry, in
action, of 'Rucker's Brigade.' The troop which he speaks
of as 'McDonald's Battalion' was in reality 'Forrest's Old
Regiment.' McDonald's Battalion had been restored to its
old place in the regiment. The writer is mistaken on the
point of being near Gen. Chalmers's headquarters when we
made the second fight. We had fought first on Richland
Creek. When the second fight was made we were near the
Davidson house, on the Charlotte Pike. Chalmers's head-
<iuarters were on the Harding Pike. I did not see, or receive
an order from, either Gens. Chalmers or Rucker during the
day. After night, when the enemy had been repulsed and
had been withdrawn from the field, an order came from Gen.
Chalmers, through Gen. Rucker, to make good our connec-
tion with the left flank of our army. At daylight, without
the loss of gun or wagon, we found the left flank of our army
on the Hillsboro Pike.
"The latter position, which he mentions as on the Granny
White Pike, was in conformity to an order to Gen. Chalmers
handed me by Gen. Rucker after 4 p.m. The order was to
the following effect : 'The army is in full retreat. Keep the
enemy's cavalry off my rear at all hazards. Hood.'
"The writer could not give too much credit to the fighting
of the eight hundred men left him in Wilson's front that
night. Gen. Rucker had taken two guns and selected a posi-
tion in the rear for fortification, to which at the last pos-
sible moment we were to retire. After desperate fighting
for an hour or more in the dark and four repulses of the
enemy's advance. Col. White, of the Fourteenth Tennessee
Cavalry, sent me word that the enemy was passing him on
liis left. He received in response an order to 'mount a
squadron and charge any force that attempts to pass your
flank.' Unfortunately, I was so near the line of my central
regiment that the message was overheard. This regiment
had, by bad handling, been twice stampeded. I had placed
them in the center that I might personally hold them in posi-
tion. They had fought nobly that night, but now panicked and
broke. The former commanding officer had been relieved ;
the major in command gallantly aided, in the effort to rally
them, but, raising the cry that 'ammunition is exhausted,' they
broke for their horses. I moved to the right to bring another
regiment to the center. Their break left the Fourteenth un-
supported on my left flank, and before we could reoccupy
the center the etiemy broke through the unoccupied space,
separating me from the Fourteenth, struck Gen. Rucker pre-
paring a position in the rear, and left me to throw the re-
mainder of the command between the enemy and our disorderly
mess of infantry in retreat on the pike at Brentwood.
"Gen. Rucker was wounded, captured, and his arm ampu-
tated in Nashville the next day. I covered the retreat on
Franklin with less than five hundred men. About nine o'clock
the next morning Col. White and the Fourteenth Tennessee
Cavalry rejoined me at Franklin."
D'GOURNAY'S BATTALION OF ARTILLERY.
The following sketch was written by Col. DeGournay a
short time before his death at the request of J. W. Minnich,
of Grand Isle, La., who served under DeGournay from the
organization of his first company and who sends it to the
Veteran for publication :
"After seceding from the Union Louisiana took possession
of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and I went to the first-named
as quartermaster to the Orleans Artillery. -While there I
learned that the Legislature had voted the formation of four
companies of artillery for State defense. I made immediate
application for a captaincy, and proceeded to form a company,
many members of the Orleans Battalion enlisting with me.
We were soon relieved by another command, and I returned
to New Orleans with nearly a full company of drilled artil-
lerists, expecting to get my commission and go on active serv-
ice without delay. I was mistaken. A young lawyer, with no
military experience, but being the grandson of a Revolutionary
hero, wished to raise a company. The cool alternative was
offered me to join this gentleman as his first lieutenant, my
men forming the nucleus of his company, or to receive a
commission as captain of a second company, but I promptly
refused both.
"I was about disbanding my company in New Orleans
when influential friends advised me to wait a little longer.
At this juncture Alfred Coppens returned from Montgomery
with Jefferson Davis's authorization to raise a battalion of
zouaves, the first commission issued, I believe, under the seal
of the government of the Confederate States. Coppens pro-
posed to me to join him. 'But my company,' I objected, 'is
intended for artillery service.' 'That is no objection,' said
Coppens. 'I have a right to a battery of artillery attached
to the battalion.' Although our arm was heavy artillery, I
yielded, and we proceeded to organize the Zouave Battalion,
which was soon ordered to Pensacola.
"There Gen. Bragg objected to receiving my company as
artillery; the Zouaves were light infantry and not entitled to
have a battery. 'But,' added the General, 'I am very glad
your men are trained artillerymen. While I must enroll you
as light infantry, I will detail you on artillery duty. You will
report to Gen. Villepigue and help to build and man the bat-
teries at Warrington Harbor.'
"We did this work so satisfactorily that when we were
ordered to Yorktown Gen. Villepigue gave me a note of
introduction to Gen. Magruder. My Pensacola experience
was repeated at Yorktown. Gen. Magruder, an old artillery
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■officer, was glad to have artillerymen. He placed us im-
mediately on detached duty, and set us building the river
defenses. As fast as a battery was built we manned it, and
very soon Gen. Magruder began detaching men from various
infantry regiments to be drilled and to serve as artillerymen.
Nominally we were a Zouave company, therefore we never did
any service with the battalion during the first year of our
enlistment, and at its expiration were finally disconnected
from it.
"Gen. Magruder asked the Confederate government to give
me a colonelcy and authorize me to raise a regiment of heavy
artillery, which was done. Three companies were immediately
formed — -viz.: my old company, reorganized with Lieut. John
M. Kean as captain ; Capt. Seawell's company, composed
mostly of old Zouaves ; and Capt. Lebesque's company, from
New Orleans. To these were added Capt. W. N. Coffin's and
Capt. C. Wright's companies of Virginians. I was elected
major, pending the recruitment in New Orleans of my other
companies, which, unfortunately, never rejoined the corps ;
but, owing to the necessities of military movements farther
Sduth, were absorbed into other regiments.
" 'DeGournay's Independent Artillery' did good service at
Yorktown, and when it was decided that the place must be
evacuated a detachment of the battalion was ordered to re-
main some hours after the departure of the army and to keep
up a desultory firing so that the fact of the evacuation be not
discovered by the enemy. At i a.m. we had spiked our guns
and, turning our backs on Yorktown, started on a forced
march to catch up with the rear of the main army, which we
did close to Williamsburg. Having neither field pieces nor
muskets — only a few of the latter for mounting guard — we
could be of no service in the field, and were ordered to pre-
cede the army to Richmond and report to Gen. Lee.
"In Richmond the battalion did little else than garrison duty
in the forts around the city and took an insignificant part in
the seven days' battle, ending with Malvern Hill. After
this the battalion was ordered to proceed to Port Hudson,
La., which it was necessary to fortify. I had received my
commission as lieutenant colonel of artillery, and carried with
me four companies to Port Hudson. Here we found a field
for even more useful service than we had performed around
Richmond or at Yorktown. Save a battery of two field
pieces. Port Hudson was defenseless. We set to work build-
ing the river batteries and manning them as fast as guns
were obtainable. The Tennessee Battalion, added to my com-
mand, was of great help. Before we were ready, however, an
amusing incident happened. The armored boat Esse.x came
down the river just about daylight, and passed under full
•steam pressure, firing broadsides on her way. We returned
the fire with our two fourteen-pounder field pieces and a
thirty-pounder Parrott gun belonging to Miles's Legion. Of
course we could do little damage with such light ordnance.
The damage done by the Essex's fire was one mule killed
while peacefully grazing in a field beyond our lines. To my
amazement some time later I read Capt. Porter's report of
the 'battle!' He had found Port Hudson strongly fortified;
had received the fire of several ten-inch guns, with some
damage to the Essex ; but had finally silenced all these heavy
batteries and proceeded triumphantly to New Orleans (!).
This mendacious report was printed in the official records of
the war.
"We were left undisturbed at our work until April, 1863.
when a combined attack was made by Gen. Banks on land
and Commodore Farragut by water. Banks's attack was a
complete failure, his army being routed and retreated in great
haste. Farragut had better luck. He succeeded in passing
two of his vessels, but lost the fine frigate Mississippi, which
was run aground, set on fire, and finally floated downstream
a blazing pile, to the great danger of the remaining gunboats,
which steamed back in disorder Not a vessel would have
passed, and Farragut's fleet would have been destroyed, but
for an untoward incident which shows the importance of strict
adherence to duty and obedience of orders. A huge pile of
combustible matter had been erected on the other side of the
river and an officer put in charge with instructions to set fire
to the pile so soon as an advance of the fleet was signaled.
That side of the river shore is low, while our side consisted
of high bluffs, from which our batteries would direct a
plunging fire at the vessels thus coming into a bright light
while we remained in relative darkness. Well, on that particu-
lar night of April 14, this officer was absent from his post.
'Dreaming of no danger,' he 'had gone to take supper with a
friend some miles inland.'
"Things remained quiet for nearly a month, then orders
came to evacuate Port Hudson. Our line of land breast-
works was calculated for twenty-two thousand men, and we
had that number when ordered to evacuate. Division after
division left in proper order. There remained only four thou-
sand, two hundred men, including the heavy artillery. Gen.
Frank Gardner had started when, some distance from the
fort, information reached him that Banks had traveled up on
the other side of the Mississippi, crossed the river at Bayou
Sara, and was coming down with an army of twenty-five thou-
sand strong to invest Port Hudson, while Farragut above,
with his two boats and the remainder of the fleet below, and
augmented by the addition of four mortar boats, would shut
us up closely.
"Gen. Gardner returned in haste to undertake the difficult
task of defending, with a garrison of four thousand two hun-
dred men, a line of defense built for twenty-two thousand.
There was no possible means of extricating the little garri-
son ; no hope of winning a complete victory over a foe that
beset us by land and water. There was but one course left,
that imposed by a sense of duty, to hold on at all risks, and
so keep the enemy at bay that he could not go to reenforce
other commands. If, miraculously, for there were no avail-
able Confederate troops within reach, relief should come, well
and good; if not, like Phenix's celebrated fight when he held
his adversary by inserting his nose between the latter's teeth,
we would hold Banks to his task ; he should not let loose and
go to swell Grant's army. He had come to take Port Hud-
son so as to 'clear the river of obstacles.' Very well, we
would make this work of taking us as hard a job as he had
ever undertaken. As long as powder and shot lasted we
would resist ; after that — we would not think of the conse-
quences. Gen. Gardner invariably replied to summons of
surrender: 'As it is my duty to defend this fort, I decline to
surrender it.'
"From the "th of May to the Sth of July Port Hudson was
under constant fire; by day from heavy land batteries; by
night from the fleet. Huge bombs and 150-pound shells
came hissing overhead and fell here and there, almost
harmlessly, it is true, for the small number of killed on
our side was in ridiculous proportion to the tons and tons
of metal hurled at our heads, and particularly so at the river
batteries, where our loss was only five men. On the land lines
the enemy's field pieces and rille shots did more execution.
At a small, much-exposed battery on the line, the Tennessee
Battalion, which had been put in charge, lost heavily in of-
ficers and men.
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"But I shall not attempt in this hurried sketch to give a
succinct account of the daily happenings of this long siege.
Three general attacks and several partial ones were repulsed
with much damage to the enemy, although, with our long
line of defense and scanty garrison. Port Hudson would have
been taken if the enemy's charge could have been an unbroken
advance on all points. This never happened, owing to mis-
management on the part of the Yankee officers as much as to
the irregularity of the ground they had to march over. How-
ever that may be, our men behind the breastworks had to
move in double-quick time to the right or left, beat back the
assailants, and run to another point of attack.
"On the 4th of July Gen. Gardner issued an order recom-
mending more than usual vigilance, as Gen. Banks might
avail himself of the enthusiasm inspired by this memorable
date to make a night attack. On the same day Gen. Pember-
ton surrendered Vicksburg, having, so said his report, chosen
that day in the hope of obtaining better terms. So differently
men will judge which is the better course suggested by duty.
"But we were ignorant of the Vicksburg happenings until
the 6th, when hurrahs, the firing of guns, etc., in the Federal
camps attracted our attention. At first we thought they were
preparing to attack; but when it was ascertained that the
firing was done with blank cartridges and no commands were
forming, we were quite puzzled. 'Hello, Yank I' cried one
of our advanced pickets to the soldier on similar duty op-
posite to him. 'What are you making all this fuss for?'
'Vicksburg has surrendered,' was the exulting reply, 'and you
Rebs had better do the same.' 'You can't catch us with your
Yankee tricks.' 'No trick,' was the reply. 'Johnny, gospel
truth; the news came this morning.' At this juncture the
attention of the Confederate officer in command of the pickets
was attracted by this prolonged palaver, and he approached.
The Yankee repeated his story, which the officer immediately
reported to Gen. Gardner. The matter was too serious ^o
be accepted on the mere report of a Yankee private; but
official communications soon passed between Gens. Banks and
Gardner, and the news, with its stupendous consequences,
was accepted as true. A council of war was soon held. A
prolonged resistance was out of the question. We had so little
ammunition left that we had of late been compelled to re-
serve it until the enemy should charge on our breastworks ;
disabled guns were loaded with all sorts of projectiles to be
used for the destruction of any scaling party. For days my
men had been collecting unexploded bombshells at a point
the enemy tried mightily to undermine. A chute was made
in the crest of the parapet. When notice was given of the
approach of the miners, a stalwart artilleryman would take
up one of these bombs, poise it over his right shoulder, the
corporal standing behind would apply a light to the fuse and
give the word, 'Let go !' and the bomb, rolling down the chute,
would fall and explode right in the faces or in the midst of
the mining party. Such were the tricks of defense we had to
resort to, but there was something worse — provisions were
giving out. For a week officers' and men's rations had been
reduced to half a pound of mule meat and three ears of corn
per day. What little proper food remained was saved for
the sick and wounded, of which we had some one thousand,
five hundred.. Drugs and medicines had given out, and the
doctors were at their wits' end — a sorry plight indeed !
"The reply to the question why we stubbornly held this
post against the tremendous odds is that by doing so we neu-
tralized Banks's army of twenty-five thousand men, so that
it could not reenforce Grant at Vicksburg nor interfere with
the sending of relief to Gen. Pemberton. Besides, Farragut
had passed but two vessels, the remainder of the fleet being
held in check. The Mississippi was now free, Vicksburg hav-
ing fallen, and our resources were exhausted. We had to cut
our way through the enemy's lines or surrender. There was
no alternative. If we adopted the former, we must abandon
our sick and wounded and our artillery. Should we succeed
in cutting our way through, at great loss of life, no doubt,
where could we go ? There was not a Confederate force to
which we could rally.
"Two days were consumed in discussing the terms of sur-
render, during which our hunger increased. That evening the
fumes of coffee and fried meat were a blessing to our hungry
boys. A generous supply of provisions had been sent to us.
By these terms the enlisted men were to be set free and sent
home, the officers to preserve all rights of property, their
side arms, baggage, servants (even if these were slaves, pro-
vided they elected to follow their masters), and to be sent, at
their choice, either to New Orleans or to New York, pending
their exchange. The terms agreed upon were reported os-
tensibly 'unconditional.'
"On the 8th of July, 1863, Banks's army entered Port Hud-
son. Twenty-two hundred ragged, wan-faced Confederate
soldiers were drawn up to receive the victors, fifteen hundred
men were limping around or lying in the hospital, and five
hundred lay beneath the shell-plowed soil of the little village
on the cliff. Historians merely enter this record: 'Vicksburg
having fallen. Port Hudson surrendered,' a brief way of
disposing of a chapter in Confederate history of which every
actor showed the devotion and endurance of a hero.
"The ?ecret terms of surrender were duly observed. After
some weeks spent in the unfinished customhouse building in
New Orleans, where we were the recipients of unwearying
kindness from the people and were permitted to see our friends
and relatives, we were sent to New York as first-class pas-
sengers, with no restraint but our parole. We expected to
be sent immediately to City Point for exchange, but were
doomed to disappointment. After spending a couple of days
at Governor's Island, we were sent to Johnson's Island.
"We went by rail to Sandusky, on parole, accompanied by
a mere squad of men as protectors or introducers. And we
did need some introduction, as at every town where the train
stopped gaping crowds surrounded the cars, wondering from
what States were these men in strange uniforms, armed with
sword and revolver. You may judge of their astonishment
when told that we were Rebels. Capt. Hewitt was accom-
panied by his negro servant (Bill, I think his name was), who
created no little amusement at Johnson's Island by the dig-
nity with which he repulsed the friendly advances of the
Home Guards, our jailers.
"I have made mention of these 'post-surrender' incidents
only to show that the 'unconditional' surrender, however flat-
tering to Yankee vanity, did not affect to the extent of an
iota the privilege accorded us by the secret convention. But
once in prison, things were changed for the worse. I will
not write the history of those weary months — eighteen fell
to my share^of humiliation, sufferings, and privation spent
in various Northern prisons, but will leave that dark record
in obscurity. Let bygones be bygones; the war is over, and
if I have come in contact with petty tyrants, cowardly sneaks,
and fanatical idiots, it has been my fortune to fall in with
not a few noble-minded, generous enemies, who treated a
fallen foe with the true soldier's courtesy and kindness.
"One word more concerning my battalion. Every man
did his duty, bravely, devotedly, during that long siege, but
none more thoroughly than the members of my old company.
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now commanded by the gallant young Capt. John M. Kean.
Between these men and myself there was a bond of trust, of
affection, born by close contact during the first year of the
war and cemented by time as we shared hardships and dangers
with that mutual trust which makes the strength of a military
organization. To any of these, my old Zouave men, whom
these lines may reach I send the warm greeting of a friend.
I think of them now with pride, as in the old days I was
proud of them."
STRENGTH OF U. S. ARMY AND NAVY, 1861-65.
BY COL. G. N. SAUSSY, HAWKINSVILLE, GA.
Regarding the forces engaged during the War between the
States, permit mc to correct the figures shown in the Veteran
for September, compiled by Cassinon G. Lee. Below you will
find an official statemenit of troops contributed to the Federal
armies during the four years of fierce warfare in the early
sixties by States : Maine, 71,745 ; New Hampshire, 34,605 ;
Vermont, 35,246; Massachusetts, 152,785; Rliode Island, 24.-
711; Connecticut, 52,270; New York, 455,561; New Jersey,
79,511; Pennsylvania, 366,326; Delaware, 13,651; Maryland.
49,730; West Virginia, 30,003; District of Columbia, 16,872;
Ohio, 317,133; Indiana, 195,147; Illinois, 257,217; Michigan,
90,149; Wisconsin, 96,118; Minnesota, 25,024; Iowa, 75,860;
Missouri, 108,778; Kentucky, "8,540; Kansas, 20,067; negroes
and white Southerners, 212,083. Total, 2,859,132.
To this enormous aggregation add 128,644 enlistments in
the Federal navy in more than three hundred armed vessels
and transports, and you have a total fighting force of 2,987,776,
or lacking only 12,224 of an even 3,000,000. Against these
tremendous forces the Confederacy brought into the field but
600,000 [Other statistics say 895,654. — Ed.] soldiers, and main-
tained itself for four years against the world in the attempt
to create a nation. Close students of the details of affairs
during those four years state that more than 2,200 armed
collisions of greater or less moment took place between the
cimtending forces.
In nearly all statements that appear in print regarding com-
parisons of the forces engaged, little stress is laid upon the
Federal navy. This is not fair, for that arm of the Federal
service was a most important factor in determining final
results. It sealed the Southern ports against outside as-
sistance. By its heavy guns and ironclad vessels it outclassed
our Southern forts, demolished and forced their surrender,
and in all honesty the Federal navy should be accorded its
share in the part it took in the history of the early sixties.
I confess that I am partisan enough to "ring the changes"
when it comes to showing what part the South and Southern
men have done for this country — for instance : Grant got
the glory, Sherman gets the odium, and Thomas the reputa-
tion for generalship during the war. Thomas was a Vir-
ginian. By all odds Farragut was their greatest naval officer.
He was a Tennessean and Mr. Lincoln was a Kentuckian, so
it appears that our friends, the enemy, got their brains in the
army, the navy, and the forum from the South during that
fearful period.
A GREW SO ME EXPERIENCE AT PETERSBURG.
BY GEORGE WISE, ALEXANDRIA, VA.
While engaged in engineering at Petersburg in the summer
of 1864 the writer had charge of the work in connection with
Elliott's (or Evans's) and Grade's salients and the inter-
veiiing infantry line. One morning he was employed in di-
recting a gang of soldiers digging a pit for the erection of
a ten-inch columbiad (the largest gun ever mounted on that
line by the Confederates) near the reverse angle of the lines.
A/t the angle was a field piece which was often in action. In
its rear, reached by a zigzag alleyway, was the bombproof
for the protection of the officers and men who handled and
had charge of the gun, and where they ate and slept when not
on duty.
At the time of which I write the lieutenant of the gun was
sitting at his breakfast table in the bombproof and the
writer was standing on the outer rim of the pit mentioned, a
hundred or more feet away, when the enemy opened fire on
the field piece from their lines about two hundred yards
distant. The first shot sped true, and, entering the embrasure
of our gun, the shell struck the axletree of the piece and
exploded, sending its pieces helter-skelter.
One piece of the shell, in some mysterious way, entered the
bombproof, took off the upper part of the unfortunate lieu-
tenant's head, and threw a piece of his skull, some two by
four inches in size, with a portion of the smoking brain,
some of his hair, and a piece of the red rim of his cap, at the
writer's feet. Picking up the fragments of the poor lieu-
tenant's head and head gear, the writer called to one of his
men and sent him to ascertain the particulars of the occur-
rence. The man soon returned and narrated the above ac-
count, but failed to give the name of the gallant officer who
liad thus lost his life in the cause of the South. Several men
about the gun were wounded by the same shot.
The writer has often thought of this far-away incident, and
wondered who the unfortunate lieutenant could have been.
ONLY A PRIVATE.
BY CAPT. W. F. DAWSON, RICHMOND, VA., 1866.
Only a private! his jacket of gray
Is stained by the smoke and the dust.
As Bayard he's brave, as Rupert he's gay.
Reckless as Murat in heat of the fray;
But in God is his only trust I
Only a private ! to march and to fight.
To suffer and starve and be strong ;
With knowledge enough to know that the might
Of justice and truth, and freedom and right.
In the end must crush out the wrong.
Only a private! no ribbon or star
Shall gild with false glory his name !
No honors for him in braid or in bar.
His Legion of Honor is only a scar.
And his wounds are his roll of fame!
Only a private ! one more here slain
On the field lies silent and chill !
And in the far South a wife prays in vain
One clasp of the hand she may ne'er dasp again.
One kiss from the lips that are still.
Only a private ! there let him sleep !
He will need nor tablet nor stone ;
For the mosses and vines o'er his grave will creep.
And at night the stars through the clouds will peep.
And watch him who lies there alone.
Only a martyr! who fought and who fell
Unknown and unmarked in the strife!
But still as he lies in his lonely cell
Angel and seraph the legend shall tell —
Such a death is eternal life!
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CONFEDERATE HOME IS ACSTIN.
Col. Duke Goodman, Inspector General, was directed on
November 15, 1904, by Maj. Gen. K. M. Van Zandt, com-
manding Texas Division, U. C. V., to visit the Soldiers'
Home at Austin and report faithfully its condition, and he
states :
"General: Complying with your direction. I. without any
previous notification, entered upon a thorough inspection of
the Confederate Home at Austin, its grounds, barracks, hos-
pital, administration, and other buildings, together with its
business management and all conditions appertaining thereto.
"Upon my appearance at the Home I was met by a guard
on duty at the Administration Building, and was guided by
him through the grotunds of the Home. .\t my request. I was
first conducted by the guard through the dining room, which
has a capacity for seating about three hundred, men. This
room is well lighted and airy, and provided with hatracks
and every convenience necessary to comfort. The floors,
walls, and windows were clean, and all the ' tables were
scrupulously so. Through the serving rooms- I passed into
the large kitchen, which has recently been floored with cement,
the walls and ceiling being freshly plastered and ceiled. An
extra large John Van range has been only recently installed;
and all utensils and furnishings I found to be clean and in
perfect order. In the las-t year the kitchen has been greatly
enlarged, and there has been constructed in the basement
a capacious cold storage for the preservation of fresh meats
and perishables. In the kitchen the cooks were preparing
the food, which was of the very best quality and abundant.
I particularly noticed the bread as being superior to any I
had seen for quite a while. The matron and quartermaster
presided in the dining room, and perfect order was maintained.
"The new hospital I found to be, although crowded with the
lame, the halt, the blind, and those afflicted with all manner
of ill to which the aged veteran is a certain heir, as near as
I could judge, in perfect condition. The best methods of
sanitation seem to be observed and the tenderest and most
skillful care was being given those who are beyond any hope
of ever being able again to care for themselves.
"I went 'the rounds' with the inspecting officers on the oc-
casion of their regular Saturday semimonthly inspection of
the barracks. On these occasions the veterans are all re-
quired to be in their several quarters, in default of which, by
the rules of the Home, tobacco rations are suspended, and
the inspection proved satisfactory in every way. My inspec-
tion led me through the large quartermaster and commissary
storerooms, where I found carefully arranged and stored a
vast accumulation of goods and provisions provided under
contract with the Purchasing Agent for use during the whole
of this fiscal year — the wisdom of which I most seriously
question. Many articles must deteriorate, and I would judge
that quarterly supplies would be better and more economical.
"By the gracious kindness of the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, the room in the Administration Building previously
used for a chapel has been converted into a delightful library
and club room. This room is most tastefully furnished and
contains a large number of volumes of well-selected literature.
The best of the magazines and newspapers are found on the
tables, and the veteran is enabled every day to enjoy a literary
feast. The post office, very handsomely arranged, is in this
room, where the veteran postmaster daily distributes tidings
from the friends of the old soldiers.
"I accepted the compliment of a lunch with the Superin-
tendent and the members of his official family. The board
w-as provided with food of precisely similar character as that
1 had seen on the tables of the main dining room and prepared
by the same cooks. I examined the books of the Home, which
seem to be carefully and accurately kept. The accounts are
all examined and approved by the Board of Managers every
month and audited by the State Comptroller. I was par-
ticularly impressed with the records kept by the Master of
Rolls, himself a veteran inmate. A daily report, as that of
a regimental adjutant, is prepared for the Superintendent, and
this is consolidated at the end of each month for examination
by the Board. From the records of the Master of Rolls
every inmate is accounted for every day in the year and the
number of the room he occupies, or if he is on furlough or
in the hospital.
"I conversed freely with a great number of the old men.
A large majority of them, who offer in their own personality
and present contentment the best evidence of having been
good soldiers, I was pleased to find fully appreciate this great
work of beneficence undertaken by the State, and express
fully their gratitude and satisfaction. A few complaints
come from those who would doubtless be dissatisfied under
any conditions of restraint by which they could be surrounded.
A few thought that white shirts should be provided, and
others complained that they had great difficulty in securing
needed clothing. 'ihe Superintendent tells me the latter
is in many cases a just co^nplaint, and that he has had almost
unsurmountable difficulties in having contracts for the old
men executed. All the veterans with whom I was thrown in
contact were neatly and warmly clad, and several remarked
very frankly to me that if the clothing distributed from year
to year had been properly cared for and preserved by re-
cipients they would be well supplied. Unfortunately there
have been inmates at the Home who, in violation of the rules,
dispose of their clothing : and doubtless some of them are
loudest in their complaints.
"It is hardly my province in this repoirt to advise with
reference to the betterment of the Home; but I will be par-
doned if I suggest that the roads and walks exist only in name,
and the fences and gates are altogether unworthy of the
State. I suggest that the Legislative Committee urge this
ntatter for immediate consideration, and that an emergency
appropriation sufficient to do the work be asked of the Legis-
lature. In this connection I would also urge that the un-
finished ward in the hospital be completed without delay and
furnished for much-needed use. A furnace should be pro-
vided to heat the large dining room and administration
building. This is a great necessity, and would enable the
management to get rid of the cumbersome and uncleanly
stoves and provide additional accommodations in the dining
room. It gives me great pleasure to report that the Super-
intendent and officers of the Home appear to have used all
care and energy in conserving the best interests of the insti-
tution. The rules of government I have carefully examined
and believe them to be fair and absolutely necessary for a
proper administration, and I am warranted in reporting that
they have been enforced in a spirit of kindness and comrade-
ship. Nothing possible seems to have been left undone to
make the institution a real and happy home for our old com-
rades who in their declining years have been driven to seek
its refuge."
The foregoing is almost a literal copy of Col. Goodman's
report to Gen. Van Zandt, and it is commended for the
double purpose of information to the great people of Texas
and as suggestive to comrades in other States. The exami-
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nation and report were required by tlie Cnniniander of the
Texas Division, U. C. V., at his own expense, that the law-
makers be supplied with the true condition of affairs, and that
comrades, relatives, and friends of these noble but unfortu-
nate men learn their true conditions. As stated, there are
complaints in this Home, as there are in every place of the
kind in the land, and Gen. Van Zandt was pleased to make
this investigation at the suggestion of the Superiittendent.
nf this gallant old regiment y<.l living are: Lieut. Col. Robert
.A. McCnlloch, a kinsman of Col. Robert; .Maj. P. A. Savery.
nf Tupelo, Miss. ; Capt. Gus Zallinger, of Otterville, Mo. :
Lieut. George ^L Buchanan, of Holly Springs, Miss.; Capt.
Ed Aldrich, of Collierville, Tenn. ; and Lieut. Zack Jennings,
nf Water Vallev, Miss.
COL. ROBT. M'CVLLOCH, VENERABLE I'ETERAN.
Col. McCulloch was one of the first sons of Missouri to
respond to the call of Gen. Sterling Price, in 1861, for troops
to defend the State from Federal invasion. He reported
promptly with a full company at Jefferson City, and from
there followed the fortunes of Gen. Price's command through
the Missouri campaign of 1861.
Early in 1862 he raised and organized the Second Missouri
Cavalry, was made colonel of (the regiment, and after the bat-
tle of Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn, was transferred with Price's
troop east of the Mississippi and joined Gen. Bragg's ,xnny
at Corinlh. After the battle of Corinth Col. McCnlloch and
his regiment were assigned to Gen. Forrest, with wdiom be
served until the close of the war, winning the rank nf briga-
dier general.
Col. McCulloch, alth'iugh a man of strong personality and
a strict disciplinarian, was as yentlc and tender as .-i woman.
COL. ROBERT M CUI.I.OCH.
He knew personally every man in his regiment, and when in
camp made their comfort his first cnnsidcralion ; but he would
lead them with fierce and reckless daring into the very thick-
est of the fray. He was badly wounded twice, and much of
the time confined to his ambulance while on the march ; but
he never gave up the active command of his brigade. The
Second Missouri Cavalry was composed almost entirely of
young men and boys of the best families in the State. It is
believed that a majority of them were killed or wounded and
their bones bleached on the fields of battle fnvigbt nver by
Forrest in West Tennessee, Mississippi, and .Mabama.
Col. McCulloch is yet living at his old home in Boonville,
Mo., at the ripe old age of eighty-four. The other officeil
DARING DEED OF IKE DAVENPORT.
BY E. P. ANDERSON, WAXAH.^CHIE, TEX.
In 1863 a freckle-faced boy about sixteen years of age,
finely mounted and followed by a tw'o-thousand-dollar negro
on another fine horse, joined Wirt Adams's Cavalry Regiment
in Mississippi. That lx)y was a reckless "dare-devil." He is
now: a quiet minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
and his name is 1. S. Davenport, a Christian gentleman with
a splendid wife and children worthy of their ancestry (ex-
cepting his wild career). In 1864 be joined Harvey's scouts,
and operated around Natchez, Miss.
Ike always rode a good horse, and needed one in his busi-
ness. On one occasion he wanted a remount, and, as the
Yankees had depleted Mississippi, he concluded he would
retaliate. One pleasant day, dressed as a guileless boy from
the country, he and two of his young lady friends drove into
Natchez. The young ladies went shopping and he went to
get a horse. After the ladies finished shopping they drove
home, and were met just outside of the Yankee lines by some
friends. Ike picked out a magnificent bay horse, fifteen and
a half hands high, with saddle, pistols, and outfit complete,
tied at headquarters, that belonged to a captain in a Yankee
regiment. Having procured an official-looking envelope so
as to look like a courier, he mounted the horse and rode oft
as if on business for the L'niled States government. When
out of sight of headquarters, be struck a lope, and, upon reach-
ing the pickets, be galloped by as if to overtake some one
ahead, and they did not suspect him. The vedettes were not
quickly suspicious ; but when interrogated and he said he
had a package for a carriage ahead, they started to investi-
gate, when he went like a shot out of a gun, and was one
hundred yards away before they fired. He met some of our
scouts just outside of the Yankee lines. The horse did good
service for the South. The captain who formerly owned the
horse sent word to Davenport that he carried a good rope
tied to his saddle to hang him with when he caught him, to
which Davenport replied that he would not waste a good
rope on him, but would hang him with a grapevine if he
ever caught bim.
In connection witJi the foregoing Comrade Anderson writes:
"As the Veteran circulates among the old United States sol-
diers, I will ask you to assist me in locating one of them, who
was a brave man and a gentleman. On July 3, before Vicks-
burg surrendered, I was sent to the mouth of the Yallabusha
River (where it empties into the Yazoo) to capture a Yankee
gunboat that w^as reported to be there; but it had left, so on
our way back to the army, about twenty miles off in the
bills, I stopped at a plantation on the Yazoo to get breakfast
.nid have our horses fed. While I was waiting and taking a
nap a negro came over from an adjoining plantation and re-
ported the 'yard full of Yankees.' I mounted and went over
to investigate, and found a squadron of Yankee cavalry fora-
ging and expecting no trouble, as they were several miles
wilhin their lines. We captured a good number of them, and
I took charge of Lieut. Chase, a nephew of Gov. Chase, of
Ohio, a fine fellow about twenty-one or twentj'-two years old.
He was a brave man, and I would like to hear of him."
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"They are passing away from us, passing away ;
The weights they have lifted, the burdens tliey've borne,
They have all beeti heavy, and shall we mourn
That they are all passing away?"
It is now forty years since the close of the War between
the States. Many who participated in that great struggle
were young and vigorous but are now old and feeble. They
are fast passing away. In a few more years there will be
no more reunions aad none to answer roll call. These noble
old heroes deserve to live in the memory of every lover of
liberty. They fought in defense of constitutional government,
and not one of them should be allowed to pass away without
having his name placed on the record of honor.
Deaths in Camp Ward, Pensacola, Fla.
The membership of Ward Camp, No. lo, at Pensacola,
Fla., has been sadly diminished during 1904 by the heavy hand
of death, five members having been summoned by the last
roll. The first of these was Walter Tate, who died in April.
He was a graduate of the University of Virginia, and was
true to the teachings of the Mother State, casting his lot
with his people in repelling invasion. After the war he went
to Florida, and was one of the first to join Camp Ward, and
continued a faithful member to the end.
Thomas R. McCullough died on the 13th of September.
Early in the war he enlisted in Gen. Clanton's Command of
Cavalry, and his empty sleeve attested his courageous spirit.
He went to Florida at the close of the war, and became one
of the most prominent citizens of Pensacola. He was county
judge at the time of his death, having held that position for
twelve years.
Andrew J. Jones died September 25. He went from Mis-
sissippi to Florida about five years ago, and had been a faith-
ful and zealous member of the Camp.
Antonio Ferrara died October 10. He was a native of Italy.
He joined the Twenty-First Alabama Regiment of Infantry,
Capt. Festorozzi's company, and was a faithful Confederate
soldier to the end. He became a resident of Pensacola about
1880, and at the organization of Camp Ward cast his lot
with his comrades.
Augustus Stuckey died October 18. He enlisted in the
Fifteenth Confederate Cavalry, and was made first sergeant
of his company. In all positions of bis life he was noted for
his faithfulness to duty.
Dead of N. B. Forrest Camp, Chattanooga.
Extracts from report read by John W. Faxon, Historian,
at the Memorial Services Sunday, October 30, 1904:
"We open another page to-day in our Camp's death history,
upon which we inscribe the names and record of those with
whom our common cause is connected by an inseparable as-
sociation. What a forceful reminder these memorial services
are to the livii.g, and how clearly do they warn us to 'put not
oflE the safety of our souls I'
"We add to our record the names of eight of our comrades
'who have died to the world,' but we trust to 'begin in heaven
to live with Christ.'
"John Augustus Smith.— Comnde Smith was born in Jack-
son County, Ala., in March, 1838. He enlisted in Company
B, Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, in 1861, was wounded at Pu-
laski, Tenn., captured at Brentwood in 1863, and escaped. He
was paroled at Raleigh, N. C, at the close of the war. He
joined N. B. Forrest Camp, No. 4, in February, 1898. His
name should have been placed on our list of last year's dead,
as he died May 8, 1903. He was buried at White Oak Ceme-
tery.
"Milton Russell. — Comrade Russell was born in Camden
County, Ga., May 13, 1837. He enlisted in the Confederate
army September 19, 1861, at Dalton, Ga. ; and served on the
coast of Georgia, near Savannah, until June, 1862, when he
joined T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson at Stanton,' Va., and par-
ticipated in the fights around Richmond. He was mustered
into service as second lieutenant, and promoted to captain
October 7, 1862. He remained with Gen. Jackson's old corps
until wounded, which resulted in the loss of an arm; and was
captured at Winchester September 19, 1864, from which place
he was sent to prison in Baltimore, where he was held a
prisoner until after the surrender. He was elected a member
of N. B. Forrest Camp July 5, 1886, and Commander of the
Camp in December, 1902. He died at his home, in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn., December 4, 1903, and is buried at Forest
Hill Cemetery.
"F. M. Hatfield.— Comra.de Hatfield was born December 27,
1837, in Bledsoe County, Tenn. ; enlisted near McMinnville,
Tenn., September 6, 1861, as second corporal, Company K,
Fifth Tennessee Regiment. He was paroled at Valley Head,
Ala., in 1865. His rank at the close of the war was second
lieutenant. He was elected a member of N. B. Forrest Camp
in March, 1899. He died February 14, 1904, and was buried
at Daisy, Tenn.
[Comrade E. M. Dodson is next mentioned. See sketch in
Veteran, Last Roll, August issue.]
"IV. C. HaAy. — Comrade Hafiy was born at Athens, Tenn.,
in 1848. He enlisted in the Confederate service in 1862 in
Company C, Thomas's Legion, Walker's Brigade; was elected
a member of N. B. Forrest Camp in October, 1897; ^"d died
in Grady Hospital, Atlanta, Ga., May 9, 1904.
"Jonathan W. Ownby. — Comrade Ownby was bom in Lump-
kin County, Ga., June 29, 1824 ; enlisted in the Confederate
service April, 1864, in Company C, First Georgia State
Troops, Stovall's Brigade. He was paroled at the surrender,
in 1865. He was elected a member of N. B. Forrest Camp in
April, 1899; and died June 17, 1904. He was buried at Grays-
ville, Ga.
"John G. Beasley. — Comrade Beasley was born at Spottsyl-
vania C. H., Va., May 21, 1821. He was a soldier in
the War between the States and Mexico. Although forty
years of age, he enlisted in the Confederate army at Pen-
field, Green County, Ga., in Company C, Third Georgia Regi-
ment, Army of Northern Virginia, in 1861 as a private. He
was wounded in the battle of Seven Pines, and was paroled
at the close of the war at Appomattox C. H., Va., April
9, 1865, as major. In 1865 he settled at Gordon Springs, the
boyhood home of Gen. John B. Gordon, and he and Gen.
Gordon were warm personal friends. After his wife's death,
in 1903, he came to Chattanooga to live with his daughter,
Mrs. W. C. Bice. He was elected a member of N. B. Forrest
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Camp June 7, 1904, He died September 23, 1904; and was
buried at Dalton, Ga."
Comrade Faxon concludes his tribute as follows :
"On this mournful occasion we should turn backward our
thoughts and reflect that amid the ensanguined struggle of a
terrible war, where death's merciless reaper always cleft its
widened swath, our Maker spared the old soldiers present
to-day for some wise purpose. Was it not that we could pre-
pare for a future life which is inevitable ? Looking before us
at these tottering frames, almost gazing into their own graves,
we feel that we are
Only waiting till the shadows
Are a little longer grown,
Only waiting till the glimmer
Of the day's last beam is flown;'
Almost looking in death's valley
From our sightless-grc«ving eyes.
Where Christ, our faithful Shepherd.
Waits to lead us to the skies."
Tribute of Mrs. Fred A. Olds.
The Johnston Pettigrew Chapter of U. D. C, of Raleigh, N.
C., through Mrs. Helen DcBerviere Wills, sends the following
tribute to this noble Christian woman :
"In the death of our beloved and honored President, Mrs.
F. A. Olds, the U. D. C. of North Carolina have met with a
grievous loss. Besides her peculiar fitness for the duties of
a presiding officer, she had so endeared herself to the Daugh-
ters throughout the State that each one feels it a personal be-
reavement. This was evidenced most forcibly during the me-
morial services held in hnnor of Mrs. Olds by the U. D. C.
MRS. FRED A. OLDS.
Convention in Fayetteville recently. One after another rose
and testified to the loving remembrance in which she is held
and to the noble work in which she had long been both a leader
and fellow-worker.
"The services on this occasion were solemn and beautiful.
The whole convention joined in singing her favorite hymns,
and many with faltering voices told of her charity, her
zealous care for the old and disabled veterans, of her energy
in the work of the King's Daughters, and her unselfish devo-
tion to duty wherever and whenever it called her.
"She was one of the originators and managers of the As-
sociated Charities and of the Day Nursery of this city, and
for a long time one of the managers of the Ladies' Hospital Aid
Society. She was President of St. Luke's Home for Old
Women, and largely concerned in the fitting up of the Con-
federate Soldiers' Home here. The slow, but certain, growth
of the idea of a State Reformatory for youthful criminals has
resulted from her constant zeal in its behalf. We feel sure
of the sympathy of the U. D. C. and of the Veterans in all
parts of the South, where our late beloved President was
known and esteemed.
"The memory of her faithful service will ever be gratefully
cherished in the hearts of all with whom she was associated in
Christian and patriotic work."
Elisha Whittle.
Elisha Whittle was born in Richland County, Ga., in 1846,
and died June i, 1904, at Graceville, Fla. He was a member
of Company G, Sixty-Third Alabama Infantry, and was ser-
geant major of Frank Phillips Camp, U. C. V., when he died.
Wilson Watford was born in South Carolina in 1826, and
died at Graceville, Fla., in June, 1903. He was also a member
of Frank Phillips Camp, and during the war served as a
member of Company G, Eleventh Florida Infantry.
Gen. Jesse Johnson Finley.
After a life full of years and honors. Gen. J. J. Finley died
at the residence of his son, in Lake City. Fla. He was bom
in Wilson County, Tenn., in 1812. the son of Obadiah Gaines
and Mary Lewis Finley. He was educated at Lebanon, and
early in life began the study of law ; but his studies were in-
terrupted by the Seminole War, in which he served as captain,
having recruited a cavalry company. He was admitted to
the bar in 1838, and two years later removed to Arkansas and
became a member of the State Senate in 1841. He after-
wards became -a citizen of Memphis. Tenn., of which city
he was Mayor in 1845. From there he removed to Florida
the following year, in which State he was prominent and
active in political life. Settling in Marianna, he became a
member of the State Senate in 1850; in 1852 he was a presi-
dential elector on the Whig ticket, and the year following
was appointed judge of the local circuit. During the War
between the States he also served as judge, but resigned in
1862 to enter the ranks. He was speedily promoted to cap-
tain ; and on April 14, 1862. became colonel of the Sixth
Florida. He served in East Tennessee under Gen. Kirby
Smith, in Davis's Brigade, Heth's Division, where he ex-
hibited that he was a natural leader of men. He was soon
made a brigadier general, and assigned to command of the
Florida Infantry in the Army of Tennessee, Bate's Division,
Hardee's Corps. He was in command of this brigade at the
battle of Missionary Ridge, where he won signal distinction.
At tlie battle of Resaca Gen. Finley was severely wounded,
and again at Jonesboro, where he narrowly escaped capture.
Upon the conclusion of hostilities GerL Finley settled in
Lake City, removing to Jacksonville in 1875. In that year he
was elected to Congress, and upon the expiration of his
term was reelected. His seat for that term, however,
was contested, and given to his opponent. In 1887 Gov.
Perry appointed him to fill an unexpired term in the United
States Senate. In tlie same year he was made judge of the
Fifth Judicial Circuit, retiring after six years of service
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because of the infirmities of old age. Gen. Finley was twice
married. Two children survive him. Charles A. Finley and
Mrs. M. F. Griffiths.
Stephen S. Dalg.\rn.
During the war a youth, so small, so young, and so pale as
to excite compassion, joined the Confederate Army of North-
ern Virginia — Company D. Second Virginia Infantry. He
seemed quite unequal to marching under the burden of
cartridge belt, haversack, knapsack, blanket, and gun. With
manly fortitude and heroic purpose, however, he marched in
Jackson's Fool Cavalry through its most arduous campaigns,
refusing all help and favor; and fought in its battles with a
soldierly courage worthy of men of sterner physique. He
suffered all the privations of his command without murmuring,
and bore all its hardships with noble fortitude to the end
of the war.
After the war closed he settled in Frederick City, Md., as
merchant. Later he moved to Charlestown, W. Va., and
opened and successfully conducted a mercantile store. He
married Miss Eliza Shugert, became a meniber and a most
valued deacon in the Presbyterian Church, a director in the
Bank of Charlestown and in the John Stephenson Female
Seminary, besides occupying many important positions in the
business community. He was an upright and exemplary citizen
of public spirit, and enjoyed the respect and confidence of all
good people. Fortunately for him, he had not deferred to
a dying bed his reconciliation to his God and Saviour, for
his end came most unexpectedly and suddenly on Sunday,
August 14, 1904.
Capt. B. F. McClanahan.
Dr. A. N. Perkins writes from Beaumont, Tex. : "Capt. B.
F. McClanahan died at Sabine Pass in September after a
short illness. He was one of the first to volunteer in
1861, joining Gen. Lane's regiment at Dallas, and was
the color bearer of that regiment in the celebrated charge
which resulted in the death of the Federal Gen. Lyon.
Capt. McClanahan was under Gen. Bragg at the battle of
Murfreesboro and many other engagements, and was a brave
and gallant soldier, believing to the day of his death that
he fought in a just and holy cause. He was paroled at
Meridian, Miss. During Cleveland's administration he re-
ceived the appointment as customhouse officer at Sabine Pass,
serving four years. Capt. McClanahan was a newspaper man,
and published the Sabine Times for several years. He is
survived by a wife, daughter, and several grandchildren."
Mrs. R. -W. Crabb. Uniontown, Ky.
Mrs. Bettie E. Crabb, wife of Maj. R. W. Crabb, of Union-
town, Ky., died November 27 after a married life of nearly
thirty years. Two sons and a daughter are left with the
devoted husband to mourn the loss of this Christian wife
and mother. She was a friend to the Confederate soldiers.
and will be sadly missed.
Capt. John Lytle Carney.
Capt. John L. Carney died in Clarksville, Term., October
28, 1904. He was born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., February 6,
1837 ; and was educated at Union University there. He loved
his home and his people; their cause was his, and when war
was declared he took up arms in defense of the South, and
served to the end, surrendering with Forrest at Gainesville,
Ala. He assisted in raising a company, of which he was made
first lieutenant ; and this company was D, of Douglas's Bat-
talion, which, with Holman's Battalion, formed tile Eleventh
Tennessee Regiment of Cavalry, part of Forrest's old bri-
gade. Lieut. Carney was appointed quartermaster of the regi-
ment in 1864, and while serving in that capacity still con-
tinued with his company, never missing a battle. When Capt.
John Lytle took charge of the private scouts Lieut. Carney
CAPT. J. L. CARNEY.
became captain, and commanded the company in the rest of
the battles, yet continuing to serve as quartermaster.
Brave and true, gentle yet firm, he was loved and honored
liy his comrades, for the ragged boys in gray had no hard-
ships which he did not share. A few years after the war he
removed from Murfreesboro to Lake Weir, Fla., which was
his home at his death. His wife, who was Miss Amanda
Turner, of Rutherford County, Tenn., survives him with five
children. He was a Christian, noted for his charity and gen-
erosity, and especially tender toward the poor and unfortu-
nate. Death for him had no terror, and, resting upon the love
and mercy of God, he felt,
"Though from out our bound of time and place
The flood may hear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
.When I have crossed the bar.''
Lieut. James L. Livingston.
Comrade Livingston was born in Orangeburg District, S. C,
February 22, 1831, and moved with his parents to Haywood
County, Tenn., in 1847, near Lebanon Church, which was his
home until his death, September 30, 1904. On December 12,
i860, he was married to Miss Ann W. Carlton, who, with a
large family of children and grandchildren, survives him.
On April 12, 1862, at the call of his country and with the
Confederate l/eteraij.
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blessing and tears of his devoted young wife, he entered the
Confederate army as a member of the Seventh Tennessee
Cavalry. He was elected sergeant and later lieutenant of the
company, serving gallantly under Forrest until the surrender,
at Gainesville, Ala., May lo, 1865.
Lieut. Livingston was an active member of Hiram S. Brad-
ford Bivouac until his death, and in the resolutions passed
expressive of their sorrow and esteem they say : "Those who
were never within the circle of his influence and never felt
the blessings of his presence can realize only in an imperfect
degree the loss we liave sustained in the death of Comrade
Livingston. This Bivouac has lost the active service and
wise counsel of a devoted and able comrade, whose life as a
soldier, a citizen, and a Christian gentleman is a worthy ex-
ample to the living ; whose deatli was a victory and whose
memory is a benediction."
Mrs. C. K. Vertner.
Resolutions were adopted by the Luray Chapter upon the
death of Mrs. C. K. Vertner, President of the Chapter, setting
forth the loss to "the Chapter in her wise counsel, fidelity,
zeal, and devotion to the lost Confederacy. Her example is
commended by the Chapter, while its members resolve to be
more faithful and zealous to promote the work of the Chapter,
in which she took such a deep interest. Heartfelt sympathy
was expressed for her family in their sore bereavement. Mrs.
S .\. Walton and Miss Lena Storer coonposod the committee.
W. R. DORAN.
William Russell Doran was bora in Jackson County, Ala.,
in 1832; and died at his home, in San Saba, Tex., in October
of 1904. He went with his father's family to Texas in 1850,
and when the w^ar broke out he entered the Confederate
service under Capt. Bates, in Ector's Brigade, as a member
of Company 1. Fifteenth Texas Cavalry. His health failed
after a year's service, and ho returned home.
Maj. N. r. N. ROUINSON.
Maj. N. T. N. Robinson, of New Orleans, died at the
Providence Hospital, Washington, D. C. December 9, 1904.
He had been in ill health for some time, and for a month
was at Providence Hospital.
Maj. Robinson was educated at private schools in New
(.)rleans and in the LIniversity of Virginia. At the age of
twenty-three he was cashier of the Citizens' Bank of New Or-
leans, which position he gave up to enter the Confederate
army with the Crescent Rifles, which was the first company
to leave Louisiana. Later he was placed in command of a
company of artillery. He served in Tennessee under Gen.
Johnston, having command of the Louisiana mounted bat-
tery, was promoted to major, and, at the close of the war,
was acting assistant adjutant of the Department of East
Louisiana. In the first Cleveland administration he was at-
torney for the Department of Justice, and in the second Cleve-
land administration was Assistant Solicitor of the Treasury.
Maj. Robinson married the daughter of Gen. James N.
Betlume, of Georgia, who survives him with one son, Nor-
borne Robinson, Jr., of Washington, D. C.
tion, Tenn.. and was engaged in the marble business when
the War between the States began. He espoused the Southern
side, and raised a company of cavalry. Shortly afterwards
he was transferred to the artillery service with the rank of
lieutenant and later as captain. He was in the siege of Vicks-
burg and commanded an important battery. He was among
the prisoners captured and immured in a Northern prison
until the close of the war.
Capt. Whitehead was recently appointed by Gov. Frazier,
of Tennessee, one of the commissioners to locate certain his-
toric spots connected with the siege of Vicksburg. He was a
member of John Ingram Bivouac and of the Confederate
Veterans, Company C. At the time of his death he was
working on a memorial tablet of the deceased members of the
Bivouac, which was a gift from him and a labor of love to
bis deceased comrades. His name has been carved upon it
with others who have gone before and placed in the Bivouac
rooms, but his place can never be filled. He was senior
warden of the Episcopal Church and a stanch, consistent
member, a citizen respected and esteemed by all who knew
him. Surviving Capt. Whitehead arc his wife and four
children, two sons and two daughters.
Cai't. E. T. Kindred.
Capt. E. T. Kindred died at his home, in Ronoake, Va.,
December i, 1904, aged sixty-seven years. When the call to
arms was sounded in l86t he was living in Gonzales, Tex.,
and was one of the first to volunteer. He commanded Com-
pany F, Fourth Texas Regimciit, Hood's old brigade. He
surrendered at Appomattox. After the war Capt. Kindred re-
turned to his Texas hoanc, but in 1868 he removed to Virgin-
ia, where he had married, in 1864, Mary T. Tinsley, daughter
of B. T. Tinsley, of Roanoke County. As one of the Army of
Northern X'irginia. Capt. Kindred was known among the
best. His fu!ieral was conducted by the William Watts and
I laiip-Dcycre Cami>s.
S n. Rich.
Stephen D. Rich, a native of Perry County, Miss., was born
July 25, 1837, and died August 25, 1904. During the War be-
tween the States he served in Company B, Ninth Mississippi
Cavalry. He was an upright citizen and a useful man in his
conmumity and Church. He spent all his life in Perry
County. The Hattiesburg Camp, No. 21, passed resolutions
to cherish his memory and to commend liis example to the
younger men of the county.
B. K. McQuowN.
William Wood, of Glasgow, Ky., reports the death of B.
K. McQuown, a member 01 Joseph H. Lewis Camp, and who
served in Company C, Second Kentucky Cavalry, under Mor-
gan. Comrade McQuown was a good and faithful soldier,
and after the war was equally faithful in his duties as a citizen
and Christian. The burial was by comrades of the Camp.
Capt. J. T. Whitehead.
James Thomas Whitehead entered rest in his home, Jack-
son, Tenn., March 2, 1904. He was born in Boston, Lincoln-
shire, England, in 1840. In youth he moved to Canada with
his parents. Later he came South, and settled at Grand Junc-
Wipow OF Gen. D. H. Hill.
Mrs. Isabella Morrison Hill, widow of Lieut. Gen. D. H.
Hill, died at her home, in Raleigh, N. C, December 12, 1904,
in her eightieth year. Despite her advanced age. Mrs. Hill
was a woman of remarkable intelloct and strength of charac-
ter, and kept alive to the last a widespread love and interest
for her friends. Mrs. Hill was the highest type of Southern
womanhood. Educated, cultured, an exemplary Christian,
devoted to her Church and to every good cause, she lived in
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Qoi>federate l/eterai?.
an atmosphere far removed from everything that was not
uplifting and elevating. Mrs. Hill was a worthy descendant
from two of the most distinguished families of the Old North
State. She was the daughter of Rev. Robert Hall Morrison,
the first President of Davidson College and a noted Presby-
terian minister, whose wife was Miss Mary Graham, a daugh-
ter of Joseph Graham, of revolutionary fame.
Mrs. Hill is survived by three sons. Prof. D. H. Hill, of
the Agricultural and Mechanical College. Raleigh, N. C. ;
Chief Justice Joseph M. Hill, of the Supreme Court of Arkan-
sas ; Dr. Randolph W. Hill, of Los Angeles, Cal. ; and two
daughters, Mrs. Eugenia Arnold, of West Virginia, and Miss
Nannie Hill, of Florida. She is survived by two brothers,
Mr. Joseph G. Morrison, of Lincoln County, N. C, and Dr.
R. H. Morrison, of Shelby, N. C. ; and two sisters, Mrs. T.
J. (Stonewall) Jackson and Mrs. John E. Brown, of Char-
lotte, N. C.
The exemplary life of Mrs. Hill and the fame of her dis-
tinguished husband in the Confederate army are the richest
legacies that could have been left to their children.
R. W. Major.
R. W. Major was born in Trigg County, Ky., January 13,
1842. He entered the Confederate army in August, 1861, in
Company G, Fourth Kentucky Infantry, as second sergeant.
He was promoted second lieutenant, afterwards to first, and
at the close of the war was in command of the company. He
participated with his company in the battles of Shiloh, Vicks-
burg, Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Missionary
Ridge, Rocky Face Gap, and Resaca. In the latter he was
wounded, but in forty days was back with his company again,
and participated in the battles around Atlanta. He was
wounded again at Peachtree Creek, and twice more at Jones-
boro, where he was captured; but he succeeded in making his
escape about twenty days later, and returned to his regiment,
which was soon afterwards mounted and sent to South Caro-
lina, where they participated in a number of skirmishes. The
men were paroled at Washington, Ga., May 6, 1865.
Mr. Major was married October 16, 1873, to Miss Emma
Chappell. Four sons and two daughters blessed this union.
Comrade Major died on the 29th of October, 1891 ; and
some years after his death the following poem, written by
him, was found in the inside pocket of his old, faded army
jacket:
To My Old Gray Jacket.
You're like your master, worn and old,
And scarred with wounds, my suit of gray.
I'll smooth you free of crease and fold
And lay you tenderly away.
But ere I hide you from my sight.
Forgetting all that's lost and gone,
Let me recall the visions bright
I saw when first I drew you on.
I saw a nation spring to breath,
I saw a people proud and grand
Do battle to the very death
For freedom and their native land.
I saw a cause pure of all harm,
Thrice noble and without one stain ;
I'd given for it my good right arm,
And give it o'er and o'er again.
I saw across a stormy sky
The bow of glorious promise gleam,
And, as its splendor blazed on high.
Fade like the fancies of a dream.
Then darkness, such as might be felt.
Came down upon our hapless land;
And yet I knew our woe was dealt
In wisdom by a Father's hand. ■
Gray jacket, you fill my heart with tears.
Though to my eyes they may not spring,
Recallmg our four glorious years.
And all the memories they bring
Our fight is lost, our hopes are fled.
The land we love sits sore bereft,
Lamenting for her mighty dead.
You are the only vestige left.
Old jacket, once more you will be worn
When I am in my coffin laid.
Upon the resurrection mom
I wish to stand in you arrayed.
R. W. MAJOR.
George W. Hatfield.
Geo. W. Hatfield was born in Sumter County, Ala., Oc-
tober, 1837 ; and died July 3, 1904. He was an active mem-
ber of Camp Sterling Price, U. C. V., and the following is
taken from the resolutions of respect passed by the Camp:
"When the tocsin of war sounded, he immediately answered
his country's call and took up arms in her defense. He en-
listed in Company C, Fifth Alabama, and went to Virginia,
where he nobly and gallantly behaved on many battlefields,
as members of his Camp can attest. He entered the war as
a private and returned a captain. We knew him as a soldier
and as a private citizen, and in both war and peace he proved
himself a man. While we mourn his loss, we shall ever cher-
ish in memory's sacred shrine our departed comrade. He was
a consistent member of the Baptist Church."
J. M. Fleeman, of Alton Hill, Tenn., died on the 29th of
October, aged about seventy-two years. He served during
the war in Company E, Second Tennessee Cavalry.
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41
CHICKAMAUGA.
BY T. C. HARBAUGH.
It is night at Chickamauga. In the
woods the armies he
Waiting for the deadly grapple 'neath
the soft autumnal sky.
Not a drumbeat breaks the silence, not
a bugle stirs the lines
Wrapped in sweet and dreamless slum-
. ber in the camps among the pines ;
But the breezes of September soon a
requiem will sing
For the gallant ones whose spirits have
forever taken wing,
Aye, upon the leaves of autunui, dyed
by War a crimson hue,
On the banks of Chickamauga Gray
will mingle with the Blue.
It is morn at Chickamauga. Hark ! the
drumbeats roll afar,
And the clear notes of the bugle sound
the tocsin wild of war ;
'J'here the muskets crash like thunder
all along the serried lines.
And the grim, death-dealing cannon mar
the beauty of the pines;
Higher rolls the tide of battle, and the
leaves with blood are wet.
And the bosoms of the bravest feel the
cruel baydnet ;
Back and forth amid the carnage move
the legions in their ire.
And from phalanx mad to phalanx
leaps the never-ending fire.
It is noon at Chickamauga. Vet tin- bat-
tle is not still :
Men are dying in the valley, nun are
fighling on the hill ;
Rush the batt'ries o'er the fallen in that
hell-enchanted wood.
And the hundreds fight together where
at morn the thousands stood ;
Steel meets steel upon the hilltop, and
the cannon shake the glen.
And "amid September's flowers fall the
nation's bravest men.
There'll be mourning in the Northland,
far from battle's serried lines ;
'1 here'll be sobbing in the Southland, in
the homes among the pines.
Night again at Chickamauga, and the
guns at last are still.
Where the dead doth lie by thousands
in the vale and on the hill :
Nevermore they'll see their banners
wave against the balmy sky.
Hark! the wounded cry for water —
would to heaven they could die !
By the narrow, crimsoned river War
has paused awhile for breath.
Ah ! the Indian named thee right, Chick-
amauga— "stream of death ;"
Let the living seek their blankets where
the ground is thick with slain,
Let them dream of home and loved ones ;
God will guard the battle plain.
To-day at Chickamauga bloom the roses
in the wood.
.'\nd the robin wooes his sweetheart
where in strife the thousands stood ;
Rises high the shaft of glory 'neath the
soft skies of the South,
.•\nd the mother wren is nesting in the
cannon's grimy mouth ;
You can hear the crickets singing where
the legions met one day.
And violets bloom along the lines w^hcre
grappled Blue and Gray;
There's a sound that rises softly on the
drowsy summer air.
As the bells of Chattanooga call the
holy ones to prayer.
expect to visit Nashville and its battle-
fields in the fall, when I shall be glad
to take the hand of my Southern
friends."
MR. HARBAUGH^ THE AUTHOR.
So delightful has been the Muse of
T. C. Harbaugh in the Veteran that
inquiry was made of him for a personal
note, and he writes : "Born in Middle-
town, Frederick County, Md., at the
foot of South Mountain, January 13.
1849; came to Ohio two years after my
birth, and have since resided in Cass-
town. Adopted literature as a profes-
sion years ago, and have contributed to
many publications all over the country.
.Have written many novels, etc. My
love for the bravery of the American
soldier in the Civil War has often
called for poems from my Muse, and
I am glad to say she liberally responds.
This is about all I know about myself,
with the exception that I am not mar-
ried. Don't know why. Am sorry I
can't come down to the reunion ; but T
THE LAST HYMN.
BY T. C. HARBAUGH.
"Jesus, Lover of my soul" —
Flashed the guns beneath the sky.
Silent never grew their roll —
"Let me to thy bosom fly."
"Hide me, O my Saviour, hide" —
Fiercer roared the battle's blast;
Faster flowed the crimson tide —
"O receive my soul at last !"
"Other refuge have I none" —
Sang the boy beneath the tree —
"Mother soon will be alone,
O support and comfort me."
"All my trust on thee is stayed" —
Listen how the Minies sing —
"Cover my defenseless head
With the shadow of thy wing."
Sank the sun behind the town
Just beyond the battle plain.
And the moon looked coldly down
On the wounded and the slain.
Dead upon the field he lay.
Past the war god's mad control ;
But his white lips seemed to say :
"Jesus, Lover of my soul."
CHRISTMAS GREETING.
(To office force of the \'eteran.)
BY T. C. HARBAUGH.
'Tis now the precious Christmas time
Steals softly over land and sea,
With blessings from the holy clime
Of Bethlehem and Galilee;
And in the Northland I would twine
.'\ bit of everduring spray.
And send it with these wishes mine
To friends in Southland far away.
Again shines forth the Christmas Star,
That bids in love our sorrows cease;
It shone w-hen once the wise men far
Sought out the cradled Prince of
Peace.
/\nd while life's river takes its course
May God's sweet love with us abide;
.\nd so I wish the Veteran's "force"
A merry, happy Christmastide.
Di'Crnibcr, 1904.
.\ patron of the Veteran makes in-
quiry of any of Mosby's command for
information of Robert Dearing. who
was one of Mosby's scouts. Particulars
are wanted of his death. The inquiry
comes from "Mary Trip."
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CONSUMPTION CURI-D.
An old ]>hysician, retired from prartire. hud
placed in liis liands by an i^ast India iniKsionaiy
the Torniula «»f a siini)lo ve;;utaljle rc-incd.- for tlie
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liaminc this neper. W. .\. Noyes. Kii Powers Dlock.
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HUNTING AND FISHING IN THE
SOUTH.
The subject of this article is most
thoroughly and comprehensively dealt
with in a sixly-five-page booklet just
issued by the Southern Railway. The
work is one of real merit, and treats
of the South and her famous hunting
grounds in every State south of the
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near by. On the reverse cover appears
the picture of Joseph Jefferson, the vet-
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engaged in his favorite pastime. Both
of these pictures are used by special
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that Joseph Jefferson's picture would
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The engravings and half-tones are ably
executed, and are of a nature to fire the
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Copies can be had at the City Ticket
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Mrs. M. J. Kinney, 1008 Wilson
Street, Los Angeles, Cal., wants the war
record of her father, Benjamin F, Fry,
By Anointing with Oil Cancer of the
Hand Cured in One Month.
Peuruary 5, 1004.
Dr. D. M. Bye Co.. Dallas. Tex.
Dear Sirs: Atler usiugr the medicine you
seut me ace trdini^ to direction.*, on the morn-
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my hand and it is well. It is now about four
months since it healed up.
Yours truly, L. S. Newman,
Pleasant Grove, Tex.
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of Mississippi, who died in Camp Chase
prison of smallpox, it is thought.
John Gusbands, of Mill Creek, Ind.
T., would like to hear from any of his
old comrades of Company F, Eighth
Mississippi Infantry.
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Price, reduced, $1.50; with the Veteran
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of the Eighth Alahama Regiment, is still
alive. He would like to hear from him
or any member of his old company,
which was commanded by Capt. Tults,
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tlie iriounfains out from Chattanooga
and not many miles away from Lookout
Mountain, one of the famous sights of
the South. The other represents the
capture on this road of the engine
"General" by the Andrews Raiders, a
daring incident of the War between the
States with which all of the older gener-
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The contrast between this famous loco-
motive and the modern big passenger
engine is very striking.
Copies of the Calendar will be mailed
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the law school at Germantown at the
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TWO WARS;
An Autobiography of Samuel G. French,
Cndualccl Wcsl Pclnl in lS4i, Licutcnaal ol Lishi Ar^
tiltery in the United Slates Army, in the
Mexican Wart and Alaior General ia
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that you are entitled to this l.beral offer.
CURED OF RHEUMATISM
AT THE TIGE OF SO,
About two year* lico I hnrt an ntlarl; of r1ir-iininti!>m in my
abonM r. wliich oausod me coTiKi.lorabic pain in my nock,
and my ftr'us wore b.^^]ly swollen even to \hf ends of my
niiKMs. Tlie pain passed to my ot^icr sbonMer. and I sur-
fcicd 90 terribly I could hardly turn
over In my bed, and I cnnM not put
on my clotbrs witbout gv h% rtiC.letil-
ty. 1 was tron!.l'-d in t'^i^t v.ay f"r
some tii.ie until T «aw tlio Virie-Ore
advertisement. "Vou Are to Be tbe
.lu'lc*'." It a;:raeted my attention,
and 1 rea«l it.H!Hl read the i--. timnui-
nts of peMpJo «ho had n-^nl ^'itlp-<>rf■ .
and I ear.ie to the conclu;.i"n tbnt it
ex;iotly snlted my ease, anil decided
to try Q paekare. Before I bad u^rd
tbe entire package I folt much Im-
proved, and as I wanted to make n
perfef t enre entirely sure I srnt for
and used anot!ir-r paekn:;e. Vitrr-Ore
cure me. f .r wliirb 1 aui very thank-
,_ , . . lul- I witi do all I can to make it
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Socrates, and grand in battle as Achilles I
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ja„ o J S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
^* *"■ I Proprietor.
THE BIRTHDAY OF GEN. LEE.
It vv.Ms not expected lo nndciiakc any review of tlie pro-
ceedings of patriotic Christian people in lionorinp; Gen. Robert
Edward Lee on January 19, the ninety-
seventh anniver.sary of his birth, since
it would take a year to report all that
is good ; but the occasion for using his
portrait (on 'I'ravelor) on our cover I
page induced the purpose to refer to the '
first few accounts received by the Vet-
eran. Atlanta Camp comrades, ever en-
terprising, sent the brief report which
appears first.
A correspondent, writing from Atlanta, Ga., January 19,
states: "The birthday of Gen. Lee was observed here by alL
classes of our citizens. All banks and public buildings were
closed, and business generally was suspended. Exercises, con-
sisting of recitations, readings, and songs suitable to the oc-
casion, were held in all the public schools. The Confederate
Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy of
.\tlanta carried out an interesting and elaborate programme
at the Wesley Tabernacle. It was presided over by Judge
George Uillycr. Mrs. Edmund Berkley, Pre^ideut of the -At-
lanta Chapter, V. D. C, delivered crosses of ho ir to quite a
number of old veterans, followed by an addre n Gen. R.
E. Lee by Mr. Charles J. Haden. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Lumpkin,
of Rock Hill, S. C, also addressed the audience, and was
followed by Gen. Clement A. Evans, who, in behalf of the
N'cterans, presented a beautiful loving cup to Mrs. S. E. Gab-
bctt. The entire programme was interspersed w'ith delightful
vocal and instrumental music. The 'Virginia Society' of At-
lanta licld a banquet at night in the Aragon Hotel in honor
of the event. No special orator from Virginia was present
this year, but speeches were made by Gov. J. M. Terrell, Hon.
Clark Howell, James R. Gray, Bishop Kelley, of Savannah,
George W. N. Mitchell, and Charles Bayne. The birthday of
Gen. Lee should be generally observed througliout the South.
It would be well for every Southern State to make it a legal
holiday. In this way it would annually impress upon our
children the justness of the South and the heroism of our
people in the War between the States."
All honor to our comrades and to the people of Georgia's
capital cit\ for the consideration tliey exhibited in honor of
an event that lacks but three years of a century!
rENs.\coLA Pays Patriotic Tribute.
In a memorial address at Pensacola, Fla., Gen. George Reese
made the address upon Lee and Jackson, in which he said:
"It is natural that I should relate some events that came
under my observation, but the rank and file of an army saw
very little of the general officers. I remember seeing Gen.
Jackson but once. That was at Fredericksburg, just before
that great battle, as he rode along the line dressed in a uni-
form of gray.
"I had the pleasure of being near to Gen. Lee on several
occasions. The first was when he was reviewing his army
near Winchester. Greatness was stamped upon his every
movement. The next time was at the Wilderness, when he was
under fire, the shells falling thick and heavy, and the Minie
halls seeming as thick as hail. It was just after the Texas
Brigade had refused to let Lee lead them in the charge that
seemed a hopeless effort to stem the advance of Grant's legions.
He was as cool as when he was reviewing his troops. I never
shall forget his look when he said : 'Alabamians, I expect you
to do as well as the Texans.' Under such an inspiration, is
it any wonder the Alabama Brigade drove the enemy, double
their number, fully a mile? I saw Lee several times during
the siege of Petersburg and on the retreat to Appomattox.
The last time I saw him was when he was under the r-cort
of Federal cavalry, passing through our lines going to Rich-
mond. All who saw him on that occasion will recall his kindly
bearing and the tears that ran down his cheeks as he bade his
soldiers good-by.
"As time rolls on the names of Lee and Jackson increase in
brightness, until already they illumine the pages of history
as no other of modern times. Like all great men, Lee's
modesty has obscured his greatness, except with a few who
try to detract from his fame as a general of the Confederacy,
or by blind prejudice and ignorance to besmirch his pure and
noble character by alluding to hiir as a traitor and perjurer,
as a Grand Army Post in Kansas did last year, and so teach
the children in their schools. History will yet teach these
minds that they cannot control the future estimate of Lee as
recorded by some of the greatest generals and statesmen of
the world."
He then gave his audience the grand tribute to Gen. Lee
Iiy Lord Wolseley. ->>
Gen. Reese concluded his patriotic and able address as fol-
lows : "To you patriotic Daughters of the Confederacy we old
soldiers who loved these great men under whom we served
must look for the preservation of an untarnished record of
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the brave officers and men of the Confederate army, who
fought for right and home. You have done weW in the past.
We look to you to do better in the future. As you have in
the past ministered so nobly to our physical wants, so in the
future we trust you to keep green and transmit to posterity
unsullied the undying fame and glory of the soldiers of the
South. Let none say in your presence that the great leaders
of the South were traitors. Teach future generations the
truth of history, and they will not be ashamed to say: 'I am
proud that my ancestors were true patriots and loyal to the
Southland.' Take care of the records, and see that no false
impressions are handed down to your descendants."
SONS OF VETERANS WANT CORRECT HISTORY.
Realizing the necessity for immediate action, in order to
save from neglect and ruin some of the most valuable his-
torical data in the South, and in order to assist the effort to
establish to posterity a true account of the War between the
States, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, at their last annual
reunion in Nashville, adopted the following resolutions by
William Armistead Collier, Jr., of Memphis, Tenn. :
"Whereas, in view of the following facts, set forth in the
supplementary report of the former Historical Committee .
That the archives of the State of Tennessee haye been found
by a committee of the last Legislature to be in a deplorable
condition, many of the most valued 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
establish rricnt of a Department of State, known as the 'De-
partment of Archives and History;' and, therefore, that in all
probability similar conditions exist in other States of the
South; and whereas we believe the preservation of historical
material to be a sacred duty which we owe to our State and
country, to our forefathers, ourselves and posterity, and one
of the high objects of the existence of our organization of
Sons of Confederate Veterans ; and whereas it has been
demonstrated by the States of Alabama and Mississippi thai
this object can be best accomplished by the creation and
maintenance of a separate department of State, devoted to
'the care and custody of official archives, the collection of
materials bearing upon the history of the State, the compila-
tion 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 encouragemeni
of historical work and research,' etc., and that such department
can be maintained and do efficient service at an expense of
$2,500 a year; be it therefore
"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 our organization, as Camps and as individuals,
to bring about the early establishment in every State in the
South of similar departments to those now in successful oper-
ation in the above-named States, the purpose of such de-
partments being to save from neglect, loss, and destruction
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 ;ind understanding of State and Southern his-
tory.
"Be it further resolved. That the movement to establish
these departments be put in charge of a special committee,
which shall be appointed for no other purpose and with no
other end in view ; that this committee be designated the
'Committee on the Establishment of Departments of History;'
that it be made up only of comrades who are so much inter-
ested in the movement that they will pledge themselves before
appointment to appear before the Legislatures of their re-
spective States and bear their own expenses in using every
honorable means to secure the enactment of laws establish-
ing such departments in every State where, after personal
investigation, the same are found to be needed.
"Be it further resolved. That we 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 historical societies and invoke the
aid of the press of the South in this important movement."
PROPOSED LAW FOR TENNESSEE.
The House Bill No. 69, entitled "An Act to Establish a
Department of Archives and History for the State of Ten-
nessee," prescribes its functions and duties and provides for
its maintenance :
"Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
State of Tennessee that there is established for the State of
Tennessee a 'Department of Archives and History,' to be lo-
cated at the State Capitol in apartments to be set aside for
its use by the Governor, and the objects and purposes of the
said department are the care and custody of official archives,
the collection of materials bearing upon the history of the
State and of the territory included therein from the earliest
times, the compilation and publication of the State's official
records and other historical material, the diffusion of knowl-
edge in reference to the history and resources of the State,
the encouragement of historical work and research, and the
performance of such other acts and requirements as may be
enjoined by law.
"Section 2. Be it further enacted: (i) That said depart-
ircnt shall be under the control of a board of nine trustees
chosen from the membership of the Tennessee Historical So-
ciety. (2) That within ten days after the passage of this
act the President of the Tennessee Historical Society shall
call a meeting of its members to choose said board. (3)
That immediately after assembling in response to a call ot
the president said board of trustees shall be equally divided
by lot into three classes. The term of service of the first
class shall expire at the end of two years ; of the second class,
at the end of 'our years ; of the third class, at the end of six
years ; the nning of the several terms of service for the
purposes of this act to be January I, 1905. (4) That the
board shall have the power and the authority to fill all
vacancies therein, whether by expiration of term of service
or by death or by resignation; but the names of all newly
elected members shall be communicated to the next ensuing
session of the State Senate for confirmation, and in case it
shall reject any of the said newly elected trustees it shall
proceed forthwith to fill the vacancy or vacancies by an elec-
tion. (5) That all trustees chosen to succeed the present
members or their successors whose respective terms shall
have fully expired shall serve for a term of six years, and
appointees to fill vacancies by death or resignation shall serve
only the unexpired term of their predecessors. (6) That the
said board of trustees shall hold at the State Capitol at least
one regular meeting during the year and as many special
meetings as may be necessary, and at said meetings five
members shall constitute a quorum. (7) The director here-
inafter provided shall be secretary of the board. (8) The
trustees shall receive no compensation for their services other
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than the amount of their necessary expenses actually paid out
while in attendance on the meetings of the board or the
business of the department. (9) Said board is empowered to
adopt rules for its own government and for the government
of the department, to elect a director, to provide for the
selection and appointment of other officials or employees
as may be authorized, and to do and perform such other acts
and things as may be necessary to carry out the true intent
and purposes of this act.
"Section 3. Be it further enacted that (i) the department
shall be under the immediate management and control of a
director to be elected by the board of trustees, whose term
of service shall be four years and until his successor is elected
and qualified. (2) He shall take an oath of office as other
public officials, and shall be commissioned in like manner.
(3) He shall devote his time to the work of the department,
using his best endeavor to develop and build it up, so as to
carry out the design of its creation, and shall receive for his
services the sum of eighteen hundred dollars per annum,
payable monthly, as other State officials, and a continuing
appropriation for the said annua! salary is hereby made.
(4) He shall have control and direction of the work and
operations of the department ; he shall preserve its collec-
tions, care for the official archives that may come into its
custody, collect as far as possible all materials bearing upon
the history of the State and of the territory included therein
from the earliest times, prepare the biennial register herein-
after provided, diffuse knowledge in reference to the history
and resources of the State, and he is -charged with the
particular duty of gathering data concerning Tennessee's
.soldiers in the War between the States. (5) He shall make
an annual report to the board of trustees, to be by them trans-
mitted to the Governor, to be accompanied by such historical
papers and documents as may be deemed of importance by
him, and the director shall contract for the printing and
binding of said report, which shall be paid for as other print-
ing and binding.
"Section 4. Be it further enacted that any State, county,
or other official is hereby authorized and empowered in his
discretion to turn over to the department for permanent
preservation therein any official books, records, documents,
original papers, newspaper files, and printed books not in
current use in his office. When so surrendered, copies
therefrom shall be made and certified by the director upon
the application of any person interested, which certification
shall have all the force and effect as if made by the officer
originally in the custody of them, and for which the same
fees shall be charged, to be collected in advance.
"Section 5. Be it further enacted that an official and statis-
tical register of the State of Tennessee shall be compiled
liy the director after each general election, to contain (l)
lirief sketches of the several State officials, the members of
Congress from Tennessee, the Supreme Court judges, the
judges of the Court of Chancery Appeals, the members of the
Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Ten-
nessee; (2) rosters of all State and county officials; (3) lists
of all Slate institutions, with officials; (4") State and county
population and election statistics; and (5) miscellaneous sta-
tistics— and said register shall be published in an edition of
one thousand copies for free distribution, the printing and
binding to be paid for as other public printing and binding.
"Section 6. Be it further enacted that the department i.*;
charged with the duty of making special effort to collect data
in reference to soldiers from Tennessee in the War between
the States, both from the War Department at Washington
and also from private individuals, and to cause the same to
be prepared for publication as speedily as possible.
"Section 7. Be it further enacted that in addition to the
salary of the director, hereinabove appropriated, the sum of
seven hundred dollars annually is hereby appropriated for the
maintenance of said department, and the Comptroller is here-
by authorized to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for
the whole or any part of the said amount, in such sums and in
such manner as may be authorized by said board of trustees.
"Section 8. Be it further enacted that this act take effect
from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it"
HEROES OF SABINE PASS.
Mrs. Kate Alma Orgain, Historian Texas Division, U. C.
v., sends lists of the men who gained the unprecedented vic-
tory of Sabine Pass during our great war. She designates
it as "revised roster" of those engaged in the battle, Septem-
ber 8, 1863, as concurred in by John A. Drummond and Rich-
ard O'Hara, two of the survivors :
Lieut. Ricliard W. Dowling, commanding.
Lieut. N. II. Smith, of Engineer Corps,
Dr. G. H. Bailey, Post Surgeon.
Abbott, Patrick.
Carr, Michael; Carter, Abner R. ; Clair, Patrick; Corcoran,
James.
Dragan, Hugh ; Delaney, Michael ; Doherty, Thomas ; Drum-
mond, John A, was enlisted as John Anderson (powder
monkey).
Eagan, Michael.
Fitzgerald. Patrick ; Fitzgerald, David ; Fleming, James ;
I'lood, John.
Gleason, William.
Hassett, John; Hurley, Timothy; Hennesy. John. Hagerty,
Thomas; Huggins, Timothy.
McKernon, Thomas; McKecver, John; McCabe, Alex; Mc-
Donough, Timothy ; McDonnell, Patrick ; McGrath, John ;
McNcalis, John ; McMurry, Daniel ; Monaghen, Michael ;
Mulhorn, Joinse.
O'Hara, Peter; O'Hara, Richard.
Pritchard, Edward ; Powers, Morris ; Puckett, Lawrence.
Rheine, Charles.
Sullivan. Thomas ; Sullivan, Patrick ; Sullivan, Mike.
Walsh, Mathew ; White, Jack W. ; Wesley, John ; Wilson,
Joseph.
Names on Drummond's list not on O'Hara's :
Donovan. Dan.
Hardin, William.
Jett, Livingston.
Name on O'Hara's list not on Drummond's:
Malone, Patrick.
Gen. Cabell's Seventy-Eighth Birthday. — Comrade J. A.
Cummins, of Bowie, Tex., writes : "I met with the Sterling
Price Camp, U. C. 'V., of Dallas, and we went in a body to
pay our respects to Gen. W. L. Cabell yesterday, the first
of January, to help him celebrate his seventy-eighth birthday.
We had the time of our lives. The honor was conferred
upon me of cutting the cake first. Gen. Graber, Gen. Sellers,
Col. Simpson, and many other distinguished old veterans
were numbered among his comrades present. Gen. Cabell
said he felt he was only sixteen when surrounded by so
many of his old comrades, and to see the ladies kiss him and
hear his pleasant old laugh was a treat. This is just a mere
glimpse of that afternoon. Mrs. Katie Cabell Currie, one of
the noblest women of whom the South can boast, gave each
of us old veterans a most cordial welcome."
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S A CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office Meihodisl Publishintr )lousc Buiidinj;, Nashville, Tenn.
Ttii puhlirallnn Is Ine personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All per
sont «hr approve its principles and realize its benefits as an orsfan for Asso
cUllont inrouphout the South are requested to commend its patronage and to
cooperate In ext..r.'jing lu circulation. t.et each one be conslanlly diligent.
CONFEDERATE VETERAN INDEX.
After being delayed many months in completing the Vet-
eran Inde.v, we are glad to announce that it is now ready,
and those desiring to have this bound in with their volumes
can send an order and have it filled promptly. This has been
an expensive work, and in asking a dollar for the set of
twelve indexes we are simply trying to be reimbursed for
the actual cost of issue. The Index for Vol. XI. was mailed
with the Veteran last year, and those who preserved it may
kindly give notice when ordering the others. These in-
dexes will be of great assistance to those who have had their
volumes bound, as they may be pasted in, as well as to those
who have waited the index before binding.
SOUTHERNERS MISJUDGED BY TARDINESS.
A Cleveland (Ohio) paper published recently, in a special
from New Orleans, the statement that "The South has no
love for Dixie," basing the assertion upon the report that to
fifteen hundred letters of appeal for some funds to erect n
monument to Daniel D. Emmett there was but one response.
This circumstance is noted, not to approve the charge, neither
to deny it, but to suggest an important fact. The Southern
people do not respond to such appeals with creditable prompt
ness. That is an important reason why the advertising de-
partment of the Veteran is not more liberally patronized
If its legions of friends would be active in attendance upo.:
what is advertised in its pages, the result would be amazing.
The management does its part fully. First of all, it will not
print anything which has not reasonable evidence of merit.
The price offered never affects it. Advance over the card
rate would not be considered as an inducement to give space
for anything of doubtful merit. It is literally impossible for
the management to influence its multitude of patrons beyond
ihis kind of appeal. As they read quietly in their homes the
various things advertised, if they would, when any article is
deemed desirable enough to order, mention that they saw the
notice in the Confeueuate Veteran, it would help to strength-
en it far beyond what they may casually imagine. Advertis-
ing departments in periodicals are often establislied through
a method of personal canvass for purchasers of low-priced ar-
ticles and giving money to pay for them simply for the bene-
fit of having the advertiser understand that such an order
was sent through seeing the advertisement in paper oi
magazine. It often pays to give money.
Now, if friends who sincerely have the success of th;'
Veteran at heart would be diligent in this regard, the re-
sults would extend beyond conceivable benefit.
Recurring to the introductory statement in this article, the
Veteran denies the charge that the South does not love
"Uixie" and that she does not revere Dan Emmett, who
wrote "Dixie" when bitterness of sectionalism was at fever
heat. He wrote it in New York City in the winter of 1859,
and it was the expression of a man whose "parents were
Southern born," and who in the music of his kindly soul de-
clared he would "live and die for Dixie," although himself
a native of a Northern State. More credit is due the authoi
of "Dixie" from a sectional standpoint than is generally
given. His theatrical manager did not direct him to write
a sentiment or "doggerel" for the Soutli. but simply to write
that which would be an "arousement" for the company, and
his heart sang of Dixie because he loved her people.
With no complaint of our people who want a finer version
of "Dixie," for they simply desire to exalt the version of tlie
famous song, it is a singular attitude to want to put new
words to a tune that originated by its author. Who would
change the words of "Yankee Doodle Dandy." and yet what
more patriotic meaning in it than "Di.xie?"
When the subject of a monument to Daniel Decatur Em-
mett is presented in a known proper way, it will find sup-
porters throughout the South, although there are illustrations
to the contrary. Think of how "Bill Arp" endeared himself
to all the people who believed in the Southern cause, and yet
how few sent the one dollar requested for his memorial. Who
will repent, and send still ?
To those who decline to pay for the Veteran because they
"did not get it" or who changed address and failed to get it
this statement is made, or to the families of those noble men —
subscribers — who have passed away : The Veter.an is never
sent to anybody who is not supposed to desire it, and it is
always discontinued upon notice. While it is a hardship to
pay for something not received, it is a far greater hardship in
the aggregate for the office to lose it. In such instances, if
ihe parties addressed would pay half the amount, it would
help to maintain a poriodical which should have the support
of every true Southerner. Every copy is an expense.
THE LESSON OF LIFE.
lie has solved the wonderful problem,
The deepest, the strangest, the last ;
And into the school of the angels.
With the answer, forever has passed.
How strange that in spite of your questions
He maketh no answer, nor tells
•Why so soon were honoring laurels
Displaced by God's immortelles !
How strange he should sleep so profoundly,
So young, so unworn by the strife ;
While beside him, full of hope's neclar.
Untouched, stands the goblet of life!
It is idle to talk of the future
And the "might have been" 'mid our tears;
God knew all about it
Away from the oncoming years.
God knew all about it — how noble.
How gentle he was, and how brave.
How brilliant his possible future —
Yet put him to sleep in the grave.
God knew all about those who loved him —
How bitter the trial must be —
And right through it all God is loving.
And knew so much better than we.
So in the darkness be trustful ;
One day you shall say it was well
God took from his young brow earth's troubles.
And crowned it with death's immortelles.
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SOUTHERN LITERATURE.
BY MRS. KATE ALMO OKGAIN, TEMPLE, TEX.
"Let me make the songs of a land, and any one may make
its laws." Teach a child the poetry and the stories of his
native land, and you may exile him, but you cannot make
him forget his early home. The literature and songs of a
country reach the soul of a boy, and "the boy is the father
of the man." "Marching through Georgia" is sung in some of
our schools; is "Maryland, My Maryland" also learned?
\Yt have Longfellow, Bryant, and Whitticr days ; do we also
have some set apart for Lanier, Timrod, Ticknor, or Hayne?
Do our public school children know even the names of thesf
Southern poets?
In the course of conversation with a city superintendent
he made use of this remark, which would no doubt be true
of nine-tenths of our schools : "The average teacher knows
little more about Southern writers than the pupils."
In Paris, Tex., a girl, belonging to the graduating class,
asked her teacher "if the South ever had any literature."
Prof. J. E. Blair, of San Marcos Normal, wrote to me
lliat in his last conmienccnicnt exercises he had desired to
Kivc .some place to Southern literature, hut when he searche<l
for fact and matter "the paucity of material was alarming."
Prof. F. S. Minturn, of Bryant, said in an address : "I
know but little about Southern literature, and I have learned
that little since I left school. All the schools I attended
were intensely Southern, yet had no place in their curriculum
tor Southern authors, and Southern writings had no ex-
pounders. They taught plenty of good, wholesome thought
from Greece, Rome, Great Britain, and Northern States.
but seldom even a poem from a Southern writer, yet the
South had before the great war two hundred and forty-one
writers "
What more patriotic work could engage the Daughters of
llie Confederacy than recovering and inducing love for, and
study of, these classic authors, many of whom were Con-
federate soldiers?
Let our children learn proudly that "the first lispings of
American literature were not in New England, but along the
sands of the Chesapeake and near the gurgling tides of the
James River." Show them that when Irving and Cooper were
writing their interesting books John Pendleton Kennedy, of
Baltimore, a Southern friend and comrade of Irving, and Wil-
liam Gilmore Simms. of South Carolina, were telling equally
well the stories of the South.
Wc lalior to erect .shafts of marble and granite to our sol-
diers ; but how could we build a more lasting monument to
such Confederate warriors as Sidney Lanier, Paul Hamilton
llayne, Henry Timrod, Joel C. Harris, Thomas Nelson Page,
Dr. Francis Orrary Ticknor, William Gordon McCabe, and
l\illu-r Ryan than by impressing with imperishable love their
ln-aulifnl writings upon the hearts of Southern children?
Longfellow needs no monument. "The Psalm of Life," "I
Stood on the Bridge at Midnight, riic Rainy Day" — these
are engraved on every American heart.
We try to teach our children patriotic feeling through the
doleful air of "God Save the Queen ;" while Henry Timrod,
ihe Southern poet-soldier, who, dying, left the stain of his
ebbing lifcblood on the last proof of his book of poems,
could lire the soul of a boy with one or two verses of "Caro-
lina :"
"Hold up the glories of thy dead,
Say how thy elder children bled.
And point to Eutaw's sacred deathbed,
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Tell how the patriot soul was tried,
And what his dauntless breast defied,
How Rutledge ruled and Laurens died,
Carolina!
Or where can you find more impassioned patriotism than
in Father Ryan's "In Memoriam :"
"They are thronging, mother, thronging,
To a thousand fields of fame ;
Let me go, 'tis wrong and wronging
God and thee to crush this longing.
On the muster roll of glory,
In my country's future story.
On the field of battle gory,
I must consecrate my name?"
Or in the grand poem of Dr. Ticknor's "Virginians of the
Vale," which has been anonymously copied in many Northern
papers and pasted in many scrapbooks South without any
knowledge that it was written by Dr. Ticknor, the scholarly
physician and Southern patriot, who never struck his lyre
for gold or fame :
"We thought they slept — the sons who kept
The names of noble sires —
And slumbered while the darkness crept
Around their vigil fires ;
But aye, 'The Golden Horseshoe Knights'
Their old dominion keep;
Whose foes have found enchanted ground.
But not one knight asleep?"
Would you cultivate in your child the love for his own
hills and dales? Then instill into his young soul such words
as "The Old Red Hills of Georgia," by Henry Roots Jackson,
another gallant Confederate soldier:
"And where upon their surface
Is the heart of feeling dead ?
And when has needy stranger
Gone from those hills unfed?
Their bravery and their kindness
For aye go hand in hand
Upon your washed and naked hills,
My own, my native land."
Read to your boy also the poem of another soldier, "Land
of the South," by Alexander Meeks :
"Land of the South, imperial land,
How proud thy mountains rise !
How sweet thy scenes on every hand !
How fair thy covering skies !
But not for this, O not for these,
I love thy fields to roam ;
Thou hast a dearer spell for me —
Thou art my native home."
We need not depend alone upon New England poets for
our literary inspirations. Some critics claim that "Balaklava,"
by James Barron Hope, is not one whit inferior to Tenny-
son's "Charge of the Light Brigade :"
"Brightly gleam six hundred sabers.
And the brazen trumpets ring;
Steeds are gathered, spurs are riven
With a mad shout upward given.
Scaring vultures on the wing."
Ask the teachers who have your children's mind and heart
in their shaping hands to read to them "McDonald's Raid"
and the "Battle of Kings," by the soldier and poet laureate,
Paul Hamilton Hayne, or the poem of the same name, "The
Battle of King's Mountain," by William Gilmore Simms.
Do you wish to croon a little story to your little ones at
twilight hour or round the fireside after supper? Read to
them the exquisite poem "Little Nellie in Prison," by Paul H.
Hayne, or softly repeat his loving verses to his boy Will :
"We roam the hills together
In the golden sunmier weather.
Will and I.
And the glowing sunbeams bless us.
And the winds of heaven caress us,
As we wander hand in hand
Through the blissful summer land,
Will and I.
Where the tinkling brooklet passes
Through the heart of dewy grasses.
Will and I
Have heard the mockbird singing,
And the field lark seen upspringing.
In his happy flight afar.
Like a tiny winged star,
Will and I."
Read also to them the story of "Little Bob Bonnyface," and
then leave their hearts beautifully tender with Hayne's pa-
thetic poem, "The Silken Shoe;"
"My shoe, papa, please hang it
Once more on the holly bough
Just where I can see it
When I wake, an hour from now.
But alas I she never wakened.
Close shut were the eyes of blue.
Whose last faint gleam had fondled
The curves of that dainty shoe.
Ah, children! you understand me.
Your eyes are brimmed with dew
As you watch on the Christmas holly
The sheen of a silken shoe."
When the children are asleep you can ennoble your own
soul by reading "The Aspect of the Pine," "Fire Pictures,"
"The Voice in the Pine," "The First Mocking Bird in Spring,"
or any of the poems in the splendid volume of four hundred
pages written at Copse Hill, near Augusta, Ga., where Paul
Hamilton Hayne labored for fifteen years after the Confed-
erate war, which beggared him, to keep the wolf from his
door. These are only stray gleamings from a Southern fund
of literature almost inexhaustible. Is there not a work of
magnificent recognition and grateful commemoration waiting
the active hand and heart of every Daughter of the Confed-
eracy, a work that wiil outlive marble shaft or granite pile?
I have spent much of the past year in the study and exami-
nation of Southern literature of the ante-bellum days, and I
have yet to find one impure word, one repulsive thought, or
one sensual tendency. Can we say as much for all our pres-
ent literature or of the modern poem and novel?
Pr-\ctical and Patriotic. — The J. J. Finley Chapter, U. D.
C, of Gainesville, Fla., are most practical as well as patriotic.
This Chapter was organized in 1903 with thirty-four charter
members, who elected Mrs. G. K. Broome, "a Southern wom-
an of the sixties," the first President. The Chapter has
grown rapidly, and now has over sixty members on its roster.
One of the principal objects of the association is to see that
proper histories are taught the children of the South. The
Chapter feels that the Davis Monument is practically com-
pleted, and, as this is a monument to every soldier who
fought under the Southern cross as well as to our glorious
cliieftain, that now their best efforts should be directed toward
the practical good of our soldiers and the education of our
youths.
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FATHER AND SON CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
Capt. L. Lake and his son, A. C. Lake, the first of Oxford
and the latter of Crystal Springs, Miss., are perhaps the only
two Confederate veterans living, father and son, who entered
the Confederate army at the heginning, served continuously
to the close of the war, and are now active participants in
all the annual reunions of the United Confederate Veterans.
Capt. Lake was horn in Dorchester County, Md., Septem-
ber 7, 1817. His father was an officer in the War of 1812,
and his grandfather was an officer in the Revolutionary War.
In 1830 Capt. Lake moved to Jackson, Tenn., going by boat
and stage, e.Ncept the first twelve miles of his journey, which
were made by railroad. It was the only railroad in the United
States at that time, and extended from Baltimore to Elicott's
Mills. The car was so small that one horse was sufficient to
draw it. In 1834 Capt. Lake moved from Jackson, Tenn., to
Grenada, Miss., wdiere he was when the war began, in 1861.
A. C. LAKE.
CAPT. L. LAKE.
He was at once appointed post quartermaster for equipping
State troops, and was soon after commissioned by the Con-
federate government, with rank of captain. In 1863 he was
ordered to Texas to handle Confederate cotton through
Brownsville to Mexico with which to purchase quartermaster
supplies. This traffic was broken up by the Federals captur-
ing Brownsville, througli which the supplies were .shipped.
Capt. Lake then returned to Mississippi and reported to Gen.
J. E. Johnston, who assigned him the duty of gathering sup-
plies on Warrior, Tombigbee, and Alabama Rivers and for-
warding them to Montgomery for the army. After the fall
of Atlanta Capt. Lake was ordered to Grenada, Miss., with
Col. J. W. Culp, with whom he later surrendered.
Capt. Lake was, as may be seen, eighty-seven years old
September 7, 1904. His wife is also a native of Maryland,
and is eighty-one years old. On October 28, last, this happy
and venerable couple celebrated the sixty-fourtli anniversary
of their marriage.
Their son, Mr. A. C. Lake, was born in Grenada, Miss.,
June 24, 1844, and joined in 1861 Stanford's Battery, organized
at that place. They were ordered to Columbus, Ky., to Gen.
Polk, and served with that division from Shiloh through the
Kentucky campaign and back to Tennessee, participating in
all the battles of his command in Tennessee, through the At-
lanta campaign, back again to Tennessee with Hood, and
going out with his depleted army. Having lost three of its
guns at the battle of Nashville, the battery was ordered, after
crossing the Tennessee River at Bainbridge, to Choctaw Bluffs
to man some siege guns that commanded the Alabama River.
After the fall of Mobile Choctaw Bluffs were abandoned and
the battery was moved to Meridian, Miss., and there sur-
rendered and paroled by Gen. E. S. Canby, U. S. A., May
5, 1865.
From Meridian the men of the battery remained in organi-
zation until at Grenada, where they formally disbanded.
When organized in 1861 the company comprised four of-
ficers and sixty-four men. It was afterwards, by recruits, in-
creased to one hundred and ten. Upon the sad return there
were only fourteen men, and eight or nine of these were
unfit for duty, and the orderly sergeant was in command.
In the four years' service of Comrade Lake he was not
absent from duty exceeding six weeks. After the battle of
Shiloh he was sent home sick, but soon returned to his com-
ir.and. In front of Atlanta he received a wound that laid
him oft' for thirty days; but at no time was he absent from his
gun when it was in action, having never in the four years
missed a fight in which his battery participated. This ven-
erable comrade was with his conmiand below Atlanta when
the refugees, the helpless women and children, arrived, ex-
pelled from Atlanta by the wicked order of Sherman, and he
shared with ihcm his rations, as did many of the other sol-
diers.
LEE AT LEXINGTON.
nv lOHN WH.nER JENKINS, SOUTHERN EDITOR BALTIMORE SUN.
Calm-eyed, serene,
The swordless General stood.
Inspiring youth to noble thoughts and deeds ;
Planting the pregnant seeds
Which in the peaceful time to come
Would burst into the fragrant bloom
Of a new nation, bound in brotherhood;
Remembering all the brave
Who climbed the heights of flame
Or plunged the depths of hell
At his command;
Surveying all the hopes and fears
That crowded the disturbing years —
The star-crossed flag
That, wreathed in glory, fell ;
The valorous armies, torn by shot and sliell;
An empire's embers, smoking in its ruins,
Proud of the very ashes of its past.
He knew his cause was dead.
But buried in a million loyal hearts.
Duty had led him through life's tortuous ways;
His great soul did not know defeat.
Nor mourn the unreturning days.
The Valley of the Shadow
Unfaltering he trod.
As one who faces heaven unafraid
And does not fear the judgment of his God.
Baltimore, January 12, njoy
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■ RELATIVE STRENGTH OF THE TWO ARMIES.
In the September Veteran there was published a statement
of Mr. Cassenove G. Lee, of Washington, a recognized au-
thority on war statistics, showing that the enlistments in
the Northern Army were 2,778,304, against 600,000 in the
Southern army. The publication of these figures, showing the
enormous odds the South had to fight, brought vigorous pro-
tests from the press of the North and demanding Mr. Lee's
authority for such statements, to which he replied as follows :
"The statement most objected to is the total number of enlist-
ments in the Confederate army— that is. 600,000 men. The
New York Tribune never, to my knowledge, said anything
kind or generous about the South, and therefore what it says
in support of tliat section may be received as authentic. Its
Washington correspondent, in the issue of June 26, 1867, page
I, says: 'Among the documents which fell into our hands at
the downfall of the Confederacy are the returns, very nearly
complete, of the Confederate armies from their organization,
in the summer cf 1S61, down to the spring of 1865. These
returns have be. 1 .irefully analyzed, and I am enabled to
furnish the returns in every department and for almost every
month from these official sources. We judge in all 600,000
different men were in the Confederate ranks during the war.
Of those, we do not believe one-half are alive this day. Of
the 300,000 of the Confederate soldiers yet alive, no man can
say what proportion are wholly or in part disabled by wounds
or disease.'
"Gen. J. A. Early, in 'Southern Historical Society Papers,'
Volume II., page 20, says, 'This estimate is very nearly cor-
rect;' and there was no better authority in the South than
Gen. Early. The 'American Cyclopedia' (,D. Appleton & Co.,
187s), of which Charles A. Dana, late Assistant Secretary of
War, was editor, in Volume V., page 232, says: 'The Adjutant
General of the Confederate army. Gen. S. Cooper, in a state-
ment made since the close of hostilities, estimates the entire
available Confederate forces capable of active service in the
Held at 600.000. Of this number, not more than 400,000 were
enrolled at any one time, and the Confederate States never
had in the field at once more than 200,000 men.'
"The letter of Gen. Cooper relating to this subject is pub-
lished in Volume VII., page 287, of the 'Southern Historical
Society Papers.'
"Lieut. Col. Fo.x, of the United States army, in 'Losses in
Civil War,' says ; 'The aggregate enrollment of the Confed-
erate armies during the war, according to the best authorities,
numbered over 600,000 effective men, of whom not over 400,-
000 were enrolled at one time.'
"This author also gives to the 'eleven States of the Confed-
eracy a military population in i860 of 1,064,193, with which to
confront 4,559,872 of the same class in the North.' Of this,
600,000 were in the Confederate army and 86,009 in the L'nion,
while the Confederate States received 19,000 from the border
Stat"?, making 677,009 in both armies out of the 1,064,193
men of the age of service in the South, and leaving 387,184
for other duties, such as State government officials. Confed-
erate government officials, railroad employees, ordnance and
other manufacturers, and skulkers and invalids. It is a his-
torical fact that many of the centers of population in the
South soon fell into the hands of the Federal army. Thus,
in Virginia, Alexandria was occupied the day after secession,
Norfolk and Wheeling soon after, together with the whole of
the western part of the State, and by the time the Confederate
conscription act went into force many large cities were out
of the control, of the Confederacy, and the circle gradually
contracted until the end. Therefore, it is safe to say that the
conscription act was never enforced in half of the most popu-
lous part of the Confederate States. In the town of Alexan-
dria, Va., for instance, five companies of infantry and one
of artillery were organized in 1861. Alexandria's quota should
not have been less than 1,000, according to the established
rule ; but these companies numbered less than 500 men, most
of them young men of from eighteen to twenty-five, and after
the occupation by the Union soldiers very few reached the
Confederate ranks. Of those who remained at home, many
from necessity, having no other means of livelihood, served
the Federal army in various capacities, such as teamsters,
drovers, and laborers, and these are not estimated among
those who enlisted in that army. These conditions existed in
many parts of the South, so it will be seen that the estimates
made by Northern authorities from the population of the
South are not reliable, and that given by the authorities who
were best able to judge must be received.
"While it is a historical fact that we fought as a whole
about five men to our one and that it took four years to con-
quer us, and while the Northern men were better equipped,
better armed, better clothed and fed, still it does not prove
they were less brave, for they came from the same race of
people [Except the foreigners and negroes, about 400,000. — •
Ed.] ; but it does prove that they were without a cause and
without leaders. A great leader will incite men to brave ac-
tions even in a bad cause, but a noble cause will incite them
to brave action without a leader. The attempt was made to
convince the North that they fought for the Union, and some
think so even now; but the truth is, if the Northern leaders
had loved the Union as devotedly as did Davis, Stephens,
Lee, and the Johnstons, war would have been impossible.
What the North did fight for was a fanatical frenzy on the
part of its leaders to free the negroes, in which nine-tenths
of the men felt no interest, and on the part of the politicians
and contractors to feather their nests.
"On the other hand, the cause of the South could not be
better stated than in General Order No. 16, to the Army of
Northern Virginia, which says: 'Let every soldier remember
that on his courage and fidelity depends all that makes life
worth living — the freedom of his country, the honor of his
people, and the security of his home.'
"Could they fight for a better cause, and has not such a
cause made men superhumanly brave in all ages? Did the
North produce in their respective sphere men of such ex-
traordinary military genius as Lee, Jackson, A. S. Johnston,
Stuart, Forrest, and Mosby? No intelligent, candid North-
ern man of to-day claims that it did. When I look at the
snap judgments on posterity, statues to Northern generals
(though most of them are Southern men) in Washington,
I wonder how posterity will treat these outrages on justice.
They will not find an impartial, competent military historian
that will give to one of them, except, perhaps, McClellan, one
particle of military genius. These I believe to be the true
reasons for the long-delayed success of the Northern armies,
notwithstanding their overpowering numbers and resources."
Rev. P. D. Stephenson, of Woodstock, Va., corrects the
statement made on page 586 of the December Veteran that
he was chaplain of Govan's Brigade. He says he was only a
private through the war.
The one essential thing for each friend of the Veteran is
to see to it that his subscription is paid in advance.
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/Ai'
OILONEI. EVANS.
Ky. Nor did we yet
A WOMAN'S MEMORIES OF THE SIXTIES.
Some Interesting Letters not Heretofore Published.
by mrs. maria evans claiborne, st. louis, mo.
The first of September, 1861, marked the real beginning of
the Civil War for me. For it was on that date that my hus-
band, Col. Mark L. Evans, left me and our happy home at
Gonzales, Tex., to go to the war — and to his death on the
battlefield. He had responded tn the second call for volunteers,
and had received a commission to raise a company for Terry's
Texas Rangers, a regiment of cavalry under the command
of Col. Frank Terry, of Sugar Land, Fort Bend County, Tex.
Of this command many brave men fell in battle, "foremost
, in the fight," while others were spared to fortunate careers
in civil life. Prominent among those who fell were the gal-
lant Col. Terry, Lieut. Frank Batchelor, and Capt. A. G. Har-
ris; while of the living left were Col. A. M. Shannon, of Gal-
veston ; Capts. John R. Baylor, of Rockport ; Friend, of
Cuero; and George Littlefield, of Austin.
The Terry Rangers started for
Richmond, Va., journeying first to
Houston and thence to New Orleans.
Arriving at the Crescent City, they
were ordered instead to Kentucky,
where they remained in camp for
about two months, only a few skir-
mishes occurring meanwhile. The
prospect for a speedy peace, of which
we were so confident at the outset,
having proved delusive, early in De-
cember I set out from Gonzales, Tex.,
lo join my husljand at Bowling (irccn,
dream of a four years' war.
At this time, December, 1861, all of the ports on the Gulf
Coast of Mexico were blockaded by the Federals, and I had
to go by land. There were but few railroads in Texas at
that period, and I had to travel to Alleyton. fifty miles, by
stage, that being then the terminus of what is now the South-
ern Pacific Railroad. P'rom Alleyton I went to Houston, and
thence to Beaumont by train. There I took a boat on the
Natchez River to Niblett's BIufF, where I had again to jour-
ney by stage through Louisiana to New Iberia, on the Bayou
Teche. I went by boat again to Brashear City, and from
thence to New Orleans by railway. This journey, long and
tedious, I made alone with niy two small children.
Arriving in New Orleans, we were glad indeed to rest
for two weeks at tlie home of my mother tliere. The very
sad news of the death of Col. Terry was received while there.
He was killed in battle at WoodsonviDe, Ky., on December 17.
An extract from my husband's letter, which conveyed the
shocking news to me, will perhaps not be amiss, since it gives
in its every word a faithful account of this first great loss
in the regiment, bringing home to us the realization of what
the conflict might mean for ourselves:
"Headquarters Texas Rangers,
* Camp Terry, near Cave City.
December 19. 1861.
"My Dear Wife: At the earliest moment practicable J
hasten to lay before you a short report of our late battle,
fought on Tuesday, the i"th, near Woodsonville, on Green
River. On last Sunday our entire regiment was engaged in
attacking the enemy's pickets along Green River, on a front
of at least thirty-five miles. We killed five or six and took
a good many guns, mules and horses, and pri>oners. On Tues-
day last we started from here in advance of Gen. Hindman's
Legion of Infantry, numbering two thousand, two hundred
men, ninety cavalry from Mississippi, and our cavalry of
Texas Rangers, numbering two hundred and eighty, for
Green River.
"The General brought a battery of four six-pounders. We
reached Rowlett's Station, one mile from Green River, about
11:30 A.M. Ice Jones and company were sent to the left to
reconnoiter, and soon the firing was heard between these
pickets and Jones's company, and in a few minutes Ice came
galloping in and reported to Col. Terry that the enemy were
coming up the hill on our left flank in force. Col. Terry seat
him back to still keep watch of their movements and report
from time to time.
"By this time the firing got closer, and shot after shot
was heard, and in a few minutes the shots appeared very
close to us, and soon a shower of bullets came whistling
over our heads, and the enemy came up in a hundred yards
of us. Col. Terry raised his hat and waved it, and shouted:
'Charge, my brave boys, charge !' I was close to him when
he gave the command, and we all started at a gallop, the
Colonel leading everybody. The enemy were posted in a
thick skirt of black-jack on our left, about four hundred
strong, and only about one hundred and twenty of us charged
them, and such a charge ! The boys raised the yell, and every
one dashed ahead upon the bright bayonets and right in the
face of a hail of bullets. We routed them, shooting them
down right and left and putting them to flight in every direc-
tion. We charged right over them, and I never saw men fall
as they did. One tried to run his bayonet into me, but was
shot by Mr. Thomas, of Capt. Wharton's company. All the
enemy, we found, were of the Thirty-Second Indiana.
"Col. Terry made a desperate charge upon about a dozen,
and fell dead, having received a ball in the chin and coming
out in the back of his head. His horse was shot from under
him about the same instant. I have the honor to know that
I shot the Dutchman's brains out that killed him. I emptied
my six-shooters into the crowd, and saw several fall dead.
MRS. MAKIA EVANS CLAIBORNE.
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"Poor Terry ! He was a gallant colonel, and won the ad-
miration of everybody by his manly courage and by his kind
heart and noble disposition. I got down and took hold of him
and tried to raise him up, but he was a corpse and very
much disfigured. I called up four men to help carry him oR
the field. His son Dave was perfectly thunderstruck when he
came up and saw his dead father, and he fell upon him and
screamed as if his heart would break. It was a heartrending
sight to see the Colonel's brains all shot out lying beside his
dead horse, and others lying around, wounded and dead; and
the enemy lying round, dead and wounded, and the wounded
groaning and calling for water.
"We routed them from their stronghold and were masters
of the field. Capt. Ferrill fought them on the other side of
the railroad and killed about thirty. We killed about twenty-
five or thirty in our charge, and part of our men followed
them up in the field and killed a good many. Our men were
then called off and ordered to form again. The artillery was
brought up and commenced playing on the enemy, and made
lanes through their ranks. We threw shells at them, which
did some execution. They threw three shells at us. One sung
over my head and burst in the air in our rear. Two
Arkansas companies of infantry engaged a part of their right
flank and killed sixteen. Our killed were : Col. Terry, Corporal
Dunn, of Company K, and Privates Beall and Lofton, of
Company D. Lieut. Morris, Company K, was mortally
vrounded; severely wounded, John Jackson, Capt. Walker,
Company K. Capt. Ferrell fought a gallant fight and lost two
men and seven horses. Capt. Walker had two horses shot,
while there wa^ one horse shot in my company and Col.
Terry's. It was a desperate and hard-fought battle, and lasted
about one and three-quarters of an hour. I was in the thick-
est of ithe fight, and had a chance to know for once what it
is to be in a battle and to smell the smoke of 'the cannon's
opening roar.'
"All our boys fought gallantly, and every one showed that,
he felt the reputation of Texas was at stake. That day
added a bright page to the already wide fame of the Texas
Rangers. But we have lost our Colonel, and many a sad
heart and solemn face is in camp; and the whole army is
awe-struck and grieved at our sad misfortune.
"I was ordered by Gen. Hindman after the Colonel's death
to take charge of the regiment, as I was the ranking officer
in the field present, and I felt a heavy responsibility. But
Maj. Harris has arrived from Bowling Green, and takes com-
mand to-day. Gen. Johnston is sending a large force up to
this place, and bloody work may be expected if the enemy
come on this side of the river. They are reported to be
thirty thousand strong.
"Write to me soon and give my love to my friends. I will
try to get to see you and my darling children soon. Your
affectionate husband, M. L. Evans."
The State of Louisiana being then under martial law, I
was obliged before leaving the city to go before the provost
marshal to be identified before I could obtain a passport
out of New Orleans. Having secured this, I went from New
Orleans to Columbia, Tenn., the home of my childhood and
youth, my school days having been spent at the famous old
schools, the Female Institute and the Tennessee Conference
Female College. That I might continue to have the ad-
vantages of these schools, upon my mother's change of
residence to Texas, in 1853, I was left by her with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Garrett L. Voorhies. My mother's three brothers
were all supporters of the Confederate cause and closely
identified with it, as their names (Col. William Milton Voor-
hies, Rev. James G. Voorhies, and A. O. P. Nicholson) will
recall.
On January i, 1862, I left Columbia for Nashville to join
my husband and to procure a boarding place nearer him.
This we found in the pleasant country home of Mr. .William
Shaw, about ten miles out of the city, and a mile or two from
the Gallatin Pike. Mr. Shaw was then the sheriff of David-
son County, and his lovely home was in a beautiful valley sur-
rounded on all sides by high hills. While there the sad
news came that the Federals had attacked Fort Donelson,
on the Cumberland River, and a bloody battle was being fought.
We could hear distinctly the booming of the cannon. It
sounded like a terrible thunderstorm in the distance.
The result was the fall of Fort Donelson and the loss of
many lives, while many were taken prisoners. Then came the
awful news that the Confederate army in Kentucky was fall-
ing back into Tennessee, and soon could be heard the rumbling
of the artillery and the heavy army wagons on the Gallatin
turnpike. Many hearts ached, and every face showed it.
Our next news was that Gallatin had been burned by the
Federals. There was much an.xiety on every hand.
Under these conditions I feared that I might be left within
the Federal lines ; and to add to my anxiety, I had with me a
brother ill with rheumatism caused from exposure in the army.
Mr. Shaw kindly offered to convey me and my brother, H.
Clay Evans, across the Cumberland River to Nashville. We
gladly accepted his kindness, and within an hour my brother
and I, with my two small children and our baggage, were
piled by Mr. Shaw into an express wagon, he accompanying
us, and hurried away over the rugged roads.
Soon we came to the turnpike, and just in sight came a
long line of army ambulances, the sick and wounded from
the hospitals at Bowling Green, Ky. — a gloomy sight indeed.
Just as they had passed us, we saw several men approaching
in Federal uniforms, and with them one of the men who had
been sent out for information. As they reached us this man
spoke to us and said : "You see I am in the hands of Federal
officers." This so shocked and grieved me that I could not
restrain my feelings, and I began to weep, when one of the
ofliicers spoke up gravely: "That is too severe a joke." Then
he assured me that they were Confederates, and had only
fortunately captured some Federal clothing, and introduced
himself to me as none other than the "Rebel, John Morgan."
After thus relieving my fears, Gen. Morgan, knightly sol-
dier that he was, kindly offered to escort me himself safely
into Nashville. He informed me that they were the rear
guard of Johnston's army, the procession of the sick and
wounded which we had just viewed being the last to proceed.
And so. Gen. Morgan leading the way, we once more went
on our journey, reaching Nashville in a few hours. Arriving
there, we found the streets so crowded that we could scarcely
make our way through ; but Gen. Morgan's presence open-
ing the way, we found it less difficult again because of his
valuable assistance.
The scenes of this memorable day I can never forget. Wa
saw Gen. Forrest's command as they came in from Fort
Donelson after their terrible battle and their long march
through mud and water ; it was a pitiful sight that I shall
always remember. From the veranda of the St. Cloud Hotel,
as we passed it, we saw Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston address-
ing the army and giving his marching orders. Among the
regiments drawn up in line for these orders, and ready, every
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man of them, to obey, were the Terry Texas Rangers, who
at that moment, to my proud, anxious heart, seemed of all
that body of brave men the bravest and the best.
We found it difficult to secure a lodging place, being
obliged to seek one hotel after another, finding every one filled
to overflowing, until finally we reached the Planters', where,
although at that time but a third-class hostelry, I felt very
fortunate in finding a comfortable stopping place for the
night. There I parted with gallant John Morgan and my
good friend, Mr. Shaw, thanking them both for their valued
services.
In Nashville all business was suspended, of course, every
house closed, and all was excitement. I had failed to find
among the crowds that thronged the streets the one face ot
all for which I was looking, and it was not until the next
morning that I saw my husband. Standing out on the little
veranda outside my room and looking out upon the crowd
of soldiers that filled the street below me, I recognized my
husband at a little distance from me. He had passed my hotel
and his back was to me; but seeing the Texas star on his
liat, and sure that it was he, I called to him aloud, "Mark !
Mark I"
Turning quickly in the direction of my voice, he saw me
waving, and rode back to me. He had left his regiment on
the early evening before, riding all night that he might be in
time to see me safely across the Cumberland River and
within the Confederate lines. He arrived at Mr. Shaw's
only about an hour after we left. Passing over our joyful
meeting, mingled as it was with the shadows of impending
disaster and all the nameless sorrows of war, our stay in
Nashville was short, being but one night and the day follow-
ing. The city was in great confusion, every one fleeing who
could get means of conveyance. Not a vehicle of any kind
but had already been pressed into service.
It was on Sunday when the first news came that our army
in Kentucky was falling back into Tennessee. Many were at
church, and the first news was announced by the ministers
from their pulpits. The people were almost instantly wild,
many going from church to the stations at once. Train after
train was sent out heavily loaded with refugees. Among
these a great many were the students from the many schools
of the city and the section surrounding it, many going di-
rectly to trains without packing trunks or taking a meal —
no one thinking of sleep that night. Then indeed
"There was hurrying to and fro.
And lips all pale."
On the river, throughout the blackness of the night, there
burned a broken line of red fire from boat to boat of all the
many stored with commissary supplies, which had been set
afire and floated down the river. Leaving Nashville, I went
with my children for a few days back to my old home at
Columbia until my husband should arrive with his regiment.
All along the way down as we journeyed we saw stationed
at the bridges the men who, at a moment's warning, were to
set fire to them. And even as we passed, like electric signals
in the distance, we could see the smoke of the burning
bridges, over which we had just passed in safety. This was
the case as far as Franklin.
Fri ni Columbia I journeyed with my husband and our
children by railway to Decatur, Ala. The army was arriving
there on the Tennessee River in large forces daily, moving
on down to Corinth, Miss., where, it was thought, a stand
would be made, as the Federals, many thousands strong, were
landing near luka. When I passed Corinth on my journey
homeward toward New Orleans, there were thirty-five or
forty thousand encamped around the town, the camps ex-
tending for miles. It was one grand military camp of in-
fantry, cavalry, and artillery. On every side the accouter-
ments of war — locomotives and army wagons, horses, pack
mules, ambulances, and cannon — were everywhere to be seen,
■with stores of deadly cannon balls and shells of every kind.
From Decatur I went direct to New Orleans, where I re-
-ceived the news from Shiloh in a brief telegram from my
Tiusband, dated April 9, which read : "Just in from the battle-
field. Safe." On the same date he wrote me concerning the
battle.
[Here follows a long, interesting account of the battle,
which may be used later. — Ed. Veteran.]
Before I could reply to this letter I received a telegram
from my husband, stating that he would be one of the military
escort to accompany to New Orleans Gen. Johnston's remains,
•which would arrive on the next day, the loth of April. As
will be remembered, the remains of the distinguished com-
mander lay in state in the city hall in New Orleans, after
which they were placed temporarily in Mayor Monroe's vault,
being removed after the war to Austin, Tex., and buried in
the State Capitol grounds.
Passing over the grand military funeral given by the city
of New Orleans as a last honor to the lamented Gen. Johnston,
the greatest spectacle of sorrow I ever witnessed, my stay in
New Orleans was shortened by the threatened attack on Fort
Jackson, on the Mississippi River just below the city. It
was reported that the Federals were firing on this fort, and,
all news being suppressed, we decided that Texas would be a
safer refuge, so we started once luore homeward over the ter-
rible route we had traveled a few months before.
So on the morning of April 18, 1862, we left New Orleans.
That evening the Federal gunboats arrived under Farragut,
and New Orleans had fallen. We had but barely escaped the
triumphal entry of Ben Butler, and fortunate we were to have
escaped his merciless rule. Back again to our home in Gon-
zales, Tex., we journeyed from New Orleans, my husband
accompanying us on the journey. Arriving there, my husband
could remain but a few days with us to see us safely settled,
when he was obliged to hurry from us again to join his regi-
ment. It was on the ist of May that he left on his return trip,
which proved to be a long and tedious one. It was the 31st of
May that I had word from him that he had reached Vicks-
burg. Miss., at which point he had crossed the Mississippi,
landing just as two gunboats of the enemy appeared in sight
and fired upon one of the Confederate batteries; but receiving
no reply, they retired, "it being evident," he wrote, "that they
were only trying to get the range of our guns. But in this
they failed." The greater part of this trying journey by my
husband and two or three companions was made in an open
skiff on the river, each taking a turn at the oars. In this
way they made all the way from Monroe La., to Vicksburg,
the country all being then under water.
Letters now came less often even than before; for the Fed-
eral lines separated us, and they had always to come by hand,
as chance might afTord an opportunity now and then of a
hasty note's being intrusted to soine soldier returning home.
By a friend so returning my husband sent me late in Septem-
ber, 1862, a few hurried lines written in pencil on two leaves
torn from his sinall memorandum book. Long before he had
written me on the 17th of June from Camp Lookout : "We
have plenty of good water, but hard living. Nothing but
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flour, bacon, and beans. The coffee and sugar are played out.
None to be had, and the boys are learning to do without."
Week followed week, and no letters. Nothing to break the
desolate silence, until finally news came — vague, conflicting
rumors only — that my husband had been wounded, how
severely no one could tell certainly. Some cheered me with
the assurance that he was only slightly wounded and that he
would soon return home; others were sure that he had been
wounded mortally. Every one showed tenderest sympathy:
but it was hard to know whom to believe, so conflicting were
the reports received. Finally one desolate day there came a
letter, short and simply worded. It read:
"Harrodsburg, Kv., October 21, 1862.
"Mrs. Evans, Dear Madam: It has fallen to my lot to in-
form you of the melancholy fate of your lamented husband,
and may God help you and give you fortitude in your bereave-
ment.
"Capt. Evans was ordered into the battle of Perryville on
the 8th inst. to charge a battery, which he did most gallantly.
But he received a fatal wound in the head by a Minie ball
which fractured his skull. He was brought to my home,
where he had good attention until the i8th inst, when at
forty minutes past six he expired. He lay in a drowsy state
all the time, and never opened his eyes; he talked very little,
and his talk was like a man who is very drowsy. His Masonic
brothers helped to get his coffin and to bury him. He and
Col. McDaniel, of Georgia, were buried at the same time.
Their bodies now lie in the Masonic grounds, where they can
be removed.
"Anything that you would desire me to do shall be done
with pleasure. Most truly your friend, B. Mills."
"Note.— The Indian boy [Capt. Evans's body servant] at-
tended him most faithfully. My wife has his clothes, a ring,
and a lock of his hair, which will all be kept for you. His
brother and some friends remained with him for three days,
when the enemy came and they left him in my charge.
B. Mills."
Following this painful letter, a few weeks later came another
from my husband's warm friend and comrade, Lieut. Frank
Batchelor, the details of which giving so vivid a picture of
war and its horrors, I have been moved to quote from it that
portion which describes the scene of my husband's death:
"The painful task is mine to inform you of the death of
your dear husband, Maj. Mark L. Evans, who died at Har-
rodsburg, Ky., in October, last, of wounds received while
gallantly leading a charge of the Texas Rangers in the battle
of Perryville. I was with him but a few minutes before he was
shot. The enemy had turned a battery upon us to cover the
retreat of some of their cavalry, who were falling back before
our skirmishers. One of their shells burst near my horse,
causing him to spring round so suddenly that my girth broke
and threw me to the ground. Our regiment was now ordered
to retire before the enemy's galling fire ; l)ut Evans, seeing my
situation, stopped till I had refixed my saddle and remounted,
when we rode at swift gallop till we reached the regiment.
Just then we were ordered to charge the enemy, strongly
posted on a hill. I rode to my company, while he went to his
post as major, acting as lieutenant colonel of the regiment.
He had been major, in fact, since the resignation of Lieut.
Col. Walker, though his promotion had not been declared
officially.
"We were thus separated, and I did not see him again
during the charge. After it was over a soldier told me that
he was killed T iinmpdiatplv started back, determined to
bring off his body, but was met by one of our company, who
told me that he was not dead, but mortally wounded and in-
sensible ; that Lieut. J. W. Baylor had taken him from the
field, and that he would not live many minutes. Our company
had but one commissioned officer besides myself, and I could
not leave it, so I sent his brother Clay with two others to
see that everything was done that could be and not to leave
him. This they did, and got an ambulance and took him to
Harrodsburg, in advance of our retiring army, to the house
of a Mrs. Mills, who rendered every assistance dictated by
sympathy and kindness. He was struck by a large-sized
musket ball just above the right temple and ranged over the
skull, tearing the flesh out some four inches and a half in
length by one in width and leaving the skull bare and slightly
fractured.
"The morning we left Harrodsburg I called to see him for
the last time, and assisted in dressing his wounds. The sur-
geon told me that there was hardly room for hope ; but I could
not bear to write you till I could give encouragement to hope
or be forced to state the worst. I therefore delayed this letter
till the announcement of your husband's death appeared in
the Louisville papers.
"I found Mark entirely sensible, but so stunned by his
wound that he spoke only when roused up, and then in mono-
syllables. The physicians forbade talking upon any subject
likely to excite him, so nothing passed between us about
home."
And so alone, among strangers, neither brother nor com-
rade with him, my husband died, his life a sacrifice to the
cause that he so bravely defended, because he was so strongly
convinced of its justness. His history thus early brought to
an untimely end was not sadder than that of many another on
both sides of that contending army that marked its passage
with the ashes of desolatioiL Wherever they rise — those "low,
green tents whose curtains never outward swing" — "let us
deck the turf that wraps their clay with our prayers and
hopes that they lived not in vain."
MRS. W. CARLETON ADAMS, MEMPHIS,
Author of *' Slave Monument Question " in Veteran for November, 1904.
Qopfederat^ Uecerai).
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MAJ. HUSE, OF THE SECRET SERVICE.
Mr. J. S. Rogers, of 574 Warren Street, Boston, in a circu-
lar publishes tlie following : "In the summer of 1903 two
friends of Maj. Huse were hospitably entertained by him at
his charming home, 'The Rocks,' on the Hudson, near West
Point, and during their visit were treated to a recital of
some of his experiences as agent in Europe for purchasing
army supplies for the Confederate States during the War
between the States. I was so impressed by this unique bit
of history that I succeeded in inducing him to write of it."
Mr. Rogers has issued a pamphlet account that he will
furnish at twenty-five cents per copy. The narration states :
"When I arrived in England the Confederate States gov-
ernment was already represented by Hon. William L. Yancey,
Commissioner to England, and Judge Rest, of New Orleans.
Commissioner to France. Later Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, after-
wards United States Secretary of the Interior, and later still
Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was appointed
Commissioner to Russia; but he went no farther than Paris,
and returned to Richmond before the end of the war. Com-
mander James D. Bulloch, previously of the United Slates
navy, whose sister was the mother of President Roosevelt,
was in charge of all naval matters. Messrs. Fraser, Trenholm
& Co., of Liverpool, were the fiscal agents. None of the
representatives of the Confederate government required much
money in the discharge of his duties e.\ccpt Commander Bul-
loch and myself. We were both to look to Fraser, Trenholm
& Co. for all the money we were to expend, as indeed were
all the diplomatic agents.
"The fiscal system was, almost of necessity, of the most
simple character. Fraser, Trenholm & Co., of Liverpool,
John Fraser & Co., of Charleston. S. C. and Trenholm
Bros., of New York, were practically one concern, and the
senior member of John Eraser & Co., Mr. William Tren-
holm, became Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury
early in the war. Mr. Wellsman, senior member of Tren-
holm Bros., in New York, joined the Liverpool house, the
senior member and manager of which was Charles K. Prioleau,
formerly of Charleston. There was no loan to negotiate,
for the Confederacy- — recognized only as belligerents — had no
credit among nations, and no system of taxation by which it
could hope to derive any revenue available for purchasing
supplies abroad. But it possessed a latent purchasing power
such as probably no other government in history ever had.
"1 he cotton crop of its people was a prime necessity for
tlic manufacturing world outside; and for want of machinery
was utterly valueless in all the Southern States except Georgia,
where there were a few small factories. Almost immediately
after the outbreak of hostilities the Confederate authorities
began to buy cotton, paying in such 'money' as it had — that
is to say, its own promises to pay whenever it could. Some
of these promises bore interest and were called bonds; some
bore no interest, and these constituted the currency of the
country.
"The cotton, as it lay on the plantations or in the ware-
houses, was for sale, and the government was almost the
only buyer. To all others there was a difficulty, amounting
almost to impossiliility, in getting cotton to market. Some
no doubt was smuggled across the border, to the advantage
of 'patriots' of each side; but this outlet for a bulky article
like cotton was altogether inadequate, and practically every
one was compelled by the very condition of affairs, without
the application of even moral force, to sell to the government
and receive in payment the best that the government had to
offer — namely, its own promises to pay — which, whether
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stated as a condition of the promise or not, could not be made
good till after the favorable close of the war. If the South
failed, the promises would be valueless; if it succeeded, the
obligations would be met as promptly as possible. The
situation was accepted by the people, and the government
acquired cotton and shipped it to Nassau, Bermuda, and
Havana as fast as it could.
"To get cotton through the blockading squadron called for
daring and skill ; but there seems to have been no lack of
either, and it was not long before every steam vessel that could
carry even a few bales and was seaworthy enough to reach
Nassau was ready with a crew on board, eager to slip out
any dark night and run to a neutral port, generally Nassau.
"For a long time this traffic went on almost without a
capture, and the Confederate government not only deposited
in places of safety large quantities of a commodity in general
demand throughout the world, but also had the satisfaction
of seeing its property advance rapidly in value as the war
went on and its necessities increased. The cotton thus shipped
was all consigned to Fraser, Trenholm & Co., Liverpool, and
the consignments for the army, navy, and diplomatic depart-
ments were carefully kept separate. There was, therefore,
no clashing of interests between the army and navy as to
disposition of proceeds. The requirements for the diplomatic
agents were trifling compared with those of the army for sup-
plies and the navy for building, equipping, and manning ships.
"I had not been long in England before the sinews of war
began to be available, and I found myself able to meet my
engagements in a manner entirely satisfactory to my creditors.
To buy supplies was simple enough ; but to ship them was
another matter. As was to be expected, detectives employed
by the United Slates government, as well as volunteer spies.
were about me. Efl^orts were made to intercept telegrams
and to tamper with employees, but few of these attempts at
stopping Confederate army supplies were succes.sful.
"One success scored by the United States was the capture
of the Stephen Hart, a schooner of .American build, but pur-
chased by an English house and put under the British flag
for Confederate use. . . . After the Stephen Hart episode
all army supplies were carried by steamer cither to a Con-
federate port direct or to Nassau or Bermuda. There was
little difficulty in chartering steamers to carry supplies to
'The Islands.' Gener.TlIy both ship and cargo belonged in
good faith to British subjects, and, as the voyage was from
one British port to another, the entire business was as lawful
as a similar .shipment would have been from London to
Liverpool. . . .
"During the first two years the captures were so infrequent
that, it may he safely stated, never before was a government
at war supplied with arms, munitions, clothing, and medicines
with so little money as was paid by the Confederacy. The
shipment from England to the Lslands in ordinary tramp
steamers, the landing and storage there, and the running of
the blockade cost money; but all that was needed came from
cotton practically given to the Confederate government by
its ow'ners.
"The supplies were in every instance bought at the lowest
cash prices by men trained in the work as contractors for the
British army. No credit was asked. Merchants having needed
supplies were frankly told that our means were limited, and
our payments would be made by checks on Fraser. Trciiliohu
& Co., Liverpool, an old, established, and conservative house.
The efTect of such buying was to create confidence on the
part of the sellers, which made them more anxious to sell
than were we to purchase. When the end came and some
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of tile largest sclk-rs wi-rc riiiiu'd, I never heard a word of
complaint of tlieir being overreached or in any manner treated
unfairl}'. As long as the system thns described continued the
South not only equipped an army able to cope with tlie
colossal forces constantly advancing upon it, but it accom-
plished this without distressing its people with taxes. . . .
"But the supply of acceptable arms was not equal to the
demand. The civilized powers had but recently been equip])cd
with modern arms. The United Stales had the Springfield;
l-'ngland had the Enfield, which was practically the same as
the Springfield ; Austria had a rille bearing a close re-
semblance to both and of about the same calilier. Austria
had a ciMisiderable quantity on hand, and these an inter-
mediary proposed I should buy.
"I knew something of the armanu'iit of Austria, having
visited Vienna in 1859 with a letter from the United States
War Department which gave me some facilities for observa-
tion. At first I considered the getting of anything from an
imperial Austrian arsenal as chimerical. But my would-be
intermediary was so persistent that finally I accompanied
him to Vienna, and within a few days closed a contract for
one hundred thousand rifles of the latest Austrian pattern
and ten batteries, of six pieces each, of field artillery, with
harness complete, ready for service, and a quantity of am-
munition, all to be delivered on ship at Hamburg. The
I'niled States Minister, ]\Ir. Motley, protested in vain. He
was told that the making of arms was an important industry
of Austria; that the same arms had been offered to the United
States and declined, and that, as belligerents, the Confederate
States were, by the usage of nations, lawful buyers. How-
ever unsatisfactory this answer may have been to Washing-
ton, the arms were delivered, and in due time were shipped
to Bermuda from Hamburg. Mr. Motley offered to buy
the whole consigjniient, but was too late. The Austrian gov-
ernment declined to break faith with the purchasers. . . .
"The fourth year of the war saw an end of the struggle,
not only because of the immense superiority of the North in
men and material but also on account of a change of policy
in securing supplies. For a long time there were no con-
tractors between the European sources o^f supply and the
great consumer, the army. Cotton, the only article of value
to the outside world, passed into possession of the govern-
ment continuously and without friction, and was landed in
Nassau — exceptionally in Bermuda — with no back charges
due. Every shilling that a bale was worth as it lay at the
landing place was so much to the credit of the War or Navy
Department with Eraser, Trenholm & Co., of Liverpool, and
was available as soon as the arrival was announced by mail
via New York. There were literally no leaks. . . . But
in the latter stages of the war contracts with the government
began to appear. These contracts, made in Richmond, were
generally a sort of partnership affair by which the contractor,
usually an English company, shared equally the freighting
capacity of each blockade runner."
ll'ITH WALTHALL AT NASHVILLE.
nV E. W. TARRANT, BONHAM, TEX.
In looking at the handsome face of the "Chevalier
Bayard" of the Army of Tennessee, Maj. Gen. Walthall, which
adorns the frontispiece of the October Veteran, I am re-
minded of an incident in the battle of Nashville. December
15, 1S64, which I yet love to think of. Trueheart's Battalion
of Artillery, composed of the three Alabama batteries of
Lumsden, Lovelace, and Tarrant, were assigned positions on
the extreme left of our army, and, as these batteries were
attached to WallhaH's Division, we were under his personal
observation. The writer was in command of two Parrott
guns stationed on an eminence just to the right of Granny
White Pike. We had not even as much infantry support as
is reported by Sergt. Maxwell in his accurate and interesting
account of Lumsdeii's Battery in that battle, and my instruc-
tions were to hold my position at all hazards. With no in-
fantry support we had for an hour and a half kept a dcnible
line of Federal infantry at bay in our immediate front, when
we discovered that our forces on the left were falling back
in great disorder and were closely pursued by the enemy.
When our ammunition was almost exhausted and the wheel
horses to one of my guns had been shot down, a courier from
Maj. Trueheart dashed up with orders for me to "limber up
my guns and get them away as soon as possible." I could
only partially obey orders, so I spiked one gun and started
the other to the rear; but it had not gone more than a hun-
dred yards when one of the wheel horses was shot down,
Sergt. Neilson and Private Wright were killed, and the gun
brought to a dead halt against the stump of a locust three.
Coming up to the gun just at this time and finding it aban-
doned, I spiked it and pushed on to get together my scattered
men and horses. Seeing Gen. Walthall just ahead of me,
with tears in my eyes on account of the loss of my guns and
fearing a reproof from him, I rode alongside and, saluting
him, said : "General, I held my position until I was ordered
to retire, but it was too late to save my guns." Instead of
getting a withering rebuke, as I had feared, he in the kind-
est manner possible consoled me for my loss, and said that
he saw my position, that I had done everything that a man
could do, and that he had no fault to find with me. Is it a
wonder that I revere his memory?
STORIES OF SCOUT SERVICE.
Capt. John H. Lester, of Deming, N. Mex., was born and
reared in Lauderdale County, Ala. He joined the Florence
Guards, the first company raised in Lauderdale County for
service in the Confederate army. The company was ordered
to Pensacola, Ela., and made part of the Seventh Alabama
Infantry. From Pensacola they were sent to Bowling Green.
Ky., under Gen. A S. Johnston. Their term of enlistment
i_ having expired. Pri-
vate Lester went back
to Lauderdale County
and assisted in or-
ganizing a company of
cavalry. He was
elected lieutenant and
shortly after captain.
.At first they were a
part of the Fourteenth
Battalion of Alabama
Cavalry, which was
merged into the
Seventh A 1 a b a m a
(cavalry) under J.
C. Malone, colonel.
It was afterwards
changed to the Ninth.
In the fall of 1862 the
regiment was assigned
to Gen. Wheeler's
command, and served
with it to the close
CAPT. J. H. LESTER,
Qoijfederate l/eterajj.
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of the war. Capt. Lester did not surrender, but left with
Gen. Wlicclcr for Texas; 1nit afterwards returned to liis
home in Alabama, and from tliere to his present home, in
Deniing, N. Mex.
After the fall of Atlanta, and up to the time of the P.enton-
ville fight, Capt. Lester was in command of scouts operating
on Sherman's flank and rear, and naturally had some close
calls with the enemy.
In writing of these for the Veter.\n. he says:
"The secret of success in war, 'Get there first with the
most men,' is a saying attributed to the 'Wizard of the Sad-
dle,' Gen. N. B. Forrest. Rut it was not always necessary to
have the most men, if you could only .B:et there first.
"In February, 1S65, I had command of scouts in South
Carolina. I operated inside the Federal lines, and had only
twelve men. I was in the rear of Sherman's arnij', about
fifty miles north of Columbia. One afternoon I stopped at
a negro quarter and ordered dinner. We had been there
only a few minutes when I saw some Yankees about
half a mile from us filing off the main road on the op-
posite side of the road from us. I sent a sergeant and
four men to follow them, while I, with the seven others,
crossed the main road and went through the woods to inter-
sect the road the Yankees had taken. When we reached the
road they had taken, I saw four or five about one himdred
yards ahead just going over a hill. We spurred our horses
into a run, and when they saw us coming they threw sometlnng
from Ihoir horses, moved off at full speed, and disappeared
over the hill. When we got to the top of the hill 1 saw alvnn
eighty yards from me a lane full of Yankees. I looked back
and saw that 1 had only three men in sight, one at my side
and two others only a few feet behind. As we were going
at full speeil. 1 saw in a moment that there was only one thing
that would give us success, 'To get there first,' as they had
the nwst men. I said, 'Boys, we are in for it ; commence
shooting and yelling;' and there never were four men that did '
faster shooting or louder yelling.
"The Yankees were jammed in a narrow lane not more
than twenty feet wide, and were so badly excited they did not
fight nor run until we got in forty yards of them. They
broke and ran without firing a sliot ; some got oft' their horses,
jumped the fence, and ran into the woods. The others of my
men soon came up and took charge of the several prisoners :
the others wc ran five miles into their camp. Wc then re-
tiu'ued to gather up the meat, flour, bacon, and hats they had
thrown away. The prisoners captured said there were only
a lieutenant and thirty-two men, but they made the big-
gest show for thirty-three men I saw during the four years
of war.
"Operating inside of the enemy's lines, it was necessary at
times to 'play Yankees' and very necessary at other times to
be 'Confederalcs.' I usually instructed my men as to whether
we .should be Confederate or Federal; and as we had Yankee
saddles and overcoats (our coats were dyed black), we read-
ily passed for Yankees. I w-as, one day, close to the rear of
Sherman's army ;nid stopped at a house to make some in-
nuiry. The 'S'ankees had left a few moments before I came
In the house. After making the inquiry I saw the proprietor
curiously eye us for a moment and then approach Bob Gris-
by, one of my scouts. 'Are you men Southern or Northern
soldiers?' Bob hesitated a moment and, as he could not re-
member what instruction had been given, said : 'Mister, to tell
you the fact, we liavc been so mixed up lately d — nic if I
know-.' "
In illustration of the risk men would take for a house and
bed when extremely exhausted, Capt. Lester states:
On one occasion in South Carolina, while in the rear of
Sherman's army, I wished to locate the position of the enemy.
As it was necessary to go into the enemy's camp to get the
desired information, I took only one man with me. I
sent the sergeant with the other scouts to a place several
miles away to await me. As I was longer getting the
information than I expected, and at nine o'clock I was
still eight or ten miles from my camp, I decided to stop
for the night at the first house. The house was about two
miles in the rear of Sherman's army, on the road he had
traveled that day. The proprietor asked me who wc were,
and I said, 'Confederate scouts.' He then informed me that
two Yankees had just gone to bed in the house, and the only
vacant room joined the one occupied by the Yankees. I said :
'It makes no difference to me; I will not disturb them if Ihev
will let me alone until morning.' After hiding pur horses in
the woods, wc went to our room, locked the door, went to
bed, and did not wake until after sunup the next morning.
We prepared for action, went downstairs, and met our host
in the hall, when he informed us that the Yankees had just
gone without breakfast, as he had advised them that we were
in the house. Wc had a good breakfast and left.
"In the summer of 1864 I \vas with my company in Lauder-
dale County. Just north of the Tennessee River were the
F'ederals, the river being the dividing line. I was camped
some four or five miles from Ro.gersville, with eight or ton
of my men. One morning I called for a volunteer to go with
me on a scout in the direction of Rogersville. Bob Porter
responded. At Allen Sholar's farm, about a mile from town,
we rode down a small hill thickly covered with saplings.
When we got to the foot of the hill, I saw sixty or ei.ghty
Federal cavalry dismounted about fifty yards from me. Some
were at the blacksmith shop having their horses shod, and
the others were lying and sitting on the ground near by.
As I was too close to make a successful retreat, I decided to
try a 'bluff'.' I ordered my command (men) to forward!
Come up on the left! (in a loud voice for the benefit of the
Yankees, to give them a chance to retreat). I saw in a
moment that they were badly surprised and very much ex-
cited. To give them a little more excitement, we charged our
horses over the saplings to make as much noise as possible.
Porter said : 'Look here. Captain, let's get aw-ay from here.'
"As the Yankees were retreating, and my object accom-
plished, 1 withdrew my forces in good order. One Yankee,
under the excitement, left his horse hitched to the fence.
I learned the next day that they did not stop nmning until
they got to Rogersville and reported that they had been at-
tacked by a large force of bushwhackers. They returned that
afternoon in force, one regiment of infantry, one regiment
of cavalry, and a battery of artillery, and ventured three miles
from town, shelling the woods as they advanced ; and then
returned to Rogersville, satisfied with the victory won."
To complete his volumes of the 'Vf.tekan he paid as high as
three dollars for single copies. These stories illustrate the
peculiar characteristics of even hardened soldiers who be-
come "panic-stricken" wdien there is but little occasion for
alarm. Cajit. Lester has shown appreciation of the Veter.\n
second to no other patron.
Mn.iT.vRY Record of Ark.\ns.\ns. — A correspondent writes :
"No State in the Confederacy furnished more soldiers or bet-
ter ones in proportion to population than .\rkansas.' Her niili-
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tary population, as it is termed, in i860 was sixty-five thou-
sand, two hundred and thirteen. Of this number, she gave to
the Confederacy sixty-five regiments and fourteen battalions
of infantry, eleven regiments and two battalions of cavalry,
one regiment of mounted riflemen, five regiments of State
militia, and one battalion of artillery. There was not a promi-
nent battlefield from the Mississippi to the Blue Ridge Moun-
tains on the east, or from the Mississippi to the border line
of battle in the west, that was not stained with the blood of
her gallant sons.''
CoxcER.xiXG THE B.\TTLE OF N.ASHviLi.E. — Comrade W. H.
Kearney, of Trezevant, Tenn., says : "Just forty years ago
to-day — December 16. 1904 — in the evening my command, the
Sixteenth Tennessee Infantry, was in line of battle at Nash-
ville. We were on the left of our army. We had been con-
tinually extending to the left until our line was but little
more than a thin line of skirmishers. Our last move brought
us on top of a slight hill in the woods, where we formed a
line of battle. In a few moments we saw two Federal officers
ride up on top of a high hill in front of us and point to our
lines. We suspected what was coming, and were not long
kept in suspense. A battery soon opened on us with shell. We
could see but a short distance to our right, but we could
hear enough to convince us that they were having trouble over
there also. In the meantime the battery was getting our
range down to a fine point. The boys would naturally dodg^'
as they began to get closer to us. Lieut. Col. Harris was in
command, and he would storm out at us for dodging. Just
then one of the men called out. 'Look yonder. Colonel !' point-
ing to our left and rear, showing an old field full of Yankees
marching around us. The Colonel never thought any more
about dodging shells, but yelled out, 'Boys, every fellow for
himself!' and we went. That was forty years ago, but it
makes me tired yet to think how I went."
COBB'S BATTERY NOT CAPTURED AT SHILOH.
In that portion of the Government Building at the St.
Louis World's Fair set apart for displaying pictures of the
national parks of various battlefields the following is found
on the picture of the Shiloh Park: "Eleventh Iowa, Hare'.^
First Brigade, McClernand's Division. This regiment was
engaged here with the Eleventh and Twelfth Illinois, about
noon April 6, 1862, in the capture of Cobb's Kentucky Battery
of six guns. The regiment advanced about three hundred
\ards, captured a standard from the enemy, and then fell
Iiack, fighting, to Jones's field."
The attention of Capt. Cobb, who is yet living at Wichita
Falls, Tex., was called to this bit of perverted history, and
he makes the following statement : "The foregoing is about
the substance of what Gen. McClernand wrote in his report
of the battle. The high rank of the author of that report
furnishes one reason why I, as commander of the Kentucky
battery referred to, feel called upon to make a positive denial
of the statement that Cobb's Battery was captured on the
occasion referred to; and if it is intended by the expression,
'capturing a standard,' that it was the battery standard, I
must add that we carried no fiag (or standard) on that day,
and had none for a long time after — not, indeed, until one
was presented to the company by the wife of Gen. S. B.
Buckner, and that one is now in the possession of Mrs. Irene
Gracey, widow of Capt. Frank P. Gracey, of Clarksville, Tenn.,
who succeeded me as captain upon my promotion to the rank
of major of artillery, February 22, 1864. Additional reasons
move me to correct the mistake. It is due to the memory
of the gallant men who lost their lives on the memorable field
and to the few survivors who stayed by their guns in repelling
the assault of ihe Fortieth Illinois and Twenty-Third Missouri
Infantry, in which we were supported by the Third Kentucky
and Fourth Tennessee Infantry. Only eighty-four men and
ofticers of the battery were present in the engagement, thirty-
nine of whom were killed or wounded; five were killed on the
field, seven mortally wounded, and died within a week. Every
officer's horse was either killed or wounded, including my
own, and only eight of the battery horses proper were left
standing on their feet ; four of these had flesh wounds. Hare's
Brigade may have captured a six-gun battery, but it was not
Cobb's Kentucky Battery. Besides," he added, "it was not
known as Cobb's Battery until more than thirty days after the
battle of Shiloh, when the company was permanently detached
and in published orders by Gen. John C. Breckinridge, who
commanded the Reserve Division, named Cobb's Battery."
MARRIAGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
BY T. J. YOUNG, AUSTIN, ARK.
In the fall of 1863 the writer, who was a member of the
Seventh Virginia Cavalry, was on a leave of absence, on ac-
count of a wound, at his home in Loudon County, Va. He.
with several other Confederate soldiers inside the enem}''s
lines, was invited to a wedding which was to take place in
Leesburg. The writer, Aaron T. Beans, and Ed Wright, of
White's Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, went to Leesburg on
the evening the wedding took place.
We met with several Confederates of different commands
in Leesburg. and were informed that the Yankees had been
there, but had gone back toward Washington City. My
companions and I put our horses in the stable of the hotel,
and were assigned a room in the second story in the back
part of the building.
The Confederates who were in town assembled at the resi-
dence of Mr. Bently, whose daughter. Miss Rose, was to be
united in marriage to a Mr. Poindexter, a worthy Confed-
erate soldier.
It seems that the Yankees who had been in Leesburg that
day heard of the wedding, and, instead of going back to
Washington, came back to Leesburg that night to see how
many Confederates they could cut off. .A short while aftei
my companions and I had returned from the wedding to the
hotel the landlord's boy came running up to our room and
said : "Soldiers, the Yankees are in town. The town is full
of them !" They had already dismounted. About this tinu-
shooting seemed to be coming from every direction. We did
not hesitate long in deciding that it was best for us to get
out of the hotel, as they would be sure to search the house
for Confederates, so we hastened down the back way and
went under a house which fronted the street. The shooting
was still going on, and Wright proposed that we go to the
stable and get our horses. Beans remained under the house.
Wright and I v.'ent to the stable, saddled our horses, mounted,
and rode out the alley. Reaching the street, we were dis-
covered and ordered to halt ; but we kept on down the street,
with Yankees on every hand shooting at us. When we got
to where the street forked there was quite a squad of Yan-
kees, who poured a volley of shots at us, and as we passed
them they ran out and tried to catch our horses by the bridles.
I pulled my "forty-four" on the fellow who tried to catch
mine, and he abandoned the undertaking, his companions car-
rying him off. I was looking back to see if any cavalry were
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following lis when, to my horror, my horse turned a somer-
sault into an old. broken-down culvert. I tried to .liet him
up, but failed. I thought he was shot, so I left him and ran
along the fence down to a stream, the banks of which were
covered with bushes and briers.
I went up the creek through tlie bushes and stopped to
listen. Two men came out near me, looked at two old
horses grazing in the held, which they pronounced of no value,
and rode back to their command. This was where they had
dismounted and gone into Leesburg on foot, so as to make
the surprise complete. I then turned and went back down
the creek about a mile, to where 1 thought I would be outside
the Yankee pickets — to old Fort Evans, which overlooked the
town — arriving there just about daylight. The Yankees were
encamped in a field between the fort, where 1 was, and town,
but about eight o'clock they moved in the direction of Wash-
ington City.
1 concluded to go down and learn the result of the raid.
I found my old chum. Beans, who informed me that not one
of the Confederates was captured, killed, or wounded. The
Yankees had eight of their men killed and several wounded.
My horse had escaped also, and went back to the hotel stable.
The manner in wliich the bridegroom escaped capture wa^
laughable and, I imagine, a shade embarrassing. When the
Yankees began to scatter themselves in the town he fled in
his night clothes to a place of safety near the Washington
and Ohio railroad, while the bride remained at home in
anxious anticipation of his return. This was marrying under
dil'iiculties, anil probably the groom had good reason to ask
himself the Dutchman's question: "Vas marriage a vailure?"
A DOUBLE REUNION—AT NASHFILLE.
W. J. McDearman, of Trenton, Temi., was a member of
Company H, Twelfth Tennessee Infantry, Vaughan's Brigade,
Cheatham's Division. He was captured at Kennesaw Moun-
tain and sent to Camp Douglas. Mis family at that time being
inside the Federal lines, his father made arrangements with a
friend in Cairo to supply hiin with all needs that the com-
mandant of the prison would permit. Through this friend
he became acquainte<l by correspondence with a young lady
living in Kentucky. McDearman was not released from
prison till the 29th of June after the surrender. He returned
home and found that his sweetheart, "the girl he left behind"
when he entered the army, had niarru-il ; but she compensated
him in a measure for his loss by helping him to capture the
Kentucky girl he had been corresponding with while m prison,
whom she knew, and she selected the wedding ring for him.
They were married in December, 1866, and for thirty years
they joyously journeyed through life together, surrounded by
a family of liappy children, when death claimed the wife anci
mother.
Last June McDearman came to the Nashville reunion.
\\ hile marching in the parade the hot sun gave him a severe
headache, and when th" column stopped for a few moments
he explained to his commanding officer and dropped out of
ranks. Going to the gate of a yard well shaded with trees
near where his company was standing, he asked permission of
ilie lady sitting on the porch to enter and rest in the shade
She invited him to a comfortable chair on the porch. In
the conversation that followed he told her he was very
anxious to g> I a photograph of his old commander. Gen.
Cheatham. She very kindly took his name and address, say-
ing she would (ry to got one and send it to him. She soon re-
called that the name was familiar to her, as she had often
heard her sister speak of a boy friend by that name when she
was a young girl. That information must have cured the
headache, for in a few minutes McDearman was on a street
car bound for East Nashville to see that sister. It was his
old-time sweetheart, whom he had not heard from for more
than a quarter of a century.
Time had dealt gently with her. The pretty girl he knew
had developed into a handsome woman. When McDearman
learned that she had been a widow for several years she
doubtless looked younger to him than she really was. Of
course the conversation soon drifted to old times, thin ice for
two old sweethearts to stand on. The handsome widow and
the well-preserved veteran became practical promptly, ana
m the vestry room of St. Ann's Episcopal Church (East
Nashville) on the 29th of November a wedding ring, the
exact counterpart of the one she had selected more than
thirty years before for the first bride, w-as slipped on her
linger, and the attractive woman became Mrs. W. J. Mc-
Dearman.
While everybody had a good time at the Nashville reunion.
Comrade McDearman believes he had the best time of any
veteran present, as it was a double reunion to him.
THE CONFEDERATE PRIVATE.
BY JANIE SEREVEN UEVWARD, CH.\RLESTON, S. C.
From every home in the sweet Southland
Went a soldier lad, at his heart's command.
To fight in a cause both true and just.
To conquer or die, as a hero must.
With a kiss, a smile, or a word of cheer
To those who at parting were doubly dear;
With a song on his lips, his hopes ran high;
In such a cause he was ready to die.
But victory first. 'Twas his earnest prayer
To reach the front, and do battle there;
To see his own flag triumphantly wave.
Though its folds should fly o'er his open grave.
The hardships of war he bravely bore.
And proudly the shabby gray he wore.
'Twas the only color on earth for him;
Not hunger or thirst crndd his spirit dim.
With every battle hope .sprang up anew ;
He felt that the cause he loved was true.
And surely the God who brave men led
Would help and guide them, living or dead.
Sometimes they won. then hope ran high :
.•\gain they lost, but it would not die.
They were privates only, and theirs to obey ;
Not theirs to connnand or lead the fray.
But theirs to endure, and follow and light ;
To know that the cause they loved was right.
.\nd so to the end they followed and fought,
With love and devotion which could not be bought.
Hungry and thirsty and foot-sore and lame,
They fought for their country, and thought not of fame ;
Rut their names are written, with theirs who led.
In n country's heart — the brave Confed.
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TEXAS U. D. C. WANT FIVE ANNIVERSARIES.
The Committee on Anniversaries of the Texas Division,
United Daughters of the Confederacy, comprised of Mes-
dames S. W. Sholars, Orange, Chairman, M. R. Macgill
Rosenberg, Galveston, Fannie J. Halbert, Corsicana, J. C.
Hntcheson, Houston, Harry Field, Calvert, E. N. Baker,
W'axahachie, Mary Jane Lane, Marshall, and Decca Lamar
West, Waco, have issued 'an address in which they state:
"We advise each Chapter President to appoint a committee
from her Chapter to carry out the work of celebration, and
we recommend that the children be brought into the pro-
grammes. We further suggest that Chapter Committees re-
quest the Boards of Trustees and superintendents of public
schools in their vicinities to instruct the teachers to com-
memorate the birthdays of President Jetferson Davis, Robert
E. Lee, and Hon. John H. Reagan, that the pupils may be-
come familiar with the names and characters of these great
men and learn to revere their devotion to the Constitution
and their heroic self-sacrifice to the liberties of the South.
■'The following is a suggested outlined programme for our
Days of Honor, with license for each Chapter to develop its
own individuality :
"On January 19, birthday of Robert E. Lee, let no pains be
spared to decorate the hall or reception room in which this
date will be celebrated. Use both flags under which Gen.
Lee served — the Confederate and the United States flags; let
both be conspicuously placed on rostrum ; also portraits of
himself and family. Let there be a short address or paper
(original, if possible) showing the many sides of his charactei
— soldier, commander. Christian, scholar, gentleman — in vic-
tory and in defeat. Let the stirring songs of the Confederacy
lie used.
"March 15, Te.xas Heroes' Day. By observance of this
new-named day, every Texas hero will be honored — Albert
Sidney Jolniston, Hood, Terry, Dick Dowling, W. P. Lane,
T. N. Waul, and all the brave, valiant men wJio fought and
died for the cause they loved. Readings, recitations, and anec-
dotes of these shoidd be introduced into the programme.
"On .\pril 26, Confederate Memorial or Decoration Day,
services should be held in a church. A procession, the leader
bearing a Confederate banner, should march to the cemetery,
there decking the graves with Texas's beautiful floral offer-
ings.
"June 3, birthday of President Jefferson Davis. ... As
he suffered for the Confederate flag as no other man ever
did, and claimed no other flag, therefore no other flag should
be used on the day that does honor to our martyred chieftain.
Portraits of himself and family should be shown upon the
walls of the room where the celebration is held. A tribute
to his beloved daughter, Winnie Davis, could be most ap-
propriately embodied in the programme. Father Ryan's im-
mortal dirge should close these exercises.
"September 17, Gen. Hood's Day. This date commemorates
the battle of Sharpsburg, in which Gen. Hood distinguished
himself, and was the day on which he was severely wounded.
An invitation from each Chapter to any of Hood's Brigade
residing in vicinity to attend this celebration should be given."
They name October 8, birthday of Hon. John H. Reagan, as
another, and say :
"Who in Texas does not know this 'grand old man' — the
one still spared to us, the last of that great group of giants
who made up the Cabinet of Jefferson Davis? He was Post-
master General of the Confederate States, and has had a
long life of service in the military, the judicial, the legislative.
and the executive service under three national flags. There-
fore let us do him all honor. He is preeminently our Con-
federate hero, and in celebrating his natal day the flag ol
the republic of Texas should mingle its folds with the United
States flag and our Southern cross — that blood-stained bannei
that is loved with a passion that only defeat can give. The
Daughters of the Republic of Texas should be invited to unite
with the Daughters of the Confederacy in commemorating the
birthday of Postmaster General Reagan, giving sketches and
addresses upon the many and useful branches of service he
has rendered his country ; and we should especially ask that
large bands of children be trained to sing 'The Bonny Blue
Flag,' with as fine an orchestra as can be procured. On this
occasion, if there are crosses of honor to be presented, let
the Chapter President stand beneath the three national flags
above mentioned while she bestows them upon the old vet-
erans. They followed the Southern cross to victory, to death,
or to that which, to many, was worse than death — defeat!
Now let this cross of honor be hung over each valiant heart
in token of that slow victory of the cross that rises from
defeat.
"Daughters of the Confederacy, the reports from the Sol-
diers' Home, at Austin, tell us that these old veterans are
rapidly passing away. Only a few years more, and they will
be with us no longer. Then let us use every means to mark
them with a cross of honor, that we may know them as our
own and do every courtesy to the men who wore the gray.
In closing, we ask that every Chapter President, after the
Sth of October, report to the chairman of this committee
as to whether these anniversaries have been kept, in order that
she may make out a report for the ne.xt convention.
"We will add that on four of these dates the crosses of
honor may be bestowed — the 19th of January, the 26th of
.\pril, the 3d of June, and the Sth of October.
"And now as the new year begins let us bind ourselves
with a prayer for harmony, that will insure success in our
sacred work."
NEW OFFICERS, TEXAS DIVISION, U. D. C.
President, Mrs. Valery E. Austin, Galveston; Vice Presi-
dents, Mrs. D. A. Nunn, of Crockett, Mrs. Lavinia Porter
Talley, of Temple, Mrs. Ellen D. Farris, of Dallas, and Mrs.
Annie E. Sydnor, of Houston ; Secretary, Mrs. Louella
Styles Vincent, Strawn; Treasurer, Mrs. A. C. Johnson,
Corsicana; Historian, Mrs. S. H. Watson, Waxahachie; Cus-
todian, Mrs. Z. F. Fulmore, Austin.
It is sad to those who attended the convention at Waxa-
hachie and met the sweet-faced, white-haired Mrs. Sydnor to
think that so soon she was called to rest. Her death occurred
soon after the convention.
A TEXAS HOME FOR CONFEDERATE WOMEN.
At the conclusion of the Texas U. D. C. held in Austin
November 29, 30, 1899, Miss Philphs, the beloved Secretary
of the Galveston Chapter — whose untimely death in the great
storm there is one of the saddest memories — made an eloquent
appeal to establish a cottage in addition to the Soldiers' Home
to give more room for other deserving veterans. There were
some contributions to this fund, but after the death of Miss
Philphs the matter was lost sight of until the Houston con-
vention.
Another patriotic daughter of Texas, Mrs. Winnie Pauline
Baugh, of San Antonio, conceived the idea of building a home
for the indigent wives and widows of Confederate soldiers.
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Her eloquent and pathetic appeal won the applause and sym-
pathy of the convention, and substantial donations were made.
A motion prevailed merging the Piiilphs Cottage Fund into
this; and with this sum as a nucleus Mrs. Baugh began her
work, ably assisted by other enthusiastic Daughters.
The crowning success of her efforts was made at the late
meeting of the Texas Division of the U. D. C, held at Waxa-
hachic. The earnestness and tenderness with which she spoke
could come only from the heart of a woman devoted to such
a cause. Her appeal resulted in the addition of something
over eight hundred and fifty dollars to her fund, making the
total cash in hand nearly two thousand dollars. An incident
occurred on the cars as the ladies were returning from this
convention worthy of mention. Delegates were discussing the
object of the fund and the amount in hand, when Mrs. Baugh
MRS. WINNIE r.MI.lNE 1!.\U(;II.
rcniaikcd that she lacked only four dollars of having two
ihiiusand. .A young gentleman silling near, who had ovcr-
JK-ard ihe conversation, turned to them and said, "Ladies, I
am the son of a I'nion soldier, born and reared in the North,
hut I .ask the privilege of making that fund two thousand
dollars," and he handed Mrs. Baugh five dollars. The ladies
showed their appreciation by generous applause, and bespeak
for Mr. N. L. Trowle, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, a warm reception
wherever he goes in Dixie. The home is to be built in Austin,
and it is gratifying to know lliat sufficient funds are in siglit
to justify the be.ginning of the buililing.
Mrs. Winnie Pauline Baugh was born in Unionlown, Ky.,
ill iS,S3. She is a descendant of the best blood of an old
colonial family of Virginia, and is a niece of that gallant
Confederate soldier, Capt. Dick Dunvillc, killed at Murfrees-
horo. Her earliest recollections are of the dark days of the
War between the States. She went to Texas in 1872, and has
lived there since. She has Tilled prominent positions in dif-
ferent ladies' organizations to which she belongs; but in none
has she taken more interest or shown greater diligence tliaii in
pressing to success her cherished idea of buiUling Ibis home,
of which she is enlilKd to llio honor of being the founder.
EXCUSABLE MISREPRESENTATION.
BY COL. T. B. ROV, ADJUTANT GENER.\L TO HARDEE, NOW OF
WIESBADEN, GERMANY.
At the battle of Murfrcesboro, December 31, i86j, Hardee's
Corps doubled back the Federal riglit wing, and pressed it
until the latter was rcenforced and in a new position became
too strong.
Next morning St. John I,iddell"s Brigade, of Cleburne's
Division, with Semple's Battery — Churchill Seniple, of Mont-
gomery, Ala. — was pushed forward, at a certain point, to
develop the enemy, and succeeded in developing him to such
effect and in such force that the brigade withdrew with some
precipitancy. Semple, riding behind his battery under fire,
thought to set an example of coolness by dismounting to
pick up a derelict blanket on the field.
.As, bridle in hand, he stooped for that purpose, a shell ex-
ploded at his feet, his horse bounding with such quickness and
force as to pull him over and leave him prone. On-lookers
saw a riderless horse careering and the rider stretched on the
.ground, under the dust and smoke of concussion and explosion.
.\iiy one seeing it would have been quite sure that he was
killed; but he was only stunned for a moment, and as the
brigade disappeared over the brow of the hill he succwded
in recovering his horse, and followed.
Meanwhile Capt. Oorge A. Williams, now of New Or-
leans, La., then Liddcll's adjutant general, had been sent for-
ward to where Gen. Hardee and his staff were grouped to
report results, and as he reached Gen. Hardee Semple also
rode up at his side, almost within arm's reach, without Wil-
liams seeing him. His report made, Williams, with a break
in his voice, said : "I am sorry to have to add that Capt.
Semple was killed."
Gen. Hardee, with a twinkle — for Scmiile and Williams
were in front of him almost side by side — said: ".\re you
quite sure of that ? "
"Yes, sir, unhappily, for I saw him killed."
"Who is that beside you "' "
Williams turned his head, and llicrc was Semple at his
side. Dii-cipline or no discipline, he tlung his arms round liitn
and well-nigh broke down.
Gen. Hardee's smiling comment was: "Capt. Williams, the
lesson is, report only facts, and leave commanding officers to
draw conclusions."
This incident was related to me with great gusto by Maj.
Henry Churchill Semple, since deceased, who was a special
friend of mine, I myself having only a hazy recollection of
the circumstances. When 1 have on occasion repealed it. it
has been deemed so .good that it seems worthy of preservation
in the Confederate Veteran.
COMPANY G. FIR.^T GEORGIA CAVALRY.
A sad, yet pleasanl, reunion at Rome was that of Company
G. First Georgia Cavalry, held during the State Encamp-
ment U. C. v., at the residence of W. D. Jones. This com-
pany was the first one of cavalry that left Floyd County in
March, 1862, with a membership of eighty-seven, rank and
file. Recruits came during the three j'ears, running the num-
ber up to one hundred and forty. There are now living
twenty-three, eleven in Floyd County — viz.: T. S. Burney, G.
W. Warren, H. T. Moore, D. V. Phillips, H. H. Waters, Sol
F.verett, John Corley, James Selman, W. D. Jones, W. A.
Oveiby, and W. L. Aycock. Lieut. George A. Webster, of
Atlanta, is the only living officer of the company. He and
the lirsl nine named were present :il tlie dituur table of W.
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D. Jones. After the splendid dinner and music they spent
an hour together, at the conclusion of which they sang "God
3e with You till We Meet Again." Other survivors seeing
this will please write to Lieut. George A. Webster, care
Waterworks Department, Atlanta, Ga.
CONCERNING THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA.
BY CAPT. H. B. CLAY, CHURCH HILL. TENN.
In the January Veteran Comrade Minnich speaks of the
operations of our army, on its right, at Chickamauga on
Saturday. The writer, having been with his command on that
part of the line, will endeavor to sketch what he saw and what
he knew to have occurred there at that time.
The cavalry on our right was Forrest's Corps, and he only
knows positively of one of its divisions, that of Brig. Gen.
John Pegram. He believes that another was composed of a
division under command of Brig. Gen. Frank Armstrong, and
that this consisted of Armstrong's own brigade and another
under Col. Dibrell.
Gen. Pegram's Division had three brigades, his own, to the
command of which Gen. H. B. Davidson had been assigned;
but, as he reached it only late Friday or Friday night, the lat-
ter was handicapped by his want of knowledge of the com-
mand. It had the First Georgia (instead of First Georgia
Brigade), the Sixth Georgia, Twelfth and Sixteenth Tennessee
Battalions, under Lieut. Col. Rucker and composing Rucker's
Legion, the Sixty-Sixth North Carolina, under Col. Folk, and
the Tenth Confederate, under Col. Goode. This, with Hu-
wald's excellent battery, composed the command which, since
Murfreesboro, had been operating under Gen. Pegram, and
which his West Point education and life in the regular army
had enabled him to bring to a high state of discipline and
efficiency.
Still farther to the right was Scott's Brigade, under Col.
John Scott, of the First Louisiana Cavalry. It was in ac-
tion at Red House bridge during the battle, but not near
enough to Gen. Pegram to be of service to him. The Third
Brigade was that of Gen. George B. Hodge, of Kentucky and
■Virginia troops, but it was so far off that it had no part in
the fighting.
Friday night Gens. Forrest and Pegram bivouacked on the
tield from which Gen. Bushrod Johnson had driven a Fed-
eral force. Saturday morning, at gray daylight. Gen. Pegram
awoke a staff officer of his and directed him to go to the
First Georgia picket and see what that firing meant. Arriv-
ing there, no difficulty was had in determining what that
firing meant, as that little company was being hard pressed
liy what seemed quite a heavy force. Asking that a squadron
he sent him, it was qui:kly on hand, rapidly dismounted and
put in action ; but as the enemy's line still lapped ours on
lioth right and left, another message was sent, asking for the
rest of that regiment. Coming up, it was either being dis-
mounted and moved to the right of the line engaged or was
l-.eing placed in position. When Gen. Pegram came up with
the brigade, which, being disposed, with Huwald on the left
and the Twelfth Tennessee mounted on the left' of the bat-
try, the whole line went forward at a charge, our guns at
work also. The charge developed the brigade of infantry of
Col. Dan McCook, and some fifteen or sixteen prisoners were
taken. We saw nothing more of that brigade that day, so far
as we knew.
The brigade, remounting, was moved to our left, passing
an old sawmill (since understood to have been Jay's Mill),
and, moving some five or six hundred yards from it, was
halted, while a conference took place between Gen. Forrest,
who had just ridden up, and Gen. Pegram. During this the
same staff officer was called up and ordered to take ten
men and reconnoiter for a half mile in our front or in an
indicated direction. Taking Sergeant Goodwin, of the First
Georgia, whom he had had with him in a night reconnoisance
of the position charged the next day at Murfreesboro (and
who it is hoped lives to read this), they rode for three-
quarters of a mile through an unbroken woodland thick with
undergrowth.
Riding slowly and looking in every direction, nothing was
heard or seen by them, save an occasional note from small
l.'irds. Everything was as still as if two great armies were
I'ot then moving up into positions for one of the greatest and
most desperately fought battles of the war. LJp:)n returning,
report was made to Gen. Pegram. He and Gen. Forrest were
>till talking with each other when a heavy and unexpected
fire was received by the First Georgia, its men being at ease
and some, perhaps, dismounted by the sides of their horses.
Where those Federals came from has been ever since an
unsolved puzzle to that staff officer, for that firing came
from precisely the direction from which he had returned not
more than fifteen or twenty minutes before, and he knows
that they were not where he and Goodwin had been.
Thrown into momentary confusion, that fine command was
soon in position, with Gen. Forrest directing; while the rest
of the brigade were rapidly dismounted and, with Huwald's
guns, took position on a small rise, with the First Georgia on
the right, Twelfth and Sixteenth Tennessee on the left of
the First Georgia, Huwald in the center, and on the left of
his guns were the Tenth Georgia, Sixth Confederate, and the
Sixty-Si.xth North Carolina. Seeing at once how greatly this
command was outnumbered. Gen. Forrest ordered Gen. Pe-
gram to hold that position until he could bring reenforce-
ments. And hold it he did, with Huwald sweeping the front
with canister ; while the dismounted men fought like infantry,
and not an inch of ground had been yielded when, after Some
time (who knows of time during a fight), there was the wel-
come sight of the head of Ector's Brigade of Infantry, closely
followed by that of Wilson. There was a lull in the firing
at this time, and Pegram was ordered to mount his men and
have their cartridge boxes filled, as there were but few left
in the boxes after that morning's work. Forming rapidly, with
Dibrell's Regiment un iheir right, these commands moved in,
and a bloody reception it was that met them.
Forrest's part at Chickamauga is well and carefully told in
Wyeth's "Life of Gen. N. B. Forrest." The writer is glad
that he owns one, but it is of such great interest that his
neighbors keep his copy constantly borrowed.
RALLYING WITH A FRYING PAN.
BY J. B. MINOR, NEW Y'ORK.
Tragedy was so often connected with the ludicrous in the
life of the Confederate soldier that in speaking of one we
lire often reminded of the other.
May 5, 1864, marked the opening of Gen. Grant's campaign
in the Wilderness. Perhaps the most desperate, continuous
fighting of the war was done within the next ten days. It
is not my purpose to follow the bloody paths of both armies
from the Wilderness to Petersburg, but to relate a little in-
cident that I witnessed on the 6th. one of the hottest fighting
days we had.
I belonged to the First Company of Richmond Howitzers,
Maj. Henry C. Cabell's Battalion of Artillery, which, in ad-
Qoi>federat(^ l/eterai>.
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ditioii to our Howitzers, was composed of two Georgia com-
panies and one of North Carolina, making sixteen guns in all.
nifTerent sections of the battalion had been sent to different
parts of the field as needed. My company had position just
in front of a tliick woods, with a clear space of probably sev-
ty-five or a hundred yards intervening between us and the
timber. This space was level ; but a short distance within the
woods the ground fell off abruptly, and in this depression the
Federals could form their lines of battle out of reach of our
guns and but a short distance from them. Gen. Grant seemed
determined to break through at this point. He would mass
large bodies of infantry almost at the edge of the timber, and
then rush them out sometimes three lines strong. We used
double charges of canister, and made a slaughter pen of the
open space in our front, ably assisted by the gallant old Third
Arkansas Infantry, under Col. Robert S. Taylor, which sup-
ported us. It was the morning of the 6th, the men were worn
out with ligliting and want of sleep. The enemy in our front
had made no demonstration up to nearly ten o'clock, and,
save those on picket, w-e were lying down, many of us asleep.
Col. Taylor, with a frying pan in his hand, was cooking for
liimself a breakfast, when, without any warning, three lines
of battle with a terrific yell burst from the woods in our
front. We showered canister upon them, but they kept com-
ing, reached our breastworks, charged over them, and pinned
to the ground with their bayonets several of the Third Arkan-
sas. It was a hand-to-hand light for a few moments. Col.
Taylor had his frying pan by the handle, and was swinging
it round and round his head, scattering the hot gravy in
every direction as he rallied his men, shouting, "We must
liold this position;" and hold it we did, but not until assistance
came. The shouting, the shooting, the dead, and the dying
made a lasting impression on nie ; but nothing is more vivid
in my memory of that morning than Col. Taylor in the midst
of the mel<ie, scattering hot gravy on all sides as he shook
the frying pan over his head, rallying his men.
CONFEDERATES CONDEMNED .IS SPfES.
A thrilling experience had Comrade W. B. Leedy, of Lin
niingham, .Ma., and it is the basis of this personal sketch.
William Hilb Leedy was horn at Aberdeen, Miss., on Clin^l
mas Day of 1846. His parents were Lorenzo Dow Leedy. ..
native of Abingdon, Va., and Sarah Garrett Bibb, dau.ghtcr of
William Bibb, of lluntsville, Ala. His mother died in 1S51
and his father in 1802, and he was reared by his mother's
people at Huntsville. Huntsville was occupied by the Federal
troops, and young Leedy was not able to gratify his inclina-
tion to join the Confederate army. Being offered a position
a.^ clerk under a Federal quartermaster at a salary of one
hundred dollars a month, he accepted it on condition that lie
should not be required to take the oath of allegiance, lie
was so engaged along with several boy friends until the
troops were withdrawn previous lo Hood's advance in Ten-
nessee, in November, 1864. Then, being free to act as he
pleased, and being nearly of military age, he took part in the
iirganizatiou of a cavalry company.
Scarcely had the Federal I "oops withdrawn when his cotn-
pany was mustered in as Company I, Col. Ru^^el^s Fourth
.Mabama Cavalry, of N. B. Forrest's Corps, and he was made
second sergeant. In the first fight in which he took part, on
Hood's retreat to the Tennessee River, young Leedy was cap-
tured, w'ith a number of his comrades, and was imprisoned in
the penitentiary at Nashville. The fact that he had held a
clerical position under the Federal quartermaster at Hunts-
ville w-as soon discovered, and he and eighteen others, sim-
ilarly situated, were charged with being spies, bushwhackers,
etc., and tried before a drumhead court-martial. The oath
I if allegiance was offered and charges were to be withdrawn.
1 f they refused, however, the terms offered, they were to be
at once convicted and sentenced to death. Leed}» obtained
the legal assistance of Judge Jordan Stokes, of Nashville ;
hut of no avail, as the accused and his comrades, nineteen in
.'11. were really condemned before trial. Of the others. Mr.
Leedy recalls the names of Capt. Thomas B. Jordan. Maj.
Clinton Douglass, Rev. John A. Young (w-ho became a min-
ister of the Presbyterian Church). Capt. W. H. Mooro. of
Memphis, and Capt. Frank B. Gurley (who killed Gen. Mc-
Cook). Before sentence could be carried into effect Gen. For-
leit sent an officer to Nashville, under a fl:ig of truce, with
the warning that he should hang A Federal officer for every
one of these nineteen that were executed. This served to
str.y proceedings, and inllucntial friends laid the matter be-
fore President Lincoln, who gave orders which resulted in the
exchange of the whole nineteen for Federal prisoners in
Libby Prison, under sentence of death for various charges.
Sergeant Leedy obtained his freedom at Richmond, in
March, 1865, and with a furlough for sixty days he then
started for home, making the greater part of the distance,
through the Carolinas and Georgia, on foot, and through the
country which Sherman had laid waste. On reaching Mont-
WlLLI.MH B. Leepy.
.uoniery. he learned of Lee's sun-ender. He later gave him-
self up at Meridian, Miss., was paroled, and given transpor-
tation to Huntsville. Subsequent to the war he resided at
Memphis from 1866 to 1870, engaged in the banking busi-
r.css at Huntsville until 18S7, and S'uce then has been in the
real estate business at Birmingham, lie is a member of W.
J. Hardee Camp, U. C. V., and is major and aid-de-camp
on the staff of Gen. George P. Harrison, commanding State
of Alabama.
By his marriage, in 1873. to Kate Stratton, of Memphis, he
has two sons and a daughter, all of whom are highly es-
teemed.
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CONFEDERATE DEAD BURIED IN KENTUCKY.
BY MRS. SOPHIE FOX SEA,
Historian Kentucky Stalt-- Division, V. D. C.
I pray tliat some in ignorance of the last resting places of
their heloved dead will find in this list that I have gathered
with infinite reverence and pity the names sought for but
never found, and know that the places where the dust of their
loved ones are awaiting the trump of the archangel of the
resurrection are indeed God's acres, cared for, beautified, even
glorified, by the loving thought of comrades and friends.
cave hill cemeterl', loc/siille.
Al.\b.\ma.
John M. Armstrong.
John R. Berrison, A. S. Boro, 41st; Gen. Alpheus Raker;
J. B. Bruce, 31st; Hiram Bu.sh, 24th.
J. A. Carter, 7th ; F. M. Champion.
William Dicks, 40th.
R. H. Frederick; W. Fraywick, 57th.
W. G. Hagood, i8th ; J. Hardy, 15th; Benjamin A. Hunter.
James R. Knight, ist.
Alonzo Lane, ist.
D. H. Moon ; Godfrey Machair, 57th ; W. A. MuUincn ; D.
H. Moss ; E. L. D. Martin ; David McDonald, Pineapple, Wil-
cox County, Ala. : Joseph Morrell ; Thomas McGovcrn, 20th.
J. H. Odewer, 53d.
John Puett, 41st; P. S. Pullen, 22d ; S. R. Prigh, 32d ;
Darling Pitman, 51st; M. Price.
Nathaniel Reader, 40th ; J. H. Roach, 6oth.
Simon Spicgle, 5th.
E. E. Thomas, 24th.
Geoucia.
G. D. Ayers.
F. Backley, George Beale.
A. P. Dunn, 59th.
A. Everett, 51st.
D. Falley.
T. C. Giddings, 2gtli : \\'il]iam \V. Godfrey, 24111.
William Hendrick.
J. Lind-^ay. 15th.
G. W. Mooney, I3l!i; William McCantrey. 54th; .•\llen
Moss.
R. O'Niel ; John H. Odin, 4th.
J. W. Powell, T6th; R. T. Pullion; Lewis Potts, 6ist; H.
J. Parish, 17th.
B. H. Smith.
George Turner, 63d; Thomas V. Tndd, i6th ; Elizalieth
Temnis, Calhoun ("Bury me with my fienplc").
William A. Winburn, i6th.
Ahkansas.
D. A. Mills.
William G. Parrish, of Gen. Foster's Arkansas Rangers;
Charles N. Perkins, Cook's First Arkansas Cavalry.
Henry L. Smith; D. H. Sangston, Bradley County, Ark.
B. F. Walker.
England.
Richard Holdsworth, born in Wakefield. Yorkshire, Eng.,
wounded at battle of Shiloli.
Florida.
J. T. Atkinson.
William Hastings, 3d.
Thomas Jackson. 6lh.
Germany.
Brvant W. Hamilton, of Germany.
Louisiana.
Burton C. Allan, William Atway.
J. Belljohn, 13th ; Daniel Busby, 13th Vols., son of Daniel
Busby, of New Orleans; Octave Le Brasseau, aged 19, .Xt-
takapas.
Elphig DebocufF, St. James Parish.
Thomas W. Elkins. 17th.
C. Frommyer, 13th.
J. Gardiner.
W. H. Harris; Joseph Hisley, 25th.
Rudolph Kuk, New Orleans; Edward Kebo, iSth.
C. McMalton, Jesse ]\IcCreary.
Archibald Pepper.
Eugene Reundoy, St. James Parish.
Wallace S. Wiggins, New Orleans.
Mlssissippi.
J. Armer.
J. W. Beillcr, 22d ; John Bo.ith. 4th ; Washington Butler.
G. W. Erby.
J. M. Fail.
Erasmus Y. Glavritt. 40th.
W. B. Headley.
William C. Lacy.
William McCoy, 24th.
Peter Newcomb, 24th.
James Payne, 41st.
S. M. Shessnutt, 30th.
R. Therell. 8th: N. B. Trotter.
David Walker. W. P. Wiley.
North Carolina.
Samuel .A.llen, 20th.
Ba.Kter Grandiss.
John Trigue, 58th.
New York.
William Pomroy. of New York. Hawkins's Zouaves.
South Carolixa.
S. O. Berry. iQth; A. Riggins, 2d.
Tennessee.
Elijah .-Vndrews.
Jonathan Bailey. 5th; John .\. Barrow, 27th; Milton Brann.
N. W. or \\\ N. Br.-igg.
Thomas Cunningham, W. R. Chandler.
Prestly Dodson, Franklin ; Alex Dollar, A. C. Doflin.
_ W. R. Glover, 33d; John P. Green, W. Cotton.
' W. K. Flardy. loth ; W. B. Hctt, 3d; Thomas Harvy. 37lh.
John Jones, Marion County.
Thomas M. S. Kelly, ist.
Jere Lynch ; Jacob Lown. 4th.
R. H. Madden. loth; C. W. .Moose. Rhea County; E. Ma-
lone, 2d.
W. C. Nixon, 4th ; S. H. Night.
Fountain P. Patterson, 17th ; Marcus L. Palmer.
A. J. Robbins, 38th; Patrick Reynolds, 5th.
J. T. Shelton, 43d; John Sheldon; Geor.ge Stigall ; James
B. Shackelford, Sergeant 27th Regt. ; W. J. Stevens ; L. D.
Small. 8th ; J. Spiney, 28th ; Robert Snodgrass, Sparta.
D. P. Tripple.
A. Wade, 29th; William West, Franklin; B. J. Wheeler;
R. P. Wistead, 41st; John W. Weekley, Montgomery County.
W. A. Young.
Te.>:as.
Jiilin G. Field. 5th Infantry; I'rank H. Griffin, Texas Cav-
alrv; D. Messncr.
Qopfederat^ l/eterap.
Virginia.
Frank Arniistead.
Peter Chatwell, 28th.
James P. Hazelwood, 27th.
Lieut. Col. John Lawson, Sptli.
William Pomery, Hawkin.s's Zouaves.
In tlic following cases nn .Slate or country is indicated on
tlu' toniljstone :
W. S. Adams, Nelson Aldridge. Michael .Adamson.
W. J. Braswccn, Ellison's Cavalry; Thomas W. Bunting.
1 ). C. Brown, L. D. Blicks, M. Butler, J. Ballard.
John Carlisle, James Cobb, T. C. Collins.
G. W. Duncan ; J. H. Donaldson, Shaw's Battery.
Maj. Joseph T. Fullerton. William Furguson, Samuel Fra-
zier.
D. GaiU, Frank H. Griffin.
Jiihn Howe; W. E. House, Bennett's Regiment; .\ Hunt.
P.en. Knowcn.
J. I-undy, Jonathan Lee.
J. T. Misenhcimer; James Murphy, civil prisoner; Mat-
thew McCarty, ist Confoderale; II. A. Meyers. J. H. Mc-
Niecc, P. Monahan.
E. M. O'Dum.
S. Perkins.
J. F. Rus.scll.
W. T. Snsscll, Henry C. Sholwell.
N. B. Thompson, S. Tanner, Valentine Tuflle.
J. II. Whitehead, John Walter. R. TV Wilder.
I'nknown, New Orleans.
LEXlNdToy CF.METF.KV.
The fiillinving list of those buried in Lexington is fur-
iiished by Mrs, Eugenia Dunlap Potts:
James Allen, 56th Ga. : M. S. Allgood, 54th (la.
J. S. Barker, George II. Boykin, 6th Fla. ; J. W. Brooks,
2d Ark.; K. H. Brown, 7th I'la. ; N. B. Buchanan, 62d N. C. ;
1). Burchfield, .Wh Va. ; J. R. Butler, T.tb Fla.
riiduias Coker, 47th Tcnn. ; J. R. Copeland, 48th Tenn. ;
Jiilin Cowan, 6th l"Ia. ; James Compton. Va., major on staff
of K. v.. Lee, inspector of artillery .vl .\rmy Corps, died
I90_>; R. T. Chambers, ,^4th Va.
J. Deas, 7th- Fla. ; M. Dryberry, ,?8ih G:i. ; John H. Dor
sey, 2d Miss. Inf.
G. W. Eavins, SQth Fla.
G. Foley, 6th I"la. : A. Fowler, 7th I'la. : L. K. Frisby. 5th
Tex. ; T. M. l"orc, 4.^d Ala.
Charles .'\. Gordon, 1st Ark.
T. H. Hunter, 22d Tenn.; J. II. Harris. J. W. Hartley. R.
S. lIulT. 54lh Ga. ; E. Hays, 6th Fla.; W. Hicks, .mjth Ga. ;
l\lir Helm. 54th Va. ; Thomas Hawkins, 4.VI .Ma,
John n, Ives, 48th Tenn.
J. 11. Jones, 54th Ga. ; Zack Johnson, 1st Ala.; John Jen-
kins, Qth Miss.
L. F. Krout, 20lh .Ala.
G. F. I.andham, 4th Ark. ; J. C. Mercer, 6th Fla. ; Josiah
Mcrritt. Charles Mcjoncs, 7tli b'la. ; G. W. Massey, 29th Va. ;
Elija Maddox, 5th Fla.; John Martin, loth Tex. Cav.
R. D. Nichols, s6t!i Ga. ; James Nawles, 6th Fla. ; George
Newman, 18th Ala,
G. W. Palmer, 48th Tenn.; T. O, Putnam, ijth Tcnn.
P. W. Pierce. 6th Fla. ; G. R, Philips, syth Ga.
T. C. Robinson, 48th Tenn. ; James Ross, 54th Ga. ; S. L.
Rowan. 6lh b'bi.; D. T. Robinelle, 3d G.i. : J. C. Randolph.
.Ulh Va. ; Robert l\i\ enb.iek, Ist Fla.; W. M. Russell, Tenn.
Inf.
M. T. Searles, 20th Ala. ; A. P. Smith, S4th Ga. ; John
Seals, I2th Tenn. ; A. R. Scrgeon, 2d Ark. ; R. G. Steed, 3d
Ga. ; Richard Stewart, 30th Ala. ; E. A. Stanbridgc, 29th N. C.
R. G. Tipton, 54th Ga. ; H. L. Tucker, 43d Ala.; Henry
Thornton, 30th Va. Inf.
E. Varner, 6th Fla.
T. W. Ward. 30th Ark.; James Wilson, 2d Ark.; S. J.
Williams, 6th Fla.; John Williams, ist .Ark. Cav.; N. J. Win-
lield, 3d Ga. ; John Whit. 34th Va, : J. S. P. Wardropc. 20th
N. C. ; J. William, 42d Ga, ; William Russell White, Tcnn.,
fell at battle of Richmond, Ky.
DAXVILLE CEMETERY.
Miss Ida Wingate furnishes tlic following list of those
buried in Danville Cemetery:
W. Ames. 2d Ark. ; J. R. Ashley, 19th S. C.
T. P. Boling. 28th Ala.; S,, T, Bryan, 9th S, C. ; E, C.
Bevins ; J. Barrett, 6th Ark. ; C. B. Burns, 24th Tenn. ; L. C.
Barnett; A. J, Beccs, 3d Fla,; J. W. Bay, (Ja. ; T. J. Beckley,
28th Ala.; H. F. Bryan, 8th Ark.; B, D. Butler, 25th La,; \.
Burns, Ala.
J. R. Courson, 32d Miss.; M. Compton, Ga,
William A. Dunn. 7th Fla,, born July 6, 1,841. died in
pri.son at Danville. Ky,, November 11, 1862: H, Dyoe. i6th
La.; L. R, Dedlack. 32.1 :\liss.
W. English, 41st Miss,; S, P, Ethricc, 30th Ala,; J, .\,
Eastward, 34th Ala.
D. M. Faini (or Fann). lolh S. C, ; F. J, C. Flity, Fla.
S, A, Goodman, 2d Miss.
W. Henderson, igth Miss,; R. G, llardie, 19th S, C. ; H.
W. Hayden, 45th Ala.; J. B. 1 landman, I2lh Ga. ; T, Har-
mon, 4Tst Ga, ; L. M. Hicks, Ga. ; T. llorman, 42d Ga, ; W.
F. Hadccn, 371h Miss.; B, S, Hacley (or Hnclcy), 15th .Ma,;
B. C. Home; W. Helm, 39th Tenn.; V. F. Husk, 37lh Tenn,
W, Jackson, 54th Ga. ; C. D. Jenkins, 25th La,
Capt. C. N. Kerr, gth Tenn, ; H, Kin.g. 39th .Ma,
E, Lamlis, 13th La, ; W. Larimer, 28th .Ma,
C. W. McGrow, 56th Ga, : J. Mitchell. 52d Ga. : J. A.
Meadows, 34th Ala,
J, Occletree. 20th Ala.; M, Pasting, ,Ma, ; W, M. P.icker,
G. L. Reeves. 8th Ark. ; Russell, 33d Ala.
S, W. Stanley, 24th Miss.; J, Selph, 19th Ala,; E. S. Sam-
lin, 51st Tcnn.; W. Spaten, 24th Ga. ; J. R. Smith. 19th S. C, ;
W. M. Snow, 29th Ala. : H. Smith, 23d Ala. ; J. K. Stephens,
loth .\la.
Leight Thondinson. 24lh Miss, Inf., died November. 1S62,
aged 35 ; E. Turner ; J. P. Tucker, 45th .Ma. ; C, Thomson,
42d Ga, ; D. Turner. 19th S. C.
P. Wilson. 42d Ala.; J. H. Williams, 9th Miss.; J. 11.
Wilson. 33d ,Ma. ; W, S. Williams, 7th Miss.
The list of soldiers buried at Harrodsburg.'Ky.. is fur-
nished by Mrs. Ansel D. Price :
C. Joseph AUin. Tex, Regt.
John Carter, 3d .Ark. ; Thomas B. Carter, Secret Service,
C. S. ,A. ; Capt, Calhoun, Ga. ; .Alonzo Chinn, 1st La.
Manuel Garcia. Bryncs's Bat.
Jesse Head. 3d Ark., killed at .Antictam; James E. Hughes,
3d .Ark,, died in Indiana.
Jarman Kountz, Ark., buried in Mrs, Poteet's lot.
Matthew P. Lowry. Price's Command, died in Missouri.
Capt. McClung. of Tuscumbia, Ala., wounded at Pcrry-
ville, died at Harrodsburg; B. P. Mc.Alistcr, Miss.; Lafayette
Marshall, 3d Ark, ; died at Lawrenceburg, Ky, ; Sam N.
Matheney, 3d Ark,, died at Stanford, Ky.
Henry Noland, William Noland, Quantrell's Connnand.
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Alaj. Price, of Tusciimbia, Ala., wounded at Pcrryville,
died at Harrodsburg.
Chad. Rennick, Lieutenant QiiantrcH'.'; Command.
Surgeon Wright, Ga.
Command not stated: Howard Alexander, killed in South-
ern K}'. ; George Arnold, wounded at Cynthiana. died at
Harrodsburg, Ky. ; Thomas B. Carter, mentioned also on page
75 ; John Kane, Sr., killed at Crockett's Cave, Va. ; David L.
Richardson, killed at Lebanon ; John C. Singleton, brevet cap-
tain, killed at Lebanon; G. W. Driver, Col. B. Ford, Helm,
J. L. Kaars, McClung, Lieut. Lee, Andrew Moses, Mitchell,
Pitson Miller, William O^lesby, William Price, Smith Rich-
ards, John Richardson, Park Robert, Lieut. Thomas York,
wounded at Perryville. died at Harrodsburg, Confederate lot,
Spring Hill Cemetery.
NOPKi.y.s \ ij.Li: ci: mi.tihiv
Mrs. L. McF. Blakemore collected the following list of
those buried at Hopkinsville. Fourteen dead are unknown.
A monument was erected by John C. Latham, Esq., to "Un-
known Dead" before the list of names was discovered :
R. F. Allen, 7th Tex., died Dec. 15, t86i ; B. Adare, Oct.
25, 1S61.
William Bradford, died Nov. 19. 1861 ; J. W. Burton. 3d
Miss., Nov. 18, 1861 ; Joseph Baxter, 3d Miss.,- Nov. 4, 1861 ;
W. J. Bottoms, 3d Miss., Nov. 30, 18O1 ; Samuel Barkley, 3d
Miss., Nov. 12, 1861 ; J. W. Birger, ist Miss., Nov. 14, 1861 ;
N. J. Bracken, Forrest's Cav. (Tenn.), Nov. 2, 1861 ; John
Brogan, ist Miss., Oct. 15, 1861 ; James Bolivar, Nov. 13,
1861 ; Tewellyn Bryant, aged 18, good boy, Oct. 14, 1861 ;
J. R. Ballinger, 7th Tex., Dec. 30, 1861 ; J. N. Barnwell, 7th
Tex., Dec. 19, 1861 ; John K. Bledsoe, 7th Tex., Jan. 26, 1862;
Lieut. L P. Bassett, 7th Tex., Jan. 25, 1862; E. A. Beaver,
7th Tex., Jan. 11, 1862; W. H. J. Burke, 7th Tox., Jan. 2,
iS6r; Wallis Beard, 7th Tex., Dec. iS, 1861.
James M. Carpenter, 3d Miss.; George W. China, 3d Miss..
died Oct. 27, 1861 ; W. T. Christian, 7th Tex., Jan. 27, 1862 ;
W. W. Crow, 3d Miss. ; Joel Cooper, 3d Miss., Nov. 19, 1861 ;
Thomas Clanton, 7th Tex., Jan. 20, 1S62; Robert Craney, 7th
Tex., Feb. 27, 1862; John W. Cross, 7th Tex., Dec. 24, 1861 ;
M. J. Clough, 7th Tex., Dec. 4, 1861 ; Ben Carr. 7th Tex.,
Jan. 12, 1862.
Semple Davis, 1st Miss., died Nov. 10, 1861 ; T. F. Daven-
port, Nov. I, i86r ; J. Davis, 3d Miss., Dec. 20, 1861 ; N.
Davis, Forrest's Cav. (Tenn.), Dec. 16, 1861 : R. J. Dyer,
Forrest's Cav. (Tenn.), Dec. 6, 1861 ; R. C. Dunbar, 7th Tex,,
Jan. 2, [862 ; J. W. Davis, 7th Tex., Dec. 4, 1861 ; D. B. Daw-
.son, Forrest's Cav. (Tenn.), Jan. 9, 1862.
William L. Everette, 7th Tex., died Dec. 27, i85i ; M. J.
Elkin, 7th Tex.. Jan. 13, 1862; W. B. Ely, 7th Tex., Feb. 2,
1862.
W. W. Fortune; J. B. Ferrill, 3d Miss.; John Farney, 3d
Miss., died Nov. 18, 1861 ; -Isaac Ferguson, 7th Tex., Dec.
22, 1861; B. F. Fambraough, 7th Tex., Jan. ir, 1862; M. A,
Feathers, 7th Tex., Jan. 3. 1S62 ; Thomas Funckcr, 7th Tex..
Jan. 25, 1862.
J. J. George, 7th Tex., died Dec. 29, 1S62 ; Hiram Gish, ist
Miss., Nov. 23, 1861 ; George P. Green. 3d i\Iiss.. Nov. 2^,
1861; A. L. Goflf, 7th Tex.
J. J. Henderson, rst Miss., died Nov. 7, 1861 ; H. J. Hill,
3d Miss., Oct. 26, 1861; Joel C. Hall, 3d Miss., Jan. 24. tS''.2:
J. T. Hall, Jan. 25, 1862; James W. Hines, 3d Miss., Jan. 20.
1862; W. J. Haister, ist Miss., Oct. 21, 1861 ; W. T. Henry,
Forrest's Cav. (Tenn.), Jan. 16, 1862; J. Hardin, 7th Tex.,
Dec. 21, 1861 ; L. L. HolloHay, 7th Tex.. Dec. 20, 1861 ; R.
Hudson, 7th Tex.; M. N. Howe. 7th Tex., Dec. 27, 1861; J.
N. Hayes, 7th Tex., Jan. 9, 1862; T. J. Harper, 7th Tex.,
Jan. 16, 1S62; E. Hooper, no inscription; Washington Hall,
man of color. Hill's Co., Grigg's Regt., Tex. (no date; this
old man was a faithful servant to liis master, and died much
beloved by his company).
Job Johnson, Forrest's Cav. (Tenn.), died Jan. 16, 1862;
I.-^aiah "VV. James, 3d Miss., Oct. 26, 1S61 ; J. T. Jones, 7th
Tex., Dec. 25, 1861 ; Robert Jarnien, 7th Tex., Dec. 11, 1861.
James Kelew, 3d Miss., died Oct. 20, 1861 ; I. AL Knowle,
7th Tex., Jan. 24, 1862.
William Letly, 7lh Tex.; W. W. Lewis, 7th Tex., died Dec.
18. 1861; W. II. Late, 3d Miss., Oct. 30, 1861 ; J. W. Lawler,
3d Miss., Oct. 22, 1861 ; A. J. Lucas, ist Miss., Jan. 10, 18G2;
John W. Long, 3d Miss., Feb. 19, 1862; B. F. Lambeth. 7th
Tex., Jan. 24, 1862 ; Henry J. Lard, 3d Miss., no date.
H. Moore, Forrest's Cav. (Tenn.) ; Sergt. W. D. McCIoud,
3d Miss., died Nov. 14, 1861 ; D. J. McCraw, 3d Miss., Oct. 30,
1861 ; Edmund Morgan, 3d Miss., Jan. 21, 1862; W. P. Mose-
ley, 7th Tex.; R. T. Mc.\nulty, ist Miss., Dec. 10, 1861 ; Cal-
\ni Mafitte, 3d Miss., Oct. 22, 1861 ; J. B. Morgan, 3d Miss.,
Nov. 21, 1861 ; J. F. McBride, 3d Miss., Nov. 18, 1861 ; W.
i\Lathings, Nov. i, 1861 ; W. B. Membranie, 7th Tex., Jan. i,
1862; William Murray, 7th Tex., Nov. 20, 1861 ; Newton Mel-
ton, 7th Tex., Nov. 15, 1861 ; P. K. Murray, 7th Tex., Dec.
I. 1861; John W. McClary, "th Tex., Dec. 17, 186 1 ; John
Mills, /th Tex., Dec. 26, 1861 ; W. B. Middleton, 7th Tex.,
Jan. 18, 1862; L. Martin, 7th Tex.. Jan. it, 1862; P. B. Mar-
tin, 7th Tex., Jan. 7, 1862.
J. W. Northlott, 1st Miss., died Jan. 9, 1S62 ; Harman New-
son, 3d Miss., Nov. I, 1861 ; P. J. Najdor, 7th Tex.. Dec. 24.
i86i; W. W. Naylor, 7th Tex., Jan. 12, 1862.
John F. Oliver, 7th Tex., died Dec. 2, 1861.
James Palmer, 3d Miss., died Nov. 10, 1861 ; T. Perkins,
3d Miss. ; William Palmer, 7tli Tex., Dec. 20, 1861 ; J. L.
Payneto, 7th Tex., Dec. 29, 1861 ; Cicero M. Potts, aged iS.
3d Miss., Nov. 21, 1861 ; James Palmer, Forrest's Cav.
(Tenn.), Jan. 22, 1862; S. U. Peiry, 7th Tex.. Feb. i. 1862;
George W. Pegues, 7th Tex., Dec. 28, 1861 ; A. W. Pearson,
7lh Tex., Jan. 10, 1862 ; John M. Payne, 7th Tex., Feb. 4.
1S62 ; L Percival, 7th Tex., Dec. 25. 1861 ; J. T. Potts. 3d
Miss., Dec. 9, 1861.
William Roe, Forrest's Cav. (Tenn.), died Jan. 16, 1862;
W. W. Rozell, 7th Tex., Dec. 17. 1861 ; James Robinson. 7tli
Tex., Jan. 13, 1862; J. C. Recce, Miss. Vols., Oct. i_|. 1861.
Ira Rualls, Nov. 6, 1861 ; J. M. Reed, 1st Miss., Oct. 15, 1S61 ;
V. D. Roney, 3d Miss., Nov. 4, 1861 ; George Rice. Jan. 13,
1862; John Robert. Nov. 19, 1861 ; W. J. Roberts. 7lh Tex.,
Dec. 26, 1861.
Daniel Seymore, Forrest's Cav. (Tenn.), died Jan. 31, 1862;
F. M. Smith, Forrest's Cav. (Tenn.), Jan. 12, 1862; J. O.
Steel, 2d Miss., Nov. 3, 1861 ; C. C. Singleton, ist Miss., Jan.
8, 1S62; W. Singleton, 3d Miss., Oct. 26, 1861 ; Peter A.
Sewant, 3d Miss.; E. W. Smith, 3d Miss., Oct. 26, 1861 ; R.
J. Southerland, 3d Miss., Oct. 29, 1861 ; PL M. Story, 7th
Tex., Jan. 13. 1862; IT. W. Spade, 7th Tex., Jan. 3. 1862; R.
W. Sparks, 7th Tex., Dec. 23, 1861 ; E. T. Stephens, 7th
Tex., Dec. 24, 1862 ; F. H. Smith. 7th Tex.. Dec. 20, 1861 ;
Bailey Sypert, 7th Tex., Dec. 6, 1861 ; J. A. Strain, 7th Tex,,
Dec. 2, 1861 ; George W. Stewart. 7th Tex.. Dec. 7, 1861 ;
Henry Sordon, 7th Tex.. Jan. 6, 1862: C. F. Scarborough,
7th Tex., Dec. 22, 1861 ; W. Sansbaugh, 7th Tex., Jan. 2, 1862;
John Scott, 7th Tex., Jan. t6. i8fi2 ; f\. J. Shelboiirn. 7th
Tex.. Jan. 2, 1862.
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William Tumblin, 3d Miss., died Feb. 13, 1862; Daniel Todd,
Nov. 21, 1S61; John D. Trice, 7th Te.x., Dec. 17, 186 1 ; J. W.
Taylor, 7th Tex., Dec. 27, 1861 ; VV. F. Thompson, 7th Tex.,
Jan. 4, 1862; James Thomas, 7th Tex., Dec. 28, 1861 ; Mat-
thew Tyner, 3d Miss; Thomas J. Teyner, 3d Miss.
F. Utzman, 7th Tex., died Jan. 6, 1862.
F. J. Vincent, ist Miss., died Dec. 28. 1861 ; F. F. Vander-
syice, Jan. 7, 1862; L. H. Vcrchcr, 7th Tex., Dec. 26, 1861.
J. W. Whaleer, ist Miss., died Dec. 16. 1861 ; M. Winner,
3d Miss., Jan. 20, 1862; J. W. Wilkinson, 3d Miss., Nov. 26.
1861 ; W. E. Wincham, 3d Miss.; John West, 3d Miss.. Oct.
22, 1861; Phil Wilkerson, 3d Miss., Dec. 20, 1861 ; J. II. Wil-
liams, Miss. Vols.; L. G. Williams, Green's Artillery, Jan. 20.
T862; W. G. G. Whitney, 7th Tex., Jan. tq, 1862; John R.
Williams, 7fh Tex., Jan. 24, 1862; W. M. Webster. 7th Tex.,
Dec. 17, 1861; D. B. Webster, 7th Tex., Dec. 13. 1861 ; J.
Wilson, 7th Tex., Dec. 15. tR6i ; James E. Watson. 7th Tex..
Dec. 22, 1861 ; J. T. Waller, 7th Tex., Dec. 27, 1861 : John C.
Wallace, 3d Miss., Feb. 5. 1862; G. H. Wilson, 7th Tex.. Jan.
6. 1862.
John Youns, Forrest's Cav. (Tcnn.), died Dec. 5. 1861 :
J. A. Youngblood, 7th Tex.. Dec. 23, 1862.
The following were Innied at Camp Chns''. Ohio:
J. L. Causey, Ordnance Sergeant. 3d Mi<;s. Bat . died Jan.
ifi. 1S65, aged 37 years, residence Osyka, Miss.
J. D. Ncwsom, Co. D. 29th Ala. Regt.
George Ranney, horn in T.ivcrmorc, Ky., July 24. 1839;
died Oct. 23. 1863.
There is a most pathetic interest attached to the namc?<
sent hy Mrs. Blakemore from Hopkinsville. Walking one
day with John C. T.atham. of New York, through a neglected
portion of the old cemetery at Hopkinsville. Mr. H. C. Gant
pointed out a spot overgrown with weeds and briers, and
remnrkod that it was the last resting place of Confederate
soldiers who had died at Hopkinsville during the fall and
winter of 1861-62.
To a man of Mr. Latham's lofty sentiments and high ideals,
himself an ex-Confederate soldier, there was something in-
expressibly sad in the contemplation of this patch of tangled
nnderbrnsh where rested the bodies of so many of his com-
rades. Snhseqnently, he placed funds at Mr. Grant's disposal
for the erection of a monument, with th " instruction to ex-
hume all the bodies, place tbem in neat coffins, and rebury
them in a circle around the site of the proposed monument.
There was absolutely nothing by which the bones could be
identified. The monument was completed May to. t&'?8, at
a cost of twelve thousand dollars ; and after many years
an insignificant-looking memorandum book, which had lain
in the dust and debris of an old desk in the bank at Hopkins-
ville since it was put there in t86t or 1S62. has brought to
Ivbt the names and records of the Confederate dead, in whose
memory the magnificent granite shaft was erected.
The dead were buried in rows in the northeast corner of
the cemetery. Beginning with Row No. I, the owner of the
memorandum book. George C. Anderson. Cotton Gin. Tex.,
bad written legibly in ink the name, rank, and company of
each dead soldier, about two hundred and thirty in all. A
great many bodies were afterwards exhumed by relatives.
but Mr. Gant and his associates found and reburied the
bones of one hundred and one soldiers. Over their dust the
T.atham Monnniont stands an enduring tribute to all of valor
that cannot die.
These men died during an epidemir of black measles in
the fall and winter of 1861-62. That their names and records
were preserved under the circumstances is an enduring trib-
ute to George C. Anderson, the owner of the memorandum
l>ook. His thought for others should be an example to us all.
A CAPT. XANCE OF TEXAS.
Notice of the consolidation of two weekly newspapers at
Athens, Tenn., a few months ago included a reminiscence of
war times by an exchange. Editor W. F. McCarron was a
Union soldier, and the editor from which the reminiscence i-
copied was his prisoner.
On the night of the l6th of December, 1863, about sixty
Federal soldiers under command of a Col. Dorr and Lieut.
McCarron, of the Eighth Iowa Cavalry, made a midnight raid
upon this section, and captured a fragment of the Ninth Ten-
nessee Confederate Regiment, including W. P. Rutland and
Green Burnett, of Nashville, George Williamson and Larry
Vivrett, of Wilson County. A Capt. Nance, of Texas, and
several other Confederates, who were enjoying home com-
forts, including the editor of the Bakerville Reviczv, were
captured and taken to Rock Island prison.
A very strange coincident took place on the night of the
raid. It was intensely dark, and rain had been pouring inces-
santly all day, the ground being mushy and rotten. The
column, w-ith their 'prisoners, was moving down Buffalo Val-
ley toward headquarters, at Waverly, when a large chestnut
tree turned up by the roots and fell obliquely across the
marching column, mashing Capt. Nance and his horse into
the earth. Both man and horse were dead in a second.
Capt. Nance's body was buried next day on the hill by
the citizens without a coffin. AH traces of his grave are
now obliterated. His home was unknown, except that he said
he was from Texas. No one ever inquired for him. He was
about forty-five years old, and possessed a commanding and
intellectual appearance.
Roll Call after Nearly Forty Years.— The first reunion
of surviving Confederate soldiers of Company C, First C.
and C. Regiment, Second Indian Brigade, was held al
Carthage, Tex., last November. The roll of said company,
which was the first one to leave Carthage with a total mem-
bership of one hundred and seventy-five, was called by the
old orderly. Sergt. J. T. Allison, and eighteen were present.
They organized as the "Douglas H. Cooper" Camp, with
permanent headquarters at Carthage. Tex. All absent sur-
vivors of said company may become members of the Camp,
and no dues or charges shall ever be assessed upon its mem-
bers. Annual reunions are to be held on the second Tuesday
in .April of each year." J. N. Hays and J. T. Allison were
elected Captain and Orderly Sergeant of the Camp.
CONFEDEKATF- MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION Op SpoTTSVI.VANIA,
Va. — The many homes in the Southern States represented by
their dead who are buried in the cemetery at Spottsylvania
C. H., Va., will be glad to know that the Association
is again reorganized and will do some active work in re-
pairs, and give special care to the graves of the brave dead.
All of the original members except two who did active work
in the Association have died, and for some years no care has
been given to the cemetery. Now the children and grand-
children are not willing that memories yet so dear shall be
entirely neglected, and the effort to again revive the old As-
sociation has met with hearty sympathy and cooperation.
Mrs. Samuel W. Alrich is President, and Miss Mary B.
Gayle, Secretarv.
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A MONUMENT TO FATHER RYAN.
It is gratifying to know that a movement has been inau-
gurated by the Mobile Register to erect a monument to the
patriot poet-priest of the Confederacy, Father A. J. Ryan. Tlie
body of this gifted son of the South lies buried in the Catho-
lic cemetery of Mobile, where he resided for many years.
A substantial stone marks his Christian faith, but there is no
statue to keep alive his memory as the South's beloved and
honored poet. The Register says : "We imagine this pro-
posal will meet with a quick and generous response all over
this country, for Father Ryan, although he sang of the South
and was chief mourner in her desolation, was a world poet
and sang of many things, with a song that reached down deep
into humanity's heart. Xcithcr time nor clime bound his
influence. Wherever genius is admired there is admiration
for Abram J. Ryan, whether here at home or in the North,
or even the far Pacific Coast."
Commenting on the movement to erect this monument, the
Picayune, of New Orleans, gives the following : ''We, in these
Southern States, have our heroes and martyrs whose names
and deeds are worthy to be handed down through the ages,
and we are piling up monuments of perishable material ; but
it is to our bards that we must trust for the immortality which
our heroes deserve. Of the poets of the South who took part
in and have sung of the South's Heroic Age, Father Ryan
stands among the first. He was educated for the Roman
Catholic priesthood, and, shortly after, having been ordained,
he became a chaplain in the Confederate army, serving to the
close of the war of 1861-65. No sooner was his strenuous
work in the field concluded than he began to write of the
cause to which he had been so much devoted, and soon after
Lee's surrender he composed his celebrated poem, "The Con-
quered Banner," which was only one of a great number on
patriotic, religious, and miscellaneous themes. He has, like
the ancient Roman singer, Horace, built for himself in his
poetry a monument more lasting than bronze ; but this does
not discharge the debt of admiration and gratitude which the
people of these Southern States owe him for what he has done
to consign to immortality, embalmed in his noble lines, the
glorious events and deeds of the men and women of the
South's Heroic Age. Let them unite to build at Mobile a
memorial worthy of this noble poet of the South and the
South's great cause."
TRIBUTE BV MRS. J. R. RYAN, BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
In priestly robes he stands
With wan and pleading face.
Uplifted brow with thought o'ercast.
And sympathetic g.race.
.\ far-away, deep, questioning look
In melancholy eyes;
Sad, tender lips with sorrow pres.'^ed.
Whose smiles were almost sighs.
Low, silvery voiced, with eloquence
That channed while hours fled.
Revealing hope and heaven beyond.
Seemed but a moment sped.
True, loyal son, loved well his land
When darkened were her skies ;
He furled her starry banner.
And kissed her sorrowing eyes.
He sang the saddest story
E'er sung of conquered glory,
Of a flag that flashed and faded from all view;
Of a nation's hope that perished
And the dreams they fondly cherished
I'hat were buried with their heroes brave and true.
Sang a requiem sad and holy
O'er that banner trailing lowly,
\Vhere the palm tree waved o'er thousands in their woe;
They bent with hearts deep riven,
■Without hope save that of heaven.
Burying loved ones 'neath the moonlight's pallid glow.
He knelt beside the bleeding,
His own pain and grief unheeding.
Soothed the anguish of the dying 'midst the slain ;
His deeds adown the ages
With music of his pages,
Sweetest incense to his mem'ry will remain..
Birmingham, Ala.
WORK OF A CHAPTER IN CALIFORNIA.
The achievements of the Jefferson Davis Chapter, No. 540,
of San Francisco, contain the following in the report of Mrs.
\^irginia Bowling Hilliard, the historian:
"At the State Convention held in San Francisco in October,
1903, a motion was passed that in future conventions each
Chapter should give a detailed account of all work done during
the year.
"The Jefl'erson Davis Chapter, in its second year, has a
membership of over two hundred. It meets in the rooms of
[he Philomath Club. We found there most cheerful, agree-
able quarters, even to the use of the daintiest china. The in-
terest of our members is evidenced by the attendance of from
seventy-five to one hundred at the monthly meetings.
"Our treasuries, Veterans' Fund and Chapter's purse, have
paid out during the year, between conventions of 1903 and 1904,
$1,055. 1 his amount was disbursed by loans to veterans,
money given direct to them and to other needy Southern
cases, to the expenses of conventions. Chapter expenses, and
memorial work. We have been called upon by the public
several times to help veterans in need. The sheriff called
upon us to assist an old veteran and wife. They had been
ordered to be evicted from their rooms, and the sheriff had
not the courage to do it. The veteran was paralyzed. A
lady, wife of a Manager on a G. A. R. Home Board, called to
place in our care the widow of a veteran — old, poor, and ill
with pneumonia. The Associated Charities requested our aid
to send to his home in the South a young man dying of con-
sumption. A lady in the Santa Clara Valley appealed to us
for an old veteran. A word about this last case, it was so
pathetic; He was- an educated man, but had been for some
time a farm hand. Exhausted by such work and his age, he
was anxious to get a clerical position. We brought him to the
city, and had in view a light place for him, when, on the second
day he made another visit to Mrs. James P. Massie, herself
the wife of a veteran and Chairman of the Charity Commit-
tee, to say that he would prefer to return to his native State,
Alabama, to friends there. We sent him, equipped with every
comfort, and money in his pocket ; but he had stood the stress
too long, for on arriving home he was in fever. He lingered
but two days and was gone, not, however, before charging
his friends to send us loving messages and heartiest gratitude.
You can understand how thankful we were to have brought
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Cdinfort ami siipiiort to his fainting ^oul and body at the
Liul, while deeply regretting that onr aid had come too late.
riiese lew cases we instance to show what is expected of us,
and thai we are put to strong effort to meet all calls upon us.
Vetek.vns' Fund.
"Last year the Chapter fiiund a Veterans' Fund a neces-
sity, and inaugurated it hy asking yearly suhscriptions of
twelve cldllars from gentlemen interested in our work. We
are glad also of aid from the ladies, and have now suhscrihers
from hoth, taking a lesser sum wdicn offered. This fund is
not yet as large as we need, hut time and the interest of our
memhers will secure it.
"Of the expense of conventions w-c will not speak; dignity
anil hiKpitality would he offended therein-. The details of
(.'haiiler work require nn^ney, as each Chapter knows, and
these have heen met.
Memoki.\l ..\nd Hi.stokuai. NWrk.
"Memorial work has heen assisted whenever a call came.
Ten dollars has heen contrihntcd to the lien. John B. Gordon
monument, ten dollars to that for Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, and ten
dollars to one for Gen. Wade Hampton. Our pledge a year
ago of all initiation fees to the Jefferson Davis Monument in
Kichmont has been fulfilled by a check for two hundred dollars
sent to its Treasurer. Ten dollars was given to Miss Baugh-
nian for the Solid South Room in the Memorial Museum at
Richmond, of which she is in charge. She had been so gen-
erous to our Slate at the Richmond Bazaar that wc felt this
a trilling hut requisite acknowledgment of her courteous at-
lention. She will appreciate our ]'raihook and any other lit-
erature hearing on our Slate work. The Solid South Room is
the receptacle for all literature concerning the I'. D. C. work
or interest outside of the Southern States. We ask each
Chapter to hear her work in mind, as in the museum each
Soulhern Stale has its own room, filled with its State relics,
etc.
"I'ive dollars h.as heen donated on appeal from the Chapter
at I'ampa, Fla., to place a memorial window to Father Ryan,
the war poet of the South. A hook of his poems would he
valuable to each of us. 'Beauvoir,' in Mississippi, the former
home of Jefferson Davis, has become the property of the U.
D. C. Our Chapter has supplied all the furniture for the
library in this old home, doing so in memory of the distin-
guished man whose name the Chapter bears, and who once
lUvelt in this historic house.
"We have given out but nine 'Crosses of Honor' in the
year, our experience showing that, while some veterans hold
these crosses most valuable and dear, others refuse them.
They, however, often gladly give to our \'eteraus' Fund in aid
of their old comrades.
"Sorrow and loss have entered our ranks. We felt deeply
ihe going of our honorary member, Mrs. James D. Thornton,
at who.se home we held our first regular meeting and unrolled
our Charter, with its fifty-five members. Her life had been
of the old pattern — of home, friends, and Church. She had
borne Uvelve children, and lived to see all leave the home save
one. Her life closed in honor, faith, and peace. Then Mrs.
Shadburue was taken from ns, the wife of our veteran mem-
ber. Col. George D. Shadburue, who throughout the war
served on the .staff of Gen. Wade Hampton. Hers had also
In en an inclosed, sweet life. She left a desolate husband and
a fannl.\, who bless and honor her memory. Our veteran
member, Mr. W. B. Eastin, also lost his wife, and stands
alone. There also passed to the home above our faithful
friend, Mrs. Hemenway, mother of our honored member,
Miss Eleanor F. Hemenway. She left the record of a well-
spent life, sweetened by the most patient endurance of bodily
weakness during its latter years. Those wdio came in close
contact with her alone can appreciate her true worth, and un-
derstand how great a sorrow rests upon her devoted daugh-
ter. To each broken household we e.xtcnded fitting memorials
and loving .sympathy.
"Cheering us under these losses rang the wedding bells
five times in our midst, and to each bride or groom member
was presented the Chapter's wedding gift, a set of Confed-
erate flags, framed and matted in gray.
"The first entertainment the Chapter has given to raise
funds for its work was a garden fete at Idora Park late in
May. It was most successful, socially and financially. Tickets
were disposed of only among members and friends, and, W'ilh
but two weeks' prejiaration. we ncttcil tw-o hundred and thirty
dollars. The day proved so agreeable that many pleaded to
have it repeated as a yearly function of our Chapter. Our
financial success was in a great measure due to the generous
arrangements made us by the manager of the park.
"We must not fail to record our Christmas boxes to vet-
erans at the city and county almshouse of San Francisco; in
these, besides Christmas dainties of all kinds, were two new
suits of underwear for each and a set of handkerchiefs and
warm clothing, little worn.
"At the request of the Chapter, the formation of a Junior
Auxiliary was undertaken by Mrs. Frank Walker.
"You now have a cursory view of the work of Jefferson
Davis Chapter during the past year. But any summary of
this work would be indeed incomplete did it not recognize
the efficient and valuable leadership of the President. Mrs.
Sidney M. Van Wyck. who has given, since its foundation,
almost her entire time to the furtherance of the Chapter's in-
terests, and to whom mainly is due its prosperity and success.
Our membership, by its great increase to three hundred and
five, gives us hope of still being able to meet all demands.
We welcome each member, as, wdicther she proves a worker
or not, her dues will he of assistance, fulfilling the old Scotch
adage : 'ATany a micklc makes a muckle' to U. D. C. benefit.
"Our sister Chapter in this city, the pioneer of our Stale,
has a most beautiful motto: 'Unity in great things, liberty in
small things, and charity in all.' May the spirit of these words
permeate our Chapters throughout the division, giving har-
mony and pleasure in every department of our work !"
NOTE AND COMMENT BY A UNION OFFICER.
BY JUDGE P. P. C.\RROLL, SEATTI.E, WASH.
The CoxFEnER.vTE \eteran' established a place in my home,
and is read with interest. The writer was an active par-
ticipant in many of the battles and scenes mei^ioned in the
Veteran. Dr. John R. Gildcrsleeve's address on "Chim-
borazo Hospital during 1861-65" and "Group of General and
Staff Officers, Florida Division, United Confederate Vet-
eran;;,'' in your December number coerced me into writing
this letter. I was a member of Dupont's fleet that reduced
and took possession of Port Royal, S. C., and St. Augustine
and Fernandina. Fla.. in 1861-62. I was in command of
Camp Chiinborazo after the fall of Richmond, in 1865. Into
Camp Chimborazo we gathered the floating contrabands and
refugees, and utilized them in cleaning up and rebuilding the
historic city. In July. 186.S, I W'as relieved at Chimborazo,
and as military commandant ordered to a sub-district with
headquarters at Point of Rocks, on the Appomattox, where
I met my Rebel half, who still insists that she knows of one
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"Yank" that was and is conquered. On being ordered to
Washington in the fall of 1865, I visited Richmond, and there
met relatives of my wife tliat I paroled from the Point of
Rocks military prison, Maryland. In obedience to orders. I
finally found myself in the city of New Orleans, La., where
I resigned the service to engage in civil affairs under the
sign of attorney and counselor, advocate. My, what a whirl
there was in those days of so-called reconstruction — re-
destruction !
New Orleans then was the Mecca of ex-Confederates, as
well as many others. There I often met and was pleased to
have on my list of friends two generals, John B. Gordon and
Longstreet; also Gens. Beauregard, Hood, Bragg, Early, and
others. Govs, Chamberlain, of South Carolina, and Ames, of
Mississippi, and other Governors of reconstruction days could
occasionally be seen at the clubs. Gen. Mahone, of Virginia,
and the late Justice Lamar, of the United States Supreme
Court, did not forget to visit the Crescent City during the
Mardi Gras season.
Of them all, I saw most of Longstreet and knew him best.
During the great riot of the 14th of September, 1874, I was
holding court in the parish of St. Bernard, adjoining the city
of New Orleans on the south. On the evening of the 12th of
September I had a long talk with Gen. Longstreet, Chief of
Police Badger, and two others, whose names I do not now
remember, but who were officers of the State militia and
metropolitan police. I think the police officer was Capt.
Lawler, an ex-officer of the Union army. At that meeting
it seemed to be understood that if trouble came and the
militia were called into action, Gen. Longstreet would take
active command of the State military forces. He was looked
upon by every one who hoped for peace as the man of the
hour and to whose advice the opposing elements would listen.
He certainly was the man to command the forces of the
government; and when the order (which it was) was handed
to him to take command, while it was seen that he did not
relish the order, he, soldierlike, obeyed and did his duty as
he understood it. In this he believed he was right, as on
the same belief of right action, he, in the hour of need, stood
by the Confederacy. Gen. Longstreet was not a party to the
hatreds or political troubles then existing.
It was not the fault of the people, but rather of the policy
of reconstruction, that sought to put the "bottom rail on
top" under the promise of "forty acres and a mule," regard-
less of the lessons of history, the weakness, inexperience,
and ignorance of an inferior race. Section two of the Four-
teenth Amendment and the Fifteenth Amendment to the
United States Constitution are to-day nullities. They cannot,
will not, be enforced. Reconstruction should have failed as
it did.
"OLD ST. leger:
BY MILFORD OVERLEY, NINTH KENTUCKY CAVALRY, C. S. A.,
FLEMINGSBURG, KY.
Col. St. Leger Grenfel was an Englishman, an officer of
the British army, here on leave of absence during the War
between the States, seeking adventure. This he found as ad-
jutant general of Morgan's command of mounted Confed-
erates in the early part of the war. He was a soldier by pro-
fession, and war was his delight. The tented field had been
his home from boyhood, and the bugle's blast and the can-
non's roar were to him sweeter music than the softest notes
of the guitar. He had served in the armies of half a dozen
different nations, had fought battles in all the grand divisions
of the globe, and he wore the scars of fifteen wounds made by
ball and blade. He was a fine horseman, an expert swords-
man, a dead shot, and a man without fear. He was above the
medium height, finely formed, erect as an Indian, proud as a
prince, sixty years of age, and a bachelor. We then knew
little of his history — knew him only as "Old St. Leger" — and,
while all admired his splendid courage, few really liked the
man because of his savage temper and his strict discipline.
Grenfel's family w'as one of wealth and influence, but he
appears to have been a wayward and disobedient boy. When
quite young he ran away from home and England because
his father would not permit him to join the army. Making
his way to Algeria, a colonial possession of the French, on
the northern coast of Africa, he enlisted as a private in a
regiment of native troops. Soon his reckless daring won for
him a lieutenancy, and so well had he drilled and disciplined
his company of wild Algerines that on review they attracted
the special attention of Marshal McMahon, the French com-
mander in chief, w'ho compliinented them and their young
officer on their soldierly appearance.
.\ few years later he was in the Moorish army, and it was
he who exterminated the hordes of pirates that infested the
Mediterranean coast of Morocco. When the French bombarded
Tangiers, Grenfel was in the artillery service, and his guns
responded defiantly to those of his former friends. The city
was taken, but he escaped, and became one of the most de-
\oted followers of the renowned Abd-el-Kadir. Later on he
was a private in the Turkish army, learning the art of war
with "The Sick Man's" soldiers.
After many years of wandering and soldiering, chiefly
among semibarbarians, he returned to England. A Briton,
he was thoroughly loyal to his country, and he had come
home to serve in her armies. Friends aided him with money
and their influence, and he entered as a cominissioned officer.
Soon he acquired the courtly manners and lofty bearing that
characterize British army officers, and he learned the art of
civilized warfare.
In the war between England and China — 1840-42 — Grenfel,
in storming a fortified building, received a saber cut in the
face, the scar of which he carried to his grave. He partici-
pated in the Crimean War, was a captain of cavalry at Bala-
klava, and he rode with Cardigan in the celebrated charge of
the "Light Brigade'' October 25, 1854. Four years later he
was fighting the mutinous Sepoys, of India. In 1859 he ob-
tained leave of absence to aid France and her Italian allies in
their war against Austria. In the battle of Magenta, while
acting as aid to Marshal Bazine, he was desperately wounded.
Whenever England was not engaged in war Grenfel was
unhappy, and wanted leave of absence to go in quest of ad-
venture. Once, when all the world was at peace, he wandered
away to the "Dark Continent," and in the jungles of South
Africa he made war upon the lions and tigers.
Scarcely had he recovered from the wounds received at
Magenta when the War between the States began, and, as he
had never fought a battle in North America (he had been
with Garibaldi, the Italian chieftain, in South America), over
the ocean he came, and to Gen. Morgan he offered his serv-
ices as the one most likely to furnish him what he was hunt-
ing for — plenty of dare-devil adventure.
In Morgan's first fight at Cynthiana Col. Grenfel wore a
bright red skullcap — a conspicuous mark for Yankee bullets
— and was everywhere in the thickest of the fight. As Col.
Landrum, the Federal commander, was being forced back
from one position to another, contesting every foot of ground,
some of his men halted in the railroad depot and were pouring
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a galling fire into the Confederate ranks. Ag.-'rist these the
Englishman led a furious charge, routing them and complet-
ing the victory. In this charge eleven balls pierced St. Leger's
horse, his clothing, and himself, one perforating his scarlet
cap; yet, strange as it may seem, he was not seriously hurt.
As in this instance, he always sought the post of danger, not
for any honor that might attach thereto, but because it af-
forded him real enjoyment. He would permit none to lead
him in a charge ; in a retreat he was ever nearest the enemy.
Age had not cooled his blood, and at sixty his reckless daring
won the admiration of our young Kentucky cavalrymen, the
boldest of whom cc ,d not surpass him in dash and deeds of
daring. Gen. Duke, in his "History of Morgan's Cavalry,"
says of Col. Grenfel : "He was fond of discussing military
affairs, but did not like to talk about himself; and, although
I talked to him daily, it was months before he told me any-
thing of his history. He was a thorough ,md very accom-
plished soldier, and he may have encountered something in
early life that he feared ; but if so, it !iad ceased to exist."
In the winter of 1863 he resigned his p. sition as adjutant
general of Morgan's command, and accepted that of inspector
of cavalry for the Army of Tennessee. This afforded him
the long-wished-for opportunity to try some of his British
army discipline on our wild Western cavalrymen ; but it
would not work on the boys, and the old m: n gave up the job
ill disgust. He had commanded and disciplined Moors, Al-
gerines, the Sepoys of India, and other half-civili/ed soldiers;
but he had never before encountered men who would "fight
like the devil, but would do as they pleased, like these d — d
Rebel cavalrymen."
Severing his connection with the Confederate army, but
remaining a true and devoted friend of the South, he went
to Canada, preparatory to his return to England. There he
met a number of old friends and former comrades, among
whom were Capts. T. Henry Hines and John B. Castlemaii,
both of Morgan's Command. These men were in the secret
service of the South, and they were maturing a plan for the
liberation of the five thousand Confederate prisoners in Camp
Douglas, Chicago. The attempt was to be made on the 29th
of August, 1864. the day succeeding that on which the Na-
tional Democratic Convention was to meet in Chicago. Hines,
Castleman. and other officers, with about sixty Confederate
soldiers, escaped prisoners, were to attend the convention in
disguise, communicate with the inmates of the prison, who
were to act in concert witli their friends on the outside, have
guns near to arm all, and at a given signal the prisoners were
to rush upon their guards, overpower them, force the gates,
march out and receive their arms, and then they were to
fight their way to Kentucky or Missouri.
Here was perilous adventure for the old Englishman; but
unfortunately, as he considered it, he was no longer a Con-
federate soldier, but was an officer of the British army, and
could not. without violating an obligation, ^ssist the boys in
liberating their comrades; but he would go with them to
Chicago to see the result of their rash undertaking.
Convention day came, and with it an immense gathering of
war Democrats and peace men. The Confederates were there
too, Hines and Castleman having preceded the others several
days. They had communicated with the prisoners, a signal
for the attack upon the guard had been arranged, and all
seemed hopeful of success. But by some means — possibly
through treachery upon the part of some one in the confidence
of the Confederates — the Federal authorities had become awn re
of the existence of the conspiracy and the presence of the
conspirators. The guard at the prison was doubled and the
city police greatly strengthened, so that any attempt to re-
lease the prisoners at that time would certainly result in
failure and probably in the death of many good soldiers. In
view of these conditions, it was decided to leave Chicago.
Some of the Confederates returned to Canada, while others
went Southward to join their comrades. All escaped from
Chicago excepting Col. Grenfel and Col. Vincent Marma-
duke, of Missouri. These, lingering too long, were captured,
tried by court-martial, condemned, and the death sentence
passed upon thein. But President Lincoln commuted this to
imprisonment for life. Marmaduke was confined in soine
prison of the North, from which, however, he was pardoned
soon after the war closed. Grenfel was sent to the Dry Tortu-
gas, a bare island south of Florida, to a U. S. military post.
The treatment received by Col. Grenfel in his island prison
is said to have been brutal. He was driven about like a
galley slave and tortured for the most trivial offense. He was
tied up by the thumbs and other barbarous and degrading
punishment inflicted in order to subdue his proud, resentful
spirit. Had his keepers been true soldiers, they would have
respected him for his forty years of service in the wars of the
world and for the many scars he carried, but for these they
seemed to hate him.
Goaded to desperation by inhuman treatment, the brave old
Briton determined to flee to the ocean for refuge or for a
grave; so one dark night, when his jailers slept and the winds
were hushed, he stole out from his prison berth to the beach,
embarked in a frail craft, and put out to sea. A storm fell
upon the waters, and he was lost.
Thus perished one of the knightliest soldiers of the nine-
teenth century, one who had braved death in a hundred bat-
tles and lived only to feed with his flesh the tenants of the
deep. Kings, lords, and mighty warriors have gone down to
graves in the briny sea. but its blue waters never closed over
a braver heart than that of St. Leger Grenfel; and not till
Gabriel's bugle sounds the great reveille and the sea gives
up its dead will it be known just when and where he fought
his last battle.
TRIBUTE TO VIRGINIA.
The roses nowhere bloom so white
As in Virginia.
The simshine nowhere shines so bright
As in Virginia.
The birds nowhere sing so sweet.
And nowhere hearts so lightly beat,
For heaven and earth seem \.z*l\ tj meet
Down in Virginia.
The days are nowhere quite so long
As in Virginia,
Nor quite so filled with happy song *
As in Virginia.
So when my time has come to die
Just take me back and let me lie
Where the noble James goes rolling by,
Down in Virginia.
There is nowhere a land so fair
As in Virginia,
So full of song and free of care
As in Virginia;
And I believe that happy land
The Lord's prepared for mortal man
Is built exactly on the plan
Of Old Virginia.
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WORK OF THE U. D. C. IN OHIO.
ADDRESS IN ST. LOUIS OF MRS. FLORENCE TUCKER WINDER.
Madam President and United Daughters of the Confeder-
acy: The regular place for my report comes in just after that
of the Division of North Carolina, and it has in the past given
me great pleasure to follow it ; but to-day it is with a real
feeling of sadness that I do so, since Mrs. F. A. Olds, its
President, lies dead — a warm personal friend of mine, and
one who, three conventions ago in New Orleans, gave her
support and approbation of our work in Ohio by waving over
us on one side the flag of our beloved native State, North
Carolina, while, on the other, was unfurled the beautiful ban-
ner presented by IMrs. Rosenbiirg, of Te.xas, as many of us
sang :
"Carolina ! Carolina ! Heaven's blessing upon her !
While we live we will cherish, protect, and defend her."
This organization had not a more zealous, active, intelli-
gent worker than she, whose memory I thus delight to honor.
United Daughters of Louisiana in particular, we want to
thank you for having little children sing the song which has
given us occasion for this assembling, "The Bonny Blue Flag,"
and that little children drew our places on this floor; thus,
though our Division is not large, innocent hands placed us
where we could hear; the general order has given us a place
from which we can be heard.
Now, Daughters, I have nothing but pleasant things to say
of the members of my Division. Therefore, in justice, please
hear me patiently, and you will know, better than you ever
knew before, how happy, loyal, peaceful, and good we are;
for I want to tell you that we care for your living far from
their earthly home and your dead, whose souls have reached
their heavenly home — therefore from this platform it gives
me infinite pleasure to state that between the storm-tossed
waters of the Atlantic, as they bathe the feet of that majestic
goddess, "Liberty," at New York, and the sun-kissed waters
of the Pacific, as they pass through the Golden Gate at San
Francisco, there is a State called "Ohio," where there too
are also brave, loyal women who love to keep alive the mem-
ories of home, and who, though staying at home in the six-
ties, were protected by the faithful darkies who loved them
and were called members of their household, and who guarded
them with their humble love, thus making it a little easier
for the brave of that time to go forth and fight for love of
home and to maintain State rights.
These women have banded themselves together and loyally
work under the rules of the General Order, the title of the
Ohio Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and
who send you this greeting to-day. I could hardly come
without a salutation, since the Indian for Ohio means "greet-
ing." The Division's motto is : "He wins most who honor
saves ; success is not the test."
The Division exists under the honored names of Robert
E. Lee Chapter, Columbus, whose motto is, "Equal to vic-
tory, superior to defeat;" Judah P. Benjamin, Oxford — motto,
"The ages will justify our cause ;" Stonewall Jackson, Cin-
cinnati— motto, "Do your duty, and trust to Providence;" and
a charter applied and paid for a Chapter formed in loving
memory of our late lamented soldier and Christian gentleman,
John B. Gordon, at Springfield, Ohio.
The R. E. Lee Chapter, in Columbus, cares for your living
and your dead — for your living in sometimes finding and
housing Confederate veterans who come to them for aid, hav-
ing helped several in the last year: two from Virginia, who
fought under Lee, one from Mississippi, and one from Louisi-
ana ; and for your dead, two thousand, two hundred and sixty
at Camp Chase Cemetery, who sleep on their pillow of South-
ern moss, who'e shroud is the flag they fought under.
I am glad to tell you that as a member of this Chapter, not
as State President, I have been made permanent chairman of
its memorial ceremonies, which take place annually in June.
The Chapter has established a fund for this purpose and for
the care of the cemetery throughout the year, using on vote
of the Chapter, at its discretion, some of the unspecified
money )'ou all have sent. Last year I told you that Mr. Al
G. Field headed a subscription list with one hundred dollars,
followed by the names of many prominent citizens who had
financially helped in the past. With this we could repair,
with timber presented by a lumber dealer whose wife is from
Texas, the platform, which was in bad condition, having been
erected years before by that noble-hearted Federal soldier.
Col. Knauss. In the future address your letters of money to
me, please, Mrs. John H. Winder, No. i The Cumberland,
Columbus, Ohio, and your money for flowers or the expenses
to the Treasurer of the R. E. Lee Chapter, Miss Louise Tra-
bue, Columbus, Ohio. We know you don't want us to spend
all the money on that day and for a whole year thereafter
let the sacred spot be neglected, even though the aforesaid
fund that we have created can keep it beautiful. The Chapter
goes on each year with this loving work. At these cere-
monies this year twelve large Confederate flags decorated the
platform, something that had never before been done. Surely
the small flags that had b?en sent with wreaths had been
used, and it was known th. t so many flowers had been re-
ceived that an ice company off^ered us its cold storage. A
firing squad from the National Guard was there, something
that had never been done, and since then one of our soldiers
MRS. FLORENCE TUCKER WINDER.
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was buried with a soldier's honor by the Zanesville Camp,
G. A. R. Congress has appropriated three thousand, six hun-
dred dollars to rebuild the walls which it had badly put up
years ago.
We celebrated with song and recitation the birthdays of
Gens. Lee and Jackson, choosing that time to pin upon the
sacred breasts of sixteen veterans the Southern cross of honor,
more precious to them than gold. We have taken flowers
and nourishment into the sick rooms of veterans, and, when
we could take neither, we have taken the flag that they love,
and sometimes they were too feeble to partake of the nourish-
ment; they have never yet been too si.-k to give a Southern
salute when they saw that banner with its bars of red.
The Judah P. Benjamin Chapter has among its members
directors of schools, and so be assured that the younger
women will hear something that is true about the Southern
history.
The Stonewall Jackson Chapter, of Cincinnati, applied for
its charter on November 14 through Mrs. Hosea, niece of
Mrs. Moore, of St. Louis. The Chapter was organized De-
cember 7, 1903, with twenty-two charter members, and went
to work at once to be an active part of the Division, and
when only four months old, through the zeal and work of
Mrs. Hosca, President, gave an entertainment that realized
over sixty dollars, a part of which was sent to a paralyzed
Confederate soldier ; later, by a luncheon given in connection
with Henrietta Hunt Morgan Chapter, of Kentucky, it made
one hundred dollars. Thus it was assured that, besides
enough money for charity, they had enough to pay the gen-
eral per capita tax as well as the State, so that the Ohio Di-
vision could hold its State convention in October, to which
we all invite you.
\l we look for any reward, may it be found at our last
great convention in the w'ords, "God will make all things
clear," writ in letters of gold, and be entwined in the rain-
bow of promise which we will fashion out of the many bril-
liant-hued flowers of the Confederacy, which we will gather
in heaven after having so tenderly cared for them together on
earth.
/. R. RANDALL'S TRIBUTE TO COL. KNAUSS.
Comrade James R. Randall, of "My Maryland" fame, re-
cently visited Columbus, Ohio, where he met and conversed
with Col. W. H. Knauss, gratefully known throughout the
South, and he wrote as follows to the Callwlic Cohiiiibian:
"One of the most interesting men I have met at Columbus
is Col. William H. Knauss, whose conspicuous gallantry in
the War between the States is surpassed only by his noble,
Iiatriotic, and exceptional service since. When the war ceased
Col. Knauss stopped fighting, and was ready to take to his
heart Confederate soldiers who, like himself, were sincere
and unpurchasable, who were Americans and brothers — foes
once, but now friends. H every man, North and South, had
Iieen animated with the same Christian principles as Col.
Knauss, this country would long ago have been united in the
bonds of peace, charity, prosperity, and brotherly love. But
the politicians — those enemies of mankind — would not have
it so; and they are still, after forty years of peace, or what
goes for such technically, engaged in their deviltry, more
or less. Valiant as was Col. Knauss in battle, he has been
braver in the days since the battle flags were furled. He not
only had a tender sympathy for the living Confederate sol-
diers and their families, but has done more to honorably care
for their dead on the soil of Ohio, who perished rather than
be traitors to their cause, which was as sacred to them as
the cause of the Union was to men who volunteered and were
not drafted or purchased. The people of Ohio know what
Col. Knauss has done, and the people of the South are learn-
ing it and invoking blessings upon him. Some day the South
will raise a monument to him, and on this Christmas Day
L in the name of the Southern people, wish him and his
every glorious and spiritual benediction."
Col. Knauss has about completed a book, soon to be pub-
lished, that will interest the Southern people. The book will
contain carefully prepared reports of the reclamation of Camp
Chase Cemetery and its entire list of dead. In nearly every
instance the spot on which the grave is located will be indi-
cated by a well-executed map of the cemetery. The Veteran
has contained much on the subject of his labors there; but
it never will be known by finite minds how much labor and
pains he and his family have taken to preserve in the best
manner possible the sacred work in which he has so long en-
gaged. Not only has his labor been gratuitous, but he has
expended in the aggregate much money, which cannot be as-
certained, since he refrains from giving to the public much of
the details and expenses of this good work.
Vai.i.\nt Union Veteran Who Sacrificed Office for
Principle.
Judge Daniel F. Pugh, of Columbus, Ohio, a Grand Army
veteran, had shown much interest in the care of our Con-
federate dead at Camp Chase, but had declined on an occasion
to participate in one of the annual decorations because of
pressure of business. He was advised under threat at that
juncture, as he was an elective official, to refrain from par-
ticipating in the service of honoring Confederates. Defying
enemies of the movement, he hired a conveyance and drove in
great haste to participate. Those enemies won, and he was
relegated to the ranks as a lawyer; but he has never been
heard to express regret,
A note received from Judge Pugh (on the ninety-seventh
anniversary of Gen. Lee's birth) inclosed a newspaper clipping
from Zanesville, Ohio, of June 13, 1904, on which he com-
mented with the words, "It is interesting as well as inspiring
to me," and stated that he had carried it in his pocket for
months, intending to send it for the Veteran, The dispatch
is as follows : "The members of Hazlett Post, G. A. R., of
this city, officiated at the funeral of a Confederate veteran
yesterday afternoon. Thomas Roster, who was killed in the
car barns of the B. and O. shops Friday, fought for the Con
federacy, and came North soon after the War between the
States. He died there, homeless and apparently penniless and
friendless. It was intended to inter the remains in the potter's
field of Greenwood Cemetery; but the Grand Army Veterans
decided to give the body a decent burial, ai»d purchased a
single grave lot in a pretty spot in the cemetery and had the
remains buried there."
If the noble men who contributed their money and their
presence to thus honoring a Confederate could realize the pro-
found gratitude of all Southern people who know it, they
would be comforted in memory through life.
The superb painting of Gen. Lee on Traveler and the life-
size crayon bust uf Gen. John B. Gordon, which were kept on
exhibition by official request in tlie main headquarters during
the Confederate Reunion last June, were by the same artist,
Mrs. L. Kirby-Parrish. Both are remembered with sacred
pleasure and admiration by a multitude of old soldiers. Both
pictures now adorn the artist's home in Nashville.
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"On Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead."
Miss Sadie Patrick.
The death of Miss Sadie Patrick has caused general sor-
row throughout the South. "Our young adjutant general"
was loved by thousands of old Confederate veterans. For
more than five years she had been chief clerk in the Adjutant
General's office of the United Confederate 'Veterans, and had
mastered every detail of the organization. The Camp's re-
ports had been so arranged by the lamented Moorman that in a
moment she could give any specific information desired.
Her cordial yet gentle courtesy, her devotion to the work
to which she gave her brave young life, won the respect and
affectionate regard of all with whom she came in contact.
Miss Sadie Patrick was born at "The Oaks," in West
Baton Rouge Parish, La., the old Patrick homestead. Her
father, Thomas Patrick, was a well-known man of the State.
She was educated at home by a governess, and lived at "The
Oaks" until a young lady ; then moved to Rapids Parish, where
she spent the greater part of her life. She studied stenogra-
phy, graduating with honors, and was offered the position of
head clerk in the office of the U. C. V. Association by Adjt.
Gen. George Moorman. Miss Patrick's picture may appear
later.
David Hubbard.
David Hubbard was born in North Alabama, but after the
war had lived in Louisiana and Mississippi until his death, at
Terry, Miss., November 5, 1904. His father, Maj. David
Hubbard, was a gallant soldier under Gen. Jackson in the war
of 1812, and during the War between the States was Commis-
sioner of Indian Affairs. His son, Maj. David Hubbard,
organized a battalion of cavalry early in 1861.
After the battle of Shiloh, in which his battalion served
with gallantry, at the suggestion of his friend. Gen. Leonidas
Polk, he returned to Alabama and recruited additional com-
panies to make a regiment of his battalion ; but the Confeder-
ate government, needing more infantry at that time than
cavalry, had them mustered into that branch of service, and
Maj. Hubbard resumed command of his battalion with jusl
a sufficient number of his new recruits to make it full. Soon
after this, in a sharp little engagement with the enemy, a
shell exploded near his head, injuring his hearing so that it
incapacitated him for a time from service. As soon as his
hearing was sufficiently restored he organized a company of
scouts and reported to Gen. Forrest, with whom he served
until the surrender. His wife and three children, a son and
two daughters, survive him. Maj. Hubbard's two brothers
were in the Confederate army. Duncan C. Hubbard served
on the staff of Gen. Beauregard and George Hubbard was
killed in the severe battle at Baker's Creek.
Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge.
Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge, soldier, statesman, journalist,
and lawyer, died at his home, in Lexington, Ky., November
19, 1904. He was a remarkable man. The intellectual gifts
of Col. Breckinridge were transnntted through a long line of
distinguished ancestors who were conspicuous in the history
of this country antedating the Revolution. He graduated at
Center College, Danville, Ky., afterwards taking a law course
at the University of Louisville, and began to practice in 1857.
When the War between the States began, in 1861, he en-
tered the Confederate service as captain of a company of
cavalry, and rose rapidly to the command of a brigade in that
branch of the service.
Returning to Kentucky when the war closed. Col. Breckin-
ridge resumed the practice of law, and soon achieved promi-
nence, being also for a time editor of the Lexington Observer.
In 1884 he was elected on the Democratic ticket to Congress
from the Ashland District, and served continuously for ten
years. As a lawyer Col. Breckinridge was an eloquent, force-
ful speaker; but it was not until he served Congress that his
rare intellectual gifts and brilliant oratory won for him
national applause and added fresh luster to the men of the
South.
His eminence extended through a period of nearly forty
years. His father. Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge, was one of
the most eloquent and influential Presbyterian preachers of
his day, and his grandfather, John Breckinridge, was one of
Kentucky's most distinguished Senators, Attorney-General
under Jefferson, and one of his chief advisers in the acquisi-
tion of Louisiana ; while on his maternal side he inherited
the same blood with Patrick Henry, his mother "being the
grandniece of that great orator, while she was the sister of
William Campbell Preston, Senator from South Carolina,
who as an orator was without a peer in his day except in
Clay. In style he had all the persuasive elements of person,
voice, and eloquence in delivery, his words coming in un-
studied melody, which charmed and at the same time carried
conviction by the substance as well as the manner of his
arguments. Upon both sides he came from the sturdy Scotch-
Irish Presbyterian stock, who, sacrificing all in their native
country, enriched the "Valley of Virginia by their immigra-
tion before the middle of the eighteenth century in search of
greater civil and religious freedom. His name, William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge, embodies the names of some
of the most conspicuous of those pioneers who blazed the
way to a higher destiny illustrated in the deeds of their
descendants."
Col. Breckinridge's term in Congress was regarded by his
Kentucky friends as the brightest epoch for the Ashland
District since the days of Henry Clay. From his first speech
in Congress the whole country voted him among the most
notable men then in public life.
Col. Breckinridge was affectionately regarded by Confeder-
ate veterans. At many Confederate reunions his electrifying
power made many a veteran of the great war all the prouder
of what he had endured for Dixie's land.
Capt. William Miles Hazzard.
"On December 23, at his home in Georgetown, S. C,"
writes Comrade M. R. Tunno, of Savannah, Ga., "there
passed away a loyal and true soldier — Capt. W. M. Hazzard,
formerly of St. Simon's Island. Ga.
"He was attached to an artillery company at St. Simons
for a short while, then he commanded a company of cavalry
stationed on the coast, and later he served v^ia^ntly in the
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Army of Tennessee, commanded by Gen. Hood. During the
time he was on the Georgia coast he several times made raids
upon St. Simons. In one of them he burned the wharf, upon
which a large quantity of coal, quartermaster and commissary
stores had been landed by the enemy. On another raid he
and only ten men, with double-barreled guns loaded with buck-
shot, killed several times their number, while he was so
skillful as not to lose a man.
"To Capt. Hazzard was due the revocation of orders to
burn the large quantity of cotton in Augusta, most of which
had been rolled out on streets awaiting the torch, and thus
was saved to the owners a vast deal of money. While true
as tliO truest and brave as the bravest in war, he was a de-
voted husband and father, son, brother, and friend. In every
relation of life he was conspicuously worthy. He was loved
by his men and by all who knew him.
"Capt. Hazzard married Miss Emily St. Pierre Trenholm,
of Charleston, S. C, who, with one daughter, survives him.
His associates of the Western Military Institute, of Ken-
tucky, yet living, and all who knew him during his long and
honorable life, will revere his memory. The writer was a
college mate and knew him most intimately from infancy."
Nathan Camfbell Monroe.
Nathan C. Monroe died in Washington, D. C, November
26, 1904, from an illness consequent upon an operation foi
appendicitis. He was a native of Georgia, and his remains
were carried back to his old home at Macon for burial. He
was a brother of Mrs. John Mcintosh Kell, whose husband
was prominent as a surgeon in the Confederate navy.
As a child of ten years, Comrade Monroe was sent in July,
1857, to a Moravian college at Nazareth, Pa., where he re-
mained till June, 1861, all arrangements having been made
for the completion of his education at Heidelberg. He de-
termined to return home, however, as the war had opened,
and left New York on July 23 for the South. After much
difficulty in crossing the lines, he reached Macon about Au-
NATHAN C. MONROE.
gust I, leaving in a few days for the Georgia Military Insti-
tute at Marietta, where he remained till January, 1862, when
he resigned and entered college at Athens.
In May, 1862, he returned home, and in July entered the
Confederate army. He participated in all the battles from
Chickamauga to Jonesboro, Hood's campaign into Tennessee
and return, and he surrendered w^ith Gen. J, E. Johnston at
Bentonville, N. C, in 1865.
In 1868 Mr. Monroe removed to Griffin, Ga., and in 1871
was associated in the publication of the Daily and JVcckl\
A't-ic'J. After this was formed into a stock company he was
made business manager, but shortly afterwards sold out his
interest and returned to Macon, engaging in business there.
For some years before and until his death he held a posi-
tion in a bureau of the War Department at Washington.
He was a genial, pleasant gentleman, and a large circle of
friends mourns his departure. Two sons and four daughters
survive.
The members of Charles Broadway Camp, of Washington,
as well as the Interstate Commerce Commission, in which
he held position as chief of a division, paid him every honor,
and an escort of prominent Confederates of Washington ac-
companied the remains to the South-bound train.
A pleasing incident in the life of Comrade Monroe is given
by his sister, Mrs. Kell. She writes: "At fifteen and a half
years of age he ran away from the military school at Mari-
etta, Ga., to join the army. An only son, the idol in his home,
the home of affluence and elegance till ruined by the war, no
opposition nor entreaties could overcome the patriotism of
his young soul. At a review of troops in Montgomery, Ala.,
Mr. Davis seemed to single him out, and said to him : 'What
are you doing here? You are a baby soldier. Have you a
mother at home?' 'No,' said the boy; 'but I have my father
and sisters.' As the parade went on, the President seemed
still to watch him, which was not so remarkable, as he was
a pleasing, sunny-hearted youngster ; but when Mr. Davis
made his tour through the South years afterwards, at the
reception given him in Atlanta Mr. Monroe offered his hand
and said: 'Do you remember me, Mr. Davis? Did you evei
see me before ?' 'Yes ; I called you a baby soldier at Mont-
gomery, Ala., where I was reviewing the troops.' Mr. Davis
nnist have had a remarkable memory for faces or been
greatly impressed by that boyish face, so full of life and
youth and patriotism."
As an illustration of the spirit to be accurate in the Vet-
eran, Mrs. Kell, who wrote the above, in a personal letter
states : "My remembrance is that the military school was re-
moved from Athens to Marietta, and the cadets moved with
it. But I was young, and in the providence of God lost two
of my little ones with diphtheria while my husband was on
the Alabama in tlie China seas. It is natural that much that
occurred at that time should be submerged in the sea of
that great sorrow borne alone. Any seeming contradiction as
to data or events must be the fault of my memory."
Capt. E. T. Kindred.
On December 2, 1904. there died in Roanoke, Va., Capt. K.
T. Kindred, Company F, Fourth Texas Regiment. He was
born in Montgomery, Ala., in 1839. the son of a preacher.
His boyhood days were spent in Texas, and at the opening of
the War between the States he answered the first call to arms,
forming a company of volunteers and joining the Fourth
Te.Kas Regiment (J. B. Hood), which went to Lee's army in
Virginia.
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Brave and fearless, he was also tender to and thoughtful of
his men, never forgetting the least thing that would add to
their comfort. Many a night when we lay wrapped in our
blankets under the starlight, hungry and exhausted — and, as
he thought, asleep — did I see him quietly open his haversack
and slip his own scant supply of food into that of some soldier
boy, w'hose thin face and unsteady march had not escaped his
watchful eye. For all he knew, there were only the stars to
witness.
Although but captain of his company, he acted as major
for a long while. He was a personal friend of Gen. Robert E.
Lee, and was therefore used for perilous work. Gen. Lee is
quoted as saying: ''Let Kindred do this, for he knows no such
word as fail." This same spirit of bravery went with him
tlirough life, enabling him to face the last enemy — Death —
without flinching.
He accepted Christ as his Captain, and, after a valiant fight,
laid down his arms in peaceful submission.
This humble tribute is paid by "one of his privates."
Thom.as H. Gilbert.
Thomas H. Gilbert, of Riplej', Ala., died December 6,
l(;04, aged sixty-one years. During the war he served in
Company F, Ninth Alabama Regiment. He was a member
of Hobbs Camp, No. 400. As a husband and father he was
faithful to the duties of life and was respected as a citizen
His wife and five children survive him.
JouN Shirley Ward.
At Manhattan Beach, near Los Angeles, Cal., November
25, 1904, there passed out of this life the spirit of John Shir-
ley Ward — a spirit that embodied chivalry, courtesy, and lofty
ideals. Mr. Ward was born near Huntsville, Ala., August
-5> 1834. one of eight children. Rev. William E. Ward, of
beloved memory throughout the South, the founder of Ward's
Seminary, of Nashville, Tenn., was his brother. He received
his college education in Cumberland University, at Lebanon,
Tenn., taking the literary, classical, and law courses.
He was an officer of the Fiftieth Tennessee Regiment, was
captured at the fall of Fort Donelson, and spent nearly two
years in the F'ederal prison at Johnson's Island, in Sandusky
Bay. On account of impaired health after his release from
prison he was unable to join his regiment, but became a news-
paper correspondent in the field on the staff of Nashville
and Atlanta papers.
After the war he settled in Nashville, and became one of
the owners and editors of the Union and American. After-
wards he became the owner and editor of The Ladies' Pearl,
a monthly literary magazine which was regarded as an ad-
junct to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. This he suc-
cessfuly conducted, and brought the Pearl to a high standard
of literary excellence.
His own delicate health and the health of one of his chil-
dren caused him to move to Southern California, in 1873,
where he afterwards lived.
Mr. Ward was a man of rare mental attainments, deeply
versed in modern and classical literature. He was a fascinating
writer, a magnetic public speaker, an entertaining talker, and a
genial companion. As a writer, his graceful fancy gave to even
commonplace themes that magic touch of interest which at
once commanded and sustained attention. He embellished his
glowing thoughts with a wealth of poetic and classical allusions
that seemed to come ever bubbling from his boyhood store of
early reading. His pen never touched a subject that it did
not adorn. The achievements of his own beloved Southland,
either in war or in pence, was ever one of ardent interest to
him. Readers of the Veteran may recall some illustrations
of this fact, His contributions on the subject were a potent
force in the great movement which, last year, resulted in the
JOHN SHIRLEY WARD.
revision of the Westminster Confession, by expunging from
that time-honored creed some harsh interpretations of God's
providences. He had labored for years to have the Church
abandon them.
The greatest charm of the man, however, lay in something
subtler than his mental accomplishments. The spirit of his
strong, pure heart, his gentle dignity, his exquisite courtesy,
his rare chivalry, and his warm, human interest in every life
he touched returned to him a hundredfold in the deep af-
fection felt by all who knew him.
Conrad Nutzell.
A well-beloved comrade and faithful member of the Con-
federate Historical Association and Company A, U. C. V., of
Memphis, died at Memphis, Tenn., October 14, 1904. This
gallant, brave, but unostentatious comrade of the immortal
struggle of nearly half a century ago has answered the "last
roll." He was born in Germany, and came South in 1853,
when only eighteen years old, following his trade as a me-
chanic, in which he continued until 1861.
Young Nutzell, who was imbued with the spirit of freedom
that came to him from the heroes of that great Revolution of
1848, when the demand for a united Germany was rampant in
that country, at once cast his fortunes with the young Con-
federacy, whose objects were for the supremacy of State
rights. He joined the Fifteenth Tennessee Regiment, and was
elected a lieutenant. He participated in many battles. In the
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battle of Corinth, in which he was conspicuously brave, and
was mentioned in general orders for promotion "for gallant
and meritorious service," he was assigned to the staflf of Col.
Ben Hill, then provost marshal at Dalton, Ga.
J. N. Rainey, Secretary of the Confederate Historical As-
sociation, of Memphis, writes of him: "With his character-
istic zeal, he conceived the idea of converting six hundred
Yankee prisoners, all of whom were Germans and unable to
speak English, to our cause, and formed them into a regiment,
which did some gallant fighting in the cause of the South."
John B. Baker.
At sunrise January i, 1905, to greet the beginning of a new
year. Orderly Sergeant John B. Baker answered the last call
at his home, in Goldsboro, N. C. Comrade Baker was born
in April, 1842, and was the eldest son of Col. Jesse J. Baker.
He attended the Goldsboro Male Academy, but was at the
Hampton Military Institute, of Virginia, when the war began.
He was a member of the Goldsboro Rifles, and on the 15th
of April, 1861, marched with them to Fort Macon, in response
to the order of Gov. Ellis. His company was Company A.
of the Twenty-Seventh North Carolina Infantrj', and he gal-
lantly bore his part with that splendid regiment from New-
bern to Appomattox. He was twice captured, first at Sharps-
burg, in 1861, and again at Reams Station, in 1864. He was
soon exchanged after the first capture; but the second time
lie was held prisoner until the close of the war, at Hart's Is-
land, New York.
For many years Comrade Baker had been an invalid, and
through all those years of pain and suffering he displayed the
same patient fortitude that characterized his conduct as a
soldier. Two devoted sisters were constant in their atten-
tions, anticipating his wants, and with loving tenderness minis-
tering to them day and night for nearly a quarter of a cen-
tury. Mr. Baker was never married, and, aside from his
two sisters, his aged mother, eighty-five years old, survives
him,
W. B. Johnson.
W. B. Johnson, a Confederate veteran aged seventy-one
years, died at the Confederate Home of Arkansas on Jan-
uary 18. He was a native of South Carolina, a member of
the Fourteenth South Carolina Infantry, a member of the
Baptist Churcli, and a Mason. He came to Arkansas just
after the close of the war, and was an inmate of the Con-
federate Home from Nevada County.
It is a singular coincidence that tw-o members of his own
command, so far away from his native State, were present to
assist in laying him to rest. These comrades, J. B. Steen, J.
P. Ausborn, and the deceased, W. B. Johnson, had drifted
;;part into difi'erent States after the war, but by chance were
brought together again in the Arkansas Confederate Home.
J. K. Miller.
Joseph Kcebcr Miller died at his home, near Gallatin, Tcnn.,
February 6, 1904, in his sixty-fourth year. At the breaking
out of the war, in i86r, he enlisted as a volunteer in the
Thirtieth Tennessee Infantry, and served faithfully for the
four years.
Shortly after the close of the war he married Miss Ellen
Cleveland, of Forsyth, Ga. There were two children born
to this union : E. C. Miller, of Knoxville, Tenn., and Mrs.
Rufus Mcl.ain, of Sumner County, this State. Some eight
years after the death of his first wife Mr. Miller married
Miss Laura Gass, of Kentucky, who survives him.
In the passing away of "K" Miller, as he was best known
to his friends, the community in which he had lived all of his
brave and spotless life, and where he was best known and
mostly loved, lost a valued member, the State one of its best
citizens, and his old Confederate comrades a loyal friend and
gallant associate.
a* aie*
REUNION OF FAMILY AFTER FIFTY YEARS.
The group represents Mr. Miller, his stepfather, Mr.
Norval Douglass, of California, and his two half sisters, Mrs.
Gill, also of California, and Mrs. Young, of Bastrop, Tex.
After having been separated for fifty years they met at the
home of Mrs. Young, in Bastrop, a short time before Mr.
Miller's death, where this picture was taken. He is standing.
L. H. Nelson.
Another soldier of Lee's made the crossing when L. H.
Nelson died at Pittsburg, Tex., on the 22d of January. He
entered the Confederate army, in 1861, at Camden, Ark., and
was in many hard-fought battles until tlie surrender. He w-as
faithful to duty always, in peace as in war, and as a Chris-
tian gentleinan and good citizen he won the hearts of all with
whom he was associated.
"JOHNSTON'S NARRATIVE."
The Veteran has procured from the publishers' jobbers
, the entire stock of Gen. Joseph E. John-
ston's history of his part in the Con-
federate war, known as "Johnston's
Narrative." It is in both bindings,
sheep and morocco, and will be sup-
plied by the Veteran at half the list
prices — the $5 work for $2.50, and the
' $6 for $3. No library in the South will
ever be complete without this work.
y "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate
Government," by Jefferson Davis, is
b\ the Veteran and supplied at half the list price
of $14 — $7 for both volumes, postage or expressage sixty-five
cents added.
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"NORTHERN REBELLION AND SOUTHERN SE-
CESSION."
The interest this publication is attracting North and South
brings the author into unusual prominence as a historian.
Elbert William R. Ewing was born in Virginia September
22, 1867. He graduated at Cumberland College, and from
there went to the Uni-
versity of Virginia and
took graduating certifi-
cates in eight subjects.
He then studied law,
practiced w'ith distinc-
tion for a little while,
after which he took his
LL.B. from the Chicago j
Law School, located in j
Missouri, and entered I
upon his profession. He
holds the M.A., LL.B.,
and is a member of
\arious historical or-
ganizations, the most
distinguished of which
is the American His-
torical Association. He
is prominent in Masonic
and other orders. e- ^^^ "• ^'^'''"'- the author.
He volunteered in the war with Spain, but saw no service.
He holds the major's commission in the National Reserve
Guards of Missouri. His father was captain in the Confed-
erate army, serving under Longstreet and Jackson, and later
rode with Stewart and Fitzhugh Lee. His family, on both
sides, is of the oldest and best in Virginia.
Maj. Ewing is now living in Washington City, practicing
his profession, but will devote most of his time to writing
history. His ability, education, undaunted courage, and un-
flinching determination make him, in view of his age, one of
the South's most hopeful historians. He has sworn eternal
warfare upon the errors of Northern historians. In his "The
Negro's Struggle in the White Man's Courts," to come out
soon, he shows that the Dred Scott decision was based upon
Northern precedents, and in a strong legal study sustains the
decision and proves that in repudiating it the North was more
guilty of rebellion than the South ever was.
PORTRAIT OF LEE AND TRAVELER.
Not since the days of Bucephalus, the famous war horse of
Alexander the Great, has the name of a horse been as well
known or intimately associated with the name of his famous
owner as that of Traveler, the favorite war horse of Gen.
Lee. Traveler was raised by a Mr. Johnson, of Greenbrier
County, Va., and was four years old in the spring of 1861.
When the Wise Legion was camped on Sewel! Mountain,
Maj. Thomas L. Broun, of the Third Virginia Infantry —
Wise Legion — bought the horse from Mr. Johnson. In the
fall of 1861, when Gen. Lee was in command of these troops,
he happened to see the horse and greatly admired him.
Shortly after, Gen. Lee was ordered to South Carolina, and
the Third Regiment was detached from the army in West
Virginia and sent to South Carolina. There Gen. Lee again
saw the horse and expressed his admiration of the animal,
whereupon the owner, Maj. Broun, ofifered to make him a
present of the animal. Gen. Lee declined to accept him as a
gift, but said, however, that if Maj. Broun would willingly
sell the horse he would ride him a week or two to see if he
suited him. Maj. Brown was at his home quite sick, but wrote
his brother, who was quartermaster of his regiment, that if
Gen. Lee would not accept the horse as a gift to sell it to
him at what he gave, one hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Gen. Lee added twenty-five dollars to make up for the de-
preciation of our currency, and paid two hundred dollars for
Traveler. Maj. Broun had named the horse Jeff Davis, but
after Gen. Lee purchased him he changed the name to
Traveler.
After the war Gen. Lee wrote to Maj. Broun, stating that
Traveler had survived the war and asking for his pedigree.
Gen. Lee was very fond of all kinds of domestic animals,
but his affection for his old gray war horse was something
akin to human, and the name of Traveler will be treasured,
with that of his master's, as the war horse of one of the
greatest captains the world has ever known.
The picture of "Gen. Lee on Traveler," in this number oi
the Veteran, is copied from the life-size oil portrait painted
by the Nashville artist, Mrs. L. Kirby-Parrish. In its pro-
MRS. LULIE KIRBV-PARRISH, THE ARTIST.
duction the Miley photograph — taken at Lexington, Va., in
1868, while Gen. Lee was President of what is now Washing-
ton and Lee University — was used as a model, it being the
only picture of himself that he ever requested to be made.
The dimensions of the canvas are nine by ten and a half
feet, the figure of the horse and of the rider being full life-
size.
Gen. Lee wears a suit and a hat of Confederate gray, with
gauntlets and Wellington boots which he invariably donned
for horseback exercise.
The vernal landscape, with its soft, dreamy atmosphere,
imparts to the central group and to the whole scene a grace
of form and color at once reposeful and alluring to the senses.
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While making this picture, the artist studied with intelli-
gent care all of the later photographs of Gen. Lee, and had,
besides, the rare advantage of personal suggestions from one
of his most faithful soldiers and intimate friends both as to
the great chieftain and his beloved charger. In the opinion
of this close friend, and of others competent to judge, this is
one of the best and most characteristic of all the existing
portraits of Gen. Lee. First of all, the artist was inspired
with ardent love for her subject, as by lineal descent she is
a Virginian daughter of the Revolution and of the Confed-
eracy; and into the execution of her task she has put this
love in all its intenseness, as well as a true and enthusiastic
love for her art and for her native South.
-THE OLD SOUTH."
A Popular Subject Well Treated.
Prof. H. M. Hamill, who v>Totc of "A Boy's First Battle"
in the Veteran for November, has stirred glorious memories
by a little book on "The Old South." It seems that Dr.
Hamill was quite the man to prepare a record that pleases
every one, even the old slaves, and it thrills the best-in-
furmcd of those who remember that eventful period in the
affairs of life.
Brief extracts copied herein express tersely the prevalent
sentiment in regard to it. The widow of Bishop Wightman
writes a friend a letter, in which she refers to it ; also to
Sam Davis and to President Davis :
Mrs. M. D. Wightman, President of the Woman's Board
(if Foreign Missions of the M. E. Church, South, widow of
the beloved Bishop Wightman, has written a friend about Dr.
Ilamill's book, "The Old South:"
rKuF. 11. M. HAMll.I., n.ll., .MiTllOR OF THE OLD SOUTH.
'I can hardly write for my tears. I have had a good cry.
I love Dr. Hamill for what he is doing for us. . . . The
little book is worth gold. I want two dozen copies to give
away. Bless the Doctor's heart for his foreword ! Bless his
mother for having him to print the monograph I . . . Old
Uncle Jeff makes me cry. If .iKunt Hannah hasn't got the
baby in her arms, she has just put it down.
"1 think the little book appealed to me so strongly just
now because for some time my thought has been running on
tlic Old South and the negro. On December i8 I heard
Bishop GoodscU preach to the colored M. E. Conference.
. . . I have often thought of our colored people and wished
we were helping them.
"Sam Davis! Our hero! 1 war.t to hand a dollar for that
monument, and wish I had a hundred. .And our beloved chief I
I used to exult in the thought that not a line ever came fi-om
our honored President that was not instinct with what con-
stitutes a noble man and a true gentleman. ... 1 do no:
remember any appeal to the passions that were easily stirred.
.\lways he was magnanimous, noble-hearted."
Gen. B. W. Green, of Little Rock, Ark., writes the auilior :
"1 have read 'The Old South' with the greatest pleasure. If
you never wrote anything else, this ought to immortalize you.''
W. B. Jacobs, of Chicago, 111., adjutant general in the
Federal army, writes : "Am reading 'The Old South,' anri
am delighted with it."
"Aunt'' Mima Mitchell (colored) writes characteristically:
"I was horned in the Old South. Your little book was the
only Christmas present I received. I have read it through
tliree times, and cried over it."
Dr. Howard M. Hamill.
Dr. Hamill, of Nashville, author of "The Old South," was
born in Lowndcsboro, .Ma., in 1848, and is the son of Rev
E. J. Hamill, of the Alabama Methodist Conference, who was
chaplain in Cleburne's Division during the last years of the
war. At the age of sixteen young Hamill joined Lee's army,
and served the last year of the war under that great general,
receiving his parole as a member of Finnegan's Florida Bri
gadc at Appomattox.
He graduated at Auburn, Ala., together with Supreme Court
Judge Render J. Dowdcll, in the first class after the war in
the East Alabama College. For ten years and more he held
high educational positions in the West, and was then made
International Sunday School Secretary, and recently Superin-
tendent of Training Work in Southern Methodism. He has
written manj' books, has been a world-wide traveler, is
known everywhere in Canada, the I'liiled States, and Europe
as among the foremost of Sunday school lecturers, and is
altogether a very busy man and in touch with every advance
ir.ovement of the South.
The Veteran hopes to put this little book into the homes
of thousands; and, while the book is sent to any address
lor twenty-five cents, it will be mailed free to any patron
who will send one dollar for a nczc subscriber. It will be
sent free to each subscriber as well as to the patron in clubs
of five. Comrades, friends, utilize this opportunity to demon-
strate what influence an article in the Veteran may exert.
The little book of eighty pages is beautifully bound and con-
tains a number of full-page illustrations, among them "Uncle''
Jeff Shields and "Aunt" Hannah, Sam Davis, JefTerson Davis,
Alexander H. Stephens, Bi.shop Pierce, and others.
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REUNION FOR 1905 AT LOUISVILLE.
JUNE 14, IS, 16 THE DATE.
Official notice comes from New Orleans February 1 that
the date for the Louisville Reunion has been fixed for June
14-16, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. According to cus-
tom, these will be also the Reunion dates for the United Sons
and the Confederated Southern Memorial Association.
HONOR TO PRIVATE lOHN HAMMOND.
Capt. F. E. Eve, Hazen, Ga., writes about one of his men :
"I've been on the 'surgeon's roll' for over a year, but hope
soon to report for 'active duty.' This must be my excuse for
not noticing sooner through the Veter.\n the reference made
to the tomb of one of my men killed at Orangeburg, S. C,
John Hammond, as brave a boy as ever lived. He had no
conception of danger when fighting the Federals; and if he
was ever absent a day from his company or from duty until
he was killed, I never knew of it. Well may it be said: 'Here
lies a Confederate soldier who did his duty.' His horse was
killed under him at Brandy Station in the celebrated saber
charge of Cobb's Legion that broke Gen. Pleasanton's trium-
phal advance, recapturing Gen. Jeb Stuart's headquarters and
enabling him to re-form his lines, make a counter charge on
Pleasanton, and drive him across the Rappahannock. The
charge of Cobb's Legion, led by Gen. P. M. B. Young, was
the turning point in this fight.
"I notice in the December Veteran that H. H. Scott, one
of Gen. Wade Hampton's scouts, very properly corrects the
claim of some of Wheeler's Cavalry to a little hand-to-hand
saber and pistol fight at Fayetteville, N. C. I have heard
Gen. Hampton, with snapping eyes, tell of this little affair
in the presence of Hugh Scott and in his absence. The old
General's saber stood him in good stead that day.
"Now as to the spotted horse: Tip Watkins was orderly
sergeant in Company I, of Cobb's Legion (Richmond Hussars
from Augusta, Ga.), and he captured the spotted horse be-
longing to Kilpatrick and unwillingly, as he told me himself,
gave him back to Gen. Kilpatrick for two other horses.
Cobb's Legion, led by that game old fighter and veteran of
the Mexican War, Col. Gib Wright, who was wounded time
and again by both pistol and saber, for he was ever in the
front, was the first in the charge made on Kilpatrick's camp.
"The Cobb Legion went to Virginia in 1861, and was one
of the regiments that formed the famous First Cavalry Bri-
gade, A. N. v., and what Gen. Wade Hampton thought of
them he often expressed in public addresses as well as in
private conversation. They were never in Wheeler's Cavalry.
Gen. Hampton was the ranking officer, and commanded
Wheeler's Cavalry as much as he did Butler's Cavalry — in
fact, after Stuart's death he was the ranking lieutenant gen-
eral, and commanded all the cavalry. He was present and in
command, and the fight was made by his direction. He was
not a West Pointer, as was Gen. Wheeler."
THE SONS IN OKLAHOMA.
On January 6 a charter was issued by Commander in Chief
N. R. Tisdal to Robert E. Lee Camp, No. 495, United Sons
of Confederate Veterans, located at Cordell, Okla. The fol-
lowing are the officers of the new Camp : Commander, Dr.
Vere V. Hunt; First Lieutenant Commanders, J. M. Arm-
field, R. A. Billups; Adjutant, R. L. Harvey; Treasurer, W.
A. Bills; Chaplain, Rutherford Brett; Surgeon, Dr. J. E.
Forber; Quartermaster, H. D. Young; Color Sergeant, W.
J. Knott; Historian, T. A. Edwards.
Dr. Vere V. Hunt, who has recently located there, is a gen-
tleman who has seen much of the world, having twice traveled
around it, and whose life has been full of adventures. Born
in the south of England, the Doctor spent much of his early
life in the British army in West, Central, and Southern Africa.
He was the only commissioned officer that escaped from the
sanguinary battle of Isandlhwana, and was decorated by the
Queen for bringing the body of Prince Louis Napoleon into
camp. Some months later he was permanently crippled by
having his horse shot under him in the final cavalry charge
at Ulundi.
The Doctor graduated in arts and law from Trinity Col-
lege, University of Dublin, Ireland. Out of a family of seven
boys, however, five of the Doctor's brothers were physicians,
DK. VERE v. HUNT.
and, yielding to what seemed fate, the Doctor added a sixth,
graduating from two of Chicago's prominent medical insti-
tutions—Dunham Medical College and Hospital, and Hering
Medical College and Hospital. He also served a term in
Cook County Hospital, Chicago, the largest medical infirmary
west of New York.
Regarding the Doctor's immediate ancestors, who belong
to one of the oldest families in England — the De Veres, of
Oxford — the Dallas News of July 6, 1903, says : "Old Con-
federate veterans will remember Dr. Vere V. Hunt's name
from the fact that his father and two uncles ran the blockade
to join their brother-in-law. Gen. J. E. Erskire, of Louisiana,
on the side of the South. All three brothers had previously
distinguished themselves in the British army. The Doctor's
father, Maj. Gen. Sir Edmund Langley Hunt, V.C.K.C.B.,
of Hurst Manor, Bucks, is Equerry to King Edward, and held
the present Prince of Wales in his arms when the future king
of England received his cognomen. Sir Edmund is a hale
and hearty veteran of seventy-four years."
Commander in Chief N. R. Tisdal has appointed Dr. Hunt
National Chairman for the Relief Committee of the United
Sons of Confederate Veterans.
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PAPERS TO BE READ BY THE U. D. C.
The Cradle of the Confederacy Chapter at Montgomery,
Ala., outlines its programme of historical exercises for a
year at a time. The conclusion to July, 1905, is as follows :
February : "Fall of Fort Donelson and the Taking of Is-
land No. 10, Mrs. M. P. Watt; "Who Were Mason and Sli-
dell?" Mrs. Jessie Lamar; "How Was Ammunition Obtained
for the Confederacy?" Mrs. R. M. Collins.
March: "Battle of Shiloh," Mrs. Shirley Bragg; "Death
oi Albert Sidney Johnston," Mrs. Paul Smith.
April: "Naval Engagement in Hampton Roads," Mrs. C.
H. Beale; "Fall of New Orleans," Mrs. John W. Durr, Jr.
May : "Battle of Seven Pines and the Seven Days' Fight-
ing around Richmond," Mrs. J. K. Jackson; "When Was the
Proposition Made to Exchange Prisoners, and How Did the
First Effort Terminate?" Mrs. Albert Taylor.
June : "Jackson's Valley Campaign," Mrs. M. A. Baldwin.
•'SOUTHERN HEROES AND OTHER POEMS."
Dr. Orion T. Dozier has given the above title to the
latest compilation of his book of poems. The book is dedi-
cated "To the United Sons and United Daughters of the
Confederacy, scions of the most noble, chivalrous, brave, and
heroic exemplars of soldierly and loyal patriotism ; the most
faithful adherents to their God-given instincts of racial su-
periority and fidelity to their Caucasian blood." It is not nec-
essary to look beyond this dedication or to say the author is
a Confederate veteran to find the sentiment that mainly pre-
vails and is poetically expressed in the book. No collection
of Southern poems by Southern authors would be complete
without a copy of "Southern Heroes and Other Poems."
The author has the happy faculty of never tiring the reader.
The varied themes that tempt his Muse give zest and in-
terest to the volume throughout. With surprising versatility
he runs the gamut from grave to gay, at one moment as
sentimental as Stern, the next as satirical as Juvenal ; at
times as pathetic as Poe, and then as humorous as Stanton.
He weaves the negro dialect into verse with an accuracy
that marks him as "native to the manor born." For instance,
Uncle Mose opens his sermon with
"My belubed cullud brudders,
Havin' left at home my specks
I'll have ter ax your pardon
Fer not readin' ob my tex ;
But yer'll find de inspiration
Ob what 1 has ter say
In de Pistle ob de Postle
To de Church in Arfica."
This book is supplied by the Veteran with a year's sub-
scription for $1.75, or free for five new subscriptions.
Dr. Dozicr's address is Birmingham. Ala.
W. H. Davis, who was a member of Capt. James R. Lester's
Company (F), Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, "Paul's People,"
desires to hear from Charlie Miller, who was also a member
of that company, and was afterwards a lieutenant on Gen.
John A. Wharton's staff.
D«. ORION T. DOZIERi
THE CONFEDERATE MINING COM PAN y. IN
MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA.
STATEMENT OF MANAGER THEODORE CRANDALL.
The manager of the Confederate Mining Company reports
that with four or five thousand dollars more he can com-
plete the development work. The rule of mining is to cut
the side wall where the copper is bedded on three sides, so it
will show the ore on all three sides. Then its value can be
estimated to a certainty, and the mine placed upon the market
if the stockholders so desire.
The manager also reports that the property is in fine con-
dition and of great value, and that with reasonable time
and a few thousand dollars more he can make it a great
producer. He says that, at a low estimate, this property is
worth at least five hundred thousand dollars.
This has all been accomplished with an expenditure of less
than sixteen thousand dollars, including the purchase price of
the property. A fine showing surelj% one that ought to satisfy
tlie most exacting stockholder. This report by Manager
Crandall is verified by the expert mining engineer, W. H.
Mercer, of Globe, Arizona.
There have been 14,433 shares of treasury stoclt sold, which
would give each stockholder about thirty-five dollars pei
share, or about three and a half times the par value of the
stock. Besides this, we are assured that with the expenditure
of a few thousand dollars more in the mines the property can
be made to show double the present value. It takes time and
money, accompanied with a great deal of hard work and
patience on the part of the managers, to keep the mill grind-
ing; but, with the good results .t1 ready obtained, it looks like
the dividends w-ill soon come.
There are a few hundred certificates of the two-dollai
stock yet unsold. First call first served, either cash or on
the installment plan.
R. W. Crabb, Treasurer, Uniontown, Ky.
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Fertilizer. , , . , , ^
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Graphic, the local paper of Franklin, Va. The only other fertilizer used under the cotton was Home
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From i/if Franklin {Va.) Graphic: "Mr. Albert Sidney Johnson is not only a g^ood peanut buyer but
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}VOL.
XIII.
NASHVILLE, TENN., MARCH, 1905.
No. 3. \
. A. CUNNINGHAM,
Proprietor.
DANIEL EMMETT AND "DIXIE'S LAND."
The fine engraving of Daniel Decatur Emmett on the title-
page of this number of the Veteran is the occasion for brief
notes about him and his famous "Dixie's Land." The music
is without criticism. Might as well put a feather cabled to
n straw in a whirlwind as for anybody anywhere to censure
the tune of "Dixie."
The words of "Dixie's Land" (as the composer designated
the song) are not so cordially accepted ; the author is unkind-
ly and severely arraigned by parties desiring a change.
The composer, as a member of and a hustler for Bryant's
Minstrels, was directed to prepare something for a new
.'iensation, as business was waning. Sunday intervening, a
rainy, dismal day in the poor quarters that he could aflford
for himself and wife, the young man, impressed with the
compliment that he was capable of the important undertaking,
of course was aroused to intenscst concern to "prepare somc-
tliing new and lively." He had traveled nuicli South as well
as North, so with his resources, appreciating the great heart
of the South, he ii stinctively undertook to do his best with
the best facilities. He had misgivings, however, about the
production until "Kate," his wife, pronounced it very good.
It was at once popular. The chorus was taken up by the lads
in the streets, and hut for the war the author believed it
would have been immediately popular in the North as well
as in the South.
Carefully studying the words of "Dixie" in connection with
tlie time of the composition, we may read between the lines
his pride tliat his "parents were Southern born." Without
intending partisanship, he showed ardor for the South, the
lirst words being "I wish I was in de land ob cotton." Then
he made his chorus ecstatic:
"Hoo-rny! Hoc-ray! We'll take our .■stand to
live and die in Dixie,
Away, away, away down South in Dixie."
It is not nearly so bad to say that "William, a gay de-
ceaber," put his arms around "Missus" as the way so many
other "deceivers" put their arms around the girls of this
period, and much money is paid to witness it every night in
the week. What is there in other similar "patriotic songs,"
such as "Yankee Doodle," to commend them?
A careful review of the simple life of the venerable Emmett
strengthens admiration for him. His sturdy integrity, his
primitive manners, his genial, kindly soul all bestir affection
and esteem. He lived to fourscore years and more without an
illness. He was sober and industrious. When he was eighty
years of age, the editor of the Veteran was entertained in
the Capitol of Ohio, and urgent demand was wired "Uncle
Dan" to share in the occasion. The messenger found him
off in the forest chopping wood, too late to change his suit;
hut he was equally honored with the special guest at a banquet
worthy the President.
In a letter subsequent to this event he wrote: "Now
for the banquet. I never in my life enjoyed an entertainment
with so much pleasure. I liked to have forgotten that I had
one more meal to eat before I died. The kindness and friend-
ship, the good feeling and hearty welcome, extended to me
can never be forgotten by one so unworthy of having such
great honors bestowed upon him. I hope these 'Reunions'
will be continued, for by them our late 'unpleasantness' will
be entirely forgotten."
The Veteran, as conducted, will ever revere the memory
of this simple-hearted man who sought happiness without
extravagance or abuse.
Althoi gh born in Ohio, at Mount Vernon, where he died
ami was buried, he said, in connection with the War between
the States, that he would not enlist in any army against tlie
South, and "would never fight to make the negro the equal
of white men." At seventeen years of age he was a soldier
in the Black Hawk War.
The mellowness of his music is a lullaby. His first verses
in song were :
"Get out of the way, Old Dan Tucker,
You come loo late to get your supper," etc.
History of Confederate Flags and Seals. — Dr. Samuel
E. Lewis, No. 1418 p-ourteenth Street, Washington, D. C, is
chairman on the committee to collect data on the flags and
the seals used by the Confederate States. The work on flags
is well advanced, as reported to the U. C. V. at the Nash-
ville reunion, 1904; but Dr. Lewis, as chairman, is especially
desirous of obtaining information regarding the flags of the
several Confederate States as flown in the first year of the
war, including banners. Assistance can also be rendered him
by giving any information relating to the seals used by any
of the Confederate States during the war period.
Mrs. V. A. Fuller, Secretary Joseph L. Hogg Chaptir, U.
D. C, Jacksonville, Tex., writes: "The books, 'Rise and Fall
of the Confederate Government,' by Jefferson Davis, received.
Am glad to possess such a noted work, and wish that every
U. D. C. Chapter owned a set of these books, when they
could get facts exactly as they were."
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S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office' Methodist Publishing- House Building-. Nashville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal property of S. A. funninjiham. All per
sons who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an org:an for Assn
ciationsthroug-hout the South are requested to commend its patronagre and to
coSperate in extending its circulation. Let each one be constantly diligent.
GEN. LEE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT.
Many thousands have read the heautifiil tribute by Senator
Ben Hill, of Georgia, to Gen. R. E. Lee on the front page of
the February Veteran, Many had read it before, some of
whom did not know its author. It is interesting to read
further from the distinguished statesman in the same con-
nection. He related a conversation with Gen. Lee, to verify
his exalted tribute, in which, meeting the General in the
streets of Richmond near the executive offices, he said to
him: "General, I wish you would give us your opinion as to
the propriety of changing the seat of government and going
farther South."
"That is a political question, Mr. Hill, and you politicians
must determine it. I shall endeavor to take care of the army,
and you must make the laws and control the government."
"Ah, General," I said; "but you will have to change that
rule and form and express political opinions; for, if we es-
tablish our independence, the people will make you Mr.
Davis's successor."
"Never, sir," he replied with a tine dignity that belonged
only to Lee. "That I will never permit. Wliatever talents I
may possess (and they are but limited) are military talents.
My education and training are military. I think the military
and civil talents are distinct, if not diiiferent, and full duty
in either sphere is about as much as one man can qualify
himself to perform, I shall not do the people the injustice
to accept high civil office, with whose questions it has not
been my business to become familiar,"
"But, General,'' I insisted, "history does not sustain your
view, Caesar, Frederick of Prussia, and Bonaparte were all
great statesmen as well as great generals,"
"And all great tyrants," he promptly rejoined. "I speak
of the proper rule in republics, where, I think, we should
liave neither military statesmen nor political generals."
"But Washington was both, and yet not a tyrant."
And with a beautiful smile he said : "Washington was an
exception to all rule, and there was none like him."
I could find no words to answer, but instantly I said in
thought : "Surely Washington is no longer the only excep-
tion, for one like him, if not even greater, is here."
Whatever may have been the exact number of soldiers in
the aggregate, it is conceded, or rather is verified by the rec-
ords, that the Federal army and navy combined comprised
2,859,132 officers and soldiers, of whom 469,041 were from the
South, two-thirds as many, anyhow, as fought for the Con-
federacy.
There is objection to the claim of the South that all of her
forces did not exceed 600,000 men, but from any view point
the figures in contrast must soften the boast of the victors.
It was not so great a contrast in courage or endurance of
the South, for her people had the advantage of being on the
defensive, and that meant much ; but the explanation that
must be accepted, and upon which the South can rest content,
is that of principle, and "kept on fire" by patriotic women.
CRUEL TREATMENT OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
When the painful sensation to the country was sprung by
Gen. Nelson A. Miles's attempt, "after a silence of forty
years," to iustif} his conduct for cruelty to Jefferson Davis
when in Fortress Monroe a prisoner, it was not intended to
make publication in the Veter.\n. The subject has been dis-
cussed by the press throughout the country and the evidence
has been quite fairly reviewed. It would be inconsistent, there-
fore, for the Veter.^n to ignore this revival of one of the
darkest events in the history of that awful period. What a
gracious thing it w'ould have been in this high officer of the
United States army to have expressed regret for his action
instead of voluntarily asserting that he had "no apologies to
offer anybody !''
Miles then ranked as a colonel. He was a young man, and
lie, let us admit, was influenced by the abuse then being
heaped upon Southern leaders, including what they so gen-
erally styled the "Arch Traitor." It was the popular rule to
abuse Mr. Davis beyond all others. Gen. Miles, having the
advantage of observing and associating with genteel people
for forty years since then, would have been expected to
improve and to admit it. Instinctively it occurs in this con-
nection that if he as a Democrat ( ?) and President Roose-
velt as a Republican had each in this period of good wiil
apologized for their treatment of the South's martyred chief
representative it would have created a sectional millennium.
If they had given expression in the spirit of Gen. and Presi-
dent Grant as a farewell message to mankind of this world,
the result would have tended to blot the last vestige of sec-
tional animosity. There is still hope for the President, who,
while not apologizing for his harsh and unjust reflection
upon Mr. Davis in his life of Thomas H. Benton, is making
amends, and that he will yet exercise his great power for
the good of the South. Notwithstanding his comparing Mr.
Davis with Benedict Arnold and designating him as one of
the chief repudiators in the State of Mississippi, and before
that, when a younger man, he had denounced Mr, Davis in
the North American Reziiew as a traitor, which so wounded
the patriot, who had spilt his blood for his country, that
he wrote the author, Roosevelt, proposing to furnish data
that would show him his error, in reply to which he is
reputed to have written, "Mr. Theodore Roosevelt does not
care to have any communication from Mr. Davis whatever" —
his visit to the great World's Fair in St. Louis, having but a
few hours in which to see the myriads of wonderful things and
greet the hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom
were there especially to see the President, made most sig-
nificant the occasion of his going through the State building
of Mississippi, reproduced as "Beauvoir," the home of Mr.
Davis. It was evidently intended as a compliment to the
character of Mr. Davis and to the South in general, and his
well-worded expressions of pleasure in seeing it deserved
only expressions of gratitude worthy the message sent by
President Francis to Gov. 'Vardeman. Then his speech at
the recent Lincoln Memorial meeting was received with grati-
tude throughout the South, while inspiring hope that he will
yet be more considerate of the absorbing issue of the South
than had previously been expected. How gracious would it
have been, or would it be, if a man occupying his exalted
position could realize the blessing to himself in the con-
fession that he had committed an error and that he regretted
his severe reflections upon the honesty and the patriotism of
the one man selected by the Christian South to control her
destinies! 1 he editor of the Veter.^n Iionors President
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Roo-'.evelt in many respects, and would plead with a last
breath that he be candid in this thing. There i?; no human
power — mental or physical — that can induce the Southern
people to yield an iota of their loyalty to the memory of Jef-
ferson Davis, whose character when studied closely exalts
the student's estimate of mankind. This editor will not for-
get personal courtesies by the President, and in his honor
quotes a remark by him in reply to the sincere compliment
paid hiin for ever having been industrious, although there had
never been a necessity for it — viz., "It doesn't matter whether
a man be a hobo or a millionaire; if he doesn't realize that
there is something for him to do, he is to be pitied." The
President has many friends in the South who most earnestly
pray for the good of the nation — all the people, white and
black — who believe him great enough to admit that he makes
mistakes, and he can so w-ell afford to admit it candidly that
they are hoping on and on that he will do so.
But to return to Gen. Miles. A fair-minded, well-informed
person who knew Miles forty years ago writes that he would
not act now as he did then, because he has associated with
gentlemen since then and has learned to spell and read other
than common words; that the overseers of Southern planta-
tions were better educated in 1865. It is an occasion of sor-
row rather than anger that men in high position in this
great country have not the courage and the manhood to admit
that they have grievously erred. In this matter Gen. Miles
iias made a pitiable attempt to defend his course. It is a
lame excuse that he "was acting under orders" and was
obliged to put irons on this prisoner as would be an officer
compelled with a detail of his soldiers to shoot one of his
comrades under condemnation by a court-martial, when, in
fact, it is evident that Miles had sought permission to shackle
Mr. Davis. Then he speaks of them as "light shackles."
riicy are evidently in existence, and it is believed are among
his "trophies." Why doesn't he exhibit them now? Every
argument that Miles introduces in his defense recoils with
proof that there was no excuse. He even brings to light
anew the villainous proclamation of Andrew Johnson, acting
President after the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, that his
murder and the attempted murder of Secretary of State
Seward "were incited, concocted, and planned by and between
Jefferson Davis" and others, naming five of them, with re-
ward for Mr. Davis of one hundred thousand dollars and
smaller amounts for the others. And yet it lias long since
been shown tliat not one of the persons named had the
smallest connection with the lamentable, the awful event
which was grievously deplored throughout the South. Miles
might have used this to advantage in contrition.
All questions of honor seem to have been ignored. If, '.u
the exercise of his discretion. Col. Miles, when he saw that
Mr. Davis was so much opposed to being manacled, had asked
whether he would endeavor to get away, he could but have
given ftdl credence to that promise. Then a hundred thou-
sand honorable men and women in the Soutli would have
pledged their lives to any promise he would have made.
There is no greater farce conceivable than that there could
have been any danger whatever if Mr. Davis had gotten away
from Fortress Monroe, yet he could not possibly have done
that had there been no guards at his cell. When he ap-
pealed that a telegram be sent to Washington to save the
South humiliation in having their chief representative treated
as a common felon, of course he would have given his word
that he would not try to escape. There was not, nor has
there ever been, a more honorable man in the United States.
He would quickly have sacrificed every earthly possession
.ind his life rather than his honor. Observe his career on
through the ordeals that followed until he laid his burdens
down, and a record for consistency as a Christian patriot
stands without blemish. Recall the cruelty of strong lights
and guards with guns in his presence every minute of the time
tor months and his meditations concerning the deprivation
and humilialion of the people who had honored him! It was
tlie most distressing attitude ever occupied by an American
citizen, even before his struggle against four burly inen who
held him as the blacksmith riveted the shackles upon his
ankles. This treatment and his deportment united the South-
ern people in his behalf as they had never been before, and
that unity of sentiment has been strengtliened through all
the intervening years, and the more ardently by those who
knew him bfst.
It w-as in that crisis that Jefferson Davis exhibited heroism
and personal courage never surpassed and only to be com-
pared with another Davis — Sam Davis, the immortal, during
bis trial and under the shadow of the hangman's noose at
Pulaski, Tenn., in 186.^. The indignity put upon Mr. Davis
was so great that, as the representative of millions of people
who had honored him as high as was possible for four years,
he begged the guards, under such a vicious commander, to
kill him rather than put him in chains. His thorough knowl-
edge of the rights of man under his condition, including his
experience as Secretary of War for the United States under
President Buchanan, caused him to realize fully the shame of
his treatment.
.Ml honor to the memory of Jefferson Davis, and detesta-
tion without anger now to the man who so brutally and so
unjustly treated him! In the generations of the future Jef-
ferson Davis will rise in the estimation of mankind as surely
as that
"Truth, cru,shed to earth, shall rise again.
The eternal years of God are hers ;
But error, wounded, writes with pain.
And dies among his worshipers."
PROMISE OF A SECTIONAL MILLENNIUM.
There were many excellent speeches made in tribute to
William McKinley on the recent birthday anniversary, but
the most noted one was by a Republican Congressman from
Chicago, Hon. Henry Sherman Boutell. In that tribute to
the man who said the time had come when the North should
•-liare with the South the care of the graves of Confederate
dead Mr. Boutell paid a worthy tribute to the South. Ainong
many other good things, he said :
"No people were ever brought face to face with more utter
desolation than that which confronted the men of the South
cm their return from Appomattox. It was not alone that
they had lost the fight; that their ranks had been sadly thuined
hy the war; that their lands had been laid waste, their prop-
erly confiscated or destroyed. Their whole social, industrial,
and political fabric lay in ruins. Their task was not the hope-
ful one of restoring an old order, but the well-nigh hopeless
i.nc of bringing a new order out of chaos. But they set to
work with the courage and patience that create hope and
ilefy failure. And they have triumphed gloriously. To-day
they are enjoying the fruits of a victory greater than was ever
won in warfare. And we of the North rejoice with them in
iheir prosperity; for are they not our people, bone of our bone
and flesh of our flesh ?
"The leaders of Southern thought in 1865 accepted the re-
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suits of the war, and were willing to set to work to create a
new order of things on the ruins of the old. They should
have been allowed to retain their natural leadership over the
ignorant whites and blacks. The most unfortunate result of
our miserable reconstruction policy was that it destroyed the
influence of the old leaders, instilled into the minds of the
blacks feelings of 'hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness'
toward their natural and wisest guides, and arrayed tlie whites
of all classes in solid opposition to the negroes. The fear of
ignorant negro domination has persisted long after the danger
of such domination has passed, working often an injustice to
the negro and always a greater injury to the whites.
"The amelioration of the political si;..- lion in the South is
a problem that must for years to come tax the wisdom and
patience of our greatest statesmen and philanthropists. Wo
of the North have in years past made the solution of this
problem more difficult for our Southern brethren. We now
owe them generous sympathy and patient forbearance. Their
task is a long one, and beset with peculiar difficulties. We
should concede that they have done and are doing what we
would do under similar circumstances. The solution of this
grave and complicated problem cannot be hastened by coer-
cion, tlireats, or abuse.
"But whatever we of the North may do, whatever the gov-
ernment may accomplish, the real burden of this problem rests
on our brethren of the South. In her work of solving this
problem the South could have no better, no firmer friend than
President Roosevelt; for all that the South needs, besides'
time, is a square deal, and no one knows better than the Pres-
ident that a square deal for the South means simply intelli-
gent sympathy from Northern men, unprejudiced, even-
handed justice from the Federal government."
JUDGE WALTER CLARK.
Walter Clark (now Chief Justice of North Carolina), sou
of Gen. David Clark and Anna M. (Thorne), his wife, was
born in Halifax County, N. C, August 19, 1846. He was at
the Hillsboro Military Academy, North Carolina, at the break-
ing out of the war, and in June, 1861, then fourteen years of
age, was appointed second lieutenant and drillmaster of the
Twenty-Second North Carolina Regiment (Pettigrew's), and
accompanied it to Virginia. In July, 1862, he was appointed
first lieutenant and adjutant of the Thirty-Fifth North Caro-
lina Regiment, commanded by Col. M. W. Ransom, later
United States Senator.
Adjutant Clark was then not yet sixteen. He was in the
Maryland campaign, being slightly wounded at Sharpsburg
in one of the bloodiest battles of the war, and was with his
command on Marye's Heights at the first battle of Freder-
icksburg, when his brigade (Ransom's) aided in rolling back
successive charges of the Federal line, among them Meagher's
famous Irish brigade. In the summer of l'863, his brigade
having been ordered to North Carolina to recruit, he re-
signed; and, having kept up his studies in camp, he joined the
senior class at the North Carolina University, where he
graduated with the first honor in his class June 2, 1864. The
next day he was elected major of the Sixth North Carolina
Battalion, and on July 3, 1864, he was promoted to lieutenant
colonel of the Seventieth North Carolina Regiment (First
Junior Reserves), being at that time seventeen years of age
and the youngest officer of his rank in either army.
In October, 1864, he was commandant of the post at Wil-
liamston, the command embracing four companies of infantry,
two of cavalry, and one of artillery, at the head of which he
followed the enemy to Jamesville November I. He was at
the repulse of the enemy's gunboats at Poplar Point, on the
Roanoke River, Christinas Day, 1864. His brigade having
been assigned to Hoke's Division, he, with his regiment,
shared in the repulse of Schofield at Southwest Creek March
8, 1865. At the three days' battle of Bentonville, N. C,
March 19-21, 1865, he commanded the skirmish line of his
brigade, and held his ground when the skirmish lines of the
other brigades of his division were driven in on March 21.
He surrendered with the army of Joseph E. Johnston at
High Point, N. C, and was paroled May 2, 1865.
He became superior court judge in 1885, and ascended the
supreme court bench in i88g. In 1894 he was renominated by
JUDGE WALTER CLARK.
■\\\ three political parties, and elected unanimously. In 1902
ne was nominated by the Democratic party for chief justice,
and was elected for a term of eight years, beginning January
I, 1903. In 1874 he married the only daughter of W. A.
Graham, Governor of North Carolina, Secretary of United
States Navy, United States, then Confederate States Senator.
Judge Clark, now chief justice of his State, has done
more historical work, perhaps, than any other who served
the Confederacy. He edited the five large, handsome vol-
umes of over three thousand pages, containing comprehensive
histories of the many regiments and battalions of North Caro-
lina Confederate troops. This work was published by the
State, and is a credit to North Carolina and to tlie South.
His distinction as a Confederate and his worthy aspiration
to be useful to his .fellows are illustrated by his selection as
chief justice of his patriotic State, purest of all in its Anglo-
Sa.xon blood.
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IVAR PRISON EXPERIENCES.
BY COL. GEORGE H. MOFFETT, PARKERSBURG, W. VA.
I think some record should be made of the experiences of
Confederate soldiers in Federal prisons. This is especially
true in view of the many exaggerated stories set afloat by
Northern writers of the hardships endured at Andersonville.
The impartial historians of the future want facts only, facts
that have not been colored by prejudice and have not been
<;et down in malice. The Confederate Veteran is doing a
Kood work in making a record of actual occurrences during
■ the War between the States, and a hundred years hence its
files will be sought by the impartial historian as one of the
most reliable .sources of information from the fact that it will
give the personal experiences and testimony of men who were
nctual participants.
A military prison is no palace, nor is it a pleasure resort.
This is true of all wars in all times and among all nations.
The code of war prescribes humane treatment to prisoners,
yet the degree of humanity may be governed by conditions.
It is an accepted rule that the prisoner shall not be entitled
to more consideration than the captor is able to bestow upon
himself. And therein lies the degree of guilt in the compara-
tive treatment of Union and Confederate prisoners. The
Southern Confederacy was poor, its resources limited and
rapidly diminishing, and it was shut out frotn all the rest of
the world. It must also be borne in mind that Federal prison-
ers in Southern prisons were not exposed to the climatic
rigors endured by Confederate prisoners in Northern prisons.
The Federal Govcrntnetit was rich, its resources unlimited,
and it had all the world to draw upon. If there was an ex-
ercise of inhumanity, the Confederate government may have
had an excuse. The Federal government had none.
My experience as a prisoner of war in Federal prison pens
covered a period of eighteen months — from December 21, 1863,
to June 20, 1865. For the first two months I was confined
in Camp Chase, and the remainder of the time in Fort Dela-
ware. I was captured by Gen. Averill's forces on their return
from the Salem raid in December, 1863, and was taken across
mountains covered with snow and ice for a distance of over
one hundred miles to Grafton, on the B. and O. Railroad,
from whence we were transported by raif to Columbus, Ohio.
While wc suffered many hardships on the forced march
across the mountains in midwinter, I had no reason to com-
plain of the treatment received from our captors. They wer.'
veteran soldiers who had seen a great deal of service. Con-
sequently they were respectful in their behavior, and shared
their scanty rations with us. Our hardships on that march
were merely incident to the conditions of war. It was not
until we got away from them and into prison pens that the
regime of inhuinanity began.
1 entered Camp Chase in the early morning of the first day
of January, 1864, a day still remembered in that locality as
the cold New Year. When we stepped from the cars and
were lined up on the station platform at Columbus at about
three o'clock in the morning, the thermometer was twenty-
four degrees below zero and a stiff gale blowing. There were
eighty prisoners in the bunch, and most of them scantily
attired. The four-mile tramp across the bleak Scioto bottoms
to Camp Chase in the face of that cutting cold wind was an
event in our prison experience never to be forgotten. Some-
times I wonder if the young men of this day and generation
could endure such ordeals. When we arrived at the prison,
it was not yet daylight ; and, as there was a standing order that
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there should be neither light nor fire in the prison between
nine o'clock in the evening and daylight next morning, wc
were drawn up in front of the provost marshal's office on
the outside of the prison, and stood there in the cold nearly
.Ml hour before being admitted to the inclosure. In the
meantime the provost and assistants employed the time in
taking down our names, the commands we belonged to, the
rank of the various prisoners, etc., for entry on the prison
register. It was not cheerful tidings when the officials in-
formed us that two of the sentries had frozen to death on
their posts that night. Nor was it more cheering when at the
early light we were admitted to tlie prison inclosure and saw
men carrying out in blankets the dead bodies of prisoners.
While we w-ere not given positive information as to the cause
of their death, we had our suspicions. .Xltogether it was a
chilly New Year's reception for us.
Camp Chase was an improvised prison, constructed hastily
for war purposes, and yet in many respects it was the most
comfortable of all the Northern prisons. I can testify from
actual experience that it was far superior for the habitation
of prisoners to Fort Delaware. It may be of interest to the
readers of the Veteran to know something of the general
plan and regime of Camp Chase. It was built on an open
plain, where the winds had a fair sweep in winter and the
sun rays an unobstructed descent in summer. The inclosure
was a high board wall with a parapet on top, along which
sentinels constantly paced backward and forth. Within this
it-closure lay the prison village of rough board cabins, situated
in rows with narrow streets between. They were single-
room cabins, the walls built of undressed boards set up-
right and without joints, while the floors were rough plank
loosely laid, and a roof overhead. There were a door and a
small window at one side. Each cabin was about fifteen feet
square, and the furnishings were a cooking stove, in which
wood was used for fuel, two stools, and a small rough pine
table ; w hile at the rear the sleeping bunks in double tier were
arranged against the wall. There was no bedding, except one
blanket allotted to each prisoner. By adopting the triune
fashion we had one blanket to spread on the rough boards and
two for covering.
The diet was plain, yet the only fault wc ever found was
in the scarcity of it. When officials were asked to increase
the quantity, the only reply was that they were doing the best
ihey could for us under their instructions. It was not until
we had been transferred to Fort Delaware that I learned in
an authentic way that the "short ration" order had emanated
from Washington— of which I will speak later. Rations were
issued to us every third day, and we had to do our own cook-
ing. We had a few cooking utensils, and each man was sup-
plied with a tin plate, a tin cup. and an iron or pewter spoon.
Our rations usually consisted of salt pork, with an occasional
variation of either fresh or pickled beef, beans, and hominy.
Once in a while, just to enjoy the novelty of a full stomach,
we would eat up the three day.s' rations in one day, and then
fast two. But experience taught us that that was an inju-
dicious system, so the rule was to spread out the short ra-
tions over the three days.
Twenty-four men were assigned to each cabin for prison
quarters. We divided off into relays for cooks, dishwashers,
etc., and thus managed to keep house after our peculiar fash-
ion. As we had neither books nor newspapers, our principal
occupation was indulging in reminiscences of better and
happier days. If there had been a Federal victory anywhere,
the guards wer« £ure to let us know of it ; but we never heard
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of Confederate victories, except from new prisoners who were
lirought in from time to time.
Prison discipline was very strict and rigidly enforced. The
slightest infringement of prison rules often brought lamentable
consequences. I recall a pathetic illustration of this fact. A
fresh prisoner, who was ignorant of the rule relating to the
extinguishment of fires and lights, was turned into the prison
one cold morning, and, having a match in his pocket, struck
it with the intention of kindling a fire in the stove. The
sentinel on the parapet, who saw the light through the win-
dow, fired immediately and killed the poor fellow. I wit-
nessed a similar occurrence the next summer at Fort Dela-
ware, where a young man merely threw a cup of water from
the window, when a guard on the outside fired upon him, the
ball passing through his neck, killing him instantly.
The prisoners of war were not the only living things in
Camp Chase. There were bedbugs, "graybacks," and rats-
all innumerable. Did we eat rats? I answer affirmatively,
and will say further that in our opinion the Chinese are right
when they class rat meat as a delicacy. A "rat killing" was
about the only real amusement we had. Fresh meat, regard-
less of the species, was too much of a rarity among these
hungry men to be discarded on account of an old prejudice.
When properly dressed and fried in pork grease, a rat has the
exact flavor of a squirrel. The uninitiated would never know
the difference.
There was a good deal of sickness in the prison during the
w inter, principally smallpox and pneumonia ; but it is only
just to the prison surgeons to say they performed their duties
well, and I was told that the hospital arrangements were
fairly good. Still the death -rate was heavy, mainly due to
the debilitated condition of the men when stricken down
with disease and to the rigors of the climate.
We endeavored to buoy up our spirits with the hope of a
speedy exchange, for we had not yet learned of the "non-
exchange" policy adopted by the Federal government as a
means of depleting the Southern armies. If a Northern sol-
dier was captured, they could readily fill his place by the
enlistment of a foreign recruit. If a Southern soldier was
taken prisoner and held, he was as good as dead, for there
was no one to fill his place in the field. It may have been an
effective policy ; nevertheless it was barbarous.
Instead of an exchange, there came a transfer from bad to
worse. Early in March there were rumors that John Morgan
was out on another raid, and was expected to make a dash
to release the prisoners at Camp Chase. Hence there was a
cleaning out of the prison. A part of the prisoners were
shipped to John.son's Island, while lb" remainder of us, about
five hundred in number, were transf'^.red to Fort Delaware.
One day we were marched over to Columbus, where we were
placed in box cars and shipped to Pittsburg. At that point
we were transferred from the box cars to old passenger
coaches on the Pennsylvania road and forwarded to Phila-
delphia, and from that place transported by steamer down the
Delaware River to our future prison. Nothing of note oc-
curred in transit, except that from Pittsburg to Philadelphia
I occupied a seat with a fellow-prisoner named McGowan, of
East Tennessee, who was a very sick man, and required all
the attention I could give him. There was no place for him
to lie down, so I had to make a pillow of my shoulder, and
he reclined there all night. When daylight came I was horror-
struck to find him thickly broken out with smallpox, and he
died soon after reaching Fort Delaware. I had been exposed
nwrp or less in this dreaded disease during my stay at Camp
Chase, but had relied upon a successful vaccination in my
childhood to make me immune. But this was to be the crucial
test, for he had lain with his face touching mine, and all the
night I had breathed the contagious poison in that over-
heated car. Naturally, I watched the "nine-day" limit with
anxiety, and sure enough I awoke in the night of the eighth
day with the unmistakable symptoms. The next morning I
asked my bunkmates not to report my case to the prison sur-
geon unless it became absolutely necessary, as I had a horror
of pesthouses. They respected my wishes, and, while the
attack was comparatively light, I got through it without taking
a drop of medicine or having seen a doctor.
Fort Delaware is situated at the head of Delaware Bay,
about fifty miles below Philadelphia, and commands the
entrance to the harbor of that city. It is a strong fortress,
built of stone, manned with heavy artillery, and is said to
have been built many years ago under the direct supervision
of Gen. James Longstreet, who was at that time a lieutenant
of engineers in the regular army. It stands about the center
of the stream on a piece of land containing about ninety acres,
known as Pea Patch Island, and there is an equal distance of
water on one side to the Delaware shore and on the other
side to the New Jersey shore, being a stretch of about two
miles to the nearest land. The fort proper was not used for
prison purposes except in exceptional cases, when some unfor-
tunate prisoner was sentenced to solitary confinement. The
prison barracks were at the south end of the little island, on
a low piece of ground immediately under the guns of the
fort. The prison buildings looked like long cow sheds, with
narrow spaces between the rows, and these narrow, open
spaces were our only exercise ground. Each building, or
"cow shed," was about three hundred feet long, divided into
compartments by board partitions, and each compartment, or
division, was occupied by four hundred prisoners. There were
eight or ten rows of these "cow sheds," and each row divided
into four compartments. Each division was named after the
State from which the occupants hailed ; for instance, there
were four Virginia divisions, a Louisiana division, two Ten-
nessee divisions, etc., and each division under the immediate
charge of a sergeant or corporal, who was subordinate to
the commissioned officers in charge of the whole barracks.
There was also a partition wall separating the officers' bar-
racks from the quarters of the privates and noncommissioned
officers, and no communication allowed between them. The
whole was surrounded by a high plank wall with parapets on
top for the sentinel guards, while another line of guards sur-
rounded the inclosure, and still a third detachment of guards
were on constant duty inside the prison inclosure.
Ii.jide the barracks was a triple tier of sleeping bunks on
c.-"-h side, lengthwise thereof, with a narrow aisle between
tl;c rows of bunks. In this aisle were two small coal stoves,
o::e near each end, and these furnished the only warmth in
that open, barnlike structure for a division containing foui
hundred men. They seemed to have acted upon Col. Sel-
lers's idea — that all that was needed for warmth was the
appearance of heat. The buildings were of the type I have
described at Camp Chase, only more barnlike in appearance,
cheaply constructed of rough boards set upright without
ioints, giving free ingress to the cold winds through innumer-
able cracks and crevices. They were cold in winter and hot
in summer. The one-blanket-to-the-man rule was enforced
here, as at Camp Chase, with this difference: at Camp Chase,
if a man had an overcoat, he was .illowed to retain it ; at Fort,
Delaware it \(as taken from him.
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After our arrival at Furt Delaware it did not take us long
to realize that we had indeed come froin bad to worse. The
conditions at Camp Chase were bad ei- ugh, but infinitely
worse at Fort Delaware. The latter, on account of its un-
healthy location, had been condemned by a competent military
tribunal as unfit for prison uses, yet the Federal government
continued to use it for prison purposes until the close of the
war. But to our mind the main difference was in the char-
acter of treatment received by the prisoners, and this was
probably due to the difference in the temperament of the
commanding officer. At Camp Chase the commander, Col.
Webber, was a soldier with gentlemanly instincts, and, al-
though hampered by instructions from the War Department.
1 have always believed he did the best for us that he could
under hij instructions. At Fort Delaware the commanding
officer was of a different type. He was a Hessian brute.
If these minute details as to prison buildings and condi-
tions have been wearisome, I will say by way of apology that
I have given them for a double purpose : First, that the
reader may have an intelligent understanding of our environ-
ments; secondly, inasmuch as the old prison buildings have
all been removed, and the ground since adorned and beauti-
fied, the visitor to Fort Delaware to-day. without the aid of
these records, could hardly realize that upon this fair spot
of land could have been enacted the horrible cruelties which
I am about to relate, or that in those days the most tender
appellation the prisoners could apply to that spot of ground
was to call it "J-fell's Half Acre."'
T have said the discipline at Camp Chase was strict, and
strictly enforced. At Fort Delaware the discipline was brutal,
and brutally enforced For the slightest infraction of disci-
pline, and sometimes without any cause, except from the
malicious whim or caprice of a guard or officer, the most
humiliating punishments were inflicted, usually accompanied
by the severest torture. A common form of punishment was
to "buck and gag" the victim. This was done by placing a
.cag in his mouth, then pinioning his arms behind him and
running a stick through between the elbows and back In this
helpless condition the prisoner was thrown to the ground and
left to lie there a whole day exposed to the broiling sun or
In the chill of a wintry atmosphere, according to the season
But their most popular penal system was to hang up the
victim by the thumbs — or "thumb-hanging." as it was tech-
nically known. In the passway between the mess hall and
kitchen a munbcr of swings were suspended, such as you see
in the ordinary gynuiasium. To these swings was a cord and
pulley attachment. The process was to loop the cord over
the two thumbs, and then with the use of the pulley to draw
up the victim until his toes barely touched the earth. In this
agonizing strain he would he suspended for hours. This was
a daily occurrence, and I have seen six or eight "thumb-
hangers" suspended at a time. Their fcllow'-prisoners were
unable to relieve their torture or even speak a word of sym-
pathy, for a guard stood by to .shoot any one vi-ho interfered
in their behalf. I was told by those who had undergone the
punishment that the agony was inexpressible. There were
numerous instances of di.slocated shoulders and joints, thumbs
would l)e cut to the bone by the tight cords, and in some
cases mortification would set in and the thumbs would have
to be amputated.
There were other modes of punishment, but the variety
was so great and the victims so numerous that if I undertook
to tell all it would fill volumes. Yet there was one instance
in which the ludicrous was so rloscly allied lo the pathetic
that I catuiot refrain from making mention of it. Occasionally
a bunch of prisoners would be taken out to do menial service
on the island or around the fort. While this in a way was
humiliating, yet there was always some glad enough to avail of
this opportunity for an "outing" and to breathe an atmosphere
beyond prison walls. One day a batch of prisoners was taken
out to assist in unloading a steamer lying at the wharf ami
to carry the cargo of commissary supplies into the fort. In
this batch was a bright-faced, curly-haired boy of about
eighteen years of age. whose home, as I remember, was down
about Lynchburg, Va.. and who had been captured at Spott-
sylvania. When he got to the wharf, he was loaded up with an
armful of bacon hams to carry into the fort. As ke traversed
the steep ascent leading to the fortress, pressed by the urgency
of hunger, he dug out with his thinnb and fingers little scraps
of bacon, which he ate He was detected by a guard, who
reported him to the officer in charge, and the sentence for
this petty ofTense on the part of the starving lad was that he
should be given one of the raw hams and be compelled to
pace a sentinel's heat, under charge of successive sentinels,
until he had eaten the whole of it. There was to be no rest,
no stop, no relaxation until all of the ham had been devoured.
The boy performed his task bravely, for under the surveillance
of an armed guard be tramped along that beat the remainder
of the day, through the night, and into the next day. gnawing
away at the raw ham until nothing was left but the bone
It is uimecessary to add that the cruelty of this method of
punishment was as fantastic as it was fatal.
I will not stop to relate the multiplicity of hnmiliations
and cruelties inflicted by that demon censor of the prison.
nicknamed "Old Ilackout." who hobbled in and out at all
times of the day and night, carrying a big club which he
wielded right and left, hitting anybody or everybody who might
be in his reach. During the summer months it was a custom
to march the prisoners into a little triangular space lying
between the hay and the pri.son barracks, when they were
herded like sheep in the market while the officers were search-
ing the vacant barracks for contraband articles. Search day,
as it was known, was always announced by the prison censor
hobbling in and crying out in a loud voice : "Hack out ! hack
out I" It was thus he acquired his nickname.
I come now to the iriost mournful part of my story and the
most tragical. Taking all the circumstances into considera-
tion, to my mind it has never had a parallel in fiendish atrocity
1 refer to their system of killing prisoners of war by a process
of slow starvation. Upon entering the prison inclosure at
Fort Delaware one of the first sights that greeted my eyes
was a posted order, or bulletin, emanating from the War
Department at Washington, After this lapse of time I will
not undertake to recite the exact words of that remarkable
order, but I do undertake to give its e.xact substance. I read
it, then reread it again and again until its contents so blistered
themselves upon my memory that the scars are still legible
Hence, there can be no mistake in my recollection of it. It
began by reciting that it was "a retaliatory measure" in re-
taliation for hardships imposed upon Union soldiers confined
in Rebel prisons, and then proceeded with instructions to
commanders of Federal prison posts to reduce the diet of
Rebel prisoners under their charge to one-fourth of the regu-
lation allowance for army rations, and to allow no luxuries
nor permit surplus comforts. The order was signed "E. M.
Stanton. Secretary of War." and was attested by "A. Schoepf,
Brigadier General Commanding" and by "G W Ahl, As-
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When I first read it, I could scarcely believe my own eyes.
Was it possible that there was a civilized government on earth
willing to place itself on record in practicing such an enor-
mous barbarity? But there it was in legible characters posted
up against the outside wall of the mess hall, near the entrance,
in full view of all who cared to stop and read it. Probably
the original of that order may be found to-day buried some-
where beneath the musty files of the War Department unless,
l)0ssibly, some one merciful to civilization had the goodness
of heart to destroy it. Yet it is a singular fact that in all
the war histories I have read — and I have read man}' — I have
seen no reference to it. Nor have I been able to find it in
examination of the so-called "War Records'' issued by the
government. Perhaps it is better that it should have been
I'.uried with its author.
The following relation of actual facts will show how cor-
dially the commander at Fort Delaware accepted the mandate
of this order in the spirit which actuated it. The system of
issuing rations at Fort Delaware differed from the custom at
Camp Chase, in that they were cooked when issued. There
was a large mess hall with narrow tables, only one plank
wide, extending in rows from one end of the hall to the
other. There were no dishes, not even a tin plate or pewter
spoon. A ration for each man was placed on the table, and
these rations about a foot apart. The prisoners were marched
in by divisions, entering the hall by a door at one end of the
hall and making their exit by another door at the other end.
When a division of men entered the hall they were lined
up by one of the tables, when each man picked up the ration
assigned him ; then they filed out of the other door and back
to their barracks. Division after division was served in this
way at each meal.
There were only two meals a day— breakfast and dinner,
so-called. The breakfast was served from eight to nine o'clock
and dinner from two to three. There was no supper. To
show how literally the "no-luxury" part of the order was ful-
filled, I will say that during my confinement of over fifteen
months in Fort Delaware not a drop of coffee was served to
the prisoners, nor did we even smell coffee. But it was not
so much from the denial of luxuries as from the scantiness
of the food served that we suffered. Here is the bill of fare
for each and every day : Our breakfast consisted solely of one
slice of bread and one small slice of meat, making in quantity
and substance about a five-cent sandwich, such as can or-
dinarily be had at a cheap restaurant. No more, but liable
at times to be less and without any liquid to wash it down
except the green, brackish water we drew from the old tank
in the prison yard, which furnished our sole water supply.
The only variation in this breakfast fare was the occasional
substitution of three small army crackers, or "hard-tack," for
the slice of bread, and sometimes the little slice of meat was
omitted so as to make it a dry morsel of bread or three little
"hard-tacks," as the case might be. The dinner was an exact
duplication of the breakfast, with the addition of about a
pint of what they called soup — in reality the water in which
the meats had been cooked — with a few beans or a little rice
stirred in. These two feeds, miscalled meals, constituted our
total daily supply.
There was just enough to keep the appetite whetted without
satisfying it, causing a gradual lowering of vitality, an ever-
increasing hunger — in short, a protracted starvation. It is a
horribly excruciating form of suffering to be hungry, hungry,
hungry all the time— just enough food to sharpen the appetite,
but never enough to satisfy that everlasting gnawing sensa-
tion at the stomach. When a person dies of starvation caused
from a total lack of food, there is a shorter limit to the suf-
fering. But here the starvation process was long drawn out,
all the more agonizing because of its protracted duration. We
were hungry all the time, and the little food we got made us
still more hungry. The slice of bread and the slice of meat
were gulped down with a longing for more. But that was the
limit to the supply, and as the days rolled by into weeks
and the weeks into months there was no cessation of that per-
petual gnawing sensation, unless death or sickness intervened
to relieve the torture. As the vitality lowered from insuf-
ficiency of food and the consequent nerve exhaustion the
brain sympathized with the empty stomach, until this hunger
became a mania. It filled our thoughts by day and our
dreams by night. Men would sit around in groups, indulging
in reminiscences of bygone days when they had plenty of
good eating. One remembered a Christmas dinner when the
table groaned with good' things; another recalled a certain
wedding feast ; still another would tell of the big peach cob-
blers and apple dumplings hi.s mother made; and so the talk
went the rounds, until the big-hearted Scotchman, McAlpin,
would bring an end to these reminiscences with the remark .
"What is the use of talking about all those things now, when
1 would be perfectly content to be my dog at home eating
from the slop pail ?" Then at night there would be dreams
of roast turkey, plum puddings, of fruits clustering in the
arbors, of strawberries growing wild; but just as the hand
was reached forth to seize the tempting viands the dream
vanished. The prisoner would turn over on his hard bunk
to dream it over again. And this, too, in a land of plenty !
And, as if to intensify the tantalization of the situation, of-
ficers and guards would frequently come into the prison in-
closure eating fruits, apples, or oranges, and then scatter
the peelings around to see the famished prisoners scuffle for
them. A favorite form of this malicious tantalizing process
was to come in with a large slice of watermelon and eat it
in the presence of the hungry prisoners. All eyes were riveted
upon the luscious melon, jaws would drop and mouths water,
lint all they could get were the scattered fragments of the
rind thrown out to them like bones to dogs.
Out of the hundreds and thousands of such instances, I will
cite only one for example. There was Bob Rankhi. He
was one of those good boys who never had an evil thought
I had known Bob back in the halcyon days of childhood.
We had played together, had hunted together, had been in
the war together, were captured together, and up to this time
had shared our prison privations together. I had known
Bob's father, a fine type of the sterling Virginia farmer, a
man of good breeding and dignified manners. I knew his
mother to be a tender, loving, and lovable Christian woman.
Possibly at that very moment these two old people, away
down in their Virginia home, as they looked into each other's
eyes, each saw in the expression the same anxious inquiry :
"Where is our boy to-day? Does he still live?" There was
Bob before me just out there in the prison yard, that nar-
row space between the "cow sheds" I have spoken of as our
rinly exercise ground. There had been a heavy rain the night
before, and the mud was nearly ankle deep. As Bob sauntered
along slowly, barely dragging one leg after tlie other, there
was a lean and hungry look on his face. The few clothes
he had on were in tatters, and he was barefooted. Suddenly
Ihe toe struck something that was quickly prized up through
the mud. Upon the discovery that it was something to eat,
I saw the look of delight that flashec| ^gross Bob's face as he
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grabbed for it. It was a great big piece of watermelon rind.
Without scarcely taking time to brush the mud away he
fell to devouring it, and gulp after gulp it went down, until
all had disappeared. A few days later Bob was taking his
long sleep over in the bogs and quagmires of New Jersey.
I missed him, yet somehow 1 derived a melancholy sort of
comfort from the thouglit that Bob had died willi a full
stomach.
The cruelty in all this was that it should have occurred
in a land teeming with abundance. As we looked out through
our little pigeonhole windows across the bay to the Dela-
ware side we could see golden fields of wheat waving in the
sunlight, the corn in the ear, orchards laden with fruit, and
cattle grazing in the green pastures. We knew that all the
markets of the world were open to these people. Yet in the
midst of plenty they denied to these helpless prisoners suf-
ficient food to appease the pangs of hunger. .\nd thus w'e
reasoned that their cruelty was willful and deliberate.
Is it a wonder that at times the heart rebelled"' But not
I'nr long, because above everything else we had a solemn
realization that in God was our only trust. Still, death was
a relief to those who could die. I did not pray to die, but
I did ask that my appetite be taken away or for anything to
lessen the torturing pangs of slow starvation. .And in good
time my request was granted.
The summer was very hot ; and the heat, together with the
bad water and foul atmosphere, multiplied sickness. It was
the latter part of July when I was stricken down and carried
out in a blanket to the hospital, where I spent the first night
on the floor, because there was no vacant cot. in an establish-
ment which had accommodations for over eight hundred pa-
tients. The nurse was kind enough to tell me that there
would be plenty of vacant cots by morning, and I understood
the significance of the remark. It was amply verified, and
above the cot on which I was placed the next morning there
still remained the card containing the name of the patient
who had died during the night. I wondered if 1 was soon
lo follow him down into the "dead house" in the basement
of the hospital building, where the dead w'ere deposited each
day and night to be taken out the next morning for burial
'ver in New Jersey (where the prison cemetery was located).
In tidiness and general cleanliness, the hospital was in pleas-
ant contrast to the old barracks where I had lodged so long.
Notwithstanding its overcrowded condition, the nurses were
attentive in their ministrations, and a surgeon visited each
ward twice a day. The medical department was the one re-
deeming feature of the prison. While the hospital diet was
light, as a matter of course, consisting of milk, broths, toast,
and jellies, yet it was daintily prepared and served. To my
mind it was the one bright spot in a long line of darkness.
The only inconvenience was from crowding the cots closely
Ingcther in order to meet the urgent demands for hospital
acconnnodation, and even then sick men died in the barracks
because there was no room for them in the hospital.
The mortality was excessive Two of my bunkmates had
been brought into the hospital just the day before, all of u.--
stricken with the same malady, yet before the end of the
week both of them had died. In reply to an inquiry as to the
<leath rate in the hospital, the steward told me that for the
months of June and July it averaged over seventy deaths per
day. I believed him, for I had the ocular demonstration.
Each morning at an early hour carts would rattle up to the
"dead house" just underneath our ward and would haul the
dead to the wharf, where they were placed on a little steamer
and ferried over to the Jersey shore for burial. I recall one
morning when by actual count seventy-two pine coffins con-
taining dead bodies were loaded into the carts and taken
away.
My hospital sojourn gave a good opportunity to study
death in its many varied forins, until the death rattle became
the most familiar sound. Men were dying all around me
every day and every night, and almost every hour of the day
or night. Some died in delirium, while other passed away as
if falling into gentle slumber. But whether in delirium or
calm repose, usually the last words were of home and of the
dear folks down there. From out of the multitude of pathetic
deathbed scenes I recall one which impressed me with its
psychological features. Do the dying have a presentiment of
the exact time when the soul will quit the body? He was a
young Mississippian who occupied a cot in close proximity
lo my own, with whom I often conversed. He seemed to be
enamored with the idea that an exchange of prisoners was
to take place soon, and usually it was the theme of his con-
versation. He detailed to me many plans he had in mind of
what he was going to do when he got back to Dixie. One
afternoon I observed that he was unusually restless, tossing
from one side to the other, until the bedding w-as all disar-
ranged. It was during the period of my convalescence, and
twice 1 got up and arranged his sheets and smoothed down
the pillows for him. The last time I performed this service
he asked the time of day. Looking out of the window to the
sun, I replied that it lacked about two hours of sunset. Then
he remarked: "Well, I have just two hours longer to be
with yon." I asked him what he meant by that remark
In a perfectly composed tone he replied: "I shall go out just
as the sun goes down." I was lying on my cot about two
hours later when I heard the boom of the sunset gun fired
from the fort. Instinctively my gaze turned toward the
young Mississippian. I saw the eyelids closing slowly as if
into quiet sleep, but he had ceased to breathe. The prisoner
of war had at last been exchanged.
Before 1 had fully recovered, but sufficiently convalesced to
walk without assistance, I went back into the barracks, in
order to make room in the hospital for some poor sufferer
who needed medical attention niore than I did. Upon my
return to the barracks I found, to my inexpressible joy, that
my appetite was gone. God had been good to me. It is a
singular fact that the walls of the stomach seemed to have
contracted lo fit the "one-fourth" ration. It is true I con-
tinued lo be weak and debilitated. I had shriveled and
shrunken into a walking skeleton, yet the hunger pains were
gone. Nor did they ever return in the excruciating form I
have hitherto described. '
The summer ripened into autunm, the autumn passed into
another winter — so cold, cheerless, and desolate — tlie spring-
time came again, and w'ith it tidings of the fall of the Con-
federacy. But it was not until in the early summer an order
came for the release of all prisoners of war.
On the morning of the 2oth of June, 1865, I was called out
to the provost's otfice to subscribe to my "amnesty," and
when this was performed I was told that I was again a free
man. Strange as it may seem to the reader, the announcement
of our release excited no enthusiasm among the freed prison-
ers. Possibly our long and miserable confinement had made
us callous to events. All the buoyancy of youth was gone.
At sixteen years of age 1 had quitted college to go into the
war, and had just recently passed my twentieth birthday when
released from Fort Delaware. I felt that the best period of
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iriy vnuig inanhond had 1>lcii a \\astcd existence. 1 hen again,
we were men without a country. Our storm-cradled nation,
once challenging the gaze of the world, had fallen to rise no
more. With that feeling of heing aliens in a strange land, it
is no wonder that our heartstrings were tuneless now or
that our liome-going should have been shadowed by solemn
reflections.
Within two hours from my release we were on a vessel
steaming up the Delaware to Wilmington, where we took a
train for Baltimore, to be again transferred to an old trans-
port vessel which carried us down the Chesapeake to Fortress
Monroe. Then another transfer to a smaller steamer, which
took us up the James River, landing us at Richmond in the
afternoon of the third day.
Back again in Dixie Land ? But O how changed, and how
different from what we had dreamed or hoped ! It was a
land of ruins. Yet in its desolation the dear old land seemed
dearer to us than in the days of prosperity.
"Dear old Southland !
Much have we loved her in her glorious past.
Our lingering breath shall bless her to the last;
Though all her suns be sunk and all her stars be set.
And storm and darkness reign, we love her yet."
Col. Moffett, the author of the foregoing remarkable story,
penned it evidently in sorrow rather than in anger. It is a
record clear as sunlight, and it should be preserved.
LEE CAMP DINNER BY NEW YORK CAMP.
The fifteenth annual dinner of the Confederate Veteran
Camp, of New York, in honor of Gen. R. E. Lee, was held in
the large banquet hall of the Waldorf-Astoria January 25.
This annual entertainment, having become the great social
event of the Southerners in New York, was as usual largely
attended. Several hundred ladies and gentlemen dined at
tables, and the boxes were filled with others. The guests and
members occupied two hundred and eleven of the two hundred
and twenty-eight tables in the great dining room.
Prior to the formal proceedings Commander Owen pro-
posed a toast to the health of Mrs. Davis and to the memory
of Jefferson Davis, which was drunk standing.
Of the announced toasts, the first was to "The President
and the Army and Navy of the United States. As Aaron
and Hur upheld the hands of Moses, so do the army and navy
uphold the President." Another was to the memory of Robert
E. Lee. Gov. A. J. Montague, of Virginia, spoke of "Lee as
a Citizen," and Hon. A. C. Braxton, of Virginia, made an
address upon the soldiers of the Confederacy, whose valor no
geographical lines can circumscribe. Of the music, "Auld
Lang Syne," "Bold Soldier Boy," "A Hot Time in the Old
Town," and "My Virginia Sweetheart" were enjoyed.
' Maj. Edward Owen was the originator of these annual din-
ners, with ladies present dining with the gentlemen. The first
one was held at the Windsor Hotel in January, 1899. Since
then they have been held at the Waldorf-Astoria, and are now
recognized as one of the greatest social events of the city.
Th Camp has made great progress under Maj. Owen as
Commander. In 1897 and 1898 it numbered about one hun-
dred and fifty members ; now there are nearly four hundred
members.
At the eight anual dinner, in January, 1898, Maj. Owen
was presented with a handsome repeater watch as a token
of the appreciation of the Camp for the great service he had
rendered, and at the twelfth annual dmucr, at the Waldorf-
Astoria, lie was presented a beautiful gold, diamond-studded
commander's badge. This last presentation was a special
compliment, in addition to the past commander's badge, and
in recognition of his service in the advancement of the Camp.
The New York Camp was organized in 1890. The origi-
nators were Rev. W. W. Page, John F. Black, W. S. Keiley,
J. R. McNulty, Joe H. Stewart, S. W. Jones, and Edward
Owen. Maj. Owen was originally Paymaster and Secretary
of the Executive Committee from that time until chosen com-
mander, and in both offices he worked diligently for the
interests of the Camp. In many engrossed resolutions of the
Camp he has been honored. Prior to 1898 he declined the
position of commander, but that year he accepted, and he has
been reelected commander unanimously each year since.
CORRECTION OF ERRORS BY CORRESPONDENTS.
BY JAMES BEESON, HYTOPj ALA.
I see several mistakes in accounts of battles and troops in
the Veteran of late, and, as I presume it is your purpose to
give facts for future historians, I ask space for corrections.
One account of the Tennessee troops says that there were
but three regiments from that State in the Army of Northern
Virginia — the First, Third, and Seventeenth. There may not
have been any but those three that remained there through
the war, but I know that the Second, commanded by Col.
Savage, was in Virginia in 1861 and on the battlefield of
Manassas July 21.
I served in Company H, First Arkansas Regiment, from the
beginning until July 12, 1864, when I was wounded through
the right foot and rendered unable for field duty. The Second
Tennessee was in the same brigade (Holms's, of Beauregard's
Division) in Virginia and also with us the war through.
Both regiments were transferred to the Army of Tennessee
after the fall of Fort Donelson, and organized with that army
just before the battle of Shiloh. We served in Walker's
Brigade, Anderson's Division, through the Kentucky cam-
paign and until the reorganization at Eagleville just before
the battle of Murfreesboro. After that we served in L. E.
Polk's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, until the end, and the
Second Tennessee was with us all the time.
Another writer says that thirty-three thousand Confeder-
ates defeated twenty-eight thousand Federals at Manassas on
July 21, 1861. I am not prepared to dispute this statement,
not knowing the numbers actually engaged on either side;
but I should like to know where the other forty-seven thou-
sand of McDowell's army were while that engagement was
going on. The Confederates probably had thirty-three thou-
sand on the field, and the combined forces of Beauregard and
Johnston were between thirty-five and forty thousand; but
the entire forces of an army are hardly ever engaged. But
it is improbable that but little more than one-third of Mc-
Dowell's "Army of the Potomac" were engaged in that battle.
Another writer speaks of Liddell's Division at Chickamauga,
Cleburne's Division was composed of four brigades, Polk's,
Granbury's, Liddell's, and Lowry's. Gen. Cleburne was in
command of his division there. I personally saw him when we
formed for the night battle Saturday about sunset and twice
on Sunday after the battle opened.
Please don't fail to send a list of such persons as you think
would appreciate copies of the Veteran and who might desire
to subscribe for it. Send also addresses of Veterans who
can't pay for it.
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SiLKfANTS IN FRJSOX.
Capt. A. O. P. Nicholson, Columbia, Tenn., writes of two:
"In the interesting article of De Gourney"s Battalion o:
Artillery in the January Veteran the writer speaks of Capt.
Hewett's servant as 'Bill.' His name was Dick, and he was
faithful and loyal to Iiis master to the end. The Federal
officers at Johnson's Island oflfered all kinds of inducements
to get Dick to leave Capt. Hewett and take service with
them, but he stoutly declined, preferring to remain in prison
and share the hardships with his master. They refused to
issue him any rations, but each of us divided our own meager
supply, which gave him a portion equal to ours. Dick was
exchanged with his master only a short time before the sur-
render, and Capt. He\Vett died soon after reaching Dixie.
"There was another faithful slave in Johnson's Island
named John, who belonged to Capt. J. R. Wilson, now living
in Florence, Ala. He also went through the hardships of
prison with his master rather than accept his freedom ami
remunerative service from the Federals. John went out on
exchange with his master, and lived for some years .'i...r the
w'ar, until Iiis death, on the plantation of Capt. Wilson, in
Mississippi. It is needless to say that John never wanted for
auything his master could supply.
"How Men Were Crowded in Prison.
"In my room, a space 10x12 in Block 2, room No. 10, were
Lieut. Col. J. O. Nixon, New Orleans, La., and Capt. J. P.
Mumford, Bayou Sara, La., of the First Louisiana Cavalry;
Lieut. Col. C. S. Robertson, Bolivar, Tenn., and Maj. H.
C. Bate, Gallatin, Tenn., of the First Confederate Cavalry ;
Capt. R. M. Hcwctt and his servant Dick, of Mile's Legion,
New Orleans ; Lieut. Harry Grimshaw, Seventh Louisiana
Infantry; Lieut. William Minor, of Houma, La.; Lieut. F.
B. Connor, of Natchez, Miss., aid-de-camp to Gen. W. T.
Martin; and Capt. George Ralston, Withcrs's Artillery,
Natchez, Miss.
"Of all these noble fellows, with whom I spent about two
years, I don't know of any living, save Maj. Bate, of Nash-
ville, Tenn., and myself. If there are any others, I should be
siad to hear from them."
HOlf SOME HISTORY IS WRITTEN.
BV J. W. MINNICH.
The old saying is true that "no matter how many may
witness an event," no two will see it exactly alike. In the
December, 1903, number of the Veteran "J. D. J." describes
the peril. >us ride of Lieut. Joe Davis mar Knoxville. It was
certainly a nervy thing to do "within thirty yards of their
guns" (?), or even a hundred, which was more probable;
but it is inconceivable how any one could ride along a whole
or even a half brigade front and have them all turn loose at
him at thirty yards and yet not bring down either man or
horse. I don't intend to dispute either J. D. J.'s assertion
or his figures; it is on another point. He says that Lieut.
Davis's escort was "the only cavalry with Longstreet." Now
he is clearly in error there. My brigade, the First Brigade
nf Georgia Cavalry, crossed the pontoon below Loudon, di-
rectly behind Longstreet's advance guard, and took the lead,
pushing back the Federals on the Knoxville and Kingston
road, until they made a stand at the junction of this road
with the road to Loudon, along which Burnside was retiring
and fully an hour in advance of him. There was only a
small body of troops opposed to us, but we did not know
how many of Burnside's infantry were supporting them. In
fact, we did not knou that we were an hour or more ahead of
his main body and not more than five hundred yards from
the Loudon road.
Our battery was planted to the left of the Kingston road.
Burnside was in a hurry to reach his fortifications around
Knoxville, but he was not running by any means. His main
body passed within five hundred yards of us, but ignored us
entirely. On their appearance on our right in the open fields,
we backed down the road about a quarter of a mile and let
them pass. But that and the artillery duel which followed is
another story. Next day we followed on Bnrnside"s heels
(being careful, however, not to blister them by our kicks),
and conducted him safely into his works. I don't know where
J. D. J. was tliat he did not see or hear of us, as at what, I
believe, is now called "Campbell's Station" (though we called
it "Concord Station") we made noise enough the first day
to be heard at either Loudon or Knoxville.
J. D. J. has forgotten some things, as we all forget more
or less, a fact w-e should bear well in mind when writing for
posterity. Now I have not quite forgotten that I saw a few-
horsemen, not of our brigade, off to our right toward the
river. We supposed they belonged to some other cavalry
corps. Perhaps they were part of the squad J. D. J. men-
tions. I have a very vivid remembrance of our arrival within
sight of the town, about a mile or more distant.
Longstreet's main body of infantry and artillery had
moved up the direct road to the town, while we had moved
on the left flank by the road which led past the town to
Blain's Cross Roads on up the valley and branched off to
the left around the base of Clinch Mountain to Cumberland
Gap. The Federals had not yet retired within the works.
A considerable body occupied a piece of woods to the right
of the road at the foot of the rising ground to the town, and
as .soon as we came within range tlieir skirmishers opened 011
us. To our right was a plowed field : beyond it a point of
woods, in which part of Longstreet's infantry were in line.
I was sent over there with a dispatch, and as soon as 1
started across the field the whole shooting match in the edge
of the woods turned loose at me, and kept it up until I
reached the shelter of the brush. I pride myself on having
accomplished the feat and my mission heroically (?). The
risks I was subject to were great (?). the ground was soft
from recent plowing and rains, and my nag's best efforts
could not equal Dan Patch's. And the distance too was just
about as far as a Springfield could throw a bullet, say nine
hundred yards. 'Twas awful (?). And that is true history
Ike Da\-enport Din Not Capture the Morse. — Rev I. S
Davenport, of Rockwall, Tex., says : "I wish to correct a
statement made by my good friend and fellow-soldier, E. P
Anderson, in the January Veteran concerning my capture 01
a Federal officer's horse. (See page 35.) From Comrade
Anderson's understanding his statement is true, as I told
him when a somewhat reckless and unreliable boy soldier
The truth is that after an absence from the command with
leave I returned with the horse he mentioned, and when
asked how I came by it, with a boy's love to be admired told
the story as Capt. Anderson wrote it to the Veteran. It is
humiliating to make this statement, but I do not wish to go
on record for a deed I never performed. For nearly thirty
years I've been preaching truth and righteousness, and try to
practice what T preach. I hope I made a good soldier, and
I also hope your readers will be charitable and not judge
the mail of to-day by the reckless and unreliable boy of the
days of the great war."
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AUGUSTA'S CONFEDERATE BENEFIT FUND.
BY N. K. BUTLER, SECRETARY AND TREASURER, AUGUSTA, GA.
At the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Confederate
Survivors' Association Camp, No. 43S. U. C. V., of Augusta,
Ga., held January 9. 1905, the attention of the Cainp was
called to an article that was in the December (1904) Vet-
eran, page 581, stating that the \V. L. I. Charleston Associa-
tion was the only association that had a permanent Confed-
erate beneficial fund in the South. In accordance with a
resoUition oflfered and adopted by the Camp, I was requested
to correct the mistake.
The C. S. A. Camp, No. 435, U. C. V., of Augusta, Ga ,
have a Confederate beneficial fund which is in charge
of three trustees, who are elected to serve three years, one
of the terms expiring each year. These trustees serve
without pay. On May 19, 1897, the Camp turned over to the
trustees $2,900; since then there has been added two dona-
tions, amounting to $815.55. They distributed to needy mem-
bers as follows: In 1898, $231; 1899, $240.25; 1900, $229;
1901, $502.50; 1902. $384.50; 1903, $326.75; 1904, $291— a total
of $2,205, a" average annually of $315 — leaving in the hands
of the trustees December 31, 1904, $1,510.80.
The Confederate benefit fund is separate from the Camp
fund. We have also a Ways and Means Committee that
proA'ides transportation, etc., for about forty comrades to
attend the reunion. Our association claims to be the oldest
in the South. Our first meeting to organize was held March
21, 1875, 3nd was called Cavalry Survivors' Association, and
only cavalrymen were eligible. On May 3, 1878, it was
changed to Confederate Survivors' Association, and embraced
all Confederate soldiers and sailors. Our first officers of the
Cavalry Survivors' Association were : W. B. Young, Presi-
dent; F. Edward Eve and George W. Conway, 'Vice Presi-
dents; James K. Thompson, Secretary; N. K. Butler, Treas-
urer; Henry Kennedy, Sentinel. Maj. Gen. Clement A.
Evans was the first President after consolidation, and he
served until April 26, 1879. The second President, Co!.
Charles Colcock Jones, served up to his death, July 19. 1893.
The third President, Capt. F. Edgeworth Eve, was elected
April 26, 1894, and served until May, 1897.
On August 7, 1893, the association made an application to
join the U. C. V., and received a charter January 16, 1894.
We then changed the officers to correspond to the U. C. V.
constitution. The first Commander, F. E. Eve, served until
April 26, 1897; the second, Salem Dutcher, elected May 10,
1S97, served to January 10, 1899; the third, B. H. Smith, Jr.,
elected January 10, 1899, served to January 8, 1900; the
fourth, G. W. McLaughlin, elected January 8, 1900, served
to January 14, 1501 ; the fifth, Joseph B. Gumming, elected
January 14, 1901, served to January 13, 1902; the sixth, John
\V. Clark, elected January 13, 1902. is still Commander, hav-
ing been reelected January 9, 1905.
The following officers were elected at our meeting January
9. 1905 : John W. Clark, Commander ; George F. Lamback,
A. J. Twiggs, B. S. Pelot, Kent Bisell, Lieutenant Com-
manders; John M. Weigle, Adjutant; N. K. Butler, Secre-
tary and Treasurer. The following resolution, ofTered by
Salem Dutcher, was unanimously adopted : "Resolved by the
Confederate Survivors' Association of Augusta (Ga.) Camp,
1^0. 435, U. C. v., that the thanks of this Camp be, and they
are hereby, extended to Comrade B. H. Smith, Jr., A. B.
Saxon, and C. G. Goodrich for their most faithful and ef-
ficient management of the beneficiary fund of this Camp."
NORTH CAROLINA MONUMENT AT APPOMATTOX.
Maj. George A. .Arnios, a retired United States Army officer,
who purchased the land where our troops surrendered under
Gen. Lee, including the McLean house and several adjoining
farms, has kindly deeded to the North Carolina Commission a
site for the monument they propose to erect on that historic
ground to the North Carolina troops. The commission is
composed of Hon. H. A. London, Col. F. J. Holt, Capt. W.
T. Jenkins, Hon. C. B. Watson, and Hon. A. D. McGill.
They have accepted the design for the monument, the work
is progressing favorably, and it is their intention to have it
ready to unveil on the 9th of April, 1905, the fortieth anni-
versary of Gen. Lee's surrender.
It is the intention of the commission to secure reduced
rates on all railroads, especially from all points in North
Carolina and Virginia, and all veterans who surrendered at
Appomattox will be guests of honor on that occasion.
The Appomattox Confeder..'c Cemetery is on the brow of
the hill west of where the old McLean house stood, over-
looking the little village. The grounds are inclosed by a hand-
some iron fence, the graves nicely sodded, trees and flowers
planted, and marble headstones mark each grave — all of which
is the work of the Appon-a;tox Chapter of the U. D. C,
which was organized by Mrs. C. W. Hunter in 1895. There
are nineteen soldiers buried in this cemetery, eighteen Con-
federates and one Federal. All are unknown except eight ;
T)ut all receive the same care, and on Decoration Day the
same floral tributes. Following are the names of those
known: Sergeant O. F. DeMesmer, Donaldsonville Artillery,
Louisiana; J. H. Hutchins, Company A, Fifth Alabama Bat-
talion ; J. W. Ashby, Second Virginia Cavalry ; J. A. Hogan,
Company E, Twenty-Sixth Georgia Infantry ; P. F. Winn,
Battery E, Ninth Georgia Regiment; J. W. Douglas (com-
mand not known) ; A. B. Hicks, Company D, Twenty-Sixth
Virginia; Capt. Miles C. Macon, Fayette Artillery, Virginia.
THE COFFIN OF GEN. LEE.
There is a singular incident connected with the burial of
Gen. R. E. Lee. He died October 12, 1870. A few days
before his death the great flood of that year in the upper
waters of the James River had been disastrous, Lexington
was cut ofT from communication with the outside world, and
there was not a coffin in the town suitable for Gen. Lee.
In this dilemma a box was found that had floated down the
swollen river and was stranded. On opening it a beautiful
casket was procured, and in this casket the body of the
South's beloved chieftain was placed in the chapel of the
university.
LTnder the above head the following lines are sent tht
Veteran by Miss Nellie T. Simpson, of Gallatin, Tenn. :
"E'en Nature assumed the emblems of woe.
And drenched was her bosom with tears that did flow ;
On the James' swollen tide a coffin she rolled,
A coffin the form of the hero to hold.
But selfish we are in our love and our grief
When we claim as ours only this Heaven-sent chief.
Shall Syria claim as her special dower
All the fragrance di.stilled from the stately queen flower?
Can Bethlehem claim as her right by birth
The Prince sent to teach good will to earth?
To all who love goodness, who greatness admire ;
To all who to goodness or greatness aspire ;
To peasant and crown-head, to convict or priest,
His life is a light like the star in the east."
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THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER.
ADDRESS AT NASHVILLE REUNION, BY R. H. m'kIM, D.D., LL.D.
It is with deep emotion that I rise to address you to-day.
When I look over this vast concourse of the brave men and
the noble women of the South — representing every one of
the eleven sovereign States once associated in the Southern
Confederacy — and when I look into the faces of the veteran
survivors of that incomparable army that fought with such
magnificent valor and constancy for four long years under
those tattered battle flags, now furled forever, I am over-
whelmed at once by the dignity and the difficulty of the task
assigned me. There is such a vast disproportion between the
powers which the occasion demands and those which I
possess that I should not dare to essay the task but for my
confidence in your generosity and forbearance to a speaker
who at least can say : "I too loved the Confederacy and
marched and fought under the banner of the Southern
Cross."
A stranger coming into our midst and observing our pro-
ceedings might suppose that we were met here to celebrate
the foundation of a State, or to acclaim the triumph of
armies, or to exult in the victory of a great cause. But no!
Nine and thirty years ago our new republic sank to rise no
more; our armies were defeated; our banner went down in
blood! What then? Are we here to indulge in vain regrets,
tn lament over our defeat, or to conspire for the reestablish-
ment of our fallen cause? No! The love and loyalty which
we give to that cause and to the defeated banner is a demon
stration of the deep hold that cause had upon the hearts of
the Southern pc. pie, and of the absolute sincerity and the
complete devotion with which they supported it ; but it is
no evidence of unmanly and fruitless repining over defeat,
nor of any lurking disloyalty to the Union, in which now.
Ihank God! the Southern States have equal rights and priv
ilegcs with all the other St.ites of our broad land. We saw
our banner go down with breaking hearts. When our idolized
leader sheathed his sword at Appomattox the world grew
dark tn ns We felt as if the sun had set in blood, to rise
REV. RANDOLPH H M KIM
no more. It was as if the foundations of the earth wen-
sinking beneath our feet. But that same stainless hero, whom
we had followed with unquestioning devotion, taught us not
10 despair. He told us it was the part of brave men to accept
defeat without repining. "Human virtue," he said, "should
be equal to human calamity." He pointed upward to the star
of duty, and bade us follow it as bravely in peace as we had
followed it in war. Henceforth it should be our consecrated
task, by the help of God, to rebuild the fallen walls of our
prosperity.
And so we accepted the result of the war in good faitli
We abide the arbitrament of the sword. We subscril>e a^
sincerely as the men who fought against us to the sentiment .
"One flag, one country, one constitution, one destiny." This
is now for us an indissoluble Union of indestructible States
We are loyal to the starry banner. We remember that it
was baptized with Southern blood when our forefathers first
unfurled it to the breeze. We remember that it was a South-
ern poet, Francis Key, who immortalized it in the "Star
Spangled Banner." We remember that it was the geniu<.
of a Southern soldier and statesman, George Washington,
that finally established it in triumph. Southern blood has
again flowed in its defense in the Spanish war ; and, should
occasion require, we pledge our lives and our sacred honor
to defend it against foreign aggression as bravely as will the
descendants of the Puritans. And yet to-day, while that
banner of the Union floats over us, we bring the offering of
our love and loyalty to the memory of the flag, of the Southern
Confederacy ! Strange as it may seem to one who does not
understand our people, inconsistent and incomprehensible as
it may appear, we salute yonder flag — the banner of the stars
and stripes — as the symbol of our reunited country at the
same moment that we come together to do homage to the
memory of the stars and bars. There is in our hearts a
double loyalty to-day — a loyalty to the present, and a loyalty
to the dear, dead past. We still love our old battle flag with
the Southern Cross upon its fiery folds ! We have wrapped it
round our hearts ! We have enshrined it in the sacred ark
of our love; and we will honor it and cherish it evermore,
not now as a political symbol, but as the consecrated emblem
of a heroic epoch, as the sacred memento of a day thai
is dead, as the embodiment of memories that will be tender
and holy as long as life shall last.
Let not our fellow-countrymen of the North mistake the
spirit of this great occasion. If Daniel Webster could say
that the Bunker Hill Monument was not erected "to per-
petuate hostility to Great Britain," much more ean we say
I hat the monuments we have erected, and will yet erect, in
our Southland to the memory of our dead heroes are not
intended to perpetuate the angry passions of the Civil War
or to foster or keep alive any feeling of hostility to our
brethren of other parts of the Union. No ; but these monu-
ments are erected, and these great assemblages of our sur
viving veterans are held, in simple loyalty to the best and
purest dictates of the human heart. The people that forget
its heroic dead are already dying at the heart : and we believe
it will make for the strength and the glory of the United
Stales if the sentiments that animate us to-day .shall be per
petuated, generation after generation. Yes, we honor, and
we bid our children honor, the loyalty to duty, to conscience,
to fatherland that inspired the men of 1861 ; and it is our
prayer and our hope that as the years and the generations
pass, the rising and the setting sun, the moon and the stars,
winter and summer, spring and autumn will soe the people
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of the South loyal to the memories of those four terrible but
glorious years of strife, loyally worshiping at the shrine of the
splendid manhood of our heroic citizen-soldiers, and the even
more splendid womanhood, whose fortitude and whose en-
durance have challenged the admiration of the world. Then,
when the united republic, in years to come, shall call "To
arms!" our children and our children's children will rally
to the call, and, emulating the fidelity and the supreme devo-
tion of the soldiers of the Confederacy, will gird the stars
and stripes with an impenetrable rampart of steel.
But it is not the dead alone whom we honor here to-day.
We hail the presence of the survivors of that tremendous
conflict. Veterans of more than forty years ! you have come
from all over the South — from the Patapsco and the Potomac,
the James and the Rappahannock, the Cumberland and the
Tennessee, the Mississippi and the Rio Grande — from the
seashore, from the Gulf, from the Blue Ridge and the Alle-
ghanies, and some of you even from the shores of the Pacific
Ocean — to pay your tribute to the defeated cause and the
dead heroes who laid down their lives for it. May I, on be-
half of this great assembly — on behalf of the whole South —
offer yuu a tribute of respect and veneration to-day? We
hail you as the honored survivors of a great epoch and a
glorious struggle. We welcome you as the men whom, above
all others, the South delights to honor.
It is indeed a matter of course that we, your comrades and
your fellow-Southrons, should honor you. But we are not
alone. Your brave antagonists of the Northern armies begin
at last to recognize the purity of your motives, as they have
always recognized the splendor of your valor. The dispassion-
ate historian, even though his sympathy is given to the North,
no longer denies the sincerity of your belief in the sacredness
of your cause. The world confesses the honesty of your pur-
pose and the glory of your gallant struggle against superior
numbers and resources. Most of you that survive have no
insignia of rank, no title of distinction. You were private
soldiers, but I see round your brows the aureole of a soldier's
glory. You are transfigured by the battles you fought, Nash-
ville, Franklin, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Shiloh, Chicka-
mauga, in the West ; and Manassas, Seven Pines, Mechanics-
ville, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettys-
burg, the Wilderness, and Cold Harbor, in the East.
But you have done more than bare your breast to the foe-
man's steel. You have shown the world how the defeats of
war may be turned to the victories of peace. You have taught
mankind how a proud race may sustain disaster and yet
survive and win the applause of the world. In those terrible
years of Recontruction — how much more bitter than the four
years of war ! — you splendidly exemplified the sentiment,
"Merges profundo, pulchrior exilit !"
Out of the depths of the bitter flood of reconstruction the
South emerged, through your fortitude, thrsugh your patience,
through your courage, more beautiful than ever.
For all this your people honor you in your old age. They
cherish the memory of your deeds, and will hand it down,
a priceless heirloom, to their children's children. You are not
pensioners on the bounty of the Union, thank God ! Your
manhood is not sapped by eating the bread of dependence.
You have faced poverty as bravely as you faced the cannon's
mouth, and so I salute you as the aristocracy of the South.
Your deeds have carved for you a place in the temple of her
fame. They will not be forgotten — the world will not forget
them. Your campaigns are studied to-day in the military
schools of Europe; yes, and at West Point itself.
[The speaker here paid tribute to our valiant dead and
quoted tributes from Northern sources already published in
the Veteran. — Ed.]
Comrades, standing here at the foot of that unseen column,
reared by the valor and the virtue of the citizen-soldiers of
the armies of the South, I feel that a duty is laid upon me
which I may not refuse to perform. From the hills and val-
leys of more than a thousand battlefields, where sleep the
silent battalions in gray, there rises to my ear a solemn voice
of command which I dare not disobey. It bids me vindicate
to the men of this generation the course which the men of the
South followed in the crisis of 1861. It is not enough that
their valor is recognized. It is not enough that their honesty
is confessed. We ask of our Northern brethren — we ask of
the world — a recognition of their patriotism and their love
of liberty. We cannot be silent as long as any aspersion is
cast by the pen of the historian or by the tongue of the orator
upon their patriotic motives or upon the loftiness of the
object they had in view through all that tremendous conflict.
We make no half-hearted apology for their act. It is Justice
for which we plead, not charity.
The view of the origin and character of the course of
action followed by the Southern States in 1861, which has so
widely impressed itself upon the popular mind, may be
summed up in four propositions. First, that the secession of
the Cotton States was the result of a conspiracy on the part
of a few of their leaders, and that it was not the genuine
expression of the mind of the people. Secondly, that the act
whereby the Southern States withdrew from the Union was
an act of disloyalty to the Constitution and of treason to the
United States government. Thirdly, that the people of the
South were not attached to the Union, and were eager to
seize upon an excuse for its dissolution. Fourthly, that the
South plunged into a desperate war for the purpose of per-
petuating slavery, and made that institution the comer stone
of the new Confederacy which it sought to establish.
I propose briefly to show that every one of these proposi-
tions, when scrutinized under the impartial light of history,
must be pronounced essentially erroneous
1. I need not spend much time upon the first of these
propositions. The evidence at the disposal of the historian
is conclusive that the action taken by the Cotton States in
withdrawing from the Union had the support of an over-
whelming majority of the people of those States. There was
no conspiracy. The people were in advance of their leaders.
The most recent, and perhaps the ablest, of the Northern his-
torians acknowledges this, and says that had not Davis,
Toombs, and Benjamin led in secession the people would
have chosen other leaders. The number of unconditional
Union men in the seven States that first seceded, he declares,
was insignificant ; and he makes the remarkable admission
that "had the North thoroughly understood the problem,
had it known that the people of the Cotton States were prac-
tically unanimous and that the action of Virginia, North
Carolina, and Tennessee was backed by a large and genuine
majority, it might have refused to undertake the seemingly
unachievable task." [Rhodes's History of the United States,
Vol. III., p. 404.] There can be no question, then, that the
impartial historian of the future will recognize that, whether
right or wrong, the establishment of the Southern Confed-
eracy was the result of a popular movement — was the act not
of a band of conspirators, but of the whole people, with a
unanimity never surpassed in the history of revolutions.
2. I come now to the question whether the act of the Souths
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ern Stales in withdrawing from the Union was an act of
disloyalty to the Constitution and of treason to the govern-
ment of the United States. This once burning question may
now be discussed without heat. It is no longer a practical,
but a thoroughly academic, question. The right of secession,
if it ever existed, exists no longer. The Fourteenth Amend-
ment to the Constitution has changed the character of our
political fabric. When we surrendered at Appomattox the
right of secession was surrendered forever.
But when we say tliat right does not exist to-day we do
not acknowledge that it did not exist in 1861. On the con-
trary, we maintain that it did exist, and that those who
maintained its existence had upon their side, logically and
liistorically, the overwhelming weight of evidence. Our late
antagonists, who are now our brethren and our fellow-citizens,
cannot be expected to agree with us in this proposition : but
we put it to their candor and their sense of justice to say
whether the South had not as good a right to her opinion of
the meaning of the Constitution as the North had to hers.
There were in 1S60 two interpretations of that instrument;
there were two views of the nature of the government which
was established. On what principle and by what authority
can it be claimed that the view taken by the South was
certainly wrong and that the view taken by the North was
certainly right? Or, waiving the question which view was
really right, we ask our Northern friends to tell us why the
South was not justified in following that interpretation which
she believed to be the true one. She had helped to build —
nay, she was the chief builder of — the fabric of the Constitu-
tion. A Massachusetts historian [Mr. John Fiske] has said
that of the five great men who molded the nation four were
men of the South — Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and
Marshall — and. though these great men differed in political
opinion, yet three at least, Washington, Jefferson, and Madi-
son, are on record as declaring that the Constitution was a
compact between the States, and that those thirteen States
were thirteen independent sovereignties.
Let the young men of the Nctv South remember the part
the Old South took in the planting and training of Anglo-
Saxon civilization on these Western shores.
Our New England brethren have been so diligent in ex-
ploiting the voyage of the Mayflower and the landing of the
pilgrims and their services to morality and civilization and
liberty in the new world that they seem to have persuaded
themselves, and would fain persuade the world, that Ameri-
can liberty is a plant chiefly of New England growth, and that
America owes its ideas of political independence and repre-
sentative government and its reverence for conscience to
the sturdy settlers of our Northeastern coasts. Her orators
and her poets year after year on Forefathers' Day not only
glorify, as is meet, the deeds of their ancestors, but seem
to put forward the claim, in amazing forgetfulness of his-
tory, that it is to New England that the great republic of
the West owes the genesis of its free institutions, the inspira-
tion of its love of civil and religious liberty, and its high
ideals of character. Rev. Dr. Coyle, in a recent sermon be-
fore the Presbyterian General Assembly, refers to "the
Puritan Conscience which put rock foundations under this
republic."
It is then not amiss to remind the Southern men of this
generation that fourteen years before the Mayflower landed
her pilgrims at Plymouth Rock three English ships — the Susan
Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery^came to anchor
in the James River, Virginia, and that the vine of English
civilization and English liberty was first planted, not on Plym-
outh Rock, in 1620, but at Jamestown Island. Va., on the
13th of May, 1607. What Webster so nobly said of the May-
flower may be as truly said of these three ships that bore the
first Virginia colony. "The ,^tars that guided them were the
unobscurcd constellations of civil and religious liberty. Their
decks were the altars of the living God." Let me also recall
the fact that on July 30, 1619, eighteen months before the
pilgrims set foot on American soil, the vine of liberty had
so deeply taken root in the colony of Virginia that there
was assembled in the church at Jamestown a free representa-
tive body (the first on .American soil) — the House of Bur-
gesses— to deliberate for the welfare of the people. There
also, more than a century before the Revolution, when Oliver
Cromwell's fleet appeared to whip the rebellious Old Do-
minion info obedience, Virginia demanded and obtained recog-
nition of the principle, "No taxation without representation ;"
and there, in 1676, just one hundred years before the revolt
of the colonies, that remarkable man, Nathaniel Bacon, "sol-
dier, orator, leader," raised the standard of revolt against
the oppressions of the British crown.
But this is not all. That spot on Jamestown Island, marked
to-day by a ruined, ivy-clad church tower and a group of
moss-covered tombstones, is the sacred ground whence sprang
that stream of genius and power which contributed most to
the achievement of American independence and to the organi-
zation of American liberty. That first colony, planted in
Tidewater, Va., was, in the revolutionary period, prolific in
men of genius and force and intense devotion to liberty never
perhaps equaled in modern times in any region of equal size
and of so small a population. This is acknowledged by care-
ful and candid historians to-day. among whom I may men
tion Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts It was a Southern
orator, Patrick Henry, who gave to the colonists in his match-
less eloquence the slogan, "Give me liberty or give me death !"
It was a Southerner, Richard Henry Lee, who brought for-
ward in the first Congress the motion that these colonies by
right ought to be free and independent ! It was a Southerner,
Thomas Jefferson, who drafted the inmiortal Declaration of
Independence ! It was a Southerner, George Mason, who had
earlier drawn the Virginia Bill of Rights, a document of even
profoundcr political statesmanship, and which was taken by
Massachusetts as the model of her own Bill of Rights! It
was a Southerner, George Washington, who made good the
Declaration of Independence by his sword after seven years
of war I If was a Southerner, James Madison, who earned
the title "Father of the Constitution!" It was a Southerner,
John Marshall, who became its most illustrious interpreter!
I ask, then, in view of all this, whether the South was not
justified in believing that the views of constitutional inter-
pretation which she had inherited from such a political an-
cestry were not the true views? Let our Northern friends
answer, in all candor, whether the South, with such a
heredity as this, with such glorious memories of achievement,
with such splendid traditions of the part her philosophers
and statesmen and soldiers had taken, both in the winning of
independence and in the building of the temple of the Con-
stitution, had not good reason for saying: "We will follow
that interpretation of the Constitution which we received
from our fathers — from Jefferson, Madison, and Washington —
rather than that which can claim no older or greater names
than those of Story and Webster." For be it remembered
that for forty years after the adoption of the Constitution there
was approximate unanimity in its interpretation upon the great
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i'isnc oil wliicli tlie South took her ^tand in 1861. In truth
Webster and Story apostatized from the New England in-
(erpretation of the Constitution. It is a historical fact that
the Constitution was regarded as a compact between the
States for a long period (not less than forty years after its
adoption) by the leaders of opinion in the New England
States. Moreover, in the same quarter, the sovereignty of the
States was broadly affirmed ; and also the right of the States
to resume, if need be, the powers granted under the Constitu-
tion. Samuel Adams objected to the preamble to the Consti-
tution. "I stumble at the threshold," he said; "I meet a
national government instead of a federal union of sovereign
States." To overcome this, Gov. Hancock brought in the
tenth amendment as to the reservation to the States of all
powers not expressly delegated to the general government.
The Websterian dogmas had then no advocates in New En-
gland. Hancock, Adams, Parsons, Bowdoin, and Ames were
all for State sovereignty.
These statements will no doubt be received by many with
surprise, possibly with incredulity. Permit me, then, briefly
to justify them by the unquestionable facts of history. The
impartial historian of the future will recall the fact that the
first threat of secession did not come from the men of the
South, but from the men of New England. Four times before
the secession of South Carolina the threat of secession was
heard in the North — in 1802-03, in 1811-12, in 1814, and in
1844-45. The first time it came from Col. Timothy Pickering,
of Massachusetts, a friend of Washington and a member of
his Cabinet ; the second time, from Josiah Quincy, another
distinguished citizen of Massachusetts ; the third time, from
the Hartford Convention, in which five States were represent-
ed; the fourth time, from the Legislature of Massachusetts.
On January 14, 1811, Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts, in the
debate on the admission of Louisiana, declared his "deliberate
opinion that if the bill passes the bonds of this Union are
virtually dissolved ; . . . that as it will be the right of
all [the States] so it will be the duty of some to prepare defi-
nitely for a separation — amicably if they can, violently if thsy
must." In 1812 "pulpit, press, and rostrum" of New England
advocated secession. In 1839 ex-President John Quincy
Adams urged publicly that it would be better for the States
to "part in friendship from each other than to be held together
by constraint," and declared that "the people of each State
have the right to secede from the confederated Union." In
1842 Mr. Adams presented a petition to Congress from a
town in Massachusetts, praying that it would "immediately
adopt measures peaceably to dissolve the union of these
States." In 1844, and again in 1845, the Legislature of Mas-
sachusetts avowed the right of secession, and threatened to
secede if Texas was admitted to the Union. Alexander Ham-
ilton threatened Jefferson with the secession of New England
"unless the debts of the States were assumed by the general
government." February i, 1850, Mr. Hale offered in the
Senate a petition and resolutions, asking that body to devise,
"without delay, some plan for the immediate peaceful dissolu-
tion of the American LInion." Chase and Seward voted for
its reception.
The occasions calling forth these declarations of the pur-
pose of dissolving the Union were the acquisition of Louisi-
ana ihe proposed admission of Louisiana as a State into the
LInion, the dissatisfaction occasioned by the war with Great
Bri'ain, and then the proposed annexation of Texas. These
measures were all believed by the New England States to be
adyrrse lo their interests. The addition of the new States
would, it was thought, destroy the equilibrium of power and
give the South a preponderance ; and therefore these stalwart
voices were raised, declaring that there was in the last resort
a remedy, and that was the dissolution of the Union. This
was the language used by the Legislature of Massachusetts :
"The commonwealth of Massachusetts, faithful to the com-
pact between the people of the United States, according to
the plain meaning and intent in which it was understood by
them, is sincerely anxious for its preservation ; but it is de-
termined, as it doubts not the other States are, to submit
lo undelegated powers in no body of men on earth."
This stalwart utterance of Massachusetts expresses exactly
the attitude of the seceding States in 1861. They believed
that "the compact between the people of the United States"
liad been violated, that they could no longer enjoy equal
rights within the Union, and therefore they refused to sub-
mit to the exercise of "undelegated powers" on the part of
the national government. Thus the North and the South,
at these different epochs, held the same view of the right of
withdrawal from the Union
The South held with great unanimity to the doctrine of
State sovereignty, and that that sovereignty was inviolable
hy the general government. She had good reason to believe
it, for it had been the faith of her greatest statesmen from
the very foundation of the republic. Mr. Madison, the father
of the Constitution, held to that faith ; and when Patrick
Henry opposed the adoption of the Constitution upon the
ground that the words "we, the people," seemed to imply a
"consolidated government" and not "a compact between
States," he replied that it \V2S not "we, the people," as cum
posing one great body, bf.l li'.e people of thirteen sover-
eignties
Daniel Webster, in his great speech in reply to Mr. Hayne
in 1830, and again in 1833 in his reply to Calhoun, argued
that the Constitution was not a "compact," not a "confed-
eracy," and that the acts of ratification were not "acts of ac-
cession." These terms, he said, would imply the right of
secession, but they were terms unknown to the fathers ; they
formed a "new vocabulary," invented to uphold the theory of
State sovereignty
Alexander Hamilton spoke oif the new government as "a
Confederate republic," a "Confederacy," and called the Con-
stitution a "compact." Gen. -Washington wrote of the Con-
stitution as a compact, and repeatedly uses the terms "accede"
and "accession," and once the term "secession." Massachusetts
and New Hampshire, when ratifying the Constitution, referred
to that instrument as "an explicit and solemn compact." . . .
Mr. Webster, in the very last year of his illustrious life,
distinctly recognized the right of secession, for in his speech
at Capon Springs, Va., in 1851, he said : "If the South were
to violate any part of the Constitution intentionally and sys-
tematically, and persist in so doing, year after year, and nO'
remedy could be had, would the North be any longer bound
by the rest of it? And if the North were deliberately, ha-
bitually, and of fixed purpose to disregard one part of it,,
would the South be bound any longer to observe its other
obligations? ... I have not hesitated to say, and I repeat,
that if the Northern States refuse, willfully and deliberately,
to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which re-
spects the restoration of fugitive slaves, and Congress pro-
vide no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to ob-
serve the compact. A bargain cannot be broken on one side
and still bind the other side."
Looking back then to-dav. my coaiundes, over the four and
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forty years which separate us from the acts of secession passed
by the Southern States, we say to the men of this generation
and to those who will come after us that the opprobrium
heaped upon those who then asserted the right of secession
is undeserved. That right had not then been authoritatively
denied. On the contrary, it had been again and again asserted,
North and South, by eminent statesmen for nearly sixty years
after the formation of the Union. Those who held it had as
good right to their opinion as those who denied it. The
weight of argument was overwhelmingly in their favor. So
clear was this that the United States government wisely
decided after the fall of the Confederacy that it was not
prudent to put Jefferson Davis upon his trial for treason.
Let it be remembered that the formation of the United States,
in 1/88, was accomplished by nine of the States seceding
from the Confederacy which had existed for eleven years,
and which had bound the States entering into it to "a per-
petual Union." Thus the Union itself was the child of se-
cession!
There was a time during those dark years of reconstruction
when public opinion in the North demanded that we who
had fought under the Southern flag should prove the sincerity
of our acceptance of the results of the war by acknowledging
the unrighteousness of our cause and by confessing contri-
tion for our deeds.
But could we acknowledge our cause to be unrighteous
when we still believed it just? Could we repent of an act
done in obedience to the dictates of conscience? The men of
the North may claim that our judgment was at fault; that
our action was not justified by reason; that the fears that
goaded us to withdraw from the Union were not well
grounded ; but so long as it is admitted tliat we followed duty
as we understood it they cannot ask us to repent. A man
can repent, I repeat, only of what he is ashamed, and it will
not be claimed that we should be ashamed of obeying the
dictates of conscience in the face of hardship and danger
and death
Capt. Oliver -Wendell Holmes, of Massachusetts, who now
occupies a scat upon the Supreme Bench of the United States,
uttered these generous words nearly a quarter of a century
ago: "We believed that it was most desirable that the North
should win; we believed in the principle that the Union is
indissoluble ; but we equally believed that those who stood
against us held just as sacred convictions that were the op-
posite of ours, and we respected them as every man with a
heart must respect those who give all for their belief."
All honor to the valiant soldier and accomplished scholar
who uttered those words ! All honor, too, to another noble
son of New England, Charles Francis Adams, who has more
recently declared, recognizing the same principle, that both
the North and the South were right in the great struggle
of the War between the States, because each believed itself
right. When Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were cadets
at West Point, the text-books in use on political science were
by St. George Tucker, a Southern writer, and William Rawle,
a Northern writer, and both taught the right of a State to
secede. Can these illustrious men be attainted as traitors
because they put in practice the principles taught them by the
authority of the government of the United States?
I come now to the third proposition — viz., that "the people
of the South were not attached to the Union, and were eager
to seize upon an excuse for its dissolution." ....
In considering this assertion it will be necessary to distin-
guish in our reply between the States that first seceded and
the border States of Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and
Arkansas, which later gave in their adhesion to the Southern
Confederacy. As to the former— the Cotton States— if it be
true, as candid historians acknowledged, that their people "all
held that the North was unconstitutionally and unjustly at-
tempting to coerce the sovereign States;" if it be true, as we
have seen is now conceded, that the people of those States
solemnly believed that their liberties were assailed, and (hat
the war waged against them was a war of subjugation — then I
submit that they were constrained to choose between their
love of t' e Union and their love of liberty; and I do not
believe th-t any brave and candid patriot of any Northern
State vJl condemn them because, holding that belief, they
made the choice they did. The judgment of the South may
be impeached, but not her patriotism, not her love for the
Union, if, shut up to such an alternative, she preferred
liberty without union to union without liberty. Yet her
judgment was sustained by some of the most illustrious men
of the North. Millard Fillmore had said, in 1856, in referring
to the possible election of Fremont as a sectional President :
"Can they have the madness or folly to believe that our
Southern brethren would submit to be governed by such a
chief magistrate?" And Rufus Choate the same year wrote
that if the Republican party "accomplishes its objects and
gives the government to the North I turn my eyes from the
consequences."
The case of the border States is somewhat different. Mary-
land, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennes-
see were all opposed lo secession. They refused to follow the
lead of South Carolina. For example, as late as April 4 Vir-
ginia voted by eighty-nine to forty-five against the ordinance
of secession. They believed the Southern States had just
grievances against the North, and that there was much to
justify the fears which they entertained, but they were not
prepared to dissolve the Union. They still hoped for redress
within the Union by constitutional means. Moreover, the
men who became our greatest generals and our most illus-
trious and determined leaders in the Southern Confederacy
were, a majority of them, earnest Union men. I think it
may be said, too, that the States which furnished most
of the munitions of war and most of the fighting men
were opposed to secession. The Union, which their fore-
fathers had done so much to create, first by the sword and
then by the pen and the tongue, was dear to their hearts.
When, after the Revolution, it became apparent that jealousy
of the preponderance of Virginia, resulting from the vastness
of her domain, would prevent the formation of the Union,
that State, with truly queenly generosity, gave to the Union
her Northwestern Territory, out of which the States of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of
Minnesota were afterwards carved. This was in 1787. Has
any other State, or group of States, done as much in proof of
attachment to the Union ? Moreover, she dedicated this vast
territory as free soil by the or^^inance of 1787.
But there came a cruel issue. On the 15th of April, i86i.
President Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for seventy-
five thousand men to coerce the seceded States back into the
Union. The border States were called upon to furnish their
quota of armed men to march against their Southern breth
ren. Thus an issue was torced upon them which the future
historian, however antagonistic to the South, must nonder
with sympathy and emotion. The men of these border States
were compelled to decide either to send soldiers tq fighl
against their brethren or to say: "We will throw in our lot
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with them and resist military coercion." Now, whatever
division of sentiment existed in regard to the policy, or even
the right, of secession, there was almost complete unanimity
in these States in repudiating the right of coercion. That
right had been vehemently repudiated in the discussions in
the Constitutional Convention by James Madison, Alexander
Hamilton, and Edmund Randolph. The South remained true
to the doctrine of the fathers on this point. Mr. Madison op-
posed the motion to incorporate in the Constitution the power
of coercing a State to its duty, and by unanimous consent the
project was abandoned. Alexander Hamilton denounced the
proposal to coerce a State as "one of the maddest projects
ever devised." Edmund Randolph said it meant "civil war."
But, waiving all this, I come back to the question, Can any
blame attach to the people of the border States for choosing
as they chose in the face of the cruel alternative, which was
forced upon them by Mr. Lincoln's proclamation, to abandon
the Union or to draw their swords against their Southern
brethren ?
It has been well and wisely said by a recent historian (Mr.
Rhodes) that "the political reason of Virginia, Maryland, and
Kentucky inclined them to the North; their heartstrings
drew them to the South." I put it to any man with a heart
to say whether, when the bayonet is directed against the
bosom of a member of one's own household, he is to blame
for throwing himself in the breach in defense, even though
the bayonet be in the hand of the officer of the law. I affirm
that the ties of blood and kindred are more sacred even than
those which bind a man to the government of his country.
Could the men of Virginia and North Carolina and Tennessee
be expected to raise their hands against their family altars
and firesides, whatever view they might have taken of the
constitutional questions at issue? But the men of those
States believed with great unanimity that the sovereignty of
a State was inviolable by the general government. That was
the faith they had received from their fathers, from a long
line of illustrious statesmen and political philosophers. Of
this let one decisive example suffice. Though Robert E. Lee
abhorred the idea of secession and loved the Union with a
passionate devotion, yet when he was asked by a member of
a committee of Congress whether he did not consider that he
was guilty of treason in drawing his sword in behalf of the
South he answered : "No, I believed my allegiance was due
to the State of Virginia."
The people of the South believed, as we have said, that
government derives its just powers from the consent of the
governed. They believed the general government had no
rightful power of coercion. Their New England brethren had
for many years confirmed them in that belief
I come now to consider the opinion, so widely held, that
the South plunged into a desperate war for the purpose of
perpetuating slavery, and made that institution the corner
stone of the new Confederacy which it sought to establish.
Before dealing directly with this, however, a little history
upon the subject of the relation of the South to slavery will
be salutary.
Certainly we have no tears to shed over its abolition. There
is not a man in the South who would wish to see it re-
established. But there are several facts, unknown to some
and ignored by other historians, which are essential to a
right understanding of this question. I shall hold them up
to the light to-day because I would not have the attitude of
that dear, noble Old South misrepresented or misunderstood
by our descendants.
J
In the first place, let it never be forgotten that it was the
government of England, and not the people of the South,
which was originally responsible for the introduction of
slavery. In 1760 South Carolina passed an act to prohibit
further importation of slaves, but England rejected it with
indignation.
The colony of Virginia again and again protested to the
British king against sending slaves to her shores, but in vain —
they were forced upon her. One hundred petitions against
the introduction of slaves were sent by the colonists of
Virginia to the British government. Then, too, Virginia was
the first of all the States, North or South, to prohibit the
slave trade, and Georgia was the first to incorporate such a
prohibition in her organic constitution. In fact, Virginia was
in advance of the whole world on this subject; she abolished
the slave trade in 1778, nearly thirty years before England
did, and the same period before New England was willing to
consent to its abolition. Again, at the formation of the Con-
stitution, Virginia raised her protest against the continuance
of that traffic; but New England raised a voice of objection,
and, uniting her influence with that of South Carolina and
Georgia, secured the continuance of the slave trade for
twenty years more by constitutional provision. On the other
hand, the first statute establishing slavery in America was
passed by Massachusetts in December, 1641, in her code en-
titled Body of Liberties. The first fugitive slave law was
enacted by the same State, while every Southern State legis-
lated against the slave trade. Thus slavery was an inheritance
which the people of the South received from the fathers ; and
if the States of the North, very soon after the Revolution,
abolished the institution, it cannot be claimed that the aboli-
tion was dictated by moral considerations, but by differences
of climate, soil, and industrial interests. The Supreme Court
in 1857 used the following language : "This change had not
been produced by any change of opinion in relation to this
race, but because it was discovered by experience that slave
labor was unsuited to the climate and productions of these
States, for some of them . . . were actively engaged in
the slave trade."
Goodell's "Slavery and Antislavery"— an authority not
friendly to the South— says (pp. 10, 11) that the merchants
of New England seaports "almost monopolized the immense
profits of that lucrative, but detestable, trade."
"The principal operation of abolition in the North," says an
English authority, "was to transfer Northern slaves to South-
ern markets." (Ingram's "History of Slavery," London, 1895,
p. 184.)
On March 26, 1788, the Legislature of Massachusetts passed
a law ordering all free negroes out of the State. If they
would not go voluntarily, they were to be whipped out.
It existed in several of the Northern States more than
fifty years after the adoption of the Constitution, while the
importation of slaves into the South continued to be carried
on by Northern merchants and Northern ships, without inter-
ference in the traffic from any quarter, until it was pro-
hibited by the spontaneous action of the Southern States
themselves.
Note this also : The contest between the North and the
South over the extension of slavery to the territories was a
contest on the part of the South for equal rights under the
Constitution, and it ought to be clearly understood that it did
not involve the increase of slavery. Had that right been con-
ceded, not one additional slave would have been added to the
number existing in the country. "It was a question of the dis-
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tribution or dispersion of the slaves rather than of the ex-
tension of slavery. Removal is not extension. Indeed, if
emancipation was the end to be desired, the dispersion of the
negroes over a wider area, among additional territories
eventually to become States, and in climates unfavorable to
slave labor, instead of hindering, would have promoted this
object by diminishing the difficulties in the way of ultimate
emancipation." This is the language of Jefferson Davis, but
the argument is Henry Clay's. In 1820 he argued that the
extension of slavery was farseeing humanity, and Mr. Jeffer-
son agreed with him, saying that spreading the slaves over a
larger surface "will dilute the evil everywhere and facilitate
the means of getting finally rid of it." Mr. Madison took
the same view, and these three statesmen were all earnest
emancipationists.
"In 1822 there were five or six abolition societies in Ken-
tucky. In 1819 the first distinctively emancipation paper in
the United States was published in Jonesboro, Eastern Ten-
nessee." There were eighteen emancipation societies in that
region organized by the Covenanters, Methodists, and the
Quakers.
A Massachusetts writer, George Lunt, says: "The States
of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee were engaged in prac-
tical movements for the gradual emancipation of their slaves.
This movement continued until it was arrested by the ag-
gressions of the abolitionists."
The people of the South believed tluy were, at heart, more
friendly to the negro race than their Northern brethren, and
such facts as the following appeared to justify their be-
lief. In 1830 Senator Benton called attention to the "actual
expulsion of a great body of free colored people from the
State of Ohio, and not one word of objection, not one note
of grief." The whole number expatriated was estimated at
ten thousand. He added: "This is a remarkable event, paral-
leled only by the expulsion of the Moors from Spain and
the Huguenots from France." In 1846 the liberated slaves
of John Randolph were driven by a mob away from the lands
which had been purchased for them in Ohio. In 1855 the
Topeka (Kan.) Cousiiltition, adopted by the Freesoilers, con-
tained an article, ratified by a vote of almost three to one,
forbidding any free negro to reside in the State, and this
was accepted by the Republican House of Representatives.
In i860 the Con.stilutions of thirty out of thirty-four States
of the Union excluded negroes from exercising the suffrage.
Facts like these did not tend to confirm the confidence of the
people of the South in the sincerity of the agitation on behalf
of the negro.
And now I call your attention to a fact of capital importance
in this discussion — viz., that the sentiment in favor of emanci-
pation was rapidly spreading in the South in the first quarter
of the nineteenth century. It is stated on high authority that
in the year 1826 there were one hundred and forty-three eman-
cipation societies in the whole country, and of this number
one hundred and three were established in the South. It is
well known that one branch of the Legislature of Virginia
came within one vote of passing a law of emancipation in the
year 1832. and I was assured in i860 by Col. Thomas Jeffer-
son Randolph, of Virginia, the grandson of Mr. Jefferson—
himself an influential member of the Legislature in 1832—
that emancipation would certainly have been carried the en-
suing year but for the revulsion of feeling which followed the
fanatical agitation of the subject by the abolitionists of the
period. The Legislature of 1832 defeated the emancipation bill
by only one vote
It is our belief that, but for passions naturally roused by the
violent attacks made upon the moral character of the South-
ern slaveholder, slavery would have been peaceably abolished
in the border States before the middle of the nineteenth cen-
tury
Fanatics and abolitionists demanded immediate emancipation
without compensation or consideration of any kind. England
in 1833 abolished slavery in the West Indies, but she compen-
sated the slave owners, devoting $100,000,000 to that purpose.
But never in all the long abolition agitation of thirty years,
irom 1831 to 1861, was there any proposition to remunerate the
So-jtii for the loss of her slaves. Her people were expected
to make a sacrifice for emancipation never demanded before
of any people on earth. I do not forget that in March, 1862,
Mr. Lincoln proposed remuneration to the border States which
had not seceded ; but it came too late, when flagrant war
had embittered the hostility between the sections.
Mr. Gladstone admitted that the extinction of slavery was
"a consummation devoutly to be desired and in good earnest
to be forwarded," yet held that "immediate and unconditional
emancipation without a previous advance in character must
place the negro in a state where he would be his own worst
enemy." The people of the South, too, realized the difficulty
and the danger of emancipation. She was, as Jefferson said,
in the position of the man who held the wolf by the cars— she
didn't want to hold on, but she was afraid to let go
If it is charged that slavery was the corner stone of the
Southern Confederacy, what are we to say of the Constitution
of the United States? That instrument as originally adopted
by the thirteen colonies contained three sections which recog-
nized slavery
But after all that may be said we are told that slavery was
the cause of the war and that the citizen-soldiers of the South
sprang, to arms in defense of slavery.
Yes, my comrades, calumny, masquerading as history, has
told the world that that battle flag of yours was the emblem
of slave power, and that you fought not for liberty but for the
right to hold your fellow-men in bondage.
Think of it, soldiers of Lee ! Think of it, followers of Jack-
son and Stuart and Albert Sidney Johnston ! You were fight-
ing, they say, for the privilege of holding your fellow-men in
bondage! Will you for one moment acknowledge the truth of
that indictment? Ah. no! that banner of the Southern Cross
was studded with the stars of God's heaven. You could not
have followed a banner that was not the banner of liberty !
You sprang from the loins of freemen 1 You drank in free-
dom with your mothers' milk ! Your revolutionary sires were
not inspired by a more intense devotion to liberty than you
were !
Tell me, were you thinking of your slaves when you cast
all in the balance, your lives, your fortunes, your sacred honor,
in order to endure the hardships of the march and the camp
and the peril and suffering of the battlefield? Why, it was
but a small minority of the men who fought in the Southern
armies — hardly one in ten — that were financially interested in
the institution of slavery.
There is, however, a court to which this contention may be
referred for settlement — one whose decision all men ought to
accept. It is composed of the three men who may be supposed
to have known, if any man knew, the object for which the war
was waged — Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Robert
E. Lee. And their decision is unanimous. Mr. Lincoln always
declared that the object of the war was the restoration of the
Union, and not the emancipation of the slaves. Mr. Davis as
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positively declared that the South was not fighting for slavery,
but for independence. And Robert E. Lee expressed his opin-
ion by setting all his slaves free January 8, 1863, and then go-
ing on with the war for more than two years longer. . . .
The generation which participated in that great struggle is
rapidly passing away, and we believe that no fitting occasion
should be neglected by those who yet survive to vindicate the
motives and to explain the principles of the actors in that great
drama. Only by iteration and reiteration by the writers and
speakers of the South will the real facts be rescued from ob-
livion, and the conduct and characters of our leaders, and the
heroic men who followed them, be understjod and honored as
ihey ought to be. And, my friends, the fulfillment of this duty
will make for unity and fraternity among Americans, not for
sectionalism. It will strengthen, not weaken, the bonds of the
Union in the years to come if the generations yet unborn are
taught to recognize that the principles and the aims of the men
of the South were as high and as pure as those which animated
their foemen of the North. Let the Union of the future be
founded on mutual respect, and to this end let the truth con-
cerning the principles and acts of the old South be told — the
whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Comrades and fellow-citizens, we thank God that to-day the
sun shines upon a truly reunited country. In the providence
of God the Spanish war has drawn North and South together
in bonds of genuine brotherhood. Their blood has watered the
same soil ; the common patriotism has glorified again the land
of Washington. . . . There was no North or South on
those fields of battle, or in Santiago Harbor, or in front of
Manila. Yes, and as was well said by our own Hilary Her-
bert at the Peace Jubilee, "Out of the grave of sectionalism
arose the trumphant spirit of Americanism." ....
For one moment let us turn from the sacred past — from the
memories of this day and hour — and look into the future.
Surely a Pisgah prospect of beauty and hope ! A great destiny
opens before America. Great are her privileges, her oppor-
tunities, her responsibilities
But this occasion belongs not to the future but to the past.
Let our closing thoughts then be dedicated to the memory of
our dead — that mighty host of brave soldiers and sailors who
fell under the banner of the lost Confederacy forty years
ago, of those now silent battalions of Southern soldiers that
sleep on so many hard-fought fields
I will not attempt then to pronounce a fitting panegyric upon
those brave men nor upon their splendid leaders : captains
whose valor, whose prowess, whose skill, whose heroic con-
stancy were never outshone on any field; in any age, by any
leaders of men; not by Agamemnon, "king of men;" not by
Achilles, the "swift-footed," "the invincible ;" not by Ulysses,
"the wise;" nor by Ajax, "the mighty;" not by Miltiades at
Marathon ; nor by Leonidas himself at Thermopylae ; nor by
any of the long line of illustrious heroes and patriots who, in
ancient and in modern times, have shed luster on manhood by
their valor or by their constancy. Comrades, it is my con-
viction that the Muse of History will write the names of some
of our Southern heroes as high on her great roll of honor as
those of any leaders of men in any era. Fame herself will
rise from her throne to place the laurel with her own hands
upon the immortal brows of Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney
Johnston, and Stonewall Jackson. I grant, indeed, that it is
not for us who were their companions and fellow-soldiers to
ask the world to accept our estimate of their rightful place in
history. We are partial, we are biased in our judgments, men
will say. Be it so. We are content to await the calm verdict
of the future historian, when with philosophic impartiality
the characters and achievements and motives of our illustrious
leaders shall have been weighed in the balances of truth. What
that verdict will be is foreshadowed, we believe, by the judg-
ment expressed by Gen. Lord Wolseley, who said : "I believe
Gen. Lee will be regarded not only as the most prominent
figure of the Confederacy but as the great American of the
nineteenth century, whose statue is well worthy to stand on
an equal pedestal with that of Washington, and whose memory
is equally worthy to be enshrined in the hearts of all his
countrymen."
What you ask of me, however, comrades, in these closing
moments is quite apart from the task of the historian or the
orator. It is simply to give honest utterance to the love and
admiration that glow in the breast of every one of us for
those, our companions in arms, who fell on the almost count-
less bloody fields of that Titantic struggle in repelling the
invaders from our soil. All honor to their memory ! We
cannot call their names. They are too numerous to be told
over, even if we had here the muster rolls of all the Confed-
erate armies. But if their names could be called, we could
answer : "Dead on the field of honor !" . . . Yes, for these
men to whom we pay the tribute of our homage were heroes,
if ever heroes were. What hardships did they not uncom-
plainingly endure on the march, in the bivouac, in the trench-
es ! What sacrifices did they not cheerfully make for a cause
dearer than life itself! What dangers did they not face with
unquailing front ! Who that ever saw them can forget those
hardy battalions? Rusty and ragged were their uniforms,
but bright were their muskets and their bayonets, and they
moved like the very whirlwind of war!
They fill, most of them, nameless graves. They were private
soldiers. Fame will not herald their names and deeds to pos-
terity. They fought without reward and they died without
distinction. It was enough for them to hear the voice of duty
and to follow it, though it led them by a rugged path to a
bloody grave. "Tell my father or my mother I tried to do
my duty," was the last message of many a dying soldier boy
to his comrades on the field of battle. O, it is for this we
honor and revere their nameless memories to-day. They were
not soldiers of fortune, but soldiers of duty, who dared all
that men can dare and endured all that men can endure in
obedience to what they believed the sacred call of country.
. . . They loved their State; they loved their homes and
their firesides. They knew little of the warring theories of
constitutional interpretation. But one thing they knew : armed
legions were marching upon their homes, and it was their
duty to hurl them back at any cost. For this, not we only
who shared their perils and hardships do them honor — not the
Southern people only — but all brave men everywhere. Name-
less they may be, but the name of "Confederate soldier" will
echo around the world through the coming years, and will be
accepted as the synonym of valor, of constancy, and of loyalty
to the sternest call of duty.
My comrades, I have been in the Eternal City, surrounded
by the deathless relics and monuments which commemorate the
glorious achievements of the citizens and soldiers of ancient
Rome. I have paced the aisles of that stately church in which
Venice has piled up the splendid memorials in brass and in
marble of the men who made her name great in Europe — who
made her to sit as a queen upon her watery throne among the
nations. I have stood under a dome in Paris, on the spot upon
which France has lavished with unstinted hand her wealth and
her art to shed glory upon the name of her greatest soldier —
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his sarcophagus reposes upon a pavement of costly marbles
gathered from all quarters of the globe, and so arranged as to
represent a Sun of Glory irradiating the name of the hero of
Merango and of the Pyramids, of Jena and of Austerlitz. And
1 have meditated in awe-struck silence beneath the fretted roof
of Westminster Abbey, surrounded by the almost countless
memorial marbles which twenty generations of Englishmen
have erected to celebrate the fame of their most illustrious
kings and nobles, soldiers and patriots, jurists and statesmen,
poets and historians, musicians and dramatists.
But on none of these occasions have I been so mipressed
with the patriotic and unselhsh devotion thai human nature is
capable of as when I have contemplated the character and the
career of the private soldiers of the Confederacy. Not for
fame or for reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambi-
tion or goaded by necessity, but in simple obedience to duty,
as they understood it, these men suffered all, sacrificed all,
dared all — and died ! No stately abbey will ever cover their
remains. Their dust will never repose beneath fretted or
fiescoed roof. No costly bronze will ever blazon their names
lor posterity to honor ; but the Potomac and the Rappahan-
nock, the James and the Chickahominy, the Cumberland and
the Tennessee, the Mississippi and the Rio Grande, as they
run their long race from the mountains to the sea, will sing
of their prowess for evermore I The mountains of Virginia
and Tennessee and Georgia will stand eternal witnesses of
their valor
As 1 recall the magnificent valor of those half-fed, half-
clad legions of the Confederacy the thought comes : "But after
all they failed. The Confederacy fell. The banner of the
Southern cross sank to earth to rise no more."
But icas it in vain? I do not believe it. It is true that their
Hashing bayonets did not establish the new Confederacy. It
IS true that those proud armies of Lee and Johnston were
slowly worn away by attrition until, reduced to gaunt skele-
tons of what they had been, they surrendered to the vast
hosts of the Union armies. But it is not true that those gal-
lant Southrons suffered and died in vain. No brave battle
fought for truth and right was ever in vain ! The truth sur-
vives, though the soldier of the truth perishes His death, his
defeat, becomes the seed of future success. . . "Being
dead they yet speak." They tell us and our children and chil-
dren's children that courage, self-sacrifice, loyalty to convic-
tion is sublime ; it is better than mere success ; it carries with
It its own reward. Death was not too high a price to pay for
the exhibition to the world of such heroism as theirs. That
cannot die. It shines as the stars with a deathless light above
the sordid and selfish aims of men. It will inspire generations
to come with noble ideals of unselfish living. It is a new
example of the profound words of Jesus : "He that loseth his
life shall find it."
Let us note, then, wherein they failed and wherein they did
not fail. They failed to establish the Southern Confederacy.
Why ? For no other reason b»t this — God decreed otherwise.
Yes, my comrades, the military genius of our commanders was
not at fault, the valor of the Confederate armies was not at
fault. ... It was the cause of liberty that fired their souls
to do, to dare, and to die. They conceived that the Federal
government was trampling on the liberties of the States, and
they rose in their defense. It was the sacred heritage of Anglo-
Saxon freedom, of local self-government won by Runnymede.
that they believed in peril when they flew to arms as one man
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. They may have been
right or they may have been wrong, but that was the issue they
made. On that they stood. They died for the preservation of
the supreme and sacred right of self-government.
It is my belief that the close and candid student of public
opinion in our country these forty years past will conclude
that this protest of theirs has not been in vain. In spite of
the historians who have misread the causes and the objects
of the war on the part of the South, the fact that the Con
federate soldiers and the people of the South made their su-
perb struggle and their marvelous sacrifices for the right of
local self-government has silently impressed the minds of
the American people, with the result that that right has been
steadily gaining in the strength of its hold upon the people of
many of the States of the Union. Members of Congress from
the South observe a great change in this respect in the senti-
ments of their fellow-members from the North and the West.
Moreover, the limitation of the authority of the general gov
ernment to those powers distinctly delegated and the reserva-
tion to the States of the powers not delegated has been af-
firmed again and again by the Supreme Court since the war.
So convinced am I of this that I make bold to predict that
the future historian will say that while the armies of the
North saved the Union from dissolution the armies of the
South saved the rights of the States within the Union. Thus
victor and vanquished will both be adjudged victorious; for
if it is due to the Federal soldier that the Union is henceforth
indissoluble, it is equally due to the Confederate soldier that
this indissoluble Union is composed, and shall forever be com-
posed, of indestructible States
Yes, ye gallant defenders of our stainless Confederate ban-
ner, ye did not die in vain ! Your deeds have cast a halo of
glory over our Southern land which will only grow brighter
as time advances. Your memory will be a priceless heritage
which we will transmit to our children's children untarnished.
None shall ever write "Traitor" over your graves unrebuked
by us while God gives us the power of speech ! Farewell,
brave comrades, farewell till the tryst of God beyond the river.
The bugle has sounded "taps" over your graves. After all
these years its pathetic notes still vibrate in our ears, reminding
us that we shall sec your faces no more on earth. But we
clasp your dear memory to our hearts to-day once more. Ye
are "our dead ;" ours ye were in those stern years from i86i
to i86s, when we marched and camped and battled side by
side; "ours" by the sacred bond of a common consecration to
a cause which was holy to us
The Northwestern Division, U. D. C. — The third annual
reunion of this Division of Confederate Veterans was held
at Helena, Mont., on October 5. Owing to the active inter-
est taken by the local organizations, the N. B. Forrest Camp,
U. C. v., assisted by the Winnie Davis Chapter of the U.
D. C, the meeting was the largest and most successful in
every way that has yet been held in the Northwest Pressing
invitations were sent to all Camps in the Northwest and to
veterans living where there were no organizations. The rail-
roads gave reduced rates, and a large crowd took advantage
of them to attend the reunion. The business meeting was
presided over by C. P. Blakeley, of Bozeman. Paul A. Fusz,
of Philip'burg, was elected Major General commanding the
Division, U. C. V., and George F. Ingram Commander of the
Montana Brigade. At night the visiting Veterans and Daugh-
ters were given an elegant reception by the local organization.
Commander Fusz has appointed his staff, and will endeavor
to have all veterans in the Northwest in organizations before
the next reunion
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THE FIGHT AT CLINTON, LA.
BY A. CURL, FIRST LIEUT. CO. C, ELE\'ENTH ARKANSAS INFANTRY.
During the last days of April, 1863, Col. Grierson, com-
mander of the Sixth Illinois Cavalry, made a memorable raid
from Memphis, Tenn., south through the State of Mississippi,
to Baton Rouge, La.
The Eleventh and Seventeenth Arkansas Infantry were part
of the garrison at Port Hudson. There was a small cavalry
force doing outpost duty in East Louisiana and South Missis-
sippi, ranging from twenty to fifty miles out from Port Hud-
son. This little detachment was commanded by Col. George
Gantt, of Tennessee. It was composed of Tennessee, Missis-
sippi, and Louisiana troops, and with it was also a small field
battery, commanded by Capt. Roberts. When the news of
Grierson's raid reached Port Hudson, Gen. Gardner, in com-
mand at that place, sent some troops out to different points,
with a view to cutting off Grierson's advance. Col. Miles, of
Louisiana, was sent with what was known as Miles's Legion
to the Amite River bridge. The Eleventh and Seventeenth
Arkansas Regiments were sent to Clinton, a small town about
twenty miles from Port Hudson. Col. John Logan, of Arkan-
sas, was the senior colonel, and commanded the detachment.
Grierson did not touch Clinton, but went by way of the Amite
bridge, reaching that place and effecting a crossing before
Miles got there, and Col. Gantt failed to catch up with Grier-
sop during his passage through the country.
Miles, with his legion, returned to Port Hudson; but the
two Arkansas regiments left in the country were consolidated
with the cavalry of Col. Gantt and Roberts's Battery, and
Col. Logan was placed in command of the entire force. The
Eleventh and Seventeenth Arkansas Regiments were consoli-
dated and commanded by Col. Griffith ; while Col. Powers, of
Arkansas, had command of the cavalry and Capt. Roberts
the battery.
On the 3d of June Logan's force was encamped about a mile
north of Clinton, off the road that leads to Port Hudson.
About three o'clock in the afternoon "Boots and sad-
dles" was sounded. Grierson had come out from Banks's
army, and was approaching Clinton. A run was made for
Clinton, and, passing through the town, we met the Federals
on the opposite side, sheltered behind the banks of a creek.
We went in under fire, and an engagement ensued which lasted
for perhaps an hour and a half. Col. Powers, with the
mounted men, eventually turned the enemy's left, and they
retreated southward, followed by our forces. About a mile
from where the retreat and pursuit began there was a creek,
across which the Port Hudson road passed over a bridge.
In making their way through the underbrush, our front
line became scattered, some wading the creek, others crossing
on the bridge. Company C, of which the writer was first
lieutenant, was in the wagon road just behind Capt. Green's
company, of the same regiment. Just beyond the bridge the
Federals had unlimbered a piece of artillery, with which and
some small arms they were sweeping the bridge. Company C
came up, and Capt. Burke, of our company, ordered us to
cross, which we did in double-quick. Sergeant William Curl
was the first to cross, and Capt. Burke the next. An effort
was made to capture the enemy's gun, but they succeeded in
getting it away before we reached it. Half a mile farther on
the Federals halted again in an open field, with a lane running
through it, and formed a line of battle. We were ordered to
form on the right and left of the lane and advance. Acting
on this order, I jumped over the rail fence on the left side
of the lane and started up through the field just as the
Federals opened fire on us with small arms and artillery, to
which we replied promptly.
At the time I crossed the fence and started forward through
the field Sergeants Curl and Mason Speer started up the
lane. After going about eighty yards, I looked around to see
the condition of things, and discovered that I was alone.
The line of battle had been formed at the fence, and all the
fighting from the Confederate side was being done from there.
When the writer found himself alone, between two fires, he
went back to that fence, and it is useless to say that he went
in a hurry. Curl and Speer found themselves in the same
predicament, liaving gone even farther toward the enemy
before discovering their mistake. The fight continued sharp
and hot for perhaps twenty or thirty minutes, when the
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GEN. W. J. HAKDEE.
From photographs made before the Confederate War.
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Federals again retreated, and were pursued by the mounted
portion of the Confederates some distance toward Port Hud-
son. Our regiment lost some good men, killed and wounded.
It was one of those small, red-hot engagements, something
more than a skirmish, but not of sufficient importance to be
called a battle, of which there were thousands during the war.
THAT FIGHT AT FORT GILMER.
BY W. A. FLANIGAN, COMPANY G, FIFTEENTH CEORCIA INFANTRY.
In the June Veteran George Reese, of Pensacola, Fla..
gives an account of some desperate fighting done by five Con-
federate soldiers in a fort near Petersburg that he thinks was
called Fort Gilmer. In the December Veteran Dr. May, of
Te.xas, in reply to this article, says he was one of the five
men referred to by Gen. Reese.
I do not contradict either of these gentlemen, for there may
have been more than one Fort Gilmer; but the time, place, and
circumstances they mention so nearly accord with incidents
participated in by the regiment to which I belonged tliat 1
make a statement.
I was a member of the Fifteenth Georgia Infantry, Ben-
ning's Brigade. When we were occupying the first line that
Comrade May speaks of, the Texas Brigade was on our left.
After we abandoned this position to re-form on the inner line
and occupy the forts I do not know where it was, neither do
I know where the rest of our brigade (Benning's) was except
tlie Second Georgia. When we fell back to the iimer line, half
of my regiment, about thirty-five or forty of us, occupied Fort
Gilmer and the other half went into a little fort, a hundred
and fifty or two hundred yards to our left, called Fort Fields.
On o\.n right, three or four hundred yards distant, was another
little fort (I do not remember the name) occupied by some
sixty men of the Second Georgia of our brigade. I do not
know the location of the rest of our brigade, but I do know
that the Fifteenth Georgia occupied Fort Gilmer and Fort
Fields and the Second Georgia occupied the other little fort on
the right of Fort Gilmer, as already stated. After we repulsed
the attack on Fort Gilmer ten or twelve of us ran across to
Fort Fields and helped the boys drive the enemy back from
that point. About that time they made a rush at the little fort
on our right, occupied by the Second Georgia, and sonic of
our regiment started to help the Second ; but before they
reached the fort the fight was over, and the prisoners were
comin.g in. Now there may have been but five men in the
fort (Gilmer), as Gen. Reese and Comrade May state; but
there were between thirty-five and forty men. with hot, smok-
ing guns, in the Fort Gilmer that I was in.
There were only sixty-odd men in the Second Georgia, but
they whipped a brigade of the enemy that day, capturing many
prisoners, amongst them a major who, after seeing the small
force opposed to him, asked Col. Shepherd if they were all
the men he had ; and when informed that they were he said
if the Colonel would put him on the outside and give him only
the men captured he would have the fort in a few moments.
We were sent from the Crater just the night before the
blow up (a close miss) over to Richmond for local defense
and to recruit the brigade, which did not have as many men
in it then as some of the regiments formerly had ; for in-
stance, the Fifteenth Georgia carried into the fight at Gettys-
burg nine hundred muskets, and we came out with four hun-
dred and fifty.
There are quite a number of these old fellows yet living
who will verify my statement as to the fight at Fort Gilmer.
True history is what we want: no more, no less.
MONUMENT TO FAITHFUL SLAVES.
At a recent meeting of the J. Harvey Mathews Chapter,
U. D. C, of Memphis, Tenn.. Miss Mary M. Solari read a
strong and pathetic paper, advocating the erection of a monu-
ment to the faithful old slaves who remained loyal and true
lo their owners in the dark days of the sixties and on through
the infamous reconstruction period. After referring to an
article tiiat appeared in the November Veteran from a cor-
respondent averse to building such a monument, she says in
part ;
"In the hearts of the mighty fallen is deep rooted the feel-
ing of inextinguishable gratitude to the loyal slaves to whose
care the women and children were intrusted during the entire
period of the War between the States. It is a sentiment thai
still remains smoldering in the souls of those who owned
them. To those slaves who watched the fireside, tilled the
soil, helped spin, weave, and make raiment for the master and
sons on the battlefield — to those slaves who protected and pro-
vided for the families at home is due a monument that will tell
the story to coming generations that cannot be taught the les-
son of self-sacrifice and devotion of the slave in any other way.
If a time is ever ripe for a noble deed, now is that time,
for the grand, courteous Southern slave owner is fast passing
away; and to erect the monument would be to hand down to
posterity an open book, in which our Southern children can
learn that every negro is no 'black fiend.' The North would
not understaTid the sentiment. Of course not.
"Erecting this monument would influence for good the pres-
ent and coming generations, and prove that the people of the
South who owned slaves valued and respected their good
qualities as no one else ever did on will do. It would bespeak
the real conception of the affection of the owner toward the
slave and refute the slanders and falsehoods published in
'Uncle Tom's Cabin.'
"There did exist in the days of trial and hardship not only
a perfect understanding but the kindest sympathy, and in
thousands of plantations and homes where every white male
on the place able to bear arms would go to the battlefield
the helpless families of women and children were left entirely
to the care and protection of the trusted slaves.
"This monument would have great effect as a proof of the
feeling of gratitude that centers the hearts of Southern people
from the sixties to the present day, and would link ages of
the past to the coming years, when our grandchildren and
theirs in turn would stop to inquire the meaning of it and
the motive that prompted its erection, learning therefrom
truths in the history of the Southern States and from a truth-
ful source.
"The 'Moiuiment to the Blacks' would not only tell the
traditions, romance, poetry, and picturesqueness of the South,
but would speak the pathetic scenes enacted in many grand
old Southern homesteads. No one who was rocked to sleep
by the sweet lullaby of the faithful black 'mammy,' listened
to her weird ghost stories, nursed at her breast, or played
about her cabin door would ever be willing to have these
tender memories die out. There is the side of sentiment, the
side of gratitude, that those who have felt the touch can
never give up, nor can they forget the debt due the faithful
'ten per cent of slaves that remained with their masters after
freedom.'
"If 'this is not the time for ereamg monuments to the old
slaves,' one will never be erected, for the men,. and women
who hold them in tender rcinembrance will ere long be called
to a greater reward, and they alone can fully underst' .o the
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motive of such a work and the necessity to leave a mark by
which their children's children may perpetuate the heroic
deeds of the slaves who were devoted and true to their
ancestors in times of deadliest peril. Ersct the monument;
it will result in much good, as it will tell future generations
that the white men of the South were the negro's best friends
then and that the men of the South are the negro's best
friends to-day.
"Instances portraying the fidelity of the slaves might be
told to fill endless volumes, and would recite the sweetest
stories of heartfelt devotion, the most unselfish acts, prompted
by pure love; self-forgetting, they would sacrifice comfort —
yea, even go hungry — and with a smile serve those to whom
they felt an undying fealty. They could not express all they
felt, but for mammy's 'girl' or 'boy' they could work and
suffer and teach a blessed lesson of endurance and glorified
fortitude ; for, as Miss Dromgoole so sweetly expresses it :
Her face is as black as ebon
Wrinkled and seamed and old ;
But her heart, I know, is as white as snow,
And true as the rarest gold.
Her brown hands, old and feeble
With touch of the passing years.
Would banish each trace of care from my face
And brush from my heart the tears.
Mammy and friend, I loved her,
Humble and all unfamed ;
But I love to trace in her love tlie face
That robber years have claimed.
Her face is as black as ebon.
Her soul as fair as the day ;
And her prayers, I know, wherever I go,
Will follow me all the way.' "
THE "COON" WAS EXCHANGED.
BY G. B. G.^RWOOD, BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO.
About September lo, 1862, a number of us were sent from
Camp Douglas on exchange over the Illinois Central rail-
road to Cairo. From there we were to go by boat to a point
near Vicksburg. Shortly after we were placed on board the
boat some of my comrades said they had captured a pet
coon, and invited me to go and take a look at him. I did so,
and found it was a two-legged "coon" and as black a one as
I ever saw. The boys had found him hid in a coal bin, and,
upon investigation, learned that he had early in the war run
away from his master, made his way North, and after "en-
joying" his freedom for some months was tired of the luxury,
and penniless and friendless was trying to beat his way back
home to "old marster and mistis." We divided our rations
of raw bacon and hard-tack with him, and advised him to
stick close to the coal bin, for, as he was about the same color,
he was less likely to be discovered there.
An hour or two before reaching our destination I overheard
a heated controversy between the officer in command of the
prisoners and the captain of the boat about a barrel of whisky
concealed in the barroom. From the conversation I learned
the location of the barrel. I didn't wait to hear the con-
clusion of the controversy, but reported what I had heard
to one or two of my friends. One of them secured a brace
and bit from the old carpenter of the boat, who was so kindly
disposed toward us as not to ask any questions, and on the
second a'ttenipt, after boring through the thm partition, we
struck tlie barrel and — well, it is only necessary to say that
in a short time we had it drained as far down as it would leak
out. The boat was soon after tied up at the point we were to
be exchanged. We had arranged to pass our coon out on the
name of a Confederate who died in line, and, notwithstand-
ing we had braced him up with a drink or two out of the
leaky barrel, his heart failed him at the last moment, and he
refused to answer when the dead man's name v\as called.
As it happened, my name came next to our dead comrade's,
and the darky and I were standing side by side. When this
name was called the second time I answered, and gave the
"coon" a push that sent him between the crossed muskets of
the guards standing at the edge of the stage plank. The of-
ficer looked surprised, and asked if that was his name. "Of
course it is," I answered ; "but he is as deaf as a post." 1
don't think the negro made a halt after I pushed him, for
when he struck the bank he made straight for the woods, and
the last we saw of 1 im he was going at top speed. If any of
my old comrades are living who were on that exchange with
me, I should be glad to hear from them.
THIRTY-SEVENTH VIRGINIA INFANTRY AGAIN.
BY C. B. PRICE, HANSONVILLE, VA.
Please correct a statement made in the January Veteran
by Comrade W. C. Tyler, of Kansas City, in a sketch of the
Thirty-Seventh Virginia Infantry. He says : "The regiment
was made up largely from the counties of Washington, Scott,
and Tazewell, Southwestern Va."
I was a member of this regiment. It was composed of five
companies from Washington County, commanded by Capts.
John Terry, William White, James White, George Graham,
and — — Grant ; three companies from Russell County, com-
manded by Capts. J. F. McElhaney, Samuel Hurst, and John
Kendrick ; one company from Lee County, Capt. Gibson ; and
one from Scott County, Capt. Wood. These are the original
company commanders as I remember them. I simply write
to claim recognition for our Russell and Lee County boys,
who Comrade Tyler omitted to mention as members of Stone-
wall Jackson's foot cavalry, who followed their immortal
commander from Kernstown to the night of his death, at
Chancellorsville, then under Jeb Stewart, next "Old Jubal"
Early, and at Appomattox under our beloved Gen. John B.
Gordon.
Comrade Tyler gives a correct account of the services of
the regiment as near as I can remember it after a lapse of
forty years.
I hope all of our old comrades who are able will comply
with his request to subscribe for the Veteran, and get others
to do likewise. We did our duty well when, as soldiers, we
helped to make the glorious history of the Confederacy, and
it is none the less our duty now to encourage and sustain its
publication. The future historian will look to the cold facts
and figures of the statistician for his information as to the
disadvantages we were under and the great odds we had to
fight; but to feel the warm heart beats of the Confederacy
and understand the feelings that prompted the suffering, en-
durance, devotion, and heroism of the sons and daughters
of the South from 1861 to 1865 he must turn to the pages of
the Confederate Veteran. It is a duty we owe, not only to
ourselves and our dead comrades but to our posterity, to
sustain tliis publication "while it is yet light," for the shadows
are fast gathering around us.
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A "YANK" VISITS THE SOUTH
BY E. EBERHARD, AKRON, OHIO.
My trip of several weeks through the South proved one of
the most interesting and pleasant episodes of my life. Know-
ing the proverbial geniality of Southern people, I had antici-
pated a fairly good time among them while looking over my
old campaign and battlefields, unless perchance some one in
certain localities should find out my former regimental rela-
tions and confront me with some musty old bills for chickens
and other sundries that had been overlooked by us in our
hurry to keep ahead of Gen. Forrest's cavalry. I was well
pleased, however, that the old bills were forgotten and old
scores buried. I met with most cordial greetings everywhere,
and was the recipient of many courtesies at the hands of
your people, especially the old Confederate veterans. I am
free to admit that I am very much in love with the South.
It gave me no less pleasure to see general prosperity, good
cheer, and progress in every direction. I observed with real
satisfaction how your people have under way the solution of
the serious and perplexing problems confronting them with
so much level-headed practical wisdom and energy. No fair-
minded oliserver who has the least idea of the magnitude of
tlie difficulties in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of
your social fabric upon a new basis can fail to rejoice in
the progress already made — your public schools open to all
children, the ballot box open to all alike under similar con-
ditions, and the rights of property and person guaranteed to
all alike by the laws of your States.
I am profoundly convinced that the genuine efforts of the
South to bring order out of the chaotic condition into which
the vicissitudes of a disastrous war and the more disastrous
blundering of politicians had plunged their States merits the
best wishes and cooperation of every good and patriotic citi-
zen of our beloved America. It would be a blessed event in
our country's history if those of the North and the South
who faced each other upon the field of battle would, with
others of like mind, come closer together and learn each
other's conditions, difficulties, and needs This could not
fail to promote the good will necessary to a rational solution
of questions that seem to threaten interminable controversy.
In this connection it is well for us Yankees, when we
become excited and raise our hands in holy horror at what
we think is quite terrible in some of the social and economic
institutions of the North, that we have a few bosses that
are not angels and a few regrettable events taking place right
here on our own enlightened Western reserve, notwithstand-
ing we have no social conditions to contend with.
The War between the States, its long duration and the in-
tense struggle, instead of fostering malice, has created the live-
liest interest in me for the South and its people. My growing
conviction of late years tliat the Southern people were willing
and most able, because best informed, to handle all questions
of especial interest to them and their section was fully vindi-
cated by what I saw on my recent visit among them.
WANTS TO LOCATE HIS "JOHNNIE"
Mr. James W. Dotson, of the Federal National Soldiers'
Home at Johnson City. Tenn., writes : "I read the Confed-
F.RATE Veteran with much interest, for we old fellows on
opposite sides during the war whose business it was to give
and take hard knocks learned to have a wholesome respect
and admiration for each other before we settled our 'family
fuss.' It was my good fortune to render a little assistance
to a wounded 'Johnnie,' a mere lad, at the battle of Nashville
The nerve of the game little rascal so impressed me at the
time that I've often wondered if he is living; if so, I should
be glad to hear from him. It was the evening of December
i6. Hood's army had given away. I was with Gen. A. J.
Smith's Corps on our right (your left), and I think Gen
Cheatham's troops were in the immediate front of the com-
mand I belonged to. We had followed the retreating Con-
federates out to the foothills. The day was dreary, which
with the smoke of battle made the night come on quickly.
Our front line had been relieved by fresh troops, and I was
going to the rear, over the ground we had fought, with my
command when my attention was attracted to a wounded
Confederate unable to stand up. Examination showed he
had been shot through the foot, the bullet crushing the bones
nnd making a most painful wound. By having him swing on
to my shoulder and use my gun for a crutch T succeeded
ADMIRAL FRANKLIN BUCHANAN,
HON. WILLIAM L. VANCL
Statesman.
HON. ALEX H. STEPHENS,
Vice President.
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at length in getting him over the hill, where our regimental
surgeon was attending to some of our boys the Johnnie's
had 'tagged' that evening. I soon had him engaged in pick-
ing the shattered bone out of my young prisoner's foot, and
saw that he was made as comfortable as practicabfe for the
night before leaving him. I think he was taken to Nashville
next day, but I've never seen or heard of him since. While
this was nothing more than an act of humanity that any
man should have done, yet it afforded me special satisfaction,
as it enabled me to get even with the 'Johnnies,' for I had,
a short time before, been captured by some of Gen. Forrest's
men and treated with the greatest kindness."
IVHO CAPTURED THE NEGRO FLAG?
BY G. T. CULLINS, CALEDONIA, ARK.
Just after the Nashville reunion I wrote an article on our
second campaign to Nashville, in which I gave an account
of the battle there as I saw it. I stated that my regiment
(Eighteenth Alabama Infantry) captured the Thirteenth
United States Colored Infantry flag with this inscription :
"Presented by the Colored Ladies of Murfreesboro."
Comrade Carpenter, of Eutaw, Ala., states in the January
Veteran that I confused an incident. He says that he was
in command of the Thirty-Sixth Alabama Regiment, and
that Capt. Knox, of Company B, was on his extreme right;
that after the firing had somewhat ceased and the negroes
began to retreat, Knox, seeing the color bearer still standing
at his post, jumped over the breastworks, caught up one of
the enemy's guns, shot the color bearer, and captured the flag,
designating it as the same by the inscription. There were
very few negroes who retreated in our front, and none were
at their post when the firing ceased ; for we fired as long as
there was anything standing to shoot at. When the firing
ceased, Lieut. Page, who was adjutant of our regiment at
the time, leaped over the stone fence and picked up the flag,
which was lying a few feet in our front. The bearer was
then dead, as were nearly all of his comrades. Lieut. Page
was shot down by a cross fire from the left a few moments
after he crossed back over the stone fence. I was in a few
feet of this flag when it was picked up, and had my hands
on it just after it was brought in. Now it has been forty
years, and I have talked with many old comrades who were
witnesses, but I never heard the matter questioned before.
Comrade Huffman, of Bessemer, Ala., who was a member
of Company G, Eighteenth Alabama Regiment, was present
at the stone fence engagement, and corroborates my state-
ment in the September Veteran, relating that he mentioned
the incident to Gen. S. D. Lee at the Nashville reunion, and
that he said he remembered it distinctly. Comrade L. B.
Thweatt, of Sulphur Springs, Tex., a messmate of mine, was
with me at the Nashville reunion, and we visited this historic
spot together and talked the matter over concerning the cap-
tured flag and corroborated each other's memory. Comrade
Carpenter also states that while camped at Columbia Gen.
Clayton sent for this flag. Now my recollection is that our
brigade did not go back by Columbia, but turned aside below
Franklin and moved out by Pulaski.
I should like for Comrades Thweatt, Huffman, and all
others who remember the facts to speak out and verify or
contradict my statement.
Gen. Forrest Said : "Go It, Little One !"— Capt. C. F. Jar-
rett, of Hopkinsville, Ky., who was a member of Gen. Bu-
ford's staff, writes : "I have read with much interest Henry
Ewell Hord's articles in the Veteran about Gen Forrest's
fight at Brice's Cross Roads, and corroborate all he says about
Lyon's Brigade, for Gen. Buford had loaned me to Gen. Lyon
that day to serve as his aid-de-camp. But Hord fails to men-
tion an incident, either from modesty of his courage or vanity
of his appearance, that I heard and witnessed during the
fight. The Third Kentucky, as he states, had been drilled
and served as infantry until they were assigned to Forrest,
and evidently thought they could do no good fighting on
horseback. It was after Morton's Battery had joined us at
Brice's Cross Roads, and we had just started the Yankees
on the go, that Gen. Forrest rode up to Hord's regiment
(the Third Kentucky) and was cursing them into shape to
charge on horseback in order to overtake and capture as
many prisoners as possible, when Hord, mounted on a little
dun-colored mustang, rode around in front of the line near
Forrest. His hat was gone, and his white head glittered in
the sunshine like a ball of silver; his face, as smooth as a
girl's and as red as a beet, was streaked with sweat and
dirt; a liberal part of his gray shirt (he had no jacket) had
worked out over the waistband of his pants and fluttered
over the cantle of his saddle. He looked to be about fifteen
or sixteen years old, just the right age not to be afraid of
anything on earth. I was sitting on my horse near Gen. For-
rest when Hord and his mustang came around to the front.
He was pegging away at the Yankees as fast as he could
shoot, oblivious of the fact that old Bedford was near or
that he had attracted his attention, until the General shouted,
'Go it, little one I' and the 'little one' went. I've seen him
but once in nearly forty years, but will carry in my mind
as long as I live the ludicrous but game picture of the white-
headed, dirty-faced boy at Brice's Cross Roads."
"CAPTURED" CAPT. M. S. COCKRILL.
BY E. m'iVER, NASHVILLE, TENN.
The autumn of 1862 was ideal and especially acceptable to
the foot-sore soldiers of Gen. Bragg's army, as they had left
Chattanooga to march across the States of Tennessee and
Kentucky to meet Gen. Buell and Gen. Thomas at a point out
of Louisville.
While on this campaign into Kentucky we were in camp
at Bryantsville, a few miles from Perryville, and a short time
before that great battle known as the "Battle of Perryville."
A Mr. Robinson, claiming to be a Southern sympathizer, a
farmer living only a few miles away, visited our camp quite
frequently, and we became well acquainted. He invited
Capt. M. S. Cockrill and myself to spend a night with him.
As that section of Kentucky was very much mixed in senti-
ment, and as it was infested with roving bands of independent
thieves and cutthroats who claimed to be soldiers, though
then in hiding, we hesitated about accepting.
However, we concluded to accept Mr. Robinson's invitation
to spend a night with him. He had a brother, a man of high
rank (Dick Robinson) in the Federal army; but we satisfied
ourselves of the sincerity of our new friend, and felt we
would meet a welcome and protection, so far as he was con-
cerned. We scrubbed and brushed up ourselves as best we
could, mounted our freshly groomed horses, and, just before
the sun went down, we started out across the country to find
Mr. Robinson's home. It was off the public road. The coun-
try was hilly and the route quite bewildering. We could not
but think of bushwhackers and what an advantage such a
section of country gave them. The moon came out bright,
the air was fresh, and, after some confusion, we struck the
road to the home of our host. We were welcomed with
"old Kentucky hospitality." Mr. Robinson lived in a large
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two-story house, which was lighted, and very soon we were
presented to his family, receiving a welcome on all sides that
put us at ease.
I will not attempt to describe the bountiful repast that
awaited us in the supper room and how we enjoyed it. Later,
we were sitting upon the piazza, with his family around. We
were listening to the many incidents of horror that had hap-
pened through that section and the mountainous district, a
clay's journey away, before Gen. Bragg's army had made its
appearance. We had left our arms in camp, and it was
straggling parties like ours that these fellows looked for.
Suddenly Mr. Robinson sprang to his feet, listened, ana
■ then walked out in the yard in front of his house to investi-
gate further. Coming back quickly, he said : "Gentlemen,
I hear horses. Some one is coming this way. There are
several, and they are riding rapidly, too."
A thousand thoughts crowded across my mind, it seemed.
all at once. Were wc trapped, betrayed, given, or sold to the
enemy? Our horses were stabled, and to reach them we would
have to go in the direction of the approaching party. Then, if
we were not betrayed and our host were true to us, it was our
duty to stand by him in case of an invasion ; but what good
could we do? We had left our arms in camp out of respect
to Mr. Robinson. There was nothing to do but face the enemy
or take to the woods afoot.
Mr. Robinson and his family were all alert and uneasily
walking and watching down the lane that led up to the house,
the very picture of concern. Capt. Cockrill and I put on a
bold front, stood in their midst, and talked as coolly as our
voices would allow. I could not resist the temptation to
look over the back way out of the house into the woods near
by, but took care to let no one suspect what I was up to.
Never before did I so long for my side arms and censure
myself for allowing even respect to my host to induce me to
leave them behind. I never before felt so helpless. The
horses didn't come in sight until they were almost at the front
gate, and they came in a run. 'Twas then my heart beat so
hard that I was afraid Mr. Robinson's daughter or wife,
standing close by, would hear it. The dust cleared away.
when all at once two girls drew up, and, throwing their reins
to a young boy they had with them as an escort, jumped ofl
their horses, and. holding up their long riding skirts, came
running in, laughing, talking, and crying all at once from the
excitement of their venture.
I could have fallen down and worshiped them. 1 never
wanted to embrace strangers as badly before. We were all
greatly at ease quite soon, and, after refreshing themselves,
the girls were quickly in the parlor, and we exchanged ad-
ventures. They told us how they got away from their homes
in Lancaster, about ten miles distant, to make this visit and
he near the Southern army, and we told them how they
scared us. One, the leader, was a Miss Letcher, a near rela-
tive of Gov. Letcher, of Kentucky, and. as might have been
expected, a dashing, tall, graceful young woman full of patri-
otism and fire. The other — a cousin, if memory serves me
right, and not quite so handsome — I have forgotten her name
The two made a team to attract in any crowd. They had
captured their young kinsman, a mere boy, and. well mounted,
they led the way to Mr. Robinson's (a friend of their family)
by moonlight, riding rapidly for ten miles.
We all collected around a table, with a bright light hang-
ing from the ceiling overhead. It was our opportunity to scan
the features of the new arrivals. It's enough to say Kentucky
never fails in producing thoroughbreds, and this attempt was
not an exception Miss Lotrhor was the star, if either She
led in intelligent dash, looks, and repartee; and from the way
Capt. Cockrill turned red in the face and then white I
knew every minute that his props were giving way, and that
he had not only been surprised but captured, heart and body.
It was a feast for us seldom encountered ; as Capt. Cockrill
said : "It was intoxicating."
It was late when we said good night. It was an evening
long to be remembered, and I knew from the way Capt. Cock-
rill kept squeezing my hand all night that he was still
frightened — or something else. We left next morning early,
after making many promises to return and enroll both of the
young ladies in the Southern army, each preferring the artil-
lery service with us.
Alas ! Alas ! Unfortunately, orders came to advance ; and
then the memorable battle of Perryville is history, history.
with its many casualties and much suffering. Three more
days and a retreat was sounded, which meant back across the
State by way of Crab Orchard, Lancaster, Rock Castle Gap.
and into Tennessee again via Cumberland Gap. This route
took us through Lancaster, and as the sun rose and fell upon
everything that sad but beautiful day, with heads bowed in
humiliation, we cast our eyes about, and who should we see.
with hands waving and calling as we passed along the streets
nf Lancaster — many, but none so beautiful as our newly made
young lady friends. Lancaster was their home, and as Capt.
Cockrill held long and firmly the hand of one the tears fell
fast and furiously down his cheeks. Another capture had
been made, and Miss Letcher was a prisoner. The meeting
was brief, hardly time for pledges, as the enemy was pressing
us ; but looks spoke volumes. The order to forward had to
be obeyed. I looked and Capt. Cockrill caught my eye, turned
red behind the ears, and waved a last, long farewell. Such
was the fate of war They never met again.
SAVED BY HIS BIBLE.
Comrade Edwin C. Rice, of Henderson. Tex., sends to the
Veteran another incident where a Bible saved the life of
its owner in battle. W. G. Norwood was a member of Com-
pany D, Fifth Texas Infantry, Hood's Brigade. .\t the battle
of Malvern Hill a large rifle ball struck him in the breast
over the heart, went through his clothing, struck the little
leather-covered Bible he had in his pocket, penetrated through
the book to the fifth Psalm, and lodged immediately over the
eleventh and twelfth verses, which read : "But let all those
that put their trust in thee rejoice : let them ever shout for
joy, because thou defendest them : let them also that love
thy name be joyful in thee. For thou. Lord, wilt bless the
righteous ; with favor wilt thou compass him as with a shield."
The ball did not tear or even scratch the leaf on which the
verses were printed and over which it lodged. Mr. Norwood,
who is still living, has never allowed the ball to be removed
from his little Bible except to let friends read the verses it
almost entirely covers.
HANDSOME MONUMENT AT SUFFOLK. VA.
BY J. RANDOLPH SMITH, HENDERSON, N. C.
At Suffolk, Va., the handsomest monument in the Cedar
Hill Cemetery is dedicated to all Confederate soldiers, and
was unveiled the 14th of November. 1889. It \Cas erected by
one man, and is therefore of the greater interest to "the men
who wore the gray" and all who stand for them.
Cedar Hill Cemetery is beautiful. It is terraced, and the
grass is kept .smooth, the trees are trimmed, and it is kept in
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perfect order. In May, when the writer saw it, the ground
war yellow with buttercups, covering the sleepers with n
blanket of gold.
One of the favorite sayings of the man who erected this
monument is : "When I hear a man being praised and honors
given him, I always want to know his wife, for no man ever
accomplishes any great thing without the aid of some great
woman — his wife or his mother." He says to-day that but for
his dear little wife that monument would not be standing now.
When he first thought of the monument he told her that he
was going to leave money in his will to erect a handsome me-
morial to his comrades, and it was she who said: "Why not
give the monument now, while you can .supervise the work
and have it done exactly as you would have it?" So with her
help he did erect the monument, and it is a credit to him, to
her, to the men in whose honor it is given, and to the town
and State.
Generally men give large sums when it can do them no
more good : but this man, who is not rich as wealth is
counted now, gave of what he had. All who know him delight
in showing him honor. The Confederate Camp at Suffolk is
the Tom Smith Camp, and he has been Grand Commander
of the Grand Camp of Virginia.
Many towns and cities have asked him to deliver ad-
dresses on Memorial Days. It was in his speech at Ports-
mouth, Va., that the memorable words were spoken: "I am
one of the men whose proudest boast is : 'I followed Lee.' "
His own private lot is just across the path from the Con-
federate monument, and here his dear little wife is sleeping,
and he hopes to rest by her side eventually until he is called
with others "who have fought a good fight" to the "roll call
up yonder."
The inscriptions on the monument were written by Pr
Beverly Tucker, of Norfolk, Va.
On the south side :
"This shaft on which we carve no name
Shall guide Virginia's youth,
A signpost on the road to fame.
To honor, and to truth.
A silent sentry, let it stand
To guard through coming time
Their graves wlio died for native land
And duty most sublime."
On the north side :
"With shouts above the battle's roar
They joined the legions gone before
They bravely fought, they bravely fell ;
They wore the gray, and wore it well."
On the west side :
"Erected by Thomas W. Smith in memory of his comrades.
The Confederate dead."
From Photographs Secured During the Sixties
Daughters of Mrs. Felicia Grundy Porter.
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DIXIE.
The Song, the Sentiment, the Country.
Created by a nation's glee.
With jests and songs and revelry
We sang it in our early pride
Throughout our Southern borders wide.
While from ten thousand throats rang out
A promise in one glorious shout :
"To live or die for Dixie !"
How well that promise was redeemed
Is witnessed by each field where gleamed
Victorious, like the crest of Mars,
The banner of the stars and bars.
The cannons lay our warriors low ;
We fill the ranks and onward go,
"To live or die for Dixie!"
To die for Dixie? O how blest
Are those who early went to rest,
Nor knew the future's awful store.
But deemed the cause they fought for sure
As heaven itself, and so laid down
The cross of earth for glory's crown.
And nobly died for Dixie !
To live for Dixie? harder part;
To stay the hand, to still the heart.
To stay the lips, enshroud the past.
To have no future all o'ercast.
To knit life's broken thread again
.'\nd keep her memory free from stain —
This is to live for Dixie.
Beloved land, beloved song,
Thy thrilling power shall last as long.
Enshrined within each Southern soul,
As Time's eternal ages roll I
Made holier by the test of years,
Baptized with our country's tears —
God and the right for Dixie.
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CAREER OF LIEUT. COL. D. B. L.-iiW,.
Dr. David Berkley Lang was born January 31, 1831, near
Bridgeport, Harrison County. Va. He spent his youtli on his
lather's farm and attended the country schools.
He was married August 24, 1851, to Elizabeth Powell, of
Taylor County, to whom eight children were born — six sons
and two daughters. Two of the sons died in infancy, and the
other children all lived to rear families of their own. Dr.
Lang settled at Fairview, Taylor County, Va., where he en-
gaged in the mercantile business for a few years ; but sub-
sequently built a flouring mill near by, which he operated
until the spring of 1859, when he exchanged his mill property
for a farm in Barbour County, three miles from Belington.
In 1861 he was living upon his farm and enjoying a lucra-
tive practice of medicine. In May he voted against the or-
dinance of secession; and, while opposed to slavery as an
institution, he was a warm Southern sympathizer, and when
Virginia seceded he cast his fortune with the South, helicv
uig in allegiance to his State.
Gen. R. S. Garnett had, early in the sunnner of 1801, forli-
lied a position one mile and a half east of Belington, on the
road that leads from Philippi to Beverly, with a force of
forty-five hundred men. Dr. Lang often visited this camp,
and became acquainted with Gen. Garnett and his officers.
On Sunday morning, July 8, he had gone to the camp, and
Gen. McClellan had ordered Gen. Thomas A. Morris to move
from Philippi with his forces to attack Gen. Garnett at his
position at the foot of Laurel Hill; but the object of this
move was to hold Garnett in check until McClellan could sur-
round and capture the Confederate forces on Rich Mountain.
As there was considerable skirmishing between the forces,
Dr. Lang took his first lessons in real war. He secured a
gun and exchanged several shots with the enemy. A sugar
tree on the farm of P. C. Booth that shielded him contained
marks of the enemy's balls that could be seen for years. He
concealed in a hollow chestnut stump an officer's saddle,
some blankets, and o'.'ier trinkets, that remained until some
months after, when he came home and brought them in. After
returning home, he soon mounted his horse and, taking hi.';
double-barreled shotgun, followed the retreating Confederate
forces, which he ovtrtook in the vicinity of Corrick's Ford,
in Tucker County, near where Gen. Garnett was killed. The
Confederate army first retreated toward Beverly, but. finding
their retreat cut off, went up Leading Creek and down
Pleasant Run to Cheat River, making their way South by the
"Red House," in Maryland, and through Hardy County, Va.
Qai. Wm. L. Jackson engaged Dr. Lang as a scout after he
went South, and while in this service he was in many close
places with the enemy. While making .<;oiiie observations of
ihe Federal fortifications on Cheat Mountain (1862), where
llicy had felled trees down the hill and sharpened the tops,
forming an abatis around the breastworks, he had passed be-
yond the picket line, where three men were stationed some
distance apart, and had been discovered by the one in the
center, who called, "What are you doing there?" and he re-
plied, "O, just looking at onr fortifications." The Yankee,
taking in the situation, or.lered him to come forward and
surrender. As he approached, with the breech of the gun
forward, when within a few feet of him he bounded forward,
striking the soldier squarely in the stomach with the butt of
his gun, which sent him sprawling down the hill, and in a
few moments he (the Doctor) was in the underbrush, out of
reach of the shots of tlie other two.
In November, 1861, while returning from a scouting expe-
dition through the mountains, he became lost in the dense
laurel and hemlock thickets between the forks of the Green-
brier River. He left his saddle at first so that he could the
better get through the brush, and, after cutting his way some
distance, had finally to abandon his horse. He would have
perished in the snow had not some Confederates found him
They believed him to be a Yankee spy, and took him to camp,
where he was identified by Maj. A. G. Reger.
Mr. Jacob Earner, of Pocahontas County, who knew of the
incident, found the saddle three years after the war closed,
while hunting. In a letter of December 4, 1862, from Camp
Washington, Augusta County, Va.. he said : "We are with
Gen. J. D. Imboden. and on the gth of last month captured
at St. George, Tucker County, a company with all their stores."
He spoke also of the hardships that he had endured in the
past eighteen months as a scout. In that letter he stated that
he had been urged by friends to accept a better position in a
regiment. Shortly after this he received the appointment from
the War Department as major of the Sixty-Second Virginia
i^egiment. Gen. Imboden's Command. He was with Gen. Im-
boden April jg, l8(')3. when he made his raid through Wesl
Virginia. At that time Beverly was held by nearly nine hun-
dred men, commanded by Col. George R. Latham, a personal
friend of Maj. Lang's, who, after some fighting, retreated
toward Philippi.
Gen. Imboden, in giving his report of the expedition, says:
"On the morning of the 25th my cavalry reported the road
toward Philippi impracticable for artillery or wagons on ac
count of the depth of the mud, in places coming up to the
-saddle skirts of the horses. I also ascertained that Gen.
Roberts, with a considerable force, was at Buchanan, and I
doubted the prudence of going directly to Philippi until this
I'nrce was dislodged from my flank. I sent oflf two companies
of cavalry under Maj. D. B. Lang to open communication
with Gen. Jones, who was then moving through Preston.
Monongalia, and Marion Counties."
Maj. Lang followed the retreating Federal forces with a
part of the companies under Capts. Taylor and Smoot, and
camped where Garnctt's men were stationed in 1861. He
spent the night at home with his wife and little children, a
mile and a half away. It was the last time he was there. In
his diary he states: "We made a dash on Philippi, causing the
enemy considerable fright." Col. Mulligan and some of his
officers were on the road east of town, and they came upon
them so suddenly that the Colonel, while gall&ping toward
town, lost his hat and hallooed, "Fire that cannon! fire that
cannon I" while he was still directly between the Confederates
and his guns. The Confederates fell back and camped on
the bank of the river, below Belington. The second day
they fell in with Imboden near Buchanan, and moved on to
Wcstcn, and from there south through Greenbrier County.
On the night of September 25, 1863, with a company of
several men Maj. Lang surprised and captured thirty Federals
at the "Burnet House," the crossing of Cheat River on the
Seneca Trail. The night before he went into their cam],
under disguise while they were asleep, and ascertained their
number and position. Lieut. H. II. Stalnaker, who was with
his command, says : "After he returned to his company on
the mountain, he at first decided not to take them, as their
horses were jaded, although the object of the expedition was
to get horses to supply his command. After waiting all day
on the mountain side, they went down the next night and
captured all except one man, who made his escape."
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Qopfederate l/eterar?.
Maj. l-ang lielpod to defend Lyiiclilnirg when Hunter made
his raid into Virginia. He was with Inilioden at New Creek,
whose forces destroyed several miles of the B. and' O. Rail-
road. He was with Lee's army in the battle of Gettysburg.
His forces guarded Lee's w-agon trains from Gettysburg to
Williamsport, and engaged in that battle. He participated in
nearly all of the engagements that were fought in the Valley
of Virginia that season. In the fight with Gen. Seigle at New-
Market he lost nearly half of his regiment. He was promoted
lo lieutenant colonel in the latter part of 1863. His regiment
was part of the time with Gen. Breckinridge's command. In
a letter written to his wife July 13, 1864, from Blair's house,
near Washington, he stated that he had been under the
enemy's fire every day since May 7, had marched over six
hundred miles, and had escaped with notliing more than a
few holes through his clothing until the day before. He had
been given the post of honor by being put in front, and drove
the enemy five miles to their fort. In the fight his spur was
struck by a ball, which slightly disabled him. The spur saved
his foot, however.
It was his delight to command the skirmish line. On Sep-
tember 5, 1864, w-hile in command of his line near Bunker
Hill, eight or nine miles below Winchester, he fell mortally
wounded. Lieut. H. H. Stalnaker says : "The balls were
(lying fast, and one of his comrades said, 'Colonel, you had
iietter shelter behind that stone fence, or you might get hit;'
but he replied, 'It is me they are shooting at.' In a moment
or so I saw him place his hand to his side and fall, and as
some of his inen went to carry him from the field he said :
'You had better leave me and take care of yourselves.' He
was carried to a house near by, and afterwards to Winchester,
where he died the ne.xt day. He left this message for his men'.
'Tell the boys that, if possible, I would like to see them, but
for them to do their duty on all occasions.' He then ex-
pressed a desire to see his wife and little children, and the
sentiment that if the Confederacy succeeded he would ask
no greater compensation from the Confederate government
for his services than the education of his children."
Col. Lang is buried in the "Stonewall" Cemetery at Win-
chester. Upon entering from the south gate, his grave is the
second on the right of the sleeping Virginians, marked by a
plain marble slab like that on all the Virginians' graves :
"Lieut. Col. David B. Lang, died September 6, 1864."
He believed in the virtue and triumph of the Confederate
cause, and said in one of his letters to his wife: "If this un-
holy war should last until my youngest son is eighteen years
old, I wish you would inspire such patriotism in each of
them that they would shoulder tlieir muskets in defense of
their country." In another he said : "I shall see Virginia free
(IV be buried beneath her sod."
Col. Lang was sued on a security debt a year or so before
the war, and, having some creditors of his own who desired
to be secured, he gave a deed of trust on his property, and
liis wife signed her interest in it. It was not sold until after
tlie close of the war, when it took everything to pay off his
debts and left his wife and children without anything but
courage; yet there never was a murmur or regret by herself
or her children that she had secured his creditors. His widow
died near Kerns, Randolph County, W. Va., at the home of
her son, David B., November 19, 1898, aged seventy years.
Sometime before Col. Lang's death, Col. Rankins, of Mar-
tinsburg, W. Va., made a portrait of him on a pine board
13x16 inches. It was left with his cousin, Mrs. Martha P.
(Lang) McClung, near Bath Alum, Va., and after the close
of the war Miss Mclvina Corley (now Mrs. Judson C. God-
din, of near Elkins, W. Va ) carried it through the Alleghany
.mil Clii at Mc'unt.iins, fastened to the horn of her sidesaddle.
to her home, near Belington, Barbour County, W. Va., nearly
one hundred miles. The accompanying engraving was made
from a photograph of that board.
The foregoing sketch comes from Winfield S. Lang, eldest
son of Col. D. B. Lang. His home is at Meadowville, W. Va.
Inquiry for Prison Comrades at Knoxville. — R. F. Sims,
of Gorman, Tex., writes : "I should like to hear from any
comrades who were prisoners at Knoxville, Tenn., during the
months of August and September, 1864. During that time a
tunnel was dug there which was a great mystery to the Yan-
kees. It was over twenty-five feet long, and had been dug witli
case knives. Very few of the prisoners knew anything about
it ; and if the Yankees had discovered the diggers, some one
would have worn a ball and chain. I should also like to hear
from Capt. Hughall, of Hugliall's Battery, who lived in Knox-
ville. He was captured inside tlie Yankee lines, and held as
a spy for a long while. After I left there I heard that he
was started off to regular prison, but made his escape.
After Gen. Morgan's death, at Greeneville, those of his men
who were captured were brought to prison at Kno.xville.
I shall never forget how we gathered upstairs at the north
window and sang our Southern songs. We always knew
when Southern ladies were passing, for they gave us some
sign. About the ist of October an exchange was made, and
some of the prisoners were sent to Atlanta. Among others.
1 was sent to Camp Douglas, and exchanged at Richmond
about the 21st of March. I thought I was having a hanl
time, but it did not compare with prison life. When captured
I belonged to the Twenty-Seventh Virginia Battalion, after-
wards reorganized as the Twenty-Fifth Regiment."
Qoi^federate l/eterai).
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THL FALL UP I'ORT FISHER.
liY MRS. T. C. DAVIS, MOREHEAD CITY, N. C.
This is the 15th of January and the fortieth anniversary
of the fall of Fort Fisher. Every year since then this day
has brought back vividly to my mind that heroic struggle
It was the last fort in the Confederacy through which we
could communicate, even by blockade runners, with the out-
side world ; and, although then in her death throes, the
Confederate government made a desperate effort to hold it.
It was a useless sacrifice of life, but what loyal man or wom-
an counted the cost of life in those days, so long as the flag
of the Confederacy was unfurled?
I lived directly on the coast, and could see the powerful
Nortli Atlantic squadron, under Admiral Porter, assembling
for the attack. The bombardment by the fleet began Friday
morning, the 13th, and continued day and night until Sun-
day evening, the 15th. In his official report. Admiral Porter
says he threw fifty thousand shells in and around the fort
within that time. It is estimated that for several hours Sun-
day, preceding the attack by the army under Gen. Terry,
three hundred shells per minute were thrown into the
fort. It was the most powerful armament of war vessels
over .isscmbled up to that time, and perhaps the most dread-
ful bombardment.
I, with several other ladies, went out to a point on the
west side of Cape Fear River, witere we could see the entire
licld of action. My husband was a member of the garrison
in the fort, and none but a wife could experience the awful
agony of my suspense as I stood that Sunday evening and
watched the fearful shower of shell fall upon the doomed
but devoted little garrison. At times my imagination would
tell me that my anxious eyes were resting upon him in the
little group of heroic defenders that we could ."iee distinctly;
the next instant a monster shell would explode in their midst,
enveloping everything in smoke and dust. At such moments
I would feel as if my heart would burst ; but when the wind
would lift the shroud of battle and I could see our flag still
there, and the thin, gray line still in action, I would feel that
exultant joy that I imagine the old veterans felt when they
rushed forward with the Rebel yell.
About three o'clock (he bombardment suddenly ceased, but
it was only a lull in the storm. The ships had dismounted
or rendered useless by their terrific fire all of our guns on
the sides of the fort most exposed to them ; and now the
land forces, under Gen. Terry, assisted by the marines from
the fleet, making a total force of nearly fifteen thousand,
were preparing to assault the fort, and we could see our men
— O how few they looked compared to the vast army of
Federals ! — within the fortification awaiting the attack.
We could count our heart beats as, with silent prayers and
eyes too dry for tears, we watched the storm gather in great
masses of dark columns of men moving on the helpless, but
still defiant. Confederates. Praying that my husband was yet
alive, seeing the overwhelming odds against him, and reali-
zing that victory was utterly hopeless, can I be blamed that
courage failed me and that a white flag over the wrecked
fort would have been grateful to my sight? But before I
could give expression to the feeling a red sheet of fire
streamed along the front lines of the advancing hosts, and
the death struggle had begun.
I could not, if I would, describe the fearful scenes that
followed, for even at this late day it makes my heart sick to
think of it ; of how foot by fool our men were forced back
from one traverse to another, often fighting with clubbed
muskets, and marking every foot of the way with the dead
bodies of their foes. When the smoke would lift, we could
see distinctly the lines engaged often in hand-to-hand fight-
ing; but O! we could see so distinctly that the thin, gray
line was growing thinner and the dark, heavy masses were
growing heavier. The gallant Gen. Whiting had fallen,
desperately wounded, in the midst of his men; but the battle
continued to rage until night shut out the dreadful sight
Even then as we left our place of observation we could hear
the roar and see the flash of guns.
The fighting continued until about ten o'clock that night,
when the fort surrendered. I could learn nothing of the fate
of my husband, whether living or dead, and it was a month
afterwards that I received a letter from him, saying he was
a prisoner at Tilmira, N. Y. He was released after the close
of the war, and returned home on the ist of June, 1865; but
the 15th of January always brings back to me a remembrance
of that, to me, awful Sunday evening forty years ago.
THE OLD JOHNNY'S LETTER.
BY T. C. HARBAUGH.
'Tis creased and 'tis faded, the old Johnny's letter ;
He battled four years 'neath the banners of Lee,
And here is the one little postscript he added :
"O Mary, my darling, kiss Jimnne for me. "
lie penned it one night in the heart of the wildwood
When over him glittered the watch-keeping stars,
.And close to the fires where his comrades lay sleeping
Half furled on its staflF was the banner of bars.
Me thought of his home and the loved ones so precious.
He dreamed of his wife and the boy far away;
Their smiles and their faces, their kisses, embraces
Came often, I know, to the soldier in gray.
And, thinking of them in the camp in the cedars
So close to the river that flowed to the sea.
He penned the sweet postscript that showed his affection:
"O Mary, my darling, kiss Jimmie for me."
To-morrow the battle, to-morrow the carnage,
To-morrow the charge and the roar of the guns.
The stand on the hill and the fight in the valley.
The fall of the Southland's magnificent sons;
Vet there in the bivouac, where thousands are dreaming
Who'll fall at the dawn by the shot-riven tree,
He adds last a fond line to perhaps his last letter:
"O Mary, my darling, kiss Jimmie for me."
The battle is over, and roses arc blooming
\\ here growled the mad guns on the thrice-taken hill,
.'\nd deep in the valley the robin is singing.
And fishes leap up in the once crimsoned rill.
He sleeps where the stars their sweet vigils are keeping.
And the river sings low to the ultimate sea;
But his love lingers still in the postscript he added :
'O Mary, my darling, kiss Jimmie for me."
There hangs on a wall now a half- faded picture.
And 'neath it an old, tattered jacket of gray,
And near them a canteen, a belt, and a musket
That silently tell of the terrible fray ;
.'\nd pressed in a book is the old Johnny's letter.
Too precious almost for a stranger to see,
.\nd there is the one little postscript he added :
"O Mary, my darling, kiss Jimmie for me."
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Confederate Ueterap.
RECORD OF NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS, 1861-65.
The committee appointed by the Literary and- Historical
Society of North Carohna to investigate and report upon the
accuracy as to the number of troops furnished by that State
to the Confederacy and upon the merits of their claims as
being "first at Bethel, farthest to the front at Gettysburg
and Chickamauga, last at Appomattox" have made their re-
port, and it has been published by the Historical Society, mak-
ing an interesting pamphlet of some eighty pages.
Maps of all the battlefields in question are shown in the
report, and the positions occupied by tlie North Carolina
troops at the high tide of battle on the different fields are
marked by participants and eyewitnesses, to whom was as-
signed the duty of compiling the facts and writing the re-
ports on the battles mentioned.
"First at Bethel" was assigned to Maj. E. J. Hale, who
was a member of Company H, Fayetteville Light Infantry,
of the First North Carolina Volunteers, afterwards known
as the Bethel Regiment.
"Farthest to the front at Gettysburg" is maintained by Judge
W. A. Montgomery and Capt. W. R. Bond, both veterans
of that field.
"Farthest to the front at Chickamauga" is reported by Judge
A. C. Avery, after going over the field carefully and, with the
assistance of the Park Commissioners, marking the places of
the various positions occupied by the North Carolina troops,
which confirms his own personal recollections of the battle.
"Last at Appomattox" is presented by Senator Henry A.
London, in which he claims that the hungry, ragged, mud-
slained, but loyal old "Tar Heels" fired the last volley at
Appomattox.
The number of troops furnished by the State, and of killed,
wounded, and died from disease, is carefully compiled by
Capt. S. A. Ashe.
In submitting the reports of these gentlemen to the society,
the committee says :
"Maj. Hale, who was at Bethel and, indeed, served con-
tinually throughout the war and saw its close at Appomattox,
tells the story of this first battle of the war. North Carolina
can well claim to have been 'first at Bethel,' for this first vic-
tory for our arms was won by her sons. More than two-thirds
of the soldiers present, or over eight hundred of the twelve
hundred, were North Carolinians ; without them the battle
would not have been fought, and without them it could not
have been won. North Carolina can justly claim credit for
her promptness and for having her troops placed nearest to
the enemy on Virginia's soil, so as to receive the first blow
aimed at her sister State and return it with such telling force
as to repulse the first advance of her enemy. The first sol-
dier killed in battle was Henry L. Wyatt, of Company A,
First North Carolina Volunteers, at Bethel, June 10, 1861.
'F.^RTHEST TO THE FrONT AT GETTYSBURG.'
"That the soldiers of this State went somewhat farther at
Gettysburg than any others in the third day's battle is so
clearly shown by Judge Montgomery and Capt. W. R. Bond,
in the articles submitted by them, that it is not necessary to
recapitulate. The controverted point is only as to the charge
on the third day, else we could have referred to the undis-
puted fact that on the evening of the second day Hoke's
Brigade, commanded by Col. Isaac E. Avery (who lost his
life in the assault), together with Louisianians from Hays's
Brigade, climbed Cemetery Heights, being farther than any
other troops penetrated during the three days. The follow-
ing inscriptions placed by the Federal Park Commissioners
upon tablets state that the services of Hoke's Brigade on the
second day and Pettigrew's on the third amply vindicate the
justice of our claim.
Hoke's Brigade.
" 'July 2. Skirmished all day, and at 8 p.m., with Hays's
Brigade, charged East Cemetery Hill. Severely enfiladed on
the left by artillery and musketry, it pushed over the infantry
line in their front, scaled the hill, planted its colors on the
lunettes, and captured several guns. But assailed by fresh
forces, and having no supports, it was soon compelled to re-
linquish what it had gained and withdraw. Its commander.
Col. Isaac E. Avery, was mortally wounded leading the
charge.'
Pettigrew's Bri^^ade.
" 'In Longstreet's assault this brigade occupied, on July 3,
the right center of the division, and the course of the charge
brought it in front of the high stone wall north of the angle
and eighty yards farther east. It advanced very nearly to
that wall. A few reached it, but were captured. The skele-
ton regiments retired, led by lieutenants, and the brigade by
a major, the only field ofiicer left.'
"Judge Montgomery and Capt. W". R. Bond were both
present at Gettysburg, and the former has recently revisited
the battlefield. Their array of proof as to the North Carolina
troops is further sustained by the map of the battlefield,
made by the Federal Commissioners after years of study of
tlie ground and hearing the evidence of participants from
both armies and all parts of the country. A copy of that
map is published with their articles. Two other maps herein
throw further light upon that historic field.
"Without trenching on the ground covered by Judge Mont-
gomery and Capt. Bond, and merely as testimony of what
troops went where the red rain of battle fell heaviest, it may
be well to recall the following facts from the official reports:
At Gettysburg 2,592 Confederates were killed and 12,707
wounded. Of the killed, 770 were from North Carolina, 435
were Georgians, 399 Virginians, 258 Mississippians, 217 South
Carolinians, and 204 Alabamians. The three brigades that lost
most men were Pettigrew's North Carolina (190 killed) ;
Davis's Mississippi (180 killed), which had in it one North
Carolina regiment; and Daniel's North Carolina (165 killed).
Pickett's entire division had 214 killed. No brigade in Pick-
ett's Division lost as many killed and wounded as the Twenty-
Sixth North Carolina Regiment, whose loss was 86 killed and
502 wounded, the heaviest loss of any regiment, on either
side, in any battle during the war. In the first day's fight
there were 16 Confederate brigades, of which 7 were from
North Carolina. In Longstreet's assault, which has been
miscalled by some 'Pickett's charge,' there were 19 Virginia
and 15 North Carolina regiments, besides troops from other
States.
'Farthest to the Front at Chickamauga.'
"Judge A. C. Avery, who was a participant in the battle of
Chickamauga, has lately revisited that battlefield with a view
of writing his graphic article, which will have a peculiar
interest because the deeds of North Carolina soldiers in the
Army of the West are less widely known than the dauntless
courage of the North Carolina veterans in the Army of
Northern Virginia, in which the greater part of these troops
served. Judge Avery clearly shows that the Thirty-Ninth,
Fifty-Eighth, and Sixtieth North Carolina on the first day
and the others on the second day achieved the farthest ad-
vance attained by our forces. This evidence is also sustained
by the locations marked on the map by the Federal Park
Commissioners as having been attained by the different com-
Confederate l/eterap.
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mands. Judge Avery states that, while these locations are
marked by tablets not only by the Northern States, but by
South Carolina. Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri, and
other Southern States, the advanced point reached by the
North Carolinians is marked only hy a wooden board nailed
to a telegraph pole."
Moved by this pathetic statement, a committee was appointed
to present the matter to the General .^ssembly of North Caro-
lina, asking that an appropriation be made sufficient to place
durable tablets on the battlefields of Gettysburg. Sharpsburg.
" and Chickamauga. under the direction of the Federal Park
Commissioners, to preserve the location of the North Carolina
troops at the critical moment? on those historic battlefields ;
also tn mark the spot where Wyatt fell on the first battle-
field in \^irginia and where the last volley was fired at Ap-
pomattox.
"The last at Appomattox" is presented and maintained by
State Senator Henry A. London, who carried the last ordei
at Appomattox and tells tersely and clearly what he saw
and heard, which is fully sustained by the statements which
he quotes of Maj. Gen. Bryan Grimes and Brig. Gen. Cox.
wdio were in command of the troops who fired the last vol-
ley. Two other members of the conmiittec, Maj. Hale and
Judge Montgomery, also were at Appomattox. The positions
held by the troops under Gen. Grimes, who were in the front
of the army, and by whom, necessarily, the last volley was
fired (the other part of the army, under Longstreet, which
faced Grant in our rear, were not engaged), are shown on the
map accompanying Senator London's article on Appomattox.
The ground was visited October I, 1904. by a special com-
mittee, consisting of Senator London, Judge Montgomery,
Capt. Jenkins, and Mayor Powell, veterans of that field. The
localities were identified and measurements taken, from which
the excellent map of .Appomattox, accompanying the com-
mittee's report, is made.
Number of Troops and Losses.
"Capt. S. A. Ashe sustains, from a careful examination and
collection of the records, that North Carolina furnished by
much the largest number of troops of any State to the Con-
federacy. Lieut. Gen. Stephen D. Lee (Commander in Chief
of the United Confederate Veterans), in a very recent ad-
dress at Asheville. stated that 'North Carolina furnished
22,942 more troops than any other State.' If this were not
so, it redounds even more to the fame of the State ; for North
Carolina lost, according to the official returns (as compiled in
Col. Fox's 'Regimental Losses"), over 41,000 killed and
wounded and died of disease, according to "U. S. Official Rec-
ords,' while the 'Confederate Handbook' gives: Virginia, 5.-
,^28 'killed, 2,519 died of wounds, 6.947 died of disease; total,
14.794. North Carolina, 14.452 killed, 5.T51 died of wounds,
20,602 died of disease; total, 40,305, a number considerably in
excess of that sustained by any other Southern State.
"Owing to her innate modesty. North Carolina, notwith-
standing she furnished nearly one-fifth of the troops of the
Confederacy, fell far short of one-fifth of the 608 generals ap-
pointed during those four memorable years. Instead of 120,
our proportion, according to troops furnished, we had 2 lieu-
tenant generals, 7 major generals, and 26 brigadiers, a total
of 35 generals, of whom nine were killed in battle and several
others were invalided by reason of wounds. Yet we were not
lacking in material. Upon the death of Maj. Gen. Pender,
a superb soldier, Gen. Lee publicly deplored that 'Gen.
Pender had never received hi? proper rank,' and in the opin-
ion of the whole army the hero of Plymouth, that splendid
soldier, Robert F. Hoke, who was a major general at twenty-
six, merited the command of an army corps; and there were
many others who deserved the rank of major general and
brigadier general, which was given to men. certainly not
their superiors, from States with a smaller proportion of
troops to general officers.
"But it is not to her generals and lesser officers, capable and
faithful as they were, that North Carolina should turn with
her greatest pride. With tacit recognition of this truth, the
.State has appropriately crowned the monument raised to her
gallant dead with the statue of a private soldier, with belled
cartridge box and his faithful musket in hand, on guard,
■^canning the horii^on, as in life, with ceaseless watching for
the foe. Gen. A. P. Hill, of Virginia, when asked what
troops he preferred to command, replied: 'Unriuestionahly
>Jorth Carolinian.s — not that they are braver where all arc
brave, but, brave as the bravest, they are the most obedient to
command.' It was this marked trait which gave the troops
from this State their preeminence. It was the same quality
which gave to the Roman soldier his fame and made Rome
the empire city of the world. History shows no soldier since
who more nearly resembles the legionaries of Ca?sar than the
North Carolina Confederate private. He displayed, together
with the same intrepidity, the same uncomplaining endurance
of hardship and hunger, the same unquestioning obedience to
orders ; and wherever the bravest officer dared to lead, there
the private soldier from the plains, the valleys, and the monn
tains of North Carolina swept on in his long, unbroken lines
They but did as they were told to do, and blushed to find
it fame. Thus it was that at Gettysburg and at Chicka-
mauga. on the utmost verge of the storm-swept sea of battle,
ihc bodies of North Carolina's slain marked where highest
up the bloody wave had reached and grappled with the hos-
tile shore. Thus it was that, at Bethel, Wyatt fell in the
moment of our first victory in advance of our line, and thus
it was at Appomattox the North Carolina line, sullenly re-
tiring, fired the last volley over the grave of the Confederacy.
"We believe our statement supported by indubitable evi-
dence, chiefest the testimony of the faithful who traversed
these bloody fields and marked with their corpses the sad
story of the death and sacrifice of our hopes. We did not
make these claims boastingly. The subject is far too near our
hearts for vainglory, and we disdain to extol our soldiers
as excelling in valor the soldiers of Virginia or surpassing
them in the grandeur of their sacrifice. But upon these fields
where we have staked out our claims in the 'death gulch' the
lottery of battle favored our soldiers, and they writ the story
God has in his keeping.
"As above stated, we assert no supremacy in valor for North
Carolina troops. It was their fortune to be to the front at the
first victory and at the closing scene, and to ride on the crest
at the critical moment of the two great critical battles East
and West. On these occasions, as on all others, they knew
how to do their duty. With them, as with the sons of this
State in every great struggle, the motive has been duty, not
display, or as this characteristic of our people has been tersely
summed up in the motto of our State, 'Esse quam virlrri'
(to be rather than to seem)."
W. H. H. Taylor, of Stillwater. Minn., formerly captain
of the Eighteenth I'nited States Infantry, writes: "There
died at Keokuk, Iowa, on the 6th of January an honored sol-
dier of the Confederate army, Dr. R. Kidder Taylor, who
was medical purveyor in the Army of Northern Virginia —
a gentleman of the old Southern school."
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?;->v^;^l'^Si
C. B. Florence, Adjutant of Camp Evans, Boone ville. Ark.,
reports the death of the following members within the year :
Steve Bangs, born March 6, 1832; served through the war
in Company I. Second Arkansas ; died August 26, 1904.
J. W. Godfrey, born in 1828; served in Company G, Thirty-
Fourth Alabama ; died November 27, 1904.
Rev. F. M. Moore, a member of Company I, Twenty-Second
Arkansas Cavalry, died December 22, 1904 He was a pioneer
Methodist.
Charles Henry Baii.ev.
Rev. James H. McNeilly, the chaplain, writes of him :
"Among the great host of Confederate veterans who have
answered the 'Last Roll Call,' there was no braver soldier,
no more genial comrade, no more knightly spirit, no truer
man than Charles Bailey.
"When the war began he was a boy attending Stewart Col-
lege, in Clarksville, his native town. With a boy's enthusi-
asm he was eager to join the army. Being but sixteen
years— born June 11, 1845— he was too young for a soldier.
After the fall of Fort Donelson, however, although within
the Federal lines, he made his way South in August, 1862,
and joined the Forty-
Ninth Tennessee Reg-
iment of Infantry,
just exchanged. The
regiment was com-
manded by his uncle.
Col. James E. Bailey.
He joined Company
A, made up of Clarks-
ville boys, and was
afterwards made ser-
geant of the com-
pany.
"He was with the
command in all of
its engagements, and
never shirked a duty.
He was noted for his
unfailing good humor
and for his bright,
cheerful disposition.
I was with h i m
through it all, on the
march, in the camp,
on the battlefield. He
was always ready to
respond to the call
for service. H it was
to fight, he was in his
place; if it was to
march, be was in line.
He was ready to help
CHAKLES H. BAILEY.
others. Sometimes it was to carry the musket of a fellow-
soldier who was 'most played out ;' sometimes it was to share
bis rations with a hungry comrade ; sometimes it was by joke
or merry quip to cheer some desponding companion.
"Comrade Bailey served to the end, and never thought of
.sjiving up until the terrible drama closed. Then he came
home to be as good a citizen as he had been a soldier. After
the war he was in business in Clarksville, sometimes with
partners, then on his own account ; always honorable and
upright in his dealings.
"Comrade Bailey was honored by his fellow-citizens with
offices of trust. He was deputy circuit court clerk, and after-
wards held the same position for the county court. In 1894
he served a term in the Legislature of Tennessee, representing
Montgomery County. He was elected recorder of Clarksville
in 1884, and filled the office for nearly twenty years, until
his death, December 3, 1903. ^'Ir. Bailey was twice married.
His first wife. Miss McKorn, lived less than a year. He was
married again, in 1880, to Miss Virginia S. MacRae, who sur-
vives him with her three sons and one daughter, as does also
his aged mother. He was for many years a member of the
Presbyterian Church, in which communion his ancestors had
lived for generations.
"Every comrade of his regretted his death, and will cherish
his memory."
Bradley Tyler Stokes.
Camp James Mcintosh, of Lonoke, Ark., reports the death
of a beloved comrade, Bradley T. Stokes, on January 8. He
was born in Frederick County, Md., in February, 1843, and
at the outbreak of the war was studying surveying. In his
eighteenth year he enlisted as a private in Company G, of
Ashby's Virginia Cavalry. After the death of this gallant
commander he was first lieutenant and aid-de-camp on the
staff of Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, where he served till the
close of the war. He served from the beginning in the Army
of Northern Virginia, went through the Valley Campaign,
battles around Richmond, invasion into Maryland, and many
other engagements. In December of 1864 he went with Gen.
Johnson, who was placed in charge at Salisbury, N. C, and it
was after the surrender at Appomattox that he was in the
engagement where Johnson's men repulsed Stoneman's troops.
He received his parole at Salisbury on the 5th of May.
After the war Comrade Stokes resumed his profession of
civil engineering, surveying several railroads as well as much
other work. In 1869-70 he was chosen as one of the chief .
engineers in survey of the Darien Ship Canal across the
Isthmus of Panama, which was ordered by the United States
government. He was married in 1872 to Miss Grace Robert-
son, of Frederick, Md. ; in T875 ''^ removed to St. Louis,
Mo., and later to Lonoke, Ark. In 1878 he was elected sur-
veyor of Lonoke County, which office he held continuously
till his death. Two children survive him. He had diligently
served his Camp as adjutant since 1897, and his memory will
be fondly cherished among his comrades so long associated
with him.
Thomas H. Wilson.
Thomas H. Wilson died at his home, in Vernon, Tex., on
August 18, 1904, after a severe illness. He formerly lived in
Water Valley, Miss., having been reared there. Comrade
Wilson served the Confederacy as a member of Company G,
Eleventh Mississippi Regiment, and was left on the battle-
field of Gettysburg wounded.
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Capt. Joseph Ehwin Love.
In recording Ihe death of Capt. J. E. Love, wliicli nc
curred at Osboni, Miss., on January 2, 1904, it is difficult to
jnstly describe his nolile character. His bravery and daring,
purity of life, and other good qualities distinguished hiin in
war and peace, and he leaves behind him the impress of
duty well done. Born in Chester, S. C, in 1834, he went with
his father's family to Mississippi in 1842, and until his death
proudly claimed that State as his home. He was among the
first to answer the call for volunteers to defend a righteous
■ cause, enlisting in May of 1861 in Company L Fifteenth Mis-
sissippi Infantry, as a private. His arm was shattered by a
Minie ball at Fishing Creek, and he was discharged as dis-
abled ; but after remaining at home eight months he enlisted
in Ford's company, Perrin's Regiment, Ferguson's Brigade.
He was elected lieutenant soon after the company entered
service and promoted to captain, commanding the company
till the close of the war. He was in the engagements from
Dalton to Atlanta, and when Gen. Sherman started on his
march to tlie sea, his brigade was thrown against Sherman's
rear, and there was sharp fisjhting at close quarters. He was
in the Savannah engagements also, and was paroled at Wash-
ington, Ga.
Returning home, Capt. Love took up the duties of life in
(Ik- same faithful spirit, winning the esteem and confidence
of his fellow-citizens and meriting the regret that was re-
corded in the loss of such a good man. He was married, in
1865, to Miss Martha Robinson, who survives him.
In the resolutions adopted by Camp No. 1311, U. C. V., at
Oktibbeha, Miss., after suitable preamble, the committee, Dr.
J. G. Carroll and John B. Hudson, say: "Capt. Love was tried
in the fiery furnace of the great war and came forth as pure
gold. Since that time in the various walks of life his rec-
ord has been that of a faithful and diligent official, a kind
and indul.gent husband and fatlicr. and in this hour of their
bereavement we tender to his family our sincere condolence."
Nicholas M. Marks.
Nicholas M. Marks died at St. Joseph's Hospital, in Lex-
ington, Ky., November 20. 1904. He was taken ill while at-
tending the Confederate reunion at Pewee Valley ten days
before, and never rallied after his removal to the hospital.
I'or several years he had been connnander of the Fourth
Brigade of the Kentucky Division. V. C. V., but declined re-
election at that reunion.
Comrade Marks was born in Montgomery, Ala., October,
1844, the eldest son of Samuel B. and Louisa (Grain) Marks.
Both he and his father were soldiers of the Confederate army,
he serving under Gen. J. P.. Johnston. He was a student at
the I'niversity of Alabama wlien the war broke out and went
into the army with the L'niversity cadets, but afterwards be-
came first lieutenant of Company A, Seventh Alabama Cav-
alry, under Gen. Forrest. He was severely wounded by a
sharpshooter at the opening of the battle of Franklin, and
was a prisoner at Fort Delaware when Gen. Lee surrendered.
He went from .\labama to Woodford County. Ky,, in 1877,
and engaged in farming near Pisgah.
This brave soldier and Christian gentleman will be held in
tender and loving memory by his companions and friends.
A wife and seven children survive him. He had beeti a
Ma.son for many years, and was Past Eminent Commander of
Versailles Comniandery, No. 3, of Knights 'J'emplar; was
also a member of the Lexington I^dge of Elks and of Abe
Rnford Camp, \o Q7. I' (". V., at Ver.sailles. Ky
Joshua Nhwion Staffokh.
J. N. Stafford was a member of Company B, Twenty-Firsl
Regiment of Georgia Volunteers. Dole's, Trimble's, Cook's
Brigade, Ewell's Division, under Stonewall Jackson, and for
the cause of the South shed his blood on different battle-
fields, having been wounded four times. His service was as
a sharpshooter, and he was thus extraordinarily exposed in
his duties. His army life was noted for his attention to re-
ligious duties, as he kept up a prayer meeting all the time,
and his only absence from roll call was once when attending
divine services. His death occurred at Chattanooga. Okla .
January 3. 1005. in his'seventy-fifth year.
W. C. WiLKERSON.
Young County Camp of Graham. Tex., lost a valued mem
her in the death of W. C. Wilkerson. who passed away at
Mineral \A'ells on July 2. 1004. He was born in Neshoba
County. Miss, in 1843. His parents moved to Pope County,
.^rk., in i860, and he enlisted in the State troops of Arkansas
in 1861. Discharged after six months' service, he at once
volunteered in Company H. First Arkansas Mounted Rifles,
which did service in the armies of Mississippi and Tennessee.
He never missed a battle in which his company was engaged.
At the battle of Chickamauga on Saturday he was shot
through the arm, sent to the hospital, had the wound dressed,
returned to his command early on Simday morning, and was
through Ihe battle all that day. At this time he was in Mc-
Nair's Brigade, afterwards conmianded by D. H. Reynolds.
Walthall's Division. His faithfulness to duty showed his
strong convictions and love for our cause, and this same
faithfulness characterized his life in time of peace.
John H. Hooper.
John H. Hooper was born in Switzerland in 1843; and died
at Marshall, Tex., in June, 1904, aged sixty-one years. Of
this period, four years were spent as a private in Hood's Bri-
gade, battling for the cause he had espoused, for a country
which was his by adoption, and a people among whom he had
cast his lot and with whom he deemed it a privilege to live
and die. He was married in 1874, and. although no children
blessed this union, six adopted orphans of Confederate sol-
diers might have called him "father." With them and his
faithful wife he lived in unbroken sympathy and love until
separated by the hand of death.
For twenty-two years comrade Hooper was car inspector for
the Texas and Pacific Railway at Marshall. In all his duties
and relations of life no trust was ever violated and no devia-
tion was made from the line of duty and integrity, and in his
death that community lost a citizen of worth and his family a
loving and devoted husband and friend.
George H. Bailey.
Comrade George H. Bailey passed away peacefully at his
home, in Parkersburg, W. Va., on the morning of February
I. 1905, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. Comrade Bailey
volunteered in the beginning of the war in the Thirty-Sixth
Virginia Regiment, which was organized by Gen. Albert G.
Jenkins, and largely made up from men in the Ohio Valley.
At the battle of Searcy Mr. Bailey lost a leg. After the wai
he returned to his home, near Parkersburg, and engaged in
mercantile pursuits. He lived the life of an upright Chris-
tian gentleman, and was loved and honored by all his neigh-
bors. He was buried, bv Camp Jenkins, of which lie find
been a faillifnl member.
136
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J. B. Simpson.
James Bates Simpson died at his home, in Dallas, Tex., on
January 27 from injuries received by being thrown from a
buggy. Comrade Simpson was born at Fort Smith, Ark., in
1845. His parents removed to Texas while he was an infant.
He was educated at Nashville, Tenn. The outbreak of the
war found him at his mother's home, in Union County, Ark..
where he enlisted as a Confederate soldier. He served
through the war, being twice wounded in battle, and was
paroled at Marshall, Tex., in May, 1865. At the close of the
war he resided in Texas, settling first at Houston, where
he studied law and was licensed to practice. He lived
for a time at Galveston, and then settled at Liberty, where he
was district attorney for two years, and was then a member
of the State Senate for a term. He removed to Dallas in
1874, where he became prominent as a lawyer and a journalist.
At the time of his death he was assistant adjutant general
on the staff of Gen. Van Zandt, commanding the Texas Di-
vision, U. C. V.
W. G. W. KiNCAID.
William George Washington Kincaid died at his home,
near Buffalo Gap, Tex., in August of 1904. He was a native
of Alabama, but his parents moved to Arkansas when he
was three years old; and at his majority, in i85o, he went to
Texas. From this State he enlisted in the Confederate army
as a member of Company K, Tenth Texas Infantry, Gran-
bury's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Army of Tennessee.
Later on he was elected first lieutenant of the company. He
went through the war without receiving a wound, though at
Chickamauga he was knocked down by the explosion of a
shell, which injured liis hearing permanently. He was mar-
ried in 1867 to j\Iiss Annie E. Clark, who survives him with
their ten children.
A loyal son of the South, with the traits of character
which would endear him to all, Comrade Kincaid's passing
left a void in the hearts of many friends.
Gen. J. S. Griffith.
Gen. John Summerfield Griffith was born on the 17th of
June, 1829, in Montgomery County, Md. His father, Michael
Berry Griffith, was the son of Capt. Henry Griffith, who
served in the revolutionary army and a lineal descendant of
the historical Lewellen A. Griffith, of Wales.
Owing to a series of business reverses, Mr. Griffith moved
from Maryland to Missouri, and later to San Augustine, Tex.
Those were the young days of Texas history, and the hard-
ships and privations of pioneer life were endured to the full.
Gen. Griffith's education was necessarily received chiefly at
home under the tutorship of his mother. He was endowed
with a brilliant and comprehensive intellect, and was noted
for his qualities of mind and heart.
He was married at Nacogdoches, in December, 1851, to
Sarah Emily Simpson, daughter of John J. and Jane Simp-
son, and in 1859 moved to Kaufman County, Tex.
In 1861, when the War between the States was upon us, he
was among the first to answer the call of his country, and
organized a company of cavalry at Rockville, Tex., joined
Col. Warren B. Stone's Regiment, Sixth Texas Cavalry, and
was elected lieutenant colonel, which position he held with
honor and distinction. In paying tribute to him, a comrade
says: "Gen. Griffith was more than a dashing cavalryman;
his analytical mind penetrated beyond the immediate shock
of battle and took in the salient features of the campaign
as a whole. It was he who conceived that master stroke of
policy, and was the most efficient agent of its execution, the
Holly Springs raid. He saved the army of Pemberton in-
dubitably by the movement and delayed the fall of Vicks-
burg many months. On the field of Oakland he performed
for the same army duties of scarcely less vital moment."
GEN. J. S. GRIFFITH.
Owing to failing health, Gen. Griffith tendered his resigna-
tion and returned to Texas in June, 1863. Shortly afterwards
he was elected a member of the tenth Legislature, and served
as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. He was
appointed brigadier general of State troops on March I, 1864.
After the war, though broken in health, with indomitable
will, energy, and pluck he entered the race of life again, and
by energy and ability recuperated Iiis lost fortune.
In 1876 he was elected a member of the Fifteenth Legis-
lature, and aided in placing the new State Constitution in
operation. In 1874 Gen. Griflith removed with his family to
Terrell, Tex.
He died at his home, in Terrell, August 6. 1901, surrounded
by his family and friends. He died as he had lived, a brave
and a great man, with a courage and trust unexcelled.
S. C. Drake.
S. C. Drake died in Comanche County, Tex., November 24,
1903. He enlisted in the Confederate service at Cartersville,
Ga., in Company B, Phillips's Legion of Cavalry, commanded
by Capt. W^ W. Rich, who was afterwards colonel. He was
in Drayton's Brigade, and later with Gen. Wade Hampton.
He participated in all the main battles of the Virginia Army,
did considerable scouting, and was in the famous cavalry
fight at Brandy Station.
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In sending renewal for three years in
advance, a subscriber in New Jersey
writes : "I bope to be able to take tbe
Veteran as long as I live, but feel that,
with failing health and increasing years,
I may have to give up active work ; and,
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David E. Johnston, who was sergeant
major of the Seventh Virginia Regi-
ment, writes from Bluefield, W. Va. :
"In the December Veteran an Alabama
comrade, writing about the battle of
Drewry's Bluff, on May 16, 1864.
says he does not know who captured
Gen. Heckman or to whom he sur-
rendered his sword. Please tell him
that Sergt. Blakcy, Company F, Seventh
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J. M, Spencer, of Berkeley, Cal., would
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Fort Warren at the close of the war
— Comrade Schooling, of Morgan's Com-
mand, with whom, when nearly starved,
he shared the last biscuit that a kind
sentinel had slipped in at night; also
from Comrade Tillinghurst, if alive, or
any of his family in Arkansas. He gave
up his place to Comrade Spencer when
too ill to go on special exchange of five
hundred convalescent men in December.
1863, at Point Lookout, by which Spen-
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trap. Tillinghurst served in the Arkan-
sas cavalry, and was captured at Cham-
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J. B. Steen, an inmate of the Confed-
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comrades. He writes that he was born
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mustered into the Confederate service
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pany, of Col. J. L. Orr's Regiment,
known as the First South Carolina
Rifles. They were sent to Sullivan's
Island and afterwards to Virginia, and
assigned to Gregg's Brigade, Wilcox's
Division. After serving through the
seven days' fight around Richmond, he
was wounded and captured on the 12th
of May at Spottsylvania, sent to Fort
Delaware, and confined there until June
10, 1865. He removed to Texas after
the war. and thence to Arkansas.
James M. Fry, of Will's Point, Tex.:
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noon, and stayed there till the arrival
of Vaughan's Briga^le, when it moved
west on the Bull's Cap road with this
command under Bradford. The brigade
went into camp at Park's Gap, while the
scout advanced about a mile and stopped
for dinner. It is very important that I
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TWO WARS;
An Autobiography of Samuel G. French,
Graduated West Point in Id4J, Lieutenant of Light Ar^
tillery in the United States Army, in the
Mexican War, and Major Gcr.eral la
the Confederate Army,
From diaries and notes, careful-
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Confederate Veteran,
Nashville, Tenn.
This book is more lh;m .a rliarniing
liiography of a distinguished man; it
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jMexicaii war, the war between the
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the .South by one who wac born, reared and educated at the North, but
whose convictions and sentiments early led hini to cast his fortunes with
the Confederacy, and is, therefore, of especial historical value and interest
to the peo]ile of the South. The book has been highly praised by many
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OB [iAYLOR'S illAGAZINE
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Edited by Ex-Govemor BOB TAYLOR.
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—in a word, it's life. In a wide and a general sense its mission is to promote a broader patriotism and
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making your plans for the Sumniur; mailed FREE upon application to
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GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT. NASHVILLE TENNESSEE
DON'T USE A BROOM!
You Cannot Sweep Back
the tide with a broom, try you ever so hard. It is not natural, it cannot be done by artifloial means.
Nature can cause it to flow back, can put dry land where before was water, and does it every time it
rolls forward, but in her oHn nity and her own time. It is the same with your disease, the disorder
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ve.ns of man.' drugs which are like straws in a heavy wind, and have no more force or power to check
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body which before was flooded with disease, saturated with decay,
racked with pain, liut she does it in her own way, uses her own
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It is wasting time, precious time, to seek to sweep back the
rushing tide with a broom made of sweet- tasting, sweet-smelling
pills, lotions, tablets, and compounds made to sell, and to sell only.
It is t-nnibiitiiig nature, not helping li r. and nature is too strong to
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NATURE HAS PROVIDED A CURE
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the subtle elements of iron, sulphur, and magnesium, elements
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own which man's inventive and creative genius has been unable
to duplicate or counterfeit. She placed it in the ground ready for
his hand, for what purpose if not to relieve and cure the ills of
mankind? You can testit, can juda:e for yourself, and it will not
cost you a cent to do it. It is different from all others and can be
offered in a different way, away that "sellers of medicines" dare not duplicate. If you are sick and tired of quacks, sick of dosing yourself day after
day with each sunrise finding no change in your condition, if you are sick of being imposed upon, try this natural curing ore. IT WILL >0T FAIL YOU.
READ OUR SPECIAL OFFER
^•wyr-^ TXTTT T f*^"r^1VTT~\ T*/^ ATT READERS of the Confederate Veteran a full-sized One Dollar pack-
\A/ M \A/ II I ^^ n* INI 11 III n 1 I ageofVit»-Ore by mail, (lostpntd. sufficient for one month's treatment,
» » J—* * » XJ-rfJ—/ Wi^J-^X^ J— ^ X V_^ XXJ-^X^ ^ ^^ paid for within one month's time after receipt, if the receiver
can truthfully say that its use has done faim or her more good than all the drugs and doses of quacks or good doctors or patent medicines he or she has
ever used. Read'this over again carefully, and ujiderstand that we ask our pay only when it has done you good, and not before. If not, no money is
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We give you thirty days' time to try the medicine, thirty days to see results before you pay lis one
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cases, and are not sorry.
Vitse-Ore is a natural, hard, adamantine, rocklike substance— mineral— Ore- mined from the ground
like gold and silver, in the neighborhood of a once powerful but now extinct mineral spring. It re-
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of medicinal value. It contains free iron, free suliihur, and free magnesium, three properties which
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no one, answering this, writing for a package, will deny after using. Vita-t^re has cured more chron-
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with a more rapid and powerful curative action than any medicine, combination of medicines, or
doctor's prescriptions which it is possible to procure. If yours is such a case, do not doubt, do not
fear, do not hesitate, but send for it.
Vitie-Ore will do thesamefor you as it has done for hur-'lreds of readers of the Confederate Vet-
eran, if you will give it a trial. Send for a $1 package ?i^""'" I'isk. You have nothing to lose but
the stamp to answer this announcement. Vie want noo? *^rs ^ »vhoni Vitii'-<tre ninnot ben.-flt. You
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aft
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NASHVILLE, TENN., APRIL, 1905.
No. 4. ]
S. A. CUNNINGHAM,
Proprietor.
LOUIS]- ILl.E REUNION ARRANGEMENTS.
That which is designated as the reunion issue of the Vet-
KRAN for Ipos will be the May number. The Louisville Com-
mittee will occupy large extra space.
Splendid as were the successful steps taken by the city of
Louisville and State of Kentucky in arranging the royal re-
ception given to the Southern soldier at the United Confed-
erate Veterans' reunion in IQOO, the preparations for their
meeting here June 14-16, 1905, will surpass all previous rec-
ords. Nearly all the members of the 1900 Reunion Commit-
tee are on duty for 1905, and the committee has been en-
larged, the full coiTimittee being: John H. Leathers, Presi-
dent; Bennett H. Young, First Vice President; John B.
Castleman, Second Vice President ; Gen. B. W. Duke, Third
Vice President; Capt. Sam H. Buchanan, Fourth Vice Presi-
dent; ThoiTias D. Osborne, Secretary; J. W. Green, Treas-
urer; William B. Haldeinan. Capt. John H. Weller, D. Thorn-
ton, Andrew AL Sea, J. A. Shultlcworth, A. E. Richards, W.
M. Marrincr, E. Basyc, George C. Norton, Thomas W. Bul-
litt, Maj. D. W. Sanders, Capt. John B. Pirtle.
President John H. Leathers is a magazine of matchless
methods, has had a leading part in providing for all great
gatherings in this city, and can get more work out of men
and more worth out of a dollar than any other man. He is
cashier and manager of the Louisville National Banking Co.,
and for years has led in fraternal and charitable work.
Vice President Bennett H. Young is the prince among men,
who manfully managed the previous reunion. His large legal
business led him to get excused from being at the head this
time. Probably no man in the South is so widely known and
loved by the wearers of the gray.
Gen. John B. Castleman, the hero of two wars, the father
of the horse show, and founder of Louisville's peerless park
system, has charge of the invitations.
Gen. Basil W. Duke, the idol of Morgan's men and many
others, will manage the transportation affairs. Messrs. Sam
H. Buchanan, Elijah Basye, John \V. Green. James A. Shut-
tleworth, George C. Norton, and John B. Pirtle are among
the finar.cial pillars of the city. Four — Buchanan, Basye,
Jfifeen, and Pirtle — belong to the renowned Orphan Brigade.
George C. Norton was the loved captain in the fighting
Eighth Georgia Infantry, and John B. Pirtle was the favorite
aid on the staff of the late Maj. Gen. William B. Bate.
City Attorney A. E. Richards, Thomas W. Bullitt, and D.
W. Sanders stand highest at the Louisville bar. Judge Rich-
ards was "Major Dolly" Richards in Mosby's Cavalry, Judge
Bullitt was a lieutenant under Morgan, and Judge Sanders
was major on the staff of Maj. Gen. French.
Prof. W. M. Marriner. who served so successfully as sec-
retary last reunion, was excused, and is chairman of printing
this year. He is, and has been for thirty years, Principal of
the Second Ward City School.
D. Thornton is a prominent lumber man, but has almost
given up business for reunion matters. He is chairman of
headquarters for States, and has aroured the greatest inter-
est, not to say enthusiasm, and every '. .ate will have the best
headquarters, equipped with bands of .nusic, information bu-
reau, refreshments, buffet, etc. Gen. Thornton is the estimable
Commandcr of the Third Kentucky Brigade.
Capt. Andrew M. Sea is the faithful and efficient Secretary
and Trustee of the Confederate Home, and will see that it is
visited by all who come to Louisville. He also serves as
chairman of the Auditing Committee.
Messrs. W. B. llaldcman, John H. Weller, and Thomas D.
Osborne are three more of the Orphan Brigade. Col. Halde-
nian. eldest son of the honored W. N. Haldeman, is the best-
equipped newspaper man in public life. He has been given a
delicate and difficult duty — chairman of sponsors.
Capt. John H. Weller, Chairman of the Board of Public
Works and right-hand man in Church and charity work, is
chairman on decoration and illumination of public buildings.
Thomas D. Osborne, whose fad is fraternity, is Secretary
of the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Press Com-
mittee, and has been complimented on his work.
Among the many features of the reunion, prominent will
be : Steamboat excursions ; barbecue at Shawnee Park ; con-
cert in all the parks ; reception at the Gait House ; garden
party at Shawnee Park; all the theatrical attractions; spon-
sors' ball in the horse show building; latest, largest, and most
novel decorations ; short parade, with countermarch on
Broadway, the most beautiful boulevard in America.
Everything will be absolutely free to all Veterans wearing
badges, nothing else required ; but great care will be exer-
cised in issuing badges. These will bear the portrait of John
C. Breckinridge, who left the vice presidency and the United
States Senate to fight for the South. He was the first com-
mander of the Orphan Brigade.
The Veteran announces that arrangements have been made
by the Reunion Committee for the most liberal showing yet
made by any city entertaining. It will be a "reunion issue."
All notices to appear in it should be sent as quickly as prac-
ticable.
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EXTRACTS FROM RECENT GENERAL ORDERS.
[Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Commander in Chief United Con-
federate Veterans, has issued recently many general orders
through his Adjutant General, W. E. Mickle.]
One Brevet Command"r in Chief.
In conformity with the Constitution (Art. XL), the General
Commanding gives notice to the Camps of Uie Federation of
the following change in the Constitution, notice of which has
been filed with these headquarter.'^ — to wit :
"Art. VL, Sec. I. After the words 'one General, Com-
mander in Chief, its executive head,' add 'one Brevet Com-
mander in Chief, with the rank of Lieutenant General, who,
in the event of a vacancy in the office of General Commander
in Chief, shall assume and discharge the duties of Com-
mander in Chief until a Commander in Chief can be elected
at the ensuing Annual Convention.' "
The reason assigned for offering this amendment is stated
as follows : "This amendment is proposed so that, in the
event the General shall be ill or unable for any reason to dis-
charge the duties of his office, or if he shall have died during
his incumbency, the Brevet Commander can assume command,
and thus avoid confusion and all possible discussion as to the
right of succession."
Gen. Lee announces Miss Carrie Peyton Wheeler, daughter
of Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, as sponsor for the South at the
Louisville reunion. Her maids of honor are : Miss Clara
Haldeman, daughter (f Col. W. B. Haldeman, Louisville,
Ky. ; Miss Lena Swifi, of Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Henry Heiiser,
of Louisville, Ky., is designated as matron.
New U. C. V. C.^mps.
The General Commanding announces the fellowship of the
following Camps in the organization of the United Confed-
erate Veterans, all registered in conformity with the dates
in their respective charters, also their numbers and head-
quarters, as follows :
Mike Powell Camp, No. 1564, Montgomery, Tex.
J. B. BifiSe Camp, No. 1565. Waynesboro, Tenn.
Pap Price Camp, No. 1566, Morrisville, Mo.
Everett Camp, No. 1567, Holder, Ind. T.
J. A. Early Camp, No. 1568. Rocky Mount, Va.
Hugh McGuire Camp, No. 1569, Lebanon Church, Va.
Pagan Camp, No, 1570, Redwater, Tex.
Basset Camp, No. 1571, Noma, Fla.
Confederate Cross Camp, No. 1572, Helena, Ga.
John B. Gordon Camp, No. 1573, Lawton, Okla.
Confederate Veteran Camp, No. 1574, Scotland Neck, N. C.
E. T. Stackhouse Camp, No. 1575, Latta, S. C.
Headquarters' Tribute to Kentucky.
In officially announcing the Louisville reunion for 1905
Gen. Stephen D. Lee, by Adjt. Gen. Mickle, states : "The
Commanding General cannot attempt to enumerate the many
;iltractions the glorious commonwealth of Kentucky has to
offer the United Confederate Veterans, but he may say
that no State in the Union can point to a grander array of
noble Confederate sons than Albert Sidney Johnston, Dick
Taylor, John H. Morgan, John B. Hood, John C. Breckin-
ridge, Simon B. Buckner, Humphrey Marshall, George B.
Crittenden, and scores of others that could be named ; and
he mentions with pecu ir pride that to her belongs the honor
of giving to the hum .n race that great patriot, chivalrous
leader, and unstained Southern gentleman, Jefferson Davis,
our first and only President."
The Gordon Memorial Flag.
As a personal tribute to the memory of his predecessor, the
General Commanding has appointed as aid on his staff, with
the rank of colonel. Comrade Abner T. Holt, of Macon, Ga.,
and accordingly details him as permanent color bearer for
the "J. B. Gordon Memorial Flag." In order that every re-
spect shall be given the memory of our beloved dead Com-
mander in Chief, Col. Holt will at all reunions, in whatever
city held, report to the chief marshal for assignment to a
position in the parade.
Confederate Dead on Johnson's Island.
The ladies of the Robert Patton Chapter, of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, of Cincinnati, Ohio, headed by
Mrs. Mary Patton Hudson, properly care for the Confed-
erate dead on Johnson's Island. Two hundred and six of our
dead comrades occupy this "God's Acre," far removed from
their dear Southland; and this little band of noble and patri-
otic women, located in a Northern State, has done much
already to beautify these graves, and is now putting forth
extra exertions to buy the cemetery, improve it, and then
build a monument over the dead.
The General Commanding wishes to direct particular at-
tention to this most laudable effort, and to urge Camps and
private individuals to make such substantial contributions to
these beloved "daughters" as will enable them to complete in
the near future the work they have so much at heart.
Approves Legislation Concerning Confederate Flags.
The General Commanding gives expression to the feel-
ing of satisfaction in the heartiness and unanimity with which
the national Legislature passed the bill restoring the Con-
federate battle flags to the several States and tlie readiness
with which the measure was approved by the President. Thi.s
action is but a fresh evidence that there are now in our
grand country no sectional lines, no South, no North, East.
or West, but that we are all Americans, devoted to one com-
mon country.
In view of the good feeling shown by the Congress of the
United States and the President, he urges all parties who
have colors in their possession to return them at once to the
proper State capitols, where these highly prized relics can be
the better properly cared for, and this should be done at the
earliest moment. He indulges the hope that this wish may
be complied with, and that private parties may manifest as
much brotherly feeling as the national authorities.
The General Commanding is satisfied that the display in
the various State capitols of these precious heirlooms, which
represent the highest devotion, the greatest self-sacrifice, the
most persistent courage witnessed in modern warfare, will
do a great deal to stimulate the patriotism of the rising
generation. These evidences of bravery on the part of their
fathers cannot but add to the pride that our children feel in
the heroic and daring exploits of their ancestry, and is the
surest way to encourage and magnify that feeling of love of
country.
The Commanding General desires that some official ac-
knowledgment should be made to Hon. John Lamb, a Con-
federate veteran, who introduced the measure in Congress,
to the Senate and House of Representatives, who passed it
without a dissenting voice, and to the President, who immedi-
ately approved it; and he urges Camps everywhere to formu-
late resolutions expressive of their indorsement.
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Death of Postmaster-General Reagan
Judge John H. Reagan, the last survivor of the Confed-
erate Cabinet, passed into rest on Monday, March 6, at his
home, in Palestine, Tex., full of years and of honors.
He was born in Sevier County, Tenn., October 8, i8i8, and
was, therefore, at the time of his deatli in his eighty-sixth
year. He began life under very adverse circumstances, but
this fact served only to call forth that indomitable pluck and
determination that were ever marked features of his whole
career. Whether engaged in the daily labor of the farm, or
fighting Indians on the border, or discharging the duties of
an attorney-at-Iaw, or administering justice from the bench,
or serving his country in the State or national Legislature,
he was ever the same thorough, painstaking patriot. By close
application to all that he undertook, he made a complete suc-
cess of every detail, and won plaudits from all with whom he
was associated, whether of his own or the opposing party.
His never-failing ability was best shown in the management
of the postal affairs of the Confederate government when lie
was Postmaster-General. With all the disadvantages with
which he had to contend, by his determination and unceasing
labors he gave the South faithful postal service, and adopted
a system that those qualified to judge say was almost per-
fect, and one that the government to-day could wisely and
advantageously follow.
Demise of United States Senator Bate.
The ink is scarcely dry on the order announcing the death
of the last member of President Davis's Cabinet when the
General Commanding is called on to chronicle the demise of
another distinguished Confederate, Brig. Gen. William B
Bate, Judge Advocate General on the staff of the Commander
in Chief, who passed quietly and peacefully away on Thurs-
day morning, March 9, in Washington, D. C.
He was born near Castalian Springs, in the State of Ten-
nessee, on October 7, 1826. His early employment as clerk
on a river steamer brought him into association with the
leading men of the day, and he formed friendships that lasted
him through life. On leaving this occupation he began the
study of law, and was at no distant date elected district
attorney, which position be filled to the satisfaction of all
parties till the breaking out of the war, when he joined a
Tennessee regiment as a private. By sheer force of merit
he rose rapidly by promotion to the rank of major general in
the Confederate army, and held that rank when he sur-
rendered with the Army of Tennessee, in 1865. He was three
times wounded, once seriously.
Gen. Bate resumed the practice of law after the close of
the war. and acquired a wide reputation as an able and suc-
cessful lawyer. He was made Governor of the State, which
office he held for two terms, when he was elected United
States Senator, where he represented his people in the most
creditable way, dying at his post of duty at the beginning of
a fourth term.
Col. C. S. Arnall
The General Commanding announces the death of another
of his military household — Col. Charles S. Arnall, an Aid on
his Staff — under most painful circumstances on the morning
of Thursday, February 23, at his home, in Atlanta, Ga. Col.
Arnall was a native of Virginia, born in Augusta County in
June, 1839. At the breaking out of the war he was a clerk
in a banking house in Staunton. He at once resigned his
position and became a part of the famous "Stonewall Bri-
gade." He was at one time adjutant to Gen. Baylor. He
fought throughout the war without a furlough, and sur
rendered at Appomattox.
Col. Arnall moved to Atlanta not long after the cessation
of hostilities, and resided there till his death. His high char-
acter in all of his transactions endeared him to those with
whom he came in contact His devotion to the U. C. V. cause
and his unwearying efforts to assist his comrades in distress
made him a universal favorite, and his quiet, simple life set
him apart as an example to follow.
OVERFLOW OF 'LAST ROLL" TRIBUTES.
After putting to press the sketch on page 174 a letter re
oeived from Judge Wyndhani Kemp, of El Paso, states :
"Maj. Perrin was the eldest son of William K. and Sarah
Tayloe Perrin, and was born in the old home where he closed
his useful life. Early in the war he assisted in organizing the
Twenty-Sixth Virginia Regiment, and remained with it until
Gen Lee's surrender. He was successively captain, major,
and lieutenant colonel ; but, as was his father, an officer in
the War of 1812, he was known and greeted as 'Maj. Perrin.'
"Few men saw more active and arduous service than he
during the four years of strife in which he was engaged,
and. though in many battles with many narrow escapes, he
was spared any serious hurt. At the 'crater,' in front of
Petersburg, a bullet passed tlirough his hat. and at Appomat
tox he was grazed by a fragment of shell. At the surrender
he was the ranking officer and in command of his brigade.
"After the war he devoted his energies to the pursuits of
peace. In the army no officer was more sincerely loved by
his men. In the 'paths of peace' no one enjoyed a higher
meed of respect. Called to various offices in civil life, he
filled them with marked ability, and as soldier or citizen he
was true to every trust
"He left to mourn their loss a devoted wife, two daughters,
three sons, and friends whose 'name is legion.' His last
illness was of short duration, but when the summons cam
u found bun ready to 'cross over the river and rest under the
shade of the trees. ' Faithful in every relation, as son, parent
or husband, soldier or civilian, neighbor or friend, he wore
the white flower of a blameless life,' and by his splendid
example has bequeathed to those who survive him the lesson
in the beautiful language of the 'Rubaiyat:' So live that
'When that angel of the darker Drink
At last shall find you by the river brink.
And, offering his cup, invite your soul
Forth to your lips to quaff, you shall not shrink.' "
CoL. Duke Goodman.
Col. Duke Goodman was born in Mobile, Ala., December
29, 1842 : and died at his home, in Fort Worth, Tex., January
25, 1905. In .\pril. 1861, he joined Company B, Louisiana
Guards, and was mustered into the Confederate service with
the Second Louisiana Volunteer Infantry. Shortly after, b)
special order, his company was converted into artillery, and
attached to Gen. Dick Taylor's Brigade, Early's Division,
Stonewall Jackson's Corps. He participated in all the impor-
tant battles fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania
by the Army of Northern Virginia. He was never absent
from roll call, never missed a battle i i which his compan>
participated during the four years of is service, and of his
party of thirteen who first answered i ")11 call in April, 1861,
he was the only one left to answer it at Appomattox
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He went from his home, in New Orleans, to Texas directly
after the war, first to Sherman, but later to Fort Worth. He
was most popular, and was a successful business man. Col.
Goodman was inspector general on the staff of Gen. K. M.
Van Zandt, Commander of the Texas Division, U. C. V., at
the time of his death.
The foregoing was in type for the March issue, but was
withheld through the desire to give his portrait and other data.
In disappointment through the efifort to procure a worthy
likeness, the Veteran reprints part of Col. Goodman's action
before the last convention of Texas Veterans at Temple,
July 21, igo4, in which he said:
"Comrades: The hour has now arrived for the election of
officers. I desire before you proceed with tlie 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 expressive 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 Confederate Veteran, be elected an
honorary member of the Texas Division, U. C. V."
The motion carried unanimously and with a rising vote.
The following sketch of Col. Duke Goodman's army life
is presented as he wrote it, June 12, 1904 :
"Forty-one years ago the Louisiana Guard, Company B,
was mustered into the Confederate service, April 26, 1861,
and became Company B, of the Second Louisiana Volunteer
Infantry, under Capt. C. E. Girardy. By special order No.
272, dated July 25, 1861, the company was transferred to
field artillery and attached to Dick Taylor's (afterwards Har-
ry T. Hayes's) Louisiana Brigade, Dick Eniil's (afterwards
Early's) Division, Stonewall Jackson's Corps, army No. 7.
The engagements participated in are as follows : Lynnhaven
Bay, Seven Pines, Frazer's Farm, Malvern Hill, Welford's
Ford, Cedar Mountain, Warrenton, Bristow Station, Manas-
sas (three days). Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Shepherds-
town, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Win-
chester, Hagerstown, Huntertown, Fairfield (Penn.), Rap-
pahannock Bridge, Kettle Run, Fort Gilmer, Shirley, Sum-
merville F'ord, Charles City Road, and Cold Harbor. Under
fire around Pittsburg daily for several months, when
"Marse" Robert E. Lee at Appomattox C. H. respectfully asked
us to quit, the Louisiana Guard Artillery gracefully, with
heads erect and proud of the record they had made, ex-
changed their four steel guns to U. S. Grant for a small piece
of paper, the requirements in which paper each and every
member of the 'old guard' has faithfuly lived up to.
"The writer was but a humble private, never absent from
roll call or when boots and saddle was called. I have only
to say that Stonewall Jackson was my leader for the world
to know the service I performed.
"I left my comfortable home in New Orleans when a mere
boy, marching to the music of the fife and the kettledrum
and to the tune of 'The Girl I Left Behind Me,' with a hand-
some new uniforn, only to return four years later in tatters
and rags, foot-so.^ . id shoeless, chanting as best I could in
my feeble and worn-out condition that dear old song, 'Home,
Sweet Home,' and never again to gather three days' rations of
hard corn, parch some, and be ready to march by two o'clock
in the morning (for that was Stonewall's way).
"In conclusion, I will say that of my party of thirteen who
answered the first roll call, in April, 1861, only your humble
servant remained to answer the call at Appomattox C. H.,
in April, 1S65.
"Yours truly, Duke Goodman."
General Order No. 56 is as follows :
"Fort Worth, January 25, 1905.
"With sincere grief the Major General commanding the
Texas Division, of the United Confederate Veterans, an-
nounces the sudden death of Col. Duke Goodman, Inspector
General of the Division, which occurred at his home, in this
city, Wednesday, January 25, at 2:30 a.m.
"The history of Comrade Goodman is resplendent with
noble impulses and good deeds for all men, but more es-
pecially for those who honorably wore the uniform of Con-
federate soldiers during the War between the States, from
1861 to 1865.
"Col. Goodman was born December 2g, 1842, at Mobile,
Ala. His record as a soldier is a most honorable one. He
enlisted at New Orleans in October, 1861, in Company A,
Louisiana Guards (artillery), H. T. Hay's Brigade, Early's
Division, Stonewall Jackson's Corps, Army of Northern Vir-
ginia, and participated in all the important battles on the soil
of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania up to and includ-
ing the surrender of Gen. R. E. Lee at Appomattox, April
9, 1865.
"In all the relations of life he recognized his duty to his
family, his country, and his friends, and was faithful to the
end. May he rest in peace!
K. M. Van Zandt, Major General Commanding;
George Jackson, Adjutant General, Chief of Staff."
Senator William B. Bate.
Senator Williain B. Bate's death, at Washington, D. C,
March 8, 1905, is known throughout the nation. His official
position and his character induced the highest consideration
in his honor. The large funeral in the national capitol, in
which the President and other officials of the government,
his fellow-Senators, members of Congress, and many friends
paid fitting tribute; then the special train bringing the
senator bates casket in CAPITOL OF TENNESSEE.
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family, Senators, and other friends to Nashville with the
remains, and the great gathering of people — the largest, un-
questionably, ever seen at a funeral in the State — are evi-
dences of respect and esteem which cannot but inspire young
men to lives of ambitious integrity.
Senator Bnte's unfailing advocacy of the cause of his peo-
ple makes the honors paid to his memory tributes to the in-
STATE CAriTOL AT TIME OF FUNERAL.
legrity of llie cause lie vindicated with every breath of his
life. Another occasion may be used to pay tribute to his
character in a sort of life sketch
Gen. Bate was no less conspicuous for his gallantry in the
war than for his integrity in civil life. A quoted remark by
his devoted wife to a lady friend who was with her during
the trying ordeal of seeing the hero fall on sleep and who
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accompanied her from Washington to Nashville on the special
train expressed that which would satisfy those who did not
know him personally in this terse sentence : "This is his first
free ride." The last message dictated by Gen. Bate was one
of condolence to Mrs. John H. Reagan.
UNDER HIS OLD .FLAG AT MOUNT OLIVET.
FROM RECENT PICTURE OF SENATOR BATE.
In a tribute to Gen. Bate Mrs. (ieorge E. Pickett says:
"One by one the champions of the South in her days of
grand endeavor answer to the last roll call, and our hearts
go with them to the gate through which they pass to join
the comrades whose warfare is over.
"When William Briniagc Rate passed away with the heaped
honors of a noble life upon his head, he left behind him, as
a legacy to his country's history, a long record of good deeds,
worthy effort, and grand achievement, which will remain
while our nation stands— a lesson in patriotism, truth, and
virtue to all coming after him who would follow in the foot-
steps that lead to the high goal of a lofty citizenship.
"Trained in the practical school of the Mexican War, be
brought to the Southern cause a patriotism strengthened in
the lires of battle and a gallantry in action that brought him
speedy promotion until, as commander of a division in the
.Army of Tennessee, he surrendered at the close of the brave
struggle.
"But it remains for civic life to test the enduring qualities
of mind and heart whereby man makes bis mark permanently
on the character of his age and sets in motion the wave of
his influence for the development of right principles in future
a,ges. The mental and spiritual force developed by the good
man of to-day will make brighter and strong''- and deeper the
intellectual and moral life "^ *'^ morrow-
"Tennessee mourns the son who has stood for the intf rests
of his State and an unfailing champion for the highest riglits
of man. The nation mourns the wisdom which saw clearly
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down the way, tht strong hand to gnidc upon the right road,
the courageous heart that never faltered in the path of duty.
"The hislory of Senator Bate is worthily completed. The
fair record, free from blot or stain, is a treasured part of
the story of our nation, an inspiration to future glory."
Hon. John H. Reagan.
Witli pathetic deference the Veteran pays tribute to the
honored and thoroughly beloved John H. Reagan, who lived
to advocate the principles of the South in the si.vties long
after all his associates of the Confederate Cabinet had gone
to their reward. Years before the Veteran was conceived
its editor, while attending a Te.xas State Fair at Dallas, had
the une.xpected and delightful opportunity of seeing Mr.
Reagan. lie sat quietly on a projected floor, with a friendly
word to those who called upon him. The Tennesseean in-
troduced hiiTiself, and he cherishes still the "memory of the
cordial manner of Senator Reagan. He recalls the pene-
trating, kindly eye, the gentle yet firm voice, and especially
the cordial words, in parting, of hope that he be informed of
the next visit to Texas. Every greeting in the succeeding
years and his cordial words of encouragement are vividly
remembered, and the desire to do the eminent Southerner
honor exceeds the capacity. He was faithful to attend all
the conventions of Veterans and Daughters of the Confed-
eracy when practicable, and he will be sadly missed by them
in future assemblies.
[In a tribute to Mr. Rea.gan as a notable character Bishop
E. E. Hoss, of the M. E. Church, South, now a resident of
Dallas, Tex., made the following statements.]
The death of Judge John Henninger Reagan removes one
of the most notable of all the men that have figured in the
hislory of this State. He was born in Sevier County, Tenn.,
in 1818. Three years ago I had the pleasure of a long con-
versation with him at Hot Springs, in Arkansas, and learned
many facts about his career.
He came of good, sturdy Methodist stock. They are a
dependable folk — plain, straightforward, and self-reliant. I
have never known or heard of one of tliem that was not
worlh.y of respect.
The early life of Judge Reagan was not easy. From his
youth up he was compelled to labor for his own living with
his own hands ; and when he came to eminence he was not
ashamed to acknowledge the fact, but rather gloried in it.
Before he was eighteen he had made up his mind to seek a
wider field than could be found in the mountain region of his
birth, and so set his face toward Texas. His friend and
employer. Dr. Brabson, lent him a horse to ride to the Ten
nessee River, on which he was to take a steamboat. A boy
came to the river with him to take the horse back, and frankly
said to him as they parted : "Well, John, I bate to part with
you ; but still I'm glad to see you going, for I think that I
can now get Melissa."
In the seventy years that have since intervened. Judge
Reagan has had a hand in nearly everything of importance
that has occurred in the commonwealth of his adoption. He
possesed all the qualities necessary to enable him to play a
prominent part in the life and growth of a pioneer com-
munity. Everybody recognized him as the possessor of a
large stock of common sense and an absolutely inflexible in-
tegrity. Added to these qualities were an untiring energy
and a fearlessness that quailed not in the presence of any
danger. He was ambitious for fame and fortune, but de-
termined to pursue tbeni by direct and open methods.
From the begiiming his fellow-citizens trusted him. In
some way or other he had picked up at least as much knowl-
edge of surveying as George Washington had, and he soon
found abundant use for it. Later he became an active officer
in the militia of the republic. The conditions by which he
was surrounded made it inevitable that he would study law.
He had a capacity for thinking as well as a love for reading,
and by the time he was thirty-five he had been elevated to
the bench, and made a just and able judge, administering
ju'-tice without fear or favor.
In 1857 he was elected to the Federal Congress, and held
that post till the beginning of the War between the States, in
1861. On the organization of the Confederate Government, he
became Postmaster-General in the Cabinet of President Da-
vis, and so continued till the collapse came, in 1865. Every
other man that belonged to either the Federal or the Con-
federate Cabinet during that stormy period has long since
died. Along with Mr. Davis and other leaders, he was ar-
rested and imprisoned on the charge of treason.
As soon as Judge Reagan's disabilities were removed, he
was again sent to Congress, and after two or three terms was
chosen to the Senate. In this latter body he added to his
reputation with every passing year, and achieved leadership
in many ways. Before the close of his second term, however,
he resigned to accept a place on the Texas Railroad Com-
mission. This was his last public service, and lasted for many
years. He held, first and last, alinost every office that Texn^
could give him except the Governorship of the State. He
wanted that also, and could have had it ; but when it was
virtually tendered to him on a platform which his judgment
did not approve, he declined to take it.
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It is matter for congratulation that liis whole record is
free from stain of every sort. He never paltered witli the
truth ; he never abjured his honest convictions to achieve suc-
cess; he iievt-r used his opportunities as a public servant to
heap up a personal fortune. It never entered his thought to
l)artcr away his principles for sordid gain. An old-fashioned
State rights, strict-construction Democrat, he would have
remained true to the teachings of Jefferson and Jackson if
everybody else had deserted and left him entirely alone.
On all moral issue? he was sure to take the right side.
.When the question of prohibiting the liquor traffic by con-
stitutional amendment came up a few years ago, he at once
and unequivocally gave his voice and influence in favor of
the policy, though he must have known that it would set a
.;;reat array of hostile influences to work against him; and he
stoutly stood his ground even when Mr. Davis, to whom he
was devotedly attaclu-d. suffered hiniseH to be drawn into
the discussion on the other side.
All his life long Judge Reagan was a strong and consistent
Methodist. His baptismal name — John Henninger — was given
him by his parents in honor of a famous Holston preacher
The memory of his early home, with its simple pieties, helped
him, no doubt, in the hard struggles through which he often
passed and kept him true and steady when all the cross cur-
rents of life were beating upon him.
Three or four years ago he concluded, after an absence of
more than sixty years, to make a visit to Sevier County
.■\ friend tried to persuade him, saying: "Everybody is dead
that you knew and loved, and it will only make you sad to
see the changes that have taken place Resides, nearly every
man in that section is a Republican, and will not be well in-
clined to the sole survivor of Jefferson Davis's Cabinet"
But his mind was made up. and he took the trip His eyes
fairly sparkled as he told me about it. When he reached
Knoxville, a committee was ready to receive him. For several
days he was the guest of the city, receiving the most dis-
tinguished courtesies. On the road from there to Sevierville,
twenty-five miles away, he was met, to his amazement, by t
procession on horseback, and with a band of music escorted
to the town and forced to make a public address. "What
could I do?" said he to me. "I simply talked about old
limes." The whole couiUy laid itself out to show hospitality
10 him as the most distinguished man ever born in its limits.
1 1 turned out that his friend who left him on the river bank
had got Melissa, as he hoped ; that they had reared a large
and respectable family; and that the face of the earth was
covered with their grandchildren and remoter descendants.
There is a human touch about this trivial incident that may
redeem its lightness
JiiDCF. John H. Reag.\n, P.mriot.
(Miss Katie Daffan, of Texas, who has done more to or-
ganize the V. D. C. in that State than any other, and recently
President of the Texas Division, contributes the following
sketch of Judge Reagan.]
It is with genuine sorrow and a sense of the deepest loss
ihat the r')aughtors of the Confederacy in Texas learn of the
death of Judge John H. Reagan. He was the advocate of
the work of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in
each line — charitable, memorial, historical, and social— and
was honored and loved by every Daughter in the Southland
It was a privilege to the Texas Division to make his birth-
day (October 8) a day of observance, or honor day, and it
is appropriately observed by every Chapter of the Texas Di-
vision, at which time the Southern cross of honor is bestowed
upon Confederate soldiers. He many times gladdened the
hearts of the Daughters of the Confederacy of Texas by at-
tending their annual conventions, and the warmth of his pres-
ence and his wise counsel stimulated us to more earnest and
efficient effort. The annual announcement of the Texas Di-
vision, lovingly called by the Daughters "The Annual," con-
tains in its last issue a picture of Judge Reagan, which he
sent at our request, with a letter full of loving good cheer
to us in our efforts to immortalize the deeds of the Confed-
erate soldiers.
I le was ready with assistance, even in matters of smallest
detail, unselfish, and giving the rich blessing of his well-stored
mind to all who sought help. He was called the "Grand Old
Man," the "Old Roman," the "Sage of Palestine." All of
these apply ; but he was the truest, most steadfast friend, and
knew and lived all that the rare relation of friendship im
plies. He could suggest ways to cross over dark places, givr
wise counsel when it was needed, and could see, understand,
and sympathize with a matter. He appreciated all good, bein.;.;
always more ready to recognize the good traits of bad men
than the bad traits of good men.
It was my privilege to be entertained in the historic home,
"Fort Houston," to spend hours in his library, and intently
listen to the accounts of the early days in Tennessee, the
imprisonment at Fort Warren, the Indian fight, and his long
and interesting public career. This was a rare enjoyment.
.'\ few years ago Judge Reagan visited his native county in
Tennessee, where he was received and entertained in a man-
lier befitting his career, his dignity, and excellent service, and
it was with great animation that he related the many pleasant
events to a delighted listener. His library was a wealth nf
interesting documents, manuscripts, and valuable old books,
.'lid few days have been more pleasant than those spent in this
bright, sunshiny room with this venerable sage, hearing agai)i
.iiid again incident!? in which he was such a part, and by
virtue of which ours is a vast inheritance.
He was our Cincinnatus. After a career remarkable for
strength and purpose, "he came again unto his farm," and
delighted in driving over it, giving direction here and there,
a kind word to each laborer and each child (Judge Reagan
loved little children). Every tree, every house would suggest
some reminiscence of his early citizenship in Texas and his
pioneer life in beautiful East Texas, or of his neighbor, Gen
Sam Houston, and their many pleasant, neighborly exchanges
Then to sit on the porch in the midday and return at once
to topics current, to literalurc. politics, or matters patriotic!
.\ny subject met bright response from him, for his mind was
ever youig. ever vibrant with life and interest in what sur
rounded him It has been my privilege from time to time to
lie present in cities in other States when orations and gala
ceremonies would be tendered in honor of Judge Reagan.
His appearance in a carriage or on the speaker's stand would
bring forth enthusiastic welcome and applause. Regard
.ind admiration for him were uni\ersal.
We m Texas are but a part of the great lunnlier who loverl
him. Once, in the city of Denver — surely a beautiful, inter-
esting city, but not "of the .South. Southern" — the reception
accorded him was one of dignity and a keen knowledge of
the "distinguished guest within the city's gates."
Judge Reagan possessed initiative in a rare sense — that is,
formulative power, the ability and the character of the pioneer.
To go before was his forte — to prepare the way for those
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who might come after. It is to the pioneer, the forniulator.
that we owe so much. He has left to us his "Memoirs," a
precious legacy. He is, therefore, a living presence among us.
His life has been a benediction and a blessing to all whom
it touched, his example an inspiration, his courage a strength,
his fortitude and patient endurance a solace and help to all
who find hard places in the way.
With his love for his State as a whole, which he proved
in so many ways, all of his life he showed a preference for
East Texas, for the picturesque city of his choice, which,
seeing its splendid national environment in an early day, he
selected for his home, and there remained. And the identity
of this city bears largely upon the fact of its being his favored
residing place, the one which he chose for his quieter hours,
(hose moments of solitude so dear and so necessary to us all.
and he loved as his own the people of Palestine. The ap-
preciation which they have shown to him in his life as well
as his death marks them genuine, loyal friends, and citizens
of the purest, truest type. Sweet to remember is the picture
of my dear old friend in his great chair on the lawn, sur-
rounded by those who constantly lived in his heart — his wife,
who was his constant companion and who knew his every
expression, every wish, and was therefore a part of himself :
his daughter, whose presence was ever a source of pleasure
to him; and dear little Will Mobley, his grandson, the com-
panion over field and forest, for long walks and drives, of his
venerable grandfather.
A feeling of thankfulness conies over me in that I knew
him and loved him ; that he assisted me in my work for the
Confederate soldiers; that his advice and counsel was fair and
impartial, full of consideration for everybody — nothing small
or narrow in his great soul.
Now, Daughters of the Confederacy, we believe in monu-
ments. Let one tower to the sky to honor him wlio was of
us and for us, whose soul was attuned to every measure of
our patriotic work. We honored him while he was yet with
us; let us honor ourselves since his great Commander has
called him from us. Let us place monuments to his blessed
memory as object lessons and history lessons to those who
e-hall come after us. Let us not delay. Every act of his life
showed appreciation and gratitude. Let us emulate him, let
his name be engraven in our hearts, his example be our
inspiration, his name be among the first that little children
shall lisp, and let us return thanks that he was ours, of us,
for us — Patriot John H. Reagan.
after the war his remains were carried to South Carolina,
and now rest in Magnolia Cemetery at Charleston.
Lieut. Col. Thomas P. Alston.
Lieut. Col. Thomas P. Alston was born in All Saints
Parish, near Georgetown, S. C. His father was one of the
largest and wealthiest rice planters in the State when the war
began. Col. Alston promptly entered the Confederate service
as a private, and assisted in bombarding Fort Sumter. After
the surrender of the fort he organized Company F, in the
First South Carolina Volunteers, Maxy Gregg's Regiment,
which was sent to Virginia and assigned to A. P. Hill's Di-
vision of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was in fifty-
two engagements, was wounded three times, and three times
mentioned by his superior officers for gallantry. He was
promoted to major and afterwards to lieutenant colonel. At
Fredericksburg he was shot in the face, and at Spottsylvania
he was painfully wounded in the side; but on both occasions
refused to leave the field. At Jericho Ford his arm was shat-
tered, and amputated in the field hospital tent, and he died
from the effects three weeks later in the Jackson Hospital,
in Richmond. He was buried in Hollywood Cemetery ; but
Dr. p. J, McCoRMiCK.
At a meeting of Yazoo Camp, U. C. V., held at Yazoo City,
Miss., on the 4th of January, 1905, the death of Comrade P.
J. McCorniick was aimounced. He died at the residence of
his son-in-law, Mr. S. S. Griffin, in Yazoo City, Miss., on the
night of January 3, 1905.
A paper signed by a committee composed of Robert Bow-
man, G. P. Blundell, and A. F. Gerard states:
"Dr. McCorniick was born in Roscommon County, Ireland,
in the year 1830. When but a youth he emigrated with his
parents to America, and received in the city of New York
a classical education. He taught school for a time, and then
studied and graduated in medicine. For a short time he lived
in Savannah, Ga., and moved from there about 1857 to near
Silver City, in Yazoo County. He enlisted in the Confederate
army earlj' in 1862, and served with ability and fidelity as a
surgeon of the Forty-Sixth Mississippi Regiment. He was
kind, attentive, and humane to the sick and wounded sol-
diers, and faithful in his duties as an officer.
"After the war closed he settled in Yazoo City. No one
ever ranked higher in that coniniuiiity as a physician, or as
a man and citizen commanded more respect and esteem. He
built a name and reputation for honesty, enterprise, and
fidelity more noble and enduring than sculptured marble.
Nature endowed him with noble and heroic traits of charac-
ter, and these he retained until the end.
"In the noted political struggle of 1875, which resulted in
DR. p. J. M CORMICK.
the overthrow and extermination of radical misrule and
negro domination in Yazoo, no one was more prominent and
more to the forefront than Dr. McCormick. He was the
chief leader in that celebrated contest.
"Sincerity of conviction and integrity of action marked his
career in life. In all things he was upright and honest of
purpose, and ever trod the path of duty with unfaltering step
and undaunted courage. He was a true patriot, an enter-
prising and public-spirited citizen, and an upright man. He
was a devoted husband, a kind, aflfectionate father, a faithful
and sincere friend, and an earnest Christian."
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UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH.
[The following interesting sketch from the diary of the
late Capt. M. A. Miller (see sketch in "Last Roll," page 175)
of how he made his escape from "Irving Block" prison at
Memphis is furnished by his daughter, Mrs. William R. Vaw-
ter, of Richmond, Va. "I have one man under sentence of
death for smuggling arms across the lines, and I hope Mr.
Lir.cohi will approve it." The above is a quotation from a
letter of Gen. W. T. Sherman to his brother John after the
capture of Memphis, Tenn. And herewith is a sketch of how
that "one man," Capt. Matthew Amos Miller, made his escape
from prison. Capt. Miller was assistant city engineer of
Memphis at the commencement of the war.]
A number of the engineers and architects formed a com-
pany of sappers and miners, of which we were the officers
and some of our best mechanics the privates. This company
threw up the first works of fortifications on the Mississippi
River, beginning four miles from Memphis, then at Fort
Pillow, Island No. 10, New Madrid, and Columbus. At the
latter place we had our first infantry fight. Memphis was
captured by Gen. Sherman in June, 1862. At that time I was
home on sick leave, having just passed through a serious
spell of typhoid fever. It was true, as stated in Gen. Sher-
man's letter to his brother John, that the mercenary spirit
of his people enabled us to ' uy anything we wanted for gold
or cotton.
When Sherman first took possession of Memphis he issued
an order declaring gold, medicine, and salt contraband, and
as such prohibited their sale to our people. But his orders
were practically reversed, and we got anything we wanted.
So greedy were they for the money that they actually sold us
arms. The people with whom we dealt were inostly camp
followers and merchants. Finding that arms could be easily
procured in this way, and knowing our people needed thetn
badly, I determined to get a quantity of them. I represented
no one but myself, and all that I purchased were paid for by
me out of my own funds. I was the means of equipping the
best part of two companies of cavalry before my operations
were discovered by the enemy. It was rather difficult to get
the arms to the Southern soldiers after I bought them, for,
in addition to the gunboats, the river was closely patroled
by picket boats. My plan was to put my goods, mostly
sabers and pistols, on board a skiff and carry them over to
the Arkansas side, where the cavalry would get them.
For a month I was steadily supplying our soldiers with
arms, and met with no serious difficulty. But one afternoon
in the latter part of July my good luck deserted me. I was
carrying over two boxes of officers' swords, and was in the
middle of the river, when a picket boat, that I did not see
when I started out, ran upon me. I at once knew that danger
was ahead, and, jumping on the gunwales of my boat, I tried
to sink it ; but it was too heavy, and would not "dip." The
officer in charge of the picket boat arrested me, and the skiff-
man also, and took us with the two boxes to a gunboat near
by. Here the boxes were opened, and as soon as the nature
of their contents was disclosed I was at once carried to the
military prison in the "Irving Block," in the center of the city.
In two or three days there was a court-martial. The evi-
dence was of course conclusive, and I could make no defense.
What the verdict was I did not learn, as it was not pro-
nounced ; and it was not until some five weeks afterwards
that I became aware of it. I was first made aware of the
seriousness of my position in a sensational way. Late one
afternoon in July, 1862. a friend, a Miss Gibson, who had
been calling on me, after glancing around, cautiously turned
and whispered to me; "Captain, you are under sentence of
death, and are to be shot at an early day. Take my advice
get away from here before they put shackles on your ankles
and w-rists, for then you can do nothing."
My idea is that the officer in charge had no authority to
carry such a verdict into execution without the approval of
the President, pending which I was kept in ignorance.
Later the same day of which 1 was told I was to die (I
thir.k it must have been about August 13) Gen. Sherman
came into my cell, accompanied by two members of his staff,
whose names I did not know. I knew the General as soon
as I saw him. He sat there some ten or fifteen minutes talk-
ing to me. He was very polite, but still his manner was
positive. In the first part of his conversation he said that
1 was probably aware that the sentence of court-martial was
death. I told him I had no way of knowing, as that was the
first official notification of it that I had received. As we
talked on. Gen. Slierman told me that in the discharge of his
ofticial duty it would be necessary for him to have the sentence
of the court executed, which he proposed to do on the Friday
following. This was Monday.
Although I knew the sentence had been passed, it did not
impress itself on my mind as something that was actually
going to happen. Looking Gen. Sherman straight in the face,
I laughed, not boisterously, but in a manner that suggested
incredulity. The General did not resent iny behavior, re-
maining perfectly silent and courteous. One of his staff of-
ficers, a major, spoke up curtly, saying: "Sir, do you know
whom you are addressing?" I replied in language quite
forcible, with the inquiry as to what he had to do with it.
Soon after the officers left I put my wits to work to arrange
for an escape. I had any number of friends in the city who
were trying to help nie escape. Several plans were suggested :
one was that I should get on the roof of the prison, then go
down t!-.ro;igh an adjoining building. It was arranged that
one night all the gas was to be cut off from that portion of
the city, but that scheme failed. My wife brought me a
strong rope with which to "scale" the walls, but I was too
closely guarded to use it (several of the other "boys" did get
away on it. and I still have the rope in my possession).
Another night the guard on duty was drugged, but that plan
failed too.
.\fter considerable work, I finally succeeded in hitting on
a successful scheme. In the prison there were, besides the
regular guards, what were known as "supernumeraries," whose
business it was to accompany prisoners to various places in
the city. I had gotten on quite friendly terms with one of
them, a Canadian named Redmond, who belonged to an
Ohio regiment. He did not know of my sentence. I told
him that my child was sick, and I wanted him to go to my
house with me so I could see the little one, as it was not
expected to live. This was true The man replied that he
too had a wife and children, and if they were sick he cer-
tainly would like to see them, so granted my request. I had
sent word to my family that I would be home and they
must make arrangements for me to get away. It was quit.'
easy for me to get a message home. As the prison fare was
unlit to eat, some of my friends always brought me my meals:
so when I got my breakfast that morning I sent the message.
When I had been home a few minutes, Mrs. Miller asked
me if I would not like to take a bath and change my linen.
She had prepared a bath in the adjoining room. The guard
look lus position at the door. The room into which I went
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after taking off my hat, coat, vest, and boots had a second
door, which Redmond could not see from where he was
standing. In the meantime the young lady who was nursing
my child attracted the guard's attention by showing him some
handsome pictures in a book. I was not idle, and quickly
stepped into a second suit of clothes which my wife had pro-
vided in the room in which 1 was bathing, or supposed to be
bathing, for in reality my wife was splashing the water, while
I was getting away. I left tlie house at once. To do this I
had to jump out of a window, and to my great consternation
landed right in the middle of a company of Federal cavalry
that was camped in a lot near by my house. Luckily, they
took no notice of me. and a vicious bulldog which came up
about that time gave me a good excuse for breaking itito a
run. I crossed the street in a hurry, and at a bound cleared
a six-foot fence, which effectually hid me from view. A car-
riage was in waiting for me in front of my house, but in such
a position as to be in plain view of the guard. While I was
crossing the street I signaled the driver, an intimate friend
of mine who was acting in that capacity, and by the time I
reached the alley on the other side of the high fence he was
there waiting for me. I shall always think that jump over the
fence saved my life.
Once in the carriage, I was rapidly driven a short distance
outside of the city, where I stopped at the house of Judge
Woodruff. I wanted to keep on that night. There were three
lines of pickets to be passed, and the Judge advised me to
wait until morning, which I did. The next morning my host
put a pair of navy sixes in my hands, and with these I made
my way safely South. It was a case of life and death, and I
would have fought a regiment. I rejoined the Confederates
under Gen. Holmes. Subsequently I was transferred to Gen
E. Kirby Smith's command, where I remained until tlie close
of the war.
Mr. Redmond was still interested in the pictures, but finally
said to Mrs. Butler, who had just returned to the room:
''Mrs. Miller, you had better call your husband." She replied :
"He is not there." Mr. Redmond said : "I did not think tha:
of you.'" My wife said : "He is my husband." Mr. Redmond
thought a moment, then, looking up, said: "I don't blame you
My wife would have done the same for me."
Redmond was suspected of having been instruinental ni
aiding me to escape ; but it was never proved against him.
for no one noticed when we went out or paid any attentioji
to Redmond when he returned. The exact hour of my escape
was not known, and the guards were changed so often that
it could not be found out who was on duty at the time. When
my escape was discovered, I had been gone several hours.
The strange part of the affair was that when Redmond was
tried one of the witnesses swore that he saw him return with
me. At the time of my escape the newspapers stated that,
having had access to the city engineer's office which Gen
Sherman was using, I had carried off plans of all the works
around the city. On the strength of this, a reward of two
thousand dollars was offered for iny capture. This statement
was not, however, true ; for, although I was at liberty to go
in and out of the engineer's office at will, I did not carry off
any plans with me. I was able, through memory, to give
Gen. Forrest some information as to the location of the
enemy's works, which proved of great service to him in
making his raid into Memphis.
I learned after the war was over that, by the intercession
of the Hon. Mr. McPherson (who had been a college mate
of mine) and some of my relatives and prominent friends in
the North, President Lincoln was prevailed upon to pardon
me. The papers, though, were not received until after the
day upon which I was to have been executed, so it was lucky
for me that I did not wait for them.
DICK HEWITT— A TRUE CONFEDERATE.
A lady in Louisiana writes of "Dick" Hewitt, to whom
reference is had in the history of Degourny's Battalion, Jan-
uary Veteran. She states that she can't recall the exact
dates of the events mentioned, but she verifies them by
"seigniors :"
"The latter part of the war our household in Richmond
consisted, besides our family, of two gentlemen discharged
from active field service for wounds and ill health and em-
ployed in the departments. One day they said to my mother
that they had met a friend, a soldier of New Orleans just
exchanged, who was a very ill man, and asked if they could
bring him to our house and care for him. Of course he was
welcomed to our little best. He was, it appears, a relative
of Mrs. Grant's family. When about to be exchanged, he was
sent for by Gen. Grant and offered passage abroad, and
means to live there until he could provide for himself. With
grief and indignation that he could be thought willing to
desert, the poor fellow stalked out and stood half starved
and shivering in a pouring rain for hours, waiting to cross
into Dixie and again join the ranks. He already had fever,
pneumonia developed, and he died at our house, far from
his old mother and adored young sister.
"A childish reason for the fixedness of these events in my
mind is that I saw for the first time the surprising spelling of
'pneumonia.' I carried a written message. The sight of the
word brings back to me the scene and the very tones accom-
panying this incident."
TRIBUTES TO GEN. LEE IN SEATTLE. WASH.
John B. Gordon Camp, U. C. V., of Seattle, Wash, cele-
brated Lee's birthday by assembling at the Lincoln on the
anniversary evening, where a most enjoyable tiin^ was spent.
This was the first celebration of the natal day of our great
chieftain. This Camp is the most remote of all Camps.
During the courses of an elegant dinner toasts were drank
to the memory of our great commander, Lee, to the memory
of Albert Sidney Johnston, of Stonewall Jackson. Joseph E.
Johnston, the women of the South, and to the health of Mr.
S. A. Cunningham, editor of the Confederate Veteran.
A committee was designated to enlist the interest of South-
ern women of the city to organize a Chapter of Daughters.
As a matter of interest in showing how Confederates have
scattered, the names are given of those who were present :
John Howard Allen, Company I, Second Texas Infantry, and
adjutant general Prince de Polignac's Brigade, staff of Gen.
Baylor, who was later colonel in Egyptian army under Gen
Loring ; Phil R. Simmons, captain Forty-Third Georgia, com-
manding gunboat Magenta; David H. Chapman, Company
B, First Louisiana Regiment; Aurelius K. Shay, Company
B, First Louisiana, A. N. V.; James N. Gilmer, lieutenant
Company F. Third Alabama, inspector general Grade's Bri-
gade; S. S. Carlisle, First Missouri, chief of ordnance Gen.
Bowen's staff, Missouri : James Morgan, Savery's Cavalry,
Gen. Price's bodyguard; Lindsey Oliver, Texas; John F.
Wiclensham, Cockrell's Brigade, Missouri ; Bushrod W. Bell,
Fourth Alabama; Col. Bee. captain Company A. Twenty-
Fifth Alabama.
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SOU'lI'lUhW WOMLS DESEKl'E A MONUMENT.
The Mississippi Division. United Confederate Veterans,
througli their Connnandcr, Gen. Robert Lowry. express them-
selves in regard to the women's monument :
"A resolution was offered by Comrade W. S. Coleman at
the State reunion of the Mississippi Division, U. C. V.. held
in Aberdeen on August 5 and 6, 1904. which was unanimously
adopted, to-wit :
" 'Whereas the general association of the U. C. V.'s, in
convention assembled in Nashville, Tenn.. confessed their
failure to raise funds for the liuilding of a monument to the
memory of the "Women of the Confederacy" and transferred
that sacred duty to tlie Sons of Veterans ; therefore be it
" 'Resolved, Th;it wc, the veterans of Mississippi, feel lui-
militated at this signal failure, which we attribute to indiffer-
ence and not unwillingness ; that we reaffirm our love for and
loyalty to the memory of our mothers, wives, and sisters, who
were the "Women of the Confederacy," and pledge our help
to our Sons in their laudable work, and pledge here that wo
will obligate each Camp in our State for not less than fifty
dollars to be paid into the hands of a treasurer,' etc.
"The general commanding most heartily commends th-."
raising of the above fund by the several Camps of the State.
It should be a work of love to erect a monument to the
noble and patriotic women who contributed their full share
in the memorable struggle of the Southern States. The Camps
in the State that comply with the resolution will notify
the Adjutant General at Brandon, Miss."
The beloved and honored Commander of the Mississippi
Division illustrates th& true character of a Southerner and a
Confederate by the official order quoted above. Many of our
ardent comrades are doubtless humiliated and grieved at the
apparent indifference to raise a large fund for the purpose of
honoring onr women. All men of the South who know the
merit to highest lionor and distinction of onr women are of
"lie mind on this subject. It is not indifference to the cause.
lint lack of information as to where and what to build in the
honor of our women, that causes the inaction. The unhappy
experiences of the Confederate Memorial .Association is an-
other reason for inaction. The fact that "the women don't
want it" is still another re.TSon why the monument is not
built. Offer them something that will be productive of con-
stantly recurring benclit to these principles, and it will be ac-
complished as by magic.
Vetkr.nns Succest Free Transportation for DELEr.ATES. —
I'ldcr T C. Little, Chaplain of Camp No. 114, at Fayette-
ville, Teim., suggests a matter of interest to the United Con-
feder.ite Veterans. It contends the extraordinary liberality
of giving free traii'^portation to well-accredited delegates.
ni;iking the argument tliat the large attendance of others
than veterans would pay the railroads, and that such free
travel would insure a nnich larger attendance of the members
of the organization, whereby more wholesome legislation
would be enacted. He m.nkes the good point that many
rcprescrtativc members who have no other motive than the
good of the organi/.ition would look with greater diligence
to measures intended .solely for the good of the body. Sub-
sequent to the writing of the foregoing, the Fnyetteville Camp
considered the subject, and recommend that request be made
of railroads to furnish free transportation to the accredited
delegates Tliis would insure wisely selected <lelegates, and
might be productive nf much good for the general organiza-
tion.
COMMANDER MISSOURI DHISION.
Maj. Gen. H. W. Salmon, U. C. V.. issues General Order
Xo. I, announcing members of his staff and aids de camp :
"Having been elected to the command of the Missouri Di
\ ision. United Confederate Veterans, at the annual reunion
held at the Missouri Building. World's Fair Grounds, St.
Louis, Mo., October 6, 1904. I hereby announce the following
as constituting the Staff of the Division : Col. William F
Carter, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff. Clinton; Lieut
Col. William 11. Kennan. Inspector General, Mexico; Lieut
Col. George P. Gross, Chief Quartermaster, Kansas City ;
Lieut. Col. J. D. Ingram, Chief Commissary, Nevada ; Lieut
Col. John W. Halliburton. Judge .Advocate, Carthage; Lieut
Col. J. M. .-Mien, Chief Surgeon, Liberty; Lier.t. Col. J. J.
Fulkcrso.i, .Assistant Surgeon, Lexington : Lieut. Col. Thomas
M. Cobb, Chaplain, Lexington.
"The following are members of the staff as Aids-de-Camp.
with the rank of major: J.ames C. Wallac. Kcytesville:
Robert H. Stockton, St. Louis; W. P. Gibson. Warrensbi;rg ;
Charles H. Howard, Waynesville : Robert McCulloch, St.
Louis: O. H. P. Catron. West Plains; Robert J. Tucker.
Lamar: George M. Jones, Springfield; Frank M. Russell.
Lebanon; P. E. Cb.cstnut, St. Joseph; George W. Lankford.
Marshal: E. McD. Coffey. Platte City; R. H. Keith. Kansa*
City : T. C. Holland. Scdalia : James F. Edwards. Foristcl :
.\. L. Zollinger, Oltcrville : J. \. Bradley, Papinville : J. G.
Simpson. Bolivar: J. E. Devinney. Ripley. Tenn.: F.d. P.
Raynolds, S.tii Marcos, Tex."
Texas Home for Indigent Confederate Womln.-
Through that indefatigable and enthusiastic worker. Mrs W
P. Baugb. of San .Antonio, Tex., the success of the Texas
Home for Confederate Women in Need, a most worthy en-
terprise, is assured. .A lot. four hundred by one hundred and
sixty feet, has been purchased in Austin, and the building is
in course of construction. The plan acceptcil by the com
mittee calls for a structure of nineteen single bedrooms. .1
sitting room, a dining room, a hospital room, kitchen, linen
and china closets, bath rooms with hot and cold water, ami
all other conveniences necessary to make it a comfortabb
"Home" in every sense. For the convenience of the inmate'^
to be received, many of whom are old and feeble, the building
will be only one story and will co-^t four thousand dollars
It is expected to be ready to receive occupants by the coming
July. In a recent letter Mrs. Baugh asks: "Now don't you
think this is pretty good work for fifteen months, consider-
ing we had the World's Fair to pull against last year?" It
certainly is. and it is a worthy example for other Daughters
in other States.
rREsitii-.NT Davis's Birthday Texas Holiday.— Mrs. D. A
Nunn, First Vice President Texas Division. U. D. C. writes
the Veteran from Crockett, Tex. : "The State of Texas,
through its Legislature and with the approval of Governor
Lanham. passed an act whereby the .^d of June is made a
legal holiday, in memory of the Hon. Jefferson Davis. Presi-
dent of tlio Confederate States."
.A Louisiana Veteran writing to a comrade in another Stat'',
in expressing the delight he had in learning of old messmate-
in the service, stated: "The Veteran is a great medium
through which our friends learn of each other. Cunningham
is doing a noble work, and should have the cordial support
of every living Veteran and of every friend of the dead"
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S. A. CUXNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office Methodist Publishinj^ House- Building-, Nashville, Tenn.
Tliis pnhliciition is the personal property of S, A. Cuniiing^ham. All per-
sons who approve its principlfS and realize ils benefits as an orEjan for Asso-
ci;ilions throuiifhout the South are requested to commend ils patronage and to
cociperate in i-xleriding' ils cirrulation. I,et each one be constantly diligent.
WILL SOUTHERNERS EVER CO-OPERATE!'
It may be assumed that there are at least ten thousand per-
sons in the South who ardently espouse the cause of the
millions who suffered during the tragic period of the sixties,
a large percentage of whom accept the Veteran as the best
exponent of that sentiment that ever has existed or that
ever will be of record. They not only appreciate what it is
doing, but bear most cordial sentiment toward its manage-
ment, earnestly desiring its prosperity. These worthy men
and women are practical and very intelligent persons. If
they were assembled in a great body and what is herein sug-
gested were proposed, they would rise en masse to demon-
strate their approval. Moreover, they would give of their
substance, and gladly do it for the good they knew could
be accomplished. These constitute half of our patrons.
But such a gathering cannot possibly occur wherein the
particular thousands referred to could assemble at one place.
These ten thousand persons will read this article, and they
will approve it. They will agree that, inasmuch as the vet-
eran soldiers of the Confederacy and the mothers who shared
fully in the trials of that period are now dropping out to
an alarming degree, they ought to be enlisted in making record
for the young of to-day and for the future generations of
their blood. They know full well that their offspring cannot
possibly be assured of anything e.scept what is prepared for
them in this short period.
These ten thousand persons can each name a veteran or a
loyal mother who would rejoice in the opportunity, who
would cooperate in the opportunity, to supply this record
for the great to-morrow, who do not even know there is such
a publication as the Confederate Veteran ; yet there will
not be one in every ten of them who will act upon this re-
quest. They should bestir themselves, as if the character for
loyalty to country and integrity of the millions mentioned
were being assailed, with utter hopelessness of any other
means to counteract it. The fact that the Veteran continues
to appear each month and supply a creditable record seems
to satisfy, and they glance on through the book, approving
its very utterance, and then lay it aside, satisfied to "let
well enough alone." Could the remarkable fact that period-
icals not older than the Veteran have a million subscribers
be fully comprehended, and the great need for this to grozv
now, as soon it will have to be conducted by second hands,
surely, surely such efforts would be made as never were made
before in behalf of any periodical.
In this connection, it would seem a rebuke to remind these
ten thousand persons of the proposition made by the Veteran
recently to send it through the year at half price for those
who would donate it to old soldiers who are unable to pay
for it, and that not exceeding one hundred veterans are so
supplied. The management would conclude it to be disap-
proved if it had not long been supported better by subscribers
th- -1 any Southern magazine has been in all time. There-
fore he takes renewed courage, and determines to work on
and on, pleading that his comrades cooperate in these last
days of their lives. Southerners should clannishly make
herculean efforts to give the Veteran a power greater than
ever has been exerted to mold the minds of those who are
to sit in judgment upon all of our deeds.
It is too bad to admit it in this connection ; but it is a fact
that many of the best friends, who would not fail of their
patronage, will neglect renewing for two or three years, and
when sending remittance will make apology gracious and
sincere. "It was simply an oversight" is the excuse. By
this oversight the proportionate cost of sending statements
with letter, etc., is an extra expense of at least a thousand
dollars a year. Why cripple and embarrass by neglecting the
important duty of renewing promptly?
Now the way to accomplish results that are merited is,
first, to see that your own subscription is properly renewed
(don't write for a statement, but compute the amount from
the date given on label) and then introduce the subject to
others ; examine carefully the advertisements, and when or-
dering anything found desirable write of having seen the
notice in the Confederate Veteran ; send the names of one
or many for sample copies, which will be sent free, and when
the parties have read them it will be easy to secure sub-
scribers. Suggest that several dollars may be sent at the
same expense as one, and clubs can easily be raised.
But the appeal intended by this editorial is far beyond the
matter of renewing subscriptions. Years ago, soon after the
Veteran was launched, men would leave their homes to
solicit patronage for it. Farmers, when .the land did not suit
for the plow, would go from neighbor to neighbor with sam-
ple copies and make an earnest pica for patronage ; not on a
commission basis, but they would send every cent to the office,
their compensation being the good they realized they were
doing. Why can't such a rally now be made? It would be
easy to run the subscriptions by such process to one hundred
thousand. Think of its influence from this acceleration!
In concluding this candid discussion of the issue there is
one consolation : When the editor has done his best, his very
best, the hundreds of thousands who have gone to glory will
excuse him from censure.
The foregoing was written for the March issne. but with-
held. It seemed rather too serious a plea. Since then busi-
ness has been better than in the history of the Veteran.
Indeed, the March receipts are most gratifying. That, how-
ever, strengthens the conviction of duty and the benefit of co-
operation. The worst calamity observed recently is in the
statement that persons who decline to pay on the receipt of
statements say they never subscribed. Those who do this
are an unjust tax to the business. The Veteran is never sent
knowingly to persons who have not subscribed and who do
not appreciate it.
Jefferson Davis Thoughtful Statesman. — A statement
from Hillsboro, N. H., on March 15, igos, is that a nephew of
President Franklin Pierce had found an autograph letter
from Jefferson Davis to Mr. Pierce (amoung documents in-
herited from his uncle), in which Mr. Davis wrote from the
Senate chamber on January 30, i860: "The prospect for our
country is not less gloomy than when you left. I will stand
by the flag and uphold the Constitution whilst there is pos-
sibility of effecting anything to preserve and perpetuate the
government we inherited. Beyond that, duty and faith bind
me to Mississippi and her fortunes as she may shape them,"
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BUFOKD'S DIVISION IN HOODS REAR.
BY CAPT. F. G. TERRY, CADIZ. KY.
Gen. Buford's Division of Cavalry, including the Eighth
Kentucky, to which I helonged, was camped on the Lebanon
Pike near the Hermitage, twelve or fourteen miles from
Nashville, when the Federal forces attacked Gen. Hood on
December 15. The day passed slowly with us. The men were
anxious and restive as they listened to the booming of guns
in the direction of Nashville, No orders and no news came
until near night, when our pickets captured a few stragglers,
■who reported various successes and reverses for our men.
The i6th dawned dark and gloomy, accompanied by the same
roaring of cannon as the day before. Our anxiety was so
intense that toward noon Lieut. G. C. Duncan, our brigade
inspector, obtained permission to go to Gen. Hood's head-
(juarters and get accurate information concerning the situa-
tion. It was after midnight when he returned and reported
that Hood was beaten, his wagons and artillery captured, and
the army in full retreat toward Franklin.
.\ number of iis were sleeping in a room with Col. Shack-
Ictt, the commander of the Kentucky Brigade at that time,
.md the agony of soul, the stupefying silence, tliat followed
Duncan's announcement was something I can never forget.
It was broken by Col. Shacklett's saying to nic ; "Terry, write
and inform Gen. Buford of this. Then call the men to feed
and prepare to march." A courier w'ith the information was
at once sent to Gen. Buford, and soon the division, composed
of the Kentucky Brigade, commanded by Col. A. R. Sback-
lett. and the Tennessee Brigade, by Gen. T. H. Bell, the two
making about fifteen hundred men, were soon on its cold,
wet. and muddy night march toward the Franklin Pike to
set between Hood's defeated army and his relentless pur-
suers. Shortly before day on the 17th we halted at Hollow-
Tree Gap, about six miles from Franklin, formed in line,
and awaited daylight. Before dismounting T rode along the
line of the Kentucky Brigade, and could see no other cavalry.
At dayli.cbt the enemy began to move, and (icn. Bell's Bri-
gade was moved past Shacklett's farther along the road
We were informed that a body of infantry was occupying the
gap. and during this movement of Bell's Brigade there was
considerable firing at that point. Col. Shacklett sent mc to
report to the conniianding officer of bis readiness to assist
him, if necessary. I did so, and was told to take care of his
prisoners and be would do the rest, or words to that effect.
and shortly after some two or three hundred prisoners passed
ns nut of the gap. .\bout this time the figliting became gen-
eral, and all that day and far into the night Buford's Division
was in the thick of it. Shortly after the attack was made
at the gap several hundred Federals seized a hill in the rear
01 our division within easy rifle range of us, and did con-
•-iderable damage until they were driven off by two com-
panies of the Eighth Kentucky, detached for that purpose
under Capt. Brown. It was Buford's Division, aided by Bled-
soe's Battery, that rescued a detachment of infantry left in
a little fort a half or three-quarters of a mile north of the
pontoon bridge by which all of us crossed into Franklin.
From Hollow Tree Gap through Franklin to Spring Hill,
to Columbia, to Pulaski, there was not a day that Buford's
Division did not "lock horns" with Wilson's cavalry and
not a night they did not stand between Hood's infantry and
I he enemy. Often, by the strength of numbers, they would
get mixed in with our lines for a few moments, but they could
never break or stampede us. At Seven Mile Gap, south of
Columbia, at Richland Creek, where Gen Buford was
4*»
wounded, above and below Lynnville the men of this division
stood up to their work agamst overwhelming odds. At Rich-
land Creek the Kentucky Brigade was held in line while Gen.
Chalmers's Division crossed. The bridge was fired, and we
were flanked right and left, when the order came to retire
\\"l:o that witnessed it can ever forget the order in which
wc moved away, fighting over every foot of the ground, solid
and intact for more than half a mile? It was near this point
that a Federal cavalryman was seen striking Gen. Chalmers
over the head and shoulders with his saber.
I hope sonie one with a readier pen than mine will write
a history of this Kentucky brigade that made such an en-
viable reputation for its loyalty, its fighting and staying quali-
ties from the time it was assigned to Forrest's Corps until
its surrender, at Columbus, Miss., May 15, 1865.
BIVOUAC AND CAMP NAMED JOHN L. M'EIVEN.
Col. John L. McEwen was born in Williamson County.
Tenn , in January. 1822. He received his elementary educa-
tion at the country schools taught by Messrs. Crocker and
Walker, and read law with Messrs. Marshall and Foster, of
l-ranklin. Though he graduated with high honors at the
L'niversity of Nashville, his delicate health did not permit
his doing a heavy law practice: hut he was well-read and a
brilliant lawyer. The hospitality dispensed by the McEwens
was proverbial throughout
the State. After the death
of his mother and beautiful
sister, Mrs. John Scott, of
St. Louis, w'hose fame as 1
beauty extended far beyond
local circles, he came back
to the old home to solace
his broken-hearted old fa-
ther, who had experienced
all the vicissitudes of life
with a stout heart ; but the
%..'- -^^j,^» - loss of wife and daughter,
wJW^- whom he idolized, was more
^.....-^gf^ '''3n he could endure alone.
Only a call from his coun-
.TOHN I,, m'ewen. try induced him to leave
bis beloved father, lie offered his services, and was ap-
lointed colonel of the Forty-Fourth Tennessee Regiment.
In the spring of 1864 he was with his regiment in East Ten-
lessee, and was ordered from there to 'Virginia. The enemy
uas met at Drewry's Blufl^, and on the morning of the l6th
of May he received a w-ound below the right knee. He was
removed to Chimborazo Hospital, and died of gangrene on
the 27th. His body was removed from the Richmond Ceme-
tery two years later and brought home to mingle with the
dust of his family.
The following tribute is a portion of what his officers pub-
lished in the Richmond liiiquircr and Atlanta Register.
"Resolved, That in the death of Col. John Lapslcy McEwen
we have lost a true friend, and one who had endeared himself
lo us by his tireless attention and zeal for our welfare; our
cause, one of its best officer.s, ready to defend it both on the
battlefield and morally as a champion of liberty; and in his
death society has lost one of its most brilliant ornaments a;
a social gentleman known for his intelligence, strict integrity,
a friend to all, and universally beloved.
W. N. James, Chmrmnn;
R. G. Cross. Secretary.
"Near nrriniida Hundreils, Va., May iS, i.S/i^."
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COL. JOHN C. MARRAST.
The Marrast family in America is descended from a well-
known French family. One member of it, Armand Marrast,
won fame in the French Revolution, and was prominent in
the establishment of the Republic of France.
The grandfather of Col. Marrast, a planter on the island
of San Domingo, owned about six hundred slaves. Being
warned of the contemplated insurrection, he escaped with
his family and a faithful family servant, arriving safely at
Norfolk, Va. He died in 1845 in France, where he had gone
to receive an inheritance which fell to him on the death of
his father. He left two sons in America (John and William"),
who had moved to Alabama.
John Marrast married Miss Fenner, a sister of Dr. Fenncr.
of New Orleans. She died in a short while. He then studied
medicine in Baltimore. Afterwards he married a daughter
of Dr. Samuel Kennedy Jennings, President of the Baltimore
Medical College, and removed to .\labama, living in Greens-
boro and Tuscaloosa. He reared and educated three sons
and five daughters. His second son, John Calhoun Marrast,
born in Greensboro, Ala., January 24, 1825, attended Spring
Hill College (near Mobile) and Georgetown University (near
Washington City). John Marrast was under the guardian-
ship of William R. King, of Augusta, Ga., who became Vice
President of the United States. Many happy holidays were
spent at the bachelor residence of Mr. King and James Buch-
anan, both of these eminent men being lifetime friends.
When the Mexican War broke out, in 1846, he left with
two friends for Galveston to join Ben McCullough's Rangers,
stopping at New Orleans to buy horses suitable for that serv-
ice. As their funds had run low, they were compelled to take
deck passage. They came near losing their horses in the
Gulf. Encountering a severe storm, the captain of the ship
ordered the horses thrown overboard; and, while a fight was
imminent, the young soldiers' cause was espoused by a gentle-
man from the cabin, who succeeded in having the cargo
lightened by throwing over ordinary freight instead of the
horses. This gentleman proved to be Judge Jennings, of New-
Orleans, and a relative of Marrast's mother.
Capt. McCullough enlisted these three recruits from the
States, and, after some time spent at Camp McCullough, near
Gonzales, getting in shape, they started the march to Mexico
on Saturday, January 9, 1847, passing through San Antonio
and Laredo, where they arrived January 22; thence on to
Saltillo, Mex., arriving February 3, 1847, where they joined
Gen. Taylor's army.
An extract from his diary states :
"Friday, February 19. — Capt. McCullough left with six
men, myself included, for Incarnacion, supposed to be the
camp of Santa Anna. We traveled thirty miles, went within
a quarter or half a mile of the camp, remaining long enough
to satisfy ourselves that there were about twenty thousand
Mexicans in the camp.
"Saturday, February 20. — Arrived in carnp about one
o'clock, reported the result of our reconnoiter. Gen. Tayloi
immediately moved back to the pass Buena Vista ('Good
View').
"Monday, February 22. — About 8 a.m. the camp was
alarmed by the supposed advance of an army. Preparations
were made for an attack. About ten o'clock Santa Anna
made his appearance. He sent in a message to Gen. Taylor,
desiring him to surrender, as he was well aware that his
(Gen. Taylor's) numbers were only six thousand, his (Santa
Anna's) being twenty thousand. Gen. Taylor replied : 'Come
and take us.' Immediately skirmishing commenced on the
side of the mountain. \ smart cannonading was kept up
during the evening.
"Wednesday. February 24. — Got up before day, all prepara-
tions having been made for a continuation of the fight, when
il was discovered that Santa .■Vnna and his army had dis-
appeared.
"Thursday, February 2$. — Capt. McCullough and his com-
pany left for Agua Nueva (the nine waters), where it was
supposed that Santa Anna had halted. We went in about
a mile of camp and, discovering the facts, returned to camp
at Buena Vista."
For efficient service John C. Marrast was promoted, receiv-
ing his appointment as first lieutenant of the Thirteenth
United States Infantry May 24, 1847. We were ordered to
Vera Cruz to participate in the campaign under Gen. Scott,
where we remained until the end of the war. Returning to
Alabama, he engaged in the cotton factorage business (Mar-
rast & Lee), continuing it until the War between the States.
He was chosen first lieutenant of the Mobile Rifle Company,
Third Alabama Regiment, later commissioned a captain at
Norfolk, Va., and was detailed on recruiting service. Capt.
Marrast assisted in the organization of the Twenty-Second
Alabama Regiment, to which he was assigned, and became
its lieutenant colonel. He served in the Army of Tennessee
under Gen. Bragg, and was hard tried and conspicuous in
the battle of Shiloh. The regiment was organized and drilled
at Hall's Mill, near Mobile. They went to Corinth and on to
Shiloh Church. Gladden's Brigade, which was composed of
the Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, and other Alabama regi-
ments, was advanced to the banks of the Tennessee River
at Pittsburg's Landing, where, in a terrible sleet and snow
COL. J. C. MARRAST.
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storm, they held their position for four days, when they fell
back to the main army. In the great battle there the gallant
South Carolinian and Mexican War veteran, Gen. Gladden,
was instantly killed. There fell in that sanguinary struggle
Maj. Armstead, Capt. Deas Nott, Lieut. Manasco, and many
other brave men. Before two o'clock of the first day. Gen.
Deas was painfully wounded, and compelled to retire from
the field, leaving Col. Marrast in command of the brigade.
They pressed li.e enemy back toward the Tennessee River.
The Twenty-Second Alabama was receiving such a hot fire
that it was ordered to take shelter behind some fodder stacks.
Here Col. Marrast wrote a letter to his wife, which was sent
by the first courier who passed. This was the earliest news
received in Mobile from the battlefield. Gen. Grant, in his
report of the battle, spoke of the extraordinary bravery and
courage of the troops that held those fodder stacks. The
enemy were slowly driven back to their tents, where a ter-
rific engagement ensued, the enemy finally retreating, leaving
their tents and equipments in the hands of the Confederates.
The Twenty-Second Alabama Regiment occupied the enemy's
tents, ate their supper, and enjoyed comforts they had not
seen for moiUlis. Col. Marrast was suffering with rheuma-
tism, and could not sleep. The rain was pouring, and about
midnight he heard a moaning sound as of some one in great
pain. He got up, investigated, and found beneath a heap of
dead men a Federal officer terribly wounded, who probably
had fainted and was passed over by the ambulance corps as
dead. "What can I do for you. my friend?" said Col. Marrast.
"Water, water," came from the parched lips of the sufferer.
This was given him, and Col. Marrast had him conveyed to
the hospital tent, where he received proper medical attention
and entirely recovered, as learned from a grateful message
sent a few months after. He was an officer of some Ohio
regiment, but his name is forgotten.
The next morning the Confederates pressed forward toward
the Tennessee, when they found, to their dismay, that Grant
had been reenforced by Buell. Retreat was the only thing to
do, and that was done in good order, Gladden's Brigade
bringing up the rear. Their loss was terrible, over sixty-three
per cent. Col. Marrast had his horse killed under him. Dur-
ing their retreat they discovered two fine Parrot guns, which
had been abandoned by all except Lieut. Bond and six ar-
tillerymen. In despair, they were about to abandon the guns,
when Col. Marrast cooperated in their rescue. The Federals,
seeing the maneuver and fearing an ambush, also halted, and
so gave the Confederates ample time to save the guns.
The pursuit ceased, Gladden's Brigade slowly retired, and
when Gladden's Brigade bivouacked for the night it was
found that there were only two officers and about twenty-five
men left. The next day Col. Marrast was ordered to the rear
by the surgeon, where he obtained much-needed rest after
his long tour of duty through the lour days' sleet at Pitts-
Inirg Landing, through the battle of Shiloh, and the retreat
to the main army. He was broken in health and ordered to
Brooksville, where his health could be restored. Here he
remained until the next movement of the army, which was
to retreat from Corinth down the Mobile and Ohio railroad
to a convenient place to reorganize the army for the raid into
Kentucky. Col. Marrast's health was seriously impaired, but,
with his usual determination to do his duty, he remained with
the army, although his servant had to assist him to mount his
horse every morning. He led his command in all the opera-
tions of the army until they reached Shelbyville on their re-
treat. Here he was taken violently ill, and was ordered home
for the fifth time, with an mdefinite furlough from Gen.
Bragg to remain until his health was restored. He gradually
grew worse, and was never able to go back to the army. In
December, 1863, he returned to Mobile, his old home, and
died there on the fourteenth day of the same month.
Col. Marrast was married December 14, 1849, at the home
of CoL John D. Waters, in Fort Bend County, Tex., to Miss
Harriet E. Waters, daughter of Maj. Philemon Waters, of
Mobile. Seven children were born to them, all of whom are
dead except the youngest son, Capt. Edwin King Marrast,
of Company K, First Volunteer of Immunes, in the late
Spanish war, with whom his mother now lives in Galveston,
Tex.
THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN— JACK MOORE.
BY CAPT. A. O. P. NICHOLSON, COLUMBIA, TENN.
In looking over back numbers of the 'Veteran I find an
excellent picture of my old friend, that chivalrous gentleman,
Col. Jack Moore, formerly of Centerville, Tenn. It brings to
memory trooping recollections of my soldier days, and es-
pecially of Jack's return home from Appomattox.
.^s a member of the gallant old Seventh Tennessee, Archer's
Brigade, he had followed the banner of that incomparable
leader. Gen. R. E. Lee, for four years, and when the surrender
came he was confined in one of the many hospitals of Vir-
ginia. It was customary on entering the hospital to take the
patient's clothes, and give him instead a long shirt and a pair
of woolen socks, until he was convalescent. Shirts were
scarce in those days, and die material out of which to make
them was scarcer; but the noble women, God bless them! had
given up their gowns and chemises to supply this deficiency,
and one of the latter had fallen to Jack. When it was learned
that Gen. Lee had surrendered, he decided he would make
an effort to get home ; but when he was ready to give up hi.s
hospital toggery, none of his old clothes could be found. Even
his hat and shoes were missing, and his entire wardrobe con-
sisted of this low-neck, sleeveless garment and a pair of
woolen socks. It was rather an airy costume, even for one
of Lee's veterans to start with on a four-hundred-mile march,
so Jack appealed to one of the lady patrons of the hospital,
and when did a Confederate soldier ever appeal to one in
vain? She replied that she would go home and see what she
could do. She returned with a pair of blue cottonade pants
and a wide-brimmed straw hat. The pants belonged to her
little fourteen-year-old brother, and the hat was her Sunday
one. She had plaited the straw and made it herself. After
a hard struggle Jack managed to get inside the pants. They
struck him just a little below the knees, leaving exposed a
liberal supply of bare legs and feet. They "fit like wall paper."
He landed some days later at the depot in Nashville ; and.
while he had added nothing to his traveling costume, he had
managed to "kill" some "snakes" with the boys (as taking a
drink in those days was termed) and was feeling "rich ana
reckless" as he walked up town. He walked in the middle
of the street, partly from habit and partly because the soft,
wet mud felt better to his bare feet than the pavement. Upon
reaching the ZoUicoffer Barracks (the Maxwell House), a
crowd of newsboys and bootblacks were close on his trail
and constantly calling to others to "come and see the wild
man." Jack headed straight for Sandy Carter's, indifferent
to the very marked attention being shown him. Saady Car-
ter's was a well-known resort before the war, where the old-
time gentlemen met to discuss politics, etc., over mint juleps.
The late Judge Joe Guild provided him with every need.
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Qopfcderate V/et8rai>.
THE CAPTURE OF HECKMAN'S BRIGADE.
W. M. Seay, sergeant Company E, Eleventh Virginia In-
fantry, wrote to E. G. Williams, of Waynesville, Mo. :
"In the May (1904) number of the Veteran there was an
article on the fight at Drewry's Bluff. Va., written in reply
to a comrade in another Virginia regiment, but with no ide.i
of provoking a controversy with any one, and certainly not
whh one from another State. As to my knowledge no other
troops had ever claimed the honor, nor had it ever been dis-
puted that Gen. Heckman and his brigade were captured by
Terry's Brigade of Virginians. No other troops crossed the
breastworks in front of Heckman's Brigade or participated
in any way in their capture, except, as mentioned in my
May letter, that the Alabamians were in our front and opened
the fight, but were repulsed before they reached the Yankee
works, and no disgrace attaclied to them, as they were met
by a galling fire from out of the fog, and many of their men
fell under it. Had the Virginians been the first to make the
attempt, they would probably have met the same fate; but
the fact remains that the Alabamians did not cross or reach
the fortifications that Terry's Brigade did, and Gen. Heck-
man and his brigade surrendered to the Virginians and
were sent back to Richmond as prisoners. Heckman's Bri-
gade have, since the war, prepared and published a history
of their command. I have not read it, but am told by those
who have that they give credit to the Vir.ginians for their
capture.
"W. B. Stansel, of Cardin, Ala., in the December Veteran
says that my May letter 'is incorrect as far as Grade's Bri-
,gade is concerned,' that 'the Tetith Alabama was not in Gra-
de's Brigade,' and that 'the battle was not fought on the
17th, but on the isth of May, 1864.' Now the date is not
very important, except to show which is the more reliable,
my memory, after forty years, or Comrade Stansei's 'diary,'
to which he refers in the matter. Certainly a diary kept by
a soldier in the field would not be infallible evidence as to
dates, for a great part of the time they hardly knew 'when
Sunday came,' to say nothing of the day of the month. It
is probable that Comrade Stansei's diary may have 'slipped
a cog.' I think my May letter said the l6th or 17th; but the
official records of the Union and Confederate armies show
that the principal engagement at Drewry's Bluff took place
on May 16, 1864, and add : 'There was some fighting of a
lesser magnitude in the same vicinity from May 12 to 15,
inclusive.'
"Comrade Stansel says that the Tentli Alabama Regiment
was not in Gracie's Brigade, Well, as !ie was in that bri-
gade, he must know ; but I thought then, and still think, that
the Tenth Alabama was in our immediate front. As Gen.
Grade was on the field, and knowing that he commanded
Alabamians, I supposed the Tenth belonged to liis command;
but if it was the Tenth, the Forty-First, or Forty-Ninth,
not one of them crossed the breastworks in front of Heck-
man's Brigade, unless they followed either the First, Seventh,
Eleventh, or Twenty-Fourth Virginia Regiment after they
had captured the works. We found the Yankees in their
trenches when we charged them, fighting until the last min-
ute. Comrade Stansel says the Forty-Ninth was on his right,
and failed to get to the works ; but lay down about a hun-
dred yards in front of the enemy, and kept up a heavy fire
until the last Yank in the works was either killed or sur-
rendered. Well, they must have been miles to the right of
Terry's Brigade and on the left of Heckman's, for a regiment
could not have lain down a hundred yard!; in front of Heck-
man's Brigade for ten minutes after the fight was on without
all being wiped ofif the face of the earth. If what I thought
was the Tenth Alabama was Comrade Stansei's Forty-Ninth
Alabama, then he nuist remember the effort made by Gen.
Grade to rally theiu after they had been repulsed, and the
language he used to them, which is not suitable for a Church
tract or Sunday school paper.
"But, after all, is it not probable that Comrade Stansel
and myself are writing of different battl. ■ or at least of
different parts of the field in the same battij? The man in
the ranks sees only what he is engaged in, and I was only
stating what I actually saw. Perhaps the Forty-First and
i-"orty-Ninth Alabama Regiments were a long way to our
light on that day (the i6th of May), and were probably en-
gaged in just as hot a fight where they lay down within a
hundred yards of the breastworks, as stated, until the Yan-
kees w'ho had not been killed or wounded surrendered.
"Perhaps Comrade Stansel has in mind some of the other
days, from the 12th to 15th of May, where there was fight-
ing of lesser magnitude. Be this as it may, I am not writ-
ing either a history of Gracie's Brigade or of the whole en-
.gagement at Drewry's Bluff, but am simply attempting to
describe in a crude manner that which I actually saw as a
part of that battle — the capture of Heckman's Brigade of
Federals by Terry's Brigade of Virginians.''
NOTED GEORGIANS IN THE CONFEDERACY.
BY JAMES R. ROGERS, CANE RIDGE, KY.
Fate seldom allots to a quiet citizen of a peaceful and in-
dependent occupation the rare opportunity of being an eye-
witnes,? of two of the most momentous events occurring in
the history of the American republic since the date of the
r.-cognition of the independence of the colonies by his Mai-
esty, George TIL
In i860 I was a spectator in the Congressional gallery at
Washington City, and saw the election of William Penning-
ton, of New Jersey, to the Speakership, the first Congres-
■sional victory of the Republican party. Less than one year
thereafter, February 4, 1861, I witnessed the first day's as-
semblage of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate
States at Montgomery, Ala. Some months in excess of four
years following I was marching in a division column under
orders to report at Lynchburg, Gen. Lee's objective point
when his lines were broken around Petersburg. Alas ! Ap-
pomattox intervened, and at Christiansburg, Va., that fatal
date of April 9, 1865, was confirmed, and thus I barely es-
caped possibly being present at the death.
My purpose is to give the readers of the Veteran what
f saw and heard on that eventful day, premising that not one
note was made ; and forty- four years have stormed and be-
leaguered the citadel of thought, but the memory of that his-
toric scene is vivid still.
I was most fortunate in securing a seat in the gallery im-
mediately over the central aisle of the hall, directly leading
to the Speaker's chair, overlooking the assembled wisdom,
character, and intellect of the representatives from the seven
Gulf States by the side of Judge A. B. Meeks, of handsome,
distinguished mien, yet affable, and to whose marked courtesy
and acquaintance with the distinguished men seated below
1 am indebted for the most interesting and eventful day of
my life. The legislative day was confined to organization.
There were no speeches. The opening prayer w, s not pro-
longed. The first motion was that the Hon. Robert Barn-
well, of South Carolina, be made teiriporary chairman, and
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his speech was simply a few words of thanks. The appear-
ance of the chairman, hi*; manner, and voice thoroughly an-
tagonized all my preconceptions, for I lived near the border
of Mason and Dixon's line with Whig antecedents, to which
party all my family recognized allegiance. This man's few
ntterances were deliberate and conversational, and his mode
of putting questions to the parliamentary body over which he
presided was so unique I have never heard it repeated :
"Those of you who favor the question, say aye ; contrariwise,
nu," each syllable softly accentuated. The first motion after
organization was perfected came from a delcg.ite far back
■in the hall, beneath the gallery where we were seated, a voice
the most marvelously modulated, penetrating, and incisive
tliat I ever heard, permeating the entire hall as clear-cut
as the crack of a lliree-inch rifle: "I move you, Mr. Chair-
man, that ilic roll of States, alphabetically arranged, be
called, an<l Ih.it each delegation appear at the Speaker's stand
;nul be sworn in.''
The galleries were clcctrilicd. 1 turned In Judge Mocks
with quickening pulse, and asked: "Who is that?" "Little
Alec Stephens, of Clcorgia." In the execution of this mo-
tion Alabama was called. After an interval of time there
appeared in the main aisle a delegate, then another, until it
was complete. Solemnity was deeply impressed upon the faces
ami movements of all present. The delegation finally .is-
scnililed in front cit the chairman, when the oath was admin-
istered. There were distinguished men in all the delegations
who were named and designated. That historic organization
composed of representative men, many of them having na-
tional reputations, blended in a harmonious body. The delega-
tion from the Kmpire State of the South was comprised of a
tiio of national renown, Toombs, Cobb, and Stephens. Then
lliore was al.so a trio of younger Georgians who were llu-
trjuals in ability, character, and genius of any men of the conti-
r.ent. I refer to Ben. Hill, Thomas R. R. Cobb, and Bartow.
W'lien Georgia was called by the secretary, there arose ;i
m 'ssive form, leonine head, with every lineament of face in
liicating power, thought, will, whom I recognized as Robert
I'oombs, having heard him on the tloor of the United States
Senate rise to a personal explanation and close with em-
phasis: "What is said is said." Next to join his ex-colleague
lit the Senate was ilowell Cobb, the accomplished Secretary
111 the Treasury under Buchanan. He was followed by
AlcNaiider H. Stephens ("Little Alec"), whose weight never
exceeded ninety pounds, but who in debate in the old Con-
gress was more feared than any man in it.
Fhen came rare Ben Hill, the greatest lawxer of his State
:nul the ablest defender of President Davis in the Confeder-
,11 e States Senate, the glorious eulogist of I'lc finest, purest
character of the nineteenth century, Robert E. Lee, and the
greatest political siieaker I ever heard. He was commissioucd
hy President Davis to arouse his people of Georgia from their
Iclhargy after the vandal hordes of Sherman had desecrated
u from Atlanta to the sea, and witli patriotic spirit was
.seeking to accomplish the Herculean task when .Appomattox
absolved him from his duty. In a conversation with a
I'viend who had been on the floor of the Lower House of
Congress for years I asked, "What member achieved the
greatest distinction in any prolonged debate witnessed in
your career?" and his ready response was, "Ben Hill in hi»
debate with Blaine on reconstruction." Who of the South
fails to recall that magnificent speech in which the sentiment
occurs : "This is our fathers' house, and we h.Tve come back
lo stav."
Then Thomas R. R. Cobb was an accomplished and most
successful lawyer and a friend of the great common people,
popular with all classes; a man whose ambition was to ac-
complish whatever he undertook. He dominated with his
mighty powers the sovereign State Convention, and became
the first delegate named by it for a seat in this Provisional
Congress. He early recognized that the post of honor and
duty was on the Virginia frontiers, and in .August following
he reported to President Davis, at the head of a legion, for
ciuty. He died gloriously in the battle of Fredericksburg, in
sight of his mother's ancestral home. 1 had not known of
him before, but his personality is indelibly impressed on my
memory.
Thomas S. Bartow, a lawyer of the first rank and a sol-
dier by nature, had for years been captain of one of the
crack companies of the South. He became Chairman of the
Committee on Military .\fTairs, and on May 21, i86i, this
company, the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, of Savannah, Ga.,
with Barlow in command, tendered their services to Presi-
dent Davis for the war, and were accepted. It was the first
organization of any arm of the service to enlist f;r the en-
tire period of the x. ar. By authority of a member of this
company to further perpetuate history. Private Holtnes, of
that city, was the first man to sign articles of enlistment, and
consequently was the first Confederate to enlist for the war.
The guns in possession of Capt. Bartow were the property
of the .Slate, and his Kxcellency. Gov. Brown, forbade their
transfer to \'irgiiiia, but the order was ignored. . . . He
fell at the battle of Manassas in the moment of victory, and
his last words were: "They have killed me, boys, but never
give up the field."
I append tlic following tribute to departed worth from
Private Averj', of the original company : "Bow the head,
reader, for we approach sacred ground. Gen. Francis S.
Bartow, the first great and distinguished martyr of the South-
ern cause, an acute, learned, and impassioned advocate, in
the prime of his faculties, trusted and respected by the Con-
federate leaders as a brilliant statesman and honest counselor.
Just in the prime of his faculties, rising at big bounds to dis-
tinction, ardent, chivalric, eloquent, he loomed out a strong
and growing figure upon the public canvas. Bold in de-
cision, ready in wit, magnanimous in character, generous
almost to extravagance, he was a royal gentleman."
OLD WAY OF HAPPY DAYS NOW DEAD.
Last nigh* 1 saw him in my changing dreams
The same strong face, the merry eyes of gray.
And we were roaming over fields where gleamed
The summer's glory over meadows gay.
1 .asl night 1 s,iw him as he used to stand.
V\'cll knit of frame, glad in his youthful might.
With kindly laughter, yet a matchless man,
\\ ho with the foremost waged life's tensest fight.
.\iid then the dreams passed, with their fruitless tears,
.\nd morning lit the distant hills of gray ;
1 woke lo walk throughout the coming years
Wilhout him whom I'd loved and lost for aye.
.\ncl yei, though morn revealed the broken band,
Tw? . sweet, though grief came when the dream had fled,
( )nce more with him in comradeship to stand.
In the old way of happy days now dead.
■ — O. G. C, in llie LaG range (Ga.) Graphic.
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BENTONVILLE (ARK.) CHAPTER, U. D. C.
BY MRS. W. T. DE SPAIN.
In the early summer of 1904 we organized the James H.
Berry Chapter, Ignited Daughters of the Confederacy, in
Bentonville, Ark., named for our grand old Senator and
liero, who has served us so well and whom we delight to
honor. Our Chapter now numbers forty members, and
is steadily growing. We are working hard that we may do
some honor to the brave heroes who fought for the "sweet
sunny South." Our ambition at present is to erect a monu-
ment to the soldiers of Benton County. There are many
here whose hairs are silvering with the frost of time.
"To the past go more dead faces
Every year,
As the loved leave vacant places
Every year,"
so we wish to have it finished ere life's sun has set.
One of Bentonville's citizens, a man devoted to the South,
has offered us twelve hundred dollars if we will duplicate
the amount, and to that end we are working.
Our President, Mrs. W. F. Patton, is a charming and en-
thusiastic woman deeply interested in our work, and she will
ultimately lead us to success.
CROSSES OF HONOR TO TEXAS VETERANS.
At Meridian, Tex., on January 29 the U. D. C. Chapter
of Bosque County, presented to the members of the Albert
Sidney Johnston Camp, U. C. V., crosses of honor. An
attractive programme was arranged for the occasion, which
was very much enjoyed by those present. It was pathetic to
see the look of patriotic pride and gratitude in the faces of
the old veterans as these evidences of their honorable service
in the Confederate army were pinned on their bosoms.
The ceremonies were presided over by Mrs. Ida Lumpkin,
President of the Chapter, and delightful and patriotic music
rendered by the Daughters. Mr. Cureton made the address
of welcome, in which he referred eloquently to the life of
Gen. Lee. Col. H. M. Dillard, of Bosque Valley, Tex., then
spoke on behalf of the Veterans as follows :
"Daughters of the Bosque County Chapter, U. D. C:
Speaking for the Confederate Veterans of Albert Sidney
Johnston Camp, No. 115, we thank you for this loving ex-
pression of your good will. Nothing so deeply touches the
heart of the Confederate soldier as to be remembered with
such manifestations of esteem. And what more beautiful and
expressive symbol could you have adopted than the cross?
It is the universal motto of endurance, virtue, and truth, and
took the saddest tragedy of earth to turn it from a badge of
infamy to a cross of glory. Wherever the tale of the manger
has been told, there it forms the apex to spires that rise
toward the heavens above us ; it adorns palaces and hangs
pendent from the breastplates of knights and the bosoms of
heroes, and in all lands is a siiggester of the immaculate
One who bore the ignominy that we might wear the crown.
"The Victorian Cross has ever been a coveted prize with
our brothers across the sea, but there it was the reward of
success and never of defeat. The Daughters of the South,
more gracious than the sceptered queen of the British Isles,
have reversed the royal decree by glorifying a cause that
furled its flags, stacked its arms, and put out the olive branch
of peace.
"Daughters, we will wear these crosses of honor, not to
perpetuate the memories of cruel wrongs, nor as tokens of
individual heroism upon the battlefields of the South, but
as reminders that devotion to duty is the highest ideal of the
Southern woman. None understood this principle better
than your mothers — the Confederate women of Confederate
times. What thrills of memory come back to us at the men-
tion of their names! How hallowed the recollection of all
the war deeds of her peerless life !
"And you are the lineal descendants of this noble line of
women — the sharers of their honors and their glories — and
nobly are you perpetuating the unselfishness of their beautiful
lives. .Ml honor to the Daughters of Texas! They are
filling bright pages with deeds of charity; they are rescuing
history from oblivion and creating a standard of Southern
womanhood that will distinguish the southern half of this
republic in all coming years.
"May the Father spare your lives until the full purposes
of your organization have been accomplished ! And when
you have finished your work here and congregate at the
pearly gates, may we, as old soldiers, so live that we can
meet you with glad hearts and welcoming hands to help you
into the Beautiful City!
"To you, my comrades in arms, I would say : Let us make
the significance of this cross the motto of our lives. Let us
show to the world that men who could pass unscathed through
four years of carnage, with all its brutalizing influences, and
then furl their flags unstained by treachery, can wear these
crosses of honor and lay them down at the grave unsoiled
and untarnished.
"Let us ever honor and most delicately respect Southern
womanhood, remembering that she was the inspirer of our
victories, the magnetic force that kept our faces stern to
the front until Fate bade us halt."
Col. Dillard concluded his beautiful address by expressions
of patriotism that should put to shame that bitter, awful
period of reconstruction.
FIRST ARKANSAS BRIGADE AT CHICKAMAUGA.
BY JOHN T. RONE, SPRING CREEK, TENN.
To Capts. J. D. Smith, Twenly-Fourlh Mississippi Regiment. ;ind J. \V.
Minnich, of Louisiana.
Gentlemen and Comrades: In the main you are both nearly
correct in your version in general detail of the First Arkansas
Brigade and Walthall's at Chickamauga. On Saturday morn-
ing (September ig) we were informed that our First Arkan-
sas Brigade was to be in reserve on the right of Gen. Braggfs
army in connection with Gen. Walthall. As to whether Gen.
Walthall requested to lead in a charge, I remember distinctly
when the command was given to dress on the colors and
load at will. Our skirmishers being now sharply engaged
with the enemy, Col. Loo Featherstone, of the Fifth, held
a short conversation with Gen. Walthall, his old friend. Col.
Featherstone was a former Mississippian, but had located in
Arkansas sometime before the war.
We had advanced but a short distance when we received
the enemy's fire, which proved quite severe, in which we
lost many men, including our brave Col. Loo Featherstone.
At this instant, through the great opening made by the
enemy's artillery through Featherstone's Fifth Arkansas Regi-
ment, Govan's Brigade, the gallant Walthall led our regiment
in the charge, at which time no general could have been more
calm and determined than Gen. Walthall.
Col. Featherstone received his fatal wound while bearing
the colors of his regiment (the color guards had all been
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killed or wounded), and he died soon after. Our loss was
quite heavy.
Yes, Comrade Minnich, tlie enemy's breastworks consisted,
as you said, of black-jack. The second or third discharge of
the enemy's artillery covered Gen. Walthall's horse with the
top of a black-jack tree, hence we were able to pass the gen-
eral while he was extricating himself from the brush. There
were no braver men than Walthall's Brigade, and they were
excellent troops.
Our First Arkansas Brigade was all through the war com-
manded by able generals. It was organized early in 1861
by that able general, W. J. Hardee. Its second commander
was St. John R. Liddell, of Louisiana ; its third, P. R. Cle-
burne; while its fourth and last commander was Gen. D. C.
Govan, who is now the only survivor. We had no better or
truer brigade commander than Gen. D. C. Govan. We were
detached from P. R. Cleburne's Division only for this battle.
I write especially to confirm that Gen. Walthall did lead the
Fifth Arkansas after onr Col. Featherstone fell I can only
give information of what occurred in front of Govan's Bri-
gade. My duty was first to my company, and then our regi-
ment. I knew every man in my regiment by name. There
are but few of the First Arkansas Brigade left, and so oi
Granbnry's Texans.
We shall soon join our comrades on the other shore.
That which we do must be done soon in the sight and fear of
our Grand Commander above. Then let us so live that wt
niav pass through that "beautiful gate" that ever stands ajar
to those who have lived uprightly.
WITH Cf.N. R. P.. LEE IN THE OLD ARMY.
Maj. George B. Cosby, Honorary Commander of Camp Pap
Price, addressed a letter on January 15, 1905. from Oakland,
Cal., to J. B. Moore, Active Commander of the Camp at
Colusa, in regard to the anniversary memorial to (ien. R. E.
Lee, in which he said :
"I especially regret that my physical condition bars me
from attending on such an occasion, as I loved and esteemed
R. E. Lee as the greatest soldier of modern times, and would
like to contribute my mite in doing honor to his memory.
Being unable to attend, I shall write of an incident relevant to
the occasion, and which may interest my comrades of the
Camp.
"I had the good fortune to belong to the Second Cavalry,
of which R. E. Lee was the lieutenant colonel. This regiment
became historic for furnishing during our sectional war the
largest number of celebrated officers of any regiment in the
service. When it was raised, the field officers were promoted
from the regular army and half of each grade from civil
life. Its field officers were Albert Sidney Johnston, Col. R,
E. Lee, lieutenant colonels ; George H. Thomas and Earl Van
Dorn, majors ; Palmer Richard Johnson, Kirby Smith, and
George Stoneman were among the captains ; Hood and Fitz-
hugh Lee, lieutenants. Xo officer promoted from the regular
army in the regiment held, at the close of the war, a less
^ank than that of brigadier general ; most of them higher
rank in the Federal or Confederate army.
"For some months before the war commenced. Gen. Lee
had command of Fort Mason, in Texas. I was stationed at
the same post, temporarily, in command of Company A
(Van Dorn's old company). Gen. Lee did not have his
family with him. I was a young bachelor, and rarely a day
passed that, when off duty, I did not visit him at his quarters.
Our mail came twice a week. We met and discussed the
news, especially and with deep intarest the war clouds that
grew thicker and darker each day.
"I do not recall an officer that favored secession ; all fer-
vently hoped that some compromise would be agreed to, but
were as helpless to stay the storm as we would be to st( ■)
the rush of Niagara's waters with our upturned hands. We
were a band of brothers ; our four years' stay at West Point,
coming as we did from North, South, East, and West, had
eliminated all sectional feeling, and each had learned that all
men were essentially good or bad, coming from whence they
might. At that school money was not a factor in a cadet's
standing with his fellows. They all dressed alike, fed alike,
and personal merit w-as the sole sesame to the esteem of his
fellows.
"When he entered the army, his orders took him to all sec-
tions, and association therewith destroyed every trace of preju-
dice. When I went there, I thought the sole business of Yan-
kees was to make wooden nutmegs and hams, and clocks that
would not run except when )'ou were looking at them ; and
yet. in a short time. I was rooming with a cadet from Massa-
chusetts, one from Ohio, and two from North Carolina, and
we all became lifelong friends. But to go on with my story :
"Gen. Lee sent me on some duty for a few days to San
Antonio, Tex. On my way back I stopped, as was our cus-
tom, at noon by a clear spring tlwt burst out near the road,
surrounded by grand old oaks which sent their inviting shade
to the ideal .spot. A few moments after arriving there, an
ambulance coming from the direction of the post stopped,
and, to my surprise. Gen. Lee dismounted. He met me cor-
dially, expressed in his usual dignified, yet pleasant, way his
pleasure that we should lunch together and have a talk.
When I expressed my surprise in seeing him, he told me that
Gen. Scott had ordered him to Washington.
"Knowing that Gen. Scott had an exalted opinion of Gen.
Lee's ability as a soldier, I at once surmised that he was
wanted to consult on a campaign against the South, in case
of a resort to arms, and told him so. He said he feared my
surmise was true ; and that if he found it so, he would decline
and resign. He further said he had confidence that Virginia
would not act on impulse, but would act as she had in the
past, and would exhaust every means consistent with honor to
avert civil war. That, if she failed and determined to secede,
he would ofTer her his services. That he had ever been taught
that his first allegfiance was due his mother State; that he
fervently hoped some agreement would be reached to avert
such a terrible war; and there was no personal sacrifice he
would not make to save his .beloved country from such a
dreadful calamity; but under no circumstance could he ever
bare his sword against Virginia's sons. As he spoke his emo-
tion brought tears to his eyes, and he turned away to avoid
showing this emotion, which was greater than he afterwards
showed w-hen he had lost or won some great battle.
"He bade me good-by, and I next" saw him when I reported
to him in Richmond. He had resigned, and Virginia had
placed him at the head of her troops. When I reported and
afterwards saw him at his rooms, he told me that many
in high places seemed to have no conception of the mag-
nitude of the gigantic struggle before us. The South was
totally unprepared for such a war ; had no navy, no powder
manufactories, or arms or other essentials. Everything had
to be created. But he believed our cause was just, and that
all were prepared to make any sacrifice, even to lose their
lives for it.
"He said that the night before a large and splendid regi-
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(;;^or>f2derate l/eteraQ,
nient had reported from Georgia without any arms. They
had been ordered to deposit their arms, such as they had,
in Georgia's Statehouse. This was only a small example of
ivhat he had at that time to contend with, but said we must
:l be discouraged by anything.
•'He ordered Hood and myself to report for duty to Gen.
Magruder at Yorktown, and that was the last time I ever
saw him. He further said on that occasion that, above all,
we must not underrate the Northern people, their courage or
ability. We were ail Americans, but hoped they would not
be as united as the South; for if united they would greatly
outnumber us and have facilities to supply everything an army
needed.
"I have written more than I anticipated, but the subject
opens all the cells 'where memory sleeps.' The more I write,
the more I recall.
"Another matter, among other unjust complaints made
against Gen. Lee, was that he was an ingrate and a traitor, be-
cause he had been educated at West Point by the nation.
In the amnesty measures graduates of that school were ex-
cepted. West Point is supported by the taxes raised in the
several States. Each has a cadet there for each of its Con-
gressmen; two at large there are given by the President,
usually the sons of army officers, who are supposed to have
no homes in their native States. Every cadet, as I remem-
ber, when he goes there takes an oath to serve the United
States eight years, unless sooner released.
"Now it was a notorious fact that the officers who offered
their resignations did so to take service with the Confederacy,
and all were accepted, and by that act were placed upon the
same footing as any other citizen. Had their resignations not
been received, those who went South would have been de-
serters; but when their resignations were accepted, they were
free to do as they pleased."
PERSONAL VISIT TO GEN. R. E. LEE.
BY DR. A. C. NORTH, NEWNAN, GA.
I have been much interested in reading "Recollections and
Letters of Gen. R. E. Lee" by Capt. R. E. Lee. I suppose
they are the more interesting to me because I had a slight
personal acquaintance with that grand and noble character.
After the seven days' battle we went to reenforce Stone-
wall Jackson at the second battle of Manassas. Our brigade.
Tige Anderson's (Longstreet's Corps), being in front, en-
gaged the enemy at Thoroughfare Gap. As we entered
the pass the First Georgia Regulars were in front. My
regiment, the Seventh Georgia, was just in the rear of the
Regulars. Very unexpectedly the enemy turned loose their
batteries upon our two regiments while in marching order,
killing and wounding fifty or sixty of our men.
I was left in charge of the wounded, and was ordered by
Dr. Jackson, of Richmond, our brigade surgeon, to remove
the wounded to Warrenton as soon as possible. In a short
time our men passed through the gap and reenforced the
army at Manassas, soon routing "Headquarters in the Saddle"
and his entire army. After the battle all of the wounded from
the battlefield were also taken to Warrenton.
I established my hospital in the First Baptist Church, and
remained there until Novepiber 20, when Gen. McClellan's
army captured the place, together with what wounded and
convalescent sick were left in the town. We were all paroled
arid sent to Washington City, from thence to City Point,
and, to use the Yankee slogan of war, then "on to Rich-
ijiD^df".)^,!, remained in the city a few days and made my re-
port to Surgeon General Moore. He ordered me to report to
Dr. Guild, Gen. Lee's medical director, at Fredericksburg,
where the army was then in winter quarters. I did so, and
through the kindly influence of Dr. Jackson in a note to
Dr. Guild I was sent back to my old regiment, the Seventh
Georgia.
As I was taking my leave of Dr. Guild he said : "You must
go to see Gen. Lee before you go back to your command."
I declined, as I had no business with him ; but Dr. Guild
urged me, saying that Gen. Lee would be glad to meet and
talk with me, as I had just come from the enemy's lines. He
pointed out Gen. Lee's tent, and as I approached it he was
standing in its door with one hand grasping the tent pole.
As I approached him I removed my hat and saluted him. He
returned the salute, and said to me : "My man, what can I
do for you?" I told him nothing, and explained that his
medical director, Dr. Guild, suggested that I call, as I had
been a prisoner five or six months, having been left with the
wounded at Warrenton after the second battle of Manassas.
He extended both hands, grasped mine, and said, "Doctor,
come in," and I walked into his tent. He gave me a camp
stool and sat upon another, and in two minutes I felt as
puich at ease as if I had been sitting by the side of my own
honored father. His simplicity of manner, his modesty, his
open countenance, and his grand, lofty bearing impressed me
that he was the grandest man in the universe. He talked at
some length of the wounded left at Warrenton, the rate of
mortality, etc., and seemed deeply interested in the condition
of his men left with the enemy. We conversed on various
subjects relating to the war. As to the enemy's numbers, he
asked me the question as to the strength of McClellan's army.
As I saw the entire army pass my hospital, I told him I
would in round numbers estimate it about one hundred thou-
sand men. As I was taking my leave of him I was further
impressed that a duplicate of that illustrious character would
never seen.
SAM ifAVIS AND OTHERS VISITED NASHVILLE.
BY DR. P. N. MATLOCK, KENTON, TENN.
On Thursday after the great battle of Chickamauga James
Castleman and myself, being members of Carter's Scouts,
were ordered to report to Gen. Bragg, and we received orders
from him to go on scout service on the Louisville and Nash-
ville railroad and ascertain the numbers of troops from Bow-
ling Green, Ky., to Nashville.
Gen. Bragg was very explicit in his directions, saying that
he did not send us within the enemy's lines to fight, but to
find out about the troops of the enemy, their numbers, and
all we could about their fortifications on the line of that rail-
road. When we returned to camp to prepare for our trip.
Col. Carter sent Mose Clift, Tom Brown, Elihu Scott, and
James Freeman with us to Wilson County, Tenn., for the
purpose of recruiting. They stopped at Meredith Saunders's,
near Sugg's Creek Camp Ground. We agreed with them that
we would return that way, so that we could go out together.
Castleman and I, in making our trip, had many narrow es-
capes. When we got back to Saunders's, where we had left
the boys, we found them well, and they had gathered about
fifteen recruits. Capt. Bob Withers was witli them, having
gone there to recruit his company. Withers was afterwards
made lieutenant colonel of Carter's Cavalry, with R. H. Dud-
ley, of Nashville, major.
Capt. Withers and our boys decided not to leave for foui
or five days, as other recruits were expected. Castleman and
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I decided to see our parents during this delay. Castleman's
home was on the east side of Stone's River from mine. Ho
lived about sixteen miles southeast from Nashville, and my
home was nine miles from Nashville, on the Miirfreesboro
Pike. We visited the Castleman family, and then started to
visit my home, leaving Mr. Castleman's about sundown. The
distance was about seven miles to my father's. The moon
was bright. When near the turnpike, we dismounted and
hitched our horses and slipped tn the pike, about a mile south
of father's. When we struck the pike, we saw some one run
across the pike about fifty yards from us, when we hailed
him and found it to be Sam Davis, a member of Coleman's
Scouts. His orders were to ascertain the number of troops
from Nashville to Decatur. Ala. We were glad to m^et Sam,
for Castleman and I both knew him well.
We had a long talk, going over some of our narrow escapes.
While we were together, Sam Davis suggested that we go to
Nashville, which we agreed to after going to my father's and
(inding wliat he knew about the pickets on the different roads
entering the city. We reached my father's about 9:30 o'clock,
and found Dr. A. P. Grimstcad, my uncle, there. He had
been to Nashville that day. We were informed that any one
could go to Nashville, but could not get out without a pass.
Father and uncle tried hard to persuade us not to go, ex-
plaining that, as we were all known there, some one would
recognize us. and we should be treated as spies. Tn the mean-
time my motlicr had prepared a midnight supper, and we ate
as Confederate soldiers and conversed with mother and sister^
for an hour or so. We decided to go to a cedar thicket south
of father's to sleep. My uncle (Dr. Grimstead) and father
said they would meet us next morning with breakfast and
citizens' coats for us. Father was to take care of our horses
while we were gone.
^ In the early morning we put on m\x citizens' coats, buckling
our six-shooters under them, and struck out for Nashville on
loot, but had not gone far until overtaken by a negro driving
a two-horse wagon. We got aboard and rode into the city.
The pickets were on the hill north of Brown's Creek, but they
did not pay any attention to us. When we reached Broad
Street, we got off of the wagon and went to the St. Cloud
Hotel, and paid fifteen dollars for a room for two days.
When in our room, we agreed never to be out of rcacli of
each other, and that if the worst should come to die rather
than surrender, and we would have done so.
We had about three hundred and fifty dollars in greenbacks
between u ■. After dinner we went out in town, and Castle-
man met a Mr. Watson, who recognized him ; but Watson
had brothers in the Confederate army, and he told us not to
be afraid of him, that he would do anything ho could for
us. We asked him to get some six-shooters, furnishing the
money, as he had told us tliat the Yankee soldiers would sell
any they had. We requested him to buy all he could, put
them in sacks, and place thom in a small outhouse in liis back
yard in South Nashville,
The first night in the city we wont to the public .square.
and found that some officers' ([uarters were in the courthouse.
Fvcry few minutes some ofiicer or soldier would ride up to
the courthouse, dismount, and go in. We soon decided that
that was the place to get horses to ride out of the city. Thr
second day we ate dinner at the same table with three Federal
generals, two of whom had been wounded in the battle of
Chickamauga. It was very amusing to us to hear them tell
about the battle and how the d — n Rebels fought. We wanted
to talk back, but we bit our lips and refrained from any dis-
cussion of the subject.
We saw a good many people we knew, but avoided letting
them know us. On the second day we decided to leave that
night. We purchased hats, boots, and ten pairs of spurs
{Texas style), and gave our old hats and boots to some
negroes. After dark we strolled over to the square, hoping
to secure horses to leave on. We did not have to wait long
before several were hitched around the courthouse. Each
one of us mounted a horse, and found on the saddle of each
horse two six-shooters. We marched single-file down Mar-
ket Street out to South Nashville to Mr. Watson's house.
He had bought forty-seven six-shooters, and had them in two
sacks. We strapped them to our saddles, and. thanking Mr.
Watson for his services, bade him good-by.
We went through what was then called Slate Town, be-
tween the l-cbanon and Murfreesboro Pikes, crossed Brown's
Creek between those pikes, and came onto the Murfreesboro
Pike near what was lii^n known as the Trabue place. We
arrived at father's about ten o'clock that night, and what a
happ>- crowd that was ready to greet us back, and not one
hurt ! Mother prepared us another midnight supper, after
which I kissed her good-by and we went to our cedar thicket
where we left our horses, father being with us. After taking
an invoice, we found that we had one more horse e.ich. new
hats, new boots, the new spurs, and fifty-three six-shooters,
in addition to what we had when we started into the city.
Sam Davis look his horse, four pairs of spurs, and eight of
ihe six-'booters. Castleman and I taking the rest. We then
<iparated. Sam Davis going to the neighborhood of Triune
to meet two of his company. I have an impression that they
were Tom Joplin and D. Jobe. but am not certain of that
That was the last time I ever saw that gallant hero.
Janies Castleman and I went to Meredith Saunders's to see
what had become of our boys. We found them all right, and
all delighted to see each other. We armed the recruits with
the pistols we got at Nashville, and next night we left foi
the front, made our report to fjcn. Bragg, and he thanked us
for what we had done.
I write this to add my testimony to two as gallant, fearless,
and honorable soldiers as ever lived — Sam Davis, of Cole-
man's Scouts, and James Castleman. of Carter's Scouts.
All know the story of Sam Davis and his marvelous sacri-
Ice. James Castleman lived through the war. T think his
\' idow and children live near Lavergne. Rutherford County.
CONFEDERATE SONS IN WASHINGTON.
The fourth annual dinner of Ansebn J, McLaurin Camp.
^'o. 305. United Sons of Confederate Veterans, in Washing-
inn, D, C. January 21. 1905. commemorated the birth of
.'^lonewall Jackson. Loyal Southerners from many States
ii.ithcred around the board, and every speech and song recilled
loving memories of the days "away down South in Dixi.',"
A delightful menu was served. Heroes of the Confederacy
-Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis — were the inspira-
tion.
The commandant of the Camp. Thomas Raleigh Raines,
served as toastmaster. He was presented with a handsomt
savcl of oak, bound with silver and suitalily inscribed. The
gavel was made from a rail of the fence surrounding the
Henry field on the battle of Bull Run. The presentation was
by Wallace Streeter.
The room was handsomely decorated. The stars and bars
fronted the stars and stripes, while on each side were tat-
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tered battle flags that had waved on bloody fields and the
flags of the several Confederate States.
The first speaker was John T. Callahan, Commander of
Camp No. 171, U. C. V., who recalled a number of stirring
incidents in the life of Stonewall Jackson, under whom he
served.
The following toasts were responded to : Walter H. Atkins,
"The Southern Girl ;" Dr. Clark, "Mississippi ;" Carl D. Shep-
pard, "The Press;" Lieut. Commander E. W. Kerr, "The
Tar Heel." W. E. Kam, of South Carolina, responded to the
toast to his native State. Alexander N. Breckinridge, In-
spector General of the Virginia Division, U. S. C. V., made a
witty and eloquent address, and other speeches were made by
other members and guests.
The officers of the Camp are: Thomas Raleigh Raines,
Commandant; Samuel D. Barr and Edwin W. Kerr, Jr..
Lieutenant Commanders; F. Russell Fravel, Adjutant; J.
Gardner Greene, Quartermaster; Oscar Wilkinson, Surgeon;
William B. Home, Treasurer ; Benjamin T. Raines, Historian ;
Gideon J. Pillow, Color Sergeant.
MONUMENT TO JOHN PELHAM.
A monument to the memory of "The Gallant Pelham" will
be unveiled at Anniston, Ala., on June 3 by Camp John H.
Caldwell, U. S. C. V. For the benefit of the fund for this
monument the Camp has for sale gavels made from the wood
of the room in which Pelham was born. The price is $2.50,
and a certificate is furnished guaranteeing that the gavel is
made as claimed. Orders may be sent to W. H. McKleroy,
President of the Anniston National Bank and Commander of
the local Camp, or to C. J. Owens, President of Anniston
College for Young Ladies and Comnumder of the Fifth Bri-
gade, U. S. C. V.
It is planned to make unveiling day a great patriotic
demonstration. Excursions will be run to the "model city,"
where a brigade reunion will be held and addresses be de-
livered by prominent Veterans and Sons.
Commander Owens is interested in procuring data on the
life of Pelham, and will very much appreciate any assistance
that can be rendered him in this w^ork. It will deal first with
his parentage, his boyhood, his West Point career, his war
record, reports, orders, etc., written by him and in which he is
mentioned, and poems, eulogies, etc. Doubtless many readers
of the Veteran can furnish something on one or more of
these points.
Mr. Owens is one of the committee appointed to raise funds
for the monument, is Adjutant of Camp Caldwell, Commander
of theFifth Alabama Brigade, U. S. C. V., and a member of
tlie staff of Gen. C. A. Evans, Commander of Army of Ten-
nessee Department, U. C. V.
OUR DEAD AT SHEPHERDSTOU'N, ]V. VA.
The list of Confederate dead in Elmwood Cemetery, Shep-
herdstown, W. Va., buried by the Shepherdstown Southern
Memorial .Association. (The letter in list indicates the com-
pany.)
Col. William Monaghan, Sixth Louisiana Regiment.
Capts. Redman Burke, scout to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart ; K.
Grigsby, A, 8th La. ; R. E. Clayton, F, 2d Miss. ; H. J. Smith,
D, Hampton's Legion.
Lieuts. W. H. Harvey, H, 21st Va. ; T. J. Witherspoon; H.
W. Boyd, C, 5th Tex. ; C. Wilson ; C. F. Lyon, A, 48th Va.
Sergeant Major Anderson, Fifth Florida Regiment.
Andrew Leopold; William Parran, M.D. ; William L. Over-
ton ; Sergt. Thompson ; Corporal D. Wallack, A, 22d Ga. ; A.
Miller, B, 52d N. C. ; J. Allen, K, 6th N. C. ; Amarsa P
Wright, C, 2ist Va. ; Patrick ; B. Thompson, 2d N. C. ;
J. W. Taylor, Jenkins's Brig. ; Sergt. J. Harlan ; S. M. York,
K, 8th Miss.; H. M. Clark, F, sth Fla.; D. T. Hood, La.
Art. ; F. M. Thompson, ist Ga. ; L. N. Farnshaw, D, sth
Fla. ; Andrew Kepley, I, 14th N. C. ; William T. Smith, I.
Ga. ; G. T. Warburton, Park's Art. ; J. N. Johnson ; P.
Waters, A, Sth La. ; Isaac F. Jones, soth Ga. ; G. W. Hoffler,
4th Tex.; M. G. Mal.in, isth Ga. ; M. B. Slaughter, nth
La.; W. E. Standifer, Ga.; A. Roller; J. M. Elliott, Hunts-
ville, Ala.; S. G. Thompson, K, sth N. C; W. H. McBride.
C, 3d Ga. ; E. P. Holliday, 5th N. C. ; John Gay, 31st Ga. ;
R. P. Cornell, I, 50th Ga. ; William Jebbo ; C. Eason, E.
33d N. C. ; J. A. Ogletree. I, 13th Ga, ; S. Canty, D, i6th S.
C. ; Sergt. S. Jones ; J. B. Stone ; J. McOnion, 12th Ga. ;
John Reinhart, B, S7th N. C. ; William B. Daniels, E, 55th
N. C. ; J. Tucker, 21st Ga. ; M. Banks, C, Hampton's Legion ;
William J. Newall, K, 12th Ala. ; D. S. Hood, Ga. ; J. Riggs,
F, 4th Tex.; J. Garden, F, 48th N. C; William D. Patten,
C, 1st N. C. : Addison Barnhart, B, 20th N. C. ; J. Edwards,
F, 2d N. C; William Ireland, C, 60th Ga. ; William A.
Cook, G, 31st Ga. ; William Eason, D, 2d N. C. ; William
Howell, K, 19th Miss. ; W. H. Merron, La. Guard Art. ;
T. W. Hornbuckle, 13th N. C. ; J. Deakins, Union Dist, N.
C; A. T. Wespot; O. Tew, C, 2d N. C. ; S. Robinson,
Brooke's Art., S. C. ; J. W. Perry, Ga. ; J. Bandy, 21st Miss.;
William Vaughn ; Edward Hoe, N. O., La. ; S. K. Ferrell,
Ga. ; J. H. Pratt, 30th Ga. ; J. N. Gageby, F, ist Va. Cav. ;
John Williams, Rockbridge.
RECORDS OF WAR TIMES FOR THE FAMILY.
Dr. B. F. Brittain writes from Arlington, Tex., to Mrs. F.
A. Fuller, of Jacksonville, Tex., an account of his arrest by
the Federals in East Tennessee and how he escaped. The
Veteran urges the making of such records, as they will all
add to the stories of our great war :
"Dear Daughter: In compliance with your request, I send
you a brief account of my arrest by some soldiers and camp
followers during the War between the States. On account
of disability, I had resigned my captaincy in the Confederate
army, and returned home on the Tennessee River, twenty-
five miles above Chattanooga. I was arrested at the time of
the battle of Chickamauga, and carried north of the river to
Pearson's Mill. Your Uncle Tom Edmundson and his son,
Euc, and a Mr. Dixon, who lived at Birchwood. two miles
from the river, were arrested at the same time. Pearson's
Mill was on Sale Creek, and some Pennsylvania Yankees
were in charge of the mill, grinding for their army. They
released Edmundson and his son, but retained me and Di.xon,
intending to send us to the Camp Chase (Ohio) prison.
When they released the Edmundsons, the Chickamauga battle
was raging. The Federals were beaten, and fell back to
Chattanooga. There was uneasiness among the men who
were guarding us, but they would give us no information
concerning the battle, except that a Pennsylvania soldier told
me the Federal army was defeated. I felt 'Hurrah for the
Confederates !' but did not dare say it.
"Well, I abhorred the idea of Camp Chase, and made up
my mind to escape from the Federal guard ; but I feigned
indifference about the matter. The September night was
cool. We were in a room of Abel Pearson's house, 10x12
feet. The seven guards to two prisoners were clever enough
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to let us occupy the only bed, while they lay on the floor.
Before going to bed I told the guard if they were going to
send me to Camp Chase I wished they would do so soon,
for if I had to go I should like to go right away. When I
retired for the night (?), I left my clothes scattered indis-
criminately about the room. I went to bed at ten or eleven
o'clock, but I lay awake until 3 a.m. watching an opportunity
to escape. The guards all went to sleep except Jim Foster,
who deserted from my company. It seemed an odd condi-
tion for this deserter to be my guard, but he treated me
nicely, though he did not intend to let me escape. While I
pretended to be asleep I kept one eye open, and snored on
until about three o'clock, when the guard on watch ventured
to lie down and soon began to snore.
"I awoke Dixon and told him I was going to leave there.
He was alarmed at the idea. I gathered up my clothes, and
put all on except my shoes, which I put in my overcoat
pockets. Dixon had not budged. I stepped over a sleeping
guard and got Dixon's clothes, and persuaded him to put
them on. I raised the chairs, which had been set back against
the door, and laid them on the bed. Just as I turned the
door bolt the guard awoke, but I lit out. Dixon stayed till
the guard got out in the yard to see after mo, when he told
them I was all right and would be back directly; but I was
making tracks toward Chattanooga. Dixon then broke from
the guard and ran. He waded Sale Creek while they were
firing at him. When they began firing at Dixon, thinking
they were aiming at me, I moved a little faster. I also waded
Sale Creek, reached the Tennessee River just at sunrise,
and found a canoe in which I crossed the river one mile
below my house. Gazing up the river to a lane leading to
the house, I discovered a man whom I took to be a Federal
soldier on my track, but behold ! it was Dixon. I peremp-
torily called out 'Halt!' Poor Dixon stopped and, standing
on one foot, gazed at nie. When he found who it was, he
ran to me like a child, exclaiming : 'My God ! I never ex-
pected to see you again.' He had found a canoe, crossed the
river at another place, and had traveled about eighteen or
twenty miles, while I had gone only about six. We got
breakfast at my house and he went to his home at Birch-
wood. The Yankees went there to arrest him, arriving while
he was at supper. He sprang from the table through the
only door to tlic room and into the dark. They fired as
he ran, but he was not hit.
"I never saw Dixon again, but heard that he moved to
Calhoun, McMinn County, Tenn., after the war, and died
there. Long afterwards I learned from Foster's mother,
whom I met on a steamboat below Nashville, that her son
thought a great deal of me. He told his fellow-guard the
night 1 escaped that they could all go after me who wanted
to, but if they did some of them would get killed, thus as
a friend scaring them out of the notion of trying to re-
arrest me."
THE SOUTHERN CROSS OF HONOR.
BY CAPT. JAMES M. m'CANN, nRHX.EPORT. W. VA.
The night is bitter cold upon the mountain top and the
enemy is near. The winter wind roars through the tortured
pines, and the frost in the heart of the maple tree rends it
asunder with a report like a revolver shot ; but the Southern
picket, without overcoat or gloves, walks his beat while the
army sleeps. Hungry, freezing, aind clothed in rags, he hears
the slightest sound, and the noiseless flight of the great Vir-
ginia owl among the tree tops does not escape his notice. He
owns neither land nor slaves ; he is only a hunter of the
Alleghanies, but his heart is with the Southland in her fight
for freedom ; and whether freezing in the snow on the moun-
tains or charging the enemy's guns in battle, no man who
ever wore the cross of the Legion of Honor was braver or
truer than he.
Spring is here ; the army has come down from its camp
among the pines and the snow, and is moving down the valley,
with Stonewall Jackson, on old Sorrel, at its head. Our picket
is here too, hungry and ragged still, but enlivening the
bivouac and march with jest and song. His shoes have disap-
peared, and in his footprints are seen the red stains of blood ;
but he sings the songs of Dixie Land, and on the battlefield
laughs in the skeleton face of death.
The mocking bird is singing in the willows by the stream ;
Stonewall is praying under the trees to the God of battles
for victory; the Federals are over the Rappahannock, three
to one, and Lee is marching his thin, gray lines to meet
them. "The sun is sinking into his couch of waters," when
there is a roar of cannon far away, the crash of musketry, and
the yell of Southern men. Stonewall is in their rear ! A single
brigade is pitted against an army corps, and is melting away
in the flame of the Federal guns. A regiment comes rushing
through the pines to its support. The colonel is a boy in
years, but a veteran of many battles. "Give them the bayo-
net!" he shouts, and the whole line dashes forward. His
horse goes down ; on foot, his cap on the point of his lifted
sword and the battle yell on his lips, he leads on his men.
His right arm falls helpless to his side; blood is dripping
from his finger tips, but he takes his sword in his other hand
and goes right forward. The color bearer of the regiment
falls, shot through the heart. A pale boy with a face like a
girl's seizes the staff before the battle cross and stars have
touched the earth, and, rushing on before his comrades, plants
the staff right in the front of the Federal line and stands
unharmed beside it in a storm of bullets with folded arms
and a smile upon his beardless lips. [I witnessed this event.]
The Southern yell drowns out the roar of the guns. Stone-
wall's whole corps is charging now through the gloom of the
dark pine woods; the Union right, broken and beaten, is
doubled back in utter rout upon their center, and the victory
is w-on.
A gray-haired man is now professor of Modern Literature
in a university of the South, and he wears on his breast the
Southern cross of honor. He was the color bearer who
waved his flag in the face of the foe on the battlefield of
Chancellorsville, where Stonewall Jackson won his last
great victory and then "crossed over the river to rest under
the shade of the trees." His colonel who led that desperate
charge is rich and crowned with honors now, but he is prouder
of his cross of bronze than of all the civic glories he has won.
Marching barefooted through the snow and sleet, bearing the
Southern colors in the front of battle, leading forlorn hopes
into the jaws of death, scouting within the enem)''s lines and
dipping bayonet point in the flames of Federal guns, bravest
where all are brave, is the way the Confederate veteran won
his cross of honor.
Wounded in the face at Chancellorsville, through the arm
at Gettysburg, he lost a leg at Spottsylvania, and is now in a
Confederate soldiers' home wearing with pride the Southern
cross of honor that his valor won.
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THE STORY OF A SONG.
BV FLORENCE GERALD, WACO, TEX.
It was during the last year of the great War between the
States that 1 was detailed one night to watch a certain South-
ern plantation within our lines, where it was supposed a young
officer on the Confederate side was in concealment.
It was the 24th of December; but in that mild climate of
Southern Georgia many a Christmas tide sees the roses still
blooming, and this was an unusually warm Southern winter.
My instructions were to watch the house closely and pre-
vent the escape of the young officer, who was suspected of
having valuable papers in Iiis possession. The only road that
it was possible for him to take without running straight into
the Union forces was the one that led to Brunswick, and that
it was my duty to guard.
It was a beautiful Southern night. The moon had gone
down about nine o'clock; but the stars shone out with their
million sparkling eyes, and from where I was stationed in the
thick tangle of shrubbery I could see in the distance the
quaint old house, a relic of colonial days, with its wide ve-
randas on every side, embowered in an evergreen, clambering
vine, that swayed to and fro in the breeze and etched fantas-
tic shadows on the white walls beyond.
The curtains were drawn aside from the windows on the
lower floor, and I could see several feminine figures, flitting
back and forth ; but there was no man among them, except
when an old negro servant entered and brought some refresh-
ments.
In spite of the nearness of the Union army these Confed-
erate beauties seemed to be enjoying themselves immensely,
for I could hear peals of girlish laughter and strains of music.
It was Christmas Eve, and I felt blue and lonely. I was only
four and twenty, and my thoughts flew back to a town far
away in Western New York, where my sweetheart was think-
ing of me doubtless that very night. I traversed in memory
the many happy hours we had spent together in the days
before the war had broken out. I watched those young girls,
laughing and talking, and wished that I was not an enemy,
but a friend at liberty to join them and get a few pleasant
hours out of life once more. For say what you will, war is
a terribly heartbreaking game, and many a loyal soldier has
felt on some lonely midnight watch just as I did then.
After a while the mirth of the party seemed to lag, when
one of them went to the piano and, after striking a few chords,
began playing "Kathleen Mavourneen;" the others joined in
the song, and their voices rose full and clear :
"Kathleen Mavourneen, the- gray dawn is breaking;
The horn of the hunter is heard o'er the hill ;
The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking;
Kathleen Mavourneen, what? slumbering still?"
There is a heart-breaking undercurrent of woe in that song
which has always touched nie, but more especially on that
night, for my thoughts had wandered already to the sweet-
heart with whom I had often sung those same \vords. Under
my breath I joined in the chorus :
"Kathleen Mavourneen, this day we must part ;
It may be for years and it may be forever ;
Awake from thy slumbers, thou queen of my heart!"
My sweetheart had sung it to me the night we had parted ;
to save me, I couldn't help it, the tears welled into my eyes,
and I wondered if Nellie, far away in that snow-bound New
York village, was thinking of her soldier boy and perhaps
singing "Kathleen l^lavourneen," to an accompaniment of tears,
just as [ was doing.
So engrossed was I in my own thoughts that I had not
noticed that two of the young girls had left the house and
were coming down the old-fashioned, box-edged walk until
they were quite near me. They were dressed in some white
clinging stuff that made them look quite ghostlike in the star-
light ; over their heads and shoulders were draped, in grace-
ful fashion, lace shawls that hid their faces from me. The
taller of the two had her arm around the other in school-
girl fashion.
They were still singing, and as they rambled past my hiding
place to the white gate in the shadow of the catalpa trees
beyond, the words of the song floated back to me :
"Kathleen Mavourneen, this day we must part !"
Well, I'm not ashamed to tell it, I lay there in the shadows
and cried. Not just a tear or two dashed away, but a gooil
lionest cry ; I was homesick, love-sick, and lonely. The music
which still floated, out from the house up there and the words
from those two sweet Southern voices quite upset me.
How long I sobbed there, I don't know ; the two figures
had disappeared at a bend in the walk; the song came fainter
and fainter; then it seemed to swell again, and I knew they
were returning. I crept a little closer to the hedge, in order
to get a glimpse of their faces. Nearer they came, but only
one was singing now, the soprano. I peered out from my
hiding place. The smaller of the two girls was coming back
alone ; she was not more than sixteen, and as pretty a creature
as I had ever seen. I held my breath, as she passed so near
me that I could have touched her dress.
I hadn't quite recovered from my fit of homesickness and
tears, and sat there watching her like one bewitched. She
passed me and soon disappeared in the house, the doors were
closed, and shortly every light went out.
That little sobbing spell had sent my wits woolgathering,
and for a moment I did not quite understand. Then I sat
up and realized the trick that had been played upon me.
The tall, willowy "young lady" (?) with the contralto voice
was the Confederate officer whom I had been sent to watch.
I felt decidedly cheap. I can tell you. So much for being
romantic ! I sneaked down to the gate, and, sure enough,
there were the fresh prints of horse's hoofs going toward
Brunswick. He was far away by this time.
I waited until morning, and reported at headquarters that 1
had not seen a man near the place, except the negro servant,
which was the exact truth ; but I fell very much chagrined
at having been so easily outwitted. If my eyes had not been
filled with tears over the memory of "Kathleen," I think I
should have detected that young inan.
Well, the winter passed, and with the spring came peace.
1 returned to my old home, feeling quite the hero. Alas!
in my absence faithless Nellie had married a wealthy old chap,
who had paid to send a substitute to fight in his place for his
country's glory. Oddly enough, they had been married on
the very Christmas Eve which I had spent on the Southern
plantation, thinking of her and "Kathleen Mavourneen" and
letting my man escape in consequence. My little romance had
tumbled about my ears with a vengeance.
At first I was inclined to be very bitter over the faithless-
ness of woman, and earned quite a reputation as a cynic
among my friends ; but an opportunity to go to New York
and enter upon my profession, civil engineering, soon of-
fered, and I accepted, glad to leave the old home.
In the excitement of making new friends and the arousing
of new ambitions the old ties grew weaker day by day, until
they were almost forgotten.
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111 the winter nf 1871 I was sent South by my firm, in
connection with some important business interests of the rail-
road that was being projected through Central Georgia to
Atlanta. As, upon my journey, I looked out on the moun-
tains of Tennessee and then, as we rushed southward, on the
yellow hills of Georgia, I thought of the soldiering days I
had spent in this same country : then the long-forgotten inci-
dent of "Kathleen Mavourneen" and the Christmas Eve on
the Southern plantation came back to me.
I was thirty-two years old now, and considered myself too
heart-hardened to indulge in romance ; but, in spite of myself,
there was just a faint mist before my eyes as I remembered
the scene, the soft Southern ni,clu. the music, the voices, and
the words of "Kathleen."
As one will sometimes do when following a train of tlunigbt.
my memory went on recalling all the incidents of that night.
I saw before me as plainly as I had seen it then the face of
the girl who had returned alone ; she must have been then
about sixteen, just budding into womanhood. "Right years
since then ; why, she would be only twenty-four now," I said
to myself, and then, laughing at my old love for romance
cropping up again, I turned to the more practical thoughts
of the work in front of me — that is, the new railroad to be
built with Northern capital, wliich would open up the ore
dcpof' ■ ' " — g:.i and create a Birmingham in the Southern
country.
Arriving in Atlanta. 1 was soon plunged into a thousand de-
tails of business, that effectually banished all romantic ideas
from my head. Atlanta, now one of the most prosperous
cities in the South, had just begun to awaken from that
lethargy into which it had been thrown by the disasters of
the war.
There were men of daring, though, who were anxious to
see the resources of their State developed, and I was soon on
excellent terms with all the progressive spirits of the city.
albeit I was a Northerner and had worn the blue.
I had been in Atlanta several months. It was nearly Christ-
mas, and the city was unusually gay with balls and parties.
I had resolutely kept from all social affairs, for my duties
were onerous, and I knew that my people in New York looked
to me to keep a strict eye on all the details of the scheme,
and these jovial Southerners were inclincil U< be very ex-
travagant, if allowed the opportunity.
But one day an invitation came which 1 decided to accept.
1 was tired of the everlasting grind of work, and felt that I
deserved some recreation. So on Christmas Eve I was ushered
into the drawing-room of Col. II 's beautiful home. There
were many of my business acquaintances present, and I had
no cause to feel my.scif an outsider, for I was presented to a
bevy of pretty women surrounding the wife of my host.
At the farther end of the drawing-room a lady was seated
at the piano. A silence fell upon the room as she began to
sing. The sad, sweet notes of "Kathleen Mavourneen" rang
out and hushed the low murnun- of conversation.
1 made my way through the throng nearer tn the sin.ger
and listened. The song had always been a favorite with me.
and, in spite of the faithlessness of my childhood's sweetheart.
I always remembered with pleasure the days we had sung it
together. There was something in the voice of the singer,
too, that stirred a familiar chord in my heart.
"Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking." My
memory is always playing me strange tricks; I was back
again in the old Southern garden, hiding in the shrubbery.
Suddenly I almost started 10 my feel. It was the same voice,
of course, onlv roniuler. fuller, more cultivated.
The song was finished. Several gentlemen crowded to the
lady's side and begged for another ; but no, she would not.
Some one sitting by my side confided to me that Miss Ellis
was the belle of Atlanta. She turned her face just then, and
1 saw how beautiful she was. And the same — the girl of the
Southern plantation. Yon can imagine my sensations. Then
1 caught a scrap of the conversation :
"I never sing that song that I do not think of a certain
incident- — dear me! It's just eight years ago to-night."
"Do tell us! Do tell us!" chorused the masculine voices.
So, laughingly, she recounted the incident, which I had such
good cause to remember.
Her brother had made his escape from the house in woman's
dress ; a faithful negro servant had been waiting at the gate
with his horse. While she was standing there singing he had
thrown otf his disguise and ridden away.
"O. but that walk back to the house alone ! 1 had to keep
on singing to carry out the trick, but my heart was throbbing
so violently that I could hardly articulate. I knew that the
Yankee soldier was hidden .somewhere near in the shadow
of the trees, and that if I faltered or broke down, which once
1 was near doin.g. he would instantly suspect the deception
1 had visions of being arrested and shot. When I reached the
inside of the hall door 1 fainted in my mother's arms."
"It was certainly n clever trick," said some one, "and
bravely carried out. I don 1 suppose that the soldier ever sus-
pected you for one moment."
"I don't know. Old Pete reported that he remained watch-
ing the house until dawn, and then lettn-ned to camp. He
must have wondered, though, where that other girl who had
accompanied me from th : house disappeared to so suddenly."
Col. H , my host, was near me. 1 whispered my request
to him and was presented to Miss Ellis.
"That was a very interesting story of yours. Miss Ellis.
Would you like to hear the sequel ?"
She looked at me rather puzzled.
"T was the 'S'ankee soldier who watched you that night,
.•\nd I knew perfectly well what had become of the tall young
lady — that is. I knew when it was too late."
There were many "O's !" and "Dear nie's !" of wonder at
Ibis odd termination. Miss Ellis at first laughed rather con-
strainedly, but when I held out my hand, saying, "We arc
no longer enemies, but friends, I hope," she gave me hers
in return, with a warm clasp that sent a decided thrill through
me.
Then I told her my side of the story: how homesick I was
ihat night and how the song had touched my heart and left
me crying like a child. A bond of good fellowship was es-
tablished at once between us. She was just a bit imperious
with her many admirers, but to me she was unusually gracious.
Before a week had passed I was heels over head in love.
When people tell you that a man's first love is his strongest
don't believe one word of it. It isn't! Why, I was simply
crazy this time. That first milk-and-water aflfair with faith-
less Nellie seemed lil.e the remembrance of a nursery rhyme.
I sang or humi -od "Kathleen Mavourneen" until I nearly
drove every one al the office to the brink of nervous prostra-
tion. If Kate Ellis had refused me, I think I should have
left Atlantic at once and let the building of that railroad go
to— well, hades. But she said "yes," bless her dear heart!
.\nd a sweeter, lovelier wife no man was ever blessed with.
We've been married over twenty-five years now, but when she
sings "Kathleen Mavourneen" I feel that same old mist steal
over niv eves as in the davs of sixtv-three. — Tinirs . einocal.
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Deaths in Nassau Camp, Fernandina.
"I have a painful duty to perform in sending you the names
of the following deceased members of our little Camp, U. C.
V. (No. 104), at Nassau, only thirty-four strong," writes
Gen. W. D. Ballentine, of Fernandina, who is Commander of
the Florida Division, U. C. V.
"John Hughes. — Born in Ireland; enlisted in the Twenty-
Sixth Georgia Regiment in August, 1861 ; transferred to
Mosby's Battalion in the fall of 1862 ; a gallant soldier and
a good citizen ; for many years a resident of Nassau County,
Fla. ; died in August, 1904.
"M. L. Mershon. — Born in Jefferson County, Fla. ; enlisted
in the Third Florida Regiment in August, 1861 ; served to the
end of the war in that command as a private soldier. Re-
turning home in 1865, he studied law, was admitted to the
bar, and became a distinguished jurist, attaining a judgeship
in the Southern circuit of Georgia. He practiced in Geor-
gia and Florida, always with distinction. He died in Fer-
nandina, Fla., November 4, 1904, aged sixty-three, regretted
by Nassau Camp, No. 104, and many friends.
"/. H. loncs. — Born in Nassau County, Fla. ; served
through the war in the Second Florida Cavalry in his native
State. He was for many years tax collector of his native
county, and at his death held that office. He died October
29, 1904, aged sixty years, within a half mile of his birth-
place, leaving behind him a large family.
"Cal't. T. B. Livingston. — Born in Madison County, Fla. ;
removed with his parents to Fernandina, Fla., prior to the
war; enlisted in 1861 (in what afterwards became Company
H, of the Eighth Florida Infantry) at the age of nineteen;
saw much hard service in the Florida Brigade in the Army
of Northern Virginia. He became captain in his twenty-
second year, promoted for distinguished service. He was
very severely wounded at Gettysburg July 2, 1863. Being left
at the Seminary Hospital, he was captured and, when able to
he moved, sent to Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, and after-
wards to Fort Delaware. He was released after the sur-
render. He left a wife and four grown children, three sons
and one daughter. He was a Past Commander of Nassau
Camp, No. 104, U. C. V., and always took an active part«n
the meetings of the Camp. He died at the age of sixty-three."
Maj. W. K. Perrin.
"A few days ago," writes J. N. Stubbs, of Wood's Cross
Roads, Gloucester County, Va., "we followed to the silent
tomb another old Confederate veteran, William K. Perrin,
major of the Twenty-Sixth Regiment of Virginia Infantry,
Wise's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. Maj. Perrin
commanded his regiment for more than twelve months before
the close of the war with conspicuous gallantry, and with the
small remnant of his regiment received his diploma as one
of Lee's graduates at Appomattox C. H.
"Maj. Perrin enlisted in April, 1861, as captain of a com-
pany from Gloucester County, and was promoted to major of
the regiment. He was devoted to the Confederate cause.
After he had performed his duty so gallantly and so well, he
came back to his home to meet a devoted mother and friends,
and spent much of his time and contributed from his small
means to aid in building a monument to the Confederate dead
on the square at Gloucester C. H., in organizing and support-
ing a Camp of Confederate veterans, and erecting a tablet on
the walls of our court room to the memory of our county
Confederate women (1861-65), which was erected in Novem-
ber, last, on which occasion he said : T am glad I have lived
to see the tablet erected and unveiled.'
"His brilliant record as a Confederate was in keeping with
his high character as a man, a Virginian, a citizen, and a
friend, for
'None knew him but to love him ;
None named him but to praise.'
His people honored him with county offices and the position
of State Senator from this Senatorial district, and in every
position he discharged the duties with ability and fidelity.
"After passing the mark of three score years and ten he
was striken down with paralysis, and lingered but a few days,
and now the winter's snow bedecks the new-made grave where
rests one of our best friends."
Harlow William Perrow.
Harlow William Perrow was born November 21, 1837, in
Lovingston, Nelson County. Va. ; and died April 7, 1904, at
Noeton, Grainger Cou; ly, Tenn., aged sixty-six years. He
was educated in Baltimore, Md., intending to make law his
profession, but the
tocsin of war
sounded, when he
joined the NelsoTi
Rangers, Com-
pany B, Eighth
Virginia Cavalry,
Confederate army.
He served in
Southwest Vir-
ginia and West
Virginia under
Gen. John B.
Floyd, afterwards
in Tennessee
under Gen. Wil-
liam E. Jones
("Night Hawk").
He was again
transferred t o
Virginia, and
served under Gen.
Bradley T. John-
son ; was taken
prisoner at Lynch-
burg, Va., when Hunter made his raid, but soon made his
escape and rejoined his command; had charge of a courier
line, operating between Bull's Gap and Bristol, Tenn., during
the campaign of the winter of 1863-64, also serving as first
lieutenant of his company. He served the full four years
of the great war.
Comrade Perrow was of revolutionary descent. On the
maternal side the family date their ancestry back to thq
HARLOW WILLIAM PERROW.
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Norman Conquest, 1066. On the paternal side they were
Huguenots, who, with others, settled on the James River,
near Richmond, Va., on a grant of land given by William,
Prince of Orange. A great-grandfather belonged to the
Dragoons, under Gen. William Washington, and was in the
battles of Guilford C. H., Cowpens, Eutaw Springs, and
others, a grandfather served in the war of 1S12, and two
brothers in the Confederate army.
In 1869 Comrade Perrow was married to Mrs. Willie A.
Johnson (nee Graham), of Lynchburg, Va. He removed
to Tennessee twenty years ago, where he resided afterwards.
The remains were interred in New Gray Cemetery, Knox-
ville, Tenn.. under the auspices of W. B. Tate Camp, U. C. V.,
of Morristown, of which he was a member. He left a wife
and several children to mourn their loss.
Capt. M a. Mll.l.F.R.
After a life full of years, usefulness, and honor Capt. M.
A. Miller died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. R. Vaw-
ter, in Richmond, Va.. on December 16, 1904, on his seventy-
fourth birthday.
Capt. Miller was the son of Gen. Thomas Craig Miller, of
the War of 181 2, and was born near Gettysburg. Pa., on his
father's farm (now the National Cemetery), December 16,
1830. After leaving college he settled in Virginia, following
his profession of civil and mining engineer, being connected
with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and locating the Orange
and Alexandria road.
At the outbreak of the war he was living in Memphis,
Tenn., and was engaged as assistant city engineer. He went
into the Confederate army proniplly as orderly sergeant in a
company of "sappers and miners." under Capt. Pickett, and
CAPT. M. A. MILLER.
was engaged on the various fortifications on the Mississippi
River as lieutenant of engineers.
In 1862 he was captured by the Federals in the city of
Memphis, tried by court-martial under orders of Gen. W. T.
Sherman, who visited him in person while confined in the
military prison, and sentenced to be shot. He was confined
in prison six weeks. Four day; before the day fixed for his
execution he made his escape from the prison and the city
and rejoined the Confederates in Mississippi. He then went
to Northwestern Arkansas, where he was engaged in making
saltpeter from the nitrates In the limestone caves, to be used
in the manufacture of gunpowder, and in mining lead for
the Confederate governinent. When the Federal forces oc-
cupied this part of .Arkansas, he went to Little Rock, where
his family, having escaped from Memphis, joined him. He
was here but a short time when the Confederates were forced
to vacate the city. He then took his family to Shreveport.
La., where he was engaged in the engineering department ot
the army, with the rank of captain.
After the close of the war he returned to Virginia, where
he resumed his profession. In February, 1870, he accepted a
position "1 charge of the right of way of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad Company, which position he retained until
April, 1884. resigning it to accept a position as chief engineer
with the Trans-Flat Land Association of West Virginia. In
the summer of 1891 he took the position of General Land
Agent of the Flat-Top Coal Land Association, the Trans-
Flat Top Land Association, and the North Flat-Top Land
Association. This position he held until 1903, when he was
retired from active duties of the association, though holding
his position on a life salary until the time of his death, having
been with the association over twenty years.
Jack O'Donnell.
When Christmas bells were ringing throughout the world
in 1904, the spirit of Comrade Jack O'Donnel passed from
earth. In the memory of friends left behind will be his many
acts of kindness, his unfailing good humor, no matter how
unpleasant were his surroundings, and his willingness to
volunteer on any dangerous mission during his service for
the Confederacy.
Jack O'Donnell joined Capt. N. C. Gould's company, one
of the first to leave Red River County, Tex., for the war.
which went overland to Memphis and joined Col. N. B. For-
rest, and was with him during his raid through Kentucky.
O'Donnell was one of a detachment of picked men who made
a descent on the Ohio River and captured a lot of supplies
landed by a Yankee transport. He was with Forrest on a
raid for thirteen days and nights without shelter of any kind,
and dependent entirely upon citizens to feed his men. He
was with his company at Fort Donelson, surrendering with a
portion of it then under command of Lieut. M. L. Sims,
and was sent with others to Camp Butler, kept a prisoner for
seven months, and then exchanged at Vicksburg. When a
new company was organized, Lieut. Sims was elected captain,
and took with him the remnant of his old company, including
O'Donnell, and served under Col. Gould, of the Twenty-Third
Texas Cavalry.
After the war Comrade O'Domiell returned to Red River
County, settling near Elbow Lake, on Sidphur River. In
that wild, unsettled country he led a life which endeared him
to all with whom he came in contact. He shared his hospi-
tality with all without price, and in his dealings with others
his word was bis bond. To know him was to love him. He
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was ever a welcome guest in the homes of his old comrades,
and the sons and daughters of the "Old Guard" knew and
loved "Uncle Jack" for his gentle, kindly ways.
Jack O'Donnell was born in Ireland in July, 1825. and
emigrated to America in 1851. Though he never forgot the
land of his birth, he served faithfully and well the land of
his adoption. He was a faithful member of Camp John C.
Burks, at Clarksville, Tex.
Charles Lofland.
The recent death of Charles Lofland, of Paducah, Ky., takes
from the ranks a faithful comrade and friend. He was a
native of Tennessee, but for many years had been an em-
ployee of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad at Padu-
cah; and under his newspaper name of "Mileage" he was
w-idely known as a writer of ability. He served the Confedera-
cy in the Forty-Ninth Tennessee Infantry, and was crippled
for life at Shiloh. Comrades will remember him at different
Shiloh reunions, for which he composed some poems and
addresses and which he attended with the greatest interest.
His disposition was of the genial, social kind. In his younger
days he was an actor, and was said to have played minor
parts in Edwin Booth's company many years ago. His loyalty
to the cause for which he fought never wavered. His death
occurred suddenly on the 27th of August, 1904.
James Newton Daugherty.
James N. Daugherty was born in Mecklenburg County, N.
C, January 26, 1838; and died at the Confederate Home in
.\ustin, Tex., on October ri, 1904. He entered the Confed-
erate army at Selma, Ala., as a member of Capt. Kent's com-
pany, whose members offered themselves to the service of
their country on the day that Alabama seceded. They first
went to Fort Morgan and then to Richmond, Va., where was
organized the Eighth Alabama Infantry. Comrade Daugherty
endured hard service ; he was in many battles and skirmishes,
and at Seven Pines was shot down and captured by the
enemy. By this wound he lost a leg and was a prisoner for
quite a while, but was exchanged and discharged from serv-
ice. He was a member of Ben McCulloch Camp, of Mt.
Vernon, Tex., and an honored citizen of that comnumity.
W. A. Warner.
Mr. W. A. Warner died at his home, in Meridian, Miss.,
December 29, 1904. He was a member of Company C,
Fortieth Alabama Regiment, organized at Livingston, .Ma.,
in March. 1862. This regiment was of Moore's Brigade,
Forney's Division.
His. captain, W. A. C. Jones, wrote to Comrade Warner
in 189s, saying that he was a good and faithful soldier from
the time of his enlistment, in 1862, until discharged as a
prisoner of war at Point Lookout, Md., June 29. 1865. He
was captured at Vicksburg and again at Bentonville, N. C.
He was always loyal to the great cause, and ho man was
prouder of his service for the Southland. He was generous
to a fault, and no comrade ever appealed to hir." in vain. He
treasured the principles for which he had fought and suffered.
He was born at Canton, Miss., and was sixty years old.
He left a wife and an accomplished daughter.
M. V. Callan.
M. V. Callan died at Mosheim, Tex., about December i,
1904. He was from Cherokee, Ala., and enlisted in the Con-
federate army during May, t86i. in Capt. J R. Hart's compa-
ny, which was made up along the line between .\labama and
Georgia. The company was mustered into service at Lynch-
burg, Va., and was sent on to Richmond, where it became a
part of the Twenty-First Georgia Infantry under Capt. John
T. Murser. The company was not armed till after the battle
of Manassas, when arms were gathered from that battlefield
and used for the troops. Comrade Callan's. first fight was
at Perryville, Ky., which was followed by many others, the
most notable of which was Chickamauga ; was on the re-
treat to Jonesboro, with Hood also, and participated in the
last fight in North Carolina. He returned to his home in
Alabama after all was over, moving thence to Bosque County,
Tex., in a few years, where he made for himself a reputa-
tion as an upright citizen and Christian gentleman. His wife
and family mourn the loss of a loving husband and father.
Richard Burger.
For twenty-five years Comrade Dick Burger has attended
and enjoyed reunions of the Texas Rangers ; but among them
his face will be seen no more, and when the remnant of this
gallant band shall again
take each other by the
hand they will speak
softly and tenderly of
the comrade who is gone.
Death came to him on
January 9, 1905, at Bas-
trop, Tex., in his sixty-
second year. He was
born in Dresden, Ger-
many, and became a citi-
zen of Bastrop, Tex., in
i8ss, enlisting in Com-
pany D, Eighth Texas
Cavalry, Terry's Ran-
gers, on August 31, 1861.
By a singular coinci-
RiCHARD BURGER. dcnce he reached his
home on exactly the same date four years later. He was
twice wounded, at Eagleville and Mossy Creek, Tenn., in the
year of 1863. All who knew this comrade were his friends.
He was a true and brave soldier, exemplary citizen, and
Christian gentleman.
Wife of Col, G. W. Baylor.
There are many readers of the Veteran who will remem-
lier Col. George W. Baylor, commander of Company A.
Texas Rangers. A recent letter from him to the Veteran
gives the sad intelligence of the loss of his wife and eldest
daughter, leaving him with but one child. Miss Mary, as
solace for his advancing years. His daughter, Mrs. H. M.
Lee, died at Monterey, Mex., in May, 1903, and Mrs. Baylor
in April of 1904. She was Miss Sallie Garland, daughter of
Col. John Seabrook Sydnor, who was one of the founders of
Galveston, Tex., its Mayor at one time, and always one of its
most enterprising citizens, doing much to build up and im-
prove the city.
Col. Baylor writes that his health is now better than for
years past. He will be glad to hear from any comrades.
Jerry Keathley answered the last roll call on the 21st of
December. 1904. He served in the Twelfth Tennessee Cav-
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Caft. Fergus S. Harris.
Fergus S. Harris was born in Wilson County, Tenn., May
20, 1S40; and died at St. Luke's Hospital, Jacksonville, Fla.,
January 24, 1905. His remains were brought back to Nasli-
ville, Tenn., his home, and interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
On the 20th of May, 1861, Comrade Harris enlisted as a
private in Company H, Seventh Tennessee Infantry (Col.
Hatton), and was sent to Virginia, where his regiment be-
came a part of Archer's Brigade, A. P. Hill's Division, Stone-
wall Jackson's Corps. With this command he served until
the surrender, leading with his battalion of sharpshooters one
of the last desperate charges made by Lee's "incomparable
infantry," in which he received his eighth and last wound.
From a private he had won each grade up to captain by his
conspicuous courage and soldierly qualities, and would have
been promoted to major for his last gallant act had the sur-
render of Gen. Lee's army not followed so soon after. Capt.
Harris was surrendered in the hospital at Appomattox. The
severest battles in which he participated, and where he re-
ceived his other wounds, were : Seven Pmes, wounded in
shoulder; Seven Days' Battle aronnd Richmond, wounded in
hip; Manassas, wounded twice in breast seriously; Fredericks-
burg, wounded in side and promoted to lieutenant; Chancel-
lorsvillc; Gettysburg, wounded in foot and head in Pickett's
charge and promoted to first lieutenant; Mine Run.
One of the most deserved and appreciated compliments paid
him was by Maj. Gen. Harry Hcth in a letter to him after
the war, in which lie wrote; "Your gallant and well-disciplined
sharpshooters, plowing their way in advance of the grand
old Tennessee Brij^ade during the long campaign from the
Wilderness to Appomaf.ox, was to me a familiar sight in
every battle. I remember well the desperate charge made by
McComb's brigade (Archer's old brigade) on that fatal Sun-
day morning, April 2, 1865, when you threw your little battal-
ion of sharpshooters against a division of advancing Federals,
(CXPT. JOHN ALLEN. GKN. m'cOMB.) CAI'T. F. S. HARRIS.
and nothing but the most desperate fighting saved you from
annihilation. I also remember Gen. McComb's calling on
me later in the day and telling me you were fatally wounded."
Returning home after the war, Capt. Harris engaged for
a time in mercantile business. In 1868 he married Miss
Fannie Davis, of Lebanon, who, with two children, survives
him. He was a member of the Christian Church, a public-
spirited, progressive citizen, deeply interested in the pros-
perity of his people and advancing the interests of his State.
At one time he was a prominent State official, and under Mr.
Cleveland's administration was land commissioner in Okla-
homa from 1892 to 1895. He was one of the charter mem-
bers of Frank Cheatham Bivouac and one of its Presidents,
and a member of Baldwin Commandery, Knights Templar, of
Lebanon, Tenn.
The following letter, written to a young friend in this city
sometime back, shows the modesty of the man when re-
ferring to his own conduct on tlie battlefield ; but it also shows
where he was when the fate of the Confederacy was being
decided on the heights of Gettysburg: "I have a rose plucked
from 'high tide at Gettysburg,' which I inclose to you. Wish
I could send it fresh. I cut it at the point (or near) which I
reached in the charge on that memorable and fateful day.
The battlefield commission were kind to me, and when we
reached Cemetery Ridge pointed out where Archer's Tennes-
seeans scaled the stone wall. When I found that that old bri-
gade had at last received proper recognition, I had to shed
a few tears. We visited 'Devil's Den' and Round Top, and,
in fact, every point. I went to the point where I saw a mem-
ber of Col. Shepard's old company (G), Seventh Tennessee,
torn to pieces by a bursting shell. A man was plowing there
at the moment we reached it. I pointed out the spot. The
plowman plunged his long, pointed plow very deep, saying:
'I will get you a relic there.' When his plow passed the
identical spot, he brought to the surface a piece of shell. I
am satisfied, from the very nature of the circumstance, that
this piece of .shell killed this brave Tennesseean."
Gallant old comrade, may the sod of your beloved Tennes-
see rest lightly over your fearless heart, and roses, fresh
roses, ever shower their fragrance around the spot, for "a
hero is resting there!"
Mrs. Caroline E. W. McGavock.
Died, at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. George L. Cowan,
near Franklin, Tenn., on the 22d of February, 1905, Mrs.
Caroline E. W. McGavock, in the seventy-sixth year of her
age.
A brief sketch of her life comes from Rev. James H. Mc
Neilly, of Nashville :
"Caroline Elizabeth Winder was born near Natchez, Miss.,
September 9, 1829; but in her infancy she was removed with
her parents to their plantation in Louisiana, west of New
Orleans, where she was brought up. Her mother was a
daughter of the Hon. Felix Grundy, the great lawyer and
Senator of Tennessee. She ever enjoyed the advantages of
wealth and high social position, and she received the best in-
tellectual and moral training according to the ideals and
standards of the Presbyterian Church, of which the family
were members.
"On December 6, 1846, she was united in marriage to Col.
John McGavock, of Franklin, Tenn., and came to his home, .
Carnston, where she spent the remainder of her life, nearly
sixty years. This fine old home, under her care, was for half
a century the center of the most lavish and generous hospi-
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tality. She and her husband were true types of the old-time
Southerners, warm in heart, genial in manner, refined in
sentiment, abundant in kindness.
"It w.Ts around Carnston that the dreadful battle of
Franklin was fought, November 30, 1864, and the grand old
home was filled with the wounded, to whom Col. McGavock
and his wife ministered with all their resources. On the
morning after the battle five Confederate generals lay dead
on the wide gallery of the house. For weeks these good
Samaritans nursed the wounded, cared for the dying, and
buried tlie dead.
"When the war was over. Col. McGavock gave the beauti-
ful cemetery, in which are gathered the bodies of the heroic
soldiers who fell on that fatal field. The care of this resting
place for heroism was a sacred duty to Mrs. McGavock until
the end of her life. The Confederate Veterans can never for-
get her.
"She was an active member of the Presbyterian Church at
Franklin for fifty-nine years, and, like her divine Master, she
went about doing good. Her charities were constant and
unostentatious — to white and black. Her ear was ever open
to the cry of need, and her hand ever ready to help. She
brought up in her home thirteen orphan children, who be-
came good and useful men and women. Her servants were
devoted to her, and there were no more sincere mourners
at her funeral. A great concourse of relatives and friends
attended the funeral, which was held in the old homestead.
The great rooms, broad halls, and wide porches were filled
with a sorrowful multitude, many of them old soldiers. The
service was very simple, according to her own direction, and
was conducted by her pastor, Rev. W. J. McMillan, assisted
by two Confederate Veterans, Rev. John W. Hanner, of the
Methodist Church, and Rev. J. H. McNeilly, of the Presby-
terian Church. She was laid to rest in the family burying
ground with the generations of her people, and near the
graves of the Confederate dead, whom she loved and hon-
ored."
As stated, the arrangements for her funeral had been desig-
nated by her, so there was no room for eulogy. The singing
was congregational, and participated in by many present.
The opening prayer, by Rev. John W. Hanner, of Franklin,
was as follows :
"In the presence of death we look unto thee, O Lord of
Life, for thy blessing. We thank thee it is written : 'Precious
in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.' We know,
then, that his death was not a calamity; it was only a shadow,
the shadow of the portal falling upon dear Mrs. McGavock
as she passed through the gate into the city of God. O, we
bless thee that the citizenship nf thy people is in heaven ; here
they are pilgrirns and strangers.
"We thank thee for the pilgrimaRe of thy handmaiden
through this world — a pilgrima.se .suidod by God, inspired
by his Spirit, and blessed by his Son, a pilgrimage which
perfected the pilgrim and blessed her fellow.s on the ri.glit
h.md and on the left. We thank thee that she was a stranger
to all that was unchildlike toward God and to all that was
unsisterly toward mankind, a stranger to unloveliness an.-l
unkindncss ; but we thank thee that .she was not a stranger
to faith and hope and love, not a stranger to friendship ami
benevolence and charity. We bless thee that through thy
Spirit her heart was full of compassion, her hand ever open to
the needy, and her feet ever ready to run on errands of love
and mercy. We thank thee for the hands which hung down
and the feeble knees that she lifted up. for the manv hearts
■-he comforted, the needy ones she supplied, the sick she minis-
tered unto, and the boys she found in abject want and
mothered and reared into worthy manhood. In the last day
they will rise up and 'call her blessed.' To-day she is not.
because thou hast taken her ; and we are left to sorrow for
the 'Good Samaritan of Williamson County.' a name richly
merited by her.
"God bless her son I As tears of broken-hearted bereave-
ment course down his cheeks, may it please thee to wipe them
all away and to bid him look up and see his sainted mother
safe in the arms of Jesus, and may his heart become hungry
for heaven ! Bless the daughter of thy handmaiden, who in
devoted service ministered so long and lovingly to her dear
mother. Reward her richly for her filial fidelity and heal
her broken heart. Comfort the brother on the distant Pa-
cific Slope. May he see the light in thy light, and look for-
ward with confidence to the future eternal reunion on the
ever-shining shore ! Draw near. loving Lord, and support
by thy grace the sister sorrowing in the far Southland. Bless
her, comfort her, and give her peace in the assurance of
thy love ; and let Heaven's benediction come upon the sister
present here to-day, weeping and refusing comfort because
her sister is not. As the tears flow down her cheeks, may
the light which comes from him who is the Life of men,
shining through those tears, span her soul with the rainbow
of hope !
"Bless this concourse of sympathizing friends and rela-
tives. Come, lay thy fatherly hands upon all our heads,
call us thy children, and as children of God may we live, as
children of God may we labor, as e'-ildren of God may we
die, then as children of God may ::e be called home. In
Christ's name, amen."
An expression of gratitude that so many people attended
the funeral was made to a venerable lady, who responded :
MRS. M CAVOCK.
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"Ah me ! Everybody loved her." One of tlie sincerest of
all the mourners present was an intelligent colored woman
who was bought for Mrs. McGavock in her girlhood — in
1849 — ^by her father. Through all the years this faithful
woman had been present with the family in its every afflic-
tion.
Mrs. Sarah Brownrigg Hauchton
Mrs. Sarah Brownrigg Haughton was born in VVingficld.
Chowan County, N. C, October 5, 1835; daughter of RicharJ
Thomas Brownrigg and Mary Brownrigg ; married January
S, 1857. to Lafayette Haughton; died February 12, 1905. at
.Aberdeen, Miss. Her father was of one of the leading fam-
ilies of North Carolina, and maintained the same standing
in Mississippi after he moved to a plantation near Columbus,
along in the forties. Her husband was chancellor of the
first district of Mississippi at the time of his death, in 1883.
He served during the war. partly in Mississippi, partly in
MRS. S. B. HAUGHTON.
Tennessee, and partly in Georgia. She had three brothers,
all of whom served in the Confederate army until the end,
except the second brother, who was killed near Napoleon-
ville. La. All of her male relatives, even distant connections,
who were old enough to bear arms were in the Confederate
army. She was a member of the Memorial Association
which was organized at Aberdeen immediately after the
war, ,ind was one of its most zealous and faithful leaders
until the dedication of the monument at .-Vberdeen, when
llu- Memorial Association was formally dissolved. She was
a member of the I' O. C. from the time it was organ-
ized throughout Missi-sippi. She was mentioned in connec-
tion with the presidency of the general organization some two
years ago. but promptly asserted that her health was not suf-
ficient for the high responsibility. Her son, Richard Brown-
rigg Haughton, was elected Commander in Chief of the
United Sons of Confederate Veterans at the Memphis reunion
in 1901, and confiiiMes an active member of the organization
R. H. McFadden
Mr. Robert llaynes McFadden entered into heavenly rest
from his home, in Pine Bluff, Ark., January 21. 1905, in the
sixty-eighth year of his age. He was born in Chester, S. C ,
October 21. 1836, son of William and Elizabeth McFadden.
In 1857 be went to Arkansas, and lived in Bradley and
.Ashley Counties When the war began, he enlisted in Com-
pany I, Second Arkansas Infantry, and served faithfully the
four years under Bragg, Johnston, and Hood.
In December, 1868, he was married to Miss Arie E. Monk,
of Upson County, Ga. Their marriage was a peculiarly hap-
py one. His wife was a noble. Christian woman, and they
were blessed with eight children, five of whom were daugh-
ters— Mrs. Frank Berry and Misses Arie, Thekla, Effie, and
Elizabeth. Two older sons died in infancy, and one son
(Wade Hampton) died at the age of ten.
Two years ago Mr. McFadden retired from active business
—that of undertaker — after thirty-five years. He was a stanch
Presbyterian, having been an elder in First Church there for
many years. He was gentle, constant, and brave. We know-
he is at rest, and just waiting on the other shore. The Com-
forter will be with bis devoted wife and loving children.
Jksse E. Hack.nev.
.At his home, in Memphis, Tenn., June 29, Comrade Jesse
Hackney answered the last roll call. At the age of eighteen,
early in 1861. he enlisted in the Forty-Ninth North Carolina
Infantry ; afterwards he was transferred to the Fifteenth,
Cook's Brigade, Heth's Division, A. P. Hill's Corps, and
served to the surrender, at Appomattox. He was twice
wounded, first at Malvern Hill and again at White's Cross
Roads. Except when confined to the hospital from wounds,
he participated in all the engagements that his command did.
After the war Comrade Hackney moved to Arkansas, where
he married and resided until 1892, when he moved to Mem-
phis, Tenn. He was an upright. Christian gentleman in its
truest sense. He was a lovable companion, charitable, gen-
tle. For thirteen years he bad suflfered — intensely at times —
from rheumatism, which he bore with uncomplaining forti-
tude His wife, a >^on. and a daughter survive him,
.Austin Cox.
Comrade Austin Cox passed away December 21, 1904, at
his home, near Crystal Springs, Miss., in his seventieth year
He was the last of six brothers who entered the Confederate
army in 1861. Three of them gave up their lives on the bat-
tlefield. Austin Cox was a member of Company B, Thirty-
Sixth Mississippi Regiment. It was in the siege and sur-
render of Vicksburg, and after the men were exchanged they
were with Gen. Jo.scph E. Johnston from Dalton to Atlanta,
and with Gen. Hood on his Tennessee campaign. The regi-
ment was afterwards sent to Fort Blakely, near Mobile, Ala.,
and was there when the surrender came.
Comrade Cox was always at his post of duty, and was never
sick or absent from his company. After the war he en-
gaged successfully in planting, and was highly esteemed by
all who knew him But memory loves best to linger on the
old scenes, around the camp fires, in the heat of battle, on the
long, weary march, when he sees his old comrade, in his vig-
orous young manhood, giving all to the cause of his country.
.A braver or better soldier never shouldered a gun than Aus-
tin Cox. The above data is furnished by his comrade, E. W.
Rlanchard. nf Greenwood. Miss.
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COL. EDWARD LAFAYETTE RUSSELL.
James Kincannon has written an exquisite life sketcli of
Col. E. L. Russell, Vice President and Manager of the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad Company, accounts of whose' heroism in
the battle of Franklin have been given in the Veteran.
Edward Lafayette Russell is a native of Alabama and son
of George D. and Emily (Stovall) Russell. The family re-
sided in Franklin and Lawrence Counties until 1852, when
this son was seven years old, and then located near the pres-
ent site of Tupelo, Miss. His parents were of sturdy ancestry,
with strong physical as well as mental characteristics, and
were therefore well fitted to meet the exigencies of their sur-
roundings. These forceful conditions were so met by his peo-
ple that Russellville and Russell Valley were named for them
By the union of Russells and Stovalls there was valuable
material for the Confederate army. Representatives are
Col. C. C. Harris, lawyer and banker of Decatur, Ala., and
Capt. A. J. Harris, wholesale merchant and one of the lead-
ing public-spirited men of Nashville. Col. Russell's father,
Rev. George Russell, was a school-teacher, farmer, and min-
ister of the Baptist Church ; his mother was an eminently
practical woman and a most efficient helpmate.
Edward Russell worked on a farm near Verona, Miss., when
eight years old, and the same principles of application to his
business were as conspicuous when he plied the hoe to the
corn as have, in these later years, been shown in his control
of thousands of men and millions of dollars' worth of prop-
erty. In the boyhood of young Russell it became evident that
he possessed fine oratorical talent, being an excellent debater,
with the faculty of presenting his case so clearly as to carry
conviction to his hearers. It was these qualities that won in
later years his success at the bar, and afterwards the promi-
nent and responsible position he now holds — Vice Presi-
dent and General Counsel of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
But the full measure of a man's success in life cannot be
gauged by the prominent positions he holds. This is only
testimony as to his mental ability; he must have high moral
worth, be upright and just in all his dealings with his fellow-
men, with honor as his guiding star, a generous, sympathetic
nature that makes him a loyal friend or an honorable foe.
Judged by this standard, in connection with the important
position he has attained in the commercial world. Col. Rus-
sell fills to the brim the measure of a successful man.
In January, 1862, when sixteen years old, he joined Com-
pany E, of the Forty-First Mississippi Infantry, and on many
occasions was conspicuous by his gallantry. Being color
sergeant of his regiment at the battle of Jonesboro, when it
looked as if his command were about to be captured, he tore
his flag from the staff, stuffed it in his bosom, and, amid a
shower of shot and shell, carried it out. His most noted
heroism, however, was in the battle of Franklin, pages 500-
503, loth volume, by George W. Leavell, of Oxford, Miss.
When the war closed, Col. Russell returned home penni-
less, as did nearly all Confederates. With no fixed occupa-
tion, and realizing that he would have to climb the ladder of
life by his own individual exertions, he began on the bottom
rung — working on a farm — but with his eyes steadily fixed
on the top ; and with the same unflinching courage that he
waved his old battle flag in the face of death he began a new
kind of warfare. How magnificent has been his success, his
present position testifies ; but in winning it he cannot claim
all the credit, for there was one whose faith in him was as
beautiful as it was strong, her courage as great as his, and
wliere the journey grew weary it was the loyal love of a
woman's heart that lifted him up and encouraged him on.
COL. E. L. RUSSELL.
He had married a daughter of Mr. Marion J. Davis, a lovely
and accomplished woman of Verona. The young wife was a
woman of rare accomplishments, bright intuitions, and noble
aspirations, and it was her loving hand that was always point-
ing to the topmost round of the ladder. [It was the original
purpose of this sketch to pay special tribute to the character
of this noble woman, but that feature is deferred. Her un-
timely death brought sorrow to many devoted friends. — Ed.]
It is an honor to a community to have such a man as Col.
Russell for a citizen ; it is a greater honor to the man who
has lived such a life as to make it worthy of emulation for
the young men of the country.
DON'T LIKE "DIXIE."
In a comment upon "Dixie" the Independent makes this
ugly statement : "It is noticeable that on public occasions, on
transatlantic steamers, and wherever Southern people are
found it comes to be a fashion to give the same honor, by
rising, to 'Dixie' that is given to the 'Star-Spangled Banner.'
This is hardly to be encouraged or commended. One of these
songs is national, and the other is sectional, and a sectional
song has no right to the honor given to a national song.
'My Old Kentucky Home' is a favorite air, and properly
loved in the section described, but it is not a song to take
off one's hat to. Equally sectional is 'Dixie ;' and, more than
that, it is plain that the effort to give it special honor is not
national in purpose, but is plainly meant to keep up the
memory and glory of the lost Confederacy. It is on a par
with the aim of the 'Daughters of the Confederacy,' who are
engaged in the unhappy purpose of keeping up old memories
and feuds."
This is the wickedest thing yet printed against the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy. That editor seems to be both knave
and fool, if so hard a term be admissible in these pages.
There is not a more patriotic organization in existence.
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REMARKABLE CAREER OF COL. J. H. ESTILL.
At the January meeting of the LaFayette McLaws Camp,
No. 596, U. C. v., of Savannah, Ga., Col. J. H. Estill was
elected Commander. He was the first Commander of the
Camp; and now, after being out of office for a number of
years, he is again, by the unanimous voice of his comrades,
called to be its presiding officer. Col. Estill is a native of
Charleston, S. C, born October 28, 1840. He was named
for John Edwards Holbrook, the celebrated naturalist of
South Carolina and a friend of Col. Estill's father.
Comrade Estill's career is of unusual interest. His success
is due to his own unaided exertions. He began life at the
bottom of the ladder. Indomitable perseverance, steady ap-
plication, rare executive ability, and excellent judgment in
business affairs are his characteristics. He is one of a family
of eleven children. He has ever been, save when a soldier
of the C. S. A., in one way or another connected with the
printing business. His father was a publisher, and moved to
Savannah in tSst. With eleven children, young J. H. had
to work, and entered
the Journal office at
eleven years. Two
years later he left
the printing office to
go to school, and be-
tween the school's ses
sions clerked in .n
store. In 1856 he re
turned to Charleston
and served an ap-
prenticeship in the
printing house of
Walker , Evans &
Cogswell. In 1859
he returned to Savan-
nah, and became one
of the owners of the
livening E.\-frcss.
Col. Estill's military
career began in 1859 l,j
with the Oglethorpe
Light Infantry. With ~S
it he entered the serv-
ice in January, 1861,
as part of the First Volunteer Regiment of Georgia. It was
on duty at Fort Pulaski before entering the Confederate
States service. He went to Virginia with the same company,
which became a part of the Eighth Georgia Infantry. Having
been severely wounded, he was honorably discharged from
the service. He was again a volunteer in Screven's Bat-
talion, opposing Sherman's march to the sea. and was taken
prisoner at Savannah.
.iXfter the great war Col. Estill continued an active in-
terest in military affairs, and served several years as captain
nf Company F, First Regiment Georgia Infantry. In 1895
he was placed on the retired list of the State Volunteers,
with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is now an honorary
member of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, and a life member
of the Georgia Hussars. Savannah Cadets, and Savannah
Volunteer Guards.
In the newspaper world. Col. Estill has been prominent
since 1867, as editor and proprietor of the Savannah Morning
News. In that year he purchased an interest in the paper,
and the year following secured its entire control. It was not
COL. J. H. ESTILL.
an easy matter in those days to make a newspaper pay. There
were two other morning papers in Savannah, but in a short
while the Morning Nc-vs absorbed its competitors and had
the field to itself. In 1876 Col. Estill erected the first Morn-
ing News building on the site of the present six-story pub-
lishing house, itself a splendid monument to his successful
newspaper career. As an evidence of the esteem in which he
is held by the newspapers of the State, he was honored by
his contemporaries with the office of President of the Georgia
Press Association for twenty years.
Outside of his profession, Col. Estill has been active in
many successful business enterprises. Few men are more
prominently identified with the industries and progress of any
city than is he. He built one of the street car lines in 1878,
and was afterwards Presideit of the City and Suburban Rail-
way. He was President of ;'"e Savannah Investment Com-
pany, President of the Metropolitan Steam Fire Engine Com-
pany in the old volunteer fire service, and County Commission-
er of Chatham County for twelve years. He helped to organ-
ize the first cotton mill in Savannah, and has been President
of the Chatham Real Estate and Improvement Company since
its organization, in 1885. He was one of the organizers of the
company that built the Dc Soto Hotel ; was a director of the
Southbound Railroad and of the Savannah Construction Com-
pany, which built what is now the Seaboard Air Line between
Savannah and Columbia ; is President of the Bonaventure
Cemetery Company and President of the Pilots' Navigation
Company (one of the boats bears his name) ; was the first
President of the Mutual Gas Light Company; is Vice Presi-
dent of the Georgia Telephone and Telegraph Company and
the Interstate Rifle Association ; is a director of the Citizens'
Bank, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, and the
Savannah Racing Association ; is a member of the Cotton
Exchange. Board of Trade, and a director of the Savannah
Benevolent Association. He has been a member of the Chat-
ham County Board of Education for nineteen years. He is
also President of that ancient charity, the Bethesda Orphan
House, founded by George Whitefield more than a centurj
and a half ago, and of the Savannah Chamber of Commerce.
He is a member of the Georgia Historical Society, the Savan-
nah Yacht Club, and a number of social organizations. He
is a prominent Mason (a Past Master of Solomon's Lodge
No. I ; life member of Georgia Chapter No. 3, Royal Arch
Masons ; member of Palestine Commandery No. 7, Knights
Templar ; a Shriner ; and Past Junior Grand Warden of the
Grand Lodge of Georgia), a Past Grand of the Odd Fel-
lows, and the oldest member of the Knights of Pythias in
Georgia. He is a vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church
In public office. Col. Estill has been Chairman of the State
Democratic Executive Committee, and in 1892 was the Geor-
gia member of the Democratic National Committee. In
1902 he was a candidate for Governor of Georgia, and made
a most remarkable race against the present executive, Gov.
Joseph M. Terrell, and Hon. Dupont Guerry, the Prohibi-
tion candidate. In his canvass he visited nearly every sec-
tion of the State, and met the people in their offices and
homes, in the factories and on the farms. His personal con-
tact with them and his candid and straightforward ex-
pressions upon public questions won him confidence and sup-
port, and, although defeated, "he made the most remarkable
gubernatorial race in the history of Georgia."
Col. Estill is again mentioned for Governor of the Empire
State of tlie South, and may be a candidate before the next
primary. Confederate privates make good Governors.
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COL. JERE BAXTER. OF NASHVILLE.
The full force of epoch-making events in history is seldom
realized by the participants therein, and this is also true of
the lives of history-making men. Not until they have passed
onward and not until the judgment of future generations is
brought to bear on their lives and on their work can the
influence of either be fully measured.
Occasionally, however, \\e may watcli the progress of some
distinctive figure as it passes side by side with us along life's
Iiighway, and we may be wise enough to note the force which
one man can generate.
Many persons w-ho knew well the late Col. "Jere Baxter, of
Tennessee, realized what a deep impress was made on every
event with which his strong personality came in contact.
Tennessee has produced many men of marvelous power, but
none, perhaps, whose life and work have been more potent in
their influer.ce than those of Jere Baxter, a fact wliich it did
not require his early and lamented death to emphasize. He
received some measure of appreciation and of praise even
during his lifetime, while some degree of success and
triumph was also his ; but there is due his memory from the
people of Tennessee, whom he loved and for whom he labored,
a debt of gratitude that it will be difficult to ever adequateK
pay.
Untried fields were ever his chosen pathways, and even as
a child his originality and foresight seemed to be evidenced
COL. JERE BAXTER.
This is well illustrated by an anecdote of his childhood which
he himself told. In his handsome home on Belmont Avenue.
Nashville, there stood a fine old mahogany table with an ap-
parently solid base, ornately carved in the elaborate fashion
of the sixties .Around this table ("lung many memories of
a happy cliildhood, and one which was particularly interesting
When the "Yankees came to Nashville," a detachment of
soldiers rode out to the Baxter place The mother of little
Jere sat sewing on the trousers of a Confederate uniform
Seeing the approach of the soldiers, she feared for the safety
of her work, as it was a much-needed garment designed fot
an elder son, and she was at a loss to know where to hide
it. Jere, who was near, and who was at that time eight or
nine years old. grasped the situation at once, and. springing
up, turned over the heavy table, revealing that the base was
hollow, and exclaimed: "Tuck 'em in here, mother; tuck 'em
in here!" The childish advice was followed, the Federals
rever traced the garments, and they afterwards made a safe
journey across the line to the soldier for whom they were
made.
Truly the "child is father to the man;" and problems which
other men had failed to solve were the chosen ones of Jere
Baxters life. That his almost unaided eflforts brought a
period of development and of prosperity to his State and to
his native city of Nashville is being more and more clearly
demonstrated each day, for his greatest work — the building
of the Tennessee Central Railroad — is an enduring monument
to his nerve and his influence — a power which was almost as
much psychical as physical, and which bore down before it
men and things, until obstacles which would have daunted
other great spirits gave him fresher energy and renewed
strength.
The plan was an entirely original one with him; but it had
the indorsement of some of the leading men in political and
commercial circles, and its success seemed assured in advance
Forceful leadership of a high order was his ; perseverance,
persistency, tact, and a broad and comprehensive knowledge
of human nature were the tools with which he worked.
Comparatively young in years, being barely fifty when he
died, a list of his various enterprises would tax the credulity
of the reader. Lawyer, statesman, railroad builder and presi-
dent, even farmer and explorer, and to each enterprise he
brought new methods, undaunted courage, and an ability for
work which is almost incredible.
I'ntil the very last Col. Baxter was planning new work,
and had completed all the details of a new business venture
which it is believed would have brought him international
renown.
His energy was almost supLMiuiman. He said to the writoi
frequently: "1 do not need more than four hours of sleep;
it is waste of time, and I need all the time I have." Wa"-
it a premonition of an early end? After the death of hi^
beloved wife (a woman of rare worth), a brief two year-
hefore his own, it seemed as though the world of the Unseeii
held the man with a close touch which he could not or
would not loosen. His funeral, held in the Tabernacle a;
Nashville, was one of the most memorable occasions in tin.
history of the State, many thousands being present.
To those who knew him best, it seemed as though he had
lived many lives during the span of years allowed him, and
had surely attained more than almost any man of any age.
The foregoing contribution comes from one who was much
in his service, and it is not by any means extravagant. For
vears he was the cordially announced friend of the editor of
1 e Veteran, and selected him to write of matters deeply
■. .ncerning his interests and the welfare of the public. These
occasions illustrated the great regard for his wife, for it was
the rule to refer to her for detail in matters in which he wj(s
concerned.
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183
THE NASHl'ILLE ROUTE.
E. H. Hinton, the efficient Manager of tlie Tennessee Cen-
tral Railroad, announces that the route name of the Tennessee
Central Railroad, which has heretofore been designated "The
llarrinian Route," has been changed to
The Nashville Route.
The management states in regard to "the Nashville route :"
"In reaching this conclusion we have not lost sight of the
consideration due to Harriman, Lebanon, Clarksville, and Hop-
kinsville, thriving, progressive, and rapidly developing cities,
.which have been loyal and valued supporters of the road, but
the circumstances at Nashville are unusual and impressive.
It may not be out of place at this time to mention some of
the conditions that have led us to make the change.
"The Tennessee Central Railroad forms with its connec-
tions the shortest possible line at present in operation between
Nashville and Washington, between Nashville and New York,
and between Nashville and all Eastern cities.
"The road likewise forms with its connections an effective
and attractive short line between Nashville, St. Lxjuis, Chica-
go, and all Western points.
"The construction of the line has added a most important
factor in the development of business, via Nashville, between
the grain fields of the West and the great consuming territory
of the Southeast.
"As a great distributing pouit between these vast lenitories
Nashville occupies an impregnable position, while its geograph-
ical location, its fine climate, its proximity to raw material and
10 fuel, and its location in the center of a marvelously fertile
and extensive territory, which is tributary to it, must inevitably
make it one of the most important manufacturing centers in
the country. Its permanent ascendency in this respect is still
further assured by its rate adjustment, which has been approv-
ingly reviewed by the highest courts in the land, and by the
securing of continuous steamboat service from Nashville to
the sea, which will result from the recent building of locks
and dams in the Cumberland River west of Nashville.
"The Tennessee Central Railroad is closely identified with
tlie interests of Nashville — in fact, it is preeminently a 'Nash-
\ille line.'
"It has constructed a system of terminals in the city of
Nashville that opens up practically an unlimited field for the
location of warehouses, factories, and other industrial plants,
and it has thus contributed immensely to strengthening the
city's connnanding position as a manufacturing point.
"The road owes its existence largely to the suffrages of the
citizens of Na.shville, the completion of the line being the most
important event for fifty years in the transportation history of
llie city. Each recurring incident in its construction, most of
them more or less stirring, has helped to establish between
the citizens and the road a cordiality of relations, an identity
of interests, and an undercurrent of strong personal obligation
that is unique.
"It is therefore with a sense of enjoyins; a special privileiii-
that I have the honor to introduce the 'Nashville Route ' "
Thk "STANniNc, Stone" at Montkrf.v. Tenn. — The town
of Monterey was originally called Standing Stone, because at
that point was found one of the large stones with which the
Indians had marked one boundary of their lines to that dis-
puted territory which had been so long contested by the
Five Nations, and which was finally allowed as a hunting
ground for all. but as the property of none .\ truce to all
hostilities was had ns soon -as the hunter crossed the paths
"standing stone" monument, MONTEREY, TENN.
marked by the standing stone. This stone may be seen at
the top of the monument in the above picture. It originally
stood over six feet high, but because of the many pieces car-
ried away by tourists the store diminished in size so rapidly
that the Independent Order of Red Men protected it, as shown
in the picture. It now stands in the center of the town of
Monterey, and around it is laid out an attr.ictive park.
IVHAT IS THOUGHT OF "THE OLD SOUTH."
Judge W. S. Bearden, Shelbyville, Tenn: "I read 'The Old
South' with profound interest and pleasure. I found it an
entertaining treat. It is a patriotic tribute and an accurate
historical portrayal."
Said a well-informed Confederate: "Ah, it is a dcliglilfiil
book. It is the most tersely expressed story I have ever
read. Thomas Nelson Page, in his description of Christmas
in 'Meh Lady,' does not surpass it."
Phil B. Arnold, of Colusa, Cal.. writes of "The Old South:"
"1 am delighted with it. Such books ought to be liberally
circulated among young people of the South. I want to
present the members of our local Camp of Confederate Vet-
erans with copies. Inclosed please find money order for $2.50.
Please send as many as you can for that amount."
Beautifully Bound Book.— While the contents of "The
Old South." with a number of fine engravings, will be a de-
light to purchasers, the cover is especially attractive in red
and white. The body of the cover is red. with title in white
lettering and ornamented with an open cotton boll with green
stem. It is having the most successful sale of any book ever
offered by the Veteran, and never yet has any word but of
praise been received in regard to it. Price, twenty-five cents.
or free to any subscriber who sends a new one direct to the
Veteran.
184
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gotnery. Atlanta, St. Louis, Oklahoma
City, Columbia, Little Rock, or Fort
Worth, may. without ^ivin^ notes, pay
EVERY CENT ut tiiitii.n out of salary
after conrse i.s conijileted. If good pcjsi-
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MAIL COURSE FREE^
If not ready to ent^r now, may take
li;ssoiis by mail. FREE, until ready,
wliirh would saye cost of board. etV.
D, P. B. t'. Co. has $.3110 .00(1. 1 )IJ Capital. 17
l-lankcrs on Bo.Trd of Directors, and
TWENTY colleges in THIRTEEN
."States to back eyery clTim it makes.
Established 16 years. Clip and send
tOKlay.
Old Men and Women Do Bless Him.
Thousands of people come or send every year
t.1 Dr. D. M. Bye for his Balmy Oil to cui'e them
of cancer and other malignant diseases. Out of
this number a great many old people, whose
ages range from seventy to one hundred years,
on account of distance and infii'mities of age.
send for home treatment. A free book is sent,
telling what thev say of the treatment. Address
Dr D. M. Bye Co.. Box 4(i3, Dallas. Tex. [It not
afflicted, cut this out and send it to s^>me suffer-
ing one.]
The Assistant Librarian of Congress
makes inqtn'ry of the Veteran for the
naval songs of the South written by Mr.
E. King. Not being familiar with these,
a request is made of any one who can
furnish any information of them. If in
any collection of songs, would like to
know where it can be purchased.
A. J. Emerson, of LaVeta, Colo. :
"Who of the readers of the Veter.'\n
can give particulars of the meeting of
the Tenth Kentucky Confederate Regi-
ment and the Tenth Kentucky Federal
Regiment on the fie'd of battle near
Jonesboro, Ga., just 1 -^ore the fall of
Atlanta, September, t- and the san-
guinary fight that vved between
these two regiments?"
J. F. Royster, of Fulton, Ky., wishes to
locate Capt. James Isbell, of Alabama,
who was living somewhere near Lit-
tle Ro.ck, Ark., when last heard of. He
commanded a company in Armistead's
Regirhent, part of Wheeler's Cavalry.
He is sought for the benefit of an old
servant, "Anthony," who followed Capt.
Isbell through the war as his body serv-
ant, and now wishes to be reunited with
young "Marster" and receive what as-
sistance can be given him in his old
Thomas R. Cant, of Lawson, Mo., re-
quests that some member of Ector's
Brigade of Texas troops or of F. M.
Cockrell's Missouri Brigade tell the
story of the fight at Allatoona, Ga.
Comrade Gant was of the Third Mis-
souri Infantry, Company C, and con-
siders that one of the hardest-fought
battles of the war, considering the num-
bers engaged. Comrade Gant would
find "Two Wars," by Gen. S. G. French,
quite exhaustive on this subject, and it
supersedes the necessity of any other
general report.
W. A. Campbell, of Coliriibus, Miss.,
asks for information of a Mr. Elliston,
who was a member of the Eighteenth
Mississippi Regiment of Infantry, com-
manded, he thinks, by Col. Burt. Re-
plies to this inquiry can be sent to Mrs.
Sarah Sheffield, of Columbus, Miss.
Mrs. Robert N. Cook, of Lexington,
Mo., makes inquiry concerning a society
called "Knights of the Golden Circle,"
organized during the war for helping the
Southern cause. She states that her
grandfather, Rev. G. W. Robertson, was
living in Louisville, Ky., in l86l, and
was a member and may have been the
president of the society in that city.
Any of our readers who can give her
information of the society will confer
a favor.
Miss Nannie L. Greer, of Anna, Tex.
(R. R. No. 4), wishes to procure a copy
of "The War between the States," by
Alexander H. Stephens, and will ap-
preciate response to this by any one
who has a copy for sale or who can tell
her where it could be procured. The
Veteran also desires a copy.
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Cheap land, producing almost any-
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mild climate, good schools, good water,
healthful surroundings, and a grow-
ing country are some of the advan-
tages.
Unexcelled for raising fruits and
vegetables for early markets. Land
that can be bought for $5 to $10 per
acre can be made to yield ?100 to $200
per acre in orchard and truck farm.
First and third Tuesdays of each
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from Memphis and Cairo at one fare
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April 4th and 18th special low round-
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viiility. it has life, and
IT STANDS FOR SOMETHING
In an intimate and special sense it is of and for the South. It will exploit this section's literature.
Its history, an. and science, its material resources and welfare, its biography and its current progress
—ill a woid, it's [iff. In a wide and a general sense its mission is to promote- a Viroader p,Htrioti.-im and
to devel 'p Southern ideals into national character. And, still further, its design is to Viriiig into the
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For aui-h a combination of purjioscs and doctrines ex-Uov. Bob Tavlor is the chosen leader and lay preacher to the sons of men.
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A Last Opportunity to secure at a
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Rise and Fall of the
Confederate Government.
jKFFEKso.N DAVIS, FKEs. BY PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS.
'^r HERE li.is just been piirch.ased bv the Veteran the publi^licrs'
\\f entire ciiition of Mr. Davis's " Rise and Fall of the Confederate
tjovernment," Tbis closing out sale is comprised entirely of
the haif-moroceo binding, with marble eilges, and published for ;j;i4
per set. The jnirchase of this entire stock was on such favorable
terms that the \i;ti:ran will supply thcni at half price, the cost of
transportation added — '^-Xic,. The two volumes contain over fifteen
hundred pages and thirty-seven fine steel engravings and map plates. When this edition is exhausted, copies of these
first prints can be procured only through speculators at fabulous prices.
This book is famous in many ways. Througli 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."
riiis entire edition is offered as follows: For fifteen subscribers to the Veteran the two volumes 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 ^7 and cost of mailing or express ($7.65). Camps of \eterans and Chapters of Daughters of the Confederacy can
easily seciu'e the fifteen subscribers and get this book for their library. Name in gold, 35 cents extra; net, $S.
^(Mi'ess S. A., CUNKINaiJAAT, A^ns/jviiie, ''c?nn.
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Commander or Adjutant. Address J. F. SHIPP. Q. M. Gen'l, V. C. V.. Chatianoo^a, Tenn.
The Campbell-Hagerman College
For Girls and Young Women
Faculty of 21 mcmliprs. Departments of JIusic,
Art. Elocution. I'liysiiaU'iiltiirc.and Uoiiiesticr
Science. Sph-ndiil iu-\v luiiklln^s Session
opens September IJ. Ajiplj' to
B. C. HAGERMAN, President, Lexington, Ky.
J. MAT WILLIAMS, President
T. J. HAYS Vice Pres. ano Treas.
W. B. PAUL, Secretary
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a Factory of any kind,
for Timl)er Lands, for
Coal Lands, the line of
the Tennessee Cpntr:[ll!.-iil:oad offers llie n lest
opportunity in tlie S null— fnr Ihe Home Seeker,
the Manufacturer, and the K.nrmer. Jt is anew
line running through a new and rich country,
and accepsihle hy rail to all p.irts of the United
States. For further information address
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for a Home?
Thirl v-five miles of new road in
Habersham and Rabun Counties,
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it. Already we have demonstrated
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The Short Line, Via. Bristol
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Throvigh Train
No CKaLrvge
Leave NEW ORLEAN.S, Q. & C 7:30 p.m.
• MEMPHIS, 8outliein Rv 11 :IK) p.m
•• CHATTANOnOA.Soutii'nRy. 9:55 a.m
" KNOXVILLE, SmitluTuRy l:20i).m
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" NEW YORK, P. R. R 12:43 p.m
•• BOSTON, N. Y.. N. H., *: H 8:20 p.m
Through Sleeper New Orleans to
New York
Through Sleeper Memphis to
New York
The finest Diniii<r Car Service.
Reliable infonnation eh. erfuUy furnished bv
Norfolk and We-tern Railway. UKI W, Ninth
St, (Read House Blooki, ('liattHiiooga, Tcnn.
Wakhkn L. Romi, Western Pa.s.seuger Agent,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
W. B. BKvii,L,(ieneral Passenger Agent, Roa-
noke, Va.
TRAVEL VIA THE
SOUTHERIS
RA It WA Y
TKe Great
est
Southern
System
Double Dai-
ly Service
Nashville to
the East, via
Chattancotja
ami Ashe/ule,
thiouEfh
Through
.Sl(
ville to New
York.
Dining and
O hscr vation
Cars.
P u 1 1 m a n
Sleeiiing Cars
on all through
trains.
Elegant Day
Coaches.
"THE LAND OF THE SKY"
J, M. Cdlp, 4th Vice Pres., Washington, D. C.
S. H. Hakdwiok, Pass. Traffic Manager,
Washington. D. C
W, H. Tavloe, Gen. Pass. Agt„ Washing-
ton, D C.
C. A. Bekscotkr, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., Chab-
tanooga, Tenn.
J. E. Shipley, Traveling Pass. Agt., Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
^^Jgf
A HARD
WINTER
On Stock, They Need a Tonic
Ma|(ic Food
is the best, cheap-
est, and uiost Tclia-
1 1 ' Animal Tonic
and K t'Ktilator .
F urtoenyeai-s'suc-
lutoly ^larantocd to
do tht» Work.
ff
IT ACTS LIKE MAGIC
2-/b. Trial Boxes, 25c.
Tr your dealer doos not keen it. we will send
1 y i>i*eT)aid cxpruss a 10-11). bag of Mng^ir
l^totk rood for <>1.
in stamps or mon-
ey-
Magic Foi td is
mado in the Stntli
lif ttlil Confederate
Veterans.
i^f't the genuine
Mansfield's Ma-'ic
Food.
mAGIC FOOD CO.
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Send for valuable book on animals, FREE.
^^
All who send this
month get four beau-
tiful colored pictures
extra.
Talking Birds
Birds ai'e tanght to talk. So are sta.mmerers
taniiUt to unit stammering in a ft* w days. Dr.
(*. W. Rand dph, who has cured so many sta.m-
merers in all the eiti'^s ot the South, is "now at
141 North Cherry Street. Nashville, to cure
many stammerers who desired him to eome.
Dr. Randolph <-ured many stammerers in Nash-
ville many years at;o. and Dr. McFerrin wrote
that he was amaze<l at the wonderful cures per-
formed. Wo see tliat leading pH]>ers all over
the laud are loud in his praise. No stammerer
should fail to Ije cured, for whit is lif i to any
one whc) stammersV Plenso name this to a
stammei*6r. Rememlier the golden rule.
LET ME HELP YOU SHOP
An u.\]H'rit'nce of sixt^^en years, good .itidg-
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to Ir.iy enalile me to secure the latest designs
in Coat Suits. Gowns, Hats. etc.. and save you
money. Wedding Trousseaux a sr>wialty.
Promptness and satisfaction guaranteed. Even
small orders given prompt attention. Write
me yf>ur wants. Mrs. Kliza Sv. I-.ocl;art, G30
West nreckenridge St., Louisville, Ky.
RLTcrciicv, R. S. Waracid, Culilur AtQcrlcuo Natioual BuO.
OrCU I AbLCa rorcat&log. arodM
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Running Oil-Burning Locomotives All the Way
LEAVES NEW ORLEANS DAILT AT 11:55 A.M, LEAVES SAN FRANCISCO DAILY AT 5;45 P.M.
Carries Combination Observation, Library, and Buffet Car. Double Drawing-Room
Sleeping Cars, Pullman Standard Sleepers, Excursion Sleeping Car, and Dining Car.
The Ideal Train over the Picturesque Southern Route
Through Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California; along the
Rio Grande Dividing Line between the Two Republics.
T. J. ANDERSON, G. P. A. JOS. HELLEN, A. G. P. A. F. E. BATTURS, G. P. A.
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ELEGANT d'aY COACHES.
For further information, apply to Ticket Agents
of connecting lines, or to
R. T. G. MATTHEWS. T. P. / .,
LOUiSVILLE, KY.
H. C. TOWNSEND,
GEN-LPASS'R AND TICKET AGENT, ST. LOUIS.
REUNION
:AT=
LOUISVILLE
■IN JUNE-
As heretofore, the Cotton Belt
Route will continue to be the
favorite route between Mem-
phis and Arkansas and Texas.
Two daily trains carrying
modern equipment. L su.-il
rates and arrangements will
be in effect. Begin now to
make ^-our plans to attend.
I'or full information, address
W, G, ADAMS, T,P,A„
N:.shville, Tfun.
W. C, PEELER, D,P,A„
Jlempbis, Tenn.
E,W,LaBEAUME,G.P.iT.A,,
St. Louis, M.I.
WHISKYSMORPHINE
habit cured. Craving destroyed
in 4S hours. Send for circulars.
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622 Asylum Ave., KNOXVILLE, TENN.
^^re you Goin^
Eaji?
ir ^O. TA.KB TUB
SEABOARD
AIK LINE RAILWAY.
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South and East.
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For information ai to ratet, reicm-
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call on your nearest ticket agrat ai
address
WILLIAM B. CLEMENTS. T. P. A..
Atlanta, Ga.
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Q. P. A.,
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A. O. P. A.,
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EVAMSVILLL-^TERRE HAUTE RR-
TO THE
NORTH
NEW ORL^ANS^i
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DANVILLE
TERRE HAUTE
" VINCpNNES
g EVANSVILLE
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emMlNGHAM
MOtHTCOMERY
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VIA
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2Vestibuled Through Trains Oai'y O
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Instance, if the Vetekan is ordered to begin with Januar\', the date on ni.iil
list will be December, and the subscrilier is entitled to that number.
The civil -wa-T was too long ago to be called the lutf 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 \'kteran.
OFFICIALtr REPRESENTS:
I'nITED CONFEDEHAIE ^'tTERANS,
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
Sons of Veterans, a:*'D Other Organizations,
Confederated Southern Memorial Association.
Tlie Veteran is approved and indorsed officially by a larger and more
ele^■ated 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. Ivim VTTI
Single Copy, 10 Cents, f ' "•- Aiii-
XASHVILI.K. IKNN , M.\Y. lOOo.
No.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
Proprietor.
LOUISVILLE'S GREATEST REUNION.
BY THOMAS D. OSBORNE, SECRET.^KY t)F THE COMMITTEE.
Louisville's citizens and the Confederates are in a contest,
striving to surpass each other in arranging courtesies to be
extended to the men who wore the gray when they ineet in
the lovely city on the falls of the Ohio June 14-16.
As a type of the gracious efforts, Dr. A. D. James, United
States Marshal and one of the leading Republicans, gave
a large room in the customhouse to be filled with cots for
the Veterans, and added : "Send ine eight old soldiers for me
to entertain at my home." Hon. Charles F. Grainger,
Mayor of Louisville,
will have the city in its finest sanitary condition, and, in co-
operation with Mr. John C. Lewis, the great dry goods mer-
chant. Chairman of Illuminations and Decorations, will in
(hie time have all the streets in the main section of the city
bridged with banners, flags, and portraits. The business part
of the city will be lighted by arches, lit up by red and white
electric lamps, and from each of which will be suspended in
colors the name of some distinguished hero of our sacred
cause.
Ample Headquarters
have been secured in close proximity to each other for every
Stale. With twenty bands distributed in these headquarters,
certainly there will be music enough and amusement enough
for all who may come. Gen, Dozier Thornton, Chairman of
States Headquarters, has subdivided his coinmittee of two
hundred into details who will provide for every possible con-
venience. The buffet lunch at each State headquarters will
he a most attractive feature.
The Mammoth Horse Show Building
erected by the Louisville Confederates for the 1900 reunion
has been enlarged to double its former capacity, and is now
the largest house in the State.
.Surely when the survivors of the
army of the Southern Confederacy
uather in annual conclave next Jime in
Louisville, they will find prepared for
I'jb
Qoi)f8derat2 l/eteraij.
llicm a ruinid nf eiiltTtainiiK-iU measured in L-xteiit only by
the time limit of the reunion. Each day sees a marked ad-
vance in the arrangement of affairs for the. reunion, the re-
cording of the appro.ximate numbers that will attend, the se-
curing of adequate accommodations for all, and the mapping
out of pleasures and pastimes for these men who followed tlio
flag of the South.
Mr. Brtckinridge Castleman, with his fine committee of
one hundred on entertainment, has planned a
B.^nnECUE IN Shawnee Park
for ten thousand Veterans, followed by the English novelty —
a garden party for sponsors, maids of honor, and friends.
Then will come the gorgeous sponsors' ball in the horse
sl;ow building, where fifteen thousand spectators can witness
the most l)rilliant spectacle.
There will be something doing every hour during the re-
union in the wjm of entertainment for the Veterans, except
while they are askep. Of course there is no desire to have
anything to distract attention from the regular proceedings
of the afsociation, but these pleasures and recreations will
be provided and will he at the disposal of the visitors. It
will be a season of the year when Louisville is at its best.
The parks will be open with
Myriad Forms of Entertainment,
and the theaters will be in full blast. In addition, excursions
up and down the river will bs arranged.
As is known to many, Louisville boasts of five beautiful
parks, where nature has shown the handiwork of her hap-
piest mood and man has added to increase the pleasures.
These are Fountain Ferry, Shawnee, Cherokee, Jacobs, and
Central Parks. They will be alive with the varied forms of
entertainment found at ; uch resorts.
The live theaters of the c!ty will all have attractions during
the reunion.
Several Four-Deck Steamers
from Cincinnati have been chartered for the reunion, and,
in addition to the crafis here already, will be put into com-
nnssion as pleasure boats, with frequent daily trips on the
Ohio. Land excursions to various points of interest in and
rear Louisville will also be arranged, important among which
will h■^ trips to the Confederate Soldiers' Home in Pewee
Valley.
And all of this will be free to the visiting Confederate Vet-
erans. Just as the gray they wear is their patent of nobility,
so will the official reunion badge be passport and open
sesame to everything within the gates of Louisville.
Each Veteran Will Register
when he arrives at his State headquarters, and will then
rec.ive his badge. From then until the reunion ends his
needs for money will be few and far between.
Louisville is going to show the Veterans just how they are
valued in the eyes of Kentuckians and, in fact, the whole
South.
Tlje official button for the reunion has been adopted. It
will ' show a background uf the Confederate flags with a
portrait of Gen. John Cabell Breckinridge.
The committees in charge of this mighty meeting are:
Executive Committee.
John H. Leathers, President.
Bennett H. Young, Vice President.
John B. Castleman, Second Vice President.
Basil W. Duke, Third Vice President.
Sam H. Buchanan, Fourth Vice President.
Thomas D. Osborne, Secretary.
John W. Green, Treasurer.
William B. Haldeman, John H. Weller, D. Thornton, An-
drew M. Sea, J. A. Shuttleworth. A. E. Richards, W. M.
Marriner, E. Basye, George C. Norton, Thomas W. Bullitt,
D. W. Sanders, John B. Pirtle.
Standing CoMiMirrEES — Chairmen.
F'inance, Joshua D. Powers.
Transportation, Gen. B. W. Duke.
Hotels and Accommodations, Joseph Pettus.
Music, Parade, and Review, Bennett H. Young.
Reception, Charles B. Norton.
Invitation, John B. Castleman.
Badges, Henry Kaufman.
Printing, W. M. Marriner.
Ladies, Marion E. Taylor.
Headquarters for States, D. Thornton.
Public Comfort, Mayor Charles F. Grainger.
Press, Thomas D. Osborne.
Medical, Dr. F. C. Wilson.
Amusements, J. C. Davidson.
Decoration and Illumination, J. C. Lewis.
Decoration and Illumination of Public Buildings, Capi
John H. Weller.
Entertainment, Breckinridge Castleman.
Headquarters, Harry Weissinger.
Entertainment of General Officers, Andrew Cowan.
Information, Thomas J. Batman.
Auditing, Andrew M. Sea.
Sponsors, W. B. Haldeman.
General State Headquarters Committee.
Andrew M. Sea, R. A. Dawson, John H. Leathers,
Bennett H. Young, C. L. Daughtry, Davis Brown,
John H. Weller, R. C. Davis, Victor Englehard,
James G. Davis, Thos. D. Osborne, J. T. Gaines,
Joseph Pettus, William J. Baird,
Nearly two thousand of the best people of Louisville are
serving on the reunion committees. Among them are these :
Committee for Entertainment of General Officers.
Morris B. Belknap, Jolin B. Castleman, Walker D. Hines,
Randolph H. Blain, B. W. Duke, Alfred Pirtle,
W. O. Bonnie, Walter Evans, Harry Weissinger,
Thos. W. Bullit, Abner Harris, Americus Whedon.
Sanil. Culbcrtson, John Helm,
.\ndre\v Cmvan, Chairman, 4,35 West Main Street, City.
Committee on Decoration or Puulic Buildings.
John H. Hancock, John R. Pflanz, A. H. Brachey.
Dr. S. H. Baker, John H. Page, D. F. Murphy,
W. J. Semonin, Robert Tilford, James B. Camp,
J. A. Craft, Thomas Speed, James B. Brown,
W. L. Weller, Jr., Henry A. Bell, Charles Neumeier.
Albert Scott, E. T. Schmitt, Robert A. Woods.
Jas. P. Gregory, Alfred Oldham, Benson O. Herr,
H. W. Reese, T. L. Jefferson, J. Moss Terry,
H. M. Brennan, J. T. Gaines, Paul C. Barth,
T. P. Satterwhite.Jr. C. C. Martin, Dr. Ben Buckle,
Robert W. Flerr, Samuel Wilhite, R. W. Bingham.
Dr. Harris Kelly, E. H. Marks,
Capt. John H. Weller, Chairman, City Hall.
Chairmen of States and Committf
Alabama. — R. H. Venable, Chairman. W. S. I ", J. E.
Dowe, Q. D. Vaughan, P. H. Tapp, Elisha / ugh
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Henry, Dr. Gilbert C. Smitli, E. C. Lavcrly, P.. G. Gould,
Ed H. Venable, Edward Rowland, II, J. Hnlccc, Henry Ran,
Robert T. Hnrk.
Arkutisas. — Hancock Taylor, Cbairnian. G. L. Brown, B.
H. Hunt, Coe Yates, Frank S. Barbour. E. .-\dler, Roda
Rapier.
I'lorida. — A. C. Ruckcr, Cbairnian. I. I'. Barnard, John
S. Jackman, J. V. Abrabam, John W. Green, Richard Hayes.
Georgia. — 1'. H. AUirel, Chairman. George C. Buchanan,
II. W. Clevelan.I. J, B. McKown, R. Miles Turpen, H. A.
Witberspoon. J. V. Venable, C. W. .A.brams, Dr. George F.
Simpson, Dr. Al K. Allen, Dr. Vernon Robins, Dr. .-\lbert
A. Deig.
KcniHiky. — J.-nnes S. Carpenter, Chairman. J. !•". Al-irabam,
I'.lijab r.,i^ye, .Alfred Boric, Joliii W. Green, N. G. Gray, Hu.gli
llcnry, '1'. t". llclni. John G. Roach, C, K. Thomas, Robcr;
Tyler. Tom 1'.. llamillon. George R. M.-atingly, W. 11. l'"ox
Joe E. Vincent. George Prunty, Henry llarned.
l.puisiaiio. — \V. Ci. Hamilton, Chairman. P. B. Bate, James
W'alson, J. 1'. Williams, Antonio Maggio, Alex A. Bullill,
!'. McRoherls. W. A. Martin, C. W. Ghcens, P. Kallen, H.
D. Henderson. W, II. Thomas, C. A. Warren.
Maiylaiui. — John 11. Yancey, Chairman. Abncr Harris, Dr.
J. M. Tydings, Harry Weissiiiger, Hugh Henry. J. W. E,
Bailey.
Mississil^l^i.—W. D. C. i.loyd. Channi.ni, G 1*. Theobald,
11. ,\. Witberspoon. Z. 1., Wallis, T., .Shcllon. (' 1.. Roliiuson.
'Theoilore Cowherd, 1). W. Sanders.
Missouri. — John Hancock, Chairman, .\ndrew r.ro.-iddii-..
Dr. C. (;. E.dwards. R. A. Locke, P. M. Wrighl. Dr. W. P.
\\'bite, Joseph M. Dawson.
Noilli I'liioliita. — J. C. Day, Chairman. David W. Hilton,
Garland K. Allen, P. A. Bobbilt, C. F. Smith. John C. .Sber-
ley.
Siinth (.'iviilimi. — .S. Calhoun Smith. Ch.airman, J, M. Wom-
ack, William J. D.avis, l^'rederick Gans. M, D. T.ronson, J
W. Owen.
7V.r,«.— 11. M. Lane, Chairman. W. 11. Mc.Mlisler, .Mfrcl
Boric, John W. l-"riddle, J. H. C.alhrighl. John ^■. Rankin,
James Q. Clienoweth, 'T. W. Mnllally.
'rcinicsscc. — C. C. Cantrell, Chairman. Rev. Dr. T, T.
E.alon. A B Scbell. David W, Hilton. Michael l.awler. l"rank
Manley, Rev. W. W. Pinson, John W. Price, Samuel B. Hart,
Henry Streng, George L. Sebon, A. E. Carsey, Walter Witber-
spoon, John Settle, T. E. Carr, W. C. Cantrell.
rirginin.—U. H. Blain, Chairman. J. S. S. Casler, Michael
W. M. Sbeckey, Dr. F. C. Wilson, Joseph S. Barlow, Len
S. Miller. D. Thornton. Chairman, Twelfth and Broadway.
I .\vir.\Tio.\ Com mittee.
S. B. Buckiier,
Basil W. Duke,
William Lindsay.
C. F. Grainger,
J. C. S. Blackburn,
James B. McCreary,
J. C. W. Beckb;^i,
George D. 'Toddl
Desha Breckinrijgc.
L'avettc 1 lew ill. f
H. L. Stone,
Breckinridge Castlcman,
W. A. Milton,
W. B. Haldeman,
A. E. Richards,
Young E. Allison,
J. Stoddard Johnson,
C. C. Vogt.
Daniel 1'". Murphy,
1. M. .\tberton.
"beodorc Ahren!>
John B. CaslUnian. Ch.-iirman. Columbia Btuldin.g. City.
\riin i\i: Com .mittf.f..
Capt. L P. Barnard.
M.ij. R. C. Davis.
Randolph H. lilain.
I'.lijali Basye.
Xeville Bullill.
Rev. M. M. I'.enlon.
Dr. S. 11 G.irviu.
Joseph Petlus.
Joseph P. Cl.-iybrook.
(.".apt. R. O. C.atbrighl.
Capl. J. T. Gaines.
Col. James W. Bowles,
John 11. ILincock,
Rev. T. T. ]'"alon.
.Xndrew M. -Sea, Chairman, 50S West Main Street, City.
DrCOKATIoN' .\Nn Tl.I.tlMlN.MION COMMITTEE.
Xeville Bullitt. Richard Llays,
Willi.am .\. Millofi, Lcn S. Miller,
John C. Lewis. CItairman, City.
Jas. S. Carpenter.
John C. Sirolber.
Pkintinc, Committee.
T. F.. Basbam. Thos. B. Morton, William Harrison,
L. T. Davi.Ison, H. M. Caldwell. Basil Wallis.
Ben La Bree,
Cai>t W M M oriner. Ch.airmrm. Gait Hnnsr. Ci(y
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T.x:is lTi-:nlqnnrtcrs. Jc'ffcTSon :uul ; Cuslntnliousc, where United Stutrs Mnrshiit \
Fifth Slr.-rts. I>. James will ent'rl:iin. l-'ourrh Stn-t 1.
/7/f A/i.ysoiiri autf Division I ittuhjunrters -vill he in Cifv //n/^ts :;v7/ ds ///<• 7V\(
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KENTUCKY'S GIFTS TO THE CONTEDERACY.
BY THOMAS D. OSBORNE, REUNION PRESS COMMITTEE.
That Kentucky, in the War between tlie States, furnished
the two Presidents, Abraham Lincohi, Northern, and Jeffer-
son Davis, Southern, both natives of the State, is generally
known, as is also the fact that a Kentuckian, Gen. Robert
Anderson, of Louisville, was the officer in charge of Fort
Sumter when the first gun of the great war was fired. But
it is not widely known that Kentucky played a star part in
the mighty drama which drew the greatest stream of blood
that ever crossed the track of time.
The occasion of the Fifteenth National Reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans at Louisville, June 14-16, is
a fitting opportunity to emphasize some points indicating
the prominent part played by Kentucky. Of the eight full
generals, one-fourth were by birth Kentuckians — Albert Sid-
ney Johnston and John B. Hood. The only full general
killed on the field of battle was a Kentuckian, Albert Sidney
Johnston. The only Southern Governor killed in battle was
a Kentuckian — Gov. George W. Johnson, shot dead in the
fight at Shiloh while he marched in the ranks carrying a
musket. Of the seventeen lieutenant generals in the Con-
federate army, two were from Kentucky — Simon Bolivar
Buckner and Richard Taylor, the latter the only son of the
President of the United States, Zachary Taylor. He was
born January 27, 1S26, near Louisville, and brought up and
educated in this city. This Kentuckian commanded the
Trans-Mississippi Department, the last to surrender. He won
praise from every one ; even Gen. Forrest said of him at
Meridian : "He's the biggest one in the lot. If we'd had
more like him, we would have licked the Yankees long ago."
Gen. Taylor was brilliant in every way, and wrote the most
thrilling book on the war, "Destruction and Reconstruction."
Of the eighty-one Confederate major generals, Kentucky
furnished six : John C. Breckinridge, T. J. Churchill, George
B. Crittenden, Charles W. Field, William Preston, and Gus-
tavus W. Smith. One of these, Gen. Breckinridge, served
the last part of the war as Secretary of War, and was the
best-liked of all in the Cabinet of the Southern Confederacy.
Gen. G. W. Smith, who preceded Gen. Breckinridge as Sec-
retary of War, was also a Kentuckian.
The brigadier generals from Kentucky were ; D. W. Adams.
A. Buford, G. B. Cosby, B. W. Duke, R. M. Gano, Henry L.
Giltner, J. B. Grayson, J. M. Hawes, N. V\' . Hanson, Ben
Hardin Helm, George B. Hodge, Adam R. Johnson, Joseph
H. Lewis, H. B. Lyon, H. Marshal. Sam B. Maxey, J. H.
Morgan, Thomas H. Taylor, Lloyd Tilghnian, J. S. Williams,
and others.
As to the entire number of men enlisted in purely Ken-
tucky commands it would be about 28,204. The regub.tions,
which were not always complied with, required that a com-
pany should have seventy-eight men, including commissioned
and noncommissioned officers. This would make the nine
regiments and three battalions of infantry 7,692 men, the
eighteen regiments and sixteen battalions of cavalry 17,200
men, and the four artillery companies 312 men. The body-
guards, escorts, scouts, signal corps, etc., were largely com-
posed of men taken from the before-mentioned commands.
Owing to the loss of a large number of rolls, a positive
statement cannot be given as to the number of troops of all
arms contributed by Kentucky to the Confederacy. The
number of Kentuckians who served in regiments from other
Slates is known to be large, but there is no way of fixing
the number. It is to be deplored that complete records can-
not be found. There went from Kentucky into the Confed-
erate army nine full regiments and three battalions of in-
fantry, as follows: ist Kentucky Infantry, Col. Thomas H.
Taylor : 2d Kentucky Infantry, Col. Roger W. Hanson ; 3d
Kentucky Infantry, Col. Lloyd Tilghman ; 4th Kentucky In-
fantry, Col. Robert P. Trabue ; 5th Kentucky Infantry, Col.
John S. Williams ; 6th Kentucky Infantry, Col. Joseph H.
Lewis; 7th Kentucky Infantry, Col. Edward Crossland; 8th
Kentucky Infantry, Col. Hylan B. Lyon; 9th Kentucky In-
fantry, Col. Thomas FI. Hunt ; ist Kentucky Battalion, Lieut.
Col. Blanton Duncan ; 2d Kentucky Ba(ttalion, Lieut. Col.
Martin H. Cofer; Desha's Battalion, Maj. Joseph Desha.
These were merged into the other commands of infantry.
There went also eighteen regiments and fifteen other organ-
Miss CARRIE PEVTUiN WHEELER,
D;ui;jliter of Gfn. Jcis. Wheeler and Sponsrir for the South. \J . C. V.
izations of cavalry, as follows: 1st Kentucky, Col. Ben Har-
din Helm; 2d Kentucky, Col. John Hunt Morgan; 2d Ken-
lucky, Col. Thomas G. Woodward; 3d Kentucky, Col. J.
Russell Butler; 4th Kentucky, Col. Henry L. Giltner; 5tli
Kentucky, Col. D. Howard Smith; 6th Kentucky, Col. J.
Warren Grigsby ; 7th Kentucky, Col. Richard M. Gano ; 8th
Kentucky, Col. Roy S. Cluke ; 9th Kentucky, Col. W. C. P.
Breckinridge ; loth Kentucky, Col. Andrew J. May ; loth
Kentucky, Col. David W. Chenault; nth Kentucky, Col.
Adam R. Johnson; 12th Kentucky, Col. W. W. Faulkner;
13th Kentucky, Col. Ben E. Candill ; 14th Kentucky, Col.
Richard C. Morgan ; 15th Kentucky, Col. J. Q. Chenowith ;
i6th Kentucky, Col. L. A. Sypert ; ist Kentucky Battalion,
Qo9federat(^ l/eterar;,
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Lieut. Co!. William E. Siinms ; ist Kentucky Battalion Rifles,
Col. 0. G. Camron ; 1st Kentucky Special Battalion, Col.
William W. Ward ; 2d Kentucky Battalion, Maj. Clarence J.
Prentice; 2d Kentucky Battalion Rifles, Maj. Thomas John-
son; 2d Kentucky Battalion Special, Col. R. O. Morgan; 3d
Kentucky Battalion Rifles, Lieut. Col. E. F. Clay; 3d Ken-
tucky Battalion Special, Col. Joseph T. Tucker; 4th Ken-
tucky Battalion Special, Maj. W. R. Messick; 6th Kentucky
Battalion. Mni. Cenrsre M. Jesse; King's Kentucky Batt.ilion,
HENRY HEfSER, LOI'ISVILT.E,
Chapernn for the South.
Maj. H. Clay King; Huey"s Kentucky Battalion, Lieut. Col.
J. K. Huey; Jenkins's Kentucky Battalion, Maj. B. W. Jen-
kins. Nearly all of these latter were later merged into other
cavalry regiments. Patton's Partisan Rangers. Lieut. Col.
O. A. Patton ; Morehead's Partisan Rangers, Col. J. C.
Morehcad. There were also a few companies of cavalry on
special service, such as Buckner's Guards, Quirk's Scouts,
Quantrill's Scouts, Breckinridge's Signal Corps, etc. There
were also Kentuckians in the regiments from all the South-
ern States. Ex-Speaker W. M. Moore was colonel of the
loth Missouri, and many Kentuckians were in Missouri
regiments. Cen. Jo O. Shelby, recently deceased, was a mem-
ber of the Kentucky Veterans' Association of Kentucky.
There were also four full artillery companies, as follows:
Cobb's Battery, Capt. Edward P. Byrne ; Graves's Battery,
Capt. Rice E. Graves ; Lyon's Battery, Capt. H. B. Lyon.
It may be noticed that several regiments have the same
number. This confusion existed almost throughout the war.
There were two 5th Kentucky Infantry Regiments for several
years. Finally it was decided that "Ccrro Gordo" Williams's
Regiment was senior, and then Col. Thomas H. Hunt's sth
Kentucky became the 9th Kentucky Infantry. The cavalry
regiments were never entirely corrected. Cols. Chenault and
Gano each claimed to be the ~th Kentucky Cavalry ; but this
was awarded to Col. Gano, and Col. Clienault's became the
iith Kentucky Cavalry.
As it was difficult to recruit the Kentucky regiments, and
as their ranks were thinned out at every fight, many com-
panies and regiments were consolidated; and when the war
ended, there were not more than two full regiments of in-
fantry and six regiments of cavalry remaining.
Kentuckians' blood was shed on the soil of every State.
The last man killed in the war was a Kentuckian, a member
of the Orphan Brigade, which was fighting April 29, 1865,
near Statesburg. S. C, when the news came that both Lee
and Johnston had surrendered late that evening. George
Doyle, of Logan County. Ky., a private in the 9th Kentucky
Infantry, was killed. He was, as his commander, Col. John
W. Caldwell, reported, the last man who fell under the Con-
federate flag
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Si-i-lhiich Hotrl. Newest ami Kint-st Near
II.-n.Uin;irlrrs. I-<Mirlh Slr<il,
Itnni'i.i r.uiliiin-. ] Ir.itli^uartir.s IumL
i\»iiimilU<-. M;iiii :iiul I' mirlli Str<■<'l^
Bovs" llijih ScliDo!, Stale Headqimrtt-rs,
d^s Kii<i Slr.-.l.
s*
'/7/L- AVi'.''' I ^igh School ivt'// be thv State lieadquartem tor Muryiitud and I 'iri^inia at.so.
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Qopfederats l/etcrarj.
The most notable command in the Army of Tennessee, the
Orphan Brigade (ist Kentucky Brigade), has members buried
near battlefields in thirteen States.
Although the members of the Orphan Brigade were very
largely Kentuckians, there were some from other sections. Of
the five thousand men and boys in the 2d, 4th, 5th, 6th, and gth
Regiments and Cobb's Battery, which organizations composed
the brigade, sixty-seven were foreign-born : England, Greece,
Prussia, and Scotland, one each ; Canada, two ; France, three ;
Germany, thirteen (including Capt. Chris Bouche) ; Ireland,
forty-three (one of whom, Hugh McVey, had been a British
soldier in India). There were also some Indians — Flying
Cloud and a Mohawk Indian. All the others were native
Kentuckians, except ninety-eight, who came from eighteen
States : Arkansas, New Jersey, West Virginia, one each ;
Alabama and Pennsylvania, two each ; District of Columbia,
Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Ohio, and South Carolina,
three each (among these was Lieut. Henry Buchanan, of
New York, and "Devil Dick," of Ohio) ; South Carolina,
three (who joined in March, 1865) ; Indiana, five; Maryland.
six; Georgia, Virginia, Missouri, seven (of the Georgians
was Emory Spear, now the famous United States Judge
Spear I of the Missourians was John Nicliols, who carried
the colors off Stone's River battlefield after three color bearers
had been shot dead within thirty feet) ; Texas, nineteen ;
Tennessee, twenty-five. All classes of society were repre-
sented. The sunburned farmer's boy stood shoulder to shoul-
der with the star-crowned soldier who had swept over the
fields at Mexico, and stormed the heights of Chapultepec.
There were men from the mansions in the blue grass, march-
ing with the mountain boys from the Kentucky higlilands ;
there were men from ninety-one counties in line.
Gen. William Preston, who had been Alinister to Spain and
iiad gone around the world, called them "the rose and expect-
ancy of the State." President Jefferson Davis : "They are the
seed corn of the Southern Confederacy." The officers were
worthy of such men.
Buckner, who organ-
ized the brigade, was
a wonderful West
Pointer, and with a
dozen other members
had served in Mexi-
co with credit.
Breckinridge, their
first commander,
came almost from
the White House.
He had been Vice
President of the
United States and
acting President. He
turned his back on a
six years' term in the
United States Senate
to head the Orphan
Brigade. Then there
were Gen. Hanson,
the great orator and
master of men;
Helm, brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln, from whom he
had refused a general's commission in the United States army;
Maj. Rice Graves and several West Pointers; Capt. Joe
Desha, who later declined the brigadier generalcy to remain
with the Orphan Brigade ; Col. Moss and a score more who
served in Mexico; Judge Burns, who left the bench of the
GEN. S. B. BUCKNER.
v^'''^-^-
MISS FR.\NCES T. HEKNUUN,
Sponsor for Paducah (Ky.) Cam]).
circuit court ; Gen. Joe Lewis, Capt. Phil Lee, Col. Cofer,
favorites in their communities; Col. Clark, who had been
captain of the National Blues; Maj. Hays, son-in-law of Gov.
Helm; Capt. Monroe, who had been Mayor of Lexington,
left the office of Secretary of State ; the fighting Col. Robert
LX Trabue (of thirty-five of his name, thirty-two came into
the Southern army). Then there was Col. Hewett. son of the
millionaire Hewett, whose firm, Hewitt, Norton & Co., had
cotton warehouses in New Orleans, New York, and Liverpool.
He resigned a captaincy in the 7th New York Regiment, the
crack command of that city, to serve with the Orphans.
Capt. Peter Daniels, honor graduate of Harvard Lhiiversity,
came with him. Both were killed at Chickamauga. Col.
Hewett was the finest dresser in the Southern Confederacy,
and the most shocking sight I saw, Sunday morning at
Chickamauga, was where he lay dead in the deep dust of the
Chattanooga road, his rich red sash and splendid uniform
smeared with blood and dust from the tramp of horses and
men,
Liist year I was down in Breckinridge County and visitei!
the grave of Capt. Pete Daniels, and saw in his old home his
sword hanging on the wall, and on the mantelpiece was his
Harvard University society pin. A great historic figure in
the brigade was Gov. George W. Johnson, who was sworn in
as a private at the battle of Shiloh, It was a dramatic scene
when the boy captain. Ben Monrwe, with his naked sword
in one hand and the other uplv^ted, svi;oi;^ t|h^ G|OiV[ei;ip)^ in.
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A little later both were shot down, and the Governor died.
There were with the brigade in that great fight Gen. John
H. Morgan, then a captain, and Gen. Basil Duke, at that time
a first lieutenant. They went out from the brigade, and
naturally became famous fighters.
After the battle of Shiloh, Judge Walker, of New Orleans,
wrote a pamphlet history of the brigade; and Capt. Ed Porter
Thompson, who afterwards became brigade historian and
fixed the fame of the brigade forever in the temple of glorj-.
said that, no matter how the war ended, any man who served
in the Orphan Brigade had a title to nobility. When we went
to dedicate his monument at Frankfort, I confessed that at
Louisville the boys had bragged about their deeds until they
were tired, and the other people were tired al.so; but when
that Yankee professor of Harvard University wrote his article
in the Century, in which he said, 'T have searched in vain
llie annals of ancient and modern warfare to find a body of
soldiers who surpassed this Orphan Brigade," then we met
at the Couricr-Jounml and resolved that all the lies we had
been telling were true. Professor Shaler, in the article re-
ferred to, went i:t i details, telling how the brigade marched
out from Dalton with eleven hundred and forty men, and
after one hundred days of fighting had eighteen hundred and
sixty dead and wounded. (All the wounds, of course,
were not counted — only wounds which sent a man to the
hospital.) This was the official record given by Dr. Walter
Bryne from the hospital records to Gen. Fayette Hewett, who
furnished it to Professor Shaler. They tell of the great seven
days' fight in Virginia; hut think of the one hundred days*
fight in this body of men who covered the retreat of John-
ston's army, much of the time digging rifle pits almost every
night on skirmish line or line of battle every day. There was
almost a .^^pray of blood in the atmosphere from Dalton to
Atlanta.
When T was shot down on May 28 at Dallas, Ga., and
left on the battlefield, afterwards carried to the old church
and laid in a pew on a platform of cotton, then recaptured
and sent to Atlanta, later to Macon, I found near there four
Orphan Brigade doctors. The Orphan Brigade had singu-
larly successful surgeons. Dr. David W. Yandell was Gen.
Albert Sidney Johnston's medical director. Dr. S. M. Bemi^
became assistant director of hc^spitals. Dr. Preston B. Scott
medical director of the .Mabama and Mississippi Department ;
then there was that array of splendid surgeons, Byrne, Bry-
son, Brunson, Brookin, Dodge. Dudley, W. Duke, Eckford,
Foreman, Gore, Hester. Mann, Marshall, Mathews, New-
berry. Pendleton. Rutherford. Sanders. John O. Scott. AH
W. N. H.\T.nEM.\N.
and Hugh Smith, Stevenson, Thomas, Thompson, Vertrecs,
Wible, and Yanaway.
Great as was the soldier service by Kentucky for the South,
there was one Kentuckian whose work was such that Presi-
dent Davis said it was worth that of a general. This worker
was Walter N. Haldeman, Esq.,
of the Courier-Journal, Louis-
ville, who was offered a com-
mission as an officer, but later
was asked also to act as news
purveyor ; and accordingly he
arranged a news route from
1 \ ansville. Ind., through the
lines to himself, and he fur-
nished President Davis all the
news from Indiana. Illinois.
Kentucky, Ohio, and other West-
ern papers. These were de-
clared by the President to be
most valuable. Often news of
contemplated movements in Vir-
ginia came to Richninnd by way of Kentucky.
.\ partial list of engagements between the Confederate and
Federal forces in Kentucky, arranged chronologically, is as
follows :
1861. — October _'3. llodgcnville ; November 9, Ivy Mountain;
November 17, Rowlctt's Station; December 5-8, Russellville.
iS6^. — January 7. Jennie's Creek ; January 8, Fishing Creek ;
January 14, Columbus; January 19. 20, Mill Springs; January
24-30, Piketon ; February 14, 15. Bowling Green; March 2,
.^. Columbus; March 25. Paducah ; May 11, Cave City; June
6. Tompkinsville; June 11, Monterey; July 12, Lebanon;
July 17, Cynthiana; July 19, Paris; July 29, Mt. Sterling;
July 19, Russellville ; August 26, Danville ; August 30, Rich-
mond; September 12, Glasgow; September 14-21, Munford-
ville ; September 18, Florence ; September 19, 20, Owensboro ;
September 27, Augusta; September ,30, Russellville; Septem-
ber 30, Glasgow ; October 4, Bardstown ; Cictobcr 6-8, Per-
ryville; October 10, Harrodsburg; October 11, Danville; Oc-
tober 14, Lancaster; October 17, Lexington; October 28,
Williamsburg; October 31, Morgantown ; November 6, Hop-
kinsvillc; November 8. Burkcsville; December 24, Glasgow;
December 26, Nolin ; December 27. Elizabethtown ; December
28-31. Muldraugh's Hill ; December 31, New Market.
1S63. — January 3. Columbus; February 23, Athens; March
2, Mt. Sterling; March 11, Paris; March 22, Mt. Sterling;
March 24-26. Danville; March 30, Somerset; April 15. Pike-
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ton; April 26-29, Celiiia; April 28, Howe's Ford; May 1.
Monticello; Maj' 13, Woodburn; May 24-26, Danville; June
8, Glasgow; June 8-10, Burkesville; June 9. Rocky Gap;
June 9. Monticello; June 16, Triplett's Brigade; June
16, Maysville: June 28, Russellville, June 29, Columbia;
July 1-26, Morgan's Ohio Raid; July 4, Green River Bridge;
July 5. Bardstown; July 7, Shepherdsville ; July 16-1S, Pa-
ducah ; July 28, Lexington ; July 28, Richmond : July 29,
Paris ; July 31, Lancaster ; August I, Hickman ; August 18,
Crab Orchard; September 11, Greenville; September 28, Co-
lumbus ; October 6. Glasgow ; November 30, Salyersville ;
December i-io. Mt. Sterling; December 5-10, Columbia.
1S64. — January 4, Creelsboro ; February 8, Barboursville ;
;""ebruary 22, Maytield ; March 6, Columbus ; March 30, Mo?-
ow ; April 14, Paducah ; April 19, Pound Gap ; May 9, Pound
Gap ; May 20, Mayfield ; June 8, g, Mt. Sterling ; June 10,
Frankfort; June 10, Lexington; June ir. Cynthiana; July 5.
Lebanon; July 13-15. Big Spring; August i, Bardstown; Au-
gust 14, 15, Mayfield; August 23, Canton; August S7, Owens-
boro ; September 2, Union City ; September 25, Henderson ;
October 15, Glasgow; October 17, Eddyville; October 2t,
Harrodsburg; November 5, 6, Big Pigeon River; December
6, Hopkinsville ; December 24, Elizabethtown ; December 31,
iS6$. — January 15, Mt. Sterling; January 19, Big Spring;
January 29, Danville; March 25, Glasgow; .Xpril 13-16, Lex-
ington: April 18, Taylorsville.
After it was all over, the government gathered its .sol-
diers' bones into national cemeteries ; and, as Col. Young in
his Baltimore speech suggested, after searching the libraries
of the centuries, selected for inscription the lines written by
Capt. Theodore O'Hara, of the Orphan Brigade:
"On Fame's eternal camping ground
Tlieir silent tents are spread.
.•\nd Glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead."
^\nd so it will be seen that Louisville and Kentucky played
"star parts" in the unsurpassed struggle of 1861-65.
RAILROAD RATES TO THE REUNION.
The Southeastern Passenger Association has authorized
the sale of excursion tickets to Louisville, on account of the
United Confederate Veterans' Reunion, at one cent per mile
in each direction — short-line-distance tickets to be sold from
June ID to 13, inclusive ; from points beyond a radius of fiv,:
hundred miles from Louisville, from June 12 to 15, in-
clusive ; also for trains scheduled to arrive in Louisville be-
fore noon of the i6th from points within a radius of five
hundred miles of Louisville, final limit to leave Louisville
returning, June 19, subject to extension of final limit to July
10 upon payment of fee of fifty cents to the joint agent at
Louisville.
The Central Passenger Association, at a meeting held on the
I2th inst,. concurred in the recommendation of the Louisville
Passenger Committee to sell tickets from Cincinnati at $2.50,
from Evansville at $2.85, and from St. Louis at $6.50, offer-
ing the rate from St. Louis to Missouri lines for basing pur-
poses. Dates of sale, June 14 to 15; limit of tickets, June 17—
•except that limits of tickets from and through St. Louis will
be extended to July 10 upon payment of fee of fifty cents to
joint validating agent at Louisville.
. Also tickets to be sold June 14 and 15, limited to June 17,
at -one iare for the round trip, from the following described
territory ? ■
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad: Washington
and Osgood, Ind., and intermediate points.
Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railway ( Monon
Route) : Bedford, Ind., and intermediate points.
Cleveland, Cincinnati. Chicago, and St. Louis Railway (Bii;
Four Route) : Greensburg. Ind.. and intermediate points.
Pennsylvania Co. : Columbus, Ind., and intermediate points.
Soutiicrn Railway: Princeton, Ind., and intermediate points.
IMPORTANT REUNION INFORMATION.
Tlie Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter, V. D. C, Louisville,
Ky., will have a place for headquarters during the reunion
(June 14-16) in Louisville. All visiting Daughters are rc-
(|uested to come to this headquarters (southwest corner
I'ourtb and Chestnut Streets) and register names, Chapter
names, and home and city addresses. This will enable the
Louisville women to show the guests every possible courtesy.
The Louisville papers will publish the list registered each
day, and visitors from different States may meet each other.
Mrs. John Woodburv,
Ri\-ordiitg Secretary A. S. Johnston Chapter, U. D. C.
TRIBUTE TO LOUISVILLE FROM MISSOURI.
Maj. Gen. H. W. Salmon, of Clinton, Mo., commanding
the Missouri Division, \J. C. V., pays this tribute to Louis-
ville: "No city in all the Southland is better prepared to re-
ceive and care for our old veterans than is the beautiful, his-
toric city of Louisville. Its citizens are progressive, warm-
hearted, and hospitable ; and your Commander not only re-
quests the attendance of every Missouri Confederate soldier,
but urges them to take this opportunity to meet and mingle
with old comrades whom they may never again see this side
of the Great River."
The post office address of W. R. Sims, who attended the
Dallas reunion, is desired. Kindly inform the Veteran.
- THK IvnVSONlC BUILDING, -"
Chestnut near Fourth Street, General Aniusement* Hcadquai'ters.
Qoijfederat^ l/eterap.
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rORREST'S CAVALRY CORPS AT THE REUNION.
Official Notice in Regard to the Parade.
All veterans of Gen. N. B. Forrest's Cavalry Corps have
been invited by Gen. S. D. Lee, commanding Confederate
Veterans, to appear mounted in a body in parade at the ap-
proaching reunion. It is requested that all officers who pur-
pose to attend will report in writing at the earliest practica-
ble moment to Col. C. W. Anderson, Adjutant (leneral, Mnr-
freesboro, Tenn., and the number of men they will have in at-
tendance, that arrangements may be made for mounting them.
We learn that horses can be had in Louisville at four doUarN
each for the parade.
By order of Gen. D. C. Kcllcy, commanding Forrest s Vet-
eran Cavalry Corps.
C. W. Anderson, Adjxtant C-ncral.
REUNIOX I'RESIDLNT AND SECRETARY.
John Hess Leathers was born April 2^, 1841, in Middle-
way, Jefferson County, Va., educated in the country school,
and began clerking in a store; later he went In Louisville.
Ky., and entered upon a business career, which was broken
off by the war, at the beginning of which he went to Vir-
ginia and enlisted in Company D, iA Virginia Infantry, Stone-
wall Jackson's Brigade. He served with great credit, was
complimented by tien. R. E. Lee, and promoted to sergeant
major of the regiment. He was severely wounded at Gettys-
burg, was captured in the battle of the Wilderness May 12.
1864. and was kept a prisoner at Point Lookout, Md., almost
till the war was over.
When peace came, Maj. Leathers accepted an invitation
from his Louisville friends and returned to Kentucky, be-
came a commercial traveler, and was soon promoted to a
partnership in the fnin. It became Tapp. Leathers & Co..
clothing manufacturers Lor a third of a century it has held
the highest rank. Maj. Leathers, having a host of friends,
was induced about ten years ago to become cashier of the
Louisville National Banking Cnnipany. a leading fuiancial
institution.
For a quarter of a century Maj. Leathers has been a leader
or an important factor in benevolent, charitable, fraternal, or
religious movements. He was one of the founders of, and
one of the largest subscribers to. the Louisville Charity Or-
ganization; also of the Humane Society. For twenty-five
years he has been Treasurer of the Masonic Grand Lodge, and
for many years has served with singular success as President
of the Industrial School of Reform. More than once he has
declined strong solicitations to make the race for Mayor of
Louisville.
Having assisted in all the earlier Confederate organizations,
when the Confederate .Association of Kentucky was formed,
in 1888, he was made Vice President, and served until the
death of Judge George B. Eastin. In 1894 he became Presi-
dent, and, except for a rest of two years, has been President
ever since. When the .Association federated with the L'nited
Confederate Veterans, taking the name of George B. Eastin
Camp. So.^, he was made Brigadier General, conmianding the
3d Kentucky Brigade. .-Vftor a few years' service as such
commander, he resumed the iiresidency of the Confederate
Association of Kentucky.
With nnicb entreaty, lie was prevailed upon to serve as
President of the Reunion ]'".xeeulive Committee, in wdiich
position his efforts have contributed the most to make th?
important occasion a success.
Chairman Leathers has probably given more money to good
causes and caused more people to join him in giving than any
other man in Louisville, of which city he is probably the best-
beloved man.
Not long after coming to Louisville Maj. Leathers was
happily married to the accomplished Miss Kate .Armstrong,
and they reside with their interesting family at 415 W, Ornis-
by Avenue.
Press Committee's Chairman, Thomas D. Osborne.
Thomas DeCoursey Osborne. Chairman of Reunion Press
Committee and Secretary of Executive Committee, al.so Or-
plian Brigade .Association, was born near Owenton. Owen
County, Ky.. November 8. 1844, son of Lee Byrd O.sborne
and grandson of Lieut Bennett Osborne, of the Revolutionary
army. The family removed to Louisville when Thomas D,
was three years old. He was educated in the citv schools and
THOMAS I). OSUORNK.
I'nion I'niversity, Murfrccsboro, Temi.. and was first lieu-
tenant of the cadets at the opening of the war. He assisted
his father in service for the Confederate government, and
in February. iS6,^ enlisted in Company .A. 6th Kentucky In-
fantry. Orphan Brigade, and was in every liattle up to May
j8. 1864. when he was shot down and left on the battlefield
;il Dallas. Ga. He was in the hospitals at .Atlanta. Macon,
and .Augusta until he was honorably retired by the .-Vrmy
Board, in 1865 at .\ugusta. Ga.
Since 1S6S he has been more or less engaged in newspapei
work, as owner or writer. He has also been prominent in
Church and fraternal affairs
On September i. 1870. he married Miss Christina C. Ray,
daughter of Col. William R. Ray, and with his family lives
in Oie Weissinger-Gaulberl. Louisville. Ky.
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Confederate l/eterap.
S. A. CUXXIN'GHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office' Methodist Publisliinjj House Bnildinjj, Xashville, Tenn.
This ptihlicatton is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. AH per
sons who approve its principles and realize ils lienefits as an org^un for Asso
ci:itions throughout the South are requested to commend ils patronnce and lo
cooperate in extending' its circulation. I.et each one he constantly diligent.
RALLY FOR THE REUNION.
It will seen that a great deal has been said in this Veteran
about Kentucky and the Confederacy. The coming reunion
at Louisville gives increased interest to this feature, while
the history of itself deserves the most durable record.
The magnanimity of spirit in which the great public of
Louisville is arranging to make this reunion a success is a
matter of congratulation to all Confederates, whether or not
they may be able to attend.
The editor of the Veter.\n is enthusiastic over the as-
surance that this sentiment will give such success this year
Id the gathering that the result will be productive of last-
ing benefits. Some mistakes arc apt to be made, as is always
the case; some misfortunes in the management which might
have been remedied if tlie committees had known better be-
forehand. For instance, there are quite certain to be extor-
tions on the part of some who will take advantage of oppor-
tunities ; but Louisville is a large city, and the sincere esteem
of her people for the coming guests will prevent such to :i
greater degree than has occurred elsewhere. The feature of
promise and happiness at Louisville is in the thorough great-
heartedness of the leaders in their zeal to make this reunion
a success without selfish aggrandizement. There will be no
keys for guests, but the gates of the city will be open and
there will be no latches to pull. So intent are the people in
making the event in every way great that they anticipate ideal
wcalhcr. and they believe the elements will give joy in June.
I'ORRLST MONUMENT— COPY OF IXllTATION.
'J"he Forrest Mi)nunient Association re(|iicst the honor of
your presence at the unveiling and dedication of the statue
and monument erected in memory of the great Southern
chieftain, Lieut. Gen. Nathan Bedford l'\irresl. nn Tuesday,
the i6th of May, 1905, at Menipiiis, Temi.
Committee of Invitation: H. M. Neely, Chairman; G. W .
Macrae, Hunsdon Cary.
Board of Directors : Gen. S. T. Carnes. President ; Gen.
George W. Gordon, Vice President ; James E. Beasley, Treas-
urer; Judge J. P. Young, .Secretary; Hon. Thomas B. Turley.
Capt. H. M. Neely, George W. Macrae, S. A. Pepper, I. F.
Peters, J. W. Clapp. W. A. Collier, W. P. Eckles, J. M.
Goodbar, Col. W. F. Taylor, Hunsdon Cary, Capt. W. B.
Mallorv, Gen. A. K. Tavlor.
Morgan's Cavai-kv Was at Shiloh. — Commenting upon a
statement by some writer in the Veteran that Morgan's Cav-
alry was not at Shiloh, Gen. Basil W. Duke said that the
circumstances were such that he couldn't forget it. A de-
tachment of Morgan's Cavalry was charging upon a solid
line of infantry when the men ne.xt to him, on each side,
were each shot through the heart, his horse was shot through
the mouth, and he was shot through both shoulders. Another
account of this extraordinary charge is anticipated, with
sketches of the two gall.'int Krntnckians wlin were instantly
killed, as mentioned.
THE RETURN OF OUR BATTLE FLAGS.
The graceful action of a Republican Congress in returning
10 the Southern States the Confederate flags is doing more
to obliterate any lingering feeling of harshness that may have
existed between the veterans of the contending armies than
any measure of national character that has been passed since
the surrender of the Confederate forces.
Of the one hundred and ninety-eight captured flags that
have been identified, sixty-three belong to Virginia, thirty-one
to North Carolina, twenty-four to Georgia, fourteen to Ala-
bama, five to Arkansas, seven to Florida, one to Kentucky,
eight to Louisiana, eighteen to Mississippi, two to Missouri,
fourteen to South Carolina, seven to Tennessee, and four to
Texas.
Tliere are a number of otiier flags in the possession of the
government that cannot be identified as belonging to any
State. It has been suggested that these be turned over to the
U. C. V. Association to be displayed at their annual reunions,
when most of them, doubtless, would be identified by some of
the attending \'etcrans.
The Veteran for June will be illustrated beautifully. A
large number of copies will be distributed at the Louisville
reunion. It will be an exceptionally good issue for advertising,
and of those who act upon this suggestion request is made
for as early receipt of copy as practicable.
-Sample copies of the Veteran are being sent to ex-soldiers
of the L'nion army in the hope that they may incline to sub-
scribe. Some of this class have been patrons of the publica-
tion since its beginning, and assurance of their satisfaction
and good will induces this venture.
The reunion headquarters for the Veteran are to be in or
near the Gait House. Specific note may be expected in the
June issue, to appear very early in the month.
The diligence of friends in behalf of the Veteran is oc-
casion for sincerest gratitude. The cooperation of all who
are friendly to the Veteran would bring results beyond the
conception of those who don't realize that it covers an are.i
broader than the South.
Gen. Basil W. Duke and the President at Louisville. —
On the occasion of the President's recent reception in Louis-
ville the Confederate escort was composed of ex-soldiers in
service and U. C. V. of all ranks. This goodly company
was commanded by a war captain ; but his command had
a "sprinklin' " of old-time officers, intermixed with the starred
and "chicken fixings," uniformed men of newly acquired rank.
Maj. L., acting orderly sergeant, in the spirit of fun, told
Gen. Duke that if he talked or broke ranks he would promptly
be sent to the guardhouse. The procession halted in front
of a hotel, and the President recognized his old friend. Gen,
Duke, and seemed to expect the General to greet him at the
carriage, but the soldierly General made no move to so ac-
knowledge the recognition. A little later in the hotel parlor
the friends met, and Gen. Duke said : "Mr. President, I hope
you will pardon my not saluting you out in the street, but
our orderly threatened me with the guardhouse if I broke
ranks or spoke." "That's right, sir ; that's right," responded
the President, following up the speech with the customary
cordial smile.
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A MONUMENT TO HON. JOHN H. REAGAN.
For nearly three years the John H. Reagan Chapter, U.
D. C, of Palestine, Tex., has been engaged in raising funds
for the erection of a monument to Judge Reagan. Mrs. D.
J. Price, President of the Chapter, in a circular issued since
the death of Judge Reagan, states: "The time is now ripe
to complete this work." It was first the intention of Mrs.
Price's Chapter of U. D. C. to build this monument them-
selves, and for this purpose had raised a fund of eight hun-
dred dollars toward the amount desired ; but now, since the
death of Judge Reagan, they feel that an opportunity to con-
tribute toward the momnuent to this honored and beloved
Confederate should be offered to his friends ami admirers
throughout the South.
The monument will be erected in his homo oily, Palestine,
on a plot of ground that has been donated by the city for
the purpose. The figure will be life-size on a pedestal of
Texas granite. All contributions should be simiI tn the Pales-
tine National Bank. Palestine. Tex
l-KOM I..\ST PICTVRE OK .1 riX;E REAG.\N.
The above is the last picture of the late Judge Reagan. It
represents him in a suit of Confederate gray that he had
made to wear to the reunion in New Orleans in 1903. It was
a color dear to his heart, as were the memories that clustered
around it. It was the last suit he ever wore ; and when at-
tacked with his fatal illness, the doctor who had been sunj-
nioned helped his devoted wife to divest him of his Con-
federate gray forever.
The true greatness of a man can be measured only after
ileatli closes his record and life's battlefield is looked over.
To the biographer of Judge Reagan his life will present .1
continual series of brilliant triumphs, from youth to venerable
age, in all that stamps a man with greatness. ,\rmed with
only his native ability, unswerving integrity, and a magnifi-
cent moral and physical courage that knew no defeat, be
entered life's strug.gle and won many high honors.
Gen. William Brim.\ge Bate.
Hon. W. P. Tolly, the first captain of the first company to
serve the Confederacy from Tennessee, furnished, by resolu-
tion of Turney Bivouac, U. C. V., Winchester, a tribute to
the late Gen. Bate, from which the following is taken :
"Resolved, That Turney Bivouac, No. 13, U. C. V., do
hereby add their tribute of respect to the distinguished mem-
ory of the late Gen. William B. Bate as a part of the general
expression of sorrow that went up from all parts of the State
and from all loyal Tennesseeans when the sad announcement
came of his death, which took place in the city of Washington
on the gth of March, 1905.
"William Briniage Bate died as he had lived, at his post of
duty. He had taken the oath of ofiice and entered upon his
fourth term as a Senator in the United States Congress from
the State of Tennessee. His entire life, from his boyhood to
a ripe age, was spent in the service of his country, with only
brief intervals. He served his country as a private soldier
in the war with Mexico while yet in his teens, and soon
after attaining his majority he was elected from one of the
leading counties of the State to the Legislature; then he was
elected attorney for the State in one of the leading judicial
circuits. He was a presidential elector for the Hermitage
district in i860.
"In 1861 he was among the first to enlist as a private in the
ranks of Southern patriots who sprang to arms in defense
of their homes, their fanulies. and their all. He was at once
made captain of his company, which became a part of the 21I
Tennessee Infantry Regiment, and he was elected colonel of it.
In the battle of Shiloh (.\pril, 1862) he won his spurs as a
brigadier general. He was equally conspicuous for deter-
mined courage on other sanguinary fields, and rose by dint
of faithful and efficient service to the rank of major general
in that great war. He was faithful to the last, and sur-
rendered his hi.gh commission with the Army of Tennessee
.11 Bentonville. N. C.
".\s Governor nf Tennessee, to which position he was
elected in iS8.> and reelected in 1884. as well as United States
Senator, he displayed the same fidelity to duty he had ex-
hibited as a soldier. He was exceptionally scrupulous, honest,
and always clean-handed. He addressed himself directly to
the people for his support in his laudable ambition to serve
theiu. He was indeed a true and genuine commoner.
"No veteran of the great war in which he served so con-
spicuously was truer to his comrades. Their interest and
their welfare were the objects of his closest attention. His
championship, only a few years before the close of his splen-
did career, of the refunding to the soldiers of the Confederate
armies of pay for their horses an<f their accouterments taken
from them in violation of the terms of surrender was only
one of many illustrations of his devotion to his comrades.
Confederate veterans everywhere mourn their loss. He was
the last of Tennessee's great leaders of the memorable strug-
gle for Southern rights and Southern honor, excepting alone
Gen. A. P. Stewart. We have but the gallant and gifted
George W. Gordon, Major General Tennessee Division, U.
C. v., left of those who bore the rank of general."
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Qoi?federat(^ l/eterai?.
Other Tributes to the Late Gen. W. B. Bate.
Of the many beautiful and appropriate tributes that have
been paid to the distinguished and venerable Senator Bate,
none are more expressive of the man than the following from
a friend in California: "Full of years, crowned with honors,
his whole life a noble river bearing on its bosom argosies of
good deeds, like the full ripe sheaf he was ready for the
harvester. How- beautiful and simple was his life, grand in
its simplicity ! How sweet and fragrant is his memory ! His
life and character were models of excellence that few will
ever attain and none surpass."
Col. E. J. Harvie, of Washington, who was a gallant Con-
federate officer, holding many responsible positions (one ot
which was chief of staff to Gen. J. B. Hood while in com-
mand of the Army of Tennessee), and who knew much of
Cien. Bate as United States Senator, wrote of him: "He was
typical of the Old South, full of truth, zeal, and fidelity. 1
always went to him when I needed advice or wanted in-
fluence. I had no better friend in Washington. He was truly
the representative of the section he hailed from — high-breil
and chivalrous, an example of all manly virtues. ... I
liked him best as a Confederate officer. When bullets wen:
flying and blood flowing, he was always on the firing line.
1 saw much of him in those days. Honored as he was as
Governor and as Senator since the war, his star was brightest
in his efforts to establish the Southern Confederacy."
It has been impracticable to print a tithe of the tributes to
him and to the South's beloved John H. Reagan.
SHARPSHOOTERS REQUESTED TO ASSEMBLE.
Attention ! Surviving members Of Rodes-Ramseur-Grimes
Division Line Sharpshooters, A. N. V. ! Comrades : Your
old commander on the battlefields of Virginia, Maryland, and
Pennsylvania, on which to a man you illustrated Southern
chivalry, sends you greetings. He hopes that a gracious Provi-
dence will spare him for active participation in the reunion
at Louisville, Ky., June 14-16, 1905, and he suggests a distinct
assemblage of his old command at a specific hour at some
point to be designated in the Veteran for June. He desires
that the survivors adopt such measures as may seem best for
organization and for future meetings. Comrades, open cor-
respondence at once with the undersigned, giving suggestions
on the subject herein indicated.
P. H. Larey, Berry, Polk County, Ga.
THE BELOVED JOSEPH JEFFERSON.
A more popular man of the stage never lived, perhaps, than
Joseph Jefferson. Admiration was intermingled with genuine
affection. Millions who never had the joy of his childlike
sweetness of character by association truly loved him.
Mr. Grover Cleveland paid a tribute to him, saying:
"It is difficult for me to speak of Mr. Jefferson. He was
closely my friend. His delightful traits were so manifest to
me in confidential intimacy, and my love for hilii so great, that
his death caused nie to feel like^a mourner whose sorrow
should be silent.
"All knew my friend's professional supremacy. Many knew
how zealously he defended dramatic art and how completely
he illustrated the importance of its cleanliness ; many knew
how free he was from hatred, malice, and all uncharitablc-
ness ; but fewer knew how harmoniously his qualities of heart
and mind and conscience blended in the creation of an lionest,
upright, sincere, and God-fearing man.
"I believe that in death he has reached a world where the
nicrcv of did aboinnls, ,inil I know that in the world of men
JO.SEPH JEFFERSON.
the sadness of his loss will be felt the most by those who
knew him best."
This picture of Mr. Jefferson is copied from one that he
liked very much, so expressing himself when presenting 't
to the editor of the Veteran about two vears ago.
Story of a Knife Found in a Tree. — A remarkable story
is revealed by the finding of a pocketknife in a large tree near
Camden, Tenn. A])out a year after the beginning of our great
war a Col. Lowe's regiment of Federals was. stationed there,
and his men arrested Courice Pavatt, aged twenty-five years,
who lived there with his mother. Pavatt was charged with
being one of a band of guerrillas. He had escaped, but was
captured and had been tied to a tree in the woods, when one
of the Federal soldiers, in sympathy, was in the act of liber-
ating him with the knife in question. He artfully concealed
the knife in the hollow snarl of a tree. Pavatt was shot
dead. The Nashville American concludes a sketch of the
event : "The knife which so nearly saved Pavatt was forgot-
ten, and as the tree flourished and grew the metal was hid-
den from view. When the saw struck the hard substance,
an examination led to its discovery, and it was hewed out and
taken to Camden. The story became known, and to-day its
true history is told by reliable old citizens. The Federal
who attempted to save Pavatt's life remained in Camden many
months, being left there sick. It was reported after he
left there that he joined the Confederate army and was killed
by a shell from a gunboat near Danville."
Mr. D. Eldredge. Historian of the Third New Hampshire,
No. 36 Bromfield Street, Boston, Mass., wishes to correspond
with some Confederate who has a view or plan, or both, of
the Poplar Town Prison, Petersburg, Va.
Confederate l/eterar).
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A BAREFOOTED BOY DEAD AT GETTYSBURG.
BY CAPT. JOHN H. LEATHERS, LOUISVILLE.
The war between the North and Sonth furnishes us, on
both sides of that terrible conflict, thousands of examples of
courage and bravery unexcelled in the history of the world.
The heroes of that war were not confined to the men w-ho
held high positions. There were heroes whose names have
never been mentioned, and who in thousands of instances
fill unknown graves ; but they were none the less heroes.
The incident I am about to relate is a true one, and fur-
nislies an illustration of courage and daring unsurpassed in
any war. During the fall and spring of 1861 and 1862, when
Stonewall Jackson's army was in camp at Winchester, both
armies had been busy after the battle of Bull Run in re-
cruiting and preparing for the conflict which both sides knew
would be a long and bloody one. The North was aroused
and amazed at the defeat at the battle of Bull Run. Thus the
men of the North and millions of money were brought into
rc(iuisitinn to stamp out the rebellion. The Sonth, on the
other hand, rose to a man, and wc might add to a woman, in
defense of their homes and what tlicy believed to he their
rights. The flower of the youth of the Shenandoah Valley
Hocked to Slnnewall Jackson. "The common people" also
came with the same patriotic impulse to join his forces, and
among these many sturdy sons of the mountains of Virginia.
.\mong them was a young mountaineer by the name of Jo
Ivrsom. Jo was a boy about nineteen years of age, about
"six foot" tall, as straight as an arrow, with big black eyes,
dark complexion, ar.d long, straight black hair, looking half
Indian. He was dressed as a mountaineer and barefooted,
lie had never been to school a day in his life, and had never
worn shoes except in the roughest winter weather. From
his appearance, the boys, who were always ready to give
every one a nickname that seemed to suit, dubbed him "Kil-
loola," and he wert by that name all through the war.
At first he was imposed upon by the other soldiers who
had been in the war long enough to learn a thing or two, and
he was made the "hewer of wood and drawer of water" for
the entire company, which he bore without a murmur, lie
drilled along with the company, and soon tilled his place as
a meinber in the ranks. In the battle of Kernstown, four
miles above Winchester, in a terrific little fight between
Jackson and Shields, Jo received his lirst baptism of fire,
and he behaved so splendidly that he at once earned the con-
fidence and respect and affection of the entire command
From that day on he was known as a brave soldier.
It is known to those who are familiar with the history of
the war that after the defeat of Hooker at Chancellorsvillc
Lee innnediately iircpared for the invasion of Pennsylvanii,
and sixty days after the battle of Chaneellorsville the great
struggle at Getlyshurg took place.
Before starling out on the campaign Gen. Lee endeavored
to provide his army with the best arms and equipments he
could obtain, and as far as possible with new clothinu
Many of these new things he managed to get through the
blockade from England, and among other things thus brought
through was a splendid lot of English army shoes, whicli
were distributed through the army to those who most needed
them. Jo. who rarely ever wore shoes at all because his
feet did not suit shoes, drew a pair of these English army
shoes, of which he was very proud. He could wear them
only a little while at a lime. l>ut he would not sell them for
5**
love or money ; and on the march from Virginia to Gettys-
l)ur,i> he would wear them until his feet commenced to hurt,
then he would take them off and go barefooted, carrying
his shoes on his gun, and then put them on again, and so
on until tlie army reached Gettysburg.
It is known to those who are familiar with the history of
the war that both in the first and second day's fight at Get-
tysburg the Confederates drove everything before them. It
was in the first day's fight that poor Jo lost his life. Jack-
son's corps, then conmiandcd by Gen. F.well, advanced upon
the enemy, who had intrenched themselves on the crest of a
long and rocky hill. Jo was in the ranks of his company,
and started in this charge with his shoes on. After the line
advanced through a wheat field some quarter of a mile or
more, he began to lag behind, and, finding that, with the
(juickening pace of the men who were then about ready to
charge, he could not keep pace with them, he stopped, took
off his shoes, tied them together with the leather shoe string-;
and threw them across his left arm, and hurried forward
over the rough and stony ground barefooted to regain his
place in the ranks. As the enemy's skirmish line was broken,
the order was given for the Confederates to charge the
breastworks of the Federals on the crest of the hill some
four hundred >ards distant. The charge was made with the
terrific yell of the Confederates and met by the galling fire
of the Federals, who were waiting for the charge ; and when
the smoke of the battle cleared away, the Confederates oc-
cupied the position the Federals had been driven from.
Among the dead lying on the very top of these earthworks
was poor Jo Ersom, harefooteil. and his shoes lying across
his left arm. This poor, untutored mountain boy bad given
all he had to give to bis country — his young life's blood.
C.MT. lOIlN H. LK.MIIEKS.
rr.siil.nl I.ouisvlllo Coi.fiilt r^ile Ileuninn Comn'ill-
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THIRD ARKANSAS AND RICHMOND HOWITZERS.
BV W. P. JOHNSON, MALVERN, ARK.
Comrade J. B. Minor, of New York, in reporting what lie
terms a "little incident" in the February issue of the Vet-
eran, which occurred during Grant's campaign from the Wil-
derness to Petersburg, and the novel method of our gallant
Col. R. S. Taylor of rallying the men of the Third Arkansas
Regiment with a frying pan. were read with great interest by
me. He very graphically describes one of the ^fiercest con-
flicts in which we were engaged; but his imperfect memory,
which I attribute to the long interval of time, causes him to
cimfuse the location and date of this memorable event. The
attack to which be alludes occurred on the left of our lines
at Spottsylvani.i C. H. on May lo, 1864, instead of the 6th,
and was made liy Warren's Corps.
I was a memfer of Company A, Third Arkansas Regiment,
and participated in repelling the attack he mentions. Col.
Taylor was commanding the regiment at the time, and we
supported the Richmond Howitzers, to which Comrade Minor
belonged, and they never ceased firing until the enemy were
hurled back, leaving the ground covered with their dead and
wounded. We expected a renewal of the assault. Quite a
number of cur men went out in front of the breastworks and
gathered up the spoils — such as muskets, cartridge boxes, etc.
— and distributed them along the line.
James C. Rice and T, G. Stephenson, two Union generals,
■were killed in this day's fight. To give you an idea of what
a desperate assault it was, nearly one hundred dead and
wounded Federals lay at the muzzles of our guns, and seven
were found dead inside of our works. Col. Taylor would not
hesitate to take a meal under fire, nor would it prevent
him from enjoying a good old-time smoke. Capt. John Cous-
sins, of Gen. Law's staff, was another cool man. The fiercer
the fire from the enemy, the more vigorously he smoked.
STRATEGY AT NEW CREEK STATION.
BY CAPT. W. E. GARRETT, LEESBURC, VA.
New Creek Station was a supply post for Gen. Sheridan'-;
army in the Valley of Virginia, and was protected by a heavily
manned fort of some nine hundred guards, with siege guns
an'd batteries, and situated on a very high elevation, so that
all approaches to it could be seen for a inile in any direction.
It was also headquarters from which scouting parties were
frequently sent to reconnoiter, and thus it was an object of
special interest to Gen. Fitzhugh Lte's Division, then operating
in that section of the State.
Gen. Rosser was in command. Gen. Lee being sick, and
determined to capture these supplies with his brigade and that
of Gen. W. H. Payne. When within about four miles of the
fort, with Gen. Payne's command in front, orders were given
lo charge the pickets and rush them in, making no halt until
the fort was captured. The sagacity and strategy of Gen.
Payne just then prevented a "bloody carnage!" Before getting
close enough to be observed he halted his command, and de-
tailed some fifty or si.\ty of his men who wore blue (cap-
tured) coats and sent them forward to capture the pickets,
if possible, without any alarm. The picket guard, supposing
them to be Federal, allowed them to approach near, and on
being challenged they answered, "We are what's left of the
scout sent out yesterday;" and before they were conscious of
our identity each of the pickets had his gun taken from him
almost simultaneously, and without any alarm being sounded.
Thereupon we marched into the fort quietly, found the of-
ficers and reserves at dinner, took possession of the arma-
ments of defense without firing a gun and with only one
killed, that being a Federal officer, who was sabered for per-
sisting in trying to fire.
Gen. Rosser detained his own brigade of hungry men until
Gen. Payne's were fully supplied ; but this seemed to be
unnecessary, for there were tons and tons of stores of flour,
meat, molasses, sugar, coffee, and liquors galore, and numi-
tions of war said to be of more than a million dollars in
value. After appropriating all that could possibly be taken
away with the transportation, we fired the balance, and with
about nine hundred prisoners we retired to camp.
WORTHY INSTITUTION FOR NEGROES.
There is an industrial college for negroes at Conroe, Te.x.,
known as the Conroe-Porter Industrial College, which ought
to becoine a great institution. The property consists of eight
acres of land paid for, one four-story building with twenty-
three rooms and two more buildings, and enough lumber on
the ground to erect another commodious building. The col-
lege has about forty boarders and one hundred other students.
The object of the school is to teach young negroes these
lessons: (i) The science and art of politeness; (2) how to
obey law, and respect for public sentiment; (3) how to re-
sist temptation and be virtuous ; (4) that idleness is sin, al!
labor is honorable; (5) that a good character is the greatest
wealth; (6) that the white people in the South are the negro's
best friends ; (7) that Christianity means love and service.
The Houston Post says :
"An institution like this deserves encouragement not only
for the great good which will accrue to the negroes who learn
these important truths, but for the welfare of the while peo-
ple among whom the negroes have to live. A negro who is
polite, law-abiding, virtuous, honest, and industrious will
never lack for friends in the South : and if the Southern
people could have their way, all the negroes would live up to
the standard of this school at Conroe. There are many such
negroes in the South, and negroes of character are respected
and treated with cordial consideration by the white people.
"There is no negro problem in which the self-respecting,
honest, and industrious negroes are concerned, and there will
not be. The problem comes of the presence of a constantly
growing number of idle, lawless, and vicious negroes, many
of whom are continually clamoring for social equality and
treatment that is not even extended to white people who are
similarly idle and vicious.
"The Post hopes that the trustees of the Conroe School
will meet with generous encouragement at the hands of the
while people. The institution is under the control of an
advisory board of white men, who are endeavoring to acquire
more land and erect other needed buildings."
In commending this institution the integrity of the manage-
nicnl is presumed through the indorsement of the Houston
Post. The Southern people have been so tried on these "edu-
cational" lines that it is difficult to consider this subject
without prejudice. If this industrial school, or "college," is
conducted on the lines indicated, our white people should
give it hearty encouragement. Let its maintenance be by our
own people, entirely free from Northern missionaries. An
institution properly conducted on these lines would rapidly
prove a blessing to both races. It would be just such a monu-
ment to the South's regard for well-behaved negroes as would
be universally satisfactory.
Qopfederate l/'eterai).
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MOSBY'S MEN PLEASE ANSWER.
[Ccimrade J. C. Birdson, of Raleigh, N. C, who served in
Company B, I2tli Virginia Infantry, Mahone's (old) Brigade,
Army of Northern Virginia, seeks information concerning
some of Mosby's men.]
When Hooker crossed the Rappahannock in 1863, and the
Cliaiccllorsville fight occurred, it was my misfortune to be
captured. We were carried to Falmouth, where we were
SLUt by steamer to Washington City and placed in the "Old
Capitol" Prison. We reached that city on the Sunday fol-
lowing our capture. From the boat we were marched to a
police station, where our names, company, and regiment
were enrolled. After entering my name on the register, and
imn.ediately behind me, came three other unfortunates, who
registered as members of Company H, 13th Virginia Cavalry.
Knowing nearly every member of that company, and a large
jier cent <if them being kinsp;'ople, T immediately faced about
and took a good look at them, and that look convinced me
that they were not 'members of that particular company ;
so T kept clo e to them, and on reaching the prison we were
assgneil to the same qu.irters. Soon after, I called one of
them aside (one who bad registered as Charles Fisheri,
made niys.-lt known to him, and interrogated him in refer-
eniT In his company. Finding out that I knew Company H
better than he did, he called his two friends, and they in-
formed me tint they were members of Modjy's command,
and when captured always gavL' some other company than
their own.
They proved to bo fmni tlie neighborhood of Washington,
and tluy -ncm i>peMed correspondence with llicir "cousins"
ulin liMil in till- I'Vderal lines, and were supplied with evcry-
Ihini; neeilful for pri^o : lift', such as money and clothing, and
they shared their fortune with me. We remained there only
two or three weeks, when we were sent to City Point by the
steamer City of Maine. Arriving in Petersburg, Va., we re-
ported to the provost marshal (a Mr. Pannill) and separated.
They were wdiole-souled, jolly fellows. Instead of the
MISS KATE CHADWELl, MISS .MARY LOl'ISE LOVE,
Sponsor for Tenn. Di\ ., U. t . V. Maid of Honor to Miss C'hiidwcll.
ragged Rebel when I entered the prison, I was, through their
aid, sent back to Dixie with a good suit of clothes and a
"biled" shirt. A Dr. Johnson was then in charge of the dis-
tribution of articles seiil to the prisoners. I have often thought
of these three fellow-prisoners, but have forgotten the names
of all except the one most especially kind to me (Charles
I'islur) : and if any of them are living, it would give nic
much pleasure to hear from thein.
Survivors of the immortal six hundred Confederate officers,
prisoners of war wdio were confined on Morris Island under
fire of our own guns, and subsequently starved on corn
meal rations at Fort Pulaski and Hilton Head, S. C, are
earnestly requested to meet at Louisville for the purpose of
organizing a society to suit themselves. They shall
seek to have announcement made by Gen. S. D. Lee before
the convention of the place of meeting. Some of these sur-
vivors are : Brig. Gen. W. D. Ballantine, Florida ; Brig, Gen.
Leon Jastremski, Lieut. Col. LeBroten, J. L. Hempstead,
Louisiana ; P. H. Benson, Texas ; Capt. J. L. Cantwell, North
Carolina; W. W. Htdbert, Georgia; A. M. Bedford, Missouri.
MRS. JOHN r. HICKMAN, NASHVILLE,
Cluiperon for Sponsor and Maid of Honor Tenn. Dlv., U. C. V.
The P. F. Liddell Chapter of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy at Carrollton, Miss., has ordered a monument
to be erected in the courthouse inclosure to the Confederate
soldiers who were killed or died in the service of their coun-
try during the War between the States. This monument is
to be twenty-eight feet, six inches high, and will be unveiled
in October, 1905. Names of all those soldiers will be engraved
on indestructible parchment and inclosed in a receptacle of
copper and stone and placed in the corner stone of the mon-
ument. This Chapter bears the name of Col. Liddell, of the
2ist Mississippi Regiment, who was killed at the battle of
Sharpsburg, or rather after the battle, by a bursting shell.
He was a brave and gallant soldier, who left Carroll County
as captain of the Carroll Rifles on the first call for troops for
the defense of his country.
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CONCERNING THE WOMAN'S MEMORIAL.
The Committee of Cooperation of the United Confederate
Veterans propose to issue ere long, in aid of the memorial
to the women of the Confederacy, a supplement to one lead-
ing daily paper in many of the larger cities of the South.
These supplements will be devoted exclusively to historic
incidents, showing what these noble women heroically did
and how they suffered. These papers will portray principally
the deeds of the women of the State in which they are pub-
lished.
The pecuniary benefit to the memorial will be derived from
the advertisements to be therein inserted and from the sales.
It is believed that the publication simultaneously by States
all through the South of this edition, showing the heroism
of these glorious women, will awaken such an enthusiasm as
will induce liberal donations to the memorial.
It is further believed that, independent of pecuniary re-
sults, these supplemental sheets will do these women historic
justice, and show to all the world the splendid character of
the women of the South and their godlike heroism in this
the most thrilling period of their country's life.
Tliirty daily newspapers, among the foremost of the South,
have already given their concent, embracing the States of
Alabama, .-Xrkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
While no paper in Louisiana has gone into the plan, yet ar-
rangements are in progress which it is hoped will place in
effect, though by a different means, that State beside her
sister States of the South. ,\1I efforts to elicit the support
of any Texas daily paper in her larger cities have failed.
Literary contributions have been sought and many collected,
showing the heroism of our women. If any having such
valued information have not been called upon, they are asked
by those in charge to waive the formality of a personal call
and send such literary contributions to the editor for their
State.
The editors fcir the various States so far desi.gnated arc
as follows :
.Mabama : Hon. Tliom.as M. Owens, Montgomery, Ala.
Arkansas ; Cols. S. H. Nowlin and J. Kellogg, Little Rock,
Ark.
Florida : Gen. F. P. Fleming, Jacksonville, Fla.
Georgia: Col. James R. Randall. Augusta, Ga.
Kentucky : Not yet selected, but contributions may be sent
to Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Charleston, S. C.
Mississippi: Col. R. H. Henry, Jackson, Miss.
North Carolina: Miss Mamie Bays, Charlotte, N. C.
South Carolina : James A. Hoyt, Columbia, S. C.
Tennessee : Capt. .Alex .Allison, Knoxville, Tenn.
Virginia: Col. James Mann, Norfolk, Va.
Contributions are asked, and especially asked for from
those of the most brilliant literary attainments, from those of
modest culture, from those who cannot even spell correctly,
and from those who cannot write at all and nmst .get some
friend tn write for them. We ask only ;i true history of
what our women did, how they suffered, and all that they
endured with such heroism, that justice may be done to those
deserving of all honor, all praise, nil .glory.
The Veterans, Sons, and younger Daughters have earnestly
supported the niM\ i-ment, and in all the cities of publicatinn
are hard al worl< tn aid this high object — the securing of .1
memorial In tiur glorious women oi ihe Confederacy.
The net rc-venuf derived from these supplenients will Ip."
devoted to the memorial. The newspapers have all con-
tributed their share of the work at actual cost, and the effort
promises a handsome return.
The great bulk of those who are interested in this object
arc beyond the bounds of these cities of publication, and can-
not make their contributions of money through that channel —
;'. I'., the supplements — but they can do so by remitting direct
to Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Special Representative, L'. S. C. V.,
and Chairman Committee, U. C. V., Charleston, S. C.
Those in the cities of publication can, besides embracing
a good business proposition, show their appreciation of these
women by liberally advertising in the supplement of their
city paper. They cannot be too generous. If a billion dollars
were given for this object, it would not enable the Sons and
the Veterans to pay even a tithe of the tribute due the noble
women of the Confederacy.
At the Nashville reunion the Veterans placed the sacred
duty of raising this memorial on their heirs, the Sons solemn-
ly pledging their cooperation. The Sons, through Mr. James
Mann, Chairman Women's Memorial Committee, U. S. C.
v., very wisely secured the active assistance of Lieut. Gen.
C. Irvine Walker, one high in the confidence and esteem of
the Veterans, who had been appointed by Gen. S. D. Lee as
Chairman of the U. C. V. Committee on Cooperation. He
has been able to bring to the work the influence of the Vet-
erans and the greater activity of the Sons, and it really
looks as if success were about to perc'n upon the joint work
he is conducting. He has had the active and co:dial backing
of the Sons, without which nothing could have been done,
and a large share of whatever credit success may give will
be due to the valued work and aid of Mr. James Mann, Chair-
man. While thousands are helping, the particular praise will
be due to these two gentlemen.
[The foregoing has been submitted by high Confederate
authority, and the Veteean prints it, as it is ardently in favor
of as nearly a worthy testimonial as it is possible to make.
However, the conviction is maintained by it that what to
construct and where to locate it are of such paramount im-
portance that no practical success may be expected. "Battle
Abbey" experiences deter every patriot who has studied the
question from the confidence of results which would other-
wise exist.]
GOOD FEATURE OF ST. LOUIS CAMP, U. S. C. V.
A very interesting and profitable meeting of Camp Sterling
Price, in St. Louis, was held on the night of February 23
at the Missouri Athletic Club. ,A large attendance was
present in the beautiful quarters, and the meeting was promi-
nent for its enthusiasm and interest throughout. About
twenty-five new members were elected, the progress of the
work was discussed, and many valuable suggestions were made
and committees appointed to carry them out.
One hundred and thirty dollars was subscribed toward
the \\"oman's Memorial Fund, which, together with what has
been already subscril)ed and paid by this Camp, makes a total
of three hundred and eighty dollars. One of the most prom-
ising projects which were put on foot was the agreement that
at their meetings, at least once every month, there will be a
smoker or light supper. Veterans are to be invited guests.
It i'. intended that these meetings shall be decidedly social,
lirin;.4im; the uR'niliers together more closely in that way. No
business need be transartrd at them, althought it will not be
prohibilcil.
Qopfederate l/ctera:).
2iy
NOT DEAD YET.
ItV W. C. NIXON, hall's, TKNN.
I wrilc III correct an error I noticed in the Veikran mI'
February. In publishing the Hst of Confederate dead buried
in Cave Hill Cemetery of Louisville, Ky., the name of W. C.
Nixon appears. Thanks to a kind Providence, I am yet very
much alive, and I will explain why I have a nicely kept grave
in Cave Hill Cemetery.
I was wounded and captured in the second day's light at
Murfreesboro, and was sent to Camp Boyd Prison at Louis-
ville, where I met a messmate, Jack til imps, who had been
wounded and captured at Perrjville. Both of us belonged to
Company G, 4th Teimessee, and it was on his account that I
was supposed to be dead and buried. It happened this way :
Our rations were issued to us in a narrow passagew'ay. We
would form in single file and march by a little window, where
a negro would pass out to each of us a slice of bread and fat
pork. Jack was weak from long suffering, had but little
appetite, and asked the negro to give him a lean piece of the
meat. With an oath the negro threw the meat in his face,
saying it was good enough for a d — Rebel. Jack was still
using one crutch, and lie remarked, "I can't reach you now,
but will see you later," which he did. A few days after he
caught the negro unexpectedly and at a disadvantage in ,i
secluded part of the prison. Steadying himself on his good
ICfe, he dealt the negro a blow on the head with his heavy
crutch, and the next morning the dead body of the negro was
found in the ditch. Of course suspicion rested on Jack, from
the remark others had heard him make about the meat. He
was arrested and carried before the court-martial. I was
satisfied they would shoot him, so I went before the officer in
charge and told him I knew Jack did not kill the negro, but
refu.sed to say who did. They released Jack, but much to my
surprise arrested me and ordered nic to be tried in his place.
I was put in a cell to await trial next day. Time was short,
and what there was of it looked powerful serious. What-
ever 1 did had to be done tliat day and night. Examining
my surroundings. I saw there was no possible chance of es-
cape from the cell. I must be moved at once to other quar-
ters, so in a few moments I was the sickest boy you ever saw-
to be alive. I was groaning and rolling all over the floor of
the cell, screaming and begging for the doctor — must have
been poisoned in some way. The doctor thought so too when
he came ; so he ordered me moved to the hospital, thinking
the chances were against my living. 1 was given a cot near
a poor fellow named Hawkins, from Georgia, who died soon
after I was carried in. Two ladies — Misses Burns — w-ho had
been nursing Hawkins came in to look after him. I stated
to them my peril, and they at once began thinking of some
way for me to escape ; and I don't think any one but a woman
would have ever conceived the plan. There were no open-
ings to the room except a door at each end, and both of these
were guarded. There was a small hole in the floor, beneath
which was a chute something like a grain chute, through
which the slops were poured. So it was arranged that when
everything got quiet they would change the slat that had
my name nn it to poor Hawkins's cot, and Hawkins's to mine ;
so that Hawkins would be buried as Nixon and 1 escape.
Everything worked well, and about two o'clock I shot the
chute, crawled from under the house, and made my way to
the house of my lady friends, who kept me concealed a few
days and gave me a new suit of clothes. I then boarded .1
train with a regiment of new recruits bound for Nashville.
Tenn.. to have a look at the Johnny Rcbs. When I reached
Nashville. I abandoned my new blue-coated friends, slipped
through the lines, and joined my regiment at Shelbyville. I
won't say how long my scare lasted, but it taught me a les-
son never to take another man's place without first counting
the cost.
MISS LOWE, Oir tJALVKSrON,
Spor.sor for Texas at I.-)uis\ ille Reunion.
MISS ADDIE F. WILSON. OF HELTON,
Sponsor for Te-vfts ;tl State Iteunion.
MISS VIOLET HARRIS. OF OCALA,
Sponsor for Florid;* at I-ouisvillc Reunion.
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UNITED SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
N. R. Tisdal, Commander in Chief of the United Sons of
Confederate Veterans, sends out from Rusk; Tex., under
date of March 25, 1905, General Order No. 5, in which he
states officially through Adjt. Gen. Stockett : "It is antici-
pated that much important business will come before the
body for final action; and if your Camp would participate
in the business and pleasure of the gathering, it is necessary
that the per capita tax be paid (ten cents for each member)
before the opening day of the reunion. The immediate pay-
ment of this per capita tax is urged."
He emphasizes tlie duty to the Veterans, living and dead,
and to ourselves, to see that this organization is perpetuated.
He says : "Do not let it be said that we are less patriotic than
our sires." And he appeals for increased membership.
President Roosevelt and Be.^uvoir. — J. D. McLane, of
Patterson, 111., writes in connection with the Veteran's trib-
ute to President Roosevelt in the March issue : "I was at
the World's Fair on the last day of November and visited
the Mississippi Building, passing through all the rooms, and
was shown the Davis relics by Mr. Henry, the Commissioner.
I was there several days after Mr. Roosevelt was, and I
made it a point to inquire whether or not the President was
in the Mississippi Biulding, and was told by one of the per-
sons in charge that he was not; that he merely looked out
as he was driving past. I too have been encouraged by
recent utterances of the President. But trutb must prevail,
anil will do no one an injustice."
SOUTHERN WOMEN'S MONUMENT.
Comrade John W. Tench, of Gainesville, Fla., has written
the Atlanta Journal about a monument to Southern women.
"Thinking over ways and means in the erection of a me-
morial to the 'Women of the Confederacy,' it occurs to me
that if a circular letter setting forth clearly the objects and
aims of the committee having this memorial scheme in charge
be mailed to the Mayor of every city and village in Dixie,
requesting him to lay the matter before the ball team of his
city or village, and asking said team to play at least one game
during the season, the proceeds, minus the actual expenses of
the visiting team, to be given in aid of this glorious work,
the problem would be solved.
"The boys composing these many teams are the grandsons
of the women who prayed and wept and toiled and lost for
Dixie, and I know that with a wild Rebel yell they will wel-
come the friendly struggle on the 'diamond,' feeling that every
stroke of the bat, every fly caught, and every sprint to the base
will help to send the memorial shaft to these noble grand-
mothers of theirs higher and yet higher toward the blue
dome above us, even until the steadfast empyrean shall from
its giddy height be almost accessible.
"If the days on which and the purpose , for which these
games were to be played are properly advertised, the people
would by hundreds, by rail, by carriage, on horseback, on
foot, from farm, from hamlet, from cypress swamp and
riverside, come to aid the glorious work. The summer in the
South would be enlivened as never before.
"In round numbers, there are fourteen hundred counties in
the Southern States. Each county has a team, and many
more than one; so that we may safely place the number of
teams at fifteen hundred, and we can count on two hundred
dollars per team; for while the smaller places would not
yield more, perhaps, than one hundred dollars, such places
as Jacksonville, Tampa, Key West, Savannah, Atlanta, Macon,
Augusta, Charleston, Columbia, Raleigh, Charlotte, Wilming-
ton, Richmond, Norfolk, Lynchburg, Baltimore, Washington,
D. C, Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, Louis-
ville, St. Louis, Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans, Galves-
ton, and Houston would run into the thousands. I believe
many friendly to the project in Delaware and the District of
Columbia would help.
"The money raised in this way and by other means would
in two or three years reach a million dollars, and this me-
morial should cost no less. Its foundation should rest on the
solid rock, be built of Stone Mountain granite, and capped
with a marble female statue, the head of which should be just
one thousand feet from the surface of the earth. For the
nearness of the material, and because it is the gateway through
Dixie, the shaft should be erected in the city of Atlanta — but
these are maters of detail.
" 'Go build their monument, and let it be
High as the firmament, deep as the sea.' "
REUNION MISSOURI DIVISION, U. C. V., 1904.
The annual reunion of the Missouri Division, LInited Con-
federate Veterans, was held at the Missouri State Building,
World's Fair grounds, St. Louis, Mo., October 6, 1904.
The attendance was as large as could be expected with so
many diversions, and much interest was manifested.
The national meeting of the Daughters of the Confederacy
being in session in St. Louis at the time of the reunion, they
paid the Missouri Confederates the honor of adjourning their
meeting to meet with us, which was duly appreciated by the
Veterans.
Officials of Missouri Division.
Maj. Gen. Harvey W. Salmon, commanding the Missouri
HARVEY W. SALMON,
Major General Missouri Division, U. C. V.
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Division, United Confederate Veterans, announces the follow-
ing as constituting his official staff :
Col. William F. Carter, Clinton, Adjutant General and
Chief of Staff.
Lieut. Col. William H. Keniian, Mexico, Inspector General.
Lieut. Col. George P. Gross, Kansas City, Chief Quarter-
master.
Lieut. Col. J. n. Ingram, Nevada, Chief Connnissary.
Lieut. Col. John W. Halliburton, Carthage. Judge Advocate.
Lieut. Col. J. M. Allen, Liberty, Chief Surgeon.
Lieut. Col. J. J. Fulkerson, Lexington, Assistant Surgeon.
Lieut. Col. Thomas M. Cobb, Lexington, Chaplain.
His aids-dc-camp, with the rank of major, arc : James C.
Wallace, Keytesville; Rol)crt II. Stockton, St. Louis; W. P.
Gibson, Warrensburg; Charles 11. Howard. Waj'nesville :
Robert McCulloch, St. Louis; O. II. P. Catron, West Plains:
Robert J. I'ucker, Lamar; George M. Jones, Springfield;
Frank M. Russell. Lebanon ; P, E. Chestnut, St. Joseph ;
George W. Lankford, Marshal; K. McD. Coffey. Platte City;
k. H. Keith, Kansas City; T. C. Holland, Sedalia; Janus
!•■. Edwards. hViristell ; A. L. Zollinger, Ottcrville; J. N. Brad-
ley, Papinsvillc ; J. G. Simpson. Bolivar; J. E. Dcvimiey, Rip-
ley. 'I'cnn ; l-'.il P. Raynolds, San Marcos, Tex.
OfI'-ickks oi- Tni; E.xstkkn Rri(;.\i)e.
Brig. Gen. Frank Gaiennie, St. Louis, connnanding the
P'astern Missouri Brigade, names as his oflicial staff: Majs.
R. Daugherly, Inspector General; J. B. Gantt. Judge .Xd-
vocate; John M. McGliec. Quartermaster; A. J. Furr, Com-
missary; J. J. Miller, Surgeon; Capls. W. W. Trent, Sam
1. Harrison, E. G. Williams, J. H. H. Maxwell, C. W. Digges,
T. (). Towles. Aids-de-Camp.
Officers of the Western Brigade.
Brig. Gen. John B. Stone, Kansas City, commanding the
Western Missouri Brigade, announces as his official staff':
lOHN U. STONE,
Hriuailier (ifnrr.ll Western 1lrig;ulr, Missouri I>t\ision, V. C. \'.
Lieut. Col. Henry M. Withers, Kansas City, Adjutant General
and Chief of Staff; Majs. J. Q. Plattenburg, Lexington, In-
spector General ; Maxwell M. Minter, Kansas City, Quarter-
master General ; N. B. Hogan, Springfield, Commissary Gen-
eral ; James W. Boyd, St. Joseph. Judge Advocate General ;
D. K. Morton. Kansas City. Surgeon General ; William F.
Bahlniann, Warrensburg, Chaplain General.
His aids-de-canip are: Capts. A. Atkinson. Kansas City;
S. C. Ragan, Kansas City ; James Kennedy, Kansas City ; T.
G. Crotly, Kansas City ; Lewis Renf ro, Greenfield ; T. B.
Dry, Eldorado Springs; John Waddell, Sedalia; Ed Barton,
Linnens; P. W. Reddish, Liberty; Isaac C. Cruzen, Carrollton;
L. II. Londermilk. Joplin; C. C. Catron, Carthage; W. H.
Quarlcs, Richmond; Ed W. Strode, Independence; Rich W.
Nichols. Mar.'hall; R. D. Berry, Selma, Ala.
Stonewall Camp Elects Officers. — The Stonewall Camp,
C. v., Portsmouth, Va., held its annual election of officers
on the evening of the 4th inst., and chose the following com-
rades to serve for one year from that date : Connnander,
John W. H. Porter; Lieutenant Commanders, M. W. Allen
and J. H. Gunnii ; Adjutant, Thomas Shannon; Quarter-
master, W. L. Langhorne; Surgeon, Dr. George W. O. Mau-
pin, Jr. ; Chaplain, C. H. Eckert ; Treasurer, John C. Ashlon ;
Sergeant Major. Samuel Y. Browne; Vidette, Joshua Denby;
Color Sergeant, John E. Foreman.
FRANK GAIENNIE,
Hrij^iiilier General Eastern lirigade, Missouri Di% ision, U. C. V
Wants His Bullet Back.— Mr. James F. Smith, of Mor-
gan, Tex., wishes to learn the address of his cousin, Mrs.
Lottie McCord, formerly of Columbia, S. C— a daughter of
Prof. Lawrence Reynolds — in whose keeping he left a Minie
ball extracted from his foot during the war.
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KIND LETTER BY GEN. U. S. GRANT.
The Veteilvn frequently copies autograph letters from dis-
tinguished pcopc concen-.ing Confederate matters. The ahovc
.-<.,
happened not to reproduce well, so is printed below. It was
a generous act of Gen. Grant to the mother of a prominent
Confederate officer :
"Head Qrs. Mil. Div. of the Miss.,
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. i6, 1864.
M;ij. Gen. G. H. Thomas, Coininiinding De|)artinent of llie CuinliL-rLinil.
"General: Please send the bearer of this, Mrs. Bransford,
under 'Flag of Truce' to the Confederate lines.
"Very respectfully, U. S. Grant, Major General."
FATHER RYAN MEMORIAL WINDOW AT TAMPA.
Miss A. E. Caruthers, President of Tampa Chapter, U. D.
C, at Tampa, Fla., appeals to Veterans and Daughters of
the Confederacy everywhere; "Having assumed the debt of
one thousand dollars for the Father Ryan memorial win-
dow, which honors our beautiful Cathedral here, as well as
the poet-priest who gave his best to our cause, we, the Daugh-
ters, appeal to you, our co-helpers in every good cause.
Meet us, O Veterans, in our hour of need with just one
dollar for each Camp and the Daughters the same for each
Chapter, and our Father Ryan memorial window will soon
be paid for. Our small Board of Daughters are working
hard to accomplish this end. Will you help us? If so, for-
ward all contributions with name and number of Camp and
Chapter. Some of the Chapters have already responded to
our written appeal."
Statham-Farkell Camp, U. C. V. — The two Camps of
Confederate Veterans in Montgomery County, Miss,. ]iave
consolidated under the names of two gallant soldiers, both
commanders of the 15th Mississippi Infantry. Gen. Statham
was the first colonel of the regiment, and won his grade of
brigadier general at the battle of Shiloh. He was succeeded
in rank by Col Mike Farrell, who first went out as a private
in the regiment. It was generally conceded that the 15th
Mississippi was one of the best-drilled regiments in the Army
of Tennessee, all of which was due to its drillmaster. Private
Mike Farrell, afterwards colonel, and who fell in the bat-
tle i.f F'ranklin at the head of his regiment. The headquar-
ters of the Statham-Farrell Camp is Winona, Miss., and
Comrade J. B. Simpson is Commander; M. H. Allen and
J. Stafford, Lieutenant Commanders ; R. I. Allen, Adjutant;
and Dick Wood. Color Sergeant. The Camp at its next
meeting, in June, will formulate plans and start a movement
to erect a monument to the women of the Confederacy in
the town of Winona.
President Davis's Birthday. — The Texas Legislature, as
has been stated in the Veter.\n, has honored itself in passing
:i bill making the 3d of June, the birthday of Jefferson Davis,
a ligai holiday in that State. But to Mrs. D. A. Nunn,
First Vice President of the Texas Division of the U. D. C,
and her active committee is largely due the success of this
work. Mrs. Nunn has received numerous congratulations
from all parts of the State for the successful result of her
efforts; amongst others, a letter from Mrs. Austin, State
President of the \J. D. C, saying: "Praise and thankfulness
should be on the lips of every daughter in our State for the
noble work accomplished by you and your committee."
Mrs. Reagan, the widow of the lamented Judge John H.
Reagan, wrote : "You more than any one else deserve the
greatest commendation for the success of the bill, for you
have been indefatigable in your efforts, and I am in favor of
giving three cheers for Mrs. D. A. Nunn for this tribute of
Texas to President Jefferson Davis." Judge Reagan, who
died a short time after the bill was passed, wrote to Mrs.
Jefferson Davis expressing his gratification, and inclosed
clippings from various papers commendatory of the measure.
Wants to Return Sword to Its Confederate Owner. —
Mr. Albert Brown, of Bridgeport, Ohio, writes : "I was a
member of Company B, 98th Ohio Infantry, 2d Brigade,
2d Division, 14th Army Corps, and at the battle of Benton-
ville, N. C, in April, 1864, I captured a Confederate officer.
He was wearing a good overcoat, which I took for one of my
wounded comrades. I took from him also a very fine sword,
which I still have, and would be glad to return it if he is still
living." Ordinarily there might be some difficulty in locating
the owner of this sword; but, as Mr. Brown says he had on a
fine overcoat, it simplifies miitters greatly, for at that time
of the war it is safe to say there were not a half dozen men
in Johnston's whole army who had on overcoats of very
good quality, so the sword evidentlj' belongs to one of these.
RoDDEv's Old Company. — Calling in the office of the Vet-
eran a few days since to renew his subscription. Comrade
\V. R. Petree, of Belgreen, Ala., related a number of inter-
esting incidents of his soldier days. He was a member of
Capt. (afterwards Gen.) Roddey's command, and served with
it to the close of the war. The original company was organ-
ized in North Alabama, Mississippi, and Southern Tennessee,
near where the three States join ; and out of about a hun-
dred and ten members, fifteen were steamboat captains. If
any of the old company are living, Mr. Petree would be glad
to Iicar from them. ,
Many letters conmiending in high terms the address by
Dr. Randolph H. McKim, delivered before the U. C. V.
Convention in Nashville last June, have been received. The
address has been published in pamphlet form, and can be
procured of Gen. William E. Mickle, New Orleans, La. Price.
25 cents.
Qorjfed^rate l/etcrap.
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REVIEW OF GEN. MILES'S CRUELTY TO MR. DAVIS.
BY BENNETT H. YOUNG, MAJOR GENERAL KY. DIVISION, U. C. V.
Smarting under some criticism spoken in the Congress of
the United States in connection with his acting as Adjutant
General of the State of Massachusetts while being on the pay
roll of the United States, Gen. Nelson A. Miles has made
what he calls "A Statement of tlie Facts Concerning the Im-
prisonment and Treatment of Jefferson Davis while a Military
Prisoner at Fortress Monroe, Va., in 1865 and 1866."
It is unfortunate for Gen. Miles that he has allowed this
statement to be so long delayed. He now himself reopens the
subject. It is nearly forty years since these transactions which
affected Mr. Davis's imprisonment took place, and they have
become a part not only of the history of the United States but
(if the world It is very late to change or modify them. They
are transactions of the past, over which no man has control.
They must stand or fall by what was said or done at the
lime of their h.ippcning.
I propose briefly to review Gen. Miles's treatment of Presi-
dent Davis in the light of historical facts, and to show that
the four decades which have passed since the horrible occur-
rences at Fortress Monroe have not mitigated nor palliated the
outrage that was perpetrated upon that helpless, defenseless
prisoner.
It is alv\ays just to judge men by their surroundings. The
country was in a high state of excitement. The Confederate
army had surrendered. Mr. Davis, Mr. Clay, and others had
been charged with connection in the assassination of Mr.
Lincoln, a charge which even their enemies were forced quick-
ly to withdraw in bhame and confusion.
.\s I understand the defense of Gen. Miles it is fourfold:
First, that there was .some fear that Mr. Davis might attempt
to escape; secondly, that Mr. Davis was not treated unkindly:
lliirdly, that he is not responsible for having manacles put
upon Mr. Davis : and, fourthly, that Mrs. Davis and Mrs.
Clay thanked him for wh.it he had done for Mr. Davis and
Mr. Clay.
It is necessary to get a few facts before tlie mind m order
to properly di.scuss this question.
Gen. Lee had surrendered his armies at Appomattox on
April 9, 1865 ; Gen. Joseph E. Johnston had surrendered his
armies in North Carolina on the 26th of April, 1865 : Gen
Taylor had surrendered his armies on the 4th of May, 1865;
and on the day following that on which Mr. Davis was put in
irons by order of Gen. Miles the armies of the United States
which had engaged in the great civil conflict were to be mus-
tered out at the country's capital and return to the pursuits
of peace.
Mr. Davis reached Fortress Munrce on the lulh of May,
1S65. His jailer. Gen. Miles, was present to receive hini. At
that time Mr. Davis was fifty-six years of age and had lost
the use of one eye by neuralgia, and the terrible physical and
mental strain through which he had passed had resulted in
extreme emaciation and feebleness.
something in Gen. Miles's character suggested to the iron-
lied Stanton and marble-hearted Halleck his fitness for the
work to which he was assigned, and that a mere hint from his
superiors would be sufficient to secure from him a ready com-
pliance with any cruel or vindictive measure or any bitter
humiliation which should be meted out to Mr. Davis.
Mr. Davis was manacled on the 23d of May, 1865. four
days after his arrival. He had been placed in a stone case-
niate at Fortress Monroe. He had been given a cot and a
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coarse mattress and a hair pillow, and the food furnished to
him was such as that given to strong, healthy soldiers. This
was brought on a tin plate, placed upon a table standing by
his side, and the soldiers who bore it and paced by his cell
were forbidden to speak a single word to their invalid and
infirm captive.
In the small room occupied by Mr. Davis two sentinels were
stationed, who walked up and down night and day on each
side of his cot, and in an adjoining room an officer and other
soldiers were stationed. Outside of this door paced other
sentinels, whose tramp, tramp, tramp resounded along the
echoing masonry of the fortress night and day.
No man who came in contact with Mr. Davis except his
surgeon was allowed to speak to him, and after a while even
his surgeon was forbidden to speak to him except profes-
sionally.
All books except the Bible and prayer book were refused.
No papers were permitted to enter his cell. His correspond-
ence with even his wife and children was examined by Gen.
Miles, and sentences and para.graphs oftentimes cut out.
These were the existing conditions when, on the 2,^d of
May, 1865, Gen. Miles issued peremptory orders to Capt. Je-
roiTie E. Titlow. of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, to enter
Mr. Davis's cell with a blacksmith and to place upon his feet
manacles of iron about five-eighths of an inch thick and con-
nected together by a chain of like weight. Mr. Davis resisted,
and was threatened with the bayonet. At last he was thrown
upon his couch, soldiers sat upon his limbs, and by force the
manacles were riveted on his ankles, connected with the chain.
Gen. Miles was then twenty-six years of age. No plea of
infancy w-ill avail as a justification of his cruel and malignant
wrong.
In 1902 he caused to be issu?d a pamphlet, which was printed
ill Washington by Gibson Bros. In this pamphlet, as a
quasi-justification of his conduct, are published the rewards
offered by Andrew Johnson, President of the United States,
for Mr. Davis, Mr. Clay, Mr. Thompson, and others, and he
revamps the old story that Mr. Davis wac hunted dow-n and
captured in the disguise of a woinan. He even had the te-
merity to quote from the records of the Bureau of Military
Justice, which have been scorned and eschewed by the honest
men of the Republican party even in those days of political
excitement and passion.
To justify this inlnuran thing. Gen. Miles quotes an order
of Gen. Halleck. That order is in the following words:
"Fort Monroe, May 22. 1865.
"To Brevet. Maj. (Jen. Miles, Commanding, etc.
"The commanding general of the district is authorized to
take any additional precautions he may deem necessary for the
security of his prisoners.
"H. W. Halleck, U. S. V., Cotiiniaiiding."
But his chief reliance is a subsequent order issued by
Charles A. Dana. Assistant Secretary of War, which is in the
following words :
"Fortress Monroe. May 22, 1865.
"Brevet Major General Miles is hereby authorized and di-
rected to place manacles and fetters upon the hands and feet
of Jefferson Davis and Clement C. Clay whenever he may
think it advisable in order to render their imprisonment more
secure.
"By order of the Secretary of War.
"C. A. Dana, Assistant Secretary of War."
In some recent .statement Gen. Miles claims that this was
an order to put manacles on Mr. Davis. Charles A. Dana is
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dead. Gen. Miles now seeks to place upon this dead man the
responsibility of his crime.
It will be observed that in both of these orders the manacling
of Mr. Davis was left within the discretion of Gen. Miles.
There has never yet been a line produced which directed Gen.
Miles to manacle Mr. Davis. It was left to Gen. Miles's dis-
cretion, and he exercised that discretion in a way which is
bound to invoke the sharpest criticism and the profoundest
contempt.
When this horrible order was to be executed, Mr. Davis
pleaded that it be delayed until Gen. Miles could be communi-
cated with. Gen. Miles put himself in such a position that he
could not hear the plea of this weak and despairing prisoner.
He had left the fort so that no appeal could reach his ears,
and there was nothing left for his subordinates but to enforce
his hideous and shocking order.
The execution of this plan to humiliate Mr. Davis was con-
ceived, we have a right to assume from accompanying cir-
cumstances, by the Secretary of War, the Assistant Secretary
of War, and Gen. Halleck, Commanding General. They were
unwilling to assume the responsibility of such a crime against
a helpless man who represented a brave and chivalrous people,
and so they put the execution of it within the discretion of
Gen. Miles; and it seems that Gen. Miles most willi:i|?ly car-
ried out the suggestion, if not the desires, of his superiors,
and exercised the discretion and enforced the order in the
most brutal way, and thereby forever placed a stain upon
American honor.
That it was unnecessary, cruel, humiliating, Mr. Davis'-
worst enemies are compelled to admit. Among all the men
living in this day of refinement, of justice, of intelligence, and
humanity Gen. Miles is the only person who is willing publicly,
as far as known, to justify his conduct toward Mr. Davis.
Gen. Miles's effort to unload upon Gen. Halleck, Mr. Stanton.
Secretary of War, and Charles A. Dana, Assistant Secretary
of War, cannot avail against the cold, hard facts of the orders
which they issued and those which he issued. They may have
wanted it done, but they were unwilling to require it to be
done. Gen. Miles alone had the power to do this thing, and
he did it with cheerfulness, alacrity, and brutality; and now.
after nearly forty years of deliberation, he attempts to justify
it on the ground that there was some information as to ef-
forts of the prisoner to escape. This statement about plots
and conspiracies is too ridiculous to merit the notice of in-
telligent people. Tliere was not in all the Southland one
soldier who had a gun. The armies of the South were scat-
tered, and its soldiers had returned to peaceful pursuits. The
armies of the United States on the day following the one on
which Mr. Davis was manacled, were mustered out of serv-
ice; Lee, Taylor, and Johnston had surrendered; there was
not a single Confederate gunboat afloat; and all the South
was in grief and sorrow because of the misfortunes brought
upon it by the stern decrees of fate.
As Gen. Miles at this time was brevet major general, we
have a right to assume that he was a man of intelligence, and
his succeeding military history shows him to have been a
man of courage; but there is nobody in the world who will
believe that Gen. Miles had any reliable information of any
plot or effort on the part of Mr. Davis to escape or on the
part of his friends to effect his escape. Around Fortress Mon-
roe was a great army. Mr. Davis was in his cell, and was
feeble and invalid. Would anybody in the world to-day be-
lieve there was any intention or desire on the part of his
friends to attempt to free this prisoner? This story of plots
and conspiracies was ccMijured up by Gen. Miles after forty
years' writhing under the memory of this awful wrong that
he had committed against this helpless man. It was inex-
cusable, and as brutal as it was unjustifiable.
There is also an effort on the part of Gen. Miles to say that
Mrs. Davis thanked him for courtesies shown her husband.
All that he ever got from this woman is this :
"Fort Monroe, Va., May 23, 1865.
"Please receive my thanks for your courtesy and kind an-
swers to my questions of this morning (May 23). I cannot
quit the harbor without begging you again to look after
my husband's health for me.
"Yours very respectfully, Varin.'V Davis."
Mrs. Davis did not know of the terrible scene that had
taken place that morning in his cell, when Mr. Davis was,
by brutal force, manacled under orders of Gen. Miles.
It seems that Gen. Miles had had decency enough to an-
swer Mrs. Davis's questions about her incarcerated husband,
and in her desolation and grief she thanked him even for
that ; and then, with the faith of a woman in man, especially
a man who wore a uniform, she asked him to "look after my
[her] husband's health for me." Vain prayer ! for before
the ink had dried upon this communication Gen. Miles had
issued the order to manacle her husba-.ul. and had left the fort
to prevent an appeal from the hopeless pnsnner.
He also published a letter from Mrs. Clay, dated July 27,
1865. Mrs. Clay simply said that she had written him twice
and that he had responded. For this she offered him her
heartfelt gratitude. She prayed Gen. Miles's kind offices for
tlie prisoners and thanked him for them.
He published another letter from Mrs. Clay, dated Septem-
ber 4, 1865, in which she says : "Accept my heartfelt thanks
for your great kindness in forwarding my dear husband's let-
ter. May you never be placed in a condition to realize the
mingled joy and sorrow its reception gave me!"
This is all. He had given Mrs. Clay a letter from her hus-
band, probably the first she had received, and the faithful,
loving, womanly soul was grateful for that much. But this
is no justification of Gen. Miles.
Gen. Miles also filed the affidavit of John S. McEwan,
dated May 13. 1866, in which he attempts to show that
Gen. Miles had said to Surgeon Craven that he wanted
him to take charge of the health of the State prisoners,
and to make any suggestions or recommendations that he
thought would benefit their health. Gen. Miles's own orders
and instructions show beyond all question that if he ever
said any such thing it was not sincere or honest, but ut-
tered to deceive. He also attempted to get a letter from
James Curry, dated September 2, 1866, and also one from
James Whytal ; but all these people could say was that they
were satisfied that Gen. Miles had practiced all the leniency
to Mr. Davis that his duty to the government required. This
is no vindication. It is an opinion of subservient subordinates.
He also files a letter from H. S. Burton, Brigadier General,
but Gen. Burton was careful to say that he did not come to
Fortress Monroe until December I2,f 1865. The same is true
of Maj. William Hays, but he did not arrive at Fortress Mon-
roe until February 15. 1866, nine months after Mr. Davis had
come.
Some other letters were gotten, but none of them reached
the real question in issue. The truth is, almost all of them
admit that they knew nothing about the facts.
Gen. Miles has waited nearly forty years to try to justify
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his conduct. A thousand times in his imagination, doubtless,
there has come before him the shocking scene in the case
mate at Fortress Monroe on the 23d of May, 1865, when he
forced this indignity and humiliation on this brave and noble
man.
After forty years of consideration Gen. Miles has not been
able to devise an excuse that will even mitigate or palliate,
much less justify, his conduct. It would have been far better
if Gen. Miles, after viewing all the circumstances, had
frankly confessed that he had done a great wrong, and
said that it was under circumstances of excitement and
passion, ;ind, the war having passed away, with calm and cool-
er thought or on reflection, he would not have placod Mr
Davis in irons and would not have subjected him to the in
dignities inflicted upon him. Then all the world would havi
respected him. would have recognized the manliness and
the courage which had prompted such a statement; but
it can only despise and condemn as disgusting an effort now
to justify his conduct, and to unload upon a dead man the
responsibility of his action, when the order of the dead man
shows that the whnle responsibility was left within the dis-
cretion of Gen. Miles.
Nor will it avail for Gen. Miles to attempt to justify his
conduct by expressions of gratitude from two broken-hearted
women, whose husbands were then threatened with trial be-
fore a military commission or for treason before the courts
The only gratitude which they expressed was, first, by Mrs
Davis for information about her husband ; and, secondly, from
Mrs. Clay for the courtesy of sending a letter which her
imprisoned companion had written her.
Gen. Miles make? further pretense that Mr. Davis was
ironed because there was some change of the doors of the
casemate, being changed from wood to iron, and the manacling
was a precaution against attempted escape. That this is a
mere pretense is shown by the fact that it was never heard of
nr mentioned until Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, on
the 28th of May, 1865. called upon Gen. Miles to know
"whether irons have or have not been placed upon Jefferson
Davis If they have been, when was it done, also for what
reason," and "remove them." Up to this time nothing was
lieard of the doors to the casemate. In the then state of the
public mind Secretary Stanton would not stand for this foul
wrong against the helpless captive. Gen. Miles concluded that
he must have some excuse for this blot on a brave nation
Nothing was then heard of Dana's or Halleck's orders ; no
claim that they had ordered this manacling. As they were
living, it was not safe to charge that they had directed it, and
this excuse was withheld until forty years had elapsed and
Dana and Halleck were dead. If this excuse was not availa-
ble while those who Gen. Miles says were responsible for it
were alive, surely the American people will not receive it now.
after forty years of suppression, and long after the men whose
names it seeks to dishonor have ceased to live. It is bad
enough to wrong the living, it was inexcusable to torture Mr.
Davis with the chains which his cruel jailer put upon his
emaciated limbs : but it is absolutely dreadful to stalk behind
the skeletons of these dead men. wlio can make no protest nor
^peak a single word in defense of their good name and char-
acter.
Gen. Miles also, in his published vindication, seeks to create
the impression, by a letter received from some Confederate in
Alabama, that the Southern people had confidence in him and
would gladly follow him in war. Southern men did follow
Jiim in ^v^T,. Southern men might again follow him in war ;
but this great wrong of his. this brutal outrage upon Mr.
Davis, will burn, burn, burn in their souls forever, and the
people of the Southland must always regard Gen. Miles's con-
duct, under the circumstances, as malignant, cruel, and un-
justifiable, and such that no unbiased man can excuse, ex-
plain, or palliate.
CONFEDERATED MEMORIAL ASSOCIATIONS.
Delightful History of These Associations.
Th e Confederated Southern Memorial Association has
published a history of all memorial associations enrolled in
the Confederation, embodying in enduring form the records
of the work accomplished by the women of the South since
the early days of her struggle and sorrow. This book is
beautifully printed, contains over three hundred pages, and
is richly illustrated with half-tone engravings, representing
noble women of the South and many grand and imposing
monuments, which have sprung from their loyalty and devo-
tion. The Historical Committee of the United Confederate
Veterans' Association recommended this work at the Nash-
ville convention in 1904, and Gen. Stephen D. Lee, our Com-
mander in Chief, commends it by saying: "I have carefully
examined the 'History of the Confederated Memorial Associa-
tions of the South,' indorsed by the Historical Committee of
the United Confederate Veterans, and most cordially recom-
mend it to the people of our Southland. It is nicely edited
and beautifully illustrated, and tells in modest style '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 memory.' These memorials and monuments will
ever point our descendants to the heroism, patriotism, sacri-
fices, and fortitude of their fathers and mothers, thereby
treasuring the heroic deeds of remote ancestry and inciting
(hem to like conduct when occasion is ripe and demands like
display of heroic action. This splendid volume should have
a place in the home of every one who loves his Southland."
Mrs. W. J. Bchan, President of the Association, says of it :
"It should find permanent lodgment upon the shelves of every
public library, and should be preserved in every Southern
home as an object lesson for its youth."
The price of this volume is $1.25, with ten cents extra for
postage. Address Miss Daisy M. L. Hodgson, 1816 St. Charles
.Avenue, New Orleans, La., or Mrs. W. J Behan. Godchaux
Building. New Orleans, La.
BRONZE STATUE OF LEE IN RICHMOND.
BY R. HADEK PENN, BUCHANAN, VA.
There stands a bronzed hero in figured fame.
A warrior true of the Southern clan,
A Rupert Rebel, with a righteous name.
Whose life was glory and honor to man.
Though his country's cause flamed and fell,
'Twas crowned with many a proud victory ;
And time's fabled stories cannot tell
Of chieftain so knightly as our Lee.
As the centuries sweep to the end of time
And generations give their great to fame
None will be nobler, purer, more sublime
Than Robert Lee, Virginia's name
A kingly warrior of unsullied fame,
His glory will stand when others fall ;
A hero, a patriot, without a stain.
The grandest, noblest Roman of them nil
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PATRIOTIC MR. BOUTELL.
The libera! extracts from tlie speech of Congressman Boii-
tell, copied in the March Veteran, have given much pleasure.
That conspicuously enterprising newspaper, the Atlanta Con-
stitution, that furnished the report, states editorially :
"The speech of Congressman Boutell before the West End
Republican Club, of New York, is a notable utterance from
one of the most prominent Republicans in Congress.
"Mr. Boutell. appreciating the deep significance of the la-
mented McKinley's more than friendly attitude toward the
South, devotes, appropriately enough, nearly his entire address
to the relation of the South and Southern questions to the
nation. It is evident, from the facts and statistics which he
utilizes so effectively, that Mr. Boutell has been a close student
of his subject. He knows the South and the truth about things
Southern. His grasp of the problems involved in the some-
what anomalous position of this section and the broad philoso-
phy of his proposed solution will appeal to fair-minded and
patriotic citizens in all sections of our common country as at
once statesmanlike and liberal.
"Of course Mr. Boutell, being a strict partisan, is inclined
to unduly magnify the alleged beneficence of some of his par-
ty's policies in their application to Southern material condi-
tions ; but in the main he is correct in his analysis of South-
ern needs and Southern dues at the hands of Congress and
the Federal administration. Particularly are his deductions
on the negro question sound. He makes it clear that outside
meddling and an officious interference with a problem that is
social and not political will only make bad matters worse."
FiTZHUGH Lee at McKinley's Grave.
"McKinley and the South" was Gen. Lee's subject at Can-
ton. Ohio, on McKinley Memorial Day. He said :
"Ohio, it is true, is the State of his nativity. Her citizens
knew and loved the living McKinley ; her soil is sacred witli
the grave which marks the resting place of the dead Mc-
Kinley; her people will cherish his lofty character and his
splendid service as long as the mountains kiss the heavens or
the rivers roll to the sea. Ohio, however, cannot bound his
boundless fame, for on the wings of renown his glory has
been wafted to all parts of the world. Sleep on, O just and
wise ruler ! Your birth was a blessing to your country ;
your life a blessing to all its inhabitants ; your death a calam-
ity which has excited the lamentations of mankind
"All sections to-night hear the echo of the voice of the
great soldier, U. S. Grant, when on his deathbed he said: '1
feel that we are approaching an era of great good feeling
between Federal and Confederate soldiers. I shall not be here
to witness it in its perfection, but I feel within me that it is
to be so. Let us have peace.'
"The weapons of Grant and Lee have been sheathed forever,
the sabers of Sheridan and Stuart have been returned to
their scabbards, the tents of Sherman and Joe Johnston
have been pitched forever on the eternal camping grounds,
and all over this land at this hour is shining the great orb
of peace in all the splendor of undimmed majesty."
THE REBEL SCOUT.
Capt. Thomas Nelson Conrad, who recently died at his
home in Washington, D. C, was one of the most famous
scouts in the Confederate army. He was born at Fairfax
C. H., Va., received a collegiate education, and for several
years immediately preceding the war he was engaged in teach-
ing a private school in Georgetown, D. C. Having expressed
his intention of joining the Confederate army, he was arrested
and confined in the "Old Capitol Prison," Washington, but
was soon released. He reported to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, who
assigned him to the Third Virginia Cavalry as chaplain, with
the rank of captain ; but Stuart's intuitive knowledge of men,
and his knowing that the chaplain was familiar with Washing-
ton and vicinity, induced him to put Conrad on scout duty
and in the secret service. Shortly after, when President Davis
directed Stuart to send him a reliable man for some important
secret service in Washington, this chaplain-scout was sent to
Richmond, and his thrilling experience began.
He established regular headquarters in Washington and a
line of communication to a point on the south bank of the
lower Potomac. He went in and out of Washington at will,
frequently reporting direct to President Davis, the Secretary
of War, or to Gen. Lee, as the nature of his information indi-
cated. In reco,gnition of his valuable and hazardous service,
Mr. Davis wrote him a personal letter of thanks, which Capt.
CAPT. CONRAD.
Conrad published in a little volume a short time before his
death. In this book he gives an interesting account of his
experiences as a scout. A short time before the surrender of
Gen. Lee he was in Washington and was betrayed or dis-
covered, and orders were issued in the secret service depart-
ment for his arrest ; but, having secured early in his service as
scout a friend in that department, he was promptly advised
of the order for his arrest, and immediately made his es-
cape from Washington. He was in some way suspected of
being connected with the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, and for
months after the surrender he kept himself concealed in the
mountains of Virginia.
After the war Capt. Conrad was a prominent educator, being
President of Blacksburg College, Virginia, and later President
of the M. and A. College, of Virginia, which position he re-
signed to accept that of Census Statistician.
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MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME, GOOD NIGHT.
The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home;
'Tis summer, the darkies are gay ;
The corn top's ripe, and the meadow's in the bloom,
While the birds make music all the day ;
The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,
All merry, all happy and bright.
By 'n' by Hard Times comes a-knocking at the door;
Then, my old Kentucky home, good night !
Chorus.
Weep no more, my lady,
O weep no more to-day !
We will sing one song for my old Kentucky home
For the old Kentucky home far away !
They hunt no more for the possum and the coon,
On the meadow, the hill, and the shore;
They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon
On the beiich by the old cabin door ;
The day goes by like a shadow o'er the heart.
With sorrow where all was delight ;
The time has conic when the darkies have to part.
Then, my old Kentucky home, good night !
The head must bow. and tlic back will have to beiitl.
Wherever the darky may go;
A few more days, and the trouble all will end
In the field where the sugar canes grow:
A few more days for to tote the weary load
(No matter, 'twill never be lights
A few more days till we totter on the road ;
Then, my old Kentucky home, good night !
LEE TO THE REAR.
BY T<lIIN R. THOMPSON.
Dawn of a pleasant morning in May
Broke through the Wilderness cool and gray.
While perched in the tallest tree tops the birds
Were caroling Mendelssohn's ".songs without words. '
Far from the haunts of men remote
The brook brawled on with a liquid note :
And Nature, all tranquil and lovely, wore
The smile of the spring, as in F.den of yore.
Little by little, as daylight increased
.•\nd deepened the roseate flush in the east^
Little by little did niorning reveal
Two long, glittering lines of steel
Where two hundred thousand bayonets gleam.
Tipped with the light of earliest beam.
And the faces are sullen and grim to see
In the hostile armies of Grant and Lee.
All of a sudden, ere rose the sun.
Pealed on the silence the opening gun :
A little white pufF of smoke there came.
And anon the valley was wreathed in flame.
Down on the left of the Rebel lines.
Where a breastwork stands in the copse of pines.
Before the Rebels their ranks can form
The Yankees have carried the place by storm.
Stars and Stripes on the salient wave,
W'here many a hero has found a grave,
.A.nd the gallant Confederates strive in vain
The ground they have drenched with their blood to regain.
Yet louder the thunder of battle roared,
Yet a deadlier fire on the columns poured;
Slaughter infernal rode with Despair,
Furies twain through the murky air.
Not far off in the saddle there sat
A gray-bearded man in a black slouched hat :
Not much moved by the fire was he.
Calm and resolute Robert Lee.
Quick and watchful he kept his eye
On the bold Rebel brigades close by —
Reserves that were standing (and dying) at ease,
W bile the tempest of wrath toppled over the trees.
For still with their loud, deep, bulldog bay
The Yankee batteries blazed away,
And with every murderous second that sped
A dozen brave fellows, alas! fell dead.
The grand old graybeard rode to the space
Where Death and his victims stood face to face.
And silently waved his old slouched hat —
A world of meaning there was in that!
"Follow me! Steady! We'll save the day!"
This was what he seemed to say;
And to the light of his glorious eye
The bold brigades thus made reply:
"We'll go forward, but you must go back. "
And they moved not an inch in the perilous track.
"Go to the rear, and we'll send them to hell !"
And the sound of the battle was lost in their yell.
Turning his bridle, Robert Lee
Rode to the rear. Like waves of the sea.
Bursting the dikes in their overflow.
Madly his veterans dashed on the foe.
And backward in terror that foe was driven.
Their banners rent and their columns riven
Wherever the tide of battle rolled
Over the Wilderness wood and wold
Sunset out of a crimson sky
Streamed o'er a field of ruddier dye.
And the brook ran on with a purple st.iin
F'rom the blood of ten thousand foenien slain.
Seasons have passed since that day and year ;
Again o'er its pebbles the brook runs clear.
And the field in a richer green is dressed
Where the dead of a terrible conflict rest.
Hushed is the roll oi Rebel drum.
The sabers are sheathed and the cannon are dumb;
And Fate, with his pitiless hand, has furled
The flag that once challenged the gaze of the world.
But the fame of the \\'ilderness fight abides.
And down into history grandly rides,
Calm and unmoved as in battle he sat.
The gray-beardel man in the black slouched hat.
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FAMILY OF MRS. HENRIETTA HUNT MORGAN.
BY MILFORD OVERLEY, NINTH KENTUCKY CAVALRY, C. S. A.,
FLEMINCSBURG, KY.
While so much is being said and written concerning the
unbounded patriotism of Southern famihes during the great
war, estimated chiefly by the sacrifices made, the number of
soldiers sent out to battle for their country and their homes,
and the services these rendered and the distinction they
achieved, I want to give in brief, through the Veteran, the
record of just one Kentucky family, that of Mrs. Henrietta
H. Morgan, of Lexington.
Mrs. Morgan's maiden name was Hunt. She was born
in Lexington, Ky., December 5, 1805, was married to Calvin
C. Morgan in 1823, and was a widow at the beginning of the
war, her husband having died in 1854. She was the mother
of eight children, six sons and two daughters. The daugh-
ters had husbands, and this enabled the patriotic mother to
give to the Confederate cause eight as gallant soldiers as
ever went to battle. Seven of these were commissioned of-
ficers ; the other, a mere boy, the youngest of the family, was
a private. There were three generals, one colonel, two cap-
tains, and one lieutenant. Two of the generals and the
lieutenant were killed in battle, and the other general was
desperately wounded. Lieut. Gen. A. P. Hill was killed at
Petersburg, Va., only a few days before the surrender of
Lee's army. He was one of the very best officers in the Con-
federate service — brave, cautious, thoroughly reliable, and a
desperate fighter. His was the last name uttered by the
dying Stonewall Jackson, who, in his delirium, said, "Tell
A. P. Hill" — That was all, and soon the great general, the
Christian soldier, "crossed over the river to rest under the
shade of the trees," and A. P. Hill became his successor.
Maj. Gen. John H. Morgan, the great raider, the knightly
cavalier, was killed at Greeneville, Tenn., September 4, 1864.
Like Forrest, he was a born cavalry leader; and it was he
who, early in the war, taught West Pointers how to utilize
cavalry to the best advantage and to make this arm in the
highest degree efficient, and they profited by the lesson, not-
withstanding their prejudice against army officers who had
not been trained in military schools. Morgan, with twenty-
five hundred men, often neutralized ten thousand of the
enemy, and sometimes more than twice that number. For-
rest's "getting there first with the most men" enabled him to
win many victories ; but Morgan seldom had the most men,
yet he generally got there first and caught the other fellows
napping, as he did the enemy at Hartsville on that cold De-
cember morning in 1862.
Lieut. Tom Morgan, of the Second Kentucky Cavalry, was
killed at Lebanon, Ky., July 5, 1863, in an attack upon a force
of Federal troops at that place by Gen. J. H. Morgan. He
was a gallant boy of but nineteen, and was quite a favorite
with the entire regiment.
Gen. Basil Duke, now of Louisville, Ky., is the other son-
in-law. He was sorely wounded in a fight with the command
of Gen. John M. Harlan — now Judge Harlan, of the United
States Supreme Court — December, 1862. Gen. Duke was an
able commander, and no man served the Confederacy more
faithfully, more gallantly than he. Commanding Morgan's
Division after the death of that chieftain, he refused to yield
when Lee surrendered, though serving in tliat general's de-
partment, but started southward with most of his command,
intending to join Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army at Greens-
boro, N. C. But, finding Johnston preparing to surrender,
he pushed on till President Davis's cavalcade was overtaken,
/
when his command became part of Mr. Davis's escort At
Abbeville, S. C, the last council of war was held, and Gen.
Duke was a member. There and then the Confederacy ceased
MRS. MORGAN AT HER ANCESTRAL HOME, LEXINGTON.
to be. Gen. Duke surrendered his men at Woodstock, Ga.,
May 8, 1865.
Besides Gen. Duke, Col. Richard C. Morgan, Capts. Charl-
ton H. Morgan, Calvin C. Morgan, and Private Francis Key
Morgan lived to return home.
FLAG AND UNIFORM OF THE CONFEDERACY.
There has been various claims as to who first conceived the
design for the Confederate flag adopted by the Congress as-
sembled in Montgomery, Ala. As to the gray uniform of the
Confederate soldier, there has been less discussion, it being
generally understood that the color was taken from the uni-
forms worn by the cadets of West Point, and that Mr. Davis,
having been Secretary of War, himself suggested the idea.
It now appears, most conclusively, that Mr. Nicola Marschall,
quite a noted portrait painter and who is yet living in Louis-
ville, Ky., was the real designer of the flag and the uniform.
Mr. Marschall is a Prussian. He came to America in 1849
when quite a young man, landing in New Orleans. After-
wards he went to Mobile, where he followed his profession as
an artist, especially in portrait-painting. Later he accepted
a position in the female seminary at Marion, Ala., as teacher
of music, painting, and the languages — French and German.
He is a hale and hearty old man seventy-four years old, and,
in telling in his modest, quiet way how he happened to make
the designs which tlie world admired and respects says :
"In 1857 I returned to Prussia, and remained in Europe for
two years continuing my studies of art. I studied both in
Munich and Italy. It was while returning from Italy and
passing through Verona, which then belonged to Austria,
that I saw the uniform which some years later was to fur-
nish me the design for the Southern Confederate uniform.
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"In Verona one day the notes of martial music came to
me. On searching out the source, I found that a party of
sharpshooters belonging to the Austrian army were passing.
'What noble soldiers and what splendid uniforms !' was my
involuntary comment as I saw them. They were all great,
manly soldiers, and were dressed in the striking uniform of
gray with green trimmings. The green denoted their branch
of the army — the sharpshooters — and their rank was indi-
cated by marks on the collars of their coats, bars for lieu-
tenants and captains, three stars for the higher officers.
"I returned to America in 1859, and again located in
Marion. There I painted many portraits of the wealthy
planters and members of their families, as well as of otlier
prominent people of the South. Andrew Moore was then a
judge at Marion. He afterwards became war Governor of
Alabama.
"Mrs. Nap»4<on Lockett, a beautiful Southern woman of
an old Virginia family and the wife of a wealthy planter,
lived at Marion. Her eldest son married the eldest daughter
of Gov. Moore, and one of her younger sons married one
of the younger daughters of Gov. Moore.
"Soon came the first notes of war. Mrs. Locke'.t was as
loyal a daughter as the South had, and was much interested
in its affairs. She came to me one day and said : 'Mr. Mar-
schall, we have seceded, and the Confederate government
wants a flag. Will you make us a design? It must not be
too unlike the United States flag, but different enough to be
distinguished at a distance.'
"At once I took pencil and paper, and made three different
designs. The first was of two red stripes and one of white,
with a blue field bearing seven white stars — indicating the
number of States that had then seceded — in the upper left-
hand corner. The second design was the same, except that
the blue field with stars was at the extreme left of the white
stripe instead of tlie top red stripe. The third design had
the two full red stripes at top and bottom, the white stripe in
the middle with the blue field and white stars in the center."
This account does not comport fully with that of Dr. S. E.
Lewis adopted by the U. C. V., who does not admit that
"this first design made by Mr. Marschall was the flag
adopted by the Confederate government ;" but it is well
known to those familiar with Southern history ttiat this
flag — the stars and bars — was placed on the staff above the
capitol at Montgomery, Ala., on March 4. 1861, by Miss J.
C. Tyler, of Virginia, a granddaughter of John Tyler, ex-
President of the United States.
Continuing his interesting narrative, Mr. Marschall said :
"Mrs. Lockett tlianked me for the flag designs, and started
to go. Then she came back, adding : 'We also want a design
for a uniform, Mr. Marschall. Can't you suggest one?' The
thought occurred to me of the gray uniforms I had seen
worn by the Austrian sharpshooters. I took a piece of paper
and made several rough sketches, indicating the gray color,
and also the colors on the collars to denote the branch of the
service — buff for oflicers, yellow for cavalry, blue for in-
fantry, red for artillery, etc. It did not occur to me tlien
that I had done anything worthy of note. I simply made the
sketches at tlie request of Mrs. Lockett. I knew no more
about them from then until I found that the uniform and one
of the flags had been adopted by the Confederacy."
This is the story of how the gray of the Confederate army
and the banner under which that army fought were made.
When war was declared, Mr. Marschall enlisted as a pri-
vate of volunteers, going with his command from Marion
to garrison Forts Morgan and Gaines, at the mouth of Mo-
bile Bay. Afterwards he was with the Second Alabama Regi-
ment of Engineers. He served with Col. Lockett, a son of
Mrs. Napoleon Lockett, under Gen. Polk, just preceding the
fall of Vicksburg. Mr. Marschall served then in the Confed-
erate army until the curtain was finally drawn at Appomattox.
In obscure corners of his studio are old and worn chests,
secured with bands of steel. One of these bears the inscrip-
tion : "N. Marschall, Second Engineers' Regiment of Ala-
bama." It is the kit which Mr. Marschall carried with him
during the war. In another box are scrapbooks and papers.
among them being letters written Mr. Marschall by generals
and statesmen of the South during and after the war. One of
the most highly prized of them all is a letter of introduction
to Mr. Davis, written by Gen. Forrest after the war, to Mr.
Marschall, for whom the great "wizard of the saddle" ex-
pressed warm, personal friendship.
IVAR TIME'S DISASTER AT MAXWELL HOUSE.
[In the Veteran for December, \g&i (page 554), there is
an account by John C. Gates, Fulton, Miss., and in the June
issue of 1902 (page 264), by J. A. Templeton, Jacksonville.
Tex., there are reports of the killing and maiming of many
Confederate prisoners in the Maxwell House at Nashville
(known tlten as Zollicoffer Barracks — who can tell why this
last name?) in the fall of 1863. As the unfortunate victims
were from nearly every Southern State, and as the following
article indicates the spirit of that time and the character of
publication as it was then, the entire report, kindly furnished
by a friend, is given verbatim. Comrade Templeton reports
five of his company in the crowd, all of whose names do not
appear in this report. This report is from a Nashville paper
under Federal military surveillance.]
Terrible Accident at the "Zollicoffer Bakracks."
One of the most startling and fatal accidents occurred in
our city yesterday that we have ever been called upon to
chronicle. The scene of the sad disaster, so fraught with
human suffering, was the unfinished building, situated on the
corner of Church and Cherry Streets, known as the Maxwell
House, which was used as a barracks for our soldiers. At
the time of the accident about six hundred Confederate
prisoners were confined there in the upper or fifth story. At
the sigrnal for breakfast, the prisoners rushed to the head of
the stairs on their way to the dining room, all gayety and
thoughtlessness. The rush was so sudden and their weight
sf) great that the stairs gave way with a loud crash, and one
hundred of the prisoners were suddenly precipitated, with
a perfect avalanche of broken and scattering timbers, through
two sets of flooring to the third floor, where they landed one
quivering mass of bleeding, mangled humanity. Two (whose
names we have been unable to learn') were instantly killed,
and the whole of them more or less injured. Many of them
were frightfully disfigured, having their legs. arms, or heads
broken.
The news of the accident spread rapidly through the city,
and in a short time the streets in the vicinity were crowded
with persons anxious to learn the extent of the terrible af-
fair.
Guards were immediately thrown around the building to
prevent the unfortunate sufferers, who were now being re-
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moved from the wreck, from being crowded. Ambulances
were hurried to the spot, and the misguided and suffering
Confederates, who had braved the dangers of many a hard-
fought battle, to be maimed for life by an accident, were
taken to the prison hospital. Here they were attended by
our surgeons and nurses w-ith all the kind and tender care
that could have been shown a Federal soldier wounded under
the stars and stripes, fighting for the Union. The secesh
ladies also waited on them with an untiring devotion that
would reflect honor on a more righteous cause. One of the
injured prisoners, a mere stripling, who has been captured
several times before, remarked that he would not care half
so much if he had taken his breakfast.
In another part of the building were some Union refugees,
lately arrived from Northern Georgia. Upon the occurrence
of the fatal accident, some of the men rushed to the rescue
among the foremost. One of them found among the suf-
ferers three of his neighbors from Georgia, who had long
since left their homes for the Rebel service. Another refugee
found his son, who had been conscripted and of whom he
had not heard in sixteen months. A third encountered i
brother from Texas, from whom he had been separated eight
years. Such are the sad and impressive scenes, whicli can
scarcely be called strange in this unnatural war.
Though many of the prisoners are badly hurt and will be
crippled for life, we are told that not more than four or
live are likely to die from the effects of their injuries.
We will here remark that the present efficient commander
of the barracks, Capt. Lakin, of the Eighty-Ninth Ohio, is
in no way to blame for the accident, for he has frequently
warned the inmates of tlie barracks against crowding around
tlie stairways.
The names of the prisoners and their commands are :
C. Knox, 4th Tenn. ; J. S. Starnes, F, 29th Miss.; J. M.
Dickey, A, 44th Tenn.; C. Swader, K, 3d Con. Cav. (danger-
ous); J. Jones, H, 20th Tenn.; A. Griffin, C, 2d Ky. ; S.
O'Neal, I, soth Ala.; R. H. Henderson, D, 4th Tenn. Cav.;
G. T. Eckhart, loth Tex.; P. Nichol, E, ist La.; M. Wil-
liams, B, 1st Bat. Ga. Sharpshooters; J. P. Smith, C, i6th
Ala.; J. T. Killingsworth, H, 17th Tenn.; H. C. Nutt, B,
17th Tenn.; S. H. Orr, D, 50th Ala.; W. Park, I, 6th Ark.;
K. Marsliall, F, 41st Tenn.; S. J. Tealey, C, 8th Ga. ; William
Freeman, G, 27th Miss.; S. A. Foster, C, ist Bat. Sharp-
shooters ; R. H. Leonard, B, 3d Va. ; John Simpson, A, 34th
Miss. ; J. J. Sleilings, C, 57th Ga. ; S. V. Green, citizen ; J.
J. Polk, C. 4th Tenn. ; S. Summers, I, 37th Miss. ; J. T. Rid-
dle, E, 50th Ala.; J. Mathew, citizen; R. Kendall, K, 13th
Ark.; C. G. Odom, I, loth Tex.; A. H. Killingsworth, F,
3d Con. Cav.; J. A. Clark, F, 44th Tenn.; J. T. Gray, B,
44th Tenn. ; M. J. Tucker, D, gth Tenn, ; J. F"owler, citizen ;
W. M. Carter, B, 27th Tenn.; J. W. Burch, F, 5th Ky. ; W.
R. Paine, E, 39th Ga. ; E. R. Paine, E, 39th Ga. ; J. H.
Burke, Q. loth Tex. ; J. W. Jones, Q, 3d Ark. ; James Miller.
K, 38tli Ala.; T. P. Hinsure, D, 33d Ala.; C. H. Bailey,
L, 14th Tex.; P. F. Brooks, G, 34th Ala.; John Taylor, 2d
Ky. Cav. ; R. A. Lasseur, C, 4th Ga. ; C. Killingsworth, H,
3d Con. Cav.; J. T. Harris, B, 29th Miss.; J. W. Harris, B,
29th Miss.; J. L. Olea, B, 29th Miss.; J. Reed, K, 27th
Ala. ; D. N. Forde, F, 24th Miss. ; B. Gilraore, B, 34th Miss. ;
T. H. Terry, K, 13th Ark.; J. C. Hill, C, 34th Ala.; J. W,
Ernest, D, 28th Tenn.; J, H. Pierson, H, 7th Miss.; John
Bridges, B, 19th Ala. ; Terry Money, B, 13th La. ; Butler
Horner, B, 9th Tenn.; Mike Harlan, B, 13th La.; B. A.
Hewey, A, 8th Ark. ; S. A. Mulling, Waite's Light Art. ;
William Ayers, K, 39th Tenn. ; F. Thomas, A. 3d Con. Cav. ;
D. Walker, E, Con. Cav.; W. A. Moodey, F, 34th Miss.;
T. J. Burns, E, 39th Ga. ; J. R. Byrd, E, 43d Ala.; R. R.
Filby, I, 1st Ga. ; G. W. Monfort, K, 2d Ky.; William Reece,
1st Ala. Legion; G. C. Maddock, ist Bat. Sharpshooters;
J. A. Pierson, H, 7th Miss.; W. E. Bradford, E, 44th Term.;
J. D. Cox, A, 28th Miss.; N. Heinstran, Cort's Battery; W.
Lambert, citizen; R. Fox, E, 37th Ga. ; W. C. Evit, citizen;
E. R. Conner, B, 1st La.; H. B. Fowler, citizen; R. Ranch,
B, 19th Ala.; T. M. Dane, C, 17th Tenn.; J. B. Millard, E,
34th Tenn.; J. W. Wells, D, 19th Ala.; J. Williams, B, 19th
Ala. ; Patrick Comor, B, 13th La. ; M. Burke, L 13th La. ;
J. S. Lamb, D, 50th Ala. ; N. Etchman, Carnes's Battery ; J.
Allison, 3d Con. Cav.; H. A, Vaughan, D, i8th Ala.; G. W.
Hean\ K, 37th Ga. ; J. McAltart, Miss. Cav. ; G. Vandever,
37th Ala.; G. W. Hoffner, E, 2d Ky.; L. M. Poe, E, 28th
Ala. (dangerous) ; L. B. Scott, A, 9th Tenn. (dead) ; L.
Lewis, K, 9th Tenn.; J. B. Hambelin, G, i8th La.; J. T.
Simmons, C, 51st Tenn. — over one hundred in all.
M.WWr.LI, IIUUSF,, N.\SHVILLE. TENN,, 1861-63.
Mr. W. H. Isham, of Kcllar's, Tenn., in writing to the
Veter.'\n of this disaster, says that he was one of the unfortu-
nates who fell; but, aside from a severe shaking up, was not
hurt and did not go to the hospital. He was standing at the
head of the stairs v/hen the crash came, and doubtless owed
his life to this position, as the mass of humanity below him
in a measure broke his fnll. Mr. Isham says the second floor
did not stop them ; and when they did stop, he lit on his feet,
with the dead ^nd wounded beneath and piled above and
around him. He was soon relieved, and thinks that out of
the 01 ic hundred and fourteen that fel' with him he was the
only one chat went back upstairs.
Qo^federat^ l/eterai).
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FIGHTING NEAR PORT GIBSON.
BY A. J. EDWARDS, H00\T;R, ARK.
In til'.' January Veteran is an article by Comrade T. B.
Cox, of Waco, Tex., in which he mentions the fight near
Port Gibson, Miss., in May, 1863, as one of the "hottest little
battles of the war." As a participant in that engagement
I indorse the statemetit of Comrade Cox, and add some data
that came under my personal observation. I was a member
of Company A (Capt. Douglas), of the Fifteenth Arkansas
Infantry, Green's Brigade, Bowen's Division.
On May i, 1863, or near that date, we left Port Gibson,
marching west a few miles and were formed in line of battle,
with our pickets well out in front. About two o'clock in the
morning we were lying down in line, when I heard a chal-
lenge from our pickets, followed quickly by firing. We were
the support for six pieces of artillery, and the capt:iin of the
battery, who was within a few feet of me, ordered the guns
loaded with canister ; and as our pickets passed in, closely
followed by the Yankees, all six of the pieces were discharged.
They were handled rapidly, and the earth trembled under
the constant concussion. The Federal line was checked and
repulsed, how far we could not see, but the next moment a
battery opened on us with shell. Our guns replied with solid
shot, and must have crippled the Federal battery, as it was
drawn off soon and another took its place. This artillery
duel was kept up until daylight, when their guns ceased and
their infantry was advanced. Just at this time the captain of
our battery reported to Gen. Oecn, who was within ten feet
of where I was lying down under the brow of the hill, that
all of his guns were disabled but one, and that he bad no
ammunition for tliat except grapeshot. The General told
him to go back and use the grape as long as they lasted, and
then the giin staffs, if necessary.
To cover the advance of tlicir infantry, a six-gun battery
was rushed out on a commanding ridge and opened on us.
I rcniemlyr how beautiful those guns looked to me then,
even in the excitement, and the quick, precise niovement>
with which they were brou.ght into action. Our position was
naturally a strong one for defense in front, and we waited
until they came within less than two hundred yards of us
before we rose and delivered our fire. It shattered their
first line, and with the second volley they broke, but quickly
re-formed and came again, only to meet the same destructive
fire, and again they fell back. Having re-formed, they were
coming the third time, when Capt. Douglas passed down the
line, inquiring for Gen. Green to inform him that they were
turning our flank. It was the last words I ever heard that
.gallant soldier and gentleman speak, for a moment later he
received his death wound, and now lies buried in Port Gibson.
As I rose to fire on the third advance of the Federals a
musket ball struck me in the lower lip and went through to
the back of my neck, and that was the last I saw of the bat-
tle. I was picked up and carried to Port Gibson, where I
remained for a long time before I was able to be sent off to
prison.
I did not think our forces were as large as Comrade Cox
gives them (four thousand) ; but even at that Gen. Grant had
sixty thousand, and we swung to and fro over the field
with these odds from daylight until about noon, and were
not driven from our position by fighting, but were out-
flanked. I believe we killed and wounded almost as many
Federals as we had men in the fight.
.And now, old comrades, we are fast passing away, answer-
ing the last roll call, so let us strive to make our last days on
earth as pure and faithful to our God as they were glorious
and true to our principles in that trying ordeal of defending
home and native land.
CONDITIONS OF OUR ARMY NEAR THE CLOSE.
That terrible all day's battle, emphasized as "the last battle
of the war," at West Point, Ga., under command of Gen. R.
C. Tyler, who was killed that day, will be recalled in con-
nection with the following letter to Maj. W. J. Slatter:
"In Bivouac near Augusta, February, 1865.
"My Dear Slatter: Seated by a bivouac fire in the piny
woods of South Carolina, the black smoke from a thousand
lightwood fires ascending, the cold, bleak winds blowing
heavily from the northwest, the division (which I now am
commanding. Bate's) being inspected by brigade inspection
commanders, are my surroundings. The Army of Tennes-
see extends between here and Charleston, and eii route to
this and other points there has been some skirmishing at
several points recently; results indefinite generally. Wheeler
fought the Twentieth Yankee Corps and some cavalry on
Saturday and Sunday, repulsing them handsomely on both
days. The fight was some fifteen miles from .Augusta. I do
not have any idea how long this (Cheatham's) corps will
be held here. The healtli of the troops is good; they need
rest very much ; discipline lax ; reorganization wanted. Sys-
tem required a new vigor instilled, which nothing but rest and
discipline can impart. Yet the old Army of Tennessee is a
grand organization; am proud to be a member of it, himible
as I may be. It is composed principally of veteran troops,
battle-scarred heroes, bronze-visaged, sturdy-sinewed, iron-
willed, brave, and self-sacrificing. They are a noble band.
It will be glory enough when peace shall once again smile
upon us with all her blessing for me to tell my friends that
in this revolution I was one of that army.
"You have doubtless heard much of certain brigades an<l
divisions, of the part performed by them in the recent cam-
paign into Tennessee, of the bravery of this or bad conduct
of that. Many reflections have been cast on Division.
but from all accounts I am constrained to the belief that
his division did as well as could reasonably be expected under
the circumstances. In my own brigade, the Tennessee Con-
solidated Regiment, numbering about three hundred and fifty
men, one hmidred and eighty-tliree were captured while in
line of battle (in front of Nashville) before they would
retreat.
"The propriety of taking the negro as soldiers is being
discussed more or less by the army; have not heard as yet
sufficiently to form an opinion as to whether it be popular
with the army, but ain sure that some prominent officers
v\ho were bitterly opposed to it eighteen months since are
now advocates for the plan. One thing is certain : our army
must be increased, the skulkers and deserters must be re-
turned, and every exertion made by those who cannot come
to send them forward.
"My health continues good. .Vm suffering considerably
from my limb, but am in hopes will be able to endure. How
are all the good people of Troup? My heart warms when
I think of the many kindnesses received at their hands, and
hope the day is not far distant when I may be permitted
to visit them once again. My kindest wishes to all. Tender
to your good lady my salutations, and believe me very truly,
R. C. Tyier."
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Qo9f6derat(^ l/etera^.
FRICE'S RAID THRUUUH MISSOURI.
BY W. D. HAIUUS, BENTONVILLE, ARK.
1 was a private in the Second Arkansas Cavalry, Alonroe's
Regiment, Cabell's Brigade, under Gen. Price, in his Mis-
souri campaign in the fall of 1864. Our command started
from Princeton, Ark., on September i, crossed the Arkansas
River at Fort Smith, and marched to the vicinity of Pilot
Knob, Mo. This was strongly fortified and held by the Fed-
erals. Preparations were at once made for an attack. We
made the first assault in the morning, and were repulsed with
a heavy loss. In the afternoon we attacked the fortification
again, and were again repulsed. I do not remember the num-
ber of killed, but of my company eight were killed and sev-
eral otliers were wounded. After our last repulse we drew
off about a mile and went into camp for the night, with the
understanding that we would renew tlie fight next morning.
In the last attack a boy named Mahoney, a member of my
company, was wounded and captured. He was carried before
the commanding officer and questioned as to our strength.
Mahoney gave him considerably less than we had, but told
him we were expecting heavy reenforcements that night.
The stout fight we had put up with the small force mentioned
by Mahoney evidently decided the Yankee officer that he had
best get away before our reenforcements came up; so about
two o'clock that night they moved out and blew up their
magazine.
A short time after the report made by the explosion, Ma-
honey rode into camp mounted on a splendid horse and lead-
ing two others, and behind him came another one of the boys
that had been captured, also mounted on a Yankee horse,
with a sack of coffee in front of him. In the confusion of
evacuating the fort and blowing up the magazine the boys
escaped with horses and coffee.
After caring for our wounded and burying the dead we
resumed our march, following the Missouri River. Constantly
for twenty days succeeding some part of our command was
engaged with the enemy. Our last stand was made on the
prairie near Little Blue River, between Independence and
what is now Kansas City. We could see the Yankees form-
ing, and Gen. Cabell rode down our line and said : "Boys,
they are going to charge you ; give them h — ." They did
charge, and inside of twenty minutes the General was a
prisoner. We held our line until both flanks were enveloped,
and then it was hand-to-hand fighting, the only that I saw
during the war. Those of us who got away united across the
creek. I had an ugly flesh wound in my arm by a Minie
ball. This was our last stand ; after that we kept moving,
followed by the enemy. We reached Tulip, Ark., about No-
vember I.
I have always thought that Price's raid through Missouri
was the most fruitless as well as the hardest on men and
horses made during the war.
THAT CHARGE AT SPANISH FORT.
BY T. G. CARTER, GEORGIANA, FLA.
I read with great interest the articles of your correspondents
when they refer to matters in wliich I had some part, and
occasionally I note some inaccuracies. In the December Vet-
eran Mr. Eli Davis says that he remembers the night "when
three lines of battle charged our picket line, but we forced
them back." As in the fight at Spanish Fort, near Mobile,
he speaks of the absence of trees in his front, this must
have been on the south side of the fort, facing the Federals
of Veatrh's Division, of the Thirteenth Corps.
One dark night there was an alarm in Veatch's front, and
it sounded as if a large body of troops were approaching.
A heavy fire was opened upon the supposed line of battle.
The next morning it was ascertained tliat a large drove of
cattle had in some way gotten between the two lines, and it
seems that both sides supposed an assault was being made.
All of the cattle were killed, and it seems that the Federal
fire killed and wounded some of the Confederates. I do not
know that any of the Federals were struck. Afterwards my
brigade was sent to occupy Veatch's line while he was sent
to guard a train of supplies for Gen. Steele at Blakely.
While there I learned about this "charge of the Light Bri-
gade," and I did not know that both sides were "charged;"
but I do know that no charge was made by tlie Federals
against the Confederates during the siege. Gen. Canby was
asked by one of his corps commanders. Gen. A. J. Smith,
if he might charge the works; but was refused, with the
explanation that he had men enough and time enough, and
it would be unnecessary to sacrifice life in a charge.
As to the cattle. I have a distinct recollection of advan-
cing our line one bright, moonlight night to within a stone's
toss of the Confederate outpost, in which sentinels were kept
in the daytime. We made no noise as we crawled out of
our trench and took our places on the proposed new line ;
then we dug ourselves into the ground as rapidly as possible,
and, when sheltered in a hole, dug toward their works. By
daylight we had a good trench, with a sap connecting with
our works, when we were discovered. I have always thought
that the Confederate pickets fled from their post on account
of the proximity of those dead cattle, which gave a "loud"
odor at that time. We would have been glad for orders to
retreat, but had to stay all night in the midst of decaying
cattle.
In the January Veteran Mr. Jesse M. Dunaway says that
the siege lasted sixteen days. The fort was invested on the
27th of March, 1865, and was evacuated on the night of
April 8, making thirteen days.
Robert McCulloch Camp. — E. H. Lively, Adjutant of the
Robert McCulloch Camp, at Spokane, writes : "It is pleasant to
note in the Veteran that the good and noble man whose name
our Camp bears is still alive at his home, in Boonville, Mo.
This is the only Camp in this State at present. They realize
the importance of organization in this part of the State.
Comrade Jacob Heater is working diligently for this pur-
pose. He was of the Thirty-First Virginia, commanded by
Col. William L. Jackson, and did valiant service, being con-
spicuous in the second battle of Bull Run. Comrade Heater
wears on all public occasions the Confederate gray."
Military Record of Daniel O'Connell Sought. — Mrs.
John J. Mulholland, 4362 Forest Park Place, St. Louis, de-
sires the war record of her uncle that she may join the
Daughters of the Confederacy. She states : "My uncle, Mr.
Daniel O'Connell, of Little Rock, Ark., was my mother's
brother. He was born in Louisville, Ky., as were my mother
and myself. All brothers and sisters are dead. He married
Miss Olivia Hall, of Little Rock, deceased. I think his
father's given name was Patrick."
Comrade A. H. D. Moore, of Bryan, Tex., wants to hear
from some member of his company or regiment. Company
A, Forty-First Virginia Regiment, Mahone's Brigade, Ander-
son's Division, A. P. Hill's Corps. He is seventy years old,
very feeble and destitute, and needs proof to gain admittance
to the Confederate Home.
Qopfederat^ l/eteraij.
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COMMENT CONCERNING THE "CLANSMAN."
FROM THOMAS DIXON, JR., IN NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW.
Permit me a few words of reply to some critics of the
"Clansman."
Mr. Edwin L Shuman, of the Chicago Record-Herald,
whom I regard as one of the best critics in America, says that
my portrait of Thaddeus Stevens as ".Austin Stoneman" is a
gross caricature.
Will Mr. Shuman print verbatim the bill and speech of
Stevens which provided for the confiscation of the property cf
the South, its division among the negroes and the reimbursing
of himself for his burned mills, and then defend his character?
This speech is on page 203 of the Congressional Globe, March,
1867, and was delivered two years after the close of the war,
while the South was yet in her life-and-death struggle with
starvation. (Henry Timrod, the poet, died of insufficient
nourishment in Columbia, S. C, October 7, 1867.)
The following words will identify this address : "The laws
of war authorize us to take this property by our sovereign
power. You behold at your feet a conquered foe, an atrocious
enemy ! We have the right to impose confiscation of all their
property — to impoverish them. This is strict law and good
common sense. To this issue I devote the small remnant of
my life."
No biographer of Mr. Stevens has ever dared to print his
speeches. Why? This speech is the one supreme act of his
life — an act which lights with the glare of immortal infamy
his whole character and career.
I have not caricatured him It was necessary to soften,
humanize, and idealize his character to make it fit to print.
My only errors are on the side of mercy. Let my critics put
a finger on a single line, page, scene, or insinuation in the
"Clansman" in which I do him injustice.
My book will stand or fall as a contribution to the history
of reconstruction on this character. Unless I have sketched
him with honesty and accuracy, I have committed a crime.
I rest the book on this issue.
The Outlook declares that I have deliberately prostituted
such talents as I possess to arouse the worst passions of my
readers, made a case of all devils against all angels, and that
my book will retard the harmony so eminently desirable be-
tween the North and South. Surely not ! Could a literary
fake, written by a deliberate intellectual prostitute, retard
anything? It is a psychological impossibility for a fakir to
write a book of power unless endowed with a superhuman
mind. I protest against such high praise.
Nor is the "case of all angels against all devils" true. I
sketch five negro characters — two good, two bad, and one
humorous. I draw full length the characters of two g^eat
Republican leaders— Lincoln and Stevens — one good and one
bad. Should a reviewer deliberately try to deceive his readers
even to promote harmony between the North and the South ?
Can harmony he gained by falsehood?
The Outlonh assumes that my facts are true, but says:
"Let's bush it up ; it's all over now, and we're ashamed of it."
Is it so? Hear this choice deliverance of calm, philosophic
criticism from the Boston Transcript: "He reaches the acme
of his sectional passions when he exalts the Kuklux Klan
into an association of Southern patriots, when he must know,
or else be strangely ignorant of .American history, that its
members were as arrant ruffians, desperadoes, and scoundrels
as ever went unhanged."
Did it ever occur to the Outlook that I may be trying to
reach Darkest New England with a few rays of Southern
sunlight? One of the best preachers in Boston, a man of
the sweetest Christian character, a leader of evangelical
Christianity, whose sermons the Transcript prints on Mon-
days, was a Kuklux Clansman, and at this writing is still
unhanged and very popular in Boston. Has the Transcript
moved to Salem ?
My father is a venerable minister of Christ. He has built
many flourishing Baptist churches in Piedmont, Carolina,
in a pastorate of sixty years. He is one of those "despera-
does," and in still unhanged. I could give the names of a
thousand of these "ruffians" who are to-day among the noblest
men in America.
The Outlook was founded by Mr. Beecher to promote Chris-
tian union. Will my father vote even to unite with his
Northern brethren of the same faith so long as such experts
in ignorance as the Boston Transcript teach that in saving
the civilization of the South he was a ruffian, desperado, and
scoundrel? Is it possible to promote harmony by a lie?
I am no sectional fanatic, but a citizen of New York, with
scores of warm friends in the great, rushing North. Their
support has given me my successes in life. This is my coun-
try— the whole of it, from sea to sea and from Alaska to the
Keys of Florida. I love the people of the North, and I have
promised that if God gives me strength they shall know mine
own people of the South and love them too. Is this a crime?
I am writing out of the fullness of life the story of my father
and mother and brethren. It is an authentic human docu-
ment. In these books I am giving utterance to the deepest
soul convictions of eighteen million Southern people on this
the darkest problem of our century. Can there be harmony
until we understand each other?
You cannot "hush up" the history of a mighty nation.
This is no dead issue. The President of the United States
devoted his whole speech to it on Lincoln's birthday. We
have not settled the negro problem. We have not dared to
face it as yet
One of my critics accuses me of buying a house and yacht
out of the royalties of my book. It seems a pity to destroy
this fairy tale, but it may ease his pain. I have a beautiful
home and a modest yacht, but I bought and paid for them
before I had written a book. Yachting is a means of economy
and health with me, not luxury. My wife and children are as
passionately fond of the water as I am, and we live cheaper on
the boat than on the shore. May I mildly ask if it is im-
moral or even a violation of the canons of art to do this?
Another critic is very angry because I do not write like
Thomas Nelson Page. How can I help it ? Mr. Page has
never asked me to write his books. I couldn't do it if I tried,
and I wouldn't do it if I could.
Whether the "Clansman" is literature or trash is a ques-
tion about which I am losing no sleep. This generation will
not decide it; and in the next I'll be dead, and it will not
matter.
My ideal of work is very simple — to do my level best every
lime, and try to express my story in the most powerful man-
ner possible. The most powerful way is always the most
artistic way, for art is the appeal to the intellect through the
emotions. When a critic says my book is one of "marvelous
power." but "thoroughly inartistic," I don't trj- to under-
stand him or answer him. I give it up. He is talking in an
unknown tongue, or he is beyond my depth.
I never write a book unless I have something to say, and
never say it as long as I can keep from it. When at last I
have become so full of a great dramatic idea that I feel I
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shall die unless it is uttered, that others may know the might
of Its truth and the glory of its beauty, I write the story —
write it simply, sincerely, boldly, passionately.
This may not be "literature," but I have my reward — and
it is large financially, and larger spiritually. Out of the depths
of the unseen these passionate cries of the heart come back
in echoes wet with tears and winged with hopes, and life be-
comes a joy wide as is the world that holds these kindred
souls and deep as are the secrets of their hearts, which are
also mine. And I am content.
I owe much to my critics. They are all my good friends,
and none more so than mine enemies among them. This
challenge I wave them with a smile and friendly greeting.
should be glad to hear from some of the boys who treated
me so kindly on the occasion referred to.
HOIV CONFEDERATES TREATED A FEDERAL.
BY W. C. BROWN. WINCHESTER, IND.
I was a member of the Ninety-Third Regiment of the Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. In the battle of Chickamauga, just at
dark on Saturday, the 19th of September, 1863, my leg was
broken by a musket ball sent out by the Johnnies in our front.
This occurred in the woods about a half mile to the west of
Jay's Mill, and we were falling back at the time. Soon after
c.iir lines had fallen back the Confederates established their
p cket.s for the night. A squad (five, if I remember cor-
rectly) were passing to the front about fifty yards from where
1 had fallen. I called to them. They halted, and asked who
1 was and what I wanted. I replied that I was a wounded
Icderal soldier, and wanted to be helped into an easier posi-
tion, as I was suffering from a broken leg. They came to me
promptly and assisted me as gently as if I had been one of
their own men or a brother to a large tree where I would be
protected from the fire of our own men, first taking off my
woolen blanket and spreading it down for me to lie on, placing
my cartridge bo.x under my head for a pillow and spreading
my oilcloth over me.
The tenderness with which tliey had lifted me touched me.
and I said : "Boys, an hour or two ago we were engaged in
shooting each other, and now you are treating me with the
greatest kindness. I hardly know how to thank you for
it in return." They only replied, "Well, old fellow, we are
doing to you only as we should like to be done by. It may
come our turn next," and they passed on to the front picket
line for the night. I was suffering so at the time that I
did not notice all of the little details connected with this
visit of the Johnnies that night ; but the next morning, when
I awoke from a lialf-feverish, dreamy sleep, I found that one
of them had spread half of a homemade calico quilt over
me, saying nothing about it, and doubtless keeping the other
half to shelter him in his nightlong watch on picket post.
Was there ever a more beautiful type of chivalry and Chris-
tian charity than this? This incident grows brighter to me
as the years go by. God bless you, boys, wherever you may
be ! I would love to have you for my neighbors. .
My command was the Ninety-Third Ohio Infantry, Mc-
Cook's Corps, but at that time attached to Thomas's Corps,
on our left (your right). The Confederates near our part of
the line were of Cleburne's Division, in which were the
Second, Thirty-Fifth, and Forty-Eighth Tennessee, First
Arkansas. Third and Fifth Confederate, and Calvert's Ar-
kansas Battery. I was kept prisoner of war most of the
time at Atlanta. Ga., and on the 17th of February, 1864, was
included in a special exchange of prisoners (twenty-eight
Yanks for twenty-eight Johnnies), all badly wounded. I
THE ROSE FROM CHANCELLORSVILLE.
BY T. C. HARBAUGH.
I plucked a rose from Chancellorsville,
A little rose with lifted head,
Where on a gently sloping hill
One time the Blue and Gray lay dead.
The Northland's lads, the Southland's sons,
'Twas there their spirits found release;
Under the grimy, growling guns
They slept the dreamless sleep of peace.
I heard a fair bird trill her lay
Above me in the crested pines,
But not the one that sang that day
Between the serried battle lines.
No longer clashed the angry foes
Upon the war-encrimsoned sod.
And from my hand the tiny rose
Of Chancellorsville looked up to God.
The wings of peace that day were spread
Where armies battled man to man,
And through the woodland to me sped
The murmur of the Rapidan.
I thought of thousands who no more
Within the shaded tarn will see
The. banners that they proudly bore
Behind the matchless plume of Lee.
I looked upon the little rose
That grew so sweetly on the hill.
Love's sacred tribute to the foes
Who struggled once at Chancellorsville.
I saw the wildwood hares at play,
I heard the cricket 'neath the leaves;
While by a hearthstone far away
Some mother for her hero grieves.
(-) little rose of Chancellorsville,
How came ye in this haunted wood.
Where in the vale and on the hill
One smiling May the legions stood?
What bade thee lift above the sod
This summer day thy modest head ?
What but the sweet voice of thy God?
For war and strife fore'er hath fled.
T see no more the ranks of Gray
That charged among these stately pines ;
Tlie blue hath faded far away
From Hooker's vaunted battle lines.
And here I hold thee in my hand
Above this well-contested hill.
With peace throughout Columbia's land,
C) little rose from Chancellorsville!
Mrs. Annie McLemore Allen, of Lafayette, Ala., asks for
a copy of the poem entitled "The Baltimore Grays." It is
hoped that some one of our readers can furnish it.
O. T. Foster, of Murray, Ky., makes inquiry for B. C.
Foster, who belonged to an Arkansas battalion of cavalry,
and who was discharged at Corinth, Miss.
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STONEWALL JACKSON AT CHANCELLORSVILLE.
[Capt. J. G. Morrison, formerly aid-de-camp on the staflf
of Gen. Jackson and a brother of Mrs. Jackson, now residing
at Mariposa, N. C., sends the Veteran the July (1866) num-
ber of Tlie Land We Love, published by Gen. D. H. Hill in
Charlotte, N. C., early after the War between the States. It
is copied here as pertinent to the discussions that have re-
cently appeared in the Veteran.]
Wounding of Lieut. Gen. T. J. Jackson.
There have been numerous and conflicting accounts of the
wounding of this great leader — many written by persons who
were miles away from the scene of the ever-to-bc-lamented
occurrence, and of course who possessed little accurate in-
formation of the affair; while others have been written by
eyewitnesses, and have been accurate .so far as each indi-
vidual had an opportunity of beholding what occurred. It is
a duty of those who were eyewitnesses of the affair to furnish
to history an account of what they saw and know to be true.
The person from whom this narrative is taken was a par-
ticipant in the battle ; he was near the person of the General
at the time he received the fatal wound, and assisted in bear-
ing him from the field.
Early on tlie morning of April 29, 1863. Gen. Jackson was
informed by Maj. Hale, of Gen. Early's staff, that the enemy
was crossiilg the Rappahannock in force at Deep Run, two
miles below Fredericksburg, by the use of pontoon bridges,
and that a considerable force had already succeeded in effect-
ing a landin,g on the southern bank of the river. Gen. Jack-
son immediately dispatched orders to his division com-
manders to get their troops under arms, and, accompanied
by his staff and escort, they rode to the vicinity of Deep Run
tn rcconnoitcr the position of the enemy. It was evident
frnni the movements and displays the enemy made that they
were in heavy force, and wished to create the impression
that the main crossing and attack would be made below
Fredericksburg, and preparations were .soon made to meet
them. During the day, however, a dispatch was received
from Gen. Lee stating that Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, who was on
the left wing of the army, reported the enemy to be crossing
rapidly at the United States Ford, fifteen miles alwve Fred-
ericksburg, and moving in heavy force to Chancellorsville.
It was now apparent that their crossing at Deep Run was
merely a feint ; and, leaving Gen. Early to watch and check
this force under Sedgwick. Gen. Jackson marched with his
three other divisions in the direction of Chancellorsville,
where he found two divisions of Longstreet's Corps, under
Gen. R. H. Anderson, confronting the enemy. Uniting with
this force, he continued to press forward, driving the enemy
until he reached the Catherine Furnace road, which intersects
the Fredericksburg and Orange C. H. road one mile east of
Chancellorsville. It could now be seen that the two armii's
confronted each other, that the Federal army had been in
position a sufficient length of time to take every advantage
of its naturally strong position, and had thrown up heavy
intrenchments, protected along its entire front by an abatis
of felled timber and innumerable batteries of artillery. So
strong and well-fortified was this position that the Federal
commander, in a general field order to his troops, says : "Th ■
enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from behind
his defenses and give us battle on our own ground, where
certain destruction awaits him."
The Confederate troops were arrayed in line of battle, and
an order to storm the works was hourly expected. Yet it
was plain that such an attack, if unsuccessful, would be the
utter destruction of our comparatively small army. During
the afternoon of May I, and after the troops had rested on
their arms several hours expecting an advance, Gen. Jack-
son, accompanied by an aid-de-camp, rode beyond the left
of his command, and near the Catherine Furnace met Gen.
J. E, B. Stuart. After conversing a few moments they rode
still farther to the left, to a knoll where two pieces of Pel-
ham's Horse Artillery were engaging the enemy, in order
that they might get a view of the enemy's lines. Gen. Jack-
son here inquired particularly about the roads beyond this
point and in the vicinity of the enemy's right flank ; and,
being apparently satisfied with what information he received.
was returning to his command, when a shell exploded near
the party, mortally wounding Capt. Price. Gen. Stuart's as-
sistant adjutant general, which sad event detained him a short
time. After this detention he rode at a gallop to the center
of the army, where a conversation was held between Gens.
Lee, Jackson, and A. P. Hill in regard to the best point of
attack ; and it was decided that at early dawn Jackson's
Corps should move to the left, via Catherine Furnace and
the Brock road, to the enemy's extreme right and attack his
right flank.
This movement was successfully made, and 4 p.m. on
the 2d found Jackson in position on the old stone pike lead-
ing from Chancellorsville west toward Orange C. H. He
had marched around the entire front of the Federal army.
and his lines were now fronting in an opposite direction to
their formation of the day previous. His corps was formed
in three parallel lines. extendin.g over half a mile to the
right and left of the pike. The first consisted of the di-
vision of Gen. R. E. Rodes: the second, of Gen. R. E. Colston ;
;ind the third, of Gen. A. P. Hill — in all numbering twenty-
seven thousand men. As soon as the lines were formed the
order of advance was given, and never did troops move for-
ward with n'ore enthusiasm. They knew that they were
striking the cncniy where he least expected it. and rushed
forward with that peculiar yell characteristic of the -Southern
soldier.
Sicgcl's Dutch corps of the Federal army was the first
encountered ; and, being attacked on its right flank, made no
attempt to change front, but was hurled like chaff before the
winds. Several batteries attempted to arrest the advance of
the Confederates by rapid discharges of canister; but the
lines swept forward without a moment's pause, killing or
capturing the cannoneers and taking their guns. This ad-
vance was continued for over two miles through an almost
impenetrable wilderness, and over that whole extent the
ground was strewn with Federal dead and wounded, guns,
knapsacks, canteens, etc. Darkness of the night now made
the advance slow and hazardous. The lines were halted and
re-formed, and the division of Gen. A. P. Hill advanced to
the front. The Federal lines were al?o re-forming, or rather
bringing fresh troops to the front.
It was now nine o'clock, and Gen. Jackson, who had been
for some time near the front line, rode a little in advanco
iif it to reconnoiter the enemy's position. A heavy skirmish
line had been ordered to the front, and he supposed he was
in the rear of this line. He was at this time accompanied
by Capt. J. K. Boswell, of the engineers. Capt. R. F. Wil-
burne, of the signal corps, Lieut. J. G. Morrison, aid-de-
camp, and five or six couriers, and had ridden but a short
distance down the pike when a volley was fired at the part>'
by the Federals in front and to the right of the road. To
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escape this fire the party wheeled out of the road to the left
and galloped to the rear, when our own men, mistaking them
for Federal cavalry making a charge, and supposing the firing
in front to have been directed at the skirmish line, opened .1
galling fire, killing several men and horses and causing the
horses that were not struck to dash panic-stricken toward
the Federal lines, which were but a very short distance in
front. The General was struck in three places, and was
dragged from his horse by the bough of a tree. Capt. Bos-
well was killed instantly.
Lieut. Morrison, leaping from his horse that was dashing
into the enemy's lines, ran to an interval in our line and
exclaimed: "Cease firing! You are firing into our own men.'
A colonel commanding a North Carolina regiment in Lane's
Brigade cried out: "Who gave that order? It's a lie! Pour
it into them." Morrison then ran to the colonel, told
him what he had done, and assisted him to arrest the firing
as soon as possible. He then went to the front in search of
the General, and found him lying upon the ground, with
Capt. Wilburne and Mr. Wynn, of the signal corps, bending
over him examining his wounds. In a few moments Gen.
Hill, accompanied by Capt. Leigh and a few couriers, rode
up to where the General was lying and dismounted. On
examining his wounds, they found his left arm broken near
the shoulder and bleeding profusely. A handkerchief was
tied around the arm, so as partially to stop the bleeding.
While this was being done, and while the party were bend-
ing ever the General, two Federal soldiers, with muskets
cocked, stepped up to the party from behind a cluster of
hushes and looked quietly on. Gen. Hill turne.l to several
of his couriers and said in an undertone, "Seize those men."
and it was done so quickly that they made no resistance.
Lieut. Morrison, thinking these were scouts in front of an
advancing line, stepped to the pike, about twenty yards dis-
tant, to see if it were so, and distinctly saw cannoneers un-
limbering two pieces of artillery in the road, not a hundred
yards distant. Returning hastily, he announced this to the
party, when Gen. Hill, who was now in command of the
army, immediately mounted and rode to the head of Pender's
column (which was coming up by the flank) to throw it into
line. He left Cant. Leigh, of his staff, to assist in removing
Gen. Jackson. About this time Lieut. J. P. Smith, aid-de-
camp, who had been sent to deliver an order, rode up and
dismounted.
Capt. Wilburne had gone a few moments previous after
a litter. The party thought it best not to await Wilburne's
return, and suggested that they bear the General off in their
arms, when he replied : "No ; I think I can walk." They
assisted him to rise, and supported him as he walked through
the woods to the pike and toward the rear. Soon after reach-
ing the road they obtained a litter, and placed him on it; but
had not gone over forty yards when the battery in the road
opened with canister. The first discharge passed over their
heads; but the second was more accurate, and struck down
one of the litter bearers, by which the General received a
severe fall. The firing now increased in rapidity, and was
so terrific that the road was soon deserted by the attendants
of the General, with the exception of Capt. Leigh and Lieuts.
Smith and Morrison. These officers lay down in the road
by the General during the firing, and could see on every side
sparks flashing from the stones of the pike caused by the
iron canister shot. Once the General attempted to rise, but
Lieut. Smith threw his arms across his body and urged him
to lie quiet a few moments, or he would certainly be killed.
After the road had been swept by this battery with a dozen
or more discharges, they elevated their guns and opened with
shell. So the little party now had an opportunity of remov-
ing their precious burden from the road to the woods on
their right, and continued their course to the rear, carrying
the General most of the way in their arms. Once they
stopped that he might rest, but the fire was so heavy the/
thought it best to go on. The whole atmosphere seemed
filled with whistling canister and shrieking shell, tearing the
trees on every side. After going three or four hundred
yards an ambulance was reached, containing Col. S. Crutch-
field, Gen. Jackson's chief of artillery, who had just been
severely wounded, a canister shot breaking his leg. The
General was placed in this ambulance, and at his request one
of his aids got in to support his mangled arm.
During all of this time he had scarcely uttered a groan, and
expressed great sympathy for Col. Crutchfield, who was
writhing under the agonies of his shattered limb. After pro-
ceeding over half a mile the ambulance reached the house of
Mr. Melzi Chancellor, where a temporary hospital had been
established. Here Dr. Hunter McGuire, medical director of
Gen. Jackson's Corps, checked the bleeding of the General's
arm and administered some stimulants. He was then taken
to a field infirmary, some two miles to the rear, and about
two o'clock in the night his arm was amputated by Dr. Mc
Guire, assisted by Surgeons Black. Wells, and Coleman. Be-
fore administering chloroform, Dr. McGuire asked him if
they must amputate the limb should they find it necessary.
He replied: "Yes; certainly. Dr. McGuire, do for me what
you think best."
About half-past three o'clock Maj. A. S. Pendleton, as-
sistant adjutant general, arrived at the hospital and requested
to see the General. He was at first refused by the surgeons,
but stated that his business was of a very important charac-
ter and the safety of the army depended on it. He stated to
the General that Gen. Hill had been wounded, that the troops
were in great confusion, and that Gen. Stuart, who had taken
command of the army, wished to know what must be done.
Gen. Jackson replied that Gen. Stuart must use his own dis-
cretion and do whatever he thought best.
Accurate accounts by Dr. McGuire and others of the last
hours of Gen. Jackson have been written, and it is unneces-
sary that they be reproduced. On the morning of the 3d the
General dispatched one of his aids to Richmond to escort
Mrs. Jackson to where he lay wounded. This officer was
captured by a raiding party under Stoneman. but made his
escape, and after some delay reached Richmond and returned
with Mrs. Jackson on Thursday, the 7th. The same day the
General was attacked with pneumonia, from the effects of
which, together with his wounds, he died on Sunday, the loth.
During his intense suffering he displayed that Christian forti-
tude which was always characteristic of our great chieftain.
Nearly thirty-nine years ago, at the request of Gen. D. H
Hill. I wrote the above article. This was only three years
after the event, when everything was fresh upon the mind
Since then various and conflicting accounts have been pub-
lished. After the lapse of all these years, some things have
come to light that I will comment on.
First, as to who conceived this grand flank movement
I would not allude to this had not a lecturer, in recent years,
gone before the public with the oft-repeated statement that
Jackson had nothing to do with the planning, but was only
executing orders. On Friday afternoon. May I, the day
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previous to this movement, I accompanied Gen. Jackson on
his ride to the left. He left his command on the Fredericks-
burg side of Chancellorsville, apparently sure that Hooker
would not leave his intrenchments and attack. So confident
of this was he that he exposed himself to capture by riding
nearly two miles parallel with Hooker's front, part of the
distance with no troops between and most of the way in
sight of the enemy's lines. When he met Gen. Stuart beyond
Catherine Furnace, they both seemed surprised, but rejoiced
to see each other, and went together still farther to the left,
to where Pelham's guns were firing. These guns were being
handled by Capt. Moorman. A Federal battery had gotten
their range, and shells were coming in pretty lively, when
Stuart laughingly said that it might be prudent for Gen. Jack-
son to retire from the vicinity of his guns. Hardly had he said
this when a shell exploded near them and a fragment shattered
the leg of Capt. Channing Price, Stuart's assistant adjutant
general. The writer saw the death pallor come over his face as
he was lifted from his horse. I mention this incident to show
that on Friday, May I, Jackson was at this point, nearly two
miles from his command, seeking information as to roads and
the practicability of turning the enemy's flank. Tliat night
the whole thing was gone over by Gens. Lee, Jackson, and
A. P. Hill, and at dawn the next morning the troops moved
over the very roads explored by Jackson the previous after-
noon. Of course Gen. Lee approved and ordered the move-
ment, and as commander is entitled to the credit, as he would
have borne the censure had it failed. There was no jealousy
between Gens. Lee and Jackson. They had unbounded con-
fidence in and love and respect for each other.
And now a few words as to the final act in the drama of
Jackson's military career. When the lines were being re-
formed for the night attack, and A. P. Hill's Division was
taking the front, Jackson's intense nature when in battle was
at its highest tension. Everything must move forward !
Every staflF officer and every courier was pressed into serv-
ice to this end. I had served on his staff during the last
seven battles in which he was engaged, and he now delivered
the last order that it was my honored privilege to carry. Just
after dark he said: "Find Gen. Rodcs on tlie right and tell
him to press forward, but to throw a line of skirmishers from
his right perpendicularly to the rear and have them advance
with his line and in sight of each other." I had delivered this
message and returned to him at the junction of the pike and
Bullock roads.
All had gone well up to this time We had driven the
enemy nearly three miles, and were within one mile of Chan-
cellorsville. Everything possible was being done to continue
the advance. Lane's North Carolina Brigade was formed
across the road, with the Eighteenth and Twenty-Eighth
Regiments on the left, the Eighteenth being nearest the
road. The Thirty-Seventh and Seventh Regiments were on
the right, with the Thirty-Third thrown forward as skir-
mishers. Gen. Jackson met Gen. Lane, who was seeking Gen.
Hill for instructions, and said to him: "Lane, press right
forward ; right forward." Meeting Gen. Hill, he said : "Gen.
Hill, as soon as you are ready push right forward ; allow-
nothing to stop you; press on to the United States ford."
Jacksoii and Hill had had slight differences in camp and on
tlic march in days gone by, but when it came to a fight with
the enemy this was put aside by both. Jackson regarded Hill
as one of his best and most stubborn figiiters, and in battle
placed him where he expected most.
Hill's "Light Division" had a reputation equal to the
"Stonewall Brigade" or any other crack command, and was
to take the front in this night attack, and with only fifteen
thousand men was to be thrown between the United States
ford and Hooker's main army of not less than eighty thou-
sand. True, Rodes and Colston would have supported him,
but all three had but twenty-seven thousand. Still Jackson
did not hesitate with such odds. At Second Manassas he
placed himself squarely in Pope's rear with a force of one-
third that of Pope. In the valley campaign he did not fear
being "cut off" by getting in the rear of Banks, Shields, and
Fremont. He said while lying wounded, in alluding to the
position Hill would have been in: "My men may sometimes
fail to drive the enemy from a position ; the enemy always
fails to drive my men." But the Fates decreed that this
should not he. The wounding of Jack'on and Hill in quick
succession put an end to "what might h, e been."
Before A. P. Hill's troops were ready for the advance Jack-
son and his escort moved slowly down the pike, some one
hundred and fifty yards beyond our lines, and being fired on
from the right, rode out of the road to the left and toward the
rear. When we had gotten to within thirty or forty yards of
our line, there was a sudden volley from the entire front of
the Eighteenth and Tw'cnty-Eighth North Carolina Regiments,
which was kept up by a scattering but rapid fire. At the first
blaze in the darkness my horse recoiled, and I leaped from
him. I was very near to Gen. Jackson at the time. I knew
positively that that fire was from our own men, as I had
seen the line of battle in going forward, and I realized the
danger to Gen. Jackson by its continuing; so, without stop-
ping to consider furtlier, I rushed with all speed into the
firing line, calling out when near it: "Cease firing! You are
firing into our own men !" My astonishment was very great
to hear the reply which came back. So incredible does it
seem that I have often thought some would doubt that such
a thing occurred ; but now, after nearly forty years, comes a
corroboration by a statement of Gen. J. H. Lane — at present
of Auburn. Ala. — written in 1901 and published in "North
Carolina Regimental Histories," Volume V., page 95: "Gen.
Pender now rode up and advised me not to advance, as Gen.
Jackson had been wounded, and he thought by my command.
I did not advance, but went to the plank road, where I learned
that Gen. Hill also had been wounded. I there, moreover,
learned from Col. John D. Barry, then major of the Eight-
eenth North Carolina Regiment, that he knew nothing of
Gen. Jackson and Gen. Hill's having gone to the front; that
he could not tell friend from foe in such woods ; that when
the skirmish line fired there was heard the clattering of ap-
proaching horsemen and tlie cry of cavalry; and that he not
only ordered his men to fire, but had pronounced the subse-
quent cry of friends to be a lie, and that his men continued
to fire upon the approaching party. It was generally under-
stood that niglit by my command and others tliat the Eight-
eenth Regiment not only wounded Gens. Jackson and Hill,
but killed some of their couriers and perhaps some of their
staff oflScers."
It would appear from this recent statement of Gen. Lane
that he believes that Gen. Hill, as well as Gen. Jackson,
was wounded by the fire of his own men. This I do not
think possible. After the fire was stopped I went to the
front and found Gen. Jackson. i>nd no one with him except-
ing Wilburne and Wynn. Gen. Hill then came, and re-
mained until the Federal skirmishers came up. He then
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went to his own lines, not over tliirty yards away, and no
firing again occurred until we reached the pike, when it was
begun by the Federal battery planted in the road.
After Gen Jackson's arm was amputated and he Had re-
covered from the influence of chloroform, he beckoned the
writer to his side and said : "I want you to go to Richmond
and bring Anna [Mrs. Jackson] up to stay with me." Secur-
ing a hor-e, I left the field infirmary about three o'clock in the
morning for Guiney's Station, to go by rail from there. I
w-ent by the circuitous route the army had marched that day.
not knowing in whose possession I would find it that night.
While the ride through the Wilderness was a dreary one,
I arrived at Guiney's early Sunday morning, congratulating
myself on getting through all right and that I would soon
be in Richmond. Fortunately, a train would leave in an hour
or so with quite a nimiber who had been wounded the previ-
ous day. As the tr- n pulled into Ashland, about halfway to
Richmond, it was greeted by popping of pistols, and the en-
gineer threw up his job. A company of Stoneman's Federal
cavalry, which \vas on a raid to our rear, dashed up through
the side streets and took possession. In a short time an of-
ficer with yellow shoulder straps came through the car
inspecting. Not finding any important-looking prisoners, and
being told that most of those on board were wounded, he
ordered all those who were not wounded and could march
to get out on the left, and proceeded to take the names
for parole of the wounded. I got out with the marching
squad, and our names and rank were not asked, thinking,
no doubt, that when we reached "old capital" prison this
could be done.
By a lack of vigilance on their part I escaped that even-
ing, and spent most of Sunday night tramping toward Rich-
mond. Mond.iy I learned from citizens that Stoneman held
the road in both directions, and I could not make the prog-
ress I desired ; but I arrived in Richmond early Tuesday
morning. Owing to this raid, travel w'as not opened until
Thursday, and on that day Mrs. Jackson and her six-months-
old babe went up on an armed train to Guiney's Station, to
which point the General had been rer-'.oved and where he
died on Sunday, May lo. An interesting chapter on the
death and burial of Gen. Jackson m.ay be written later.
GEN. JACKSON AND STAFF.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF IT.
[Col. W. H. Palmer, of Riclimond, Va., who was adjutant
general on the staff of Gen. A. P. Hill, writes of the wounding
of Gen. Jackson.]
In reply to your inquir\ as to "Gen. A. P. Hill's position
and location of his staff at the time Lane's men fired the
fital volley wounding Gen. Jackson," and whether "Capt.
Riswell at the time of his death was serving on Hill's
staff." I reply: As soon as the heavy artillery fire of the
enemy from the field in front of the Chancellorsville House
(forty-three pieces) cased, G^n. Hill rode forward to the
head of Lane's Brigade, accompanied by his staff. Gen.
Hill's "Light Division" was in column, with Lane's Brigade
in front.
Rode's and Colston's Divisions were necessarily in con-
fusion from the attacks they had made at Talley's, the Wil-
derness church, and Hawkins's House, and the bulk of these
two divisions were a mile behind us, near Dowdal's Tavern.
At the intersection of the Bullock Mountain road and the
road to Hazel Gro^e turnpike there were three pieces of
artillery. There were small bodies of Confederates near
these three guns, who had followed the fleeing Federals down
the road; but for all practical purposes there were now no
Confederate forces between the "Light Division" and the
enemy. Under Gen. Hill's orders. Gen. Lane had thrown for-
ward the 33d North Carolina as skirmishers.
As Gen. Hill rode to the guns above mentioned in the road
he found Gen. Jackson sitting on his horse, when he called
out to him : "Press them. Gen. Hill ; press them, and cut them
off from the United States Ford." Gen, Hill asked him if
he had an officer familiar with the country that he could
let him have. Gen. Jackson instantly replied : "Capt. Boswell,
report to Gen. Hill." Boswell rode out and took position
on the right of Gen. Hill. Soon after some of Lane's men
brought from the right some prisoners, with a colonel at their
head, who protested that he was not properly a prisoner of
war. Gen. Hill, somewhat impatiently, ordered Capt. R. H.
T. Adams, of his staff, to take the Federal colonel to the
rear. At this time Gen. Hill had with him Capt. Boswell
on his right, I on his left, and grouped around were others
of his staff — Maj. Conway Howard, engineer of the "Light
Division;" Capt. Murry F. Taylor, aid-de-camp; Maj. Forbes
and Capt. B. W. Leigh, volunteer aids; Serg. Tucker, chief
of couriers for the "Light Division," with two of his men,
Muse and Saunders. The 33d North Carolina was in front
as skirmishers, the l8th North Carolina on the left of the
turnpike in line of battle, and Gen. Lane was placing other
regiments of his brigade in position on the right of the pike,
when Gen. Jackson rode past us, going to the front with a
few mounted men. Gen. Hill and his staff slowly followed.
At fifty or sixty yards Gen. Jackson halted. We were but a
short distance from him, and sat on our horses listening.
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Lane's men were in llic rear getting in position, and con-
fused sounds came from the Federal troops in our front,
but more distant. I suppose we were sixty yards in front
of our lines. It was very quiet, except for the noises above
mentioned.
Suddenly a musket was tired far to our right, followed
soon by a roll of musketry coming down the line from our
right and rear. P>y a natural impulse the bulk of the horse-
men rode out of the road to the left into the woods. Thii
brought them in front of the i8th North Carolina, in line of
battle on that side of the road, who, thinking they were the
enemy's cavalry, fired a volley into the group, and everything
went down before it. By this fire Gen. Jackson was wounded.
Capt. Boswell (who was with Gen. Hill's staflf) was killed,
Maj. Forbes was killed, my horse was killed, Capt. Leigh's
horse was killed, and Capt. Taylor's horse was killed (had five
nmsket balls in him). Maj. Howard and Scrgf. Tucker were
carried by their frightened horses into the enemy's lines.
They were taken to Chancellorsville House and interrogated
by Gen. Hooker's staff. Courier Saunders was killed, and
Courier Muse was shot in the face in two places.
Gen. Hill, instead of going with the group into the woods,
threw himself from his horse and lay down on his face in
the road. Innnediately after the volley he was engaged in
extricating his aid, Capt. Taylor, from under his horse, when
he heard that Gen. Jackson had been wounded, and he aban-
doned Taylor and hurried to the assistance of Gen. Jackson.
It was here that I found him a few moments later. He
pointed to Gen. Jackson on the side of the road, and said
he was arranging to have him taken oflf. He directed me
to ride down the road toward the Federal lines and find
Kirkpatrick, a courier who had his horse, and direct him
to run back into our lines with the horse. Just as the horses
reached the three guns in the road everything commenced
firing again. My second horse was killed under me and my
arm torn from the socket, so my Labors for the night w-ere
over. By this second fire Gen. Hill was wounded by a piece
of shell taking oflf his hoot tops. He sent Capt. .\dams for
Gen. Stew-art to take command, and Capt. Taylor to Gen.
Lee to inform him of the situation and that he had sent for
Stewart to take command.
No one blamed the l8th Nortii Carolina for firing into us.
It was nine o'clock at night. They had just been placed in
position, and. hearing the firing on the right of the road as
it came rolling down the line toward them, then seeing a
body of horsemen in the woods in their front, they fired,
naturally supposing it to be the enemy. I asked Gen. Hill
afterwards his reason for being in front of our lines of
battle, and he said that, as Gen. Jackson, his commander,
had ridden out in front, he considered it his duty to accom-
pany him.
of his old comrades are living and remember these incidents,
they will confer a great favor on his son. Dr. Edwin C.
Kay, of Nashville, Tenn., by giving the company and regi-
ment of his father. It may have been the 38th.
Dr. Edwin C. R.\v, of Nasliville. Tenn.. wishes to find out
Id what regiment his fatlier. C. N. Ray. belonged. He is
imder the impression that it was a Tennessee regiment in
Gen. Daniel S. Donelson's Brigade, Cheatham's Division. He
was in the fight at Perryville with his regiment, was desper-
ately wounded, and left in the hospital on or near the battle-
field when our forces retired from Kentucky. He finally
recovered sufficiently to he moved, and, refusing to take the
oath, was sent to Camp Douglas. He was exchanged out of
this prison early in the spring or winter of 1865, but his
old womnl incapacitated him for further service. If any
COME THOU WITH ME.
\'.\ MRS. I. M. P. OCKENDEN, SECRETARY CONFEDER.\TED SOUTHERN
MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION, MONTGOMERY, ALA.
Come thou with me ! The morning breaks so fair ;
Light breaths of winged sweetness thrill the air ;
Faint blushes flit across the cloudless blue ;
The bee drones softly o'er his honey dew ;
Pale grows the dying night on land and sea —
Memorial Day is dawning : come with me !
O come with me, we'll find the first wild ro.se!
The crimson woodbine on the hilltop grows ;
Yon slender songster, in historic gray.
Tells w-here the violet hides her heart away
Beiieath dead leaves. Sad sighs the distant sea,
Slow fades the morning star; now come with me!
Come thou with me, where scarfs of tender green
Are thrown from bough to bough, where forests lean
Above the winding streams and ruffled throats
Pipe long-lost songs of love in liquid notes.
Hark ! Now the South wind sighs from tree to tree
For those who sleep and wake not — woe is me !
Come thou with me. The Flag unfurls again !
In shady dells, afar from haunts of men.
The poet finds it next to nature's heart ;
In lonely loveliness it stands apart.
The Blue Flag, starred with tears, again I sec,
The Veteran's folded emblem; come with me!
My love for them is fadeless as the pine.
High PS the palm, true as the oak, heart mine!
Mark how the cypress waves her purple crest
For those who fell. Sweet be the patriot's rest !
The bards of coming years to poesy
Shell wed their names in swxetest minstrelsy.
The half-blown bud of morn, the rose of noon,
Like half-grown youth and manhood, dies too soon!
The flow cr-strcwn earth holds all in patient trust ;
The evening primrose scatters golden dust —
Wild laurels 'neath their graves, where'er they be.
Who fought and fell, alas 1 for thee and me.
This day is ours, to memory set apart;
Lay fresh love tokens on each gallant heart !
The South is haunted. Every w'andering breeze
Tells old war stories to the whispering trees,
Of maids whose loves were knights on land and sea ;
They haunt tlie land we love for me and thee !
Come, live the days of chivalry again 1
List to the tramp of many armed men !
Behold how woman hides the falling tear —
Hearcst thou the rolling drum? If alt! who comes here?
White lances flash — who keeps the tryst with thee?
The sweet Southland is haunted ; come with me.
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CONCERNING -LAST ROLL" TRIBUTES.
Increasing demand upon the space of our "Last Roll" De-
partment makes it necessary to request that reports of the
death of comrades be made as short as possible, and it would
lighten the editorial labor if such notices be prepared prop-
erly in advance of sending. When newspaper clippings are
sent, they have to be gone over and the points of most in-
terest copied ; whereas it should be the interest of families
to send notices that could be used with little change, always
making them as brief as practicable. These tributes are
gratuitous, except the cost of engravings, $2.
Another rule must be adopted — namely : The passing of
comrades is now so rapid that it will take all our space to
record recent deaths ; hence do not send notice after the
lapse of six months. Tliis is not to exclude sketches of
heroes, no matter when they died.
Three Members of Rosser Gibbons Camp^ of Luray, Va.
R. C. Bragonier, Adjutant, was born in Shepherdstown,
Va. (now W. Va.), in 1840. He enlisted in Company F,
loth Virginia Infantry, and served faithfully and gallantly
through tlie war. His body was taken back to the place of
his nativity for burial under escort of members of the Camp
and laid beside his kindred in Elmwood Cemetery. A wife
and son survive him.
Ambrose C. Huffman was born in Page County, Va., March
30, 1838; died at his home, near Bickler's Ferry, in August,
1904. He served throughout the war faithfully as a member
of Company H, 33d Virginia Regiment. A wife and children
are left to mourn their loss.
James A. Melton, Color Sergeant, was born in LaGrange,
Ga., April 13, 1830; died in September, 1904. He enlisted
in the Confederate army from his native State in 1861, and
served in the Jeff Davis Artillery, A. N. V. He was a con-
genial comrade, a splendid soldier, and proud of the service
he had rendered his native land.
Three Members of an Arkansas Camp.
V. Y. Cook Camp of Newark, Ark., has lost three members
since the beginning of 1905: David Leonard, 1st Arkansas
Cavalry; J. P. Fain, 30th Alabama Infantry; David Blount,
32d Arkansas Infantry. These men entered the Confederate
army in t86i, 1862, and 1863, respectively, when in their young
manhood, and served steadfastly unto the end. Comrade Fain
was captured in December, 1864, and spent that winter in a
Northern prison almost without clothes. Many tempting of-
fers were made him to take the oath, which he resolutely
declined. He was released in June, 1865.
Adjutant E. H. Lively writes of the death of Patrick
Henry Winston. He was one of the most active members
of Bob McCullnch Camp, at Spokane, Wash.
William Har\t;y Edwards.
Died at his home, in Lexington, Mo., on the evening of
March 2, 1905, Capt. William Harvey Edwards, in the sixty-
ninth year of his age. He was born in Woodford County,
Ky., September 20, 1838. In 1862 he joined Campbell's troop
in Howard Smith's Regiment, which formed a part of Gen.
John H. Morgan's command. He was with that command
when it invaded Ohio, and with many others was captured
and sent to Camp Douglas. There he suffered many hard-
ships, but managed to escape after about a year's imprison-
ment, taking refuge in Canada until it was safe for him to
return home, his shattered health making it impossible for
him to serve again as a soldier.
Two years after the end of the war he moved to Missouri,
and in 1868 married Miss Rebecca Henry, who, with a daugh-
ter, survives. In 1872 Capt. Edwards settled on a farm
near Odessa, where he lived until he was elected treasurer
of Lafayette County, in 1900. when he removed to Lexing-
ton. He was elected in 1902 for a second term.
Such in briefest outline was the outer life of one of nature's
noblemen, a type of the old-fashioned gentleman now passing
away. Me bore bodily weakness and suffering with Chris-
tian fortitude, and his last days were soothed by the faith
and hopes of tlie Christian life he had consistently lived.
Capt. Edwards loyally and ardently cherished the memories
of the Confederate States and its heroic soldiers. For some
time he was Adjutant of the Sterling Price Camp, U. C. V.
His death not only brings saddest bereavement to the inner
home circle, but also leaves vacant a large space in that wider
circle of friends and comrades who loved and honored him
and who will continue to cherish his memory.
William A. Brent.
When Virginia was a "bastion fringed with flame," Wil-
liam A. Brent, of Loudoun County, answered her first call at
First Manassas, and kept her commandments through four
years of "agony and bloody sweat." He first joined Company
H, 6th Virginia Cavalry, and transferred to Company A, 7th
Virginia Cavalry, Gen. Ashby's old company and regiment.
Many instances could be given of his unusual pluck.
Many times wounded and horse after horse killed, he never
lagged, but was up again and hunting the fight. Seeing a
comrade hard pressed with four or five of the enemy around
him, himself unhorsed and with only a saber, he ran to his
defense, and just as a bayonet pierced his friend he sabered
the man and had the distinction of killing his foe with the
sword. This friend was the big-hearted fighting Harry
Hatcher, and Billy called him the "bravest of the brave."
Scouting at night in Fairfax, we think, the order was to
take the picket without firing; and as he reached out and
grabbed the reins of the picket's horse the picket placed his
carbine on his breast and fired, but as he fell he shot the
picket from his horse. We have seen the jacket with a hole
burned in it half as big as the hand.
In the fight at Upperville, Va., in June, 1863, his oldest
brother, Warren, when hemmed in so there was no escape,
refused to surrender, and died a glorious sacrifice to the faith
he kept. The "War Records" credit his bravery.
"Billy" Brent was too generous to mass much of the "gear"
of this world around him. Of liberal education, omnivorous
reading, and high intelligence, his mind was well stored with
choice information. A noble son and brother, he leaves the
legacy of a spotless character to his family and friends.
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G. W. L. Fly.
Major G. W. L. Fly was born in Mississippi June 2,
183s; and died in Victoria, Tex., January 27, 1905. He came
witli his parents to Texas in 1853, locating in Brazoria
County, and afterwards returned to Mississippi to complete
his collegiate education at Madison College. In 1875 he mar-
ried Miss Callie Bell, of Madison County, Miss., who, with
three sons and one daughter, survives him.
Early in September, 1861, he gathered a band of young men
in Gonzales County to offer their services to the Confederate
government. He was elected captain. His company was
mustered into service as Company J, Second Texas Volun-
teer Infantry. Soon afterwards his regiment was transferred
to Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston's command, and took an
active part in the battle of Shiloh. He was captured, but
was reported among the killed in the battle of Corinth,
and for three weeks his wife mnurued him as dead.
G. w. I., ri.v.
He was exchanged, and on returning to his command was
promoted to the rank of major. Comrade Fly participated
with his command in the battles around Vicksburg, and on ,
the 4th of July, 1863, w-hen Vicksburg surrendered, he a
second time became a prisoner, but was soon paroled. He
was exchanged, and reported to his command on the coast of
Texas. In April, 1864, he was made commandant of the
port of Galveston, and took an active part in the defense
of that city until the close of hostilities, in 1865, when he re-
turned to liis home, in Gonzales County. He was a charter
member of the William R. Scurry Camp, U. C. V., of Vic-
toria, Tex.
C.\PT. Marceu-us Cl.\rk.
The Vetkran is late in recording the death of a steadfa.'t
friend and patron through many years — Capt. Marcellus Clark,
of Parkersburg, W. Va. — on Easter Sunday of 1904. He was
a veteran both of the Mexican War and the Confederate war.
Marcellus Clark was born at Leesburg, Va., in 1829.
Shortly before the beginning of the Mexican War his parents
removed to Vannsville, Md., and here when but eighteen
years of age he enlisted in the United States army and
served through the Mexican War, being mustered out in.
Pittsburg on the return of the troops. He was married to
Miss Lucy Creel, of Wood County, in 1852, and settled in
Parkersburg. During the few years preceding the War be-
tween the States he was captain in the militia of old Vir-
ginia under Govs. Fletcher and Wise. In 1S61 he received
a commission as captain in the Confederate army, and com-
manded a company of the 36th Virginia Infantry, which fig-
ured proiTiinently in numerous campaigns. His wife accom-
panied him through the war, and was always at tlie front,
at times even on the firin.g line. Capt. Clark was taken
prisoner in the Valley of Virginia, and held at Fort Delaware
about six months, being paroled at the close of the war.
Since the war he, had worked his way up in railroad circles,
rising from brakcman to a responsible place in the legal
department. After thirty jears' service, he was placed on
th< retired list and pensioned. Capt. Clark was a devout
Christian and liberal in the cause o{ charity. He leaves
a wife and two daughters.
James J. Stone was born and reared in Tipton County,
Tenn., and served through the war in the Seventh Tennessee
Cavalry under Gen. Forrest. He was a member of Camp
Joe Brown at Covington, and his loss is deeply felt by com-
rade members. He was first lieutenant of Company D, First
Regiment of Reserves, C. V., N. G. S. T., and on the staff of
Gen. George W. Gordon, with the rank of major. He was a
stanch friend and active in all good work.
Comrade S. M. Wilson, .Adjutant of the George T. Wood
Camp, No. 148, of Inverness, Fla., writes : "The following
comrades of this camp have answered to the last roll call :
Dr. R. A. Warmack, surgeon of the Fifty-First Georgia In-
fantry; Green Black, of Company A, Sixty-Fourth Gcorgii
Regiment ; E. K. Carter, Company G, Twenty-Sixth Georgia
Rtgiment. Vou will notice that all of our departed com-
rades are from Georgia. Our Camp represents ten States."
J W. Green was born in For.'syth County, Ga., October
;8, 1839; and entered the Confederate service in May, i8(>i.
at Milledgeville, Ga., as first lieutenant in Capt. Carecor's
company. Fourth Georgia Infantry, and sent to Virginia,
where they became a part of the Army of Northern Virginia
In the first day's fighting at Sharpsburg he was shot through
the thigh and carried off the field. On the second day, learn-
ing that his captain woidd be absent from the company, he
reported for duty, and, supporting himself on the scabbard
of his sword, led his men in action. Later Gov. James E.
Brown appointed him captain of the Georgia Armory, where
he remained for a time, but entered active service again with
the .Army of Tennessee at Dalton. At Resaca he was again
wounded, but continued in the field until the surrender. He
moved to Freestone County, Tex., after the war, and died
there December 24, 1897, a Christian gentleman, honored and
respected by all who knew him.
Capt. W. A. Prvor was a member of R. E. Lee Camp, U.
C. v., of Commerce, Tex. He died at his home, in that
city, on March 12, 1905. Capt. Pryor was born in Sumter
County, Ga., in 1842. and entered the Confederate service
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early in 1861 from Aniericus, Ga., as a private in Company
A, I2th Georgia Infantry. Pliil Cook's Brigade, Kwell's Di-
vision, under Stonewall Jackson. He served with this dis-
tinguished command through the war, participating in all
the principal engagements in which they took part. Comrade
Pryor rose from a private to the rank of captain, and was
in command of his company when they were surrendered at
Appomattox. Capt. Pryor was a gallant soldier, a Christian
gentleman, an honored citizen, and a devoted husband and
father.
CoL. William Houston Patterson. — A golden link in the
historic chain that binds the present to the past was severed
in the death of Col. W. H. Patterson last September at his
summer home, near Russellville, in the valley of Eastern
Tennessee. Col. Patterson was a member of the distinguished
Patterson family of Philadelphia, where he was born and
reared. He was a son of Gen. Robert Patterson, a distin-
guished soldier of three wars prior to the fifties, and who at
his old palatial mansion in Philadelphia entertained with regal
hospitality the most distinguished soldiers and statesmen of
this country, as well as many dignitaries of Europe. The
early boyhood of his son. Col. William Houston Patterson,
was spent amid these scenes, giving his inherent interests of
culture and refinement a polish that marked him distinctly
of that class in whose veins flow tlie best blood of the world
■ — an American gentleman of the old school.
Comrade John T. Hardaway died near Mt. Vernon, Tex.,
on February 6, 1905. Comrade Hardaway was a member of
Company I, Eleventh Texas Cavalry, Harrison's Brigade.
His reputation as a soldier for duty and gallantry was
unsurpassed by any member of his command. His watch-
word through life was "duty." He was a devout member
of the Baptist Church, and one of the most appreciated com-
pliments ever paid the Veteran was when he remarked to a
comrade: "My Bible comes first and the- Veteran next in
my affection." Blessed peace to his memory ! He was a be-
loved and active member of the Ben McCulloch Camp, U.
C. v., at Mt, Vernon, Tex.
Rev. Anthony T. Graybill, D.D.
Rev. A. T. Graybill, D.D., of the Presbyterian Mission at
Linares, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, died suddenly on the morning
of January 21 of paralysis of the heart.
He completed his freshman year at Roanoke College,
Salem, Va., in June, 1861. A comrade of his writes that he
enlisted as a private in a company raised at Amsterdam, in
Botetourt County, Va., by the late Capt. Peachy Gilmer
Breckinridge, which was mustered into the service of the
Confederate States as Company K, Twenty-Eighth Virginia
Infantry. He served as sergeant during the war. He was
twice wounded, was taken prisoner on April 6, 1865, at Point
Lookout, and paroled in June, 1865.
In the fall of 1866 he returned to Roanoke College to com-
plete his education, and was graduated from that institu-
tion in June, 1869. He entered the Union Theological Semi-
nary, Hampden Sidney, Va., after that as a ministerial stu-
dent, and graduated in the spring of 1872, and immediately
entered upon ministerial labors as a supply, first in Poca-
hontas County and afterwards in Giles County, Va. In 1873
he was appointed by his Church as a missionary to the city
of Matamoras, Mexico, and entered upon his duties as such in
January, 1874. He continued to labor in tliat city for four-
teen years, when he was transferred to the city of Linares,
in the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and labored in that field
fur seventeen years. His labors as a missionary were crowned
with success.
A. T. Graybill was not a brilliant man, but lie was a brave
and loyal defender of whatever cause he conceived to be
the right. Ever gentle and considerate of the rights and
feelings of others, he was well suited to be the leader of
men and measures. While he died in a foreign land, differ-
ing from many in his religious and moral views, all who knew
him respected and honored him, as was evidenced by the
great crowd of officials and leading citizens of Linares who
followed his remains to the cemetery of that city, where
they were interred on January 22, 1905.
Capt. Henry Hunter Smith.
Capt. Smith enlisted as a private in Company D, Maury's
First Tennessee Infantry, in April, 1861. His regiment was
sent to Virginia the following June, and served through the
Northwestern Virginia campaign in the winter of 1861-62
under Gens. R. E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. In the latter
part of February the regiment was ordered back from Vir-
.ijinia, and became a part of the Army of Tennessee, arriving
CAPT. H. H. SMITH.
in time to participate in the battle of Sliiloh. Sliorlly after
this he was commissioned captain and assigned to duty
on the staff of his brother, Brig. Gen. Preston Smith. He
was with his command through the Kentucky campaign, par-
ticipating in the battles of Perryville and Richmond. At the
battle of Chickamauga he was seriously wounded, and when
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he recovered was assigned to special duty by Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston.
Capt. Smith was twice captured, and was confined in Camp
Chase. He died in 1903, and left a history, in manuscript, of
his services in the Confederate army, which will soon he pub-
lished by his son. But before doing so he is anxious to hear
from any of his father's old comrades, in order that he may
gather up their reminiscences also and include them in the
book. Mr. Smith's address is Telomon Cuyler Smith, 61
East Seventy-Second Street, New York.
Leonid.xs W.\shington Pe.\rce.
One more loyal soldier of the gray has crossed to '.he
changeless fires of the last bivouac. And no nobler soldier
ever served his time in life's long warfare than Leonidas
Washington Pearce. Born July 29, 1839, in West Tennessee,
he served in the army of the South throughout the War
between the States, and when mustered out answ'cred another
trumpet call and consecratcil his life to the service of the
Nazarcne. Rev. Mr. Pearce was first lieutenant in the Ninth
Mississippi Sharpshooters, and was wounded in the battle of
New Hope Church, Ga. He was given military control of
the Mobile and Ohio railroad between Mobile and Merid-
ian, Miss., a distance of three hundred miles, and during the
last year of the war was promoted to adjutant under Gen.
Hooker, but before the ofiicial papers reached him Richmond
had surrendered.
;\lr. Pearce was a typical child of the South, .ind every
thought of his old home and comrades was like a fragrant
breath from the land of mignn utv- and sunshine. Duriim
his thirty years of ministry in tlie M. E. Church, South, be
never forgot the fair country where the first principles of
ideal manhood found sustenance. He passed away January i,
1905, at his home, in Neosho, Mo., from an attack of acute
pneumonia, directly resulting from the old woimd he re-
ceived in battle.
It is for these courtly men of the old school that the sons
and daughters of the Southland mourn to-day. It is for
them that men and women and little children gather every
bright memorial day and lay fresh-cut flowers on humble
tomb and stately obelisk alike. And perhaps — who knows? —
over yonder in tlu' great encampment the soldier's eye may
pierce the veil and sec that he is not forgotten. Though
the skirmish line is growing weaker here, there must be a
noble host beyo!id the ramparts in the fort across the great
divide.
C.\PT. 1''. T. Sf.i.i.krs was horn in Russell County, Ala., in
December. 1S3S; and died at Minden. La., January 27, 1905,
of apoplexy. Capt. Sellers imited with the first company to
leave Unio 1 Parish. La., in 1861. He was elected second
lieutenant, the cmnnany becoming Company I, 12th Regiment.
Louisian.i Volunteers. The regiment served throughout the
war in tbi .\rmy nf Tennessee, and surrendered with Gen.
Joseph ]•'.. Johnston ;it Greensboro, N. C, in 1865. Aher the
fall of Atl.'uita. Capt. Sellers was sent back to Louisiana wii!i
Col. T. C. Standifer. of the same regiment, as recruitin'4
officers. They surrendered at Monroe, La., in 1865. After
the war Capt. Sellers married llie daughter of Rev. C. W.
Hodge, wbn wa^ capt.iin ^f the company at its organization
His widow, with ^i\ Imy- ;incl two daughters, survives him
He was a cousin to the lale Capt. I'".. T. Kindred, of Konoake,
Va., their mothers being sisters. He had several times repre-
sented bis parish in tlu- Slate Legislature, and was delegate
to the last Constitutional Convention. He had been a mem-
ber of the Masonic fraternity for many years, and at the
time of his death was Deputy Grand Master of Louisiana
Masons. Only a few weeks before his death he moved from
his farm in Union Parish to Ruston, in Lincoln Parish, where
his family still resides.
J.\MEs WvATTE McCleii..\x, SOU of Samuel and Mildred-
Foster McClellan. was born in Smith County, Miss.. March
II. 1844. His family moved to Louisiana in 1847. When
the war broke out. Comrade McClellan enlisted in the Con-
federate service April 27, 1862, and served through to the
end in Company F, Twenty-Eighth Louisiana Infantry — Capt.
R. H. Bradford and Col. Henry Gray. He came to Texas in
December, 1S66. and lived near Paris, in Lamar County,
about four years. He was one of the "klansmen," and helped
to control the negroes and to get rid of the carpetbaggers
and scalawags. In 1875 he settled in Limestone County, near
Mt. Calm, where he w-as married to Mrs. Mary Amanda
(CbaffiiO Hutto. He was once engaged in the newspaper
business at Ennis. Tex., but at the time of his death was
engaged in farming. He died on December 6, 1903, from an
accidental pistol wound in the kg inflicted by one of his
boys. He was shot twice in the same leg during the war.
He was buri d in old Antioch graveyard, near Mt. Calm,
Tex.
Joel Giu-enw.mer died of heart failure at his home, in Los
Arij.'es Cal., March 14. 1905. He w^as a native of Mississippi.
In the spring of l8fJ2 he joined Company H, Twelfth Mis-
sissippi Cavalry. H. B. Gerhart writes from Los Angeles:
"Comrade Gillenwater was a brave, true soldier to the close
of the struggle, always ready for duty, cheerful in camp and
on the march. After the war he was an aggressive business
man and a true Christian gentleman. He was fully prepared
for the last call. He was a memlier of .Mbert .Sidney John-
ston Camp, and was fifty-nine years old."
Jon.s M. L.\MBETH. — .\ letter from Cooper, Tex., reports
the death of John M. Lambeth, a member of Ector Camp, of
that city. He was a gallant soldier of the 9th Te.xas In-
fantry, Ector's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. Comrade Lam-
beth was horn in Sumner County, Tenn., in 1837; and died on
the I7tb of January, 1905.
Capt. Wiu.iam Hav.mond Taylor.
Capt. Taylor was born 011 Shaver's Fork of Clieat River,
Va., in 1837. He grew to manhood almost in the shadow
of the Alleghanies, and early in 1862 organized a cavalry
company in the counties of Randolph and Tucker. They were
mustered into the Confederate service as Company A of the
Eighteenth Virginia Cavalry. From the time he entered the
service to the day of his death, on the battlefield in front of
Winchester, Va.. September 19, 18(14, he was in active service.
The highest compliment that could be paid a soldier was that
bejtowed by his colonel, Alexander Monroe, in a recent let-
ter, in which he states: "When a desperate charge was to be
made tli.it required discretion and unflinching courage, Tay-
lor and his company were selected."
On the 19th of .September, 1804, l)ifi)n- Winchester, Va.,
surrounded by ten times our number and in the midst of
terrific fighting, he received his death wound. T saw him reel
in his saddle, and made an effort to catch him. Some of his
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men dismounted, determined to carry him off the field or die
with him ; but it was impossible under the circumstances, and
at his request they left him. He was kindly treated by the
enemy. They removed him to a private house, where he
shortly died, and was buried in the cemetery at Winchester.
Capt. W. H. F.\rinhqi.t.
Capt. William H. Farinholt died at his residence, in Balti-
more, Md., March 17. He was born in York County, Va..
March 5, 1845, and was sixty years old. He was a Confed-
erate so!dier, volunteering when only seventeen years of age,
serving in infantry for twelve months, and afterwards in the
Twenty-Fourth Regiment, Virginia Cavalry. For some time
previous to the fall of Richmond he was a scout, and at the
evacuation of Richmond acted as aid to Gen. Ewell, and was
with him in this capacity when the latter was captured at the
battle of Sailor's Creek, on April 6, 1865, himself escaping by
a dash through the enemy's lines. He surrendered with the
army at Appomatto.x Courthouse.
Capt. Farinholt was a member of the Isaac R. Trimble
Camp, 1025, U. C. v., and received a cross of honor by the
U. D. C. on January 19 last. Soon after the close of the
war he was associated with his brother in the mercantile
business in Essex County, Va., where he married Miss E.
Booth Hundley, a daughter of the late Rev. Dr. J. H. Hund-
ley. He is survived by his widow and one son, Dr. L. W.
Farinh.olt, of Baltimore, Md.
M.\j. Thomas J. Goree.
The death of Thomas J. Goree, an old pioneer and an
eminent citizen of Texas, occurred recently at the family
home, in Galveston. The remains were interred at Hunts-
villc, his former home. He was stricken with pneumonia a
little more than a week before his death.
Thomas J. Goree was born in Perry County^ Ala., on No-
vember 14, 1835. Since 1850 he had resided in Texas, and
was closely identified with its history during the intervening
years. During the war he was a member of Longstreet's
staff, serving with him from Manassas to Appomattox. Dur-
ing the entire four years he was absent from only two bat-
lies, and that on account of sickness.
Maj. Goree is survived by his wife, two children, and seven
grandchildren. He leaves also three brothers (R. D. Goree,
of Seymour, Baylor County; E. K. Goree, of Huntsville; and
P. K. Goree, of Midway), one sister (Mrs. Hugh T. Hayes,
iif Midway), and a half sister (Mrs. M. F. Kitrell, mother of
judge Norman G. Kitrell, of Houston, to whom he was re-
lated l)oth as half uncle and first cousin). Maj Goree was a
iiu-niber of the Baptist Church, and was a man of broad sym-
pathies and kindly charity.
Alfred G. Moore.
Alfred G. Moore, Adjutant of R. A. Smith Camp, U. C.
v., Jackson, Miss., died at his home there on May 16, 1904.
He was born at Moore Springs, Miss., January 12, 1842. • In
the late summer of 1861 he joined Company A, loth Mis-
sissippi Infantry, then at Pensacola. In 1862 the regiment
was reorganized, and his company became Company D and
the color company. Comrade Moore served under Col. R.
A. Smith and his successors, and under the brigade command
of Gens. Chalmers, Patton, Anderson, Tucker, and Sharp
to the end of the war, surrendering at Greensboro, N. C,
witli the army of Gen. J. E. Johnston. He was a participant
in many battles — Shiloh, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge,
New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, and others — the
most severe being Shiloh, where he was wounded, as also at
Chickamauga. Alfred Moore is remembered as being one of
ALFRED G. MOORE.
the moil faithful soldiers of this famous regiment, and was
p.jpular with its remaining band of heroes, always noted for
his gallar.try and chivalry, and there was nothing of which
he was prouder than of having served his native land four
years as a soldier.
Capt. Henry W. Kearney.
Capt. Henry W. Kearney, a gallant Confederate soldier,
died in December, 1904, at his home, near Alexandria, Va.,
aged about sixty years. He was born on Rocky Marsh, near
Shepherdstown ; aiul when the war broke out, he enlisted
in the Confederate army and became captain of Company D,
I2th Virginia Cavalry. He was a brave and capable officer
and greatly beloved by his men. Retaining to the last his
affection for his comrades, he was a regular attendant at all
the reunions held by his company in the county. He had
lived for a number of years in Fairfax County, near Alex-
andria, Va. He is survived by his wife, four sons, and five
daughters.
Camp Joe Brown, of Covington, Tenn., has lost another
valued member. Jake F. Smith died on the 17th of January
after several months of suffering. He served throughout the
war in the Sist Regiment, doing his duty nobly and well.
Qoi)federate l/eterai>.
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Henry C. Whiteside.
Henry Clay Whiteside, a Confederate soldier, died at his
home, in Shelbyville, Tenn., February 23, 1905, and lies buried
near the graves of many otlier brave men who preceded him —
in the Confederate p'ot of Willow Mount Cemetery, in the
shadow of the Confederate monument.
The writer of this life sketch was his childhood's play-
mate and schoolmate. On holidays we were always together,
hunting or fishing. Wc enlisted the same day to serve the
cause of tlie Confederacy. We passed through the same
camp of instruction, eating and sleeping together, and were
together in our first battle, that of Fort Donelson, and in
our capture and prison life. Offers and entreaties of visitors
to our prison that we take the oath of allegiance and go back
to our homes — that wc would be protected from harm — ■
came to both, and were alike resented. Together we refused
any terms but honorable exchange to free us from prison.
We had many talks alone about the men who went to us
from home asking us to desert the cause, making statements
that were proven untrue.
Fxcliar.ged at Vickslmrg in the fall of j8i>2, we were again
soldiers of Company F, Forty-First Tennessee Infantry, being
again sworn in, this time for three years.
In the North Mississippi campaign, with Gen. John Gregg"-;
Brigade our command was sent to assist Van Dorn and
Price around luka and Corinth, but were too late. Van
Dorn had confronted Gen. Grant from Holly Springs to
Grenada. Wc were in the battle of Chickasaw Bayou, the
last day of Decemlnr, 1862. Together with our command we
went to Port Hudson, La., remaining until May, 1S63. We
were next in the battle of Raymond, Miss. ; then in July we
were for several days in the battles of Jackson, Miss., to the
end of the siege.
In September, i8'i3, we were on the inove to Tennessee.
What a joyous trip in those autumn days — homeward bound!
HENRY C. WHITESIDE.
Some of us were racked with fever and sallow from the
unhealthy section that we had been campaigning in ; but we
were particularly happy, singing, laughing, which put life
and spirit even in those who were ill.
On Sunday afternoon, September 20, 1863. after we had
passed the Dyer field at Chickamauga, this faithful comrade
received a wound that seemed to be fatal. A bullet passed
through the lower part of the left lung on through the body
into the rear of his right side. It was reported that night
that he was dead. I saw him the next day at brigade hos-
pital. His breathing was almost gone. The surgeons were
too busy to spend any time on one practically gone. I left
him wiping the damp sweat from his face, and said what
I supposed was a last good-by, that he did not notice. A
wiek afterwards news came that he was barely alive in a
Marietta hospital. His sister. Miss Maggie, was known to
be in the beleaguered town of Chattanooga. A flag of truce
was sent from our lines for those of Gen. Rosecrans's to ex-
change some wounded officers. A hasty note was written
to Miss Whiteside, the contents of which told of Henry's
wound and his location. The sister's heart responded, and
she was with (he flag of truce on its return. Then came the
real battle of life with death, and a sister's devotion brought
him back to life. What a wreck to many this would have
been ! but to Henry Whiteside it was only a shock, like the
pruning of a branch. His spirit was so buoyant and his
hold on life so strong that for forty-three years he lived after
what was considered his death wound.
Of these forty-three years, all but two were spent in the
service of the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway.
For thirty-eight years he was agent of this road at Shelby-
ville. Tenn. This story teaches more thati a sermon. It
means duty and loyalty of the highest order, and no one
knows what this service cost him better than his wife, who
was Miss Agnes Lipscomb, a devoted wife and mother to
their half dozen children and a leader in all Confederate
work of her section.
The old wound in later years renewed its gnawing, eating
pain ; but his loyalty and devotion to his agency he felt
needed his watchful attention more than his care of his own
health. Many, many times his wife, children, and friends
warned him of the danger, but duty was maintained as his
first law. It was instilled so deeply into his nature as boy,
soldier, and servant of the public in an important capacity
that he could not be reconciled to retirement.
The attendance at his funeral was large, and there were
more army comrades together than had been seen in Shelby-
ville for many years. The casket was draped with the old
flag of his regiment, the Forty-First Tennessee.
[The foregoing tribute was sent by Spencer Rakin by re-
quest of the Veter.\n. Having served in the same regiment
with them, the editor vividly recalls their extraordinary worth
as faithful, heroic Confederate soldiers.]
A committee from the Frierson Bivouac at Shelbyville.
composed of Rev. J. B. Erwin, G. W. Ransom, W. G. Hight,
R. L. Brown, and A. Frankle, made the following report on
the service of Henry Whiteside :
"H. C. Whiteside was born in Shelbyville, Tenn., Decem-
ber 3, 1842; died February 23, 1905; was happily married to
Miss Agnes Lipscomb; and leaves her and six children — -four
daughters and two sons — to mourn their great loss.
"He was a devout member of the Presbyterian Church,
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was a valiant Confederate soldier — second sergeant in Com-
pany F, Forty-First Tennessee Volunteer Infantry — was
dangerously wounded in the battle of Chickamauga, and for
several weeks, lingered between life and death. ' After his
recovery, being unable for field service, he was assigned to
the commissary department, under Maj. J. F. Cummings.
commissary general.
"For more than thirty years previous to his death he was
an employee of the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis
Railway, being agent at Shelbyville. He was scrupulously
honest, loyal to duty, and faithful to every trust.
"No man felt keener interest in the welfare of comrades
during and since the war. He was so anxious and concerned
that he attended every Confederate reunion or assemblage or
convention that he could, though often physically in such
condition that it was indiscreet for him to do so. He went
to the last annual reunion at Nashville, but was too infirm
to remain. The Bivouac attended the funeral in a body,
together with a multitude of friends."
Edwin Lindslev Halsey.
Edwin Halsey was born in Charleston, S. C, May 29, 1S40;
and died October 13, 1903. Early in December, i860, when it
became evident that South Carolina intended to secede, Capt.
Halsey joined the Washington Artillery, of Charleston, as a
private. Six months later he became actively engaged in tho
organization of the Washington Artillery (Volunteer) for
service in the Army of Northern Virginia, Gen. Stephen D.
Lee captain. Capt. Halsey served first as first sergeant ; a few
months later he was promoted to senior first lieutenant, and
in March, 1865, captain. This battery was known first as
Lee"s Battery, then Hampton's Horse Artillery, later as Hart's
Battery, part of Stewart's Horse Artillery, and surrendered
at High Point, N. C, under the name of Halsey's Battery.
From all of the various general officers under whom it served
it received the highest praise for gallantry and discipline.
Capt. Halsey participated in more than half a hundred en-
gagements, many of them among the most important of the
war. Capt. Halsey was married in 1870 to Miss Marin
Olney. Mrs. Halsey and eleven sons and daughters survive
him.
CoL. C. A. N.\SH.
"Another hero has fallen I" is the introductory language
to a tribute by Col. W. H. Stewart, of Portsmouth, Va. "The
ways of God are always wise, and his decrees give blessed
hope when a life has been spent for a good end. Col. Camil-
lus .'Mbert Nash died on the 19th of February, 1905, in Chris-
tian hope, and left as a legacy for his comrades and friends
the example of a useful and upright life. He was born in
Norfolk County, Va., on the 22d of October, 1842. He was a
mere youth when the great war between the sections of this
country began, and, catching the inspiration of the times, shoul-
dered his musket to meet the invaders of Virginia. He was
already a volunteer in the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues; but,
preferring service in an infantry organization, resigned to join
the 'Jacks.m Grays.' Company A. 6ist Virginia Infantry Regi-
ment, of Mahone's Brigade, A. N. V., of which he was elected
orderly serge;int and afterwards promoted to second lieu-
tenant, and hi- served through the war as a faithful soldier
of the cause he loved more than life. He participated in most
of the bloodiest battles of the Army of Northern Virginia,
and bore himself in the fiery ordeals with firmness and cour-
age. In the desperate charge of the 'Crater' he was wounded
in attempting to capture a flag. He was always near to the
men in the ranks, and was greatly beloved by them, which
is the strongest evidence of his high character.
"He was a handsome and knightly soldier, having a taste
for military life. After the War between the States, he took
an active intcre'l in \"irginia's volunteers. He was elected
COL. c. A. N.\SH.
captain of the Norfolk City Guard, and rose to the rank of
colonel of the Fourth Regiment (now the 71st Regiment) of
Virginia Militia.
"Col. Nash was a successful business man, and at the time
of his death was at the head of a number of enterprises which
have greatly advanced the commercial interests of Norfolk.
Va., and his loss is deeply deplored by the people of tidewater
Virginia.
"A brave Confederate soldier, a true patriot, an eminent
citizen, a faithful Christian has gone to his God."
J.^MES Newton Dougherty was born in Mecklenburg
County. N. C, in January, 183S; an<I died in the Soldiers'
Home at Austin, Tex., October 11, 1904. Cotnrade Dougherty
was living in Alabama when the war began, and early in
1861 joined Company D, Eighth Alabama Infantry, Wilcox's
Brigade, of Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
.-\t the battle of Seven Pines he was desperately wounded,
losing a le.g, which incapacitated him fur further active serv-
ice. He moved to Texas after the war, and was a member
i.f Ben McCullorh Camp. V. C. V., at Mt. Vernon at the
time of his death. He was a good citizen, a zealous Church
member, and a valued member of the Veteran Camp.
Qoi^federat^ l/eterap.
Col. J. W. Colquitt.
Ill the death of Col. John \V. Colquitt, of Little Rock,
Ark., there passed from ihe scene of action one who had
been closely identified with public affairs of the city and
State, a gallant gentleman whom to know was to admire.
He was born in Columbus, Ga., in 1840, attended the Mili-
tary Institute at Marietta, graduating in 1859, and moved to
Arkansas in i860, locating near Monticello. In April, 1861,
he enli^ted in Capt. Jackson's company, of the ist Arkansas
Infantry, was chosen second lieutenant, and served the twelve
mor.ths in the Army of Northern Virginia. After this the
regiment was disbanded, and upon reorganization John \V.
Colquitt was elected major of the regiment. This was just
prior to the battle of Sliiloh, in which Maj. Colquitt received
a severe wound, and while on the way to his Georgia home
on furlough he was captured by tlie Federals and held for
two weeks. He made his escape, and got home safely.
After reporting for duty again, he was promoted to colonel
of the regiment upon the resignation of Col. James A. Fagan.
Col. Colquilt lost his right leg in the battle of .Atlanta; but
after twi> months he reporli'd to headquarters, and was as-
signed ti) post duty in the subdepartment of North Missis-
sippi. He made his headquarters at West Point till the war
closed, then returned to Monticello, Ark. In 1866 he was
elected cciuiily and probate judge; but after about eighteen
months" service he was swept out of office, during the days
of reconstruction, and became a teacher. In 1890 he was
elected tax assessor of Pulaski County, and in 1899 State and
Land Commissioner, being reelected in 1901. After his re-
tirement from public office, he had engaged in the real estate
business.
Col. Colquitt was twice married, the second time to Miss
Mdllic Hu;lner, of Drew County, who survives him with
two daughters, llis last wisli was to be buried in his suit
of Confederate gray; and shrouded in that beloved color his
form now rests in the City Cemetery, awaiting resurrection
witli the comrades who had so long preceded him.
R. 11. HAKll.\\^.\^ was born in Putnam County, Ga., in
December, 1837. The family luoved to Meriwether Cotmty,
where this son was reared. He enlisted in Company B, 1st
Georgia Cavalry, in 1862, and served as a faithful soldier until
the surrcn !er. Ri turning bom?, he assisted in building iiii
the waste places of his country. He became a merchant in
Newnan. Ga.. where he amassed quite a fortune. He was
married in iSby to Miss Isadore Burcb. who survives him
with four daughters, and witli many friends mourns his
death. Comrade Hardaway served faithfully as State Senator.
He was President of the Coweta National Hank, and was
ali-o an official in the Newnan Cotton Mills.
Jo.SEi'ii A. ToMLiNSON was born in Tennessee May 8, 1832;
and died near Gunsight. Tex,. October 29. 1904. He went to
Texas early, and was happily married to Miss Dorcas Miller,
in Hopkins County, in November, 1858. Entering the army
at the beginning of the war as a member of Company A,
♦ l8th Texas Infantry, Comrade Tomlinson bravely struggled
for the cause until the surrender. He was a most patriotic
and devoted son of the .South and defender of her principles.
[M. A. Cooper, who reported the foregoing, writes also of
the following comrade.]
Thom.\s H. Fowi.KK, ,1 ineniber of Company F, 57th Vir-
ginia Infantry, calmly fell on sleep at his home, near Breck-
enridge, Tex., January 19, 1904, surrounded by his family and
sorrowing friends. He was a faithful Veteran, a kind and
indulgent husband, and a quiet, unassuming citizen, ever ready
to aid the distressed. His death leaves a vacancy in the com-
munity which cannot be filled. Comrade Fowler was married
in 1S77 to Miss J. T. Culpepper.
Dk. \\"illi.\m AiLLS was born in Louisville. Ry.. January
8, 1826; and died at his home, near Steen"s Creek, Miss.,
January 14, 1905. Dr. Aills graduated at Dcnnison University
I Ohio), took a course of lectures in New Orleans, and at the
age of twenty years he moved to Steen's Creek, began practice,
and lived there the remainder of his life. He ofTered his
services to the Confederacy early in i8()i, was appointetl
regimental surgeon of the 6th Mississippi Infantry, was pro-
moted to bri.gade surgeon, and at the close of the war was
division surgeon. Returning home after the surrender, he
married in 1866 Miss Sarah Parish, of Copiah County, who.
with seven children, survives him.
CoMRADi: A. G. Field died at his home, in Victoria. Tex..
November 7. IQ04. He w.ts a son of Capt. John Field, of
Kentucky, a Mexican War veteran, who commanded a com-
pany and won dis
tinction with t h e
Kentucky Regiment
on the field of Buena
Vista. In 1852 Capt.
Field moved to Vic-
toria, Tex. When
the War between the
States began, his son.
Comrade A. G. Field,
enlisted in Company
C. 4th Texas Regi-
ment, and went with
Gen. Sibley in his
unfortunate expedi-
tion to New Mexico.
He was wounded and
captured at Valverde.
.After his release he
rejoined his com-
mand, and served
with it in Arkansas
and Louisiana until
till' close of the war,
.\s a soldier he only
asked where his duty
lay, and he woubl
perform it without
counting the cost.
He was of a bright,
sunny, joyous tem-
c.M'T. A. c. FIELD. perament, and as gal-
lant a soldier as
served the Confederacy. For these reasons he was a lovable
companion in camp and around the bivouac fire, as be was
safe and reliable on the fighting lines. In 1880 he married
Miss Mary Ellen Powers. The surviving children of this
marriage are now living in tlie midst of the friends amongst
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Qopfederat^ l/eterar)
whom their father spent his life, honored and respected by
all who knew- him. Comrade Field was intrusted by his
fellow-citizens with several responsible positions, which he
faithfully filled, with his old army motto as his guide: "Learn
your duty, and discharge it faithfully." He was a member of
the W. R. Scurry Camp, U. C. V., of Victoria, Tex.
W. G. W. KiNC.MD.
William George Washington Kincaid died at his home,
near Buffalo Gap, Tex., in August of 1904. Reference to his
death was made in
a former issue of the
Veteran. He was a
native of Alabama,
but his parents
moved to Arkansas
when he was three
years old ; and at his
majority, in i860, he
went to Texas. From
that State he en-
listed in the Confed-
erate army as a mem-
ber of Company K.
loth Texas Infantry,
Granbury's Brigade,
Cleburne's Division,
Army of Tennessee.
Later on he was
elected first lieutenant
of the company. He
went through the war
without receiving i
wound, though at
Chickamauga he was knocked down by the explosion of a
shell, which injured his hearing permanently. He was mar-
ried in 1867 to Miss Annie E. Clark, who survives him with
their ten children.
A loyal son of the .South, with tlic traits of character
which would endear him to all, Comrade Kincaid's passing
left a void in the hearts of many friends.
Maj. J. J. HiiRNER, Major General LT. C. V.
At his residence, in Helena, Ark., on February 8, 1905, this
gallant old soldier answered the final summons. Maj. Horner
was a son of Judge John Sidney Horner, and his mother was
Elizabeth Johnson, a daughter of Gov. Johnson, of Virginia,
His parents moved to Helena, Ark., when Maj. Horner was an
infant. He was educated at Columbia, Tenn., choosing law
as his profession, and was admitted to the Helena bar just
before the War between the States. He organized a company
and entered the Confederate service early in 1862, was as-
signed to the artillery, and served at De Vall's Bluff until
the Federals left White River. He was promoted to major,
and served with Gen. Parsons at the L. Anguillde River
fight. He subsequently had charge of the conscript bureau,
and did effective work in bringing out and organizing the
Arkansas forces at that time. In 1863, when Gen. Holmes
advanced upon Helena, at the request of Gen. Price Mai.
Horner was assigned to his staff as inspector general, where
he served until after the fall of Little Rock. He was then
ordered by Gen. Holmes to report to Kirby Smith for duty
w. c. w. kincatd.
in the conscript department of Texas. This character of
service was distasteful to Maj. Horner, even in his own State:
and when assigned to it in another, he protested. Failing to
get tl order revoked, he resigned; but a few months later he
was commissioned by President Davis and assigned to duty
as inspector general on the staff of Gen. Tappan. In the
spring of 1865 he was promoted and assigned to Gen. Church-
hill's staff.
After the war Maj. Horner resumed his law practice in
Helena, forming a partnership with Gen. Tappan; and the
firm of Tapp.Tu &" Horner was recognized as one of the
strongest in the State. With years came financial succes.-?,
and he soon became interested in large business enterprises.
He was first the attorney and afterwards Vice President and
General Manager of the Midland Railroad, President of the
Helena Gas Company, and President of the Bank of Helena.
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lie was an earnest Confederate, was prominently identilicd
in a substantial way in erecting the Confederate monument
in Helena, and was ever ready to contribute his time and
money to his comrades. He was promoted by his comrades
to Major General, commanding the Arkansas Division of
U. C. V.'s.
A recent death recorded is that of Mr. A. Sidney Watson,
of Covesville, Va., aged sixty-nine years. During the war
Comrade Watson served in Company B, 2d Virginia Cav-
alry, Munford's Brigade, Fitzhugh Lee's Division. A wife
and nine children survive him.
William Terrell died at Brownwood, Tex., in March, 1905.
He was a member of Stonewall Jackson Camp of Brownwood,
having served in the 26th Georgia Regiment.
Confederate l/eterar).
Ill
Caleb Muse.
"HiCHi.ANu Falls <in Hudson, Marcli 6, 1905.
"5. .1. Cunninglmm, Nasln'iHc: Some one has sent me the
Confederate Veteran for February, 1905. containing extracts
from my little pam-
phlet of how supplies
were obtained in Eu-
rope for the Confed-
erate army during
the war. I thank
you for the comph-
mcnt paid me in
printing these ex
tracts, and I do not
see how I can other-
wise show my ap
preciation than liy
forwarding my sub
scription to tlie \'i;i-
eran ; therefore 1 in-
close one d o I 1 .1 1
Very truly your"!,
Caleu Huse."
Nothing but :i ]ilaiii
business letter, yet u
tells a pathetic story
of how rapidly the
iiUI guard in gray is
passing away, as the
lollowing letter from the writer's son explains:
"I find the inclosed letter in the pocket of my father's over-
coat. It was evidently his intention to fm-ward it to you,
.nid I am carrying out his wishes. My father died at 11:05
P.M. on March 11. Harry I'. HusE."
L'aleb Hiise was born in Newburyport. Mass., 1 .bruary 11,
1S31. He was a descendant of Abel Ifuse, who settled in
Newberry in 1635, 'i'"' <^^ T.ieut. .Samuel ITuse, who fought in
Ilk- w.ir of the l\e\(ilntion. In 184" young Huse, then a lad
of sixteen, w.is appoinled to the United States Military
Acadeniy. ,ind graduated in 1851 seventh in a class of forly-
Iwo members. IK- was commissioned a brevet second lieu-
lenant in the isi .\rtillery and stationed at Key West, where
he married Miss Harriet Pinckney. The following year he
was ordered back to West Point as assistant professor of
chemistry, and remained on duty there until 1859. During
I)art of this time he was in charge of liis department, and
as a member of tlie Academic Board he signed the diplomas
of a large number of graduates of that institution. Here he
served under Col. Robert E. Lee, and became one of the
most ardent admirers of that great man and soldier.
In 1859 he went to Europe on leave and made a special
study of ordnance. On his return to the United States he was
appointed on an army board to test the merits of rifled cannon.
In i860 Lieut. Hnse was granted leave of absence to ac-
cept the position of commandant of cadets and professor of
chemistry at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. His
success here was innnediate ; and when the State Legislature
was hesitating over the appropriation necessary to carry on
the military organization of tlie university, serious doubts
having been expressed of the discipline and efficiency of the
corps of cadets, the entire battalion was taken to Montgomery
and jiaradcd before the (Sovernor. Huring the trip not ,i
single breach of discipline occurred, and the members of the
Legislature were so delighted with the bearing, conduct, and
drill of their young soldiers that the appropriation was passed
without a dissenting vote. Huse resigned from the army
February 25, 1861.
On the breaking out of the war Caleb Huse was con-
fronted with a grave and to him a very momentous question.
Had he consulted his interests, he would have left the State
of his adoption and received high command from his native
State of Massachusetts, where he was looked upon as one of
the most promising young officers of the army. But Huse
was moved by only the highest principles in everything he
did, and sellish interests weighed as little with him on this
occasion as they did in the ordinary affairs of life. He
thought the South was right in its contention, and he placed
his sword at the disposal of Mr. Davis.
Mr. Davis, having just been Secretary of War, knew Huse
well by reputation, and saw what excellent service he could
render through his familiarity with European artillery. He
was accordingly sent abroad to buy guns. The account of
his trip through the Northern States and his recognition by
Caleb Cushing, who, though he had a strong suspicion of his
mission, diil not betray him, makes a very interesting story.
So efficiently and tactfully did he perform his duties abroad
that before long he was intrusted with buying not only ar-
tillery but all kinds of munitions of war. In this way he was
closely associated with Capt. Bullock, of the Confederate
navy, the uncle of President Roosevelt. He handled great
sums of money, and was accountable to no one except the
anlliorities in Richmond. He made this very clear to Mr.
Mason in a brief and pithy interview.
The end of the war left Huse in Europe with a large family
and in poverty. At one time he came near going to Egypt,
where a number of Confederate officers had found employment
under the Khedive; he also thought of settling in the Argen-
tine Republic; but he gave up these schemes, and when am-
nesty was declared returned to the United States to try to
make a living. He had no profession, and his training did
not fit him for business. iMnally, in 1876, he started a school
in Sing Sing, New York, to prepare candidates for the Mili-
tary Academy. He succeeded fairly well, and in 1879 moved
his school to Highland F'alls, near West Point, where he set-
tled down for the remainder of his life. He died on the nth
iif March, 1905.
Maj. Huse was a man of charming personality, who en-
deared himself to all who knew him. Up to the time of his
last illness he retained his boyish enthusiasm and cheerful
hopefulness. During the funeral all the shops in Highland
Falls were closed and the people followed him to the grave.
Among the pallbearers were Gen. Mills, Superintendent of
the Military Academy, and Col. Larned, the Dean of the
Academic Board.
His widow and eight children survive him — three boys and
five girls.
John B. Hamilton died at his home, in Abingdon, Va., Jan-
uary 6, 1905, aged sixty years. He ran away from home at
the age of fifteen and joined the Confederate army, serving
four years. He was a member of Capt. James Campbell's
company, Forty-Eighth Virginia Regiment, commanded by
Col. John .\. Campbell, and afterwards transferred to Mc-
Causland's cavalry. At the time of his death he was the
senior member of the firm of Hamilton & Car.son.
IV
QoF>federat^ l/eterap,
Bishop Thomas U. Di-ni.F.Y.
Of the missing faces at the Louisville reunion in June.
1905, the absence of no departed one will cause more sincere
regret than that of Maj. Thomas Underwood Dudley, Pro-
visional Army C. S. A., who was born at Richmond, Va.,
niMiiii' iJi;ii.i;v.
September 26, 1837. He graduated at the University of Vir-
ginia in 1858, was a member of the faculty in 1859, and Su-
perintendent of the Military Department in 1861, in which
year he entered the army and for signal ability was promoted
till he held the rank of major at the surrender, in 1865.
In 1865 he entered the Theological Seminary at Alexan-
dria, Va., and graduated in 1867. He became rector at Har-
risonburg, Va., in 1868, and was rector of Christ Church.
Baltimore, from 1870 to 1875. On January 27, 1875, he was
made Assistant Bishop of Kentucky, and at the death of
Bishop B. B. Smith, in 1885, became Bishop. He led the
Church to its largest work in the city, the State, the nation,
and, in fact, the world.
Bishop Dudley was President of the Episcopal Triennial
Convention of the United States. He was a large figure in
all the international Church meetings, and delivered a famous
discourse before Queen Victoria. In all his great work he
was never too busy to take an active interest in Confederate
affairs, taking a large part in the organization and mainte-
nance of the Confederate Association of Kentucky.
His striking lecture on Lee has never been surpassed. He
passed upward to his reward January 22, 1904.
Hon. J.\mes C. Neilson.
James C. Neilson was born hear Columbus, Miss., about
sixty-seven years ago, and all his life had been a citizen of
Lowndes County. At the beginning of the War between the
States he enlisted as a member of the 14th Mississippi In-
fantry, and served throughout that memf^rable conflict. He
made a gallant soldier, and participated in several of the
fiercest battles. He was twice captured — first, at Fort Donei-
son and carried to Camp Douglas, from which place, how-
ever, he made his escape ; he was captured again in the bat-
tle of Nashville, in 1864. and again taken to Camp Douglas,
where he reinained until the close of the war. He returned
to his home, in Lowndes County, and led an honored and
useful life, having represented his constituents in both the
Legislature and State Senate.
Comrade Neilson is survived by a widow and six children —
Mrs. Charles Hale, Messrs. Crawford and John Bruce Neil-
son, Misses Lou, Sarah, and .\nnie Neilson.
Martin N. Brown.
Mart N. Brown was born in Davidson County, Tenn.,
January 5, 1843 ; and died at his home, near Nashville, March
22, 1905. In May, 1861, he joined Company .\, Rock City
Guards, ist Tennessee Infantry. His regiment was sent to
Virginia and served under Stonewall Jackson in the winter
of 1861-62, but was transferred to the Army of Tennessee in
time to participate in the battle of Shiloh. From that time
forward it was a part of Cheatham's Division, participating
in the campaigns and battles under Bragg, J. E. Johnston,
and Hood, finally surrendering under Johnston at Greens-
boro, N. C. Mart Brown was one of the very few survivors
of his old company who answered roll call on that eventful
morning, April 26, 1865.
Comrade Brown was a magnificent specimen of physical
manhood, and handsome. He was popular with his company
and well known in the regiment for his soldierly qualities and
unflinching courage.
Returning home after the war, he engaged in farming, ac-
cumulated quite a competency, and married Miss Martha New-
MARl HIioWN.
soni, who, with two daughters and two sons, survives him.
Comrade Brown was an enthusiastic Veteran, participating
activeh in all matters pertaining to the U. C. V. He was a
member of Company B, U. C. V., at the time of his death.
Qopfederat^ l/eterai).
ESCORT Of HONOR TO COMMANDER S. D. LEE.
The Columbus (Miss.) Rifles will introduce a new feature
for tile Louisville reunion in going as escort of honor with
Gen. Stephen D. Lee to the Louisville reunion. In reply to
the surprising and delightful proposition, Gen. Lee wrote:
■•] need not tell you how gratified 1 feel at such an unusual
aud such an unexpected compliment. Coming from an or-
ganization one of the oldest in the State, and having a record
in three great w'ars, of course I accept the offer if. after con-
ferring with the committee a])pointed by your company and
discussing details, the matter can be perfected to our nuiturd
comfort and convenience."
The "details" of the trip have been satisfactorily adjusted.
Thirty-five members will buy their own railroad tickets, and
by home entertainments all other expenses will be met.
THE I'RISOX LIFE OF JEFFERSON DA]' IS.
G. W. Dillingham Company, publishers in New York, have
just reissued "Prison Life of Jefferson Davis," which is most
accurate and authentic. There has been an urgent demand foi
another edition of this book for a long time. It will be re-
membered that the author. Dr. John J. Craven, surgeon of
United States Volunteers aud brevet colonel at that time
in the United States army, was assigned as Mr. Davis'-,
physician while be was confined in Fortress Monroe
The book was written from a diary kept by Dr. Cravens
nt the time, in which he made record of Iiis daily visits to Iiis
distinguished patient. His mental as well as his physical
condition was carefully considered, and the conversations and
various subjects discussed by tliem, etc., make the work, aside
from its true historical value, instructive and deeply inter-
esting throughout. ' This book is a powerful illustration of
the intelligent and the well-balanced, philosophical trend of
the master mind of Jefferson Davis.
Dr. Craven had never seen Mr. Davis, and of course en-
tertained more or less prejudice when called professionally
to sec him. In a few months of daily intercourse he had sfi
learnexl to respect and admire this intellectutil. courageous,
but helpless prisoner, and had become so charmed by him.
that he was not permitted to visit him alone even in a pro-
fessional way. The words used and the per.son to whom the
volume is dedicated are expressive of the sentiment in which
it is written, as follows: "To the Hon. Hu.gh McCulloeh, Sec-
retary of the Treasury, who first of all our Northern public
men has had the wisdom, ma.gnanimity, and courage to ex-
press sympathy for the misfortnncs of the subject of our
memoir by a visit to Mr. Davis in his cell at Fortress Mon-
roe, this volume is inscribed.''
It is gratifying to be able to supply this 320-page book.
"Prison Life of Jefferson Davis," by John J. Craven, M.D.
Price, $1.50; with a year's subscription to the Veter.\n for
$2.25. or with two subscriptions, $3. A more fascinating
story of the marvelous characteristics of the Confederal''
President may never be expected.
"The Strife of Brothers." — Under the above title, from
the Franklin Printing Company, of .\tlanta, Ga., comes an
epic of the War between the States, by Prof. Joseph T. Derry,
that deserves distinction among the chronicles of that event-
ful period in the world's history — the Confederate war.
Others have written in prose of the courage, the patriotism
and suffering of the Southern people, the heroism of their
soldiers and the devotion of their women, but none have
pictured it more vividly or in sweeter song than Professor
Derry in his deli.ghtful verse. "The Strife of Brothers." To
tell such a story of the war in smoothly flowing rhyme, with
such historic accuracy, required the true genius of a poet
combined with the accurate information of a historian. The
little volume of a hundred and sixty pages is divided into
seven parts, showing each stage of the struggle, from "The
Gathering of the Hosts'' in part first to the "Battle Stormer.s
.\re Hushed, the Bamiers Furled" in the last, and
"Henceforth may peace and love our States unite,
And may no note of discord mar the might
Of our republic, giant of the West,
Of all the lands the noblest and the best!"
Walter L. I-'lcming, professor of history in West X'irgiuia
LTniversity, Morgantown,, W. Va., desires, for the purpose of
illustrating a work on the Civil War and reconstruction in
.Mabama, the loan of pictures of the following persons and
objects: Jefferson Davis, Govs. Moore, Shorter, Watts, Pat-
ton, Parsons, Smith, and Lindsay, of Alabama : Gens. N.
B. Forrest, P. D. Roddy, L. P. Walker, John B Gordon, and
any Alabama generals ; Selma navy yard, any Confederate
manufacturing establishments, war vessels and blockade run-
ners at Mobile, Davis house at Montgomery, and any other
such pictures; Admiral Senmies, Capt. Randolph. John Pel-
ham, Ryland Randolph, W. L. Bragg, W. R. Smith. — .
Jamison (Confederate Senator from .Mabama) : and any
other pictures relating to the period of Civil War and recon-
struction.
FORT NEGLEV, NASHVILLE, THNN., AS IT APPEARED IN 1S65.
Negro Commander for G. A. R. — A negro, in all probabili-
ty, wi'l lead the G. .■\. R. column at the meeting in Denver this
year. At the annual convention of the Massachusetts G. A.
R . held in Boston on the 17th of February, a negro, James
H Wolff, was elected Department Commander. Wolff is
the first negro who has ever held a G. A. R. position of this
kind. A Boston message states : "He was elected Junior Vice
Commander in 190,? and Senior Vice in 1904. The election
means that he will lead the parade at the national encamp-
ment in Denver next August as Commander in Chief. Wolff
is a lawyer in Boston, a native of New Hampshire, and
served in the navy during the War between the States."
Some of the old vets who stood before our muskets, and
without batting an eyelash filled up the gaps we made, will
doubtless flinch in the coming peaceful parade at Denver.
VI
Qopfederate l/eterap.
A COMRADE TO AUTHOR OF "THE OLD SOUTH."
[The following is from a personal letter from Col. John
W. A. Sanford, of Montgomery, Ala., to Dr. H. M. Hamill,
author of "The Old South."]
I have just read the very able monograph entitled "The
Old South," composed by yon. I thank you for this just and
extraordinary tribute to the Southern States. I am a native
of Milledgeville and a son of Gen. John W. A. Sanford, of
that city. Your familiarity with the careers of many of the
distinguished men of Georgia who were the companions and
intimate friends of my father induced me to believe that
you too are a Georgian. Be this as it may, no intelligent
Confederate veteran can read your performance without feel-
ing a sense of gratitude to you for the most just and im-
partial tribute to the people of the Southern States that I
have seen. Your description of the hundred young cadets
in their gorgeous uniforms drilling on the campus, and
of the same men in a gallant charge on the field of battle,
is surpassingly eloquent.
1 have been a citizen of /Xlabaina since the early part of
1852, and a resident of this city during the time, with the
exception of the four years I was in the Confederate army.
I volunteered as a private in the 3d Alabama Infantry in
April, 1861, and was soon promoted to a place on the regi-
mental staff; then became, in 1S62, lieutenant colonel of the
3d Battalion in Hilliard's Alabama Legion, and after the
battle of Chickamauga I was promoted to colonel of the 6oth
.■\labama Regiment, in Grade's famous brigade, and returned
with it in Longstreet's Corps in April, 1864; fought around
Petersburg and Richmond till April 2, 1865, and surrendered
in Gordon's Corps with you at Apponiatto.x on April 9, 1865 —
forty years ago on the 9th inst. I am, perhaps, the oldest son
of a Confederate veteran now living. T mention these facts —
of no importance to you — because they show that, as a South-
ern man and one of the oldest of Confederate Veterans, I have
a right to praise your pamphlet. Such works as yours en-
lighten the people and glorify the South. My age teaches me
that on this side of the stars I may never meet you. but this
fact does not prevent my thanking j-ou for the monograph
and invoking the blessings of God upon yon.
"The Old South," By H. M. Hamill.
Few books have been written in the South which have met
with such a warm welcome as this one. Written by one
who "was born in and of the Old South," it is intensely in-
teresting. The subject is tre; ;■ d in a most masterly manner,
which readily convinces the reader that the author under-
stands his theme. It is a beautiful little volume, neatly
bound, and well illustrated by subjects peculiar to and of the
Old South. — Nashville Christian Advicatc.
war in two branches of the service should be able to write
understandingly ; at least, he can afford to tell the truth as
to what he saw, heard, and thought without fear or favor;
and, above all, having no grievance, he can be fair and just.
"JOHNNY REB AND BILLY YANK."
The Neale Publishing Company, Washiiigton, has just
issued under the above title certainly the most entertaining
book for the private soldier on either side that has yet been
published. The author, Mr. .Alexander Hunter, was a private
from start to finish. He says in his preface: "The public has
been surfeited with war literature. There is hardly a promi-
nent officer, North or South, who has not rushed into print
at every available opportunity ; yet no officer high in rank
dared write the exact truth for the reason that he has the
feelings of those who served under him to consider. A pri-
vate in the ranks who has learned something of the art of
.\1.EX.\N1,IEK HUNTEK.
In those days Johnny Reb and Billy Yank were good com-
rades when not engaged in shooting at each other."
Mr. Hunter was for the first two years of the war a pri-
vate in the 17th Virginia Infantry, Longstreet's Corps. After
tliat, by order of Gen. Lee, who knew him personally, he was
assigned to the Black Horse Cavalry, serving to the surrender.
This book $3, and with the Veter.\n $3.50.
"Northern Rebellion and Southern Secession."
No publication of recent years deserves more careful read-
ing by those who would fully inform themselves regarding
the political history of this country than Mr. Ewing's "North-
ern Rebellion and Southern Secession." The book is exactly
what its title sets forth, and in consecutive order — first North-
ern rebellion, then its sequence, Southern secession. The
author deals in no asperity, but states the facts in a calm,
clear, dispassionate, and masterly manner, absolutely unan-
swerable, and refuting utterly the charge of "treason" and
"disloyalty" hurled at the South by the North at the breaking
out of the war and kept up in a measure to the present day.
But not one word of abuse against the North or the North-
ern people can be found in the book. It is simply a clear
and convincing array of facts, showing how the principles
for which the South fought had been openly admitted and
acted upon almost since the foundation of the government.
This book $1, and with a year to the Veteran $1.75.
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innc I., 1893; January and May, 1S04;
January, 1895; January. 1898. Write
liiiii in advance of sending.
T. K. IVIcC.alian, of Charleston, S. C.
wants to know what Texas troops were
in the garrison at Port Hudson when it
capitulated. He had a hrothcr in Ter-
ry's Keginiont. who was captured some-
where in the Red River cnuulrv.
J. H. Case, of Prospect. Tenn . wants
to know what hecanie of the "galvanii:cd
Yanks" surrendered at Egypt Statio.i,
Miss,, the latter part of the war, which
had part of tlicir armament shot away
and their guns hrokcn up.
J. 1), Parks, of Denton, Tex., he-
longed to Company A, 2d Mississippi
Ke.eimcnt, and lost a leg at the hattle of
hirst Manassas. He would like to hear
from any of the survivors of that hat-
lie, and especially from a Yankee sol-
dier who gave him a drink from his
canteen while he was lying wounded on
the hattlefield.
soREEmDrJ5AACrH0MP30|JjEYEWATER
MAGNOLIA AND PINE.
BY TH0M.\S C. H.\RB.\UCH.
\vliere the rivers of the Southland
Seek the ever-shadeless seas,
P) ranch and blossom quiver gently
In the svi'eetly scented breeze;
And the robin wooes his sweetheart.
Now in shadow, now in shine.
While the queen of the magnolias
Whispers love unto the pine.
In llie smmncr's deepened twilight
Where the valiant legions trod
\ou can luar the holy vespers
Nature wafts unto her God:
Then yon how the knee in silence
And the cares of life resign.
W here the leaves of (he magnolia
liiuch the branches nf the pine.
Ilcir their music, softly lifting,
Wlien the winds of morning play,
.\nd the chorus nf the forest
Like an anthem floats away;
Where the mountains in their glory
Nature's loveliness enshrine.
Like a bride the fair magnolia
Nestles to the kingly pine.
P.i^t tluin cm its endless mission
With a trill the brooklet glides.
Hearing outward frond and blossom
To the bosom of the tides;
While among their native mountains.
Clad in majesty divine.
Stand the beautiful magnolia
And the ever-princely pine.
Who would roll them of their story?
Who would seek to lay them low?
.\s they lift their beads in splendor
Nations come and nations go :
l-'nipires rise and empires w-ither
Like the blossoms of the vine ;
Ihit the dews of heaven fallcth
On magnolia and on pine.
Capt. John Kennedy, of Selma, Miss.,
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ioREtYEsDd5AA*HPf!;EfEMER
Jacob Heater, of Aberdeen, Wash.,
who served in the Thirty-first "Virginia
Regiment, Pegram's Brigade, Early's
Division, Jackson's Corps, A. N. "V.,
says : "Wherever I meet them, the old
G. A. R.'s are the best friends I have.
There is a fraternal feeling as that of a
brother. I suppose I am the only man
in the State of Washington who wears
a Confederate uniform. In 1903 I at-
tended the G. A. R. encampment at San
Francisco, and was cheered by thou-
sands of bluecoats from one end of the
city to the other. Not one insulting
word was spoken to me, and all tried to
make things pleasant. It was the most
enjoyable day of my life. We were once
enemies in legitimate conflict, but to-day
I honor both the gray and the blue."
J. T. Ware, of Tyler, Tex., makes in-
quiry for a comrade of the war, G. W.
Cunningham. He thinks he was a hard-
ware man of Nashville, Tenn.
L. F. Baskin, of Okolona, Miss., is
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his father, Dr. J. H. Baskin, was surgeon
during the war. He was at Corinth,
Miss., in 1862.
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Vol. 13
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No. 6
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Selections from Our Southern Books
^WRITE FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF 84 PAGES)
Four Years Under Marsc Robert. By Maj. Robert
Stiles. 8vo, cloth. Price, $'i.
A full and consecutive record of the surrounding, observations,
insjiirations. experiences, and daily life of the ii^telligent soldier
of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Richmond Times-Dispatch: "The style of the book is
beautiful, clear, and charming. To have written it, it
was necessary to have been an educated man — a gentle-
man— one capable of seeing, and placed in a position to
see and able to tell graphically what he saw ; to tell it in
a fascinating way, weaving together the grave dangers
and horrors of the time with the noble, the brave, the
amusing, and making a lovely whole. It was necessary
for the writer to have lived it all ; to have felt it ; to
have lived in close touch and sympathy with his fellow-
man, and in close touch and obedience to his God, and in
addition to this to have lived years after tlie war was
over to let the storm pass and the dust settle, so that
the beautiful book could be tree from dross and worthy
of that great soldier and his brave followers to whom it
is dedicated."
Gcvcral Stephen D. Lcr: "I have not read any book in
many years that gave me such pleasure. The reminiscent
and frank style particularly delighted me."
The Oreat Parliamentary Hattlo and Farewell Ad-
dresses of the Soiithorii Senators on the Kve of the
Civil AVar. By 1'hom.\s Kicaud Mautin. 8vo,
cloth. Price, $2.
The contents include: *' Great Senators, and Great Speeches in
tlie <^ld Senat'^ < 'namber :"' "The (^Id Senate- -Debate Vietween .John
V. Br.-.kii.vidu'c. ol K.-ntn.-kv. ;iTid l-:dwanl I). Bak.-r. of nici;,,n:"
'• Pen [Pictures of tlie 1 llil Sen:ite and tlii> Ni-w. with Senator .John
J. C'ritfeiideu's Hreat S|,e -ch and the Vire President .s ( iration;"
"The Great ParliaineTitary Rattle and Farewell .Addresses of the
Southern Senators ,,n the Kve ol the ('i\ il Wai-; ' '.ludah P. Ben-
jamin;" "Edward l>. Baker;" "John U. Breckinridge; ' etc.
The AVar Between the Union and the Confederacy,
and Its I^ost Opportunities. By Gen. William C.
Gates, Colonel in the Confederate Armj', Brigadier
General in the War with Spain, fourteen years in
Congress, Governor of Alabama, etc. 8vo, cloth.
Fully illustrated. Price, $3.
An account of the author's experiences in the war: a justifica-
tion of secession and show-inK that the < "onlederaey slmuld have
succeeded; a criticism of President liavis, the Cmtedi-rate Con-
gress, and some of the general officers in the Confederate and
Union armies: the author's observations and experiences as
Brigadier General in the war with Spain.
Macon Telegraph: "The Telegraph has had several occa-
sions to speak of the books by Southerners recently issued
from the press of The Neale Publishing Company, and this
one is equally to tlie credit of the publisher and autiior.
General Dates' book should be placed beside those pre-
ceding It, and should be followed by. others from those
participants who still remain and are capable of doing
such work."
Boston Journal: "Every fair-minded man will welcome
General Gates' candid statements, and, whether agreeing
or not with his criticism of men and events, wdll be en-
tertained by these pen pictures of former days."
The Southern I.ilterary Messenger, IS."?* to 1804.
By Bek.iamix Blake Minor. LL.D... editor and pro-
prietor from 1843 to 1847. Illustrated by portraits.
12mo, cloth. Price, $3.
Beean.se of the long and influential life of Tlir Siiullirrn Lit-
erary Mes!<r7m'r and its important relation to the jieriixlieal liter-
ature of the United States, the annciuncenient of the lail.lieatiim
of this hook will doubtless he received with iircifciundest interest.
Dr. ]\Iinor. now ei^ditv-six years of age, is the only one living
thnrons;hlv familiar through personal experieni'e with the history
of this old magazine, and through his long experience in the world
of letters of more than a half century since, he has produced a
history which is a distinct addition to our national as well as
Southern literature.
Recollections of a Confederate Staff Omcer. By Gen.
G. M. Sokrel, Lieutenant Colonel and ( 'hief of Staff,
I^ongstreet'slst Army Corps; Brigadier General com-
man<ling Sorrel's Brigade. A. P. Hill'sSd Army Corps,
Army of Northern Virginia. 8vo, cloth. Price, $'2.
Lord General ^VnlselelJ to the Author: "You have so
much to tell that will interest North as well as South, that
your book ou.ght to be a great success. 1 shall indeed
read it with deep interest."
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press my delight in them (these recollections) or my ad-
miration of their ch.arming tone and description and their
lifelike reproduction of the very atmosphere of these
strenuous years when I^ongstreet's corps of the old Army
of Northern Virginia was cutting its figure in the military
history of this country."
Oejiera! Joseph Wheeler: "It is a work of great inter-
est. It is beautifully written and graphic in the de-
scription."
Forty Years of Active Service. By CoL. Charles T.
O'Feruall. 8vo, cloth, with frontispiece portrait of
the author. Price, $2.
Some of the hi.story of the war between the Confederacy and
the Union, and the events leading up to it, with reminiscences
of the struggle and accounts of tlie author's experiences of four
years ti-oui jirivate to lieutenaiif ei.lonel and aetin;^ colonel in the
cavalry c,t tlit^ Army nf X"i-tliern Virginia ; also nineh ,>f the his-
tory of Virginia ami the natiitn. ni wlmh the authur took iiart for
maiiy years in ]>i>litieal con\'entinns and on the hustings and as
lawyer, menil,ernt tlie Legislature of Virginia, .indge. niemlier of
the House of Representatives of the United States, and Governor
of Virginia,
Louisville Courier- Journal: "Col. O'FerraU's style is
simple and charming, every page is full of interest and re-
plete with anecdotes, quotations, and fine pictures of the
men who were conspicuous on either side during tlic war,
and the whole is written in an unusually fair spirit.
There is not a bitter line in the whole volume, and Fed-
eral and Confederate alike are writteii of with just im-
partiality and unvarying courtesy. The political history
of Virginia and the nation in the latter half of the book
is handled in a most interesting manner. It is not a bare
record of facts, but is made entertaining hy the author's
personal reminiscences as lawyer, member of the Legisla-
ture and of the House of Representatives. Judge, and
Governor of Virginia. He pays tribute to Lincoln. IMc-
Kinley, and Cleveland. This volume, in style and subject-
matter, should prove a valuable addition to American his-
tory and literature."
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PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS AND KINDRED TOPICS.
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Contributors are requested to ttse only one side of the paper, and to abhrevi-
ate as much as practicable. These suggestions are iiTiportant.
Where clippings are sent copy should he kept, as the X'etkrax cannot \in-
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list will be December, and the subscriber is entitled \.o that number.
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respondents use that term *' War between the Stites" will be siibstituted.
The terms" new South'* and "lost Cause" areobjectionalileto the Veteran.
OFFICIALLT REPRESENTS:
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NASHVILLE. TENN., JUNE, 1905.
No. ii. I
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
Pro PR iXTo r . ■ok:
GALT HOUSE, REUNION HEADQUARTERS.
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EXTERIOR OF THE I. AIT Hnl
UII T IN" Tlir SIXTIES.
The Gait House of Louisville, like the Maxwell House of
Nashville, is a familiar term to thousands who never saw it.
For more than threescore and ten years the name "Gait
House" has been identified with that city. In olden times the
Gait House, like the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, was
a resort for Southern planters who with their families made
long sojourns in the Kentucky metropolis. It was the stop-
ping place of Charles Dickens when he was here making his
"American Notes." The original hotel was destroyed by
fire in the closing days of our great war — in January, 1865.
The magnitude and splendor of the new Gait House, opened
to the public in 1869, is still amazing, and, notwithstanding
the prodigious strides in modern hotels, world tourists, with
plenty of money, tarry restfully there. Although occupying
practically one-fourth of a large block, it is "all hotel," there
being no stores or shops under its great roof. It was rated
as second to none in this country when erected — a remark-
able fact, when the great cities were gluttonous with hotel
profits — and it has kept apace with modern hotels in every
improvement demanded by luxurious travelers.
As headquarters for this year's reunion of the most con-
spicuous body of Southerners that will ever assemble, of
course it will be far short of demand, as would be any other
hotel in the world ; but it is comforting to know that thou-
sands can be housed even from such rains as drenched the
city five years ago.
The Veter.\n is gratified by its good fortune in having a
choice place in the .ijreat rotunda, where all who wish to find
the editor or its subscription clerks mav be accommodated.
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PERFECTED REUNION ARRANGEMENTS.
Much credit as is due patriotic and liberal people in the
various cities entertaining the United Confederate Veterans
heretofore, including Louisville, it seems eminently fit to
praise all the people of that city for liberality and cordial co-
operation this year in securing accommodations and comfort
to their Confederate guests. The conmiittees have worked
in beautiful harmony, while the public of that splendid city,
regardless of former affiliations, have shown a disposition to
welcome and entertain that certainly augurs well for the
anticipated time now near at hand, June 14-16. If the com-
mittee can prevent extortion and if it doesn't rain too much,
a sad yet joyous time may be expected.
UNITED SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
OflScers of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans :
Commander in Chief, N. R. Tisdal, Fort Worth, Tex. ; Ad-
jutant General, I. J. Stockett, Fort Worth, Tex.; Commissary
General, A. Villert, St. Francisville, La. ; Judge Advocate
General, B. H. Kirk, St. Louis, Mo. ; Inspector General, G.
R. Wyman. Louisville, Ky. ; Surgeon General, R. G. Thur-
mond, Jr., Tuscumbia, Ala. ; Chaplain General. P. G. Spears,
Meridian, Miss.
Department Commanders : R. E. L. Bynum, Jackson, Tenn. ;
John J. Davis, Louisville. Ky. ; C. A. Skean, Indian Territory.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans are taking great inter-
est in the coming reunion, and the members of John A.
LODBY OF THE G.ALT HOUSE. SEE VETER.\N LOCATION.
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Broadus Camp. No. 6i, of Louisville are working hard to
do their share in making the event a success. The tenth an-
nual reunion of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans
will be held at the same time as the meeting of the Veterans
in Louisville, and preparations are being made to make this
the greatest aflfair in the history of the organization. Indi-
cations are that the attendance will be the largest on record,
and extensive arrangements are being made for the enter-
tainment of the visiting Sons. The visitors will be given a
genuine Kentucky welcome.
Headquarters for the Commander in Chief, Mr. N. R. Tis-
<Jal, of Texas, and for the forty Division and department
sponsors have been secured at the Gait House. The con-
vention will be held at Hopkins's Theater, and the programme
for this event will be announced in ample time.
So far two candidates have announced themselves for the
office of Commander in Chief — Mr. R. E. L. Bynum, of Jack-
son, Tenn., and Mr. Thomas M. Owens, of Montgomery, Ala.
A pleasant feature of the reunion will be the ball given by
the John A. Broadus Camp in honor of the visiting sponsors
and maids of honor, which takes place at the Horse Show
building on the second night of the reunion. The committee
in charge of this affair has been working for several weeks,
and plans are being pushed to make it one of the most bril-
liant functions ever held in Louisville. Other features of
reunion week will be a garden party, several boat excursions
on the Ohio, trips to points of interest in the vicinity, and
other events, including the usual parade.
The John A. Broadus Camp was organized in 1897, and
since that time has enrolled several hundred members. The
officers of the Camp are : Commandant, John C. Davidson ;
Lieutenant Commanders. Marion W. Ripy and Jesse N. Gath-
right; Adjutant, Andrew M. Sea, Jr.; Treasurer, V. W. Wil-
son; Historian, Neville Bullitt; Chaplain, Rev. M. B. Porter;
Surgeon, Dr. L. P. Spears; Quartermaster, Dr. Scott Prather;
Color Sergeant, Paul S. Cleveland.
The following chairmen of committees have been appointed
for the reunion work : Finance Committee, John J. Davis ;
Ball Committee, Neville S. Bullitt; Press Committee, Robert
S. Omberg; Headquarters Committee, George R. Wyman;
Sponsors' Committee, N. S. Bullitt; Membership Committee,
A. M. Sea, Jr. ; Badge Committee, John Davis ; Carriage Com-
mittee, Clem Huggins; Official Organ Committee, V. W.
Wilson; Programme Committee, James B. Camp; Hotel and
Accommodation Committee, Ben Howe ; Convention Com-
mittee, Andrew Sea.
Alabama Division, U. S. C. V.
Notices from the Alabama Division in General Orders No.
12, new series, Commander Thomas M. Owen, of Montgomery,
Ala., says :
"The tenth annual session of the United Sons of Confed-
erate Veterans will be held in Louisville, Ky., June 14-16,
1905, inclusive. General Orders issued by N. R. Tisdal, Com-
mander in Chief, have been forwarded to the several Camps
in the Alabama Division, and in them will be found full par-
ticulars concerning the reunion. All Sons of Confederate Vet-
erans are invited, and the Commander confidently expects all
Alabama Camps to be represented. Louisville is noted for its
hospitality, and every preparation is being made which will
conduce to the comfort, pleasure, and entertainment of the
Veterans and their friends.
"Each Camp in the Division is entitled to one delegate for
every ten active members in good standing and one addi-
tional for a fraction thereof of five or more, but every Camp
in good standing is entitled to at least two delegates. All
delegates must have credentials signed by both the Comman-
dant and Adjutant.
"Miss Catherine Shorter Jclks, of Florida, has been ap-
MISS JULIA OSBORNE, LOUISVILLE,
Sponsor for Tliiid Kentucky Brigade.
pointed sponsor, and Miss Annie Maude Dawson, of Mont-
gomery, and Miss Irene Wayne Cleere, of Ensley, have been
appointed malls of honor. Miss Jelks is the daughter of Hon.
William Dorsey Jelks, Governor of Alabama, and a grand-
daughter of Capt. J. W. D. Jelks, of tlie 3d Alabama Infantry
MRS. KATIE CABELL CURRIE,
Chaperon for Trans- Mississippi Department,
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Regiment, and also a granddaughter of Maj. Henry R.
Shorter, of the staff of the late Gen. Cullen A. Battle. Miss
Dawson is the granddaughter of Maj. J. G. Harris, of the
20th Alabama Infantry Regiment. Miss Cleere is the daugh-
ter of Mr. Polk Cleere and granddaughter of Judge James
E. Moore, both of whom were Confederate soldiers.
"The headquarters of the Commander of the Alabama Di-
vision during the reunion will be at the Willard Hotel, op-
posite the courthouse, in Louisville."
Alabama Sons Want CoMMANnER in Chief.
A committee of Alabama Sons of Confederate Veterans,
composed of William W. Brandon, Montgomery. William B.
Bankhead, Huntsville, Clarence J. Owens, Anniston, Howard
Gaillard, Mobile, and Will T. Sheehan, Montgomery, has
been appointed to present for the Commandership in Chief of
(he U. S. C. V. at the Louisville convention their State Com-
mander, Hon. Thomas M. Owen. In commetiding him as
Alabama's candidate they fay that he has at all times mani-
fested enthusiasm and earnest zeal in the performance of his
duties and in the accomplishment of the objects and purposes
of the confederation, and his historical work as Director of
the Department of Archives and History of the State of
Alabama has attracted wide and favorable attention, and it
is believed that the elevation of Comrade Owen to the posi-
tion of Commander in Chief of the Confederation would re-
sult in great good to the organization at large.
Thomas McAdory Owen was born in Joncsboro, Ala., De-
cember 15. 1866. son of Dr. William Marmaduke and Nancy
(McAdory) Owen, with distinguished ancestry back of that
for several generations. He was graduated from the Uni-
versity of Alabama A.B. and LL.B. in 1887, and A.M. in
1893. He was admitted to the bar in 1887, and practiced in
Bessemer, CarroUton, and Birmingham, Ala., until March I,
1901, when he retired from the active practice of law and de-
voted himself to literary pursuits. He was married April 12,
1893, to Marie, daughter of the Hon. John H. Bankhead.
He was elected secretary of the Alabama Historical Society
June 21, 1898. secretary of the Sons of the Revolution in
.•Mabama April 16, 1894, and a member of the American His-
torical Association in 1894. He was one of the founders of
the Southern History Association of Washington, D. C,
April 24, 1896; was instrumental in the establishment of the
Alabama Department of Archives and History, located in the
State Capitol at Montgomery, Ala., February 27, 1901. and
was elected its Director.
MISS CLAP.A HALDEMAN,
Maid of Honor to Sponsor for the Sou h I*. C. \'.
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
The convention for 1905 will be held October 3-7 in San-
Francisco. This change from November should l;c noted by
those who epect to attend.
Hotel and Transportation Rates.
The hotel rates, etc., for the convention are as follows :
Special rates for board at the Palace will be : Double
room, without bath, for two persons, $3 per day ; court room,
with bath, for two persons, $4.50 per day ; the same for one
person. $2.50 per day ; outside room, with bath, for two per-
sons, $6 per day; the same for one person, $4 per day.
Special rates at Grand Hotel, adjoining Palace: Two rooms
and bath, four persons, $6 per day ; single room, no bath, $1
per day ; one double room, no bath, two persons, $2 per day.
Luncheon will be served four days of the convention at
the Palace Hotel by the San Francisco or Albert Sidney
Johnston Chapter.
More reasonable rates might be had at other houses ; hut
as the convention, lunches, and other entertainments will
be under one roof, all car fare, etc., would be saved. There
are a ladies' "Grill" and Palm Garden restaurant and many
other very reasonable restaurants near by. There will be no
trouble whatsoever about these rates being maintained.
It will be well for those desiring rooms at these hotels to
write in good time to secure them.
The Chairman of the Transportation Committee, Mrs. Al-
fred Voorhies, writes that the railroads have promised a one-
rate fare from New Orleans, Chicago, and St. Louis for the
round trip, and she hopes that even more advantageous offers
may be made. Roads west of the Mississippi will give the
one-fare rate, and all members of the Transportation Com-
mittee should try to secure good local rates.
There are certain days on which these one-fare tickets will
be sold, and each person must consult the nearest railroad
office, allowing at least four days to get to San Francisco
from along the Mississippi River points.
Mrs. Voorhies says : "Our climate varies only eight de-
grees, winter and summer. Cool weather prevails at San
Francisco, but it will be warm on the way. Take cloaks for
safety, even if going during the summer."
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S. A CUXXIXGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: Methodist Puhlishing House Building, Nabhville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunning:hani. All per-
•oni whc approve its principles and realize its benefits as an origan for Asso-
clAtiona throughout the South are requested to commend its patronage and to
cooperate In extending its circulation. Let each one be constantly diligent.
In all the years of the Veteran there has been no time
when there was such a pressure for space. This is said not
so much in exultation as to explain the fact that more than a
score of pages await room, notwithstanding there never has
before been published as much in two consecutive issues.
Much is in type, and many engravings intended for this issue
must await the July number. This is sincerely regretted in
many instances, but the July issue will so partake of the
reunion character that about the only objection can be in
delay of publication. The Forrest monument report is lengthy
and a picture was to adorn the first page of this issue, but it
is lield over for the July number. In this connection men-
tion is made that those who are friendly to the Veteran and
desire occasional issues make a mistake to miss any numbers.
There are articles of much interest and value in every issue,
and to any Confederates who cannot pay the year's subscrip-
tion concession will be made on request.
pe::s!ons paid by Georgia, 1866-1905.
1866. Appropriation for artificial limbs $ 30,00000
1880-81-82. Disabled soldiers 70,210 00
1883-84. Disabled soldiers 59,05500
1885 to 1889. Disabled soldiers 248,100 00
1890. Disabled soldiers 185,610 00
1891. Disabled soldiers 183,240 00
1892. Disabled soldiers and widows 588,415 00
1893. Disabled soldiers and widows 428.600 00
1894. Disabled soldiers and widows 424,64000
1895. Disabled soldiers and widows 425,740 00
1896. Widows, disabled and indigent soldiers.... 545,140 00
1897. Widows, disabled and indigent soldiers.... 574,960 00
1898. Widows, disabled and indigent soldiers.... 610,060 00
1899. Widows, disabled and indigent soldiers.... 653,710 00
1900. Widows, disabled and indigent soldiers.... 677,520 00
1901. Widows, disabled and indigent soldiers.... 696,727 00
1902. Widows, indigent widows, disabled and in-
digent soldiers 858,895 00
1903. Widows, indigent widows, disabled and in-
digent soldiers 857,415 00
1904. Widows, indigent widows, disabled and in-
digent soldiers 863,21500
1905. Widows, indigent widows, disabled and in-
digent soldiers 864,996 80
Aggregate pensions paid $9,846,248 80
Soldiers' Home, opened June 3, 1901, to date. .. . 67,500 00
Total amount paid by State of Georgia $9,913,748 80
Correct. R. E. Park, Treasurer of Georgia.
RUDYARD KIPLING TO A SOUTHERN GIRL.
[The Boston Herald of May 8, 1905, contains an interesting
account of one of the Veteran's best young friends, whose
childhood days were liberally divided with Nashville, wherein
was the family home until the untimely death of her noble
father, after which time she and her mother resided in Lynch-
burg. Va. She is now attending Fairmont College, Wash-
ington, D. C. The engraving herewith reproduced was made
for and published in the Veteran a few years ago. The ar-
ticle from the Herald is copied below.]
"To Rudyard Kipling, England." This was the address
upon a letter written by little
12-year-oId Miss Nannie Peck
as she sat in the library of
Fairmont Seminary, where she
goes to school. One day last
winter she asked her teacher
for Rudyard Kipling's address.
The teacher replied that she
thought he was at his homo
in England, whereupon little
Miss Nannie sat down and
wrote the letter. No one saw
it until it reached Mr. Kiplinj.:.
having followed him all the
way from England to Cape
Town, Africa. Nannie says she
just told him she liked his books and wished he would write
another one.
Last week a much-worn and strangely stamped letter was
handed to Nannie. She went off to the library, and in a se-
cluded spot read the following letter :
"The Woolsack, Rosebank, Cape Town, March 15, 1905.
"My Dear Miss Nannie Peck: Thank you very much for
your letter (undated) from Washington and for the nice
things you write about my books. That is just the right way
to write to an author. Some people have a lot of what they
call 'reservations' and limitations and 'points of difference' and
other uninteresting things, but I rejoice to see you haven't.
I hope you will have a happy time as you grow up and find
a great many more books that interest you.
"Very sincerely, Rudyard Kipling."
"P. S. — Have you read Mrs. Ewing's books, 'Six to Six-
teen,' etc.? If not, get them, because you'll love them."
Nannie's eyes were sparkling when she finished reading her
precious letter. It was written with a pen by the distin-
guished author. Nannie is a bright and original girl, and
hails from Tennessee. She is a talented little musician and
a lover of books. She has been the lion of Fairmont since
she ran to her teacher waving the letter wildly in her hand.
THE J. B. GORDON MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.
William Lowndes Calhoun, President and Chairman Cen-
tral Executive Committee; Robert E. Park, Vice President;
Joseph T. Derry, Secretary ; E. H. Thornton, Treasurer.
Central Executive Committee: Gov. Joseph M. Terrell,
Gen. Clement A. Evans, Robert E. Park, W. H. Harrison,
W. M. Crumley, W. W. Hulbert, R. M. Clayton, Julius L.
Brown, A. C. Bruce, E. Y. Clarke, H. L. Culberson, R. S.
Ozburn, N. E. Harris, J. W. Clarke, Gen. S. D. Lee, Arch
Avery, Hoke Smith, W. S. Thomson, L. P. Thomas, W. M.
Durham, Harry L. Schlesinger, J. S. Prather, F. M. Myers,
and the President, Secretary, and Treasurer ex ofUcio.
List of committees appointed in the several Southern States
by the John B. Gordon Monument Association to aid in rais-
ing funds to erect the monument, with power in the chair-
men to add others thereto, if necessary :
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Kentucky. — Gen. Bennett H. Young, Chairman, with power
to appoint committees throughout the State; Col. John B.
Pirtle, Louisville, Ky.
Tennessee. — S. A. Cunningham, Nashville, Tenn. ; Col. J.
F. Shipp, Chattanooga, Tenn. ; Capt. W. J. Crawford, Mem-
phis, Tenn. ; Col. A. W. Walton, Memphis, Tenn. ; Col. C.
W. A. Payne, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Texas.— Gen. W. L. Cabell, Dallas; Gen. A. T. Watt,
Beaumont; Capt. Thomas A. Hill. Weimar: Col. Thomas B.
Stone, Waco ; Col. Philip H. Fall, Houston.
Louisiana. — Col. W. L. Goldsmith, 204 Carondelet Street,
New Orleans; Gen. William E. Mickle, 824 Commerce Street,
New Orleans ; Dr. C. H. Tebault, New Orleans ; Gen. W. J.
Behan, New Orleans ; Col. W. G. Coyle, New Orleans ; Gen.
J. R. Le Vert, New Orleans ; Col. J. A. Chaleron, New
Orleans; Col. B. F. Walshe, New Orleans; Col. Edwin Marks,
New Orleans; Mr. R. F. Green, New Orleans; Mr. T. S.
McChesney, New Orleans; Mr. J. D. Nix and Mr. W. T.
Amy, New Orleans ; Hon. W. McL. Fayssoux, Masonic Tem
pie, New Orleans.
Washington, D. C. — Dr. Samuel E. Lewis, 1418 Fourteenth
Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Maryland. — Hon. Pinckney White, Baltimore ; Gen. Robert
Ober, Baltimore ; Gen. A. C. Trippe, Charles and Mulberry
Streets, Baltimore.
Virginia. — Maj. Joseph \\'. Johnston, 113 East Grace Street,
Richmond ; Mr. O. B. Morgan, Mr. W. Minor Woodward.
Mr. P. H. Mayo. Capt. J. Thompson Brown, and Capt. James
W. Pegram, Richmond.
North Carolina. — Gen. Julian S. Carr, Durham; Col. W.
J. Woodward, Wilmington.
South Carolina.- — Gov. D. C. Heyward, Columbia; Gen. B.
H. Teague, .MUcn; Col. J. C. Boyd, Greenville; Gen. Zim-
merman Davis, Charleston ; Thomas S. Bryan, Mr. Wil-
liam W. Lumpkin, Col. J. C. Haskell, Rev. Dr. William Flynn,
Mr. Wilie Jones, Mr. Washington A. Clark, Columbia.
Florida. — Gov. W. S. Jennings, Tallahassee ; Mr. Robert
VV. Davis, Palatka; Mr. John N. Stockton, Jacksonville;
Mr. H. Clay Crawford, Tallahassee; Mr. Clarence Warren,
Tampa; Dr. Jcptlia Harris, Key West; Hon. G. C. Warren,
; W. V. Knott, Secretary and Treasurer Florida
ex-Com., Tallahassee; Mr. Robert Bulloch, Ocala; Hon. Jef-
ferson Lamar, Monticcllo ; Hon. Sam Pasco, Monticello.
Alabama. — Gen. George P. Harrison, Opelika ; Judge Thom-
as G. Jones, Montgomery ; Hon. Joseph F. Johnson, Bir-
mingham; Mr. John J. Wimberly, Mr. John C. Henley.
Mississippi. — Gen. Robert E. Houston, Aberdeen ; Hon. Ed-
ward Mays, Jackson.
Arkansas.^-Gen. J. M. Harrell, 117 Rush Street, San An-
tonio ; Col. D. S. Ryan, Hot Springs ; Gen. Horner, Helena ;
Gen. J. A. Reeves, Camden ; Gen. J. B. Truelock, Pine Bluff.
West Virginia. — Gen. Rolicrt White, Wheeling.
Indian Territory. — Col. D. M. Wisdom, Muskogee.
Missouri. — Col. Henry .\. Newman, Hunt.<;ville ; Capt. C.
H. Howard, Waynesville.
Chicago, III. — Capt. R. H. Steward, Mr. R. Lee France,
Mr. George Forrester. Mr. Jenkins, and Mr. John W. White.
California. — Capt. J. R. Simmons, Los Angeles.
New York City. — Commander Edward Owens, 170 Broad-
way: Hon. Robert L. Harrison, 59 Wall Street; Hon. J. Ed-
ward Graybill, 229 Broadway; Col. J. H. Zachary, Mills
Building ; Col. W. H. Black, 80 Broadway.
Georgia. — Committees have been appointed in every county
in the State.
In addition to the above, appeals have been sent to each of
the generals commanding departments, divisions, and bri-
gades, and to each Commander of Camps of the U. C. V.,
to the Division officers and the President of each Chapter of
the U. D. C, to the officers of the Ladies' Memorial As-
sociations, and to the officers and each Camp of the Sons of
Veterans. Additions are daily made to the committees.
W. L. CALHOUN, President.
SKETCH BY SOLON H. BORCLUM.
The Gordon monument design, as given above, is not sat-
isfactory to the committee: but the sculptor. Mr. Solon H.
Borglum, so impressed the members having the matter in
charge that he was selected to do the work by their plans.
Mr. Borglum was born in Ogden, Utah, in 1870. He grew
up as a cowboy ; but sketching and modeling were his fancy,
showing the art nature while in his rude employment. He
took up art seriously in Los Angeles, Cal., about twelve years
ago, and studied later in an art school of Cincinnati. Then
lie went to Paris, where he won a gold medal. Statues of
cowboys and Indian horses at the head of the Lagoon in the
World's Fair, St. Louis, were his work. Mr. Borglum now
lives in New York City. He is a brother to Mr. A. S. Borg-
lum, well known in railroad circles throughout the South.
Those who are interested in the subject may expect a fine
statue of Gen. Gordon. The work of all should now be con-
centrated in giving the committee necessary funds.
Correction is made of error on page 211, May number of
the Veteran, stating that Col. Liddell commanded the 21st
Mississippi, when it should have been the nth Mississippi.
The fame of this gallant colonel rests secure with the record
made by the regiment he commanded.
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OF CONCERN TO TENNESSEE CONFEDERATES.
Whereas information has reached our Association that an
attempt is being made by a few disaffected Veterans of the
State of Tennessee to merge the Bivouacs and Camps into
one organization and to reorganize and establish new rules,
by-laws, and constitution, and otherwise disturb the peace,
harmony, and good fellowship now existing among the vari-
ous Confederate Veteran organizations in the State ; therefore
be it
Resolved ■' I. That we deprecate and condemn any such
movement; that we unqualiiiedly oppose the same, and will
do all we can and in our power to counteract and prevent
the disruption of ot:r .present organization and the establish-
ment of this new and dangerous scheme.
2. That we invite and urge the earnest cooperation of all
tl-.e Confederate Veterans of the State to oppose this attempt
to disturb our quiet and peaceful relations.
3. That Comrade S. A. Cunningham, of Nashville, be re-
quested to publish the above in the Veter.\n of June, the
reunion issue, and that our local press be invited to give
these resolutions publication.
At the regular meeting of the Confederate Historical A";-
sociation, held Thursday night. May 11, 1905, the above reso-
lutions were read, approved, and adopted by unanimous vote
of the Association, there being a very large attendance.
I. N. Rainey,
Secretary Confederate Historical Association.
AUTHOR OF LINES ON CONFEDERATE NOTE.
Many people will be surprised that Maj. S. A. Jonas, who
wrote those memorable lines on the back of a Confederate
note, is still "in the land of the living."
Maj. S. A. Jonas has always been a very zealous patriot on
the side of the Confederacy. He was on the staff of one of
Longstreet's brigadiers, and his knowledge of other Confed-
erate officers is so extensive that he frequently has letters
from all over the world asking him to identify various photo-
graphs. It is said that he knew by sight about ninety per
cent of the entire roster of generals. He was for many years
secretary of Senator L. Q. C. Lamar's committee, and this gave
him a very extensive knowledge of public men and affairs,
which he has used with very great effect in the conduct of
his newspaper, the Aberdeen Examiner. This journal has
been published continuously for thirty or forty years, and is
one of the best of its kind in the world. Although about
seventy years of age, he is hale and hearty, of prepossessing
appearance, and always courteous and pleasant in manner.
He is progressive and very public-spirited, and conducts his
paper in a way that would do credit to a city journal. Al-
though his entire plant (including a very valuable library and
the collection of a lifetime of facts and records) was destroyed
by fire about four years ago, and he was left even without a
chance of recuperation through insurance, .he took up the
work at once and established his journal on its old footing
without delay. He has written a great many articles of much
credit in the shape of both prose and poetry; but his chief
claim for perpetual remembrance is the poem which he wrote
upon the back of a Confederate note, beginning: "Represent-
ing nothing on God's earth now."
A reminiscences by Maj. Jonas may be expected in the
Veteran for July or August.
The Confederate Note.
Representing nothing on God's earth now,
And naught in the waters below it.
MAJ. S. A. JONAS.
As the pledge of a nation that's dead and gone.
Keep it, dear friend, and show it.
Show it to those who will lend an ear
To the tale that this paper can tell
Of liberty born of the patriot's dream.
Of a storm-cradled nation that fell.
Too poor to possess the precious ores.
And too much of a stranger to borrow.
We issued to-day our promise to pay.
And hoped to redeem on the morrow.
The days rolled by and weeks became years.
But our coffers were empty still;
Coin was so rare that the treasury'd quake
If a dollar should drop in the till.
But the faith that was in us was strong, indeed.
And our poverty well we discerned,
And this little check represented the pay
That our suffering veterans earned.
We knew it had hardly a value in gold.
Yet as gold each soldier received it:
It gazed in our eyes with a promise to pay,
And each Southern patriot believed it.
But our boys thought little of price or of pay.
Or of bills that were overdue :
We knew if it bought us our bread to-day
'Twas the best our poor country could do.
Keep it ; it tells all our history over.
From the birth of the dream to its last ;
Modest, and born of the angel Hope,
Like our hope of success it passed.
— 5. .4. Jonas, Richmond, V'a.. May. 1865.
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CONFEDERATED SOUTHERN MEM. ASSOCIATION.
Mrs. W. J. Belian, President of the Confederated Southern
Memorial Association, writes from New Orleans :
"It is with particular pride that we return to the fair city
of Louisville, where, in May, igoo, this Confederation of Me-
morial Associations was organized. The President appreciates
the opportunity thus afforded of meeting once again those
hospitable people, who by reason of the inclemency of the
weather were prevented from carrying out the magnificent
programme arranged for the entertainment of its guests at
that time. The President is assured that the 'Women of the
Confederacy' composing the Memorial will receive at the
hands of the gallant men and peerless women of Louisville
a royal welcome. She therefore urges every Association to
make special efforts to have a large representation present in
addition to the delegates and alternates. The President is
grateful to the Commanding General of the I'nited Confed-
erate Veterans, who graciously announced in General Orders
No. 23 the time and place of the C. S. M. A. convention.
"The Girls' High School building, a beautiful place, has been
secured for our meetings. The usual Jefferson Davis tne-
niorial service will be held in the Broadway Baptist Church
on Wednesday, June 14, at 10 a.m. Officers' headquarters will
be at the Gait House, where all orders and notices will be
posted. Each Association is entitled to two delegates. Two
alternates should be named in case the delegates cannot at-
tend. Appoint as delegates only those who appreciate the
obligation to be present at all sessions. Reading of reports
will be limited to five minutes.
"The Association has compiled and publislicd a history of
all Southern Memorial Associations, and thus has embodied
the records and results of the efforts of the heroines of tlie
South in the early days of her struggle and sorrow. This
work is now ready for distribution among the Memorial As-
sociations. The small profit inures to the benefit of the Jef-
ferson Davis Monument Fund. Price, $1.35, delivered."
SOUTHERN WOMAN'S MONUMENT.
BY PROF. J. H. BRUNNER, SWEETWATER, TENN.
I thank you for the insertion of the Tench article in the
Veteran. [See May issue, page 214.] Settle three things, and
then a call for funds will meet a hearty response:
First, the location. By all means it should be Atlanta,
whose women Sherman drove into exile and whose homes
were burned. Sherman said. "War is hell," and he made it
"hell" for Georgia and the Carolinas. Atlanta is central.
Secondly, the structure. A million-dollar monument of
stone, capped with bronze, the grandest monument in the
United States.
Thirdly, the building committee. One member from each
of the so-called Confederate States and one member from
each of the border States— Maryland, Kentucky, and Mis-
souri—to be chosen by the Confederate organizations in the
several States respectively.
Then Tench's plan (and other plans) for raising money
will come in order. The unique enterprise will arouse a gen-
uine enthusiasm such as no other monument has awakened in
the annals of the world.
MRS. VIRGINIA MARMAniKE -SALK,
Matron of Honor, I.ouUvillp Ueuiiion, 1905.
THE FIRST FOREIGN CHAPTER OF U. D. C.
Mrs. Smythe, President of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, has received the particulars of the formation
of a Chapter of this Association in the City of Mexico.
For .some time Miss R. N. Snead, formerly of Athens, Ala.,
and the organizer of the Joseph E. Johnston Chapter, U. D.
C, at that place, has been interesting herself in the organiza-
tion of a Chapter in Mexico. In this effort she has met with
sympathy and help, and now writes to report success.
The new Chapter is named for Father Ryan, which in itself
appeals to the hearts of many. Its President is Madame
Degollado. who is a Virginian, but has lived for forty-one
years in Mexico, having married and gone there a few months
after the death of the Emperor Maximilian. She became an
intimate friend cf the poor Empress Carlotta. Mme. De-
gollado is also Regent of the Daughters of the American
Revolution in Mexico City. She is an ardent Southerner,
and will be sure to advance in every way the interests and
work of the Father Ryan Chapter, U. D. C.
The Chapter will at once care for the remains of several
Confederate soldiers who have died in Mexico and were
buried in the potter's field. It will secure a lot in the ceme-
tery for all such dead, and will erect a monument there.
The Chapter will, as soon as practicable, bestow crosses of
honor on wortliy Confederate soldiers within its reach.
The officers of the Chapter are: Mrs. Mariano Degollado,
President; Miss Ella McKie and Miss R. N. Snead, Vice
Presidents; Mrs. B. Files, Corresponding Secretary: Mrs.
N. L. Brinker, Treasurer; Mrs. G. W. Johnson, Historian.
New Officers Louisiana Division. U. D. C.
Honorary President, Mrs. Varina Jefferson Davis; Presi-
dent, Mrs. D. A. S. Vaught. 1527 Seventh Street. New Or-
leans. Vice Presidents: Miss Mattie Bell McGrath, Baton
Rouge; Mrs. M. C. Lauve, Plaqucmine; Mrs. James Andrews,
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Alexandria ; Mrs. A. L. Willson, Monroe. Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. M. Carlisle, Tangipahoa ; Recording Secre-
tary, Mrs. Charles S. Childress, 3822 Chestnut Street, New
Orleans; Treasurer, Mrs. Virginia Z. Howell, St. Francisville ;
Historian, Mrs. J. A. Caruthers, Baton Rouge ; Registrar,
Mrs. A. H. Johnson, Alexandria ; Custodian Relief Soldiers'
Home, Mrs. Paul Israel, 1448 Louisiana Avenue, New Or-
leans ; Recorder of Crosses of Honor, Mrs. A. J. Hardy,
Shreveport. Division Motto : "Trust and Go Forward."
The foregoing list of officers of the Louisiana Division,
U. D. C, was elected at their convention, in Alexandria, La.,
May S, 1905. The chief items of interest were the determina-
tion of the Division to refurnish the library at the Louisiana
Soldiers' Home and the presentation through the Division
of a fine oil portrait of Gen. A. Mouten, who fell at the bat-
tle of Mansfield, La., April 8, 1863. This portrait was sent to
the Louisiana Room, Confederate Museum, Richmond, Va.,
by the Mouten-Gardner Chapter of Lafayette, La.
A SOLDIER TRAMP IN A POLICE COURT.
"Yer Honor, I pleads guilty; I'm a bummer;
I don't deny the cop here found me drunk;
I don't deny that through the whole long summer
The sun-warmed earth has been my only bunk.
I hain't been able for to earn a livin' ;
A man with one leg planted in the tomb
Can't git a job, an' I've a strong misgivin'
'Bout bein' cooped up in a Soldiers' Home.
Whar did I lose my leg? At Spottsylvania.
Perhaps you've read about the bloody fight;
But then I guess the story won't restrain you
From doin' what the law sets down as right.
I'm not a vag through choice, but through misfortune,
An' as fur drink — well, all men have their faults ;
An', Judge, I guess I've had my lawful portion
O' rough experience in prison vaults.
I served as private in the Tenth New Jersey,
An' all the boys'll say I done what's right ;
Thar ain't a man kin say that Abram Bursey
Was ever found a-shirkin' in a fight.
Right in the hell-born, frightful roar of battle,
Whar shot and shell shrieked through the darksome wood,
You'd always find me doin' the best I could.
We had a brave ol' feller fur a colonel ;
We called him 'Sweety,' but his name was Sweet.
Why, Judge, I sw'ar it, by the Great Eternal,
That brave ol' cuss'd rather fight than eat;
An' you could always bet your bottom dollar
In battle Sweety'd never hunt a tree —
He'd alius push into the front and holler :
'Brace up, my gallant boys, an' follow me !'
Well, just before the Spottsylvania battle
or Sweety cum to me an' says, says he :
'I tell you, Abe, 'tain't many things'll rattle
A tough old weather-beaten cuss like me ;
But in my very soul I've got a feelin'
That I'm a-goin' to get a dose to-day,
An' tain't no use fur me to be concealin'
The skittish thoughts that in my bosom play.
Fur many years you've been my neighbor, Bursey,
An' I hev alius found you squar' and true;
Back in our little town in old New Jersey
No one has got a better name than you.
An' now I want your promise, squar'ly given,
That if our cause to-day demands my life,
An' you yourself are left among the livin',
You'll take me back and lay me by my wife.'
Well, Judge, that day, amidst the most infernal
An' desp'rale. bloody fight I ever seed,
'Way u pin front 1 saw tlie daring colonel
Throw up his hands and tumble off his steed.
In half a minute I was bendin' o'er him ;
An' seein' that he wasn't killed outright,
I loaded him upon my back and bore him
Some little distance out of the fight.
The blood from out a ghastly wound was flowin'.
An' so I snatched the shirt from off my back;
For I could see the brave old cuss was goin'
To die, unless I held the red tide back.
An' purty soon I seed he was revivin'.
An' heard him whisper : 'Abe, you've saved my life ;
Your ol' wool shirt, along with your connivin'.
Has kept me from that grave beside my wife.'
Well, Judge, while I stood thar beside him, schemin'
On how to get him in a doctor's care,
A ten-pound shell toward us came screamin'
Just like a ravin' demon in the air ;
An' when it passed, I found myself a-lyin'
Across ol' Sweety's body, an' I see
That 'tarnal shell that by us went a-flyin'
Had tuk my leg along for company.
Well, Judge, that's all ; 'cept when the war was over
I found myself a cripple, and since then
I've been a sort o' shiftless, worthless rover,
But jest as honest as the most o' men.
I never stole a dime from livin' mortal.
Nor never harmed a woman, child, or man;
I've simply been a bum, and hope the court'll
Be jest as easy on me as it can."
Then spake the judge: "Such helpless, worthless creatures
Should never bf allowed to bum and beg;
Your case, 'tis true, has some redeeming features.
For in your country's cause you lost a leg.
And yet I feel the world needs an e.xample
To check the tendency of men to roam ;
The sentence is, that all yonr life your camp'll
Be the best room in my humble home."
The soldier stared, dumb, silent as a statue ;
Then, in a voice of trembling pathos, said :
"Judge, turn your head and give me one look at you;
That voice is like an echo from the dead."
Then forward limped he, grimy hand extended.
While tears adown his sun-browned cheeks did roll,
And said with slang and pathos strangely blended :
"Why, Col. Sweety, durn your brave ol' soul !"
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Fine Tkibute to "The Old South." — Gen. Clement A.
Evans writes from Atlanta, Ga. : "I desire to say to you that
the attractive book called 'The Old South,' written by an
accomplished Confederate soldier and offered by the Veteran
to the public, is giving great satisfaction. It is a genuine por-
traiture of the South in the old time drawn by a true man
in the true style and true spirit. It merits the close reading
of men and women, also the young in schools and colleges."
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CONFEDERATE MONUMEXT AT BIRMINGHAM.
On the 26th of April, in the ijiesence of an immense crowd
and with elaborate ceremonies, this magnificent monument
was unveiled in Capitol Park at Birmingham. In this, as in
all other instances where monuments have been erected to
commemorate the valor and patriotism of the Confederate
soldier, the loyal hearts and busy hands of the beloved daugh-
ters of the South have been the chief factors in the work.
The Pelham Chapter of the U. D. C. began this labor of love
more than five years ago, when Mrs. A. A. Clisby was Presi-
dent of the Chapter, and under each succeeding President
the Chapter has diligently followed up the work to its crown-
ing success, under its present President, Mrs. J. Asa Roun-
tree, with Mrs. A. A. Clisby as Secretary. The active com-
mittee of ladies who have given their time and money to the
work are Mrs. Charles G. Brown (chairman), Mrs. E. T.
Taliaferro, Mrs. J. U. Hardeman, Mrs. R. H. Carter, and
Mrs. J. A. Rountree, supplemented by Mr. Rufus N. Rhodes,
editor of the Birmingham Ncii'S and Commander in Chief of
the Sons of U. C. V.'s of Alabama.
Many distinguished citizens and Veterans were present,
and a number of patriotic addresses were delivered. Mrs.
Rountree, mistress of ceremonies, introduced Mrs. Brown by
saying: "The strength of that shaft, fifty-two feet high, stands
as evidence of the united strength of Pelham Chapter, the
members of which have stood shoulder to shoulder, side by
side, caring ever for the needs of the less fortunate of those
who fought for Southern rights, lionoring with our cross of
bronze the Confederate soldier wherever found, and strew-
ing flowers over the graves of those who have gone beyond.
You have met with us here to-day to witness the completion
of our work in commemoration of the deeds of valor of the
entire Confederacy, and on behalf of our Chapter I present to
you the chairman of our monument committee. Mrs. Charles
G. Brown."
In a beautiful and most appropriate address Mrs. Brown
turned over the monument to the Stale of Alabama and the
city of Birmingham.
Lieut. Gov. R. M. Cunningham accepted the monument in
behalf of the State, and his Honor, Mayor W. M. Drennan,
for the city of Birmingham.
Gen. George P. Harrison, of Opelika, Commander of llic
United Confederate Veterans of Alabama, was the orator of
the day, and made the closing address that brou.ght round
after round of applause from the vast assemblage in which
could be heard that clear, shrill shout of the old veterans.
ABOUT SOME "GALVANIZED YANKS."
Replying to an inquiry in the Veter.v.N" for May by Com-
rade Case, of Prospect, Tcnn., Mr. L. McLendon. of Rison,
Ark., says that the "galvanized Yanks" referred to were sent
to Memphis, and from there to Alton, III, and arrived there
a short time before any of the Confederate prisoners were
sent on cxcliange to Richmond. Comrade McLendon states
further: "I do not know how the boys found the name 'gal-
vanized \'anks :' but found it was very quickly, and it was
not resented. Our boys were continually fighting them with
rock and fist. I talked witli a number of them who were
from the northeastern part of the LTnited States and had
been captured in Virginia and sent to Andersonville, and
from there joined the Confederate army. They told me they
fought as hard at Egypt Station for us as they did in Vir-
ginia against us. When I left prison, they were still there."
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A SOUTHERN HEROINE IN NEED.
[The following was written by an eminent Southerner of
West Virginia after investigating the merits of the lady men-
tioned, and the Veteran gladly cooperates, but it must ad-
here to a rule not to make an indiscriminate plea for any one
with remittance to go direct. The rule was made years ago,
to avoid imposition. The Veteran suggests without au-
thority that any contribution may be sent to Mrs. C. A.
Forney Smith, 203 Gaines Street, Little Rock, Ark., and
any amount sent the Veteran will be remitted through her.]
The heroism of our Southern w-omen has become proverbial.
They were our ministering angels, and the sublimity of their
devotion to our cause is unparalleled.
From out of the multitude of their noble deeds there comes
to light now . and then some special act of heroism which
deserves mention. There has recently come to my attention
the case of a noble woman, still living at an advanced age,
who rendered great service to Confederate prisoners during
the war for which she should be remembered. I refer to
Mrs. Kate Hooper, formerly of Alexandria, Va., and now liv-
ing in Batesvillc, Ark. Her niaider nam« was Kate Padgett,
of Fairfax County, Va., and she has the best b'ood of the
old commonwealth in her veins. She married John Hooper,
a merchant of Alexandria, Va., where she resided during the
War between the States, and it was here that she rendered
great service to Confederate prisoners who passed through
Alexandria on their way to Northern prisons.
I am told that, regardless of weather, whether rain or sun-
shine, hot or cold, Mrs. Hooper and a lady companion, Miss
Millie Stewart, could be seen each day during those four
years of war at the old depot in Alexandria on the lookout
for Confederate prisoners on the incoming trains ; and at the
risk of insult from the guards, and sometimes threatened
with arrest and imprisonment, they would contribute to the
necessities of the prisoners by giving them money or clothing.
They w'ould also frequently visit sick Confederates in prison
at Washington and minister to their wants. There are old
Confederate soldiers now living who remember the generous
aid received from these heroic women.
Mrs. Hooper also acted as a correspondence bureau for our
prisoners. In some of the prisons there was an occasional
relaxation of rules, which would permit a prisoner to cor-
respond with a near relative in the North. In this way Mrs.
Hooper got to be known among many prisoners as "Aunt
Katie," and she would find a way to smuggle their letters
through the lines to be forwarded to friends in the South.
After the war Mrs. Hooper encountered reverse fortunes.
She is now living in Arkansas, a childless widow ; and, too
proud to ask for charity or to be dependent on strangers, she
has for many years been earning her own living.
I am informed that Miss Stewart has been dead for many
years, and Mrs. Hooper is now rapidly approaching the sun-
set of life. The tenth day of next June will be her sixty-
eighth birthday. My suggestion is that all of us, including
Veterans. Sons of Veterans, and Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, make a sni.-ill birthday donation to Mrs. Hooper on
her sixty-eighth anniversary. If you cannot give more than
twenty-five cents, send it to her direct, for in the aggregate
it will make a neat little sum which will help to lighten the
burden of old age and smooth her pathway to the grave.
Such a donation will be treasure laid up in heaven.
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ACCOUNT OF HOW SOME FLAGS WERE CAPTURED.
BY W. A. FLANAGAN, LINCOLNTON, CA.
Since Congress has done the proper thing in returning our
battle flags it is fitting to explain the circumstances under
which some of them were captured.
I was a member of the isth Georgia (Benning's) Brigade,
R. H. Anderson's Division. There were two Gen. Andersons
in the Army of Northern Virginia, and to designate ours the
boys called him "Old Tige," and he became well known
throughout the army by this sobriquet. Gen. Benning we
dubbed "Old Rock." I don't think Gen. Benning ever fully
appreciated this intended compliment from the boys, but it
stuck to him all the same. I remember distinctly at the Wil-
derness fight that part of our division went in on the left of
the plank road and caught it red-hot. Word came back for
Benning's Brigade to come up. As we were hurrying for-
ward we met a number of wounded who were going to the
rear. Gen. Benning was riding along the line urging the men
forward, and passed by a poor fellow badly shot ; but as the
General passed he swung his old wool hat over his head and
shouted out: "Drive up, Rock; old Tige's treed over yonder."
"Attend to your wound; I'll attend to Tige," said the General
amid a shout of laughter from those who heard it, many of
whom within the next ten minutes were to die.
At Gettysburg we lost our flag. The first day our works
were in front of Ball Mountain and our brigade was formed
behind a narrow strip of woods. We were sent forward to
capture a Federal battery, which we did. The second day we
simply held our ground, probably advanced a little. On the
third day we were ordered to fall back to the crest of the hill
in our rear. By some mishap Old Rock either failed to get
the order or misunderstood it, but held his skirmishers to
their work, notwithstanding we were being flanked on botli
sides. He continued to call up more men to support us, until
he had all of the 15th on the firing line. They were now
pressing us hard in front, both of our flanks were enveloped,
and there was a space of only about three hundred yards that
separated their lines from encircling us completely. He sent
back orders to Col. DuBoise to hold the enemy in check so
that he could withdraw his brigade. We began to fall back.
The enemy was in twenty steps of our front line, and the
colors had been shot down a half dozen times. Men in Com-
pany C, the color company, said that nine were killed with
the colors, and they were finally left on the ground, as it
was certain death to pick them up. The three regiments,
besides the 15th, that were with us in this trap were the 2d,
17th, and 20th Georgia.
THE LAST "REBEL YELL."
BY H. K. NELSON, HOMER, KY.
I have read and heard a good deal about "the last shot
fired," "the last man killed," and "the last charge" made by
Confederate soldiers, but I've never yet seen any account of
the last "Rebel yell." As no one seems to claim this distinc-
tion, I modestly suggest that it be allowed to a crowd of us
Tennesseeans who were returning home, after our surrender
at Greensboro, N. C, through the western portion of that
State and East Tennessee. I am reminded of the incident of
which I write by reading in the Veteran, Volume XII., p. no,
an article by Col. Luke Finley, of Memphis, Tenn., in which
he reports our entrance into Asheville, N. C, on our home-
ward march.
The Colonel doubtless saw and remembers all of which he
writes, but does not explain how a lot of paroled prisoners
were permitted to march home with guns in their hands. In
explanation of this, I will say that after we had stacked
arms at the surrender every fourth man was permitted to
take a gun in order to protect ourselves against the bush-
whackers that at that time infested the mountains of West-
ern North Carolina and East Tennessee, through which we
had to pass in order to reach our homes. How the color
sergeant managed to save his flag, I do not now remember ;
but as we represented six or seven regiments, consolidated, at
the lime of surrender, he probably saved the flag in the gen-
eral mix-up. At all events, he had it, furled, and the cover
over it.
When we were nearing the little Rebel town of Asheville,
the flag was unfurled, the ranks "dressed," and, placing our
men with guns at "right shoulder shift" in front, we prepared
to make our last military display, notwithstanding the town
was in the hands of the Federals. Now I do not remember
the crowd of girls Col. Finley speaks of standing in front of
the academy grounds, but I do remember as distinctly as if
it happened yesterday that just as we were passing a cottage
the command, for some purpose, was halted. Standing on the
stile leading into the yard of this cottage, on the right-hand
side of the street, were three ladies within easy reach of our
color bearer, who was standing within a few feet of me. One
of these ladies was very enthusiastic, and had been speaking
encouragingly to the boys as they passed by. Turning to the
ensign, she said : "Let me put my hands on that flag." He
drooped it over her head, and she caught it in her hands,
kissed it, and rubbed it over her face; then, with tears in her
eyes, she said : "Carry it to your home in triumph. It is not
m-
MIS.S I.UCIE L. BOULDIN, DANVILLE, VA.,
Sponior Thiril Brig;u!e, U. C. V., Kifth Confeil;r;ice K-gimi nt.
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yet disgraced, nor has it been trailed in the dust." As she
finished speaking a Federal sergeant with a file of men came
up aivd informed her that the provost marshal requested her
to report at his headquarters immediately. Drawing herself
up with the dignity of a queen, and the tears still shining in
her eyes, she motioned him away with her hand and said :
"Tell your provost marshal I have no use for either him or
his headquarters." Whether he had orders for her arrest or
not, 1 do not know; but lie turned at once and marched away.
Then went up the old "Rebel yell," the last mother's son of
us giving tongue loud and long. It was not exactly in tone
with the old fighting yell, yet it was one of triumph, and I
think it entitles our little squad of paroled prisoners to the
honor of giving for the last time our significant "Rebel yell."
I've often thought of that true and plucky daughter of Dixie
and wonder if she is yet living.
Corrected Account or B.\ttle of Cedar Creek.
W. A. L. Jett, Murray Hill, N. J., April i8, 1905;
"In looking over my old copies of the Veterans, whicli I
have just had bound, I see that on page 165 of the April num-
lier for 1902 some comrade (name not given), a member of
Company B, 4th Georgia, makes a mistake in regard to the
Cedar Creek battle. He states that 'on the evening of the
l8th of Octoljer Gordon's, Ramseur's, and Pcgram's Divisions
had orders to deposit knapsacks and baggage, and we took
up the marcli about dark, w^itli Mosby leading, through the
mountains, where neither vehicle nor horseman could ride,
over ravines and along rugged pathways in single file.'
"The description is correct, though the cavalry was not
Mosby's, but Payne's Brigade, of Fitzhugh Lee's Division,
with the 6th Virginia Cavalry in the lead. After leading our
horses by bridle paths across the point of the Massanutton
Mountain, we mounted, and two squadrons of the 6th Vir-
ginia, under command of Lieut. Matthews, of Company K,
charged across the Shenandoah River at Buckton Station,
on the Manassas Gap railroad (now a branch of the South-
ern>, and ran in the pickets, making way for the infantry.
Later our brigade charged the wagon train, capturing many
wagons and prisoners. Company B, of the Cth Virginia, of
which I was a member, was one of the companies of the lead-
ing squadrons. My company had two killed — Lieut. William
H. Browning and Private Albert Hitt.
"This comrade's mistake was a natural one, as a Georgia
infantryman could not be expected to be familiar with the
cavalry commands of Virginia ; so I desire to make this cor-
rection, as we want true history of the different commands.
Mosby won glory enough without being credited with v.h^t
belongs to Payne's Brigade."
MISS M.\RY I.OIISE TERRY, CADIZ, KY.,
Maid of Honor Kcnlncky Division, I'. C. V.
APPOMATTOX BANQUET.
At this banquet, given by the Alexander Hamilton Club
of Chicago on the fortieth anniversary of Gen. Lee's sur-
render, of the three prominent speakers of the evening, two
were distinguished Southerners — Hon. Swayer Shirley, Con-
gressman from Kentucky, and Judge J. M. Dickinson, for-
merly of Nashville, Tenn.. but now a citizen of Chicago. The
third speaker was Hon. J. E. Hedges, of New York.
Mr. Shirley, the first speaker, said in part:
"Appomattox denied forever the right of secession and
freed the slave, but Appomattox and its generation failed to
settle the political and social relationship of the races. The
l-"ourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and the Civil Rights
.\ct, passed to enforce them, were legislative attempts at so-
lution; but they have failed so completely that I doubt if
any considerable body of thoughtful men could be found w-ho
would in the light of our present experience advocate their
adoption were the question to be faced anew. They were
adopted in heat and passion, and, so far as capable of en-
forcement, were enforced by sheer might, and they failed, as
the South prophesied they must fail, because they were based
on radically wrong principles.
"The attempt at enforcement created a condition that no
fair-minded American can read of without a blush of shame.
I have no desire, however, to speak of reconstruction. My
State escaped its horrors, and my own knowledge is hearsay.
Other men have given to the world the facts, and over so
fearful a picture of a great people's sufTering might now well
be drawn the veil of charity did not the lesson it teaches yet
need to be learned. With a patience that spoke eloquently
for the love of law, the Southern people bore their burden
until it was apparent that Anglo-Saxon civilization was at
stake. Then by violent disregard of the law they again se-
cured control of their State governments.
"Now as I have said, the South for many years was forced
to disregard the law. Sometimes by force, often by artifice,
and, however much the far-seeing regretted the necessity
and knew the evils that must follow, still always there was
the necessity ; not to do so was to surrender forever the
civilization of the .-Xnglo-Saxon. If, then, there has been
disregard of the law in flagrant manner— as from time to time
there has— shall not those w^ho sit in judgment remember
that it was the bestowal of the suffrage on the negro that
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made necessary the teaching of a dangerous lesson? and shall
there not be more of wonder that there has been so little
censure than that there has been so much? For, despite the
accusations of hostile critics, the South has exhibited no
greater portion of lawlessness than other sections, and usually
in cases, while not justifiable (for lawlessness never is),
where the provocation was greater than any other section
ever known. As the law now is, the necessity has gone, and
everywhere throughout the South is a persistent effort being
made to stamp out disregard of the law. You cannot undo
in a day the evil. As ye sow, so shall ye reap, and to prevent
a greater the South has had to take a lesser evil. But as of
old she stood the embodiment of law, and as many of her best
and purest fought a losing fight for their conception of it
and belief in it, so will the sons of those men come back to
the old Anglo-Saxon faith and abide in and by the law only.'
Judge Dickinson was then introduced to respond to the
toast of "Some Views of a Southerner Who Lives in the
North upon the Question of Sections." In opening his ad-
dress. Judge Dickinson said :
"I would be disloyal to tlie South if I failed upon a proper
occasion to speak her sentiments as I understand them, and
I would be an ingrate if I declined an opportunity to bear
testimony to the generous hospitality and cordial treatment
which the people of Chicago, and especially those who were
soldiers in the War between the States, extend to the South-
erners who cast their lot among them. It gives me special
pleasure to respond to this toast in Chicago
"We are Americans reunited, with no contest except in gen-
erous rivalry to advance the welfare of our country; yet
cherishing, but without bitterness, these proud memories, with
one voice proclaim:
j^i "Fold up the banner! Smelt the guns!
Love rules. Ller gentler purpose runs.
A mighty mother turns in tears
The pages of her battle years,
Lamenting all her fallen sons."
"The people of America on both sides of that conflict who
sustained their convictions to the last extremity vindicated
their claims to the higliest standard of American citizenship.
If, moved by fears for self or property, they had surrendered
their principles, they would have been unfit to encumber the
earth. What American would have had them do otherwise,
holding the faith they did?
"Would any one, if he could, reverse their action and con-
template with equanimity the future of this country in the
keeping of the cold-blooded offspring of base and calculating
weaklings who deserted the traditions and political teachings
of their fathers, in which they believed?
"Even looking back through the tears which these sad
memories evoke — memories of suffering and distress not
merely of strong men but of helpless women and children,
memories of a carnival of death — Americans would not wrong
the heroic spirit of that gallant people by wishing that those
of either side had sought safety by bowing to the storm until
its fury was spent. They would not for all the cost surrender
the glorious heritage of that strife.
"In a speech made recently in Louisville, President Roose-
velt said : 'In the dark days each of you fought for the right
as it was given you to see the right, and each of you left to
us the right to feel pride not only in your valor, but in your
devotion to what you conscientiously believed your duty. And
now we are all one, and as a reunited people we have the
right to feel the same pride in the valor of the man who con-
scientiously risked his life in the Confederate uniform that
we have in the man who fought in the blue.' Are not these
utterances of our great President approved by every one- here
fo-night?
"The solidarity of the American people after such a bloody
strife is the marvel of the ages, incomprehensible to all but
Americans ; a possibility in America alone. In 1863, when our
country was rent in twain by civil war and no man knew
its issues or what would be the fate of this republic, Abraham
Lincoln, standing on the historic heights of Gettysburg, yet
dyed with the crimson flush that poured from the wounds of
twenty thousand Americans who had met each other in the
shock of battle, proclaimed that this 'government of the peo-
ple, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the
earth.' The Confederate soldiery and all of the people of
the South to-day confirm for our generation that high proph-
ecy.
"As evidence of a reunited country, we have come to wit-
ness what thirty years ago no man would have believed a pos-
sibility— a Confederate Congressman at the head of tlie De-
partment of Justice; a Confederate colonel Postmaster-Gen-
eral ; three Confederate soldiers on the bench of the Supreme
Court of the United States ; a Confederate soldier who in-
vaded the great State of Ohio under the leadership of John
Morgan, and who was imprisoned at Columbus, sitting in judg-
ment on the property and lives of the people of that State ;
another, both a Confederate and a Democrat, by the appoint-
ment of a Republican President, Governor of the Philippines ;
and another, bearing on his person the scars received in
battling for the Confederacy, standing before the assembled
battle ships of the world on the flagship of our navy as the
representative of the navy of the United States.
"The spirit of brotherhood that triumphed over all the
bitter passions and fierce councils that followed victory is aiv
essential and resplendent part of this marvelous and thrilling
picture of a people still possessed of a countrj', part of a gov-
MAJ. D. W. SANDERS, LOUISVILLE,
Who sr rv, d on thi staff . i Maj. G. S, G, Fre ich, C. S. A.
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ernment whose allegiance they had renounced, whose power
they vainly sought to overthrow, joyfully, of their own free
will, hailing the flag of that still dominant government as
their own flag, and exulting in its proud history as a part of
their inalienable birthright."
REMINISCENCE OF JOHNSON'S ISLAND PRISON.
BY CAPT. M. W. SIMS, BRYAN, TEX.
I see in the March Veteran the article by Capt. A. O. P.
Nicholson, of Columbia, Tenn., who occupied the same room
. (No. 10, Block 2) in Johnson's Island Prison that I did.
I was there in August and September, 1863. I recall Col.
Nixon, Col. Robertson, Maj Bate, "Bill" Minor, and Capt.
George Ralston. The last-named and I were captured to-
gether at Natchez, Miss., soon after the fall of Vicksburg.
We were a rich mess — paid a Confederate captain to cook
for us. "Bill" Minor had friends in New York, Hall and
Hildreth, former lessees of the St. Charles Hotel in New
Orleans, who sent him money and cases of liquors ; Col. I.
O. Nixon's old partner had been lessee of the St. Charles
Theater in New Orleans (Johnny Owens, the actor, was in
New York, and kept him supplied with wines, etc.) ; while
the writer had fifty dollars in greenbacks, sent him by a lady
friend in Glasgow, Mo. — so that up to tlie time I left, the
later part of September, 1863, we "lived high."
I was sent for by Maj. Hoffman, the conunandant, and on
going to his headquarters was notified to be ready to leave
next morning, as I was to be sent to Gen. Grant at Vicks-
burg for special exchange. All exchange of prisoners had
been discctinucd ; but Gen. E. Kirby Smith had captured
Gen. Grant's l>iother-in-law, Dent, who promised that if re-
leased he would have me released also; hence the order for
nic to report to Gen. Grant for special exchange. On my
arrival at Vicksburg, I found that I had been charged with
shooting some prisoners at Millikcn Bend, La., and had been
sentenced to death — quite a change from my expected liberty.
I was placed in a cell in the Vicksburg jail, where I was
when the battle of Chickaniauga was fought. Thomas called
for rcenforcemcnts, and all available troops in Vicksburg
were hurried forward to Chattanooga. All the prisoners in
Vicksburg, including myself, were ordered to be sent to the
"Irving Block," in Memphis. We were placed on a boat one
dark, rainy night. About an hour before day I jumped over-
board aft of the wheel room and swam ashore.
I doubt very much if any of that mess, or occupants of
Room 10, Block 2, are living other than Capt. Nicholson,
Maj. Bate, and the writer.
ZEALOUS DAUGHTERS IN CALIFORNIA.
The R. E. Lee Chapter, No. 278, U. D. C, Los Angeles,
Cal., is ('ou'.tlcss o'c of the most active in the Pacific Di-
vision. It has a membership of one hundred and sixty-five,
and its meetings are now held at the Woman's Club House,
the attendance being too large for private homes, as was
formerly the rule. At the last meeting it was voted that
their main work be the furnishing and support of a room in
the Confederate Home at Richmond, Va., for needy Con-
federate women. This Chapter will also undertake the com-
pilation of a Southern cookbook, the reputation of the South-
ern people far good cooking being a guarantee in advance of
good sales in that Western country.
The birthday of Gen. Lee is always celebrated by this
Chapter, and on the 19th of January last a delightful pro-
gramme was rendered, after which refreshments were served.
An address was delivered by Mr. John W. Mitchell, a native
son of Virginia, now an attorney of Los Angeles. Many of
the Southern States are represented in this society, and such
entertainments as this are pleasant reminders of the dear land
from which they are so widely separated.
CAPTURING THE NEGRO FLAG.
BY LIEUT. W. E. WINSTON, ROSWELL, N. MEX.
At the suggestion of Comrade Cullins in the March Vet-
eran I wish to say that I was present at the capture of the
negro flag of the Thirteenth United States Colored Infantry.
Knox, who was first lieutenant of Company B, Thirty-
Sixth Alabama, captured this flag. Carpenter was cap-
tain of Company B, Thirty-Sixth Alabama. He and I
were captured at Spanish Fort just prior to the surrender.
Holtzclaw's Brigade, composed of the Eighteenth, Thirty-
Sixth. Thirty-Eighth, and the Fifty-Eighth and Thirty-
Second consolidated Alabama Regiments, were on the
right-hand side of the turnpike. Gibson's Louisiana Bri-
gade held the left of the turnpike, facing Nashville, and Wal-
thall's or Stovall's were to our right, a battery being between
our right and their left. This battery was entirely demolished
before the Yankees made their charge, which charge was
made against Holtzclaw's front. A regiment of negroes came
ill front, supported by three or four lines of white soldiers.
We had cut down some trees and piled the logs up for a
breastwork, putting the brush about twenty or thirty feet in
front of our works. I do not think that Lieut. Knox killed
the color bearer — in fact, I am sure that there was not a
standing man in sight when Lieut. Knox went after the
flag, which I know he brought in with him.
Lieut. Knox, if living, could verify this statement, as could
many others of the Thirty-Sixth Alabama Regiment, Right
there was one of the hottest fights I was ever in. After the
retreat of the Yanks, shooting was kept up at everything
that moved in our front, and I am sure that every negro who
escaped made believe thai he u'as dead. I am of the opinion
that Lieut. Knox sent thi-s flag home.
I first joined the Confederate army in Company D, First
North Carolina, from Chapel Hill — Dick Ashe, captain; D.
H. Hill, colonel ; C, C, Lee, lieutenant colonel ; Lane, major.
After the Bethel fight R. F. Hoke was our major, and a fine
man he was, whom I remember with the greatest kindness,
as I do every member of Company D, who always treated
me with great kindness during my soldiering among them.
Should any one of this old company read this, I wish he
would write me. Ben. M. Hord was also a member of this
company, to whom I was warmly attached and from whom
I should be greatly pleased to hear. After the term of serv-
ice expired with the First North Carolina. I returned to my
native State, Alabama, and helped to raise and drill Com-
pany A, Thirty-Sixth Alabama Regiment of Infantry. Capt.
Carpenter and I were captured at Spanish Fort just prior
to the surrender, tented and messed together on Ship Island
and New Orleans, thence on the hurricane deck of the Mollie
.\ble to Vicksburg, thence to Black River and turned loose.
1 was first lieutenant of Company A, Thirty-Sixth Alabama,
for two years.
John S. Dunlap, of Paris, Tenn., needs January and March,
1893, and March, 1895, to complete his file of the Veteran.
Write him if you have these copies that you will dispose of.
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BURIED BY 71 IS CLASSMATES— THE ENEMY.
BY GEN. G. P. THRVSTON, U. S. A., NASHVILLE, TENN.
I find in a memorial volume of Miami Uni.versity, in Ohio,
a most interesting account of the death and burial of Joe!
Allen Battle, Jr., adjutant of the 20th Tennessee Regiment,
Confederate, commanded by Col. Joel A. Battle, his father.
He was a favorite student of that university before the war.
It was a strange and pathetic story, and I am sure it will be
of interest to his family and friends in Tennessee.
I was an intimate friend and college mate of Allen Battle
at the university (we 411 called him Allen). I remember
him as if he were before me now — a handsome young South-
ern student, refined, with intellectual face, graceful and cor-
dial in manner. He seemed indeed an ideal type of young
JOEL AI.LEN BATTLE.
American manhood, and was greatly beloved by all his as-
sociates. After his graduation he married in Ohio, and we
expected him to settle permanently in that State; but the War
between the States broke out, and he soon returned to Ten-
nessee and became an officer in his father's regiment.
In March, 1862, my regiment, the ist Ohio Infantry, was
encamped south of Nashville, and I had charge of the picket
line on the Franklin Pike near the Overton residence. One
day a physician of the neighborhood came to the picket post
on the pike seeking to pass the lines. He proved to be Dr.
W. C. Blackman, a typical Southern gentleman, and the ac-
quaintance thus made ripened later into a lasting friendship.
I at once askeJ him if he knew Joel Allen Battle. "Know
him?" he replied; "he is my near kinsman." Dr. Black-
man insisted later that I go to his house and meet and dine
with Allen's wife and sisters. His invitation was so hearty
that I consented, although his home was beyond our lines ;
but I realized at once that he was a gentleman of high char-
acter and felt safe in his promised protection. There I met
Allen's family and friend.s. Far apart as we were in other
ways, we all loved .Mien, and I was received by them with
kind, cordial consideration.
Our Union forces, under Gen. Buell. were then on their
way South to join Gen. Grant's army at Pittsburg Landing,
and the 20th Tepn^isee Regiment, under Gen. Albert Sidney
Johnston, was not far away. As I rose to leave the party I
remarked to the young ladies that when we got down there
and captured Col. Battle and Allen I would see that they
received the kindest treatment. "I assure you, sir," said one
of his sisters with a smile, "that they will have no occasion to
accept of your kindness. It will be more than you can do to
take care of your own scalp," and thus we parted.
Our army soon reached the bloody battlefield of Shiloh.
Alas ! the dear, handsome young Allen was killed in the fore-
front of the fight, and gallant old Col. Battle, his father, was
captured. How strange and sad the incident ! Allen was
discovered among the slain the ne.xt morning, and three of
his classmates in the Union army (two of them his room-
mates) buried him on /.le fatal field — buried him as tenderly
and sorrowfully as if he were a brother.
The following account of his burial, printed in the me-
morial volume, was written by Maj. John R. Chamberlain, of
the 8ist Ohio Regiment, one of Allen's class associates at
Miami University. It illustrates in full relief the tragedy and
pathos of the War between the States ;
"The Burial of Joel Allen Battle, of Tennessee.
"The last time I saw Allen alive was in June, 1858, at Miami
University the year I graduated. When I saw him next it was
on April 8, 1862, dead in the camp of Hurlbert's Division on
the battlefield of Shiloh. There were watching over him John
C. Lewis, of Elizabethtown, Ohio, then adjutant of the 41st
Illinois, and Cliff Ross, late of Terre Haute, Ind., adjutant of
the 31st Indiana. Both these young men had been classmates
and roommates of Allen Battle's at Miami University. It
was in the front of these regiments to which these young men
belonged that he was killed on Sunday, April 6, 1862. They
found his body on the field and brought it to the camp of the
31st Indiana for burial.
"His regiment, the 20th Tennessee, was a member of that
Tennessee brigade which had been driven back again and
again by Hurlbert's troops until it refused to obey orders
[ ( ?) — Ed. Veteran] to advance any more. It was while lead-
ing this brigade into action after its refusal that Gen. Albert
Sidney Johnston, of the Confederate army, was killed and
Hurlbert's troops were forced to retire from its front. In
these historic charges the 20th Tennessee, of which Battle
was adjutant, distinguished itself by holding its ground and
keeping up the fight when all other regiments of the brigade
had retreated. John C. Lewis, Cliff Ross, and myself attended
to his burial. A rude coffin made of cracker boxes contained
his body when it was let down into a deep grave, where it was
buried on sloping ground in the rear of the 31st Indiana Regi-
ment. There was no name put at the head of the grave, and
the earth was beaten down flat so that the place could not be
recognized by those who had no business to know it. About
twenty paces from the grave stood a large black oak tree.
I cut with an ax a big chip out of the tree facing the grave,
so as to guide us in finding the spot should we ever be re-
quired to do so.
"Adjutant John C. Lewis had called at the camp of my
regiment on Monday night of the last day of the battle and
said to me ; 'I think we have Battle over at our camp. We're
going to bury him to-morrow afternoon, and I want you to
come over and see if you can recognize him,' Though the
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two Union adjutants had no doubt about his identity, they
wanted to leave me free to form a judgment myself. No
man who had ever seen Joel Allen Battle could have had any
doubt about the identity of that body. There was a smile on
his face, the right hand was raised, the forefinger extended
as if pornting to some object, and his lips looked as if he were
speaking when the fatal bullet struck him down. I have never
been to that spot since, and at last accounts from his friends
I learn that his body had not been removed. None of us
three who knew him in life, as we stood and saw the earth
covering his dead body, had any other thought than that we
were laying to his last rest a gallant soldier, a sincere man,
who thought that the right was a thing to die for at need,
and that he believed with all his ardent soul that the cause in
which he fought was just and righteous."
Gen. Thruston had an enviable record as an officer in the
Federal army, rising from the rank of captain to that of
brevet brigadier general. He received compliments and pro-
motions that placed his name high upon the roll of honor.
His gallantry at the battle of Murfrecsboro came under the
Fpecial notice of Gen. Rosecrans, who promoted him on the
battlefield and placed him upon his staff, as may be seen by
the following telegram to the War Department :
'He.^dquarters Department of the Cumberland,
MuRFREESDORO, Tenn., February 13, 1863.
"IJrig. G.n. I.. ThoniJS, Adjt ('.en. I'. S. A., Washin^lon. D. C.
"Please have Capt. G. P. Thruston, ist Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, appointed my senior aid de camp, with the rank of
major. His gallantry saved the ammunition train of the right
wing at the battle of Stone's River.
"W. S. Rosecrans, Major General Commanding.
"Official : Henry Stone, Assistant Adjutant General."
Gen. Thruston was also brevcttcd brigadier general at the
special request of Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas for bravery
and special services at Chickamauga in being the first officer
to cross the gap in the Federal line on the right to Gen.
Thomas's position on Snodgrass Hill and giving him valuable
information and assistance in bringing up rccnforcements .
The following circular letter, written by Lieut. Col. Thrus-
ton as chief of staff of the right wing of Gen. Rosccrans's
army a short time before the battle of Chickamauga, is a
credit to his heart and sense of humanity, showing his efforts
in the midst of the horrors of war to conduct its operations
upon humane principles :
"Headquarters 20T11 Army Corps,
Winchester, Tenn., July 11, 1863.
"General: Gen. McCook desires you to carry into execu-
tion ni your conniiand the instructions contained in the in-
dosed letter. While he appreciates the condition in which
your troops have been placed and the necessity of foraging
upon the country for supplies, he wishes every effort made to
mainlam discipline and protect private property from willful
and needless depredations.
"The great majority of the people of this country arc dis-
loyal, and he is willing to see them deprived, in a proper
manner, of whatever is essential to the support and safety
of the army, provided sufficient subsistence is left in all cases
to supply the present necessities of families.
"Disloyalty tlocs not forfeit the rights of humanity, which
every true soldier will respect.
".Ml forage, provisions, and animals required for the use of
the army must be taken and receipted for by regimental, bri-
pa<le. ,ind division quartermasters.
"All officers are authorized and directed to arrest thieves,
pillagers, and stragglers.
"I am. General, very respectfully your obedient servant,
"G. P. Thruston,
Assistant Adjutant General and Chief of Staif."'
Order of Gen. Thruston's Promotions.
Captain ist Ohio Infantry, 1861; major and assistant ad-
jutant general United States Volunteers. February 13, 1863.
senior aid de camp Gen. Rosecrans; lieutenant colonel and
assistant adjutant general, chief of staff 20th Army Corps,
February 16, 1863, Gen. McCook; judge advocate Depart-
ment of the Cumberland, staff of Maj. Gen. George H. Thom-
as, October, 1863-64; brevet colonel and brevet brigadier gen-
eral United States Volunteers, March, 1865.
At the close ot
the War between
the States Gen.
Thruston married
and settled in
Nashville. During
the troubles and
disorders of the re-
construction period
as an ex-Federal
officer he was most
considerate and in-
fluential in seeing
that justice was
done by the Fed
eral authorities to
the people of this
section. He ap-
peared at Washing-
ton before the Re-
struction Committee and gave his testimony and read an
elaborate protest against placing Tennessee under a military
governor. With other ex-Federal officers he also assisted
earnestly in restoring the suffrage rights to all ex-Confeder-
ates. As a citizen of Nashville he has been prominent and
progressive in various public and educational enterprises.
After the war he assisted in reorganizing the Tennessee His-
torical Society, and for many years has been its Vice Presi-
dent, devoting much time to historical and archaeological re-
searches. His elaborately illustrated work upon the "An-
tiquities of Tennessee" has passed through two editions, and
has deservedly given him a wide reputation throughout this
country as an archaeologist and historian.
It is an interesting circumstance that Miss Ida Hamilton,
of Nashville, who became Gen. Thruston's first wife, was a
great friend of Col. Battle, the commander of the 20th Ten-
nessee Regiment, and that before he went into the war he
carried to her a lot of gold and some jewelry and valuables,
asking her to keep them until he returned from the war. She
sealed up these valuables in the cellar wall with cement and
returned them to him when he returned from the war.
GEN. G. P. thruston.
Capt. W. P. Tollev Corrects an Error, — Introductory to
a tribute paid the late Gen. W. B. Bate in the May Veteran,
reference was made to Capt. W. P. Tollev. who furnished the
tribute of the Bivouac, as the "first captain of the first com-
pany from Tennessee to enlist in the Confederate service.''
Capt Tnlley states, while expressing regret at the prominence
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given him personally in the tribute, that he was not the cap-
tain of the first company to go from Tennessee until its re-
organization at the expiration of a year's service. He was
then elected captain and commanded the company until per-
manently disabled in the battle of Gaines's Mill.
AWFUL FATE OF A HEROIC GEORGIAN. .
BY DR. J. M. B.\NDY, GREENSBORO, N. C.
On the 17th of last March, forty years ago, I painfully wit-
nessed, near Smithfield, N. C, the sad execution of a poor
Confederate soldier belonging, I think, to Company B, 27th
Georgia Regiment. I am not sure of the number.
The circumstances, as I remember them, are as follows : My
command, 3d Regiment Junior Reserves, Hoke's Division,
Hardee's Corps, had reached this point March 16 on our
way to the battle of .^verysboro. The fight at Averysboro
closed on the night of the i6th, and Slocum's Corps was
headed for Bentonville. My command remained at this place
during the 17th. Early, however, on the 17th a rumor found
its way among the soldiers that a Georgian was to be shot
for niiitinv. This soldier had been in all the hard-fought bat-
tles of 'Virginia until his command was transferred from
Virginia to repel the attack on Fort Fisher. After the fall
of Fort Fisher, some poor, hungry soldiers killed some hogs
above Wilmington, N. C. For this offense they were bucked
and gagged. This was the more excusable as they felt that
Sherman's "bummers" would get the hogs, and so some of the
soldiers released these gagged soldiers. The prick of a bayo-
net by the guard in charge of these bucked soldiers was
found on this Georgia soldier, whose name, as I remember
it, was G. W. Ore. He was court-martialed and sentenced to
be shot, but was offered his life if he would reveal the other
participants, but said that he would die before he would do it.
These are the circumstances as I remember them after
forty years.
Tlie whole army about me was opposed to this decree.
Some regiments threatened to interfere. The three regi-
ments of Junior Reserves were on the field of execution. I
was in command of my company, being second lieutenant,
and stood within one hundred feet of the grave of this unfor-
tunate man. A stake was driven in the ground a few feet in
front of his grave. To this stake he was lashed, after being
made to kneel. At the command "Fire" by the officer of the
guard this doomed man said : "Farewell, vain world." I saw
the blood spurt from liis back, while the bullets shivered the
stake to which he was tied. The place was a cotton field.
I visited this scene some five years ago, and found it
overgrown with old field pines. I am sure that I stood on
(he place of his grave, though no visible sign remained. I
was conducted to the place by an old negro who lived near by
at the time, who had lived all these years in the vicinity, and
who witnessed the execution. The wind was blowing softly
through the pine boughs. As I stood on the ground the
mournful dirge of those winds over the resting place of this
soldier, sleeping far away from home and hearing of wars
no more, was in fit keeping with the sad event. I recalled the
dead march played by a band as he was marched around the
square formed by the brigade. 'While sitting there it oc-
curred to me that some one interested in this man, some
relative, perhaps, might like to mark the place where he
sleeps. I am a Tar Heel, and went to the war when not
fourteen years old.
"God bless the Georgians!" Their bones lie side by side
with those of the Tar Heels on the battlefields of 'Virginia.
The clover grows greener where they sleep. 'Will any comrade
who knows give his name, com.pany, and regiment correctly?
The public would be interested in a more accurate and com-
plete report of this affair.
I
MISS ELIZABETH SINNOTT, PADUCAH,
Maid of Honor Army of Tennessee Department. Appointed by Gen. Evar s
WISHES TO RETURN A SWORD.
BY HON. F. M. GRIFFITH, VEV.\Y, IND.
The G. A. R. Post at Columbus, Ind., has in its possession a
sword that belonged to a Confederate officer, and the man
who had it placed it in the possession of the Post, with di-
rections for it to be returned to the owner or his relatives
if they could be discovered. On the blade of the sword is
engraved : "Lieut. Col. D. M. Ray, 2d Tennessee Cavalry,
C. S. A." It was captured in battle near Mobile, Ala., in
1864. If you can put me in communication with any one that
can give me any information on the subject, I will appreciate
it. I have no doubt the owner or his relatives would prize
it highly.
[The foregoing was addressed to Hon. James D. Richard-
son, long a member of Congress from Tennessee.]
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JOHN CABELL BRECKINRIDGE.
[A portrait of Gen. John C. Breckinridge, painted by
Nicolai Marshall, of Louisville, was presented by Col. Ben-
nett H. Young to the Robert E. Lee Camp of United Con-
federate Veterans at Richmond, Va., on March 24. The only
other Kentucky soldier represented in the collection so far
is Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. In his speech of presentation
Col. Young said :]
To most of us Kentuckians a return lo Virginia is a home-
coming. To me the name ever arouses the noblest and purest
emotions. As the Mohammedan is ever turning his face
Meccaward and exclaiming, "Allah is Great I" so my heart
is always delighted to face Virginiaward and review its
glorious history and the superb achievements of her people.
One hundred and twenty-five years ago Virginia sent much
of her best blood into Kentucky, and the impress of this
superb strain has never ceased to influence, control, and guide
the men who have directed the destiny of Virginia's first and
ever-grateful daughter, Kentucky. We recognize the tre-
mendous value and the incalculable benefits of this mag-
nificent inheritance, and I prize more than I can tell this
privilege of bearing to you the greetings of my native com-
monwealth when I come to place amongst your memorial
treasures a painting of a Virginia-Kentuckian, whose career
reflects credit on this State, from which his father, grand-
father, and great-grandfather came, and whose life did
much to honor the people amongst whom his ancestry for so
many years held prominent place.
A man who at forty-four had been distinguished in the
Mexican War, was elected twice as a Democrat from the
UKN. JOHN L'. I!KK(. KlNKllM^E.
Ashland district of Kentucky, which had long been a Whig
stronghold, who when he was barely eligible had been chosen
Vice President of the United States, who had been a candi-
date for President of this republic when thirty-nine, who
had served four years as presiding officer of the Senate ot
the United States, and had then been elected a Senator from
Kentucky, who by courage and gallantry had won reputation
both as a brigadier general and major general, and then made
last Secretary of War of the Confederate States, must surely
have been a man who impressed himself upon all who came
in contact with him and have been possessed of extraordinary
brilliai cy and power.
Such are some of the salient points in the life of John
Cabell Breckinridge. Born in Lexington, Ky., on the i6th
of January, 1821. he came of a wonderful race of people.
His father, a lawyer, at twenty-nine years of age had been
twice elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives, and
was Secretary of State three times before his death, at thirty-
five.
His gruntlf^ilu r, John Breckinridge, at only forty-five had
been twice Speaker of the Kentucky Legislature, a United
States Senator, and Attorney-General of the Cabinet of
Thomas Jefferson. His mother was the daughter of the
President of Princeton College, and her mother was the wife
of John Witherspoon, who had signed the Declaration of
Independence and was a direct descendant from John Knox
Even in Virginia, with its marvelous genealogy, radiant with
ii.tclkctual and physical glory, his descent would have been
distinguished.
Gen. Breckinridge graduated at Centre College when
eighteen years of age. In 1847, when twenty-six years old.
he was appoirted irajor of the 3d Kentucky Volunteers,
;\nd served in Mexico with credit to himself until the close
cf that war.
On the 22d of February, 1847, at the battle of Buena Vista.
imilor Gen. Zachary Taylor, Kentucky had made offering of
lur noblest blood in defense of national honor. William
K. McKee. colonel. Henry Clay. Jr.. lieutenant colonel, and
W T. Willis, captain, 2d Kentucky Infantry, had been part
cif Kcrtucky's and the nation's sacrifice in that conflict. On
the 20th of July. 1847. their bodies were brought to Ken-
tucky and laid to rest in the State Cemetery at Frankfort,
inidcr the shadow of the superb nionmnent erected by
til • commnnwcalth in memory of her sons who had fallen
in war. On that day two men took part in the imposing
ceremonies whicli marked the interment of these heroic Ken-
tuckians. John C. Breckinridge was orator of the day, and
tin- ni.ulit luforc. under the inspiration of his ?Teaven-giveii
genius. Theodore O'Hara. another Confederate soldier, had
produced the oily really great military poem of the world —
"The Bivouao of the Dead." The words of that glorious
song of the soldier's brain will live forever; and no man
who shall in the years to come feel the inspiration of the
Muse can coin any rhyme that will equal that which flowed
from the pen of that gifted son of Kentucky, as in the mid-
night hours he wrestled and struggled to find words which
should describe the sacrifice Kentucky's sons had made on
tin- heights of Buena Vista for their country and its flag.
Before this audience it will not be held boastful or im-
proper to say that when the Federal authorities had ran-
sacked the world's lore, when the genius of all ages had been
placed under requisition to find words suitable to mark the
places where their dead rested— that, although desiring to
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avoid the use of these verses of a Confederate soldier, they
were at last compelled to adopt them and place them over their
heroes as the most fitting of all language to tell of their fame
and their deeds; and £0 in the national cemeteries, where rest
the Federal soldier, there is inscribed on iron plates, im-
perishable and indestructible, those wonderful lines of Ken-
tucky's son to her Kentucky and Mexican dead.
The oration of Breck'tiridge on that occasion was full of
grand and magnificent thoughts. He did not then realize
that in less than two months he himself would volunteer to
fight the battles of his country where these heroes had fallen.
On the 31st of August, 1847, the United States govern-
ment made another requisition on Kentucky. The 3d Regi-
ment was organized, and John C. Breckinridge was appointed
its major. Returning from Mexico after a most creditable
service, in 1849 he was elected a member of the Legislature of
Kentucky. This was his first political office. In 1851 he de-
feated in Henry Clay's own district Clay's friend. Gen.
Leslie Coombs, then deservedly one of the most popular men
in Kentucky. Gen. Coombs's conduct in the War of 1812,
his heroism, his courage, and his daring, had given hiin a
warm place in the hearts of his people ; but his age, achieve-
ment, and renown could not avail against the marvelous per-
sonality of the brilliant young Democrat. At the next elec-
tion the most popular Whig in Kentucky, ex-Gov. Robert
Letcher, was selected with tlie hopes that he might defeat
the rising and brilliant young politician. Although a boy
just ten years old, I recall the debate between these great
politicians, and for the first time then looked upon the features
of John C. Breckinridge. Too young for politics of my own,
I naturally adopted that of my father, who was a warm and
earnest adherent of Henry Clay; but child as I was, I realized
when I heard these two intellectual giants discuss the topics
of the day that my man, Robert Letcher, was no match for
the chivalrous, handsome, talented youthful champion of De-
mocracy. Thirty years before. Gov. Letcher had been in
Congress for ten years; twelve years before, he had been
elected Governor of Kentucky by an overwhelming majority;
now a great stump speaker, a bright, witty man, in full ma-
turity of all his powers — he was no foeman for the young
lawyer just turned into his thirty-third year. In 1855 Breck-
inridge had been tendered the mission to Spain by President
Pierce. In 1856 he was nominated and elected on the ticket
with James Buchanan Vice President of the United States,
and at the time of taking his office was barely eligible. After
four years' service as presiding officer of the Senate, he was
nominated for President of the United States, and defeated
by Abraham Lincoln. On the 12th of December, 1859, he was
elected by a Democratic Legislature as United States Senator,
to serve six years from March 4, 1861.
This was an unparalleled record in a State like Kentucky
for a man just thirty-nine years of age. He took his seat
in the United States Senate in the beginning of 1861. He
had returned to his home in September of that year, and
secret orders were given for his arrest on account of his
Southern sympathies. Being warned of the purpose of the
Federal forces to effect his capture, he left his home. He
did not hesitate violently to denounce the violent schemes of
the revolutionists then in charge of the State government
and to defend the South against the assaults upon her good
name.
He reached this city in September, 1861, and was appointed
brigadier general, and on the i6th of November of the same
year, at Bowling Green, he assumed charge of what is known
in history as the "Orphan Brigade." He issued an address
to the people of Kentucky which contained, among others,
these thrilling words : "To defend your birthright and mine,
which is more precious than domestic ease or property or
life, I exchange with proud satisfaction a term of six years
in the Senate of the United States for the musket of a sol-
dier."
The die was; now cast. Breckinridge and his Kentuckians
had abandoned their homes and their families and their prop-
erty to the mercy of their enemies ; they swore allegiance to
the South and its cause ; and I challenge history to produce a
better example of unselfish, unfaltering devotion to any cause
than was manifested by these sons of Kentucky in the great
conflict for the rights and liberties of the South. I think I
may hazard the assertion that there was never any other or-
ganization of equal numbers that had so many educated and
well-bred men. They were largely from the pioneer stock
which Virginia had sent over the mountains to people this
new commonwealth, and they were always proud and self-
respecting. They recognized the glorious memories which
had come to them from their Virginia forefathers, and they
had taken the State pride of Virginia and grafted upon it
the independence, the gallantry, the recklessness and dash
of the Kentucky pioneer. The name Kentuckian always
touched them to the quick and gave them a feeling of pride
in defending it from dishonor or shame. They represented
all portions of the commonwealth. They were almost alto-
gether men under thirty years of age — they came with the
history and traditions of this great State ever before them.
Their forefathers had followed Harrison and Shelby to the
Thames. Some of their forefathers had died at the Rasin.
MISS LUCY EV.\NS, .\TL.\NTA,
Daughter of Gen. C. A. Evans and Sponsor for Ga. Div., Louisville reunion.
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Some had been witli Croghan at Fort Stephenson. Many
were descended from the Kentuckians who had followed
Scott to the home of the Montezumas or who had fought
with Taylor on the heights of Buena Vista.
This Kentucky infantry was in the West what Stonewall'.^;
brigade was in the East. When apphcation was made to
Gen. Joseph E. Johns'.on to transfer the Orphan Brigade
from the Army of Ten;:cssee to Southwestern Virginia, and
MISS SCARBORori.,11, AMERICUS, GA.,
Chirf Maid of Honor for Miss Kvans.
President Davis offered to furnish Gen. Johnston an equiva-
lent for this Orphan Brigade, he replied : "The President has
no equivalent for it. It is the best brigade in the Confeder-
ate army."
Long after the war had ended and when its bias and preju-
dices had had time to cool, when he was United States Rail-
road Conmiissioiicr, he declared that the Kentucky brigado
was the finest body of men he ever saw.
In iSpfi Dr. Philip Coombs Knapp, in discussing the ques-
tion, "Are Nervous Diseases Increasing?" said: "Up to the
period of the War between the States Americans were de-
nounced as physically degenerate, inferior in hulk, strength,
and endurance to their English cousins. This war put an
end to such talk. No armies ever endured more than ours
in the field ; no people endured more than those who stayed
behind waiting and helping. The record of the 1st Kentucky
Brigade has never been surpassed. These men were of the
purest American stock."
Gen. Breckinridge for a long time commanded this won-
derful body of soldiers, and it was his magnificent presence
and his noble consecration to the cause of liberty and truth
that in great degree n".de this Kentucky infantry the equal
of any similar number of men wlio ever followed any flag
or fought for any cause.
My space will not permit any lengthy account of Gen.
Breckinridge's war record. The names of the great conflicts
in which he was engaged will be the best tribute to his gal-
lantry, courage, and skill. Wherever Gen. Breckinridge was,
there always was severe and brilliant fighting. His charge
at Murfreesboro (Stone's River) on Friday, January 2, 1863,
was one of the most brilliant, and proportionately one of the
most destructive, of all the infantry charges of the world.
Under the concentrated fire of more than sixty pieces of
ordnance, this little division of about four thousand men
marched down the valley. Subjected to this terrible artillery
fire under protection of the Federal infantry, they pushed on
until absolute decimation drove them back. The falling of
timbers, the crashing of arms, the volley of missiles, the burst-
ing of shells, the groans of the wounded, the shouting of the
officers mingled in one horrible din. It seemed almost im-
possible for men to live in the leaden storm that was hurled
at this single division. The whole conflict lasted less than
an hour; the carnage less than twenty minutes. Seventeen
hundred, or more than thirty-seven per cent of the advancing
column, had gone down in the conflict. It was necessary to
pass an open space of six hundred yards. At four o'clock
the signal was sounded, the charge was made, the ground
was won, but it was commanded by the enemy's batteries.
In the Kentucky Brigade on that day more than thirty-eight
per cent of all who started on the charge were killed or
wounded.
Gen. Breckinridge on this occasion won new laurels by
his gallantry. He ordered the assault after protest and
against his judgment, but he led it gloriously. Losses at
Murfreesboro on both sides aggregated twenty thousand, and
again in a conflict where mortality was so dreadful Gen.
Breckinridge secured the admiration of all who witnessed his
kniglitly bravery and his soldiery leadership. At Chicka-
mauga. that field of blood, Gen. Breckinridge's conduct was
again marked by the highest courage and skill.
Going from the West to Southwest Virginia, Gen. Breck-
inridge maintained his high position as an organizer and
leader and successful soldier ; but it is about New Market
that the most heroic of Virginia memories are connected with
this soldier. With a small infantry force, half that of his
opponent, he pursued, overtook, and destroyed Gen. Sigel. In
that battle his forces were so few that he could have no re-
serve, and he must therefore cast the fortunes of the hour
upon the desperate chances of a single line.
If I had been permitted by destiny to choose my place In
the great conflict of the War between the States, I believe
I should have designated New Market, Brice's Cross Roads,
and Cold Harbor as the struggles where I should most of
all have wished to be in the two thousand battles which
marked the four years under which the South passed through
the furnace of aflliction.
At New Market the Virginia cadets won glorious immor-
tality. I have often heard Gen. Breckinridge describe the
emotions that filled his heart when he was compelled to sign
the order under which the cadets were directed to enter this
struggle. Close to forty years have elapsed since I listened
to this narrative from his own lips. I had no idea then, an
exile with Gen. Breckinridge in foreigti lands, a member of
his family, that I should ever be permitted to stand in Rich-
mond and tell the story as he told it to me. This recital never
failed to stir the most generous impulses of his noble heart.
I pleaded with him to tell it to me many times, and he always
did it with reluctance. Invariably, irresistibly, the tear would
start in his eye and sadness overspread his face when he re-
called the scenes of that memorable day in May, 1S64. It
was a distressful thought to him that the exigencies of war
required the sacrifice of these children. Long he hesitated
about putting them in line at all ; and when it became neces-
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sary for them to charge a battery, his adjutant general urged
him to sign the requisite paper which would launch them on
the guns of the enemy. With trembling hands and eyes up-
lifted to heaven he exclaimed, "God forgive me for the execu-
tion of this order," and then affixed his signature to that
which should bring these boys under terrible fire. Of some
events connected with this great struggle, it may be said
that they were not war; they were murder; and thus might
we describe this onslaught of these little fellows upon the
Federal batteries on the Virginia hillside. They charged,
they fell, they died. Twenty-five per cent of them were
either wounded or killed ; but O what radiant record they
won, what magnificent inscription they penned on the scroll
of fame, what tribute they exacted from fate in their glorious
assault!
Scarcely two months before the pathetic end of our Con-
federate national life Gen. Breckinridge was called from
Southwestern Virginia to the post of Secretary of War.
What tremendous courage, what grand self-possession, what
noble self-denial led him in that hour to accept such a posi-
tion, fraught with such immeasurable responsibilities, and to
end, as he must have foreseen so clearly, in disaster and ruin !
It was said that a brother of the illustrious Hannibal, when
the last bnttle in which he was engaged was lost, as he rode
upon the lances of his enemy to find death, exclaimed : "I
light without hope, and yet without fear." It was this noble,
chivalrous spirit which prompted Gen. Breckinridge, when
the end was so close at hand, to accept a position from which
others retired in dread and painful apprehension.
There came a time when even hope failed ; when armies
were shattered and scattered ; when Lee had surrendered and
Johnston had capitulated ; when the illustrious Army of
Noithern Virginia was paroled, and its bronzed veterans
turned their tear-stained faces toward their desolate homes
and took up anew the burdens of life; when the Army of Ten-
nessee, where the rate of mortality readied the highest point,
and whose unconquerable courage never failed in defeat,
and all the mighty legions east of the Mississippi, whicli
for four years had withstood the mightiest of conflicts, had
stacked their arms and accepted war's stern decree; when the
President of our nation went forth from its seat of govern-
ment and, in sadness and gloom, yet undismayed, sought
refuge south of Virginia, where were still some who clung
to his fortunes and defended his person in that period of
completes! gloom and anguish. Even here a pitying Provi-
dence provided the retreating chieftain with protectors whose
hearts still bled for the first and only Confederate President,
and with him went some v.ho, even in his reverses and
humiliation, were ready to offer their lives to guard him and
his Cabinet from the pursuing foe.
When the darkness of death was hoveriiig around and over
the Southern cause, when the last council of war had been
called, when all was lost. Gen. Breckinridge and some of his
Kentucky followers, even in suc'.i an hour as this, made
declaration of their constancy and devotion to that cause to
which they already had sacrificed their fortunes and now
anew tendered their lives; and the history of tliat moment
glorifies the manly courage and gives to those who partici-
pated in it "■ place on the brightest pages which perpetuate
human herosm.
When the last sun which shcsld ever shine on the Confed-
erate States as an organized nation was lengthening its rays
and finding repose in the mysterious depths of its westward
course, and was sending forth a fading but sympathetic light
to illumire the sad and dreary scene of a nation's dissolu-
tion ; when its parting shadows made glorious and immortal
the faces of the heroes who, in silent solemnity and reveren-
tial awe. looked upon the death throes of the Confederacy —
it appeared to those who stood amid the terribleness of that
momert to become fixed for an instant, as if to paint in
fairest, brightest, and eternal coloi'S the lineaments of those
Kentucky and Tennessee cavalrymen who in that supreme
moment alone remained with its defenseless President.
"Fate denied us victory, but it crowned us with a glorious
immortality;" and these are some of the leaflets which the
Kentucky soldiery of the Confederate States offer as their
contribution to the superb record of patriotism, valor, chiv-
alry, courage, and devotion which make up the illustrious
volume of Confederate history.
In giving John C. Breckinridge to the South Kentucky
gave a man who was a prince amongst men ; one whose
career showed no failure, whose heart never felt fear; one
whose soul felt no touch of littleness, whose patriotism was
supreme and pure, and whose devotion to principle knew nv
stint.
A dreary but exciting ride througli Georgia and Florida,
marked everywhere by t!ie kindness and hospitality of friends
and admirers, brought the fugitive to the south coast of
MISS ANNIE JOHNSON, MT. STERLING, KY.,
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Florida. The risk was great, with the means at his com-
mand, for the navigation of the treacherous waters ahead.
Unwilling to be captured, with three friends he sailed out
on the Gulf of Mexico in an open boat, and a protecting
Providence enabled him to reach Cuba, after many perils,
from whence he embarked to Canada and thence to Europe.
No amnesty was extended to the brave exile until four
years had elapsed from the end of hostilities. After this
long and weary waiting, reason had regained its sway, and
Gen. Breckinridge was restored to his home and the people
he had loved so well. Kentucky was a scene of great re-
joicing when, after so many years of absence, her gallant and
distinguished son again stood on his native heath and mingled
witli his fellow-citizens, who liad loved him so devotedly and
never refused anything they could bi..>tow upon him. Re-
pressing all political preferment, declining all public honors,
he at once entered with energy and zeal upon the practice of
his profession, which he followed with absolute devotion and
brilliant success. After a few years those closest to him ob-
served a sad and pained expression on his face, and that his
step was less clastic and lacked the firmness which had marked
it in the days gone by. Sickness could not dim the bright-
ness of his piercing eye, nor could the emaciation which fol-
lowel in its train slacken his love for his friends or the cor-
diality and tenderness of his greeting for all who saw him
and knew him at his Lexington home.
In a few months it became known that an appeal must be
made to surgery to prolong his years. Only fifty-four years
of age, the world wondered why death should assault one
whose praise was on every tongue and against whom not even
^'<^' if^
a political enemy could utter unkind or ungenerous words.
He had everything to make life beautiful and hopeful. The
wife who had blessed his youth with her deep and immeasur-
able love still stood by his side in the conflicts of life and
cheered him with her smiles and benedictions. Three sons
and two daughters, all worthy of his pride, made his home
life ideal; and it looked hard, after the trials and disappoint-
ments, self-denials and dangers of the great war through which
he had passed m cheerfulness and safety, that he should now
become the victim of disease when he had scarcely entered
upon the full fruition of his professional plans and ends.
Death, which hovers with sucli reckless footstep and
knocks unbidden at every door, came his way. With sub-
limcst courage and heroic submission he met the crisis. Re-
fusing the benefaction of an anassthetic, he submitted him-
self to the skill and advice of his surgeon. Not even an
exclamation of pain came from his lips when the cruel knife
entered his side.
In the struggle of skill against disease, disease prevailed,
an.l the hL-ro of so many political battles and of a great san-
guinary war yielded to that summons which admits of neither
delay nor appeal, and Kentucky's noblest and most chivalrous
child went away to be with the immortal. His people laid
him away in the beautiful God's Half Acre where Clay,
Hanson. Morgan, and other of Kentucky's illustrious chil-
dren had before found sepulcher.
Alongside the courthouse in Lexington, the county seat of
I'ayette (one of the three counties into which Kentucky was
first divided), a grateful commonwealth erected a statue of
heroic size. Its face was turned toward the court room, with
the hand pointing toward those walls within which his peo-
ple have so often and so breathlessly listened to his marvel-
ously ringing voice. There is inscribed on the granite naught
but his name, John C. Breckinridge. That was epitaph
enough amongst those with whom he lived and daily min-
gled, and its magic spell still inspires Kentuckians with
noblest ambitions, with highest purpose, with devoted con-
secration to the duties of pure and upright citizenship, with
truest patriotism and loftiest and grandest ideals.
BENNETT H. YOUNG.
COMMANDER INDIAN TERRITORY DIVISION.
Gen. J. P. Wood, Commander of the Chickasaw Brigade.
Indian Territory Division of U. C. V.'s, was born in Barbour
County, Ala., July 9, 1843. He entered the Confederate serv-
ice in January, 18861, and served as a private in the Clayton
Cjuards, ist Alabama Regiment, at Pensacola, Fla., during
1861. In 1862 he assisted in raising a company, and enlisted
in Company B, 39th Alabama, as second lieutenant of his com-
pany. He served continuously in the Army of Tennessee
until July i3, 1864, when he was wounded in front of Atlanta,
Ga. He was with Gen. Bragg's army during the campaign
through Kentucky, and was the "officer of the guard" on
vidette duty who received the flag of truce when the Federals
surrendered at Mimfordville, Ky. He was in the many skir-
mishes of the army during 1862-63, and was in the battles
of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Resaca,
and was in command of his company when wounded on July
28, 1864.
In 1884, while residing in Cleburne County, Ark., Gen.
Wood married Miss Lydia F. Bridwell, of Mt. Washington,
Ky. ; and they now reside at Ada, Ind. T., where they have a
comfortable home. Gen. Wood is now sixty-two years of
age, and is a lawyer of recognized ability and integrity.
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VIVID WAR EXPERIENCES AT RIPLEY, MISS.
[C. M. Cole, of Memphis, Tenn., sends a letter written by
his mother to "Cousin Blanche" in Franklin, Tenn. It was
never seen by the person to whom addressed.]
Ripley, Miss., November 2, 1862.
My Dear Cousin Blanche: While sitting here by the fire
this quiet, calm, holy Sabbath morning (how unlike the
stormy days so lately passed!) it occurred to me to redeem
the promise I made in my last to mother— that I would write
to you next. I avail myself of the thought with some com-
fort, if not with gladness; for, O cousin, I have so much to
tell. Just one short year ago the month of October was made
a happy one to us by your and our dear mother's visit. A
bitter contrast, indeed, the month just past presents. We
little thought then that our quiet, isolated little town would
be the theater of U'ar, with every one of its grim horrors
enacted in detail here in our midst, except an actual battle,
and within the sound of hundreds of cannon. It is a long and
sad story, cousin, and I close my eyes and press my be-
wildered head in the effort to bring back sense enough to
enable me to tell it to you. You have no doubt heard and
seen from the papers of our attempt upon Corinth and its
miserable failure. "The half has never been told you," cousin ;
and it never will be told, for it would take every drop of the
blood that has been poured out like water and a page as
broad ,as the blue sky itself to write and contain a true his-
tory of the wrongs endured by this unhappy people. I can
tell only what we have seen and suffered. I wrote mother a
long letter, or sort of journal, giving some account of our
experiences the past summer. Though bad enough, it was as
but a tame preface to what has followed; and to relieve my-
self, at the risk of boring you with a long, stupid letter, I
must tell you the whole story. The unhappy events of the
last five weeks have so burned into my heart and brain that
it will be a relief to tell somebody. I can yet thank God,
though peace and liberty are no longer ours, we yet possess
our lives and usual health.
First, to begin with, you must know that on the 2Sth of
September Van Dorn's and Price's armies met here, "form-
ing a junction" to march on Corinth with the intention of
driving the enemy from their stronghold. Their armies,
some twenty-five or thirty thousand, lay encamped in and
around Ripley two days, sweeping everything that was to
eat, that could be bought for love or money. Cornfields and
cribs, potato patches and gardens, meat houses and pantries
suffered to the last point of endurance. (We little thought
that worse was in store for us.) You who live in a rich
country, overflowing with the necessaries and comforts of
life, can form but little idea of the evils attending the march
of a large army through a poor country, though that army
be our friends. They left many of their sick here in hospital
(Mrs. Sandford's house, between ours and Mr. Davis's, you
know). Some of them were sad cases, over whom I shed the
heartiest tears of sympatliy that I ever shed in my life.
They commenced fighting at Corinth on Friday, I think, and
on Saturday harassing rumors began to reach us of the re-
pulse of our army, and on Sunday nearly all day long the
heavy boom of countless cannon reached our ears and aching
hearts, keeping us in the most painful suspense, yet hoping
that all was not lost, as they were still fighting. But Sunday
night brought the fearful certainty of our defeat, when we
were awakened at one o'clock with the heavy tread of cavalry
and baggage wagons on their retreat, and by morning the
town was full of soldiers, some wounded, all famished and
begging for something to eat, if but a piece of bread, and
alas ! all retreating before the pursuing enemy.
Cousin, this was terrible, and my heart was nearly break-
ing, but it had not come to the worst yet. All that miserable
morning we were cooking to feed famishing men, when some
officers of Van Dorn's staff arrived. (I forgot to tell you
in the right place that Van Dorn and staff made our house
their headquarters when on their way up to Corinth, and
resumed tlieir old quarters on their return.) And one of the
officers advised papa to move his family from town, as it
was probable that Van Dorn would make a stand here and
give the pursuing enemy a fight. This alarm spread, and now
began a scene of terror and confusion indescribable. Many
fled from town, I and my children and eight of our negroes
hurriedly packing what valuables we could get into our one
wagon and buggy. Some of us riding, most of us walking,
we bid a tearful and despairing adieu to our dear home.
O cousin, can you for a moment picture to yourself my
feelings when I turned to take "a last, fond look," as I then
thought, at the sweet home on which we had lavished so
much of all that love of comfort could crave (that a limited
purse would allow), thinking but to return and find it in
ashes or at least sacked and gutted by a brutal enemy? I
looked back again and again, but could not see my poor,
deserted home for the blinding tears; and, to add to my dis-
tress, Sister Martha and family were undecided about leav-
ing, and I left them harassed with suspense as to their fate.
I left papa and Willie to follow at last, when all hope was
go:ie ; also to "do the honors" to Gen. Van Dorn and staff,
who arrived shortly after I left. I also left Mary and George
(two of the servants, you know) for the same purpose, who
were to fly, too, at the last moment for safety.
Van Dorn gave papa to understand that l:j would not
make a stand here, that there was but little danger of a
fight in our immediate vicinity, and advised him to send for
me to come home, as it was far better for me to be here. So
he sent Willie in the night out to Mrs. Embrey's, where !
had taken refuge, to tell me to come home, which I did early
Tuesday morning; and well, indeed, it was for our dear
home that I did. When I got within a mile of town, my
heart sank when I saw the Yankee pickets, and I exclaimed
to Bettie : "God help us; all is lost." We got home in safety.
Not so Willie and Charlie, who were two or three hundred
yards behind. The ruffians (the road was lined with them
out to where the pickets were) halted Willie and made him
take off his new boots and hat and sent the poor boy home
ahiiost crying in his helpless rage, bootless and hatless.
The Yankees had got in town about midnight, close on
the heels of our retreating army; in fact, but three or four
hours behind them. Well, indeed, it was for us, as I said
before, that I got home as soon as I did ; for not more than
fifteen minutes after some of the ruffians entered the house,
and, on seeing me, they turned short and went out saying:
"This is not the place we thought it." They evidently came
to pillage. They pretend that they are allowed to pillage
only houses deserted by the family. We soon found out the
difference between a tired and famished friendly army and
a tired, famished, infuriated foe. The ruffians came into the
kitchen, demanding with frightful oaths that we should cook
for them ; and cook for them we did, until Mary and I were
both "broke down" and could do no more, threats and oaths
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notwithstanding. Cousin, I know I shall be swelling my
letter to an almost unpardonable length w-hen I tell you of
all the trials and indignities that we were subjected to during
the five miserable days that we were held in "durance vile"
by the enemy. But tell it I must, and I claim your sympathy
and forbearance. Did you ever read Coleridge's "Ancient
Mariner?" I, like him, would stop a "wedding guest" and
compel him to listen to my story.
I now come to a part of my story, cousin, so horrible that
my fainting heart almost stands still when I recall it. Our
retreating army left here in hospitals large numbers of
wounded (I do not recall how many) without medical atten-
tion or provisions and but few nurses. The care of the poor
fellows fell heavily on the few in the distracted state of the
town. Sister Martha and myself principally, wx being the
nearest. We did the best we could for them, sent them
clothes and bedclothes and cooked for tlicm, but the Yankee
ruffians would often snatch it from the stove before it was
done.
I seized a moment one day ulicn none of the ruffians were
in my house or yard and ran down to the hospital to see if
I could not do something for the poor fellows, and O, my
God, may I never more behold such a sight ! The two rooms
were crowded; the bare, hard, blood-stained floor was so
nearly covered that I could scarcely pass between their misera-
ble pallets. A few were on cots. Here lay a poor fellow
shot through the lungs, every breath he drew almost a death
pang, tliere a poor little smooth-faced, curly-haired boy only
seventeen years old, with his knee and arm shattered, moan-
ing piteously; some with their arms just cut off, some with
their legs off, others wounded in every imaginable part. I
spoke a few trembling, horrified words to some I passed, until
I came to a poor boy shot through the bowels, who was in
his last agonies, and giving vent to his dying thouglits in
broken words and moans, and none to listen to him. I could
brave it no longer, my woman's heart failed me, and I sank
on the blood-begrimed floor by his side, crying fit to kill
myself, offering such words of sympathy, comfort, and con-
solation as rose to my lips from my full heart. O, I thank
God that he at least was "willing and ready to die, trusting
and believing in God's mercy," and glad to give his life to
"such a glorious cause." These were his trembling, broken,
dying words.
Some of the poor fellows entreated mc to take them to my
house, which we did as soon as our Yankee masters would
allow us, as they had to be paroled before they could be re-
moved. We took three — with their nurses, making five — one
sick and two wounded. Two got well enough to leave in a
week or ten days ; the other, badly w'ounded in the shoulder,
lingered three weeks after he was wounded, and died at last,
poor fellow, leaving a family of ten children near Florence,
Ala.
The citizens that remained in town look the poor fellows
from file hospital as fast as possible, until nearly every house
is now a "private hospital." Many died at the hospital. I
saw five poor fellows taken out at one time on a litter to be
buried in one grave, unshrouded and uncoffined, and scarcely
even a "martial cloak around them," unless their poor, soiled
blankets be called such. I was seized with another fit of
crying at the dismal sight, for which I was laughed at by a
squad of Yankee brutes that were standing at my gate.
Several have died in private houses, some have left for their
homes, others will die or linger out a maimed, miserable
existence. Of all the sad phases of war, lliis is tlie most hor-
rible I know ; yet others approach it so nearly in horror that
it is hard for such sufferers as we have been to decide.
I have heard of some things even worse than wounds and
death. And now, cousin, while the memory is still fresh and
my very pen burns to write it, listen to me while I tell you
of some of the wrongs and indignities heaped upon this little
rebellious town by our enemies. They broke open every store
in town, of course, ruining and destroying what they did not
take off. The square was strewn with goods; even the fence
around the courthouse was festooned with muslins and tarla-
tans. They robbed the meat houses and pantries, leaving
some families without a mouthful to eat. They took all the
corn and fodder, took every horse worth the taking, shot
down our cows and hogs wherever they found them, leaving
them to rot and fill the atmosphere, already polluted with
their hateful breath. Worse than all, they entered houses and
addressed coarse and indecent language to women (tliank
God! I did -not suffer this), and in two well-known cases
offered worse insult still. Are wounds and death worse?
They completely gutted liouses that had been left by families
loo timid to stay.
I will give you Mr. Hunt's (.Ellen Rogan's father, you
know) as an example. They broke up the furniture, took off
every article of bed clothing, clothes, and goods, cut open the
beds, scattering the feathers, broke up the china and table
ware, ruined the piano and sewing machine, heaped un-
mentionable filth on the bureaus and mantels, poured lard and
messed it all over the floor, and did everything else that their
diabolical ingenuity could invent. They treated some families
ill the country that were at home just as badly. I will give
Judge Rogan's as another example. They took everything
they had in the world to eat and wear — bedclothes and
goods that the family had laid up — and they went two days
without anything to eat, and afraid to go out after it. His
two daughters spent one night in the woods, fearing for their
lives and for their honor. The Yankees took off three or
four hundred negroes from the town and vicinity. Scarcely
an owner but lost some. Many had been sent off down
South the day before the Yankees got in. "Our loss" in that
respect was our gain, for every soul on the place was sin-
cerely rejoiced when old Nelse (our "boss'' negro, you know)
took his departure for Yankeedom. Mr. Davis lost none,
having sent off those he suspected of being unfaithful.
The last night of their stay in this place was the climax of
our miseries. I haven't words to express the horror of that
night. We suspected late in the evening that we were to
have a bad night of it, from the conduct of some of the
brutes, and papa and I concluded not to go to bed and to
keep lights burning, determined that we would not be "caught
napping" when our fate came, whatever it was. The first
"warning note" came about eleven o'clock, when it was pre-
sumed, I suppose, that innocence and helplessness ought to be
asleep. A woman's screams smote upon our ears, scream
after scream for ten tninutes at least (it seemed an age to
me), then all was still. We knew not whether help had come
to the poor sufferer or that some dread crime had been com-
mitted and the victim silenced. Midnight passed and all
was yet still, and hope began to whisper that villainy was
satiated, and that we. Sister Martha, and her helpless daugh-
ters would escape. Not yet. Again the despairing shrieks
of a woman and her children reached us from another part
of town, and again and again during that long, long night
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tliese screams were heard. O, my God! were they al! brutes
that their officers would not or could not prevent these out-
rages? A nameless dread seized me, and I shook and shivered
with an ague. Our glowing fire could not warm me. O.
cousin, can you imagine how frightful all this was? for I am
utterly unable to tell it.
Well, our turn came at last, and papa had made up his
mind to submit quietly, if possible. The ruffian- l.::ocked at
the door (or rather "lumbered") and demanded admittance.
Papa opened the door and asked to know their business. One
raised his pistol and ordered him to stand, while the others
proceeded to sack the house; but we were pretty well pre-
pared for them, and they found but little to reward their
pains. After rummaging and pulling out the contents of
every trunk, drawer, box, and satchel, one of them placed his
pistol against papa's breast and demanded his purse and
watch. Papa me;kly "forked" his purse over, with twenty-
five or thirty dollars in Confederate bills (he had stocked it
for them, and was afraid to offer less), and politely informed
them that he had no watch ; hadn't worn one in ten years.
They annihilated him with curses and threats, and demanded
to know if that was all his money, what he had done with
it, and if there was not a gold watch in the house. Then
my poor, dear, good, honest papa told the first untruth I ever
heard him utter.
Fifty dollars would cover our losses on that night, and glad,
indeed, was I to escape so lightly. But no money could hire
me to undergo such another night of fear and dread. When
they left, I went to the door and listened anxiously for the
alarm from Sister Martha, for I knew she was alone and had
been kept in such nervous terror for the last five days and
nights ; but I could not hear her, and in a few minutes she
sent one of the negroes for Willie and one of our soldiers
we had here (one of our hospital nurses) to come and stay
with her until morning. The ruffians had been there and
tried to break in, rousing her from sleep, but she screamed
so and got the servants all up that the rascals thought it bet-
ter to let her alone. Poor Sister Martha, she too, like me.
had feared the worst. I should not have suffered so that
night had I known that mere robbery was all that I had to
fear; but I had seen and heard so much of their lawless
deeds and worse threats that we knew not what to fear.
Cousin, I could fill a dozen pages with my own individual
wrongs and indignities, and I long to do so, but I fear you
are long since worn out with my loquacity. We suffered
enough, you may be sure, but not so much as many of our
friends and neighbors. In a property point of view pspa
lays his damages at nearly four thousand dollars, but I fear
this is but a "first installment." It nearly kills me to have
to endure the coarse, bullying ruffians stalking into my Mouse,
making all sorts of demands with oaths and threats, not but
that I have the courage to answer them sometimes as they
should be, as I could give you some amusing instances. This
got to be so unbearable one day that I went to old Rose-
crans himself to implore ( ?) his protection, and I tell you
I made a most moving appeal ; but he is an old ruffian him-
self, and I shall never waste any more of my "eloquence"
on such. He answered my demands promptly enough for the
time by sending a guard who went straight off again as soon
as they had cleared our premises. He also answered me
politely enough, as much so as he could answer a Rebel ; but
I listened to him talk (not to me'> for a quarter of an hour,
and I "set him down" as an uncivilized old Hessian, as he
really is. Enough of him.
December 28, 1862.
Nearly two months ago, my dear cousin, I laid down this
long letter, thinking I would reserve this sheet to tell you
how we were doing up to the time I should meet with an
oppartunity of sending it to you. None has yet offered, and
the "spirit moves" me to continue my story to the present.
The Yankees still continue to dash in, capturing citizens,
straggling soldiers, horses and mules, and, what is worse,
the scanty supply of provisions that we got with so much
difficulty. Several weeks ago the notorious Col. Lee and his
jayhawkers came down upon us in the "dead of night," sur-
rounding every house, creeping stealthily around and peep-
ing in at the windows. 1 could not but think of the stories of
the early settlers and their Indian foes. They made a clean
sweep of citizens, horses, and mules that time, took our last
remaining horses (and not a horse in town to go to mill on),
and took all our flour, meal, and meat, except enough to last
two days. The most of our meat was hid where they couldn't
iind it (hush). They took ten bushels of potatoes that we
had just bought. It is not worth while to get provisions of
any kind, and we don't keep much, you may believe.
You will have heard before reading this how Van Dorn,
with three or four thousand cavalry, dashed into Holly
Springs about a week ago, capturing eighteen hundred Yan-
kees. He burned up three million dollars' worth of arms,
stores, clothing, blankets, etc., after supplying his men with
boots, blankets, blue coats and pants, and fine arms. We
heard the explosion of the magazine here, shaking the houses
and rattling the windows over forty miles off. It was a good
blow, well laid on ; but alas ! we have had to suffer part of
the penalty. Van Dorn, after burning bridges, tearing up the
road, destroying stores, etc., returned through our devoted
town on his way back to the main army. It was no retreat,
for he had accomplished what he was sent to do; but close
on his heels came the Yankee bloodhounds, wreaking venge-
ance on our devoted h e'Js, innocent and unresisting women
and children being the t, fi'crers from their cowardly hands.
They of course bring no Siipplies when on these raids. They
boastingly state in their correspondence with the Northern
papers that they "subsist on the enemy," but don't tell that
they take the bread from women and children (for the men
are long since gone), and also the only means to make more —
the horses, stock, and negroes. They, as usual, took our
scanty supply of food and made lis cook it, Christmas Day as
it was. They came and demanded quilts and comforts. I
told them I had none that I could spare. They answered
insolently: "It makes no difference about that; go and get
them too." I almost cried that I had to give my nice com-
forts to such swine, and I had none but nice ones. The
officer with this party told papa that he had understood there
was not a Union man in town. Papa told him : "Not one that
I know of."
Do you not wonder that they have never arre ted papa? If
ill time past my ambitious heart was troubled that he did
not aspire to high position and influence, I now at least have
my compensation. He "pursues the even tenor of his way,"
and commands the respect of even his enemies, demons as
they are, by his rare truth and honesty. But the storms of
the last twelve months have not left him unscathed. He has
been sick in body, as in mind, all summer. He is old, gray,
bent, and disheartened. Poor papa, he shares the universal
dilapidation that has settled on everything that meets the
eye — deserted houses, broken windows, burnt fences ; and
occasionally a seedy, half-famished, frightened human being
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threading his way through the ruins completes the picture
of desolation. A sad one, cousin, but "o'er true."
I try to think sometimes that we have not suffered more
than other border towns, but as far as we can hear or know
no other place has suffered so much. Perhaps they mean to
make an example of us by stamping out with booted heel
and bayonet the fires of patriotism that burn so "sturdily"
in this rebellious little town. But they will have to take
Herod's plan and strangle the very children in the cradles
first. Tliat they are fast coming to. They already r.eed only
the torch and tomahawk to put their cruel warfare on a level
with that of the savage Indians.
Well, cousin, here I am at the end of my third or fourth
sheet — I don't know which — and have filled thein all with one
subject. Indted, there's little else to tell of. surely little that
is good, though I don't mean to be ungrateful. We are alive.
ue arc well, GoJ is above us. the sun yet shines, hope is yet
within us and trust in God. and our cause has not deserted
us. We have a little store, too, stowed away in dark corners
and holes, like the squirrels (even which God does not for-
get), to keep the wolf hunger from our door. We have
too what so many in this wretched country have not — warm,
computable clothes for ourselves and children. Neither
do we have the misery of seeing those near and dear to us
suffer, for Sister Martha and her children are alike well sup-
plied. Ought we not to be grateful? I am grateful. He
knows. But surely we have suffered enough.
Dear cousin, this letter is shamefully long. I know ; but
if you never read it in the world, one of my objects at least
will be accomplished. I have lightened my heavy heart by
pouring out the story of our wrongs. Somebody will read it
and give me my "ineed" of sympathy, and who more heartih
than mv warm-hearted, noble-minded little cousin?
LIFE IN CAMP MORTOX.
BY W. S. DUND.\S, PHII..\nF.I.riII.\, PA
Six of us were captured in Bolivar County. Miss., October
2. lS.)3. by Gen, Ellet's mounted marines. We were making
our way, under orders from Richmond, to the Trans-Mis-
sissippi Department with two and a half million dollars con-
signed to the paymaster of Gen. K-rby Smith's army, whose
headquarters were at Shreveport, La. We were carried to
B')livar Landing, on the Mississippi River, where the boat
was waitin.'; for the scouting party to return, and started for
Cairo. From that point we were taken by rail to Camp
Morton. When at the priso i, the officer of the guard inade
:>. record of our names and commands, while the guards were
divesting us of everything of any value that had been over-
looked by our captors.
We were issued sufficient rations, including sugar and
coffee, when we first reached Camp M irton ; but these
luxuries were soon cut off, and our ratio;is reduced to one
loaf of bread and four ounces of beef a day. These rations
were sometimes varied by giving us bacon and six "hard-
tack" crackers. At this time there was no provision made
for caring for the sick and wounded prisoners, except hos-
pital te:ts, and these were always full. .\ sick or wounded
man would have to wait until a vacancy occurred, by re-
covery or death (most generally the latter), before he could
get a cot.
I recall an incident of a youi'g man of the 4th Alabama
Regiment, who arrived with so ne others one night about
ten o'clock, and were compelled to sleep out in tl e open air
without blankets. This exposure developed p:icumonia in
the young Alabama boy, and it was reported one morning that
he was dead. This was a mistake, however, for Dr. Ford,
the physician in charge, gave the youngster a cot that had
been occupied by a man who had died an hour before. The
Alabama boy recovered, and is now one of the world's most
famous surgeons — Dr. John A. Wyeth, of New York. Dr.
Ford was one of the few humane officers at Camp Morton,
and it was through his influence lliat a hospital was built ;
but out of the twelve thousand prisoners there five thou-
sand of them died. Only one blanket was allowed to each
man, and we had bare boards to sleep on. Rats and dogs
were served <i la mode, and were enjoyed by the half-
starved prisoners. Tobacco was a luxury that but few coull
indulge in. A sutler was allowed to serve us. but his prices
were an extortio 1. It was generally u idcrstood that he had
to divide his profits with headquarter officers, many of whom
had never seen a day's service at the front. Friends on
the outside wouM often send boxes of provisions, and fre-
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quently letters with money in them. It was rare that they
reached those for whom they were intended, however, but
were confiscated by the Federal officers or men through whose
hands they passed on the outside. Many articles of clothing
and money were sent me by express from friends in this
city (Philadelphia), which I never received; and upon investi-
gation they were traced by the express company to officers
who had receipted for them.
Starving men will often take desperate chances. I recall
one where a prisoner made his escape by means of a light
ladder he made out of pieces of board tied together with
strings and twisted scraps of old clothing. Watching the
sentinel turn and go marching back, he quickly ran and
placed his ladder against the fence, and was over it before
the guard had turned on his beat. We afterwards had a
letter from him, under an assumed name, saying that he had
safely reached Kentucky on his way to Dixie. Encouraged
by this successful escape, one night shortly afterwards nine
men made a dash at the fence. Two were killed, one wounded,
and four recaptured and tied up by the wrists to trees, with
their toes barely touching the ground, until next morning,
when they were taken down, more dead than alive. Another
daring attempt was made by about forty desperate men in
a body. They armed themselves with stones, sticks, old
bottles filled with water (anything they could use as .-i
weapon), and just before "taps" made a rush for the fence,
pelting the sentinels with rocks and sticks. The sentinels
were taken completely by surprise, and the assaulting party
gained the outside of the prison. Some were recaptured,
but the majority succeeded in making their escape.
Men were brutally treated for the slightest provocation.
A guard was having two men carry off some trash. Both
were weak and sick, but one especially so. He was ordered
to move faster, and protested that he was sick, whereupon
the guard, without warning, thrust his bayonet in him; and
when the circumstance was reported to the colonel command-
ing, the brutal guard was promoted to a corporal for stab-
bing a sick, helpless prisoner. But the most cold-blooded
murder I ever saw was perpetrated by a petty officer there,
named Baker. Nothing afforded this creature more pleasure
than to torture the prisoners. One morning at roll call a
prisoner left the ranks to warm his hands over a little fire
close by. "D — n you ; I'll show you how to leave ranks with-
out permission," shouted Baker; and, drawing his pistol, shot
the man dead on the spot. This same man Baker made me
mark time two hours one bitter cold day in January, for no
reason on earth that I've ever known except for the pleas-
ure of seeing me suffer.
Another attempt to escape was made by means of tun-
neling, and doubtless would have succeeded, but the men
were betrayed by one of their number; at least, he claimed
to be a prisoner, but might have been simply a spy. The
night that the men were to pass out a Georgian was in front,
and when he broke through the dirt on the outside and put
his head out he was instantly shot and killed by the guard,
who was on the lookout for him. The traitor was taken
outside for protection, and employed around the officers'
quarters.
The same pluck and stamina that carried the Confederate
veterans through the wretched prison life at Camp Morton
have marked the lives of many of them as citizens since the
war. I know of one who was sent to the United States
Senate, two who were members of Congress, and another
who was plaintiff in a litigation that occupied the time and
attention of three of Philadelphia's courts. For twenty years
the suit never waned, but the old Camp Morton prisoner
fought it with the same old persistency that carried him
through prison.
REMINISCENCE OF HOLDING TRAVELLER.
A. O. Wright, who was master in the Confederate navy,
writes from Jacksonville, Fla. : "The picture on the title-page
of the Veter.\n for February, representing Gen. Lee on his
old war horse Traveler, revives a flood of memories. While
stationed on the gunboat Nansemond, off Chafin's Bluff, in
March, 1865, as our guns could not be elevated sufficiently
to reach the enemy at the battle of Chafin's Farm, or Fort
Harrison, Midshipman Hale and myself went ashore and
took in the battle from the little battery just in the rear of
the bluff on the skirt of the woods which fringed the river
front. It will be remembered that Gen. Hancock's Corps
made an attack on Fort Harrison and that it was defended
by Field's and Pickett's Divisions, Gen. Lee coming up from
Petersburg to conduct the defense in person. At the time
mentioned Gen. Lee and Gen. Ewing rode up to the little bat-
tery where we were, and Gen. Lee very politely asked Hale
and myself to hold their horses while they climbed up on
the battery to get a better view of the battle. I remember
very distinctly that I, being the nearer, jumped down and
grabbed the General's horse by the bridle, leaving Hale to
hold Gen. Ewing's horse. The two Generals remained up
on the battery for about fifteen minutes, and on their coming
down I remember hearing Gen. Lee say that we ought to
bag the whole lot of the rascals. Turning to me and re-
lieving me of old Traveler, he gave me a pleasant smile and
thanked us for holding the horses. When the February Vet-
ERA>f reached me, I took it home, and, showing the picture
to my little grandchildren, I told them the story here given."
•'MOUNTAIN REMNANT BRIGADE."
The annual reunion of the Mountain Remnant Brigade,
Third Regiment, Texas Division, U. C. V., will occur at
Menardville, Tex., July 26-28, 1905.
Comrade James Callan writes : "This reunion will be held
on the banks of the beautiful San Saba River, at the historic
San Saba Mission. It will afford the thousands of Veterans
and other visitors an opportunity for not only enjoying them-
selves but also for seeing this lovely section of Texas."
Mr. Edward R. Norton, familiar with South Africa for
many years, writes of Kruger : "The late Stephanus Johannes
Paulus Kruger was President of the former South African
Republic for twenty-seven years. He died in exile in Hol-
land. His remains were brought back to Pretoria last De-
cember, and laid to rest by those of his four sons, killed in
action with the British during the late three years' war.
Kruger was the Washington and Jackson of South Africa,
but his bravery and patriotism met only defeat. His memory
will live for centuries."
J. W. Mayhall, of Beaumont, Tex., writes : "The soldier
that belonged to Company I, of the Twelfth Alabama Regi-
ment, is right. That regiment was not in the first Manassas
battle, and Company H didn't say so. It was a mistake of
the reporter who had it published in the Huntsville Mercury,
and it was copied from that into other papers. We were at
Second Manassas and all the other battles as stated in the
article."
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WHEELER'S CAVALRY AROUND ATLANTA.
BY D. M. CUTHREY, THIRD CONFEDERATE CAVALRY.
Wheeler's Cavalry has never received the credit it de-
served in its operations around Atlanta, where it was often
dismounted and fought in the trenches with the infantry.
It is not my purpose to refer in this paper to our services
as infantry, but to a month's service that I think the most
brilliant in Gen. Wheeler's career as a great cavalry officer.
Having covered the rear and protected the flanks of the
army from Dalton, we were forced across Peachtrce Creek
on the loth of July, 1864, and learned that McPherson was
marching from Roswell to strike the Georgia railroad at
Decatur. Wheeler was sent to check this movement. We
soon struck the Federal column, and constant fighting oc-
curred until the night of the 18th. On the following morn-
ing McPherson reached Decatur, but found Wheeler still in
his front behind slight breastworks. The odds against us
were fearful ; but we stood them off on our part of the line
until they overlapped our right and forced our position, when
we were re-fornicd, made a counter charge, and reestablished
our line. On the night of the 21st Wheeler moved out on
the left, attacked a division of infantry in a strongly forti-
fied position, drove them out, capturing several hundred
prisoners and a large amount of supplies. On the 27th Sher-
man made his last vigorous effort to destroy Hood's line
of communications, and a force of nearly ten thousand picked
cavalry was selected for the purpose, divided in three col-
umns under McCook, Stoncman, and Gerrard. Wheeler,
with a force of thirty-nine hundred, started out to stop these
raids.
Gerrard was marching for Jonesboro, and by daylight of
the 28th Wheeler struck his advance. It was an unexpected
attack, and the fight was pivssed from the start. Gerrard
retreated rapidly, burning son.e of his wagons. Wheeler fol-
lowed a few miles, capturing a number of prisoners. Leav-
ing Col. Kelley to watch Gerrard, who by this time was only
wanting to be "let alone," Gen. Wheeler was about to turn
his attention to Stoneman, who, with a force of twenty-five
hundred, was moving toward Macon, when he received in-
formation that McCook, with a force estimated at between four
and five thousand, was marching toward the Georgia Central
railroad below Jonesboro. Detaching Gen. Iverson, with his
own, Allen's, and Breckinridge's brigades, to follow Stone-
man and fight him wherever they found him, he directed
Hume's Division, which had not yet come up, to move as
rapidly as possible to Jonesboro, and, leaving word for An-
derson's Division to follow pnnnptly, ho started for that
place himself.
On reaching Jonesboro he learned that McCook had struck
the railroad about five miles below and was moving west.
Taking Hume's Division, about five hundred strong (Anderson
had not come up yet), he moved out rapidly in pursuit of Mc-
Cook. About midnight we passed through the little town of
Faycttcville and on to Line Creek. We found that the enemy
had destroyed the bridge after crossing over, and were bar-
ricaded on the opposite bank. There was an abrupt bend in
the creek just below the bridge, and, taking advantage of the
position this gave us to get in line with their barricades front-
ing the bridge, we soon drove them out, repaired the bridge,
and pressed forward.
About daylight we came up with their main force in line
of battle. Part of Anderson's Division had caught up with
us. Wheeler fornicd his force in two columns, and, sending
one around to strike them in flank, he led the other straight
at them. It was a sliarp little fight, but was soon over. The
attacks in front and flank were simultaneous. They broke in
confusion, leaving over three hundred prisoners in our hando,
with their horses, arms, and equipments. Our horses were
too jaded for us to press them, but we followed as fast as
possible. About twelve o'clock, two miles from Newnan, we
overtook their rear guard, which we pressed back, and found
their entire force again in line of battle, two thousand or
twenty-five hundred strong. Our whole force could not have
been over six or seven hundred, the rest being scattered
for miles along the road. One of Gen. Wheeler's brigade
commanders called his attention to it, and suggested that
every moment's delay added to his strength. "But we haven't
a moment to lose. Form your men," said "little Jo." Sending
Gen. Hume with two hundred men down the Lagrange road
to head off McCook, he hurled the rest of his force with
irresistable fury upon his lines. Inside of forty minutes we
had killed and wounded over two hundred, captured three
hundred prisoners, including two of McCook's brigade com-
manders, six hundred horses, three stands of colors, and
practically destroyed his magnificent command.
Col. Brownlow, of Tennessee, commanding a brigade under
McCook, made his way to Marietta and telegraphed Sher-
man of his arrival with five hundred of McCook's command,
which he thought was about all that had escaped. The force
sent after Stoneman was equally successful. It caught him
twenty miles from Macon and routed him completely, captur-
ing him and five hundred of his men ; while Breckinridge's
brigade, following in pursuit, picked up nearly five hundred
more. Sherman telegraphed to Hallcck: "Of Stoneman's
twenty-three hundred inen, only five hundred have come in.
I surmise the rest are killed or captured."
The net results of these operations of Wheeler, all within
thirty days, was the delivering of thirty-two hundred prison-
ers, while there were in killed and wounded half as many
more, making a total loss of five thousand fighting men, to
say nothing of arms captured and Federal property destroyed
.\MERirAN Pharmaceuticai, .'\ssociation. — The Commit-
tee on Historical Pharmacy of the American Pharmaceutical
Association wishes to collate data regarding the military and
naval pharmacy of the War between the States. All who had
any connection with the pharmaceutical or medical purveying
departments of the army or the navy, either Federal or Con-
federate, are invited to communicate the fact. The committee
would be pleased to learn the addresses of all who were en-
gaged in this work. The Section is particularly desirous of
securing photographs or illustrations of this phase of the
war. Suggestions will be gratefully received by A. E. Ebert,
Chairman, 426 State Street, Chicago, 111. ; Ed. Kreniers, His-
torian, Madison, Wis. ; or C. A. Mayo, Secretary, 64 West
Broadway, New York.
W. R. McEntire, No. 493 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Tex., would
like to correspond with any members of the Fifty-Fifth Geor-
gia Regiment relative to the man who was cooking on the
Kentucky side of Cumberland Gap the day this regiment was
surrendered by Gen. Frazier to Gen. Burnside. He pre-
ferred fighting to cooking. Leaving his vessels of bread on
the fire, he picked up his gun and went into the fight, making
ten feet to the jump down the mountain. Comrade McEntire
would like to get his address, if living.
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IV HAT HAPPENED AT HAMPTON ROADS.
The death of the Hon. John H. Reagan, of Texas, the last
member of the Confederate Cabinet, revives one. of the most
... portant and historical events of the War between the
States. It relates to the conference at Hampton Road^
between President Lincoln and the Confederate Commission-
ers, with a view of bringing the war to a close. This con-
ference marked distinctly the positions and political views
held at the time by both sections on constitutional rights.
It has been so often asserted that it seems a part of the his-
tory of that great revolution that Mr. Lincoln wrote on a
piece of paper "Save the Union," and, handing it to the
Confederate Commissioners, said, "Yoii can fill it up to suit
yourselves." No more complete denial of this can be found
than that made by the late Senator Vest, of Missouri, on the
floor of the United States Senate. Not a word of denial or
protest was entered by any of the Republican members pres-
ent.
Mr. Vest said the story had been denied by John H.
Reagan, of Texas, who was the last surviving member of the
Confederate Cabinet. He knew personally, said Mr. Vest,
without havmg been present at that celebrated interview,
that tlie incident was without foundation. "If true," said he,
"it would place the government and officers of the Confed-
eracy in the category of criminals, because it offered the
Confederacy all that it ever demanded in the wildest hope of
the most extreme partisans of that cause if they would only
return to the Union."
A deep silence had fallen upon the chamber, and every
Senator on the floor listened to him with rapt attention.
With great deliberation Senator Vest continued ; "If true,
it would mean that the Confederates could have placed on
that sheet of paper the perpetual establis'inent of slavery
and the right of secession, the most extreme demand that
had ever taken shape even in the dream of any Confederate."
From the lips of Stephens and Hunter had come to him, he
said, the details of what had taken place. Upon the return
of the Commissioners of the Confederacy he heard their of-
ficial report as Mr. Reagan heard it, the latter being a mem-
ber of the Cabinet and the speaker (Mr. Vest) a mem.ber of
the Senate of the Confederacy. "I am to-day the only sur-
vivor of the twenty-six gentlemen who were the Confederate
Senators," he said.
Mr. Vest then stated that what did happen at Hampton
Roads, beyond question, was this : "When President Lincoln
and Secretary Seward met the Commissioner: of the Con-
federacy, Mr. LinC3ln, addressing hirr.self to Mr. Hunter,
whom he knew well, said, 'In the first place, gentlemen, 1
desire to know what are your powers and instructions from
the Richmond gove.-nment,' avoiding," said Mr. Vest, as
Mr. Hunter told him himself, the words "Confederate States."
"Mr. Hunter, to whom the inquiry was addressed, said ■.
'Mr. President, we are instructed to consider no proposition
that does not involve the independence of the Confederate
States of America.' 'Then,' said Mr. Lincoln, 'the intervievv
had as well terminate r.ow ; for I must say to you, gentlemen,
frankly and hor.e'tly, that nothing will be accepted from the
government at Richmond e.xcept absolute and unconditional
surrender.' "
Mr. Vest said that this terminated the interview, and as
the Confederate Commissioners retired President Lincoln,
addressing Stephens, who was the last to go out, said : "Ste-
phens, you are making a great mistake. Your government is
a failure; and when the crash comes, as it soon must com.'",
there will be chaos and disasters, which we cannot now fore-
see, which must come to your people."
"This account of that meeting," continued Mr. Vest, "sub-
stantially and almost word for word as I have given it,
came to me from Mr. Stephens and Mr. Hunter."
Mr. Vest said that he considered it his duty to make his
statement in order that history may not be falsified, in order
that the men who were said to have refused this offer at the
hands of President Lincoln should not be made to suffer in
their graves, adding: "For if they had refused what was
said to have been tendered il.em by the President, they would
have been accessories to the murder of every man who fell
from that time in defense of the Confederacy, and they
should have given the intentions which they risked every-
thing, everything that is held dear amongst men, in defense
of the Confederate cause."
While the deep silence still reigned in the chamber as he
spoke, and with every eye directed toward him, Mr. Vest
closed as follows : "It may be but a very short time until I
shall join the twenty-five colleagues I had in the Confederate
Senate, and I did not want this statement to go on the record
of this country without my statement of those facts and my
solemn denial that there is a shadow of truth in this asser-
tion which has been going the rounds of the newspapers of
the country for the last few years."
THE SOUTH TRIED AS BY FIRE.
[In connection with refining gold so that when purified the
workman sees his own image reflected, an unknown author
expresses that which will comfort the Southern people who
endured through the war and subsequent "reconstruction."!
He sat by a furnace of sevenfold heat.
As He watched by the precious ore.
And closer He bent with a searching gaze
As He heated it more and more
He knew He had ore that could stand the test.
And He wanted the finest gold
To mold as a crown for the King to wear.
Set with gems of a price untold.
So He laid our gold in the burning fire.
Though we fain would have said Him "Nay,"
And He watched the dross that we had not seen
As it melted and passed away.
And the gold grew brighter and yet more bright ;
But our eyes were so dim with tears
We saw but the fire — not the Master's hand —
And questioned with anxious fears.
Yet our gold shone out with a richer glow
As it mirrored a Form above
That bent o'er the fire, though unseen by us.
With looks of ineffable love.
Can we think that it pleases His loving heart
To cause us a moment's pain?
Ah ! no ; but He saw through the present cross
The bliss of eternal gain.
So He waited there with a watchful eye,
With a love that is strong and sure.
And His gold did not suffer a whit more heat
Than was needed to make it pure.
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THE ASSAULT UPON FORT GILMER.
BY JUDGE MARTIN, HAWKINSVILLE, GA., CAPTAIN COMPANY
G, I7TH GEORGIA INFANTRY.
I noticed the article of Gen. Reese's, of Pensacola, Fla ,
in the Veteran of June, 1904, in reference to the fight at
Fort Gilmer, and awaited with interest some reply thereto.
In the Veteran of December, 1904, Dr. T. J. May, of Ennis,
Tex., writes of the same fight. ... I feel called upon, for
the accuracy of historical events, to correct the errors of
my esteemed comrades; and I do so with the kindliest of
feelings, realizing that after the lapse of so many years we
all make mistakes in our recollections.
On the morning that Fort Harrison was attacked the
troops on the north side of tl.e James River consisted of the
following commands, beginning on our left : A body of cav-
;;lry, which, I think, was commanded by Gen. Gary, of South
Carolina ; then that grand old "Texas Brigade," composed
of the 1st, 4th, and Sth Texas and the 3d Arkansas Regi-
ments; next came Benning's Georgia Brigade, consisting of
the 2d, 15th, 17th, and 20th Georgia Regiments ; then a bat-
talion known as the City Battalion from Richmond, Va.,
composed of old men and boys; and in Fort Harrison there
was a fragmentary detachment of either Tennesseeans or
Kentuckians, but I thii.k they were Kenfuckians ; and a few
artillerymen in charge of the stationary batteries.
There was a line of breastworks running from New Market
to the James River. On the day before the attack our forces
were engaged in throwing up breastworks some distance in
front of this line, which we were then occupying. That
tvening there was sent down from Richmond a boat load
of men to assist in our work, and seven companies of the
17th Georgia were sent down to the river in the rear of Fort
Harrison to meet the boat and take charge of these men.
The other three companies of the 17th Georgia were out
working on the breastworks. I was with these three com-
panies, and instead of rejoining my regiment that night I
permitted my men to reinain in a thick piece of woods to the
right of what was known as the Phillips House. The next
irorning just before day picket-firing began in front, and
som after light the battle lines of the enemy were in sight.
auvnncing upon us. Arousing my men, we double-quicked
along the line of breastworks toward Fort Harrison and
the James River until we reached the headquarters of Gen.
Gregg. T think it was, which was a short distance in the rear
of the point where the breastworks turned toward Fort Har-
rison.
Just as we reached this point a courier dashed up and said
that the enemy were attacking the Texas Brigade, and I was
ordered to go back and assist them. We returned as rapidly
as possible ; and when we got opposite the Phillips House.
just in front of our breastworks, we saw that the Texans had
repulsed the attack and killed "niggers" galore, and the fight
at that point was over. Just as this attack had been repulsed
a courier came down the line and ordered us to reenforce
Fort Harrison. We then hurried as rapidly as possible along
the line of breastworks; and when we came in sight of Fort
Harrison, it seemed that the whole world in front was full
cif binccoals.
Realizing that it would be impossible for us to reach the
fort, as the enemy were so clo<e upon it, I suggested to my
commanding officer that we attack the right flank of one col-
umn of the enemy which had swung around so as to some-
what expose it. I was told in words more emphatic than
elegant that when he wanted my advice in such matters he
would ask for it. When we reached the point in our line
ot breastworks where they turned at a right angle to Fort
Harrison, four Federal flags had gone up on the fort and on
the breastworks surrounding it, and the few men that we had
there were falling back behind some winter quarters and
under a hill in the rear of the fort. We were then ordered to
the right, in the rear of the winter quarters and under the hill,
and I was instructed to go down the line of breastworks to
the left and have the City Battalion from Richmond and other
troops moved to the right. On my return, just as I got to
the argle. a friend in the 15th Georgia Regiment, who had
jumped upon the breastworks and fired, was him,self shot in
the breast, and called me to aid him in getting away. I
went to his assistance, but before I could get him off we
were both captured. I asked permission to take him in the
rear to a tree standing out in the field, which was granted.
Finding a favorable opportunity, and giving him all the aid
in my power, we made a break, and succeeded in rejoining
our forces. Then our litter corps took charge of him.
After the capture of Fort Harrison, our men fell back into
the second line of our breastworks, on which were situated
Forts Gilmer and Gregg.
In making my escape I was compelled to make a detour to
the right, facing toward Richmond. My own command had
gone to the left, thus placing the enemy between us. I struck
the second line of our breastworks near, but on the right of
Fort Gilmer, and did so ahead of any of the Federal troops
During the day our forces were rushed from one point to
another, as emergency demanded, to meet the assaults made
upon our lines. I, hovyever, was in close proximity to Fort
Gihner during the day.
The first assault made by the enemy after we had fallen
back into this line of works was upon Fort Gregg, which was
situated between Fort Gilmer and Fort Harrison The 2d
Georgia, part of our brigade, participated in the fight, and
the enemy were repulsed. At the time that Fort Gilmer was
assaulted by the negroes and they got into the ditch around
the fort my impression was that a portion of the isth Geor-
gia were in the fort, and commanded by Capt. Marcus, of
thai regiment
T was not in the fort, and do not know the number of men
that were in there; but Mr. Hendricks, an inmate of the Con-
federate Soldiers' Home of Georgia, and who was a soldier
in the 15th Georgia, told me that he was in the fort, and his
recollection was that nearly all the regiment were in there.
He furthermore told me that it was one of the stationary
artillerymen who broke off a part of the fuse from a bomb-
shell obtained froni the magazine in the fort and threw it
over into the ditcl: where the negro troops were. His state-
ments tally with my recollection of the occurrence, except as
to the number of the 15th Georgia in Fort Gilmer. I was on
the immediate left where the line of breastworks abutted the
fort when the negroes charged across the field and got
into the ditch around the fort. Immediately in front of
the fort was a field with corn shocked up in it, and then
a strip of woods. Just before the 'V ~lls were thrown into
the ditch among the negroes th ■ ■ ny's line in the edge
of the woods beyond the field v, as getting ready to make
another charge. When the shells were thrown in the ditch
among the negro soldiers, the cry went up from them : "The
d — n Rebels are throwin' hand guns. Flung 'em out, and let's
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go over and massacre them." I think it was after the ex-
plosion of the second shell that a white handkerchief went
up on a sword or gun, and they then begged for quarter,
throwing their guns out of the ditch, and after surrendering
came around to the right of the fort and on the inside of our
breastworks through a culvert. It was not until late in the
evening, and after we had repulsed every attack made upon
our line on which were Forts Gilmer and Gregg, that re-
enforcements from Petersburg arrived and dashed into the
breastworks with us.
Comrade Reese is correct in saying the negroes were drunk,
for there was whisky in their canteens ; and some of the
canteens had a black sedime ' n them, said to be gunpow-
der. Pie is also correct in s...\nig that those who attempted
to scale the walls of Fort Gilmer in Zouave fashion were
shot in the head; but there were many dead in the field in
front of the fort who were killed before reaching the ditch
around the fort. I think he underestimates the captured and
killed ; for I was with the burial detail, and my recollection
is that they were piled up several deep in the ditch and
were lying pretty thick in front. He is also mistaken in
fixing the time before the explosion of the crater at Peters-
burg, which occurred July 30, 1864, at 4:30 a.m. The capture
of Fort Harrison and the assault upon Fort Gilmer were
made on the morning of the 29th of September, 1864.
Comrade May is mistaken when he says it was in the
spring of 1864. Gen. Hood, our division commander, lost
his leg at Chickamauga and Field succeeded him, and from
September, 1863, to about the ist of May, 1864, our command
was in Georgia and Tennessee. I was not with it in Tennes-
see, having been slightly wounded in the foot and had my
lower jaw shot through and broken on both sides at Chick-
amauga, and did not rejoin the command until it reached
Charlottesville, Va. I do know, however, that on the 6th of
May. 1864, when Hill's men were being driven back at the
Wilderness, the ever true and reliable old division of Hood,
then commanded by Field, dashed down the plank road at
a double-quick and saved the day. I was shot down on the
plank road just opposite the battery on the left of the road.
Our division was at Spottsylvania and the Texas Brigade
was on the left of Benning's. We were at Cold Harbor on
June 3, and about the middle of June or a little later, 1
think it was, we were sent over to Petersburg to reenforce
Beauregard. I do not remember the exact date that we left
Petersburg ; but I am positive that it was between the 20th
and 30th of July when we were sent on the north side of
the James River, for on July 15 J. M. Hukins, one of my
men, was killed at Petersburg, and we left before the mine
was exploded on the 30th. On August 16, 1864, we were at
Deep Bottom, which was the first fight in which we fought
negroes, so far as I can recollect. I was right behind Gen.
Gerrardy when he was killed in the charge which drove the
negro troops out of our breastworks, which they had suc-
ceeded in occupying, and I was one of the volunteers who
crossed our recaptured line of breastworks and drove the
enemy from our immediate front.
On the next day, after the attack on Fort Gilmer, our re-
enforcements, which came from Petersburg, made an unsuc-
cessful effort to recapture Fort Harrison.
I do not know the strength of the enemy in their attack
on Forts Harrison, Gilmer, and Gregg, and our lines of
breastworks on September 29; but the pickets and scouts re-
ported that they had been crossing the river all night, and
the report at that time was that there were two full army
corps confronting us, numbering twenty-five to thirty thou-
sand men. At no time have I ever heard the force esti-
mated at less than twenty thousand.
In my humble opinion the brilliant achievements of this
small Confederate force, holding at bay the hordes of the
enemy from daylight until the reenforcements could arrive
from Petersburg and fighting all day long against such
tremendous odds, were unsurpassed during the war.
We killed, wounded, and captured more of the enemy than
we had in our entire force engaged during the day, and com-
pletely foiled the adroit scheme of the Federals for the cap-
ture of Richmond.
I am unable to conceive what time during that day there
was any attack upon Fort Gilmer when there were only
five men to defend it. It certainly was not when the negroes
charged and got into the ditch around the fort, and it cer-
tainly was not when the bombshell was thrown in their
midst. As there are doubtless many of the old Texas and
Benning's Brigades who were present on that occasion, I
should like to hear from them as to their recollections about
what happened, for I am more concerned to secure accuracy
in the facts than I am to sustain my recollection of them.
Either Comrades Reese and May are mistaken or my recol-
lection is most sadly at fault.
Gen. Longstreet Declined a Salary of Fifty Thousand
Dollars. — An old clipping from Atlanta states that the late
Gen. James Longstreet was once offered the presidency of
the famous Louisiana Lottery at a salary of fifty thousand
dollars per annum. As he was in sore straits financially
at that time, and as there was absolutely no work attached
to the position, "it took heroic nerve to resist the tempting
offer." The promoters of the lottery desired the name of
Gen. Longstreet for the influence it would lend to the lottery.
This was soon after the war. He was living in Gaines-
ville at the time, and confided to some of his close friends
the offer, and they urged him to accept it. He said he could
not do it. Their entreaties caused him to hold his answer
in abeyance for a day or two. When the time arrived for a
further conference, he gave the final "No" to their overtures,
giving as his reason : "I cannot allow the use of my name
for the presidency of any institution in which there is a
semblance of a game of chance. However much I may need
the money, my duty to my people and to the young manhood
of the South, as well as my duty to my Master, forbids my
acceptance of the offer." But few know to this day that Gen.
Longstreet was ever offered the place.
Drinking Again from the Same Canteen. — R. N. Batten,
Green Cove Springs, Fla., writes that Lewis Clemons be-
longed to Company H, Twenty-Ninth Infantry, and that he
owned an old-fashioned wooden canteen, occasionally seen
early in the war, on the side of which he had cut his name,
company, and regiment. Clemons lost the canteen in the bat-
tle of Franklin. Some days after the battle a little girl picked
up the old canteen and carried it home as a relic. This girl
married a Mr. Martin, and some years afterwards he dis-
covered the old canteen. His wife told him its history, and
he gave notice to the press, through which it reached a sister
of Mr. Clemons. She sent the account to her brother, and
the canteen is now possessed by its war time owner.
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C. A. DANA ON THE CRUELTY TO MR. DAVIS.
In reminiscences of men and events of the War between the
States Charles A. Dana, in McClure's Magazine for August.
1898, wrote of the Miles event with Jefferson Davis, in which
he referred to the other tragic events following that of
Lincoln's assassination.
Mr. Dana left in person for Fortress Monroe on May 20,
1855, and on the 22A he wrote Mr. Stanton :
"The two prisoners have just been placed in their respective
casemates. The sentries are stationed both within and with-
out their doors. The bars and locks are fastened, and the
regular routine of their imprisonment has begun. At one
o'clock Gen. Miles left, with a tug and a guard from the
garrison, to go for Davis and Clay. At half-past one the
tug left the Clyde for the fortress. She landed at the en-
gineer's wharf, and the procession, led by the cavalrymen of
Col. Pritchard's command, moved through the water battery
0:1 the east front of tiie fortress and entered by a postern
leading from that battery. The cavalrymen were followed
by Gen. Miles, holding Davis by the right arm. Next came
half a dozen soldiers, and then Col. Pritchard with Clay, and
last the guard which Miles took out with iiini. The arrange-
ments were excellent and successful, and not a single curious
spectator was anywhere in siglit. Davis bore himself with ,1
haughty attitude. His face was somewhat fluslied, but his
features were composed and his step firm. In Clay's manner
there was less expression of bravado and dramatic determina-
tion. Both were dressed in gray, with drab slouched bats.
Davis wore a thin, dark overcoat. His hair and beard are
not so gray as has been reported
"In leaving his wife and children he exhibited no great
emotion, though she was violently affected. He told her she
would be allowed to see him in the course of the day. Clay
took leave of his wife in private, and he was not seen by
the officers. Both asked to see Gen. Halleck, but he will not
see them.
"The arrangements for the security of the prisoners seem
to me as complete as could be desired. Each one occupies
the imicr room of a casemate; the window is heavily barred.
A sentry stands within, before each of the doors leading into
the outer room. These doors are to be grated, but are now
secured by bars fastened on the outside. Two other sentries
stand outside of these doors. An officer is also constantly
on duty in the outer room, whose duty is to see his prisoner
every fifteen minutes. The outer door of all is locked on
the outside, and the key is kept exclusively by the general
officer of the guard. Two sentries are also stationed without
that door ; a strong line of sentries cuts off all access to the
vicinity of the casemates. Another line is stationed on the
top of the parapet overhead, and a third line is posted across
the moats on the counterscarp, opposite the places of con-
finement. The casemates on each side and between these
occupied by the prisoners are used as guard rooms, and sol-
diers are always there. A lamp is constantly kept burning
in each of the rooms. The furniture of each prisoner is a
hospital bed, with iron bedstead, chair and table, and a
movable tool closet. A Bible is allowed to each. I have
not given orders to have them placed in irons, as Gen. Hal-
leck seemed opposed to it ; but Gen. Miles is instructed to
have fetters ready if he thinks them necessary. The prisoners
are to be supplied with soldier's rations, cooked by the guard.
Their linen will be issued to them in the same way. I shall
be back to-morrow morning."
Continuing the magazine article. Mr. Dana said : "Before
leaving Fortress Monroe on the 22d I made out for Gen.
Miles the order for placing fetters upon Davis a day or two
later, when he found it necessary to change the inner doors
of the casemate, which were of light wood and without locks."
Every circumstance connected with cruelties to President
Davis illustrates the heroism (?) of men whose courage did
not appear until the Confederate armies became prisoners.
SOUTHRONS REMEMBERED.
BY ERED G. HOLLM.^N. NEOSHO, MO.
Every burial ground of the Southern soldier bears the
handiwork of the loyal women of the South. Every bit of
greensward and every granite headstone is a tribute to the
hearts and hands of those who will not forget. Not a
springing shrub of fragrant bloom but tells the story of the
Southern heart's devotion.
Did you ever step from a stately national cemetery into a
graveyard of the Confederate dead? Is there not something
powerfully pathetic in the forces which have cared for the
resting places of the gray? And not while the sun gleams
brightly and the moon smiles softly will the women of the
South forget their dead. Every veteran's tomb is to them
a hallowed spot. Each day there is another company march-
ing to the final muster. But the mounds freshly turned arc
no more sacred than the trenches dug in 1861. The luster
of the South has never dimmed. Such names as Johnston,
Gordon, Lee, and Jackson stand out boldly like stars in a
blue-black sky. And yet the rank and file are not forgotten.
The memories of the unnamed heroes who made with their
bodies a rampart for Minie ball and shrapnel, who sank alone
and uncared for on the field, are in the same grand class as
those who earned a higher fame. There is a world of human
honesty in the human world, after all. Have you not seen
a general's monument engarlandod with the subtle, scented
blossoms and seen the same sweet burden laid on the un-
marked grave beside it? It all means that the South will
not forget its dead. Four decades have passed since the
stars and bars rippled in the Richmond breezes, but the
picture is still bright in the Dixie heart. Forty years have
passed since the guns roared at Manassas, Vicksburg, Seven
Pines, and Malvern Hill ; but the echo is not yet spent. The
dead are not forgotten. Whose was the greater suffering,
that of the men who toiled in the smoke and flame of the
battle line or the frailer ones who remained in suspense at
home? Those years will not be forgotten. Only the Great
Alchemist shall say why he molds the hearts of his children
in the crucible.
The glory of the Southern soldiery shall not depart. The
loyalty of the Southern heart brightens with time's fleeting
lapse. Death, the grim conscript officer, calls for more, more,
and yet more recruits. The battalions dwindle, weaken, but
they are soldiers still. The reveille calls, and they lay down
their arms this time to go, and fear not. Mayhap they are
thinking of that reunion in the .rreat encampment. And
when the last soldier marches down a>'", v hen the bugler
calls no more, when the minute guns ari' tilent and the
drumsticks crumble into dust, they will net be forgotten.
Through the splendor of the golden days and the incense
of the mellow nights the voices of the dead will call again,
and the men and women of the South will come — come with
their flowers and prayers and tears. For though "we see
through a glass, darkly," the dead are not forgotten.
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WOMAN'S MONUMENT MOVEMENT IN MACON.
BY HON. BRIDGES SMITH, MAYOR, MACON. CA.
The idea of erecting a monument to the women of the
Confederacy, commemorative of their noble deeds, trials, and
sacrifices in 1861-65, originated with the grizzled Veterans
of R. A. Smith Camp, at this place. As you may know, the
majority of these boys are not blessed with a plethora of this
world's goods; but they appreciate what was done by the
good women of the South during the great struggle, and
before they pass away they want to see a monument erected,
or the work of erecting one begun. They have started the
monument by soliciting in a quiet way such contributions as
the people may wish to give. Up to this time they have in
sight about six hundred dollars.
It is their plan to place in position at once the base or
pedestal upon which the monument proper is to stand ;
whether statuary or a plain shaft depends upon the amount
of contributions. This base or pedestal will cost from one
to two thousand dollars, and that which is to surmount it
will be determined later. The boys are passing away now
more rapidly than ever because of advancing age, and they
want to see this noble work begun at once. There is no old
soldier who reads this who will not recall what sacrifices were
made by our women during the war — the encouragement, the
patience, the loyalty, and the service rendered the sick and
wounded. This being so, he will want to contribute his mite.
There is no son or grandson of an old soldier who will
not recall the story of our women's suffering and good serv-
ices, told them by their fathers ; and they too should con-
tribute to this long-delayed memorial.
Every man in the South knows that the monuments erected
everywhere to the Confederate soldier have been planned
and the money raised for them by women. It is therefore the
duty of all to aid, if but a trifle, in building this monument.
I have been selected by the Camp to receive contributions,
and will promptly acknowledge all moneys sent.
W. A. Campbell, of Columbus. Miss., always has some in-
teresting or amusing incident of war times to relate, and the
following partakes to some extent of both, with a little in-
dignation mixed in : "Miss Lizzie Ogden had a rather ex-
citing experience during the war while she was living at
Rodney, Miss., on the banks of the Mississippi River. A
Federal gunboat was anchored in the river to prevent com-
munication with the Trans-Mississippi Department. The
Confederacy having no troops in that immediate vicinity, the
officers from the gunboat would go ashore and attend service.^
on the Sabbath. A Confederate officer at last got wind of
this, and one Sunday in the midst of services this officer of
the scout suddenly entered the church with his men and
commanded a surrender. The Federals instantly complied,
with the exception of one, who drew his belt pistol and fired.
The Confederate immediately did the same, and bedlam broke
/cose. Some of the congregation got under the seats, and
the preacher took shelter behind the pulpit. Many jumped
out of the windows, and among the latter my friend, Miss
Lizzie. The Federal who fired jumped after her, and, grasp-
ing her, held her as a shield against the Confederate who was
trying to shoot him. Thanks to this shield, the Federal got
back to his boat, and as soon as he got on board the gunboat
began throwing shells into the town, whereupon the officer
of the Confederates communicated under a flag of truce
warning that if another shell was fired he would hang his
prisoners in sight of the boat. The shelling ceased. Miss
Lizzie said she had a good voice then, and she used it to
the best of her ability."
"I'VE WOULD NOT, IF WE COULD, FORGET."
BY DECCA LAMAR WEST, WACO, TEX.
O ! Dixie land, fair Dixie land.
Thy memories linger with us yet ;
We sing the glory of thy past —
We would not, if we could, forget.
O'er rocky crag and fertile field
War's fierce and cruel tide did sweep.
Now wild birds sing a requiem
In forest glades where heroes sleep.
As visions of the past arise.
Although the Southern star has set.
We listen to thy sacred lays —
We would not, if we could, forget.
The giant oaks still guard the hills
And crystal streams that once ran red,
The violets bloom among the vales
Sweet incense to our sainted dead.
We glory in our native land —
North, East, and West we love — and yet
The .'-'outh is still our heritage —
We would not, if we could, forget.
The daisies rear their graceful heads
On what was once a bloody plain,
Their snowy petals cover mounds
Where sweetly rest our noble slain.
Ah ! dear old South, so staunch, so great !
We do not grieve, repine, regret,
But cherish thee within our hearts —
Wc would not, if we could, forget.
As nature's touch has healed the scars
Wrought deep by devastating hand,
So peace and love, the gifts of God,
Reveal a reunited land.
O, sunny land ! our Dixie land,
Thy memories linger with us yet ;
We love thee, honor — yea, adore —
We would not, if we could, forget.
J. H. Doyle, Granbury, Tex.: "The Veterans would very
iiiucli appreciate a reserved space for delegates at the re-
unions. The last meeting at New Orleans was the best-
arranged I have ever attended, and, I am sorry to say, the
worst was in Nashville last June. I was a delegate from our
Camp, and was only able to get inside the auditorium one
time, and then not halfway down to the stand."
If G. H. Wines, who presented, in 1855 or 1856, a gold pen
and pencil to Gen. William Walker, of Nicaragua fame, with
his name engraved upon it, is living, or any of his relatives
or others acquainted with the circumstances will communi-
cate their information to Hon. John W. Morton, Secretary of
State, Nashville, Tenn., or Gov. J. D. Porter, at Nashville,
or J. C. Jamison, at Guthrie, Okla., it will be appreciated.
(^OQfederat<^ l/eterai).
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"LITTLE GIFFIN, OF TENNESSEE."
This poem, which is a recital of actual facts, is conceded
to be one of the finest specimens of heroic devotion ever
enacted. It has been read and recited wherever the English
language is spoken, and has been translated into several for-
eign tongues. Dr. F. O. Ticknor, the gifted author of the
poem, was a Georgian, and died at his home, Torch Hill,
near Columbus, Ga., in 1874. The following, which is taken
from the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger of recent date, is a care-
fully prepared account by the editor, Charles J. Swift, setting
forth that the poem was based upon historical facts :
"When Gen, Johnston was battling against Sherman's in-
vasion of Georgia, up to the time of the former's removal
from the chief command of the Army of Tennessee every
town and city within approach to Atlanta was crowded with
the sick and wounded from Johnston's army. The old Banks
building, now standing on upper Broad Street, Columbus,
was then used for hospital purposes. Dr. Carlisle Terry had
charge of the Banks buildmg hospital. With the Confed-
erate wounded sent here was a poor, emaciated sixteen-year-
old boy, who had enlisted from East Tennessee, and whose
name was Newton Giffin. He was badly, dangerously, and
apparently mortally woimdod ; but Mrs. Robert Carter, Mrs.
W. G. Woolfolk, and Mrs. R. W'. Ticknor, in their rounds and
ministrations of the hospital, saw this weakling and, taking
compassion upon him. asked Dr. Terry that they might take
him to Torch Hill and give him better care than he could
■get at the hospital. This request the doctor granted, but
remarked that it was no use, as the youth would soon be
<iead.
"Newton Giffin was taken to Torch Hill, and there Dr.
Ticknor first saw him. Mrs. Ticknor and her sisters nursed
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him back to life ; and when he began to recover, they taught
him to read and write. He was an illiterate, small, white-
haired youth only sixteen years of age, and had been in
eighteen battles. When Newton recovered, he forthwith re-
turned to his command. In bidding good-by to his bene-
factors, he promised to write.
"Dr. Douglas C. Ticknor, now practicing in Columbus, and
Newton Giflin, during the time of Newton's adoption in his
family, were close boyish friends. When Newton left Torch
Hill for his return to the army, he and Dr. Douglas Ticknor
started oflf on horseback, riding double. At Bull Creek the
water was so high on the approach to the bridge that they
were both washed oflf and had to swim for their lives. Dr.
Ticknor was forced back to the lower side of the runway,
but Newton Giffin reached the bridge and made his way,
dripping wet, to Columbus. Across the water the two boys
signaled each other good-by. This was the last seen of
Newton Giffin by any of the Ticknor household, who knew
they would hear from him if his life should be spared in the
battles at the front, to which he had so heroically returned."
[Who can tell of the boy, of his command, or of his fam-
ily?— Editor Veteran.]
"Little Giffin, of Tennessee." ,
Out of the focal and foremost fire.
Out of the hospital walls as dire.
Smitten of grapeshot and gangrene —
Eiglitccnth battle and he sixteen —
Specter such as you seldom see,
Little Giffin, of Tennessee.
"Take him. and welcome," the doctor said;
"Little the doctor can help the dead."
So we took him, and brought him where
The balm was sweet in the summer air,
.And laid him down on a wholesome bed-
Utter Lazarus from heel to head.
-And we watched the war with baled breath.
Skeleton boy against skeleton death.
Months of torture (how many such?),
Weary weeks of stick and crutch;
Still the glint of the steel-blue eye
Told of a spirit that wouldn't die.
.And didn't. Nay, more ; in death's despite
The crippled skeleton learned to write —
"Dear Mother" at first, of course, and then
"Dear Captain," inquiring about the men.
The Captain answered : "Of eighty and five,
(iiffin and I are left alive."
W'nrd of gloom from the war one day:
"Johnston is pressed at the front," they say.
Little Giffin was up and away;
.\ tear (his first), as he said good-by.
Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye.
"I'll write, if spared." There was news of the fight,
But none of Giffin — he did not write.
I sometimes fancy that, were I king
Of the princely Knights of the Golden Ring,
With the song of the minstrel in mine ear
And the tender legend that trembles here,
I'd give the best on his bended knee,
The whitest soul of my chivalry,
For little Giffin, of Tennessee.
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MEMORIES OF A CONFEDERATE VETERAN.
BY ALBERT GREENWOOD, HILLSBORO UPPER VILLAGE, N. H.
As life's evening shadows lengthen and our hearts are beating
slow.
We grow weary of its burdens and its strife;
Our memories turn backward to the scenes of long ago,
And we live again the morning hours of life.
There are voices, full of music, that are soft and sweet and
clear.
And that sing to us no matter where wc roam;
And they play upon our heartstrings with each swift recurring
j'ear—
They are memories of childhood and of liome.
There's a breath of wondrous fragrance in the balmy summer
breeze,
Where the sunlight in the morning used to play.
When the blossoms were unfolding on the dark magnolia trees.
In our memories of boyhood, far away.
There is music that will haunt us till the day of life is o'er
And our spirits wander out across the strand.
Though often it was mingled with the cannon's sullen roar —
'Tis the music of our own fair "Dixie Land."
There's a song we all remember of some dreadful battle day,
When our colors from the mountain tops were flung:
How it quickened every footstep in the charging line of gray !
'Twas the anthem that the Yankee bullets sung.
There's a sound that comes in echoes from the shades of long
ago.
In its thunder have our foemen heard their knell ;
With it the hills resounded ere we struck the deadly blow —
'Tis the famous, dreaded Southern "Rebel yell."
There are places dark with sorrow, yet to every soldier known,
Where a conflict in its rage and fury rolled ;
There some loved and loving comrade gave forth liis dying
groan,
When the number of his battle days were told.
There are wailing cries of anguish that linger with us yet,
When the smoke and dust of battle rolled away.
And a sister or a sweetheart (would to God we could forg.t : »
Found her loved one lying dead among the gray.
The clouds are dark around us and our eyes are full of tears
When the visions of those days pass in review.
And we see lads we buried who marched with us for years.
The bravest men a nation ever knew.
The soldier's face yet blanches (and there's iron in his soul)
When memory takes him backward o'er life's sea
To his final answer, "Here," at the calling of the roll
On the morning that we bade farewell to Lee.
Let me take your hand, my comrade, for our battle days are
gone,
And our hair is like the ocean's driven spray ;
Let us proudly march together till the great, eternal dawn,
When, once more, we hope to mingle with the gray.
We hall the starry banner, our children wear the blue,
And no man doubts our loyalty to-day ;
But we'll step to Dixie music till the march of life is* through ;
Then we'll sleep within our tattered coats of gray.
A'. E. LEE BY A DAUGHTER OE A. S. JOHNSTOX.
[Mrs. William B. Pricliard, at a meeting of the Albert
Sidney Johnston Chapter in San Francisco, responding to an
urgent request, paid this tribute to Gen. Lee.]
Mrs. Voorhies has asked me to make an address because
it was my privilege to know Gen. Lee well. The request was
at first rather appalling to me, as I had never contemplated
making an address on any subject; but, as the Chapter wished
it, I determined to try to share with you my precious mem-
ories of one of the earth's greatest.
Gen. Lee was the friend of my father and my mother ; and
when he was lieutenant colonel of the 2d Cavalry, of which
regiment my father was at that time colonel, I, as a tiny child,
sat on his knee and was carried in his arms. Of that I liave,
of course, only a vague memory. When a young girl I spent
many happy days as a guest in- Gen. Lee's house, and the
memory of that time is one of my dearest possessions. Gen.
Lee's career as a soldier has been so ably written of by the
great writers, not only of our own country but of Europe,
that you are all doubtless thoroughly familiar with it. and
there is little that I could say that has not already been better
said.
It is not as the great soldier that I think of him nio<t fre-
quently, but as the beloved friend. He was the very perfec-
tion of a host, exquisitely thoughtful and courteous to all,
a«d showing me in addition the tenderness a soldier always
feels for the child of his dead comrade. Gen. Lee was at this
time President of Washington and Lee L'niversity, a position
taken by him at the close of the war in preference to those
offered him to which larger salaries were attached, because
he felt he could best serve his people in this way. In this
he was undoubtedly right, as the young men from all over
the South were most thankfully committed to his care, and
his influence for good over thcin was wonderful.
As a soldier and as a man Gen. Lee compelled the admira-
tion of all fair-minded people, even when feeling ran highest ;
and to-day, if there are any so low in the scale of humanity
as to be unable to see and appreciate his greatness, they
should excite in us not anger, but pity for their small souls.
I wish I could show him to you as I knew him. "Out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh," and surely my
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heart is full enough of love and admiration to speak; but
words are but poor things, after all, and I find them inade-
quate. Think for yourselves a moment of a man showing
himself great at all stages of his life, step by step winning
fame and power until, when in the War between the States,
he took his place as a soldier and a man second to none!
Then see him bereft of all save honor"; and not alone so be-
reft, but those dearer to him than himself. See him taking
lip his life again, pressing down the agony he felt at seeing
the suffering of his people, which he was powerless to pre-
vent, utterly forgetting self, encouraging, strengthening, and
doing his utmost to cheer those around him, guarding every
word during the awful reconstruction times lest an expres-
sion of indignation should excite the young men to indis-
creet action. Smilingly, bravely bearing all things until his
great heart broke, he gave his life for his people as cer-
tainly as if it had fallen on the field of battle, vanquished
yet victor.
If he was grand in prosperity, in adversity he was sublime.
Ah ! we do well for ourselves and our country when we keep
his birthday and teach our children to know his virtues, and
thank God that our race produced such a man.
"Rest well, brave heart !
The earth that bears thee dead
P>cars not ali\c as great!"
MISS ANNIE LOWE JONAS,
S)tonsor Ml^sisblppi Division l". C. V., Louisville Ktiinion.
was large, enthusiastic, and the utmost harmony prevailed.
Mr. Egbert Beall, on behalf of the Confederate Veterans and
the citizens of Pensacola, delivered the address of welcome to
the visitors. In his eloquent address, when speaking of the
Confederate soldier, he said : "Let the Daughters of the Con-
federacy see to it that they are not unwept, unhonored, nor
unsung. We honor our leaders ; we would add luster to their
fame, if possible. We know their patriotism was unselfish,
their motives as pure as the gleams that flashed from their
valiant swords in the broad sunlight of our Southern skies;
but it was the bravery and fidelity of the men in the ranks
that made their fame possible, and see to it that in nations
yet unborn, in accents yet unknown, their lofty deeds are
counted o"er, that all who struggle for liberty against injus-
tice and oppression may feel the inspiration of their example."
Mr. Beall was enthusiastically applauded, and Prof. N. B.
Cook, Superintendent of Public Instruction, a gray-haired
veteran, welcomed the visitors on behalf of the local Pensa-
cola Chapter of U. D. C. After Comrade Cook's address the
charming young President of the Pensacola Chapter, Miss
Leila Reese, also extended a welcome to the delegates in a
graceful little speech, saying: "One year ago I had the pleas-
ure to invite you in the name of our Chapter to meet in Pen-
sacola, and now I have the double pleasure of giving you
welcome to our city, which was among the first to receive in
her midst an armed force ready to do battle for the Con-
federacy, which suffered longest from the oppression of the
invader, and in the hearts of whose women the patriotic mem-
ory of our cause has been kept alive with as sacred a zeal as
were the fires of the vestal virgins of ancient Rome. It is
said to be an Eastern custom to send forth from the home
nest a perfumed dove, in order that the aroma of its wings
might allure others ; and so may j'our stay among us result
in so much felicity in every way that you shall bear away
with you the sweet incense of a royal welcome, a gracious
hospitality, and such loyalty to the cause you are constituted
to conserve as shall inspire anew your efforts to preserve the
records and traditions of the South \"
To respond to this and to the preceding welcome address
Mrs. Stockbridgc, the President, called upon Mrs. W. T. Mc-
Xulty, of Martha Reed Chapter of Jacksonville, to reply on
behalf of the convention, after which the convention was
called to order and regular business taken up. The reports
of various committees were received and approved. There
was no election of officers, as the present terms do not expire
until next year. The next annual convention will be held at
Jacksonville. After business the social features of the con-
vention were brilliant and delightful. Mrs. L. Hilton Green's
afternoon reception at the Country Club was greatly enjoyed,
and in the evening the Osceola Club tendered the delegates a
beautiful reception.
Of the distinguished women present was the widow of Gen.
Patton Anderson, who was the first honorary President of
the Florida Division
I- LOR IDA DIl'/SION, U. D. C.'S.
The annual convention of the Florida Division. U. D. C,
was held in Pensacola April 3. The State President, Mrs.
H. E. Stockbridge, of Lake City, presided. The attendance
William Standifer, of Mississippi, at the age of three-
score and ten years, four of which were occupied by his
service in the Confederate army, made application sometime
back to the Agricultural and Mechanical College for posi-
tion as a student, and he was regularly enrolled, there being
no age limit to disqualify him.
Don't fail to commend the Veteran, if you approve its
policy, to strangers as w-ell as friends.
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f<rHMgon^-
Dr. E. S. Bi-isT.
[The following tribute to the memory of Dr. E. Somers
Buist, of Charleston, who was killed at Fort Walker, Hilton
Head, November 7, 1861, dedicated to his surviving comrades
by an unknown author, is taken from an old scrapbook.]
Away where the ocean enfolds the green main
With ocean's hushed monotones sighing.
As wave upon wave chants its own low refrain
Of lament where the fallen are lying;
Away where the sunlight aslant every wave
Sheds abroad from their snow crests in breaking.
Its glory o'er sands they refulgently lave,
While in dirges their echoes are waking:
Away where on land and on sea her smiles rest,
Earth tenderly holding in keeping,
While in baptismal flood the glow from the west
Lingers last where the gallant are sleeping-
He sleeps undisturbed. And there let him sleep,
The palmetto o'ershading the dying;
In silence so solemn none dare break to weep
His repose, with his brave comrades lying.
He had lived for his country, in her service he died,
And away by those waters is sleeping;
Not soon should the tears of her lament be dried.
While at home the bereaved are weeping.
Her bosom must bleed while it yields them a grave
Away at yon seaside, as sighing
Every breeze sounds a dirge, where the youthful and brave
Fell— midst none but patriots lying.
J. F. Kelly.
James Firman Kelly, one of the best-beloved members of
the Confederate Historical Association, Camp 28, of Mem-
phis, Tenn., died at his home, in Memphis, on February 22,
1905. He was born May 6, 1840, in Darlington District, S.
C. His parents moved five years later and settled near Cof-
feeville, Miss., where Firman Kelly grew to manhood, lead-
ing the life common to the son of a large cotton planter,
together with his twin brother.
When the commonwealth called her sons to her defense, m
1861, the two brothers responded together, and on March 18,
1861, joined the ranks of the Yallabusha Rifles, Capt. Al-
bridge commanding, in which company Edward Walthall,
later major general, was also a private. On May 29 this
company, with others, formed the isth Mississippi, with Col.
W. S. Tatum commanding, the Yallabusha Rifles becoming
Company H of the regiment. On Shiloh's "bloody field"
Comrade Kelly and his twin brother were both wounded.
He served in the same company until the end, and sur-
rendered with Johnston at Greensboro, N. C, April 16, 1865.
In 1880 he moved to Memphis, where, as deputy sheriff and
in other positions of trust, he lived thereafter. As a soldier,
he was prompt and cheerful in obedience to orders ; as com-
rade, messmate, and friend, he was true, devoted, and loyal ;
as husband and father, he was considerate, gentle, and affec-
tionate.
I'lhe foregoing tribute is by I. N. Rainey, Secretary of the
Confederate Historical Association.]
' M.\TTHEW N. Russell.
Matthew Newton Russell died near Franklin, N. C, April
20, 1905, aged ninety-four years. He was born on Mills River
(then Buncombe County, N. C.) February 9, 1811. He
moved to Macon County in 1821, and was married to Miss
Charity Jennings, of
Macon, September 25,
1836. To him and his
wife were born eleven
children — five sons and
six daughters — of whom
only one son and two
daughters are living.
His wife died in July,
1901, near Franklin.
Mr. Russell was a
very patriotic citizen,
being an honored vet-
eran of two wars. He
served in the war with
Mexico, and in the Con-
federate army as a
member of Company
H, i6th Regiment of
North Carolina Infantry, and was drawing government and
State pensions for honorable service. He assisted in the re-
moval of the Cherokee Indians from Western North Carolina,
serving sixteen months under Gen. Winfield Scott, of whom
he was a great admirer. Mr. Russell never sought nor served
in any public office of any high degree. He was content as
a humble private citizen and a member of the M. E. Church,
South. He was a member of the Charles L. Robinson Camp
No. 947, United Confederate Veterans, of Franklin, N. C.
His funeral, on Saturday, April 22, was conducted by his pas-
tor, Rev. F. L. Townsend, of Franklin, and Rev. J. H. Moore,
of the Franklin Circuit.
MiCHAL S. Juli.»iN was born in Forsyth County, Ga., July
4, 1839; and died at his home, in Long Beach, Cal., April 8,
1905. In May, 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate service.
His regiment (number not given) was sent to Virginia and
afterwards to Roanoke Island to repel Burn'side. Comrade
Julian was captured, but soon exchanged; and in July, 1862,
reported for duty with his command, then under Stonewall
Jackson. At Gettysburg he was again captured, was first
sent to Camp Chase and afterwards to Fort Delaware, where
he was confined until after the surrender. He returned to his
Georgia home, but in a few years moved to California and
engaged in market-gardening, in which he was quite success-
ful. In 1872 he married Miss Maggie Skidmore. His de-
voted wife and three sons survive him. Comrade Julian was
a charter member of U. C. V. Camp No. 770, the first organ-
ization of the kind in California. His widow, Mrs. Maggie
N. RUSSELL.
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Julian, is one of the charter members of the R. E. Lee
Chapter of U. D. C. of Long Beach, and is now Second Vice
President of the Chapter. A gallant old veteran, an honored
and respected citizen, a devoted husband and affectionate
father has answered "Here" to the last roll call.
Col. John L.^\VRENCE R.\pier,
This gallant Confederate Veteran and prominent citizen
of Mobile was born in Mobile County, Ala., June IS, 1842;
and died at Iii'^ hnnv.\ i'l Mnliilf. May 7. 1905. Col. Rapier
was educated in New Orleans, and at the breaking out of the
War between the States enlisted .\pril 21, 1861, in a com-
pany commanded by Capt. Henry St. Paul. They were first
sent to Pensacola, but shortly afterwards to Virginia, where
the company became a part of a Louisiana battalion of in-
fantry commanded by Maj. St. Paul, who had been promoted
from Rapier's company. After the battle of Seven Pines,
Comrade Rapier was made sergeant major of the battalion,
a month later promoted to the rank of adjutant, and with the
2d Louisiana Brigade, commanded by Gen. W. E. Starke,
participated in Second Manassas, Sliarpsburg, and Fred-
ericksburg, after which the battalion was transferred to South-
eastern Virginia, taking part with Longstreet in that cam-
paign. In .August, 1S64. he was sent with bis command to
rcenforce Fort Gaines, and was there captured with the gar-
rison on August 5, 1864, when the fort surrendered. He and
his companions were sent to New Orleans and confined in
the Union Cotton Press, from which Col. Rapier and twelve
of his comrades escaped. For seven days and nights he toiled
through the mud and water in the fetid swamps of Louisiana,
but finally succeeded in reaching the Confederate lines r.nil
was given command of two guns on the gunboat Morgan,
with which he surrendered .April 21, 1865. The Veter.vn for
February, 1900, pages 77-81, contains an account of Col.
Rapier's thrilling escape from prison in New Orleans.
Returning to New Orleans, he engaged in newspaper work.
Shortly afterwards lie accepted a position with his old com-
mander, Maj. St. Paul, on the Mobile Times. This paper was
soon consolidated with the Mobile Register. Col. Rapier be-
came part owner, and at the time of his death was the chief
owner of the paper. He was appointed by President Cleve-
land postmaster of Mobile, and filled the office for four years.
Col. Rapier leaves a wife (formerly Miss Demony), four
sons, and a daughter.
L. E. Camp, of Me.xia, Tex., writes of Gen. John C. Moore :
"Thomas D. Osborne, in his write-up of Kentucky's gifts to
the Confederacy, omitted one of the most talented brigadier
generals from his State — Gen. John C. Moore. He had charge
of the military school at Shclbyville, Ky., before the war. He
graduated at West Point, I think, in 1849 from East Tennes-
see. He joined the Confederate army in 1861, and was as-
signed to the command of an Alabama brigade. He was a
resident of Texas after the war until two years ago, and now
lives in Mangum, Okla. He is eighty-one years old, but the
youngest man in the Territory of his years. Kentuckians
and Tennesseeans keep in touch with him. He is almost
idolized by all of his old command that I have ever met."
John M. Taylor. — The death of this comrade is reported
by Adjutant Wood, of the John H. Lewis Camp, of Glasgow,
Ky., on April 22, aged seventy-eight years. He was laid to
rp't by fellow-members of the Camp.
Dr. C. M. Sticlem.\n.
From Wytheville, Va,. comes a tribute to the memory of
Dr. C. M. Stigleman, whose life in that conununity was a
record of good deeds and enterprising public spirit. He was
born in March, 1833 ; and died in January of 1905, lacking
but a few weeks of completing his seventy-second year. The
greater part of his life was spent in ministering to the wants
and necessities of the sick, and in his profession he distin-
guished himself and became endeared to his patrons; he was
also interested in other ways in the welfare and advancement
of his people. He inaugurated the system of public schools
for his county under many difficulties, and was the first super-
intendent of the county schools. To him also is due credit
for the Confederate monument at Wytheville, for it was built
mainly through his untiring efforts, and now stands in the
courthouse yard as a monument to his memory as well as to
the honor and glory of the comrades who fell in defense of
homes and country.
Resolutions were passed by the Chapter of Daughters of
the Confederacy there in honor of this gallant Confederate.
Dr. RicH.\Rn Kidder Taylor.
Since the announcement in a recent number of the Vetera!*
of the death of this estimable man, a friend in Keokuk, Iowa,
has furnished the following:
"Dr. R. H. Taylor died in Keokuk, Iowa, on January 6,
1905, after an illness of some weeks. He was born in Virginia,
in 1826, the son of a wealthy planter. He was a graduate of
the Richmond (Va.) Medical College, and under Gen. Lee
was medical purveyor in the Confederate army, having charge
of all the hospital supplies. After the war he practiced in
Lynchburg for a number of years. About seven years ago
he removed to Keokuk. He was married to Miss Lavinia
Beverly Harrison in 1848, and of this union nine children were
born, five of whom survive. In 1898 he and his wife cele-
brated their golden wedding anniversary. She died in 1902.
"Dr. Taylor was the type of a true Southern gentleman.
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and liis memory will long remain in the hearts of his friends,
for he was a man whom every one honored and esteemed.
His remains were carried back to Richmond and interred in
beautiful Hollywood with his beloved wife and children."
Col. Ch.\rles H. Andrews.
On the nth of February, 1905, the soul of Charles H. An-
drews, weary of the burden of years, winged its flight to the
eternal shore. Montgomery County, Ala., gave him birth in
1835, and he lacked but a few days of having filled out his
three score years and ten. He was living in Madison County,
Ga., when, at the age of twenty-six, inspired by love of coun-
try, he entered the Confederate service, and was elected first
lieutenant of the Home Guards. Within a month he was made
captain of the company. He was the idol of his soldiers,
their inspiring leader, comforter, and protector, and in the
dark days of our sorrowful defeat he was their stimulator t.i
a new life under changed conditions.
Capt. Andrews served on general court-martials on Roan-
oke Island, Portsmouth, and Fredericksburg. In January.
1863, he was appointed by Gen. Robert E. Lee judge advocate
of court-martial, Anderson's Division. At the battle of Fred-
erick-iiburg he was second in rank of his regiment. On Sunday
morning. May 3, 1863, at Chancellorsville, Maj. Jones being
wounded, Capt. Andrews was placed in charge of the 3d
Georgia Regiment. He led in the charge on the Federals on
that memorable day, and his regiment was the very first to
gain a position. On the evening of May 4, 1863, he com-
manded his regiment in the battle of Dornman's Hill, and
was at this time complimented on the field by his superior
officers for his gallantry and coolness. From July i to 4, at
Gettysburg, he commanded the left wing of the 3d Georgia
Regiment. In the charge on Cemetery Heights on July 2 his
canteen was shot from his side, his cap torn to shreds, but
he escaped a wound. In July, 1863, he was promoted to the
command of the 3d Georgia Regiment. On July 23 his bri-
gade was sent to Manassas Gap to protect the flanks of A. P.
Hill's Corps from Meade's army. Col. Walker being vjounded,
Capt. Andrews was brevetted colonel and placed in charge of
the brigade. His regiment, the 3d Georgia, had but two hun-
dred men, and his entire brigade less than six hundred. With
this Iiandful of men he resisted all day Meade's attempt to
cut Lee's army in twain. His services were especially con-
spicuous in resisting the tide of defeat and holding back
overwhelming numbers on this occasion.
The constant and arduous service had broken his health,
and lie reluctantly accepted from Gen. Lee a furlough and
returned to his home, in Madison, Ga., and was appointed an
enrolling officer, whicli position he held until the close of
the war. In every position to which he was called he proved
himself a soldier of the highest type. In December, 1882,
Capt. .\ndrews moved to Milledgeville, where he resided until
' his death.
"His life was like tlie days, more beautiful in the evening;
like the summer, aglow with promise; and like the autumn,
rich with the golden sheaves, where good works and deeds
have ripened in the field."
Mrs. Annie E. Svdnor.
Clur lieloved coworker of the R. E. Lee Chapter, U. D. C,
of Houston, Tex., Mrs. Annie E. Sydnor, passed to her re-
ward before the nightfall on December 21, 1904. Her death
in the twilight seemed to typify her life, for she passed to
the beyond as a worker with her ;;rms full of sheaves in the
twilight of life, before the winter night had fallen.
She came of a noble Southern family who gave all for their
beloved South. Her strong convictions always found words
to express her position as a loyal Daughter of the Confcd-
•ir.'icy. At the last State convention, at Waxahachie, she was
unanimously elected one of the Vice Presidents of our Di-
\ i.-ion. In Iier home Chapter she was ever in her place.
MRS. SVDNOR.
ready and willing to fill any position assigned her. Her
bright, sweet face, her Christian spirit, and love, peace, and
charity reigned in her heart and controlled every inspiration
of her life. She was ever active in the cause of suffering
humanity, and her beautiful life radiated her noble character
in constant work. Thus she lived a useful, busy life, and
"her works do follow her."
Mrs. S.\r.'\h Lloyd Bennett.
On March 14, 1905, at her residence, the Heights, near
Sykesville, Md., Mrs. Sarah Lloyd Bennett, widow of Capt.
John William Bennett, of the Confederate navy, died in the
seventy-eighth year of her age, having suffered a stroke of
paralysis.
Mrs. Bennett was the eldest daughter of the late Commo-
dore Charles Lowndes, Li. S. N., and Sarah Scott Lloyd,
daughter of Gov. Edward Lloyd, of "Wye House." On De-
cember 19, 1856, she was married to Lieut. John William
Bennett, of the United States navy, who, when the War
between the States broke out, espoused the Southern cause,
and fought with distinction to its close.
Mrs. Bennett is survived by four sons (Charles Lowndes,
Pennington Tilton, Beverley Bladen, and Francis Lloyd)
and two daughters (Ellen Lowndes and Harriet Gibson Ben-
nett). She leaves also two brothers (Dr. Charles Lowndes,
of Talbot Count, and Mr. Lloyd Lowndes, of Annapolis)
and one sister (Mrs. Julius A. Johnson, of Easton, l\Id.").
The funeral was held at the house, and the interment was
in the family lot at Springfield Cemetery, Rev. William Henry
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Poole, rector of Holy Trinity Parish, conducting the services.
The pallbearers were : Messrs. William Polk, Frank Merceron,
Thomas Anderson, Wade H. D. Warfield, T. McKean Meiere,
and Dr. J. Clement Clark.
Among the relatives from a distance were: Mrs. Julius A.
Johnson. Miss Sarah Scott Lowndes, of Talbot County ; Mr.
Lloyd Lowndes and Dr. Charles H. T. Lowndes, U. S. N., of
Annapolis; Mrs. Nannie Meiere, Mrs. Mary Owen, and Mrs.
Felix R, Sullivan, daughters of the late Admiral Franklin
Buchan.-m; Mrs. Sullivan Pitts, Messrs. Thomas B. iLickall,
and T. McKean Meiere, of Baltitnore.
The Veter.an for July, 1903, contains a sketch of her hus-
band, Capt. J. W. Bennett, who died on June 27.
Cii.NKiES Etienne L.\rtigue was born at Blackville, S. C. ;
and died at Orlando, F"la., on the 17th of November, 1904.
aged sixty-five years. Capt. Lartigue was at the time of his
death Lieutenant Commander of Orange County Camp, No.
54. lie had been a faithful soldier of the Southern Confed-
eracy, and was loyal to the cause to the last day of his life.
He first .joined the Palmetto Guards at Charleston, S. C. in
April. 1861 ; afterwards served with the famous Washington
Artillery of Charleston and as sergeant in Hart's splendid
battery of Hampton's Legion ; then was transferred to Com-
pany I. of the ,^'1 South Carolina Cavalry, and finally to
Company A. of Frederick's Heavy Artillery. He came to
Florida in 1883. and was respected as a man of sterling worth
.and a- a Christian gentleman.
W'll.ITAM J. LrMPKix.
William J. Lumpkin, another valiant Confederate soldier,
passed to his final rest in Owensboro, Ky., on April 24, 1905.
W. J. LUMFKIN.
One by one the old Confederates who followed the stars and
bars of the Confederacy through the stormy days of the war
are passing away. One by one those old heroes are register-
ing at the silent wayside inn, where all human flesh- at last
must sleep. One by one the men who followed Lee and Jack-
son and Johnston and Hood and Forrest and Morgan are
falling from their posts.
William J. Luirpkin was born in King William County,
^'a., February 23, 1835. He was one of the very first to en-
list as a soldier in the army of the South. He was a member
of the 1st Virginia Regiment, and was at the first battle of
Manassas, July 18-21, i86l, in which he received a severe
wound in his hand. He was a valiant soldier. To the last,
when his old comrades carried him to Elmwood Cemetery, he
was a faithful and devoted believer in all that the Old South
loved and cherished.
The family he left surviving him can well aflford to refer
to his record as one in which there is no spot or blemish, and
10 hope, in view of the valiant services rendered by Comrade
Lumpkin during the war, that in '"the sweet by and by"
there will be in his crown many stars to attest his virtues as
a citizen and his valor as a soldier.
Five Members of the U. C. V. Camp at Mexi.v Tex.
Adjutant H. W. Williams, of Joe Johnston Camp, No. 94,
Mexia, Tex., reports the death of the following-named com-
rades, who died between April I, 1904, and April i, 1905:
James Calvin Anglin, born July 18, 1847, in Limestone
County, Tex.; died March 21, 1905, at Groesbcck, Tex. He
was a member of McAnally's company of independent scouts
and served in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
William Hamilton Herring, born May 31, 1838, in Tusca-
loosa County, Ala. ; died October 22, 1904, at Prairie Grove,
Tex. He was sergeant in Company G, i8th Alabama Infantry,
Army of Tennessee.
Isaac Thompson Mahoney, born October 21, 1842, near Troy,
Pike County, Ala.; died October 21, 1904, near Mcxia, Tex.
He was a member of Company E, 1st Alabama Infantry, Wal-
thall's Brigade, Army of Tennessee.
Dr. Josiah Tyree Sloan, born July 2, 1840, in Clark County,
Ark. ; died February 9, 1905, at Tehuacana Hills, Tex. He
was a lieutenant in Company E, 2d Arkansas Infantry, Army
of the Trans-Mississippi Department.
Christopher H. F Wood, born November 8, 1837, at Jack-
son, Tcnn. ; died October 4, 1904, at Mexia, Tex. He was a
sergeant in Company F, 15th Texas Cavalry, Granbury's Bri-
gade. Army of Tennessee.
E. L. Stevens.
In the beginning of the Confederate war Lod Stevens en-
listed as a private in Company I, 2d South Carolina Regi-
ment, Lipscomb's Regiment of M. C. Butler's Brigade of
Cavalry, that served under Wade Hampton. He was ever
ready for duty, wont through the thickest of the battles, and
was never wounded nor captured. After the war he en-
gaged in farming and stock-raising until brought down by
illness about four weeks before his death, which occurred re-
cently, but the date of it is not given in the report furnished.
Comrade "Uncle Lod," as he w-as familiarly known, was
conspicuous for his integrity and fair-mindedness. The casket
was literally hidden by lovely flowers, tributes of affection
and esteem. He leaves a widow, who was Miss Ida Smyly,
and five children — Miss Lena Stevens and Mr. Smyly Stevens,
of Greenwood, and Messrs. B. L., Lewis, and James Stevens.
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Capt. Frank L. Pitts.
Frank L. Pitts, born in Shelby County, Mo., April 25, 1841 ;
died at San Antonio, Tex., February i, 190S.
Universally beloved for his many good and magnanimous
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qualities as a man and citizen, the home comniiinity of this
comrade, Paris, Mo., felt deeply the shock of the announce-
ment of his death. He served as a soldier of the Confed-
eracy, and won his spurs in the heat and dust of battle. At
the battle of Franklin, Tenn., he lost an arm, but continued
in the service to the end. After the war, his fellow-citizen;;
honored him by offices of public trust. He was constable of
the township four years, sheriff of Monroe County four
years, collector of the county for ten years, and State treas-
urer four years. He voluntarily retired from public service
several years ago, and since has lived quietly with his family
at the old home in Paris, enjoying the esteem and love of all.
He leaves as a heritage to his people and his State a memory
rich "in noble deeds, full of kindly words for his fellow-
men, unsullied by a single act of duplicity or injustice."
The death of Comrade Pitts is a loss to Missouri and to
the South. The last communication at the Veteran office
from him stated in regard to an indigent comrade found
away off in Iowa: "I made up a nice sum of money and sent
it to him, and shall make an effort to have him admitted to
the Home."
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.
This distinguished soldier and citizen died at Providence
Hospital, Washington, D, C, April 29, 1905. Gen. Lee was
stricken with apoplexy while on the cars en route from Bos-
ton to Washington, where he arrived about 10 a.m. and was
conveyed to tlie hospital. Notwithstanding the severity of
the attack, which affected his entire left side, he was con-
scious up to within a few moments of his death, which came
peacefully and without suffering at 10:30 p.m.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was born in Clermont, Va., November
I9> 183s, and would have been seventy years old in Novem-
ber. He was a grandson of Light Horse Harry Lee and a
nephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Through all of his brilliant
and successful career as a soldier, a diplomat for his country,
or private citizen Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has well sustained the
illustrious name he bore, and in saying this no higher compli-
ment can be paid him. He entered the United States Mili-
tary Academy in 1852, graduated in 1856, commissioned first
lieutenant of cavalry, and assigned to duty on the frontier,
where he saw nuicli active service and was severely wounded
in fighting Comanche Indians and other hostile tribes.
In i860 he was appointed military instructor of cavalry at
West Point, but at the outbreak of the war he resigned from
the United States army and entered the Confederate service
as adjutant of Gen. Ewell's Brigade. Soon after he was ap-
pointed lieutenant colonel of the 1st Virginia Cavalry. In
July, 1862, he was made a brigadier general of cavalry, and
in September, 1S63, a major general. In the battle at Win-
chester, September 19, 1864, he had three horses shot from
under him, and was himself so severely wounded as to in-
capacitate him for service for several months. He was ap-
pointed in March. 1865, to the command of the cavalry corps
of the Army of Northern Virginia, and surrendered to Gen.
Meade the April following.
Gen. Lee did not again appear in public life until 1875,
when by invitation he visited Boston and delivered an ad-
dress at the Bunker Hill Centennial, which was notable for
his patriotic utterances and which was one of the earliest
efforts of prominent Southern men to lay aside the irritating
differences engendered by the War between the States. In
1882-83 he made a trip through the South in behalf of the
Southern Historical Society. In 1886 he was elected Gov-
ernor of Virginia, and remained in this office until 1890, the
constitution of his State alone preventing him from reelection.
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In 1896 President Cleveland appointed him Consul General
to Cuba. The Cubans were in a state of revolution against
the Spanish government, and the powers of Europe were
watching this struggle with more than ordinary interest. The
position of our Consul General was a trying one; but the
skill, the dignity, and the firmness with which Gen. Lee repre-
sented the interests of his government so won the admira-
tion and applause of the American people, regardless of poli-
tics, that Mr. McKinley, the successor to President Cleve-
land, asked him to remain in office and to withdraw his resig-
nation, which had been tendered. When the Spanish war be-
gan, Gen. Lee tendered his services and was appointed a
brigadier general in the United States army. He soon or-
ganized an army corps ; but, as the services of his troops were
not needed in the army of invasion, he was not in active
service. In 1898 he was appointed to command the artillery
forces in the district of Havana, and for some time com-
manded the Department of Cuba. Later and until, on ac-
count of age, he was placed on the retired list of the United
States army, with the rank of brigadier general, he was in
command of the Department of Missouri of the United States
army.
At the time of his death Gen. Lee was actively engaged
in getting up the Jamestown Exposition, of which he was
President, and providing for the grand naval and military
display to be held there. His wife and five children survive
him. Two of his boys are army officers, two of his daugh-
ters are wives of army officers, and his third daughter is a
young lady yet in her teens. Like their distinguished father,
the two boys show a preference for the cavalry. Young Fitz-
hugh is in the cavalry service in Manila, and his brother,
George M. Lee, is in the 7th Cavalry, stationed in San Fran-
cisco. None of Gen. Lee's family were with him at the time
of his death.
Gen. Lee's remains were carried to Richmond, Va., and
placed in the City Hall, where thousands of citizens, largely
interspersed with his old veterans, passed to take a last
look at their beloved commander. He was buried from St.
Paul's Episcopal Church, Bishop A. M. Randolph officiating,
on Thursday, the 4th inst.
Eulogy on Fitzhugh Lee.
Col. W. H. Stewart paid tribute before the Stonewall Camp,
U. C. v., Portsmouth. 'Va., on May 2, 1905 :
"It is a struggle, a continuous battle to live. It is hard to
live. I tremble from dread as I walk the highway of life.
I fear more to live than I do to die. God help me to live, and
I do not fear death.
"A great man, Fitzhugh Lee, is dead — unburied to-nighl.
He nobly fought the battles of life. Trouble stood in his way
like milestones on a turnpike, but he reached the goal with
greater achievements than he reckoned, and his name is burned
into our hearts as a hero whom we love. We remember that
after he sheathed his sword he pursued with his whole soul
the teachings of Robert E. Lee, the great leader of the Soutli.
and had accomplished more to make lasting friendship be-
tween the North and South than any other man who has lived
to see the twentieth century. He was the strongest arch in
the bridge of peace across the bloody chasm of the intersec-
tional war. He changed millions of enemies into friends and
chained their hearts in bonds of affection. lie accepted the
arbitrament of tlie sword and made peace the glory of a
splendid career. [This distinction sliould certainly have
coupled with it tlio name of Gen. J. B. Gordon. — Ed. VETER.^N.]
"As a diplomat in Cuba Fitzhugh Lee gave an enduring
name for American history, and as a leader of the interna-
tional celebration of the settlement of Jamestown he has
awakened the enthusiasm of the nation, and died in its har-
ness with the armor of love over his heart and the whisper of
pleasantness on his lips. The last time I saw him we spoke
from the same rostrum to the 'Veterans and people of Princess
Anne for a monument to the hero dead of that county. His
eloquent words had the ring of pure metal and his polished
sentences lifted the souls of his audience to do honor to the
proud people who had gone before, and to-day a monument
to the Confederate soldiers of Princess Anne stands upon the
court green of that noble county.
"Fitzhugh Lee was our comrade in the war for Southern
independence; he was one of our brightest lights in the dark-
ness of defeat and reconstruction ; he was 'Virginia's most
brilliant Governor ; he was one of our greatest fellow-citizens
in the reunited United States. He was in the saddle to unfold
to the world the proudest sentiment of the English-speaking
people — the sentiment which planted and cultivated the seed
at Jamestown of the greatest republic of the world — when he
fell dead like a soldier on the battlefield. His name needs no
encomiums from us, but we need to speak of him for the
good to us and to others. We point to him as an exemplar
for our lives and the lives of our children. His conduct says:
'Fight with cheerfulness the battles of life, having faith in
the Redeemer, and all will be well.' My poor words are but
feeble expressions of our feelings on this solemn occasion."
Kentucky Daughters to Fitzhugh Lee.
The Joseph H. Lewis Chapter, U. D. C, Frankfort, Ky.,
through its officers (Mrs. Sam Leavy, President; Mrs. South
Primble. 'Vice President; Mrs. Nelly Stcdman Cox, Corre-
sponding Secretary), pays tribute to Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, re-
questing the report to be published in the 'Veteran and else-
where. The tribute concludes :
" 'Halt !' 'Twas the word of wondrous firm command
That Death demanded face to face with Lee.
Both paused upon the vantage ground of right.
He without desire to fight or flee;
But with a firm resolve he raised his hand,
Sainted Death, then bivouacked for the night."
Miss Susie Bouldin.
Resolutions by the Terry's Texas Rangers Chapter, U. D.
C, Houston. Tex., set forth tributes to the usefulness in
earthly activity of Miss Susie Bouldin, Historian of the Chap-
ter, whose death is deeply deplored. She was a devoted mem-
ber of the Chapter and also a faithful worker in the Church.
The tribute by the committee, composed of Mrs. Bettie
Chappell, Miss Annie Lide, and Miss Bertha Brandt, states:
"While we deplore the loss of a faithful worker, we do
humbly bow to the will of 'Him who doeth all things well,'
and extend to the bereaved family our sympathy and prayers,
commending them to our God. 'who is too wise to err and too
good to be unkind.' "
Dr. Hammond Bouldin.
In the life of Dr. Hammond Bouldin was exemplied the
love of God. of country, and of his fellow-man. In the flush
of youth, at his country's call, he joined the Sth Texas Cav-
alry, and till the star of the Confederacy went down in de-
feat he was faithful to his duties as soldier and surgeon;
and through the successes and failures of succeeding years
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his love and loyally to the South and the principles for
which he fought never faltered. He was a Confederate sol-
dier to the last. As a lover of his kind, he delighted in later
years to gather about him his friends and comrades, and on
every suitable occasion it was his pleasure to entertain them
with a gracious cordiality and hospitality. In later years,
when eyes grew dim and feet were faltering, the word of
God was a light for his guidance and a stay for his feeble-
DR. H. BOULDIN.
ness, and his passage into the beyond was with hope of a
better life.
Dr. Bouldin was born in Madison County, Ala. He died
at Lawn, Tex., on the morning of April i6, having passed
but shortly into his eighty-first year. He went to Texas in
1850 and settled in Washington County. "Shough twice mar-
ried, only a son and some grandchildren survive him. The
last years of his life were passed at Lawn, in Taylor County.
George Tucker Stainback, D.D.
Dr. Stainback was born near Fredericksburg, Va., April
4, 1829. He moved to Memphis, Tenn., when quite a lad,
and was connected with the press of Memphis when a young
man. He professed religion in the old Court Street Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church, and "felt impressed" to preach the
gospel ; graduated from the University of Mississippi, and
was licensed to preach and was ordained by the Oxford Pres-
bytery when twenty-five years of age. He was a pastor for
nearly fifty years, serving congregations at Columbus, Miss. ;
Huntsville and Birmingham, Ala. ; McMinnville, Memphis,
and Dyersburg, Tenn. He was a chaplain in the Confederate
army throughout the war.
Dr. Stainback received Gen. Forrest into the Church at
Memphis, and preached the funeral from the same altar. He
was at one time Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons
of Mississippi, and once Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge
of Masons of Tennessee.
Nature was generous in her gifts with Comrade Stain-
back. He was intellectually strong, physically robust, ardent
in his affections, broad in his sympathies. With a voice ad-
mirably adapted for speaking and singing, he was known as
"The Old Man Eloquent." He was a genial, generous-
hearted man, and "everybody's friend." He was generous to
a fault. His hospitality was proverbial ; his home and his
belongings were for the use of visitors, even strangers, as
well as for himself and family.
Five years after severing his connection with the Church
at Memphis he was called back there to preach the funeral
of a very dear friend. After writing at length of the ser-
mon and eulogy, the editorial writer of the Memphis AftlJeal
said : "Dr. Stainback will spend several days in Memphis,
and perhaps the entire week, in visiting and receiving his
friends. Some men never shake a hand without making an
enemy. Dr. Stainback is of that other class, who never clasp
a hand without making a friend. He is loved by the peo-
ple of Memphis with an affection seldom lavished upon an
individual. His transparent simplicity, the warmth of his
genial nature, his great abilities, his piety and powers as an
eloquent minister, have made him . one of the most popular
and conspicuous leaders of his denomination. He has oc-
casionally lived in Memphis during the past forty years, and
he was loved in boyhood and manhood. There is always joy
at his coming and sadness at his leaving."
At a memorial service held in McMinnville, in which all
denominations took part, it was said of him : "Certainly Dr.
Stainback belonged to the town. The town honored him ;
the town mourns for him."
The greatest event in his life, perhaps, was in the service
held in the Tennessee Headquarters at the Louisville reunion
in May, 1900. He said to the editor of the Veteran that he
had been directed to hold religious service there. It seemed
impossible to stop the din and confusion, but he said : "I will
try." Mounting a table in the hall, he commanded attention
and so electrified the multitude that in five minutes they
were in tears. Hundreds, who were weeping, crowded about
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him to promise the double allegiance which he had so elo-
quently counseled. His tribute to Gen. Forrest was as tine
as has ever been spoken or written. Sometime after that
Loujsville speech one of the veterans, after his return home,
in Memphis, met the son of Dr. Stainback on the street one
day and, putting his arms around him, exclaimed, "You've
got the grandest daddy on earth ;" and then he told about
the speech at Louisville, as magnetic as can be conceived by
humankind.
Dr. Stainback was twice happily married. He died June
28, 1902, at Dyersburg, Tenn., and was buried at Columbus,
Miss. He sleeps well because he labored well.
Griffin F. Edwards.
Past Commander Griffin F. Edwards, of Stonewall Camp.
C. v., died at his residence, in Portsmouth, Va., May 14, 1905.
He was a student at Emory and Henry College when the
war between the North and the South broke out. The whole
student body enlisted in the Southern army, and he joined
Company E, 6lst Virginia Infantry Regiment. Mahone's Bri-
gade, as a private. He was promoted to sergeant major of the
regiment in 1863 and to adjutant in 1864. He was in the
battles of Gettysburg, Mine Run, Cold Harbor, Willcox
Farm, Crater, Davis's Farm, Ream's Station, Hatcher's Run,
Burgess's Mill, and Cumberland Church, which occurred two
days before the surrender, at Appomattox. He was wounded
in this last battle of his command and left in the hands of
the enemy.
Comrade Edwards entered the profes.'iion of law, and was
one of the successful men of the profession in his city. He
was true as a friend, a brave soldier, a faithful civil officer,
an honorable lawyer, and a manly and patriotic citizen to the
end.
MAJ. G. F. EDWARDS.
Cai>t. J. M. Winston.
Another one who wore the gray during that fearful period
of 1861-65 has passed over the river to appear before the
bar of eternal justice, where motives are not misjudged and
acts are judged in love and mercy.
In April last, at his home, Ramsey Station. Sumter County,
Ala., there died Capt. James M. Winston, who had reached
the ripe age of seventy-eight years. Early in the war he
CArr. WINSTON.
entered the Confederate service as a member of the 36th
."Mabama Regiment. In the spring of 1863 he was transferred
to the cavalry service, becom-
ing a member of a new com-
pany then being raised by Dr.
D. H. Williams, of Gaines-
ville, Ala., and was elected
first lieutenant thereof at its
organization. This company
was attached to a regiment of
which Col. Isham Harrison,
of Mississippi, was com-
mander. Subsequently it was
transferred to the i6th Con-
federate Cavalry Regiment,
which was then commanded
by Col. .Armstcad. who was
soon thereafter promoted bri-
gadier general, and that brave
and gallant cavalier. Col.
Philip B. Spence. succeeded to
the command, and continued till the close of the war. Soon
after this transfer Dr. D. H. Williams, then captain, was
promoted to brigade surgeon, and Capt. Winston succeeded
him as leader of Company A. This position he retained until
surrendered by Gen. Forrest at Gainesville, Ala., in May,
1865. As a soldier, Capt. Winston served his country faith-
fully and well. He participated in many battles, and was
with his regiment in the last battle fought east of the Mis-
sissippi River. As a commander, he was courageous and
always at the head of his company in battle. He loved his
men, looked after their interest, and always tempered his
discipline with justice and charity. As a man, he was up-
right, honest, generous, and at all times ready to respond to
the distress of the widow and the wail of the orphan ; and as
a citizen, he upheld the law and promoted the welfare of the
community and State.
Capt. Winston married, in early manhood. Miss Broadway,
who shared his joys and sorrows and ministered unto him
even unto his departure. Five children survive him — four
daughters and one son, worthy offsprings of a noble stock.
.\fter the war he returned to his home and resumed f ,rming,
which he continued till his death. Besides his family, he is
mourned by a host of friends, and the country has lost one
of its noble.st sons. Peace to his soul.
Comrade J. R. Odom. a member of the Confederate Vet-
eran Camp at Wills Point, Tex., died at his home, near that
place, on April 19. He was a member of Company I, 2d
Louisiana Infantry, known as the "Pelican Rifles" of Stone-
wall Jackson's Corps. He participated in most of the battles
in which his regiment was engaged and was severely wounded.
He was an honored and beloved citizen, and in his daily,
upright, Christian walk through life set a worthy example
for those about him.
Capt. J. T. Owens. — Adjt. Thomas Shannon, Portsmouth,
Va., reports the death of Comrade Owens, which occurred
on February 28, 1905 : "Capt. Owens was born in Metthews
County, Va., in 1836. He enlisted in Company D, 26th Vir-
ginia Infantry, as first lieutenant, and was later made captain
of the company. He served in the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia until the surrender of Gen. Lee. Comrade Owens was
a brave soldier, and faithful to every duty."
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COMMANDER IN CHIEF GEN. S. D. LEE.
This brief tribute to our beloved Comrnander in Chief is
made wholly without his seeking or his knowledge. The
Veteran is comforted in being able to assure comrades that
Gen. Stephen D. Lee is mellow in his heart toward every
man, living or dead, who valiantly espoused and was steadfast
in his devotion to the cause for which so much of treasure
and blood was given. As a West Point classmate and life-
long friend of Gen. G. W. C. Lee (oldest son of Gen. R. E.
Lee), and many who were eminent on both sides in the war,
he was intimate with the advanced tactics and methods, and
by association he shared the confidence and the esteem of
those who had not the advantage of military training.
Who's Who in America. 1901-02, reports that he was born
in Charleston, S. C, September 22, 1833, son of Dr. Thomas
and Caroline (Allison) Lee; was graduated from West Point
in 1854; was first lieutenant 4th Artillery, U. S. A., 1854-61.
His promotions are given from captain to lieutenant general.
He participated in the battles around Richmond in 1862, in the
Second Manassas and Sharpsburg, then in the Vicksburg
campaign; he commanded the Confederate forces at Chicka-
saw Bayou, when Sherman was defeated. He participated in
the Georgia and Tennessee campaigns under Johnston and
Hood. After the war he engaged as a planter in Mississippi.
He married Miss Regina Lillie Harrison, of Columbus, Miss.
He served in the Mississippi State Senate and Constitutional
Convention. His Confederate official positions are well
known. He has been Commissioner of Vicksburg Park since
March i, 1899.
The following from Gen. Forrest was to Gen. Lee :
From a photo made in the winter of iS':i4-05.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee is now our most
conspicuous comrade. Succeeding Gen.
John B. Gordon as Commander in Chief
of the United Confederate Veterans (as
magnificent a chieftain as ever represented
any cause, and who increased year after
year in popularity so that his comrades
would not permit a suggestion of retire-
ment fntil the grim reaper took him
away). Gen. Lee has assumed responsi-
bilities that are rarely placed upon a man.
Realizing the spirit of his comrades to-
ward the lamented Gordon, he undertook
the responsibilities with humble spirit,
determined to maintain, as fully as pos-
sible, the noble purposes for which the
great organization was created. His
sense of obligation and the inspiration to
achieve during the few remaining years
all that can be done by the Old Guard
for our country and for the integrity of
our dead comrades have enabled him to
achieve much for his comrades.
A visit to the grand old home of Gen.
Lee and the opportunity to see the evi-
dences of friendship of all leading Con-
federates from the chief down enable
the writer to express pride and gratitude
that a comrade who was intimate with
leaders in the Confederacy in its bright
yet tragic days is at the helm.
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OiVL3^ 0A'£ OF FORREST'S MEN.
BY MRS. FRANK THOMPSON, CHATTANOOGA. TENN.
Near the foot of Lookout Mountain
Stood a farmhouse years ago.
Where tlie sunhcams kissed the ripples
In the Tennessee helow ;
There the mocking bird in springtime,
In its joyous, merry trill.
Answered to the distant calling
Of the lonely whip-poor-will ;
When the June leaves waved a welcome
To the mountain laurel bloom,
And the honeysuckle scented
The morning air with sweet perfume;
When the hunnning birds went flitting
'Mong the daisies growing there.
Through the tangled wild rose bramble
And the waving maidenhair.
In the doorway stood a woman.
Nature seemed to pause and sigh
For the little ones about her
And the tears that filled her eye
For the kind and loving husband
Riding down the mountain's glen.
"Papa's gone," her pale lips quivered —
"Gone to war with Forrest's men."
In the days that followed after
Through the years of gloom and strife.
Though his heart was on the mountain
With his children, home, and wife,
Yet the hand that held the rammer
Never flinched or faltered when,
Facing death, he spiked a cannon
Bearing down on Forrest's men.
"Who was he?" the Colonel shouted.
Glancing down the throbbing lines
As the balls and shells reechoed
Through the oaks and forest pines.
"Home, Sweet Home," the band was playing,
Touching hearts of foe and friend.
Through the din a cry went ringing:
"Only one of Forrest's men."
Shrieking balls and crash of sabers,
Spreading death on every side,
Rlue and gray together falling
In the flowing crimson tide.
Through the blazing storm of battle,
In the lurid, fiery den
There our Lookout Mountain soldier
Won the day with Forrest's men.
Then again at Chickamauga
We remember still with pride
How he with the tattered regiment
From the morn till evening tide
Charged the flaming iron breastworks
Through the storm of fire, and then
Would have faced ten thousand muskets.
He was one of Forrest's men.
Still around old Lookout Mountain
Birds are singing as of yore,
Flowers blooming on the hillside,
Strangers in the farmhouse door.
Time has worn the simple headstone,
Crumbling on the mountain glen ;
There old Lookout's shadow sentinels
Only one of Forrest's men.
CONQUERED.
BY DAVID J. WEISIGER.
Not on the smoke-crowned heights of Gettysburg,
Where, like autumn leaves before the winter blast,
The soldiers of the Southland, charging
Unnumbered hosts, fell thick and fast —
N-t there ye conquered.
Not in the springtime on the field of Appomattox,
With scattered ranks, hungry and sore distressed,
The soldiers of our Southland weary
Laid down their arms with hearts all sore oppressed^
Not yet ye conquered.
But when long years had passed, the strife forgotten.
At Narragjnsett Pier Death's angel came
And claimed the pride and jewel of our Southland,
Daughter of the Confederacy her name —
That day ye conquered.
When ye brave soldiers of the Northland
Asked the sad privilege to guard her bier.
You made to vanish the last drop of hatred
And caused to fall full many a Southern tear —
'Twas then ye conquered.
28(5
Qoi>federate l/eterap.
SOUTHERN LITERATURE.
Some years ago the Neale Publishing Company was incor-
porated for the purpose of publishing general literature — biog-
raphy, history, reminiscence, fiction, poetry, and general mis-
cellany. All of the stockholders and officers were then, as
now, Southerners, and in thorough sympathy with Southern
traditions. While the directors determined that the publica-
tions of the company should not be limited geographically, at
the same time they realized that the South presented a literary
field peculiarly fertile and attractive, and it was determined
to encourage Southern writers to develop a distinctive litera-
ture which should be thoroughly representative of the South
of the past as well as of the present.
The result of their undertaking has even exceeded their ex-
pectations. We do not hesitate to say that in the books is-
sued by the Neale Publishing Company to-day the South is
in possession of a literature essentially her own — a literature
of distinctiveness, of originality, and of character — which is of
the utmost importance not only to the South and our South-
ern people, but wherever the reflection of the customs, man-
ners, politics, and history of a great people is esteemed.
The books issued by the Neale Publishing Company present,
as a whole, a splendid and complete literature of the Southern
writers. The histories, biographies, books of reminiscence,
politics, travel, etc., are most valuable, and no library is com-
plete without them ; while the works of poetry and fiction are
among the best to be found in the English language, possessing
as they do that charm which is peculiar to the Southern writer
alone. This literature has been steadily increasing, until
to-day this house far exceeds contemporary publishers in the
production of Southern works. This is generally conceded.
But, while the company makes a special feature of its South-
ern publications, it bj' no means confines its output to South-
ern writers alone. The authors of this house are found
throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe; while
some of the most valuable and interesting foreign publications
in French, German, and Russian are translated and pub-
lished by them. A correct idea of the value and magnitude of
these publications can be found only after looking over their
illustrated catalogue of eiglity-four pages, which will be sent
to any applicant who will address the Neale Publishing Com-
pany, Washington, D. C, or New York City. This catalogue
will be of profound interest to those who are unfamiliar with
the complete line of publications issued by this house.
Encouraged by the great success they have met with as pub-
lishers of Southern literature, the company will soon begin
the publication of The Southerner, a monthly magazine.
Work upon the first number has already begun. The maga-
zine will be Southern in the same sense as the British Quar-
terly is British or the Atlantic is New England. Its purpose
is to develop and consolidate Southern literature, and it will
appeal to Southerners as their enterprise in the interest of the
South, her institutions and traditions. In its mechanical fea-
tures it will be fully equal to Harper's and the best of the
high-class magazines, and will be handsomely illustrated by
some of the best artists in Europe and America. It will con-
tain one hundred and seventy-eight pages, exclusive of adver-
tising, and will be filled with the best literature the world
has to offer, including biography, history, reminiscence, eco-
nomics, politics, art, sports, fiction in both continued novels
and short stories ; while there will be various regular depart-
ments treating of the South's commercial development, her
educational advantages, her historical and patriotic societies.
etc. In a word, the publishers promise our people a great
magazine, which will be wholly representative of the best that
any country or section has ever offered. The subscription is
three dollars a year ; twenty-five cents a number. Although a
large part of the contents for the first year is already ni nand,
in which the leading men and women of letters of the South
are represented, as well as some others of the North and of
Europe, we understand that the company has promised to
give careful attention to all manuscripts which it receives
from Southern authors.
In an interview with a Louisville correspondent a few days
since the President of the company, Mr. Walter Neale, dic-
tated this statement: "I believe the time is ripe for the publi-
cation of a great Southern magazine, such as The Southerner.
In fact, there has never been a time in the past hundred years
in which a magazine truly representative of the South would
not have been successful from every aspect. It is true that
efforts have been made to float magazines in the South in
recent years, but none which attempted to compete with the
best of the American periodicals except in special fields. The
promoters lacked capital, special knowledge, and experience,
nor did they have the facilities to properly undertake a work
of such magnitude. The captains of these would-be literary
ships all steered their crafts amid many shoals upon a fatal
rock — no payment, or inadequate payment, to authors and
artists. The Southerner will pay the full market value of all
the material that appears in its pages. Our people have not
the slightest doubt of success. We know that the South can
produce a wonderful literature of a wonderful people, and in
this magazine will be felt the very pulsations of the big, noble-
hearted Dixie. In The Southerner her authors shall write
her history and biography as they wish to tell it. There will
be no blue pencil wielded by a partisan Northern editor ;
MR. WALTER NE.\LE, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Qopfedcrat^ Ueterap,
287
while all of the great beauty and charm of the warm, passion-
ate fiction, poetry, and art of the Southland will arouse the
world to the fact that the Southern States of America can
produce literature and art as great as that which the South
of Europe has given in the past. A literature is as great as
the people who give it birth. Has a greater people existed
than those of the South? Such a population of twenty mil-
lion, I feel assured, can and will make The Southerner a
notable success from every point of view."
/. M. IIOBINSOX, XORTOX .1'- CO.
Attention is called to the advertisement in this issue of
J. M. Robinson, Norton & Co., Louisville, Ky. It usually
appears in reunion editions of the Veteran. This house is
long identified with the South and her people and most
favorably known. Mr. J. M. Robinson, the founder of this
house in Louisville in 1844, was a Virginian by birth and
naturally a pronounced Southern sympathizer. He was a
man of strong convictions and fearlessly championed the
cause of the South. From the commencement of the war
there were constantly Union officers and soldiers in Louis-
ville, and tlie fact that Mr. Robinson was one of her most
popular and influential citizens and expressed his views so
freely subjected him to many hardships. He was arrested
and put in prison in Indiana sometime during 1862. While
the soldiers were marching him down the street to prison he
went singing "Dixie" at the top of his voice. He constantly
aided the Southern cause with not only his mind and sym-
pathy but with his money. He was at all times a generous
friend to any Confederate soldier who applied to him for help.
At the close of the war he rendered material assistance to
many men from the South by helping them to go into busi-
ness. His sympathy and many kindnesses made him popular.
In 1893 the firm name was changed to J. M. Robinson,
Norton & Co.; and. on account of the failing health of Mr.
Robinson, Mr. George C. Norton, a Confederate soldier from
Georgia, who had
been with Mr. Rob-
inson from Septem-
ber 20, 1865, first as
an employee and
soon thercatter as a
partner, took the ac-
tive management of
the firm, and under
h i s wise manage-
ment, supported by
active and aggressive
coworkers, the vol-
ume of business in-
creased very rapidly.
The firm was in-
corporated m 1002.
at which time Capt.
George C. Norton
was elected presi-
dent, and continues
to occupy this posi-
tion as an important
factor and active participant in all tlie details of the business.
His record as a Confederate soldier and his eminent position
both as a business man and citizen arc well known not only
in Louisville but to business men throughout the country.
Capt. George C. Norton, President of the firm of J. M.
Robinson, Norton & Co., Louisville, Ky., and one of the sur-
vivors of the 8th Georgia Regiment, was so well pleased with
having the members of his old regiment as his guests at the
reunion in Louisville in 1900 that he has sent an invitation
again to all the members of his regiment to partake of his
hospitality, and they will be entertained as his guests at the
new Willard Hotel during the coming reunion. He wants
every member of his regiment to be sure to come, whether
he gets an invital ^n direct from him or not, as it is possible
some of the addre53es are lost.
This is a sample of "Old Kentucky" and Southern hospi-
tality that the "boys" who fought so valiantly will receive
at this grand reunion. Capt. Norton is to be congratulated
that conditions enable him to again remember his old com-
rades in this hospitable way. While Confederate Veterans
are devoted to each other at sight of evidence that they
were ever faithful, a reunion of those who served in the same
companies and regiments, who saw each other tried as in
furnaces of fire, is the best occasion in this world for proof
of genuine devotion devoid of all selfishness and pure in its
nature.
"TEXAS."
This is a romance of the War between the States — "A
Broken Link in the Chain of Family Honors" — just pub-
lished and by the pen of Mrs. Fannie Eoline Selph. The
story opens in Galveston, Tex., two years before the breaking
out of the war, where the heroine. Miss Texas Marshall, and
other principal characters in the story are introduced to the
reader. The author has that happy faculty, rare amongst
story-writers, of at once engaging the interest of her readers
by picking up the thread of her story without any tiresome
or lengthy prorogue. The scenes are laid mainly with the
army, and many of the thrilling incidents with which the
book abounds, the movements and battles of the Confeder-
ate troops, are almost sufficiently accurate to be classed as
history. The characters are strongly drawn, but natural.
Texas Marshall represents the heroism of Southern woman-
hood of those days — a type exclusive in the world's history.
The book will receive a warm welcome from the public, and
especially in the South, where thousands are yet living who
were indirectly participants in many of the historical events
mentioned.
The price of the book is $1, postpaid. See advertisement
cl,<;ewhere. This book and one new subscription to the Vet-
1 RAN, $1.50.
CAPT. GEORGE C. NORTON.
MINING IN COLORADO.
Mr. W. H. Crawford, Vice President and General Manager
of the Southern Mining, Milling, and Development Company,
which is concentrating its work on the R. E. Lee Tunnel
(see full-page notice), which will cut all the veins on this
property, has recently received a most encouraging letter
from Mr. Juan Felix Brandes, a mining engineer of note in
Denver, in which he states that the Waldorf, just across the
mountain from the R. E. Lee Mine, "has recently cut the
great Santiago gold vein, and is now driving for the juncture
of the Commonwealth and Paymaster, which should be
reached within two hundred feet. The whole country looks
better than ever, and also our Dives Pelican Mine is assum-
ing very large proportions, and our concentrating mill will
probably be in full operation within six weeks."
288
Qopfederate Ueteraij.
FOR JEFFERSON DAVIS MONUMENT FUND.
Mrs. N. V. Randolph, Cliairinan 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 possessed by but few artists.
"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, having 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 saddly 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.
"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 $l for the set; postage, 13 cents. The size is
loH inches by 17 inches, mounted upon board 15 inches by 20
inches, ready for framing. Orders to be sent to Mrs. N. V.
Randolph, Richmond, Va."
It is expected that the monument will be unveiled on June
3, 1907, President Davis's birthday anniversary.
CONFEDERATE MINING COMPANY.
Stockholders of the Confederate Mining Company will
hold their annual meeting at the reunion, in Louisville, Ky.,
Thursday evening at two o'clock, June 16. Inquire at Ken-
tucky headquarters as to place of meeting.
The election of officers and directors will take place and
other business of importance will be transacted. If you can-
not attend, send j'our proxy vote.
Lee Crandall, President; R. W. Crabb, Treasurer.
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H. M. ATKINSON, Chairman,
Atlanta, Ga.
PRESTON S. ARKWRIGHT.
Atlanta, Ga.
H. C. BAGLEY.
Atlanta, Ga.
C. E. CURRIER,
Atlanta, Ga.
DR. A. W. CALHOUN,
Atlanta, Ga.
J. T. DAEGAN,
Atlanta, Ga.
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Atlanta, Ga.
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■WILLIS E. RAGAN,
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J. M. STEPHENS,
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DAVID WOODWARD,
Atlanta, Ga.
W. M. DRENNEN,
Birmingham, Ala.
W. G. ESTES,
Birmingham, Ala.
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Birmingham. Ala.
G. B. McCORMACK,
Birmingham. Ala.
H. K. MILNER,
Birmingham. Ala.
J. W. MINOR,
Birmingham, Ala.
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Bii-mingham, Ala.
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Birmingham, Ala.
DAVID ROBERTS,
Birmingham. Ala.
A. D. SMITH,
Birmingham, Ala.
E. M. TUTWILER,
Birmingham, Ala.
ERSKINE RAMSAY,
Birmingham, Ala.
RAYMOND CAY,
Tallahassee, Fla.
WM. S. JORDAN,
Jacksonville, Fla.
JAS. U. JACKSON,
Augusta, Ga.
A. MINIS,
Savannah, Ga.
H. H. TIFT,
Tifton. Ga.
LOUIS T. DAVIDSON,
Louisville, Ky.
ALBERT GODCHAUX,
New Orleans, La.
R. GRIFFITH,
Jackson. Miss.
DR. W. G BRADSHAW,
High Point, N. C.
J. ELWOOD COX,
High Point, N. C.
P. M. PICKETT,
High Point, N. O.
ROBT. KEITH DARGAN
Darlington, S. O.
A. NACHMAN,
Darlington, S. C.
H. S. CHAMBERLAIN,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
E. B. STAHLMAN,
Nashville, Tenn.
R. F. SCOTT.
Paris, Tex.
GEN. RUFUS A. AYERS,
Big Stone Gap, Va.
ISAAC T. MANN,
Bramwell. W. Va.
Qopfederat^ l/eterai).
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CONFEDERATE REUNION.
[A Virginian whose "father was a
soldier under Gen. James Longstreet,
enlisting in 1861 and staying in until
the surrender," sends the "Reunion"
poem that follows at tlie request of sev-
eral old Confederates; hence its repeti
tion in the Veter.\n.]
Get my knapsack, ALiry,
And my uniform of gray;
Get my battered helmet, Mary,
For I'll need them all to-day.
Get my canteen and my leggings.
Reach me down my rusty gun.
I'nr I'm going out paradin'
Willi the boys of '61.
Never nmid them blood stains. Mary.
Never mind that ragged hole
( It was left there by a bullet
That was seeking for my soul ) .
P.riish away those cobwebs, Mary,
Get my bonny flag of blue.
For I'm going out paradin'
With the boys of '62.
These old clothes don't fit me, Mary.
As they did when I was young;
Don't yon remember how neatly
To my manly form they clung?
Never mind that sleeve that's empty.
Let it dangle loose and free.
For I'm going out paradin'
With the boys of '63.
Pull that sword belt tighter, Mary,
Fix that strap beneath my chin ;
I've grown old and threadbare. Mary,
Like my uniform, and tliin ;
But I reckon I'll pass muster.
As I did in days of yore.
For I'm going out paradin'
With the boys of '64.
Now I'm ready. Mary, kiss me.
Kiss your old sweetheart good-by ;
Brush away those wayward tear drops-
Lord ! I didn't think you'd cry.
I'm not going forth to battle ;
Cheer up, Mary, sakes alive !
I'm just going out paradin'
With the boys of '65.
Soon we'll all be paradin'. Mary,
In that land beyond the stars.
On that bright celestial shore.
With the good old stars and bars ;
Piut before we go, Mary,
We'll meet the boys once more,
.■\nd practice for paradin'
On that bright and shining shore.
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Make a note of it now,
tli.it when you come
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must be sure to visit
Kendricks'
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THE REUNION— mOo.
From I he everglades of Florida, from the pine woods of
Georgia, from the sand hills of Alabama and the sunny
knobs of Tennessee, from the forests and plains Ot l.io ?reat
Carolinas, from the green prairies of Texas, and, indeed,
from every point of the Southland, the clans of the Con-
federacy gathered in Louisville, Ky.. to celebrate, in ,Iune
of 1905, their fifteenth annual reunion. Age has been
kind to these venerable comrades. Though some of them
are bent and the once dark locks are now whitened by the
dust of time, yet youth is still in their hearts, and the greet-
ings exchanged between long-separated friends were as
cheery as among schoolboys.
No city could have surrendered more graciously than did
Louisville to this invading host. Great preparations had
been made for their coming, the city was theirs from the
moment of entrance, and the welcome extended was in true
Kentucky style. Since the first meeting of Veterans and
citizens, in October, 1904. to arrange for this reunion by
appointin.g committees and outlining the plan of work, the
ppo])]!' of Louisville bad been interested heart and soul in
making the reunion a complete success, and to their credit
1)6 it said that such success crowned their efforts. Even the
weather man kept the elements in order; and though a lit-
tle storm managed to slip the leash, it so freshened nature
ihat better conditions could not have been expected.
The ranks of (be Gray have been sadly depleted during the
past year, yet the survivors formed a conspicuoiis element in
tlie thirty-five thousand visitors accredited to the reunion.
Many outsiders feel the attraction of these meetings and
lielp to maintain the enthusiasm; and though many
familiar faces are missed from each recurrin.g gathering, we
sho\iId thank God for those who are still left to meet and
greet each other again. So
Witli a sigh for those who've gone before,
And a smile for those we've seen once more,
we turn to the business of the convention.
Delegates assembled at the Convention Hall for the first
meeting on Wednesday, the 14th. at noon, which was opened
with prayer by the Chaplain General, Dr. ,T. William .lones.
Addresses of welcome were delivered by Gov. ,T. W. C.
Beckham for the commonwealth of Kentucky, Mayor
Charles F. Grainger for the city, and Col. E. H. Bowen,
representing the Board of Trade. Col. Bennett H. Young
gave the welcome from t'. "" Kentucky Division, U. C. V.,
in his magnetic and hearty way, which is inimitable.
"We will not fool w!ih latchstrings in offering you a wel-
come, but we will just kick down the doors and open all the
windows and let you come in with us," said Col. Young.
His theme for the week was "Clear the Way!" for the
Confederates. In conclusion he said seriously:
"But no army will ever march under any flag that equaled
the volunteer army that marched under the stars and bars
of the Confederacy.
"Comrades, we Confederates of Kentucky, with an un-
bounded and immeasurable love for you, the men with
whom we fought and marched, expected to be able to give
you a welcome of our own kind ; but the people of Ken-
tucky have taken this job out of our hands, and 2, .500.000
people sing a glad welcome to you on this occasion of your
coming to Louisville. It is not Confederate, it is every-
body that is glad to see you here. [Applause.] When our
little yellow brethren — for every brave man is a brother to
any other brave man — came out from the horrors and the
sacrifices of Port Arthur, and rushed into battle line at
Mukden, they shouted: 'Clear the way. We be from Port
Artburl' And so we. Confederate Veterans, to-day shout
to the jjeople of Kentucky: 'Clear the way, clear the way!
Our men are from Wilson's Creek and Elkhorn and Resaca
Pass and Murfreesboro and Chickamauga and Hartsville
and Shiloh and ,Ionesboro and Atlanta! Clear the way!'
And so, going a little farther, we sing: 'Clear the way, clear
the way! We are the men that came from Manassas. Malvern
Hill, Cold Harbor, and Gettysburg!' [.\pplause.] And, com-
rades, is it any wonder, with such glorious traditions, with
such magnificent memories behind you and us, we sing out
to the people of Kentucky: 'Clear the way, clear the way!
We are heroes that are coming?' [Applause.]
"Why should I say welcome? These thousands of flags,
this bunting, these bands, these songs, these glad welcomes
— why, the little sparrows in the streets, with their twitter-
ing, are crying, 'Welcome, welcome,' to the heroes who
wore the gray. [Applause.] There is nothing too good for
yoii. You are good enou.gh, sometimes, I think, for heaven.
[Laughter.] At least, I hope you will all try to be good
enough for heaven.
"There are no words that can measure our jo.v on seeing
you. It may be that we will not look on your faces again in
reunion. We desire the people to see what sort of men were
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the heroes who wore the gray. Armies may rise, nations
may fall, hosts may be marshaled: but I repeat that no vol-
unteer army will ever march under any flag to equal the
volunteer army that marched under the stars and bars of
the Confederacy. [Applause.] Now, on behalf of the United
Confederate Veteran Association, as their humble mouth-
piece, again I say. Welcome, ten thousand times welcome to
our g-rand old heroes. We love you: Kentucky loves you.
and Kentucky is delighted to honor you. I think I may say
without creating any ill feeling, as she never honored any
men before." [Enthusiastic applause.]
Gex. Lee's Response to the Welcomes.
In his response for the Veterans, Gen. Stephen D. Lee.
Commander in Chief, made a beautiful address. He said:
"The welcome of the Kentuckian is like himself — large,
wholesome, generous, and free. He has a heart like his
mighty Mammoth Cave: he takes everybody into it, and
looks around for more guests. We are lost in your hos-
pitality, and will never find ourselves again until we .get
out of Kentucky.
"The last time we came to Louisville we were impressed
that this was not a dry city; and, although this time the
rains have not descended or the floods fallen in the same
way, we find the city is still wet in places with a certain
ancient juice which is supposed to be good for veterans.
Louisville has always been dear to the South. We have not
forgotten the ministrations of her noble women in war
times, when they were indeed angels of mercy. Nor have
we forgotten the dreadful days when yellow fever stalked
abroad in our land. The gates of this fearless and merciful
city were never shut to the cry of distress. The Good
Samaritans were not content until a hospital was built to
shelter the stricken ones who fled to her doors from the
scourge of the pestilence. We rejoice in the welcome you
now give us, but we glory in the welcome which you gave
unto the least of these, your brethren.
"Kentucky is a name to charm with. It is a land good for
horses, and better for men, and best for women. A Kentucky
woman simply exhausts the subject. After you have seen
her you wonder why there are any others. The only women
who ever surpassed Kentucky women were their mothers,
the immortal women of the Confederacy.
"The career of the Kentucky troops in the Confederate
Army is one of the finest things in the history of our race.
Not only disowned by the nation, but exiled from their
Slate, with nothing to lure them on but the high claim of
principles for which their fathers fought before them; with
everything already lost that men count precious, and a for-
lorn and swiftly tailing hope before them, they battled to
the end with a stubborn courage that never knew defeat.
We were fighting for our homes and firesides; but these Ken-
tuckians were fighting for us, because they loved our cause
better than their own lives.
"It Is impossible for Confederates standing on Kentucky
soil not to remember that from this commonwealth came
the two leaders of the contending nations. Here was born
the patient frontier lawyer, trained in the hard school of
adversity, who in the hour of fate was to stand at the
focus of the mighty struggle, who was to give to history a
new ideal of greatness and to die, at last, like Caesar at the
zenith of his fame, sealing his immortality with a death
whose tragic pathos will move the hearts of men forever.
"Here also was born the pure and stainless gentleman who
stood at the helm of the sinking Confederacy, the one and
only ruler of a brave people — who failed in a mighty strug-
gle for constitutional liberty as they understood it — the
chained captive at Fortress Monroe, the exile, the gray-
haired historian — defending to the last the cause of his
people — the best-beloved of all Kentucky's mighty sons. Not
Clay in the hour of his .glory, not Lincoln in the hour of his
jiassing, were ever dowered with the love and devotion
which were given to this brave old man whose white soul
was the mark for every shaft that passed over the people of
the South. The South wrapped him, living, in the mantle
of her love, and poured upon his toml) an offering of tears
she never gave to Washington. And when her heart shall
at last cease to beat, there will be found graven upon it the
name of Jefferson Davis.
"One of the reasons why the Confederacy failed was that
its supply of Kentuckians was insufficient. The historian of
the United States is accustomed to picture to himself a
united North contending with a united South for supremacy;
the true picture is of a united North contending against a
divided South. The slaveholding States gave to the armies
of the Union more than half as many soldiers as they gave
to the armies of the Confederacy. With her ports all sealed,
not only was the South fighting the North, with access to all
the world for men and supplies, but the South was fighting
her own sons. In the Union armies there were 333,2D8
white soldiers from the South and 1 93.3:37 negro soldiers.
The South furnished about one-seventh of the army which
•'ought against her, so that it would appear from the record
that the South played no insignificant part in preserving the
union of the States. These things are to be remembered ,
not in sorrow or in anger, or even in regret, but that the
world may begin to understand the miracles of valor, of en-
durance, of dogged courage, of devoted heroism shown by
the Confederate soldier. On the clock of the ages the hour
had struck when slavery should be no more. The South
was wounded for the transgression of the whole nation; she
was bruised for the iniquities of all. Thank God! her chas-
tisement has brought peace, and by her stripes the nation
has been healed.
"Sometimes the question is asked why the old veterans
gather at their annual reunions. We have no pensions to
expect. There is no political preference we can look for.
We come together because we love the past, because our
lives have been linked together by a great experience — by
the richest, deepest expanience that has come to any genera-
tion of Americans: by a common story so rich in heroism,
in sacrifice, in patriotism, that everything else we remember
grows cheap when we think of the Confederacy. 'Out there
at Appomattox,' said Henry W. Grady, 'where the Lord
God Almighty laid upon every ragged gray cap the sword
of imperishable knighthood.' Instead of the gray caps, I
see to-day only the gray heads; but the same knightly
hearts are beating still. When we meet together we renew
these great memories, these imperishable friendshiijs. The
day is not far distant when the burden of our entertainment
will no longer require the famous hospitality of a Louisville,
when no magnificent auditorium will be needed for the scat-
tered and venerable survivors; but, as long as our days may
be prolonged by reason of strength, let us gather to renew
ties of the battlefield and to keep alive the traditions which
have made the world so rich in honor.
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"Now that we approach the close of our days and as we are
passing the responsihilities of citizenship to younger and
stronger hands, it is appropriate that on an occasion like
I his we should consider briefly the retrospect of our lives.
We need not discuss the causes of the great war through
wliich we passed, nor consider our construction of the Con-
stitution and its rights we tried to maintain — whether we
lived under a confederation of States or whether that con-
federation was a nation, a unit. Some Bancroft or Macau-
lay will later sift all the arguments and facts and bring
out the truth and give due credit to our motives and our
patriotism. We are conscious of no dishonor in our record.
We fought or i)rinciples handed down by our Revolutionary
forefathers. We fought in defending our homes and fire-
sides against inva<lers. Shame on a people who would not
light in such a cause.
•'We go on to our graves feeling that we were right. It
is true we failed in maintaining the principles we fought
for. Superior numbers and resources, under the wisdom of
an overruling Providence, decided against us. Yet we are
sure we did our duly; 'and it is our duty to the end to pre-
serve undiminished the treasures of our devoted patriotism,
our unshaken faith, and our unalterable belief in the sacred-
iiess ami .justness of our cause." One thing is certain: no
Hue Confederate soldier has ever hung his head before any
liuman being because of his conduct. We have through all
our lives and under every condition maintained our self-re-
spect, and in our old age now we see w'e have the respect
not only of those who fought us but of the whole world.
"We were tested in the great clash of arms. Some of us
were at ChicUainauga, Shiloh. Murfreesboro (the three
bloodiest battles of the war, when 28, 24, and 23 per cent,
respectively, of all engaged on both sides were killed or
woiinded), and then at Franklin.
"Some of us were at Gettysburg, where 43.449 men were
killed, wounded, and missing. Some of us were at bloody
Shariislmr.g, in the seven days' battle around Richmond, at
the Wilderness, at Cold Harbor, at Vicksburg. in the battles
in the 'Prar.s-Mississippi Department. We fought until about
halt of our enlisted strength was under the sod. There has
never been such a battle record in any other .great war. We
have been tested and tried in prosperity, in victory, in de-
feat, in tribulation, in humiliation; and now, thank GodI
our lives have been spareil to old age, to see our beloved
Southland restored to prosperity again, and to see almost
the last vestige of the ravages of war disappear.
"The response through nil your lives has under all tests
lieen honorable and brave, as true as a bti.gle note to
every duty as you saw it. We can recall our patriotism and
the ]iure motives that inspired us: can recall the ardor with
wliich we rallied around our battle flags; the indomitable
heroism with which we followed them through desolation
and danger to death; how we fought over almost every foot
of our beloved Southland in over twenty-three hundred great
battles; we can recall the fortitude and patriotic entlurance
and suffering after the war, when we were under the feet
of the connueror; how with integrity and manhood we stood
linn to preserve our Anglo-Saxon civilization against the
negro, carpetbag and scalawag rule, supported by the Fed-
eral government with the armies of the Union, and by State
.governments with negro troops; how under enormity of
provocation, in reversal of our social and industrial condi-
tions, we kept quiet and bided our time with dignity, and
never gave our consent to the debauch of government and
pollution of society while it lasted; and then, at appropriate
time, "we conquered our conquerors by peaceful revolution,
and took matters in our own hands.
""We have taught our children to honor the flag of our re-
united country. In the Spanish War we sent our sons and
grandsons to follow the flag that our forefathers filled with
stars, and to which we now give a.gain our unstinted loyalty.
l?est of all. we restored our beloved land as an integral
living part to the Union of our fathers. With us now, all
passion and bitterness has passed away. We are holding
only to all that is sweetest and best and tenderest in living.
Our lives have been prolon.ged to see our country recovered
from the ravages and effects of war. to see peace and good-
will even now almost su|)plant the passion and strife en-
gendered in those bloody days, and what is dearest to all of
us, to see that we have the esteem and honor and love of
posterity."
Commander Youn,g introduced Gen. S. R. Ruckner as "a
real General. " and he spoke for Kentucky Confederates in
a most acceptable manner.
Gavki. for the Coxim.nndeh in Cuii'.i'.
Made from one of the lo.gs which formed a part of Fort
Sumter, a handsome gavel was jiresenled to Gen. Lee by
Mrs. W. .1. Rehan. of New Orleans. She met him as he
arose to make his response, and in the following language
made the presentation:
"Dearly beloved Commander, it is my .great pleasure to
convey to you the best wishes of the members of the Ladies'
Memorial Association, of Charleston, S. C. who have in-
trusted me with this gavel, which they wish to present to
you in the name of the Confederated Southern Memorial
Association, of which I have the honor of being President.
Our Association is strong in purpose and devoted to the
memory of the Confederate soldier and the cause for which
be fought with unsurpassed courage, and we honor the men
who returned to their shattered homes to resume t heir place
among the honorable and loyal citizens of this great coun-
try. As it was at Fort Sumter that you first entered the
service of the Confederacy, it was determined by these faith-
ful women, whom our beloved President was pleased to style
the "Women of the Confederacy," to present you with a
souvenir from that historic spot, and we beg you will accept
this gavel, made of a piece of a gun carriage at Fort Sumter.
"To you and all the noble and .gallant veterans assembleil
here to-day, we extend a heart greeting and wish to one
and all Godspeed in your hopes and ambitions."
The gavel bore this inscription:
"Stephen D. Lee, Commander in Chief United Confederate
Veterans, from the Confederate Southern Memorial Asso-
ciation with the love and esteem of the Women of the Con-
federacy, Louisville, Ky., June 14, 1905."
Gen. Lee, the venerable Com-.iander in Chief, was the
last speaker of the afternoon, and he was received with en-
thusiasm which marked his every act during the reunion.
Gen. Lee"s address was a calm and dignified defense of the
South and the South's cause,
Rkcort ok UiSTORic.M. Committee.
To Gcii. Stcplu-n D. I. re. Com wander in Chief, United Con-
federate / '('/iTd/f.t' I ho Historical Conuuittee, which now
procnts its ;uiiuiiil rcpKil, was cstahli.slu-d by the I'liitcd Con-
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federate Veterans as an active agency of the general organ-
ization and was fijaccd in charge of all matters relating to the
historical and literary purposes of the federation. The several
reports made for many years hy the distinguished former
chairman, Gen. Stephen D. Lee, now Commander in Chief
of the United Confederate Veterans, have justly gained the
most respectful and influential consideration of our entire
country. They show fully that the chairman and the com-
mittee have been faithful guardians of Confederate fame, and
earnest defenders of vital Confederate historical interests, win-
ning the commendation of just and generous men by en-
forcing their motto— to wit: "The truth, the wliole truth,
and nothing but the truth."
The brotherhood of soldiers known to the world as United
Confederate Veterans deserves the respectful consideration
of the American people because of the remarkable beneficial
influence it has exerted not alone throughout the South, but
in other sections of our general commonwealth. Beginning
in 1889 with a provisional government, it was afterwards or-
ganized permanently to fulfill certain great purposes set forth
in its constitution, and even a slight review will show the
gratifying success which it has achieved in the efifort to ac-
complish its object as a patriotic and benevolent organization.
Evidences of activity and progress in its important work
abound.
The committee gratefully acknowledges that the United
Confederate Veterans' Association has not won these tri-
umphs unaided and without assistance. Its allies have been
those without whose help the Association could not have
succeeded in fulfilling its missions. The Ladies' Memorial
Associations and the United Daughters of the Confederacy
have fortressed the fame of the Confederate struggle by their
strong support of every feature of its memories. With no
less efticiency the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, com-
posed of the foremost young men of the South, are enthu-
siastically working with us in thoroughly practical as well as
patriotic methods. We have also the cooperation of many
leading educators, editors, authors, and publishers in the ef-
fort to have the history of our great nation and especially
of our great American War to breathe the noblest spirit of
respect for justice, patriotism, and truth.
The Confederate I'cteran ns an Ally.
It is appropriate in this acknowledgment to mention as one
of these valuable allies the official organ of this body, the
CoNFEDEK.\TE Veter.\n, founded, edited, and conducted ex-
clusively for the benefit of the Confederate soldiers' name,
fame, and cause, by our comrade, S. A. Cunningham. For many
years it has been the official organ of our own great Asso-
ciation as well as of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans
and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, publishing the
proceedings of their sessions, their work, and their achieve-
ments. Thus it has been the medium through which all that
concerns the work of Confederate Associations can be so
published that their cooperation may be made eflfective. As
a magazine devoted to the objects of these Associations it is
a secure repository of war incidents, biography, reminiscence,
history, and documents, and is already a full treasury of
Confederate data. It is very gratifying that this ally of ours
has attained a high position among our country's magazines.
Its issue of 22,000 copies this month proves its popularity
and certifies its stability. But your committee believes that
in cotisideratioii of its ~,^'orlh and of the broad area of its cir-
culation South and Xorlh it deserx'cs the united sufiport of
this body, and it zcould become of greater service to us if
all camps and chapters would adopt measures to double its
present list of subscribers.
In taking up especially the literary and historical objects
of the Association, the committee desires to recall the cir-
cumstances in which the struggle on behalf of historical ac-
curacy has been conducted to a partial triumph, and to make
a few practical suggestions.
During the first two decades after the surrender an effort
was evidently made to cast the general record of the South-
ern States into an opprobrious shadow and also to infect
the minds of the youth of the entire country with the opin-
ion that there was nothing noble, nothing true, nothing good
in the Confederate cause. These attempted perversions of
history were resented, but the South was without facilities
for reaching by any kind of literature the masses of their
countrymen of the Northern States to correct the errors into
which they were led. Therefore unfair history and other
pernicious publications gained entrance into the schools and
homes of nearly every section. South and North, and a dis-
astrous inflammation of the sectional spirit was the result
The protest of Confederate Associations caused investigations
which resulted in the appalling discovery that the South was
permitting its sons and daughters to be taught that the gross
charges against the Southern people of rebellion, treason,
war atrocities, and the like were historical facts. This dis-
covery was followed by appeals to Boards of Education and
other civil authorities, to Southern self-respect and to hon-
orable publishers, with a result that the most offensive of the
false histories have been driven from the Southern States.
1 his Confederate body is pleased by the changed attitude of
many Northern leaders and honorable publishers, and will
welcome their alliance in the production of literature which
shall be just and generous to every section of the Union.
Sincere cooperation among those who desire impartial history
which will inspire all citizens of our country with similar
patriotic spirit is a consummation most earnestly sought for
by this Association. Especially is this desirable in all his-
tories of that strife which was the greatest American war.
It was fought between the North and the South to the
finish of Southern resources, and there was martial fame
for the armies of both sections. May not the story of that
struggle be told with fairness to both parties? On the part
of the South there is nothing to fear from truthful history.
Vituperation is odious to us, and we will refrain from that
unseemly method of discussion. We ask for historical gen-
erosity, and will give as much without stint.
Having attained our present vantage ground in history and
general literature, your committee advises active efforts not
only to retain what has been gained but to enlarge the field
of our work. To this end we should sustain the efforts of
our various States to establish departments of archives and
history and to compile and publish Confederate rosters and
records. AVe earnestly urge the immediate preparation and
publishinfF of special histories of brigades, regiments, and
batteries, and insist that it is tlie duty of every living Confed- ]
erate soldier to make an accurate record of his services in
the war for the use of his posterity.
There should be prepared a small, select library of attractive
Confederate volumes through which the youth of the country |
may early learn at home the remarkable story of Confederate
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times. The field is our own, and the harvest is ready for
Southern authorship.
It should also be borne in mind that the public free library
and the libraries of universities, colleges, and high schools
are becoming more than ever the means through which in-
formation and intellectual pleasure are given to the people.
It is therefore important that we should place within such
libraries many of our Confederate volumes to which all peo-
ple, but specially our sons and daughters, may have access.
It is therefore suggested that a committee of three or five
Confederate soldiers be appointed by the commander in chief
to publish in the Confeder.\te Veteran a communication on
the subject addressed to the division and brigade commanders
and to the officers of all camps where a public library is lo-
cated.
There is another important duty wliich we owe to the pub-
lic and to posterity which should be performed at once. There
are a few highly important questions involving historical facts
or legal principles, and to some extent Confederate honor,
which occasionally provoke controversy. It is true that all
these subjects have been so ably discussed by eminent South-
ern men that the Southern people consider them as being
settled on the basis of fact and truth, but a well-matured
statement of our position on those still mooted questions
should be made in such form as will be read and consid-
ered by our coinitrymen. It is therefore suggested that ttcelve
or more of these distinct subjects be chosen and v-riters se-
lected to prepare papers for publication in twelve consecu-
tive monthly numbers of the Confederate Veteran. Among
these questions are such as the following — viz.. The legal
right of secession, the honorable conduct of the war by the
Confederate Government, the readiness at all times of the
seceded States and the Confederate Government to secure
peace on honorable terms, the wrongful imprisonment of the
Confederate President, the just results of surrender, and others
equally as important.
Why is it tliat all the facts of the Confederate period are
so important as to require our extreme vigilance in guard-
ing our posterity against error? It is answered that the in-
telligence, patriotism, courage, and honor of the Southern
people are all involved. Our Southern forefathers came
among the earliest people into the newly-discovered continent,
and through centuries of effort fostered the civilization, reli-
I gion, and free government which we enjoy. Our Southern
share in all achievements that have produced the present
greatness of our country is a rich estate, highly worthy of
transmission to all future generations. We have a character
for patriotism, courage, honor, and love of free government
which false history must not be permitted to mar. The neg-
lect of this our great traditional wealth would be the com-
mitting of a waste of our estate for which the present gen-
eration of Southern people would be condemned justly. The
sectional coloring has been laid on heavily, to our disadvan-
tage, but now that a better historical spirit prevails through-
out the United States the duty is upon us to encourage full
research and honest authorship and unite with all citizens of
the country to condemn the writings of those who are ruled
alone by sectional feeling and who for pay commit treason to
truth.
The committee would be glad to present a catalogue of
Confederate books worthy of a place in our libraries, but
can only mention a few recent publications by our comrades.
"The History of the Twentieth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry
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Regiment," by W. J. McMurray, M.D., is almost a history
of the Army of Tennessee, and contains ably written chapters
on the general principles of our cause, followed by histories
of the companies and the regiment with biographies and
rosters.
"The History of Walthall's Brigade." by Gen. E. T. Sykes,
covering tlie great campaigns in which that brigade was en-
gaged, is ready for publication. "History of Doles-Cook
Brigade," by Capt. Henry W. Thomas, relating the battles of
the Army of Northern Virginia, in which that brigade was
engaged and containing rosters of the companies.
"The Immortal 600" is a thrilling story of the courage
with which 600 Confederate officers bore their sufferings after
being placed on prison ships near Charleston and Savannah,
written with fidelity to facts by one of the sufferers, our
comrade, Maj. J. Ogden Murray, of Winchester, Va.
"The Strife of Brothers," a true epic by Prof. J. T. Derry.
a young Confederate private, and now an accomplished
scholar, historian, and poet.
"The Old South," by H. M. Hamill. D.D., is a truly val-
uable portrait of Southern conditions and Southern people.
Its popularity has demanded four editions.
"War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy" is
a full collection of the choicest Confederate poetry, com-
piled judiciously by H. M. Wharton. D.D., of Lee's army,
author of many works.
"Northern Rebellion and Southern Secession," by E. W.
Ewing, LL.B., son of a Confederate soldier, is a solid, able
array of evidence and argument lucidly showing the whole
field of sectional controversy, from the days of the colonies
to the end of the war between the States,
We believe that a short, true biography of Jefferson Davis,
attractively written, should be prepared at this time and pub-
lished for the information of all people, and especially to
prevent the youth of our country from gaining false impres-
sions concerning this illustrious statesman, and therefore
recommended that his biography by Maj. J. Ogden Murray,
now in manuscript, be submitted to some publishing house
with a view to its publication.
In concluding this report your committee congratulates the
convention on the achievements of the Association in all the
purposes for which it was organized. We have contended
earnestly to fulfill our obligations as survivors of the Con-
federate army because we are left in trust of the honor of
the cause for which we fought. No armies of freemen ever
believed more firmly in the righteousness of their struggle, no
people yet living are more profoundly satisfied than we ere
that the principles which the Southern Confederacy repre-
sented arc of vital worth to freemen of all ages. Those prin-
ciples ennobled the convictions of the Southern soldiery —
those convictions explained their heroic courage, and their
courage made their convictions illustrious.
We are grateful to God that we live to behold the rever-
ence and affection of Southern millions and in very truth the
profound respect of the whole country as well. We have swept
on in the hearty enjoyment of our many magnificent reunions,
each greater than its predecessor, until apparent culmination
has been reached in the present lavish tribute to the Con-
federate soldier which Louisville and this entire State pays
with all the greatness of the old Kentucky heart.
Clement A. Evans, Chairman^
WiNFiELD Peters, Maryland;
Basil W. Duke, Kentucky.
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ADDItEf^S BY MISS ELIZABETH LUMPKIN.
It would seem most extravagant for the Vetekan to report
the effect upon the great convention of Confederates by the
address of Miss Elizabeth Lumpkin, of South Carolina, at
the Louisville reunion. On former occasions she has ad-
dressed State conventions, and in every instance there is
not a known exception to the sentiment that no man or
woman has ever been known to so profoundly impress an
audience. The beautiful language used is here given. In
the cold type, to those who did not hear her, it will be im-
possible to conceive her power before a multitude. Her
voice is peculiar. While the articulation is not as acute as
others, there is a quality to it that at once secures the rapt
attention of the multitude, and the soul of the woman takes
and holds to the end all who hear her. Her gifts cannot be
exaggerated. A Louisville paper said of it:
"The address of Miss Elizabeth Elliott Lumpkin aroused
greater enthusiasm in Confederate Hall yesterday morning
than any other address that has been made. It was elo-
quent and finished. Her voice is clear, thrilling, and pene-
trating. She is considered beautiful, and possesses a strik-
ing personality. Under the intensity of lier feelings she
fairly trembled with emotion at times in delivering the ora-
tion. Time and time again she was interrupted by thun-
derous applause, and twice the applause lasted several
minutes."
Dr. F. L. Powell, who immediately followed her in the
memorial exercises, made one of the finest addresses ever
heard at any of the reunions, as polished and complete as
if he were a university student in oratorical contest, yet he
referred to Miss Lumpkin in illustration spiritedly as fol-
lows: "They say that eloquence is dead, but a woman has
shown us to-day what eloquence is. That beautiful South-
ern woman who spoke to us is the true type of the women
of the South. The words she said were not idle compli-
ments. Her figure was alive with passionate feeling, and
you could put a flag in her hands and conquer the world."
What Miss Lumpkix Saiti.
Veterans of the South, beloved of the South, I am proud
that I, a Southern woman, may stand before you to-day
and give you greeting. Yet how
can I find words to greet you, you
grand old men, who guarded with
your lives tlie virgin whiteness
of our South?
My father was a Confederate
soldier, and, though he is dearer
to me than any other man on
earth, with that glory to crown
his head he must needs be to me
a thousandfold greater. I'd
rather be a woman than a man,
and I'd rather have been a wom-
an in the past, for, though we
may run "with tireless feet and
work with tireless hands." our
mothers could love and marry
Confederate soldiers. And our ^
fathers loved them.
A blind man said: ".Just to see
you, and then go blind again."
And a gallant old soldier ex-
MISS ELIZABETH LUMPKIX.
not be shut out from the light of my Mary's face forever.
For me there will be but one countenance in heaven to com-
pare with it and divide my worship — my mother's."
The Woman of the Confederacy.
In that day of want and wailing,
Standing very near to God,
Seeing with her heaven-born instinct
Every step that he hath trod,
Working in the darkest places
Till she leaves them bright with God. '
Do you count her power as nothing?
This great thing or trifle call?
Why, life's trifles are its great things, !
And the great things are the small.
She who holds the power of nothings
Holds the greatest power of all.
That woman was an inspiration,
Played the strings of human souls; ■
Wrought her name in deep heart music
That through centuries will roll.
Was content behind the curtain,
Feeling, knowing, she was queen;
Better that than helpless, powerless.
Though with scepter she were seen;
For she was a queenly woman.
This fair, uncrowned Southern Queen!
I would unbar the doors of the years that have passed,
and with the last century for a rostrum, history for a wit-
ness, and time and eternity for audience, I would plead
again for the knightly courage that made the men of
old! Across our history's pages they are written in letters
of fire, the names of those men. Every rent old flag, every
grass-growing mound, bears mute testimony to the glory of
a dead past.
Dead? Will any Southern man or woman, or even a lit-
tle Southern child. In whose veins beats the blood of those
heroes, say that the glory of the Old South is dead? Dead?
When every blade of grass springs above the heart of the
South's young chivalry? Dead? If we say that the glory
of the Old South is dead, we say truly that the chivalry
of man, the purity of woman, the
honor of the South are laid in the
dust forever.
If we say that the glory of the
Old South is dead, skeleton hands
W'ill rise again and told the old
flag in loving embrace, socketless
eyes will blaze again with the
glory of that dear past, and skele-
ton teeth will chatter again the
old Rebel yell.
It is said that the Rebel yell
could be heard for miles on earth,
and that it echoed even to the
heavens, ear-splitting, blood-cur-
dling, war-inspiring; and that
when Southern soldiers heard
v- it starvation and rags were for-
gotten things, and into the battle
they went, do or die on their
faces, war's desperation in their
hearts, and that great Rebel yell
claimed: "I trust in God I may Sro"so'-for8 mhCiroiinaai Louisville reunion where shpwMsm.aie trembling on their lips. Men of
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the South, the day when the Rebel yell could conquer a host
is past; the day when you fought with an army of grim,
panting, hot-hearted men is past as well. Because it is past,
because there is no need longer to carry a gun in your hands
and war's desperation in your hearts, think you the day for
all action is past as well? Are there no enemies — aye, and
worse enemies — at the doors of the South's life? Reed spoke
truth when he said that when the South learned to count
profit and loss where honor is concerned her foes could
bring her no deeper degradation. . . .
Men of the South, let your children hear the old stories
of the South; let them hear them by the fireside, in the
schoolroom, everywhere, ami they will preserve inviolate the
sacred honor of the South. Let them hear of the officers, in-
deed, but let them hear als-.o of (he privates.
The men, the rank and file.
Marching, broken, wounded, muddy, dying;
Who marched through every weather, sweating but fearless,
Shiverin.g without treml)ling.
Kept on their feet by trumpet calls, by fever,
And by the songs they sang through conquered countries;
Who marched and fought, fasting.
And only stopped fighting four to one
To march again, and sto|)i)ed a.gain to fight;
And only fought for glory and dry bread!
Let them hear all this, and then write out your record
for them. Write the names of your battles, your officers, the
places where you received your honorable scars. Write it
out and frame it for them, thai the youngest child of your
youngest child may learn to lisp that record when he whis-
pers his first prayer at his mother's knee.
Confederate heroes, the old stars and bars, torn and battle-
rent ami folded forever, is yours; all the honor, all the
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glory, 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 think that your sons will fail you, for, young
men of the South, some of these old men, no older than
some of you, were the grandest officers in a world's history.
Thousands of them on the ground between boyhood and
manhood were the bravest privates God ever made; so we
think that your sons will not fail you; but should they
seem to forget, your daughters never will! As the women
of the South in the past were true and loyal, so the women
of the South in the future will be loyal and true forever!
For the heritage we bear is the noblest of earth; it is for
us to say whether we will have the homage, the love, the
reverence our mothers had; it is for us to say whether we
will make the home of the South what the home of the
South once was — the center of a nation's lite; it is for us
to keep bright the deeds of the past, and we will do it!
You wear a little cross as a gift of the Southern women
you foiLght for. It is not the ruby-gemmed cross of the
Czar of the Russias, nor the cross of the Legion of Honor
of France, nor the emerald cross of Britain's King. It is
none of these, but it is greater than all these; it is made
of a brave man's blood and a brave woman's tears, fused and
welded in the red furnace of four years of want and grief
and battle and graves!
And when our children's children may ask what that little
iron cross stands for, we will say, with our heads held high
and our hearts aglow, "It is the Southern cross of the Gray
Legion of Honor."
There he stands like a hero. See!
He bore his rags and Ms wounds for me;
He bore the flag of the warring South
With red-scarred hands to the cannon's mouth.
AS my sire saw then, so I see to-day.
The red wounds gleam through the rags of gray!
Soldier, you in the wreck of gray,
With the brazen belt of the C. S. A.,
Take my love and my tears to-day;
Take them, all that I have to give,
And by God's help while my heart shall live
It still shall keep in its faithful way
The camp fires lit for the men in gray —
Aye. till trump sounds far away
And the silver bugles of heaven play.
And the roll is called at the judgment day!
MISS AD,\ LEE TR.\NTHAM, CAMDEN, S. C,
.M;imI of llonnr lo Miss Luinpl^in.
MONUMENT TO FATHER RYAN.
I he Mobile Register has started a movement toward se-
curing funds for a handsome marble and bronze monument
tn be erected to Father Ryan, the poet-priest of the South.
Hearty commendation will be given all over the land to this
recognition of the South's sweet singer, and he who sen-
tineled the soldier's clay with song when no otlier tribute
could be given shall liave from those he loved a tribute to
his patriotism.
The fund now aninunts to $512.48. Contributions should
be sent to the Register, Mobile. Ala.
"When marble wears away
And monuments are dust,
The songs tliat guard our soldiers' clay
Will still fulfill their trust."
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S. A. CUVN'IN'GHA>r, Editor and Proprietor.
Office- Methodist Pulilisliin;^ House Biiildiii};, Nashville, Tenn.
This publiciitinn is the personal property of S. A. C'uiminjrham. All per
sons who approve its principles and realize its benefits as an origan for Asso
ciations throughout the South are requested to commend its patronas-e and to
cooperate in extemliiitr its circulation. I.ct each one be constantly diliLrent.
ENTERTAIXIXG THE CONFEDERATES.
To one person, at least, the action of the U. C. V. Con-
vention in selecting a place for the meeting in 1906 was
deeply interesting. Two years before, in New Orleans, the
surprising condition existed that no city anywhere was
ready to extend an invitation, and the tactful result was
that, in order to avoid humiliation, Louisville and Nashville
each would extend invitations, that neither would be ac-
cepted, and that the selection be left to the Executive Com-
mittee, with directions that it meet in Louisville months
afterwards to determine. The hope was that some other
city would in the meantime seek to entertain the reunion
for this year. The weeks and months passed wearily with
not a word from anywhere. About a week before the date
for this meeting Gen. Bennett H. Young, of Louisville, ad-
dressed the writer, expressing the hope that Nashville would
take the convention, as Louisville would not be in condition
to do so. This person, the Editor of the Veteran, had al-
ready appealed to the Frank Cheatham Camp to be ready
to act in the event of an emergency, and but one person, to
his knowledge, Col. John P. Hickman, was in accord with
the suggestion. The comrades who had been most efficient
at the Nashville reunion, in 1897, were most emphatic in op-
position. Still anxious over the emergency, the writer went
before joint committees of the business associations and ap-
pealed to them to know what they would do in such emer-
gency, and the consensus of opinion heartily expressed was :
"You bring them here, and we will take care of them."
This expression was voiced to President J. W. Thomas, of
the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, who has
done more for the Confederates doubtless than any other
man in the South, and he at once said: "I advise you to in-
vite them. It would be a black eye to the South for nobody
to do so. Nashville will never go back on the old Confed-
erates." These facts were given in substance before, but
they are restated in this issue for a purpose.
Well, the invitation was formally extended, the one re-
maining hope to avoid humiliation being that Gen. John
B. Gordon, knowing thoroughly the situation, would post-
pone the next meeting for a year provided general coopera-
tion was not secured. To the honor of Nashville, her people,
in spirit, every man and every woman responded. The vet-
erans, who had sought to rest on their laurels worthily won
in 1897, joined in with one accord, proving the assertion of
Maj. Thomas that Nashville will never go back on the old
Confederates. The success of this last reunion so animated
and so thrilled the young men of Nashville that a splendid
delegation to Louisville with badges, "Boys, come to Nash-
ville," did themselves and their city honor by their deport-
ment. When the question was called before the convention,
Gen. George W. Gordon, President of the Bivouacs and Com-
mander of the Camps of Tennessee, though of Memphis,
Nashville's most active rival in the cities of Tennessee, ex-
tended the invitation for Nashville most worthily, introduc-
ing Mr. G. H. Baskette, editor of the Nashville Banner, a
conservative and faithful comrade, who spoke for Nashville;
and he was followed by Dr. W. J. McMurray, also cordially
seconding the invitation. Dr. McMurray is the comrade
who had greatest responsibility in the first Nashville re-
union, having charge of the free but splendid "Confederate
Hotel," and he had led the opposition against risking the
reputation of Nashville that was so well sustained in the
1897 reunion, yet who, when the time came, buckled on his
armor again and wore it to a successful finish in 1904. This
comrade, who went singing into battle and has an armless
sleeve, extended an invitation as cordial as could have been
desired, and yet, with all these conditions, not one word
from any other source was spoken for Nashville, not one
word in praise or of acknowledgment for what had been so
efficiently done in the past.
While earnestly wishing that the next reunion would be
held elsewhere, and preferably New Orleans, the Veteran
was proud that Nashville manifested such cordial desire to
care for the "old boys" again. It concludes this comment
with the expressed hope that in future worthy acknowledg-
ment will be made to any city assuming the great respon-
sibility of an invitation. The zealous young men of Nash-
ville who invited the reunion for next year sacrificed largely
their personal business last year and labored to exhaustion
day and night to give the heroes they had ever honored the
best time in their power. Comrades, let's do better here-
after in the courteous recognition of those who treat us as
Nashville has done. Nashville was the only city to come to
the rescue in the U. C. V.'s greatest emergency. It was the
only other city to look to this time after New Orleans. A
stranger present in the Louisville convention could not have
formed a complimentary estimate of Nashville. Yet every
delegate voting for New Orleans and every other present
should have given a typical "Rebel yell" for Nashville.
The question of a suitable memorial to the women of the
South, in recognition of their many sacrifices for the Con-
federacy, was prominently before the organizations partic-
ipating in this reunion, and two things in that connection
had deep consideration — viz., the form of memorial and its
location. A suggestion which has much favor is that it take
the form of a home for aged women now dependent on their
own efforts for a livelihood, yet others advocate a monu-
ment which would more publicly set forth the honor which
was paid them by those they had inspired and encouraged.
Whatever it be, the location will be a momentous question to
decide, for as between Louisville, Nashville, Richmond, At-
lanta, New Orleans, and other cities, the greater advantages
will be difficult to determine. Any suggestion about this
memorial will have courteous consideration.
This movement was inaugurated some years ago by the
Sons of Veterans, and at the Nashville reunion, 1904, It
was reported that about $10,000 had been accumulated for
the purpose of erecting a memorial, and arrangements were
then made for the U. C. V. to cooperate with the Sons of
Veterans in this work. Gen. C. I. Walker, of South Caro-
lina, Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia De-
partment, U. C. v., is at the head of the movement now,
representing both organizations.
The August Vetebatt will contain continued reports of
the Louisville reunion. The Battle Abbey report is of the
proceedings held over.
Qopfederati^ l/ecerai}.
301
U. S. C V. DEPARTMENT.
iJi^ited S09S of (Confederate l/eterar^s.
OrtiftnUfil Jiihi 1, IS'jt;^ in Jiirhmoml, T'a.
Conducted by the Commander in Chief, to whom till contrihiitions
intended therefor should lie addressed.
THOMAS M. OWEN. LL.D,, Com.mander in Chief, i ,,„„, „ . ,
WILL T. SHEEHAN, A. ». and Chiek of Staff \ Montgomery. Ala.
E. LESLIE SPENCE. JR., < ohmankeh A. N. V. Dept., Riehmoud, Va.
E. E. L. BYNUM, Commandeh Army Texn. Dept., Jackson, Tenu.
I, J, STOCKETT, Commander Trans Miss. Dept., Tyler, Tex,
Following the excellent example set some years ago by
our second Commander in Chief, Robert A. Smythe, Charles-
ton, S. C, and through the interest of its patriotic editor
and proprietor, S. A. Cunnin,s;ham, arrangement has been
made for a special department in the Confedeu.vte Veteran,
to be regularly conducted liy the Commander in Chief in
the interest of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans. It
is hoped that it will receive general support and sympathy.
It will afford an excellent medium of communication with
all interested in the work of the organization. It will con-
tain news from general, department, and division head-
quarters, also concerning the work of committees and
camps. Every item of iniixirtance should be promptly com-
municated so it may appear herein.
In order that the department may serve the Confederation
more fully, all Sons are urged to subscribe tor the Veti^ban.
Proceedincs of Sons in LofisviLLE. — Official Report of U.
S. C. V. IN TiiEiR Tenth Annual Reunion.
First Day's Session.
The tenth annual reunion of the United Sons of Confed-
erate Veterans was held in Ijouisville, Ky., June 14, 15, and
16, Organized July 1, 189G, in Richmond, Va,, during the
reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, its annual con-
ventions have ever since been held, in accordance with its
constitution, at the same time and place as the reunions
of the Veterans. The attendance, although not up to the
usual number, was nevertheless gratifying, and those pres-
ent seemed to fully enjoy the several sessions. The meet-
ings were held in the Hopkins Theater. Appropriate deco-
rations were arranged, and all necessary comforts were pro-
vided. The headquarters of the local committee were in one
of the theater ofhces.
The convention was called to order Wednesday, June 14,
at 10:20 A.M., by Marion \V. Ripy, Lieutenant Commander
of Camp John A. Broadus, Louisville. Rev. M. B. Porter,
Chaplain of the Camp, invoked divine blessing on the pro-
ceedings. Mr. Ripy briefly welcomed the gathering in the
name of his Camp, and then introduced Robert W. Bingham,
Esq., of the Louisville bar, who extended a welcome in be-
half of the people of Kentucky. Mr. Bingham spoke at
length, entering into a discussion of the historical position
of the South. The response to the several welcome ad-
dresses was made by Past Commander in Chief Thomas P,
Stone, of Waco.
The convention was then successively turned over to
Neville S. Bullitt. Commander of the Kentucky Division, to
John J. Davis, Commander Army of Northern Virginia
Department, and to N. R. Tisdal, of Rusk, Tex., Commander
In Chief, On taking command, Mr. Tisdai was heartily
cheered. He at once entered upon his annual address, in
which he reviewed the work of his administration. He was
followed in spirited addresses by Dr. Carter Helm Jones and
Dr. E. L. Powell, both of Louisville.
At 11:45 A.M. adjournment was had, and the Sons and
their friends marched in a body to the session of the Vet-
erans in Confederate Hall, Fifth and Water Streets. There
W. P. Lane, Esq., of Fort Worth, Tex., extended greetings
from the convention of the Sons, and Harry B. Hawes, Esq.,
of St. Louis, responded, in their behalf, to the addresses of
welcome.
At the afternoon session, which convened at 4:30 p.m.,
although the attendance was small, much important busi-
ness was transacted in the way of perfecting organization.
Committees on credentials, resolutions, and finance were
announced, and they at once entered upon their labors.
I. J. Stockett, Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, pre-
sented a formal report in writing, which was adopted with-
out discussion. It contained an interesting review of the
Confederation's activities during the year. Informal reports
were made by Department Commanders R. E. L. Bynum, C,
A. Skeen, and John J. Davis, and by Judge Advocate Gen-
eral Brant H. Kirk,
The report of the Historical Committee was made by
Homer D. Wade, Chairman. Owing to his absence, the re-
port was read by Past Commander in Chief Stone. The
report contained an exhaustive review of the work of the
committee, and concluded with the following recommenda-
tions (condensed) :
"1. I would urge that liberal appropriations be made by
the Confederation for historical work.
"2. i would urge that the members of the Historical Com-
mittee and the officers of the Confederation be directed to
use every possible means at their command to gather his-
torical facts, present them to historical organizations, thus
giving them all possible publicity through the press.
"3. I would again urge the establishment of an official
organ for the Confederation. [The Veteran was made of-
ficial organ at the first reunion in Nashville. — Ed.]
"4. I would urge that the incoming Commander in Chief
prepare outlines for the Camps throughout the Confedera-
tion, and make suggestions in general orders alon:: the lines
of the proper histories and the proper authorities to consult
for Southern history.
"5. I would recommend that the members of our organi-
zation urge the establishment of a Department of History
and Archives in every Southern State in which no such de-
partment exists. All the necessary data can be ascertained,
and when such departments are organized with the proper
directors at their heads one of the greatest undertakings
of our organization will have been accomplished."
The report was adopted and five hundred copies ordered
printed in separate form. The Division Commander, Dr.
Thomas M. Owen, of Alabama, in discussing the report pre-
sented an interesting summary of what is being done in the
several States of the South in the matter of support for
historical work. Dr. Owen's remarks were, on motion, or-
dered printed in the proceedings.
The report of the Monument Committee was read by Will
T. Sheehan. Division Adjutant of the Alabama Division, in
the absence of B G. Jennings, of Scale, Ala., Chairman of
the committee. H concluded with the following important
recommendations :
"1. That the committee ur.ges. through division command-
ers and by direct appeal, the assistance of individual Sona
3(i2
Qo9federat(^ l/eterar^.
and Camps in every ■worthy monument effort in their com-
munities, or elsewhere if able, whether undertalien by Vet-
erans, the Ladies' Jlemorial Associations, or the United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
"2. That all divisions be urged to locate and identify all
places or scenes within their limits made historic by asso-
ciation with some Confederate event, with a view to subse-
quent marking or commemoration.
"3. That all divisions and camps be urged to undertake
some specitic monument work. The latter can complete the
task of marking the graves of individual soldiers.
"4. That every camp be asked to contribute liberally to
the Jefferson Davis Memorial, undertaken by the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, and the John B. Gordon
Memorial, undertaken by the Veterans."
The following resolution, introduced by Dr. Thomas M.
Owen, of Alabama, was unanimously adopted:
"Whereas by the recent unanimous action of the United
States Congress the captured Confederate tiags have been
restored to their respective States; therefore be it
"Resolved by the United Sons of Confederate Veterans,
That they regard this act not only as an assurance of the
disappearance of sectional animosities, but as an evidence
of a spirit of fraternal regard on the part of the North in
thus restoring to the Southern people the cherished memo-
rials of a cause that will never be forgotten; and
"Resclved further. That we hereby express to the Hon.
John Lamb, of Virginia, our high appreciation of liis efforts
in initiating and promoting an act which truly realizes the
highest phase of American patriotism."
Second Day's Session.
The second day's session, June 15, was full of enthusiasm,
a large attendance of delegates, sponsors, maids, and vis-
itors being present during the entire morning. Immediately
after the convention was called to order, at 10 a.m., the
report of Clinton Barr. Quartermaster General, of Fort
Worth, was presented and adopted. The sponsors and maids
were then introduced. Several songs and musical selections
followed. On being presented, Miss Ada Darter, of Texas,
made a beautiful address.
The greetings and good wishes of the Veterans were con-
veyed in thrilling addresses by Col. Bennett H. Young, of
Louisville, and Hon. William T. Ellis, of Owensboro, Ky.
S. A. Cunningham, the third member of the committee, on
being called, responded briefly, pledging continued zeal in
behalf of the Veteran to aid the Sons in their patriotic
work.
The report of James Mann, Esq., Chairman of the Wom-
en's Memorial Committee, was read and adopted. It was fol-
lowed by an address from Gen. C. Irvine Walker, special
representative of the committee in the^ collection of funds.
He also presented a written report in connection with the
report of the Chairman. From General Walker's remarks
the work appears to be proceeding satisfactorily.
At this juncture. Prof. Clarence J. Owens, of Alabama,
came to the stage and presented to the Confederation a beau-
tiful gavel made of wood taken from the room in which "the
gallant" Pelham was born, in Calhoun County, Ala. A vote
of thanks was extended for the gift.
The report of the Committee on Credentials was read by
B. H. Kirk, Esq., Chairman, and adopted without dissent.
Following the report there was some discussion as to re-
mitting the arrearages of Camps behind with dues; but it
was without result, the Chair declaring such a proposition
in conflict with the coastitution.
A resolution, introduced by John H. DeWitt, of Nashville,
was unanimously passed, indorsing the Confederate Vet-
eran for its valuable work in behalf of the Confederate
cause. A copy of this resolution will appear later.
Brief patriotic addresses were made by Hon. William L.
Cross, of Oklahoma, and by E. J. Giddings, Esq., of Indian
Territory.
The committee reported resolutions of thanks to John A.
Broadus Camp, U. S. C. V.. to the people of Louisville, to the
several transportation lines, and to the press for numerous
courtesies extended during the reunion.
A vote of thanks was given the retiring Commander in
Chief, Tisdal, for his labors during the year.
The convention then went into an election of officers.
There was no contest for any of the positions, all nominees
being chosen unanimously. They are as follows; Thomas
McAdory Owen, of Montgomery, Ala., Commander in Chief;
E. Leslie Spence. Jr.. of Richmond. Va.. Commander Army
of Northern Virginia Department; R. E. L. Bynum, of Jack-
son, Tenn., Commander Army of Tennessee Department, and
I. J. Stockett, Commander Trans-Mississippi Department.
The nomination of Dr. Owen was made by Prof. Clarence
J. Owens, who read the formal resolutions of the Alabama
Division, adopted at its reunion November 15, 1904. putting
him forward as the candidate of the Division. Numerous
seconding speeches were made. After the result had been
announced the newly elected Commander in Chief was
called to the stage. He responded with emotion, expressing
his gratitude for the high honor, and pledging his undivided
energies to the upbuilding of the Confederation.
w
MISS ELSIE LEONORA LEACH, FORT WORTH,, TES.,
Chief Sponsor for U. S. C. V, al I.ouis> ille.
Qo^federati^ Ueterar).
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After sundry announcements Mr. Tisdal arose, and, after
indicating his pleasure at the success of the meeting, placed
the standard of the Confederation and the gavel in the
hands of the new Commander in Chief. They were appro-
priately received, after which the latter requested Mr. Will
T. Sheehan, whom he introduced as his Adjutant General
and Chief of Staff, to read General Ordei's No. 1. in which
headquarters were named, etc. This was done, after which,
at 1:45 P.M., the convention adjourned sine die.
SONS IN PARADE.
Immediately following the rear of the last section of the
Veterans, the Sons of Veterans followed with an enthusias-
tic attendance on horseback, in carriages, and on foot. Com-
mander Tisdal did not remain over to the parade, hut left
late Thursday evening for Cincinnati. R. E. L. Bynum,
Commander of the Army of Tennessee Department, was in
charge of the parade. Mr. C. R. Collins, of Camp J. B.
Freeman, was Chief Marshal. Commander Bynum rode at
the head of the column. On his left was the new Com-
mander in Chief, Dr. Thomas M. Owen. They were followed
by the members of the respective staffs of the retiring Com-
mander in Chief, of the Department Commander, and of the
Commander of the Alabama Divisi(ui, all on horseback. Fol-
lowing these were Division Commanders, mounted, the car-
riages of sponsors and maids, and Sons on foot. The or-
derly appearance of the Sons, with their flags and banners
and with the gayly decked equipages of the ladies, excited
much enthusiasm and many cheers all along the line of
march.
FIRST ORDER OF NEW COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
gener.\l orders no. 1.
Reunion Headquarters. Louisville.
June 15. 190.^.
1. Sul)ject to the custom which has existed from the be-
ginning whereby the incumbent Commander in Chief has
full charge of the Confederation until the close of the re-
union, and in obedience to the wish of the tenth annual
convention, as expressed in my unanimous election. I hereby
assume command of the United Sons of Confederate Vet-
erans. This is done with a profound sense of its weighty re-
sponsibility, and with a deep feeling of gratitude for the
sentiment which has generously called me to the high posi-
tion of Commander in Chief. The loyal support of all Sons
of Confederate Veterans is earnestly urged.
2. Headquarters are established at Montgomery, Ala., the
residence of the Commander in Chief.
3. Will T. Sheehan, of Montgomery, is named as Adjutant
General and Chief of Staff.
4. The several Division commanders now in office by ap-
pointment will continue in the exercise of their duties until
further orders. All commanders will at once report to
headquarters the condition of their Divisions, and they are
expected to exercise their utmost endeavors in building up
the Confederation.
5. As far as possible all communications should pass
throtigh the usual military channels.
By order of
Thomas M. Owen. Commander in Chief. U. S. C. V.
Official: Will T. Sheehan. Adjutant General and Chief of
Staff.
XE1¥ COM.MAXDER IX CHIEF OF THE U. S. C. V.
Commander in Chief Tlipmas McAdory Owen was born in
Jonesboro, Ala., Uecember 15, 1866. son of Dr. William Mar-
niadiike and Nancy Mc.\dory Owen, grandson of Judge
Thomas and Dolly Payne Williams Owen, and great-
grandson of Marmaduke and Agnes Payne Williams. Ag-
nes Payne was a lirst cousin of Dorothy Payne, wife of
President James Madison. His Owen and Williams ancestors
were living in Henrico and Hanover Counties, Va., at the
beginning of the eighteenth century, and his Mc.\dory an-
cestor was a Scotch-Irish immigrant from North Ireland to
South Carolina prior to the revolutionary war.
Coniniandcr Owen was graduated from the University of
.Mabania A.B. and LL.B. in 1887 and A.M. in 1893. He was
admitted to the bar in 1887. and practiced in Bessemer, Car-
rollton. and Birmingham. Ala., until March i, 1901, when he
retired from the active practice of law and devoted himself
to literary pursuits. He was married April 12. 1893, to Marie,
daughter of the Hon. John 11. Ranklicad. was elected Secre-
tary of the ."Mabama Historical Society June 21. 1898, Secre-
tary of the Sons of the Revolution in Alabama April 16, 1894,
and a member of the American Historical Association in
1894, He was one of the founders of the Southern History
Association of Washington. D. C. .April 24. 1896; was instru-
mental in the establishment of the Alabama Department of
Archives and History, located in the State capital. February
27. i90t, and was elected its Director March 2. 1901. In
July, 1902, he issued the first number of The Gulf Stales His-
torical Magazine, published bimonthly. He edited the
"Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society'' (Vols. I.-
IV., 1898-1903) and a "History of the Great Seal of Ala-
bama," and has contributed nuich to the historic record of his
State, including many noted families. He received the hon-
orary degree of LL.D. from the University of Alabama June
I. 1904. Dr. Owen is the founder and first President of the
.Mabania Library Association, organised at Montgomery No-
vember 21. 1904. He was unanimously elected Commander
\\\ Chief of the U. S. C. V. June 15. 1905.
HON. THOMAS M. OWEN, COMMANDER-IN-ClIIEl' U. S. C. V.
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Qor^federati^ l/eterar).
CONFEDERATE CEMETERY PLOT IN CHICAGO.
[An address "to the Ladies of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, the Ladies of the Blue and Gray Auxiliary, the
Gentlemen of Camp 8, United Confederate Veterans, Chica-
go," by Hon. James R. Mann, Member of Congress.]
On this day of hallowed memories we gather here to testify
to our affectionate regard for the four thousand and more
Confederate soldiers who lie buried beneath the sod in this
plot of ground. They died as prisoners of war far from home
without the ministering care of relatives or near friends.
They paid for their love of liberty with their lives. They
made the greatest sacrifice possible to make in order to uphold
a cause which to them was sacred.
As the son of a captain in the Union army I am glad to
pay my tribute of respect and admiration to the worth of
these dead and my friendship to many of those ex-Confed-
erates now standing before me.
It is not necessary at this time to review the causes of the
War between the States or tlie history of its actions. The
magnitude of its operations, the length of its continuance,
the number of persons engaged in it, the bitterness and de-
termination with which it was fought on both sides all show
that the South, as well as the North, was engaged in a con-
flict in which at the time it believed success was essential to
its future liberty and prosperity. The bitterness of that strife
has largely passed away. It is not likely that the sorrows
occasioned by that war will be entirely forgiven or forgotten
for many years to come, but the final results of the War
between the States have been accepted by the people of the
South as freely as by us of the North.
We on our side are now glad to testify to the high charac-
ter, the signal ability, and the determined purpose of the
people of the Southland. In the ordinary course of history
the heroes of the victors become largely the heroes of the
nation. But we would be losing a large portion of our
Iieritage if we did not claim with pride among our nation's
heroes such men as Robert E. Lee, "Stonewall" Jackson, and
many others whom we formerly called Rebels, but whom we
now recognize as among the true heroes of a people filled
with the love of liberty and constantly inspired by patriotism
and heroism.
In this beautiful cemetery the plot of ground upon which
we now stand was purchased many years ago by our national
government as the last resting place for the mortal remains
of those Confederate prisoners who died at Camp Douglas,
in this city. Some years ago a band of ex-Confederate sol-
diers, who had gladly been welcomed to the citizenship of
(ur city, proposed to erect a monument on this ground to the
memory of the dead lying here. That noble shaft of enduring
granite is before you as one of the notable objects of this
cemetery and of this city.
We must all admire the symmetry of the grounds, the
beauty of the green sod, and the flowering shrubs and the
handsome trees. Within the past year the grounds have been
entirely remodeled, the monument taken down and recon-
structed to conform with the filling in of the ground, and
the whole place made one of the conspicuous points of beauty
in this most handsome city of the dead. Our great nation,
in admiration for its heroes, whether fighting for or against
its separation, in loving remembrance of the noble qualities of
its children of the South, in tender regard for the prisoners
of war who died while in its keeping, in gentle forgiveness of
those who were opposed to its armies, and in full apprecia-
tion of the patriotism and loyalty of the South, has opened
the doors of its treasury, and for the first time in our history
has undertaken to beautify and forever maintain with proper
care a burying ground of Confederate dead.
No one thing in my public life gives me more pleasure than
my small part in the accomplishment cf this result. I am
proud to have prepared and introduced the bill in Congress
which has resulted in this extension of the loving hand of the
government to the care of the last resting place of these
dead soldiers.
Let the bitterness of the civil strife be forgotten. Let us
seek to awaken in our hearts respect for those who were our
foes, but who are our stanch friends. Let us forget the
enmities of the past. Let us remember the heroic deeds of
those who were opposed to us on whichever side we may
have been. The mind of man is finite, not infinite. It may
make and does make mistakes ; but I have greater admiration
for him who, in error, is willing to sacrifice his life because
of his love for liberty than I have for him who, even in the
right, may preserve his life rather than risk it for liberty.
When we have conflicts in the future, and it does not
seem improbable to me tliat we will have great conflicts
across the Pacific Ocean with the far Eastern races — conflicts
which will determine the supremacy of civilization in the
world — our nation will bear the brunt of the fight on the side
of our civilization ; and no more loyal and heroic fighters will
ever be found than will the sons — aye, and the daughters of
the South — when those days of trial shall come, if they do
come.
Yes, more ! No more loyal sons and daughters of the re-
public are to be found now anywhere than the sons and
daughters of the Southland. They realize the need of having
one great nation — our nation. We cannot and do not expect
that they shall change their sentiments; that they shall revise
their opinions ; that they shall reconstruct their beliefs. We
do not ask that they shall admit that the South was wrong
or that the North was right. All we ask is what the South
is now giving — a loving and loyal support to and participa-
tion in the management of our government. In the present
conflicts and in those which will constantly arise in the future
we will need the best thought, the best judgment, the best
energy of the best people of our land, both North and South.
[Judge J. M. Dickinson, now of Chicago, who attended the
dedication with Mrs. Dickinson, sends the above, and writes
that the ceremonies were most respectful and impressive in
every way, and that there must have been a thousand people
present, comprised largely of ladies and Union veterans.
Those from the South constituted a small minority of the at-
tendance. Judge Dickinson, in writing of the speaker, says :
"You will doubtless recall that Mr. Mann introduced and
carried through a bill in Congress which provided for the
permanent care of this Confederate monument and the graves
of those Confederate prisoners who died at Camp Douglas."]
Relation BETWEE^f Gen. Grant and Some Southerners. — i
J. G. W. Tompkins, of Charleston, W. Va. : "Seeing your
reference to 'Dick' Hewitt in the Veteran for April, 1905,
as 'a relative of Mrs. Grant's family,' I beg to correct it by
stating that his grandfather, Peter Grant, was a half brother
of Jesse R. Grant, the father of Gen. U. S. Grant, both of
whom were brothers of my mother. (See 'Grant Genealogy,'
p. 279.) 'Dick,' or Richard Warren. Hewitt was born at
Rock Hill, Ky. ; and died in Richmond, Va., in 1862."
Qopfecierati^ l/eterar).
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Mll.LER AT SIXTEEN.
THE FALL OF RICHMOND.
BV MRS. FANNIE WALKER MILLER, WYTHEVILLE. VA.
April 2. What a host of memories rise with the date !
How rapidly and vividly the scenes in Richmond, Va., of
April 2, 1865, crowd upon me! Notwithstanding all could
appreciate the straits we were in and the rapidly thinning of
our lines of hattle, yet -n f'llly c mli Ii::-.t were we tli.ii (',,11
Lee could hold back
Gen. Grant's power-
ful army that we
went about with
cheerful hearts. 1 ve
often wondered at
my own confident
hope of success
w li e 11 I consider
ihat. Willi those in
liigh authority, I
had the best oppor-
tunity of knowing
our desperate strait^:
for T had been a|)-
poinlc'l by the Hon,
.\. J. .^eddon cop\ -
ing cleric in the Bu-
reau of War, and
was the only lady
employed in the bu-
reau at that time,
and as copyist most jj
of the correspond-
ence fell to my lot.
■Mhuu two weeks liefore the fall of Richmond, as we were
leaving ibe ofiicc, the chief clerk came in with a package of
letters to be copied, apologizing for detaining us. Opening
the package, I saw the signature of "R. E. Lee." and took
that for my part, and forthwith went to work. Perfect silence
soon fell on all, and nothing save the scratch of the pen
could be heard. 1 h.id nut proceeded far when I came to the
statement that unless so many (I forget the number) troops
and provisions for same could be furnished he (Lee) could
not hold Petersburg. This T knew was an impossibility, and
exclaimed: "O, Doctor (Dr. Cooke, who was chief clerk of
the <Iepanmentl, if this is so, we arc lost!" The reply of the
old gentleman (who, I suppose, was possibly following up the
same thought). "Remember, 'mum' is the word." silenced me.
From that on not a word escaped us, and as we finished
our papers each silently left, and never alluded to the
event. Notwithstanding day after day witnessed the assort-
ing of papers on file and packing in long boxes for removal,
it never occurred to my happy, hopeful heart (for I was yet
in my teens) that a move of Grant was anticipated or that
Richmond would fall. The day before, April 1, even until
late in the night we had made merry over various .-\pril fool
jokes perpetrated, and a brighter Sabbath never shone on
merrier or more cheerful hearts.
I was spending the day with my mother and sister, who
were matrons at Howard Grove Hospital, consequently was
not in my accustomed seat at dear old St. Paul, of precious
memory ; but others returne<i and told us what had trans-
pired, and as soon as I could gather my things I proceeded to
my home in the cuy. .\s I reached the corner of Main and
Third Streets 1 met my chief, Capt. R. G. H. Kean, with as
much baggage as lie could conveniently carry. In reply to
my question whether w-e should follow, his reply was, "I
cannot advise a lady to follow a fugitive government,'' and
with tears in his eyes bade me farewell.
On reaching my home 1 found my aunt, an employee of
the Treasury Department, packing what things she could
conveniently carry, preparing to follow with others of her
department the next morning. There was nothmg left for
me but to wait the turn of affairs. Taking my seat at the
window, I fell to watching the excited crowds passing, many
of the men with such baggage as they could carry making
Iheir way toward the towpath, that being considered the
■'afest avenue of escape. O, the horrors of that night! the
rolling of vehicles, excited cries of the men, women, and
children as they passed loaded with such goods as they could
snatch from the burning factories and stores that were being
looted by the frenzied crowds ; for to such straits had many
been brought that the looting was not confined to the "poor
wlrite" or rabble. Delicately reared ladies were seen with
sheets and shawls filled with goods, provisions, etc., even to
boxes of tobacco. I remember one lady showing us as many
as one dozen boxes of tobacco, a foot or more square, she
had carried from some factory on Gary Street to her home on
Franklin, and she a delicate woman. She said the prospect
of starvation and suffering of her almost blind husband and
children stared her in the face and nerved her to the work.
No one dared to lie down or think of sleeping, and as soon
as it w-as light I started out with my aunt to communicate
with the party with whom she was going. As I was about
to descend the front steps the explosion caused by blowing
up the magazine on a line to the rear of us occurred, and
before 1 knew it I found myself flat. Glass was falling all
around ; but my aunt, nothing daunted, called to me to fol-
low her, and we made our way to the Valentine House.
While waiting for her conference to end, I looked down the
street, and to my horror beheld a negro cavalryman yelling:
"Richmond at last!" Seized with terror, I saw our chances
for escape were hopeless, and together we started back home.
On getting to my old headquarters. Mechanics Institute, I
found the torch had been applied ; but the mob were carrying
out all available furniture, carpets, etc. As we neared home
the smoke of the factories, etc., on Gary Street was almost
blinding, to say nothing of the heat. All day and night
we sat beside what of our belongings we could tie up in
sheets ready to leave the building. Parties were kept on the
roof with buckets of water and wet blankets, and we were
saved. A guard was procured, and with some watching by
turns while others slept we gradually adapted ourselves to
the forlorn situation.
Memorial Rooms at Norfolk Endow'ed. — Two rooms in
the Home for Needy Confederate Women of "Virginia have
recently been endowed, one by the Hope-Maury Chapter of
the LI. D. C. to James Barron Hope, after whom the Hope-
Maury Chapter was named, and the other by Mrs. Dr. Frank
Anthony Walke for her husband, the late Dr. Walke, one of
the most beloved men in Norfolk. The keys of the rooms
were turned over by Mrs. Dr. Walke, as President of the
Hope-Maury Chapter, to the Board of Directors of the
Home. The presentation speech was made by Rev. J. Wil-
liam Jones, and that of acceptance by Judge John Dew. These
two rooms are the only ones in the building that have up
to the present time been endowed, but the beautiful cere-
monies attending tiie endowment of them will doubtless soon
be followed bv others.
806
QoQfederati^ l/eterarj,
JHARD-FIGHTING VIRGINIANS— LIEUT. COL. LANG.
BY LIEUT. J. N. POTTS, COMPANY G, i8tH VIRGINIA CAVALRY.
In the March Veteran there appears a well-written article
under the above caption, which I read with consuming in-
terest, for I knew and loved Col. Lang during those bloody
days that tried men's souls. I was with him on hazardous
scouting excursions inside the enemy's lines, and with him on
bloody battlefields. I slept with him when our bed was the
broad, cold earth and our covering the clear, blue sky ; we
divided parched corn as a means of subsistence, and were
together when we had no parched corn. His honor and worth
as a friend, his courage and daring as a soldier, his efficiency,
skill, and tact as an officer, cannot easily be overdrawn. I
am glad he has a son who reveres his memory and desires to
give him his proper place in history.
I desire to make a short statement of the facts concerning
how Col. Lang came to his death. It was on the 5th of Sep-
tember, 1864, in the Shenandoah Valley, between Winchester
and Bunker's Hill. We had had a fearful campaign in that
memorable valley, always fighting an enemy that greatly out-
numbered us.
We had been in line of battle all through the night of Sep-
tember 4, and skirmishing began at daylight the morning of
the sth. Gen. Imboden was absent sick, and the command of
the brigade devolved upon Col. George H. Smith, of the 62d
Virginia Infantry, leaving Lieut. Col. Lang in command of
the regiment. The brigade consisted of three regiments —
the i8th, 23d, and 62d. About noon we were reenforced by
McCausland's Brigade, commanded by Col. Ferguson.
After a few minutes of consultation with Col. Ferguson,
Col. Smith, who was the senior officer in the two brigades,
decided to give battle, and our lines were hurriedly formed,
for the enemy was moving upon us with overwhelming num-
bers and several pieces of artillery.
Imboden's Brigade, under command of Col. George W.
Imboden, and McCausland's Brigade, commanded by Col.
Ferguson, took positions respectively on the right of the road.
The 62d Virginia Regiment, commanded by Lieut. Col. D. B.
Lang, dismounted and moved rapidly about four hundred
yards to the front and dropped behind a stone fence ; the
23d Virginia Cavalry Regiment deployed to the left as skir-
mishers ; while the l8th Virginia Cavalry, under command of
Lieut. Col. D. Ed Beall, took position about four hundred
yards in the rear of, and as a support to, the 62d, and re-
mained mounted. The formation of McCausland's Brigade
on the right was very similar — one regiment dismounted and
placed behind a hastily constructed barricade, one regiment on
the right and front as skirmishers, and one regiment in re-
serve to protect the dismounted men. The enemy opened upon
us with artillery, and at the same time advanced a heavy
skirmish* line, which drove our skirmishers in to the main
line. They then threw a heavy cavalry force forward for the
purpose of dislodging our dismounted men. The heaviest as-
sault was made upon our right, and McCausland's Brigade
gave way and were driven back several hundred yards.
Col. Lang restrained his men from firing until the enemy
had charged to within very close range. Using the expression
of old Israel Putnam, he said : "Boys, don't shoot till you can
see the white of their eyes." It was estimated that the first
volley from the 62d killed eighty men. Although they had ex-
hibited great courage and had done remarkable execution,
their position was now untenable, for the heavy force of the
enemy that had turned our right was pouring a destructive
enfilading fire upon the l8th and 62d Regiments. Under this
condition of things. Col. Lang ordered his men to fall back.
The i8th stood firm under the galling fire ; it was a Critical
moment. Just then Col. Smith rode along our line, his eyes
glowing with the genius of battle, and said : "Stand firm, 18th ;
you are now my only hope to save the 62d from being cap-
tured."
Col. Beall immediately gave the order to "charge," which
was obeyed with alacrity, and the whole regiment sprang
forward with a deafening yell, which seemed to strike terror
to the enemy. Our advantage was in the fact that the enemy
had emptied their pistols and ours were loaded. We drove
them in confusion back beyond the barricade that McCaus-
land's men had occupied, and clear back to their artillery.
This enabled the 62d to get to their horses and mount and
then come to our rescue. As the i8th charged I passed within
a few feet of Col. Lang and made some remark to him, which
I cannot now recall ; but I distinctly remember his reply,
which was this : "If McCausland's men could have held their
ground, we would have whipped them." Just then a bullet
pierced him, from the effect of which he died the next day.
His last words were : "Tell my wife I died at my post doing
my duty."
ifffmr^
COL. BKNJ. I.JOHNSON,
Hampton's South Carolina Legion.
SKETCH WANTED
Of this comrade.
ERNEST m'pHERSON,
Louisville Ky. As a young soldier.
DR. B. F. BRITTAIN,
Arlington, Tex. See April No., page 170.
Gen. Hampton -wrole the Veteran 0* his purfose to -wi-ite a sketch of Col. Johnson, hut drtivred it too long. Who can do it?
Qo9fe<Jerat(^ l/eterarj.
307
RELATIVE XUMBERS IN OUR GREAT WAR.
[The following is Mr. Cazenove G. Lee's reply to Col.
Livermore, Secretary of the Massachusetts Historical So-
ciety, in a recent article in the Boston Transcript and edi-
torial comments thereon, in which the accuracy of Mr. Lee's
former statements concerning the strength of the Confederate
forces are challenged.]
It is interesting to read what these gentlemen say of the war
figures credited to me — that it would be more to the credit of
the Confederate States if I had admitted that they had put
in the field 1,272,416 men out of a military population of
1,004,193 in 1861 ; and at the same time claim that the United
States, out of a military population of 4,559,872 only put in
the field about two million men, when 998,613 of these were
Southern men, foreigners, and negroes. Consistency is evi-
dently a jewel these gentlemen do not possess. The South
fought for a noble cause, never better stated than in General
Order No. 16 to the Army of Northern Virginia: "Let every
soldier remember that on his courage and fidelity depends all
that makes life worth living, the freedom of his country, the
honor cf his people, and the security of his home."
They fought and lost, and what they lost is told by the
New York Tribune June 26, 1868: "A great part of the ac-
cumulated wealth of the people were swept away ; not only
changed hands, and so in the natural course of things cer-
tain to be redistributed, but absolutely annihilated; not only
the created wealth but the means of creating it has been de-
stroyed. We think that there is not in all history the record
of a war attended by such utter destruction."
In short, they had little left but the honor of the fight,
and no generous enemy should wish to take that from them.
Nor do we wish to divide that honor with the skulkers and
cowards, but keep it for the brave boys who were actually
in the field. They deserve all that history can give them.
The numbers of the Federal army are fixed by the returns
in the War Department, and these figures are usually ac-
cepted by Southern writers. Would it not be simple justice
in Northern writers to give the same force to Confederate
returns? The New York Tribune of June 26, 1867, contains
a letter from a Washington correspondent, said to have been
Hon. Whitelaw Reid. from which I extract the following:
"Among the documents which fell into our hands at the
downfall of the Confederacy arc the returns, very nearly
complete, of the Confederate armies from their organization
in the summer of 1861 down to the spring of 1865. These
returns have been carefully analyzed, and I ain enabled to
furnish the returns in every department and for almost every
month from these ofticial sources. We judge in all that 600,-
000 different men were in the Confederate ranks during the
war."
No one can doubt that these records then existed. Had
tliey been published in full in the "War Records," as Congress
directed, this controversy would have been avoided, but only
detached portions appear. If a party to a legal controversy
destroys or suppresses cvidehce important to establish his
adversary's case, that adversary is permitted to introduce
secondary evidence. In this matter the Tribune's copy of the
ofiicial returns is the best secondary evidence in existence.
Before passing from this letter, let me call attention to the
incorrect quotation made by Mr. Livermore. The Tribune
writer does not say, "Many of the Confederate records have
been secured," etc., but "nearly complete returns;" and he
gives the figures upon which he bases his judgment in a
three-column article. These are important facts, and mis-
statement is inexcusable. But we are not wholly dependent
upon the Tribune letter, for every Southern official and con-
temporaneous writer testifies to the same fact.
Gen. J. A. Early, in "Southern Historical Society Papers,"
Volume II., page 20. says : "This estimate is very nearly cor-
rect."
"The American Cyclopedia" (D. Appleton & Co., 1875),
of which Charles A. Dana, late Assistant Secretary of War,
was editor, in Volume V., page 232, saj'S : "The adjutant
general of the Confederate army. Gen. S. Cocper, in a state-
ment made since the close of hostilities, estimates the entire
available Confederate forces capable of active service in the
field at 600,000. Of this number, not more than 400,000 were
enrolled at any one time, and the Confederate States never
had in the field at once more than 200,000 men."
The letter of Gen. Cooper relating to this subject is pub-
lislied in Volume VII., page 287, of the "Southern Historical
Society Papers."
Lieut. Col. Fox, of the United States army, in "Losses in
Civil War," says: "The aggregate enrollment of the Con-
federate armies during tlie war, according to the best au-
thorities, numbered over 600,000 effective men, of whom not
over 400,000 were enrolled at one time."
See also Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Con-
federacy, Volume 2, page 630.
Gen. Marcus J. Wright, Volume XIX., "Southern His-
torical Sccitty," 254. Dr. Jones, 2 Id., p. 20.
Even contemporaneous Federal officials in their reports
confirm these figures. Provost Marshal Gen. Fry, U. S. A.,
in his last report, gives the losses of the Confederate army
as follows :
Killed 52,954
Died of wounds 21,554
Died of disease 59,297
Died in prison 26,439
Died from other causes 40,000
Total 210,244
Surrendered in 1865 (Secretary Stanton's report Ex.
Doc. 39, Congress) 174,223
There were held in prison in 1865 (General Grant).... 90,000
Deserters, less those returned to duty 83,372
Discharged 57,411
(Report Gen. John Preston) 605,006
Can a suggestion be made of any disposition of the other
hundreds of thousands claimed?
.Again, by the Confederate returns in the War Depart-
ment, tliere were enlisted men in the Confederate
army to June, 1862 453.000
Gen. Preston, Superintendent of Bureau of Conscrip-
tion. C. S. A., in his report to Secretary of War of
February, 1865, states that froin 1862 to February,
1865, there were, conscriptions 87,993
And enlistments 72,292
Making a total of 613,285
Let us now review the arguments of my critics.
Col. Fox ("Losses in Civil War") gives to the eleven States
of the Confederacy a military population in i860 of 1,064,143.
Of this number, 607,285 were in the Confederate army (o£
308
Qo^federa t(^ l/eterar).
whom 19,000 came from the border States) and 8&.009 in
the United States army, making 677,009 in both armies,
leaving 387,184 for other duties, such as Confederate and
State government officials, railroad, ordnanciS and manufac-
turers, doctors, police, agricultural employers, invalids, skulk-
ers, etc. (.See "Report Provost Marshal General Fry," p.
127.)
In addition to this, the fact has been totally overlooked
that the centers of population in the Southern States soon
fell into the hands of the Federal army, and the circle grad-
ually contracted until the end. It is safe to say that the
conscription act was never enforced in half of the territory
of the Confederate States, and that few volunteers reached
the army from without our lines. Gen. Preston says the
act was almost unenforced, save in Virginia. North and
South Carolina, and one-third of Virginia was without our
lines.
Col. Livermore. in his paper, says : "Conclusive evidence on
the question under discussion is the record of the census of
1890, that there were living 432,020 Confederates and 9S0.724
Union soldiers and sailors."
To say the least, this statement is not ingenious, for there
has been deducted from the number of United States sol-
diers 53,799 negroes and 3,273 negroes added to the Confed-
erate numbers, when it is known that these negroes served
in the Union army and not one of them in the Confederate.
Then, too, at that very time the War Department esti-
mated, including deserters, 1,341,232 Union soldiers living, or
360,708 more than Col. Livermore gives.
From a report of the Record and Pension Division of the
War Department (1896) I extract the following: "It re-
quires but a brief examination of the census figures to show
that they fall far short of representing the total number of
survivors (U. S. army) in 1890. and they cannot be relied
upon as the basis of any calculation for the future."
The legal maxim, "False in one thing, false in everything,"
may well be applied to this "conclusive evidence." But in
the South it has always been a disgrace to any man who was
of proper age and did not serve in the Confederate army.
Therefore every wagon driver, clerk, cook, or skulker af-
firms that he served in the army, when in trutli they never
saw a day of service.
I have not space to reply to Col. Livermore's comments on
the numbers in battle, and can only refer him to the follow-
ing; and if they do not convince him, nothing I could say
would: Gen. Early, "Southern Historical Society," Volume
VI.; Id., Volume XII., p. 365; Id., Volume II., p. 6; Col.
Walter H. Taylor, Id.. Volume V.; Id., Volume LV., p. 124;
Henderson's "Life of Jackson," 299, 361, 616.
In conclusion, let me say that I have founded this state-
ment on facts and figures given by men whose business it "^as
to know them, who had no object in misstating them, and
who stand on the pages of history as the peers of any men
who ever lived.
What is there to contradict them? Only the sophistical
arguments founded on what might have been. Mr. Lincoln
is reported to have said, in reply to an inquiry, that the Con-
federates, he was convinced, had three million men in the
field. Upon astonishment being expressed, he stated that
all of his commanders reported that they were opposed by
three times their numbers ; "and," said Mr. Lincoln, "I know
the number of their armies." My critics learned to see treble
during the war, and have never recovered from that infirmity.
ECTOR'S BRIGADE AT CHICKAMAUGA.
BV C.M'T. J. H. STR.^DLEY, .VSHEVILLE, N. C.
In a late number of the Veter.vn an article written by
Capt. J. I). Smith, of Houston, Miss., under the head of "Wal-
thall's Brigade at Chickamauga," stated (unintentionally, no
doubt) that which does Ector's Brigade injustice. It was
that "they failed in their assault, and Walthall's Brigade was
put in and carried the works." Ector's Brigade was com-
posed of the 9th, loth, and 14th Te.xas and the 29th North
Carolina Regiments. I belonged to the last-named regiment,
and was in this fight from start to finish. We marched nearly
all night on the i8th, arriving at Chickamauga just at day-
light. We waded the creek and halted for breakfast. I do
not remember the hour exactly that the fight began ; but I can
never forget the first charge we made, in which Comrade
Smith says we failed. A battery was in front of us, and we
started for it. Almost in the beginning of the charge our
captain was killed, and the command of the company devolved
upon me. The guns were well served and their fire destructive.
Four of my men fell in one pile, but we pressed forward and
captured the battery that we started for.
It is singular how little incidents, trivial in themselves, will
be impressed on one's memory at such moments when more
important ones are forgotten. Now I do not remember the
number of guns we captured, but I do remember as distinctly
as if it were yesterday the position of one of the gunners as
we rushed up. He was standing unconcerned by his still
smoking piece, with his arm thrown over it as carelessly as
if he had been "at rest" on dress parade, as much as to say:
"Well, boys, I gave you the best I had, and here I am."
Comrade Minnich, of Forrest's command, is right when he
says there were no breastworks except the black-jack Ijushes
and small trees. Ector's Brigade went up against two heavy
batteries of the enemy the first day. The last of these cut
us up badly late in the afternoon, but was taken by our
brigade and Haskins's Battery about sundown, when we were
relieved by Cleburne's Division.
VARIOUS MISTAKES CORRECTED.
BY WILLIAM W. GIBSON, COMPANY D, 5TH AND 6tH ARKANSAS
CONSOLIDATED.
That our memory "plays us tricks" is clearly evidenced in
the article by Comrade James Beeson, page no in March
Veteran. In this short article, in his attempt to "give facts
for future historians," Comrade Beeson falls into several
errors himself. He tells us he was a member of the ist
Arkansas Regiment, and adds : "After the reorganization
we served in L. E. Polk's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, until
the end, and the 2d Tennessee was with us all the time."
Gen. L. E. Polk was wounded on the line just before we
reached Kennesaw. His brigade soon afterwards was broken
up and the ist Arkansas put into Govan's Brigade, where it
served the remainder of the war, the 2d Tennessee. I think,
going to Cheatham's Division.
Again he says : "Another writer speaks of Liddell's Di-
vision at Chickamauga. Cleburne's Division was composed
of four brigades, Polk's, Granbury's, Liddell's, and Lowry's."
Here Comrade Beeson is altogether wrong. Liddell did com-
mand a division at Chickamauga, consisting of his old bri-
gade, then commanded by Govan, and Walthall's Brigade.
This division and another, composed of Wilson's and Ector's
Brigades, were organized as a reserve corps, and commanded,
on the first day at least, by Gen. W. H. T. Walker. Our
Qopfederati^ l/eterai}.
3u9
position was on the extreme right, Cleburne's being on our
left. At Missionary Ridge Walker's reserve corps was broken
up and Govan placed back in Cleburne's Division.
The Comrade is wrong again in naming the brigades com-
posing Cleburne's Division in that battle as they were then
known. There were three brigades there under Cleburne —
viz., Wood's, Polk's, and Deshler's. Gen. Deshler was killed,
and the Texas Brigade was commanded by Gen. Smith until
the battle of Missionary Ridge, where he was wounded, when
Granbury succeeded to its command. Loury succeeded Wood,
T think, at Missionary Ridge. If we are going to help out
. the historians, let us be careful to give facts.
A rALI.lXI I'liTllKAX IX CALIFORXIA.
Dr. William Cole llarri^ion was born August 15, 1S41. in
East Feliciana Parish, La.; moved to New Orleans in 1857.
from which city he enlisted in the C. S. A. and served till
the surrender. He was paroled May 27. 1865, and, returning
to New Orleans, he took an active part in the stirring events
that grew out of reconstruction.
Dr. Harrison is a member of Camp No. 2, U. C. V. He
■-ervcd as Surgeon in the "Association of the Army of Ten-
nessee, Louisiana Division," before the U. C. V. Association
was created. He went to California in 1888, and took an
active |Kiii in forming the "Confederate Association of Cali-
fornia." niiw in the brotherhood of I'nitcd Confederate Vet-
erans as Camp No. 770, in which he has served as Surgeon,
Adjutant, Vice Cnnniiandor. and Connn,-indcr. He was As-
sistant ,\djm.tiit (ienrral on the staff of Gen. W. L. Cabell,
Trans-Mississippi Department, and is now Brigadier General.
liimmanding the Cahlnniia Brigade of the Pacific Division.
(jen. Harrison is descended from the Virginia family ot
Harrisons, and his maternal gr.indfather. John Quarlcs Tal-
bot, was one of the seven .Americans wounded at Chalmette,
or the battle of New Orleans.
Miss Dai.sy Harrison, the charming daughter of Dr. Har-
rison, was born in New Orleans, and has inherited great love
and loyalty to the South. She is a graduate of Los Angeles
High School, anil was a ciiartcr member of the Robert E.
MISS DAISY H.\RRISON.
Lee Chapter. U. D. C. Miss Harrison attended the reunion
at Dallas, and was appointed sponsor of the Pacitic Division
and graced the position in the parade. She was chief maid
of honor for the Pacific Division at the reunion in New
Orleans and chief maid to the sponsor of the Trans-Missis-
sippi Department at the Nashville reunion. She attended
the Louisville reunion as-sponsor to the Pacific Division.
DR. W. C. H.\RRIS0N.
One of the delightful sensations of the reunion was
the marriage of Miss Harrison to Mr. Dwight P. Nicklin.
The wedding occurred in the Gait House parlor. Chaplain
tn'neral Rev. J. William Jones officiating. There were present
Commander in Chief Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Department Com-
manders Gen. W. L. Cabell. Gen. Clement A. Evans, and C.
G. Walker, Gen. Joseph Wheeler. S. S. Birehfield, Dr. Tiche-
nor. Col. Singleton. Ed Millett, the Misses Wheeler, and
others.
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Qo9federat(^ l/etcrar>
"DIED FOR THEIR STATE."
Jefferson Davis and the Honors Paid to Him.
[The Lowell (Mass.) Sun says: "The communication printed
Ijelow is from the pen of Mr. Benjamin J. Williams, of this
cit>', and treats of a subject of deepest interest to the peo-
ple of tliis country, North and South. It treats of Mr. Jef-
ferson Davis and his connection with the Southern Confed-
eracy from a Southern standpoint. The writer handles a
subject unfamiliar to our readers, who, if they do not agree
with the sentiments expressed, will at least find it a very
interesting and instructive communication."]
Dear Sir: The demonstrations in the South in honor of
Mr. Jefferson Davis, the ex-President of the Confederate
States, are certainly of a remarkable character and furnish
matter for profound consideration. Mr. Davis, twenty-one
years after the fall of the Confederacy, suddenly emerges from
his long retirement, journeys among his people to different
prominent points, there to take part in public observances more
or less directly commemorative respectively of the cause of the
Confederacy and of those who strove and died for it, and
everywhere he receives from the people the most overwhelm-
ing manifestations of heartfelt affection, devotion, and rev-
erence, exceeding even any of which he was the recipient in
the time of his power; such manifestations as no existing
ruler in the world can obtain from his people, and such as
probably were never before given to a public man, old, out
of office, with no favors to dispense, and disfranchised.
Such homage is significant, startling. It is given, as Mr.
Davis himself has recognized, not to him alone, but to the
cause whose chief representative he is. And it is useless
to attempt to deny, disguise, or evade the conclusion that
there must be something great and noble and true in him
and in the cause to evoke this homage. As for Mr. Davis
himself, the student of American history has not yet forgotten
that it was his courage, self-possession, and leadership that in
the very crisis of the battle at Buena Vista won for his country
her proudest victory upon foreign fields of war; that as Sec-
retary of War in Mr. Pierce's administration he was its mas-
ter spirit, and that he was the recognized leader of the United
States Senate at the time of the secession of the Southern
States. For his character there let it be stated by his enemy,
but admirer, Massachusetts's own Henry Wilson. "The clear-
headed, practical, dominating Davis," said Mr. Wilson in a
speech made during the war, while passing in leview the
great Southern Senators who had withdrawn with their
States. When the seceding States formed their new Con-
federacy, in recognition of Mr. Davis's varied and predomi-
nant abilities, he was unanimously chosen as its chief magis-
trate ; and from the hour of his arrival at Montgomery to
assume that office, when he spoke the memorable words, "We
are determined to make all who oppose us smell Southern
powder and feel Southern steel," all througli the Confed-
eracy's four years' unequal struggle for independence, down
to his last appeal as its chief in his defiant proclamation from
Danville, after the fall of Richmond, "Let us not despair, my
countrymen, but meet the foe with fresh defiance and with
unconquered and unconquerable hearts," he exhibited every-
where and always the same proud and unyielding spirit so
expressive of his sanguine and resolute temper, which no
disasters could subdue, which sustained him even when it
could no longer sustain others, and which, had it been pos-
sible, would of itself have assured the independence of the
Confederacy. And when at 'ist the Confederacy had fallen.
literally overpowered by immeasurably superior numbers and
means, and Mr. Davis a prisoner subjected to the greatest
indignities, his proud spirit remained unbroken; and never
since the subjugation of his people has he abated in the least
his assertion of the cause for which they struggled. The
seductions of power or interest may move lesser men — that
matters not to him. The cause of the Confederacy as a fixed
moral and constitutional principle, unaffected by the triumph
of physical force, he asserts to-day as unequivocally as when
he was seated in the executive chair at Richmond, in apparent
irreversible power, with its victorious legions at his command.
Now when we consider all this, what Mr. Davis has been,
and, most of all, what he is to-day in the moral greatness
of his position, can we wonder that his people turn aside from
timeservers and self-seekers and from all the commonplace
chaff" of life and render him that spontaneous and grateful
homage which is his due ?
And we cannot indeed wonder when we consider the cause
for which Mr. Davis is so much to his people. Let Mr. Davis
himself state it, for no one else can do it so well. In his
recent address at the laying of the corner stone of the Con-
federate monument at Montgomery he said : "I have come to
join you in the performance of a sacred task, to lay the
foundation of a monument at the cradle of the Confederate
government which shall commemorate the gallant sons of
Alabama who died for their country, who gave their lives a
freewill offering in defense of the rights of their sires won
in the war of the Revolution, the State sovereignty, freedom,
and independence which were left to us as an inheritance to
their posterity forever." These masterful words, "the rights
of their sires won in the war of the Revolution, the State
sovereignty, freedom, and independence which were left to
us as an inheritance to their posterity forever," are the whole
case; and they are not only a statement, but a complete justi-
fication of the Confederate cause to all who are acquainted
with the origin and character of the American Union.
When the original thirteen colonies threw off their alle-
giance to Great Britain, they became independent States — "in-
dependent of her and each other," as the great Luther Martin,
of Maryland, expressed it in the Federal convention. This
independence was at first a revolutionary one, but afterwards.
VICE PRESIDENT ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS.
(From an old steel engraving.)
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by its recognition by Great Britain, it became legal. This
recognition was of the States separately, each by name, in the
treaty of peace which terminated the war of the Revolution.
And that this separate recognition was deliberate and inten-
tional, with the distinct object of recognizing the States as
separate sovereignties and not as one nation, will sufficiently
appear by reference to the last chapter of the sixth volume
of Bancroft's "History of the United States." The "Articles
of Confederation between the States" declared that each
State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence.
And the Constitution of the United States, which immediately
followed, was first adopted by the States in convention, each
State casting one vote as a proposed plan of government,
and then ratified by the States separately, each State acting
for itself in its sovereign and independent capacity through
a convention of its people. And it was by this ratification
that the Constitution was established, to use its own words,
"between the States so ratifying the same." It is, then, a
compact between the States as sovereigns, and the Union
created by it is a federal partnership of States, the Federal
government being their common agent for the transaction of
federal business within the limits of the delegated powers.
As to the new States which have been formed from time to
time from the territories, when they were in the territorial
condition the sovereignty over them respectively was in the
States of the Union ; and when they respectively formed a
constitution and State government and were admitted into
the Union, the sovereignty passed to them respectively, and
they stood in the Union each upon an equal footing with the
iMKS. M CUNNELL .XND CHILDREN.
Mrf . ML'Connell is a. daughter of Judge Sea, of Gallatin, Tenn.
original States, parties with them to the constitutional com-
pact.
In the case of a partnership between persons for business
purposes it is a familiar principle of law that its existence
and continuance are purely a voluntary matter on the part
of its members, and that a member may at any time with-
draw from and dissolve the partnership at his pleasure ; and
it makes no difference in the application of this principle if
the partnership by its terms be for a fixed time or perpetual,
it not being considered by the law sound policy to hold men
together in business association against their will. Now, if
a partnership between persons is purely voluntary and subject
to tlie will of its members severally, how much more so is
one between sovereign States! It follows that just as each
State separately, in the exercise of its sovereign will, entered
the Union, so may it separately, in the exercise of that will,
withdraw therefrom. And, further, the Constitution being a
compact to which the States are parties, "having no common
judge, cacli party has an equal right to judge for itself as
well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress,"
as declared by Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison in the cele-
brated resolutions of 1798, and the right of secession ir-
resistibly follows. But aside from the doctrine either of part-
nership or compact, upon the ground of State sovereignty,
pure and simple, does the right of State secession impregnably
rest. Sovereignty, as defined by political commentators, is
"the right of commanding in the last resort." And just as a
State of the Union, in the exercise of this right, by her
ratification of the Constitution, delegated the powers therein
given to the Federal government and acceded to the Union,
so may she, in the exercise of the same right, by repealing
that ratification, withdraw the delegated powers and secede
from the Union. The act of ratification by the State is the
law which makes the Union for it, and the act of repeal of
ihat ratification is the law which dissolves it.
It appears, then, from this review of the origin and charac-
ter of the American Union that when the Southern States,
deeming the constitutional compact broken and their own
safety and happiness in imminent danger in the Union, with-
drew therefrom and organized their new Confederacy they
but asserted, in the language of Mr. Davis, "the rights of
their sires won in the war of the Revolution, the State sov-
ereignty, freedom, and independence which were left to us as
an inheritance to their posterity forever," and it was in de-
fense of this high and sacred cause that the Confederate sol-
diers sacrificed their lives. There was no need for war. The
action of the Southern States was legal and constitutional,
and history will attest that it was reluctantly taken in the
last extremity in the hope of thereby saving their whole con-
stitutional rights and liberties froin destruction by Northern
aggression, which had just culminated in triumph at the presi-
dential election; by the union of the North as a section against
the Sontli. But the North, left in possession of the old gov-
ernment of the Union, flushed with power, and angry lest its
destined prey should escape, found a ready pretext for war.
Immediately upon secession, by force of the act itself, the
jurisdiction of the seceding States, respectively, over the forts,
arsenals, and dockyards within tlieir limits, which they had
before ceded to the Federal government for federal purposes,
reverted to and reinvested in them respectively. They were,
of course, entitled to immediate repossession of these places,
essential to their defense in the exercise of their reassumed
powers of war and peace, leaving all questions of mere prop-
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crty value apart for separate adjustment. In most cases the se-
ceding States repossessed themselves of these places without
difficulty, but in some the forces of the United States still
kept possession. Among these last was Fort Sumter, in the
harbor of Charleston. S. C. South Carolina in vain demanded
the peaceable possession of this fortress, offering at the same
time to arrange for the value of the same as property, and
sent commissioners to Washington to treat with the Federal
government for the same as well as for the recognition of
her independence. But all her attempts to treat were repulsed
or evaded, as likewise were those subsequently made by the
Confederate government. Of course the Confederacy could
not continue to allow a foreign power to hold possession of
a fortress dominating the harbor of her chief Atlantic sea-
port; and the Federal government having sent a powerful
expedition with reenforcements for Fort Sumter, the Con-
federate government at last proceeded to reduce it. The re-
duction, however, was a bloodless affair; while the captured
garrison received all the honors of war, and were at once sent
North with every attention to their comfort and without even
their parole being taken.
But forthwith President Lincoln, at Washington, issued his
call for militia to coerce the seceding States. The cry rang
all over the North that the flag had been fired upon ; and
amidst the tempest of passion which that cry everywhere
raised the Northern militia responded with alacrity, the South
was invaded, and a war of subjugation, destined to be the
most gigantic which the world has ever seen, was begun by
the Federal government against the seceding States in com-
plete and amazing disregard of the foundation principle of its
own existence, as affirmed in the Declaration of Independence,
that "governments derive their just powers from the consent
of the governed," and as established by the war of the Revolu-
tion for the people of the States respectively. The South ac-
cepted the contest thus forced upon her with the eager and
resolute courage characteristic of her proud, spirited people.
But the Federal government, though weak in right, was
strong in power, for it was sustained by the mighty and mul-
titudinous North. In effect, the war became one between the
States : between the Northern States, represented by the Fed-
eral government, upon the one side ; and the Southern States,
represented by the Confederate government, upon the other,
the border Southern States being divided.
Tlie odds in numbers and means in favor of the North were
trejnendous. Her white population of nearly twenty millions
was twofold that of the strictly Confederate territory, and
from the border Southern States and communities of Mis-
souri, Kentucky, East Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland,
and Delaware she got more men and supplies for her
armies- than the Confederacy got for hers Kentucky alone
furnished as many men to the Northern armies as Massa-
chusetts. In available money and credit the advantage of the
North was vastly greater than in population, and it included
the possession of all the chief centers of banking and com-
merce. Then she had the possession of the old government,
its capital, its army and navy, and mostly its arsenals, dock-
yards, and workshops, with all their supplies of arms and
ordnance and military and naval stores of every kind and
the means of manufacturing the same. Again, the North, as
a manufacturing and mechanical people, abounded in factories
and workshops of every kind immediately available for the
manufacture of every species of supplies for the army and
navy ; while the South, as an agricultural people, were almost
wanting in such resources. Finally, in the possession of the
recognized government, the North was in full and free com-
munication with all nations, and had full opportunity (which
she improved to the utmost) to import and bring in from
abroad not only supplies of all kinds, but men as well, for
her service; while the South, without a recognized govern-
ment and with her ports speedily blockaded by the Federal
navy, was almost entirely sluit up within herself and her own
limited resources.
Among all these advantages possessed by tlic Xorth. the
first, the main, and decisive one was the navy. Given her
all but this, and they would have been ineffectual to prevent
the establishment of the Confederacy. That arm of her
strength was at the beginning of the war in an efficient state,
and it was rapidly augmented and improved. By it. the
South being almost without naval force, the North was
enabled to sweep and blockade her coasts everywhere, and
so. aside from the direct distress inflicted, to prevent foreign
recognition ; to capture one after another her seaports ; to
sever and cut up her country in every direction through its
great rivers; to gain lodgments at many points within her
territory, from which numerous destructive raids were sent
out in all directions; to transport troops and supplies to
points where their passage by land would have been difficult
or impossible ; and. finally, to cover, protect, and save, as by
the navy was so often done, the defeated and otherwise
totally destroyed armies of the North in the field. But for
the navy. Grant's army was lost at Sbiloh ; and but for it.
on the Peninsula in the second year of the war, McClellan's
army, notwithstanding his masterly retreat from his defeats
before Richmond, was lost to a man, and the independence
of the Confederacy established. After a glorious four vears'
MISS GR.\Y BLANCHE JORDAN,
Maid of Hoior to Sponsor in Chief, Louisville Reunion.
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struggle against sucli odds as have been depicted, during
which independence was often ahnost secured, when successive
levies of armies amounting in all to nearly three millions of
men had been hurled against her, the South, shut off from
all the world, wasted, rent and desolate, bruised and bleed-
ing, was at last overpowered by main strength — outfought
never, for from first to last she everywhere outfought the foe.
The Confederacy fell, but she fell not until she had achieved
immortal fame. Few great established nations in all time
have ever exhibited capacity and direction in government
equal to hers, sustained as she was by the iron will and fixed
persistence of the extraordinary man who was her chief, and
few have ever won such a series of brilliant victories as that
which illuminates forever the annals of her splendid armies;
while the fortitude and patience of her people, and particu-
larly of her noble women, under almost incredible trials and
sufferings, have never been svirpassed in the history of the
world.
Such exalted cliaractcr and achievement were not all in
vain. Though the Confederacy fell as an actual physical
power, she lives, illustrated by them eternally in her just
cause, the cause of constitutional liberty. .-Vnd Mr. Davis's
Sotilherii lour is nothing less than a veritable mortal triumph
for Ih.il c;iuse and for himself as its faithful chief, mani-
festing to the world that the cause still lives in the hearts of
the Southern people, and that its resurrection in the body in
fitting hour may yet come.
Here in the North, that is naturally presumptuous and arro-
gant in her vast material power, and where, consequently,
but little attention has in general been given to the study of
the nature and principles of constitutional liberty as con-
nected with the rights of the States, there is. nevertheless, an
increasing understanding and appreciation of the Confederate
cause, particularly here in the New England States, whose
position and interests in the Union are in many respects
peculiar, and perhaps recpiire that these States quite as much
as those of tlie South should lie tile watchful guardians of
the State sovereignty. Mingled willi ibis increasing under-
standing and apprcciatii>n of the Confederate cause, naturally
comes also a glowing admiration of its devoted defenders;
and the time may yet be when the Northern as well as the
Southern heart will throb reverently to the proud words upon
the Confederate monument at Charleston : "These died for
their State." Henjamin J. \Vii.i,i.\MS.
[The foregoing comes in an old clipping from Dr. T. J.
Scott, of Alvin, Tex., who was a surgeon on Gen. Wheeler's
staflf during much of the war. and is now the surgeon of his
U. C. V. Camp and local surgeon of the Gulf. Colorado, and
Santa ¥c Railroad. This is perhaps the first as well as the
strongest vindication of Mr. Davis and the .South to appear
in print from New England after the war.)
ZoLi.icoFFER R.\RRACKs. — .\ veteran of the Washington
Artillery writes from New Orleans : "Referring to inquiry in
the May 'Vetf.r.vn as to why the Maxwell House was called
the 'Zollicoffer Barracks' during the war. 1 think the name
was given in compliment to Gen. Zollicoffer, of Nashville,
who raised and commanded what he called the 'Polish Bri-
gade,' composed almost entirely of Irishmen, some of whom
w'itli their usual native wit changed their names so as to
give them a Polish sound. Such as Capt. McCloskcy became
Capt. Micbalouski. and I.ieut. Powers was Lieut. Pourouski,
etc. I remember hearing Gen. Zollicoffer tell of one of his
men who was on the skirmish line yelling out to his friends
in the command : "Go for them, boys. They've got bureaus on
their backs and cheese in their haversacks.' "
Instinctively the Washington artilleryman's view has oc-
curred to others ; but the Maxwell House was made a bar-
racks and prison by the Federals, who evidently would not
have honored our beloved Zollicoffer in such manner at that
time.
A TATTERED REMNANT.
The Albany (Ga.) Herald tells a pathetic story of the
Memorial Day service in that city :
"The conclusion of the Memorial Day exercises was
marked by an incident which brought tears to hundreds of
eyes. . . The Veterans w-ere attentive auditors to the
music, prayers, and address. The speaker had concluded liis
remarks, the closing -anthem was sung, and the final announce-
ments made. Then the audience heard a husky voice issue
a command. There was a stir at the front of the auditorium,
and from their seats uprose a handful of Confederate vet-
erans. Only a handful ! Fifteen or sixteen in that Memorial
Day audience of many hundreds.
"'Right face! Forward, column right, march!'
"Down the aisle they started, a corporal's guard of that
magnificent army of forty years ago. Every head was white
or streaked with gray and nearly every form was bent. Here
was an empty sleeve, there a leg of cork. As they moved
down the aisle, this scant handful of heroes, the great au-
dience, by a common impulse, rose and stood in reverent
silence. It was the spontaneous tribute of a Southern audience
to Southern heroes. But, simple tribute though it was, it
touclied the hearts of those white-haired veterans, and as
they moved on down the aisle tears — grateful tears — fell from
the glistening eyes of every man of them. And the members
of the younger generations present, thus suddenly brought
face to face with the fact that we now have with us but a
latered remnant of that glorious army of the sixties whose
undying fame is burned into the pages of history, mingled
their own eloquent tears with those of their heroes.
"Do we love our Confederate heroes ? God bless them, yes !
.•\ thousand times, yes ! They are enshrined in our hearts, and
to love them less would be to dishonor Southern manhood and
womanhood."
DESIGN FOR JEFFERSON DAVIS MONUMENT. RICHMOND, VA.
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FROM THE IRVING BLOCK BASTILE.
BY JUDGE C. C. CUMMINGS, FORT WORTH, TEX., HISTORIAN
TEXAS DIVISION, U. C. V.
Your storj' of Capt. M. A. Miller's fortunate escape from
the famous bastile at Memphis, Tenn., known as the Irving
Block, after being condemned to death during the great war,
as recited in the April number of the Veteran, suggests
another from the same source equally as interesting, which
I give you as briefly as I may after foreshadowing in a short
perspective the environments cl this "o'er-true tale."
After the victory of our arms at Fredericksburg, when we
drove back Burnside in December, 1862, a number of fur-
loughs were issued to each command of Lee's army, and the
writer, as a member of Company B, 17th Mississippi Regi-
ment, Barksdale's Brigade, was so fortunate as to draw one
of the prizes assigned us by lot. Each furloughed man was
given authority to recruit as many as he could during the
thirty days' leave of absence. I steered at once for my birth-
place and town of enlistment. Holly Springs, Miss., having
gone out from there in April, 1861, and participated in all
the battles with my command, from First Manassas on.
Among the number of applicants to me for service in the
Virginia army when I began recruiting at Holly Springs was
an ex-Federal officer with a startling history, with which I
was quite familiar. It being of recent date and connected
with the Irving Block, the press was still ringing with the
bloody tragedy, in which he was the chief actor, and a Con-
federate colonel by the name of Wood the victim done to
death by him.
It was at night when he presented himself at the Lumpkin
manor, some four miles south of Holly Springs, whither I
had fled, with a number I had already sworn in as recruits,
on hearing that the Yankees were coming out from Memphis
in one of their periodical raids. In an upstairs room by a dim
candlelight this ex-Federal officer was presented by one of my
new recruits. He was medium in size and height, blue eyes,
complexion fair, clean-shaven, dressed in Confederate gray
of brand-new make, with a couple of Colt's revolvers adorn-
ing each hip. He had a firm military bearing of the regular
soldier, as he proved to be. He looked to be some thirty
years old, and had been a member of the celebrated 2d United
States Dragoons, organized during Pierce's administration
by Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War, out of which came
.Mbert Sidney Johnston, Robert E. Lee, Earl Van Dorn,
E, Kirby Smith, "Jeb" Stuart, Hood, and many other distin-
guished names on the Confederate roster, and George H.
Thomas and many more on the Federal side.
He told his story briefly (known to me beforehand), to the
effect that he had killed a Confederate colonel by the name
of Wood, a prisoner confined in the Irving Block at Mem-
phis, for which he had been court-martialed by the Federal
authorities and condemned to be shot; that he had just made
his escape, pending the sentence of death hanging over him,
and was ready to be sworn in as a soldier under his former
officer. Gen. Lee, and at a moment's notice was ready to go
with us to the army of long marches, short rations, and
large victories.
As I was out for soldiers to fill our depleted ranks, I told
him I was satisfied from his bearing that he was a trained
soldier and would fight, adding by way of mental reserva-
tion that he would be compelled to be true to us, for death
was awaiting him in the other army. His excuse for killing
Wood was this : Wood had made his appearance inside the
lines at Memphis, seeking to carry out goods, wares, and
merchandise pronounced by the military as contraband of
war, and that he aflforded Wood a free escort through the
Federal lines, by reason of the fact that he was then officer
of the day and could pass him through the sentinels, which
was done at night, Wood being loaded with his prizes on a
fleet horse. Lewis (such was his name — Charles Lewis) said
that at parting he warned Wood not to stop short of Sandiges,
some twenty miles away on the Pigeon Roost road, for if he
did scouts from the Federal lines constantly scouring this
road would surely catch him with his booty and bring him
back a prisoner to the Irving Block; that if he should be
captured and betray him he would kill him ; and that Wood,
disobeying these special instructions, stopped for breakfast
several miles inside the dead line and, sure enough, was
picked up next day by Federal scouts, brought back and
lodged in the Irving Block, and his goods confiscated. This
rapture so enraged Wood that he betrayed to the Federal
. uthorities the name of his accomplice. Lewis was at once
: "rested and deprived of his sword, and while a court-mar-
1.. I was preparing to sit on his case he appeared before the
kciper of the Irving Block, who was not yet aware of Lewis's
arrest, and, being an officer, easily obtained admission to the
cell of Wood and shot him dead, for which he was tried
and condemned ; but before his execution could be carried
into effect he made his escape and was there before me.
Lewis was a New Yorker by birth, with such a decided
Northern cast of features and accent that, in spite of his gray
suit, I had some trouble in getting him safely landed in our
camp at Fredericksburg.
We left Holly Springs in March, 1863, and as we neared
the city limits of Mobile the newsboy cried out the Mobile
Evening News. Lewis and I sat on the same seat in the
cars, and his curiosity and anxiety induced him to purchase
a copy. His eyes soon fell upon a paragraph which caused
him to clutch his pistol, and at the same time pointed to a
paragraph which read to this effect: "Lieut. Lewis, the
murderer of Col. Wood in the Irving Block, at Memphis,
Tenn., and condemned to be shot, has made his escape, and
a reward of five hundred dollars is offered for arrest and
deliver- within the Federal lines." The Federal gunboats
were riding at anchor just outside of Mobile Bay, in sight
of the city. By a strange coincidence this sum ($500) was
the same that he was said to have received from Col. Wood
for his part of the smuggle. Lewis ejaculated rather nerv-
ously : "They will have to climb over this [clutching his
pistol] before they get me." I reassured him that I would
see him through all right ; that the average Southerner was
not out for money, but for the glory of our dear, suffering
Southland. But, to add to our embarrassment, the Southern
Confederacy enforced the Sunday law on all transportation
lines, land and sea, boats and cars, and we had to lay over
there, the next day being Sunday.
Monday morning we sped across the Tensas River and
took the cars, debouching into Florida for a little strip of
the way, then into South Carolina, then up through North
Carolina, then back into East Tennessee— such being the cir-
cuitous route through the Southern Confederacy because
of the pressure of the Northern army deflecting down upon
our regular transportation lines leading (o Richmond, We
ran into Richmond the next Saturday night, and also had to
lay over Sunday. Monday morning we boarded the train for
Fredericksburg, where my command was still in winter quar-
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ters, reoccupied by us after driving back across the Rappa-
hannock Burnside and his whole force.
It was a gloomy, rainy evening when we reached Freder-
icksburg. My mess room was located in one of the houses
on the banks of the river, generously yielded by the good
people we had so successfully defended the previous Decem-
ber. You may be sure that my Yankee recruit attracted more
attention than all the others in my squad. Here was a Yan-
kee officer enlisting as a member of my mess. My officers
were in a quandary what to do about it. Deserters were
always received in the ranks when not under any criminal
charge. This was army usage on either side. But here was
a man who ranked as an officer in the regular United States
army under sentence of death for killing a Confederate colo-
nel. On this account none of my officers — captain, colonel,
nor my general, Barksdale — would assume the responsibility
of mustering him in. But I had already sworn him in at
Holly Springs in the start, so I stuck to him and took him in
my mess. At the suggestion of my officers, I sent up a
statement in writing regularly through the red-tape channel
till it reached Gen. Lee, giving his history as I here repeat
it. Gen. Lee sent it up to the Secretary of War at Rich-
mond for final action. The Secretary of War indorsed it
back to Gen. Lee for the exercise of his own judgment. Gen.
Lee finally, after a delay of two months, ordered his enlist-
ment, saying that we were in need of soldiers, and concluding,
as I did in the beginning, that he was sure to stay with us,
for death stared him in the face on the other side. But be-
fore this final action was taken the next battle of Chancellors-
ville came on, and we made the fight at Fredericksburg on
llie same lines where we drove back Burnside, and were
equally successful, as the world knows. Lewis stood in a
very awkward attitude to us in the army during this delay,
which he felt keenly, though he bore it manfully without a
murmur.
During the delay awaiting Gen. Lee's verdict in Lewis's
case he, in spite of his stoicism, would occasionally betray
evident signs of depression, which we could the more readily
discern, as he was in our mess. To add to his embarrass-
ment, he learned incidentally from the Federal pickets just
across the Rappahannock (only l8o yards wide there) that
his brother was bugler of a Federal battery over on Staf-
ford's Heights, and every morning his reveille awakened us
for roll call on our side. When the great struggle at Chan-
ccllorsville arrived, all eyes were directed to Lewis in action,
which he fully appreciated. So, to give him a "square deal,"
as the present saying goes, I yielded him my Sharp's carbine,
with many shots, and placed him in the front rank that he
might have a fair chance. The battle raged hot around us,
and many of our comrades fell at our side. Lewis was slight-
ly touched with the ricochet of a spent ball ; but he halted
in his firing only long enough to ascertain that no blood was
drawn, and continued till we had them on the run.
When our line had halted and stood at rest awaiting further
orders, after the enemy had flown, I sought out Col. Holder,
in command of our regiment, and told him of Lewis's gal-
lantry and begged him to relieve him of his anomalous atti-
tude as to his standing as a Southern soldier, by assuming
the responsibility 1 had taken at first in Holly Springs and
swearing him in to support the Southern Confederacy. This
Col. Holder did very gracefully by riding down to where
our company stood, and, calling for Mr. Lewis to step out,
swore him in on the field of his victory.
Just as we started for our long march over the mountains
for Gettysburg Gen. Lee's decision came down, confirming
what we had assumed (Col. Holder and myself) in the man-
ufacture of a soldier out of the raw but, as seen, very ex-
cellent material.
At Gettysburg, when w-e went in at 3 -.30 on the second
day in the peach orchard, we were tried to the utmost; but
while all of the field and staff of the regiment were shot out,
including the writer, Lewis was among the very few in the
company that escaped unscathed. That night he visited me
for the last time in our tent, to find all of the field officers
of the regiment among the wounded, except the adjutant,
Dick Jones, who was killed on the field. There we lay. Col.
Holder, Lieut. Col. Fizer, Maj. Pulliam, the sergeant major
(the writer of this sketch), and the orderly. Brown Jones.
Holder and Fizer have followed Jones and crossed the great
divide, awaiting us survivors on the otlier side.
Next came the bloody assize at Chickamauga, and there
this unfortunate, brave, and gallant man, Charles Lewis,
died the death of the soldier on September 20, 1863, leaving
in battle no blot on his name.
KILPATRICKS SPOTTED HORSE.
1!V A. E. JENKINS, HEARN. TEX.
It is singular how incidents that have been buried in our
memories for forty years arc resurrected and brought out
as vividly as if they had occurred only a month or two
previous by reading in the 'Veteran accounts of those events.
Articles that I have read recently in the Veteran about
the spotted horse captured from the Federal General, Kilpat-
rick, and which Comrade H. H. Scott, of Morgana, S. C,
says Gen. Wheeler never threw his leg over, remind me of
an incident that I might never have thought of but for see-
ing Gen. Wheeler's name mentioned in connection with a
spotted horse.
I was not in the cavalry service and in no way interested
in horses, but was a private in Shelby's Brigade of Infantry,
Walthall's Division. Stewart's Corps. One morning in the
spring of 1865, when we were camped near Greensboro, N.
C. Gen. Shelby, whom I knew well personally, told me that
if I could borrow a saddle he would loan me one of his horses
and I might accompany him on a ride down to Greensboro.
I borrowed the saddle from Capt. Tobe Shelby, a brother of
the G.ncral, and accompanied him to Greensboro. Upon
arrival there the General dismounted in front of a house,
handed me his bridle, entered the house, and closed the door
behind him. In a few moments another officer came up, riding
a spotted horse. He dismounted, handed me his bridle, and
entered the same door through which Gen. Shelby had passed,
also closing it behind him. He had on a brown jeans over-
coat of the cavalry pattern, and was alone. In a few moments
several cavalrymen rode up, and one of them remarked that
the General had stopped there. I asked him what general he
had reference to. He replied, "Gen. Wheeler, of course,''
and added that the spotted horse I was holding belonged to
him and was captured from Kilpatrick. He seemed rather
disgusted that I did not know either Gen. \\'lieeler or his
sp itted horse.
This incident made a lasting impression on me, for it was
the first and last time a general ever invited me to ride with
him. I have often wished I knew who was in that hous-
that the generals were going to see so quietly one or two at
a time. I imagine it was President Davis.
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A TERRY'S TEXAS RANGER.
[H. W. Graber, who was a prisoner of war, illustrates how
Confederate soldiers forgive while they cannot forget, and
tells of his experiences while a prisoner of war.]
While a prisoner of w-ar in Bowling Green. Ky., in 1863,
I formed the acquaintance of Lieut. James C, of Morgan's
command, which soon ripened into a warm friendship. Soo-.i
after my arrival a Maj. O., of Morgan's command, was cap-
tured near Bowling Green and placed in confinement with us.
Maj. O., having been captured in civilian's clothes, and
through letters on his person found to have been recruiting
for the Confederate army, was tried by court-martial, con-
victed, and sentenced to be hanged as a spy. His sentence
was returned approved bv Gen. Bnrnside. and he was or-
dered to be put in iron.-i the next day and placed under
special guard at the courthouse until the day of his execu-
tion I but he made his escape the night before, which created
•quite a commotion at headquarters, just across the street.
An investigation by the provost marshal, who had charge
of the prisoners, resulted in placing shackles on Lieut. C. by
his old schoolmate, the provost marshal, and an order to put
shackles on me. By advice of a citizen prisoner, I smuggled
a note to Col. H.. the commander of the post, calling upon
him as a soldier and a gentleman not to permit such an out-
rage perpetrated by placing irons on a helpless, wounded
prisoner of war. whose command had taken thousands of
their men prisoners and always treated them humanely and
kindly, especially referring him to the 3d Minnesota and gtli
Michigan, whom we had captured but a few months before
under Forrest at Murfreesboro. No shackles were placed on
me, and the next day the provost marshal came up and re-
lieved Lieut. C. of his.
It is needless to say that we were both somewhat incensed
at the provost marshal for his severe and harsh treatment of
us, feeling that he had selected us for punishment on account
of Maj. O.'s escape. Lieut. C. remarked to me that he had
heard Capt. H., of Morgan's command, declare that if the
war ended with him and Maj. M. alive he would hunt him
down; the world would not be large enough to hold thetn
both. He (C.) shared Capt. H.'s feelings in the matter, and
so did L Our observation disclosed that many Kentucky
officers in the Federal army were extremely harsh in their
treatment of Confederate soldiers and their families, over-
anxious to show their loyalty to the Federal government,
which was the case with our friend, the provost marshal ;
hence our threat wdiile suffering under his oppression.
In 1867 I passed through Bowling Green. While the train
stopped twenty minutes for dinner I employed the time in-
quiring for my old friends, asking a gentleman who I found
lived there if he knew Maj. M., the Federal provost marshal
in 1863, and where he lived. He answered: "Maj. M. lives
here now, and is our revenue officer." Again : "Did you ever
know Capt. H., of Morgan's command, and where is he?"
He said: "He lives here, and is our district judge." Again;
"Did you ever know his brother-in-law, Lieut. C. ?" "Yes,
he too lives here, and is teaching school." "Now, I have one
more question : Did you ever see these men meet, and are
they friendly?" He replied: "I have seen them meet: they
are entirely friendly." As for my own part, I had an oppor-
tunity a few years ago to send the following message by a
mutual friend to Maj. M., the provost marshal: "Tell the
Major I have forgiven but not forgotten him." Capt. FI.
died a few years ago, an honored citizen and a supreme'
judge of Kentucky. Lieut. C. is still living, and expects to
meet me at Louisville.
My object in recounting this incident is not to reopen old
wounds, but simply to record the sublime magnaninnty and
spirit of forgiveness of the Confederate soldier. .Although I
escaped the mortification of being shackled at Bowling Green,
I was destined to be subjected to this outrageous treatment
in a Louisville prison. Louisville prison had a negro official,
known by the prisoners as Capt. Black, who had charge of
the cook house. Instigated by our Michigan guards, who
were abolitionists, this negro was particularly insulting and
oppressive in his treatment of the prisoners, so much so that
I dreaded to meet him, always avoiding him when possible.
One day I remained in my bunk in the barrack, too unwell
to go out after my dinner ration, when Capt. Black strutted
in and in a very grufT manner asked me with an oath what
1 was doing in there. I told him I w'as sick and did not want
any dinner. He started to order me out, but I jumped down on
him before he delivered his order and grabbed at his pistol,
which, fortunately, I failed to fully grasp, as by a twist he
got away from me ; but he thought I had it, as he called out,
"Fob God. (Inn't, massa ; don't, massa," then broke and ran
to the gate. In a short time after he came back with a big
sergeant and pointed me out. This sergeant walked up to
me and ordered me to hold up my hands for him to place
shackles on my wrists. I asked him who ordered this done.
He said : "Col. O." "Who is Col. O. ?" "The colonel in com.-
mand of the prison." "Will you please spell his name for
me?" He did so, and I then held up my hands and told him
to put them on. "They are Yankee bracelets, a Yankee put
them on, and I consider it an honor to wear them."
The clerks in the office (Kentuckians), hearing the par-
ticulars, communicated them to Col. M.. a Kentuckian in
command of the post, who, I presume, ordered my immedi-
ate release, as Col. O. came in himself a few days after and
relieved me of this uncomfortable condition, as I was still
suffering from my wounds. I will here state that Capt.
Black apologized for bis conduct toward us prisoners, saying,
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MISS ANNIE FRANCIS COOPER, ST. AUGUSTINE,
Maid of Honjr, irlorioa L>tvisiuii, U. O, C.
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"Dem der folks put me up to it." and after tliat conducted
himself becomingly.
A year or so after, while on our New Hope line, near
Marietta, Ga., I noticed among a list of captured Federals
Col. O., my old Louisville prison commander, badly wounded.
I immediately asked permission of our brigade commander
to visit Col. O. at the hospital. When asked why I wanted
to see him. I said : "Simply to offer him my services and
purse, and anything in my power proper to do for him,
thereby punishing him for his brutal treatment of me when
wounded and in his hands." But Col. Harrison refused per-
mission, saying that 1 was too sentimental, and that "that
fellow could not appreciate such retaliation: it is simply
wasting valuable time and would not accomplish anything."
We had more important work on hand just at that lime, and
could not be spared.
COMM.-tXDEK IXDl.-lX TERRITORY DIVISION.
Gen J. P. Wood, Commander of the Chicka.saw Brigade,
Indian Territory Division of U. C. V.'s, was born in Barbour
County, Ala., July 9, 184,^. He entered the Confederate serv-
ice in January, 1861. and served as a private in the Clayton
GuariN. 1st .Mahama Regiment, at Pcnsaeola, Fla., during
l86i. In 1862 he assisted in raising a company, and enlisted
in Company B. .Villi .\labama. as second lieutenaiU of his com-
pany. He served continuously in the .Army of Tennessee
until July 28, 1864, when he was wounded in front of .Atlan-
ta, Ga. He was with Gen. Bragg"s army during the campaign
through Kentucky, and was the "officer of the guard" on vi-
dette duty who received the flag of truce when the Federals
surrendered at Munfordville, Ky. He was in the many skir-
mishes of the army during 1862-63, and was in the battles of
Murfreesboro. Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Resaca,
and commanded his company when wounded, July 28, 1864.
In 1884, while residing in Cleburne County, .\vk.. Gen.
Wood married Miss Lydia F. Bridwel!, of Mt. Washington,
Ky. ; and they now reside at .\da, Ind. T., where they have a
comfortable home. Gen. Wood is now si.\ty-two years of
age, and is a lawyer of recognized ability and integrity.
BRIG. t;EN. J. V. wool),
Commanclpr of the Inili;in Territory Hivlslon, U. C. V.
INFOKMATIOX SOUGHT OF HEXRY ELLEN BERGER.
.-\rthur S. Brunswick. State news editor Newark (N. J.)
Advcrliscr. writes from Newark, N. J., May 9, 1905: "Wc
have received a copy of your fine number of the Veter.w for
May, and after reading the many interesting accounts of
veterans of the War between the States I thought I would
write you. in the hope that you may be able to help mc find
my uncle who fought on the Confederate side of that strug-
gle. My dear mother died September last w-ithout having
seen or heard from her brother since the time he left New-
Orleans for the front. My uncle's name was Henry Ellen-
bcrgcr. He was a clerk or some other kind of an employee in
a German hotel in New Orleans. He was a jewclec by trade.
He enlisted in a Confederate regiment at the outbreak of the
war, fought in one or more engagements, and was then taVoi
prisoner by the Northern forces. What became of him after
that is a mystery. Some believe he went over to the North
after being taken prisoner, while another story is that he
enlisted in the regular army after Gen. Lee's surrender and
was sent to Fort Kearney, Neb. I have written the War
Department, G. A. R., and Fort Kearney papers, but without
result. I wrote also to a New Orleans paper. I should like
to know if he is dead or alive. I should be very grateful for
any information you could procure for me on this subject."
Some reader can doubtless give Mr. Brunswick informa-
tion in regard to his uncle, and it goes without saying that
any knowledge of Comrade EUenberger will be sent to him.
PICTURES OF ALA BAM I. -INS WANTED.
Prof. Walter L. Fleming, of West Virginia Lhiiversity, Mor-
gantown, W. Va., wants the following (or similar) pictures
relating to Alabama (1861-1876"). Write him in advance ai>
to what you can furnish of these or any other Alabama sub-
jects: W. R. Smith, Jemison, or other anti-Yancey leaders;
members of Confederate Congress from .Mabama ; Confeder-
ate generals, war Governors: Davis residence, Montgomery:
the State Capitol, Montgomery: shinplaster: Mobile Confed-
erate stamps : receipt for tax-in-kind : blockade runner ; war
ship built in .-Mabama; old army body servant, negro; Con-
federate book printed in Alabama : Confederate souvenirs of
any kind, clothing, looms, shoes, etc. ; Govs. Parsons, Patton,
Smith, and Lindsay : radical members of Congress and radical
State and county officials. Busteed : amnesty oath : Conven-
tion of 1865, of i8f)-, of 1861 ; Freedmen's Savings Bank book;
railroad bond indorsed by the State; aiilc-bcllum negro cabins,
present conditions: negro plowing with a steer near capitol;
Ryland Randolph; leaders of Democratic party. 1867-1876;
any other pictures of interest relating to Civil War and re-
construction in .\Iabama ; Gen. Thomas.
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In Memory of Miss Mildred Childe Lee.
The Mary Custis Lee Chapter of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy of Lexington, Va., on April 8, 1905, adopted
tlie following:
"In the death of Miss Mildred Childe Lee the South has
lost the fairest, most gracious flower of its old-time woman-
hood. Of fine mental endowment, broadened by culture and
travel, and having a wide and liberalizing knowledge of men
and affairs, Miss Mildred Lee was a charming companion
for scholar or statesman. But her most engaging qualities
were those of the heart. A tender love of kindred, constancy
in friendship, a sweet readiness to please and gratify all
whose lives touched hers, a winsome and womanly devotion
to Httle children and young people, and, above all, a consum-
ing passion of loyalty to our defeated cause and a jealousy
intense almost to extravagance of any forgetfulness of its
glorious past — these were the characteristics by which we
knew and loved her.
"And we women of the Mary Custis Lee Chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy claim to have a peculiarly
intimate sense of loss in the death of this most notable of the
Daughters of the Confederacy, in that she was our first Pres-
ident, and that from the time of its formation until her death
she was a member of our Chapter.
"Moreover, the older ones among us cherish a precious
memory of her radiant girlhood in her father's home here in
Lexington, and we have loved her well through all these
years of absence and separation."
Formal resolutions were adopted setting forth that the
members of the Mary Custis Lee Chapter of the Daughters
of the Confederacy put on record their abiding love and rev-
erence for her sweet memory, etc.
Maj. Gen. Cullen Andrews Battle.
On April 8 this distinguished and venerable Confederate
veteran passed peacefully away in his seventy-sixth year.
Gen. Battle was born in Hancock County, Ga., but his parents
moved to Alabama when he was only five or six years old.
Educated in the schools of Eufaula, Ala., and choosing law
as his profession, he was admitted to the bar in 1852, and
soon thereafter formed a partnership with ex-Chief Justice
William P. Chilton. When Alabama seceded, he was com-
missioned major and assigned to the 3d Alabama Infantry,
with Withers colonel and Lomax lieutenant colonel.
The regiment was ordered to Norfolk, Va., early in April,
1861. Col. Withers resigned, and Lomax was promoted to
colonel and Maj. Battle to lieutenant colonel. The regiment
was attached to Mahone's Brigade, and in the battle of Seven
Pines Col. Lomax was killed and Lieut. Col. Battle succeeded
to the command of the regiment. At Sharpsburg he was
wounded, and at Fredericksburg severely hurt by his horse's
falling on him. At Gettysburg he rendered distinguished
service with his regiment, and was promoted to brigadier
general, with the 3d, sth, 6th, and 6ist Alabama Regiments
composing his brigade. Through the Wilderness campaign
Battle's Brigade bore a conspicuous part. Gen. Ewell, in his
report of the battle at Spottsylvania, says : "Battle's Brigade
was thrown across Hancock's front, and there occurred the
hottest fighting of the war." It was one of the very few
places where the opposing lines "locked bayonets."
Later Battle's Brigade was with Early in his unfortunate
Valley campaign, and at the battle of Cedar Creek he was
desperately wounded. He was promoted to major general,
but, owing to the serious nature of his wound, was never again
able to take the field.
After the close of the war. Gen. Battle resumed the practice
of law in Tuskegce, Ala., and at once took a prominent part
in the afifairs of his State. At the first election he was a
successful candidate for Congress, but was barred from taking
his seat by the "ironclad oath ;" and for the same reason he
failed of election to the United States Senate in 1870. He
was prominent in the convention that framed the present con-
stitution of the State of Alabama.
In 1851 Gen. Battle was married to Miss Georgia Williams,
of La Grange, Ga., and had four children. For the past two
years he had lived with his son. Rev. H. W. Battle, at Greens-
boro, where he quietly floated out on life's tide to join the
gray hosts that are fast assembling on the other shore.
Dr. F. a. Walke.
Dr. Frank Anthony Walke, of Norfolk, Va., has crossed
over the river. Dr. Walke was a native of Princess Anne
County, Va., born in 1831. He was educated in his native
State, graduating at the University of Virginia, after which
he took a medical course at the University of Pennsylvania,
graduating there in 1851. He then entered the United States
navy as assistant surgeon. His ship was stationed at Ports-
mouth during the rava,ges of yellow fever there in 1S55, and
for services rendered by Dr. Walke during the epidemic the
dr. frank ANTHONY WALKE.
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C. TURREI.L,
citizens presented liim with a handsome gold medal. At
the breaking out of the war, having resigned from the United
States navy, he entered the Confederate service as surgeon
of the 13th North Carolina Infantry, but soon after was
assigned to the 46th Virginia Infantry, with which he served
until the surrender at Appomattox. He then returned to
Norfolk and resumed the practice of his profession. He was
Surgeon of the Pickett-Buchanan Camp of Norfolk and
Surgeon General of the Virginia Division of U. C. V. at the
time of his death. His wife survives him.
CoMR.^DE A. C. Terrell was born in Maury County, Tenn.,
in 1846; and died in an infirmary at Louisville, where he had
gone for treatment,
March 7, 1905. Com-
rade Terrell entered thi;
Confederate service at
fourteen years of age
as a private in Capt.
J. T. Martin's com-
pany, nth Tennessee
Cavalry, Starnes's Bri-
gade, and was twice
wounded, once at Fort
Donelson and again at
Mossy Creek, East
Tennessee. Owing to
his youth, his sunny
disposition under all
circumstances, and his
unquestionable courage,
he was truly a pet
of his regiment, lie served through the war with his com-
mand, never missed an engagement in which it participated,
and surrendered with it at Gainesville, Ala. After the war
Comrade Terrell moved to Bolivar County, Miss., where he
made as good a citizen as he did a soldier, honored, loved,
and respected by all who knew him. He was a successful
man of affairs, and accumulated a handsome estate. A devoted
wife and two children survive him
N.\T M. Hale.
Comrade N. M. Hale, of Dyer, Tenn., was summoned from
earth on April 6, 1905. In common with his brother Ten-
nesseeans, he espoused the
cause of the South and
joined Company C, 12th
Tennessee Regiment. His
first battle was at Belmont,
where he was wounded and
his brother, Greene Hale,
was killed. He was in the
battles of Shiloh and ChicU-
amauga and in the Georgia
campaign. No duly was
ever shirked in camp or
battle, and after the war
he was as faithful to the
duties of peaceful life.
Having no children of his
own, he reared several x. m. ii.\le.
fatherless ones to maturity,
who are now as monuments to his memory and a blessing to
the wife, who survives.
At the time of his death Comrade Hale was a member of
Company G, 1st Regiment C. V. N. G. S. T., and was always
interested in his company and their reunions. He took an
active part in raising funds to erect a monument to the
Mothers of the Confederacy, and had quite a sum in bank for
that purpose.
Mountain Evangelist Bigstaff.
Rev. Benjamin B. Bigstaff died in the Good Samaritan
Hospital, in Lexington, Ky., May 22, 1905. He was a true
and valiant soldier to the end of his life. During the war he
served with conspicuous gallantry under Gen. John Morgan
until the latter was killed, after which Gen. Breckinridge
made him his chief of scouts, and in this capacity he served
until the close of the war. Both of his general officers had
implicit confidence in him, and to Gen. Breckinridge, when
his headquarters were at Wytheville, Va., Comrade BigstafF's
services as a scout were invaluable. The mountain paths
through Eastern Kentucky were as familiar to him as the
highways. Through him communication was kept up between
outposts and scouting parties, and in many important in-
stances he gave timely warning of contemplated Federal raids
into Virginia.
At tlie close of the war Comrade Bigstuff changed his
jacket of gray for the cloth of the Church, and chose his
field of work among the mountain people of Morgan and
Breathitt Counties, where he had passed much of his sol-
dier life and where he hoped to do the greatest work for the
Master. He was soon known as the "'Mountain Evangelist,"
and from his home, on Frozen Creek, in Breathitt County, he
made periodical tours through the wild mountain regions,
ministering to the spiritual wants of the people, soothing the
sick, and comforting the dying. He was only a private during
the war, but we may well assume that if the everlasting life
is for one who was faithful to his trust and died with his •
armor on then Comrade Bigstaff has received his commission.
Dr. Thomas L. Newberry, of Hiseville, Ky., died at an
infirmary in Louisville, where he had gone for treatment.
May 17, 1905. Dr. Newberry was born in Kentucky July
II, 1833. At the beginning of the war he enlisted as a pri-
vate in Company F, 6th Kentucky Infantry; but was soon
placed in charge of the sick, and thereafter was connected
with the hospital department as assistant surgeon. At the
close of the war he completed his medical studies at Jefferson
College, Philadelphia, and, returning home, built up a large
and lucrative practice as a physician and skillful surgeon.
His wife died many years ago, but four children survive him —
Mrs. Cassie Hodges, Mrs. Mattie Hodges, Mr. T. P. New-
berry, and Mr. Maxey Newberry^all of Hiseville, Ky.
Mike Kenney enlisted at Columbus, Ga., in Company B,
under Capt. Bradford. Starting for Richmond in July, 1861,
the company was incorporated into the 37th Georgia Regiment,
which did some fighting in Virginia, but in the summer of
1862 a transfer was made to Gen. Bragg in Tennessee. Com-
rade Kenney was in the Kentucky campaign, and helped to
fight Gen. Buell from Perryville through Knoxville to near
Nashville, was slightly wounded in the second day's battle
of Stone's River, and was in the battle of Chickamauga and
captured at Missionary Ridge. He was a faithful soldier and
never missed roll call. His death occurred at Opclika, Ala.,
June 20, 1904.
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Capt. Jasper Miller.
The passing of this old resident of Waco, Tex., bronght
sorrow to the hearts of many friends in that city. Jasper
Miller had resided in McLennan County for half a century,
and from that county he went as a Confederate soldier, volun-
teering as a member of Company G (Capt. Peter Ross's com-
pany). 6th Texas Regiment, Ross's Brigade of Texas Cav-
alry. As a Confederate soldier his service was honorable and
steadfast to the end, and his sterling qualities as a man and
citizen were known and appreciated, gaining him the esteem
and confidence of his fellow-citizens. He was a member of
Pat Cleburne Camp, of Waco.
Capt. Miller was born near Louisville. Ky., in November,
1830. His death occurred on March 18, 1905.
Ex-Gov. James P. Eagle.
On December 20. 1904, at his residence, in Little Rock, Ark.,
ex-Gov. James P. Eagle died, at the age of sixty-seven years.
Gov. Eagle was born in Maury County, Tenn. ; but when
he was a babe of tw-o years his father moved to Arkansas,
and young Eagle grew up with pioneer farmers of that sec-
tion, clearing up lands, making rails, building fences, houses,
etc. His natural inclinations and early training made him a
most successful farmer. The cotton plantations on the Arkan-
sas River of his estate are among tlie most valuable in the
State.
He enlisted in tlie 2d Arkansas as a private in King's com-
pany, with Alclntosh colonel. The regiment served through
the -Arkansas campaign at Wilson Creek, Pea Ridge, and
other points before it was sent east of the river and became
a part of the Army of Tennessee. Of that magnificent army
this regiment was a part, and engaged in all of its campaigns
and battles from Perryville to Bentonville, N. C, surrendering
with Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Greensboro. Comrade Eagle
was a prisoner for a time in Fort Delaware, was badly
wounded in front of Atlanta, and at the time of his surrender
was lieutenant colonel of his regiment, having won every
grade from private up by his soldierly qualities. Returning
home at the close of the war, he attended school until 1871.
He was a member of the Legislature in 1873 and a member
of the Constitutional Convention in 1874, and again in 1877.
He was elected Governor of the State in i88g and 1893. His
wife, Mrs. Mary Oldham Eagle, died a short time previous
to his death. They had no children. He is survived by
one brother and three sisters.
Dr. Alexander Allen Paris.
Dr. Paris died at his home, in Hickman, Ky., May 12,
1905. Early in the spring of 1861 he joined the Sth Tennes-
see Infantry. At Perryville, in the forefront of battle and on
the hottest part of the fighting line, he lost his right arm
and was captured by the enemy. He was a prisoner for
nearly a year, when he was exchanged, and by reason of the
loss of his right arm was honorably discharged from the serv-
ice. But this did not suit the restless, patriotic spirit of the
one-armed Confederate soldier, so he reported to Gen. Frank
Cheatham for duty, who made him one of his special couriers ;
and with the exception of Missionary Ridge, when he was off
on special duty, he was with his command in every engage-
ment in which it participated from that time to the close of
the war.
Returning home after the surrender and choosing medicine
as his profession, he graduated at the Nashville (Tenn.)
Medical College in 1868, took a postgraduate course at Tu-
lane Medical College, New Orleans, in 1869, graduated from
the Bellevue Hospital' Medical College, New York, in 1871,
and, taking a special course at tlie Jefferson Medical College,
DR. A. A. PARIS.
Philadelphia, in 1876, he finally returned to New York, where
he remained nearly a year attending clinics at the various
leading medical institutions of that city. From 1872 he was
a member of the American Medical Association.
In 1878, when his home town was sorely afflicted by the
yellow fever, he remained faithfully with his people through-
out the epidemic. He alone of the five resident physicians
lived through it, and four other volunteer physicians died by
his side ; but by day and night he was at his post, ministering
to the sick and dying until the scourge had passed.
Maj. C. a. Dun woody.
Charles Archibald Dunwoody, who was a major in the 7tli
Georgia Regiment in the War between the States, died at
the home of the family, in Dunwoody, near Roswell, Ga.,
March 2, 1905.
Maj. Dunwoody served with distinction in the Mexican
War. It was during this war that he first met Jefferson
Davis, our beloved President, and they were stanch friends
through life. In the first battle of Manassas Maj. Dunwoody
was badly wounded through the hip, and was confined for
some time to the hospital. On recovery he returned to his
regiment, rose to the rank of major, and served to the close
of the war. Maj. Dunwoody and the mother of President
Roosevelt were first cousins. He is survived by two daugh-
ters and one son.
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J. W. McClellan.
James Wyatte McClellan, son of Sannicl and Mildred
Foster McClellan, was born in Smith County, Miss., March
II, 1S44. His family moved to Louisiana in 1847. When
JAMES WVATTE M CLELLAN.
the war broke out. Comrade McClellan enlisted in the Con-
federate service April 27, 1862, and served through to the
end in Company F, 28th Louisiana Infantry — Capt. R. H.
Bradford and Col. Henry Gray. He came to Texas in De-
cember, 1866. and lived near Paris, in Lamar County, about
four years. He was one of the "clansmen," and helped to
control the negroes and to get rid of the carpetbaggers and
scalawn.us. In 1875 'ic settled in Limestone County, near
Mt. Calm, where he was married to Mrs. Mary Amanda
ChaHin Hutto. He was once engaged in me newspaper
business at Ennis, Tex., but at the time of his death was
engaged in farming. He died on December 6, 1903, from an
accidental pistol wound in the leg inflicted by one of his
hoys. He was shot twice in the same leg during the war.
He wa-: buried in old .Antioch graveyard, Mt. Calm, Tex.
Capt. J. R. McCallum.
The Fred Ault Camp of Confederate Veterans, Knoxville,
Tenn., attended in a body the funeral and burial of Capt.
J. R. McCallum, a charter member, on June 26, 1905.
Capt. McCallum was born in Knox County January 25,
1839. His father was Daniel McCallum, a prominent and
highly esteemed citizen and a United States marshal during
the administration of ex-President Millard Fillmore. Before
he had attained his majority. C.npt. McCallum removed to
Texas, where he reinained until the breaking out of the
War between the States. He returned to his native county,
and in 1861 organized Company D, of Col. Fain's regiment.
the 63d Tennessee. He served faithfully and gallantly at the
head of his company, leading it with conspicuous courage on
many hotly contested fields until he was captured at Peters-
burg, Va., June 17, 1864. He was incarcerated in Fort Dela-
ware military prison until peace was declared. After being
paroled he returned to his old home to begin anew the strug-
gle of life and to do his part in building up the waste places
of the South. He accepted the situation in good faith, and
his splendid record as a soldier was only equaled by that as
a citizen. While always true to his convictions of right, he
was liberal toward those who had differed with him, and did
much by word and example to restore fraternal relations
among those who had once confronted each other on "the
perilous edge of battle."
Surviving Capt. McCallum are one son (James H. Mc-
Callum) and five daughters (Misses Mary and Delia Mc-
Callum and Mrs. M. F. Flenniken, of Knoxville, Tenn. ; Mrs.
H. E. Helm, of Harriman; and Mrs. G. E. Bradford, of
Houston, Tex.). All were at the bedside of the dying father
except Mrs. Bradford, who was on the way to be with the
family in its deep sorrow.
William Owen Kelly.
William Owen Kelly was born in Franklin, Tenn., in No-
vember, 1838. A student by nature, he received a fine col-
legiate education in Middle Tennessee; and when quite a
young man he went to West Tennessee with his widowed
mother, locating in Brownsville and engaging in the jewelry
business with his brother.
In June, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, 12th Tennessee,
was wounded in the battle of Belmont, Mo., and after Shiloh
he was detailed for duty in the commissary department under
Maj. Lee M. Gardner, Polk's Corps. Later he served as
aid-de-camp on the staff of the commanding officer in resist-
ing the advance of Gen. Grierson in his famous raid through
Mississippi. He was a faithful, fearless soldier throughout
the four years' struggle, and was paroled at Meridian, Miss.
After the war Mr. Kelly settled in Trenton, Tenn., where
he married. He removed to Memphis in 1883, and on the
26th of last December he was fatally injured by being thrown
from a street car. lingering in a painful illness until February
26, when the sunnnons came. At his own request, he was
buried in his Confederate uniform. For several years he
was a member of the Confederate Historical Association of
Memphis, and in 1899 was appointed on Gen. G. W. Gordon's
stafT. He is survived by a w-ife and three children.
R. M. West. — After a very short illness, R. M. West died
at his home, near Courtney, Tex., on the 14th of April. He
was I)orn in Wayn.e County, N. C, in 1838, and went to Texas
with his parents in 1852, settling on the place where he died
and where he had lived most of his life. He was a member
of Company K, 8th Texas Cavalry, Terry's Rangers, serving
throughout the war. He returned to his Texas home, but
went to Leon County in 1870, where he married Miss Sallie
K. Laccy, who survives him with seven children.
William C. Steele was born in Giles County, Tenn., No-
vember 12, 1825 ; and died November t8, 1904. He served in
the Mexican War, and also as a Confederate soldier in Com-
pany C, 4th Texas, Hood's Brigade. He lost his right leg
in the second day's fight at Chickamauga.
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Capt. Benjamin Tarver Brown.
Capt. B. T. Brown died at Breckenridge, Tex., April 15,
1905. He was born in 1831 near Kingston, Tenn., and until
the death of his father (Gen. Jack Brown), which occurred
in 1847, he hved at his father's old home, where the town of
Rockwood now stands. Young Brown then became a boat-
man on the Tennessee River under his brothers-in-law, Capts.
Nicholson and Doss. He was married to Sarah Ellis in
1854, who, together with six sons and three daughters, sur-
vive him. He was captain of Company D. l6th Tennessee
Cavalry, Rucker's Legion, Confederate Cavalry. The war
stripped him of everything but a small farm on the river
below Kingston, and after striving for a few years to re-
cover his losses he sold out in 1875 and removed to Breck-
enridge, Tex., where he spent the remainder of his life, cele-
brating his golden wedding a few months before his death.
John McDonnell.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, in December, 1833, John McDon-
nell emigrated to this country when a mere boy, settling in
New York City and engaging in his chosen work as con-
tractor. In the fifties he turned his steps southward, locating
at Rodney, Miss., where he was building mansions for the
antebellum planters. When the call to arms was sounded,
he joined the local company at Rodney on thirty days' call,
and at the expiration of his time joined the famous Cowan
Battery, Wither's Artillery. This battery was engaged in
the defense of Vicksburg, taking part in the battles of Cham-
pion Hill, Baker's Creek, and others, preliminary to the fall
of the city. After the exchange of prisoners the battery was
in numerous battles throughout Alabama and Georgia, and at
the surrender the members were sent to Ship Island prison.
Like nearly all Confederate soldiers, he Vv^as absolutely pen-
niless when released, but the dark outlook could not daunt
his courage. In 1866 he settled in Jackson, Miss., and en-
john m donnell.
gaged again in the contracting business. He was married
that same year to Miss Elizabeth Muller, nine children bless-
ing their union. A few years later he gave up contracting,
and went into the foundry and machine shop business, in
which he prospered by hard work and honest dealings. He
was actively in business until four years since, when stricken
with paralysis. All that medical science and loving hands
could do was exerted to prolong his last days, but he passed
away on the fourth of July last, at the ripe age of seventy
years.
Mr. McDonnell was commander of Robert A. Smith Camp,
U. C. 'v., for many years, and took quite a prominent part in
the material advancement of Jackson.
Elder E. B. C.wce.
After a lingering illness. Elder E. B. Cajxe passed away at
his home in Franklin, Tenn., on June 12, in his sixty-eighth
year. He was born in Tuscumbia, Ala., in November, 1837,
the son of William Cayce, whose parents came to Tennessee
in the early part of the last century.
Eldred Beverly Cayce fitted himself for the profession of
law and had entered upon its practice before the war, but
went into the service, and was in the ordnance department
until the end, surrendering at Macon, Ga. His brother Flem
Cayce was killed at Murfreesboro, and another brother, John,
who was also in the service, died in Mississippi a few years
ago. After the war he resumed the practice of law, but gave
it up to enter the jewelry business established by his father
in Franklin. He also prepared himself for the ministry of
the Christian Church, having in early life become a member,
and in this service the greater part of his life was spent until
the infirmities of age and disease prevented an active par-
ticipation in the affairs of the Church.
Elder Cayce was married in i860 to Miss Jennie E. Mc-
Cullough, of Gibson County, Tenn., whose domestic virtues
and unwavering devotion proved a benediction to him and
their children.
Henry Wilson. — Died at Ballinger, Tex., of heart failure.
May II, 190S, Comrade Henry Wilson, aged sixty-nine years.
He served in Company M, 1st Georgia Regulars (Infantry),
C. S. A., through the war as a private soldier in the Army
of Northern Virginia in Gen. Gordon's Brigade. He was a
member of Ben McCulloch Camp, by which he was buried
with honors at Brady, Tex. A widow and seven children
survive him.
De. a. N. Langston.
"There is a hope within the breast
Of every living mortal.
That somewhere 'mong the islands blest
There is for them a home of rest,
A welcome, open portal."
Thus wrote a comrade in Confederate bonds when age was
creeping upon him, and death had robbed him of a beloved
daughter with whom he had been living, and to that home his
spirit winged its flight early in this year of 1905. Dr. A. N.
Langston was born in Madison County, Ga., in 1829; but
many years of his life were passed in Lincoln County, Tenn.,
where he made friendships that lasted till death. In early
life he studied medicine without thought of engaging in its
practice, but it served him a good purpose when his property
had all been swept away. He served in the war as a mem-
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ber of the Fifth Georgia Cavalry. Dr. Langston had con-
spicuous literary ability, and contributed for many years to
the Observer at Fayetteville, Tenn., under the pen name of S.
Q. Lapias, and by this he was known and loved in many homes
whose portals he had never crossed. He died at the Soldiers'
Home hi Atlanta, Ga.
W. D. Echols.
Report comes of tlie death of W. D. Echols at the home
of his sister, Mrs. Fort, in Kyle, Tex., on the nth of Feb-
ruary. He was among the first to respond to his country'.s
call in 1861, and joined Company B, l/tli Mississippi Volun-
teers, going at once to Virginia. He participated in nearly
all the prominent battles fought by the Army of Northern
Virginia. At every post of duty he stood unflinchingly,
wht'ther around the camp fire, on the battlefield, or on the
weary march. None knew his undaunted bravery and hero-
ism better than his officers ; and he was often placed on the
"Litter Corps," because it was known that he could be relied
on, and none but the lirnve .Tro callerl on for this.
nation of Gov. Hampton belongs to this paper. Gen. Hampton
being brought from his plantation in Mississippi to lead the
Democratic party and capture the control of the State from
the Republicans and scalawags. Col. Rhett did not serve in
the army, being exempt from service by virtue of his position
as a newspaper editor.
He removed to Alabama some years ago upon his second
marriage to Miss Barnard, of Huntsville. Of his first wife,
his children were: Dr. R. B. Rhett, the well-known Charles-
ton physician, who died some months ago ; Walter Rhett, a
lawyer of Atlanta, also deceased ; and one daughter, Mrs.
Huger Bacot. He is survived by one son by his second wife.
William Finnev.
William Finney was born in Russell County, Va., April 20.
1840; aiid died at his home. Lebanon, Va., in January, 1905.
He enlisted in 1861 in a Mississippi Infantry Regiment, and
ni 1S63 he was transferred to the Sixteenth Virginia Cavalry,
A. N. V. His record was that of a good and faithful soldier
to the end.
W. W. Smith.
W. W. Smith died at his home, in Round Rock. Tex.,
April 17. As a Confederate soldier he belonged to Brad-
ford's Company, 1st Texas, and he won the praise of Com-
mander and comrades in ever being faithful to duty. He
was a prominent Mason, had been delegate to the Grand
Lodges for years, and his funeral was conducted by this
order. Many friends were left to mourn the loss of this
good citizen.
CoL. R. B. Rhett.
After a lingering illness. Col. Robert Barnwell Rhett died
at Huntsville, Ma., at the age of seventy years. He was a
native of South Carolina, where he resided as a young man,
editing the Charleston Mercury before and during the War
between the States and being called to Charleston from the
editorial chair of the New Orleans Picayune in the early
seventies to edit the Journal of Commerce. This latter paper
was established by the late Judge Charles H. Simonton and
others to fight the battle of the white man's administration
of civil affairs in South Carolina, and the credit of the nomi-
Hal McGhee.— At the residence of Mrs. Lee H. McGhee,
in Madison County, Miss., on the 8th of April Comrade Hal
McGhee passed away. He entered the Confederate service
early in 1861 as a member of Company K, i8th Mississippi
Infantry, which, in connection with the 13th, 17th, and 21st,
composed the 3d Mississippi Brigade, which distinguished it-
self at Fredericksburg, and served with equal gallantry
throughout the war in the .\rmy of Northern Virginia. At
Savage Station Comrade McGhee received a dreadful flesh
wound in the leg, and in the Wilderness lost an eye. He
leaves one son, a prominent member of the Memphis (Tenn.)
bar.
Capt. W. F. Wright. — In San Antonio, Tex., April 16,
Capt. Wilford Ferris Wright passed into eternal rest. He
was born in Obion County, Tenn., in 1839, and was nearing
his sixty-sixth year. Capt. Wright entered the Confederate
service in the 22d Tennessee Regiment, from which he was
transferred to Forrest's Cavalry and commanded a company
of scouts. He went to Texas in 1871, where he held the
respect of all with whom he was associated in business and
social life. The funeral was conducted by the Albert Sidney
Johnston Camp, of which he was a member.
H. C. Moore died at his home, in Holly Springs, Miss., on
the 3d of March, aged seventy-three years. He was a quiet
and unassuming man, much respected as a good citizen and
neighbor. Comrade Moore enlisted in Company F, 2d Ken-
lucky Cavalry, Morgan's Command, in May, 1S63, and served
continuously to the end without ever receiving a furlough.
Camp Kit Mott, U. C. V., of which he was a member, passed
resolutions in his honor.
John A. James died at liis home, in Hattiesburg, Miss.,
February 20, 1005. He was born in .Arkansas in 1840, was
reared in Tennessee, and during the w-ar served in Company
G, 4tli Regiment Tennessee Cavalry, under Forrest. He was
married m Nashville, Tenn., in 1868, and spent many years
of his life in that city. His wife and eight children survive
him. Hattiesburg Camp, No. 21, U. C. V., adopted resohl-
tions in his honor.
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REUNION COMMITTEE APPRECIATED.
Resolved by the council of the city of Louisville, that the
Board of Councilnien, in sincere appreciation- of the untiring
efforts and ar<liious labors undertaken and so splendidly car-
ried into execution by the officers, members, and Executive
Board of the Reunion Committee in its excellent entertain-
ment of the Confederate Veterans, extend to them a rising
vote of thanks, and that the clerk of this Board be instructed
to advise said officers, members, and Executive Board of such
action. This Board, as the representative of the people of
Louisville, feels that it is owing said committee to express and
record its appreciation, and to say that never in the history
of this good city has its hospitality been more lavishly ex-
tended or more sincerely appreciated ; and this Board feels
and believes that the excellent entertainment of these splen-
did guests, who favored us with their presence, is an honor
of which the people of Louisville may justly be proud.
(Signed) ncis Summers, Clerk Board of Councilnien.
The foregoing report is sent to Maj. John H. Leathers and
associate members, and it is a most -worthy recognition of
faithful service by Confederate patriots in Louisville.
FORREST'S CAVALRY CORPS AT THE REUNION.
The illness of Lieut. Gen. D. C. Kelley, Commander of
the Forrest Cavalry Corps, prevented his attendance at the
Louisville reunion, and he appointed Capt. H. A. Tyler, one
of the most gallant captains of that famous organization,
who was the Major General in command of the Kentucky
Division of Forrest's Cavalry.
Miss Alice Collier, of Memphis, Sponsor for tlie Corps,
rode on horseback with Commander Tyler in the parade,
wearing a beautiful gray habit and carrying a Forrest Cav-
alry banner.
Col. John W. Morton, of Nashville, Col. W. A. Collier, of
Memphis, Col. Cliff, of Chattanooga, Col. V. Y. Cook, of
Arkansas (late Major General Arkansas Veterans), all rode
with Col. Tyler on horseback; while Gen. H. B. Lyon and
Col. John Kemp rode in open landau, and the Kentucky Di-
vision Sponsor, Miss Marie Brevard, of Hickman, and Maid
of Honor, Miss Henrietta Koger, of Paducah, rode with
them, carrying a beautiful division banner. These were fol-
lowed by mounted men, led by sixteen of Capt. Tyler's old
company — A, 12th Kentucky Cavalry.
WALTHALL'S OLD BRIGADE REUNIONS.
The survivors of many different commands held reunions
during tlie general meeting, and notable among them was
that of Walthall's Brigade, one of the most famous fighting
organizations of the Southern army. It was decided that
all of its future reunions be lield in the State of Mississippi,
and Oxford was chosen as the next place of meeting, date to
be announced later. The following officers were elected for
the coming year: Commander, Thomas Spight; Lieutenant
Commander, P. J. Carter; Adjutant, J. H. Evans; Ensign,
J. E. Hope; Chaplain, E. A. Smith.
ERRORS IN JUNE VETERAN.
BY JUDGE J. H. M-\RTIN, HAWKINSVILLE, GA.
Pen II lie to make correction of errors in June Veteran.
You =tat,',that I was captain of Company G, 17th Georgia.
It should Ibe Company D. I went out with Company D,
Decatur Guards, from Decatur County when the company
was first organized, leaving Oglethorpe University to join
it. Company G was from Miller County.
Comrade Flannegan is mistaken in saying that Benning's
Brigade was in R. H. Anderson's Division. Benning organ-
ized the 17th Georgia, and Company D was with him from
the time of the organization of the regiment, on the 15th of
August, 1861, in Atlanta, Ga., and we were mustered into
the Confederate army at Lynchburg, Va., on August 31. I
was under him either when he was colonel or as brigadier
general until the war closed. Our first brigadier was Robert
Toombs, and Benning succeeded him. We served under
Division Commanders G. W. Smith and Whiting, for a
short time under Pickett, but most of the time under J. B.
Hood, and then under C. W. Fields, who succeeded Hood
after he lost his leg at Chickamauga.
Comrade Wright must also be mistaken in saying that he
held Traveler, Gen. Lee's war horse, in March, 1865, when
Field's and Pickett's divisions defended Fort Harrison against
Hancock's Corps. Fort Harrison, as stated in my article in
the June Veteran, was captured on the morning of Septem-
ber 29, 1864, and was never again in our possession. Our
forces made a desperate eflfort to retake it on the next day
after it was captured, but failed.
Lynchburg Confederate Veterans. — Garland-Rodes Camp,
of Lynchburg, Va., is No. 8 in the Grand Camp of Virginia
and No. 1521, U. C. V. It is named in honor of two distin-
guished citizens of Lynchburg, Maj. Gen. Robert E. Rodes
and Brig. Gen. Samuel Garland, both of whom gave their
lives for the Southland in that great contest for the right.
Its annual meetings are held on the anniversary of the day
in April, 1861, on which Lynchburg sent its first three com-
panies to the war. This Camp has on its roll about two
hundred members, some of whom live in other States. Among
the members are Gen. Thomas T. Munford, of cavalry fame,
and Maj. John W. Daniel, United States Senator from Vir-
ginia and Commander of the James Dearing Camp of Con-
federate Veterans, named for another of Lynchburg's gallant
boys who gave up life in the last days of the war after a
brilliant and heroic career. At the last election in Garland-
Rodes Camp Tipton D. Jennings was made Commander and
W. M. Seay Adjutant.
Jefferson Davis's Birthday in Seattle. — The Robert E.
Lee Chapter U. D. C, of Seattle, Wash., celebrated the birth-
day of Jefferson Davis, having as guests of honor the John
B. Gordon Camp U. C. V. of that city. The exercises were
begun with an address by the President, Mrs. Arthur R.
Priest, daughter of the late William G. Trent and niece of
the late Capt. Macon Hurt Freemason, both of the 5th Ten-
nessee Regiment, followed by an address by Judge Samuel
S. Carlisle, of the First Missouri, on the life of Jefferson
Davis. Then followed a programme of Southern songs and
recitations, which were much enjoyed by these Southerners
of the West.
One of the most interesting features of the parade was the
presence in Fourth Street, on foot near the Courier-Journal
building, of ^Mrs. E. Kirby-Smith and Mrs. Bennett H. Young
during the passage of the veterans, whom they joyously
greeted and cheered. There was no feature of the parade
that created more enthusiasm than in the happy manner of
greeting by these two distinguished women.
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THAT HAMPTON ROADS CONFERENCE.
BY DS. CHALMERS DEADERICK, KNOXVILLE, TENN.
The article in your June issue entitled "What Happened at
Hampton Roads" induces me to call the attention of Con-
federates once more to the matter involved. Many intelli-
gent old soldiers seem to be still laboring under the impres-
sion that at the Hampton Roads conference, which occurred
February 3, 1865, between Vice President Alex H. Stephens,
R. M. T. Hunter, and Judge Campbell, on our side, and Mr.
Lincoln and Mr. Seward, Mr. Lincoln agreed to give them
what tliey pleased if they would only write Union at the
head of the agreement.
Another error which I have several times heard old sol-
diers express is that at that conference Mr. Lincoln agreed
to pay the South for her slaves, provided the war was then
stopped.
Mr. Vest's statement on the floor of the United States
Senate as to what Mr. Stephens said on that occasion will,
of course, be accepted by all reasonable and unprejudiced
people ; but some may say that after so long an interval of
time the worthy Senator's memory may have been at fault.
The written report of the corrimissioners to the Confederate
Senate does not go into details of the occurrences of the
conference ; but fortunately the whole thing, or at least
enough of it for our purpose, was carefully and accurately
recorded shortly after the conference, by Mr. Stephens him-
self, in his "War between the States." On page 599, Volume
n., Mr. Stephens said, in opening the conference at Hampton
Roads : "Mr. President, is there no way of putting an end
to the present trouble?" . . .
MISS MARY CHALMERS FOSTER,
Sponsor for 'i'hini Al;»baiii;i Itrigude at Louisville Reunion.
MISS ELIZABETH CLOYD RATHER, TUSCUMBIA, ALA.,
Maid of Honor Thini AlnbamR Ilripade, I'. C. V.
•'Mr. Lincohi replied that there was but one way that he
knew of, and that was for those who were resisting the
laws of the Union to cease that resistance. . . . The
restoration of the Union is a sine qua non with me," etc.
^See page 601.)
"Judge Campbell now renewed his inquiry as to how resto-
ration was to take place." (Page 609.)
"Mr. Lincoln replied : 'By disbanding their armies and per-
mitting the national authorities to resume their functions.' "
(Page 609.) "Mr. Lincoln further declared that he never
would change or modify the terms of the emancipation proc-
lamation in the slightest degree." (Page 611.)
"After some four hours' discussion, Mr. Hunter said that
ill his opinion Mr. Lincoln's propositions amounted to noth-
ing but unconditional surrender on the part of the Confed-
erates. There could be no treaty nor even any stipulation
as to terms — only unconditional submission." (Page 616.)
"Mr. Lincoln said he believed the people of the North
were as responsible for slavery as the people of the South,
and if tlie war should then cease, with the voluntary abolition
of slavery by the States, he should be in favor, individually,
of the government paying a fair indemnity for the loss to
(he owners. . . . But on this subject he said he could
give no assurance — enter into no stipulation." (Page 617.)
On pages 622, 623 Mr. Stephens says, after his return to
Richmond and report to Mr. Davis : "Mr. Davis's position was
that inasmuch as it was now settled beyond question by
the decided and pointed declaration of Mr. Lincoln t'i,,t there
could be no peace short of unconditional submissic on the
part of the people of the Confederate States, ... he
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himself seemed more determined than ever to liglit it out on
that line."
The above extracts from ilr. Stephens's admirable work
show positively that I^Ir. Lincoln would agree to nothing but
unconditional surrender; and that there is no foundation
whatever in fact for the statement that Mr. Lincoln said,
"Agree to come back into the Union, and you can have what
else you please," nor for the assertion that Mr. Lincoln agreed
that his government would pay for the slaves. He did say
that individually he was in favor of paying for them, but dis-
tinctly slated that he did not know that his government would
agree to it. It is said to be a fact that he afterwards brought
the matter before his Cabinet, and that no member of it
agreed with him.
Although the assassination of Mr. Lincoln was a sad mis-
fortune to the South, it is doubtful whether he could have
stayed the pernicious and malignant hand of the government.
The passage of various offensive bills, originated by cow-
ardly skulkers for the purpose of persecuting the prostrate
South, over Mr. Johnson's repeated vetoes, indicates that even
Mr. Lincoln could not have stayed the bitter tide.
St.\te Confederate Cemetery in Arkans.\s. — For years
T. J. Young, of Austin, Ark., has had at heart the work of
gathering together the remains of Confederate dead scattered
over that State. He has succeeded in getting a deed to
some ground in the woods where a number of them were
buried, and contemplates making this into a cemetery where
the others can repose. The Arkansas Legislature has ap-
propriated one thousand dollars for this purpose, and he
hopes to get the work done this year. Comrade Young asks
especially that this work be called to tlie attention of the
Daughters of the Confederacy in Texas who would be in-
terested in erecting a monument to the many Texas soldiers
who will rest in that cemetery, as they outnumber all others.
Any communications can be addressed to him direct.
VALUABLE RELIC— A ISlOTED WOMAV.
A case of peculiar sadness is commended to the readers
of the Veteran, and it is hoped that many will become in-
terested in the subject.
Mrs. Mary Welby, of St. Michaels, Md., has a rare and
valuable autograph album which, through force of unhappy
circumstances, she will dispose of. The binding and paper
are of superior quality, and it contains several hundred
names, among which are some of our most illustrious men
and women, both living and dead. One page is glorified
with the autograph of Gen. Robert E. Lee, the grandeur and
beauty of whose character magnetized the world. Some
other autographs are of Miss Mary Custis Lee, Gen. Pitz-
hugh Lee, Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Col. Charles Marshall (of
Gen. Lee's staff), W. L. Sharkey, Chief Justice Supreme
Court of Mississippi; Thomas Marshall, the Kentucky ora-
tor; Mr. W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, D. C; Gov. Z. B.
Vance. North Carolina; and a number of Confederate
officers.
The album is valuable not alone for tho famous names in
the collection, but for the associations of the noble purpose
it served. Mrs. Welby is by ancestry closely related to
Marv the mother of Washington. Her father was a brilliant
officer in the war of 1812, and fought gallantly in the defense
■jf Baltimore when that city was stormed by the British.
He wds afterwards an inventor of distinction. Mrs. Welby
is a sister of the poetess, Mrs. Amelia Welby (the twain
having married brothers), who won international fame and
died in her thirty-third year, and for whom Amelia College.
Maysville. Ky., is named. Mrs. Welby was once a noted art-
ist ami scholar, and served the Confederacy with unfaltering
devotion. After terrible Appomattox she did not despair.
She, with others, immediately organized a fair for the
purpose of alleviating the destitution of the people of the
South. It w-as then she conceived the idea of the autograph
album. All persons writing their names in the album paid
one dollar — many paying five dollars for the privilege. By
this means she made quite a sum of money for the righteous
cause in which she labored. She stood loyally by the South
in the strength and glory of her womanhood. Now she is
ninety-two years old and has had the bitterest and most
profound sorrow. The death of her husband was followed
by the loss of her entire property, and the last drop was
added to her cup when, four years ago, she suddenly lost
her eyesight, so that she now gropes in midnight darkness.
Stress of circumstances makes Mrs. Welby feel that it is
necessary to dispose of the album, and she will appreciate
a good offer for it. It would be a fitting gift to the Con-
federate Museum. Address Mrs. Mary C. Welby, care Mrs.
Mary Hadday, St. Michaels, Md.
TRIBUTE TO OUR FAITHFUL SLAVES.
BY MRS. KATE W. MOORE, OAKLAND, MISS.
I have just read Miss Mary Solari's grand sentiments in
the March Veteran in regard to a monument to the faithful
blacks of the South. Being in full sympathy with her in all
her views, I wish to emphasize her idea that right now is the
time to begin the noble work, and I would esteem it an honor
to be among the first to begin working for the cause.
A few instances from my own life will show why my heart
should dictate such a step. My mother died when I was four
}'ears old, leaving three little girls, myself the oldest, and it
was an old black mammy who cared for us till the new mother
came to take the place of the lost one. My baby sister's crib
was placed in the cabin by mammy's bed, and it was an old
black hand that tenderly rocked it for many a night, and we
lisped our prayers at a black mammy's knee.
During the war, while my father was in the army, my
mother and four children lived on the plantation, a mile from
any other white person, and were protected by a faithful old
negro man, who was father's foreman. There were about
seventy-five negroes on the place, and he superintended every-
thing and made the crops. After the surrender, he remained
our "right hand" until death claimed him.
My father died in 1879 of sporadic yellow fever, and his
.sudden death caused one of those dreadful panics that we
can remember only with horror. The white people fied; but
our negroes were there, faithful to the very last, and they
formed the midnight funeral procession that carried my hon-
ored father to the cemetery. Do you wonder that I should
be glad to give a proof of gratitude for such heroic devotion?
I know there are thousands of men and women in the South
whose experience has been similar to mine. Will not some
one start the movement for a monument and give us the op-
portunity of assisting in the w'ork?
S. V. Austin, of Lonoke, Ark., who belonged to Company
E, 6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, desires to hear from
any of his company. Attention to such requests often gi^es
much pleasure.
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327
MEMORIAL DAY.
There is peace, there is peace, in the South and the North,
When tlie suns of the Maytime shall call the blooms forth;
There is peace in the vale where the Tennessee runs.
Where the river grass covers the long silent guns ;
There is peace where the warriors of Gettysburg rest ;
On the ramparts of Sumter the summer birds nest ;
There is peace where the flowers cover the tombs.
And the Blue and the Gray now blend with the blooms.
— Edzi.-ard R. Overton. Nashville, Tenn.
The consolidated organization of women known as the
Confederated Memorial Association, which always holds its
annual conventions at the same time and place as the U.
C. v., met promptly, and the sessions of this year were
characterized by good attendance and close attention. The
memorial service was held in the Broadway Baptist Church.
In her report, Mrs. W. J. Behan, President, gave a history
of the Association, of the work accomplished by it, and
what it hopes to accomplish. From its organization, in
Louisville in 1900, with thirteen chapters as a nucleus, the
body has grown to sixty-six chapters, and new interest is
being manifested all the time. Mrs. Behan was reelected
President for the coming year.
Of the many things planned for the pleasure of the Vet-
erans during the reunion, the Burgoo — the real old Ken-
tucky feast, served at Western Park on the afternoon of
the 15th — was something to fill most satisfactorily an old
Confederate's sense of en,ioyment. Great preparations had
been going forward a week before to get the feast in
readiness, and. despite the threatening aspect assumed by
the weather, the great crowds about the tables testified to
the delicious stuff that was served. Bands were playing,
and the park was thronged with men and women till late
in the afternoon.
Perhaps the lou,s;est distance traveled by any one veteran
to attend the reunion was by Col. E. L. Davezac, of Rio
Blanco. British Honduras, who was one of the first to reach
Louisville. Col. Davezac is a Frenchman, and was a mem-
ber of the famous Orphan Brigade. His sympathies were
with the South, and when the war began he entered the
army as a private, attaiuin.g the rank of colonel before the
stru.cgle was wer. He was kept busy shaking hands with
old friends in Louisville and talking over war times.
"THE OLD SOUTH."
One of the most interesting booklets we have read is
'•The Old South," by Prof. H. M. Hamill, of Nashville, Tenn.
It cannot fail to please every reader, more particularly the
older ones vi'ho retain memories of the days that preceded
the late War bctwecti the States when "The Old South" was
in its glory. The memories of those days are fast fading
away, and nevermore will there be anything like them. Dr.
Hamill very happily takes up and defines the three great
classes of citizenship that composed the "Old South." and
portrays them in vivid. living colors, often pathetically. It
thrills the best informed of those who remember the life in
Southern homes and on Southern plantations in those days.
Treating the characters that constituted the different classes,
the text and the illustrations bring back sad and pathetic
recollections. The old-time darkies, with their habits of
honesty and devotion, are portrayed by a masterly hand, em-
phasized by the portraits of "Uncle Jeff" and "Aunt Hannah."
The exalted patriotism and statesmanship recalled by ref-
erence to history reenforced by the portraits of such exam-
ples as Jeflferson Davis, Alexander, Stephens, and the tribute
to that class of political, oratorical giants to which belonged
Ben Hill, William L. Yancey, and men of that caliber, and
the pulpit oratory of those days recalled by portraits and
tributes to such gifted men as Bishop George F. Pierce,
Thomas Sanford. Jefferson Hamilton. A. L. P. Green, Jesse
Boring, McTyeire, Wightman, Summers, and the like, recall
memories of the past. A tribute to the poets of the "Old
South" is also given with tlie recalling of the names of Paul
H. Hayne, Henry Timrod, and Sidney Lanier, which awaken
exalted and sad memories.
To fully appreciate this little work, one must read it. The
price is only twenty-five cents. Write to S. A. Cunningham,
Nashville, Tenn., for it. — Franklin (AT. C.) Press.
.\nother friend writes : " "The Old South !' What could
be a dearer title for a book? I have enjoyed reading it very
much indeed. The memory of it all grows dearer to me. "
"AMERICAN ELOQUENCE."
A Collection of Speeches and Addresses by the Greatest
Orators of America from the Days of the Revolution to the
no less Important times preceding the Civil War. With
many Steel Portraits of such men as Patrick Henry, Chief
.Tustice Marshall, Clay. Calhoun, Randolph, Webster, and
others. Two volumes. 8vo, cloth, gilt tops.
L'sT or Si'EAKEHs Rephesented IX "American Eloquence."
VOLUME I.
Fisher Ames. John Adams. Samuel Adams, Elias Boudi-
not. H. H. Brackenridge, De Witt Clinton. William Henry
Drayton. John Dickinson, Thomas .\ddis Emmet. Oliver
Ellsworth. Christopher Gore, Patrick Henry, Alexander
Hamilton. John Hancock, Robert Goodloe Harper, John Jay.
Red Jacket, Richard Henry Lee, William Livingston, Rob-
ert R. Livingston, Henry Lee, James Madison, Luther Mar-
lin. Gouverneur Morris, George Richards Minot. Harrison
Gray Otis. James Otis. Charles Pinckney, Josiah Quincy,
Jr., John Rutledge, Edmund Randolph, David Ramsay,
Benjamin Rush, Uriah Tracy, Joseph Warren. James Wil-
son, George Washington, John Witherspoon.
VOLITME u.
John Quincy Adams, James A. Bayard, Tristam Burges.
John Caldwell Calhoun. Henry Clay, Samuel Dexter, Albert
Gallatin. William B. Giles. William Gaston, James Hill-
house, William Hunter. Robert Y. Hayne, Rufus King. Ed-
ward Livingston. John Marshall. William Pinkney, Ser-
geant S. Prentiss. John Randolph, Joseph Story, John Ser-
geant, Tecumseh. Daniel Webster. William Wirt.
The Veter.^n has secured the publisher's stock of this
book, which, it is understood, will not be reprinted, and
commends it cordially to every person who is securing the
best standard books on Southern statesmen. That this
great work was copyrighted in 1857 illustrates the prom-
inence that Southern orators would have in the work. While
these two superb volumes are bound in cloth, the print is
fine and the engravings are magnificent. The two vol-
umes, comprising nearly 1.200 pages, will be supplied for
$5, express or postage prepaid, or they will be sent free
for ten subscriptions to the Veteran and $10.
Select ten worthy Veterans, make them happy each mo-ith
in the year, and secure this valuable work all for te- dollars.
328
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COMPLIMENTARY WORDS ABOUT THE VETERAN.
The Louisville Courier-Journal contains the following :
"Among the attendants upon the reunion, none has a wider
acquaintance or is more cordially received than S. A. Cun-
ningham, editor of the Confederate Vetekan, published at
Nashville. The paper was established and is conducted by
him, and is accepted as the organ of the Confederate Veteran
Union. It is in the thirteenth year of its publication, and, in
addition to the record it keeps of all that is interesting in
current history to the veteran soldiers, it is full of reminis-
cences of the war and authentic history of the heroic deeds
of tlie Confederate soldiers. Although a Veteran, Mr. Cun-
ningham still exhibits such apparent evidence of youth as
to be easily mistaken for one of the Sons of Veterans instead
of the original brand. The Courier-Journal is glad to extend
a cordial greeting to one who has been so largely instrumental
in promoting the success of this fraternal meeting and the
general interest of Confederate Veterans everywhere."
In an address that richly merits place in the Veteran on
behalf of the United Sons, W. P. Lane, of Fort Worth, Com-
mander of the Texas Division, and whose rank would doubt-
less exceed that if he would permit it — an address that was
drawn out because of the cries, "Go on ! go on ! go on !"—
said in regard to terms that "every Southerner should be
ashamed to write or speak 'New South,' 'ex-Confederate,'
'Lost Cause,' 'Rebellion.' Eliminate these, and we will have
the purest language that was ever spoken from the days of
Eden down."
Then he said: "Just at this point I want to digress for one
moment to pay a humble but richly deserved tribute to that
typical Confederate soldier [and other expressions too com-
plimentary for reproduction here. — Ed,], S. A. Cunningham,
editor and proprietor of the Confederate Veteran, whose
ever-watchful eye never permits such misleading expressions
as these to mar the fair pages of that matchless publication."
Col. John Walter Tench writes from Gainesville, Fla. :
"There are few of us but are grateful for words of praise
when we know we have done our work well and faithfully,
and it is in regard to your invaluable work for the South that
I commend you. Especially do you deserve credit for the
June number of the Confederate Veteran. Think of it!
forty-eight pages of solid, interesting, invaluable reading
matter, interspersed with thirty-five fine photogravures, the
pages being larger by an inch each way than most of the
leading magazines of the country. Then think that the Vet-
eran is the only vehicle Southerners have by which a true
history of their motives, their achievements, and their work
since the war may be promulgated for the present and crys-
tallized for the use of posterity. Our people have always
patronized the magazines that abused and misrepresented
them. I am ashamed of our ex-Confederates. They need
not plead poverty. Nearly every one of them is now draw-
ing a pension. It is a sorry fellow who cannot or will not
pay one dollar for so able a defender of his cause and sec-
tion as is the Veteran. If I blame these old fellows, what
shall I say of the Sons of Veterans who do not take it and
work for it? Is it not cheap enough, or is it wanted for ten
cents and a pair of patent leathers as a premium?"
vention. In his impromptu response to the words of welcome
by the Mayor of Nashville, Prof. Lloyd, after briefly con-
trasting the Nashville of the present with the city just after
the war, said, while commenting upon Nashville and her
structures of stone, etc.: "These latter are her visible monu-
ments, yet there is a monument now being built in Nash-
ville which is destined to outlive your uplifted piles of brick
and stone and iron and wood. It is the greatest monument
that can or will be built here. It will remain to speak to
generations to come, when your bronze has turned green with
rust. I refer to the Confederate Veteran, that monument
of love which records the story of the sacrifices, and the
heroism of the men and women of the South in their day of
trial. The editor is unknown to me personally, but I say to
you that he is, through his publication, erecting a monument,
the lines of which will live forever. A copy of this journal
comes to my desk every month, and I never fail to read its
pages. It records the history of the past as only men who
know the past can tell it. Each page touches a heart. The
pages of this monument to the whole South teem with
records of devotion in the past. It speaks, too, of good will
to all men, and by its courteous treatment of the veterans
who wore the blue, its kindly words for men once foes, it is
bringing the people of the North and South together in a
way which could not be achieved otherwise."
Dr. John Uri Lloyd, a distinguished author and chemist of
Cincinnati, Ohio, visited Nashville, Tenn., and delivered an
address before the State Eclectic Society in its annual con-
IVORTHY RESOLUTIONS OF THANKS.
The Lewis-Dowd-Wyatt Camp, U. C. V., of Tarboro, N.
C, on May lo, 1905, passed resolutions that deserve record
in the Veteran in tendering their thanks and best wishes to
the Hon. John Lamb, a Confederate and a member of Con-
gress from Virginia, for introducing and securing the pas-
sage by Congress of the United States a bill restoring all
the Confederate battle flags to the respective States from
which they were taken and then in possession of the govern-
ment.
They also thanked President Roosevelt for his prompt
action in signing the bill by which it became a law, "show-
ing him to be President of all the States and not of any sec-
tion." Such patriotic acts broaden and elevate the citizen
and soldier, and assuage asperities engendered by a bloody
war between brothers of one nationality.
Hon. H. C. Bourne is Camp Commander; J. A. Davis,
Adjutant.
TRIBUTE TO KATE CARNEY POINDEXTER.
At a meeting of the John H. Turpin Chapter No. 832, U.
D. C, held at Newbern, Ala., June 3, 1905, in commemora-
tion of the birthday of Jefferson Davis, it was deemed a fitting
occasion to express appreciation of the devotion and services
of Mrs. Kate Carney Poindexter to the Confederate cause.
Her service with womanly tenderness in alleviating the suffer-
ing of Confederates wounded at Murfreesboro (Stone's Riv-
er) by taking them into her father's home and there admin-
istering to them and nursing them back to health was notably
recalled. Included in this number was our esteemed towns-
man, Capt. J. H. Turpin, in whose honor, as a worthy rep-
resentative of our own Confederate Veterans, this chapter is
named. As a fitting testimonial, therefore, of the honor in
which we hold her, it was resolved that Mrs. Kate Carney
Poindexter, now of Nashville, Tenn., be unanimously elected
an honorary member of this chapter, and an honorary vice
president for life. The report is signed by Lillie Belle Hug-
gins, President, and Marie L. Wilson, Secretary.
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329
ANDREW JACKSON, JR.
Much has been written of the life of
Andrew Jackson both from a pub' , and
a private point of view, yet but ttle is
known comparatively of his devotion
and tender attitude to his adopted son,
to whom he gave his name, and of whom
he was wont to say : "Andrew is the
same as my very own child; I have
never known another." This can be the
more easily understood when it is re-
membered that the boy was the son of
Severn Donelson, a brother of Gen.
Jackson's adored wife. Twin boys were
burn to Mr. Donelson, and as soon as
the news reached Gen. Jackson he
yearned to adopt one of the children,
which plan was carried out, and young
Andrew was taken to the Hermitage
uheii only three days old. He was born
on the 22d of December, 1809, and dur-
ing his childhood, youth, and early
manhood his relations with Gen. Jack-
son were closer than those of many sons
with fathers by blood.
During Gen. Jackson's lirst term as
President of the United States young
Andrew was married to Miss Sarah
York, of Philadelphia, and the family
lived always with Gen. Jackson, hrst at
the 'White House and later at the
Hermitage. Mrs. Andrew Jackson, Jr.,
did the honors of the National Capital
during her father-in-law's l,.'r.n of of-
ticc, and she was as a true daughter to
llie President.
Mr. Jackson continued to live at tlie
Hermitage during his lifetime, being ;i
man of most quiet tastes and resting
cinilc content as a Southern gentleman
of the old school. When the War be-
tween the States broke out, the I lermit-
nue was now and then in the line of
both armies, and Mr. Jackson, then
somewhat advanced in life, extended
courtesy to the enemy and help to the
cause which his heart upheld. Two of
his sons were in the Confederate serv-
ice. One of them, Capt. Samuel Jack-
son, fell at Chickamauga when but
Iwenly-threc years old, after having
been wounded at Shiloh and having
served gallantly and well in several bat-
tles. The older son. Col. Andrew Jack-
.■■on. now living in Nashville, also
ftnight in the Confederate cause; and.
although a West Point student, he re-
signed his commission at the begimiing
of the war and was made colonel of
heavy artillery. He suffered imprison-
ment at Island No. 10, went through
the siege of Vieksburg, and was among
the faithful few to surrender at Fort
Warren when the struggle was over.
ANDREW JACKSON, JR.
This picture of Mr. Jackson is taken
from the only photograph in existence,
and is used here through the courtesy
of his daughter, Mrs. Rachel Jackson
Lawrence. The photograph was made
just before Mr. Jackson left Nashville
for New York on a rather unusual mis-
sion. It seems that when President
Jackson left the White House after his
second term of oflfice the Deinocratic
citizens of New York united to give
him a token of their high regard. This
gift was a massive gold snuffbox, heav-
ily embossed, and of the finest work-
marshiu. This souvenir was highly
prized by Gen. Jackson, and in his will
special provision was made for the dis-
position of it. His ref|uest was that
llio sr.ulTliox should be presented to
the first citizen of New York who dis-
tinguished himself in the first war in
which the United States should be un-
fortunate enough to become involved
after Gen. Jackson's death. This was
the Mexican War, and Mr. Andrew
Jackson journeyed to New York to find
the man who had distinguished himself
sufikiently to warrant his becoming the
legatee of his illustrious father. A com-
mittee of prominent New Yorkers de
cided to present it to Gen. Ward Bur-
nett, who had rendered the country
most effective service in the war with
Mexico. The snuffbox, therefore, was
presented to him, the only reminder of
the incident which the Jackson family
now have being the photograph of the
box in the hand of Mr. Andrew Jack-
son. The incident is one which clearly
di monstratcs the spirit of justice which
inspired all of Gen. Jackson's actions.
The annual reorganization of Jeflf Lee
Camp of McAlester, Ind. T., was re-
cently held, and Alex Moore, of Krebs,
elected Commander ; R. B. Coleman,
McAlester, Adjutant; and Ben H.
Bailey, Treasurer. A meeting of the
Memorial Association was held after
adjournment of the Camp, and all the
old officers reelected. The Secretary
reported that the Association had bought
and paid for thirty-one lots in the cor-
porate limits of the city, on which pre-
liminary work is being done for the
erection of a home for unfortunate Con-
federates, and plans are now being made
for building and maintaining this home.
Stock in this is being sold for two dol-
lars a share, and any who wish to help
such a worthy cause can secure the stock
from Adjutant Coleman.
Menihi IS ot t_ amp No. 770, U. C. \'.: Col. Tieniaiin, Adjutant General and Chief of
.Staff I'acilu- Oivision; lien. Weller, Commissary General; J. V. Mrock, (Quartermas-
ter tJeneral: W. I). Addison, Commander Camp No. 770: F. M. Thomas, Financial
Secretary; Or. W. C. Harrison, Assistant Adjutant General on Gen. Cabell's Staff.
330
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THE TRIUMPH OP DAP PS'.
UV R. Ji. MAYES, YAZOO, MISS.
A banner brave, by him unfurled.
Had perished in despair;
An empire, nobler far than Rimie's
( His dream), was burnt and bare;
A people's hope, in bim reposed.
I'Vll stricken, dying, dea<l :
A nation's wreck around biui l.iy.
A ruin vast and red.
But Davis' fame a banner was.
To keep unstained till death ;
.•\nd Davis' .soul an empire was.
To rule while lasted breath :
.■\nd Davis was the people's hope.
To vindicate their course ;
.And Davis was the nation's chief.
To meet both fraud and force.
He looked upon the war-sunk land,
A waste around him spread;
The tempest of the victor's rage
Swept vainly o'er his head.
The proud, sun-gazing South-lay still,
By savage beasts deplumed ;
Like queen, in fallen palace crushed,
Was in her splendors tombed.
With fetters on his feeble hands,
\\'ith chains upon his feet.
Before a world of scorn he dared
Demand, nor would entreat.
Like those tall shafts of white that rise
Where his dear slain are spread,
lie stood, and guarded them from wroi;;j^
As Rizpah o'er her dead.
.\nd in his aged flesh he knew
His country's sharpest pains;
They could not shackle all the South,
So Davis wore the chains.
.And coward called they him who saved
Great Buena Vista's day ;
.And traitor naiued they him whose life
His people's scapegoat lay.
Not for himself he bore it all.
Our never-daunted chief —
The iron which entered Davis' soul,
His conquered country's grief.
The woe was hers which wrung from
him
That else unuttered groan ;
The tears upon his sunken cheeks
Were shed for her alone.
.As blanchless still he bore on hish
His more than princely crest.
The thunders of a nation's hate
Broke baffled on his breast.
He stood, as stands a lonely elm.
Wind-fought, but steadfast still ;
He faced the storm with brow as firm
.As Chattanooga's hill ;
Till Slander's self fell back, amazed.
Awe-stricken, wrathful, dumb;
Nor found a voice again, except
In mutterings fierce and grum.
W hen rage to sullen silence sank.
Men saw him stately loom,
.\s, when the storm is spent, the lull
■.Shows lordly 'gainst the gloom.
lie lived to vindicate the Cause,
To show his people's right ;
And ever with ailv.mcing years
His spirit shone more bri.yhl.
His unpretending majesty
.Ml men began to know ;
It melted hate in manly hearts.
The nobler of the foe ;
.And slowly did they yield to him
The title rare of Great,
^'el wondered that a fallen chief
\\ as best-loxed of his State.
But tho^e whose weapon was the tongue
'1 heir hatred ne'er forgot ;
The L'nion's foremost citizen
.A citizen was not.
Beside the sea, in honored age.
Serene the hero dwelt;
.\nd conscious still of rectitude.
Not once for pardon knelt.
The statesman's grave, conimandiny
brow
Grew sweetly soft and mild;
The warrior's stern and fiery lip
Grew gentle as a child.
Then passed he to the God he loved.
By stricken millions wept ;
His people formed in funeral train,
-And followed him who slept —
Defeated, yet beloved by those
MISS ANN J. ASKEW,
(•eo. II. Johnson Camp, Georgetown, Ky.
He le<l l)ut could not save;
Twelve States to stand as sentinels
.And guard his sacred grave.
"TUP PRIDE OP BATTERY B."
liV R. l;. MAYES, YAZOO. MISS.
I^nutb .\biimtain towered upon our right,
b'ar cilT llu- ri\er lay.
.And over on the wooded height
We held their lines at bay.
.\t l.isi the nuittering guns were still;
The day died slow and wan ;
.At last the gunners' pipes did liU ;
The sergeant's yarn began.
When, as the wind a moment blew
Aside the fragrant flood.
Our brierwoods raised, within our view
A little maiden stood.
.\ tiny tot of si.x or seven,
r'rom the fireside fresh she seemed ;
Of such a little one in heaven
One soldier often dreamed.
And as we stared her little hand
Went to her curly lieail
In grave salute. "And who are you?"
At length the sergeant said.
"And where's your home?" he queried
again,
She lisped out: "Who is i;(i-.'
\Miy. don't you know? I'm little Jane.
The pride of Battery I'.,"
"My home? \\'liy. that was burned
away,
.And pa and ma are dead,
.And so I ride the guns all day
.Along with Sergeant Ned.
.And I've a drum that's not a toy,
A cap with feathers too ;
And I march beside the drunuuer boy
On Sundays at review.
lUit now our 'hacco's all give out;
The men can't have their smoke.
And so they're cross. Why, even Ned
Won't play with me and joke.
And the big colonel said to-day —
I hate to hear him swear —
He'd give a leg for a good pipe
Like the A'ank had over there.
.And so 1 thought when beat the drum,
.And the big guns were still,
I'd creep beneath the tent and come
Out here across the hill.
And big, good Mister Yankee Men,
You'll give me some 'Lone Jack' —
Please do. When we get some ag.-iin,
I'll surely bring it back.
'Ndeed I will ; for Ned says — says he —
If I do what I say,
I'll be a general yet, luaybe.
.\n<l ride a prancing bay."
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331
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phis morning and evening, making con-
nection with all lines. ;ind carry sleep-
ers, eliair cars, and parlor cafe cars.
Write for literature descriliing the
country, for maps, tinie-t.ahle, and in-
formation ahout rates, etc.
W. G. ADAMS, T. P. A.,
Cotton Belt Route, Nashville, Tcnn.
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE TO
MEXICO.
Over nineteen hours saved from St
Louis to City of Mexico via the short-
est and quickest line, the Iron Moun-
tain Route and connecting lines, through
Little Rock, Texarkana, Longview, San
Antonio, and Laredo. Through Pull-
man sleepers from St. Louis 2:21 p.m
and 8:20 P.M. daily. Elegant Dining
Car service. Now is the season to visit
enchanting Mexico. Low rates, liberal
stop-over privileges. For information,
rates, descriptive literature see nearest
Ticket Agent, or address R. T. G. Mat-
thews, T. P. A., Iron Mountain Route.
Room 301 Norton Building. Louisville,
ALL EYES Oy TEXAS.
The San Antonio and Aransas Pass
Railway traverses the artesian water
belt and early market gardening coun-
try. Health, climate, schools, and
churches unsurpassed. Send a two-
cent stamp and get our Agricultural
Folder. E. J. Martin, G. P. A., San
Antonio, Tex.
Sl'MMI'R RATES VIA SOUTH-
URN RAILIVAV
to .'Xsheville, Tate Sjn-ings. Lookout
Mountain, the Sapphire Country. Sea-
shore resorts, and many other places in
the South now on sale.
For coniiilete informalion. write J. F..
Shiiiley. T, P. .\,. Chalt.nioogn. Tenn.
irHEN THIS CRUEL IV AR IS
OJ'ER.
Dearest love, do you remember
When we first did meet
Mow you told me that yon loved me.
Kneeling at my feet?
How proud you stooped before me
In your suit of gray,
And you vowed to me and country
Ever to be true?
Chorus.
Weeping, sad and lonely,
Hopes and fears in vain ;
When this cruel w;ir is over.
Hoping we may meet again.
When the summer breeze is blowing
Mournfully along:
When the autunni leaves are falling.
Sadly breathes the song.
(.)fl in dreams 1 see thee lying
On the battle plain,
Lonely, wounded, even dying.
Sighing, but in vain.
If amid the din of battle
Nobly you should fall
Far away from those who love you
None to hear you call,
Who would whisper words of comfort:
Who uoiilil soothe your pain?
O! tile m.iny cruel fancies
b-ver in my brain.
I'.ut your country calls you, darling;
.Angels guide your way;
While our nation's .sons are lighting
We can only pray.
.Vobly strike for God and liberty;
Let .ill nations see
How wo love our starry banner.
l-'.niblem of the free.
REPLY TO LETTERS.
Ill reply to the letters sent me in an-
swer to my advertisement for back num-
bers of the Vktf.r.\.\. I desire to thank
all who have written and say that 1
have been supplied with all the num-
bers wanted except No. i of Volume I,,
for which I . will pay one dollar if in
good condition. I find that some of my
others are slightly damaged, and in or-
der to get perfect ones I will pay twenty
cents each for the following : Volume
IV. (1896"). Nos. I. 10, II, 12; Volume
V. (1897). No. 12; Volume VII. (1899),
Nos. I, 5; Volume TX. (1901). Nos. 2.
(>: Volume X. (1902), No. 4; Volume
XL (190,^"). Nos. 2, 7. Write first.
J. E. T.MTLM.AN.
HiiM>;iril Citv. Tex,
SEAL
OF ANY
STATE
sterling silver, handsomely ^ p-
inameled Brooch pin, with I ^C
Took for chatelaine, postpaid * ^^
WASHINGTON, D C.
FOn OVER SIXTY YEARS
AnOld and Well-Tried Remedy.
MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP
ku be*D QBed for c,T«r SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS tt
MOTHERS for their CHII.DBEN WHILE TEETHIJia.
WITH PERFECT HUCCESS. II SOOTHES »hf CHILD
90FTEN.S ihe OUMP. ALLATS all PAIN; crRES Wliot
COLIr. an'l is Ihe heat remedy for DIARRHEA. Sold kr
DrucRists ID er.-ry part ol the world. Be Bure to ABb tm
MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP.
AND TAKE NO OTHER KIND.
TWEHTVmiVm CBMTe A MOTTLM.
MiLL;! ABDOMINAL SUPPORTER
Oi\.- rxRrt ■•iri-unifereiiee of
M iih<i..inrii nt K. L. M.
^{ Silk Elastic ■ ■ . S5.00
Thread Elastic • - 3.50
111. lilts s,'nt bv ninil npon
■«tK r. ii.tcf pric,.. Snf,. .IfUvery
fnno.iitf.cl. '
Senil for panirhlot.if Elastic Stockings.TrusBes. etc.
G. W. Flanell i, Bro., 1005 Spring Garden St., Philidolphla.Pt.
SOUTHERX RAILWAY
announces very low round-trip rates
from points on its lines to Hot .Springs,
.\rk.. Eureka Springs, Ark., and Eldo-
rado Springs, Mo. One first-class fare,
plus two dollars.
For complete information, write J. E.
Sbiiiley. T. P. \., Chattanooga, Tenn.
]\frs. Sarah J. Roberts, of Pulaski.
Tenn.. wants some information as to the
last work done by her husband. Dr
Joseph Coleman Roberts, who, after the
fall of Fort Donelson. was commis-
sioned by Gov. Harris to form hospitals
and care for the sick and wounded
scattered in and around Nashville. He
was on the same duty after luka and
Corinth, under Dr. Thomas D. Wooten.
medical director of Gen. Price's army,
and w-as afterwards sent to Holly
Springs. It is his work in this last
place, where he had charge of four hos-
pitals, of which Mrs. Roberts is anxious
to get information.
PISO'S .CURE FOR n>
CURES wHtRE ALL ELSE FAiL&. t^J
I Best CouKh Byrup. Titstes Uood. Use f^
Id time. Hold by dnitctil^ts. Ivf
CONSUMP.TION y
332
Qopfederati^ l/eterap.
FLORIDA
GUBA
Think of tbo l>alniy siin<hino. of the
fra^raiir*' nf orantre l)loss<;>ins. of the
golden fruits of Florida: then recall the
snow, the slet't. the biting and continued
I'cild of last winter.
Splendid train service, with every con-
venience for the comfort and safety of
the traveler, has been provided via the
Al'LANTie
eOAST LINE
"the groat tli'>r*juglifare to the tropics.''
coutritllinL^ 1.4(HJ miles of standard rail-
way iu tile Stiite of Florida.
Winter tnurist tickets now on sale via
tbi.s line carry the following privileges
without additional cost:
Stopping oft, up to 30 days en route
to or returning from Jacksonville.
Many variable routes south of Jack-
sonville.
Stop-over privileges in the State of
Florida at any point within life of
ticket.
For illustrated booklets on Florida.
Culia. or "What to Sav in Spanish, and
How to Say It,"* or other information,
address
C. L. SPRAGUE, T. P. A.,
507 Union Trust Building,
CINCINNATI, OHIO;
W. T. CRAIG, G. P. A.,
WILJIINUTON, N. C.
NORTH TEXAS
^ POINTS ^
:VIA;
Santa Fe
^ w
TO
GoLlvestoiv, and Points
South, East, and
West. ^ ^ Equip-
n\ei\t. Service, and Cui-
sine unsurpetssed. <<:^
W. S. KEENAN. G. P. A..
Galveston, Tex.
j^BBH
What Are Your
Summer Plans?
A beautifully illustrated summer book which is
being distributed free by the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga & St. Louis Railway will help you to
make them. It describes the resorts and
springs in the highlands and mountains of Ten-
nessee and North Georgia, and gives a list of
hotels, their rates, etc. =
Write for
a copy
to-day
...•■■' W. L. DANLEY.
,..-•'' G. P. A., N. C. &St. L. R'y
y-'' NASHVILLE, TENN.
Please send me one of your Sum-
mer Resort Folders as advertised in
the-
Address
LXTREMELY LOW KATES AN-
SOUNCED BY THE SOUTH-
ERN RAILWAY.
Extremely low rates are announced
via the Southern Railway from pohits
on its lines for the following special
occasions :
Knoxville, Tcnn. : Summer School,
Jur.e 20 to July 28, 1905.
HufTalo, N. Y. : Annual Meeting Grand
Lodge B. P. O. E., July ii-ij, 1905.
Philadelphia, Pa. : Sovereign Grand
Lodge B. P. O. E., July 11-15, 1905.
For tickets and complete information,
call on Southern Railway agents, or
write J. E. Shipley, T. P. A., Chatta-
nooga, Tenn., or C. A. Benscoter, A.
(1. P. A.. Chattanooga, Tcnn.
F. M. Burrus, of Colorado, Tex. : "In
the year of 1895 I visited old Libby
Prison, now in Chicago, and there saw
a beautiful silk flag that \\s.s presented
to the Sth South Carolina Regiment
(Col. Jenkins) by the ladies of Union
County, S. C, in 1861. I write of this
that the survivors of that famous old
command may recover that precious old
flag. I had two brothers in Capt. Sal-
ter's company of the Sth Regiment
when tliev first went to the front."
Mrs. Mary O. Tinker, No. 235 E. Rich
Street. Columbus, Ohio, seeks informa-
tion of Charles Oliver, who enlisted in
the Confederate army in Nashville,
Tenn., in 1861. Fie was her husband
then, and she heard that he was killed
in the battle of Perryville. She is
anxious to ascertain the number of his
company and regiment.
Mrs. W. J. Behan, President of the
Confederated Memorial Association,
New Orleans, La., wishes to procure for
their library a copy of "The Republic
of Republics" and Bledsoe's "Was Davis
a Traitor?" It is hoped tliat some of
our subscribers can supply these books.
CoMP.\NV B, 62D Tennessee Infan-
try.—Lieut. E. Boyd, of Company B,
62d Tennessee, now of Gainesville, Ga ,
wishes to hear fi-om two members of his
old company, P. C. Starrctt and A. J.
Green. The latter was better known as
"Greasy Jack."
Qo9federat(^ Ueterar?.
333
Hours Saved
BY TAKING THE
fMpNtAIN
SfROUTE
TO THE
IMorth and East
St. Louis or Memphis
ROCK-BALLASTED ROADBED,
WIDE VESTIBULED TRAINS,
PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS,
NEW DINING CARS,
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, ELECTRIC FANS,
RECLINING CHAIR CARS
ELEGANT DAY COACHES.
For further information, apply to Ticket Agents
of connectinjff Unas, or to
R. T, G. MATTHEWS. T. P. A..
H. C.TOWNSEND,
OCN-L PASB'R AND TICKET AOCNT, ST. LOUIS. I
i
SEABOARD
Air Line Railway
Short Line
Between the
South and East
'Plii-oiigh trains from Birniinj;-
ham and Atlanta to North and
South Carolina and Virginia
points, also Washington, Balti-
more, Philadelphia, New York,
and coiiiiectious mado for all
points East.
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
ELEGANT CAFE DIMISG
CAR SERVICE
« W, E.CHRISTIAN, A. C.P, A, R. M, COFFEV. T. P. A.
ins PeachltceSI.. Allanla. Ga.
EDWARO F, COST, 2() V. Pres. CHAS. B. RYAN. 0 P. A.
Portsmouth, Va.
r....^..— ....^ ^ ...^ ^., ■-r-|--^-|-|||-|-|-|| II i.f III jj[
How to Get There
QUICK
The Short Line. Viai Bristol
TO THE EAST
Throvigh Train
No CKa-rvge
Leave NEW ORLEANS, Q, & C 7:30 p.m
■• MEMPniS. S.mthi-rnRv 11 :(X) p.ra
•• rHAT't'AXi iiKJA.Souti'nRv. 9:.55 a.m
" KN( IX villi;. S.mtlieru Ry..',.. 1:31 ii.m.
'• BRISTiil,. X i; W. Rv 7:(IOi..m
AriveLYNtIIHIl;(L N. & tV. Ry 1 :« a m
• WAsniXUTuN, D.C.So.Rv. «:r.2a.m
■• BALIIMiiUi;. Md.,P. R. R..:.. 8:(K)a.ii)
" PHILAl)i;i,l>HIA, p. R. R in:15a.m
•' NEW Y( iKK, p. R. R liM p.m
■• BOSTON, N. Y., N. H., & H 8:ai p.m
Throvigh Sleeper New Orleans to
New York
Through Sleeper Men\phi9 to
New York
Tlio liiu'st Dining Cur Service.
Reliable information clu erfuUv furnished liv
Norfolk and We^tvin Railway." Uiii W. Ninth
St. (Read House Blookl, Cliatt«no<iga, Tenn.
■Warren L. Rohr, 'Westorn Passenger Agent,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
W. B. Bevii.l, Ueneral Passenger Agent, Ro»
noke, Va.
TRAVEL VIA THE
SOUTHERN
RA IL WA Y
The Great- yJW Through
Southern
System
Double Dai-
ly Service
*
Nashville to
the East, via
Chattancogii
and Ashe/iilc,
through
Car N a .= h -
villa to New
York.
Dining and
O bser vation
Cars.
Pullman
Sleeping Cars
on all through
trains.
Elegant Day
Coaches.
"r//f LAND or THE SKY*'
J. M. CuLP, 4tb Vice Pres., ■Washington. D. C.
S. H. Hardwick, Pass. Traffic Manager,
Washington. D. O.
"W. H. Taylok, Gen. Pass. Agt., Washings
ton, D. U.
C. A. Benscotkr, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., Chat-
tanooga, Tenn.
J. E. Shipley, Traveling Pass. Agt., Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
TENNESSEE CENTRAL R. R.
If Ton Are Seeking
a Home, a Farm, or a
.Stock Farm, alocation
Ifor a Wood-Working
Factory, a looatioa for
a Factory of any kind,
for Timlier Lands, for
Coal Lands, the line of
the Tennessee CnntvMl U:iilroad offers ihc finest
oppoitunitT in the S nitli— for Uie Home Seelcer,
the Manufacturer, and ilie Karmer. Jt is a new
;ine rniininp through a new and rich counrv,
and .ncce^silile IjT r:iil to all p.irtsof the United
States. For further informaiion aildrcss
E. H. HINTON, Traffic Mgr., "^S"^'
JAOKSONVILLE
\'v.\ \'i(ldosta Route, from Valdosta via Georgia
Southern and Florida Ry., from Macon
via Central of Georgia Hy., from
ATLANTA
via Wpctrrri n:i 1 .\ll,,:t;i V. , \\ . from
CHATTANOOGA
NASHVILLE
ishville, Ch;ilt.»ni>oi>a, .uuj Si. 1
:irrn'incr nt
ST. LOUIS
via tlie Nashville, Ch;iit.»ni>oi>a, .uuj Si. Louis Ry.,
:irrn'incr nt
OHIOAGO
over tlie Illinois Cenlr.il U. R. fri)m .Marlin, Ten
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE AND
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
M^IXT.MNET) OVER THIS
SCENIC LINE.
Ticket agents of the JacksonviUe-St, Louis and
t iiicago line, and agents of connecting lines in
1- lorioa and the Southeast, will give you full infor-
mation as to srheiiviles of this cmuhle daily service
to St. Louis, t hicago, and the Northwest, and of
triiin time of lines connecting. They will also sell
you tickets and ^d\ ise von as to rates.
F. 1). MILLER, . Atlanta, Ga.
Traveling Passenger Agent I. C. R. R.
F. IC WHEELER, - Nashvillk, Tknn.
Commercial Agent.
834
Qor^f edera t(^ l/eterar?
On the occasion ot
««. ^ ^ •v «« .»v
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S
visit the "Courier'
Journal" said in parts
"Next riKirched in, with scililierlv precision anil nnnly oarriajjo, the i,'ray-chui cadets from the Kentnckv Military
Institute, tliat oKl school which furnished so many soldiers to the Soulli durin;,' the Civil War."
And Mr. Logan C. Murray wrote iis that "The President of the United States remarked their soldierly hearing,
good order, and discipline."
FoiK. Slurry yEAHs
The KenLtucky Military Institute
has heen training hoys and yonng men to he good citizens; good workers always, good figliters if need he.
^'ou are invited to visit tlie school during the Confederate \'eterans' Reunion. Take Pewee \'allev electric car for
Bashaw's .Station. Catalogue <.n request. Address COL. C. W. FOWLER., Supt., Box 18. Lyndori, Ky.
BTTZF-OI^ID OOLXjEO-IE
The Distinctively
Un iyersityPreparatory
College ia the South lor
Women,
INASMVIUl^E, TErVINESSEE.
STRICTLY LIMITED, EMINENTLY SELECT.
E. a. BUFORD, Reijent.
Non" Sectarian,
Non " Dcnowiaational but
Thoroughly Christiaa
in Spirit and Culture*
Ideal location xipoii an excellent electric car line, within thirty minutt^s
of Nashville, the Souths g^reat ediu-ational center. Altitude several
hundn>d feet above Nashville. (Jaminis nf tw.Mity-fiv.' ucrcs. amid Jiiiu'litv toi-.-st tr.'cs. jmiv air. ynux- water, pure food, (gymnastics
and all outdoor athletics emphasized. Ruildiny; coimnodious. mnv.-iiuMit, r.nul.irtal.lr. imd tinely njuiiJpcd. Health record unrivaled.
No deatli nor serious case of illness in its history of twenty years. Sanitation pronounced by the United States 13oard of
Health *'pra<-tically perfect."
High-toned moral and religions atmosiihere. Comprehensive curriculum of Twelve Schools leading to University Degrees. Con-
servat^ory advantages in Language. Literature, Art, Music, and Exju'essinn. Splendid Bible Course. Cultured Faculty of E.xperi-
eiiccd University (Graduates. Scholarly Lecture Corps. Access tn tiio Uiiivrrsitii's .if Nashville. Admission and. Free Scholar-
ships m all departments in the mnst advanced institutions ttf learning ol the I'nite*! Stat-'s. Persouiil ca»-e ami charaeter-buildiiiL' in
the making of a woman for womanly ends. Patronage, national and loreiL,"n. Early application nei-essary l"r entrance. Seliolastic
yeitr begins September 14, lini.V Yearbook sent on reipiest.
IVIRS. E. Q. BUPORD, President.
t
»
THE BEST PLACB
TO PURCHASE
ALL-WOOL
Bunting or
Silk Flags
of All Kinds,
SilK Banners, Swords, Belts, Caps
and all kind& of Military Equipment
and Society Goods is at
Veteran J. A. JOEL & CO.,
88 Nassau Street, /Veif York City
SEND FOR PRICE LIST.
C. BREVER'S
Russian and Turkish Baths
and First-Class Barber Shop
FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY.
817 Church Street, NASHVILtE, TENN.
Open Day and night.
W. C, SicslUU. Prop.
WHISKYm»MORPHINE
habit cured. Craving destroyed
in 4$ hours. Send for circulars.
OPPENHEIMER INSTITUTE
622 Asylum Ave., KNOXVILLE, TENN.
Througii Sleeper to Colorado
FROM HERE TO THERE
You don't have to worry about changing cars or getting a berth in some
oilier car , jiisl
Stay with the Through Car, and You'll Get There
Through from IJrunswick, Ga., via Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, and
Kansas City.
Tourist rates every day during the summer. Very low routui-lrip rates
account Epworlh League Convention, July 5 to 9.
For further infomuficn write
Asst, Gen. Passenger Agent Fricco System, Memphis, Tenn.
ECONOMIZE y^^^ °^" ■'^"'^^ ''y "s'"&
modern, high - grade office
supplies.
LESSEN ^^^ office force by having- your let-
ters and circulars mimcojjraphcd —
impossible to disting;uish from orig^i-
nnl writings.
L^^O^ modern business methods by apply-
ing to
r>. A/. ^VA.IiINNnR * era.
17 Arcade,
NasUTille, Teuu.
School Girls and Boys
Here's your chance to get a seal ring', -watch, or
fountain pen FREE! Send 10 cents for sample
copy of "Songs of the Confederacy and Plantation
Melodies." Get ten orders at 25 cents each, send
the $2.50 to me, and I will mail you tlio ten song
books and the premium voii choose. Slate initial,
if ring.
Mrs. Albert Mitchell, Dcpt, P, Paris, Ky.
The Aggressive Grocer
WHO APPRECIATES RELIABLE, UNIFORM
GOODS, RECOGNIZES IN THE CELEBRATED
Maxwell House
Blend Coffee
AN UNAPPROACHABLE STANDARD
OF SUPERIOR EXCELLENCE
'C'VERV retail grocer in Nashville is lianHling this coffee,
^■^ ami hundreds all over the Southern States are finding it
their best tracie getter. I( jnu desire for your trade coffee
that will gi\e perfect satisfaction, which is always uniform,
which is a Iraiie winner, and allows a hamisome margin of
profit, and which is cleaned, roasted, cooled, auil packed
under strictly aseptic conditions, in the most modern coffee-
roasting plants in the South and Southwest, you will make no
mistake in carrving our goods. Our coffees make your store
popular, and bring you customers in other lines.
-Go f fees That Are Pure, eiean, and Fresh
MAXWELL HOUSE BLEND 1 PORTO RICO
ThtTc arc but few coffee-roasting concerns in the United States who sell wholesale
exclusively and import their coffees. We are one of the few, and expanding faster than
anv of th.cm. The reason is, our coffees sell and {jive satisfaction. Blrn<ling coffee is a
dilKcult art. There are very few that understand it. Our blenders and roasters are ex-
perts of more than a (]uarter of a century's experience. ::::::
MAXWELL HOUSE BLEND
packed in one- and three-pound air-
tight tin cans. Three-pound cans,
one dollar.
\\\- h.nc us.;,i maxwi:ll ]UH si
nr.END COFFEE for the piisl Ion yr;irf
,iml we linllcsitatingly aflirni it is the Jjur
I si :iinl most sulisfjictory cofffc we li;o i
iisc-d. W-. K. Black.
Mimiii^cr ^!;l\\vrll House, X:ishvinn. Ti-nu
PORTO RICO
packed in paper packages attractively
lithographed, and practically dust-
and air-proof. Moderate in price,
excellent in qualitv.
Almost every Southern wholesale grocer handles our coffees. If yours does not, write us,
Qheek & Neal 60 f fee Qompany
IMPORTERS AND ROASTERS OF COFFEES, AND PROPRIETORS OF THE TWO
LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE COFFEE PLANTS IN THE SOUTH AT
Nashville, Tennessee, and Houston, Texas
Mining, Milling & Development Co.
INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF OKLAHOMA. 173 ACRES.
Capital Stock, $1,009,000. Par Value, $1 per Share. Non-Assessable and Fully Paid.
MINES IN CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, COLO., NEAR SILVER PLUME, 58 MILES FROM DENVER.
Office of the Company, 218 Union St., Homestead Building, fVashville, Tenn. Depository, American National
Banii, P^ashvllle, Tenn. Long Distance Telephone, 649. Reference, by Permission, Bradstreet's Commercial
^= Agency, Nashville, Tenn. =^=:^^=^===^:^=^=:^^^=^=^^^^^
Why Do You Sell Stock if You Have Such a Good Thing?
This <nicstiou li;is been asked
many timt'S, ami generally by
people who are not experienced
in business affairs. Knowing the
properly as he does, if tlie General
Manager had the capital to push
it to a full development, he would
take in all the stoek and own the
whole thing. Unfortunately, as
he thinks, he hasn't got the money,
and the other direelors are in the
same condition. However, this
Company is not the only one that
is selling stork. The most paying
financial institutions .sell stock
continually. .Standard Oil and
Gould Railway stocks are always
on the market, and rental prop-
erties paj'ing 20 per cent are con-
tinually being offered for sale.
Th(! onh' dilTcrcnee is that divi-
dend-paying stocks sell for a high
price, and the stock of corjiora-
tions in the jirocess of develop-
ment sell at a low j)rice. There
is an element of risk in every un-
dertaking, and this is the reason
that mining stocks are low until
a strike has bi'en matle.
The claims of this Company
are liased on the following facts;
1. This mine is in the richest
gold and silver producing dis-
trict in the woi-ld. ( Smelter re-
ports of ijroducing mines since
1891 to date prove this.) 2. There are rich, paying mines in the same mountain and in the immediate neighbor-
hood. 3. The external or surface indies '^'•ns, and the opinions of mining engineers, geologists, and practical
miners justify the claims wre make. 4. ""^ -"fr-g .^'inneling in gold-bearing rock.
IS A HUNDREDDOLLAti^ fc^'/'^STMENT WORTH WHILE?
\ oi l!c I rkfkk a* a Fo\Ai Fvamnl^c . *^^'''^ UVSUl.J'i oq '^LAHS invested in Gold Coin stock netted the
LCI L)J> LOON dl d I tW LAdinpi<i:>: foruinale owner, a -.rashington clerk, $1.-),UOO after hol.ling it throe
years. ONE HUXDRKD AND SIXTEEN DOLLARS and sixty-six ccnis inxested in (he Ellcton, at Cripple Creek, by
George Bernard, has netted him lo date over J;200,000, according to his own statement, 'l didn't know anything
aliout mining, either." says Mr. Bernard, "but being from a point just a few miles east of Kansas {^ity, people were
generally willing to show'me." ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS invested in Le Koy a few years ago is now worth $3.">0,-
000, and" the $100 has made to date $35,000 in dividends. , -
Prompt Action will Get Some of This Stock at 25 Cents per Share; 100 Shares, $25; 1,000 Shares, $250.
SEND ALL REMITTANCES AND ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO
W. H. CRAWFORD, Vice President and General Manager,
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Vol. 13
NASHVILI^B, TBNN., AUGUST, 1905
No. 8
Confederate l/eterap.
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL SERVICE AT ARLINGTON CEMETERY JUNE 5, 1905.
Views at Unveiling the Cross. Prominent in the picture are Miss N. R. Heth, holding the flag; the orator, Hon. J.
Gould; Mrs. George E. Pickett, Capt. Hickey, Capt. Rainef. Mr. Mosby, and Mr. Callahan.
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Belmont College 'or Young women,
- Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. !kA LANDRITH. LL. D.. Recent.
Miss HOOD and Miss HERON, Principals.
Attracts students from all parts of the country.
The teaching is thoroufih. intlnencL-s wholesome,
equipment complete in uvcrv detail, location un-
rivaled—i? minutes by trolley to Nashville, the
■'.Athens of ihe South": yet secluded in its own
park of IS acres; every city and every cnunt-v ail-
vantnce — steam heat, electric hghts, stalionary
and shower haths. sewerage. Courses leading to
d-'u'rees. Pn-pares for universities. Teachers of
Music. Art. and Languages were trained abroad.
The i:Jirectorof Music \s Edouarei Hcssclbcrg, the
eminent Kussinii pianist and composer. Physical
culture and all out-door games. Ni-w building will
acctimmodate 12^ more students, but waiting list
already so large early apjjlicatinn is necessary.
Senti for illustrated catalo^'ue and book of views,
or visit the school before deciding.
Address The Registrar,
Belmont Colleg^o. Nashville, Tenn.
WARD CEMINARY
PijHM^^A The inirpose of the school is to do serious and
■ wr JJWaC j,^.^|, eilucatton of girls and young women.
Courses
honest work in the Chris-
Indorsement
emiuarv, Special, and College Preparatory Courses. Art, life model
ally. Expression, three j^ears' couroC. Conservatory of Music.
AHvAfflfsifl^C ^''i^'^^ill^ excels in climate, healthfulness, and social culture. It
•^^^ • ^■"^y *^^ Is the educational center of the South, and afl'ords unusual at! van-
tages in leetni-es, i-ecitals, and other opportunities for pr.ictical education.
Every lacility fi)r pliysical culture is afforded. Tennis, bowling, hockey, and golf.
Beau iful subui ban campus of twenty-five acres, with well-ari-anged clubhonse.
The school last session was filled to its utmost capacity, and
inriny stmients applieil too late to he receiveil.
Patrons sav: "• Ward Seminary is an ideal Christian home." "The work d >iie in Ward
Seminary is of an unusually high order, the ho ne life of the institution is sw^ce. and consid-
erate, and the religions tone the best." "The social life of the Semrnary is of the very high-
est order." " My daughter has enjoyed in your school the best health she has hail ?iuce slie
was tutdve yc^rs obi." '•The school lias Hie't fully my expectations." "We can scarcely
find words to thank you for what yon have done for our daughter."
FORTY-FIRST YEAR BEGINS SEPTEMBER 28, 1905
For Catalogue, Address J. D. BLANTON, President, Nashvi'*e, Tenn.
The Campbcll-Hagcrman College
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Faculty of 21 members. Departments of Music,
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Scienc-e. Splendid new buildings. Session
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for the hiphor etiucatioii ol Soutiierii girls. In its BuiUliiiLr Ihjnie F'uruishinjfs. iV-parl-
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liealthlul. Artesian water from adepth ofH-Vlfeet Hotandrold baths. Elertrie lights.
Hot-watrr heat and all modern comforts. College table sn]>nlied from 4(«V-arre blai-k-
land farm with milk, butter, eggs. v«'g<'tabl«'s, meat, et^c. Building practirally liT'i'proof.
Tlie Music and Art teachers wci-c cducaicd in Uennany and France. Literary tca-li-
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OFFICIALLl- REPRESENTS:
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NASHVILLE, TENN., ArGUST, 1905.
No. f<. -j
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
Proprietor.
ECHOES FROM THE LOUISVILLE REUNION.
Mrs. Janet W. Randolph (Mrs. N. V. R.), Chairman Cen-
tral Coiinnittce Jefferson Davis Monument Association, in
Jime wrote from Richmond to the President and memhers
of the Confederated Southern Memorial .Association :
"The Chairman of the Central Committee deems it most ap-
propriate that a report of Jefferson Davis monuiTicnt shoidd
ccimc to yon at this meeting, for it was at Louisville five
years ago that I appeared before the Confederated Southern
Memorial Association asking the cooperation of your body,
(hen handed together for the first time. With the zeal of the
Memorial Associations, who since the trying days of 1861-65
iinve never wavered, you came to the aid of 'your children,'
I lie Daughters of the Confederacy.
"How T would like to be with you in person to-day to say
that our work has been rewarded! In bank to-day is $70,000
drawing interest. The model, as submitted by Mr, Edward
\'alentine, has been accepted and the contract signed, the
monument to be unveiled June 3. 1907, at which time we hope
the Reunion will be held in Richmond, and we will welcome
the Confederated Southern Memorial .Association in our city.
With the sincere thanks of the Central Connnitlee of the
Jcffer.^on Davis Monument for your cooperation in the erec-
tion of the monument to the one and only President of the
Confederate States and (he cause he represented, and with
greetings to each member present, I am gratefully and Irnlv
vours."
Katie Daffan Chaptf.r, Denton, Tex. — A large and en-
thusiastic Chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy was or-
ganized July 29 in the county courthouse at Denton. Many
Veterans and citizens were present, and much interest was
manifested. The Cbajiter was named in honor of Miss Katie
Daffan, of Ennis, Tex., former President of the Texas Di-
vision, U. D. C, whose diligence and zeal for Veterans and
Daughters continue without ceasing as well when out of
office as when in office.
MISS GERTRUDE MONTGOMERY,
Sponsor for the California lirigailc at Louisville Reunion,
Oldest Confederate Organization — Third North Caro-
1 iNA Infantrv. — The Third North Carolina InTantry Associa-
tion, organized at Wilmington, N, C, February 2, 1886, the
oldest Confederate Veteran organization, has never since the
;i.-;sociation was organized failed to "celebrate" their annual
reunion and to retain its organization as a separate and dis-
tinct association, although all the members also belong to the
local Camp, Cape Fear 254. U. C. V., and celebrate with that
Camp. J. Randolph Smith, of llender.son, N. C, writes:
"According to long-established custom, the thirty-ninth re-
union of the 'Third' was held at Wrightsville Beach May 16.
1905, with headquarters at the handsome home of Capt. W.
11. Northrop, near the ocean. Only the Veterans and the
eldest sons of the Veterans are eligible to associate member-
ship in this organization. The officers are: President, Col.
W. L, DeRossett; Secretary, Mr, W. M. Cumming; Chaplain,
Rev, John R, Marshall. Among the members, but not an
officer just now, is Col. John L, Cantwell, also a member of
the 'famous six hundred,' whose presence was especially re-
(|uested at the Louisville reunion of 1905, He learned 'the
gentle art of making war' down on the Rio Grande in 1846-47.
when be belonged to the gallant Company 11 of the Palmetto
Regiment of South Carolina."
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Qo^federa ^ Ueterar).
VVEKSISUKG CONFEDERATE MONUMENT.
The anniversary of the battle of Shiloli. the Cth of April,
was marked by the unveiling of a Confeckrate monument in
Dyersburg, Tenn., dedicated to the brave soldiers who went
from Dyer County, so many of whom, alas ! fell on that mem-
orably bloody field. Perhaps the largest assemblage ever
within the limits of Dyersburg gathered to witness the cere-
monies of the unveiling, composed of the best people of the
community, who gave most earnest attention to the exercises.
As master of ceremonies, Mr. T, C. Gordon, of Dyersburg
and representative for the county, introduced the different
speakers; who were Hon. Maecenas Benton, formerly of
Dyersburg, but now a prominent citizen of Missouri ; Gov.
Jeff Davis, of Arkansas; Senators Carmack and Frazier, of
Tennessee; Col. Luke Finley, of Memphis, who was major
and lieutenant colonel of the 4th Tennessee. Capt. S. R.
Latta made a brief address. It is a coincidence that he, like
Gen. Strahl, was a Northern man, the two raising the first
companies in the county.
When the remains of Gen. O. F. Strahl were taken from
beautiful Ashwood Cemetery, near Columbia, to Dyersburg,
his old home, in 1901 and there reinterred with fitting cere-
monies, a movement was started for the erection of a monu-
ment to him and the other patriotic sons of Dyer County who
had so promptly responded to the call of their country. The
first company organized in that community was commanded
by Otho French Strahl, a native of Ohio, who had settled in
Dyersburg and become of its people. He was afterwards
elected lieutenant colonel of the 4th Tennessee Regiment, and
was then promoted to brigadier general. He was killed in the
battle of Franklin.
The Dyer Guards was Company K of the 4tli Tennessee.
It was made up of members from Dyersburg and vicinity and
connnanded first by Capt. Strahl. After his election at Ger-
mantown to be lieutenant colonel of the .4th Tennessee, H. L.
Fowlkcs was made its captain. The command next devolved
upon Capt. John W. Lauderdale, a brave and efficient officer,
always ready for duty whether in camp, on the march, or on
the battlefield, and no less faithful to the duties of civil life,
in which he made a host of friends.
The securing of the monument fund was specially through
the Dawson Bivouac, of Dyersburg, whose members worked
earnestly till its completion. The monument stands in a cor-
nc'r of the courthouse yard, ll is a handsome shaft of granite,
surniouuled by the figure of a soldier in full uniform. On
the shaft is a list of the battles in whicli this counnand par-
ticipated.
After the prayer and other appropriate opening exercises,
the veil was drawn by Miss Jane Skeffington, of Dyersburg.
one of that city's most charming and beautiful young women.
On the platform a number of young ladies were seated, repre-
senting the difTerent Stales, an<l their bright faces and pretty
costumes made a most attractive picture. Hon. Maecenas
Benton made the first speech. He was followed by Gov. Jeff
Davis, of Arkansas ; and after an intermission for lunch, the
exercises were continued by speeches from Senators Frazier
and Carmack and Col. Luke Finley, of Memphis. Lack of
space prevents the publication of these addresses, but that of
Mr. Benton is given in part, as he was more closely identified
with the people of the connnunity than were the other visitors.
Mr. Benton's father was a stanch Union man, and the son
evidently held very different views as a hoy from those enter-
tained by him in later years dnriug which he was a mcmliLr
of Congress from Missouri.
Si'Kixii OK Mu. Benton.
"My judgment was made up after the war as to the right
of a State to secede from reading and studying the status of
the colonies before the making of the constitution, the de-
bates in the convention which framed the constitution, and
the debates and actions of the States in adopting the consti-
tution, and I have no doubt of the right of a State in l86t
to withdraw from the L'nion when it seemed necessary to its
citizens, and thfs I say without regard to the question as to
whether it was wise to do so.
"It was not the intention of the people of the South to de-
stroy the government of the LTnited States, but to frame and
run a government that suited them better. No statesman or
publicist of the South ever declared it to be the intention of
the South to destroy the United States government.
"The reason that impelled the great heart of the South to
follow their leaders, both educated and uneducated classes,
was their training and education politically. From the or-
ganization of the United States government the people of the
South had been educated and trained to believe that their
first and supremo allegiance was due to their sovereign
State, and beginning with Robert E. Lee and coming down
to the humblest citizen the voice of their sovereign State was
to them the voice of God.
"Some there were, good men and true, who had served
under Jackson 'at Talladega, the Horseshoe, and New Or-
leans: others v.dio had marched beneath the stars and stripes
DYERSBURG MONUMENT.
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with Scott and 'laylor in Mexico, loved tlie union of Stales,
loved ihc Hag. Tliese refused to give their hearts to seces-
sion. It was not that they loved their friends and neighbors
and State less, but the flag and the Union better."
Mr. Benton then called the roll from memory of the Dyer
Guards, the first company that left Dyersburg under the la-
mented Strahl. Many personal reminiscences were recounted
of the battles, the bivouacs, etc.
"The best soldier in the world is the American volunteer
(especially the Southern volunteer). Why? Because he feels
that he is a part of the government, that part of the respon-
sibility of his neigbliorhood, of his county, of his State, and
of his government rests on him. Personal and county and
State pride make him do wonders."
Mr. Benton referred to the kind of soldiers the men of
Dyer County, Tenn.. and of tile Smith made. "The world
DEUIC.VTION OF THE MONUMENT.
never ^aw lullcr." he >ai(l. l!e llien iltseiibcd the surrender,
Ihe home-coming, the chimneys without houses, the desolation
of homes, the poverty of the new conditions, etc. Next he
referred with pride to tlie magnificent upbuilding of the old
sh;itlered SoiUh, the cleaning out of the briers and brambles,
the deathless heroisnt of the men and women of the South.
Ihe f.-icl that these soldiers had made the best of citizens, and
(|Uoled from llie I'salniisl tli.it of llio (.'onfedcralcs il iiiiylil
be said: "( )iici' 1 w.is young, now 1 am old; \et have I nol
seen the ri.ubUiius forsaken nor his seed begging bread."
Then a Inluilc lo the women of ibe South and an exhorl.-ilion
to the old soldiers to prepare I'or the hereafter, that ihev
mighl make such citizens and soldiers of the skies as they
had made here below.
'Mac SxriwART. a Confederate Veteran Who was I'niiei!
Sentence of Death in Mexico. — The story of Mac Stewart,
who was under sentence of death in Mexico for eight years
.and who was recently pardoned by President Diaz, is brielly
told b> him in the Houston I'ost: "The man .shot me. and
in self ilrl'eiise 1 pulled m\ revolver and fired at him. The
trouble occurred on a street in Parral. T was in a buggy at
the time, and on some little offense, misunderstood by the
policeman, he commanded that 1 .go with him. Nothing that
I bad done justifying my arrest. 1 refused to go. The man
pulled bis revolver and fired. Ihe shot l.akiiig efl'eet in my
light leg. lie was leveling his pistol for another shot, when
I pulled out my revolver and fired at him. The shot went
througli his breast, and he fell dead." This occurred May
31, iSy5. Stewart was sentenced June 3 following to be
shot for the murder. For months he was in suspense as to
the time of his execution. At last, through the efforts of
Dr. R. B. Lignoski. of Houston, and others, an order was
obtained changing the sentence to life imprisonment, and
Stewart was confined in the Parral prison, where he remained
three years, after which he was transferred to the Chihuahua
prison. He was in Chihuahua seven years, being released
from there recently.
CORRECT lERSIOy OF ■•LITTLE GIFFEN."
EV W. C. DOUSON, tlF ATLANTA, GA.
I read in the sixties the exquisite little poem by Dr. Tick-
iior and which you printed recently in the Veteran. T have
been very much annoyed at tlie errors which have crept into
it from time to time, the name spelled wrong, and in one
ci'.se a wliole verse has been practically changed. To settle
llie mailer of the correct and original version, I wrote ti
Dr. Ticknor, of Columbus, and inclose you herewith llu
original version, which was copied from the elder Dr. Tick-
ior"s original manuscript :
l.ITTI.E GiFFF.N.
Out of the focal and foremost fire,
( )nt of Ihe hospital walls as dire.
Smitten of grapesbot and gangrene —
I'.ighleciuh battle and he sixteen —
Specter such as you seldom see,
l.illle (iiflfcii, of Tennessee.
"Take him? Surely." the surgeons said:
"Not the (!oetfir can help llie dead."
.\nd so we took him. and brought him where
Tile balm was sweet in our summer air,
.\nd we laid him down on a wholesome bed —
liter l.azarns heel to licad.
.\nd we watched the war with abated bic.ith.
Skeleton boy against skeleton death.
Months of torture, how many such!
Weary weeks of the stick and crutch:
.'\nd ever a glint in the steel-blue eye
■fold of ,a sjiirit lliat woiildn'l die.
.And didn't. Nay, more: in death's despite
The crippled skelelon learned lo write —
"Dear Mother" al first, of course, and then
"Dear Captain," inqniring ,iboiil ibe men.
Captain's answer: "Of eighty and live,
CiilTeii and I are left alive!"
"Johnston's pressed at the front," they say:
I.iltle GitTen was up and away!
A tear, his first, as be bade good-by.
Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye.
"I'll write if .spare<l." There was news of fight.
But none of Giffen — he did not write.
I sonuiimes fancy that when I'm King
And my loving courtiers form a ring,
Kach so heedless of power and pelf,
.All so loyal to all but self,
I'd give the best on his bended knee.
The knightliest in his chivalry —
Yea, barter the wdiole for the loyally
Of Little Giffen, of Tennessee.
SM
QoQfederat^ l/eterar?,
Qopfederate l/eterap.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
OfEce: Methodist Publishing House Building, Naeliiille, Tenn.
Thu pnHlcation Is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. AU per*
•OBSirbc approve its principles and realize its benelits as an organ for Asso*
Clartoni throughout the South are requested to commend its patronage and to
coafettde in e.\teading Its circulation, l^t each one be constantly diligent.
In a letter from Mrs. V. Jefferson Davis of June 28, 1905,
she states : "I inclose a check for ten dollars, five dollars for
the Veter.\n expenses and five dollars for which I wish yoj
would send the Veteran in my name to our dear old men
who are, like myself, 'lingering on the verge' of another
world."
The "five dollars for the Veteran expenses" will he under-
stood by the fact that Mrs. Davis sends five dollars each year
(instead of one dollar) for subscription. This rule of hers
is the more appreciated in the fact that she has had her full
share of privations since the war. By diligent labor with
her pen, with which .she has ever maintained the honor and
rectitude of her people, and by other fortuitous circum-
stances, she is gratified in the ability to so distribute the
Veteran among some worthy Imt unfortunate men who
fought for the Confederacy.
In confonuity with Mrs. Davis's wish, the Veteran re-
.sponds and decides to send a yearly subscription to one man
of every Division of the U. C. V., and requests each Adjutant
General to send the name of a worthy comrade to be so
favored.
The matter of subscriptions seems a trifle, evidently, to
many; but if every one would see to it that his or her sub-
scription is renewed promptly, the result would- give in the
aggregate a power for usefulness that would gratify all who
have the cause sincerely at heart. ;
Those who are very busy with their own affairs should be
impressed on seeing this with the fact that, while "dull seasons
come with others, the Veteran expenses grind out needs for
twenty-five to thirty dollars every day of the week and of
the year. This is a mere Iiiiil. It is certain that many wise
persons read the Veteran.
U. D. C. DAY AT MONTE AG I.E.
The Monteagle (Tenn.) Assembly is distinguished by hav-
ing in its annual programme a "U. D. C. Day," in the cere-
monies of which Confederates from everywhere are to par-
ticipate. With Daughters of the Confederacy in charge, spe-
cial deference is paid to the Veterans. Decorations are Con-
federate, and eminent members of the different Confederate
organizations are chosen for addresses, songs, recitations,
etc.
Mrs. M. B. Pilcher, of Nashville, ever zealous in Confed-
erate matters and who has contributed largely to the beauty
of the Assembly grounds and to its success generally, de-
serves special credit for maintaining the U. D. C. work.
The programme was sufficiently elaborate, but some of the
speakers did not appear. Mrs. Pilcher was aided this year
by Comrade J. C. S. Timberlake, proprietor of the Assembly
Inn, who without stint cooperated most cordially in every
respect. The bills of fare and the table decorations in red
and white were most artistic.
Mrs. T. J. Latham, of Memphis, presided at the meeting,
and exhibited her usual zeal for success in the cause. The
address of Miss Elizabeth Elliott Lumpkin, the Daughter oe
THE Unitep Ciinfedekate Veterans, was the most notable
feature of the day. To those who heard Miss Lumpkin at
Augusta or at Rome, in her native Georgia, or at Louisville
it is useless to mention the rare and joyous treat. To others
it may be said that she electrified her audience. In the outset
there were outbursts of applause; but as she progressed, de-
claring for the merit of the men and women of the South to
all that can be said and done by Christian patriots, there was
a stillness which showed the subdued spirit of all present.
When Miss Lumpkin concluded, the band struck up
"Dixie," the multitude shouted, and the "old boys" gave the
"Rebel yell." Miss Lumpkin's manner and the tone of her
marvelous voice captivates and thrills her audience in pro-
portion as what she so well says possesses merit.
Prominent members of the Assembly who have taken much
interest in entertainments there for years say there has never
been an address from that platform equal to it. One lady,
whose husband had failed to attend the services on account
of a Ijusiness engagement, said to a friend, while pointing
to an attractive place in front: "I viould give twenty-live
dollars if my husband was sitting right there."
It seems that nothing was lacking in the Assenilily InU the
presence of three or four thousand Veterans to make it all
that could have been desired.
CONCERNING WOMAN'S MONUMENT.
At a Confederate picnic in Clyde, Tex., Capt. B. B. Paddock,
of Waco, espoused the cause of a woman's inoninnent. lie
made an appeal that not another cent be given for a monu-
ment to the Confederate soldier until we show our apprecia-
tion for the sacrifices made and the noble deeds performeil
during our great war in the sixties.
A motion to that effect was passed, and a committee, com-
posed of Capt. B. B. Paddock, Mr. Moody, and Judge C. C.
Cummings, was appointed by Commander Taylor to confer
with a committee of Sons regarding the matter of raising this
money and report at the next meeting. Commander Curtis,
of the Sons' Camp, appointed on the committee R. L. Coston,
C. S. Welsch, and W. J. Gilvin.
It will be remembered that the Confederate Sons of th'"
South undertook to erect a monument to the Women of the
Confederacy several months ago, and that about $50,000 li:i<
been raised for the purpose, the monument to cost $100,000.
At the Clyde meeting Mr. N. C. Bawcom, of Sweetwater,
proposed to start the fund then and there, and he contributed
five dollars to the same. Silver rained on the speaker's stand
until twenty-five dollars was received, and this amount is in
bank. This is the first attempt on the part of the Veterans
to do their duty to the noble women of the South, and it
should be prosecuted with zeal and energy until the end is
accomplished.
ENTERTAINING THE U. D. C.'S IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Mrs. Alfred Hunter Voorhies, President of the Albert Sid-
ney Johnston Chapter, San Francisco, sent an invitation to
Louisville which happened not to be extended to the con-
vention. It was that the Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter will
be "hostess Chapter" for the U. D. C. convention to be held
in San Francisco beginning October 3. It is needless to say
that when this splendid body of Confederate women under-
take a thing success always results.
(^opfederat^ l/eterai)
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MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES IN BALTIMORE.
Prof. H. E. Shepherd, in Memorial Day address, Baltimore :
"In the course of my travels I have looked upon the finest
armies of the world, but there does not exist an army with
the purity of convictions and the intensity of courage which
marked the armies of the men who wore the gray.
"There has been too much tendency of late to blot out the
lines which make the South distinctive. Here before the
women of the South I beg that we may never lose our in-
dividuality nor the distinction that has marked the Confed-
erate Memorial Day. This is not a decoration day; it is a
memorial day, a solemn memorial assembly, an all saints'
day, when all the powers of the spiritual world are in pecul-
iar activity. Let us, then, protest against an erratic world
of haste ever blotting out that which is distinctive of our
Southern life. Not that I would influence against the unity
of our nationality, but above this there is, after all, devotion
to principle.
"The vindication of the South is being shown by historical
investigations, and I am glad to sec that books which for-
merly in our schools condemned Jackson, Lee, and others in
unjustifiable terms have been eliminated.
"Had the Confederacy succeeded, it would have made a
wonderful success, for the South has demonstrated that its
government has been a success.
"No peciplc is so unhappy as that one without a history.
picious than now, because keen investigators in Europe are
studying the history of that great conflict as it has never
MRS. E. P. JONES,
?pinsor for MaryUiul Pivision at I.oui.-^viUe R( union.
Upon the Southern women fell a large share of the brunt of
the contest. I beg you, Southern women, to teach our his-
tory to your children. There was never a time more aus-
8*
MIS.S .s.XR.MI l.l'.t ILV.VNS,
Miild of Honcr for Marylan<l Division at Louisville Rmnlon,
been done b: fore and are striving to know all they can of
Lee and Jackson. When I was in London a year ago, shortly
after one of the great Russian reverses, I saw in one of tlie
finely published London papers the following editorial : 'Rus-
sia's cause is hopeless unless some heaven-born ruler like
Stonewall Jackson arises to lead her armies.' Not Grant
nor Sheridan nor Wellington, but Stonewall Jackson."
At Monument.
The ceremonies were held at the base of the Confederate
monument. There was a large attendance of Southern sym-
pathizers, and about eighty of the members of the Confederate
Soldiers' Home at Pikesville were in the procession, which
marched from the main entrance to the Confederate lot,
with Capt. George W. Booth, President of the Society of the
Army and Navy of the Confederate States, at its head. The
memorial exercises were under the direction of the society,
and there was a large attendance, including Maj. Stuart Sym-
ington, William S. Ritter, John F. Hayden, F. M. Colston,
James R. Wheeler, Lamar Hollyday, D. L. Thomas, Ridgely
Howard, Samuel Hough, William Pegram, R. Annan, W.
S. Dubel, D. Ridgely Howard, Thomas Foley Hiskey, Maj.
James W. Denny, Neilson Poe, Col. David Mcintosh, and
James W. Jenkins.
President Booth directed the ceremonies, assisted by Mr.
Wheeler. The City Park Band, C. Dorsey Waters leader,
played the march to the burial ground and the concluding
hymn, "Nearer, My God, to Thee," and a male chorus sang
"How Sleep the Brave?" and "Abide with Me." After an ad-
dress by Capt. Booth, prayer was offered by Rev. William M.
Dame. Father Ryan's "How Sleep the Brave?" was recited
with effect by Miss Katie McWilliams.
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Qo^federati^ Ueterar?.
SPKCIAL DEPARTMENT.
iJrjited S09S of <$09federat:e l/eteraps.
Organized July 1, IHM, in Richmond, la.
Conducted ty the Commauder in Chief, to whom all contributions
intended therefor should be addressed.
THOMAS M. OWEX, LL.D.. Commander is Chief, t. jionteomerv Ala.
WILL T. SHEEHAN, A. Ci. and Chief of Staff, t '"""■■e"'"'" J. «"»
E. LESLIE SPEXCE, JR., Commander A. N. T. Dept., Richmond. Ta.
R. E. L. BYNX'M. Commander Army Tenn. Dept.. Jackson, Tenn.
I. J. STOCKETT, Commander Trass-Miss. Dept., Tyler, Tex.
[No. 2.]
THIS DEPARTMENT.
This department is designed to be a full repository of cur-
rent news and information concerning the administrative
work and business of the United Sons of Confederate Vet-
erans. It is conducted by the Commander in Chief, and is in
a certain sense official. It is very desirable that it should ac-
complish the greatest possible good for the organization.
It is therefore earnestly urged that all Sons subscribe for
the Confederate Veteran. The subscription price, one dollar
per annum, is merely nominal. The files should be carefully
preserved and bound for future use and reference. As the
years go by they will be found to be of ever-increasing value.
CONFEDERATION NEWS.
The Commander in Chief has had his staflf and committee
assignments made up for some time. They are not published
in this issue owing to a desire to include" therewith, when
printed, the names of the members of the staffs of the depart-
ment commanders.
The first three Camps to be chartered by the present ad-
ministration are as follows: July 6, Camp Sam Davis, of
Mineral Wells, Tex., W. E. McConnell, Commandant, and
Walter L. Norwood, Adjutant, with thirty members; July 6,
Camp Morgan Cohrain, of Hillsville, Va., S. W. Tompkins,
Commandant, and H. L. Franklin, Adjutant, with thirty mem-
bers; July 13, Camp Justin, of Justin, Tex., Dr. W. H.
Pennington, Commandant, and T. W. Anderson, Adjutant,
with forty members.
In Special Orders No. I, dated June 16, 1905, George W.
Duncan was appointed Commander of the Alabama Division
to fill the vacancy caused by the election of the incumbent
of that office, Thomas M. Owen, to the position of Com-
mander in Chief. Division Commander Duncan at once took
command. On July 31, in General Orders No. 14, he desig-
nated IMontgomerj', Ala., as Division headquarters, and ap-
pointed Albert C. Sexton Division Adjutant. The remaining
members of the staff of the former Commander were retained.
Dr. Charles C. Thach, President of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, of Auburn, was named as the successor of Mr. Dun-
can as Commander of the First Brigade.
During the approaching fall many of the Divisions will
hold their annual reunions. In some no reunions have ever
been held, or, if so, they have not been regular. It is very de-
sirable that every Division should hold a reunion. It is im-
possible for Camps to do their full duty to themselves or to
the organization unless they take sufficient interest to come
together and project work, elect officers, etc. The Commander
in Chief hopes that no Division will fail in this duty. He will
gladly assist in framing a programme and in making sugges-
tions. Dates of the following have been ascertained : The Ala-
bama Division will hold its fifth annual reunion at Huntsville
October 25 and 26; Georgia, at Macon, October 24 and 25;
and Virginia, at Petersburg, October 25, 26, and 27. The re-
union of the Mississippi Division was held at Beauvoir June
5, and W. Calvin Wells, Jr., of Jackson, was chosen Division
Commander to succeed O. L. McKays. The reunion of the
Texas Division was held in Galveston July 19 and 20.
Newspaper Supplements in Behalf op the Women's
Memorial.
Among other agencies employed for the purpose of arousing
favorable sentiment, besides raising revenue in aid of the me-
morial proposed to be erected by the U. S. C. V. to the women
of the Confederacy, it has been decided to issue supplements
to various leading newspapers throughout the South. The
general direction of the preparation of the supplements is in
the hands of Gen. C. Irvine Walker, special representative of
A
iilSS ALICE Y. COLE, FREDERICKSBURG, VA.,
Sponsor U. S. C. V., First District.
GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE KtVlt\Vi,\G lliE PARADE AT LOUISVILLE REUNION.
Qopfederat^ l/eterap.
347
the U. S. C. V. These supplements are to contahi, for each
State, incidents of what the women of the Confederacy did
and suffered. Owing to difficulties not anticipated, these pub-
lications have been delayed.
So far, South Carolina has published such a supplement to
the Ne'ins and Courier, Charleston, S. C. ; Florida, one to the
Jacksonville Times-Union; Savannah, in the Morning Nczvs.
These have been highly creditable issues and largely remunera-
tive. Nine papers in North Carolina will publish such sup-
plements, and they are now in the printers' hands and will be
issued the latter part of July.
The following papers have made arrangements to publish,
and the supplements will be issued by States just as soon as
the advertising feature, which supplies the means, can be
worked up. It would be useless to attempt to secure advertise-
ments during the dull summer months, and work on these sup-
plements will be postponed until the early fall. The news-
papers arc as follows ;
Alabama: Anniston. Hot Blast; Huntsville, Morning Mer-
cury; Mobile, Herald ; Montgomery, Journal.
Arkansas : Little Rock, Arkansas Gazette.
Georgia: Atlanta, Journal; Augusta, Chronicle ; Columbus,
Enquirer-Sun; Macon, Telegraph.
Mississippi : Jack.son, Clarion-Ledger; Vicksburg, Herald.
South Carolina : Columbia, State.
Tennessee: Chattanooga, Times; Knoxville, Sentinel; Mem-
phis, Commercial-.Appeal ; Nashville, American.
\'irginia ; Norfolk, Dispatch; Petersburg, Index-Appeal;
Richmond, Tintcs-Dispatch.
CIRCULAR APPEAL FOR CO-OPERATIOX.
The following important circular address, outlining work
and activities, and appealing to members of the organization
for cooperation and encouragement, is given in full. It should
be carefully read and pondered by every Confederate Veteran
and every son of a Confederate Veteran. It indicates that
the coming year is to be one of work and achievement, in
which every loyal Son should have a part.
Gener.\l Headquarters United Sons of Confederate Vet-
erans— Circular No. I.
« Montgomery, Ala., July 4, 1905.
Comrades: Called by your generous esteem to the highest
executive office in your gift, and eager to meet in the broadest
and best sense the duties imposed, I come to you at the very
outset with an earnest appeal for sympathy, cooperation, and
enconragemint. We are told that this is a critical period in
our history, and that, as never before, the eyes of the whole
country arc upon us. There are some who even assert that
our organization should never have been instituted. Some
desire us to merge with the Veterans, a quite impossible con-
dition ; while others indifferently suggest that we dissolve alto-
gether. We are on all sides confronted with the charge — too
true, it must be admitted — that practically nothing has been
accomplished, at least commensurate with our declared objects
and our opportunities. In view of these disheartening condi-
tions, we are indeed face to face with problems which affect
our very existence. Unless we redeem ourselves in the near
future, and show that we are capable of meeting the responsi-
bilities we have assumed by more substantial achievement, it
is feared that hope for the future will be in vain.
Nevertheless, I am not in the least discouraged, and in order
to counsel with our members this brief address and appeal is
issued. It contains a succinct statement of activities and as-
pirations projected after consultation with many comrades, to
the accomplishment of which I have already set lo work.
Administrative Work.
The first effort will be to put the entire Confederation
machinery in good working order. It is useless to consider
activities when the means for their accomplishment are ineffi-
cient or altogether wanting. From General Headquarters, down
through all intermediate stages to the Camp, there will be
systematic effort at reorganization, with a view to increasing
effectiveness. The various objects and purposes for which we
e.\ist are to be worked out through and by Camps and their
members. Camps are supreme, subject to a few constitutional
limitations. Therefore the Camp, as the most important of
the several constituted bodies of our organization, is to be
persistently emphasized. It will be insisted that they hold
regular meetmgs, at least once a month, except during the
summer season. It will be further insisted that only compe-
tent and willing members be elected to office ; for, while appar-
ently unimportant, the position of Camp official is one of dig-
nity and responsibility. Camps will be required to carefully
preserve their records, the historical data collected, and the
individual records of members and their ancestors. As far as
possible Camps will be encouraged to secure permanent head-
quarters. In a certain sense a camp is to be regarded as a
local historical society, and as such it should either accumulate
funds for the erection or purchase of a building, or should
unite with the local public or school library. In this way the
Camp may become a permanent and useful factor in the com-
munity. A good membership roll and a comfortable place for
meetings will necessarily be followed by organization for
Confederation work. Plans will be devised for inducing
Camps to adopt and carry on several important activities,
sufficient to employ and interest the differing characteristics
and tastes of members.
Attention is to be given to a reorganization of the several
Divisions. Some have failed to hold reunion conventions and
have otherwise fallen short in their duty. They will not only
be expected to reorganize, but they will be expected to adopt
some specific work. It is also hoped to secure the arrange-
ment and publication of Division proceedings and records.
Historical Activities.
Inasmuch as the Confederation is primarily a historical
organization, great attention will necessarily be given to his-
tory and kindred topics. Camp officers and members will be
expected to collect from participants written accounts, narra-
tive.";, memoirs, histories of battles, episodes, and occurrences of
the war, also original documents, including commissions, pa-
roles, reports, rosters, maps, diaries, journals and old letters,
and also war relics and mementos, such as flags, uniforms,
swords, arms, and equipment. Renewed efforts will be put forth
to secure the use of unobjectionable histories and historical
works in all of our schools and libraries. The members of the
Historical Committees in their respective Divisions will be ex-
pected to be centers of healthy historical influence. The
Commander in Chief will personally do all in his power to
aid the roster commissioners in the several Southern States
in the collection of original war records for the compilation
uf rosters now being made by the United States War De-
partment, and he will also undertake a bibliography of current
war literature, with critical not^ and estimates. Further
effort will be directed to encouraging the establishment of
Departments of Archives and History in the Southern States
as the best method of administering the duty of the State to
historical work and enterprise.
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C^oi^federa t(^ Ueterap,
Relief.
In the largest measure every individual Son and every Camp
will be expected to carry out both the letter and the spirit of
the provision of our constitution, which declares that we will
strive (section 7) "to see that the disabled are cared for,
that a helping hand is extended the needy, and that needy Con-
federate Veterans' widows and orphans are protected and as-
sisted." The Veterans are rapidly passing away, and what is
done for them must be done quickly. Public opinion, favorable
to increase of pensions and better support of soldiers' homes,
will be cultivated. Practical benevolence in other forms will
be encouraged.
Attention is here directed to the successful effort of the
Mississippi Division, U. S. C. V., whereby Beauvoir was se-
cured for a soldiers' home, as an example of helpfulness
worthy of emulation in every Division of the Confederation.
Monuments.
While many monuments have been erected here and there
in the South, many worthy objects and individuals are yet to
be commemorated. Following the recommendations contained
in the report of the Monument Committee, made to the last
reunion, the assistance of every member of our organization
will be urged in all worthy monument effort by whomsoever
undertaken. Divisions will be asked, as a specific task, to
locate and identify all places or scenes within their limits,
made historic by some event in Confederate history, with a
view to subsequent marking or commemoration. Camps will
be asked to undertake some definite monument work, particu-
larly the task of marking with suitable headstones the graves
of the Confederate dead in their vicinity heretofore neglected.
All Sons will be asked to make some contribution, however
small, to the Jefferson Davis Memorial and to the John B.
Gordon Memorial.
Women's Memorial.
The task which the Sons set for themselves in May, 1899,
to collect funds for the erection of a memorial to the heroic
and noble women of the Confederacy, will, it is hoped, be
pushed to a practical conclusion during the year. At the re-
union of 1904, the Veterans who were engaged in a similar
undertaking formally relinquished the task to the Sons. The
movement is now on a thorough business footing, and Gen.
C. Irvine Walker, of Charleston, S. C, the legally authorized
reprcs^'-tative of the Women's Memorial Committee, has in
motion several plans, from each of which much is expected.
Gen. Walker's efforts, as well as all other efforts in this behalf,
must be encouraged and supported in every way.
It is desirable for many reasons that this work should be
speedily concluded. It is the noblest effort which could engage
us, and it should not on that account be longer delayed. Again
it should be finished in order that our energies may be released
for other activities. The last formal utterance of the lamented
Gordon at the last reunion he ever attended (New Orleans,
1903) was on this subject; and while made to the Veterans
themselves, who had not at that time given up the work, it
will bear repetition here :
"I will give you my last message : 'Don't you die until you
have built a monument to Southern womanhood.' Those glo-
rious women repel the idea, but it is simply like them. They
did not charge you one cent for the tears they shed while you
were at the front and while their hearts were breaking with
anxiety for you and the cause. They did not charge you one
cent for the devotion which followed you in camp and in
battle. They did not charge you one cent for the patient self-
sacrifice during the black night and crucifixion of reconstruc-
tion. Don't s.op until you have built them a monument, and
let it tower. I know I reflect your sentiments when I say
that no marble shaft, let it tower ever so high, and no marble,
be it ever so white and pure, can ever express our love for
the martyrdom of our glorious Southern womanhood."
Co-operation with the Veterans.
From its organization, in 1896, the United Sons of Confed-
erate Veterans has had the cordial sympathy and encourage-
ment of the United Confederate Veterans. It was felt by the
Confederate soldiers that their descendants should be banded
together for historical and benevolent purposes, and to that
end they have bidden us Godspeed. The Veterans at the re-
union in New Orleans, 1903, adopted formal resolutions on the
subject of closer cooperation, reciting, among other things,
"that the Veterans see to it that in all Confederate gatherings
and celebrations the Sons shall be given prominence. They 11
are the heirs of, and must by association with the Veterans be "!
taught, the glorious heritage that belongs to them."
Apart from this declaration the Veterans owe a peculiar
duty to the Sons, on account of which they should watch our
progress with unceasing solicitude. They should ever bear in
mind that the success of our Confederation is inseparably
bound up with the future of the "cause" they so much venerate
and love. Our failure will surely be taken as an indication
that the heritage of the Confederate soldier is not sufficient to
sustain a great patriotic organization.
In every way, on the part of the Sons, the spirit of coopera-
tion will be made prominent. They will be encouraged to fre-
quently attend the Camps of the Veterans, and to participate
with them in joint session on all commemorative occasions
or in Memorial Day exercises. They will also be expected
to honor themselves by always having one or more Veterans
present at the meetings of their Camps.
Veterans will also be asked to cooperate with General
Headquarters.
Conclusion.
There are many other matters which will receive attention,
not necessary to be mentioned here. Camp extension will be
pushed as vigorously as in the past. Above all, the entire
membership of the Confederation will be directed to high
ideals of life and character.
In the work which has been projected I must have not halt- ^
ing help, but cheerful and enthusiastic response. If indeed the
Sons are of the heroic mold of the fathers, they will labor un-
ceasingly, as well as ungrudgingly of time and means, to meet
their professed responsibilities. Will this appeal be in vain?
Will your officers be left to toil on alone, or will you join
with them?
With full faith in the Confederation, and actuated by the
optimistic belief that much can yet be done to retrieve lost op-
portunity, and that by united effort the organization can
ultimately be brought to the proud place designed by its
patriotic founders, I have entered upon the difficult task which
has been intrusted to my guidance.
Sons everywhere will receive copies of this address and
appeal. Tliey should make prompt acknowledgment, giving
such hints and suggestions as they may wish ; and at the same
time should be indicated ways in which they expect to coop-
erate.
Correspondence with all persons interested in any way in
our work and purposes is invited.
Thomas M. Owen, Commander in Chief.
Official: Will T. Sheehan, Adjutant General and Chief of
Staff.
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PIONEER LIFE IN ARKANSAS.
Herewith is a sketch of Mr. James Holman, who was
born in Virginia August 22, 1780, and was taken by his parents
to Lexington, Ky., at the age of three years. He married Rebecca
Long in 1809, and soon after moved to Madison County, Mo.,
where he lived until January, 1826. From Missouri he
moved to Hempstead County, Ark., near Washington. While
living in that new country the salt used had to be made from
natural salt wells in common iron wash kettles. On one occa-
sion a mad panther jumped out of a tree and bit the man
keeping guard, also the mule he used, and both died from
hydrophobia. Mr. Holman next moved to Sevier County,
to what is known as Hood's Landing, on Little River. While
living there he made his crops without having any fences, as
there was nothing to molest except deer and other wild ani-
mals. He killed a panther in his field across the river and
brought it home in a canoe. To kill alligators was a very
common occurrence.
In those pioneer days the urdniary method of having corn
made into meal was to carry the corn in a sack on a horse,
and often go ten miles, to the nearest mill. Flour was $20
per barrel, and the nearest point at which it could be obtained
was thirty miles distant.
The six children large cnou.gh to go to school had to walk
two miles through the black mud, crossing the branches on
foot logs. Schools were in log houses with a chimney at each
end: one for boys, the other for girls. The seats were logs
split open and legs put at each end by boring holes and
inserting long pegs.
While living at Hood's Landing Mr. Holman was elected
to the Legislature — about 1836. About 1837 he moved to
during which time his daiighter, Nancy C, married R. V. R.
Sevier County, near Rocky Comfort, where he lived six years,
Greene. Mr. Holman then moved to Paris, Lamar County,
Tex., where he lived to the good old age of ninety-six years
and three months. He was the father of seventeen children.
All but two lived until grown. Two sons were at diflferent
times elected to the Legislature, and two sons were in the
Confederate army. All of his descendants did credit to their
honored ancestor.
The only surviving daughter, Mrs. Nancy C. Gwinn, who
married first R. V. R. Greene and who is the mother of Mrs.
C. A. Forney-Smith, was born March 22, 1822, while Mr. Hol-
man lived in Missouri, and experienced all the hardships of
pioneer life of the War between the States and the awful
period of reconstruction. Mrs. Gwinn is still hale and hearty,
and is an indefatigable worker. She has pieced thirteen
patchwork quilts and given them to friends. While she lives
with her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Forney-Smith, in Little Rock,
she makes annual visits to old-time friends, keeping in touch
with her early friends, very few of whom, however, have
the blessing of as good health as she.
The daughter of Mrs. Gwinn, whose picture is in the group,
is one of the best-known women in Arkansas. She was the
first State President of the Arkansas Division, U. D. C. She
maintains an active interest in all patriotic enterprises of her
people, and she is open-handed in the cause for which she has
ever been an open advocate, while she is liberal beyond the
average of persons abundantly able to aid the cause of educa-
tion and the prosperity of the Church with which she has
long been connected.
GEN. IV. R. COX MARRIED.
A special from Richmond, Va., June 21, says that one of
the leading affairs of society of the year was the wedding of
Gen. William Ruffin Cox, of North Carolina, and Mrs. Her-
bert Augustine Claiborne, of that city. The marriage was
celebrated in the home of the bride. No. 609 West Grace
Street. Right Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire, Bishop of North
Carolina, was the celebrant, assisted by Rev. Landon R.
Mason, rector of the Grace Episcopal Church and pastor of
the bride. The home was beautifully decorated, palms and
other potted plants as well as pink and white roses being
used.
The ribbons were held by little Miss Ethel Alston Cabell
and Katherine Hamilton Cabell, daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
James Alston Cabell and nieces of the bride.
Probably one hundred close friends of the distinguished
groom and bride witnessed the nuptials. Following the cere-
mony an elegant wedding breakfast was served.
Among those present from a distance were Col. Benehan
Cameron, the Right Rev. Joseph Biount Cheshire, and Mr.
F. H. Busbee, of Raleigh, N. C. ; Mr. Thomas II. Battle, of
Rocky Mount, N. C. ; Capt. Matt Manly, of Newbern, N. C.
The Richmond guests included many of the most prominent
ladies and gentlemen of the city.
Immediately after the breakfast General and Mrs. Cox left
by a special train for Gen. Co.x's home, in Edgecombe County,
N. C. Later General and Mrs. Cox will make a Canadian
tour through the picturesque St. Lawrence country and to
Quebec, and will spend some time at Saratoga.
MRS. NANIV GWI.VN.
HOLMAN.
MRS. C. A.
KORNEV-SMITll.
Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet, widow of Lieut. Gen. James
Longstreet, attended the Reunion, and was worthily greeted,
which she accepted with becoming modesty. She was the
guest of Chairman John H. Leathers. At a formal reception
by Mrs. Leathers many called to pay their respects to her.
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ARKANSAS CONFEDERATE MONUMENT.
The dedication services of the Confederate monument at
Little Rock, erected jointly by private subscriptions and $5,000
donated by the State, are to occur June 3, 1905, anniversary
of the birthday of Jefferson Davis. The young ladies who
are to officiate at the unveiling as sponsors and State repre-
sentatives are as follows : Miss Marguerite Miller, Little
Rock, Herald; Miss Alice Green, Little Rock, Color Bearer;
Arkansas, Miss Varina Cook, Elmo ; South Carolina, Miss
Alice Green, Little Rock; North Carolina, Miss Maude
Shaver, Mena ; Virginia, Miss Ernma Tillar, Little Rock ;
Alabama, Miss Adolphine Fletcher, Little Rock;, Louisiana,
Miss Marguerite Miller, Little Rock; Florida, Miss Hedwig
Penzel, Little Rock; Mississippi, Miss Ruby Partee, Little
Rock; Tennessee, Miss Jennie Pillow, Helena; Missouri, Miss
Lottie Campbell, Little Rock; Georgia, Miss Bessie Rogers,
Fort Smith; Texas, Miss Eulalia Benton, Pine Bluf?; Ken-
tucky, Miss Lucy Brandenburg, Newport.
The monument is the work of the eminent sculptor, F. W.
Ruckstuhl, and is very much admired. .It was made in Paris
under his directions. The unveiling was postponed from May
g until June 3 on account of the excessive rain on the former
date.
The movement for the erection of a Confederate monument
in Little Rock started in 1886 at a meeting of the Confederate
Memorial Association, an association composed of women,
and the first money contributed toward the enterprise was by
Mrs. J. J. Martin, of that city. The five dollars contributed
in 1886 has grown into $10,000 nearly twenty years later, and
the small beginning has resulted in the completion of the mag-
nificent monument. The matter was kept alive by the Me-
morial Chapter until 1897, and their fund by that time had
grown into $285.35.
Contributions were few and far between, until in 1897 the
Arkansas Gazette, which was at that time under the editorial
control of the late Col. J. N. Smithee, took hold of the proj-
ect and infused life into it, with the result that in eight more
years the monument was a reality. Col. Smithee was a gal-
lant Confederate soldier and a loyal Arkansan, and his brain
conceived the plan by which the movement ultimately became
successful.
The Gacette of May 30, 1897, contained the following an-
nouncement : "For a long time past the Gazette management
has been endeavoring to discover a plan by means of which
not less than $5,000 can be raised to be used in the erection
of a State monument in this the capital city of Arkansas
commemorative of the deeds of valor and in honorable mem-
cry of the brave, noble, and loyal sons of Arkansas, who,
during the long, sad years of the War between the States,
gave up their lives for the cause — a monument that the chil-
dren of the Veterans can feel proud of and say: 'This tells
how my father died for his country.' "
It recited that, in order to make the movement one of the
people and to secure the direct personal interest of the masses,
there would be issued five thousand stock certificates of the
value of one dollar each, and that no contribution of over
one dollar would be received from any one individual.
Col. Smithee expressed the opinion that the monument
should be of the character of the Lee monument in New Or-
leans and should occupy one of the most commanding corners
•n the city. "It should be," he said, "where all will see it:
in daily view, familiar to the eyes of our people and com-
manding the attention of every stranger within our gates.
We can mourn our dead in the silent cemeteries and com-
memorate their deeds from the house tops."
Included in the article was a picture of the proposed monu-
ment, a tall, plain shaft containing only the inscription, "C.
S. A.," surrounded by a wreath. Communications were pub-
lished from Mrs. James R. Miller, President of the Little
Rock Chapter, U. D. C, Charles F. Penzel, Commander of
Omer R. Weaver Camp, Gov. Daniel W. Jones, and Mayor
J. A. Woodson indorsing the plan. The movement immedi-
ately gained headway, and for several months long lists of
subscribers were published daily in the Gazette. The first
dollar was received from Col. John G. Fletcher, of this city.
Previous, however, to the starting of the Gazette fund
Little Rock Memorial Chapter, U. D. C, had $285.35 i" its
treasury as a monument fund, which was combined with the
Gazette fund. The ladies of Memorial Chapter raised $176.35
of the amount as the proceeds of their first annual ball in
December, 1896, and $41.50 of the amount as the proceeds of
a concert given in October, 1895. By the 1st of July about
$500 had been raised, and contributions continued for about
Six months. When the fund was closed, approximately $1,140
had been collected, w'hich amount was turned over to the
Treasurer of the fund. Col. John G. Fletcher.
In the meantime interest in the movement was augmented
by the Daughters of the Confederacy, w'ho raised money by
means of entertainments, lectures, dances, etc., and were un-
tiring in their efforts to make it a success.
A lecture given by Father F. P. Horan, a distinguished
Catholic priest of Little Rock, on "Robert E. Lee" was given
under the auspices of the Little Rock Memorial Chapter, and
over $700 raised to swell the fund. This address was one of
the most eloquent ever heard in Little Rock.
The Daughters took the matter up at their State meeting in
189S. The United Confederate Veterans of the State, at their
encampment in 1899, also officially took cognizance of the plan
to raise a fund for the building of a monument, and called
upon its members for subscriptions in any amounts. Indi-
viduals gave from one dollar to one hundred dollars. Senator
James H. Berry, of Washington, D. C, went among the
Arkansas delegation in Congress at that time and raised $500.
In 1901 a bill was introduced by Representative John I.
Moore, of Phillips County, asking an appropriation by the
Legislature of $10,000 to build a monument, but it failed to
pass.
By 1903 nearly $5,000 in subscriptions had been raised, which
amount was loaned judiciously at a good rate of interest until
it exceeded $5,000. With this $S,ooo the Confederate Vet-
erans and the Daughters of the Confederacy decided to ask
the Legislature of 1903 to appropriate an additional $5,000
and erect a $10,000 monument instead of one costing half
that sum, as contemplated by Col. Smithee when he started
the fund. A bill was introduced in the House of Representa-
tives of 1903 by Hon. Roy D. Campbell, of Pulaski County,
at the request of Mrs. R. J. Polk ; and after a hard fight, in
which many of the gallant Veterans and Sons of Veterans
and members of the General Assembly came to the rescue of
the movement, the bill was passed and was approved by the
Governor.
The $5,000 was placed in the hands of a committee com-
posed of Col. John G. Fletcher, Charles F. Penzel, V. Y.
Cook, J. B. Trulock, B. W. Green, and J. T. W. Tillar.
They were all of Little Rock except Col. V. Y. Cook, of New-
port, and J. B, Trulock, of Pine Bluff. Gen. Green, at that
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time Commander Arkansas Division, United Confederate Vet-
erans, was elected Chairman, Charles F. Penzel Secretary,
and John G. Fletcher Treasurer of the committee. The com-
mittee elected five members of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy to assist as honorary members, and Mesdames
R. J. Polk, of Little Rock, L. C. Hall, of Dardanelle, R. D.
Partee, of Little Rock, B. E. Benton, of Pine Bluff, and C.
H. Wilmans, of Newport, were chosen. Mrs. J. M. Keller,
of Hot Springs, and Mrs. J. R. Miller, of Little Rock, were
later added to the committee. After serving as Secretary for
about six months, Mr. Penzel resigned, and Mrs. Polk was
elected to succeed him. Mr. F. W. Ruckstuhl, who created
"Gloria Victis" in Baltimore, was selected as the sculptor.
Description of the New Monument.
The sculptor, Mr. F. W. Ruckstuhl, describes the monu-
ment :
"No better permanent site could have been found in Arkan-
sas for the Confederate monument than the one chosen by
the monument committee. . . .
"The monument is thirty feet five inches
above the foundation. The first course of
stone above the foundation is of Brad-
dock quarry Arkansas granite left rough,
so as to give the appearance of support-
ing power to the stone. The balance is a
French imported stone, called 'Peuron
Chauvigny,' from the center of France.
It is the finest building stone in France :
for, though only moderately hard when
first quarried, it becomes so hard by ex-
posure in a few years as to turn a steel
chisel. The French government has use!
it in many public monuments of late.
"The pedestal is in reality a double ped-
estal— one low. about five feet, and one
high, about twelve feet, the higher being
capped by a garlanded capstone. On the
lower pedestal stands a bronze figure,
nearly eight feet high, of a young Arkan-
sas soldier grasping the butt end of a
flagstaff^ while the flag flutters back and
about him. With feet firmly planted, ho
holds his ground in the midst of the din
of battle and wreck and ruin, apparently
unmindful of everything but the holding
of the half-dcstroycd banner in the face
of overpowering numbers. On his face
are expressed that profound devotion to
the cause of his people and that indomita-
ble grit and courage which have immortal
ized the Confederate .soldier. The figure
is very supple in movement and instinct
with life. The flag is easily recognizable
as the Confederate battle flag.
"On the highest pedestal is a figure of
'Fame' just alighting from the skies on a
bronze globe, which serves as a finial, and
is surrounded by a laurel wreath and an
acanthus leaf on each corner. The figure
carries a trumpet in the left hand, and
with the right hand she holds over the
soldier a laurel crown in recognition of
ARK.\NSAS MONUMENT.
his courage and devotion. The face and the whole form and
movement of the supple figure express pride and a satisfaction
as if glad to be able to crown such a hero. The wings are
very well modeled, and look sufficiently large and powerful
to be able to support the figure on tlie globe with ease.
"On the base bearing the soldier is the following inscription:
"the confederate soldiers of ARKANSAS — 1861 TO 186$.
"On the left side of the high pedestal is inscribed:
"ARKANSAS REMEMBERS THE FAITHFULNESS OF HER SONS, AND
COMMENDS THEIR EXAMPLE TO FUTURE GENERATIONS.
'On the right side is inscribed :
"our furled banner WREATHED WITH GLORY;
AND THOUGH CONQUERED WE ADORE IT,
WEEP FOR THOSE WHO FELL BEFORE IT,
PARDON THOSE WHO TRAILED AND TORE IT.
"On the rear of the lower base is a bronze copy of the seal
of the Confederacy."
Ladies' Memorial Association's Work
FOR THE Monument.
Twenty-four years after Appomattox,
true to their patriotic instincts and still
grieving for their husbands and sons who
had laid down their lives in defense of
their State^ the noble women of Little
Rock organized themselves into the Ladies'
Memorial Association June 4. 1889. The
record states : "This Memorial Associa-
tion is formed for the purpose of preserv-
ing the graves of the Confederate soldiers
now buried near Little Rock and of se-
curing a suitable and permanent cemetery
for the collection and interment of the
remains of any Confederate soldiers and
sailors who were killed or died from any
cause during or since the close of the War
between the States. . . ."
Here follow articles, by-laws, and sec-
tions.
The names of the founders are M. . ^.
Weaver, Mary Weaver Field, Mary E.
Belding, Margaret F. Vaughan, Jennie
Beauchamp, Georgine Woodruff. At the
next meeting, June 4. 1889, besides the
ladies named above, Messrs. John Kramer,
Elbert Oliver, Albert Belding, W. E.
\\'oodruff, and Nick Peay were present.
These gentlemen were appointed to draw
up the constitution and by-laws.
On June II the Memorial Association
was declared to be a permanent organiza-
tion, and the following officers were elect-
ed : Mrs. Mary W. Field, President; Mrs.
Albert Belding, First Vice President; Mrs.
F. T. Vaughan, Second Vice President ;
Mrs. Jennie Beauchamp, Third Vice Pres-
ident; Miss Matilda Jordan, Treasurer;
Miss Georgine Woodruff, Secretary.
The association grew in numbers rap-
idly. The first work done by the associa-
tion was securing the present Confederate
cemetery, which was donated by the City
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Council, removing the bodies of the dead to their final resting
.place and inclosing the cemetery with the handsome rock wall
■and iron gates which now surround it.
After six years of earnest work by the association, the
Confederate monument idea had become a settled determina-
tion in the minds of the members of the association. On
March 26, 1895, it was determined to give a concert for the
benefit of the Confederate monument fund. On the same
date the first contribution was made by Mrs. J. J. Martin-
fifty cents. Forty-one dollars and fifty cents was netted from
the concert October 8, 1895. Then Mrs. J. J. Martin donated
$5; Mrs. John Jabine, $s ; Mrs. J. E. Biscoe, $1 — making the
fund for the monument on hand October 8, 1895, $52.50. On
March 31, 1896, the name of the Memorial Association was
changed to the Memorial Chapter of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy. On November 18, 1896, Mrs. James R.
Miller was elected President; Miss Bessie Campbell, Record-
ing Secretary; Mrs. Jennie Beauchamp, Corresponding Sec-
retary; and Miss A. S. Crease, Treasurer. Many entertain-
ments were given and much work done during Mrs. Miller's
incumbency for the benefit of the monument fund.
The following letter was published to the Daughters of the
Confederacy, Mrs. James R. Miller, President :
"Little Rock, May 19, 1897.
"My Dear Mrs. Miller: The matter of the Gazette inaugu-
rating a movement to raise by popular subscription a fund to
erect a Confederate soldiers' monument in this city (a State
monument), with the Daughters of the Confederacy as spon-
sors and patronesses, has been outlined to me by Mr. George
R. Brown, in accord with his brief interview with you. I
am heartily in favor of the plan, and am constrained to be-
lieve that it will result in success. We should be glad to have
a letter from you indorsing the idea, in order that we can
print it with other letters when we launch the movement,
which we desire to do next Sunday, etc.
"Gazette Publishing Company.
"By J. N. Smithee, President."
Mrs. Miller replied as follows :
"Dear Si: : I am in receipt of your letter suggesting the
erection of a Confederate monument in our city, with the U.
D. C. r sponsors. I beg to assure you of my Chapter's
hearty < peratioii with your patriotic ideas. I am confident
all th;; ■ . D. C.'s of the State will gladly aid. Truly, Colonel,
all pc; . !c of our State should honor their brothers who gave
their lives for their country and their homes. With thanks
for the assurance of your aid and knowledge of your patri-
otism, I am very truly yours, Mrs. J. R. Miller."
It will be seen from the above that with Mrs. J. R. Miller.
President of the Memorial Chapter, and G. R. Brown, Sec-
retary of the Board of Trade, originated the idea of a popu-
lar subscription through the Gazette's columns.
Col. John G. Fletcher was the first to subscribe one dollar
for this fund. From this beginning was realized $1,140.55,
one hundred dollars of which was contributed at one time by
the Memorial Chapter, U. D. C.
To the credit of the Gazette fund was placed in the be-
ginning the amount on hand, $285.35, which had been previ-
ously raised by the Ladies' Memorial Association from the
time it was founded up to the time the Gazette started its
contribution fund. The Memorial Chapter was the largest
individual contributor to the monument fund.
The raising of subscriptions continued until the convening
of the Legislature of 1901, when a bill was introduced by
Representative John L Moore, of Phillips County, asking for
an appropriation of $10,000 to build a monument, but without
success. Here the matter rested until the Legislature of
1903 convened, when Mrs. Rufus J. Polk, who had been
elected January 19, 1902, to succeed Mrs. J. R. Miller as
President of the Memorial Chapter, took up the cause with
much enthusiasm, her devotion and zeal having gained, with
the able assistance of Hon. Roy D. Campbell, who introduced
the bill at her request, from the State an appropriation of
$5,000. Mr. Penzel resigned as Secretary, and Mrs. R. J.
Polk was elected to succeed him. The committee advertised
for bids for a $10,000 monument, and six competitors re-
sponded. Mrs. Rufus J. Polk wrote Mr. Frederick W. Ruck-
stuhl, of New York, one of the eminent American sculptors,
requesting him to come to Little Rock to submit a design.
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Col. Asa S. Moroan's Oration.
My Comrades. Friends, and Feiloiv-Citiceiis: Some one has
said : "One glorious hour of crowded life is w nrth an age
without a name." This to us is an hour crowded with emo-
tions, to which the tongue of eloquence could give no ade-
quate utterance. As we look out on this concourse of peo-
ple, representing all classes of our fellow-citizens and every
vocation in life, assembled to witness the dedication of a
monument that will transmit to future ages a mute but lasting
record of deeds that will render the name. Confederate sol-
dier, immortal, we are filled with gratitude for the assurance
it brings : that tiie Confederate cause is not a lost cause,
that the Confederate soldier will not be forgotten, that his
marvelous deeds in arms will live in song and story, and that
marble and .granite, fit emblems of his constancy and en-
durance, will perpetuate his fame and tell to generations yet
unlinrn the wonderful story of his life. It were needless foi
me to discuss the causes that on parallel lines separated
and made antagonistic the sections of a common country.
This occasion does not require it, and only a brief summary,
by way of explanation, will suffice.
A Union of free and independent States vi'as formed by the
delegation of certain specific rights, which gave to a general
government thus organized the power to exercise its func-
tions within prescribed limits, which the enacting clause de-
clares was to "establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity,
provide for the common defense, promote the general wel-
fare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our
posterity." All rights not conferred on the general govern-
ment by this written constitution were reserved by the States.
The controversy which ended in disruption had its be-
ginning in the convention which framed the constitution on
a compromise that was inifortunately left for the future to
interpret, and the ink was scarcely dry on the parchment
upon which it was written before encroachments on these re-
served rights, vital to the peace and prosperity of the people
of the South, were commenced by an unscrupulous party of
agitators at the North.
The executive power of the Northern States was invoked
h\ tlu-se meddling and malevolent fanatics to prevent the
execution of tlie plain provisions of a constitution they were
sworn to support. Mr. Lincoln, elected President by a strictly
sectional vote, declared the government could not exist half
slave and half free; and Mr. Seward, his Secretary of State,
tlie bitterest and perhaps the ablest political leader at the
Nortli, declared there was an irrepressible conflict between the
sections.
The Southern States from the organization of the govern-
ment, alike in peace and war, contributed their full share to
its support, and during all this bitter controversy, by offers
of compromise and concession to the utmost limit to which
they were available, manifested their desire to maintain the
govermncnt in its integrity. But when no longer permitted
to live peaceably in the exercise of their reserved rights they
adopted the only alternative left tliem — an alternative con-
templated in the very terms of the compact — and withdrew
from a Union in which they could no longer with self-respect
remain as an integral part.
The genera! government, now dominated in all its depart-
ments by the unfriendly and aggressive influence of the North
in violation of the principles on which the Union was formed
and in disre.gard of the spirit of compromise in which the
constitution was written and its adoption made possible, de-
ternnncd on coercion, and here the stage of argumeni of com-
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promise and concession was passed and the last resort —
"Ultima ratio regum" — was made to arms.
My comrades, we admit that the Federal soldier who wore
the blue and patriotically responded to his country's call,
though differing from us on questions of right, was con-
scientious, brave, and true in following his flag and uphold-
ing its cause. For this we honor and respect him as his
manliness deserves, and he will unite with us in denouncing
the "Ransey Sniffels" of high and low degree, citizens in
war and soldiers invincible in peace who found their occu-
pation in firing the Northern heart, and then, at a safe dis-
tance from the field of conflict, adding fuel to the flames.
In an impartial history, yet to be written of the War between
the States, they will receive their just reward — in the univer-
sal execration of mankind.
The Confederate soldier with patriotic devotion espoused
his country's cause, and his heart has never by a pause as
slight ns one pulsation ceased to beat with constancy for the
principle for which he stood amid the flame of battle which
imperiled his fortune and his life. And if, as is said, without
a sixcessor he is destined to live only in history, his history
will mark an epoch and transmit to the latest posterity un-
exampled deeds of devotion and valor as he upheld the right
of seIf-.governnient, the principle that has sanctified the grave
of martyrs in all ages of the world. And if, as Church his-
tory teaches, the blood of those sacrificed on its altar is but
the planted seed from which it springs into newness of life,
the suflFcrings and sacrifices of those who followed the Con-
federate flag will equally vitalize the principle for which they
tought. and
"Freedom's battle once begun.
Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son.
Though often lost, will yet be won."
Call the roll of all who imperiled life and all that life holds
dear in the cause of the Confederacy — Davis and Lee, Sid-
ney and Joe Johnston, Jackson and Hill, Cleburne and Stew-
art, Forrest and Hardee — call the roll of the men in the ranks
who followed where they dared to lead, whose patriotism
was as pure and whose devotion was as sincere as that of
ihc matchless leaders whose names spring spontaneous to
our lips. Who can call the roll of the men who stood in
the ranks and for four long years with heroic courage beat
liitok from their homes and firesides the serried ranks of their
ruthless and overwhelming invaders? Only God's record-
nig angel has preserved their muster roll, and it will be
called in a better and purer world than this, where rewards
are bestowed for honors deserved and duly faithfully per-
formed.
"For never since the morning stars
Together sang with joyful song
Was purer, braver, nobler men
Than Southern private soldiers known.
And though on earth there's no reward
For all his sufferings, toil, and strife.
His name, thank God, in realms on high
Is written in the Book of Life."
Call to mind the long list of peerless women by whose
privations, hardships, and sufferings the cause of the Con-
federacy, was sanctified and made holy, and tell, ye who can,
if a just and righteous God will permit such sufferings in
the cause of right, baptized too in the blood of the brave
and hallowed by the prayers of the pure, the innocent, and
the good, to go for naught and return to him void. It is not
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thus an all-wise God rules in llie courts of heaven and
among the children of men. A thousand years with him
are but as yesterday. From tlic far-off beginning he sees,
and in the council of his will ordains, the end of all things,
which, with a predetermined sequence, move by divine di-
rection to their inevitable accomplishment.
Moses lived forty years at Pharaoh's court, accomplish-
ing himself in all the learning of the Egyptians. Moses spent
forty 5'ears in the land of Midian, in preparation for the
work appointed by God for him to do. Moses for forty years
led the children of Israel through the wilderness, surrounded
at all times v.ith trials and difficulties unsurmountable by
mere human effort. The cloud by day and the pillar of fire
by night, his assurance of God's guidance and protection, and
giving "Thus saith the Lord" as his shibboleth to all ques-
tionings of his authority, he enforced God's commands when-
ever and wherever he received them. And yet Moses, the
friend of God, holding converse and communion with the Al-
mighty as no other mere man has ever done, with his match-
less faith and consecration was only permitted to see the prom-
ised land from Pisgah's distant height ; and except Caleb and
Joshua, a privilege accorded for their devotion and marvel-
ous faith, not one of all the host of Israel who followed his
leadership between the parted waters of the Red Sea, which,
returning, overwhelmed the pursuing Egyptians, was per-
mitted to see the end of their wanderings. Nor had they the
slightest conception, as their unsanctified thoughts turned
back and their selfish desires craved the fleshpots of Egypt,
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being unconsciously led. of the glories the future held in store
for their descendants, or that they were to become the most
remarkable people that have impressed their history on the
records of time.
Having faithfully and conscientiously, as we saw the right,
discharged the duties and obligations our situation enjoined,
if net permitted like Caleb and Joshua to see the full frui-
tion of the best years of our lives devoted to our country's
service, we can with the eye of faith penetrate the veil that
hides the future from our sight; and, resting our cause be-
fore that august tribunal whose judgments never err, like
Simeon exclaim : "Now lettest thou thy servant depart in
peace."
To our finite minds Appomattox meant the death knell of
constitutional liberty on earth. In the light of subsequent
events we can now realize that the sufferings we as a people
underwent were but chastenings to prepare for the glories
the future has in store for our descendants. The principle
of right, the basis of our struggle, is immutable, and will live
while the throne of God endures. The hopes we entertained
of success, justified by a righteous cause, so far as we are
personally concerned, were dashed to earth, and like Dead
Sea fruits turned to ashes on our lips.
It may be, in the councils of divine wisdom, we were not
yet prepared for the political millennium our success would
have brought. It may be yet more of blood and treasure
were to be sacrificed on the altar of constitutional liberty to
qualify and prepare us to appreciate its inestimable blessmgs.
We are but instruments in the hands of an all-wise Being
who, by a condescension as infinite as it is incomprehensible,
permits us as coworkers to lend our feeble aid to accomplish
the purposes of his will. But as sure as equity and justice
are attributes of Deity, so purely will constitutional liberty
be the foundation stone upon which the superstructure of
every enlightened government will be erected on earth, as it
now is the animating spirit that fires every heart and nerves
every arm striking for liberty throughout the world.
The people of the late Confederate States, after emerging
from a superhuman contest in which everything was lost to
them but honor, purified by tlie struggle, and again an inte-
gral part of this government, homogeneous in origin, united
in the spirit of conservatism, which gave strength and in-
fluence to their past history and can alone give permanence
to a government resting on the consent of the governed, will
yet in the fullness of time control the destinies of this re-
public. This statement may seem chimerical. A few years
ago it would have been regarded as the dreamy vaporings of
a distempered imagination. But, contrasting our present sit-
uation with that of only a few decades in the past, there Is
no escaping this inevitable conclusion. The people of the
South are homogeneous in origin ; they do preserve and
cherish the faith and traditions of their ancestors as em-
liodied in the Declaration of Independence, the cardinal prin-
ciple of which is, "Man is capable of self-government;" and
by their freedom frimi the spirit of radicalism (represented
;it the North by the admixture of its population with every
known race on the earth), homogeneous and united, as a com-
l)ensating influence and balance of power, they will control
the destinies of this great republic.
History furnishes no other example of a government crowd-
ing into the four short years of its existence the record of
.glorious deeds that has rendered the name Confederate States
immortal. There is in the annals of the past no record of
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anotlier people in tlie lifetime of a generation emerging from
the destitution and suffering to vvliich we were reduced oc-
cupying the position to which we are now advanced in the
councils of the State, in material prosperity, and in the esti-
mation of mankind. Nor is there in the galaxy of the past
such a constellation of names — Davis, Lee, Johnston, Jack-
son, Hill, Hardee, Stewart, Forrest. Taylor, Cleburne, Cheat-
ham, and a host of others clustered around a cause that has
given to posterity and to fame "immortal names not born to
die." These, the deeds of a short-lived government never
equaled, and these, the glorious names by which it was il-
lustrated, we bequeath as a priceless heritage to our de-
scendants. Their pride and inspiration will be to preserve
and cherish these traditions, and as the depositories of the
spirit of conservatism in which a government of independent
and now indestructible States was founded on a written con-
stitution they will control its destinies.
It was not the desire of conquest, but to preserve and
perpetuate inherent rights, that actuated the Confederate
States in their appeal to arms. It was not to compel any one
unwillingly to accept our civilization or adopt our institu-
tions, but to transmit unimpaired to our descendants the
riglits and franchises which had come down to us from the
founders of the republic. It was that the flag which bore
the "stars and bars." emblems of a brave people who fell —
the flag which that bronze statue, the very personification of
the Confederate soldier, now presses to his bosom with a
grasp which only death can sever, as, standing in its defense,
he defies the world in arms — should have only justice and
right emblazoned on its shield. Now let it bear this blazon
to the last of times :
"No nation ever rose so white and fair
Or fell so pure of crimes."
For this we love "the cold, dead hands that bore it" as it
led the toilsome march, carried it to the front to steady the
wavering lines of fight, held it aloft as it tossed amid the
on.set in the resistless charge, waved it, the rallying point of
resistance to the deadly assault, and planted it to float in
triumph over many a conquered field. To protect and defend
this flag, to uphold and maintain the principles it symbolized,
the Confederate soldier responded to his country's call to
arms, and entered the list of its defenders, if need be, a
willing sacrifice in the cause of right; and when time shall
have dispelled the mists with which envy, malice, hatred, ig-
norance, and misrepresentation have obscured the principles
for which he fought, his fame in the clear atmosphere of im-
partial history will grow and increase as long as the highest
qualities of citizen, patriot, and soldier are known and re-
spected by the children of men. His devotion to duty and
steadfast adherence to the principles implanted in his nature
and interwoven in his very life and being are best illustrated
in this statement to the honor of the Confederate soldier by
the "Records of the Rebellion :" The North held 220.000
Confederate prisoners ; and twelve per cent, or 26.400, died
in loathsome prison pens. On the walls over the entrances to
these prisons might well have been written, by the Federal
government's refusal of exchange: "Whoever enters here
leaves hope behind."
These prisoners, thus hopelessly incarcerated, were offered
liberty if they would swear allegiance to the Federal govern-
ment ; but. true to their convictions and away and beyond tho
reach of temptation, it is safe to say that not one in a thou-
sand exchanged prison life witli its horrors for freedom at
the price of renouncing allegiance to his country's cause.
In this act of devotion, to which the world furnishes no
parallel, the private Confederate soldier "sat for a portrait
to immortality."
This is his prison record. His patience, constancy, cour-
age, and deathless endurance in the field, in which he bore all
the hardships of a long and bloody war, protracted to the
point of utter exhaustion, and the good faith with which he
accepted and kept the terms on which he laid down his arms,
have vitalized the principle he fought for ; and even in a
generation we find a fast-growing change of sentiment, and
realize that the Confederate cause is not a lost cause and
that the Confederate soldier, as illustrating the highest type
of patriotism and devotion, will not be forgotten.
However much he may have felt in the past that he was
neglected and the cause he espoused sacrificed on the altar
of selfishness and commercialism (and this was an inevitable
condition when the world set its seal of condemnation on a
principle he knew in his heart was right, but failed against
overwhelming odds to establish— the God-given right to self-
government), he now knows in this changing public senti-
ment that the world is recognizing man's inherent right to
this inestimable blessing. And this change means that
"When the drum's sad roll shall beat
The Confederate soldier's last tattoo.
Not honor alone, a solitary sentinel with silent tread
Will guard his last resting place, the bivouac of the dead ;"
but that pilgrim feet from all lands will seek the monuments
now being erected to his memory and pay willing tribute to
his unexampled valor and his deeds in arms.
It means that the Daughters of the Confederacy, who grace
this, as by their presence and approval they grace all like
occasions, actuated by the same spirit that was a living, vital
principle in the lives of their mothers, by whose sacrifices
and sufferings the cause of the Confederacy was sanctified
and made holy.
The same spirit that actuated the Spartan mother who
sent her son to battle with the injunction to return with
honor, either with or upon his shield, the spirit of woman
that in all ages of the world, by precept and example, has
prompted man to deeds of patriotism and devotion ; the spirit
that never fails to stand by man's sinking fortune with a
constancy that knows no abatement and a self-sacrificing
devotion that defies dangers and difficulties — it means that
this spirit, the incarnation of all that is best and purest and
holiest on earth, vitalized in the lives of the women of the
South, will equally with honor keep watch and ward over
the Confederate soldier's lonely grave, and transmit to their
children and their children's children the principles for which
the Confederate soldier offered up his life and all that life
holds dear and sacred.
It means that self-government, the inherent right in defense
of which the Confederate soldier appealed to arms, now
recognized in this changing public sentiment as never before
in the world's history, like
"Truth crushed to earth will rise again ;"
and in spite of every opposing influence, the greed of avarice,
the lust of power, the burden of oppression, and every vice
of which human nature is capable that this natural and inalien-
able right will in the end emerge from every obscuring cloud,
and like the star of destiny rise higher and still higher and
shine brighter and still brighter until, culminating at the
meridian, it will blaze in noontide effulgence, dispelling the
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dark clouds of ignorance, prejudice, and bigotry, and shedding
the hght of its benign influence on the pathway of man's
political emancipation in the darkest and most benighted
parts of the earth.
The Confederate cause, my comrades, is not a lost cause,
nor will the Confederate soldier be forgotten. It was ex-
emplified and made glorious by the pure and consecrated life
of Jeflerson Davis, the vicarious representative of the South,
whose name will shine in undimmed luster when the names
of his detractors and calumniators are lost in obscurity and
the olilivion of the past.
"Calm martyr of a noble cause
Upon his form is vain,
The dungeon shut its slimy jaws
And clanked its cankered chain."
It was exemplified in the life and character of Robert E.
Lee :
".■\h, Muse, you dare not claim
A nobler name than he.
Nor nobler name hath less of blame,
Nor blameless man a purer name,
Nor purer name a grander fame.
Nor fame another Lee."
Transcendent was his ability as a soldier, and no less con-
spicuous his virtues as a Christian, a patriot, and citizen
rising to his best and giving courage to a whole Confederacy.
When other brave hearts sickened and grew faint at victory's
delay, he exhibited in his pure life Christian faith and sterling
integrity, a character perfect and complete, upon which the
gods had set their seal to give the world assurance of a man.
Of Jackson, the most unique personality that impressed
it'icif among the remarkable men of his generation; solitary
as a hermit, silent as a recluse, almost unknown in private
life ; a devotee in religion, devoted to duty, before which he
bowed as at the shrine of his idolatry; equipped by nature,
by education, and association for any emergency — when war
came and gave the opportunity to display the pent-up fires
of genius that smoldered unconsciously in his bosom, like a
meteor bursting forth and illuminating its pathway through
the heavens he excited the startled gaze, the wonder, and
admiration of mankind, and, falling prematurely on the field
of battle, left a name and a fame that will illustrate the valor
and heroism of the Confederate soldier to the end of time.
Joseph E. Johnston, a soldier by heredity and educated in
all the arts of war; cool, calm, and self-possessed by nature,
with all the faculties of his mind trained in subordination
to his controlling will ; gifted with a prescience that enabled
him to divine and circumvent the plans of his adversary — his
outmaneuvering Patterson and opportune arrival on the bat-
tlefield of the First Manassas stamped him at once the great
commander. And the consummate ability with which, witli
scant resources and greatly inferior numbers, he conducted
the campaign and prolonged the battle from Chattanooga to
Atlanta, foiling Gen. Sherman in all his efforts to discomfit
him, giving battle himself only when the circumstances jus-
tified and refusing it at his own option, surpasses the world-
renowned generalship of Fabius against Hannibal, and will
stand forever in history without a parallel.
Of Forrest, a born soldier. LTntrained in the arts of war,
sleepless vigilance, tireless energy, a quick perception, and
prompt execution supplied his every deficiency. Before his
native genius and force of character the science of the
schools and the tactics of the books dissolved like frostwork
before the sun of tlie tropics. Concentrating every force at
his command on the object to be accomplished, no obstacle
could impede his march, no resistance withstand the sudden,
impetuous, and deadly energy of his assault. His guiding
star was success, and he gazed at it steadfastly with the eye
of the eagle and fought for it with a courage no opposition
could resist. Asked how he succeeded against overwhelm-
ing numbers, he explained in an epigram the whole art of
war, w-hich Jomini, of whom Forrest may have never heard,
wrote volumes to teach, he tersely said : "Get there first
with the most men."
Cleburne, the perfect type of a perfect soldier, whose friends
and foes alike learned to mark the special battle flag Cle-
burne's division bore, and knew that where that blue battle
flag waved there stood Cleburne's brave division in battle
line. Gen. Hardee, in whose army corps Cleburne's Division
served — and no higher compliment was ever paid to a sol-
dier's worth — said that where it defended no odds broke its
lines, where it attacked no numbers could resist its onslaught
— save only once. There is the grave of Cleburne and his
brave division.
There are those now listening to the sound of my voice
who followed that blue battle flag wherever it tossed amid
the storm of battle. It has long since been laid to rest, but
they can to-day drop a tear to the memory of comrades who
with them followed it to victory on many a hard-fought field.
I mention these, the names of a few of the leaders, as rep-
resenting in their individuality the character and class of
those by whom the fortunes of the Confederacy were directed
and governed. And to their everlasting honor be it said that
purer, braver spirits, or more devoted, self-sacrificing patriots
never guided the destinies of a nation.
But the private Confederate soldier himself in the record
of his own marvelous deeds is his own best exemplar. His
statue in bronze and marble, representing his personality,
crowns monuments in many places ; or, in a broader sense,
these graceful tributes of a grateful people, erected to sym-
bolize the principle for which he fought, will transmit his
memory to posterity, and the record of his deeds will live on
the brightest pages of the historian. But when statues and
monuments have moldered and crumbled into dust, when
every vestige of the storm period in which his life was passed
has faded from the memory of man, "eternity itself will
catch the glowing theme and dwell with increasing rapture
on his name."
As illustrative of the changed feeling to which we have
alluded and a tangible evidence that the Confederate soldier
in the very impersonation of the cause for which he stood
will not be forgotten, you will permit a reference to two in-
cidents, the one occurring just after the close of the war and
the other of a date so recent that its echoing sadness lingers
around us still.
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, perhaps the greatest soldier
after Gen. Lee the South gave to the Confederacy, fell in
the moment of victory on the first day's battle at Shiloh.
After the war his remains were carried to Texas, the State
of his adoption, for burial. The Federal general, Sheridan,
was in command of the Department of the Gulf, with head-
quarters in New Orleans. When the sad cortege in charge
of Gen. Johnston's family and a few friends arrived there,
no demonstration was permitted ; no escort, even of citizens,
without the appearance or suspicion even of a military parade,
was allowed to accompany it through the streets; but, by Gen.
Sheridan's order, the remains of this great man and incom-
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parable soldier were borne through the streets of New Or-
leans to their' last resting place in the great State of Texas,
which reverences his memory, with only the attention that
would be accorded a galley slave being scourged to his dun-
geon.
Gen. John B. Gordon died a few months since at his winter
home, in Florida, and his remains were carried to Atlanta for
burial. Conspicuous among the great Confederate com-
manders and chief in command of the great Confederate or-
ganization, he was universally loved and respected. Each of
these great men and peerless soldiers was entitled to all the
honor a grateful country could bestow. Let us run a parallel
between the now and then and contrast the brutal, inhuman
treatment shown by the Federal authorities to the cold, life-
less remains of the one and the demonstrations of respect by
the same authorities to the other. Gen. Gordon's funeral
cortege was marked at every stage of its progress by evi-
dences of sorow and heartfelt regret, in which Federal officials
and Grand Army Camps participated. A detachment of
Federal soldiers from Fort McPherson was detailed as an
escort, a Grand Army Camp asked for and was assignied a
place in the funeral procession, President Roosevelt sent a
a message expressing his regrets, and Gen. Chaffee, Com-
mander in Chief of the United States Army, a letter of sym-
pathy and condolence.
There is a Roman adage which, as I remember it. nms
thus. "Tempura nuitanter, ct nos mutamur in illis" (times
change, and we cliange with them). Equally true is the
adage, "Time at last sets all things even." and in this last
adjustment the Confederate soldier, as marking the highest
ideal of manhood, will receive complete recognition. Equally
significant, but more gratifying because a more enduring evi-
dence of tliis change of feeling, is found in a paper on Gen.
Lee by Dr. Andrews, Chancellor of the L'nivcrsity of Ne-
braska, in Lord's "Beacon Lights of History." This writer
himself, an ex-officer in the Federal army, says: "Lee's cam-
paigns and battles exhibit the triumph of profound intelligence
and calculation. Considering everything, his scarcity of men
and means, his success at holding Grant at bay so long, his
masterful campaigns of 1862-65, not only constitute him the
foremost military virtuoso of his own land, but write his
name high on the scroll of the greatest captains of history.
In a sense, of course, the cause for which Lee fought
failed, yet a very great part of what he and his confreres
sought the war actually secured and assured. His cause was
not "lost" as Hannibal's was, whose country, with its in-
stitutions, in spite of his genius and devotion, utterly perished
from the earth; yet Hannibal is remembered more widely than
Scipio. Were Lee in the same class as Hannibal, men would
magnify his name as long as history is read. Lee's case
more nearly resembles Cromwell's. The regime against
which Cromwell warred returned in spite of him ; but it re-
turned modified, involving all the reforms for which the
chieftain had bled. So the best of what Lee drew sword for
i< here, in our actual AnTcrica, and, please God, shall remain
forever. Decisions of the Supreme Court since secession gave
a sweep and certainty to the rights of States and a limit to
central power in this republic as never had been done before.
The wild doctrines of Thaddeus Stevens and Sumner on these
points are not our law. If the Union is perpetual, equally so
is each State, "an indestructible union of indestructible
States." If this part of our law had in 1861 received its pres-
ent definition and emphasis, and if the Southern States had
thou been sure, come what might, of the freedom they ac-
tually now enjoy, each to govern itself in its own way, even
South Carolina might have never voted secession. And inas-
much as the war, better than aught else could have done,
forced this phase of the constitution out into clear expression.
Gen. Lee did not fight in vain. The essential good he wished
for has come, and all Americans thus have part in Robert
Lee not only as a peerless man and soldier, but the sturdy
miner, sledge-hammering the rock of our liberties till it gave
forth its gold. None are prouder of his record than those
who fought against him, and it is likely more American hearts
day by day think lovingly of Lee than of any other Civil
War celebrity, save Lincoln alone; and his praise will in-
crease."
Could commendation farther go? and this from an ex-
Union soldier, now a distinguished educator, chancellor df
one of the leading institutions of learning in this countri^,
instilling principles, molding character, leading the ideas atiH
directing the thoughts of the young! '
The Confederate cause is not "lost," nor will the Conf-
federate soldier be forgotten. ''
Vou, my friends of a younger generation. Sons and Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, who are here to greet us and witnife
these interesting ceremonies, will not, I am sure, deem it %fi
idle fancy, nor the evidence of a maudlin sensibility, whert'I
say that this small band of old and worn Confederates are ntjt
all who are present with us on this occasion. As memory re-
calls comrades, long since gone, we realize that unseen wit-
nesses are around us. Think ye that the followers of Lei, <Sf
Jackson and Johnston, Stewart, Hill, Hood and Hardee, 'F<J^
rest, Cleburne, Longstreet and Taylor, Smith, Price, Walthall
and Hindman, who stood by our sides in many trying sdetieS
and on many bloody fields, are altogether absent from !»
scene like this? ' "'
If. as we believe, the departed dead participated in the
joys, the cares and troubles, in the triumphs and disappoint-
ments of those with whom they were associated and who
were dear to them in this life, then in their disembodied spirits
they are present with us now, and we think we do them bo
wrong in counting them among the gratified witnesses of this
occasion. -
My friends, the Confederate soldier is fast passing awa^.I
"His locks are not raven now
On his smooth, unfurrowxd brow.
Nor is the stream of his rich young blood
Coursing through his veins in the deep, full tide ''
Of youthful strength and youthful pride."
His fallen check, his trembling hands and tottering kneeB
that scarce sustain his wasted body, are the certihcates iqf
discharge, soon to relieve him of further service here. , q .U
It devolves on you, Sons and Daughters of the ConfedM-
acy, and those who are to come after you, to cherish hip
memory, to preserve and keep alive the record of his gloriouf
deeds. Let this sacred obligation sink deep into your hearts.
At the foot of this monument tell the story of the Confed-
eracy into the listening ears of your children until it be-
comes part of their nature to love, cherish, and defend the
principles your fathers fought for, bled for, died for. ,pp
not you slight them, for they are sacred now. Guard, shield,
protect, and derend them from detraction, misrepresentation^,
and abuse, no matter whence it comes, and your children ^nd
your children's children in successive generations, lookfjig
back from the far-distant future, will proudly exclaim,:, ,','!
am descended from a Confederate soldier!"
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G£.V. R. E. LEE AS A COLLEGE PRESIDENT.
BY T. A. ASHBY, M.D., BALTIMORE, MD.
Almost every side of Gen. Lee's life's work and character
has been written upon by the historian. But little can be
said about him as a soldier and citizen except in the nature
■ief a personal reminiscence. I much doubt whether Gen.
Lee's ability and renown as a soldier are more deserving of
praise and admiration than his simple, natural, and inspiring
life as a college president. In the larger and more renowned
field of action as a soldier he exhibited all the ability and
manliness of the hero and warrior. In the discharge of the
quiet duties of a college president he manifested that sweet-
ness, charm, and simplicity of character which only a great
and noble soul can possess. As the leader of a great army,
the pride and support of a great cause, he was no greater man
than when he undertook to guide the educational training of
a small band of young men who gathered around him for
instruction in the arts of peace.
It will be recalled that after the surrender at Appomattox
Gen. Lee was left without an occupation and almost without
the means of support for himself and family. His property
had been almost entirely swept away by war and confisca-
tion. He was in the fifty-ninth year of his age and without
training, except as a soldier. A number of propositions came
to him, offering him positions with remunerative salaries
for tlie use of his name and influence. He promptly rejected
every suggestion looking to the improvement of his fortune
through business ventures.
On the 4th of August, 1865, the trustees of Washington
College, loc:ted at Lexington, Va., elected him to the presi-
dency of that institution. This college, endowed by Wash-
ington and named after him, was at that time a school with
only a local reputation and a small endowment. It enjoyed an
honorable name and a favorable position in the rich Valley
of Virginia. The selection of Gen. Lee as its President was
a happy stroke of fortune for the college, and gave great
satisfaction to Gen. Lee as well. The position and the sur-
rounding circumstances were in harmony. Gen. Lee at once
saw an opportunity to round out the closing years of his
life in a work which would gratify his pride and result in
advantage to the youth of the South. He recognized that his
influence in such a position would do more to reestablish
corfider.ce among the Southern people and to restore their
pridL- and loyalty toward constitutional government than any
course of action he could take. With that firm but quiet
resolution which was the foundation of his true greatness,
he entered upon the duties of President in October, 1865.
He began the work of reorganizing the college in all of its
departments at once, and when the college session opened
students from all over the South and a few from the North
and Northwest flocked to the institution. In the first class
perhaps as many as twenty-five per cent of the students had
been old soldiers who had carried a musket or held a com-
mission in the Confederate army. A colonel, several majors,
and a half dozen captains and lieutenants, besides numerous
sergeants, corporals, and privates, made haste to enroll under
President Lee as students of literature, science, and law.
Never, perhaps, in the history of any institution in the
world did such classes of j-oung men assemble for an educa-
tional training. The majority of the students who had not
carried arms in the Confederate service had seen war as boys
under trying circumstances. The young men of the South
under age to bear arms were for four years practically
without school training. Many of them had been at work on
farms and in factories, or were growing up in a training
school of excitement and danger that poorly prepared them
for college discipliric.
When I entered Washington College, in February, 1867,
I found an undisciplined and raw crowd of college class-
males. Many of tlieni. like myself, had seen war from the
b.oy's standpoint in its most thrilling and exciting aspects.
We had been in battle and on the firing line, and yet had not
carried a musket or fired a shot at the enemy. We were
o.ily waiting for the age limit, when we would be better
material for shot. Many of our friends and relatives, only
a year or two older than ourselves, had enlisted in service,
and had found soldiers' graves. As rough, uncouth, and as
p:orly trained as this class of young students were, they
were almost without exception the sons of Southern gentle-
men and boys of pride, ambition, and spirit. Many of them
had made great sacrifices to obtain a college training under
"Alarse Robert," as he was affectionately called. They were,
with few exceptions, industrious, earnest students, in each
of whom Gen. Lee took the warmest personal interest. I
rtcall many incidents which show the solicitude and anxiety
of Gen. Lee over this large class of young men who had
gathered around him. At times we were a wild and ex-
citable crowd of youths. War and race prejudice still ran
high, and more than once some of our number were guilty
of indiscretions that brought pain to the heart of our noble
President. As mucli as we loved and admired hmi, as a
student body there were among our number a few individuals
that the most rigid discipline could not at all times hold in
check. But retributive justice was sure to overtake the
offender of college authority when he came into the presence
and under the piercing eye of Gen. Lee. He was at once
either subdued by his benevolence and fatherly tenderness
or returned to his parents at home. No student could riot
long or waste his time in idleness under Gen. Lee's observa-
tion. His sins were sure to find him out, and he either
yielded to the superior influences exerted over him or ceased
to be a member of our student body.
Each year from October, 1865, to 1870 (the year of Gen.
Lee's death) the class of students increased in number and
ni character. Crude and untrained boys were soon molded
ir.to educated and cultivated men. The corps of professors,
associates, and instructors was enlarged to meet the require-
ments of the students. College buildings, laboratories, and
an endowment were rapidly built up under Gen. Lee's leader-
ship. I know of no institution in this country which began
with so little that accomplished so much in four years' time.
C'en. Lee's death came in the midst of this great upbuilding.
He had set in motion an influence which extended far be-
yond the walls of the college. I refer to the influence exerted
over the young men who became his students and over the
people of the South, whose eyes were ever on him. He taught
all the value of character, the simplicity and nobility of life,
and the highest duties of citizenship.
No student could come in contact with Gen. Lee without
ab'orbin.t;' the influercc of his personality. It is safe to say
that he knew nearly every student in college by name, the
character of his work, and his conduct. He corresponded
regularly with th? p u'ents or guardians of every student.
He sought by every method to stimulate the best thought
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and work, and to promote the moral as well as intellectual
training of those under him.
To show his personal relations with the student, I shall
mention a few incidents of a personal nature. Upon the
occasion of my first meeting with him, February 2, 1867, the
day after I entered college, I handed him a letter of intro-
ductio.i from my father. With a cordial shake of the hand
and a personal reference to my family, he remarked : "I wish
you to make as good a record at college as your namesake
made in the army." On another occasion, a few weeks later,
I carried to him a half dozL-n of his photographs for his
autcgrrph. He remarked; "Why did you bring these ugly
pictures to me?" I replied that some young lady friends had
recucsted me to send them his photograph with his auto-
graph attached. "Why," said ho, "did you not bring the
photographs of the young ladies? I would much prefer to
see them." He then turned to a cabinet and drew out his
photograph with his autograph attached and presented it to
me, with the remark that it was a better likeness than the ono
shown in the photograp'.is I had brought to him. It is need-
less to say that I still value this photograph above all of m>'
triaures. Upon other occasions when I had to call at the
President's oflice he invariably inquired after the young
ladies, and made some pleasant remarks that removed all
embarrassment and made me feel his friendly interest \n me.
Upon a rainy, muddy day I happened to meet hiin on the
pith leading from the collegj to his residence. We were
alone. He halted me in the rain, inquired after my friends
at hoine, wished to know how I was getting along with my
work, and then suddenly chan.ged the subject of the conver-
sation with the remark: "This is a good day for ducks.
Good-by." I happened to meet him on another afternoon.
when it was as rainy and as wet under foot as one could
imagine. My roonunate and I I'ad ridden horseback that day
to the Natural Bridge and back, a distance each way of four-
teen miles. The road was muddy, the horses were bad, and
we were drenched in water and covered with mud. As we
were returning from the livery stable in the .town to our room
in the college we met Gen. Lee face to face on the side-
walk. He noticed at once our mud-stained appearance,
and halt.^d us. I thought that we would be rebuked for
some violation of college rult s. Rut he pleasantly remarked :
"Where have you young men been to-d,-iy?" We replied: "We
have boon out to see the Natural Bridge for the first time. '
He said: "Did you walk out or ride out?" Our reply was.
"We rode out, of course. General." "Ah !" said he. "You
should have walked out ; it is such a fine day for marching."
I might mention numerous incidents of this character.
showing his pleasant humor and friendly interest in the stu-
dent. 1 may be pardoned for relating an anecdote, perhaps
known to many, which Gen. Lee told on himself. It .so fully
illustrates his quiet hunor that it will bear many repetitions.
On one occasion when Gen. Lee was riding along the road
alone he met an old Confederate soldier on foot. The old
veter;in addressed the General, and remarked to him that he
had one request to make of him; would he grant it? Gen
Lee replied that he would gladly grant any request within
his power to an old soldier. The old veteran then said : "I
wish you to dismount from your horse whilst T give three
cheers for Gen. Lee." Accordingly, Gen. Lee dismounted,
and in the public highway, with no one present but the two,
the old private gave three long and loud cheers for his chief.
The conditions were complied with, to the joy of the old
soldier, and the General remounted and rode away. Could
any scene be more touchnig and pathetic, and at the same
time so full of genuine humor?
Gen. Lee's interest in the moral as well as intellectual train-
ing of the student was manifested in many ways. He was
a regular attendant upon the religious services conducted in
the chapel every morning, and by his example encouraged the
-tudents to attend these religious exercises. He took a deep
mterest in the Young Men's Christian Association, and in all
the college societies that tended to promote the morals and
culture of the student. Violations of college discipline, evi-
der.ces of bad conduct, and neglect of study iipon the part of
any student were sure to call from him a reprimand or sug-
gestion which the offender was not likely to forget.
Upon one occasion I was an innocent victim of one of his
admo:)ilions, which I have re nembered since with great dis-
comfort. One of the college rules forbade the students play-
ing baseball during recitation hours on the college campus.
This rule was frequently broken during Gen. Lee's absence
from his office in the co'lcge building. The time selected was
when he had gone home for his dinner. At such a time a
few of the boys with ball and bat would exercise with the
same. A student was usually posted to give the alarm on
tlic appearance of Gen. Le?. On one warm day in June a
few boys were batting and calching ball while the General
was at dinner. Tlve boys had failed to post a sentinel, and
Gen. Lee made bis appearaiice in an unexpected manner. As
soon as his presence was known the offenders ran to hide
in the college building. Gen. Lee followed them in their re-
treat. It hap )cncd that I had been in the rear of the build-
ing, anu as I came out of the hall onto the portico I met
Gen. Lee face to face. The day was exceedingly warm, and
1 was in my shirt sleeves. I was not aware that the boys
were in hiding for breaking rules. I was at once taken by the
General for one of the offenders. Calling me by name, he
asked if I did not know it was a violation of college rules
to pl.iy ball duri;;g recitation hours. In my embarrassment
I pleaded that I had not been playing ball. The circumstantial
evidence was against me. I have always felt that my answer
was dcubte J ; but the noble old gentleman simply remarked
th<-:t the boys must not violate this rule, and then walked
away. I was loo stunned to thir.k. and did not realize my
position until some of the offenders had come from out of
their hiding phces and made the situation plain to me.
During the remainder of my college life I was always carc-
fid when I ventured on the campus in my shirt sleeves.
Gen. Lee was oiie of the most modest as well as one of
the most difhdenl of men. Notoriety and applause were not
only distasteful but painful to him. On commencement or
public occasions he avoided publicity, and was embarrassed
Ipy remarks which referred to him in any way in person. He
dis'iked display and ostentation of manner and speech.
Whilst his heart was said to have been broken by the results
of the war, he had the faculty of concealing his feelings to
a degree seldom equaled. He was less emotional than any
human being I ever saw, and yet possessed the most gentle
and sympathetic nature. I never saw him smile or frown.
The expression of his face was as calm and placid as a
child's. His f alures were noble, his eyes soft and benevo-
le t. but piercin.g. and expressive of both thought and feel-
ing. He could express with his eyes an authority and com-
mand which volumes of words could not convey. His voice
was soft and gentle, and seldom raised above a whisper, but
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with sound so clear and distinct that every word was clearly
heard. His influence over those thrown in his presence was
magnetic. His poise, expression, and bearing commanded
respect and exercised an authority which no one dared to
deny in his presence. The great secret of his character was
its simplicity an:l manliness. He seemed to tower above the
heads of every one by nobility of mind and heart, which
created the feeling that greatness was personified in him.
Whether on foot or horse, he looked the soldier that he
was. Except on rare occasions, he wore the Confederate gray
uniform without its trimmings and brass buttons. When
mounted on Traveler, his old war horse, he wore high-top
boots, which gave him a military bearing never to be for-
gotten by those who had seen him at the head of the army.
He was devotedly attached to Traveler, and the horse and
the man seemed to be made for each other — the one proud
of the other — and inseparable in spirit and noble bearing.
Art has tried to represent these two noble specimens of the
man and of the horse as they appeared in life, yet all that the
genius of the artist could do was to present forms and color-
ings. The life and pride of spirit can never be shown on
canvas as they are recalled by eyes which saw the reality.
In good weather Gen. Lee rode Traveler almost daily. The
exercise was beneficial to both, now growing old in years as
well as in service. When death came to Gen. Lee, Traveler
was not long in following his old master.
I have only touched upon a few of the many impressions
made upon a student by the greatest of all college presidents.
Years have rapidly passed by, and the students of Gen. Lee's
day are growing fewer and fewer. Those of us who, remain
still recall the noble influence he exercised over our lives.
NEGRO COMMUNED AT ST. PAULS CHURCH.
Col. T. L. Broun, of Charleston, W. Va., writes of having
been present at St. Paul's Church, Richmond, Va., just after
the war when a negro marched to the communion table ahead
of the congre.uation. His account of the event is as follows :
"Two months after the evacuation of Richmond business
called me to Richmond for a few days, and on a Sunday
nicrning in June, 1865, I attended St. Paul's Church. Dr.
Minnegerode preached. It was communion day; and when
the minister was ready to administer the holy communion,
a negro in the church arose and advanced to the communion
table. He was tall, well-dressed, and black. This was a
great surprise and shock to the communicants and others
present. Its effect upon the communicants was startling, and
for several moments they retained their seats in solemn
silence and did not move, being deeply chagrined at this at-
tempt to inaugurate the 'new regime' to offend and humiliate
them during their most devoted Church services. Dr. Min-
negerode was evidently embarrassed.
"Gen. Robert E. Lee was present, and, ignoring the action
and presence of the negro, arose in his usual dignified and
self-possessed manner, walked up the aisle to the chancel rail,
and reverently knelt down to partake of the communion, and
not far from the negro. This lofty conception of duty by
Gen. Lee under such provoking and irritating circumstances
had a magic effect upon the other communicants (including
the writer), who went forward to the communion table.
"By this action of Gen. Lee the services were conducted
as if the negro had not been present. It was a grand exhibi-
tion of superiority shown by a true Christian and great sol-
dier under the most trying and offensive circumstances."
THE RETURN OF THE FLAGS.
BY T. C. HARBAUGH.
They're coming back — the banners old.
That floated in the battle's van
And kissed the sunlight fold on fold
From Potomac to Rapidan.
They're coming home — the flags that waved
In triumph by the summer sea.
Where heroes often dangers braved
Beneath the glorious plume of Lee.
They mutely tell to all the world
How round them Southland's heroes fell
Ere they one April day were furled
In sorrow in Virginia's dell.
The banner of the precious bar
Hath still its story never old.
The standard of the stainless star
Hath love to mark its every fold.
They're coming back to Southland fair,
Though faded, creased, and old and torn ;
Four years they floated on the air
Before the matchless legions borne.
The men who fought beneath their stars
Wreathed them with fame that ne'er will fade;
There's not a deed to-day that mars
The record that the legions made.
They sleep who saw them wave on high,
Ofttimes enwreathed with victory;
They camp beneath the summer sky
Along the winding Tennessee.
They followed where those banners led
Through storm of shot and rain of shell ;
The bravest of the South lay dead
Where oft the standards rose and fell.
They're coming home to those who love
The cause for which the thousands died.
Fair as the blue that bends above
And by affection sanctified.
The violet blooms on many a plain
Where once the valorous legions trod ;
The modest rose hath oped again
Above the battle's blood-drenched sod.
No longer crouch the eager foes.
No phalanx is for battle set.
And Peace hath placed a snow-white rose
Upon the cruel bayonet.
They're coming back — the flags of old.
And Southland's heart is proud to-day;
They floated grandly, fold on fold.
Above the men who wore the grav.
THE BANNER OF THE BARS.
CLARA DAEGAN MACLEAN, SEWANEE, TENN.
Aloft it Streamed o'er hill and dale,
O'er river, lake, and plain ;
It waved above ten thousand brave
.\tn\d the leaden rain ;
At masthead floated wild and free
Beneath the midnight stars ;
And morning broke upon it there —
The Banner of the Bars.
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Low in the dust its folds now lie,
And draped with deepest woe ;
But who shall dare to mock it there,
To taunt a ic'len foe !
As woman turns to him she loves^
Loved better for his scars —
We now adore with tender pride
The Banner of the Bars.
PERSONAL EXPERIEXCES AT HARRISBURG, MISS.
BY HENRY EWELL HORD, TENNESSEE CONFEDERATE HOME.
The Harrisburg fight was the hardest our brigade was in
during the war; at least we suffered more in proportion to
the time engaged. Gen. A. J. Smith, commanding the Six-
teenth Army Corps, infantry, cavalry, and artillery, amounting
in all to near seventeen thousand men, started from Mem-
phis to "clean up" Gen. Forrest, march through Alabama, and
join Sherman in Georgia. We had only a few small cavalry
brigades at that time in North Mississippi ; and Gen. Buford's
Division, consisting of Lyon's and Bell's brigades, was sent
out toward La Grange to delay Smith's advance and enable
Gens. Forrest and Stephen D. Lee to concentrate all the
troops they could to repel Smith's force. We met them
south of La Grange, and immediately commenced a kind of
guerrilla warfare — capturing pickets, ambushing, night at-
tacks, rushing in while they were on the march, killing the
wagon guards, burning wagons, and out again before they
could get a whack at us.
Constantly annoyed in this way. Smith's Corps could not
march more than six or seven nnles a day on his route. He
had to be ready to light at all hours, day or night. The road
in his rear was strewn with dead mules, burnt wagons, and
fresh-made graves. Our loss was almost nothing, except hard
riding and lack of sleep, things we were accustomed to. We
were confident wc should soon wear him out, get his men de-
moralized, and make his raid end like Gen. Sturgis's; and we
would have done it if Gens. Forrest aid Buford could have
had their way. All the way from La Grange to Harrisburg
we acted as an invisible escort to Gen. Smith. He could not
water his horses without taking his army to the creek with
him, and he camped every night in line of battle, with heavy
skirmish lines thrown around him.
Gen. S. D. Lee came up from the south just before Smith
reached Harrisburg; and as he commanded the department.
he took charge. All the available rcenforcenients that could
be spared from other places were utilized. Our brigade com-
mander, Gen. Lyon, was put in charge of a lot of dismounted
militia and two batteries, and Col. Ed Crossland commanded
our brigade Mabrey and McCulloch, our old friends under
Gen. Rucker, and Gen. Roddy, with his division from Alabama,
were all up and eager for the fight. The night Gen. Smith
reached Harrisburg our brigade had been worrying him all
day. and when he finally went into camp we were so close
to him that we thought we were in for a night attack.
We were marching in line of battle, with skirmishers out.
when word came down the line to "halt, dismount, and lie
down." I had been asleep only a few moments when I heard
a voice in a stage whisper ask : "What's the matter witli
Company D?" I raised up and recognized Otey O'Bryan, a
member of Company B. Third Kentucky. He had made a
considerable reputation as a bold and reliable scout, and Gen.
Forrest very often made use of him. When Otev wanted anv
men to go with him, he would come to Company D and ask for
volunteers. Generally the boys were eager to go ; but that nignt
every one was tired and sleepy, and no one had volunteered.
As soon as I found out what was wanted, I told him I would
go ; then another one of the boys. Bob , also volunteered
to go. "That's all I want. Leave your horses and guns with
No. 4. Bring one pistol if you want to; we are going afoot "
He took us to where he had two suits of clothes, ont a
citizen's and the other a L'nited States uniform. I had to
take the uniform, as Bob could not get it on over his gray
clothes. He then told us that Gen, Forrest was anxious to
find out all he could about Gen. Smith's army, as he expected
to fight him early next day, and wanted us to go inside his
lines and get all the information we could. He said it was
not really necessary for three to go, as each man would go
alone and use his own judgment as to his movements; but it
was a dangerous n.ission. and meant death sure and swift
if we were caught. •<o he thought it better to have three, as
some of us might never get back
We shook hands and separated, never to meet any more in
this world. Bob never got back, and Otey was killed next
day on the breastworks. I never heard his report or saw him
any more. Gen. Smith was on the same ground his battle
line fought on next day, and we were in the field just in
front of him. As soon as we separated I went to w!iere T
was certain the enemy's skirmish line would be, and managed
to locate it without being heard or seen. I then crawled
up close to the sentinel and waited till the relief came around.
The weeds were about as high as oats. When the guard was
changed, I heard the countersign given, then I slipped back
and went to another sentry, was challenged, gave the counter-
sign. "Grant," bold as brass, told the fellow I had been out-
side scouting for Gen. Smith, and then, just for devilment,
told him tne Rebs were out there in the weeds, and he had
better keep his eyes "peeled."
I made my way to where I thought Gen. Smith'.s main line
was, and by good luck struck one end of it. They had thrown
up breastworks about four feet high, stacked arms, and were
all sleeping soundly around the guns. I did not see any
guards at all except one sentry in front of a new tent, with a
light burning in it ; and as that was the only tent I saw, I sup-
posed that it was Gen. Smith's headquarters. I went from
one end of the line to the other, got the exact position of
each battery, tlic number of guns, where the negro brigade
was. etc.
I got out about daylight by doing some of the fastest
running a boy ever did. I found that while I was gone my
command had retired to the woods in front of Gen. Smith
about a mile, and in plain view. I made iny report to Gen.
Forrest and several of his officers, who seemed to be holding
a council. Gen. Buford among them. I told them that if they
attacked from that side they would have to cross that old
field a mile wide and take the raking fire of those batteries.
As far as I could tell from their faces, they all seemed to
agree with me. I heard afterwards that Gens. Forrest and
Buford were very much opposed to making the attack from
that side. I don't think Gen. Lee knew how strongly the
enemy were posted. While in the Yankee camp I had stolen
a fine new haversack, .\ftcr I got back to my company, I
found that it contained a package of roasted coflfee and hard-
tack. I concluded to make me some coffee, but had only an
old Confederate canteen to boil it in. I had just made the
colTee when we were ordered to "fall in." So I hung it up
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in a tree till the fight was over, as I did not want to be
bothered carrying a canteen of boiling coffee into a battle.
In the meantime word had passed around that we were
going to attack. Roddy's Division had formed .on our right
and Mabrey on our left, with Bell supporting Mabrey. Two of
Morton's batteries were with us and two with Bell. But few
of Lyon's infantry had gotten up. When we were ordered to
advance, our brigade moved promptly, and Roddy moved on
a line with us for some five hundred yards, then halted ; the
other brigades, for some cause, did not move with us. As
soon as we emerged from the woods we were in plain view
of the Yanks, and they opened on us with all their batteries.
Our two batteries responded. Gen. Smith's line was formed
in the shape of a crescent, with batteries on both points and
in the center, and we were nearly in front of the center battery.
We started in quick time, and halfway across the field changed
to double-quick. Five hundred yards or so from the Yankee
lines a shell burst just as it passed between John Duke's head
and my own. We were in the front rank, and the concussion
knocked us both down, the fragments killing the two men in
the rear rank. I was the first to come to, with my face
turned toward the woods from which we had come. My first
impression was that the fight was over, as I could see noth-
ing of the command and could hear no firing. I happened to
turn around and look the other way, and saw them about
two hundred yards oS, going as regular as clockwork on
to tlie Yankee line. The concussion of the e-xploding shell
had destroyed my hearing. John Duke raised up about then,
and we raced to catch up with the command. They had
halted one hundred and fifty or two hundred yards from the
breastworks and "dressed up" as we got in our places. The
Yankees were concentrating their fire on us from twenty-four
guns and a heavy li.ie of infantry behind breastworks. It
was awful. The two end batteries could enfilade our entire
line. I was stone-deaf myself, but I have heard the boys say
tliat the bones breaking sounded like grinding coffee.
We had not fired a shot as yet ; and when Col. Crossland
gave the command to charge, the whole lir.e swept forward like
one company. Some went over the works and were killed in
the ditch, scores of tiiem were killed on the works ; but they
stopped us. Again and again we made a rush for the works,
only to be hurled back. Finally we made a lodgment on our
side of the breastworks and fired across, with our guns almost
touching the enemy's. Aleck Cowan (one of Company D),
sitting on the ground just behind me with his leg broken,
handed me his Spencer. I pitched him my empty gun to
load, and did firing for both. Wounds did not count; noth-
ing but death could keep a man from fighting. Such reckless
courage and desperate fighting was never seen before by our
regiment, though they were in the charge that broke up the
"Hornet's Neft" at Shiloh.
One of the Yankee officers jumped up on the works, waving
his sword. I was standing a little to the right of him. He
caught me with an empty gun ; but I struck him over the
head with it, and he tumbled off on our side. His company
rose en masse to rescue him. As I struck him something hit
me in the side. I lost my balance, and fell on our side of
the works. Glancing back to see what it was that had pushed
me oft". I saw a Yank with his throat cut from ear to ear.
He had dropped his gun and had both hands clasped around
his throat, trying in vain to check the blood that was gushing
through his fingers. They were crowding over the works,
and no one had time to load; it was clubbed gun against
bayonet. Lieut. John Jarrett was close beside me, and I
never have forgotten how he seemed to be in half a dozen
places at once. He was a stout, broad-shouldered man, and
could do more things with a saber than most men ever
dreamed of. Our captain, Milt Kinkead, was shot through
the arms ; but he did not give up the command of the com-
pany, and did all he could to hold the boy? to their work.
Old Col. Crossland saw the break, and rushed into it fight-
ing like a wild man, and yelling, "Die in your tracks ; don't
give an inch ;" but, in spite of all that we could do, they
crowded us back step by step. Fortunately for us, they had
broken over only in front of our company, and the boys to
the left and right of us who had time to load concentrated
their fire on them, killing everything that crossed over, and
we regained our position alongside the works. I looked
around to see if Aleck had a loaded gun for me ; but he had
caught another ball, and was dead. The officer I knocked off
the works fell with his head in Aleck's lap, and they were
lying side by side. Aleck evidently had grabbed him by the
throat with both hands and was choking him when death
overtook him, for the fellow's face was as blue as his uni-
form, and even in death he held on to him. I kicked his wrist
and broke his hold, but don't know whether the officer ever
came to or not.
Col. Crossland, seeing that no reenforcements were coming
to him, ordered a retreat. The brigade closed up and retired
slowly, "front rank fire and fall back." The Yankees showed
a disposition to falloiv us at first, but we kept such a bold
and steady front that they gave it up. Some of the men
helped the wounded to get off — all that were able to be
moved. Two or three hundred yards from the breastworks
we "ceased firing," and retired on "quick time" to where we
started from, halted, and waited for reenforcements. I hap-
pened to think of the canteen of coffee I left hanging on the
tree, and went for it. I found it was just about the right
temperature to drink. I felt as if we had been 'fighting for
hours. Nearly two-thirds of our command had been killed
or wounded, yet it all had happened while a canteen of
coffee was cooling. Lieut. Jarrett came to me after we halted
and examined my jacket. He said he w-as just behind me
whe-.i I jumped upon the works, and saw a Yankee lunge at
me with his bayonet. He found two holes in my jacket where
the ba>onet had gone through from one side to the other,
barely missing my breast. I asked him about the Yank I
had seen w^ith his throat cut, and he admitted that he had
reached across the works and slashed at the fellow with his
saber, but was not certain that he got him, as his attention
was called to another place. That is the kind of man he
was. He would do all kinds of gallant deeds, and then try to
forget them. I am pretty sure his own brother never knew
half he did. He has long since "passed over the river" and
gone where the good soldiers go.
Majs. Turk and Charlie Jarrett volunteered to go with us
on that charge "just for fun," but they got more than they
bargained for. Jarrett was knocked off his horse by the
concussion of a shell, and lost his horse besides. Turk also-
lost his horse. I am not sure at this distant day, but I don't
think a single horse that went in with us got back. Our
loss was particularly htavy in officers; some companies did
not have an officer left. Bell and Mabrey were ordered for-
ward, and made a gallant charge, but were repulsed with
heavy loss. Had we all gone together, with Morton's guns
rushed close up, the result might have been different. Gen.
(^0[}federat:(^ l/ecerar?
Ljon got liis batteries up in time to engage the Yankee guns,
and thty let us go. We were r.ot engaged any more that day,
but moved around on anotlier road and attacked next day
and drove them about a mile. It was very warm, and more
than eighty men were carried from the field with sunstroke.
Gen. Smith concluded that he would not go to .'Alabama.
Memphis was a very good town, so he began the next morn-
ing to pull his freight for that place. Gens. Forrest and
Buford, thinking they could turn his retreat into a route,
commenced crowding him with artillery. Smith turned on
them at Town Creek, and came very near capturing four
of Morton's guns. Gen. Buford had only part of our brigade
supporting him at the time, and Maj. Turk came flying back
after us. We went forward on the run, dismounted, and
wheeled into line not a moment too soon. Morton had lost
all of his horses, and, like Uncle Remus's rabbit, "he just
had to climb" (fight). Gen. Buford was down on the ground
helping the battery boys, and yelling: "Give 'em h — 1, boys!"
The Yanks were charging in a long line at double-quick, and
were only thirty steps or so from the battery when we got
into line. We fired in their faces, which stopped them, and
lluii we charged. They did not wait for us, but skedaddled
back. We chased them across an old field, and ran up on
another line, which brought us to a halt. While we were
fighting that line at close range Gen. Forrest got up with
McCulloch's brigade, charged, and drove them back. In tliai
fight Forrest got the worst wound he received during the war
— in the foot. We came very near losing our llag there. The
color bearer was killed, and Lieut. Jarrett took the colors
ill falling back, closely followed by the Yanks, Jarrett fell
down. He knew he would not have time to get up and away,
the Yanks were so close; so he gathered the flag under him
and played dead. The Yanks passed over him. We immedi-
ately made a counter charge and drove them back, and were
much pleased to see Jarrett jump up and wave the old flag.
Our brigade had suffered so heavily that we were excused
from any more fighting on the retreat. We went back, buried
the dead, and took care of the wounded. All of our Harris-
burg wounded, as w-ell as the enemy's, had fallen in our
hands. The Yanks had never given their wounded any at-
tention, and the poor fellows suffered fearfully. Their wounds
were flyblown, and many of them died under the surgeon's
knife.
[1 he writer of the above. Comrade llord, is an inmate of
the Tennessee Soldiers' Home, and is still as "deaf as a post"
from the effects of that shell at Harrisburg. — Ed,]
COMFORTING WAR REMINISCENCE.
BY COL. J. STODD.VRD JOUXSTON, LOUISVILLE, KV.
Two years ago I attended the fiftieth anniversary of my
graduation at Yale College, where I met in pleasant reunion
thirty of the forty-three survivors of the class of 1853, which
numbered at graduation one hundred and eight. In the ex-
change of rcniiniscenccs I gave an account of my meeting
with my classmate, Maj. Charles H. Whittlesey, of the Fed-
eral army, jnsl at the close of the W'ar. It was published in
the memorial volume after the class meeting.
In the summer of 1864 we both took part in the Shenandoah
Valley campaign, and were in the opposing armies in at least
one battle, that of Winchester, Va., September 19, though at
the time neither knew of the presence of the other. Whittle-
sey was major and adjutant general on the staff of Gen,
H. G. Wright, commandiijg the Sixth Corps, and I was
major and chief of staff to Gen. John C. Breckinridge,
commanding a corps in Gen. Jubal Early's army. Shortly
after this battle we both went to other fields, and when the
close drew near I was in North Carolina, and took my parole
under the terms of capitulation made by Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston to Gen. W. T. Sherman, at Greensboro, N. C, May
1. 1865. Thence with other Confederates I went on horse-
back to Danville, Va., several days" ride north of Greens-
boro. We reached there at dark, and found that Wright's
Corps occupied the place. With Gen, Echols I was hospitably
entertained at the house of Maj. W. T. Sutherland, a Con-
federate officer, and for the first time after I entered the
army I slept within the Federal lines. There was some spec-
ulation as to how we would fare on the morrow, and sonic
apprclunsion was felt as to restrictions which would be
placed upon our further movements. Next morning after
breakfast I was seated alone in the parlor reading, when the
servant announced that a Federal officer wished to see me.
The idea occurred to me at once that it was a domiciliary
\isit foreboding no good, and 1 told the servant to show the
nlt'cer 111, prepared to take whatever was in store lor me.
In a few moments the oflker appeared in full uniform, paused
a moment upon entering, and before I knew it embraced me
in his arms. It was Whittlesey, and if I had been a brother
he could not have shown more afl'ection and joy in meeting
inc. He then told me that in the campaign of the preceding
summer an order signed by me had been picked up alter the
battle, and by this means he had learned of my presence
there. He had ever since feared f miglit have been killed,
and had never heard of me since until a few moments nefore.
wlicn he learned of my presence at Maj, Sntlicrland's and
liad come immediately.
You may well infer what a happy meeting this was to both
of us, and how it lit up the gloom which enshrouded me in
ihe sting of defeat and uncertainty of the future. Life took
on a new interest, and through the despair so lately domi-
rant I seeined at once to foresee the prospect of the delight-
li:l reunion which afterwards came about, typified by that
we then enjoyed. .After a happy hour, I promised to call at
liis luadquarters. which were on pleasant grounds just across
the street. I went at noon, and there an elegant tent with
floors, folding chairs, and other luxurious fittings in marked
contrast to the accommodations 1 had been used to, I was
introduced to Gen. Wri,ght and six or eight of the principal
members of his staff. This reception was most cordial, and
a pleasant hour was passed in conversation. Refreshment*
were served, embracing viands to which I had long been a
stranger, and healths were drunk appropriate to the occasion.
When we were left alone together. Whittlesey sought in
various ways to see how he could serve me. His pocketbook
was at my command; hut I had lately sold a horse to J. P.
Benjamin. Confederate Secretary of State, for one hundred
and fifty dollars in gold, and startled my friend by display
of the coin. I then told him he might serve me by sending
over the military lines a dispatch to my family in Kentucky,
which he did, and it was the first news they received of my
safety. Then, learning that I w-ished to go to Richmond, he
gave nic an order for transportation for myself and two
friends in a passenger car. or otherwise I might have had
to go in a box car. .After the dear fellow had done every-
tiiing which friendly afl'ection could suggest, we parted, never
to meet again. When I heard a few years later of his death,
it was with unspeakable sorrow, and the memory of his
friendship will never fade.
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GEN. GRANT AS FRIEND TO MAJ. GEN. M'LAHS.
Two of the strongest characteristics of Gen. Grant as a
public man were his stubborn lighting qualities and his un-
swerving loyalty to his friends. The world is familiar with
the first, while innumerable instances of the latter could be
cited showing that he was equally as persistent in his friend-
ship. One of the strongest and most interesting illustrations
of the latter was shown for his friend, Maj. Gen. McLaws, of
the Confederate army.
Immediately after the war the commerce of Savannah, Ga.,
Gen. McLaws's native Stale, was almost ruined by the ob-
structions our forces had placed in the Savannah River to
protect the city from the Federal vessels. The city and State
were too poor to have them removed, so a delegation from
the board of aldermen was appoir.ted to go to Washington
and make every effort to have the government assist in clear-
ing the river. Among other influences sought, the delegation
called on President Grant to solicit his very powerful aid.
After making its appeal to the President, Gen. Grant turned
to Capt. McArthur, of the committee, and asked him if ho
could tell him anything about Gen. McLaws. Capt. McArthur
replied : "Yes, Mr. President, he is living about forty-five
miles above Savannah, trying to make a living out of a farm.
I understand his success is not what you might call flatter-
ing." Gen. Grant then said : "I feel kindly disposed toward
McLaws. We were close friends in the old army, and I am
now in a position to do him a friendly turn, and have written
him to that effect, but he has not answered my letter."
A short time after this Gen. McLaws happened to be in
Washington and met Gen. Grant unexpectedly on the Avenue,
who saluted him with : "Hello, McLaws ; where did you come
from ?" After exchange of greetings. Gen. Grant said : "Old
fellow, why did you not answer my letter?" Gen. McLaws
gave some weak excuse, which Gen. Grant refused. "Now,"
he said, "I want you to come up to the White House."
"When ?" queried McLaws.
"Any time you select," replied the President.
"No, that won't do ; your time is too precious for me to
make the appointment. I would rather leave that with you,"
said Gen. McLaws.
"All right," returned the President ; "come to lunch to-mor-
row." The next day the President was very busy, but when
Gen. McLaws's card was brought in he told the usher : "Show
Gen. McLaws to our private parlor and let Mrs. Grant know
lie is here."
As soon as the President could dismiss the delegation with
whom he was engaged he joined Mrs. Grant and Gen. Mc-
Laws. There came up the question of appointment, and again
Gen. Grant chided McLaws for not replying to his letter.
He then told McLaws: "I know all about you. Some of
your friends were here seeking government aid in clearing the
Savannah River of obstruction, and from them I have learned
just how you are situated. I am in a position to help you, and
I am going to do it."
Aside from his friendship. Gen. Grant remembered a special
kindness Gen. McLaws had shown him in the "long ago,''
so he sent McLaws's nomination to the Senate for collector
of internal revenue. When the nomination came up in
executive session of the Senate, it was held up by the Senate,
who directed a committee to call upon President Grant and
request its withdrawal. The committee interviewed the Pres-
ident, but to no effect. "Do you know." volunteered the
•spokesman, "that McLaws is an unrepentant Rebel? Has he
shown any regret or repentance for his rebellion against the
government that educated him? No, Mr. President, we can-
not advocate his confirmation by the Senate.''
Gen. Grant cooly turned to the spokesman and said : "Who
is making this nomination? I know exactly what I am doing."
"Well,"' said the Senator, "the appointment won't be con-
iirmed."
The President replied: "Here are a number of indorsements
by you gentlemen of applicants for appointment by me, and I
desire to say that none of these will receive executive atten-
tion until the Senate acts upon the nomination of Gen. Mc-
Laws."
There was much kicking in the Senate, but Grant's bulldog
stubbornness won the fight and Gen. McLaws got tlie appoint-
ment. When his terra as collector of revenue expired, Gen.
Grant appointed him to the position of postmaster at Savan-
nah, and by his influence kept Gen. McLaws in that position
until .'Krthur succeeded to the Presidencv.
THE OLD CONFEDERATE GRAY.
BY MRS. FLORENCE J. HARPER, NASHVILLE, TENN.
[Suggested by parade of Veteruns at NiishviUe, 1904.]
The red and white with the blue unite
In decoration gay.
While through them all. like a silvery stream.
Runs the old Confederate gray.
But, though the hues of all the flowers
Co-mingle in bright array.
Not one appeals to Southern hearts
Like the old Confederate gray.
The failing ranks of a noble throng
Are in our midst to-day,
And our hearts expand in greetings wartn
To the wearers of the gray.
So that all our hands can find to do
And all we think or say
Will given be in service free
To the wearers of the gray.
They fought beneath the Southern cross.
While the loved at home did pray
For triumph for the stars and bars
And the boys who wore the gray.
Many there were to our hearts so dear
Who sleep where the south winds play ;
Their graves as sacred as home and heaven —
Those heroes of the gray.
In a few brief years, as through falling tears,
We glance adown the way;
We will view the last of the army vast
Who wore this selfsame gray.
When life's battles close on the plains of peace
They will marshal forever and aye.
While a rose of white and a crown of light
Supplant the Rebel gray.
Then a victor's song will float along
Where the river of life's bright spray
Perfumes the air of that country fair,
The home of the boys in gray.
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ALLEGHANY ROUGHS, OR CARPENTER'S BATTERY.
BY \V. M. m'aLISTER, WAR.M SrRlXOS, VA.
[Company A. of the 27tli Regiment Virginia Volunteers,
Stonewall Brigade, was known as the "Alleghany Light In-
fantry," by the boys as the "Alleghany Roughs," and later as
"Carpenter's Battery.'']
The following muster roll is as constituted on July 21,
1861, at the first battle of Manassas:
Captain : Thompson McAllister.
Lieutenants: Joseph Carpenter, George B. McKendree, and
Henry H. Dunott.
Sergeants : Robert L Anthony, Benami Karnes, Littleton
T. Dickey, John G. Rixey, and Charles O. Jordan.
Corporals: Philip D. Vowels, James M. Hammond, Samuel
S. Carpenter, and J. H. Thompson.
The privates were :
Marion Alford.
Stephen W. P. Bacon, James T. Baker, Jr., Van R. Banker,
James W. Branham, William W. Baggage, George T. Byrd,
Joseph M. Boswell.
Patrick Canty, John C. Carpenter, lames P. Clark, Patrick
Corr.
Joseph S. Dressier.
Hopkins R. Foster, William C. Fudge, Joseph T. Fudge,
Timothy Flinn, Clarence A. Fonerden.
James Glenn, James Grady.
James P. Holmes, William Humphries, Thomas Hastings,
William B. Hite.
Janus A. Jordan, Edwin W. Jordan. Peter Jones.
Patrick Kearnes, John Karnes, Francis L. Karnes. John
King. Joseph Kimberlin, John AL Knight, B. H. Knpp.
Samuel Low, William T. Lambie, Charles Laffcrty. John
Lampkins.
William Moran. James R. Montague, John Milligan, Wil-
liam W. Murrell, John W. Matheney, William M. McAllister,
Gabriel McDonald, Andrew McGowan. Patrick McMahan,
Thomas McCarnan, John McCulloch, George R. McKniglil.
Jacob L. Movers,
Virginius B. Otoy.
Peter M. Pence, William D. W. Pit^er.
Michael Quinlin.
James E. Rose. Thomas W. Rosser, Henry B. Ray, James
A. Rogers, Alexander H, Read, James Riley, James W. Read.
John S. Sawyers. Kyle C. Scott, John W. Stewart. Ben-
jamin P. .Stewart, William Steele, Patrick Smith, John Smith.
Their average age was about twenty-five years. The origi-
nal company were nearly all from Covington, Va. This com-
pany was enrolled on tlie 22d of April, 1861, and entered the
service of the State of Virginia on the same day at Staun-
ton, Va. On tlie following day it received orders from Gov.
John Letcher to return to Covington, Va., for drill and to
uniform, and was soon ordered to Harper's Ferry, Va., and
assigned to the 27th Virginia Regiment of Infantry as Com-
pany A, Gen. (then Col.) Thomas J. Jackson's Brigade, after-
wards known as the "Stonewall Brigade." It continued to
serve as an infantry company until the 12th of November,
1861, when it was, by a special order from Gen. Jackson, con-
verted into an artillery company, and served during the war
in that branch of the service, being known first as the ".-Mle-
ghany Roughs' Battery" and later as "Carpenter's Battery,"
but always attached to the "Stonewall Brigade."
In the fall of 1862 the "Jackson Artillery" (known as "Cut-
shaw's Battery," of which Col. W. E. Cutshaw, now of Rich-
mond, Va., had been commander), having become so depleted
in numbers, was merged into this battery, and the name,
"Carpenter's Battery," retained.
Recruited by Virginians.
This company was from time to time recruited as follows :
From Alleghany County, Va. : J. M. Carpenter, J. H. A.
Boswell, George Crawford, Thomas M. Jordan, Samuel
Matheney. Archibald A. Fudge, James P. Payne, Charles S-
J. Skeen, Ledford A. Sively, Robert A. Fudge, and Samuel
Matheny.
From .Augusta County, Va. : William S. Arey, George F.
.Arey, Benjamin CaricolT, Samuel M. Woodward, Thomas D.
Woodward. Chesley Woodward, C. C. Via, Booker Hunter,
and H. L. Evans.
From Nelson County. Va. ; W. Barnes.
From Rockbridge County, Va. : F. W. Figgatt, J. F. Lotts,
James Lcoppard, J. M. Mackey, Reuben L. Martin, James
Walker, William J. Winn, and David Syren.
From \\ ythe County, Va. : J. Sprecker, S. Spreckcr, and
J. Swindle. To this add the remnant of the "Cutshaw Bat-
tery," consi ting of the following: Lieut. D. R. Barton, J. W.
Wiliey. Jacob WiUey, Fred Willcy, G. A. Williams, J. W.
Hoffman, W. F. Cobonrn, J<ihn W. Miller. E. W. Piper, J. AL
V\ ilkinson, H. Ridenour. Fred Ridings, A. W. Staff, W. W.
Rcid, W. F. Hicks, A. McCarty. George Keeler. Daniel W.
Cline, Charles Kayser, James Beeler, E. P. Blake. Joseph
Ccoley, N. Clemni, A. Ridenour, T. T. Hyte, George E.
Everett, John McCarty, W. J. V. Jones, H. Lauch, A. J.
Barrow. W. S. Bradford, J. W. Edmondson, Joseph Manuel,
W J Denipsey, Josei;h .\llemong, James C. Rcid, R. N. St
John, William St. John, St. John, Fitzgerald, W. K.
Newcomer, and John O'Neil.
It will thus appear that the recruits numbered sixty-three,
making the total enrollment of the company, from first to
last, one hundred and forty-five. Of these, forty-five were
killed in battle and n'orc than two hundred wounded in bat-
tle (which includes all such as were wounded in more battles
than one). At First Manassas six were killed and seventeen
wounded ; at Gettysburg ten were killed and twenty-three
wounded ; at Wade's Depot four were killed and five wounded ;
at Winchester, September 19, 1864, ten were killed and twenty-
one wounded; besides smaller numbers killed and wounded
in other battles and skirmishes. Only eight died from dis-
ease during the entire period of the war.
The company took part in twenty-six pitched battles, be-
sides numerous skirmishes. These include First and Second
Manassas, Kernstown, three at Winchester, Charlestown,
Port Republic, Malvern Hill, Cedar Mountain, surrender at
Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg. Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg. Spottsylvania. Monocacy, Md., Wade's Depot,
Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek.
At the enrollment of the company of eighty-eight men,
rank and file, thirty-seven were twenty-two years of age and
under, and at the first battle of Manassas nearly one-third
of the company were killed or wounded, .■\gain at Gettys-
burg and at Winchester more than one-third of the men in
battle were killed or wounded.
A short time snice the writer had the good fortune to pro-
cure a clipping from the Lexington Gazette and Banner of
January 30, 1867, from which I quote :
"This company was organized as infantry in the county of
Alleghany. It acted with distinguished gallantry in the first
battle of Manassas, and Lieut. Dunott captured with his own
sno
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hands the beautiful battle flag of the ist Michigan Regiment.
When Gen. Jackson was promoted and ordered back to the
valley, it was transferred to the artillery branch of the serv-
ice by his order. Officers and men were delighted with the
change, and by the time that Gen. Jackson commenced his
expedition to Bath and Hancock (January i, 1862) had
nearly mastered the drill. It was not long before their ef-
ficiency in their new arm of service was tested by their actions
in the memorable battle of Kernstown. Their cool courage
in this action won the approval of the commanding general,
and they were permitted to reorganize as artillery, while two
other companies that had been detached at the same time were
returned to infantry.
"From this time until early in 1863 they remained with
the 'Stonewall Brigade,' actively participating in all of its
marches, battles, and skirmishes, shared in the honors of the
memorable valley campaign, in the seven days' fights around
Richmond, and in the disastrous repulse of Burnside at Fred-
ericksburg.
"In December, 1862, when the batteries of the division were
ordered back to Bowling Green to 'go into winter quarters,
this battery was left to do picket duty at Buckner's Neck, on
the Rappahannock, for four months continuously, the sec-
tions of the company doing duty alternately ; and, though
but scantily provided with tents, they were not permitted to
build huts for shelter against the storms.
"Upon the reorganization of the artillery into battalions the
battery was assigned to the 3d Battalion, A. N. V., commanded
by Maj. R. Snowden Andrews, afterwards by Maj. Carter
I\I. Braxton.
"In common with their gallant comrades, they shared and
suffered in tlie first Maryland campaign and in the
bloody batles of Second Manassas and Sharpsburg. At Sec-
ond Fredericksburg it operated with Gen. Early's command
against Sfedgwick, passed through the Pennsylvania cam-
paign, and under the command of the gallant Latimer at
Gettysburg had ten men killed and twenty-three wounded.
It participated in all the battles of Grant's celebrated cam-
paign from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, from thence was
ordered to the Valley with Gen. Early, and was present on
every battlefield from Monocacy to Fisher's Hill, where its
guns were captured by the enemy."
At Fishersville they went into winter quarters. Soon there-
after a portion of the company was sent to Petersburg to
help man the guns in the fortifications, and about thirty of
the men were sent back to Alleghany County with the artil-
lery horses, in charge of Capt. John C. Carpenter, with orders
to be prepared to return to the command at a moment's warn-
ing. These men were ordered to return about the time of the
fall of Richmond, and had reached Lexington, Va., when they
received information of the surrender of Gen. Lee. They im-
mediately started from Lexington to join Gen. Johnston,
Army of Tennessee; and when they had gone as far as Hol-
lins Institute, they learned of the surrender of Gen. Johnston
and returned to Covington, Va., and never surrendered. Th.=
rest of the company surrendered with Gen. Lee. After the
company was transferred to artillery, it was commanded by
Capt. Joseph Carpenter, a graduate of the Virginia Military
Institute, a gallant and efficient officer, who died from a wound
received at Cedar Run (Slaughter Mountain). His brother,
John C. Carpenter, succeeded him — a highly meritorious of-
ficer, who retained the command until the close of the war,
and who lost an arm in a cavalry fight under Gen. Rosser.
No con:pany in the Confederate service won a more honor-
able and deserved distinction than Carpenter's Battery, and
none that we have heard of lost more heavily in killed and
wounded in proportion to numbers.
The officers of this company, from first to last, were as
follows: Captains, Thompson McAllister, Joseph Carpenter,
and John C. Carpenter ; Lieutenants, George B. McKendree,
Henry H. Dunott, William T. Lambic, D. R. Barton, Samuel
S. Carpenter, and Charles O. Jordan.
At the first battle of Manassas this company, as infantry,
was led by Capt. McAllister. It captured, near the famous
Henry house, two of the gu . of Ricket's Battery and re-
captured one of the guns 01 (mboden's Battery, which had
been captured by the Feder.ni earlier in the day, and cap-
tured also Capt. Ricket and the battle flag of the ist Michi-
gan and quite a large number of prisoners. The three guns
were turned on the enemy, and contributed largely to his
final rout from ybout the Henry house. An incident worthy
of mention here is the fact that Maj. Gen. (then Col.) Robert
McAllister, of the ist New Jersey Regiment (a brother nf
Capt. Thompson McAllister, C. S. A., who was fighting him),
with his own and the 2d New Jersey Regiment, formed a
hollow square immediately across the public road from tlie
Henry house, and in the direct front of his brother's compnny
and these captured guns, to attempt to check the rout of the
Federals, then becoming general, when this company, with the
aid of these guns and the help of other fragmentary com-
mands, by well-directed aim dislodged this hollow square,
and sent these two magnificent New Jersey regiments hur-
riedly to the rear along with the other Federal troops in their
front, and pursued them across the stone bridge and thence
until ordered to desist.
Capt. McAllister was the oldest and his son, William M.,
the youngest man in this company. They were both pres-
ent at the First Alanassas, and each received a wound in this
first great battle of the war.
Of the original eighty-two men enrolled in this company,
it seems to the writer quite remarkable that, after nearly forty-
four years, there are still living twenty-eight, as follows :
Capt. John C. Carpenter; Lieuts. George B. McKendree, Wil-
liam T. Lambie, Sauiuel S. Carpenter, Charles O. Jordan;
noncommissioned officers and private.';, James T. Baker, Jr.,
Joseph M. Boswell, George T. Byrd, Littleton T. Dickey,
Clarence A. Fonerden, William C. Fudge, Joseph T. Fudge,
James Grady, James Glenn, James M. Hammond, Peter
Jones, Charles Lafferty, John W. Matheney, James R. Mon-
tague, William Moran, William M. McAllister, Virginius
B. Otey, William D. W. Pitzer, Henry B. Ray, James M.
Rose, James A. Rogers, Thomas W. Rosser, and John S.
Sawyers. Of these survivors, Capt. John C. Carpenter, John
W. Matheney, and John S. Sawyers each lost an arm and
Lieut. W. T. Lambie an eye in battle; while nearly every
other survivor was wounded more or less severely at least
once, and many of them several times, in battle. Most of
these survivors have proven in civil as well as in military
life their true and unfaltering heroism and patriotism, for
they have made reputations for themselves and been self-
supporting and successful in their respective callings and oc-
cupations since the war. as they were brave and unfaltering
in every duty during those trying times from 1861 to 1865, the
times "that tried men's souls."
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LA BATAILLE DES MOUCHOIR.
"greatest victory of the war." fought FEB. 20, 1863.
Of all the battles, modern or old,
By poet sung or historian told ;
Of all the routs that ever were seen
From the days of Saladin to Marshal Turenne,
Or all the victories later yet won.
From Waterloo's field to thr.; of Bull Run —
All, all iTiust hide their fading light
In the radiant glow of the handkerchief fight.
And a pa?an of joy must th. ill the land
When they hear of the deeds of Banks's band.
'Twas on the levee where the tide
Of "Father Mississippi" flows
Our gallant lads, their country's pride,
Won this great victory o'er her foes.
Four hundred Rebels were to leave
That morning for Sccessia's shades.
When down there came — you'd scarce believe —
A troop of children, wives, and maids
To wave farewell, to bid Godspeed,
To shed for them the parting tear.
To waft them kisses as the meed
Of praise, to soldiers' hearts most dear.
They came in hundreds: thousands lined
The streets, the roofs, the shipping, too.
Their ribbons dancing in the wind,
Their bright eyes flashing love's adieu.
'Twas then to dan.ccr we awoke.
But nobly faced the unarmed throng
And beat them back with hearty stroke
'Till rcenforccmer.ts came along.
W'e waited long: our anxious sight
Was strained in eager, earnest gaze.
At last we saw the bayonets bright
Flash in the sunlight's welcome blaze;
The cannons' dull and heavy roll
Fell greeting on onr .gladdened ear:
Tlicn fired each eye, then glowed each soul,
F'or well we knew the fight was near.
"Charge !" rang the cry, and on we dashed
I'pon our female foes.
As seas in stormy fury lashed
Whene'er the tempest blows.
Like cliaff their parasols went down
.■\s on our gallants rushed.
.\vA many a bonnet, robe, and gown
Was torn to shreds or crushed.
Though well we plied the bayonet.
Still some our efforts braved :
llefiani both of blow and thrust.
Their handkerchiefs still waved.
Thick grew the fight, loud rose the din.
When "Charge !" rang out again :
.•\nd then the cannon tlumdcred in
."Vnd scoured o'er the plain.
Down 'ncath the unpitying iron heel
Of horses children sank.
While through the crowd the cannon wheel
Mowed roads on either tiank.
One startled shriek, one hollow groan,
One headlong rush, and then
Huzza! the field was all our own.
For we were Banks's men.
That night, released from all our toils.
Our danger passed and gone,
\\ e gladly gathered up the spoil
Our chivalry had won!
Four hundred kerchiefs we had snatched
From Rebel ladies' hands.
Ten parasols, two shoes not matched,
Some ribbons, belts, and bands.
And other things that I forget;
But then you'll find them all
As trophies in that hallowed spot,
The cradle — Faneuil Hall.
And long on Massachusetts' shore
And on Green Mountain's side.
Or where Long Island's breakers roar.
And by the Hudson's tide.
In times to come and lamps are lit,
And fires brightly blaze.
While round the knees of heroes sit
The youth of happier days,
Who listen to' their storied deeds
To them sublimely grand —
Then Glory shall award its meed
Of praise to Banks's band.
And Fame proclaim that they alone,
In triumph's loudest note.
May wear henceforth, for valor shown,
A woman's petticoat !
FRAGMENTS.
"A broken song" — it had dropped apart
Just as it left the singer's heart.
And was never whispered upon the air —
Only breathed into the vague "Somewhere."
"A broken prayer" — only half said
By a tired child at his trundle bed ;
While, asking Jesus his soul to keep.
With parted lips he fell asleep.
".■\ broken life" — hardly half told
When it dropped the burden it could not hold;
Of these lives and songs and prayers half done
God gathers the fragments, every one.
"MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME."
The following story is vouched for as reliable. The famous
song, it is stated, was written by Mr. Stephen Collins Foster,
a New Yorker, who in the early part of the forties, together
with his sister, came to Kentucky on a visit to their uncle,
Judge John Rowan. Judge Roman lived about half a mile
from Bardstown, in Nelson County, on a large plantation,
where his father settled on emigrating from Pennsylvania in
1783. The large brick house that was built about iSio is
still standing in a good state of preservation, and is now
owned and occupied by some of the Rowan heirs, who also
own the adjacent plantation.
This lovely home, as its name implies, is on a hill over-
looking the city of Bardstown. The house is built on the
colonial !;tyle, with a large hall running through the center,
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and is two stories high. The walls are of brick and very
thick, while the windows and doors are very large and high.
These massive walls are covered with ivy and other vines,
which give the old building a very stately aspect, The whole
place has the air of grandeur and colonial beauty. The hillock
is covered with many trees of different species — maple, locust,
t-vergreens, and a few sumac — with here and there a stately
old poplar standing as sentinels on duty. A gravel driveway
winds its way under their leafy bowers up to the old man-
sion on the hill. A great many noted men of the Northern
army there were who found shelter and food under this
palatial old roof as they were coming and going. This beau-
tiful old colonial home has been the dispenser of true Ken-
tucky hospitality for over one hundred years, and some of
Kentucky's noble sons and beautiful daughters have sat
around its festal board.
Halfway between the old mansion and the Bardstown and
Springfield Turnpike is a massive stone spring house, cov-
ered over with ivy and moss. From under the hill, through
the crevasses of mighty gray stones, flows a clear, cool spring,
which never runs dry. To the right of this old spring house
may be seen the ruins of an old cabin, where the darkies sang
and played in days gone by their old-time melodies. It was
in the latter part of October that Stephen Foster and his
sister were sitting on an old bench near this spring house
watching the little darkies play about the cabin door. Across
the lot could be seen the ripe corn tops waving in the cool
breeze as the blades rasped and rustled together, while still
farther on in the meadow could be seen the golden-rods
bowing and nodding in the autumn sun. A more opportune
moment could not have come to any author. Young Foster
seized his pencil and paper and began to write:
"The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home;
'Tis summer, the darkies are all gay ;
The corn top's ripe and the meadow's in bloom.
While the birds make music all the day;
The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,
All merry, all happy, all bright;
By'm-by hard times comes a-knockin' at the door —
Then, my old Kentucky home, good-night !"
Young Foster handed the lines to his sister, who was still
sitting by his side, and, after she had read them over, she
sang them in a sweet, clear voice to the tune that they have
to this day. By the time she was through he gave her the
next stanza, together with the chorus :
Chorus.
"Weep no more, my lady; O, weep no more to-day!
We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home.
For our old Kentucky home far away."
"They hunt no more for the possum and the coon
On the meadow, the hill, and the shore ;
They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon.
On the bench, by de old cabin door;
The day goes like a shadow o'er the heart,
With sorrow where all was delight.
The time has come when the darkies have to part,
Then, my old Kentucky home, good-night !"
By the time Miss Foster had finished these lines all of the
darkies and "white folks" had come to the old spring house,
and were standing around in perfect amazement. When she
was through singing this stanza and the chorus her brother
gave her the third stanza :
"The head must bow and the back will have to bend
Wherever the darkies may go ;
A few more days and the trouble all will end
In the field where the sugar canes grow.
A few more days to 'tote' the weary load —
No matter, it will never be light;
A few more days still we totter on the road.
Then, my old Kentucky home, good-night."
Miss Foster finished singing this stanza as the sun was
going down in the west, painting the sky a deep crimson wuii
his blazing rays. The darkies slowly marched back to their
domestic duties, and the birds seemed to cease their chirping
in the golden bowers of the maple. A deep stillness settled
down over "Federal Hill" that evening, while the goddess of
nature slept in the leafy bowers of the primeval forest after
hearing these sacred words of "My Old Kentucky Home.''
The song is printed in the May number. Note the dif-
ference between this and the other version, which is far more
acceptable to those who truly cherish their old Kentucky
homes.
PEABODY COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS.
[The Peabody Educational Fund is for whites in the
South. Ex-Gov. James D. Porter, Vi-ho was adjutant gen-
eral on Cheatham's staff, is Chancellor.]
One of the most notable events of the year and one which
promises to exercise a marked influence on the history of
education in the South was the appropriation by the trustees
of the Peabody Education Fund of one million dollars as
a partial endowment for the Peabody College for Teachers at
Nashville, Tenn., and the permanent and final location of the
college in this city.
The Peabody Board made its gift on condition that the
University of Nashville should contribute the grounds and'
buildings, which it has placed at the service of the college
since 1874, and that an additional fund to the amount of
$550,000 should be raised from the State, city, and county in
which the college is situated, all of which has been secured.
The property which the university has conveyed to the col-
lege as now reorganized contains sixteen acres of ground in
the city of Nashville, with some half dozen picturesque and
hi'itorical buildings. Part of the money the college has now
acquired will be used for the erection of modern buildin.a;s
for recitation, dormitories, etc. The Teachers' College will
he placed under the control of a Board of Trustees, on which
all the Southern States will have representation, as it is the
intention of the Board to make the college one for the whole
South and in which graduates of normal schools throughout
the country will be enabled to take the higher courses which
teachers sooner or later need. The course of instruction will
be much enlarged, new professors selected, and the college
will be conducted on a higher and broader scale than hereto-
fore.
The institution has been in successful operation, during
which time it has sent out many bright men and women to
the schoolrooms of the South. Every one interested in the
cause of education of white people in the South will be glad
to know of the promising field now offered to this Peabody
College and how much its capacity for doing good will be
increased and enlarged.
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SENIOR CHAPLAIN C. S. A. AND COOK.
A letter received from Camp Rest, Biieiia Vista, Va., July
17, 1905, states that the accompanying photograph is that of
the Rev. James Battle Avirett, chaplain of the 7th Virginia
Cavalry, Army of Northern Virginia, C. S. A., and that of
Ri;\'. liR. J. n. AVIRETT AM) HI.ACK HAWK.
John, the colored cook of the mess connected with Clicw's
Battery of Horse Artillery, belonging to the Ashby Brigade of
Cavalry, at the head of which the brilliant cavalry officer.
Gen. Turner Ashby, was killed June 6, 1862, in the very
wonderful campaign of "Stonewall" Jackson in the historic
Shenandoah N'alU-y.
This old chaplain, by virtue of the date of his commission
(June 17, 1861), is the oldest chaplain of the Confederate serv-
ice, and now lives in his old age at Buena Vista, V'a., a re-
tired clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is
(he author of the life of his general, entitled "Ashby and His
Compeers," as well as the author of a monograph, "Who Is
the Traitor, the Trans-Susquehanna Man or the Cis-Susque-
hanna Man?" His last book, entitled "Tlie Old Plantation,"
is richly descriptive of Southern life before the War between
the States. The old cook of the mess, commonly called "Black
Hawk," was the faithful depositary of the officers' watches
and money when the fight w^as on. Highly respected and as
trustworthy as he was during that fearful struggle, "Black
Hawk" still ministers as a trusted servant in the family of the
late Gen. James H. Williams, of Woodstock, Va.
Dr. Avirett preaches and lectures with surprising vigor, and
is as jolly with the "boys" as of old. Tennesseeans hope to
see and hear him next winter.
The Old Military- Academy, LtvGrange, Ala. — Dr. John
A. Wyeth, No. 19 West Thirtieth Street, New York, is writ-
ing a history of the LaGrange Military Academy, which was
situated in Franklin (now Colbert) County, Ala. It was de-
stroyed by the Federals in April, 1863. He desires a sketch of
the career of every young man who was there as a student
while it was a military institution. Dr. Wyeth will under-
take to make this work thorough, but he must have the aid of
cadets, the small remnant of whom are widely separated now.
NOTICE TO PRESIDENT DAVIS OF HIS ELECTION.
The Victoria (Tex.) Advocate gives an account by Maj.
L. S. Daniel, of that place, of his sending notice to Col.
Jeflferson Davis at his plantation, Brierfield, in Mississippi,
of his election as President of the Confederate States. Maj.
Daniel, quite young at the time, was manager of the tele-
graph office in Vicksburg. His account of the event is as
follows :
"After the ordinance of secession of the several Southern
States had been passed, their representatives hurried to Mont-
gomery, Ala., to form a government and select a leader. If
I remember the date correctly, it was on Monday, February
4, 1861, about five o'clock in the afternoon, when I received
a telegram from Montgomery addressed to Hon. JefTerson
Davis at Vicksburg, in substance: 'Honored sir, you have
been unanimously chosen President of the Southern Confed-
eracy. Please promptly advise your acceptance and when
we may expect your presence at the capital.'
"Col. Davis was then residing on his plantation, Brierfield,
some eighteen miles below Vicksburg by land and about
thirty-five miles by river. Fully realizing the immediate im-
portance of the dispatch, I sent for my best friend, Maj.
James Roach, a prominent banker and an intimate friend and
stanch supporter of Col. Davis. He came at once to the office,
accompanied by several other leading citizens, to whom I
showed the dispatch, and, after consultation, it was decided
that there must be no delay in delivery. I employed a dis-
creet messenger with horse and started him with the dis-
patch, with instructions to deliver the document, await reply,
and return without loss of time, as the office would be held
open for the transmission of the answer. He did his duty
well, as a little after midnight he came in a gallop and handed
me the important reply, also a little personal note of thanks
for prompt action. The reply of acceptance of the presi-
dency was flashed through to the waiting assembly at Mont-
gomery by one o'clock in the morning. The news created
widespread excitement and rejoicing that our fellow-citizen,
Jefiferson Davis, had been placed at the helm — 'the right man
in the right place.'
"On Thursday following, February 7, Col. Davis came
up to Vicksburg on the palatial steamboat Natchez, com-
manded by Capt. Tom Leathers. The Vicksburg artillery,
a young volunteer company, of which the writer was
orderly sergeant, received Col. Davis with a becoming
salute. We assembled on the bluffs near the railroad depot,
in the southern portion of the city, and on the approach of
the magnificent steamboat, carrying the President elect, the
salute of one hundred guns was fired from our three fine
brass 12-pounders, and with sufficient proficiency as to elicit
compliment from Col. Davis. After holding a reception, in
which nearly all of Vicksburg and Warren County partici-
pated. Col. Davis departed for Montgomery by railroad, car-
rying the well-wishes and prayers of his devoted people."
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THE FACE OF MY DEAD.
(Obit: Fitzhugh Lee, April 28, 1905.)
'Twas the call of May, as the joy of spring
Made the joy of the world !
And the heavenly twain would tribute bring.
Even Memory and Love as they wept above
Where our flags were furled
O'er Lee at rest. The golden spears
Of the glorious sun
Crossed and defied the lance of Death;
While a veiled form, with sob and sigh
And her muffled tears,
Her haloed brow and bated breath
And pleading glance and heavenly eye,
Whispered low to the twain as one
She bade them pass ; and we knew while she spake
'Twas the beautiful South, the mother of Lee,
Though she only said
To love and to all : "For his dear sake
Let me look alone on the face of my dead,
'Twill glow as a star to the uttermost sea."
— Lillian Rozell Messenger, in the Washington Post.
John W. White.
[L. D. McMeekin. Commander of Camp 8, U. C. V., Chica-
go, pays tribute to Comrade White.]
Swiftly to its close was John White's life hastened, and
how untimely, how regretfully ! for he was so full of that
"good will" toward his fellow-raeri that makes living such a
present joy and happiness so enduring. In the great war he
was "one of Morgan's men."
When the old pass away after a life of usefulness, when
the palsy of age and feebleness is upon those we love, we can
bear to speak a tearful farewell and reconcile ourselves to
their loss with the thought that with the end of usefulness
may well come the end of life. But when the genial, the
true-hearted, and the noble are struck down and gathered
like the unripened sheaf; when the veil must be drawn before
the portals that open the future, where the eye of prophecy
saw painted in brilliant colors the picture of realized ambi-
tions, the pain is not so easily soothed nor the sorrow so
quickly assuaged.
Bright in every attribute, ambitious, honorable, brave, his
memory is rich in noble and loving recollections. Let us
mourn for our comrade as a good man gone to enjoy the
everlasting peace his genial nature, while spanning life's short,
troubled journey, so well fitted his spirit to inherit and
enjoy.' To his sorrowing wife we tender sucn consolations
as may be given to those who "knew him best and loved him
most."
A committee of the Camp (8, U. C. V.) passed the follow-
ing resolutions :
"Whereas the angel of death has passed over the threshold
of our comrade, John W. White, and removed from our midst
a devoted and beloved associate, leaving only the reflection
of a life once and always beautiful and happy and trans-
planting it to a higher sphere for the perfecting and finish-
ing of a character so nobly begun here on earth ; therefore
"Resolved: i. That we see in it all the hand of the God of
love and recognize in it a part of a divine plan ; that in the
death of our friend, companion, and comrade we as a Camp
of ex-Confederate soldiers have sustained a grievous and
irreparable loss. In the glory of the early summer, with the
splendid blossoms of the maiden season blooming and shed-
ding their perfume and all nature alive in the advance of the
magnificent year, he fell asleep with the sunshine of life
around and about him, to be awakened in the splendor of
light which comes from the great white throne.
"2. That we extend to Mrs. White the sympathy of our
Camp, and hope that it may be to her an assurance of that
deep and tender feeling which can find expression only in the
warm and affectionate grasp of the hand in times of bitter
grief and deep distress.
"3. That we transmit a copy of these resolutions to Mrs.
White, and also that they be embodied in the minutes of this
meeting and inscribed on a page suitably memorialized of
our records, a copy sent to the Confederate Veteran for
publication, and that the members of Camp 8, U. C. V., of
Chicago, wear the usual badge of mourning for a departed
comrade."
Signed: L. D. McMeekin (Commander), B. F. Jenkins,
Samuel J. Sullivan, J. C. Slaughter, George Forrester, George
W. Smith, George T. Bradley. Michael C. Hayes, and Harry
Lee (Adjutant).
Dr. a. C. McFall. — From resolutions passed by Mayfield
Camp in honor of this comrade, the following notes are taken:
A. C. McFall was born in Tennessee in 1842; and died
March 28, 1905. In May of 1861, when nineteen years of age.
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he enlisted in Company E. 4tli Tennessee Infantry, where he
served as a valorous soldier for four years. He was in many
hard-fought battles — Shiloh, Perryville, Missionary Ridge,
and others — and always in the line of duty. Since the war
he was engaged in civic pursuits, and won the confidence
and esteem of all. He was one of the first to become a mem-
ber of the Camp at Mayficid, Ky.
J. W. MOORES.
J. \V. Moores was born July 25. 1837, at Fayetteville,
Tenn. He was reared in that community, hut moved to
Memphis a few years before the War between the States.
He entered tlic Confederate service in 1S61 as a member of
,r. W. MOORES.
the Shelby Grays, and left a sick beil at Memphis for Corintli
just before the advent of the Federal troops, where he re-
ceived an indefinite furlough to await convalescence from
inflammatory rheumatism. He remained with the army,
rendering the best service he could as assistant quarter-
master with Hood and most of the time with Gen. Pat Cle-
burne, with whose command he was at the battle of Frank-
lin. He surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. After the war
Comrade Moores engaged in business in Memphis as com-
mission merchant and cotton factor until 1880, since when
his life had been spent in Kentucky, where he operated a
coal mine until his health failed. He was married to Miss
Virginia Molloy. of Memphis, in 1870. His death occurred
on May 13, 1905. A noble, unselfish life thus ended. A de-
voted Christian, he bore without reproach the "grand old
name of gentleman."
W. C. Kent. — When the war came on, \\'. C. Kent was
attcndinp the Kentucky Military Institute, at Lexington, but
returned immediately to his home, in Louisiana, and enlisted
in tlie East Feliciana Guards, a company then commanded
by Capt. J. O. Fuqua— Company A, of the i6th Regiment
of Louisiana Infantry, Army of Tennessee, of which Com-
rade Kent was lieutenant. He was in prison at Johnson's
Island when the war closed. He returned home after the
war to Clinton, La., where his death occurred on the 29th
of October, 1904. A wife and seven children survive him.
Capt. W. L. Gay.
[The following tribute comes from W. B. Denson, Lieuten-
ant Colonel of the 6th Louisiana Cavalry, Gainesville, Tex.]
Another of our bravest and best veterans has grounded
arms forever. The last days of that knightly little captain
of the 22d Mississippi were such that he was ready for the
summons when the "long roll" was beaten. Capt. W. L. Gay,
late of Greenville, Miss., died at Frankfort, Ky.,' March 25,
1905. Covered with glorious scars received at the front in his
country's defense and bearing in his body one Minie ball
that had been his companion for more than forty years, he
has laid his burden down and is gone to the reward of the
fearless soldier and humble Christian. No man gave more
loyal service to the Confederacy. No man loved the memories
of our splendid achievements of the War between the States
more ardently than did he. He read every book he could
find upon its events, he devoured every page of the Veteran,
and was the best-posted man upon the history of that mighty
struggle with whom it has been my fortune to be associated.
Modest and unpretentious, you had to get by leading ques-
tions the part he took in that bloody drama. At the first
blast of the tocsin of war he enlisted in the "Swamp Rangers,"
of which William Percy was elected captain, L. B. Valliant
first lieutenant, and W. L, Gay second lieutenant. This com-
pany was first mustered into the State service in the 1st
Mississippi Regiment of Volunteers and afterwards organized
into the 22d Mississippi of Confederate forces. It served suc-
cessively in Bowon's, then Statim's, and, lastly, in Feather-
stone's Brigade.
Capt. Percy was early promote<l, Lieut. Valliant resigned,
and Lieut. Gay was elected captain of the company. At Shi-
loh, their first battle, Capt. Gay won golden opinions from
his comrades, which clung to him ever afterwards. He was
seriously wounded in the second day's fight, after having
seemed to bear a charmed life through the first day. At Baton
Rouge, around VicksV'.irg, in the celebrated Georgia cam-
paign he was ever foremost in the fighting and happiest
around the camp fires. When Gen. Hood made that des-
perate assault upon Sherman's works at Atlanta, the 22d Mis-
sissippi, already decimated, left three hundred dead upon the
field. There Capt. Gay was dangerously wounded, and Capt.
Gwinn bore him upon his back from the field. From the
wounds received there he was ever afterwards a great suf-
ferer.
While his command, then with Loring's Division, was near
beleaguered Vicksburg, volunteers were called for to carry
percussion caps through the Federal lines to Gen. Pemberton's
army. Thirty volunteered, among them Capt. Gay. Nearly
all were killed or captured. ' Only two reached Vicksburg.
Capt. Gay. after remaining ten days inside the Federal lines^
subsisting upon blackberries, was forced to return to his
command without reaching Gen. Pemberton's lines.
Whether fighting Admiral Porter's gunboats on Deer Creek
witli his company or driving back the raiders from his horns
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country when he was no longer able to take the field, his
comrades and neighbors will recognize the same glittering
sword and unconquerable spirit. On occasions when shot and
shell had plowed the ranks of his gallant regiment and killed
or disabled the regimental officers the command of the regi-
ment devolved upon him as senior captain. How well he led
CAPT. W. L. CAY.
them on, his comrades will remember. Like every other
loyal Confederate, to him the cause grew holier and higher
as the star of our country began to go down in blood.
Capt. Gay was the only son of wealthy parents, and was n
typical Southern gentleman of that lofty strain which made
them loyal among all the races of men. In 1869 he married
Miss Kate Blackburn, of Lake Providence, La., who beauti-
fied and made happy every after year of his life. He was an
ideal man in the home, a loving, confiding husband, an in-
dulgent father, a humble, trusting Christian, an unfaltering
friend, a proud American. He leaves to his country arid
friends the heritage of a knightly soldier, a lofty citizen, a
stainless character. The passage across the dark river had
no terrors for him. Comrades, he has joined the ranks of
our battalions tented on the other shore. His faithful wife,
who watched and waited and hoped and feared through his
long months of suffering and sorrow, will keep vigil over
tender memories and years that are gone. His broken-hearted
daughter will long listen for the footstep that will return no
more. Comrades, these are ours to love and honor.
Thomas Hakkison Cummincs.
A committee, comprised of George F. Hager, W. T. Hardi-
son, W. G. Bush, Frank Anderson, and Ed Reese, has
prepared a meitiorial on the life and character of Thomas H.
Cummings, of Nashville, setting forth that he was born
May 6, 1841, in Lebanon, Tenn., on the spot where the Cum-
berland University now stands. His father, George D. Cum-
mings, came from Guilfor'^ "bounty, N. C, to Tennessee in
1804 and settled in Wilson County on a tract of land which
had been granted him by the State of North Carolina for
meritorious services as a soldier in the War of the Revolu-
tion. He married Miss Martha D. Foster in 1823. Thomas
was the youngest of the nine children of this union. The
only survivor of the family now is Miss Jane Cummings, a
most estimable lady, who resides in Nashville.
In the year 1847 the father of Thomas moved with his fam-
ily to Nashville, where his children were reared and educated.
In 1854 the family moved to Clarksville, Tenn., and Thomas
went to Stewart College, graduating in 1861. He secured a
clerkship in the post office at Memphis, and was serving in
this capacity at the beginning of the war. He resigned this
position on the first call for troops ; and in January, 1862,
enlisted in Company H, 9th Mississippi Cavalry. He after-
wards served in the Memphis Light Dragoons, a company
raised by Capt. Thomas Logwood under a charter act of the
Legislature of i860. This latter company was first assigned
to duty under Brig. Gen. John L. T. Sneed at Randolph, on
the Mississippi a short distance above Memphis. It subse-
quently served under Gen. Gideon Pillow at New Madrid,
Mo., and with the rest of the Army of West Tennessee in the
fall of 1861 rendezvoused at Columbus, Ky., under the com-
mand of Gen. Leonidas Polk. .\t this time the Dragoons,
together with five other companies, constituted the Sixth
Battalion of Tennessee Cavalry. Capt. Logwood was elected
lieutenant colonel ; and Charles Hill, of Tipton County, was
elected major. The battalion in its service of that period
made a raid upon the enemy's post at Paducah, Ky., attacking
and driving in several companies of infantry and cavalry and
developed in a satisfactory manner the strength of the garri-
son at that place. It was also engaged in the battles of El-
liott's Mills, Ky., and Belmont, Mo. But the service and ex-
posure of these campaigns were severe upon Cummings's
delicate constitution, causing rheumatism and other maladies
incident to active duties in the field, and he was transferred
to the supply department of the army. He served with his
brother James under their cousin, James F. Cummings, in the
commissary and quartermaster branches of the service until
the close of the war, being paroled in May, 1865.
After the war Thomas Cummings engaged extensively in
farming, his favorite pursuit. For eight years he farmed in
Mississippi, two years near Paducah, Ky., two years in Smith
County, Tenn., and for several years at Maplewood, near
Nashville. Subsequently he was bookkeeper at the State
prison. He afterwards held a position with the N., C, and
St. Louis Railroad, but resigned to enlist in the 2d Regi-
ment of Tennessee Volunteers for the Spanish-American War,
at the close of which he entered the office of the Register
of Davidson County as one of his clerical deputies.
He made an honorable record as a member of the State
Militia ; he organized and put in splendid shape the artillery
branch of the service. Its present condition and effective-
ness are owing in a great measure to his industry, skill, ex-
perience, and information which he brought to bear in its
mobilization. He was a fine disciplinarian, and had the tact
to enforce obedience to his commands by those acting as
militiamen under him.
In 1893 Comrade Cummings married Miss Martha Myers,
of Mississippi. He left no children. After the death of his
brother, James Cummings, he assumed the guardianship and
care of his children. He died in Nashville, and was buried
by Frank Cheatham Bivouac in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
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Mayor J. Thompson Baied.
After an enviable record of twenty-three years in office,
the venerable Mayor of Portsmouth, Va., J. Thompson Baird,
died on May g, 1905. Loved and respected by all, his record
both in war and peace was worthy. He was elected to the
office of Mayor for the twelfth time last spring, and he had
but entered upon the term of four years when a higher power
called for thpt service which all must render at last.
J. Thompson Baird entered the service of the Confederacy
as a private in Company C, 6lst Virginia Regiment, Mahone's
Brigade, A. N. V. He participated in all the engagements
of his command r.ntil he lost his left leg at the battle of
Davis's Farm, nenr Petersburg, on the 19th of August, 1864.
From the ranks he was promoted to second sergeant, second
lieutenant, then to first lieutenant. After the war he re-
turned to Portsmouth and engaged in business until elected
to the office of Mayor. In early life he was married to Miss
Revia Jordan, who survives him with their three children.
R. H. Nettles. — Another Confederate comrade has an-
swered the last roll in the passing of R. H. Nettles at his
home, in Hot Springs, Ark., on March 15. He enlisted in the
army from Trenton, Tenn., when a mere boy as a member
of Company G, 47th Tennessee Regiment, and was in some
of the bloodiest battles of the war — Shiloh, Chickaniauga, and
Franklin — was in the Ipattle of Richmond, with Kirby Smith
in the Kentucky campaign, and was in the campaign from
Dalton to Atlanta, when he was captured, and was in prison
when the war ended. Confederate comrades tenderly laid
him to rest at his old home, Trenton, Tenn. A wife and
daughter survive him.
Lieut. J. A. Spencer.
J. A. Spencer was born in Randolph County, N. C, De-
cember 25, 1840 ; and died in January, 1905. In his veins
flowed the blood of those heroes in America who were the
first to resist the tyranny of Great Britain, and who under
Herman Husbands fought the battle of Alimanco, May 16,
1 771, and changed Cornwallis's victorious advance to a hasty
retreat at Guilford C. II. This soil enriched by mar-
tyrs' blood produced bravr . rlliy sons of noble sires,
J. A. SPENCER.
and in the gage of battle between the North and South these
sons were early marshaled beneath the folds of the stars
and bars. Comrade Spencer served with Company F, 46th
North Carolina Regiment, from its organization, in March,
1862, to the end at Appomattox. He attained the rank of
first lieutenant. Endow-ed with a bright mind, a cheerful
disposition, unfailing humor, and a courageous soul, he was
a universal favorite with his comrades, and by his exalted
sense of duty and devotion he attracted their attention and
commanded their respect and confidence. He was in many
of Gen. Lee's great battles except Gettysburg, Cook's Brigade
being held to protect Richmond. No regiment went beyond
the 46lh on the battlefield, and its flag vt-as never lowered
until the curtain went down on the last act of that great
drama on the 9th of April, 1865. He bore bravely the agony
of defeat, and with tears for the friends left on numberless
battlefields he turned his face to the future, trusting in the
God who had brought him safely through the dangers of
those years of war, and with his surviving comrades began
to build up the impoverished South. He engaged in mer-
chandising, in which he was very successful.
F'or forty-eight years Comrade Spencer was a member of
the Church, and at his death there passed one who had lived
not for this life alone.
Israel Jones. — Closing a life full of years, usefulness, and
honor, Israel Jones passed to his reward on January 24,
aged seventy-four years. As a young man he had been a
member of the military company known as Letcher's Brocks
Gap Rifles; and when the War between the States began, he
immediately espoused the Southern cause and enlisted in
Company B, 7th Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., linder the noted
Ashby, and served till the end. He was in the battle of Get-
tysburg and in most of the noted battles fought in Virginia,
Maryland, and Pennsylvania. He was twice wounded, and
from the last wound, a saber cut across the head, came near
bleeding to death. Comrades of the NefT Rice Camp, U. C.
v., at Newmarket, Va., mourn the loss of this valued member.
Maj. W. M. Robbins.
A committee composed of P. T. Vaughan, R. D. Berry,
and George Burns say of Maj. Robbins and his family :
"In the stormy times of 1861, when the Governor of Ala-
bama called for volunteers for the Confederate army, among
the first who presented themselves for service were five broth-
ers who came from North Carolina to Alabama to make this
State their home. Thc«e brothers were born on a little
farm in North Carolina. Their parents were respectable peo-
ple of moderate means who appreciated the value of educa-
tion, and at considerable privation to themselves sent each
of their sons through college, and they instilled into their
hearts the principles of correct life and of devotion to duty.
"One of these young men became a school-teacher, while
four of them took the profession of law. One entered the cav-
alry service in the Western Army, and in the command of the
gallant leader, John H. Morgan, lost his life in battle in
Kentucky. He was the father of the late Hon. Gaston A.
Robbins, who represented the Fourth District of Alabama for
several terins in Congress. Four of them joined the 4th
Alabama Regiment of Infantry and served in the Army of
Northern Virginia. One of these four was killed at the bat-
tle of Gaines's Mill in the seven days' fighting around Rich-
mond. Another was killed at Sharpsburg, in Maryland. The
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remaining two were several times wounded, but survived
the war to be of service to their State and country.
"There was a striking similarity in the composition, char-
acter, and temperament of these men. They were physically
robust, sinewy, and tough. They were earnest and sincere ;
they were brave and determined ; they were serious and godly
men. It is said that during the period of their entire service,
under all the trials, hardships, and annoyances of the Con-
federate soldier's life, not an unchaste sentence was ever
known to fall from the lips of any one of these men. It is
certainly true that not one of them ever failed to meet the
full requirements of his duty as a Confederate soldier.
"William M. Robbins, of whom we are to speak particularly,
was the eldest of these brothers. He left Selma in April,
1861, as first lieutenant in the 'Marion Light Infantry,' known
afterwards as Company G, 4th Alabama Regiment. At the
reorganization of the regiment, twelve months afterwards at
Yorktown, Va., he was elected captain of his company, and
later in the war became by p'-omotion major of his regiment,
in which capacity he served through the war. Owing to the
absence, at times, of other officers (from sickness or wounds),
Maj. Robbins was often in command of his regiment, and in
every engagement he displayed conspicuous gallantry. It was
his custom when in command to hold a brief regimental
prayer immediately before entering into battle. We doubt if
there was a regimental officer in the Confederate army who
had so much influence with his men or more power to hold
them steadfast in the midst of danger.
"At the close of the war Maj. Robbins returned to his old
home in North Carolina to begin life anew and to look after
the welfare of his aged parents. He took an active part in
redeeming his State from the blight of 'reconstruction,' for
which he was rewarded by three terms in the Federal Con-
gress. When the United States government created the Get-
tysburg Battlefield Commission, Maj. Robbins was appointed
on that Board as the Southern representative, and this made
it necessary for him to reside at Gettysburg, Pa., a large part
of his time; but his home was in North Carolina, where, at
Salisbury, he died in the seventy-seventh year of his age.
He was buried there.
"It is proper that we should pay our tribute of respect to
the memory of this man, who gave his military services and
his example to our State. The life of such a man is not fruit-
less. It inspires faith; it checks discouragement; it strength-
ens a race. It presents to us a type of sturdy and intrepid
manhood, which in times of stress, whether enlisted in for-
tunate or unfortunate causes, has always been furnished by
the Anglo-Sa.xon race.
"It is a pleasant thought to those who endured the hard
privations of four years of service in the Confederate army to
know that the pay of this old soldier as Battlefield Commis-
sioner was provision for the comfortable support of himself
and his family, and that it was his fortune to live to a good
old age and to see his children grow up around him and
happily established in life. The surviving members of the
4th Alabama Regiment feel a just pride in the privilege of
saying that they were his comrades."
Thomas Randolph Bowling. — This comrade of Company
C, 3d Georgia Regiment, was accidentally killed at Los Ange-
les, Cal., recently by falling down a stairway. Confederate
comrades there took charge of the burial, and effort has been
made to reach his daughter, Ella L. Bowling, whose address
was 2007 First Avenue, Birmingham, Ala., but telegrams
failed to find her.
Dr. W. C. Harrison, 807 Jake Street, Los Angeles, sent
the above note in the hope that some one knowing the daugh-
ter may bring it to her notice, and enable her to secure the
insurance on which she has been paying premiums.
James J. Scott.
Comrade J. J. Scott answered the last call at his home, in
Tarrant County, ten miles south of Fort Worth, on June 17,
1905, where he had lived forty-nine years. He was born at
Raleigh, Tenn., November 4, 1832, and h-nce was nearing
seventy-three years of age at his demise. In 1847 his parents
came with him to Panola County, Eastern Texas, and nine
years later he moved to the place of his death. At the be-
ginning of the War between the States his neighbor, Capt.
Sam Evans, organized a company for the war, and Comrade
Scott left wife and children for the defense of his home and
J. J. SCOTT.
fireside. This command was first enlisted in Grilifin's Bat-
talion, but was soon consolidated with Spaight's Battalion,
Col. Spaight commanding, and his company became Company
C of the 2ist Texas Infantry,' in which he served till the close
of the war. He participated in several notable battles, includ-
ing the celebrated victory at Sabine Pass and the successful
battle at Galveston under Gen. Magruder.
Comrade Scott was a successful farmer and stock raiser,
and was a model of his calling in all the appurtenances of the
craft. In 1888 he was elected commissioner of his precinct,
and served in the legislative branch of county affairs for two
terms. This was a time in the history of Tarrant County
when it needed the wisest counsel in county government, and
this service with his fellow-commissioners is now seen in the
advanced position of this county in the affairs of the State.
His old captain, Evans, preceded him to the mystic shore by
only a few weeks; and now, after life's fitful feve/, they sleep
well as men who did their duty in every station of life.
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J. A. LOVETT,
Jolin A. Lovett, of the Stonewall Camp, Portsmouth, Va.,
died there July 13, 1905, aged seventy-seven years. Adjt.
Thomas Shannon reports that he entered the service in June,
1861, as a gunner in the Confederate States navy, serving in
the James River fleet ; also at Fort Fisher and Plymouth,
N. C. He returned to Richmond, where he remained until
the evacuation and was paroled at Appomattox.
J. W. Ptomey.
John W. Ptomey died near Pine Apple, Ala., June 4, 1905,
aged seventy years. He was born in Wilcox County, Ala.,
March 27, 1835, and always lived in the same neighborhood.
He was twice married, and leaves a large family to mourn
his deatli. He was firm in his convictions for the right. He
was a good neighbor. J. F. Fore, of Pine Apple, writes that
when the war broke out between the States Mr. Ptomey wa-i
one of the first men in his section to volunteer. He left Pine
Apple September 3, 1861, marched to Montgomery, Ala.,
under Capt. Harper, and was mustered into the Confederate
service there on September 15. 1861. Soon afterwards he
was ordered to Memphis, Tenn., where he met Col. N. Bed-
ford Forrest, who had orders from the Governor of Tennes-
see to raise a regiment of cavalry. He joined Capt. W. C.
Bacot's company, which was Company B of that regiment.
Mr. Ptomey was made a sergeant. He was with Forrest at
Fort Donelson and in many other dangerous conflicts.
His funeral was largely attended, conducted by his pastor.
Dr. David Adams, assisted by Rev. P. M. Jones.
CiEN. Will S. Green.
A telegram from Colusa, Cal., on July 4 reported the death
of Gen. Will S. Green, and stated that the funeral was
largely attended. Prominent men were there from other
sections of the State to pay their last respects to a great and
good man. His long association with the different organiza-
tions looking toward the development of the Sacramento Val-
ley and his life work as editor of the Colusa Sun bad en-
deared him to the masses. The flora! tributes were beautiful
and numerous. Besides the active pallbearers, composed of
employees of the Colusa Sun, there were nearly forty hon-
orary pallbearers, one of whom was James Yates, who went
to California with Gen. Green in 1849. Every public build-
ing has had its flags at half-mast since the news came an-
nouncing the death, and the town has been in deep mourning.
Every place of business in Colusa was closed during the after-
noon.
In September, 1891, Gen. Green married Sallie B. Morgan,
whose Confederate zeal is well known to Veteran readers.
Gen. Green was a Kentuckian — a nephew of Gen. Duff Green,
a well-known historic character. He went to California at
seventeen years of age. He was an ardent Southerner, and
owned and managed his own paper for forty-six years.
Bishop O. P. Fitzgerald, of Nashville, contributes the fol-
lowing note : "In the recent death of Will S. Green another
journalistic landmark has been removed. He was one of the
'Old Guard' of California journalism. As editor and pub-
lisher of the Colusa Sun. he was well known and much es-
teemed by his fellow-journalists of all persuasions and of no
particular persuasion, so they exhibited a genuine esfrit de
corps as newspaper men. In the old days of early California
he printed many a kindly allusion to the writer of this
friendly note of remembrance. I feel as if I should be pleased
to drop a flower upon his grave and to follow him with good
wishes to that invisible sphere whither the old Californians
are gathering so rapidly."
The Sacramento Union stated in connection with a me-
morial service held in honor of Gen. Will S. Green that it
was "a duty that the Sacramento Valley owed to itself as
much as to the memory of the man who has passed out of our
sight. It was a service of which every detail was worthy
of the occasion, a service that was made additionally beauti-
ful and forever memorable by its utter sincerity. A note of
sadness is inseparable from such tributes as this, but it almost
seemed as though the gathering in the Senate chamber was
not unmindful of the exhortation of Socrates to be of good
cheer about death and
to know of a truth that
no evil can happen to
a good man, either in
life or after dissolu-
iioi>.
"Whatever may be
I he individual stand-
point, the life of Will
.'~^. Green is a whole-
some one to remem-
•, a life that we
urselves and our chil-
dren after us will do
well to emulate and to
copy; for this man
was a good citizen in
(lays when good citi-
■cnship was not al-
ways the road to place
and power. In the
nctivities with which
his long life was
crowded the love of
self had neither part
nor lot. . . . The story of Will S. Green is the story of
California, for he was the first white man who ever set foot
upon Colusa County, and his was the hand that piloted the
first steamer that ever plowed the water of the Sacramento
River above the mouth of the Feather. Through every vicis-
situde of California's fortune, through storm and stress and
sunshine, the figure of this man stands out clear-cut. morally
and physically straight, and now at last we fully realize that
his strong mind never ceased to make ideals of what he
would have the State to be, and that his hands never ceased
to labor that his ideals might become facts. The Colusa 5mm,
of which he was editor from the start, became in his hands an
engine of right-doing and of State growth, a great moral
force in our midst. And to this position it was raised, not by
intellect nor by brilliant writing nor by any of the arts and
graces of modern journalism, but because it reflected the
fidelity, the public honor, the strong and saving sense of the
mind of its editor. No word ever entered its editorial columns
except his own. If he was away, then there was no editorial.
His was the triumph of character. Here is a man who was
all that he seemed to be, a character that was based upon
eternal right and wrong. To a character so strong as this,
intellect is merely a circumstance and brilliance and wit are
simply superfluities."
HM. M.MIM.K GREEN.
;rn Dfc. if>, 1S32; Difd July 3, i<K>5.
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CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.
Report by Gen. Evans, President.
Gen. S. D. Lee, Commander U. C. V.: In compliance with
the provisions of our charter, we make and present herewith
the last report of the Executive Committee and that of the
Secretary and Superintendent of the Confederate Memorial
Association.
We arc under the painful necessity of reporting the death
of another of the members of our Board, Col. R. H. Cun-
ningham, of Henderson, Ky., whose gallant record as a sol-
dier and useful life as a citizen make his loss keenly felt, not
only in Kentucky, but throughout his wide circle of comrades
and friends.
In our report last year we expressed gratification that we
were at last "in sight" of the completion of our cherished
plans, that we had secured the $ioo,oco to be raised by us to
meet the condition of the contribution of the same amount
by Comrade Charles B. Rouss, and that we hoped very soon
to go forward in the actual building of our Memorial Hall,
"Battle Abbey," as it is popularly called.
We confidently hoped that we could at this meeting report
our building at least commenced. But we then reported that
the only obstacle in onr way was that the $40,000 balance
due from the Rouss estate was hung up by an attachment
gotten out by the former Secretary and Superintendent, J.
C. Underwood, in the suit he had instituted against the C.
M. A. in the United States court at Brooklyn, N. Y., for al-
leged commissions due him. We regret to have to report now
that this same obstacle still exists.
Despite our earnest efforts to get a trial of this suit, we
were not able to do so until February last, and then, to our
great surprise and that of our able counsel, the jury gave a
verdict for about $16,000 against us. Regarding this verdict
as very unjust, our counsel took an appeal to a higher court,
and are very confident that they will be able to set the verdict
aside. But we have to encounter once more "the law's de-
lays," and meantime the Rouss estate is inhibited by the at-
tachment proceedings from paying us the balance of $40,000
due or any part of it.
We could have proceeded to build with the money on
hand, and many of our friends were in favor of our doing
so, and members of the Board, impatient at this long delay,
were inclined to take this same view. But, as by the terms
of Comrade Rouss's gift, the $100,000 cannot, as we think, be
used until the whole $200,000 is in hand. We need the use of
an additional fund to secure the balance of the Rouss sub-
scription.
If some liberal friend or friends would raise us the $16,-
000 to meet the Underwood verdict if it should finally be
confirmed, our obstacle would be removed. Our Secretary
has been very diligently trying to secure this amount, and to
this end has written hundreds of personal letters to those
able to help. It is confidently hoped, however, that this sum
will be raised, and we appeal to our friends to help us.
The report of our Treasurer, Judge George L. Christian,
herewith submitted, shows that he has in hand invested and
drawing interest $106,343.13 and the note of the city of
Richmond for $50,000, which is equivalent to cash. We have
in addition reliable subscriptions payable on call for $10,000,
so when we can realize the balance of the Rouss subscription
we will have in hand over $300,000. We have also an ad-
ditional subscription payable when our building is begun,
and every confidence that when we begin to build considerable
funds will flow into the treasury of a successful enterprise.
It is proper to add, what ought to be generally understood,
that the trustees are prosecuting this work not only without
any pecuniary compensation, but also at some sacrifice of
time and money, and that they are as anxious as any of our
friends can possibly be to complete our enterprise. We do
not hesitate to ask, but appeal for help of friends of the
Confederacy everywhere.
We repeat what we said in our report last year : that con-
tributions to this fund now go into our treasury without de-
duction of a cent for salaries, commissions, or expenses of
any kind whatever, these being met out of the interest on our
invested funds. Make your checks payable to the order of
George L. Christian, Treasurer, and send them to J. William
Jones, Secretary and Superintendent, 109 North Twenty-
Ninth Street, Richmond, Va., and you will have full credit
for every dollar you may contribute.
Surely an enterprise which will erect in the old capital of
the Confederacy a beautiful building in which shall be gath-
ered a great library, portraits, and statues in a "Hall of
Fame," and which will be really a monument to our Confed-
erate leaders, our heroes of the rank and file, and our noble
women, and which shall tell to future generations the true
story of our great struggle for constitutional freedom, should
command the warm sympathy and support of all lovers of
the truth.
By order of the Board of Trustees, respectfully submitted,
Clement A. Evans, President.
June 1,;. 1905
Report of Executive Committee.
To the Boanl of Trustees of C. M. A.
Gentlemen: Your Executive Committee beg leave to report
that the suit instituted in the name of Shaughnessy, assignee
of J. C. Underwood, against us in the United States court in
Brooklyn, N. Y., and in which the $40,000 owing to us from
the Rouss subscription was attached and held, was tried in
said court in Brooklyn before a Brooklyn jury in the month
of February last, and that, under the instructions of the
Federal judge then presiding, the jury rendered a verdict
against us, and upon said verdict said judge rendered a judg-
ment. During the trial numerous exceptions were taken by
our counsel.
Very soon after the adjournment of the court our counsel
obtained an appeal upon said judgment, and have assured us
that they have no doubt that said judgment will be reversed
by the Appellate Court.
During the pendency of this litigation your committee has
thought it best not to endeavor to expend the money under
its control, deeming it wise not to take any action which
might possibly be claimed to affect our right to the whole
money due us from the Rouss estate.
The report of our Secretary and Treasurer will fully show
the amount of money in cash now under our control. The
Secretary's report will show the work he has accomplished.
Had it not been for the litigation referred to, we should
long ere this have commenced the building in the city of
Richmond of that memorial which is due to the memory of
the Confederate soldiers and to the history of our Southland.
We earnestly hope that in the end we may defeat the claims
of this man Underwood and eventually receive from Rouss's
estate the balance due us. If, however, we should be disap-
pointed in this, we hope and expect to make such arrange-
ments that whatever judgment Underwood may finally
obtain will be fully settled and the Rouss money paid over to
us in full. We deem it well to say to the people of the
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South that it seems strange to us that they will not raise
ciiougli money to place $200,000 in cash in our hands at once
nnd before the litigation referred to is ended.
Monuments have been erected all over the South, yet no
testimony of our people by way of a monument has yet been
erected in testimony of the courage and heroism of the Con-
federate soldiers as a whole, in which could not only be
gathered relics of their great conflict, but whicli would also
contain the history of the war as well as the history of the
entire Southland and would be a Mecca for posterity.
May 27, 1905. Robert White, Cliairman.
Concerning Suit ac.mnst the Trustees.
The Underwood suit against the Trustees of the Confed-
erate Memorial Association was set forth in the Veteran for
October, 1902, pages 460-463, making the sum of $65,047.30.
I'he "balance due" of $17,779.19 is misleading in the fact thnt
il is merely a balance of the $65,047.30. after deducting the
amount admitted to be in his hands. The trustees have never
.idmitted his right to retain the $47,268.11, as it includes
$-'5,000 of the princely gift of $100,000 subscribed by the late
Charles B. Rouss, together with many other large amounts
as slubbornly resisted. The Marcus Daly subscription ligurcs
next largest in the transactions. Mr. Daly gave the Secre-
l.ny originally $5,000 in cash, and it is understood that he
volunteered the promise to have his rich friends in Montana
increase the amount to $50,000. Before having the oppor-
tunity to do so, he sickened and died. Then, after many
legal conferences, the managers of the Daly estate paid $20,-
000. The Daly contribution by himself and bis estate of
$->5.ooo is applied by the superintendent as follows:
('(inmiission on Daly's ca.sh donation $ 1,250
Twenty-five per cent on the other $20,000 5,000
Cash account draft order on Treasurer paid from Daly
compromise money 2,000
r.ish applied to expenses incurred 500
P.iid attorneys' fees aecount Daly compromise money.. 2,500
Cash reserved out of 1 )aly collcclion 10,000
$21,250
The last item in the account is a charge of $,^48.66 by
I'nderwood "in connection with the portrait of tjen. R. E.
I.ee." This is the portrait donated by Professor Andrews, the
.ulist. to (ho as.sociatii>n, and should be remembered as be-
longing to its assets.
The foregoing figures are compiled from llu- official papers
in suit as supplied to the Veteran and published in the
( Ictober issue for 1902. By referring to that report any error
ihal may herein be made by honest endeavor to state the facts
ni;iy be verified or controverted.
It is a matter of so much interest to Confederates that
brief explanation is made. It is evidently not understood by
many, as is apparent from the following paragraph in pro-
ceedings at the Louisville Reunion :
"We have been coming to these conventions for a number
of years and have done nothing for the building of the Me-
morial Hall," said a delegate from Georgia. "1 want to say
that I will be one of one hundred and sixty Confederate
Veterans who will give $100 to pay off the judgment of
I'nderwood right now, and I believe that it can all be raised.
My name is E. P. Dismnkes, of Columbia, Ga."
"That is the way to talk," said Dr. Jones, who had ofifercd
the reports of the Memorial Association. "If there are any
others who want to give us money, we are glad to get it."
The contract with Underwood allowing so large a commis-
sion, together with so much salary, incidental expenses, etc.,
it may be remembered, was signed by only one member of
the Executive Committee — W. D. Chipley — and his right to
act for the entire committee may not have been legal.
CLEVEREST WAR STORIES EVER WRITTEN.
The Veteran volunteers the assertion that no book by any
author treating of war and reconstruction, as these two un-
happy terms are remembered in this country, is as positive
for the convictions of the author, while yet so free from parti-
san bitterness, as that of "Two Wars," by Maj. Gen. S. G.
French, whose fame as a Confederate commander will ever
be an important feature in that eventful history. This splen-
did volume was issued by the Veteran, and it has received
many comments, but never a word except in praise of the
work. The exceedingly pleasant style of the writer suggests
that, trained in literature, lie is telling the story of what others
experienced, when in fact the author is relating what ho
knows by his personal experiences, intensified by his otiicial
knowledge and the military training received at West Point
in bis youth, the discipline of which is manifest in every
feature of the book. Every copy of the limited edition should
be purchased by patrons of the Veteran. It will be a stand-
ard history of the war with Mexico and that between the
States while record is kept.
C. E. Sears, in an elaborate review of the work, states:
"Gen. French commences his narrative with an account of
his childhood and his admission to West Point, where be
graduated in 1S43. Among his co-cadets were Grant, Rey-
nolds, Anger, Ingalls, Thomas, Pope, and others who became
more or less famous during the conflict. He gives an account
of his participation in the Mexican War, where he was badly
wounded and twice promoted. But the most attractive and
important feature of the work bears on the War between llu
Slates and the part he took in it.
"Much has been written in regard to the misconception of
the Southern people, even of some of the most prominent
Soutliorn leaders, both as to the character and duration of
the conflict in which they were about to engage and of tho
preparations neces.sary to meet even on approximately equal
terms so pcnverful an adversary as the North, with its navy
already constructed and equipped, in full possession of the
sea, with ports that could not be blockaded, with numerous
manufacturing plants for the making of arms and munitions,
and with the resources of the entire outside world to draw
from at will. To this fatal ignorance of the enemy's incal-
culable advantages and of the Sonth's utter destitution of
not only the sinews but of every other weapon of war. to say
nothing of the disparagement in numbers. Gen. French adds
a striking and illustrative chapter. Though born in New
Jersey, when the conflict came it found him a large cotton
planter in Mississippi, to which he had retired after resigning
his old commission in the old army, and the owner of one
or two hundred slaves.
"In February, 1861. Gen. French received a summons from
Gov. Pettus. with the information that he had been appointed
'lieutenant colonel and chief of ordnance in the army of the
State of Mississippi.' quite an imposing title it would seem
to a civilian. But to separate the sound from t'vj substance
let us quote the General's own account of the situation. 1 1
serves also as a sample of the style of the book: 'On assnni
378
^oi>federat^ l/eterap.
ing ihc duties of l!io ullicf I fniind the State destitute of all
military supplies and without arms. Investigation showed
that a mercantile firm in New Orleans had offered immedi-
ately after the act of secession to furnish arms from England
or Belgium, hut it was declined. Weeks after the Governor
sent an agent to Europe to purchase arms, but it was too late
to get any in England ; but in Belgium he obtained some mus-
kets, and shipped them on a vessel that reached the mouth of
the Mississippi River just as the blockading ships arrived
there. Discovering the blockade, the vessel bore away for
Havana, and stored the arms there. From Havana they were
afterwards brought over and landed in small quantities. I
built a powder house, and a.sked permission to go to St. Louis
and purchase powder, but it was refused on the ground or
belief that I would be arrested there and that he, the Gov-
ernor, would have to arrest a person as a hostage in my
place. Afterwards I wrote to a friend in St. Louis and ob-
tained two hundred kegs (I think that was the number) of
powder and fifty-four sets of artillery harness, and this was
done after the town of Cairo, 111., was garrisoned by Gen.
Grant.'
"Gen. French was soon summoned by President Davis to
Richmond, offered the rank of brigadier general in the Con-
federate army, and assigned to duty in Virginia and North
Carolina. He added to and strengthened the works at Fort
Fisher and other points on the coast of the latter State and
commenced the construction of the fortifications of Peters-
burg. Now in command of the Department of Southeastern
Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina, he participated
under Longstreet in the ill-starred operations of that general
about Suffolk, where a small fort, two of his guns, and a
companj^ of artillery -in an isolated position were surprised
and captured. He shows that the blame for the loss, unjustly
attached to him, belonged to his superior officer.
"In the spring of 1863 Gen. F'rench was ordered to report to
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, and was put in command of one
of the best, though smallest, divisions of his army. He par-
ticipated in the movements of that comitiander from Jackson,
Miss., to Atlanta: and when Hood succeeded him, followed
the latter through his Alabama and Tennessee campaign. He
indulges in some sharp criticisms of Polk and conmients upon
Hood's campaign with some severity, yet with generally con-
ceded justice, for though that officer had probably no superior
as a division conniiander, he was unsuited in every essential
particular except dash and courage for connnander in chief
of an army or even an independent movement of importance."
Mr. Sears writes at length concerning the light at Allatoona,
but further extracts are deferred at present. There is not a
more fasciiiating book, doubtless, which was intended by the
author to be absolutely reliable in any sense. The Veteran
takes pride in its commendation. The Veteran guarantees
delight with the book to all persons who may buy it. Price,
$2, or with a year's subscription to the Veteran, $2.50.
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION'S MAIL CIRCULATION.
According to statistics recently published, the official rec-
ord of the Atlanta post office for the fiscal year ending Juno
30 shows that a total of $70,743.46 was paid to the post office
for newspaper postage by all of the publications mailed
through the Atlanta post office, and that of this total, the
ConstiluiioH paid $37.227.<SS, one-half the total. There are in
Atlanta fifty-seven publications. This list includes the daily
papers, the trade, fraternal, religious, and secular periodicals,
counting the morning, afternoon, Sunday, weekly, triweekly,
seniiweekly, monthly, and quarterly periodicals entitled to this
second-class rate. The Constilulion comments : "These fig-
ures tell their own story, and they tell it eloquently." Indeed
they do !
•y 17 V A C . Or, The "BroKen LinK. in the
' Chain of Kamity Honors.
"By M-RS. FA.J<iJ^IE EOLlJ<iE WBLTH.
XOEST MA^HVILLE. TEJVJV.
A romance ot the Civil War, with the principal scenes
laid in and around Vicksburg, Miss., during its menT
orable siege by Grant, in 1863. While the incidents
of warfare were being enacted, and the fate of a na-
tion's cause hung on the results, silent influcrces
brought together mysteriously severed links and dc
veloped the chain of a thrilling romance.
Hic;ii Tribute from Gkn. Stephen D. Lee.
Mrs. Selph, the author, has recciveil from Gen. Stephen D.
Lee, Commander in Chief of the United Confederate Vet-
erans, the following splendid indorsement of this book :
"Columbus, Miss., July 3, 1905.
"I have read with the greatest interest and pride 'Texas ; or.
The Broken Link,' by Mrs. Fannie Eoline Selph, wdiich depicts
with marvelous accuracy to life a picture of the South, its
heroism and chivalry, and pathos of its passing away in the
War between the States period. The scenes and incidents
about Vicksburg are vividly drawn, showing the war condi-
tions of the times. Te.xas is a splendid character of the glo-
rious Southern and patriotic womanhood, and not overdrawn ;
for no women were ever truer, braver, or more devoted to a
cause and displayed more fortitude and sacrifice than the
women of the South. Interest in the story is invoked in the
first chapter and grows to the close of the book — a splendid
The Iriliute of Gen. Lee is all the more appreciated because
of his having conunand in the battle of Chickasaw Bayou, of
wliicli the heroine, Texas Marshall, was a silent witness.
Review of the Story.
This is a charming romance of the War biiwecn the Slates.
The sini-y (ipeiis in (ialvestoii. Tex., two yi'ars befcu-e the
breaking out of the war, where the heroine. Miss Texas Mar-
shall, and other principal characters in the story. are intro-
duced to the reader. The author has that happy faculty, rare
amongst story-writers, of at once engaging the ititcrest of her
readers by picking up the thread of her story without any
tiresome or lengthy prologue. The scenes are laid mainly with
the army, and many of the thrilling incidents with which the
book abounds, the movements and battles of the Confeder-
ate troops, are almost sufficiently accurate to be classed as
history. The characters arc strongly drawn, but natural.
Texas Marshall represents the heroism of Southern woman-
hood of those days — a type exclusive in the world's history.
The book is receiving cordial welcome from the public, es-
pecially in the South, where thousands are yet living who were
indirectly participants in many of the historical events men-
tioned.
The price of the book is $1. Address Mrs. Fannie F..
Selph, got) Michigan Avenue, West Nashville, Tenn.
Qopfederat^ l/eterap.
379
Say ma if! /J^
livB will I ttfc-^
he as big a \
Yes my ihild
Ik if you doii'l
goose as yoa
K
LglS
Hill) Miit^ic on poiled parts, leave them in
Water *)ne hour. No litmint;; no wash hoard:
no hachachc. if you use MAUIC SOAP. C'loth.-a
will iron eiusy hs iiiairic: has no rosin liko in
yellow soap. For hard water it has no equal.
Ont your ^rooer to order Ma^ir Soap, or send
ns $1 ftir a sample hox of 20 o-akes. Express
pre]»aid.
Save the wrappers for PREMIUMS.
We make Slavic Wliite Chijis for laundries.
Magic Soap Co., Ltd., New Orleans
IT HAS NO EQl'AL FOR HARD WATER.
SIX MILLION ACRES.
The State of Texas will place on sale
September i, 1905, six million acres of
State lands scattered throughout the
Stale at from $1 to $3 per acre, one-
fortielh < ash down, forty years' lime on
balance, 3 per cent interest.
Write for particulars, also aljoul chea]"*
rates lo the Southwest August 15, .Sep-
tember 5 and 19, October 3 and 17.
W. G. ADAMS. T. P. A.,
Cotton Belt Route, Nashville, Tenn.
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE TO
MEXICO.
Over nineteen hours saved from St.
Louis to City of Mexico via the short-
est and quickest line, the Iron Moun-
tain Route and connecting lines, through
Little Rock, Texarkana, Longview, San
Antonio, and Laredo. Through Pull-
ir.an sleepers from St. Louis 2:21 p.m
and 8:20 P.M. daily. Elegant Dining
Car service. Now is the season to visit
enchanting Mexico. Low rates, liberal
stop-over privileges. For information,
rates, descriptive literature see nearest
Ticket Agent, or address R. T. G. Mat-
thews, T. P. A., Iron Mountain Route.
Room 301 Norton Building, Louisville.
SUMMER RATES VIA SOUTH-
ERN RAILWAY
to Ashcville. Tate Springs. Lookout
Mountain, the Sapphire Country, Sea-
shore resorts, and many other places in
the South now on sale.
For complete information, write J. K.
Shipley, T. P. A., Chattanooga, Tenn.
CARR-BURDETTE COLLEGE.
This institution was built, equipped,
.uid donated for the higher education of
Southern girls by Mrs. O. A. Carr. To
its interests she consecrates her energy,
licr talent, and her fortune, and each
year the college grows into grander pro-
portions. It is her ideal and her monu-
ment. It is a college of the highest
irder. and girls and young women from
1 arioiis States, representing the flower
of the South, enjoy from year to year
its splendid educational facilities. The
building is provided with all modern
conveniences, and the "College Home"
is comfortable and elegant, with tin-
most refined social environments.
Carr-Burdette is solid, not only in its
instruction in literature, science, music.
.irt. expression, etc.. but the classes are
iiicouraged to tender at stated times
receptions to each other, and the stu-
ilenls are tan.glu to conduct these social
functions with refinement and grace.
\o reception is ever allowed, however,
to interfere with their regular school
work.
Tlie editor of the Veteran has visited
Carr-Kurdeltc College, and he can con-
scientiously testify that it is an ideal
ciimbinalion of the elegant home and llir
•-nlid ccillesc for girls and young uonu!
A \aiuable souvenir distributed at the
Louisville Reunion was a booklet issued
by the Cotton I'elt Railroad, in which
were reproduced in colors many of the
Confederate flags recently returned hy
the United States government to their
respective States, in addition to which
.1 record of the troops of each State was
given in .ilpb.ibetical order. This is a
valuable compilation of data as well as
.1 pleasing presentation of these long-
lost hut never-forgollen emblems of a
great cause, and lenderest sentiments
are aroused by sight of lluni again.
Credit is due to Mr. F. W. L.iPuaumc,
General Passenger Agent of the Cotton
I?ill, for ibis publication.
Mr. T. J. Anderson. General Pas-
senger .Agent of the Southern Pacific
Railroad. Houston, Tex., has sent out
an attractive booklet in which are given
ill f.icsimilc the autographs of many
pnmiiiu-iil Confederates. Those of
President Jefferson Davis, Gen. R. F
I.ee, and many others high in Confedii
ale history make this an especially val-
uable book to any one interested in such
cnllcclions.
SEAL
OF ANY
STATE
Sterling silver, handsomely ^^
enameled Brooch pin, with / Kf
hook for chatelaine, postpaid ' ^^*
J. A. MEyEF^
WASHINGTON, D C.
FOR OVER SIXTY y£AR3
An Old and Wei l-Tried Remedy.
MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP
Ua hpcn unci r..r ni-er SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS m
MOTHERS f.ir Ihe.r CHILDREN WHILE TEETHIKe
WITH PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD;
SOFTENS Ihe OFMS. ALLAYS all PAIN; CPRES Wllrf
COLIC. »ii 1 IS the iH-it reniedv fft DIARRHEA. Solll kr
I>niKKlslB lb .v.-rv part ol the world. Be pure to ask for
MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP,
AND TAKE NO OTHER KIND.
TWBHTr-^iva CEwrs a bottlm.
FLAVELL!! ABDOMINAL SUPPORTER
(iivn fyRot cir'-TtnifTr'TifC of
Hb'lnm.Mi III K, I,. .M.
Silk Elastic >
L Thread Elaslii
$5.00
3.50
O'xuls s^-nt bv niuil nimii
Vff roociiit of price. Saff .lelivi-ry
E'lftt-antofo.
pond for pamphlet of Elastic Stockine«,TrusBes. etc.
G.W. Flavell & Bro., 1005 Spring Garden St., Philadelphia, Pa.
St. Francis Valley Lands
Of .Southeast Missouri ami NorlheasI
Arkansas, river bottom made soil, rich
as cream; for corn, wheat, oats, clover,
timothy, alfalfa, fruits, and vegetables.
Yield big cops, no failures. Open win-
ters. Lands now cheap, but advancing.
In\ estigatc this fall. Home Seekers' rates
August 15, September i; and 19, October
3 and 17.
W'rilc for .Si. Francis \'allev liooklet.
W. G. ADAMS, T. P. A..
Cotton Belt Route, Nashville, Tenn.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
announces very low round-trip rates
from points on its lines to Hot Springs,
.■\rk.. Eureka Springs, Ark., and Eldo-
rado Springs, Mo. One first-class fare,
plus two dollars.
For complete information, write J. F.
Shipley, T. P. A., Chattanooga, Tenn.
>/> PISO'S CURE FOR m
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
I Best Cough Symp. Tastefi Go'kI. Use
In time. Sold by drueiilstt*.
i
CONSUMPTION f"
380
Qopfederati^ l/eterarj,
FLORIDA
Think of th<' l.ahny sunshine, of the
fratjrauce nf orauKt^' liloss^jms. of the
gukteu fruits of Florida; then recall th»^
snow, the sleet, the biting and continued
cold of last winter.
Spk'udid train service, with every con-
venieuce for the comfort and safety of
the traveler, has been provided via tne
ATLANTIG
eOAST LINB
"the great thoroughfare to the tropics.''
contrf)lling 1.4(!NJ miles of standard i-ail-
way in the State of Florida.
Winter tourist tickets now on sale via
this line carry the following privileges
without additional ^'ost:
Stopping off, up to 30 days en route
to or returning from Jacksonville.
Many variable routes south of Jack-
sonville.
Stop-over privileges in the State of
Florida at any point within life of
ticket.
For illustrated booklets on Florida,
Cuba, or "What to Say in S]>anish, and
How to Say It," or other information,
address
C. L. SPRAGUE, T. P. A.,
51)7 Union Trust Building,
CINCINNATI, OHIO;
W. T. CRAIG, G. P. A.,
\VILJIIN(iTON, N. C.
Southern Homes
Are you go-
ing to build
you a home?
If so, send 50
cents for my
new book of
Southern
■i homes.
J. W. McQLAIlV,
aReHiTEer,
2l3Vi K. 20tli St., Birmingham, Tlla.
Vkpt. C.
LEARN TELEGRAPHY &, R. R. ACCOUNTING
$.50 to *1UU jj..-r muiitli salarj assure<l our giailiiaiea
under bund. You don't p;iy us until yuu liave a
position. I,,arKest system of telegrupli schools in
America. Indorsed by all railway otHcials.
OPERATORS ALWAYS IN DEMAND.
Ladies also admitted. Write for cntaloene.
MOnSE SCHOOL OF TELEGRAPHY,
Cincinnati. Ohio. BulVulo, N. V.. Atlanta, (i;
Crosse, Wis., Texarkaua, Tex., San Francisco
. La
Oal.
WHISKYSMORPHINE
habit cured. Craving destroyed
in 4$ hours. Send for circulars.
OPPENHEIMER INSTITUTE
622 Asylum Ave., KNOXVILLE, TENN.
What Are Your
Summer Plans?
A beautifully illustrated summer book which is
being distributed free by the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga & St. Louis Railway will help you to
make them. It describes the resorts and
springs in the highlands and mountains of Ten-
nessee and North Georgia, and gives a list of
hotels, their rates, etc. =
Write for
a copy
to-day
,.-■'' Name_
Address
,.-•• W. L. DANLEY,
...-■'' G. P. A., N. C. &SI. L. R'y
,,•■'' NASHVILLE, TENN.
Please send me one of your Sum-
mer Resort Folders as advertised in
A rtCfiit inquiry from the Secretary
of the Numismatic Society of New-
York City aroused interest in the sub-
ject of badges and medals peculiar to
the dilTerent Confederate organizations,
and request is made that their secre-
taries or some member well posted will
inform the Veteran fully as to the
liadge v.'orn as a special insignia and
of any medal which has been presented
to or by the organization. It is hoped
thus to secure a complete history of
Confederate organizations, origin and
objects, tliat have been formed since
the war. It is also desired that any who
can will tell us of any secret societies
which flourished in the South during
the war, formed for the purpose of pro-
tection and assistance to the cause.
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad,
through their Passenger Agent, Mr.
John M. Beall, of St. Louis, presented
a Confederate flag poster that was most
acceptable as a reunion souvenir. Upon
a green ground a number of the returned
flags are shown to fine advantage in
their proper colors. This poster framed
will make a highly appreciated picture
for many Southern homes.
Soutlierii llrlaiisa!! LaiHs.
Timbered, rolling, perfect drainage, no
swamps, good water, (irow corn, cot-
ton, small grains, cowpeas, and believed
to be the coming clover and alfalfa coun-
try— porous clay soil and clay subsoil —
cheapest lands in Southwest. Splendid
stock country — to months' range.
Write for Southern Arkansas booklet
and Home Seekers' rates August 15, .Sep-
tember 5 and 19, October 3 and 17.
W. G. ADAMS, T. P. A.,
Cotton Belt Route, Nashville, Tenn.
Life Illumined. By Ella Dann Moore.
Neale Publishing Company, New
York and Washington. Price, $1.50.
Appropriate quotations have always
been welcomed by students and writers,
and "Life Illumined" is merely a col-
lection of the best thoughts of great
authors on the various phases and emo-
tions of life, such as adversity, friend-
ship, failure, love, remorse, etc. The
collection given in "Life Illumined" is
an excellent one, and shows careful and
discriminating reading.
Qopfederati^ l/eterap.
381
Hours Saved
BY TAKING THE
TO THE
IMorth and East
$1 Louis or Memphis
ROCK-BALLASTED ROADBED,
WIDE VESTIBULED TRAINS,
PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS,
NEW DINING CARS,
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, ELECTRIC FANS,
RECLINING CHAIR CARS
ELEGANT DaV COACHES.
Forfurtherinformation, apply to Ticket Agents
of connectlnf lines, or to
R. T G. MATTHEWS. T P, A,,
lol>isville, hy
H. C. TOWN3END,
OCN'LPASS'R AND TICKKT AQCNT, BT. LOUIS.
SEABOARD
Air Line Railway
Short Line
Between the
South and East
Tlirough trains from Hinniii};-
liani aud Atlanta to North and
South Carolina and Virjjinia
points, also Washington, Halti-
niorc, Philadolphia, Now York,
and connections made for all
points East.
1HR0LIGM SLEEPING CARS
ELEGANT CAFE DINING
CAR SERVICE
< m »■
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116 PeachtroeSI., Allanla. Ca.
EDWARD F. COST. 2d «. Pres. CHAS. 8. RTAN, G P. A.
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How to Get There
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Through Sleeper New Orleans to
New York
Throvigh Sleeper Memphis to
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The lincst Diiiiiiir (jn- Service.
Rclialilp information clii'erfiill.v furiiisho*! hy
Norfolk ami Wn*t<Mri RaihvHV.' Icni W. Ninth
St. (Ri'iul House Bloik), (•lmtt«no,.«a. Tonn.
Warhkn I,. RoHH. Western Pas.seuger Agont,
Chattanooga, Teuu.
W. B. Bevill, General Pas.seDger A^nt, Ro»
noke. Va.
TRAVEL VIA THE
SOUTHERN
RA IL WA Y
TKe Great- mU Through
est ^SjapSleeping
Southern ^ .^^\ ^^'^'-
„ Mile to New
jyslem
Double Dai-,
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Nashville to
the East, via
Chattancoga
and Ashe/iile,
through
York.
Dining and
Observation
Cars.
Pullman
s;
ccpnig
Cars
on all through
trains.
Elegant Day
Coaches.
'•THE LAND OF THE SKY"
J. M. Cdi.p. 4th Tice Prea., Washington. D. C.
S. H. HAnnwirK. Pass. Trafiic Manager,
Washington. D. C.
W. H. Taylok, Gen. Pass. Agt., Washine-
ton D C.
C. A. Bknscotkr. Asst. (Jen. Pass. Agt., Chat-
tanooga. Tenn.
J. E. Shipi.ky, Traveling Pass. Agt., Chstta-
nooga, Tenn.
TENNESSEE CENTRAL R. R.
If You Are Seeking
a Home, a Farm, or a
[Stock Farm, a location
I for a Wood- Working
(Factory, a location for
a Factory of any kind,
for Timber Land.s, for
^_^ Coal l>and.s, thelineof
the Tennessee Central Rail oaci offers Ihe fi icst
opporinniiy in tlie S nth— f^r llie Honin Soul.i-r,
the Miinnf.iclnrcr, and llic K:irmcr. It is .1 nrw
.ine runninc tliroMglia new ami rich conn rv,
ami .ncccssilile liv rail to all ii.Trtsof the United
States. F"i turtncr information aiMrcss
T. A. ROUSSEAU. Chief Clerk Traffic Dept.,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
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MINES IN CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, COLO., NEAR SILVER PLUME, 58 MILES FROM DENVER.
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— Agenci, Nashville, Tenn. =^===^:^^=^^^=^^^^=^=
BKj"'
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From a Visitor to the Mine.
N \-<ii\ii.i.i;. Tknn.. July '-'li. I'.l0."i.
mi;. W. II. ( ItAWlOKD.
r. I'rix. (iiiil dm. Miir. Soiillnri) Miitiiiii. Milliim .'.■ Dcrrhiiimriit C...
J>(iir Sir: On llicSih of July, l'.;0."). in ihc interest of .<eveial stoelv-
holilers. I visileil Silver I'hmie, Colo., for tlie jmrjiose of niaUinj; an iii-
Mix'elioii of tlu^ mine of llie SoiUliern Miniii};, JMilliug & Development
('oni]iany. I was uralifK^d lo lind \\n'. property and the slajre of tleveio)i-
meiil as yon liax c rejn'esenleil in tlie freipii'nt emnersations wo h.ave liail,
and in the ailverlisenienls yon lia\i' pnlilished in the m.aga/.inos dni-iiij;
the past year.
Silver Plume is a niinini; town of ihe hetter elass, situated at llie ter-
minus of the (ieorjietowu lirauih of the ( olorado iV: Southern Railway,
lifly-two miles west of Denver. It has a po]>nlati<>n of 1,'iijO or ■~',(ltHI, and
nearly all of llie men .ire enjrafred in mininij. In the town ami w ilhiii
a railins of live or six miles are the following mines, nearly all liein}; in
operation and in a jirosperons eonilltion : Ajax, Ashliy Tunnel. Huileijili,
Haxter, Haltimore, liaekhono. Caledonia, Cyclone, Cory City Mines, Cen-
tral Colorailo, Diamond. Daisy. Hazelton-.Santiajro. Josephine, Indiana,
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W. H. C'HAWFdHi), MiMMi Kniuxkkh. veiis. Tliis is ouly a i>artial list, and is inserted lo show the ma);nilU(le
Vire Pn«i,Unt and dninnJ Mnnagcr. „f ,i,g op<>rations. The i)roduels of these mines are gold, silver, lead,
lopper. and zine. The mining claims of llie Southern Mining. Milling & I)evelo])nient Company. e()mi)rising Hi acn-s,
aiv, six miles from Silver Plnnie. on MeClellan Mountain. A good wagon road from Silver Plume crosses tlie iiroperty,
leailing to the Stevens Mine, about half a mile up Ihe (juaylc Creek Canyon from the Roliert K. Lee Tunnel. An elei-
liic power company has a line supjilying power to the Stevens, while (^uayle Creek has water to sjiare for any number
of mining plants.
The Robert K. Lee Tunnel is aViout .500 yards from the roail, up the iiiounlain, and runs back about 4.J0 feet. The
\cin is clearly oullined the entire length of the tunnel, and sections of se\ cr.il cross veius show distinctly. One cross
\cin, 2.5 or 30 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, lias been followed Icii or lifleen feet, and Mr. IJabcock told me
Ihat he would make further explorations in that direction in a few ilays. The work in the mine is being carried on
coMlinnonsly, and a large amount of low-grade ore is on Ihe diiiii]).
Kroin the investigations 1 was able to make, I am convinced that the l!ob<-rl E. Lee is a splendiil mining ])i'os])eet.
and that it will eventually become a great paying proiierty. The Stevens Mine is operating in the same mountain, and
one can scarcely think thai it lias the only rich vein there.
Mr. V. A. Rabcock. the superintendent, and Mr. C. H, Dyer, one of your ilireetors, afforded me every opportunity
to make this investigation. These gentlemen are jiromincnt in the alTairs of Silver Plume, and stand high in the eoni-
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Koli.rl I' L.-e Ti el. M'. 11. Fi r/.(;i;i;.\T.ii.
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list will be December, and the subscriber is entitled to that 'number.
The r/i'i7 war was too long ago to be called the Uitf war, and when cor-
respondents use that term *' War between the States" will be substituted.
The terms" new Southland "lost Cause" are objectionable to the N'ktkran.
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MONUMENT TO CRN. N. B. FORREST.
In Forrest Park, Memphis, Tciin., surrounded by fifteen
thousand spectators, at 2:30 p.m. on May 16 little Miss Kath-
leen Bradley pulled the cord that released the veil from the
magnificent equestrian statue of her illustrious great-grand-
father, Lieut. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. There was a
momentary silence as the imposing grandeur of this colossal
bronze figmc of the great "Wizard of the Saddle" and his
steed met the gaze of the expectant crowd, then a wild cheer
broke from hundreds of his old surviving followers clustered
around the base and was enthusiastically taken up by the vast
multitude.
The idea of erecting a monument to Gen. Forrest was
first projected in 1886, but it was not until 1891 that it took
definite shape and a monument association was organized for
this purpose. On November 18, 1900, the design was ac-
cepted and the order was given to the sculptor, Charles H.
Niehaus. The designer of the base was Mr. B. C. Alsup, and
it is built of Tennessee marble. The statue, which was made
in Europe, arrived in Memphis on April 16, and was placed on
its base a day or two later. The height of the entire monu-
ment is twenty-two feet. The height of the bronze figure is
nine feet, and it weighs ninety-five hundred pounds. The cost
of the structure approximates twenty-five thousand dollars.
The unveiling of the monument was attended with elabo-
rate ceremonies. In the big parade were most of the sur-
viving staff officers of Gen. Forrest, his general officers, and
many of his old veterans who rode with him from 1861 to
1865. Judge J. P. 'V'oung, who was one of Forrest's old
troopers, was master of ceremonies. In opening the proceed-
ings he said in part : "No one who did not ride with Forrest
can have so keen an appreciation of the personal qualities of
the man as those who were actually under his direct com-
mand, and who, from daily, hourly observation, witnessed his
fertility of resource, his vehemence in battle, and his soulful
tenderness toward the stricken soldier, whether friend or foe.
But it was no holiday parade. It cost something to ride with
Forrest. It meant days and nights of sleepless toil and mo-
tion. It meant countless miles under a burning sun in the
choking dust. It meant limitless leagues across icy wastes,
with a blanket of snow at night for a covering. It meant to
run down and destroy miles of freighted supply trains, to
bun; depots of stores, to scale the parapets of redoubts, and
to plunge, mounted, into the seeming vortex of hell, lighted
with the fires of a myriad rifles and scores of belching guns.
It meant tn meet death face to face like a drillmaster, to
look into his dread eyes, to toy with the horrid trappnigs of
his trade, to scorn the deadly chill of his breath, and to turn
away unscathed or sink into the oblivion of his eternal em-
brace."
Judge Young then introduced Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Gailor,
S.T.D., Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, who oflfered the
invocation. Gen. S. T. Carnes, next introduced, gave an
interesting history of the monument from the organization of
ihe association, in 1887, to its final success, in 1905.
Gen. George \V. Gordon delivered the dedicatory address.
He reviewed the life of Gen. Forrest from infancy to his
death, and spoke eloquently of his brilliant military record.
The full text of his oration may appear later.
Of the many earnest and eloquent tributes paid the great
soldier, one that was most significant was that paid by Col.
C. A. Stanton, of the 3d Iowa Cavalry, U. S. A., from
1861-65, a"d who for two years was directly opposed to Gen.
Forrest. He realized Forrest's methods of war at Brice's
Cross Roads, Ripley, Harrisburg, Old Town Creek, Talla-
hatchie, and Hurricane Creek, and was with Gen. Wilson
at Montevallo, Ebenezer Church, Bogler's Creek, Selma,
Montgomery, Columbus, and Macon. The spectacle of an
officer who had fought in the Federal army delivering an ad-
dress at the unveiling of a monument to a Confederate sol-
dier was an interesting one, and when Col. Stanton was
introduced the applause was most generous. Col. Stanton
said in part :
"It is an honor which I cannot fitly acknowledge to be in-
vited to take part in the exercises of this memorable day, and
I thank the committee for giving me this opportunity to pay
my tribute of respect to the memory of Tennessee's great
soldier. I come before you with diffidence; but, honored
by your invitation and encouraged by your greeting, I shall
venture to express briefly a Northern soldier's estimate of the
famous Southern leader and the brave men who followed him.
"During the War between the States I served four years
in the Federal army, and what I learned then prompts what
I now shall say. My knowledge of Gen. Forrest's military
career was acquired while serving for a part of two years
with the Federal forces that were directly opposed to him
and his coinmand. Gen. Forrest possessed the characteristic
traits of the successful soldier ; his personal bravery was
without limit ; his resources seemed to be endless, and his
decisions, like Napoleon's, were instantaneous; he was ag-
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gressive, masterful, resolute, and self-reliant in the most
perilous emergency; lie was comprclicnsive in his grasp nf
every situation, supremely confident in himself and in his
men, and inspired l)y Iiis presence and cxan1p^e his soldiers
fought as desperately as did Hannihal's fierce cavalry at
Canne or the trained veterans of Gesar's Tenth Legion al
Pharsalia. I think the hatlle at Brice's Cross Roads in Jinii\
1864, was one of the best illustrations of Gen. Forrest's dar-
ing courage, his ability in a critical moment to decide swiftly,
his relentless vigor of action, and his intuitive perception of
the time and place to strike fierce, stunning blows whicli fell
like thunderbolts upon bis enemy and won for bim in this
battle an overwlulniing victory over an opposing force which
greatly outnumbered his connnand.
"Impartial history has given Gen. Forrest high rank as
one of the greatest cavalry leaders of modern times. No
American, North or South, now seeks to lessen the measure
of bis fame, and no one can speak of him without remem-
brance of the men who served with him and whose soldierly
qualities made it possible for bim to win his wonderful vic-
tories. No military leader was ever supported by more faith-
ful, gallant, and daring subordinate officers. It has been
truly said that 'the spirit of the cavalier which was found in
the Southern armies was combined with the steadfastness of
Cromwell's Ironsides,' and it is equally true that no soldiers
ever met more promptly every demand made upon them;
no soldiers ever faced the enemies' blazing guns more fear-
lessly or performed greater feats of valor than did the vet-
erans of Forrest's regiments in battles which were as bard-
fought as Marathon or Pnilippi.
"The men who wore the gray from 1861 to 1865 still treas-
ure the memories of those heroic days ; but through all the
years since that time they have contributed their full share
to the advancement and prosperity of our common country,
and to-day the nation has no truer friends than the ex-Con-
federate soldiers of the South.
"The war of 1861-65 was a mighty conflict which stands
without a parallel in the annals of time. Shiloh, Stone's
River, Franklin, Chickamauga, and Gettysburg are names
made sacred by the deeds done thTe and by the dead who
lie there side by side in common graves, where the gray cloth
and the blue have faded into dust alike.
"This monument is history in bronze; it illustrates an
eventful era in our national history ; it commemorates Gen.
Forrest's fame and it represents all the gallant soldiers of
his command ; it attests the splendid courage which won
triumphant victories and did not fail when reverses came; it
stands for heroic deeds which are now the proud heritage of
all American citizens. It is eminently fitting that this figure
should stand here within the borders of the Volunteer State,
whose soldiers have marched and fought 'from valley's
depth to mountain height and from inland rivers to the sea.'
in every war in the history of our republic, with a valor
which has helped to make the name and fame of the Ameri-
can soldier immortal."
Hon. Thomas B. Turley, in behalf of the Monument As-
sociation and of the various Chapters of the United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, then turned the monument over to
the city of Memphis. It was accepted by Mayor Williams in
a few well-chosen remarks, and the ceremonies were closed
with a benediction by Rev. D. C. Kelley.
The women's part in this extraordinary achievement de-
serves record, and one woman in particular, Mrs. T. J. Latham,
will be remembered in comiection with it while the present
generation lives. The Llnited Daughters of the Confederacy
will not forget the chorus to her song. "The Forrest Mnmi-
MRS. T. J. L.\TIi.\.\I.
n-.eut," at several conventions. She is a happy combination
of amiability and unceasing courage in whatever she may
undertake, and, while not a student of nor a stickler for
parliamentary law, as presiding officer of Chapter' or Stale
organization (she has been also of the general officers) she
never neglected her theme, "The Forrest Monument."
Her work was not confined to the women in their meetings,
but on the highways and aboard railway trains. Proud of
the enterprise in hand, she would give men and women the
opportunity to contribute. Even before the U. C. V.'s in con-
vention at Memphis in 1901 she made an appeal, asking Vet-
erans to give her what they could spare, and in this way
$118 was received, mainly in small coins. A Memphis paper,
after mention of this, stated : "This is but one instance of
the personal endeavor Mrs. Latham put in the work. All
the members of the Sarah Law Chapter feel that Mrs. Latham
is deserving of 'the lion's share' of credit for tlie work done
by that Chapter for the Forrest monument, though she her-
self insists that her work would have been for naught had it
not been for the assistance rendered her during the five years
by the members of the Sarah Law Chapter. In its completed
beauty, the work of Mr. Niehaus, the sculptor, the monument
now stands on the most conspicuous knoll of Forrest Park
a notable adornment, an object of admiration to the inhab-
itants of the city as well as the stranger within its gates, a
new feature of interest in its development and beautification,
a source of unbounded pride to all Confederate Veterans, and
Qopfederate l/eterai).
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an inspiration to \aIor. courage,
generations."
patriotism for fiitnre
MRS. MARGARET JOHNSTON PRICHARD.
In the June number of the Veteran there appeared an in-
teresting personal reminiscence of Gen. R. E. Lee by Mrs.
William B. Prichard. of San Francisco, a daughter of Gen.
Albert Sidney Jolmston. It was intended to accompany the
article witli a portrait of Mrs. Prichard, but it was not avail-
able at the time, and it is now presented to our readers.
With it the following data is supplied by Col. J. Stoddanl
Johnston, a nephew of Albert Sidney Johnston :
"Mrs. Prichard, whose name before marriage was Margaret
Strothcr Johnston, was the fourth child of Gen. Albert Sid-
ney and Eliza Griffin Johnston, and was born in Austin, Tex.,
December ii, 1851, when her father was stationed as pay-
master in the regular army. In 1855 he was appointed colonel
of the 2d Cavalry Regiment, of which Gen. R. E. Lee was
lieutenant colonel and Gen. W. J. Hardee major. In i860
Gen. Johnston was assigned to the command of the Depart-
ment of the Pacific, and with his family took up his residence
in San Francisco. Upon the inception of the War between
the States in the spring of l86l he resigned his position in
the army and, making his way overland to Texas, entered
the Confederate service and fell at Shiloh. His family re-
mained in California, and it is still the home of its survivors,
Mrs. Johnston having resided in Los Angeles under the pro-
tection of her brother. Dr. John S. Griffin, until her death.
September 25, 1896.
"In 1876 Margaret Johnston was united in marriage to
Capt. William B. Prichard, a native of Virginia, who serveii
with distinction in the Confederate army as captain of Com-
pany Ii. ^Slh \'irginia Infantry, .Xrmistcad's Brigade, and
was one of the fortunate survivors of Pickett's famous charge
at Gettysburg. For a time after the war he was an assistant
professor at the Virginia Military Institute. Later he be-
came a civil engineer, and removed to California. For ten
or twelve years after their marriage Capt. and Mrs. Prichard
resided in Los Angeles, but since then have made their home
in San Francisco. Mrs. Prichard inherits many of the char-
acteristics of her father and motlier. Like the latter, she has
a marked talent for music, which is also inherited by her only
child. Miss Eliza Griffin (Elsie) Prichard."
"OLD FIRST" riRGlNIA INFANTRY.
In an article on the ,3d North Carolina Infantry in the .\u-
gust Veter.an it appears that North Carolina claims to havi
been first to organize after the war, but "there are others. "
The Old First Virginia Infantry .-Xssociation was organized \\\
1867 or nine years before, as claimed by the 3d North Caro-
lina. The Old l-'irst holds its annual reunions each year on
the l8th of July. Its officers are: Col. W. H. Palmer, Presi-
dent (formerly adjutant general of A. P. Hill's Corps) ; Capt.
H. F. Howard, Lieuts. L. S. Robins and E. W. Martin, Vice
Presidents ; Sergt. Charles T. Loehr, Secretary and Treasurer.
The 1st Virginia Infantry was a part of Kemper's Brigade,
Pickett's Division, and served throughout the war.
In a beautiful bronzed sheet there are around the Old First
Virginia Infantry the historic names : Bull Run, Manassas.
Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines's Mill, Frazcr's Farm,
Second Manassas, South Mountain, Sliarpsburg, Fredericks-
burg, Suflfolk, Gettysburg, Plymouth, Drewry's Bluff, Hewlett
House. Millford, Cold Harbor, Clay House, Dinwiddie C. H.,
Five Forks, Sailor's Creek, Appomattox C. H. The report
is signed by Charles T. Loehr. Secretary.
The Third North Carolina organization antedates the "Old
First Virginia Infantry" organization in a sense, as may be
seen by referenc to files of the Veteran. Away back in
1898 (June j-"ie, page 265) there is an account of a mcelin<^
of the officers of the Third North Carolina Infantry as re-
ported by James I. Mctts, Secretary, in which it is stated that
the officers met to receive the remains of Col. William M.
Parsley on February 2, 1866, and that at that meeting "it was
resolved that the surviving officers of the Third North Caro-
lina Infantry, in good standing, form themselves into an
association," etc, and that they meet every year on May
16 "to celebrate the anniversary of their regiment as long as
one member is left." In October, 1888, according to that rec-
ord, the constitution and by-laws were so changed as to ad-
mit enlisted men. The commander of the regiment in serv-
ice, Col. William L. De Rosset, who has ever been faithful
and zealous, was made President of the Association.
MRS. WILLIAM D. PRICHARD.
Comrades complain occasionally that too much space is
given to the sponsors, etc., in the Veteran. Do they not
realize the importance of enlisting that class? Span a decade
or twice that of the future and meditate on who would be
left of their comrades to fm-nish reports of what they did in
the sixties. Surely such men are far-sighted enough to
realize that they should encourage with diligence every
method whereby the maintenance of their principles should
be perpetuated. There never has been a time in tlie history of
the "men who wore the gray" when they should be more
diligent than now in zeal to establish methods whereby their
highest principles of life may be maintaim-il until all the
world will iustifv them in all they have done.
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Qor}federat:(^ l/eterai).
Qo^federate l/eteraF).
S. A CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office: M«thodisl Puhlishing House Buildin;^, NaslivJUe, Tenn.
ITi* pTihltration Is the personal property of S. A. Cnnningham. All per
vutL* whr approve its principles and realize its benefits as an organ for Asso
-IfcTloo* Ihroughoul ihe South are requesleil to commend its patronajre ant! lo
ivev^rur In extending lu cirt-ulation. Let each one be ronstantlv dili;.-Hni.
PURPOSES OF CONFEDERATE ORGAXIZATIONS.
If any class of people on the earth shotiUl be harmonious
and labor incessantly for the few essential causes for which
they were organized — viz., benevolence in the care of afflicted
and unfortunate Veterans and the families of such and the
vindication of tlie Southern people in all of their political
actions — it should be the Confederate organizations. The
good already accomplished by them in these things is in-
calculable. Think of Georgia, for instance, in having given
to Confederate causes $9,913,748.80! Nearly all of the South-
ern States are doing well, but no other equals the "Empire
State of the South." True, the aggregate amounts should not
be the test for a State, yet Georgia has done best of all.
In matters of truthful history more has been accomplished
than is readily conceivable, and yet it is all a mere be-
ginning of what should be done and we have been a long time
about it. Inspiration has been even given many Veterans and
to mothers by the younger generations in such examples as
that of Mary Morris, of Tennessee, as a young girl positively
refusing to study vile history and Laura Gait, of Kentucky,
who has caused thousands to investigate what "Marching
through Georgia" meant through her determination not to
join in the song by that name.
These important matters should induce every patriot to
forget all selfish aggrandizfment and to cooperate with those
who are like-minded in achieving the greatest possible re-
sults. The benevolent feature appeals to all good men and
women, to all who honor the brave and unselfish in under-
going the greatest possible privations for their convictions,
while the historic should enlist every devotee to truth and
every patriot who wishes the South to maintain her dignity
and the correct record of the patriotism that characterized
their fathers in the sixties.
Every man and woman who has the honor to be a member
of these great Confederate organizations should regard their
sacred duties whereby they share the distinction so high as
to be ever on guard to subserve the cause rather than the
securing of any benefits in any way to themselves. Then the
Veterans and the Mothers will soon be silent, and they should
set examples speedily for the Sons and the Daughters, to
which the better of them would refer with pride and with
gratitude in their maintenance of these worthy objects.
This discipline should begin in the Camps and in the Chap-
ters. It would be well for every such organization to have a
committee of say three members whose sole duties should
be to investigate sources of friction, and wherever a man or
woman be found guilty of mischief-making a reprimand
should be pronounced before the body. It is not only a dis-
credit that wrangling should occur among members, but it
should be designated a disgrace. These matters should be
viewed from a conservative standpoint. It should be empha-
sized as a principle that friends are not altogether as good
nor enemies quite as bad as they seem.
STATEMENTS TO VETERAN SUBSCRIBERS.
During the past month or so the following letter was sent
to all subscribers wliose times had expired previous to this
year : "The Veteran treats subscribers in an impersonal way.
The poorest is supn!ied just as is the millionaire; it is sent
to any person who requests it. and notices of sums due (not
'duns') are sent to all alike. In many instances when these
notices are answered the reply is that the Veteran 'was not
ordered,' and payment is refused. The sending of notices is
expensive, and friends will oblige by prompt response. Surely
no one should be offended. The Veteran takes no advantage
of any subscriber ; and when an error occurs, it is corrected,
with gratitude for the information."
Many persons fail to answer and others decline to pay for
one reason or another. It is presumed that no name appears
on the subscription list of any one unfriendly to the Veteran ;
therefore each one is reminded that every copy is a positive
expense. Even the postage for an issue is sixty to seventy-
five dollars. Thousands of dollars are required for the plain
paper each year, so that when the Veteran is sent and no
reimbursement is made it cripples the enterprise to that ex-
tent. Patriotic Southerners should realize what the Veteran
is doing for the cause ; and even if they failed to get every
copy, they should exercise a liberal spirit in its perpetuity.
For every name on its list with a date pay is exp;:;ed.
Practical Words and Deeds.
Mr. W. L. Smith sends twenty-eight subscriptions taken at
a reunion in Auxvasse, Mo., and writes that he could have
procured them more easily if he had gotten a package of sam-
ple copies in time. It would be an easy thing to secure i
hundred thousand subscribers to the Veteran. Now that the
quarantine so cuts down the work of agents, won't every
sincere friend of the Veteran make a little effort to see
what he or she can do for new subscribers?
Dr. T. A. Ashley, of Baltimore, who wrote the beautiful
sketch of Gen. R. E. Lee as college president, writes as fol-
lows : "In a recent visit to Virginia I met a number of old
soldiers who I was surprised to find were not subscribers to
the Veteran. Several expressed a wish to subscribe. I also
know a number of old soldiers in this city who would take
your publication if it was presented to them. I suggest that
you employ some one here to solicit subscriptions. If you
have no one, I will try to find a good canvasser for you.
I am sure you can get from three to five hundred subscribers
in this State if a proper effort is made to solicit subscriptions.
The good work you are doing is too important to let languish.
The ground you are cultivating will yield rich material for
years to come, for as long as the cause you are representing
lives in the hearts of the Southern people there will be matter
of interest for your publication. You cannot exhaust this
material, for it will grow with each new generation and will
live through the centuries in some form. My children are
more interested in the cause, if possible, than I am. Many
subscribers should come from this generation which is spring-
ing up as the older generation passes away. I should like
to see your work prosper, for I have the greatest love for
that cause for which so many of my kindred made the great-
est of all sacrifices — the sacrifice of blood."
The U. D. C.'s Are Requested to Take Trees from Each
State to California. — The Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter
of San Francisco is the "Hostess Chapter" for the Conven-
tion that will meet from the 3d to the 7th of October, and it|
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President, Mrs. A. H. Voorl-.ics. has written to all the Presi-
dents of the State Divisions, U. U. C, begging them to bring
or send a tree to be planted in the "Confederate Grove" thai
shall be created near San Francisco. There is a very inter-
esting "Confederate Grove"' in the Yosemite Valley. One of
the largest trees is named for Gen. Lee. Fearing some
letters might not have reached their destination, this request
is emphasized here. Mrs. Voorhies is anxious that every
State having a U. D. C. Chapter be represented, and from
each State is desired a tree that will be distinctively peculiar
to that State — such, for instance, as the Palmetto from South
Carolina. If there are any changes in the Presidents of
Chapters since the publication of minute^ of the last Conven-
tion, the outgoing President is asked to pass Mrs. Voorhics's
letter to the incoming officer. .Ml ladies, it is hoped, who go
will be prepared to attend the grand ball on the 6th.
The Chairman of the Transportation Committee for the
U. D. C. Convention gives notice that tickets issued on ac-
count of the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland. Ore-
gon, arc suitable for delegates to their Convention at San
Francisco in October. There are certain sale dates for these
tickets, and they are good for return until November ,TO.
SALARIES FOR U. D. C. OFFICERS.
PV MRS. FL0K.\ M'DON'ALn \VII.LI.\MS,
Sorciiul \'icr I'ri sidcnt Albert Sidiicv.Iohnston Chaplrr, Louis\il)e, Ky.
That some of the general ofiicers of the U. D. C. organiza-
tion should be willing to accept salaries for their services is.
I think, a matter of regret to a majority of the Daughters, and
it is to be hoped that at our next general convention the ac-
tion authorizing it will be rescinded, as well as some of the
other hasty and unwise measures "railroaded" tlirough at St.
Louis in almost the closing hours.
It is all right that the Secretary sliould be reimbursed for
money actually expended in securing necessary assistance in
the preparation of the minutes of the convention, etc.. and
that the Custodian of the Crosses of Honor should have re-
funded to her all money paid out for work she cannot do her-
self; but I am sure that in our organization of nearly fifty
thousand earnest women workers there can be found plenty
of intelligent, competent w'omeii who w-ill gladly give their
own services for the love of the cause and consider the honor
attached as full compensation.
I do not believe that we always realize what a unique and
sacred organization ours is. That from a defeated people,
forty years after their surrender to an overpowering foe,
should be recruited an army of fifty thousand earnest women
bent on preserving the records of that people and caring for
the victims of that war is little short of miraculous! But
when the feature of salaries enters into our society, and we
thereby put it on a commercial basis, it will at once descend
from the high plane where it should be the aim of every true
Daughter to keep it, and our offices, which should be the re-
ward of earnest interest and meritorious work, w'ill become
attractive for other reasons.
From the fact that our Treasurer was voted a salary of $500
at St. Louis, it might naturally be inferred that the duties of
her office were very onerous and that the Daughters were
blessed with a somewhat redundant treasury. If we are cast-
ing about for suitable objects upon which to bestow our super-
abundance, we would suggest that the cross of honor, which
symbolizes so much and which should be of most enduring
workmansliip. might very appropriately be improved and
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strengthened in its construction. Tt is manufactured now at
the pitiful cost of nine cents, and 1 have heard of numerous
instances where it was lost on account of its inferior con-
struction. My Chapter has adopted the plan of reenforcing
at its own expense all crosses bestowed by it.
This is a matter which I think the convention at its meet-
ing in San Francisco should certainly consider. Instead of
paying a salary to some one to care for and distribute it, let
more money be spent in its manufacture. An iron one would
cost little more and be infinitely more enduring, and, like the
one bestow-ed by the German government, would be proudly
transmitted from one generation to another. As now' planned
and executed, however, our cross of honor, which means so
much, is frequently lost by the recipient soon after receiving
it unless he has it strengthened himself, and as an heirloom
will prove a dismal failure.
CHILDREN OF CONFEDERACY IN NEW YORK.
There was formed in New York City in January, igoj, a
Chapter of Children of the Confederacy, which has prospered.
This Chapter is called the "Stonewall Jackson Chapter of
Manhattan," and is named for that .great man who fought
for the cause he loved and for which he gave his life.
The young members enter into the spirit of this organiza-
tion with great zest, and prove themselves true children of
the Southland. Its ofiicers have proved themselves both
efficient and businesslike, acting in true parliamentary style.
The President of this Chapter, Miss Mildred Lee Clark
( namesake of the late Miss
Mildred Lee), has done
much to promote the in-
terests of the Chapter and
enters heart and soul into
the work, presiding with
(jreat dignity and grace at
the meetings.
Mrs. Robins .A. Lau, of
Louisville. Ky.. has been a
prominent worker in this
cause, forming Chapters in
Xew ^"ork and other cities.
1 hcse Children of the Con-
tederacy have much to
thank her for. and heartily
appreciate her unflagging
interest and zeal.
The "Children" have been
working to raise a sum
toward the Stonewall Jack-
son Memorial Ho.spital. in Lexington, Va. A very pretty and
eflfective little scene took place after a successful social tea, in
which Mrs. James Henry Parker, the well-known and charm-
ing President of the New York Chapter, U. D. C, presented
the "Children" with a beautiful Confederate flag, which was
received by Miss Mildred Lee Clark. President, who accepted
it in a most graceful manner. The proceeds of a bazaar held
successfully sometime ago will go to the Stonewall Jackson
Memorial Hospitalin Lexington, Va.
A contributor for the Veter.^n writes: "1 know the people
of the South will be glad to know of this loyal spirit in the
hearts of the Southern children living in the North, who
hold in veneration and loving remembrance those great heroes.
who fought so bravely fr.r their beloved Southland."
MILDRED LEE C1..\RK.
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Qo^federat^ l/eterai).
BRIG. GEN. J. F. SHIPI'.
RECORD OF N. B. FORREST CAMP. NO. 4, U. C. K.
This report in full as sent to the Veteran by J. W. Wil-
linghani. Sergeant Major of the Camp, was supplied the Vet-
eran upon request of the editor without thought of any mat-
ter being offered to influence comrades or the public concern-
ing' a movement
'.'I which the re-
iirt refers near
lie close of the
rticle as to a res-
ilution adopted in
I k-ccmber, 1903.
M comes at a time
,' hen the motive
iiT its use might
'■e misciinstrucd.
ihe editor crtn-
icsses that he wa.--
in sympathy with
ilie onnnittee who
regretted it could
not accept the
Camp as a Bivouac
under its constitu-
tinn and by-laws.
The request was
made for a report
through consideration of its zeal in many Confederate achieve-
ments and the fact that it was specifically honored by the
Camp away back in 1893 and the zealous patronage of its
members throughout its history of over a dozen years.
It is fair and just to stale herein — since there will be no
opportunity by tlie Bivouac officials to reply before a con-
vention assembles, members of which will be influenced by
this report — that the State Association sought earnestly to
receive the Forrest Camp on terms consistent with its con-
stitution and by-laws — just such conditions as those by which
the Tennessee Historical Association was received. The edi-
tor of the Veteran has been threatened with suit for libel
for .publishing action of the latter in connection with this new
movement. See June issue, page 346.
On September i, 1885, the R. E. Lee Camp, No. i. Con-
federate Veterans, in accordance with the terms and pro-
visions of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia issued
a charter to N. B. Forrest Camp, No. 3, of Chattanooga,
Tenn., the charter members of Forrest Camp being T. J.
Dement, L. B. Headrick, Summerfield A. Key, W. L. Eakin,
M. H. Clift, E. M. Dodson, N. H. Burt, Thomas Cowart, J.
B. Smartt, R. L. Rock, B. P. Key, A. M. Johnson, J. W.
Butler. D. B. Rankin, Harry Dungey, James F. Bourges, R.
C. McRee. J. W. Bachman, J. A. Ca'.dweil, Tomlinson Fort.
J. L. McCollum, T. M. McConnell. R. M. Tankesley, N. C.
Ford, W. O. Peeples, R. H. Woodward, Joseph F. Shipp,
and Garnett Andrews.
On September 15, 1885, a meeting of ex-Confederate sol-
diers was called at the courthouse in Chattanooga. The meet-
ing was called to order by S. A. Key. Rev. J. W. Bachman
was made temporary Chairman and S. P. Breckinridge Sec-
retary. The following lonnniltce was appointed to draft
constitution and Ijy-laws : J. F. Shipp, E. M. Dodson, S. .A..
Key, R. L. Watkins, C. S. Peak, I. D. Allen, Garnett An-
drews, J. L. McCollum, L. T. Dickinson, John Bankston, and
J. W. Thornton.
L. T. DICKINSON.
On September 22 a meeting was hcKl 'n the courthouse,
when the committee presented the constitution and by-laws
of N. B. Forrest Camp, No. 3. which were adopteil. The fol-
lowing officers were elected : Garnett Andrews and J. F.
Shipp, Commanders: S. A. Key and R. I.. Watkins, Lieu-
tenant Commanders; L. T. Dickinson, .\djutaut : T. J. De-
ment, Quartenr.aster : S. P. Breckinridge, Surgeon ; .\. W.
Palmer, Assistant Surgeon; J. W. Bachman, Chaplain; J. H
Bankston, Ofl->cr of Day: J. W. Tliornton, Treasurer; J. M.
Toler, Vidctte ; W. W. Harkius, Color Sergeant: J. L. Mc-
Collum and \\'. E. Florence, Color Guanls
The following Com-
manders have served willi
tl'.e very efficient an<l
genial Comrade L. T.
Dickinson, the Adjutant
through all these years
except the period that he
served as Commander--
1894-95 — when T. P.
Wells was the .\djutant
[This compliment to
Adjt. Dickinson is by
the editor of the Vet-
eran] : 1885-86, Garnett
Andrews, Commander ;
1887 to 1893, J. F. Shipp ;
1894-95, L. T. Dickinson :
1896, W. P. McClatchey:
1897, J. F. Shipp: 1898-
99. Thomas Fort ; 1900,
J. L. Price; 1901, M. H. Clift; 1902, J. I^. Smartt: 1903, Mil-
ton Russell; 1904. S. J. A. Frazier; 1905, B. L. Goulding.
Up to August I, 1905, ,394 Veterans have been enrolled,
75 deaths have occurred, and 62 sons of Confederate Veterans
have been enrolled as associate members.
The Camp held its meetings in Phcenix Hall, Market Street,
until November, 1886, when they moved to Room 15, Lee
Block, Ninth and Carter Streets, which it occupied until
May, 1887, when new quarters v.ere secured in Adams Block,
Eighth and Georgia Avenue. In August, 1892, the quarters
were moved to Vandeman Building (third floor), which quar-
ters are still occupied.
.\pril 19-23, 18S7, die Camp held the most successful bazaar
in the history of Chattanoo,ga. The old skating rink running
through from Broad and Chertnut Streets was used. Miss
Winnie Davis graced the occasion with her presence, which
event added largely to the attendance and receipts. The
Camp presented her with a handsome gold badge, whicli she
treasured to the day of her death.
On November i, 18S7, Col. J. E. Fcnn. of U. S. Grant Post,
G. A. R., of Elizabeth, N. J., presented the Camp with a
bronze bad.ge of unique design made from the cannon sur-
rendered at Appomattox. Col. Fenn came to Chattanooga
expressly for this purpose.
On May 7, 1889, the Camp passed resolutions approving the
efforts being made to make Chickamauga a national park.
Gen. H. V. Boynton was presented with a valuable relic of
the battlefield of Chickamauga by Col. Fort in the name of
the Camp. Gen. Boynton valued this relic highly; and when
on his deathbed, in May, 1905, he wrote to the Camp that he
would present the relic to the Loyal Legion of Cincinnati,
and hoped the Camp would approve of his action.
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395
In June, 1889, $100 was sent sufferers of the Johnstown,
Pa., flood.
In June. 1889, the United Confederate Veterans was or-
ganized in New Orleans.
■ In July. 1889, N. B. Forrest Camp was admitted as Cainp
No. 4. Forrest Camp invited the U. C. V.'s to hold their
first convention in Chattanooga.
In Septemher, 1889, the Camp joined with the Army of the
Cumberland in giving one of tlie most extensive barbecues
ever given on the battlelield of Chickamauga at Crawfish
Spring. Gens, (iordon and Rosecrans were present. The
feast was participatc<l in by twelve thousand old soldiers,
gray and blue. This was the first instance in the South wher--
an organization of Confederate Veterans joined with the
Federal Veterans in a public demonstration of such a fr;ilernal
character.
In January, 1890, the Camp appointed a connnittee to de-
vise means of raisin.g money for a monument to Jefferson
Davis, the monument to be in the form of a grand memorial
buil<ling in which the prominent ligurc should be a marble
or bronze statue of President Davis, the building to be used
as a museum of the relics of the war, a sketch of every com-
pany and regiment in the Confederate army, and portraits of
all the prominent Confederate soldiers.
The Inst Reunion of the I'nited Confederate Veterans was
held in Chattanooga in July, i8()0, al which time a Forrest
Festival was held an<l yielded a fund of $679./.=;, which was
placed in bank on interest as a nucleus to a fund for the
erection of a monument to (un. I'orrest. This fund is still
drawing four per cent interest.
Amiual Memorial Service was inaiignraled to Ik- lield the
first Sunday after the first Tuesday in October.
In February. i8qi. the Camp entertained the Veteran
Zouaves of Elizabeth. N. J., (ien. Drake commanding.
In August, 1891. on invitation from the President of tlie
State Association, C. V.. the Camp appointed a delegation to
attend the convention at Winchester under the following reso-
lution : "That the delegates from Forrest Camp to the State
.Vssociation of C. V.. to assemble at Winchester, Tenn., Sep-
tember 9, 1891, be and arc hereby instrncte<l to bear the fra-
ternal salutations of this Camp to the brethren of the State
.Association and to assure the Association that Forrest Camp
is not only willing but anxious to become a member of the
State Association on the following conditions: (i) That N.
B, Forrest Camp be allowed ti retain its name and person-
ality; (2) to retain its form of organization intact; (3) For-
rest Camp to file with the Secretary of the State .Association
a complete roster of its members: I 4') the elcgibility of pres-
ent membership in Forrest Camp, having been fixed by exist-
ing law. is not to be disturbed or inquired into."
The delegates attended the convention, and Forrest Camp
was elected a member of the Stale .Association : but subse-
quently the Executive Committee of the State .Association set
aside the action of the convention in admitting Forrest Camp
to the Stale .Association.
This report was signed by T. 11. .Smith, President; John
P. Hickman. Secretary: J. B. Cowan, James D. Stillnian, R.
G. Rothrock, and James II. Lewis.
James J. Turner, of Gallatin, was the only member of the
Executive Committee who declined to indorse the action of
the committee and stand by the action of the Convention.
This action was taken, notwithstanding the fact that Forrest
Camp was the first one in the State of Tennessee to be ad-
mitte<l to the United Confederate Veterans two years before
this date when the roster of the Camp passed the scrutiny
of the officers of the U. C. V.
.\ Past Cominander of the Camp (Gen. Joseph F. Shipp)
has occupied a place on the staff of the commanding general
since the second year of the organization of the U. C. V.
until the present oate.
Upon receipt of this official action of the Executive Com-
mittee of the State Association, on the motion of W. P. Mc-
Clatchey. one of the delegates to the Convenlioii, the Camp
passed the following resolutions :
"Whereas a comminiication has been received from the
Executive Committee of the State .Association of Confederate
Veterans of Tennessee, .setting forth constitutional reasons
why the actftm of the Stale Convention, held at Winchester,
Tenn., September 9. 1S91. admitting N. B. Forrest Camp, No.
X into said State organization was unconstitutional ; and
whereas the record has been made up and we have 110 power
to alter or amend the same: therefore be it
"Rcsflhcd, That it is the sense of N. B. Forrest Camp, No.
.V if wc are not a member of the State .Association in ac-
cordance with the conditions contained in the resolutions
passed by the State .As.sociation in convention assembled at
Winchester, Tenn.. September 9. 1891, and cannot become
a member under the constitnlion and by-laws now existing
in accordance with the terms and conditions contained in the
resolutions passed by this Camp August 4, 1891. and filed with
ihe Secretary of the State Association, wc assure our com-
rades throughout the State that, while wc may not be a
member of their Stale .Association, w'c pledge ourselves to
heartily cooperate with them in every good word and work.
"Rrsok-cd, That the Adjutant of this Camp be and is here-
liy instructed to send copies of these resolutions to the Ex-
ecutive Committee and the Secretary of the State Association
at Nashville, Tenn."
In September, 1892, the delegates of Forrest Camp were
completely ignored at the Convention of the State Associa-
tion held at Franklin, Tenn.
On February 19, 180.^, a handsomely framed picture of Gen.
Forrest was received from George .A. Reeves, of Altoona.
Pa., and comrades of the .Army of the Cumberland in ap-
preciation of courtesies shown them by the Camp during their
Reunion in Chattanooga.
In March. 1893, the Camp memorialized the Legislature to
increase appropriation to care for Soldiers' Home. Gov.
Turiiey was urged to appoint a representation from the Camp
on the commission to mark the battlefield of Chickamauga.
In .April, 1893, the committee appointed in January, 1890,
to raise funds to be applied to a fund for the erection of a
monument to Jefferson Davis reported that tliey had de-
posited in the Third Natioral Bank at four per cent interest
$308.0,^. to be knov.n as the Jefferson Davis Monument Fund.
This fund now amounts to $.S20..38 (.August, 1905). -At the
same time the Forrest Camp Monument Fund, which was
started in July. 1890, was also placed in the Third National
Hank on four per cent interest-bearing certificate, the amount
having been increased to $721.20. .At the present time. .Au-
gust, 1905, this fund amounts to $889.91. Joseph F. Shipp is
Ihe custodian of both of these funds.
In .August. i8(J3. the Confeiier.vte A''eter.\n w-as officially
recognized by the Camp.
In Jun^, l89.j. the Camp replied to Gen. John T. Reynolds
Post, No. ST. G. A. R., .Alexandria, Minn., commending the
government for paying pensions to its deserving soldiers.
39G
QoF/fedfcra t-(^ l/eterat?.
but only to those who were injured in their line of duty as
enlisted soldiers. We hold that it would be a breach of faith
for the I'ederal government to withhold reasonable pensions
for those needing help who became disabled in the service in
the line of duty.
In August, 189.)., the by-laws were amended so as to admit
sons of Confederate Veterans as associate members of the
Camp. A Testament found on the battlefield of Shiloh,
which had belonged to John Duckworth, Company F, i6th
Wisconsin Volunt'ers, who was wounded at that battle, fell
into the hands of the Camp, and was returned to Duckworth's
son at New Lisbon, Wis.
In October. 1894, a telegram was sent to the Society of the
Army of Tennessee, in convention at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
inviting them to hold their next convention in Chattanooga.
In May, 1895. preamble and resolutions were passed, urging
the Legislature of Tennessee to appropriate $ico,ooo to be
expended in the erection '•{ monuments to "mark the spots
hallowed by the best blcvj lU .America" on the battlefield of
Chickaniauga.
In June, 1895. roses blooming in pots, grown on Mission-
ary Ridge, near Bragg's headquarters, were sent to the Con-
federate Camp at Chicago, 111., upon the occasion of the un-
veiling of the Confederate monument on the site of Camp
Douglas, the roses to be planted about the monument.
In July, 1895, Gen. Longstreet was invited to be a guest of
the Camp at the dedication of Chickaniauga, Chattanooga Na-
tional Military Park. Resolutions were passed expressing re-
gret that the State Legislature appropriated only the paltry
sum of $10,000 to erect monuments to our dead at Chicka-
mauga, requesting the Mayor and Aldermen of Chattanooga
to appropriate $2,500 for the purpose of entertaining our
guests, inviting the State government to participate in the
dedication ceremonies of the park, and demanding that the
$10,000 now appropriated by the State be increased to $100,-
000 for monuments to the soldier dead of Tennessee.
In August, 1895, the Confederate Cemetery was beautifully
remodeled.
In December, 1897, the Camp attended the dedication of
Pennsylvania monuments in Chickaniauga Park, and kept open
house for the visitors.
In April, 1898, the Camp joined with the G. .\. R. Posts
of Chattanooga in indorsing Col. Alfred Guiton to Gov. Tay-
lor for a commission in Tennessee troops to be engaged in
hostilities with Spain. Congress was memorialized to print
muster rolls of Federal and Confederate armies and dis-
tribute them among the public libraries.
In May, 1898, resolutions were adopted in conjunction with
G. A. R. Posts of Chattanooga congratulating the people of
the United States upon the location of Chickamauga Park ;
indorsing the .statesmanship and patriotism of the President
of the United States in his efforts to avoid war with Spain,
the time having arrived, since war has been declared, to
pledge the government our united support ; indorsing the
appointment of Gens. Wilson, Lee, and Wheeler and others
from civil life who have illustrated American valor on the
bloody fields of the late war ; indorsing the selection of Chicka-
niauga Park as the point for mobilization of troops ; request-
ing our Senators and Representatives in Congress to pass
laws and the President to execute them to raise troops enough
and navy large enough to insure a speedy and successful end
to the present war; requesting our local authorities to pre-
serve files of al] newspapers jjiiblishcd in Tennessee during
the pending war, that the city and county keep a history of
each man who enlists from Hamilton County and of each
company going out of it, that our city and county complete
our city and county hospital and tender it to the government;
and directing that a copy of the resolutions be sent to the
President of the United States, the Governor of Tennessee.
the Mayor and Aldermen of Chattanooga, to Congress, and
be published in city papers.
In September, 1898, the Camp telegraphed President Mc-
Kinley that it united with the people of Chattanooga in in-
viting him to review the troops at Chickaniauga Park.
On October 4 the Camp participated in the dedication of
the monument erected by Knapp's Pennsylvania Battery at
Orchard Knob.
In September, 1899, upon invitation of the Wilder Monu-
ment Association, the Camp attended the dedication of the
Wilder Monument in Chickamauga Park. The Camp marched
in uniform as escort to the G. A. R. Post. Speeches were
made from both sides. Col. Fort spoke for the Confederate
Veterans. This was the first occasion known in the South
where the Confederate Veterar.s marched in their uniform in
joint meeting with the Federal Veterans.
In October, 1899, delegates were sent to represent the Camp
.-It the National Reunion of the blue and gray at Evansville,
Ind.. under the auspices of Farragut Post, G. A. R.
In October, 1900, the Camp passed a resolution indorsing
llie reunion of the blue and gray, citing the fact that this
Camp had inaugurated the movement in September, 1899, out
of which grew the "Chickamauga Memorial Association."
In January, 1901, Congress was memorialized, urging our
Representatives to lend their aid in the project to erect a
memorial gateway to Chickamauga Park, upon which is to
lie expended $300,000. Our State Legislature was also re-
quested to aid in the matter.
In February, igoi, the Legislature of Tennessee was ear-
nestly requested to appropriate $20,000 to be used in erecting
a monument to Gen. N. B. Forrest. Col. Garnett Andrews
suggested the erection of a monument to the noble women of
ihe South, who so heroically aided the Southern cau^e during
the war.
In March, igot, the by-laws were amended, on motion of J.
F. Shipp, providing as an order of business the taking up of
a voluntary collection at every business meeting to provide a
fund to be used in aiding the erection of a monument at
some point in the South to the heroic women of the South-
ern Confederacy, this order of business to he known as
a memorial to the heroic women of the South. This action
(if the Camp will be reported to the general commanding and
n quest that the same be promulgated to all the Camps of the
U. C. v., urging all Camps of C. V. to make like provisions
iur raising and accumulating funds for this purpose.
In April, 1901, the Legislature nf Tennessee was memo-
rialized to appropriate a liberal sum for the purpose of en-
larging and maintaining a hospital at the Soldiers' Home.
On September 15. igoi, resolutions of condolence and sym-
pathy upon the tragic death of President McKinley were
adopted at a meeting called for that purpose.
On May 21, 1901, the corner stor.e of the arch at the Con-
federate Cemetery was laid.
On June 3, 1902. resolutions were adopted appreciative of
the motive that prompted Capt. Gahagan, of Post 45, G. A.
R., in his speech on Decoration Day of the Federal dead at
Knoxville suggesting that the Federal government take charge
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of the Confederate dead as the nation's dead, but expressing
our unwillingness to it unless it be done at the request of the
survivors of the Federal army and witli the consent of that
grand and glorious army of women, the Daughters of the
Confederacy. Resolutions were adopted requesting the gov-
ernment committee on pensions to deviate from their rule
and grant a pension to Mrs. Susan S. Rayner, of Mineral
Wells, Tex., sister of Gen. Lconidas Polk, copy of resolu-
tions to be sent to our representatives in Congress, with the
request that they be presented to both Houses of Congress.
On June 12, 1902. the grand arch and gateway erected at
Confederate Cemetery by the Daughters of the Confederacy
was dedicated.
In December, 1902, resolutions were adopted, urging the
Legislature tn increase the appmiiriations for pensions to
Confederate Veterans.
In May, 1903, the Camp adopted resolutions of thanks to
Mission Ridge Post. No. 45, G, A. R., and Lookout Post.
No. 2, for the resolutions they adopted and sent to our repre-
sentatives in the Stale Legislature joining with us in urging
an increase of pensions for Confederate Veterans. , ,,
In September, 1903, a resolution was adopted suggesting .t
better order of business and a reduction of delegates at our
Reunions.
In December, 1903, a resolution was adopted oflfering to co-
operate in any maimer that has for its object the consolidation
of all Confederate Veterans" organizations in the State into
one Tennessee Division of United Confederate X'eterans, sub-
ject to the constitution and by-laws of the general organiza-
tion of the U. C. V. Association.
In November, 1904. the Legislature of Tennessee was fur-
nished with resolutions adopted by the Camp in regard \o
the Soldiers' Home cstalilishcd in Tennessee, giving as our
opinion that "no soldier should be disfranchised by becoming
the guest of the United Stales or this Slate," and making the
request thai the Legislature "amend our statutes so that any
Veteran who resides in this State as long as the law now
requires as a qualification to vote l^ lallowed to vote if other-
wise qualilied, and that residence- iti a Soldiers' Home consti-
tute such residence as now required ny law."
Ill January, 1505, the following resolutions were adopted
and sent to representatives of the Legislature and to the
various Camps in the State :
''Resolved: i. That the time has come in the great pros-
perity of this State when she can afford to pay the debt she
owes by giving every worthy and deserving Confederate sol-
dier, who is without subsistence and unable to work, a pen-
sion.
"2. That the present law requiring disability be traced to
the war is unjust and n temptation to perjury, and ought to
be changed.
"3. That the pension business has grown in importance so
that the examiner should be separate and distinct from the
Hoard who sit in ju<lgment on his reports."
In March. 1905, the movetncnt inaugurated by which to
gather histonp infrrrmation from the women of the South
nf incidences that occurred during the war publish them in
rewspaper supplements, the proceeds from same to go I0 tlie
umd for the erection of a monument to the women of the
South.
On April 2S. kx'.s. Iv.o members of Forrest Camp attended
ilie organization of the Tennessee Division, V. C. V., at Nash-
ville.
On May 2, l<;05. the Camp applied for membership in Ten-
nessee Division of L'. C. V.
The Camp is now (.\ugust. ifjo.s) making preparations in
conjunction with the G. A. R. Posts of Chattanooga to enter-
lain the Wilder lirigade .\ssociation. Society of the Army of
the Cumberland, and other Federal organizations at a Reunion
in this cilv n.-xt monlli.
MEMlSERS OF THE N. B. FORREST CAMP AT THE LOUISVILLE REUNION.
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SPECIAL DEPARTMENT.
doited Soi)S of <$OF)federate l/eteraps.
Organized July 1, ISM, in Jiichinond-, Va.
Conducted by the Commander in Chief, to whom all contributions
intended therefor should l>e addressed.
THOMAS M. OWEN. LL.D.. Co.mmasdek in Chief, i ■if,,„.„,,™„,.v Ala
WILLT. SHEEHAN. A. G. and Chief of Staff, , ^"on.gomei>, am.
E. LESLIE SPENCE, JR.. Commander A. N. V. Dept., Richmond. Va.
R. E. L. BYXUM, Commander Army Tenn. Dept.. Jackson. Tenn.
I. J. STOCKETT. Commander Trans-Miss. Dept.. Tyler. Tex.
VIEWS OF SONS UPON THE ISSUES.
In addresses for the Sons of Confederate Veterans at
Louisville two were noticeable. One by W. P. Lane, of Fort
Worth, which had been preparer! with great care, was so
approved liy the convention that he was urged to "go on"
when more than his allotted time had been occupied. More
of that address hereafter.
Mr. Marry B. Hawes, of St. Louis, spoke also at lengtli in
reply to the address of welcome. Extracts from his address :
"If our fathers have buried their resentments, their sons
cannot do less by remembering the good and forgetting the
mean things of that historic conflict. But there is one duty
that the Southern son owes to his father as well as to his
nation, and that is to insist persistently at all times and
upon all occasions that the history of the war shall be truly
written, tliat its causes shall be asserted, and that we may
proclaim and posterity know that the soldiers of the South
fought for principle and honor and the preservation of tliat
construction of the Constitution which was given by the men
wdio made it.
"The preservation of facts and actual experiences in the
memory of the living is of immediate necessity that there
may be proper material for the writing of this true account.
There was enough of glory for both, enough of heroic acts
and noble .sacrifices to satisfy the zeal of the bitterest parti-
san, and there can be no excuse for a Southerner writing a
history which does not deal truly with the situation. Cer-
tainly the Northern historian should be sufficiently gratified
with the victory of the Northern armies not to feel compelled
to make false record of the causes that led to the unhappy
conflict. If, in preserving history, it becomes necessary to
speak the bold truth, there should be no complaint, and there
will be none e.xcept by those wdio have something to conceal.
The South has nothing to hide, and asks the printing of un-
varnished facts, nothing more.
"While Appomattox settled all disputes on the State Rights
Doctrine as well as the slavery question, it should not prevent
the story of what came before being truly told. The dis-
passionate historian of the future will write that slavery was
not introduced in America at the solicitation of the men who
settled the South. The first .American slave ship was fitted
out by the Pilgrim Colony, and the first statute establishing
slavery was enacted in Massachusetts.
"The War between the States was not started for the eman-
cipation of slaves, nor did Lincoln and Grant go into it for
that purpose, but to preserve the Union of States. Lincoln
said, in his inaugural address of March 4, 1861 : T have no
purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution
of slavery in the States where it now exists. I believe I
have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to
do so.' .-Vnd again : 'I did not at Siiy time say that I was in
favor of negro suffrage. I declared against it. 1 am not in
fivor of negro citizenship.' Emancipation came as an inci-
dent of war.
"The first American Confederacy to recognize slavery by
law was the United Colonies of New England. Its original
disappearance from the North was due less to morals than to
climate. Jefferson protested against it before Lincoln and
Davis were born. Southern States, by legislative enactment,
stopped its growth before the Federal enactments of 1808.
1 he North did as much as the South to put the black curse
upon our laud, and then made the South pay the entire cost
for the sins of both.
"Massachusetts, not South Carolina, first proposed to secede
from the Union of States wdien the War of 1812 began and
again when Texas was admitted to the Lhiion. The con-
sistent Davis, who fought through the war with Mexico,
personally favored the annexation of Texas, and its admis-
sion into the Union did not then dispute but acknowledge
tile right of Massachusetts to secede. This historian will
tell that the South believed that States were nations. The
general government was their agent, holding certain powers
that were subject to recall. The Union, under the Constitu-
tion, was an agreement by consent for certain express pur-
poses only. This was the doctrine of State rights, learned
by the Southern people in childhood's early hour, from the
debates of the Constitutional Convention taught to them at
school and in college, and they held no other theory of th:^
national L^nion.
"The W'ar between the States was not one of cenquest but
tlie defense of principle. The Southern States left the Union,
wliicli they had helped to build, with regret and sorrow.
L'ndcr their interpretation of the Constitution, they believed
they had the right to go, but went reluctantly, feeling that it
W'Ould be wrong to remain. The fundamental distinction be-
tween the man of the North and the man of the South was.
that the Northerner loved the nation better than his State
and the Southerner loved his State better than his nation,
just as he loved his own fireside best of all. A htmdred thou-
sand men gave their lives and the rest all they had in de-
fense of what they believed to be their rights. Half-clothed,
half-starved, living on less than mortal men ever subsisted
on before, with constantly thinning ranks, ammunition gone,
until starvation and disease exhausted their last efforts at
resistance, they fought against a splendid army, well-fed,
well-clothed, and equipped until human endurance could no
longer stand the strain, and they surrendered only whe'i
further resistance would have been madness.
"Washington, Jefferson. Madison, and Monroe, men of the
South, with their colleagues, breathed life into the infant
nation. Jefferson wrote its Declaration of Independence and
Washington commanded its armies. Jefferson brought ai!
that vast territory lying west of the Mississippi River inti>
the Union by the Louisiana Purchase. 'Virginia presented
as a gift to the Union the northwest territory, out of whicii
are carved Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and the great middle States
of the North. The rifles nf Southerners drove back the
British of 1812 and went to the assistance of Texas and
helped secure her independence. Southern soldiers and
Southern generals defeated the army of Santa Ana and
planted the stars and stripes over the ancient home of the
Montezumas. All the territory added to the original thirteen
States, with the exccptpn of AI??rk?. ari the Philippines,
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came into and was made part of the American Union by the
statecraft of Southern men, upheld in the main by South-
ern soldiers. So it is no wonder tliat the people of the South
claimed as much right as the people of tlie North to enjoy
and colonize these territories with their people and their
property. It w-as the refusal to recngnize this right wliicl;
brought on ;he war.
"Before that war the South was strictly an agricultural
community. She relied upon the North for the manufactured
article, just as the latter relied upon the South for its raw
material. The black man's presence had directed the emigra-
tion of skilled artisans and mechanics to the North. The
South did not have the machinery or skilled labor for manu-
facturing. So that when the war came it was only neces-
sary to close the ports of the South to prevent her from se-
curing modern facilities for its successful conduct. The cause
of this condition was slavery. And no man who loves the
Southland, its penple, or is amiiitinus for its future could
wish it back,
"After Appomattox came years of hardships and priva-
tions, of sorrow and suffering. When the martial music of
war had ended and fathers and sons returned, they found
but the ruins of homes. Money gone, deeply in debt, without
financial credit, and unaccustomed to manual labor, they bad
nothing left but the love and inspiration of their brave-
women : and the Southern women, while hiding their own
tears, cheered the spirits and. by their courage and Christian
love, encouraged the men to battles of industry, firing their
ambitions for the reliuilding of the Old South.
".\s time goes on and wealth comes, we will cover the
Southland as well as the West with the statues of our gen-
erals, monuments to the love an<I fortitude of our women,
and nothing will be left mulone that you would have us do
to commemorate a valiantly fought war. And as you w'ould
have us bury, so we will bury thoughts of animosities, hide
away llu- tmpleasant and ilisagreeable. and teach our chil-
dren only those bright things that treat of courage, of self-
sacrifice, and fortitude in defense of principle and right."
In his entertaining address, W. P. Lane, of Texas, said :
"My dear Confederate Fathers, I have the honor of being
t'le chairman of a committee of Sons of Confederate Vet-
erans, appointed by the Commander in Chief of our Confed-
eration, on closer relationship with that of yours. Gen.
C. I. Walker occupies a similar position by appointment in
yo'.ir organization; and if I interpret the duties of this joint
committee aright, it is to devise ways arul iiieaus of bringing
these two great organizations into a closer and more filial
relationship to each other. In order to successfully accom-
plish the important mission with whioli we have been so
earnestly intrusted, it is necessary for us to determine what
relationship now exists between these two patriotic organiza-
tions and what relationship .should exist between them.
You are our fathers and we are your sons, and the ties of
blood know but one relationship closer than that of father
and son, and the good book tells us that only for one other
relationship will a man forsake bis parental ties, and that
is the holy and (lod-given relationship of man and wife.
It is an old. trite, but no less true, saying that differences
sometimes arise in the very best of regulated families: anci
as it can be appropriately said of our great Confederations
that they together comprise one big family, we cannot reason-
ably expect to be exempted from the rule. An afTectionate
and judicious father will not disinherit or disown his son ; and
neither do 1 believe that you. my Confederate fathers, will
disinherit, disown, or discard the Sons of Confederate Vet-
erans if, perchance, some of them in their unbounded en-
thusiasm for the common cause we all so much love parade
out in too gorgeous uniforms.
"My dear Confederate Veterans, if you see one of these
young fellows dressed up in a new gray uniform, gold braid
all over bis sleeves, the letters U. S. C. V. on his shoulders,
brass buttons on each side of his breast, stars shining on his
collar, and a plume in his hat, don't condemn or criticise
l-.im until you look up his pedigree, and you will find that
there is good stufT in that boy. I venture the assertion that
i:i ninety-nine cases out of every hundred you will find that
bis father was as brave a soldier as ever trod the battle-
field, and it may be for more than forty years he has been
peacefully sleeping upon the consecrated field of honor. Be-
fore you criticise that young man too harshly you look up
his father's record, and again I venture the assertion that
you will find that be unfiincbingly stood in tlie front ranks
of many of the bloody battles that marked the progress of
llie Confederate army from Manassas to Appomattox C. H. ;
.lid if through the provider.ce of a merciful God his life was
snared through all the dangers and vicissitudes of four long
years of war, it may be that you will find him leaning upon an
old wooden leg or dangling an empty sleeve by his side, mute
trophies of his devotion to his country's cause.
"If you find a boy with patriotism enough in him to dress
up in a new gray uniform as 1 have already described— and.
my friends, it is only a boy imbued with this spirit tliat will
devote the time and incur the expense of providing a uni-
form— you can unequivocally and unerringly put it down that
he has inherited so much Confederate enthusiasm that he has
'dimply boiled over. 1 well know that the criticism is some-
limes made, and often justly, that the Sons do not always
take the interest in Confederate affairs that they should take,
and I repeat that if you will investigate where this state of
indifference exists you will find that the fault is not so much
with the boy himself as it is with his pedigree.
"So, my friends, when 1 find one of these young fellows in
a town or community who takes no interest and finds no
patriotic inspiration in the daring and chivalrous deeds of
the Confederate soldier, who is indifferent toward the preser-
vation of the organiratioii of the United Sons of Confederate
Veterans, and who is ashamed to come out and attach his
name to our Camp rolls. I look at his ears and then say to
myself, 'Poor, unfortunate fellow! it is no fault of his that
he is not a thoroughbred.'
"In conclusion, my younger friends. Sons and Daughters
of the Confederacy, I need not remind you, because you are
well aware, that in determining the great questions of his-
tory that brought on and grew out of that mighty conflict
from i86i to 1865 we will not always have the presence
and the counsel of the Confederate soldier. Then how very
essential it is that we avail ourselves of every favorable op-
portunity to learn from them the true causes of that great
War between the States that we may be enabled to transmit
tile Iriith to our coming posterity!"
C. S. M. A. AT LOUIS] ILLE.
The Confederate Southern Memorial .Association sends the
Veter.\n official copy of its thanks to the pastor and congre-
gation of the Broadway Baptist Church. Louisville, for the
use of their church building, in which was held the Jefferson
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Davis Memorial Service; to Rev. C. \V. Hemphill, who so
ably conducted the service; to the Rev. J. R. Deering, of
Lexington, for his invocation at the opening of the business
session and subsequent address; to Mr. Bartholenievv, Presi-
dent of the Girls' High School, and its trustees for the use
of the school building in which to hold the business sessions.
In addition, they state ; "We highly appreciate and hereby
extend our thanks to Gen. Bennett H. Young and Capt. W. T.
Ellis for their addresses of welcome on behalf of the Kentucky
Division of the United Confederate Veterans, to the Hon.
Thomas \V. Bullitt for his address on behalf of the United
Confederate Reunion Committee, and to Mrs. A. N. Sea, of
the Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter of the U. D. C, for
the welcome extended to the Association on behalf of the
Daughters of the Confederacy of Louisville. We desire to
express our very high appreciation of the luany social courte-
sies extended to the delegates Iiy tlic members of the Albert
Sidney Johnston Chapter, U. D. C, and assure them that
their efforts, which have been so successful, will ever be
treasured in our memories with pleasure and delight."
Further they express profound gratitude to the good people
of Louisville for their united and successful effort to make
their stay there an occasion of pleasure and happiness.
The committee was composed of Mrs. E. P. Dismukes
(Chairman). Mrs. W. A. Collier, and Mrs."!?' H. Marks.
JAMES K. P. HARRIS. OF FIFTH TEXAS INFANTRY.
EV MRS. J.\NET H. WE.WER R.\NDOLPH, RICHMOND, V.\.
Looking over some old papers of my mother, dead many
years ago, I found eaten by the moths all that remained of a
brown curl, and on the envelope "Died Sept. 17th, 1862,
James K. P. Harris, 5th Texas Reg., aged 18." How this
curl brought trooping through my mind the incidents of those
stormy days of 1861 to 1865 !
I was only a child of four-
teen summers, but I remem-
ber as if only yesterday, and
tell the story hoping it may
reach the eye of some rela-
tive in far-away Texas.
After the second battle ol
Manassas, our little town of
Warrenton was filled with
the wounded Confederates.
My mother's home was
thrown open to entertain all
that could be accommodated.
My father had died in the
May of that year from fever
contracted on the Chickahominy. and as our 'town was in the
hands of the Yankees he was buried in Richmond. .After
that, my mother devoted her life to the care of the Confed-
erate soldiers. About dark the second day ^fter the fight.
borne on a litter, this boy was brought to our home, as the
men who brought him said, "only to die." as he was mortally
wounded and was bleeding, so they said, to death.
Our house was then full, but mother put a cot in the dining
room and moved into the parlor. I can remetnber his beautiful
brown eyes and curly hair and his pathetic . appeal to' :m\-
mother to keep him, as his Jife was ebbing away. . A. surgeon
came and tied up the artery, and we hoped he was going
to get well. His cotnrades told of his hand-t<>-hand .eijcountcr
with the enemy, the llag bearer of a Pennsylvania regiment,
and the capture of the magnificent Pennsylvania flag, which
lie brought ofT the field. He asked that it be placed where
he could see it.
He seemed to rally for a day or two ; and the house being
full of wounded, I and my sister were placed by his bed to
keep oft' the flies and give him water to drink. He told my
mother of a girl who had known him in Baltimore. I think
he had been captured and exclianged just before the battle
of Manassas. He had a little picture of her and fancied that
I looked like her. and was always asking to have me by him.
How tenderly my mother nursed him, hoping against hope!
but in ten days the artery broke again, and hope was gone.
Mother told him that he could not live. He was not suffer-
ing, only the lifeblood ebbing slowly away. He asked that
1 might sit near him, only a little girl, and my heart was
broken to see the death of a soldier boy.
He was tenderly laid to rest in my mother's section, where
he now lies in the little graveyard in Warrenton. My mother,
the last of my family, is dead. Each year a wreath of
flowers is placed on the grave, but no stone marks his resting
place. The flag w-as treasured by my mother, hoping son-,e
day to place it in the hands of his family.
We were soon again in the enemy's lines, and the flag was
in constant danger of being stolen, as whenever the Y''ankees
came lo the village our house was searched. At last my
mother had it sewed between two skirts, and her niece wore
it to Petersburg, where it was either stolen or fell into the
hands of the Yankees. I remember hearing my mother read
a letter, saying that Mr. Harris's father started to Virginia,
and in his sleep walked out of a second-story window- at n
hotel in Houston, 1 think, and was either killed or badly
hurt, and I have no recollection of hearing anything else.
The little picture of the girl he loved was taken by me to
Baltimore after the war and placed in the hands of the
original. This is only one true story of the many tragedies
of the war told in my imperfect way after forty years.
VETERANS OF SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS.
The Southwest Arkansas Confederate Veterans' Associa-
tion held its annual reunion at Magnesia Springs on August
10 and II, 1905. A large and appreciative audience greeted
the Veterans. The exercises on the first day were opened
with the song of the "Bonnie Blue Flag," rendered by iwcnty-
0 .e beautiful girls clothed in spotless white, each bearing a
Co-.ifederate flag save one girl, who is the daughter and
granddaughter of a Confederate soldier and who carried a
"blue flag with a single star." Addresses were made by Col.
J. R. Thornton, Col. A. S. Morgan, Dr. C. M. Norwood, Hon.
S. Q. Sevier, and others. Airiong the many important resolu-
tions adopted was one calling the attention of the Veterans
to the great w-ork that has been accomplished and is still
being accomplished by the Confeder.\te Veteran, published
at Nashville, Tenn.. and recomiuended that every Veteran
and every other person interested in the defense of "constitu-
tional liberty" subscribe and give it place in their families.
The following oflicers were elected: Dr. C. M. Norwood,
Commander ; Col. J. R. Thornton, First Lieutenant Com-
mander; R. D. Smith, Second Lieutenant Commander; C.
T. Boggs, Adjutant; C. M. Fombey, Quartermaster; Dr. G.
M. Hudson, Surgeon ; J. A. McCall, Officer of the Day ; Rev.
J. F. Nesbit, Chaplain.
The ne.xt meeting will be held in July, 1906.
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TREATMENT OF PRISCX.'IRS DURING THE WAR.
BY DR. J. WILLIAM JONES, RICHMOND, VA.
There is no occasion and no space in this report to discuss
in full the question of the treatment of prisoners in the
great War between the States, since the official records on
both sides are now accessible in "The War Records of the
Rebellion," and there are a number of books, pamphlets, etc.,
which abundantly set forth the facts. But we will give only
a brief summary and refer readers interested to such books
as Dr. R. R. Stevenson's "Southern Side ;" Dr. I. W. K.
Handy's "United States Bonds;" Hon. A. M. Keiley's "In Vin-
culis;" Henry Clay Dean's (of Iowa) "Crimes of the Civil
War;" the compilation of authorities on the treatment of
prisoners in "Southern Historical Society Papers" (Vol. i, pp.
113-325), by J. William Jones; the report of the History
Committee of the Grand Camp of Virginia, U. C. V. (pre-
sented October 2},, 1902, by Judge George L. Christian), on the
"Treatment and E.xchange of Prisoners ;" Hon. B. H. Hill's
reply to Hon. James G. Blaine in the United States House of
Representatives; and the four large volumes in the "Rebellion
Records" which give the official reports and the correspond-
ence on both sides in reference to this question.
We may be pardoned for quoting several passages from our
own discussion of the question, in the "Southern Historical
Society Papers" for March and April, 1876. After citing va-
rious authorities to prove the utterly untrue slanders against
the Confederate authorities in reference to the treatment of
prisoners, we say ;
"It appears, then, from the foregoing statements that the
prison at Andersonville was established with a view to health-
fulness of location, and that the great mortality which ensued
resulted chielly from the crowded condition of the stockade,
the use of corn bread (to which the prisoners had not been
accustomed), the want of variety in the rations furnished,
and the want of medicines and hospital stores to enable our
surgeons to properly treat the sick. As to the first point, the
reply is at hand. The stockade at Andersonville was orig-
inally designed for a much smaller number of prisoners than
were afterwards crowded into it. But prisoners accumulated,
after the stoppage of exchange, in Richmond and at other
points. The Dahlgren raid, which had for its avowed object
the liberation of prisoners, the assassination of President
Davis and his Cabinet, and the sacking of Richmond, warned
our authorities against allowing large numbers of prisoners
to remain in Richmond, even if the difficulty of feeding them
there was removed ; and the only alternative was to rush
them down to Andersonville, as enough men to guard them
elsewhere could not be spared from the ranks of our armies,
which were now everywhere lighting overwhelming odds.
"We have a .statement from an entirely trustworthy source
that the reason prisoners were not detailed to cut timber
with which to enlarge the stockade and build shelters is that
this privilege it'(i.s granted to a large number of them when
the prison was first established, they giving their parole of
honor not to attempt to escape; and that they violated their
paroles, threiv away their axes, and spread dismay throughout
the ivholc region by creating the impression that all of the
prisoners had broken loose. This experiment could not, of
course, be repeated, and the rest had to suffer for the bad
faith of these, who not only prevented the detail of any
number of other prisoners for this work, but made way with
axes which could not be replaced.
"In reference to feeding the prisoners on corn bread, there
has been the loudest complaint and the bitterest denunciations.
They had not been accustomed to such hard fare as 'hog
and hominy,' and the poor fellows did suffer fearfully from it
But the Confederate soldiers had the same rations. Our sol-
diers had the advantage of buying supplies and of receiving
occasional boxes from home, which the prisoners at Anderson-
ville could have enjoyed to an even greater extent had the
United States authorities been willing to accept the humane
proposition of our Commissioner of Exchange, to allow each
side to send supplies to their prisoners. But why did not
the Confederacy furnish better rations to both our own sol-
diers and our prisoners, and why were the prisoners at
Andersonville not supplied with wheat bread instead of corn
bread? Answers to these questions may be abundantly found
by referring to the orders of Major General John Pope, direct-
ing his men 'to live on the country ;' the orders of General
Sherman, in fulfilling his avowed purpose to 'make Georgia
howl' as he 'smashed things generally' in that 'great march,'
■which left smoking and blackened ruins and desolated fields
to mark his progress ; the orders of General Grant to his
lieutenant to desolate the rich wheat-growing valley of Vir-
ginia : or the reports of General Sheridan, boasting of the
number of bariMUie had burned, the mills he had destroyed,
and the large amount of wheat he had given to the fiames,
until there was really more truth than poetry in the boast
that he had made the Shenandoah Valley 'such a waste that
even a crow flying over would be compelled to carry his
own rations.' We have these. and other similar orders of
Federal generals in our archives (we propose to give here-
after a few choice extracts from them), and we respectfully
submit that for the South to be abused for not furnishing
Federal prisoners with better rations, when our own soldiers
and people had been brought painfully near the starvation
point by the mode of warfare which the Federal government
adopted, is even more unreasonable than the course of the
old Egj-ptian taskmasters, who required their captives to 'make
brick without straw.' And to the complaints that the sick did
not have proper medical attention, we reply that the hospital
at Andersonville was placed on precisely the same fooling as
the hospitals for the treatment of our own soldiers. We have
the law of the Confederate Congress enjoining this, and the
orders of the surgeon general enforcing it. Besides, we have
in our archives a large budget of original orders, telegrams,
letters, etc., which passed between the officers on duty at An-
dersonville and their superiors. We have carefully looked
through this large mass of papers, and we have been unable to
discover 0 single sentence indicating that the prisoners were
to be treated otherwise than kindly, or that the hospital was
to receive a smaller supply of medicines or stores than the
hospitals for Confederate soldiers. On the contrary, the whole
of these papers go to show that the prison hospital at Ander-
sonville was on the same footing precisely with every hospital
for sick or wounded Confederates, and that the scarcity of
medicines and hospital stores, of which there was such con-
stant complaint, proceeded from causes which our authorities
could not control.
"But we can make the case still stronger. Whose fault
was it that the Confederacy was utterly unable to supply med-
icines for the hospitals of either friend or foe? Most un-
questionably the responsibility rests with the Federal authori-
ties. They not only declared medicines 'contraband of war" —
even arresting ladies coming South for concealing a little qui-
nine under their skirts — but thev sanctioned the custom o£
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their soldiers to sack every drug store in the Confederacy
which they could reach, and to destroy even the little stock of
medicines which the private physician might chance to have
on hand.
"When Gen. Milroy banished from Winchester, Va., the
family of Mr. Lloyd Logan, because the General (and his
wife) fancied his elegantly furnished mansion for head-
quarters, he not only forbade their carrying with them a
change of raiment and refused to allow Mrs. Logan to take
one of her spoons with which to administer medicine to a
sick child, but he most emphatically prohibited their carrying
a small medicine chest, or even a few phials of medicine
which the physician had prescribed for immediate use. Pos-
sibly some ingenious casuist may defend this policy; but who
will defend at the bar of history the refusal of the Federal
authorities to accept Judge Quid's several propositions to al-
low surgeons from either side to visit and minister to their
own men in prison, to allow each to furnish medicines, etc.,
to their prisoners in the hands of the other, and finally to
purchase in the North, for gold, cotton, or tobacco, medicines
for the exclusive use of Federal prisoners in the South?
Well might General Lee have said to President Davis, in
response to expressions of bitter disappointment when he re-
ported the failure of his efforts to bring about an exchange of
prisoners: 'We have done everything in our power to mitigate
the suffering of prisoners, and there is no just cause for a
sense of further responsibility on our part.' "
At the close of our full discussion of the various phases
of the prison question, we said :
"And now it only remains that we make a brief summing
up of this whole question of the treatment of prisoners dur-
ing the war. We think that we have established the following
points :
"i. The laws of ihe Confederate Congress, the orders of the
War Department, the regulations of the surgeon general, the
action of our generals in the field, and the orders of those who
had the immediate charge of the prisoners all provided that
prisoners in the hands of the Confederates should be kindly
treated, supplied with the same rations which our soldiers
had, and cared for when sick in hospitals placed on precisely
the same footing as the hospitals for Confederate soldiers.
"2. If these regulations were violated in individual in-
stances, and if subordinates were sometimes cruel to prison-
ers, it was without the knowledge or consent of the Confed-
erate government, which always took prompt action on any
case reported to them.
"3. If the prisoners failed to get their full rations and had
those of inferior quality, the Confederate soldiers sufifered in
precisely the same way and to the same extent, and it resulted
from that system of warfare adopted by the Federal authori-
ties, which carried desolation and ruin to every part of the
South they could reach, and which, in starving the Confed-
erates into submission, brought the same evils upon their own
men in Southern prisons.
"4. The mortality in Southern prisons (fearfully large,
although over three per cent less than the mortality in North-
ern prisons) resulted from causes beyond the control of our
authorities — from epidemics, etc., which might have been
avoided or greatly mitigated had not the Federal government
declared medicines 'contraband of war;' refused the proposi-
tion of Judge Ould that each government should send its
own surgeons, with medicines, hospital stores, etc., to minis-
ter to soldiers in prison ; declined his proposition to send
medicines to its own men in Southern prisons without being
required to allow the Confederates the same privilege; re-
fused to allow the Confederate government to buy medicines
for gold, tobacco, or cotton, which it offered to pledge its
honor should be used only for Federal prisoners in its hands ;
refused to exchange sick and wounded ; and neglected from
August to December, 1864, to accede to Judge Quid's proposi-
tion for them to send transportation to Savannah and re-
ceive without equivalent ten to fifteen thousand Federal
prisoners, notwithstanding the fact that this offer was accom-
panied with a statement of the utter inability of the Confed-
eracy to provide for these prisoners and with n detailed report
of the monthly mortality at Andersonville, and that Judge
Ould again and again urged compliance with this humane
proposal.
"5. We have proven, by the most unimpeachable testimony,
that the sufferings of Confederate prisoners in Northern
'prison pens' were terrible beyond description ; that they were
starved in a land of plenty ; that they were frozen where
fuel and clothing were abundant; that they suffered untold
horrors for want of medicines, hospital stores, and proper
medical attention ; that they were shot by sentinels, beaten by
officers, and subjected to the most cruel punishment upon the
slightest pretexts ; that friends at the North were refused the
privilege of clothing their nakedness, or feeding them when
starving; and that these outrages were perpetrated not only
with the full knowledge of, but under the orders of, E. M.
Stanton, United States Secretary of War. We have proven
these things by Federal as well as Confederate testimony.
"6. We have shown that most of the suffering of prisoners
on both sides could have been avoided by simply carrying out
the terms of the cartel, and that for the failure to do this the
Federal authorities alone were responsible ; that the Confed-
erate government originally proposed the cartel, and were
always ready to carry it out in both letter and spirit ; that
the Federal authorities observed its terms only so long as
it was to their interest to do so, and then repudiated their
plighted faith, and proposed other terms, which were greatly
to the disadvantage of the Confederates ; that when the gov-
ernment at Richmond agreed to accept the hard terms of ex-
change offered them these were at once repudiated by the
Federal authorities ; that when Judge Ould agreed upon a new
cartel with Gen. Butler Gen. Grant refused to approve it and
Mr. Stanton repudiated it; and that the policy of the Fed-
eral government was to refuse all exchanges, while they
'fired the Northern heart' by placing the whole blame on the
'Rebels,' and by circulating the most heartrending stories of
'Rebel barbarities' to prisoners.
"If either cf the above points has not been made clear to
any sirxc:\' seeker after truth, we would be most happy to
produce further testimony. And we hold ourselves prepared to
maintain against all comers the truth of every proposition
we have laid down in this discussion. Let the calm verdict of
history decide between the Confederate government and their
calumniators."
We had this summary of the discussion struck off and sent
it to all of the leading papers and magazines of the North, ac-
companied by a personal letter in which we asked for a cor-
rection of any mistake that might be seen, and that any re-
plies might be sent us. There were a few flippant and ill-
natured flings at the author; but if any serious effort was
made to refute any of our points, we have never seen or
heard of it.
Several years after The Nation did make a quasi reply to
portions of our paper, but we promptly copied their entire
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article, made, we think, a triunipliant reply, and proposed to
The Nation that we have a courteous discussion of the whole
question, we copying their articles and they ours. They re-
plied that "want of space compelled their declination of the
courteous offer." We asked to be excused for the suggestion
that, "instead of lack of space, it was want of facts and argu-
ments to put in the space," and thus "the incident closed."
Frequently since there have been repetitions of the old
slander that the Confederates were cruel to prisoners, but
the facts and figures are overwhelming against this charge,
which was made first during the bitter animosities of the war
in order to "fire the Northern hearts" and injure the Confed-
erate cause in the eyes of the world, but which should be
abandoned now that it has been proven to be false, while we
are seeking to cultivate fraternal relations between all sec-
tions of our common country.
Here we would rest this whole question but for recent
attempts to deny the authenticity of the report of Surgeon
General Barnes and the statement made in the surgeon gen-
eral's office, at the War Department, and at the "War Rec-
ords" office to the effect that no such report is in existence
and that Dr. Barnes never made such a report.
The reply to this is conclusive. Let us calmly examine the
facts. Hon. B. H. Hill, of Georgia, in his able and triumphant
reply to Mr. Blaine on the floor of the House of Representa-
tives, thus put the figures as to the relative mortality of
Federal prisoners in Confederate and Confederate prisoners
in Federal hands :
"Now, will the gentleman believe testimony from the dead?
The Bible says: 'The tree is known by its fruit.' And. after
all, what is the test of suffering of these prisoners North and
>outh ? The test is the result. Now, I call the attention of
gentlemen to this fact, that the report of Mr. Stanton, the Sec-
retary of War (you will believe him, will you not?) on the
19th of July, 1866 (send to the library and get it), exhibits the
fact that of the Federal prisoners in Confederate hands dur-
ing the war only 22.576 died, while of the Confederate prison-
ers in Federal hands 26,346 died. And Surgeon General Barnes
reports in an ofiicial report (I suppose you will believe him)
that in round numbers the Confederate prisoners in Federal
hands amounted to 220,000, while the Federal prisoners in
Confederate hands amounted to 270,000. Out of the 270.000
in Confederate hands 22,000 died, while of the 220,000 in Fed-
oral hands 26,000 died. The ratio is this : More than twelve
per cent of the Confederates in Federal hands died, and less
tlian nine per cent of the Federals in Confederate hands died.
Wliat is the logic of these facts according to the gentleman
from Maine? 1 scorn to charge murder upon the officials of
Northern prisons, as the gentleman has done upon Confed-
erate prison officials. I labor to demonstrate that such miseries
are inevitable in prison life, no matter how humane the reg-
ulations." i
Mr. Blaine had twenty-four hours in which to prepare his
reply, and all of the clerks of the departments at his beck
and call, and yet he did not dare to deny the correctness of
Mr. Hill's figures, but made the following very lame ex-
planation. He said :
"Now, in regard to the relative number of prisoners that
died in the North and the South respectively, the gentleman
undertook to show that a great many more prisoners died in
t'.ic hands of the Union authorities than in the hands of the
Rebels. I have had conversations with surgeons of the army
about that, and they s.iy that there were a large number of
deaths of Rebel prisoners, but that during the latter period
of the war they came into our hands very much exhausted,
ill-fed. diseased, so that they died in our prisons of disease
that they brought with them. And one eminent surgeon said,
without wishing to be quoted in this debate, that the question
was not only what was the condition of the prisoners when
they came to us, but what it was when they were sent back.
Our men were taken in full health and strength ; they came
back wasted and worn — mere skeletons. The Rebel prisoners,
in large numbers, were, when taken, emaciated and reduced ;
and Gen. Grant says that at the time such superhuman
efforts were made for exchange there were 30,000 men that
would have rcenforced the Confederate armies the next day,
prisoners in our hands who were in good health and ready for
fight. This condition sheds a great deal of light on what the
gentleman said."
Of course this cuts up by the roots his whole contention
and refutes his whole argument. H the Confederates could
take no better care of their own soldiers, so that they were
starved, emaciated, and diseased when captured, how could they
be expected to take better care of the prisoners they captured?
And what can the friends of Gen. Grant say if it be admitted
that in the campaign from the Rapidan to Petersburg, in 1864,
less than one-fourth of his numbers of these emaciated, dis-
eased skeletons not only withstood his splendidly equipped,
hale, hearty troops, but whipped them in every battle, and
rendered hors de combat a larger number of his men than
they could muster?
President Davis, in a letter to the Hon. James Lyons, of
Richmond, soon after Mr. Blaine's virulent attack on him,
used these figures, as follows :
"To the bold allegations of ill treatment of prisoners by
our side, and the humane treatment and adequate supplies by
our opponents, it is only necessary to offer two facts : First, it
appears from the reports of the United States War Depart-
ment that, though we had sixty thousand more Federal pris-
oners than they had of Confederates, six thousand more of
Confederates died in Northern prisons than died of Federals in
Southern prisons; secondly, the want and suffering of men
in Northern prisons caused me to ask for permission to send
out cotton and buy supplies for them. The request was
finally granted, but only on condition that the cotton should
be sent to New York and the supplies bought there. General
Beale, now of St. Louis, was authorized to purchase and dis-
tribute the needful supplies."
In his "War between the States" (Vol. H., pp. 507-510)
Hon. A. H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, says :
"It now appears that a larger number of Confederates died
in Northern than of Federals in Southern prisons or stock-
ades. The report of Mr. Stanton as Secretary of War on the
19th of July, 1866, exhibits the fact that of the Federal pris-
oners in Confederate hands during the war only 22,576 died,
while of the Confederate prisoners in Federal hands 26,436
died. This report does not set forth the exact number of
prisoners held by each side respectively. These facts were
given more in detail in a subsequent report by Surgeon Gen-
eral Barnes, of the United States army. His report I have
not seen, but, according to a statement editorially in the Na-
tional Intelligencer (very high authority), it appears from the
surgeon general's report that the whole number of Federal
prisorcrs captured by the Confederates and held in Southern
prisons, from first to last during the war, was, in round num-
bers, 270,000; while the whole number of Confederates cap-
tured and held in prisons by the Federals was, in like round
numbers, only 220,000. From these two reports it appears that
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with 50,000 mofe prisoners in Southern stockades, or other
modes of confinement, the deaths were nearly 4,000 less ! Ac-
cording to these figures, the percentum of Federal deaths in
Southern prisons was under nine, while the percentum of
Confederate deaths in Northern prisons was over twelve.
These mortality statistics are of no small weight in determin-
ing on which side was the most cruelty and inhumanity."
In the discussion of the prison question in the March and
April (1876) numbers of the "Southern Historical Society
Papers," these figures were used, and they were very widely
published in the papers North and South. Some years after,
a minister from Pennsylvania was so much stirred up by their
logical teachings, so different from what he had always be-
lieved and taught, that he had them republished in the princi-
pal papers of the North, and urged that for the sake of the
United States government and "the fair name of the Union"
they be refuted. We wrote at once to this gentleman, and
begged him to send us any replies that he might get, and he
promised to do so; but no reply ever came.
If Surgeon General Barnes had made no such report, and if
these figures of relative mortality were incorrect, why was it
not shown at the time? Why did not Dr. Barnes, who was
then living, deny the authenticity of the report attributed to
him? Why did not some diligent searcher in the "War Rec-
ords" office, or in the surgeon general's office, deny the exist-
ence of such a report?
It is simply morally certain that there li'as such a report in
existence at the time; that Hon. B. H. Hill, Mr. Davis, and
Mr. Stephens did not manufacture these figures; and that if
no such report can now be found in the departments in
Washington it has been destroyed or stolen by some over-
zealous partisan who was unwilling for the Confederates to
have the benefit of the lesson they so clearly teach, and show
to the world that, after all of the abuse that has been heaped
upon them, over three per cent more Confederates perished in
Northern prisons than of Federals in Southern prisons.
Most diligent search has been made for this report; and
while the search has not been successful in finding the report
itself, yet the proof that such a report was made is simply
overwhelming.
We give first the following editorial in the National Intelli-
gencer of June 3, 1869, page 2, volume I, the correctness of our
copy being certified to in a sworn affidavit by Mr. G. T.
Ritchie, made in the Library of Congress. Remember that this
editorial appeared during the lifetime of Surgeon General
Barnes and his contemporaries in the office, that it was very
extensively copied in the papers of the country, and that, as no
denial of its authenticity was made at the time, it is simply
a moral impossibility that it could have been spurious. We
copy the editorial in full as follows:
"More Falsehood upon System.
" 'On Monday ne.xt the committee of the Union War Prison-
ers' Association will have an interview with- the President
concerning the proposed erection of the grand national monu-
ment to the memory of the 35,000 prisoners who died in South-
ern prisons during the war. The association contemplate
asking from Congress the grant of a public square on Pennsyl-
vania Avenue on which to erect the proposed monument.'
"Such is the extract we cull from a Radical sheet. Here is
the exciting falsehood that thirty-five thousand prisoners died
in 'Southern prisons during the war.' What is the official
evidence that we have, as laid before the country, of a fact that
.we now assert? It is this: Surgeon General Barnes, of the
United States Army and War Office, year before last made a
full report on this subject, showing these startling statistics:
that from first to last, during the war, the Confederates cap-
tured of Union soldiers and held in Southern prisons, in
round numbers, 270,000 men, and that the Unionists captured
of Confederate soldiers and held, in round numbers, 220,000
men ; yet that there died in Northern prisons, in round
numbers, 28,000 Southern soldiers, and in Southern prisons,
in round numbers, 22,000.
"Although the Confederates captured and held fifty thou-
sand more men than the Union armies captured and held, yet
in Northern prisons si.x thousand more men died from alleged
ill usage, exposure, and deprivation than died from the same
causes in Southern prisons. It is a striking fact in this regard
that the average percentage of mortality in Northern prisons
was greater because Southern prisoners were mostly taken
toward the close of t!ie war, and were therefore the shortest
time in confinement. But who is there now in the land who
does not know, if Gen. Butler is to be believed, that Gen.
Grant and Edwin Stanton are directly, personally responsi-
ble in large part for the deaths of Union men in Southern
prisons, and particularly for most of the suffering and har-
rowing misery at Andersonville?
"Gen. Butler has stated on the floor of Congress, in view of
all and every official responsibility attaching to his position as
a Representative, as well as in view of every responsibility
attaching to his assertion as a man, that after he had arranged
with the Confederate authorities for the exchange of the
Union prisoners upon the fairest terms — indeed, upon the most
exacting Union terms — the whole arrangement was defeated
by the direct interposition of Gen. Grant and Mr. Stanton,
upon the ground that the 'exchange would give Gen. Lee
thirty thousand fresh troops,' which, it is plain, they thought
would hazard the safety of Grant's army upon the Petersburg
line, as indeed it would have done, though not probably with
much prospect of ultimate success. Yet the best military of-
ficers of the South desired, so they say, only one additional
full army corps at the back of Lee to have cut in two Grant's
great army, and thus prolonged the war indefinitely.
"We thus cut the head of this systematic Radical hydra off
again, as we had repeatedly done heretofore.
"In connection with the well-known fact of the cold-blooded
neglect of Secretary Stanton and Gen. Grant to send vessels
to carry off Andersonville prisoners, as desired by the Rebel
authorities, without stipulation of any sort as to exchange, and
their refusal also to provide medicines for them, as also asked
by Gen. Ould at Richmond, it must be borne in mind that a
resclution which was introduced in Congress to ascertain
officially as to facts of deprivation and suffering by Rebels
in Northern prisons was deliberately voted down.
"We would simply say to the rancorous and revengeful ele-
ment of politicians that infest the e.xecutive presence and prom-
ise to raise monuments and do one and several other things to
prolong the hates of the war, provided that they can get office,
that a vast number of the very best men in the Republican
party are disgusted at their efforts to tear open wounds that
coi)ie of civil war. They say : 'Let us have peace.' "
The report of Congressman Shanks on "The Treatment of
Prisoners of War by Rebel Authorities," made to the House
July 10, 1867, is very voluminous, and some of it very vin-
dictive and slanderous of "the Rebels," but it confirms the
figures of Surgeon General Barnes's report.
There is quoted in this report one signed by Assistant
Surgeon J. J. Woodward and furnished by the surgeon gen-
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eral's office, which gives the following figures as to the num-
ber of Confederate prisoners who died in Federal prisons and
hospitals :
Died of disease 23.591
1 Pied of wounds 5,569
jfe Causes not reported 1,556
Total ■ 30,716
Gen. H. V. Boynton, who was not only a gallant Federal
soldier, but one of the fairest men we have know-n, and whose
recent death has been sincerely lamented in the South as well
as in the North, gave the above figures, and added :
"This total exceeds the figures given by Mr. Hill, and the
excess is accounted for by the fact that this statement includes
also all deaths of individual soldiers under treatment for
wounds or disease reported from any of the general hospitals,
which were not connected with the prisons in which Confed-
erate soldiers were confined.
"These figures appear in irore direct details as to the deaths
of Confederate prisoners in Union prisons in tables prepared
in the adjutant general's ofiice. This statement was made up
from an examination of muster rolls, surgeon general's state-
ment, and quartermaster general's statement as to records of
burials, and the figures thus obtained agree with those quoted
by Mr. Hill in his debate. These tables give the total number
of Confederate prisoners of war who died in the hands of
Federal authorities as 26,177. Yo" will notice that Mr. Hill
states this in round numbers as 26,000. You will notice also
that he states the death of Federal soldiers as given in Mr.
Stanton's report, in round numbers, as 22,000. Mr. Stan-
ton's report shows 22,576."
Other details might be given, but we think the above will
be sufficicul to show beyond all controversy that over three
f'cr cent more Confederates died in Federal prisons than of
Federals in Confederate prisons.
We will only add the following as definitely fi.xing the real
responsibility for the stoppage of the exchange of prisoners
and the consequent suffering which ensued, which we clip from
a Northern pap^-r published not long after the close of the
war:
"Gen. Butler said at Hamilton, Ohio, the other day that,
while he never answered anonymous newspaper attacks, he felt
it his duty here at Hamilton to refute a slander which had
been circulated from this platform a few days ago by a gen-
tleman of standing in advocating the election of the Dem-
ocratic candidate.
" 'We had 60,000 or thereabout of their prisoners. They
had 30,000 of ours, or thereabout. I don't give the exact num-
bers, as I quote from memory, but these are the approximate
numbers.
" '1 proposed to go on and exchange with the Rebels, man
for man, officer for officer, until I got 30,000 of our men, and
then I would still have had 30,000 of theirs left on my hands.
And then I promised to twist these 30,000 until 1 got the
negroes out of the Rebels. [Applause.] I made this ar-
rangement with the Confederate Commissioner. This was
on the 1st of April, before we commenced to move on that
campaign of 1864, from the Rapidan to the James, around
Richmond. At that time the lieutenant general visited my
headquarters, and I told him what I had done. He gave me
certain verbal directions. What they were I shall not say, be-
cause I have his instructions in writing. But I sent my prop-
osition for exchange to the •government of the United States.
It w-as referred to the lieutenant general. He ordered me
not to give the Confederates another man in exchange. I tel-
egraphed back to him in these words : "Your order shall be
obeyed, but I assume you do not mean to interfere with the
exchange of the sick and wounded?" He replied: "Take all
the sick and wounded you can get, but don't give them an-
other man."
" 'You can see that even with sick and wounded men this
system would soon cause all exchange to stop. It did stop. It
stopped right there, in April, 1864, and was not resumed
until August, 1864, when Mr. Ould, the Rebel Commis-
sioner, again wrote me, "We will exchange man for man,
officer for officer," and saying nothing about colored troops.
" 'I laid this dispatch before the lieutenant general. His
answer in writing was substantially : "If you give the Rebels
the 30,000 men whom we hold, it will insure the defeat of Gen.
Sherman and endanger our safety here around Richmond."
I wrote an argument, oflFensively put, to the Confederate Com-
missioners, so that they could stop all further offers of ex-
change.
" 'I say nothing about the policy of this course ; I offer no
criticism of it whatever. I only say that, whether it be good
or bad policy, it was not mine, and that my part in it was
wholly obedience to orders from my commandmg officer, the
lieutenant general.' "
We claim, then, and we have clearly proved, that the Fed-
eral, and not the Confederate, government was responsible for
the sufferings and the death among the prisoners on both
sides; and Prof. Worsley, of England, put it exactly right
when in his beautiful poem to Lee he said :
"Thy Troy is fallen, thy dear land
Is marred beneath the spoiler's heel;
I cannot trust my trembling hand
To write the things I feel.
"Ah, realm of tombs ! but let her bear
This blazon to the end of times :
No nation rose so white and fair,
Or fell so pure of crimes."
The foregoing was introduced in the Richmond Times-
Dispaleh by a note from Hon. John W. Daniel :
"At a meeting of the United Confederate Veteran Associa-
tion at Nashville, in June, 1904, a committee was appointed to
prepare a paper on 'The Treatment of Prisoners during the
War between the States.' Dr. S. E. Lewis, Judge George L.
Christian, and Chaplain J. William Jones were named as
that committee, and the ft>llowing paper, prepared by Chaplain
Jones and approved by the other members of the committee,
is the result of their labors.
"The question is one that so deeply concerns the pride of
character of our people and, on the other hand, has been so
distorted and misrepresented by inconsiderate publications,
that this careful paper from such a capable author and worthy
sponsor deserves to be given full publicity and circulation.
Mr. Jones has sifted this subject with great patience and dili-
gence, and his statements, approved by his associates, who are
likewise gentlemen of high consideration, carry with them
facts and views which force conviction."
A Vf.teran of the Forty-First Virginia Infantry. — A.
H. D. Moore, of Company A, 41st Virginia Regiment, Ma-
hone's Brigade, now of Bryan, Te.x., desires to get in the
Soldiers' Home, and it is important for some testimony in his
behalf. Will comrades who know him respond?
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WORK OF THE DAUGHTERS AT CAMDEN, ARK.
The Hiram L. Grinstead Chapter, of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy of Camden, Ark., is a thriving organiza-
tion of loyal-hearted women. It has a membership of between
sixty and seventy. It is composed of women of the true
Southern type, who possess loyalty to the Southern cause and
the fervor and zeal to memorialize the deeds of valor done in
the historic sixties. Shortly after the organization of this
body, in 1902, the work of caring for the graves of the hon-
ored Confederate dead was assumed.
The first monument in the State placed in memory of the
Confederate soldiers was erected in Greenwood Cemetery of
Camden. This is evidence that the patriotism of her women
is but the reflex of the spirit of the community. The graves
of the soldiers and the beautiful grounds surrounding them
have received at the hands of these Daughters of the Con-
federacy the attention and care they so richly deserve. Me-
morial Day is faithfully observed, and all that loving hearts
can devise and willing hands can execute is done to perpetuate
the honored memory of departed heroes. Their pictures in
various uniforms have been placed by them in the public
schools, that the coming generation may be reminded of these
who possessed a noble purpose and pride in its fulfillment.
The last work of this Chapter has been the erection of a
monument over the grave of the gallant soldier for whom it
was named.
Hiram L. Grinstead was a son of Arkansas by adoption only,
but was bound to the people of this State by cords of love
far more binding than those of mere accident of birth. His
splendid talents and attractive personality made him easily a
leader of men. When the call of duty came, he went forward
in defense of his country, and it was deemed a fitting honor
that he should be chosen colonel of the 33d Arkansas Regi-
ment. So nobly did he fulfill his duties that in April, 1864,
he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. It is a
sad fact that before the commission reached him his noble
life was ended on the bloody field of Jenkins Ferry. He
was laid to rest on the hillside of the Greenwood Cemetery of
Camden.
The monument, which was erected in June, 1904, is of the
finest imported Italian marble of the most durable character.
It is exquisite in design and finish. The work was executed
by Morris Bros., of Memphis, Tenn. The design is an original
one, and was drawn especially for the use of this Chapter.
A soldier's shield, skillfully carved, forms a background for a
Confederate flag, which gracefully falls unfurled. The in-
scription is as follows : "Col. Hiram Grinstead, born in Lex-
ington, Ky., in 1829; fell at Jenkins Ferry, Ark., April 30,
1864."
A handsome chain inclosure surrounds the burial lot, and
there the pure, uplifted faces of blooming flowers tell the
story of the resurrection morn.
May 6, 1905, was selected for the regular exercises of Me-
morial Day, and upon this occasion the handsome monument
to Col. Grinstead was unveiled. Col. W. K. Ramsey was
master of ceremonies for the day. A solemn invocation was
offered by Rev. W. F. Evans. An edifying address was then
delivered by Col. H. S. Bunn in his characteristic manner of
thought and humor combined. Impromptu remarks, reminis-
cent in their nature, were made by Col. J. R. Thornton. The
children of the public school, under the leadership of their
teacher, Mr. Cannon, sang the national air, "America." The
master of ceremonies then asked the crowd to adjourn to meet
at the grave of Col. Grinstead, wliich was in a separate lot
in the cemetery, stating that the best part of the programme
would be completed there. This proved to be an address
made at the unveiling of the monument and delivered in a
happy, graceful style by Mrs. T. J. Sififord, daughter of the
late lamented Col. T. D. Thomson, who succeeded Col. Grin-
stead in command. When this was done, each grave, which
had previously been designated as a Southern soldier's by
having a flag of the Confederacy placed upon it, was garlanded
with flowers. Thus was finished one more tender observance
of the memory of the beloved dead.
In an address at the unveiling, Mrs. John T. Sifford said:
"It is universal with men, whether civilized or savage, to
admire those who have distinguished themselves in war. In
following out this impulse of the human heart, we Iiave met
to-day to unveil this monument, erected to the memory of that
brave and gallant soldier. Col. H. L. Grinstead. This has
been the loving work of the United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy, the Chapter named in honor of him whose ashes rest
here.
"Hiram L. Grinstead was born in Virginia in the year 1829.
Left an orphan at an early age, he was educated by an uncle,
Hiram Lane (for whom he was named), of Lexington, Ky.
He graduated from a law school there, and when quite a
young man began practicing in Jefferson, Tex. He was
elected district judge and also a member of the Legislature
while yet in his twenties. He met Miss Kate A. Goodwin, of
New Orleans, in 1853, and was married to her that same year.
They came to Camden, Ark., early in 1858, and Mr. Grin-
stead was licensed to practice law in this State under Judge
Christopher C. Scott, of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.
Col. Grinstead was brave and gallant as a soldier, tender and
loving as a husband and father. In the last letter written to
his beloved wife, just before the battle of Jenkins Ferry (in
which he lost his life), he sends this message to his little ones:
'Tell the children to be good and that I love them the whole
world full.' The life of Col. Grinstead is a part of the history
of South Arkansas. He was a literary man, an orator, a true
and devoted friend, a gentleman and a Christian.
"Of him Dr. Junius Bragg wrote, as follows:
" 'In Camp Near Lisbon, Ark., IMay 26, 1S64.
" 'Our regiment looks odd without Col. Grinstead and Hugh
McColluni. Col. Grinstead did not get cold in his grave be-
MONUMENT TO H. L. .GRINSTEAD.
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fore three stars flashed from the collar of his successor, and
now all traces of him in the regiment are as effectually ob-
literated as if he had never lived. His death is looked upon
as one of the incidents of war, and no more is attached to
his death nor the manner of it than if he had died calmly and
quietly at home in bed. Such is life, such is death, and such
is the world ! They are dead to their friends, lost to their
country, and well-nigh forgotten by those among whom they
had an existence. It is well, then, that we may indulge in the
hope that they are resting in a "cool, shady arbor," where no
sound of strife nor tidings of disaster may disturb them more.'
"In Dr. Bragg's account of the battle of Jenkins Ferry, he
said : 'There was nothing of the romance of war or battle
here. No waving of banners nor martial music, no thronging
of women and children and gray-haired men to the battle-
ments of a beautiful city to witness the efl^orts put forth in
their defense. No sentiment about this. The rain paltered
down steadily. The men stood in the ranks cold and wet and
hungry and gazed down into that dismal, cheerless swamp.
The ground being too soft to ride, the officers dismounted and
took tlieir places on foot, and the regiment moved down across
the little field as thgugh it was on drill. The men did not
jostle each other. By some oversight there were no skir-
mishes in front of the regiment, and as a consequence it
marched up to within thirty paces of the Federal line of bat-
tle, where Steel's entire army was waiting to be attacked.
Two hundred and twenty men could not last long before an
army corps ; and after a few minutes' trial, with a loss of
ninety-two killed and wounded, including Col. Grinstead (shot
dead), the regiment fell back in disorder. A portion of it,
however, rallied under Lieut. Col. Tom D. Thomson and went
in with every successive commander until the battle was
ended.'
"Thus fell Hiram L. Grinstead, colonel of the 33d Regiment
of Arkansas Infantry. This regiment was raised by him in
May. 1862. He commanded it at Prairie Grove with honor to
himself and good to his country. At Pleasant Hill he com-
manded the brigade to which his regiment belonged, and at
Jenkins Ferry he was not found wanting. The memory of
the 30lh of April will exist as long as time itself. When the
last shot had been fired, the sun looked down upon the field
rich with offerings upon the shrine of liberty, and one was
Col. Grinstead. He fell with those nearest the enemy. Death,
in kindness, touched him without pain. . . .
"I oOcr no apology for tlie Iriliutc which I shall pay the
memory of my father. When he whose dust we honor to-day
had fallen, he rallied the dear old 33d Arkansas and went on
to the end. He sleeps now out there in beautiful Greenwood.
I have stood beside him on Decoration Day as he placed a
flower on this grave and heard him express the wish to see a
monument to the honor of the brave men he knew and loved.
In every relation of life he stands a giant on memory's page:
but that in which in my vision he grows sublimely grand is the
role of the Confederate soldier, one who wore the gray.
"It is a sorrow renewed by this occasion that Mrs. Maria
Ritchie who. as President of the Chapter, started this work
cannot see the completion."
pays a grateful tribute to the way in which he was received
by his past foes, and makes special mention of the cordial
hospitality extended to him by Capt. John C. Grimm, the Post
Commander at Winchester, Ind., and by his family. The con-
trast between the present at the handsome home of Capt.
Grimm and the past of forty years ago, spent at Johnson's
Island as a "guest of Uncle Sam," made a strong impression
on Comrade Douthet. Some thrilling recollections of the
charge at Gettysburg are also mentioned in Mr. Douthet's
interesting communication, and in conclusion he sajs: "No
monument can be too broad or high to fitly illustrate the
patriotism and courage of the gallant souls that bore aloft
their country's flag, and none of these in generations past can
higher honor claim or nobler name and fame than Indiana's
sturdy sons."
CoNFEiiKRATE LF.CTrRiNG IN I^'DI.^N.^. — R. W. Douthet, of
Morgantown. 111., has just completed a successful lecturing
tour in Indiana, and on two occasions addressed the local
Posts of the G. A. R In writing the Vetf.r.\n recently, he
COMMANDERS OF THE TEXAS BRIGADE.
BY CHARLES H. MILLS, CORSICANA, TEX.
The article in the Veteran for July, pages 308 and 309,
by William W. Gibson. Company D, 5th and 6th Arkansas
Consolidated, under the caption "Various Mistakes Cor-
rected," says : "If we are going to help out the historians, let
us be careful to give facts."
In referring to the battle of Chickamauga, Mr. Gibson
says; "Gen. Deshler was killed and the Texas Brigade was
commanded by Gen. Smith," etc.
The report of Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne of the battle
of Chickamauga, dated October 18, 1863 ("Rebellion Records,"
Volume XXX., Part H., page 156), contains the following:
"Col. Mills also is entitled to be remembered. Leading his
men through the battle until the fall of his brigadier (the
lamented Deshler), he was then called by seniority to com-
mand the brigade, which he did with gallantry and intelli-
gence."
Again, in Maj. Gen. Cleburne's report of the battle of Mis-
sionary Ridge ("Rebellion Records," Volume XXXI., Part
II., page 752), he says: "At a critical moment of the battle
I lost two of the bravest officers of my division, Brig. Gen.
J. A. Smith, commanding the Texas Brigade, and Col. R.
Q. Mills, the same officer who commanded it in the battle
of Chickamauga after Gen. Deshler fell."
While it is in no way connected with this correction, I
beg leave to mention another incident in Gen. Cleburne's
report of the battle of Missionary Ridge, same volume and
page as above indicated, in which he states : "Out of the
eight stands of colors shown by me to have been captured,
four were pre.sented to me by Mills's (Texas) Regiment,"
etc.
I trust that I may be pardoned for the pride wliich I take
in my father's record as a Confederate soldier and for my
desire to have the facts stated correctly in so far as his
service is concerned. I heartily agree with Mr. Gibson that
if we are going to help out the historians we should be care-
ful to give facts, and hence I ask space to correct a mistake
which he himself unwittingly made and in order that simple
justice may be done Col. Mills, who did command Deshler'?
Brigade in the battle of Chickamauga after Gen. Deshler's
death and who Gen. Cleburne says succeeded to the command
and commanded the brigade "with gallantry and intelligence."
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STORIES OF THE GREAT IV AR TO CHILDREN.
BY MARGARET CHESNEY CLEVELAND.
"How the time has flown!" said Mrs. Fisher as she laid
aside a book in which she had been very much interested.
"The children will be coming in a few minutes for their
story. I am rather sorry I adopted the plan of having them
around here every week — well, I don't know, either, for it
gives them so much pleasure."
She arose and made ready for the children, and in a few
minutes the door bell rang, and each little girl came in with
a bunch of flowers for th? "story-teller."
"Well," said Mrs. Fisher as she entered the little parlor
where the children were seated, "what shall the story be
about this time?"
"O give us one of your nice fairy tales," said Lottie, a
bright-faced little girl : "I want to hear a ghost tale," said
Marie ; and so on, until it seemed that each child wanted
something different.
"I think you would all like a story about the War between
the States, would you not ? It is a true story, and I want you
all to remember it. The city of Spartanburg was then a
small town and was filled with Union soldiers. Some of
them went to a house and ordered the cook, Aunt Louisa,
to cook them a breakfast. Aunt Louisa and Malinda were
the house servants — Aunt Louisa the cook and Malinda the
house girl. 'Miss Pollie,' who kept the house, put all con-
fidence in these two servants, and had gone to Greenville
to make a visit, leaving the house in their charge."
"Did the soldiers kill the poor old negroes and burn the
house?" asked Marie, who seemed to be much interested in
the story.
"No, they hardly did that; but keep still, and I will tell
you what happened. When the soldiers told Aunt Louisa
to get them a breakfast, Malinda, the house girl, went up-
stairs and, in a very excited way and almost out of breath,
told Mr. Jesse, a young Confederate soldier, that the Yan-
kee soldiers were down in de kitchen tellin' Aunt Louisa to
fix them a breakfast. Malinda was not the only one excited,
for the whole town was. Malinda had heard 'white folks'
say that the Yankees took the silver, so that was the reason
she went up to tell the young soldier that he must come
down. As soon as the young man came down the soldiers
captured him. They took him over to the courthouse, where
they paroled him, making him swear never to take arms
against the United States again ; while she took the silver
and hid it under some loose bricks in the kitchen fireplace.
After he was paroled, the seldiers turned him loose, and he
went back to his home."
"Wasn't that nice? I thought the Yankees would kill him."
"But just listen a moment; they did do something awfully
bad. The young doctor did not think about the soldiers
taking the horses ; and when he went down to the barn to
feed them, they were not to be found."
"I would have called a policeman to arrest the soldiers,"
said Elizabeth, the youngest of the party.
"O, my dear," said Mrs. Fisher, "nothing could prevent
the soldiers at that time of the war from taking our men or
doing what they wanted to do with us."
"Go on, Mrs. Fisher, and finish the story. Don't talk,"
said Annie to the other children.
"Well, where did I leave off? O yes, it has been nearly
forty years since that great war closed, and the young Con-
federate soldier, who is now an old doctor, heard that the
government was paying the people for their horses that the
Union soldiers took after they were paroled, so he sent the
government a proved statement of the stolen horses witnessed
by Aunt Malinda. Congressman Johnson said that the doc-
tor's proved statement was the best that had been sent them."
"O what a nice story ! They seem to get better every
week."
"We want another story about the war next time," was the
echo of all the children as the front door closed.
[The foregoing was written by a little South Carolina girl
and sent to a Northern magazine, which declined it because
they "want the Northern and Southern children to love each
other."]
JVAR NEWS— PAST AND PRESENT.
There is, perhaps, no other illustration of the progress
in giving to the world information both accurate and full
as by contrasting the methods of circulating war news in
the sixties and war news to-day.
Now we are kept in almost hourly touch with the most
minute happenings in the Far East ; the contest between Japan
and Russia is known in every detail, and we are familiar with
every phase of the great conflict while it rages thousands of
miles away.
This was especially true, also, of our Spanish-American
War, and long before personal communications could possibly
be made to the anxious friends at home the enterprising press
had chronicled even minor events to the world at large,
rivaling the mythical Puck in ability to "put a girdle round
the earth in forty minutes."
But such conditions did not always exist. No longer ago
than during the famous and absorbing contest between the
North and South war news came in slowly and in most
meager fashion, with often glaring inaccuracies of state-
ments. Appended is a sample, copied literally, as published in
New Orleans. These bulletins consist of flimsy strips of
paper printed in the form of newspaper "proof," and they
were sold on the streets of New Orleans for twenty-five cents.
THE DAILY DELTA
EXTRA.
Wednesday, Au^. 14, tStt—5 P.M.
THE GREAT BATTLE IN MISSOURI.
The Particulars by an Eyewitness.
Eight Hours' Hard Fighting.
Gen. Lyon Among the First Killed.
Siegel in Full Retreat, Followed by the Enemy.
List of Distinguished Federals Killed and Wounded.
RoLLA, Mo., Aug. 13. — The following narrative is furnished
by an eyewitness, who left the city of Springfield on Sun-
day morning :
He states that the fight commenced at six o'clock Saturday
morning, and raged till two in the evening.
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Tne Southerners charged Potter's Battery three times.
Gen. Lyon fell early in the action.
Gen. Siegel had a severe struggle, and left three of his
four guns on the field — spiking them.
The Southern camp took fire, and was destroyed.
The Federal loss is : Capt. Cratz, killed : Gen. Sweeny,
wo-nded in the leg; Col. Mitchell, seriously; Maj. Shepherd,
slightly; regular Capt. Plummer, seriously; Capt. Miller,
Capt. Cavender, Capt. Buck, Col. Ditzler, and Capt. McFar-
land, seriously; five lieutenants were killed.
Gen. Price, of the Southern army, is not killed, as has been
erroneously reported.
A rumor prevailed on the battlefield to the effect that Gen.
Ben McCulloch was killed, but this is denied.
On Saturday night Dr. Mencher left Springfield with am-
bulances to see about the wounded. Gen. Lyon's body had
been treated with great respect.
Gen. Fremont Calls for Assist.\nce.
Indianapolis, August 14. — Gen. Fremont has telegraphed
the Governor of this State, saying that Lyon was killed and
that Siegel was in full retreat, followed by the enemy. He
urges tlie Governor to send forward every available man to
support and defend the flag of the Union.
False Dispatches to Mislead the People.
Louisville, Aug. 14. — A gentleman from St. Louis says
that Gen. Fremont, in order to check the dangerous enthusi-
asm, was compelled to consent to the publication of falsehoods
regarding affairs in Southwestern Missouri. The rout there
is regarded to-day as an annihilation.
After blowing up the powder and destroying other prop-
erty, Siegel left, and on Sunday night camped thirty miles
this side of Springfield.
The city and county of St. Louis are under martial law.
Maj. J. McKinney is provost.
John A. Brownlee, President of the Board of Police, hai
been arrested, and Basil Duke has been appointed in his stead.
It is reported that Gen. Hardee, with 12,000 men, is march-
ing on Pilot Knob, where 5.000 Federals are stationed with
five cannon.
From Richmond.
Richmond, .'\ugust 19, — George B, Crittenden, of Kentucky,
has been appointed brigadier general in the Confederate army.
choked as he read the fervid Southern language. After finish-
ing, he said it was one of the most beautiful and manly
letters he had ever seen. Others rose and said the same thing,
while some said that the men of the South had taught them
a lesson in self-respect."
Pathetic Incident in a G. A. R. Meeti.vg. — A pathetic
note was read to a convention of Grand Army men held a
short while before the last Decoration Day. May 30. It is
generally known that the New York Confederate Camp ac-
cepted the invitation of the U. S. Grant Post to parade with
them on that day and that other Posts were severe in their
protests. It seemed more in opposition to the Grant Post
for presuming upon its own authority than of objection to
\*he participation of Confederates. A New York paper con-
cluded its account of the event as foUow's : "However, so
slI^"lng was the wish of the Camp to take part with their
Northern Veterans that they had decided to join the Grant
Post at the boat after the parade and go with it to River-
side, there to assist in doing honors to the memory of Gen.
Grant. Dr. Simmons [chief marshal of the parade] read this
offer with marks of evident feeling. Several times his voice
MAJ. S. A. JONAS.
[A letter from Maj. S. A. Jonas, who wrote those memo-
rable lines on the back of a Confederate note (see June Vet-
eran, page 246), is interesting throughout.]
I was born in Williamstown. Ky. At the age of sixteen
I entered a civil engincring corps as rodnian on a railroad
survey. A few years later I was appointed leveler in the en-
gineering corps organized under Col. Slidell to make the
survey of the Tehauntepec railroad, across the Isthmus, in
Mexico. The failure of the company brought the outfit back
to New Orleans, where a corps was organized for the locating
survey of the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern
Railroad from Canton to Aberdeen under Mr. John Scher-
merhorn, to which I was appointed.
Aberdeen was headquarters for this division, and here the
outbreak of the war found me. I enlisted with a company that
subsequently became Company I, of the nth Mississippi Regi-
ment, organized at Corinth by the election of William H.
Moore as colonel and mustered in at Lynchburg. By tem-
porary appointment of the colonel, I held in succession sev-
eral staff positions, and at Harper's Ferry was detailed to
assist Maj. VV. H. C. Whiting, Chief of Engineers, in the
work of removing guns and destroying defensive works inci-
dent to evacuation. At the battle of Manassas our brigade
commander, Gen. Barnard E. Bee, was killed and Maj. Whit-
ing appointed to succeed him. He at once tendered me a
position upon his staff, with the rank of major, and I was
with him on the field in every engagement until he was de-
tached. At Seven Pines I was at his side when Gen. Joe
Inhnston was wounded, and was the officer sent by him across
the open field to notify G. W. Smith that he was in command.
I was also at his side at Malvern Hill when his horse was
shot. I served successively on the staffs of Hood as division
and corps commander and Stephen D. Lee. his successor, until
the end of the war. I was with my commanders, as near as
I can remember, in every battle in which they were engaged.
After the war I entered upon journalism in Aberdeen, and
established the Aberdeen Examiner, which is the oldest paper
in the United States under the continuous control and editor-
ship of its founder. I served as clerk of the Senate commit-
tees of Lamar and of a House committee of Congressman
Muldrow, and daring the first administration of Cleveland
was secretary to Col. Muldrow, First Assistant Secretary of
the Interior, and W'as for some time acting chief clerk of the
Interior Department. In 1883 I was commissioned in getting
up and making Mississippi's exhibit at the New Orleans Ex-
position. For seven years. I served in an important position
upon the staff of Col. R. J. Bright, Sergeant at ,^rms of the
United States Senate, and have served in many minor civil,
military, and official positions.
From this hastily thrown together mass, the first "per-
sonal aggregation" ever attempted by me. there may be some-
thing worth using. As to my literary efforts, they are com-
prised of hundreds of poems and essays and thousands of
editorials of greater or lesser merit.
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ECHOES FROM THE BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO.
BY KATHARINE HUBBELL CUMMIXG, AUGUSTA, GA.
It was in December, 1862, that I left Georgia to join my
husband, then a captain in the Confederate army and on the
staff of Brig. Gen. John K. Jackson, whose brigade was sta-
tioned at Bridgeport, Ala. The troops were guarding a
bridge about completed, which was to take the place of one
recently burned by the Federal forces. No town, village, or
settlement was there — simply a house, and a rough one at
that, which (he brigade commander had taken for his head-
quarters ; and it was to one room in that dwelling that I so
gladly went with my ten-months-old child and old colored
"mammy." Better any sort of abode together, even with
hardships and discomforts, than separation in those war
times, with their daily uncertainties and anxieties. To one
of twenty or thereabouts no such serious views of the situa-
tion were taken as those of older and wiser heads.
This journey, now an easy and quick one, was then quite
formidable. It was a prolonged and by no means a contin-
uous one, but I was not to be deterred. So with the light-
heartedness of youth I made the trip, preparing my baby
with a bag of camphor and asafetida around his neck. In
the dirty cars and on the irregular trains of those demoralized
times, crowded with troops and no sanitary precautions taken,
all sorts of contagious diseases were abroad in the land.
No one thought of germs or microbes then. I made many
similar journeys during the four years of the war, and never
boiled any water or sterilized any milk, yet I and my child
live to tell the tale.
In March before the time of which I write, I was in Chat-
tanooga a little while, for I "followed the drum" whenever
I had the chance. My stay there was cut short, as the troops
were ordered from there to Mississippi, where early in April
was fought the battle of Shiloh. The baby was then but two
months old, and we arrived in Chattanooga durnig some
bitter weather, with snow and ice on the ground. At the
little hotel — poor in the best of times, and now crowded with
troops and the accommodations totally inadequate — we man-
aged to obtain a very small room. In reply to a request for
a fire, word was sent from the office that one could not be
furnished that evening. Then our resourceful manservant —
faithful to his young master throughout the war — took a
coal scuttle and walked the streets of Chattanooga till, by
his pitiful tale of a freezing young mother and child, he
touched some hearts in the express office, where the scuttle
was generously filled for him. My baby slept in the tray
of my trunk, and his sleep was as peaceful as if in a silk-
lined crib. In the next room, separated by a board partition
only, with cracks wide enough for the light to shine through,
was the body of a little child who had just died from measles.
But in those momentous timc^ it made little impression.
These were some of the episodes in my career as a Confed-
erate soldier's wife.
After this digression, I return to my Bridgeport visit.
Reaching my destination after by no means an uninterrupted
journey, and in my delight at greeting my captain, I did not
take in at once the rough looks of our house and its sur-
roundings ; but old "Aunt Betsy" was heard giving her opin-
ion pretty freely : "What Marse Joe made of to bring Miss
Kate and dis yer chile to sich a place — not fitten for while
folks ?"
That same dingy old house, however, will always be as-
sociated with a happy period ; for in my unhappiness during
the succeeding years of privation and sadness 1 often looked
back at that month of bright winter days on the banks of the
Tennessee as the most serene and satisfactory of all those
of the three dreadful years that followed. I had only one
room. A bare floor, a stove with the pipe through a window
pane, one mattress about two inches thick on a pine bedstead,
a box on legs W'ith a pillow in it (brought in my trunk) for
baby's crib, a hand glass the only mirror, a table with wash-
stand appointments, nails about the unplastered walls for
clothes — such were my quarters, for which I was most thank-
ful. I must not forget the cow we hired for my little boy's
benefit. But then there was fine weather, horseback rides
every day, pleasant officers in our mess, and a companion in
the wife of our brigade commander. So I lived from day
to day, shutting out the future.
This peaceful life was suddenly and rudely broken up. We
had enjoyed our Christmas dinner, such as it was, two days
before. Like a thunderclap out of a clear sky came the
orders to move at once and join Geo. Bragg's army, as Rose-
crans was threatening to attack it near Murfreesboro, Tenn.
What should I do now? Where should I go? I was very
much alone, so it was a great relief when Mrs. Jacksor»
said, "I've decided to go with the troops as far as Wartrace,.
where I have relatives," and, turning to me, "you must come
too, for they are such loyal Confederates. I know they wilt
cheerfully take in any one whose husband is in the army."
I gladly accepted the offer. Then such a hurried packing
up and getting off — officers, men, horses, tents, camp furni-
ture, cannon, ammunition, two lone women, a baby, and nurse.
It was Sunday, too, for no time could be lost. Well, we took
a hastily improvised train, and about four o'clock that wintry
afternoon it stopped at a small, desolate station, about
eighteen miles from Murfreesboro, and deposited our forlorn
little party and trunks on the platform, minus a waiting
room, where there were no signs of life. The train sped on
its way, dwindling to a speck in the distance, while with
heavy hearts and tear-dimmed eyes we watched those nearest
and dearest to us borne swiftly away to certain battle and
not improbable death.
Those were times that tried men's souls and women's
hearts. It might have been some comfort to me if I could
have impressed on that impetuous young soldier of mine
the words :
"Remember, caution is not fear, nor rashness valor's test ;
If he who fights and dies does well, who fights and lives
does best."
But no, I knew he would dash into the thickest of the fray.
Surely our situation was dreary. Night was coming on, and
we did not know exactly which way to turn. Mrs. Jackson
bestirred herself to find conveyance for ourselves and be-
longings to our destination, several miles distant, the home
of her relatives, where, unannounced, w-e expected to take
refuge.
The early-setting December sun disappeared, and it was
quite cold. Seeing a bright fire through the open door of a lit-
tle one-story house across the wide country road, I took my
baby over there for some warmth. Hesitating at the thresh-
old, I saw a woman with a child stretched out on her lap ap-
parently ill. She looked up and said: "You're welcome to
come in out of the cold, but my child has scarlet fever."
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Any mother will understand my hasty retreat to the wind-
swept platform.
In the meantime a vehicle had appeared — a one-horse affair
without a top — so we jogged along, mostly through the woods,
with night upon us, to an unknown place and to people un-
known to me. On reaching the residence and before we
alighted. Col. Erwin and his wife opened their door as
well as their hearts to us. I received as warm a welcome
as if I were a dear child returning after an absence, and
from that moment I felt at home among them. And how in-
viting that comfortable library and big, crackling wood fire
looked after my rough quarters of the past month ! In this
lovely home were assembled various people, for no one was
turned away who asked shelter. It was hard to tell who
were the family proper, as refugee relatives and soldiers on
the way to and from "the front" became unexpected guests
like ourselves. Of course the dining table was taxed to its ut-
most capacity. Those dear people, who showed such bound-
less hospitality, w'ere afterwards forced to leave their home
through the exigencies of war, and died soon after the close
of hostilities impoverished and broken in body and spirit.
Daily under those beautiful but leafless trees of Beech-
wood how I wandered, waiting, yet dreading, the news from
"the front." And then the suspense after the battle began !
It was December 31. We were too far off to hear the firing
of small arms. But O the booming of those cannon, the
bursting of those shells, which broke upon the stillness of
our peaceful abode ! And every dull boom and every ex-
ploding shell represented so many lives gone, so many hearts
broken, in all parts of our distracted land.
"Ah! if beside the dead slumbered the pain!
Ah! if the hearts that bled slept with the slain;
If tlie grief died! But no;
Death will not have it so."
As we were within earshot, our hearts almost stood still,
such was the tension. But I received a number of com-
munications direct from the field of battle during those days
of conflict (and preserved to this time). They were scraps
of soiled paper, minus envelopes, brought or sent by sol-
diers going to the rear, with just a few penciled lines: but
O how I prized them ! It was a marvel that they all reached
me safely and without delay.
Herewith arc copies of extracts:
"Leb.anon Pike, December 29, i86j. — . . . We have at
last settled down in position to await the enemy. We are
ready for him, and everybody is in good spirits and con-
fident. . . ."
"December 29. 1862. — . . . I hope you have not been
uneasy to-day and that you received my scratch written this
morning. It is now too late to expect a battle to-day, and if
we have one to-morrow you will hear the sound of it. Keep
your courage up. ... I slept last niglU on pretty wet
ground, hut am quite well. I hope ynu had no trouble in
getting to Beechwood yesterday. . . ."
"December 30, 1862. — . . . Wc have a very honorable
place assigned us in line of battle in Hardee's wing. The
enemy has not advanced since Saturday. . . ."
"MURFREESBORO, FlELD OF B.\TTI.E, J.\NU.«lRY I. 1863. —
. . . Our brigade lost more than half its number yesterday.
The general and staff safe. My horse shot and killed under
me. We hold the battlefield. I don't know whether there
will be any more fighting. . . ."
"FiEi.n OF B.\TTi.E, J.\NU.-\Rv 2, 1863. — . . . We were not
in any fighting yesterday. The eneiny are behind the rail-
road, to which we drove them. Col. W. T. Black, commanding
the 5th Georgia Regiment, was killed day before yesterday.
Ed Ansley killed. Ed Hall has died of his wounds. . . ."'
"Field of Battle, January 3, 1863. — . . . No serious
fighting since Wednesday. Enemy intrenched. Gen. Breck-
inridge attacked them and was repulsed. If things continue
this uncertain many days, you had better go home. Keep
your trunk ready to move at a moment's notice. Notwith-
standing the bitter cold, inclement weather, and no shelter,
we are well. . . ."
History puts down Murfreesboro, or Stone's River, as a
drawn battle and as one of the biggest and bloodiest of
the great war. The fourth day after the battle had begun
I was wandering, as usual, aimlessly and restlessly about the
grounds w'hen I saw a horseman approaching the house, and,
hoping he might have some tidings of interest to me, 1
hastened to intercept him. Then I saw a gaunt and travel-
stained-looking soldier who wearily 'dismounted, and not till
he spoke did I recognize my own husband. How rejoiced
I was, one can well imagine, to see him alive, literally just
"out of the jaws of death," even though he told me he haJ
but a few hours to stay. How I wished he could tell of a
wound severe enough to keep him from "the front' for
a while ; but not so. Although he had been down in the
"valley of death," "stormed at with shot and shell," sleeping
on the wet ground, clothes soaked with rain and not changed
for a week, little food and less sleep, yet he was whole and
well.
The Confederate army was in orderly retreat, not being
followed by Rosecrans. so he had made a detour from the
main column to reach Beechwood and sec us and hurry us off
southw-ard by the next train. The cars might stop running
at any moment ; the country was full of stragglers ; it was a
lawless time, and then we ran the risk of falling within the
enemy's lines. To be "w-ithin the enemy's lines!" How much
that meant to me ! for I was a Northern daughter, though
a Southern wife. To stay where I then was meant that I
soon might go, without let or hindrance, to an Eastern home,
where loving hearts were eagerly waiting to welcome me and
my baby whenever I could reach there. No other way of
getting to them but by special "pass," flag of truce, or blockade
runner. But my native land was now alien ; and after a
little hesitation and conflicting emotions, I felt that I must
stand by the land of my adoption and share its fortunes.
As this part of the country has always been my home, how
wise was my decision, for to suffer with a people makes you
one of them.
Well, no train went till the next morning, .\ftcr much
persuasion, we prevailed upon our worn and weary and wet
and hungry soldier to stay and dry his clothes, partal>e of a
good meal, have a night's rest from off the ground, and re-
join bis command in the morning. By yielding to our en-
treaties he had to make such speed the next day to overtake
the troops that his poor horse died from the effects of it.
We went back to Georgia to watch and wait, to possess onr
souls in patience, and strive to keep up a brave front and a
cheerful spirit.
SOLDIER OF THE BLUE AT THE REUNION.
Theodore F. Allen, of Cincinnati, writes the National Trib-
une of the Louisville Reunion. He quotes a telegram from
the 4tli Kentucky Cavalry, C. S. A., inviting him to attend
and to take the horse that he escaped upon when they had
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him prisoner in the sixties. He wore the badge of his regi-
ment, 7th Ohio Cavalry, which attracted the attention of
many Confederates. Replying to inquiry, he said he was a
"scout looking for Confederates," and was told that Louis-
ville was full of them and if he didn't get away he would be
captured. He took the chances, and finally found the 4th
Kentucky Cavalry — members of the regiment whom he had
not seen since the night he escaped as their prisoner in 1863.
"One of the officers of the 4th Kentucky Cavalry, whom I
did not know, came up to me, looked me over and over two
or three times, and asked if I had formerly been the adjutant
of the 7th Ohio Cavalry, and if I was taken prisoner at
Rogersville, Tenn., November 6, 1863. To all of his questions
I answered in the affirmative, not knowing what his object
was. After I had replied, he said : 'I was the officer of the
guard in charge of the prisoners when you made your escape,
and I would like to have you tell me how you did it and what
you did with the horse you took from us.'
"I explained the matter to him fully, whereupon he replied:
'Well, Allen, I was very sorry to learn that you had gotten
away, but now I am glad you escaped.'
"During the course of the reunion there was a call for a
report from the historian of the regiment. It was explained
that his comrade was absent, owing to illness, and would not
be able to make a report at this meeting. A few minutes
later I was called upon to address the 4th Kentucky Cavalry,
being introduced by the President of the Association, Col.
Will Crabb, who stated that I was an honorary member of the
regiment and at one time was a prisoner, but had escaped
on one of their horses. He stated that he felt it desirable
to the members that I should pay for that horse now, where-
upon every member of the regiment claimed that it was his
horse. If I had accepted all those statements, I would have
had to pay for that horse about two hundred times.
"In my address to the members of the regiment, I told them
that I had learned that their regimental historian was absent,
and with their permission I would take his place for the day;
thereupon I gave a history of their regiment. I may state here
that I was quite familiar with the history of this regiment,
as we had met it many, many times, and we almost knew one
another personally. As I was progressing with this historical
sketch one of the old Confederate soldiers, who had some
doubts as to my being able to take the place of their regi-
mental historian, leaned forward, brought his fist down in
the palm of his other hand, and said : 'By gosh, he does
know us !' After the meeting was dismissed, the men of
the regiment crowded around me. If I had accepted as
many invitations as were extended to me to take a drink, I
would have been intoxicated the rest of my life ; or if I had
accepted all the invitations to spend a few weeks at the home
of each member of the regiment, I could have spent several
years in visiting.
"At this meeting I saw Capt. George Dallas Mosgrove, the
well-known contributor to the National Tribune. He is a
chipper boy of about sixty years and' an enthusiastic 'Veteran
of the 4th Kentucky Cavalry.
"The old soldiers who are readers of the National TribuHC
are familiar with the appearance of the 'Veterans of the Union
army as they appear at their national encampments, and the
only object of this communication is to set before the old
soldiers of the Union army a fair and truthful representation
of the ghosts of the Confederate army as they now appear.
Of course during the War between the States we were fa-
miliar with the appearance and knew how the Confederate
soldier looked; but 1 dare say there are many Union soldiers
who live far away from the Southland who would like to
know how they look now. Many of these old fellows are
nowadays men of large affairs, and upon the whole they arc
as handsome a set of men as you will find in a year's travel."
HENRY JV ATKINS ALLEN.
The following beautiful and appropriate tribute to the mem-
ory of Henry Watkins Allen is from the pen of John Dimitry,
Esq., a gentleman whose modest merit is only equaled by his
learning and genius :
This Monument
Is sacred to the Memory
of
Henry Watkins Allen,
A Governor of the Commonwealth of Louisiana
From 186-, to April — , 1865.
In Ambition, moderate; in Honor, stainless;
In Intellect, acute, brilliant, suggestive ;
In the statement of great truths, earnest; in
their assertion, fearless ;
In liis impulses, pure and ardent ; in his aims,
unselfish ;
In Mold, Heroic —
He combined, in proportions harmonious.
Those qualities of head and heart which, nobly
e.xerted.
Fit a man for the highest honors which may
crown
The Citizen of a Free State.
Tlie power of Administration, the dignity of the
Statesman,
The skill of the practiced Captain, the courage
of the tried Soldier,
In him were Native.
Charged with the guidance of troops in a war of
vast compass,
He showed himself in Discretion equal to the
most skillful.
In 'Valor to the Bravest.
Intrusted with the maintenance of a great Commonwealth,
In a Season of Extremity,
He wielded its authority with rare Ability.
He aimed to vindicate the Law, to strengthen
Justice,
To prop the Public Credit, and, e'en in the clash
of Armies,
To elevate the moral and intellectual welfare
Of the People committed to his charge.
The Commonwealth whose dignity he maintained.
The People whose Interests he defended,
Cherish, with equal Gratitude and 'Veneration,
The Memory of the Just Man
And the Impartial Ruler
^Vho filled honorably every station of public and
private Trust,
And who, cast in a Historic Age, proved not unworthy
of its Grandeur.
Notice to Members of Riffle's Cavalry. — Mrs. A. C.
Combs, of Adamsville, Tenn., inquires for addresses of any
who were in Capt. Fletcher Barnes's company, G, Biffle's
Regiment, pth Tennessee Cavalry. Such will be gratefully
appreciated.
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THAT FORT GILMER FIGHT.
BY J. A. H. CRANBERRY, SERGEANT MAJOR TWENTIETH GEORGIA
INFANTRY, PARK, TEX.
I am surprised that so few important facts have been
brought out concerning the fight at Fort Gilmer through the
letters by Gen. Reese, of Florida, and Dr. May, of Texas, in
tlieir accounts of the battle as published in the Veteran.
The battle was not fought early in the spring of 1864, for
Field's entire division had gone early in the spring of 1864
from East Tennessee to meet Grant's army at the Wilderness,
which battle was fought on May 5 and 6, 1864, and the di-
vision was in front of the Federal army closing in around
Petersburg and Richmond. On the occasion referred to Gen.
Field, with a small portion of his division — the Texas Bri-
gade, Benning's Brigade, and a small detachment of Vir-
ginia militia — held the outer line of our works, nine or ten
miles from Richmond on the north side of James River. The
other brigades of his division. Perry's (formerly McLaw's),
Bratton's (formerly Jenkins's), and Anderson's, were south
of the river near Petersburg.
On the night preceding the Fort Gilmer fight we could
distinctly hear the Federals crossing the James River to the
north side, and we knew it meant warm work for Gen.
Field's small command the next day. At daylight, sure
enough, we heard firing in front of the Texas Brigade on our
left ; we also heard it on our right and very much in our
rear. We were hurried to the right to hold, if possible, Fort
Harrison ; but when we reached the fort, it was already in
the possession of the Federals. The head of my regiment,
the 20th Georgia, went square against the head of a Federal
column, the earthworks hiding each other from view, until
we found ourselves in a few steps of a large force of the
enemy. Thirly-scven of the regiment, constituting a large
part of the front of it, surrendered. Most of it escaped by
retreating the way they came. A few attempted to gain the
next line of works, a few hundred yards to our rear, by re-
treating across the hill. Many of these were shot down,
among the number James Hugulcy, orderly sergeant of Com-
pany B, a gallant soldier and a splendid man.
An attempt to recapture Fort Harrison was made a few
days later, Colquitt's and .Anderson's Brigades, with some
other troops, forming the attacking force. The attack failed.
Gen. Lee viewed the assault with glasses in hand from Fort
Gilmer. I was standing in a few feet of him as he witnessed
the vain effort to retake the fort.
When our forces left the exterior line on which Fort Har-
rison was located, they fell back to the iie.xt line of works.
The Federals, flushed with success, rushed on to a little fort
on that line, which was afterwards called Fort Field ; but they
were repulsed, and probably a hundred surrendered to the
force in the fort, which was composed of men from various
regiments, as there had been no time for reorganization after
their dispersion from the outer works. These events all
occurred in the early part of the day. The Federals made no
further effort to advance until the middle of the afternoon.
Our men had all returned to their commands. The 20th
Georgia was quietly occupying the line of works extending
north from Fort Gilmer, its right wing reaching nearly to
the fort. We were flanked on each side by other regiments
of the brigade. It numbered at that time not more than six
or seven hundred muskets.
All at once from the northeast came a brigade of the enemy.
They paid no attention to us who opened fire upon their left
flank, but rushed toward Fort Gilmer. Our fire was too hot
for them. They broke ranks and scattered when in about
one hundred and fifty yards of the fort. Another brigade
took its place, came over the same ground, but got no nearer
than seventy-five yards of the fort, when it too was fired into
from the front, and both flanks broke into a retreat.
We knew our force was small, consisting of only two small
brigades ; and had the command been assailed in almost any
other way, our defeat would have been inevitable. At this
juncture how great was our delight as we saw Law's (now
Perry's) Brigade running to our relief! They filed into our
works in and around the fort. Soon a third brigade of the
enemy appeared in sight. It was composed of negroes of-
ficered by white men. Though for a hundred or more yards
their flank was within a few steps of our line, and we poured
volley after volley into their solid lines, many of them dashed
on and disappeared in the moat, eight or ten feet deep, which
was around the fort, leaving the ground behind them strewn
with their dead and wounded. I do not think a gun was
fired by the assaulting column. For a while there was no
firing. Soon the men in the ditch began to lift one another
up to the parapet of the fort; but those in the fort stood at
a ready, and not a bead appeared but that it was quickly
perforated with one or more balls. Then the cannoneers in
the fort began to throw shells with short fuses lighted into
the solid ranks of the dusky warriors in the ditch. A few
explosions were sufficient to draw forth a cry of surrender.
Seventy-five or a hundred marched out of the ditch unarmed
into our lines. The coast being clear, many of our men
rushed out in front, where the wounded and dead of the
enemy lay thick. As is frequently the case, many lying on the
ground were unhurt, and, seeing our men approaching, made
a dash to escape; but of the many who attempted it we saw
only two or three who succeeded.
Now the above is a description of the fight at Fort Gilmer
as it was. I was sergeant major of the 20th Georgia Infantry
and was there and saw what I have written. A day or two
after the battle we received orders to leave, but before doing
so to bury the dead, composed almost entirely of negroes.
Before leaving Gen. Benning was asked if an old well near
by could be used as a receptacle for the dead negroes. He
replied that his orders were to have the dead buried, and he
would leave the men detailed for that purpose to do as they
pleased ; thereupon thirty-six negroes were thrown into the
old well, and over them two or three feet of dirt was thrown,
which filled the well up on a level with the surface.
The negroes we captured expressed surprise when they
came into our lines that they were not in Richmond. They
said their officers had told them that if they went over our
lines they would be in the city. Doubtless visions of loot,
rapine, and murder were as strongly impressed on their
minds when they charged as it ever was in the minds of the
mercenary hirelings that followed Sherman in his brutal
march tn the sea.
Assault on Fort Gilmer,
by h. h. perry, adjt. gen., saluda, n. c.
I've read the various accounts in the Veteran of the fall
of Fort Harrison and the assault on F'ort Gilmer and the re-
pulse of the Federals in their daring attempt. Fort Gilmer
was on a different line of the defenses which enveloped the
Confederate capital from that on which Fort Harrison was
situated. As I now recollect, it was quite a formidable struc-
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ture. with a large moat next tlie enemy, flanked by heavy
earthworks, and perhaps three-fourths of a mile nearer Rich-
mond. Fort Harrison was on the outmost line, looking nearly,
if not directl.,', south on a rise commanding a large area. It
was an important defense in our system of defenses, but, as
the sequel proved, was not fatal if lost. It lay southeast of
the city on the east side of the James River, and I think was
a kind of offset to Beast Butler Canal intended to cut off
Drewry's Bluff and the river obstructions.
There were many attacks on our line made by Grant's
<;r.ormous army, at which this writer, then the assistant ad-
jutant general and inspector of Benning's Brigade, was not
present. However, it so happened that I know much about
the capture of Fort Harrison and the fight and defense of
Fort Gilmer. So intimately was I connected with these two
■events that each has left an indelible impression on my mem-
ory. They occurred on the same day.
Of the reports that the Veter.\n gives, I am gratified to find
that my own memory accords with that of Capt. Martin, of
Company G, 17th Georgia Regiment, Benning's Brigade.
Though forty years intervene since last I inspected the in-
•comparable old 17th Georgia (Benning's regiment), he may
remember the writer. What I record here is done in deference
to the truths of Confederate history, which the Veteran and
all true soldiers of the Confederacy desire to establish before
they forever pass away. Other comrades have written as
they remember. So will I. If I differ at any point, it is an
Iionest divergence of memory.
As Comrade Martin states the dates I agree with him.
When we went to Chickamauga, he is correct. Our stay in
East Tennessee is correct also, wintering as we did so fear-
fully at Morristown after Longstreet's defeat at Knoxville.
On the morning of the fall of Fort Harrison I was sent by
our brigade commander down the breastworks toward that
fort to ascertain where we were to be placed in the works.
I got to the fort just about sunrise. I heard the firing be-
bind me which was the attack on Gregg's line that turned
out to be a division, for the enemy had planned to take Fort
Harrison by surprise. The strategem succeeded. If our
■brigade had not been hindered, it would have reached Fort
Harrison in time to have met the enemy's advance, which I
will relate. When I reached Fort Henry, there were no
soldiers there. The defense was eighteen raw young artillery-
men in charge of a sergeant. This officer told me that thev
had hardly drilled any at all and knew notliing of the fort.
While I was dumfounded at this, imagine my consternation
when one of them reported a column of the enemy advancing
less than three hundred yards away. It was too true. Our
■brigade was out of sight, and not even a company of infantry
at hand. I asked the sergeant, who seemed much confused,
to load the guns and fire on them. After a little, one of the
heavy guns was loaded. The enemy had gotten in two hun-
dred yards. The sergeant aimed it himself at the center of
the advancing line and pulled the lanyard. It raked it fear-
fully. The heavy grape tore through it, and it seemed to sur-
prise and paralyze the enemy. All of them fell and lay flat
on the ground. Our men left the fort in a hurry. I re-
mounted my horse and also fled back to the brigade. Before
we had gotten out of sight, the enemy had reached the fort
and were sending bullets after us. I've never heard if the
enemy lost any men from that one discharge of the siege
gun, but none of us were hurt by bullets.
Fort Harrison having fallen, Benning's Brigade was with-
drawn from the outer line and put in the breastworks flank-
ing Fort Gilmer along with the other troops also withdrawn.
I remember how thin the lines were, but the men were vet-
erans that could not well be demoralized. The change was
rapidly made. It is my recollection that the 2d Georgia
occupied the right flank on the works at the fort, two com-
panies of the 17th on its right, and the isth Georgia and
20th Georgia on the left breastworks. This brigade had
been fearfully decimated. The fort faced to the east. Fort
Harrison and its flanking works, as said, faced south. This
second line of works, which we now occupied, ran toward
Fort Harrison and bent westward within three or four hun-
dred yards of Fort Harrison. I've never seen these works
since, but time has hardly defaced them so much that even
now their great scars on dear old 'Virginia's soil might not
be traced.
Fort Gilmer was about tlie center of our (Benning's) bri-
gade. At least the brigade was disposed about it for its
defense. Gregg's men, I think, were reirer Fort Harrison.
In front of Fort Gilmer there was a wide clearing containing
some of the limbs and brush that had not been burned by the
troops from time to time. But these were hardly an obstruc-
tion to advancing forces. About four hundred yards off wa;
a woods in which the enemy formed directly facing Fort
Gilmer. I have no memory of any cornfields mentioned by
Capt. Martin, though there might have been one. If so, it
was unimportant,- as it did not at any time prevent a full
view of the enemy after advancing from the woods to the
attack. From the fort to the woods was almost a dead level.
Being on the staff. I helped place the troops. Some of them
were inside the fort. I was inside the fort until the enemy's
forces were driven back or captured. My remembrance is
that only three pieces of artillery were on the works, ran up
into the fort that morning, and manned by the men of the
battery. I've forgotten what battery it was. They were
splendid, brass Napoleons, and were superbly served. For
short range, they were the best guns in our service. A charge
of grape from one of these twelve-pounders fired point-blank
at a range of two hundred and fifty yards would at times
make a whole regiment quail. Three of them, worked as
they were, had the enemy's line in this attack utterly de-
moralized, notwithstanding the brute courage of drunken-
ness. It required a rear line of whites to force the negroes
forward.
About ten o'clock we saw the first evidence of an advance.
A group of officers appeared on horseback just at the edge
of the woods, but plainly to be seen. They seemed to be re-
connoitering the ground. One of the gunners said he could
scatter the bunch, and aimed a shrapnel at it. After aiming
it, he stood directly behind the piece to watch the shot. For
the first time in my life I learned that by standing behind t'le
piece the shot could be seen in its flight. I was standing near,
and he beckoned me to come and watch it. The ball rose
high in the air, making the parabola, and then descended
quickly over the group. It grew to a speck as it descended,
and in about five seconds exploded over the mounted party.
They scattered and disappeared in the woods. It was a very
close shot. In a few minutes a regiment of soldiers came out
of the woods in line of battle. At once our guns were loaded
with shrapnel and sighted. While the enemy paused to re-
form and rectify the attacking column, our artillery opened.
The very first shot struck the ground in front of the colors
and exploded in a cloud of smoke and dust. The other shots
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followed, bursting just above the line, creating the greatest
confusion.
It was some time before the line could be re-formed. The
guns gave it no rest. Then supporting lines came for-
ward, and the column started briskly for the fort. The enemy
used no artillery, and the advancing infantry had no time to
fire as they made straight for us in the face of the guns. There
were three lines in column of regiments, as well as I re-
member, that made up the attacking force, a negro regiment
in the lead. The shots from the artillery broke through the
lines often, and so demoralized the front line that it was hard
for the half drunken officers to force them forward. It be-
came almost a panic when our guns substituted grape and
canister for the shrapnel, and the infantry also in the breast-
works began a deadly rain of bullets. By dint of using bayo-
nets of file closers the negroes were forced forward, but at
almost every step the lines were thinned. What were left
of the front line finally broke into a run for the fort, and
some hundred or more got into the moat. None attempted
to mount the wall of the fort that I saw. What became of
the white regiments that started with the negroes, no one in
the excitement of the fight saw. As the shot raked and tore
through tlie whole attacking column, it is quite certain the
rear regiments broke and fled, leaving the blacks finally to
do the storming.
Those huddled up in tlic moat were ordered to surrender ;
but, not responding, some of the artillerymen cut the fuses
short of a few shrapnel shells, lighted them, and tossed
them into the big ditch. In a few seconds the explosions fol-
lowed, and a fearful howl came up. These missiles killed or
wounded a great many of the poor negroes. How many were
taken out, I do not remember. I don't think any of the
wounded were butchered or any of the negro prisoners were
harmed after surrendering.
Among the prisoners brought into the fort w'as a Federal
white lieutenant. He was an officer of the negro regiment
and had a leg badly broken. He was stupidly drunk and
cursed us roundly. No one got angry with him, but our Con-
federate soldiers guyed him into great fury. One of them
took his canteen half full of rotgut whisky and poured it
out. He seemed to regret the loss of the whisky more than
his defeat.
This is what I remember of the attack on Fort Gilmer
and the loss of Fort Harrison. I am as sure of my recollec-
tion of the attack made on the almost empty Fort Harrison
as I am of my existence. I was sent forward by our brigade
commander to be sure of the place we were to occupy, and
ran almost into the lines of the enemy. I begged the artillery-
men to load and fire the cannon to give notice to our troops
to hurry. I thought it would check the enemy, who seemed
to have learned (from spies, perhaps) that no troops were in
the fort. When I saw the first line approaching, it seemed
to be about a full brigade marching in double ranks line of
battle and about two hundred and seventy-five yards from
the fort. I shall never forget my consternation, for it rushed
over me instantly that we had no troops between the ad-
vancing enemy and Richmond, and it would be taken. I
rushed back to relate the fall of the fort and turn our troops
across for the other line. A bold enemy would have pushed
the advantage and rushed in behind Gilmer, cutting off our
brigades east of Fort Harrison and severing Gen. Lee from
Hood's Division and other troops east of the river. As it
iiappened, it proved an advantage, for it shortened our lines
very much.
The next day after this attack on Fort Gilmer, late in the
afternoon, an attempt was made to retake Fort Harrison,
l)ut it signally failed. The saying, "Dar, now, da' done
kill'd Corp'l Dick," originated at Fort Gilmer after the ex-
plosion of the bombs thrown in the moat. He must have
been an important person with the new negro recruits. I
did not hear it, but the brigade was laughing over the ex-
pression next day, and it becaine a byword in the army. I
guess Capt. Martin remembers tliis and that we met negroes
here for the first time.
.•\ few days after this memorable event — rather events — I
was ordered by the War Department to report to Gen. G. M.
Sorrel, lately commissioned brigadier general and assigned
to Wright's Georgia Brigade to be its assistant adjutant gen-
eral, stationed at Petersburg. There I remained until Ap-
pomattox, and saw our old brigade no more.
Story of a Boy Captain.
by g. w. breckinridge, fincastle, va.
Comrades Reese, of Florida, May, of Texas, and Martin,
of Georgia, have given the readers of the Veteran interesting
accounts of the battle of Fort Giliner. In most things they
agree; on some material points they differ. It may be that
a brief account of what I saw on that memorable twenty-ftinth
day of September, 1864, will throw some light on the dis-
puted questions, as I was close to the three writers most of
the day and had my company in Fort Gilmer when it was
assaulted by the enemy. I was captain of Company E, 2d
Battalion Virginia Reserves (so called because they were
always in front), the youngest of a company of boys between
the ages of seventeen and eighteen, the battalion erroneously
referred to by Comrade Martin as "The City Battalion."
The morning of the above date found us stationed some-
thing less than a mile east of Fort Harrison and on the same
lire of fortifications. Like Comrade Martin, I had spent the
night of the 27th on Signal Hill, a few miles in front of
I'ort Harrison, digging intrenchments, having a detail of
ninety men from our battalion. Early on the morning of the
29th we heard fighting on our left, and just as we were ready
to cook our mutton chops and waffles a courier came dashing
down the line — his horse kicking our fire in our faces — and
ordered us to double-quick to Fort Harrison. Leaving break-
fast and everything else we had, we seized our arms, "fell
in," and started down the line at a lively trot. For some
reason^probably a better speedway — we took a road in front
of our works. As we came in sight of Fort Harrison and
filed right to reach the line of fortifications, I had to stop
for a moment to gaze spellbound on the grandest spectacle
1 had ever imagined. The mile or more of open country m
front of the fort was blue with Yankees advancing in col-
umn. The big guns of the fort were belching forth their
fires of .shot and shell.. Puffs of white smoke from the
nni.skets, the steady dress parade step of twenty thousand
^■ankees as they marched up "e'en in the cannon's mouth"—
my ! what a sight it was !
We were halted a hundred yards or so short of the fort
and wxnt to work with our muskets. In a short while,
though, the enemy had the fort and opened an enfilading fire
down our line. Our men began breaking at the fort, the
break continuing along the line till it reached us. I will
never forget how old Capt. Winston, of our battalion, strove
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to hold his Goochland company to their work. When all on
their right had stampeded, the Goochland men started at a
run too. The gallant old Captain rushed to the front of
them, crying at the top of Iiis voice, "Rally around me, men,
rally around me," at the same time starting back toward the
breastworks; but the tide of retreat had set in, and it bore
the Captain and his company away with it. My company was
next. All on my right had gone. I cast a hasty glance to
our left. All gone. For at least a half minute gallant Com-
pany E held that line of works against Grant's whole army.
In another minute we would have all been killed or cap-
tured. Feeling that there was yet work for us to do for the
Confederacy, we concluded to go, "and we stood not upon
the order of our going, but went at once." Having made
about sixty or seventy-five paces, I turned to take a last look
at Fort Harrison. As I did so a Yankee sharpshooter jumped
on the breastworks we had just left and looked at me as
who should say: "Is I got you?" I never once thought of
the big six-shooter I had at my side, but with a look of de-
fiance at the murderous Yankee I turned and started in rapid
but dignified pursuit of my company. His bullet whizzed
by my left ear and cut up the dust fifteen paces in front of
me. After a jog of something like a mile, with flying colors,
we entered Fort Gilmer amid such a screaming and bursting
of shells as I have never heard. Just then Col. Guy, who
commanded our battalion, turned to have a look at his men.
"Well, Captain," he said to me, looking rather sorrowfully
at my little bunch of twelve or fifteen boys, "you seem to be
about all I have left." Capt. Winston's company had borne
him to some other part of the line, and so it was with the
other four companies of the 2d Battalion. It was a complete
rout.
The famous individuality of the Confederate soldier never
showed up better. Without orders or organization, as far
as I could see, this routed army fell back to another line of
works and held it against odds of ten to one.
Company E took position in the extreme left wing of the
fort, and went to loading and firing right away, for the Yan-
kees were close behind us. We were so preoccupied with
the several assaults made on our side by the white troops
that I knew nothing about the negroes till I saw three of
them jump from the moat and make a break for liberty. Two
of them fell almost in.stantly ; the third, a big copper-colored
nigger, with a thousand bullets — two from my own pistol —
whizzing after him. made his escape. What a sprinter he
was! How the cornstalks rattled as he sped through that
field!
As soon as the smoke cleared away in our front I went
around to see what Comrade May and his friends had been
doing. I was just behind the big stationary gun when it was
fired, I think, the last time that day. I don't expect to live
long enough to forget the jar it gave me. It may have been
Comrade May with w^hom I got into conversation, for he fold
me about the fight with the negroes early in the morning on
our right, where they had it hand-to-hand with them, stick-
ing them with their bayonets, etc. He then gave me an
account of the fight just ended, how the negroes had tried
to push each other over the parapet, how the musket ball
would meet each nappy head as it appeared over the wall,
how when one of them fell with a little hole in his forehead
they heard a shout of despair : "Dar God ! done killed Cor-
poral Dick, bass officer we had."
About two hundred negroes were brought up from the
moat. I went down at once to have a look at baldheaded
Dick and the other forty odd dead lying in the trench; some
torn to pieces by the hand grenades, but a number of them
with the hole in the forehead. I was standing looking wist-
fully at a brass medallion attached to Corporal Dick's car-
tridge box belt when an old soldier, reading my mind and
sizing me up as a tenderfoot, said: "You want that thing?"
I nodded, and he stooped down and jerked it oflf and handed
it to me. I wouldn't have touched the dead nigger for a
gold medallion set with diamonds.
I have lately talked with some half dozen of the boys who
were with me in Fort Gilmer. None of them can recall any
other body of troops inside of the fort, nor can I remember
more than the few men whom I met and talked with there at
the big gun. But it is nearly forty-one years ago, and, while
my memory is clear as to the incidents I have related and
many others in which I took part, I would not undertake to
say positively that there were no other troops in Fort Gil-
mer than my own company and the five men spoken of by
Comrades Reese and May. My best impression, though, is
that Comrade May will have to divide the honor of holding
Fort Gilmer on the 29th of September, 1864, with bloody
Company E alone, and Company E had no hand in repulsing
the attack of the negro soldiers.
I remember distinctly that one of our gunners was killed
by a sharpshooter after the fight was over — shot in the head
too — and probably another was wounded before one of our
men located the gentlemen behind a stump in the cornfield
and gave him a dose of his own medicine. Does Comrade
May remember this? Comrade Martin, from his account,
must have been within a few paces of my company when
we were receiving the assaults of the white troops. I came
very near shooting at some of his men who made a dash
across the fields before the retreating Yankees were out of
sight. I thought they were deserting, but they were only
going out to get a pair of shoes or trousers or something of
that sort left on the field by the Yankees. How it shocked
my youthful sensibilities to see a dead man's wearing ap-
parel jerked off of him before he was cold!
Though seldom and rather slightingly referred to by his-
torians, as far as my knowledge goes, this was surely one of
the most important of the many battles around Richmond,
for had the white troops fought with the intrepidity of the
negroes (had they been as well loaded with whisky and gun-
powder) Fort Gilmer would have fallen and Grant would
have dined in Richmond that day.
Two BOVS OF THE FiFTH TeXAS ReGIMENT.
Jess B. Lott, of Navasota, Tex., says :
"Judge Martin satisfactorily fixes the date, September 29,
1864, of the Fort Gilmer fight. The Texas Brigade, with
other troops, assaulted the enemy's works on the 8th of
October, when Gen. Gregg was killed. W. H. Snell, Com-
pany B, 5th Texas Regiment, and I were in Fort Gilmer
when the negroes rolled over in the ditch in front. We were
on picket duty the night before the fight, and during the
night we could hear the enemy giving commands distinctly,
information of which was sent back to the rear. There was
unusual commotion among the enemy's troops, but we sup-
posed Gen. Lee understood it as a feint. The next morning
revealed the fact that they were all negroes. We fought
negro troops all day. Our picket force fell back to the works
between where the Texas Brigade was fighting and Fort
Harrison, on our right. We repulsed them with heavy loss;
(Confederate l/eterai}.
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but when Fort Harrison fell, we were cut off and fell back
again to Fort Gilmer. We found forty or fifty men with
two pieces of the heavy artillery. We repulsed two or three
charges before the fight was over. Snell and I had an under-
standing that in the event we were overpowered we were to
jump up on top of the parapet and run down to where the
stockade joined the works and jump on the inside.
"When we landed in the fort, we found a very few old
soldiers, and were told that it was a company of Virginia
militia. . . . We li:id lieen fighting from the time we could
see; and when wo landed in the fort, the cNcitement was
pretty well all gone. . . . We were shooting with deadly
aim ; and when they surrendered and crawled through the
culvert, it was the only time during the war that 1 felt like
shootin.g prisoners, as the officers (white men") wore rcil
caps and sashes, ^\'c could plainly sec the race for the works
to our left tietuecii our tri>iii)s ;nul the enemy, which (ion.
Reese speaks of: and when wo saw our troops' triumph, the
tension on our part of the line was happily relieved. 1 don't
remember seeing an ollicor in the fort, so each one fought
for himself; for while we wore fighting we would run to
different angles in the fort and take aim, rise up, and lire at
the same time. This was kept up for quite a while, when
hand grenades were thrown n\or among them and they ran
up the white flag. Snell and 1 did not remain in the fort
long after the last repulse. It was my impression that there
were ei'.>hly or one hundrod surrendered and sixty or seventy
killed in tin- dilcli .nid ju^t im iho outside. We went down
the line to another fort between l-'ort (iilmer and b'ort Harri-
son (Jud.ye Martin calls it b'ort 'tiregg").
"Xciu 1 cannot understand (ion. Kecse to say there were
only live or six men in Fort Ciilmer at this time, but that
there were i'we or six conspicuous men — men that were
running from one angle of the fort to the other to keep the
negroes from .scaling the walls. .\t no time did they com-
mand the fort wdierc we were ton the right), because we
rose right over their heads and gave them such volleys as
held them back. I have boon sorry that we didn't remain in
the fort longer after the surrender, but we were fagged out ;
hence there was no iulorost in the prisoners or nuinber of
dead to us. 1 would lio glail in nii'ot Or. May or any one
else to talk over this fight."
JfllGE M.vrtin'.s KEi^mx Approvf.i).
Capt. J. R. Winder writes from Fort Smith, .Ark.:
"I have read several accounts of the F'ederal assault on
Fort Gilmer September 20. 1S64, in front of Richmond. Va.
Your June number of the Veter.\x contains an account by
Judge Martin, of Hawkinsvillo, Ga.. which I belic\e to be
very near correct.
''Gen. Ord's forces moved out from neiir Petersburg. \'a..
on September 28. 1864. and crossed the north side of the
James River that night and appeared in our front the i;cxt
mornin,!;. They attempted to penetrate our lines at several
points, but were repulsed. I was stationed at the Darbylown
road, not far from Fort Gilmer, having charge of several
heavy guns and using lliem with good effect on September
20. Having subsequently made reconnoissance. I saw the
result. 1 bad occasion also to go over to Fort Gilmer after
the attack, and found that many negroes had been killed in
front and around the fort. As they had gotten in the ditch
and were attempting to scale the parapet they were shot in
•the head. Many evidently were drunk, as liquor was foui' ^
in all tlioir canteens. A 'Corporal Dick' among their killo 1
1 supposed to be a preacher and popular, as they would ex-
claim : 'Poor "Corporal Dick" is killed 1' The Federals held
Fort Harrison two niil<>s away and reenforced it with guns
and mortars. We had rifle pits just below the fort under
the hill, and were subject to their incessant fire. Prior to
this attack I had conmiand of Long Tom, a heavy gun
mounted on an ironclad car with engine attached, and ran
up and down the railroad to Chickahominy swamp to stir
up the Yankees."
In a personal note Capt. Winder states : "Fort Gilmer was
near Riclimond. Gilmer and Gregg, however, were prac-
tically redoubts with small force and two or three guns,
while Fort Harrison was larger"
Judge John H. Martin corrects an error as to his official
conni:and at Fort Gilmer. He was captain of Company D
.Old not of Company C. of the 17th Regiment, Georgia Voi-
iiineers. as stated in the June Veter.w. page 268. in which
regiment he was mustered into the Confederate service at
Lynchburg, \'a., in August, 1861. He is r.ow believed to b;
tile senior surviving ofiiccr of that regiment. He writes that
Maj. J. B. Moore, who removed from Georgia to Texas after
the war, may still be alive. Jesse A. Johnson, a member of
ihe company, was captured at Fort Harrison on the 2Qth of
.September, 1864.
Who Stole the I-'iust Chicken. C. S. A.? — That genial
gentleman, the late J. K. Miller, of Gallatin. Teim.. sent the
V'etir.\n a bit of humor that was temporarily pigeonholed.
". . . While other commands claim distinction as having the
oldest and youngest soldier in the army, the old "th Tennessee
Regiment that served in Virginia holds undisputed sway in
It's claim for the first chicken thief. The deed was committed
by Lieut. William M. McCall. of Humboldt, at Camp Trous-
dale, 'i'enn.. in May. 1861. Jesse Cage, of Nashville, can
testify to the correctness of this claim, as he helped to eat
iho 'vellow hen.' "
The following "war waif was copied lor the \kter.\.\ by
the late J. K. Miller, of (lallatin, Tcnn. :
"Liies liy Mi<s Mary Kelly Morton, aged eleven years,
over the remains of a Federal colonel who was killed in h-r
mother's jard. near Decatur, (ia.
"Fold bis pale hands upon his breast
And wipe his clammy brow.
This stiffening form is now at rest;
He cannot harm us now.
I'orgoltcn be his dark misdeeds :
He came we care not I'ow.
A mother's heart already bleeds;
He's not a foen:aii now.
.'\rrai;gc these softly clustering curls
And close this glazing eye.
For bis mother take this dark-brown lock ;
She did not sec him die.
His grave is made in stranger sod;
His feet no more will roam :
His soul stands at the bar of God.
And he is missed at home.''
Tust .t; Miss IMortoii wrote, witbont .'1 rlnneo — A' .1/.
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Qoi7federat(^ l/eterary
FIGHT AT CHAFPIXS FARM, OR FORT HARRISOX.
BY CAPT. C. T. ALI-EN (COM M AN'OEK OF ARTILLERY), MEXICO, MO.
Ill tlu' June Veteran, page 26O. Mr. A. O. Wright, of Jack-
sonville, Fla., speaks of holding Gen. Lee's horse while the
"battle of Chaffin"s Farm, or Fort Harrison." was going on
and of having witnessed it "from the little battery just in the
rear of the bluff 011 the skirt uf the woods that fringed the
river;" that F'ield's and Pickett's divisions defended Fort
Harrison ; that Gen. Lee "came over from Petersburg to
conduct the defense in person,'' etc.
Comrade Wright was a "master in the Confederate navy, '
as he says in the letter referred to, and was on the "Nause-
mond in James River, off Chaffin's Bluff, in March, 1S65 ;'
but he is mistaken in some of his statements quoted.
The writer commanded, the Iron Battery at Chaffin's Bluff,
and knew every square yard of ground on Chaffin's Farm, and
especially along the line of iiitrcnchment from tlie river to
Fort Harrison, and knew personally every ofHccr and many
of the men who. from time to time, encamped on the old
farm. In the first place, the "battle of Chaffin's Farm, or
Fort Harrison," did not take place in March, 1865. It was
on September 29, 1864, and I commanded the "little battery''
just in rear of the bluff (Chaffin's Bluff, just one inile below
Drewry's Bluff, he means). I can't be mistaken about these
things. I was wounded about eight o'clock in the morning
by three Minie balls, one breaking my right hand, another
slightly cutting my left arm, and a third one just touching
the 24-pound siege piece, which I was sighting at the time,
and, glancing, striking me on the left lireast and partly bury-
mg itself therein. I have that ball now pinned to my old and
faded coat, and will keep it as a souvenir of the "long ago."
Lieut. Col. John Minor Maury (deceased) and Maj. Richard
C. Taylor, now living at Norfolk, Va., commanded at Fort
Harrison. They had a few men only, possibly not over forty
with them, though the fort mounted many big guns. They
fought their guns to the last. Iiut were overpowered and
captured. The Federal troops took Fort flarrison and turned
our own guns upon our "handful" of men. The loss of Col.
Maury and Maj. Taylor left me the senior captain in com-
mand of the fifty to one hundred men (possibly a few more)
between Fort Harrison and the James River ; and, though my
men were few and the enemy's forces numbered thousands.
I knew that between us and Richmond there were bitt few
troops at that time and that a brave stand must be made to
give Gen. Richard S. Ewell time to rally the scattered forces
about Richmorrd to save it. So at Fort Maury, about half-
way between Fort Harrison and the river, 1 rallied some
,=eventy-live to one hundred men and held the fort until
Pickett came to our relief about midday. The "little bat-
tery" Comrade Wright refers to must have Ijeen Fort Maury,
and it was a little one too, but it made a "h — of a racket"
ihat .day. 1 had a 24-pound rifle piece, one brass howitzer,
and two 6-pound held pieces.
After receiving the wounds referred to, I was carried off
the field to the bluff; but before leaving the field I directed
Lieut. Jugurtha Laffoon to hold his guns to the last minute
and the last man, that there were no troops between us and
the doomed city that I knew of, and that if the Federals got
possession of the turnpike they would turn Col. Hardaway's
rear, who was possibly a couple of miles north of Fort Har-
rison and at or near Fort Gregg. Laffoon and his brave men
did hold the "little battery" in the face of tremendous odds,
;.nd the Confederates held it to the end of the war.
Pickcits Division came in a run from some point between
Richn-.ond and Petersburg, crossed James River on the mili-
tary bridge just above Urewry's Bluff, and about two o'clock
in the evening attempted by two charges to dislodge the
Federals and drive them frotn Fort Harrison, but failed
after heavy losses. The Federals held I'nn Harrison to the
end of the war.
Gen. Lee did not eor.duct the defense of I'ort Harrison.
He was not on the north >ide of James River that day that
I ever heard of. Gen. Kwell was present a part of the time,
but not at the time the "little battery" was doing its awful
work with shell, grape, ana canister. During the night of
September 28, 1864, Gen. Benjamin F. Butler crossed the
river at or near .Mken's Landing and about sunrise appeared
lieforc Foi t Harrison, and in a half hour they had it.
No other battle was <,vjr fought on Chaffin's Farm or at
Fort Flarrison. My wounds healed, and in January, 1S65, I
returned to Chaffin's Bluff, and remained in command of
the Iron Battery mUil Richmond was evacuated, .•\pril 2,
1865.
THE ATTACK OF FORT HARRISON.
BY .MAJ. JAME.S U. MOORE, CAMERON. TEX.
Having been solicited to give an account of the action of
my command in the battle of Fort Harrison, I send a descrip-
tion of the occurrence, which, for the nuinber engaged and
results achieved, proved to be one of the most remarkable
engagements of our great w:ir.
It will lie remembered that during the summer and fall of
1864 Gen. Lee was most actively engaged in the defense of
Petersburg, and to successfully resist Gen. Grant's repeated
efforts to capture that city he had withdrawn all the troops
from the front of Richmond on the north side of the James
River except one small brigade, of Tennessee troops. Gen.
Benning's brigade of Georgia troops, a few Virginia militia,
and about three hundred cavalry, in all numbering not more
than twelve hundred men, under the command of Gen. Gregg,
of Texas.
On the 28th of September, 1864, the Tennessee Brigade oc-
cupied a line of rifle pits extending from Drewry's Bluff, on
the James River, to Fort Harrison, situated on the hill,
overlooking Jamus River Imttoni, and distant about three-
qi:arters of a mile.
Fort Harrihon was a large earthen fort commanding the ap-
proach by land to Drewry's Bluff as well as the heights in its ,
front and for some distance to its left. It was armed with
several pieces of field artillery and one thirty-tvvo-pound
Columbiad and was of sufficient size to accommodate a garri-
son of some five hundred men. Init was manned only by a few
militia, who were armed with smooth-bore muskets, with only ^
ten rounds of cartridges each, while the artillery was served
by raw troops with only a few rounds of ammunition.
Benning's Brigade, consisting of the 2d, 15th, 17th, and
20th Georgia Regiments, was stationed at Newmarket, about
three miles lower down the James River, in front of and
watching the command of Gen. Butler (spoons). Being in
command of the 17th Georgia, I was ordered to Fort Harri-
son, and with some two hundred penitentiary convicts and
three hundred negroes, then at Fort Harrison, to proceed to
strengthen the works. With seven companies, three com- ,
panics being left on picket duty, I arrived at the fort late in
the evening of the 28th of September, leaving orders for the
Qor^federati^ l/eterai),
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tliree companies to rejoin the regiment as soon as relieved
from picket duty.
Early on tlie morning of the Jgtli of September Rutler made
a demonstration against our little force at Newmarket, having
during the evening and night of the 28th tlirown a large
force, estimated at fifteen thousand men. across the river
from the south side by means of a pontoon bridge. Between
our forces and Newmarket and Drewry's BlufT he undertook
to march into Richmond, which was wholly unprotected save
by the Temicssee Brigade, the militia before mentioned, and
my seven companies of the 17th Georgia. .About seven
o'clock in the morning skirmish tiring conniienccd immedi-
ately in my front.
.'\bout this time I reeeixed orders from tu'n. (iregg. tlien
at or near Newmarket, to turn over the convicts to a com-
pany of militia detailed for that purpose and report hack to
the commander as soon as practicable. Soon afterwards one
of my men, returning from Fort Harrison, reported to me
that tlie enemy was immediately in its front and would soon
be in the works. I innneihately sent the prisoners to the rear
m charge of two of my companies, and with the remaining
live companies, numbering about seventy-three muskets, hur-
ried into the fort and at once opened fire on the enemy, who
was abnul four hundred yards distant and steadily advancing
in four double colinnns of about si.x hundred men each, thus
arraying tlie une(|ual number of about twenty-four hundred
men against my companies of only seventy-three men. Our
lire, being so very effective, soon threw them in some con-
fu^iiin and brought them to a halt. By this time the militia
;ind artillerists in the fort had exhausted their ammunition
anil retired rather i)recipitately to safer quarters. The enemy
look advantage of a slight depression in the ground some
three hundred yards in our front to re-form their hues, at the
same time keeping up a brisk skirnn^li lire from their skir-
mishers, some sixty yanis nr more in their front, who were
concealed behind weeds anil bushes. Our ammunition had
by this time run very low. and consequently our firing had
almost ceased. This was, however, only the calm preceding
the gathering storm about to liurst upon us. I had. in the
meantime, by (ien. Gregg's aid-de-camp and couriers, re-
ported lo him my situation and requested reenforcements.
Gen. Ciregg. realizing the importance of the situation, at
once started with the remainder of the brigade to my as-
sistance: and when within some \\\e or si.x hundred yards,
they were espied liy the enemy, who raised and came with a
rush for our works. .My little cmnmand had made every
preparation lo give him a warm reception, having loaded
our small arms anil doidilc shotted with grain' the .?2-
pounder ; and when their four double columns had conf.
within about two hundred yards, 1 gave the command to
fire. This shot was exceedingly destructive, tearing a lane
of some thirty feet or more through the entire four columns.
Owing to the unfortunate circumstances of our h<Hng short
of amiwjmition, we were unable to do much execution with
our rifles. It took but a few moments for tliem to clear the
intervening space and reach the ditch, some five feet deep,
in front of our works, into wdiich they piled pellmell. They
immediately began to scale the embankment and pour over
the works into the fort. Seeing the hopelessness of further
efforts to save the fort, althougli our brigade was only some
three hundred yards from us and coming in a full run to our
assistance, T gave orders to get out in the best manner
possible and re-form on llic next line of works, about one
mile in our rear. Alter throwing several bunches of car-
tridges which had just been brought into the fort at them,
I, with Capt. D. H. Wilmot, .\djt. Sam Robin.son, and Lieut.
William I.andee, were the last to leave that portion of the
fort. The men on the right flank, following the line of works,
were thrown with the 2d Tennessee Regiment, while those on
the left were thrown with the 2d Georgia Regiment, just ar-
riving to our assistance. On my leaving the fort I saw that
the 32-pounder had been dismounted by the recoil and was
standing up nearly perpendicular, firmly imbedded in the
hard clay. Private (afterwards Captain) A. P. McCord wa.s
on top of the transverse embankment firing right down into
the midst of the enemy not more than fifteen feet distant.
He even remained in this perilous position until the blue-
coats became as ihick within the works as blackbirds upon ,1
millet stack.
In my hasty retreat from these uncomfortably warm quar-
ters I dropped a very line sword, which was left to the
enemy's care. In our retreat from the fort we were exposed
to the galling fire of mine than one thousand of the enemy's
sn^all arms, which sent numerous liullcts in uncomfortably
close proximity to us. My purpose was to rally as many of
our men as possible at the next line of works and detain
the enemy until the remainder of the command could succeed
in getting in their front. The 2d Georgia Regiment, under
the command of the gallant Col. W. S. Shepherd, being
pressed by the enemy from Fort Harrison, now in their pos-
session, took position in a small redoubt on the line of works
about one-half a mile to the left of Fort Harrison. His com-
mand, numbering less than one hundred men, made a most
gallant light. Rumiing short of ammunition and being hard
pressed by the enemy, he sent word to some of my command
for ammunition and help or that he would be compelled to
give up the fort.
A. P. .McCord and John Lindscy. both of my old command,
volunteered to return near the cabins in the rear of Fort
Harrison, occupied by the enemy, where stood an abandoned
ordnance wagon, which they had passed in their retreat fron!
ihe fort Protected by a line of skirmishers, under the com-
mand, 1 think, of Lieut. Landee. and under a heavy fire of
musketry and artillery, they succeeded in securing each i
box of cartridges, and. carrying the same under a heavy fire
some half a mile to Col. Shepherd's men and throwing the
boxes upon a dismounted gun and bursting them open, the
cartridges were eagerly gathered up by the brave soldiers to
renew the firing, which had almost ceased.
Rallying a few men who had escaped with me froin Fort
Harrison. I hurried to the assistance of the 2d Georgia. Upon
my arrival in the fort, finding that Col. Shepherd had been
severely wounded. I assumed command. Finding the enemy
from sixty to one hundred yards in our front and partly
concealed behind weeds and bushes and our anmiunition run-
ning Iiiw, I had the men to witliliold their fire until a small
force, 1 think under Lieut. Hines, of the 2d Georgia, led by
Jnhn Linilscy and .X. P. McCord, of the 17th Georgia, and
James DuBose. of the 2d Georgia, could deploy as .skirmishers
down the breastworks toward Fort Harrison. At a precon-
certed signal the skirmishers crossed the works with that
much-dreaded Rebel yell, firing into the flank of the enemy,
while our little band in llic fort poured destructive fire into
his front, which caused about three hundred of them to throw
down their arms and surrender, while some broke and ran
back to llicir main command in the woods, some twelve lum-
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dred yards to our front. We sent the prisoners to llie rear in
charge of a small detail, while others brought into the fort
all the guns and ammunition abandoned In- the enemy in
his retreat.
The enemy then brought a 14-gun battery to bear upon our
little fort, and for the next thirty minutes or more no com-
mand was perhaps ever exposed to a more terrific shower
of iron hail in the form of shell and shrapnel than was
poured upon that little band of defenders of the capital of
the Southern Confederacy.
After dismounting and silencing all of our guns by their
fire, the enemy again advanced a regiment, some five or six
hundred strong, for another assault. They advanced in splen-
did order under an incessant fire from our rifles until within
three hundred yards, when our men began to make use of
tl"' :r extra guns, captured from the enemy, and poured into
their ranks such a galling fire as to drive them back under
the protection of their guns. Meanwhile a flanking column
had been sent farther to our left, and in their attack on Fort
Gilmer, a stockade fort, were readily repulsed by the isth
and 20th Georgia, arriving in a full run just in time to par-
ticipate in their repulse. Just after this repulse of the enemy,
which was four o'clock in the afternoon, the balance of our
division (Hood's), consisting of Robertson's Texas, Law's
Alabama, and Jenkins's South Carolina Brigades, arrived
from P'etersburg, from which time we felt assured of the
safety of Richmond from any further attacks of Butler.
Our entire force confronting Butler's army previous to the
arrival of our reenforccment of Petersburg did not e.xceed
twelve hundred men, which was extended over a line of four
miles in length when the fighting began, and in no instance
was more than one-half of our force engaged at a time.
The New York Herald, several days after the fight, giving
an account of Butler's attack upon Fort Harrison, admitted
a loss of three hundred men in killed and wounded, whili;
his loss upon other parts of the line w-as very heavy. We
captured nearly five hundred prisoners in the day's engage-
ments.
Where all acted their part so well, as did our men on that
occasion, it would be useless for me to attempt to name them
for any special deeds of valor, other than those before men-
tioned whose acts attracted my special attention at the time.
If there were any other than brave men in our command on
that memorable day, they fell out of the fight in their long
run from Newmarket bark to Fort Harrison.
doubt that the men of the Confederate States are not made
of metal that gives in at the first shock."
EXGLISH TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT DAVTS.
The London Herald is quoted in regard to President Davis
during the war, which is a merited compliment to his inaugu-
ral address and to the bravery and endurance 'of the Southern
troops : "If a great man struggling with adversity is a spec-
tacle for the gods, Mr. President Davis, delivering his in-
augural address almost on the morrow of the signal disaster
at Fort Donelson, may, perhaps, claim something of our
sympathy. In the speech there is no sign of hesitation nor
recreant craving for terms with a triumphant enemy. It is
such an address as Washington himself might have penned —
strong in the belief of the unanimous feeling of his country-
men, firm in the faith of the success of what he believed to
be the right. These brave yet temperate words will resound
through both hemispheres and convince those who yet may
'The last public words of the chief of the Confederacy,"
writes another, "were delivered in a convention of young
men gathered near his home, on the shore of the Gulf. He
made an appeal replete with wisdom and good sense. He
stood before them after a life rich in political successes, but
hallowed w-ith memories of a cause near and dear to him,
.111(1 every word he uttered was to one purpose — stand by
the country. The past," he said, "is dead ; let it bury its
dead, its hopes, its aspirations ; before you lies the future,
a future full of recompense for honorable endeavor, a future
of expanding national glory, before which all the world shall
stand amazed. Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all
bitter sectional feeling, and to take your places in the ranks
of those w'ho will bring a consummation devoutly to be
wished — a reunited country.''
THE FIRST MARTYR.
liV T. C. H.\KB.\UCH.
Ynu rc;r.cmbfr the first niai we lost? 'Twas on picket;
The river flowed dark 'r.eath the cedars and pines.
And just in the rear of the ghost-haunted thicket
Silent and grim lay the enemy's lines.
.\ foeman was hid at the edge of the bushes,
And forth from his rifle the messenger sped.
And down where the river still mournfully rushes
The first of our comrades to leave us lay dead.
Grief filled every heart as we thought of hi^ mother;
We thought of the sister wdio waited afar;
.A.nd some comrade spoke in soft tones of another.
A dearer one yet in the light of love's star.
How tenderly, loving, and gently we bore him
To where the wild roses grew thick on the hill !
How harsh seemed the volleys his comrades fired o'er him
Ere they left him alone in the forest so still !
We wrote to his .mother and told her the story
How he was the first of the hundred to fall ;
We w-rote ,to his sweetheart and spoke of the glory.
The name, and the fame he had left to us all.
We said that he slept by the beautifuTriver
,-, That sang through the pines on its way to the sea ;
We told them his mem'ry would be with us ever,
And we carved his proud name on the monument tree.
.'Ml, he was the first one! hut what nf the others
Who speedily fell in the roar and the rout?
O think of the burial we gave them, my brothers —
By tens and by twenties were they mustered out.
No prayer by the trenches red in which we laid them.
No volley for them when the battle was done :
We left them alone, with no one to upbraid them.
And marched on the foe at the rise of the sun.
But back fly my thoughts to that mild summer even
With the wind of the South in the sentinel tree.
When tenderly under the starlight of heaven
We laid Joe to rest by the old Tennessee.
Yes, he was the first one. He fell by the river.
So young and so gentle, so trusting and brave :
And the red roses bloom where we left him forever
Tc nil in his youthtime a chevalier's grave.
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WHITE PEOPLE AND NEGROES.
The Veteran for September has nuc'i about the "old-timo
darkies." There ought to be a lesson in it for young negroes.
Their aspirations for .social equality will ever be their ca-
lamity. If they will observe the situation as it really exists,
they will see that not an old-time negro lives in the South
to-day faithful to white people who has not among them
sustaining friends. Devotion between them and those whose
slaves they were is steadfast. It will continue until the last
white-haired "Uncle" or "Auntie" is laid away, often in the
family lot, by those they served in their youth.
The younger generation sees this condition and should
profit by it. Northern people cannot comprehend it. and they
are at grievous fault, maybe unwittingly, for having done so
much to cause it. Those who yield graciously to the in-
evitable— such, for instance, as specified places in the street
cars of Tennessee — will soon find that the kindliest sentiment
of white people will manifest itself.
Successful negroes, however much wealth they may ac-
cumulate, will find that most indigent whites, who are filly
mentioned as "poor white trash," will no more defer to them
than did white masters to their slaves. This line of demarca-
tion is of healthy moral character. The only solution of
this matter is for negroes to accept the situation, treat the
whites with deference, and they will soon realize the best
they need ever hope to e.xist between the races.
A paper following this is from a source they should re-
spect. Let white and black, \orth and South, read it.
/\ Ri;rfni.iCAN ox the Race Prohi.em.
James F. l-owlkes, of Tennessee (Waverlyt, who has been
prominent in the politics of his State as a Republican, has
written to the Springfield ( Mass.1 Rrf'uhliiiiii upon the race
([uestion. Brief extracts are taken from the paper:
"Every individual and every section of every country is
wise upon some question and ignorant upon others. It re-
minds us of the college professor who, having a barefoot
country lad to row him across the river, was quizzing the
boy about his knowledge and was telling him liow much of
his life he had lost by not understanding geometry, astronomy,
etc., when the lioat struck a snag and upset ; and as the pro-
fessor came to the top he yelled to the boy, 'Save me, I can't
swim !' and the boy yelled back, 'Yer oughter I'arned how to
swim; yer's lost all yer life by not knowin' how.'
"It is the follow who rubs against a problem that learns
it. While the New b-ngland Stales have been studying as-
tronomy and the higher branches of science, the Southern
people have been learnin.g to swim nuuldy waters of practical
and confronting problems. . . .
"Tennessee, Alabama, the Carolinas, Mississippi, Louisiana,
and every other Southern State invite Massachusetts to come
and open her court and lake evidence and watch the de-
meanor of witnesses and weigli the proof, and take into con-
sideration, if she will, the environments of racial prejudices,
if she finds them to exist, and render her verdict as she
would have other States do to her under similar conditions.
"The South, a people who are proud, brave, and haughty,
has passed through the period of subjugation and humilia-
tion that tasted deep and strong of the nasty realities of
human affairs practiced in inhuman ways by the members of
a like and kindred race — blood of blood and bone of bone.
There is no intelligent voice in the South to censure or con-
demn the negro for what he has done or failed to do, but
every cultured heart opens wide its portals of sympathy for
the race in the past and with a bleeding interest in its future.
The North after the war lived in an atmosphere of cold,
abstract, imaginary philanthropy, while the South was grap-
pling with the stern realities. The North stood as the
crowned victor of prosperity, while the South stood in the
pauperism of desolation and defeat, worn to a frazzle, foot-
tired, and bleeding. She surrendered upon terms of honor
and came back into the Union upon terms of equality and
as a part and parcel of a common country. Did the North
keep her terms of victory in good faith in her subjugation
and humiliation of the brave and spirited people of the South
to the savage wantonness of a slavish race?
"The strife is past and gone, and the son of the South who-
can stand upon her soil without pride and fidelity to her
sincerity, courage, bravery, and endurance is unworthy the
respect of a brave and an honorable North. The race ques-
tion should be stripped of all sectionalism, sentimentality,
bias, race selfishness or prejudice, and considered in all its
phases by the deep-thinking people of both races. . . . Are
the races equal? and if not, can the law make them equal?
Does not a forced equality of inequalities produce a greater
inequality?
"There is no power on earth except an overpowering mili-
tary domination that can subject the white to negro rule.
The charity of State and race socialism produces dependence,
not independence ; it produces idleness, not energj- ; im-
morality, not morality; the source of crime, not its preven-
tion. The upward climb of every race inust be the result of
the stern, real, innate stuff within that race. Life in all its
phases, among all the races, and in all the animal world is
but a war of opposing forces. You may seize the depending
power and hold it; you may lift it; you may feel it with the
hand of sustenance ; but when your strength is called to
another source, tlic rapidity of tlie fall will depend upon the
distance you have carried it.
"The purse of the North has been opened with magnani-
mous liberality to the negro race and with the very best of
motives and desires. A poverty-stricken South, made desolate
by war, repudiated her debts to raise taxes that she might give
it as a charity to the colored race of the South. [The "repudi-
ated debt" was largely created by carpetbaggers. — Ed. Vet.]
The white people of the South, without sympathy and with-
out help, depopulated and maimed, have struggled from the
ashes of burned homes and ruine<l fortunes, carrying each
,'tep upon their back the colored people until to-day it stands
upon its feet in the possession of a vigorous manhood worth
more than all the slaves of all the past, and it is the product
of struggle, not charily. The overprejudice of the whites
in some localities and the overzealous in the negro race may
think and say that the white people of the South have ridden
back to the station of prosperity upon the backs of the black
race; but this could not have been, for the negro had nothing
to give in worldly goods, in counsel, ot in culture. The negro
race succeeding the war did his part in the field of labor
with a fidelity that is seldom found. We know of no writer
upon ethnological economy but admits that the negro race
possesses only about one-half the economic force of the
white race, and from an economic staiidpoint is more a hin-
drance than a help. The cultured, thinking white people
(if the North will give us credit of having such) in the
South have no ill desires for or animosities toward the negro,
but crave that which is the very best for his future welfare,
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"Let Congress provide an ethnological and political eco-
nomic commission, free from partisan taint, to thoroughly
investigate and examine into all the economic hearings of
the races and causes and effects of conditions, apd, if need he,
give it two years or longer in which to obtain data and
information. This could do neither race any harm, and any
member of any political party could consistently be its au-
thor, but more appropriate from a Republican, for he would
more likely be free from the charge of prejudice. The Fed-
eral supreme court should be free from party influence, and
it nu'ght be well for it. undL-r authority, to appoint such i
commission."
Mom MF.NTs TO F.MTHFii, Serv.\xts.
The New York Sun of July 22 copies the article by Mrs
Kate W. Moore, of Oakland, Miss., in regard to a monument
to former slaves. A. R. Banks, of Lancaster, S. C, commends
the spirit to build such monuments, but he demurs to the
oversight by per.sons who write on this subject in ignoring the
work performed in this respect several years ago. The Vet-
ER.\.\' for May. 1899, contained an account — and a picture —
described as follows :
Monuiiunt to Faithful Shivcs.
Fiiur steps of masonry support a marble pedesdal. on wliicli
is a scjuare shaft for inscriptions.
On the south side is inscribed :
i860.
Dedicated to
the faithful Slaves
who, loyal to a sacred trust,
toiled for the support
of the army with matchless
devotion, and with sterling
fidelity guarded our defenseless
homes, women, and children during
the struggle for the principles
of our Confederate States of .Xnierica.
1865.
On tlie east side, in a receding panel, appears a log under .1
shade tree, whereon rests one of the faithful slaves, his hat
on the ground, shirt open in front, with a scythe and at rest.
Before him are shocks of grain.
On the north side is the following :
1895-
Erected by Samuel E. Wliite,
in grateful memory of earlier
days, with the approval of the
Jefferson Davis Memorial .Association.
There are added names of some faithful slaves.
On the west side, in a receding panel, appears a farmer's
niansion, and on the front steps sits an "old black mammy"
with a white child in her arms, both of whom are in loving
embrace, while in the foreground are the baby's wagon and
other playthings, .\buve this square shaft is a tall obelisk uf
pure white marble.
"Uncle" Jkrrv Perkins.
Charles Perkins enlisted at Brownsville, T-enn.. under Capt.
H. S. Bradford, w-ho was afterwards Col. Bradford, of the
31st Tennessee Infantry. He was killed in the battle near
Atlanta July 22. 1864. The boy Jerry went with him as ,1
body servant. Before leaving. Charley's mother told Jerry
that he must bring his "Marse Charley" back to her, and he
promised thai he would do it ; that he would take him back
alive or dead.
On that fateful July 22 young Perkins was killed; and
when the regiment fell back to bivouac for the night, Jerry
was alarmed not to see Marse Charley, and, upon being told
ihat he was dead, said, "Here's your supper. I'm going to
find Marse Charley." and away in the darkness he went.
UNCLE JERKY TERKINS.
In a short while he returned, carrying the dead body of his
young master on his back. He carried it a mile or so farther
to a farmhouse, got some plank, borrowed a saw, hatchet,
and nails, made a box, dug a grave, and buried him in the
farmer's yard. He walked from Atlanta to Brownsville,
Tenn., and reported the sad news. He was supplied with a
farm wagon and a metallic coffin, went liack to Georgia, dis-
interred the body of Charley Perkins, and hauled it home to
Brownsville.
Jerry is a favorite with the Hiram S. Bradford Bivouac,
and attends all of their Reunions. The foregoing data comes
from J. \V. McCiish. of Brownsville.
C.\SE OF .\ Negro Boy Dcking the \V.\r.
W. H. Strange. Gift, Tenn., June 23, 1900:
"While at Holly Springs Vandorn's Cavalry went to the
enemy's rear and captured that place ■ one morning about
daybreak. .\ negro boy was making his way out, and, being
dressed in blue and in the early twilight, I took him to be
a Federal and halted him. After finding that he was only a
negro boy, I wouTd hav?' let him go on, but he wanted to go
with me for protection, and, picking up an old mule, I put
him on it and let him go with us. He said he was thirteen
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years old and was waiting on an arlillery uffici*r, Maj. Miidd,
I think. Tlie boy said lie lived near Huntsvillc, Ala., and
went with the Federals from there to Memphis.
"After taking Holly Springs, our command continned to go
north, and, crossing Little Hatchie at Davis's Bridge, wc had
quite a skirmish with the er.cmy in getting across the river.
The lame horse crowd being in the rear and one of my neigh-
bor friends being the crowd, I let the little negro stay witl.
him. They got cut off from the command and went home,
in Tipton County. Tenn., .-ind tlu- boy went with him. After
getting home, the boy went tn my father's and rennined there
during the war. Alth(nr;li the Federals were fre(|uently at
iny father's after that, he never wanted to go with them,
but stayed at home and would help to bide the stock. On
one occasion he got one horse back from them after they had
it in their possession. .After I got liome from the war, he
lived with me for several ye.irs.
"He w'as a bright boy, and I taught him to read and write.
He took a great interest in learniig and progressed rapidly,
finally becoming a Methodist preacher, lie got a country cir-
cuit, and after three or four years was made presiding elder.
Since that tin:e I have not known mucii of him. but think
he has quit preachiug and is running a large farm in .Arkansas.
He was always Democratic in p )lilics, and would somelimcs
take an active part in trying to gel the negroes to vote for
some of his white friends, lie ha- always gone by the name
of Jim Rallery. I do not reiv.emlier who he belonged lo be-
fore emancipation "
Jkrrv M.v'i (loT Ills ( )i u Mistress .\ Pkksmin.
.An interesting figure al the Loui'^ville reunion was Jerry
W, M;iy, colored. Jerry is a mail carrier al Mac m. and has
been in the service for over twenty \e:n's. Each year when
the time for the Confederate Reunion rolls around Jerry asks
for his vacation and accomiianies Camp .Sniith to the rendez-
vous of the old Coul'ederale>. Tliis ix the fnurteeiilh Retmion
he has attended
During the war Jerrv wa> ihc body servant of William
Wynn, of Georgia, who enliste;! and served throughout the
long contest as a private. His master was a member of the
7th Georgia Regiment of Harrison's Brigade. After the war,
his master, who had lost everything by the ravages of the
Federal army, moved to Prescott, Ark,, leaving Jerry in
Macon. .A few years later be died, and his widow was left
alone with nothing on which she might rely for a support.
Jerry began the task of securing a pension for her, and after
several years of hard work he was successful. Through his
efforts she was enabled to live comfortably.
The VETER.^^' wrote to Jerry in regard to the above, and he
responded promptly, stating : "My old master, William Wynn.
was born and reared in Monroe County, Ga, He enlisted in
ihe "lb (Icorgia Regiment, as stated. Company D. He took
me as body servant ; and after the war, everything was lost
to him — even I n:yself came near being lost to him. but not
([uite. Aiiir the war. he moved to Prescott, .Ark., and began
farming: but he was quite old and feeble, so he could do but
little at it. Later he wrote me that he could get a pension
rnder the .Arkansas laws, hut he was too feeble mentally and
physically, and he wanted mc to do it for him. I replied that
I would do anything in my power on earth for him and his
wife as long as they lived. 1 went at once to Gen. C. M
Wyley, the Ordinary for Bibb County, got application blanks,
look one to every member of the old company that I could
fmd. got them signed with affidavits before proper officers,
made oath myself, and had seals put on where seals could be
found. Sad but true, he died just before I got the papers
ready. 1 then went back and got other blanks, and did the
same work for his widow. I paid every cent of money neces-
sary without any c:ist to her. 1 sent all the papers for him
and her both, and the connnittec pnt her on the pension list.
.She wrote me her sincere thanks for what I did. and said sh^
was all Ibe more grateful because 1 hail been ore of her
slaves."
These arc sincere suggestions to young negroes as to how
ihey may ingratiate themselves into the good will of white
leopte. It would lie w-ell for them to consider how they can
best advance their highest interests. Those of the South
should not forget that the element of their color at the North
are no credit to the race as a class, and that the result is
fa.st creating far bitterer prejudices against them in that sec-
tion than has ever existed in the South. If young regroes at
the South would accept conditions that cannot be overcome
and steadfastly avoid impolite, not to say impudent, methods,
they would speedily find friendships among' them that would
be as lasting as it is with their parents. It is for the good
of all and more for the inferior race that general friendly re-
lations exist. Let any of them try it, and they will not regret
it. The Southern people remember the amiable dispositions
of the race, and will be diligent lo aid them if they will
adopt the only method possible for friendly relations. This
advice is in as friendly spirit as it is possible to write, and
it is meant to emphasize the advice to negroes. H they will
maintain the rule of due politeness to white people, they will
find among them stanch friends who will see that they are
iustlv treated under all circumstances.
JKRRV W, M.W. M.\((1N, GA.
A MissiN'G .CoMR.VDE. — Notice has been sent to the Mayor
of Na.sbvillc that James Dillon, of Alexandria, La., left iioine
two or three dp.ys before the Louisville Reunion and has not
been heard from since. If any comrade or friend knows of
Mr. Dillon, they will confer a favor by sending information
lo .Mrs. J. L. Darragh, Centerville. La.
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AxTo.N'Ki M. CdOKK ilied April 27 at Portsmouth, Va. He
was one of the young heroes who enlisted in the army, being
only sixteen years of age when he joined Company H, 6lst
Virginia Infantry. Mahone's Brigade. He participated in all
the battles of his regiment excepting Chancellorsville. He
surrendered at -Apponiatto.x.
Mrs. S. S. P.\kk.
A commitee of the Terry's Texas Rangers Chapter, U. D.
C, at Chapel Hill, Tex., comprised of Miss Annie Lide, Miss
Bertha Brandt, and Mrs. Bettie Chapel, submitted resolutions
to the memory of Mrs. S. S. Park, in which they emphasize
her long service in good works. In the cause of missions she
furnished an example worthy of emulation, and "to her" they
say: "The Master's 'Well done, thou good and faithful
servant' has appropriate meaning." They conclude with the
statement that "she is through keeping records, her own rec-
ord on God's great book having come to completion. Her
works do follow lier.''
W. C. Blaine.
\\'illiam C. Blaine died at his home, near Charleston, W.
\'a.. February 15, 1905. He was born in March, 1823, and
died in the home of his birth. In 185.3 his buoyant spirit was
stirred with the desire to visit the gold fields of California,
^o with a number of friends he set out to cross the plains.
.After six months' toil and tramping, they reached their desti-
nation. He spent two years in that region, and met with
moderate success in the search for gold. At the solicitation
of an invalid sister, he returned to his home.
-At the breaking out of the war Comrade Blaine enlisted in
the Confederate army, Kanawha Riflemen, 22d Virginia Regi-
ment, and served till the surrender. He then returned to his
farm, near Charleston, and devoted himself to repairing his
shattered home. He was married in 1866 to Miss Elizabeth
Jane Champe, who survives with an adopted daughter, the
wife of Dr. Ira P. Champe.
Comrade Blaine was a man with many friends. His re-
ligious convictions were deep and his charities broad. He
was the last of his generation. On the maternal side he was
related to Patrick Henry ; was also a first cousin of Jaines G.
Blaine, of Maine.
Gnx. E. M. Henry.
One of the best-loved citizens of Norfolk, Va., passed away
in the death of Gen. E. M. Henry on the 20th of June. His
illness was of short duration, and. the end came suddenly.
He was in his seventy-fourth year. His wife and three chil-
dren survive him.
Gen. Henry began his residence in Norfolk in 1870, and
hqld numerous responsible positions of prominence in that
city — Mayor, Assistant Postmaster, President Business Men's
Association, and Commander of Pickett-Buchanan Carnp. No
resident was ever held in more universal esteem : he was
popular with all classes. He assisted in the organization of
the Grand Camp of Virginia and was made brigadier general
in the staff of Gen. John B. Gordon. Comrade Henry served
most gallanth tliriiu;.4h the war, and none did greater credit
to live Confederate :-;ray nor more proudly followed the stars
and bars.
\Vii.i.i.\.M D. Pettus, M.n.
Rev. A. T. Goodloc write? of Conu'ade Pettus: "This
splendid Confederate soldier died at his home, near Hunts-
ville, Ala., August 13. 1905. He was with us at the Louisville
Reunion, and returned home with a severe cold, followed
(|uickly by pneumonia. This caused ag.sjravation of an old
stomach trouble so that he could take no nourishment, and he
literally starved to death. William Pettus was born .\pril 12,
1843. He served as a private in Company D, 35th Alabama
Regiment, and was a cnura.gcous and loyal soldier in full
measure. On October 28, 186-;, v.hile engaging the enemy in
front of Decatur, Ala., he was severely wounded, one of his
leg bones being fractured. From this gangrene set in, and
he was at death's door for a long time. His leg was saved,
but it was seriously and permanently disabled. Comrade
Pettus was also a devout soldier of the cross till death, with
membership in the Southern Metliodist Church. .\t the close
of the war he studied medicine in the Univer.= ity of Nashville,
.graduating in 1866. and that was henceforward his life work.
He was married in 1869 to Miss ."Vnna D. Brown, who sur-
vives him with their son and four daughters. A devoted and
examplary husband and father he was at all times, and ever
conscientious in his dealings and associations with his fel-
low-mcn. The Contedfr.nte Veter.\n had no better friend."
Gen. B. M. Thomas.
On the afternoon of July 16, 1905, the soul of Gen. Bryan
M. Thomas, of Dalton. Ca., "passed over the river to rest
tmdcr the shade of the trees" in the realms of the eternal
can^ping ground.
Gen. Thomas was born in Alilledgeville. Ga., May 8, 1836.
Being of a patriotic nature and inheriting from a long line
of ancestors a courageous spirit, he early evinced a desire
for a military life. Leaving Oglethorpe College in his jun-
ior year, he entered the United States Military Academy, at
West Point, N. Y., in 1854, graduating in 1858. After serving
as instructor at his Aliiui Mali r for a season and after a
period at Governor's Island, he was assigned to the sth In-
fantry, U. S. A., in the far West. Lieut. Thomas, under the
afterwards famous .Albert Sidney Johnston, was engaged iit
various campai.gns in LUah, New Mexico, and Arizona against
the Navajos and .-Xiiaches. often braving the greatest danger
in charge of scouts.
When Georgia joined her sister States in secession against
the Llnion, Lieut. Thomas resi.gncd his commission and took
up arms for the Southland that he loved so well. Going to
Montgomery, Ala., then the capital of the Confederacy, he of-
fered his services to llie President, Jeffers.m Davis. He was
first commissioned first lieutenant in the Confederate service
and stationed at Fort Gaines, Ala., as drillmaster. Soon
afterwards he was appointed staflf ofificer as inspector general
of Gen. J. M. Withers's Division, Polk's Corps, of the
Western Army, 'erving with distinction in the Tennessee-
Kentucky campaigns. He was in the terrible conflicts of
.Shiloh, Perryville. and Murfreesboro, and was recommended
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fcir prnniotioM for distinguislied gallantry on the field of
Shiloh by both Gens. Bragg and Hardee. After the Tennes-
see campaign, Gen. Withers was transferred to the Depart-
ment of the Gulf.
On August 4, 1864, Gen. Thoiuas was commissioned brig-
adier general and assigned to the command of a brigade com-
posed of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Regiments Alabama Reserves,
afterwards known as the 6ist, 62d, and 63d Alabama Regi-
ments. His brigade was assigned to duty at Blakely and
Spanish Fort, near Mobile. After a heroic defense of several
months, he surrendered to Gen. Canby in April, 1865, almost
simultaneously with Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox.
With the failure of the Confederacy, Gen. Thomas, giving
up the sword of war, took up the reap hook of peace and
engaged in planting in Southern Georgia for a number of
years. Endowed with a superior mentality, however, he, like
Gen. Lee and many others, found more congenial employ-
ment in teaching; and for nearly fifteen years prior to hi<
death he was superintendent of the public schools of Dalton,
Ga. Gen. Thomas is survived by his wife (a daughter of Gen.
J. M. Withers) and three children : a son (John S. Thomas,
a merchant of Dalton) and two daughters (Miss Hattie
Thomas, of Dalton, and Mrs. Guy Hamilton, of Mobile).
Both in public and private life the love of a great and warm
heart found expression in words and deeds that bound others
to him as with "hoops of steel." His chivalry was supreme.
His impress upon the characters of the young who came under
his tuition will be lasting. Many there are who, owing to
his guidance, have risen "on stepping stones of their dead
selves to higher things." When the message went forth that
his great heart had ceased to beat, sorrow was universal.
GEN. n. M. THOMAS.
As he lay in his casket, clad in his unifcr::i of gray and sur-
rounded by beautiful flowers, many pcjple, including the
hoary-headed veteran with his iron cross, the youngest school
thild, the business man wearing his insignia of Masonry, and
llie huniblcpt negro, paid tribute to his worthy memory. As
the sun was sinking in splendor over the wooded crest of
Rocky I'ace the cortege wound its way to the heights of
West Hill Cemetery. As little children, one by one, dropped
,1 rose or lily on his casket some one said reverently : "He
was the most beloved man in Dalton." Softly the darkness
tell like a mantle upon the sorrowing town, while a single star
shone gloriously in the eastern sky — a star bright and beauti-
ful like the redeemed soul that had answered "Here" to the
roll call of the heavenly hosts.
"Till the future dares
Forget the past, his fate and fame shall be
An echo and a light unto eternity."
Lieut. O. B. Norvell.
Four years and one month of honorable service in the C.
S. A., nineteen months of which w'ere spent in Federal prisons
and twenty-three years of patient suffering afterwards as a
paralytic in bed, surely entitles mention on your Last Roll.
This noble soldier, Lieut. O. B. Norvell, was born in L>iich-
burg, Va. He died in the Kentucky Confederate Home, in
I'cwee Valley, in June, 1905.
With his father, Samuel Norvell, Lieut. Norvell came in
larly childhood to Covington, Ky. Two days before Virginia
seceded he joined the Rifle Grays of Lynchburg. This com-
pany was later a part of the nth Virginia, Company B.
^ nung Norvell fought in the battles of Bull Run and Manas-
sas. In September following he was transferred to the 1st
Kentucky Infantry, and served with them at Yorktown, Dam
No. I, and the Lower Redoubt. His term of enlistment hav-
ing expired, he was mustered out on May i, 1862. Reaching
Richmond, he was made first lieutenant and adjutant of the
12th Tennessee Cavalry, and had part in the Kentucky cam-
paign under Bra.gg and Kirby Smith. He was engaged at
I'erryville and Big Hill on the retreat.
In December, 1862, he resigned to join his own home peo-
ple, battling with Gen. John H. Morgan, and with that daring
raider he fought in Tennessee at many places. After burning
iheir boats behind them at Brandenburg, Ky., they invaded
the Northland. On July 19, 1863, he was captured near Mari-
etta, Ohio, a few days before his gallant leader surrendered.
Their first confinement was at Camp Morton, Ind., but in
a short while they were removed to Camp Douglas, III. He
here assisted in the organization of a conspiracy to escape
from the prison. The work was well done, and it embraced
hundreds of faithful men, but some untoward event caused
them to abandon the enterprise.
Being exchanged on February 21, 1865, Lieut. Norvell wa"!
sent upon his arrival in Richmond to the command of Gen.
Early, who was facing Gen. Hunter in the valley. Later he
reported to his old commander. Gen. Basil Duke, who was
reorganizing his cavalry. After Gen. Lee's surrender, Lieut.
Norvell went to Gen. Johnston in North Carolina, and was
one of President Davis's bodyguard in the last retreat. At
Washington, Ga., he surrendered on May 8, 1865. He walked
back to the ruins of the capital city and began a heroic strug-
gle with adverse fortune. His hopefulness and energy were
very remarkable.
A stroke of paralysis twenty-three years ago made him
very, very helpless to the end, yet to the last he was com-
forted and cheered by the loving, faithful wife. His death
resulted from pneumonia. Conscious of its approach, he was
undismayed. He received the holy supper from Dr. Gran-
4S6
(^CT)federat<^ l/eterai).
villc Waller, .iiul died after declaring his reliance upon our
Saviour, lie lies in tlie Confederate lot in beautiful Cave
Hill among the men with whom he marched and fought and
suffered.
One w ho knew him well says : "He illustrated truth, cour-
age, steadfastness, and devotion to duty in all his life and
in the amplest way. Within the narrow limits of his oppor-
tunity, his time, and his as.sociatics he made a strong im-
pression."
Otway's mind was superior and his attainments cxcelKni.
yet so very modest was he that few men knew his varied
ahilities. A very striking trait perceptible to all was his gen-
erosity. l;e valued nothing that he might not share with
others. A true Southron, a brave soldier, a silent sufferer, a
fond husband, a guileless Christian has been called to rest.
We shall join him again in the land of the leal.
[The foregoing tri' ute comes from Rev. J. R. Deering.]
John L. P.\rchm.\n.
Comrade John L. Parchman died at his home, in Mount
Vernon, Te.x.. June 26, 1905, aged sixty-one years. He was
birn in Harrison County, Tex., January 30, 1844. and had
r.lways lived in Texas. Comrade Parchman was a devoted
member of Ben McCuIloch Camp, No. 300, U. C. V., of
Mount Vernon, Tex. He entered the Coiiffderate service in
1862 as a member of Company D, nth Texas Infantry, Ran-
dall's Brigade, Walker's Division. Ke served in the Trans-
Mississippi Department, was in the battles of Pleasant Hill,
Mansfield, and Jenkins Ferry, and was paroled at Hempstead,
Tex., in June, 1865.
He was married to Miss Narvin Justice on November 17,
1868, who, together with three sons and two daughters, sur-
vives him. Our Camp has lost a zealous worker and a true
friend, the Church an ardent and devoted member, and the
community a good citizen.
W. P. Cooper.
William P. Cooper, of Hansonville, Va., died June 17. 1905,
aged about seventy years. Comrade Cooper enlisted in 1861
in Company C, 37th Regiment of Virginia Infantry, and
served to the end in Stonewall Jackson's old division. He
was severely wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville by the
explosion of a shell destroying his right eye, a fragment en-
tering his shoulder, which he carried to the end. C. B. Price
writes: "He was loyal to the cause of the South, a brave and
faithful soldier, an active member of McElhaney Camp, No.
835, U. C. v., a good citizen, and a true man."
Capt. Evan P. Howell.
In sinccrest condolence the Veteran voices its sorrow vvitli
a multitude of good people throughout and beyond the border
lines of Georgia in the death of Capt. Evan P. Howell, who
was perhaps longer a more potent influence for good than has
been any other man of the South. He was senior to, and sur-
vived for many years, the gifted Henry W. Grady, with
whom he was intimately associated, both bein.g conspicuous
in Southern journalism through the Atlanta Constitution.
Capt. Howell was not only able with his pen, but he was dis-
tinguished for his judgment of values as well as rf men.
It was a high tribute to the sunset of his years to be chosen
Mayor of Atlanta at a time when the Council and the people
realized the need of the most capable and vigorous mentality
possible to secure.
In formal action upon his death, the City Council Ihal had
so recently served with liini lor ihe conlnUKd upbuilding and
thrift of Atlanta said :
"Evan P. Howell was one of those rare characters that
touch every phase of human activity in the circle in which
;hey move, and thus did he for half a century mark high his
name upon the list of those who labored in all that has per-
tained to the :icti\itics of every class of our people in public
CAPT. EVAN p. HOWELL.
and in private station, in war and in peace. In early youth he
learned upon the farm the priceless and indispensable lesson
of the value of labor. In early manhood as typical of the
quality of speedily projecting his thought to the remotest
bound of iiis environment he learned to operate the electric
telegraph.
"A young lawyer of bright promise, he laid down Black-
.»tone to grasp the sw'ord, and upon the field of battle was a
shining type of those, whether of the North or the South,
who in the War between the States illustrated the undaunted
courage and chivalry of .'\merican arms. When the sound
of cannon and the clash of saber had died away, as solicitor
general of this circuit he was foremost in stamping out the
lawlessness and riot which seemed to be an inseparable se-
quence of war. As councilman he helped to gather together
the charred and yet smoking fragments of our municipal
fabric and planted the seed of which Atlanta's present mu-
nicipal greatness is but the early flower and the promise of
greater glory. As editor in tho^e stirring times he, no less
l;rilliant with his pen than with his sword, and more success-
fully, was the defender of our dear Southland yet bleeding
from her many wounds, while the columns of his paper
cheered and encouraged the drooping spirit of his compatriots.
As Legislator and as Senator his was a strong hand in the
affairs of State.
"As a fitting close to his hi.i^h service in many honnralile
stations, as Mayor his ripe wisdom guided the affairs of the
city which he loved dearer than his life. As a friend, con-
stant, loyal, and true ; as a husband and father, always provi-
dent and affectionate — all in all, we shall never, perhaps, see
his like again."
Hon. Clark Howell, a son, is now editor of the Constitution.
^09federal:(^ l/e(:erar>,
42t
HOOKS SUPPIJED BY THE VETERAN.
llciiin is given a list of books that should be in every
SouUicrii library and as many homes as practicable. The
Veteran has most of these in stock, and will supply the
others on application.
"Rise and Fall of the Confederate Govcrnnient." By Jef-
ferson Davis. In half Turkey morocco, express prepaid,
¥7.65. The regular price in this binding was $14. Buy soon.
"Destruction and Reconstruction." By Gen. Richard Tay-
lor. Price, $2; with the Veter.an one year, $2.75; premium
for cS subscriptions.
"Narrative of Military Operations." By Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston. Half morocco, $3; sheep, $2; postage, 25 cents.
Publisher's list is $6 and $8. With the Vetkr.w, $3.50; pre-
mium for 12 subscriptions.
"From Manassas to Appomattox." By Gen. James Long-
street. Price, cloth, $4: sheep, $5; premium for 12 and 14
subscriptions.
"Reminiscences of the Civil War." By Gen. John B. Gor-
don. Price, $3; premium for 12 subscriptions.
"Two Wars : An Autobiography." By Gen. S. G. French.
Price, $2; with the V'eter.\n, $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 Stonewall Jackson." By Col. G. F. K. Hender-
son, C.B. Two volumes. Price, $4; with tlic Veter.vn, $4.50;
|)rcmium for 12 subscriptions.
"Life of b'orrest." By Dr. John .\. Wyetli. Price, $4; and
with the Vkter.\n, $4; premium for 12 subscriptions.
"Pickell and His Men." By Mrs. LaSalle Corbcll Pickett
(wife of Gen. George E. Pickett). Price, $2.50; with the
Veteran, $3 ; premium for 8 subscriptions.
"F'our Years under Marse Rt)bert." By Maj. Robert Stiles.
Price, $2; with \'eteran, $2.50; free for 6 subscriptions.
"Reminiscences and Letters of R. E. Lee." By Dr. J. Wil-
liam Jones. Phe $6 edition, now $3; with the Veteran, $3.50;
premium for 12 subscriptions.
"Two Years on the Alabama." By Lieut. Arthur Sinclair
(serving with Admiral Semmes). Price, $3; with the Vtn-
) RAN. $3.50; premium for 8 subscriptions.
"Hancock's Diary." By R. R. Hancock, a member of Bell's
Brigade of Forrest's Cavalry. Price, $2; with the Veteran.
$2.25 ; premium for 8 subscriptions.
"Recollections and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee." By
Capt. R. E. Lee, the youngest son of Gen. Lee. Price, $2.50;
with the Veteran. $3.25; premium for 10 subscriptions.
"American Eloquence." A collection of speeches and ad-
dresses by the greatest orators of America from the days of
ihe Revolution to the no less important times preceding the
War between the States, with many steel portraits of such
men as Patrick Henry, Chief Justice Marshall, Clay, Cal-
houn, Webster, Randolph, and others. Two volumes, 8vo.
cloth, gilt tops. Price, $5, prepaid. As a premium for ten
new subscriptions this is a very special offer.
"The OKI South." By Dr. H. M. Hamill. Price, 25 cents.
I'rce to a subscriber who will send a new one. Chancellor
W. S. Beardcn, of Shelbyville, Tenn., writes of it : "I read
the book on Thursday night with much pleasure, and 1 read
il again on Friday night. Saturday I loaned it to Brother
Broyles, who read and returned il the same day, and 1
loaned it again : so it is Pioing the rounds among the sons of
the Old South."
We have on hand slill some copies of Rand-McNally's
Pocket Alias, one of the most handy reference books that
can be found. It will be sent postpaid to any subscriber send-
ing a new name with $1 and also to the subscriber. The
same offer is made on the Confederate Almanac, which was
for 1862. This is a small pamphlet of ninety-six pages and
contains in brief a history of the formation of the Confed-
erate ginermuent farewell addresses of Gens. R. E. Lee, E.
Kirby Smith, John B. Gordon, Joseph E. Johnston, Clement
.\. Evans. N. B. Forrest, and John S. Mosby. This pam-
phlet gives Ihe number of the Army of Northern Virginia
as shown by parole rolls dated April 9, '865, with the follow-
ing totals: Officers 2,781; enlisted men, 25,450; aggregate.
28,231. Mention these little books when copies are requested.
War Memories by Chaplain Quintard.
Dr. Quintard was a Chaplain, C. S. A., and the second
Bishop of Tennessee for the Protestant Episcopal Church.
This book was "edited and extended" by the Rev. Arthur
Howard Noll.
Each phase of the historic struggle of the sixties is given
consideration in this book. One aspect of the Confederate
army which has worthy attention is the high religious sense
and responsibility that animated the soldiers. Bishop Quin-
tard began the work himself, but before its completion he
was called to the great beyond. The notes that he left were
used by the Rev. Arthur Noll, the present Registrar of the
I'niversity of the South. This explanation is made by Mr.
Noll, and the introduction forms a valuable addition to Dr.
Quintard's reminiscences, which are entertainingly told.
Dr. Quintard was chosen chaplain by the Rock City Guards
of Nashville, which became part of the 1st Tennessee Regi
nicnt. The original request from the Rock City Guards is
given in the volume, and the history of Dr. Quintard's part
in the South's great struggle is most interesting. It covers
his experience at Big Sewell Mountain, Norfolk, Perryvillc,
Murfreesboro, Shelbyville, Chickamauga, Atlanta, Columbus,
Ga., Franklin, on to the "Crumbling of the Confederacy,"
which latter is given as the closing chapter.
There is also an account of Bishop Quintard's connection
with the University of the South at Sewanec and a graphic
description of his untiring efforts in behalf of that institution.
The book was completed after Dr. Quintard's death, which oc-
curred E'ebruary 15, 1898.
A Girl of the Sixties in '61.
Mrs. D. Giraud Wright, of Baltimore, is the author of "A
Southern Girl in "61." The book is uniform with "A Belle
of the Fifties," by Mrs. C. C. Clopton. This charming and
spirited narrative, alive with the intense individuality of its
authoress, throws new light upon the social history of Con-
federate times. Mrs. Wright, the daughter of Senator Wig-
fall, of Texas, was in close contact with many of the South-
ern statesmen and generals, with President Davis and Judalt
P. Benjamin, Gen. Johnston, and others. It is a revelation
of the more intimately human aspect of the great and tragic
events amid which the girlhood of the author was passed
that Mrs. Wright's memoirs arouse deepest interest. The con-
tents of the book include : "Childhood in Texas," "From Vil-
lage to City Life," "The Feminine Spirit of the Confederacy,"
"Southern Belles and Southern Soldiers," "War-Time Cor-
respondence," "The Fortunes of War," "Suffering in the
South," "Lines from the Losing Side," "Home Life of a
.Southern General. " "A Letter from the Front," "Last Months
of the War," and "The Fall of the Curtain."
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In and Out of the Lines. By Frances
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A recent contribution to the literature
of the sixties is "In and Out of the
Lines," by Frances Thomas Howard,
who dedicates her work "To the women
of the Southern Confederacy who yet
hold dear the four immortal years of
our past." The author claims for this
record an absolute authenticity, as it is
merely elaborated extracts from a diary
kept during the occupancy of Georgia by
the Federals in 1864-65. The language
of the work bears out this claim, as it
is written in extremely simple style, with
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Although there is perhaps too great at-
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of its historic vakie, as there is not the
faintest attempt at a plot of any sort,
and the only consecutive thread which
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family and intimate friends. Among
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most thrilling and distressing account of
the experiences of one Southern woman
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J. H. Elder writes from Atlanta, Ga. :
"An old comrade, Reuben Norris, of
Baxter's Tennessee Battery, wishes to
hear from any surviving comrades in
arms. He and his two brothers, Lind-
sey and John, of Campbell County, Ga.,
joined the battery while it was stationed
at West End, Atlanta, in March, 1864.
At the battle of Atlanta, on July 22.
1864, while hie battery was aiding in
the capture of Degress's Battery, his
two brothers were killed. In fact, Bax-
ter's Battery was almost annihilated.
Mr. Norris was wounded by a piece ot
shell at the battle of Jonesboro, Ga., and
was disabled for the balance of the war."
W. A. McDonald, of Sweetwater,
lenn., who was a member of Company
C, 25th North Carolina Regiment, wants
to ascertain the names of two Federal
officers captured on the night of July
17, 1864, in front of Petersburg, Va.
He was the uncommissioned officer who
escorted them and sixteen other prison-
ers to Gen. Ransom's headquarters.
Mrs. Luvina Hawkins, Pennsylvania
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information of Ezekiel Hawkins, who
enlisted in the 1st Tennessee Regiment,
and was afterwards with John H. Mor-
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one who was with him at the surrender.
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Robert Harvey, of Sherman, Tex.,
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.md 20th Georgia Rcgiir.ents.
Mrs. M. P. Sutherlin. 210 McCowat
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bis company and regiment, when and
where wounded, and where buried.
430
C^opfederat^ l/eterar?.
Hours Saved
BY TAKING THE
TO THE
North and East
sr. Louis or Memphis
ROCK-BALLASTED ROADBED,
WIDE VESTIBULED TRAINS,
PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS,
NEW DINING CARS,
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, ELECTRIC FANS,
RECLINING CHAIR CARS
ELEGANT DAY COACHES.
Forfurtherinformation, apply to Ticket Agents
of connectinc lines, or to
R. T. G. MATTHEWS, T. P A..
H. C. TOWNSEND,
QEN'L r«B«-R *N0 TICKET AOINT, ST. LOUIk.
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'A<MAM«AM«AiMIpMMLjM«M4MM*MM'^MMM4^*
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Air Line Railway
Short Line
Between the
South and East
Through trains from Birmiug-
ham and Atlanta to North and
South Carolina and Virginia
points, also Washington, Balti-
more, Philadelphia, New York,
and connections made for all
points East.
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
ELEGANT CAFE DINING
CAR SERVICE
•< • ►
W. E. CHRISTIAN. ». G. P. «. B. H. COFFET. T. P. ».
116 Peachtree St. Atlanta, Ga.
EDWARD F. COST, 2d V. Pres. CHAS. B. BTAN. G. P. A.
Portsmoutti, Va.
• "I 1 1 1 — ffir'n-trrrriji II I jur juyij.
How to Get There
QUICK
TKe Short Line, Via. Bristol
TO THE EAST
Thro\igh Train
No ChaLi\ge
Leave NEW ORLEANS, Q. & C 7:30 p m
" MEMPHIS, Southern Ry ll:00p,m
•• CHATTANOOWA, South'n Ry. 9:.5.5 a,in
•• KXOXVILLE. Southern Ry l:30p.m
" BRISTOL, X.iiW.Ry. 7:00 p,m
AriTeLYXCHBrRG, N, & tV. Ry 1:45 a,m
■• WASHINciTON". D. C, So. Ry. 6:.52 a,m
•• BALTI.MOKE. Md„ P. R. R 8:00 a,m
• PHILADELPHIA, P. R. R 10:15 a,m
■ NEW Y( )RK, P. R. R 12:43 p.m
•• BOSTON, N. Y., N. H., & H 8:20 p,m
Through Sleeper New Orleans to
Ne>v York
Through Sleeper Memphis to
New York
The finest Dining Car Service.
Reliable infoi-mation cheerfully furnished by
Norfulk and Western Railway, 109 W. Ninth
St. (Read House Block), Chattanooga, Teun.
Warren L, Rohr, Western Pas.senger Agent,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
W. B. Bevill, (General Passenger Agent, Ro»
noke, Va,
TRAVEL VIA THE
SOUTHERN
RA IL WA Y
TKe Great
esi
Soutkern
System
Double Dai-
ly Service
Nashville to
the East, via
ChattancD<:^a
and Ashe/ille,
through
Through
ville to New
York.
Dining and
Observation
Cars.
Pullman
Sleeping Cars
on all through
trains.
Elegant Day
Coaches.
"THE LAND OF THE SKY"
J. M. CuLP, 4th Vice Pres., Washington, D. C.
S. H. Hardwick, Pass. Traffic Manager,
Washington. D. C.
W. H. Taylok, Gen. x'ass. Agt., Washing-
ton, DC.
C. A. Benscotkr, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., Chat-
tanooga, Tenn.
J. E. Shiplet, Traveling Pass. Agt., Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
TENNESSEE CENTRAL R. R.
If Ton Are Seeking'
a Home, a Farm, or a
I Stock Farm, a location
for a Wood-Working
'Factory, a location for
a Factory of any kind,
for Timber Lands, for
Coal Lands, the line of
the Tennessee Central R.iilroad offers ilie finest
opportunity in tlie S null— f.ir the Horn. ■ .-icekor,
theMannfactiircr, .iiid tlie K:trmcr. It is anew
.ine runnmR tlirouglia mw and rich conn ry,
anil access! I)le by rail to all p.nrtsof the United
States. For furtner inforniaiion aiMress
T. A. ROUSSEAU, Chief Clerk Traffic Depf.,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
JACKSONVILLE
vi.i \''al(Josta Rout^, from Valdosta via Georgia
Southern and Florida Ry., from Macon
via Central of Georgia Ry., from
ATLANTA
via Western and Atlantic R. R., from
CHATTANOOGA
NASHVILLE
ishvill£, Chattanooga, and St. I
arriving at
ST. LOUIS
via the Xashvilb, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Ry.,
arriving at
AND AT
CHICAGO
over the Illinois Central R. R. from Martin, Tenn.
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Florida and the Southeast, will give you full infor-
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to St. Louis, Chicago, and the Northwest, and of
train time of lines connecting. They will also sell
you tickets and advise you as to rates.
F. D. MILLER, - . Atlanta, Ga.
Traveling Passeng^er Agent I. C. R. K.
F. IL WHKELEU, Nashville, Tmww,
Commercial Aj^ent.
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Naslivillei, Teun.
The Aggressive Grocer
WHO APPRECIATES RELIABLE, UNIFORM
GOODS, RECOGNIZES IK THE CELEBRATED
Maxwell House
Blend Coffee
AN UNAPPROACHABLE STANDARD
OF SUPERIOR EXCELLENCE
TjT'VERY retail grocer ii Nashville is handling this coffee,
*~^ and hundreds all over the Southern States are finding it
their best trade getter. If you desire for your trade coffee
that will give perfect satisfaction, which is always uniform,
which is a trade winner, and allows a handsome margin of
prolit, and which is cleaned, roasted, cooled, and pnchcil
uniler strictly aseptic conditions, in the most modern coffee-
roasting plants in the South and Southwest, you will mal;e no
mistake in carrying our goods. Our coffees make your store
popular, and bring you customers in other lines.
-Go f fees That Are Pure, Glean, and Fresh
MAXWELL HOUSE BLEND m PORTO RICO
There are but few coffee-roasting concerns in the United States who sell wholesale
exclusively and import their coffees. We are one of the few, and expanding faster than
any of them. The reason is, our coffees sell and give satisfaction. Blending coffee is a
difScult art. There are very few that understand it. Our blenders and roasters are ex-
perts of more than a quarter of a century's experience. ::::::
MAXWELL HOUSE BLEND
packed in one- and th
tight tin cans,
one dollar.
Mr
-air-
Threc-po&.G 4 p.
We have used MAXWELL HOUSE
lU.END COFFEE for the past ten yeiirs,
arnl we xiiihesitatingly affirm it is the jnir-
< st and most satisfactory coffee we have
ocAe
M;
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,inri
Vf.. K. Blaii K,
nse, NashviUr,.Tcin
PORTO RICO
packed in paper packages attractively
lithographed, and practically dust-
and air-proof. Moderate in price,
excellent in quality.
Almost every Southern wholesale grocer handles our coffees. If yours does not, write us.
Gheek & Neal Go f fee (Bompany
IMPORTERS AND ROASTERS OF COFFEES, AND PROPRIETORS OF THE TWO
LARGEST AND M06T COMPLETE COFFEE PLANTS IN THE SOUTH AT
Nashville, Tennessee, and Houston, Texas
Vol. 13
NASHVII,I.B, TENN., OCTOBER, 1905
No. 10
Qopfederate l/eterap.
A Group at Base of the Confederate Monument at Shiloh on Day of Dedication.
Keadintr fifim left to ri^ht. the vi't^-rans are; Capt. .7. \V. Irwiii. Maj. .1. H. Ashrraft. Uen. Basil W. L)«k<*. Kpv.
G. B Wintnji. t\>I. H. «. Evans, ('apt. Hobt. U. Smith. \V. S. Craijf. Jud^e S. F. Wilson. E. S. Pa>Tie. H. Clay Haynes.
On the liaso of column are Editor Vkteran, Miss Leonora 1 lieney. who iiuveiled 4Jn' monuuient. and Mr. R. W.
Cantrell. who was Senator Bat -"s private siH-retary for many yu.irs The other vet4?rans are Q0t of the reg^iment.
GATHERING OF CONFEDERATES IN FRONT OF SHILOH CHURCH.
The Aggressive Grocer
WHO APPRECIATES RELIABLE, UNIFORM
GOODS, RECOGNIZES IN THE CELEBRATED
Maxwell House
Blend Coffee
AN UNAPPROACHABLE STANDARD
OF SUPERIOR EXCELLENCE
pVERY retail grocer in Nashville is handling this coffee,
•*-* and hundreds all over the Southern States are finding it
their best trade getter. If you desire for your trade coffee
that will give perfect satisfaction, which is always uniform,
which is a trade winner, and allows a handsome margin of
profit, and which is cleaned, roasted, cooled, and packed
under strictly aseptic conditions, in the most modern coffee-
roasting plants in the South and Southwest, you will make no
mistake in carrj'ing our goods. Our coffees make your store
popular, and bring you customers in other lines.
-Go f fees That Are Pure, Clean, and Fresh-
MAXWELL HOUSE BLEND 1 PORTO RICO
There are but few coffee-roasting concerns in the United States who sell wholesale
exclusively and import their coffees. We are one of the few, and expanding faster than
any of them. The reason is, our coffees sell and give satisfaction. Blending coffee is a
difficult art. There are very few that understand it. Our blenders and roasters are ex-
perts of more than a quarter of a century's experience. ::::::
MAXWELL HOUSE BLEND
packed in one- and three-pound air-
tight tin cans. Three-pound cans,
one dollar.
We have used MAXWELL HOUSE
BLEND COFFEE for the past ten years,
and we unhesitatingly affirm it is the pur-
esi and most satisfactory coffee we liave
used. W. K. Black,
^^a^age^ Maxwell House, Nashville, Tenn.
PORTO RICO
packed in paper packages attractively
lithographed, and practically dust-
and air-proof. Moderate in price,
excellent in quality.
Almost every Southern wholesale grocer handles our coffees. If yours does not, write us.
Gheek <t NealGoffee Qompany
IMPORTERS AND ROASTERS OF COFFEES, AND PROPRIETORS OF THE TWO
LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE COFFEE PLANTS IN THE SOUTH AT
Nashville, Tennessee, and Houston, Texas
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MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILK TEKTHINft
WITH PERKKCT HDCCE8S. It 800THKK the CHILD
SOFTENS Ihp (SUMS. ALLAVS hU PAIN; CFRES WINB
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BEAUTIFUL COLORED LITHOGRAPH OF
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rapu i.sxL.> inilie'*. iif the famous eni;in->. "(ieueral." which in now on exhibition in tho
I iiion smtioii. I'hattaiii "" — ... ...
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raid was to l»nrn
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NASIIVII.IJ-:. TKNN., (MTOBKR litOo.
No 10
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
pRnpRIEToFt,
THE CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT SHILOH.
It must seem odd to refer to "the" Confederate monument
at Sliiloli, Imt true there is but one — one of granite and
bronze inscrilied In the valor and patriotism of Confederate
soldiers — while over one hundred monuments there attest
Confederate valor. Several Northern States have erected
magnificent testimonials to their soldiers who fought and
fell, while a multitude of commands have erected splendid
tributes to their comrades who fell in that battle fighting
against the South.
The 2d Tennessee Regiment suffered severe loss in the
battle of Shiloh. Included with its two hundred and thirty-
five killed and wounded were its colonel, W. B. Bate (after-
wards a major general C. S. A., also a Governor of his
State, and for about twenty years United States Senator),
severely wounded; Maj. \V. R. Doak, killed; Capts. Bate
and Tyrce, brother and brother-in-law of Gen. Bate, among
the many killed. So disastrous was the result that the regi-
ment was reorganized soon afterwards. It fought under
Cleburne in that battle. With such a leader, and heroes with
furloughs in their pockets, llicy might have been expected to
go wdierever ordered, as they did.
When it was decided a year or so ago to erect a monument
on the Shiloh field to the men of the 2d Tennessee Regiment,
there was no doubt but that it would be erected, and speedily,
although it was not expected that one so fine would be
erected so soon. While Senator Bate took the leading part
in the movement, he refused to permit his name to appear
except thus (Bate), in parentheses as indicated, without
initials, and he consented to that as designating his regi-
ment from another 2d Tennessee, commanded by Col. James
A. Ashford — the other second was consolidated with the 21st
Tennessee and known as the Sth Confederate Regiment.
The ceremony of tendering the monument to the care of
the United States Park Commission was interesting and most
appropriate. Capt. Robert D. Smith, of Columbia, Tenn.,
who served on the staff of Gen. P. R. Cleburne, was made
master of ceremonies. His introductory remarks were:
"Comrades. Ladies, and Gentlemen: It is right and proper
tliat we recognize the existence of a Supreme Being and ask
his guidance and protection before beginning the duties of
the day. I ask that you will all stand and join in singing
'Praise God, from whom all blessings flow,' and afterwards
to remain standing while the Rev. Dr. Winton offers a prayer.
"I am sure that I voice the sentiments of all the Veterans
here present (and I hope of all of this large assemblage as
well) when I say that our chief regret to-day is that the
life of our former commander, Gen. Bate, could not have
been spared to witness these exercises. Honor to his memory
and peace to his ashes ! As be cannot be with us, his good
wife has sent a letter, which Capt. Cheney will now read as
the Chairman of our Monument Committee."
C.VPT. Cheney's Resi'onse.
The day before Senator Bate left for Washington for the last
time I called to bid him good-by. As I was about to leave he
called me to one side and said: "You know there is a small
balance due on the monument, and I wish you to promise me
that if anything should happen to me you will see this paid
and the monument properly dedicated. The boys will help
you." I do not know whether he felt a premonition that he
would not live to be present in the flesh on this occasion, as
he spoke with deep emotion ; but this I do know, that bis
whole heart and soul were deeply interested in the success of
this enterprise, and I do believe that if it be permitted for
the spirits of the dead to revisit scenes on this earth the
spirit of William B. Bate is with us to-day. With your per-
mission, I would like to read you what I believe to be a
synopsis of some of the remarks the General would have
made here to-day had he lived. This letter from Mrs. Bate
will better explain :
GR.AxnviEW, Tex., May 15, 1905.
Dear Caft. Cheney: Among my dear husband's papers I
find these lines, and in his own handwriting, "Old Comrades,
Good-by." You can show it to "the boys," as he called them,
or you may read it at unveiling if you think proper.
Old Comrades, Good-by.
It is true that here and there we have a cemetery, which
is the result of woman's labor and of woman's love, but a
vast number of our Confederate dead are in graves unmarked
and unknown. Many of them, shroudless and coffinlcss, are
left on the field of their glory ; some on the outskirts of a bale-
ful hospital or a Federal prison, where, with
"A lack of woman's nursing
And a lack of woman's tears,"
they passed from the vision of kindred and comrades
"Into that beautiful land.
The far-away home of the soul."
It may be that they find sepulture on the bleak hilltop, or
in "the deep tangled wildwood" in the valley of the beautiful
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river. iV-rhaps one, more lucky tliaii his comrades, is under
the vestal vigils of mother, wife, or sister, as he rests in the
corner of the garden, where the llxwer buds burst with im-
prisoned sweets, and
"The woodbine spices are wafted around,
And the musk of the roses blows."
It matters nnt whether his buried chivalry rests under the dry,
smooth surface of mother earth, under the little swelling
mound of green, or under the marble shaft — it is eriually a
patriot's rest and a hero's grave. . . .
Our little flag, now known as the "conquered banner,"
plucked by the hand of fate from among the symbolic emblems
of nationalities, finds a niche in the temple of fame so high
tliat detraction cannot reach it. Its cross of St. Andrew, its
stars and bars, are a part of our history, and we will hold its
image unblurred in the mirror of memory. We hold dear the
pathetic dust of those who fell under its folds. Their spirits
left US, their old comrades, amidst the din and smoke of bat-
tle; but "we'll meet, we'll meet, in the sweet by and by." and
you, surviving comrades,
Old comrades of mine, by the fast waning years
That move to mortality's goal.
By my heart full of love and my eyes full of tears
I hold you all fast in my soul ;
And I march with the May, and its blossoming charms
I tenderly lay on this sod.
And pray they may rest here, old comrades in arms,
Like a kiss of forgiveness from God.
Old comrades, good-by.
Albert Sidney Johnston Camp of Confederate Veterans,
who hold their meetings on this historic ground, passed ap-
propriate resolutions upon the death of Gen. Bate, which
will now be read by the Commander of that Camp, Capt.
Irwin. [Copy of these resolutions was never furnished the
Veter.\n. — Ed.]
Introducing the speaker for the dedication. Capt. Smith
said: "It would be almost like 'taking coals to Newcastle'
for me to introduce the orator of the day to these Confed-
erate Veterans. His empty sleeve speaks more eloquently
than any w^ords I could utter of how well and faithfully he
discharged his full duty as a Confederate soldier. Instead,
then, of introducing I have the great pleasure of presenting
Judge Wilson, who will now, on behalf of the survivors of
the 2d Tennessee Regiment, deliver this monument to the
Commissioner of the Shiloh National Park."
Presentation to the Government p.v Judge S. F. Wilson.
Messrs. Park Coiiiiiiissioncrs, representing the Government
of the United Slates; Comrades of the Confederate Army.
Comrades of the Federal Army, and especially my Comrades
of Bate's Second Tennessee Regiment of Infantry; Ladies
and Gentlemen: We stand on historic ground. The event w..*
are here to-day to commemorate is historic in itself and re-
plete with historic significance with reference to results al-
ready embodied in the permanent sentiment of our republic
and in its promise of our republic's future. In its lesson
it goes beyond the borders of the United States, and speaks
with the ethnic voice of a race — a race of people which, under
the providence of God, have for centuries been gradually
conquering the world and which, preserving the character-
istics typified by to-day's event, will continue to spread its
beneficent banner of conquest until all people will recog-
nize its supremacy, obey and love its rule, and enjoy the
priceless blessings of individual liberty protected by its ac-
customed representative institutions and form of government.
I repeat that we stand on historic ground, and its visible
existence in history will stand before the public eye as long,
at least, as the United Slates exists as a government under
the control of Anglo-Saxons or a race with an infusion of
their blood in their veins. Over forty-three years ago a
mighty battle was fought here. It was a battle, speaking
generally, between men and boys of the Northern States and
men and boys of the Southern States. The best blood and
the bravest spirits of each section were present, participating
in the struggle and its carnage. Each fought for its con-
victions, and each fought with a fearless and desperate deter-
mination— the North to maintain the Federal Union with the
seceding Southern States as component parts thereof; the
South to establish a government of its own, composed of
States desiring to become members of it.
This is no occasion to discuss the right or its ab.scnce, from
the view-point of the Constitution of the United States, of a
State in 1861 to secede from the Federal Union. Neither
does the occasion suggest the propriety of argument as to the
policy of exercising the right, assuming that it had constitu-
tional warrant at that time. The point proper and permissible
to be stated as pertinent to this occasion is that certain
Southern States, or rather their people (Tennessee among
the number), believed that they had the right and that a
wise policy dictated its exercise, and they did exercise it.
The result was the organization of the Confederate States
government, the organization of armies by the Federal gov-
ernment to overthrow it, and the organization of armies in
the South to maintain it. As a part of the army of the South
was the regiment whose slain on this field it is our purpose
to honor, and whose names it is our desire to perpetuate
and hand down to history in granite, bronze, and marble by
the unveiling uf yonder monument.
L.\TTLE OF
SHTLOH
Pan n.
Cui^nJcraU - — — — —
POSITION OF THE ARMIES AT NOON FIRST DAY.
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If 1 know myself and tlie emotions of my heart, I would
'.ly nothing on this occasion even suggestive of offense to
:hc most sensitive soldier in the Union army of 1861-65. But
we are here to honor the memory of the dead of the 2d
Tennessee Regiment of Confederate Infantry, who gave their
lives on this hattlefield for a cause that they believed in and
ihat they loved. Their bones and their patriotic blood en-
rich and ennoble the soil around and under us. More than
this, we believe that their heroism, their devotion to their
cause and country, tlieir endurance and sacrifices, illustrated,
exemplified, and exhibited as well by iriost all Confederate
commands, constitute a heritage of immortal glory for the
present and future generations, teaching them the lesson, the
vital spirit of which is found in the Anglo-Saxon blood, that
a whole people fighting in an organized form in accordance
with the rules of civilized warfare for a free representative
government of their own making are guilty of treason neither
III country, God, nor humanity.
Coming to the regiment whose dead lie on this field and
that we are here to honor — a regiment that I am proud to say
I belonged to, whose flag I marched under until shot and
grape from the enemy's cannon disabled me from further
service under it, a regiment whose men, although its govern-
ncnt was overthrown and its armies overpowered, never felt
and acknowledged that they were whipped — we know it was
brave and heroic. We know that its luen loved the Southern
Confederacy and the cause they believed it stood for and
represented. We know that they were willing to give their
lives for it. Aye, I believe that if each member of it on this
field had possessed a thousand lives, and their sacrifice would
have won their cause, the sacrifice would have been cheer-
fully made.
Their record demnnslrales wliat I say. Composed for the
most part of youths under twenty years of age, these boys
ilid not wait for their State to withdraw from the Union
before organizing for defense a.gainst conceived aggressions
D.\m F. OF
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IH Pwii.oo iBuiwetltth. Aprt]
POSITION OF THE ARMIES AT SUNSET FIRST DAY.
on the part of the Federal government. Before the first can-
non belched its thunder at Fort Sumter they were aligning
themselves into companies in their several localities. In '.
short while ten companies of over a thousand men, or rather
boys, under a gallant set of company officers and as brave and
chivalric a colonel as ever led brave men in battle, were on
their way to Virginia, then the threatened point of im-
mediate fighting, to oflfer their services to the Confederate
government for a year. They were accepted under an en-
listment for a year, everybody at the time. South and North.
believing that the war would end before the expiration of that
period. It didn't end, and before their enlistment expired
tliey reenlisted for the war.
It was the first regiment, accepted by the Confederate
government under an enlistment for twelve months, that re-
enlisted for the war. After its reenlistmcnt for the war
on the banks of the Potomac River, in Virginia, in F'cbruary,
1S62, its members were given a furlough for sixty days. Be-
fore we got to Temiessee Fort Donelson had surrendered to
Gen. Grant. Nashville and our homes had passed into the
hands and under the control of the enemy, and Gen. Albert
Sidney Johnston had retreated to Corinth, pursued by the
victorious forces of the Federal commander. The member--,
of our regiment, many of them, drifted back with the Con-
federate forces, and at the request of Col. Bate and of
their own volition something over three hundred members
of the regiment assembled at Corinth a few days before the
battle here was fought.
They organized under Col. Bate and other officers of their
own selection, and tendered their services to the Confederate
commander, were accepted, and assigned to the left of Gen.
Pat Cleburne's Brigade. They went into this battle with
furloughs in their pockets. The men of the regiinent killed
here — the men whose names are inscribed on yonder monu-
meul — gave their lives for their cause, not under the obliga-
tion of an active present service enlistment in the Confed-
erate army, but under the impulse of patriotism and under
a sense of love and devotion to the cause dear to their hearts.
The men of the regiment who fought here and who were not
killed also offered their lives under the same impulse of
patriotism and devotion.
Who. with this record before him, will dare say that the
names of these dead men are not the names of heroes ? Who
will dare say that they were not patriots, if patriotism in its
essence and right definition means love of one's country, .is
he conceives his country to exist, and a willingness to die
to protect it from invasion? The inscriptions on our monu-
ment, sanctioned by the representatives of our present great
united republic, stamp in historic letters the eternal truth as
to tlic liravery and patriotism of our dead comrades.
Gen. Pat Cleburne, the brave among the brave, who was
killed on his horse while leading his division against the last
line of the Federal breastworks at Franklin, Tenn., said in
his official report of this battle (I give the substance") : "Ten-
nesseeans can never mourn for a braver band of heroes than
fell here in her 2d Tennessee Regiment."
May we not also say in the language of another inscrip-
tion on the monument: "Stranger, go tell Tennessee that we
(lied here fighting for her?'' ,,
With such a record (and it was duplicated in spirit by the
i;rcat rank and file of the early volunteers as well as by most
(if the later volunteers in the Confederate armies), who will
gainsay the truth of the utterance in substance recently made
by the President of the United States in a public address in
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tlie cily iif Louisville, Ky., llial "llic licroic bravery and de-
votion to duty of the Confederate soldier displayed in fight-
ing for what he believed was right were as much a heritago
of worth to the American people as were the heroic bravery
and devotion to duty of the Federal soldier in fighting for
what he believed was right."
I repeat again that we are on historic ground, and I might
add on sacred ground ; for the element of sacredness in-
volved in the willing sacrifice of life here by Confederates
and Federals commingles with the dry historic facts of the
battle and its results. But. as stated, the event we celebrate
and commemorate and the manner of its commemoration
carry a significance of remarkable historic import. Nothing
in the annals of civilized history, so far as my reading ex-
tends, parallels it.
The United States government at great expense has pur-
chased some four thousand acres of land covering the battle-
field here and erected it into a magnificent government park.
At its own expense it appoints commissioners to supervise its
government and maintain its preservation, with its historic
symbols, through a force of employees paid for out of its
treasury. It is a United States park, designed, in its gen-
eral scope, to illustrate its military history and afTord an
opportunity to honor its soldiers who died in defense of it?
governmental integrity and perpetuity. That government
which, in a legal and constitutional sense, we fought and in
its view sought to disintegrate is present by its official repre-
sentatives to receive, I trust, in its park and care for and
protect a monument erected by private individuals and sur-
viving members of a Confederate regiment to commemorate
and perpetuate the names, the bravery, the honor, the glory,
and the patriotism of its comrades slain in battle here while
fighting it and its army.
For one, as a Confederate soldier proud of the fact that
I was such a soldier, and who, under the same conditions and
with the same lights before me, would be one again, and who
has never had a brave Federal soldier to suggest that an
apology was due or that I needed forgiveness for the course
I pursued, I have no hesitancy in saying that, from the
governmental standpoint of the Union, its act of acceptance
of our monument will be not only one of wide magnanimity
but one of a historic significance that has never been even ap-
proached by any government except those controlled by the
English-speaking people. It shows the greatness and the
grandeur of what we are accustomed to term the Anglo-
Saxon blood. When people of this blood fight, especially
among themselves in regular organized governmental form.,
they fight to a finish. When the end comes, they sit down
together, swap tobacco, drink out of each other's canteens,
and soon begin to build schoolhouses and churches ; and be-
fore the trenches from which they fought each other are filled
up, they commence to consult together as to whether it would
not be pleasing in the sight of the Lord for .them to take the
country of some other people and give them the blessings
of good government as soon as they can be educated up to
appreciate the boon of liberty and assimilate our ideas of
freedom, and they generally find out that the Lord is pleased
to sanction their desires. This sentiment has enabled the
English-speaking people in the past to spread their sway.
Preserved in its original vigor, it will enable them to govern
the world in coming years. I need say no more.
I will ask Capt. Smith, Master of Ceremonies, to appoint
three men from the old regiment to escort Miss Leonora
Cheney, a lovely daughter of a captain in our old connnand,
to the monument, to the end that she may unveil it.
When the unveiling was accomplished. Judge Wilson turned
to tlif Park Commissioners and saiil : "Gentlemen of the Park
MISS LEONORA CHENEY.
Commission, representatives of the United States government,
the grandest, the greatest, and the most magnanimous repub-
lic in the world, I beg, on behalf of the surviving members
of the 2d Tennessee Regiment of Confederate Infantry, to
turn over this monument to your care and protection and
that of your and our government, and trust that it will be
accepted, believing that in your care, as the official repre-
sentatives of our great republic, it will be preserved and
guarded w'ith a consideration due to the patriotic sentiment
that prompted its erection."
Address of Acceptance by Gen. Basil W. Duke.
In the absence of Col. Cadle, the Chairman of the Sliiloh
National Military Park Commission, I am deputed to accept
this monument in behalf of the commission and for the gov-
ernment of the LInited States, and I may be pardoned if I
express the personal gratification and the unusual pleasure
with which I perform the duty thus devolved upon me.
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In assisting to honor those whom Tennessee loved and
\\hose memories she reveres, I discharge something more than
a mere formal duty, but one demanded of me by gratitude
and patriotism as well as official obligation ; for during the
four years that I wore the uniform of a Confederate sol-
dier I was as closely associated with the men who served in
Ihe ranks of the Tennessee regiments as with those whom my
own native State sent to the South, and even more closely
with her people than with the people of Kentucky. Much of
the service rendered by the command to which I belonged
was performed within the borders of Tennessee ; and when
our expeditions into Kentucky or more northern territory
were concluded and we returned from the long raid and
through the hostile lines, it was on her soil that we sought
rest and refuge and among her hospitable people that wc
found shelter and comfort.
Many of my closest and dearest friends and comrades were
Tennesseeans, and in all that heroic host which marched
and bled beneath the Southern banner there w-cre no truer
and star.cher soldiers, none braver or more devoted. 1 was
proud then and am prouder now to claim them as my com-
rades. The service which these men rendered and that done
by those who rode with Forrest, and the conduct of those
gallant soldiers of the Tennessee Confederate infantry w'lio
never in all their history turned back from a stricken field
and never looked on one they did not consecrate by acts of
lieroic courage, all contributed to make yet more famous the
name of the "Volunteer" State, and among them all none
■were braver and more ardent or more entitled to immortal
remembrance than those in whose honor this shaft is up-
lifted.
It was in no holiday time and under no ordinary conditions,
but in a period of real and burning trial that the mettle of
the soldiery and the truth and fidelity of the people of Ten-
nessee were tested. Tiny were subjected to an ordeal through
whidi only high-soulcd and true-hearted men could pass
with unblemished record, and they bore it with unflinching
TENNESSEE K1V1-;k .\T I'lTTSUUKG LANDING.
courage and unshaken fortitude. The worth and faith of the
Tennesseean were proven on every foot of his native soil ;
where the yellow tide of the great river washes the bluflfs of
her western border; where the blue grass pastures of her
fertile central region are hedged by the cedar brakes, in
which the troopers of Morgan and Forrest were wont to
make their camps and whence they issued upon their forays :
where the pine trees wave in the breezes of East Tennessee
and the trout leaps in the limpid pools of the Watauga — all
the land was made sacred by the blood of her sons and the
tender aflfection and even sublimer devotion of her daughters.
I am glad and proud to testify to that which I witnessed, and
gratefully acknowledge the kindness and sympathy of which
1 and my Kentucky comrades were the recipients everywhere
in that noble commonwealth.
It has been a matter of regret and disappointment to me
since I have served on this commission, and not less so to
my colleagues, although both of them fought under the na-
tional banner, that monuments have not been erected to the
Southern soldiers who fell here. It is with real rejoicing,
therefore, that we see this one arise, and we congratulate
you who have given it that you have erected one so beautiful
and appropriate. We look over this memorable ground and
see no testimonial, save this one, to the Confederate dead ;
yet eight Southern States were represented in the great con-
flict waged here, besides a number of regimental and minor
organizations which Kentucky and Missouri furnished to the
Confederate cause. The remains of some of the best and
bravest sons of the South are moldering beneath the sod of
this historic field, and we look in vain for the monuments
which should connnemorate their valor and devotion, the
sacrifice they made for the land they loved and the right as
they saw it. and which should attest the pride and aflfection
of the people for whom they died.
On the other hand, more than one hundred such structures
have been builded here by loyal and loving comrades and
grateful and appreciative countrymen to the brave men from
the Northern and Eastern Stales who fell here in defense
of the Union. More than one hundred beautiful memorials
of bronze and stone will remind coming generations of how
they died and of the glory which guards their graves.
We are glad that they have been thus remembered, and
we honor the affectionate solicitude which seeks with monu-
mental marble and careful inscription to preserve their names
.ind services from oblivion. But the South should do her
liart in this patriotic work, so that this field where contending
.irmies once strove with equal courage and nearly equal for-
tune for mastery in battle shall be made to show that the
combatants and their descendants on both sides now visit
it in friendly rivalry, seeking to adorn it with emblems of
affection and the evidences of peace and reconciliation.
It was with this object that the general government pur-
chased this property and to this noble use it has been dedi-
cated. It is intended that this spot, where the bones of hero.-s
rest, shall be regarded as holy ground; that the dead who li;
here. Federal and Confederate, all distinction between them
forgotten, all enmity buried in the grave, shall be held in
equal honor as American soldiers; so that the youth of this
country, from generation to generation, who shall visit it,
knowing little perhaps of the issues which divided those who
fought and fell here, knowing and feeling nothing of the
animosities and resentments of the strife, may be taught to
entertain the patriotic fervor which animated Confederate
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and Federal alike, to emulate their conduct, to serve their
country, and, if need be, give their breasts to the battle with
the same heroic purpose which impelled these men, whether
they wore the blue or the gray.
It is meet and proper that the heroic dead in whose honor
we are assembled shall remain on the field where they fell,
that their dust shall be mingled with the soil of Tennessee.
With a mother's tenderness, she holds them in her boSom,
and with a mother's care she will watch and guard their
sacred and precious remains. Their lips are sealed, their
tongues are silent; but Tennessee speaks for them in yonder
inscription. In one brief sentence she tells the glory which
is their due, and declares that they gave their lives for their
mother State: "They died for Tennessee."
Inscriptions on the Monument.
On the front: "C. S. A." and the Confederate flag. "To
the memory and in honor of our comrades of the 2d (Bate's)
Tennessee Infantry Regiment, C. S. A., who fell near this
spot early in the morning of the battle of Shiloh, April 6,
1862. Go, stranger, and tell Tennessee that here we died for
her. 'Tennessee can never mourn for a nobler band than fell
this day in her 2d Regiment.' " (From Gen. Cleburne's report
of the battle of Shiloh.)
It will be interesting to know how scrupulously careful the
War Department is in censoring the inscriptions on Confed-
erate monuments in national military parks. The law as
quoted for this battle is similar in purport to others. It says
they "must be purely historical, compiled without praise and
without censure, and must relate only to the battle of Shiloh.
They must also be based upon and conform to the official re-
ports of this battle."
There was much correspondence with the War Department
in regard to another inscription that Senator Bate wanted, and
as it was not settled the side is left blank, the hope being
that the Department would concede the inscription following:
"The members of this regiment being the first to reenlist
for the war in the Confederate Army— and with unexpired
furloughs, granted by the Secretary of War— of their own
volition came together, being assigned to the left of the first
line, moved into battle, and became actively engaged early
in the morning, in which the regiment lost 135 out of 365
entering the battle."
There was objection to using the names of those who were
killed in this battle, lest it might not prove to be accurately
correct; but that point was yielded and one side contains
many names — many, if not all, who were killed in the battle.
The Monument Committee was composed of the following
parties: John T. Branham, of Gallatin, Tenn., Chairman;
William B. Bate ; J. Sloar ; Col. William Hale, of Hartsville,
Tenn.; Capt. R. D. Smith, of Columbia. Mr. Sloan died and
Judge S. F. Wilson was selected to take his place. Capt. H.
J. Cheney was selected as Secretary and Treasurer. It is be-
lieved that the enterprise would have failed but for the per-
sistent efforts of Gen. Bate and his Secretary, who fought
on side by side until his death, ably assisted by Chairman
Branham. Others could not help as they were inclined. The
committee and the public owe a debt of gratitude to Capt.
Cheney, who persisted in the unpleasant labor to a successful
issue of collecting the subscriptions and paying the obliga-
tions of the committee.
A feature connected with excursions to Pittsburg Landing
and Shiloh deserves special notice and the thanks of all who
visit that battlefield. The most accessible route is by the
Tennessee River and by the St. Louis & Tennessee River
Packet Company, of which I. T. Rhea, of Nashville, is Presi-
dent, and John E. Massengale, of St. Louis, is the Traffic
Manager. Their steamboats are the City of Savannah, Shiloh,
Clyde, Tennessee, City of Memphis, City of Clifton, and the
Kentucky. The latter was used for this occasion. S. K. Hale is
the Master, and a model in the profession is he. Passengers
accustomed to railroad schedules grow impatient at landings
where hours, and maybe days in the aggregate, are spent load-
ing freight ; but this is unavoidable except on boats that are
run exclusively for mail and passengers. However, there was
such admirable business method by the Master of the Ken-
tucky that he received unstinted praise. No officious man-
ners were exhibited by the other officers, and even the roust-
CHUKCH at shiloh AT TIME OF THE BATTLE.
abouts were under as agreeable discipline as could be imag-
ined. The management of this line is in thorough sympathy
with the purpose for which the trip was made.
Tribute by Gov. Porter to Gen. Johnston.
In connection with this dedication of the first Confederate
monument, in the Shiloh Battlefield Park, it is fitting to quote
some reminiscences by Hon. James D. Porter, who was Chief
of Staff to Gen. B. F. Cheatham, and since the war Governor
of Tennessee and Assistant Secretary of State when Mr.
Bayard was the Secretary — Cleveland Cabinet.
The Nashville American has a worthy department, "The
City Beautiful," and Mr. J. T. Jolly designed a beautiful
monument to be erected in the capital of Tennessee represent-
ing Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston on his horse at that critical
moment when weakened by the loss of blood from his
wound and Gov. (later United States Senator) Harris ar-
rived on his horse just in time to ease the great commander
to the ground. Gov. Porter states in connection with the
matter :
"I was made a member of the Peabody Board of Trust on
the nomination of Gen. U. S. Grant, one of the original mem-
bers named by George Peabody during his lifetime. I was
soon on familiar terms with the General, and heard him dis-
cuss with freedom every prominent soldier of the War be-
tween the States. I asked him who, in his judgment, was the
first soldier of the Confederate army. His answer in full
need not be repeated here, but he added : 'AH of us of the old
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army recognized Albert Sidney Johnston as the first soldier
of the United States. He delivered battle at Shiloh like a
master of the art of war, and the tactics of the battle initiated
by him after the opening sustained the reputation accorded
to him by his former comrades.'
"Shiloh was fought on Sunday, April 6, 1862; the purpose
of the Confederate chief was to fight on the 5th. Cheatham
with his division occupied the line from Bethel, on the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, twenty miles north of Corinth, east to
Purdy, to the vicinity of Crump's Landing, occupied by Gen.
Lew Wallace with eight thousand troops, Cheatham's move-
ments were curtained by Miller's Battalion of Mississippi
Cavalry, and Wallace was as effectually corked up as was the
redoubtable Gen. Butler at Bermuda Hundred.
"This fact was communicated to Gen. Johnston at Corinth,
and the dispatch from Cheatham caused the forward move-
ment and an order to him to join him at Shiloh Church. At
daylight on the 5th of April Cheatham moved out with his
entire force now concentrated at Purdy, and sent this writer
with a cavalry escort to report his coming. I found Gen.
Johnston with about half of his army taking position in
Grant's immediate front without exciting the suspicion of
himself or of his lieutenants. I dismounted and approached
the General and said: 'I am directed by Gen. Cheatham to
report his coming; he is marching rapidly, he will be here
in an hour; he wants me to meet him with directions from
you.' 1 stood uncovered in the presence of the most heroic
figure of the war. He made me easy by inquiring, 'When did
you leave Cheatham, and what have you done with the troops
at Crump's Landing?' I answered briefly. He then said:
"You will hear my guns within an hour. Thank Cheatham
for promptness ; tell him to continue his rapid march, but not
to fatigue the troops, and to come to that part of the field
where the volleys of musketry arc the heaviest. I will be
there and give him orders — he must not wait for orders,
but go in and find the enemy.'
"The troops so anxiously expected did not arrive until the
middle of the night; rain, mud, and an untrained staff caused
this disappointing delay. At the dawn of the next day Gen.
Johnston was at the front, his troops in motion. He was
everywhere 'where the volleys of musketry were heaviest.'
He was unlike all other commanding generals of both armies,
who announced the plan of attack and left the battle to be
fought by division and brigade generals, but was on all parts
of the field; he knew its exact condition and when he fell he
had learned that, in spite of the loss of a day, he had sur-
prised Grant and won the battle.
"Grant notified Bucll, who was marching to his assistance
with 30,000 men, 'An attack has been made upon our most
advanced position ; 1 have been looking for this, but did not
believe the attack would be made before Monday or Tues-
day." Soon thereafter, after the rout of Sherman, he dis-
patched another note to Buell saying, 'If you will get upon the
field, leaving all of your baggage on the east bank of the river,
it will be more to our advantage and possibly save the day
to us. The Rebel forces are estimated at over 100,000 men.'
Johnston's army was 40,000 strong, but his courage, keen in-
telligence, and ability to handle troops under fire multiplied
his numbers in Grant's opinion, and the absence of confusion
was misleading to friend and foe.
"I recall an incident of which I was a witness (there were
many others of the same character) : In person he pulled
Cheatham, with one brigade, out of a position where he was
hotly engaged ; hurried him to the right at a double-quick for
the half of a mile, where our line was assailed by superior
numbers, pushed him in and delivered a counter stroke, which
caused the enemy to abandon that part of the field in great
confusion. Three times he moved Cheatham to strengthen a
weak place in his line. It was tactics like this that caused
Grant to estimate our forces at over a hundred thousand in
number. In his rapid movements along the line of fire, Gen.
Johnston was slightly wounded three times, his horse was
shot four times, and soon he was to receive the fourth and
fatal shot — fatal to him, fatal in the loss of a battle he had
fought with unmatched skill, and fatal to the hopes of his
country.
"Just before the fatal shot Johnston sent a message to
Beauregard (second in command, but sick and in the rear)
faying : 'I am sweeping everything before me.' His last order
was given to Gov. Isham G. Harris, acting Aid-de-Camp,
'Order Col. Statham to wheel his regiment, the 15th Missis-
sippi, to the left, charge, and take that battery,' pointing to it.
The execution of the order was reported. In making it Gov.
Harris stated that the General 'reeled from me in a manner
that indicated that he was falling from his horse. I put my
arm around his neck, grasping the collar of his coat, and
righted him up in the saddle, bending forward as I did so and
looking him in the face said, "General, are you wounded?"
He answered with deliberation, "Yes, and I fear seriously."
I sent for a surgeon. I guided his horse a short distance to
the rear, eased him to the ground as gently as I could. In a
few moments he was dead.' 'The mortal wound,' said Dr.
■^'andcll, "was from a Minie hall, which tore the poplite-
al artery of the right leg where it divides into the tibial
arteries.
"Gov. Harris recited the story of the death of this great sol-
dier to me not many minutes after his death. The intelli-
gence went through the army like an electric shock. Six
hours of battle had convinced men of every rank that his
presence was essential to success, and this feeling was gen-
eral. His fall caused an utter paralysis of action, and the
feeling was universal that his death turned victory into de-
feat.
"Albert Sidney Johnston belonged to the same class with
Wellington, Lee, Grant, Joe Johnston, and Stonewall Jackson.
Measured by his tactics at Shiloh, he was first of the class."
LIEUT. COL. JOHN IVEEDON.
Mrs. M. J. Wroe, Springfield. S. C. : "I read in the Veteran
an account of the serv^ices and death of Col. John Marrast,
of the 22d -Mahama Regiment, but no mention was made of the
Lieutenant Colonel who had to take command in the absence
of Col. Marrast. This officer, John Weedon (next in com-
mand), while leading and cheering his men on in the des-
perate charge at Chickamauga, saw several color bearers shot
down ; and having in his speech of acceptance of that same
banner given an assurance that it slunild go down but with
his life, seized it from the hand of the second or third victim
and rushing to the front stood under its folds, thus making
himself a target ; and while drawing the fire of the enemy, a
ball struck him in the temple. He fell enveloped in the folds
of the flag. His faithful servant took him oflf the field and
his body was sent to Mobile. Surgeon Little wrote me of
his death, and many clippings were sent me with accounts of
his coolness and bravery. There arc doubtless some living
who can testify to the truth of this. He was a Virginian by
birth, but had lived in Mobile for some vears."
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Qoi^federat^ l/eterap.
C^opfederate l/eterap.
S. A. CUNXIN'GHAM, Editor and Proprietor.
Office" Methodist PuI»Hshinp House Building^, Nashville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal property of R. A. Cunninj;"ham. All per-
sons who appmve its principles and realize its benefits as an organ for Asso-
ciations throughout the South are requested to commend its patronajje and to
Cooperate in extending its circidation. I-et each one be constantly dilijjent.
FURXISHIXG CRISP FACTS FOR THE VETERAN.
There is never a group of intelligent Veterans together,
when reminiscence is the theme, that there is not a volume of
incidents intensely interesting and historic. Inquiry of such
has revealed that in nearly every instance all are subscribing
to and very much interested in the Veteran. It is provoking
that these men will subside upon their return, and fail to do
what they admit freely that they should — to write what they
related for the Veter.\n. Request is earnestly made for such
reminiscences as abound with the pathetic, the humorous, and
the fraternities with a large class of Union veterans with
whom they were classmates in college, for instance ; and the
kindnesses shown them by victors who, as cordially and as
delicately as possible, did all they were permitted in influence
and with money for the defeated. Such events are of valued
historic importance; they are deeply interesting, and the ten-
dency is for good in every way.
When these appeals for the kinds of manuscripts designated
.and exercise of influence are ignored, the result will be to
dwarf the Veteran, and the silent period will come with
.desolation and silence will take the place of feeble efforts put
forth bv a few for the good of all.
REUNIONS AND CONTENTIONS.
Under this liead the Veteran e.Kpects to publish a list of
■reunions and conventions, and it is desired to make this a
prominent feature. Reunion announcements will be for the
Veterans, and convention announcements for the Daughters.
That of the Sons will follow the Veterans, and the Confed-
.erated Memorial Association next to the U. D. C. Please co-
operate at once in making a good showing.
Reunions of Veterans.
The United Confederate Veterans, at New Orleans in 1906.
'The exact date not yet named.
Georgia State reunion, at Macon, November 8, y.
Convention United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Convention for 1905, San Francisco, Cal., October 3-7.
The foregoing are given to indicate just what is wanted.
Now, Comrades and Daughters, please cooperate at once and
let us make a showing that will be a credit to the plan.
If you have agreed upon a reunion next year that is ex-
pected to be prominent, let us print the announcement now.
It is intended to give but a line or two, as a rule. The result
.of such cooperation will be helpful in the influence and prom-
inence of the Veteran.
Tennessee Division Confederate Soldiers. — The Annual
Meeting of the Tennessee Division of Confederate Soldiers
for the year 1905 will be held at Winchester October 11. 12.
There is called a meeting of the Tennessee Division of United
■Confederate Veterans for October 12 at the same place by
the Commander, Gen. G. W. Gordon, to which meetings thL>
rate of one cent per mile plus twenty-five cents has been fixed
by the railroads traversing any part of the State, which gen-
,erous terms should be. appreciated by all Corfedcrates.
THE CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.
Correction of a Typographical Error in Their Report.
by dr. j. william jones, secretary and superintendent,
richmond, va.
In your August number you print our report submitted to
the U. C. V. reunion, at Louisville, for which we return our
thanks, but there is one serious typographical error which we
would be glad to see corrected. You make the report say :
. . when we can realize the balance of the Rouss sub-
scription, we will have in hand over $300,000." This ought to
have been, of course, "over $200,000." Our Treasurer reported
in hand $106,343.13, and the note of the city of Richmond for
$50,000. This makes $156,343.13. The ten thousand dollars
subscribed by two wealthy citizens of Richmond, and payable
on call, would make $166,343.13; and the $40,000 balance due
on the Rouss subscription, and held up by Underwood's in-
junction, would make $206,343.13.
We are still earnestly canvassing for subscriptions, are hav-
ing some success, and hope soon to be entirely "out of the
woods."
THE PARTING SOUL.
The following poem was found among the papers of the
late Mrs. Frances McCoy Fitzgerald, wife of Chief Justice A.
L. Fitzgerald, of the Nevada Supreme Court, at her home in
Carson City after her death, which occurred at Redding, Cal.,
on Wednesday evening, July 19, 1905. The poem was not
dated, but bears the signature "F. F." she always used for her
writings, and it is thought that the lines were written shortly
before her death. Judge Fitzgerald was a faithful Confederate
soldier. He graduated at the University of North Carolina
the first year of the war, enlisted as a Confederate volunteer
the very next day after he took his degree, and kept step
with his comrades until the surrender at Appomattox. He is
the brother of Bishop O. P. Fitzgerald, of Nashville, Tenn. —
a chip of the same block, though one is a dispenser of the
gospel and the other of the law.
And so at last my day is done !
Slowly my life-tide ebbs away;
My waning sands are almost run ;
Death's night extinguisheth my day.
This body, faithful in the past,
Answers no longer to my will ;
This lab'ring breast hath peace at last ;
Heart, hands, and weary feet are still.
And this strange thing I call my soul —
Twin-born with yon pale shape it wore —
Doth it pass with it? Is its goal
Like that to die, and be no more ?
No! The immortal in me sayeth, "No!"
God hath implanted in the hearts of men
A faith death's mystery cannot overthrow.
Thou shalt arise, my soul, and live again.
Important Educational Association. — At an educational
conference held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
July 20-23, 1905, the Association for the Improvement of
Public Schools was organized with the following officers :
Mrs. Lindsey, Patterson, N. C, President; Mrs. Jennie Ken-
drick Collins, San Antonio, Tex., First Vice President; Miss
Scott, Baltimore, Md., Second Vice President ; Mrs. Joseph
Matlock, Birmingham, ."Ma., Secretary: Miss A. C. Jones, Co-
lumbus, Ga., Treasurer.
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CONFEDERATES AT DE QUEEN. ARK.
The Confederate Veterans of Sevier County, Ark., held
their annual reunion at Norwoodville August 15-18. The
second day was given over to the Daughters and the fourth
to the Sons of Veterans. Everything was favorable for the
occasion. In addition to the fine weather, clear spring water
was accessible and abundant. The Locksburg band furnished
choicest music. Several speeches were made — a fine one by
Attorney-General Rodgers, of Little Rock. Col. Otis Wingo.
of De Queen, Will Steele, of Texarkana, Misses Edwin
Clarady and Estelle Thomas, of Locksburg, and Miss Dem-
ma Ray, of De Queen, all made entertaining addresses.
Quite a surprise was sprung on the second day when Henry
Burroughs, of Company A, 7th Alabama Infantry, led Mrs.
Anna Scott, daughter of a Confederate soldier who was
killed in the war, to the platform and the two were made
one by Capt. John G. McKean, Chaplain of John H. Morgan
Camp, United Confederate Veterans, of De Queen.
W. S. Ray reports the foregoing, and also that "the John
H. Morgan Camp, 448, U. C. V., of De Queen, Ark., held
its annual memorial service at the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church in De Queen on August 13 to pay tribute to deceased
members, John Stout, W. H. Stone, E. H. Woolverton, and
to Mrs. Sarah Corder. Rev. R. H. Dodd delivered the ser-
mon. Mrs. Corder was a typical Southern woman who
died as she had lived for sixty year.s — a true Christian, loved
and honored by all who knew her. E. H. Woolverton was a
soldier in the Mexican War, having served through that war
as private in Jefferson Davis's ist Mississippi Regiment."
TULLY BROWN ON GEN. FORREST
The Veteran is pleased to announce that the Hon. Tully
Brown, of Nashville, will deliver his lecture on Gen. Forrest
at various places throughout the country. Mr. Rrown deliv-
ered this lecture in his native city last winter. The audience
was one of the finest and most appreciative in character ever
seen in Nashville. The press of the city was so lavish in its
praise of the lecture that he was importuned to deliver it at
other places, but not until recently did he consent to do so.
This lecture is unique in the fact that it is a vivid and striking
portrayal of Gen. Forrest as he was, as illustrated by his con-
duct in the camp, on the march, and upon the battlefield. The
military genius of Forrest is made to gleam through achieve-
ments actually wrought upon the weird and wild theater of
war, and these achievetnents are told in the strong and vig-
orous language of a strong and vigorous man, and he who
hears it learns more of Forrest than could be elsewhere learned
by months of reading and study.
Tully Brown is the son of Gov. Neil S. Brown. He joined
the Confederate army in the spring or early summer of 1861.
He left the school desk to do so, being in his seventeenth
year. He became a member of the battery of Capt. Monsar-
ratt, and remained in that company until the fall of 1862, when
he was promoted to a first lieutenancy of artillery, was as-
signed to duty on the staff of Gen. John C. Brown, and re-
mained with him until the spring of 1863, when he obtained
an order to report to Bedford Forrest, with whom he re-
mained until the end of the war, as a lieutenant of artillery
in the battery commanded by Capt. John W. Morton.
Soon after the war ended he adopted the profession of his
father, and with the opportunity thus offered for the exercise
of his rare and exceptional ability as an advocate and debater,
he very soon won high rank as a lawyer. He was appointed,
and served four years, as District .Attorney-General of the Fed-
eral Court for the Middle District of Tennessee under the
administration of President Cleveland.
One of the characteristics of Mr. Brown as a speaker is
that he does not speak by rote or from memory. His method
is to thoroughly master his subject and then deliver his speech
under the stimulus and inspiration of the occasion. He has
the happy faculty of putting his thoughts in that form of ex-
pression— stripped of unnecessary verbiage — best calculated to
leave impressions upon the mind and heart of his hearers.
.\s was said by a member of the Nashville bar recently : "No
one now living is so capable of lecturing on Forrest as Tully
HON. TULLY BROWN.
Brown, for he was with Gen. F'orrest in the army, knew him
personally, fought under him as his second artillery officer in
those battles where he won his most signal triumphs ; and
these opportunities, coupled with his rare ability as a speaker,
make the groundwork of what he really has, a most interest-
ing and instructive lecture."
It is now understood that Mr. Brown will deliver his lecture
at Winchester, Tenn., on the nth and 12th of October next,
during the annual meeting of the Tennessee Division of Con-
federate soldiers. It is certain that there is a rare treat in
store for all who mav hear this lecture.
H. B. DeBow, Color Be.\rer iith Tennessee Infantry. —
Mrs. C. M. Charlton, Antioch, Tenn. (R. R. No. 16), would
like to locate the relatives of H. B. DeBow, Color Bearer of
the iith Tennessee, Maney's Brigade, Cheatham's Division,
Hardee"s Corps, Army of Tennessee. He was captured at
Missionary Ridge December 24, 1863, and died in Memphis.
Her sister, Miss Mary Mcintosh, gave him every attention
and had him nicely buried, and Mrs. Charlton desires to let
those dear to him know that he had every comfort possible at
the time.
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Qopfederati^ l/eterap.
SPECIAL DEPARTMENT.
iJpited S>OT)S of (Confederate l/etera^s.
Organized July i, 1S9G^ in Richmond^ T'a.
Conducted by the Commander in Chief, to whom aU contributions
intended therefor should be addressed.
THOMAS M. OWEX, LL.D.. Commander is Chief, I. Monto-omerv Ala
WILL T. SHEEHAN, A. G. and Chief of Staff, f Montgomei y. Ala.
E. LESLIE SPENUE, JR., Commander A. N. V. Dept., Richmond, Va.
L. W. RYLAND, Department Adji'Tant.
R. E. L. BYNUM, Commander Armt Tenn. Dept,, Jackson, Tenn.
HOMER L. HICiGS, Department Adiitant.
I. J. STOCKETT, Commander Trans-Miss. Dept., Tyler, Tex.
C. S. WELSCH, Department Adjutant.
(No. 4.)
CONFEDERATION NEWS.
As indicated in the above heading, the several department
commanders have selected their adjutants. Full lists of their
staff appointments will be announced later.
George W. Duncan, Commander, is actively pushing the
confederation work in the Alabama Division. With a view to
arousing greater interest in the coming reunion of the Divi-
sion, he has recently visited the camps in Florence, Tuscum-
bia, Sheffield, and Jasper. He also visited Decatur and Athens
in order to secure the organization of camps there.
Prof. Clarence J. Owens, Commander of the Fifth Brigade,
Alabama Division, has done good work for the "cause" in the
last few weeks. The new Camps noted at Piedmont and Line-
ville are due to his initiative. Prof. Owens will be put forward
for election as Commander of the Alabama Division at the re-
union in Huntsville, October 25 and 26.
New Camps.
Inasmuch as members were not assigned to the Camps noted
in the August issue, the full list of all Camps chartered to date
by the present administration is here given — viz. :
No. 518, Sam Davis, Mineral Wells, Tex., July 6, 1905, thirty
members ; W. E, McConnell, Commandant ; Walter L. Nor-
wood, Adjutant.
No. 519, Morgan Coltrain, Hillsville, Va., July 6, thirty
members; S. W. Tompkins, Commandant; H. L. Franklin,
Adjutant.
No. 520, Justin, Justin, Tex., July 13, forty members; Dr.
W. H, Pennington, Commandant; T. W, Anderson, Adjutant.
No, 521, Boiling Hall, Robinson Springs, Ala., August 2,
twenty members ; J. J. Dismukes, Commandant ; F. E. Myers,
Adjutant.
No. 522, Hood, Piedmont, Ala., August 26, sixteen members ;
E. C. Harris, Commandant; J. H. Hood, Adjutant.
No. 523, Capt. John T. Bell, Lineville, Ala., September 7,
forty-five members ; Walter S. Smith, Commandant ; James A.
Smith, Adjutant.
No. 524, Edwin Trimble, Ashland, Ky., September 11,
twenty-seven members ; J. Walter Mayo, Commandant ; How-
ard Mullan, Adjutant.
No, 525, Johnson Hagood, Blackville, S. C, September II,
twenty-nine members ; A. B. Hair, Commandant ; H. Fuller-
ton Buist, Adjutant.
All members of the Confederation are urged to secure uni-
forms and official badges. Full particulars supplied on appli-
cation.
New forms for the institution of Camps are now ready.
The Commander in Chief will be glad to send papers to any
community where a Camp is desired. Let the Sons of every
community of the South organize !
Contributions of news and other items for this department
are earnestly solicited. It is the duty of all patriotic mem-
bers of the organization to assist in making it a success — a
potent agency for our upbuilding.
Staff and Committees.
Owing to the want of space. General Order, No. 2, cannot
now appear at length. Later all members of the staff and all
members of committees will be published. The following are
the principal members of the staff, and the chairmen of com-
mittees :
Adjutant General and Chief of Staff, Will T. Sheehan,
Montgomery, Ala.
Inspector General, George R. Wyman, Louisville, Ky.
Quartermaster General, Richard G. Banks, Montgomery,
Ala.
Commissary General, Leroy S. Boyd, Washington, D. C.
Judge Advocate General, John A. Collinsworth, Humboldt,
Tenn.
Surgeon General, C. Hamilton, M.D., Rome, Ga.
Chaplain General, Rev. J. W. Caldwell, New Orleans, La.
Historical Committee, George W. Duncan, Chairman, Au-
burn, Ala.
Relief Committee, Thomas P. Stone, Chairman, Waco, Tex.
Monument Committee, R. B. Haughton, Chairman, St.
Louis, Mo.
Finance Committee, D. C. Bell, Chairman, Pine Bluff, Ark.
Women's Memorial Committee, James Mann, Chairman,
Norfolk, Va.
Joint Committee on Cooperation, W. E. Daniel, Chairman,
Yazoo City, Miss.
Committee on the Establishment of Departments of His-
tory, W. Armistead Collier, Jr., Chairman, Memphis, Tenn.
Permanent Archives, E. P. Cox, Chairman, Richmond, Va.
Constitutional Revision, William McL. Fayssoux, Chairman,
New Orleans, La.
Death of Comrade Warwick H. Payne.
In the death of Hon. Warwick H. Payne, in Atlanta, Ga.,
August 9, 1905, the Alabama Division lost one of its most
earnest and devoted Sons. Immediately on the announcement
of his demise George W. Duncan, the present Commander of
the Division, issued General Order No. 15, calling attention
to the sad event. The following extracts will show his posi-
tion in the affairs of the organization :
"i. Comrade Payne was a native of Alabama, and he was at
all times a loyal and devoted Son. Largely through his in-
strumentality Camp William H. Payne, No. 232 (named in
honor of his father), at Scottsboro, Ala., was organized in
1900, and he was its first Commandant. On September 9,
1901, he was appointed Commander of the Alabama Division,
U. S. C. v., being the third incumbent of that position. Re-
elected November 13, 1901, he served for the succeding year,
when he voluntarily retired.
"2. In his death the Confederation loses an enthusiastic and
zealous member, one who never tired in its service, and one
who regarded his record as the son of a Confederate soldier
as his proudest mark of honor."
Comrade Payne had but recently married Miss Lucy Powell
Randle, of Union Springs, Ala. To her, as well as to the
remaining members of his family, the sympathy of the Con-
federation is extended.
He was interred at Union Springs,
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Monument Work in the Mississippi Division.
On July 31, 1905, W. Calvin Wells, Jr., Commander of the
Mississippi Division, issued his General Order No. 2, the im-
portant features of which are contained in the following para-
graphs :
"l. That on the night of the second Monday of August each
and every Camp in the State hold a special meeting, at which
meeting, if officers of said Camp have not been elected for the
year, they shall be immediately elected and installed.
"2. That the said Camp at said meeting shall consider the
advisability and desirability of erecting within the courthouse
yard of their county, to the soldiers, sailors, and the women of
the Confederacy, a suitable monument.
"3. That in connection therewith said Camp pass on the ad-
visability of passing resolutions petitioning the Governor of
the State to recommend to the next Legislature the passage of
a general law for each county of the State allowing the Board
of Supervisors thereof to make a donation of a sum of money
for the purpose of aiding in the erection of such a monument,
such as was passed by the last Legislature for the counties of
Jefferson and Carroll. (See Acts of Legislature of 1904, pages
250 and 264.)"
The results of this effort will be watched with interest over
the entire Confederation. The Mississippi Division has car-
ried to successful conclusion the purchase of Beauvoir for use
as a soldier's home, and now that this has been accomplished,
the leaders in the Division are wisely planning new activities.
It is believed that this plan will not interfere with the
Women's Memorial, which will of course have the support of
all Mississippi Sons.
Division Reunions.
As stated in this department for August, the importance of
Division reunions cannot be too much emphasized. In sev-
eral of the Divisions this duty is so highly regarded that no
pains are spared to secure the highest and best results, both
in attendance and in work projected. It is hoped that Sons
everywhere will respond to the suggestion here made, and
will bend their every encra-y to making their Division reunions
successes.
Further dates have been ascertained as follows: the re-
union of the Missouri Division is slated for October 3, at Kan-
sas City ; and the Indian Territory Division for October 3, 4,
and 5, at Vinita. Concerning the latter, the Commander, Otis
B. Weaver, who is likewise at the head of the Indian Territory
Press Association, writes that the indications are very flatter-
ing for a fine reunion season. The reunion of the Tennessee
Division will be held at Winchester, date not yet ascertained.
In General Order No. 3, issued September 11, 1905, Divi-
sion Commander E. Lee Trinkle convenes the Camps of the
Virginia Division in reunion for October 25, 26, 1905, at
rclcrsburg. Camp A. P. Hill, U. S. C. V., No. 167, will be
the host for the occasion, and extensive preparations are being
made. Tliis Camp has grown wonderfully in the last few
weeks. In the order Commander Trinkle names the division
committees, and appeals for a general attendance.
At the reunion of the Texas Division, held at Galveston,
July 19 and 20, Mr. J. M. Tisdal, of Greenville, was chosen
Commander. He has not yet announced his staff.
It is unofficially ascertained that the reunion of the Louis-
iana Division has been indefinitely postponed, owing to yellow
fever conditions. Members of the Confederation in fever-
r^tricken sections have the sincere and deep .sympathy of their
comrades elsewhere.
Comrades W. L. Williams and S. A. Crump are a committee
from Thomas Hardeman Camp, No. 18, Macon, appointed to
look after all matters connected with the reunion of the Geor-
gia Division at that point November 7 and 8. They are
working energetically, and they have the support of former
Commander in Chief Walter T. Colquitt, Atlanta, the present
Division Commander, Charles G. Edwards, Savannah, and the
Surgeon General of the Confederation, Dr. C. Hamilton, Rome.
C.^MP Johnson Hagood Formed.
A Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans was organized on
July 12, 190S, at Blackville, S. C, with a membership of twen-
ty-nine loyal sons and grandsons of the heroes of the sixties.
The officers are : A. B. Hair, Commandant ; J. Wyatt Brown-
ing, First Lieutenant Commander; Samuel R. Boylston, Sec-
ond Lieutenant Commander; H. Fullerton Buist, Adjutant;
Rev. C. M. Billings, Chaplain ; R. Bowman Still, Commissary.
A committee consisting of Clinton M. Felder, John M. Far-
rcll. Dr. Ryan A. Gyles, Herman Brown, and Robert B. Pick-
ling was appointed to look after the promotion of the Camp,
also to cooperate with the Robert E. Lee Chapter of Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy in their high purposes.
The Camp adopted the name of Johnson Hagood, in honor
of the gallant brigadier general of that name.
Mr. Felder has been appointed on the staff of Gen. Teague,
of Aiken, as Aid-de-Canip, with the rank of Captain, of the
Second Brigade. U. C. V., of the South Carolina Division.
The organization of this Camp of Sons is due entirely to the
efforts of Mr. Felder, and the appointment given him by Gen.
Teague is a high compliment to a worthy son of a gallant
Confederate veteran of the cause that was just, though lost.
It was chartered September 11, 1905, as No. 525.
Women's Memorial.
Since the August issue, with the editorial assistance of Miss
Mamie Bays, of Charlotte, Gen. C. Ir\'ine Walker has issued
his North Carolina supplement in behalf of the Women's Me-
morial. Nine newspapers used the supplement. Miss Bays is
to be congratulated on her work as editor. She has brought
together a vast mass of material which will be of inestimable
value to the future historian of the war. If is hoped that the
financial returns will be commensurate with the effort.
Gen. Walker reports satisfactory progress under the reso-
lutions adopted at the Louisville reunion by the United Con-
federate Veterans. Inasmuch as these resolutions have not
heretofore been published, they arc given in full below. Sons
inust by nil means cobperate with the Veterans in this noble
work. The resolutions are as follows :
"Whereas at our reunion of 1904 our federation turned
over to the Sons the sacred duty of raising the funds for the
memorial to the women of the Confederacy; and whereas in
so doing we never relinquish our deep and abiding love for
the cause, or our intention to aid and assist it by every means
in our power; and whereas we have clearly shown this by our
appointment of a committee to cooperate, and by the work
which this committee and many other veterans in all parts
of the South have done during the past year; and whereas it
will ever be our most earnest desire to see this tribute paid to
our glorious women, and we are most anxious to further co-
operate with and give substantial aid to our Sons in the per-
formance of this sacred duty ; therefore be it
"Resolved: i. That each Camp of the United Confederate
Veterans, immediately after the adjournment of this conven-
tion and the return home of its delegates, shall appoint a com-
mittee to actively canvass its respective community to raise
funds for this memorial to the Women of the Confederacy,
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to which noble, worthy, and just object this federation has
repeatedly and solemnly pledged itself and its comrades.
"2. That in case any Camp does not take action within one
month by appointing this committee, it shall then become the
duty of its Commander to make appointment of such commit-
tee. If no action is then taken by the Commander, any mem-
ber of the Camp who is enthused with that high sense of his
duty to this holy cause, and desires to honor our godlike
women, is urged to personally take charge of the matter, se-
cure the indorsement of his local Camp or its officers, and
make such collections as he can from his community.
"3. That all funds collected under resolutions one and two
shall be deposited in some home bank — at interest — to the
credit of the Chairman of the United Confederate Veterans'
Committee of Cooperation (Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Charles-
ton, S. C), and that he shall be promptly advised of such
deposit.
"4. That the above resolutions are not intended to be obliga-
tory upon such Camps as have already taken similar action or
have already contributed to this fund fifty dollars or more.
"S. That each Camp is urged to endeavor to raise from its
community as its quota, at the very least, the sum of fifty dol-
lars.
"6. That all Camps shall complete this work by January i,
1906, and on that date make a report of the results achieved,
to the Chairman of our Committee of Cooperation (Gen. C.
Irvine Walker, Charleston, S. C. )."
CONFEDERATE FLAG FROM WISCONSIN.
For quite a while Maj. A. W. Wills (who was an officer in
the U. S. A,), Postmaster at Nashville, has interested himself
in the return of a Confederate battle Hag that was believed to
be that of the ist Tennessee Infantry captured at Perryville,
Ky., October 8, i860. The ist Wisconsin Infantry captured
the flag. It has been held as the property of the ist Wisconsin
Infantry and is in the possession of Ernst G. Timme, of that
regiment, now the Fifth Auditor of the United States Treas-
ury. Maj. Wills called several times upon Mr. Timme when
in Washington, and considerable correspondence has passed
between them.
Mr. Timme finally sent the flag to Maj. Wills and writes:
"I understand that the boys of the ist Tennessee have their
reunion on the 8th day of October, and I think it a good idea
to have the flag present at said reunion, so as to give them a
chance to determine definitely whether it is their flag or not.
As I told you before, the ist Tennessee was opposed to us
when the flag was captured ; that it was carried by brave men
the evidence on the flag speaks for itself.
"I have just returned from a trip to Wisconsin, and while
there I saw Judge Seamen, who is President of the First Wis-
consin Regimental Association. He assured me that he would
do everything that he could, and that in his opinion there was
no doubt but that said Association would be more than will-
ing to return the flag to the brave old ist Tennessee, if it is
determined that it belongs to them.
"Please remember me verj' kindly to the members of the ist
Tennessee."
The flag has several bullet holes in it, but has been remark-
ably well preserved. There is doubt as to whether members
of the regiment will be able to identify it. The noticeable fact
and one that will do lasting good, however, is the spirit mani-
fested by these veterans of the Union army in the efifort to
restore the flag, in the spirit so manifestly kind and patriotic.
LOYAL-HEARTED SOUTHERN WOMEN.
"To the Confederate mothers is directly due the present
prosperity of the South, and to them do we owe all that we
have to-day." The foregoing statement is from the pen of
Gen. C. I. Walker, of Charleston, and he further states that
"the South was blessed with pure and gentle women before,
but the war brought out their strength and nobility. The
Confederate mothers were, therefore, higher and nobler than
the women of the South- who lived before them. What they
learned in that terribly tragic school fitted them to influence
the veterans and their sons and daughters to the eternal ben-
efit of both. Apart from and above all they did during the
war, their bearing since has been far more beneficent.
"These glorious women learned in the hard school of war to
do many, to them, humbling duties which fitted them to be
true 'helpmates' to the ruined men of the South. They had
learned the heroic lessons of fortitude, which fitted them to
cheer, to sustain, to encourage the men of the South in that
terrible struggle to rebuild their desolate homes and restore
their ruined fortunes.
"These women learned to think and to act, which they then
did by the side of men ; and thus, by such help, did the men of
the South build the splendid prosperity which now blesses
their section.
•Their Influence on Their Sons .\nd D.^ughters.
"The exercise of the same high qualities, which enabled
them to sustain their husbands and brothers, made them teach
and rear a generation of men and women in the stern realities
of poverty, and to bring them up as the strong men and
women who are to-day the pride of the South, and who have
carried on the splendid work begun by their fathers.
"To THESE WOMEN, THESE CONFEDERATE MOTHERS, WHO
THEMSELVES LEARNED IN THE HARD STRUGGLE OF THE WAR, IS
FAIRLY DUE THE CREDIT OF INFLUENCING AND THEN EDUCATING
THE GENERATIONS WHICH HAVE GIVEN THE SoUTH ITS PRESENT
PROSPERITY AND HAPPINESS.
"Without the influence of such women, despair would have
ruled our country, and the men could not have made that
magnificent recovery from the desolation of war.
"Let us. Veterans and Sons, show that we appreciate
it, and that we are not only willing but anxious and deter-
mined to honor in deeds, not only in words, our wives, sisters,
and mothers, the women who were made purer, nobler,
grander by the sacrifices, struggles, endurance of those terri-
ble four years, and who have laid all upon the altar of their
country, and have caused the South to blossom and prosper.
"Let us never forget that to the women of the Southern
Confederacy we owe all that is good in the South to-day."
J. R. Harris, of ist Kentucky Cavalry, C. S. A. — John A.
Mitchner, Sr., Selma., N. C, writes of a Confederate soldier
buried in their family cemetery, near Smithfield, N. C. — John
R. Harris, who was killed by the accidental discharge of his
own gun as he was ready to go on picket duty. The wound
necessitated the amputation of one leg above the knee, and he
never recovered. Mr. Mitchner writes of this young soldier
in the hope that it may inform his relatives and friends as to-
his burial place. On the pine board that was placed above him-
this was carved : "John R. Harris, Company B, ist Kentucky
Cavalry, C. S. A.," with the addition, "A lone Confederate
soldier, killed by the accidental discharge of his own gun as he
was getting ready to go on duty one dark, rainy night, spring,
1865." Any further information that can be given will be done
with pleasure.
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THE JONES RAID THROUGH WEST VIRGINIA.
BY GEORGE H. MOFFETT, PARKERSBURG, W. VA.
The cavalry brigade of the Confederate army, commanded
by Brig. Gen. William E. Jones, had been in winter quarters
at Krotzer Spring, about six miles northwest from Harrison-
burg, Va. The brigade was composed of the following or-
ganizations: The 6th Virginia Cavalry (commanded by Col.
Thomas S. Flournoy), the 7th Virginia Cavalry (Col. Richard
Dulaney), the nth Virginia Cavalry (Col. Lunsford L.
Lomax), the 12th Virginia Cavalry (Col. A. W. Harman),
Brown's Maryland Battalion, and Chew's Battery of Horse
Artillery.
Early in April, 1863, the brigade broke camp and started on
a march westward across the North Mountains in the direc-
tion of the South Branch of the Potomac. Possibly, with the
exception of the commander, no one had knowledge of the
brigade's destination, but tliere was every indication that an
important movement was in progress. Another big battle
on the Rappahannock between Lee and Hooker was antici-
pated, and it was the general surmise in our. brigade that
we were going to strike the B. and O. railroad at some point
so as to intercept railroad communication and prevent re-
enforcements from going to Hooker. This surmise was
strengthened by the fact that a train of pack horses loaded
with powder kegs was sent along with us. We had no wagon
train, so we knew that celerity was to be a feature of our
movement.
We crossed the niounlaiiis in a heavy rain ; and when we
readied the South Brancli at Moorefield, we found the stream
at flood tide and out of banks. We camped overnight at
Moorefield, and the next morning Gen. Jones was informed
that there was a wider ford at Petersburg, ten miles above.
So we were marched up to a point opposite Petersburg (now
in Grant County, W. Va.) and did effect a crossing with great
difficulty and some loss. But the water was so deep and
swift that Gen. Jones w-as compelled to leave his artillery and
powder train behind. In making this crossing, we had one
man and twenty-seven horses drowned. We occupied most
of the afternoon in getting the cavalrymen across, and we
camped that night on the west bank of the South Branch,
about opposite our camp of the previous night. While we
had made a day's march and a most perilous fording of the
river, we had progressed only about two miles.
The next night we encountered our first opposition from
the enemy in Greenland Gap ; and, while they were not in
large number, still they were so well fortified that it became
a diflicult matter to dislodge them. It was a battalion of
Mulligan's command who had fortified themselves in an old
log "meetinghouse" which stood by the roadside at a point
in the canyon where the passway narrowed down to about
fifty or sixty yards in width, with steep mountains rising on
either side. If we had brought our artillery with us, it would
not have taken long to dislodge them. But the cannon were
not there, and there was no opportunity for cavalry opera-
tions. When a demand was made for their surrender, they
"laughed us to scorn." From a loophole in the chinking
between the logs they were banging away at us, with no
chance for our revolvers or even carbines to inflict serious
loss upon them. Our men dismounted and took to the moun-
tain sides, and opened siege. Now and then w-e put through
the cracks and crevices of the log structure a chance ball that
did fatal work. Several of the enemy were killed and
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wounded. About midnight a young man. named Tom Wil-
liamson, belonging to the I2th Virginia Cavalry, volunteered
to perform a feat of Indian strategy, which proved a winner.
The old meetinghouse had a big stone chimney built on the
outside. Under cover of darkness Williamson crawled along
the ground until he reached the chimney and then climbed
it to the top of the building, when he set the roof on fire.
As soon as the enenv,- discovered their dilemma they ran out
the white flag and gracefully surrendered. It was no time to
be burdened with prisoners, so, after paroling them, we rode
on, leaving our prisoners to w'arm their hands by the blazing
fire of the burning church.
The first point at which we struck the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad was near Oakland, Md. ; but, owing to the lack
of artillery and blasting powder, we were not able to do
serious damage beyond destroying wooden trestles, building
fires on the iron bridges so as to warp the structures, and
capturing a few engines and freight trains. We did enough
damage at this place and other points to delay operation for
a while and to hold up the rcenforcements to Hooker for a
time, so that probably the battle of Chancellorsville was
fought a month later than the original plan.
Our next point of attack on the railroad was at Rowles-
burg, where there is a long bridge over Cheat River ; but the
enemy had concentrated their troops at that place in such
numbers that after feeling their strength Gen. Jones decided
to withdraw without offering battle. I have always had an
impression that at this juncture Gen. Jones changed his plans.
Realizing that without artillery or facilities for blowing up
bridges he was not able to inflict more damage on the rail-
road than had been done, and not wishing to return without
trophy, he concluded to go off on a cattle hunt through the
enemy's territory.
We turned northward and marched to Kingwood, the
county seat of Preston, and from thence to Morgantown, the
c?;>ital of Monongalia County. We are now skirting along
close to the Pennsylvania border and fairly in the enemy's
country. The people of this section were Unionists, who
looked upon us as invaders. Our orders were to respect non-,
combatants and to protect private property, except that we
were to gather up all cattle fit for beef and good horses to
carry away with us. Just before reaching Morgantown the
men constituting the advance guard (Brown's Maryland Bat-
talion) were ambuscaded by bushwhackers. Maj. Brown's
men charged up the hillside through the thick woods and put
them to flight, killing several of them. The brigade got its
first rest at Morgantown, where a greater part of the day
was spent, and we had our first opportunity to unsaddle the
horses. Late in the evening we started on a night march
toward Fairmont. By this time we had gathered a con-
siderable drove of cattle and horses, and could not move so
rapidly as before we had gone into the live stock business.
At Fairmont it looked as if there was to be a brisk fight,
for a considerable body of troops, consisting of a New York
regiment and a bunch of militia, were drawn up in battle
array on the south side of the town, and we had information
that rcenforcements were on the way from Grafton. As we
came to the top of the hill above town, on the road from
Barracksville, we encountered the skirmish line, which re-
treated before us, and we drove them through the main
street until they fell back on their main body. In this dash-
through the town we witnessed the remarkable scene of tb»
women rushing to their front piazzas and even into the
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street, cheering the combatants, and they seemed to be about
equally divided in their loyalty to the Federals and Confed-
erates. Some had flags, others waved handkerchiefs, and I
recall seeing one lady who had taken off her apron and was
tossing it wildly over her head and yelling at the top of her
voice : "Hurrah for Jeff Davis." A little ways up the street
another lady defiantly answered her neighbor's war cry by
shouting: "Hurrah for Abe Lincoln." And all regardless of
the bullets that were "zipping" up and down the street.
When we reached the southern extremity of the town out
on the Clarksburg road, we found the Federal forces drawn
up in line of battle in a field at the top of the river bliiff.
Gen. Jones realized the necessity of disposing of these people
before the Grafton reenforcements came up. So he lost no
time in arranging his plan of attack. "Get your regiment
on the other side of them," he remarked to Col. Lomax, of
the nth Virginia Cavalry, "and then we will charge. them
from both sides. Be quick in your movement." The only
way for a quick movement to the other side was to dash
down a lane under full fire from the enemy, who were drawn
up in a line paralleling the lane two hundred yards distant.
Col. Lomax, who had been an old Indian fighter in the regular
service, ordered his men to lie close to their horses' necks,
inclining to the opposite side from the enemy, and when the
command "Forward" was given to apply the spur and ride
like old Ned. At the signal the regiment dashed down that
lane like an arrow sped from a bow under a hot fire and
what seemed to be a hailstorm of splinters the enemy's
bullets were ripping from the fence rails. While a few men
and horses were wounded, it has always been a mystery to
me that none were killed. Every man was in line when we
halted and re-formed for the charge from the other side.
We were in line with cabers drawn waiting for the bugle
to sound the charge, when the enemy ran up the white flag
in token of surrender and stacked their arms. A little later
a railroad train with reenforcements from Grafton halted on
the opposite side of the river and gave us an artillery salute;
hut after firing a few shells in our direction, they backed
out und retired faster than they came. We paroled our
prisoners and left them in possession of their camp after
appropriating their ammunition and destroying their arms.
After a few hours' rest at Fairmont, enjoying a social
visit \ntli our prisoners and taking luncheon with them in
their camp, we moved on in the direction of Clarksburg.
Every one realized that Gen. Jones was now in a perilous
position. He was inside of the enemy's lines, with their troops
in active movement and in every direction trying to cut him
off and effect our capture. We had a large drove of cattle and
horses to protect, and as the cattle were slow marchers our
progress was impeded. Still, the rank and file had the utmost
confidence in their commander. Gen. Jones had been in com-
mand of the brigade for more than a year, and the men knew
his mettle. He was brave, without being foolhardy; was
alert, cautious, and a good strategist. Aside from Stonewall
Jackson, I do not believe there was another general officer
in the Confederate army whom the men immediately under
his command would have been more ready to follow blind-
folded than William E. Jones. He was a fine disciplinarian,
yet without the least manifestation of harshness. He was
an old army officer, a bachelor, and a little crusty at times,
but very democratic. When off duty, he mingled with the
men in a social way, and thus acquired great personal popu-
larity. In battle he was as brave as a lion, and always rode
in the front rank. Yet we knew him to be a man of excellent
judgment who never exposed his men to unnecessary danger
for the sake of a little cheap notoriety. Thus, while the bri-
gade realized its perilous position, the men had full confi-
dence in the ability of Gen. Jones to extricate them ; and if
the worst came, they knew he would lead them in a fight
to cut their way out through the enemy.
Jones learned that Gen. Roberts was at Clarksburg with
a large force and that another body of troops was at Grafton,
twenty miles distant, with a railroad to aid the speedy move-
ments of these two bodies, and he also knew that troops were
being rushed from the direction of Wheeling and Parkers-
burg to close in on him from the rear. Practically he was
surrounded. But here is where his good strategy came into
play. Making a demonstration as if to attack Roberts at
Clarksburg and holding him in check there, he crossed the
West Fork River and, going up Simpson's Creek to Bridge-
port, slipped out between Clarksburg and Grafton, taking the
herd of horses and cattle with him, and was at Philippi
before the enemy knew he had escaped their embrace.
Jones was now outside of the enemy's lines, at least on
the safe side of the line. While still a long way from home,
probably one hundred and fifty miles west of his starting
point, still there was an unobstructed road on which to re-
treat in case they pursued in force. He stopped at Philippi,
the county seat of Barbour, where one of the first fights of
the war had occurred in June, 1861, and rested up his com-
mand for a couple of days. He availed this opportunity to
take an inventory of his captured goods, and it was a most
satisfactory showing. He had approximately three thousand
cattle and twelve hundred horses, a valuable acquisition to
the Confederacy's commissary and quartermaster departments.
The I2th Virginia Cavalry, under command of Col. Har-
man, was detailed to escort the live stock through to Staun-
ton by way of the turnpike across Cheat Mountains, while
Gen. Jones, with the remainder of the brigade, started off
for another dash into the enemy's country. This time we
started in a southwesterly direction, and it looked to us as
if we were destined either for some point on the Ohio River
south of ■ Parkersburg or for Charleston, in the Great Kana-
wha Valley. We proceeded by way of Buckhannon, Weston,
West Union until we reached Burning Springs, on the Little
Kanawha, thirty-five miles above its mouth, where it empties
into the Ohio River, at Parkersburg. At this time Burning
Springs was the center of the oil operations in West Vir-
ginia, then in the infancy of the oil development, which has
since produced immense fortunes. The first oil struck in
West Virginia had been at Burning Springs, two or three
years previously, and that field was then in the height of its
prosperity.
From a military standpoint, I have never comprehended the
advantages of capturing this oil field and the destruction of
the oil works. Nevertheless, it afforded us an opportunity
to witness the finest spectacular illumination ever known.
I doubt if the burning of Moscow equaled the scene pre-
sented to our vision that night at Burning Springs, when the
flames and dense cloud of smoke shot upward from eighty
thousand burning barrels of oil. A quantity of oil had been
loaded into flatboats on the river, and the men went aboard
with axes and let the oil flow out into the water. Then the
oil was set afire, and as far as the eye' could reach down the
river, possibly for two or three miles, it was a flowing stream
of liquid fire, while the burning oil on slwre helped to add
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picturesqueness to the illumination. Aside from the spectacu-
lar grandeur, there was a striking weirdncss about the scene
that impressed every one. Men accustomed to the fire of
battle, the roar of the belching cannon, and the excitement
of the cavalry charge when sparks of steel flashed from the
clashing sabers now stood in mute awe and almost super-
stitious reverence as they looked upon this weird conflagra-
tion. Immense clouds of pitchy smoke rolled up, seemingly
dense enough to bear up the weight of a man. while forked
flames shot upward through this inky density, illuminating
the heavens above and casting a spectral light over the
surrounding hills. It was a scene to give inspiration to a
Dante for a new description of his Ijifcrno,
When morning catne, the work of destruction had been
complete ; and as we had now reached the western limit of
our invasion we took up the march eastward, passing out by
way of Glenville to Sutton, the county town of Braxton.
Here we struck the Elk River, and I have always thought
it was the purpose of Gen. Jones to go down the Elk to
its mouth and invade the rich valley of the Great Kanawha.
But owing to the exhausted condition of both men and
horses it was probably not deemed prudent to undertake it.
At all events, the raid was practically ended at Sutton. We
were now in a sparsely settled and mountainous district
where it was difficult to get supplies. The brigade w'as
dividiil into detachments, and the regiments separated on
different routes to find their way back to the Shenandoah
Valley as best they could and to rendezvous at Harrisonburg.
Our regiment (the nth Virginia Cavalry) marched up the
Elk River ten or twelve miles above Sutton, then struck out
across the mountains over what was more of a trail than a
road through the glades of Nicholas County, crossing the
Gaulcy River near Hinkle's place, which was the last sign
of civilization or human habitation we saw until two days
later we emerged into that fertile and lovely valley know-n
as the Little Levels of Pocahontas. From Hinkle's our
route lay through the dense forest of the Yew- Mountain,
where there was no road, only a hunter's trail, and a very
blind one at that, until the second day we descended into the
Little Levels, which seemed to us to be a veritable Canaan.
.'\t any season of the year the Little Levels of Pocahontas
Cotnity is one of the fairest spots on earth, and, looking
down upon this valley from the top of the mountain presents
,-1 landscape picture unequaled on this continent. But at this
time, in the month of May, the famous little valley wore its
loveliest garb, and its hospitable people welcomed us with
open arms. After weeks of toilsome march and adventure,
we were at last back in God's country. It was here that we
had our first news of the battle of Chancellorsville and the
death of Stonewall Jackson.
After two days' rest and feasting in the hospitable homes
of the good people of Little Levels, the regiment resumed its
march to the place of rendezvous at Harrisonburg, Va., where
the brigade was reunited. Then the brigade moved eastward
across the Blue Ridge Mountain to Culpepper, where it re-
joined Gen. Stuart's Cavalry Corps and arrived in time to
take a conspicuous part in the battle of Brandy Station, the
greatest cavalry battle of history.
sword captured from Col. Rodgers was taken to Texas after
the war by the possessor, who kept it the remainder of his
life. Recently he died in Texas and the sword came into the
possession of his son, who proposed to restore it to the original
owner if he or his family were living. Mr. Sturges, who was
his neighbor and a L^nion veteran, set about trying to ascer-
tain whether the owner or his family were living. He wrote
to the Adjutant General of Illinois, who took up the corre-
spondence. The possessor of the sword lives about forty
miles from an express office, but will send the sword back
promptly. He invites Col. Rodgers to attend a reunion of
old soldiers at Grow, Okla., but he will be unable to attend it.
SwoRn Returned to Col. Rodgers. V. S. A. — Col. A. F.
Rodgers. of Upper Alton, 111., received a letter recently in
regard to his old sword, which has been held by one of his
captors. Joseph Sturges, of Grow. Okla.. writes that the
'•THE BLUE AXD XOT THE GRAY"
An uncompromising Union Veteran. F. E. F., writes a
very partisan poem. It is copied from the National Tribune,
as illustrating the ultra sentiment of "the other side." It
shows that they would forever deny the South any historic
vindication of its course. Such as this would not only be a
calamity but a disgrace to the .\merican people as a whole.
Both sides should look to the general welfare of the country.
"Old brothers in battle, this song is for you.
'Tis the song of the heavenly tint of the blue,
As spotless as that of a bright summer day.
With never a shade or suspicion of gray.
We thought at the close of that terrible fray
We had buried forever that specter of gray.
But lo ! it arises at last from its grave.
And from odium of ages its record would save.
Let those who the emblems of treason maintained
.\nd red with the blood of our dead brothers stained
Still boast of the gray and the havoc it wrought ;
Shall we also honor the treason we fought ?
Has the wrong of that conflict changed place with the right.'
Has time bleached the scarlet of treason to white?
What did we fight for, can any one say.
If the blue is but honored alike with the gray?
Did our lilood run in rivers to settle the claim
That nation was greater than State but in name?
How vain were the holocaust ! Still are defied
The laws which we fought for, our nation to guide.
But higher than all the enactments of man.
The real issue then was a part of God's plan.
That surely must triumph, whatever men do.
And justice eternal declare for the blue.
Our slogan of old was: ".\]\ men shall be free,
.And color or race ban .shall nevermore be."
We fought and we conquered, and yet, strange to say,
The spirit of bondage is still holding sway.
Though all others waver, stand, veterans, fast
And true to the memories grand of the past.
Let us die as we fought, full of faith and of pride.
That the ri.yht of that conflict was all on our side.
Then with malice for none, but to principle true.
Let us never commingle the gray and the blue.
Though men w-e may pardon and errors forget.
The cause that was evil we hold evil yet."
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A CAVALRY CHARGE AT CHANCELLORSVILLE.
BY RANDOLPH BARTON, ADJT. GEN. STONEWALL BRIGADE.
Having read the most interesting accounts given by Capt.
J. G. Morrison and Col. W. H. Palmer of the wounding of
Stonewall Jackson on the night of May 2, 1863, at Chancellors-
ville, published in the Veteran of May, 1905, I am attracted
by the statement made in both accounts that the men of Lane's
Brigade who fired the volleys which were so disastrous did
so under the impression that the Federal cavalry was making
a charge upon our lines. I have always understood that the
groups of horsemen attending Gen. Jackson and Gen. Hill
were mistaken for cavalry of the enemy, and until I became
thoroughly conversant with an incident of the battle, which
I am about to allude to, it was a mystery to me why any one
in the Confederate line at that point could believe that a
charge of cavalry was about to be made. Those who were in
the battle will remember that the Orange plank road is almost
the only open space in that desolate region — a wilderness.
They will recall the dense growth of "black-jack" and bram-
bles on each side of the highway up to the very edge of the
road. Cavalry could only charge in columns of fours, or at
most with the front of a squadron, and the last military
movement one could e.xpect was a dash of cavalry at nine
o'clock at night into the face of the victorious Confederates
down the camparatively narrow road.
Any such action upon a moment's reflection one would have
known meant instant destruction to the attacking force.
While some of the infantry in the road might have suffered,
the troops on the right and left of the road, perfectly pro-
tected from the charge, would have cut the horsemen down,
no matter in what numbers they came. But I have reason
to believe that the Confederate line at that point had grown
excessively sensitive upon the subject of a cavalry charge
from the circumstance that I am about to relate.
It seems that about half a mile to the right of the plank
road, down which toward Chancellorsville the Confederates
were pressing, was the little farm called Hazel Grove, and
there the 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry, under Maj. Pennock
Huey, was in attendance upon Gen. Sickles, who it will be
remembered had penetrated toward Catherine Furnace and
had struck Jackson's flank movement during the day. About
half past six Sickles received from Howard an urgent mes-
sage to send him some cavalry. The first messenger Sickles
treated with contempt as an excitable young officer who had
lost his head. A still more urgent message coming later,
Sickles ordered Huey to go over in the direction Howard was
supposed to be, for owing to the peculiar condition of the at-
mosphere that evening no word of Howard's flight and Jack-
son's desperate attack had reached him.
Huey gives his experience as follows :
"It was then that I was ordered by Gen. Pleasonton to
report with my regiment as quickly as possible to Gen. How-
ard. On inquiring where he was, Gen. Pleasonton said : 'I
suppose you will find him at or near the Old Wilderness
Church ; there is where he was.'
"There were no other orders given to me or to any other
officer of the regiment. I found the regiment standing to
horse on the north side of Hazel Grove, near the road over
which he had passed in coming out. The wood in front was
so thick with undergrowth that a bird could scarcely fly
through it, much less could a cavalry charge have been made,
as some writers have stated and as Gen. Pleasonton stated
in his evidence. On inquiring for the adjutant of the regi-
ment, and being informed by some of the men where he was,
I rode to the point designated. I there found Maj. Peter
Keenan, Capt. William A. Dailey, Adjt. J. Haseltine Had-
dock, and Lieut. Andrew B. Wells playing cards under a
tree near the head of the regiment and on the opposite side
of it and also at a considerable distance from where I had
left Gens. Sickles and Pleasanton when I received my orders.
When I ordered them to mount their commands, they were
all in very high spirits about the game, Keenan remarking:
'Major, you have spoiled a d — d good game !'
"Up to this time Gen. Pleasanton had not been near the
regiment or any of its •officers except myself since it was
ordered back from Sickles's front. There was no firing on
Gen. Howard's line at this time that we could hear, it being
a long distance away through the wilderness. All was per-
fectly quiet here, and no one at Hazel Grove had the slightest
idea that Gen. Howard was in trouble or that the Eleventh
Corps had given away except those officers who were with
Sickles and Pleasanton when the aid reported, and he even
had a very meager idea as to the real extent of the disaster on
that line.
"After mounting the regiment, I rode off at its head in
my proper place, followed by four other officers, all of whom
belonged in front except Lieut. Carpenter. The latter officer
commanded the second company of the first squadron, and
might properly have been in the rear of the first company,
where he undoubtedly would have been had I supposed there
was danger ahead. The officers in front were Maj. Peter
Keenan, commander of the first battalion ; Capt. Charles Ar-
rowsmith, commander of the first squadron ; Lieut. J. Ed-
ward Carpenter, commander of the second company; and
Adjt. J. Haseltine Haddock, whose place was with me unless
otherwise ordered. We marched through the wood towar.i
the plank road, part of which we had already passed in com-
ing out. There was no unusual stir or excitement among the
men and officers of the regiment, the impression being that
the enemy were retreating, and all who had not heard of Gen.
Howard's disaster felt happy with the thought that the battle
was almost over. No one in the regiment, with the excep-
tion of myself, knew where we were going or for what pur-
pose.
"From the information I had received from Gen. Pleasan-
ton and from hearing the aid make his report before I
started I had no idea that we would meet the enemy till after
I had reported to Gen. Howard. Therefore the surprise was
as great to us as to the enerny, as we were entirely unpre-
pared, our sabers being in the scabbards. When we arrived
almost at the plank road, we discovered that we had ridden
right into the enemy, the plank road in our front being occu-
pied by them in great force, and that we were completely sur-
rounded, the woods at that point being filled with the flankers
of Jackson's column, who were thoroughly hidden from our
view by. the thick undergrowth. It was here that I gave the
command to 'draw saber and charge,' which order was re-
peated by Maj. Keenan and other officers. The charge was
led by the five officers already named, who were riding at
the head of the regiment when we left Hazel Grove. On
reaching the plank road, it appeared to be packed about as
closely with the enemy as it possibly could be. We turned to
the left, facing the Confederate column, the regiment crowd-
ing on, both men and horses in a perfect frenzy of excitement,
which nothing but death could stop.
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"The scene at this point was one which can never be effaced
from the memory of those present. The order to charge,
followed by its instant execution, had such an overwhelming
and paralyzing effect upon the enemy that for the space of a
few seconds those nearest to us seemed utterly to lose the
power of motion. Many throwing down their arms, raising
their hands, and pleading for mercy and surrender, they
doubtless thinking they had unawares run into the main part
of the Union army. But in such a moment mercy shuns tha
path of war. We, deaf to their cries, dashed madly through
and over them, tramping them -under our horses' feet and
using our sabers right and left on all within our reach. Sur-
rounded and cut off, every one of us, thinking it was his last
minute on earth, resolved to sell his life as dearly as possible.
Arriving at the plank road, we found it filled with men unable
to retreat or escape, the road behind being so closely packed
with their comrades. Scores were trampled to death beneath
our horses' feet as we went plunging and dashing over them.
It was not till we had faced to the left on the plank road
that the head of our column received any check. Although
the fJank of the regiment was suffering severely from the
enemy, who were so close as to be able to use their bayonets
with effect on our men and horses as they came dashing past
them, the charge on the plank road had the fortunate effect
of opening a possible means of retreat for our men.
"We cut our way through, trampling down all who could
not escape and using our sabers on all within reach for a
distance of about one hundred yards, when we received a
volley from the enemy, killing Maj. Keenan, Capt. Arrow-
smith, and Adjl. Haddock, three of the noblest and most gal-
lant oflicers of the war, besides a large number of men, all
of whom are entitled to equal honor from a grateful nation
in whose service they lost their lives. All three of the above-
named officers fell at the same time and from the same vol-
ley, Maj. Keenan falling against me and lighting on the
ground under my horse. His body was found on the spot
where he fell a few days after.
"As the regiment was forced to march in column on ac-
count of the thick undergrowth on either side of the road, it
is quite possible that the rear had scarcely got well into the
wood when the order was given to 'draw saber and charge.'
The whole regiment, therefore, did not get all the way
through, as the narrow road was completely filled with our
dead, both men and horses, we having left thirty men and
eighty horses dead on or near the plank road where this
memorable charge was made.
"The rear squadron, under the command of Capt. Joseph
W. Wistar, was completely cut off just before reaching the
plank road and had to cut its way through in another direc-
tion, coming out into the open space which surrounds the
Chancellorsville House, between the plank road and Hazel
Grove, over temporary earthworks. Most of the regiment
came out of the woods on the north, or opposite, side of the
plank road. I immediately re-formed as much of it as I
could get together (which included almost every mounted man
and officer left) in rear of the artillery that was then going
into line on the left of the plank road and just in the rear of
the thick wood which had completely obscured us from their
view while we were making our charge. The object in re-
forming there was to support the artillery and also to pre-
vent them from opening fire till after our men had come out
of the wood.
"Our charge had such a telling effect on the enemy that
they did not advance farther on the plank road than the point
where we struck them, and very few of them crossed the nar-
row road over which we had passed, that road being parallel
with the two lines of battle."
Thus it would seem that about an hour and a half before
Gen. Jackson and his staff, unknown to Lane's men, rode out
in front of their line the Confederates had had their fierce
experience with an absolutely accidental and unintentional
cavalry charge in the thick of the wilderness. It was a new
order of things, and possibly they supposed that the Federal
commander was sacrificing the cavalry and everything to ar-
rest the panic into which his troops had been thrown. No
doubt in this supersensitive frame of mind our men saw
horsemen in every shadow ; and when the large group com-
posed of the staff of the two generals galloped a short distance
up the road, inflamed imaginations pictured to them a repe-
tition of Huey's desperate, accidental, and bloody effort to
escape from the tangle into which he had led his men.
In 1894 four Confederate officers— Gen. Lane, Col. Palmer,
Maj. Blackford (who had commanded Rodes's Sharpshooters
in the engagement of the 2d of May, T863), and myself (ad-
jutant general of the Stonewall Brigade) — and four Federal
officers — Gen. Lochman. Col. Hamlin (of Howard's Corps),
Gen. Huey (formerly Maj. Huey), and Capt. Dilger (of the
8th Ohio Artillery) — by arrangement, visited the very spot
where Huey made his charge and where Jackson was wounded.
We went over the road from Hazel Grove to the plank road.
We stood on the spot where the cavalry regiment was at-
tacked in the dense woods, and thus the thrilling incident was
brought home to us most vividly.
I have no doubt but that this extraordinary combat in the
depse thicket with Huey's cavalry at about seven o'clock had
kept our men in the highest state of excitement, and the
slightest movement in their front, and especially the appear-
ance of men on horseback, caused them to be unduly appre-
hensive of another attack, and thus led to the greatest calam-
ity that could have befallen the Confederate army at that
lime, the wounding by his own men of Stonewall Jackson.
The editor of the Vetf.r.an recalls an illustrative incident
under Lloyd Tilghman in North Mississippi. His brigade had
marched from near Holly Springs to Lumpkins Mill when
the troops were fresh from a half year's confinement in prison.
By the slow crossing of the small stream there on poles the
men became so cold and sore they could not march, and a
rest of four hours was ordered. Starting again at midnight,
the remainder of the march to "Black Warrior" (it may be
Tallahatchie) River was made by daybreak. Before it was
light while in a wide, densely covered swamp a frightened
horse created quite a stampede for a large portion of the
command. It was understood that the Federals were pressing
our right flank, and the forced march by day and night inten-
sified the impression. The writer, speaking for himself, quite
forgot his exhausted condition and kept well up with his
comrades until in sight of formidable breastworks across this
river, when he sank down in the sand unable to go another
step. He was soon after in a freezing condition, when
stranger comrades carried him and laid him by a log fire.
The bravest of commands were sometimes taken unawares.
The men would indeed "lose their heads."
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CAPTURE OF HARTSriLLE—My FIRST BATTLE.
BY R. L. THOMPSON, CO. F, NINTH KENTUCKY CAVALRY.
When the War between the States began in 1861, I was
fifteen years old and Hved in Kentucky. I was too young
to enter the army at that time; but, being determined to be a
soldier o£ some kind, I joined a company of State Militia.
The company was made up of boys under age and com-
manded by our schoolmaster, Capt. Roy Davidson, who had
been a soldier in the Mexican War, and who, in addition to
his accomplishments as a gentleman and a scholar, was also
a fine drillmaster.
Our company was armed and equipped by Gov. MaGoffin,
the War Governor of the State of Kentucky, and during
1861 we did but little else than march and drill at horse
shows and barbecues. Entertainments of the last-named kind
were quite numerous in Kentucky in that year, so that at
the end of a year's service — of fuss and feathers, you might
say — our little company had become quite proficient in the
use of arms and in the military drill according to Hardee's
infantry tactics.
Late in the summer of 1862 the Confederate armies, under
Gens. Bragg and Kirby Smith, came into the Blue Grass
State. Our company of militia was then disbanded, some of
the boys joining the Union army and some the Confederate,
while a few remained at home. Our gallant captain cast
his lot on the side of the Union. I enlisted in a company
of Confederate cavalry; and when the Confederate armies
retired from the State that fall, my company retired with
them. In November (I think it was) our battalion, under
Maj. Stoner, was attached to Gen. Morgan's command. We
went into camp at Black's Shop, near Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
on the turnpike between Murfreesboro and Lebanon.
Early one morning in December our bugler gave the "sad-
dle up" call, and we promptly obeyed. I had already seen
passing by our camp early that morning two regiments of
Morgan's Cavalry and one battery going at a swift pace
toward Lebanon. Our battalion followed double-quick in
their wake. We marched all day in the rain, snow, and mud ;
and when night came on. we had arrived in the vicinity of
Lebanon. There we overtook a body of our infantry — two
regiments, I think, of Kentucky troops — who had joined us
at Baird's Mills, somewhere on the road. Our battalion was
ordered to dismount and let the footmen ride our horses.
We obeyed orders, and from that time on until we reached
our destination we relieved the infantry by riding and tying.
When we halted next, the time must have been three or
four o'clock in the morning, and we were twenty miles north
of Lebanon on a narrow dirt road in a thickly wooded coun-
try and close up to a ford on the Cumberland River. There
in the stillness of that cold, starlit night the various regi-
ments received their orders and separated. Two miles above
the ford, on the opposite side of the Cumberland River, is the
little town of Hartsville. Asleep in the town that night was
a force of twenty-Gve hundred Federals. We were after them,
our object being to kill, maim, or capture the whole squad
or, failing, receive a like fate. Such is ever the game of war.
After all the other troops had moved, our battalion began
laying out the rail fence in gaps on the side of the road, when
we passed through into the woods and halted in columns,
the order passing down the line : "Silence in ranks !" The
sergeant came to me and whispered that I was detailed to
picket duty. I rode forward with five others, under com-
mand of Lieut. George Harden, to the brow of the hill over-
looking the river and Hartsville, where we entered a road
that led down the slope to the ford half a mile above the
town. In that road we established our base and placed guards
at the ford in sight of the enemy's camp fires. Meantime the
infantry and cavalry that had separated from us in the woods
that morning had crossed the river at a ferry and ford be-
low the town and were closing in around the enemy while
they slept. There was a hot time in the old town of Harts-
ville for about one hour next morning, beginning a little
after daylight. The entire force of Federals surrendered,
twenty-two hundred, I think. I remember fording the river
several times and returning each time with a prisoner on
my horse.
BILL TURNER AND TOM SECO.
U. R. Brooks, a private in Company B, 6th South Carolina
Cavalry, writes of the battle at Trevillian Station, in which
he pays tribute to Bill Turner and Tom Sego :
"Gen. Butler dispatched one of his staff — Nat Butler, who
was one of the handsomest boys in the Army of Northern
Virginia — for Hart's Battery to come to the center. This
battery came at a gallop and unlimbered its pieces in the
missile-torn angle beside Thomson's silent guns. An am-
munition wagon was carried at a gallop along Butler's line,
the gallant ordnance sergeant. Grant, of the 6th South Caro-
lina Cavalry, pitching cases of rifle cartridges from the rear
end of his bullet-riddled wagon as it galloped on its dangerous
mission. The cases were soon broken open and the men sup-
plied.
"Just before the wagon arrived, however, every man in
Company B, 6th South Carolina Cavalry, had fired his last
cartridge, and a young private soldier. Bill Turner, of this
company, volunteered to go after ammunition and was
wounded. Another boy volunteered, which looked like mad-
ness on his part. Cannon shot and Minie balls were flying
thick and fast over our heads and plowing up the ground
behind us ; but Tom Sego went through this storm of lead
and got as much ammunition as he could carry, and returned
in time for us to repulse another charge led by the gallant
major mentioned above. Tom Sego's daring deed was one of
the bravest of the war. He was killed March 10, 1865.
Where he now sleeps there is
"A grave in the woods with grass overgrown,
A grave in the heart of his mother.
His clay in the one lies lifeless and lone ;
There is not a name, there is not a stone,
And only the voice of the wind maketh moan
O'er the grave where never a flower is strewn ;
But his memory lives in the other."
SPIRIT OF MEMORIAL DAY IN THE SOUTH.
In a Memorial Day address at Victoria, Tex., to the W.
P. Rogers Chapter, U. D. C, the W. R. Scurry Camp, U. C.
v., and friends, the Rev. Josephus Johnson said :
"No hand shall withhold the well-merited laurel and no
voice detract from the glory of their achievements while
the world honors heroism or true patriotism burns in the
hearts of the sons and daughters of freemen. We do not
need to defend the principles for which they battled to the
death or the cause for which they contended with such pa-
tient endurance, for an impartial history has and will con-
tinue to do this. It is only ours to-day to commemorate the
virtues displayed by the bravest and most chivalrous, the
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grandest and most glorious heroes of history, and to cherish
with a natural and pardonable pride the memory of our
honored dead.
"Never was an army composed of nobler spirits, more con-
secrated in their efforts or more determined to win at any
sacrifice. They flung life and fortunes into the struggle,
and the world felt the shock when, poorly armed, barely
clothed, and scantily fed, the forces of our Old South in
defense of their homes and principles met on the field of
battle and hurled back again and again the increasing
strength of a powerful and magnificently equipped invading
army. . . .
"Where will you find an occasion like this in history? It
is true that grateful governments in all ages have kept
sacred and honored the memory of the soldiers who fell in
their defense. Monuments have been erected in their capital
cities and their busy marts of commerce and memorial halls
have been consecrated to their service, but in our case it is
wholly different. There is no government to honor our fallen
heroes, for the government for which they battled fell with
them. There is no nation to commemorate their deeds of
valor or patriotism, for the nation they sought to establish
went down when they furled their weary, worn, and tattered
banner.
"Tennessee is to honor the hero who said when offered his
life on condition of lii< disclosing certain names: 'If I had a
thousand lives. I would give them all before I would betray
a friend.' Such fidelity makes the tradition of Damon and
Pythias commonplace reading, and yet you honor to-day
others who were animated by the same spirit and possessed
the same sublime courage of Sam Davis, and had the sacri-
fice been called for would have ascended the scaffold with
the same cheerfulness and high sense of honor that charac-
terized this youthful son of the Old South."
RECORDS OF PRISON LIFE.
The late John Shirley Ward wrote the Los .-\ngeles (Cal.)
Herald upon prison records in answer to a preacher named
Pitman, who called the officers in charge of prisons "demons
from hell." saying that they "slowly yet surely died inch by
inch, day by day. after keeping up the struggle until the light
faded out of their eyes and they were dead."
"The above is a literal extract from the memorial oratioti
delivered in this city yesterday by Orator Pitman, who claims
to be a follower of the lowly Nazarene and whose mission in
life (that of a minister') is to spread the truth throughout
the world. Such a speech might have been tolerated in 1865.
when the grass was not yet grown over the graves of those
who had given their lives to serve the Union, and such a
speech in most cases would have been made by a man who
had never trod the fiery edge of battle. There was, perhaps,
some excuse thirty years ago for this blistering philippic
against the South, for then the archives of the South had not
yet been thrown open to the gaze of the world, and orators
did not then know the facts pertaining to the treatment of
prisoners by the South. These facts are among the oflicial
records in the War Department at Washington, and they have
been gleaned over and over again to find something which
would affix a stain on Southern honor.
"During the second year of the war a general exchange of
prisoners was agreed upon by the commanding generals, man
for man and officer for officer of equal rank. After thousands
of prisoners had been exchanged, this cartel was suspended.
In the meantime the Northern armies were gradually coiling
around the South, reducing her territory day by day, and thus
reducing her supplies. Federal prisoners were coming in by
thousands, and they must be put in miserable stockades and
fed on the same rations the Confederate soldier received
The South was clamorous and persistent for a fair exchange,
but it was denied by the United States government. Seeing
the great and necessary suffering of the Northern prisoners,
the Confederate government made a proposition to allow the
other to send medicines, provisions, and hospital stores to
their own prisoners. This request was denied. The Ridi-
mond authorities proposed to permit Federal surgeons to go
to the Southern prisons, carrying and administering their
own medicines and not asking a similar right for the Con-
federates. This was not accepted, though they well knew
that the greatest mortality and suffering their prisoners were
undergoing was for a want of medicine.
".After all hope of exchange was abandoned. Judge Auld,
the Confederate commissioner, offered early in August, 1864,
to deliver to the Federal authorities all their sick and wounded
at the mouth of the Savannah River without asking for an
equivalent of Southern prisoners. This offer was made early
in .August, and. though the deadly malarial season was just
ahead, the United Slates government did not send a single
vessel to receive these dying prisoners till in December, thu.s
allowing a scarcity of food and medicine and the burning sun
of the dog days to have full sway over the brave but unfortu-
nate soldiers. As soon as a Federal vessel reached the mouth
of the Savannah River thirteen thousand Federal sick,
wounded, and some able-bodied soldiers were turned over to
the authorities, while three thousand of Confederate soldiers
were delivered to the Richmond authorities.
"The supplies for hospitals in the South having become
absolutely exhausted, the authorities offered to buy hospital
supplies from the North for their own prison soldiers, payable
in gold or cotton, promising on the honor of the South that
none of them should be used for Southern soldiers, yet this
was declined.
"While there are hundreds of instances of personal cruelty
on both sides, and the tale of woe from Andersonville could
be met by a similar one from Johnson's Island, these instances
do not prove the malignity of either government. Results
and facts are only final arguments on this question. Facts
are eternal, and will stand when the idle oratorical vaporings
cf the sensationalists have been lost in oblivion.
"What are the facts? Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War, iti
his report July 19, 1866, made this statement : 'Confederates
in Northern prisons, 220,000; Union soldiers in Southcri»
prisons, 270.000; excess of Union prisoners, 50,000; deaths in
Northern prisons, 26.536; deaths in Southern prisons, 22.756.'
"This report of Secretary Stanton was corroborated the
next June by the report of Surgeon General Barnes ; and when
reduced down to pure mathematics, means that twelve per
cent of all Confederate prisoners died in prison, while less
than nine per cent of Union soldiers died in Southern prisons.
If these facts are true, and they arc all a matter of record,
does not this show the falsity of the South's maltreatment of
prisoners in her hands?
"Why did thousands of Union soldiers die in prison ? The
South was all the time anxious to exchange man for man.
They always thought it cheaper to fight the enemy tliaii to
feed him. They preferred to exchange prisoners on the field
when they were taken, thus avoiding the many hours of prison
life and the expense of maintenance.
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"The question then comes up, 'Why were not all prisoners
immediately exchanged?' The answer is found in Gen. Grant's
dispatch to Gen. Butler August 18, 1864: 'It is hard on our
men held in Southern prisons not to exchange them, but it
is humanity to those left in the ranks to fight our battles.
At this particular time to release all Rebel prisoners North
would insure Sherman's defeat and would compromise our
safety here.' . . . The reverend orator, Mr. Pitman, when
speaking of Southern prisons, says : 'But demons from hell
were there to starve and torture.' If the demons from hell
were there to starve and torture (and they could kill and
destroy less than nine per cent of all the Union prisoners),
what kind of a demon presided over the Federal prisons,
■whose record is that twelve per cent of the prisoners went
-down into the prison graves?"
IIORE ABOUT KILPATRICK'S HORSES.
W. G. Caruthers writes from Athens, Ga. :
"References made to the Kilpatrick stampede near Fayette-
ville and the 'spotted horse' event by Comrade Scott, of
South Carolina, and by Comrade Jenkins in the July Vet-
eran induce me to give my recollection of this event.
"I was a member of Company D, 2d Georgia Cavalry, and
had been sent by Gen. Wheeler from Aiken to Columbia,
S. C, with a dispatch for Gen. Beauregard. When Gen.
Wheeler reached Columbia, my regiment was on detached
duty. Our brigade belonged to Gen. W. W. Allen's Division.
I happened to be with Gens. Wheeler and Allen at the Kil-
patrick stampede when the first gun was fired at the head of
the Alabama Brigade, and we were the nearest Confederates
to the Yankee camp. Other commands were moving at right
angle with us.
"Gens. Wheeler, Allen, and I were crossing a boggy
place in the road when the first gun was fired. Gen. Wheeler's
horse went in the bog, but he spurred him forward and went
toward the point where the advancing column would cross
the road. Gen. Allen crossed the swamp on the right of the
road, and the Alabama Brigade, led by Gen. Allen, turned
immediately to the right and charged on the house occupied
by Gen. Kilpatrick. We passed the house on the right, and
Gen. Allen told me his horse was shot. I turned toward
the house and saw a large black horse, but before I reached
him one of our boys unhitched the horse. As I came up and
asked how he happened to be at the house he told me he had
been a prisoner and that this horse was one of Gen. Kilpat-
rick's. About the same one of the boys brought the 'spotted
horse' and gave it to Gen. Wheeler. Gen. Allen removed
the bridle and I the saddle from the wounded horse and put
them on the black horse, and I assisted Gen. Allen to mount,
as he had been badly shot in the hand. I then mounted my
own horse and, seeing another gray horse standing near
with saddle and halter on, took charge of him and directly
turned him over to one of our boys whose horse had been
killed, with the request that if we got out safely he let me
have the horse. I looked for this horse, but could not find
him with our Western boys, so I guess that was the horse
Comrade Scott's friends got possession of.
"There is no question about Gen. Wheeler getting the
'spotted horse,' which was said to have been Kilpatrick's
favorite saddle horse, and he rode him until the close of the
war. I think he sent the horse to Gen. Kilpatrick from
■ Athens, Ga., after the war. Gen. Wheeler was always at the
right place at the right time."
A LONELY GRAVE.
BY VIRGINIA Y. m'cANNE (MARSHALL HOME).
Above the slopes of a wooded hill,
Crowned like a great green dome,
Two giant oaks, with restless arms.
Keep the pulse of life above the home
Of a lonely sleeper beneath their shade.
Sometimes in the chill of the early dawn
An eerie song comes down the glade,
A tremulous "elfin"s horn."
It is strange, the mystery of death,
Strange how he holds to his will ;
Strange that we of quickened breath
Would stir the sleeper on the hill
With idle wonderments. His rank and place.
The baffling storms of a century gone.
May have left him spent in the race
That time with us is whirling on.
Tradition later touched the wood
With story of soldier, young and bnve,
Captured within its solitude;
A traitor's life, sole chance to save.
He was seen no more. The unknown grave
Was guarded grandly east and west ;
Had he symbol fair or soldier's glaive,
'Twas left to the quiet of '-'s breast.
And yet it may be a woman' ; .--.rave,
A Rachel who "died on tin. way"
To a home of love in distant land.
Where "Jacob" held the march for a day.
To make her resting place by the trees.
While the wild birds mocked his breaking heart
As they sang and swayed with the breeze
On that day so cruelly set apart.
"May you among your kindred die !"
These words speed the guest on his way
With the Orient stranger's soft good-by ;
They touch this grave with tragedy.
And yet this long, inevident sleep.
Which the birds encircle with song,
Seems better 'neath the forest trees,
So far from sin and wrong.
A Georgia-Missourian, Judge Gantt. — It will be of in-
terest to the scattering remnant of his boyhood friends to
learn of Judge James B. Gantt, who was born in Putnam
County, Ga., and who enlisted, when a very young man, as a
private in the Confederate army. He was promoted to first
sergeant of his company. He was wounded and disabled in
the battle at Cedar Creek, Va., on October 19, 1864. He was
paroled at Milledgeville, Ga., after the surrender at Appo-
mattox. He read law under Judge L. N. Whittle, of Macon,
Ga., and entered the University of Virginia in 1868. He
moved to Missouri, locating at Clinton. In 1875 he became
law partner to United States Senator George G. Vest (also
a Confederate) at Sedalia. He returned to Clinton, where he
was elected circuit judge. He next competed with W. J.
Stone for Congress, and was defeated by a single vote. In
1890 Judge Gantt was elected Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court of Missouri for a period of ten years. He served
as Chief Justice from 1898 to 1900, and was reelicted in 1900
for ten years. Judge Gantt and family reside in Jefferson City.
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ERRORS CONCERNING ECTOR'S BRIGADE.
HY W. C. DODSON, WACO, TEX.
Oc/asionally for several years past I have noticed in the
VE-^/iRAN contributed articles regarding Ector's Brigade at
Cmckamauga which contain more or less error; notably in
tyie July, igos, issue an article by Capt. J. H. Stradley, of
/he 29th North Carolina, in reply to an article by Capt. J. D.
Smith, of Walthall's Brigade, concerning "the failure of Ec-
tor's Brigade in an assault" and that Walthall's Brigade was
then put in and carried the works. To set either or both of
these comrades right in their controversy is not the intention
of this article, as I think both are "a little mixed" on the
points discussed.
There should be no rivalry by either of these brigades for
honors their commands won through the four years of war
and ruin. I was so situated as to have actual knowledge of
the merits of each, being with Ector's Brigade at Chicka-
mauga and then in the same division with Walthall's on
Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge; and if there was
an officer or man in either brigade who ever turned his back
on a foe, I never heard of him. A correct account of some
of the events occurring in the battle of Chickamauga and the
honors rightly given to those to whom they belong is a
"consummation devoutly lo be wished," but which I expect
never to see. There was a dense mental vapor in the minds
of officials in charge in both armies in the maneuvers and
battles on Lookout Mountain which caused discord and bitter-
ness that never healed. Our commander had two of his
lieutenant generals dismissed from his army, both of whom
asked for a court of inquiry, which the government refused.
The Federal authorities had several courts of inquiry concern-
ing their generals who were charged with the cause of defeat.
But to return to the object of this article, which is to cor-
rect the mistake in the organization of Ector's Brigade at
Chickamauga as given by Comrade Stradley and others. He
says "it was composed of the 9th, loth, and 14th Texas and
the 29th North Carolina Regiments," which is incorrect, as
there were three other commands that were a material part
of its composition. Its organization at Chickamauga was :
Stone's Alabama Battalion, Maj. T. O. Stone; Pounds's Mis-
sissippi Battalion, Capt. M. Pounds; 29th North Carolina,
Col. William B. Creasman ; 9th Texas, Col. William H.
Young; loth Texas, Lieut. Col. C. R. Earp; 14th Texas, Col.
J. L. Camp; 3,3d Texas, Col. Julius A. Andrews. This was
Ector's Bri.gade at Chickamauga. My statement is verified
by the "War Records," Series I., Volume XXX., Part IL ;
"Reports," page 14.
The troops there called Stone's Alabama Battalion were
three companies of the 40th Alabama Regiment, which had
been sent on an expedition up the Sunflower River under
Maj. Stone and was cut off from the regiment when it was
shut up in Vicksburg and came back to Johnston on the out-
side, and was put in Ector's Brigade, Walker's Division, and
went with it to Chickamauga ; so that whatever honor or glory
attaches to Ector's Brigade at that battle belongs to the
"Alabama Battalion," the Mississippi Battalion, and the 33d
Texas. The ."Mabama Battalion was composed of Companies
A, D, and I, of the 40th. I give the companies because, as
they were the only part of the regiment that could go (the
regiment having not been exchan.ged), their identification
should be given that their honorable participation in that
great battle won and victory lost should be of record.
In a few days after the battle the brigade was returned to
Gen. Johnston in Mississippi, and remained until the regi-
ment was exchanged, when it, with the balance of the 40th,
was ordered to Bragg at Chattanooga, and the old Alabama
Brigade was reunited and put in Cheatham's Division, where
it fought on Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.
Ector having been returned to Johnston so soon after the
battle of Chickamauga, thus removing him from Walker's
Division, which Bragg kept, must have been tlie cause of no
report from Ector. Forrest, who opened the battle on the
19th, had Ector's Brigade with him, and Walker, the division
commander, and others speak in high praise of the brigade.
Beginning of Tennessee Bivouacs. — "There are two things
I am proud of. Of course I am proud of having been a Con-
federate soldier, and then I am the Daddy of Frank Cheat-
ham Bivouac. I didn't conceive the thing, but will tell
you how it was." Such were the introductory remarks of
Frank Anderson, of Nashville, in a pleasant chat. He
continued : "My company, the Cedar Snags, was detached
from the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry as escort to G*n.
J. B. Hood, corps commander. On coming to the Ten-
nessee army from the Army of Northern Virginia he was
unfamiliar with our troop.^, and he asked Gen. Joseph Wheeler
to select a company for him. He designated the Cedar
Snags, and we had to go, although we were unanimous in an
appeal that we be allowed to remain with the regiment. Well,
when Hood succeeded Gen. Joseph Johnston, he fell heir to
Johnston's escort : but he detailed ten of us for scout duty
to report only to him. About 1887 I was in New Orleans, and
while walking on the street I passed a man who looked at me
and I at him ; and after passing, each looked back and saw
the other looking at him. Then we advanced toward each
other, and he said: 'Didn't you belong to the escort?' I then
called his name and told him mine. He took me to the
Washington Artillery quarters and showed me throngli, giving
me a constitution and by-laws of the society known as the
Army of Northern Virginia. I brought the pamphlet home
with me. Meeting Gov. Marks on the street, he greeted me
cordially, when I told him we ought to have an organization
like the one they have in New Orleans. He placed his hand
on my shoulder and said : 'Why have we not already done
something like that?' He commended that I carry around a
paper and get the signatures of comrades to join it. Col. J.
P. McGuire was among the first to sign the paper, and soon
we had our charter. Col. Frank Savier, I think, suggested
Gen. Frank Cheatham's name. Gov. Brown's name had been
proposed, but it was decided to honor the name of some one
who was dead."
The Capt. Johnson Wounded at Franklin. — A delayed
correction of error in the Veteran (Volume XII., page 348)
is here given. There was no Capt. R. T. Johnson, as stated,
in the 49th Tennessee Regiment. Capt. R. Y. Johnson, Com-
pany F of that regiment (now of Guthrie, Ky.), writes of
himself: "While picking up the colors of our regiment, the
49th Tennessee, at some fifteen to twenty feet from the angle
at the ginhouse, I received two wounds — one in the right
arm and the other in the head — both of which were severe."'
He is certainly the man to whom the above extract refers.
Capt. Johnson makes the following inquiry: "Can you tell
me anything of the first company enlisted in Kentucky for
the Confederate service — what section of the State it came
from, etc.; date, and where rendezvoused? If you cannot do
so, kindly refer me to some one at your earliest convenience."
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•IXFERXAL MACHINES" DESCRIBED.
IsY 1. N. SHAN'NON', GOODLETTSVILLE, TENN.
When Gen. Joe Johnston's army was at Dalton, Ga., and
the Federal main army was at Chattanooga and. Gen. Burn-
side was occupying Knoxville. Tenn., with about thirty thou-
sand Federals who were on short rations, the Federals built
at Chattanooga five small steamboats to transport rations up
the Tennessee River from Chattanooga to Burnside's men at
Knoxville. At a council of war held by the Confederate com-
manders it was decided that those boats ought to be disposed
of in some way, and Gen. Hindman stated that he had in his
division a young officer who could be trusted to carry out
the necessary measures to destroy them. This young officer
was empowered to call to his assistance any help he might
need, and was to be supplied with anything necessary to carry
out his plans. He came at once to the writer and insisted
that I should go with him on the expedition, which I refused
to do because I was unable physically to endure long rides on
horseback; but we arranged the plan of his operations, which
he carried out as best he could and with partial success.
We then knew little about gun cotton or nitroglycerin or
dynamite, and could use only fine rifle powder as the highest
explosive we could get. The Federals had established wood
yards along the river at several points, which were garrisoned
by negro regiments whose duty it was to cut down, saw, and
split wood into the proper size for use on the steamboats
and to guard the wood yards. Now it was a hazardous busi-
ness to get through their guard lines even of dark nights, but
it had to be done. Taking five old, tried artillerymen with
him and five men from Wheeler's Cavalry who were raised
in the vicinity of the river and knew the country and many
of the people, the eleven started out from Dalton on foot.
They had several two-inch long-shanked augers (the largest
augers they could get, but they ought to have been larger),
a lot of two-inch tin tubes about forty-two inches long, and
a lot of gunpowder. They had to steal some pieces of wood
already split by the Federals or split some just like theirs,
bore a hole forty-four or forty-five inches long down the cen-
ter of the stick, fill a tube with powder, insert it so it would
not rattle, and drive in a pin to stop the hole, cut it off smooth
with the end of the stick, and rub some mud over it to hide
the pin. Thus loaded, the stick had to be placed on their
wood corded in tiers at the landings. These loaded sticks
were so much like the others that no difference was observed,
and they were pitched into the furnaces with the others.
It was reported that one boat was sunk and another had
her fire box front blown out before the trick was discovered.
But the Yankees, suspecting the character of the trouble,
examined the sticks of wood carefully and ;plit one open, and
found the tube filled with powder, which they carried down
to Chattanooga and exhibited. They at that time published
a newspaper in Chattanooga, and in it described the "new
infernal machine," as they designated it, and with much wrath
stated that that infernal work was done by citizens living in
the vicinity of the wood yards who professed to be Union
men, but who at heart were Rebels, as there had not been a
Rebel soldier in the vicinity in many months.
No citizen had anything to do with it, and none knew
anything about it. Only the oflScer in charge and the ten
men under him knew of it. If any citizen was arrested and
put to any expense or trouble on account of these "new in-
fernal machines," it was a wrong. Many Federal soldiers
remember the explosions which injured the two boats; but
tliis is the first time, so far as I know, that the facts have
ever been made public. These eleven men remained in the
vicinity of the wood yards for many days and until they got
a copy of the newspaper containing a description of the "ma-
chine" and its results, which they brought back with them.
I saw the paper and read the article, and know this state-
ment to be substantially true.
CAPTURES BY EIGHTH COX FEDERATE CAVALRY.
BY F. W. FLOOD, C.\PT.\IN COMP.\NV G, OF THE REGIMENT.
The 8th Confederate Regiment of Cavalry, made up at Co-
lumbus, Miss., and commanded by the gallant Col. William
B. Wade, a Mexican War veteran, was on duty on the Mur-
freesboro Pike for six months previous to the great and
bloody Murfreesboro battle. When the Federal army ad-
vanced upon Murfreesboro, the 8th Confederate Regiment con-
tested every inch of ground until the enemy reached the city,
and at night Col. Wade received orders to take his regiment
around the rear of the Federal army and attack their wagon
trains at Lavergne and Nolensville.
We marched all night, and reached Lavergne about day-
break, when Col. Wade made a gallant charge with the 8th
Regiment and captured all their wagon trains, mules, pro-
visions, and a large number of prisoners. After burning
everything in sight and paroling all the prisoners, we made
a dash for Nolensville (about five miles distant), charged
the camp of the enemy, and captured a large wagon train
with supplies. We burned all the army goods, paroled all
the prisoners, and took all the horses and mules with us.
Col. Wade then rejoined our army at Murfreesboro, and we
fought the enemy on the picket lines all the next night, when
our army began a retreat. Col. Wade covered the retreat
of our army for two days, often fighting on foot dismounted
as infantry.
About three days after the Murfreesboro fight Col. Wade
was ordered to go to the Cumberland River, fifteen miles
below Nashville, and capture a lot of Federal transports
which were making their way to Ohio. Col. Wade reached
the river early in the morning and chose a fighting point at
a bend of the river, where the only navigable pass was close
to the south bank. He found three transports at this point
loaded with cotton and provisions and with sick men on their
way to Ohio. We captured the boats and paroled the prison-
ers. Hearing a gunboat coming down the river shelling the
woods. Col. Wade ordered Company G, of the 8th Regiment,
to take position in ambush on the bank of the river and open
fire on the gunboat when in good range. The boat came on
with six six-pounders on deck, shelling the woods in every
direction until she was within sixty yards of Company G's
lines, when Capt. Flood ordered his men to fire, and all the
gunners and pilot were killed or driven from their posts.
The gallant Col. Wade, who had provided himself with two
six-pounder rifle cannon, commanded the boat to surrender.
As they failed to obey his command, he ordered a shot fired
above the cabin, and as they would not yet comply he or-
dered a shot put through the middle of the boat, upon which
the captain ran up the white flag and brought his boat to land.
Col. Wade ordered all of the officers and crew of the boat
ashore, and very humanely put all the sick and wounded men,
with plenty of provisions and medical supplies, on one trans-
port and let them retain the cotton on condition that they
would burn it as soon as it reached Ohio. He paroled all the
prisoners, took everything that was of any value to us off
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469
the boats, and then set fire to the gunboat and two transports.
We got a nice supply of champagne, cognac brandy, and rye
whisky off the boats. The captain of Company G ate his
dinner from a nice turkey on a silver tea tray with silver
knife and fork. The turkey was cooked for the captain of
the gunboat.
Col. Wade's scouts reported that a large force of infantry
and cavalry were in pursuit of us ; and we. having completed
our mission, mounted our horses and rode thirty miles to a
safe camping ground, where we enjoyed the good things cap-
tured from the boats. This is only a very partial account of
the capture of the gunboat on the Tennessee River. I think
this is the only instance on record where a colonel with .i
small, depleted regiment of men, and cavalry at that, and only
two small six-pound pieces of artillery captured a gunboat
with a full crew of officers and men, six good pieces of ar-
tillery, plenty of shot and shell, and all without the loss of a
single man either killed or wounded.
Col. Wade was dislinguished for his fearless bravery in the
face of the enemy and for tlie good care he took of his men.
He was very badly wounded in the leg in a light in East
Tennessee in which the Rth Regiment was engaged.
To record the achievements of the service in lights and
skirmishes by the 8th Regiment of Cavalry would require a
large volume. This regiment was in many of the largest bat-
tles from Shiloh until the surrender and in many smaller
engagements in which the infantry never participated. 1
feel sure that every living officer and man of the 8th Regi-
ment will fully indorse everything written herein.
The last year of the war Col. Wade was made brigadier
general, and served under Gen. Forrest.
HORRIBLE SIGHT AFTER BATTLE OF MANASSAS.
A faded clipping from Public Opinion comes to the Vet-
eran with the following thrilling and pathetic experience of
a Confederate picket while following the retreating Federals
from Hull Run after the great battle of July 2i, l86l :
"When we came to throw out pickets in front of our lines
on the night after dealing the Federal army the hard blow
at First Manassas, we were right among the dead and
wounded. We had won a victory, and the bulk of the Fed-
eral army was making for the Potomac : but there was a
rear which fought sullenly and with a thirst for vengeance,
and along the front of my division the bhiecoats were alert
and ready for any night attack. It was about nine o'clock in
the evening when my company was pushed out, and to get
the place assigned us we had to crawl on our hands and
knees for the last two hundred feet. When I finally got
settled in place, it was at the base of a shade or fruit tree
standing alone in an open field. A ball or shell had struck the
trunk of the tree and cut it in two, and a portion of it lay
on the ground. The Federal picket, as I presently ascertained,
was about fifty steps distant from me. and had the cover
of a heap of rails. I did not locate him until he had fired
upon me. I do not think he knew of my presence, but rather
mistrusted it, and blazed away to draw me out.
"There were dead and wounded all about the tree. I had
crept over two dead bodies, and two wounded men had
begged me for water, and. ahhongh the evening was dusky, I
could count at least ten bodies on my side of the tree. I had
come out with a full canteen, knowing that the front was
covered with wounded. Close to me, on my right, was a
Federal corporal, belonging to a New York regiment. He was
shot in the right leg, midway between the hip and the knee.
This happened two hours before dark and considerably nearer
our lines, and he had managed to crawl twenty rods to get
the shelter of the tree. It was only a flesh wound, and could
he have been taken into the lines that night he would have
been fit for duty in thirty days. Some men would have al-
most walked off with such a hurt as that; but the poor fellow
seemed knocked all to pieces, and had quite lost his courage.
I was holding the canteen to his lips, having raised his head
and put a haversack under it, when the Federal picket fired
the shot. The bullet crashed into the head of the wounded
man, and with a sort of quiver he fell back dead.
"The incident upset me considerably, and. being under
orders not to fire a shot unless the enemy were advancing, I
hugged the ground at the foot of the tree and remained quiet.
Two more shots were fired at me, but they were aimed too
high and went over. I had been on duty about an hour when
the pleadings of a wounded man about fifty feet to my left
for water determined me to succor him. He knew of my
presence, and talked directly to me, saying that he was shot
in both legs and had been lying there seven or eight hours.
I left my gun on the ground and started off on my hands
and knees. The corpse of a Federal lay directly in my way,
and 1 was just making a half circle around it when the sup-
posed dead man scrambled up, seized his musket, which lay
directly beside him, and whirled on me with a sort of scream.
You see, it all came so suddenly that I was confused ; and
when he came at me, I was still on my hands and knees and
helpless. He held the gun at 'charge bayonet,' and made an
awful lunge at me. The point of the bayonet passed through
the back of my blouse, the lunge pushed me over, and the
steel went into the ground almost to the muzzle of the gun
I was thus pinned to the earth, and the man let go of the mus-
ket and fell across me, uttering a groan of pain as he fell.
"My position was such that I could not free myself for
two or three minutes; and when I did, the man was dead for
sure. He had probably been unconscious for a long time
before the frenzy of death caused him to attack me in the
singular manner he did. So firmly was I pinned to the earth,
that I had to 'skin' out of my blouse to get free, and it took
a stout twist at the butt of the musket to pull the bayonet out
of the hard, baked soil."
Jtn.vL .\. E.VRi.v TO One of His Chaplains. — A story is
told by W. T. McCarty. of Emporia. Kans.. of Gen. Jubal
Early and one of his chaplains in the battle of Fredericks-
burg, in December. 1862. One of Early's soldiers says: "In
moving to the front w-e passed through some heavy timber.
That morning the command of Gen. Jubal Early had passed,
and as we neared the line of battle the shot and shell from
the enemy would pass over our infantry and artillery on
battle line and would come whizzing and bursting among
our troops, killing men and horses occasionally. It was an
occasion anything but agreeable. As we were advancing thus
Gen. Early met one of his chaplains going to the rear as fast
as his legs would carry him, when Gen. Early in an abrupt
and commanding manner halted him. The General was not
always choice in his language. I will not give his exact
words, but he in substance said : 'Chaplain, where are you
going?' The reply was: 'General, I am going to a place of
safety in the rear.' The General said : 'Chaplain. I have j
known you for the past thirty years, and all of that time you
have been trying to get to heaven, and now that the oppor-
tunity is offered you are fleeing from it, sir. I am surprised.' "'
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C^or^f ederati^ l/eterai).
"WILLIAMS'S KENTUCKY BRIGADE," C. S. A.
Its Surrender — Shameful Violation of Terms by Federal
Commanders.
BY milford overley, flemingsburg, Ky.
The organization of Confederates known as "Williams's
Kentucky Brigade" was composed of the ist, 2d, and 9th
Regiments of Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Wheeler's Corps,
Army of Tennessee. These regiments were commanded, re-
spectively, by Lieut. Col. Jake Griffith, Maj. Thomas Lewis,
and Col. William C. P. Breckinridge. Gen. John S. ("Cerro
Gordo") Williams took command of the brigade during the
tattle of Resaca, Ga., in which it participated, May, 1864,
succeeding Col. J. Warren Griggsby, who had accepted a place
on Gen. Wheeler's staff. Gen. Williams continued in com-
mand of the brigade till the fall of Atlanta, about which
time he was placed in arrest for alleged disobedience of or-
ders and the command given to Col. Breckinridge, who held
it till the war closed.
There were men in that organization from probably three-
fourths of the counties of Kentuck)', and they represented
many of the trades and professions. There were lawyers and
doctors, preachers and teachers, farmers, mechanics, and
young men just from school — all united in a common cause.
They had renounced their allegiance to their State and their
government, thus jeopardizing every interest they possessed
on earth, and in voluntary exile were fighting in defense of
Southern rights and Southern homes. It is safe to say that
one-half these men were fighting their own relatives, their
own flesh and blood. Gen. Williams himself had a brother
and a son-in-law in the Federal army. Col. Breckinridge's
father, Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge, was one of the leading
Union men of Kentucky. Two of his sons were in the Con-
federate army, while one fought on the other side. A sol-
dier of Col. Breckinridge's Regiment in battle helped to cap-
ture his own father, who was a member of a Federal com-
mand. Every relative the writer of this article had on earth
adhered to the Union, and nearly all who were able to bear
arms were in the Federal service, including his two brothers,
one of whom he once met in battle. But he believed he was
right in thus separating from his family; he believes it still,
and he will die loyal to the principles for which he fought
and suffered in that wicked, that fratricidal war. He did all
that his puny arm was able to do toward upholding these
principles and defending the weak against the strong. He fol-
lowed the starry cross till it went down forever— followed it
with a devotion second to none — and to-day at seventy the
sight of that flag thrills his heart, quickens its pulsation, and
sends the warm blood bounding through every vein. All true
Confederates love Dixie's flag because of the hallowed as-
sociations that cluster round it ; because of its baptisms in
the blood of their comrades and in the tears of their wives,
mothers, sisters, and daughters ; because it was the ensign
of their own loved and lost Confederacy — a fair nation that
was born mid the smoke of battle, that bled freely every day
of its existence, and that, dying, left to the world a record
absolutely spotless — a nation of as brave, noble, patriotic
men and women as ever struck a blow for freedom or as
was ever crushed by an iron hand.
No similar body of Confederates performed more arduous
service in the Atlanta campaign — the "One Hundred Days'
Battle" — than did Williams's Kentucky Brigade. Sherman's
oft-repeated flanking movements with superior numbers kept
our men constantly engaged in fighting, scouting, and picket-
ing. During the early part of the campaign for two weeks
the men of the 9th — of which regiment the writer was a
member- — did not unsaddle their horses, so sorely was our
army pressed by the advancing enemy. It was the activity
and the unceasing vigilance of Wheeler's mounted men that
enabled the commander in chief to detect and counteract
every movement of the enemy and to conduct his masterly
retreat to the Chattahoochee River.
It is the purpose of the writer to give a mere outline of the
services performed by the Kentucky Brigade after Gen. Wil-
liams took command of it, mentioning only a few of the
many battles it fought. During the siege of Atlanta it fol-
lowed and helped to capture Gen. Stoneman, Sherman's chief
of cavalry, who was raiding in the rear of our army not far
from Macon, Ga. A brigade of Stoneman's men (Kentuck-
ians), commanded by Col. Silas Adams, refusing to sur-
MISS CAROLXNB ROGERS, Children of President and Mrs. Jefferson Davis,
^aid of Honor Second Florida Brigade, Louisville. From an old photograph.
GEN. J. A. CHALARON,
Custodian Memorial Hall, New Orleans..
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render, dashed through a weak place in our lines, and es-
caped. They were pursued by Williams's Brigade, com-
manded by Col. Breckinridge. Here were Kentuckians pur-
suing Kentuckians, bent on their capture or their destruction.
At Jug Tavern, many miles from where the fight occurred,
Col. Breckinridge, with but eighty-five men, all the balance
having fallen behind with jaded horses in the headlong pur-
suit, at break of day charged over Col. Adams's sleeping
pickets and into his camp, killing some of his men and cap-
turing many more. Adams, with the little remnant of his bri-
gade, escaped. Thus was the beautiful and wealthy little city
of Athens saved from the spoilers, who meant to pay it a
passing visit. Among the prisoners taken here were two of
MISS OLIVIA MUNNERLYN,
Sponsor for Second Floridii Hrigaile, I'. C. V., Lnuis\illc Reunion.
the writer's former neighbors and once his most intimate
friends. Both died in prison.
Soon after this Gen. Wheeler, with most of his corps, in-
cluding the Kentucky Brigade, was sent to Middle Tennessee
to war upon Sherman's communications. This weakening of
his cavalry force by Gen. Hood enabled the Federal com-
mander to flank Atlanta, and the Gate City fell — "fairly won,"
as Sherman reported to his government. A witty Irish
trooper, on being told that Sherman had flanked Hood out
of Atlanta, exclaimed: "Bedad! and I belave ould Sherman
would flank the divil out o' hell, sure."
The brigade returned from Tennessee by the way of Salt-
ville, Va., where the Kentuckians met and, with the aid of
some other troops, all under the command of Gen. Williams,
whipped Gen. Stephen G. Burbridgc, of their own State, who
had been sent to take the salt works. Our men knew they
were to fight Burbridge, the red-handed monster who had, in
obedience to Sherman's cruel orders and to satiate his own
hellish thirst for the blood of Kentucky Confederates, some
of whom were his own near relatives, murdered so many of
their comrades ; and had he been taken, no power nor au-
thority at Saltville could have saved his life. It was in the
battle here that the writer met his youngest brother, who
was a member of the i6th Kentucky Infantry, but who had
been assigned temporarily to duty at Burbridge's headquarters.
After some days' rest in Virginia, the brigade returned to
Georgia, to find Atlanta in Sherman's possession. About the
middle of November that general burned the city, and with
sixty-five thousand veterans started on his long and devas-
tating raid through Georgia and the Carolinas, with only
Wheeler's mounted men to oppose him. These included Wil-
liams's Brigade, now commanded by Col. Breckinridge, and
the First Kentucky, or "Orphan Brigade," mounted, and com-
manded by Gen. Jo Lewis. The two Kentucky Brigades were
not thrown together at any time during the raid, and the
writer saw nothing of what the gallant Orphans did, but he
can safely say they did their duty. Breckinridge's men were
exceedingly active, operating in the enemy's front, on his
flanks, and in his rear, fighting him at the crossings of
swamps, burning bridges, and felling timber to impede his
progress, cutting off and capturing his scouting and foraging
parties, killing scores of his land pirates and house burners,
and keeping his bummers closed up in the rear. Much of this
was done on the very fields and in the very swamps where
Greene and Gages and Marion and Sumter fought the
British and Tories in the rebellion of 1776.
Sherman took possession of Savannah on December 21,
1864, and four days later he generously ( ?) presented the
city to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift. On February
17 he took Columbia, the beautiful capital of South Carolina,
without opposition, and he burned it. His objective point
after leaving Savai nah was GoldsborO, N, C, at which point
his army was to be reenforced. Before reaching that place,
however, he encountered his old antagonist, Gen. Joseph E^
Johnston, with an inferior force numerically, and the last
great battle of the war was fought, Breckinridge's Kentuck-
ians and Dibrell's Tennesseeans being the first troops to en-
counter the enemy at Bentonville. The battle was inde-
cisive, and Sherman resumed his march to Goldsboro, followed
by the Kentuckians, who made it warm for his stragglers and
bummers and warmer still for his house burners.
On April 10, the Federal commander having rested and re-
cruited his army, the raiding columns were headed toward the
capital of North Carolina, which was entered by the enemy
on the 13th, the Confederate infantry retiring to a point near
Greensboro, the cavalry occupying the intervening territory.
Richmond bad fallen. Gen. Lee had surrendered, and Presi-
dent Davis, with the remnant of the Confederate government,
was fleeing southward. Finding that Gen. Johnston had
determined not to sacrifice another life in a hopeless cause,
Mr. Davis asked for a guard and escort of mounted men to
accompany him to a place of safety. The brigades of Breck-
inridge and Dibrell were selected for this duty. Gen. George
G. Dibrell's home was in Sparta, Tenn., and his men were
from that locality. There were no braver, no nobler, no more
gallant soldiers in the Confederate army than were these Ten-
nesseeans, and their general was worthy to command them.
On the 26th of April Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered
his army on terms dictated by Gen. Grant, who was then at
Raleigh. Immediately after the surrender President Davis,
with several Cabinet officers and others — "the Confederate
government on wheels" — accompanied by the escort, com-
manded by, Gen. Dibrell, left Charlotte for — none of us
knew where. Passing leisurely through South Carolina, the
cavalcade halted at Abbeville, near the southern border of
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the State. Here the Confederacy went to pieces. The Cabi-
net officers separated, each going his own way. Mr. Davis,
with a few attendants, joined his family at Washington, Ga.
The escort crossed the Savannah River, going in the direc-
tion of Washington. Large bodies of the enemy were closing
in upon us, hoping to capture the Confederate President, who
was supposed to be with the escort and for whom the Federal
authorities had offered a reward of $100,000. Gen. Dibrell
was forced to surrender, and the escort was paroled at Wash-
ington, Ga., May 10. 1865.
That was a sad day for the Kentuckians. Men who had
braved death in half a hundred battles wept like children;
indeed, there was scarcely a dry eye in that little brigade.
These men had seen their comrades fall and die on the field
of battle, and they had buried them out of sight, far from
their Kentucky homes and those who loved them, and there
was sorrow in their hearts ; but the saddest death of all was
that of the Southern Confederacy.
Col. Breckinridge, who had decided to leave the command
and to receive his parole at Augusta, took each soldier by
the hand and with tearful eyes bade him good-by. When he
■ and Gen. Dibrell clasped hands that day to say the parting
words, had an angel from heaven appeared and told them
that their next meeting would be in the halls of the United
States Congress as members of that body from their respective
States, they could scarcely have believed it, yet it was true.
The brigade surrendered less than one-third of its original
numbers. Its men had fallen in battle in Kentucky, Tennes-
see, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.
Some had died in Northern prisons, some in Southern hos-
pitals, and a few were reported "missing." The survivors
did not know that they would be permitted to return to Ken-
tucky, for they were outlawed ; but let them go where they
might, they would carry with them the consciousness of duty
well done and the grim satisfaction of being the last organ-
ized body of Confederates, including their gallant Tennessee
comrades, to surrender east of the Mississippi River.
The escort retained its organization and went in a body
to Chattanooga, Tenn.. Gen. Dibrell still commanding. Here
the Kentuckians were halted by the Federal commander and
compelled to give up their horses, which was a direct viola-
tion of the terms upon which they surrendered. Gen. Wil-
liams, who had joined the escort in its passage through South
Carolina, ever ready to contend for the rights of his men,
went up to Nashville and obtained from Gen. Thomas, the
department commander, an order for the restoration of the
horses. In the meantime, however, all the best ones had been
spirited away, and the men received railroad transportation
in lieu of their horses. As a revenge for Williams's inter-
ference in this matter, the Yankee despot at Chattanooga or-
dered all the officers of the brigade to remove from their
uniforms the insignia of their rank. Of course the order was
obeyed, and Gen. Williams, with his pocket knife, removed
his well-earned wreath and stars, while the other officers cut
or tore off their stars and bars.
About thirty of the officers whose horses had not been taken
rode across the mountains to Middle Tennessee and down to
Gallatin, near the Kentucky border. Here they were in-
formed by the commander of the troops stationed at that
place that they could proceed no farther unless they first
gave up their paroles and took an oath of allegiance to the
United States government. This was another breach of faith,
another violation of the terms of surrender. In this case the
Kentuckians made no appeal, but (luietly settled down in a
little camp near town, determined not to take the oath as
long as there was a Confederate army in the field. Here
they remained till after the surrender of Gen. Kirby Smith
in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
Now that the last organized body of Confederates had sur-
rendered and there was no longer the slightest prospect of
a further prolongation of the war, we [the writer was one of
the party] obeyed the order, went up to Nashville, and, by a
process known to many Kentuckians, were converted from
"wicked Rebels" into loyal citizens of the United States.
FREAK OF LIGHTXING I.\ THE SIXTIES.
BY GEORGE I. C. m'whIRTER, NEWBERRY, S. C.
The frequency of objects being struck by lightning in those
latter days brings vividly to my mind an occurrence of 1864.
During the hundred days' campaigning under Gen. J. E.
Johnston and then Gen. Hood south of the Chattahoochee
River our command was a few miles to the left of Kcnnesaw
Mountain. We were formed into line of battle about 3 130
o'clock in the afternoon ready to charge the Yankees, when
from a ver}' small cloud almost directly over us there was a
clap of thunder with vivid lightning. We were informed
that it struck in our battle line and killed and wounded eleven
men. After this, there was a fearful downpour of rain, a
sort of "cloud burst." It was one of the most propitious
showers that I ever knew.
I was not one of the boys who could "eat all the Yanks
before breakfast and then feel a little hungry." But during
the four years of service under Gen. Bragg in Kentucky,
Gen. Pemberton at Vicksburg, Gens. Joseph E. Johnston
and Hood at Franklin and Nashville, and on the surrender
April 26, 1865 (under Gen. Johnston), at Greensboro, N. C.,
did I ever fail to go with my dear old company (K, sad
Georgia Regiment), or even when alone on the skirmish line
my watchword was duty to my God and my country. I have
never seen in history, the Veteran, or in any way anything
relative to this coincidence, and I have always been an.xious
to know whether this report that came down our line of
battle was true or not. All the other statements herein
contained I know myself to be true.
Wh.^t Feder.m, Did for Confederate at Cold Harbor. —
Charles G. Grant, 409 Franklin Building, Philadelphia, writes
an interesting sketch of his experience in the battle of Cold
Harbor May 31, 1864, wherein he went to a badly wounded
Confederate between the lines late in the night and did what
he could for him. In writing of the matter, the Federal of-
ficer states : "The open space from the point where the boys
in gray turned and retreated to the belt of woods was strewn
with their dead, dying, and wounded, and thirty yards in
front of the breastworks lay a wounded soldier, who made
frantic attempts to regain his footing; but he was sorely
wounded, and, after a few struggles, stretched himself ex-
hausted on his back. An officer of the Union forces seeing
the sad plight of his wounded adversary, took a canteen of
water from one of his sergeants and, slinging it over his
shoulder, jumped over the breastwork and ran to the wounded
Confederate. When he arrived beside him, he found that
he had been wounded in the lower part of the thigh, and
his pantaloons from his knee to his foot were clotted with
blood so that his leg looked like a dark red alligator hide.
The officer asked the wounded man if he had a handker-
Confederate l/etcrarj.
Aijii
chief. The Confederate replied that he had, and that it was
in the hreast pocket of his jacl<et. The officer, kneeling down
beside his wounded foe, put his hand in his breast pocket
and found a handkerchief, and also felt, while withdrawing
the handkerchief, a toothbrush and book ; but he wanted only
the handkerchief. Binding the handkerchief tightly above
the wound, he tried to make a tourniquet with his revolver.
This, however, he could not do, the handkerchief not being
long enough, so he then passed it round the leg, crossing the
ends, and, pulling them tight with all his strength, he knotted
them above the wound, the knot pressing well into the leg,
thus greatly stanching the flow of blood. The officer then
shifted the wounded man into as comfortable position as the
ground would permit, and scraped up with his hands the
sandy soil to form a pillow for the head of the wounded man.
'Now,' said the officer, 'this is all I can do for you, my man.
I wish I could do more, but time flies and so must I. Here
is a canteen of water. I'll leave it by your side. Good-by.'
The wounded man replied : 'You may be a Yankee, but you
are a gentleman.' "
JEFFERSON D.-ttlS MONUMENT INSCRIPTIONS.
At a meeting of the Mississippi Division of the U. D. C.
held in Jackson, Miss., January 20. 1005. these resolutions were
adopted, and copies ordered sent the Camps of Confederate
Veterans and Sons of Confederate Veterans and their gen-
eral officers :
"Recognizing the wish of the Jefferson Davis Monument
Association to do justice to every State in the South in the
construction of the Jefferson Davis monument, and feeling
that the proposed inscription on the pedestal of that monu-
ment is a historical injustice to the State which he chose as
his lifelong home, in whose service he spent his best years
and who conferred upon him all those honors through which
came the crowning honor of his life, and in whose genial
clime he passed his declining days, beloved and revered by her
people, the Mississippi Division. United Daughters of the
Confederacy, in convention assembled, does petition your hon-
orable body to change that proposed inscription in conformity
to resolutions which state m substance :
"In the explanation made by the artist, Mr. Valentine, to
the United Daughters of the Confederacy Convention in
Charleston, the inscription to be placed on the pedestal upon
which the statue of President Davis is to stand was to givc-
the place of his birth, Kentucky, and the place of his death,
Louisiana ; and, upon the objection made by Mississippi
through her President that there was no mention of his
having been a citizen of Mississippi, the explanation was
given that 'What we are trying to do is to take him from
Mississippi and give him to the South,' while Mississippi her-
self had already given him to the South in 1861. Therefore
the Mississippi Division, U. C. V., pleads that tlie Jefferson
Davis Monument .Association recommend at the General Con-
vention, to be held in San Francisco, that the inscription be
changed either by eliminating from the proposed inscription
the places of his birth and death or by adding to it the inscrip-
tion, lifetime citizen of Mississippi,' making it read : 'Born
in Kentucky June 3, 1808; lifetime citizen of Mississippi;
died in Louisiana December 12, 1899.' Also, that the repre-
sentative of the Mississippi Division in the Jefferson Davis
Monument Association be, and is hereby, instructed to
support the request embodied in these resolutions at the meet-
ing of the Association. Also, that the Secretary of the Di-
vision send a copy of these resolutions to the President of
the Association, asking that she submit them to the .Associa-
tion at the earliest possible time."
Signed: Lily McDowell (Chairman), Sarah D. Eggleston,
Lizzie George Henderson, Mrs. B. F. Ward, Katie M. Porter.
The official proceedings were furnished to Gen. Mickle by
Mrs. Laura T. McKie and by him sent to the U. C. V. Camps.
"Left Wing or the French Army"— A Louisi.\na B.^t-
T.\LioN.— C. L. Yates, of Greenville, S. C, who served in
Company .A. Washington Light Artillery, refers to the tribute
paid Col. J. L. Rapier in the June Veter.\n, and states that
his command had become so decimated by battle and other-
wise that it was reduced to a very few officers and men ;
that they applied to the War Department to be attached to
the Hampton Legion. Col. M. W. Gary commanding, while
they were on the Black Water River, near Suffolk. Va. The
battalion was then in command of Lieut. Col. Alfred Coppens,
successor to his brother, Lieut. Col. G. A. G. Coppens, who
had been killed in battle. They wore "zouave costumes."
"I was very well acquainted with many of the officers, includ-
ing Col. Rapier ; Maj. DeBordenaire : Capts. DuCros and
Mauzoni ; Lieut. Applewhite. I think of Mississippi, who was
quartermaster and connnissary ; and Miguel Marty, of New
Orleans, quartermaster .sergeant, Rapier being the adjutant.
The battle lion was jocularly called by all of us 'the left wing
of the French army,' as they were nearly all French Creoles.
They were jovial fellows, and no braver set of men could
be found in Lee's arniv."
FORREST'S GUNTOWN UICTORY.
An old clipping from the Mobile Evening News of June 18,
1864, contains this vivid account by an "eyewitness." The
name of the author is not known, but it is evident that he be-
longed to I'uford's Division :
"Guntown, June 15, 1864.
''Mr. Editor: The greatest fight of the war has just closed,
a most splendid victory has been achieved, and that victory
has been followed up rapidly and every advantage secured
that could be gained therefrom. This battle forms one of
the most remarkable cavalry engagements on record, and no
one, except an eyewitness, can well conceive of the appearance
of the battlefield and the line of pursuit, strewed with wagons,
ammunition, arms, accouterments, harness, Yankees dead and
alive, artillery, and plunder taken from these thieving ma-
rauders on their way southward.
"The news of the enemy's movement from Memphis reached
Gen. Forrest while on the march with Buford's Division to
Middle Tennessee. A countermarch was immediately or-
dered, and the command reached Tupelo on the sth inst
This trip having been made over a rough country, entirely
destitute of supplies, and a rainy season of several days' dura-
tion, placed the horses in a condition that was by no means
favorable for rapid marching.
"On the 0th we received information that the enemy were
moving on Ripley, and a scouting party of the enemy having
made a reconnoissance from Ripley toward Rienzi and thence
northward to Corinth, it was supposed that the intention of
the enemy was to reenforce Sherman ; and, preparatory to
harassing his advancing columns, our forces were ordered to
Baldwyn and thence to Boonville. Col. Rucker's Brigade,
which was at Oxford, had been ordered to New Albany and,
crossing the Tallahatchie, had engaged the enemy, who,
however, did not pursue the advantage gained or show any
disposition so to do. Reports came in from Ripley that there
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was no enemy in that place, and, owing to high water, the
movements of the enemj' were masked from the observation
of our scouts. On the evening of the 9th our scouts reported
them in camp, six miles from Ripley, and moving southward
on the Ripley and Fulton road.
"Orders were immediately issued to march southward, ob-
tain their front, and harass them until they reached the
prairie country near Okolona, when a general engagement
would take place. On the morning of the loth the column
moved forward on the road via Blackland ; the Kentucky
Brigade, Col. H. B. Lyon, in front ; Col. Rucker's Brigade,
which had passed us the day before, next; and Col. Bell's
Brigade of Tennesseeans in the rear. Col. Johnson's Brigade
of Brig. Gen. Roddy's cavalry was camped near Guntown.
When within two miles of Bryce's Cross Roads, the head of
the column was fired into by the advance of the enemy and
skirmishing commenced. So rapid had been the enemy's
march that no one supposed that he was in force, but that
this was only a scouting party. Preparations were at once
made to meet any emergency, and Col. Lyon threw forward
his brigade into line, deployed skirmishers, and moved for-
ward to feel the strength of the enemy. Col. Rucker was
formed on his left.
"The enemy was posted near Bryce's Cross Roads, between
our cavalry and Tupelo, and their intention was to annihilate
the cavalry and thus possess themselves of the whole country.
His force was near 12,000: twelve regiments of infantry, of
which two were negroes, 7,000 strong, with eighteen pieces
of artillery; three brigades of cavalry, 5,000 strong; and
a light battery of mounted howitzers. Our available force
was 3.500 effective men and eight pieces of artillery. Col.
Lyon, commanding the brigade, was ordered not to bring
on a general engagement, but to move forward and obtain
possession of the cross roads and enable our force to get
l-:tween the enemy and Tupelo. But it was soon evident that
the enemy was in force. About 12 m. Gen. Buford reached
the ground with our artillery and Bell's Brigade. . . .
The enemy was now moving up its infantr}', two and three
regiments at a time, pressing them up at a double-quick.
Bell's Brigade having been placed in position, one whole
line commenced moving forward. The artillery had been
placed on a very exposed point in an open field, so as to
command the Ripley and Fulton roads, and fired directly
toward Bryce's House. This fire was very destructive upon
the enemy's batteries and upon his columns as they moved
up to obtain position.
"The fire from our artillery prevented, as did also the
nature of the country, the enemy from using his artillery to
any advantage or more than a single battery at a time. Now
commenced the fight in earnest. As the Yankee regiments
were pressed up they were thrown forward and received the
steady fire of our gallant soldiers. A steady advance was
maintained along our whole line. Our artillery advanced
with the line. For three hours the fight raged equal to any
infantry fight on record — in fact, it was an infantry fight.
Our line moved forward in splendid order, the troops, many
of them, now experiencing for the first time the rough shock
of a fight, cheering and sending havoc into the exhausted
ranks of the enemy. It was near 5 p.m.
"On the route to the scene of conflict and after the skir-
mishing commenced Gen. Buford ordered Col. Barteau's
regiment, 2d Tennessee, to proceed from Carrollville on the
road to Ripley, about three miles, and then move over to the
road the enemy was on and attack him in the rear or the flank.
Col. Barteau moved as directed, got in rear of the enemy,
and attacked him vigorously. The news of this attack in the
rear was soon carried to the front. Col. Barteau displayed
a long line of skirmisliers and deceived the enemy. Whipped
in front, attacked in rear, they now commenced a retreat
worse than Bull Run. Our men pressed forward rapidly,
and the enemy, as their remaining regiments came into action,
made an effort to stand and check the ardor of our pursuit.
But their troops were demoralized; a panic seized them. The
threats they had made of capturing Forrest's Cavalry and
turning them over to the negroes to be dealt with operated
with fearful memory on their minds, and only death was
presented to them if they were captured.
"A mile from the cross roads our advancing columns com-
menced passing wagons deserted, caissons left behind, and
everything indicating a rout. A mile farther the evidence was
more conclusive, and about three miles from the cross roads
the majority of their train was left, filled with rations, forage,
ammunition, and manij of the luxuries of earth. On we
moved, the enemy occasionally stopping and returning our
fire. About four miles from the cross roads, the rout being
complete, our troops were halted and awaited their horses,
which were being brought from the rear. At 10 A.M., the
nth, our troops were in the saddle, and the pursuit com-
menced. Ten miles from the cross roads, at the crossing of
the Hatchee, the remainder of Iheir train, their artillery,
ambulances, and wounded were left in great confusion. On-
ward we pressed them, their cavalry turning to give us a
volley once in a while in order to enable their infantry to
gain a little rest.
"At Ripley they made a stand, which was equal to most
cavalry engagements, but they were pushed back in confusion.
At Ripley Gen. Forrest, with Bell's Brigade, made a detour
to the left to Salem, leaving Gen. Buford to follow the pur-
suit direct. Gen. Forrest's intention was to reach Salem
while they were passing and cut their column in two, and thus
capture the main portion of their army. The pursuit not
being rapid enc.igh for Gen. Buford, and perceiving that the
enemy only had a very small rear guard of cavalry, he deter-
mined to charge through this and reach their infantry.
Rucker's Brigade was in immediate pursuit, and under in-
structions from the General he pushed forward, charged on
horseback, driving the cavalry back on their infantry, and
capturing several hundred. Col. Faulkner's Kentucky Regi-
ment, Maj. Tate commanding, of the 3d Brigade, was now
ordered to the front, and made a most gallant charge, scat-
tering their infantry in all directions. At Ripley we captured
two more pieces of artillery. Gen. Buford pursued them to
Davis's Mills, about five miles to Lagrange, in person. At
that point he sent forward two regiments to Lagrange and
returned from the pursuit. We had pursued them this day
a distance of fifty-eight miles. Their infantry marched most
unprecedentedly, and their officers declared they would all
have surrendered but for fear of death. The whole route
was strewed with arms, cartridge boxes, bayonets, sabers,
their dead, and live Yankees. The truth beggars any de-
scription.
"The result of this engagement wns over five hundred thou-
sand rounds of ammunition, seventeen pieces of artillery, over
two hundred wagons, immense stores (quartermaster, com-
missary, and ordnance), several thousand stands of small
arms, and twenty-five hundred prisoners.
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"Our loss was severe. Many a gallant officer and brave
private fell a victim to the deadly bnllet, and many a house-
liold will be clothed in mourning. Our entire loss was about
four hundred and fifty killed and wounded. The division of
Gen. Buford immortalized themselve.s, and Rucker's Brigade
kept even pace throughout. The brigade commanders, Col.
11. B. Lyon, of Kentucky, Col. T. H. Bell, of Tennessee, and
Col. Rucker, of Tennessee, fairly earned promotion on this
gallant field. It is unnecessary to mention the gallantry of
Gen. Forrest and his staflf. He was ever in the midst of the
attacking columns.
"To Gen. Buford is due the greatest praise for the (juick-
ness of his perception, the rapidity with which he moved,
and the masterly manner in which he handled the troops.
This officer is one among the most accomplished in the serv-
ice, and deserves the highest encomiimi for his conspicuous
gallantry on this day. His staff deported themselves, one and
all, in a manner th.Tt won them a high reputation.
"Col. Bell lost two members of his staff, Lieut. Porter and
Capt. Bell killed, and two others wounded. Col. Lyon lost
one of his staff. Cadet Skinner, wounded.
"Officers and men did their duty. The action of iho Ken-
tucky Brigade was noted on that day for its steadiness, and,
having been in infantry, the other brigades emulated its
example and vied to keep pace with it. The 8th Kentucky
captured one piece of artillery at Bryce's House, the color
bearer standing on the piece and holding aloft his flag.
This is one of the most gallant, though one of the smallest,
regiments in the service. The enemy devastated the wlinle
country through which they passed. Their movement south-
ward and their return formed a strong contrast. The fight
from ten o'clock to about 12 m. on the loth inst. was carried
on by Col. Lyon's brigade, who had driven the enemy nearly
a mile before the other brigades came up. The enemy's loss
was about ore thousand *o twelve hundred killed and some
five or six hundred wounded."
LOST THIilh' 1. 1 res TRVrXG TO HELP COMRADES.
Charles E. Cantzon, Wharton, Tex., writes of one of lliosc
unselfish deeds of valor which are too often lost from his-
toric record. This dee<l is not generally known, for it was
of so bold and daring a nature that of the brave men who
volunteered in the undertaking but few were left to tell of
that night of horror and suffering.
"Capt. Edward S. Rngeley, the hero of this unfnrlunate
undertaking, raised and equipped at his own expense a com-
pany of cavalry, which was afterwards attached to Brown's
Regiment and assigned to scout duty on the coast of Texas.
While stationed in the town of Matagorda, it was reported,
on the 31st day of December, l86,^ that Capt. Henderson's
company, scouting on tlie peninsula, had been cut off from
the mainland by the landing of Federal troops from their
gunboats. A call was immediately made for volunteers to
cross Matagorda Bay to the relief of Capt. Henderson, which
was inmiediately responded to by the company. They started
in a schooner to cross the bay at night, a distance of fnc or
six miles, and had gotten within a half mile of the peninsula
shore when the .schooner could proceed no further on account
of shoal water, so the men had to be transported to shore in
small boats. A terrific Texas norther blew up, the air was
like ice, and the bay was a raging torrent of waves and foam.
The boats became unmanageable, the water swept over them,
and some were capsized. A few of the men were droVned,
Inn most of them froze to death after reaching the shore.
Capt. Rugeley and a few others succeeded in regaining the
schooner, and reached Matagorda in safety."
Of the noble dead who so unselfishly sacrificed their lives
in a vain effort for their friends the following list is given:
Jesse Matthews, John J. Jones, D. A. McKinley, A. D.
Hines, G. M. Bowie, Thomas McKinley, J. B. Seaborn,'
Thomas H. Mcneley, B. H. Walton, W. P. Copeland, J. M.
Connor, Henn- Gibson, J. U. Howell, A. C. Johnson. W. M.
Meneley, A. J. May, F. C. Secrcst, J. G. Secrest, James
Rugeley, Edie Lake.
That it was a bold and hazardous undertaking is fully at-
tested by a letter from Maj. Gen. J. B. Magruder, command-
ing, to Capt. Rugeley :
"Captain: 1 have been preventcil by the great press of busi-
ness 1 am called upon to transact from acknowledging before
this the gallant services and heroism of yourself and brave
comrades in your attempt to hasten to the relief of Capt.
Henderson's company during the recent terrible norther on
Matagorda Bay. Such an act, voluntarily performed, and
in the face of the elements, as for a handful of noble men to
attempt to rescue from capture their comrades, ignorant of
the strength of the enemy, is deserving of the highest praise
and commendation, and will form a bright page in the history
of this great struggle for indcpeniier.ec.
" I he sad fate of the
brave men who per-
ished in this nolilc,
patriotic undertaking
will be mourned by
the entire country,
and the example your
company has f u r-
nishcd will be one
that their coinrades of
the .-\rmy of Texas
will strive to emulate.
Tender to your men
my thanks for and
sincere appreciation
of their zeal and fi-
delity, and accept as-
surances of my sym-
pathy in the loss you
have sustained."
Capt. Edward S.
Rugeley was born in
South Carolina, was
graduated from Co-
lumbia College, a law-
yer by profession. In
1846 he removed to
Texas, purchased
land, and became a
s u c c e s s f ul cotton
planter. .-Xfter the
war he resumed farm-
ing, was a member of
the State Legislature,
and was elected Judge
of Matagorda Countv,
CAn. Ki.w.vKi. s, Ki ..MM. ierxm^ two terms.
He moved to Wharton County in January, 1897, and died
there December 21 of that year, aged seventy-five years.
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, - ■ , .- J J . - -» H -.- - — - -i-/'--^-': '.--■^i-'^
Members of the V. Y. Cook Camp.
The following members of V. Y. Cook Camp, Newark,
Ark., have died within the last year : J. H. Wells, Company D,
19th Virginia Infantry; J. B. Henderson, Company A, 7th
Arkansas Infantry ; J. N. Arnold, Company D, 8th Arkansas ;
J. W. Hiilsey, Company A, 32d Arkansas.
Comrade Wells was a Mexican War veteran, also serving
in the ist Virginia Infantry. He went to Arkansas in 1870.
The others were representatives of old and prominent Arkan-
sas families, being natives of that State.
Alex K. Jennings.
Announcement is made of the death of Alex J. Jennings, of
Albany. Ga., who served in Company E (Albany Guards),
4th Georgia Regiment. By his gallantry, his genial nature,
and manly characteristics he won a warm place in the hearts
of those who shared the hardships of his soldier life, and
loving testimony is given of his qualities as a soldier and cit-
izen. He will be sadly missed by those with whom he had so
long been associated in days of war and peace.
J. T. Hester, T. M. Carter, W. H. Gilbert, of Albany, Ga.,
send this tribute to their comrade, all being survivors of
Company E, 4th Georgia Regiment.
J.-^MEs A. Morris.
Again has death invaded the Confederate ranks and there is
one less of the valiant men who "wore the gray." Comrade
James A. Morris, a member of Camp H. B. Lyon, No. 1,259, U.
C. v., at Murray, Ky., answered to the last roll call January
14, 1905. There were none braver or more knightly than
Comrade Morris.
He was bom in Montgomery County, Tenn., November 14.
1835 ; and came to Galloway County, Ky., a few years prior to
the War between the States. In October, 1861, he enlisted in
Company C, 33d Tennessee Regiment of Infantry, and was
with his command in all its engagements until taken prisoner
at Chickamauga in 1863. He was sent to Rock Island prison,
and there endured its well-known horrors until the surren-
der. With a firm belief in the righteousness of the Southern
cause, he never swerved in his allegiance to its banner.
At the close of the war he returned to his home in Ken-
tucky and began civil life anew. After teaching school sev-
eral years he became an employee of the J. D. Rowlett To-
bacco Works, of this county, but for many years previous to
his death he was the confidential bookkeeper, etc., for the J. D.
Rowlett Tobacco Works.
In all the walks of life, as soldier or citizen. Comrade Morris
was a true Christian gentleman, noted for his unfailing good
humor and his bright and cheerful disposition. He was always
pleased to extend a helping hand to his fellow-man. His
memory will long live in the hearts of his comrades and
friends.
Comrade Morris was married in 1875 to Miss Lucy B. Row-
lett, who preceded him to the spirit land, leaving two children
— a lovely daughter (Miss Annie, who is an enthusiastic mem-
ber of the U. D. C. ) and a son (Ray).
K. F. PEDDICORD.
K. F. Peddicord.
Capt. K. F. Peddicord died at the home of his sister, Mrs.
India Logan, in Palmyra, Mo., August 28, 1905. He had been
ill for about ten days, and grew rapidly worse from the first.
Capt. Peddicord was born in Barnesville, Ohio, October i,
1833, and moved with his parents at an early age to Parkers-
burg. W. Va. He was a civil engineer by profession, and
served in the con-
struction of the B.
and O. and L. and N.
Railroads. He enlist-
ed in the Confederate
service from Ken-
tucky under John
Morgan in 1861, but
was captured in 1862
and remained a pris-
oner until the close of
the war. He was con-
iinea in the military
prisons at Johnson's
Island, Allegheny
City, and Point Look-
out. After the war he
came to Marion Coun-
ty, where he has since
resided. He took
great interest in all
matters pertaining to
the Civil War, and
usually attended the
Confederate reun-
ions. He was present at the last reunion, in June, at Louis-
ville, Ky. He served as postmaster in Palmyra under the
Cleveland administration.
Capt. Peddiford was a man of many friends and had a wide
acquaintance among ex-Confederates in several States. Fu-
neral services were held at his late residence.
Dr. B. G. Slaughter, a comrade of Capt. Peddicord, wrote a
letter upon learning of his extreme illness, from which ex-
tracts are made herewith. He wrote from Muskogee, Ind. T.,
on the date that our comrade died :
"My Dear Comrade: The sad news of your illness has just
reached us, so I hasten to write you by return mail with re-
assurances of our great love and ever-abiding confidence in
you on account of your many virtues and intrepid leadership
of scouts for four long years in the bivouac, on the march, and
through the heat of battles. Old scout, we have seen you scores
of times in the forefront of the fray, leading your men with a
cheer and spirit which no man could resist. Our heartstrings
were entwined with yours by your love and care of your sub-
ordinates on all occasions. Where you led we were glad to
follow. With hearts of swelling pride we recall your deeds
of love and loyalty to the men whose good fortune it was to
serve under you as orderly sergeant, and later as ranking officer
of the entire command, and subjected to orders from none save
H. Morgan's Kentucky Cavalry, honored as advanced guard
of the entire command, and subjected to orders from none save
our illustrious chieftain and the commander of the Army of
Tennessee. . . . You may recall our last love feast at
Louisville, where four or five of us met as by chance on the
steps of the Assembly Hall and recounted historical events in
the presence of two queenly Southern women.
"How I wish I were able to go to you at once ! Be brave,
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•my noble hero. Should the way seem dark, look to Jesus, the
■Captain of our salvation. He will lead you safe into the haven,
where a crown of glory awaits his recruits. O, Peddicord,
we loved you as a soldier! . . .
"I hesitate — I can't say good-by — but wait, as I hope that
while there is life there may yet come news of good cheer. In
you I will lose my ideal soldier, my closest friend and confi-
dant. God's will be done ; it is beyond my ken. My prayers
go with you in your suffering and separation. If T could only
know on the morrow that my message reached you in your
proper mind, how glad I should be !
"Brother Sim was thrown from his buggj' to-day and badly,
though I trust not seriously, hurt. Your sickness touched him
deeply, so this is why the letter is penned by your 'old Squirrel,'
who ever remains sincerely \'ours to command."
Dr. Slaughter was one of the most bullet-ridden men who
survived the war.
Moses Booth.
Action by Camp No. 770, U. C. V., Los Angeles, Cal. :
"Whereas we have a vacant chair — the faithful old comrade
-who so regularly answered 'roll call' and filled this chair
(Moses Booth, of Company F, 426 Mississippi Cavalry) has
been transferred from this Camp to the great army beyond the
river — it is meet that we take cognizance of his departure.
Comrade Booth was a good soldier through the days of war.
a faithful and loyal adherent to the principles of our cause
and to the U. C. V. Under his coarse old coat there beat
a true heart and was a white soul."
It was further resolved that, in commemoration of his
worth and loyalty to the South and to the United Confederate
Veteran Association, Camp 770 be instructed to have a gran-
ite headstone placed at his grave, with his name, company,
and regiment cut thereon. In Comrade Booth's death the
Association lost a true and faithful member. He had no rela-
tives in California, hence his comrades were the only mourn-
ers.
Dr. Benjamin Brooke Temple.
Dr. B. B. Temple died in Danville, Va., March li. 1905. He
was born March 22, 1839, near Fredericksburg. Of most dis-
tinguished ancestry, he was educated at the University of Vir-
ginia and in Paris in academic studies and medicine. He left
his studies in France and returned home to enter the Confed-
erate army at the outbreak of the war. He served with six
brothers, an adopted brother, and a brother-in-law in the Con-
federate army, giving his heart and soul to the cause of his
country. He served for two years with the 2d Richmond
Howitzers, and was then transferred to Company B, 9th Vir-
ginia Cavalry. He was selected later as one of Gen. Lee's
trusted scouts, in which position he served with marked
bravery and distinction until the close of the war. Those
who knew Dr. Temple best prided themselves on the friend-
ship of one of the most modest, bravest, and stanchest of
men.
Hon. Jesse Edward Brown.
As a tribute to the memory of Hon. Jesse E. Brown, a joint
meeting of the bar of Jackson and Madison Counties, Ala.,
was held in the courthouse at Scottsboro, Ala., on the 16th of
August, and a joint connnittec appointed to give expression
to the esteem in which this comrade was held as a man and a
citizen. Mr. Brown began his career as a Confederate sol-
dier while a youth in his teens, becoming a member of Frank
Gurley's Fourth Alabama and going through the war. He
was wounded in battle near Farmington, Tenn., and was cap-
tured at the second battle of Fort Donelson, and a prisoner in
Louisville and Baltimore for a short while. He was at Mur-
freesboro, Chickamauga, and Kennesaw Mountain, where the
loss of a leg closed his career as a soldier. After the war he
studied law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., and
became one of the most prominent lawyers of North Alabama.
In his death the State lost one of her ablest, purest, and most
patriotic citizens. His wife, three daughters, and a son sur-
vive him.
Jacob Elender was born in Calcasieu Parish, La., in March,
1843, the son of St. Germain and Rebecca Ryan Elender. His
death occurred on the 14th day of June, 1905. At the age of
19 years he enlisted in Company K, loth Louisiana Regiment,
commanded by Col. De Marigny. This command was sent to
Virginia and assigned to Johnson's Division, Stonewall Jack-
son's Corps. Comrade Elender made a brave and faithful sol-
dier, and after the end came he returned to his home and en-
gaged in agricultural pursuits. He left several children.
Joseph F. Campbell.
In the death of Joseph F. Campbell a prominent citizen was
lost to the city of Galveston— a man who filled with honor
every position of trust. He was at one time Commander of
Magruder Camp, U. C. V., of Galveston.
Joseph Campbell was born in Mobile, Ala., September 19,
1846, the son of David L. Campbell, a prominent merchant
there. He attended schools in that city, and in i860 entered
the Centenan,' Institute at Sumnierfield, Ala., remaining there
till June, 1862, when he entered the Georgia Military Insti-
tute, at Marietta. In the spring of 1864 the cadets of that
institute were ordered into the service of the Confederacy, and
remained in the service until the end of the war, but in No-
vember of that year Mr. Campbell resigned and joined Com-
pany A, of the First Alabama Battalion, which he had been
active in organizing during one of his furloughs from the
G. M. I., and he was appointed sergeant on the day of join-
ing it. He served in that capacity till the Army of Mississippi
surrendered at Meridian.
Comrade Campbell was a citizen of Montgomery for many
years, actively engaged in the cotton trade, and there was mar-
ried to Miss Dexter, granddaughter of the founder of Mont-
gomery. She survives him with four daughters and three
sons. A daughter by his first wife lives in San Antonio. He
went to Texas a few years after his marriage, became
identified with the business interests of the State, and was
recognized for his sterling integrity and fine business ability.
He was a devoted husband and father, a friend to the friend-
less, and a true man to the duties of life.
Dr. Wiley Harvey Doak.
"His face proclaimed a man unbought.
Who swears to his hurt and changeth not."
Wiley Harvey Doak believed in State's rights, but not in
slavery. He cast his first vote for John Bell for President.
When Tennessee called for volunteers, however, he was
among the first to enlist at Knoxville, and one of the last to
surrender, having accompanied the Davis Cabinet South from
Danville with the 2d Kentucky under Basil Duke. After
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making the famous raid with Morgan into Ohio, he was cap-
tured on Buffington Island and held at Camp Douglas for
nineteen months a prisoner of war.
For some ten years succeeding the war he engaged in ranch-
ing and farming in Texas, and among cattle breeders he had
the distinction of owning the only Short Horn with an Amer-
ican championship record south of the Ohio River. About
1877 he graduated from the Medical Department of the Uni-
versity of Nashville, practicing awhile at Concord. He later
located at Russellville, both in his native Tennessee, where
he bought and built well. For thirty years he had been a
ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church, and up to his last
illness was its moving spirit and treasurer. He served for
several terms as President of the Hamblen County Medical
Society, and held membership in the American Medical Asso-
ciation and other organizations for the promotion of science
and the good of mankind.
Dr. Doak died at the home of his son, W. B. Doak, at
Russellville, Tenn., December 3, 1904.
Judge W. W. McDowell.
Judge William Wallace McDowell was bom near Ironton,
Tenn., on June 26, 1833; and died April 30, i8j4, and was
buried in Elwood Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
Judge McDowell was the eldest son of John Davis Mc-
Dowell, who moved from Mecklenburg County, N. C, and
settled in Gibson County, Tenn., in 1832. Judge McDowell
was reared on a farm, and educated in the country schools
and at Andrew College, Ironton, Tenn., after which he at-
tended the Lebanon Law School, graduating with honors.
While attending this school he professed religion and joined
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which he was a con-
sistent and devoted member until his death. He returned
to Ironton and commenced the practice of law.
When the War between the States broke out, he was one of
the first to tender his services to defend the constitutional
rights of the Southern States. He enlisted in Capt. W. B.
Russell's Company, 12th Regiment Tennesssee Infantry, on
May 10, 1861, and was elected first lieutenant. In the battle of
Belmont, Mo., while leading a charge, he was shot down and
supposed to be mortally wounded by a Minie ball, which
lodged in his body and remained there to his death. He
recovered in a few months, however, and returned to his com-
mand. In the battle of Shiloh his captain (B. H. Sanford)
was killed and Judge McDowell was elected in his place,
which position he held until a consolidation of his regiment
with the 22d Tennessee, which necessitated the discharge of
one-half of all the company and regimental officers. He, with
officers thus discharged and boys under eighteen years, went
to Tippah County, Miss., and, adding to these discharged
Tennesseeans, raised a company of cavalry, joined Col. J. G.
Ballentine's regiment and served under Gen. W. H. Jackson
and Gen. Earl Vandorn until the latter's death, after which
he and the Tennesseeans with him were transferred to Gen.
Tyree Bell's escort, Forrest Cavalry, Capt. McDowell com-
manding the escort until the army surrendered, at Gainesville,
Ala., May 11, 1865 — having served four years and one day.
Capt. McDowell was wounded by a piece of a shell which
struck him on the breast during the Hood campaign into
Tennessee, but refused to leave the command. He was again
struck on the breast by another piece of shell in a subsequent
battle; but it being slight, he continued with the command.
He always entered a battle at the head of his men, appar-
ently fearless of consequences. As commanaer of his com-
pany, he was uniformly kind to his men, all of whom were
devoted to him.
Shortly after the war he moved to Memphis, Tenn.. and
resumed the practice of law, forming a partnership with
George Gantt and Josiah Patterson. In a short time he was
elected county attorney, and was reelected for three successive
terms, after which he was elected chancellor, which position
he held for eight years. In 1888 he was elected a member
of the State Senate, which position he most worthily filled.
Judge McDowell was married twice: first to Miss Annie
K. Jones, on March 27. 1867. Of this union three children
JUDGE M DOWELL.
were born — ^W. W. McDowell, Eula Ewing, and John Over-
ton McDowell. His second wife was Mrs. Lizzie Freeman,
daughter of Capt. Joseph Lenow. One daughter (Edith) and
two boys (Neely and Francis) were born of this marriage.
Although Judge McDowell was a lifelong Democrat, a
worker in every campaign, he had few, if any, enemies and a
host of friends. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, both of
his great-grandfathers performing gallant service in the Rev-
olutionary War. His maternal great-grandfather. Gen. Rob-
ert Irwin, was one of the twenty-four signers of the Meck-
lenburg Declaration of Independence. His brother. Col. J. H.
McDowell, of Union City, Tenn., is noted for his Confederate
valor and his devotion to his comrades.
Dr. A. H. McAllister writes from Blue Mountain, Miss., of
Capt. McDowell's high qualities : "He was truly patriotic and
brave, and as daring as a thoughtless boy. In camp to talk
of close places and noble and brave deeds of his boys to him
was a joy. He was a gentleman of the highest type; he was
social and kind to all good and faithful soldiers, while a
coward he despised. He was so high-minded that his Chris-
tian influence over me (then a small, timid boy) was elevating
and inspiring, and it has done me good through life."
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and conduct before the war, during the war, and after the
war. A most valuable addition to Virginia history. Il-
lustrated by portraits. Svo, cloth. Price, $2.
•'Recollections of a Naval Life : Including the Cruises of the
Confederate States Steamers Sumter and Alabama." By Capt.
John Mcintosh Kell, executive officer of the Sumter and Ala-
bama. The Indefciidoit says that "it is from books like this
that the future historian will draw supplies for a just and well-
balanced picture of one of the world's greatest revolutions,"
and it is regarded by other critics as being quite as valuable
as Admiral Semmes's "Service Afloat." Svo, cloth. Price, $2.
"Four Years under Marse Robert." By Maj. Robert Stiles.
The publishers claim that this volume has been the most suc-
cessful book of its class that has ever been issued within the
same length of time. Probably no other book has been pub-
lished in America in the past decade which lias received so
much praise, and this has come from the North as well as from
the South. The reason for this is shown by a review in the
Yale Alumni Weekly, which says; "Written in clear and terse
style, it abounds in anecdote tipped now with humor, now
with' pathos; personal memories flecked by the light of camp
fires or lurid in the flash of cannon; touches of sentiment, re-
ligious, patriotic, and kindly, tempering the grim hardships
and realities of war ; view points of South-
ern strategy in the great battles of North-
ern Virginia, and of recollections not a
few depicting the traits of the Confederate
commanders, with many of whom Maj.
Stiles, as adjutant, came into personal con-
tact." Svo, cloth. Price, $2.
"Johnny Reb and Billy Yank." By Alex-
ander Hunter. Here is a book of soldier-
ing by a soldier— not merely memoirs or
recollections, but facts gathered from a
diary kept from start to finish of the War
between the States. It gives the inner life
of the private soldier of the Southern
Army. The author served as a foot soldier
for two years in the famous Pickett's Di-
vision and two years in the celebrated
Black Horse Cavalry, and he tells in his
own way of the hardships and battles of
the matchless infantry of Lee's army, and
of the thrilling adventures of the dashing
Black Horsemen. Svo, cloth; fully illus-
trated. Price, $3.
GEN. \V1LL1.\M C. 0.\TES.
MRS. SVLL.\ W. H.\MILT0N
Bolton's luisii tekkier.
"The Shenandoah Val-
ley and Virginia, i86i to
1865." A war study by
Col. Sanford C. Kellogg,
U. S. A., late aid on the
stafT of Gen. Sheridan.
While this book was
written by a nephew of
Gen. Sheridan and a
member of his staflt, and
who has for many years
enjoyed a reputation in
the United States Army
as a military critic of the
first rank, his book may
really be regarded as a
Southern publication. He
holds that Gen. Jackson
in his marvelous cam-
paigns became the ranking Am.ericaii military genius. This
is the most complete history yet written of the war in the
Shenandoah Valley, and is an exhaustive and critical war
study of the most remarkable warfare conducted in the annala
of history. Gen. Charles King says that it is "the acme of
military directness and sim-
plicity— condensed history,
page by page." i2mo, cloth.
Price. $2.
"A Memoir of Robert M.
T. Hunter," by Martha
T. Hunter, his daughter,
with an address on his life
prepared for the Hunter
Memorial Association by
Col. L. Quinton Washing-
ton. "The colleague of Clay
and Webster," says the Gal-
veston Neivs, "though op-
posed to them politically,
and arrayed with Calhoun,
Douglas, Davis, and others of that era, he will go down in
history as one of the greatest men of Virginia." l2mo, cloth.
Price, $2.
"Autobiography of Col. Richard Mal-
colm Johnston." Truth does the dear old
Colonel no more than justice when it says:
"Typical Southerner, expressive of the
South's highest ideas, living in closest in-
timacy with some of the chief historical
figures of the South in the most crucial
period of its history, Col. Johnston's auto-
biography cannot fail to be of interest to
the present and future generations of the
South. The reader will have an insight
into some historical events and personages
of the South not to be obtained elsewhere."
i2nio. cloth. Price, $1.25.
"The Southampton Insurrection." By
William S. Drewry, Ph.D.. Instructor of
History in the University of ]\Iissouri. The
history of the insurrection of Nat Turner,
in Southampton County, Va., .August, 1831,
resulting in the massacre of scores of men,
women, and children. The effects of in-
surrection upon emancipation, upon the condition of the slave,
and upon the economic condition of the country are pointed
out. Illustrations consist of thirty-si.x full-page half-tones,
maps, etc. Svo, cloth. Price, $2.
"Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker." By Capt.
James Henry Rochelle. With notes on the navigation of the
upper Amazon and its principal tributaries, by the author; and
a biographical sketch of the author by M. Tyler. Capt.
Rochelle has written a biography of strange and heroic adven-
tures in his "Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker."
He was eminently qualified to write this biography, being for
many years Admiral Tucker's "right hand," his executive
officer, and his chief aid in his most important enterprises.
i2mo, cloth. Price, $2.
"Boy Soldiers of the Confederacy." By Mrs. Susan R. Hull.
In regard to this valuable work, the Baltimore Sun says : "The
book is hardly history, it cannot be called biography in the full
sense of the word, and yet it is an invaluable contribution to
both subjects. It is a collation of fragments gathered from a
thousand sources. Now it is an incident related by one of the
Qopfedera t(^ l/eterar).
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JUDGE THEODORE II. JERVEY.
army surgeons of the death of some child who had given his
hfe for his country ; now there is an anecdote of some boy
upon the field." The book is a valuable contribution to a much-
neglected aspect of our war. 8vo, cloth; fully ilustrated.
Price, $2.
"S o m c Neglected
History of North
Carolina." Including
the Battle of Ala-
mance, the first battle
of the American Rev-
olution. By William
Edwards Fitch, M.D.
In North Carolina the
first settleiTient of
English colonists in
.\merica was estab-
lished ; she was the
first to draw up a
declaration of indc-
pcn<lence ; by her peo-
ple the first battle of
the American Revolu-
tion was fought. Such
important history is
fully treated in this
book. i2nio, cloth;
fully illustrated.
Price, $2.
"Savoyard's Essays : Being Essays on Men, Things, and
Events, Historical, Personal, and Political." In this work is
presented the best of forty years' writings by Savoyard, includ-
ing essays on Roscoe Conkling, Matthew H. Carpenter, John
J. Ingalls. Oliver P. Morton, Sanniel J. Tilden, Marcus A.
Hanna, Ucujanun II. Hill, iM-ank Wolford, Thaddeus Stevens,
Andrew Johnson. Sergeant S. Prentiss, Lucius Q. C. Lamar,
the Family of Field, Thomas B. Reed, George F. Hoar, Ste-
phen A. Douglas, and Thomas C. Piatt. Each essay is a com-
prehensive treatment of its object, and some of the essays ex-
ceed 15,000 words each in length. 8vo, cloth; fully illustrated.
Price, $2.
"History of tlu- Ku KKix Klan: Its Origin. C.rowtli. and
Disbandnient." By J. C. Lester and D. L. Wilson, with intro-
duction and notes by Walter L. Fleming, Ph.D., Professor of
History in West Virginia University, and author of "Civil
War and Reconstruction in Alabama." Illustrated, i2mo,
cloth. Price, $1.50.
"History of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence,
May 20, 1775, and Lives of Its Si.gners." By Dr. George W.
Graham. A book of great importance by a recognized au-
thority. The .\merican Revolution is shown by Dr. Graham
to have had its birth in North Carolina, not in New England.
8vo, cloth. Price, $1.50.
"Life in the Confederate Army." Being personal experiences
of a private soldier in the Confederate Army. By Arthur P.
Ford; and .some experiences and sketches of Southern life, by
Marion Johnston I'ord. l2nio, cloth. Price, $1.50.
For lack of space, we are unable to mention in detail the
Ncale publications of more than usual value in the field of
biography, reminiscence, and history relating to other sections,
and of importance to American historj'. One of these books
is absolutely unique — "Dorothy Quincy, Wife of John Han-
cock, and the Events of Her Time." This book is by Miss
Ellen C. D. Q. Woodbury, the great-great-niece of the beauti-
ful Dorothy, and is one of the few books of biography deal-
ing with the part played by women in our national develop-
ment. This volume is now in the second edition, is well il-
lustrated from oil paintings and rare prints. It is a i2mo,
handsomely bound, and sells at $1.50. .Another of these books,
also in the second edition, is the charming reminiscence of
old Mr. Pendel, the venerable doorkeeper of the White House,
who tells of the family life of our Presidents of half a century,
beginning with Mr. Lincoln. This book is handsomely illus-
trated, and the price is $1.50.
The fiction offering is superb. Mrs. Frances A. Harris, of
.\tlanta, has a charming story of Kentucky, her former home,
entitled "Among the Meadows." Ambrose Bierce, the mas-
ter of the short story, is represented in a choice collection of
his tales, under the title of "Can Such Things Be?" Mrs.
Flora McDonald Williams, of Louisville, has a splendid war
story in her new novel, "The Bludc Cockade." Under the title
of "Love's Way in Dixie," Mrs. Katharine Hopkins Chapman,
of Selma, Ala., issues a volume of her charming short stories
of Cupid's favorite field. The California writer, Clyde C.
Westover, takes the Bard of Avon for his hero in his brilliant
historical novel, "The Romance of Gentle Will." An admira-
ble story of adventure is "Hoosier Hunting Grounds," by Bill
Bat, one of the leading novelists of Indiana; and he writes
charmingly of the pioneer days of his native State. Mrs.
Elizabeth May Montague, of South Carolina, whose short
stories have been appearing for several years past in the lead-
ing magazines, issues her first long novel under the title of "Be-
side a Southern Sea." Miss Maia Pettus. of Alabama, whose
first novel, "Princess of Glenndale," was issued by the Neales
several years ago with considerable success, has a new story
entitled "Meda's Heritage," which justifies the expectation of
the friends of this young author that she would achieve an
enviable reputation as a novelist. Chaiinin;; Pollock, who in
recent years has made a notable success as a playwright, and
whose dramatization of Norris's "The Pit" was one of the
most successful plays of last season, published his first novel
through this house several years ago under the title of "Behold
the Man." A new and autographed edition of this book is now
offered. One of the
most attractive books
tliat the Neales have of-
fered in years is the bril-
liant satire and mirth-
provoking book of Miss
H. Rea Woodman, of
Nebraska, which she
playfully describes as a
historical romance, in
which she introduces
b'athcr Noah as the hero
of "The Noahs AHoat."
Miss Annie T. Colcock,
of South Carolina, a
pioneer in the modern
school of historical ro-
mance, whose story of
the Tudors reached a
sale of more than thirty
thousand copies within
a short time after its
publication, issues
through this house the most ambitious work of her life, in
Madrid setting, entitled "Her American Daughter." A de-
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WOODMANj
COVER DESIGN, GRE.MLY REDUCED.
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lightful dog book comes from the pen of Reginald Pelham
Bolton, of New York, a member of the American Folklore
Society, and which he illustrated. His book purports to be
"The Autobiography of an Irish Terrier." Dr. George Barks-
dale, a prominent physician of Richmond, has written a novel
of remarkable force of negro life, entitled "Punch." Judge
Theodore D. Jervey, of Charleston, S. C. writes with calm-
ness and deliberation a novel dealing with reconstruction and
the present day relations of the races growing out of the meas-
ures enforced during those dark days. The title of this book
is "The Elder Brother," and already the second edition has
been printed. Another novel dealing with reconstruction is
by the Rev. Dr. J. \V. Daniel, of Columbia, S. C, entitled "A
Maid of the Foothills." Dr. Daniel supplies some of the
missing links in the story of reconstruction, in which he took
an active part. "Dick," by Mrs. Wille Drenneii Russell, of
Alabama. "The Carolinians," by Miss .'\nnie T. Sloan, of
South Carolina, "The Gritto," a story of Texas as an empire,
by Moncure Lyne, of Virginia, "Tuckahoe," a Virginia story
by Eggleslon. are all novels which make delightful reading.
Mrs. Sylla W. Hainilton, a daughter of the late Gen. Thomas
and a granddaughter of Gen. Withers, writes a charming story
entitled "Forsaking All Others." descriptive of Sherman's
march to the sea. Another story of more than passing value
that deals with Sherman's march is "In and Out of the Lines,"
by Frances T. Howard, of Georgia.
The translations are peculiarly attractive. "The Land of
the Rising Sun," a Japanese book by Gregoire de Wollant, for
many years Russian consul to Japan, now the Russian minis-
ter to Mexico, is absolutely unique. This book is translated
from the original Russian by Mr. de Wollant in collaboration
with his American wife. Other books are from the French
of Pierre-Henri-Adrian Decourcelle. Madame Charles Rey-
baud ; the German of Felix Dahn, Richard Voss, etc. Va-
rious important books on economics are catalogued, while in
the field of belles-lettres there are many gems by well-known
writers.
In a splendid list of poetry various well-known Southern
poets are represented.
The Neales are doing splendid work in the world of letters.
and such a house well deserves the hearty support which it
has received from the South. They are about to establish a
MR.
Pr.sulenI The
W.-\LrtK NE.\LE,
Neale Publishing Coinpafiy.
n.agazine of international scope under the title of The South-
erner, and promise later to resurrect the old Southern Literary
Messenger.
EX-GOV. ROBT. L. TAYLOR,
Candidate United States Senator, Democratic
Primary, May 12. 1906,
Robert Love Taylor, statesman, orator, humorist, and racon-
teur, is one of the best known men in the South, and none exceeds
him in extended personal popularity. He has been once in Con-
gress, three times Governor, and twice an elector for the State
at large, but his fame rests no more upon his political successes
than upon his remarkable powers as a public speaker. Both on
the hustings and on the lecture platform he has the gift rarely
equaled of entertaining an audience. Genial, big-hearted, of
fine personal appearance, and always easily approachable, he has
made legions of friends throughout the country and thousands
love and admire him to whom he is personally unknown.
Robert L. Taylor was born July 31, 1850. in Happy Valley,
Carter County. Tenn., on the spot where the soldiers of John
Sevier rallied for their attack on King's Mountain. He was
the fourth of ten children, six of them boys. He and his brotlier
Alfred were educated at Pennington, N. J., and later he read law
under the tutelage of Judge Kirkpatrick. at Jonesboro. In 1S7S
he was admitted to the bar, and soon afterwards was nominated
by the Democrats of the First Tennessee District for Congress.
This was one of the most remarkable episodes in Robert L.
Taylor's life, and served to give him a very favorable introduc-
tion to the Tennessee public. The district had an unbroken rec-
ord of six thousand Republican majority for some years past.
The Republican candidate, Hon. A. H. Pettibone, had served
several times in Congress and was a man of marked ability. It
was a great surprise when young Taylor was elected, and the
campaign was attended with some unique features that have
made it famous in the annals of Tennessee history.
In 1S84 Robert L. Taylor was a Cleveland elector for the State
at large, and that year made his first canvass of the entire State.
After the election he was made Pension Agent at Knoxville.
In 1SS6 was the notable campaign between his brother Alfred
Taylor and liimself for the Governorship. The Republicans
nominated Alfred Taylor, and the Democratic State Convention,
which met soon after, called on Robert to represent his party.
No campaign in the State has ever aroused greater popular in-
terest. Robert L. Taylor was elected by a good majority, and re-
elected in ISSS over Samuel W. Hawkins, Republican, polling a
larger vote than had ever before been accorded a candidate in the
State.
He was persuaded to become an elector for the State at large
again in 1S92, and there was an almost universal demand among
Tennessee Democrats that he accept the gubernatorial nomina-
tion for the third time, in 1896. He was this time elected over
Hon. G. N. Tillman, the Republican candidate, receiving the
largest majority ever before or sinco accorded a gubernatorial
candidate in the State of Tennessee.
Since retiring from the Goven.M-.s office the last time, Gov,
Taylor has been almost constantly on the lecture platform. Re-
cently he removed to Nashvilli and began in that city the publi-
cation of Bob Taylor's Magazine.
C^opfedcrate l/eterai).
473
EDWARD W. CARMACK,
Candidate United States Senator, Democratic
Primary, May 12, 1906.
Edward W. Carmack, Senior Senator of Tennessee, was born
near Castalian Springs, Sumner County. Tenn., November 5.
1S58. He is known as a self-made man. his fatlier. who was a
minister of the Christian Church, having died when he was an
infant. Nature was kind to him. for it tauglit him the hard but
enduring road to success by acquainting him from boyliood witli
the path of hard labor ; first on a farm, tlien in a brickyard,
and in various other positions wliich afforded maintenance for
liis widowed mother and himself. He attended scliool in winter
or was taught by his mother, and finally went into an office to
study haw.
He was sent to the Legislature in 1884. two years later be-
came associate editor of the Nashville American, and subse-
quently editor in chief of the Nashville Democrat, and later the
Nashville Ainerican. In 1892 he removed to Memphis, where he
gained much prominence as editor in chief of the Memphis Com-
mercial-Appeal. He was very popul.ar with the masses, espe-
cially the sih'er wing of the Democratic party, whosi^ cause he
so valiantly espoused. Consequently, when the memorable con-
test of 1S96 was at Us height, he was nominated by acclama-
tion for Congress by the silver element of the Democratic party
from the Tenth (Memphis) District to oppose Hon. Josiah Pat-
terson. The latter had long been In Congress and was noted
for his distinguished ser\'lce. The minority or gold wing nomi-
nated Mr. Patterson, .and tlie Republicans failed to place a can-
didate in the field, indorsing Mr. Patterson.
So both entered the contest for political supremacy before the
m.atchless tribvine of the people. A bitter fight was waged. Mr.
Carmack winning by a narrow margin. Fr.avid w%ts charged by
his opiKininl. Mr. Patterson, who contested tile election before the
Mcmsi- of R.jnesintatives. .and the House, though strongly Re-
pnhliran. decitied in favor of Carmack amid one of the most
dramatic scones ever witnessed in Congress. Members stood on
seats th.at they might not lose a syllable of his logic, while
with breathless attention they listened to his thundering appeals
in behalf of the So\itli tliat biirned their way into th.- hearts of
all. And from th.nt time on Carmack's name was on thousands
of lips, for he h.ad accoinpllslied what was considered Impossi-
ble.
Thus Carmack's star of political fortune was in the ascend-
ency. He at once became the object of national prominence,
and in 1901. wlien Senator Turley refused to stand for reelection,
]»nple from all parts of the State importuned him to stand for
tlie Senate, with the result that he was elected without opposition.
Senator Carmack as a debater has few equals. He is a man
of the profoundest convictions, political and moral. What he
conceives to be right he loves with his whole soul, mind, and
strengtii ; and what impresses Idm as wrong he hates with cease-
less intensity. H.aving an emulous desire for honest fame, there
is no compromise in his make-up. Bold, aggressive, and fearless,
he is the match of any of the shining lights of the opposite party.
Sentitor Carmack's record as a public man is known to all.
and suffice it to sa.v that his retnarkable success in public life Is
an object lesson demonstrating that poverty and adversity arc
no barriers in the road to eminence and distinction.
Jacob Heater, of .\berileen, Wash.,
makes inquiry for relatives of Dr. John
Tclfer, of Georgia, who is buried in the
cemetery there. He was recognized as
a Confederate veteran by the G. A. R.
Post of that city, and on each recurring
Decoration Day his grave is remem-
bered. Cotiirade Heater wishes to mark
the grave with a stone, and will do so
at his own expense if he can secure a
record of Dr. Telfer's service in the
Confederate army.
J. L. McCullough, of JamestowMi, Ala.,
wants to secure a copy of the "Youtli's
History of the War between the States,"
which he thinks was written by a young
man who served in the Army of North-
ern Virginia and which w'as published
soon after the war. He is very anxious
to get a copy.
John J. McCann
(THE UA..ME MIUUER ),
CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION
COUNTY TRUSTEE.
Subject to Democratic Primary,
December 7, 1905.
P. A. SHELTON^
CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION
County Court Clerk.
A mistake was made in crediting the
poem in July Veteran, "The Pride of
Battery B," to R. B. Mayes, of Yazoo,
Miss., who calls attention to the error.
SUBJECT TO
Democratic Primary, Dec. 7, 1905.
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Respectfully solicits your vote and in-
fluence for
TRUSTE E.
SUBJECT TO ACTION OF
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY. DECEMBER 7, 1905.
R. A. MILAM,
FOR
CRIMINAL COURT CLERK.
DAVIDSON COUNTY.
SUBJECT TO DEMOCRATIC PR/MARY,
DECEMBER 7. J905.
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Dr. Wm. Morrow,
CANDIDATE FOR
REq^^l: DAVIDSON COUNTY.
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, December 7, 1905.
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Comrade A. A. Curry, of Tangle-
wood, Tex., wants to hear from any
member of Company K, Whitfield's
Legion, c^(i)4.*^oss^ Te.]fa^(C|ivalT»'-|
Brigade. He is especially anxious to
hear from one of the old boys who was
in the campaign from Missouri to North
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a Factory of any kind,
for Timber Lands, for
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opiiortnnity in tlie Snntb — for Ihe Home Seeker,
the Miinuractnrcr, and the Farmer. It is anew
.ine running tlirougli a new and rich coun'ry,
and accessiljle by rail to all jiarts of the United
States, For furttier information address
T. A. ROUSSEAU, Chief Clerk Traffic Dept.,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
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Southern and Florida Ry.. from Macon
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ST. LOUIS
via the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Ry.,
arriving at
AND AT
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Ticket agents of the Jacksonville-St. Louis and
Chicapo line, and agents of connecting lines in
Flnrhla and the Southeast, will give you full infor-
mation as to schedules of this double daily service
to St. Louis, Chicago, and the Northwest, and of
train time of lines connecting. They will also sell
you tickets and advise you as to rates.
F. D. MILLER, - Atlanta, Ga.
Traveling Passenger Agent I. C. R. R.
F, R. WHEELfiR. Nashviul*, Tknn«
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West H. IVIorton,
FOR
REGISTER,
DAVIDSON COUNTY.
SUBJECT TO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY,
DECEMBER 7, J905.
BEN R. WEBB,
CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION,
Circuit Court Clerk Davidson County,
SUBJECT TO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY,
DECEMBER 7, 1Q05.
Thos. E. Cartwrightf
CANDIDATE POR RE-ELECTiON TO THE OPFICE OF
SHERIFF DAVIDSON COUNTY.
SUBJECT TO
Democratic Primary, December 7, 1905.
Sam Marshall,
CANDIDATE FOR
TurnolKe Gomiiilssioiier Davidson Go.
SUBJECT TO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY,
DECEMBER 7, 1905.
T.cvy West, of IIccIkvcI, Tciin.. who
srrvod in Company A, .^Sl'i Ala1):nna
Ivi'giiiiciit. sends llio names of a number
of comrades from some of whom he
\\onld like to hear, as he wishes to prove
liis record. The names are: Sam i\cs.
colonel .^5lh Alabama; Jolm R. Mitchell,
caiilain Company A : Kneel Hodge.
George Thompson, Nash Moblcy, Bob
McMahan, all of Company A.
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Car service. Now is the season to visit
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rates, descriptive literature see nearest
Ticket Agent, or address R. T. G. Mat-
thews, T. P. A., Iron Mountain Route,
Room 301 Norton Building, Louisville,
Ky^
St. Francis Valley Lands
Of Southeast Missouri and Northeast
Arkansas, river bottom made soil, rich
as cream; for corn, wheat, oats, clover,
timothy, alfalfa, fruits, and vegetables.
Yields big crops. No failures. Open
winters. Lands now cheap, but ad-
vancing. Investigate this fall. Home
seekers' rates September 19, October 3
and 17, November 7 and 21.
Write for St. Francis Valley booklet.
W. G. ADAMS, T. P. A.,
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TEXMS
If you are contemplating a change,
why not locate in Texas, where the
winters are mild and a home can be
purchased for what you pay annually
in rent in the North? East Texas of-
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growers not equaled in any other sec-
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ture and home seekers' rates Septem-
ber 19, October 3 and 17, November 7
and 21.
W. «;. ADAMS, T. 1», A.
Coltdri I'.cll Itoute. .Nashville, Tenn.
"THREE DAUGHTERS OF THE
CONFEDERACY."
This latest book by Dr. Cyrus Town-
send Brady is a collection of stories
giving the adventures of three charming
Sontheni .girls in different parts of the
Soutli during tlie War between the
States. While the romance is the main
thing, the author's knowledge of tlie
history of this great conflict has enabled
him to write intelligently of the issues
which furnish background for the ad-
ventures of these fair maids, only one
of whom in reality could be called a true
daughter of the South. The illustra-
tions are in colors, and add much to the
beauty of the book, which is handsomely
bound in cloth and stamped in red and
gold. Published by G. W. Dillingham
Company, New York. Price, $1.50.
Chances foe a Fine Diamond Ring.
— Mrs. Mary A. Fairfax, 235 Second
Street, S. E., Washington, D. C, it may
be seen, offered to raffle a diamond ring
that she reports a very fine one. It cost
$525, and is worth that amount now.
(See Veteran for 1904, page 357.) She
expresses deep regret that it was not
taken up more generally, and sometime
ago sent the names of all who responded
in from one to five shares. Her sore
need is the only reason why she con-
sents to part with it. The Veter.'VN
notice was complimentary and because
of sympathy for this heroine of the
sixties. Chances on the ring are $1 each.
yr PISOS CURE FOR ■>,
W
CORES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS,
Best Cough Syxup. Tastes (iood.
to Mme. Sold by druggists.
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b«H
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No CKa-rvge
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'• MEMPHIS. Sc.utheru Rv 11:00 p.m
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•• KNO.XVILLE, Southern Ry 1 :ai p.m
" BRISTOL. X. & W. Rv 7:00 p.m
Arive LYNCHBURG. N. & ^V. Rv 1:« a.m.
■' WASHlNCiTON. D. C, So. ^y. B:.')2 a.m
•• BALTIMORE. Md , P. R. R 8:00 a.m
" PHILADELPHIA, P. R. R 10:15 am
" NEW YORK, P. R. R 12:43 p.m.
" BOSTON, N. Y.. N. H., & H 8:20 p.m.
Throxigh Sleeper New Orleans lo
New York
Through Sleeper Men\phjs to
New York
The finest Dining Cur Service.
Reliable information cli erfuUy furnished by
Norfollj and Western Railway, IIIH W. Ninth
St. (Read House Blocli), Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Chattanooga, Tenn.
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noke, Va.
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est J^fS^Sleeping
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Car Nash-
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York.
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Observation
Cars.
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on all through
trains.
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" THE LAND OF THE SKY "
J M. CuLP, 4th Vice Pres., Washington, D. C.
S. H. Hardwick, Pass. Traffic Manager,
Washington, D. O.
W H. Tayloe, Gen. i>ass. Agt., Washing-
ton, D C.
O. A. Benscoter, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., Chat-
tanooga, Tenn.
J. E. Shipley, Traveling Pass. Agt , Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. -j
Qor>federat^ l/eteraij.
477
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cold of last winter.
Splendid train service, with every con-
veninnce for the comfort and safetv of
the traveler, has been provided via the
GO AST LINE
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<-niitrolling 1.40(1 miles of standard rail-
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without additional i(.st :
Stopping off, up to 30 days en route
to or returning from Jacksonville.
Many variable routes south of Jack-
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Stop-over privileges in the State of
Florida at any point within life of
ticket.
For illustrat^:*d booklets on Florida,
Cuba, or "What to Sav in Sjjanish, and
How t^) Say It." or other information.
addi-ps.s
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months' range.
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October 3 and 17. November 7 and 21.
W. G. ADAMS, T. P. A.,
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THE
**Open Door** to Success
SOUTHWEST
AR KAMSA^ The Anti.Rentcr's State. One .)f the most resonropful in
*^*^-**^^^^ »J^^»J th.> fiiion. Only ouc-fllth of the t^.tal aereairo now nniier
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stni'ls of iinimiu-ov. .1 farms lor sale at ridiculously low prices. The widest "open
door" of tKem all.
1 VOI A M XIT PUIXOUV Soon to he entirely the white man's e.iun-
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laud in Auieriia better worth havintj ami liolilintc.
OKI AHOMA The "What Next" Territory, Xearly ii half-milli n
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but 8k. lease in the South^vest is a foothold. Write
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and third Tuesdays of each luonth.
Rock Island
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~w
GEO. H. LEE,
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Little Rock, Ark.
P. S. WEEVER,
Trav. Pass. Agt.,
Nashville, Tenn.
SAM H. BORUM,
CANDIDATE FOR
S H: E I^ I IF" P^ _
SUBJECT TO
Democratic Primary, December 7, 1905.
■'AT THE GATE OF DREAMS"
This is a collection of poems by H.
E. Harman, of Atlanta, Ga., the well-
known trade paper publisher, who dur-
ing a busy life has found diversion in
writing on sulijccts aside from the prac-
tical. The book is beautifully printed
and illustrated, many of tlic poems hav-
ing a special illustration to interpret the
text. Each poem is a gem, and with
every re-reading will be more appreci-
ated. It is a volume to be taken up and
read in the quiet hour after the cares of
the day are past, when the exquisite
beauty of expression and the feeling
which pervades each poem make their
impression on the heart.
Published by the .\uthors' Publishing
Company, Atlanta. Ga. Price, $1,
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THREE
DAUGHJERS
OF
CONFEJ^ERACY
THREE DAIGHTERS
OFTHECONEEDERACY
Th6 Story of Their Loves and Their Hatreds, Their
Joys and Their Sorrows during Their Sur^
prising Adventures on Land and Sea
BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
>WMM»0<^»I^MM^^NW>^^¥»Wl^<W^^^I^^NW^
AMONG the manv liooks wliicli Dr.
Drady has written, none iiave re-
ceived a more enthusiastic ■welcome
than those ^^^^ich have the Civil War for
a hacktrround. The author's knowledije
of the history of tlie conilict, his intimate
acquaintance with bqth sections of the
country, his personal relationship to the
South as well as to the North, have en-
atiled him to write, even in fiction, of the
Titanic strui^jrle without bias, prejudice,
or undue partisanshi]).
The purpose of the book is inilque.
It treats of the history of three charm-
iiiLC Southern girls. Throu<jhout, t'.ie
romance is the mainthini^; yet there is
a backLjround of strujjy;lc, and here and
there as prettj' a bit of descriptive work
iri a story of battle as maj^ be found in
the works of any modern author. Dr.
Brady has never done an\tliing- better
than "Stonewall Jackson's (ire a test
Day." The payes ar. -^^rs Q ^ p ^"'''''
and there by telling- bits of persoi.°5^'e
scription of such men as Lincoln, Cirant,
Sheridan, Lee, Jackson, and the wliole
book is pervaded by a delightful and re-
freshintr liiniior.
• • •
Illustrated with Six Beautiful
Three-'Color Pictures by Marchand.
12mo, Sy2x7}i Inches, 440 Pages.
Cloth/Bound, $1,50,
Jan 06 •
"Sir," she said,
'perhaps you will heed a woman's plea."
Page 373.
G. W. Dillingham Co., Publishers, New York
NASHVII.I.E, TENN., NOVEMBER, 1905
No. II
Qopfederate l/eterap.
P\
THE VETERAN A VALUABLE ALLY.
In action upou the History Report at the Louis-
ville Reunion, June, 1905, the Vnilcd Confederate
Veterans adopted with enthusiasm the following :
It is appropriate to mciitinn the oflTK-ial or(5an of this NmIv,
the C(>XFiJ>Kic.ATK ViiTKKAN, ((fjiidcd. cdilcd, an I c.tuducled ex-
clusively for the K'lU'fit of the ConfciU'r;ite soUlicrs* name, fame,
and catiAc, hy our comrade. S. A, Cunning-ham. V<>r many years
ii has iHX'n the official nr^'an of our own 4*Teat AssfHiiatitn as well
as of the United S<ins of Confederate Veterans, the l^nileil
naiiffhters of the Conledt^racy. and the Confederated Souihen;
Memorial Associati'-n, puhlishin^ the procec lin;rs of tluir se .-
sions, their work, and lluir achievements. Thus it has been the
medium throu^'h whii h all that concerns the work of Confederate
^.-'^nciatiims can be so published that their cooperation niaj' be
made effective. As a ma^jrazine tfevoted to the otijecisof these
Associations it is a secure iV|>ository of war incidents, binyraphj',
reminiscence, history, and dt>cunients, and is already a full treas-
ury of Confederate data. It is verj' pratilyintf that this ally of
ours has attained a hijrh |>osition anmner our country's maga-
zines. Itsissueof 22.0! li) copies this month proves its popularity
and certifies its statiility. But your lommitu-c /uV/Vrc? //«/ ///
consniittttioit of its toortk and of the bromi ano of its cirtuia-
tnnit -South and JVorth, it dtservcs the tinitnti support of this
hodr. and it von/d bi'comc of greater service to us if all Camfs
and Chaptcts zvon Id adopt measures to double its subseripiio:ts.
C>mmitti;e: Ci-kv.knt A. Evans, Georgia, Chairman;
VViNMixD Pktkks, Maryland; I^asil. W. Dukk, Kentucky.
.Atblrfss S. A. Cnnninq;b:iiii. NnshviHo, Trim.
Oiu' I><ill:ir a Year, Liberal l>iseoiiiit to Agents.
m
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At San Francisco, in Oitnlnr. l'*i>S. tin- United Danu'-hteis <i( the Cxnti-.leia'y
ado|)ted re-.i .111 lions <if <pnte a similar nature uithi>nt a dissentinvr vole. The
United Sons ni Confederate Veterans and the Cnnlederated Southern Memorial
Association ;fre zealous (or the Vktkk.sn. their ofticial <triran.
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FREE TRAINING^ OF NURSES
Young Women of Small Towns and
Country Districts to Be Favored.
By the terms of a fund to be admims-
tered in connection witli the Philadel-
phia School for Nurses, Witherspoon
Building, Philadelphia, a number of
young women from every county will
receive free training in nursing. It is
planned to ultimately reach and help
in this way every village and township.
The young women will be provided
with room, board, nurse uniforms, and
all the refinements of a well-appointed
Christian home. At graduation the di-
ploma of the School and the Order of
the Red Cross w'iil be conferred, quali-
fying for practice in any State or coun-
try; the railroad iare v.'ill then be paid
back home.
Those applying and chosen to receive
the benefits of this fund will be given
two years' training, v;ith a rich expe-
rience in nursing the sick poor of the
city under skilled leaders. The term
may be shortened to eighteen months
by taking a preliminary course of six
months' reading and study at home. A
special short course enables young woin-
en to quickly qualify themselves for
self-support and a substantial income.
In addition to regular nursing, the
young women are taught how to pre-
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nize, avoid, and destroy contagion ; how
to establish and maintain perfect sani-
tary conditions about the home ; they
are prepared for positions as office nurse
and physician's assistant ; they get a
practical knowledee of city mission
movements, deaconess training, col-
lege settlement work, and are trained
for special positions of trust in institu-
tions.
The School is ten years old and is in-
dorsed by physicians, leading educators,
and prominent men throughout the
country.
Mrs. B. A. Blenner, Recording Sec-
retary of Richmond Chapter, U. D. C,
Richmond, Va., wishes a copy of the
song: "If you want to have a good time,
jine the cavalry, boys." Some of our
subscribers can doubtless supply it.
Dr. C. C. Shell, of Stamford, Tex.,
asks for a copy of the poem, "Jackson
Is Riding To-Night," and it is hoped
that some of our subscribers can furnish
him promptly.
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list will be December, and the subscriber is entitled to that number.
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UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
As stated elsewhere, tlie Veteran for December is to con-
tain much about the L'. D. C. Convention in San Francisco.
There is disappointment in the failure to present some of the
reports in this issue.
The long, long distance from the homes of delegates in
general did not deter them in the slightest from diligence at
all the business meetings. Indeed, the United Daughters of
the Confederacy deserve to be placed foremost in any body
of patriotic women in the world, and the Veterans would be
stimulated beyond conception to see and hear the splendid
reports of each Division, and the detailed work even of
Chapters would console them to the certainty that the in-
tegrity and the honor of Confederate soldiers will be zealously
maintained long after the youngest of them has gone to his
rew-ard.
Comment is made in derision often about the controversies
among women that "all want to talk at once." and such op-
probrious actions. Those who contribute to such ridicule
should hear in mind that the Daughters of the Confederacy
delegates are women who, as a rule, had no parliamentary
training until during the last decade, and now it would be
hard to find a body of men, outside of the strictly legislative,
that can compare with the U. D. C. organization.
The appeal to the State Presidents in St. Louis and again
in San Francisco that they send summary reports to the
VETrR.\N is emphasized. It is very strange that they do not
do this belter, since those Presidents w'ould not only estab-
lish credit to their membership, but in reporting their methods
they would help others and the cause.
The purpose was to procure a picture of delegations at the
tree-planting out near the Pacific Ocean, but it was imprac-
ticable to do so. Proceedings of Veterans in several State
reunions are also deferred.
If correspondents would be diligent to state as concisely as
possible what they desire in the Veter.xn. using good paper
and typewriting when practicable, they would secure space
much earlier.
INCIDENTS OF TRIP TO CALIFORNIA.
" \\'ith the Northern Ocean on Ihe north. America is ^'ound;
On llie south it is said Ihe Suilhern is fouiul;
On tlie ea t the majestic .\tl(nlic is seen;
On ihe west the Pacific, more mild ami serene."
.■\s "the boundary of America," the above was quoted by the
mother of a white-haired Chapter President of the U. D. C,
who is quite accustomed to looking out upon the Atlantic
Ocean, as a boat glided gracefully across the San Francisco
Bay on one of the many excursions given to the Daughters
of the Confederacy during their recent convention held in the
Golden Gate City of California.
Who can tell the limit of Horace Greeley's idea when he
advised yotuig men to "Go West ?" Did he mean Cincinnati.
St. Louis, or Denver? He hardly meant at that time the ex-
treme West of what was then our country. To those who
have traveled into the glacial regions of Alaska, or who have
gone by stagecoaches for weeks into that vast possession,
or even those who are familiar with journeys to California,
these reminiscences are not intended ; but to a large per-
centage of Vetf.r.\n readers notes of a journey to the U. D
C. Convention must be of interest, so the space is given to
tell them of things seen and heard by the editor.
St. Louis is so fully within the borders of our Di.xie that
it may be designated as a starting point. The greater part
of a day was occupied in crossing to Kansas City, especially
as washouts by recent rains caused considerable delay. What
a great, rich State is Missouri ! Measured from border to
border in all directions, it is very hard to equal. -Kansas
City, although on the border of a State that has been con-
spicuously antagonistic to Southern sentiment, has a fine
representation in both Veterans and Daughters of the Con-
federacy. Missouri is all right.
A journey by the Union Pacific from Kansas City by Fori
Riley is most interesting. The United States government
domain in that section of the State bestirs the pride of citi-
zens. It would be difficult to find a more beautiful section
anywhere. "Uncle Sam" seems to have made the best choice
of land in all of Eastern Kansas. A ride through a long night
by rail transforms the beauties of rich Kansas into the arid
deserts of Colorado, so that over half of the six hundred and
forty miles across Kansas and on to Denver is very sterile.
It was quite good to stop over the greater part of Sunday
in that rich city, the capital of Colorado, which is a mile
above sea level. It was pleasant to be greeted in Denver by
friends who had been benefited in health and store. "Seeing
Denver" by excursions on electric cars was resorted to by
tourists, who are taken all about the city for fifty cents and
informed by the guide, who has his story well memorized.
While Confederates and their friends are zealous even
where two or three are gathered together, there are so few
in that section of the West that they must he quite lonesome.
In a prolonged conversation with a traveling auditor of the
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Union Pacilic between Denver and Clieycnne, and making
known war time relations, the gentleman became very cor-
dial, and said — he was in mature life, an Eastern man of
family — that he had never before spoken to a Confederate
veteran, and had never seen but one other to his knowledge
who served in the Confederate army.
The journey to Cheyenne of one hundred and seven mile?
is through an irrigated region and prosperous, but in sight
-of desert mountains all the while. The increased elevation
of this journey of two hours is nearly a thousand feet, yet
it seems as the mere beginning of ascent. Magnificent pab-
sengtr trains are moved in sections from there westward, each
of which is propelled by three wonderful railroad engnies.
While Cheyenne is six thousand and fifty feet above sea
level, the first twenty miles, to Granite Canyon, Wyo., rises
to seven thousand three hundred and ten feet, and in twelve
miles more the track at Sherman reaches the apex of the
line, eight thousand feet. Here there are "oceans of moun-
tains," all bleak as the few snow caps in undefinable dis-
tances. Ogden is reached after part of two days and a night.
one thousand and three miles west of Omaha. Although i;
was not originally planned to visit Salt Lake, the fast run
of an hour was added to the original design, and a few hours
of a delightful morning were very much enjoyed with patrons
who went from Mississippi and Kentucky. While not ex-
pecting to see a face that ever had been familiar, the deliglit
of a drive about the city with hospitable friends and a
levee at the station are specially remembered incidents.
,A volunteer conference during the journey on the Union
Pacific in that mountain region with Tim T. Keliher, confiden-
tial representative of that great systein, is recalled with cor-
dial appreciation. He told much of interest in regard to
that country, and introduced one of the men whose business
it was to be ready any minute for train robbers and such
emergencies. He was a small, mild-mannered inan, whoso
prolonged experience in being "ready" made him an inter-
esting study. Besides men of this kind on all trains, there
are kept eight horses and a car ready for speed at any mo-
ment. It is believed that the horses could cover one hundred
miles in a day. While these precautions are maintained for
the safer protection of passengers, there is very little anxiety
by them, for it is now several years since a "hold up" occurred
on that line. Mr. Keliher is a most useful repre.'entative of
the great corporation that he serves, a man of extraordinary
physical mold, and interested in the development of the coun-
try of which many inillions of acres are yet to be developed.
A fascinating feature of Cheyenne is the splendid stone
railroad station of the Union Pacific Company, with ex-
tensive and magnificent grounds about it. Although the
State capital, Cheyenne is near a corner of the State and
has a reported population of over fourteen thousand.
Moving higher and higher at the rate of eighty-six feet
per mile, two of the three large compomid engines carry
trains of ten thousand tons. At Buford, on this line, are the
great gravel beds which, it is said, make the best roadbed in
the world. The crossing of the Rocky Mountain range is
at Sherman, named for Gen. W. T. Sherman. Some of the
fills by this new line from Sherman to Laramie are nearly
one thousand feet long, one hundred and twenty-five feet
high, and contain five hundred thousand cubic yards of dis-
integrated granite. At another point there were moved one
million seven hundred thousand cubic yards of material.
Elk Mountain, near this line, is twelve thousand five hun-
dred feet high, and its top is nearly always covered with
snow. The train is quite a half day in sight of it. Out
from these stations go the great mining teams of twenty
horses each, and the wagons of I'we tons weight are hauled
as much as fifty miles. Aspen tunnel is the lar.gest piece
of snigle work ever undertaken by the Union Pacific Company,
being five thousand nine hundred feet long. Its greatest
depth below the surface is four lumdreJ and fifty-six feet,
while the tunnel base is seven thousand two hundred and six
feet above sea level.
The great industry of the region through whic'.i the Union
Pacific runs is sheep husbandry. At one station in Wyoming
a firm shears annually one hundred thousand sheep. "Cattle
have been run out of the country by sheep," said a man who
seemed to he well posted. The shepherd lives summer and
winter with the sheep, herding them each night about hi-
covered wagon, the only home that he has. In Idaho the
statistics show an enormous number of sheep. It is under-
stood to he forty-five million.
"Stage line connections" are indicated by the railroad time-
tables, as are branch railroads in more thickly settled section.-*.
The Oregon Short Line railroad is a continuation of the
Union Pacific from Huntington to Portland, and is a pro-
digious enterprise. A feature of interest is its scenery along
the Columbia River. Boats are run daily from Portland for
excursionists.
The Portland I^'air was found to lie most interesting. Tlu-
fringed hills, with evergreens surrounding a sort of alcove
with a broad water space opposite, gave pleasing variety to
the scene. The exposition buildings showed advantages that
come through knowledge of the many others. The manage-
ment paid pleasing honor to Tennessee upon notice that the
bearer carried a commission from the Governor. President
Goode, a Virginian, and all of tlie subordinate officers were
not only most courteous but thoroughly cordial.
The purpose to report further on this most interesting
journey is deferred to the December number. Much is
already in type concerning the U. D. C. Convention. It was
one of the most interesting conventions and one of the most
harmonious ever held. The Veteran intends to report the
achievements of our Southern women without stint, and it
requests from State Presidents a resume of what has been
accomplished by their Divisions as promptly as practicable.
DAYS Of EMERGENCY TO PRESIDENT DAVIS.
In a letter from New York City of October 13, 1905, Mrs.
V. Jefferson Davis writes to S. A. Cunningham :
"My Dear Sir: I notice in your able and invaluable journal
a communication signed by Mr. Milton' Overly, of Flemings-
burg, Ky., when reciting the services of the gallant 'Wil-
liams's Kentucky Brigade,' a statement in which I am sure
Mr. Overly did not desire to do injustice to President Davis.
but which places him in a light in which he never posed in
the Confederacy or elsewhere in the course of his active and
illustrious career. Mr. Overly says: 'Richmond had fallen,
Gen. Lee had surrendered, and President Davis, with the
remnant of the Confederate government, was fleeing south-
ward. Finding that Gen. Johnston had determined not to
sacrifice another life in a hopeless cause, Mr. Davis asked
for a guard and escort of mounted men to accompany him to
a place of safety. . . . Immediately after the surrender,
at Appomattox, President Davis, wit.i several Cabinet officers
and others — "the Confederate government on wheels" — accom-
panied by the escort commanded by. Gen. Dibrell. left Char-
lotte for — none of us knew where. Passing leisurely through
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South Carolina, tlie cavalcade lialted at Abljcville, near tlie
southern border of the State. Here the Confederacy went
to pieces. Mr. Davis, with a few attendants, joined his
family in Washington, Ga. The escort crossed the Savannaii
River, going in the direction of Washington.'
"Mr. Ovcrly's statement that the President was proceeding
in a leisurely way through South Carolina would seem to con-
flict with liis other assertion that the President was 'fleeing
southward.'
"The facts are these: Mr. Davis, supposing his family to be
with a friend, tlic fhjn. Armistead Burt, in .Abbeville, and
not having seen them since before the fall of Richmond,
naturally desired to bid his wife and children farewell be-
fore beginning his perilous efTon to reach the Trans-Missis-
sippi. He therefore came to Abbeville. However, fearing to
embarrass him in his effort to reach the Trans-Mississippi
Department, 1 sent a letter to meet him at the Saluda River
by Col. Henry Levoy, an intinialt- friend, in which I begged
liini not to attempt to join us even for an hour; but to ex-
pect us, if we could accomplish the journey, to meet him in
Texas. Wc hoped from the (iulf coast lo get passage to
Nassau, and thus reach Texas.
"Mr. Davis, much disappointed, came lo Washington, but
our party moved ten miles farther the clay that he left .Abbe-
ville. As none of us l.ad either silver or gold coin, the wagons
carried a few barrels of Hour and of sugar, which wc hoped
to exchange for cooked provisions on the journey. Added to
these were several trunks containing the wearing apparel of
our family, all we had been able to save from the wreck of
• lur chattels, \'n\ nilo lb,- Confederate treasury the Presi-
dent had gladly poured all the money and other available
property he possessed, regretting he had no more to give.
Of this <lecply tragic termination of our four years' bloody
war Mr Overly jokingly speaks as 'The Confederacy on
wheels!' Mr. Davis liad no 'wagon train.' With the valuable
Slate papers from the I-'.xecutive. War. and Navy Depart-
ments, the President sent a trunk or two containing some few
articles and personal apparel, but the contents of these were
principally very important historical and personal papers, to
be cared for in Florida by a Confederate friend. These were
llie only wagons with which he had an\ thing to do.
"From our camp, ten miles from Washington, fearing that
he might in his anxiety about our fate try to overtake us, 1
wrote a second time to protest against his trying to join us,
and did not see him again until several days had elapsed, as
we moved on in the .gray of the next morning, escorted by
several Confederate officers who had volunteered to protect us.
He joined us at night several days after, hearing accidentally
on the road that \\e were to be raided and our horses taken
from us. Neither his parly nor ours knew where the oilier
was. He certainly did not wish to hu arrested, as his last
hope for our pcoi)le was to recruit the army of the Trans-
Mississippi and make a last stand there for our cause or
else to make better terms for our people. Many Confed-
erates offered themselves to him when he left Charlotte, but
he felt that the number was too large to move over a cap-
tured territory without their being attacked and perhaps cut
to pieces, as the number would be too small to make a suc-
cessful resistance. He therefore bade them farewell with an
aching heart, and they unwillingly returned to be paroled.
"The Confederate President neither asked nor received of
Gen. Jolnislon or any one else a guard to accompany him to
a place of safety, nor did he seek for himself any immunity for
the part be had taken in the Confederate government. He was
willnig to the last hour of his life to give it for his country
if he could serve her. He had, as his part of what remained
of the struggle, his horse and a pair of saddlebags containing
a change of raiment. At no time did he occupy the attitude
in which Mr. Overly presents him before the Southern peo-
ple— that of a commander deserted by his army, asking pro-
tection until he could reach a place of safety for his own
person while traveling with a train of wagons with a peri-
patetic government loaded upon them. For the honor of
the Confederate army, I will say that the President could
have left Charlotte with several brigades of devoted Con-
federate soldiers ; but to accept their escort would have been
lo sacrifice them for no purpose. The Cabinet officers did
not 'each go his own way' and desert their President. They
offered to accompany him if they could be of any use, and
Mr. Benjamin felt and said that he knew he was not physically
able to keep up the pace the spare and light men of the
escort could maintain, though he would gladly take the risk
if Mr. Davis desired it. It was evident that the brave and
learned Secretary was right, and very unwillingly the friends
parted on the bank of the river. Mr. Benjamin t^k his way
toward the coast, expecting, if the hopes of the party were
fulfilled, lo meet them again in Texas. Judge Reagan, always
a frontiersman, used to hard riding, felt physically able lo
bear the fatigue, and followed the President with all of his
staff, which made a ^larty, they vainly hoped, small enough
to escape the enemy's notice.
"In coiring years the sons of our veterans of course will
accept as llie most veritable account the testimony of those
brave men. who were the wonder of one hemisphere and the
envy of the other, and it is therefore that I venture, to cor-
rect one of them in his statement which I think does injustice
to one who is no longer living to defend himself: and I do it
with reluctance, because I am assured that the author of the
sketch did not appreciate what impression his reminiscence
would make upon his readers."
■■THE TRUE JEFFERSOX LAVIS."
For two score years the South has waited for a man of
reputation as a historian and of ability as an orator to pre-
sent to the world a vivid and accurate portrayal of the great
President of the Confederacy. M last the inan has appeared,
and his work merits our unqualified approbation. Dr. Guy
Carkton Lee, of Maryland, gave for the first time "The
True Jefferson Davis" in Nashville late in October. The
theme brought out an audience of several thousand persons,
and there would have been many more had the eminent
merits of the speaker to discuss the subject been fully under-
stood. This is Dr. Lee's first year in the lecture field of the
South, and therefore a recital of his achievements will be
helpful to an appreciation of his qualification to discuss the
great theme in hand. Dr. Lee's historical work comprises
forty-five volumes, eleven of which are devoted to oratory.
The most conspicuous of all Dr. Lee's historical achievements
is his new work, the "History of North America." It will
contain, including maps, over twenty volumes. The fifteenth
volume, of which the South will be justly proud, treats of
the "Civil War from a Southern Standpoint." Other volumes
from his pen are: "Hincmar," a study of the relation of
Church and State in the ninth century. "Sources of English
History," "Historical Jurisprudence," and the "True History
of the Civil War." His literary activity has further resulted
in dozens of articles contributed to the press of the new and
the old world.
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Qopfederat^ l/eterai).
It is decidedly noteworthy that, when we consider his
literary products, Professor Lee has found time to teach in
ihe Johns Hopkins and Columbian Universities and to de-
vote fifty nights a year to the lecture platform. But this
he has accomplished by such a systemization of his work
that every waking moment is utilized.
The author, while an ardent Southerner, had written of
Mr. Davis from a different viewpoint from that from which he
now regards the illustrious statesman and patriot ; and he,
upon mature consideration, felt that he had misrepresented
him, and therefore wrote "The True Jeflferson Davis" to
correct his error. Such is the manly and the right course to
pursue. What a pity that another American does not do
likewise! Our statement comes from an admission on the
part of Dr. Lee that his conscience impelled the tribute he
pays to the Confederacy's only President. The tribute is
loyal, and those who have been prejudiced against Mr. Davis
should hear Dr. Lee. The eminent historian considers all
the phases of the many-sided character of the great states-
man. He demonstrates that no Atnerican has achieved more
than Mr. Uavis. Every statement is fortified by proof ; every
argument is undeniable. The lecture will be a revelation to
thousands of persons in the South and to hundreds of thou-
sands in the North. It is a revelation that comes at a time
that is most opportune, and the world is ready to receive it.
It is singularly fortunate that Dr. L«e not only possesses
the historical knowledge necessary to an authoritative treat-
ment of his subject, but the oratorical ability to put it before
the people with unrivaled impressiveness. His delivery is
such that he holds his audiences enrapt from his first
word to- the last, and justifies the statement that as he is
the South's greatest living historian so is he its greatest dra-
matic orator.
Dr. Lee will make an extended tour through Texas in No-
vember, and this brief notice is intended to cordially intro-
duce him ; and we trust that those who love the Confederacy
will make themselves personally known to Dr. Lee.
VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT TO THE SOUTH.
The Associated Press, under the management of Mr. Mel-
ville Stone, made so accurate and so complete report of the
President's every utterance on his visit to the South Atlantic
States and across to Little Rock, thence back to Memphis
and to New Orleans, whence he returned by a government
transport to the North, that it will hardly be read as new.-,
in the Veteran. However, record concerning Confederates
is made, as it will thereby be preserved in better form than
elsewhere and by thousands who will most thoroughly ap-
preciate his utterances. The beginning was in Richmond,
In his remarks at the capital of the Confederacy he said:
"I trust I need hardly say how great is my pleasure at
speaking in this historic capital of your historic State, the
State than which no other has contributed a larger proportion
to the leadership of the nation ; for on the honor roll of those
.American worthies whose greatness is not only for the age
but for all time, not only for one nation but for all the world,
on this honor roll Virginia's name stands above all others.
And in greeting all of you I know that no one will grudge
my saying a special word of acknowledgment to the veterans
of the War between the States. A man would indeed be but
a poor American who could without a thrill witness the way
in which, in city after city, in the North as in the South, on
every public occasion, the men who wore the blue and the
men who wore the gray now march and stand shoulder to>
shoulder, giving tangible proof that we are all now in fact
as well as in name a reunited people, a people infinitely richer
because of the priceless memories left to all Americans by
you men who fought in the great war.
"Last Memorial Day I spoke in Brooklyn at the unveiling
of the statue of a Northern general, under the auspices oi
the Grand Army of the Republic, and that great audience
cheered every allusion to the valor and self-devotion of the
men who followed Lee as heartily as they cheered every
allusion to the valor and self-devotion of the men who fol-
lowed Grant. . . .
"The proud self-sacrifice, the resolute and daring courage,
the high and steadfast devotion to the right as each man saw
it, whether Northerner or Southerner — these qualities render
all Americans forever the debtors of those who in the dark
days from 1861 to 1865 proved their truth by their endeavor.
Here around Richmond, here in your own State, there lies
battlefield after battlefield, rendered forever memorable by
the men who counted death as but a little thing when weighed
in the balance against doing their duty as it was given them
to see it. . . .
"Great though the meed of praise is whicU is due the South
for the soldierly valor her sons displayed during the four
years of war, I think that even greater praise is due to her
for what her people have accomplished in the forty years of
peace which followed. ~For forty years the South has made
not merely a courageous, but at times a desperate struggle,
as she has striven for moral and material well-being. Her
success has been extraordinary, and all citizens of our com-
mon country should feel joy and pride in it; for any great
deed done or any fine qualities shown by one group of Amer-
icans of necessity reflect credit upon all Americans. Only a
heroic people could have battled successfully against the con-
ditions with which the people of the South found themselves
face to face at the end of the War between the States. There
had been utter destruction and disaster, and wholly new
business and social problems had to be faced with the scantiest
means. The economic and political fabric had to be read-
justed in the midst of dire want of grinding poverty.
"The future of the broken, war-swept South seemed be-
yond hope ; and if her sons and daughters had been of weaker
fiber, there would in very truth have been no hope. But the
men and the sons of the men who had faced with unfaltering
front every alternation of good and evil fortune from Manas-
sas to Appomattox, and the women, their wives and mothers,
whose courage and endurance had reached an even higher
heroic level — these men and these women set themselves
undauntedly to the great task before them.
For twenty years the struggle was hard and at times doubt-
ful. Then the splendid qualities of your manhood and
womanhood told, as they were bound to tell, and the wealth
of your extraordinary resources began to be shown. Now
the teeming riches of mine and field and factory attest the
prosperity of those who are all the stronger because of the
trials and struggles through which this prosperity has come
You stand loyally to your traditions and memories ; you also
stand loyally for our great common "ountry of to-day and
for our common flag, which symbolizes all that is brightest
and most hopeful for the future of mankind ; you face the
new age in the spirit of the age."
The President at a banquet spoke as follows :
". . Coming to-day by the statue of Stonewall Jack-
son, in the city of Lee, I felt what a privilege it is that J, as
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an American, liave in claiming that you yourselves have no
more right of kinship in Lee and Jackson than I have.
"There was an uncle of mine, now dead, my mother's
brother, who has always been, among all the men I have
ever met, the man who it seemed to me came nearest to
typifying in the flesh that most beautiful of all characters in
fiction, Thackeray's Col. Newcome — my uncle, James Dun-
woody Bulloch, an admiral in the Confederate navy.
"In my regiment, organized at the beginning of the Spanish-
American War, I think that there were more men whose
fathers wore the gray than there were whose fathers wore
the blue. The only rivalry that ever entered their heads was
rivalry as to which man could show himself best entitled to
the praise of having done all that in him lay for our country
and our flag.
"1 noticed that the statue of Stonewall Jackson had been
raised as a gift by certain Englishmen. The best biography
of Gen. Jackson was by an Englishman, CoJ. Henderson. It
is a curious and rather lamentable fact that he died just as
he was about to undertake another biography, which I had
earnestly asked him to undertake. I had written him, urging
that he should finish his very remarkable military stud* of
Stonewall Jackson by writing a military biography of (Jen.
Lee, and he had written mc back that he intended to do so.
Shortly afterwards I learned of his death.
"Gentlemen, I cannot sufficiently express to you my deep
appreciation of the way in which you have greeted me to-day.
You cannot be nearly so glad to see me as I am to sec you."
After the banquet, the presidential party visited points of
interest about the city. The party first stopped at the Lee
monument, where the Confederate veterans from R. E. Lee
Camp, Soldiers' Home, were gathered to greet the President.
Addressing the old soldiers, the President said : "My friends
and fellow-Americans, I honor the State of Virginia because
she has taken charge of the Confederate veterans in their
old age. All Americans must ever show liigh honor to the
men of the War between the States, whether they wore the
blue or whether they wore the gray, so long as they did their
duty as the light was given tliem to see their duty with all
of the strength that was in them. Here I greet you in the
shadow of the statue of your commander. Gen. Robert E.
Lee. You and he left us memories which are part of the
memories bequeathed to the entire country by all the .Ameri-
cans who fought in the War between the States."
While at Charlotte, N. C. the President was greeted by
many thousands of people. The press report states :
"The feature of his stay here was his meeting with the
widow of Stonewall Jackson. Mrs. Jackson lives in a stone's
throw of the station, and she was present there when the
train pulled in at the head of a committee of ladies appointed
by Mayor McNinch to receive Mrs. Roosevelt. When he
was introduced, he took her hand and remained talking for
fully five minutes. 'Mrs. Jackson, you do not know how
glad I am to meet you. What? The widow of the great
Stonewall Jackson ? Why, it is worth the whole trip down
here to shake your hand.' He referred to her grandson,
Jackson Christian, whom he appointed • to a cadetship at
West Point. 'He is a mighty fine fellow, Mrs. Jackson,
a mighty fine fellow.'
"The citizens' committee stood in waiting while he escorted
Mrs. Jackson to Mrs, Roosevelt and introduced her. While
the President was speaking in the park Mrs. Jackson en-
tertained Mrs. Roosevelt at her home, and a hundred Char-
lotte ladies helped to inake her rtay pleasant. After Mrs.
Roosevelt returned to the car, she sent a handsome bouquet
of American Beauty roses and a note to Mrs. Jackson.
"In his speech the President said : 'As I got off the train
here I was greeted by one citizen of North Carolina (and
I know that neither the Governor, the Mayor, nor the Sena-
tors will blame me for what I am going to say) whose greet-
ing pleased and touched me more than the greeting of an\
man could have touched me. I was greeted by the widow of
Stonewall Jackson.' He paid tribute to Lieut. Shipp, of
North Carolina : 'Here, as I came up your streets, I saw a
monument raised to a fellow-soldier of mine who fell dur-
ing the Spanish War at Santiago (Lieut. Shipp. of North
Carolina). [.Applause.] The morning of the fight he and
I took breakfast together. It wasn't much of a breakfast,
but it was the only breakfast that was going, and we were
glad to get it. The night before I had no supper, and hii-
comrades gave me out of the very small amount that they
had a sandwich. In the morning they had no material for
breakfast ; but by that time my things had come up, and I
shared my breakfast with them. That was at dawn. Before
noon one of them was killed, and the other, as we then
thought, badly wounded.'
"The visit to Roswcll, Ga., was indeed very pleasant. A
remnant of the old-time servants of his family were there,
and did the white people credit in what they said to him
In his visit to Birmingham the President was greeted cor-
dially by Confederates. Ex-Gov. Joseph F. Johnston, their
speaker, said : 'It is made my duty, as it is my pleasure, Mr.
President, by unanimous vote of Camp Hardee, No. 39,
United Confederate Veterans, to present to y^u these young
ladies, descendants of Confederate soldiers and sponsors
and maids of honor of our Camp, who will fender you a
badge of our Camp. We present this too, sir, because we
believe that you come nearer standing for the ideals that
have inspired our lives than any President that we have
had since the war. Had we been born north of Mason and
Di.xon's line, Mr. President, many of us in the War be-
tween the States might have followed the flag of our fathers,
the stars and stripes ; but we are sure that had you been
born twenty years earlier, and in Georgia, where you should
have been born, you would have been a gallant leader
of a brigade under Forrest or Stuart. Sir, with your per-
mission, these young ladies, the sweetest and loveliest prod-
uct of the Old South or of any other country in the world,
one of them having in her gentle veins the blood of Raphael
Scmmes, will now, in behalf of the Camp, present you this
badge with our good wishes for your health and happiness.'
"The Confederate badge was presented to the President
by Miss Sophia Wittichen.
"During his Atlanta visit the President paid high tribute
to Joel Chandler Harris ('Uncle Remus'). He also cor-
dially commended United States Senator Clay's public career.
Senator Clay had attended the President's party to Roswell,
the girlhood home of Mr. Roosevelt's mother, and in a talk
there the President said : 'It has been my great fortune to
have the right to claim that my blood is half Southern and
half Northern, and I would deny the right of any man here
to feel a greater pride in the deeds of every Southern
man than I feel. Of the children, the brothers and sis-
ters of my mother who were born and brought up in
that house on the hill there, my two uncles afterward?
entered the Confederate service and .served in the Confed-
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erate navy. One, the youngest man. served on the Alabama
as the youngest officer on board her. He was captain of one
of lier broadside 32-pounders in her final fight ; and when,
at the very end, the Alabama was sinking and the Kearsargc
passed under her stern and came up along the side that had
not fired hitherto, my uncle, Irving Bulloch, shifted his
gun from one side to the other and fired the last two shots
fired from the Alabama. James Dunwoody Bulloch was an
admiral in the Confederate service. Of all the people whom
I have ever met, he was the one that came nearest to that
beautiful creation of Thackeray, Col. Newcome. Men and
women, don't you think that I have the ancestral right to
claim a proud kinship with those who showed their devotion
to duty as they saw the duty, whether they wore the gray or
whether they wore the blue? All Americans who are worthy
the name feel an equal pride in the valor of those who
fought one on one side or the other, provided only that each
did with all his might and soul and strength and mind liis
duty as it was given him to see his duty.'
"While there was a great demonstration in every city
visited, it seemed to be in Mobile that the happiest associa-
tion occurred. This is perhaps because of the fact that the
President's proudest Southern association was through two
brothers of his mother who performed service for the Con-
federacy under Admiral Raphael Senimes on the famous
Alabama. The guard of honor on the parade was by mem-
bers of the Raphael Semmes Camp, Confederate Veterans.
"Hon. Oliver J. Semmes, son of the great Confederate
admiral, Raphael Semmes, presented to the President and
pinned upon the lapel of his coat a handsome souvenir badge,
as the gift of the people of Mobile. This badge consists of
a heavy cross bar of i8-karat gold, inscribed : 'Mobile,
Ala.' In delivering the badge. Judge Semmes said: 'Mr.
President, I have been delegated by the people of Mobile to
present to you this token, a symbol of their fealty as citizens
of the United States. Though itself of little intrinsic value,
yet in sentiment it represents the loyalty, the worth, and the
honor of as brave, chivalric, and noble a people as is to be
found on the face of God's green earth. We proud citizens
of a proud republic feel and believe that you, as the head of
thab republic, will, by your broad views and judicious actions,
so unite in bonds of friendsliip all sections of our loved
country that Americans will advance till they become the
foremost of nations and may without a misgiving defy a
world in arms. Should this awful necessity ever arise, then
the sons of the South will be found a mighty armed camp.
Take this little reminder; and when you look upon it amid
your arduous and multifarious duties, feel and know that
the people of Mobile have buried the past and look without
fear to the future, recognizing that you, as is shown by your
later utterances, are the President of the North and the
South, our whole country. They regard you as a broad-
minded American, and as such offer this badge, its pendant
a magnolia blossom, pure and spotless, typical- of the woman-
hood and manhood of our Southland and peculiarly appro-
priate, as you are half Southern.'
"Judge Alford, Chairman of the Committee on Arrange-
ments, then introduced the President.
"The formal welcome to the President was delivered by
Col. E. L. Russell, a Confederate veteran of fine record, who
said to him : 'Your coming into our midst has been a source
of inspiration to our people, and my selection by my neigh-
bors to welcome you to this old city I shall preserve as one
of the great events of my life. Our people are familiar with
your record as a soldier and as a citizen. Your wise states-
manship, coupled with your public acts and public declara-
tions, have given them confidence in your sincerity of pur- j
pose and patriotism. Since you have been President yow
have demonstrated by your administration of our Federali
affairs that you are loyal and devoted to our free institutions,
coined out of the blood, sacrifices, and treasure of our an-
cestors. Such is the faith of our people in you as a patriot
that they believe you would cheerfully surrender your life
rather than endanger the sacred trust that has been confided!
to your patriotic keeping. They look upon you as the stanclv
friend of an honest and faithful administration of our Fed-
eral government. They look upon you as the friend of the
honest and faithful public officer. They regard you as the
enemy of any man connected with our government who for-
gets his responsibility as such and descends into peculatioi>
and corruption. You have demonstrated that under your
administration no man can hold Federal office and be un-
faithful to his trust. Our people applaud you for the many
brave acts you have performed in your exalted position.
They applaud you for the part you took in order to secure
the Panama Canal, which will directly contribute to the
commercial growth of the Gulf States ; they applaud you for
the intelligent and diplomatic manner in which you brought
about peace and the conclusion of the bloody war between
Japan and Russia; they regard you as the friend of our
country and of the home; they are familiar with your home
life, and it has been of such a high character as to commend
itself to every intelligent, patriotic citizen within this broad
domain. You have been so clean, frank, and sincere in all
of your public acts and in the performance of all of your
public duties that the mere recital of them sends a thrill of
patriotic pride through the hearts of your countrymen. Our
people are deeply grateful to you for coming to their rescue
as soon as the appalling pestilence of yellow fever had made
its appearance in some of our neighboring cities by ordering
the Marine Hospital Service to take control and handle this
dread scourge under the scientific methods that have been
discovered. This act of yours resulted in arresting this ter-
rible plague, thereby saving many valuable lives and pre-
venting the suffering of our people living along the shores
(if the Gulf of Mexico.'
"The President thanked the people for their magnificent
reception, and spoke a special word of greeting to the Con-
federate veterans who formed a portion of his escort. He
referred to the fact that one of his uncles was on the Ala-
bama during the War between the States. The last time he
came through Alabama he said he was going with his own
regiment to the Spanish war, and in that regiment were
more men whose fathers wore the gray than those who wore
the blue. They emulated but one spirit in common, the
spirit of seeing who could do the most for our common flag.
"There was anxiety all the while concerning what the
President would say at the Booker Washington school at
Tuskegee, Ala. He was very complimentary to the school,
speaking at length in its praise; and he did the wisest and
best thing possible when he told them that their best friends
were the white people of the South and that they must look
to them for protection and for help."
Tlie Librarian of Baylor University, Waco, Tex., wishes
to complete its file of the Veteran, and asks for the following
copies: All of 1893; January, February, March, April, 1894;
March, 1895; April, 1896. Write, stating price.
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S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor ami ProprieCor.
Office; Methodist Pulilisliing House Ruilding^ Nasliville, Tenn.
This piibliciition is tlie personal property of S. A. Cunningliam. All per
SUMS who approve its principles and realize its henetits as an organ for Asso-
ciations throuefhout the South are requested to commend its patronas^e and to
cofiperate in extending its circulation. I,et each one he constantly diligent.
This issue of the Veteran is not made up in the usual way.
The change is unavoidable under the circumstances. An-
other unusual feature of late issues is announcements of
candidates from clerkship to Senator. A gratifying feature is
the manifest esteem in which the Veter.\n is regarded by
home people. It, however, is impartial as to locality.
In the report in the Veteran for September of the great
achievement in Mempliis, that is there to remain for ages,
in the superb statue of Gen. Bedford Forrest explanation is
made that it was incomplete and quite unsatisfactory. The
Veteran did not lack interest in the subject, but there was
prolonged delay in the procurement of a satisfactory photo-
graph. There was not to be found on the day of the dedica-
tion a .satisfactory picture of it ; and a resident friend of
whom request was made, not finding one, secured, by cordial
courtesy of the AlJf<cal-Avalanchc, its plate, which proved to
be unsuited to the fine paper of the Veteran. In the mean-
time other things crowded out much that should have been
used in connection with if. It was intended, for instance, to
use the admirable historic oration by Gen. G. W. Gordon.
The conspicuous labors of Mrs. Latham at every convention
of the U. D. C. for years caused special reference to her great
work in the cause.
THRILLING AND HORRIBLE EVENT RECALLED.
DY W. M. LONG, 211 UNION .STREET. NASHVIU.E, TENN.
Near Bentonvillc, N. C, March 19, i8()5, Johnston drove
Sherman back three or four miles. I was detailed as one of a
party of scouts to find out the location of the Yanks. We
were riding very cautiously, expecting every minute to be fired
upon. When nearing an old-fashioned Southern home we
heard women screaming. We at once spurred our horses and
charged upon the house. The family consisted of a mother
and her three grown daughters. The Yankees ran out of
the house, but the mother of the young ladies in her despera-
tion ran ahead of them and appealed to us to shoot them
down, as they were outraging her daughters. With the
Rebel yell we killed all five of them. One of the dead was
about my size, .so I took his coat, hat, and boots.
The next day I was captured by members of the dead
Yank's company, who recognized the clothes. They were
about to hang me to a tree. The rope was at hand, and I
thought that my time had come, but concluded that I would
make an appeal to them, and said : "Gentlemen, think of your
own fireside in your distant homes, and ask yourselves what
you would do to men under similar circumstances." I could
see a change in their faces, and one of them said : "Boys, we
will not hang him, but we will strip him of John's clothes."
So they left me without coat, hat, and barefooted. You can
imagine my condition on that bitter day in March, 1865, with
the winds whistling through my ragged shirt. You may well
imagine how the blood ran from my bare feet in walking from
Bentonville, N. C, to Savannah, Ga., where we were put in
a hull of a vessel, crowded like sardines in a box.
In passing through Cape Hatteras Lieut. Pope invested his
last money (fifty cents in United States silver) in a coat for
me, which was worth my weight in gold at that time.
We were all taken to Hart's Island prison, in New York
harbor, and remained there until about June 20, 1865.
If any old comrade should read this letter, I would he glad
to hear from him.
This item of painful history is revived through soiue recent
correspondence between Comrade Long and Lieut. G. R.
Pope, who lent him the half dollar referred to, in which he
mentions having sent him five dollars, with the request that
he buy some little souvenir to retain in his family through
the generations to come. He had sought the address of Lieut.
Pope at times through the forty inter\ening years, and sent
the five dollars for the purpose indicated.
In his reply from Pinchtirst, Ky., August 27, 1905, Comrade
Pope says: "I will purchase an imperishable memento and
will have engraved on it 'W. M. Long, Company D, ist Regi-
ment Kentucky Cavalry.' " The correspondence is pathetic.
Lone Grave on Trinity River, in Texas.— W. E. Sehuan,
of Oakwood, Tex., writes of a lone grave he found on the
east side of the Trinity River. It is on the right-hand side
of the road under a small cluster of young oaks, beautifully
covered with the wild grapevine, about two miles from the
ferry. A lady, who w-as a small schoolgirl at the time, told
him she thought the name put on the headboard was W.
A. R. Dickerson (called by the children "War" Dickcrson).
and he was evidently buried there by members of Col. R. Q.
Mills's Texas command. Comrade Selman thinks thi.s may
lead to locating the grave of some loved and lost one of the
war, although the location is indefinite. The specially inter-
ested may write to Mr. Selman.
Refu.sed Stolen Meat, but Sopped the Gravy.— Talking
of the war recently, I recalled a moral lecture given me by
a messmate. While I was orderly sergeant of Company H
one of the boys of the company brought me the quarter of a
good-sized shoat (skinned, of course), saying: "Orderly,
rations are very short, and this will help you out." I thanked
him very cordially, asking no questions. One of the mess-
males remarked: "You ought not to take that meat, for you
know it was stolen." I reminded him of the old proverb as to
the mouth of a gift horse, and also said I didn't know any-
thing about the hog having been stolen. We had the meat
baked in an oven, and when ready for eating asked my
very moral friend to join us. He refused, although the odor
was very appetizing. After the other members of my mess
had finished, some of the good brown gravy was left in the
oven, and my good messmate went to his haversack and took
out one of his small loaves of corn bread, W'ith which he
finished the gravy, appearing to relish it very much. I said
nothing till he got through, when I remarked that "con-
sistency was a jewel," and read hiiu a good moral lecture on
its beauties. "O, well," he said, "when a man is so very
hungry, his conscience must sleep awhile." This good friend
and messmate after the war was chancellor of his district,
and w-e often laughed at this incident of our soldier life. —
JV. A. CamfhcU, Columbus, Miss.
An error occured in noticing the death of O. B. Norvell
(page 425, September Veteran), which occurred July 2, 1903,.
instead of Jimc 5, as stated. He was born December 2, 1840.
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SPECIAL DEPARTMENT.
iJpited SoQS of (Confederate l/eterai^s.
Ot-ganUed July 1, 1S%. in Richmond, Va.
Conducted by the Commander in Chief, to whom all contributions
intended therefor should be adilressed.
THOMAS M. OWEX. LL.D. Commandeh 'N I^h'ef. '. Monteomerv Ala
WILL T. SilEEH AN, A. G. AND Chief OF Staff. I ^ j.
E. LESLIE SPEXCE. JE., (-ommander A. N. V. Dept., Kichmond, Ta.
L. W RYLAND. Department Adjitast.
R. E. L. BYNUSI, Commander Armv Tens. Dept., Jackson, Tenn.
HOMER L. HRtGS. Department AD.ifTANT.
I. J. STOt KETI'. Commander Than -.-Miss. Dept.. Tyler, Tex.
C. S. WELSCH, Department Adjutant.
(No. 5.)
CONFEDERATION NEWS.
Sons everywhere are urged to aid the Veteran. It is
worthy of our earnest support. It is not only assisting our
organization by supplying its space for our department; it is
doing an incalculable service to the history of the "cause"
which all Southerners love and which all others now respect.
The Commander in Chief solicits correspondence. He
wishes to help all Camps and comrades in any and every way.
He will be glad to send blanks for the organization of new
Camps wherever desired.
New Camps.
The following new Camps have been chartered since the
last number — viz. :
No. 526, I O'lisa, Louisa C. H., Va., October 9, twenty-two
members; '.. v,rge V. Cameron, Commandant; H. B. Trice,
Adjutant.
No. 527, Douglas-Carter, King William C. II., Va., October
II, thirteen members; S. S. Robinson, Commandant; W. A.
Willeroy, Adjutant.
Activity of Camp Floyd County, Rome, Ga.
On the evening of October 10 Camp Floyd County, No.
469, Rome, Ga., at a well-attended and enthusiastic meetmg.
projected some highly important work. Realizing the wisdom
of the oft-repeated suggestion of general headquarters that
each Camp should assume and undertake some specific ac-
tivity for each year, this Camp resolved to compile a complete
history of the 8th Georgia Infantry Regiment, C. S. A. Dr.
C. Hamilton, the Camp Historian as well as the Surgeon
General of the Confederation, will have immediate charge of
the work, with the assistance of a strong committee of co-
operation. This step on the part of Camp Floyd County is
most highly commended. The care of needy and helpless
Veterans is of course the first and most important charge
upon all Confederate Veterans' organizations, but next in
order is a correct history of all parts of the. great struggle.
■Other Camps would do well to enter upon a similar task.
Department Staffs.
Army of Northern Virginia Dcpartincnt.
By General Orders, No. I, September 28, 1905, E. Leslie
Spence, Jr., Department Commander, has named the following
.~taft': Adjutant, I.. W, Ryland, Riclimond, Va. ; Assistant Ad-
jutant, Thomas M. Maclin, Petersburg, Va. ; Inspector, James
A. Hoyt, Jr., Columbia, S. C. ; Assistant Inspector, Robert A.
iMartin. Jr., Petersburg. Va. ; Quartermaster, Thomas R.
Moore, Charlestown, VV. Va. ; Assistant Quartermaster, Rob-
ert W. Price, Petersburg, Va. ; Commissary, F. R. Fravel.
Washington, D. C. ; Judge Advocate, Hon. A. M. Scales.
Greensboro, N. C. ; Surgeon, I. R. Trimble, Baltimore, Md. ;
Assistant Surgeon, T. P. C. Bernard, North Tonawanda, N
Y. ; Chaplain. Rev. M. B. Porter, Louisville, Ky.
Army of Tennessee Department.
The following staff has been named by R. E. L. Bynum,
Department Commander, in General Orders, No. i, July 8.
1905: Adjutant, H. L. Higgs, Jackson, Tenn.; Inspector, F. W.
Campos, Savannah, Ga. ; Quartermaster, Harry Ezell, Jack-
son, Tenn. ; Commissary, C. R. Sykes, Aberdeen, Miss. ;
Judge Advocate, John H. DeWitt, Nashville, Tenn. ; Surgeon,
Dr. R. J. Thurmond, Sheffield, Ala.; Chaplain, Rev. M. L.
Gilbert, Pasadena, Fla.
Trans-Mississippi Department.
I. J. Stockett, Department Commander, Tyler, Tex., in
General Orders, No. i, August 28, 1905, announces his staff
as follows: Adjutant, C. S. Welch, Fort Worth, Tex.; As-
sistant Adjutant, C. Roy Murphy, Fort Worth, Tex.; In-
spector, John F. Easley, Ardmore, Ind. T. ; Commissary, W.
F. Gilmer, Ardmore, Ind. T. ; Judge Advocate, R. McDonald.
Athens, Tex.
Division Reunions.
It is very much to be regretted that no reunions this year
will be held in the Alabama, Missouri, and Tennessee Di-
visions. Local conditions are such in each case as to pre-
vent. In Alabama the reunion of the Veterans was to have
been held at Huntsville October 25 and 26; but, owing to
yellow fever conditions. Gen. George P. Harrison, Coiu-
mander, has deemed it best to call it off. This action deter-
mines the action of the Division Commander of the Sons,
George W. Duncan, who does not deem it expedient to at-
tempt a separate gathering. In Tennessee the date set was
for October 11 and 12 in Winchester, but it will now go
over for another year. The Commander for Missouri is of
the opinion that the Division is not yet strong enough to
undertake a reunion.
Reports from the reunion of the Oklahoma and Indian
Territory Veterans, Daughters, and Sons at Oklahoma City.
Okla., September 14 and 15, 1905, indicate a season of great
enjoyment to participants and visitors. The attendance was
very large. Division Commanders Brant H. Kirk, Okla-
homa, and Otis B. Weaver, Indian Territory, were on the
programme, and excellent addresses were made by Hon. W.
M. Cross and Hon. E. J. Giddings. The parade on the sec-
ond day was a most inspiring spectacle, being more than .t
mile in length.
During the South Florida Fair at Tampa, Fla., the last
week in November there will be a reunion of the Third Bri-
gade, Second Regiment, U. C. V. On this occasion the Sons
will be largely in evidence, and they will doubtless hold sev-
eral informal conferences. The regular reunion of the Florida
Division will be held in Jacksonville December 6 and 7.
Reunion of the Texas DitHsion.
Although a trifle late in securing the account, it is though*
proper to present the proceedings of the meeting of the
Texas Division on July 20 last. The Galveston Daily Nczvs.
July 21, says: "The meeting of the Texas Division of th'-
United Sons of Confederate Veterans was slimly attended
and held but a brief business session in the parlors of the
Tremont Hotel. In the absence of Gen. W. P. Lane,. Division
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Commander, I. J. Stockett, Commander of the Trans-Missis-
sippi Department, presided. The session took up the business
at once. Committees were appointed and reports were made,
after which the election of a Division Commander was held.
Hon. J. M. Tisdal, of Greenville, was enthusiastically elected
to the position of Division Commander, there being no op-
position to his candidacy. A committee on official route was
selected to arrange for the trip to New Orleans next year as
follows : I. J. Stockett, Chairman, N. R. Tisdal, and J. A.
Cummins. This committee was vested with plenary powers.
No election of Brigade Commanders was had, the Division
Commander being authorized to fill these positions by ap-
pointment. The business of the session being concluded, the
body adjourned."
The Woman's Memori.\i. — \Vh.\t Shall It Be?
Feeling that the time is ripe for a discussion of the form
of the memorial to the \\'omen of the Confederacy, which the
U. S. C. V. will erect in the near future. Chairman James
Mann, of Norfolk, Va., has issued a circular letter, October i6,
'90S, to the members of the Woman's Memorial Committee,
asking expressions on the subject. Gen. C. Irvine Walker,
the special representative of the committee, has prepared his
views, and a copy is inclosed with the circular letter. In
order to afford wide pulilicity, the documents arc presented
in full.
Lettkr fro.m Chairman Mann.
Under an agreement with the committee made through me
as its chairman, Gen. C. Irvine Walker, of Charleston, S. C,
who is also Chairman of the Veterans' Committee on Co-
operation with the Sons, has been employed to devote his
time to a systematic eflFort toward raising funds for the pur-
pose of erecting a monument to the Women of the Confed-
eracy which this conunittce has in hand. Our committee has
up to this time refrained from deciding whether it should
erect a monument or some other form of memorial. Gen-
erally speaking. I think a memorial in the form of a school
or hospital or something of the kind would be preferable,
but I am convinced that this committee will never be able
to raise sufficient funds to endow an institution of that kind.
Gen. Walker, who has given a good deal of consideration to
the matter, has suggested the erection of similar monuments
in each of the Southern States, liis idea being to secure a
good design and have cast from it a number of bronze figures,
to be paid for out of the general fund, and then let each
State provide such pedestal as it desires and erect the monu-
ment at its State capital. I have thought a good deal about
Gen. Walker's proposition, and I think it a good one. I
have, therefore, decided to submit it to the individual members
of the committee and ask for an expression of their views.
I inclose herewith a copy of a signed interview given by
Gen. Walker to the Atlanta Journal, in whicli he expresses
his views. I shall be greatly obliged if you will let me know
at your earliest convenience what you think of his sugges-
tion. I should like to have your reply in hand by the 23d
inst. if practicable.
Views of Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Charleston, S. C.
The systematic work now being carried on to secure the
funds for the memorial to the Women of the Confederacy
nutst produce the desired results. Only within the past year
has this labor been prosecuted in a thorough, businesslike
manner, and the results so far obtained show that the work
is progressing favorably and successfully. It may, therefore,
not be too premature to consider what shape the proposed
memorial shall take.
The Women's Memorial Committee of the U. S. C V. has
never considered the form which the memorial should take
or where it was to be placed. In my work for this truly grand
object this has often been in my thoughts, as it is near to my
heart. This committee has invited suggestions, and in re-
sponse to the invitation the following is made personally, not
officially :
If at all feasible, it would, in my humble judgment, be far
the best memorial to build and endow some school, hospital,
or other work which would produce some practical good to
humanity. What more suiting way to pay a tribute to the
patient devotion of these women than to have erected in
their honor some institution which would correspond in its
usefulness to their tender, loving help to the wounded and the
dying? But we fear that it is utterly impracticable to raise
an amount to erect and make such endowment as would'
place such an institution in such condition as to insure its
permanent life as an undying testimonial to the heroism of
the Women of the Confederacy.
Monuments, however, if substantially built, would after
erection require no further outlay of inoney. The history of
man shows this to be the almost universal method of testify-
ing human admiration and veneration. Therefore it would-
seem that \vc could only hope that the memorial should take
the monumental form. This would be open, perhaps, to the
serious objection that if one grand monument should be
erected then only one place can be so graced. Then the great
mass of our people would never behold this tribute to the
women of the entire South and learn from its teachings the
magnificent lessons of the sublime heroism of our Confederate
mothers. Suggestions and even efforts have been made to
erect State or local monuments, but the difficulty with such
seems to be the want of means for each State or locality to
raise sufficient funds.
To reconcile the conflicting interests and wishes, to give
each State its monument and make them all the universal
tribute of the entire South, and do this by giving each State
the highest and most brilliant design of high art. the follow-
ing plan is suggested: Let the committee invite the artists
of the world to compete and submit magnificent and artistic
designs for a statue or a group of statues in bronze, emblem-
atic of the heroism of our women, and from these select
the most appropriate and purchase the model. The amount
raised by the combined eflfort of the South would enable the
committee to offer enough, say $25,000, to secure a truly
great design. No local or State movement is apt to be able
to do this. The cost of such w'ork is the value of the artistic
conception, not the mere bronze casting from the model,
which is mechanical. Having secured this great model, from-
it could be made, at comparatively trifling cost, sufficient
ca.sts in bronze to enable the committee to furnish at least
one to each of the Confederate States. In making such cast-
ings, I believe I am right in saying that any size inay be
made from the model — life size if to be placed upon a low
pedestal, and heroic size to be placed upon a lofty one. Then
in each of the Confederate .States the committee could place
one of these grand and highly artistic statues upon a pedestal
in the State capital or such other city within its borders as
may be determined. There would be no single original cast
and copies therefrom, but all would be from the same modeP
and all be equal in artistic value and originality. There woul<J
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not be an original in Atlanta and a copy in Montgomery, but
))oth cities would have originals.
7"he variation in the pedestals would make variety sufficient
io relieve any of the monotony of similarity. But the very
■similarity would embody the admirable and much-to-be-de-
sircd idea, that it would clearly demonstrate that the whole
South, together as a whole, not separate communities, united
in paying this grand tribute to its glorious women of the en-
tire Confederacy. It is right that this should be so, because
their loving tenderness was not confined to the men of their
•cwji State. Virginia women nursed Mississippi men ; Georgia
■women soothed the dying hours of the Texans.
Such a plan would insure the very highest art ; and the
■distribution of the statues would enable our entire people,
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, to have an equal chance
to see, admire, and learn from them. All generations of our
■entire Southland could equally imbibe the sacred lessons of
the splendid heroism ; and the grand lesson would also be
taught of the South, by a common effort and in a united out-
pouring of it5 noblest feelings, evidencing its appreciation of
the Godlike heroism of the women of the Confederacy.
By the above plan it would be proposed to give each State
•one statue or group in bronze, which would presumably be
placed ;it the capital. But if other cities in the St:;te v.'auted
•casts, they could be had at the bare cost of the cast, without
paymg any part of the cost of the model. For example, if
the Georgia monument was located at the capital, Atlanta,
.and the city of Macon wanted one, it could obtain at the
same time one at the cost of the cast, say $2,500, .1 bronze
■statue worth $25,000. By differing the design of the pedestal,
they could make variety.
Thi? suggestion is respectfully made to avoid the many
•difticulties I have found in the work and in the hope that it
•will meet a general approval. I should be pleased to have
any criticism, favorable or not.
STAFF OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES.
Headquarters United Sons of Confeder.\te Veterans,
Montgomery, Ala., July i, 1905.
General Orders, No. 2.
I. Staff appointments are made, to rank from June 16,
5905 — viz. :
Inspector General, George R. Wyman, Louisville, Ky.
Quartermaster General, R. G. Banks, Montgomery, Ala.
Commissary General, Leroy S. Boyd, Washington, D. C.
Judge-Advocate Gen,. J. A. CoUinsworth, Humboldt, Tenn.
Surgeon General, C. Hamilton, M.D., Rome, Ga.
Chaplain General, Rev. J. W. Caldwell, New Orleans, La.
Asst. Adjutant General, W. Conniff, Montgomery, Ala.
Asst. Adjutant General, W. L. Wooten, New Orleans, La.
Asst. Inspector General, T. E. Powe, St. Louis, Mo.
Asst. Inspector General, H. G. McNeer, Greensboro, N. C.
Asst. Quartermaster General, J. W. Stovall, Stovall, Miss.
Asst. Quartermaster General, J. G. Wardlaw, Gaffney, S. C.
Asst. Commissary General, W. L. Fleming, Morgantown,
W. Va.
Asst. Comtuissary General, J. B. Johnson, Chicago.
Asst. Judge-Advocate General, M. D. Haywood, Raleigh,
N. C.
Asst. Judge-Advocate General, H. R. Shorter, Montgomery,
Ala.
Asst. Surgeon General, Dr. J. T. Wiggins. Rusk, Tex.
Asst. Surgeon General, Dr. A. Stephcij, Wapanucka, Ind. T.
Asst. Chaplain General, Rev. J. M. Ci'oss, Durant, Ind. T.
Asst. Chaplain General, Rev. W. T. Allan, Springtield, Mo.
Courier, Thomas M. Owen, Jr., Montgomery, Ala.
II. Standing committees, required to be named under Sec-
tion 91 of the Constitution of the Confederation, together
with certain special committees, are appointed as follows :
Historical Committee.
George W. Duncan, Chairman, Auburn, Ala. ; W. M. Kava-
naugh, Little Rock. Ark.; J. O. Moore, Washington, D. C. ;
T. T. Stockton, Jacksonville, Fla. ; William F. Jones, Elber-
ton, Ga. ; Rev. J. M. Gross, Ardmore, Ind. T. ; Ed Porter
Thompson, Jr., Frankfort, Ky. ; W. H. McLellan, New Or-
leans, La.: J. Pierce Bruns, Baltimore, Md. ; Dunbar Row-
land, Jackson, Miss. ; Lee Meriweather, St. Louis, Mo. ; D.
H. Hill, Raleigh. N. C. ; E. T. Bynum, Norman, Okla. ; Dr.
P. H. Mell, Clemson College, S. C. ; John H. DeWitt. Nash-
ville, Tenn. ; Homer D. Wade, Waco, Tex. ; R. S. Blackburn
Smith, Berryville, Va. ; E. Fontaine Broun, Charleston, W.
Va. ; R. E. Lee DuVal, Portland, Oregon.
Relief Committee.
Thomas P. Stone, Chairman, Waco, Tex. ; William B.
Bankhead, Jasper, Ala. ; R. G. Pillow, Little Rock, Ark. :
Thomas R. Raines, Washington, D. C. ; Maj. J. S. Maxwell,
Jacksonville, Fla. ; Thomas M. Henry, Jackson, Miss. ; W.
D. Steele, Sedalia, Mo.; R. B. Glenn, Raleigh, N. C. ; Wil-
liam Cross, Oklahoma City, Okla. ; M. L. Bonham, Anderson.
S. C. ; Walter T. Colquit, Atlanta, Ga. ; C. A. Skeen, Wapa-
nucka, Ind. T. ; R. C. P. Thomas, Bowling Green, Ky. ; J.
Y. Sanders, New Orleans, La. ; E. B. Beaslej-, Baltimore, Md. ;
J. J. Bean, Lynchburg, Tenn. ; S. B. Cantey, Fort Worth,
Tex. ; T. H. Edwards, West Point, Va. ; J. F. Thompson,
Martinsburg, W. Va. ; W. B. Scarborough. Los .•\ngeles, Cal.
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MISS LELA REYNOLDS,
Sponsor for Georgia Division, U. C. V., Reunion ;it Macon.
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Monument Committee.
Richard B, Haiightoii, Cliairnian, Commercial Building, St.
Louis, Mo.; Benjamin G. Jennings, Scale, Ala.; Rev. W. D.
Buckner, Pine Bluff, Ark. ; Frank R. Fravel, Washington,
D. C. ; Duncan U. Fletcher, Jacksonville, Fla. ; Francis E.
Lanier, Savannah, Ga. ; R. L. Williams, Durant, Ind. T. ; S.
W. Bedford, Owensboro, Ky. ; J. D. Nix, New Orleans, La. ;
Robert H. Williams, Laurel, Md. : O. L McKay, Meridian,
Miss.; William Horner Cocke. St. Louis. Mo.; II. M. Branch,
Charlotte, N. C. ; S. M. Cunningham, Lawton, Okla, ; D. A.
Spivey, Conway, S. C. ; E. B. Wilson, Gallatin, Tenn. ; Harry
L. Seay, Dallas, Tex.; W. W. Old, Norfolk, Va. ; Robert
M'hite. Romney, W. Va. ; John P. Lindsay, Pittsburg, Pa.
Finance Committee.
1). C. Bell, Chairman, Pine Bluff, Ark.; Will T. Sheehan,
Montgomery, Ala.; W. H. Langford, Pine Bluff, Ark.; Leroy
S. Boyd, Washington, D. C. ; G. G. Mathews, Jr., Ocala, Fla. ;
William F. Parkhursl, .Atlanta, Ga. ; Ira L. Smith, .Atoka,
Ind. T. ; Andrew M. Seay, Jr.. Louisville, Ky. ; W. Covington
Hall, New Orleans, La. ; George Forbes, Baltimore, Md ;
George B. Myers, Holly Springs, Miss.; W. M. Southern. Jr..
Independence, Mo. ; A. M. Scales, Raleigh, N. C. ; Milton
Bryan. Shawnee, Okla.; Clinton M. Felder, Blackville. S. C. ;
Jolni .X. Collinsworth. Humboldt. Tenn.; N. R. Tisdal. Rusk,
Tex. : Aylctt Ashby. Newport News. Va. : F. B. Hooff.
Chark-Mnn. W. Va.
Women's Memorial Committee.
James Mann. Chairman. Norfolk, Va. ; J. Clifton Elder.
Birmingham, Ala.; R. L. Montgomery. Lewisvillc. Ark.; Wal-
lace Streator. Washington. D. C. ; C. Seton Fleming. Jackson-
ville. Fla. ; S. A. Crump. Macon. Ga. ; J W. Skeen. Wapa-
MISS NELL WEIGLE,
Miiid of 1-lonor for Georgi:i at Macon Reunion.
nucka. Ind. T. ; Jesse N. Gathright, Louisville. Ky. ; Tiley S.
McChesney, New Orleans, La. ; Armstrong Thomas. Balti-
more. Md. ; W. Calvin Wells, Jr., Jackson, Miss.; Chilton
Atkinson. 421 Olive Street. St. Louis, Mo. ; E. R. McKethan.
Fayetteville, N. C. ; Brant H. Kirk, Oklahoma City. Okla.;
Henry W. Conner, Charleston, S. C. ; L. E. Mathis, Jackson.
Tenn.; R. K. Gaston, Dallas, Tex.; E. Henning Smith, Rich-
mond, Va. ; Dr. V. T. Churchman, Charleston, W. Va. ; J
B. Johnson, Chicago, 111.
Joint Commitlec on Co-Operation between the J'eterans and
Sons.
W. E. Daniel. Chairman, Yazoo City, Miss.; Walter P
Lane, Fort Worth, Tex. ; R. B. Haughton, St. Louis, Mo. ;
Clarence J. Owens. .Xnniston, Ala. ; W. Mc. Barrow. Baton
Rouge, La.
Execulizr Committee on Permanent Archives.
Edwin P. Cox, Chairman. Richmond, Va. ; E. B. Thomason.
Richmond, Va. ; J. B. Lightfoot, Jr., Richmond, Va.
Committee on Revision of Constitution.
\\'illiam McL. Fayssoux, Chairman, New Orleans, La. ;
J. E. B. Stuart, Newport News, Va. ; Robert A. Smythe.
Charleston, S. C. ; Biscoe Hindnian, Louisville. Ky. ; E. Leslie
Spcnce, Jr., Richmond, Va. ; R. E. L. Bynimi. Jackson, Tenn. ;
I. J. Slockett, Tyler, Tex. ; Edward M. Robinson, Mobile.
Ala.
Committee on Departments of Archives and History.
W. Armistcad Collier, Jr., Chairman, Memphis, Tenn.
HI. The foregoing appointments are made on suitable
recommendation and upon reliable information as to the quali-
fications of comrades for the places assigned. They will be
expected to faithfully, cheerfully, and promptly perform their
several duties. Upon advice of their failure in any instance,
there will be no hesitation on the part of the Commander in
Chief in removing the comrade or comrades so in default.
IV. Under Section 21 of the Constitution "no staff officer
shall be at the same time a staff officer of a brigade or di-
vision or hold two staff positions." The attention of all
officers authorized to make staff appointments is particularly
directed to this provision, with request that an effort be made
to avoid conflicting assignments. If any appointee named
above or hereafter appointed to a place on the staff of the
Commander in Chief is already holding a Department, Di-
vision, or Brigade staff position, he should at once elect which
is to be retained. It is expressly understood and ordered
that no staff position whatever shall in any way interfere
with or prevent the holding of committee assignments or
office or position by such appointees in their respective Camps
V. The attention of staff officers is called to the require-
ments of Sections 31-37. inclusive, of the Constitution of the
Confederation, prescribing their respective duties and par-
ticularly requiring the preparation of reports or historical
papers on the branch of service in the Confederate States
army represented by their respective staff positions. The
Commander in Chief expects every member of his staff to
enter enthusiastically and earnestly into the spirit of the latter
requirement. He will be glad to cooperate in the prepara-
tion of these reports if desired. A place on the programme
of the next Reunion will be specially provided for the pres-
entation of these reports, and they are to be included in the
published minutes.
VI. The chairmen will proceed at once with the organiza-
tion of their respective committees. Much can be accom-
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plished by persistent and continuous effort. The principal
objects of the Confederation in its general organization are
to be developed or worked out through committees. If any
comrade herein above named declines to serve or neglects
his duties in any respect, on his attention being called thereto
the Commander in Chief will make a new appointment.
VII. In order to more effectively push the work of the
Women's Memorial Committee, through its chairman ar-
rangements have been made with Gen. C. Irvine Walker, of
Charleston, S. C,. to act as the special representative of the
committee. Gen. Walker has under consideration several
plans looking to large additions to the fund. He is a vet-
eran of high standing, one who thoroughly enjoys the confi-
dence of the United Confederate Veterans, and he is entitled
to the generous support and encouragement of Sons every-
where in this noble effort.
VIII. The special Committee on the Revision of the Con-
stitution is created under and by virtue of Section 97 of the
Constitution, it being deemed that a necessity exists therefor
in order to secure intelligent preliminary consideration of any
amendments or changes which may be proposed or suggested,
.^ny Camp or comrade who may have any changes or altera-
tions to propose should promptly communicate them to the
chairman, with full explanation and reasons therefor. Section
ro8 of the Constitution requires three months' written notice
of proposed changes to be given every Camp, a condition
precedent to consideration thereof in reunion convention and
a requirement which necessitates diligent and early attention.
IX. The far-seeing founders of the Confederation planned
for a central collection of historical and museum materials,
and to that end provided, in Section 90 of the Constitution,
that the archives collected should be permanently located at
Riclimond, Va., and should be "governed by a committee
composed of one comrade from each Division elected by the
delegates at each annual reunion of the Confederation." The
direct management of the proposed collection is placed in an
executive committee of three members of Camp R. E. Lee,
No. r, of Richmond, the chairman to be appointed by the Com-
mander in Chief, one to be elected by the Camp, and one to
be appointed by the Virginia Division Commander. So
far as can be ascertained, the general committee has never
been elected, although the chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee has several times been appointed. The collection of
materials is deemed of so much importance that the Com-
mander in Chief is exceedingly desirous that a beginning be
made in the execution of the foregoing section. Every class
of materials bearing in any way on Confederate history, such
as books, pamphlets, maps, prints, charts, manuscripts, diaries,
rolls, order books, commissions, paroles, sketches of regi-
ments and companies. Confederate addresses, etc., is desired.
All officers of the Confederation should cause to be for-
warded copies of orders, reports, and official papers issued
by them or by Camps in their jurisdiction. They should be
sent by mail or express to Edwin P. Cox, Chairman, Rich-
mond, Va., by whom they will be permanently preserved.
X. The Committee on the Establishment of Departments
of Archives and History is appointed under the resolution of
the annual Reunion at Nashville, June 15, 1904. (Minutes,
1904, pp. -zy, 28.) The chairman will proceed with his duties,
and will report names of suitable comrades from each Division
for appointment as members of his committee.
By order of Thos. M. Owen. Commander in Chief.
Official :
Will T. Sheehan, Adjt. Gen. and Chief of Staff.
Comrade W. H. Lessing, of Waco, Tex., calls a halt to the
frequent references to Confederates as (it only for burial.
Senator Bailey's speech at the McGregor reunion causes
vigorous comment and protestations to the remark that no
other Confederate veteran is likely to be elected Governor of
Texas. The VETER.'kN commends the complaint. As surely
as "woman is as old as she looks," many a Confederate does
not feel old enough to be shelved — yet awhile. Young men
are more capable of making the best soldiers; but many a
venerable man retains his memory, and so profits by ex-
perience and observation that he is a far better counselor
than can be a younger man.
THE YOUNGEST "SON OF A VETERAN."
This dear little baby is Gordon Burr Renaud, son of
John K. Renaud, of New Orleans. He was born Septem-
ber 9, 1904, was just nine months old when this picture
was made, and weighed twenty-three pounds. His father
is a veteran of the War between the States, having en-
listed in Dreux's Louisiana Battalion on April 11, 1S61,
and paroled a member of Fenner's Louisiana Battalion,
May 10, 1S65, a period of four years and one month.
This baby is the youngest son of a veteran of whom
we have any knowledge. Captain Renaud is a prominent
citizen of New Orleans, and his host of friends throughout
the South will congratulate him upon this handsome son.
He was a friend and a great admirer of Gen. John. B.
Gordon, in honor of whom the baby was named.
Henry C. Joiner, Company E, 19th Texas Infantry, now of
Grosbeak, Tex., desires to know who captured the flag of that
regiment in the fight at Pleasant Hill, La. The color bearer.
Jim Crossland, had been badly wounded and left on the
field and some member of Company F picked up the flag, but
for some cause failed to carry it off the field, and it was lost.
The regiment was commanded by Col. Richard Waterhouse,
in the brigade under Gen. William R. Scurry.
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TO THE HEROES OF SABINE PASS.
About 1897 Dick Dowling Camp, of Houston, Tex., had
about forty dollars on deposit for the erection of a monument
to the memory of Richard Dowling and his forty-two Irish-
men, composing an artillery company called "Tlie Davis
Guards," so named after President Jefferson Davis. Com-
rade Philip H. Fall, who liad been elected Adjutant of the
Camp in 1886, offered a resolution that fifty dollars additional
be subscribed by the Camp, which was carried unanimously.
He then began writing articles in the Galveston Nczi'S, Hous-
ton Post, and Fort Worth Gazette, calling for contributions.
Miss Marti, of "Sabine Pass," was the first subscriber, sending
$4.25. Several others followed with a dollar each, Dick
Dowling Chapter, of Beaumont, sent the Adjutant nearly one
hundred dollars ; then the members of the Camp sent a dollar
each. Adjutant Fall wrote an article, requesting information
and assistance from the Irish, and Mrs. Rosenberg, of Gal-
veston, wrote a nice letter inclosing ten dollars and inquiring
why the Irish did not come to the rescue. This made the
Hibernian Society of Houston get to work, and they raised
several hundred dollars by a Fourth of July picnic. The
Camp and Society nfterwards joined in a grand concert, thus
adding anotlicr neat sum.
Through the special solicitations of Comrade Fall, many
contributions were received for this monument. Col. John
H. Kirby subscribed $250, which so enthused the city that
subscriptions came thick and fast, and the amount for erect-
ing the monument was soon realized.
TIic base of the monument is of Texas granite, tlic statue
of Italian marble, and made in Italy. Upon the shaft are in-
scribed the names of the forty-two brave men who were in
the fight with Dowling. The monument is beautifully lo-
cated at the cast side of the City Hall, where two other plats
arc awaiting the placing of monuments to Gen. Sam Houston
and Gen. A. S. Johnston, both in line with the Dowling mon-
ument.
Thus has been commemorated the valor of forty-three as
brave Irish Confederates as ever went to battle. President
Davis, in his memoirs, says that historj', ancient or modern,
has no record of such a wonderful fight, for these forty-three
Irishmen drove Gen, Franklin's army of fifteen thousand away
from Texas, sinking three of his vessels and capturing four
hundred and twenty prisoners. But for this valiant defense,
Franklin would have invaded Texas and captured thousands
of bales of cotton and many thousands of cattle for the
Federal army.
The exercises for the unveiling of this monument were of
special interest. Business was suspended in Houston on that
day. The Governor of the State and other notables made
addresses. Mrs. Daniel, the widow of Capt. Dowling, was
present with his daughter, Mrs. Robertson. Several sur-
vivors of that battle were brought from the Confederate Home
at Austin to witness the ceremonies. The procession ex-
tended for miles.
niCK DOWLINC MONUMENT. HOUSTON, TEX.
THRILLING EXPERIENCES OF LIEUT. COL. LANG.
nV T. H. NEILSON, SERGEANT CO. D, 62D VIRGINIA VOLUNTEERS.
I read with great pleasure the articles in the March and
July numbers of the Veteran concerning Lieut. Col. Lang,
for I knew and loved him as an elder brother, and he and I
were intimate, notwithstanding the disparity in our ages and
rank. I was with him in all the skirmishes, expeditions, and
battles of the old 62d Virginia from its formation, in 1862.
and was by his side and shed tears when he fell, mortally
wounded, at Stevenson's Depot, September 5, 1864. I had
often wished prior to those publications that a narrative of
his life, adventures, and hair-breadth escapes as spy, scout,
and officer could be written, although they would almost stag-
ger belief in their unvarnished truth. In personal appearance
as w-ell as character Col. Lang was to me the most pictur-
esque soldier of the war. He was six feet one inch, erect as
an Indian, a frame well-knit and athletic, strong as an ox,
smooth-shaven, regular features, square chin, piercing blue
eyes, and a well-formed head surmounted by a heavy shock
of hair that stood on end and was as red as a fox's tail —
such was he as I recall him now after over forty years.
1 first met him in the fall of 1861 at Camp Alleghany. I
was a hoy of sixteen, private in Company A, 62d Virginia,
and he a man of twenty-eight, and scout for the bluff old
hero of Alleghany Mountain, Gen. Edward Johnson, who
led the charge on the right with a club picked up on the
field on the eventful morning of December 13, i86i. The
General had little confidence in cavalry, and used to say that
he would not believe a word a man on horseback would tell
him. The "Yanks" under Milroy had their camp on the top
of Cheat Mountain, some fifteen miles distant from ours,
with the Greenbrier River flowing at the base of Cheat and
Alleghany Mountains. Whenever Gen. Johnson wished to
know their numbers, he would send out Lang, who, with
two revolvers in his belt, his spyglass, and old field rifle,
would take the trail, flank their pickets, and, securing a posi-
tion from which he could get a good view of their camp,
would fire his revolvers rapidly, to make the "Yanks" think
that their pickets were being attacked, when they would beat
the "long roll," tumble out, and form for battle. Lang would
then take his glass, estimate their number, and report on his
return. He often assumed the perilous role of spy, and se-
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cured valuable information for his superior officers. A few
of his adventures will illustrate his character and, I trust,
prove interesting to your readers.
On one occasion, while a scout in the mountains, a com-
pany of one hundred "Yanks" got on his trail, and tracked
him in the snow. Finding he was being pursued, he halted
at the top of a ridge and let them come to within a hundred
yards, when he fired and dropped the leader (he was a dead
shot), and ran down the ridge, loading as he went, the enemy
getting a fire on him as he ascended the next ridge, where
he again halted and dropped number two, repeating these
tactics until he had killed or wounded six, when they con-
cluded to abandon the chase. On another occasion he crept
near their encampment, concealed himself in a thicket, and
proceeded to make a sketch of their camp; but whilst thus
engaged the enemy had spied and surrounded him, and his
first intimation of their presence was hearing the captain
of the company yell: "What are you doing there?" Always
cool and collected, although thoroughly surprised, he replied
nonchalantly, "O ! I was only making a sketch of our camp,"
at the same time folding and putting the paper into his
pocket. They commanded him to surrender, and he said
afterwards that he intended doing so until they raised his ire
by cursing and denouncing him as a spy. He rose and walked
out of the thicket with the butt of his gun presented toward
the captain, as though to surrender; but as he reached him,
he suddenly wheeled the piece, punched the captain in the
stomach with the barrel, doubling him up, and ran like a
deer. His action was so unexpected that it disconcerted the
Yankees to such an extent that he got off some seventy-five
yards before they could collect their wits to fire. He halted
a moment to give them a parting shot, and then made good
his escape, unscathed.
After our return from Early's raid on Washington City,
in August, 1864, the enemy was crossing the Shenandoah at
Berry's Ferry, and Lang, with a few companies of the 62d,
rode up to within a few hundred yards of the ferry to meet
them. When we dismounted, we had only some seventy men
(our regiment had been cut to pieces in the charge on a five-
gun battery at New Market May 15, 1864), whom Lang de-
ployed as skirmishers and ordered to charge. With a yell as
defiant as though we had the whole army as a reserve, we
charged the three hundred cavalry that had crossed, and
scared them back over the river, they supposing we had a
brigade.
Lang was as kind, gentle, and modest as he was brave and
dashing: and his enemies might justly pay him the same
compliment that the Comanche chief paid Capt. Jack Walker,
who would fight them singly or in tribes : "Blue Wing and I
no afraid to go to hell together. Capt. Jack, he great brave ;
no afraid to go to hell by heself." Virginia is rich in hal-
lowed dust; but never did her bosom open to receive a son
nobler, truer, braver than when the clods of old Frederick
County rattled on the casket of David Lang. Peace to his
ashes !
VENERABLE COL. THOMAS JOHNSON.
Thomas Johnson was born in Montgomery Count3', Ky..
July 4, 1812. The day and year seemed to combine to produce
a pairiot — a soldier — while his life and career have been
worthy of his natal day. His father was a farmer with a
large family of children, and was not able to set any of them
far forward in the way of financial aid ; so at about sixteen
years of age Thomas, with little except his fa^ther's blessing.
started a career for himself. He began life as a wage-worker,
but that did not long satisfy this ambitious boy. He soon
began to trade in horses and mules and to assist others in
this kind of work. His energy and good judgment made him
a valuable agent, and his progress was rapid. At that time
the Southern States were supplied from the pastures of Ken-
tucky, and, no railroad being available, the stock was all
driven or led overland. He soon became an important factor
in this trade, and for a quarter of a century had almost a
monopoly of the horse and mule market of several of the
blue grass counties of Central Kentucky. For years he was
almost constantly on the road, regardless of weather, and he
always met his engagements. He prospered, and invested in
the fine farming lands of his native county ; and when the
clash of 1861 came he owned about a thousand acres of
splendid blue grass lands, among which was the home of
his great-grandfather on the maternal side, with the old brick
house built by this ancestor as his rooftree.
He seemed never to lire. His tremendous energy drew
him to ceaseless work, and this strength was equal to any
draft made upon it. He was active in all military organiza-
tions and maneuvers; was early prominent in the State
militia, and passed from grade to grade in the line, retiring
with the rank of major general. He was a State right's
Democrat and a valued figure in the councils of his party.
He made two races for the State Legislature, but was de-
feated by small majorities.
When war between the United States and Mexico was
declared, Thomas Johnson raised a large company of the
young men of his neighborhood ; but the quota of Kentucky
was filled, and only one company was accepted from Mont-
gomery County, so his was not taken.
When the fight between the sections convulsed our country
( (;!.. THOMAS
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in 1861, he promptly and zealously espoused the cause of the
South. He served during the war, and for most of the time
commanded a battalion of mounted riflemen from Kentucky,
which did much arduous and gallant service. It is eulogy
enough to say that Thomas Johnson was worthy to command
and to lead this band of brave and true Kentucky troops.
At tlie close of the war Col. Johnson returned home with
his command and resumed the garb and the habits of peace.
He at once went to work with his characteristic energy and
pluck to untangle his affairs. He resumed his Southern traf-
fic, and gradually grew to prosperty again. His blue grass
acres smiled and blossomed for him alone. His roomy old
brick "Mansion House" was always open for the pleasure of
others, and his neighbors often enjoyed the hospitality of
his board, though only "Aunt Lize" was there to see that
household affairs went straight. But not many years after
the war his life was blessed through his marriage to Miss
Elizabeth Peters, a beautiful and accomplished young woman,
and they have been blessed with six children.
After the war, Col. Johnson was chosen to represent his
constituency in the upper branch of the Kentucky Legisla-
ture, where he served faithfully and ably. During his long
and active life he has always been interested in works of
charity, and has made himself a leader in every enterprise
for the benefit of his county and his people. His largess
was always liberal, and to the struggling young men of his
community he was a blessing and the prayers of many ,n
mother have gone up for the man who encouraged and
helped her boy.
Thus this noble old man has made his long journey across
the century, building and fashioning a character which has
stamped its impress on his environment for three genera-
tions and is the finest heritage that can be left his children.
The foregoing sketch was planned for llic Louisville Re-
union issue of the Veteran, as this venerable veteran, said to
be the oldest Confederate colonel living, was the father of
Miss Annie Johnsou, maid of honor to Miss Carrie Peyton
Wheeler, who was sponsor for the South on that occasion.
See Vetf.r.\n. page 25S.
iNTENPF.n Honor to a Confederate Negro. — The Ccmslitii-
tion prints an interesting story of Amos Ruckcr, a noted old
negro of Atlanta. An accepted "street rumor" that Amos was
dead created widespread expressions of sorrow. There was
good reason for the esteem in which the old negro was held.
In the beginning of the war, in 1862, Col. Rucker and a
son went to the war, and with them went Amos. «
"Somehow, it mattered not how the commissary was de-
pleted, .'Vmos was ever ready to serve a meal to his masters
and to his masters' friends. Never in those days when free-
dom was only a few hundred yards away, just across the di-
vide between the two armies, did Amos forget he was a negro
except when fighting was going on. Then taking up a gun
dropped by a soldier who had died fighting, he took that sol-
dier's place in the battle line and did his best. A crippled leg
and a red scar in his left breast now bear testimony to the fact
that Amos Rucker was a soldier, tried and found to be brave.
"When rumors reached the city that Rucker was dead,
initial steps were taken for his funeral. Pallbearers were
selected and orders were issued for the Veterans of the city
to attend the funeral in a body Wednesday afternoon. The
pallbearers selected were ex-Gov. Candler, Gen. A. J. West,
F. A. Hilburn, member of the City Council ; J. Sid Holland,
member of the Aldermanic Board ; Judge W. Lowndes Cal-
houn, e.x-Mayor of Atlanta ; and Dr. Amos Fox, a member of
the Board of Police Commissioners and ex-postmaster — eaclv
being a Confederate Veteran. Dr. Holderby was to have
preached the funeral. The body was to have been escorted to
South View by the Atlanta Camps of Confederate Veterans.
"The only hitch in the arrangements was that Amos was not
dead. When the driver of the undertaker's w-agon, which had
been sent to Ruckcr's home, near Atlanta University, was
approaching the home the driver almost dropped from his
seat when he observed just in front of him Amos Rucker
walking into the city."
First Confederates from Kentucky. — Col. H. A. Tyler,
Hickman, Ky. : "In response to the inquiry of Capt. R. Y.
Johnson, I will say that the first company enlisted in Ken-
tucky was raised in Louisville, and left that city April i,
1861, on board the Steamer Peytona for New Orleans. I
was in Louisville at the time, and came down as far as my
home (Hickman, Ky.) on the boat with them. Prentiss's Bri-
gade ml Illinois troops was then encamped at Cairo, 111. The
captain had to land, and there was much excitement on board
as to what might happen. Everybody aboard, soldiers and
citizens, were armed and ready to repel any attempt to board
us. The captain agreed that if any troops attempted to come
aboard he would back out into the stream. But we were not
interfered with. This company afterwards became a part of
the 1st Kentucky, organized and commanded by Col. Blan-
ton Duncan. At the expiration of twelve months' service
the entire regiment was disbanded, including this company."
Memorial Order of the Confederacv. — A new order in
Confederate circles has been instituted with the organization
of the "Memorial Order of the Confederacy," the purpose of
which is to provide a burial fund for needy soldiers, for its
members, and to keep alive the memories of the Confederacy.
It is a secret order, using paraphernalia suggestive of the
Confederacy. The Ladies' Auxiliary Chapters are known as
"Winnie Davis Chapters." The order is dedicated to the
Women of the Confederacy, and its laws provide that five
per cent of all funds received shall be devoted to building a
monument to Winnie Davis as a representative of Southern
womanhood. \ death benefit of two hundred dollars is paid,
and each local Chapter pays sick benefits. There is no age
limit. This order was founded by R. E. Tounsley, of Tampa,
Fla.. and the first Chapter instituted June 18, 1905.
NORTHWESTERN DIVISION, U. C. V.
An enthusiastic reunion of the Confederates in Montana,
forming the Northwest Division, U. C. V., was held in
Helena on the 6th of October, at which more delegates were
in attendance than ever before. Steps were taken toward
forming a Camp of Sons. These meetings are always char-
acterized by warmth of welcome and greeting between com-
rades who have so little opportunity to meet one another in
their widely separated homes of the vast West.
The officers for the ensuing year are Paul A. Fusz, of
Philipsburg, reelected Commander Northwest Division, and
William H. H. Ellis, of Bozeman, Commander Montana Bri-
gade. At the social session in the evening several addresses
were made ; and as President of the Winnie Davis Chapter,
U. D. C, of Helena, Mrs. Henry Loble made an address of
welcome and presented cros»es of honor to Perry J. Moore,
of Two Dot, and John T. M«ore, of Lewis, both of whom
served in Company G, plh Kentucky Cavalry.
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THE REBEL YELL.
[Republished from llie Veteran of April, 1S93.]
Many people think of the three measured huzzas given now
and then as "the Rebel yell." It is shocking to an old Con-
federate to consider such deception. The venerable widow of
Rear Admiral Raphael Scmmes, in attending a Confederate
Reunion at Memphis a couple of years ago, modestly ex-
pressed her wish to hear "the Rebel yell." Something of an
old-time cheer came from the throats of men who gladly
tried to compliment the wife of the eminent naval commander.
Kellar Anderson, who was of the Kentucky Orphan Brigade
and had heard the yell, wrote a reminiscence for the Mem-
phis Appeal It is this same Anderson, called Captain and
again Gen. Anderson, who honored his native Kentucky, hi»
adopted Tennessee, and American heroism some months ago
at Coal Creek, in defying the miners who had captured him
and demanded his head as a ransom, when it seemed only
hopeless to refuse their demands. One thing is sure, he had
heard "the Rebel yell."
" 'There is a Southern mother on this stand wlio says she
wants to hear "the Rebel yell" once more.'
"The announcement transforms, and in an instant I find
myself acting the humble part of file-closer to Company I,
5th Kentucky Infantry, with pieces at the right shoulder,
the brigade in route column. With the active, strong, swing-
ing stride of the enthusiastic, trained soldier, they hold the
double-quick over rocks, logs, gullies, undergrowth, hill, and
vale, until amid the foliage of the trees above them the hurtling
shell and hissing shot from the enemy's field guns give notice
that if retreating they have missed the way. Yet there is no
command to halt. Direct, on unchanged course, this battle-
scarred and glory-mantled battalion of Kentucky youths con-
tinues, and as they reach the open woods in clarion tones
comes the order, 'Change front, forward on first company.'
etc. The order executed found them formed on ground but
recently occupied by a battalion of their foes, and few of these
had left their positions. The battalion of Kentuckians were
in battle array where they once were, but now the ground
was almost literally covered with the Federal dead, the en-
tire length of our regiment of seven hundred men. Men, did
I say? Soldiers is the word; there were few men among
them, they being youths, but soldiers indeed. The increasing
spat, whirr, and hiss of the Minie balls hurrying by left no
doubt of the fact among these soldiers. They are about to
enter the action again, and forward is the order. 'Steady,
men, steady; hold your fire; not a shot without orders. It
is hard to stand, but you must not return it. We have friends
in our front yet. They are being hard pressed, and their
ammunition is almost e.xpended, but they are of our proudest
and best, and Humphries's Mississippians will hold that ridge
while they have a cartridge.'
"It is ncaring sunset; and after two days of fearful car-
nage— yea, one of the best-contested battles' of the times —
the enemy has been driven pellmell from many parts of the
field. Our losses are numbered by thousands, and we are
now advancing in battle array, the little red flag with blue
cross dancing gayly in the air over the heads of those who
were there to defend it. The last rays of the setting sun had
kissed the autumn foliage when we stepped into open ground
and found that we were among the wreck of what a few short
minutes ago had been a superb six-gun battery. The uni-
forms of the dead artillerymen and the gayly caparisoned
bodies of the many dead horses proclaimed this destruction
the work of our friends. We look upon the dead, pull our
cartridge boxes a little more to the front, and resolve once
more to face the destruction we are now entering. The
boom of artillery increases. The rattle of musketry is steady
— aye, incessant and deadly. The sulphurous smoke has in-
creased until almost stifling. Only fifty yards of space sep-
arates us from the gallant Mississippians we are there to
support. They have clung to the ridge with a deathlike grip,
but their last cartridge has been fired at the enemy, and, their
support being at hand, these sturdy soldiers of Longstreet's
Corps are ordered to retire.
"Simultaneously the support was ordered forward. As the
Mississippians retired the deep-volumed shouts of the enemy
told us plainer than could words that the enemy thought they
had routed them. O, how differently we regarded the situa-
tion ! If they could have seen them as we — halting, kneeling,
lying down, ranging themselves in columns of files behind the
large trees to enable us to get at the enemy with an unbroken
front, each man as we passed throwing cap high into the
overhanging foliage in honor of our presence — then I imagine
their shouts would have been suppressed. 'Steady in the
center ! Hold your fire ! Hold the colors back !' The center
advanced too rapidly. We are clear of our friends now, only
the enemy in front, and we meet face to face on a spur of
Mission Ridge, which extends through the Snodgrass farm,
and we are separated by eighty yards. Thud ! and down
goes Private Robertson. He turned, smiled, and died.
Thud I Corporal Gray shot through the neck. 'Get to the
rear!' said I. Thud! Thud! Thud! Wolf, Michael, the
gallant Thompson. Thud ! Thud ! Thud ! Courageous
Oxley, the knightly Desha, and duty-loving Cummings. And
thus it goes. The fallen increase, and are to be counted by
the hundreds. The pressure is fearful, but the 'sang-digger'
is there to stay. 'Forward ! Forward !' rang out along the
line. We move slowlv to the front.
COL. KELLAR ANDERSON, AUTHOR, MEMPHIS, TENN.
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"There are now sixty yards between n?. The enemy scorn
to fly; he gives back a few paces; he retires a little more,
but still faces us, and loads as he backs away. We are now
in tlie midst of his dead and dying, but he stands as do the
sturdy oaks about him. We have all that is possible for
Iniman to bear; our losses are fearful, and each moment some
comrade passes to the unknown. At last Ilumphries's Mu=-
sissippians have replenished bo.xcs and arc working around
our right. Trigg's Virginians are uncovering to our left.
I feel a shock about my left breast, spin like a top in the air,
and come down in a heap. I know not how long before came
the sounds, 'Forward ! Forward ! Forward !' I rise on my
elbow. Look! Look! There they go, all at breakneck
speed, the bayonet at charge. The firing appears to suddenly
cease for about five seconds. Then arose that do-or-die
expression, that maniacal maelstrom of sound ; that pene-
trating, rasping, shrieking, blood-curdling noise that couM
be heard for miles on earth and whose volume reached the
heavens, such an expression as never yet came from the
throats of sane men, but from men whom the searing blast
of an imaginary hell would not check while the sound lasted.
"The battle of Cliickamauga is won. Company lost "o per
cent ; brigade lost 44 per cent.
"Dear Southern mother, that was 'the Rebel yell,' and only
such scenes ever did or ever will produce it.
"Even when engaged, that expression from the Confederate
soldier always made my hair stand on end. The young men
and youths who composed this unearthly music were lusty,
jolly, clear-voiced, hardened soldiers, full of courage and
proud to march in rags, barefoot, dirty, and hungry, witli
head erect, to meet the plethoric ranks of the best-equipped
and best- fed army of modern times. Alas ! now many of
them are decrepit from ailment and age ! and, although we
will never grow old enough to cease being proud of the record
of the Confederate soldier and the dear old mothers who
liore them, w-e can never again, even at your bidding, dear,
dear niollier, produce 'the Rebel yell.' Never again; never,
never, never."
LORD U'OLSELEY ON AMERICAN WOMEN.
[Ill making some extracts from Lord Wolseley's book, E.
R. Norton, who knows the Viscount personally, quotes his re-
gard for Southern women. Lord Wolseley has served the
British Empire in India, China. Japan, and many other coun-
tries, linally becoming commander in chief of the land forces
of Great Britain.]
"Extreme courtesy to women," the Viscount writes, "is a
strong trait in the American character. The first day of my
stay in Baltimore a friend asked me if I would like to go to
a ball. 'Very much,' was my answer. At the hour named I
tonr.il myself seated in his drawing-room with a nice old lady,
wlio made herself extremely pleasant. In a short time the
door opened, .ind there entered a very pretty girl of about
eighteen, I should say. I was introduced to her, and she
asked me wilh a very attractive smile: 'Are you ready?' I
stammered out, 'Yes.' We two, the young girl and myself,
drove off in a brougham some miles into the country. It was
a capital ball. I danced and spent most of the evening with
my charming companion, and was most hospitably enter-
tained by the deliglitful owner of the house. Nothing could
be kinder than the reception I had from all those I met at
the ball, and yet not one in the room had ever heard of me
before ; but I was an English gentleman, and that was enough
for the kind, hospitable, and well-born people of Maryland.
There is an unspeakable charm and fascination about the
.American women that is rarely met with in the women of any
other country, and I am certain that these ladies were as
strictly modest and circumspect as those of my own country.
They were, however, more trusted by their parents, and I
believe that such trust was never misplaced."
Wolseley's tribute to Gen. Lee cannot be used too frequently :
"Gen. Lee was one of the few men who ever seriously im-
pressed and awed me with their natural, their inherent great-
ness. His greatness made me humble, and I never felt my
own individual insignificance more keenly than I did in h;i
presence. He looked a thoroughbred gentleman. In right-
eousness he did judge and make war."
GRANDMA'S FLOUR.
(An incident of '(13. }
BY MRS. J. \V. MEEK.
The children all were jubilant.
And merry as could be.
While waiting for this evening meal.
One time in sixty-three.
'Twas long since they had dainty food,
Or any viands rare ;
To-night their meal was toothsome good,
To them beyond compare.
White biscuit, flaky, sweet, and brow-n.
Made from the choicest flour —
What matter that a Northern town
Such goods claimed as its dower?
But more than bread was theirs to-night —
A cake so rich and brown
It looked like one that Santa Claus
Had brought from Christmas Town.
"Don't waste your bread, my dearest child,"
The mother's looks so mild,
And grandma's voice recalled the thought
To every happy child
Of all the care this white bread gave,
The sum of money great,
And weary days on tiresome trips,
Before this bread they ate.
The supper o'er, they gathered round
A blazing hickory fire,
And thought w'ith dread of winter's cold.
For brother and for sire.
But feather beds and pillcms warm
Soon drove their fears away.
'Twas Marie bright, the smallest one,
Who first saw light of day.
She stared ; the ground was white with snow,
Downfallen in the quiet hour.
She cried : "Come, come, see ; O
Here's all of grandma's brand-new flour !''
Error in Offici.m. Positioj of Capt. John McIntosh
Kell.— In the "Last Roll" sketch of Nathan Campbell Mon-
roe in the February Veter.\n John Mcintosh Kell w-as in-
advertently mentioned as a "prominent surgeon in the Con-
federate navy." It is well known by regular readers of the
Veteran that the Captain was the executive officer of the
Alabama.
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OFFICERS UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee, General Commanding, Columbus,
Miss.; Maj. Gen. William E. Mickle, Adjutant General and
Chief of Staff, New Orleans, La.
St.^ff Officers to Commander in Chief.
The following members of the slafY appointed by Gen. J.
B. Gordon as Commander in Chief have been continued in
the main by his successor. Gen. Stephen D. Lee :
Alford,"George F., Asst. Adjt. Gen., Dallas, Te.K.
Anderson, Charles W., Col. and :\. D. C, Murfreesboro.
Atkinson, Chilton, Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, St. Louis, Mo.
Bahnson, A. H., Lt. Col. and A. D. C, Winston-Salem, N. C.
Baker, Page ]\L, Paymaster Gen., New Orleans.
Ball, Charles P., Col. and A. D. C, Cartersville, Ga.
Barksdale, Allen, Col. and A. D. C, Ruston, La.
Barnard, W. J., Col. and A. D. C, San Francisco, Cal.
Behan, \\'. J., Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans, La.
Bell, D. C, Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Pine Blufif, Ark.
Belo, A. H., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Dallas, Te.x.
Bennett, J. W., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Waycross, Ga.
Blakely, A. R., Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
Blakemore, W. T., Brig. Gen. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
Buck, Samuel H., Col. and A. D. C, New York City.
Bynum, R. E. L., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Jackson, Tens.
Cameron, C. D., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Meridian, Miss.
Castleman, T. W., Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans, La.
Cayce, Ridgely, Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Louisville, Ky.
Chisholm, Alex Robert, Col. and A. D. C.
Claiborne, Thomas, Col. and A. D. C, Nashville, Tenn.
Colquitt, W. T., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Atlanta, Ga.
Cook, V. Y., Gen. and A. D. C, Elmo, Ark.
Cooper, Tim E., Col. and A. D. C, Memphis, Tenn.
Cowan, Dr. J. B., Asst. Surg., Tullahoma, Tenn.
Coyle, W. G, Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
Crawford, W. J., Col. and A. D. C, Memphis, Tenn.
Croom, W. C, Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Brooksville, Fla.
Cunningham, S. A., Col. and A. D. C, Nashville, Tenn.
Daniel, John W., Col. and A. D. C, Richmond, Va.
Davis, Thos. E., Brig. Gen. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
Demoureville, Joseph, Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
Dillard, H. M., Col. and A. D. C, Meridian, Tex.
Dinkins, James, Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
Eshleman, B. F., Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans, La.
Fall, Philip H., Col. and A. D. C, Houston, Tex.
Faxon, John W., Col. and A. D. C, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Fayssoux, W. McL., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
Fleming, F. P., Col. and A. D. C, Jacksonville, Fla.
Forrest, William M., Col. and A. D. C, Memphis, Tenn.
Fox, F. F., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Ardmore, Ind. T.
Fusz, Paul A., Brig. Gen. and A. D. C, St. Louis, Mo.
Gause, George H., Col. and A. D. C, Slidell, La.
George, P. S., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Greenwood, Miss.
Grimes, J. D., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Washington, N. C.
Gurley, D. R., Gen. and Asst. Adjt. Gen., Waco, Tex.
Flalderaan, W. B., Col. and A. D. C, Louisville, Ky.
Harral, J. A., Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
Hervey, Frank A., Sr., Col. and A. D. C, INIobile, Ala.
Hindman, Biscoe, Col. and A. D. C, Louisville, Ky.
Hodgson, Joseph, Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans, La.
Hooker, C. E., Gen. and A. D. C, Jackson, Miss.
Hopkins, Aristide, Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans, La.
Hudson, E. M., Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
Hume, Leiand, Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Nashville, Tenn.
Jonas, B. F.. Col. and Asst. Judge Adv. Gen., New Orleans.
Jones, G. M., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Kansas City, Mo.
Jones, Rev. J. William, Chaplain, Richmond, Va.
Jones, T. H., Col. and A. D. C, Atlanta, Ga.
Jones, Thomas G, Col. and A. D. C, Montgomery, Ala.
Jones, W. C, Col. and A. D. C, Greenville, Tex.
Julian, F. N., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Tuscumbia, Ala.
Kavanaugh, C. C, Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Little Rock, Ark.
Kearfott, W. H., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Norfolk, Va.
Kempner, J. H., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Galveston, Tex.
Ivinard, J. M., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Newberry, S. C.
Lee, R. E., Col. and A. D. C, West Point, Va.
Leiong, A. A., Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
Lester, Lee O., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Deming, N. Mex.
Lewis, Samuel E., M.D., Col. and A. D. C, Washington.
McCollum, J. L., W. & A. R. R. Office, Atlanta, Ga.
Mickle, W. E., Jr., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Mobile, Ala.
Montgomery, W. A., Col. and A. D. C, Edwards, Miss.
Morton, John W., Col. and A. D. C, Nashville, Tenn.
Moore, Henry, Col. and A. D. C, Texarkana, Tex.
Moorman, Henry, Col. and A. D. C, ^tnaville, Ky.
Newman, H. A., Brig. Gen. and Asst. Adjt. Gen., Huntsville.
Norris, Rev. J. I., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Orlando, Fla.
Osborne, Thomas D., Col. and A. D. C, Louisville, Ky.
Owen, T. M., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Montgomery, Ala.
Paddock, B. B., Col. and A. D. C, Fort Worth, Tex.
Pearsall, N. G, Col. and A. D. C, Covington, La.
Pickett, W. D., Col. and A. D. C, Four Bears, Wyo.
Pirtle, John B., Col. and A. D. C, Louisville, Ky.
Provine, R. G., Col. and A. D. C, Cole's Creek, Miss.
Quintero, Lamar C, Lt. Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
Raines, T. R., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Washington, D. C.
Reed, J. W., Col. and A. D. C, Chester, S. C.
Ripy, J. B., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Lawrenceburg, Ky.
Robertson, Fred L., Col. and A. D. C, Tallahassee, Fla.
Russell, E. L., Col. and A. D. C, Mobile, Ala.
Sanguinetti, Paul, Col. and A. D. C, Montgomery, Ala.
Sea, Andrew M., Col. and A. D. C, Louisville, Ky.
Shipp, J. G., Brig. Gen. and Quartermaster, Chattanooga.
Slaughter, C. C, Col. and A. D. C, Dallas, Tex.
Spence, E. L., Jr., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Richmond, Va.
Spencer, Samuel, Col. and A. D. C, New York.
Spivey, D. A., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Conway, S. C.
Street, A, M., Lieut. Col. and A. D. C, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Stubbs, William C, Brig. Gen. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
Taylor, Hancock, Col. and A. D. C, Louisville, Ky.
Tebault, Dr. C. H., Surgeon General, New Orleans.
Thomas, Dr. J. G., Asst. Surg. Gen., Mobile, Ala.
Thomas, J. W., Col. and A. D. C, Nashville, Tenn.
Todd, Dr. C. H., Asst. Surg. Gen., Owensboro, Ky.
Trulock, J. B., Col. and A. D. C, Pine Bluff, Ark.
Walshe, Blayney T., Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
West, A. J., Col. and A. D. C, Atlanta, Ga.
Whittington, W. W., Jr., Lieut. Col., Alexandria, La.
Williams, E. G, Gen. and A. D. C, Waynesville, Mo.
Willett, E. D., Brig. Gen. and Asst. Q. M., Long Beach, Miss.
Woodward, W. J., Col. and A. D. C, Wilmington, N. C.
Wood, James E., Col. and A. D. C, Marianna, Ark.
Woody, W. B., Col. and A. D. C, Rockdale, Tex.
Young, Bennett H., Gen. and Chief of Ordnance, Louisville.
Zable, David, Col. and A. D. C, New Orleans.
The foregoing is alphabetical and made up regardless of
rank.
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A CAVALIER OF THE SOUTH.
BY CHRISTIAN REID. SALISBURY, N. C.
There died the other day in Arkansas a Confederate sol-
dier wliose name still rings like the martial call of a trumpet
in the ears of all the people of Salisbury who were here dur-
ing the fateful years of the war. Merely to speak of Lieut.
Bradley Stokes is not only to call before the minds of those
who knew him one of the most gallant of the young soldiers
of the South, but one who left behind him here a reputation
for special daring which has never faded during the long
years which have elapsed since that time. And so it is not
fitting that his death should pass unchroniclcd in the place he
once so bravely helped to defend, or that those on whom he
made such an ineffaceable impression should not know that
he has answered to the last roll call and gone to join the vast
bust of his comrades in the great beyond.
That he was a cavalier of the South in ilir most typical
sense, no one who knew him could ques-
tion. Memory still recalls the lithe grace
of his young figure, with the spirited
carriage of his head, the whole air of
the man instinct with high-mettled cour-
age, the superb horsemanship, the abso-
lute contempt of danger, the reckless
daring which hesitated at no risk, and
the entire gay and gallant charm worthy
of those cavaliers of England who once
rode behind Rupert of the Bloody Sword,
or of their descendants, in spirit if not
in" actual blood, wlio followed Stuart,
Ashby, Forrest, and Morgan under the
Southern Cross. True comrade of fhesi
last was Bradley Stokes, who vt'as only
in his eighteenth year when he left his
home, in Maryland, at the outbreak of
the war and entered the Confederate
army, enlisting as a private in AshbyV
famous cavalry. With these bold riders
he saw such arduous service in Vir-
ginia as tliey, together with a few like
bands, alone performed; and it was only after Gen
death that be joined his cousin. Gen. Bradley Johnson, on
whose staff he then served until the close of the war, and
with whom he came to Salisbury when, late in 1864, Gen.
Johnson was placed in command of this post.
It was a post of importance on account of its large mili-
tary prison, and its depot of supplies for Gen. Lee's army,
but there were no means for its defense, only a small force of
men and a single battery, when in April, 1865, Stoneman's
raiders approached the town. In order to gain time to convey
the prisoners away, Gen. Johnson threw out his handful of
troops on the road by which tlic enemy were approaching,
with orders to hold them in check as long as possible. How
well these orders were obeyed the continuous and heavy firing
to the westward during the whole of the night told the
anxious people of the town. Nearer and yet nearer through
the long hours the sound of the guns came, showing that the
little force of Confederates was being steadily forced back
by overwhelming numbers, until in the early morning of a
lovely April day they retreated, but still in good order and
with the object of their resistance accomplished, through the
streets of the town. And then occurred the deed of daring
which has kept the name of Bradley Stokes so fresh in the
memory of Salisburj-.
He had been in the saddle, fearlessly reconnoitcring and
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many times under fire, during all the night; and in the morn-
ing, with the last of the retreating force, he entered the town,
paused a moment at the gate of a house containing some of
his friends to say, "The Yankees will be here in a few min-
utes," and then, instead of accompanying the Confederates
in their rapid retreat to the eastward down Innis Street, rode
to the house on the corner of Main and Bank streets, which
was at that time the headquarters of Gen. Johnson. There he
took from the stable and mounted a fresh and" favorite horse,
secured some important papers, and started to rejoin his
coinrade. But in the few minutes which had elapsed since
his own entrance the Yankees had entered the town, and
when he rode out on the street it was to find them pouring
in by every avenue leading from the west. Main Street was
already filled with them, and at that moment there seemed
nothing possible but capture or death for the single Confed-
erate soldier still within the town. But this veteran trooper
of twenty-two faced the situation un-
dauntedly. Putting spurs to his horse,
without an instant's hesitation he dashed
up Main Street toward the Square where
llic fountain now stands, and where the
I iicmy were by this time in greatest force.
\t first the very audacity of the daring
f that solitary figure in gray, speeding
like an arrow through their midst, para-
lyzed the invaders. They stared for an
instant in amazed incredulity, and then
from every side opened on him a fire
which he promptly returned. There are
men now living in Salisbury who wit-
essed and can speak of that scene — of
liow Bradley Stokes rode at full speed
into and through the blue-coated ranks,
answering fire as he went. On the
Square one man dropped under his shots,
and as he dashed around the corner
and down East Innis Street he gave
his horse the reins, while he turned in
the saddle to fire again and yet again,
with perfect coolness and unerring aim, at his pursuers,
of whom he killed one and wounded two, until he made
good his escape unhurt. It is a picture which those who
knew him can fancy well — the graceful boyish figure with its
perfect seat in its saddle, the face alight with the stern joy
of combat, the flying horse, the defiance which spoke in every
cracking shot of his revolver, the splendid daring and gal-
lant courage of the whole act. so thoroughly characteristic
of the man and of all that he was. a
And it is almost needless to say that it was characteristic
of him to the last. Not again, indeed, was he called upon
to fight for the cause that he loved, but he remained as faith-
ful to it to the end as when he ran the gauntlet of death in
the young glory of his manhood in these streets of Salisbury.
Steadfast as a rock, he was to the close of his life a true type
of the Confederate soldier, that "heir of all the ages" in
knightly deeds. He made his home in the South, he called
his daughter by the beloved name of Dixie, and that daugh-
ter writes : "The old North Carolina days were ever dear to
him, and he often said that he must go back to Salisbury once
more before he died, and go over the old grounds again and
see the old friends." He never came, but Salisbury will
surely be ungrateful if, in the persons of the friends of whom
he spoke, she does not give a thought of remembrance to him
who once fought for her so bravely; and if, instead of turning
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to the remoter past to find heroes to hold up for the admira-
tion and imitation of her children, she proves herself too dull
of soul to know that she has looked into the eyes of living
heroes, and that one at least showed in highest degree a hero's
scorn of danger and death when he dashed through the ranks
of his foes here on her streets; one of whom, as of another
Hotspur, it may be said:
"The earth that bears him dead
Bears not alive so brave a gentleman."
LITERARY TALENT IN NORTtI CAROLINA.
The William Houston Patterson Memorial Cup.
A Philadelphia correspondent of the Charlotte (N. C.) Ob-
server has written an interesting account of a "magnificent
trophy as an incentive to the development of literary talent in
North Carolina :"
"As a memorial to her father, the late Col. William Houston
Patterson, of Philadelphia, and as an incentive to the devel-
opment of the literary talent of the sons and daughters of the
Old North State, INIrs. Lindsay Patterson, of Winston-Salem,
has had manufactured here one of the most massive and mag-
nificent loving cups that Philadelphia jewelers have ever seen.
This cup is to be presented to the North Carolina Historical
Society, and by that society is at the end of the year to be
turned over to that resident native North Carolina writer who
shall have achieved the greatest literary success during the
year. At the end of ten years it is to become the property of
the person who shall have won it the greatest number of
times.
"The Patterson cup has for a fortnight been on exlitbition in
the show window of the largest jewelry firm in this city. Be-
cause of its extraordinary beauty, because of the story of
filial love behind it, and because of the prominence here of
the Patterson family, it has attracted great attention.
"The cup is of gold and of massive construction. It stands
sixteen inches high, and is seven inches in diameter. On
MRS. r.VTTERSON AT HER HOME IN WINSTON.
the bases of the three handles are the coats of arms of North
Carolina, Pennsylvania, and the Patterson family. It is
studded with forty-nine precious stones, all being North Caro-
lina gems, selected by Mrs. Patterson from over four hundred
specimens. It bears the inscriptions : 'The William Houston
Patterson Cup,' and 'Cor Cordium' (heart of hearts)."
After the foregoing was in type, the news came that the
cup was awarded for the first year to Mr. John Charles Mc-
Neill, of Charlotte, and the presentation was made by Presi-
dent Roosevelt on his visit to Raleigh on October 19. In
the Senate Chamber of the State Capitol the presentation
was made, quite a number of distinguished gentlemen and
ladies (including Mrs. Roosevelt) being present. The Presi-
dent, in a few remarks extolling the value of literary effort,
presented the cup to Mr. McNeill.
The Shelby Grays, of Fourth Tennessee. — B. Robinson,
of Upperville, Va., makes inquiry : "Can any reader of the
Veteran give me any information about Capt. Armstrong's
company, the Shelby Grays, 4th Regiment Tennessee Volun-
teers? I should like to know if any of the company are
living, as I had a brother in that company."
YOUNG WOMAN'S ADDRESS TO VETERANS.
The Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, at Corinth, Miss., on
the occasion of its recent annual reunion enjoyed a treat in
the address given by invitation of Miss Maud V. Herman,
of Kossuth. The manuscript comes from Adjt. John W. Mc-
Anulty on behalf of the Camp, Miss Herman's theme was
"Our Truest Hero."
"From time immemorial the world has had its heroes — ■
heroes of war and heroes of peace. But the heroes of war
give us a theme ever full of interest and grandeur. In all
ages every distinct race and people have had their heroes,
about whose names cluster memories, traditions, and records
of valor, daring, and patriotism. Macedonia boasted of her
brave son, Alexander the Great; Greece had her Miltiades;
Rome, her Cxsar. France had her Napoleon, who mounted
to the most dizzy heights of military power and glory. To
the thirteen colonies of America belongs the name of Wash-
ington. But greater still than all of these, the South had her
heroes — Lee, Jackson, Davis, the Johnstons, Gordon, and
many others whose names are enshrined with deathless pride
in every true Southern heart.
"Davis, Lee, and Jackson were called at the beginning of the
sixties to the support of the infant Confederacy, then begin-
ning its struggle for existence; and it was with untiring en-
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erg}' and ceaseless devotion that these noble men guarded the
welfare of Iheir beloved Southland. It must have been glo-
rious and inspiring to the boys in gray to look upon these
leaders. Jackson's untimely death was an irreparable loss to
the Confederacy. Recently, when John B. Gordon died, we
felt that one of the noblest souls that ever dwelt in human
form had gone to meet its God; and we remember him of
whom the President said : 'If one head, one heart, and one
hand could have saved the Confederacy, that hand and heart
and head were lost when Albert Sidney Johnston fell at
Shiloh.'
"Jefferson Davis's position at the helm of government, as
President of the Confederacy, was an all-important one. It
is enough to say that his conduct exhibited the sublimest
spectacle of high moral courage based on truth and faith in
the right which enabled him to follow his belief of duty at the
peril of his freedom and his life.
'For that cause he gave his true, noble life;
O dear, martyred son! in thy grave cold and still,
The South has oft wept for thee
As she wept when bereft of her other brave sons —
Jackson and Robert E. Lee.'
"Leaders are necessary to direct men on that dread arena,
the battlefield. It requires an able, daring, courageous leader
to call forth from the men a passionate devotion, to mold the
multitude of thoughts of a great army into one mass of
martial zeal. Without a leader an army is a mob — a power-
less machine ; but, on the other hand, what could a leader ac-
complish without an army? We would not in the smallest
degree depreciate the sterling worth of those mighty chief-
tains, the South's leaders; but we do maintain that our truest
heroes, those who presented to the world the sublimest deeds
of valor and devotion ever witnessed, were the men behind
the guns — the private Confederates in their jackets of gray.
In speaking of the Civil War, Gen. Lee once said : 'The true
heroes of the war are not the men of rank, but the men of
the ranks.' The private soldiery was the 'bone and sinew' of
the Confederacy.
"When we come to speak of this valiant soldiery of the
sixties, all heads bovi' in awe and reverence, and words fail
us in expressing their praise ; but may we not revert briefly
to the career of the private soldier? The beginning of the
sixties found the peoples of the North and South very dif-
ferent in characteristics, though brothers in blood. This
was a result of the physical features of the two sections, the
industrial pursuits, and other causes. Their greatest differ-
ence was in conflicting governmental policies. It is justice to
say that the men of the South were a mass of intelligent men
— men of noble natures, sound judgment, and correct ihink-
i.ig; men not to be moved by any ignoble impulse, but were
ever actuated by that holy principle so deeply imbedded in
th(ir natures, the love of justice and liberty. Slavery was not
that for which they fought. The real cause lay far deeper
than slaverj'."
Addressing the Veterans present, the speaker said :
"You clung to the Declaration of Independence, which de-
clares that government exists for the protection of life, liberty,
and happiness. You believed in a strict construction of the
constitution, and in the preservation of State rights. So
when your State rights were set aside — your sovereignty de-
nied— you were ready to strike for your homes and firesides,
s.id to pour out your blood as a libation; and, if need be, to
die upon the altar of your country. You left your happy
Southern homes and rushed to the fray where honor called;
and through four years of dread war you fought with such
bravery, endured such hardships, and won such brilliant vic-
tories on the battlefield that you deserved and won the name
of the grandest heroes the world has ever known — 'the won-
der of the ages.'
"It was the private soldier who trudged weary and footsore
over rocky and frozen roads on tiresome marches, who so
fearlessly breasted the shot and shell of the strong forces of
the enemy. It was the private soldier who shivered within
the chilly walls of Northern prisons, half clothed and scantily
fed, but he chose to t e there rather than purchase freedom
at the price of honor.
"Some one has said : 'To charge the batteries of the enemy
requires great personal bravery. For one's life to be wafted
to the skies upon the white smoke of battle amid the roar of
musketry and the thunders of the artillery is almost godlike;
but it does not exceed the sublime heroism of the man who
suffered for duty's sake in the prison, who in dejection and
despair, in neglect and unspeakable suffering refused to sur-
render his convictions of right and forsake the "Bonnie Blue
Flag." '
"The North realized the perseverance of the Confederate
privates. Gen. Grant himself said : 'If we recruit the South-
ern army by the exchange of prisoners, we shall have to fight
on until the whole South is exterminated !' The name of the
Confederate private had become a synonym for bravery and
perseverance.
'They were only privates, and 'twas theirs to obey.
Not theirs to command or lead the fray ;
But theirs to endure and follow and fight.
To know that the cause they loved was right.
Hungry and thirsty, and footsore and lame.
They fought for their country and thought not of fame.
And so to the end they followed and fought
With a love and devotion that could not be bought.'
But at last, in the weakened condition of the South, it had to
succumb — not to valor, but to overwhelming numbers and
uncivilized warfare. She surrendered less than 100,000
ragged, half-star\'ed veterans to more than 1,000,000 Northern
and foreign troops. The cannon's mouth was stopped ; the
life of the Confederacy was ended, but
'No nation ever rose so white and fair,
None fell so pure of crime.' "
Again addressing herself to those about her, she said :
"You turned with horror from those battlefields drenched
with the blood of your comrades; and, heartbroken, with bat-
tle scars and empty sleeves, you started homeward, there to
find problems even more difficult to face. You left in '61 when
the vales and vine-clad hills of our sunny South were clothed
in wealth and luxury. You returned in '65 to find nothing
more than a wilderness of waste and desolation. 'The whole
political, social, and industrial fabric of the South lay in
ruins.' But you built up your shattered fortunes and de-
feated the attempt to fasten upon you political disgrace and
shame. You achieved victories during the next decade equal
in renown to any achieved on the battlefield, thus proving
yourselves heroes of peace as well as of war. But in this you
were not left alone. You were cheered and comforted by the
noble Southern woman. She loved you, she trusted you, she
prayed for you while in battle ; and when you returned she
met you on the threshold of 'home, sweet home' with smiles
for your welcome, but tears — bitter tears — for your defeat.
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'Slie helped to rebuild the waste places, and to bind up the
broken hearts.' One writer has said :
'The noblest name, the grandest name
That burns upon the scroll of fame
Glows brighter still, and still more fair,
If woman helped to place it there.'
"God bless the old-style Southern woman ! Slie and the
private Confederate soldier should be crowned the truest he-
roes of all the war. The time has come when the heroism
and the lofty manhood of the Confederate soldier are the
common pride and glory of all who bear the name of Ameri-
cans ; and while memory lasts the splendor of your deeds
will lose none of its luster.
"The story of Marathon and Thermopylse has long out-
lived the republic of Greece. Long ago the Roman Empire
disappeared from tlie map of the world, but the deeds of her
imperial legions still remain bright and gleaming on the pages
of history. And as these great achievements have outlived
the mighty governments and the brave men in whose names
they were accomplished, so the bravery, patriotism, and the
chivalrj' of the Southern private will be written in burning
letters upon the pages of immortal history and transmitted
as a glorious heritage to future generations. 'Poetry, song,
and history bring their richest treasures to perpetuate your
undying fame.'
'The men were right who wore the gray.
And right can never die;'
and sometime, 'when all life's lessons have been learned,' the
soldier's last tattoo will have been sounded, and the last hero
will have passed to that reunion beyond the stars.
"God helped you bear the cross here that you may wear
the crown over there —
'That crown with peerless glories bright,
Which shall new luster boast
When victors' wreaths and monarchs' gems
Shall blend in common dust.' "
THE MOTHER'S OFFERING.
BY M. M. TEAGAR, FLEMINGSBURG, KV.
Yes, go, my dear son, 'tis thy country demands.
In defense of thy birthright, in liberty's name,
A sacrifice now at a fond mother's hand.
Where honor may bask in the sunlight of fame.
Her perils go share on the land and the seas.
In battle's fierce surge and the tempest of war,
Where thunders awakened are borne on the breeze
And the tread of invasion is heard from afar.
In the shock of collision, what bosom can feel
The ceaseless anxiety as nightly appear;
The phantoms of hope that reluctantly steal
Above the lone pillow that's moistened with tears?
Yes, go, my dear son, 'tis thy country that calls
The valiant to arms and summons thee hence.
Where glory will honor the hero who falls
While facing her foe in gallant defense.
Though feeble my efforts, yet freely I give
To freedom and country of loved ones the last;
Though doomed to misfortune and poverty, live
A comfortless wreck on the shoals of the past.
Thy forefathers suffered and struggled in vain
To transmit the freedom their valor had bought
If we, in our weakness, refuse to sustain
The blessings their wisdom and virtue had wrought.
Though the birthright of freedom be lost to the world,
Let glory and valor their virtues declare
And honor survive when thy banners are furled
In the day of success or the night of despair.
Though strong is maternal aflfection, my son,
And comfort that filial affection inspires.
Yet love for my country is second to none.
Whatever the sacrifice duty requires.
Remember wliatcver the future recalls,
'Tis sweet consolation and comfort to know
That glory will honor the hero who falls.
His face to his God and his feet to the foe.
When tile battle is over and nature has spread
Her mantle of darkness o'er mountain and plain,
One spirit will visit the dying and dead
To gaze on the face of her loved one again.
The foeman may boast of his power and might.
Remember the battle is not to the strong;
'Tis better to die in defense of the right
Than tamely submit to injustice and wrong.
Although you may fall and the unpolished stone
No record may bear of thy country or name.
The dust of the hero speaks louder alone
Than monuments stained with dishonor and shame.
To Heaven my soul will unceasingly pray
To strengthen thine arm in defense of the right,
That honor stand guard o'er thy conduct by day
And virtue watch over thy slumbers at night.
May God, in his mercy, thine efforts sustain.
Directed and guided by strength from above,
And bring thee back home to thy mother again,
To rest in the bosom of freedom and love !
If Heaven ordains it to spare thee, my son,
Whatever the issue, remember 'tis sweet
To know that thy duty was faithfully done
In the transports of triumph or gloom of defeat.
Be brave and be fearless, be loyal and true
In the cause of thy country wherever you be ;
The standard of freedom keep ever in view.
The guidon of faith and the hope of the free.
Thy country is calling; she cannot delay;
The tocsin is pealing from turret and dome.
Thy comrades are marching in battle array;
Speed, speed to the rescue of country and home
MISSOURI GIRL'S PRISON EXPERIENCES
BY MRS. JOHN R. CASON, WASHINGTON, D. C.
On August S, 1864, I came to Marshall from Boonville to
visit a friend ; was happy in displaying a calisthenic uniform,
worn at the closing exercises of our school, giving an exhibi-
tion of the dift'erent movements. A negro girl innocently re-
ported to some Union women that I was dancing with a Rebel
flag around me. The next day, August 6, about ten or fifteen
Southern soldiers came into Marshall. There were Union
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troops there at that hour. They assisted one or more Union
men in handing out their surpkis goods. Several of these
Southern boys rode to the gate of my friends' home, and we
(there were three other girls) had a few words with the Con-
federates. While engaged in this little "byplay'' some one
shouted, "The courthouse is on fire." We looked and saw the
Federal flag burning, and the whole building was destroyed
in a short time. Our boys left town shortly after this, having
burned besides only an old shack, a shop. By ii A.Jt. every-
thing was quiet, and all were gratified that nothing worse had
happened. A friend from the country invited me to spend the
following Saturday and Sunday with her. Hastily packing a
carpet sack with the belongings of a girl in her eighteenth
year, I left town about noon, reaching my friend's home in
time for a fine Southern dinner. Afterwards, while enjoying
a nap, the gentleman of the house called me and said, "You
are wanted." I immediately arose and faced a Federal cap-
tain with about twenty soldiers. He gave me a military salute,
with the information : "Miss Bryant, you must return to town
with me as my prisoner." I asked by whose authority, and he
produced an order from the provost marshal, named Wood-
ruff. I asked how I was to go, and he said : "You can ride be-
hind one of us." I indignantly declined, when he said : "O
you will have to go, and I hope you will not give us trouble."
At this time Southern people in Missouri were afraid to
show much sympathy toward each other. My old friend sug-
gested, however, that I go in his- buggy. The captain re-
marked that one of his soldiers would drive the buggy. Ac-
cepting the situation, I returned to Marshall, and was driven
to my home, occupied then by Federal officers as lieadquarters.
Their troops, about one thousand in number, arrived in town
at 12 Ji., August 6. After a few words with the matron. I
requested to see the provost marshal. Stating to him my ob-
jection to being held a prisoner in my home, he kindly or-
dered a guard to escort me to a hotel. 1 came to ^Marshall
with a large trunk of clothing suitable for a summer outing
— my father had ample means.
On the arrival of the troops referred to, they were piloted to
the house of my friend, Mrs. S , by some Union women.
The soldiers were allowed to loot the house, destroying every
article I had except a few things in a carpet sack, also every-
thing in Mrs. S 's house. Feather beds were emptied on
the floor, and the entire contents of a well-filled pantry
were emptied into this mass of feathers. On asking the
officer of the day for an explanation why the soldiers
had been allowed to destroy my clothing, he sarcastically
replied, "You may find a few of your things;" but I didn't.
With defiance and hatred in my heart. I went on to my prison
(the hotel), which I was not allowed to leave but once,
then with a guard. This all occurred on the 6th of August.
The affair spread all over the country in a short time, reach-
ing my parents in Boonville. My father dared not return to
Marshall, but my mother did, accompanied by my teacher,
hoping to explain satisfactorily why I had this calisthenic
dress, which was red, white, and red with the immortal thir-
teen red buttons down the front of the waist. In the nn-K-e
it was saved, and exhibited on the public square. The ex-
citement it created was like a Spanish bullfight, the soldiers
furious that a slip of a girl should dare to glory in those
colors — the red, white, and red. My freedom was offered me
provided I would take the oath, a copy of which I send here-
with. I would rather have carried a ball and chain than have
submitted to such humiliation. After keeping me in Marshall
one week, I was notified by the captain to prepare for a
journey to Warrensburg, nearly two days' travel by land.
Imagine my consternation when, instead of a carriage, a four-
horse government w'agon loaded with corn drove to the ladies'
entrance. I protested against the journey in priinitive style,
but was told that I should be glad that I did not have to walk.
After adieus to a few heartbroken friends, we climbed up and
into this canvased wagon with an old dirty army blanket
spread over the corn. All day long with no lunch and tlie
sympathy of no one except our driver — a Southern man in
disguise. The party numbered about three hundred Federal
soldiers, and more than that number of negroes followed us.
We arrived at a small village (Brownsville) for the night, and
were placed in a hotel with a guard at the door. After a nice
supper and lodging, we again started on our journey. At
12:30 P.M. we arrived in Warrensburg, alighted at Col. Crit-
tendon's headquarters, and were marched into his august pres-
ence. He did ask us to be seated. After a few questions con-
cerning the cause of my arrest and discovering that I had
refused to take tlie oath, I was ordered to be placed behind the
bars. I said: "We are starving; may we have something to
eat ?" "O yes, we will see you have all you wish." After
parading us through town that hot August day, we at last
reached our prison — a room about eighteen feet square, win-
dows heavily barred, one door, with a guard's watchful eye
on us every minute. Our promised dinner was a pint bowl
of pickled beets, a few slices of stale baker's bread ; this only
to satisfy the hunger of three girls. We slept that night on the
bare floor, with our carpet sacks for pillows; an army blanket
was thrown over us for cover or pallet, as we chose. Our
breakfast the next morning was weak tea and stale bread,
a regular Yankee breakfast, minus tea, cakes, and apple butter.
We remained in this place, as well as I remember, about five
days ; our fare about the same, though occasionally coffee was
allowed. The authorities were quite reticent as to our pun-
ishment. In ignorance we lived from day to day, fearing noth-
ing. While here we were shocked to see a wagon driven up
to our door with about forty women prisoners with babies —
one lady sixty years old, and so on. We forty odd without
supper were taken that night about nine o'clock to a larger
room. In a few rtioments a soldier asked for Miss Bryant
and seven others, I forget their names. We were told to be
ready at s a.m. for a trip to St. Louis. After a sleepless, rest-
less night, we were ready (without breakfast, but were told
we should have dinner at Jefferson City), and were put on the
cars. We arrived at Jefferson City at noon, and the guard
gave us a c>iiical smile and passed on. Arriving at St. Louis
sometime that evening, we were forced to walk from the
station to the St. Charles Street Prison (about two hours' walk
it seemed to me). Tired, starving, with bursting headache, we
were assigned to rooms after a light supper — cup of tea, one
potato, one slice of baker's bread with butter. Here I was
told by old Mr. Dixon, our prison keeper, that, as my father
was a prominent and well-known man, I sbould have priv-
ileges not accorded others. In my youthful ignorance visions of
pleasure and a speedy return home soon vanished. The
worst experience of my life was those two or three weeks in
the St. Charles prison. The keeper was so unkind and fed
us so poorly that those in authority were ashamed of him,
and his removal was ordered. About the ist of September
I was taken to the famous Gratiot Street prison. For the first
time since leaving Boonville on this ever-to-be-remembered
visit, I met men in the Federal garb who were gentlemen.
We were treated as human beings, every attention was shown
us that was consistent with the rules and regulations of war.
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My life there was full of sad experiences : Friends were
formed with sweet girls with whom, however, we were never
to meet again ; ties were broken, and tears were shed over
recollections of home and home fare. The bare memory of
the crumbs falling from our fathers' tables caused many sighs
and evil wishes on the heads of our capturers. It was there
that [ learned the art of washing and ironing, the accom-
plishments of the kitchen, how to prepare a meal for forty
or more, how to arrange a table of two boards, tin cups, tin
plates, with a dish pan for soup. One great happiness for us
girls was the correspondence, smuggled from the boys in gray,
who were in the male prison across the street. All these ex-
periences ended by one of the prison authorities calling in a
carriage at the prison one afternoon, stating that my father
was in his office, and that he wished me to prepare imme-
diately to accompany him home. I was ignorant as to what
my friends had done to accomplish my release. I bade fare-
well to some sweet friends, drove with the officer to prison
headquarters, there to learn the ruse resorted to by my father's
friends. These same friends arranged for my bond of three
thousand dollars. I took that ironclad oath.
Copy of the "Oath of Allegi.\nce."
I, Sue M. Bryant, of Cooper County, State of Missouri, do
.hereby solemnly swear that I will bear true allegiance to the
United States, and support and sustain the constitution and
laws thereof; that I will maintain the national sovereignty
paramount to that of all States, county, or Confederate pow-
ers; that I will discourage, discountenance, and forever op-
pose secession, rebellion, and the disintegration of the Federal
Union; that I disclaim and denounce all faith and fellow-
ship with the so-called Confederate armies, and pledge my
honor, my property, and my life to the sacred performance of
this my solemn oath of allegiance to the government of the
United States of America. Sue M. Bryant.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this loth day of October,
1864, at St. Louis, Mo. William A. Keyser,
Assistant Provost Marshal.
Witnesses : J. C. Galbraith, of St. Louis, Mo. ; clerk P. M. G.
The above is a facsimile of an oath of allegiance taken by
Miss Bryant, of Marshall, Mo. (Mrs. John R. Cason, of
Washington, D. C). Miss Bryant was the daughter of Judge
John W. Bryant, of Saline County, who, at the opening of the
war, was one of the ablest jurists of Missouri. During his
public career he had sentenced many criminals to State pris-
ons, and of these prisoners many who had been pardoned and
others having served their allotted sentence had nurtured re-
sentment toward Judge Bryant, and the war gave them the
opportunity to vent their ill-cherished feelings toward his
family.
After some false rumors and the display of the Southern
colors by Miss Bryant, she was taken prisoner and sent to the
famous Gratiot Street prison, of St. Louis, where she re-
mained for months, refusing to allow any discussion as to her
taking the oath. After months of lingering anxiety, illness due
to ill-ventilated quarters, and the reports that her father was
dangerously sick unto death through anxiety as to her safety.
Miss Bryant was influenced by her government friends to take
the oath and secure her freedom for the sake of her father.
This she did and hurried home to find all well and that the
deception had been entered into by friends to force her out
of the awful confinement of prison life. Mrs. Cason assures
her children that she is yet true to the principles of the South
that caused her to suffer for the Confederacy.
CE.y. STERLIXC PRICE.
BY H. A. B.
There is a man whose name shall dwell
In patriot hearts till time shall end;
Our history's brilliant pages swell.
And with our country's glory blend.
Upon liis noble brow you trace
Supremacy ; his eyes serene
Yet burn with fire, and in his face
The lion and the lamb are seen ;
There is no braver man than he ;
There's none more courteous or refined ;
He's generous to an enemy.
And to his army true and kind.
When "Freedom" was with "Union" given
And justice reigned throughout the land,
J^To saint was e'er more true to heaven
Than to our Union was his hand.
But Lincoln felled our glorious arch ;
Then Price made bare his arm to save.
And bade us join him in the march
Which leads to "glory or the grave."
Little did Blair and Lyon know
When they had called him from afar
To council that their treacherous blow
Had forged this thunderbolt of war.
When Lyon leaped upon the stage
And fiercely threw the gauntlet down,
'Twas he picked up the battle gage
And boldly met the Lyon's frown.
At Springfield each his column led
And on the field of slaughter met ;
Lyon now slumbers with the dead.
But Price is on the warpath yet.
See him ! He mounts his fiery steed.
Whose arching neck is clothed with thunder;
He dashes forth with lightning speed
And cleaves the ranks of war asunder.
His clarion voice cries : "On, my braves !"
He clieers tliem, bids them never yield;
His flaming sword on high he waves
And proudly fulmines through the field.
He is our sword and sliield and tower,
The living bulwark of the West ;
For where the Northern war clouds lower.
There too he rears his warlike crest.
Then let Missouri's warriors come.
Join liim, the bravest of the brave,
And soon o'er every Southern home
The flag of liberty shall wave.
Rouse up, ye Roman-hearted men,
Like tigers bounding from the lair I
Let mountain, hilltop, field, and glen
With Southern war cries rend the air.
Hark! I hear them, hear them coming,
Sunlight from their bright arms glancing,
Martial music, fifing, drumming.
Banners streaming, horses prancing.
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Now come, ye Nortlieni legions, come.
Ye serfs for blood and plunder raving.
And he will greet your brand and bomb
With cannon's roar and sabers waving.
He's met your vaunted hosts ere now,
Your tallest leaders, bravest men.
And either laid them pale and low
Or sent them howling home again.
When years roll by and your young men
A reason wish you to ascribe
For your sad routs, just say: "Ah! then.
We met the lion of his tribe."
In our great future's book of fame
There's naught will lend so bright a page
As Sterling Price's glorious name —
The patriot, chieftain, statesman, sage.
If wreaths of laurel now were given
For each heroic, noble feat.
There he stands towering up to heaven,
A brave old laurel tree complete.
When Time himself with many days
Grows old and empires sink to rest,
The natives yet unborn shall praise
The gray-haired hero of the West.
Springfield, January 20, 1862.
ABOUT DESIGX OF THE FIRST FLAG.
BY JESSICA RANDOLPH SMITH, HENDERSON, N. C.
Soutli Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia,
Louisiana, and Te.\as were the seven States that had seceded
February i, 1861, and for these States, with their capital at
Montgomery, Ala., the seven stars were used on the first flag.
When the Senators and Representatives met at Montgom-
ery, the first business before Congress, after organizing, was
to decide whether the Confederacy should fight under the
"Stars and Stripes" and the Constitution of the United States,
ORREN RANDOLPH SMITH.
or should have a new Hag and a new constitution. Many
were for the old flag, saying that Southern men had had
more to do with the making of that flag than the Northern,
and that the South had had more to do with its history since
it was first unfurled than the North. But the debate was
short, and a new constitution, representing an ideal form of
government of native white citizens, was decided upon.
A committee was appointed to select the flag. This com-
mittee advertised in the papers for designs to be sent to them
at Montgomery. Before the advertisement had reached North
Carolina, a man living at Louisburg, N. C, an ardent "original
secessionist," so hoped the Confederate government would
adopt both a new flag and a new constitution that he de-
signed a flag for the Confederacy; and all he had to do
when he saw the advertisement, "Flag Wanted," was to have
his design made.
Buying the materials, he went to see his friends, Mrs.
Katherine Rebecca Watson (born Murphy) and her younger
sister. Miss Sally Ann Murphy, and asked them to make the
flag for him. Mrs. Watson went to work at once; but Sally
Ann said she would not sew a stitch on the flag, as she was
"for the Union" and expected to marry a Yankee officer
(which she did) ; so while she played on the piano and
sang songs to her liking her sister and this man made the
flag.
The idea of the flag was taken from the Trinity ("Three
in One"), for the three wide bars represented Church, State,
and press. The first bar (red) represented State, legislative
and executive; the second (white), the Church, Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost; the third (red), press, freedom of speech,
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liberty of the pftii, freedom of conscience, bound together
by a field of cerulean blue, the heavens over all, with a star
for each State in the confederation. The seven white stars
were placed in a circle all the same size, showing that each
State had equal rights and privileges, irrespective of size or
population. The little flag was about a foot long and about
eight inches in width. With this flag was sent the suggestion
that a star be added for each State that joined the Confed-
eracy.
The flag was packed and sent to Montgomery, and on its
journey it had many companions, for a number of designs
were sent to the Committee on Flags ; and a varied assort-
ment they proved to be, from every known color and device
to "the lone star of Te.xas" and "the rattler and palmetto
of South Carolina."
The Confederate Congress adopted the flag sent by Orren
Randolph Smith, and it is now honored over all the world
as the flag that floated over the bravest and hardest to con-
quer soldiers that this world ever saw — the stars and bars.
This flag was used officially by the Confederate States
of America until after the second battle of Manassas, when
a change was made, owing to the fact, as has often been pub-
lished, that the stars and bars resembled so forcibly the stars
and stripes, especially when limp.
The little model was made the second week in February,
1861, and without waiting to hear if his design was accepted
or not, Mr. Smith bought materials and carried them to his
friend, Mrs. Watson, and asked her to make him a large
flag exactly like the model sent to Montgomery. She worked
on the flag, which was nine by twelve feet, but did not suc-
ceed in fimshing it by Saturday night, so it was finished on
Sunday, and early on Monday morning the flag was sent
aloft by Mr. Smith, saying that there should be one of his
flags floating in the breeze.
The week before he had gone to his mother's plantation
(five miles from Louisburg) and cut down two tall, straight
poplar trees and spliced them together, making a pole about
one hundred feet in length. This he planted on the court-
house square on a line with the sidewalk, and it was on this
pole that he raised aloft the first Confederate flag ever raised
in North Carolina, and it was the flag that he had designed.
North Carolina did not secede until May 20, 1861, and this
occurred nearly two months before that date. Over the stars
and bars there floated a long blue pennant bearing ten white
stars (for Virginia, North Carolina, and Arkansas — he knew
they would come into the Confederacy), like an admiral's
pennant that waves in the breeze when his ship is homeward
bound, and surely the Old North State was homeward bound.
The day this flag was raised was a holiday, the whole country
turned out, and "everybody was there."
Was it fate or a coincident that the first Confederate flag
raised iii North Carolina should take place in the same town
that witnessed the dividing of the Methodist Church, North
and South, on the negro question in the trial of Bishop An-
drew and others?
In 1844 when Henry Clay made his great speech amidst a
great assembly, as he rose W. G. Brownlow, of the Knoxville
Whig, shouted, "Hands on your pocketbooks, gentleman;
there is a Democrat present;" and the man who designed the
first flag of the Confederacy was present, one of the most de-
voted followers Thomas JefTerson ever had.
In 1847, with Zachary Taylor, on the banks of the Rio
Grande, with his musket on his shoulder, defending the
boundary rights of the United States, he heard that famous
cry of Tom Corwin, of Ohio : "I hope that you all will be
welcomed to hospitable graves with bloody hands south of
the Rio Grande, in this unhallowed war that is adding slave
territory to the United States."
He was in New York in 1851-52, in the midst of the high tide
of Know-nothingism, and he heard many discussions on the
fugitive slave law ; was deeply interested in the Christiana
(Pa.) battle between master and runaw-ay servants, who
were aided by Lucretia Mott and her coadjutors, where the
master was killed and the slaves were acquitted of murder by
the State courts.
In 1855-56 he was in Warren, Ohio, headquarters of the
underground railroad for the transfer of fugitive negroes
into Canada with Messengers Giddings, Wade, and Todd at its
head, glorying in the bold stand that Henry Lloyd Garrison,
Wendell Philips, and Whittier were taking in Boston in de-
nouncing the constitution of the United States as in league
with hell and having a covenant with the devil, when by law
Sims was returned to his South Carolina master, under the
fugitive slave law.
At Leavenworth, Kans., 1856-57, in the turbulent days of
"bleeding Kansas," when proslavery and antislavery were
fighting for the mastery in two conventions for and against
"free soil," both sides importing delegates and members, and
heard that Beecher was preaching in Plymouth Church with
a Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other, "Passage paid,
redeem Kansas and be saved," the South was preaching
and teaching, "No Mason and Dixon's line, no Wilmot proviso
binds us in prison bonds ; on to Kansas !"
Out of this conflict came John Brown ("Old Ossawato-
niie") in 1859, who, with his helpers, captured Harper's
Ferry arsenal in a night attack, to arm the negroes, kill all
the whites, and let the negroes have possession of the coun-
try. Many in the Republican party, sympathizing with him
in his murderous attack upon innocent citizens, called him
"St. John Brown, whose soul is marching on to glory."
Mr. Smith says all these things are what made him an
original and ardent secessionist, and so he was ready when
the conflict came with a flag and a platform for the Con-
federacy.
In the Virginia Society Historical Papers, Vol. VIII., there
is a complete history, down to the smallest detail of the
"flag with the long white tail and red bar," written by -Maj.
Rogers when he designed this flag; also, there is a complete
history of the battle flag, sometimes called "the Southern
cross." In telling the history of Maj. Rogers's flag, much
of the history of "the flag with the long white tail" is told ;
but until now the history of the stars and bars, the old
"secesh" flag, has never been told nor written.
Mr. P. D. Harrison, Manchester, N. H., is writing a book
on flags that have been used by, or for, tjiis country since
Capts. Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, commanding the
Tyger and the Admiral, landed at Roanoke Island, July 4,
187s; and it was for him that we collected the histoo' of the
first Confederate flag.
Mrs. Watson, who made the flags for Mr. Smith, married
a second time W. B. Winborne, and lived for a number of
years at Wilson, N. C. A few years ago she moved to Pine
Tops, Edgecombe County, N. C, where she still resides.*
Though over three score and ten, her mind is perfectly clear
and she writes a most interesting letter. The history of these
two flags she has dictated, corrected, and had signed by a
notary public — Mr. W. L. Dunn, who is also postmaster at
Pine Tops.
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ANNUAL REUNION OF MOSBY'S MEN.
Mr. Harry T. Sinnolt, of Nashville, who always attends the
reunion of Mosby's command, reports a fine meeting at
Fredericksburg, Va., on August 31. It was their twelfth an-
nual reunion. A local committee, with E. W. Mills as Chair-
man, made elaborate preparations for the event, and when the
Veterans arrived they found a complete programme well ar-
ranged.
The Exchange Hotel was their head-
quarters, and a large painting of Col. Mos-
by, mounted on his charger, hung on the
north wall. The number of the survivors
of the band present aggregated about sev-
enty-five men. There are over three hun-
dred and fifty survivors in all, scattered
all over the country from Maine to Te.xas,
and to California.
Col. Mosby, the commander, was in
Washington, but was unable to attend.
The most prominent member of the body
present was Mr. Joseph Bryan, of Rich-
mond, a past commander who is known
and liked by every member of the organi-
zation. Mr. Bryan, though a very busy
man, makes it a point to mingle with bis
comrades in their reunion each year.
Some of the men visited near-by battle-
fields and the Mary Washington monu-
ment, Mary Washington house ("Bronip-
ton"), on Marye's Heights, the home of
Capt. M. B. Rowe, and the National Cem-
etery.
At 10:30 o'clock the veterans gathered
at the courthouse for their regular meet-
ing. Col. E. D. Cole called the meeting to
order and introduced Mayor Thomas P.
Wallace, of Fredericksburg, who made a
cordial address of welcome. He praised
the bravery of Mosby's men, referred to
the fact that, owing to their peculiar con-
nection with the war, it was impossible for
history to do the command full justice.
The speech was thoroughly appreciated.
The response in behalf of the veterans was
made by Mr. Joseph Bryan, of Richmond.
who in eloquent words thanked the Mayor
and through him the people of Fredericks-
burg. The following officers were elected
for the next year : J. W. Foster, Com-
mander; J. S. Mason, Edward Thompson,
and F. H. Rahm, Lieutenant Command-
ers; H. S. Ashby, .\djutant; and John
Castleman, Sergeant Major.
After the busiiiess session the Veterans
repaired to the Opera House, where an
elegant luncheon was served by a commit-
tee of ladies. The Mosby men were
joined in this luncheon by many other
Confederates of this city and from the surrounding counties.
During the luncheon, choice music was renderad by the full
orchestra of Fredericksburg College, under the direction of
Prof. F. A. Franklin ; and Capt. Frank Cunningham, of Rich-
mond, charmed the Veterans with song.
Afterwards an open meeting was held at the courthouse,
and a large portion of those who filled the spacious building
was composed of ladies. Col. E. D. Cole, one of Mosby's men,
presided and introduced the speakers. Judge John T. Goolrick,
Congressman John Lamb, and Maj. J. Horace Lacy ("the
Lion of the Wilderness," who, in his prime, was famous as an
orator, though past eighty years of age) spoke fervently. Capt.
J. W. Foster, the Commander, delivered an excellent address,
as did also Gen. Stith Billing, of Petersburg. Mr. Joseph
Bryan, of Richmond, closed the formal
programme. Between each of the ad-
dresses the college orchestra rendered de-
lightful music, and the occasion was thor-
oughly enjoyed.
It was decided to build a monument at
Marshall. Va., at a cost of $2,800, the base
to be of granite eight feet high, sur-
mounted by a bronze statue of Col. John
S. Mosby, six and one-half feet; the whole
to be fourteen and one-half feet high.
This will include four tablets, one on each
side, to contain inscriptions.
The reunion w-as a success in every way.
The next gathering will be in Richmond.
MONUMENT TO MOSBY S MEN.
GEN. EARLY AND HIS CAMPAIGNS.
BY CAPT. S. D. BUCK, OF BALTIMORE.
The expected publication of a "History
of Early's Campaign in Virginia and
Maryland," by the gifted Virginian, Hon.
John W. Daniel, fills me with joy, as the
grand old hero who never surrendered has
been most wickedly maligned or ignorantly
assailed. Had Early possessed the moral
reputation of Stonewall Jackson, he would
have stood as high in the estimation of his
comrades and country.
When we read of victories or great bat-
tles, it is hard to realize that there is often
more generalship shown in defeat than in
victory. McClelUn's masterly retreat and
escape from capture in 1862, in the seven
days' fight, proved himself a master, and
eclipsed all his other battles. This retreat
was wonderful. I would not have the
temerity to draw a comparison between
Jack-son and Early ; but. for conscience'
sake and unvarnished truth, let us view
those wonderful men without bias or favor-
itism. Let us compare conditions surround-
ing them in their respective campaigns.
First, do not forget that circumstances
greatly favored Jackson in his campaigns,
which are now studied as are those of
Napoleon. Remember Jackson commanded
15.000 troops that knew not what danger
lurked in a flank movement. They "were
going it blind." Then remember Jackson
fought the enemy in detail: Milroy at B4c-
Dowell ; then withdrew and threw his entire force upon the
enemy at Cross Keys under Fremont, defeating him ; withdrew
again, crossed the river, and attacked and routed Shields at
Port Republic; flanksd Banks out of Strasburg, and drove him
to and across the Potomac. Brilliant in the extreme, and
victory rendered possible by the bad generalship of his oppo-
nents in separating their armies to be whipped in detail, ^ck-
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son immortalized himself by his ability to take advantage of
the mistakes of his enemy.
Now take a view or pen picture of Early's campaign, starting
from the day he cut loose from Lee at Richmond. See the
master hand as he threw his gallant corps against Hunter, at
Lynchburg, saving the city and stores ; then down the Valley,
attacking and routing Gen. Wallace at Monocacy ; then march-
ing to the gates of Washington with eight thousand troops and
withdrawing because common sense told him that to take the
city meant destruction to his whole army. Then follow him to
the Valley: Note his audacity — recklessness, we will call it so
—but remember his mission, "Hold "he enemy in the Valley;
defeat him if you can." His every move was audacious and
brought forth fruit— keeping an army of forty thousand from
Grant with one-fourth the number. I will not enumerate the
different batttles, for every schoolboy has them in his memory.
But let us suppose a case. Suppose Sheridan had done as
did the former Union generals in the Valley— divided his forty
thousand into four detailed armies, one at Staunton, Romney,
Harper's Ferry, and Strausburg— Early would have done just
as Jackson had done. He would have massed his army on one
at a time and would have driven them to the mountains or
across the Potomac. Then, again, remember Jackson's calvary
was superior to the enemy's, while Early had 2,500 badly armed
and as poorly mounted against 10,000 elegantly equipped and
under gallant officer? ; and no matter how Early drove the cen-
ter, this cavalry would flank him out of position. No man on
earth has greater admiration for Gen. Jackson than I, but justice
before feeling. Jackson did wonders ; so did Early, and my pity
for Early's unfortunate surroundings — fighting as he did from
the time he was left at Fredericksburg to face Sedgewick's
twenty-five thousand up to the day Sheridan rode over his rem-
nant of veterans, one thousand strong, at Waynesboro — that
he had four to one to contend with. My countrymen, do
these two (Jackson and Early) justice; both were great. Jack-
son needs no defense, he was successful; Early does, because
he fought a losing game. Lee, the greatest of men, never lost
his faith in his "Cussin' General." Early's flank movement at
Middletown was brilliant in the extreme. Nothing compared
with it during the war for audacity, and only the fact of num-
bers saved Sheridan.
WILLIAM KENNETH M'COY.
William Kenneth McCoy, of Carrington's Battery, was
wounded at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863, by the bursting of
a shell; and died in Richmond, Va., May 19, 1863. The follow-
ing was affectionately inscribed to his mother by Ellen V.
Kemper, who served the Confederate cause by giving valuable
information to our officers during the great struggle. The
poem has been preserved in manuscript these many years.
And he is dead whose radiant eyes.
In brightness and in hue.
Vied with the sunniest summer skies.
So loving, clear, and true.
And he is dead whose -gentle voice
In kindness spoke alone.
And ever made our hearts rejoice
With gladness like his own.
And he is dead who early learned
All tyrants to despise.
Love of his land within him burned ;
Now on her breast he lies.
In vain they spoke of pain and death.
In vain they bade him stay ;
With steady eye, but quickening breath.
He joined the dreadful fray.
Alas ! the fate he shunned not came —
Came in that bursting shell;
But O, he won the immortal name
Of hero when he fell.
For hours he suffered all alone
With strength to martyrs given.
No murmur followed on his groan ;
His soul was staj-ed on heaven.
But afterwards with tenderest care
They nursed who loved him best.
And she was there whose answered prayer
Made him forever blest.
So thoughtful, thankful, gentle, kind.
Firm, anguish to defy.
So clear and quick his ready mind.
They thought he might not die.
But his the crown, so willed our God,
Which binds the victor's brow.
With Jackson bloody fields he trod;
They reign together now.
"My duty done," he calmly said,
"Without regret I die."
What though his form sleeps with the dead?
The spirit lives on high.
With love of country, native land.
No earthly love is peer;
And none so brave as they who stand
And dare to die for her.
And yet not always thus they die
Who bear the gallant part
For whom is dimmed each patriot eye
And mourned each patriot heart.
For oft, alas I that link most bright
In life's short slender chain
Is lost which should the soul unite
To God its source again.
And shall his form forever wear
Scars in the world of bliss.
And still the mark of honor bear
So bravely won in this ?
No, no ; not scarred his form shall be.
Nor maimed, nor traced by pain :
The image of Divinity
In Christ made bright again.
And those bright eyes, whose piercing sight
Was almost ta'en away —
Shall they behold th' effulgent light
Of the eternal day?
Yes, yes ; not dim those eyes so sweet
When he shall reach that shore.
And there the welcome glances meet
Of loved ones gone before.
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C.\n. E. M. Henrv.
On the 20tli of June last Pickett-Buchanan Camp lost one
ol its oldest and most highly esteemed members in the death
of Capt. Edward Moore Henry in the seventy-fourth year cf
his age. He was a native of Chesterfield County. Va., but had
made Norfolk his home for thirty-five years. His maternal
grandfather was Col. Robert Temple, of "Ampthel." .^ftcr
the death of his father, in King and Queen County, his mother
took her three infant sons to Fredericksburg, where thoy
grew to manhood and for which place they ever felt the
warmest affection. .At sixteen he was sent to Hampden-
Sidney College, wlierc lie graduated in the class of 1S52.
GEN. E. M. HENRV, U. C. V.
.•\flcr leaving college, young Henry engaged for a short time
in mercantile life in Baltimore; but, not finding it to his taste,
returned to his native State to follow the honorable occupation
of farming. He located in Stafford County, a few miles from
Fredericksburg. Vvhen the tocsin of war sounded, with ready
promptness he and his overseer enlisted in the service of
their Slate within a week after it had left the Union. From
the time of the occupation of Fredericksburg by the Yankees
his farm was occupied by United States regulars, who de-
spoiled it of everything.
Capt. Henry enlisted as a private in the StafTord Rangers,
commanded by Capt. James Ashby, brother of the lamented
Gen. Turner Ashby. This company was intended to do guard
duty at Harper's Ferry at the execution of John Brown, but
instead was detailed by Gov. Wise for other service. It was
called out on the 21st of April, 1861, and remained a State
organization one year, when it was mustered into the Con-
federate army as a part of the 9th Virginia Cavalry, under
command of Capt. Thomas Waller, in W. H. F. Lee's Bri-
gade, which Stuart dubbed the "Charging Ninth." Private
Henry rose to the command of the company. He did not sur-
render at Appomattox, but endeavored to join Gen. Johnston
in North Carolina ; but when he reached Ashland and learned
that the struggle was over, he there accepted parole.
Capt. Henry was all that a soldier should he— intrepid,
daring, and faithful. He was a Confederate from conviction,
and never swerved from that faith. He led his company in
many bloody fights and skirmishes, did picket duty on the
Rappahannock and Potomac, rode with Stuart in the Averill
raid around Richmond, fought Stoneman in Culpepper, Pleas-
anton's Corps at Brandy Station (where he was slightly
wounded), followed Stuart through Maryland and Pennsyl-
\ania to Gettysburg, and was in the Wilson-Kautz raid at
I'isher's Hill. Spottsylvania C. H., Sapony Church. Peters-
burg, and Five Forks. At Reams Station he was seriously
wounded and disabled for iavo months. He never swerved
from duty nor danger, and in after years he loved to tell of
I he doing and daring of "the boys" of the "Charging Ninth."
In the fall of 1863 his company was sent to their war-
ridden home to collect for our poor, ragged troops the cloth-
ing and stores left by the enemy w-hen they evacuated. That
brought him nearer the lady of his choice than be had been
during the war, and in consequence he was married in Jan-
uary. 1864. to Miss Indiana V. Kilby, of SuflFolk. Va., sister
of the beloved surgeon of the 3d Georgia Brigade, also of
the Confederate hospital in Petersburg His widow and
three children survive him.
Capt. Henry was of gentle birth, and those who associated
with him knew he was to the "manner born." His mother
was related to Gov. .Alexander Spotswood, of Virginia His
great-grandfather was Judge James Henry, of Accomac
County, also a native of Scotland, who served his State as
a nicnii>er of the Continental Congress, House of Burgesses,
and Jiulge of the Court of Admiralty. He was also one of
the signers of the famous "Bill of Rights."
As a citizen of his adopted home, Capt. Henry was greatly
respected, filling offices of trust, ever faithfully performing the
ilutics attending them. For two years he was Commander of
Pickett-Buchanan Camp, and also for two terms of the Grand
Camp of Virginia. V. C. V.. from which he derived the title
of colonel which many gave him. When he was made aid on
the stafT of Gen. John B. Gordon, of the U. C. V., he was
promoted to the title of brigadier general, by which also he
w-as well known. His death was sudden : only twenty-four
hours of suffering, and he crossed over the river to iniii the
vast host of comrades in gray awaiting him.
E. W. LVEN.
Commander E. W. Lyen. of William Preston Camp, Har-
rodsburg, Ky., departed this life on July 12. He was a de-
voted Confederate soldier, and served as orderly sergeant of
Company H, 2d Kentucky Cavalry. Duke's Regiment. Mor-
.gan's Command, and on the Ohio raid made his escape when
the command was captured. Making his way South, he gath-
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ered together some of his old comrades, and was made lieu-
tenant of a company. He was a fearless soldier to the end.
He became a prosperous farmer after the war, and was
always interested in anything to the advantage of his old
comrades in arms. He was active in securing the home for
the Confederates at Pewee Valley, of which he was appointed
trustee by Gov. Beckham, and it was largely tlirough his un-
tiring efforts that the beautiful monument to the Confederate
dead in the Harrodsburg Cemetery was erected. These were
the soldiers buried after the battle of Perryville. The monu-
ment is said to be one of the most beautiful and artistic in
the whole country. He was to the last interested in the Con-
federate Association, and his loss is mourned deeply by his
fellow-members.
Gov. Charles T. 0'Ferr.\ll.
After a year of failing health. Col. Charles Triplett O'Fer-
rall, former Governor of Virginia, lawyer, soldier, statesman,
author, and long a distinguished leader in Congress, died at
his home, in Richmond, Va., on the 22d of September, at the
age of sixty-five. Within the borders of that great common-
wealth there was no man more widely known or whose
sterling qualities were more greatly admired. At the age of
fifteen years he began service for his State, when he was made
clerk of liis county court, and this service had since but few
interruptions until he retired
from the executive mansion,
in 1898. Whether as a lead-
er of his soldiers in the bat-
tle for State rights or as
representative of his people
in Congress, he was always
conspicuous for that physical
and moral courage which
distinguishes a leader of
men. Even to his undoing,
he stood for his convictions.
Though holding office the
greater part of his life, his
last days were spent in com-
parative poverty, which
bears unmistakable testi-
mony to his ri,glit to the
title of an "honest man."
Charles T. O'Ferrall was
born in Frederick County, Va., October 21, 1840. His father
was John O'Ferrall, of Morgan County (now West Virginia),
and was a popular man of his time, having been a member of
the Virginia House of Delegates and clerk of his county and
circuit courts. At his death his son Charles was appointed
clerk pro tem of the court of Morgan County, and two years
later, at the age of seventeen, was elected for the full term
of six years. He was perhaps the youngest man who ever
filled so responsible a position in his State, but his satisfactory
performance of the duties of the position was demonstrated
by his subsequent election for the full term. The war coming
on, this gallant young Virginian, destined thus early to make
a name for himself, shouldered his musket and started out
to fight for his State. Morgan County was strongly Union
in sentiment, and sent only about twenty soldiers to the Con-
federate army. The town of Berkeley Springs- sent only two,
and Charles T. O'Ferrall was one of these. He entered as
a private in the cavalry service, from which he rose step by
step through his intrepid bravery to the rank nf colonel, and
HON. C. T. O FERE.\LI..
at the close of ihe war was in command of all the Souihern
cavalry in the Valley of Virginia. To this regiment, indeed.
is due the credit for holding the last line, having the last
fight and capturing the last prisoner u.i Virginia soil. His
command was in two engagements after the surrender, as he
refused to believe that Gen. Lee had actually capitulated, al-
though Gen. Hancock sent him word of it under flag of truce.
He never knew the meaning of fear, and his black plume
always waved at the head of his regiment. He was eight
times wounded — three times from saber thrusts and five times
from bullets.
After the war, Charles O'Ferrall entered tlie law class at
Washington College, securing the money by strenuous effort,
and graduated with distinction. He settled at Harrisonburg
in the practice of his profession, from which he was called
into positions of honor and trust. He was elected to the
House of Delegates as a Conservative in 1871, and served
with conspicuous ability. After this, he was elected judge of
the county court of Rockingham, in which he disposed of
some of the most important and perplexing criminal cases
ever tried in the Valley courts. He made his first race for
Congress in 1882, to whicii he was five times reelected prac-
tically without opposition in his own party. As the chief
lieutenant and floor leader of the late Charles F. Crisp, of
Georgia, his fine ability was demonstrated, and he was re-
warded by being made Chairman of the Committee on Priv-
ileges and Elections. In this important position his rulings
were characterized by justice and fairness, as he rose above
partisan politics in his devotion to principle and right. He
was an intimate friend of President Cleveland, and during
the administrations of the latter was often consulted on im-
portant matters.
Col. O'Ferrall was twice married, the second wife and four
children survivin.g, as also two sons by his first marriage.
CaPT. J. F. T.-\THAM.
.\fter nearly seventy-six years of service, the spirit of
Comrade J. F. Tatham passed over the border on the 24th of
July. He w^as a member of Ross-Ector Camp, of Rusk, Tex.,
having served as first lieutenant and captain of Company F,
lOth Tennessee Regiment. He participated in the battles of
Murfreesboro, Shiloh, Franklin, Chickamauga, and Baton
Rouge, and received some severe wounds. He was on fur-
lough, disabled from wounds, when the surrender came;
tliereforc iiever took the oath of allegiance. Capt. Tatham was
also a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a true Christian
and friend.
Robert Thompson,
Ben. McCulloch Camp, of Mount Vernon, Tex., lost an-
other good member in the death of Robert Thompson on the
19th of August. He joined the Confederate army in June.
t86i. and served to the close. He was in every engagement
of his command near and around Richmond, Va., storming
breastworks, charging batteries, elbowing with the enemy,
and was never wounded; was not sick a day, and never strag-
gled. He received one furlough, and gave that to a com-
rade who had a family. Comrade Thompson was a member
of Company D, 9th Georgia Infantry. Tige Anderson's Bri-
gade, Hood's Division. A true patriot of the South, he was
loyal to duty in every sphere of life,
John Adams. — Information comes from Dr. F. A. Adams,
of St. Louis, that his brother, John .-Kdams, died there Octo-
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ber 15 of heart failure. He was a son of Gen. John Adams,
C. S. A., killed at Franklin, and grandson of Gen. Charles
McDoiigall, U. S. A., his mother. Georgiana, being a daugli-
ter of Gen. McDougall.
Mrs. \V. R. Phillips.
Mary Sanford Johnson was born in McDonough, Ga .
April 8. 1829. She was not twenty years old when Col. W.
R. Phillips claimed her for his bride, and they made their
home in Griffin, Ga. He was a cotton planter, merchant, and
manufacturer of cotton goods, and was mayor of Griffin six
years before tlie war. When the war broke out and the battle-
lield was transferred to Georgia, Griffin was an important
point.
By this time they had quite a family of small children,
enough to occupy the time of most mothers, but with tht-
assistance of capable servants she was able to accomplish
much. Her husband gave her quantities of cotton cloth, from
which she made shirts for the soldiers and dyed some to
make them trousers. She knit socks for them, too, and had
her oldest daughters learn, so they knit almost as many pairs
as the grown people.
Mrs. Phillips made cakes, pies, rolls, and good nourishing
dishes for the sick and wounded soldiers who passed con-
stantly on the cars through Griffin, as it was near to Jones-
lioro, where a memorable battle was fought. There she sent
by her eldest son, and as he passed through the cars from
day to day distributing them he contracted smallpo.x from
them. His faithful UKJther nursed him unto death, and then
she was stricken down with the dread disease, and for weeks
and months she was separated from her family. The disease
attacked her in its most virulent form, and her life was dis-
paired of: but she survived to bless her family and many
friends. The fearful scars that left their impress upon her
handsome face did not despoil her beauty ; for with her fme
<^yes, regular features, her winning and endearing manners
she remained the same lovely woman.
Her husband did not serve in the regular army, for his
duties of owner and proprietor of the Newton Cotton Fac-
tory at Covington, Ga., kept him busy manufacturing goods
for the government. He belonged, however, to the famous
militia. "Joe Brown's Pels." that went to the defense of the
State in every emergency.
Col. Phillips removed to .\tlanta when it began rising
from the ashes of war and devastation. Mrs. Philips at
once joined with the Ladies" Memorial Association in re-
moving the dead soldiers from the trenches in and aroi:nd
.•\tlanla and giving to them Christian burial. She was Treas-
tuxr for a number of years while the ladies had to work so
hard to accomplish anything. After the monument was piid
for and the .^ssociation entirely out of debt, Mrs. Phillips
resigned the office of Treasurer, but continued to be an active
member until the death of Col. Phillips, when she retired
from all public duties for a few years. Since the death of
Mrs. Mary Cobb Johnson, six years ago, she has ranked as
the oldest member of the .Association, and as such has been
invited to ride in the carriage with the' orator on each re-
curring "Memorial Day." On April 26, 1905, Gen. Clement
A. Evans was the orator, and delivered a beautiful address.
He called in his carriage for hr- and as she was being as-
sisted by him to enter the cam . c her daughter had them
phctographed. This was her law , icture.
Mrs. Phillips was a remarkab'* woman for her age. She
Iv-ept up her music, and delighted I r friends with the melodies
of bygone yeajs. She belonged to a club called the "Butter-
fly Club," composed of twenty-five members who were pio-
neers of Atlanta, and she was the life of that organization.
She was a devoted member of the First Presbyterian Church
of Atlanta ; but w'as also much endeared to the Episcopal
Church, for several of her children are members of that
Church, and one grandson (Henry D. Phillips, of Sewanee)
will soon be ordained deacon.
On August 9, 1905, after an illness of a few weeks, she
MRS. W. R. PHILLIPS.
quietly passed away at the age of seventy-six years, leavin.g
to mourn their loss two sons and three daughters, grand-
children and great-grandchildren, every one in .\tlanta who
knew her, and hosts of friends elsewhere. The funeral was
held at her home, the Memorial Association attending in a
body. Her remains were taken to Griffin. Ga.. for interment.
The fore,coing interesting sketch is by Mrs. Mary A. A.
Fry. of Chattanooga. Tcnn.
Miss M.\rv E. Miller.
Liberty County Chapter. U. D. C., of Walthourville. Ga.,
lost an efficient officer and member in the death of Miss
Mary E. Miller on July 19. Many friends and relatives mourn
their loss. She was always ready and willing to aid in the
work of her Chapter, as she was a true lover of the Confed-
erate cause. .\ dearly loved brother gave his life for it.
Thom.\s G. Nixon.
First in everything to aid his community in elevating or
improving it, both morally and otherwise, Capt. Tom G.
Nixon held a place in the esteem of his fellow-townsmen that
cannot easily be taken by another. His death, on the 20th
of August, removed from the life of Rogers Prairie, Tex., a
most essential factor, and he has been sincerely mourned.
He was especially interested in all Confederate matters, tak-
ing the lead here as elsewhere. He enlisted early in 1862 as
first lieutenant in Company E (Capt. Rogers'). Gould's Bat-
talion, Randall's Brigade. Walker's Division. Trans-Missis-
sippi Department. In the battle of Mansfield his captain was
severely wounded, and the command devolved upon him for
the rest of the war. He was wounded in the battle of Jen-
kins Ferry. After the war, he was as ready for the duties of
civil life as he had been to the call of patriotism.
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Capt. George Pendleton Turner
Capt. George P. Turner died at his beautiful home, near
Huntsville, Ala., on June 29, 1905. He was born in Caroline
County, Va., in March, 1837, and was loyal, true, and re-
sponsive to all high calls of duty. He served in the United
States Marine Corps as first lieutenant, but at the outbreak
of the War between the States he joined his fortunes with
the South. In 1861 he was made lieutenant colonel on the
staff of his uncle, Gen. John B. Magruder, and served with
him till the Seven Days' fight around Richmond, when he
was ordered West, and served on the staff of Gen. Joseph
Wheeler till the close of the war.
After the surrender, he made his home in Alabama, and
married Miss Anna Keller. His name is now enrolled among
the innumerable throng who have passed over the river into
the fields beyond the swelling floods. An honored soldier.
Christian gentleman, true friend, "none knew him but to love
him, none named him but to praise."
Gervis Hammond Stone.
Comrade G. H. Stone, who had been a resident of Louis-
ville. Ky., for about one year, died at his home there on
August ID, 1905. He was born in Spencer County in 1835,
and had served as sheriff and clerk of the county and circuit
courts of that county. Several years since he removed to
Frankfort, and was a clerk in the State penitentiary there,
from which he resigned on account of failing health. He
then went to Louisville to reside.
Comrade Stone was a member of Cluke's Cavalry, 8th
Kentucky Regiment. He was wounded in the battle of Harts-
ville and sent to the hospital, of which he was made super-
intendent. At a later period of the war he was caught in a
cattle stampede, and so badly injured that his left leg had to
be amputated. Surviving him are his wife, two daughters,
and three sons. He was buried at Frankfort.
Judge Nicholas Williams Battle.
A friend of the Veteran sends a clipping from the Post-
Intclligencer, of Seattle, Wash., giving an account of the
death, in August, 1905, of Judge Nicholas W. Battle, promi-
nent as a jurist and soldier: "He was born in Warren County,
Ga., January 2, 1820, received his early education in his native
State, and later attended William and Mary College, in Vir-
ginia, where he studied law. In 1844 he was admitted to the
bar at Waco, Tex. ; and in 1854 he was elected district at-
torney, serving two terms. In 1858 he was elected judge of
the district, which he resigned in 1862 to accept his commis-
sion in the Confederate army. During the war he gained
distinction as lieutenant colonel of the 30th Texas Cavalry.
At the close Judge Battle again took up the practice of law,
and in 1874 was appointed judge of the criminal district,
comprising the jurisdiction of Marlin and Calvert, which ex-
pired on the adoption of the constitution in 1876. He re-
moved to Seattle in 1885 with his son. Judge Alfred Battle."
Maj. Thomas Copes Campbell.
Maj. Thomas C. Campbell died at Crowley, La., April 14
and was buried in New Orleans in the tomb of the Army of
Northern Virginia at Metairie Cemetery. He was a member
of the 5th Louisiana Regiment, and his pallbearers were the
only survivors of the Crescent City Gu ds, in which he en-
listed and which left New Orleans with a membership of one
inmdred and seventeen, rank and file. It was Company A,
5th Louisiana Volunteers, Gen. Harry T. Hays's Brigade,
with Ewell and Stonewall Jackson. A group photograph was
taken of these seven survivors in January, 1905, who were
Thomas C. Campbell, Thomas B. McPeake, Henry C. Mackie,
Joseph Gibbons, Albert Smith, Fred A. Obcr, and John A.
Pattie. Maj. Campbell is the first to break the devoted circle.
Capt. James H. Jenkins.
The meeting of Throckmorton Camp at McKinney. Tex.,
on September 17 was made a memorial service in honor of
Capt. James H. Jenkins, a loyal member and friend. From
the remarks of one who has been closely associated with him
for the past forty-four years a brief sketch is given : "James
H. Jenkins enlisted as a private in a company organized at
McKinney and commanded by Capt. Joe Dickson, a prominent
lawyer of that place, who was killed at Shiloh, the first
battle in which the company participated. After this, Com-
rade Jenkins was made first lieutenant. As the ranks of the
army were depleted, many fragments of companies and regi-
ments were consolidated, and quite a number of supernumer-
ary officers, prompted by a patriotic spirit, organized, and as
cavalry did the enemy as much harm as possible. Lieut. Jen-
kins was frequently in the rear of the Federal army, watch-
ing its movements. He was wounded three times and cap-
tured two or three times, but by his ingenuity managed to
escape. He was a man of noble impulses, and his many acts
of kindness to comrades made him one of the most popular
men in the brigade."
JAMES a. morris.
On the first "Last Roll" page (466) of the October Vet-
eran there was published a sketch of Comrade James A.
Morris, who died at Murray, Ky., January 14, 1905. The
above engraving was omitted by accident. His wife, who
was Miss Lucy B. Rowlett, preceded him to the "spirit land,"
while surviving are their da'* -'iter. Miss Annie, and son, Ray
Morris.
Samuel H. Clinton, born and reared in Hardeman County,
Tenn., gave four years to the service of the South. He was in
the cavalry under Forrest, and was twice wounded. He re-
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moved to Bolivar a few years ago. where he died suddenly
of apoplexy. He was a man of wonderful energj' and in-
duslry. good judgment, conservative in his views, honorable
and generous.
Mrs. F. I. Norwood.
In sorrow is added to the "Last Roll" the name of Mrs. F.
I. Norwood, who passed away August 15, 1905, at the home
of her son, Dr. M. L. Norwood, at Lockesburg, Ark. She
had reached her seventy-third milepost, and was ready for
the summons, "Come up higher." She was a charter mem-
:'ii>f^
MRS. F. I. NORWOOD.
bcr of tiic \V, L. Cahel (Old Tige) Chapter, U. D. C, a
faithful, loyal "Mother of the Confederacy," always ready to
encourage the Daughters with her wise counsel and with her
cheerful presence when health would permit. She had many
trials and sorrows during the war, suffering the loss of her
husband, Capt. R. C. Gilliam, who was killed in the battk'
of Marks Mills. She was left with heavy responsibility, but
bore the burden with heroic fortitude, passing through dan-
gerous experiences. She was again married, in April, 1867,
to Capt. L. H. Norwood, who enlisted in Company F, Arkan-
sas Cavalry, and died in September, 1894.
"Aunt Frank," as she was lovingly called, was a noble
Christian, and the vacancy left by her going away will be
keenly felt for years to come. The author of the above con-
clude.s: "May the memory of her pure, sweet life be a beacon
light to guide her loved ones and friends to that haven of rest
to which she has gone!"
C.MT. Spencer Ro.^ne Thorpe.
Capt. Spencer Roane Thorpe, who was for more than
twenty years a prominent and respectc d citizen of Los .\ngeles,
Cal., was born in Louisville, Ky., January 20, 1842. He was
the great-great-grandson of Patrick Henry, of Hanover Coun-
ty, Va., who served as captain of the first company organized
for service in the Revolutionary War. Capt. Thorpe received
his education in St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Ky. At the
beginning of the War between the States, at the age of nine-
teen years, he was among the first to ofTer his services to the
Confederate government. He enlisted first at Corinth, Miss.,
in April, 1861, in the l6th Mississippi Infantry. At the
expiration of his term of service, he reenlisted in Com-
pany A of the 2d Kentucky Cavalry, of which regiment Gen.
John H. Morgan was the colonel and Basil W. Duke was
lieutenant colonel. Gen. Duke says: "As the commander
of that regiment for nearly two years, and subsequently
of the brigade of which it formed a part, and having an inti-
mate personal acquaintance with Capt. Thorpe from the time
that he joined it, I can testify to the character of his service
therewith. He took part in almost every important raid and
expedition and in nearly every battle in which the regiment
was engaged. He served with conspicuous gallantry and in-
telligence, and was twice wounded. He was promoted to be
lieutenant of his company, and upon the promotion of Capt.
Messick, nearly at the close of the war, he became virtually
captain of the company and was in command of it. He sur-
rendered at Woodstock, Ga., on the loth of May, 1865."
After the close of the war, Capt. Thorpe returned to
Marksville, La., where he studied law and was admitted to
the bar in 1867, and soon established a reputation for ability
and fidelity to the interests of his clients. He served a term
as district attorney for the Seventh Judicial District. He
continued in the active practice of the law until 1883, when
he removed to Los Angeles, Cal. Although admitted to the
bar in California, he did not engage in the practice, but gave
his attention to fruit culture. He was a member of the Sons
of the Revolution and Colonial Wars, and Major General of
the Pacific Division of the United Confederate Veterans for
three terms ; and from the date of its organization was an
active, honored, and beloved member of Sam Davis Camp, U.
C. v., at Los Angeles, Cal. Capt. Thorpe died very suddenly
on September i, 1905, leaving surviving him his widow
(Helena Barbin Thorpe), two daughters (Mrs. Edwin J.
Riche and Mr<;. Harry L. Dunnigan), and tliree sons (Andrew
Roane. Spencer G., and Carlyle Thorpe).
He was a noble, brave, self-sacrificing veteran of the grand-
est army that the world has ever produced. By his special
request, on his breast lay that flag which he fought for and
so loved and honored and the cross of honor conferred by the
noble women of the South upon its brave and faithful de-
fenders.
Calvin Boles died at the age of eighty-one years at his
home, in Bolivar, Tenn. He was born in North Alabama in
1824, and went to Bolivar in 1854, where he married and
settled. He was a brave Confederate soldier and was a
prisoner of war at Alton, 111.
Mr. Samuel Roberts died at the home of his son, Mr. Jolm
Roberts, near Ripon, Va., from the disabilities of old age
in his seventy-second year. He was a member of Company
A. T2lh Virginia Cavalry. Confederate army.
Sophia Harris Lester, the beloved wife of Cotnrade John
H. Lester, died at Deming, N. Mex., aged forty-one years and
seven months. The funeral services were held at the resi-
dence on October 7.
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SONGS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
The period of the War between the States was very produc-
tive of songs, both of patriotism and sentiment. To preserve
the best of these should be our duty, and request is hereby
made for any worthy of preservation. The more familiar
songs are easily procurable, and they will be published from
time to time, but there are many not so well known that
should not be allowed to pass away. Request was made some-
time ago for a copy of the song given below, which was kindly
furnished soon after, but opportunity to use it has not come
till now. The deeds of this daring band are well portrayed in
the song.
Qu.\ntrell's C.^ll.
Up, comrades, up ! the moon's in the west.
And we must be gone ere the dawning of day ;
The hounds of old Pennock shall find but the nest,
For the Quantrell they seek shall be far, far away.
Their toils after us shall ever be vain.
Let them scout through the brush and scour the plain ;
We'll pass through their midst in the dead of the night —
We are lions in combat and eagles in flight.
Chorus.
Arouse, my brave boys I up, up, and away!
Press hard on the foe ere the dawning of day ;
Look well to your steeds so gallant in chase.
That they never give o'er till they win well the race.
When the Federals are wearied and the chase given o'er.
We'll come as a thunderbolt conies from the cloud ;
We'll pass through their midst and bathe in their gore.
We will smite the oppressor and humble the proud.
Few shall escape us, few shall be spared,
For keen is our saber, in vengeance 'tis bared ;
For none are so strong, so mighty in fight
As the warriors who battle for our Southern right.
Though the bush is our home, the green sod our bed.
Our drink from the river, roots for our food.
We'll pine not for more, we'll bow not the head.
For freedom is ever within the green wood.
Tyrants shall not conquer, fetters shall not bind,
For true are our rifles, our steeds like the wind;
We'll sheathe not our swords, we'll draw not the rein
'Till the Yankees are banished from valley and plain.
"Boy Heroes of the Confederacy."
A recent volume relating to the historic and picturesque
struggle between the North and South is the "Boy Heroes
of the Confederacy," written by Susan R. Hull and issued by
the Neale Publishing Company. It is well-made, illustrated
by portraits most accurately and carefully reproduced. While
the subject admits of a halo of romance, it is treated with a
dignified simplicity, the facts alone rendering all adornment
of words unnecessary.
No event in history savors more of purest patriotism than
the enlistment of boys in the Confederate armies, and it is
Mrs. Hull's good fortune to have preserved much valuable
data regarding individual cases and to have been enabled
by careful research to collect many more. In almost every
instance names and biographical facts are given, but oc-
casionally some young hero is mentioned because of the
brave death he died as told by those around him, even
though the boy himself lies in one of ttie many graves
marked "unknown."
It was originally intended to include in this work botl>
Federal and Confederate boy heroes, but this intention was-
abandoned when it was discovered that a similar record wa&
made of boys from the North. The number of the latter,
however, is not nearly so large as those in the Confederate
service.
The "boy heroes" mentioned in Mrs. Hull's book include-
some famous names, among them being that of the immortal
Sam Davis, of Tennessee, and young Robert E. Lee, Jr., wha
furnished "the only instance on record of a son of a com-
manding general who entered the army as a private soldier."
Witticisms of Bishop Wilmer.
Hon. T. C. De Leon, author of "Four Years in Rebel
Capitals" and other good books, contributed an article to the
New York Herald sometime ago entitled "Shafts of Keen and
Spontaneous Wit Shot by the Late Bishop Wilmer," whom he
also calls "The Arch Humorist of the American Church."
"Some one asked the Bishop once to what ho attributed
'the solid South.' 'To the unfriendly breezes of the North,'
was the quick rejoinder. Soon after the war he was passing
with a friend beneath 'Old Glory.' His friend said: 'Richard,
you don't love that flag.' 'Not while the stripes are for us
and the stars for you,' was the reply — his friend being from
north of Mason and Dixon's line. Shortly after the War
between the States the Bishop had gone North to raise funds
among his friends for his Orphan Home. He was cordially
received by them and entertained unceasingly. At one large
dinner he was asked to relate some of the good sayings of
the South. He gave tbem the 'Lazarus conundrum' after
much pressure, one asked by the gallant Col. Harry Maury.
The Bishop said, after the guests insisting on its recital : 'I'll
give you the conundrum and leave you to puzzle out the an-
swer. Maury asked: "Why was the South like Lazarus?"'
Then the guessing began. Some clever answers were made,
but none correct; finally all gave it up. 'I warn you it is
pretty hard,' said the Bishop on the guests' insisting on the
answer. 'Why is the South like Lazarus? Because she was
licked by dogs.' For an instant consternation reigned, but
immediately laughter was general and cries of 'Capital' were
heard. One old gentleman alone seemed disgruntled, then he
blurted out, 'Well, sir, if you at the South lliink us dogs, why
do you come up here to beg money of us?' In a flash the
Bishop answered : 'Because in the South we believe the hair of
the dog is good for the bite !' The table rattled with laugh-
ter, though the old gentleman made no response ; but the ne.\t
morning the Bishop received a check from him for $l,ooo."
"Love's W.\y in Dixie."
This is the title of an attractive volume of short stories.
Mrs. Katharine Hopkins Chapman, wife of Dr. John S. Chap-
man, of Selma, Ala., has written several delightful short
stories of life in Dixie as contributions to periodical literature.
Her work reflects the best of Southern life, and the enthusiasm
with which her stories are received in the South attests their
qualitj'. The Neale Publishing Company has issued an at-
tractive book under the title of "Love's Way in Dixie" — -a
title which suggests interesting love affairs, etc.
It has been said that no fiction is representative of the
South which does not include "a mule, a nigger, and a yaller
dog," but these are not stories of negro life, nor are they
biographies of mules and yellow dogs. Mrs. Chapman has pic-
tured life among refined Southern people, and her stories are
truly captivating. Southern life in its happiest aspect is per-
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trayed by "Love's Way in Dixie." Handsome letterpress and
binding; l2mo; postpaid, $1.25, by the Neale Publishing
Company, New York or Washington, or by the Confederate
Veteran.
"THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED."
The survivors of the six hundred Confederate officers who
were taken from Fort Delaware prison in 1864 and placed, by
order of Edwin M. Stanton, United States Secretary of War,
on Morris Island, S. C, under lire of the Confederate guns
shelling that island, and subsequently starved on corn meal
.ind pickle rations at Hilton Head and Fort Pulaski, Ga., met
.it the Kentucky headquarters, in Louisville, on June 15 and
organized a society, naming it "The Infhiortal Six Hundred."
•Ml officers of the six hundred who were true unto the end
of the ordeal were made members of !ie society. Those pres-
ent at the organization were Capts. Hempstead, New Orleans;
Thornton M. llammack, C. P. Harper, Kentucky; J. W.
Mathews, West Virginia; W. D. Ballantinc, IHorida; W. W.
llulbert, Georgia; P. Hogan, Texas; Hugh Johnson, Vir-
ginia; A. A. Norris, Texas; Dr. 11. F. Henderson, Louisiana;
.Maj. Lamar Fontaine, Mississippi; J. Ogden Murray, Vir-
ginia. The meeting was called to order and Capt. J. L. Hemp-
stead elected President of the society, and J. Ogden Murray
Secretary.
The President stated that the object of the society was to
preserve the record and history of this gallant band that pre-
ferred death to the surrender of principle, .\fter interchange
of opinion and speech of explanation by Comrade Fontaine,
the meeting was adjourned to meet in the parlors of the St.
Charles Hotel, New Orleans, at the next reunion of the U. C.
v., in 1906. All of the six hundred who were true under the
ordeal of fire and starvation are urged to be present then, and
to send their present addresses to the Secretary that they
may be furnished with certificate of membership and badges of
the society. Address J. Ogden Murray. Winchester, Va.
J. Ogden Murray's Bot)K.
Dedicated to' the dead and living comrades of the six hun-
dred Confederate officers who were placed under fire of their
own guns on Morris Island, Maj. J. Ogden Murray has pub-
lished a full history of his terrible experience. Beginning
with an account of the incidents leading up to this retaliatory
measure, he takes you through the horrors of after experiences
in prison, with its starvation diet and neglect of the sick at
l'"ort Delaware, Hilton Head, and I'ort Pulaski — a story of
such inhuman treatment that one sickens at the details. A
list of the officers is also given, with their residences at the
time. This book can be procured from Maj. Murray, Win-
chester, Va. Price, $1.50.
■MESSAGES AND PAPERS OF THE CONFEDERACY."
This remarkable publication is compiled from the original
■ ifticial papers of the Confederate States, which papers were
caiHurcd at Richmond at the close of the war, and are now in
the archives of the Federal government at Washington. It
is the work of Hon. James D. Richardson, late member of
Congress from Tennessee. The "Messages and Papers of the
Confederacy" embrace all of the annual, special, and veto
messages, proclamations, and official papers of Jefferson Davis,
President of the Confederate States, and all of the interesting
and important diplomatic correspondence between the South-
ern States and their commissioners in foreign lands.
This compilation, now that sectional bitterness from the
War between the States has subsided, will be appreciated and
read with interest by the people of all sections of our country;
The Washington Post has arranged to distribute an edition
of this compilation, which copies are the first printed from
new plates.
The publishers, in speaking of the work, say : "As is well
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country, written by the Presidents themse' "es, and noting
especially the attention attracted by the papers of President
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War between the States, Mr. Richardson decided to compile
and place before the public, in durable form, and for the first
time, a true and authentic history of that 'stormy and perilous
period' from a Southern standpoint. He has, therefore, now
compiled, with permission of Congress, the official papers of
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Confederacy,' including the interesting and important diplo-
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corps of able advisers. The work is the sole occupant of a
new field. In addition to the rich illustrations with which
the book abounds, Mr. Richardson has prepared and inserted
biographical sketches of President Davis, Vice President
Stephens, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and the three Secretaries of
State— Robert Toombs, Robert M. T. Hunter, and Judah P.
Benjamin. In the regular analytical index which appears in
the compilation numerous encyclopedic articles bearing upon
the text and explanatory of politico-historical facts are in-
serted. There are also included hi this feature of the work
accurate accounts of more than a hundred battles in which the
armies of the North and South were engaged."
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I Headqu.\rters Forrest's Cavalry Corps,
MURFREESBORO, TeNN., Oct. 15, I9OS.
Special Order, No. 4.
I. By order of the Lieutenant General Commanding, Col.
W. A. Collier, of the Headquarters Staff, is advanced to the
rank of Brigadier General of Cavalry, and is hereby ordered
to assume command of the 2d Brigade of the 2d Division of
this Corps, vice Gen. A. J. C. Holt, retired.
II. Brig. Gen. H. A. Tyler is hereby advanced to the rank
of Major General, and is ordered to assume command of this
Corps, pending the acceptance of the resignation of the
Lieutenant General Commanding at its next general meeting.
By order of Lieut. Gen. Kelley.
1 ; Chai!les W. Anderson, Adjt. Cen. and Chief of Staff.
Mr. P. A. Shelton, Candidate for reelection to the office of
County Court Clerk, is one of Davidson County's most popu-
lar officials. Generous to a fault, he was never known to
turn a deaf ear to the wail of distress. His motto has been
to serve all alike, regardless of station, and whenever failure
balked his efforts it was an instance "when the glad service
of the heart, combined with ability, still left a vacuum." His
friends are counted by the score, and they are counting on
his reelection.
Mr. Roger Eastman, who aspires to the office of Trustee
of Davidson County, was born and reared in Nashville, Tenn.,
and is a son of Charles Eastman, Esq., editor of the old
Union and American. Mr. Eastman has held many places of
trust, and always gained the confidence of his employers,
besides the respect of his friends. Ever kind, courteous, and
affable, he has won his way into the hearts of thousands of
admiring friends, who bear testimony to his sterling worth.
He is at present City Tax Assessor of Nashville.
Mr. Jeff D. Boiling, aspirant for County Court Clerk of
Davidson County, was reared in the northern part of Nash-
ville in what was then known as the Thirteenth District. He
has always taken .a deep interest in the political welfare of
his party, and is ever found on the firing line. Four years
ago he made a most remarkable race in the face of tremen-
dous odds for the same office, and his friends now predict his
triumph in the coming primary. Of humble parentage, lie
has succeeded in establishing an enviable reputation in the
business world for honesty and thrift, especially among the I
Htb stock men with whom he is associated. Painstaking and!
exacting almost to a degree of perfection, he has succeeded]
well in his affairs.
Mr. Ben. R. Webb, the popular Circuit Court Clerk of
Davidson County, is a candidal:; to succeed himself. Mr.
Rainey, his predecessor, havmg left the office in an unfortu-
nate condition, additional labor devolved on him, besides
more expense. T'' iffice, though one of the most important,
is the smalles,-. he point of emolument in the county,
and, considering cumstances, his claims deserve atteri-
DEN R. WEBB.
tion. Mr. Webb has always accorded every patron of the
office the attention deserved, and his courteous treatment has
made him legions of friends.
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EX-GOV. ROBT. L. TAYLOR,
Candidate United States Senator. Demociatic
Primary, May 12, i906.
Robert Love Taylor, statesman, orator, humorist, and racon-
teur, is one of the best known men In the South, and none exceeds
him in extended personal popularity. He has been once In Con-
gress, three times Governor, and twice an elector for the State
at large, but his fame rests no more upon his political successes
than upon his remarkable powers as a public speaker. Both on
the hustings and on the lecture platform he has the gift rarely
equaled of entertaining an audience. Genial, big-hearted, of
fine personal appearance, and always easily approachable, he has
made legions of friends throughout the country and thousands
love and admire him to whom he Is personally unknown.
Robert L. Taylor was born July 31. 1850. in Happy Valley,
Carter County. Tenn., on the spot where the soldiers of John
Sevier rallied for their attack on King's Mountain. He was
the' fourth of ten children, six of them boys. He and his brother
Alfred were educated at Pennington. N. J., and later he read law
under the tutelage of Judge Kirkpatrick. at Jonesboro. In 1878
he was admitted to the bar. and soon afterwards was nominated
by the Democrats of the First Tennessee District for Congress.
This was one of the most remarkable episodes in Robert L.
Taylor's life, and served to give him a very favorable introduc-
tion to the Tennessee public. The district had an unbroken rec-
ord of six tliousand Republican majority for some years past.
Tlie Republican candidate. Hon. A. H. Pettibone, had served
several times in Congress and was a man of marked ability. It
was a great surprise when young Taylor was elected, and the
campaign was attended with some unique features that have
made it famous In the annals of Tennessee history.
In 1SS4 Robert L. Taylor was a Cleveland elector for the State
at large, and that year made his first canvass of the entire State.
After the '^lection he was made Pension Agent at Knoxville.
In ISSG was the notable campaign between his brother Alfred
Taylor and himself for the Governorship. The Republicans
nominated Alfred Taylor, and the Democratic State Convention,
whicli mot soon affr, called on Robert to represent his party.
No campaign in the State has ever aroused greater popular In-
terest. Robert Ij. Taylor was elected by a good majority, and re-
elected in ISSS over Samuel W. Hawkins, Republican, polling a
Larger vote than had ever before been accorded a candidate In the
State.
He was persuaded to become an elector for the State at large
again in 1S:I.'. and Ihcrc was an almost universal dem.and among
I'ennessee Urniocrats that lie accept the gubern.atorlai nomina-
tion for the third time, in 1896. He was this time elected over
Hon. G. N. Tillman, the Republican candidate, receiving the
largist majority ever before or since accorded a gubernatorial
eMndidate in the State of Tennessee.
Since retiring from the Governor's office the last time. Gov.
Taylor has bei-n almost constantly on the lecture platform. Re-
cently he removed to N.ashville and began in that city the publi-
cation of Hoh Taulor's iUayajiiic.
J. R. ALLEN
GAXDIDTITE FOR
SHERIFF
D71VIDSON eOUNTY
Subject Democratic Primary, Dec. 7, 1905.
JEFF D. BOLLING
Gandidate for
PCOUNTY COURT CLERK
Subject to
Democratic Primary, Dec. 7, 1905.
Nashville is to have this winter
the greatest potiltry show ever held
in the Sonthcrn States. Interest in
the poultry industry is intense in all
parts of the Slate as a result of the
formation of the Tennessee State
Poultry Breeders' Association and their
decision to hold the poultry event of
the South in this city. The show will
open January i and continue six days.
Breeders from all over the State and
all parts of the United States will be in
attendance, and it is safe to say that
a poultry attraction will be presented
the like of which was never seen before
in this part of ihe country. The officers
of the Tennessee State Poultry Breeders'
.Association are: R. T Creighton. Pres-
ident ; West H. Morton, Vice President ;
John .\. Murkin, Jr., Secretary: Fred
KIooz, .■\ssistant Secretary: Watkins
Crockett. Treasurer ; J I .-Nnihrose.
Supcriiiteiuleiit.
P. W. Ferguson. Waleska, Ga., who
was of the i8th Virginia Regiment,
Pickett's Division, wants to locate some
of liis old CMiiii.i' '-ItkI lo hear from
thcin. lie wa= -"KH^t nor of the Ap-
pomattox Gray goW^
522
QoF7federat(^ l/eti^raF).
EDWARD W. CARMACK,
Candidate United States Senator, Democratic
Primary. May 12. 1906.
Edward W. Carniaclc, Senior Senator of Tennessee, was born
near Castalian Springs, Sumner County, Tenn., November 5.
1S5S. He is known as a self-made man. his father, who was a
minister of the Christian Cliurcli, having died when he was an
infant. Nature was kind to him. for it taught him the hard but
enduring road to success by acquainting him from boyhood with
tlie patli of hard labor; first on a farm, then in a brickyard,
and in various otlier positions wliich afforded maintenance foi-
liis widowed mother and himself. He attended school in winter
or v.'as taught by his mother, and finally went into an office to
study law.
He was sent to the Legislature in 1SS4. two years later be-
c.ime associate editor of the Nashville American, and subse-
<iucntly editor in cliief of the Nashville Democrat, and Later tlie
Nashville American. In isyj lie removed to Rlempliis. where he
gained much prominence as editor in chief of the Memphis Co»i-
mercial-Appcal. He was ver.v popular with tlie masses, espe-
cially the sil\er wing of the Democratic party, whose cause he
so valiantly espoused. Consequently, when tlie memorable con-
test of 1S96 was at its height, he was nominated by acclama-
tion for Con,gress l>y the silver element of the Democratic party
fium the Tenth (Memphis) District to oppose Hon. Josiah Pat-
terson. Tlie latter hud long been in Congress and was noted
for his distinguished service. The minority or gold wing nomi-
nated Mr. Patterson, and the Republicans failed to place a can-
didate in the field, indorsing Mr. Patterson.
So both entered the contest for political supremacy before the
matchless tribune of the people. A bitter fight was waged, Mr.
(Jarniack winning by a narrow margin. Fraud was charged by
his opponent, Mr. Patterson, wlio contested the election before the
House of Repre.sentatives. and the House, though strongly Re-
publican, decided in favor of Carmack amid one of the most
di'amatic scenes ever witnessed in Congress. Members stood on
seats that they might not lose a s.vllable of his logic, while
with breathless attention they listened to his thimdering appeals
in behalf of the South that burned their way into the hearts of
Jill. And froin that time on Carmack's name was on thousands
of lips, for he had accomplislied what was considered impossi-
ble.
Thus Carmack's star of political fortune was in the ascend-
ency. He at once became the object of national prominence,
and in 1901, when .Senator Turley refused to stand for reelection,
people from all parts of the State importuned him to stand for
the Senate, with tlie result that lie whs elected without opposition.
Senator Carmack as a debater has few equals. He is a man
of the profoundest convictions, political and moral. What he
conceives to ije right he loves with his wliole soul, mind, and
strengtli ; and what impresses him as wrong he hates with cease-
less intensity. Ha\nng an emulous desire for honest fame, there
is no compromise in his make-up. Bold, aggressive, and fearless,
lie is the niatcli of any of the sliining lights of the opposite party.
Senator Carmack's record as a public man is known to all,
and suffice it to s.ay that his remarkable success in public life Is
an object le.sson demonstrating that poverty and adversity are
no barriers in the I'oad to eminence jind distinction.
T. B. Spain, cf Cucro. Tex.; "I wa?
with Col. Neuso-.n on the 23d of June,
1863. when he liad a light with a reyi
meiit of Yankees in Henderson Comity.
Tenn., within three or four miles of
Spring Creek. Wo luul ahout three
hundred men against- their tliousand
They had fine horses. We disnionnted
and got in a hollow to fight them in
a cornfield. They came dashing throngh
the field and tried to rnn over ns, but
failed, and went the other way faster
than they came. We killed or wonnded
some ten or twenty, took several prison-
ers, and followed the others back to
Clarksburg, in Carroll County. I should
like to hear from any of the comrades
who were in this fight."
flcger ta^itman
Respectfully solicits your vote and in-
fluence for
TRUSTEE.
SUBJECT TO ACTION OF
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY. DECEMBER 7. 1905.
P. A. SHELTON,
CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION
Mrs. B. A. Trousdale, of Monroe, La.,
seeks information of Joseph Carrol
Duncan, said to have volunteered from
Savannah. Tenn., tWfk several brothers.
There was a larga^fgiBmly of Duncans in
or about Savannah, hut she has not been
able to hear from any of them.
«
County Court Clerk.
SUBJECT TO
Democratic Primary, Dec. 7, 1905.
Qo9federat(^ l/eterap,
523
BEN R. WEBB,
CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION,
Circuit Court Clerk Davidson County.
SUBJECT TO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY,
DECEMBER 7, 1905.
R. A. MILAM,
FOR
GRIMINAL COURT CLERK,
DAVIDSON COUNTY.
SUBJECT TO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY,
DECEMBER 7, /905.
Dr. Wm. Morrow,
CANDIDATE FOR
REGISTER DAVIDSON COUNTY.
SUBJECT TO
Democratic Primary, December 7, 1905.
CANDIDATE FOR
Circuit Court Clerk.
SUBJECT TO
Democratic Primary, Dec. 7, 1905.
Tlie Librarian of Baylor University,
Waco, Tex., wishes to complete their
file of the Veteran, and asks for the fol-
lowing copies: All of 1893; January,
February, March, April, 1894; March,
1895; April, 1896. Write him in advance
of sending, stating price wanted. Only
copies in good condition are wanted.
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524
Qopfederat^ Ueterap,
West H. IVIorton,
FOR
REGISTER,
DAVIDSON COUNTY.
SUBJECT TO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY. ,
DECEMBER 7. 1905.
John J. McCann
(TME L,A.ME MIUUER),
CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION
COUNTY TRUSTEE.
Subject to Democratic Primary,
December 7, 1905.
Thos. E. Cartwrightj
CANDIDATE TOR RC-CLCCTION TO THE OFFICE OP
SHERIFF DAVIDSON COUNTY.
SUBJECT TO
Democratic Primary, December 7, 1905.
Sam Marshall,
CANDIDATE FOR
TurnpiKe Gomniissioner Davidson Go.
SUBJECT TO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY,
DECEMBER 7, I905.
Mclnlosh Camp, at Dardanelle, Ark,,
held a two-days' reunion, August 17 and
18, with good attendance, at which ad-
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M. C. Whittle, of Utica, Ind. T..
makes inquiry for a brother, E. F
Whittle, who, he thinks, served with the
Eighth Texas Rangers during the War
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seven-room house and barn. Quarter of
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ranch, one-third cash, balance at six per
cent net, .semiannually.
VICTOR MONTGOMERY,
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Mrs. Byrd P. Dominick, of Turin,
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(or Lindle) and A. O. Sloan — which
were marked and inclosed by the Wom-
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men were very sick when brought to
Dr. Page's, and died shortly after. Ef-
fort has been made to ascertain what
division of the army they served in, and
it is hoped that this will reach the eyes
(if some friends or relatives who have
longed to know where their loved ones
were laid to rest.
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" BRISTOL. N. & W. Rv 7:110 p.m
Ar'ive LYNCHBURG. N. & ^V. Ry 1 :« a.m.
" 'WASHIN(iTON. D. C.,So. Rv. 6:.'i2 a.m
" BALTlMi >RE. Md , P. R. R ..^ . 8:00 a.m
•• PHILADELPHIA, P. R. R 10:1.5 a.m
" NEW YORK, P. R. R 12:43 pm.
" BOSTON, N. Y., N. H., & H...- 8:20 p.m
Thro\jgh Sleeper Ne>v Orleans to
New York
Through Sleeper Menr\phi» 10
New York
The finest Diuing Car Service.
Reliable information cht erfully furnished by
Norfolk and We-toru Railway, KM W. Ninth
St. (Read House Blorkl, Cliatt«nooKa. Tenn.
Warkfn L. Rohr, Westei'u Passenger Agent,
Chattan^'oga, Tenn.
W. B. Bevill, Ueneral Passen^r Agent, Ro»
noke, Va.
TRAVEL VIA THE
SOUTHERN
RA IL WA Y
The Great- WSl Through
est JS^Sleep.ng
Southern
System
Double Dai-
ly Service
Nashville to
the East, via
Chattaiico<r.i
and Ashc'ulc,
through
Car Na«h
ville to New
York.
Dining and
O hscr vation
Cars.
Pullman
Sleeping Cars
oil all through
trains.
Elegant Day
Coaches.
"THE LAND OF THE SKY"
J. M. Cdlp, 4th Vice Pres., Washington, D. V
S H. Hardwick, Pass. Tratfio Manager.
Washington. D. C.
W. H. Tavloe, Gen. I'ass. Agt„ Washmg-
ton, D O. ^
C. A. Bknscotkr, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., Chat-
tanooga, Tenn.
J. E. SmrLKV, Traveling Pass. Agt., Chatt»'
Dooga. Tenn. \
52r)
C^oi^federa ti^ l/eterarj
FLORIDA
eUBA
Think of the balmy sunshine, of the
fragrance of orange bloss^oma, of the
golden fruits of Florida; then recall th«
snow, the sleet, the biting and continued
cold of last winter.
.Splendid train service, with every con-
venience for the comfort and safety of
the travelei', has been provided via tne
eOAST LINE
"the great thoroug>ifare to the tropics,"'
controlling 1.400 miles of staudard rail-
wav in the State of Florida.
\Vinter t'.mrist tickets now on sale via
this line '-arry the following privileges
without additional cost:
Stopping off, up to 30 days en route
to or returning from Jacksonville.
Many variable routes south of Jack-
sonville.
Stop-over privileges in the State of
Florida at any point within life of
ticket.
For illustrated booklets on Florida,
Cuba, or "What to Say in Spanish, and
How to Say It," or other information,
address
C. L. SPRAGUE, T. P. A.,
507 Union Trust Building,
CINCINNATI, OHIO;
W. J. CRAIG, G. P. A.,
WILMlXtJTON, N. C.
LOW RATES AGAIN TO
TEXAS
Arkansas, and the Southwest. Less
than one-way fare for the round
trip by Memphis and the Cotton
Belt Route. Dates are November
7 and 21. December 5 and 19.
Pick your date and say when and where
you want io go, and we will give you full
information by return mail.
W. G. ADAMS, T. P. A..
Cotton lielt Boute,
211 4TH AVE. N.,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
1HISKYM2M0RPHINE
habit cured. Craving destroyed
in 48 hours. Send for circulars.
OPPENHEIMER INSTITDTE
622 Asylum Ave., KNOXVILLE, TENN.
SOUTHWEST
AIJ KATV^A^ ''"^^ Anti-Renter's State. Uii-.- of tlie most resourceful in
'*' ■^- ***"*• ^ ^ **^ '^ *^ the Union. Only one-liftu of the total acrea-jre now under
- cultivation. Tlnmsandsof free homesteads. Still more thou-
sanls of unimi»rov d farms lor sale at ridiculously low prices. TKo widest "open,
door" of tKefT\ all.
f 1^ Tk ¥ A T^ T IT* D D ¥ T* C\ U V Soon, to bs entirely the wh ite man's coun-
11.11 l^t/^IK I. IL#ff\I\t 1 KJM\ I try -'to have and lo hold." Rich in coal.
: rich in oil, rich in timber, rich in soil. No
laud in America better worth having and holding.
OKLAHOMA I^,
What Next" Territory. Nearly a half-milli-n
es more to bo i.pened this year. <_)nly a lease thia t me,
but a. lease In tKe Southwest is a foothold. Write
for illustrated literature and information regarding low rates Southwest in eliec- the first
and third Tuesdays of each month.
Rocklsland
System ^
GEO. H. LEE,
Gen. Pass. Agt.,
Little Rock, Ark.
P. S. WELVER,
Trav. Pass. Agt.,
Nashville, Tenn.
V
SAM H. BORUM,
CANDIDATE FOR
SUBJECT TO
Democratic Primary, December 7, 1905.
Ricliard M. Davis, of Murray County.
Ga., now living at Norman, 01<la .
served in Company A, .39th Georgia
Regiment, and is very anxious to liear
from any meml^ers of tlie old command,
especially any of the company who were
at the siege of Vicksburg and the bat-
tle of Baker's Creek.
J. T. Faucett, of Halls Station, Tenn ,
was a member of Company K, 45th
Tennessee Infantry, and wants to hear
from any survivors of the old company.
An inquiry comes to the Veteran of
the "Order of Robert E. Lee." We
sliould like to have something about it
for publication.
ECONOMIZE >'"'"■ °"'" 7""'' 'y "^'."s
inotlern, hij^rli - g^r;idc oJIice
supplies.
L>ES3EN *'^^ office force by h;ivinjj your let-
ters and circulars niinieofjnipheil —
imijossibleto distinguish from orig^i-
n.al writin_s;s.
LEARN rnodern business melhods by apply-
ing to
D. AT. ^VARJLISISIER A CO.
17 Arcade, Nashville. Tenn.
O. BREYeR*S
Russian and Turkish Baths
and First-Class Barber Shop
FOR GENTLKMKN ONLY.
■ 17 Church Street, NASHTTLLE, TENN.
Open Davand night. IT C. SietHeld, Fr—,
Qopfederati^ l/eterar?
527
To San Francisco
WITH THE
CHRISTIAN MISSION
SPECIAL
VIA
Saptare
WW
2,200 MILES
of scenic beauty, witli all thf com-
forts of a special Pullman liaiii.
THE SANTA FE
has been desiijna1e<^ by tbe oflirials of
the Christian Clmrch as ilie
OFFICIAL ROUTE
THE SPECIAL LEAVES TEXAS AUGUST 10TH.
For particular information atlcires
W. S. KEENAN, G. P. A„
GALVESTON.
LVAflSVILLL-^TERRE HAUTE R-R-
Ithrough service
L. & N.. E. & T. H. and C. & E. I.
2Vesllbuled Through Trains Dally /^
NASHVILLE TO CHICAGO ^
I THROUGH SLEEPERS /wo DAY COACHE8
NEW ORLEANS TO CHICAGO
OININia CARS SERVING ALL MEALS EN ROUTE
I D. H. HILLMAN, 0. P A.. S. I ROOERS, Qen. Aft
NASHVILLt. TENN.
LETTER
PAPER
KS i?( ]p( IS
CONFEDERATE
^_ VETEHAJVS
VAl/GHTE'RS
•SO J^^
NEW REDUCED PRICES
WHILE THE STOCK LASTS
$2.50 ^Pls 250 sheets in 3 tablets
$4.25 gets 500 sheets in 5 tal)lets
These prices inohide the printing of tlie name of the Camp, OhapKr
ete.. the names of the officers, and post office addresses.
Slock ruled <ir luirulcil.
Brandon Printing Co., Manufacturing Stationers.
" Engravers. Printers. Lithographers,
M.KSHVILLE. TEMM. General Office Outfitters.
VERY LOW RATES.
Home seekers' round-trip rates TO ALL POINTS SOUTHWEST. On sale first
ami third Tuesdays of each month.
Low Go/onist Rates
TO CALIFORNIA AND THE NORTHWEST. On sale daily. .Septend)er 15 to
October 31.
Fl?ISCO
SYSTEM
M /•//(• /or iii/opiiKi/iou ami litcndiin .
PMS.WEEVER.T.P.A., J. N. CORNATZAR, A. G. P. A.,
Nashville, Tenn. Memphis, Tenn,
A True Tonic
t
and a most wholesome
and appetizing beverage.
Clears the Brain,
Strengthens the Nerves,
and Adds a Charm to the
Simplest MeaL
Maxwell House Blend
Coffee,
A wise provision of nature, properly and scientifically prepared by experts
of a quarter of a century's experisnce.
HAvil ^1 ^0^1 YOUR TABLE.
Packed in 1- and 5-lb. Sealed Cans Only. Ask Your Grocer for It.
CHEEK-NEAL COFFEE COMPANY,
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
[Let Your Christmas Presetipt Be the VETERAN for 1006.
Vol. 13
NASHVILLE, TENN., DECEMBER, 1905
O
No. 12
Qopfederate l/eterap.
^^
^
^
MRS. LIZZIE GEORGE HENDERSON,
President United Daughters of the Confederacy.
w
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530
Qcpfederat^ Ueteraij,
Holiday Stationery
Ealon-Hurlbms Beautiful Florentine Cabinet
contains three quires (three sizes) of Fabric
Finish Correspondence Hapi-r with envelopes to
match— each size has a balf-quire in hglit blue
and a half-quire in white.
A Year's Stxpply for $2.75
Embossed in any color with any nio.Higram
desired. This makes a splendid holiday mft for
either sex. In ordering send cash and write
intials for monogram plainly. Order early as
speci.il die for monogram, which we send with
cabinet, must be made for each ordf;r,
Embossed In Gold or Silver $3.00
Visiting Cards lOO cards and engraved
plate; Script. Si.25; Old English $2.25 Shaded
Old Enfflisb S.voo. ^^'ritefor ourwedding sam-
ples. Sent free.
BICKNELL & CO., Society Engravers,
78 State St., Chicago
We Prepny Express.
1^
WILL OUTWEAR THREE
OF THE ORDINARY KIND
Mure flastH'. imri iiisliiii: pans
.\lK(_i|iii,-ly iinhr.':i!«:il'lpW-;U!ier
Guaranteed best 50c auapender made
r,i.i !,..■ hail ill li-h( ..!■ h--inv \v._-i-lil I.. I
iiiiiii ..r v.mih. .-vim l.-ii^-lli sum.' \-n<:-,
SUITABLE FOR ALL CLASSES
If vininlf-alt^r won't supi'lv ym
u- win. l-ns'pni'i. lor 50 '-.•Ills.
Send lor vatuatle free Dooltlet,
" Correct Dress & Suspender Styles."
HEWES & POTTER
Larcf'* Suspender Makers in the World
Oept- 77. SI LIurolD SI.. ItuHtuu, Mass.
FT
£STAB-
LISHED
BUSINESS
ECUCATION
ATTl:xl>
Xos. l.M. l.V.'. I'A X. Cherry Street.
NASHVILLE, TENN.
\ practical school of established reputation.
JTo catelipenny methods. Husiness men recom-
mend this college. Wnto tor circulars.
Address
H. G. Lipscomb ^ Co.
carry most
complete lines
of bght and heavy
HaLfdwdLfe
Cutlery, Guns, Implements, and Tools, etc Agents for the best goods— Vulcan Plows. Sanders
Disc; Plows, Disston i^aws. Penin.snla Paint Company's Ready-Mixed Paint-;. Elwood and Banner
"Woven Wire Fencing. Also V Crimp and Corruarated Steel Roofing, Roolin;^ Paper, etc
'Reasonable Prices- and 7*rompt S'hipment^s.
H.G. LIPSCOMB ft CO., 138-142 Second Ave. N., Nashville. Teivn.
I ^ SUGGESTIVE CHRISTMAS GIFT |
I LCAdbf BROKEN LINK |
BY ^>
Hrs. Fannie E. Selph, W. Nashville, Tcnn. I*
Cloth. $1.1111. Pi'ntiiaid; iir tvitli a IViir's 5J
Siihscriijlwn in the Vetcnin. $L.'j<) ^
Dixie Artificial Limb
Company,
MANUF.^CTTVRKRS
OF THE
Latest Ijiproved Willow Wood Limbs.
Light Woiiiht. Perfect Action, Durable Also
L ■utuer Socket Let^s. with or ^'ithout Adjust-
u;'1h SiH'ket> Crutches Trusse-^, Bi'ace -, Ex-
t -.isirnii ^11 m'-tkes ot les^rs reuaired at rea-
soTial)ie prices. Satisfaction guaranteed or
money refunded
J. C. GRIFFIN, Manager,
608 Broad St. Nashville, Tenn.
COOKY/jy The Brightest
Eyes
are made l:irii^hter
bv
COOK'S DISCOVERY.
!•; is absolutely liarmless. NO EYE, old
or voLinL;, but will be benefited bv its use.
Guaranteed to cure or niouey refunded.
Prompt attention tOf"nail orders.
A.<A- Void- Drui;i;is/. Price, jo Cr/ifs.
COOK MEDICINE CO., Nashville. Tcnn.
CATARRH CURED!
Or money refunded.
BY
erystal Gatarrh Gream.
Sample box free, or sufficient for
one month's treatment, 25 cents.
Complete, guaranteed cure, $1.
Write us about your case.
Do it now.
n. W. JENKINCS.
CRYSTAL CHEMICAL CO., I
Johnson Gity, Tenn. f
«S
Big Four
»»
THE BEST LINE TO
Indianapolis
Peoria
Ghica^o
Toledo
Detroit
Cleveland
Buffalo
Mew York
Boston
and ALL POIKTS EAST
Information cheerfully furnished on
application at City Ticket Office, " Big
Four Route," No. :i5i* Fourtli Avenue, or
write to
S. J. GATES,
Gen. Ti^ent, Passenger Dept.,
LOUISVILLE, ICY.
WHITE TRUNK & BAG CO.,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
"'""'"'"^"' Trunks and Traveling Bags.
Salestoom, 6C9 Church St. Factory, West Nashville.
CATALOGUE AfiD PRICES ON APPLICATION.
FACTS ABOUT CANCER.
A new booklet published at considera-
ble expense by L. T. Leach, M.D., of 416
Main Street, Dallas, Tex., tells the cause
of Cancer, and instructs in the care of the
patient. Tells what to do in case of bleed-
ing, pain, odor, etc., and is a valuable guide
in tlie managementof any case. It advises
the best method of treatment, and the rea-
sons whv. In short, it is a book that you
will value for its information. It will be
sent by mail, prepaid, on receipt of ten
cents, stamps or coin.
smtm(.\5hm^^miimm
Qopfederat^ Ueterap.
531
DRAVGHON'S
PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGES
Incorporated 5:300.000.00. Estalilished III years.
Indorsed by business men. For Catalogue, ad-
dress J. F. Urai-ohon, President, ateither place.
Nashville, Tenn.
Montg-omery Ala. Austin, Tex.
Atlanta, Ga. Raleig-h, N. C.
Knoxville, Tenn. Fort Worth, Tex.
Waco, Tex. Kansas City, Mo.
St. Louis, Mo. Little Rock, Ark.
Galveston, Tex. Paducah, Ky.
San Antonio, Tex. Shreveport, La.
Oklahoma City, Okla. Muskogree, Ind. T.
Fort Smith, Ark. Fort Scott, Kans.
Columbia, S. C. Denison, Tex.
pnCITinU- Maydei>osit money fur tuition in
IUOIIIUI1, Bank until eourso i.s completed
and i»ositi(>n i.s secured, or give notes and jiav lu-
it ion cm tor salary. No vacation. Ent*r any time.
In thoroughness and reputation D. P. B. t'. is
to other business colleges what Harvard and
Yale are to academies.
HflMF ^TlinV- We will teach you BY HAIL,
nUIYlL OIUUI. SUCCESSFULLY or K E-
FUNUJIc iXEY. Write for pi ices Home Study.
NEW ORLEANS
Picayune
a: the most reliable,
NEWSIEST, and CLEANEST
PAPER IN THE SOUTH X
A neccssitv in every home. Full Associated
Press reports covcrinj^ tlif news nf the
worltJ, ;ui(i special tpleg'rains from all sec-
tions of the South. Special articles by dis-
tineuished luilhors.
Price, three months, $3.00.
Cbc
Cwiee=a=meek
Picayune
published every Monday »nd Thursday, ten
pages each issue, covering the latest mar-
ket reports and all Important news of the
world.
On*" year. SH. 00. Or ve will rptkI
tin' ("on OmI crate Veteran :iinl
Tw t»>t»-a-W«'ek rirayiiiiwoue year
for »i.r>u.
Address cither New Orleans PiCA^t'NK,
>;i'w Orleans. La., or CoNFF.nERATR Vkt-
tK.xN, Nashvillr, Ti'nn.
i"0/? oi/£ff sixTr raAHa
AnOld and Weil-Tried Remedy
MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP
»*j l-een iiB^.i r,r ..vet t-IXTY \EAKSbT aUl,Llv>N8*i
Mothers f,.r Ibeir children while TKETHIUtt,
WITH TERFECT HD0CE88. It SOOTHES the CHILD
tOFTENS the oniVIS. ALLAYS Bll PAIN; CURES WIKSt
COLIC. ftD.l m tbebpgtremertv f.T DIARRHEA. Sold**
I>niggi8t8m ^vtTv part ot the world. Be bu re to ask tvi
MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP.
AND TAKE NO OTHER KIND.
TweNTY-^ivm CEwrs * bottlm.
Lflxinglon
VircInU
Virginia Military Institute
67th year. Scirntific, TechnicaL MUilary Schi.ol
Maintanicil by the Stale of VirEinia. For information
fpply If* SCOTT SHIPP. Sup»rlnl«ndant
BEAUTIFUL COLORED LITHOGRAPH OF,
THE ENGINE "GENERA L " FOR 25 CEN TS
The N !i.shvil!c Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway ha."" .inst (jotten out a very boautiful lith-
(ipraph. l.HxX'.') ini-hcs. ot the famous engine", "General." which is now on e.'shiliition in the
t uioii Station, (,'hattanooga. Tenn. The picture is ready for framing, and will h.> mailed to
i uy address for ^") cents. The "(Tcncral ' wa.s stol-n hy the Andrews Raiders at BiKS^hantv,
Ua.. on the ■W"est<'rn ti Atlantic Railroad, April 1-'. ImK. and was recaptured hv t'onductor \V.
A. Fuller. Anthcmy Jlurphy, and others, near RinitKold. (ia.. after an exciting chase of aliout
ninety miles. It was one of the most thrilling exploits of the fivil War. The olyect of the
raid was to burn the bridges on the Western & Atlantic Railroad and cut off the (^onfe<lerate
Army from its h;so ot supplies. A booklet, "The Story of the Oeneral. " will bo sent free
upon application. W. L. DANLEY. (1. P. A..
Nashville. Tenn.
LargestandMostCompleteBuccy^ctoryqn£abth. Write for
Prices AND
^^Catalocue
Our Goods Are The Best-
OuR Price the lowest
Parry Mfg. &'"^"^"^p°''=v,
Ind
The Campbcll-Hagcrman College
For Girls and Young Women
I'aiMiltv of :Jt ii)<'inlit*T«. n*']»artmonts of Mii'^if,
Art, Elocution. Physical Culture, and Domestic
S(ionri\ Splend'A jipw build iujis. St's.-^ion
..jM'iis Sc]»t'Miihrr 1:.'. A]iply to
b. C. HAGERMAN. President. Lexington. Ky.
^Z.f "Songs of the Confederacy" LEARN TELEGRAPHY & R. R. ACG0UNTIN8
nnd Plantation Mrloilirs n'nvread\. llamlsomrK-
t)ouii<t, Willi cul.-- id C"M£ed(r.itr tlags on t itle-p;i^.-.
PRICE. BOC. PER COPY, PREPAID. S4.B0 PER DOZ.
Address The Georg:e B. Jennings Co., Cincinnati,
General Music Dealers. Established 1895.
{Menlion Conjrderate Veteran tvhen icrilinff.)
•M to 9199 per moDtli iBlary astared oar grfedvalM
■iider bond. Yon don't pay a* noUl rem hmrm •
potltloD. L&r£«*t »Tti«m of ielegrAph ich^olf Im
▲■lerlc*. Indorsed by «U railway offlclalt.
OPERATORS ALWAYS IN DEMAND.
Ladlet alHO admltwd. 'WrlM for oaiBleEne.
MORSE SCHOOL OF TELCCRAPHY.
OlnolBsatl. Obto, BnfTalo. N. T.. AiUaia, Qa., Ltt
Crveie. Wl«.. Teiarkana, Tex., San rranotaa*. OaL
632
Qopfederati^ l/eterai)
American National Bank
NASHVILL.E, TENN.
Capital . , . ^ - ' % 1,000,000 00
Shareholders' Liability , , , . 1,000,000 00
Surplus and Undivided Profits - ■> - 250,000 00
Security to Depositors , , , ^ 52,250.000 00
This Bank FurrvisKes tKe Greatest Security to Depositors of Any Barvk lr\
Tennessee. AH Accounts Solicited
OFFICERS
W. W. BERRY. President. A. H. ROBINSOX. Vice President. N. P. LESUEUR. Cn-shiar.
DIRECTORS
G. M. NEELY. LESLIE CHEEK. BYRD DOUItLAS. OVERTOX LEA.
ROBT. ,1 LVLES. HORATIO BERRY, .JNO. B RAXSOJI. NOHMAX KIRKMAX.
A H. ROBIXSiiX. THOS. L. HERBERT. R, W. TURNER. W. \V, BERRY.
X P. LESUEl-R.
A Good
Piano
is always a source of pleasure ; a
poor one always an annoyance.
Von would f:ir better get a good
square piano of a first-class make,
eyen if it is a little out of date,
rather than get a cheap upright.
We have square pianos from
$T5 to $150
Among them are
Stieff
Stein way
Mazleton
Knabe, Htc
Write quick. We have sold nine
within the past ten clays. All are
in excellent condition.
Southern VVareroom
No. 5 West Trade Street
Charlotte, IN. C
C H. WIUMOTH
CQaDaySurei
^|F ^^^^ fumisli th>? wurk and teach y<
Send iisyoiiraddrrss
I and we willshowyuu
r howto iiiake^^uday
absolutely sure; we
fumisli th>? wurk and teach you free, yuu work in
the locality where you I ive. Sond us your address and ne will
explain ttiel>usiness fully, reiiieiuher we guarantee u clear proHt
ofi:ifnrevervdoy's work, aliKiilutfly sure. Write at once.
ROYAL MANUFACTLKINU (0., Box I 232 Detroit, Uich.
THE STATE
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Daily and Sunday, - $8.00 a year
Semiweekly, - • 2.00 a year
Semiwcckly State and
Confederate Veteran, 2.25 a year
CASH WITH
Largest daily circulation
in South Carolina.
Unexcelled as an adver-
tising medium.
Try a classified advertise-
ment in the want column.
Only one cent a word.
Minimum charge, 25 cent;.
SEND FOR SAMPLE COPT
THE STATE COMPANY
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Virginia Female Institute
STAUNTON, VA.
PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES.
Situated in the lUountaiBs of Virginia, Elect-
ive (.'ourses in Enijlish. Mnsi<'. Ai-t. etc. .Sixty-
second session be,£,nns Se])tenilier 14.
MISS MARIA PENDLETON DUVAL, Principal,
auccessor to Mrs, (ien. .1. E. B. Stuart,
THE BEST PLACa
TO PURCHASE
ALL-WOOL
Bunting or
Silk Flags
ol All Kinda,
Silk Banners. Swords, Belts, Caps,
and all kinds of Military Equipment
and Society Goods is at
Veteran J. A. JOEL & CO.,
M Nassau Street, New York Cltr,
SEND FOR PRICK LIST.
^ryCE l.S-W C.-P. BARNES ..>t
COJIPA>rY have been tlie
( lieadfjuartura tor SANTA
_^j lieadnua
^^ CLAUS for
WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELKY
Silverware and Optical Goods
Ho is proud of our reputation
and our line, as we sell nothiuj^
Ijut the best at prices that are
riybt. He will be very pleased
to deliver your order for you.
Our new illustrated 52-page 'Cat-
alogue sent free on re(iuest. : :
C.P.BARNES & COMPANY
B04 A 50e W MARKET ST.
, LOUISVItLE. KT.
BEST
tPASSENGER SERVECI
IN TEXAS.
4-IMPORTANT GATEWAY&-4
F. TURNER,
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PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTEREST OF CONFEDEKATE \-i:TERANa AND KINDRED TOPICS.
Kntercd at the post office at Nashville, Tenn., as second-class matter.
Contributors are requested to use only one side of tlie paper, and to abbrevi-
ate as much as practicable. These suggestions are important.
Where clippings are sent copy should be kept, as the \'eteran cannot un-
dertake to return them. Advertising rates furnished on application.
The dale to a subscription is always given to the month bffore it ends. For
Instance, if tlie \'etkran is ordered to begin with January, the dale on mail
list will be December, and the subscriber is entitled to th.at number.
The cn'il war was too long ago to be called the latr war, and when cor-
ffvspondents use that term " War between the States" will be substituteci.
The terms " new South" and "lost Cause" are objectionable to the ^'KTER AN.
OFFICIALLl" REPRESENTS:
United Confederate Veterans,
United DAfGHTERs of the Confederacy,
Sons op \'etekans, a:jd Other ORGANt/ATioNS,
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MRS. LIZZIE GEORGE HEXDERSOX.
Tlu- lU'w President of the United Daughters of tlie Con-
federacy i.s a native of Mississippi and a daughter of the late
Hon. J. Z. George. United States Senator from that State.
She was born at the country home, Cotesworth, near Car-
rollton; but in 1872 her father removed to Jackson, where
she was reared and educated at Fair Lawn Institute, a young
ladies' school of the Old South established long before the
war. As a young lady, she was much in Boston and Wash-
ington, and acted as her father's private secretary for some
years before her marriage, which occurred in 1890, when she
became the wife of Dr. T. R. Henderson, of Greenwood,
Miss., where she has since resided.
The J. Z. George Chapter, No. 228, U. D. C, organized at
Greenwood, was named in honor of Senator George, who was
colonel of the Sth Mississippi Cavalry and lieutenant colonel
of the iqth (George's) Battalion, Mississippi Cavalry, To
Senator George Mississippi is greatly indebted for much of
that State's advancement. He was Chairman of the Demo-
cratic Executive Committee in 1875 when Mississippi, under
his leadership, inaugurated the "Mississippi Plan" and threw
off the carpetbag-ne.gro rule. In 1878 he was made Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, and in 1881 took
his seat in the United States Senate, where he remained until
his death, in 1897. In 1889 he had canvassed the State in
favor of a constitutional convention, and succeeded in having
the candidate for the Legislature declare in favor of such a
convention. This convention was held in 1890, and he was
one of the representatives in it from the State at large. He
put into the new constitution much of the product of his
lirain, chief of which was the franchise clause, thrusting out
the ignorant vote. In the short session of 1890-91 he held
the lloor of the Senate for four days with a speech in defense
of this constitution. This was one of the speeches made
while the Democrats, with the assistance of a few Republi-
cans, were talking the Force Bill down.
The wife of Senator George was as ardent a Confederate
as he. She worked day and night for the Confederate sol-
diers, and gave all blankets and carpets from her house for
their use. In this air of love and reverence for the Confc "-
eracy Mrs. Henderson grew up, ardently loyal to the tradi-
tions of her people. She was a charter member of the J. Z.
George Chapter and was President of her State Division.
While serving in that position she was instrumental in getting
a bill introduced in the Legislature of 1900 for the establish-
ment of a home for needy Confederate soldiers Although
this hill \ias defeated, as was a similar bill two years later,,
the Daughters of the Confederacy, through Mrs. George, se-
cured the cooperation of the Sons in behalf of purchasing
Beauvoir for a Confederate Home. This inovement aroused
general interest, and the succeeding Legislature made the ap-
propriation for its purchase. The amount that had been
raised by the Daughters and Sons, some seven thousand dol-
lars, was used in repairing and equipping the Home and to
start it before the State took charge. This Home is still the
center of interest for the Daughters in Mississippi, and the
J. Z. George Chapter has given largely of the amounis raised
for it. The Sons have done themselves much credit in this.
Mrs. Henderson has always been an active worker in the
United Daughters of the Confederacy, has acted as Chairman
on Credentials during the last two conventions, and in San
Francisco was elected President of the general organization.
Lender her active leadership it is expected that much w-ill be
accomplished during the coming year.
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
Something of the San Francisco Convention.
In seeing so many familiar faces of Confederate women
from Eastern States in the convention at San Francisco it
was difficult to realize that such a long span intervened be-
tween that beautiful city by the Pacific Ocean and their
homes. The central location of the Palace Hotel, the head-
quarters of the convention and the principal officers, was a
pleasing feature, and the extensive apartments prevented
crowding in any sense. It is said that seven large conven-
tions might be held in that famous hotel at the same time
Promptly at the time for the opening the President General,
Mrs. Augustine T. Smyth, of Charleston, pounded gently the
gavel, and the delegations were seated ready for business.
Bishop Moreland, of California, but formerly a South Caro-
linian, made the opening prayer, which is published in full
elsewhere. Mrs. Seldon S. Wright, who actively engaged in
organizing the United Daughters in California, Mrs. A. H.
Voorhies, President of the Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter
(the hostess Chapter of the convention), and Mrs. Victor
Montgomery, President of the California Division, V. D. C,
made cordial addresses of welcome, to which the President,.
Mrs. Smyth, made inost happy response. The Mayor of San
Francisco was a day late in his cordial address of welcome,
but there was no delay of hospitality by the city government.
On the first evening the great dome of the City Hall was
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illuminated in honor of the visit of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy. The magnificence and the brilliancy of
that illumination may be the better imagined after the state-
ment that the City Hall covers several blocks, cost six mil-
lions gold, while the dome must be grander than that on the
Capitol at Washington, D. C. All of California that was not
cordial was evidently dormant, for there was not a known
discourtesy to the bocy nor to a delegate.
The convention sessions were held in the largo maple
room of the hotel. Its platform was ornamented with ths
flags of the organization and a fine portrait of Mrs. M. C.
■Goodlett, first President of tlie organization, painted by Miss
Thomas, of Nashville, Tenn.. and the magnificent frame was
ornamented with raised letters in gold by the Edgefield and
Nashville Manufacturing Company of Nashville, due credit
of which was given in the report. The presentation of the
portrait was made by Mrs. Voorhies for the donors and re-
ceived in gracious words by Mrs. Smyth, the President. It
is intended tl.at this portrait shall be placed in the Solid
South Room of the Richmond Museum ; but, pending the
completion of arrangen-.ents, it will remain in charge of Mrs.
Van Wyck, of San Francisco, President of the Jefiferson
Davis Chapter in that city. The handsome flags of the U.
D. C, presented years ago by Mrs. Rosenburg, of Galveston.
were also left with Mrs. Van Wyck.
In her report, ^he President, Mrs. Smyth, made worthy
mention of prominent men and women who died during the
last year, including Miss Mildred Lee, Hon. John H. Reagan,
and Fitzhugh Lee. The wife of the latter is one of the ex-
Presidents General of the Daughters. At a memorial serv-
ice later in the convention most excellent tributes were paid
to those named above, to United States Senator Bate, of
Tennessee, and to Gen. Churchill, of Arkansas; while there
were resolutions of tribute to the late Gen. Will S. Green,
W. W. Foote, H. S. Foote, Cliarles Clement Clay, and otiiers
of California.
Reports upon the progress of the Jefferson Davis monu-
ment were read, and were most gratifying. The report of
the Historical Committee was well received. Special atten-
tion will be given this report hereafter.
One of the brightest women in the convention, Mrs. Living-
ston Rowe Schuyler, of New York, undertook to secure a
scholarship to Columbia University, New York, for the best
€ssay on the War between the States from the South's view-
point. Mrs. Schuyler introduced this subject a year before
in the St. Louis Convention of U. D. C. and, although she
■did not succeed in securing a scholarship as originally planned,
the university authorities did agree to have the test under
its auspices and the reward to be a prize. The judges desig-
nated by the President are Dr. Alderman, President of the
University of Virginia, Dr. Woodrow Wilson, President of
Princeton College, and Dr. D. L. Burgess, Dean of Political
Science in Columbia LTniversity. This is one of the most
important movements ever inaugurated in lielialf nf Confed-
erate history.
Blshop Moreland's Pr.Vver.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Moreland, of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, opened tlie convention with prayer. It was delivered
in "the enemy's country;" ".Almighty God, our Heavenly Fa-
ther, the Source of all courage, strength, and love, we come to
ask thy blessing upon this convention of the Daughters of the
Confederacy. We are banded together to keep alive the sa-
cred memories of the Confederacy, to minister to the needy
veteran of the South, his widow and orphan. We thank thee
for the splendor and nobility of the Southern soldiers, their
magnificent valor and glorious achievements; for the devo-
tion of the Southern women in the dark and terrible days of
war; for the height of principle and depth of self-sacrifice
which were the glory of our beloved South. We glorify tliy
name that thou hast brought peace out of strife and cemented
us as one country, with no North, no South, no East, no
West. While we mourn at the grave of the Confederate dead,
we do acknowledge thy wisdom in defeating their purpose and
preserving for us their children the inspiration of a united
country. We pay to the memory of the Confederacy the
tribute of our tears, our tender affection, our hallowed devo-
tion ; we lay upon the altars of our fathers the offering of our
admiration and our undying love ; we pledge to cherish for-
ever in our hearts and in the hearts of our children the glory
of the story of the men of the South ; yet, O Lord God, in
thy name and in the presence of these sacred shrines we
pledge ourselves to loyalty to our beloved country. Make us
Daughters of the nation as well as Daughters of the Con-
federacy ; e.xtinguish the last dying ember of sectional feeling
in the hearts of North and South, and cause peace and love
to reign among us. May our order increase and multiply,
that it may become a comfort and succor to those who need
our aid and a blessing to the widows and orphans of the
South! May our own ranks be kept free from jealousy and
discord as we view the high and holy cause to which we are
consecrated ! We pray thee to guide our convention and di-
rect its deliberations, overruling our errors to thy honor and
glory; all of which we ask in the name thy Son, Jesus Christ
our Lord. Amen."
It is the design in giving this prayer in full to show the
spirit manifested in the beginning of that U. D. C. Conven-
tion so far from the land that the organization was created
to honor. Later at a reception Bishop Moreland and other
Californians made fine addresses.
Address of Welcome to Californi.^.
Mrs. Victor Montgomery, President of the California Di-
vision, greeted the convention as follows:
"iladam President and Daughters of the Confederacy:
The Honorable Mayor of San Francisco has opened wide
the gates to your coming, and through tlie President of Al-
bert Sidney Johnston Chapter has delivered the keys into
your hands and conferred upon you the freedom of the city.
Warm and earnest were the words of greeting from our be-
loved organizer and first President of this Division.
"Mrs. Voorhies has graciously expressed to you her pleas-
ure in preparing for your entertaininent and providing for
your comfort; but to me is reserved the honor of extending
to you, in behalf of the California Division, a larger wel-
come, a welcome to our State as extensive as its vast area,
as warm as the sunshine that turns to gold the waving seas
of whispering wheat and clustered fruitage of the orange
groves or kisses into flame the glowing glories of our poppy
fields. I bid you welcome to our hearts and to our homes,
to the best that is within our borders, from where Shasta
stands in its 'snowy mantle furled' to the dimpling waters of
San Diego, in the 'Land of Heart's Desire.' and say unto
you : 'Go ye up und possess the land.'
"Out here. 'West of the West.' lies the new Mecca, toward
which modern pilgrim feet all seem to turn. The 'call of
California' has sounded so far and so imperiously yet so
sweetly and almost irresistibly that few have failed to hear
and many have followed. Nevertheless, when our President
wrote me that Mrs. Voorhies had literally captured the con-
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vention and tliat the Daughters of tlie Confederacy would hold
their next convention in San Francisco, I could hardly be-
lieve the fact that this honor was to be ours. It seemed too
good to be true. The way is so long from your homes to the
Pacific, and 'there is so little here to create enthusiasm for the
cause j'ou represent, that it seemed we had little recompense
for your fatigue; but the thought came, 'If we have nothing
else, we have California — "just California, stretching down
the middle of the world;" just this
"giant newborn West ;
But of all the lands God fashioned,
'Tis this land is the best." '
"With more than ordinary interest we have watched your
journeying through a land which, when our fathers waged
the great conflict, lay in its primeval barrenness, inhabited
only by the red men and the game they hunted. The red man
has passed. The great cattle ranges that succeeded him have
largely passed; and now fertile fields, comfortable homes,
villages, and cities have taken their places, and this rapid
change marks the pace with which our giant West has every-
where marched forward. In fancy wo have followed with
you tlie trail blazed but a short generation ago by that intrep
id band, the pioneers, for the hastening feet of civilization.
Scorching under Imrning skies, freezing in the depths of
winter snows, lighting, starving, praying, hoping, yet ever
pressing forward, they too had heard the call of California,
and 'over many a trackless plain and hill and many a blood-
stained trail they dared' to follow the voice they loved.
"Of these brave spirits, the South furnished her full quota,
who have left the impulse of their enterprise, daring, and de-
votion upon our California and helped to make of it the
greatest commonwealth of the West. The leaping life tide
in Southern veins seems ever to urge to deeds of high em-
prise, and upon whatever field American valor is displayed
Southern manhood rises preemiiieiit .nnd aggressive. Of these
MRS. VICTOR MONTGOMERY.
men foremost in making the history of our Stale, in its
political commercial, and social life, its statesmanship and
judiciary, the list is too long and the facts too well known
to need recital here ; but foremost in the ranks rides that
valorous son of the South, Fremont, the great 'Pathfinder.'
A little later comes that chivalrous gentleman and soldier,
Albert Sidney Jolm^ton, wuh a mere handful of troops, keep-
ing the mountain passes, watching the brooding silence of
the plains, and keepir.g guard ov^r helpless innocence against
murderous and savage onslaught.
"Vou come to us from the home land to which our hearts
still own alle.giancc. toward which our thoughts are ever
wistfully turning, from scenes rich in historic interest, fra-
.grant with memories of mighty deeds done in the past, sacred
to the cause we cherish. Other bodies of distinguished and
representative women have met here with us in council, but
never before one distinctively Southern ; so your coming
means much to us.
"Daughters of the Confederacy, we expect you by your
debates and deliberatcness lo show forth the aims and ends
for which we exist, to demonstrate clearly and beyond ques-
tion the dignity of our principles, the purity and beauty of
our motives. In all the world's history our organization is
unique. Where in its pages can be found the record of an
Association formed nearly forty years after the events it
commemorates to honor a vanquished people? The victorious
since time began have extolled in song and story, carved in
rude hieroglyph upon stone, or perpetuated in beautiful mar-
ble or enduring bronze the deeds of men who marched to
victory. Not to the vanquished, no matter how just the cause.
You can see how different we are from these, so different
that sometimes our motives need an interpreter.
"It is difficult for the world to understand how a body of
women, loyal to a reunited country, loving its institutions
and its flag, giving their sons to die under the starry folds,
leaching exalted patriotism and intense Americanism, yet
hold allegiance to a dead government, bind to their hearts a
blood-stained banner forever furled, and weep over the fallen
hosts of the gray for nearly half a century. We expect you
to show how Southern love remembers to honor the dead
jiast. cnre for the living present, provide for the hopeful
future, holding fast your faith in the ultimate triumph of
justice and looking forward to that future when, in the full-
ness of time, the unbiased historian shall arise an<l. using
the wealth of material you have garnered for the purpose,
shall give to the South and the Southern soldier their right-
ful places in Aincrican history.
"Again I welcome you ; and when this convention time shall
have passed into the yesterdays, may your stay with us have
been so pleasant and profitable that, should our California
again come 'wooing with her lips of song,' you may listen to
her tender strains and follow where slie leads ! To you the
passes in our mountain barriers shall be always open, and
our Golden Gate on 'hinges melodious turning' shall over
stand ajar."
The Utah 1)ki.ix,.\te W.xnted to Uxse.\t Sen.\tor Smoot
Quite a sensation occurred when Mrs. Tom D. Pitt, Presi-
dent of the Salt Lake Chapter, read her report. She desired
to present a memorial against Senator Smoot's remaining m
the United States Senate. She could not secure the consent of
the President, Mrs. Gen, A. T. Smyth, of Charleston, whr.
was manifestly in sympathy with the spirit of the memorial,
but determined that no measure should be presented that might
be construed as political. Mrs. Pitt, however, got an informal
hearing, for in her report she stated that at a meeting in
April she presented to her Chapter a resolution indorsing the
protest against Mr. Smoot's retention of his seat in tlie Con-
gress of the United States, and indorsing also the memorial
to Congress for the amendments to the constitution prohibiting
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polygamy. In her plea Mrs. Pitt said : "Now we come with
an appeal to this whole body of the National U. D. C. to add
the w-eight of their indorsement to the noble work being done
by the U. D. C. and help to teach Americanism. I present
this memorial not from a political standpoint — we have no
politics in Utah ; we are ruled by a king, Joseph the Prophet —
but as a member of the Home Protective League and ni the
name of morality and purity of the home under the banner
of the Southland stars and bars for which my father fought."
The movement was heartily indorsed by many prominent
women of the convention, as reported by the newspapers, and
failure to procure even a discussion of the subject intensified
the interest of members who have espoused that cause.
REPORT ON CROSSES OF HOXOR.
Mrs. S. E. Gabbett, Custodian, reported at San Francisco:
"Madam President, Daughters: Your first delivery of
crosses was on April 24, 1900. Your Custodian's last pur-
chase w-as on September 22, 1905. During this period I, as
your Custodian, have ordered and paid for fifty thousand
crosses. The last installment has, of course, not yet been
exhausted. As there are several States which have selected
October and November as their fourth time for delivery of
crosses in the year (especially Texas, which State generally
sends in a number of orders), I may safely say that before
the close of the present year you will have given the round
number of fifty thousand.
"Who would imagine that so many veterans have lived so
long after the terrible hardships, the wounds, the broken
health, the impoverished fortunes entailed by the War between
tlie States? Indeed, I judge by the number of certificates
which still continue to reach your Custodian's office that
many veterans still remain to receive from the hands of the
Daughters their loving recognition of the sublime sacrifices
by these loyal men, faithful to their duty during the four
years of the war and most loyal to this day to the cause for
which they suffered.
"Here I draw your attention to Rule i, Section 2, of tht-
rules and regulations as formulated by the Committee of the
Cross of Honor and indorsed by the General Committee.
Before any descendant can secure the cross in any country
three consecutive monthly notices must be inserted in the
city and county papers, calling upon veterans to send in ap-
plications. If, after the expiration of three months, no other
applications are sent in, the bestowal of crosses upon de-
scendants may begin. Sufficient attention is not paid to this
rule. I have received orders for descendants, and sometime
after orders for the veterans. I advise the Daughters to
make sure that they have served all veterans in their county
before they send orders for descendants, and I must remind
you that there are certain regulations concerning the delivery
of crosses to descendants which must not be omitted.
"Rule 2, Section I, is not properly defined, There are a great
many veterans who do not belong to a Camp. Citizens shall
testify as to their personal knowledge of the service of the
veteran ; affidavits should in every case be given. I assure
you, Daughters, from my own personal knowledge many
frauds have been perpetrated upon you. It is impossible for
you to be too strict in your examination of the evidence of
the worthiness of the veteran you would honor. You cannot
afford to make your gift so common that, as is the case in
France at present with their cross of honor, it is considered
a distinction for a man not to wear it.
"A few weeks ago a man called at my house to ask direc-
tions as to the way he could obtain the cross. I referred hira
to the President of the Chapter in Atlanta, explaining the
necessity of a certificate of service with proper indorsement.
He then told me that two men who wore the cross had said
to him: 'Why take the trouble? You can buy them. We
bought ours for forty cents each at the Reunion in Louisville.'
The veteran who told me this story added : T told them a
cross I could buy with money would be worth nothing to me.'
"While standing on the platform at Salt Lake City, I met
a much-decorated man, of Vi'hom I asked : 'How did you get
your decoration ?' "I bought it,' he replied, 'at the Reunion
of tlie Grand Army.'
"The Daughters of the Confederacy do not permit our
badges bought or sold. They represent too much. They
represent the blood, the life sacrifice of the Confederate sol-
dier. Even so our Confederate cross bears on its face an
assertion that our cause is right, and will be so proved 'Deo
Vindice' (God our vindication). God will prove us to be in
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the right. The Daughters do not permit their cross of honor
bought or sold. They leave that to the members of the
Grand Army of the Republic. Although we must acknowl-
edge that there are black sheep in our flock who will pawn
their badges, there are many thousands who value them, hold-
ing them dearer than their lives. It remains with you, Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, to guard your gift. You cannot too-
strictly investigate the claims of the veteran. This is not
'red tape,' a favorite expression, but it is your duty not to
give it to every poor old man who comes pleading for a
cross at the last moment before a reunion. What does he
want? To wear a badge of honor and have 'a good time.'
"With the others, it is a very natural feeling when they are
'leal men and true' (?); but is it not very difficult for you
'Daughters' to properly investigate the records of the claim-
ant of honor when they come only at the last moment eagerly
seeking a badge for a reunion ? I shall give you an instance.
Within the last few weeks I have received urgent letters,
registered, etc., in haste for a number of crosses for a
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certain day of reunion. I replied: 'I can till your order, but
not to be delivered on the date you mention.' The reply was :
'Our Chapter has received a special permit of our Divisional
President to give the crosses on that day.' 'I replied : 'There
is some mistake. You cannot legally give the crosses on
that day, for it is not one of the days appointed by the Gen-
eral Convention. I fill your order for crosses, but you take
the responsibility on yourself at a time not permitted. The
General Convention alone can give a permit."
"The perfect infatuation which prevails for giving the
crosses for a reunion astonishes me. My office is crowded
with telegrams, hurried orders, pressing calls. "Do let us
have the crosses in time for the reunion. The poor old sol-
diers will be so disappointed.' Why were not the crosses
given in time on a selected day? I know your reply: 'Tlie
veterans did not apply in time.' Then they should wait till
the next settled dale. A rule should not be broken except
in extreme cases.
"I must now bring before you another matter which has
given much trouble — the call for a cross for a dying man.
It does indeed seem a terrible act to refuse a cross when the
<Iying pray for it, when unavoidable circumstances have pre-
vented an application sooner. The veteran may live far in
ihe country, may be poor, old, helpless. Some little time
before death he hears the tales of this cross of honor, and
craves it. He feels that at last some recognition of his serv-
ices may be given, lie may hear again the call to arms ni
defense of his dear fatherland and recall the enthusiasm
with which he ru-ilied to her defense. Me desires the cross
oi honor to be placed upon his breast, some wish it buried
with them, others earnestly desire their children to receive
(liis testimony of their father's fidelity to his country. Can
we refuse to give the honor he asks for? No! it is im-
possible, for here indeed a rule would be 'ironclad.' We can-
not let a man die with his heart's desire ungratificd. It has,
therefore, been suggested by the Committee on the Cross of
Honor that the Daughters request the afticJavit of the at-
tending physician that the veteran is really seriously ill and
may not live till the next appointed day of delivery, in which
case the Convention will autJioriz* the iiimiediatc presenta-
tion of the cross of honor.
"I recall a most moving instance which occurred in Los
.•\ngeles, Cal., four years ago. The Chapters were assembled
in convention. 1 had just finished an address, when a hur-
ried messenger came in, stating that a veteran was dying and
asked for the cross. At that time there was no committee.
T acted on my own iudgment, directing the cross sent. Tt
was afterwards pinned upon this veteran's breast as he lay
in his coffin.
"Mrs. Robert, of St. Louis, tells me that when a cross
was asked for a very ill man it was promised : but when
the veteran heard that it could not be delivered until a cer-
tain day, he turned his head aside with the tears trickling
from his eyes. He died without receiving it. When I heard
this story, I felt crushed : and I pray you. Daughters of the
Convention, give the permission I have suggested. You will
pardon me for bringing this point so urgently before you.
Tt is really by direction of your Committee of the Cross of
Honor as delivered to me last summer by the Chairman. Miss
Rutherford, who is unavoidably absent. Before she left for
Europe she advised me as to the course to pursue, and ex-
pected herself to report to the General Convention.
"Another point I would urge, and that is more care in
making up your lisl See Rule 2. Section 2 This rule is con-
stantly broken. ... I will show )0u the vital importance
of these lists. A veteran sometimes claims two crosses. He
may lose one and wants another. He will not go to the same
Chapter, but another; another State even. I have known
several instances of this. His name and full address ap-
pearing twice upon the lists in the Custodian's office will
probably cause its detention, but this does not necessarily
follow. Also I warn the Chapters against giving crosses to
applicants from other States and other counties. The danger
is great of doubling the gift, also of offending the Camp or
Chapter to which the application really belongs; but, above
all, to giving the cross to one unworthy. Surely it is more
seemly that the cross should be given by the Chapter of the
county or city in which the veteran lived. Should the vet-
eran desire to go back to an old home for his cross, then due
notice should be given and his reason for so applying, and
care taken to notify the Chapter, if any, in his then home.
"I call your attention to Rule 7, Section I : 'Crosses to be
given by the nearest local Chafiler.' I recall a case in point.
A veteran asked for a cross, I believe in North Carolina, his
reason being that he was returning to his home in San
Francisco to a 'family gathering' and wished to wear ii
Now what does our hostess say to this? "Depriving her ot
the pleasure of giving a cross to a worthy veteran, .^n adage
says 'Procrastination is the thief of time.' It is more; it is
the cause of disappointment, of heartburnings, of ill temper,
and a host of evils. What do you say to the delays of the
veterans in getting their certificates? Why, they have been
known to carry them in their pockets until they have been
worn out. Then, when there is a reunion or any period for
presentation immediately on hand (especially a reunion),
great is the rush, and the Dauglners rush with their orders,
some arriving at the Custodian's office the day before or two
days before a presentation in a distant State. The crosses
could not arrive in time, even though they could travel on
the telegraph wire, or, as the celebrated Irish member said ;
'Barring they were a bird who could be in two places at
once.' So look to it, Daughters, that you put no more stop-
pages in the way of your orders to the Custodian, or you will
find yourselves and your veterans out in the cold, waiting for
airnt^ier appointed day .\ word to tile wise is sufficient.
"Here I desire to point out to you the duties of a Custodian
and the absolute necessity of this office in its fullest sense.
To buy. pay for. and deliver crosses are the minor duties of
her office. She must be wholly unbiased by any local preju-
dice, either of State, regiments, of family connections, political
influence, or any other outside bias. The data on the cer-
tificates must be her guide; strict conformity to the rules her
only safeguard. She has no right to alter them, not even
to relax them (however her sympathies may be with any
person who writes to her for such relaxing or changing).
The Custodian has the one paramount duty — to obey the
rules given by the General Convention herself and to see to
it that the Chapters applying to her also strictly obey these
rules, to carefully examine Ihe certificates and lists and
orders, to question when doubtful and to explain when a
point appears not to be understood, and to exact perfect
obedience to the rules.
"A last point to which T must call your attention : The
wearing of the cross of honor is an 'open sesame' — a badge
of honor will open the doors of an old veteran. The feeling
is. 'We were comrades in the war. and therefore you are
welcome." while perhaps the wearer of the badge is a fraud
and never fired a shot in defending his country. Beware,
therefore, of lavish, indiscriminate giving. Guard your cross."
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(^opfederati^ l/eterai).
Mrs. L. H. Raines, of Georgia, Honorakv President.
Desiring to nominate Mrs. L. H. Raines, of Georgia, for the
position of Honorary President, the following was otTered :
"Resolved, That the United Daughters of the Confederacy
take this way of expressing their sense of obligation to Mrs.
L. H. Raines, of Savannah, Ga., for the active and earnest
part taken by her in the organization of this Association,
both in its earliest days and afterwards, especially in the
formation of the charter Chapters of Georgia, North Caro-
lina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Kentucky, Indian
Territory, Alabama, Virginia, Arkansas, Washington, D. C,
and other States.
"Resolved, That an acknowledgment is due Mrs. Raines as
the original suggester of the design of the badge still used by
the Daughters of the Confederacy. That this Association also
expresses its appreciation of the zeal and courage with which
Mrs. Raines for nearly a year filled the offices and did the
work of President, First Vice President, and Corresponding
Secretary, owing to the resignation of the President and the
absence in Europe of the Corresponding Secretary, after
which labor of love, consideration of health, and calls of
domestic duty caused Mrs. Raines to forbid her friends to
urge her claims to the presidency of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy, a position which she was so well quali-
fied to fill.
"Resolved. That Mrs. L. H. Raines is hereby elected an
Honorary President of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, and that these resolutions be ..spread upon the mui-
utes and an engrossed copy sent to Mrs. Raines."
The resolutions were adopted cordially and without a dis-
senting voice.
Mrs. W. B. Prichard, of San Francisco, a daughter of Gen.
Albert Sidney Johnston, was called to the platform at the
closing session of the convention, to which she had been pre-
sented at the opening, and in response to a splendid demon-
stration she said : "Ladies, I thank you for your greeting,
giving assurance, as it does, that my father's memory is still
fresh and green in your loyal, loving hearts. It is very grati-
fying to me. I too would like to say welcome to Cali-
fornia, our adopted State, into whose purchase price went
full many a drop of the best Southern blood. It seems very,
very good to me to be among you to-day and to share in the
councils of our wonderful society, whose power for good is
infinite. May God so guide us always that we use it to its
best and fullest extent !"
Mrs. Sue M. Preston, of Columbia, Temi , the venerable
widow of Col. Thomas W. Preston, of Memphis, Tenn., who
was killed on the field of the first day of the battle of Shiloh
while serving on the staff of Gen. A. P. Stewart, was an
attendant of the San Francisco Convention. U. D. C. She
is making an extended visit to Judge Thomas I-. Winder at
Los Angeles.
Condensed Report of the Tennessee Division.
[Supplied by Mrs. A. B. White, Paris, Division President.]
The Tennessee Division is growing steadily in numbers,
and now has fifty-seven Chapters, six new ones having been
organized since the last report was made, one with eighty-
seven charter members.
The birthdays of President Davis, Robert E. Lee. Nathan
Bedford Forrest, and Sam Davis are observed annually by the
Chapters.
The Tennessee General Assembly increased the appropria-
tion for Confederate veterans $50,000 per year, appropriated
$50,000 for widows of Confederate veterans, and made the
per eafila tax for the Soldiers' Home $130. For these ap-
propriations the Daughters of Tennessee deserve much of the
credit, for they worked faithfully, placing these matters be-
fore the Legislators.
The Soldiers' Home is the object of the tenderest solici-
tude to every Chapter, and they vie with one another in
doing something to add to the comfort of the dear old men,
contributing for the matron's salary, for trained nurses, easy
chairs, dainties, etc., and last year built three rooms for a
hospital. Eleven Chapters, besides responding liberally to
every call, have helped individual cases of need, one Chapter
aiding twenty-five veterans.
The Educational Committee reports twelve girls at school,
and tells of others made self-supporting by timely aid.
The History Committee is doing excellent work, having
just issued a circular letter, calling attention to the importance
of the study of our history and outlining a course of study
for the j'ear.
An event of particular interest was the unveiling of the
Forrest monument at Memphis, for which the Daughters had
raised thousands of dollars. Several monuments to county
soldiers have been erected within the last few months, and
several Chapters have this for their principal work.
Tennessee will ere long erect a monument to her boy hero
and martyr, Sam Davis, and many Chapters are working
enthusiastically raising funds for the Shiloh monument.
The Knoxville and Paris conventions demonstrated the
wisdom of abolishing the use of proxies in our conventions,
for they were the largest and most enthusiastic conventions
we have ever held.
There is great interest in children's auxrHaries — three al-
ready organized and others to be this antumn.
Several Chapters are planning to er-ect Chapter houses or
to have Chapter rooms.
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AT HUNTSVILLE.
The Daughters of the Confederacy at Huntsville, Ala., are
happy over the successful erection and dedication of a Con-
federate monument, which was unveiled November 21, 1905.
Mr. Robert C. Brickell was master of ceremonies. Mrs. Vir-
ginia Clay Clopton, President of the Huntsville Chapter,
made the following address before the unveiling, at the con-
clusion of whicli the band played "Dixie:"
Mrs. Clopton's Address.
We are assembled to memorialize the sublime sacrifices and
unparalleled military achievements of that noble body of
martyrs which is to-day recognized and honored as the Con-
federate army of America, those peerless patriots who per-
ished in defense of principles as imperishable as are the de-
crees of Almighty God. We have come to ofifer our loyalty,
our homage, and the undying devotion of our hearts to those
immortal heroes, who, though dead, yet live in the hearts of
their countrymen and countrywomen. For this purpose we,
the United Daughters of the Confederacy of the Huntsville
Chapter of Alabama, have labored for years, and have at last
accomplished and erected this grand and glorious inonument,
which will be unveiled to your eager gaze to the sacred mem-
ory of our gallant dead, hoping and believing it will per-
petuate through coming generations the fadeless luster of
their name and the glory of their fame.
The inscription is from the heart and pen of a gifted wom-
an of this city, whose glowing words in beautiful lettering
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of stone most eloquently tell the mournful but martial story.
We have crowned it with the laurel wreath, emblem of peren-
nial bloom, and have engraven on its broad shaft the im-
mortal banner of the Southern Confederacy — that glorious
banner which through four stormy years of fiery ordeal we
saw
"Flung
Like meteor in the sky.
And heroes, such as Homer sung.
Followed it — to die !"
These precious, sacred emblems are consigned to the care
and keeping of the gallant Confederate sentinel, whose marble
effigy surmounts and caps the climax of this beautiful shaft
on guard in death as he ever was in life. Peace to his sacred
ashes and the hallowed ashes of the Confederate dead
wherever they lie, on hilltop or in valley, in mausoleum or
nameless grave. May the halo of God's blessing ever rest
upon each precious sod, even as doth his eternal sunshine!
"For them the poet's lyre is wreathed.
Her marble wrought, her music breathed ;
Of them the lisping babe first tells;
For them we ring our birthday bells;
For them the evening prayer is said
By palace couch and cottage bed !"
Thirteen beautiful girls, representing the Confederate States
by appropriate banners, decorated the pedestal of the monu-
ment with flowers.
The presentation address was made by Mr. Ephraim Fos-
ter, and addresses of acceptance were made by Gov. Jelks
for the State, Judge Lawler for the county, and Mayor Smith
for the city.
The orator for the day was Gen. G. P. Harrison, commanding
the Alabama Division, U. C. V., who was happily introduced
by Capt. Milton Humes. Other addresses were made by ex-
Gov. Joseph F. Johnston, Gen. J. N. Thompson, commanding
the Third Alabama Brigade, U. C. V., and Capt. Davis H.
Turner, of the Egbert Jones Camp. This Camp, of course,
cooperated with the Daughters in every way.
Articles in Corner Stone of the Monument.
Mrs. J. W. Battle took the leading part in depositing his-
toric souvenirs in the corner stone of the monument on
November 2, 1905. The list is as follows: Copies of Hunts-
ville papers (the Democrat. Daily Mercury, and Evening
Tributic) of October, 1905; an old copy of the Charleston
Mercury of March 12, 1861, edited by R. B. Rhett, con-
taining the proceedings of the first Confederate Congress,
held in Montgomery, Ala., in March, icSOi ; the Daily Rebel.
edited by Frank M. Paul, April 16, 1863, containing an ad-
dress by President Davis to the South ; three copies of Con-
federate Extras, of 1861, 1862, and 1863, containing latest war
news; an old Richmond Enquirer. June, 1863. containing a
tribute to Mrs. Virginia C. Clay (now Mrs. Clopton) as she
then appeared ; a list of members of the Confederate Con-
gress, 1861 and 1862; a list of the major generals and the
brigadier generals of the Confederate army; a list of the
Madison Ritles, Hunlsville Guards, .Tracy's company, Kelly's
troopers, companies raised in Huntsvillc, 1861-62; a Con-
federate flag made by a daughter of J. W. Battle ; a diary
by Mrs. Sarah C. Robinson during the war. (See page 543. >
occ.x.MciN 1.1- ninu aiim; the lunfeiier.\te monument .\i huntsville, .\l,\.
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Qor}federat(^ l/eterar?
(Confederate l/eterai^.
S. A. CUNNINGHAM, Editor and Proprielor.
Office: Methodist Publishing House Building, Nashville, Tenn.
This publication is the personal property of S. A. Cunningham. All pi-r
sons who approve its principles and realize its henetits as an c»r<;an for Asso-
ciations throughout the South are requested to commend its patronage and to
cooperate in extending its circulation. Let each one be constantly diligent.
BEST CONFEDERATE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.
In a letter concerning action of the Georgia Division, U.
C. v.. for the Veteran. Gen. Clement A. Evans, Lientenant
General in command of the Army of Tennessee Department,
writes: "... I am not satisfied with the manner in whicli
we coviplimcitt the Veteran. I see no reason why every Di-
vision in the U. C. V. should not appoint one general agent
for the Division to press our comrades, the sons and grand-
sons of those who are dead, to become subscribers."
While grateful for the proposed plan and hoping that such
a movement may be inaugurated, the Veteran suggests the
sending of a year's subscription for 1906 as a Christmas pres-
ent. Think of how much comfort and pleasure might be
given in this way. Many a well-to-do man might send it to
five or ten veterans. An e.xtra year's subscription will be
given to any who will send five dollars and a half dozen
names. Send, anyhow, one subscription for next year.
A LABORER WHO ASPIRES TO BE WORTHY.
In closing the thirteenth year of the Veteran, its founder
and the editor of its every issue is made to feel e.xtremely
grateful and humble through the presentation of a medal.
The circumstances creating the gift are obtained from a letter
by Mrs. T. J, Latham, of Memphis, on November 27, 1905:
"During the Reunion at Louisville last
June at a dinner in the Gait House you
passed along, stopping by our table to
speak to us There were present Gen.
Stephen D. Lee, Col. V. Y. Cook, Col. R.
M. Knox, Miss Mary Harrison, sister-
in-law of Gen. Lee, and myself. As you
left us, one of the party remarked that if
at any time or for any cause we of the
Confederacy should lose Mr. Cunning-
ham the loss would be irreparable. No
man has accomplished as much. .
No one has made the history of the Con-
federate-soldiers, their deeds, and their
lives such a study as he. . . . Another
remark was made that we can all throw
bouquets now and if he should die, but
why not give some evidence of our ap-
preciation while he is living? This re-
mark produced the greatest interest, and
all agreed that we would do something.
We wondered that it had not been thought
of before. All agreed to act at once, and
put it upon me to take the matter up I
agreed gladly to do so, provided Gen.
Lee and Col. Cook would serve on the
committee, to which they consented most
cheerfully. Gen. Lee, however, being
very busy, asked to be excused e-xcept
that we call upon him for all the money we needed. He in-
sisted upon my taking ten dollars, but I would accept only
five from him, and before I left the table I had thirty dol-
lars more; so you will know I was enthusiastically happy
I went into the hall and everybody was interested, offering
to join in. I almost regret that I did not ask for a house and
lot. I am sure I should have secured it. Several of our mutual
friends in Memphis asked to sha-e in the honor; but I ac-
cepted a contribution here from Judpe J. P. Young only, who
adjourned court an hour earlier than the usual time to make
the presentation, which he did so happily at Mr Carrington
Mason's residence.
"You should feel gratified that the money for the medal, or
souvenir, was raised on the spot from your devoted friends.
No one was asked for a cent. .\s I have said, I could have
raised a larger amount. . . .
"If the medal had been finished, I should have requested
Mrs. Smythe to present it at the California Convention, U.
D. C. -'Vs it was, the occasion '-as notable and heart-to-
heart. Not a dry eye in the house."
The presentation was, as stated, in the ideal home of Mrs
Mason by Judge Young in exquisite terms of kindness and
consideration. Some two hundred ladies and a few veterans
were present, the ladies largely of the Sarah Law Chapter and
officers of other Chapters. The gracious and gifted Mrs.
Mason paid beautiful tribute to the labors of the recipient,
and asked that every lady present greet Mr. Cunningham and
tell him her name.
These few brief words were said in response : "A long time
ago a little girl was ill and her father asked her to take some
medicine, when she pleaded that he excuse her. He then said :
'I will give you my watch if you will take it.' That little
girl became my wife. This is the watch [then exhibiting a
fine old gold watch and the medal], and these two relics will
be equally sacred to me while I live."
Following are those who subscribed for the medal : Gen.
Stephen D. Lee. of Columbus, Miss. ; Gen.
V. Y. Cook, of Newport, Ark.; R. M.
Knox, of Pine Bluff, Ark. ; Gen. Julian
Carr, of North Carolina ; J. C. Long, of
Chattanooga ; Gen. K. M. Vanzant, of Fort
Worth, Tex.; H. A. Tyler, of Hickman.
Ky. ; J. F. Shipp, of Chattanooga ; Judge
T. J. Latham, of Memphis ; J. V. Harris.
of Key West. Fla. ; Capt. -E. Withers, of
Holly Springs ; Judge J. P. Young, of
Memphis ; Miss Mary Harrison, of Co-
lumbus, Miss.; Mrs. T. J. Latham, of
Memphis. > •
The favor of the foregoing space is
asked of those who may not be interested
in the tribute that the recipient has sought
to merit.
Indulgence is sought in the lack of much
that was intended for this issue. Acombi-
r.ation of misfortunes, the worst of which
was a two weeks' illness, is given as the
cause. Incompleteness of the report of
the United Daughters of the Confederacy
in the California Convention, notes of the
journey (yet to appear), incompleteness
of the report upon the dedication of the
Huntsville (Ala.) monument and of the
\J. C V. State Convention of Georgia, are
the special features so very unsatisfactory to the editor. He
hopes to more than make up for these shortcomings in th;
future and to make the Veteran better and better to the end.
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COA' FEDERATES IN CONGRESS.
One of (lie last lingering stings sought to effect partisan-
ship by reconstructionists against the South was to harp
i^pon the "Confederate Brigadiers" in Congress. They were
there, and stayed, being a credit to their respective States
and the nation, until time with its relentless sickle leveled
most of them with others indiscriminately. There are but
few of the generals left, and, in fact, but few in cither House
who served the Confederate cause. Alabama, to her credit,
has retained two venerable men in the Senate — Morgan, who
has maintained marvelously his intellectual powers, and the
.more venerable Pettu«. ever a wise counselor and just law-
maker. The loss to Tennessee of the gallant and eloquent
Senator William B. Bate w'as an event that made its impress
upon the coimtry, and the government did itself credit in the
large delegation sent to attend his funeral. Senator Bate
was the ranking Confederate in the Senate at the time ot
his death, having been a major general.
Two other Senator.s are recalled instinctively in the same
connection — John W, Daniel, of Virginia, and James H
I'lcrry, of Arkansas, the two apparently of about the same
.ige. both depending upon crutches from tragic events in the
war. Each is conspicuous for his State. Such men should
be continued with pride and gratitude, while mentally sound,
as long as they are able to use their honorable crutches to
attend the sessions and coniniittce meetings. It has long been
the purpose of the Veter.^n to give prominence to this class
of comrades. They should lie maintained as Representatives
and Senators until their hours for the last tattoo.
Senator James H. Berry, of Arkansas, is a native of Ala-
liama, born in Jackson County May 15, 1841. Al the age
of seven his family removed to Arkansas. In 1S61 he en-
tered tile Confederate service as second lieutenant in the i6th
.Arkansas Infantry, serving with it until October 4. 1862, when
he lost a leg in the sanguinary battle of Corinth. He was
elected to the Legislature of Arkansas in 1866, was re-
elected in 1872, and was elected Speaker of the House at an
extra session in 1874. He was President of the Democratic
State Convention in 1876, was elected judge of the circuit
court in 187S, was elected Governor in 1882, was elected to
the United States Senate to succeed A. H. Garland, appointed
Attorney-General, and took his seat March 25, 1885, and was
reelected in 18S9. 1895. and loor. His present term will ex-
pire March 3, 1907.
Senator Berry's standing in the Senate is of the highest
credit to his State and the South. His long service has been
so efficient that his place on important committees is of much
value to his constituency. For instance, as the senior mem-
ber of the Committee on Commerce, having in charge ap-
liropriations for rivers and harbors, all matters pertaining to
ihe interests of the South of this nature are left almost en-
tirely to him. and he is regularly on the Committee of Con-
ference between the two Houses. A colleague said of him in
this connection : "I believe he has done more for the im-
provement of the Mississippi and rivers in Arkansas than all
Ihe other members of both Houses in the last ten years. He
has taken an active interest in public land matters and in all
(inestions that concern agricultural classes."
Senator Berry is by nature and instinct loyal to the "plain
people." but be is so ruggedly honest that there is no pre-
tense of such sentiment for effect. Every Southerner who
w-ould honor the men who wore the gray should be diligent
for their maintenance of the best positions in our State and
national life so long as they are capable of filling then>
creditably. In such advocacy, the Veteran will maintain
diligence. It is in l.)ad grace for young men to burden their
themes witli well-earned praises to the Confederates while
scheming to get (heir places in public life.
UNITED STATES SENATOR JAMES H. BERRY.
GEORGIA STATE REUNION.
The Georgia State Convention that met in Macon was
notable, as ever arc the meetings of Georgia Confederates, for
devotion and enthusiasm The attendance was very large, and
interest was unabated to the end.
Gen. P. A. S. McGlashan. who bad been the Division Com-
mander since the promotion of Gen. Evans to command the
Army of Tennessee Department, declined reelection. Two
comrades were discussed for successor — Gen. A. J. West,
who has been an efficient Brigade Commander for years, and
Cien. C. M. Wiley, of Macon, who had been acting as Di-
vision Commander for some time. Before the balloting had
proceeded to a finish Gen. West withdrew, and Col. Wiley
was elected unanimously as Major General of the Division for
the ensuing year.
Gen. McGlashan's Report.
Comrades: Since we assembled in the beautiful city of
Rome, where we were so cordially and hospitably entertained,
ihe event has remained a pleasant remembrance, and, although
we now miss the presence of many of our loved comrades,
who will never meet us again on earth, yet, thanks to Al-
mighty God! many of us arc yet spared in health and
strength to meet and carry out the .sacred work that binds
us together — a work that has given character and strength to
our Southern people and compelled the respect and esteem
of friends and enemies alike.
I congratulate you on the wonderful prosperity of the
South, largely due to your efforts, and on the interest taken
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in the work of the Divisions, as evidenced by the large repre-
sentation here to-day. God bless you all and enable you to
follow up the efforts until the tongue of base calumny is ever
-silenced by the truth of history forever established. This is
•due to our descendants that they may forever honor us ;
this is our duty, and we shall not fail to carry it out, en-
couraged, helped, and cheered on by our glorious Southern
women, who have never ceased to honor us to their own
immortal honor. Let us maintain the high principles of our
-order, eschewing all politics and living true to the sacred
memories of our honored past. . . .
Let us recognize and rejoice over the splendid work of our
-coworkers, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and
pledge support to their noble resolve to erect a monument at
Andersonville to our Southern martyr, Capt. Wirtz, in solemn
protest against the unjust calumnies of the monuments erected
at that place by the North regarding the treatment of their
prisoners at that prison. Too long have they gone unrefuted,
while eternal truth demands their refutation. AH honor, I
say, to the noble women of Georgia who have initiated this
noble work.
There are about one hundred and forty-five Camps in this
State, and I estimate about thirty-five hundred members. Of
these, about one-half are active. My able and painstaking
Adjutant General, Col. Crumley, tells me that many Camps
have paid their dues to General and Division Headquarters ;
but the strictest economy has had to be enforced at head-
quarters, in order to provide sufficient funds for the neces-
■sary work of the Division. Can we not do better? I think
we can, with the active help of the Brigade Commanders.
Each Brigade Commander should have a list of his Camps
in his Brigade and insist on the Adjutants carrying out
their duties, getting in friendly touch with all his Camps.
I acknowledge freely that I have not done all that should
liave been done in my position, but in the last year the feeble-
ness incident to old age and some disabling illness has been
•my excuse. Sixty years of hard work and four years of
war is my brief record, but I feel ashamed of nothing in it.
My service with you as Commander ends with this meeting,
and I do not desire that my name should be considered in
connection with the next term of office. I thank you, my
comrades, for the great honor you have conferred on me, for
the signal friendship and courtesies extended me, and I es-
pecially beg to thank the members of my staff, who have been
unremitting in their efforts to assist in my duties and in-
crease my pleasure in the work.
Tribute to Retiring Maj. Gen. McGlashan.
The same conmiittee as above submitted the following in
honor of the retiring Division Commander :
"Whereas our beloved and gallant Division Commander,
Gen. P. A. S. McGlashan, of Savannah, Ga., has modestly
announced his intention of retiring from the lofty position
which he has graced as the popular head of our great or-
ganization; therefore be it
"Resolved, That we regret his intention to sever his con-
nection in the capacity that he has so well and worthily filled,
and that he carries with him in his retirement our heartiest
wishes for a long life of health, happiness, and prosperity.
"Resolved, That we tender to him our love and grateful ac-
"knowledgment for the marked and distinguished courtesy
which he has shown to each and every one of our companies
and members, and that we will bear in the future the most
affectionate recollection of him and his services. May the
all-wise and infinite Ohe guide, guard, and protect him !"
Action of Georgia Division, U. C. V., for the Veteran.
Capt. R. E. Park, State Treasurer of Georgia, sends with
some resolutions the following note :
'T took the liberty and great pleasure in introducing the
resolutions indorsing the Conf£der.\te Veteran and its editor.
They were adopted unanimously with applause, and I hope
that you will publish them in the Veteran.
"I also inclose you a copy of the proceedings for one day,
and wish tlrat you would publish the resolutions asking the
General Reunion to alter its constitution and forbid the use
of military titles for the officers of Camps, Brigades, Divisions,
etc., as they regard the conferring of these titles as a per-
version of history and liable to be greatly abused.
"Gen. ]McGlashan presided at the convention with great
ability and fairness. Judge C. M. Wiley, the popular Ordi-
nary of Bibb County, Ga., living in Macon, who was the
Senior Brigade Commander, was unanimously elected Di-
vision Commander to succeed Gen. McGlashan. A. J. West,
J. A. Cobb, John W. Clark, and J. S. Sweat were elected
Brigade Commanders of their respective sections of the
State. W. M. Crumley, Adjutant, was very efficient in his
position. The meeting was a great success.
"Resolved, By this Association of Confederate Veterans, in
convention assembled in Macon, Ga., that we take great pleas-
ure in recommending our official organ, the Confederate Vet-
eran, edited by our Confederate brother, S. A. Cunningham,
at Nashville, Tenn., to every Confederate soldier and son of
a Confederate as eminently worthy of their support.
"Resnlzied, That we urge all organizations of a Confederate
character, whether veterans or their sons or the daughters.
MAJ. GEN. C. M. WILEY.
to become patrons of this magazine, which we regard as the
exponent of Confederate principles and Confederate history.
We respectfully request every Camp Commander to bring the
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Veteran to the attention of his fellow-members and to urge
each and every one to become a subscriber.
"Resolved further, that we cordially commend Mr. S. A.
Cunningham, the . editor of the Veteran, to the
patronage and support of every true Southerner.
"James L. Fleming, J. W. Wilcox. R. E. Park, Committee."
laying corner stone of women's monument, macon. ga.
Park's Resolution for the Jamestown Celebration.
Resolutions that had passed through the hands of the
proper committee and dealing with the part that Georgia may
play in the Virginia Exposition of 1907 were introduced by
Capt. R. E. Park and accepted. These resolutions arc:
"Whereas the State of Virginia is to give a great industrial
and historical exposition in 1907 to commemorate the three
hundredth anniversary of the first permanent settlement of
the Anglo-Saxon race in America; and whereas Virginia is
sending out an appeal to Georgia to be leprcsenled as one of
thirteen original States; and whereas the general appro-
priation conmiittee of the Georgia Legislature has reported
unanimously for a liberal appropriation that Georgia may be
properly represented ; therefore be it
"Resolved. That the United Confederate Veterans of Geor-
gia, in their annual encampment in Macon, unanimously urge
the Georgia Legislature at its next session to pass this ap-
propriation, thus answering the first appeal that the grand
old commonwealth of Virginia has ever made to Georgia ;
be it further
"Resolved, That we send our greetinP' to the old com-
monwealth that we love so well with God's blessings on her
and her people."
W. N. Mitchell's Aodress in Behalf of the Celebration.
In this the proudest hour of my life I stand in awe in the
presence of the remnant of the most heroic army that God'«
sun has ever shone upon — an army whose members left their
homes and firesides as one man, not from selfish motives, not
for greed, but to battle for principle, and principle alone.
The Georgia Legislature of 1904. at the request of that
■grand son of Virginia, the late lamented Fitzhugh Lee, passed
an act creating a commission to represent the State at the
Jamestown Exposition, to be held in 1907. I was elected to
the position of president of that commission. I am a Vir-
ginian by birth, a Georgian by adoption, proud of the State
•of my birth and the State of my adoption, but above all other
things prouder of my birthright as a Southerner, that gives
me the right to say I am of the country from which came the
Confederate army. In my dual capacity as a Virginian and
iGeorgian I bring Georgia an appeal from old Virginia
Virginia in the Jamestown Exposition is to commemorate
the three hundreth anniversary of the first settlement of the
Anglo-Saxon race in America, and die appeals to Georgia to
come to her aid by being represented at that time. All of
the original thirteen States, with the exception of Georgia,
have already made appropriations. Georgia is the pivotal and
empire State of the South, and as she is greater in her unde-
veloped and developed wealth than any of tlie other States,
commercially she should he represented, as the site of this
exposition, according to the railroad schedules and the census
of the United States, is within twelve hours' ride of twenty
million people, representing the w alth and purchasing power
of the country ; therefore commercially, Georgia cannot af-
ford to be absent. But as a Virginian I transmit the appeal
, from a higher standpoint than commercialism — patriotism.
I see before me men that for four years, from 1861 to 1865.
trod her sacred soil; I see before me men who have parts of
iliemsclves still resting under that soil. Georgia has ever stood
shoulder to shoulder with Virginia. Under the immortal
Washington, that grand and heroic Virginian, Georgia and
Virginia trod many a heroic field. In Mexico Georgia and
X'irginia stood side by side, and storming the heights of
Chapultepcc Georgians and Virginians carried side by side the
shout of victory.
From 1861 to 1865, led by that other grand Virginian.
Robert E. L^e, Georgia and Virginia carried the stars and
bars to victory on every well-fought field until the last, grand-
est victory of them all, Appomattox, when the Southern cause
went down not in defeat but in glory and victory — a people
unconquered but overwhelmed — and the world, led by their
enemy, bowed their heads to the Southern soldier.
For four years Virginia opened her arms, and there was
nothing that she had that was too .good for the Southern
soldier. Her smokehouses were depleted, her larders were
throW'U open, her fences w'cre used to warm the boys in
gray, and thousands of those immortals rest on the slopes of
Hollywood, in Richmond, tenderly cared for by the noble
women of Virginia, sleeping their last sleep until the resur-
rection to the glorious life, the reward of those people.
Gen. Garnett, Major General commanding the Virginia
Veterans, has written that at the next meeting Richmond will
ask that the annual encampment of 1907. the year of the Ex-
position, be held in Richmond, as on June ,3 of that year the
grand memorial erected by the noble Dau.ghters of the Con-
federacy to the first and only President of the Confederacy
will be unveiled. As his enemies in the past branded him
as a traitor, it will be but fitting that the remnant of the
hosts that followed him should be present in the capital of
I be Confederacy and drown with their applause the aspersion
on the so-called traitor. Jeflfer.son Davis, within the shadow of
those similar traitors. George Washin.gton and Robert E. Lee.
It is her appeal that I bring here and ask you to memorialize
(he Georgia Leguslature to make an appropriation in answer
to the first call of old Virginia to her sister State. Georgia.
Other Deposits in Huntsville Monument.
Of recent things, the following were deposited: Daughters
of the Confederacy, Chapter A. Huntsville, Ala., by-laws and
regulations ; also badges of Huntsville Chapter, U. D. C,
and Egbert Jones Camp, U. C. V., and a copy of the Confed-
erate Veteran of March, 1905 ; resolutions by Camp E.gbert
Jones upon the death of L. H. Scruggs, who was made colonel
of the 4th .Mabama Infantry when Col Egbert Jones was
killed at the battle of Manassas.
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ADVISE SUCCESSORS FOR THE I'ETERAN.
Many friends of the
Veteran do not realize
how important it is for
each patron to maintain
his subscription. When
a death occurs, notice
is often sent to discon-
tinue, although the com-
rade was absolutely
loyal to its every inter-
est. In a family of
well-to-do people where
there were nine sons,
promising, active young
men, one of them or-
dered the Veteran dis-
continued soon after tli^
father's death. Such ,
thing should not In
Fathers and grand
fathers should leave
counsel for the mainte-
nance of the Confeder-
ate cause if they be sin-
cere in their support,
and the world knows \,
they are. There should
be zeal on the part of
r ^, MISS JULIA DENT FRAZIER,
every successor for the _ . „ , ^ „ , , „ , .
On stair of C»en. Kobert Lowrv, Commanding
Confederate Veteran. Miss'ssippi uivision, b. c. v.
years before her death, as Mr. Davis aiscovered wnen the
will was opened. But the fact is that Mr. Davis bought and
paid for it before her death.
"Faithfully yours, Varina Jefferson Davis.
'■TEXAS; OR, THE BROKEN LINK."
Readers of the Veteran will appreciate the following from
the pen of Mrs. V. Jefferson Davis, whose high character and
cherished associations bring her very close to the hearts of
"her people." Mrs. Davis writes of this book :
"My Dear Mrs. Sclpli: I have had to postpone acknowledg-
ment of your kindness until now, hoping to be able to give
a review from my pen of your charming and spirited novel,
'Texas,' as you wished. I have been ill for more than two
years of many acute nervous troubles, superinduced by an
unusually stormy life. I have an immense correspondence,
and verging, as I am, on my eightieth year, my mental and
physical strength are greatly taxed.
"Your negro dialect is the best I have ever yet seen among
the many our people have attempted. The atmosphere which
you have depicted about our Southern heroes cheered my
spirit greatly, and for once 'the tender grace of a day that is
dead' came back to me. The cave dwellers in the Vicksburg
hills, when the most delicate women equaled our bravest men,
are splendidly portrayed, and I thank you for the deathless
tribute to our calm, brave women.
"Your kind mention of Gen. Grant I am glad to see, for I
think it was deserved. Since the bonds of our patriotic an-
guish have been loosened by time, it is possible to look more
calmly into the bitter past and do justice to those on both
sides who have not hitherto received it. 'Randolph Park' is
a charming idyl, and your 'Texas' is a modern 'Una.' Your
occasional descriptions of scenery are exquisite, and I hope
every Southern woman who reads 'Texas' will feel as proud
of your achievement as I do.
"In regard to Beauvoir. It was not acquired by Mr. Davis
through Mrs. Dorsey's gift. This impression gained credence
because the dear woman so willed it in a testament made some
"Battles and Sketches of the Army of Tennessee."
Attention is called to the advertisement in this Veteran
of Capt. B. L. Ridley's book, "Battles and Sketches of the
Army of Tennessee, C. S. A."
Capt. Ridley has for years been a popular contributor of the
Veteran, and needs no introduction to its readers. His work
is indeed interesting and a valuable contribution to South-
ern history. The introduction is by that honored and ven-
erable Confederate officer, Lieut. Gen. A. P. Stewart, now in-
his eighties, on whose staff Capt. Ridley served during much
of the Confederate war.
The publication of this book is in the hands of a Southern
house, the Missouri Printing and Publishing Company, of
Mexico, Mo., whose president, Mr. H. P. Warden, is well-
known in Nashville. Mr. Warden is of Confederate stock,,
his father having been a chaplain under Stonewall Jackson
and his mother, formerly a Miss Ashby, first cousin of Gen.
Turner Ashby and an aunt of Chaplain General U. C. V.,
Rev. Dr. J. William Jones, of Richmond.
Capt. Ridley's work will doubtless have an extended sale.
North as well as South. The Army of Tennessee in its desper-
ate and protracted struggle with Sherman through Tennessee
and Georgia will ever hold- an exalted place in history, and
accounts of its achievements will be read with interest through
ages yet to come. Orders for the book should be sent to the
publishers.
"Old Tales Retold." — Mrs. Octavia ZoUicofer Bond, one
of the clearest and most pleasing writers of her generation,
has issued fresh from the press cf the Publishing House of
the M. E. Church, South, "Old Tales Retold." It is already
being ordered as gifts for young folks at Christmas, Irt
narrating these stories of early Tennessee times, Mrs. Bond,
who is a daughter of the Confederate general, F. K. ZoUi-
cofer, is convincingly sincere. The truth of history has beem
preserved intact, yet the events that center around DeMon-
breun and his cave, Bigfoot Spencer, Nancy Ward (the "be-
loved" woman of the Cherokees), James Robertson, John
Sevier, and others are invested with the interest of romance.
Success is predicted for the book not only on account of its
direct human appeal but because it supplies a want. It fills
a vacant place on the bookshelf.
Recovery from Severe Operation. — The Veteran is grati-
fied to learn of the recovery of Col. A. G. Dickinson, of New
York City, who has ever been one of its stanchest friends.
At a recent meeting of the New York Camp Col. Thorburii
spoke in a feeling manner of his illness, and the announce-
ment was received with deep regret by all present. Col.
Chisholm spoke of his pride and interest in and his services
to the Camp, and it was unanimously resolved that the Ad-
jutant write to him, expressing the heartfelt sympathy of his
comrades in his illness and their best wishes for his speedy
restoration to health.
The Cumberland Manufacturing Company'.
The Veteran calls attention to the page advertisement under
the above caption for the special purpose of commending its
management most cordially to Southern merchants and their
patrons. The gentlemen composing this firm are of the
highest credibility, and the Veteran earnestly seeks to create
for them merited favor in extensive patronage.
Qopfederate Ueterap.
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SPKCIAL DEPARTMENT.
ijQited Soi}8 of <5or>federate l/eteraF}s.
Organized July i, ;S96, in Richmond^ Va.
Conducted by the Commander in Chief, to whom all contributions
intended therefor should be addressed.
THOMAS M. OWEN, LL.D.. Commander in Chief. I «„„*. „ .,„
WILL T. SdEEHAN. A. «. and Chief of Staff. \ Montgomery. Ala.
B. LESLIE SPENCE. JR.. Commander A. N. V. Dkpt., Richmond. Va.
L. W. RYLAND. Dep^^ktment Adjutant.
B. E. L. BYNUM. Commander Army Tenn. Dkpt.. Jackson. Tenn.
HOMER L. HIOGS, Department Adjutant.
I. J. STOCKETT, Commander Trans-Miss. Dept.. Tyler. Tex.
C S. WELSCH, Department Adjutant.
(No. 6.)
CONFEDERATION NEWS.
The attention of Camps and Sons is again drawn to the
importance of supporting the Veteran. The following reso-
lution, adopted at the Reunion in June last, is reproduced —
viz.:
"Whereas the Confederate Veteran is already the official
organ of the Confederation; and whereas this periodical is
doing a work of everlasting value in recording the true his-
tory of the Southern people ; and whereas its support is di-
minishing through the rapid mortality among the Veterans :
therefore be it
"Resolved, That we earnestly indorse again the Confeder-
ate Veteran, and appeal to all Camps and members to give
it their support by extending its circulation."
In this issue appears an admirable likeness of the capable
Adjutant General and Chief of Staff of the Confederation,
Capt. Will T. Sheehan.
Circular No. 2. of date October 12, 1905, has been issued
by General Headquarters to meet a large number of inquiries
concerning uniforms, badges, commissions, membership cer-
tificates, printed minutes, forms, and supplies, flags, and
banners.
Since the general Reunion at Louisville in June last many
changes in Camp officials have taken place by the election of
new ones, by removals, etc. The Commander in Chief is
anxious to have all changes promptly reported. This is neces-
sary to enable him to properly communicate with Camps.
In Special Order No 2, of date October 31, 1905, Mr. L.
E. Mathis, of Jackson, has been appointed Commander of the
Tennessee Division to succeed J. D. Newton, who did not
seek reappointment. This appointment became necessary be-
cause of the failure of that Division to hold a reunion con-
vention, thereby causing a vacancy in the ofiice of Com-
mander. The appointee is a very enthusiastic Son, and will
undoubtedly do much to upbuild the Confederation. During
the past year he served as Adjutant on the Staff of Depart-
ment Commander R. E. L. Bynum. He has appointed R
R. Sneed, of Jackson, Tenn., as his Division .\djutant in
General Order No. i.
At the Reunion convention in Nashville, in June. 1004. a
special auditing committee of three was appointed "to in-
vestigate r.ie fiduciary officers, past and present, of the As-
sociation." The death of the Chairman, Warwick H. Payne,
has necessitated the appointment of a successor, .\ccord-
ingly, en November 14, 1905, Special Order No. 3 was is-
sued, naming D. C. Bell. Pine BlufT, Ark , as chairman. To
succeed to the vacancy caused by the promotion of Mr. Bell,
Rev. W. D. Buckner. Pine Bluff, has been appointed. The
other member of the committee is W. E. Daniel, Yazoo City,
Miss.
Reunion Minutes, 1905,
It is a pleasure to announce the issuance of the Minutes of
the tenth annual reunion of the Confederation, held at Louis-
ville June 14-16, 1905. It is a substantial octavo pamphlet
of ninety-six pages. In contains in full the proceedings of
the convention, copies of all orders and circulars issued by
N. R. Tisdal, Commander in Chief, 1904-05, and a complete
list of Camps, Nos. 1-517, 1896-1905. Reports of the Adjutant
General and of the historical and monument committees ap-
pear at length. Committee reports have already been sum-
marized in this department for July. An examination of the
Camp list shows thirty-six Camps chartered by Commander
in Chief Tisdal for the year June 16, 1904, to June 16. 1905
One of the most noticeable, and at the same time depressing,
features of the pamphlet is the very large number of Camps
which arc in arrears for dues. While the publication did not
appear as soon as planned by Commander in Chief Tisdal
and liis efficient Adjutant General, I J. Stockett. they de-
serve the thanks of the Confederation for their promptness
The report of the Historical Committee. H. D. Wade, Chair-
man, w-as issued in separate form, octavo, pp. 11.
New Camps.
Much interest is being aroused all over the South in the
matter of the organization of new Camps. The Veterans, the
members of the Memorial .Associations, and tne Daughters
of the Confederacy are fully aroused to the importance of
Camp extension. By the next general Reunion it is hoped
that an unusually large number will be added to our rolls.
The following have been cliarlered since the last number —
viz. :
No. 528, Norcross. Norcross, Ga., October 7, nineteen mem-
bers; Dr W. P. Walker. Commandant; D. K. Johnston, Ad-
jutant.
No. 529, Phil Peareson, Bay City, Tex., October 31, twenty
members; W. S. Holman, Commandant; Frank Hawkins.
Adjutant.
No. 530, William I. Clopton, Manchester, Va., November 7,
seventeen members; Clarence Naiden, Commandant; F. Stan-
ley Hall. .Adjutant.
Division Reunions.
It is now definitely known that there will be no reunions
this fall or winter in the West Virginia, Maryland, North
Carolina, and South Carolina Divisions It is most deplorable
that the Sons in these Divisions should not be sufficiently
aroused to the importance of their heritage to come together
at least once in each year for conference, mutual acquaint-
ance, the discussion of plans, etc.
The gratifying new'S comes to us that the Veterans of Louis-
iana will hold a reunion in New Orleans in December this
year or January next year. This will give the Louisiana
Division of the Sons their coveted opportunity to .get to-
gether. If in January, which is most likely, the meeting will
be held on the 17th and 18th of that month.
Particular attention is drawn to the full reports of the
reunions of the Virginia and Georgia Divisions below.
Reunion of the J'irginia Division.
The annual meeting of the Virginia Division. U. S. C. V.,
was held in the city of Petersburg. Va., October 25-27, 1905
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Division Commander E. Lee Trinkle, of Wytlieville, Va.,
presided over the r^eetings, with William W. Old, Jr., of
Norfolk. Va., acting as Adjutant in the absence of J. M.
Kelley, Division Adjutant.
The report of the Committee on Credentials showed that
seventeen Camps were represented in person, Pritchett-Sal-
mon Camp, Xo. 410, Stony Point, Va., having ten members
in attendance. These comrades came from the far-away Blue
Ridge to Tidewater Virginia to show their patriotic zeal and
enthusiasm. This meeting can, therefore, be considered the
"red-letter one" in the history of the Division. With the
"Cratpr" in the near distance, and having been welcomed with
a hospitality second to none in Virginia, what more could
add to the occasion?
• The meetings were very harmonious, and a large amount
of business was transacted. An amendment to the constitu-
tion, increasing the per capita tax to the Virginia Division
from five cents to fifteen cents, was passed by the necessary
two-thirds vote, but only after a long and interesting debate,
participated in by a large number of comrades. This amend-
ment was offered for the purpose of raising funds so that
each Camp in the State can within the next year receive an
ofificial visit from the Division Commander or Brigade Com-
manders. In no better way can the organization be kept up,
and such an amendment was deeined almost necessary. This
is a step forward, and may it prove wise and beneficial !
The memorial to be erected to the Women of the Con-
federacy was again indorsed, and a resolution was passed,
urging each Camp to contribute, before June i, 1906, at least
one dollar p:'r capita to said fund.
The election of officers resulted as follows :
Division Commander, William W. Old, Jr., Pickett-Buch-
anan Camp, No. 9, Norfolk, Va.
Commander of the First Brigade. James P. Banks, A. P.
Hill Camp, No. 167, Petersburg, Va.
Commander of the Second Brigade, John B. Lightfoot, Jr.,
R. E. Lee Camp, No. i, Richmond, Va.
Following the reunion. Division Commander Old has taken
up his work in characteristically vigorous fashion. Li General
Order No. i, November 20, he announces his staff as fol-
lows :
T. S. Garnett, Jr., Division .Adjutant and Chief of StalT,
Norfolk.
W. H. Hurkamp, Division Inspector, Fredericksburg.
Allan D. Jones, Division Quartermaster, Newport News.
Dr. Joseph Grice, Division Surgeon, Portsmouth.
Clarence M. Trinkle, Division Commissary, Wytheville.
Rev. C. E. Woodson, Division Chaplain, Norfolk.
Aubrey E. Strode, Division Judge Advocate, Lynchburg.
James F. Tateni, Asst. Division Adjutant, Berkley.
Rev. R, W. Barnwell, Asst. Division Chaplain, Petersbur.sj.
E. V. Thomason, Asst. Division Judge Advocate, Richmond.
Assistant Division Inspectors : O. L. Harris, Fredericks-
burg; J. Paul Woodhouse, Princess .A.nne C. H. ; R M. Glenn,
Richmond ; Clarence Vaiden, Manchester ; S. D. Rodgers,
Petersburg; W. C, Hurt, Danville; R. C. Blackford, Lynch-
burg ; Charles E. Edwards, Stony Point ; Paul W. Garrett.
Leesburg; M. P. Farrier, Pearisburg; H. T. Taliaferro, Hot
Springs; R. B. Harrison, .^.mherst.
Reunion of the Georgia Division.
In obedience to General Order No. 4, of date September
15, igos, the annua! reunion of the Georgia Division was held
at Macon on November 8 and 9. The detailed proceedings
appear below. W. L. Williams, the new Division Commander,
is full of enthusiasm, and he promises a good year's work.
The work of Francis E. Lanier, Division Adjutant under
Commander Charles G. Edwards, cannot be too highly com-
mended. The Sons joined in the great parade, and at one of
the evening sessions Hon. S. A. Crump, of the local Camp
of Sons, presided over a meeting which was addressed by
Miss Elizabeth Lumpkin. The name of the new Divisioiv
Adjutant is W. W. Solomon.
Detailed proceedings follow:
Headquarters Georgia Division, U. S. C. V.,
Macon, Ga., November 8, 1905.
The regular annual reunion of the Georgia Division, U. S.
C. v., was held in Macon, Ga., November 8, 1905. The re-
union was called to order by Comrade W. A. McKenna,
Commander of Thomas Hardeman Camp, No. 18, Macon, Ga..
who in a few but appropriate words extended a warm wel-
come to the visiting comrades. Comrade Francis E. Lanier.
Division Adjutant and Chief of Staff of the Georgia Di-
vision, assumed the chair in the unavoidable absence of Com-
rade Charles G. Edwards, Division Commander, Comrade
W. W. Solomon acting as Adjutant.
A motion was made and carried that, on account of the
fact that so few Sons were present, a recess of ten minutes
be had for the purpose of obtaining the presence of others.
On the reconvening, a letter was read from Division Com-
mander Charles G. Edwards explaining his absence The
Acting Adjutant read the report of the Division Adjutant.
On motion, the report was adopted. On motion, it was re-
solved that the rules be suspended, the Credential Commit'ee
be waived, and every Son in the hall be extended the privi-
leges of the meeting, provided he is a member of some Camp.
Gen. C. Irvine Walker made a brief but admirable address-
in behalf of the monument to the Women of the Confederacy.
On motion, by a rising vote the thanks of the convention
were extended to Gen. Walker for his splendid and helpful
words of encouragement and cheer.
Comrade John L. Hardeman, of the local Camp, spoke feel-
ingly of the cause for which his father fought, and urged the-
Sons to preserve the memories of the cause and to press for-
ward in the work of building the monument.
Upon the roll call, the Camps were represented as fol-
lows : Thomas Hardeman Camp, No. 18, Macon, Ga., W. A
McKenna, Commander ; John B. Gordon Camp, No. 46,.
Atlanta, Ga., W. F. Parkhurst, Commander ; Francis S. Bar-
tow Camp, No. 93. Savannah, Ga., W. L. Landersine ; Floyd'
Camp, No. 469, Rome, Ga., C. C. Harper and R. B. Harris,.
Jr., Adjutant; William S. Sheppard Camp, No. 465, Colum-
bus, Ga , W. Cecil Neil). In addition, a number of Sons were-
present not members or delegates.
No reports were received from the various staff officers.
General Order No. 5. of date November 2, 1905, appoint-
ing Miss Eula Willingham, of Macon, Ga., sponsor for the-
reunion and designating Division headquarters, was read;
for the information of comrades. Miss Eula Willingham.
Sponsor, and Misses Katherine McGregor, Odille King, and'
Rose Crutchfield were introduced to the comrades present
On motion, a committee composed of W. F. Parkhurst,.
Chairman, C. C. Harper, and W. C. Neill was appointed to.
draft a resolution proposing an amendment to the General'
Constitution of the \J. S. C. V. The committee reported the-
following resolution, which was adopted :
"Be it resolved by the Georgia Division, U. S. C. V., in-
convention duly and regularly assembled in Macon. Ga., im
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1905, tlial tlie Adjutant General of tlie U. S. C. V. is hereby
requested, in pursuance of Article XX., Section 108, of the
Constitution of the U. S. C. V., to at once send to each Camp
of said U. S. C. V. the following, being a proposed change
to the Constitution of the U. S. C. V.. said change to be
acted upon at the next general reunion U. S. C. V. Now be
it resolved by the U. S. C. V. that Section 18 of Article V.
of the General Constitution governing the U. S. C. V. be.
and is hereby, amended as follows by adding at the end of
said section the following words, 'Except the Commander in
Chief, who shall be elected for the term of two years and
who shall be eligible for reelection,' so that said section as
amended shall read as follows : 'All ofliccrs .shall be elected
or appointed for one year, and until their successors assume
command, except the Conmiander in Chief, who shall be
elected for the term of two years and who shall be eligible
for reelection.' "
On motion, the convention was adjourned until ,3 r.M.
Afternoon Session.
On motion, it was resolved that the officers of the Division
gather and prepare as best they can the minutes of previous
meetings of the Division
W. A. McKenna, Chairman of the Committee on Constitu-
tion and By-Laws, read the report of that committee. The
same was considoreil by sections and unanimously adopted.
W. Lamar Williams was elected Commander of the Georgia
Division, U. S. C. V. In a beautiful speech of acceptance
Comrade Williams accepted the gavel from Acting Division
Commander Francis E. Lanier. Comrade W. W. Solomon was
announced by the new Connnander as l^ivision .Xdjutant and
Chief of Staff.
A resolution was adopted, extending the thanks of the
Division to Charles G. Edwards and Francis E. Lanier for
their efficient and faithful services as Commander and Ad-
jutant of the Division.
A resolution was adopted, extending the thanks of the Di-
vision to Thomas Hardeman Camp, No. iS, and the city of
Macon for the iriany courtesies extended (luring the reunion.
On motion, the convention adjourned.
W. W. Solomon. Division .tdjitlanl.
CAMPS or THE CONFEDERATION. THEIR rOiCERS.
DUTIES, AND ACTIITTIES.
The following important circular is given in full beca\isc
of the very great importance of the subjects treated. It
should be read at length before every Camp in the Confedera-
tion and an earnest endeavor made to put its suggestions into
effect :
llK.\nQU.\RTERS UNITED SoNS OF Co.NFEDERATE VeTER.'VNS.
Montgomery. .Ai..\.. November i, 1905.
Circular, No. 3.
Comrades: The most important of the several constituted
bodies of the Confederation are the Camps. They are su-
preme in their operations and in their methods of work, sub-
ject to a few limitations in the General Constitution. The
various objects and purposes for which the organization exists
are to be worked out by and through Camps and their mem-
bers. Holding this pivotal position, they should he strong
and cfTective agencies for good. In order to assist Camps
and those contemplating the organization of new ones in
doing well the tasks appointed, this circular of information
is issued. If they really desire to accomplish something, the
suggestions here made will be helpful.
Meetings.
It is very important that stated meetings of the Camp be
held at least once in each month. These are necessary to
maintain interest and to aflord a formal and regular oppor-
tunity for the coming together of members for work and "ta
cultivate the ties of friendship that should exist among those
whose ancestors have shared common dangers, sufl'eriiigs.
and privations." From the very moment of organization
plans should be arranged for regular meetings, which should
be taken earnestly and seriously, and all members should as
far as possible be required to attend. Not less than eight
meetings should be held in one year or one for each month,
excepting the summer season. Good work can be accom-
plished by such an arrangement, although much more can be
done if more frequent meetings are held.
In addition to the foregoing, for the transaction of urgent
and important business special meetings can and should be
held. Most Camp constitutions make provision for an an-
niversary meeting This meeting, usually public, can be made
of extreme interest. The United Confederate Veterans.
Ladies' Memorial Association, and the United Daughters of
the Confederacy should be asked to assist, or the Sons should
unite \\ ith these organizations in the anniversary meetings of
the latter.
If no public hall or place of meeting is easily available,
the meetings may be held in the homes of members, giving
to them something of the form of the social or literary club.
Combined with other exercises may be mingled social fea-
tures, according to local inclination, such as Confederate
songs. Confederate recitations, light refreshments, etc.
Camp Officials.
The positions of Camp officials arc of great importance,
and only interested and willing workers should be elected
or appointed. It often happens that a Camp fails altogether
in making satisfactory progress, owing to the mistake of elect-
ing incompetent officers or those who are indifferent to the
work. Great care should be exercised in the selection, and
changes should be made without hesitation where necessary.
Particular attention is here directed to the office of Camp
Historian. His opportunity for usefulness is greater than
that of any other member of bis Camp. While other officials
are charged with purely administrative duties, he is con-
cerned with the great facts and events going to make up the
iiistory of the war.
It is his duty 10 aid the Division Commander and the Di-
vision Historical Committee by encouraging the preparation
by participants therein of accounts, narratives, memoirs, his-
tories of battles, episodes, and other occurrences of the war
He is to gather atithcntic data, statistics, documents, reports,
plans, maps, and other materials for an impartial history of
the Confederate side, and to collect and preserve war relics
and mementos, such as uniforms, arms, and equipment.
Only some comrade who is willing to labor with zeal should
be chosen Camp Historian. It is expected that he will can;-
fnlly observe the foregoing duties, and will promptly trans-
mit copies of all materials as well as relics and mementos to
the Commander in Chief for preservation. He is also ex-
pected to assist the General Historical Committee
Camp .Activities.
The work of tlie Confederation is to be planned at meet-
ings of Camps, and is to be carried out or accomplished by
Camp officials, committees, and members. The acliTities of
548
C^orjfederati^ l/eterar),
Camps in a general way may be said to embrace the entire
objects and purposes of the organization. Some detailed sug-
gestions follow :
General.
The first duty of a Camp should be to perfect a sound and
healthy association, careful attention should be given to the
adoption of a constitution and the selection of officials, and
every eligible and worthy Son in its vicinity should be in-
duced to become a member.
The most jealous care should be exercised in the preserva-
tion of Camp proceedings and records, of the individual rec-
ords of members and their ancestors, and of the historical
data and materials collected.
Cheerful and prompt assistance should be rendered all
general officers and committees in the performance of their
duties.
Codperntioit -vith tJic Vetcraus.
Sons of Confederate Veterans should ever be mindful of
their heritage. They should on all occasions honor him from
whom they derive their right to their proud title. The Vet-
erans have encouraged our work with a full realization that
after they are "called up higher" their "cause" must find in
us its opportunity for historic perpetuation. Sons should
frequently attend the meetings of the Veterans, and should
participate with them in joint session on all commemorative
occasions or in Memorial Day exercises, as indicated above.
They should honor themselves by having one or more Vet-
erans present at their meetings.
Permanenl Headquarters.
All Camps should as soon as possible provide permanent
headquarters. In many cases arrangements can be made with
the Veterans and other local patriotic organizations whereby
all can use the same hall. Decorations and other evidences
of interest should be provided.
In a certain sense a Camp is to be regarded as a local his-
torical society, and as such it should either accumulate funds
for the erection or purchase of a huilding or should unite
with other organizations as indicated. It might also unite
with the local, public, or school library in securing quarters.
In this way a Camp will come to be a permanent and useful
factor in the community.
Historical Work.
The Confederation is primarily a historical organization.
Therefore all are urged to cultivate an interest in the his-
tory of the Confederacy and the great struggle unequally
waged for four long and weary years. It should be the en-
deavor of Camps, officers, and members (as provided in Sec-
tions S and 6 of the General Constitution) :
"To encourage the writing by participants therein of ac-
counts, narratives, memoirs, histories of battles, episodes, and
occurrences of the War between the States.
"To gather authentic data, statistics, documents, reports,
plans, maps, and other material for an impartial history of
the Confederate side; to collect and preserve relics and me-
mentos of the war: to make and perpetuate a record of the
service of every member of the United Confederate Veterans
and all other living Confederate Veterans and. as far as pos-
sible, of their comrades who have preceded them into eter-
nity."
Members should find a pleasure in carefully preparing the
military records of their fathers or other ancestors. Copies
should be filed with their applications for permanent preser-
vation.
Veterans should be asked to prepare historical papers and
to join in the effort of the Sons to preserve their record.^
and history.
RcUcf.
The Confederate Veterans are rapidly passing away. Of
those that survive, many are in poverty and want. Through
a relief committee aid should be speedily extended to these
unfortunate old heroes as well as to the widows and orphans
of those who have passed away. Public opinion favorable
to an increase of pensions and a better support of Soldiers'
Homes should be cultivated, and practical benevolence of all
forms should be encouraged.
Monuments.
Camps are expected to assist in all w'orthy monument ef-
forts by whomsoever undertaken, whether by the Confedera-
tion or by the Division in which located or by the Veterans,
Memorial Associations, or the Daughters of the Confederacy.
AH places or scenes in the vicinity of the Camp made his-
toric by association with some event in Confederate history
should be located and identified, and where practicable they
should be permanently marked by a tablet or otherwise.
Graves of Confederate soldiers in the vicinity of the Camp
heretofore unmarked should be marked by suitable head-
stones.
Sympathetic response should be made to all appeals for aid
in behalf of the memorial to the Women of the Confederacy.
As a specific work, the Confederation, at its Reunion in May,
iSgg, pledged itself to the erection of a memorial to the noble
and heroic women of the Confederacy. This task ought to
be speedily concluded, and in its consummation every Son
of a Confederate Veteran who values his heritage should
have a part in its building.
Subjects fdr Study.
Methods and plans will vary according to the character and
zeal of members. Rules cannot be framed to meet the sev-
eral contingencies which may arise, and a few suggestions
only will be made. The importance of regular meetings has
already been dwelt upon, but it is again insisted that no
permanent advance can be made without them. At meetings
the objects of the organization must be often discussed, and
business must be kept up with care. Committees and mem-
bers to whom work has been assigned must be held to strict
performance, not as a burden, but because it is proper to do
so and because of the moral cflfect of strict accountability.
The historical feature must be constantly emphasized by
suitable literary programmes. No regular meeting should
pass without a historical paper each by a Veteran and a
member. The former will usually indulge in reminiscence.
What is done by the latter should be a part of a general plan.
Each Camp should carefully prep; -" a course of study in ad-
vance for the year. This course may be devoted in part to
original or independent investigation and in part to a series
of general studies in the war. To some of the stronger
members should be assigned the task of working up hitherto
unexploited subjects with a view to contributing thereby to
the general fund of accumulated materials, and thus carrying
out our proposed objects. The discussion in any case may be
as general or as detailed as desired. The results of original
investigations the local press will always be glad to secure
for publication. Whether published or unpublished, copies
should by all means be placed in the hands of the Camp His-
torian.
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The Camps have a splendid opportunity to do such his-
torical work. The local field is practically unworked, very
few Brigades or smaller organ-'zations have separately com-
piled histories, incidents peculiar to localities have not been
collected and recorded, and hundreds of individual incidents
of heroism are perishing with the passing away of the Vet-
erans. Some hints as to subjects for original work are given :
"The County of in the War," "The History of the
Regiment, C. S. A." "The History of Company , ■
Regiment, C. S. A.." "The Campaign of through ,"
"The Personal Adventures of in Wheeler's Cavalry,"
"Heroic Conduct of in the Valley Campaign," "Em-
ployments of Southern Boys too Young for Army Service,"
"Wild Game in the South During the War," etc.
Some topics of a general character are : "Causes of the
War," "The Formation of the Confederate States Govern-
ment," "Civil Government of the Confederate States," "Early
Campaigns of the War," "Jackson's Valley Campaign," "Rich-
mond," "Shiloh," "Vicksburg," "Kentucky Campaigns,"
"Chickamauga." "Atlanta Campaign," "War on the Border,"
"Military Leaders," "Home Life," "Women of the South
During the War," etc. These subjects admit of treatment as
a whole or may be subdivided, so that an entire season's work
may be devoted to but one.
The aim of all investigation should lie to ascertain the truth
Histories.
In the brief space of a paragraph of a short circular only
a few general suggestions can he made in reference to source
and other materials for the history of the war and related
subjects. .At the outset all Camps are advised to collect a
library of Confederate literature. This should embrace, as
far as possible, everything bearing even remotely on the war.
Particular effort should be directed to securing all local ma-
terial or material relating to troops or affairs from the State
or locality in which the Camp is situated. The collections
should be carefully preserved by the Camp Historian, and may
be deposited in the town library. Members ought to be-
come thorouglily familiar with all of the books, and they
should also be made to do their individual parts in building
up the collection. Such a library should by all means contain
sets of "Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Armies," one hundred and thirty volumes ; "Official Records
of the Union and Confederate Navies," nineteen volumes ;
"Confederate Military History" (1899), twelve volumes:
"Confederate Veteran" (1893-1905), thirteen volumes; and
the Southern Historical Society "Papers'" (1876-1905), thirty-
three volumes. In almost every community partial sets of
these valuable publications are to be found, and they should
be speedily gathered before too late. No general lists of
Confederate publications will be here attempted.
In many cases members will wish to add a Confederate
section to their private libraries. The volume of available
material now in print is comparatively small, so that prac-
tically everything of importance could with advantage be
taken. As of primary value, however, the periodicals named
in the preceding paragraph and general works or collections
should first be secured. Among the latter may be mentioned :
George Lunt's "Origin of the Late War" (1866); Jefferson
Davis's "Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" (D.
Appleton & Co., New York, 1881), two volumes; Alex-
ander H. Stephens's "Constitutional View of the Late War
between the States" (1868, 1870), two volumes; Dr. J. L.
M. Curry's "Southern States of the American LTnion" (B. F.
Johnson Publishing Company. Richmond, Va., 1895) and
"Civil History of the Government of the Confederate States'"
(Ibid.. 1901) ; Jefferson Davis's "Short History of the Con-
federate States of America" (Belford Company, New York,
1890) ; and James D Richardson's "Compilation of the Mes-
sages and Papers of the Confederacy, including the Diplo-
matic Correspondence, 1861-65" (Nashville, 1905), two vol-
umes.
The Commander in Chief very earnestly desires to co
operate in every way with Camps and members, and to that
end he will welcome correspondence and inquiries.
Thomas M. Owen, Commander in Chief.
Official :
Will T. Sheehan, Adjt. Gen. and Chief of Staff.
California Prestpent United Daughters of the Confed-
eracy.— Mrs. Victor Montgomery is the State President of
the California Division, U. D. C. She is a native of Texas,
and her hu.sband is from Nashville, Tenn. Their daughter.
Miss Gertrude Montgomery, was sponsor for the California
Brigade at Louisville. (See picture on first inside page,
.•\ugust Veteran.) Mr. Montgomery first was with the Con-
federate Rangers. Company A, of Saunders's Battalion, Arm-
strong's Brigade, but the last two years of the war he served
with the Henderson Scouths, Gen. Forrest's headquarters
scouts. He was paroled at Gainesville, Ala., in May, 1865.
and has been practicing law in Southern California for the
past thirty years. They reside at Santa Ana, Cal.
WILL T, sheehan, AnjT. GEN. U. S. C. V.
J. M. Polk, a comrade in the Confederate Home at Austin.
Te.x., has put in pamphlet form his "Memories" of expe-
riences during the War between the States, with an addition
of "Ten Years in South America." He was a member of
Hood's Texas Brigade, and had the experiences without a
doubt. Those who served with him, and many others as well,
would doubtless find much in this pamphlet that would inter-
est and amuse. Price, twenty-five cents. Address the author.
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DA I -ID O. DODD.
The Memorial Chapter, U. D. C, of Little Rock, held a
service in that city November lo, the birthday of David
Dodd. Crosses of honor were distributed to a number of
Veterans. The address of the occasion, on David O. Dodd,
was delivered by Hon. Roy D. Campbell, who paid a marked
tribute to that "boy hero of the Confederacy." From a scrap-
book owned by Capt. W. M. Watkins, of Little Rock, e.^tracts
from a newspaper published in Memphis soon after the execu-
tion of young Dodd were read :
"On a frosty day of December, 1863, a youth of eighteen
•summers, beardless, well-dressed, with eyes large and dark,
.and hair dark and flowing, passed the cavalry outpost, eight
:niles on the road leading from Little Rock to Benton, going
on foot out of the Federal lines, and handed a pass, duly
■signed by the provost marshal, to the videtle on duty, who
■was stationed some three hundred yards beyond the fork of
the Benton and Hot Springs road. Neither his manner nor
appearance excited suspicion, and he passed without observa-
tion. Soon after, however, the same traveler was brought to
the picket post by the vidette on the Hot Springs road, as
having attempted to go out on that road •without a pass, and
stating that he had already given his pass to the vidette on
the Benton road.
"The youth, it seems, lind attempted to go from one road to
the other after passing the vidette on the first road, and had,
fatally for him, wandered in behind the vidette on the other.
The circumstance led to inquiry and examination. He was
found in possession of letters that were contraband and a
lilank book containing matter written in cipher. A translation
showed this to be an accurate and complete description of the
plan of the Federal defenses at Little Rock, with numbers and
situation of the troops, their kind, and several commanders.
"The bearer of this valuable intelligence was the son of a
highly respectable citizen of Saline County, an only son, who
liad been a student at St. John's College at the commencement
of hostilities. His parents and his sisters, upon the evacua-
tion of Little Rock by the Confederate authorities, had aban-
doned their home in Saline County and sought the protection
of the Southern army. Young Dodd had associated himself
•with the army irregularly, being under age. Intelligent, re-
liable, and brave, he was the favorite of his superiors, who
had frequently intrusted him with important orders. But
lately he had quit the Confederate lines, and had been em-
ployed as a clerk in Little Rock.
"A searching investigation made it apparent that the in-
formation could not have been obtained by the bearer of the
papers. It was evident that he had accomplices — more than
one, necessarily — and that tlicy were those who, by relations
of confidence, had access to records and sources of knowl-
edge which indicated a startling treachery that it was of the
■greatest importance to expose. But their confidence, whoever
they were, had been well reposed. By no word or intimation
could this faithful repository of a secret so important, so
terrible to those involved, be induced to divulge it. The
certain death that awaited him, according to all the usages
of war, failed to terrify; the promise of pardon, which the
Federal commander repeatedly offered under safe conveyance
out of the country, had no influence to tempt him. He re-
mained calmly resolute never to betray the friends of himself
and the cause he espoused, who had trusted him, and enduring
his cold cell with patient resignation to his fate.
"He was tried by a military commission in Little Rock, con-
•demned, and suffered death on the 8th of January, 1864. The
•morning of his execution he wrote this afifecting letter :
" AliLiT.AKv I'uisON, Little Rcck, J.^n. 8, 1864, 10 a.m.
" 'My Dear Parents and Sisters: I was arrested as a spy
and tried and sentenced to be hanged to-day at three o'clock.
The time is fast approaching, but, thank God! I am prepared
to die. I expect to meet you all in heaven. I will soon be out
of this world of sorrow and trouble. I would like to see you
all before I die, but let God's will be done, not ours. I pray
to God to give you strength to bear your troubles while in
this world. I hope God will receive you in heaven. There I
will meet you.
" 'Mother, I know it will be hard for you to give up your
only son. but you must remember that it is God's will. Good-
by. God will give you strength to bear your trouble. I pray
that we may meet in heaven. Good-by. God bless you all.
Your son and brother, D.^wiD O. Dodd.' "
In concluding his remarks, Mr. Campbell said :
"The history of the War between the States presents no
more tragic incident than the execution of this boy. As I
have thought of this, I have asked myself the question : 'What
manner of man was he who could permit the execution of a
mere child almost at the close of the -war. at least at a time
when the end could be seen?' From a history of Central
Arkansas it is stated that Gen. Steele ;;fter taking possession
of Little Rock did all in his power to lessen the sufferings of
the citizens, and by so doing won the highest esteem of both
friends and enemies, and that even officers of the Confederate
army spoke of him in the highest terms of respect. This
seems to have been the reputation that Gen. Steele established
in all places where he was in command.
"In speaking of the execution of Dodd with Mrs. McAlmont.
of Little Rock, on Tuesday last I learned that she made a
personal appeal to Gen. Steele, and she says that the General
seemed as deeply grieved as she, and said that he could do
nothing. He seemed to regret the fact that the rules and regu-
lations of war, like the laws of the Medes and Persians, could
not be broken and were to be obeyed in letter and in spirit.
Mrs. McAlmont, in fact, doubted exceedingly whether Gen.
Steele had offered conditionally to give Dodd his liberty. I
have talked with a number of veterans who seemed to have
some knowledge of this affair, and all agree and insist that
an offer of pardon was made to David Dodd. Then, too, I
find that Mr. Hempstead, in his history of .Arkansas, in com-
menting upon this matter, says that 'a strong appeal was
made to Gen. Steele in his behalf on account of his extreme
youth, but the officer was inexorable.'
"It occurs to me that if indeed Gen. Steele was powerless
to have interfered with and prevented the execution of Dodd
no appeal woulil ever have been made to him. I take it,
therefore, that such a promise was held out to him ; and his last
words, T have no disclosures to make; hurry up your execu-
tion,' will go down through the ages while time shall last,
his fame will be heralded to coming generations, and his
praises sung while men love liberty and value true patriotism.
"You will search history in vain for a grander, a more per-
fect patriot. You will search it in vain for an incident more
pathetic, yet more beautiful and sublime. You will find but
one parallel of man tempted and temptation resisted. With
no irreverence I declare that, standing by the side of the
Saviour, resisting Satan upon the high mountain, stands David
O. Dodd, resisting Gen. Steele upon the scaffold."
The sublime courage of David O. Dodd and Sam Davis in
vindicating the principles of integrity and honor cannot be
told too freqiiently. A life-size statue of Dodd should, be
erected to his memory in the capitnl at Little Rock by the
State of Arkansas.
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RETURN OF CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAGS.
BY JOHN J. HOOD, MERIDIAN, MISS.
There is a world of ineaiiing in the fact that th.c United
States government has at last returned the captured battle
flags to the Confederate commonwealth whose sons bore the
•standards so valiantly through the leaden hail of war. This
i- the most delicate, the most graceful, and the highest pos-
sible courtesy that has been extended the South by her vic-
torious and heroic foe. In it is compassed the highest senti-
ment known to a great Christian people.
To give back to the keeping of the States the sacred flags
liorne on the great fields of strife in that unhappy contest.
■ fields of carnage that will stand forever as monuments to the
'cliivalry of .\nierica's manhood, brings with the offering the
most sublime sentiment known to man and makes a memora-
ble era in the future of our people. It carries with it a strik-
ing spirit of effort at full reconciliation, and displays a senti-
ment of confidence at once eloquent, touching, and pregnant
with noble meaning. It shows appreciation of the chivalry
;ind honor of the South's great heroes, a high regard for their
past patriotism, and finally full confidence in their loyally to
the old government. It is placing in their hands prac-
tically the heirlooms of the great contention, which are
sacred to thetn, which are as dear to tlie veterans of the
South as the souvenirs we prize and cherish in our homes
that once belonged to our dear ones who have passed away !
There could not have been a more gracious oflfering to the
South from the North, nor one that brings with it such q
weallli of rare and ennobled sentiment. They are sent back
to us to emphasize the respect that victors have for defeated
valor and the refined appreciation they have for the tender,
holy memories that are sacred to us. This would seem
to be the consummate white flower of a perfect peace and
the crowning of a period of heroism, sacrifice, and honor
that shall richly illuminate the annals of war and stand in
history a inarvel of achievement and glory.
To the South her record is all that remains : a proud in-
heritance to her sons and daughters and a high inspiration
to the admiring world. These flags, with tongues of flame,
voice the story of her achievement. They are sacred to her,
for now they are holy, "holy because they w^ere planted amid
tlie whirlwind of shot and shell upon many a victorious bat-
tlement by the Southern troops before they were 'furled
forever ;' holy because the men who fouglit with Lee and
Jackson, with Johnston and Beauregard, with Johnston and
Hood, witli Forrest and Stuart w-reathed them around with
glory" — holy because they were once the banners of soldiers
who rode into the presence of their Maker with not one blot
upon their knightly shields; holy because they moved steady
upon the crested front of the billows of death at the command
of their great leaders.
THE DEATH OF GEN. BEN. M'CULLOCH.
BY J. M. BAILEY. \V.\RREN, ARK.
I was color bearer of the Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry (Col.
J. F. Hill commander) at the battle of Elkhorn, or Pea Ridge,
.Ark., March 7 and 8, 1S62. The forces of Gens. McCulloch
and Price, under Gen. Van Dorn, on the morning of March
6 made an attack on the Federal position at Pea Ridge. The
attack was made from the north and northwest, McCulloch
commanding the right wing of the Confederate forces. Early
in the engagement of the first day Gen. McCulloch was
killed, which in all probability lost the battle to us.
As I have never seen any account of the immediate cir-
cumstances connected with the death of Gen. McCulloch, I
will state what came under my observation. So far as I
could see, my regiment, the Sixteenth Arkansas, formed the
extreme right of the infantry under Gen. McCulloch. After
some skirmishing and a charge of mounted men to our right,
in which a Federal battery was captured, the infantry moved
forward in line of battle, halting in some timbered land about
one hundred yards north of a field some four hundred yards
across, but which was of much greater length, lying east and
west. From this position we could get glimpses of the enemy's
artillery and infantry on the opposite side of the field, and
received several rounds of grape and canister. This position
we occupied only a few minutes, when Gen. McCulloch came
riding along, unattended, in front of our line, passing from
left to right. He spoke a few words in passing, but I do not
now recall what he said. When near the right of the regiment,
he ordered two companies forward as skirmishers, and rode
on alone into some thick woods to our right. He was carry-
ing, as was his custom, a short breech-loading rifle and his
field glass. A few moments after he passed out of sight the
regiment was ordered by the right flank to a position some
two hundred yards to our right ; then "forward, right ob-
lique" through thick woods to the fence on the north side
of the field above referred to, driving a heavy skirmish
line before us.
Col. Hill, in passing, ordered me to lower the flag, as it
showed above the tops of the bushes and was drawing a
heavy artillery fire from the enemy. Feeling at liberty then
to leave my position. I passed along the line to the right ol
the regiment (where my brother, Lieut. W. W. Bailey, was
commanding the company to which I belonged) to sec what
loss the men of my own company sustained. When near the
right of the regiment, young Jones, of my old company, some
forty yards to the right, called to me, saying: "Come here.
Here is Gen. McCulloch." His body was lying in some thick
woods, full length on his back, with a bullet hole showing
pbiinly in the right breast of his coat.
I recall vividly the quiet, peaceful expression his face bore
in death. A bit of white cotton patching, powder-stained
with a hole in the center, such as was used in the make-up
of cartridges for the Mississippi rifle, was sticking in the hole
made by the bullet in his coat. This, taken in connection
with the fact that some of the Federals w-e killed and wounded
near the fence were armed with Mississippi rifles, showed
conclusively that he had been killed by one of the Federal
sharpshooters posted behind the fence not over forty yards
away. His horse, gun, field glass, and watch were gone.
I reported to Lieut. Pixlcy, adjutant of the regiment, who
was standing a short distance away. He took off his overcoat
and threw it over the body of the General, covering his face
with the cape, saying: "We must not let the men know that
Gen. McCulloch is killed." About this time Col. Rector's
Regiment of Arkansas Infantry passed, going to our right.
To the inquiry of some of the officers as to who was killed,
Lieut. Pixlcy answered, "An orderly sergeant." A detail oi
four men from my company carried the body to the rear, and
it was later sent to Texas for burial.
Gen. McCulloch evidently started to the field to reconnoiter
the enemy's position, and rode up on their line of sharp-
shooters. Whether he had dismounted or was killed from
his horse, I never knew. And thus "one of the most gallant
leaders of the Confederacy had fought his last battle."
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GUN. J. B. HOOD AND CHICKAMAUGA.
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Louisville, writes of Gen. Hood :
"In the spring of 1852, while a member of the junior class
a Yale, I visited West Point Academy to see a former school-
mate, then a cadet in his third year. While there but for a
day and night, I met a number of his classmates, and among
them John B. Hood, of Kentucky (afterwards General. C.
S. A.) ; Phil H. Sheridan and John ]\I. Schofield, later of the
Federal Army, both of whom became lieutenant generals,
commanding the army after the war, the latter alone sur-
viving.
"A year later, upon graduating, I returned to Kentucky,
and on the train, shortly after leaving New York, I met
Hood, and we made the trip together, cementing a warm
friendship. I did not see him again for ten years, until we
met on the battlefield of Chickamauga. I was a member of
the staff of Gen. S. B. Buckner, and early in the morning of
September 19, 1905, upon the forty-second anniversary of
which I chance to be writing this, crossed the Chickamauga
with him, transferring his division to the west side, and was
present at his conference with Gen. Bragg and other officers.
Among them I was glad to meet Gen. Hood, who had ar-
rived the night before from Richmond with Longstreet's
Corps, one of whose divisions he commanded. Our meeting
was cordial but brief, for while talking with him a heavy
fusillade of musketry opened on the right, which proved the
beginning of the two days' battle. There was hasty riding
each to his post. The alignment of battle for the day placed
Buckner's Division on the left, his left division, Preston's
resting near Lee and Gordon's Mills, and his right, A. P.
Stewart's, was next to Hood's Division, which was on our
right, the line being nearly parallel with the Crawfish Springs
road and a short distance west, Rosecrans's line being parallel
and not far distant, but concealed, owing to the thickly
wooded country.
"There was no decisive fighting on the 19th, it being con-
fined chiefly to the right of our division. I met Gen. Hood,
and, finding that his wagons had not come up, I invited him
to our bivouac, and he accepted. The entertainment at Gen.
Buckner's mess was an informal one, but the evening passed
pleasantly. Gen. Hood, whose command for a time had been
engaged, said the Western Federal troops fought better and
more stubbornly than those they were used to in Virginia,
but he was confident that on the morrow we would win a
victory. In due course of time, we retired for the night.
"We had no camp equipage, and bivouacked in a leafy
fence corner, he (Gen. Hood) sharing my blanket. Next
morning we left after a hasty breakfast, and before night his
prediction was verified. He discovered during the day a gap
in Rosecrans's line caused by the transfer of troops to the
right, to reenforce Thomas, and of his own initiative drove
a wedge in it with his division, which was followed by Buck-
ner, and resulted in the defeat of Rosecrans and the with-
drawal of his army into Chattanooga. It was in this assault,
led by Hood, that he lost his leg.
"I never afterwards met him, but have always held him in
great admiration for his merit as a soldier and his engaging
qualities as a gentleman,"
MEMORIES OF A CONFEDERATE VETERAN.
BY ALBERT GREENWOOD, HILLSBORO, UPPER VILLAGE. N. H.
As life's evening shadows lengthen and our hearts are beating
slow,
We grow weary of its burdens and its strife ;
Our memories turn backward to the scenes of long ago.
And we live again the morning hours of life.
There are voices, full of music, that are soft and sweet and
clear.
And that sing to us no matter where we roam ;
And they play upon our heartstrings with each swift-recurr-
ing year —
They are memories of childhood and of home.
There's a breath of wondrous fragrance in the balmy sum-
mer breeze.
Where the sunlight in the morning used to play.
When the blossoms were unfolding on the dark magnolia
trees.
In our memories of boyhood, far away.
There is music that will haunt us till the day of life is o'er
And our spirits wander out across the strand,
Though often it was mingled with the cannon's sullen roar —
'Tis the music of our own fair "Dixie Land."
There's a song we all remember of some dreadful battle day.
When our colors from the mountain tops were flung;
How it quickened every footstep in the charging line of gray I
'Twas the anthem that the Yankee bullets sung.
There's a sound that comes in echoes from the shades of
long ago.
In its thunder have out foemen heard their knell ;
With it the hills resounded ere we struck the deadly blow —
'Tis the famous, dreaded Southern "Rebel yell."
There are places dark with sorrow, yet to every soldier known.
Where a conflict in its rage and fury rolled ;
There some loved and loving comrade gave forth his dying
groan.
When the number of his battle days were told.
There are wailing cries of anguish that linger with us yet,
When the smoke and dust of battle rolled away.
And a sister or a sweetheart (would to God we could for-
get!)
Found her loved one lying dead among the gray.
The clouds are dark around us, and our eyes are full of tears
When the visions of those days pass in review.
And we see lads we buried who marched with us for years.
The bravest men a nation ever knew.
The soldier's face yet blanches, and there's iron in his soul.
When memory takes him backward o'er life's sea.
To his final answer, "Here," at the calling of the roll
On the morning that we bade farewell to Lee.
Let me take your hand, my comrade, for our battle days are
gone,
And our hair is like the ocean's driven spray;
Let us proudly march together till the great, eternal dawn.
When, once more, we hope to mingle with the gray.
We hail the starry banner, our children wear the blue.
And no man doubts our loyalty to-day;
But we'll step to Dixie music till the march of life is through ;
Then we'll sleep within our tattered coats of gray.
Q^opfederat^ Uecerar?.
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THE FAMOUS TENTH TENNESSEE.
[Paper read by Pat Griffin at a meeting of Frank Clieatham
Camp, Nashville. It is a characteristic reminiscence of the
famous Irisli regiment, and is copied from the Nashville
(Tenn.) American. The anthor is the most noted sur-
vivor of that regiment, composed, in its files, almost entirely
of mature Irishmen. The lengthy sketch is not given from
any local significance, The editor of the Veteran recalls
no more thrilling event than that which fir^t called his atten-
tion to Comrade
Griffin. It \va<
about the close of
■ the frightful ordeal
w h e r e i n Gregg'. i
small brigade oi
Confederates h e 1 '1
in check for the
greater part of a
day, at Raymond,
Miss., many times
its number of Gen.
Grant's large army,
then in Mississippi.
Late in the after-
noon, when the real
condition w a ^
known — that there
w-as a mere "hand-
ful" of Confederates
^and a general for-
ward movement was
pressing everything
before it, the dust
of the Federal
army's tramp passed over our heads as wi' wt-re niovin.g
hastily under the brow of a hill to get away. In that crisis
an officer in charge of a litter corps said, with an unnecessary
adjective: "D it. boys; die by your colonel." The men
were carrying the body of Col. Randall W. McGavock, of
that regiment, who had been killed, when Capt. Griffin, in
cliarge of the body, used the language quoted, just as the litter
bearers were aboiu letting it down to save themselves.
It was on a journey to President Jeflferson Davis's funeral
in New Orleans, many years afterwards, that that officer was
first known to the comrade who now edits the Veter.\n.]
Mr. President, Ladies, and Comrades: It is hardly fair to
ask a fellow to relate a reminiscence in which he takes such
a prominent part. When I told the story about Raymond
to my friend. S. A. Cunningham, editor of the CnNFEDER.\TE
'Veter.\n, and a member of the 4Tst Tennessee Regiment,
who w^as at Raymond, Miss., on May T2, iS6,^, he said the
matter was worthy of record.
I appreciate the opportunity to tell you something about
my old regiment, the "Bloody Tinth" Tennessee Infantry,
Irish, and to give you a few glimpses of a clean, strong,
brave man, a noble soldier, a loyal friend. Col. Randall W.
McGavock. What a nniltiplicity of things the sound of that
name brings to mind! Across the years I hear the tread of
marching armies and the notes of the fife and drum. Once
again Capt. McGavock ranges Iiis company in Clieatbam's
store on College Street. The command is given for the "Sons
of Erin" to march, and I find myself walking with old Jimmy
Morrissey and making an earnest effort to drown the sound
of his fife in the glorious strains of "The Girl I Left Behind
II**
PATRICK M. GRIFFIN.
Me.'' Jimmy Morrissey had been a fifer in the English army,
so this going to war was nothing new to him ; but I was the
proudest boy in the world without a doubt, for, notwith-
standing the fact that my mother had repeatedly declared
that 1 was under age and had on one occasion taken me out
of the ranks and led me home by the ear, the conceit would
not down that the war could not be carried on unless I was
there to make the music, and so on that never-to-be-forgotten
day when we marched down to the wharf and boarded the
steamboat B. M. Runyon I would not have been willing to
exchange places with Gen. Lee.
On the day we embarked Capt. McGavock came up to the
standard of my ideal, and I styled him "God's own gentle-
man." While it \Tas only a boy's thought, I never have found
a more appropriate title for him. I might spend the night
telling you of innumerable noble deeds that could be trace-
able back to him. My mother was there in the crowd on the
wharf with several of iny relatives, and a slip of a girl with
blue-gray Irish eyes and auburn hair stood out from among
them to wave her hand to me. I can almost see the sunlight
101 the water and the ttvo big fellows who jumped overboard —
.Martin Gibbons and Tom Feeny. They could not stand tho
pressure ; but they w ere picked up, and as the boat started
up the river to make the turn Jimmy Morrissey and I started
up the same old tune of "The Girl I Left Behind Me," and
ue kept it going till the hills around Nashville had vanished
from sight. At Clarksville we started in on it again, and
another member of the company jumped overboard. Then
the captain advised us to give them something else, so after
our comrade was rescued we gave them old "Garry Owen"
all the way down to Dover.
At Dover we helped to build Fort Donelson. Later, after
the "Sons of Erin" became Company H, loth Tennessee In-
fantry, we went down on the Tennessee River and built
Fort Henry. At Fort Henry there was no whisky on our side
of the river, but across the stretch of water was Madame
Peggy's saloon. There was some mystery as to where the
beverage she sold was obtained, but this only added to her
popularity. Many an amusing incident had its root branch
in Peggy's shop. One of these, treasured in the memoirs of
Capt. Tom Gibson's company. I w-ill relate : One night Paddy
Sullivan and Timothy Tansey went over to Lady Peggy's to
get some w hisky ; and when they returned to the river bank.
a small cloud appeared upon the horizon. They paid no at-
tention to this, however, but rowed out into the middle of the
wide Tennessee River. A squall suddenly overtook Paddy
and Timothy. The waves got so high that the brave laddies
thought their time had come. Timothy said to Paddy: "Be-
jabbers. Paddy, and the boat will be overturned and we will
lose our w-hisky." Says Paddy to Timothy: "Be sure and we
won't: we will just drink it and save it." And drink it they
did. The refreshment added to their courage and strength.
and they reached the shore, but the boys in camp were minus
their jiggers. Peggy did a land office business until Col.
Heiman ordered all the skifTs and small boats in the neigh-
borhood smashed. I never visit d her shop until after the
destruction of the boats. All my life I had had a close ac-
quaintance with water, so the old river held no terrors for
me, and only a short interval elapsed before I was commis-
sioned courier and general canteen bearer between regg)''s
and the fort. The hours were brimming over with fun.
Most every night we had a stag dance, and there was an
exchange of visits right and left, and no time to think of the
dark days ahead.
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We liad not been at Fort Henry very long wlien we got
our full quota of Iriili companies to make a regiment, and
Capt. McG^vock became lieutenant' colonel of that regiment —
the loth Tennessee Infantry, Irish. In the new companies
that came in several better drummers than I was were found,
so I had to hand over my instrument ;' and to console me for
the loss they made me orderly sergeant of the "Sons of
Erin," now Company H.
At Fort Henry we got our first taite of 'bombshells, and
we went back to Fort Donelson to make the acquaintance of
Minie balls. It was at this period that the regiment won its
sobriquet of "Bloody Tinth." It liappened in this way; At
the evacuation of Fort Henry it was nnnored that the Yan-
kees were trying to head us uff. liut for some reason the
"Tinth" failed to get tliis news. Tlie Yankees were pressing
us closely, and llie two regiments in the lead threw down
their guns in order to get to Fort Donelson at a double-quick,
and the "Tinth," bringing up the rear, picked up the cast-
off guns, so we had about seven shots apiece when tlie Yanks
charged us. It is a sure-enough Irishman who will have first
blood in a fight. With all their lighting ability, the "Tinth"
was surrendered at Fort Donelson without their knowledge
or consent, and for the first time since we left Nashville
Lieut. Col. McGavock and I w-ere parted. He w'as sent to
Camp Chase, and I with Company H to Camp Douglas.
Most of you are conversant with the routine of prison life.
I will not go into detail regarding it. Suffice it to say that
I served with distinction as orderly sergeant of Company H,
having been sent to the "Black Hole" oftener than any other
orderly sergeant for overdrawing rations and clothes. Doubt-
less I would have gotten into very serious trouble during the
first few months of our imprisonment were it not that Col.
Mulligan, the commander of the post, was an Irishman, and,
hearing that my name was Pat, he took me for an Irishman
too; and, although he was a Yankee, he had a heart. Some
of our fellows were in bad shape there, and they certainly
needed all that I could get for them.
All of the prisoners regretted the removal of Col. Mulli-
gan; and well they might, for it was a "son of a gun" that
came after him — Col. Tucker. It makes me mad now to
think about him. We had to fortify our bunks, and did not
dare to poke our heads outside of the barracks after night-
fall unless we were willing to have bullets pitched our way.
We were offered every inducement to take the oath or join
the Yankee army. But after meeting Col. Tucker, I knew
that it woula be impossible for me to ever become a Yankee.
Very few of the boys went over to the other side. I think
those of us who were there found the latter portion of that
seven months about the worst part of our existence.
It is needless to say that the news of exchange was a
matter for general rejoicing; and when Col. Tucker and
Chicago faded from sight, we felt as if we had gotten out of
the devil's clutches. At Cairo our officers were waiting for
us. Most of them were looking the worse for wear, but O
how good it was to know that those of us who were faithful
were together again ! From Cairo we went by boat to the
island above Vicksburg, where Grant was trying to change
the course of the Mississippi, and from this island we were
ferried over to Vicksburg. After landing, we marched to a
field outside of the city, where the ladies had prepared a
grand barbecue for us. It is hardly necessary for me to tell
you how we boys did justice to all the good things.
Next we went into camp at Clinton, where we were fur-
nished with guns and uniforms that had run the blockade.
We were sworn in for three years, or during the war. We
elected our officers and made preparations. to go on the war-
path once more. Lieut. Col. McGavock became our colonel;
Sam Thompson, lieutenant colonel; William Grace, major;
Theodore Kelsey, adjutant. We spent the ensuing few months
hunting Yanks in the country around Vicksburg, until we
were ordered via Holly Springs, Miss., to reenforce Price
and Vandorn, who were moving on Corinth. We did not
get there in time, but we joined the retreating army near
that place and went on one of the severest marches of the
war. It rained in torrents, and the mud and water were
awful. On this march many of our men, fresh from prison,
were stricken with sickness. Just before we reached Gre-
nada one evening, being sick and worn out from exposure,
Capt. Thomas Gibson concluded that he would leave camp
and go into an abandoned negro cabin near by for shelter.
After Gibson had got a good fire going, in came Lieut.
Lynch Donnahue, of the regiment, wet and sick also. After
drying their clothing and shoes a bit, they went to sleep.
Gibson made a pillow of his shoes and advised Donnahue to
do likewise ; but the Lieutenant had more confidence in man-
kind, and left his shoes r.ear the fire to dry. While the two
officers were sound asleep, some soldiers came into the cabin
and took Lieut. Donnahue's shoes. Imagine the cuss words
when Donnahue found liis shoes gone, and he sick and the
rain teeming down Gibson was a good forager, however,
and he soon hailed a servant of Gen. Price's who was passing
by the cabin, and he persuaded the negro with some cash to
procure a pair of shoes for his guest.
At Grenada we received orders to go to Jackson. We
boarded the cars and were sent on to Vicksburg, as it was
rumored that the Yankees were about to storm tlie city.
We got into Vicksburg at night, and were ordered up on
Snyder's Bluff. I do not believe any man who was there will
ever forget that night, even if he were to live a thousand
years. Such thunder, rain, and lightning I never saw and
heard before or since. We were ordered not to make a
sound, not even so much as a whisper. We could only take
a step when the lightning flashed, and then we moved from
one tree to another, clinging to the branches to keep from
sh'pping over the bluff. Up at the mouth of the Yazoo we
could catch a glimpse of the Yankee gunboat lights.
For the next several nights we were sent down on the
levee. The march and long wait were made in absolute si-
lence. The enemy must have suspected that the "Tinth" was
waiting to give them a warm reception, for they failed to
show up. At intervals "Long Tom" would throw a ball
from the top of Snyder's Bluff up the river to entertain the
gunboats.
From Vicksburg we went on a transport to Port Hudson.
Queer things happened on that transport. When we reached
Port Hudson, the boat was minus all of its mirrors, knives,
forks, spoons, blankets, and rations. The captain of the trans-
port reported the matter to Col. McGavock, who ordered his
men to fall into line, spread their knapsacks on the ground
and open them out, and also to turn their pockets inside out.
Col. McGavock, the officers of the regiment, and the captain
of the boat went from one end of the line to the other, but
not one thing could they find that belonged to the boat.
After the search was completed. Col. McGavock made a
speech to the captain of the transport, in which he eulogized
his regiment, saying that it was made up of honest and brave
men, and that, as a matter of course, it must have been some
other soldiers or thieves that had ransacked the transport.
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553
However, Col. McGavock went to the commissary and drew
enough rations to supply the captain and his crew until they
got back to Vicksburg.
We helped to fortify Port Hudson, and wc were there at
the bombardment. On the night of ^the^bomba^dnlent we had
a pyramid of pine ktipts built up about a mile below the port,
'right opposite where the gunboats were anchored. We had
orders to set fire to the pine knots when the first boat ad-
vanced. Two forty-fivc-gun frigates started up the river at
nightfall. The pine knots were ablaze instantly, and every
movement of the fleet was seen by the gunners at the port.
The first frigate succeeded in getting past, but she was bat-
tered up considerably. The second frigate made an effort to
compel the port to surrender, but we poured shot into her
at such a rapid rate that she ran out the w-hite flag. We
ceased firing at once ; and when her commander saw that we
had stopped, they began firing on us again. Then the cap-
tain commanding the battery ordered the boys to "give 'em
red-hot shot.'' The order was obeyed, and the red-hot shot
set fire to the frigate, her machinery stopped, and she began
to swing round and round. The crew jumped overboard, and
we could hear the cries and groans of the wounded and
(lying. .Admiral Dewey was on that frigate. He was not an
admiral then, but he must have been a good swimmer. Di-
rectly the fire reached their annnunition, when bombshells
and cartridges began to explode in a grand fusillade. She
floated down the river, and the boats of the fleet moved hur-
riedly in order to give her plenty of room to pass. Several
miles below the magazine exploded, and we knew that the
end had come for that frigate. It was a wonderful sight.
The port lay in the shadow, and below it the Mississippi
stretched away a veritable stream of fire. Farmers who
lived ten miles away told me afterwards that the light was so
bright at their places on that night that they could pick up
pins in the road, .\fter this disaster, the Yankees decided
that it would be best to make an entrance by the back way.
.\t Port Hudson Col. McGavock gave nie a good round
scolding for exposing myself in range of the enemy's guns
and being wantonly reckless. I think he must have had some
premonition of his death, for he told me that he was afraid
that he would never get back home.
Frcini Port Hudson wc went to Jackson and then to Ray-
nidiid. \\"c camped outside of Raymond on the night of
May IT. i.%3. and the next morning we marched through the
town. The ladies who lived there came to meet us with
baskets of pics, cakes, and good things. They were even
kind enough to bring buckets of water and dippers, and many
a soldier blessed them as they passed down the ranks.
A hushed stillness seemed to hover over the world that
morning, .\ mile or so from town we sighted the enemy.
We had marched up on a rise and were out in the open, and
they were in the woods about one hundred yards in our front
when they began to fire on us. I was standing about two
paces in the rear of the line and Col. McGavock was standing
about four paces in my rear. We had been under fire about
twenty 'minutes, when I heard a ball strike sometliing behind
me. I have a dim remembrance of calling to God. It was
my colonel. He was about to fall. I caught him and eased
him down with his head in the shadow of a little bush. I
knew he was going, and asked him if he had any message for
his mother. His answer was: "Grifiin, take care of me!
Griffin, take care of me!" I put my canteen to his lips, but
he was not conscious. He was shot through the left breast,
and did not live more than five minutes.
When I saw that he was dead, I placed his head well in
the ;hade and stepped back into position. The field officers
being at the ends of the line, I had no opportunity to report
to them that he had been killed. >■ The orders came in quick
succession, "Left flank by file left !" "Double-quick, march !''
and then "By the right flank," and the next command was
drowned out by the Rebel yell. We charged the Yankees
and chased them into the woods. At the edge of the woods
the order was given to "Double-quick back !" and we were
halted again under the protection of a little hill. On the
top of this hill there was an old log cabin, and twenty of our
fellows went into it to fire through the chinks in the wall at
the enemy. Not one of these men was ever seen alive
again. We had to stand and see them shot down like rats
in a hole. Every time one of them attempted to get away
a bluccoat in tlie woods brought him down. I rememtei
one member of my company, John Corbett, called to me to
come and get his money for his wife. He said that he was
wounded and dying. Any man who attempted to climb that
hill must die also. Lord ! We learned what war meant that
day. While we were halted there I met Lieut. Col. Grace
and asked him if he knew that Col. McGavock had been
killed when the battle first began. "My God !" he exclaimed,
as though he hardly believed it. I assured him that it was
true. He then loUl nie that the order was to get out of there
the best way wc could. I explained to him that I wanted to
go back after the Colonel's body, but he said that it w-as out
of the question. I insisted that I had given my promise ta
the Colonel to take care of him, and that I was going to dci
it to the best of my ability, whatever happened. He replied
that if I went it would be at my own risk.
I got two of the members of my company to volunteer to go
with me. We found the body just where I had left it. Wo
picked him up tenderly and started toward town. I hope and
trust that God will never let me find a road so long and sor-
rowful again. Capt. George Diggons and Capt. James Kirk-
man were the only members among the wounded of my
regiment who were able to get away from the battlefield.
The Confederates were retreating rapidly, and we were not
far on the way when the Yanks came in sight. As soon as
my two comrades saw them, they let loose of the Colonel'-^
body and started to run. but I drew my pistol and told then:
they would have to die by him ; but later, seeing there was
no possib' - "hance of escape, I told them they could go and
I would stay with him. The Yanks came rushing along, sonif
of them stopping long enough to make some jeering, sar-
castic remark, but they could not shove the iron any farther
into my heart that day. It was fully two hours before ;1k-
rear guard came up. The officer in charge was an Irishman,
and I want to say right here that I am convinced that if ever
there was a good Yankee he must have been Irish. Capt.
McGuire I heard the fellows call him, and I learned that he
came from the same county in Ireland my parents came from.
He asked me who was this officer I was holding in my arms,"
and when I told him that it was my own colonel, McGavock —
an Irish name — he took it for grantedthat the Colonel was'a-
"townie" of mine, and he ordered his men to place the body
in one of the army wagons. The Colonel was free for ever-
more, and I was tbe.lonesomest. saddest of prisoners.
When we got into town, night had fallen. Wc were taken
to a hotel that had been vacated by its owner and was being"
used as a prison by the Yankees. McGuire promised to try
to procure a parole for me for a few days. The Colonel's
body was placed upon the porch at the hotel and icmainerf
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there till morning. Although I was literally worn out, I did
not sleep a wink that night. The next morning Capt. Mc-
Guire came with a two days' parole for me. I got a car-
penter and had him to make a box coffin, for which I paid
him twenty dollars. My fellow-prisoners assisted me in every
way they possibly could. Many friendly hands were ready
to help me place the Colonel's body in the rude coffin. I
hired a wagon in town, and got Capt. McGuire's permission
to have all the Confederate prisoners follow the Colonel's
body to the grave. We had quite an imposing procession,
with, of course, Yankee guards along. I had the grave
marked, and called the attention of several of the citizens of
Raymond to its location, so that his people would have no
trouble finding him when they came to bear him home to
Tennessee. When the funeral was over, we marched back
to the hotel prison. Although I was only a boy then, the
memory of the miserable loneliness of that night has never
been quite blotted out in the years that have intervened. No
man has ever come across life's pathway to fill McGavock's
place in my heart.
They put me into a room with two other officers w'ho were
prisoners, one of whom was Capt. Broughton, of Dallas, Tex.
This room was about 12x14 feet square, and was quite bare
as to furnishings. We had to sleep on our blankets and use
our canteens for pillows. Just after sunup ne.xt morning the
Yanks marched in Lieut. Bill Foote. I was sorry for Billy
to be a prisoner, but so many things had happened in the
past few hours that I could have cried for joy at sight of
liis friendly face. Time did not hang heavy on my hands
after his arrival.
I made up my mind that I would not go to prison if
there was any possible chance for escape. I looked around
the little old room in which we were confined and discovered
that there was a door leading into another room. This door
was locked, but it did not take me long to effect an entrance,
and there I found stored away boxes of plug tobacco that
reached halfway up to the ceiling. Well, that find was
equal to a gold mine, for tobacco was very scarce at that time.
I told my fellow-prisoners to keep a close mouth regarding
my find ; that it might mean a good many dinners, suppers,
and breakfasts for us. Foote promised that he would not
allow any one to enter the room under any circumstances.
They guarded the secret well, I still had my parole, so I
called for a guard to accompany me down to breakfast, and
on the way I asked the bhiecoat if he chewed tobacco. He
said that he did, and I immediately presented him with .i
plug. He asked me w-here I got it, and I told him that I
had a friend who would furnish it. He said that I could sell
a wagon load. I told him we would divide the profits on the
sales if he w'ould help me to dispose of it. That Yank must
have been a retail clerk before he went into the army, for he
sold tobacco right and left. On that first morning we sold
eleven dollars' worth of the weed before breakfast. I had
three extra meals put up for my comrades. Whenever the
Yank was off duty after that, he came around, to get a fresh
supply. The next morning I went to see Capt, McGuire and
told him that I could not stand being confined in that little
old room, and I handed him over a sample of plug tobacco.
He cut off a chew and passed it back to me. I told him
to keep it, that I knew where I could get plenty more. The
tobacco helped to win him over, and he gave me a permit
good within city limits during the time of our stay in Ray-
mond. I got more than five, hundred dollars clear on the
sale of tobacco. I had an opportunity to visit every outlet
and found them all heavily guarded, and I realized that I
could not escape by land.
The news came one day that we were soon to start for
Yankeedom, so I went in the early morning out to the spot
where the remains of my colonel lay, and, longing to see
him again and to know sure that he was there, I uncovered
the coffin and took off the lid and looked upon his dear face
for the last time. His hair and beard seemed to have grown
much longer, I covered the coffin over carefully and banked
up the grave, and then I took a farewell look at the spot
where he lay.
Two days later we w-ere marched to the Mississippi River,
where we were put aboard transports and started to a North-
ern prison. I had Col. McGavock's watch, his valuable
papers, and nine hundred dollars in Confederate money. On
board the boat the officers had to pay for their food or starve.
My comrades had no money, so I had to come to the rescue
with my five hundred dollars tobacco money, Capt, Brough-
ton borrowed one hundred dollars from me, and whatever
was mine was Foote's, and of course we had to pay for ra-
tions for the rest of the fellow's. Well, when we landed at
Two Mile Island, above Memphis, I had just one twenty-
five-cent shinplaster left,
Capt, Neff, of the 51st Indiana Infantry Regiment, was
in command of the boat we were on. He was a gentlemanly
sort of a fellow, but of course he had to obey the strict orders
issued to him. I told him long before we got to Two Mile
Island that he would never take me to a Yankee prison. "I'll
bet five dollars I do," was his reply, and I at once bet him
five dollars he would not. He smiled and insisted that wc
should shake hands on the bet. I shook hands with him, and
told him to pay the money to Bill Foote when he found me
gone. When we reached the island, I looked around to see
how the land lay, but there were too many Yankee guards to
hinder my progress. The bluecoats were on each side of
the river and Memphis was two miles distant. I knew I
could swim down to the city, but was afraid Lieut. Foote
could not hold out to get there. However, I went up on deck
and talked the matter over with him. Without a moment's
hesitation he said: "I will ,go w-ith you." .That evening we
went down into the wheelhouse. Foote looked down mto
the water and then across the river and down the river, and
I knew by the expression on his face that it would be best
for him to stay on board. I would rather have gone on to the
Yankee prison with him than have him drowned. I told
him if he had the least fear he must not attempt it. We
went up into the cabin, and as I passed Capt. Neff I re-
minded him of our bet and told him to be sure to give the
money to Foote. He laughed and said : "All right." I had
on a double-breasted military coat, v/ith two lace bars on
the sleeve and lace around the collar, denoting my rank. Of
course this rendered me a conspicuous figure among the
prisoners, and the captain could locate me quicker than any
one else on board.
Lieut. Foote ("Tinfoot" we called him) ^nd I went into
one of the staterooms and had a farewell chat. I gave him
my uniform coat and cap and insisted that he put them on.
I got a life preserver that I had hidden away to use on this
occasion, clapped Foote's old white hat on my head, and
walked out in my shirt sleeves. Billy sat down with his
back toward me as I walked off. Thirty-six years elapsed
before I saw him again. We met in the city of San Fran-
cisco, when I went there with the party of Tennesseeans sent
to meet the 1st Tennessee Regiment upon its return from the
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Philippine Islands. During those years lie had become one
of the most snccessfnl lawyers in the West. There was
nothing about him like the Billy Foote of the old days, save
his bright, dark eyes and genial, happy manner. The snows
of all those winters had left their whitening touch upon his
dark locks, and his figure had lost its whipper-snapper slen-
derness. It seems only a few short months since we parted
with a promise to meet again soon, but my dear old comrade
has answered the summons. It is my pride and pleasure to
be able to say that "Tinfoot" made his mark, and that out
there in the sunset land no man stood above him.
But to my story. I went into the wheelhouse, put the
life preserver between my legs, fastened it, and let myself
down into the water gently. If any one on board saw me,
he did not think ihe matter of enough importance to re-
port it. I floated down the river slowly and steered myself
to the back end of a stern-wheel boat. I climbed up on the
wheel, went around on the edge of the boat, and mingled
with the hands, who were unloading the cargo. There were
a number of soldiers and steamboat men about, and one of
the boatmen laughed at my bedraggled appearance and told
his companion that I was a country yap who had fallen into
the river. A soldier asked me if I fell in, and I answered
yes, and that I was going home then to get some dry clothes.
I was willing to masquerade as anything or anybody until
my colonel's belongings were turned over to his own people.
Only a fellow wl:o had been a prisoi.er can appreciate the
feeling of friendly ground beneath his feet once more.
I had a letter of introduction to Col. Walker, of Memphis,
in my pocket. The letter had been given to me by his son,
who was a prisoner on board the Yankee boat. As I was
not acquainted with the town, I decided to call on Col. Walker
at once. I went ;o the Gayoso House, and there I asked -\
liack driver if he knew where Col. Walker lived. He said:
"Yes, sir." I jumped into his hack and told him to take me
there, and in a few minutes I was ringing the bell at the
Walker residence. Mrs. Walker came to the door. She
told me that her husband was away, so I handed her the
letter from her son. She read it over three times, but said
she could do nothing for me, as her husband had taken the
oath. I did not blame her any, for my appearance was not
calculated to make a favorable impression. I bade her good-
night and walked out the gate. She stood and watched me
out of sight.
The hackman was waiting for me at the gate. I asked him
the amount of his bill, and he said "One dollar." I had just
twenty-five cents, but he did not know but what I was a
millionaire; so I fold him to take me back to the Gayoso and
make it two dollars. On the way back I slipped out of
the hack, and the poor Jehu found himself minus his fare.
Fcir (ince I was out on the beat, and I headed for cheap quar-
ters. Down on the levee I found a place where they kept
boarders and lodgers, and there was a saloon attached. 1
went in and called for a drink and a cigar, for which I
hanilod up my last quarter in greenbacks. I put on a bold
from and told the barkeeper that I would like to have a
bed for the night and would want my breakfast very early
in tlie mornin,g. He said : "All right, young man ; go back
there and tell Maggie to show you a bed." He was playincr
right into my hand, and I followed his instructions. T found
Maggie in the rear of the house, and delivered the barkeeper's
message. She said she "thought everybody knew where his
bed was." and while I w-aitcd for her to locate me I located
the cupboard and all the exits. I paid my respects to their
larder later in the evening, and was up and away by day-
break, too early for any one to be down to collect my bill.
1 went down on the levee, rolled up my sleeves, and
mingled with the roustabouts. I decided that I would learn
what I could from them, and 1 found that one Father Ryan,
a Catholic priest, had been arrested on two occasions for his
rebellious sentiments. I decided to call upon him, as I had
considerable Confederate money sewed in the waist of my
pantaloons, and I thought he would be able to tell me where
I could sell some of it. I found him at his residence, and
walked into his room without being announced. I attempted
to state my business, but before I could do it he interrupted
me with tlie declaration that he was a loyal citizen and that
he could do nothing for me. I was determined that he should
hear my story, and was confident that he would not report
me, and then, too, I wanted to satisfy him that I was worthy
of trust. I pulled out Col. McGavock's watch and showed
him the name engraved upon it, and showed him the Colo-
nel's ring also. He became ir.terested, and told me that he
had seen an account of the Colonel's death in the papers.
Just at this juncture the doorbell rang. Father Ryan
went to the door himself, and who were there but two Yan-
kee officers ? I tell you he was scared, but he was brave and
cool about it. He ushered the callers into the parlor, and
then he slipped back and told me that they were evidently
after me. He was as white as a sheet, and he trembled as
he told me to get out the back way. He closed the door on
me and went back to his guests. I hesitated and wondered
how any one could know that I was there, and came to the
conclusion that I would wait and find out that they were
really after me before I did any more running, so I slipped
back into the house and into the next room to the parlor,
where I could be in earshot, and I soon found out that they
were on an entirely diflferent mission. I peeped through a
crack in the door at them. They visited for about half an
hour; and after Father Ryan saw them out on the pavement,
he heaved a sigh of relief that could be heard all over the
house. He started back through the hall as if he were going
to look out through the rear door, and was very much sur-
prised when I came out and asked him if he was not mistaken
about the Yanks being after me. He replied: "I was, thank
God ! I have had enough of trouble ; and when you first
spoke to me, I thought you were a spy. The town is full of
them, but from your looks I am satisfied now that you are
all right. Tell me what you want." I told him that I had
a large sum of Confederate money and W'ould like to ex-
change some of it for greenbacks. He thought for a few
minutes, then put on his hat and told me that I could
go out the back way and he would go out the front way, and
T must follow him at a distance. I carried out his instruc-
tions. We went three blocks in the direction of the river
and entered a wholesale house. I followed him back through
the house and into the office in the rear. After we got in, he
closed the door and introduced me to two gentlcnuii who
were sitting there. He stated my 'ausiness to them. They
declared that they did not have a cent and did not know
where I could dispose of any of my Confederate money.
Those gentlemen discredited my story. I shook hands with
Father Ryan, thanked him for his kindness, and went on.
It was about nine o'clock when I started toward the river
again ; and as I stopped on the corner of the street to get my
bearings, who should I see coming up the street right tjy me
but Capt. NefF and the colonel v/ho commanded the fleet of
transports? They were deeply engaged in conversation, and
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1 uirned my back toward them and began making marks
\\ ith a bit of rock on the brick wall. They passed without
recognizing me, and you can depend upon it that I was not
long making tracks away from that nei^giiborhood. I stopped
on a corner near the wharf trying to hear something that
might be of interest to me. A number of men and women
were there gazing at the transports up the river. Many of
the prisoners on those boats had relatives in Memphis.
While I stood there I heard two men talking very earnestly.
I knew that the time had come for me to lay manners aside,
and so I listened deliberately to their conversation. They
were Rebel sympathizers; so when they separated, I followed
the man who seemed to have the greatest grievance. I caught
up with him, asked him to pardon me for having listened
to his conversation on the wharf, and told him that I had
made my escape from one of the boats, and that before I
asked him anything I wanted to prove to him that I was not
an impostor. I showed him Col. McGavock's watch and ring;
and after he had examined them carefully, he exclaimed :
"Voung man, you will be arrested !" He asked me if I
knew Dr. Grundy McGavock, the Colonel's brother. I told
him that I did not. He hesitated awhile, then he looked me
straight in the face and told me that he was Prof. Eldridge
<I think it was Eldridge), of the Memphis Female Academy.
I knew that this man believed me, and I determined to do
whatever he advised. He made me promise that I would
not mention his name, and then he directed me to go out
.^dams Street until I came to the bridge, and then to go into
the first house on the left-hand side of the street and ask
for Mr. McCoombs. "Show him that watch and he will take
care of you," he said as he shook hands v/ith me. I went
out Adams Street as he directed and rang the bell at the
first house beyond the bridge. A young lady answered. I
had never seen her before, and yet I knew her, and knew also
that I was among friends. I asked her if slie was not Miss
Kirtland. She said that she was. The resemblance between
her and her brother, Lieut. Tom Kirtland, of my regiment.
was pronounced. I asked her if Mr. McCoombs was at
hiime. She said he lived in the next house. The lady who
came to the door at the next house told me that Mr. Mc-
Coombs was at the cotton gin, but for me to have a seat and
wait for him, as he would soon be coming in to dinner.
When he came, I showed him Col. McGavock's valuables and
told him about the Colonel's death. He was very much af-
fected, and we were still talking when the dinner bell rang.
He requested me to wait a minute, and he went into the
hnusc and got a coat and a vest that were just my fit and
brought along a beaver hat to complete my costume. Then
we walked into the dininq- room, and I was introduced to
his wife and daughters as his nephew from Cincinnati. I
suppose his wife and daughters thought their Northern kins-
man rather a ravenous lellow, and in my heart I blessed the
Professor.
After dinner Mr. McCoombs and I discussed the matter
as to what was best to be done. He called in his wife and
his daughter. Miss Mollie, and told them the whole story,
but cautioned them to say nothing about it to his other
daue-hter, who had a Yankee captain on her string. Mr.
McCoombs decided th,-,t it would be best for him to send
over into Arkansas for Dr. Grundy McGavock; and as he
had to get back to bis cotton gin, he turned me over to Miss
Molly, who said that I must rest for a while and then we
would go out and sec the town. In the meantime. I was to
make myself at home.
On the second day after my installation in the McCoombs
house Mrs. Col. Walker called on me. 1 do not know how
she found out I was there, and 1 did not ask her. She
made all kinds of excuses for what she termed her u'nkind-
ness to me, but I insisted that she was right about it. She
spent the whole afternoon with me, and made many inquiries
about her boys. She wanted me to come and make her house
my home while I remained in Memphis. I thanked her and
told her that I thought I had better stay where I was.
On the third day after my arrival a gentleman came to the
front door, and from my post in the parlor I heard him say :
"I want to see Pat Griffin." I peeped out and ascertained
that it was not a Yankee, and then I went into the hall, met
him, and told him that I was Pat Griffin. He shook hands
with me and explained that he was the Colonel's brother.
Dr. Grundy McGavock. I knew he was telling me the truth,
for he resembled the Colonel in many ways. He told me to
tell him everything about the sad happening at Raymond.
When I told him all, I handed over the Colonel's watch and
ring, his money and valuable papers. It was a sad hour for
both of us. Dr. McGavock was very grateful, and he pulled
out a roll of greenbacks and told me to help myself. I told
him I would need very little money, as I intended to make
my way through the lines and back to my command in a few
days. I took forty dollars from his roll; but he insisted that
if I tried to get through the lines I would be caught and
would need all the money I could get, and he pressed several
additional bills into my hands. I never saw him again ; and
yet, if I had needed his assistance in after years, I knew that
he would have responded.
On the next day Mrs. Col. Walker came to see me aga'n
and brought me a valise full of clothes. In this collection
there was a handsome suit that she was sure would fit me.
I assured her that I was very thankful for all these gifts,
but that I expected to do considerable walking in the near
future and must be as light as possible for the road. She
seemed to feel hurt because I would not take the clothing, and
we finally compromised by my taking the fine suit of clothe-.
I put them on the next morning, and was so fine I hardly
knew myself.
I took the advice of other heads and did- not attempt to go
through the lines at Memphis, as the woods all around were
said to be deeply infested with Yankees. I thanked my
friends, the McCoombses, for their kindness to me ; and after
bidding them good-by, I procured a ticket via boat to Louis-
ville. I arrived there the. latter part of June. 1863. The first
man I saw that I knew in Louisville was "Shorty" L — , who
had deserted at Fort Henry. He pretended that he did not
know me. but I reminded him tint he knew me very well
down at Fort Henry a year gone. I went to the Gait House
and met Dr. Cheatham, who was stopping there. Later T
met a member of my company who had taken the oath at
Camp Douglas. He invited me to go home with him, and I
did. I had known him when we were children and knew
his mother and sister, so did not feel any uneasiness in going
to their home.
On the next day I hired out to a government boss, who was
going to Nashville with a train load of men to be distributed
on the different jobs of work the government w-as interested
in. In a room on Main Street, near Fifth Street, I met the
crowd of fifty men who were going down. I was going to
Nashville, but all at once I felt sick. We fell into line and
marched off two and two toward the Louisville and Nashville
depot. I finally became so sick that I had to fall out of line.
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and I sat down on the curbstone. I hailed the first hack
tliat came that way and told the driver to take me back to
my friend's house. Arriving there, I went to bed immediately.
The next morning I had a breaking out all over my hands
and face, and the old doctor who was called in pronounced
it smallpox. My friend's mother said that she and all of
her children had had the disease and she had no fear of it.
She told the doctor that I was a stranger and far from home,
and she would rather that he did not report my case. He
was a good old Rebel, and he was glad to do anything he
could to favor me. I got along nicely, and had no visitors
with the exception of a Yankee lieutenant and two privates.
They came to the house one day and asked my friend's
mother if she was not harboring a Rebel. She said there
was no one in the house save a friend who was very sick.
'I'hey insisted on seeing me, and she pointed to the door of
the dark room where I was. I pulled the cover up over my
head and pretended to be asleep. The lieutenant called for
a light. He pulled the quilts back and held the lighted candle
close to my face. One look was sufficient. He and his escort
left there at a double-quick.
Two weeks later I was on my way to Xashvillc with
another gang of government workmen. I felt much better
llian I looked. At Edgefield Junction Mike Costalo came
through the train, apparently looking for some one. When
he got near me, I spoke to him. He said : "'Vour voice is
familiar, but I do not kiinu your face." I told him who I
was, and explained th.il 1 had just passed through an illness
not conducive to beauty, but that I was still in the ring.
He motioned to me to follow him, and we went out on the
platform, where he informed me that he had come out to the
Junction to warn me that a government detective, James
O'Donnell, was at that moment waiting for me in the depot
at Nashville. He had come to tell me because I had been
kinii to him while Vie was in a Confederate prison. He had
a hack in waiting for me on Market Street ; so when we
reached Nasliville, we got off on Front Street and hurried
over to Market Street and into the hack. He took me to his
home in North Nashville. I remained there until the next
niglit, and then I went to the Franklin shops on Spruce
Street. These shops were operated by the United States
government, and a friend of mine, Tobe Burke, was in charge.
He had a nice room fitted up in the second story, where I
could sleep all day. My nights were devoted to tramping.
My youngest brother was employed at these .shops, and I
made him take me around to all the Yankee headquarters. I
got acquainted with a number of the officers, and was offered
a position at a salary of a hundred dollars per month by the
provost marshal. I accepted the offer, telling him I would
be around to set in working within the next week.
I went to see my colonel's mother during my visit. Mrs.
Louisa McGavock was a grand woman. I do not think she
ever forgot a kindness or remembered an injury. Her in-
terest in and devotion to Col. McGavock's old company, the
"Sons of Erin," never ceased. The friendship between us
that had its beginning in the grave at Raymond lasted until
she was placed in the vault with her son. Col. McGavock, at
IVTount Olivet. Nashville.
The first baby girl that came to my house is her name-
sake, and her name will be spoken with love and respect as
long as the house of Griffin exists.
I visited Tom Farrel, who had a son in my regiment. He
told me that lie had taken the oath, but that his wife was still
a genuine Rebel. Mrs. Farrel wanted to give me a roll of
greenbacks, but I told her I had all the money I needed.
After I left her house, I found the same roll of money in
my pocket. I called on Mr. K — and told him about his son,
Capt. James K — , being wounded at Raymond. He was not
disposed to be friendly, so I cut my visit short and went
over to Capt. Stockell's. His son Charlie was a captain in
the "Tinth." He was delighted to see me, and wanted me
to come and stay at his house while I remained in Nashville.
The last call I made was at the residence of Capt. George
Diggons's father; but when I got there, Mr. Diggons was
dying. I went again the next day, and was there when he
died.
There was a government oflice across the street from the
Diggons home, and while I sat there I saw a number of
Yankees coming and going on horseback, and came to the
conclusion that it would be a good place to capture a horse
and get away. I waited there again, and took my place at
one of the front windows the next day. I was a fairly good
judge of horseflesh. Soon a fellow came riding up on a
black horse. I knew that that was the animal for me, so by
the time he was sitting down at his desk I was on his horse
and making my way toward St. Cecilia Academy. The girl
with the auburn hair was there, and I decided that I would
like to go and see her while I was in the neighborhood. The
chances were not very bright when it came to ever seeing her
again. While I sat there talking to her in a shady spot in
the garden two Yankee officers came riding by. She is a
brave woman, my comrades, but slic was ■ certainly scared
that day. I told her not to mind them, for I could go around
Yankees like a hoop around a barrel. They did not stop to
ask any questions. I assure you we both felt easier when
t'ley were out of sight, and in a litt'.c whil» I bade the little
girl good-by, crossed the river, and struck out toward th?
Springfield Pike, and did not stop again until I reached
Cedar Hill. While there I made my headquarters at Squire
Jack Bait's, two and a half miles from town. I had spent my
childhood there and knew the country well. Two or three
companies of the nth Tennessee had be:n raised in this
neighborhood, and everybody wanted to give me a welcoine.
I had lots of callers: every mother, wife, sister, and sweet-
heart wanted to send something to loved ones in the army,
and I could not have taken all the things they brought
me if I had had a two-horse wagon. With the help of some
of the boys and girls, the socks, underclothing, etc., were made
into a long bundle, and with sundry letters and sacks of
tobacco sewed into my saddle blanket. There were letters
and sacks of tobacco by the dozen. When I left there to
start on my long journey, several of the boys and girls ac-
companied me as far as the Cumberland River. They saw
me safe on the other side, and watched me until I turned a
bend in the road.
The first night I was out I slept on the porch of a farmer's
house, with my saddlebags for a pillow- and my saddle
blanket for a bed. I had two Colt's six-shooters. My horse
was hitched to a post near me, and a piece of rope that I
had fastened to the bridle was under my head. My bundles
were all fastened to my arm, so that if any one disturbed
them I would wake up.
I will not relate the things that happened to me on the
rest of the way to the Army of the Tennessee, on the line
of the Western and Atlantic railway. I crossed the Tennes-
see River above Florence, went over Sand Mountain, and
saw the Black Warrior: and when I found the boys, I was
minus many articles of wearing apparel and several sacks of
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tobacco, but the letters were all safe and sound, and I think
there must have been between three or four hundred missives.
I presented the Yankee horse to Maj. John O'Neal, of my
regiment. At least, I only took his note for the two hundred
and fifty dollars he agreed to pay me for the animal.
Of Col. McC>avock"3 regiment, to my knowledge, only
seven of the original members are now living: Lieut. Col. S.
M. Thompson, Capt. Thomas Gibson, Capt. Charley Stockeli,
and Commissary Sergeant Barney McCabe, Mike Carney, and
John Flemming, The last named two are at the Soldiers'
Home, Col. Thompson lives at Florence, Ala., the others re-
side in Nashville, and I am the sole survivor of the one hun-
dred and twenty-four members of the "Sons of Erin."
I know of no other regiment w'ith a record of three full
colonels buried in one graveyard. The remains of Cols.
Heiman, McGavock, and Grace, of the loth Tennessee In-
fantry, Irish, lie within the shadow of the Confederate monu-
ment in beautiful Mount Olivet, Nashville, Tenn.
CHOCTAW INDIANS AS CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.
BY MAJ. S. G. SP.\NN, COMMANDER DABNEY H. MAURY CAMP,
NO. I312, U. C. v., MERIDIAN, MISS.
Many earnest friends and comrades insist that the Choc-
taw Indian as a Confederate soldier should receive his proper
place on the scroll of events during the War between the
States. This task having been so nearly ignored, I send some
reminiscences that will be an exponent of the extraordinary
merit of the Choctaw Indian on the American Continent.
My connection with the Choctaw Indians was brought about
incidentally: Maj. J. W. Pearce, of Hazelhurst, Miss., or-
ganized a battalion of Choctaw Indians, by authority from
the War Department of the Indians, of Kemper, DeKalb,
Nechoba, Jasper, Scott, and Newton Counties, Miss , known
as "First Battalion of Choctaw Indians, Confederate army."
He established two camps — a recruiting camp in Newton
County and a d-ill camp at Tangipahoa— just beyond the
State boundary hne in Louisiana in the fall of 1862.
New Orleans at that time was in the hands of the Federal
Gen. B. F. Butler. Without notice a reconnoitering party of
the enemy raided the camp, and captured over two dozen
Indians and several noncommissioned white officers and car-
ried them to New Orleans. All the officers and several of
the Indians escaped and returned to the Newton County
camp; but all the balance of the captured Indians were car-
ried to New York, and were daily paraded in the public parks
as curiosities for the sport of sight-seers. This catastrophe
so chagrined the officers of the entire command and so de-
moralized the Indians that a council for advisement was re-
solved upon, the result of which was that a messenger should
he sent forthwith to Richmond, bearing a full report of this
unfortunate escapade, and insisting that the battalion be trans-
ferred to Spann's Battalion of Mounted Scouts, then being
formed by authority of the Secretary of War under the im-
mediate auspices of Gen. Dabney H. Maury, Commander of
the Department of the Gulf. The petition was readily granted,
and a recruiting camp was immediately established at the
foot of Stone Street in Mobile, adjoining the grounds occu-
pied by Spann's Battalion of White Mounted Cavalry. In the
meantime the Newton County camp w^as maintained under
the personal charge of Lieut. Thomas H. Gresham, now of
Heidelberg, Miss., and Lieut. Ben Duckworth, of Mississippi
City, Miss. The Mobile camp continued to fill up rapidly
under the personal charge of Lieut. Robert Welch, of Marion,
Ala., and Capt. R. Lewis, of De Kalb County, Miss.
Enthusiasm again animated the proud-hearted young braves,
and the whole tribe seemed once more to be fired with the
true war spirit. Among the recruits came a fine, stalwart,
intelligent-looking young brave known among his comrades
as Eahantatubbee, grand-nephew of the great Chief Pushmat-
taha and familiarly known to his white friends as Jack Amos.
I at once utilized Jack Amos as my interpreter, and provided
comfortable quarters for him adjacent to my own tent. When
in the midst of our brightest prospects, recruiting daily ac-
cessions to our ranks. Jack Amos discovered that some mut-
terings and dissensions prevailed among the women and non-
combatant Indians. Further investigations led him to d'S-
cover that Percy Walker, Esq., a prominent lawyer of tht'
Mobile bar, had informed the noncombatants that the Indians
were not liable to do Confederate service, and therefore
exempt from conscription; and if they would pay him one
dollar per capita, he would procure papers of exemption for
the whole tribe for the war. Jack Amos, knowing the nature
of the Indians, and that this temptation might lead to mutiny
and general insubordination, reported the affair to me. I
went immediately with him to Gen. Dabney H. Maury, and
had the facts related to Gen. Maury, wlio lost no time in
giving the matter a vigorous coup dc grace.
In the meantime my white companies, under Capt. J. M.
Tindel (now residing in New Orleans). Capt. M. M. Burke
(late of Columbus, Miss.), Capt. S. A. D. Steel (then a law-
yer at Enterprise, Miss.), and Capt. J. C. Moore (of Chat-
tanooga, Tenn.), were actively progressing. At this juncture,
with my interpreter, Jack Amos, I went up to the Newton
County camp. While there in the early part of June, 1863^
rain fell in torrents, flooding the streams, the roads became
impassable, and country bridges were washed away. 'Vicks-
burg was being besieged by Grant, and reenforcements were
ordered to the assistance of Pemberton. Chunkey River in-
tervened, and the bridge across the river was submerged and
the water far out of the river banks. The engineer was under
military orders, and his long train of cars was filled with
Confederate soldiers, who, like the engineer, were animated
with but one impulse — to Vicksburg ! to victory or death!
Onward rushed the engineer. All passed over except the
hindmost car. The bridge had swerved out of plumb, and
into the raging waters with nearly one hundred soldiers the
rear car was precipitated. "Help !" was the cry, but there was
no help. The cry reached the camp. "Fly to the rescue !" was
the command, and in less time than I can tell the story every
Indian was at the scene. It was there that Jack Amos again
displayed his courage and devotion to the Confederate sol-
diers. I must not omit to say, however, that with a like valor
and zeal Elder Williams, another full-blood Indian soldier,
proved equal to the emergency. Jack Amos and Elder Wil-
liams both reside now in Newton County. Williams is now
an ordained Baptist minister, having been a gospel student
under the venerable and beloved Rev. Dr. N. L. Clark, now
living at Decatur, Newton County, and father of our Dr.
Clark, of Meridian. Led by these two dauntless braves, every
Indian present stripped and plunged into that raging river
to the rescue of the drowning soldiers. Ninety-six bodies
were brought out upon a prominent strip of land above the
water line. Twenty-two were resuscitated and returned to
their commands, and all the balance were crudely interred
upon the railroad right of way, where they now lie in full
view of the passing train, except nine, who were afterwards
disinterred by kind friends and given a more honorable burial.
Officiating at this terrible calamity were Lieut. T. H.
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Grcsliam, Lieut. Ben Duckwortii. ar.cl Corporal John Blakeley,
who was at that time at home on a furlough from Spann's
Battalion of Cavalry at Mobile. This lonely burial spot so
far seems unkept by the tender care of any friendly hand.
At no time as yet have these unmarked graves been num-
■ red among those who share the wreaths and bouquets of
riowers by the hand of our kind and loving Daughters on
Decoration Day, yet this sad neglect will, it is hoped, soon
have its end. It is the purpose of Camp Dabney H. Maury
to erect a twin shaft upon the spot where these dead mar-
tyrs repose, commemorating alike the memory of these Con-
federate heroes and perpetuate the testinioni:il of the patri-
i^tic devotion exhibited by the Choctaw Indian braves, whose
prowess and fidelity to the Confederate cause entitle them to
the respect of our Confederate soldiery everywhere and to
all lovers of the true and the faithful wherever found.
As a fighter, the Indian is at his best in the skirmish and
sharpshooter service. In open field light llie modern tactics
present too many surprises for his manner of savage warfare.
Not that he is afraid, for the Indian fears nothing; but he
is overwhelmed with the terrible results of a conflict with
disciplined soldiery, and especially the irresistible sweeping
destruction by modern artillery. As scouts and pilots through
pathless swamps and jungles and over boundless prairies, his
instinct for courses and geographical precision is equal to
tnc bee and surpasses the horse or other animals. His obedi-
once to authority is commensurate to his confidence in his
commander. None but the truly brave and purely honest at
heart can command the Indian soldiers, but for such the
Indian would die in the execution of a command.
At the organization of Camp Dabney H. Maury, No. 1312,
in bebruary, 1901, sixty-eight white veterans and eighteen
Choctaw Indian veterans voluntarily enrolled their names ;
and to the credit of our pension commissioner be it said that
several of these veteran braves were enrolled for pensions,
which they continued to receive until the great exodus, under
the Daws Bill, to the Territory in 1903. Jack Amos, to the
manner born, refu--es to emigrate, and still lives in Newton
County, Chunkey Station his po";! office. He writes to me,
saying that he is sure to attend the Reunion in New Orleans
next year as he did in 1903, where he was feasted by the
ladies and lauded by the press and honored by Confederate
veterans every day.
W'lien we reflect on the fact that tlie Confederate soldier,
though a volunteer, was impelled by imperative duty to ac-
tion which, if he shirked, w-as both a disgrace and punishable ;
when we consider that his home, his family, and his country
were the considerations that compelled him to brave death
and die at the front, how easy for us to accord to the Indian
his true place in our history! No compulsion by law, no
defense of home or country or fainily obligations urged him
to place his life in jeopardy on the issue. Naught save the
proud instinct of personal devotion to the people of the Soutli
fired his heart with the spirit of war; no "promises to pay"
ever allured him to enlist. In his fidelity to our cause the
record of the Choctaw Indians stands above reproach.
On page 353, "War of the Rebellion, Official Records of
tlie Union and Confederate Armies," Series IV., Volume II.,
the Connnissioner of Indian Affairs, Capt. S. S. Scott, in his
elaborate report after he had visited all the Indian tribes and
made a critical investigation and comparison, used this lan-
guage: "It must not be supposed in the reference here made
to the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole
Nations that the idea is sought to be conveyed that all these
Indians have proven loyal to their treaty engagements with
the Confederate States. Such is by no means the fact. In-
deed, it is true only with regard to one of them. The Choc-
taws alone, of all the Indian nations, have remained per-
fectly united in their loyalty to this government. It was
said to me by more than one influential and reliable Choctaw
during my sojourn in thfir country that not only had no
member of that nation ever gone over to the enemy but that
no Indian had ever done so in whose veins coursed Choctaw
blood."
Has as much ever been published of the soldiers of either
the Confederate or Federal army? Let it fall to the lot of
others to revile the poor Indian with insolence and sneers;
but may no Confederate veteran ever stoop beneath the dig-
nity of a Southern soldier to ever so far belittle himself as
to scorn a Choctaw Indian. Be it ever remembered that as
a Confederate soldier he never betrayed a trust, nor did one
of them ever desert our flag.
ABOUT THE BATTLE AT STEVENS'S DEPOT.
BY J.\COB V. WILMOTH, KENT, W. VA.
I read with much interest an article in the Veteran for
July, by Lieut. J. N. Potts, giving a graphic description of the
battle at Stevens's Depot, September 5, 1864, in which the
gallant Col. D. B. Lang fell mortally wounded. I belonged
to Company A (Capt. Haynion Taylor) of the 8lh Virginia
Cavalry ; and although I was a mere boy, the battle is vividly
recalled by his splendid description, especially the charge that
our regiment made that day to save the 62d Virginia from
capture. I saw Col. Lang as he was taken off the field.
I recall an extraordinary event that occurred while we were
in the reserve line to support the 62d before we were
ordered to make the charge. Comrade Champ Thornhill, as
brave a man as ever lived, was shot in the forehead and killed
so quickly that he sat perfectly rigid in death until removed,
which was by Lieuts. Taylor and Morgan.
We participated in all the battles fought in the Shenandoah
Valley from the spring of 1863 till the close of the war. In
that at Winchester, September 19, 1864, my horse was shot
from under me, a few minutes before Capt. Taylor was killed.
His last words were to me : "Jake, take care of yourself."
I would be glad to hear from any inembcr of Company A.
Soldier "Mixed" as to His Identity. — Capt. John H. Les-
ter, of Deming, N. Mex., writes : "While commanding scouts
in South Carolina in the winter of 1865, I was most of the
time inside the Federal lines in the rear of Sherman's army.
It was necessary much of the time to play 'Yankee,' and
usually I would give my men instructions in the morning as
to which we were to personate that day, Yankee or Confed-
erate. When near Cheraw, I came to a house only a few
minutes after the Yankees had left to make some inquiries.
I had failed that morning to instruct my men as to which
we were for the day; but as we had Federal guns, saddles,
overcoats (our overcoats, however, were dyed black), and all
other Federal equipment we could very readily pass for
Federals. I saw the proprietor approach Bob Grigsby, one
of my scouts, and examine him very critically for a few mo-
ments. Finally he ventured to ask : 'Are you men Southern
or Northern soldiers?' Bob hesitated for a minute to think
what instructions I had given, and, not being able to remem-
ber, he said : 'Mister, to tell you the fact, we have been so
badly mixed up lately, d — if I know.'"
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IVAR TIME JOURNEY FROM MISSOURI TO TEXAS.
BY MRS. J. M. WEIDEMEVER.
It was ill October, i86i, that our beautiful little village,
Osceola, Mo., situated on the Osage River, was pillaged and
burned to the ground by the Kansas Jayhawkers, com-
manded by Gen. Jim Lane. My husband was captain of a
company he had raised for service in the Confederate army,
and was at Osceola awaiting orders. He with his little band
tried to prevent them from entering the town by giving them
a battle. But the Jayhawkers so outnumbered them that
they had to retreat with the loss of one man and several
wounded.
At this time Price's army was at Lexington, but not long
afterwards it came to Osceola and then on to Springfield. I
was anxious to join my husband there. I had nothing to stay
in Missouri for, so I took my two
little babies, got in a little buggy I
had, and started alone to catch Gen.
Price's army. I caught up with
them near Humansville. When we I
were ready to start next morning, a
home guard had taken the tap off |
of my buggy wheel, and I was hor-
rified to think I would have to be
left behind. A soldier found an old
shoe, and made a tap of leather so
we could go. We then went to
Springfield, and stayed there until
March. I left the army and went ^'^s. j. M. weidemeyer.
South, stopping at Fayetteville, Ark. After the battle of
Elkhorn, the army retreated to Arkansas. My busbar..! .'.:cn
went east of the Mississippi River. I was left at Fayette-
ville. My husband wrote me that the country would be
abandoned to the Yankees, and it was hesi for me to go
South while I could. I left immediately, thinking I could
reach Fort Smith before the army left. I was alone with
my children, and I followed some wagons that were hauling
goods to Fort Smith. They found a place for me to stay at
night. It poured down rain every day and night. I was
three days making the trip on account of swollen streams.
I shall never forget "Frog Byo," the name of the stream I
crossed about forty times a day, and each time I thought I
surely would be washed away.
We reached Fort Smith at last, to find the army gone.
What to do I did not know. Husband and friends all gone.
I was almost a child in years and experience. Fortunately I
met a boy I had known. He found me a place to stay until
I could decide what to do. I had only a change of clothing
for myself and two little children. All our belongings had
been burned at Osceola. In a day or two a gentleman, Mr.
Davis, heard of my situation and came to see me. I told
him I wanted to go to Sherman, Tex., as most of my friends
were there. Mr. Davis said a boy from Sherman, whose
brother had been killed at Elkhorn, was there, and he was
going to Sherman. The boy was horseback. So I started to
Sherman that day with a boy I had never seen before, traveled
through the Indian Nation, and stayed at Indian houses at
night. Sometimes the Indians were drunk and shooting and
carousing all night. We could not eat what they would give
us. I thought we would starve before we reached Sherman.
On the loth of April we drove into Sherman. There I
found many friends. The following September 2 a son was
born to us. On October 2 the battle of Corinth raged. My
husband's young brother was killed in that awful battle and
my husband wounded. We named our boy for the young
brother, who was just past eighteen. He was handsome and
very talented in music. He said before he went into the
battle that he would rather lose his legs than his arms, so
he could play the violin.
I never saw my husband until after the surrender at
Vicksburg, when he came to Texas on parole for a short
time. He then returned to his command to endure all the
hardships of war until the close, in 1865.
PRAYER OF A DRUMMER IN VIRGINIA.
The following prayer was copied from the memorandum
book of a Virginia drummer :
"Forgive us, O Lord, if we have this day said or done
anything to increase the pain of the world. Pardon the un-
kind word, the impatient gesture, the hard and selfish deed,
the failure to show sympathy and kindly help where we had
opportunity but missed it, and enable us so to live that we
may daily do something to lessen the tide of human sorrow
and add to the sum of human happiness. We have our own
sorrows, O Father. We wait for footsteps that do not come;
we yearn for sympathy which is not given; we knock at
doors that do not open ; we think of graves that hide our
dearest treasures. We fear the loneliness, the changes, and
tlie chances of this mortal life, and the mystery of that un-
known future that stretches away in the dark like a moor
beyond the light of home. But thou art ours and we are
thine; nothing can ever separate us from thee. Do not leave
us orphans, but come to us by thy Son and by thy Spirit;
only let us not miss the lesson of pain and sorrow and long
waiting, but be made perfect through suffering, so that there
be no turned lesson in our life. Amen."
A Comr.^de or the Confederate Navy in Need. — W. Kemp
Perry writes from Wichita Falls, Tex., in behalf of an old
Confederate of the Confederate navy who went to Texas in
1867: "Lewis Ferlman belonged to the Confederate navy,
served on the Samson at Savannah, Ga., was transferred to
the Atlanta, and was captured with her crew. He was taken
prisoner with others to Hiltonhead, thence to Norfolk, Va.,
paroled and sent to Richmond, Va., thence to Charleston, S.
C, served there on the Charleston, and was thence transferred
to the Pedee on Pedee River. This last vessel was destroyed
to prevent capture by the enemy, when he, with others, joined
the Naval Brigade, and started for Richmond about the time
of Johnston's surrender. Capt. Johnston was in command
of the detachment to which he belonged. Ferlman, now
a very old and infirm man, desires to make application for a
State pension, in which he must be indorsed by some credible
persons who knew him in the service and that he really served
in the Confederate States nav3'. He hopes this may meet
the eye of some comrade who can help him to make proof."
Confederate Soldier Born in 1851. — E. M. Witherspoon
writes from Tupelo, Miss., that Tennessee may claim the
honor of furnishing the youngest soldier in the Confederate
Army; and states that R. S. Claiborne, a prosperous farmer
living near Tupelo, was born in 1851 and in 1862 joined
Company E, 59th Tennessee Infantry, at Knoxville, and par-
ticipated in all the engagements of that regiment; and that
he was in the siege of Vicksburg, Reynolds's Brigade.
The most practicable and most beneficial patriotic service
that any Southerner can render is to contribute to the in-
crease of Veter.\n subscription lists.
<^or)JQ derate l/eterap.
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THE ARMY OF THE CVMBERLAXD.
Tlie Society of the Army of the Cumherlaiid, an associa-
lioii formed at the close of the War hetwcen the States hy
the officers of that large army, has decided to hold its future
reunions in the historic city of Chattanooga, amid the scenes
of some of its most notable achievements. This army was
commanded by Gen. Buell, Gen. Rosecrans, and Gen. Thomas.
Gen. Sheridan was one of its noted leaders. It occupied the
central line of military operations in Kentucky, Tennessee,
and farther South. It fought the battles of Mill Springs,
Alurfrcesboro, and Chickaniauga, and it came to the rescue
of Gen. Grant at Shilnh. It formed the larger part of Grant's
army at Missionary Ridge and of Gen. Sherman's army in
tlie crnnpaigns about Atlanta.
'\'\\\^ army society has no o"fficial connection with the Grand
Army of the Republic — the G. A. R. — but was formed to per-
petuate the friendships and achievements of the Army of the
Cumberland, the army of Gen. Thomas, its last great com-
mander and the first President of the society.
The historic battlefields about Chattanooga now seem to
attract a larger attendance at the reunions there tlian when
these meetings are held in the cities of the North. Many of
the Federal soldiers reside in Chattanooga, and always give
tluir visiting comrades a hearty welcome. At the recent re-
union of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, held in
that city, its members had a camp
fire in association with the N. B.
Forrest Camp of Confederates,
and the spirit of liberality and
fraternity seemed to be the key-
note of the occasion.
Since its last meeting, at In-j
dianapolis, the Society has lost its
honored President, Gen. Henry
V. Hoynton, a man universallx
beloved and res;iectcd by his as
sociates and, indeed, by the sol-
diers of both armies. He ever
paid liigh tribute to the valor of
Confederates. Gen. Gates P
Thruston, of Nashville, was
unanimously elected as his successor, a compliment from his
old army comrades tliat he must value most highly.
C.EN. IIIKISTON.
OPDYKE'S BRIGADE AT FRANKLIN.
On a recent Western journey the greeting of a conductor
from St. Louis to Kansas City is remembered. As a sub-
scriber to the Veti;r.\n for years and as an ex-Union soldier,
it was all the more appreciated. He is the well-known J. K.
Merrifield, a passenger conductor on that division of the Mis-
souri Pacific Railroad for thirty-six years. He was a member
of Company C, 88th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in Opdyke's
Brigade, 2d Division, 4th Corps, at the battle of Franklin.
Tenn. He talked freely, and said :
"Our brigade was rear guard from Spring Hill to Franklin.
The two other brigades of our division were left out in front
of ihc main line of w-orks to check Hood if he offered battle.
Our brigade marched inside the works and some yards in the
rear. The first line of battle was in the works. We formed
in regimental front: three regiments, the 88th, 36th, and 74th
Illinois on the east side of the pike, and the 44th and "3d
Illinois, 24th Wisconsin, and l2Sth Ohio on the west side of
the pike, which would bring us as we faced south between
the iMtton gin and the Carter house, except that we were
some little distance north of them. We had stacked our guns,
and we little thought what a desperate battle was soon to be
fought. The men in line of w'orks were still working to
complete the line. They had picks and shovels and a.\es.
A cannon was fired from Capt. Bledsoe's Confederate bat-
tery, as he afterwards told me. One of his solid shot struck
the top of the works and rolled straight down the pike be-
tween many of the men of our brigade as we lay by the pike.
Our colonel, George W. Smith, called out to 'fall in.' As soon
as we did so, Gen. Opdyke, commanding the brigade, took the
lead and called out : 'Forward to the works.' As we started,
we saw the Confederates inside the works. The first sight
that caught my eye was a Confederate with the butt of his
gun striking a l6th Kentucky soldier and knocking him down.
Another of the l6th Kentucky then clubbed the Confederate
with his musket and knocked him down. By this time the
i6th Kentucky soldier, who was knocked down, was up and
put a bayonet on his musket, turned it upside down, and
plunged the bayonet in the Confederate, who was on the
ground. Then we had troubles of our own to look after, and
I saw them no more.
"We charged up to the works, and there one of the severest
straggles that falls to the lot of any men but once in a life-
time took place. We used bayonets, butts of guns, axes,
picks, shovels, and even Gen. Opdyke picked up a gun ;.nd
clubbed with it. We had a Capt. Barnard, of Company K, in
the 88th Illinois, who used a little old four-barrel pistol and
even a hatchet that he always carried with him to assist in
putting up his tent. He is now a lawyer in Chicago. At last
the Confederates who were inside the works surrendered.
We huddled them behind the cotton gin for safety. We
formed at the works, and were no sooner formed than an-
other line charged. They came to the works and settled down
in front of it. They disappeared just like melting away; but
i 1 this charge the color bearer of Gen. Featherstone, of the
Mississippi Brigade, came to the top of the works with his
flag. As he was shot he pitched forward. I grabbed the
flag, took it ofT the staff, and put it in my pocket. Then an-
other line charged. This was Gen. Cockrell's Missouri Bri-
gade. They got no nearer than one hundred feet. As they
were coming up, I noticed a flag and a large, fine-looking
man, an officer, by its side. They melted away as the other
line did. I jumped over the works and ran about one hun-
dred feet ahead and got the flag, and this fine-looking officer
was wounded, and lay there with the dead and wounded in
heaps upon him. He asked me to pull a dead man oflf his leg,
as he was shot in the knee. I did so. He then asked me for
a drink of water. I leaned over, so he could drink out of
my canteen without my taking it off my neck. He then asked
me to unbuckle his sword belt. I did so, and at that time
firing commenced. I looked up, and there was another line
of battle about as far from me as our works were. I made
a run for the works, still holding on to the sword and belt.
How I managed to get to the works alive is a mystery to me,
with both lines firing.
"The officer was afterwards proven to b.; Col. Hugh Gar-
land, of the 1st Missouri Infantry, a regiment in Cockrell's
Brigade, He was found dead on the battlefield by his men
the next morning.
"When Gen. Marmaduke was Governor of Missouri and
Gen. Hardiiig Railroad Commissioner, I gave them the flag
to present to the Southern Historical Society of St. Louis,
and it is now there in their building at St. Louis. The first
Missouri flag I captured was destroyed in the big fire in
Chicago. Gen. Featherstone's headquarters flag I still have
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ill a frame in hiy residence, in St. Louis. Congress gave me
a medal of honor for the capture of the flag. The flag I
captured and the medal are valued very highly by myself.
If I mistake not, the 88th Illinois got five flags there, and in
no battle during the war were so many high general officers
killed as the Confederate army lost at Franklin.
"I claim that Opdyke's Brigade at the battle of Franklin,
Tenn., saved the Army of the Cumberland from destruction ;
for had the break in the lines been successful, the two wings
of our army would have been whipped in detail, and either
driven in the river behind us or captured. Then what was
there to stop Hood from going to Louisville? A. J. Smith,
w ith his troops, was all ; and with a victorious army as Hood
would have had, he would have swept Smith's troops aside,
and Grant would have had to send troops from the East to
intercept Hood. Too little credit has been given Opdyke'.s
Brigade for the part they took in that battle. Van Horn's
'History of the Army of the Cumberland' says: 'Never in the
history of the world have so few men saved an army as Op-
dyke's Brigade at Franklin.' I was deeply interested in
your article in the Confeder.\te Veteran concerning the bat-
tle and what you said about tlie death of Gen. Strahl and of
how your men in the ditch loaded and handed up the guns
to others to fire. You read about hand-to-hand fighting,
which does not come very often, but did come with Opdyke's
Brigade at Franklin.
"The opportunity of Hood was lost when he let us get by
him at Spring Hill. There was his chance, and he failed to
improve the opportunity. The hearts of Hood's men were
broken when the survivors the next morning scattered over
I he battlefield and looked upon the faces of over seventeen
hundred dead. That was the reason Hood's army did such
poor fighting at Nashville a few days afterwards. Col. Bled-
soe, a resident until he died of Pleasant Hill, Mo., commanded
Bledsoe's Battery in that battle. He told me where he was
stationed. If so, it was his battery who killed many of their
own men in that battle, as cannon balls plowed through their
own ranks from the rear and struck the front of our works.
He told me as late as 1880 that he told Gen. Hood he was
firing on their own men, and that Gen. Hood told him he
was mistaken and to keep on firing; but I know he was right."
Comrade Merrifield resides at 43250 Laclede Avenue, St.
Louis, Mo.
"THE JACKET OF GRAY."
That beautiful old war song of the si.xties, "The Jacket of
Gray," has recently been republished, and is sold by the
Daughters of the Confederacy for the benefit of the Winnie
Davis Memorial Hall in Athens, Ga. Only one copy of the
war time edition was known to be in existence, and the
recent publication was in response to requests from manv
parts of the South, where the song is exceedingly popular
for Memorial Day and other patriotic occasions. Its sweet
plaintiveness and tenderness mark it as one of the sorrowful
memorials of that great cause, yet blended with it is the
proud spirit of the hero that never dies.
Mr. Stratford Benjamin Woodberry, now of Savannah, Ga.,
is the composer nf this music. For many years he was bass
soloist in Grace Church, Charleston, and organist in old St.
Michaels before the war. He comes of a large family of
South Carolina, Iiis father being a physician of Charleston
and a political orator of prominence. His artistic tempera-
ment comes through a line of Irish ancestry. Lord Robert
I'Ans, Mayor of Dublin, from whom he is directly descended.
was knighted on Bosworth Field by Edward VI. His grand-
father, John Harth, of Charleston, was with Pulaski at the
siege of Savannah, and his uncle. Dr. John Harth, gave his
life in the service of Savannah during the yellow fever
scourge of 1876.
Mr. Woodberry was a member of the South Carolina party
sent out to aid in settling the Kansas-Nebraska statehood
problem, and tells many interesting stories of the guerrilla
warfare that existed there years before secession. While
there he was an actual observer of the career of Ossawatomie
S. B, WOCDBEKRV, S.\V.\NNAH, CA.
Brown. He was a member of the Washington Light In-
fantry of Charleston, and during the latter part of the war he
was detailed for the gunboat service in Charleston Harbor.
Mrs. C. A. Ball, of Charleston, composed the words of the
poem which Mr. Woodberry has set to music. It is dedi-
cated to his comrades of the Washington Light Infantry.
The cover is illustrated with flags in colors and the picture
of a Confederate soldier. Copies can be obtained from him
in Savannah, Ga., No. 8c6 Henry Street, East.
BURIED AT RED SULPHUR SPRINGS, IV. VA.
BY COL. BENNETT H. YOUNG, LOUISVILLE, KY.
In the Presbyterian churchyard at Red Sulphur Springs,
W. Va., sleep, with two exceptions, in unmarked graves
thirty-five Confederate soldiers, who died at that place from
1861 to 1865.
Twice for winter quarters the Confederate government sent
soldiers to Red Sulphur Springs — once the 4Sth Virginia
_ Regiment, and, secondly, as I am informed, some Georgia
regiment. Quite a number of these men died during their
stay there, and they found sepulcher in the Presbyterian
churchyard. Two slate slabs mark two of these graves. On
one of these is cut with a penknife : "In memory of M. P.
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Walls, of Company C, 45th Virginia Regiment, who died
April 20, 1863, age twenty-nine years." On the other is
carved in like manner : "In memory of Jessee Doss, who died
December 8, 1861, age twenty-five years, seven months, twenty-
nine days." A musket with bayonet attached is cut over the
top of these names, showing that Doss as well as Walls was a
soldier. Who the others are or whence they came is un-
known. A gentleman in tlie neighborhood, who kept a regis-
ter, unfortunately lost it. so that now they can only be called
our unknown dead. Wl- can say for tliem :
"We care r.ot whence they canu',
Whether unknown or knov.'U to fame :
Their cause and country all the same —
They died, they wore the gray."
For a number of years I have been going to Red Sul-
phur every summer. Nobody had ever taken any notice of
these graves until the last ten years; but I had the ground
cleared, the thorn bushes dug up, the graveyard mowed, and
during my stay at the springs always one day has been set
apart for a memorial to these dead boys. A supply of Con-
federate flags has been provided, so that on these memorial
occasions above each grave floats a banner made glorious by
their sacrifice and perhaps by their courage. These dead
did not die amid the storm, the crash, the excitement or
glory of battle ; they died in the silence, in the isolation and
anguish of tlie hospital, and were carried to this secluded
spot to rest forever.
The Sons and Daughters of West Virginia have promised
from time to time tn mark these graves. Subscriptions w'ere
made to the extent of thirty-five dollars, and there ought to
be some stone to tell of these Confederate boys whose ashes
are now amongst the richest treasures of the great State of
Virginia. I trust that this brief account of these unknown
dead may stimulate some earnest and willing worker to pro-
vide at least a slab to tell, if not who tlicy were, what they
were.
SOLID SOUTH ROOM IN RICHMOND MUSEUM.
At the Convention of the United Daugliters of the Con-
federacy in Richmond Mrs. R. E. Park, of Georgia, sug-
gested that "each State President shall recommend that each
Chapter in her Division set apart annually a sum according
to its ability for the maintenance and enrichment of the room
assigned to its ow'n State." Whereupon Mrs. Sidney M. Van
Wyck. Regent, San Francisco, Cal., and Miss Minnie A.
Bauglnnan, Vice Regent, Richmond, Va., submit an appeal
for it, in which they state:
"The Solid South Room has no State to call upon, and ap-
peals to the Chapters outside of the States represented in
iho museum. In this rootn are deposited historical papers of
(ho Confederate government and manuscripts and publica-
tions of historical interest which are being catalogued ac-
cording to the most approved system for reference. They
are of such value that the government at Washington re-
peatedly asks permission to examine and. copy them. When
the true history of the War betw-een the States is written, it
can only be done by reference to the papers now preserved
here and to others equally valuable whicli are constantly being
received.
"Another work of the Solid South Room is the collection
of portraits of the men who composed the civil government
of the Confederate States of America. Our generals who
rode at the head of our armies have ever had the deserved
love and honor of our people: but little has been done to
honor President Davis and his cabinet, men who served their
country with equal devotion. Portraits of Mr. Davis, Mr.
Stephens, Mr. Meminger, Mr. Reagan, and Mr. Mallory have
already been placed in this Hall of Fame, and we desire to
make this gallery complete. Now if each Chapter in the non-
seceding States would follow the suggestion of Mrs. Park
to the Chapters in the seceding States and take for tlieir
special charge the Solid South Room, each and every Chap-
ter outside of the Southern States pledging a stated amount
yearly to its support, by the faithful and generous aid thus
given this room can be sustained. We hopefully must de-
pend upon such outside Chapters to give us an assured fund
to draw from by and through which this room can fulfill the
work assigned it. Bear in mind that this orphan room has
no parent State keeping it in charge. We must and shall
trust to our brave workers in other States."
They furthermore say wisely and well that "few realize the
work that has been done by the Vice Regents of these rooms,
without pay and without price, counting it an honor to be
intrusted with these relics and histories of the cause they
love. But their hands have .tjrown feeble and their eyes sec
but faintly, and they now call upon the young people. Work
that has always been given will soon :.ave to be paid for, and
the futids must come from the Daughters of the Confederacy,
into whose hands we must coinmit the work so nobly con-
ceived and carried to such wonderful perfection by the Me-
morial Associations. They have collected and guarded these
histories of a 'Loved Cause.' placed them in the White House
of the Confederacy, where future generations may come and
learn of the justness of that cause, of the men who died for
it, of the 'women who suffered and were strong,' and who
have glorified and preserved it as a blessed heritage to their
children's children."
HOMESICK.
BY EI.E.\NOR H. D.\MF.ROy.
Fm far away from Dixie, and a homesick heart have I.
I long for Dixie's flowers and her sunny Southern sky;
Your castles large and stately in colossal splendor rise.
But my Dixie's old plantation homes are fairer to mine eyes.
I am homesick now for Dixie, for her daughters sweet and
true.
For the fairest, purest women that our country ever knew;
You may laud your stately ladies in their diadems and lace,
But no jewels can be brighter than my Dixie maiden's face.
O, I long, I long for Dixie, for her sons so strong and brave,
Who are proud when honor calls them, if they fill a hero's
grave ;
^our arms may guard your millions, your navies sail the sea,
But for the true and valiant soul give Dixie Land to me.
O. my spirit yet is Southern, though oceans deep and wide
May part mine eyes from Dixie with stern, remorseless tide;
Yet my heart returns forever, wherever it inay roam.
To the dearest spot on earth to me— my sweet old Southern
home.
O. sing a song of Dixie, although with lashes wet:
'Tis all for love of Dixie — she's my own mother yet!
For her these smiles are beaming, for her this tear-dimmed
eye;
I'll live my life for Dixie's Land ; for Dixie I would die.
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Mr.
CAPTURE OF THE MAZEPPA.
Juliet! F. Gracey, of Clarksville, Tenn., has published
a booklet of twenty-four pages in regard to the capture of a
steamer called the "Mazeppa" from the Federals. The Vet-
eran unwittingly published a statement which evidently did
injustice to Capt. Gracey, the Confederate officer. Other au-
thors did likewise, and his son determined to establish the
fact regardless of care or expense ; hence the publication re-
ferred to. The editor of the Veter.\n claims no higher virtue
than to make amends, as far as practicable, for a published
error. He was surprised to see an article in the Veteran
that he believes did injustice to Capt. Gracey in the conten-
tion. The pamphlet referred to corrects other misrepresenta-
tions, giving proof that, whatever others may claim, Capt.
Gracey's heroic part in that remarkable achievement is well
established by most creditable testators. It seems that others
participated in quite a similar way in the capture of some
vessel, and there is honest confusion of facts quite like those
related in regard to wlio caught the ^ . — . , ,. , ,., —
reins of Traveler when Gen. Lee decided [
to lead a charge against the enemy. |
Many extracts are made from letters
of testimony and copied herein, all of
which tend to prove conclusively the K
absolute accuracy of what is claimed for
Capt. Gracey, a man truly honored for
his service as a Confederate soldier and
as a citizen.
There was nothing too desperate or
daring for the great "wizard of the sad-
dle" to attempt if the shadow of success j
lay beyond it. One of the most brilliant
exploits of his military career was his
Johnsonville campaign, where he cap-
tured and destroyed millions of dollars'
worth of Federal army supplies, includ-
ing the steamer Mazeppa loaded with
stores of all kinds, the gunboat Undine. ,
and the transport Venus. Capt. John ■
W. Morton, who \Vas chief 'of Forrest's [ '
artillery (now Secretary of State for
Tennessee), in writing of these exploits
to Mr. Julien Gracey, son of Capt. Frank P. Gracey, whose
conspicuous gallantry on that occasion won him distinction
in Forrest's command, says:
"I was perhaps more cognizant of your gallant father's
conduct on that occasion that any one present. I personally
conducted the fire on the steamer Mazeppa, and commanded
the guns in person when the Undine and Venus were cap-
tured. It was by my suggestion that your father, Capt.
Gracey, was placed in command of the Undine after we
captured her. Gen. Forrest ordered me to take command of
the gunboat, with a detachment from my different batteries
to man her. I protested (mildly, mind you), thanked him
for the honor, told him I was not familiar with fighting
artillery on water, but that Capt. Gracey, a gallant and ef-
ficient officer and familiar with managing a boat, was at Fort
Heiman, and suggested that he send for him, which he did,
and in less that an hour Gracey reported. The General as-
signed him to the command of the gunboat, and Gracey and
I went aboard. We found that two of her guns had been
knocked out of position by our fire. These we readjusted.
Capt. Gracey reported her 'seaworthy,' and I reported to
Gen. Forrest that his navy was ready to 'move on the enemy.'
"With Capt. Gracey in command, Forrest as commodore,
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and a number of cavalry, we 'cruised' down to Fort Heiman
and 'tacked back,' as Gracey said, to Pans Landing. The
transport Venus, in command of Col. Dawson, accompanied
us, and at Fort Heiman took on her 'armament,' consisting
of two twenty-pound Parrott guns. My further observation
of the 'maneuvering of the fleet' was interrupted here by
orders from the General to move with the artillery up the
river, keeping as close to the banks as possible, to render
assistance in case of a 'naval engagement' The river makes
a considerable bend several miles below Johnsonville, where
we could not reach it on account of the roads, made impassa-
ble for artillery by the continuous rains and the passage of the
cavalry, and the half-starved condition of my artillery horses.
Here the Venus was abandoned and recaptured, and Capt.
Gracey, after fighting seven gunboats, four above and three
below, was forced to abandon the boat, and he and his men
swam ashore.
"It was in 'fighting his ship,' as related to me by one of
,, — , his men, that Capt. Gracey performed
^ one of the most heroic actions of the
war. He was sorely pressed by gunboats
. , above and below, shells exploding all
! around him, and fast knocking the little
' boat to pieces. The result was inevita-
ble. He saw that he would be compelled
to abandon her. He ordered the guns
to be charged and the mattresses cut
open and pressed into the magazine; he
i then formed his men in line and ordered
j them to jump into the river and swim
! ashore. Waiting until they had reached
the bank, he walked back and set fire to
the mattresses; then going deliberately
to the bow of the boat, where the burst-
ing shells made the heavens lurid,
and, waving defiance at the enemy, he
jumped into the river and swam ashore.
- As he was struggling up the river bank
the magazine exploded, the guns dis-
j charged, and the Undine went to the
bottom of the Tennessee River. Thus
closed "Commodore' Forrest's brief but
brilliant naval career."
The following are the facts and proof regarding the capture
of the Federal steainer Mazeppa at or near Fort Heiman, or.
the Tennessee River, October 29, 1864, by Capt. Frank P.
Gracey, of the Third Kentucky Battery, being incident ;o the
Johnsonville campaign of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest ;
At a meeting of Forbes Bivouac, U. C. V., held on January
31, 1903, at Clarksville, Tenn., among other business a com-
mittee was appointed for the purposes set forth in the min-
utes : "Comrade E. B. Ross read a stateinent as to the capture
of the steamer Mazeppa in November. 1864, and the taking
possession of the same by Capt. Frank P. Gracey by swimming
the Tennessee River. The matttr was referred to a commit-
tee comprised of E. B. Ross, T. D. Luckett, C. W. Tyler,
Julien F. Gracey, and T. W. Lewis."
And again, on February 28, 1903, the said Bivov.ac took the
followi;-,:7 action — to wit:
"The report of the cominittee appointed at the January
meeting for the purpose of securing the proof as to the action
of Frank P. Gracey in the capture of the steamer Mazeppa
made their report, which was read, and, on motion, the follow-
ing resolution was unanimously adopted:
"Resolved: i. That the report of the committee appointed
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to collect and examine evidence in regard to the capture and
boarding of the transport Mazeppa and command of the gun-
boat Undine be accepted and adopted.
"2. That the Bivouac considers it clearly proven that Capt.
Frank P. Gracey was the soldier who swain the Tennessee
River, bearded the Mazeppa, taking possession and aiding her
transfer across the river to the Confederate lines, and was
in command of the Undine until it was necessarily destroyed."
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.
Your committee, appointed at the last meeting of Forbes
Bivouac, have the honor of submitting the following report
regarding the part played by Capt. F. P. Gracey in the capture
of the steamer Mazeppa at or near Fort Heiman, on the Ten-
nessee River, on October 29, 1864, he being one of the original
members of Forbes Bivouac, and continuing a member until
the time of his death, which occurred on April 27, 1895. Our
desire is to submit, without argument, the facts as established
by tlie following letters from eyewitnesses:
Capt. Fr.\nk P. Gr.\cey to C.m't. J. \V. Morton.
My Dear Captain: I am in receipt of your kind letter,
wherein you informed me you would on the 27th inst. read
a paper before the Southern Historical Society at Louisville
on the Johnsonvillc campaign, and that you would be pleased
to have me relate my e.\pciience in that memorable affair.
I w-ill not attempt a description in detail of this brilliant
episode, but conl'.ne myself to the especial parts in which I
was en.-jagcd.
On the ayth of October, 1864, at daylight I found myself
captain of a cavalry company attached to Gen. H. B. Lyon's
Brigade, then at Fort Heiman, on the west bank of the Ten-
nessee River. Until this time I had been continuously em-
ployed in the artillery service under Gen. Breckinridge, then
consecutively under Gens. Bate, Cheatham, Helm, Preston,
and Lewis, with sixty days' service in heavy artillery during
the siege of Vicksburg. My battery was familiarly known as
the First Kentucky, or Cobb's Battery. Gen. H. B. Lyon
was its original commander, Maj. Cobb, of Paducah, suc-
ceeding him, whilst I in turn became his successor.
On the morning previously mentioned I was with Gen.
Lyon's Brigade of Cavalry, concealed on the bank of the Ten-
nessee. A portion of my command had been detailed to
assist in working the six-inch Parrott guns sent from Mobile
to blockade the Tennessee River. At this time I had not
heard Johnsonville whispered, nor do I believe, except for
the easy triumph of our artillery over the gunboats, that any
effort would have been made to destroy Johnsonville.
About 9 A.M. a boat was reported ascending the river.
She soon appeared around the point below us, heavily laden,
with a barge in tow. She proved to be the Mazeppa, a new
steamboat on her first trip. As soon as she had passed above
us a few hundred yards I had the pleasure of seeing how
Forrest's Artillery would work, and am glad to say that it
was served with a skill and precision I had not seen sur-
passed during three years of almost* constant strife.
In ten minutes her machinery was wrecked, and she, by the
impetus she had when the fatal shot struck her, was driven
aground on the opposite shore. It was a sore disappointment
to the entire command to see this great prize at their mercy
and yet unattainable. Not a boat of any description could
be found, and all we could do was to gaze with longing
eyes at the good things and wish we were there. Finally my
patriotism could not be controlled, and I determined to have
some of the Mazeppa's stores or expend considerable energy
in trying. So, without orders from superiors or much reflec-
tion, I rolled a small log into the river, placed my hands on
the end of it for support, and struck for the other shore. It
was a long and fatiguing trip across the river, and I had an
abundance of time for reflection before I landed, several
hundred yards below the steamer. At times I thought I did
not want the stores as bad as I did ; but one glance at the sup-
plies would at once renew my patriotism, and I would push
my way ahead. On reaching the shore, I struck out for tall
timber. I knew my greatest danger was whilst exposed be-
tween the water's edge and the timber on the top bank. As
I approached the vessel from the rear or bank side, I espied
several bluecoats concealed behind trees (our boys were still
shooting across the river with their Enfield rifles), and I con-
fessed to myself that things looked decidedly blue, and I
determined then and there that I would never let my patri-
otism or desire to secure food and clothing for the boys get
me into such a scrape again. Things did look bad. I was on
the enemy's side of the river, alone, with two pistols that had
been in the river with me for at least an hour, with I could
not tell how many bluecoats between me and the boat ; but
something must be done, and quickly. I determined to charge
them, demand their surrender, which, if they declined to do,
I would do myself. I charged, they surrendered, and in a
few minutes I had them in front of me in the bow of the
boat, while the boys on the other shore were yelling like
madmen at my success. Fortunately, the prisoners, three in
number, proved to be old river men, and good men, as I
have found since the war. Having been engaged in that
interest myself before the war, I was in my element. I
ordered the prisoners into a lifeboat, while I passed them
coil after coil of rope until the boat would carry no more.
After fastening one end to the Mazeppa's cavil, the prisoners
proceeded to row across the river, paying out the cable as
they progressed. They soon reached the shore, when a thou-
sand hands reached out to draw the boat across the river.
Gen. Buford took charge of the lifeboat as soon as the
rope was removed from it, and by it succeeded in getting on
the Mazeppa while she was in mid-stream. The General
mounted the hurricane roof, rang the bell, gave orders to
imaginary crews, and exhibited many evidences of delight in
securing a prize loaded with sufficient supplies to feed and
clothe his entire division for a year; and thus quietly and
uneventfully was landed the first great prize in the Johnson-
ville campaign.
Gen. H. B. Lyon to Julien F. Gracey.
Eddyville, Ky., January 19, 1902.
Dear Julien: Your letter of the 15th inst. received. I
recollect that your father swam the Tennessee River, took
possession of the steamer Mazeppa, which had been disabled
by our artillery and landed against the eastern shore of the
Tennessee River in order that her crew might escape from
our forces, then on the west bank of the river, and he used
one of the Mazeppa's yawls in sending to us one end of a
rope, the other end of which was tied to the boat, and we used
this rope in pulling the Mazeppa to our (west) bank of the
river. Your father and his company then belonged to my
command, and I witnessed the entire operation. Your father
undoubtedly did command the Undine, as his company was
an artillery company ; but it is my recollection tliat she did
not reach Johnsonville. The orders from Gen. Forrest were
that the Undine and Venus were to run slowly up the Ten-
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nessce River, and one or two of Morton's light batteries
should also move up the river by a road almost immediately
on the bank of the river; but from some cause the batteries
were delayed, and when the Undine met the Federal gun-
boats coming down the river, as your father found that he
could not with his armament contend with them, and he had no
support from the land batteries, he landed the Undine and
burned her to the water's edge. The Federals had no gun-
boats below the Undine and Venus. I had the satisfaction of
making the Federals burn the gunboats that attacked the
Undine at Johnsonville.
Col. Z. a. C. Holt to Capt. E. B. Ross.
Memphis, Tenn., December 28, 1903.
. . . But Gracey, the soldier, the gentleman, the bulldog
cannoneer of our world-renowned brigade, to be overlooked
and robbed of all that he left behind— that is, his heroic deeds
— is simply a shame ! I saw him — was standing within ten
feet of him— when he pulled off his uniform coat, and with a
paddle in hand he mounted that log— or two — I don't remem-
ber. He reserved nothing but his side arms, and went over
to the disabled boat. A dangerous and a daring deed, for
one almost knew that the banks, trees, and underbrush were
swarming with the enemy, as well as the occupants of the
boat, who had probably left men or stragglers on board.
Think of it ! he paddled over to what seemed certain death
or capture.
Col. a. R. Shacklett to J. F. Gracey.
Island, Ky., September 25, 1902.
Dear Friend: In regard to the much-discussed question as
to who swam the Tennessee River to bring over the steamer
Mazcppa to Fort Heiman, I have no hesitancy in saying that
Capt. Frank P. Gracey and Capt. John Clay Horn alone swam
the river. These are the facts. The Kentucky Brigade formed
the left of Forrest's command. With a section of Morton's
Battery near Fort Heiman my regiment was deployed on the
river bank near the water's edge. On the morning of the 28th
or 29th of October the transport Mazeppa came steaming up
stream, and the second shot from Morton's Battery dfsabled
her, when she butted the opposite bank and the crew took
to the woods. Now, we had a steamboat and barge in tow,
heavily loaded with army supplies, and no craft to go with
them. Capt. Frank P. Gracey and Capt. John Clay Horn
volunteered to swim to the boat, and, going up the river some
distance, each selected him a log and rolled it into the river,
throwing off their clothes, put their pistol belts around their
necks, mounted their logs, and paddled to the boat. After
lowering the yawl, they loaded in the cable, and one pulled
the oars and the other played off the line to our side of the
river, when one hundred men of my regiment — the Eighth
Kentucky — seized the rope, niade a check post of a tree, and
hauled the boat and barge across the river. I was ordered by
Gen. Buford to take command of the boat and unload her,
and, hoisting my flag on the pilot house, I directed the unload-
ing of the boat; and after securing all that we needed in our
business, I received orders and burned the boat. If any other
man went to that boat, he went in the yawl while Capt. Horn
and Capt. Gracey were dressing. These are the facts, as can
be substantiated by five hundred men of the Kentucky Brigade
still living.
Lieut. E. B. Ross Made- Statement.
. . . When Capt. Gracey saw this, being an old rivt r
man before the war, he got astride two pieces of the rafl.
holding them together with his legs, and with a piece of plank
w'bich he used as a paddle struck out alone across the wide
and deep river for the enemy's country, with only his pistols
buckled around him.
Gracey, Horn, and Buford are all dead. Only the writer
remains of the three who assisted in making the raft. Fortu-
nately, we have Gracey's own account, written by his own
hand, to substantiate the facts. To Gracey, and Gracey alone,
belongs the glory of this brave exploit. It is monstrous that
he and his family should be robbed of one iota of the credit
of his gallant action. It was one of the bravest deeds I ever
saw or read of. Single-handed and alone he accomplished it.
E. S. Payne to Jl'lien F. Gracey.
Enon College, Tenn., July 21, 1902.
Dear Sir: I write this to verify the fact that W. C. (Clabe)
West was not the man that first reached the steamer Mazeppa,
which was captured by Forrest's Cavalry at Fort Heiman, on
the Tennessee River, two or three days before the destruc-
tion of Johnsonville. I was a private in Company D, Second
Tennessee (Barteau's) Regiment. I am sure that Clabe West
was not at the river. I was the only one of our regiment
that was there. Gen. Forrest and the rest of the com-
mand, including our regiment, was at Paris, fifteen or twenty
miles from the river. - The evening before the capture of this
boat our regiment was called on for a man to carry a dispatch
to Gen. Buford. Our adjutant called on our company, through
me, and I volunteered, being aware of the fact that some
people lived near that road who once lived neighbors to us
here in this county. My principal object was to see them and
get a good square meal. I reached Gen. Buford's quarters
late in the night. He was in a log cabin. I made my pallet
on the floor. After breakfast with him next morning, I
asked him if he was done with me. He said that we would
have some fun that morning, and he wanted me to stay with
him. As soon as we were down at the river the boat came.
The battery soon crippled her, and it landed on the cast side.
I was the boy that suggested to the General how to get the
boat over to us, which was done by a coil of rope which was
found on the boat. I remained at the bank until the boat
was pulled over and most of the goods taken off. I saw the
man on the boat after he got some dry clothes. I was there
when he got off, and I did not see W. C. West, whom I knew
well, and who is now living near Carthage, Tenn.
J. M. Coleman to J. F. Gracey.
[Extract from statement of J. M. Coleman, Eddy-
ville, Ky., a member of Cobb-Gracey Kentucky Bat-
tery, Lyon's Brigade, Forrest's Command, dated Feb-
ruary 24, 1904.]
. . . The honor is due your father and his men. I was
with him during the war, and he was not the man to claim
honor not due him. Your father also had command of the
Undine, another captured boat, ordered by Gen. Forrest to
engage fleet at Johnsonville. I was on the boat with him,
and was one of his gunners. We ran the boat up near the
place, and the fleet began firing on us. Then your father
received orders from Gen. Forrest to run the boat ashore
and burn her, which he did.
JuLiEN F. Gracey to Dr. J. A. Wyeth.
Clarksville, Tenn., January 22, 1902.
Dear Sir: I have just read your most entertaining and in-
-iructive book on the life of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Allow me to thank you for myself as an ardent admirer of
Gen. Forrest; also on behalf of the Frank P. Gracey Camp
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of Sons of Confederate Veterans, of this city, of which I
have the honor of being commander.
The main object of my letter, however, to you is to call
your attention to what undoubtedly is an error in regard to
certain matters relating to the Johnsonville campaign. On
page 521 of your most estimable work you give credit to
Private W. C. West, of Company G, Barteau's Second Ten-
nessee Regiment, for having swam the Tennessee River to
secure the Mazeppa, which had been disabled by the Confed-
erate artillery and had landed on the opposite bank. Capt.
Frank P. Gracey is my father, and I have not only heard him
relate on many occasions his actions in this matter, but have
heard it from the mouths of many of his own company who
witnessed the transaction. My father is the man who did
the act referred to. In your preface you refer to the work of
Gens. Thomas Gordon and J. P. Pryor, covering the cam-
paigns of Gen. Forrest; and it is a little surprising that you
should have made such a radical departure from the record
given on page 597 of that work, in describing the act of my
father in securing the Mazeppa. As I have above stated, I
have heard my father relate this matter many times, and in
reading your book I was astonished to see that you had
allowed the error above referred to to creep in. My father
was captain of the artillery company known as Cobb's Ken-
tucky Battery, and during the particular campaign in question
was under the command of Gen. H. B. Lyon. Being impressed
with the fact that the object of your work, as all other works
regarding the Civil War that have been written by Confed-
erates and their sympathizers, is to create a basis of fact that
will absolutely give the correct history when the proper time
comes to make same, I deem it my duty to call your attention
to this particular error. After reading your book I wrote at
once to Gen. H. B. Lyon, who now lives in Eddyville. Ky.,
enjoying extremely good health for a man of his age, calling
his attention to your error. I am just in receipt of a letter
from him, confirming my own recollection of the part my
father played in this Johnsonville campaign. . . .
The principal reason for giving my father command of the
Undine was on account of his having had considerable ex-
perience as a steamboatman in his early days, and al.so on
account of him being an expert artillery officer, and would
be at home in handling the guns of the Undine. I had the
pleasure of visiting Jolmsonville and going over the points
at which the operations against the gunboats took place, and
have had my father to point out to me the wreck of the Un-
dine. I have also written members of his command who are
still living for their statements in regard to this matter, and
will take pleasure in forwarding them to you as soon as they
arc received.
If you will refer to Gens. Gordon and Pryor's work on
Forrest, you will find that the proper credit is given on the
page I have above referred to ; and as this work was writ-
ten only a few years after the war, and the facts could be
gathered from many men then living, it is hardly possible that
there could have been any error in the statement there made.
I am aware that there is great difficulty in gaining actual facts
of such occurrences, and I have no feeling in the matter be-
yond the fact that I feel it my duty to have my father receive
the credit for the heroic act he actually performed on the
occasion referred to. I will thank you very much indeed
for a reply to this letter: and if there is any further informa-
tion you desire on the point in question, it will give me a
great deal of pleasure to secure it for you. Gen. Lyon has
expressed his intention to write to you personally on this sub-
ject, and I presume you will hear from him.
Dr. Wyeth's Reply to Mr. Gracey.
New York City, January 26, 1902.
My Dear Sir: I have your letter of January 22. I shall
be very glad to have any mistakes that may be in the "Life
of Forrest" corrected. You may rest assured, however, that
I put nothing in there which was not based upon evidence
which I believed at the time to be correct. I have in my
possession a letter from R. R. Hancock, author of "Hancock's
Diary," dated Auburn, Tenn., February 22, 1895, in which he
says : "Please allow me to state the fact that W. C. West, a
private in Company G, Second Tennessee, who now lives at
Carthage, Tenn., crossed the Tennessee River on a slab and
was the first Confederate to board the Mazeppa." I was
assured of the reliability of Mr. Hancock, and since the diary
was made from day to day as he witnessed these things I
thought it very likely he would not be apt to make an error.
He says in his letter also that he does not want to be under-
stood as even intimating by the above that Capt. Gracey did
not also swim to the Mazeppa. I have also a letter from this
same W. C. West, dated Carthage, Tenn., December 12, 1897,
and written to Mr. George Hager, who was lieutenant in
Forrest's Cavalry, I believe, and is now living, a druggist, in
Nashville. Tenn., describing his part in this transaction ; and,
while I cannot now lay my hand upon another letter, I feel
sure that I did have one from Mr. George T. Hager confirm-
ing this performance of West. The evidence seems clear to
me that West did swim the river and board the Mazeppa. I
found many errors in Gordon & Pryor's book, which seemed
to have been written from memory rather than from official
records. My book is written almost entirely from the of-
ficial reports at Washington, both sides having been carefully
studied.
R. R, Hancock to Jui.ien Gracey.
Auburn. Tenn., February 10, 1902.
Dear Sir: Yours of the 3d inst. received, and contents noted.
I was not an eyewitness to the incident which you mention.
I was in our camp, about one and a half miles from the river,
at the time of the capture of the Mazeppa. . . .
Judge C W Tvler Pays Tribute to Capt. Frank Gracey.
In the month of October, 1864. the new transport steamer
Mazeppa was making its way up the Tennessee River, having
in tow a barge laden with supplies for the Federal army
above. On the morning of October 26 the small Confederate
cavalry brigade of Gen. H. B. Lyon, being on the west bank
of the river near Fort Heiman, opened fire on the Mazeppa,
then passing upstream in their view. With two six-inch Par-
rott guns, skillfully handled, they soon disabled the steamer,
and her crew ran the boat and barge to the opposite side of
the stream and landed. It was at least a half mile across
the river, and the Confederate command had no boats to
enable them to pass over and secure their prize. There were
some bluecoats in charge of the vessel on the opposite side,
but how many could not be told. It could be safely asserted
that there were not enough to successfully resist Lyon's Bri-
gade, but there might be enough to repel any small band of
Confederates seeking to capture the rich supply of stores they
were guarding. Nor did the Confederates possess any means
of transporting even a small detachment across the stream.
At this critical juncture a member of Lyon's command ven-
tured upon one of the rashest, and seemingly most foolhardy,
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experiments that ever was undertaken by a rash soldier in
the face of the enemy. Without conmiand or permission he
1 oiled a log into the river, and with this frail support beneath
him struck out alone for the opposite shore. Reaching the
eastern bank after much difficulty, he quietly approached
the steamer through a thick body of timber land that inter-
vened. As he neared the boat he saw several Federal sol-
diers behind trees, for the Confederates on the other side were
^lioot'ing at them. Without hesitation he charged down on
these with a Rebel yell, and some of them fled precipitately,
while three surrendered. Marching these three before him to
the boat, he compelled them to get into a lifeboat and pad-
dle with a towline across to his comrades on the western
bank. Then Lyon's entire command laid hold of the cable
with a will, and soon had the coveted prize in their possession.
The barge contained supplies enough for man and beast to
last the whole command a year, and the Mazeppa was a fine,
new boat on its first trip, which was afterwards put to ex-
cellent service by the Confederates.
The achievement above briefly sketched was certainly one
of the most daring ever undertaken in warfare. The ad-
venturous soldier who single-handed and alone swam the
river and captured the boat was Capt. Frank P. Grar.ey, who
during almost the entire Civil War commanded a battery of
artillery, and who was a member of Forbes Bivouac.
Dr. Wyeth, of New York, in his recent life of Gen. N. B.
Forrest, recites briefly the facts above set forth, but gives
credit for the unaided capture of the steamer to W. C. West,
of the Second Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, instead of to
Capt. Frank P. Gracey, of the Kentucky Battery, who cer-
tainly was the hero of the exploit. His bold venture was
witnessed by scores of his comrades, and was commented on
in terms of unstinted praise by the entire command at the
time. The war ended soon afterwards, and several vears
elapsed before any serious effort was made to collect the
scattered facts necessary to a correct recital of the achieve-
ments of the various Southern commands. During this period
some confusion arose as to the identity of the daring soldier
\^ho swam the Tennessee River alone and demanded the sur-
render of one of the enemy's steamers. The true hero was as
modest as he was brave, and took no pains during his life to
;.ssert his claim to the distinction that justly was his. Now
that he has joined the great army of his comrades on the
silent shore we deem it our duty to protect his good name,
and we therefore publish in this little pamphlet facts which
show conclusively that it was he, and he alone, who performed
the daring exploit on the Tennessee River, which Dr. Wyeth
erroneously attributes to another.
Capt. Frank P. Gracey was born at Eddyville, Ky., June
30, 1834. When he was sixteen years of age he began his
business career by accepting a position as clerk in a store at
Hickman, Ky. Two years later he became clerk on the
steamer America, a fine boat operating between Nashville
and New Orleans. In 1857 he married Miss Irene Cobb,
daughter of Dr. Joshua Cobb, of Clarksville, and settled at
Eddyville as a merchant and tobacco broker. Here he re-
mained till the outbreak of the Civil War.
He enlisted in the Third Kentucky Regiment, and upon its
organization at Camp Boone was elected second lieutenant
of Company F. Highland B. Lyon, of Eddyville, was chosen
captain of the company, and R. L. Cobb first lieutenant. The
command was soon ordered to Bowling Green, and here Com-
pany F was detailed to take charge of a battery of light ar-
tillery. This was familiarly known during the war as the
First Kentucky Battery, or Cobb's Battery. Lyon was the
first captain, but he was promoted, reaclimg finally the rank
of brigadier general. Cobb was the ne- 1 to take command,
but he was also promoted, and then Fra",!v P. Gracey became
captain of the battery. In the Georgia campaign at Kennesaw
Mountain Capt. Gracey was seriously wounded, and he was
slightly wounded on several other occasions. When the war
closed he was paroled, with a stipulation that he should rujt
go north of the Ohio River without a special permit from the
Secretary of War. This determined him to locate in Clarks-
ville, where his wife's family resided. He carried into pri-
vate life the energy and moral and physical courage which
had distinguished him during the war. He was not only
eminently successful as a' business man, but he was so public-
spirited that his influence waS felt in every enterprise that
went toward the upbuilding of the community, and his private
charity was demonstrated by numberless kind acts that the
world at large knew nothing of. He died suddenly on the
27th day of April, 1895, sincerely mourned by all who had
ever known him, and leaving a name behind him that in itself
would have been a ricli heritage to his only son.
A SON'S TRIBUTE.
BY SAMUEL D. RODCERS, PETERSBURG, VA.
We watch the glorious pageant, veterans marching on our
street,
Brilliant banners waving proudly, Dixie's martial strains we
greet
With cheer on cheer, till Southern hearts melt with the heroes'
song
And tear-dimmed eye meet Jackson's men and Lee's now
marching 'long —
Men who when Duty called them faltered not, but volunteered
And dared defy the bayonet, nor whistling bullet feared.
They knew their cause was righteous, State sovereignty was
right ;
.\nd knowing tliis, the patriots met the foe's o'erpowering
might.
The flag is furled, and heroes true who fought in Southern
gray
Are failing fast, their step grows slow, they soon will pass
away.
On history's page from age to age a deathless fame shall be
Ascribed the faithful soldiers who followed Robert Lee.
Theirs was the glorious record of men who loved their State ;
And loving her, the heroes felt no sacrifice too great:
Left home and friends and loved ones, left all when Duty
spake.
To face the deadly bullet for their dear Southland's sake.
Sons of the South whose fathers fought with Jackson and
with Lee,
A priceless heritage is yours, a cherished memory
Of men who knew no danger, since honor called them there,
.\nd God upheld them in the strife through Southern women's
prayer.
The venerable and beloved Lieut. Gen. A. P. Stewart is
spending some time in St. Louis with members of his family.
It will be remembered that he had a severe stroke of paralysis
over a year ago. In a recent letter he states : "My health is
reasonably good, and I am now in my eighty-fifth year, since
October 2."
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MORGAN'S RAID INTO KENTUCKY.
BY ROBERT L. THOMPSON, 29O4 PINE STREET, ST. LOUIS.
Late in December, 1862, Gen. John H. Morgan, with nine
regiments of mounted troops and one company of scouts,
made what was known as his Christmas raid through Ken-
tucky. There were Breckinridge, Chenault, Cluke, Duke,
Gano, Grigsby, Johnson, Smith, and Ward, all regimental
commanders, and Capt. Tom Quirk of the scouts. During
Gen. Morgan's invasion of Kentucky the battle of Murfrees-
lioro, Tenn., was fought between Gens. Bragg and Rosecrans.
It was said at the time that Gen. Morgan's purpose for en-
tering Kentucky was to get in the rear of Gen. Rosecrans's
army, cut his communications, and otherwise menace him and
draw his attention while Gen. Bragg attended to him in front.
Gen. Morgan's part of the work was well performed.
I was a private in Company F, 9th (Breckinridge's) Regi-
ment. We left Alexandria, Tenn., in the night. Early next
morning wc had crossed the State line and were in Tomp-
Uinsville, Ky. Another day and night's hard ride brought us
to Glasgow, where early in the morning we encountered a
foe, who struck back with such force that our chief ordered
us to withdraw, and by a rapid flank movement we passed
around him and proceeded straight to the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad at Munfordville. There we found the
enemy strongly posted in a stockade. We had with us a lit-
tle battery of three or four guns that Gen. Morgan named
ilie "Bull Pups." Our usual method of attack was to drive
ni tliL- pickets or shoot them down or get shot down, as some
of our gallant advance guard did at Glasgow, then dismount,
surround the garrison, fire a few shots with small arms,
Ilirow in a few shells from the battery, when the enemy,
linding it useless to hold out longer, would display a white
llag. and the job was finished.
Our next step was to parole the prisoners, destroy their
guns, and move on to the next. ,\ccompanying Gen. Morgan
there was a young man, George A. Ellsworth, a telegraph
operator, who would now and then cut the wire, attach his
instrument, and send misleading dispatches to the Federal
authorities in Louisville or Nashville. T saw him one day
seated on the roadside with his battery attached to a wire
fingering the key, while Gen. Morgan and staflF sat on their
horses about him. They all seemed to be in a good humor,
as though they were indulging in humorous message?.
Early on the morning of December 27 our regiment at-
tacked a body of Federals in Elizabethtown, Ky. They had
taken refuge in the courthouse and other buildings in the
i<nvn. The battery was brought forward in a dash and took
position on a little hill south of the town. Our regiment
fiijlowcd the artillery double-quick, and formed along the base
<if the hill betw-ecn the battery and tow'n. so that the shells
thrown into town passed over our heads. We dismounted
and advanced in full view and range of the enemy. We had
to cross a narrow bottom through wdiich ran a creek that
was full to its banks, caused by incessant rain of the ni.ght
before. We plunged through the water waist deep — at the
place I crossed — holding our guns above our heads, and en-
tered the town.
.\s I passed along a street T remember keeping close to
the wall of a house that I might be shielded from bullets,
when three Federal soldiers came out of the house with guns
and approached me. I said: "Surrender." They put their
guns down, and I ordered them to the rear. I then entered
the bouse they came out of. and found it to be a hotel with
breakfast on the table, but saw no landlord or guests. Other
Confederates came in, and together we ate the breakfast, and
during the whole time we were eating the little battery on the
hill was being worked to its full capacity. When we had
finished our breakfast and went out on the street again, we
saw white handkerchiefs tied to ramrods hanging out of the
courthouse w'indows. We then knew that the boys in blue
had surrendered, and I was glad. A member of my company
told my comrades that when I sa\v the three Federal soldiers
coming tow-ard me with their guns I had thrown my gun
down and rushed on them with my fists, demanding their
surrender, but that was a joke. However, I never did tell
the boys how badly scared I was at the time, but I do not
mind telling it now.
After the prisoners were paroled and their guns destroyed,
together with some other government property in the town,
we tnoved out a few miles north of town, stopped, and fed
our horses. If I remember correctly, nearly all of Gen. Mor-
gan's force was bunched there that morning. While we were
feeding Gen. Wolford's Federal cavalry came up and at-
tacked our rear guard. Our regiment was ordered to form
and assist in holding the enemy in checv, while the main part
of our little army passed the Rolling Fork, a swift-running
stream immediately in our front. We met with some loss
that morning, quite a number being wounded. Among the
officers there was Col. Duke, who received a wound on his
head from a fragment of a shell. We crossed the Rolling
Fork in safety, and then went forward at a swifter gait than
before. Gen. Wolford followed us, but he never caught up
any more.
It w-as then on to Bardstown, within forty miles of Louis-
ville, then to Springfield and Lebanon, then south to Burks-
villc, W'here w'C recrosscd the Cumberland River, thence back
to Tennessee again. I had no personal knowledge of what
any of the other regiments did on the trip ; I remcnTDer
only the part that mine took. That the others performed their
part well is quite certain, as it is well known that there were
no drones or sluggards who rode \vith Morgan.
With the exception of Gano's and Ward's regiments, quite
all of Morgan's men were Kentuckians. Most of Gano's
were Texans, and all of Ward's were Tennesseeans. With
but few exceptions, Morgan's troopers were young men,
quite a number being boys under age. Gen. Morgan was only
thirty-eight. My colonel was twenty-six, and there was not
an officer in the regiment whose age exceeded thirty, except
one. and he w-as not over forty. Capt. Tom Henry Hines, of
Company E. who escaped prison with Gen. Morgan one year
later, was but twenty-one. In Company H there was little
John Kemper, aged thirteen, who rode a pony and carried a
carbine. I was sixteen, and the youngest soldier in my com-
pany.
If I am not mistaken. Gen. Morgan's official report of the
expedition stated that we had been fourteen days in the sad-
dle, and I can well believe it true; for if w-e ever stopped for
any purpose, except to fight or feed our horses, I have no
recollection of the time or place. There was no wagon train
followed us loaded with commissary stores and camp equi-
page, not even an ordnance wagon or an ambulance. Horse
and gun with forty rounds of cartridges was what each man
started with. I suppose we were expected, if we should run
short of ammunition, to capture wdiat we needed, which we
did, and more than we had use for. How we were expected
to obtain food for ourselves, I do not know. It seems that
the soldiers' needs of sleep and food were not considered ;
only the horse he rode must be fed. If from any cause we
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halted, night or day, for a few minutes, we slept during the
interval. Stops were seldom made. It might be that the
guide had lost his way, when we would stop to establish the
right direction, etc. At such times we would snatch a mo-
ment's sweetest sleep, either leaning over on our horses'
necks or dropping down on the cold oarth, holding the horse
by the briaie. The loss of sleep is very likely the cause of my
recollection of its seeming more like a dream than a reality,
although the services rendered were quite real and earnest.
The command was "Go forward" and "Close up" all the
time, night and day, through rain, snow, and mud ; no rest
or sleep, but a constant prodding forw^^rd. I do not remem-
ber the results accomplished, the loss or gain or victor's
spoils. I only remember the arduous service and that most
of us escaped, being thankful now that it is all past and will
never happen again and that I am still aiive and able to tell
the tale.
A CONFEDERATE CHRISTMAS.
A TRUE STORY BY JANET H. RANDOLPH.
How across the years come the little voices, "Mother, tell
us a real, sure-'nough war story !" and so to-night my memory
goes back and I am again telling a "sure-'nough" story that
will perhaps amuse come other little children. This time it
will be a Confederate Christmas story, for I am a real old
Confederate. There are not many left now, for forty years
is a whole lifetime, and this Christmas was forty years ago.
After the Confederate army — or "our army," as we used to
say — fell back from Manassas in the spring of 1862, we were
in the enemy's country. My home was in the little village of
Warrenton, just in the track of both armies. In the morn-
ing the Yankees would i.ave possession, and maybe that
afternoon "our men" would be marching through. But this
winter the Yankees had gone into winter quarters, and the
people of the little village had settled down to make the best
of it.
Now, it is very hard for the people of the South to think of
a good Yankee. We know of all the horrors of the latter
years of this cruel war; but a gentleman is always the same
wherever he is born, and tliere were a great many kind Yan-
kees, and that winter many kind things were done by these
men who, although our enemies, were living among us.
Well, I have made a long preface to a short story. As I
said, the troops had gone into winter quarters ; no more dash-
ing in of "our men" to cheer us up by telling of how things
were going on "across the lines," and we children looked for-
ward to a dull Christmas. To give us a little pleasure, Mrs.
Gen. P., whose husband was in Richmond, formed a dancing
class, and twice a week we would meet in her parlors and she
would play on the piano for us to dance. There were about
eight girls and as many boys. The old-fashioned lancers,
the quadrilles, and the waltzes were learned. When Christ-
mas came, we wanted to send a little Christmas present to
Mrs. P., to show how we appreciated the pleasure she had
given us, but what could we do? Ther^ were no stores to
sell and no money to buy. The Yankees had their sutlers,
who were sometimes allowed to sell to the citizens; but they
were not then allowed to do so, for it had been reported that
we bought provisions to save up for the "Rebels."
You will recall what I have just said, that "we had no
money;" but when the Yankees came to stay, they used to
buy homemade bread, and would furnish materials for the
ladies to make pies and cakes, and our mothers were willing
to do anything to get some Yankee money, or "greenbacks,"
as we called the paper money. So each of us determined to
get a little money from our parents. We collected tliree dol-
lars, which was a "whole heap" for us, but how were we to
spend it? Recess each day found us consulting on this im-
portant question. It was at last decided that we would buy
some sugar and tea and coffee, but where were we to get it?
Again came the consultation, when one of the girls, Lillie P.,
said : "Why, there is a very nice Yankee who has his head-
quarters in the lot next to our house, and I believe he would
let us buy it if we asked him." Then came the question :
"Who is going to face the enemy?" We determined that
five of the girls should go, so Mollie S., Florie T., Jennie P.,
myself, and sister were chosen. The girl who proposed it
was to introduce us.
You can hardly imagine a more scared set of little girls ;
but we must get our present, so down we marched and asked
the sentinel who walked in front of the officers' tent if we
could see Col. Gardener (I remember the name and wish I
could remember the regiment) on "important business." In
a few minutes we were ushered into his presence. I was to
be the spokesman, but I am sure if the Colonel had not been
so gentle and kind my mouth would never have been able
to open. Well, after a fashion, we made known our errand
and offered our pitiful little three dollars, which meant so
much to us, asking if he would let his sutler sell us that
amount in sugar and coffee. Why, certainly ; it should be
sent to us that afternoon. You can hardly think how glad we
were and how we thanked the Yankee colonel.
Now the pleasant part of my story comes : That afternoon
up came the Colonel's orderly with twenty pounds of sugar
and a large package of coffee and tea (I suppose five times
as much as our money would have bought) and a nice letter
with three one-dollar greenbacks, saying that he was glad to
contribute to the brave little girls who wished to give a
Christmas present to the wife of a Confederate general who
had given her time for their amusement. Our delight can
hardly be described to the little ones of to-day who have all
they want for their comfort and amusement, and I believe
that everybody who takes the trouble to read this little story
will be glad to know that even in those hard days there were
kind Yankees who did fee! sorry for the little Confederate
girls; and it is just as nice, as the years go by, to remember
these kind acts, while it does good also to tell them. And
always remember that the old-fashioned name of gentleman
or gentlewoman belongs to the person who so behaves, and
not to any locality or country.
"MISSISSIPPI AT GETTYSBURG."
This is the title of a paper in course of preparation for
Volume IX. of the Mississippi Historical Society's Publica-
tion, by W. A. Love, of Crawford. Miss.
Comrade Love has been a subscriber to the Veteran since
its inception, and of course has secured much from its files,
and he will use the government official reports, regimental
losses, etc.; yet he greatly desires information from surviving
members of the three Mississippi brigades participating in
that battle, commanded by Barksdale, Posey, and Davis.
Mr. Love was too young for military service at that date,
but had four brothers in the nth Mississippi Regiment, two
of whom were in the charge on Cemetery Ridge, and both
wounded. He entered the service later in the 6th Mississippi
Cavalry, and was paroled at Gainesville, Ala , in May, 1865
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VINDICATING THE RECORD OF HIS COLONEL.
Frederick M. Grant, of Canton, 111., who served in the
Union army from Connecticut, favors the Veteran (to which
he is a subscriber) with an interesting account of his visit
to New Orleans some years ago. It so illustrates the chivalry
and friendly regard of the men who fought for both sides
that it is copied in part :
"While in New Orleans for two weeks, I visited a num-
ber of places forever of abiding interest to all Connecticut
Grand Army members, formerly belonging to the 19th Army
Corps. Among tliose places was the national cemetery on
the battle ground of Chalmette. I went there to pay my de-
votions to the graves of the Federal volunteers of the War
between the States, some fifteen thousand in numbers (of
which nearly half are designated as 'unknown'), gathered
from all of the battlefields of tlie Gulf Department and sweet-
ly sleeping there
'Under the dew and rain,
Awaiting the judgment day.'
"1 visited Memorial Hall of the Confederate Veterans of
(he Armies of Northern Virginia and Tennessee, located on
Camp Street, in New Orleans. The building is built of
granite, and voices an adaptability for the purposes for which
it is designed. \\'itliin the liall are gathered the uniforms,
side arms, pistols, holsters, evidences of rank, autographs,
[ihotograpbs, and numerous other things of interest formerly
belonging to Davis, Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston, Joe John-
ston, Beauregard, Bragg, Jackson, Hood, Cleburne, and a
host of other minor celebrities of the defunct Confederate
cause. The entire library of Jefferson Davis is there. Sus-
pended from the walls are the numerous regimental and
battery battle flags of the various organizations that went
forth from Louisiana during those four years to uphold and
make successful the object typified by those tattered and shot-
rent banners. Just beneath those flags on the walls, in large
letters, easily read, are tributes to the deathless bravery of
(be Armies of Northern Virginia and Tennessee copied from
the testimonies of Grant. Sherman, and Swinton, the historian
of the Army of the Potomac, and others.
"While thus interested in viewing the many objects con-
nected with those days, which are gone never more to re-
turn, I discovered, suspended within one of the cabinets
against the wall, a part of a garb of mail, or a steel breast-
plate, and upon it appeared the following recital in writing:
'Worn by Col. Ledyard Colburn, of the 12th Connecticut In-
fantry.' This stigmatized my own regimental commander,
under whom I had served nearly two years. It bore the
stain of dishonor, if not of cowardice. I was not satisfied to
have it remain so. I went to my room and tried to think of
my duty in the premises. I thought of it more or less
through the night, and I resolved that I would try to vindi-
cate the memory of one gone hence and no longer able to
speak for himself and repel this public memento of a
slanderous detraction.
"The following morning I took the very gentlemanly cus-
todian, an ex-officer of the Army of Tennessee, to the cabi-
net and pointed out to him the brea.stplate having the objec-
tionable recital upon it. He said: 'Yes, what do you know
about it?' I replied: 'I know that in its application to Col.
Golburn, who was my regimental commander, it was not true."
1 solicited permission to prepare and file a written state?nent
of the facts, protesting against the further continuance of this
recital in this public manner. It was purported to have been
taken from the body of the deceased officer in front of Cold
Harbor, Va., in the summer of 1864.
"Not alone the custodian but Col. J. A. Chaldron, formerly
of die 5th Company, Washington Artillery, received my
request with the greatest possible courtesy, furnishing me
at once with paper, pen, and ink, and I sat down and wrote
and filed with the association an extended and trutliful
narrative, in which I showed that tlie recital upon the card
attached to the breastplate was clearly and palpably a mis-
take. I was enabled to demonstrate that Col. Colburn was
never in Virginia in the capacity of a soldier, except during
the Bull Run campaign of July, 1861, when, as major of the
2d Connecticut Infantry, he was publicly named in the re-
port of Gen. Keyes, commanding the division, as one who,
amid the shameless panic and disgraceful rout of the 21st of
July of that year, exhibited exceptional bravery, coolness,
and soldierly adherence to duty. I briefly traced his career
in the 12th Connecticut Infantry, the date of his connection,
his coming to Sliip Island, the siege of Forts Jackson and
St. Philip, his coming to Louisiana, his bemg detached from
the regiment, his resignation and return to civil life before
the battle of Cold Harbor in the summer of 1864, and finally
his death, poor in this world's goods, at Piano, in the State
of Illinois, more than a quarter of a century after the time
when the plate was alleged to have been taken from the dead
body of its wearer.
"I appealed to the association, the members of which I
believe would be unwilling to permit a wrong to a living per-
son, much less to the memory of a deceased comrade, to no
longer permit this public indictment of the voiceless dead.
I begged for an investigation, confident that it would con-
firm the absolute and entire verity of n;y statement ; that if
it did not, I would forever hold my peace. Never before
were men found more quick to respond to such a plea. Col.
Chaldron, the President, instantly gave orders to have the
card containing the objectionable and erroneous recitation re-
moved, and before I came away it was removed. He said
that they 'would remove it first and investigate afterwards.'
"I left the hall, blessing the fraternal kindness of these
officers of the Louisiana Historical Association of Confed-
erate Veterans, who, if they had unwittingly done wrong
to the name of a former foe, were quick to right it the mo-
ment that they knew of its existence. There and everywhere
it is the same story. The best men of the South to-day, the
most peaceful, the most liberal, the most fraternal, are the
grizzled veterans of the Confederate army."
In a personal letter Mr. Grant mentions that he procured a
copy of the Veteran from his brother's office, the Akron
Democrat. It induced him to subscribe, and he would show
copies to L. B, Farnsworth, who served in the 13th Virginia
Infantry. A. P. Hill being its first colonel. Then he writes
of his Confederate friend : "Mr. Farnsworth is one of our
liest and wealthiest citizens. I was associated with him for
five years on the Board of Education, and a purer or more
upright official I never knew. Mr. Farnsworth was terribly
wounded at tlie battle of Gaines's Mills June 27, 1862. He has
shown me the Yankee bullet which went through him.
Thank God ! it did not kill him, though it has made his life
since a 'seedtime and harvest' of suffering."
Such men must forever feel remorse that when their vic-
tory was complete the outrages of reconstruction should have
been put upon their gallant foes.
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Passing Away.
One by one they are passing away.
Tliose that are left are old and gray ;
But true to duty as in days of yore
We close up the ranks, though our hearts be sorp.
Yes, one by one, and our ranks grow thin
As the reaper Death gathers them in ;
And as w-e meet there are fewer each year
When the roll is called to answer "Here !"
Maj. W. H. Morgan.
Maj. William H. Morgan, of the 3d Mississippi Infantry,
died at his home, at Carrollton, Miss., September 27, 1905
He was born near Clinton, in that State, and was educated at
the Kentucky Military Institute, graduating with honor.
Maj. Morgan was called to the captaincy of a company
called the "Sunflower Dispersers" in the summer of 1861. His
service was chiefly in the Army of Tennessee. He served with
the 3d Mississippi Infantry, and later was in charge of the
battalion of Fergurson's Brigade of Sharpshooters. He was in
command when they ran the Federal gunboats out of the
Yazoo River after the skirmish at Southworth's Ferry. Cross-
ing the bends in the river, they forced the gunboats to turn
back at the ferry and descend the river, ten of which tried
to follow the famous Star of the West, and the Confederate
transports, which had gone up there to seek shelter under
the guns of Forts Pemberton and Loring. He was in charge
of his battalion of sharpshooters at Chickasaw Bayou, defend-
ing the mouth of the Yazoo, twelve miles above Vicksburg.
After the surrender of Vicksburg, he was again with the
3d Mississippi with his little band, going down the famous
Dry Creek bottom with Gen. Loring's Division. They escaped
just as the city was surrendered. Ordered then to the Army
of Northern Virginia, he served with it until the end. Many
about Nashville, Tenn.. will remember the gallant 3d Mis-
sissippi and its bravery at Franklin. Maj. Morgan returned
to his home on the Beauvoir Coast of Mexican Gulf, Missis-
sippi. He was an intimate friend of President Davis. Maj.
Morgan engaged in planting cotton in the Yazoo Delta the re-
maining part of his life. He was a member of the last Con-
stitutional Convention and a Trustee of the State Agricultural
and Mechanical College. He left a widow and four children ;
also one sister, Mrs. W. S. Green, of Colusa, Cal.
Col. J. J. Darlthg.
A noted character of St. Augustine wa.- "Sergeant" J. J.
Darling, who died on the i6th of September, in his eighty-
third year. Besides being one of the oldest citizens, he was a
recognized feature of the town and noted especially for his
methodical way of living. He served the United States gov-
ernment in the Indian War, 1848, and was also in the Con-
federate service under Gen. Finnigan as ordnance sergeant.
He was noted for his truthfulness and integrity, and was true
to the principles of his convictions.
A friend explains how he got his title of colonel : "While
stationed at Lake City, Fla., the battle of Oluslee took place.
Toward evening a message came to Capt. Buckman, chief of
ordnance, from Gen. Beauregard for one hundred thousand
rounds of ball cartridges. Capt. Buckman not being found,
the message was handed to Sergeant Da; ling, who prepared
to give it his conscientious attention. A train would be going
west toward Olustee in an hour ; another was due going
east in five minutes. Sergeant Darling got out the ammuni-
tion and waited for the east-bound train. As it rolled into the
station, he told the conductor and engineer to turn the engine
around and take the carload of ammunition to the front. At
the refusal of the engineer, he told the sergeant of the guard
to shoot him out of the box. This brought the engineer to
terms, and the ammunition was at the front in forty minutes
and saved the day. Some days later Col. Finnigan met Capt.
Buckman and thanked him for his promptness, which Capt.
Buckman explained was due to Sergeant Darling. This was
told Gen. Beauregard, who in a general order 'commended"
the action of 'Col. J. J. Darling, chief of ordnance.' "
John Barrow.
John Barrow, a native of Carroll County, Miss., enlisted'
with the Harvey Scouts and served with that company
through the war. He distinguished himself as a soldier, his
enthusiasm carrying him to the front in many engagements,
whereby praise and admiration were entertained for him as a
dashing and bold soldier who feared no danger. He gloried
in close encounter with the enemy, and consequently had'
many hairbreadth escapes. He was a social, genial compan-
ion, and gave animation to friends by relating his experiences
in the war and the incidents in which he shared. After the
war he returned home, married, and engaged in farming.
Several years since he removed to Madison County, where he
passed from earth July 28, 1904, leaving a wife and two sons.
Mrs. Adelaide B. Owen.
The sad news to many friends has been delayed that tlie
wife of Maj. Edward Owen died on August 5 in New York
City, after a continuous illness from last February. She was-
buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Owen was born in
New York City, but was a strong Southern sympathizer
during and after the war. She was a charter member of the
New York Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy, and always-
took an active interest in its doings and weitare.
James W. Stephenson. — Born in Lawrence County, Ala.,,
in September of 1830, James W. Stephenson died near Kos-
suth, Miss., in September, 1904, having passed into his seventy-
fifth j'ear. He was a member of the A. S. Johnston Camp-
at Kossuth, his service having been in the 26th Mississippi.
Infantry from August, 1861, to the end.
William B. London, a member of Company A, i6th Louisi-
ana Infantry, died at Jackson, La., on February 23, 1905.
He participated in the battles of Shiloh, Farmington, Mum-
fordville, Perryville, Murfreesboro, around Chattanooga, At-
lanta, Franklin, and Nashville. Under th( Confederate gray--
there beat no nobler, gentler, braver heart than his.
George W. H. Watts, of Portsmouth, Va., died May 6,.
1905. He entered the army in April, 1861, as a private in>
Company G, 9th Virginia Infantry, Armistead's Brigade,
Pickett's Division, and participated in all the engagements-
of this famous command of the .\rniy of Northern Virginia.
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Dr. R. B. P:)rter.
Dr. R. B. Porter, who died July i6, '^S. in his sixty-ninth
year, was a gallant Confederate soldier, enlisting in Company
C, 35th Alabama In-
fantry, and serving
with that regiment till
1864, when he was
transferred to the 5th
Alabama Cavalry. He
was in the service till
the close of the war,
and was honorably dis-
charged in May, 1865.
He participated in some
of the greatest battles
of the war, notably
Corinth, Baker's Creek,
J. ckson, Miss , Vicks-
liurg. Port Hudson,
Brice's Cross Roads,
and many smaller en-
gagements.
Comrade Porter was
a member of Cam|)
Fred Ashford, Town
Creek, Ala., w h i c h
community mourned
the loss of a true and
noble citizen, whd was deeply interested in the pulilic good
and a man of sn]H-rinr energy and hnsinc-s iudgmont.
J.\Mi:s B. Coleman.
James B. Colcni;ni \v;\s born in Winston County, Miss., in
1845. and went with his parents to Texas in i860, where the
DR. R. 11. PORTER.
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J. B. COLEM.\N.
following year he enlisted in the Confederate army as a
member of Company D, 2d Texas Cavalry, Pyron's Regiment.
Ever ready for duty, he never faltered at any service, and
soon won the love and admiration of his comrades by his
genial disposition and cheerful acceptance of all the hard-
ships of soldier life. Since the war the most of his life has
been spent in Coleman County, Tex. Ill health became his
portion about four years since, and on June 12 his spirit left
this earth, leaving behind a sorrowing wife and children.
Comrade Coleman was a true son of the South, and very
near to his heart were all things pertaining to the cause for
which he had fought. For many years he was an active mem-
ber of John Pelham Camp, of Coleman, doing all in his
power to perpetuate the principles of the Confederacy.
Capt. John D. Harrell.
The remains of Capt. Jolin D. Harrell were interred at
Bainbridge, Ga., October 20 with Masonic honors. The
funeral was one of the most largely attended that ever oc-
curred there, all business houses in the city being closed
• luring the funeral. Quite a number of veterans from sur-
I'lunding towns also participated, Capt. Harrell having been
1 loyal soldier and a beloved veteran. This section, as well
1^ the State at large, suffers an irreparable loss in the death
of John D. Harrell, and the immense throng attending the
last sad rites attested the esteem in which he had been held.
John Duke Harrell was born in Decatur County in 1843.
a son of William W. Harrell, and was educated in the schools
of Bainbridge. At the outbreak of the War between the
States he enlisted in the Georgia Hussars, of Savannah, but
later joined Arthur Hood's Battalion of Cavalry, being lieu-
tenant of Capt. Wimberly's company. Throughout the war
he served in Georgia and Florida, and distinguished himself
for loyalty and bravery in every emergency. After the war,
he returned to Bainbridge and engaged in the mercantile
business. During the dark years of reconstruction he wa*;
one of the strong men who helped to avert ruin and finally
brought order out of chaos. His business career was emi-
nently successful. At the time of his death he was President
of the First National Bank of Bainbridge.
Col. Harrell served several terms in the Georgia Legisla-
ture, both as Representative and in the Senate, where he was
always popular and influential, and bore the reputation of
a safe and conservative lawmaker.
Lieut. William J Chambers.
A native of Tennessee by birth, a Texan and Alabamian
by adoption, these three States could well be proud to claim
W. J. Chambers as a son in the kindly, simple life he lived,
performing well his duty in war and peace and showing
friendship and love to his fellow-men.
William Chambers was born at Manchester, Tenn , De-
cember 29, 1836. going in 1840 to Texas with his parents, who
settled near Daingerfield. His father's health failing, they
went back to Tennessee, settling at Cowan, where he died,
leaving liis widow and daughters as a charge to the son of
nineteen. They then returned to Texas, and William en-
gaged in farming, from which he was called to bear arms for
his State in the war against the North. He was enrolled in
Company I, 9th Texas Cavalry, Ross's Brigade, and with
that command he served throughout the war, and was sur
rendered near Jackson. Miss., at the close. As a soldier, he-
was distinguished for his bravery; as a man. he was noble
and true.
.\fter the war, William Chambers again went back to Ten-
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nessee for a short time, removing thence to Marysville, Ala ,
where he married Miss Elizabeth Zaton in 1868, who sur-
vives him with nine children. He sleeps at Huntsville, Ala.,
awaiting the call to the eternal assembly.
Mrs. Applewhite Jones.
Died in Cameron, Tex., August 2, 1905, Mrs. Applewhite
.Jones, wife of Dr. D. C. Jones. She was a native of Mis-
sissippi, having been born in Tishomingo County, near Brice's
Cross Roads, the daughter of Maj. John G. Harman. Her
mother was a grandniece of Gen. Wade Hampton. When she
was seven years old, the family went to Texas, and settled at
Cameron. In that community she grew to gentle womanhood,
winning all by her beauty and sweetness of character. She
was married to John T. Wilson in 1863, and he died in 1865.
A few years after the war she became the wife of Dr. D. C.
Jones, who had served in Capt. Townsend's Company of the
4th Texas Regiment, in Hood's Brigade, till he was appointed
surgeon of the regiment in 1862, and so continued to the end.
This lovely woman lived her courageous, peaceful life, a
benediction to all who came within the radius of her in-
fluence, and in her passing has left behind the heritage of
one who went about doing good.
Dr. Hal W. Manson.
Many friends and comrades will learn with sorrow of the
death of Dr. Hal W. Manson at his home, in Dallas, Tex.
He served faithfully throughout the war as a member of the
7th Tennessee Regiment, recruited by Gen. Robert Hatton,
and participated in all the battles of that command. He was
wounded and lost a leg at Petersburg just a few days before
Appomattox. He was sent with others to Washington City,
and after the surrender was taken to Baltimore by some
good friends and nursed until able to return to his home, in
Tennessee. Later on he went to Texas, nd became a promi-
nent citizen of that State as an editor and member of the
Legislature.
Mrs. Kate W. Moore.
Mrs. Kate Moore, wife of Mr. Volney Moore, entered into
her rest at Oakland, Miss., September s, 1905. This is the
first bereavement in the John D. Kerr Chapter, U. D. C.
and with "chastened hearts" they pay a tribute to her mem-
ory, saying : "In the death of our beloved sister we have lost
one whose undying faith and hope in a risen Saviour is a
precious legacy to our memories, in that it made life a bless-
ing to all about her. The high ideals she cherished of pure
womanhood were ever practiced in the society she adorned
or the home she made happy. We are conscious that our
loss is her gain ; that from her own heart she freely gave to
others her cheerfulness, her sympathies, her affections, her
sacrifices. With her charity was for all. 'Being dead, she
yet speaketh.' "
Committee : L. F. Black, B. K. Burt, J. C. Carr.
Capt. Edward Gregory.
Edward Gregory was born in Breckinridge County, Ky , in
March, 1841, and at the age of twenty enlisted in the Con-
federate service as a member of Company G, 9th Kentucky
Infantry, Col. Hunt's command of the famous Orphan Bri-
gade. In a few months he was made sergeant, and in De-
cember, 1863, was elected second lieutenant, and during the
last months of the war he virtually commanded his company,
his commission as captain arriving just after the surrender.
Capt. Gregory took part in the battles of Shiloh. Vicksburg.
Baton Rouge, Hartsville, Stone's River, Jackson, Chicka-
mauga, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Gap, and Resaca, from
Resaca to Atlanta, at Peachtree Creek, L^toy Creek. Jones-
CAPT. EDWARD GREGORY.
boro, and in the mounted engagements. He surrendered with
Johnston's army. While crossing to Washington, Ga., he
put his sword in the Savannah River rather than surrender it.
After the close of the war, he returned to Kentucky and
engaged in the tobacco business at Lewisport, where he was
a prominent citizen and well beloved by all. His death oc-
curred on July 16. 1905. He was married to Miss Letitia
Taylor Tate in 1868, who survives him with five children.
Resolutions adopted by Rice E. Graves Camp, of Owens-
boro, of which Comrade Gregory was a member, attest the
high esteem in w'hich he was held both as a soldier and citizen.
CoL. J. William Brown.
The death of Col. J. William Brown at his home, in Long-
view, Tex., on the 9th of July took from that community a
prominent citizen and one thoroughly identified with its best
works. He was Commander of the U. C. V. Camp there.
and always interested in the advancement of the organization.
J. William Brown was born in Buckingham County, Va., in
1836. His father removed to Texas in 1850 and settled in
Rusk County. From there the son entered the Confederate
service as captain of the Sabine Grays, a company which his
father had raised and which was made Company I of the
7th Texas Regiment, under Col. John B. Gregg. He was
captured at Fort Donelson and sent with his men to Camps
Chase and Douglass ; but in 1862, when the prisoners were
being sent down the Mississippi for exchange, he escaped at
Memphis, and subsequently rejoined his company at Holly
Springs. He was on duty at Port Hudson under fire of
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Farragut's fleet, from where lie was ordered to Jackson, and
was in the battle of Raymond with Gregg's Brigade, in
which he was severely wounded about the head and body.
Capt. Brown was mentioned in Granbury's report as being at
ihe front of the fight and behaving with great gallantry. He
rejoined his command after the battle of Chickamauga, and
was in the battle of Missionary Ridge. In 1864 he continued
in command of his company, and frequently his regiment wa.^
in the Georgia campaign and in Hood's Tennessee campaign.
He was captured at the battle of Franklin, but escaped near
Nashville and returned to his command. He took part in the
campaign in 1865, and surrendered with the army at Greens-
boro. Toward the last he was in command of Granbury's
Brigade, and was promoted to colonel, but failed to receive
his commission. After the war, he settled in Louisiana, but
in i8g2 removed to I.ongview, Tex
, Jerry Rodinson.
There sank 10 liis (.Icrnal rest on the 301I1 of May at Chat-
tanooga, Tenn., one of nature's noblemen — Jerry Robinson,
a former member of Company F, 21st Mississippi Regiment
of Infantry, Barksdale's Brigade, and an honored member of
Camp No. 1331, U. C. V., of Coahoma County, Miss.
Jerry Robinson was born January 9. 1836, at Port Gibson,
Miss. He enlisted in the Confederate army at the outbreak
of hostilities, and for four years served his coimfry well and
faithfully, shirking no duty. .\t the close he retired to hi.-;
plantation on Cassily's Bayou and the Tallahatchie River,
and bringing to bear the same energy and courage with
which he ?crved in the Confederate army he opened up from
that vast wilderness of cane and tangled jungle one of the
most magnificent plantations in the great Delta region.
On the 14th of March. 187", he was married to Miss Eliza-
beth R. Patterson, who joined with him in nfaking their home
a synonym of hospitality throughout the Delta region. The
hand of Jerry Robinson was never turned against any man
without just cause, and every old Confederate soldier found
in him a loving friend and brother. He leaves behind the
loving wife and four children — a son and three daughters.
In his death Camp l.Minnr Fontaine lost a revered member.
• Capt. C. S Peak.
From the resolutions adopted by Forrest Camp, U. C. V.,
of Chattanooga, Tenn., the following is taken as a tribute to
one who was a prominent member of the Association and
who was a brave and chivalrous soldier in the ordeal of wari
JERRY ROBINSON.
CAPT. C. S. PEAK.
» ■
"Capt. C. S. Peak died on the 8th of March. 1005, after a
short but severe illness. He was born in Meigs County,
Tenn.. in August. 183Q. the son of Mai. Jacob Peak, who
was a wealthy farmer and slave owner. Maj. Peak served
four years under Gen. Jackson in the Creek Indian War, in
which he won the rank of major for gallant service.
"When the war clouds gathered in 1861. young Peak was
in the steamboat business on the Tennessee River ; and when
East Tennessee became the theater of active operations, he
owned and commanded the steamer Tennessee, operating be-
tween Decatur and Knoxvillc. The deck hands were negroes
from his father's plantation. The boat and negroes were
tendered the Confederate government, and accepted by Gen.
Kirby Smith, who commanded the Fast Tennessee Depart-
ment. Comrade Peak was commissioned as captain and
placed in charge of the department of transportation, in
which capacity he kept the armies of Forrest at Kingston
and Smith at Knoxville bountifully provisioned from the rich
bottom lands of that section. When the Confederates were
retiring from East Tennessee, Capt. Peak was ordered to
destroy his boat, as the enemy was about to capture it. After
this, he became a member of a company of the 3d Confeder-
ate Cavalry, luider Col. Hart, of Georgia, and served in the
ranks as a trooper till the close of the war. He was severely
wounded in the battle of Philadelphia. After the war, he
settled in Chattanooga, and became identified with its busi-
ness inti rests as a commission merchant and steamboat owner.
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COTTON CROPS FOR THE YEARS 1904-06.
Latham, Alexander & Co., 16 and 18 Wall Street, New
York, send the following estimate of the cotton crop for the
United States, under date November 23, 1905. for 1905-06,
making it ten million three hundred thousand hales, and epito-
mizes for each of the Cotton States.
Their letter states :
"After the receipt of the most exhaustive information pos-
sible to obtain from reliable and intelligent correspondents
by letter and telegram, covering every cotton-growing county
in the Southern States, we have the pleasure to submit the
following estimate of the total cotton crop of the United
States for 1905-06:
States. Ett. Crop igo5-o6. Crop 1904-05.
Alabama 1,200,000 1,470,000
Arkansas 625,000 905,000
Florida 70,000 S9.000
Georgia 1,700.000 1,975,000
Louisiana 570.000 1,100,000
Mississippi 1,225.000 1.777,000
North Carolina 680,000 775.000
South Carolina 1,080,000 '1,200,000
Tennessee and Oklahoma Territory... 550,000 691,000
Texas and Indian Territory 2,600,000 3.584,000
Estimated total 10,300,000 13.566,000
"Our correspondents report that the crop from the be-
ginning of the season has not prospered at any time as was
expected, and that much land was abandoned after planting
was finished on account of wet weather and scarcity of
labor for cultivation.
"A large falling off in the yield is reported from all the
States, save North and South Carolina and parts of Georgia.
In Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and localities in Texas
the yield will be so small as to amount to disaster to many
planters. Picking has progressed well under favorable condi-
tions, and the crop has been ginned and marketed rapidly."
Capt. Robert McCulloch and St. Louis Street Rail-
way.— The St. Louis Censor awards a "cake" weekly to a
meritorious person. McCulloch takes it. It says : "The man
to whom the Censor's cake is awarded this week is Capt.
Robert McCulloch, Vice President and General Manager of
the United Railways. The award is made not on the ground
that he has particularly distinguished himself this week any
more than he does every week but that he is the best street
railway man in the country, and is the philanthropist who has
rescued St. Louis from a condition that in transportation ap-
proached chaos. What a miraculous change since the coming
of McCulloch ! Nothing is said about the rescue from chaos,
liut it is always that way. The world is very reluctant to
praise, but quick to censure. History is only the record of
trouble, and nothing is to be said or written when everything
is all right. Even so when the transit business is run as it
should be, we hear no word of comment or approval ; it is
only when it fails to do the square thing that you hear things.
But a man who has accomplished as much as McCulloch
deserves something more than the silence of a satisfied pub-
lic, and hence the cake. . . . Some of Capt. McCuUoch's
friends feared that in the sale of the St Louis Street Rail-
ways a year or so ago, involving something like a hundred
million dollars, the new management would seek to sub-
stitute a younger man for this valiant Confederate, but not
so, and 'he takes the cake' at the close of 1905."
MR. ADOLPH S. OCHS, NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER.
The Veteran volunteers to m ntion the New York Times
and its controlling spirit, Mr. Adolph S. Ochs. Many months
have been numbered since the resolve to pay this tribute.
Back in the mid seventies, when the owner of the Chatta-
nooga Times (now the proprietor of the Confederate Vet-
eran) was publisher of that paper, he became acquainted
with the gentleman named above. He was then a mere lad,
with an ambition that was fascinating. Modest and genteel,
he was a hustler in the strongest sense of that term. He
possessed a faith in himself that dallied not with doubt in
any undertaking. His energy and capacity were given to a
rival publication that was destined not to survive the Times;
but it was no fault of his, and that failure rather intensified
his ambitions.
Soon after the lights of the rival went out young Mr. Ochs
procured a lease of the Times, with the conditional purchase
of a half interest. Ere the time arrived for him to buy the
interest, there was an agreement whereby he became sole
owner of the paper. Fortune favored him, and Chattanooga
has never yet established any enterprise as conspicuously
prominent as became the Times in its superb building, corner
Eighth Street and Georgia Avenue. That great undertaking
for a young "self-made" man, in its fullest sense, was in the
beginning of the hardest business ordeal Chattanooga has
ever known ; and. though Mr. Ochs was absorbed in some
large deals that were held in check for years, he held his
own, and in addition planned enterprises not dreamed of
by his associates. If a paper that printed "all the news that's
fit to print" thrived in a little city of thirty thousand, why
MR. ADOLPH .S. OCHS.
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not another paper on tlie same line in the
greatest city of America ?
Well, it came to pass that Mr. Adolph S.
Ochs bought the New York Times, then the
Philadelphia Times, and a little later the Phil-
adelphia Ledger, whereby he became the fore-
most newspaper publisher in the world. It is
gratifying to review his remarkable career.
The story should enthuse every ambitious
young man to realize that by absolute integrity
such a thing is possible that one man by middle
age — yet he hardly seems that — can achieve-
that which should satisfy any man of earth.
Upon the completion of the new Times
Building, New York, a supplemental maga-
zine was issued, which is doubtless the most
interesting and instructive description of a
business building in history. The location.
bounded by Forty-Second and Forty-Third
Streets south and north, Seventh Avenue on
the west, and Broadway on the east, seems to
be absolutely central to the great city for
generations and generations. It is the tallest
building from the lowest base to the top, yet
constructed in that most marvelous city of
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taller buildings in the world. Its actual height
is three hundred and sixty-two feet eight
and three-quarter inches. While the Park
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constructed. Such a conspicuous building is
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having the advantage of all that had been
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Having been shown through the great New
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peculiar comfort. The library, for instance,
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The New York Times was in "hard lines"
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At the time af Mr. Ochs's latest purchase (the Philadelphia
Ledger) there was much in the daily press about his achieve-
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jt elicited the following from Mr. Ochs : "I want to thank
THE NEW YORK TIMES BUILDING.
you for your very kind reference to me. It makes me happy
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ways found me upright and honorable. . . ."
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Read What Gritics Have to Say of This Beautiful Work
Letters and Excerpts from Letters from Distinguished and Well'Known People and by the Press
Mrs. Jefferson Davis: "I tiave had a proud and joyful taslt in
the perusal of this, for it rings so true to the noble enthusiasm
which animated our people in their struggle for liberty."
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson : "I do thank
you sincerely and prize your interesting
book very much. I have enjoyed it so
far as I have read, and anticipate still
more pleasure from its entire perusal. It
has the true ring of loyalty and devotion
to the sacred cause of the South, and
appeals tenderly to my heart, which gave
and suffered so much for that cause."
Senator Morgan : "You have placed
lights upon that column of fame that will
glow in full brilliancy with any that will
burn there, to enlighten the future and
glorify the past."
Gen. Fred S. Ferguson wrote of the
same poem : "If you never write another
line, the third and fourth stanzas will
give you an enviable place among Amer-
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the fourth stanza is one of the finest
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R. N. Tisdale, former Commander In
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Gen. William C. Dates, Ex-Governor of Alabama : "They
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production."
General McLaurin : "I am pleased to acknowledge the receipt
of your excellent book, 'A Galaxy of Southern Heroes,' sent
with your compliments. I am glad to have the book, because
it is a splendid production on a subject that always finds a
welcome in my heart. I am especially gratified that I am thus
complimented by one who bears a name distinguished in my
State for attainments in your profession. Please accept my
thanks."
Myles Standish, the Famous Critic and Literary Editor of the
New York Journal- American, in that Journal said ; "This hand-
some volume of excellent poems on varied .subjects — in fact, run-
ning the entire gamut of the human emotions — is by Orion T.
Dozier, M.D., a native of Birmingham, Ala., an ex-Confederate
veteran, and one of the most prominent prote.ssional men in the
South. This author is a poet-doctor, as was the late Oliver
Wendell Holmes. He writes 'not for glory or to put money m
his purse,' but because he mu.st, and it took the eomtimed efforts
of his friends and immediate family to force from him a reluc-
tant consent to have his poems published in enduring form.
Such modesty is highly commendable, inasmuch as it is 'as rare
as nightingales in snow' in this mercenary age. Dr. Dozier's
poems are all good, many of them are excellent, and a few are sub-
lime. The author's humorous sketches
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manity are the polished production of a
ripe, expansive, and clean observation—
logically presented. While the poet's pa-
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yet it is only when he pays his glowing
tribute to the Southern heroes who sup-
ported heroically 'the lost cause' that he
strikes his truest and most sublime note,
and establishes forever his claim to im-
mortality. There is a distinct individual-
ity among the poet's stanzas which pre-
cludes tile possibility of comparison with
that of any other living poet. His best
work displays the simplicity of a true ele-
gance, and is undoubtedly the product of
an extensive literary cultivation, broad ex-
perience, and profound knowledge. How
so successful and busy a physician could
find time to make sucli a valuable acqui-
sition to the real literature of the day is
a problem the solving of which would be
of interest to all students of 'Concentra-
tion, or Oneness of Aim.' "
National Hibernians; "The book con-
tains over three hundred pages, is hand-
somely printed, and is substantially
bound in convenient size, and contains
a highly admirable collection of poetic
gpms."
The Birmingham News : "It has been
ni.v recent pleasure to read a book writ-
ten by a well-known citizen of Birming-'
ham. Tlie author runs the entire gamut
of emotions, from grave to gay, and from
epic to idyllic. His genius, like tlie trunk;
of tlie elephant, which is so delicate as to
piciv up a pin or so strong as to crush a rock, treads the pium-'
rose path of dalliances in love ditties and steps in seven-league
boots from moimtain top to mountain top of epic poetry. His
Muse as the gushing spring in the mountain flows gently at
first, murmuring a roundelay to the song of the birds, now
dashes into a foaming cataract of poetical passion, and then
broadens into the inighty river of rich sentiments sweeping us
on to the boundless ocean of thougtit witti an irresistible force.
This volimie. 'A Galaxy of Southern Heroes and Otlier Poems,'
is the effort of the maturer thought of its author. Dr. Orion
T. Dozier. and will maintain its place in Southern literature as
long as the South holds its place as a leader in poetic genius.
Not only in the South, but in the North. East, and West, has
Dr. Dozier won his placp as one of the literati of our country.
The expression of Southern sentiment as voiced by the author
lias been accepted in other sections as indicative of our be-
loved but often maligned Southland."
The Southern Homestead Magazine : "Dr. Dozier is a poet
born, and this is a distinction in a day when most of our met-
rical literature is the production of poets who are made. His
poems mean something and sav something. Thp physician-poet,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, has lately died, but in Birmingham, the
Magic City of our Southland, another has risen."
The foregoinir well-stated opinions are liut a selected few from a great uiimlier of hiahly eulogistic cucomiums which the
author's muse has evoked, but they serve to show the liberal coniiucndation » i:h whitli ilic liooU has been received by the
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Antonio, and Laredo. Through Pull-
man sleepers from St. Louis 2:21 p.m.
and 8:20 P.M. daily. Elegant Dining
Car service. Now is the season to visit
enchanting Mexico. Low rates, liberal
itop-over privileges. For information,
rates, descriptive literature see nearest
Ticket Agent, or address R. T. G. Mat-
thews, T. P. A., Iron Mountain Route,
Room 301 Norton Building, Louisville,]
Ky.
J. W. Pendleton, of Naples, Tex., in-
quires for comrades of the 38tli Missis-
sippi Regiment. He says they were
nearly all killed at the battle of Harris-
burg, in 1864.
Orange, Olive, and English
Walnut Orchards in California.
FOR SALE IN SUBDIVISIONS.
Free from frost and fog, eighty acret
of irrigable land about half planted to
oranges, lemons, olives, and custard ap-
ples. Near Villa Park. All necessary
buildings, abundance of water; one mile
from railroad, school, store, post office,
and church. Also adjoining west limits
of Anaheim, sixty-acre walnut orchard,
thirty-three shares water stock, fifteen
acres interset with Royal apricots, and
fifteen acres interset with El be rta peaches;
seven-rootn house and barn. Quarter of
a mile from railroad, school, store, and
post office. Terms, $25,000 for each
ranch, one-third cash, balance at six per
cent net, seiiiiatinuallv.
VICTOR MONTGOMERY,
Santa Ana, Cal.
William Whitlock, Crossville, Tenn.,
seeks one whom he befriended : "At
the battle of Franklin, while looking
for a comrade on the field, I found a
Confederate captain, wounded. I took
him to my tent and gave him supper,
and sent him to the surgeon to have his
wounjs dressed. He told me he was
within twenty-five miles of his home,
and I permitted him to return to his
family. If I ever knew his name, I have
forgotten it, but I would like to see him
again or hear from him. He had sandy
hair and a red heard. I was at the time
lieutenant of Company A, 5th Tennessee
United States Infantry."
R. J. Hancock, of Charlottesville, Va.,
wishes to learn the whereabouts of Wil-
liam, Thomas, and John Easters (or
Estes), who were his cousins. Their
mother removed from Giles County,
Tenn., to Cherokee County, Tex., about
1850, and these young men were just
about old enough to take a hand in the
War between the States. Comrade
Hancock also inquires of John Traylor.
of Claiborne Parish, La., who was his
schoolmate and roommate at Homer,
La. He saw him last as a member of
Col. Scott's I2th Louisiana Regiment at
Camp Moore, in Louisiana. Mr. Han-
cock was of the 9th Louisiana Regiment.
PISO'S CURE FOR t»
CURES WHERC All ELSE FAiU.
I Best rnunh 8yrut>. '^af>t.>^^ < Jood. Use
In tlnifi. H••\•^ hr driiircl'-t».
CONSUMPTION y>
How to Get There
QUICK
The Short Line, Via. Bristol
TO THE EAST
Throvigh Train
No CKa.rvge
Leave NEW ORLEANS, Q. & C 7:30 p.m.
• MEMPHIS. Sonthern Ry 11 -.m p.m.
•• CHATTANOOGA, South 'n Ry. fl.-.'W a.m.
•' KNOX VILLE. Southern Ry 1:3(1 p.m.
•• BRISTOL, N. a W. Ry 7:IK)p.m.
Ar'iroLYNCHBrRO. N. & W. -Ry..... 1:4.5 a.m.
•• ■WASHIXHTON, D.CSo.Rv. fi:.T3a.m.
" BALTIMORE. Md , P. R. R 8:l«l a.m.
•' PHILADELPHIA, P. R. R 10:I,'> am,
" NEW YORK, P. R, R 12:4:1 p m
" BOSTON, N. Y., N. H., & U 8:20 p m.
Through Sleeper Ncav Orleans to
New York
Throvigh Sleeper Memphis 10
New York
The finest Dinins^ Car Service.
Reliable information ch crfnlly furnished by
Norfolk and We-t«?ni Railway. W.< W. Ninth
St. (Read House Blocks, Chattanooga. Teun.
WiRREN L. RoHR, Western Pas.senger Airent,
Chattanooga. Tenn.
W. B. Bevill, Ueneral Passenger Agent, Roar
Doke, Va.
TRAVEL VIA THE
SOUTHERN
RA IL WA Y
The Great- W^
est fi®^
Southern
System
Double Dai-,
ly Service
Nashville to
the East, via 1
ChattancDfra
and Ashe .'.lie,
through
Through
^«Sleeping
•*^Car Nash-
ville to New
York.
Dining and
Observation
Cars.
Pullman
Sleeping Cars
oil all throuijh
trains.
Elegant Day
Coaches.
•'THE LAND OF THE SKY"
J. M. CcLP. 4th Vice Pres., Washington. D. C,
S. H. Hardwick, Pass. Traffic Manager,
Washington. D. C. , .r.. . .
W. H. TjivLOE, Gen. x'ass. Agt., Washmg-
ton, D C. _, .
C. A. Bknscotkr, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., Chat-
tanooga, Tenn. ^«. ..
J. E. Sbipi.kv, Traveling Pass. Agl^, Chatt*-
nooga, Tenn. sj
A
586
Qo^federati^ l/eterai).
FLORIDA
GUBA
Think of the lialmy sunshine, of the
fraerance of orange blossomB, of the
golden fruits of Florida: then recall the
snow, the sleet, the biting and continued
cold of la.st winter.
Splendid train service, with every con-
venience for the comfort and safety of
the traveler, has been provided via the
ATLANT/e
eOAST LINE
"the great thoroughfare to the tropics."
controlling 1,400 miles ot standard rail-
way in the State of Florida.
Winter tourist tickets now on sale via
this line larry the follo%ving privileges
without additional cost:
Stopping oft, up to 30 days en route
to or returning from Jacksonville.
Many variable routes south of Jack-
sonville.
Stop-over privileges in the State of
Florida at any point within life of
ticket.
For illustrated Ijooklets on Florida,
Cuba, or "Wliat to Say in Spanish, and
How to Say It," or other information,
address
C. I/. SPRAGUE, T. P. A.,
507 Union Trust Building,
CINCINNATI, OHIO;
W. T. CRAIG, G. P. A.,
WILMINGTON, N. C.
LOW RATES AGAIN TO
TEXAS
Arkansas, and the Southwest. Less
than one-way fare for the round
trip by Memphis and the Cotton
Belt Route. Dates are November
7 and 21, December 5 and 19.
Pick your date and say when and where
you want to go, and we will give you full
information by return mail.
W. G. AOiMS, T. P. L,
Cotton Belt Route,
211 4TH AVE. N.,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
^■«PP while tliey last, a sample cojiv of
^ l*tCi tiie beautifiillv illu-.trHted SOUtb-
■ ern Show Number of the .•^miurs Lcmling
Puultry Jinininl, the
INDUSTRIOUS HEN.
It shows the Profitable Side of Pra<'ti('Al Poul-
try. Subscription, SOc. a year. An fleKi;iit
Christmas Pieseut Worth hundreds ol tiollars
to poultrymeu and fanners.
The Industrious Hen Co./s°<Knoxville,Tenn.
Mrs. Oscar Tanimler, 748 Olympic
Street, Nashville. Tenn.. is anxious to
learn something of a brother from whom
she. was separated during the war. He
was James Needhani, son of Moses
Needhani, of Harmon's Ferry, Ky., and
enlisted early in the Confederate army.
His father died and the mother and
children left that place, and nothing
has ever been known of the brothers
fate. It is hoped that some comrade
may be able to furnish information.
Do Your Own Thinking.
A comrade writes of having been cap-
tured at Lookout Mountain November
24, 1863, and carried to Rock Island as
a prisoner and confined till the close of
the war. During the last six months
he served as nurse in the smallpox hos-
pital, and was known by the name of
"Mississip." He will be glad to hear
from any of those surviving w'ho remem-
ber him. Address him thus: "The 'Mis-
sissip.' Cassinade. La."
J. \V. S. White, of Indian Mound,
Tenn., who was a member of Company
D. 24th Tennessee Regiment, is a crip-
ple and in poor circumstances. He
wishes to heaj from some members of
that regiment in order to establish hi.s
record and secure aid from the State.
Some men lielie\ r. quinine because it has
not killed theui. Y / a rattlesnake would not
make a safe rattle tor the bal)y because some
man had survived the bite of one.
We cont<>nd that ciuinine Is no cure at all for
fever. During dosing with this drug there is a
suspension of the trouble, but it is never in any
sense of the word a permanent cure for fever.
No case of fever should ever tei-minate fatal-
ly, and never would but for the employment ot
quinine.
Men who know what Johnson's Tonic is go
right along and attend to their business, and
never lose a day even when they have fever
Nothing else can guai-d your health like
Johnson's Tonic.
Write to the JOHNSON CHILL AND FEVER
TONIC CO., Savannah, Ga.
R. A. Browder, Adjutant of Jim Pir-
tle Camp, Fulton, Ky., writes of a parole
issued to M. D. Ellington, of Company
C, 40th Mississippi Regiment, signed by
C. N. Gooden, captain of Company A,
2lst Illinois, now in possession of Isham
Browder, of that community. Rural
Route No. I. He wishes to return il to
the rightful owner.
William Davidson, now in the Con-
federate Home of Tennessee (Hermit-
age, Tenn.), wants to locate George
Filers, a comrade with whom he vvas in
prison in Chicago the last seven months
of the war. They were discharged at
the same time, and Filers returned to
his home, in Alabama. Mr. Davidson is
very anxious to hear of him again.
SOUTHWEST
ARKANSAS
The Anti-Renter's State. One ot the most resourceful in
the Uuion. Only one-Htth of the total acreage now under
:=::z=:^^:=:^=^^ cultivation. Thousands of free homesteads. Still more thou-
sands of unimproved farms for sale at ridiculously low prices. TKe widest "operi
door" of tHem all.
lVrr*¥ A TVT Tir DDITrf^kDV Soon to be entirely the white man's coun-
IfNUlAfN 1 lL«t\l\l 1 \J1\ I try "to have and to hold." Rich in coal,
Z^^^^^^^H^^H^^^^^^m^^^I^^^^^^^ rich in oil, rich in timber, rich in soil. No
land in America better worth having and holding.
What Next" Territory. Nearly a half-million
be opened this year. Only a lease this time,
lease In the Southwest is a foothold. Write
for illustrated literature and information regarding low rates Southwest in effect the first
and third "Tuesdays of each month.
OKLAHOMA JeVism ret
but
Rock Island
^ System
^"
GEO. H. LEE,
Gen. Pass. Agt.,
Little Rock, Ark.
P. S. WEEVER,
Trav. Pass. Agt.,
Nashville, Tenn.
/
Confederate l/eteraij.
587
EDWARD W. CARMACK,
Candidate United States Senator, Democratic
Primary, May 12, 1906.
Edward W. Carmack, Senior Senator of Tennessee, was bom
near Castalian Springs, Sumner County. Tenn., November 5,
1S58. He is known as a selt-made man, Inis father, who was a
minister of the Christian Church, liaving died when he was an
infant. Nature was kind to him, for it taught him the hard but
enduring road to success by acquainting liim from boyhood with
the path of hard labor ; first on a farm, then in a brickyard,
and in various other positions which afforded maintenance for
his widowed mother and himself. He attended school in winter
or was taught by his mother, and finally went into an office to
study law.
He was sent to the Legislature in 1SS4. two years later be-
came associate editor of the Nashville American, and subse-
quently editor in chief of the Nashville Democrat, and Later the
Nashville American. In 1S92 he removed to Memphis, where be
gained much prominence as editor in chief of the Memphis Com-
ynercial'Appcal. He was very popular with the masses, espe-
cially the silver wing of the Democratic party, whose cause he
so valiantly espoused. Consequently, when the memorable con-
test of 1.S96 was at its height, he was nomin.-ited by acclama-
tion for Congress by the silver element of the Democratic party
from the Tenth (Memphis) District to oppose Hon. Joslah Pat-
terson. The latter had long been in Congress and was noted
for his distinguished service. The minority or gold wing nomi-
nated Mr. Patterson, and the Republicans failed to place a can-
didate in the field, indorsing Mr. Patterson.
So both entered the contest for political supremacy before the
matchless tribune of the people. A bitter fight was waged. Mr.
Carmack winning by a narrow margin. Fraud was charged by
his opponent. Mr. Patterson, who contested the election before the
House of Representatives, and the House, though strongly Re-
publican, decided in favor of Carm.TCk amid one of the most
dr.amatic scenes ever witnessed in Congress. Members stood on
seats that they might not lose a syllable of his logic, while
with bre.athless attention they listened to his thundering appeal!
in behalf of the South that burned their way into the hearts of
all. And from that time on Carmack's n.ame was on thousands
of lips, for he had accomplished what was considered Impossi-
ble.
Thus Carmack's star of political fortune was in the ascend-
ency. He at once became the object of national prominence,
and in 1901, when Senator Turley refused to stand for reelection,
people from all parts of the State importuned him to st.and for
the Senate, with the result that he was elected without opposition.
Senator Carmack as a debater has few equals. He is a man
of the profoundest convictions, political and moral. WTiat he
conceives to be right he loves with his whole soul, mind, and
strength ; and what Impresses him as wrong he hates with cease-
less intensity. H,aving an emulous desire for honest fame, there
is no compromise in his make-up. Bold, aggressive, and fearless,
he Is the match of any of the shining lights of the opposite party.
Senator Carmack's record as a public man is known to all,
and suffice It to say that his remarkable success in public life te
an object lesson demonstr.ating tliat poverty and adversity are
no barriers in the road to eminence and distinction.
R. G. Childress (.Coiiipaiiy B, 3d
Texas Regiimiu, Cavalry), Roscoe, Tex.,
wants to locate .several comrades of
■war limes : Sam Jackson, Company D,
3d Texas Cavalry, Ross's Brigade, who
was captured near Rome, Ga., in the
spring of 1864; Dave Maples, Company
H, same i-egiment, captured near Love-
joy's Station in Kilpatrick s raiil in Au-
gust or September, 1864: also Parson
Dade, as he was called by his company,
G, of the 3d Texas. He was last seen
near Rome, Ga., in May, 1864.
Mrs. J. P. Barratt, of Breezewood,
S. C, wishes to correspond with some
inemher of Walker's Division, Edgar's
Battery, Army of the West. She is a
daughter of Joshua S. Jord.ui, a Con-
federate comrade recently dead.
P. A. SHELTON,
CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION
County Court Clerk.
SUBJECT TO
Democratic Primary, Dec. 7, 1905.
Dr. Wm. Morrow,
CANDIDATE FOR
L. G. Iloiikiiis. (it Liberty. Mo., asks
that some nieinl)er of the nth Regiment
of Louisiana Vohmteers give him the
address of Dr. Alexander McDonald,
assistant surgeon of that regiment. He
enlisted in New Orleans in 1861.
REGISTER DAVIDSON COUNTY.
SUBJECT TO
Democratic Primary, December 7, 1905.
588
Qopfederat<^ Metp.rar).
Robert Love Taylor, statesman. S,*9t4 humorist, and racon
teur. is one of the best Itnown men > -"y \»iiith and none exceedf
him in extended personal popularity.,/ i
gress. three times Governor, and twi^^- I
at large, but his fame rests no more u.^J
than upon his remarltable powers as a Pi
the hustings and on the lecture plattorn
equaled of entertaining an audience.
uth. and none exceeds
Ktas been once In Con-
lelector tor the State
Riis political successes
bile speaker. Both on
he has the gift rarely
Genial, biff-hearted, of
EX-COV. ROBT. L. TAYLOR,
Candidate United States Senator, Democratic
Primary, May 12, i906.
fine personal appearance, and always easily approachable, he has
made legions of friends throughout the country and thousands
love and admire him to whom he is personally unknown.
Robert L. Taylor was born July 31. 1850. in Happy Valley,
Carter County, Tenn., on the spot where the soldiers of John
Sevier rallied for their attack on King's Mountain. He was
the fourth of ten children, six of them boys. He and his brother
Alfred were educated at Pennington, N. J., and later he read law
under the tutelage of Judge Kirkpatrick, at Jonesboro. In 1878
he was admitted to the bar, and soon afterwards was nominated
by the Democrats of the First Tennessee Di.strict for Congress.
This was one of the most remarkable episodes in Robert L.
Taylor's life, and served to give him a very favorable introduc-
tion to the Tennessee public. The district had an unbroken rec-
ord of six thousand Republican majority tor some years past.
The Republican candidate, Hon. A. H. Pettibone, had served
several times in Congress and was a man of marked ability. It
was a great surprise when young Taylor was elected, and the
campaign was attended with some unique features that have
made it famous in the annals of Tennessee history.
In 1SS4 Robert L. Taylor was a Cleveland elector for the State
at large, and that year made his first canvass of the entire State.
After the election he was made Pension Agent at Knoxville.
In 1886 was the notable campaign between his brother Alfred
Taylor and himself for the Governorship. The Republicans
nominated Alfred Taylor, and the Democratic State Convention,
which met soon after, called on Robert to represent his party.
No campaign in the State has ever aroused greater popular in-
terest Robert L. Taylor was elected by a good majority, and re-
elected in 1888 over Samuel W. Hawkins. Republican, polling a
larger vote than had ever before been accorded a candidate In the
State.
He was persuaded to become an elector for the State at large
again in 1892, and there was an almost universal demand among
Tennessee Democrats that he accept the gubernatorial nomina-
tion for the third time, in 1896. He was this time elected over
Hon. G. N. 'Tillman, the Republican candidate, receiving the
largest majority ever before or since accorded a gubernatorial
candidate in the State of Tennessee.
Since retiring from the Governor's office the last time. Gov.
Taylor has been almost constantly on the lecture platform. Re-
cently he removed to Nashville and began in that city the publi-
cation of Bob Taylor's Magazine.
J. R. ALLEN
GANDIDaTE FOR
SHERIFF
DAVIDSON eOUNTY
Subject Democratic Primary, Dec. 7, 1905.
JEFF D. BOLLING
Gandidate for
COUNTY COURT CLERK
Subject to
Democratic Primary, Dec 7, 1905.
"A SOLDIER'S TRIAL."
BV GEN. CHARLES KING.
Early publication is announced of a
new book by Gen. Charles King, en-
titled "A Soldier's Trial ; An Episode
of the Canteen Crusade." A very pow-
erful argument has been woven into the
plot by the author in favor of the res-
toration of the "Army Canteen," with
illustrations from actual scenes and in-
cidents. Gen. King has been engaged
on this work for some time, and it is
considered one of the best of his many
splendid series. He has even surpassed
his already high standard of literary
merit in this one of the few really read-
able "novels with a purpose.'" Pub-
lished by the Hobart Company, New
York City.
John L. Estill, an old Confederate
soldier, died in Fresno County, Cal., on
the 7th of September. He was a mem-
ber of Company E, ist Virginia Cavalry,
enlisting in 1861, and served till the close
of the war. He was courier under Gens.
R. E. Lee, J. E. B. Stuart, and Fitzhugh
Lee, and will be remembered by sur-
vivors of his old regiment as a gallant
soldier,
Qoi}federat(^ l/eterar?
589
R. WEBB,
ANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION,
Qrcuit Court Qerk Davidson County*
SUBJECT TO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY,
DECEMBER 7, 1905.
R. A. MILAM,
FOR
GRIMINAL COURT CLERK,
DAVIDSON COUNTY.
SUBJECT TO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.
DECEMBER 7. I905.
SAM H. BORUM,
CANDIDATE FOR
S H: E5 I^ I IF- IF" _
SUBJECT TO
Democratic Primary, December 7, 1905.
CANDIDATE FOR
Circuit Court Clerk.
SUBJECT TO
Democratic Primary, Dec. 7, 1905.
R. C. Laiigford, of Fort Meade, Fla.,
lias in his possession a fine sword which
was picked up on the battlefield near
Atlanta, Ga. On the olade is engraved:
"Presented to Louis Tresvant Wig fall
by John Maniiig." A silver snake with
thirteen rattles is coiled around the
handle, and there is a palmetto tree on
the liand guard. The owner can get
it with satisfactory proof.
TENNESSEE CENTRAL R^R.
If Ton Are Seeking
a Home, a Farm, or a
I Stock Farm, a location
jfor a Wood- Working
'Factory, a location for
a Factory of any kind,
for Timl)er Lands, for
Coal Lands, tholineof
the Tennessee Central R.iili-oad offers ilie tlnest
oppovtnnity in the S>nth— tortile Homo Sfoknr,
tho aiannf.icturcr, nn<i the F.-irmer. It Is a new
line ninnini; tlirou{j:h a now and rich coiinry,
and aoccssiljle Ity r.-iil to all ii.nrts of the United
States. For further information aiMrcss
T. h. ROUSSEAU, Chief Clerk Traffic Dept.,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
JACKSONVILLE
vIb S'aldosta Roule, from Valdnnta via Georgia
Southern >nd Florida Rv., from Macoa
tU Central of Georgia Ry., from
ATLANTA
▼It Wettern and Atlantic R. R , from
CHATTANOOGA
NASHVILLE
ithTlUe, Chattannog^a. and St. I
arrlvlni; at
ST. LOUIS
via tha NiahTlUe, Chattanooga, and St. Loula Ry.,
arrlvlni; at
AND AT
CHICAGO
■ th. nUn.ll Central R. R. from Martin, Tm..
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE AND
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
MAIHTAINKD OVER THU
SCENIC LINE.
TlckM afenta of the Jacksonvllle-St. Louis and
Chlcu^o \(m. asd amenta of connectinff linea la
Florida axul tae Sovtheast, will rive you full Infor-
Kalhjti aa to schedule-* of this double dally ftrrvlca
to S^ L«iils, Chicago, and (he Northwest, and of
tnStm time of lines connecting. They wlU also »9ii
J9m tlck«U asd adrise you aa to rata*.
y. D. MILLER
Ati^nta, Oa.
■aiL.l'tAn., - yt,Ti.A.n I.
TrmveUDf Paaaanf ar Agftnl L C. K. R.
9. WL WHKKLHR, Nashviluk, Ti
Commercial A^ant.
590
Qoi)federat^ l/eterar>,
\
West H. Morton,
FOR
REGISTER,
DAVIDSON COUNTY.
SUBJECT TO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY,
DECEMBER 7. 1905.
John J. McCann
(TME L,A.iVlE MIUUER),
CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION
COUNTY TRUSTEE.
Subject to Democratic Primary,
December 7, 1905.
Thos. E. Cartwright,
CAJJDIDATB rOR RB-BLBCTIOS TO THB OPPICB OP
SHERIFF DAVIDSON COUNTY.
SUIMBCT TO
Democratic Primary, December 7, 1905.
Sam Marshall,
CANDIDATE FOR
TornDiKe Gominissioner Davidson Go.
SUBJECT TO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.
DECEMBER 7. 1905.
W. R. Bethel. 220 Casablanc Street,
San Antonio, Tex., inquires for some of
the boys who belonged to the Rock City
Volunteers, commanded by Capt. R, F.
Catties and Lieut. C. W. Peden, which
was Company C of Hawkins's Battalion.
Ibis battalion was on provost duty in
Nashville, Tenn., until after the fall of
Fort Donelson, Bowling Green, and
Nashville, when they rejoined the main
army at Corinth. Any survivors will
kindly write to Comrade Bethel.
,orafo*;,^~_
Holier Saved
BY 'king the
?ROUTE
TO THE
IMorth and East
VIA
$r. Louis or Memphis
ROCK-BALLASTED ROADBED,
WIDE VESTIBULED TRAINS,
PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS,
NEW DINING CARS,
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, ELECTRIC FANS,
RECLINING CHAIR CARS
AND
ELEGANT DAY COACHES.
For (urtharinJormation, apply to Ticket Asants
of connectlnfr lines, or to
R. T. G. MATTHEWS. T. P. A.,
LOUISVILLI, KY.
H. C. TOWNSEND,
SEABOARD
Air Line Railway
Short Line
Between the
South and East
Through traiDS from Binniiig-
ham and Atlanta to Nor"'" tr-'.
South Carolina and Virginia
points, also Washington, Balti-
more, Philadelphia, New York,
and connections madu for all
points East.
THROUGH SLEEPING CARS
ELEGANT CAFE DINING
CAR SERVICE
4 • »
f . E. eNIIISTItll. «. 8. p. «. a. M. COFFET, J.t.l.
118 PtachlrtiSI., ttlMlt, Ga.
EDWABB f. COST, 2d •. frts. CHiS. B. BMI, 8. P. 1
Fofttatutli, H.
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591
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TO THE SOUTHEAST
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supplies.
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impossible to distinguish from origi-
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il5;\'^^ modern business methods by apply-
ing to
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'THE RETURNED BATTLE FLAGS."
By Mrs. Erox Opha Gregory
Assistant in Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Oh. not with gayly spreading folds,
And colors fresh and bright,
They fling their gleaming stars and bars.
Triumphant, to the light;
But sadly 'round their broken staffs.
They droop in faded folds.
Their service o'er, their duty done,
Their wondrous story told.
Upon their wreck the warrior aged.
Looks long, with moistened eye.
Caressing each worn fold, the while
Is heard his heavy sigh.
Once more he sees the gleaming host.
That pressed with fearless tread.
Toward the heights of liberty.
Strewn with its countless dead.
And never pennon streamed above
A rank, more fair than the
Bright ensigns of that proud gray host
Of Robert Edmund Lee.
To-day, with flowers springing where
War's crimson currents ran.
And peace and love starring all the
Rich splendor of the land.
These furled and silent banners stir
No sad regret and pain.
For we read our fairest history in
The story of their fame.
Flag of the Sixth Arkansas Volunteers.
Surrendered with Johnson's Army, at the end of the struggle. April 26, 1865.
Returned Arkansas Confederate Flags.
The following historical record of the troops from the State of Arkansas,
whose returned battle flags are reproduced as they now appear, faded and
battle-scarred, is as complete as it has been possible to make it, much of
the material having to be obtained from the memory of old veterans, there
being no existing complete records.
Lyons' Regiment-Sixth Arkansas Volunteers, ("ommcnccd the- war with the follow-
iii.y Ficlii and StalT Oflkcrs: Richard Lynns, (."olonel; A. T. Hawthorn. Licutcnant-Coloncl ;
D. L. Kilgore, Major; C. A. Bridewell, Adjutant; J. F. Ritchie, Quarterma.stur-Sergeant.
Company "A" — The Cajiital Guards, of Little Rock: Gordon \ I'eav. Captain; [ohn
E. Reanlon. Fn'st Lieutenant; D. C. Fulton. Second Lieutenant; John B. Lockman Third
Lieutenant.
CoiTipanv "B" — The Yellow jackets, from Callioun County: Philip H. Echols. Cap-
tain; C. A. teridcwell, Fii-st Lieutenant
Battle Flag of the "Bloody" 7th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.
Surrendered at Bentonville, March 19th, 1865. One of the last battles of the war.
Company "C" — From Dallas County; F. J. Cameron, Captain, subsequently becom-
ing Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment; M. M. Duffie, First Lieutenant.
Company "D" — From Ouachita County: Captain Hodnet.
Company "E" — From Arkansas County: Samuel G. Smith, Captain, subsequently
becoming Colonel of the regiment.
Company "F" — From Lafayette County: Samuel H. Dill, Captain.
Company "G" — From Columbia County: D. L. Kilgore, Captain; J. W. Austin,
First Lieutenant; N. J. Gantt Second Lieutenant; Thomas Scay, Third Lieutenant;
Nations, First Sergeant; James H. Paschal, First Corporal, afterwards Orderly Sergeant
on re-organization; Crown, Second Corporal. On Captain Kilgore becoming Major
of the regiment, J. W. Austen became Captain.
Company "H" — From Camden County: Captain Richard Lyons, but on his being
elected Colonel of the regiment, Sam H. Southerland becaine Captain; E. W. Elliott, First
Lieutenant; A. J. Griggs, Second Lieutenant; G. A. Proctor, Orderly Sergeant; 7 other
officers and 57 men, total of company 69.
Company "I" — From Ouachita County: J. W. Kingwell, Captain; J. H. Scroggins,
First Lieutenant; E. N. Hill, Second Lieutenant; J. C. Croxton, Third Lieutenant; H. T.
Jones, First Sergeant; H. L. Grayson, Second Sergeant; C. C. Arnold. Third Sergeant;
J. A. Thompson, Fourth Sergeant; 4 other officers, 58 men, total strength of company 70.
Company "K" — Captain Barnes; Judge Joseph W. Martin became Captain on the
re-organization.
The strength of the regiment on organization was over 1,000 men.
ARK
Battle Flag of the 8th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.
Carried throxigh the war and surrendered with Juhnscn's Army. April 26th, 1865.
Also Battle Flan of the 19th Arkansas Infantry Recinient. which
was consolidated with the 8th Arkansas Reyinient.
CiiUmol Riihuiil LyoiLs was killed at the Tennessee Riv(.r. Octciher lO.l.Slil. and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel A. T. Hawthorn liceame Colonel of the rct^iment. Gordon N. Peav. Captain
of Company "A" was made Lieutenant-Colonel ; First Lii-ntenant John K. Reardiin became
Captain of Company ".\" and John G. Kleteher was elected from the ranks. First Lieuten-
ant of the company.
After the battle of Shiloh the regiment was re-organized, and Lieutenant Fletcher
became Captain of Company "A", and serxed as such to the conclusion of the war. He
was wounded and made prisoner at .Murfreeshoro and remained in jirison four months,
when he was exchanged.
Major Kilgore served with tin- nginu-nt until the summer of 1S()2 when he was trans-
ferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department, under General Albert Rust. On reaching the
Department he assisted in organizing the Nineteenth Arkansas Infantry. Col. Smead, and
was made Major of it.
The Sixth Regiment went first to Pocahontas. Arkansas; from there to Southeast
Missouri; then to Columbus. Kentucky; then to Bowling Green, where it was placed in
Hiiidman's Brigade. When Johnston retreated after the tall of Forts Henry and Donald-
son, the Sixth Regiment was one of those which covered the retreat to Corinth, Mississippi.
It took part in the battle of Shiloh, and lost many men. From Shiloh it went to Corinth
and Tupelo, Mississipjii, where the regiment was re-organized. From there it was placed
in Bragg's Army, and went to Chattanooga; then into Kentucky, where it took part in
the battle of PeVryville, October ,S, 1862, and Murfreesboro, December ,'51. l,sr>2; January
2, 1865, at Liberty Gap; at Chickamauga, Septemebr 1!) and 2(1. 1.S63; Missionary Ridge,
November 25, 1863; and Franklin, November 30, 1S64.
Battle Flag of the 30th Arkansas Infantry.
In all of thesL' battles
Franklin.
it lost heavily, and particularly at Shiloh, Murfreeslioro and
The Sixth Regiment belonged to Hardee's Brigade, afterwards Lidell's, and then
Govan's, and was in Cleburn's Dj\-ision. It was in General Joseph E. Johnston's army,
and took part in all the battles of his campaign opposing Sherman, and finally was siu"-
rendered with Johnston at the end of the struggle.
The Seventh Arkansas Infantry was mustered into the Confederate Army with the
ollowing held and staff "fticers: Robert G. Shaver, Colonel; William R. Cain, Lieutenant-
Colonel at organization, but afterwards John M. Dean, became Lieutenant-Colonel; James
J. Martin, Major,; Jack Horn, Adjutant; H. C. Tunsell. Sergeant-Major; William Atillo,
Quartermaster; John D, Spriggs. Commissary; Ben Adler, Wagonmaster; Jenifer T. Spriggs,
Ordinance-Sergeant.
The different companies of the regiment were commanded by John C. McCauley, of
White Count)', Senior Captain; George B. Orme, of Jackson County, Second Senior Captain;
Joseph H. Martin, of Randolph Comity. Third Senior Captain; and Captains Deason.
of Izard County; M. Van Shaver, of Fulton County; John H. Dye, of the "Pike Guards";
Warner, of Lawrence Count\' ; Wm. Blackburn, of Marion County; Mellon, of
Randolph County; and Brightwell, of Independence County.
The regiment was organized at Smith\-ille, Lawrence County, June 16. 1861; went
into camp at Camp Shaver, near Pocahontas, Randolph County, with 1,250 men on the
muster rolls. It was the first regiment drilled and disciplined by General Hardee, after
its transfer to the Confederate service, and was the nucleus on which he formed his First
Brigade, which consisted of the Second and Third Confederate; the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh
and Eighth Arkansas Regiments, and McCarvcr's Regiment, with McCown's Battery.
The Seventh Regiment was in the battles of Shiloh. April 6 and 7, 1862; Perryville.
Kentucky, Octobers, 1862; Mnrfreesboro. Deceniber 3 1 , 1862 and January 2, 1863; Chicka-
mauga, Septcmlier 19, and 20. 1863; Missionary' Ridge, \o\emlier 23, 24 and 25, 1863:
Ringgold Gap, No\-einber 27, 1863; Resaca, May 29, 1864; Pickett's Mill. May 26, 1864;
New Hope Church, Mav 29, 1864; Kennesaw Mountain, lune 17 to lulv 3, 1864; Peach
Tree Creek, July 20, 1864; Atlanta, July 22 and 28, 1864; Ezra Church. lulv 28. 1864;
Jonesboro, August 31, 1864; Franklin, November 30, 1864; Nashville. December 15. 1864;
and Bentonville. the last battle of the war, March 19, 1865.
At Shiloh the regiment earned the sobriquet of "The Bloody Seventh" bestowed upon
them by General Hardee, in person on the battlefield, for their gallant storming of Prentiss'
linesr causing him to surrender, and by this name they were ever afterwards known.
There was not a battle nor a skirmish by the Army of Tennessee, but that they bore
in it their full share.
The Se\'enth Arkansas Regiment, (Col. Sha\'ers) had become so deciinatctl from its
losses that it was consolidated with the Sixth. After the battle of Franklin, at roll call,
only 45 men answered to their names out of the two regiments combined.
At Peach Tree Creek, the regiment was nearly wiped out, and at Bentonville, the
Second, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Regiments had become so depicted that thev
were all consolidated into one regiment, and barely made a good-sized regiment then.
The Seventh went into the war with 1.250 men on its muster rolls, and came out with
150. of whom proliably not more than 100 are now living.
After the evacuation of Corinth, while at Tupelo, Mississippi, Colonel Shaver was
transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department, and in that department raised another
rc.giment, which he commanded to the close of the war
The Eighth Arkansas Infantry Regiment was raised by William K. Patterson, who
was made its Colonel, and who conimandeil it from its organization, of Jacksonport. in the
summer of 1861, to the time of its re-or,ganization at Corinth, Mississippi, late in the
spring or early in the summer of 1862.
At the re-organization, John H. Kellcy became Colonel; James H Wilson, of Jack.son-
port, Lieutenant-Colonel; G. F. Baucum, Major. During the Kentucky campaign. Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Wilson resigned; Major G. F. Baucmn. liecame Lieutenant-Colonel; and
Anderson Watkins. son of Jud.ge George C. Watkins, Major. Afterwards Colonel Kellev
was promoted to Bri.gadier-General ; G. F Baucum brcame Colonel; and .\nderson Watkins
Lieutenant-Colonel.
The regiment was in the li.ittle of Shiloli; then went with Bragg 's Army on his cam-
paign in Kentucky; was in the liattles at Perryville .uid Murfreesboro; from there went to
Chattanooga; was in the battles of Cliickamauga. Missionary Ridge. Ringgold (iap. Resaca.
Kennesaw Moimtain, Peach Tree Creek, Ezra Church and Atlanta. In this battle Colonel
Baucvim was wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson Watkins was killed, ami the regiment
suffered greatly in killed and wounded. Colonel Baurinn was never able to rejoin the
regiment after being woimded.
Tliis regiment was one of Cleburne's Division, and iiartieijjateil in all the marches
and battles of that command, and .surrendered with Josei>h E. [ohnston's troops, April
•26, 1865.
The Eighth Arkansas Infantry entered the Confederate service with tlie following field
officers: Wni. K Patterson. Colonel; Henry M. Crouch, Lieutenant-Colonel; John A.
Price, Major; Dr L H. Dickson. Surgeon; Dr. Gee, Assistant Surgeon; and Tom Watson,
Quartermaster
The Nineteenth Arkansas Infantry was organized at Nashville. Arkansas, in \ovember
1861. with the following ofiicers: C. L. Dawson, Colonel; P. R. Smith. Lieutenant-Colonel;
Joseph H Anderson, Major; A. S. Hutchinson. Adjutant.
Company "A" — Captain Castleman
Company "B" — Captain Gabe Stewart.
Co.Mi'ANV "C" — Captain Spars.
Company "D" — Captain J. H. Carter.
Company "E" — Captain Nathan Eldri.gde.
Company "F" — Captain D. H. Hamiter.
Company "G" — Captain D. C. Cowling, afterwards Captain George M.
Clark, after the capture of Arkansas Po.st.
Company "H" — Captain Featherston
Company "I" — Captain Burton H. Kinsworthy.
Company "K" — Captain Henidon.
The regiment took part in the battles of Elkhorn, ilarch 7, 1802, and Arkansas Post,
January 11, 1863.
At the capture of Arkansas Post, about one-half only of the regiment was made prison-
ers, the remaining portion not being of the garrison. The portion which was captured
was taken to northern prisons, and the men were exchanged at City Point, Virginia, in May
1863. After being exchanged, they were consolidated with a portion of the Twenty-fourth
Arkansas, Colonel Portlock's Regiment, which had likewise been made prisoners. This
new regiment went through the battles of Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, 1863; Mis-
sionary Ridge, November 23 and 25, 1863; in all the battles of the Georgia campaign,
from Dalton to the fall of Atlanta; on Hood's raid through Tennessee, and in all the battles
under Joe Johnston, in North Carolina, and surrendered with him, April 26, 1865.
The strength of the regiment at organization was 800 men; at the surrender 300 or
350. Adjutant A. S. Hutchinson eventually became Colonel of the regiment.
That portion of the original Nineteenth which was not captured, was consolidated
with a portion of a regiment which had been commanded by Colonel Thomas P. Dockery.
The regiment thus formed took a new number.
Thirtieth (Hart's) Infantry Regiment — Afterwards Rogan's Thirtieth; Robert A
Hart, Colonel; Jos. C, Martin, Major; Jas. W. Rogan, Lieutenant-Colonel.
Thirtieth (McNeil's) Fifth Trans-Mississippi — Afterwards Hart's Thirtieth Infantry
Regiment: Gaston W. Baldwin, Lievitenant-Colonel; Robert A. Hart, Lieutenant-Colonel;
Jos. C. Martin, Major; A. J. McNeill, Colonel; Jas. W. Rogan, Major, Lieutenant-Colonel.
This regiment was in battles at Farmington, Mississippi, May 9, 1862, and Richmond,
Kentucky, but records are not complete as to other engagements.
A. T. Ellis,
Editor, the Arkansas Homestead, Little Rock, Ark.
Battle Flag of the 6th Reeiment of Kentucky Volunteers.
Captured at the Battle of Jonesboro, Sept. 1, 1864.
Kentucky.
It was believed, at the comnioncement of the great Civil strife, notwithstanding the
neutrality declaration, that Kentucky would constitute the battle ground of the contending
armies and many were the convictions that they would be needed at home and that it was
tmnccessary for even the most sanguinary to hunt for earlier opportunities to shed his
blood than would be furnished in due course of time, ready-made to hand.
Consequently camps were established contiguous to Kentucky and the work of
recruiting troops for the Southern army was comtnenced. Some of the inost wcalthj' and
influential citizens of the State spent freely for transportation and sujiplies and aided in
ever)' laudable way the effect to recruit troops for the Southern cause.
On the ■20th of September, IS(il, Col. Joseph H. Lewis, of Glasgow, Ky., established
a Camp at Cave City, a few miles from Glasgow, in Barren Comity, Ky. ; Col. Martin H.
Cofer, also had authority to organize a battalion in connection with Major Thomas H.
Hays (then Captain of a Company of Kentucky State Guard). Col. Lewis and Col. Cofer,
finding that they could not succeed in recruiting either two full regiments or battalions
in time for the active operations which were now being inaugurated, agreed, after con-
sultation with the otiicers. and through them with the men of the several companies, to
unite the two battalions in jiroccss of formation, and organize a single regiment. Earlv
in November, the tents were i>itched together, and on the 19th of that montli the organiza-
tion of the Sixth Regiment took place.
Joseph H. Lewis was elected Colonel, Martin H. Cofer, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Thomas
H. Hays, Major. On September 30, 1863, Col. Lewis was promoted to the rank of
Brigadier-General, and Lieut -Col. Cofer succeeded to the Colonelcy
The regiment was composed of ten companies of from seventy to eighty-fi\-e strong.
In addition to the ten companies first enrolled, a company stationed at Hopkinsvillc. Ky..
commanded bv Capt. McKinney, of Logan County, Ky., was ordered by Gen. Albert Sidney
Johnston, on November 25th, to report to Col. Lewis, as on detached service, but to be
incorporated with the Sixth Infantry. It was accordingly entered upon the records as
"Co. L." When re-enforcements were sent to Donelson. this company was sent forward
to report at that point and fought there with the Eighth Kentucky Infantry'. It was sur-
rendered with the other companies of that command; and though Col. Lewis made an
effort, after it was exchanged, to have it report to him, it was never with the Sixth Regiment
and soon ceased to be considered a part of it.
This regiment was a part of the famous First Kentucky Brigade, better known as the
"Orphan Brigade," and this fact alone, to those who know the fighting record of the
"Orphans," is evidence that the men of the Sixth saw hard service. The "Orphans Brigade"
was cLiiniJosed of the Second Kentucky Infantry; Fourth Kentucky Infantry; Fifth Ken-
tucky Infantrv; Sixth Kentucky Infantry; Ninth Kentucky Infantry; Byrne's, Graves'
and Cobb's Kentvickv Batteries, and the First Kentucky Cavalry was also attached to
this Brigade, and the men of this regiment were designated "adopted orphans".
The "Orphan Brigade" was known as one of the finest brigades in either army. The
following extract from an article by Prof. N. S. Shaler, a strong Union man, published in
Scribner's Magazine (1890) will show something of the brigade's standing among those
who had followed its career: * * "Some years ago I sought carefully to find a body of
troops whose ancestors had been for many generations upon our soil, and whose ranks
were essentiallv unmixed with foreigners, or those whose forefathers had been but a short
time upon this continent. It proved difficult to find in the Northern armies any command
which served the needs of the inquiry which I desired to make. It seemed necessary
to consider a force of at least five thousand men in order to avoid the risks which would
come from imperfect data. In our Federal army it was the custom to put in the same
brigade regiments from different districts, thus commingling commands of pure American
blood with those that had a considerable percentage of foreigners or men of foreign parents.
I found in my inquir\- but one command that satisfied the need of this investigation, and
this was the First Brigade of Kentucky troops, in the rebel army." * *
When first recruited, this brigade contained about .5000 men. From the beginning
it proved as trustworthy a body of infantry as ever marched or stood in line of battle.
Its military record is too long, too varied, to even be summarized here. I will note only
one hundred and twenty (120) days of its history in the closing stages of its ser\-ice. On
Mav 7, 1804, this brigade, then in the army of Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, marched out of Dalton,
Ga.', 1140 strong, at the beginning of the great retreat upon Atlanta before the army of
Sherman. In the subsequent one hundred and twenty days, or until September 3rd, the
brigade was almost continuously in action or on the march. In this period the men of the
command received 1260 death or hospital wounds, the dead counted as wounds, and but
one wound being counted for each visitation of the hospital. At the end of this time there
were less than fifty men who had not been wounded during the one hundred and twenty
days. There were two hundred and forty men left for duty, and less than ten men deserted.
A search into the history of warlike exploits has failed to show me any endurance
to the worst trials of war surpassing this. We must remember that the men of this com-
mand were at each stage of their retreat going farther from their firesides. It is easy for
men to bear great trials under circumstances of victory. Soldiers of ordinary goodness
will stand severe defeats, but to endure the despair which such adverse conditions bring
for more than a hundred days demands a moral and ph}-sical patience, which, so far as I
have learned, has never been excelled in any army.
Gen. Jos. E, Johnston, a trained West Pointer, a veteran of two wars and a native of
another State, speaking of the "Orphan Brigade" said that they were the finest body of
men and soldiers he ever saw in any army anywhere
One of the prominent Southern journals, referring to Gen. Hood's defeat at Nashville,
had this remark; "A correspondent of one of our exchanges writes of the unfortunate
disaster at Nashville, and incidentally pays the highest compliment to Lewis' Brigade,
then absent, which was never known to falter."
The "Mobile Advertiser and Register" speaking of a certain point of Hood's defense,
on the same occasion, remarks; "Troops should have been placed at that point of whom
not the slightest doubt existed. Had the Kentucky Brigade been there all would have
been safe."
When a large portion of the Brigade, including the Sixth Infantry were captured at
lonesboro they were assured by Gen. Davis, Commanding the Federal troops, that they
would be treated with the utmost courtesy, and no insult was offered them by any of the
Federal soldiers, nor were they deprived 'of their watches and other private property as
was the custom
Since the close of the war the following members of the Sixth Infantry have been
prominent in the affairs of the State of Nations: General, formerly Colonel, Lewis, was a
lawyer of note and served for years as a Judge of the Kentucky Supreme Court. He was
noted for his impartiality to all who had dealings with him as an attorney. Judge or private
citizen; Col. Cofer was elected as Judge of the Kentucky Supreme Court but died before
the end of his term ; A. M. Adair, was a successful lawyer and held State and County offices:
S. H. Bush, prominent lawyer; John T. Craycroft, U. S. Revenue Officer; Capt. Jno.
Davis, State Commissioner of Agriculture, U. S. Revenue Officer, etc.; Charles Dawson,
Sheriff of Nelson County; Alec V. Duncan, and Thos. G. Duncan, both successful practicing
phy.sicians and business men in Texas; W. W. Franklin, physician, and for years Clerk of
Barren County Court; Amos Fox, ]jrominent citizen and business man of Atlanta, Ga. ;
Capt. Richard P. Finn, Educator, member of Legislature; Thos. M. Goodknight, lawyer,
.Supt, of Schools of Simpson County. Postmaster of Franklin, Ky., Chief Clerk State Depart-
ment of Education ; Virgil Hewitt, Chief Clerk of State Insurance Bureau, for years Assistant
Auditor of State; A. L. Harned, member of Legislature; W. S. B. Hill, U. S. Revenue
Officer, for years an officer of the Court of Appeals; Helm Hobbs, L'. S. Revenue Officer;
Jas. A. Hindman, member of Legislature; Alex Lawson, U. S. Revenue Ofliccr; Jas. M.
Lee, member of Legislature; Maj. Geo. W. Maxson, for years an educator and leading
Presbyterian minister in the South; Lewis Mctjuown, jirominent lawyer; Wm. L. Mudd,
prominent lawyer; J. R. Nantz, Postmaster of Hodgenville, Ky., A. \V. Randolph. City
Engineer of Louisville, for some years, for sixteen years County Suvcyor of Jefferson County ;
Wm. H. Read, for years Clerk of Allen County Court; Jas. S. Roby, member of Le.gislaturc;
Capt, Noah Smith, Judge Barren County Court; Jas. A. Smith, Postmaster of Glasgow,
Ky. ; Capt. William Stanley, lawyer, but almost evi r since was one of the leacfing ministers
of the Christian Church; Pat Simms, U. S. Revenue Officer; Jno. L. Stout, Justice of the
Peace, jironiini'nt business man; Elliott W. Thomjison. Justice of the Peace, member of
Legi.slattnv, for years Assessor of Livingston County, Mo,; Kd. Porter Thompson, State
Librarian, private Secretary to Ciovcrnor Buckncr, Superintendent of Public In.struction.
Custodian of Pulilie Buildings and Compiler of Confederate Records imtil his death; Geo.
W, Wells, U. S. Revenue Officer; Smith E. Winn, iirominent physician and business man
of California. There arc many others who have made excellent citizens of our State too
numerous to mention here.
On the 25th of March, 1905, the Secretary of War had the old regimental Hag of the
Si.xth Infantry returneil to the (iovernor of this State. This flag was returned in accordance
with an Act of Congress entitled a "Joint resolution to return to the proper authorities
certain Union and Confederate battle lla.gs."
This old flag, a reproduction in colors of which is gi\en above, is made of red and blue
flannel, the cross bars of white linen. It is mounted on a hickory limb about five or six
feet in length. Printed across the face of the flag are the names of the following battle-
fields: Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Chickamauga, Murfreesboro.
This flag was captured at the battle of Jonesboro, Sept. 1, 1864. by the Tenth Michigan
Veteran Infantry.
Gov. Beckham has turned the flag over to the Kentucky Historical Society and it has
been placi<l in the room of this Society where it will be carefully preserved.
Ed. Porter Thompson, Jr.,
Comjjiler Confederate Records, Stale of Kentucky.
Battle Flag of the 4Sth Mississippi Regiment.
Date of capture not obtainable.
M
ississippi.
Owing to the impossibility of obtaining a full history of the flags returned to
the State of Mississippi, only a brief record of the flags reproduced is here given.
Nineteen Confederate battle flags have been returned to the State of Mississippi by
the War Department, in carrying out the provisions of the resolution of Congress, and are
deposited in the Department of Archives and History where they will be permanently
preserved.
Among the most famous of these flags are the Second, Eighteenth and Forty-eighth
Infantry, all of which belonged to the Army of Northern Virginia. They represent the
regulation battle flag of the Confederacy, and arc in a good state of preservation when the
rough usage to which they have been subjected is considered.
The battle flag of the Second Mississippi Regiment was captured at Gettysburg, and
has inscribed on its folds the names of the important battles in which the regiment was
engaged, namely: Gaines' Farm, Malvern Hill, Manassas and Seven Pines. This regiment
was commanded by Colonels John A. Blair and Bently B. Boon; Lieut. -Col. David W.
Humphreys and Lieut. -Col. John M. Buchanan.
The battle flag of the Eighteenth Mississippi Regiment is in a good state of preserva-
tion. It was captured at Fredericksburg, on the 5th day of May, 1863. This famous
regiment took part in all the great battles in which the Army of Northern Virginia was
engaged, and was commanded l>y Col. E. R. Burt and Col. Thomas M. Griftin; Lieut. -Col.
W. H. Luse and Lieut. -Col. Walter G. Kearney; Major J. W. Balfour, Major G. B. Gerald
and Major E. G. Henry.
The battle flag of the Forty-eighth Mississippi Regiment is full of bullet holes and is
more tattered and faded than the others. This celebrated regiment took part in the
following battles, the names of which almost cover the folds of the flag: Yorktown, Williams-
burg, Seven Pines, Beaver Dam, Gains Mills, Frazier's Farm, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg,
Harper's Ferry, Bristow Station, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Deep
Run. This regiment was commanded by Joseph M. Jayne, Colonel; Thomas B. Manlove,
Lieutenant-Colonel , and L. C. Lee, Major.
In the collection will be found the Eleventh, Fifteenth, two of the Twelfth, Thirty-
third, Nineteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Sixth, Wigfall Rifles, Fourth,
Sweets Battery, First, Forty-second and Forty-i^ourth. Many of them are still on their
original staffs; others are attached to rude poles.
Dunbar Rowl.\nd,
State Archivest, Jackson, Miss.
Battle Flag of the 2nd Mississippi Regiment.
Captured at GettysburR.
Battle Flag of the 18th Mississippi Regiment.
Captured at Fredericksburg, May 5, 1863.
Flag of Hood's Texas Brigade.
Date of capture unknown.
exas.
Brief history of the Confederate Battle Flags recently returned by the
Secretary of War to the Governor of Texas.
The Flag of the First Texas Infantry Regiment. It was captured in the battle of
Appomattox, April 8, 1865.
Flag of Hood's Texas Brigade. The lower half of this flag is frazzled and tattered.
It is a Texas flag in design, and inscribed ujjon it arc the words "Seven Pines." "Malvern
Hill" and "Gaines Farm."
The Flag of the Third Texas Cavalry Regiment. It was captured in Georgia, August
20, 1864. Upon it is inscribed "Oak Hill," "Holly Springs," " Hatchie Bridge," and
"Thompson's Station."
Unknown Flag. It was captured September 17, 1862, It is evidently the flag of
a Texas Brigade, but cannot be identified by the public record or by private inquir}'.
All these, old flags are tattered, battle scarred and bullet riddled, but the colors are
as bright as the day upon which they were first unfurled.
Harry Haynes,
Austin Statesman, Austin, Texas.
Battle Flag of the 1st Texas Infantry Regiment.
Captured in the Battle of Appomattox. April 8, 1865.
Battle Flag of the 3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment.
Captured in Georgia. August 20, 1864.
Unknown Flag of a Texas Brigade.
Captured Sept, 17. 1S02.
Battle Flag of the 4th Virginia Infantry.
Captured in the Battle of the Wilderness. May 12th, 1864.^ This regiment
belonged to the famous "Stonewall Brigade."
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Battle Flag of the 2nd VirKinia Infantry.
There is no record of the capture of this flag, but its condition plainly indicates
the terrific conflicts through which it passed.
Flags of Virginia.
The return nt tlie l>attk> tlass to the Smithern States by the Federal Government has
been hailed with great j(iy by the old heroes who wore the gray, and these tattered emblems
of more strenuous days are highly prized liy those who followed them so devotedly on so
many fields
The Virginia flags returned, are carefully stored away in the Confederate Museum,
which was the home of President Davis, durin.g the Civil War. They were shipped from
the War Department, each carefully wrapped in a separate package. The box also contained
a number of flags on the poles on which they were originally used during the war. The
box was placed in the Museum, pending the final decision of Governor Montague as to
what disposition he will make of the valued relics, but it is thou.ght the Governor will
determine to allow them to remain where they are.
The flags returned to A'irginia are indeed interesting. There is. for instance, a fla,g
of the state, made of tine blue silk, which saw service all through the war. and which was
presented by the ladies of Bath County. "God Protect the Right" is the inscription.
Another flag of great interest and historic value, is that of the Second Virginia Infantry.
This old relic went nearly all through the war, and is now but a mere fragment, having
been torn almost into shreds by Federal bullets. A picture of this is shown above, and
one has but to look upon it to appreciate the service it has seen.
The Fourth Infantry Flag It was in all the big battles of the famous "Stonewall
Brigade", and was eajitured at tlie battle of the Wilderness. May 12, 1864. It bears an
inscription "Rebel Battli- Flag", showing also the date of its capture. Ujion the flag is
lettered the names of the battles through which it i^assed. These include First and Second
Manassas. Winchester, Kearnstown, Harper's Ferry. Cold Harlior, Chancellorsville and
Gettysburg.
The flag of the Forty-seventh Virginia Infantry is among the very interesting ones.
It was captured b)- the First -Michigan Ca\ airy, at the battle of Falling Waters.
The Ninth and Forty-eighth Virginia Infantry flags are both interesting and are highly
prized by the old veterans.
The Joint Resohition under which the flags were returned, was offered in the House
by Congressman John Lamb, of Richmond, himself a gallant officer in the Third Cavalr}'
and his old battle flag is distinguished among those returned.
Captain Lamb also drew and offered the report which was adopted along with the
resolution.
Only one-fourth of the flag of the Tenth Virginia Infantry is left to tell the story
of the thrillling battles through which it passed. It was captured at the battle of Sailor's
Creek, April 6, 1865, only a few days before the svuTcnder of General Lee's Army at
Appomattox C. H. The Tenth Virginia Infantry was a regiment of striking gallantrv,
and many of its members laid down their li\'cs on the field where their flag was captured.
We give a reproduction of Gen. Jubal A. Early's headquarter's flag. Though soiled
and bedraggled bj' rain, it is in a good state of preservation. It was the marker for the old
hero's forces in all his en.^agements both in the Valley of Virginia and elsewhere, and was
carried at the head of his arm)- until the end came. It was with him in Pennsylvania,
as well as in all his other engagements throughout the war.
Unknown Flag of Pickett's Corps. This flag was in the major portion of the greatest
battles fiaight liy the .yallant Gen. George E. Pickett. It is designated as having belonged
to "Pickett's Corps", and this of itself is sufficient to mark it at once as an emblem of great
historic \alue. There is no data at hand to show where this flag was captured, though it
is evident it waved in the forefront of many fiery engagements.
The flag of the Thirteenth Virginia Cavalry is one around which thrilling memories
cluster. It was in many engagements both in and out of Virginia, and after ha\ing been
borne gallantly on many victorious fields, was captured at Hanover, Pa., in July, 1863.
The Thirteenth Virginia Cavalry was one of the most gallant of all the mounted regiments
that followed the fortunes of the Confederacy from Virginia.
Thirty-seventh Virginia Cavalry. This is evidently a flag with an interesting and
thrilling history. It is battle scarred and shot and torn into shreds. It is officially desig-
nated as the flag of "Dunn's Battalion, Thirty-seventh Virginia Cavalry". It was in many
of the most striking engagements of the Valley campaigns and was captured in Luray
(Va.) Valley, October ■26th, 1864, by the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. The flag is
quite highly prized and is one of the most interesting of all those returned to Virginia.
Flag of the Engineering Corps, Lee's Army. This flag is of striking appearance and
it saw service all through the war, ha\in,g Ijeen carried at the head of the Engineering
Corps in blazing the way for some of the most historic battles of the entire struggle.
The flag is of extra large size, and is made of red material, the lettering being white, and
perfectly distinct. It has also a white border on the side where it was attached to the
pole. There is no data to show whether it was captured or simply turned over to the
Federal forces at the end of the struggle
C. A. BOYCE,
Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va.
Unknown Battle Flag of I
Pickett's Corps.
No date of capture Riven.
General Jubal A. Early's Headquarters Flap.
.\i> recnrd of u-hen capriiri-'l
Battle Flag of the gth Virginia Infantry.
There is no date of the capture of this flag.
Battle Flag of the 47th Virginia Infantry.
Captured in the Battle of Falling Waters.
Battle Flag of Dunn's Battalion, 37th Virginia Cavalry.
Capturt-d in Luray (Va.). Valley, Oct. 2IHh, 18114,
Battle Flag of the 48th Virginia Infantry.
There is no date of the capture of this flag.
Company Flag.
Carried by a company raised in Bath County. Virginia.
Battle Flag of the i6th South Carolina Volunteers.
Captured at Five Forks. Va.. April 7, 1865.
Garrison Flag of Secessionvllle.
Defense of Charleston. S. C.
Captured Feb., 1865.
Fort Ripley S. C, Garrison Flag.
No record of capture.
South Carolina.
Owing to the fact that many of the Confederate battle flags, returned to
the States, were received so ver}'' late, and there being no records at the State
Capitols of the regiments that bore the flags, it has been impossible to secure
information from members of the regiments which carried the flags, and give
full histories of them. Particularly is this the case with South Carolina flags,
and l)elow we give only a very short history of a few- of the South Carolina flags
which arc reproduced in this souvenir.
Until there is some expression from the Confederate Veterans Association of the State,
the battle flags captured during the war; and recently returned to the State by the War
Department, are in the keeping of the ladies in charge of the State Relic Room in the
Cajiitol building.
Writing to Governor lleyward, under liate of .Marcli 2."), IHI).'), Secretary of War Taft,
said:
"I have the honor to advise you that, under authority conferred ujion the Secretary
of War by the joint resolution of Congress approved February '2.S, 190S, entitled 'A Joint
Resolution to return to the proper authorities certain Union and Confederate battle flags,'
1 have caused to be forwarded to you to-day by express all the Confederate liattle flags
that were in the cu.stody of the War Department at the time of the approval of said joint
resoUition. and that could be identified as belonging to your State or as having been borne
by military organizations thereof.
"A few of the flags that were described in executive document No. 163, House of Repre-
sentatives, Fiftieth Congress cannot now be identified. Their numbers or distinguishing
marks have been lost, and a few of the flags that could not be identified in 1S6S have since
been identified and are now returned to the states to which the organizations which bore
tliem belonged."
This "Executive Document" descrilx-d other South Carolina liags that were captured
but Secretary Taft makes no mention of what disposition has been made of them.
A list of the flags returned follows:
Eighth Regiment Infantry. Fort Moultrie garrison flag.
Eleventh Regiment Infantry. Citadel garrison flag.
Sixteenth Regiment Infantry. Secessionville (James Island) garrison flag
Twenty-seventh Regiment Infantry. Fort Ripley garrison flag.
Castle Pinckney garrison flag. Three Regimental flags, unidentified.
The only history available, of the several flags returned, is the following:
Eighth South Carolina Infantry Flag, captured Septemjilier 13, 1864.
Flag of Eleventh South Carolina Volunteers, inscribed: "Port Royal, Cedar Creek,
Swift Creek, Petersburg. June 124, Weldon Railroad."
Flag of the Sixteenth South Carolina Volunteers, w.is ea]itnred during the engagement
of April 7, ISO."), at Fi\e Forks. \'a.
Battle Flag of the Twenty-seventh South Carolina Regiment.
I'lai; of Sumter Heavy Artillery, captured in the battle of Sailor's Creek, April (i, 186.5.
Garrison Flag of Secessionville, defense of Charleston, captured February, liSG.5.
Garrison Flag of Citadel, Cliarleston, ,S. C . captured February 18, 1865.
Garrison Flag of Fort Moultrie, Ch.irUston Harbor, captured February IS, 1,86.5.
W. H. McC.\w,
Columliia, S. C.
Garrison Flag of Castle
Pinckney, S. C.
No record of capture.
Flag of Unknown South Car-
olina Regiment.
Taken at Battle of Malvern.
Garrison Flag of the Citadel, Charleston, S. C.
Captured Feb. ISth, 1865.
Flag of the 1st Tennessee Battalion.
Captured at the Battle of Chickahominy, July 27th, 1862.
Returned Tennessee Confederate Flags.
The following brief information in regard to the Tennessee Regiments,
whose Battle Flags were returned by the U. S. Government, is all that it was
possible to obtain in regard to them from the archives on file at Nashville.
First Tennessee Confederate Regiment Haltli' Fiiit; h has this inscri]ili(iii, "Con-
fcdi-rati' BattK' Flag of the First Tcnnessoe Regiment, captured at the Battle of Gettys-
burg. July 3, 18(53."" The battles inscribed on it are, "Cold Harbor," "Seven Pines,'
"Mechanicsville," "Frazier's Farm, ""Cedar Run, ""Ox Hill." " Harpers Ferrj'," "Sharpes-
burg," "Shepherdstown," " Frcdericksbm-g" and "Chancellorsville."
Col. Peter Turney, the Cunimandir of this Regiment, was badlv wounded at the Battle
of Frederickslnirg
The Flag of the First Tennessee Battalion, bears inscription: "Cajitured at the Battle
of Chickahominy, July 'JT. IsCi'J,"
The Sixth Tennessee Infantry. This Flag is inscribed; "Captured at Sailors Creek,
April 1st. 1S(),')." 'IMii' battles in which this regiment was engaged, were Bchnont, Shiloh
Perryville. Murfrcesboro. Tullahoma. Chickamauga, Cat Creek. Dalton, Rcsaea. Kennesaw.
Dead Angle, Peachtree Crei'k. Atl.inta, Jonesboro, Franklin. Nashville. Missionary Ridge
and Bentonville.
Geo. C. Porter, was Colonel. \V II. Jones, Licutcnant-Coloiiil. and J. L. Harris. Major
Flag of the 2nd Regiment East Tennessee Volunteers.
No record of capture
"Colors of the Seventh Tennessee Regiment." This was General Robert Hatton's
old Regiment. He was killed at the battle of Seven Pines.
Fourteenth Tennessee Regiment Battle Flag, captured at Gettysburg, July 3, 1S63.
The battles in which this regiment was engaged were, "Seven Pines, Mechanics ville. Cold
Harljor. Frazier's Fann, Cedar Run. Manassas. Ox Hill, Harpers Ferry, Sharpesburg,
Shepherdstown, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville."
This was Col. Forbes' Regiment, he was killed at the second battle of Manassas.
The Battle Flag of the Twenty-Third Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers: "Captured.
2d day of April. 1865."
This regiment was consolidated with the Se\-enteenth Regiinent. which was commanded
by Col. R. H. Keeble, who was killed at Petersburg. July' 31, 1864.
The Flag of the Forty-Fourth Tennessee Regiment: "Captured, 17th day of June,
1864. at Petersburg. Va." The battles in which this Re.giment was engaged were Shiloh,
Perryville, Murfreesboro, Hoover's Gap, Ringold, Chickamauga. Knoxville, Beans Station,
Watthall Junction, Drury's Bluff and Petersburg.
Col. [ohn S. Fulton commanded the regiment. He was killed on the 30th daj' of
June, 1864.
This regiment was finally consolidated with the Twenty-Fifth Tennessee, commanded
bv Cul. S. S Stanton, who was killed at Resaca, Ga., in 1864.
The Second Tennessee Volunteer Regiment Flag. This must have been the Nineteenth
Regiment. Tennessee Volunteers.
Harvey H. H.\nxah,
Adjutant General, State of Tennessee.
Battle Flag of 1st Tennessee Regiment.
Captured at Battle of GettysburB.
July 3. 1863.
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6th Tennessee Regiment Battle Flag.
Captured at Sailor's Creek, .\rril 1. 186.i.
Flag of Unknown Tennessee Regiment.
No record of capture.
Colors of Unknown Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers.
No record of capture.
Battle Flag of the 44th Tennessee Regiment.
Capture! at Petersburg. Va., June 17th. 1864.
Battle Flag o( the 14111 Tennessee Regiment.
Captured at Gettysburg, July 3, ISC.'i
Unknown Georgia State Flag.
No date of capture given.
Battle Flag of the 40th Georgia Infantry.
Captured at Appomattox C. H.. April 9. 1865.
Confederate Flags of Georgia-
Photographs of twenty-seven flags returned by the Government to the
State of Georgia were received, tut it was impossible to reproduce more than
the fifteen shown in this pubHcation, owing to the shortness of time before the
Re-union at Louisville. The history, however, of all of the flags returned to
Georgia is given, and if future editions of this publication are issued the other
flags will be reproduced.
Flag of the First Georgia Volunteer Infantry. This Regiment, commanded by Col.
James N. Ramsey, enlisted for twelve months, and organized at Macon. Ga.. April .3. lS(il:
fought in West Virginia under General Robert S. Gamell. taking part in the Laurel Hill
engagement, and the fights at Garrick's Fork, Greenbrier River and Cheat Mountain.
in April, 1862. this regiment having .served its period of enlistment disbanded. All
the comiKinics re-enlisted, however; four Companies forming the Twelfth Georgia Battalion
of Artillery. Served around Charleston and in the Wt^stem Amiv until Jutie, lS(i-l. when it
was armed as infantr\' and assigned to Gordon's Georgia Brigade, with which it served
around Richmond, in'the \alley, in Early's Maryland campaign, around Petersburg and
surrendered at .-Xiijjomattox.
The other Comjianiis of the First Regiment served in other commands under General
Johnston and General Hood in Tennessee. Georgia, and on to Greensboro, N. C, in 1865.
Flag of the Seventh Georgia Cavalry. This Regiment was organized in the early
part of 1863, served in Georgia and .South Camlina until June. 1864. when it joined Hamp-
ton's Cavalry in Virginia. Took part in the battle of Trevillian Station, sufTcring con-
siderable loss, but helped to drive Sheridan back to the Pamunky and defeating his efforts
to join General Hunter in his raid against Lynchburg, Va.
This Regiment joined in the lights in the Valley Campaign in l.S(>4, where Early's
small Connnand was o\erwhelnied by Sheridan.
This Hag is one of the latest designs adojited by the Confederate Government. Very
few of them were ever used \>y the Cimfederate Troops in the field. It was captured by
Sheridan's Ca\'alry. in October, 1S64,
Flag of the Benjamin Infantry, This Company was one of the Companies of the Tenth
Georgia Regiment, and this Hag was carried to the army when the Company entered the
ser\ ice. When the regiment was organized, and regimental colors given it, this flag was
sent back to the County of Clayton, near .Atlanta, and was put away in a bureau drawer
as a sacred relic. Some soldier, belonging to Sherman's .\rmy. plundered this private
residence and carried off the old (lag, Kilpatrick having raided in that neighbt>rhood in
August, 1864,
Flag of the Twelfth Georgia Regiment. This Regiment was first Commanded by Col-
onel Edward Johnson, and became famous for its heroic services in the Valley of Vir-
ginia. When its Colonel became a General, it was commanded l)y another hero, Edward
\Villis, and then another. Isaac Hardeman.
It became part of Doles-Cook Brigade of Rodes' Division, Jackson's Corps, taking
part in all the battles of Virginia, Maryland and Pemisylvania,
But the Hag. purporting to be the flag of the Twelfth (ieorgia, was not its flag.
Col, James Ci Lane, of the One Hundred and Second N'ew York Regiment, claimed in
his official report of the liattle of Chaneellors\ille, that his Command captured twenty-three
men of the Twelfth Georgia Regiment, including the Color Bearer and his liattlc flag.
Doubtless this New' York Regime nt captured some prisoni-rs and a flag, but it was not the
Twelfth Georgia's Flag. A number of the .sin-viving officers and men of this most gallant
Regiment assort most positively that their colors were never lost in battle, cither at Chan-
cellorsville or elsewhere during the war.
The Regiment was a part of General Rodes's Division, and Gen. Rodes in his official
report of Chancellorsville, mentions the loss of three battle flags V>y his Division, They
were those of the Fifth Alabama, and the Second and Fourth Regiments of North Carolina
Troojis, The Twelfth Georgia flag was not captured at this place, and was never in any
danger of Vicing lo.st.
Fourteenth Georgia Flag, The Fourteenth Georgia Regiment was one of the Regi-
ments of General E. L, Thomas's Georgia Brigade, A, P, Hill's Division of Jackson's ('2d)
Corps, afterwards made a part of Third Corps. General .•\, P, Hill, commanding.
It participated in nearly all the battles in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania and
surrendered at .\ppomattox.
General .\. V. Brumby was the first Colonel, succeeded by Colonels Felix Price, Robert
\V, Folsom and R, P. Lester, in order named.
The flag was probably among those surrendered at .\p])omattox.
Flag of the Benjamin Infantry, a Company of the loth Georgia Regiment.
Captured in August, 1S64.
Fifteenth Georgia Regiment Flag. Tht- Fifteenth Georgia was one of the Regiments
of General Robert Toombs's Georgia Brigade. After Gen. Toomljs's retirement to other
fields of duty, the Brigade was eommanded by General Henry L. Benning. known by the
troops as "Old Rock," companion Brigade to General G. T. Anderson, known as "Old
Tige." "Hurry up, Tige, Old Rock has Treed," was the trooper's way of indicating that
the latter had located the enemy and needed help.
This Regiment was one of the best in Longstreet's Coq.is, and fought in the battles
in Virginia. Maryland and Pennsylvania, and at Chickamauga and Knoxville. It sur-
rendered with Lee at Appomattox. Col. Tho,s. W. Thomas was First Colonel, and Judge
Linton Ste[)hcns. brother of Alexander H. Stephens, was Lieut. -Colonel.
This Regiment's Hag was lost at the "Devil's Den." Gettysburg. Pa.. July, 1803.
Sixteenth Georgia Regiment Flag. The Sixteenth Georgia was originally commanded
by Colonel (afterwards General) Howell Cobl). one of tJeorgia's meist distinguished men.
He had liecn a member of Congress. Go\ernor of Ge-orgia. Spe'akcr of Feeieral House
of Representatives, and member of President James Buchanan's Cabinet. He commanded
a Brigade at Cramplon's Gap. Md., where his command was assailed and overwhelmed by
several Brigades of McClellan's Army.
The Re.giment was afterward one of 'V\'(ifford's Georgia Brigade, and fought gloriouslv
at Gettysburg. Wilelcrncss, Spottsylvania. aroimd Richmond, Chancellors\ille and other
battles, anei surrenefereei at Ajipomatto.x, crowned with glory although mmibered among
the vamiuishcd.
Flag of the Eighteenth Georgia Regiment; known also as the "Third Texas," by
the Texas Regiments of Hood's Old Brigade to which it belonged until 1SC>3. when it was
Brigaded with other Georgia Regiments uneier General W. T. Wofford.
It was one of the most gallant Regiments, and in the fight at Cold Harbor. June, 1864,
together with the Fourth Texas Regiment and Hampton's S. C. Legion, chargeel one mile
and captured part of Porter's line with fourteen pieces of artillery and held them. It took
part in all the principal battles in Virginia (except ChanccUorsville) and in Maryland and
Pennsyhania. and surrendered at Ajipomattox.
Flag of the Nineteenth Georgia Regiment. Was one of the Regiments of General
Alfred H. Cole^uitt's Brigade. Took part in ncarlyall the battles of Virginia and Maryland.
Was in the battle of Ocean Pemd. or Olustee. Florida, at Fort Svmiter. S. C, and helped
rc]3ulse Grant's assault at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864. when 7000 Federals were killcel and
wounded in just twenty minute»s Ijy the clock Later in 1864, Coleiuitt's Brigade was sent
South again to re-enforce Joe Johnston's army bcftjre Sherman, and surre^ndered in North
Carolina on April 2(S. lS6.'i.
Flag of the Twenty-first Georgia Regiment. This Regiment has the distinction of
sustaining a greater iHrciiUage of losses eJuring the four years of service than any other
Georgia Regiment At the second battle of Manassas it lost 64 per cent, killed and wounded,
and the remnant held their ground.
It was one of Trimble's Brigade in Jackson's Valley Campaign, taking part in all the
engagements against Milroy. Banks, F'remont and Shields. Afterwards Ix-came a part of
the Doles-Cook Brigade, Revdes' Divi,sion. and fought in all the battlers in Virginia, Marvland
and Pe'nnsylvania. Surrendered fifty men at Appeimattox. where the flag was givem up.
Colonel Jolm T. Mercer, its Colonel, was a West Pomter, anei was killed at Plymouth, N. C,
when Hoke's Dixision ca|it\n-e(l that ])lace.
Flag of the Twenty-sixth Georgia Regiment. This Regiment, one of the best fighting
Regiments eif Gorilon's Fighting Georgia Brigade, was commandeei by Col. Edmund N.
Atkinson. It took jiart uneier Lawton. Gordon anei Evans in all the battles in Virginia,
Maryland and Pennsylvania, from June. 1862. to April, 1865, at Appomattox, when it
surrendered with less than one hundred men.
No Ijetter Regiment ever fought for the South.
Flag of the Thirty-fifth Georgia Regiment. Commanded by Colonel (afterwards
General) V.d. L. Tliomas. anei formed [lart of Thomas' Brigade, A. P. Hill's Third Corps.
Serveil under Jaeksem until his eleath, when the Third Corps was organized and placed
under command of General A. P. Hill.
Toe)k part in all the battles and campaigns in Virginia. Maryland and Pennsylvania,
and surrendered at A]ipeimattox.
Flag of the Forty-fourth Georgia Regiment. Commanded by the gallant Robert A.
Smith of Macon. Ga.. and was one of the Regiments of J. G. Walker's, then R. S. Riplev's
Brigade, D. H. Hill's Divisieni, Army of Northern Virginia.
After General Ripley had been severely weiundeel. Gen. Geo. Doles became the Brigade
Commaneler. and the I'orty-fourth Re.giment remained in this Brigade tintil its surrender.
On May 10 lS(i4, at S]iottsylvania C. H., General Upton's storming column of ten
jiicked Regiments assaulted Doles's Brigade of four small Regiments and captured about
()0 jier cent of this Regiment, among them the Color Bearer. Fe>r twenty minutes Upton's
men held a small part of the Cemfeelerate line, bvit Gordon's Brigade came to the assistance
Battle Flag of 35th Georgia Infantry.
Captured at Appomattox C. H.. April 9, 1865
of Doles and the Federals were driven back. The Forty-fourth served during the war
and surrendered at Appomattox.
Flag of the Forty-fifth Georgia Regiment. Tlie Forty-fifth Georgia Regiment, Colonels
Thos. Hardeman, Jr. and Thomas ]. Simmons, was one of the Regiments of Thomas's
Brigade, Pender's Division, A. P. Hill's Corps. It fought wherever the Army of Northern
Virginia fought, and was a most gallant eommand. They surrendered at Appomattox C. H.
Col. Simmons is n^nv the honored Chief Justiee of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Flag of the Forty-ninth Georgia Regiment. This Regiment was also one of General E.
L. Thomas's Georgia Brigade of Pender's Division, A. P. Hill's Third Corps, Army of North-
em Virginia. It participated gallantly in all the campaigns in Virginia, Maryland and
Pennsylvania, and surrendered at Appomattox C. H., April 9, 1865. The rank and file
were from among the sturdy, full-blooded Middle Georgia Americans, many of them men
of wealth, and all of them patriotic.
Flag of the Fiftieth Georgia Regiment. The Fiftieth Regiment was from the Southern
Counties of Georgia, and was one of the Regiments of General Paul J. Scmmes's Brigade,
.McLaw's Division, Longstrect's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.
It was commanded by Colonel W, R. Manning and Peter McGlashern. the latter now
commanding the Georgia Division of United Confederate Veterans.
This Regiment participated in all the liattlcs in which the .-Vrniy of Northern Virginia
was engaged .-md surrendered at .\ppomattox.
Flag of tile Fifty-first Georgia Regiment. This Regiment was one of General Paul
J. Scmmes's Brigade, and served in the .\rmy of Northern Virginia It belonged to McLaw's
Division, Longstrect's Coqis, participated in tlie battles in Virginia, Maryland and Penn-
sylvania, and surrendered at Appomattox.
It was a fine eommand ,uid r(ileete<l honor u]ion Georgia on many a hard-fought field.
Flag of the Sixtieth Georgia Regiment. This was one of the Regiments of the Georgia
Brigade first commanded by General .'\. R. Lawton, one of Georgia's distinguished soldiers
and citizens, who becoming disabled for field service liv wounds, was appointed Quarter-
master-General by President Davis.
General Gordon succeeded him. and after his promotion. General Clement A. Evans
subsequently commanded tlic Division to the close of the battle of .-\ppomattox, and is
now Commander of the .\rmy of Tennes.see Department. U. C. V.
This Regiment took jiart in all the battles in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania,
■md surrendered at Appomattox; taking part in the last battle, joining in the last successful
charge of Jackson's Old Division, commanded by General Evans, even after the flag of
truce had been si'Ut in.
Notice of the truce and surrender was carried from Gordon to Evans by one of General
Sheridan's Staff Otlicers. or Couriers.
Flag of the Sumter Flying Artillery. This Company was from Americus, Sumter
County, Ga , and was eommandcd by Captain Allen S. Cutts. who was afterwards promoted
Lieutenant-Colonel, and given command of the Eleventh Battalion of Artillery, more
familiarly known as Cutts' Battalion.
This flag was surrendered at Sailor's Creek, near .Vpiiomattox, four days before General
Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia.
The Sumter Flying Artillery did gn-at .service in all the campaigns of the -Vrmy of
Northern Virginia, and was one of the licst Artillery Comi)anies furnished l)v Georgia.
Flag v{ Cobb's Legion of Infantry. This Regiment was one of Cobli's Georgia Brigade,
commanded by Col 'i'lios. R. k. Colib, who was afterwards promotiMl to Brigaclicr-General.
It was in all tlie engagements fought by the Army of Northern Virginia.
At Fredericksburg, Dceemlier 13, 1802, this Brigade held the advance line in front of
Mayre's Hill, and rcjjul.sed repeated assaults by Burnside's right wing. They were aided
late in the tight by Kershaw's and Ransom's Brigades, but refused to leave the post of honor.
Gen. Thos. Colib was killed in this battle, and Gen. W. T. Wofford afterwards commanded it.
At Crampton's (5ap, Maryland, in Se])tenilicr, 1862, this Regiment was overwhelmed
liy parts of Franklin's Corps of McClellan's .-Vrmy. Lieut. -Col. Jeff Lamar was ninrtally
wounded while commanding. He had received one wound, and was lying on the Meld.
Near by were other wounded men, among them Lieut. Wni. B. Lowe. Lieut. Lowe sai<l
that the command was being surrounded and called to Col. Lamar to order his regiment
out of the perilous jKisition it was vainly trying to hold. This heroic officer asked the
Lieutenant to hold him up until he could give the command. The wounded Lieutenant
crawled to his side, and with painful effort raised his Colonel to his feet. With super-
human effort he ordered his regiment to move, "By the left flank, double quick." Just as
he issued the oriler another vengeful bullet passed througli liis body and the Lieutenant
gently laid him down to die among his heroic comrades.
With such ollieers, Cobb's Legion could not have Ijcen anything except a glorious com-
mand.
\V. H. Harrison,
Adjutant, .\tlanta Camp No. 159, U. C. V., .Atlanta, Ga,
Flag of an Unknown Geor^na Military Organization.
No date of capture given.
Flag of the loth Missouri Battery (Barrett'sl.
Captured at Columbus, Ga.. April 16. 1865.
Flag of an Unknown Missouri Infantry Regiment.
Captured at the Battle of Franklin. November 30. lS6i.
Missouri Confederate Flags.
We have been unable to secure any information in regard to the Confed-
erate flags of Missouri excepting the information contained in the letter
below from the Adjutant General of the State of Missouri:
May LMth, 1905.
Mr. Charles E. Ware,
Manager Buxton & Skinner Stationery Co.,
St. Louis, Missouri.
Dear Sir: —
The flags recently rclurned to the State of Missouri by the War Department, and of
which photographs were sent you liy Mr. Simms of this City, are two in number.
The first is of the Tenth Missouri Battery, otherwise known as Barrett's Battery. The
flag was captured with its bearer at CoHmibus. Ga., April 16, liS65. by Private John Kenney
of the Fourth Iowa Cax'alry, after a struggle with its bearer for possession of the flag.
The other, larger, flag is that of a Missouri Infantry Regiment. The numljcr of the
Regiment has been torn off. and I am unable to give it. The names of six battles, in which
the flag was carried, have been sewed on the flag. They are "Big Black," "Elk Horn,"
"luka," "Corinth," "Vicksburg," "Port Gibson," also another beginning " Kers — ," with
the last letters missing. Upon the flag is printed in ink, ' ' Captured by Sergt. Alfred
(last name blurred) Company K, Ninety-seventh O. V. I., at the Battle of F"ranklin. Novem-
ber 30, 1S64."
I regret that I am not able to give you further information. There are in this Office
no Confederate Records, and none of the Confederate Veterans who have looked at these
flags have been able to give me any fiu'ther part of their history.
I am, very respectfully,
James A. DeArmond.
Adjutant General.
Battle Flag of the 15th Louis-
iana Regiment
Captured at battle of Spottsyl
vania, May 12, 1864.
Battle Flag of the 2nd Louisiana Regiment Infantry Volunteers
Captured at battle of Spottsylvania. May 12. 1864.
Flag of Austin's Battalion. Louisiana.
Captured at Columbus. Ga.. April 16, 1865.
Louisiana.
CAPTURED BATTLE FLAGS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
Returned to Louisiana Division, U. C. V.
The presentation of returned Confederate Flags whieli oecurrcd in New Orleans,
April 13tli, in Memorial Hall, was an event freighted with significance, and tinged with
tenderest sentiment.
The occasion was an auspicious one, being as it were an open avowal and assurance
of the healing of all olil wounds, forcibly indicative of the golden epoch of amicable rela-
tionship between the north and south.
Faded, bUiod-stained and bullet-rent these revered relics were unfurled to view,
and, as they fluttered once again over the assemVilage of Confederate veterans, associations
were potent in recalling an era hallowed within the memory of every loyal-hearted south-
erner.
Like receiving an old comrade l)ack into the ranks, these cmlilenis of a loved lost cause
were welcomed with reverent ovation by the old soldiers who fought so valiantly under
their glowing standards.
With uncovi-rcd head, softened tread and whisjiered breath, one pauses before the
case of treasured mementoes, and. gazing upon their tattered remnants bearing time-faded
inscriptions, is insjiired with a feelin.g of sacred reverence for the silent story of heroism,
bloodshed and .sacrifice they reveal — while the following beautiful lines are brought to
mind :
" .N'ot long imfurled was I known,
For Fate was against me;
But I flashed over a Pure Cause
And on land and sea
So fired the hearts of men into heroism
That the world honored me.
Within my folds the dead who died under me
Lie fitly shrouded,
.\nd my tattered colors.
Crowded with a thousand shining victories,
Ha\e become for the people who love me,
A glorilit'd memorv."
Flag o£ the Second Louisiana Regiment Infantry Volunteers. This flag of regulation
infantry battle flag, four feet square with two-inch yellow binding ornamented with white
silk stars and half-inch wide silk fillet, bears the numbers 192 in black stenciled figures
and between the bands of the cross on its red field are inscribed the following battles:
Frazier's Farm, Malvern Hill, Cedar Run, Manassas No. 2. Chantilly. Sharpsburg, Fred-
ericksburg, Chanccllorsville, Winchester No. 2, Harper's Ferry, Gettysburg.
The flag of this regiment bears many bullet scars and tatters, showing the active service
it has been through. This flag is very likely the one for the capture of which a medal of
Honor was awarded, as the following extract from the list of such records as are to be
found concerning it:
"Charles H. Fasnacht, Sergeant Company A, Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Infantry,
May 12, 1864, captured flag of Second Louisiana Tigers, at Spottsylvania, Va."
Flag of the Second Louisiana Regiment Infantry. This flag of regulation infantry
design is made of bimting with white binding forming a border, white silk stars and white
silk fillet half-inch wide fonns an ornamentation around the blue cross. It leaves the
ntnnber 180 in stenciled black figures on the white binding.
This flag is reported to have seen little battle service at the time of its capture, in
consequence of which there are no bullet rents marring its wholeness and no battles inscribed.
The only thing defacing its surface is a few moth-eaten spots. It is attached to a short,
rough-hewn staff. Accompanying this flag is the following legend, which appears to have
been written some da3's after its capture, and signed by Brig.-Gen. G. W. Getty: "The flag
of the Second Louisiana regiment was capttired in the battle of the 22d of September, 1864,
at Fisher's Hill near Strasburg, Va., by Private James Connor, Company F, Forty-Third
New York Volunteers Sharp Shooters, at Headquarters, Second Division, Sixth Corps,
in the earthworks occupied by Carpenter's Rebel Battery. Signed, G. W. Getty, Harri-
sonburg, Va., Brigadier-General, commanding. In this battle the Second Louisiana was
attached to Staffeed's Brigade of Maj.-Gen. John B. Geedon's Division.
This brigade seems to have held its part of the works at Fisher's Hill until most others
had left, when the Federals flanked the left of the Confederate line, which crumbled to
pieces froni left to right.
Eighth Louisiana Regiment Infantry Battle Flag. The legend attached to this standard
shows that its capture was effected November 7, 1863, at Rappahannock Station, Va., by
Lieut. A. S. Lyon, Company K, Fifth Maine Volunteers.
The flag is attached to a light staff, seven feet high that has been broken and the breaks
secured by a tin tube. Accotnpanying this flag was a wooden spear-head with battle ax
cross piece painted black, which must have surmounted the staff and was broken off.
Flag of the Twelfth Louisiana. This flag returned as having been captured from the
Twelfth Louisiana Regiment Infantry, is a large national Confederate flag, 88 inches long
by 50 inches wide. It is made of close-woven bunting, with a yellow fringe around it.
It is the second pattern Confederate flag, white^ field with white fillet along the blue
cross. Painted in black on the white field is the following legend: "Twelfth Louisiana,
One Hundred and Fifth Regiment, Illinois Infantry, Twentieth Volunteer Corps, of the
Cumberland." This flag shows that it has been through active service by reason of the
bullet rents and blood stains upon it. It is also very badly moth eaten.
The Twelfth Lotiisiana Regiment in this battle was part of Brig.-Gen. T. M. Scott's
Brigade of Loring's Division of Stewart's Corps, Col. Noel L. Nelson was in command of
the regiment. In a charge of its brigade on the 12th of July in what is called the battle
of Peach Tree Creek, in front of Atlanta, the brigade was repulsed, and the Twelfth
Louisiana suffered heavily owing to the failure of an adjoining command to advance in line.
In Col. Nelson's report of this battle he mentioned no loss of colors, but states otit
of .318 men the regiment had 57 killed and wounded, and 9 missing. The loss had fallen
mainly on three companies of the regiment, that pushed farthest forward in the charge.
In the same records is to be found the report of Lieut. -Col. E. F. Dutton, commanding
the One Hundred and Fifth Illinois Volunteers. "Among the trophies captured by my
command was one set of colors claimed by Rebel wounded to belong to the Twelfth Louis-
iana Infantry." This is the flag described above.
Flag (so called) of Thirteenth Louisiana Regiment — Really the Fifteenth Louisiana
Regiment. This flag was sent and on the legends attached to it is designated as that of
the Thirteenth Louisiana Regiment. This was evidently not properly examined at the
time of its capture or when the legends were placed upon it. On the yellow figures one and
one-half inches high it bears the number 15 and the letters La., proving it to be the flag
of the Fifteenth Louisiana Regiment Infantry . The battles inscribed on it were all fotight
by the army Of Northern Virginia to which the Fifteenth Louisiana was attached. The
Thirteenth Louisiana Regiment Infantry was attached to the Army of Tennessee C. S. A.
and never fought in the field of operations of the Army of Northern Virginia.
The flag described was captured by Philip Schlaterer, Private, Company F, Seventy-
third New York Infantry, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania, Va. The flag is of bunting of
Battle Flag of Bouanchaud's Battery, Pointe Coupee Artillery
Captured at Battle of Nashville. Dec. IG, 1804.
fcgulation lintllc flag size for infantry. It is four feet square, with two inches white bunting
liinding, white silk stars and three-quarter of an inch fillet along the blue cross. On the
outside white binding it bears the number 13.'? in one and one-half inch stenciled black
litjures, and the same in ink on the cloth legen<i. In yellow paint stands the number 1.5
,il)Ove the center star and La. l>clow it in one and one-half inch figures. The following
battles are inscribed u]ion this Hag: Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill. Cedar Run, Manassas
No. 2, Chantilly, Sharpsburg, Harper's Ferry, Fredericksburg, Charlotlcsville, Manassas
No. 1, Gettysburg, Winthcsler. Williamsburg. Seven Pines. The flag is rent and torn in
many places by bullets and shell, but otherwise is in a good state of preservation.
The flag was captured at the same time as that of the Second Louisiana Regiment,
when Hancock, the Federal General, carried the bloody angle and broke through the
Confederate lines where stood Col. Johnson's <Ii\isii.in. on the 12th of Mav, 1864, at
Spottsylvania.
Flag of the Twenty-fourth Louisiana Regiment. The legend inscribed in ink along
tile white lillel (hat lionU'red tile blur cross upon this standard is as follows:
"Twenly-fom-tb Inf.-mtry Hattle Flag, captured by First-Lieut. W S, Simmons, Com-
jiany Eleventh Missouri VohnUecrs at battle of Brentwood Hills near Nashville, December
16, 1864."
Lieut. Simmons was awarded a medal of Honor for this capture. Two other flags
Were captured at the same time by the Ele\enth Missovtri. but in both cases it is .stated
thai no definite idea exists as to the regiment they belonged.
The Lotiisiana Infantry commands in that baitle were the Finst, Fourth, Thirteenth.
SiNtcenth, Twentieth, Twenty-fifth, Thirtieth Regiments, and Fourteenth Battalion com-
posing Gen. R. L. Gibson's Brigade of Ctcu. H. D. Clayton's Division, Stephen D. Lee's
Battle Flag of 2nd Company Washington Artillery of New Orleans, La.,
Captured in battle of Appomattox Station. April 8, 1865.
Corps. This division was the right of the corps. It repulsed the attacks of the enemy
and left its works only after the whole line to the left had been broken.
The flag is after the battle flag pattern for Infantry, being .5 feet square, inade of loose
woven bunting with white stars, border and fillet of cotton cloth. The fillet is an inch
wide and bears the number 211 in black stenciled figures, one and one-half-inch high. It
is marked with blood and torn by bullets and shell; appearing by these defacements to
have seen much active service.
Flag of Austin's Battalion. This flag belonged to Austin's Battalion and was captured
at Columbus, Ga.. April 16, 1865, with its bearer a sergeant, by private Andrew Tibbett,
Third Iowa Cavalry, First Brigade, Fourth Division, Cavalry Corps, M D. M.. inside the
line of works and to the right of the four gun battery on the right of the enemy's line. The
flag is of the Confederate national pattern, white fillet with battle flag of the imion in upper
comer. It is of fine material and beautifully made. This flag was inade by the ladies
of Mobile and sent to the Battalion at the opening of the war. Inscribed on it in red letters
two inches high are the names, Austin's Battalion, Shiloh, Belmont. Chickamauga, Farm-
ington, Mttrfreesboro, and bears crossed cannons also in red cloth six inches long below
the battle flag union. The stars of the battle flag are of white silk and the fillet along the
blue cross of the same material. Andrew W. Tilibett received a medal of Honor for the
capture of this flag.
Flag of Bouanchaud's Battery Pointe Coupee Artillery. The following legend is inscribed
on the red field of this flag, captured from Bnuanchaud's Battery at the battle of Nashville,
December 16, 1864.
Battle Flag of 2nd Louisiana Regiment Infantry
Captured in Hattlc of Fislur's Hill. Sui.t. 22. ISdl,
"IBouanchaiurs H:\Ucry Flag. Capturcil liy William Mav, Private. Company H.
'I'hirty-third Iowa Infantry, Second Brii;adc-. Second Division Detaehnient. Army of
'I'ennessec. at the battle of Brentwood Hills, near Nashxille, Dcccniber l(i. ISfU."
Kejiort of t"ol Willi.un R. Marshall, Seventh Minnesota Iiifantrv. coniniandint; Third
Hris;ade, First Division Detachment, Army of Tcmiessee, says: "Most liravely diil the
lines rise witli cheers, hreastins; the storm of shot and shell from four jjttns in our front,
charse and carry the strong works on the left of the Cranny White Pike. The splendid
Pointe Coupee Battery of four Napoleon twelve ])oundcrs, a' great number of small arms
and ;i()() to -too ]irisoners were taken.
"William May, a jirivate of Capt. Ben.son's Comjiany H. Thirty-second Iowa, as the Com-
jiany a])proaehed the works, dashed forward and cajHured the batterv and guidon. Several
ollieial jiajiers of this battery were also ca])ttn-ed. proving it to ha\e been A. Bouanehaud's."
William May's interesting account of the incidentals told as follows: "On the Ifith of
December when the Second Brigade. Second Di\ision, Det.'iehment Army of 'IVnncssee.
was ordered to char,ge the enemy's works as, my rc.giment. the ThirtN-second Iowa Infantry,
was on the ri.ght of the Brigade approached the earthworks, I saw this rebel battery
flag with the guns, and ran ahead of the rc,gimcnt over the works, and took it out of the
Rebel's hand. In a valise close by, I fotmd some brass buttons, manufactured at Mont-
gomery with letter B., German text. Al.so a cajitain's shoulder straps, some papers, invoices
of ordinance stores, etc., showing the Battery to have been A. Bouanehaud's'." The flag
is about four feet square of crimson bunting with yellow fringe, bearing a diagonal cross"
tipon whicli are thirteen .silken stars. The flag shows little of the wear and tear of active
service, and must liave been foimd in Capt. Bouanehaud's \alise, which it is cl;iimcd. the
captor must ha\-e llionuighly explored.
Flag of the 'Washington Artillery. This flag, concerning the eajiture of which a con-
fliction of ojiinion has ever existed, is one of the most interesting of the group of tattered
emblems.
Many doubts were expressed as to the authentic capture of this flag. When, however.
it was first removed from the case upon the niglit of the presentation, and after careful
unrolhng and examination all doubts were banished, for it proved to be the veritable
standard of the Second Company of this Battalion. When straightened out, the binding
revealed the inscription: "Second Company Washington Artillery of N. O." Colonel John
B. Richardson, who commanded tliis ciinijiany at Apjiomattox, tistiticd to the identity
of this returned flag as being the battle liag of his Company, and the writing upon it, as
that of Sergeant Caesar Huchez, one of its members. The flag is of close woven bunting,
three feet square, of regulation artillery-battery jiattern, bordered with a two-inch white
cotton binding, while white silken stars and fillets adorn the edges of the blue cross. It is
numbered 303, in one and onc-half-inch figures, stenciled in black on the red field. The
name of the Company is inscribed upon the upper border in large letters. The upper
border is separated from the main body of the flag by a rent extending its full length.
This glorious standard of one of Louisiana's most valiant regiments shows the rava.ges
of liattle. Tattered, torn and streaked with blood, which in many places obliterate the
bright, little white silk stars, while the black spots here and there show the passage throu.gh
and along it of bullets and shells.
This flag is still attached to the staff that bore it in its last battle.
(-)f this flag. Col. Richardson says, that during that last battle of April 8th at
Appomattox Station, he handed the flag into the keeping of Private William W. Davis,
a splendid soldier, with instructions to secrete it on his person. Nothing was ever heard
of this noble young hero after the trust imposed upon him by his superior ofliccr.
It was 'nightfall when the fighting began with the Federal Cavalry, that had cut through
the column of the retiring Artillery, and the battle raged unceasingly throughout the ni.ght.
The flag was evidently captured from Davis before he could carry out his commandin,g
officer's instructions, and the blood which stains this flag must be that shed by the gallant
soldier in his stru.g.glc to preserve it from the enemy.
This flag was cajitured in the Battle of Appomattox Station, April S, 1865, by Barney
Shields, Company E, Second Virginia Volunteers Cavalry, Third Brigade. Cavalry
Division, Brevet Major -General George A. Custer, commanding.
Rebellion records show the following list of medals of Honor awarded is to be found:
"Bernard Shields, Private Company E, Second West Virginia Cavalry, April 8, 1865,
captured flag of tlie Washin,gton Ariillery at Appomatto.x, \'a."
Flag of an Unknown or Uncertain Louisiana Infantry Regiment. This flag is the
regulation inf.-mtry Ixittle Hag of Inmling, four feel square, while liinding two inches around
the flag, while the blue ero.ss is ornamented with white silken stars and white fillet half-
inch wide. It has several patches and its flying end is ravelled and torn; it shows bullet
marks and is slightly moth eaten.
The number 14 is marked on the while cotton cloth sewed in one corner, on which
is written the following legend:
"Confederate battle flag of the Eighth Louisiana Regiment, captured at Rajipahannock
Station, Va., November 7, 1863, by Sergeant dtis C. Roberts, Sixth Regiment, Maine
Volunteers, Sixth Brigade, First Division. Sixth .\rmy Cor])S, captured in hand to hand
lighl in trenches."
There are no battles inscribed on it, nor any number or letters designating it as belong-
ing to the Eighth Louisian;i Regiment.
This Regiment belonged to Brig-Gen. Harry T. Hays' Brigade, which on November
7, 1863, at Raiipahannock Station, was mostly all cajitured by the Federal Gen. Sedgwick's
Corps. Gen. Meade rejiorts having there taken four Colonels, three Lieutenant-Colonels,
many other oflicers and SOO men prisoners, together with the capture of four battle flags.
The account of the eajiture of this flag is as follows:
"Ser.geant Otis (). Roberts, of Company H, with only five men rushed upon the color
bearer of the Eighth Louisiana Regiment who was in the midst of his color comjiany,
and after a hand to hand lighl, in which bayonets were freely used, succeeded in capturing
the colors and comjielling the comjiany to surrender. Sergeant Roberts was awarded a
medal for his valiant deed of capture."
T. W. Casti.eman,
Adjutant-General and Chief of Stafl',
Louisiana Division Uifited Confederate Veterans,
New Orleans, L.a.
Flag Carried by the 47th Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers.
No date of capture given.
North Carolina Flags.
Owing to the fact that the returned Confederate flags of North Carohna have
been carefully grouped in large cases in the Hall of History, at Raleigh, it was
impossible, in the short time before which this publication had to be issued, to
secure pictures of all of the flags in the collection so they could be reproduced
separately. Below, however, is given the history complete of the flags returned
liv the Government to the State of North Carolina.
North Carolina bears the enviable record of having sent more troops
to the Confederate service than any other state in the south and of having lost
inore inen in battle.
The flags which were returned here late last March by the United States War Dcpartinent
to Governor Robert B. Glenn were placed in the charge of the director of the Hall of History,
and were by him arranged in four cases made of native woods, being so displayed as to produce
a very fine effect, to show the number of the Regiment and also the inscriptions co\-ering the
battles in which each Regiment participated. It is thought that in no other state has such
an arrangement been carried out. There are thirty-two of the flags. Eleven of these are
upon the staffs. Some of the staffs are mere poles, and in one case the staff is a pine stick,
with the bark still on. In this case a letter has been received from the color-bearer in which
he says that the flag was being taken to the rear by the regiment, which was retreating from
an overwhelming force; that the flag caught in the thick undergrowth, but that he tore it
away and left the staff, stopping further in the woods and cutting the little pine sapling.
The flags show the great number of engagements in which the North Carolina troops partici-
pated. Most of them are from the Army of Northern Virginia, but one is from the Western
Army, and this is specially displa>'ed, being that of the Thirty-ninth Infantrj-. A monument
is to be dedicated in July at Chickamauga to the North Carolinians who lost their lixx's in that
great battle, in which eight regiments from this state particiijated.
There are also in the Hall of History a number of other Confederate flags of peculiar
interest, notably among these being the "Bethel" flag, which is that which was borne by the
Battle Flag of the 38th North Carolina Regiment.
No dale of capture given.
First Regiment of Volunteers at llic battle of Bethel, Va., in June, 1861, whore the regiment,
ecinstittitinj; the iirinri]ial force of the Confederates and under command of Colonel (after-
wards Lieutenanl-Gcneral) Danit'l Harvey Hill, so distingtiislicd itself in the defiat of the
Federals that the North Carolina Legislature, then in session, directed that the name "Bethel"
should be inscribed upon the Hag, this name ajipearing in lilue silk. The regiment was also
given the distinctive name of the "Bethel Re.gimcnt" and hence had no nuinber, even in the
re-organization of the North Carolina troops.
Anotlur Hag was that used at tlic lieadquarters of Major-Gcncral Bryan Grimes, the
ranking otiieer of the North Carolina troops at Appom.Httox. under whose direction the last
charge was made at Appomattox Court House on early Monday morning, April 9, 186.5. when
the Confederate infantry, under command of General William R. Cox. fired the last volley
and drove back the Federal line, and the ca\'alr\- made a capture of four gims of a Federal
battery of regulars, of the Fourth Artillery, while the Confederate sharp-shooters, posted in
a house, kept up so accurate a tire as to enable the Confederates to retire after ha\ing accom-
plished these two objects. The Grimes flag was disj^layed at liis headquarters and was not
taken down until after the surrender, when it was cut away from the staff and lirought back
to Raleigh by one of General Grimes' couriers, who wrapped it around his body, under all his
clothing.
Another Hag of marked interest is that of the Twenty-sixth North Carolina Regiment,
which was in turn commanded by Z. B. Vance (afterwards Go\erniir and U. S. Senator).
Henry King BurgwT,'n and John R. Lane, the latter of whom is still living near Raleigh. Col.
BurgwN'n was killed at (!jett\-sburg, w-hcre his regiment, as stated by Col. Fox in the hitter's
well-known book, "Regimental Losses in Battle," suffered a greater loss than any other
regiment, on cither side, dm-ing the entire Ci\-il War.
These Hags attract a gri'at deal of attention, as do the hundreds of other war relics shown
in the great colUvtion, the latter being gnm])ed according to ])eriods, so as to show the history
of the state from its earliest settlement in 1585 down to the present time. A complete list
of the Hags is appended, which the writer made after a personal inspection of every flag.
Supposed to be the Flag of the 12th Regiment North Carolina Infantry
No date of capture given
All the flags are what are known as battle flags, except four, the battle flags being square
in shape, of solid red bunting, with cross-bars and with stars thereon of white. In almost
every case the regiment is painted in yellow above the center star and with the letters "N.
C." below the star. Unless mention is made otherwise, all the flags described are of the battle
flag class. The following is the list:
First Regiment. Captured May 12. 1864. by Private D. W. Harris, Company B, One
Hundred and Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, in the charge of the Second Army Corps
on the morning of that da)'. The names of the folli;)wing battles appear on the flag, being
marked in stencil, in black letters; Winchester, No. 2, Gettysburg, Boonesboro, Sharpsburg,
Fredericksljurg, Chancellorsville, Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill.
Fourth Regiment. No inscription as to its fate. Names of battles: Seven days around
Richnion<l, First and Second Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, first and second Maryland
campaigns, Spotsyh'ania, Valley campaign, Seven Pines.
Battle Flag, Sixth North Carolina Regiment. Captured at Rappahannock Station. Va.,
May 7, 1S63, by James H. Littlefield, Company F, Fifth Maine Volunteers.
Sixth Regiment. Captured at Sailor's Creek, April 6, 1865, by Prixatc James Kimball,
Comjnuiy B, Second Regiment West Virginia Cavalry. No in.scription showing battles.
Seventh Regiment. Capttired at Gettystivirg, July 3, 1865, by Private John E. Mayberry.
C"om]iany 1", First Delaware Regiment. Names of battles: Newbem, Hanover, Mechanics-
\-ille, Cold Harbor, Frazicr's Farm, Malvern Hill, Cedar Run, Manassas Junction, Manassas
Plains, 0.\ Hill, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Shepherdstown, Fredericksburg, Wilderness,
Chancellorsville.
Twelfth Regiment. No inscription as to how taken, and no names of battles, the flag
being very badly mutilated.
Flag carried by the 46th Regiment North Carolina Volunteers
This flag has been all shot away excepting the red field shown.
No date of capture given.
Thirteenth Regiment. No statement as to fate. Names of battles: Cold Harlior
Mahrni Hill, South Mountain, Sliarpshurg. Fredericksliurp;, Chanccnnrsvillc.
Thirteenth Regiment. Cantureil May (i. 1804, by Sergeant S. Wrought, Conijianv .\,
One Hundred and Forly-lirst Pennsylvania Regiment. Names of battles: WiUianisburg,
Seven I'ines Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, South Mountain Sharpsburg, Fredcrieksburg,
Chancellors ville.
Sixteenth Regiment. Captured at Gettysburg. .Inly .3, bSGS, by fourteen Connecticut
volunteers. Names of battles: Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Frazier's Farm.
Cedar Rim, Manassas, Ox Hill, Harjier's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Shephcrdstown, Chancellors-
ville, Fredericksburg.
Eighteenth Regiment. Captured May 21, 1864, by Lieutenant A. H. Mitchell, One
Hnndn-d ,nul I'iflh Pennsylvania. Names of battles; Hanover, Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor,
Fra/.ier's I'arni, Malvern Hill, Cedar Rim, Manassas Junction, Manassas Plains, Ox Hill,
Harper's Ferr\-. .Sharps! ung, Shejiherdstown, Frederick.sburg, Wilderness, Chaneellorsville.
Eighteenth Regiment. CaiUured at Mahern Hill, July 20, 1864, by Private Timothy
Connors, Com])any E, First United States Cavalry. Names of battles: Hanover, Mechan-
icsville, Cold Harbor, Frazier's Farm, Cedar Run, Malvern Hill, Manassas Junction, Man-
assas Plains, Ox Hill, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsbur.s;, Shephcrdstown, Chaneellorsville,
FrcdericksVnirg.
Eighteenth Regiment. Captured near Petersburg, April 2. 1865, l)v Private Frank
Fe.si|, Company .\, Fortieth New Jersey. Names of battles: Wilderness. Chaneellorsville,
Gettysliing I'alling Waters, Cedar Run, Manassas Junction. Manassas Plains, O.x Hill,
Harper's Ferry, Shejiherdstown, Fredericksburg, Sharpsburg, Hanover, Mechanicsville,
Cold Harbor, Frazier's Farm, Malvern Hill.
Twenty-second Regiment. Captured by Private McDonough, Forty-second New
York. Names of l.iattles: Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Frazier's Farm,
Cedar Run, Manassas, Ox Hill. Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Shephcrdstown, Fredericks-
burg, Chancellor.sville.
Twenty-third Regiment. Caiiture.l by Second Division, First Army Corps, at Gettys-
bin-g, July 2, 186:5. Names of battles: Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, South Mountain,
Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Sharpsbur.g, F'rederieksburg.
Twenty-fourth Regiment. Captured August 21, 1S04, liy Private J. A. Reed, Eleventli
Pennsylvania. ■ Nn names of battles.
Twenty-fourth Regiment. Captured by Private Da\id Edwards, One Hundred and
Forty-sixth New York Volunteers, April 1, 1865, in battle. No names of battles.
Twenty-sixth. Captured by Sergeant Alonzo Smith, Seventh Michigan, at Hatcher's
Run, October 27, 1804. Xo names of battles.
Twenty-eighth Regiment. Captured by Corporal J. M. Condig, Company A, Sixtv-
third Pennsylvania, May 12, 1S64. Names of battles: Hanover, Mechanicsville, Cold
Harbor, Frazier's Farm, Malvern Hill, Cedar Run, Manassas Junction. Manassas Plains,
Ox Hill. Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Shejiherdstown, Fredericksburg, Wilderness, Chan-
eellorsville.
Twenty-eighth Regiment. No statement as to fate. Names of liattles: Hanover,
.Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Frazier's Farm, Malvern Hill, Cedar Rim, Manassas Junction,
Manassas Plains, Ox Hill, Harper's Ferry, Shepherdstown, Frederickslivirg, Sharpsburg,
Wilderness, Chaneellorsville, Gettysburg, Falling Waters.
Thirtieth Regiment. No statement as to fate. Names of battles: Seven days around
Richmond, first and second Fredericksburg, Chaneellorsville, first and second Maryland
campaigns.
Thirtieth Regiment. No statement as to fate. Names of battles: Seven days around
Richmond, first and second Fredericksburg, Chaneellorsville, first and second Maryland
campaign. (Right side of flag damaged, part being apparently cut away, also part of lower
right section of cross removed. One inscription which was painted on a slip of cjoth sewed
to the flag has faded, and is illegible.)
Thirtieth Regiment. Captvired May 12, 1864, at the Wilderness. Names of battles:
Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Boonesboro, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg.
Thirty-third Regiment. Captured by First Sergeant J. Kemp, Company A, Fifth
Michigan, May 6, 1864. Names of battles: Newbern, Hanover, Mechanicsville, Cold
Harbor, Manassas Plains, Ox Hill, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Frazier's Farm, Malvern
Hill, Cedar Rim. Manassas Junction, Shepherdstown, Fredericksburg, Wilderness, Chan-
cellors\ille.
Thirty-fourth Regiment. No statement as to fate. Names of battles: Mechanics-
ville, Cold Harbor, Frazier's Farm, Cedar Run, Manassas, Ox Hill, Harper's Ferry, Sharps-
burg, Shepherdstown, Fredericksburg, Chancellors\'ille.
Thirty-fourth Regiment. No statement as to fate. No names of battles. Thirteen
stars of white in a blue field. Red, white and red bars.
Thirty-eighth Regiment. No statement as to fate. Names of battles: Cedar Run,
Manassas, ( )x Hill, Cold Harbor, Frazier's Farm, Harper's Ferry, Sharp.sburg, Shepherds-
town, Fredericksburg, Chaneellorsville.
Thirty-ninth Regiment. No statement as to fate. Names of battles: Murfreesboro,
Jackson, Chickamauga. These names are cut from white cloth and sewed on. The border
of the flag ne.xt to the staff is of home-made canvas. The name of the regiment is given
rather oddlv, as the Thirtv-ninth, "N. C. I.," the usual designation of regiments bein,g
"N. C. T."'
Forty-fifth Regiment. Captured by Fifty-sixth Pcnnsj'lvania Volunteers, August
17, 1864, in battle near Globe Farm, on the Weldon Railway, near Petersburg. No names
of battles.
Forty-sixth Regiment. No statement as to fate. No names of battles. This is
merely the field of a State flag, the remainder having in some way been destroyed. The
inseri])tion is: "May 20, 1775, May 20, 1861," with a large white star between the inscrip-
tions, and liclow them the words: Forty-sixth Regiment, N. C. V. The staff of this flag
is shown. To it the flag was tied by a piece of shoe string and two pieces of twine.
Forty-seventh Regiment. No statement as to fate. No names of battles. This is
also a State flag. The inscription is: "May 20, 1775; May 20, 1861." On a red field
with a white star between the inscriptions the remainder of the flag being a blue bar and
a white one. On the lower part appears: "Forty-seventh Regiment, N. C. V."
Forty-seventh Regiment. Captured by Sergeant Daniel Murphey, Nineteenth Massa-
chusetts Regiment, at the battle of Hatcher's Run, October 2, 1864. No names of battles.
Fifty-second Regiment. Captured at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. No naines of battles.
Battle Flag, Fifty-Fourth North Carolina Regiment, on part of staff roughly made
of wood, this flag being uniiiue in having only twelve stars instead of the official thirteen.
The War Department sends no statement as to the fate of this flag, but written with ink
upon the fold of the flag around the staff are these words: "J. C. Gaunt, Company G., 104
O. V. I."
Col. F. a. Olds,
Director of the Hall of History.Raleigh, N. C.
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