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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 

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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 
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Under   Sentence  of  Death. 
Union    Officer's    Comment . 


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V.  Conunander.  Indian  Territory   Division 2G1, 

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    


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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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273 

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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 


152 
31S 
5 1 B 
I7G 
3  (J 
27S 

31  a 

235 
424 
234 
517 


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 


2S1 
2S1 
374 
234 
S4 
234 

•JOO 

576 
244 
467 
276 


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.    .\ . 


.  .  .  .      3S 

574 

176,  240 

467 

39 

136 

244 

320 


32(1 
323 


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 


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AUTilOI4S. 


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Anderson,    K.    P 
A.shby,     T.     A.. 


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Ilattcn,    R.    X 

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liehan,  Mrs.  W.  J.  . 

lUrdson.   J.   C 

I'.rti'ki'nridge,    (i.    W 
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lirtnva.  \V. 
lironn.  'I'. 
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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 

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Cmmnins.    J.    .\ 

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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 

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I'Managan.    W.    A 123.  250 

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Gerald,    Florenei' 

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Goodman. 

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Grant.     F. 

Grirtin.    1>. 

Greenwood.    Albert .  . . 

Grimih.   F.   M 

Gnlhrey.    D.    M 

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Long.   W.   M 491 

Lott.   Jesse  B 416 

Lowry.    Robt 159 

Lmnpkin.     Elizabeth 29.S 

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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 


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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 


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Osborne.    Thos.    D  «^    19". 
Overley    .Milford..^" 
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Park.    R.    E 

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Perry.     II.     H 

Perry.    \V.   Kemp 

Potts.   J.   N 

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Priehard.    Mrs.    W.    B.  .  .  . 


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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 


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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," 


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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 


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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. 


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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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Qopfederate  l/eterap. 


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 
1* 


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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Qopfederate  l/eterar>. 


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, 


Qoijfederate  l/eterap. 


11 


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." 


12 


Qoi>federate  l/eterap. 


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. 


Qoi^federate  l/eterap. 


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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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Qopfederat^  l/eterap 


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. 


Qopfederat^  l/ecerai). 


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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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Qor>federate  l/eteraj). 


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." 


Qopfederate  l/eterai). 


17 


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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Qopfederate  Uetcrap. 


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. 


Qopfcderati^  l/eteraij. 


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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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Confederate  l/eterap. 


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 


Confederate  l/eterap. 


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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 


Qopfederate  Ueterap. 


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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 


Qoi?federat^  l/eterar). 


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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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Qopfederat^  l/etera:) 


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, 
1862.  - 

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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Qoi}federat^  l/eteraij. 


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- 


Qopfederat^  l/eterai), 


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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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(Confederate  Ueterap 


"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 


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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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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. 


Qopfedcrat^  l/eterap. 


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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 
speedy  niitl  iiermancut  cure  *»f  *'onsnin]>tion.  Broii- 
<-tiitis.  CaLarrli,  Astluna,  and  nil  Tliroiit  and  Luv.i; 
AlTcctiont.;  also  a  iio^itivo  a. id  ladital  cure  ((  r 
Nervous  Dotiility  nn'l  all  Nervous  Complaints.  ila\- 
iiiK  tc'itcd  its  wonderful  curative  power  in  tl;on- 
eands  of  cases,  a'nl  der.irinif  to  relieve  liuniun  suf- 
ferinrr.  I  v.'ill  send  free  of  charTe  to  all  v.-ho  wir.h  it 
this  recinc.  with  foil  directions  for  J)renariiin  and 
T3Sin/T.  Sent  bv  mail,  bv  adclresKiniT.  with  stcmp. 
liaminc  this  neper.  W.  .\.  Noyes.  Kii  Powers  Dlock. 
Rochester.  N.  Y.  1 


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 
Mason  and  Dixon  line.  Full  extracts 
from  the  game  laws  and  the  exact  loca- 
tion of  the  different  grounds,  with  hotel 
rates  at  near-by  points,  and  special  di- 
rections and  exact  information  pertain- 
ing to  the  kind  of  game  sought,  art 
given  in  miiiute  detail.  On  the  front 
cover  is  shown  in  characteristic  pose 
a  picture  of  ex-President  Grover  Cleve- 
land, with  gun  in  hand,  dressed  in  regu- 
lation hunting  costume,  about  to  fire 
at  a  flock  of  ducks  resting  on  the  water 
near  by.  On  the  reverse  cover  appears 
the  picture  of  Joseph  Jefferson,  the  vet- 
eran actor,  with  a  fishing  rod  in  hand, 
engaged  in  his  favorite  pastime.  Both 
of  these  pictures  are  used  by  special 
permission  ;  Mr.  Jefferson's  was  secured 
first,  and  when  Mr.  Cleveland  was  told 
that  Joseph  Jefferson's  picture  would 
appear  on  one  side  he  remarked  that 
he  could  stand  it  if  Jefferson  could. 
The  engravings  and  half-tones  are  ably 
executed,  and  are  of  a  nature  to  fire  the 
blood  of  the  hunters  and  fishermen. 

Copies  can  be  had  at  the  City  Ticket 
Office  of  the  Southern  Railway,  lii  West 
Ninth  Street.  Call  or  write  J.  E.  Ship- 
ley, T.  P.  A.,  Chattanooga,  Tenn. 


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- 
int^  of  the  1-th  day  I  removed  the  cancer  from 
my  hand  and  it  is  well.  It  is  now  about  four 
months  since  it  healed  up. 

Yours  truly,  L.  S.  Newman, 

Pleasant  Grove,  Tex. 

There  is  absolutely  no  need  of  the  knife,  or 
burning  ]>laster.  no  need  of  pain  or  disfiprure- 
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soothing  and  balmy,  safe  and  sure.  Write  f"r 
free  book  to  the  Orieinator's  Office,  Dr.  D.  M. 
Bye  Co.,  Box  4ti2,  Dallas,  Tex. 


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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shop  for  patrons  in  and  out  of  New 
York  City,  wishing  to  make  purchases 
of  house  furnishings,  dressmaking,  tai- 
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best  terms  can  be  obtained.  Her  knowl- 
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York  houses  and  their  prices  enables 
her  to  give  her  customers  marked  ad- 
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supervision  given  to  all  orders.  To 
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Mrs.  Hess  extends  her  cooperation  in 
the  way  of  information  or  by  personal 
conduct   through   the   shopping   districts. 


HANCOCK'S  DIARY 
gives  a  faithful  account  of  the  experi- 
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who  was  a  member  of  Bell's  Brigade, 
Buford's  Division,  Forrest's  Cavalry, 
and  it  includes  a  history  of  Forrest's 
command  for  the  last  fifteen  months  of 
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Price,  reduced,  $1.50;  with  the  Veteran 
one  year,  $2. 


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now  valued  at  one  hundred  dollars ; 
also  a  bronze  and  silver  medal  once 
owned  by  her  grandfather   (Robert  F.), 

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From  the  Testimony  of  His  Contemporaries 

By  CHARLES  L.  C.  MINOR,  M.A.,  LL.D, 

Second  Edition.  Revi.'ied  and  Enlarged. 

The  publishers  have  pleasure  in  announcing  a 
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ume is  I'le  result. 

In  explanation  of  the  nature  and  aim  of  the  book 
it  may  be  said  that  its  object  is  to  controvert  the 
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cle of  fame  in  the  catalogue  of  American  heroes. 
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Mr.  Editor:  You  ought  to  tell  your  gray- 
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lege. 905  College  Street.  Jackson.  Mich.  It  took 
nie  about  two  months,  working  evenings  and 
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diploma.  Since  then,  by  pleasant  outdoor 
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from  S3  to  SIO  a  day  fitting  glasses.  1  have  vis- 
ited the  College  since  I  graduated,  and  found 
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in  the  social  and  business  circles  of  Jacks-m. 
Mich.  Hoping  you  will  publish  this,  I  remain, 
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Benjamin  T.  Lanier,  of  Knox  City, 
Tex.,  inquires  if  Col.  Charles  P.  Ball, 
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, 
of  same  regiment. 


EVERYBODY  MUST 
HAVE  4  CALENDAR 


A     STKIKINC;     OXK     ISSl"KI>     FOR 

FKKK  DISTRIBUTION   IJY  THK 

N.,  C.  &  ST.   Li.  KAIIiWAY. 


Calendars  for  the  year  1905  will  soon 
be  in  urgent  demand,  as  they  arc  things 
lo  wliich  everybody  refers  more  or  less 
during  the  course  of  the  year. 

Many  of  the  big  railroads  and  other 
corporations  make  a  practice  of  giving 
them  to  their  customers.  Some  are 
works  of  art,  but  none  are  more  hand- 
some or  better  arranged  for  practical  use 
ilian  the  1905  Calendars  of  the  Nash- 
ville, Chattanooga  &  St.  Louis  Railway. 

This  road  has  for  years  made  it  a 
practice  to  give  all  who  apply  a  Calen- 
ilar.  The  one  to  be  distributed  this 
year  shows  an  improvement  over  all  its 
predecessors,  as  is  to  be  expected  with 
the  experience  that  has  been  had  in 
getting  them  out.  It  is  a  wall  Calen- 
dar on  heavy  paper,  with  tinned  top  and 
bottom  and  an  eyelet  by  which  to  hang 
it.  It  is  about  20x30  inches  in  size,  and 
is  printed  in  several  colors.  The  figures 
are  all  large,  and  the  Sundays  and  holi- 
days are  in  red.  Just  above  each  figure 
is  a  smaller  one,  showing  the  number  of 
days  since  the  first  of  the  year.  This  is 
an  aid  in  calculating  time.  The  months 
are  arranged  down  the  two  sides  of  the 
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with  the  trade-mark  of  the  road  between. 
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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- 
ation are  familiar. 

The  contrast  between  this  famous  loco- 
motive and  the  modern  big  passenger 
engine  is  very  striking. 

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free  on  application  to  W.  L.  Danley, 
General  Passenger  Agent  of  the  Nash- 
ville, Chattanooga  &  and  St.  Louis  Rail- 
way, Nashville,  Tenn. 


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uncle,  Clark  Moore,  served.  He  was  at 
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beginning  of  the  war,  but  left  there  and 
went  to  Fort  Sumter,  where  he  entered 
the  service  of  the  Confederacy.  It  is 
not  known  whether  he  joined  a  Ken- 
tucky or  South  Carolina  regiment.  Re- 
ply can  be  sent  directly  to  her. 


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Qoi?federat<^  Ueterai?. 


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Easi? 

ir  ^O.  TAKE.  THE 


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AIR  LINE  RAILWAY. 


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For  information  as  to  ratet,  reierrt- 
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call  on  your  nearest  ticket  agent  sr 
address 

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firti^At'r,  the  local  paper  of  Fr.inkHn,  V.t.  The  only  other  fvrlilizcr  used  under  the  cotton  was  Home 
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Don't  Poxir  Oil  °U  Fire 

It's  Just  3ls  Foolish 

to  attumpt  to  quench  the  firc-s  of  iliseaso.  to  check  its  on- 
ward Kpread.  by  u.<iiit;  a  stim.ilaijt.  a  mcukiuc.  ])repar:ilic.ii, 
tonic,  or  treatment  that  tlcpcnus  h)r  iis  eiicrts  U]>t>n  an  ar- 
tiiic-ial  stimulant,  either  from  alcoliol  or  other  drups,  a.-*  it 
is  foolith  and  loolliardy  to  pour  co.l  oil  n;i0.i  a  Cicloiiuinih 
tlie  Ibiiics.  lou nouldn't  lie  so  roolish— jron  woo  d  [lity  a  pir- 
R'li  who  would— yet  that  is  .in.st  nhat  jou  ami  thmisamls  of  • 
othensarcdomR  every  day  that  you  pour  into  vour  stom- 
aclus.  that  you  i>ut  into  your  system,  the  drut,-s.  tonics.  tal>- 
li't-s.  powders,  and  coiniK)und.s. m;i(l.'  t«  sc.l.and  to.sellonly. 
Ill  ■)  o   If  serve  lo  Iced  the  lins.  not  to  qiieiirli  liiriu. 

Vit;p-Oro,  Xature'a  own  rcniodj,  offered  on  thirty  days' 
trial  to  every  reader  of  tl)is  pa;>er.  is  not  a  runipdHad.  not  a 
d  i;;:,  not  a  stininlan.!    It  is  umnufactured  in  a  laboratory 
man  neither  controls  nor  directs— Nalnrc's  I.  ■Iinratorj— mi- 
d  r  the  supervision  of  the  Mastorflieinlst— Xature.    Itwas 
and  is  intended  by  her  for  the  stom.nchs  of  men.  to  ciiri'  all 
the  i;is  of  nuinkln  I,    It  does  not  depend  for  its  power  upon 
a  stimulatinsinpredientr-doesnot  build  up  temixirarily,  and  then,  when  its  ef- 
fects r-re  woru  out  and  off.  leave  the  .s\stcm  wnrsp  o.7,'niorc  allre,  than  bt-fore. 
It  builds  uii  a  1 T.  nia;ii  r.l  r:!ro  by  first  layinji  a  prrr.:«ni-:it  foundaunn.  and  then  add- 
ing to  it,  buil.ing  toit.  s!  one  after  stone,  l.-.yer  ujion  layer,  until  the  structure 
is  complete,  at:il  tie  bouv  is  delivered  over  to  the  owner's  poss  -ssiun— Hi  1:1, 
soiinil.  and  heart)  in  every  mu5cle,  vein,  aud  tilx'r.    It's  the  way  all  permanent  structures  are  built:  it's 
th  ■  only  r  cht  n.ni.     Prouur.  il  by  the  s:inc  ImiiKitaMc.  iinrliaDKi  aide,  natur.-.!  I:i\v  that  proluccd  the  hi.ninn 
or?a::lsm  11  ,eir  it  supjilics  to  that  organism  thn  o  elements  winch  in  poor  hc^Kli  are  IpchiriE.  eiements 
that  must  bo  placed  and  retained  i  1  the  s  ,  stem  if  ]jcriuanent  goixl  health  is  to  be  en.joyed,  and  Tita'-Oro 
and  "Vit^e-Oro  only  can  put  and  r  taiu  thorn  th-:re. 
If  you  are  si.  kandaU  nir.  it  you  are  all  run  down,  if  your  organs,  vour  blood,  vour  stomach,  your  heart 
your  kidneys  are  not  worhini;  ri  .ht,  if  job  are  sick  and  do  not  know  whit  is  lie  r.ia.,er  with  yon.  if  the  doctors  can- 
II'  I  and  do  not  t  11  you.  canimt  a;:daonot  holpyou,  jon  ought  to  give  litis  won<Krful.n.itural  mineral  romrily  a  li  lal 
and  thec>.ance  it  needs  t )  prove  all  this  to  you.    It  won't  cost  you  a  penny  I     I  he  nn-rrs  take  all  the  rl  k!    What 
d'  >i-tor,  w]:r-t  hospital,  what  sanitarium  lias  ever  offered  to  treat  you  in  tliis  w.-ivi-    AVhak  other  riedieine  has  ever 
lieeusoofTo-edl'    Von  are  (o  be  both  J.iilee  and  jury,  to  passnpon  II.   You  have  the  enti.o  say-so.  If  it  heliis  you,  you 
))ay  for  it — if  it  does  not  help  you,  you  do  not  pny  f  tr  it.    Cue  package,  rnonir'i  for  a  montli'r.  trial,  is  all  that  is'riec- 
essary  to  convince  you.    TTow  can  ynn  refuse.-    If  you  need  it  and  do  not  send  for  it.  what  is  j o;ir  cxrasrl    You 
ai.' tobo  the.indge!     RF.Vll  OFU  sl'Kl  I  \l,  OITI  It: 


SEJ^T    OJ^   30   2)A>^3'    T'RIA.L 

:By  MAIL.  TOSTTAIiy. 
RE71D  THIS  SPEGITIL  OFFER: 

WEWILL  SEND  toovoiy  sii-k  antl  inliiii;  perw>u  wiio  wriU's  us  nu-iitittnine  tln^ 
CoNKCDERATK  ViiTEaAN,  a  fiiU-sixud  Oiio  Itoll.ir  pa'-l:af;ro  of  Vit»-UiO  by  iii;iil.  post- 
Ii;ihI.  suliirii'ut  f'T  0:10  monlirs  treatment,  to  l.»o  i>aid  for  withiu  ono  m'nnlirs  tinn- 
after  receipt,  if  tborci'oivcr  ran  truthluUv  say  th:it  i'suso  has  done  him  or  In -r  more 
good  than  all  the  druf^sand  don.^s  of  quacks  oi*  j^ood  doctf)rs  or  ]>alent  m-'licines  he 
i»r  sho  has  over  Used.  Ui-nil  tliiRover  again  carefully,  and  understand  that  we  ask 
our  jiay  only  w\\f\  it  has  ilone  you  jfooil,  a:id  n  it  bol'ore.  We  take  all  the  risk;  vou 
luve  nothing  to  loso.  If  it  dot^s  not  l>enefit  you.  you  pay  us  nothing.  VltwKJre  is  a 
natm-jil,  hard,  adamantine,  r(n-Ulike  snbstanei.*— mineral— (ire  — mined  Irom  the 
^ii'cuiid  liko  ^old  and  silver,  and  requires  about  twenty  years  for  oxidization.  It 
e<  'Utaius  fri»e  iron,  free  sulphur,  and  ina::nesiuui.  and  one"  pack  lire  will  equal  in  me- 
dicinal strenjjth  aud  curative  va'ue  SiHlj3;nllons  of  tlio  most  powerful.  eCicacions  min- 
eral water  drunk  frcshat  tbL^sjirin-rs.  It  isai^eokv^ical  disc4>very-  to  whir-h  nothiuff 
is  addi'd  and  from  which  nothmt;  is  taken.  It  is  the  marvel  of  the  century  for  cur- 
iuir  such  di-ease-s  as  IthoiimntiMiu  Itrighfs  Plspase.  IMond  I'ldsoninfr,  lltavt  TroulMe. 
D.- ipsy,  Catar;li  an;!  Throat  Affect hms,  I. Ivor,  Ki.lnrjr.  ami  Blndilrr  AihmntM,  Stomach 
anl  Krmalo  Disordor'i,  l.n  Grl:>:>e«  T-Ialarial  Fevrr,  \crvoa.s  Prostration,  and  (■  iicral  De- 
li''It  r,  as  thousands  t^'stify,  and  as  no  one.  answerinirthis.  writing*  for  ajnickaiTO.  will 
d  '!iy  a' t  'r  using.  Vit  '.'-((re  has  <-ured  more  clirouic.  obstinate,  jirononnoed  incura- 
blo  cns.-s  th:in  any  other  known  medi  ine,  and  will  reach  such  cases  with  a  more 
rai>id  a;id  jiowertul  curative  a<'t ion  than  any  medicine,  combination  of  metUcines, 
or  ih  let-  jr's  prescript  ions  which  it  is  ix^s  -ible  to  procure. 

\i;:M>rc  widdo  thesam^foryoti  asithaad  ne for  hundreds  of  readei-s  of  the  Cox- 
FKDERATK  Vereuan.  If  you  wiU  givo  it  a  triril.  Sen!  fur  a  $1  packafro  at  our  rUk. 
You  have  notliing  to  lose  but  the  stamp  to  answer  this  announcement.  >Ve  want  no 
o  ic'siiio  ley  w'l  >m  Vit:v-(>re  cannot  henttll.  Von  are  to  l»e  the  Judnrrl  Can  anything  be 
more  fair?  What  sensible  person,  no  matter  bow  prejudiced  he  or  she  may  bo,  who 
d  Mires  aoure,  and  is  wiUin'r  to  i)ay  for  it.  would  htvitato  to  try  Vitip-t)r*e  on  this 
liberal  oCi  .n*:-'  One  packarrc  is  usually  sufficient  to  cure  ordinary  cases;  two  or  three 
for  chronic,  ohstiuate  eas:?s.  '*Vo  ni:-a:i  just  what  ue  sny  in  this  announcement,  a^id 
will  do  just  wliat  \vo:i'T/ee.  Write  to-day  for  aimcka-ro  at  our  ri^k  and  expanse,  giv- 
\'vr  yourn-re  on  1  ailments,  and  mont'ou  the  Confederate  Vetkras.so  we  may  know 
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 
known  and  advertise  it.  This  nbotorranb  was  taken  on  my 
ciiihtieth  anniversary.      O.  F.  IircLL.  Menominee,  Micb. 

eURED  OP  lATDIGESTiaJV, 
BAQKneHE,  and  HEART FLUTTERiNC, 

I  have  recfived  a  preat  and  lasting  bf-nefli,  from  n«ini:  Vi- 
tiv<  >,-...     v.-f  .yo  I  had  taken  it  f-r  a  full  riontli  it  bar}  rlone 
me  niore  C0...I  than  HnvtiiiniK  else    1 
bn'l    \\sr(\    cliiring  mv    long   <;ptll    of 
RieknesB.  and  J  had  nso.l  otbertrent- 
ments  for  a   long:  time.     It  bns    re- 
lievnd    me    of    rlieUKLitism.  clironic 
<li  rest  ion,    baekache,    and    bf-r.rt 
itiUtcrhifT.     Nothine  I  eat  now  (ii;a- 
'f!!  uifb  me.    and  my  wrir^bt  has 
■irasrti  considerahlv.     V/hen  I  be- 
I    nsinc    Vit.T-Ore    I    w.t^    miu-h 
acintcd   and  weicbeil   only  n'lout 
110  or  ll.">  pounds,  and  I  now  weicb 
nlioul  i:.0.    I  f  (1  as  tboiifrb  I  was  a 
livinc   advertisement  of  tbe   power 
of  this  remedy.    Many  of  mv  friends 
have  used    Vitn'-Ore.  and    they   all 
_  join  me  iniir.-'i'-.iniE  it. 
.MRS.  bCLA  (i.  \yALTCRS.  LatJrance.  N.  C. 


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— ; — ,  : — — ,  .  ,    . ,    .    , altcrwards  the  ^rrati.u.le.  ol   every  living  i-orson   who  dcsiivs 

b'.t  -r  heaU'i.orwii  1  suUcr  i  pains,  ilU,  an  I  di  ;eas.-s  wliich  ha  vo  defied  the  medical  worl  land  prown  wors^  with  a-^o.   We  care  not  for  your 
skepticism,  Imt  ask  only  your  investigati<ui.  and  at  our  expense,  regardless  of  what  ills  yon  have  bv  sendin"  to  u-^  for  a  packa-^o 


THEO.  NOEL  CO., 


Veteran   Dept., 
VilaLe-Ore  Building, 


CHICAGO. 


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ties New  sections  of  the  country  are  being  opened  up,  still  newer  machmery  is  being  mtroduced,  new  markets  and  neiy  uses 
for  our  metals  are  being  discovered  and  encouraged.  It  is  a  vast  system  of  progression,  yet  one  m  which  the  supply  is  not 
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Official  Date  for  Louisville  Reunion,  June  14,  15,  16. 


Vol.  13 


NASHVILLE,  TBNN.,  FEBRUARY,  1905 


No.  a 


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In  an  address  delivered  before  the  Southern  Historical  Society  at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  February  i8,  1S74,  Senator 
lien  II.  Mill,  of  (Jeoriii.i.  iiaid  (he  fo11o\viii<;  most  worthv  tribute  to  General  Lee: 

When  ihc  future  historian  comes  to  survey  the  character  of  Lee,  he  will  find  it  rising  like  a  huge  mountain  above  the 
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tuc  of  other  great  commanders  without  their  vices.  He  was  a  foe  without  hate,  a  friend  without  treachery,  a  soldier  with' 
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Confederated  Sovtjiern  M£.mor;al  Association. 

The  Veteran  is  approved  and  indorsed  ofHci.allv  bv  a  larger  and  more 
elevated  patronage,  doubtless,  than  any  other  publication  in  existence. 

Though  men  deserve,  they  may  not  win  success; 

The  brave  will  honor  the  brave,  vanquished  none  the  less. 


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NASHVILLE,  TENN.,  FEBRUARY,  1905. 


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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Qoofederate  l/eterap. 


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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Confederate  Ueterai}. 


(Confederate  l/eteraQ. 

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. 


C^opfederate  l/eterar;. 


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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, 
Carolina ! 


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Qopfederate  Ueterap. 


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. 


Qoofederate  l/eterai). 


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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. 


^oofederate  l/etcrap 


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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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QoF)federate  l/eterap, 


"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 
9** 


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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Qopfederate  l/eterarj. 


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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C;opfederate  l/eterai}, 


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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Confederate  l/eterai?. 


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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Qoi>federat(^  l/eterap. 


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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Qopfederate  l/eterai). 


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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Qoijfederate  l/eteraQ. 


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 


Qoi?federate  l/eterap. 


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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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QoQfederate  l/eterai>. 


"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 


Qopfederate  l/eterap. 


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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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Qoi)federate  l/etcrap. 


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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QoQfederate  l/eterap 


?^i^lf:^Sf 


5.     -'  J'    ''   ; 


"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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85 


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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Confederate  l/eteraij. 


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 


Qopfederate  l/eterai). 


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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. 


uwneiJ  al^L 


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Qopfederat^  l/eterai>. 


"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. 


Qopfederate  l/cterai). 


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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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Qopfederati^  l/eterar?, 


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. 


Qopfederate  l/eterai). 


91 


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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C^oijfederat^  Ueteraij 


A  CURE  FOR  ASTHMA. 

Astlima  ^iiffiT'TJi  need  ii"  lonyer  le;ive  hntne  an<l 
business  in  order  to  be  cured.  N'liture  Ims  produced 
a  vegetable  remedy  that  will  rermnueutly  cure 
Asthma  and  all  diseases  of  tlie  lutigs  and  bronchial 
tubes.  Having  tested  its  wonderfulcurative  powers 
in  thousands  of  cases  {with  a  record  of  90  per  cent 
permanently  CTiredl,  and  desiring  to  relieve  human 
Buifering.  I  will  send  free  of  charge  to  all  sufferers 
from  Asthma,  Consumption,  Catarrh,  iJronchitis, 
and  ner\-ous  disease";,  this  recipe  with  full  direc- 
tions for  prepiiring  and  using.  Sent  bv  mall.  Ad- 
dress with  stamp,  natiiing  this  paper.  W.  .\.  Xoves. 
847  Powers  Block.  R..ehestcr   N.  Y.  '    2: 


TO    THE   IIEST  AXO  SOUTH- 
WEST, CALIFORNIA,  ETC. 

Best  reached  via  Mis.souri  Pacific  Ky. 
cr  Iron  Mountain  Route  from  St.  Louis. 
Cairo,  or  Memphis.  Greatly  reduced 
one-way  Colonist  rates  on  February  21 
and  March  21,  1905.  to  Arkansas,  Texas. 
Indian  and  Oklahoma  Territories,  and 
numerous  points  in  other  Western 
States.  Great  opportunities  for  the 
home  seeker  and  investor.  Home  seeker 
round-trip  tickets  on  sale  every  first  and 
third  Tuesdays  of  each  month,  limited 
tvventy-cne  days.  Lands  are  cheap,  rates 
are  low.  Cheap  round-trip  rates  now  in 
effect  to  winter  resorts  of  the  West  and 
Southwest.  Liberal  limits  and  stop- 
over privileges.  Daily  through  Stand- 
ard Pullman  sleepers  from  St  Louis,  via 
Missouri  Pacific  Ry.  or  Iron  Mountain 
Route;  also  personalis  conducted  tour- 
ist sleepers  Tuesdays,  Thursdays,  and 
Saturdays  to  California  without  change. 
Descriptive  literature,  map  folders,  etc., 
furnished  free.  For  particulars,  rates, 
etc.,  consult  nearest  Ticket  Agent,  or 
address  R.  T.  G.  Matthews,  T.  P.  A., 
Room  301  Norton  Building,  Louisville, 
Ky.  

W.  P.  Jeanes,  of  McGregor,  Te.x.,  in- 
quires for  some  member  of  the  Twen- 
tieth Tennessee  Infantry,  Capt.  Carter's 
company,  who  can  testify  to  the  service 
of  W.  R.  George,  in  order  to  enable  the 
latter  to  get  a  pension.  Comrade  George 
entered  the  service  at  Nolensville,  Tenn. 


P.  F.  Lewis,  of  Aurora,  Tex.,  asks 
what  became  of  Joe  Robinson,  of  Greasy 
Bend,  Witt  County,  and  a  member  of 
the  Fifteenth  Texas  Regiment.  The  last 
known  of  him  he  was  planning  to  escape 
after  the  capture  of  Arkansas  Post,  Jan- 
uary II,  1863. 


"Kalola"  is  a  new  remedy  for  indi- 
gestion in  all  of  its  forms,  and  is  manu- 
factured by  a  Southern  company  of 
Savannah,  Ga.  It  is  always  of  interest 
in  note  the  progress  of  a  -Southern  en 
tcrprise,  and  from  what  is  said  of  Kalola 
by  those  who  use  it  its  success  seems  to 
be  assured. 

A  letter  has  been  received  at  the  Vet- 


eran office  from  M.  R.  Turner,  a  Geor- 
gia veteran,  who  says :  "I  can  recom- 
mend Kalola  to  all  who  suffer  as  I  did, 
.'I lid  particularly  to  my  old  comrades. 
.  .  .  Many  nieinbers  of  our  Camp  use 
it,  and  have  given  their  testimony  to  the 
company." 

Two  letters  have  also  been  read  from 
E.  C.  Young,  Inspector  of  the  Savannah 
Electric  Co.  The  first  letter  describes 
the  relief  had  from  a  trial  of  Kalola, 
and  the  second  letter  says:  "It  has  been 
several  months  since  I  took  Kalola,  and 
I  now  wish  to  say  that  I  am  perma- 
nently cured.  ...  I  can  unhesitating- 
ly say  that  it  is  the  best  remedy  for  wliat 
it  is  recommended  that  I  have  ever 
known." 


Ed  H.  Farrar,  of  Centralia,  Mo.,  has 
some  bound  volumes  of  the  Veteran 
which  he  is  willing  to  dispose  of.  Those 
wishing  to  make  up  a  file  might  write 
hiiii. 


NMSJ 


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War. 

Three  daily  trains  to  Jacksonville  and 
St.  Augustine,  including  the  famous  all- 
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the  luxuriously  appointed  winter  train, 
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HANCOCK'S  DIARY 

gives  a  faithful  account  of  the  experi- 
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who  was  a  member  of  Bell's  Brigade, 
Buford's  Division,  Forrest's  Cavalry, 
and  it  includes  a  history  of  Forrest's 
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Cancer  Cured  by  Auoiuting  with  Oil. 

A  v;ombinatioii  of  soothing  and  halmy  oils  has 
Vieen  discovered  which  readily  cures  all  forms 
of  cancer  and  tumor.  It  is  safe  and  sure,  and 
may  be  used  at  liome  without  pain  or  distitiure- 
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the  oricnnators.  whose  home  offiee  address  is  Dr. 
D.  M.  Bye  Co.,  Box  462,  Dallas,  Tex. 


E.  M.  Pace,  of  Wilson.  N.  C,  is  very 
anxious  to  hear  from  some  member  of 
his  old  company.  B,  of  the  Tenth  Geor- 
gia Cavalry,  commanded  by  Capt.  Smitli 
lie  parted  company  with  them  at  Bur 
lington,  then  known  as  Company  Shops, 
within  twc'ity-tvvo  miles  of  Greensboro, 
when  Johnston's  army  surrendered  tn 
Sherman. 


I".  P.  .Anderson,  of  Waxahachie,  Tcn  , 
corrects  a  statement  on  page  five  of  Jan- 
uary Veteran  that  in  1897  land  in  Ellis 
Cfumty  was  worth  tcn  to  twelve  dollars 
■r  acre-  The  date  should  have  been 
i.'^7o. 


James  K  Womack,  of  Hillsboro,  Tex  . 
makes  inffuiry  for  any  survivors  of 
Company  K.  Fourth  Louisiana  Cavalry. 


J,   MAT  WILLIAMS.  PRESIDENT 

T    J.  HAYS    Vice  Pres  .nd  Treas 

W.  B.  PAUL.  Secretary 

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REAL  ESTATE  BROKERS 

Timber.  MlTieral.  and  Farm  Lands. 

LOANS 

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TEXAS   FRUIT   LANDS 

PRODUCE  EARLY  CROPS   WHICH 
BRING  FANCY  PRICES 


In  Texas  they  begin  shipping  ber- 
ries in  .\pril,  tomatoes  in  May,  peaches 
in  June,  bringing  fancy  prices  up  North. 

The  growing  season  is  much  longer 
than  in  the  North — a  chance  to  make 
two  and  three  crops,  reducing  the  ex- 
pense of  "getting  through"  the  winter 

Fruit  and  truck  lands  along  the  Cot- 
ton Belt  Route  are  very  cheap  as  yet — 
$10  to  $15  an  acre  unimproved.  When 
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made  to  yield  $too  to  $200  per  acre  and 
more. 

Besides,  it's  an  ideal  climate — no  long, 
cold  winters.  Write  for  booklet  on 
fruit-  and  truck-growing. 

W.   <:.  An.VMS,  T.  V.  A. 
Cotton  Ht'lt  Koiite.  >ashville,  Tenn. 


Col.  McNeil's  Regiment,  Harrison's 
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TWO   WARS; 

An   Autobiography  of  Samuel   G.   French, 

CrjduJtcof  VTesI  Point  in  1843.  Liftilemnt  of  Light  Ar^ 

lillery    in    the    United  Slates  Army:    in  the 

Mexican   Vt'ar.  and  Maicr  General  in 

the   Confederate  Army. 

From  diaries  and  notes,  careful- 
1\  kept  tluring-  many  years  of  ac- 
tive niilitarv  ser\ice,  and  diiriii<j 
the  da3s  of  reconstruction.  Pub- 
lished by  the 

Confederate   Veteran, 

Nashville,    Tenn. 


This  book  is  more  th.in  a  charming 
biography  of  a  distinguished  man;  it 
J  is  a  graphic  and  faithful  story  of  the 
Mexican  war,  the  war  between  the 
.•Stales,  ami  the  iii-on^tr\iclion  period,  as  well  as  a  powerful  vindication  of 
the  .South  hv  one  who  was  born,  reared  ami  educated  at  the  North,  but 
wliose  convictions  and  sentiments  early  led  him  to  cast  his  fortunes  Avilh 
the  Confederacy,  and  is,  therefore,  of  especial  historical  value  and  interest 
to  the  people  of  the  South.  The  book  has  been  highly  praised  hv  nianv 
distinguished  men,  and  extracts  from  many  reviews  of  the  work  will  be 
sent  on  request, 

"Two  Wars"  is  issued  in  one  royal  octavo  volume,  bound  in  English 
cloth,  with  cnbossed  side  and  back,  contains  tine  portraits  of  the  author 
and  many  le.uling  characters  in  the  war  between  the  States,  together 
with  engravings  of  battle  scenes,  points  of  interest,  etc.,  of  that  great  strug- 
gle.    It  contains  over  400  p.iges.     Price,  $2. 

Special  Offer:  Kor  $2.50  a  copy  of  "Two  Wars"  and  The  Confeder- 
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the  \'etkram  may  also  renew  on  this  basis. 

Agents  Wanted  for  botli  the  book  and  the  N'etkran,  to  whom  liberal 
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,  READ  a"^  HEED ! 

'*3  A  Last  Opportunity  to  secure  at  a 

1  Bargain  a  Set  of 

/     Rise  and  Fall  of  the 
Confederate  Government. 

BY  PRESIDENT  JEFFERSON  DAVIS, 


JEFFEKSON    DAVIS,    PRES. 

"^^IlERE  has  just  been  purchased  hv  tl'.e  Veteran  the  publishers' 
^L  entire  etlition  of  Mr.  Davis's  "  llise  and  Fall  of  the  Confederate 
Government."  This  closing  out  sale  is  comprised  entirely  of 
the  half-morocco  binding,  with  marble  edges,  and  published  for  $14 
per  set.  The  purchase  of  this  entire  stock  was  on  such  favorable 
terms  that  the  Veterax  will  supply  them  at  half  price,  the  cost  of 
transportation  added — $7.65.  The  two  volumes  contain  over  fifteen 
hundred  pages  and  thirty-seven  fine  steel  engravings  and  map  plates, 
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This  book  is  famous  in  many  ways.  Through  generations  of  the  future  it  will  be  accepted  as  the  authentic  history 
of  the  South  in  the  crisis  of  the  sixties.  No  other  will  assume  to  rival  it.  Argument  in  behalf  of  its  inestimable  value 
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9-FOOT   COTTON   STALKS  IN  VIRGINIA 

Among  the  many  strong  evidences  of  the  great  '.aluc  of  "Cereallte,"  we  cut  the  followino;  from  the 
Gniphic,  the  local  paper  of  Franklin,  V.i.  The  onjy  other  fertilizer  used  under  the  cotton  was  Home 
Fertilizer.  ,  ,  .  ,  ,    ^ 

From  the  FranMin  (Fa.)  Graphic:  "Mr.  Albert  Sidney  Johnson  is  not  only  a  pood  peanut  buyer  but 
an  expert  farmer.  This  latter  fact  is  fuHv  demonstrated  by  an  exhibition  of  his  cotton  crop  at  the 
Graphic  office  this  week.  There  are  two  stalks,  one  9  feet  high  with  60  bolls,  the  other  5  feet,  10  inches, 
with  125  bolls,  many  additio  al  blooms  on  eacli  stalk.  Who  can  beat  this?  The  fertilizer  used  was 
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9-FOOT   COTTON   STALKS   IN  VIRGINIA 


AmoiifT  the  many  strong  evidences  of  the  great  value  of  "Cerealile,"  we  cut  the  following  frnin  the 
Graphic,  the  local  paper  of  Franklin,  Va.  The  only  other  fertilizer  used  under  the  cotton  was  Home 
Fertilizer. 

From  i/if  Franklin  {Va.)  Graphic:  "Mr.  Albert  Sidney  Johnson  is  not  only  a  g^ood  peanut  buyer  but 
an  expert  farmer.  This  latter  fact  is  fully  demonstrated  by  an  exhibition  of  his  cotton  crop  at  the 
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AnOld  and  Well-TrJed  Remedy. 

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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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QoQfederate  l/eterap. 


Qo^federate  l/eterap. 

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 


Confederate  l/eterap. 


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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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Qopfederate  l/eterai)e 


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. 


Qoi>federate  l/eteraij. 


105 


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 
2* 


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 


106 


Qoijfederate  l/cterai^. 


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. 


Qopfederate  l/eterai>. 


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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- 
sistant   .\diutant  General." 


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(Confederate  l/eterap. 


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 


C^oi>federate  l/eterai>. 


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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 


110 


Confederate  l/eterai>. 


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. 


Qopfederate  l/eterap. 


HI 


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." 


Qopfederati^  l/eterap. 


11:1 


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 


Qoi)federate  l/eterap. 


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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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Qopfederatc  l/eterai). 


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. 


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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 — 


Qopfederat(^  l/eterai> 


121 


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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Qopfederate  Ueterai>. 


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 


JEN.    JOS.    E.   JOHNSTON. 


GEN.    W.   J.    HAKDEE. 
From  photographs  made  before  the  Confederate  War. 


GEN.    ALBERT    SIDNEY   JOHNSTON. 


Qopfederate  l/eterap. 


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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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(Confederate  l/e'2rap. 


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. 


Qopfederate  l/eterap. 


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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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Qoi>federat(^  l/eterar?. 


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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LIEUT.  GEN.  LEONIDAS  POLK.  MAJ.  GEN.  B.  F.  CHEATHAM. 


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BRIG.  l^LN.  o.  \\'.  GORDON. 


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. 


Qopfederate  l/eterai>. 


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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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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. 


133 


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." 


134 


Qopfederate  l/etcraij. 


?;->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. 


Qopfederat^  l/eterai). 


135 


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. 


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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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OATABBH  CAN  BE  CTTBED. 

Catarrh  Is  a  kindred  ailment  of  Consumption,  long 
considered  incurable:  and  yet  there  Is  one  remedy 
that  will  positively  cure  Catarrh  in  any  of  its  staees. 
For  many  years  this  remedy  was  used  by  the  late 
Dr.  Stevens,  a  widely  noted  authority  on  all  dis- 
eases  of  the  throat  and  lunes.  Havine  tested  its 
wonderful  curative  prtwerp  in  thnusanas  of  capes, 
and  desiring  to  relieve  human  suffering.  I  will  send, 
free  of  charge,  to  all  sufferers  from  Catarrh,  Asth- 
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with  full  directions  for  preparing  and  using.    Sent 

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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, 
as  very  few  in  my  profession  are  able 
to  lay  up  for  old  age,  now,  while  I  have 
the  means,  I  will  pay  for  several  years 
in  advance.  If  I  live  till  my  subscrip- 
tion expires,  I  hope  to  be  able  to  renew 
it.  If,  however,  I  should  answer  tlie 
'Last  Roll"  before  it  does,  those  I  leave 
behind  can  enjoy  it.  After  more  than 
forty  years.  I  feel  as  fully  satisfied  of 
the  righteousness  and  justice  of  our 
cause  as  I  did  in  April.  1861,  when,  a 
boy  of  eighteen,  I  buckled  on  my  arms 
in  defense  of  my  beloved  Southland." 


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 
Virginia  Regiment  of  Infantry,  captured 
Gen.  Heckman,  and  the  General  sur- 
rendered his  sword  and  pistols  to  Col. 
C.  C.  Flowerree,  of  the  Seventh  Vir- 
ginia, who  now  resides  at  Vicksburg, 
Miss," 


J.  M,  Spencer,  of  Berkeley,  Cal.,  would 
like  to  liear  from  his  old  bunk  mate  at 
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- 
cer made  his  escape  from  that  death 
trap.  Tillinghurst  served  in  the  Arkan- 
sas cavalry,  and  was  captured  at  Cham- 
pion Hill,  Miss.,  in  May,  1862. 


J.  B.  Steen,  an  inmate  of  the  Confed- 
erate Home  at  Sweet  Home,  Ark.,  de- 
sires to  hear  from  some  of  his  ohl 
comrades.  He  writes  that  he  was  born 
in  Marlborough  County,  S.  C,  and  was 
mustered  into  the  Confederate  service 
July  20,  1861,  with  Capt.  Fairlee's  Com- 
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.: 
"Who  can  tell  me  what  Confederate 
scout  was  in  the  advance  of  Gen.  John 
H.  Morgan  when  he  arrived  at  Greene- 
ville,  Tenn.,  September  3,  1864,  the  day 
before  his  death?  This  scout  (possibly 
Binnion's)  arrived  in  Greeneville  at 
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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Texas  Rangers,  and  was  with  Gen.  For- 
rest. He  said  he  had  one  daughter  liv- 
ing in  Texas.  I  should  like  to  locate 
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Confederate  Mining  Co. 

INCORPORATED  UNDER  THE  LAWS  OF  ARIZONA 

Capital  Stock.  $1,000,000 
Par  Value.    $10  Per  Share 

NOW  SELLIISG  AJ  -  -  .  $2  P£R  StlARt 

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Ten  of  the  richest  copper  claims  in   the  famous  r  inera! 
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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, 

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lislicd  liy  the 

Confederate   Veteran, 

Nashville,    Tenn. 


This  book  is  more  lh;m  .a  rliarniing 
liiography  of  a  distinguished  man;  it 
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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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ocean. 

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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 
remedies,  follows  her  own  means,  and  it  is  foolhardy  and  danger- 
ous to  atlmipt  to  rhniige  her. 

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 
be  combated  successfully.    In  Vit-ie-Ore 

NATURE  HAS  PROVIDED  A  CURE 

A  cure  as  sure,  as  certain,  as  regular  in  its  action  as  the  tides  of 
the  ocean,  and  she  guides  its  course,  directs  its  work  in  the  human 
system,  by  the  same  immutable,  unchangeable  laws  as  she  guides 
the  waters  of  the  mighty  deep.  She  has  in  VitJB-Ore  the  most 
wimderi'ul  creatinu  of  wliicli  man  tn-ilay  has  knouledce.  combined 
the  subtle  elements  of  iron,  sulphur,  and  magnesium,  elements 
which  bold  the  same  imexplainable  attraction  for  disease  as  the 
moon  holds  for  the  tides,  and  combined  them  in  a  manner  of  her 
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 
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^        TROUBLE. 

APPFTITE  GOOD  — CAN  EAT  ANYTHING. 

1  have  had  Stomach  Trouble  for  twenty- 
five  years  and  Kidney  Trouble  for  ten  years. 
1  suffered  with  Cramps  at  night  so  bad  that 


I  would  have  to  rub  my  legs  and  walk  the 
floor  to  get  them  straightened  out  as  many 
as  four  or  tive  times  a  nitiht.  Since  using 
Vitte-Ore  my  stomach  is  all  right,  my  appe- 
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Kidney  Trouble  is  cured  and  the  Cramps 
are  a  thing  of  the  past.  Every  suffering 
mortal  Bhould  give  it  a  triaL 

J.  M.  Carr,  Kenton,  Ohio. 


Address 


THEO.  NOEL  CO.,  Veteran  Department,  Vitse-Ore  Building,  CHICAGO. 


Vol.  13 


NASHVII.I,B,  Thy  J.,         ^ri.,  1905 


No.  4 


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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. 


Qopfederate  l/eterap. 


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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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Qoijfederate  l/ctcrai}. 


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. 


Qoi>federat<^  l/eterar), 


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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 


^.  M\ 

HiSI  SMpPs^^ 

'*^>msm 

'"   '^^^^^s^Hflt^''  "^■'' 

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. 


HON.    J.    H.    REAGAN. 


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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. 


Qoi>federac^  l/eterai). 


15'< 


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" 


IGU 


Confederate  Ueterai?. 


Confederate  l/eterai). 

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," 


Qoijfederafe  l/eterap 


i«i 


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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Confederate  l/eterap. 


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 


Qopfederat^  \/eterai>, 


105 


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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Qopfederat^  V/eterap 


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- 


168 


(;;^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 


C^oi>federa t^  l/eteraij. 


169 


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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Qoofederate  l/eterap. 


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 


Confederate  l/eterai). 


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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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t^WiS^^^ 

Z^^^^''^y^^^^^^^£''l-\^n2r<.^ 

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- 
alrv. 


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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 
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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. 
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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 
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OrCU  I  AbLCa  rorcat&log. arodM 
wonted,  COCLXSEOPZlCAliGUC"         "' 


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SOUTHERN  PACIFIC 

SUNSET   ROUTE 

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Sunset  Express 

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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. 

HOUSTON.  TEXA3  HOUSTON,  TEXAS  NEW  ORLEANS,  LA. 


Hours  Saved 

BY  TAKING  THE 


PnWn 

fROUTE 


TO  THE 


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PULLMAN  SLEEPING  CARS, 

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ELECTRIC  LIGHTS,  ELECTRIC  FANS, 

RECLINING  CHAIR  CARS 

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,, 

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Eaji? 

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For  information  ai  to  ratet,  reicm- 
eioni,  descriptive  advertising  matter, 
call  on  your  nearest  ticket  agrat  ai 
address 

WILLIAM  B.  CLEMENTS.  T.  P.  A.. 

Atlanta,  Ga. 


CKaj-lu  B.  R-yaji, 

Q.  P.  A., 

POBTBHOUTH,  Vi. 


W.  E.  Ckriati«.a, 

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Atlanta,  Qa. 


EVAMSVILLL-^TERRE  HAUTE  RR- 


TO  THE 

NORTH 

NEW  ORL^ANS^i 


CHICAGO 


DANVILLE 


TERRE  HAUTE 
"  VINCpNNES 
g  EVANSVILLE 

NASHVILLE 

emMlNGHAM 

MOtHTCOMERY 


MOBILE 


THROUGH  SERVICE 

VIA 

L.  &  N.,  E.  &  T.  H.  and  C.  &  E.  I. 


2Vestibuled  Through  Trains  Oai'y     O 
NASHVILLE  TO  CHICAGO    ^ 
THROUGH  SLEEPERS  and  DAY  COACHES 
NEW  ORLEANS  TO  CHICAGO 

DINING  CARS  SERVING  ALL   MEALS   EN   ROUTE 

D.  H.  HILLMAN,  0.  P  A..     S.  L  ROGERS,  Oee.  Ajt 

EVANSVILLE.    IND.  NASHVILLE.   TENN. 


Confederate  l/eterai). 


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•tratrtl  book  of  instructions  showing  liow  to  iimlio 
tlio  liifTcient  pattcfnR  of  luce,  n  set  of  bobbins,  lun' 
liatterns,  and  snjnple  Inc  ^•.  Om  -■  |rarnc<l,  tlio  ait 
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CHATTANOOGA 

AND 

NASHVILLE 

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arriving  at 

ST.  LOUIS 

AND   AT 

CHICAGO 

VTOT  the  nilnoU  Cenlra!  R.  R.  from  Martin,  T«niL 


DOUBLE  DAILY  SERVICE  AND 
THROUGH  SLEEPING  CARS 

MAINTAINED   OVER    THIS 

SCENIC   LINE. 

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formation  aa  to  schedules  of  X.t\U  double  dal'y  serv 
Ic©  to  St.  Louis,  Cliicago,  and  the  NorthwMi,  ant 
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TWO   WARS; 

An  Autobiography  of  Samuel   G.   French, 

Craduilc  ol  WesI  Point  in  184 J,  Lieutenant  ol Liglil  Ar* 

liUery    in    the    United  States  Army,    in  the 

Mexican   War.  and  Maior  Ger.eral  in 

the   Confederate  Army, 

From  diaries  and  notes,  careful- 
ly kept  during  man}'  years  of  ac- 
tive military  service,  and  during 
the  days  of  reconstruction.  Pub- 
lislicd  b\   the 

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.    ng.    They  ' 
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Commercial  A^ont. 


This  book  is  more  than  a  Lh.irmiiiij 
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i-  a  graphic  and  faitliful  story  of  the 
Mexican  war,  tlie  war  between  the 
States,  and  the  reconstruction  period,  as  well  as  a  powerful  vindication  of 
the  South  by  one  who  was  born,  reared  and  educated  at  the  Noilh,  but 
whose  convictions  and  sentiments  early  led  him  to  cast  his  fortunes  with 
the  Confederacy,  and  is,  therefore,  of  especial  historical  value  and  interest 
to  the  people  of  the  South.  The  book  has  been  highly  pra'sed  by  many 
distinguished  men,  and  extracts  from  many  reviews  of  the  work  will  be 
sent  on  rcqvicst. 

"Two  Wars"  is  issued  in  one  royal  octavo  volume,  bound  in  English 
cloth,  with  embossed  side  and  back,  contains  line  portraits  of  the  author 
and  many  leading  characters  in  the  war  between  the  Stales,  together 
with  engravings  of  battle  scenes,  points  of  interest,  etc.,  of  that  great  strug- 
gle.    It  contains  over  400  pages.    Price,  $2. 

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ate \eter.\n  for  one  year  will  be  sent  to  any  address.  Old  subscribers  to 
the  Vetkrajj  may  also  renew  on  this  basis. 

Agent's  Wanted  for  both  the  book  and  the  Veteran,  to  \vhom  liberal 
commissions  will  be  paid. 


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and  tourist  sleeping  cars.  For  specia' 
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a.  P.  .58:  T.  A..,  I.  &  a.  IN.  R.  R., 
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GUBA 


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fiHK^vanoe  of  orange  blossoms,  of  the 
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snow,  the  sleet,  the  biting  and  continued 
'■old  of  last  winter. 

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venience for  the  comfort  and  safety  of 
the  traveler,  has  been  provided  via  the 

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rontnplling  1.400  miles  of  standard  rail- 
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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  illustrated  booklets  on  Florida, 
Cuba,  or  "What  to  Say  in  Spanish,  and 
How  to  Say  It,"  or  other  information, 
address 

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<<     POINTS     ^ 


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m  1^ 


TO 


GeLlveston,  and  Points 
South,  East,  and 
West.  ^  ^  Eq\iip- 
meivt,  Service,  and  Cui- 
sine unsurpaLSsed.  ^e^ 


W.  S.  KEENAN,  G.  P.  A., 
Galveston,  Tex. 


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Sewanee 

East  Brook 
Springs 

Estill 

Springs 

Beersheba 
Springs 

Bon  Aqua 
Springs 

Hurricane 
Springs 


Lookout 
Mountain 

Kingston 
Springs 

Craggie 

Hope 

Nicholson 
Springs 

Tullahoma 

Fernvale 
Springs 

Monte  Sano 


IT  WILL 
BE 


SUMMER  TIME 


DY  AND 
BY 


There  are  many  liollghtful  Springs  ami  Summer  Resorts  in  the 
Highlands  and  Mountains  of  Tennessee  on  or  near  the  lines  o( 


THE 


fts?gf^  Nashville,  Chattanooga  & 
&^^^         St.  Louis  Railway 


This  Company  publishes  repularly  every  year  an  illustrated  folder  giving  a 
list  of  these  resorts  and  a  brit-f  description  of  each;  also  a  list  of  Hotels  and 
Boarding  Houses,  their  rates  per  week,  month,  etc.  Those  folders  will 
be  ready  for  distribution  about  A,pril  15tK.  Write  for  a  copy  before 
making  your  plans  for  the  Summer;  mailed   FREE  upon   application    to 


w.  L.  danli:y 

GENERAL  PASSENGER  AGENT.  NASHVILLE,  TENNESSEE 


The  Aggressive  Grocer 


WHO    APPRECIATES    RELIABLE,    UNIFORM 
GOODS,  RECOGNIZES  IN  THE  CELEBRATED 


Maxwell  House 
Blend  Coffee 


AN  UNAPPROACHABLE  STANDARD 
OF  SUPERIOR  EXCELLENCE 


EVERY  re;ail  gnicer  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  Sovith  and  Southwest,  you  will  make  no 
mistake  in  carrjing  our  goods.  Our  coffees  make  your  store 
popular,  and  bring  you  customers  in  other  lines. 


■Coffees  That  Tire  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 
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.  :::::: 


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packed  in  one-  and  three-pound  air- 
tiglit  tin  cans.  Three-pound  cans, 
one  dollar. 


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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. 


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IMPORTERS  AND  ROASTERS  OF  COFFEES,  AND  PROPRIETORS  OF  THE  TV/O 
LARGEST  AND  MOST  COMPLETE  COFFEE  PLANTS  IN  THE  SOUTH  AT 

Nashville,    Tennessee,    and  Houston,    Texas 


Vol.  13 


NASHVII,I,E,  T:ENN.,  may,  1905 


No.  5 


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S.  A.  CUNNINGHAM. 
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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 


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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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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, 


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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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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. 


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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. 


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. 


(^opfederate  l/eterai). 


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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- 


210 


Qopfederate  l/eteraij. 


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). 


211 


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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Qoofederate  l/eterarj. 


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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Qopfederate  l/eterap. 


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. 


Qopfederate  l/eterai>. 


215 


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. 


21' 


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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Qopfederati^  l/eterap 


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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Qor^federate  Ueterap. 


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. 


Qopfederate  l/etcrai). 


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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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Qor?federat'2  l/eterap. 


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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k^4iiifif^M^^9i 

W^  '  "  ^fl-^^  yBrt-J-^JlriffefcpVti?  • 

|fe^^^*^^ -%i*^-          .  Vy~*M^  -^ 

aflP^     •  ■— Y  ;,"•    t    '  .'  /•  '  ""."^  ii-r-r-^UUutlUliU^tiyjlSl^iiaiitAS"  ■fcha.r^    .     ^' ' 

y^''-"-^^C^s^^^&':;•v^^«?«. 

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 


11 


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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MAJ.    J.    J.     HORNEH. 

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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H.  1).  Pcaicc,  of  Baliinger,  Tex., 
wants  llie  following  copies  of  tlic  Vet- 
KRAN  to  complete  his  file:  All  of  Vol- 
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. 


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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., 
suggests  that  some  one  give  the  Vet- 
eran a  sketch  of  Col.  St.  Leger  Green- 
fel  (the  Moor)  for  publication,  tellin.y 
how  and  why  he  became  imprisoned  at 
Dry  Tortugas  just  after  the  close  of  the 
war.  The  suggestion  i.;  seconded  by  the 
editor. 


Encouraging  news  comes  from  the 
Robert  E.  Line  mines,  property  of  the 
Southern  Mining.  Milling  &  Develop- 
ment Company.  Some  of  the  daily 
papers  of  Denver  are  writing  this  prop 
eriy  up  and  expecting  any  day  for 
Robert  E.  Lee  Tunnel  to  encounter 
large  ore  bodies.  Eine  experts  are  in 
charge  of  the  work. 


SEAL 

OF  ANY 
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who  served  in  the  Thirty-first  "Virginia 
Regiment,  Pegram's  Brigade,  Early's 
Division,  Jackson's  Corps,  A.  N.  "V., 
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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- 
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over  to  let  the  storm  pass  and  the  dust  settle,  so  that 
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of  that  great  soldier  and  his  brave  followers  to  whom  it 
is  dedicated." 

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many  years  that  gave  me  such  pleasure.  The  reminiscent 
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The  Oreat  Parliamentary  Hattlo  and  Farewell  Ad- 
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The  AVar  Between  the  Union  and  the  Confederacy, 
and  Its  I^ost  Opportunities.  By  Gen.  William  C. 
Gates,  Colonel  in  the  Confederate  Armj',  Brigadier 
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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. 

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such  work." 

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or  not  with  his  criticism  of  men  and  events,  wdll  be  en- 
tertained by  these  pen  pictures  of  former  days." 


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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, 
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read  it  with  deep  interest." 

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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- 
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Forty  Years  of  Active  Service.  By  CoL.  Charles  T. 
O'Feruall.  8vo,  cloth,  with  frontispiece  portrait  of 
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Some  of  the  hi.story  of  the  war  between  the  Confederacy  and 
the  Union,  and  the  events  leading  up  to  it,  with  reminiscences 
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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, 

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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- 
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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- 
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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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Qopfederate  l/eterap. 

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. 


'2i 


C;^09federat3  l/eterap, 


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. 


Qotjfederat^  l/eterai). 


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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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Qc  vfederat^  l/eterap. 


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 !" 


J 


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." 


Confederate  l/eterap. 


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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." 
6* 


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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Confederate  l/eterarj. 


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. 


^o:)fe<lerate  l/eterrij. 


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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. 


Qopfcderate  l/eterap. 


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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 


266 


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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.] 


Qopfederate  l/eterai>. 


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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. 


1 


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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., 
Maid  of  Honor  to  Miss  Wheeler, 


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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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267 


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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Qopfederate  l/eterap 


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. 


Qopfederate  l/eterai), 


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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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Qoijfederate  l/eterap. 


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. 


(Confederate  l/eterap. 


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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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Confederate  l/eterai>, 


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 


MISS   MARY    H.   SMITH.   HELENA,   MONT.. 
M.  1  1  of  Honor  N.  \V.  niviju.n.  U.  C.  V. 


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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C^opfederat^  Ueterai), 


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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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 


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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 


(^oijfederat^  Ueterap, 


279 


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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HON.    F.    L.    PITTS. 

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. 


GEN.    FITZHUGH    LEE. 


Qopfederate  l/eterap. 


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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 


REV.    G.    T.    STAINBACK,    D.D. 


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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, 


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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. 


4 


'^ 


ES-TD.  1803. 


Atlanta-Birmingham 

Fire  Insurance 

Company 


OF 


Atlanta,  Georgia,  and  Birmingham,  Alabama. 


CASH  RESOURCES  OVER  $600,000. 


Officers. 

J.  T.  DARGAN,  President.  A.  D.  SMITH,  Vice  President. 

ROBT.  N.  HUGHS.  Secretary,     HUTSON  LEE.  Treasurer. 

Board  of  Directors. 


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. 


JNO.  W.  GRANT, 

Atlanta,  Ga. 

FHANK  HAWKINS. 

Atlanta,  Ga. 

J.  WYLIE  POPE, 

Atlanta,  Ua. 

■WILLIS  E.  RAGAN, 

Atlanta,  Ga. 

J.  M.  STEPHENS, 

Atlanta,  Ga. 

DAVID  WOODWARD, 

Atlanta,  Ga. 

W.  M.  DRENNEN, 

Birmingham,  Ala. 

W.  G.  ESTES, 

Birmingham,  Ala. 

ROBT.  JEMISON, 

Birmingham.  Ala. 

G.  B.  McCORMACK, 

Birmingham.  Ala. 

H.  K.  MILNER, 

Birmingham.  Ala. 

J.  W.  MINOR, 

Birmingham,  Ala. 

W.  D.  NESBIT, 

Bii-mingham,  Ala. 

RUFUS  N.  RHODES, 

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. 


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Burns,  Colic,  Cramps,  Head- 
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20  YEARS  THE  STANDARD 

10    CENTS    PER    BOTTLE 
Larger  Slies    50  Centa  and   $1.00 

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MEXICO. 

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CONSUMPTION      y< 


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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. 


SEAL 

OF  ANY 
STATE 


Sterling  silver,  handsomely 
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A 

Souvenir 

of 

Your  'Visit 

to 

Louisville 

Make  a  note  of  it  now, 
tli.it  when  you  come 
to  the  Confederate  Re- 
union in  June  you 
must  be  sure  to  visit 

Kendricks' 

Jewelry  House 

Souvenir  -Spoons  in 
great  variety,  .Silver- 
ware of  newest  and 
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I('wrlr\.  W'attlies. 

DIAMONDS 

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Cut  Glass.  (V- 
ramirs.  Bronzes, 
Ivory  Carviutrs. 
Miirlilrs,  etc.. 
are  daily  on  ex- 
hiliit.      Bo    suro 

tO.-Rll. 


Wm. 


^ 


Kendrick's 
Sons 


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Louisville,  Ky. 

Writo  for  large 
free  ratalo^ue. 


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Information  on  re- 
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Nashville,  Tenn. 


Qoi)federate  l/etcrap". 


Say  ma  iff 

live  will    I  4I 
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i>)<M  as  y  ,a 


Yes  my  rhili) 
if  you  duii't 
USE 


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prepaid. 

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Wo  make  Mag-icWhit©  Chips  for  laundries. 

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IT   HAS   NO    EyUAL   FoR    HARD   WATER. 


SUMMER    SCHOOL,    KNOXVILLE. 

TENN.,  JUNE    >o    TO   JULY  28, 

1905.     REDUCED  RATES  VL4 

SOUTHERN  RAILWAY. 

One   fare,   plus   twenty-five   cents,   for 

tile  round  trip.     For  dates  of  sale,  limit 

of  tickets,  and  other  information,  write 

J.    E.    Shiple}',    T.    P.    A.,    Cliattanooga, 

Tenn. 


THE  SOUTHERN  RAILWAY 
announces  rate  of  one  first-class  fare, 
pins  one  dollar,  for  tlie  round  trip  from 
all  points  on  its  lines  in  the  South  to 
Buffalo,  N.  v.,  account  Annual  Meeting 
Grand  Lodge  B.  P.  O.  E.,  July  11-15, 
1905. 

Tickets  will  be  sold  July  3,  9,  and  10, 
and  will  be  good  f<Tr  return,  leaving 
Buffalo,  up  to  and  including  July  15. 
By  depositing  tickets  and  paying  fee  of 
fifty  cents  an  extension  of  return  limit 
may  be  obtained  to  leave  Buffalo  not 
later  than  July  25,  1905. 

For  tickets  and  otiier  information, 
call  on  any  Agent  Southern  Ry.,  or 
write  J.  E.  Shipley,  T.  P.  A..  Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn. 


The  Veteran  office  needs  copies  of 
the  edition  for  November,  1902,  and 
friends  having  this  copy  in  good  con- 
dition will  oblige  us  by  sending  it  in. 
Give  notice  when  sending,  and  credit 
will  be  given  on  subscription  for  an 
extra  copy. 


Frank  Delbrel,  No.  135  Caroline 
-Street,  Dallas,  Tex.,  wants  to  exchange 
a  volume  of  the  Veteb.^n  for  1903  for 
that  of  1899. 


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Nashville,  Tenn. 


The  distinctively  university-prepara- 
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Term  opens   September   14,   1905. 

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VERY  LOW  RATES  TO  LOUIS- 
VILLE, KY.,  AND  RETURN  VIA 
SOUTHERN  RAILWAY 
for  the  United  Confederate  Veterans' 
Reunion  at  Louisville  June  14-16,  1905. 
The  Southern  Railway  has  announced  a 
very  low  round-trip  rate  from  all  points 
on  its  lines.  Tickets  will  be  sold  from 
points  within  a  radius  of  500  miles  of 
Louisville  June  12  to  15,  inclusive,  and 
from  points  beyond  a  radius  of  500 
miles  of  Louisville  June  10  to  13,  in- 
clusive. Final  return  limit  of  these 
tickets  leaving  Louisville,  June  19,  1905. 
Tickets  may  be  deposited,  however,  with 
joint  agent  at  Louisville,  and  upon  pay- 
ment of  fee  of  fifty  cents  an  extension 
of  limit  may  be  secured  to  July  10,  1905. 
For  tickets  and  further  information, 
call  on  any  Soutliern  Railway  .'\gent. 
or  write  J.  E.  Sliiplcy,  T.  P.  A.,  Chat- 
tanooga, Tenn. 


ANNUAL  CONVENTION  Y.  M.  C. 

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For  above  occasion  the  Southern  Rail- 
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class  fare,  plus  twenty-five  cents,  for  the 
round  trip  from  points  on  its  lines  to 
Asheville,  N.  C,  and  return.  Tickets 
will  be  sold  June  8,  9,  10,  15,  16,  and 
17,  limited  for  return  passage  to  June 
28,   1905. 

For  further  information  and  tickets, 
call  on  any  agent  of  the  Southern  Rail- 
way, or  write  J.  E.  Shipley,  T.  P.  A., 
Cliattanooga,  Tenn. 


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OFFTCIALLT  REPRESENTS: 

United  Confederate  Veterans, 

United  Daughters  of  the  Confederacy, 

Sons  of  Veterans,  aijd  Other  Organczations, 

Confederated  Solthern  Memorial  Association. 

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■valed  patronage,  doubtless,  than  any  other  publication  in  existence. 

Though  men  deserve,  they  may  not  win  success; 

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Proprietor. 


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 

7* 


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 

"11  .nyhter  t  f  the  United  C  onfederate  \  eterans. 


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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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Qoi^federate  l/eterap. 

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. 


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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 


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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. 


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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). 


305 


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£ 


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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}. 


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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.) 


Qo^federati^  l/eteraF>, 


311 


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- 


312 


Qoofederati^  l/eterarj 


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. 


Qopfederat^  l/eterar^. 


313 


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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Qo^federati^  l/eterarj 


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. 


Qo9federat(^  l/etP^r^r> 


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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. 


Qor)federa t(^  l/eterap. 


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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. 


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Qopfederati^  Ueterar^, 


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. 


Qopfederati^  l/eterai) 


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 


Qopfederati^  l/eterai>. 


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." 


Qo[?federat(^  l/eterar?. 


331 


Low  Settlers'  Rates 

TO  POINTS  IN  THE  WEST  AND 
SOUTHWEST. 

VIA  COTTON  BELT  ROUTE. 


On  first  and  third  Tuesdays  of  eacli 
month  round-trip  tickets  will  be  sold 
to  points  in  Arkansas,  Louisiana,  Texas, 
and  otlicr  Western  territory  at  rate  of 
one  fare  plus  $2.  Stop-overs  allowed  on 
the  going  trip;  21  days  in  which  to  re- 
Inrn. 

Colton  Belt  Rcuite  trains  leave  Mem- 
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. 

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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. 


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» 


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TO  PURCHASE 
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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 

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FOR  GENTLEMEN  ONLY. 
817  Church  Street,      NASHVILtE,  TENN. 


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622  Asylum  Ave.,  KNOXVILLE,  TENN. 


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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. 


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modern,     high  -  grade     office 
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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.  ,    - 

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Famous  Georgetown  Loop,  in  Clear  Creek  Canyon.    This  Railroad  Crosses  Itself  Four  Times 
within  One  Mile.    Robert  E.  Lee  Tunnel  is  Seven  Miles  up  the  Canyon  from  this  Loop. 


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 

For  Girls  and  Young  Women 

Faculty  of  21  members.  Departments  of  Music, 
Art,  Elocution.  Pbysieal  Culture,  and  Domestic 
Scienc-e.      Splendid    new    buildings.       Session 
opens  September  12.    Apply  to 
B.  C.HAGERMAN.  President*  Lexington.  Ky. 


To  San  Francisco 

WITH    THE 

CHRISTIAN  MISSION 
SPECIAL 


VIA 


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2,200   MILES 

of   scenic   beauty,   with   all    the   com- 
forts of  a  special  I'ullniaii  train. 

THE   SANTA    FE 

'.las  been  designalei'.  by  the  officials  of 
the  Christian  Church  as  the 

OFFICIAL   ROUTE 

THE  SPECIAL  LEAVES  TEXAS  AUGUST  10TH. 


For  j)articular  information  atklress 
W.  S.  KEENAN,  G.  I'.  A., 

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NORTH 

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THROUGH  SERVICE 

VIA 

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I  THROUGH  SLEEPERS  and  DAY  COACHES 
NEW  ORLEANS  TO  CHICAGO 
DINING  CARS  SERVING  ALL   MEALS   EN   ROUTE 
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H3'.» 


I^SSj, 


Garr^Burdette  Golle^e 

and  Conservatory  of  Music, 
■_      Art,  and  Expression. 


Tliis  college. .lustlyniimoil  l>y  a  r-oinpotciit  Northern  rritir  "The  Petit  Welleslev  t>f  the 
South."  was  built  and  »tonat<'d  by  Mrs.  (>.  A.  Tarr.  a  trn--  Oaiii^ht^M-  of  the  Coiiteneracy. 
for  the  hiphor  etiucatioii  ol  Soutiierii  girls.  In  its  BuiUliiiLr  Ihjnie  F'uruishinjfs.  iV-parl- 
ini'iit  E<inipm -nts.  ami  Fanilty.  it  i.s  the  jK-er  of  any  Iwanling  si-hool.  North  or  South. 
Limit'xl  t'*>  SI)  \)oar(hTs.  Limited  numhtT  of  free  soholarshim.  L<K-Ation  high  and 
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- 
crs  studied  six  years  in  Etirnpe  and  the  Dricnt  The  Library,  Mnsi<-  Hoou's,  Art  Studio,  uiid  (iymna-sium  are  thoroughly  equimH-d.  Tennis, 
Basket  Ball,  (iirls"  Military  t'oiupany- t  lie  only  one  in  the  South  -organized  to  give  mental  conccntrati'in  and  i>hysiral  development.  Tl- • 
College  furnishes  the  company  with  liandsome  Confederate  uniforms,  guns.  drum,  etc.,  and  Mi*s.  Carr  will  chaperon  them  to  the  next  Na- 
tional HeTinion  ( 'ome.  see.  and  iHMMMn'inced.  and  enjoy  the  old-titije  S<  nit  hern  hospit«litv  of  t'arr-Burdotte  College.  Session  opens  S"pt<Mu- 
J.ei-  H,  litn:..     For  ni--.clnire.  containing  [.Iiot-.-.-ngravings  of  intcri<.r  an-1  .-xterior  of  College,  addro^s  MRS.  O.  A.  CARR.  SKerm&n.  Tex. 


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MISS  SEABURY,  Head  of  School 
Rt.  Rev.  W.  C.  DOANE.  LL.D.,  President  of  Trustees 

A  school  ostalilish(^l  and  ronductod  solely  in 
the  iut*»rest  of  hiirln-r  e.iuciition.  Entiie' in- 
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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. 


(^OY)federat<^  l/eterar). 


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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. 


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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. 


(^oi)federat((  l/etcra^, 


349 


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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Qopfederat*^  l/eterar). 


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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Qopfederat^  l/eterap. 


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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- 
8** 


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, 
of  the  land  flowing  with  milk  and  honey  to  which  they  were 


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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 


C;oQfederate  l/eteraij. 


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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- 


Qopfederate  l/eterarj. 


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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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QoQf ederal:(^  l/eterar). 


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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(^oi^federat*^  l/eterap. 


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. 


Q09federat(^  l/eterap. 


■MH 


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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Qor}federat<^  l/eterai}, 


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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Qoofederati^  l/eterar). 


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 


Qo^federati^  l/eterar? 


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." 


Qo^federati^  l/etera^ 


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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. 


Qo^federat^  Ueterai^. 


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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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(^opfederat^  l/eteraij. 


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 


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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. 


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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. 

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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  »■ 

H.  E.  CHRISTIAN,  «,  6.  PA.      R.  R«.  COFFEY,  T,  P.  A. 

116  PeachtroeSI.,  Allanla.  Ca. 

EDWARD  F.  COST.  2d  «.  Pres.    CHAS.  8.  RTAN,  G  P.  A. 

Porlsmoulh.  Va. 


How  to  Get  There 

QUICK 

The  Short  Line,  Via.  Bristol 

TO  THE  EAST 

Throvigh  Train 
No  ChaLrvge 


Leavo  NEW  ORLEANS.  Q,  &  C. 


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\y. 


WASHIXtiTDN.  1).  C':.  So. 


BALTI.MORE,  Md  ,  P.  R   R  . 
PHIT-ADELPHIA.  P.  R.  R..  , 

NEW  YDRK.  P.  R.  R 

BOSTUX,  N.  Y..  N.  H.,  A;  II . 


r:-'C  a.m 
8:0na.m 
lOn.Sa.m 
12:43  p.m 
8:aipm 


Through  Sleeper  New  Orleans  to 

New  York 
Throvigh     Sleeper      Memphis     to 

New  York 


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-, 
ly  Service 

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. 


JACKSONVILLE 

\\^  \';«1(]osIh  Koiite.  from  Valdo-'-la  via  (.corgr.i 

Southern  and  Florida  Ry.,  from  Macon 

via  Central  of  Georgia  Ry.,  from 

ATLANTA 

Vij    Wetlprn   .in,:    ,\ll.,i.|n     H      li    ,    from 

CHATTANOOGA 

AND 

NASHVILLE 

via  tlie  Nashville,  ChAttanoosa.  arul  bl.  I.-.iis  Ry,, 
.irriving  at 

ST.  LOUIS 

AND    AT 

CHICAGO 

over  the  Illinois  Central  H.  K.  Irum  .M,iniii.   Icon. 


DOUBLE  DAILY   SERVICE  AND 
THROUGH  SLEEPING  CARS 


MMNTAINKT)    0\HR    THIS 


SCENIC   LINE. 


Ticket  ng^ents  of  the  Jacksonville-St,  Louis  aiul 
Chicapo  line,  and  agents  of  connecting-  lines  in 
KUirlda  and  the  Southeast,  will  give  you  full  infor- 
mation as  to  stheihiles  of  this  aoublc  daily  service 
to  St.  I-ouis.  I.  hi  Cairo,  and  the  Northwest,  and  of 
train  time  of  lint  :-  ronnecting.  They  will  also  sell 
you  tickets  and  Hd\  ise  you  as  to  rates. 


F.  D.  MILLER,        -         -         -        Atlanta,  Ga. 
Traveling  Passenger  Agent  I.  C.  R.  R. 

F.  R,  WHEELER.  Nashville,  Tknn. 

Commercial  Agent. 


382 


Qoi)federat(^  l/eterai). 


■A#i 


BTJiFOi^nD    oolle;c3-:e 


A  School  for 
the  Higher  Culture 
ol  Youag 
Women, 


INASHVILL,E,    TEININESSEE. 

STRICTLY  LIMITED,  EMINENTLY  SELECT.  T^'olnlmLtion.,,  tu, 


Thoroughly  Christian 
in  Spirit  and  Culture. 


Ideal  lofation  uyu'M  :tn  rxrelli-nt  L'I<'<tri'-  rar  liiii-.  wilhin  thirty  iniiiutes 
of    Naiihvillo.   the  Souths  great  i_'iUu-ati<>nal   cfiitcr,     Altitudf  several 
hundred  feet  above  Nashville.     Campus  of  tweuty-tive  acres,  amid  mitjhty  loi'-^t  trees,  ]iure  air.  pure  wator^mre  food.    Gymna-stics 
and  all  outdoor  athleties  euipba-sized.     Buildiiii;  eonim<.>dious.  eonveuieut.  ronitortaMe.  and  finely  equiiM'^'fl-     Health  recoi-d  unrivaled. 
No  deatti  nor  serious  case  of  illness  in  its  history  of  tiventy  years.    Sauitatiou  pronounced  liy  the  United  States  Board  of 
Health  "])raetieally  perfect." 

Hiiih-toued  nmral  and  relij^ious  atmosphere.  Comprehensive  curriculum  of  Twelve  Schools  leading  t^  University  Dejfl'oe^^-  t-'oti- 
siTvatory  advantages  in  Language.  Literature,  Art,  Music,  and  Expression.  Splendid  Bible  Course.  Cultured  Faculty  of  KxiK^ri- 
<-uti'<l  Univi-rsity  (Jraduates.  Scholarly  Lecture  Cori)s.  Access  to  tue  Universities  ot  Nashville.  Admission  and  Free  Scholar- 
ships m  all  departments  in  the  must  advanced  institutions  of  learning  of  the  L'nite<l  States.  Pei*sf>nal  care  and  character-building  in 
the  makim:  of  a  woman  for  womanly  ends.  Patronage,  national  and  foreign.  Early  apjilication  necessary  l"r  entrance.  Scholastic 
year  begins  Septembm-  14.  llHi-j.     Yearbook  sent  on  reijuest. 


E.  Q.  BUFORD,  Regent. 


MRS.  E.  O.  BUPORD,  President. 


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17  Arcade, 


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SOXJTHE:3FLn>J 

Mining,  Miffing  &  Development  Co, 

INCORPORATED    UNDER   THE   LAWS   OF   OKLAHOMA.      172    ACRES. 

Capital  Stock,  $1,000,000.    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,   A'a.s/iv///e,    Tenn.     Depository,  American  National 

Bank,   Nashville,   Tenn.     Long-Distance   Telephone,  649.     Reference,   by  Permission,  Bradstreet's  Commercial 

—  Agenci,  Nashville,    Tenn.    =^===^:^^=^^^=^^^^=^= 


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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, 
Lebanon,  Mendota,  Mary  Ktta,  Robert  IC,  Lee,  Peek-a-Koo,  Pulaski,  Seven- 
Thirty,  Dives-Peliean,  Silver  Plume,  Terrililc.  Waldorf-Astoria,  and  Sle- 
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- 
mniiily.  They  are  iiraclical  miners  of  more  than  twenty  years"  experience  and  have  confidence  in  the  fiiiurc  of  the 
Koli.rl  I'    L.-e  Ti el.  M'.   11.   Fi  r/.(;i;i;.\T.ii. 


Get  Some  of  This  Stock  at  25  Cents  per  Share;  100  Shares,  $25;  1,000  Shares,  $250. 

YOU  CAN  SEND   ALL    REMITTANCES  AND   ADDRESS  ALL   COMMUNICATIONS   TO 

W.  H.  CRAWFORD,  Vice  President  and  General  Manager, 

Soulhern  Mining,  Millimg  &  Development  Co.    218  Union  St.,  Homestead  Building.  NASHVILLE,  TENN. 


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The  Aggressive  Grocer 


WHO    APPRECIATES    RELIABLE,    UNIFORM 
GOODS,  RECOGNIZES  IN  THE  CELEBRATED 


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Maxwell  House 
Blend  Coffee 


AN  UNAPPROACHABLE  STANDARD 
OF  SUPERIOR  EXCELLENCE 


TpVERY  retail  grocer  in  Nashville  is  handling  this  coffee, 
^-'  anil  luimlreila  all  over  the  Southern  States  are  tinding  it 
their  best  trade  getter.  If  you  desire  for  your  trade  coffee 
that  will  give  perfect  satisfaction,  vihich  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  carrying  our  goods.  Our  coffees  make  your  store 
popular,  and  bring  you  customers  in  other  lines. 


-Coffees  That  Tire] Pure,  Glean,  and  Fresh 


MAXWELL  HOUSE  BLEND  AND  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 

packcd^^'.s  Qnc-  and  three-pound  air- 
tight tin  caii.'^  .^Three-pound  cans, 
one  dollar.  '^^e 

-L^  00 


AVe  have  used  MAXWELL  IIOUSK 
BLEND  COFFEE  for  the  past  ten  years, 
iintl  \ve  uiihesitntingly  aflirm  it  is  the  iiiir- 
e.st  ami  iiiuKt  satisfactory  coffee  we  h;i\c 
used.  W.  K.  Black, 

M;LM;iiicT  Maxwell  House,  Nashville,  Teim. 


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. 


Qheek  &  Neal  Go f fee  Qotnpany 

IMPORTERS  AND  ROASTERS  OF  COFFEES,  AND  PROPRIETORS  OF  THE  TWO 
LARGEST  AND  MOdT  COMPLETE  COFFEE  PLANTS  IN  THE  SOUTH  AT 

Nashville,    Tennessee,    and  Houston,    Texas 


U.  D.  C.  Convention,  San  Francisco,  Oct.  3-7. 

Vol.  13  NASHVILI/E,  TENN.,  SEPTEMBER,  1905  No.  9 

Qopfederate  l/eterap. 


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The  Mooney  School  for  Boys 

MURFREESBORO,  TENN. 

Ideal  location  in  the  Blues^rass  region  of  Middle  Tonnessuc. 
NincteLMith  year.  Boys  board  with  Principal.  Excellent  board; 
cafL-ful  discipline;  thorough  teaching.  CernHcate  admits  tt> 
Vandcrbilt.  Lehigh,  and  other  colIei,'es.  Twice  during  the  past 
three  vt-ars.  a  Maone>  boy  has  won  the  entrance  examination 
pri^u  in  Latin  and  Greek  at  Vandcrbilt.  No  school  in  the  land 
li.'i'^  a  better  class  of  patronage.  If  you  have  a  boy  wiiose  futiii^ 
vou  are  anxious  for,  read  our  catalogue. 

W,   D.   MOONEY. 


Belmont    College   'or  Young  women, 
-      Nashville.  Tenn. 
Rev.  IRA  LANDRITH.  LL.  D.,  Regent. 
Miss  HOOD  and  Miss  HERON,  Principals. 

Attracts  students  from  all  parts  of  the  country. 
The  teaching  is  thorough,  influences  wholesome, 
equi[iment  complete  in  every  detail,  location  un- 
rivaled—1=;  minutes  by  trolley  to  Nashville,  the 
■  Athens  of  tlie  South'*;  yet  secluded  in  its  own 
park  of  ic,  acres;  every  city  and  t'\ery  count-y  ad- 
vantage—steam heat,  electric  lights,  stationary 
and  shower  baths,  seweraiie.  Courst-s  leading  to 
di'Lirces.  Prepares  for  unixersities.  Teachers  of 
Music,  Art.  and  Languag«*s  were  trained  abroad. 
Thi;  Director  of  Music  \'i  Edouard  Nesscidfrg-.  the 
fuinent  Russian  pianist  and  composer.  Physical 
culture  and  all  out-door  games.  New  building  will 
aicommodate  12S  more  students,  but  waiting  list 
already  so  large  early  application  is  necessary. 
Send  for  illustrated  catalogue  and  book  of  views, 
or  visit  the  school  before  deciding. 

Address  TiiK  Rkgistrar. 

Belmont  College.  Nashville,  Tenn. 


WARD     CEMINARY 

Pllftmc^    The  purpose  of  the  school  is  to  ilo  serious  and  honesi  work   in  the  Cliris- 
t^  tJr|JU9t;     tia,,  education  of  girls  and  youn^  women. 

^^..Mcoc    ■Seminary,  Special,  and  College  Preparatory  Courses.      Art,   life  model 
^'*'Mr&C&    daily.     iSxpression,  three  years'  course.    Conservatory  of  Music. 
AH%/£i  n#anoC    ^^^'^bville  exc  Is  in  climate,  healthfulness,  and  social  culture.     It 
#%U  Vcllli<t||t79     is  the  educational  center  of  the  South,  and  affords  unusual  advan- 
tages ill  lectures,  recitals,  and  other  opportunities  for  practical  education. 

Kvery  facility  for  physical  culture  is  afforded.  Tennis,  bowling,  hockey,  and  golf. 
Beauilul  suimiban  campus  of  twenLy-t!ve  acre.-*,  with  well-arranged  clubhouse. 

lnH/%rcAmAn#    "^'"^  school  last  session  was  filled    to  its  utmost  capMcity,  and 
llltJVr9V?lllV7llK    niiny  students  applied  too  late  to  be  received. 

Patrons  s;iv:  "  War<l  S<'nunary  is  an  ideal  Christian  liome."  "The  work  done  in  Ward 
Seminary  is  of  ;ui  unusually  high  or<lei",  th^^  home  hfe  of  the  institution  is  swceL  and  con.«id- 
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est Older."  "My  daughter  has  enjoyed  in  y-air  school  tlie  best  health  she  has  had  ^^uice  she 
was  twelve  year's  old."  "The  school  has  met  fully  my  expectations.*'  "We  can  scarcely 
find  words  to  thank  you  for  what  you  have  done  for  our  daughter." 

FORTY-FIRST  YEAR  BEGINS  SEPTEMBER  28,   1905. 

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WRITE  FOff  CIRCULAR  AND  REFERENCES 


TWO   WARS; 

An  Autobiography  of  Samuel   G.   French, 


Kjyi^'r*®^'^'i?nr^ 


iSi. 


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Graduate  of  West  Point  in  I64X  Lieulemat  oHieltt  Af 

tillery   in   the    United  Stjtcs  Army,    in  the 

McTicjn   V'ar,  ind  Maior  General  to 

the   Confederate  Army, 

From  diaries  and  notes,  careful- 
ly kept  during  many  years  of  ac- 
tive military  service,  and  dtiring 
the  days  of  reconstruction.  Pub- 
lished by  the 

Confederate   Veteran, 

Nashville,   Tenn. 


This  book  is  more  th.Tn  a  tliarminj; 
I  biography  o{  a  distinguished   man;  it 

[  « 1     is  a  graphic  and  faithful  story  of  the 

Mexican  war,  the  war  between  the 
States,  I  1  111,  I.  ronstrurlion  period,  as  \vcll  as  a  powerful  vindication  of 
the  .South  In  one  who  war,  born,  reared  and  cducited  at  the  Norlh,  but 
wliose  convictions  and  ?eiuiinents  early  lei'  him  to  cast  his  fortunes  w  ith 
the  Confederacy,  and  is,  l.iercfore,  of  especial  historical  value  and  interest 
to  the  people  of  the  South.  The  book  has  been  highly  pra'.sed  by  nianv 
distinguislied  men,  and  extracts  from  iviany  reviews  of  the  work  will  be 
sent  on  request. 

"Two  Wars"  is  issued  in  one  royal  octavo  volume,  bound  in  English 
cloth,  with  embossed  side  and  back,  contains  fine  portraits  of  the  author 
and  many  leading  characters  in  the  war  between  the  States,  together 
with  engravings  of  battle  scenes,  points  of  interest,  etc.,  of  that  great  strug- 
gle.    It  contains  over  400  pages.    Price,  $2. 

Special  Offer:  I'or  $2.50  a  copy  of  "Two  Wars"  and  Thi;  Confeder- 
ate \'eter.\n'  for  one  year  will  be  sent  to  any  address.  Old  subscribers  to 
the  \'i;tera>j  may  also  renew  on  this  basis. 

Agent's  Wanted  for  both  the  book  and  the  Veteran,  to  whom  liberal 
commissions  will  be  paid. 


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etc..  the  names  of  the  officers,  ami  post  oflice  addresses. 
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NASHVILLE.  TENN. 
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Shareholders'  Liability  ,<  ^  ^ 

Surplus  and  Undivided  Profits      '  ' 

Security  to  Depositors  /ft 


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185,000  00 

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TKls  Bank  Furnishes   the   Greatest  Security  to    Depositors    of  Any    Bank    in 
Tennessee.    All  Accounts  Solicited 

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DIBECTORS 
G.  M.  NEELT.  LESLIE  CHEEK,  BYRD  DOUtJLAS.     OVERTON  LEA, 

ROBT.  J,  LYLES,       HORATIO  BERRY.        JXO.  B   RANSOM,      NORMAN  KIRKMAN, 
A.  H.  ROBlNSdN,      THOS.  L.  HERBERT,     R.  \Y.  TURNER,  ^V.  W.  BERRY, 

N.  P.  LESUEUR. 


Omj  of  the  last  letters 

written  by  the  Great 

Southern  General 


My  Dear  Sir:  The  piano  of 
your  manufacture,  \\liicl^  \\a^ 
sent  me  in  i866,  still  retains  tin- 
excellent  tone  and  melodv  it 
possessed  when  first  received, 
and  continues  to  afford  great 
gratilication  to  ourselves  and 
friends.  1  can  therefore  tcf-tifv 
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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 


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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| 


Qoi}federat:(^  l/etera^ 


393 


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 
9* 


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. 


Qo^federat^  Ueterai^. 


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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. 


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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 


Qo^federati^  l/eterai>, 


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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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Qo^federat*^  l/eterai). 


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, 


Qor^federati^  Ueterai>. 


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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 


Qor}federat{^  l/eterai). 


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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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Qopfederat*^  l/eterai>. 


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- 


(^opfederat^  l/eterap. 


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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? 


406 


^opfederati^  l/eteraij. 


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. 


C^opfederate  l/eterap. 


407 


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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Qo9federat:(^   l/eterar) 


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. 


Qopfedera  t(^  l/ecerar). 


4(19 


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. 


410 


Qo9federal:<^  l/eterap 


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." 


i^or^federa ti^  l/eterar;. 


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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 


412 


Qo9j-ederat(^  l/eterar). 


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. 


Qo7federat:<^  Ueterai}. 


413 


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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415 


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 


416 


Qopfederat^  l/ecerarj. 


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}. 


4\- 


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/. 


41« 


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), 


4Ut 


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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C^or^f ederati^  l/ecerai) 


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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QoQj-ederat(^   l/etera^ 


"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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423 


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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Qoofederat^  Ueterai} 


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 


<^OT)federat(i  l/eteraF}, 


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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- 


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(^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. 


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"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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St.  Agnes  School 

FOR  GIRLS      Albany.  N.  Y.         36th  Year 

MISS  SEABURY,  Head  of  School 
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A  school  established  and  coiidnct«d  solelv  in 
the  interest  of  hijiher  education.  Entire  in- 
come expended  in  supiwrt  of  school  H  diifious 
training.  Teachers  devoted  sulelv  to  work  of 
instruction.  Strong;  music  department.  Mod- 
ern buildings,  built  for  school  purposes.  Sepa- 
ratedepartment  for  younger  iHi])ils.  LocMion 
exceWont  for  health.  Preparation  given  for 
leading  colleges.  Extra  year  required  for  St 
Agnes  diploma.  Native  teachers  of  modern 
hinguages.  Exercise  in  gvmna.sium  and  out- 
door games  under  specialist.  Catalogue  on  re- 
quest. 


^EJ^Zcf  ''Songs  of  the  Confederacy" 

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St.  Francis  Valley  Lands 

Of  Southeast  Missouri  and  Northeast 
Arlcansas,  river  bottom  made  soil,  rich 
as  cream ;  for  corn,  wheat;  oats,  clover, 
timothj,  alfalfa,  fruits,  and  vegetables. 
Yield  big  ciops,  no  failures.  Open  win- 
ters. Lands  now  cheap,  but  advancing. 
Investigate  this  fall.  Home  Seekers'  rates 
August  15,  September  5  and  19,  October 
3  and  17. 

Write  (or  St.  Francis  Valley  booklet. 

W.  G.  ADAMS,  T.  P.  A., 

Cotton  Belt  Route,  Nashville,  Tenn. 


In  and  Out  of  the  Lines.  By  Frances 
Thomas  Howard.  Neale  Publishing 
Company :  New  York  and  Washing- 
ton.    Price,  $1.50. 

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 
no  attempt  at  rhetorical  effect  and  with 
no  effort  either  to  exaggerate  or  to  con- 
ceal the  hardships  which  were  inflicted 
on  Southern  women  during  the  period 
mentioned. 

Although  there  is  perhaps  too  great  at- 
tention given  to  minute  details,  the  nar- 
rative is  interesting  by  the  mere  force 
of  its  historic  vakie,  as  there  is  not  the 
faintest  attempt  at  a  plot  of  any  sort, 
and  the  only  consecutive  thread  which 
holds  the  incidents  together  is  that  they 
occurred  to  the  writer  herself  or  to  her 
family  and  intimate  friends.  Among 
the  records  of  the  latter  may  be  cited  a 
most  thrilling  and  distressing  account  of 
the  experiences  of  one  Southern  woman 
in  a  Federal  prison. 

The  book  is  well  worth  reading  as  a 
plain  and  unvarnished  account  of  facts 
without  the  embellishment  of  fiction, 
which  so  often  misleads  the  reader  as 
to  the  real  dividing  line  between  the 
two. 


SIX  MILLION  ACRES. 


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, 
Ky. 


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The  State  of  Texas  will  place  on  sale 
September  i,  1905,  si.\  million  acres  of 
State  lands  scattered  throughout  the 
State  at  from  $1  to  $3  per  acre,  one- 
fortieth  cash  down,  forty  years'  time  on 
balance,  3  per  cent  interest. 

Write  for  particulars,  also  about  cheap 
rates  to  the  Southwest  August  15,  Sep- 
tember 5  and  19,  October  3  and  17. 

W.  G.  ADAMS.  T.  P.  A., 
Cotton  Belt  Route,     Nashville,  Tenn. 


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 
Avenue,  West  Nashville,  Tenn.,  seeks 
information  of  Ezekiel  Hawkins,  who 
enlisted  in  the  1st  Tennessee  Regiment, 
and  was  afterwards  with  John  H.  Mor- 
gan. She  would  like  to  hear  from  some 
one  who  was  with  him  at  the  surrender. 


eiincfon 
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Maintained  by  the  State  of  Virginia.  For  information, 
rpply  to  SCOTT  SHIPP,  Superintendent 


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CONSUMPTION 


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FLORIDA 
eUBA 


Think  of  tho  l>almy  sunshine,  of  the 
fragrance  of  orantjo  hlossoms.  of  tht' 
golden  fruits  of  Florida;  then  recall  th" 
snow,  the  sleot.  the  biting  andcontinxied 
cold  of  last  winter. 

Splendid  train  service,  with  every  con- 
venience for  the  comfort  and  safety  of 
the  traveler,  has  been  provided  via  the 

7iTL7\NTie 
e07\ST  LINE 

"the  great  thoroug'ifnre  t<i  thet^opic^,  ' 
rontrnlling  1.4IM>  niilt's  of  standard  rail- 
way in  the  Stuti'  of  Florida. 

WiiittT  tourist  tnk«'ts  now  on  sale  via 
this  liiK*  tarrv  tho  tollowing  privilegrs 
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  Slate  of 
Florida  at  any  point  within  life  of 
ticket. 

For  illu'^trat^d  booklets  on  Florii''a. 
Ouha.  or  "What  to  Say  in  Spanish,  and 
How  t^t  Say  It."  or  other  information, 
address 

C.  L.  SPRAGUE,  T.  P.  A., 

607  Union  Trnst  Bnildintt. 
CINCINNATI,  OHIO; 

W.  T.  CRAIG,  G.  P.  A., 

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Beyond  the  Rockies 
The  Portland  Fair 


Do  You  Know  What  That  Means? 

Not  onlv  tlio  Pacific  Northwest,  rcvchin^  about  a  won- 
^^L'rfull^  uiiiciue  and  bizarre  exposition,  with  a  trip  to  Cali- 
fornia on  the  bide,  but  p  slop-over  iti  Colorado  en  route. 
All  these  notcii  sections  of  the  country,  whicli  e\erv  good 
American  fully  intends  to  \i>il  sonictJnu*,  can  bo  taken  in 
Ibis  year  at  the  one  low  rate  announced  for  the  Exposition. 


Rocklsland 
System 


GLO.  H.  LEE,  P.  R.  McKIN\ON, 

Gen.  Pass.  Agt.,  Trav.  Pass.  Agt., 

Little  Rork,  Ark.  Birmingham,  Ala. 


CHEAP   RATES   TO    THE  EAST. 

Farmers'  National  Congress,  Rich- 
mond, Va.,  September  12-22*  1905. — 
Rate  of  one  first-class  fare  plus  twenty- 
five  cents  for  the  round  trip.  Tickets  on 
sale  September  10,  11,  12,  1905.  Final 
limit  September  25,  1905. 

Patriarchs'  Militant  and  Sovereign 
Grand  Lodge  I.  O.  O.  F.,  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  September  16-23,  1905- — Rate  of 
one  first-class  fare  plus  one  dollar  and 
twenty-five  cents  for  the  round  trip 
Tickets  on  sale  September  i.^,  14.  15, 
1905.  Final  limit  September  25,  1905; 
return  limit  may  be  extended  to  Oc- 
tober 5,  1905,  by  deposit  and  payment 
of  fee  of  one  dollar. 

Purchase  tickets  via  Bristol  and  the 
Norfolk  and  Western  Railway.  Solid 
Ir.iin  service.  Sleepers.  Dining  car 
service.  All  information  cheerfully  fur- 
nished. 

Warren  L.  Rohr,  Western  Passenger 
.Agent,  Chattanooga,  Tenn. ;  D.  C.  Boy- 
kin,  Passenger  Agent,  Knoxville,  Tenn. ; 
W.  R.  Bevill,  General  Passenger  Agent, 
Roanoke,  Va. 


Souiiern  Mmi  Lanis. 


Timbered,  rolling,  perfect  drainage,  no 
Bwamps,  good  water.  Grow  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  countr>' — lo  monllis'  r.iiige. 

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. 


Robert  Harvey,  of  Sherman,  Tex., 
wants  to  know  if  Joe  Spcnce,  who  was 
captured  with  him  in  Henry  County, 
Ky.,  and  taken  to  Camp  Douglas,  is 
still  living.  Spence  belonged  to  a  regi- 
ment from  West  Tennessee.  On  ar- 
riving at  Camp  Douglas  he  found  a 
younger  brnther  in  that  prison. 


W.  P.  Leverett,  of  Burleson,  Tex , 
who  was  a  member  of  Company  D,  20tb 
Georgia  Regiment,  would  be  glad  to 
hear  from  any  survivors  of  Benning's 
Brigade,  composed  of  the  2d.  15th,  T7th, 
.md  20th  Georgia  Rcgiir.ents. 


Mrs.  M.  P.  Sutherlin.  210  McCowat 
Street,  Jackson,  Tenn..  will  appreciate 
hearing  from  any  comrade  who  knew  of 
William  S.  Sutherlin  in  the  Army  of 
Northern  Virginia.  She  wishes  to  know 
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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Short  Line 
Between  the 
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Through  trains  from  Birmiug- 
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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. 


DOUBLE  DAILY   SERVICE  AND 
THROUGH  SLEEPING  CARS 

MAIMTAINEU    OVHR    THIS 

SCENIC   LINE. 


Ticket  agents  of  the  Jacksonville-St.  Louis  and 
Chicago  line,  and  agents  of  connecting  lines  in 
Florida  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  Passeng^er  Agent  I.  C.  R.  K. 

F.  IL  WHKELEU,  Nashville,  Tmww, 

Commercial  Aj^ent. 


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Dining  Cars  -Meals  a  la  Carte 

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C.    BREVER'S 
Russian  and   Turkish   Baths 

and  First-Class  Barber  Shop 

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modern,     high  -  grade     oflice 
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M>.  Af.    WARIl^JSUU   «t  CO. 


17  Arcade, 


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; 


,/an 


06 


,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 


Qoi}federat(^  l/eteraij. 


435 


DRAVGHON'S 

PRACTICAL  BUSINESS  COLLEGES 

Iln-ori)orat«-d  SWiU.ddd.lKI.  Estaljlished  If.  years. 
Indorsed  by  linsiness  men.  Feu-  Catalogue,  ad- 
dress J.  F.  Uraighox,  President,  at  either  place. 


Nashville,  Tenn. 
Montg-omery,  Ala.  Austin,  Tex, 

Atlanta,  Ga. 
Knoxville,  Tenn. 
Waco,  Tex. 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Galveston,  Tex. 
San  Antonio,  Tex 


Raleiffh,  N.  C. 
Fort  Worth,  Tex. 
Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Little  Kock,  Ark. 
Paducali,  Ky. 
Slirevei.ort,  La. 


Oklahoma  City,  Okla.  Muskog^ce,  Ind.  T. 
Fort  Smith,  Ark.  Fort  Scott,  Kans. 

Columbia,  S.  C.  Denison,  Tex. 

PnSITinN'  J,'ay  deposit  money  f,,r  tuition  in 
rUOIIIUn.  Bank  until  eo,iise  u  completed 
and  ix>sition  is  secured ,  or  give  m  >t  l's  and  pay  t  u- 
ition  out  of  salary.  Novacation.  Entcranyt'ime. 
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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. 


Qoi>federat(^  l/eterap 


480 


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 

S  H  I  1,  O  H 


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 


440 


Qopfederati^  l/eterap. 


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. 


Qopfederati^  l/eterai}. 


441 


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 


442 


Qoi}J-ederat^  l/eterai). 


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 


Qoi>federat(^  l/eterap. 


443 


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." 


414 


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. 


Qor^federati^  l/eterai), 


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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, 


Qopfederat^  l/eterai} 


447 


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, 


448 


Qopfederat^  l/et:erai>. 


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. 


Qor>federa t:(^  l/eterai>. 


449^ 


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 
10** 


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 


45U 


Qoi^federa t(^  l/etf?rar), 


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 


C^or}federa  t:(^  l/eterar), 


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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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Qo^fe^crat^  l/eterarj. 


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. 


Qopfederati^  Ueterai}. 


453 


"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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(^opfederat^  l/eterap, 


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 


Qo^federati^  l/eterar;. 


455 


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. 


.45G 


Qopfederati^  l/cteraij. 


"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. 


Qo^federati^  Uetera^. 


457 


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." 


4:58 


Qoi^federa t(^  l/eteraf>. 


•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 


Qoofederate  UeceraQ, 


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.' "' 


460 


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.. 


Qopfederate  l/eterai>. 


461 


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 


462 


Qoi7federat(^  l/eterai^ 


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 


464 


C^opfederat^  l/eterai>, 


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. 


Qo^federati^  l/eterai}. 


465 


"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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Qo9federat(^  l/eterar>. 


,  -  ■        ,  .-  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, 


Qo^federati^  UeteraF). 


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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." 


^opfederati^  l/etera^. 


469 


WIl.l.lAM    i;.    II  .111. 


THE  LITERARY  SOUTH. 
The  Books  of  the  Neale  Plblishing   Company  for  This 
Season  of  Exceptional  Value. 
The  catalogue  for  this  season  of  the  Neale  Publishing  Com- 
pany, New  York  and  Washington,  presents  the  titles  of  more 

than  one  hundred  and  tifty 
books,  representing  a  most 
attractive  list.  Many  of 
these  books  are  of  very 
great  importance  to  South- 
erners, and  this  is  especially 
true  of  those  publications 
treating  of  Southern  his- 
tory, more  especially  those 
dealing  with  the  war  from 
llu-  Southern  point  of  view. 
We  have  several  times  re- 
ferred to  the  splendid  work 
ilie  Neale  Publishing  Com- 
nany  is  doing  in  the  interest 
of  Southern  literature.  All 
of  the  stockholders  and  of- 
ficers of  this  house  are  Soutlierners  and  in  complete  sympathy 
with  the  best  of  Southern  traditions.  The 
Neale  publications  constitute  a  si)lendid 
literature  of  Southern  writers,  including 
histories,  biographies,  books  of  reminis- 
cence, politics,  travel,  liction,  poetry,  etc. 
The  South  has  in  these  books  a  literature 
of  distinctiveness  not  equaled  by  any  other 
publishing  house — a  literature  which  re- 
flects the  refinement  and  culture  of  our 
people  of  to-day  as  well  as  of  the  past. 

While  this  house  makes  a  special  feature 
of  its  Southern  publications,  and  issue^ 
more  books  by  Southern  writers  than  all 
other  .\merican  publishers  combined,  it 
docs  not  confine  its  output  to  Southern 
writers  alone.  Fully  half  of  its  books  are 
by  authors  in  the  Northern,  Eastern,  and 
Western  States,  in  Canada  and  Great 
Britain,  and  there  are  translations  from 
French,  Russian,  and  German  writers. 

\ye  W'ould  like  to  mention  in  detail  all 
of  the  Neale  publications  for  this  season,  '•'''*'■  ^-  *'"-^ 

and  regret  that  for  lack  of  space  we  are  unable  to  do  so.  The 
few  we  mention  especially  appeal  to  us;  yet  there  are  many 
others  in  the  catalogue  of  equal  importance.  The  catalogue 
for  this  season  contains  one  hundred  pages,  is  handsomely  il- 
lustrated, and  will  be  sent  upon  request  by  the  Neale  Publish- 
ing Company,  Flatiron  Building,  New  York:  or  No.  431 
Eleventh  Street,  Washington. 

The   Neale  library  of  Southern  history  is  of  great   impor 
(aiicc.     It  would  be  difficult  to  overestimate  the  value  of  these 
books.     There  are  some  twenty-five  or  thirty  volumes  in  the 
scries,  to  which  additions  are  being  made  from  time  to  time. 
Each  volume  is  sold  separately. 

"Recollections  of  a  Confederate  Staff  Officer."  By  Gen.  G 
Moxley  Sorrel,  Lieutenant  Colonel  and  Chief  of  Staff.  Long- 
street's  1st  Army  Corps;  Brigadier  General  commanding  Sor- 
rel's Brigade,  A.  P.  Hill's  3d  Army  Corps,  .Army  of  Northern 
Virginia;  with  introduction  by  Senator  John  W.  Daniel,  of 
Virginia,  in  the  nature  of  a  biography  of  the  author.  8vo, 
cloth.     Price,  $z 

"The  Great  Parliamcnlarv  Battle  and  Farewell  .Addresses  of 


the  Southern  Senators  on  the  Eve  of  the  Civil  War."  By 
Thomas  R.  Martin.  The  contents  include:  "Great  Senators 
and  Great  Speeches  in  the  Old  Senate  Chamber;"  "The  Old 
Senate ;"  "Debate  between  John  C.  Breckinridge,  of  Kentucky, 
and  Edward  D.  Baker,  of  Oregon;"  "Pen  Pictures  of  the  Old 
Senate  and  the  New,  with  Senator  John  J.  Crittenden's  Great 
Speech  and  the  Vice  President's  Oration;"  "The  Great  Par- 
liamentary Battle  and  Farewell  Addresses  of  the  Southern 
Senators  on  the  Eve  of  the  Civil  War;"  "Judah  P.  Benjamin;" 
"Edward  D.  Baker;"  "John  C.  Breckinridge,"  etc.  8vo,  cloth. 
Price,  $2. 

"F'orty  Years  of  Active  Service."  By  Col.  Charles  T.  O'Fer- 
rall.  A  history  of  the  War  between  the  Union  and  the  Con- 
federacy, and  the  events  leading  up  to  it,  with  reminiscences 
of  the  struggle  and  accounts  of  the  author's  experiences  of 
four  years  from  private  to  lieutenant  colonel  and  acting  colonel 
in  the  cavalry  of  the  Army  of  Northern  Virginia;  also  much 
of  the  history  of  Virginia  and  the  nation,  in  which  the  author 
took  part  for  many  years  in  political  conventions  and  on  the 
hustings,  and  as  a  lawyer,  member  of  the  Legislature  of  Vir- 
ginia, judge,  menilier  of  the  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
United  States,  and  Governor  of  Virginia.  8vo,  cloth ;  with 
frontispiece  portrait  of  the  author.     Price,  $2. 

"The  War  between  the  Union  and  the 
Confederacy,  and  Its  Lost  Opportunities." 
By  Gen.  William  C.  Oates,  Colonel  in  the 
Confederate  Army.  Brigadier  General  in 
the  War  with  Spain,  fourteen  years  in 
Congress,  Governor  of  .Mabama,  etc.  An 
account  of  the  author's  experiences  in  the 
war;  a  justification  of  secession,  and  show- 
ing that  the  Confederacy  should  have  suc- 
ceeded ;  a  criticism  of  President  Davis, 
the  Confederate  Congress  and  some  of  the 
general  officers  in  the  Confederate  and 
Union  armies ;  the  author's  observations 
and  experiences  as  brigadier  general  in 
Ihe  War  with  Spain,  etc.  8vo,  cloth;  fully 
illustrated.     Price,  $3. 

"The  Southern  Literary  Messenger,  1834 
to  1864."  By  Benjamin  Blake  Minor, 
LL.D.,  editor  and  proprietor  from  1843  to 
1847.  Illustrated  by  portraits.  Dr.  Minor, 
who  has  recently  died  at  eighty-six  years 
of  age,  was  the  only  one  living  when  this 
book  was  written  thoroughly  familiar  through  personal  ex- 
perience with  the  history-  of 
this  old  magazine;  and 
through  his  long  experience 
in  the  world  of  letters,  of 
more  than  half  a  century,  he 
has  produced  a  history 
which  is  a  distinct  addition 
to  our  national  as  well  as 
Southern  literature.  i2mo, 
cloth;  fully  illustrated. 
Price,   $2. 

"Seventy-Five  Years  in 
Old  Virginia."  By  John 
Herbert  Claiborne,  M.A 
M.D.  An  account  of  the 
life  of  the  author  and  some 
history  of  the  people  among 
whom  his  lot  was  cast — 
tiieir     character,     condition,  cov.  Charles  t.  o'ferrall. 


-EV    SORREL. 


470 


Qo9fe^erat(^  l/eterai) 


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). 


471 


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- 


THE 

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AFLOAT 


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WOODMANj 

COVER  DESIGN,   GRE.MLY    REDUCED. 


472 


Qc.7federat^  l/eterai^. 


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. 


471 


Qo^federati^  l/eterar). 


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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,(VliJ. SUBJECT  TO 


,  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 


TENNESSEE  CENTRAL  R.  R. 

If  Yon  Are   Seeking 

a  Home,  a  Farm,  or  a 
[Stock  Farm,  a  location 
Ifor  a  Wood-Working 
'Factory,  a  location  for 
a  Factory  of  any  kind, 
for  Timber  Lands,  for 

Coal  Lands,  the  line  of 

the  Tennessee  Central  Kailroail  offers  the  finest 
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. 


JACKSONVILLE 

via  Valdosta  Route,  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 

ishville,  Chattanooga,  and  St.  I 
arriving  at 

ST.  LOUIS 


via  the  Nashville,  Chattanooga,  and  St.  Louis  Ry., 
arriving  at 


AND    AT 

CHICAGO 

over  the  Illinois  Central  R.  R.  from  Martin,  Tenn. 


DOUBLE  DAILY   SERVICE  AND 
THROUGH  SLEEPING  CARS 

MAINTAINED    OVBR   THIS 

SCENIC   LINE. 


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« 

Commercial  Agent. 


Qopfederati^  Ueterai). 


475 


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. 


Hours  Saved 

BY  TAKING  THE 


TO  THE 


North  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,  ipcly  to  Ticket  Agents 
of  csoimectlns  Udss.  or  to 

R.  T    G    MATTHEWS.  T.  P    A., 

LOuievicLt,  xv. 


H.  C.  TOWNSEND, 

OCH'k  rasa'R  and  tickit  aacNT.  ar.  kuib. 


SEABOARD 

Air  Line  Railway 

Short  Line 
Between  the 
South  and  East 

Through  trains  from  Birming- 
ham and  Atlanta  to  North  anel 
.South  Carolina  and  Virginia 
points,  also  Washington,  Balti- 
more, Philadelphia.  New  York, 
.'ind  connections  made  for  all 
points  East. 

THROUGH    SLEEPiyC    CARS 

f/.fC4/Vr  CArt  DIMNG 

CAR  SERVICE 

W.  E.  CNRISTItM.  «.  0.  P.  t.      R.  M.  COFFET.  T.  P.  t. 

tl6  Faachlree  St..  Atlanta.  Ga. 
EOWtRD  F.  COST.  2d  «.  Ptas.    CHtS.  ».  BTtll,  G  P.  «. 

Portamouth.  Va. 


«a«vaa«MW>i^aBa«MH'<^«MM^«Mffn«affn«B^M«>wn#a^^M 


4:76 


C^opfederat(^  l/eterap, 


SEAL 

OF  ANY 
STATE 


Sterling  silver,  handsomely  ^^ 
enameled  Brooch  pin,   with    /    j^ 
hook  for  chatelaine,  postpaid   '  ^^* 

J*.  JV.  MEyEP^ 

WASHINGTON,  D.  C. 


Sl  A.gnes  School 

FOR  GIRLS       Albany.  N.  Y.         36th  Year 

MISS  SEABURY,  Head  ol  School 
Rt.  Rev.  W.  C.  DOANE.  LL.D.,  President  of  Trustees 

A  srhool  estal'lishod  and  conducted  solely  in 
tile  interest  of  liii^lu-r  education.  Entire  in- 
come expended  in  suiiport  ot  school  Kelijfious 
training.  Teachers  devc.t.-d  sohdv  t«  work  of 
instruction.  Strung' musics  depurtnient.  Mod- 
ern buildings,  huiltlor  si-li.xd  j>uriwses.  Sepa- 
rate department  for  yotm^rcr  ]tu])iLs.  Location 
excellent  tor  health.  PreiiHi-ation  given  for 
leading  colleges.  Extra  y.-ar  r.-quircd  fur  St. 
Agnes  diploma.  Native  teachers  of  modern 
languages.  Exercise  in  gymnasiiim  and  out- 
door games  tinder  specialist.  Catalogue  on  re- 
quest. 

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, 
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., 
Cotton  Belt  Route,  Nashville,  Tenn. 


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- 
fers opportunities  for  fruit  and  truck 
growers  not  equaled  in  any  other  sec- 
tion of  our  country.  Write  for  litera- 
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. 


CONSUMPTION      <r' 


b«H 


How  to  Get  Thero 

QUICK 

The  Short  Line.  Via.  Bristol 

TO  THE  EAST 

Throxjgh  Train 
No  CKa-rvge 


Leave  NEW  ORLEANS,  Q.  &  C 7:30  p.m 

'•      MEMPHIS.  Sc.utheru  Rv 11:00  p.m 

•'      I'HATTAXOllOA.Soutii'nRy.  9:5.5  a.m 

••      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. 

Warren  L.  Rohr.  Westei-n  Passenger  Agent, 
Chattanooga,  Tenn. 

W.  B.  Bevill,  Ueneral  Passenger  Agent,  Ho* 
noke,  Va. 


TRAVEL  VIA   THE 


SOUTHERN 
RA IL  WA  Y 

The  Great-  ^      Through 

est  J^fS^Sleeping 

Southern 


System 

Double  Dai- 
ly Service 

Nashville  to 
the  East,  via 
Chattanooga 
and  Ashe/iile, 
through 


Car  Nash- 
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.  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 


FLORIDA 
eUBA 


Think  of  the  balmy  sunshine,  of  the 
frag:ranre  of  orange  blossoms,  of  the 
goldpD  fi'uits  of  Florida:  then  recall  tht- 
snow,  the  sleet,  the  biting  and  continued 
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 

"the  great  thoroughfare  to  the  tropicus.  * 
<-niitrolling  1.40(1  miles  of  standard  rail- 
way in  tlie  State  of  Florida. 

AVinter  tourist  tickets  now  on  sale  via 
this  linn  i  arry  tlie  following  privilegps 
without  additional  i(.st : 

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  illustrat^:*d  booklets  on  Florida, 
Cuba,  or  "What  to  Sav  in  Sjjanish,  and 
How  t^)  Say  It."  or  other  information. 
addi-ps.s 

C.  I/.  SPRAGUE,  T.  p.  A., 

.">il7  I'liinn  Trust  BiiildiiiK, 
CINCINNATI.  (_)HIO; 

W.  T.  CRAIG,  G.  P.  A., 

■\VILJlIX(lTON.  N.  C. 


WHISKYmdMORPHINE 

habit  cured.      Cravini:^  dostrovcd 
ill  4S  houi  s.     .'Semi  for  circulars. 

OPPENHEIMER  INSTITUTE 

622  Asylum  Ave.,  KNOXVILLE.  TENN. 


Soulliiirii  fljKaiisas  Laims. 

Timberoci.  rolling,  perfect  drainage, 
no  swamps,  good  water.  Grow  corn, 
cotton,  small  grains,  cow  peas,  and  be- 
lieved to  be  the  coming  clover  and 
alfalfa  country — porous  clay  soil  and 
clay  subsoil — cheapest  lands  in  South- 
west. Splendid  stock  country — ten 
months'  range. 

Write  for  Southern  Arkansas  booklet 
and  home  seekers'  rates  September  19, 
October  3  and  17.  November  7  and  21. 

W.  G.  ADAMS,  T.  P.  A., 
Cotton  Belt  Route,  Nashville,  Tenn. 


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 

ruUivation.     Tliousands  f»f  free  homesteads.     Still  more  thon- 

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- 

—^^ ri«'h  iti  oil,  rieh  in  timber.  ri<-h  in  soil.     Xo 

laud  in  Auieriia  better  worth  havintj  ami  liolilintc. 

OKI     AHOMA    The    "What    Next"    Territory,     Xearly    ii    half-milli   n 
^-^***-'*^"^-^^  «*-».  aere.s  more  to  be  oiiened  this  year.     Only  a  lejuse  this  t  ni.-. 

but  8k.  lease  in  the  South^vest  is  a  foothold.    Write 

I'  .r  ilhistrateii  literatiu"  anil  information  regarding  low  rates  Southwest  in  effee    the  first 
and  third  Tuesdays  of  each  luonth. 


Rock  Island 
System 


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GEO.  H.  LEE, 

Gen.  Pass.  Agt., 

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, 


ECONOMIZE  y""'  """^  ^■"'''  ^y  "''"s 

modrrn,     i>ig:Ii  -  grade     oflice 
supplies. 
LES3EN   *^*  oflice  force  by  having  your  let- 
ters  and  circulars    niimeoe'raplied — 
inipossibleto  distinguish  from  origi- 
nal writings. 
LP^D^     modern    business  methods  by  apply- 
ing to 

n.   M.    ^VARIXTIER  *  CO. 

17  Arcade,  Naghville,  Tenn, 


O.    BREVER'S 
Russian  and   Turkish   Baths 

and  First-Class  Barber  Shop 

FOR  GKXTLEMKV  ONLY. 
117  Chnroh  Street,      NA8HVIl:,I.K,  TENN. 

Open  Day  and  Right.  V.  C.  KmiUM.  Fnt. 


^HHSHSa 


478 


Qor}federat^  l/eterai). 


To  San  Francisco 

WITH    THE 

CHRISTIAN  MISSION 
SPECIAL 


VIA 


SantaFe 

1  r 


2,200   MILES 

of   scenic   beautv,    with    all    the    com- 
forts of  a  special  Pullman  train. 

THE   SANTA    FE 

has  been  designated  by  the  olTicials  of 
the  Christian  Church  as.  the 

OFFICIAL   ROUTE 

THE  SPECIAL  LEAVES  TEXAS  AUGUST  10TH. 


For  jiarticiilar  information  address 
W.  S.  KEENAN,  G.  P.  A., 

GALVESTON. 


THROUGH  SERVICE 

L.  &  N.,  E.  &  T.  H.  and  C.  &  E.  I. 


2Vestibuled  Through  Trains  Daily     o 
NASHVILLE  TO  CHICAGO    ^ 
THROUGH  SLEEPERS  .kd  DAY  COACHES 
NEW  ORLEANS  TO  CHICAGO 

DINING  CARS  SERVING  ALL   MEALS  EN   ROUTE 

D.  H.  HILLMAN,  G.  P  A..     S.  L  ROGERS,  Qen.  Agt. 


CVANfiVILLE, 


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'smmMhmm^&m^ 


LETTER 
PAPER 

n  n  n  n 


CONFEDERATE 

^       VETE'RAJWS 
DAX/GHTE'RS 


NEW  REDUCED  PRICES 

WHILE  THE  STOCK  LASTS 

$3.50  gets  250  sheets  in  3  tablets 
$4.25  gi'ts  500  sheets  in  5  tablets 

These   prices  include  the   printing  of  the  name   of   the   Camp,    Chapter, 
etc.,  the  names  of  the  officers,  and  post  office  addresses. 
Stock  ruled  or  unruled. 


Brandon    Printing    Co.,        ^        Manufacturing  Statlor^ers, 

•="  E-ngravers,  Printers,  LithograpKers, 


J^ASHVILLE.   TEJiiJW. 


General  Office  Outfitters. 


VERY  LOW  RATES. 

Home  seekers'  round-trip  rates  TO  ALL  POINTS  SOUTHWEST.     On  sale  lirst 
and  third  Tuesdays  of  each  month. 

Low  Golonist  Rates 

TO  CALIFORNIA  AND  THE  NORTHWEST.     On  sale  daily,  September  15  to 

October  31. 


il'ri//'   for  i!/fiir)U(i/ion   atiJ  Uieraturr. 

PAUL  S,  WEEVER,  T.  P.  A.,  J.  N.  CORNATZAR,  A.  G.  P.  A., 

Nashville,  Tenn.  Memphis,  Tenn. 


The  Campbcll-Hagcrman  College 

For  Girls  and  Young  Women 

Faculty  of  31  members.  Departments  of  Music, 
Art,  Elocution.  Phv-.sical  t'ulture,  and  Domestic 
Scieni'o.      Splendid    new    buildings.      Session 
opens  September  1:;.    Apply  to 
B.  C.  HAGERMAN,  President,  Lexington,  Ky. 


iHZ.i  "'Songs  of  the  Confederacy" 

and  Pl;iiitntif>n   Melndies  now  ready.     Hantlsoiiudy 
I)onml,  with  cuts  of  Cunfedfrate  Hag's  on  tilk--pag-c. 

PRICE,  SOC.  PER  COPY.  PREPAID.    S4.60  PER  DOZ. 

Address  The  George  B.  Jenningfs  Co,,  Cincinnati, 

General  Music  Dealers.    Established  J  893. 

{MtnliuH  Cunjtdeiate  Vtleran  when  wriliny.) 


LEARN  TELEGRAPHY  &  R.  R.  ACCOUNTING 

f50  to  flOO  per  moDth  salary  aBiured  our  gradaatat 
ander  bond.  Yoa  don't  pay  us  until  yon  kava  a 
position.  Largest  svstam  of  telegraph  schools  In 
▲merlca.     Indorsed  by  all  railway  officials. 

OPERATORS   ALWAYS  IN  DEMAND. 

Ladles  also  admitted.    Write  for  catalogue. 

MORSE  SCHOOL  OF  TELEGRAPHY, 

Olnclnnatl.  Ohl*.  Buffalo.  N.  T.,  Atlanta.  Qa..  La 
Oroasa,  Wis.,  Taxarkama,  Tax.,  San  Franolaoo,  0*1. 


YOU  CAN   DRINK 

THREE  TIMES  A  DAY  fioma 
spring  more  powerful  than  any 
known  in  Europe  and  America  if 
you  want  to;  you  can  drink 
glass  afU-r  glass  of  healing,  puri- 
f  y  i  n  g.  cleansing,  curing. 
strengthening  tonic  waters; 
stronger,  more  powerful,  more 
eiririi-nt  than  any  the  rich  and 
pn-ut  cRu  get  from  the  live,  flow- 
ing •-i)n'itrs  and  wells  at  Bath. 
BhiI'mi.  Carlsbad.  Sarato;ra  Mt. 
Cli'inons.  Freni'h  Lick.  Hot 
Sprin^^s.  White  Sulphur  Springs. 
or  any  o'  the  well  -  known 
places  where  the  rich  get  beilth 
and  strength:  and  you  need  not 
step  outside  of  your  door  to  do 
it.  need  not  call  a  doctor  to  pre- 
scribe it,  need  not  put  U[i  a  pen- 
ny to  get  it. 


IF  YOU  ARE  SICK. 

ailing,  weak,  deliilitated,  worn- 
out,  feeble:  if  the  organs  of  your 
body  are  not  working  rightly,  in 
proper  harmonv  and  correct 
accord:  if  your  mind  is  no 
strong  and  clear  because  of  bodi- 
ly ill  health:  if  your  food  does 
not  feed  you;  if  your  sleep  d  >os 
n  >t  rest  you;  if  your  blood  does 
not  strengthen  and  sustain  you 
— you  can  nave  the  advantage  of 
a  mineral  spring  condensed  and 
concentrated,  every  glass  of 
which  is  equal  to  -W  glasses  of 
the  waters  of  the  most  powerful 
healing  mineral  spring  of  which 
man  has  knowledge,  every  glass- 
ful of  which  will  help  t^^  set  you 
right  make  you  hearty,  make 
you  whole:  and  you  <^an  have  it 
brought  ready  to  y<nir  hanil 
and  lips,  right  to  your  chamber 
door. 


VITAEORE  IS   ALL  THIS. 

will  do  all  this.  It  is  an  Ore  a 
mineral,  from  a  mine  of  medi- 
cine-bearing rock,  ground  up. 
pulverized,  into  a  fine  powder. 
You  have  only  to  mix  it  with 
water  (nothing  else)  to  make  the 
water  that  is  all  this,  that  will 
do  all  this,  that  will  do  it  as  sure- 
ly as  the  sun  rises  every  morn- 
ing in  the  eastern  sky  and  sets 
in  the  western.  It  is  from  the 
earth's  veins,  and  was  put  there 
for  the  good  of  your  veins,  to 
make  rich,  red  blood,  to  make 
health,  strength,  and  energy— 
what  God  intended  all  should 
have. 


YOU  CAN  HAVE 

A  PACKAGE  oi  this  Ore  for  the 
asking.  It  will  not  cost  you  a 
penny  unless  it  helps  you.  If  it 
helps  you  you  will  owe  us  ONK 
DOLLAR.  If  it  does  not  help  you, 
you  will  owe  us  nothing.  You 
have  but  to  ask  for  it.  to  say  that 
you  have  never  l>efore  used  it, 
that  you  want  and  need  it  and  a 
package  will  be  sent  to  you, 
enough  to  make  120  glasses  of 
this  all-powerful  all-pervading 
all-reaching,  all  curing,  all-hoal- 
ing  water.  You  are  to  judg*'  it, 
to  decide  whether  or  not  it  ha.H 
helped  you.  whether  or  not  Vmu 
should  pay  for  it.  You  alone  "are 
to  be  the  judge.  Read  our  spe- 
cial offer. 


A  SERIOUS 

COMPLICATION 

Was  Bedfast  for  17 

Weeks 

HOW  CURED 

7ita9-0re  was  the  means  ot 

saving  my  life  and  lescued 
me  from  an  existence  that 
wa*>  almost  unlx'arabh'.  I 
had  bi'en  sutTenng  lor  a  long 
tid  e  with  Nervous  Uysnep- 
sia  and  Prostrutn.n,  anl  ral- 
pitation    of    the     Heart    ,  nd 


Smothering  Spells.  Female 
Weakness,  Catarrh  of  tlie 
Head.  Throat,  and  St<3ma<'Ii. 
Kidney  and  Bladder  Troubles, 
In  fact,  I  do  not  belit^ve  I  had 
a  sound  organ  in  my  body.  I 
was  bedfast  for  si'venteen 
weeks,  when  I  was  indu  ed 
by  reading  the  3  i-day  trial  of- 
fer to  give  V,-0.  a  trial,  I 
think  it  was  a  Godsend,  as 
all  niv  diseases  began  to  yield 
immediately,  and  I  amnow 
cured.  Can  do  all  my  house- 
work with  pleasure  and  sleep 
hkeachild.  jmd  have  a  verv 
good  appetite.  I  have  takcii 
v.-O.  only  two  months,  and 
have  gained  18  pounds.  i 
hope  ©very  poor  sufferer  will 
try  ihis  remedy  and  Vie  cured 
as  I  have.  Mrs.  J.  O.  Pur- 
BAUOH,  Wallace.  Nebr. 


Read  Tin's  Special  Offer! 

IV  E  WILL  SEND  to  ev^^TV  sick  and  ailing  person  who  writes  us,  mentioning 
'"  the  C -oNFKUERATK  Vetkran.  a  full--.izod  Oiie  Hollar  package  of  VlT.E-ORK  by 
mail.  ])ostpaid,  sufficient  tor  one  months  treatment,  t..  be  paid  for  within  one 
month's  time  after  reeeipt,  if  the  receiver  can  truthfully  say  that  its  use  has 
d«»ne  him  or  her  more  gntHl  than  all  the  drugs  and  dopes  of  quacks  or  go<»ddor- 
t'lrs  or  I'atcnt  niedieines  that  h-  or  she  ha?>  ever  used.  Kiail  this  (»ver  again 
rurefully.  and  understand  that  we  ask  our  pay  only  uhrii  it  has  rtotio  you  goeil, 
:iiiil  not  liprni)'.  We  take  all  the  risk;  you  have  nothing  to  lose.  If  it  does  nor 
heiieht  vnii,  V'>u  )iav  \is  nothing 

Vit}p-Or«  is  a  natural,  hard,  adamantine,  rocklike  substance— mineral— ore - 
mined  from  the  ground  like  gold  and  silver,  and  requires  al>out  twenty  years  for 
o.\idi2at;on.  It  cmtains  free  iron,  free  sulphur  and  magnesium,  and  one  pack- 
age will  equal  in  medicinal  strength  and  curative  value  H«)(i  gallons  of  the  most 
powerful,  efticHcious  mineral  water  <lrunk  fresh  at  thesjtrings.  It  is  a  geological 
discovery.  t«  which  nothing  is  added  and  from  whi<h  nothing  is  tjiken.  It  is 
the  marvel  of  the  century  Inr  curing  such  diseases  as  llh('iimflti*«ni,  KrUht'i  DU- 
rA<it>  tdoiid  I'olMtniufr.  Ili-iirt  Troiihle.  Oropsj.  ('ntarili  nitil  Ihioiil  Arfrrtinnfi,  I.Wrr, 
K  iilnpy.  Rii'l  Itlndilor  Ailtumts,  stoniaih  ami  Kciitalp  IHnnrder^,  l.a  (Jrlppe.  Malarial 
h pvtT,  Npnotifi  I'mHlmtion,  niMl  (Jftieial  Di'ltilltjr.  as  thousands  testify,  and  as  no 
one,  answennt;  this,  writing  for  a  package,  will  deny  after  using,  Vit»-4>r»  has 
eured  more  cnronic.  olt^tmate,  pronounced  ineurable  cases  than  any  other 
known  medicine,  and  will  reach  such  cases  with  a  more  rapid  and  powerful 
curative  action  than  anv  medicine,  combination  of  medicines,  or  doctor's  pre- 
scrii)tiona  which  it  is  possible  to  procure. 

Tit»-Orc  will  do  the  same  tor  y-m  as  it  has  done  for  hundreds  of  reader-  of  the 
CoSKFPKHA TK  Vktkran  if  yi'U  Will  givc  it  a  trial  Send  fitr  a  !f  1  pat  kage  atonr  i  i>k. 
Ycm  have  !i  tiling  to  lose  but  the  stamp  to  answer  this  aiiiioiineement.  Wi'  "ant 
nooiioN  iiio'iry  «hom  Vltjp-Orf  rniniot  lirni  nt.  \  an  arc  Uihv  I  hi-  jui)g<!  Can  anythim; 
be  more  fjtir-  What  sensible  ]».'rson,  im  matter  how  i»re.]udiced  he  <>r  slle  inav 
be,  who  desires  a  cure  and  is  willin:^  to  pay  tor  it.  would  hesitate  t  ■  trv  Vit;!*- 
t>rc<)n  this  liberal  otter''  0\w  jiuckage  is  usuallv  sufficient  to  cure  ordinary  ta**es; 
two  or  three  for  (dironic.  obstinate  v-ase.s.  We  mean  just  what  we  say  in  this 
announcement,  and  will  do  just  what  we  agree  Write  t^wlay  for  a  package  at 
our  risk  and  expense,  giving  your  age  and  ailments  and  mention  the  rt>NFED- 
KRATK  Vktkhan,  so  we  may  Know  that  you  are  entitle-l  to  this  liberal  otter. 


YOUR  DoeroR 


may  tell  you  that  your  case  is  incura- 
ble, that  medical  science  is  unaVde  to 
help  you,  that  all  you  <  a  i  expeet  is  temporary  or  slight  relief.  Well,  let  him 
think  so.  He  is  certainly  entitled  to  his  opinion.  You  need  not  think  s  •  unless 
you  wish  to.  Many  people,  whose  testimony  appears  in  thelwoksand  pamphlc\e 
of  theTHKO.  NOKI,  COMPANY,  were  told  that  their  eases  were  hopeless,  helpless, 
impossilile.  Micurable.  past  all  recovery,  yet  ffad  thrir  testimony.  Many  were 
told  that  they  had  but  a  few  short  years— some  but  months— to  live,  yet  read 
their  trntintony.  There  are  more  things  in  heaven  and  earth  than  are  dreamed 
ot  in  the  doctor  s  philosophy,  and  Vltfe-Ore  is  one  of  them. 

SEJVD  FOR  a  BIG  PTIGKTIGE  ON  TRIAL 


Not  a  Penny  Unless  You  Are  Benefited 


40  YEARS'  ILLNESS 

COMPLETELY   CURED 

WIFE  ALSO  CURED 

OF  A  SEKIOUS  COMFLICA 
TION  OF  TROUBLES 

Fnr  fnrtv  years  I  tinffereil  wUh 
Kheuniatism.  and  for  i«ixt««n 
VBTB  I  was  subject  to  Faiiitinif 
B  pel  la  followed  bv  dizzineso;  for 
neven  years  I  had  ItrbingPUeR. 
I  also  had  a  o<>|]tinu«cl  recur- 
rence of  a  St.niach  Uiaorder 
and  could  not  retain  my  food,  i 
^vaa  a  weak.  bplplesB  wreck 
w)ien  I  bpgan  n<:ing  Vitw-Ore. 
liiit  two  wf-f-lcs'  n^e  of  a  trial 
irealinent  caused  a  marked  im 


provement  In  my  cane.      I  have 

now  used  five  packa^ei  In  all. 
and  my  RheumatiBm  bai  been 
tntirtly  cured.  The  Ptlen. 
FaiDting  Spelln.  and  Stomach 
TroiiMe  disappeared  montiji 
ago  and  have  n'<t  returned. 

I    pp-nt    linn.lreds    of  dollart 
for  medicine,  and  cot  no  rebuilt* 
■intil  I  used  Vitfli  Ore.  therefore 
cannot    praise    It    enouch.     I 
.rish  to  mention  also  the  case 
of  my  wife,  who   Auffered  with 
Rheumatism.     Piles,    and     Pro- 
lapsus.     I    pprsuB'led    her    last 
unmier  to  use    Vii»  Ore.    'uie 
acLace    relieved    hor    greatly, 
iid   after  a    month'i   use    of    It 
lie  was  well,  and  remains  so. 
Reuben  M.  Morsb. 
Newport.  R.  1. 


This  offer  will  challeng-e  the  attention  and  conbiderati<ui,  and  afterwards  the  gratitude,  of  every  living  person  who  desires  better  health 
or  who  suffers  pains,  ills,  and  diseases  which  have  delied  the  medii-al  world  and  grown  worse  with  age.  We  care  not  for  Vf»ur  skepticism,  but 
ask  only  your  investigation,  and  at  our  expense,  regardless  of  what  ills  you  have,  by  sending  to  us  for  a  package.      Address 


Theo.   Noel  Qo., 


VETERTIX   DEPT., 
VITTE'ORE  BUILDING, 


ehlca^o,   ill. 


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 


:->>,;:-:v_3gfg^^g^\2---^_-fz'-  ■ 


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. 


482 


Qc.-jfederat^  l/eterai). 


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- 
serve their  own  health ;  hov/  to  recog- 
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. 


H.  G.  Lipscomb  ^  Co. 


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carry  most 

coiiij)lete  linos 

of    li^lit   and  heavy 

Cxitlery.  (ions.  Implements,  and  Tools,  etc.  Agents  fur  the  bc^t  goods— Vulcan  Plows,  Sanders 
Disc:  Plows,  Disston  Kaw.i.  Peiiinsnla  Paint  Comiiany's  Ready-Mixed  Paints.  Elwood  and  Banner 
Woven  Wire  Fencing.    Also  V  Crimp  and  d^rruguted  Steel  Roofing.  Roofmg  Pajier,  etc:. 

^ec^onable  T^rtces  and  'Prompt  Shipment-s, 

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Eaton-Hurlbiit^>  Beauiifiil  FlorL-ntine  Cabinet 
contains  three  quires  i  three  si2es)  of  Fabric 
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match— each  size  has  a  haif-quire  in  light  blue 
and  a  half-qtme  in  white. 

A    Year's    Supply-    for    $2.75 

Emho^ised  in  ;iiiy  cnlor  with  anv  moiinj;rain 
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intials  for  monogram  plainly.  Order  <arly  as 
speci.d  die  for  monocram,  which  we  send  with 
cabinet,    must    be    made    fur    each    ord<-r, 

Kiiiboiised  i\\  Gold  or  Silver  $3.00 
Vlsltlii);  Cards  ino  cards  and  engraved 
plate;  Script,  §125;  Old  English  $2. 25  Shaded 
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and  all  other  diseases  of  tlie  e.ve.  Aliso- 
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write  us.  Special  attention  paid  mail 
orders.    Price,  50c.  a  Battle. 

COOK  CHEMICAL  COMPANY, 

500":  Church  St.         Nashville,  Tenn. 


OLD  SOLDIERS  %vantocl  to  sell  the 
Delta  Remedy  Co.'s  Chills  and 
Feveu  CaRE.  One  dose  cures  ef- 
fectively and  harmless!}'.  Send  a  two- 
cent  stamp  for  free  sample.  Reenlar 
price,  $1.00.  P.O.  Box  24-5.  Memphis, 
Tenn. 

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Shrewd  men  wanted  in  every  communily,  to  act  under  insiruc- 
lions;  previous  experience  not  neci'ssary.  Send  for  free  bi'tif. 
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write  to 

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LOUISVILLE,  KY. 


Do  Your  Own  Thinking. 

Some  men  believe  in  quinine  because  it  has 
not  killed  them.  Yet  a  rattlesnake  would  not 
make  a  sh^j  rattle  fur  the  haliy  because  some 
man  liad  survived  the  bite  of  one. 

We  contend  that  quinine  Ls  no  cure  at  all  for 
fe%-er.  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  terminate  fatal- 
ly, and  never  would  but  for  the  employment  of 
quinine. 

Men  who  know  what  Johnson's  Tonic  is  fro 
right  along  and  attend  to  their  btisiness.  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  FEVEK 
TONIC  CO..  Savannah,  Ga. 


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Indors!id  hy  Ijnsinejis  men.  For  Catalotrxie.  ad- 
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ition  out  of  .salary,  Ni  i  vacat  ion.  Enter  an  y  t'i  me. 
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AnOldandWHI-Tried  Remedy, 

MRS.    WINSLOW'S     SOOTHINC     SYRUP 

*M  hfeo  uBe.1  vt-iHIXTY    VKAKSbv   MIII,Ii>Nfl|( 

MOTHERS  f.iT  Iheit  CHILDREN  WHILE  TKETUINft, 
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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. 

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possible  what  they  desire  in  the  Veter.xn.  using  good  paper 
and  typewriting  when  practicable,  they  would  secure  space 
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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 


QoQfederace  Ueterat) 


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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 


Qoi>federat(^  Ueterap, 


•489 


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- 


490 


Qor^fedsrat^  l/eterap. 


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. 


Qopfederate  l/eterai>. 


491 


(^oi>federate  l/eterap. 

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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Qor>federat(^  l/eterai). 


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 


Qopfederati^  l/eterai}. 


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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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Qoofederat^  l/etera!). 


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 


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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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Qoofederac^  Uetera^. 


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. 


Qo^federat^  l/eterap 


501 


"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. 


502 


Qopfederat^  Ueterai). 


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. 


Qo9fe^erat(^  l/eterar). 


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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 


I. 


LIF.l    1.    r.K.xni.KV    STOKES 

.   Ashbv"s 


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 


504 


Qor)J-ederat(^  l/eterap. 


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- 


Qo^federati^  l/eterai). 


505 


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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Qor^federati^  l/eterai}. 


'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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Qopfederat^  l/eterar>. 


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. 


i 


Qopfederat^  l/eterar?. 


609 


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, 


510 


Qopfederat^  l/eterai>. 


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. 


Qoi>federate  l/eterai}. 


511 


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- 


512 


Qopfederat(^  l/eterat), 


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. 


Qopfederat^  l/eterar). 


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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- 


5U 


Qorpfederat*^  l/cterai}. 


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- 


Q^oi>federat^  l/eterai). 


515 


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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C^opfederat^  l/eterap. 


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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Qo9federat(^  l/etera^. 


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 
known,  the  Hon.  James  D.  Richardson  a  few  years  ago  com- 
piled, by  authority  of  Congress,  'The  Messages  and  Papers 
of  the  Presidents,'  which  comprised  the  State  papers  of  all 
the  Presidents,  from  Washington  to  McKinley.  Later  he  con- 
ceived the  idea  of  publishing  another  work  as  a  companion 
piece  to  his  first  great  effort.  Realizing  the  deep  interest  mani- 
fested by  the  people  everj'where  in  reading  the  history  of  our 
country,  written  by  the  Presidents  themse'  "es,  and  noting 
especially  the  attention  attracted  by  the  papers  of  President 
Lincoln,  as  he  detailed  the  events  of  that  fearful  struggle,  the 
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 
President  Davis,  entitled  the  'Messages  and  Papers  of  the 
Confederacy,'  including  the  interesting  and  important  diplo- 
matic correspondence.  This  work,  which  stands  without  pred- 
ecessor, competitor,  or  successor,  is  admittedly  the  great- 
est, most  complete,  and  only  authentic  history  of  the  War 
between  the  States,  containing  as  it  does  the  State  papers, 
official  utterances,  and  other  authentic  information  from  the 
great  fountain  head,  the  President  of  the  Confederacy,  and  his 
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." 

"The  Land  of  the  Rising  Sun." 
By  Gregoire  De  Wollant.  Neale  Publishing  Company. 
Price,  $1.50.  The  public  welcomes  a  comprehensive  history  of 
the  people  and  country  of  Japan,  for  general  interest  has  cen- 
tered around  that  remarkable  little  country  during  its  strug- 
gle with  one  of  the  world's  great  powers.  The  publication 
just  issued  ("The  Land  of  the  Rising  Sun")  is  a  Russian 
translation  made  by  the  author,  "with  the  assistance  of  Ma- 
dame De  Wollant,"  and  is  a  book  of  real  power,  as  well  as  a 
compendium  of  information  for  the  student.  Japanese  char- 
acteristics are  treated  of  from  prehistoric  conditions  to  the 
present  time,  and  the  "Economical  and  Financial  Situation  of 
Japan"  is  also  fully  considered  in  the  volume. 

By  a  careful  reading  of  this  book  it  is  not  difficult  to  trace 
the  source  of  the  wonderful  moral  and  physical  strength  of  a 
people  who,  though  small  in  stature,  are  of  commanding 
height  in  development  and  in  natural  intellect.  The  subject 
would  raturally  be  one  of  special  moment  from  the  Russian 
point  of  view,  and  it  is  worthy  of  note  ''at  the  information 
gathered    by   the    Russian    author    is    r  e   and    complete. 

The  English  is  forceful  and  the  style 


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Qo9federat(^  l/eterar?. 


"A  Belle  of  the  Fifties."  The  memoirs  of  Mrs.  Clement 
Clopton  Clay,  of  Alabama,  covering  social  and  political  life 
in  Washington  and  the  So'Jth,  1853  to  1866,  put  into  narra- 
tive form  by  Ada  Sterling.  The  book  is  full  of  the  most  en- 
tertaining anecdotes  of  prominent  people  of  that  time,  giving 
as  well  a  vivid  picrre  of  the  capture  and  conveyance  to 
Fortress  Monroe  of  Mr.  Davis  and  Mr.  Clay.  Price,  $2.75; 
with  the  Veteran,  $3.50;  premium  for  11  subscriptions. 


?   ■  FORREST'S  CAVALRY  CORPS. 

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. 


%  yosEMH^ 


Is  the  tourist's  paradise  of  California.    The 
points  of  Interest  .-tre  EI  Capltan,  Three 

Brotliers,  Wasliington  Column,  Cathe- 
dral Korlts,  the  Sentinel,  Half  Dome, 
Krldal  Veil  Falls,  Yosemite  Falls,  Mlrnir 
Lake    and    Cloud's    Rest.     The    Yosemite 
Falls  are  composed   of  Three   Cascades,  the 
first  helug  1600  feet,  the  second  6O1)  and  the  last 
400  feet  high.   These  attractions  are  best  reached  via 

UNION  PACIFIC 

The  I'opnlar  Koute  to 

CALIFORNIA 


E.  L.  LOMAX,  G.  P.  &  T.  A. 

OMAHA,  NEBR. 


Qopfederate  l/eteraij. 


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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. 


TENNESSEE  CENTRAL  R.  R. 

If  Ton  Are   Seeking 

a  Home,  a  F.arm,  or  a 
LStock  Farm,  a  location 
for  a  Wood-Working 
Factory,  a  location  for 
a  Factory  of  any  kind, 
for  Timber  Lands,  lor 

Coal  Lands,  thelineof 

the  Tennessoe  Centrnl  R.iilo.iii  offers  Che  finest 
opporlnnity  in  llieS  ntli — f'>r  Ihe  Homo  Seeker, 
the  Mann  Tact  It  n-r,  And  Die  Farmer.  Jt  is  ancwr 
•ine  ninnini?  Ihrouph  a  new  and  rich  eoun  ry. 
and  accessiitle  liy  r.^iI  to  all  jinrtsof  the  ITnitca 
Slates.    For  further  information  atiiiress 

T.  k.  ROUSSEAU,  Chief  Clerk  Traffic  Dept., 

NASHVILLE.  TENN. 


JACKSONVILLE 

vU  Valdo&ta  Routr,  from  Valdosta  via  Georgia 

Southern  anH  Klorida  It  v..  from  Macon 

via  Crntral  of  <Trorgia  Ily,,  from 

ATLANTA 

via  Western  and  Atlanlir  U.  R  ,  from 

CHATTANOOGA 


NASHVILLE 

ishville,  Chaltanrvoga.  i*n<l   Si.  1 
arriving  al 

ST.  LOUIS 


tU  the  Nashville,  Chaitanrvoga,  an<l  Si.  Louis  Ry., 
arriving  al 


CHICAGO 

ertr  Iht  Illlnoll  Cenlril  It.  R.  from  Martin,  Tenn. 


DOUBLE  DAILY   SERVICE  AND 
THROUGH  SLEEPING  CARS 

MAINTAINKU    0\BR    THIS 

SCENIC   LINE. 


TIckrt  BEfents  of  Ihc  Jacksonville. St.  Louis  and 
Chlcaro  Une,  and  agents  of  connecting  lines  In 
Ftoriffii  and  the  Southeast,  will  eive  you  full  infor- 
mation aa  to  schedules  of  this  donhle  daily  service 
to  St.  Ix>ui8,  Chicago,  and  the  Northwest,  und  of 
train  lime  of  lines  connecting.  They  will  also  sell 
yon  tickets  and  advise  you  as  to  rates. 


r.  D.  MILLER,  Atlawta,  Ga. 

Traveling  Passenger  Agent  I.  C.  K.  K. 

F.  IL  WHHKLEU,  Nasmvilub,  Tkmh. 

Commercial  Agent. 


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- 
dresses were  made  by  Senator  J.  H. 
Berry,   Judge    R.    L.   Rogers,   and   other 


prominent  citizens  of  the  State.  Me- 
morial services  were  held  for  the  com- 
rades from  there  who  died  during  the 
war.  A  nice  sum  was  secured  for  the 
monument  to  the  Women  of  the  South. 


Hours  Saved 

BY  TAKING  THE 


TO  THE 

IMorth  and  East 

VIA 

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  connecting  lines,  or  to 

R.  T.  G.  MATTHEWS,  T.  P.  A., 


LOUISVtLLH,  KY. 


H.  C.  TOWNSEND, 

QCN'L  PASS-R  AND  TICKET  AOINT,  ST.  L*UI& 


SEABOARD 

Air  Line  Railway 

Short  Line 
Between  the 
South  and  East 

Through  trains  from  Birming- 
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.  CHIISTItll,  I.  0.  P. «.      a.  M.  COFFET,  T.  P.  I. 

116Peachtr»SI.,iltlinli,  6a. 

EDWtBD  F.  COST,  2d  «.  Prts.   CHtS.  B.  ITAI,  G.  P.  1. 

Ptfltiiituth,  Vi. 


(^or}federac(^  Uecerai). 


525 


Confederate  Pins 


(SIZE   OF  CUT.) 

Plated  Enamel,  25c. 

Rolled  Plate  and  Enamel,  45c. 

Solid  Gold  and  Enamel.  ?0c. 

t^ENT    PnSTPAID  ON   RECEIIT  OF   PRICK. 

Send  for  Price  List  So. 
17   of   Flags   and    Pins. 

SIM      MFYFR     Manufacturer. 
.    [■%.    ITILILIX,    Washington.  O.C. 


St.  A^gnes  School 

FOR  GIRLS       Albany.  N.Y.         36th  Year 

MISS  SEABURY.  Head  of  School 
Rt.  Rev.  W.  C.  DOANE,  LL.D.,  President  of  Trustees 

A  Bchool  estRlilished  and  conducted  solely  in 
tho  int*irost  of  higher  eJuc-atiou.  Entiro  in- 
comoexpeu'le  i  in  supi)ortof  school.  R  'lijrious 
trainiutr.  Teachers  acv()tcd  polely  to  work  of 
in.strnction.  Strongs  mxisic  department.  ]\I(m1- 
era  buildings.  Imilt  for  school  purixjses.  Sojm- 
rate  deiiarinient  for  youm:rcr  )iui'il.'^  Location 
es<'ellent  for  healtli.  Preparation  pivcu  for 
leading  colleges.  Extra  year  n-ipiircd  for  8t. 
Agues  diploma.  Kativo  teachers  of  nindorn 
lauf^uapcs.  Excrciso  in  pymnr^si.nu  and  out- 
door games  under  speeialist.  Cataluyuo  on  ro- 
tpiest. 

Autograph  Letters  Bought. 


I  wish  to  purchase  letters  of  Confederate 
generals,  also  of  Davis  and  his  Cabinet,  and 
Revolutionary  and  Colonial  letters.  Send  list 
of  what  you  have. 

Walter  R.  Benjamin,  I W.  34th  Sf  ,  New  York  City. 


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,  Longviewr,  San 
Antonio,  and  Laredo.  Through  Pull- 
tnan  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, 
Ky 


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 
between  the  States.  Perhaps  some  com- 
r.idc  can  recall  him  as  a  member  of 
ili.Tt  command. 


$600  GIVEN  AWAY. 


Christmas  Presents  for  Subscribers 
to  the  Weekly  Courier-Journal. 


The  Weekly  Courier-Journal  (Henry 
Watterson's  paper)  wants  to  share  the 
profits  of  this  prosperous  year  with  its 
subscribers.  It  proposes  to  give  away 
twenty  Christmas  presents,  ranging 
from  $100  to  $20,  amounting  to  $600  in 
all.  There  will  be  four  general  presents 
of  $100,  $50,  $30,  and  $20  and  sixteen 
presents  of  $30  and  $20  to  be  given  in 
the  States  of  Kentucky,  Indiana,  Ten- 
nessee, Texas,  Mississippi,  Missouri, 
Virginia,  and  Alabama.  The  plan  is  fair 
and  simple.  Write  to  the  Courier-Jour- 
nal Company,  Louisville,  Ky.,  for  a  copy 
of  the  Weekly  Courier-Journal,  giving 
full  details.     It  will  be  sent  free. 


Orange,  Olive,  and  English 
Walnut  Orchards  m  California. 

FOR  SALE  IN  SUBDIVISIONS. 


Free  from  frost  and  fog,  eighty  acres 
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  limlte 
of  Anaheim,  sixtv-acre  walnut  orchard, 
thirty-three  shares  water  stock,  fifteen 
acres  interset  with  Royal  apricots,  and 
(ifteenacres  intersetwith  Elberta  peaches; 
seven-room  house  and  barn.  Quarter  of 
a  mile  from  railroad,  school,  store,  and 
post  office.  Terms,  $;5,ooo  for  each 
ranch,  one-third  cash,  balance  at  six  per 
cent  net,  .semiannually. 

VICTOR  MONTGOMERY, 

Santa  Ana,  Cal. 


Mrs.  Byrd  P.  Dominick,  of  Turin, 
Ga.,  writes  of  the  graves  of  two  sol- 
diers in  the  cemetery  there — J.  P.  Linder 
(or  Lindle)  and  A.  O.  Sloan — which 
were  marked  and  inclosed  by  the  Wom- 
an's Club  of  Turin  last  year.  These 
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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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 


^ 


^ 


^ 


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. 


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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 

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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 
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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 


V^^^^^^^^^HBaL^HbAe       id^^^^^^^^^^H 

.  v'^p^3 

W'^W    '^1 

i 

^^MrP^^^^^^^K^^^^k^^^ 

MRS.    S.    E.    GABBETT,    CUSTODIAN. 

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 


^oi)fe^erat(7  l/eterar?. 


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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." 


538 


(^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 


C^OQfederat:<^  l/eterai), 


539 


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,\. 


540 


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. 


Qopfederat*^  Ueterat}. 


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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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Qo9federat<^  Ueteraij. 


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 


C^opfederate  Ueterai). 


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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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Qopfederati^  l/eterap, 


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 


Qopfederati^  l/eterai). 


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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 


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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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549 


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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QopJ^ederat*^  l/eterai^. 


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. 


Qo9federat(^  l/etera^, 


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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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C^oi)federat^  Ueterap. 


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?. 


553 


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. 


554 


C^opfederat^  l/eterai). 


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. 


Qor>federat^  Ueterai}. 


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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Qoofe^erat^  l/eterai?. 


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 


V^oi^f ederat:(^  l/elera*} 


557 


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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Qor)federa t<^  l/eterai). 


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. 


C^or^tedera  t(^  Ueterai). 


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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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Qo!>fedcrat:(^  Ueterar?, 


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. 


C^opfederate  l/eterarj. 


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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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Qo9federa(:(^  l/eterat) 


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, 


CAPT.  F.   p 


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 


C^o[}federa  t^  Ueterar?. 


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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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Qo9federat(^  l/eterap. 


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 


Qopfederat^  l/cterap. 


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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." 


Qo9federat(^  l/eterai}. 


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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 


Qo9federat:<^  l/eterai^. 


57? 


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. 


574 


Qoi^federat^  l/eterai} 


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 


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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. 


C^oi>federate  l/etcrar). 


57^ 


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 
"sky  scrapers."  There  are,  in  fact,  but  nine 
taller  buildings  in  the  world.  Its  actual  height 
is  three  hundred  and  sixty-two  feet  eight 
and  three-quarter  inches.  While  the  Park 
Row  building  above  ground  is  three  hundred 
and  eighty  feet,  the  Times  gains  in  depth  be- 
low the  street  It  is  quite  the  central  station 
for  the  greatest  subway  method  of  travel  ever 
constructed.  Such  a  conspicuous  building  is 
a  valuable  advertisement  for  the  newspaper, 
yet  a  visit  through  this  great  building  shows 
that  it  is  in  every  sense  thoroughly  practicable 
for  business  purposes.  It  is  evidently  the  most 
substantial  very  tall  building  in  existence.  Il 
is  claimed  to  be  the  .strongest  office  building 
ever  erected ;  it  should  be,  as  it  is  modern, 
having  the  advantage  of  all  that  had  been 
previously  constructed. 

Having  been  shown  through  the  great  New 
York  Times  Building  with  every  desirable 
courtesy,  the  memory  of  the  visit  is  still  of 
peculiar  comfort.  The  library,  for  instance, 
above  the  twentieth  floor  would  seem  a  worthy 
department  of  the  Congressional  Library  in 
Washington,  and  there  is  a  feeling  of  security 
absolutely  soothing  and  restful. 

The  New  York  Times  was  in  "hard  lines" 
•when  Mr.  Ochs  bought  it,  and  now  it  is  not 
only  far  beyond  any  question  of  reliability  but, 
better  still,  it  is  one  of  the  most  conservative 
and  one  of  the  ablest  newspapers  printed.  In- 
deed, it  rarely  misses  giving  "all  •  the  news 
that's  fit  to  print."  Mr.  Ochs's  Southern 
friends  rarely  have  a  wish  that  is  not  de- 
veloped in  the  New  York  Times. 

At  the  time  af  Mr.  Ochs's  latest  purchase  (the  Philadelphia 
Ledger)  there  was  much  in  the  daily  press  about  his  achieve- 
anents.  The  Nashville  Ameriean  interviewed  the  writer,  and 
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 
to  know  that  the  man  with  whom  I  had  my  first  serious  busi- 
ness transaction  after  twenty-five  years  can  say  that  he  al- 
ways found  me  upright  and  honorable.     .     .     ." 


580 


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same  poem :  "If  you  never  write  another 
line,  the  third  and  fourth  stanzas  will 
give  you  an  enviable  place  among  Amer- 
ican poets.  The  beautiful  metaphor  of 
the  fourth  stanza  is  one  of  the  finest 
specimens  of  hyperbole  I  have  read,  and 
takes  its  place  alongside,  .  it  not  in  ad- 
vance, of  O'Hara's  celebrated  lines  be- 
ginning, 'On  fame's  eternal  '  camping 
ground,'  etc." 

R.  N.  Tisdale,  former  Commander  In 
Chief  U.  S.  C.  V. :  "I  am  in  receipt  of 
your  poems,  'A  Galaxy  of  Southern  He- 
roes,' dedicated  to  the  United  Daughters 
and  Sons  of  Confederate  Veterans.  I 
have  carefully  looked  over  it.  The  first 
seventeen  pages  are  worth  three  times  the 
worth  of  the  book.  The  eulogy  of  Rob- 
ert Lee  and  the  private  soldier  are  the 
finest  I  have  ever  read.  In  fact,  the 
whole  book  is  good.  I  shall  keep  this 
little  book  of  poems  in  my  library,  for  I 
consider  it  one  of  the  best  that  I  ha.ve 
ever  read." 

Gen.  William  C.  Dates,  Ex-Governor  of  Alabama :  "They 
breathe  the  spirit  of  true  poesy.  It  is  quite  a  contribution  to  the 
literary  products  of  Alabama,  and  I  congratulate  you  upon  its 
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 
are  particularly  happy.  His  poems  on 
the  follies,  foibles,  and  selfishness  of  hu- 
manity are  the  polished  production  of  a 
ripe,  expansive,  and  clean  observation— 
logically  presented.  While  the  poet's  pa- 
triotic vein  is  deep,  sincere,  and  eloquent, 
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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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. 


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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 
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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." 


^  j^^H^5i^__'^ 


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. 


-^ 


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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